Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-01-26
GENERAL NEHs IEEMs.

and fortune beams only on the sons of
toll.
Mrs. Rebeeca Doyley Pinckney, sup
posed so be the last of the celebrated
South Carolina Pinckneys, died on Christ
mas Day, aged nearly ninety years.
Illinois turned into bushels in 1865,
measures 100000 of corn, 5000, 600
of wheat, 100000 of rye, ], 200, 600 Of bar
ley and 28,000,000 of oats.
Forty thousand head of cattle, worth
over two million of dollars, have been
victims to the cattle disease in England,
so far, and there is 20 cessation.
Designs for a SO National Bank note
have been submitted. Lincoln reading
the Emancipation Proclamation will form
the back decoration of the note.
There has beeu u serious rebellion in
a district school in Kittery, Me. The 9TH
er day three of the scholars killed their
teacher by beating him with a stone.
One of them has been arrested.
Letters by the hundreds, written by
ex-of6cers of the army who have settled
in Louisiana and Mississippi, say that if
the troops are withdrawn loyal men will
be compelled to leave and cannot live
there at all.
Mayor Hoffman of New York in his
inaugural address says the funded debt Of
the city is $4,000 0UO. The tax the past
year was S18000.0 600. These are big fig
ures. but New York Is a big village.
Heavy SHOWS have fallen on the plains.
Over twenty trains are snow bound at
different points, and a large number of
animals are dying from starvation and
cold weather.
President johnson has not granted a
pardon to any of the graduates of the
West Point Military Academy, who went
over TO the rebellion to fight against the
Government at whose expense he was
educated.
Advices received by the Departments of
State from our Consul at Liverpool, da-
ted December 18th are to the effect that
the cattle plague was still on the increase
both in England and Scotland,
A private letter from Mobile says there
are 10000 bales of cotton still IN the
hands of planters in the interior of Ala
bama, waiting to come to market. The
owners of it anticipating a short crop
this year. are holding for rise in the
market.
In Kentucky, % ministers of the South
ern Methodist Church, with about 5000
of the white members, have declared
their intention of joining the Northern
Churches. The cOlOred congregations
either have already taken the step, or in
tend soon to do so.
The total number of national banks
now doing business throughout the coun-
try is one thousand six hundred and tWen-
ty-six. The Comptroller of the Currency
is not at present granting authority to any
new national banks.
Mrs Mary Williams, aged one hun
dred and five years, nine months and
thirteen days, died near White House,
HunterdOn county, n. J on the 2Sth ult
She had never been sick day so as to be
confined to her bed, until the last few
weeks of her life.
Gen. JUBAL EARLY lately wrote a let
ter from his refuge in the West Indies, in
which he accounted for his bad luck in
the Shenandoah valley by saying that he
had far fewer men than Gen. SHERIDAN
The latter has since published letter, In
which he shows that he took more prison
oners from EARLY than the latter reports
as his entire force.
The Du Quoin Recorder, of Dec. 22d,
says Nearly six hundred bales of cot
ton have been shipped from this city
during the past three months. Our far
mers are beginning to learn that cotton
can be raised about as well In southern
Illinois as it can be done down South,
and with greater pecunlary profit than
any crop which they can turn their atten-
tion to. We look for an immense crop of
this great staple next year.
The hat business has prospect of be-
ing revolutionized. A company has been
formed in Boston with $4,000 capital to
manufacture paper hats They own
patent recently secured, by means Of
which it expects to manufacture durable,
desirable, and waterproof paper hats of
any form and color, at a cost of 8 to 25
cents a piece.
George w. Day, of Chelsea, Mass, the
inventor of a machine for making shoes
which drives the shoe thread like pegs,
making a good imitation of pegged work, /
has sold his interest for $500, 600, and is
to receives a per centage on every pair of
boots made by this process.
The annual sale of pews in Henry Ward |
Beecher's church took place last week. /
The bidding was as spirited as on any
former year. III. B. Clafin obtained the /
first choice, paying $400 premium. The F..
rent Of the pew is S120. Six other per-
sons paid premiums of $500 to 1926, while !
more than thirty pews brought premiums /
of $500 to $3.50, about half of the pews on /
the floor being sold before the offers of
500 commenced. The gallery seats were
Of at prices varying from s25 and
upward,