Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-03-02
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
A German in Texas, who did not wan
to be forced into the Confederate army
donned a hOme-spun gown and sun bon
net, and tOiled for two years on his farm
as his Wife's sister, come to stay with hel
from a distance, during her husband s
absence in the Confederate army. An
other German lay for eighteen months
in the cellar Of his own house, even his
neighbors suppssing him In the Confed
crate army.
Seventy members of the Kentucky Leg
islatuTe, ask the President to pardon
John @. Breckinridge, We pray he may
do no such thing. Let this migrate trait
or remain an outlaw, banished from his
native land, a warning to all traitors in
future.
A deliberate act Of Suttee was perpe-
tFated recently near Jubbulpore, India,
the subject of ii being the wife of a de-
ceased barber. She sat on the pile Of
wood with her dead husband across her
knees, until sufieated with the smoke
and flames.
In Cincinnati on Thursday forged
checks for $4420 each were presented
for payment at the Commercial National
Bank aud the banking house of Evans &
ed.
The customs receipts for January are
estimated at SIT 600, coo In goldy of which
sum over $4,000, 600 was received at the
port of New York
Official reports in England show that
vaccination has so far proved certain
safeguard to cattle against the plague
which has ragged so fearfully in the Brit
ish Islands.
The Jewish Messenger says that Mr..
Hyman Moses, Of Cincinnati, has collect
ed by personal application tie SUN of
81, 600, to send to Jerusalem, by way of
A Amsterdam, to be expended in erecting
pilgrim dwellings for the poor Hebrews,
who are led from religious motives to re-
pair to the Holy City, that they may die
and be buried on its conseerated grounds.
Senator Sprague of Rhode Island has
given $75, ,000 to t he Methodist Seminary
of East Greenwich.
The New York Herald estimates the
number Of valentines which passed I
through the New York Postofiiee this /.
year at $4,000
The camels brought to this country I
some years ago by Government, are offer T
ed for sale BY the Government Quarter +
master In Texas.
The grand prize of EGO 900 ia the lot
terry annually drawn at Madrid, has this
year been drawn by rich Havana mer-
chant, who held tickets to the value of
81, 800.
TheEe are nearly three hundred steam
sEs running between New York and the
various ports of the United States and
South America. No less than five lines
run to New Orleans.
A I,tko, a. Al Dskk,L----- Ct.-..,ts- -..-,-
that silver mine has been discovered in
near the Beaver and Alle-
ghany county line.
Miss Maria Baldwin, graduate of
Baldwin University at Berea, Ohio has
llled the chair of Professor Of the Greek
md Latin languages in the Baker Uni
7ersity in Kansas for the past year. She s
. only 2l years old. {
The Richmond Wing says that 80, 1000 I
'0ung men from the Southern States t
ave settled in New York city. The
Vhig protests against any more emigra- !
ion either to the North, or to Mexico, or
0 Brazil,
a company of capitalists propose to t
lake a ship canal from Annapolis to (
Vashington-18 miles and are trying u
} get a charter for that purpose. This
-ould make continuous ship naviga- (
on from Washington to New York di- Nv
'ct. t,
Over two hundred persons are bel;az- h
I to have persisted from cold, who,were =.
a their way to Montana, travelling over !
le Plains. The cold has been univer- u
lily intense in that region Z
The Boston Advertiser thinks Gen. II
utter will not buy land and start bust OF
,ss in Virginia. Though bold enough er
60 there himself, he is too shrewd to n.
adertake an enterprise whore insurance n
1uld cost so much, :"
A Mock auctioneer, named Burnham, -
40 has been swindling the people. of ~ !,
sW \ ork by false sales, and other i'm al
sitions, has been sentenced to the Pen la
ltiary for three years and half. ee
The production of peppermint in the
ate of Michigan is getting to be a con
.erable branch of business, as it appears
I'M the Internal Revenue Department
at sec, 600 worth of that article was
Inufactured during 1865. on
A little girl named Annie Sullivan. oL
lie on her way to school in Chicago H'
{ week, during the terribly frigid dis
ather, became Overpowered by the cold tio
! fell oD the pavement. Before assist -.
,e could be rendered she was so badly pa
zen that she died in few hours. we
highly important case has been de- col
ed By the United States Supreme Court eoT
diving the validity of the aeceptauces tiv
ned hv j B. Floyd al Secretary Of nre
r TO Russell, Majors and Waddell. The ~
lrt held chat even when Ia the hands
u innocent holder theV were not q t-is