Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-20
NEWS ITEMS.

ly named Reagan, IN Orion, hlchiand county,
WISCONSIN. was destroyed by fire. Six children.
the eldest of whom was sixteen years DID,, per-
ished in the flames.
A woman who went about the streets Of New
York picking up coal from the ashes, recently
died and several Thousand dollars of gold and
silver were found among her effects. Another
coal picker lately bought a farm for 81, 600.
Married. in Campbellton, Florida, on the
2lst ult., Master Robert Cherry, aged sixteen
years, to Miss Josephine Gregory, aged thirteen
years.
The Winona MINI y Democrat, March 18th;
saws there are in store in the towns on the
Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, in Minnesota,
the following amount Of grain : Wheat, 354,@
O6O bushels oats, 3SS, 600 bushels besides
thousands of bushels of corn, barley, rye and
potatoes, also several thousand barrels of pork,
lard and -four, and large quantities of pro-
duce.
A man died in st. Louis the other day, from
a shock of the nervous system, produced by a
fit of rage. st
The Burlington Qowa) Hawkeye of the 9th
says that a party of fifty Ohioans passed through
that city a few days previous, bound to Pixies
Peak. wax
Heenan, the Benieia Boy. must be as tender
in love as he is rough in war. Two ladies claim
to be his lawful spouse. His welcome home"
under the circumstances, bids fair to surpass id
terror his encounter with Sayers.
lion. JSu. LdVlS Is again SuHerllg from 1nnaS
nation OF the eyes. A surgical operation
performed on one, last Saturday, is feared it
will result in the loss Of both.
Persons who have been travelling through
western New York, report the growing wheat
as promising and apparently safely passed
through the winter. From the Western States
the limited information we have is favorable.
A Mrs. John Reid is advertising in the Phil
adelphia North American, an " Infants Re-
treat, " established for the accommodation of
those babies whose affectionate parents desire
to travel without encumbranccs.
In examining the bodies at a family grave
yard, near Charlottesville, S. c., lately, the
body of Il woman, buried some twelve or more
years, was found a petrifaction, with each arti-
Gle Of dress perfect.
The Mobile Mercury give an account Of a
terrific hurricane which passed through Lau-
derdAle county, Mississippi, hast Friday night.
Every building in its path was Frustrated, and
several persons were killed. Hg3
Twenty-Five. thousand four hundred dollars
were received at the morning offertory, at this
church of Advent, in Boston, on Sunday last.
The boat of the whaling bark Roscoe, was
struck by a whale of Cape Horn lately, and
the master and seven of the crew were drown
ed.
Since the reduction of duties in France, the
French paper makers are offering to supply
English con suiners with a good article Of prin-
ms GADSi az Gnu DCt WIN
Two men, while firing a ealute for the Re-
publicLns in New London, Conn, last Tuesday,
were d~readfully mangled by the premature dis
charge of the cannon.
The African Baptist Church in Augusta, Ca,
owns its minister, the congregation having
bought him from his former master. The mem
beers of the church, who are mostly, If not all
slaves, contribute a Thousand dollars q. year
for the support of their chattel minister
and ftmily.
A dwelling house fell the other night In
Troy, N. ", and although there were seven
persons sleeping within, all escaped without
serious injury The house was completely de-
molished.
Merriam, the great weather sage of Brook
lyn Heights, N. Y. sums up the deaths from
%calnplenc accidents from the22d of July, 1850,
to Mtrch 18th, 1862, not quite ten years, at
Ash. The number injured at 642. ~
CHICAGO BUcKEYEs.-The Chicago Buckeyes
held IA meetings. Saturday evening, to make ar
rangeine1 IS for the reception of the Ohio Dele
gates to the National Convention. A
The Jlinaiea IL. II Farmer SAYS that the
watch warn By Napoleon l while a prisoner ut
st Helena. is now i'll possession Of a gentIe-
man in jamaica village. TIre Watch IN 4of gold.
of English Manufacture, and 4 perfect tiIne-
keeper.
The trestle-work three miles north Of Spring
field, Ill.,, on the st. Louis, Alton and Chicago
hillIfOdu gave WAY under IL plSSe 0ger tram. T. rl-s
day night, precipitating the engine, baggage car,
and one passenger car down the eIntIankn Irnt,
instantly killing two men and i~njuring several
other persons. names unknown. isti IHlD
A letter from C,.ssius NJ. Clay. dated April
10th, says Our troubles with the Madison
County are, l trust, ended forever.
We are left to the enjoyment of our Constitu.
tional rights. n
The Peoples party of Delaware, held ~
State Conventional Dover, last week, and at
ter considerable discussion, resolved not to send
delegates either to the Baltimore or the Chicago
Convention, but to await the course of events.
The Convention then adjourned over until
June. t mis- -,
"A letter to the Richmond Dispatch from HAIR
risonburg, Virginia, states that a Mr.. Sites wac
married in that county, a few nights ago, 10 a
Miss Devcir, and that party Of young men
attempted to serenade the new currple with tin
pans, bell, etc. james DeYier, a brother of the
bride, went out and demonstrated, when the
serenaders took to their heels. He, however,
pursued them, when che OF them, named SMALL
wood, shot him dead. 4
Hon. William Cost johnson. E~x-Congress-
man from Maryland, died at Washington on the
18th.
There were from Eve to six inches of snow al
Buffalo on Saturday.
"Ghovernor Fdssatian , is the name irrever.
emily appiiedtu Henry A. Wise by Owen Love
JOY. III IN, late sensation speech.
The MtySsille Express says that n man nam-
cd llcivestinu has bern sentenced at that place
to five Y,tTs imprisonment in the Kentucky
Pcuitentiary, for hrving counterfeit money in
his possession. He claims to belong to IA gang
which eXten is from Kentucky through Ohio
and Indiana. ~
a beautiful but silly girl Of l6 to IS years
daughter of a widow of Rockford Ill, adyerti-
scd ior a husband in Il paper for the romance Of
the thing, and was caught and seduced by o
Iil-afa DaaH an,I1a .-.,- NJ "a
started in company with him for Pixies Peak,
and now has been found murdered on the wag
at ttumwa Iowa.
HIGH PRICES ron MODERN PAiSrIxos.-At
late sale in England, of modern paintings,
The Grand Canal, Venice by Turner, brought
twenty-four hundred guineas, and 'Ostend, .
a stormy effect at sea, by the same painter,
1850 gUineaS.
New CODE OF MoRAIs.-Senator Wigfall.
Texas, the illustrsous Wigfall,' declares ths
poverty is il crime. The man who is poo
had sinned, and there was q screw loose in hi
head somewhere This discovery should b
ranked with Senator Hammond's declaratics y
that the laboring classes of the North were tn
mud-sills of society. ~fnALnE
ANOTHER VICTIM OF DuRNISa FLuID.-Mn
Thompson, of Pennsylvania Avenue, PhiladeI-
phia, died on Tuesday from the injuries Al
received by the bursting of a fluid lamp la
week. She fingered in horrible agony, II
walls of the abdomen having been bun
through by the deadly explosive. ss.
WHERE JOHN BELL STANDs.-The NashvK "a
Union asks, - where does John Bell standi
1t asks the question twice in one day. Hatca,
er, the wag of the Patriot, says The las
time zee saw Mr.. Bell, he was standing in from
of Mr.. jones' Eating House, picking his teeth ii
MEMPHIS, Apri! 16.-The steamer Defender.
from New Orleans to Pittsburgh. was snAgred
and sunk near Laconia on Saturday evening"
The boat had Il heavy cargo, and is a total
loss. Three deck passengers were lost. T.
CHICAGO, April 1.-THE office of the City
Collector was broken open last night. and S2l