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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
A New Dish.

A New Dish.
We have heard and seen good many sto-
ries of fish balls" that popular Yankee lux
ury, but the following told of tavern in Yves
tern New York, +" takes 'em ALL" The land
lord had just introduced the new dish. The
story goes on:
His cook was quite successful, and the fish
balls, steaming hot and beautifully brown, ap-
peared on the breakfast table. A couple of
boarders then came in and seated themselves,
spread their handkerchiefs in their laps, sugar
ed their coffee, and helped themselves to fish
balls. These they took with their fingers and
laid beside their plates. Having begun on the
fried mutton, one of them passed his knife be-
tween his lips, preparatory to slanting it into
the butter then taking up his fish ball, gave
it a modest nibble. Appearing to taste some
thing unexpected, he looked at it, smet of it,
forebore to butter, and finally breaking off
piece, put it into his mouth. After chewing
it moment. with doubtful expression, he
quietly took it off his tongue, and laid it suspi
ciously beside his plate.
Say Tom said he, slyly nudging his COM
panion, and speaking in sort of growl, I'm
bowed if there aint suthin' dead in that ere
corn cake
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
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A GREAT aw0cK RAxsER. Z

The Chicago Press states that a beefpack-
ing firm in that city have, during the past
season. paid over to David Strawn, of Ottawa,
$47,85l SO for beeves of his own feeding.
Mr. Strawn is native Of Perry county, Ohio
He has been twent y-nine years resident Of
Illinois, and has resided for nineteen yeaf5 on
his present farm in La Sale county, fouir'mles.
from Ottawa. He is Al years ofage.h He COM
menced nineteen years ago. as the owner OF
300 acres of land, bought at 81 25 per acre.
stocked with pair of horses sRd moderate
outfit of farm implements, Over and above
this he had three dollars in cash, an indefati-
gable and intelligent energy and win 70 do.
The Press adds ~ r
Mr. Strawn is now the owner Of seuen Hou-
sa,td acres of improved land, worth, on an av-
efase, twenty-five dollars an acre, or a total of
$4,000. He has fed to the beeves he had
sold in Chicago, this season, ten thousand
bushels of corn, and has still on hand at this
farm, twenty Thousand bushels. He has also
harvested eight hundred bushels OF oats
this season. The drove fed on his corn crop
he sold here. We gave at the outset the sum
paid to him by single Chicago beeEpacking
house. but that is only part of the story.
Mr. Strawn's drove this season was twenty
FIVE hundred head all marketed this fall, giving
ain average of 600 Tbs per head net as an aver
age price of S3l, or sevcnty-four thousald
dollars. He has still on his farm two hum
drcd head which win be increase, by
purchases, &C., to from twenty-five hundred to
three thousand head, to be fed for next falls
slaughter. What increase is this on the
modest drove of thirty head, marketed by
Messrs. Strawn and Coe in lS45, and how
have these priucely transactions and posses
sions grown on the three dollars surplus over
that three hundred acre farm in lS4l. These
later date figures remind us of nothing more
strikingly than what we read of the latter es-
tate of the patriarch of Uz. -.f
Now, what Mr.. Strawn has achieved should
be an excitement to hundreds Of undeveloped
grazicrs among our Western farmers, many Of
whom will never advance beyond their present
stage for the very lack of putting forth the
eXefti61. A word as to Mr.. Strawn's plan OF
feeding. He pursues -he course of comrnenc-
ing to feed his corn RS soon it hardens, or
in September, first to cattle, and then follows
up with hogs The corn is cut in the stalk
with the ear ON. He advises the owners Of
our vast prairie cornfelds to turn their corn
into beef and thus market it, aud his own sue
cess is directly in point. ., ...t
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30

A Chenango Co. Dairyman says -" Cows
will do better not to change them from one
field TO another, unless from day to night
pasture Edwin Pitcher Of Martinsburg, has
farm of 300 acres, "kceps eighty cows in one
pasture all summer, Except 20 acres for night
pasture) which he deems preferable, as the
cows are more contented, and do better through
the season than when changed in their pasture.
With a sufficient range, this may be good
policy, but we believe the grass will be more
thoroughly and economically consumed, when
an occasional change Of pasture is made.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
COurtShip.

A love-lorn swain broke a wish-bone with
his hearts queen some where in New Hamp-
shire.
Meow what dyou wish Sally ?" demanded
Jonathan, with tender grin of expectation.
'' / wished | was handsome" replied the fair
damsel-'handsome as Queen Victory"
"Jerusalem! what wish v' replied Jona-
than-"when you're handsome 'naff meow =
But I'll tell yer what 1 wished Sally 1 ,Cish-
ed you scas locked up in my arms and the key
1rns lost y
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
The Cheese Makers Singing French.

The Franklin district has luminous Rep
resentative in Congress familiarly known as
Sunset Cox" He has radiated the House
with fiery, glowing speech purportiug to be
a reply to Tom Corwin, but mainly devoted TO
Ohio politics and abuse of OHIO and Reserve
Republicans. In describing the Cleveland
meeting in May he said
They marched through the streets of Cleve-
land-the "Sous of Liberty" j. Il. Giddngs
at their head-singing that revolutionary
Marseilles Hymn, in French. The Yankees
have nasal twang anyhow, and the French be-
ing also peculiarly nasal. he would have de
lighted 10 hear that song thrill through the
streets of Cleveland, "igr drmeS, Cdoyens!
Formce bdttdiiohs %
To which the Pittsburgh Journal comes in
with laughabe chorus thus
Well, we give it up. The Union must be
dead as a mackeral since the Western Reserve
Yankees, with father Giddings ut their head
have taken to singing in French. The nasal
twang we could have belicved-bHt that the
higher law fanatics have got to singing in
French caps the climax. We wonder, how
ever, that the opposite inference did not strike
the member from Columbus-to wit that
such singing on the Reserve would I've harnl-
less where very few would understand French
when spoken, much less sung. All we are
afraid of is that the price of cheese will go up
IN our market if these Western Reserve Yam
KEGS get to singing French and neglecting their
Diaries.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
THE sofsaHUHa CROP IN rowA.

Iowa is entitled to precedence as the Sor-
ghum State. A Keokuk journal says that
estimating the value of the crop by The known
amount in q few counties, we think il entirely
safe to say, that over one itfiIiion Of dollars
will be saved TO the State of Iowa this year, in
consequence of the introduction of the Chi
nese cane" And the Dubuque Times states
that tour through nine counties in that Sec
ton, showed an average of one sugar mill to
about four farmers. The crop Of syrup in Jef-
ferson county is estimated at 10000 gallons,
in Tama at 10000 and in Jasper county near
" 10000 gallons. This is double the product
of the same counties the previous year, and
shows how the experiment grows in popular
favor. The price of the syrup ranges in Iowa
from fifty to sixty cents per gallon.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
Se1fEvidently Drunk.

Seh-Evidently Drunk
Old P, who resides at Okeloma, Miss, is
well known as one who never pays a debt if
it can be avoided. Has plenty of money how
ever, and is jolly, frollicking old chap. Gets
pretty drunk occasionally, when, of course,
some friends take care of him. Not long ago
he fell into the hands of friend who held his
note for sum of money, and as it was the last
chance, the friend dved into old Ps wallet,
took out the amount of the note and put the
note where the money had been When he
awoke to consciousness, as was his wont, he
took his wallet out to count how much money
he was out. Fir ding his purse almost empty
he thuDdered
How in b-l-a-z-e-s did / spend all my mon
ey"
You paid off that note | held" answered
the friend
WELL muttered old P, quietly slowing
away his wallet, Il must have been ortul
drunk -
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
The Southampton 1nsurrection.

AS every thing concerning insurrecton in
the South is now read with interest, we give
from the New York Journal of Commerce the
following account of the Southampton Insur-
rection in Virginia, in 1881. .---..
A more successful attempt was made in Vir-
ginia in 1881. The scene of massacre was in
the county of Southampton. near the North
Carolina border One Nat Turner, a slave of
Benjamin Turner, aged thirty years ignorant
and flnatical, imagined himself prophet, seiIt
of God to do great W ork. His grandmoth-
er and mosher had long deuded him with the
notion tba3 he was born for some extraordina-
" decd AID fie was weak and foolish enough to
embracs ,.rs@e deusion. He succeeded In per-
suading gang of his fellow-slaves to rise upon
their owners, and perpetrate an indiscrimiiiate
massacre. 1t was sudden outbreak, of which
none were forewarned, for which none were
prepared. No such thing had been known in
the history of the rcgicn. All was quiet and
peaceful. Nothing was suspected The pa
trols were scarcely in existence. The men had
mostly gone to the campmceting or its vicini-
ty. All looked fair without while volcano
was seething beneath. 1t was the month of
August, month in which the ear becomes ac-
cHstomed to the loud sounds of negroes, gath.
cred to their hatvess singing in concert, and
often hallooing at their work or play, as suits
their taste, for they havea special love for noe.
turnal rcvery. Suddenly on the 2lst and 22d
Of August, 1881. this band of desperate fel-
lows rose upon the whites, and commenced the
massacre Of men women and children,
Among the murdered were Mr. Turner's
wife and three children Mrs. Whitehead. her
son, four daughters and one grandchiid Mrs.
Waller and TEN children Mrs. Williams her
husband and their two sons Mrs. Jacob Viii
liams and three children, with others, masters
and overseers; in all, FIFTY-FIvE FELL pleading
for mercy from the inhuman monsters. Guns,
axes and swords were the weapons used in the
murderous work-comDared with the destruc.
ton wrought by which. the scene at Harper's
Ferry one of mercy. The insurgetit slaves
had all been destroyed or apprehended, tried
and executed, with the exception of the ring
leader, without revealing anything at all salts
factory as to the motives which Urged them on.
and the means 10y which they expected to ac-
complish their object. All was wrapped in
mystery, until Nat Turner, leader of the gang,
who succeeded in hiding himself for two
months, was at length captured in a cave by
one man, Benjamin Phips who was armed with
a shotgun, and to whom Nat sulenly surren-
dered without offering any resistance, though
armed with sword. He appeared to antiei-
pate his doom, and to yield to il as matter of
necessity. He was thoroughly examined and
made free confessions both of his deeds and
motives, which were those of finished fanat-
ic. Nat was hung on Friday after his trial,
which commenced November 5.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
O1nitting too Much.

A green, good natured, money-rnaking, up
country fellow, who said every thing drily,
got things fixed F" and struck up bargain
for M ltrimony. Having no particular regard
for appearances, the parties agreed to employ
not over wise country justice to put on the
tackling. He commenced by remarking that
" it was customary on such occasions to COM
mence with prayer, but he believed he would
omit that" After tying the knot, he said it
was customary to give the married couple some
advice, but he believed he would omit that
1t was customary, too, to kiss the bride, but
he believed he would omit that also" The
ceremony being ended, the bridegroom took the
justice by the button-hole, and clapping his fin
ger on his nose, said, esquire, it's customary
to give the magistrate five dollars-but l
bleve I'll omit that"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
's SIX OF ONE AND DHALF-A-DOZE,
OF THE OTHER"
st Fred y she softly said,

"Now, dearest Fred - she softly said,
- You must abandon smoking
II spoils your looks-and then your breath,
Indeed, its most provoking.
Did God decree that man should be
A chimney fue regard ed !?
Then, darling Fred, let it be said
Tobacco you've discarded." !"
~ Haw, well, my DEAR said Fred, 81 fear
That will not be so easy
But, like man. I'll try plan,
And do my best TO please We.
Did God intend that woman . mind
Such wondrous things should brew, love,
As Bustles, Boomers, Crinoiines,
Or Hoops -de-dooden- do, lover"
Es But really, if ''-whif, Whit, Whit, whif,-
20 And, mind you, I'm not jok ing
If you'll abandon crinoline,
By Joye I-Fll give up smoking"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
rEE WnRLns

pr Oh! you that dote upon the world, for what
victory do you fight! Your hopes can be crown
ed with no greater reward than the world can
Civ; and what is the world but brittle thing.
full of dangers, wherein we travel from lesser
r to greater perils2 Oh! let all her vain, light.
simomentary glory perish with earthly things.
Alas! this world is miserable; life is short, and
.dBath is sure.--,St. augustine. 4..
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30

rAR n w zx L.

-EagFsss zftT -
. - Farexeu FAREWELL that word Of sadness
filings shadow Der my heart
Krsr 5hns the dreams Of glAdness
In the shroud Of gloom depart;
All things love one doom foreteAs
And teach my hps TO sigh-farewen.
f. asem'd twas mine to have endured
All anguish that could eotne
In that sad word, wflen tears obseured
.s The fading shores Of home;
When every wave that rose and feH
s'9 Bore echo Of some fond farewell.
2 And as that solitary bark
J l.- Upon the trackless sea,
A pfaything of the waters dark:
-Dreary nay destiny
3; And shrinking to its lonely cell,
Ny stricken spirit sighed farewell.
Then closely round my heart drew
The mantle of my grief,
While there, resolution,
stern and cold belief,
3, ,-i That love more that heart should swell,
Nor point the arrow Of farewell
Ah vain resolve All foolish vowi
SO = Could this weak arm arrest
sss. The mountain torrent in its flow
Or hush the wind to rest!
g Yes, sooner far than weave spell
m To charm the anguish from farewell
- IT'S still the same where beauty lifts
On earth her glorious fame,
g 81 Enriched with all her wonder0us gifts
Ny soul adores again
Too biest to heed the tolling bell
Peal DER the grave Of joy, farewell
When gentle hearts, their truth sincere,
By deeds OF kindness prove,
i4s And eyes and lips proclaim one dear,
How can choose but lovef
For who in this cold world would dwell
df3 without friend TO say farewent
'eal Farewell II Is the price we pay
For love, shade which owes
Its darkness to the brightest ray;
HiBG-s Ard wonan's first grief arose
i When from life of bliss she fell
And learnt thy bitterness, farewell
Columbia Eden of our earth
/ i.s As mourned the weeping Eve
Der the bright garden of birth,
e 50 must my spirit grieve,
il. When to thy mountain, stream, and dell,
Ny faltering voice shall say-Farewei-
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
SORE SHOULDERS ITS zoRsHs.

The Boston Journal says the plan weshave
ttied 4ud never tound to full. is to get q piece
Of leather and have it cut into such a shape 80
to lie, snugly, between the shoulders, Of the
horses and the collar. This sends off all the
friction as the collar slips and moves on the
leather and not on the shoulders Of the horse.
Chatting is caused by the friction; hence this
remedy is quite a plausible one, and is much
better than tying slips of leather OF. pads Of
sheepskin under the collar. .-
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30

A Yankee who had just come from Flo
renee, being asked what he had seen and ad-
mired, and whether he was in raptures with
the! statute of Venus, replied,-"W to tell
the truth, don't care much about them stone
Qlas" - -
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
Inextricable.

Poor old Biggs, of Boston, labored under
two great natural defects. the one being an in-
ability to pronounce the letter V, and the 9th
er a pecunary retentiveness,' vulgarly known
as parsimony. "What queer pronunciation
your uncle has," observed some one to a
nephew of Biggs. " All, yes" replied the
graceless youth it is impossible to get V
out of him." ..'
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
Yankee Dew Drops.

why uncle Derltte how dew you detr !?
Deu come in and rest a little while dew-how
does aunt Hannah deaU, and what is she deW-
lug now. and deac tell US about the news
Come, der set up to the table and de,C as we
dew dew help yourself, and dew talk some,
and dep not make me do all the talking for
shan't deao it. Now de,0 say something, dew.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30

Judge Terry of California has been indicted
and placed under bail in the sum of $4,000
for killing Senator Broderick in the late du-
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
Tit for Tat.

Tit for Tat.
At hotel, a young and fully moustached
dandy, from a certain city, was seated at the
tea-table at rather late hour, when the bar
keeper came in and took a seat opposite.
The dandy dropped his Knife and fork, tipped
back his chair, gazed at the barkeeper, and ex-
claimed
..FeIah, do the servants sup with gentlemen
in this house?"
" No, sir was the reply.
Are you not the barkceper?"
Yes sir
Well barkceper is help as much as
the scrub girl
True replied the man Of the toddy stick,
''but did not enter the hall until looked i'll
and saw there was no gentleman at the table"
Logic .+-..--
As specimen of the utility of logic, we
give the following:
A sharp student was called up by the worthy
professor of celebrated college and asked the
question.
Can a man see without eyes -
Yes sir was the prompt answer.
How sir" cried the amazed professor,
"cAN a man see without eyes? Pray SIR how
do you make that out ?''
He can see with ONE eye sir replied the
ready -witted youth and the whole class shout
ed with delight at his triumph over metaphys-
les.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30

Stealing never makes man rich, giving aims
never makes a man poor, and prayer never
f hinders mans business. aar
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30

an e8t Ishould not envy that mans feelings, who
>. - could see leaf wither, or flower fall with
-asd,u ont a slight feeling Of regret. a d.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30

But, sir, if l could, without arrogance or
presumption make an appeal to gentlemen who
believe that dark clouds hang over us. and that
the future is portentous of evil, would ask
them if they really believe that this is the
way to deal with such state OF things. Gen
tlemen have told us, over and over again, that
the danger of dissolution of this Union is
imminent. Sir if it is not only imminent, but
desirable, beg gentlemen not to indulge in
this strain of remark. | think, and believe
history justifies me in it-other gentlemen can
speak for themselves-that | represent a peo-
pie that cannot be driven. They are few but
when they were much fewer than they are now,
! when they were not one half in number what
they are now, they left their plows in the field,
and they left their women to look after the
homesteads, and they turned out from noun
tain and valley and barred their breasts to the
invading foe, wherever and whenever he might
come. Sir, l do hope in God that the day is
distant, very distant, when their courage shall
be put to the test, in anything that bears
even the semblance of ffaternal contest ;
but let me tell gentlemen that they will find in
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

QUARTZ MINING IN OLD EGYPT. = Mining
for gold in auriferous quartz veins was pro-
secuted extensively in Egypt as early as $500
years ago perhaps much earlier. Fifty
years before the time of Christ there was a
picture in one of the temples in Thebes, of
an Egyptian Monarch making present to
the Gods of all the gold and silver which he
received in one year from his mines; and the
amount as near as we can now arrive at it.,
was about S30,0OO,000.
The historian Diodorus Siculus, who men
tions this picture, adds, as translated in ia
cobs on the precious metals: .!On the con-
fines of Egypt and the neighboring countries,
there are parts full of gold mines, from
whence, with the cost and pains of many la
borers, much gold is dug. The soil is natu-
rally black, but in the body of the earth
there are many veins, shining with white
marble, quartz and glittering with all sorts
OF bright metals, out of which those appoint
cd to be overseers cause the gold to be dug
by the labor of vast multitude of people.
For the Kings of Egypt condemn to these
mines not only notorious criminals, captires
taken in war, persons falsely accused, and
those with whom the King is offended, but
all their kindred and relations These are
sent to this work either as punishment, or
that the profit and gain of the King may be
increased by their labors. flu.
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

GERRYMANDERING.-We clip the following
from Hittefs "Variations of the English
Language" now being published in the Alta:
"Gevymonder, (g pronounced hard and ac-
cent on the penultimate, is an Americanism
to designate such method of arranging
election districts, as will give the party max
ing the arrangements a greater number of
representatives than they would be entitled
to on fair system of districting, and more
than they should have in proportion to their
votes cast Thus each Congressional Dis
trict must have 80, 600 inhabitants, and to OBJ
tain that number three or four counties may
have to be united. The ordinary strength
of each party in every county is well known,
and the dominant party in the State Legisla-
ture, If dishonest, may unite the strong op-
position counties into as few districts as
possible, casting very large opposition ma
Jorities, while the dominant party shall have
more districts with smaller majorities and
perhaps much smaller popular vote The
word "Gerrymander" was derived from Ell
bridge Gerry, signer of the Declaration
OF independence, who was accused Of having
been the first to practice this species OF
fraud on the rights of the people,
The hydraulic press., 1859-05-28

Snow N THE MOUNTAINS. = History, and
sketches of travels, have made us familiar
with the snowy glaciers of italy and Switzer-
land, and while at the same time, in summer
season, the mountain tops would glitter like
FURNISHED silver in the sunlight, the charm
ing valleys formed at their base, mellowed
by the warmth of a congenial atmosphere,
would be blooming with flowers, and yield
ing its richly clustering grapes for the vim
tage. To less degree, the same may be said
of California. In Yreka, though the season
has been less agreeable and pleasant than
usual, we are at the present time surrounded
with mountains capped in snow, while flow
ers are blooming in profusion in she valleys
beneath. With the fail season, however, the
snow will disappear, except on Mt. Shasta,
where it is perpetual l.-Saskiyou Chronicle