Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-08-31
NEWS OE THE WEEK,

Samuel Coovert, the murderer OF the
ROosa family, was hung at Lebanon, o..
August 25. Ho declared his innocence
70 the last.
Work on the Alexandria Cva.) canal has
been suspended.
The CiroleviIle (O.) Union celebrates the
completion Of its fiftieth year by putting
on new dress.
The Provost Marshal Generals office has
been abolished.
The population Of Toledo, according to
the recent census is q, ,40I, an increase of
1882 within the last year.
Florida has held State Convention to
choose delegates to the Sd of September
Convention.
The Union Pacific Railway has been
opened for business to Fort Kearney 200
miles west of the Missouri river. Another
4OO miles IS promised by January 1st.
Point Lookout, at the mouth of the PO-
tomac, has been purchased for So, 500 by
Gen. Bayard, who will convert the prop
erty into a first class watering place
The Japanese are sending goods to be
exhibited at the Paris Exposition.
Gen. Dick Taylor and ii. ]. RAYMOND
have been hob-nobbing with President
johnson.
The existence Of a powerful and wide
spread Union organization in the Western
counties of North Carolina has become
known. In some ofthe counties the mem
Rers claim a majority of the voters.
The survey of the Cincinnati and Chat.
tanooga railroad has been commenced,
The proceeds of the sale Of the pirate
ShenandOah-ll,s ,s84 pounds sterling-have
been received from England by the Treas
ury Department..
A crowd of ruffiaus mobbed Anes' Cir
Gus and Menagerie at Calhoun, Georgia,
the other day.
A villain murdered a bov II wears Of sea
near Nebraska City, last week.
There will ba an aufi-Tohv,-rv, - H.,
and sailors Convention at Pittsburg. Sep
tember "A. %
The cables the great suspension bridge
at Cincinnati have been completed.
A reconstructed judge, named King. OF
Cllnch county, Georgia, has sentenced a
colored woman to receive 63 lashes because
she quarrelled with a white woman who
had made scandalOus charges AGAINST her.
It is reported that the NIasons ofIIIinois
demand that the coEner-seone Of the -Oouo-
las Monument shall be laid by the Grand |
Master of the Stete, instead Of bv Presi- |
dent JohnsOn-OtherWise thew will take
no part in the ceremony.
The Jews dedicated their magnificent
new temple at Cincinnati August "a
The construction of the new $4,000 one
"a house in Atlanta has been Commenced. ]
The Atlantic Cable transmits to this side
about six words per minute.
Many reports of Indian outrages on the
plains are said to be humbugs.
Coal has been discovered in large ousu-
titles few hundred feet below the SURFACE
Of the Kansas pratries.
John Brannon has been a conductor ON
the Sandusky and Cincinnati railroad for
l6years, and during that time has made
the run Of the road, 155 miles, every Clsv D
making the aggregate Of f8O8. .48O miles ann
being equal to about 80 times the eiroun.
ference of the earth.
It turns out that after all the Union dol
sgate to Congress was elected in Colorado.
ana All the Cppperhead joy over the result
mas been turned into mourning.
President johnson has removed the Dis-
trlog Attorney at st. Louis, and has ap-
PolnteQ CHARLES MunrOe, q fourth ra law
yer VINO some time since was Dismissed /
from the Office of City Counsellor for dis
loyalty.
Coin has begun to dow back to this conn
try from Europe. The steamer AlIemania
which sailed a few days since from Soutb
ampton had S5OO.O00 In gold on board.
The capital stock of the Adams F.-Draes
Company is SlO,O00,O00 and sells for S22s 8.
share. - =
Company, at Newburg, Ohio, has been in
corporated with a capital stock OF $500, COO
The Cincinnati Conference, M. e.
Church, met on Wednesday last Bishop
Thomson presided.
The cholera has extended, as far west as
Kansas.
The Central Ohio Conference oftheM. Z. II
Church is in session at Gallon.
Immense crop of hops in Otsego county.
N. Y.-S, ,OO0, 600 pounds worth S98O, 900.
A railroad is to be built from Richmond,
Virginia, to Newport News.