Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

arsenic IN Lne stomach.
a Mrs. Lock recently walked from her home
in Arkansas to Oseeola, Mo-, a distance of sew
eral hundred miles, to her son, who was in Jail
fof killing an Indian, and then started back
home as she came, afoot, unprotected and
alone.
In the st. LOFTS Post Office during the last
quarter, over 1900, 900 of letters, &C., were
handled, examined, assorted and delivered or
mailed.
WIGFALL AND LORD LYoNs.-The New York
Express hears that Senator Wigfall has written
a letter to Lord Lyons, expressing regret for
using his name in debate during the presence
OF that gentleman in the Senate Chamber
He attributes the inconsiderate remark to the
plain, off-hand style that prevails in the South
west. Lord Lyons returned a very friendly
note in reply.
Within a few days past, eighteen quarters of
swill fed beet, some of which was in an advan-
ced state of disease, has been seized in Brook
Ign and New York, and confiscated. The pen.
atty for selling such meat is S25 for each Of
Tense.
The st. Joseph (Mo.) West says that between
Friday evening and Tuesday last, 1,O30 west
ward bound emigrants arrived in that city.
Hezekiah Dubois, 18 years of age, confined
in the Albany. Penitentiary, makes daily forty
three pairs of brogans. The person who saw
him on the bench at work says, that he ap-
peared to blow the pegs from his mouth into
the shoe and never made a miss while he waa
looking at him" gH1-U
Two negroes fought a duel with muskets, at
night, near Columbia, S. c., last week, and one
Of them shot the other through the head, kill
ling him Instantly.
Near Lafayette, Ind, a farmer named Reed.
in attempting to ford Wea Creek with bis wa
gon, was drowned, as we'll as two of his chill
dren and a relative. 10 ,r.
The Indians of the Cherokee nation have got
up an irrcpressfble conflict aifso1lg themseIyes
on the slavery question and a dispatch from
Fort Smith says it is feared a serious troable is
brewing. 'BH,a sra
There are two breach-eE promise cases ON the
tapis in Nantick, Mass, one, the eldest daugh--
ter of the Methodist clergyman, has sued q
flour and grain dealer in Boston for SO, 600
and the other, a gentleman from New Hamp-
shire, steps in and claims the affections of
one of the citizens wife. to the tune of $1,000.
The maple sugar crop of Vermont this season
is estimated at nearly fifteen hundred tons
The run of sap this year has been remarkable.
Samuel Virgins has sold the farm on which
he resides near Richmond. Ind, to a gentleman
of Cincinnati, for $l3, 500-or nearly $Il8 per
acre. L-.-
A Washington dispatch says that Mr.. Pry-
or's wife and five children were in Washington
when he sent the challenge to Mr.. Potter. Mr..
Potter's wife was also in the city at that time,
quite calm, saying she did not wish to sayany-a
thing of the affair until it was over, and de-.
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man.
The Crockett ARK. J Pioneer says that +. p.
Collins, a merchant of that place, published a
scandalous piece of poetry about a Miss Whit
we'll. a s-chnolmistress. She sued him for &c.
900 damages, and gained the suit.
At a restaurant in New York, a few days
since, a young man bought some oysters for
which he paid twenty-five cents. Before he fin-h
ishcd eating them he discovered in them sever
al large and valuable pearls, which Le sold for
two hundred dollars.
A little girl threw herself into a well al
Thornton, Illinois, to escape maltreatnent at
the hands of an old man and his son. They
caused the poor child to commit self-murdeF,
to possess themselves of 5000, which she would
have inherited. 49,
A Mrs. Stuart, of Knoxville, Iowa, a few
days since. gava her little three-year old boy
an Allen revolver to amuse himself WITH
The plaything was loaded, and. while PLAYING
with it, went off, shooting the little fellow di-
rectly through the head. 81
Hartford, Conn, is reported by the Mayor of
that city to be in debt 81 100, GOO, and there is
alsoa considerable town debt. '
In Clay county, Ind. a few days ago, a wo-
man obtained a divorce from her husband.
and married another man fifteen minutes after
ward.
The Duchess of Leeds recently subscribed
81 GOD in aid of the Pope. This lady is an
American, and one of the granddaughter Of
Charles Carroll, OF Carrollton, one of the sixn4i
es of the Declaration of Independence. ~
A boy five years old in Lafayette, Ind, at
tempted to cut his sisters head off the other
evening, but only succeeded in i~nficting a
slight cash in her shoulder.
r.. L. Campbell, a banker, in Davenport To-
wa, committed suicide on SATURDAY., by shoot
ing himself through the head with a pistol
Cause, financial difficulty.
Miss Rachel Irwin, an estimable young lady,
daughter OF DIR. Irwin. an old practising phys
ician of Shelbyville, Mo, was burned to death
i'll that place a few days since from her clothing
taking fire. In endeavoring to extingllish
the flames, two other persons were severely
burned.
About one hundred and fifty hands have re-
Gently been discharged from Wheeler & Will
sons sewing machine mandatory in East
Bridgeport, Conn, in consequence of Il falling
off in business. The market is stocked with
sewing machines of all varieties.
Qnite a number of counterfeit gold dollars
are said to he in circulation. They can readily
be detected by the absence of the word = : Lib
erty, which is Oh the genuine in small letters
on the Indians head dress. ID.
Mr.. Daniel Dunham died in Mexico. Oswego
county. New York, "A few days since, at the ad-
vanccd age of pincty-eight years and seven
days. He was at the battles of Bunker Hill
and Camden, and ut the seise of Yorktown,
and was one Of the forlorn hope that first
crossed the Delaware amid the floating ice, and
surprised the Hessian army. He never WISE
confined to his bed but one day, and that was
/ the day before his death. .i
The Ohio Statesman makes an urgent appeal
to 4" conservative p" people to send delegates &c
the third-party convention, TO be held at Bal
timore. This is, of course, regarded as a very
important spoke in the Democratic wheel.
A woman named Virginia Harrison, while
suffering from the effects of "A debauch. killed
two of her children, in Montreal, Canada, last
week.
A despatch from Norfolk, Va, SAYS that the
Great Dismal Swamp is ON fire, and raging with
great fury.
Ground has been broken at Chicago for the
great wigwam for use during the Republican
Convention. 1t will hold 5000 people.
One of the paper mills in Delphi, Indiana,
has within a few months past shipped large
quantities OF paper to New York to be used in
printing the Tribune.
Considerable gold has been found in the sand
on the beach northward of San francisco, and
a number of miners are engaged in erecting
works to cost about $500, by means of which
they expect to work out from fifty to sixty dol
lars worth of gold per day.
The eighty fifth anniversary of the battle Of
Lexington was observed by the people of that
place on the 10Th inst. The annual meeting
of the Lexington Monument Association was
also held. Gov. Banks delivered an address.
and the officers for the ensuing year were cleo
ted. Edward Everett was chosen President
and Thomas Corwin one Of the Vice Presi-
dents.
A Western merchant was robbed of 50. 200
last Wednesday night, while asleep in a ear,
between Philadelphia and Lancaster. Pa.
John Sperm. an ex-inember of the Council
of Lafayette, Ind, has been sentenced to the,
Penitentiary for two years for stealing hoKs.
.Intemperance led to his downfall.
There were nearly a thousand dollars worth
of gold used on the coffin of Mrs. Edward Shin
pen Burd, who was buried in Philadelphia last
Tuesday with much pomp. The plate, handles
and heads of screws were of solid gold.
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