Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-12-30
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Ducls are frequent and fatal in Il
Italian army.
Ayerill, the gallant cavalry general,
still in Philadelphia.
A daily newspaper in Pekin is on
thousand years old.
An hour glass which once belonged l.
Henry III sold in Paris recently for fou
hundred dollars.
General Banks has written and hat
published an elaborate defence of tn
Louisiana serfdom policy
The magnificent silk banner lately pre-
sented to General Edward NJ. McCook
cos! the neat little sum Of $1,000.
Mr.. Dayton's predecessor, John Y
Mason, our Minister to France during
Bnchanan's Presidency, died ofapoplexy
as did Mr.. Dayton.
The "Slurder of Mr.. Briggs" is the
title of London play. The murder
scene in the railway carriage is the plea.
sing feature.
The North Carolina legislature has
fixed the pay of its members at the rea.
sonable figure Of $40 day-Confe derate
uOilulft VI CuurSc.
The New York Times says that Gener-
al Thomas Christmas present to the
wayward sisters, is a worsted Hood.
A movement has been inaugurated by
prominent citizens Of New York to erect
statue in memory of the late Rev. DR..
q. w. Bethune.
A Congress of Mathematicians from
almost all the States of Europe, has met
in Berlin for the purpose of remeasuring
degrees of longitude in Central Europe.
Artemas Ward notifies the gentleman
who left phosphorus in his bed at the St.
Nicholas Hotel, that if he will leave his
name with General Dix, he will hear of
something to his advantage.
Captain Henry B. Clay, grandson of
the great statesman, escaped from Union
custody in Georgia several weeks since,
and has reached Richmond. lie is a
captain in the rebel service.
A New Haven paper of last week says:
y esterday the foggy weather made our
usually fair city us dusty looking as Pitts
burg, where to see clean faced person
is the rarest of rarities.
Vice Admiral Farrngut was a midship-
man on board the frigate Essex when she
was treacherously attacked by two Brit
ish corvettes and captured in the neutral
port of Valparaiso, in 1914.
The Fenian Brotherhood Of Jersey
City and Hudson have forwarded a
numerously signed petition TO Bishop
Bailey, asking for the removal of Father
Venutta, the Catholc priest who interfer-
red with a meeting of the Brotherhood. 4
Macmillan, by proclamation has cut
of large slice Of Guatemai Tin Central
America), including the British logwood-
cutting province OF Belize, and intends
incorporating it with his Mexican posses
sions. The lion won't like this sort of
annexation, and is likely to object.
While General Hood was at the resi-
dence of a Mrs Rains, near Nashville, on
the 18th inst, he remarked to an officer
in her presence, that he had inspected all
the Notifications, and that they exactly
suited him, and that he was certain to
take Nashville as that the city stood
where it did
The Boston Traveller, of Monoay eyen-
ing says We are informed that John b.
Fitzpatrick, the well known Catholic
Bishop of this diocese, is seriously ILL.,
This morning he was just alive, and he
may not survive until niehtfall. Prayers
were offered in all the atholic churches
of the city yesterday for h recovery.
The largest eonllagratlon on record is
that in Japan recently, when Miaco was
burned and the fire ragged two entire days
laying in waste nearly one thousand blocks
or squares, destroying seyenty-eight thou
sand houses and temples, and three thou
sand seven hundred warehouses. About
Rve-sixths of the city was in ashes, and
half million people were made home
less.
The Rebel General Page who was
taken at Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, lately
applied to former friend and classmate,
who is now distinguished officer in our
navy, and in command of the most formi-
dable iron-clad in the world for assistance
in getting released by exchange. lie re-
ceiyed the following iron-clad reply to his
letter II can do nothing for you. You
neither defended your fort like man, nor
surrendered it like an officer |"
An escaped prisoner says that the roll
ing stock of the Southern railroads is
nearly worn out and engines and ears are
in a state of extreme dilapidation. Cat
tie cars, which were comparatively abun-
dant at the beginning OF the Rebellion,
are now used for the conveyance of first
class passengers. The Rebels have put
seats in these cars, and ladies ride in
them. Ordinary passenger cars, are still
in existence, and sometimes one is attach
cd to q train.
The great refraeting telescope recently
completed at Cambridge, Mass, for the
Chicago University, is the largest in the
world Its object glass is eighteen and
half inches in diameter, and cost SILL
1877. The sum paid for the telescope is
$l8,ls7. Its weight is about six thou
sand pounds. The length of the great
tube is twenty-five feet. Magnifying
lenses willbe used ranging in power from
80 to 1900. The cost of the observatory
was $4,000, The great refractor at
Harvard Observatory is fifteen and a
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