Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-02-07
NEWS or rHE pEEn.

JRarez gets a salary OF $4,000.
POrtugal's standing army is only ten
\ thousand men.
+ A severe famine prevails in some Of
1 the States Of Morocco.
/ Another battle between the Turks
+ and the Cretans has been fought IN
/ which the former was defeated.
Counterfeit ten-dollar notes on the
+ National Market Bank Of New York
are in circulation in Boston.
/ A fire at Galveston, Texas, Sunday
night, destroyed property valued at
! $4,000
A. G Hedrich, dry goods merchant,
I Of Mansfield, made an assignment Mon
day. Liabilities 96O,0 900
The Senate has confirmed the Gov
/ ernoT's nomination Of Moses G. Mitch
! ell for Director OF the Ohio Penitentiary
I for six years.
The Georgia Convention has passed q
resolution asking Congress for a loan of
$40, ,000, 600 to assist the planters Of that
State.
Miss HOWdyEhell, eighteen years old,
I and two children, her neices, whom she
I was striving to save, were burned to
death near OttumWa, Iowa, on the 18th.
The Dayton Journal says that seven
teen divorces have been granted during
the present term Of the Montgomery
u y
/ John Dsvslin has been found guilty,
/ in New York Of defrauding the Gov
1 ernmeut Of six hundred thousand dol
/ lars in whisky disttlling.
The Wisconsin Senate has passed q
bill forbiddiug the locking of rail-
road cars while in motion, and the uss
/ kerosene lamps for lighting cars.
I Near Marion, Ohio Tuesday night,
/ train on the BellefOntaine Railroad ran
of the track, and conductor Bryant had
a foot and an arm crushed.
The Fenians undermined and blew
up one Of the gates ofthe city Of Cork, on
the night Of the Sd instant, and cut al
the telegraph wires leading to the city.
AbeII Lerson, Democrat, who contest
ed the seat, in the Ohio House, OF A. 8I.
Raney, Republican, from Hardin cOun-
q q i, has fA'l'd to show his better claim
Sanderson's steel warehouse, John
sons printing Office and Cambell's
foundry, in the building No, Y Beck
man street. New York, were burned
Tuesday morning. Loss $4,000.
Two ships, about to sail from New
York for California, will take out thirty
six Parr0tt guns, and n large amount
Of military amna unitiOn and stores for
the Pasifie Coast.
Some scoundrel, in tavern, near
BramptOn, Canada, covered a sick man
with shavfngs, night or two ago, and
setting IRE TO them burned him to
death.
The New York Telegram says the
cashier of one OF the Insurance COM
pRnies in that city committed suicide q
few days ago, and was found to be a
defaulter in the sum Of 100000.
Judge Shsllabarger has written a let
ter to Schuyler ColfaZ, in which he says
his health is rapidly improving, and
he VIII return to his seat in Congress
this session.
Eighteen prisoners escaped from the
Jail at St. Joseph, Missouri, Saturday
During the melee Horace Fish, brother
of Sheriff Fish, was shot and killed,
and one prisoner severely wounded.
Mrs. Or. Hathaway has denounced
General Grant because he uses tobacco
This is almost as severe attack as that
Of Mrs. SWissheIn, who once denoun-
ced the General because he knew moth
ing about strategy.
The Hon. G. NJ. Clay, Minister TO Rus
sia, has rendered his resignation, and
viii return TO Kentucky in time to take
part in the Republican Convention to
be held in Frankfort on the 27th of Feb
rURTy.
Senator Sherman makes the fellow
ing statement Of the currency afzoat at
this time: GreenbacZs, $685., COO 900; /; (
Bank Circulation, 1926, ,O00, zoos Frae- /
tional Circulation, 9sl GOO, COO; State
Bank Circulation, $4,0oO,0O0. Total, /
$3.50, 900, 600.
Robert H briggs, one Of the wealth /
lest farmers OF Auburn, Maine, COM !
mitted suicide by hanging himself on
Sunday evening. Jeremiah Williams,
of Oakham, Massachusetts,, committed /
suicide on the the same day BY hang
ing himself in the cellar Of his house. /
The locomotives on the New York !
Central Railroad are to be stripped of i
all ornaments, brass OF otherwise, and /
to be painted q pale brown color. This !
is done to save unnecessary work in /
cleaning, and viii, no doubt be Rppre- |
ciated BY the engineers.
A party of Navajo Indians attacked /
some herders neRR Cubero, New Mex
leo, on the eth ult.y and killed one and /
w0u ndedr two Of them, and ran off be- /
tween three and four Thousand sheep, /
about fifteen hundred Of which were /
subsequently raeapsuEed-
Tho Postmaster at New Lisbon was 4
knocked down and robbed Of about /
three hundred dollars on Sunday night /
last, between the post ONCE and his /
dwelling. He was seriously injured
and lay in the streets, totally 1nsenSible,
for some time, but finally recovered
sufficiently to get home. There is no
clue to the robbers.
one hundred thousand people have
died of starvation in that country dur
ing the past three months, and that the
four hundred thousand frances granted
by the French Government for the re-
lief Of the starving sufferers will prove
utterly inadequate to the terrible emer-
gency.
A fatal disease among the swine is re-
ported in several parts of Ohio. In
Hooking COuntysOme farmers are los
ing from fifteen to twenty hogs a day.
The disease is said 10 be an affection of
the threat. 1t has also prevailed to
some extent among turkeys. The Fay
cite County Herald reports the disease
among the hogs in that county.
On information furnished by Mr.
Bingham, recently appointed Deputy
Collector of Internal Revenue at Alb
b8yViIIe, S. c., eighty illicit distilleries
were seized in that district, and several
of their prOprietors arrested. Subse-
quently, Mr.. Bingham was shot through /
the shoulder by q man who, it has been
found out, was hired by the whisky
men to commit the crime.
Mr.. D. d. sPAULDINa has our thanks