Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-01-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Mast seriously injured, The parties engaged
in the matter have been arrested.
Senator Douglas, it is said, is far from being
a well man, and his permanent recovery is very
be govt in the stomach. His purpose of going
to Florida is prevented by his inability to travel
at present though it is his purpose to go South
as soon he is well enough to travel.
In Hanover, n. Y, a widow woman murder
ed her brother by cutting his throat while he
was drunk. She gave as q reason that he was
dependent upon her, and she was tired Of sup
porting him. In London, an insane shoemaker
cut off his wife's head, stood it up in a basin, and
was found by q policeman admiring the gahstly
features.
The Paris Ky Flag states that between two
and three hundred hogs have died during the
last week, of cholera, at the d~istillery Of J. A.
Miller, in that place.
The report of the treasurer of the United
States Agricultural Society shows the lnslancc
in his hands to be S34O, besides 50, 900 inV' St.
ed at per cent. The net proceeds of the fair
at Chicago were $40, l28, out of which the So
ciety has paid its debts.
A negro named John, thirty-three years old,
lately died in New Orleans, and a post mortem
examination showed that death had been caus-
ed by a disease of the liver, produced by eating
dirt. LIZ"
The medical practitioners of Paris announce
that the small pox is raging empidemically in
that city. 1t does not attack children alone,
but older people, who have too long omitted to
have themselves re-vaccinated.
Forney's Occasional " saws there will be two
LocGfoco Nominees. one by the boilers of the
Charleston Convention, and one by the ConVen-
ton. and that Douglas will be one of them
We hope they will give us a dozen. The more
the nerrier.
A man in ii neighboring State, who possesses
- - nEn nnO .-~.
recently called upon to administer upon the es-
tate of a deceased brother who left a little prop
erty. When he rendered his accounts TO the
Judge of probate. they were found to contain
among other charges the sum of 81 for railroad
fare in going and coming from the funeral.
A Postmaster in Virginia writes to the New
York Tribune that we are in the midst of a
Reign of Terror here. There is no certainty
that letters daily mailed will not be opened on
their way. All men of Northern birth now
here are under Surveillance b. SO called vigilance
committees and any one suspected of think.
ing Slavery less than Divine, is placed under
care
WHEELING, Jan, GA lady by the name of
Mrs. Bulger jumped off the suspension bridge
yesterday afternot n and was drowned. Tenn
porary insanity, in consequence of the recent
death of a sister and child, is the cause assign
ed for the deed.
Elk King Jerome Bonaparte. the only eurviv-
ing brother of the great Napoleon, is said to DO
dying. His fine constitution has at last yield
ed to the attacks Of disease, and he is racked
by a constant cough which threatens ~suffoca-
ton.
The Nebraska Legislature has abolished SlaV-
cry. in that Territory. and passed a.bill prOvid-
ing for IA Constitute nal Convention: So we
shall soon have another Free State.
Mr.. Geo. W. Yestal, one of the North Caro-
lima subscribers of The National Era, has been
elected from employment as a common=school
teacher in Alamance County. North Carolina.
in consequence of his anti -slavery views. 1t
seems that the local board desired to retain
him. but they were overrulcd by the general
board of the county.
a worthy and wealthy member of a fire COM
pany i'll Buffalo has bought a tier of pews in n
Presbyterian church there for the use Of his
fellow members.
The Company owning the Railroad between
Fair Haven and StoningtuII, Conn, are now
testing the experiment, on their road, of placing
prepared India rul, CT un ,cr the ends OF each
rail, with a view +, re.nove the Disc tand rat
Ting 50 common on almost all roads.
Mr.. South. of MedeII. n. c., while cleaning
his gun. pointed it at Miss Handy, not know
ing it to be loaded. The piece exploded and
the young lady received the entire charge. She
died from her wounds in a few hours.
The citizens Of Charleston. s. c., have been
i good deal exercised in these trOnblOus times
ny the appearance # - black star posted about
tiIuG city. 1t turns cut 10 DC an ingenious de-
vice It an editor, to attract attention to a new
story which will soon appear in his paper.
We learn, from ii source entitled to credit,
that when the South snail have completed its
arrangements for non intercourse with the
North. its entire population mean to adopt the
Georgia costume, viz Il straw hat, shirt collar
and ptr OF spurs.
negro woman named Clara Wilson, died
near Alton, Ill. Dec. Is, at the age of l24.-
She settled near Alton in 1910, being then over
100 years old.
The pews in Henry Ward Beccher's church,
Brooklyn, were rented this year for ga, $50,
being an increase Of So, 036 so over last years
receipts. The sale WAS attended 10y over one
Thousand six hundred ladies and gentlemen.
A Vickburgh, Miss, dispatch, of the 18th.
says: w. u. Ray, editor of the Southern Sun,
WAS murdered to-day at II o'clock. by Shippard,
his defAulting clerk. He was shot through the
heart"
An unknown man, of gentccl appearance.
WAS committed to one of the cells of the Jstfcr-
, >on Market Police Court, in New York City, ON
Friday night week, and the next morning no
: was found dead. The poor mans body had
been nearly half deyoured by rats.
The Gonzales CTcxas) Enquirer says that not
less than une-fourth of a million of sheep have
been brought into Texas from Mexico since tho
LIST # January, 1889, exclusive of those impOr-
ted from Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri and Ar
kansas.
The editor of the Wilmington IN. CT Herald
braGs Of tcIsting On green peas and new pota-
toes. These vegetables were raised in Deceln-
, Der, in the open air. in Fernandini. Florida
The Richmond Wing says elf Virginia and
the South can't be saved, without being Demo-
craticalIy saved, they both may be damned. and
damned to all eternity, SO far ms we and the
Southern Opposition are concerned.
Mr.. w. Fl. Radcliffe, formerly of Cleveland.
has been notified by the Postmaster in New Or
: leans that the Republican Journals of the for
Iner city are inCendiary publications, and that
he must stop receiving them.
ia. Mu1phcy, residing in Louisville, Ky, the
day before Christmas, in attempting SO extract
a bone out Of II h, IS throat, was BADLY bitten
10y the animal. La less than a week he was at.
tackled with symptoms of hydrophobia which
lasted until Thursday, when he got better, but
! on the 9th inst he was again attacked, and
soon died in horrible agony.
The Governor of Florida sent a message to
the Legislature on the 10th, Tging the passage
of a law pre- hibiting the circulation of ineendi-
I airy publications in that State. A bill exclude
4 ing free colored pc1uns from Florida passed the
p Senate, on the 18th, by a vote of 10 to 2
A poor vagrant was found by the police wan
dering in the streets of Philadelphia. He said
he wanted to freeze to death, that he had no
home, but was afraid to kill himself. The par
ties lett him, and in the morning the poor
wretch WAS fund ON a cellar door u frozen
corpse.
, Mrs. Polly Spencer. of Lincoln (Me.) now In
her 18th wear, spun 20 skeins of woolen yarn
1 each skein containing seven kROts in hve sue
a ccssive days during the month of December,
in addition to doing the Homework for "a fami-
n lS of six persons,