Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-11-09
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


The attempts of the New York Herald and
Express to get up panic for political effect
which, if successful would involve thousands
of business men, widows and orphans in hank
ruptcy-have richly earned them the title of
the most infamous sheets in this or any other
country. 1t is scarcely credible that journals
can be found so utterly reckless of the common
good, and so lost to all principle and honor, as
to be guilty of such damning business. The
Herald is literally stepped and saturated with
disunion and treason.
SINGULAR SUIcIDE.-1he Guelph &c. W. Ad-
vcrtiser states that, the 10th inst, James
Black an innkeeper of New Berwick, went
into field near Guelph, where some boys were
burning brush, and sat down on the burning
pile The boys dragged him off several times,
but he still persisted in returning g to the burn
ing brands. At last some men took him away;
but Ii only survived a few hours.
The CASE OF Ex-TREAsURER GIBSON
Wednesday, Judge Matthews will hear argu-
ments in favor of and against the motion Tor
continuance in the case of the State VS.. VIM.
H. Gibson, Ex-Ireasurer. The motion is based
upon the ground that important witnesses are
in California; columbus Fact.
In Detroit, the other day, young man who
had been for some months desperately enam-
ored of young maiden, to whom he had made
many presents, discovering that she was about
to desert him. endeavored to get back his gifts
by entering her room and carrying them off.
He wys found there by the girls mother and
arrested for larceny. The legal decision in this
matter will be looked for with interest by many
heretofore generous but now repentant lovers.
3 IEDIcrED FOR POISONING TuIEvEs.--A man in
Mercer county, Ohio, who put strychnine into
his syatermelons and thus killed five persons
who were depredatng on his vines, las been
indicted for mauslaughter
In New Lyme an old Democrat was missing
from the polls. 1t was said that his wife in
fuenced him to stay away. Towards night he
was seen crossing the fields near the polls to
milk. Canyassers of both parties took after
him and run him down. The great strife was
who should get his vote. He soon decided
- If l must vote give me Republican ticket
Il Ashtabua Standard.
A law has been passed by the Legislative
Chambers of Hayti, parceling ont the immense
estates of the Ex Emperor Soulouque among
military men who had served in the army 20
years and upwards reserving, however, the
works and central portion of each habitation
as the site of a model farm.
The walls tof the Asylum for Inebriatcs at
Binghampton. n. Y, are about half completed
md the work is proceeding rapidly There
are nearly four Thousand applicants for atlmis-
sion.
small alligator, about two feet long.
caught in the Pisstc river, Acquackanonk,
New Jersey, on Wednesday. 1t is supposed to
have been brought there in Il Iusut of reeds
from the South rccen tly landed in tie vicinity.
oREGoN-A letter just received from the
Dalles lfalls of Colunbia) dated September
22d, says: - We feel sure that Lincoln will
carry this 5tate.--LN. Y. Tribune.
The Prussian Gazette says that 400 persons
have died i'll Southern Russia and klev from
the puncture of description of poisonous fly,
which made its way from Asia. About sixty
years ago Il great number of persons died from
IL similar c5tuse.
Samuel Unruk wealthy farmer residing
near Philadelphia recently prosecuted several
persons for stealing his chestnuts Being in
formed that they about to retalatc by
bringing suit against him foI false imprison-
nlent, he became alarmed and nervous that
he went to Philadelphia on Tuesday night and
drowned himself in the Delaware
A farmer in Scotland hooked a large pike,
weighing u lbs, and left it for dead upon the
bank of the river opposite his house but his
dog happening to brush past it, the fish caught
him by the tail, and although the dog in his
haste to get home, plunged into the river and
across, the pike did not let go till the
dog had reached the farnyart and had ;.ssis-
tlnce from the farmer.
An editor in the western part of Michigan is
in a fix. He dllhned subscriber for his sub
scription he refuses to pay, and threatenedto
dog the editor if he stopped the paper. n,
Blondin, while silt walking at the Buffalo
Theater, the other night had a severe fill.
which, at Niagara would have landed him on
5.'the other side of Jordan. " ssrasE 7vse p
Taking THE We n.--Fifty-fve young ladies
took the white veil on the lst ult-, at the Con
vent of the Sisters of Notre Damc, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, and eighteen the black veil on the
8th in the same establishment.
G. w. Mckay. son of Donald Mckay,
prominent shiphuilder of Boston. has been ar
rested for a highway robbery, Jointly with two
hard characters the victim being money
broker named o. Fl. Downing--and the sum
81, 500. One of the accompices, under the
pretense of desiring to borrow the sum, lurcd
Downing into the outskirts of the city, where
Mckay and the other associate rushed upon
him and robbed him.
KunED A RoBBER--A widow, named Hat
field. residing in lonely house a few miles
from Bloomfield, Indiana, awakened few
weeks ago by persons trying to open her doors
and raise her windows, and plainly heared them
conversing with one another. Seizing gun
she tirod from the window and there was an
instant scanlpering and all was still The next
morning the body of a deaf and dumb man.
resident near by, was found a short distance
from the house, with a bullet lodged in his |
body. -Hii g rsf95s1 a4r.sis..-s
REPuBLrcANrsM IN NEW ORIEANs.--The New |
Orleans Courier, a Brecknridge paper says |
that parties have already commenced making
arrangements for the publication of a Republ- |
can journal, in the confident anticipation of |
the election of Lincoln. The Courier also says |
that there is strong Republican element i'll
that city, which, Immediately upon the cleo
tion of Republican President will not hest
tate to take ground openly. t@r
NEW YORK November g. The Times Wash
ington correspondent says that, at the special |
request of a number of prominent citizens of
Georgia, the Government has placed the arsen- /
al at Augusta in possession of the Federal
troops, and that the arsenal at Fayetteville, n.
c., is to be occupied by company of cavalry.
Much bad feeling prevrils between ex-Gov.
Wise and Gov. Letcher of Virginia. on account
of the latter having re-asserUed his devotion to |
Douglas, and refused to countenauce extrava-
CANT military preparations to help forward Sc
cession. s
NLwBURY, VI, Nov. 5. colored man
known as Jas P. Pickering, of California, was
shot dead last night while robbIng house,
Numerous burglaries lately have excited our
citizens.