Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

penses, ana III what villages and cities the
frauds were committed.
A terrible tragedy occurred lately in De Soto
county, Miss. One Nesbitt became 30 enTaR-
ed at his son. with whom he had dispute that
he seized a billet of wood and felled him to the
earth. While the young man was hing belp.
less he repeated the blows, fractGffhg bis skull
and inflcting injuries which soon terminated
in his death. The unnatural father was COM
mitted to Jail.
South Carolina will not go into the BaltimOf6
! Convention, whatever other States which So
ceded may do. Mr.. Perry, who declined to
Withdraw his delegation at Charleston, has
written to Washington that he will have no
further connection with the Convention, and
| abandons the Democracy to its fate
A severe hurricane swept over the Rock Is-
| land region, ILL.,, Sunday evening, destroying
in its course the railroad bridge that spanned
Rock River, on the Chicago and Rock Island
Road. Nothing but the piers are left standing
The structure was 1850 feet in length, and Il
| will cost $25, 900 to repair it.
The bodies of eight persons supposed to have
| been coal boat men, lost during the storm of
last Monday, were found in the Ohio river
near Madison, Ind, on Friday.
Three children of John and Elizabeth Bur
rows, of Cedar Point, Charles county, Md,
| aged eleven, six, and four years, died suddenly
| on the 23d, 26th and 9th of April, respective
| ly, under circumstances which induced the be-
| lief that they had been poisoned The child
|
up to the time of their deaths.
The Covode Committee have found another
mine of facts 1t appears that the Administer
! ton offered Col. Forney $50, 900 for his sup
| port, ard that he refused. The Administrations
Iad not money enough to buy the editor of the
| Press.
WILMINGTON " G., May 29.-The steamer
| Kate McIaiiIin, for Fayetteville, burst her
! boiler ~ four q clock this morning near Eliza
! bcthtown. killing Captain Evans and two deck
! hands, and scilded the fireman and Others
! The cargo Of merchandise which was for the
| interior was total loss.
The Charleston Mercury of the 2Ist saws =
! We understand that ABOUT fifteen negroes have
been missing since the adjournment of the
! Convention, which evidently shows that that
J Dody was accompanied by some private ennis
| sarics of the underground railroad.
| Hcenan is soon to commence his harvest In
Europe, by giving sparring exhibitions.
! Eighteen hundred barrels of coal oil were
sold in Pittsburgh IL few days since at 3l1 cents
| per gallon.
On Saturday race run over the New
| Market (Va.) Course, between o. P, HAre's
borSc, Oysterman, and Jos. Halls mare, AN
nctte Hall. The match for $40 600, &C
| four mile heats, and was by OysterInan In
two straight heats. Time S:261. S:234.
| Calhoun Benham, who the second Of
Judge Terry in the Brodcrick, duel has been
| rewarded with the office of United States DIS.
1
to confirm the nomination in tie Senate. 3
The cost of the New York Central Park mn
TO the close of last year, So, OCO 600. Sc,
it would appear that the annual expense re-
quIred to keep up the Central Park is equal to
fifteen per cent. Of the ordinary outlaws for the
support of the city government An expensive
| luxury.
The Missouri Dome crat, speaking of the Re-
! publican ratification meeting in the city Of g.
Louis, says, 1T was such meeting as Benton'S
presence was won't to call forth"
senator Cameron has stated the Tariff aaes-
tion i'll behalf of Pennsy lvania, in four wortia.
Thus III is niqger 4aH4
The Ft- III alison. Qowa) PIaindealer saw.
that i poor miserable wretch living near Farm
inSton i'll Van Buren county, while horribly
disappearing God on Sunday last for withhold
ing rain from his suffering crops Was suddenly.
| stuck with palsy and almost immediately died
ST lCUIs, May ga violent hail storm Al
Lexington. Mo. last night did much damage
there and in vicinity, and broke nearly all the
glass i'll the city. HailstoncS weighing OUNCES
split shingles in their descent
1t is stated that EDWARD Everett DC sitiveIy de
clincS accepting the nomination for Vice Pres
ident tendcrcd him 10y the Union Savers Con-
yenti II.
AT the Republican ratification meeting held
at Pittsburg on M nday evening, Col. Curtin.
the Tee pie candidate for Governor was intro
duceli, and made telling speech endorsing
''Old Abe"
1t is stated that Gen &c Vega, recently tax
cn prisoner ut sam Luis Putosi by the Iibernl-
lists, has been shot. 1t will be remembered
that he WIS captured ly Capt. May at .Ist1S.ca
dc la Palma, and snbscqu, ntIy at Ccrro Gorrio
All the prisoners taken with Gen La Vega. at
San Luis, were Sh IT. .
OTTAWA, III. May 24.-nuriug a storm to-
day two boys. named Peter Kelly and ALFRED
Collins were killed by lightning striking the
tree under which they had taken shelter. Two
others were slightly injured.
a drspcrado n"lncd William Lynch. a con-
vict in the Maryland Pcnituntiary was NOR
tally shot by an ofl.ccr the ,tLrr day b,.ca,Ira
he refused to leave his dornnitoIy and atten,pt-
cd to murder the tiicvIs " hen they used meas
UrcS To CucIte linn.
The WHEAT CEur.-- he Louisville Journal
says:
While in the west and southwest the fiy Ia
doing great damage to the wheat our personal
observation during recent trip through Penn
sylvana, Dclawslc, Maryland, Virginia and
ONO. convinced us that the cTops in those
States viii lac unusually large. We have never
seen tia" grain MUrc advanced at this season, or
looking better.
Tie New York Central Road will bring ont
this eek no less than twelve anii-aust cars.
These cans are 81 arranged that they are at all
ilmcs lS ftcc ot dust rs drawing room The
Central Road has purchased the patent for this
car paving $50, 600 for the same.
Inc ot. IauI lines learns that last week
there was a battle between the Sioux and Chin
pewas. on Main Prairie. in that State i'm which
the Sioux had five killed and three wounded
Mr. Wendell, late House printer, and finan-
cial agent of the Democracy has received about
eight hundred and fifty dollars for testifying
before the corruption committees at Washing
.on.
AZ ENORMOUS CHARGE.-1he State Dspart-.
mcnt has received the bill rendered by the
Panama Railroad Company against the United
states for the passage across that route Of tho
Japanese Embassy. They charged the Federal
Government the enormous sum of three thou
sand one hundred dollars for simply carving
them accross the Isthmus.
A woman named Ann Hennesy residing In
New York, jumped out of the fourth tory win.
low, the other night. while in a state Of SOM
and alighted on the sidewalk with
out sustaining any serious injury.
Miss Abby A. Goddard strong minded wo-
man. who was arrested some time since while
lecturing at the West and taken to Detlham.
siass., charged with obtaining money
under false pietenses, arrested at that place
hast week "a rcquisition from Gov Morgan
on charge of forgery, committed in Troy n.
a girl belonging TO the Sunday School IN
NOrthbridge. Mass, has committed and recited
to her teacher, during the last twelve months,
fifteen thousand four hundred and Mirty:fts rersss
from the Bible. and she working every day with
her father, making shoes.
ballooniSt by the name of Connor, at
tempting to make an ascension in New York.
thursday afternoon. was thrown violently up
IN the roof of building and so injured that
lie after died.
In one of his Illinois speeches Judge Doug
MS charged that Lincoln had tended bar I'm
lis youth. Lincoln admitted the fact and re-
marked that Douglas one (f Ais rery 6sst
'uStohaers.
An old beggar woman died in PhilAdclphiA