Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-02-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

the British Minister, and that preparations for
the great wedding have already commenced.
The little West India island of Barbados, it
may not be generally known, is the most dense
IL populated country in the world. With an
area of l66 square miles, or log, 40 acres, it
contains a population of lbs, S64, zrv
New Orleans is now, via the Ohio and Missis-
sippi and Illinois Central railroads to Cairo,
within 900 miles distance and forty hours pas
sage from Cincinnati, and but four day distant
from New York.
The Boston Herald tells a story of a child
which narrowly escaped death in consequence
of having the blood sucked from its nostrils by
a cat. The pillow and bed on which the child
lay asleep were saturated with blood. a;.H
A prize skating match came off at Rochester
last Friday. About twenty entered for the race,
which was for a distance of four and a half
miles The first prize was won by Amenzo
Cooley: time 10 minutes 33 seconds.
At a late levee at the White House, President
Buchanan shook hands with five thousand per-
sons. The labor of this tremendous hand sha-
king must be immense.
Duane street Methodist Church, erected in
1877 in the city of New York, and the ground
on which it stands, were sold last week for
So, $50.
A st. Paul paper estimates the fur trade of
Minnesota at over a quarter of a million of dol
lars a year.
Inc fearful lndlduy Oh putT1Q sore throat Is
aging TO an alarming extent in various parts
of Oregon.
Last week, in the Supreme Court at Lock-
port, n. Y, a verdict of SO, 500 was given a.
gainst the New York Central Railroad, in favor
of Mr.. Jesse H. Warren. for the loss of an arm,
owing to an accident on the road.
Governor Kirkwood, of Iowa, recently refu-
sed to deliver up to the Virginia authorities,
Barclay Coppic, who escaped from Harper's Fer
~, and who, after a short sojourn in Canada,
returned to Iowa, where he has been living
with his friends. The Governor based his ac-
ton upon informality in the Virginia requisi-
ton.
A Winsted, Conn, widow, whose dear dtpar-
ted left her the life use of 81 .500 so long as she
remained unmarried, but which was to go to a
third party at her marriage, has, after some
years siege, succumhed. A compromise was
effected between herself and the ultimate lega-
tees by which they received the 81, 500 by pay
ing her 500 to get married. .- ff-
The damage in New York by the gale of the
9th was very great. The destruction of prop
erty on the Hudson alone will reach $500, 900.
Not n village or city but has suffered serious
injury to buildings, trees or greenhouses. At
PeekskiH the damage is from sixty to seventy
Thousand dollars, of which from ten to twenty
five thousand dollars was caused by the destruc-
ton of DIR. Grants extensive propagating hou-
ses and nursery.
Madame Bodisco, the widow of the late Rus
sian Minister, attended the Presidents levee
last week in a Court dress valued at $50, 600.
She was formerly a Miss Williams, of Washing
ton City, IA poor young lady.
Hon. Charles ]. IngersolI died at his residence
in New Haven, Conn. on the evening of the
eth inst. He was Il Judge of the U. S. District
Court, appointed by President Pierce.
The lottery system i'll Maryland will be bro
ken up by the new code recently adopted by
the Legislature.
There are twelve hundred clerks employed in
the Bank of England. When they leave the
building in the evening, n detachment of troops
march in to protect it during the night,
James Webb, one of the largest cotton factors
in Memphis, Tenn, WIS shot dead in an ARRAY
in that city, or the evening of the Sd inst. by
Il man named Minott, formerly book-kecper for
the deceased. A ..-
William L. Tours, Il watcbman at the New
York Custom House, was murdered while ON
duty Friday night last.
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,, has been
called home from Washington by the death of
his father.
William f. Burton. who for many years has
held the position of the first comedian in this
country, is no more lie died last Friday. after
a comparatively short but severe illness.
Gov. Weller, in his last message, says that
if the Union should he dissolved, California
will not go with the North nor the South, but
)blld d ACpuDlIC On INC shores OF the 1dC1IlC.
CARBoNDALE, Pa, Feb. II Cur CITY Hall
and the Court House and Jail attlcl. ed, were
this morning set On hrc by Il prisoner, and en-
tircly destroyed. The fire is still raging, and
other property is in danger.
The three Opposition papers in Baltimore
have each Il different candidate for the Presi-
dency-the Patriot dominates Mr.. Rates, the
Clipper Mr.. Bolts, the American Mr.. Bell.
The oil excitement in Verango and Crawford
counties, Pa is equal to the gold fever in Cali
tprnta- The whole basin of Oil Greek is full
OF It,. 1t Is only necessary to bore some 200
feet into the banks to get Il full stream of the
oil, which is equal to the best whale.
The Augusta (Ga,) Chronicle blames the
Northwestern Locofocos for not going for Smith,
but says that if the House never does "A worse
thing than elect a man like Pennington for
Speaker, the Union will never be dissolved.
The new Treasurero of the State of Minnesota,
in taking possession of that Department. was
put into possession of two three-cent pieces in
specie, and, and 81 OLA in bills of broken and
worthless banks. He proposes to hand the
Identical coin over to the Historical Society.
1t is said that the vile Abolition Sheet. the
New York lines, has warmly espoused Doug
las Squattcr Sovereignty theory, and should
that d~emagogue be nominated at Charleston,
will support him for the Presidency. Missis-
sippian.
The Southern merchants have had an agent |
in New York, ascertaining the soundness of
wholesale houses on that distracting bird. The
Goose. The other day he certified the sound
ness of one of the pillars of Dir. Gheever's
Church.
the Courier says that so wealthy free black agri-
culturalist from the interior of louisiana are
preparing to depart for Hayti.
The New York Herald has started a new can
didate for the Presidency, to-wit Gen. John
L. Wool, whom it styles !" a patriot, a soldier.
a democrat, a thorough Union man., &c. Wool
is next in rank to Gen. Scott, and claims the
credit OF the victory of Buena Vista.
Tie Huntsville TRAGEDY-DEATH OF DIR.
DAvIDsoN.-The Louisville Journal says that
this desperate man, who, in the attempt to de-
stroy the life of another man, wounded four
Others and himself, died in the Hawesville Jail,
from the injuries received by the explosion on
Wednesday. Mr.. Sterritt's condition was dan
gerous, but the others will recover.
The Trenton, N. j., State Gazette saws that
New Jersey is good for seven ELECTORAL votes
for the Chicago nominee, whoever he may be.
STATE CAPIToLs.-The entire cost of the Ten
nessee State Capitol is 1925, SO IL. The cost
of the State Capitol of South Carolina is esti-
mated at 81, SOC, 900, while the Ohio State Cap
itol has cost, so far, 81, 333, l22 90, and it is
that S2I9,08 90 will be requircdsto
finish it.
The Douglas organs in Tennessee swear that
the platform of the late Democratic State Con
vention at Nashville tolerates Douglusism, and
the anti Douglas organs of that State swear
that it DOESN'T. SO the platform clearly sub
serves the purpose of its creation. It was
erected with the usual Democratic tact Louis
vile journal.
A bill prohibiting the marriage of first cous-
ms is under discussion in the Maryland Legis-
lature. The Annapolis correspondent of the
Baltimore American says that it will probably
pass.
The Steamship Northener, on her trip from
San Francisco to Portland, Victoria, on the 9th
of January, struck a rock off Cape Mendocino
and went to pieces. 81 passengers and Is of