Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-01-02
News Brevities.

The Sum of 81. 40 20 was paid to the Col
| lector of the First District on Wednesday last,
/ being the revenue to the Government on a
single s1lc of tobacco 10y a city house.
! NONE hut Congressman or Major General
! can afford t. get DRINK ut present prices of
/ WbiSllcv, which Is selling in Agllsta Ga, ac-
/ corduIg to the Sentinel. at fifty cents drink.
/ Amy poor man who made himself a topper for
( lack If sense viii have to become sober for
| lack of cents.
! Ia South Newmarket. y. H. over two hun
dred and fifty bushels of apples have been par
! ed, cut and dried and sent to the soldiers under
the auspices of the Soldiers Aid Society. At
appointed times all the citizens met and Joined
in the good work.
An IMMENSE DAIRY.--The resources of the
! Western Reserve in butter and cheese NAV be
| rstiniTted 10y TIE stock Of cheese now in store
! in the city by one of our RivUr street merchants
! from Birtlett's dairy GcaUga county. Here
1 are eight hundred cheese, OF an average of a hun
| dred and twenty pounds each, or in the aygre-
| gate. forty Gght tons of cheese. These are made
/ from the product of four hundred cows. Such
| items rs thesc show the almost iueXhaustable
resources Of our State and Of the Nurth,-TC TCleve.
| Leader
! The New York World says: The reason
/ why the southern army is better disciplined
J than ours is clear enough. Tt had military
/ government from the start, and the sternest
/ rules of war have been applied to both officers
! aud meE. 1t is estimated in the southern pa
i pers that not less than six hundred military
! executions have occurred in the confederate ar
| my since its organization. From desertion
| down to the most tritiing military irregular-
| ties, nothing goes UNPUBLISHED Hence the eX-
| cellent camp discipline of the conederates.
| Governor Tod has been authorized by the
/ War Department to pardon all desertcrs from
/ Ohio regiments. providing they report them
selves to him without delay. When they have
| done 50 they will bB sent TO their regiments and
the authorities promise to let 6ygoRes be bggoneV.
| An anomalous state of afflirs exist in Calvert
county. Md. in reference to the draft. 1t seems
/ that after all the exempted men were stricken
! from the enrolment books. only Seventy-seven
names were left to draw from the box apd as
the quota of the county is two hundred and
| thirty, it becomes grave question where the
baanee is to come from.
The editors Of papers in New York intend
! forming paper coniplny to manufacture their
| own paper and thus protect themselves from
! extortionnte rates They have since advertised
J for proposals to furnish them with 100000 lbs
! per week, for five years.
/ a Mrs. TYLER. Of Connecticut. wns sud lenly
missing. and having left letter tor her hus-
| band commenting him to the witiower's God
| and advising him soon to marry again, it was
| supposed she had committed suicide. 1t now
/ turns out that she elDped with a fellow named
! Perkins.
The fag ship C,,iro Of the Mississippi expe-
| dirion was blown up and sunk i'll ~ feet Of wa
| ter 21 miles below the mouth of the Yazoo
/ river 10y concealed torpedo. on the 18th inst
An attempt WAS recently made to burn the
Union School bGlline in Maunse City The
/ fire was set on the outside hut was discovered
| before mEch damage WAS done. Perhaps some
! of the spiinters used in the findling em-
| ployed the previous day in putting color in the
! inCendiarics back.
On the lst inst. VIM. ". Lunt, Of the Sth
! Main Volunteer Inflhtry, was executed for de-
sertion, at Hilton Head, so utn Carolina. lie
Shot by squad of his own comrades, be
ing the secoHed Instance OF the kind the first
being johnson. a cavalry soldier attached to the
army Of the P~tonac.
The rebel force at Vickshurg is stated ly a
rebel deserter t" be sevcnty-iive Thousand old
men and young boys. who have hren -athcred
to gather from the surrounding country. They
sltbsist almost exclusively upon corn bread and
m0asSes.
The Roches'e er Democrat. BoSton Courier
| Albany Argus and Albany Evening Journal,
have reduced the size uf their sheets account
of the high price Of paper.