Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-01-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

| WORTH THE MONEY.-A man to salts
/ fly his curiosity sent % cents in reply to
an advertisement which promised for that
amount to put any one in the way of ma
! king a fortune. By return of mail he re-
ceived an envelop containingSa card on
which was printed in large capitals, the
word ADVERTISE. The advice was
worth the money and properly followed
the fortune will come, sure as fate.
James Mccormick, born in 1851 in the
county Cavan, ireland, died at Newburgh,
New York, on the llth instant, aged IA
He took an active part in the Irish rebell-
ion in 1898, and was wounded in the left
leg. He emigrated to this country some
Of a few years spent IN the west, always
resided in New Windsor. H was not
married until he was fOrty-hve.
The Hartford Daily CowaRt com
mences its prospectus for 1866 with the
statement that the COurG71t enters upon
the one hundred and second year of its
uninterrupted publication with bright
hopes, hattering prospects, and firm re-
solve to merit the continued patronage of
the public by maintaining its position as
the leading political, news and family pa
per of the State.
Prof Pritchard says that the richness
of the Colorado mines which he has late
ly been exploring exceed nightingale had
ever dreamed Of and prognosticates that
$100,000,000 English Capital will be in
vested therein the present year.
A wag in Chicago, purchased, from the
agent of an Accident Insurance Com
pany, policies for two friends of his who
were about starting ON short journey"
for a single day, the names given to the /
agent for insertion in the policies being
William Corbett' and Patrick Fleming" ,"
two muTderers who were to be executed /
the same day. Whether he has yet real /.
lied on the accidental death of his friends /.
does not appear.
The London Times publishes letter .
from the superintendent of the Atlantic /
Company, announcing that the .
Great Eastern will positively sail in June f.
next, to lay a new cable and take up the .
old one.
A Virginia paper talks Of papers from
the United States, and" contemporaries
inl the United States, as if to vex some
one with a notion that palmetto flag was
visible somewhere in Richmond.
John Slidell is still living quietlyin Pa
ris. His family goes very little into socie-
ty. Alr. Mason is in London Jacob
Thompson and j. p Benjamin are also
ly expected from Canada with his family
Major House, formerly agent for the pur-
chase of arms for the Confederacy, Is in
Paris, as is also Judge Rust, of Louisiana
Mrs. GWin and her daughter are now re-
siding in London.
Amos Kendall Postmaster General un-
Ter jackson, is building in Washington
, honse Of worship, the Calvary Baptist
church, at a cost OfseYenty- five thousand
tollars, which he proposes to give to the
5ociety of the church on condition that
when finished they will furnish it.
The tallest man has been discovered at I
asst. He lives in Sweden, Is nineteen
'ears old, and nine feet fUe inches az higHt C
At eight years of age he was five feet four a
inches. How that boy does grow" 4
must have been a standing remark with =
he older friends of this young gentleman u
rom the time he first begun to elongate o
A man in Fall River, Massachusetts,, at g
christmas devOUred nine pound turkey, D
nth the usual hXings, at single meal. d
lie found that his companions at the ia =
lie had each one seized a pigeon, and being pr
lsappOinted at not getting one himself, to
e-grabbed the turkey and ate it all, say III
lg Every man to his own bird. s.
On Sunday last, while party of nine tr
cen boys were skating on the St. Law III
nee near Ogdensburgh, the whole field y
t ice separated from the shore and be- n.
an to move down the river When the tn
oys discovered that they were carried off, Sc
ley set up a terrific yelling and attract
! the attention of Mr.. Joseph King, who Al
? making three trips, succeeded in saw
lg'them all,