Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-03-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The Richmond Wing says that when the
Enquirer put on mourning for P~enningtons
election, the general inquiry in the streets there
was who's dead ?" and the reply was "The
Democratic Party"
The Nashville Union relates that A. j
Phillips was accused Of robbing r. j. Fuller
ton OF 1920 in bank bills. Upon being arrest
ed he was seen to swallow them. An enetic
was at once administered, and up came the
800 and tive $40 bills the first hcave. Phil
lips was sent to Jail for the theft.
At one of Gen. Cass' receptions in Washing
ton, last week. there were 1000 invited people
present.
Henry Warren, of Washtenaw, Mich, lately
recovered $3.50 for one of his ears, it having
been bitten off by John Van Ripper.
The speech of Col. Memminger, of South
| Carolina, as Ambassador of that State to Vir-
ginia, was delivered in the same hall where
Aaron Burr was tried for treason. The trea-
son of Memminger in that speech was certainly
far more palpablc than that of Burr.
EVANSVILLE, Feb. 27.-The wife of Benjam-
in Stinson, formerly postmaster in this city,
was burnt to death this evening by the break
ing of a fluid lamp.
A pedagogue, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, re-
Gently stuck one of his pupils, a girl of sixteen,
six blows with a cowhide, drawing blood with
every stroke. Her only ofense was chewing
gum during school hours.
The rush to Pixies Peak, says Mr.. Greedy
writing from the Northwest, promises to be
greater than ever the coming spring.
On the 22nd inst, the principal part of the
town of Danville, KY, was destroyed by fire.
Some eighty buildings were consumed.
1t is said that a Central Committee is Or
ganized at Washington with a fund of sixty
thousand dollars to aid in securing Douglas
nomination at Charleston.
A young lady, Miss Stewart, of Cumberland
county, Pa, was so badly scared a few weeks
ago by meeting a will-o-the-wisp, that she was
taken i'll upon reaching home, and in a short
time afterwards died from the effects of the
prostration of her nervous system, supcrinduccd
by the fright.
In the Senate of Mississippi, the bill for the
expulsion of free negroes, which passed the
IIOuoE vi REPRESENTATIVES, VI lldt otdtc, HIS
been rejected.
An eighth-blood negro named Swartz. whittier
than half the white men in Texas. went to that
State in pursuit of his business as a negro min
strei. His blood was somehow discovered, he
was seized, convicted of being an Octoroon and
sold into slavery for six months at Galveston,
in accordance with Texas. law against mmi-
grafton OF negroes.
The Toronto Globe denies the report that
the usury law has operated adversely in Can
ada, and says that on the contrary, money is
more plenty and cheaper than before.
TIE OLD SOLDIERS BILL.-The bill grant
ing pensions to soldiers of the War Of 1912 in
the House, was referred to the Military Com
mittee, against the wishes of its friends. This
is thought to be strongly Indicative OF its defeat
The Siamcsc Twins are still living in Surry
county, North Carolina. At late revival the
wife of Chang was baptised. Chang and Eng
seemed to be much concerned for themselves,
and requested an interest in the prayers OF the
minister.
Stephen Whitney, the millionaire, who died
il New York, a few days ago, 1t the age Of
81, began life us a poor Connecticut boy. At
his death he was the second, or according to
other accounts, the third richest man in the
city in which his fortune was acquired.
The servants of Mr.. Thomas X. MapI in
living near Free Union, Albemarl County, Va.
were poisoned last week and have all died since.
Several saves have been arrested Oil suspicion.
The Richmond Enquirer gives it as its dc
libelate conviction, that unless Gov. Wise be
the Charleston nominee, the Opposition will
elect their President. We think they'll do it
anyhow.
PRICE OF A TUsBAND.-E Ellen Wa'dr0n,
whose husband was killed about two years ago
on the Buffalo and State Line Railroad, las
recovered from that Company $4,000.
We understand that Jchn NJ. Clay, Esq,
has sold his fine race horse, Daniel Boone, by
Lexington, out Of Magnolia, by Glencoe, for
$4,000, to Mr.. Cockrillc Of Tennessee.
BaiIy, the publisher of the Free South, the
newspaper lately destroyed by a mob in New
port K. Y, has brought suit against the riot
crs, laying his damages at $4,000.
The Legislature. of Maryland sent an inquiry
to Governor Hicks, whether be had written Il
letter to Speaker Pennington to congratulate
him on his election, to which the Governor re-
piled, in substance, though expressed with dig
nity-none of your business
DELPHI. IND, Feb. 28-Last evening, about
IL o'clock. Miss Jennie L. Dugan, daughter
of james p. Dugan, of this place, was very
seriously injured by the breaking of a fluid
lamp, which she was about r~c-filling, when in
attempting to move the stand upon which it
stood it fell, almost instantly cnvcloping her
in a sheet of fame. Her father was severely
burned in attempting to rescue her. But
slight hopes are entertained of her recovery.
A ratification meeting at Montgomery, AL
ALBANIA, has fully endorsed the ultra doings of
the Democratic State Convention, which was
controlled by Yancy and his fre-eating fol-
lowers. a proscriptiye resolution, especially
aimed at Douglas, was adopted by AL to II.
Some of the speakers on that occasion declar-
that they would prefer Seward, as their candi-
date to Douglas.
A person by the name Of Frederick South
gate Brown has petitioned the Louisiana leg
stature to allow him and his family to change
their names. The reason given for the request
is that there is an undying stigma attached to
the name of Brown consequent upon the
actions of "Old Brown" at Harper's Ferry.
The immortal Lester, c.. Edwards Lester, is
in the field again. He is publishing a paper
called the Conservative, the object of which
is to get up a third party, and thus let the Lo-
cofocos have another four years tug at the
Observation-Disclosures Patriot.
The Nicksburg SouthroE learns from a gen
tIeman just from New Orleans, that Mr.. Arch
Edgar, a wealthy trader in negroes and stock,
was killed in an alEray, n, Baton Rouge, last