Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-01-29


one murder a week for the past year.
Forty guests at a party in BrooIzlyr
were poisoned by. .colored confecllouerF.
| The receipts for license to sell liauar
in New York, last year, were 81 ,48l .I7l
The Cincinnati Gazette editorial ecI-
umus evince a positive deranRement rf
the BoWles.-[ Xenia Torchlight
There are 1901 dram shops fin Now
York and Brooklyn.
Audubon and his wife made thefr
bridal trip in 1908 down the Ohio from
Pittsburg to Louisville, on hat-boaE
The Detroit Tribune calls Black IEst-
ties orphans "fatherless skillets."
Beecher's church didn't pay iis wav
by $1,000 last year.
The deficit IN the Washington post
office is not less than 100000 year
all due to 'frank" swindling CCnBrsg-s
men.
"Amen," cried a deyout, but nIteI.
| ate brother, when the pastor said, "Be-
fore another week some of us NAV ba
laid low in the tomb"
Mr.. Lun Chatten recently declined the
offer Of spring mattress with the FOL
/ lowing cOupletf
"But what's the advantage ofBot down.
/ When he that lies on ttB hard up o.
| A Leipzigpaper warns {ts HfaIr rsaf-
/ ers" against a certain pOmade, which N
! assures them is s'made of human flt
I from the Parisian dissectiug rOOms."
General Lee, when some one spoke
disparagingly Of General Graut'B abili-
/ ties ia his presence, shrugged aIr
shoulders and said. "At an events h8
seems to- accomplish whatever he ur-
! dertakes."
Winnie Ream wouldn't sligo l
Stal1t on's petition for female Hudra
She s1ys the women have al
/ her shabbiiy, and she believes fu tFr
other sex, @ho have never treated ber
meanly.
The Indiana Governors last metsarr
Z is running as q serial ia the couaEr
papers. The original manuscript Cr t.a
message has been transferred % an
artist, who will paint on &c a "Earo4
rama Of Universal History"
A young lady in Rochester, who had
been standing with her back To a hct
ire, leaped up and shriekBd violently
the moment she sat down on q chair
The "Duplex Elliptic" had steel wires
in it.
One Of the strongest reasons wo ever
heard why married man could g8t lid
life insured is. that the money would
prove a great help to the wife's second
husband, and might be the means uI
starting him in business.
William Greenleaf Webster. son of
Noah Webster, author Of Webstaria
dictionary, and who had much 90 do ia
the preparation of that work, died. in
New York, on the LIST inst. at the ar8
Of hfgY-tl1ree5 and was buried al New
Haven.
g. a, y. writes from Washington HI
asked Kentucky member on Saturday
Hfr1f h~H re
TO say nothing about him, SIR when
damned rascal is dead, ] let him pass
in silence, sir"
The Empress OF the French rpsaT-g
and writes French very incorrectly
Whenever she gets excited she uses q
great m any Spanish words in her cone
versation, and when really angry, she
viii, at last, only speak Spanish. The
servants at the Imperial Court, there
fore, when saying, 'eThe Empress has
talked Spanish 20 me, !" mean "She hes
scolded me-"
A young lady with a switch trailing
fashiOnably down her back, was some
what startled while waiting at the de-
pot at Lafayette, Ind, the other day bv
the styles" approaching her and WhiE-
pering in tOnesO loud as to be audible
all over the rOon-tfYour back hair fe
coming down, Missl"
10 is stated by the friends OF E6n.
Edwin M. Stanton that be could have
any position in Grants cabinet hs
choose, but that he positively declines 20
accept any. Two reasons are given 11t
this. In the first place his health ia mot
sufficient for the labor Of a cabinet POSI-
tion, and secondly, he cannot afford &C.
Hence he has decided to devote himself
to his profession.
Anna Dickinson makes 8I5. 900 n year
lecturing. ANY young gentleman de-
string Lectures on these terms, apply.
A New York paper says n1Tiss Anna
DielkinsOn's lecture tEair Play had
respectfully large audience, at Che Coop
er Union, last Tuesday evening. Tie
LADY appeared 10 unusual s1lendor
wearing a black SILK with train. and
overdress Of DIack velvet, with pointed
widths trimmed between the seams
with lace or rich pRssemeteris. THu
sleeves had high shoulder puds in flEh-
ionable style. Miss Dickinson wore
her hair short and naturally waving
A craYGt and frills Of point lace, with
brOach, set OF this elegant
and we'll chosen costume. This lady
does credit to the cause she presents bV
the styilshness of her toilets, and COM
pliments the taste of those who 60 CD
see Miss Dickinson as well as hear her,
ONCE A WEEK, speaking Of a new
invention to warm piano and organ
keys in cold weather, suggests the use
Of hot roasted potato. The writer
says that he knows many places where
ladies carry a hot potato 60 church
in a flannel bag, and use it 20 warm
their hands directly OF 20 take tho
chill off the keys. It viii retain heat
a long time.
GENERAL BUTLER writes as follows
RI a friend IN Nam 0r1o-w- ffFW -rr
December -, 1868 MY
DEAR PITKIN:--I can not agree 60 Fell
lows proposition to restrict suffrage to
the free-born. The Chief Captain
said unto Paul, With great price
had I this freedOm-the great price
.he slave-b born paid can not in this
way be answered. Yours, truly, Benz.
E. Butler, j. r. g. Pitkin, Esq"