Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-04-02

try a negro on a criminal charge. The
negroes were unanimously for convic-
ton, and the whites for acquittal.
MR.. JoHNsON's LAST RHYME.
Sometimes tried to give them light,
made them speeches day and night,
And they'd insult me, left and right,
And call me ANDY
They said was on whisky tight:
They 1ied-'tWas brandy.
My pitchers at the fountain broke;
Let no one know in what sly nook
My dust repOSeS-
Lest he should come, and, for the joke,
Say, Here lies Moses"
In Fall River, Mass, the School
Committee have appointed Miss Lewis
a young negro woman, as teacher in
the intermediate school on High street
in that city. She is a graduate of the
high school and the normal school at
Bridgewater.
Discussing on. feas, Josh Billings
saws GTheY bite wus than the mus
keetoze, for they bite on run, one flea
viii go aul over mans suburbs in 2
minnits, and leave him as freckled as
the meazles. I don't suppose there is
ever killed, on an average, during emmy
one year, more than IS feas in the
whole ov the United States ov America,
unless there is a casualty ov some kind
once in a while thsre is a dog gifts
drowned sudden, and then thare may
be few 6eas lost"
The female prisoners in Warsaw. who
are sentenced to be dogged, receive
tn cir stripes at the hands of a tall, her
culean woman, who belaboTs her poor
sisters more mereilessly than the Cos
sacks do the male prisoners. Nearly
all the Iadi es of the aristocracy, who
have been arrested in the last four or
five. years on charges of completely in
insurrecMonary movements, have been
fogged.
1t is stated that a swarm of bees to
the number of fifty can be packed into
sponge saturated with honey, and safe
ly transmitted from one point to another
through the mails. If a mail robber
should chance to open one of these
pack ages without being aware of its
nature, he would soon be taught sting
ing lesson to let it be.
The Memphis Post, speaking of Andy
Johnson's purpose of running for Gov
ernor of that State next Fall as the COP
per-rebeI candidate, expresses the
opinion that be stands no reasonable
chance of being elected to that office, or
to the Senate, to which he aspires. It
saws that the 1000 colored voters would
rather put their hands in the fire than
vote for him, and that from Memphis
to Greenville there is no Union white
man so low down as to support the pro-
fessionaI pardoner of convicted felons.
The Hon. I. N. Arnold mentioned the
interesting fact, in a recent lecture at
Chicago, that in the Black Hawk war
of 1882, there served together Lieuten-
ant Colonel Zachary Taylor, subse-
quently President of the United States
Lieutenant Robert Anderson, the hero
of Fort Sumter; Lieutenant Jefferson
Davis, and private Abraham Lincoln,
of Captain Hes company of Illinois |
Tor M G1H R9nCPHT=
in letter to Mr.. Arnold says, that he
mustered Abraham Lincoln in and out
of the volunteer service on two occas-
ions in 1882, first in on the 29th of May |
and out on the 18th of June; in again |
on the Goth of June, and out on the 10th |
of July.
The following notice has recently been
removed from bridge in Athe ms,
Georgia: "NOTICE.-TWenty-6V dol |
lars fine for driving over this bridge |
faster than walk. IF a negro, twenty !
five lashes on the back. n. B. Half the /
above reward will be given to the in
formant."
Hearty old gentleman Ito dyspeptic
friend E"Doesn't agree with youl Oh, |
I never let anything of that sort bother /
me! always eat what like, and fin
ish of with good stiff glass o. grog at
bedtime, and go fast asleep, an let 'em
6ght't out 'mong 'emselves ~
A colored barber in Milwaukee has, |
in his spare hours during the last year,
learned German and French so that he |
speaks both well, his only instructor be-
ing the twenty-five cent editions of Ger
man and French without a master.
A lady in Belfast, Ireland, after ques-
tioning the child of a charity school |
about what the wife of a king or en-
oeror was called, asked: 'fWhat is the |
wife of a duke called ?'' ga drake!"
exclaimed several voices.
t'It is a standing rule in my church, -
said one clergyman to another, "for the |
sexton to wake up any man that he
sees asleep" "I think" replied the |
other, ''that it would be better for the
sexton, whenever a man goes TO sleep
1nder your preaching, to wake you up.'
The first oysters sold in Chicago were
brought from Fairhaven, Connecticut,
n the winter of 1886, and brought six
teen dollars in specie per keg of two
gallons each. "Ike" Cook, since post
master of the city, bought them and
made a good thing of his bargain by
The annual catalogue of the College
Of Newt Jersey, at Princeton, for the cur
rent year is Just published. The num-
Oer Of students in the institution is $50,
IF whom 81 are in the senior class. Sc
are juniors, rs sophomores and 65 fresh
men. New Jersey is represented By 90,
Pennsylvania 58, New York 33, Mary
and q, North Carolina 10s The res
nainder are scattered among the
various other States and foreign coun-
'ries, TWO being from India, two from
Wales, and one each from China and
Ireland.
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