Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-01-15
NEWS BREVITIES.

At Little Rock, Ark, on the 28th alt,
c. D. LoVstt was playing the character of
Robert Shelly" in "The Wifs's Trials, in
the Theatsr, and made a desperate effort to
render the dying scene real by plunging a
dirk knife into his own breast, and infieting
what he supposed At the time to be a mortal
wound. He is recovering. 1t seems that he
had all the previous day contemplated the act,
He had invited many Of his aequaintances to
visit the theatre that night to witness the best
Gffsrt Of his life.
The Nswbsrn Times, = Union paper, says
that North Carolina is ripe fer a revolt
against the JEFF. Davis tyranny. Though the
disafected urge the establishment of an inde-
pendent sovereignty, they do not hesitate to
say that they prefer the "Lincoln Govern
nent" to their present rulers.
Secretary Chase, on Sunday evening last,
presided over a Methodist missionary meeting
at Wesley Chapel Warrington, at the close
Of which a contribution Of $l5e was taken up,
and the Secretary made = Life Director Of the
N. E. Missionary Society.
Live toads fern a regular article of com
mercO in the London market. They are gen
orally imported from France, and sell from so
cents to 81, so per dozen, according TO size
and activity. They are purchased by market
gardeners in the vicinity Of the city, to pro-
tect their choice vegetables from slugs and in
sScts, which they do very efsctually.
FAIR INCIDENTAL woman, named Susan
ma Horssfall being on her dying bed, remem-
bered the Cincinnati Sanitary Fair with her
last words, which were, as she handed friend
all the money she had, to-Wit: 6fty cents
'take this to the Sanitary Fair and donate
1t for me-"
A circular has been signed by the Union
members of the Pennsylvania Senate and
House Of Representatives, indorsing the war
policy and general conduct of the Administra-
ton, and cordially recommending Abraham
Lincoln as the proper person for the next Pres
dent of the United States.
The leading New York city hotels are now
asking So so per diem for board-that is to
say $24 so per week. Rather steep that.
TALL G1RL.-Barnum has in his Museum a
young woman II years of age who measures
eight feet one inch in hight, and is still grow
ing She is perhaps the tallsst female in the
world.
The Fall River (Aass.) News says that
the widow of a late citizen of that city, who
entered the United States naval service in
1861, as third assistant engineer, on board the
United States steamer Magnolia, has just re-
ceived $6,O22, her husbands share of the
prize money sceruing frOm the sale of the cap
fuvad atao mar M0uphis
The New York Evening Post suggests
that as JEFF. Davis persists in treating Union
prisoners Algerine pirates once did Chris
tians, that the President call for fifty thou
sand volunteers to capture Richmond-to do
that job, and when it is dsne go home again.
One of the most important bills that has
been introduced in the House, is the one offer
ed by Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, which was refer
red, providing provisional government in the
military districts of the insurgsnt States, and
authorizing the loyal citizens thereof to organ
izs government, republican in form, and for
other purposes.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial, writing from New Orleans, October,
5th, reports the Corps dAfrique to consist Of
twenty regiments, fully organized, i've regi-
ments in process of organization, and four
regiments of engineers
The accumulation of guns in the Spring
field, Mass, arsenal now amounts 10 I33 900.
The total increased daily by about nine hun
dred pieces.
Capt, Gordon, rebel spy formerly editor
of the Clarksburg (Va) Register, has been
tried by court-martial at Fort McHenry and
condemned to be shot.
A great many persons use revenue stamps
on letters, undsr the impression that they
answer the same as postage stamps. Revenue
stamps are perfectly vAluelOsS AZ postage
Where they are put on letters, the perSsn re-
csiving the letter has to pay double postage.
The Sandusky Register estimates that from
l75,000 to 100000 gallons of wine were made
in the SanduSky Grape District last fall.
Rev. Darius E. Jones, agent for the Iowa
Bible Society, says he has visited sighty-aaven n
counties in the last year, and found seventeen
thousand seven hundred and niaty-ninO fami-
lies destitute of the Bible. Almost without
exception these families were opposed to the
Government.
The weather in the Northwest ID the cold
est known for years. The thermometer has
stoed at from 80 to 40 degrees below zero at
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Seveu millions of Confederate Bonds and
Treasury-notss ss have been seized in New York
by detective. A quantity of plates, dies
and machinery for countsrfsiting them, was
also seized.
WELL AKsWERED.-The Nashville Unien,
replying to a contemptuouS remark Of aICoP
psrhead paper, that ' SAmbo is getting to be
of importance in these latter days." says =
e The negros has been Of great importance for
more thaB a generation. He has enabled q
few aristocrats to rule the nation. He has
given the Gotten States all their importance.
He has caused enc fOroign and one sivil war
already, and has become At last the chief cor
nGr stone of the Southern OontsderAey."--
Who will deny SAmbo'G Importance