Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-04-22

GENERAL.
The Ohio Legislature adjourned on last
Monday.
Mrs. Emma willard, a distinguished lit
erary lady, died at Troy, n. Y, recently.
The Maine Legislature has abolished usu-
~ laws in that State.
Lopez, the Paraguayan leader. is reported
killed,
The Ohio Legislature is visiting WASH
ington, the guests Of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad.
The remains OF Anson BurIingame ar
rived in New York on Tuesday. The funer-
al will take place at Boston tomorrow.
Yerger has been released by Chief Justice
shackeIford. of the Supreme Court of
Mississippi, on $4,000 bail.
The Massachusetts House rejected, by a
vote of 1873 to 6s, the proposed amendment
to the Constitution enabling women tovote.
The trustees of the Soldiers Orphans
Home had meeting at Columbus yester-
day.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has surprised everybody by dismissing the
Legal Tender cases, leaving the former de-
cision TO stand.
Senator Sumner has introduced a bill to
ineorporate a company to lay an ocean ca
BILE between California and Japan. Cyrus
W. Field VIII be proprietor of the enter
prise.
The Georgia bill has passed the Senate and
will doubtless lepass the House in the same
form. 1t declares the present State govern.
ment provisional, and provides for the cleo
ton OF a new Legislature next autumn.
g. w. Julian, who has represented the
Quaker district Of Indiana since the days
when they used tn pelt abolishionists like
him with demoraIiz-d eggs, has just been
defeated in the nomination for Congress by
a person of the name of Wilson.
NEIGHBoRING COUNTIES.
The Marion County Infrmary was de-
stroyed by IRE on the 18th.
A new Congregational church is being
erected at Gambler
Flies and wasps. among other plaques,
have made their appearance at Springfield.
The Salem Republican says the new color
ed voters of that city voted almost unan-
1mously for the Temperance ticket.
A woman named Mrs. Chauey Depp, re-
siding one mile south of White Sulphur
Springs, in this county, claims to be the
possessor of a mad stone."
Mrs. Mary A. Hupp, who has been con-
nned in jail at Springfield, for some time.
on the charge of poisoning her husband,
was few days since released on S3, 500 bail.
John NewIove, William Powers and sam
uel Robinson, of Union county, late mem
bers Of the lst Regiment of Ohio Cavalry
which participated in the capture of JEFF.
Davis, have each just received S4N2, SO from
the Government as their share of the boun-
ty for the capture.
The public bequests of the late Boyd J.
Mercer, of Mansfield, are as follows: To
the Presbyterian University, at Wooster.
$4,000; to the School Board of Mansfield,
el,OOO; to the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation or Mansfield, $500; to each Evan
gelica1 Sabbath School in the city, $50.
A IS GOO fire occurred in Mt. Vernon on
Wednesday. The building occupied by the
Democratic Banner office, and owned by g.
B. POtwin, was destroyed. The type of the
Banner ONCE was melted and the presses
so warped by the heat as to be unservice-
able. Other parties occupying the building
suffered heavily.
The Marion Mirror relates the stiffest
snake story OF the season. 1t says a man
named Brady, In that county, recently
burned over a piece of prairie land on which
he counted afterwards 10 ,9s3 snakes One
was black racer nine feet four inches long
and seven inches ia circumference. The
snakes had attacked children on their way
to school, milked the cows in the neighbor-
hood, and even gotten into the boots of
some of the neighhors, This last is the most
marvellous of all.