Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

q. S. FAIR.-The receipts of the U. s. Fair
at Chicago amounted to $4,000.
1t is said that the buckwheat crop is larger
this year in Virginia than was ever before known
and gives promise of a No. / article.
The price of beef cattle in the New York
markets has declined full 25 per cent. within
the last six months.
Last week nearly half a million pounds of
cheese were shipped from New York to Europe.
On the Esd inst, $23, 500 of Kansas gold
was received at Leavenworth. The amount
appears to be constantly increasing.
The people of the gold region, in Kansas,
have voted by a large majority agaihst organ
izing IA new State, but in favor of a territorial
government.
Providence is a very wealthy city. Ninety
seven persons are taXedon not less than $lO0,OOO
each. Alexander Duncan heads the list with
$2,092, 100, and his tax amounts to $l6,741 60.
A-few days since, Mrs. Hannah Soper, aged
l02 years, signed a receipt for a pension decreed
to her husband, who was u soldier in the revolu-
ton. Mrs. Soper formerly resided in Cairo,
Green County, but has resided in the town of
Haine, New York, for the last fourteen years.
She was born in I757-eighteen years before
the commencement of the war OF Revolution.
dog, the property of Mr.. Owen Begley,
Prospect Hill, Galway, either jumped or was
thrown overheard at sea, from a steamer, TWEEN
ty miles from land. In the course of the next
day the poor animal reached home in safety.
Mr.. Alonzo Hitchcock, of Chicago, claims to
have been the inventor of the Armstrong gun,
for producing which an Englishman was honor
cd with the title of nobility.
Mrs. BurdclI Cunningham cleaves to the
newspapers, however much they may repudiate
her. She has taken IL hoIlse in East 10th street,
adjoining one occupied by Mr.. Bryant, of the
/ Evening Post.
The cranberry crop in Wisconsin was injured
by the carly f1usts. The value of this crop NAV
1 lA aGfi1la9tfs1 from the fact that SAR TMAH WQra
realized for cranbcrries in a single township last
year.
The Sag l1arbor, n. j. Corrector says that a
green turtle was caught in Peconic Bay on
Thursday last, 6 feet 9 inches long, and weigh
ing about 600 pounds.
The st. Louis Democrat estimates that about
four hundred slaves are sent South from Mis-
souri, each week, and not ten are taken into the
State. The shareholders are preparing for 4
free state. -
CoprERHEADs OR WmsKY.-In Rockbridge
County, Va, a man named Walton was bitten
on the middle finger of his right hand by a cop
perhead snake, on last Friday afternoon, and
died in precisely twenty-four hours afterwards,
A quart of whisky was administered to him,
and the attending physician thought that death
was caused by the whisky. Walton was a very
temperate man, and there was no discoloration
or external indications of poison on the corpse,
-[Lynchburg Nirginian, .r
The trial of Rev. Jacob s.. Harden, charged
with poisoning his wife, was commenced al,
Trenton, N. j., on Tuesday. No progress was
made, owing to the absence of DIR. Chiffon, Of
New York. The Jadge then adjourned the case
until Wednesday morning. There is much
sympathy felt for the parents of the accused.
His mother has been in feeble health for years,
and his father is bowed down with grief. 1t Is
legibly written upon every lineament of his
face.
Mr. G. P. Shaw, of Bastrop, Texas, was a
gentleman of :" unfortunate Z" habits. He got
very drunk one day, and his friends painted
him green. When sober, his color rendered
him SO melancholy that he poisoned himself.
THEN AND Now.-The Portsmouth Journal
publishes a passport given by James Monroe,
when Minister OF England, in 1906, to Essex
White, a slave aud body-servant of John Ran
dolph of Roanoke, and a negro, in which said
Essex White is called "a citizen of the United
States"
Mr.. Sickles, says a correspondent of Charles
tom paper, is unalterably determined to take
his seat in the next Congress.
A. w. Semmcs, a lawyer in Canton, Miss,
killed himself i'll New Orleans on Sunday night
September 18th, by taking morphine. He was
insane from excessive drinking.
r. l.. Burton, of Todd county, KY, was
found dead in the road near Elkton, the county
seat OF Todd, a few mornings since, with a pis-
toll shot in the breast. His murderer has not
been discovered.
1t may be interesting TO note that during the
ecigc of Sebastopol, extending over a period of
ii months, the enormous quantity of 2.775, 800
lbs, or l.O39 tons of gunpowder were expended
by the English alone 2,076 tons of shot and
shell were fired from 476 pieces Of ordinance, of
which only ii burst, and 2G9 rendered unserv-
iceablc.
We learn from the Burlington 1owa) Hawk
eye, that IA young man named JOseph G.. Nc
Kinney, of Iayton, Ohio, was arrested in that
city n few days since, charged with passing
counterfeit money. Upon searching him, a
large amount of counterfeit money was found
upon his person. lie was committed to Jail to
await his trial.
A woman residing in Alma street, Hoxton,
was engaged in the area In front of
her house, when Il monkey, belonging to an
Italian organ-grindcr, jumped on her back, and
so alarmed her that she was seized with convul-
sions, and lied in two days after.
The militia of the United States, as just re-
ported by the Secretary of War, number q
100, I26. This immense army, with two weeks
drill. would be quite as efficient as either of
the fighting forces at Solfcrino.
Lager beer was first introduced into Philadel-
in the year lS44, by a German named
WHO commenced its manufacture in a
small kettle i'm IL corner of his premises in New
street. So great has the demand become for
popular beverage, that there are now in
that city some thirty bfewefles, with a capital
IF 81, 200 600 employed in its manufacture
turn out 1870, DOC barrels annually.
Marion county, Tenn, is f~earfully ravaged by
log cholera. The epidemic also prevails in Se-
.luatchie and Bledsoe counties, in that State, TO
dreadful extent.
a REPUBLICAN IN THE VfEGINIA LEGISLATURES.
Alfred CALDWELL, a Virginia State Sena-
or from the Wheeling District, is a member of
he National Republican Committee, whose
headquarters is in Washington City.
Parson Brownlow is still at the Virginia
springs seeking restoration of health. He has
lmost entirely lost his voice, but he says he
intends to raise it against Lucofoooism as long
S he can, and when he can no longer speak,
le intends to make mouths at III raseahy concern.
The stables of the United States Hotel at Eas-
on, Pa, were destroyed by fire on the morn
NJ of the 18th inst, and twelve of Dan Rice's
lorses persisted in the flames. The fire was &C.
asioued by the bursting of a ldid lamp.
The notorious Hiram L. Leslie, so well known
eccntly as the swindler of a number of Young
ldies belonging inPhiladelphia, was on Tues
ny tried in that city, for the larceny Of the
of one of his victims, and sentenced
D three years hard labor in the Penitentiary.
Benjamin Kimball, q LAWYER of Bangor. Me-.
under arrest, charged with forging a deposit
ion %purporting to be made by Joseph Greeley,
:, of Sutton, N. H., and a magistrates certif-
ate to the same by which lie (timbaID obtain
1 Il divorce from his wife. lie wls held in
:, 900 bail for trial.
In n fight among some rowdies on the Wheel
II Fair Ground, Thursday afternoon, Major
aldwin stabbed William Donovan SO severely
the throat that his life is despaired of. Bald
in escaped and had not been captured at last
ivices.
There was a severe frost throughout northern
cw York ON the night of the 18th. potatoes
al all Wines are cut to the ground. The de-
rec of cold was so great as to form a hard
uSt on the ground. There were snow and
iii storms during the day.
LIFETIME or BEEs.-Prof ]. P. Kirkland, of
lNeland. in n lprturp on bees states that the
leen lives about four years the workers six
Onths. and the drnnes four TO five mnnths