The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-11-26
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Varieties.
Sixty vessels are detained in consequence break
in the Wsllsnd Canal From the present Indication Of
the closing Of the canals at an early day, these vessels
every Of which Is laden with wheat and -four, will
be detained all the winter.
william A. Kobbe has been recognised by the Presi
dent Consul General Of Nassau for the United States
to reside in New York.
A quorum of members Of Congress is already assem-
blsd in Warrington. The session will be important and
exciting
This morning at sunrise the thsrmometsr in tn city
stood at 80 the first time has fallen to the freezing
point this month On the 18th 1t stood at Boston Ira
veiler, Tuesday
We learn from the Csntrsville Queen Anne's county
Md Sentinel that colored belonging to the estate
of the late John SPARKS died place week at
the advanced age Of lag years
appears recent statistics that there are In Cor
neetcut 1877 cotton mills l2s wooon mills 81 paper
mills ls7 anneriss carpet factories 81 clock factories
sas coach AID wagon factories. beside. acore. for the
manufacture Of sewing silk pins machinery, and Yan
kse notions fevsry description"
An awful murder was committed on the night of the
an ;ays the tns LsSga river We in
name Of Lawrence Turney, lived with his wife in frame
shantee the banks of the Delaware Canal and they
other This morning, about daylight, Mrs Turney was
found naked and dead in front Of her house. her skull
ed 1t was indeed, most horrid sight Her clothes had
all been burned off her body, and lay scattered in the
house having locked end barred himssfn so that the
officer of justice obliged to break in the window to
arrest him. The body evidently looked though she
had been first killed and then thrown the ire with
the intention OF burning her up. coroner's inquest
held and verdict rendered in accordance with the
facts.
The Boston Wing OF Monday says; 1--WE feel autho-
rised say that the Of MIR Adams decidedly inn
proving His medical adviser spoke last evening
favoably of his recovery than he has done at any
ment before"
Charles Mosler, convicted on Thursday night
of the murder eff his wife, made an attempt to
commit suicide in his cell in Moyamensing prison
O'Clock, by hanging himself with pieces Of sheet he
had torn for the purpose, TO nail in the wall of his cell
The nail in consequence # the weight of his body
out and Mosler fell upon the floor before the
nation of his design The noise occasioned by the fall
alarmed the Waterman and brought him to the cell i'm
watch over the prisoner, and prevent any farther at
tempt on his life We told that this wretchel man
s in most frghtfu state of mind He is continually
haunted by the apparon Of his murdered wife who il
streaming from it, staring him in the face and he begs
for his immediate execution-PL .americsn, Tuesday
AWFUL ACCIDENT yesterday evening. about FIVE
o'clock two grey horses attacked to belonging to
the Circus Company of Sands. Lent & Co, passing
through the city, became unmanaGeable in Chestnut
street, Seventh, and up Chestnut. When they
reached the Masonic Hall, the driver thrown out,
nut and Eighth Streets stood the vehicle of Dr. Hodge
The driver inside and the heads of the horses
locking down the street. The driver seeing the
way horses coming towards the pavement jumped out
aud seized his and in the act Of turning their heads
out into the street. with the object of avoiding COLI.
sion, when the infuriated animals rushed him. and
ramplng him under their feet. killed him instantly.
The OF the deceased John Donneliy He leaves
a wife and children .anerican of yester.
day.