Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-04-13
GEEERzL NEWs TEEHs.

4 l. NJ
The Union majority IN New Hampshire
Is within 80 votes of the estimate before
the election.
A Cottage in Newport has been let for
the snug little sum of 600 for the en-
suing season.
In the New York Assembly, bill ma
king eight hours days work, failed by
is votes, political parties being pretty
well mixed IN the vote
The Georgia ConsfjfutioBGkist says that
the message of Governor Hamilton, OF
Texas. to the convention, Is a black re-
publican document Of the worst kind.
The Selma (Ala) Times says a eolored
woman left that city. rece utly, aged one
hundred and twenty seven years. She IS
the mother of fifteen children, having
bad triplets three tines
A new Baptist Church will cost $780,
O0O. was first opened for divine service,
in Chicago, last Sunday. Its length is
165 feet. width 112, and the tower, when
completed, will be $50 high.
G. W. Howard and Judge Shafer, of
California, have the largest dairy farm IN
the world. Their farm is on the sea
coast, twenty-five miles west of San Fran
cisco, and covers sevenly-one thousand
7 acres.
A Western soldier who has been
through all the campaigns, and shared IN
many of the fercest battles of the war,
writes from his home that g he never re-
allied the horror of war till he got home
to Indiana, and found his girl married to
I a stay-at- home dry goods clerk.
PhiIo Chase, of Liteh6eld Conn, died
a few days ago, aged seventy five years.
For the last twenty-five years his aally
diet has been three pints of milk and one
of whisky. He adopted that diet from a
conviction that solid food injured him.
A wool grower. made the statement at
/ a late convention in Vermont, held on a
bitter cold day. that every rag of clothes
he had on was made Of foreign wool,
while he had at home three clips of wool
4 from his own flock which he could not
/ sell.
The Grand Rapids (Micb.) Democrat
has been informed, and by a reliable per-
son, that eighteen men were accidentally
poisoned In the town Of Lisbon, all of
whom have died The men were en-
gagged in logging, and had hired man to
do their cooking, and he had used care
/ lessly a package of strychnIne, mlsta-
/ king it for saleratus.
The New York World says that a new
and very fatal disease among horLes has
manifested itself in many of the uptown
/ livery stables, in that city. 1t is sup
/ posed to have been generated by contact
with diseased army horses.
The GAINESVILLE (Fla.,) Era makes men
/ ton of the fast filing up of that State
/ with immigrants from all parts of the
world 1t bids them welcome, and as
sures them of the kind reception they
will receive from the people.
Mr.. Hermann, New York merchant,
! left the Sherman House in Chicago, on
/ Wednesday night, with $22 900 IN his
pocket. He took a sleeping car on the
/ Michigan Central Railroad, and when at
4 Detroit, discovered that his money was
missing. Exactly how he lost it is not
/ yet known. He offers So, 600 award.
Judge AldFieh, of Charleston, recently
sentenced a white man to have thirteen
lashes for a robbery When the sheriff
went to administer the punishment ac-
! cOrding to law. General Bennett, United
States army, refused to permit it, saying
it was against the spirit of the civiliZa-
tion that pervades society at the present
day"
Five mercantile houses in New York
sold goods last year to the amount Of ll2
million of dollars II. B. Clafin & Co.,
the highest, $40. .506, ,715 A. T. Stewart
& Co, $39, ,391, ,688 Geo. Bliss & Co.,
SO, ,272, 900 Anthony and Hall, SO, ,636,
/ III ;and Geo. A. Wieks & Co., $4,000,
000
Since the first of March fifty clerks
and copyists have been discharged
from the Treasury in accordance
with orders respecting a reduction in the
clerical force of that department..
Gen. Wright, commanding the Depart
ment of Texas, has directed the publish
ers of the newspapers in that State to
forward to him a copy of their publica-
tions, to be sent to Gen. Grant, in com
pliance with the latter late order on the
subject.
A ' musician belonging to " cbari-
vari' party, near Toronto, No, received
into his carcass one hundred and seveptv-
two shots, fired by the ineensed bride
4 groom whom the party were serenading
1t was thought he would recover.
George Rosenbeek. aged 85. and a fair
4 Teutonic dame of 75 summers, elOped
from the vicinity of Albany, a day OF two
ago. Both we're married and had large
families.
The Redemption Division last month
received and cancelled 81 ,016, ,255 in mu
tilated fractional currency.
A London jury awarded So. 800 re-
Gently to a passenger who was injured by
railroad accident.
Lieutenant General Grant was arrest
ed in Washington on Saturday for fast
! driving. President Lincoln once paid a
/ fine of five dollars for violating a similar
/ city law in Washington.
About six teen hundred divorces have
/ been decreed in Massachusetts 10 six
/ years, of which 5S4 were for desertiOn.
| 553 for criminality, 132 for cruelty, and
1 42 from other causes. 1t is known that
! 1915 were decreed in the five years that
ended May 1, 1865; and at the same rate
/ during the late eleven months it may be
assumed that the grand total is not far
from 1000
/ The st, Joseph (Mo) Daily Union says
that wheat never looked better in that
region.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has
decided that according to law of 1849 ne
groes have the right to vote in that State.
It is said that the amount which Amer
leans invested in business in England
during the war was between three hun
dred and FIVE hundred millions.
The Cork Examiner says upward of
forty thousand persons left ireland du-
ring the first week of March for Ameri-
ca. Two-thirds were of the middling
and farming classes.
The Supreme Court of New Hamp
shire have decided that % per cent tax
levied on U. s. Bonds by the Legisla-
ture of that State is unconstitutional
News from northern Alabama states
that the people in that section are diving