Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-07-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

treet, Cincinnati, were engaged N singing a
one of the females fell dead suddenly IN
Ter pew.-She was singing earnestly, as Is the
,ustom of that people, and feeling peculiarly
she extended her hand to greet a sister
n the church. when a sudden and fearful hem
orrhage of the lungs strangled her instantly
4 box containing several thousand dollars in
Tennessee bank bills, was found a day or two
since in Cohockkink creek, near Philadelphia.
It is believed the money is a part of that stolen
from the bank at jackson, when the clerk,
George Miller, was nun dered, on the 2dot Feb
ruary last.
AT Harrisburg. Penn, a few days since, a Miss
Mary Queen, aged eighteen years, residing with
her parents, had been unvvell for some time
and had received Il prescriptl ion from her physl-
clan, which was tlledat one OF the drug-stores.
She partook of a spoonful, and was Il corpse IN
fifteen minutes. The prescription, il Is stated,
was misunderstood, corrosive sublimate beng
put up by mistake.
Mr.. David L. Hamilton, of Richmond, Onta-
rio Co, writes to the ~Canandaigua Times, that
he has just taken from a merjno buck a fleece
of wool, of ten months and SIX days growth,
which weighed 10 pounds. @
The Grand Jury at Washington, on Monday,
found "A true bill against Mr.. Seal nan, Ex-Super-
intendent of Public Printing, for malteasahce
in office. The District Court has adjourned till
December, and in the meantime a process Will
be issued for the arrest of the accused.
1t is estimated that the annual revenue from
the Overland Pacific mail route will not exceed
SIS, 900, while the cost of transporting the
mail is sec. 600, so that at the end on SIX years,
over which time the contract extends, the de-
partment will be minus $3,5lO,OoO- ts
The Mo. Republican says the gold begins tc
come in from Pixies Peak. The editor has seen
it in various shapes, among others a 81 1alI VIA
containing So {, derived FROM the washing o.
one painful of earth.
Recent accounts from Genital America say
that the ruins of Il city have BEEN discQFefeo
near Huatuleco. They cover fom' miles, aho
embrace stone Notifications and ba. Hlohs, eA'
tending to the sea. Curious and rich antI9ui'
ties were found ripcluding vases and silV,erlhgs'
On Thursday a little boy, four years old,
named Mahoney, while playing on the bank OF
the river, below Whites pleasure grounds, at
Niagara Falls, fell over a nearly perpendicular
height of one hundred feet.-Strange to say,
his ~severest injury was a broken shoulder. The
little fellow was able to get up and walk.
As an instance of the feeling of the Germans
in New York, against the French Emperor, the
New York Evening Post says, tone of them, a
young and wealthy merchant, has already made
arrangements to go by the next steamer, and
enlist IN the service. He says his family were
nlassacred by Napoleon l., and he will have re-
venge upon his successor"
There arc four million scholars and one hun
drcd and fifty thousand teachers III the public
schools of this country. There is one scholar
for every five free persons. In Great Britain
there is one scholar to every eight persons; in
France one to every ten persons.
The large stone stable attached to Ludwig
Drove Yard in West Philadelphia, was burned
ON Thursday night. Twelve or fifteen horses
persisted in the flames. Loss SD 600.
There are no less than seven persons confined
in the Jail at Mayfield, Kentucky, awaiting
their trials for capital offences. live for muir
der, one for incendiarism, and one for negro
stealing.
The Vienese clergy, dissatisfied by the i'll sue
cess OF the Austrian arms thus far, have adj
dressed themselves to the Virgin Mary, and
humbly requested her, as "Generalissimo," to
take charge of the forces.
In Princess Anne county, Va, last week, a
valuable slave owned by Jas. S. Garrison, while
hauling a seine, was stung by a fish called the
- stingray,' and died in three or four hours af-
ter from the effect. 1t was at this point that
one of the companions of the immortal Captain
John Smith died from the same cause, and the
place was named by him "Stingray Point"
Contracts are being made in Texas for the
new crop of corn at from twenty to twenty-five
cents per bushcl.
Our Secretary of War, Mr.. Floyd, is s. il to
be in very delicate health, and it is feared he
may not live. - fb.
The arrivals of Australian and American gold
at LOlluOl, lOI lCIl tutNS CHUNG Tic AOln- ulI-,
amounted to S4,650, 900, Of which the greater
part was taken Immediately for the continent,
and the remainder would soon follow.
The Burlington, Iowa, Hawkeye states that
on Tuesday morning last, Peter Deisroth, a Ger-
man, about fifty years of age, residing near that
city, shot his wife and then shot himself. He
was labOring under insanity.
Mr.. A. r. Stewart, the potcntatc of dry goods,
has just purchased, at d cost of 5 100, 900, the
Presbyterian church in Ninth street, New York,
and now OWNS the entire block, from Ninth to
Tenth streets, and Broadway to Fourth Avenue,
except a single lot, for which he is now nego-
tiating. 1t is MIR. Stewards intention to erect
on the property an ediiicc which, in point of di-
mansions, elegance and completeness shall sur
pass anything of the kind in the world.
The Morehouse ia, Advocate, states that
while Rev. j. p. Spencer was delivering a ser
mon in the Methodist church in that place, he
sank back specchlcss, and soon expired.
The Rushville, Gnd.,) Republican says.that
J. w. Hatfield, of that county, recently lost six
children out of eight, " by putrid sore throat"
which has been very prevalent there this year,
The Minnesotians have struck a vein rich
or than those of the new gold d~iggings. They
have found immense quantities of ginseng near
st. Paul. Two dollarsa day is the ordinary re-
suit of the labor of digging the root.
The Slave Catcher Jennings, indicted in the
Lorain County Common Pleas Court, and now
out on $500 bail, has been nominated by the
slave democracy of Mason County, kentucky,
to a scat in the Kentucky Legislature.
A few days since an affray occurred at Lber-
ty, Ky, between VIM. Ousley, Ia nephew of
Elk Governor Ouslcy,) V. Pcyton, Thos. Evans,
Granville johnson and others. Ousley shot
johnson and Evans. johnson died instantly.
and Evans shortly after, and Peyton stabbed
Ousley. but not fatally.
DESTRUCTION OF DoGs.-The New York Even
ing Post of Wednesday, says the number of dogs
put to death in the pound, the present season.
up to last night, was 1000, besides 1873 puppies.
The amount paid by the city for this canine
slaughter is S 1854. 80. !
The Niagara Falls Gazette chronicles the cap
ture, near Grand Island, of a muscallnge meas
uring five feet four inches in length, and weigh
ing torty-eight pounds.
The Springfield Qll.,) Journal says there is
a large amount of old wheat in the country.
which, will doubtless soon be brought to mar
ket."
Gen, Cass insists that the LeCcrc and Hofer
letters are the doctrine of the Administration
and not his alone.
Minnesota entirely escaped the frost of the
4th according to the st. Paul Minnesotian of the
10th, which boasts that there has been no frost
since planting time of sufficient power to do any
Joseph Charles, who lately met his death by
1ioaence i'll st. Louis, had his life insured for
3d., 900.
A writer of the Charleston Mecury says, that
It that place in 1860, 1.-The South must either
to keep out of the Convention, and
lsewhcre nominate n candidate of its own, OF
o swallow Douglas s2uattcr sovereignty views,
7 break up the Convention in a row"
The proprietors Of the San Francisco Bulletin,
arrested and fined, each ) 100, for publish
lg the confession of Mrs. Sicklcs.
Mr.. Isaac 7. Morgan, of Bethel, Vermont,
lawyer, committed suicide, on Thursday week,
y shooting himelf with a pistol.
The latest adviccs of the Kansas constitution
| election figure up Republican 30; Demo
ratio and doubtful and not herad from, % Re
ublican majority g.
A negro girl in Louisville, Nv, who fell n