Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-12-11

EXTENSIVE SALE OF HoRsEs.-The largest
sale Of fine bloods" that was ever publicly
made in this country, took place On Thursday
at Flushing, Long Island, N. Y. The collee-
| tion included the celebrated stations Toronto
Chief aud Provincial Chief, trotting nags Son
tag, Eureka, and some fifty others. The pro-
ceeds Of the sale reached about $50 ,O0O Oue
Of the horses, Provincial Chief, brought $3,-
7O9.
The Dayton Journal estimates the value of
this years crop Of tobacco in Miami Valley
at Sl,000,O0O. 1t credits to Montgomery
County One-half of the entire am cunt.
An immense quantity of smokeless coal
10000 to 10000 tons monthly is being
and contiguous ports, for use by blockade
runners, to whom smoke is an abomiuation, as
pointing out their whereabouts at sea.
An Indianapolis company is opening
fruit farm of 200 acres on the line between
johnson and Morgan counties.
A little girl in New York, aged about four
years, detained after school hours by her
teacher, few days since, because she could
not spell certain word She went to her
seat, and in FIVE minutes thereafter was found
dead.
The Union Maiorities obtained in elections
since March last foot up about 100000
This is more than double the majority Gen.
Harrison received in the famous campaign of
1910.
The returns show that in Hamilton Coun-
ty there are 135 school libraries, containing
altogether 1854, volumes. The aggregate
valuation of the contents of the whole Coun-
ty is placed at $50, ,527, of which $25, 900 be-
longs to the libraries of Cincinnati alone.
OF the 36.478 pupils enrolled for the Coun-
ty, 1880 are still engaged in studying out the
mysteries of the alphabet 27,979 are max
ing their way through the elementary rules of
orthography, and 19,7O3 are writing pupils.
The enumeration of the male inhabitants
of the State of Ohio, for 1868, gives the fol-
towing aggregate: 545,256. or these 535,
3l9 are white men, and 9,947 negroes. The
male population of Hamilton county over the
age Of twenty-one is 67,816, of whom 2,O7O
are negroes.
Richard Busted, Esq. of New York, who
has been appointed a Judge of the Supreme
Court of Alabama, has in the course of
comparatively short life performed the du-
ties Of jRurneymsn printer, lawyer, corpo-
ration counsel, brigadier-generaI, and now is
about to assume the "ermine"
Major.General French has been relieved
from his command in the army Of the Potomac
and placed under arrest. His arrest is pre-
limiDary to charges of misconduct in the re-
cent affair at Mire Run.
The Rochester Democrat says shat about |
100000 bushels of apples have been shipped
from the county Of Monroe, n. Y, during the
present fall
The American house at Liverpool, of Messers.
James McHeDry & Co., which failed several |
years ago, have recently sent to Mr.. Mosley |
check for EAT 900, principal and interest of a |
debt owing at the time of the failure. The
English papers rightly describs the circum-
stance as an instance of American CONNER |
cial honor. Mr.. Mosley intends to give half
of the money to local charities. He is re-
Gently elected Mayor of Liverpool, is bank
er, and jew.
There were at least sixteen Northern States
represented on the battle field of Chattanooga.
The Eastern States are entitled to a fair share
of the glory. They had at least twenty-five
thousand of their sons under Fighting Joe
Hooker engaged in the contest. 1t was the
first Western battle field where the Fast had
many soldiers present. They fought well.
John W. Dobbins, tried at Dayton for the
murder OF John Lindenmood, has been con-
victed of murder in the first degree. The
prisoner heard the verdict without any signs
of emotion, ard sOon after jocosey remarked
to the officer in charge that he would have to
practice hanging, so as to get used to it!
SPOTTED FEvER-We understand that this
disease, which prevailed at the Falls of Schuy-
kill last spriRg, has again appeared in that
locality aud at Manayunk. At the latter
place it has been making fearful ravages, as
many as ten persons being dead at one time
with it. 1t does not prove so fatal at the
Falls as it did last spring, owing, doubles, to
the fact that the sad experience of the ply
scians last spring has enabled them the more
fully to understand the nature of the epidemic
and to prescribe for t.-PhiEadelphia Press
The Fifth Congressional District of Ohio,
composed Of the counties Of Allen, Auglaize,
Hancock, Hardin, Mercer, Van Vert and
Wyandott, is the only Copperhead District in
the statel