Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-06-29
GEEERAL NEWS TTE1Es.

Kansas, dated May Both. states that a
party of 40 men, who started for the Ida
no gold mines, were attacked by Indians,
who massacred 20 of the number.
Among them were John Billings, Jacob
Pifers W. Cameron, Isaac Crawford,
James Monroe, Geo. Jackson, ohm Frost
Frank Blake, Elijah Turner, J ohm Long,
Benjamin Frye and John Earl of Ohio.
Governor PATTEN, of Alabama, has
written letter wherein he states that
General SWayne, Commissioner, of the
ETeedmen's Bureau for that State, Is now
furnishing p, 600 rations a week to the
starving population of that section, and
that the majority of them are whites. The
Governor says there are LOG, 600 objects
of charity In Alabama. The great mass
Of these people depend upon the Freed
mems Bureau for their subsistence.
A conductor has been fined $500 in
Buffalo, n. Y, ejecting a man from car
because he refused to give bis seat to a
woman. The Court held that ladies, or
those who wished to be considered such,
are legally entitled to no more privileges
in public conveyances than men, and that
when the later pay for seats, they have a
perfect right to occupy them so long as
they conduct themselves in proper man
ner.
According to the new Postal law, just
approved by the President, prepaid and
! free letters arc to be forwarded at the re-
quest of the party addressed, from one
/ post-oface to another without additional
] postage charged, and returned dead let
terSare to be erestored to the writers there
of free Of postage.
The New York Board of Health have
decided that sprinkling the streets is in
Y H. 4 -. III L -T4L Il
dampenlng the dust nuisance IS evolved
by the heat Of the sun, which is poison
Gus.
Two sharp young country lads recent
Iy caught seven young foxes near Rock
ford, Ii. They took them to town, and
made the Supervisors believe they were
wolves. They got $40 bounty for them.
W. P. Mangum, of North Carolina, has
been appointed by the President Council
at Nagasaki, Japan. He can take the
test oath that he never sympathized with
the rebels
Rhode Island has model Legislature
1t has adjourned, after session Of four
days, during which time no less than
eighty three acts and resolutions were
passed.
A young man at Titusville, named John
Dale, while on his way to be married was
was shot dead supposed to be done by
a rival
Watermelons were in the market, at
Montgomery, Ala, on the 18th, and sold
for $3.50 apiece.
Watson, the murderer of Capt. Menter.
has been tried at Newport, KY, convict
ed and sentenced to be hanged on the
31st of August next.
Three men, on Tuesday morning last,
entered the house of oseph Woodward,
of Orange county, Indiana, for the pur-
pose of robbery, and killed Mr. Wood
ward, his wife. and his wife's sister, and
beat his mother till they thought her
dead. It Is thought she will not recover.
The mUrderers had not been arrested at
last accounts.
A farmer in J Jeferson county, Alabama,
lost seven hundred bushels of wheat by
late food, which carried it off in the
shock.
The Toledo Blade of Monday gives an
account of the murder in that city, on
Sunday, of man named John Doyle
and the Iitusville Herald of Monday has
the particulars Of the murder, on Sunday,
Of another j ohm Doyle, citizen of that
town. It Is certainly a remarka bic coin
cidence that the two men bearing the
same name should be killed, on the same
day and about the same hour, In different
parts of the country many miles apart.
The Wheeling InteELigencer thinks that
In the vote lately taken in West Virgins
on the amendment to the State Constit-
ution preventing ez-rebels from voting
than seven thousand.
The Senate has passed resolution ap-
propriating S25, 600 for the erection of
buildings for the display of American ar
tIcles at the coming exhibition at Paris !
Yeas Is nays II.
A convention Of Texas planters was
held in Austin, last week, to organize a |
joint stock company, with a capital of 81 -
1000, having for its object the impor- [
tation Of labor and the sale fTexas lands !
to immigrants
It took 81, ,887, 1869 to pay the mile
age Of the members of the last Congress. /
The members from the Pacific States, /
get from 1000 to $12, 500 each.
A report from the inspecting officer of
Virginia, says there are 145 freedmen's /
schools In that State, with 225 teachers.
and 1900 scholars. The number of
freed people supplied with rations in j IAN
uary was 10, 566 February, 1888 March
8, ,5O5 April, Z, ,2l1 May, 6,064.
Fifty Treasury Clerks are to be dis
missed on the 10Th of July, because there
is nothing for them to do.
The real estate of Memphis, Tenn, is
assessed this year at $40, 100000, instead
Of SIT ,000,0 600 last year. The owners com
plain, but are informed that numbers
stand ready to take it at that valuation
Gov. Brownlow has issued a proelama-
lion eonyening the Tennessee Legislature
n extra session on the 4th prox., to rati-
y the Constitutional amendment recent
y proposed by Congress.
A young farmer of Upper Coos, n. H., !
lad three calves, two colts, eleven pigs, I
line lambs and baby added to his in =
-entozy Of personal property, the other '
hight. That was good nights work for t
he farmer and if continued for a while q
would have quite a change of appearance v
nd oS business. Indeed it's very few t
7ho are so fortunate on the Increase
The Detroit Tribune publishes returns
f the crops from various portions of
1ichigan: The exhibit is generally IA :
Orabie, the recent rains and warm wealth !
r had the most beneficial effect Wheat
lay be little less than an average, but
ther crops, will be fully up to, if not
head of. other years.
President johnson has subscribed the +
I'm of five thousand dollars towards the Dl
9w metropolitan Methodist Episcopal
hurch in Washington. r
The safe of the late DR.. Webb, who
as killed at Little Rock, Arkansas, was
,bbed of Government bonds to the
Mount of SO 900. NJ
An order has been issued in New York
dering the arrest of all persons not
lblic officers found carrying deadly
eapons of any character. d
Mr.. Greeley has been in Washington