Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-01-10
NEWS or TIE WEEK.


L. @. Hopkins, one of heleadihg Dry
Goods merchants Of Cincinnati, has
failed
Gold mines have been discovered in
Russian Siberia.
Dickens reads this week in Boston,
and next in Philadelphia.
General Fitzpatrick, Minister to Chill,
will resign next June.
Ten divorces were granted in Chicago |
on Monday, and sixteen applications |
dismissed.
Massachusetts spends nine dollars per
annum in the education Of every child /
within its limits.
James ATeConica, one Of the pioneers |
OF Morrow county, died few days |
since in his 18th year.
Henry Ward BeeeheF's farm on the |
Hudson River yielded crops worth So
200 last year.
The North Carolina Constitutional
Convention meets on the 18th instants
On the goth instant the Florida Re-
construction Convention viii meet at
Tallahassee.
The receipts of internal revenue last
week were Sc, PSI, ,1T2; for the fiscal year, /
to date, $l04,5I2, 81.
The town Of Iudianola, Texas, was
burned on the 3d. Loss 800, 600; The
-s-Ass - ~he~-Ns-
were destroyed.
Pixies New York Opera House was /
opened for inspection ON Saturday
night. 1t is said to be the finest build
ing Of the kind in the country.
The Amherst Agricultural school is
so fun that the trustees intend to ask
the legislature to appropriate $4,000 for
new buildings.
During 1867 Governor Cox issued Tor
~ faTffnra n OffTur
States for fugitives from Justice and
received thirty-seven during the same
time.
The eruption of Vesuyius has become
quite alarming. A perfect river Of ire
was running down the volcano, and
nearing the town Of Cercala.
A body Of Fenians, in Cork, Friday
night, surreptitiously entered the mag
azine in that oity, and, unchalenged,
carried away more than half a tUn of
blasting powder.
A fraiI woman named Rosa Duncan
was kicked to death by her paramour
in ChilIicothe last week. The murder
er's name is Alexander Rogers.
General lIeade's friends say that the
President has advised him to adopt a
policy similar to that of General Han
cock, but that the advice will not be ac-
cepted.
The building of the Chicago Young
Mems Christian Association, in which
was FarWell's Hall, where the National
Republican Convention was to meet,
was yesterday burned. Loss, $SO0,0O0.
Gen. Candy reports the result Of the
election in North Carolina to be Eor the
ConVention-93, ,006 against, 50, ,961. AZ
ter deduCting the number registered,
but not voting, there is an absolute ma
jOrity Of II, 500 for the Convention.
General Howard has established a
rule that the acceptance of political
office must be considered as incompati-
BILE with the duties of officers of the
Freedmen's Bureau.
1t is stated that the President intends
soon to issue a proclamation to the
white people in the Southern States,
advising them to send delegates to the
approaching National Convention.
Mr.. jay Cooke has built a beautiful
Westinghouse for the Methodists at
GiirardVille, Pennsylvania, and the Rev.
d. d. Hudson has been appointed its
pastor.
LONDON, January Z-EVen1ng.-Dr.
Livingstone, the African traveller, is
alive and well. Positive advices, just
received from Africa, leave no longer
any doubt of his safety.
The amounts drawn out Of the United
States Treasury, last month, for the ex-
Penses Of Government, were as follows
Civil, miscellaneous and foreign inter-
course, 81, 761 900; interest on public
debt, IS, 300, 600; War Department, SI2,
955, 600; Navy Department, S, ,620, 600 !;
Interior, Pensions and Indian, $685., 600.
Total, S3O, ,621, 900.
There are forty gas companies in the
State the value Of whose property IS re-
turned at 81, ,998, 727, of which 81, ,254 ,374
belongs to Cincinnati, Sl47 ,233 to Cleve-
land. $40, 800 to Dayton, SIo0,0 to To-
ledo, and S97 ,948 to Columbus.
It is believed that the President re-
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k1nsy OF Savannah, because he has been
elected to the Georgia Constitutional
Convention There are no charges
against him at the Treasury Depart
ment.
Official advices from Crete say that a
oaLlle was fought between tho Christ
1ans ana Turks, on the 25th and 26th of
November, in the village of Lake, in
which the latter were defeated, and
obliged to retire with a severe loss.
At ball given at the house Of John
Common, near CRrbondale, H., on
New Years night, drunken rufian,
named VIM. Johnson, who came to the
ball uninvited, shot and killed James
Angel, who WIS present, without any
apparent reason for the act.
A Washington letter writer says Sec
retary Stantan's reply to the Presidents
charges viii not only exOnerate HIM
self, but viii shed light on many mys-
Gerious things in President JohnsOn's
administration.
The United States Military Asylum
near Augusta, Maine, burned down on
the evening Of the 5th. 1t was a new
building. The fire was occasioned by a
defective due. The night was bitter
cold, and the sick and crippled inmates
suffered greatly. One man died while
being carried to Augusta. Loss $780,
600.
The New York World says: "MessTs.
Jay Cooke q Co. inform US that neither
Senator Sherman, nor any other public
funCtionary in or out Of Congress, has
now, or ever has had, any direct or in
direct interest in, or connection with,
their Arm. This corrects the statement
copied IN the World from the CinciH-
natl Enquirer"
The municipality of New York has
been under Democratic control for 1H1-
memorial years. The result is q debt
Of nearly 81, 100000, increased s5,O0o,-
600 during the past year. a nice party
TO manage reform and retrenchmeut.