Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-04-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Nat ~. Dudley, a lawgerof Smythe county,
Va, was arrested last week at jcifersonyifie
Va. charged with forging papers, to obtain 4
land warrant. ~
Occasional" writes from Washington that
the Rcrnbsir4G 0h7Tr1tTrr TnteET pint LNt
million copies of Tom. Curwin's late speech ii
the House of Representatives, regarding 1t n
the best electioneering document fOr the Pres
idential campaign.
at Nashville, Tenn, on the 31st ultimo. P.
7. Irewitt called Or DR.. Cafrow fer professional
assistance, and while the latter was writing the
prescription Irewitt shot Garrows killing him
instantly. The attack is attributed to mania
pota.
The Legislature Of Maryland las given power
to the Courts, on petition, to take the same
custody of the persons and property OF inebri
ates as if they were ~lunAtics.
The Senate of Virginia have passed a bill
granting a pension to Bridget Busley, whose
husband was killed at Harper's Ferry. The
estate Of the Mount Vernon Association was
exempted from taxation by a unanimous vote.
Mrs. Anna Pressler, asdry goods dealer at
Chicago, having soid cut her stone, was on her
way to Sew York for a fresh stock, when she
wa. robbed on the cars at Michigan City of her
carpet sack, containing 50, 800 in gold, the pro-
cceds of the sale. The sack was subsequen tlv
found, minus the cash.
Mr. Ford, the newly elected printer at Wash
ingtoh, backed By responsible parties, has pur-
chased WendelIs entire printing establishment,
taking it at invoice price, real estate and all.
1t Is understood he Intends starting a RepuDdi-
Gun paper, and will advocate the Chicago nom
nation, preferring however, the nomination of
Cameron.
VIM Enston, formerly a journeyman- chair
maker in Philadelphia, but for many years a
resident of Charleston. s.. O., died suddenly
last week, leaving am estate valued at 81. 0G0,-
000s Being clrildless, he had left his wife a life
interest in the estate, and one or two ann Titles
to relatives. Upon the death of these parties
the entire estate, excepting about $50, COO. re-
Yerts to the city of Charleston, in trust for
charitable purposes.
The Sheriffs of Virginia are delinquent in
paving in the State taxes in the amount of
$448, 600 Only eighteen in the whole State
have paid up in full.
The Harper's Ferry Investigation Committee
have decided not to subpoena Governor Mise.
behaving placed in their possession all the
facts connected with the affair. They have not
decided what action they will take in regard to
John Brown, jr., who refuses TO obey the SUM
mons.
DR.. Beck, who was recently killed at Santa
Fe, left property valued at from $50. coo to
500, 600, all of which he heqNcathed to Miss
Nellie Shoemaker, to whom it is said he had
been engaged in marriage. before his deah
took place.
1t is thought that the spirit of retrenchment
will be So. thoroughly carried out by the pres
ent Congress that the expenses of the next ifs
cal year will come within $50, 000, 600.
AT the elections of the Opposition in Phila-
delphia ON Wednesday. Cameron delegates 10
Chicago were elected in all the Congressional
districts. 3
AN OLD BiBLE STrpENT.-Thc Bangor, { MeI,A
Wing records the death of Mrs, Mary Eelton
Llii. - 81 a III II
of ninety-one, and adds that Mrs. Ellis had
read the Bible through no less than eighty
times, averaging once every year for four-fifths
of IA century.
1HE IRREpREssIBLE CcNFIIeT. There ID so
much trouble in the University of Mississippi,
that it is feared that the institution Will be
broken up. Several of the Faculty (Northen-
ers have resigned, The trouble grows out of
political feeling against the North,
The sixteenth child of Gov. Hicks, of Mary
land, was born at Annapolis on Thursday of
last week.
ST., LOUIS, April 2d.--Incomplete returns
from the election for one Coaneilmon in each
Ward. to-day, indicate that the Republicans
have carried five Wards. and the Democrats
two of the Wards, from which independents
were elected. s5
The Cleveland Plain Dealer announces
that the Committee on Railroad Fares report
that coupon tickets, from Cleveland to Charles
ton and back, can be had for $50 70 the
round trip III route is by Wheeling aud
Washington,
Last week four negro cabins of Mr.. Charles
Hugle, near Auburn. Ala, were consumed by
fire, -Four negro children wers burnt TO death
IN one Of them.
1he expense to Virginia for guarding the
prisoners Stevens anti Haxlett. from the lst of
january up to the time OF their execution is
So, $50, IS. f
A Republican messing was held al New Man
chester Hancock County. Va, en- 21st ult
The proceedings hlied 8nee columns of the
Wheeling Lntelligeuoer4