Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-07-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

<bu Oiu SSutlSnaD OF Jne name OF HlllNBG,
OF Stockbfldge, Mass, completed his one hum
dredtI year on Friday June 29th, having been
born June %, 1850. He is still in good health,
and gave entertainment in honor of the
event He has been a member of the Baptist
Church for e8 years.
Near Lingstree, s. c., not long since a Mr..
Coleman had dug well to the depth of 26
feet, and was in it working, when he felt the
bottom falling in. He ran to the bucket and
was quickly drawn to the surface hard follow
ed by a stream of water which in ten minutes
or thereabouts, had filled the we'll TO the edge.
He was obliged to cut ditch to a neighboring
branch, " TO carry off the super6uous water.
The supply still continues.
The New York Methodist Book Concern, so
the Christian Advocate informs us, employs
over half a million of capital above all liabili-
ties. From twelve to fifteen bound books aIe
curned out every minute of the year The sales
OF the house amounted TO $3l9, 900 last year.
The last survivor of the Battle of Bunker
Hill ls'a Ralph Farnum, who is living in Aston,
! Maine, in the one hundred and fourth year of
his age. He is an object of veneration to all
who know him.
1t is said that the number of strangers tIav-
| eIlng from the South this season has never
| been surpassed. New York hotels for some
time past have been thronged with people from
/ the cotton States.
( Ten thousand chests of Japanese teas, green
/ and black have been shipped for New York,
ana viii arrive about the first of October. This
/ Is the first large shipment Of this article for
i the United States.
t Lord William Godolphn Osborne, a son of
/ the Duke Of Leeds has been sentenced to six
/ months imprisonment in London, for obtain
! Ing credit by falsely representing the amount
/ of his income. y..--.---~s,a-
man fell from the Wheeling Suspension
bridge, striking the water eighty feet below
The water being only about three feet deep as
that point, he was considerably bruised
Knox College, at G,tleshurg, Ill.,. at its late
! Comm9ncement conferred upon Abraham Lin
coin the degree OF LID a~a
The wife Of Caleb Brinton residing on farm
/ opposite Harrisburg, Penn. died few days
since This woman was probably the largest
! woman in the United States. We did not learn
/ what her weight was. but it may be Judged
4 when we state that she measured seven feet
I SIX inches around the waist For the last two
or three years She has been unable to- move
/ from excessive obesity. and yet enjoyed more
! than ordinary good health,
Recently five old ladies met at the house of
! Edmund Wordcl Wcstport, Mass, abont one
mile irem the Narrows aged respectively 80,
! W. ~, ~, and "A making unitedly 1896 years,
! or an average of 70 Is years. There was an
/ cicnt gossip there and no mistake.
Bostan. July IA pleasure boat containing
! II persons WIS rpm into by schooner last night
4 in the haIbor. drowning 2 Young women aged
10 and Il and young man, all Irish-=namea
! not yet asceGtained. 4sr
/ Acar lorh, July 49, Key West adYiccs state
! that the ship CastiIian seat out by the (.oloni-
! zation Soceiy sailed June 30th, fof Cape Mount
Africa, with 500 captured negroes. The South
i Shore had 333 On board and would sail soon
The Seiei!iifc American says that oil springs
! are probably the result Of the decomposition Of
vegetable Substances by the internal heot of the
| earth. 1t is not likely that any of them are
absolutely ineXbaustible, and their extent will
/ no doubt vary like that Of coal beds and other
! geological deposits. r--
Linist."ts continue to pour into New York
/ The number of arrivals for the week ending the
/ llth inst. 1858, making n total of SO 1871
since the commencement of the year, against
! O,OO3 for a corresponding period in 1853.
/ The fund of the Smithsonian Institution.
] Washington. amounts to some $3.50. 0O0 and
the interest annually derived is $50. .326. The
expenditures amount to about S33 COO includ-
ing $1,000 for salaries SO, 600 for publications,
&c. -.
The steamship Huntsville which LEFT Savan-
nah for New York on the 18th inst. took out,
| as part OF her cargo, 6,S75 watermclons,
tenement house at Lawrence. Mass. was
recently burned, ana mother and her daugh-
ter persisted in the flames HFs
There were thiltren fatal cases of sun stroke
Ill II L"uIs on thursday including Peter Cal
L'her, Il notorious prize fighter.
Dry weather is stid to be producing most sad
destruction ct her5agc in the vicinity Of Non
treal. The hay crop will he :. failure. and cat
ter are Being i"lced upon tie market farmers
fearing that they viii socn be without grass or
hty e. keep them from starvation
Tie crap in Minnesota is excellent this year.
it is estimated hat the average Weld of wheat
to Inc acre, throughout the State, will be rs
bushels. +..4s
An cXtcrsirc fire is raging in the woods hear
Egg Ilirhor. y. j. The flames have extended
in length and breadth about % miles Two
hoises were known to have been destroyed
The san Francisco Golden Era, Of June II,
announces the marriage OF Mrs BuidelI Gun.
nin2ham. in thai city.
Some parts Of Vermont are suffering extreme
" from drouth. The oldest residents never
knew it 10 he SO dry before
Morriasey friends say he has no intention of
ighting Hcenan now or at any other time:
and that he is undergoing "A painful process of
bllatcrlnG for throat disease. We guess it is
another kind of hlistering that keeps Morrissey
FroEi lighting the blsterng he would be sure
to receive from the "Beneca Boy"
alr. G. +. Train, formerly Of Roston. has
closed Il contract for constructing the first CITY
horse railroad IN England, with the authorities
OF the tiWn OF Bifkenhedd one mile across the
HVer Melsty, and directly opposite Liverpool.
Over twenty thousand persons visited Bar
mum Museum III New York ON the Fourth
hat is the largest number Of persons that has
ever before visited the Museum in one day
hat loathsome disease the smallpox is
spreading IN Chicago Several new cases have
been reported in certain parts of the city, par
tlculally IN the South Division
The Tribune's Wesi;ine ton dispatch says that
al tine end OF Mr.. Buchanans term the public
debt viii probably be eighty odd millions. ex-
elusive OF haianee, $4,000, 600 transferred
to him by Mr.. Pierce
Revolutionary soldiers have become scarce
indeed The great feature Of the celebration
"i the Fourth at Madison, Wis, was the pres
cHce OF Nathaniel Anies. now in his hundredth
year Air Ames WAS in Washington's army
two years and a-half and was present when
Mayor Andre was hung He is remarkably
well preserved for a centenarian. aaf
a meeting has been held lately at Indianap-
Oils to consider the question of the alarming
increase in the number Of positively vicious or
good nothing young men.
a snake was killed. one day last week, on
the fam Of Mr.. c. J. Mills, near Rochester, N.
J which measured II feet in lenght. and s
inches through the largest part of the body
One of the items Of the metropolitan Hotel
bi'l "i $4,000 for entertaining the japanese
En- bassaders was for ten thousand bottles of
champagne consumed at the Japanese ball, OF
two bottles for each person in attendance.
Bell Life says that Tom Sayers and Heenan
realized &l200 on their sparring tour one week
at Newcastle-on Tyne, Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow
and Edinhurg.
An immense bed Of white marble, said to be
eq nal TO the finest italian, has been discovered
III Pressure Isle county, Michigan.
DR. Thomas Butts, of Southampton. Va.
who died last week has directed in his will that
all his servants, l50 in number, shall be freed.
y thousand dollar carriage, made thirty years
ago. at Middlctown, for General jackson to ride
m has recently been sold for sixteen dollars
and fifty cents.
31t9{tsf. EEcriogs - CenersI cl,r,iS, ;u
lake place the first Monday in August in the
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