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


The Secretary of the National Lincoln
Monument Association reports the amount
of funds on hand at S55, ,224,55.
The Legislature of Virginia has adopt
ed a touching appeal to West Virginia to
re-unite herself with the Old Dominion.
The sales of the New York dry goods
amounted to $70,0O000O, against $40, ,O00,-
600 in 1864.
In France there are 100000 proprie
tors of vines, and IL one period OF four
years 836, 100000 gallons of wine were
produced by the vineyards.
Only two pensioners of the Revolu-
tionary War are alive-Wm. Hutchings,
of Penobscot, Ne, aged 101, and Lemuel
Cook, of Clarendon, n. Y, aged SO.
The total losses by fire the past year
amounted to over forty millions of dollars.
against about twenty eight and a-half
millions the previous year.
There are more than 5000 applications
on file for situations in the Treasury De-
partment, and the number increases from
day to day.
The number of rebel prisoners captured
during the war is stated at 329, 900, against
157 600 Union prisoners captured by the
rebels during the same time.
President Johnson has sent to the Sen
ate the name Of Hon. John Bigelow, for
Minister to France position the latter
has filed since the death Of Hon. VIM.
L. Dayton.
One hundred and twenty-five general
! oficers-Major Generals, Brevet Major
| Generals and Brigadiers-are mustered
out by a recent order of the War De-
partment.
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! Der that 600,00 soldiers in the Conted-
crate service have been killed, or have
died, or been disabled for life, since the
breaking out of the war.
On New Years day, the wife of Ex-
Postmaster Scripps Of Chicago, while en-
gagged in receiving visits from her friends,
at her residence, fell back suddenly in
her chair, and died instantly, without a
! struggle or a word.
The English Parliamentary Commission
report that upwards of a million children
are employed in English manufactures
from twelve to fourteen hours per day,
ignorant and debased. without opportuni-
ty of becoming educated.
Twenty-Five years ago Mr.. Stafford was
murdered in Shelburn, Vt, and the muir
derer never was detected A few days
ago the murderer died in Canada, and just
before his death confessed the deed. Sc
says the Burlington Sentinel.
The Farmers Bank of Kentucky, hav.
ing lost 0,OOO by the Morgan raid, il
June, 1864, sued J. w. Witherspoon, &
returned Morgan officer, attached to hi
|, band, and got judgment from cireui
| court for the whole sum. He appeals IL
the case.
LIBERAL DONATION.-Daniel Drew
has given $3.50, 900 towards the million
dollars to be raised by the Methodist
this year, and he also proposes to erect
theological seminary at his country seat
up the Hudson river which is to cost no
less than half a million, as a free dona
ton to his denomi nation.-N. J. E,cpress
The Message of President johnson
was looked forward to with so much anxi
ETY. and was regarded as of such great in
ternational importance by the Canadia
e people that it was telegraphed cOmplet
[ to the Montreal newspapers, and appear
/ ed in full in their issues of the mornin
! / following the day of its presentation t.
; Congress, It has been well canvassed b
g the prOvincials, aud is considered by ther
: an able State paper, and on the whole
n pacific in tone.