Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-05-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Under the Civil Rights Law In a re-
cent case in Anne Arundel County, Mary
land, negro was placed on the witness
stand-a new thing for that State.
A vineyard was lately sold at auction
at Gevrey, in the Cote dor, France, at
the rate Of So, coo an acre-the highest
price ever known to have been given in
that country.
A raid was made last week on five or
six of the heaviest lottery policy dealers
in New York, at the instance of victim
who alleges that he lost over S42 900 by
their fraudulent and illegal transactions.
a case of cholera occurred in Rich
mond, Va, on the 8th ult The victim
was a Miss Palmer, staying at the house
of ex-Mayor Saunders. She was attack
ed during the night, and died at 9 o'clock
the next morning. Dr.. Coleman, the at
tending physician, pronounced the dis
ease cholera.
A fatal case Of cholera is reported to
have occurred in New York on last Mon
day. A physician and coroner's jury
rendered a verdict in that opinion The
Superintendent of the Board Of Health,
claims that it was not the cholera.
John Regan, formerly rebel Postmas-
ter General. is busily working on a farm
in Texas, laboring with his own hands.
He writes-"I make fence, grub, pile and
burn brush, pillow, &c, and am as thor
oughly bronzed as other laborers."
The vote against the eight-hour bill in
the Massachusetts House of Representa-
tives was 100 against it to 81 for ii.
Mr. Charles F. Browne Artemus
Ward j. it is said has been offered $4,000
IN gold, together with his travelling expen- |
ses, for six months lecturing tour in
England.
The London Times thinks that the /
number of negroes shot and hanged in .
Jamaica after the late insUrrection is 500 4
Reports continue to reach us Of great
destitutiOn in Alabama. Many have died /
from want, and thousands are said to be
now on the verge of starvation, with no
prospect of relief.
The New Orleans Picayune says that
petroleum Of great purity, and In large
Quantities, has been found in Angeline,
Trinity and NacOgdoches counties, East
srn Texas.
At recent marriage in New York the
lresses and ornaments of the bride and
Ter SIX bride 's-maids cost it is said, near
y sixty thousand dollars, all furnished by
he bride.
A sad mistake in giving medicine oc-
urred in Kokomo, Indiana, last week.
lady gave a child large dose of NOR
.hine, thinking it was outline. The
hid died from the effect of the NOR
hine
In Montana Territory the price of but
er on the first Of last month was from
20 to Sl.80 per pound -four, $25 to $50
er barrel hams, 60c to 65c per pound,
gold rates.
According to the Cork Examiner up
ards Of five thousand persons are await
lg shipment to the United States from
reland. TWO-th of them belong to
le middle and farming class. O
The Briggs House In Chicago is being
evated to the grade of the street dis
nee of four feet two inches, by the use
sixteen hundred screws, all move at -
ice on signal being given.
The message of Mayor Brown, of Nash r.
He, Tenn, estimates the present value +
taxable property In Nashville at eigh-
en- millions Of dollars, or nearly four -
lllons more than five years ago, at the [
of the rebellion -
The immigration to Kansas now aver
es, 1t IS thought, about one thousand
rsons per day The larger portion go T
Southern Kansas, where the prairies are
eady covered with green grass. r.
A letter from the War Department ~
Ows-that since the first of last October
; Adjutant Generals Bureau has re- =
lited about 1900 men for the regular ]
ny,
Six Boston merchants have contributed
QUO each toward a new hall In Havard
diversity, to be erected in honor Of the l
duates of that institution who fell in Is
late war
Recent returns received at the General
nd Office from Bonneville, Mo, show
extraordinary disposal, during the ~
nth Of March last, of 88,496 acres of l.
public domain at one branch Office of
{ State
here are in North Carolina one hun 4
d schools for blacks, 132 teachers. and
he month Of January 10 ,450 scholars,
10 more than in December. They are vvy
ited in all the principal towns. w
he largest distillery on the continent
been started at Louisville, under the
le of the Kentucky Bourbon Compa-
and has a capacity for distilling over ,..
illions gallons a year fstai @1,G
match race came off between two
positors few days ago at Iowa CITY. IN
J Kenny, Of the Iowa City Press, and of
B. Bell, of the Council Bluff Nonpa-
each setting four thousand ems solid the
rgeois in two hours. The speed is un-
.edented in the annals Of type-stiok- gT1Hl