Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-01-24
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.

The losses by fire in Cincinnati during
the past five years have been S7.905, $50.
The Chinese rebels defeated the I'M
periaIsts in a recent battle at Shintung.
The rebel General ATagruder has tax
en- the oath of allegiance.
Brigham Young announce that the
Spirit of God instructs him to order the
Saints to leave of drinking tea and cof-
fee,
The Universalist Church at Columbus
was badly damaged by fire Sunday
Loss $4,000, insured for $4,000.
Great distress exists among the Ia
boring peODle of Quebec.
Maximilian's remains were buried
with great pomp in the Church of the
Capuchins at Vienna, Monday.
John Henry, the last survivor but
one Of the children of Patrick Henry,
died In Charlotte county, Va, the other
day.
James H. Leverich, second teller of
lhe City Bank, New York, has abscon-
ded, having lost 100000 of the banks
money in speculatlons.
Fifteen per cent. of the postal curren-
cy in circulation in Chicago, and thirty
per cent. in the whole State of Illinois,
IS said to be counterfeit.
A negro, known as cold Father Rob-
inson, !" is living in Detroit, at the age
of ia years. He fought in the RevOlu-
tiOnary war, and again at New Orleans,
under Jackson, in 1915.
The time for holding the Annual Ohio
State Fair has been fixed for September
Goth, to continue -hXa- days Zoe Fasizlt
at which the Fair viii be held has not
yet been determined.
Mrs. A, j, Flynn left her child in the
care of negro girl, in Louisville, the
other evening, while she attended q
boarding house ball. Next day the
child died-poisoned by opiates admin
istered by the nurse to keep it quiet.
The Inspector General of the Freed
mems Bureau reports that the stories
of the suffering South have been eXag-
gerated. Provisions are short in some
places, but there is no such general
want as has been represented.
The unfortunate Parisians who hold
Maximilians Mexican loan had a meet
Ing in Paris, recently, at which it
was stated that the total amount of the
loan was S59, ,2S3, 424 in gold. Unless
France assumes this loan, which at
present she is very unwilling to do, all
this money viii be lost.
The Hudson (NIinn.) Star and Times
chronicles the death IN that city, of a
POlander named Andre Yam KOski, in
of party of the old French UoyageUrs,
who first explored The vast region OF
the Mississippi Valley. He settled up
on the Red Of the North about so years
ago.
There is a famine and great suffering
in some districts of Sweden. Twenty
thousand persons are now su bsisting on
cakes made of birch bark and moss,
and do not get enough of even this mis-
erable food.
A dispatch from Havana says that
Santa Anna and his companions are
busiIy occupied, and some curious de-
velOpments in regard to his schemes
and intrigues are looked for.
"A six-year-old daughter of MI. A. W.
Hamilton fell into a cistern at st. Louis,
on Monday, and was drowned.
John p. Hale has tenered his resigna-
tion as Minister at the Court Of Madrid,
and a new appointment viii soon be
made.
A horse ran away at Truro, Nova
Scotia, last week. a lady on the side
walk, with great presence of mind, y
ran into the middle of the street was
knocked down and killed.
Vote Early, and see that yonr neigh
Dor does the same. Let no Union
voter in your township remain at home
on next Monday. Have teams and We
hicles on hand to bring out all who
are unable to come themselves.