Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1871-01-13
NEws Of THE WEEK

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Pensions are now paid quarterly.
The New Hampshire Republicans have
nominated James Pike for Governor.
there Is not a school or any description
in Patrick county, Virginia.
There viii be eighteen United States Sem
ators chosen in different states this month.
The siamese twins have afteen children
living.
II is now said Senator Morton win sue
eeed Fish as Secretary or state.
Tne sale Of seats In Beeehers Church re-
alized $4,000.
They have had no snow this winter at
Omaha.
Hon. J. r. West has neen elected United
states Senator from louisiana.
The next Democratic State Convention is
to be held at Columbus on the Ist Of June
next.
Steamers are preparing to lay a telegraph
cable to connect Porto Ricos and Jamaica
and Havana.
Dom Piatt and George Alfred Townsend
have bought out the Washington Sunday
Herald.
The Ohio Legislature Is thus classified
Senate-Republica I9; Democrats, IL
House Of Representatiy iyes-rR Republicans, 81;
Democrats, s.
The Michigan Legislature has elected
Thomas w. Ferry to the United States SEN
ate to succeed Senator Howard.
A gentleman attending Spurgeon's week
u prayer meeting writes that, the evening
being wet, there were only 100 persons
present.
Ca1ifornia's people use, on an average,
ten gallons OF wine each annually and
sixteen and three-ffth pounds Of coffee.
The Democrats seem to have had the up
per hand In organizing the Missouri Legis-
lature.
The next State Fair viii be held at
springneld, on the 25th, 18th. 27th and 2sth
days September.
The Democrats elected their officers in or
ganizing the Indiana Legislature. Two
Senators elected as Republicans went over
to the Democrats.
In the appraisement Of the Cincinnati
Times, the ssgood WiI1'' was valued at one
hundred and forty thousand dollars.
A late foreign mail brings the report that
DR.. Livingstone has arrived at Mozam-
bique. and he was waiting there for a yes
sci bound for England.
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Lorain county (Ohio) Senatorial District,
dispIeases the Democrats, as it makes a
strong Republican district.
There are sos grain dIstiIleries in the Uni
ted States surning out 67O, ,9s4 gallons Of spir-
its per day. The amount Of spirits In the
country in bond and ont on the 18th OF No
vember last was s, ,eO2, ,5s4 gallons.
Not less than six literary hacks in Lon
DroodD according to their own, but not to
the public's liking.
Horace Greeley denies that the President
has rendered him an appointment on the
San Domingo commission and emphatic
ally declares that he would not, in any
event, go &c. San Domingo.
The law providingfor the payment of the
Morgan Raid claims was, on Tuesday, by
the Ohio Supreme Court, pronounced void,
not having received a two-thirds vote in
the Legislature.
Hon. VIM. H. Seward, now in Japan, has
been seized with paralysis. depriving him
of the use of both of mis- arms. He proposes
to extend his trip to India, and on his way
home Will visit st. Petersburg, upon the in
yitation of the Czar Of Russia.
The people of Johnson county. Indiana,
were much ehagrined that after spending
$4,000 on new jail, little wizened chap
was able to dig his way out with a jack
knife in tWenty-four hours.
The Beecher family are thus divided on
woman suffrage; CathariRe and Thomas
(oldest and youngest) are opposed to it,
while the intermediate members, Edward,
Henry, Harriet,Asrt 1saDeIga, are IN 1ts
favor.
John stuart Mil was lately thrown out OF
Parliament, and a nobody, Smith by name,
was put in his place. This was because
Smith had money. and because Tory obsti-
macy was more than match for Liberal In
telligence.
A New Yorker who had passed around a
plate at a religious meeting for contribu-
tfons for the heather, and then pocketed
the money, has been acquitted Of stealing
by the jury ofthe vtctnage on the ground
that he was the greatest heather they
knew, and therefore justly entitled to the
money.
Two notable deaths. occurred wednesday
John C2YQde, Of PennsS Slyanla, long Con-
gressnaan nom that State and chairman Of
It's State Republican Executive Committee
andPerry Fuller, a somewhat noted man
inside politics during the Johnson Admin
istration.
The Ohio State Board Of Agriculture or
ganized by eIecting Judge W,m-- Long, Of
TIffn, PI esident; James buckingham, Of
GAINESVILLE, Treasurer DR.. H. S. Babbitt. OF
Columbus, Recording Secretary ]. IT. Kip
part. OF Columbus, Corresponding secre-
tary.
representative wilson, Of Ohio, has
made an argument before the Senate Com
mfttee on the public lands IN favor of oed-
ing the public lands in Ohio to the State
The house, last session, passed a bill fol
this purpose. The committee win report
the bill favorably next month. The
amount oflands is 10000 acres.
The double-headed baby was on exhibi-
ton IN Gallon, Ohio for one day last week
its parents being on their way to visit the
mothers relatives at North Lewisburg.-
Fifty cents admission was charged, but
whether Brown occupied the ticket office OF
not We are not informed. One of the twins
is thlnb restless and not as robust as the 9TH
er, but both are declared to be unusually
pretty.
We are informed that lanes Hub
bell. son of Hon. J. R. Hubbell. has
sought and obtained from Mr.. Delano