Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-10-26

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DUEL IN NEw oRLEANs.-Dr VIM. O. Poin-
dexter, of Miss, and r. L. Perkins, of Ala,
undertook to settle business difficulty, q few
days ago by blowing bullets through each 9TH
er. At the first fire Perkins was wounded in
the head severely, but not fatally.
horrible double murder was perpetrated on
Monday evening, in Bridgewatef,, Litchfeld
county, Conn. a man by the name of David
Fiiiets, halter by trade, while in At of pas
sion or temporary insanity, murdered his two
daughters, aged eleven and fifteen years res
pectiyely, and then attempted to put an end
e his own existence by cutting his throat. +
Niiiets is about forty years of age has always
lived IN Bridgewater, and has always been con-
sidered a steady and temperate man.
The first Shipment of wool was made from
San Francisco, CAL, to the Atlantic States in
1924, and amounted to only 8 800 pounds. -
The shipment this year will exceed 8, 200, 600.
VIRGINIA CENSUS RETURNS. in Marion county
there are 1856 white persons, 2 free colored,
and 63 slaves In Brooke county s. 443 whites
43 free colored and lS slaves. In Hancock
county, 4, ,442 whites, free eolered, and 2
slaves. fA
A young girl, named Catharine Gordon, sew
enteen years of age, corfmitted suicide in New
York city recently, by taking arsenic because
an elder sister had refused to let her go out
visiting or Snhday:
| :, There are hfty-scven cities in the world which
contain from loo, 900 to 200, 600 inhabitants,
| twenty-three from 200 to 50U, 600, ana twelve
which contain above 500 900.
| In Monroe county, KY, there lives man
ninety six years old. who has planted and cul-
| tlyated fifteen acIes of corn, and which is now
the best cprp IN that tsFtoR
The popuIatfon Of California has been very
much over.estimated. It will probably not go
over 400 600
There is a woman living IN New Orleans who
has married and buried one husband every year
for seven years past, and she has recently mar
| ried hef eighth husband. Desperately brave
man.
DR.. Robert Patton, of Kingsport, Tennessee,
died last week from the effects of extracting a
small brass cannon has been found at the
bottom OF deep we'll of the Castle de ClGey
in France, with the date 1858 upor IT, The
date of the invention of the cannon has his.
toricaiiy been assigned to The year l324-66
| years later. sfsI
Soulonque, the ,Ex- Emperor of Hayti. lives
In the city of Kingston, JaIfieica, in a style of
H1ean and wretched poverty and spends most
Of his time in gambling with few low Haytien
| renegades h sa.ss.J
At New orleans on the .22d ult, an ezplo
Stop OF spirits took place in large building,
which buried forty or fifty persons in the rnius
Thirteen dead bodies were taken out. The loss
is estimated at $150,000 Another fire took
PLACE, on the day, which resulted in the
loss of 10000. :
Michael Mclaughlin, of Catskill, purchased
q gallon and half of whisky, week before
last, and with the help Of his wife, drank it
the next dny. The next morning. she was
found dead in her bed and the verdict of tEe
coroner's jury was, " Died By the uisitation Of
God ="
1t is stseed that tie tsss Rev. Mr.. Morhell Cath.
olic priest, who has been stationed near Clarks.
vile, Tenn, for the past year was brutally
murdered in Stewart county, one day last week
and robbed. 1t is further stated that the muir
derers, of whom there were three sold his mule
which led to the discovery of the murder and
the arrest OF one or more of the wretches who
perpetrated the crime. ~ 3Ft
The captain of the captured SLAYER Storm
King says that just before sailing from New
York he paid the United States Deputy Nay.
shai one thousand dollars t., let hilr, depart =
Iheo. Rynders, the Chief Marshal's brother and
one OF his deputies. was some time ago accused
OF receiving the bride. He has siifi:3e become
insane
One OF the most disastrous storms of thun-
der and hail ever remembered visited Turin
and the neighborhood on the 2Ist ult 1t was
however, near Ferrara, in the Papal States
that the tempest reached its highest point of
violence. Houses were ieveled to the ground :
church was demolished and the priests at the
altar, together vfth eighty other pessons were
killed.
SoL115 Kfehry FFlce, a. lad eleven years of age.
has been convicted of maIIslaughter in the
f,urth degree, in causing the death OF James
Cox, aged eight years, at Wilton, Saratoga
county. N Y. The little murderer deliberate
ly shot Cox, at the request of his sister blc:lise
he had cut hole in her dress and threw stones
and clubs at her He will be sent to the House
of Refuge. s <
LARGE YIELD WINE-4 Prof1r5f CSoD.--
| George Weisner. of this place. from two hum
dFed sticks, occupy41g about the fifteenth of an
acre Isscfe one kundrcd and tifty-five gallons
| OF wrne, worth three hundred and ten dollars
VINO can beat tiiuts Our citizehs are begin
ming to wake up to the ilnpfrrtance and lart1,
profit OF the grape crop--G GWashingtosf mo }
Advertiser.
man named Corben appeared on Thursday
at a grocery store in New York and eyfFey.d az
a wager to eat four pounds of tiarsaeed karf
two IoaFes of bread. pound of sallow candles
ana drink two Qtfarts Of CON N m brandy a
pint of gin and pint of lamp oil His offer
was accepted and re won the wager, and after
swallowing the aforesaid mess, wanted more
he silk culture is to be added To the indus
trial pursuits of California 1t is aseertaifstti
that the climate is warmer and more appfic=ll,le
to the culture of the silk worm than that az
Eranee, whe9e they Succeed admirably and
that the silk worm of Japan will stand the
best chance in the climate
Thaddeus Hyatt writes from Anderson coun-
ty, K T., giving dolorous account of tue
drought--whole families with nothing to eat
starvation tegstir--grsstr etsIpede among the
settlers Organization of relief committees, &c
Mr.. Hyatt impiores immediate assistance as
absolutely necessary.
A KEEPER OF SIX HorEIs. Mr.. .Paran Stevens
who keeps the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New
York, keeps also the Continental Hotel of Phil
asieiphia the Revere House and the Trcuront.
Eossg g 9g ., Bp9ston,i the Battf4. Hdsss MpbHs,
bama in all six first class hotels
A in England recently won a bet of
twenty pounds by smoking eleven pounds of
stTon cigaEs IN twelve hours Beginning at 10
a. M =. he reduced 70 cigars to ashes by D. m
The most eonsumedin one hour being .6 =
Michael Quirk, of Worcester, Mass., repre- 7
sents his age to be one hundred and two years.
his wife being ninety-eight He is a tstilor arsse-
worked az his trade up to few montI,ss -apsS.
The Milwaukee Sentinel SAYS there are now
about thousand orphans in that city, render
ed SO by the Lady Elgin calamity Many. of
these children are thrown upon the charity of
the cefstfsHhFty aq
MONTPELIER, VI, Oct. l6.-Jacob CoIlamer
was to-day reelected U S. Senator for six years
from the 4th of March next. In the Senate the
vote stood q to y and in, the House lo8 to "a
Paul Deiingham received the opposition votes
Tae following item comes by the last over
land mail from California (" 1t was said the
Ssiake Indians had massacred and entire emf
grant tram consisting pr 49, persons, 10 of
whom were men It took place about fifty
miles west of Salmon Falls Only one man
escaped"
Potatoe rot is doing serious iniury in the
neighboThood of Buffalo, Ney, York. Some
farmers have loEt almost their entire crop. In
Worcester county, Mass, there are considerable
lesses from the same cause
The widest single span in the world is that
Of the NiaeAsE Suspension Bridge, connecting
mi AM rr,.-
clear span is 822 feet
Frank Hughes, of New Haven, Conn, onlys
twelve years Of age. has been sent to the poor
house, on application of his father, for being
common drunkard.
A boy thirteen pears os0 age, Henry Crane,