Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-05-20

The puUll@nerS OF lne new L 1ok udIty pa
mere have arranged for the importation Of
large quantities of pr nting paper from Eu-
rope, in order to break dowE the combination
price fixed by Eastern manufacturers. Il can
be imported, it is alleged, at I4c per h.
Three hundred Mexican dollars, bearing the
date of 1874 were dug out of the river bank
ut Cleveland on Sa!urd ~ night and Sunday
moruiug The discovery caused great ex-
ciiement, which was, however, considerably
diminished on discovering that they were all
counierfe feits, probably hid away by some man
ulacturer Of bogues coin.
On Friday night last a FIRE broke out in a
house occupied by family named NJ Mann,
in Tarpori, Pa. The parents occupied one
room, and four children another. The flames
spread before the family awoke. Ga awak-
ing the father attempted to rescue one of the
children, but Was suff ,caied before leaving the
house, and, wi Ii the child, was burned. The
mother attempted to arouse the other chill
dren, but could not rescue them, and, with
them. was also sulfpcsted. Thus the whole
family of six were burned with the building.
A SrABLE.-A Hartford man has expend-
ed $4,000 on u stable, which is said TO be
ST ted up as nicely as gen'lemen's residence
and in which there are $4,000 worth Of fire
horses-among them Prime" ''Gen, Meade .
Lady Litchfcld," Crit" and other famous
trOtlers.
There is now fair prospect that all SOL
diers will be paid alike. The Fort Pillow
massacre is said to have changed the views Oi
the House Military Committee, the members
of which now agree with the Ways and Means
and Senate Committee on Military Afflirs
that The wages of the soldiers, white and black,
should be SIG month. The latter will how
ever, receive no larger bounty than 500. The
new rate it is proposed to begin on the lst OF
May.
The Louisiana correspondent Of the New
York Herald writes that on The march from
Alexandra to NaichitOches we're found sever
al e .uri>hing plantations owned by fullblood-
ed negroes and IN one case the owner was
negro women, whom lighter colored women
saluted as their mistress. .te.t..
9 "A Rochester boy, twelve years of age,
while carelessly handling loaded gun few
days since, aimed it at his mother, when the
wea pom exploded, killing ber instantly. She
lea yes family of eleven children.
The editor of the Richmond Dispatch. the
most ferocions of all the rebel papers, ip Oliver
r. Baldwin, formerly of CIevIand. He stud
led law in that city 25 years ago, and divinity
aficrwaFd. '- s a"
The Army consumes so mary onions that
Wethers6eld is looking up. Whereas onion
seed in that lively Connecticut village sold be-
fore the war at fouriy-two cents pound, it
now commands three dollars.
The reports of the week, in New York
city, show that the venders of unwholesome
meats are undergoing rigid scrutiny. The
whole carcass of diseased COW, twenty
calves under proper age for the butcher, one
diseased sheep. n lamb, thirteen measly hogs.
and one hundred and forty-tbree quarters
Vt "bOb veal" have been seized at the mar
ket.
One thousand seven hundred and fFty shares
of capital stock in the Western Railroad Com
pany, owned by Leroy NJ. Willy, u noted reb-
ell, have been con6scated by order of Judge
Belts, of New York. Willy is an old man.
He owned, it is alledged ten million dollars
worth of property, partly at the North. He
enter ed heartily into the rebellion, supply
ing the rebels with The means be possessed.
and is now, according TO last accounts, some
where in The Enu'hwest. There is other prop
priy in New York city alleged to belong to
him.