Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-11-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

MIS- Rosa BeaiS WAS sent TO jail IN Albany,
on Tuesday for offering for sale fowls that had
been killed by weasel.
A monster bell is on exhibition in Boston
1t weighs over ten Thousand pounds more
than double the weight of any other bell in
New England.
The census returns from Wisconsin show a
gain of so per cent in FIVE years This indi-
Gates population of about 7S0, 900 in the
whole State,
The number of oil wells which have been
sunk in the township of Mecca. is about five
hundred, at an expense of seventy dollars each;
total amount, thirty-fve thousand dollars
There are at present thirty-two engines in op-
Grafton, yielding about one hundred and fifty
barrels per day.
The Owen County Journal says tina gentle
man in Knox county. Indiana, has lost seventy
head of hogs by cholera since harvest, This is
the first case of hog cholera of any consequence
we have noticed for several months.
There is Bible in the University of Coffin
genwritten on five thousand four hundred and
seventy-six palm leaves.
A great battle took place at Capua in Ma
pies, ON the iSt ult,, between Garibaldi and
the King of Naples. The Neapolitans had
thirty thousand men and Garibaldi about half
that number. The action continued eight
hours, and ended in the defeat of the Neapoll-
tans The troops of Victor Emanuel had en-
tered the territory.
Albert Clark, respectable citizen of Her
nando county, Florida, was hrutally murdered
by one of his negroes on the 8th uit. Thc cul-
prit was brought into Brookville on the 18th.
and made a speech on the gallows admitting
his guilt and the justice of his punishment,
and was executed in front of the court house
in the presence of II large number of the citi
Zcns.
~Chauncy Jerome. the clockmsker, has writ
ten a history of American clock making, in
70 and mn
with the great failure.
Miss Hattie Taylor, of Newport. Ky, who
danced with Prince Albert Edward at Gin
innati, received present from the Prince,
a magnificent diamond brooch, suTmounted by
his crest.
The great question is settled at last A Bos-
ton disciple of Crispin measured the Prince of
Wales for pair of boots. and declares that His
ROYAL Highness wears . No. Is" People with
large feet may take comfort from the fact.
Fremont's mines in Mariposa yielded the
amount of S1l 1888, in gold bars, in six days
run.
One Thousand men are employed in the man
ufacture of sewing machine needles and the
profit on them amounts to nearly S30O, 900 II
year. Since the Introduction of the sewing
machine, the sale of spool cotton has increased
to the extent of more than million and a
half annually.
1t is stated that excellent Baldwin apples are
now selling in Worcester, Mass, for 80 cents
per barrel. The crop is enormous, and one
farmer alone has raised some 500 barrels.
little daughter of Mr. Calvin d. Pratt, OF
Taunton, Mass. died last week in consequences
of having swallowed the chemical preparations
upon some friction matches with which she
had been playing.
young lady in st. Paul rose from her bed
few nights since, to make application OF
camphor to her throbbing temples. By mis-
take she got hold of bottle of indelible ink.
The error was not discovered in time to pre-
! vent IL most damaging effect to the fair one
personal appearance.
Dr. Scott Jones, wealthy farmer, near
Winston, n c. was shot and killed last week,
by Lewis Juscure one of his tenants, at the
house of the latter, whittier he had gone to
notify him to quit. The murderer was arres-
ted.
FIX Governor Wise's vocation is gone. He
says that ''the time for talking is past
A Mr. Lankford has been punished with
thirty-nIle lashes, in Mobile, Ala. for giving
a plss to y negro who worked for him, but
whom he did not own.
letter from Macon, Mississippi, states that
Mr.. Perkins, who wounded in duel near
New Orleans with DR.. Pondcxtcr some weeks
ago, E:ts died from his wounds. The parties
were brothers in law.
Rarey the horse tanner is about to return
lfoul ChIOpG- Will nun d iCtcu utl
steed named Cruiser, one Of his most unman-
! ageIble pupils.
Mrs Sickles. wife of Hon. Daniel E. Sickles,
who has been living in strict retirement since
the reconciliation between her husband aud
herself, few days ago presented Mr. Sickles
with pledge of that reconciliation.
The town Of Cambridge, Nd has by the new
census, a population of 1872 whites and b64 col
/ ored -totS I456 Another notable fact is
dogs.
Among the members of the freshman class
of Harvard College is Robert r. Lincoln, OF
Springfield, Illinois, II son of the republican
candidate for the Presidency Goorge Wash
ingthon, of Charleston, Va, is member of
the same class. There are more than six ty
young men from the Southern States pursuing
their studies at Cambridge
Throughout Missouri Il total failure of the
bees to swarm during the summer just past is
said to have been observed and excites much
speculation. In some localities, farmers who
have had ii hundred stands. and who watch
closely the movements of the bees report that
although the little insects have worked all
through the summer with their accustomed
industry. aud have multiplied largely, not ii
single swarm has heen observed.
The Memphis Avalanche, of the 25th ult..
says that Mrs s. A. Douglas, who came pIs-
senger on the steamer j. c. Swon, was robbed
of valuable gold watch, by some adroit thief
on board the boat She left the watch under
the pillow of her berth, and during her absence
the stateroofr1 was entered and the watch alb
stracted. The police were busiiy engaged in
hunting the rogue yesterday, but without sue
cess.
first class newspaper, devoted to American
political interests. called the London American,
has at length been established in London. 1t
is to be repubished in New York. According
To ish
not announced.
Manchester, England, is the greatest manu-
featuring city iii the world. The total steam
force of its manufactures is 200, 600 horse
power. In producing this force. 20, 600 tons of
coal consumed daily, $3.50, 600 in the
! 3l3 working days of the year.
The census of Dubuque City. Iowa, shows a
decrease in population of GOO within three
years The population is thirteen thousand
Three years ago it wis seventeen thousand.
DR.. Thomas Butts, of Southampton, Va.
who died recently. has directed in his will that
| all his servants, l05 in number, shall be freed
The Richmond Whig says there has recently
been organized in that city religions society
or congregation styled a. Independent Catho
lies The object of which is to dissever all
connection with the Pope of Rome and his
Bishops and, in fact, to repudiate and protest
against the Roman Hierarchy in every form -
It is composed chiefly of French and German
citizens
a proclamation has been issued by the Pres
ident for the sale, in June next, of about three
and three quarter millions of acres of public
lands in the State of California. This procla-
nation embraces some of the best agricultural
lands in the State in the valleys of the San
joaquin and Sacramento rivers and their trib-
tareS.
POLITICAL ITEMS.