Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-07-12


TERRIBLE TRAGEDY-A terrible tragedy oc-
Cured in Ithaca, N Y. A young man named
Cornell, about nineteen years old, was engaged
to a girl Of seventeen years. The friends of
the parties objected to the marriage. Cornell
invited his betrothed to q ride, ard on reaching
a point beyond the city, he drew from his pock
ct u pistol and shot her, killing her instantly.
Placing her body in the bottom of the carriage,
he returned to the village, fastened the horse
by the Il jor of his house, proceeded to the inlet
and threw himself in. He was subsequently
taken out dead
Tire Ohio Eagle, published at Lancaster Ohio,
one of those treas IN able sheets which, with
such p :pcrS as the Dayton Empire and hcdl-
rvs CI.s3s, would shout over the ruins of the
American Government, and clap their hands
for joy at the triumph of the JEFF. Davis Con
feteraey, this Ohio Eagle is publishing, under
sensation head lines. and with editorial com
menta ion. the slaShing letters of Halsteld
from, Washington to the Commercial incin-
natl <.azstte.
Col. Anderson is now stopping at Lr>rctto
Springs n delightful watering place the
saftrssathy mountains, five miles from Crcssnn
Stlliui Ion the Pennsylvania Central Railroad.
It is rlis intention of the hero Of Fort Sumter
to rraItis'at this cool retrei.t until his health
= entire re-estabished.
= Georgia bank has large deposit of bullion
al The Philadelphia mint Secretary Chase
has-iustruuted the directors of the mint nos t.
pay it till she returns to her allegiance
THE TorAcCo CROP OF Ohio raised
$4,000, 900 poun tS' of tobacco in 1910, and
nearly IL 200. 600 in 1850. while in 1889 hel
crop amounted to "a .0U0 h0gsheads-
The subject h;ts often been discussed among
ne people, wltthcr the Federal Government
Sould hang jefferson Davis and other leading
coaspiratorS, in case the reheaS were conquered,
or whether he weud be allowed to leave the
! country Southern eentlsmap stated lately
| in this city, that he kRclr that EIr. Davis had
1 invested nearly all his property in the English
| funds If this be So, he prubably, anticipated
that he might he obligett to f.y Ais country. =
| [lioston Trave:eT.
MIR. Curwin has been received with great dis
tinctIon ly the Mexican Government and
| welcomed by the people. The next mail will
probably bring news Of great importance
| tuuchins relations with that Government
The people feel great interest in the politics
of this cUuntrYs- ~
GoID rroM ErRoPE-The falling off in the
receipts IT gelsF- from California this sc.sln,
owing ulJin!y to the insecurity of making
shipments acc0uht of the war. is more than
made up ly the increase frrf1i Europe The
N. Y. Herald gives the figures to show tllat
since the first day of .Iainuary last. we have
drawn from Great Britain over thirty millions
of dollars.
A RAY OF LIGHr-A rny'of light reaches us
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timent had long since been crushed ont in that
faithcSs State but we now learn chat the 10y
al men are not only active bUt hopeful The
western part of the State threatens to follow
the example of Western Virginia, and set up
government Of its own. Similar reports reach
us from North Carolina 1bapy Jour
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
state that their lnss at the hands Of the rebels
will reach two millions of dollars. Iualditon
to the locomotives reported at Martinsburg,
there were three hundred and sixty freight
cars and five p usenger cars. The engines
prove to be SO sprung, from the intense heat
of the fire built around them, that they are
now worthless. 1t will cost as much to re
build them as it will to buy new ones. and
the old ones will never be safe. The people
in Iartinsburg the prosperity of theii
town to the Baltimore and Ohio road and have
thus destroyed their own means ofsubsistence
Their action in this case is the most luminous
instance of ''biting off ones nose to spite hit
! face that has come within our knowledge
1t would seem that such conduct as this would
open the eyes of the Baltimore secessionists tc
their own interests.
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