Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-11-25
NEWS Of THE WEEK


French war stories-BalIoonaey
clarke county Is entirely out OF debt.
According to the census, Utah has a pop
ulatfon numbering S5,So4-
me internal revenue receipts for the fis-
cal year, to date, amount to s70,5O4, 40.
me Duke Of Aosta has been elected King
ofspain, the vote standing 1sl to 40.
The Prussians have retaken Dion, and
are also occupying Dole.
John Bright's health Is still impaired,
and he VIII resign, provided the war party
Of the Cabinet prevails.
az. TreiIhard has received notification of
his appointment as Minister from France
to the United States
TIE onciaI election returns in Maryland
show the total Democratic majority in the
State was 1909.
The estimates OF the expenses OF the Ma
w for the next year are eight millions less
than for the last.
Farnsworth's majority in the Second
Congressional District OF Illinois is 1881
Aoore's in the Seventh is GIL.
Schenck says he will not contest Camp
BELLS election, but. If it is done. it viii be
done by Republicans Of his district.
ing the months ending October 81 exceed
cd the exports by only s9,750,oOO.
The Temperance Times, the late organ Of
the Prohibition political party, published at
Dayton, has expired.
General Butler denies that he entertains
the views recently attributed to him favor
ing a forcible settlement OF the Alabama
claims.
7,,r.a.t- a. EN- remarked. desired ear
nestly to make peace Immediately aIsef
the fall Of Sedan but was oyerruled Dy tne
King and Princes who were obst1nateiy
bent on capturing Paris
7reaarraban claims the bribery letter
written By clinton Rice to Piatt, does not
prove Rice to have been an attorney of the
claim, but Of Piatt.
The Republican majority in Kansas Will
exceed 10000. The Legislature stands los
Republicans, 10 Democrats and Settlers
candidates.
According to the census returns, New
York hasa population Of 4,s7O,s48; an In
crease of S89 Oe9 during the last hve years,
and Of 40, III in ten years,
lacoby, the German liberal, has been de-
feated in the elections for the Parliament
This is attributed TO his opposition to the
annexation Of Alsace and Lorraine.
Mr.. Dawes takes his eighth term OF Con-
gressfonal service from the people of Mas
sachusetts, with the handsome plurality Of
1000. and a clear majority Of 200 votes.
The report Of the Secretary Of the Navy
viii be finished in a few days. He urges an
increase in the number Of ships. He thinks
the present navy inadequate and the ves-
sells too few and inefficient in construction.
A dispatch says that Geo. Francis Train
has again been arrested by the agents of
the Provisional Government and is now in
jail at Lyons.
General Butler has published a letter Civ
ing the history Of the McGarrahan claims
before Congress and in the House Judiciary
Committee, and his opinion or the case.
The election of Aosta is popular through
out the provinces in Spain. There were no
disorderly demonstrations anywhere,
though some had been feared, A commit
tee was appointed to go to Florence and
present the King with the crown.
An ofIicial statement Of the strength Of
the Russian army on a war footing, shows
the following result; Regular army. infan.
try, 977 ,2S3 men cavalry, 6s,509; artillery
9s,57s engineers, 2, ,16o; guns, 900. Irregu
lar army (Cossacks, troops of Caucasus), in
fantry, 81, ,174 men; cavalry, las, ,s92; artn
Iery, 1871; guns, go. Grand total, 1857, ,857
Thomas Carlyle writes two and half col
umns in small type to the London Tines
on the war. He shows what France, aftel
an experience of four centuries, is pretty
sure to do again when she gets on hel
feet, and therefore praises the policy pur
sued by Prussia, which he claims is found
ed on solid practical prudence.
William H. Seward is visiting Japan
He was the guest of Minister DeLong a
Yokohama, and Consul Shepherd at Yeddo
The first interview ever given TO a privat
individual by the Mikado was given MI
Seward. The only persons present wer
Minister DeLong and Mr.. Shepherd. Actin
Secretary of the Legation.
Treasurer Spinner estimates the total In
creased receipts and decreased expenditure
of the Government during the past year a
Ss6,734020 80. He AYERS that during the thre
hundred and nine executive days OF tn
year, in which time the above savinl
was made, the average saving ON the work
ing days of the fiscal year that closed witt
June 80, 1870, over those Of the year proceed
ing was 81, 40 per day, being over IS, ,264 pc
hour, and over one hundred and fifty-fou
dollars per minute, being more than equa
to the dropping of two dollars and fift,
cents into the Golfers Of the Treasury in ev
cry second of the time.
It is said the particular violations Of tn
Paris treaty OF 1856 which Russia has eon
planned of are as follows The cruise of tn
Prince of Wales IN the Black Sea in a
English frigate a similar trip subsequent
Iy by Lord BuIWer Lytfon; the appearanc
of an Austrian squadron at Varna. TurE
ish city on the Black Sea, when the En-
peror of Austria was there; and, lastly, th
voyage of the Sultan in a Turkish frigate.-
The Russian Envoy at Constantinople pr
tested against this latter circumstance
the time but Intellectually.