Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1871-01-27
AGRICULTURAL oRUMBs.
[From the Boston Commercial Bulletir


Be prudent in planting; one corn is
often enough for an acher, and if you
must leave anything out, why drop your
potatoes.
Keep your rake in good order-Re-
formed rakes make good husbandmen.
Farmers are not expected to be men
Of letters, but It is generally understood
hat you will make A while the sun
shines.
Your field may be "furrowed with
care but it cannot be narrowed by the
recollection.
Even your grief may be of a moving
character, for when there. are no horses
the farmers (slteers viii move the
plough.
You must remember which are the
most noisy vegetables-the potato balls,
and you ean nnakesa pumpkin holIer.
Keep IN mindthe active ones, beans
will run, you can see the cornstalk in
the field, and one vine that you plant
you may md hop when it comes.
Don't let your cattle stray; they often
wander to the most mysterious places;
we once saw a cowhide in a shoema-
ker's shop.
Best locks for your barn in winter
Bullocks.
Flower for the hayfeld-The win
rows.
The sentimentof cheese is astronom-
ical, for when forced to expression it
gives the milky whey.
When you in get your stocks for the
winter, remember you cannot wear the
hoes you dug the potatoes with.
Your wife may baste the chicken,
but you will have to sow the crop your
self.
When you find the larks pur in the
country it may be safe to judge the cat
tie go to the fields.
If you are day about the head in
spring it may be from over-stuffng;
some are savory in the river in summer.
The flowers are no exceptions in fol-
lowing the fashions; go to pond and
you find the lily pads there.
If you design to sweep the country at
election time you will find an under
brush in the woods.
If you are profane and like a damask
Rose in the farm kitchen for tulips. you
may get it.
DEATH OF LIEUTEKANT COLO
MEL McELROY.
Captain J. N. McElroy, late of the
Eighth United States Cavalry, died sud-
denly Of paralysis of the brain, at the
residence of his -father-in-law, F. H.
Woods, Esq, in this city on Monday,
the 10th inst. Captain McElroy was the
son of the Rev. Dr. McEIroy, now of
Santa Clara. and was born at Delaware,
Ohio, in 1887, where he commenced his
Il.
there, but finally accepted a Cadetship
to West Point, where he passed several
years, but left before graduation. He
commenced the study of law with the
Hon. Chas. Sweetser, of Delaware, and
Practiced for several years with great
success, thoug h still almost a boy, but
always signing for the soldier career
which he deemed he had left behind him
forever. The war breaking out; he was
employed in organizing the First Brig
ade from Ohio, served for some time as
A. A. G. en- the staff of General Cox,
who became his warm friend. During
the Western Virginia Campaign he re-
ceived the appointment of Major of the
Twentieth Ohio Infantry, served under
General Buell. in the Wertern Campaigns
and became Lietenant Colonel of the
-Sixtieth Ohio after the battle of Shiloh,
and served in the Wilderness Battles,
and at the Petersburg mine explosion,
and received several brevets for gallant
conduct.
On account of his i'll health he was
put upon Judge Advocate duty at
Washington, and atterward in Kansas.
At the close of the war he served on the
plains in the Indian country, Nevada,
Arizona, and elsewhere. He resigned
from the army within two months, so
that he might be with his wife, to whom
he had been married but two years, the
late changes in the army rendering it
impossible to have her and his only son
with him on the cavalry service. He
has, since his resignation been assisting
in the business of his father-in-law. To
soldier and civilian alike, Col. McElroy
was the same bhthe, free-hearted, cour-
teous gentleman, an honor to the uni
form he wore, never saying a rough
word, and always thoughtful of the
pleasure and feelings of those around
him. Even the chilliest heart must be
moved at the sight of so handsome and
brave a young fellow going down in the
struggle, almost ID the midst of friendly
greetings, and still warm the last em-
brace of his wife, and apparently with a
bright future shining upon his fallen
head. San FfiaHc2Se0 NeaOS Letter,
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