Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-07-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

1Afb ANN DOIs-A " Va ShPO6lA
Abraham Thompson, of New Haven, Conn,
James E. aged only thirteen, has just return
ed from a month s trip to Paris, which he ac-
complished alone, and greatly to his ~satisfac-
ton. He kept a cash account of all his expen-
ses, and handed over the balance to his father,
like a man Of business.
Phil. Herbert, Sam. Flowers, and some thir-
ty or forty Americans, We're recently ordered
out of Hermasillo, Mexico, by mob. Herbert
will be remembered as a California. Congress-
man who killed a waiter at Wizards Hotel in
Washington city. He was about starting for
the Gadsden Purchase. e7 ue
"Wuo KILLED Cock ROBIN ?"-Mr. Nathan
iel Morse of Ncwburyport, Mass, was fined $27,
in the Police Court of that city, last Saturday,
for shooting ten robins. His defence was that.
the birds visited bis cherry trees and partook Of
the fruit. There seems to be disposition in all
parts of the Commonwealth to enforce the law
for the preservation of useful birds.
Napoleon's blessed baby - is now three
years old. 1t is said to be a fine looking child;
with a large Wandering sort of an eye that seeing
already to have a dreamy view of the 'here-
after" .t'Wi ." '-
A terrible affray occurred in Huntsville, coun-
ty seat Of Madison CO; &rkaifsls, ON the after
noon of the 24th ult., resulting in the death of
two men and the woundiAg "a three Others
The affair is chargeable to the use of liquor,
by some of the paties injured,
The country about Wrightsvfne, Penn. must
be am interesting to live IN. a farmer in that
vicinity, II few days since Killed, within the
compass or area of six acres no less than eigh-
teen snakes, of the following varieties, viz ten
copperhcads, five house snakes, two black
snakes, and one viper besides seeing three
more OF the reptiles, which made their escape.
BALTIMORE, July t3.- a shocking murder
occurred in South Baltimore last night. Two
rowdies, named Thos. Eaton and Geo. Burke,
demanded Of Vim. H. Taylor, a peaeeable citi-
zen. that lie should go into a tavern and treat
J 4I.a., NJ. vI,rT,. aE.-s -
ton and Knocked down, when Burke pat a pis-
tl to the back of the PROSTATE mans head and
blew out his brains: The murderer escaped
but Eaton was arrested. r--,4o q ana ny
A desperate, named Jasper Roazy, VITO
sometime Last spring shot James Oadham m
Milledgevile, Lincoln county, Ky., and fed,
was. reeentlg captured and put i'm jail at Stan
ford. a nrob broke openithe 5aifauts hung the
prisoner, leaving him suspended between the
heavens and the earth until the next Ia0frfRR.
He WAS a terror to the whole community =! eIaI
ST LoEPs, July 1G-Mr. Garrison. id a letter
to Af- Sfnoot, of Leaven~ofth, dtted Gregory
Mines, 4th inst, says Within IN area Of SIX
miles square,, five to eight hundred leads have
been opened from three to FIVE hundred claims
are being profitably worked ; about ten thou
sand mena at work, and thirty to fifty thousand
dollars raised daily f 4lH lf'fd Giia1Dpt'
DEATH OF Hon. Rutrs cnoxrE.4A dTspatcb
from Halifax communicates the sad Intelligence
of the death of Hon. Rufus Cholte, at that
place Tuesday. 1t will be recolIected he started
for Europe last week. but had to disembark At
Halifax on account Of illness. The decease of
this eminent man will shed gloom upon n large
circle of friends and admireres. ti NN'1
Tho Detroit Tirfbuae STATES t6aA sau,pIss sef
wheat from u range vi country 81 mileBT if ex-
teflt, stretching west to east from CenteryiIlet TO
Eoldwater, thence north to, Marshall, show a.
fine quality of grain nearly ripe. There Is NO
appearance OF nudge, a greater breadth was
I CnHru than ax.rr Vnef,ra ard III a..~. I'll =
the largest and best ever harvested ia Michi-
gan. HtI 1Ls.fe-Ti He- g.
4 frat dealer who has neutrality-suspicious.
Of the States this season, and posted himself
thoroughly on the question. reports 30. the Mis-
sour Denocrat that the prospect for a good
I yield OF fruit, take the Union alLtHver is better
this season than for a number of years past. na
The Green Mountain Farmer states slhata ~
tie girly daughter of MrJGeoE2e tady, Of North
field, Vermont, fecently raet Nfth an accident
by which five Of her front teeth were displaced
and fell from her mouth. In about fffteen
minutes after the accident DR.. gilbert replaced
the teeth in the child's mouth, and and%r his
treatment they became firm in-thcir sockets.
and are now, to all appeIrlnces, Us Substantial.
useful teeth as they ever were. 4..-g.
The fist day Of July Major Moses Pierce, Of
West Alcdtort, Mass, now seventy years old.
moved three acres. four huadFed and seventy
two feet of English grass. II any Young man
will surpass this, he will try again. T8ss ~o,k
was performed 10y him FL presence of a crowd Of
spectators, and with apparent ease. sl4,
NJ. Blondin performed his hast great feat at
Niagara, on Thursday afternoon. He first walk
ed Quito a distance Of two hundred feet from
the cmbankmcnt. backaTds, and then sat down
on the rope and held up his cap, at which CAPT,
Travis who was On board the teamboa Maid of
the Mist fired for Il target. IIa
Mr.. Remus b. Coy, of Colebrook, Conn.
while hocing in his eoraficA recently turned
Z ,rf - AL ,AoaE l-A - - = $500
in lf53-23 years previous 60 tire Revolution.
On Friday a man named Murphy murdered
Jstnfcs Casey at Henderson, Ky. Murphy was
arrested. On Saturday, the grand jury return
ed an indictment against him. On Saturday
evening he was tried and found guilty, and on
Monday the Jndge' sentenced him to be hung.
Patrick Carney, a single man, thirty years Of
age. living i'll juneau county. Wisconsin, was
bitten by a FattlesHElke. and on the ninth dav
after he was a corpse. Varioss applications
were made, but no remedy could be found.
marble shaft recently erected over the te-
mains of Aaron Burr, in the graveyard in
Princeton, n. J., has been mutilated and bro
Ken bg some persons unknown. The shaft was
erected by stealth, no one Knowing who put it
there.
At Worcester, Mass, on Friday. C. Edward
IL. HeIRancnway, President Of the Peoples In
riq9noe company, n wetilshv ahf unmarried
man. committed suicide. Caase, temporary in
slnity, caused by i'll health.
Two little daughters of Mr.. Philip Dorm. Of
South Boston. one nine, the other thirteen
years old, were drowned ON Tuesday evening nj
n sewer. at its junction with the waters of the
bay. The elder was cHdcSyoring to save tho
younger. 90.
Or the Alorning of the Ist inst, some viii
lairrs piaoetl a key of powder beneath the Court
House at Port Ga4EIna Miss. and ~igniting il,
blew one-half the building to atoms, and thsn
robbed the Sheriff office of $4,000. Damage
to the building $4,000 tt- -af "
Ninety-fiye patents were issued from the Pat
ent offitc, at Washington, for the week ending
June list, There is no end to the Ingenuity of
man
! The WHEAT CROP OF NEw YoRK.-We have
Just seen n letter from a person who has recent
ly travelled Through soE9eJ of the best wheat
! counties of this State whe estimates the prea-
ent harvest the, best of fife years at lcaes. The
crop has ripeneds u and nearly aIH harvested in
good weather. and very free fronN fhs ravages
OF Hlsects.-IF fohne.si aI .1Iuut f- ...N -rt
Mr.. Wise and John In MfosinfaA, have fallen
out about their late balloon voyage from st.
Fouls. q"
The i+sports of Dry Goods into the United
States, for the past year, exceed anything ever
before known in this TcounrFe iA4i t.airts.t
There are now four bishops eIeee, who win be
consented at the eeneTsif CONVENTION, of the
Protestant Episcopal church in the. united
States, to he held 10 October next. nc Richmond.
Virginia, viz Dir. 0dcnheimer, bishop Of New
Jersey; Or, Redeii, assistaAt stsAop Of 0hh
Or. Gregg, bishop of Texas, and Rev. Mr.,
Whipplle, bishop'of Minnesota. . ," A-phf
l0REcoNr SENAroR.-The divisions in the dem
ocratic party in Oregon have resulted in the ad-
~journnlent Of the Legislature withoutelocting q
United States Senator in place VI, Delason
Smith, The democratshavs AZ OF the 50 mem
beers, but a minority, uniting with the seyen,re-