Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-05-13

delaware. o., May 1Ss AS5O-
wrws or THE WEEK.
sneaker Blaine declines 70 be q eanolQalr
for the United states Senate.
Major General Pope has taken command
of me Department Of Missouri.
Hon. W. H. West, ex-Attorney General Of
ohio, mas been appointed Consul at Rio
Jnneiro.
Secretary Boutwell, proposes to redeem
sl2,000O00 OF bonds dnring the present
month.
The HoHse Or Representatives has passed
a resolution 70 allow Mrs. Lincoln a pen
sion OF 50. coo per annum.
President Grant has contributed $500 70
the Wiiberforce (colored) University, near
xsnia,
The Mont Gents Tunnel advanced $3.50
feet last year, and viii be completed, it Il
hoped, about the middle OF 1871
DR.. Griswold, the Superintendent Of the
soldiers Orphans Home, was surgeon Of
che I03d regiment during the war.
lIcFarIand's letter, eleven years ago,
acknowledging cruelty to his wife, was read d
s7uring his trial, and created strong i'm
preston.
The collections or internal reyenue In
the Seventh Ohio District have increased
over the last hscaI year nearly twenty per
cent,
In the confusion attending the recent ad-
iournment OF the Legislature, several bills
IN both Houses failed to receive the sigma
ture OF the presiding ofiicer.
GOV. Geary, of Pennsylvania, is winning
reputation by his Yefoes Of corrupt jobs
The last thing he has done in that line is the
best. though It is bringing upon him the
curses Of the monopolists and lobby men,
Indian Commissioner Pa ker is Of the
opinion that before the middle Of the pres
ent month 10000 Indians viii be on the war
path in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and
Dakota.
The Connecticut Legislature assembled
on che 9TH. Lafayette S. Foster was chosen
Speaker OF the House, and Edward Harland
President Of the Senate both Republicans.
The House Of Representatives has unani-
rnOusIy passed a resolution designating
May S0th Is q national holiday, to be OBJ
served in memory Of the country's dead.
The extensive stock pens OF ]. W. Can &
Co, az Cincinnati were destroyed by IRE on
Wednesday morning.. Five thousand hogs
were roasted alive in the confagration.
Cincinnati editors are sometimes known
"a indulge in personalities. For example,
1Er. Washington Mclean, Of the Enquirer,
recently spoke Of the editor Of the Com
mercia1 in the following highly -havored
language: We noaO post Mr.. Murat Halsteao
as a Eolg-toHed, vulgar ttaT, bEackgUard and
coward. Mr.. HaIstead knows the name Oi
the writer OF this article, and when ana
where TO find him.
NEIGHBoRING COUNTIES.
Mansfield has organized Board Of Trade.
Rev. DIR. Scott has resigned the editorship
Of the Methodist Recorder, at Springfield.
BeIlefOntaine is petitioning for an anti
liquor ordinance.
The new Blind Asylum at Columbus viii
be built of Newark freestone.
Columbus is about to construct water,
works on the Holly plan.
EBishop Morris celebrated his 10th birth.
day on the 2sth at Springfield.
The soldiers monument, at Springfield
now completed, is surmounted by a bronze
statue Of q soldier, eight feet in height
The story Of new developments in the
LunsfOTd tragedy at Mansfield proves to be
a hoax.
Columbus, Ohio Is excited over a stranger
who has been there a year, paying his hotel
bills regularly, and whose only business is
70 walk sixteen miles every day. So says
the New York Post.
A company is about TO engage in the man.
ufacture Of milwaukee Brick" at Spring.
hsld. A Adeposit Of clay, said to be just like
tile Milwaukee clay, has been found near
the city
Marion is excited over new railroad
project. It is the Baltimore, Pittsburgh &
Continental Railway which enters the state
at Archer, in Columbiana county, and pass
es through the counties OF Stark, Ashland,
Morrow, Marion, Hardin, AugIaize and
Mercer to Lafayette, and thence to Omaha.
The new Lunatic Asylum building on the
sullivant farm will front toward the city.
The plan is the same as adopted FOR the old
site. The building viii be i've stories high
with retiring wings, much like the Athens
Asylum, as q soldier would express It, after
the style Of a redan fortifcation In ecbe10n
The grounds lately occupied by the asylum
on Broad street are to be called East Park
Place.
Columbus has been considerably excited
the past week over a seduction case Of extra
ordinary criminality. A young man named
Ohlen sedueed two sisters, one of whom he
was compelled to marry in March last. The
other recently gave birth to a child, the re-
mains of which were found in one of the
cemeteries of the city. Appearances indi-
Gated that it had been hastily thrown over
tils fence. Ohlen is charged with the muir
der Of this ehIld, the mother OF which is in
a very critical condition. He made his
boast some time ago of having destroyed
the infant, and when about to be arrested
ned from the city. He was captured and is
now in jail.