Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-08-03
GENERA1 NEWS ITEMS.

Horace Greeley finished the last page
of his American Conflict" at sundoWn
on the evening preceding the Glorious
/ Fourth. "
| President JOHNSON has notified the
/ Douglass Monument Committee that he
cannot attend the laying Of the cOruer
| stone of the monument at the time ap-
pointed.
! The Commissioner of Internal Reven-
ue has decided that an amount lost in
| consequence Of becoming security for an
other, or by Endorsement of che paper Of
another, Is not deductible from income.
The Concord (N H) Statesman saws
that on Friday morning there were fires
kept on board the cars on the Northern
railroad for the comfort of passengers.
Two days previously the thermometer
was about 100 deg.
A duel was fought at Mobile. on the
18th, between Z. J. Chandler, formerly
confederate soldier, aud L. HOlcombe.
formerly a federal soldier. At the sec
ond fire Chandler received ball through
the chest living about % minutes.
A melancholy and most terrific encoun-
ter took place at Chicago between two
men, named Moore and McCambridge.
armed with knives, which resulted in the
death of the latter, and probably the fa-
received
seventeen cuts from the knife of his an
tagonist.
The weather has been hotter this sea-
son IN New Haven, Connecticut, and the
hot weather longer continued than has
been the case for eighty-nine years. On
the 18th, ult. the thermometer In the
shade at 3 o'clock In the afternoon indi-
Gated lO34 degrees.
The Worcester Mass 1Egis, in speak
ing of the heated term, mentions one
OF It's effects which has not received much
attention, though it is most serious. The
Insane Asylum at that place has receiv- |
ed an unusual number of patients since
the extremely warm weather commen- |
cod,
A man was recently arrested in Tyler |
county Texas, for numbering his wife and |
three small children. From the evidence .
1t appears that he was laboring under an
attack Of insanity, and arising about mid |
night, he took hatchet and literally
chopped his wife and children to pieces.
Tie neighbors heard screams, and went
IN the house, but arrived too late
The Washington Li1teZZigencer calls
the idea of calling a convention of South
ern LOyalists, extremely farcical," and
adds 1t is called to assemble in Phil
elphla because there Is no place an anu
State 1ohere such q contention
,1OUt6 be tolerated" An announcement
like this need no commenting.
Three guerillas were captured and i'm
nedlately hung, at Little Rock on Friday I
last, by Regulators. An examination Of I
The bodies after death disclosed the fact {
hat one was woman dressed in mans
clothing. She is believed to have been :,
.he wife of one of the guerrillas. The a
Foman was decently inferred, while the 8
others were buried hastily, in a shallow a
lole. b
The London Times, speaking of the 3
,attle of Sadowa, says: i
1T is difficult to bring oneself to be- y
ieve that such horrors have been enacted it
n our time and in region so near and 7
o familiar. We heard and read of such
elds of slaughter, but they seemed to be-
Ong to an age and a state ofhuman char
eteT which could never be revived.
Vine miles of slaughter, ending with the Pr
rOwning of a mass ofterror- stricken fu-
ltives, are an event which a few years %
ince the wisest would have pronounced
apostolic in the Europe Of to-day" a
Arrivals from Denver report a new y
old discovery on the Fork, near Buffa- ioi
} Springs, about fifteen miles from Fair tht
lay There was a general stampede to 9F
lat locality. Fairplay is said to be DR.
rely deserted by the male population, am
I'd Buckskin J oe had but men remain gs'
g. Several dollars to the pan are re-
1rtad and q large distriot of rha eountrv at
80 ~ L!LS ielS tLo -, c.,,I,L = nol
aoer diggings ever before found in Colo J
do. -,
Gen. Howard has sent officers to South lt
lrolina to investigate the killing of a -
lored man who, finding the galleries of
church in Columbia full, entered into -
e body of the building, and was at once b
ot.