Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-03-16


cprAr destitution continues to prevail
in some sections of the South. The Hunts
Vile Independent says returns from Mar
shall county, Alabama, show there are in
that county 1850 whites aud go blacks en-
tirely destitute, while the rations issued by
Government amount in all to but 425 per
day.
THE state Board Of Agriculture met at
Columbus Tuesday last, revised the pre-
MUM list, and located the State Fair for
the present year at Dayton. Toledo, Cleve-
land and GAINESVILLE were also competitors,
but Dayton offered the greatest induce
ments and secured the prize.
GEORGE MILLER, a brakeman on the c.
C. q C. Railroad, was killed Monday after
noon, near Rochester, by falling between
the cars, twelve Of which passed over his
body, mangling it in a horrible manner.
THE town elections in Now York show
very gratifying results. AS far as heard
from the Supervisors elected foot up Union
467, Democrats, 232-being a Union gain OF
"A over last year.
AN Association in Birmingham, Eng
land, since the close of the rebellion,
has contributed and sent to this country
over ten thousand dollars worth Of goods
for the relief of INDECENT freedmen.
JUDGE F. J. MATHEWS, for many years a
prominent member of the Columbus bar
and Judge Of the Superior Court of Frank
Lin county, died last week at Dayton.
THE assessed value of the real and per
sonal property in the State of Illinois
amounts to the large sum of three hundred |
and ninety-One millions of dollars.
THE London Times is savage on Mr.. Ban
croft's Grafton. That portion of itin which /
he spoke Of the perfdious course Of Eng
land during the rebellion, is what especial
~ touched the the esThunderer" on the
raw.
SOME graceless scamp has some to work
and counterfeited the bonds of the O'AIa-
hony branch ofthe "Irish Republic" Per-
sons desirous Of investing in these valua-
bic securities should be careful to secure
the genuine article.
TIE Banking Office of Rufus Lord, in
Exchange Place, New York, was entered
On the 10th inst, and robbed of Govern
ment bonds and other securities to the
amount Of a million and a half dollars.
ADvICEs from Europe represent the cat 0
tie plague as still on the increase Vacci- 0
nation as a remedy or preventive, has T.
proved failure. &
THE President has assured the chairman
Of coIored delegation from South Caroli- 4
na thatthe freedmen will not for the pres Z
ent be disturbed in their occupancy Of the . :
lands assigned them by Gen. sherman on :
the sea islands in that State.
Iris statedin Washington dispatches that 4
since Secretary NIcCulloeh's report last Oc-I
tober, the National debt has been reduced ii
e29, 100000
W1E. D. HOwELLs, a few years since con- -
neeted with the Ohio State Journal. and II
more recently American Consul at Venice. y,
has become editor of the Atlantic Month D,
ly. He is son of Hon. David Howells Q
editor of the Asthabula Sentinel. II
THE appointments Of Gen. Asboth as 4
Minister to the Argentine Republic, re- II
lleVes Hon. r. G. Kirk, of Mt. Vernon, "a
IorInerIy Lieutenant Governor this State 81
Mr.. Kirk had asked to be relieved. th
Nal. GENERAL SIBERIAN has just been 10
by the citizens of st. Louis with
! furnished house worth $4,000. ",
GEN. CAss is rapidly approaching his At
and. He is very feeble and hiss death is IC
iaily looked for by his friends =;
THE Baltimore & Chic Railroad Comna- co
ny has commenced work on their new
branch road from the Point of Rocks to on
Washington. The completion of this new IN,
Dad viii materially shorten the distance sci
lecessary to travel in reaching Washing pa
on from the West. ~
AN agent of ALaximiIlian has made his I'd
ppearanoe in Washington and opened !
lmPtaous suit Of rooms on Pennsylvania pr,
Avenue, COZ
HON. H srppr-,,,-s w. col
the defunct Confederacy, is an H.
ouneed as on his way to Washington. 0066
ADvIoEs from the South all concur in ais
the freedmen as having gen me
ally gone to work on terms satisfactory 1t
themselves and their employers. Sen
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