Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

diseased, and the lioness was glad to be rid Of
! it.
W. B. Clifton, of Liverpool, KY, died last
Saturday He was the owner of large number
of slaves, all Of whom he manumitted
A woman named Anna Rasck was found on
Tuesday at the bottom of an old well in Chi
! cago. head downwards in barrel, and with a
cord drawn tight enough around her neck to
/ cause death. Her husband was arrested on sus-
picion.
Two Catholic churches in the city of New
! York have just contributed So, ,344 for the re-
lief of the Pope.
The fall crops of New England were never
more promising than at this time. There will
be an abundance of hay and fruits Corn will
be reasonably good and wheat oats, rye and
barley are better than usual.
The Chicago Democrat SAYS it is believed that
the amount of grain which will be received at
that point during the year commencing August
| LIST, 1860, and ending July 81 1861 will be
/ % 900 600 bushels. OF this, about 25, 900, 600
/ bushels will be wheat
The people Of Fredericton. N. B., after 10y
ally receiving the prince of Wales got right
/ royalty drunk. Soldiers, citizens Indians ne
groes. bushwhaclSers and bluenoses generally
reeled about together.
/ w c. Holtree late overseer of Metcalf's
| plantation, Natchez Miss. was shot
dead on Sunday night, by an unknown negro,
while sitting on his balcony in company with
his wife and children.
Census returns from Delaware, covering about
! haii the State, give a population of ~, $50,
4 against 40, GAG ten years ago. There is de-
crease OF slave population in every county.
Heenan had benefit reception at Jones
! Woods. New York, on Monday Between 25..
900 and $4,000 persons were present Ottig-
non and Jones put the gloves and tried con-
/ cluslons with the Champion and after the
I sP1rrlng was over the - Boys friends presen-
i ted him with purse of about $4,000
The Alahamn papers fear that thousands of
poor people IN that State will starve this fall
/ the drouth has been 50 fatal to the crops.
/ kossuth it is said, receives quarterly from
: some mysterious source, the sum of ) 900. the
accompanying note indicating simply that it
Is from friend in America, aud that it is in
1 tended tor bis personal expenditures. f
| The editor of the Port Gibson Miss u Re-
! veille says three 0atiye Africans have recently
arrived in thai vicinity. He has seen one of
! them, and pronounces him good onen
! New Orleans dispatch reports a violent
storm at Proctorsville, the terminus Of the
Mexican Gulf Railroad ON Saturday The wa
! ter rose twelve feet subnlerging the en-.
/ tire place, and carrying away every house ex-
cept one Between 35 and 40 lives were lost
/ The population of St Louis it is stated will
/ be cut down by the census below 10000. 1t
/ mas been Claiming population of from ono
hundred and eighty to one Hundred and ninety
! thousand.
! Preston Finlay, boy of ten wears tried
/ for the murder Of his uncle at CARLYLE, Mo.
/ last week. The jury, after remaining out
more tian twenty hours, brought in a verdict
! of acquittLl.
-Four boys two of them sons of g. W. Blair.
and two Of Mr.. Mitchell, were drowned while
bathing at AIosnee, Wis, on the 26th uIt
! DIR A. Sebrell, of Mason county, Va, lost an
interesting little son of four years old from the
| bite OF copperhead snake, on the 18th inst
! Inc llttle fellow was strolling about the barn,
IN company of a small negro boy, when the
snake bit him Plysicians were called in hut
no remedy could be devised to save his life.
| Mr.. Rarey, the horse tanner, is about to re-
tire upon q princely fortune, carrying with him
the esteem # II who know him, and the whole
world testifying to his stab2e department
Mrs. B. Lewis died at New London Conn,
| on the 3lst ult., aged St. Her funeral was at.
tended by her mother who is I0S years of age
A Portland paper says that Gen. Tom Thumb
is to take wife from thut city not only ''upe
OF Portland ftirest daughters but a. the
handsome and accomplished daughter of one of
our oldest and most esteemed citizens She
Is stld to be very pretty, below the ordinary
height and heiIcss to quite large estate
The census man in New London, Conn.
! found women who gave her own age as %
years, and that Of hcf eldest son as %.
The iailnre Of the crops in England is fully
confirmed hy late arrivals. During the last
ten months, there has not been in that country
tiltSS NEsiAS Ot me weather all and such
7 occurrence as even three days consecutive
cessation Of rain had not oeetirred.
| WATEE THREE poALAns PER BAEBEIi--A
| friend wiring from Galveston Texas saws =
tisis ~ q great country. NoFaiD IN Galveston
since April. Water is selling at three dollars
per barrel brought down the Trinity
| The figures of the population of New York
| city are going up as the census returns are
made. The World publishes table in which
! the population is set down at 935. 900.
! The Augusta Ga. ) True Democrat learns
! from private letter that a gentleman living
near Madison Springs i'll that State, lost fifteen
negroes from sunstrokc a few days since
They were engaged in ditching.
There is dwelling house at the corner of
North and Clark stfects, Boston. which may
safely claim TO be one of the very Oldest in the
United States. II was built ia I647 and il
still in toerable preservation.
Mr.. Obed Hussey. of Baltimore, the inven.
tor OF lIussey Moving MacEine was instant
ly killed on the Boston and Maine Railroad, at
Exeter. Maine, on the l2th inst. He tried to
get on the hain while in motion, but lost his
footing and fell, and two cars pissed over his
breast. He was 90 years old.
The house of Frank Sinnot of Schleiswig,
Wisconsin burnt to the ground on Friday
week. with all its contents Three children
periShcd in the flames. The ngonized father
was at work short distance off, and saw the
fire but n few minutes after the children had
btth tSit dloLG buI all attempts To enter the
house were unavailing. His hands were ter
rihly burned in attempting to tear of some
% the boards from the house aud was soon
| compelled to abandon his efforts.
A conference of the Great Powers in relation
to the SYLVAN n1assacres, has been held at Paris.
Twelve thousand men were to be dispatched to
the East, one-half to he furnished by France.
and the rest by thesother powers
Adam HageTman halIer by trade residing
IN hoistein near Chicago killed one Of his
jomrneylnen named Heinrich on Thursday. by
knocking him down with billet of wood
The man only Uffense was letting a batch of
bread burn. --
The census takers find some old people in
Connecticut In Coventry, James Douglas,
lO4 years of age; in Chaplin. Saiinda Dean,
aged 100 IN BRISTOL a widow Thompson, 102,
who is IS active as n middle aged woman
widow Oliver Frlil in Bloomfield, in her Tooth
year. In Mansfield, with population Of g.
600, there are 200 over 40 years of age.
That modern Samson, DR.. Windship, of Bos
ton, has recently astonshed his friends and nd
mirers by lifting dead weight of ll60 pounds
Muscle and mind are uppermoSt nowadays.
At the last maeting of the Detroit Board Of
Education. Mr.. Walker moved that il be adopt
ed as the policy of the Board that marriage on
the part of any female teacher be tantamount
TO a resignation of her position Us teacher. AZ
ter some discussion, the motion was adopted.
Trueman Davis killed his wife at Stockbridge,
Mass, on Friday night last, by beating out her
brains with hoe He was intoxicated. Tho
murderer was arrested and is in the Lenox Jail.
prize fight fought on the 2lst inst, at
Island Pond Vermont, between Australian
Kelly and Dan Kerrigan. Twenty FIVE rounds
were Tough in 45 minutes, when Kelly struck
foul blow and Kerrigan declared victor.
There arc seven hundred visitors at the viV-
ginis Old Sweet Springs four hundred at tho
Rcd Sweet ; fifteen hundred at the Greenbricr
White; eight hundred at the Montgomery
White; six hundred at the Red Sulphur; and
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