Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-04-06


The Charlestoniaus have raised $780,
600 and obtained from the Legislature a
eharter for a company to induce white
emf grafton into South Carolina.
In Rhode Island the Union men have
put up candidate without platform,
and the Democrats have put forward a
platform without a candidate.
A Cuban gentleman left his estate, val
ued at four hundred thousand dollars, to
a Spanish female school, with the injunc-
tiOn that if the Spanish Government in
! terferes with the bequest it should go to
/ the United States.
/ A young man about twenty years old.
1 was, on Saturday, sentenced, in Plttsburg
! to twenty-One years in the State prison,
/ for three attempts at burglary.
It is stated that the Hudson River
Railroad Company have ordered 5000
tuns of steel rails, sufficient to lay go
miles of road, and as the iron wears out
it is to be replaced by steel. They cost
twice as much and will wear ten times as
/ long as iron
The Galveston City Assessors report
shows that over 50, ,O00,000 worth of mer-
chandise have been imported there since
this port was opened, which IS five times
as much as was ever before imported in
any year,
Rev. David Curtis, of Stoughton, Mass.
is eighty-fOur years old. and has been in
the ministry sixty years, during which
time his salary has averaged Sl66 per
year. He has lived with his wife fifty
five years, and has had thirteen children.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin, held
at Madison. has decided that the vote of
1849, giving the negroes of that State the
right of suffrage, is Constitutional, and
they have the right to vote.
Word comes from England that all the
ships leaving Liverpool for this country
are Fl led with emigrants, and that emi
grafton to the United States will be enOr-
nous this year-greater than ever before
Dispatches from San Francisco record
that the shock Of an earthquake, more
severe than any experienced since the me- /
morable one of last Oct was felt on the
25th inst. on the Pacific coast. Gilroy is
the only town from which damage is (
reported.
A Postmaster in one of the rural dis
tricts of North Carolina who was 5000 In |
arrears at the breaking out of the rebel /
lion, has Transmitted the amount in gold /
to the PostmasteT-G General.
A frightful tornado swept over a part
of Illinois on the night of the 10Th ult.
destroying much property. The same
storm kll1eu IOUr persons ana ulQ much
damage to property in Morgan County,
Indiana.
The whole membership of the Method
st church north aud south is given at l.
558, ,32O; of the Baptist church 1,040, BOB.
Over one thousand persons made a pro-
7ession ofreligion during the late revival
n Elmira, New York.
A case of suicide under peculiarly ag- |
circumstances is announced in T
Brooklyn. The victim was duped by an
lnprincipled advertiser, who pretended 7
o want partner in business.
The Tribunes Washington special says
3enj. F. Butler has just closed negotia- I
ions for valuable mill property on the .
lanes River, near Richmond, intending c
o erect extensive cotton factories.
The Ohio Repository, published in
}anton, Stark county, completed its if
y first volume on the % of March. It
7as established in 1915, by John Sixton,
he present senior editor. With the com g
lenoemeut OF its ffty-second volume, the d
puts on new typographical q
ress.
Hon. GEO. r. EDMONDs has been ap-s Pi
ointed U. S Senator by the Governor of
-ermont, to fill the vacancy Occasioned
y the death of Senator FoOte.