Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-23
CENTRAL NEWS ITEMS.

NFIC!Das IN NEy NfiEs. T 9cTc Is Just now a
dtfidcd mania in New York for committing SUI
lcide. Three cases to;E place on Monday, J..
i. kcarny poisoned himsclfa Frcnch's Hotel,
Henry +. Nopd put Hll end to his life ly taking
] lItlanUm at M. }J2 Cl+a TScittY hjGArtl 81
Edward IIisScnfrook. keeper of II dancchousc
ut No. ST Jalucs street committed sui,iic by
shooting himself with y heavily loaded pistol.
CHINESE TEMPIE-Ai3 exchange says shat the
Chinese have II temple in San Francisco which
cost S2O,0 600, and have imported an ikol from
China at 1t cost of $40, coo. 1t is the image of
a man who figured in China three hundred years
ago, and was Il great statesman and warrior, as
one SAID, . Ike YOUR Washington" The law
prohibiting Cinnamon from coming to the State
is pronounced unconstitutional and their pIstu-
Der, now sixty Thousand, is rapidly increasing.
The Island of Bermuda is fast becoming Il
vast market garden for the city of New York.
The export of potatoes for the last season to
that city show an increase of nine thousand
bushels. The expectation OF onions has reach
ed over eight hgndved thousand pounds while
that of tomatoes amounted 20 tOyJE tho s&4Ind
five hundred and ninety-two boxes. More than
sixty vessels We're engaged in carrying the a.
aforementioned produce.
DIR, Harriet X. Hunt, of Boston, has preach
ed in sixteen Universs.Iist churches i'll Maine
this summer.
Two brothers named Mcttcrd, residing in
IIan0vtI coG.tY, Virginia, had a bloody fight
on Saturday. They shot and cut each other 50
desperately that neither one is expected to re-
cover.
The amount of money RENTED nome hy
lrishmCn resident in America, the last year, for
the purpose of assisting their friends to emil
gyate, was s., 800. 900. The ten preceding years
the asa4pnt RENTED was $40, 0S0. 600.
The Spirftaa}tts are building II hall in Per-
ry county, Pcnnsi t1a EIt 5ef the purpt 81 of
holding Il grand National ssohgrsss nj s fiEitySll
lists. The hall will be finished during this
month, and the Congress viii be held about the
l9iddlc of next.
he Philadelphia correspondent OF tbs n. Y.
Times thinks that the Republican State ticket
of Pennsylvania, is certain to hc elected this
fall by thllty thousand majority.
Gen. Jlcksons old horse is dead at last, at
the age of forty-o.pe wears. For several years
he has been unable 20 ,uasticatc, and WAS fed
with bran, &c. The de1GnGt carcass OF tins Ia
nous old horse was inferred With all due sol
omnities " in the presence of il IaiSe concourSe
of his old friends.
In addition to Eli Tllaver's Yankee settle
mcnt in Virginia, we learn of another in the
mountain districts, The land purchased to-
the purpose is known It's the Hullingswurth sur
vcy, consists OF eighty-two thousand acres, and
lies principally in Highland, Randolph and Pen
dleton counties. The price paid was $50, 900
or eighty cents per acre,
The debt of the Canadas is now SEQ. 600, 600,
and the annual expenses OF government SILL
800, Geo. The people talk OF revolution, and
annexation to the United States.
The Chicago Times estimates the loss to In
surance Companies, by the late disastrous fire
in that city at $4,000, which is divided among
some p companies, of which the IItna of Hart
ford loses S20,0 600 the Phmnix of Brooklyn,
y. y, $l6,2oQ and the Hampton of Spring
field, Mass, S1I 200. The losses of other com-
panics average from 81, 600 to IS, 200 each.
RIcnMoNp, Va, Sept. 2I.-oIiver simms,
well known as one of the clerks of tho En-
change, was shot last night by }. H.. Mellcn, a
negro dealer OF Lonisiana. Mr.. Simms is not
expected to live through the day.
NEw York, Sept. 2I.-rhe American State
has voted down Il resolution for the
appointment of y straight American ticket
\ committee has been appointed to select can-
didatcS from the tickets now in the field.
ST.. LOUIS, Sept. 2l.-Joscph w. Thornton,
who shot Joseph Charles in the street, on the
day of June last. was convicted to-day of
i'll the first degree.
a few days since, in New Orleans, DIR. Ora
ham was shot and killed instantly by a man
named Tolcdauo; and the coroncr's inquest ac-
quilted the latter ON the ground that the Kill
ing was done in sclf-defenCe. DIR. Graham is
the same man who Il year or two since killed
Col. IorinG in the ST. NiCholas Hotel, New
York City. by running him through the body
with II sword cane; Tor which he was convicted
IF murder in the second degree, sentenced TO
he penitontiary, and soon after pardoned out
~ the Governor.
Did Bullion once said; douglas can new
+ be President, Sir! His coat tail is too near
he ground, Sir too near the ground, Sir r.
Blondin Il few days since crossed the Mia CARA
N II rope with baskets on his feet and carried (
a chair and table, the latter with refresh
aentS ON It, which he eat when half way over.
Il the conclusion of the performance il was J
that this was his last performance s
II the season, but he would set the ball in
notion again by crossing on the first day of L
une next mounted upon stills. {
John Is. Murray, II New York banker, has
ought the old printing press on which Frank i,
n worked when at Boston. He also has the q
ne used by the philosopher while in London. t