Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-11-09
NEWS or THE WEEK.
STATE

Inc potato rot prevails in Highland
county.
A German named Schwartz commit
ted suicide at HillsbOro, or Thursday
night, by putting the muz~la Of a mus
ket in his mouth, touching it of and
blowing out his brains.
The new railroad line from Cleye-
land to PIttsburg. via Warren. Koungs-
town and New Castle, is completed so
1ar as To leave a gap OF only six miles
One mile Of this is graded and part Of
the remaining five are under contract.
Tt viii probably be completed by the
first Of January.
A new temperance journal has heen
established at Cincinnati. John Gun
dry is editor, and Rev. Moses smith
associate editor
The heirs of &r.rreTEa Jams, the origi-
nal owner of the celebrated Trinity
Church property in New YORK, seem 70
be turning up in various quarters IN
this state One has been I0Jine . az -L- llseN
ton and one at Cincinnati, and several
in Caerm0nt county. The estate IS val
ued at $500, 100000.
Some citizens of Cleveland are pre-
pairing to start a mauufactory for max
ing sheet iron, which they claim VIII be
equal to the Russian.
Within the past two months the Ohio
Sinking Fund Commissioners have re-
deemed $l15,7 ,744 ofthe State debt.
Dayton has 90 churches.
The Afarvsvi1le Tribune says. a cOlored
preacher, formerly a servant to Andrew
johnson, has been preaching in that
village and 50 is doing more for his coun-
try than his former master"
The hog cholera is prevailing in
Crawford county.
The new Union Passenger Depot at
Cleveland covers an area of two and a
half acres. 1t is built of sandstone
side, there is massive tower, which.
when completed viii be niuety-six feet
in height. Light is admitted through
5000 lights of glass, measuring $4,000
square feet. Six elegant chandeliers
will light the apartment at night. The
outside Of the building is ornamented
with marble busts of Lincoln, Grant,
the superintendent Of the work, and
others. The whole work is finished in
alcst magnificent style.
GENERAL.
Hon. william Wright. United States
Senator from New Jersey, died OF
Thursday morning, at eight O'Clock
aged seYenty-6ye years.
Over 1000 pupils attend the eoIoret
schools in the District of Columbia.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company have put into operation fas
freight line, at unprecedented speed, tt
the West, to be known as the BaltimOru
and Ohio lightning express. Each ca
is built upon passenger trucks, in Orde
to insure speed and safety.
Mr.. A. T. Stewart has decided to ae
cept no aid in building tenement hOus
es for the industrious poor ofNew York
but viii himself prosecute the enter
prise at an expense of about five mil
lions.
Prussia has formed an alliance wit
Russia.
George Olson, lamp-trimmer in tn
navy, has just Inherited $500, 900 and
Hungarian title of nobility.
Fred. Douglass and his son are goini
to start cOlOred paper in Alexandra
Va.
The statue of Benton will soon b
erected in Missouri Park, at st. Louis.
Washington Irving's old summe
house has been sold at auction for SO.
Mrs. Gen. Grant is grand-daughte
of the Rev. Mr.. Wrenshall, the frs
Methodist local preacher licensed Yves
of the Ohio.
John NJ. Speed, of Lynchburg, aleat
ing lawyer of Virginia, and cousin
the late Attorney General, died recen
ly.
Mrs. Major Gen. Wool has been struc
with ralysis-perhaps fatal.
Gov. Curtin, of Pa, repudiates tn
superstitiOus practice of appointing ez
ecutions on Friday, and selects Othe
days of the week.
Another Freedmen's S schoOl-house hs
been burned near Nashville.
Commodore Vanderbilt intends, it
said, to retire from active business
soon SO as he obtains q competence" H
estate is estimated at only fifty mi
lions.
The money. order system, since it's e
tablishmC Mt in 1864, has paid the Go
ernmenb just $50 OveU. expenses. II
system in England, where it has lOI
been tried, has never. paid expenses.
III is thought, however, that il wi
eventually become profitable here.
Simeon Draper, 4 prominent citize
of New York, was struck with paral7
sis on Sunday night.
The Government having determine
to perpetuate the last resting place
our soldiers to the utmost extent pos
ible, the War Department has calle
Tor 10000 iron head blocks for the n,
tional cemeteries. Each head block
to he inches wide by II long, with a
inscription Ofthe name, rank, regimen
company, and army corps of the sleep'
beneath, with the date of his death.
A United States steamer has been 4
tailed to carry Gen. sherman and Nil
ister Campbell to Mexico. They wi
depart about the middle Of NOvemb Der
The State debt of Pennsylvania is no
about S25, 600 600.
The Soldiers and Sailors Nation
Asylum has been located at Milwaukee
Hon. Meredith P. Gentry, unsucces
full candidate for Governor of Tenme
see in 1855, died recently.
The annual meeting Of the Nation
Wool Growers Association will be he
in Cleveland, Nov. IA.
POLITICAL.
The Vermont Legislature has II
flied the constitutional amendme
by vote Of % to in the Senate, al
100 to II in the House. This may
considered a tolerabiy emphatic i
dOrsement.
The Grand Jury at Newark, ha
found indictments against eleven pC
sons for the encouragement of fraud
lent voting at the late election.
The Alabama Legislature will &C
Vene in Montgomery, on Monday, t
1lth of November. 1t is thought tt
there will be great deal of work to
and that the session viii be prOtract
two or three months.
The National Convention of the era
Army of the Republic is ordered to cC
vene at Indianapolis on Tuesday
Goth of November, for the purpose
perfectng national organization. 4
honOrably discharged soldiers, sa0
anu InOSe now serving IN Ene army
navy, desirous of becoming members
the Grand Army of the Republic,
invited to attend the Convention.
The Republican majoriy for Congr
sional delegate from Nebraska IS 2
The majority on Joint ballot in the l.,
islature is 10.
The Republicans of the Sixth Wa
of Boston have nominated Mr.. CFTAs
MITCHELL, a eolord citizen, to represe
them in the Legislature of the State.
The Democratic Board of Regist
at Springfield, Ill, left of the vofi
list not less than one thousand of t
most prominent citizens Of the pla
who were Republicans.
The rebels of Butler county. NJ
have commenced indicting lOVal m
for resisting Claib Jackson's secessi
rnoVaments in the I,or.sr, n = - )