Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-11-11
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Mr.. Theodore +. Well, an inventor of a fish
hook, has recently disposed of his patent for En-
gland for the sum of S25, 600, and returned to
his home in Now Orleans. A very profitable
speculation.
About 7 o'clock on Monday evening last, q
young man named David p. Shields was shot,
in Green Street, st. Louis, by VIM. Edwards
The latter is a leading lawyer of Keokuk, To-
wa Cause of the trouble-jealousy.
The Right Rev. Andrew Benade, the oldest
Bishop of the Moravian Church in America,
and nearly ninety years of age, died at Easton,
Pa, on the 31st ult. He wal much respected
for his intelligence and good qualities.
Governor Weller does not intend to appoint
a successor to Senator Broderick. decd, but
to await the meeting of the Legislature, which
takes place in January. So says the California
papers.
The British government is drawing largely
on the white oak forests of Virginia. Over 800
men are now employed in getting out timber in
the mountains near Rowlesburg, on the Cheat
River, which is to be used for gun carriages
The contractor has orders which it will take
two years to ill. The Cheat river oak is said
to be the best yet imported into England, and
far surpasses the Canada oak, which it is fast
superseding.
Judge Douglas and Reverdy johnson, on one
side, and Attorney General Black and Senator
Gwinn, on the other, are now engaged in an
animated discussion on Squatter Sovereignty.
The latest illustration of the doctrine was at
Harper's Ferry.
The war in the administration ranks in Phil
adelphia continues to rage. The President, it
is said, has absolutely displaced men from of
flee for no other reason than their failure to
carry the respective Wards or Districts for the
party last October.
The young people of Troy, N. Y, have
formed a s~kating-club, for winter amusement.
Ladies are admitted upon the proposal of the
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himself instructor. if need be, of the lady pro-
posed. t5f z
RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 8. Gov. Wise has issu-
ed a proclamation offering a reward of $500
each for the arrest of the following named fugi-
tive insurgents: Owen Brown, Barclay, COppee,
Merriam and Tidd.
The New Hampshire Gazette has entered up
on its one hundred and fourth year.
On Monday afternoon four persons were ar
raigned before the New York Court of Oyer
and Terminer for murder, and one for man
slaughter.
Gov. Wise is of the opinion that sufficient
capital has been made out of the Harper's Fer
ny instruction to secure the election of himself
to the Presidency. The Governor, if he really
thinks so, is as mad as old Brown himself.
A blacksmith, at Medford, Mass, was bitten
by a dog, supposed to be mad, and the event
SO preyed on his mind, that he died of brain or
typhoid fever.
A mill situated on Walkers Greek, near Ne
chanicsburg, in Giles county, Va, owned by
Joseph Peck, was swept away by the late fresh
ct. The mill contained about 2 GOO bushels of
wheat and so or 60 barrels of flour. Mr.. Peck's
loss by the flood is estimated at from S12, 900
to S14, coo.
A gunsmith in Texas murdered his wife, by
putting her head in a vice and crushing it to
pieces.
Mr.. Fitzhugh, the captor of Capt, Cook, one
of the Harper's Ferry insurrectionists, is a
nephew of Gerrit Smiths wife. .
RICHMOND, Nov. Tits ascertained that un-
der the laws of Virginia the Governor cannot
pardon a person convicted of treason to the
Commonwealth, except with the consent of the
General Assembly by joint resolution. This 1ids
Wise of all responsibility in the matter. What
the Legislature will do is unknown.
The taxable property in Texas this year is
1924, 353, 266, being an increas Of thirty millions
over the last.
Miss Sarah Jane johnson is under arrest in
Detroit, Mich, for stealing five dollars from one
lover to pay the minister's charge for marrying
her to another.
The Lafayette Qnd.,) Courier says that a cit
izen of that place, Mr. Danzinger, thr ough the
influence of Prof. Wise, has secured a seat in
Mr.. loves air ship. and is actually to make
voyage to Europe i'll her
The pixies recently found il the possession of
"OId Brown at Harper's Ferry are said to
have been manufactured three years ago for the
Kansas difficulty.
The young man, Cook, concerned in the late
instruction at Harper's Ferry, distinguished
with the title Of Captain" Cook, was. some
six or seven years ago, a resident of PhilaGel-
plia, and employed at the Ledger office, where.
for nearly a year he held copy" as the prin-
tiers call it, for the proos reader. He was then
about eighteen or nineteen wears old.