Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-05-25
GENERAL NEIKS EEElLS


Laurence Slode, colored, died at Vii
mington, N. c., a few days agoin his lllth
year. He was slave up to 1868.
The Boston Council has offered a prem
ium of $500 for the best design for 3 mon
ument to the memory of the dead soldiers
of that city.
The Scotch Earl of Moray is a natural
as well as an hereditary nobleman he
says he will bear half the losses OF his
farmers in consequence Of the rinderpest.
A mass of copper weighing 1891 lbs.
which yielded eighty-sevea per cent in
ingOts, was smelted at ths OntOnagon,
Mich, works, last week.
It will cost about 600 to get up the
new five cent piece. When the coinage
is complete there will be about three and
half million dollars Of this money in
circulation.
The ship carpenters strike in New
York continues. For two months it has
kept A, 900 men out Ofwork.
A she'll which had been bought for
old iron exploded in an iron foundry at
Waltham, Mass, on Thursday instantly
killing man aud two boys and severely
wounding two others.
The house of Lyman Burbank at Mont
pelier, VI, was burned on Monday night,
and Mr.. B. and two young ladies perish
ed with it.
The Americans in St. Petersburgh for
warded to the Gar an address eongratu-
lating him on his escape from assassina-
ton, and received a gracious answer.
Notice has been issued by the Comp
troller of currency for the holders of
notes on the VenangO National Bank of
Franklin, Pa, to forward the bills of
that institution for redemption.
The New York Tribune foots I'D the
bank swindlings and embezzlements from
May 1865, to May 1866, at about SIS. .164.-
600, besides $,472, 600 Of what it calls
vulgar and violent robberies,
Two lads, one fourteen and the other
seven years of age, sons of Mr.. James
search of sweet Sicily root in the woods
near the city a few days ago. By mistake
they dug up and ate quantity of Indian
poke or white hellebOrO, a virulent poison
from the effects Of which they died in
short time.
A Cork paper says that hundreds OF
emigrants are scattered through the town
awaiting the arrival of the next trans
Atlantic steamer. These people, says
the Reporter, have come from Limrick,
Glare, Kerry, and some from Ifpperary,
and are, without exception, "a we'll dres-
sed, we'll looking, healthy, interesting
body"
VIM, III. Morrison, a New York broker,
who bought $4,000 of the 100000 In
bonds stolen from a house in Madison
Avenue, paying fifty per cent, was arres-
ted by the police, when he gave informa-
ton that led to the arrest Of the real rob-
beFs. He is likely to get off without
such punishment as he deserves.
The following singular marriage notice
occurs in a North Carolina paper: By
DR.. J. A. Sheriff., at twilight on Wednes-
day evening, February 28th, 1866, in Ca
tawba county, N, o., at the house of the
brides widowed mother, Mr. AeA. Ca
brile TO Miss Lizzie Milligan, after "a
short but delicious courtshif
A Valparaiso correspondent says that
certain documents found upon a French
stranger who died az Lima, have been
forwarded to Washington by Minister
Fitzpatrick, aud that they disclose a
scheme between France and Spain to make
a strike for the small South American
Republics,
A sand storm astonished aud disgust
ed the New Workers on Sunday after
noon last a tornado caught up col
umn Of sand from Coney Island aud San
dy Hook and bore it triumphantly up 20
and through the metropolis, making the
streets highly unpleasant for those out Of
doors.