Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-07-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

In the stomach of an OK slaughtered lately at
Valleeito California, was found two dve-dOllaE
gold pieces-one dated 1886 and the other 1855.
The most plausible supposition is that the ami
NAL chewed up some buckskin purse for Bho
salt it contained, and thus swallowed the
money.
LYNcHBuRG, VA, June 23--Joseph and Rob-
ert Button, editors of the Virginian, were shot
in the street to-day by the brothers Hardwick,
| editors and proprietors of the Republican. One
of the Buttons is said to be Inortally and the
other seriously wounded. Both Aardwicka
have been placed in jail
Four hundred and fifty thousand muskraA
skins have been bought by the Northwestern
Fur Company since last fall They have been
gathered from Wisconsin. Minnesota and part
of Iowa. and have been shipped direct to Lon
don. During the season just closed this com.
pany has paid out $500, 600 for furs.
The census takers occasionally find some
strange events and items. One Of the Deputy
Marshals of Williamson county, Miss, made
the acquaintance of lady seventy-hve years
of age who built three handred yards of rock
fence within the last year with her own hands,
and what is more, she gathered and carried In
her arms all the material of which the fence In
made.
The telegraph reported the firing Of thirty
three guns at Adrian, Mich, for Douglas and
johnson. The Expositor, published at that
place says that this is an imposition, and that
the firing was really for Breckinridge and Lane.
Eight hundred sand eleven individuals are
now en- route from Liverpool to swell the ranks
of Brigham Young at Salt Lake. OF these Sll
souls, 354 are English, % Scotch, 80 Irish, and
nearly all the rest are Germans
Il Strong .SnseH.-Hon. Bailie Peyton, Of Ten.
nessce, who spoke at Bell and Everett ratif-
cation meeting few days ago, said that the
corruption OF the Administrations at WashinR-
ton is SO great that :" the man in the moon has
to hold his nose as he passes over that city.
Lat,
who advocate the election of breckenridge and
Lane, we notice the following: The Boston Post,
Lowell Advertiser, New Bedford Times Green.
tield Democrat, Barnstable Patriot. Salem Ad-
Yocate Essex County Democrat, Lawrence SEN
tineI and Pittsield Sun
The Iowa City Reporter counts up from tho
most reliable d TIA one hundred and two persons
killed in that State by the tornado, sixty-6v
houses destroyed other than those blown down
at Camanche and Clinton county, while the e.
timated amount of property reaches about biK
hundred thousand dollars. The number Of
wounded in Iowa reaches two hundred and ave
The Republican party had grand ratification
meeting at Concord n H., on Thursday night.
The meeting was held in the State House square.
where addresses were made by Hon. Il. II. RoA-
lins, Gov. Goodwin, Ex-Governor Colley and
others, Altogether it was oil the most en-
thusiastic political concentrations ever held In
the State. p s 81
The Cleveland National Democrat says that
if Mr.. Douglass shall continue in the field and
succeed in drawing off votes enough to dsfsat-
Breckenridge, . he and his friends will have 70
abide the wrath of abused and betrayed De-
mocraey" VIII Douglas withdraw
The Mountainecr, Brigham Young's paper,
at Salt Lake City, complains of the insolenco
of the census taker in inquiring the number Of
wi ves in each family and threatens him with
a shower bath by some strong minded ladies
The Supreme Court of the State of Mississip-
pi has affirmed the validity Of the law making
it penal offence for retailers to sell liqnor to
a drunken man, and declaring owners of drinR-
ing establishments responsible for the act Of the
barkeeper on this behalf.
A stout fellow, six feet two inches high got
swindled in a Peter Funk auction room, In Ne@
York. on a watch. 1t was only $40, but he
shut the door of the ROOM took of his coat
and sitter thrashing half-a-dozen swindlers, re-
covered the sPondulics and retired
The Republicans are wide awake in New Jer-
sey and will carry the State, from present APP
peirances 10y handsome plurality. The Fill
more men of 1856 almost universally support
Lincoln and Hanlin.
A little boy, three years old. fell beaiiornost
nto a tub of Scaliing water, a day OF two since.
in Alleglhtny City, Pennsylvania, and was
burned to death. lg
Pears have been received in New Orleans from
Mississippi Two bushels brought $50 over
freight and other expenses
Col Van Trump the candidate Of the Fill
more party for Governor in 1857, Is out for Lin
coin and Hamlin and he will probably take the
stump for the ticket this fall raa aof
The steam packet Ben. Lewis, exploded her
boilers, "a few miles below Cairo. On the Missis-
sippi, on Monday last. She Immediately took
fire and burned to the waters edge. The cap--
tain, second clerk and several Of the crew are
reported missing.
In the Austrian Empire there is one physi--
clan to each thousand of the inhabitants. la
France there is or ~ medical man for each two
Thousand of the inhabitants ~
Seventy eight slaves were sold In New Or
leans few days since for $T4, ,72O o-f
Brigham Young had 2l7 children at last 90.
counts
q And SfiN they C5,ne > The Ypsilanti (Aiich-l
Sentinel, heretofore strong Democratic paper,
has up the Republican flag.
The census takers lind great difficulty in as
certaining the ages Of girls, n large majority Of
them being only sixteen. In one family thero
were found to he twclve girls between ten and
sixteen years of age.
The Davenport 1owa) Democrat and News
says that when the tornado struck CAmanche,
four men were engaged in playing cards in one
of the buildings which totally destroyed.
All four killed with the cards in their
hands.
The Japanese hold, that if a man rips his own
bowels out, he goes straight to heaven. The
Baltimore Convention seems to have tried to
III Itself Tor heaven after the Japanese mode
Louisville Joy7ioL. .-.-,.
party of Pixies Peakers, returned to Chica-
go, state that, by accurate count and record,
they met 548S teams on the road between Den
ver City and Fort kearney, and l, 500 between
Fort Kearncy and Omaha City making q total
of $3.50 teams on the road and all going west.
The Newport News has the following chilly
item to comfort those who have engaged houses
at Newport for the watering season !: There
was. this island, in Middletown, Thursday
at o'clock a m, a snow-storm. That
is doing pretty well for ths 2lst of June
The Trenton IN. J.) True American, makes
an important admission That two-thirds of
the Democracy of the State were, previous 20
the determination of the Baltimore Convention,
more favorable to Mr.. Breckinridge than to
Mr.. Douglas. we admit
John Miller. drunken tailor. committed
suicide in the Jail ut Decatur. Illinois, by stab
bng himself with pair Of shears while suffer
ing from fit of delirium tremens. post
mortem examination was held the next day on
the body, and in his stomach was found n COM
mon cast iron stove hook, about inches in
length, and AN inch and quarter in width,
which had been in that locality long enough 70
oxidation.
The Japanese Princes have at last been ir..
weighed into church. The church was Grace
Church, New Ysrl, the occasion wedding.
The Express says:
On Thursday. Charles Seaten, Esq, Of Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, was married to Miss
Agatha Eleanor Carnana, the only daughter
of wealthy retired italian merchant of this
city.
The five princes of the Japanese Embassy