Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-24

vealed a large amount of arsenic in her stom-
ach. Cole was arrested and made confession,
but the master villain WIS allowed to escape.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
L fearful storm swept the Southern coast of
Brazil on the 18th of April. The coast from
Bahia southwark was the scene of many wrecks.
The damage was enoTmos the loss of life fright
full. A brazilian frigate went down with over
four hundre souls on board only forty were
saved.
a long account is given, in the n. Y. Tri-
Dunes leader of the 18th, of q new f}fibuster
organization, called the Knights of the Col
den Circle OF K. G.. c." which is supposed to
be established for the purpose Of securing
Cuba.
Reuben Orr. of otsellic, New York, while
shearing a sheep, on Wednesday last, was kick
ed by the animal, whose foot struck the handle
of the shears, driving one blade into Orr's leg
above the knee, and completely severing the ar
terry. The wounded limb was tied up as soon
as possible, but this flow of blood was so rapid
that the sufferer died in about three hours after
the accident occurred.
From all parts Of Michigan come reports of
the most flattering prospects of the crops. Not
only is the grain represented to be in the most
hOurishing condition, but the reports are
equally encouraging relative to fruit, wool and
all the other products which are grown in the
State.
The American party in Georgia have decided
not to call a Stat Convention, but the Central
Executive Committee their broth
rem to send delegates to the Opposition State
Convention, which is to meet in Milledgeville
on the Goth of July.
-Four young men, belonging to highly re-
spectacle families in Newark, New Jersey, and
one or more of them engaged in professional
studies, have been detected in a series Of daring
burglaries.
New YoRK, June f8.-The ship Bolton of
Bath, Me, bound to st. Johns was wrecked on
the 18th near Machias. Fifteen persons were
drowned, including the Captain and his daugh-
ter.
The New York Directory for 1859, contains
147 1926 names, being an increase of 1921 over
the Directory of last year.
The Utica Herald reports that Mrs. Daniel E.
Sickles has taken rooms for the season at the
Clifford Springs Hotel, and that she will resist
any application of her husband for a divorce,
and will furnish proof of infdelity on his part
which will prevent any decree in his favor.
AUGUSTA, Ga, June 10.-The steamer John
Lawton exploded last night, when near Savan-
nah, killing the Captain, Pilot, Assistant En-
gineer, job S. EMantinolin, a passenger, and
others. There were eight in all killed and mis-
sing. A number were also scalded some it is
feared fatally.
The wheat harvest in Union county, Southern
Illinois, was commenced June I'd, and a letter
to the Chicago Press says the grain is perfect,
and the yield will be most satisfactory. Ship
ments of new wheat will be made by the 18th.
The corn crop is very promising.
The New York Courier and Enquirer, esti-
mates that the coming crop of wheat will not be
less than two hundred million bushels, or fifty
millions more than last year, while an unusual
ly large breadth of land has been seeded in corn
which at present is very forward, with every
prospect of a good crop.
The Northwestern Christian Advocate denies
the paragraph going the rounds, stating that
Bishop James gave a masonic sign, and thus
dispersed the Texas mob. He did no such
thing, for the best of reasons-he didn't kn0ac
ho1o.
The garden of DR.. J. Strong, in EIyria, was
entered On Sunday night, and eighteen fruit
and ornamental trees sawed down. The Dem
ocrat supposes malice growing out of the efforts
of DR.. S. in the liquor prosecutions in Elyria
i1stigated the act.
Rev. Henty Wood, now in China, writes to
the n. Fl. Patriot, that a Iaboring man in the
interior of China can live comfortably on food
costing one cent per day.
Two little girls, aged 9 years each attending a
public school in Allegheny city, Pa, quarreled
last week while at play, and one hurt the other
SO badly by dashing her head against a stone
wall, that she died soon afterward.
Ashley, the son-in-law of Murrel, the notori-
GUS land pirate, killed his brother-in-law in
Bell county, Texas, the other day, and then
killed himself,
The Opposition in Virginia have gained one
member of Congress, five State Senators and
eighteen Representatives,. There are several
counties yet to be heard rom.
The Iowa City Reporter says, that during a
severe thunder storm in that vicinity, on Sun
day night of last week, between fifty and sixty
hogs, belonging to Mr.. McAltister, were killed
by a stroke of lightning.
New York, June lS.-The receipts of the
Erie Railroad for May, show a decrease of S1l9,
6l9, as compared with the corresponding month
last year.
The Board of Education of New York, on
Wednesday evening, by a vote of 25 to 10, re-
scinded hhe bylaw to compel the reading of
the Bible in all the public schools of the city.
Murder is punished by hanging in Canada,
and juries and judges do not fail to convict and
sentence. And yet murders have been more
frequent in Canada this season than in the
States. There have been no less than seven ex-
e%cutions in Upper Canada during this present
June!
When Mr.. Buchanan told the people of North
Carlina that at the end of his term he should
retire to private life in the shades of Wheatland,
the announcement was received with loud
cheers. Whatever this expression of sentiment
lacked in courtesy it made up in good sense.
A burglar, who calls himself Wallace Jenk-
ms, broke into the jewelry store of MIR. Ben
ner, at New Lisbon, on Saturday night. Mr..
B., hearing the fellow at work, fired, inflicting
a wound on the thief, from which it is supposed
he will not recover.
The N. Y. Herald gives this estimate of the
operations at Stewards dry goods palace The
active cash capital employed is estimated by
judges at 1000, 900 or over, and the annual
sales at 81 900, 900 to IS, 000, 900, and all pref
ty much on the cash system. Mr.. Stewards
wealth / is estimated variously at between seven
and ten millions.
The Democratic party is getting to be very
much like a New York Volunteer company, a
description of which we read in some paper the
other day-l7 musicians, Ii officers and / pri-
vate.
A child of Peter Seiger, residing in Allegheny
County, Pa, was bitten by a rat in two places,
on the I'd inst, while lying in a cradle, and died
from the effects on the same day.
The Philadelphia Press thinks that theI adj
ministration would not have withdrawn the
national protection from naturalized citizens if
it had not owed its election to them, as the Pres
ident could not, consistently with his uniform
practice, die in peace until he had betrayed ev-
cry friend that ever supported him.