Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1854-11-01
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

aOtTThere were 164 deaths in Philadas du-
ring the pastweek, 8 ofwhichwere from schoole-
Era E al Ell +
lO1y< The brig Adele, of this port, which left
here onthe 22d of August, bound for st. Kits, 1
was rocked on the Sd ultimo, and the cres, with |
the exception of one rban, persisted, after endu-
ring the most terrible hardships| Capt. Obi |
en-, of the brig Alvaro, saved George Touro, of
this city, who had braved all the hardships in-
culelt 70 -heing~ shipwrecked, and treated him,
in kind and humane panner. PhiLa. Sun.
! z DET serious jcenllagration, occurred at
i Cleveland, 'Ohio on Saturday, by which three
squares were laid in ruins, including the Custom
house and two hotels, causing loss of over
f$1, 100000.
/ OF Later accounts from Buffalo state, that
tby the collision on the Great Western Railroad
81 persons have been killed, and n injured.
VF- Messrs Pearse & Murphy ofNew York,
have been awarded the contract for building
the engines the war steamer Niagara. h
i (E.FMr. Curry, now Secretary for Oregon,
) will be made Governor of the Territory
6[ Yellow fever is rapidly disappearing at
Charleston, S. G. 80" -
~ Fhe Lewis County, New York, Bank
bills are in bad.Teppte. ~.
81 The Secretary Of the Treasury has met
with an accident which will detain HIM al Lou
f isVlle some weeks.
: o. The steiner George Law, at New York,
= yesterday, from California, brings 81 ,O82, 900
in specie, and the mails Of the Both ult. ii.
i " The Star Of the West, from the same
;: point, also brings 100000 ir specie, and 550
= passengers 7'.' ~"
;, " The news fom Sun FRANCISCO possesses
= bGt httic. interest. ... .....1 {
o. Frpml Oregon We have the painful intel
igencc Of 4 terrible massacre 0. overland emi
+ grants by the Indians OH Bose River, in which
d nsnetcen persons were bnichered; forty heaC
j. of CATTLE, iVe head OF horses, aud Il considera
: bic sum Of money were carried oil. A. force
has been despatched after them, and it IS to b,
hoped they viii be captured.
ttY@ Vessels arriving from Europe are lonsin,
q many of thar passsngers by cholera
v !. o. Tie steamer Isabel WHICH so long sue
n ccssvely p.yed between Suuthern ports and tn
Havana, has at lcnght been wrecked near Ke
8 West. "t SO
I 0Cr57 The large dry goods house of Handle
.. ton q Son, lititMore, has suspended.
i OK The question VIII oysters cause.-the eho
era, has been settled by some of the most dis
tiheuished members Of the medical faculty
p TT The Pacific with four days later new
+ from Europe, brings accounts of another ris
. in Flour, but nothing saiistdcer as to the ia
of Sabastoppl.
w me Internal machine which explode
at Earle's Hotel, New York, remains mystt
81 ry, so far as the inventor of it is concerned
i. 0N4TAsa o. Butman, one of the officers el
- gagged in the arrest Of Burns and SIMS, the fug
IN tive slave, was mObed at Wocester, Mass, We
! terday, and barely escaped with his life.
i"' OF A farmer in France stuck a pea into
ng potato, and planted them together in March,
Ill The pea produced a stalk which was covere
,ss with pods, and the potato gave eleven healtl
= roots. He thinks, by this means, double Gro
- may be obtained, aud the potato disease pr
ne vented. b i a' .. ~. r.#
he OF A man in Michigan, not long since, cor
Fps mitted suicide by drowning, As the body cou
m. not be found, the coroner held an inquest on b
:. hat and JACKET, found on the bank Of the lax
~ Verdict-" found empty"