Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-02-14

Mrs. Bowshar, Of Upper sandusky,
I who is suspected Of mHroerEng her three
( claildren, has been indicted by ths
/ Grand Jury.
! AErs Gee, a bank pfesident of New
I York has published pamphlet on the
Z ffnances n which be states that the
road to specie payments is through q
I law regulating special contracts
( General Grant kas directed the revo-
I cation OF Hanc0ck's order recoustueting
I the New Orleans City CounCil, and Gen,
I Hancock has therefore asked TO be re-
{ fEeved Or his coIla aHi3d. tIsliess tne re-
( Tcki3g order is kescinded.
1 The salary of Theodore Tilton, of the
New York Independent. has been IN
! creased from 5000 to 81 600, which is
/ the next highest salary paid any New
/ York editor, Mr. Greeley, OF the Irlb-
I une, receiving $4,000 q year.
Joe Dodge, an old theft, anatehed, in
/ Hogan & Wade's Jewelry store, in
] Cleveland, a tray containing $4,000 in
diamonds, and attempted to escape with
/ it, but was caught and arrested.
/ The English army in Abyssiuia has
got into what the cable dispatch calls a
1 livery discOuraging situation, . and can
not safely make any move this season.
/ On Saturday last, a passenger car was
I burned near Bergen tunnel, caused by
I the explosion Of a coal-oil lamp. Sew
sraI passengers were slightly injured
Secretary Seward, deemjng it ineom-
} pa2able with the public interest, de-
1 elines to send to Congress at present q
statement Of the cost, arrest and trial
I of Sarratt.
] John Gray of Brookdeld township,
Noble county, O., who is ssuppossd to be
the last surviving soldier Of the Rev0-
lutiou, was l04 years Of age on the 9Th
inst.
/ The merchants of Montreal, Canada,
annoyed by the uperabundRnce Of sill
yer coin in circulation, have formed a.
coordination to export q large quantity
to the United states.
The schooner James Young has ar
rived at New York, from New Orleans,
with a cargo of fourteen thousand bush
/ els Of corn, being the first cargo of grain
ever shipped thence in bulk.
Mr. Won Va1kenburg, United States
[ Minister to Japan, has made arrange
ments by which the ports Of YeddO,
Neegato and Ebissu minato are to be
opened for trade and residence on the
1st Of April next.
a National Customs Conference is to
! assemble at Berlin, soon, at which all
the States Of Germany viii be represen-
! ted a. strong effort will be made to
Fender3t Influential in the faFtheFanee
of German unity.
Last Sunday night was the coolest of
the season through the Northwest. The
] lowest temperature indicated by the
| Thermometer, of which we have report,
was at Sparta. Wisconsin, fiftY-One de-
| grees below zero.
/ Gas at PittsbuFg costs private eonsum-
ers 81 80 per LOO feet. The city, how
ever, pays only SI,O0 Including the gov
eTnment taxi, and besides gets 1880, 600
frag rfF
ment tax.
Hon. James Guthrie has sent in his
resignation as Uuited States Senator
from Kentucky, to the Governor, on ac-
I eount Of his continued sickness, and in
ability to 90 to Washington, and the
! Legislature determined to elect his sue
! eessor on Tuesday the 18th inst, at IL
/ O'Clock A. NJ.
The Fenians in Cork are causing the
authorities an immense amount of
trouble, and outrages of great bOldness
are perpetrated almost daily. Sunday
night a squad of policemen was attack
/ ed in the streets and driven to a station
] house NumerOus arrests were made.
The new British Minister, Mr. Thorn
ton, was introduced to the President
Z last Friday, by the Secretary of State.
Z In the course Of his reply to Mr.. Thorn
toms address, the President said ftThe
! peopIeof the United States will believe
that Her Majesty Is entirely sincere in
Z the kindly message which. under her
1 command, you have delivered to me,
and this belief viii encourage them to
hope for a speedy and amieable adjust
ment Of the matters in difference be-
tween Her Majesty's Government and
bhe Government Of the United States" !"
A terrible accident is reported to have
occurred at Winesburg, Holmes county
on Saturday. At an evening party,
the coal oil lamp burned out, and while
attempting to fill it from a can, contain
ing about one gallon Of coal oil, the can
exploded, resulting in the death Of FIVE
PERSONS, and seriously burning six
more. so that the lives Of one or more
are despaired Of. The oil is supposed to
have ignited from lighted candle, held
by the party filing the lamp
Eighteen men engaged in cutting
wood in the forest of ISOthwOld, in Au-
tria, recently met in a hut to take break
fast, when suddenly they were over
yFlelmed by an avalanche of snow and
were swept away, hut and all. Three
days elapsed before they were missed,
and when a search was made for them,
eleven were extricated from the snow,
seven Of whom were dead, and the 9TH
er four SO exhausted by cold and hun
ger that they are not expected to live.
The other seven have not been found.
Tuscarawas County, a few tav ago
Solomon BuErier, boy of seventeen,
shot his head to pieces with a musket
because his father and mother had re-
preached him for not assisting with the
farm work. The charge of 1he muslket
tore of the left side Of his face, and
nearly the entire head, scattering his
brains and the crushed pieces Of his
skull in every direction, a distance of
ten to fifteen feet from the body. An
inquest was held, and IN less than three
hours form the time of the suicide, the
body had been buried IN a rough box
on the spot where the deed was done.