Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-04-20

lately married men who are reveling in
an Unlimited quantity of napkin rings,
/ fish knives and salt cellars.
The death of Mormon bishop is thus
announced in a Salt Lake paper: He
4 was thirty seven years old, and leaves an
interesting family of eleven wives and
j torty-seVen children to mourn his death.
A Mr.. O'Connor has reached Panama
en- route from the Barbados gold mines,
with one hundred lbsweight in gold, the re-
suit Of SIX months personal labor, with
! the most primitive instruments. He
/ comes to New 7 ork to obtain machinery
] A newly arrived John Chinaman in
4 California purchased some ice, and find
/ ing it very wet, laid it out to dry in the
sun. On going to look for it again he
/ found It had disappeared, and forthwith
I accused the whole Chinese neigh borhOod
with larceny. A general riot was the con-
sequence
The Hon. John P Hale, now U. S.
Minister at the Spanish Court, has written
home to certain Members of Congress
that his salary-Sl2, 900 per annum in
gold-is too small, and he wants it increas-
ed. His salary amounts to more than
the aggregate pay of the Governor, Coun-
Gil and Senate of New Hampshire.
A Mr.. Rhodes, of Texas, who found at
the end of the war that he had lost fifty
thousand dollars In slaves, had an instru-
ment drawn, securing payment to all his
creditors out Of his property, and giving
the rest to his wife, and then went home
and deliberately blew out his brains.
The Houston Telegraph says that in
few years the sheep interest in Texas will
not be second even to cotton, and advises
the Vermont graZiers, instead of keeping
their merinos IN a climate so rigorous as
10, u. ~ j Il
the year on tuTnIps and hay, to bring
their hocks to Western Texas, where
they will need no attention except to be |
protected from disease and wild beasts.
Trustworthy advices from Texas, Louis |
lana, Arkansas, Georgia, and Alabama, /
report that planters are putting in cotton |
to the full extent of their ability, and |
that IN some sections the amount of land |
that has been assigned to cotton culture |
IS greater than ever before known The
fears ofascarcity of seed have proved /
grountdless7 as seed is found to be plenty,
though much of it is risky from being too
old.
The President has issued an order to
the heads of departments directing that
be given to men who have
served! in the army or navy, in making
appointments to, or promotion in the ex-
ecutive offices.
The Charleston Courier states that
:, 200 freedmen have left North Carolina
since anuary 1, to work in New Eng
land, on contract, at $50 per month. and
that more will follow.
General Howard will, under verbal in
5tructIons from the President, soon issue
2 circular or general order to his subor-
1lnates, apprising them of the passage of
the Civil Rights bill, and instruoting
5hem to inform the freedmen of its pro- /
and assist them in a proper man
ler in maintaining them.
Among the nice plums" which fall to
he Prince OF Wales is the Duchv Of .
cornwall; the revenues last year amount !
d to S38O,OOO and the net profit was
1880, 900.
It is slated that PhiladeIphian, who.
few years ago, had revenue of $50 600
,,er annum, and cut large splurge among \
he bon ton OF that city, is now an attend /
Mt IN an eating saloon in New York. on y
salary OF few dollars per week. &C
The De Witt Towa) Observer saws
Jesse d. Royalty, who was taken last
Eeek to Fort Madison to serve three
ears for having three living wives, has p
cen discovered to have two more at j
Missouri Thus this yOufh- OF
a Brigham Young has i've wives-be-
des black woman whom he engaged tn
marry while they were confined in Jail fBa
this place. ia
A tragic affair occurred in open court wi
Helna, Arkansas, last week. William m,
-anIey, who once belonged to the 18th
llnois Cavalry, was before the court forl @
orse stealing, and his wife was on the
Itness stand, testifying to his having
Glen several horses, when he drew re- :
Diver and shot her, the ball entering her nj
9ad. a second shot hardly missed the ls
ayor OF Helena. 1t was only after a
'sperate struggle that Hauley was over
me, and committed to Jail Facts since
.Veloped show him to have been a most n,
sooundreI. III
Horace Mayard, at a great meeting HN
Id IN New Haven last Saturday. gave
3 opinion that public sentiment in Ten
ssee and North Carolina is more in A
ned to justice than in Connecticut and "A
nnsylvania. " The question of negro
Hrage in Tennessee y he said. {" will he4
tiled BY and by in favor of the black
IN and | should not wonder if Tennes- IN
gave the black man the right to vote ~
fore Connecticut does. And the black -,
n will probably vote sooner in North BIa
rolina than IN Pennsylvania
Pour hundred people were Witnessing
choGol exhibition in the second story Of
ID.
s., recently, when the floor gave Wav
about half the audience were preoib- Ala,
ed to the first foor which also gave
? and let them down into the cellar
ange to say, no lives were lost, though
ny We're badly bruised, and Frederick
lteTson had leg broken. Those left
We were taken down through the win
Us, with the aid of ropes and ladders.
those in cellar helped up in the same
he Supreme Court of the United
-es has just decided that license from
U. 5. Government as dealers in HO
ors, does not protect them from pros 2
5lon under the State laws Lace 9
Inoe last May, tho Government has
two hundred and ten thousand hor-
and mules, realizing over fourteen
ions and a quarter Of dollars. The
5 still progressing in the South will
h seventeen millions.
laho produced twelve millions of w..
and silver last year, and it is thought
i'll produce double this amounb in
. Our Western Territories are be- a,
ing famous for their mineral pro-
iona mar