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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17
ARTEMUs WARD AND THE CAR
DIFF GIANT.


1t now suggested that the Cardiff
Giant is one of Artemus Wards lost
wax figures. One Of the papers quotes
the following account of the great show
mans visit to Utica as cOrroborative
evidence:
22"In the fall of 1856 I showed my
show in Utiky, a TRULY great sitty in
the state Of New York.
1.-THE people gave me coIdyal re-
eepshun. The press was loud IN her
praises
Il day as 1 was giving a deseripshun
of my beests and snaiks, In my usual
fowry stile, what was my scorn and
disgust to see a big burly felIer walk
up to the cage containin my wax fggers
Of the Lords Last Supper, and cease
Judas Iscariot by the feet and drag
him out on the ground He then COM
menced fur to pound him as hard as he
Good.
What under the son are you about?'
cried l.
''Sez he, What did you bring this
pussylanermous cuss here furP and he
hit the wax 6eger tremenjus blow on
the he'd.
"Sez I, You egrejus ass, that airs
wax figgeT, a representation of the
false 'Postle
"Sez be, That's very well fur you to
say; but I tell you, old man, that Judas
Iscariot can't show hlsself in U6ky
with ;mpuuity by a darn site With
which observashun he caved in Ju-
dassis he'd. The young man belonged
to one of the fust families of Utiky.
I sood him, and the joory brawt In a
verdick of arson in the Sd degree -
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17
THE MCFARLAND DIVORCE.

An acquaintance of Mrs. Mcfarland
Whites from Indianapolis to the Com
naercial
In this connection 1 may repeat a
statement which has some bearing up
ola Mr.. GTeeley's assertions to your
New York correspondent, that Mr..
Mcfarland did not love his wife or
wish her to live with him again. Af-
ter Mrs. Richardson separated from
him the last time he proposed to
Mr.. Richar dson, for q specified
sum of money or colIaterals, to put
into his or her hands certified proof of
his unwOrthiness, so that a divorce
would be a mere matter of form. Mr..
Richardson rejected the proposition
with scorn ard it was repeated in
writing.
It further appears that Mr.. Richard
son, in the first instant was McFar-
lands friend. When Mrs. Richardson
separated from him the second or third
time. he actually engaged Mr.. Rich.
ardson to go to Boston and make an
in1ercession for him. Mr. Richardson
as his friend, undertook the mission
ard suect eded IN effecting a reconcile
alton.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17
THE RICHARDSON MARRIAGE.

Mr.. Greeley in a letter to the Editor
of the New York sam controverts GER
Sa1n statements of that paper relative
10 his views of the Richardson mar
ris ge and concludes as follows:
What I did say with regard to the
ID ain point In controversy, was sub
stantfllly this: That this marriage
Oh u death bed, beside giving the wo-
man legal right to be a mother to
RichardsOn's young and doubly or
ph aued children, was operative mainly
in giving her right, throughout her
black and bitter future, to be called
by the name of him who, for her sake
was so foully murdered, rather than
tn at of his stealthy, cowardly assassin
and this small mitigation of her i'm
measurable woes | regarded as humane
ar just. This in my opinion, and I
propose to stand by It. Yours,
HORACE GREELEY" /"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17
THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH.

A Washington dispatch of Dec. 13
says:
The fact has come out that it was an
oversight of the President that the
postal telegraph system was not re-
ferred to in his annual message 1t IS
known that the President considers
the project feasible, and that If judleI-
ously carried out, it must TesultIn gen
eral good to the people. He has had
the benefit Of argumenta and full statls-
tics of the practical working of the sys-
| ten in Europe, furnished by Minister
Washburne, who while member OF
! the House two years ago, prepared an
elaborate bill for the adoption of the
plan.
During his recent sojoHrn In France
1 Mr.. Washburne has thoroughly lnves'
/ tieated the subject, the result being
/ the confirmation of his previous con-
viction that the system should be
speedily introduced into this country.
! It is believed Mr.. Washburne will
persist, and with his well known weight
] with General Grant, induce Executive
recommendation to Congress, which
being done, it is not improbable bill
viii pass during the present session
I q pUStdi 0NSA.-
To defeat the measure a story Is
circulated that the postal telegraph IS
that Governments shall own and operate
the wires. Such however. is not the
fact. The proposition of Mr. Wash
burne is to let out the work by con.
tract to the lowest bidder, after the
manner of the present mail service
Government fixing the rates for tele-
grams, providing penalties and guaran
! tees to secure the confidential char
acter of messages, and their prompt
and speedy transmission. By sueh ar
rangement to reduce the cost Of tele
graphic messages. and the consequent
popularization of this mode of commu
nication. The aggregate amount g
money expended by the people -woulC
exceed immensely the present revenU'
derived by the telegraph companies
The result would be increased profit
to them; they would be benefited pc
cuniarily IN proportion as the publ
would be accommodated. EXamina
tioa by experts shows that it can a
once be made self-sustainiDg to th'
service at a uniform tax of three cent
for a telegram of ten words to an
part of the country, and IN short tim
profitable business to the owners c
the wires.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17

Many parts of Vermont arc under
going a gradual depopulation, Sand
gate had a population of eleven hun
dred and eighty seven in 1910, aud
eight hundred and FIVE In 1860 The
town of Rupert had population of one
thousand eight hundred and forty
eight in 1900, which had diminished
to one thousand one hundred and three
in 1860. The town of Arlington was
settled in the year 1852 In the year
1900 all the arabic and pasturage land
was occupied, and the inhabitants num-
bered one thousand five hundred and
sixty nine In 1880 the number had
decreased to one thousand two hun
dred and seven, and in 1860 to one
thousand one hundred aud forty-six.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17

Akron has nadIe and a qnarfer OF Nieol-
son pavement
The first settJsn1ent was made al thetoWn
OF Akron In 1SI1-
The subject OF woman suffrage is being
agitated at BelIefOnsaine-
Springfield life Is SIN varied by the ex-
pIoits Of the gentle bargIar-
They are faring sumptu0usly every day
on wild turkey at CardingtOn-
The Springfield manufactures have dis
charged a large number Of WOrkmen-
The Hooking Valley railway brought o.
400 bushels Of coal to Columbus last week.
The Buckeye Works at Akron employs
$50 men, and last year paid s22Is 900 for labor.
AtIeast ave miles Of the Marion and Mid
dIetown turnpike viii be built next Spring.
The population OF Akron in 1855 was To-
$50. and IS now 1900. In 1s4e it was 1854,
and in 1882, eO0
/ A benevolent Springfield baker gave one
hundred IOaves Of bread to the Ladies'
Benevolent Society
L The UrBana U5siOa prOnounees some Of
the concrete pavements in that city good
and others worthless.
/ Xenia is abozEt to incorporate the Greene
!
pany, with a capital of slo00O0
The Democratic Commissioners Of Frank
Lin county are under Indictment for erim-
inaI maIfeasance in Office-
Akron, O., has a baby harvest--AH fhe
papers.
shermari's bummers viii have a reunion
At HansfleIdt Dec. Sl-anniversary Of Stone
River. At least one brigade VIII be present
/ The sostoaice at Marion was burglarious-
i Iy entereE and robbed one night last week
| A number Of letters were taken but nc
stamps.
There are SO many persons having
measles in Columbus now, that in some
large families tIrese is hardly a measl'
apiece for the ehiIdTsAs-e eol i''''bUs Journal
There was an ARRAY between two convict
in the State Prison on Wsanes sday. Georg
= | Marsh. the Cincinnati diamond thiei
struck, and it is believed fatally injured
Charles Smith, a fellow convict, on sligh
proVoeatiOn-
The Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Delawar'
Railway was transferred to the new com
pany, of which Judge Hurd is President
Dec. i. sixty-five miles Of the road ar
built and equipped.
| A farmer in Union county last week XII
ed a hog, in the heart Of which he found I
marble, such as boys play with, imbedded
, I Around the marble had grown Gallon
Eeoating, apparently for the protection Q
the animal while it was being imbedded-
A company has been incorporated t
manufacture reapers, mowers and other ae
ricultural implements in Newark. Tn
capital stock is $500, 600, and the eOrporatOI
: are James NJ. ConneIl. James L. Birlzy an
Waldo Taylor, of Newark, and Charles
= Church, Of Connecticut, aud Orlando Grey
of Pennsylvania.
s The Bank of FrederiektoEns Knox couT
ty, has failed. When it closed on Frida
= last, there were 600 in its vault on Sa
urday morning there was ten cent not
= only. The supposition is that one VIM.
AIerrin has absconded with the money.
NEARLY every business citizen is loser. III
- hbank was private one.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17

Here is a pointed observation from
Richardson's ; funeral sermon preached
by Beecher while the lion IS yet
alive be can defend himself, but no
sooner Is he wounded than straight
way every beetle, and every gnaWlng
worm. and every fly can assail him
Now that he is down, hesh-hies are
about him, and death, which to most
men ct least, is truce, eliminates, IN
this case, in perfect array OF battle
4 against the deceased It is a sorrow,
bitter disgrace that it should be So
/ but it is so. "
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17

"Wby don't the girls go West2" is
the question asked by a correspondent
of the Boston Journal who cites stat
istics TO prove that IN Ohio there is an
excess of 40, 500 men in Michigan 10000
in California $4,000. and in other
states similar proportions. In Massa-
chusetts, on the contrary, there are
5000 more women than men in New
Hampshire $500, in Rhode Island g.
600 and in Connecticut 1900 The
total excess in New England of females
over males is 48,500. Perhaps the un-
mated will find in these figures con-
Vincing arguments.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17

The Western ReserUc Chronicle calls
for action looking to the relief of the
'incurably" insane now inearcernted
ike criminals or wild beasts in the moi
some cells of the county poor-houses.
This is a subject having a preeminent
claim upon the philanthropy of the
State and should receive the prompt
attention of the General Assembly
The treatment of this class Of the in
sane in many counties of the State is
almost characteristic of the age when
crazy people were fogged for their
frenzy and exhibited for pay. At the
late conhagration of the Lick ing coun-
| ty infirmary ten of these unfoTtunates
were roasted alive and there are recent
instances where others of this class,
similarly confined, have perished from
cold and starvation. We have our
selves known the insane in these mfr
maries to be rallied and tormented by
! the hour by rude men and boys Who
thought it good sport to aggravate the
eocentricities of mad men or women
But aside from such gross abuses,
against which the commouest humani-
ty cries out, it is impossible in the
nature of fittings that the insane should
have adequate care or treatment in the
jails or infrmaries. To many of these
confinement for single day is
enough TO make sane man crazy un-
less too hardened or reckless to appre-
eiate or care for his surrounding
How much more unfit are they for
the poor helpless lunatic to whom
prompt, tender. vigilaut treatment in
the very incipiency of his malady is
absolutely necessary for recovery ?
We second the Chronicles sugges-
tion. This is not subject that will
take powerful and interested lobby
to Columbus but it is one that ought to
carry hitler such strength Of public
sentiment as will command and com
pei prompt and adequate legislation.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17
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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17
Petition 70 gknnex Contiguous
Territory.
The Incorporated Village OF Ashley
Ohio.

NOTIGE is hereby given that the
In Council Of the Incorporated Village
of Ashley, Ohio, through their Agent, J.
N. COOmer, Recorder Of said INCORPORATED
Village, did on the 9TH day of December,
1859, file with the Commissioners of DeIa@
ware County Ohio, a petition setting forth
that the said Council Of the Incorporated
Village Of Ashley, did on the 9th day of
Nov, 1868 duly and legally pass an ordifl-
ance entitled. tAn ordinance for lhe Ex-
tension of Ashley Corporation" authoriz-
ing the following territory to be annexed to
said Incorporation commencing on the
North line of said Corporation at the S. e.
corner of lands of John w. Shoemaker,
thence eastin range with said Shoemaker's
south line, crossing farm lands of Isaac
Barton, Sarah a Barton and James Barton
| to the County Road ear the Corporation
Graveyard, thence S. w. on west boundary
OF said county road crossing East end Of
High street and continuing south on west
side of said county road to the south line OF
lands of Bennet S. Brundige, thence West
on the line between e. 5. GaYitJ's land and
said Brundige's land, and also on south line
of B. Seyner'S land to n. W. corner of said
Gavitt's land on the east line OF said cor
poration. Thence commencing on the west
side of the Rail Road, on the corporation
line running north and south, and in range
through farm lands of VIM. Smith, S. Wood
and Elizabeth Gray, to said Grays west
lines thence north on said Wesbline to the
corporation line at west end of High st.
That said ordinance was duly published ac-
cording to law ON the 18th day of Nov, 1869,
Dy posting written copies of The same in
nye public places within said Incorporation
that said petition contains q full d0-crip-
ton Of the territory proposed to be annex
ed as aforesaid, and an accurate map or
plat of said territory according to law, and
that said petition asks said commissioners
to confirm said corporation extension
set forth IN saId ordinance and petition.
Now notice is hereby further given, that
the said commissioners of said County OF
Delaware have fixed the following time
and place for the hearing of such petition
to-Wit: On Wednesday. the 9TH day of
March, A D., 1870, at their Office adjoining
the Auditors Office in said County,
By order of the Council.
J. N. COOMER, Recorder aud
Agent of said Council.
ASHLEY, Dec ii, 1869,
dec. IL, '69-6W.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17
CHINESE As LABORERs.

The three companies under whose
protection Chinese are brought into
California, keep an accurate account
of the condition and employment OF
the persons they import From these
books it appears that $4,000 Chinese
have been brought into California. OF
these 10, ,426 have died, p, 1923 have re-
turned to China, and about 81 900 still
remain on the Pacific Coast. But on
ly II 900 live in California.
OF these Al 900, $500 are women,
children, old and deerepit, OF crimin-
ais coufned in the jails. There re-
main 31,700 active men, all at work /:
all producers. N y. Post
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17

In Iowa there are now published up
wards of two hundred newspapers and
periodicals, nine of which are printed
in German and one in Norwegian
Sixteen are issued daily, about one
hundred and eighty weekly, five month
ly, two bimonthly and one quarterly.
Politically they are divided as follows:
Republican, 147; democratic, 80; inde-
pendent or unknown, %; agricultural,
2; educational, religious, legal, mason
ic and historical. one each.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17

We hope Congress will set its face
as flint against any and all legal tender
imitation. The idea that times may be
made easy by multiplying broken
promises CT that prosperity may be
evoked at any time by setting in mo-
ton the Treasury printing presses is a
snare and a delusion. Prosperity is
not a necessary sequence of redund-
ant or debased currency by any means.
Besides, if the present circulating
medium is not adequate 10 the bust
ness of the country, the best way to
make it so is to increase its purchas-
ing power by gradual but steady ap
Proclamation to the gold Standard
That will give us more currency and
better. The time is propitious as il
ever will be for going heroieally for.
ward in the direction Of coin pay
ments. Gold is going down-let it go
Let us have no backward movement Of
initiation to whelm US again into the
gu icksands of inordinste speculations
and uncertain values.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17

From various other sources, the re-
eeipts were S23, ,79I 1865 in 1868, and S23,-
642, ,652 in 1869. In the expense of col
lecting Internal Revenue there has
been decrease 81, ,33I, ,337.
Mr.. Delano has been giving special
attention to the Tice meters, ana has
been "led to doubt their sufficiency for
the purposes designed" He has some
notifications Of the Internal Revenue
laws 10 propose at future day. His
report closes with n detailed showing
of the organization and work of the
Bureau, which is eminenUly satisfac-
tory, though of little interest to the
general reader.-N Y. Post
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17

General B. r COWen, the able Ad-
Jutant General of Ohio during the ad-
nlinistrations of Governors Tod and
Brough. has been appointed Supervi-
sor of Internal Revenue for the Dis
trict comprising California, Nevada
ard Arizona. This is an excellent ap-
pozntment, and may be considered a
marked instance of the recognition
Of real capacity and merit.
It is a noticeable fact that cOnsidera-
bic reductions in the rates Of tele-
graphing are being made il some loca-
lities This, together with the fact
that one company has been all the time
forwarding dispatches at rates from
thirty to forty per cent lower than
those Of the Western Union, shows
that reduction is at least practicable.
It is also significant OF growing public
sen timent in favor of cheaper tele-
graphy and appreciation of the fact
tina the present rates are grossly ez-
hoI bitant.
We are glad TO notice in this behalf
tha a measure introducing the tele-
gra oh into the postal service will prob
ably be passed during the present ses-
sion of Congress. We conceive is to
be Just as proper that the goveren-
ment should employ telegraphic wires
anti Instruments in the transmission
of messages for the people as that it
should employ steam or horefesh. of
course the monopolies viii cry out
aga inst this and We shall soon have
the N again sending their dead head
reports and remonstrances to all the
prominent daily papers in the country,
! But the people are already beginning
to demand it and their clamor viii
grew greater as they shall more and
more appreciate its feasibility and use
fulness, Great Britain will shortly
introduce the telegraph into her postal
sys TEN, following the example already
set by Belgium, Switzerland and other
Eu ropean countries. It is inevitable
tina the elegra ,2h shall sooner or later
be similarly popalarized in this coun-
try. which claims the origin of the in
veI,tiou, and where its usefulness
should have the widest extension
W hatever contributes TO the transmits
sion Of inteIi gence should be within
} th,, reach of all aud we expect TO se'
the day when a telegram of ten world
ma y be sent a hundred miles for three
cents instead of forty-fve as nov
: charged, and when even this rate o.
ira nsmission shall result in revenue Il
] tht postal service.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17
FOl. Sale On Ti1lle.

IA Street, Delaware. Ohio. only a short
distance from the American House. Lot .
ieeJ Iront and T. rods deep $50 per foot ]
one-thtrd cash, and balance in two equal
annual payments. Enquire OF
Or ii. PETTIBONE,
7. E. POWELL, on the premises.
Delaware, o. dec17-3tt
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17
TBelfefOntaine turnpike co.

TTNHE stockholders OF the said Conn
i pany are notified to meet at the Brick
church at the west end of the road, at one
purpose of electing seven directors. for said
Company. BY order of the Board.
delT-fN N. w. HODGES, Pres't.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-17

NA4E stOcIxhOlders Of the Delaware
- a and county Line Turnpike Company
81 - = :, ,nollIled that an election for seven Di-
TI6Ste5toTs OF said Company will be held on the
tOIh Gay OF January next at one O'Clock p.
A., aG the Brick School House, near 4.
avery s, on said line
decl7-4t DAVID DAVIS, Pres't.