Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-08-11

When the war broke out the chief end of
the Democracy had come to be to catch a
niger. This duty was simple easy, and
it was rewarded with Office, and the De
mocracy was harmonious and enthusiastic.
Now that there are no niggers to catch,
there is no bond of attachment with
which to bind the members of the party
together, and hence the Democracy Is
rapidly s~sdissolYing into its original ele-
ments." This is bad for the party, but IS
excellent for the country.
The well of Buckingham is now being
bored deeper. It is down nearly 7O0feet,
and is now in a shale rock. The oil IS
yet a little deeper doucn, but they are
bound to find tiff it there.-Mt. Yer
non Republican.
AgGooD MovE.-The dealers in dry
goods in this city, have instituted a com
mendable movement In closing their
stores every evening at sever o'clock, ex-
cept on Saturdays. This arrangement
went into effect on Monday evening last,
and we doubt not but thatit will be ben
efcial to all Observation-Disclosures Re
publican.
The Van Vert Bulletin says that one
of their citizens visited a ~neighborlng
town the other day where Butternutlsm
has full sway, and was accosted by he
Landlord Wltns Anuy OoHHsoH uOA y
pear to be goin' for you fellers, justnow."
'fNo," answered our friend, But he ap-
pears to be going for you fellows pretty
strong. Hung four at Washinton the 9TH
er day and is preparing to call IN more"
Copperhead vanished.
A rat hunt was recently held in the
sewers of Paris, where the vermin had
taken refuge from the cold. They were
driven by dogs and yells to a common
center, where in a large sewer the dogs
were let in upon them and 10000 killed
in forty-fve hours.
The statistics of the United States cen
sus show that the number of deaths
among the colored population of Boston
is nearly twice as large as the number OF
births; and that if it were not for the ac-
c~essions from the South, the negro popu-
lation would soon be extinct.
Trinity Church in New York, has prop
erty to the value of six millions of dol
lars. It has nearly two thousand city lots,
leased in 1866, the lease of which will
expire next year. When these are in
hand, the value of its property will be
twenty millions of dollars. It is by far
the richest religious corporation in Amer
lea. and p~robablythe richest in the world.
The grape crop in Western Illinois is
very heavy this season, especially IN Ham
cock County, where the estimated yield
of. wine-wfTf be nearly 100000 gallons,
against about 250,000 last year, when the
crop was almost an entire failure. AL
most every farmer in that county has a
vineyard.
The GALLON Review tells the tale of an
old chap named Sherrod, who had no con-
fdence in banks, and despised paper
money. He had raked together some two
or three thousand dollars in gold, which
he would neither convert into paper
money nor trust in any body's hands on
deposit. So he put his treasure IN a jar,
and buriedit in his cellar. A thief crawled
through the cellar window and carried off
the gold, leaving a piece or two that fell
from the crock.
FROM ANDERsoNVILLE.-A letter from
Miss Clara Burton, who accompanied the
party sent to Andersonville to inter prop
erly the bodies of our soldiers who died
there, and lay out a cemetery, to a friend
here, says the ground for the cemetery
has beer selected, and the work Of rein
terment is going on. 276 bodies of men
who were murdered for venturing beyond
the dead line in search of water and food,
were disintered in one day. They were
all buried on the. spot where they fell.
- IdE ESTATE OtIHE LATE PRESIDENT
The Boston Transcript is authorized
to say that the estate of President Lin
coin, with the addition of the contribu-
tions made in Massachusetts, Rhode
Island and New York, will amount to one
hundred thousand dollars and that the
active labors of those obtaining subscrip-
tions to the Lincoln Fund have now
ceased.
Hannah Keller, a widow lady we'll ad-
vanced in years, residing in MiddletoWn,
Pa, in company with her daughter, visited
the grave of her deceased husband one
evening recently, and while trimming the
flowers upon his tomb, was suddenly
stricken by apoplexy, and died in a few
moments.
Harrison b. Dodd, the indianapolis
life b%ysliding down a rope instead of dang
ling from the end of it, is in Canada, in
good physical condition, but rather seedy.
He repents his folly, and curses his old
associates with fervor.
A terrible freshet visited LeavenWorth.
Kansas, on Thursday night, carrying away
two stone bridges. eighteen or twenty
houses, and property of all kinds. Seven
dead bodies have already been found, and
1t is feared that many more were swept
away. Loss, 100000.
A difficulty occurred at a picnic at
Rock Springs, Tennessee, on the 9Th inst,
between returned Union and rebel SOL
diers, which resulted in the death of
three, and the serious wounding of seven
others.
The first marriage license since Lynch
burg has been under Union rule, was
issued on the 18th inst. The parties had
to take the oath of allegiance, before the
desired permission was granted them
The oath was administered by the Pro-
vost Marshal of the district.
It is estimated that there are now about
one hundred thousand Americans travel
in Europe, spending some of the
acquired by the war. AS an offset
to these. there have arrived during the
past twelve months, about two hundred
and fifty thousand emigrants from Europe,
each one bringing money or labor to be
used in increasing the of the
A Frenchman had heard the phrase,
I've got other fish to fry" uttered by a
who was in a hurry, and did not
wish to be detained. He determined to
remember the phrase and its application.
One day a friend invited him to go and
and being otherwise engaged, he
thought of the above expression, and
gave it thus: Excuse me to-day, sare, I
must go and fry some fish"
The 'last ditch" has been discovered at