Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-07-13
GENERA1 NEWS LEEAHs.

Gently, from the effects Of a sting from a
catfish.
A. T. Stewart has. purchased Kellogg
famous painting. Princess After the
Bath, for $25, 900.
Three hundred young men are expect /
ed to leave New York soon to join the
Italian army.
J. W. Crafts, who was killed lately in
Boston, had his life insured for $l2O.OOO
in thirteen different companies.
A child was devoured near Galveston,
a short time ago, by an alligator, IN full
view of her father, who was unable to
reach her In time to save her.
Brigham Young is on the rampage.
He will fight the Government before he
will be tried by Gentle court. So he
says.
It is estimated that at the time of Gen.
Cass' death he was worth considerably
over 81 ,000 GOO.
Reports received during the past week
BY the A gricultural Bureau at Washing
ton, show a more favorable condition of
the wheat crop than was anticipated two
weeks since.
Austin Hopkins, a soldier whose mind
had never recovered from the effects Of
his life at Andersonville Prison, COM
mitted suicide at Woonsocket, R. l., on
Monday night.
At the celebration on the Fourth at
Philadelphia Major Gen. Meade was pre-
sented by the Union League of that city
with a gold medal. The medal is com
posed of the finest gold, and weighs one
pound and a half.
The salary of the Superintendent Of
! "Colt's Patent Firearms Company, Hart
ford, Conn, is $4,000 per annum. while
! sol
81, 100.
The st. Paul Pioneer. says that on the
Red River settlement, FIVE hundred miles
north of that place, sixty bushels of
wheat to the acre IS an ordinary yield.
A farmer named Emery, IN Fulton CO.,
Ill, has been sWindled out of $8, ,642 by an
old gypsy crone, who while going through
certain mummeries to double the amount
cleyerly substituted a worthless roll Of
paper for the money and absconded.
She was arrested, but escaped by bribing
her jailor.
Several thousand of the English and
Irish sparrows have been introduced in
New Y ork and vicinity, and prove the
mortal foes of the detested measuring
worms.
The celebration of the Fourth at the
South seems to have been pretty much /
monopolized by American citizens of Af- !
rican descent; but was on their part very
enthusiastic.
John D. Philbrick, superintendent Of
the Boston schools, has an annual salary |
of $4,000
Two guerrillas were captured and hung
about two miles from Galveston, Texas, |
by Regulators while the party were en-
gagged in hanging them they were fred |
at by friends of the guerrillas, and one
man mortally wounded.
Fifteen thousand negroes have died of
the cholera in GuadaIoupe, and the sugar
crop will be short for want of hands to
gather it.
A boy lost or had $4,000 in money ta-
ken from him in Chicago on Monday.
lie was carrying it from one banking
house to another.
Capt. Philip r. Forney, of the 18th
Regulars, a son of Col. Forney, has been
dismissed the service. He was tried in
San Francisco, by Court Martial, on
charges of disc bedience of orders and
conduct UnbecomiDg an officer and gen
tleman.
Dexter" wonsthe 500, 600 race on the
Fashion Course Tuesday, on Long Island.
His competitors were the horses General
Butler" and Commodore Vanderbilt
Two men were stabbed at Galveston on
the 18th, while asleep in bed at a hotel.
Their watches and money were taken.
Cornell University, at Ithica, New
York, toward the founding of which Ezra
Cornell some time ago contributed $780,
OU0, IS now well under way, and is expec-
ted to have ultimately an endowment
equal to $3OO0,000.
The Savannah Herald of july I'd saws
that freedman, arrested at Macon for
the murder Of woman In Wilkinson
county, was brought back to the scene of
the outrage, and after the mutilation of j
portions of his body, he was bound to
tree, surrounded by faggots and burned
The murderers of Mrs Perrine and ]
recently arrested, were taken !
out of Jail at Rock Island at daylight on I
the Both, and hanged, by a company of
twenty men, who had their faces bIacken-
ed and disguised, so as not to be recog-
nized.
A horrid murder occurred in Edin- :
burg, johnson county, Indiana, on Fri
day. A Soldier by the name of Dittman. n
Martha Bennett, with whom he
had been living as his wife. He shot her
five times, beat her with his revolver bru-
tally, and then set fire to her clothes to /
make his work sure. Dittman was arres- !,
ted and lodged in Jail
Miss Maria &. Naile, native of North T
Carolina, is on exhibition at Richmond,
Is ''the smallest woman in the world"
She is q years old, weighs but IL pounds,
md is well proportional and handsome
John W. Duncan, late of the Confed-
rate army, and of AndersOnVille Prison
lotoriety, recently tried by a military r
commission at Savannah, Ca, has been
to be confed at hard labor for {
fifteen years, at Fort Pulaski, Ca, for
murder in violation of the laws of war. NJ
Samuel Smith, of Bristol, died on
thursday of last week, aged eighty-eight,
nd his wife, aged eighty-six, died the
ay after. The couple had been married
Or sixty-seven years, and during the
hole time had been separated only three
lights. The funeral was observed on
unday, and they were both buried in
ne grave.
The Excise law in New York has been
by the courts in the city, and
)r the present the beer saloons are hav-
lg 1t all their own way. Nearly SIX
lousand had been licensed, aHording an
EDITION to the city treasury OF over
illion dollars.
A general order has been issued by the
rection ofthe President, that all deser-
rs from the regular army, who join
ieir regiments at any military post or
cruiting rendezvous, prior to the ff-
enth of August, will be received for
lty, without punishment, on condition
at they will make up lost time and for
it pay.