Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-02-21

Columbus is to have IRE alarm tele-
graph.
The Gettysburg Lottery bill has been
repealed By the Pennsylvania Legisla-
tuEes
The cholera is raging terribly in
Buenos AyFes, South AmeriCa-150 to
$50 deaths occurring daily.
Twelve hundred and twenty-three
students were in attendance at the Uni
versity Of Michigan last year. e
A terrible earthquake in the Island
Of FormosR destroyed 80, 600 lives.
A Paris paper reports that Bismark
has asked permission to resign.
Samuel r. Belts, of IrontOn, Ohio,
was killed few days since BY the kick
Of q horse
Last month q, GOO persons applied ia
one OF the New York benevolent asso-
Citations for relief.
The sandusky Register says that
Joseph Dsvlin, Of Mustiash, had sixty
sheep killed or wounded by one dog.
A child was lately born in Lake City,
Mimi, which weighed eighteen and
thres-fourth pounds at its birth. The
happy mother IS German woman
AIaxinaiIan is the 102d memberof the
House Of HapsbUrg committed to rest
in the vaults of the Convent Of the
Church Of the Capuohins.
A special agent Of the Post Office De
pertinent has been sent to New Lisbon,
Ohio, to investigate the charge against
the Postmaster Of that place.
AT Buffalo, N. ", the other day, six
highway ROBBERS were sentenced to
State Prison for an aggregate term Of
sixty-fOur years and six months.
The freedmen in Northern Georgia
are doing very well. Work is abund-
~.
is corn enough to last till next harvest.
GeneIa al Gillem has ordered an election
on the ratification of the constitution OF
Arkansas, to commence on the 18th of
March and continue five days.
In Nashua, New Hampshire, there
has been invented 3 small machine
which, worked by an expert, viii shear
q sheep In three minutes,
Nettie HEM, of Wooster, aged four
teen, died last week Of congestion OF
the bowels, which was caused bV over
heating herself while skating.
Thirty thousand British troop have
been landed in Abyssinia, and the
advance of the army WAS at last adj
vices near AutaiO, which Is half way
from the shore to BGagdala, where
King Theodore is posted with the En-
glish captivea.
By the explosion Of q locomotive in
Lowell, Massachusetts,, Tuesday, the
engineer, George Spalding, was killed,
the fireman, Stillman White, seriously
injured, and Henry Smith and Mr..
Welchs OF Lowell, were also injured.
The Fort Sanders Index says that an
army Of two Thousand Indians are
marching into the Sweet water country
from Idaho and Montana Thsv are
on the war path, and have burned all
the ranches north of Soda Springs, and
driYen of all the stock.
A Mound City paper says there is a
family named Hampton, living near
De Soto, Illinois, consisting Of the old
man, seventY-f0uf years Of age, his
wife, seventy, and twenty-five children
6h8 youngest an infant at the breast.
A train on the Chicago and North
western Railway was thrown from the
track, and down q fifteen feet smbauk-
ment, last Monday night, by a broken
rail. Two cars were burned, but no
body fatally injured.
The Turks ia Gambia think the ap-
pearancs Of the United States steamer
Ticonderoga on the coast Of the Island,
and the fact that the whole squadrOOn
under EMrragut is to visit the Greeian
Archipelago is significant.
A hundred Indians, armed each with
two ElZ-sh0Oters and Spencer rifle, re-
sentlY made descent on the little town
OF aabesVtIie, on the northwestern
&0ntier Of Texas, killing ten persons
and taking of several GRptives. Among
the latter was a woman who was strip
ped Of her clothing, Whippsds and 9TH
erwize shoeAingly abused.