Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-05-18
GENEBA1 NEWS LrD1rs.

A recent Paris concert netted $500 fo
the American freedmen
; The Internal Revenue receipts for las
week were four million and half
News from the West Indies is to tn,
effect that the idea of annexation to tn,
United States is gaining ground, and il
now well received throughout the Island
While Mr.. Moses Hawkins. an old and
prominent resident of Ypsilanta, was at
work Saturday in his garden, he was shot
and instantly killed by a young man who
had been shooting birds.
1 A poor depositor who had three hun
dred dollars in the recently exploded
Merchants National Bank, followed the
President of the bank into the institution
and threatened to kill him if he did not
pay him. The President handed over the
money.
VIM. Hutchins, the last surviving rev
/ OlutionaTy soldier in the State of Maine.
and but two OF three in the Union, died
| on Thursday in the town of Penobseot,
Hancock county, at the age of 102 years.
| A young man at Tuskahoe, Atlantic
Co, n. Y, named Charles Godfrey, was
standing on board leaning against the
side Of the barn, and was looking in at
window, when the board fell from under
him, and at the same moment the sash
came down upon his neck, hanging him
between it and the window-siII. His
neck was dislocated, and death must have
been instantaneous.
There were three fires in New Orleans
Saturday night, in one of which twelve
persons were burned to death, among
whom was the proprietor of the building.
The IRE 1t was supposed the work of an
lncendiary.
Jefferson Davis was indicted for treas |
Oh Wednesday, by the Grand Jury of the |
United States District Court, now In ses-
sion at Norfolk The Court has adjourn
ed to meet in Richmond in June.
O'Mahony has resigned his position as
Head Center of the Fenians, and his res
lgnatiOn has been accepted by Stephens.
U 'MahOny's last official act was to re-
move Killian from the Treasuryship of
5he Brotherhood.
The famous trotting horse Dexter was
odd at auction the other day for $4,000
Walter B. Scates has been appointed {
o iii the vacant Chicago OolleetOrship.
Reports from California indicate that
he crop of cereals will exceed this year
hat Of any former year.
The Danish war cost Prussia about
25,000,000. !
A little girl died very suddenly in
,oundout N. Z, a few days ago, from
leer exhaustion, produced by jumping
le rope.
The Navy Department has officially ap-
owed of the action of Commodore Rod b
RS In the bombardment of Valparaiso. fl
It is asserted that gross frauds under to
e present law are of constant occur
nee IN the Court of Bankruptcy, in
1gland, and are at the same time the
Ost difficult to detect. nm
The Detroit Tribune, after thorough y,
yestigation of the condition of wheat y
that State, is compelled to conclude
at the average crop for 1866 will fall
low the average yield of past seasons.
The Painsville Telegraph says that the
eat crop on the ridges in that county, tn
ake), at this season Of the year never
,ked finer than now.
At Glendale station, on the Cleveland ~
] Pittsburg railroad, on the 9th inst
S. Maria Stoefer and her little daugh-
Maria, were run over by a train and n.
led ( Hspo T =