Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-11-24

Mrs. Prudence Hart, of Washington
Co .umbiaDa county, had seven
sons In the Union army during the late
war, all of whom served out their time,
were honorably mustered out. and have
returned home unhurt and we'll.
An important breach of promise case
was disposed of at the late term of the
Common Pleas Court in Ashland county
Miss Elizabeth Leideg against Ephraim
B. Rickitt, In which case Judgment for
the plaintiff was obtained for $1,000.
The New York Journal of Commerce
is informed that the Fenians are making
considerable purchases of fire arms In
that CITY. They are said TO he rather in
different as to quality. The trade IN pIs-
tolls is also brisk for the Southern market.
Some of the principal New York hotels
talk of raising the price OF board to to 50
per day There are families in the Fifth
Avenue who give $500 or 5000 a week
for their mere lodging and boarding PRIV,
iIege, while their extras will reach S3OO
or $40O more.
Thursday morning, 10th inst, travel
ing satchel containing nearly S3O0,OOO In
currency was stolen out of wagon of the
American Express Company, on the cor
ner of Lake and Clark streets, Chicago.
Thief unknown
The profits of some of the prominent
New York theatres during the past year
have been estimated as follows Niblo's.
$1O5, 900; Winter Garden, S75, 200; Broad
way, s65, 600: Wallaek's, $4,000; Olym-
pic, $4,000.
1t is said that a man named James
Griers. who recently died IN the New
York Hospital, was 118 years old. He
was Nantucket man, and formerly a
sailor.
The Union party gained two Senators
and sixteen members to the Assembly in
the New York Legislature at the late
election.
Over 100000 barrels of apples have
been shipped from Michigan this season,
and these brought So so per barrel. or
nearly a million and half of dollars
An equal amount has been received In
that State this season for both peaches
and grapes.
The President assures the friends of
the Louisiana freedmen that he has no in
tention of leaving those unfortunates to
the tender mercies of 'copperhead civil
authorities and galvanized rebels. The
military power will not be withdrawn un-
til the safe time comes.
The Union majority in Wisconsin may
reach 10000 The majority against negro
suffrage is estimated at 5000
1t is said that Gen. Logan was appoint
ed Minister to Mexico at the request OF
Gen. Grant, who does not hesitate to de-
clare himself in favor of driving the
French out of that country.
Two robbers entered hotel in San
Francisco on the 18th inst, knocked the
A1 ,GG
600 in gold, then left the house unmOlest-
ed, and made good their escape.
Fine specimens of gold have been found
among the borings of several oil wells in
the Dunkard Creek, Pa, region.
At the FreewiIl Baptist General Con-
ference at Lewiston, Maine, short time
since, resolution prohibiting the ordi-
nation of ministers who use tobacco was
adopted.
A correspondent of the Cleveland Lea
der says one hundred thousand gallons of
wine will be made and stored on Kelley S
Island this year.
The Richmond Wing advises the Rep
resentatives elected from that State not
to show themselves in Washington until
sent for, and warns those inclined to take
the test oath that they had better never
The majority in Colorado Territory for
the new State Constitution is 155. The
majority against negroes voting is 3,716.
The population of the Territory is about
q, 600.
In 1916 the value of grapes sold on Kel-
! ley's Island did not exceed five dollars
In 1861 the value of the grape crop was
estimated at $51 ,080, from 128 acres of
land. Now there are 700 acres in the vine
yards, and the crop Is valued at $500, 900.
The Jamaica insurrection appears to be
pretty nearly at an end. The British au-
thorities are acting with a severity that
strangely contrasts with the exhortations
for cfemency to the Southern rebels, which
the English papers and people raised W hen
the insurrection in our country failed
The Jamaica rebels are executed by the
dozen.
The statement of the Southern State
Cegal) debts prior to the war, places them
at one hundred and fifty millions The
most of these bonds are held in Europe,
| and the prospect of payment, even of the
interest is small indeed Of these bonds
SIC, ,000, 900 belong to Mississippi, So 900,
600 to North Carolina, S., 100000 to Lou
isiana. and s56.000.000 to Virginia.
Lorenzo Miller, of Putin Bay Island,
Lake Erie, is said to have produced this
season 81 tuns of grapes from an acre of
ground. He shipped 81 tuns, and made
q tuns into wine, getting 500 gallons
Other growers in that region of the lake
on islands and on the main land have done
nearly as well.
The Raleigh, n c., Progress, estimates
that 660, 900 soldiers in the service of the
Confederate States have been killed, died
or disabled for service since the breaking
out of the war. What a terrible retri-
button has slavery and rebellion brought
upon the South