Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-03-03
sHARp PRAcrIoE.-Tbe Cleveland PLAIN

SHARP PRACTICE.-The cleveland ram
dealer mentions the case of a well-dressed young
maa of good manners who gave his income
tax to the Assessor at several thousand
dollars, paid the tax, and had the pleasure OF
seeing his name among the nabObs OF the
country. On the strength of this he courted
wealthy mans daughter aud married her,
Then it was found out that he had no money,
and had sold bis mothers watch to pay the in
come lax. The Government made a good
thing out of it, and so did the young man.
SORGHUM VS.. WHEAr.-A wriler in the
Wis. State Journal tells Of a Dane county
farmer who kept an exact account of all his
farming operations during the past year. He
found his sorghum and wheat crops TO compare
as follows: After paying labor, rent OF
ground, expense of marketing, &C., his wheat
crop paid $3.50 per acre nett profit; sugar
cane Sl4,O9 thus making the nett profit of
cane as compared with wheat in the ratio of
five and three-fiths to one.
A DLAP1DArED REG1EENT--A correspon-
dent Of the Chicago Journal, writing from
Thomas army says:
81 Yesterday met rebel deserter from the
9th Tennessee (rebeD infantry, who had just
been released, and, knowing him very well,
inquired after number OF the men, and found
that not one Of them remained in the ranks
at length asked, When did on leave? Jus
after Hood crossed the river How many
did the regiment number then f? why, tie
fact is,' said he, there is only the Colonel and
one man left; there were two of us before
1 deserted, and the other man will leave at the
first opportunity"
The Internal Revenue for the month of
January Just passed, amounted to the enor-
nous sum of $3t, ,O76, ,902 89-over a million
of dollars a day, including Sunday! And yet
coufessedIy the machinery for collecting this
branch of the nations income is imperfect
and undergoing change. Vast as is that sum
of internal revenue, daily and monthly, how
light burden is it to the business of this rich
and vigorous nation And with what patri-
otic cheerfulness and acquiesence the people
pay this tax 10 preserve their Nation, to main
tain Democracy.-lN n. Y. Tribune.
1t appears that Sherman'5 capture of Col
umbia was a surprise to the rebels, and that
fact aided by an accident Oh the only railroad
on which the rebels could seek conveyance for
government property, prevented "a removal OF
all the government stores. An immense
amount was destroyed, and the printing presses
of their Treasury were abandoned by them.
On WHAT THE SAFETY OF RICHMOND DE-
PENDs.--The Richmond Examiner Of the 2Ist
still keeps up bold front Of Draggadocio in
view of the combinations that are going on
about Richmond. It's hopes for the security
of the rebel capital are thus summed up:
"Bicbmond is safe If all parties concerned
do their duty; that is. If the new Secretary
of War is energetic, and If the new Commis-
sary shall be found to have some elementary
idea about food; especially if Congress pro-
coed at once with such legislation, for the pur
pose of giving Gen. Lee control of large num-
hers of negroes, as that General asks at their
hands,
The Summit Beacon gives the particulars oil
a shocking accident at Arkon, Ohio. a |
young lady sitting before coal stove discov-
cred that her clothes we're on fire. She
screamed, and assistance was Immediately rem |
dered her, but before the FIRE was suppressed |
she was burned so severely that her life is des |
paied Of. The Beacon justly remarks: This |
should operate as another caution to our wo
men against sitting or standing in too close
to open stoves or CRATES, while dress
ed in the highly inaammable fabrics and ex
pansive styles Of the present day" -.
The Garfield MahOuing County Herald has
been suspended, the receipts not being equal
to the expenditures. This will be the fate Of |
other local papers, as it has been already the
ate of many, unless publishers advance their
prices 10 point equal to the advance of other |
and the local public cheerlully
comply with the necessity Of the case, in this,
as in other cases.