Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-05-25
GENER4E NEWS ITEMS.

: concern, We are satisfied that it IS NJ
J more d"
!. One hundred aud ninety six patent
. are to be issued during the week ending
! the 29th inst.
I The Indiana State Horticultural Socie
- ty will meet at Terre Haute on Thursday
e the 3lst inst. and continue in session tW'
e days. The strawberry exhibition will bC
? very fine.
= The custom receipts during the pas
S week at the ports of New York, Boston
: Philadelphia and Baltimore, amounted
t to nearly s., 23O, 600. The revenue re
= ceipts were 50. 100000.
The messenger of a Philadelphia brok-
er was knocked down on the street Satur
I day morning and robbed Of $1,000. For
tunately a gentleman came along In the
nick of time, and knocking the rObbel
I over recovered the money.
, In the first five months of the present
, year over As, 600 emigrants have arrived
! and up to the middle of April the whole
mum ber was Co. ,Sl3. 1t is estimated that
+ the total emmigration of 1866 will amount
to nearly 100000.
Gen. Fremont has purchased the South
, west Pacific Railroad of the State of Mis-
souri, for 81, 100000.
1t has been said that the emigration
from Ireland for the last three months
has been not less than 14,000 per month.
A bill Is impending In the British
Parliament to abolish impri sOnment for
debt.
Numerous arrests have been ma de in
Russia in consequence of the recent at
tempt on the life of the car Twenty
students at st. Petersburg, thirty at
Moscow and many others have been
thrown into prison.
Faint Fenian excitements occasionally
furnish itemsfrom the frontier On Sat
urday eighty-seven cases of arms belong
ing to the Fenians were seized at Erie,
/ Pa. They were marked Hardware and
agricultural implements. .
Charles E. Baldwin, a sWindler, who
/ has been making thousands of dollars in
Pennsylvania by collecting money, osten-
sibly for the Freedmen s bureau, has lust
/ been arrested at Harrisburg.
A lot of land in New Orleans sold at
one thousand dollars per front foot the
other day.
A seemingly inexhaustible flock of
I pigeons continue to furnish subsistence
to the people of Morgan county, Ind, to
the great detriment Of the butchers.
On Sunday last three years old son
of Chas. III. Bailey was accidentally shot
and killed at his fathers residence in
Salem, Pa. A boy named Edwards pick
ed up gun, pointed it at the child for
fun and accidentally discharged it.
An Auburn, Me-, man raised 81 800
worth Of vegetables from a single acre of
land last year, and expects to raise $4,000
worth from it this year.
Over two thousand bodies have been
placed in the National Cemetry at Seven
Pines
The Mexican Legation at Washington,
IS very positive that SANTA ANNA is an /
Imperial Spy.
The country has lost $20,000,000 by |
fires in three months.
The total number of National Banks
now transacting business is 1850; aggre-
gate authorized capital, S414, ,921 ,479
circulation, $274, ,163, 538.
In three instances at Hartford, Conn,
recently, the heat of the sun has set oily
cotton waste on fire, and timely discoV-
cry has been all that prevented a disas-
troUs conhagratiOn IN each case.
The redemption division of the Treas
ury last week redeemed and cancelled
fractional currency to the amount of $501,-
902, 60
The mortality of Mexico City is report
ed to be very great, owing to the defect
i've system of sewerage, and the accu-
mutation Of filth within its walls. An
American engineer has undertaken to
drain the valley Of Mexico.
The estate of NJ. ID. Potter, the lately
deceased proprietor Of the Cincinnati
C0nlneerclaL proves unexpectedly to be
worth 100000.
The Cold Harbor National Cemetery
has been completed and dedicated. It
contains upward of 1000 dead, 800 Of
whom are known.
Agents of planters in Mississippi and t
other parts of the Southwest have been q
1t Atlanta, Ca, to hire freedmen, but ii
could find none they were all engaged.
At least twelve hundred Mexicans
we're executed in one month, in Zacate-
.as, under Maximilian's decree condemn
ng to death those opposed to his govern G
nent. "
The official majority for Governor at
he recent election in New Hampshire is s.
S follows Whole number, 65 ,636. h
frederick Smyth had 35, 1877 John G..
sinclair, 30, ,48l scattering 18. Smyth'
majority, 4,638. The five Republican
|ounselors are elected by majorities va.
ying from 1 $50 to 157.
Capt. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the is, is
avy, viii personally present to the Gar pa
"a
Ongratulating him on his escape from IN
A party of 16 friendly Indians were +,
illed by some laWles whites, 15 miles u,
ON the mouth of Moore's River, in
lahO, March H. acc
A citizen of Norwich, New York, had
IS pocket picked of $3.50 thirty three
.ars ago. The other day the amount, Full
Ith interest, was returned to him She
rough the Utica post Office. Ts6 Tao
A young man named Milton Keller, :
nile narrowing on a mountain top near A {
'ederick, Maryland. dragged up an old FoET
ell, which exploded and killed him. m
le shell had been buried since 1862 -
There are never less than 1000 Ameri-
ms in Paris 10000 Swiss live there:
900 English, Is 900 Italians, and 1OO,- H
Germans, and 10000 Poles have ~
de it their permanent home. Of
There are rumors of wide spread con- -
racy IN Russia, of which the attempt
assinatiOn of the Gar was only pre-
tuFe development. Great anxiety is -
/ to prevail in government circles !; the \
ice are on the alert, and the newspa- 4
S have been warned to be very careful TUS
heir articles.
'ostmaster-General Dennison has du-
3 the last month ordered the reopen IN !
Of 284 Southern Post.ofices. IaC