Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-09-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Tenn, for the arrest of two railroad overseers,
frederick Wright and Thomas s. McCreary
who gave Mr.. Helms negro 200 lashes, COW
cred his raw back with turpentine, and put
him to work in the sun, killing him in twenty
four hours. Wright is said to be from Massa-
chusetts
The Jersey City Ferry Company launched a
new boat on Thursday, said to be the largest
ferry boat ever constructed. Her dimensions
are Length 2I0 feet breadth, 333 feet E.
measure, 800 with 40 feet in cylinder. Sh. ,
will accommodate 2, 600 persons and twenty .
five teams.
There was an explosion Of gas in tenement
house iu New York city Friday night last
which shattered the building in a terrible man
ner, and badly injured six persons. =
Mrs. Z. Wright, Of Massachusetts was robbed
at Saratoga, II few days ago, of So 900 in jew
elry. The supposed robber was an elegantly
dressed and accomplished female boarder with
whom Mrs. Wright had incautiously become in
innate.
At New Madrid, Mo, few days ago, two
planters who were most intimate friends be-
came engaged in Il quarrel, ON drunke en- frolic,
and one hot the other dead
young lady, who graduated recently at an
Institute in Virginia, has been committed to
the Insane Asylum at Raleigh. Her friends
attributed hen mental ALTERATION to the reading
of Millions Paradise Lost.
Many of the most enterprising of the Phila-
delphia merchants have gone to Europe this
season, preferring to make their purchases
from first hands there, to buying from the New
York importers, and thus indirectly paying
tribute to Caesar.
A colporteur of Talladege county Ala, who
has taken its religious census, reports that he
found 234 heads of families entirely destitute
of the Scriptures.
The steamboat business on our Western wa
ters, has not be en- as good for the last twenty
years, as it is this
1t is calculated by the best Judges that Eng
land viii have to import produce to the value
of full $45. 900, 600 between now and the end Of
the year.
a Californian, while chopping wood recent
ly found bag of gold dust worth 81 600 in
the butt of hollow tree.
An oil well recently opened at Tideuut, Erie
county, Penn, yields one barrel pei minute,
which, at $l4 q barrel IA low estimate of its
value, pays its owners $40, l60 per day.
At the time the Japanese in this coun-
try, another japanese embassy were entertain
ed at st. Petersburgh. A letter from that city
annou uces the arrival of an embassy from the
Tycl on, with presents to the Emperor of Rus
sia.
At Westonzoyland near Plymouth, England,
a man named Mountstevens aged 70, has de-
serted his wife, with whom he has lived 80
years. aud who is the mother Of a large family,
Il
Weller, aged S6 years.
On July 9th. Frederick D only son of Sam
uel G.. Clark, of Winchester, Mass, was slight
ly bitten by pet dog 1t was not thought of
much consequence at the time, but last week,
on Monday the child began to show symtoms
of hydrrphobia, and grew rapidly worse, till
Tuesday wher he expired after great suffering
His age was two years eight months, and TWEEN
ty days.
1t is said that an African convict in the Eas-
tern Pennsylvani kPenitentiary. has acquired Il
stock of Latin and Greek that would do honor
to Freshman.
The gold fever is raging at Springfield, Yer
mont. Dams. sIuices, shovels, picks and crowds
of visitors, are now the features of the town.
The New York HeraIds Washington cores
pondent telegraphs that after all there is no
trouble about Mexico, and that France and
England will take no important step without
the consent Of the United States. Perhaps 50.
La,ge veins of silver and copper have just
been discovered within twenty miles of Athens,
Tennessee.
There are no less than 3sl Gas Companies in
operation in the United States, with total cap
ital of ST, ,9ll, 2l5.
Eighty miles from Davenport Iowa there is
an eighteen acre field of onions that will yield
the snug little sum Of 81 800.
Between three and four thousand head of cat
tie were carried over the New York Central
Railroad, last week tu Albany.
a Sunday paper asserts positively that Hee-
nan and Morriscy will fight previous to the 5th
of March, and probably in January for SIC, 600
a side.
Madame Elizabeth Ortes, the greatgrand-
mother OF the editor of the st Louis Bulletin,
is los years of aye, and has resided in st. Lou
is lob years.
The Superior Court Of Mississippi has affirm
ed the validity of the law making 1t penal for
retailers to sell liquor to drunken mtn, and
declaring that the owner of the establishment
is responsible for the act Of his bar keeper ON
this behalf
The yield of wheat is so large in some local
tiles in Minnesota, that owners of threshing
machines are offering to thresh out the produce !
of some fields for the excess orer thirty bushels
per acre. The usual rate is tenth. They !
are calculating yield of considerable over
thirty bushels to the acre.
The imitation of Prof loves balloon was at /
tempted at Philadelphia last Saturday and one /
O clock fixed for the hour of ascension, but the
high wind caused the balloon to burst, putting /
an end to the scheme and wasting an immense
amount of gas
An EXPENSIVE HALF DIME.-DanicI COIkins
has been convicted in the U. S. Court ut Au-
burn, N Y. Of passing IL counterfeit half-dine
upon fruit dealer and sentenced to three years
imprisonment in the State prison.
On Friday week most violent STERN of wind
passed over portion of Charles county, Md,
extending from the Potomac to the Patuxent.
Its path wa about mile in breadth houses
and baIns were blown down, tobacco and corn
;ut to pieces. and about 500. 600 worth of
property in all destroyed.
INITIATING THEIR ELpERs-ID Bovine. Miss
two small lads, brothers, quarrelled
At dinner about IL piece OF peach pie, and soon
got to blows, when the oldest stabbed his broth
.r with a carving knife killing him instantly.
For the week ending Sept lst, seven ;0ftuts
we're suifocated to death in bed in London
0ne infant was by mistake packed up in turn
up bedstead, and when discovered, life was ex-
iuct.
a Mr. Hamilton of Vergennes, Vt, whom
he doctors supposed dying from consumption,
7omited an enormous green lizzard (alive) last
week and is now rapidly recovering.
NEW MEXICAN WooL.--A train of forty-six
wagons, drawn by four hundred and sixty cat
ae and reaching nearly mile in length ar
lived in Kansas city, few days since, from
Fort Union and Santa Fe, New Mexico, where
hey had taken out Government supplies
They were all loaded with wool, of which they
brought over 10000 pounds.
The Great Eastern on her return voyage to
Milford Haven from New York via. Halifax,
made the passage in nine days four and half
lours--the shortest time ever made by any
teaner, With all the advantages OF skill and
in machinery and shipbuilding,
md this, too, with her bottom covered with
and as foul as that OF any ship that
ver crossed the ocean.
A Russian named Tode arrested in New
forK city, on Monday charged with embezzl-
ng sos, 900 from an English firm in st. Peters
'urgh, by whom he was employed as confiden-
ial clerk. $50, 900 was found with him and
eized.
The first permanent Sunday school in the :
United States, it is claimed, organized in !
severly, Mass, in 1910, by two ladies' Ac- Z