Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-11-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
GENERAL.

The Capt. Kidd treasure excitement
has extended to New Haven, Ct.s and
company has been formed 70 continue
the search for the buried gold
After the 1st Of Eovemb0r the tariff
upon Atlantic cable messages is to be
redHced fifty per cent.
1t is currently reported in London
that the Tycoon of Japan is dead.
JIM. Mason, the rebel Of Trent noto-
riety, is at Toronto, Canada, and in
tends to reside there.
Fenian Stephens recently said in a
speech at st. Louis: eve are bound to
take the field before the first Of Janua-
ry. Let no man have any doubt about
that. I repeat, / shall be on Irish soil
this year, and raise the Irish flag in bat
tle."
Nearly two thousand Germans leave
Europe every week for the United States
in the Bremen and Hamburg mail
steamers.
Spain is represented to be on the eve
Of q complete revolution.
A railroad convention viii be held in
Olzalona, Miss, on the 18th inst, to
make ARRANGEMENTS for building a rail-
road from Memphis to that place, and
thence in the direction Of Selma, Ala.
The people Of Victoria, Vancouver's
Island. have petitiOued Queen Vietora
to allow the colony to withdraw from
the British and annex itself to the
United States Government.
The star which Admiral Farragut
will wear on his sshouIder-strap has five
rays, and is two inches in diameter. It's
center is Of silver, about the size of
quarter of a dollar, and bears an efigy
of the Hartford, with an Admiral's flag
at the fore.
The authorities are suppressing the
organ ''grinderpest" in the streets Of
Philadelphia.
The Portland Argus says, appear
anees of the great fire are fast disap-
pearlng. Several hundred buildings
have been erected or in process of cree
ton in the burnt district, and it pre-
seats one Of the most busy scenes i'm
aginable, One more season viii see
Portland very well reconstructed.
The public lands of Florida are being
rapidly taken up by settlers.
Uuring the past season 80 boats ar
rived at Fort Benton, Montana, bring
isS 5000 tons Of freight, worth over
$4,000, 600.
Owing to the Presidents frequent
changes Of custom officers, and the in
stallation of inexperienced men, SNUG
Cling has greatly increased along the
Canada frontier
Several of the rebel leaders are now
in France; among them Breckenridge,
Jacob Thompson and Geo. Saunders.
ToOmbs is at Enghien, taking sulphur
baths for a rheumatic complaint with
which he is troubled.
Secretary Stanton is making q brief
visit to Ohio.
Gen. Sheridan has officially styled
Max1milian an Imperial buccaneer." ."
Gen Sherman, it is said, has accepted
a military diplomatic mission to Mexi-
co for the purpose of dehnidvely adjust
ing our relations with that nOndescript
Government.
A cotton mill with a capital of 81, ,000,
O0O, to run 100000 spindles is to be
erected at Fall River, Mass, for the
manufacture of print cloths.
A powder wagon. with $500 pounds
of the explosive material, blew up in
crossing the plains recently, tearing
wagon, oxen and driver to tatters.
Just after President johnson became
President, and it was thought that Gen.
Butler would be assigned to command
at Richmond, Va, member of the
Virginia Legislature offered a resOlu-
ton, instructing the Governor to issue
a proclamation to the people to bury
their silver, etc. The said mem Der has |
just turned out defaulter to the sum
Of $500, 900.
President Johnson has pardoned |
Trenholm, late Confederate Secretary /
Of the Treasury, and restored to him /
his valuable property at Columbia, /
Charleston and other points in South /
Carolina.
The Fenian trials in Canada are Gre
ating intense excitement among the /
Brotherhood. 1t is said that the case Of /
Col. Lynch, sentenced to death in Tor |
onto, has already been brought before /
the Government by his friends. 1t is 4
not known whether any action will be /
taken or not, but it is probable that the !
matter viii be considered as soon as
Secretary Seward is able to attend to /
his duties at the State Department.
The Lincoln Monument Association /
at Washington, have agreed to appro-
pirate s., 900 for the erection of mon
ument at once to the memory of Presi-
dent Lincoln, in front Of the City Hall,
Washington.
The receipts of internal revenue from
July 1st to Saturday last amounted to
$12l, ,975, ,4l0 SO.
Gen. Hentzelman has succeeded Gen. /
Getty in command of the Department
of Texas.
A Paris correspondent of the N. Y.
Times says the French Government is
determined not to abandon Mexico, un-
less the Mexican debt to France is
guaranteed.
The Spanish Government has decreed
the freedom of every African slave
brought into old Spain, and has adopt-
slave trade.
The New York Tribune's Berlin cor
respondent asserts that the Emperor
Napoleon is dangerously ill at Biarritz, (
and that his death may be hourly ex-
pected.
The wool clip of Beunos Ayres this
year IS estimated at 100, 900 pounds, and !
win be worth twelve million silver dol /
lars.
Miss Frances A. Seward, only daugh- /
ter Of Secretary Seward, died early 4
Monday morning.
The Sanduslzy Register says The ap-
pie crop on the Reserve is probably
larger than that of any previous season
Tor many years.
The potato rot is doing great dam
age to the crop in Hamilton county.
John Gray, of Noble county. aged 1O4 |
years, voted the whole Union ticket at
the late election. His first vote was cast
Tor George Washington for President /
and he served with credit in the wars
Of the Revolution and of 1912.
A Baseball match between the For
est City Club, of Cleveland, and the
Capitals, Of Columbus, transpired Oct.
25, and resulted in victory for the
former-72 to A.
An effort is being made to induce the
Old School Presbyterian Synods to en-
QOW one or more RrOteSSOrsh1pS In Mi
ami University
The Lancaster Gazette estimates the
population OF that place at $40.
In building the connecting link from
Cincinnati to Dayton of the Sandusky
railroad, it is proposed to tunnel Walnut /
Hills, at Cincinnati, and thus save 25
minutes time by enabling the cars to
obtain full speed as soon as they leave
the depot.
Tho NF,c d, os,oc1- -r,-----. Z 49, i,
verted into Sunday paper.
The Morgan County Herald announc-
es that after the first of January next,
1t will not put name upon its sub
scription books without payment in ad-
vance, and that thereafter it viii ad-
mere r1g1dIy to the system. A good
measure, both for the paper and fhe
A BOY IA years old was shot dead in
Cincinnati on Sunday by a con1Dar;C71
about the same age, for knocIZiney hiS
hat of.