Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-02-25

Sunset Shoo-ay Cox IS the latest yer-
Congressman IIoag, deceased, Iefta
estate Of one million. |s.
Chicago has 10000 voters, and only
i 10000 taxpayers
Wendell Phillips calls William Penn
an old 'doughface."
i Motto for hotel scrvants-learn to la-
Dor and to "wait"
F. New York ladies improve dieir com
pieXion with pulverzed groye-stones.
4 Deer are so plentiful in Mississippi
this winter that venison IS a drug.
II I The. poems Of Prentice. compiled by
/ his son Clarence, are soon to be publish
ed.
General Longsueet IS President of
the New Orleans Central Republican
/ Club.
The Pope himself begins to. doubt his
linfallibility, and may vote on thatside Of
the question.
Young gentlemen who are fascinated
4 by the 'curl-of the period are styled
switch tenders.
An English Journalist paid two hun-
4 dred francs for a copy Of kochelorts
| Jlaryelhaiye on the day OF its seizure.
| a Philadelphia boarding School has
just graduated five Sallics and two Sad
les, but not one Sarah.
Moscby did not go 10 Cuba bus re-
mains quietly III home in-A Airginla- Like
the rest Of his couuuyucns he has had
belly-fu Of lighting
| Ralph Waldo Emerson viii shortly
1 lecture TO the Harvard students on the
Natural History Of the lnteliect
"a Charleston paper heads DIS ash-
iOnablo intelligence "0w Chinoh.
meaning perhapsl that aitits fashionable
intelligence is false
An indianapolis woman recently gave
birth to a child during her husbands alb
sence, and "the neighbors borrowed
two other babies and placed themi in bed
with the little stranger When the -tl-
/. err asked to see his child, the coverid
was turned down. He cOOlly turned 10
bis wife and asked, "Did anygct away
Thirty women, Of Arcadia, Trempe-
leau. county, Wisconsin, lately entered
the saloon Of Jesse Williams. and broke
open and spilled about seven hundred
dollars worth of liquors. lie had just
started in business there's
Rev. Peter Cartwright. having served
sixty-five years as Methodist minister
and fifty consecutive years as presiding
elder, is now devoting his time to lectur-
ing on THE Rise and Progress Of Meth
odism IN The West.
The committee of the Chicago Com
mon Council having in charge the water
supply have decided to recommend the
extension Of the lake tunnel beneath the
city to n point four or FIVE miles in a
southwest direction.
There is now every reason 10 believe
that FislEe's pavement, however admira-
bic in the abstract. is an abominable
nuisance in the cOncrete.--Ch Chzcag0 fJSh
"A New Hampshire wag prints this
paragraph in a local paper - man in
a certain town few days since ate ht-
teen dozen raw oysters on wager The
silver trimmings alone on his cotln cost
twelve dollars and thirty-hve cents
"A Young woman in St. Paul, Minnesota
playfully bit off her lovers thumb, 10 q.
Tiff they had the other day The girls
have been threatening TO eat their lovers
for the last six thousandyears.
The introduction Of a female arm
among the brokers neccssitates an adj
dition to the geological nomenclature OF
Wall street; to the bulls and bears we
must now add the dears.--N. y. f0Sh
Old master Brown brought his. fsrrule
2 HIS faee was angry ana red
%Anthony blair go SIT you thefet
Among tle girls, he said
/
And his head hung down on MS 1re-sl
Went right away ana saL an Gay
By the gill who loved him best
"A major in the United States army
was crossing from England On one of the
Cunard steamers, when one afternoon a
band on deck played Yankee Doodle
A gruh Englishman who stood b. in-
quired whether that was the tune the old
cow died Of ''NOt at all, TetOrted the
major: that is the tune Che old Bull died
or
Six Wisconsin jurors recently voted By
ballot Juror No. voted. "No case OF
action; No. ? voted, "Sait and battery,
Second Decree" No. 3 deemed -the
prisoner ''Cilty Of SALT" No a decided
there was mo action ofcaus; No. s vo-
ted it Ass ault and BatOry;" while No.
decided the prisoner ''Cilty of an salt
only
A sharp-tongued Texas woman aggra-
waited her lord to such degree that he
deserted his home IN Houston, and fed
to Galveston, where he gained courage
to write the following letter. preliminary
to his return
GALVESTON, January the 9Th. 1870.
10 Z05g4 BJyf lime comm ONE
mex week an have forgive you jawin me
1 lie come on the 7 o'clock trane and
shall stay ome hereafter & Fri 10 be
altered man. D want pcese and so do
yew why sh0odn't we love each other,
as we used ter when we were first jncd
together in the wholly bands of madlocl-
I've iined a temperance sosity but i you
ever Jaw me agin for Comnin ome tA
wallap YOU like 6ty fur we must have