Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-03-20
News Of the Week.

THE state Fair is to be held at Toledo this
year.
THERE are i've hundred American young
sters at school in Gerh4any.
OK the Island Of st. Thomas the deaths by
cholera number thirty per day.
A hurricane at Toronto, Canada, on Mon
day destroyed property valued at $4,000.
IT has been reported that Dickens hassent
s5y000 to his sister-in-8aw IN Chicago.
REv DR.. BIssetl has been elected Protes-
tant Episcopal Bishop Of Vermont.
A YOUNG ladies' seminary at Englewood,
N. T., was destroyed iy ere on the 10th.
GENERAL. EAaoook has left New orleans
for Washing gton, IN obedience to orders.
A SUBSCRIPTIONS o. sl00seoa, has been CONS
pleted by the people OF Springfield, for the
erection Of a new hotel IA that city
IT has been decided In England that a
stamped fac-simile Of q signature Is as valid
q written one.
Gov, BRowELoW has adopted measures to
ferret out the operations Of the Kuklux
Khan, and bring the rascals 70 justice.
Gov. JOSHUA BAKER, of Louisiana, has
been arrested in New Orleans, for peJpFy I'm
taking the test-oath.
rTnxAs has. cast $1,000 votes for the cohven-
tion, four thousand more than the required
number.
TIE charter election IN ATarysville, Cal.
on Monday, resulted in the success Of the
Republicans
THE House Managers expect to ale their
reply to the Presidents answer within two
days after that paper Is received in the Sem
ate and they intend to oppose any further
Z delay in proceeding with the trial
THE latest report, which includes returns
nom all the towns ia New Hampshire,
makes Harriman's majority $3.50. The Re
presentattves stand 1872 Republicans and 138
Democrats. Last year there were 2g2 Repub-
Hcans and 128 Democrats-ag gain fortli eIat-
ter Of 20.
THE Agricultural Society of Franklin
county have decided to enlarge their fair
grounds, by adding 48 acres adjoining it On
the east, at a cost Of $4,000
THE Deputy Mayor Of Pittsburg has de-
cided that Linburg cheese is a nuisance, and
has fined stOre-keeper Of that city $50 and
costs for having it on hano.
THE Springfield Advertiser says that there
was violent hail storm in Springfield on
aturday evening. Three hundred panes Of
glass. were broken in one hot-house.
THE British League Of Peace and Liberty
viii present an address to Charles Francis
-AudALAN DGluAe nc lbaNE5 EuEAdllH john
Bright viii be spokesman Of the League.
THE election for the ratification Of the
new Constitution of South Carolina, and
for Congressman and State officers, will take
place on the I4th, 10th and 18Th Of April.
THE lease ofthe BelIefontaine Railway to
the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati
Railway, has been consumated, and goes
into operation on the LIST Of January, 1869.
-
Richmond, Thursday, the trial of JefI. Davis
which was set for the 4th Wednesday of
March, was postponed by Judge Underwood
till April 18th.
THE Committee of Ways and Means has,
it is understood, come to the conclusion that
the total internal revenue needed to meet
the expenses Of Government, can be collect
ed from spirits, tobacco, incomes and storage
duties.
THE trial of Arthur Johnson, for the muir
der (preceded by horrible outrage1 of Emma
Kneisly in Fairfield, Greene county, Ohio,
on the 10th of June last, was concluded in
Xenia on the 10th inst, the argument clos
ed at noon, and the charge by Judge Winans,
being delivered Immediately afterward.-
The jury came in quarter before 4 OIcock
with a verdict of manslaughter.
THE United states troops of Fort Lyon are
ont fighting horse thieves, two hundred and
dfty OF whom are fortified twelve miles be-
low Trinidad, and defy the world. They are
in strong house, thirty by eighty, with a
tWo-foot wall, which is surrounded by a
strong corral. The people are going to work
In earnest to put down these thieves, but it
has been ascertained that some ofthe lead
ing men of that section arc in ~ athy
with them.
A TERRIBLE Steamboat disaster occurred
at
Cincinnati, Wednesday. The Steamer Mag
nolia left Cincinnati for Maysvtlle at noon
with. over one hundred passengers on board,
and exploded her boilers at the point indi-
Gated. The greater part of the cabin was
carried away, and the boat afterwards took
fire. About forty persons were killed, sever
al being burned to death.