Smyrna times., 1860-09-13


RAN Orr THE TsAcK.--The train Of carr
that were proceeding northward, last Friday |
on the Delaware Railroad, when within short
distance below FELTON, station. the engine. beg |
gage and mail cars were thrown off the track. |
The baggage and mail cars we're turned over,
and the engine run into large pile of Lime.
The engineers backwas slightly hurt, end the |
Mail Agent badly bruised. The disaster, says
The Journal, was occssioned by coming 10 con-
tact with a horse which had got his hoot fast
IN the track. The train was passing around a
curve at the time, at suchspeed as TO render II
impossible for the engineer to stop the engine
before the fatal result stated above. The horse
wan killed.
AeIDEFKAr OF GEN. WALKER.-G General Walker
has been driven out of Tfuxillo by the forces
" lipradisia, assisted by the English war steam-
err lcarns. The fllibusters men were reduced
to twenty by losses occasioned in defend
ing tho citadel. Walker himself, on being
summoned 10 surrender, esca ped down the
coast with seven of his followers. ntho sail
ing of the Osceola, which brought the news TO
Batayanos Island of Cuba. General Alvarez,
with three hundred and fifty men, was enter
ing Truxillos Thisiu,elligence was conveyed
TO New Orleans via Havana.
On Saturday last, about 2 o'clock, a. M, the
steamer Lady Egin was run into by schoon-
or, of Wamkegan, Lake Michigan. From the
statement OF o7e of tho survivors, II appears
that al the time of The accident the passengers
were mostly in the cabin, dancing. A moment
after the crash was heard all was still, and in
about half an hour the steamer sank carrying
down over 300 persons. OF these, very few
were saved. Al the time OF the accident there
were three separate military or fire companies
on board, nearly all of whom were drowned. !
| ] MATTRESSES FILLED WITH WooD.--One of
The "Down East" inventions of the past y ear,
is smachine for making curled hair for mat
tress filing out of wood. A solid block of ma
pie, Eastwood, quaking sap, or any other sweet
scented, inexpensive wood, is rapidly converted
i into a fibrous mass, much resembling white
horse hair, and this makes excellent filling for
mattresses, and is much cheaper than hair.
WOOL or cotton, and better than husks. moss.
sea-grasa, &C. The machine is not expensive,
and can be set or. ia any place where wood 10
\ plenty, and where there is water or steam
power, l. can be worked by any ordinary me-
chanlc. n ,,s.e., rs :
!, How no Grow PEACHES EVERY YEAR.--A
correspondent of the Ohio Cultipator Gays:
), ..Procirs your trees grated upon the wild
plum stock. The tree partakes Of the nature
of the plum, being hardy, and will never win.
ter-kill, and putting out late in the spring, will
} never be injured by the frost, and it is Ger.
} tain preventive against the workings Of the
peach grub, while the natural lifetime of the
} tree rs larger than that of our own so you may
, depend upon peaches every year, and for long
! period. of lime. without the destructive and dis
; copraging Influences attending the growth o
! the peach." a9 Ga @ts#
n VALUABhE IMPROVEMENT IN WATCHES. :
: Among the valuable patents jost issued by tn,
Patent Office in Washington, says the N. O
Picayune. is one for an improvement nwatch
" ess BY this invention watches and othe
:, timekeepers are made Terma nently and com
. pletely tight. aud dust excluding, and conse
lquently will never need cleaning. The out
side cases can be thrown open, and the watc
laid in water for days without any moistnr
d penetrating to the movements.
J, LADY HlYRoE's WILL.-The will Of the lat
o- Lady Byron, who did 10 England, May 10TH
1860, 10 her Goth year, has been admitted ,
IN probate. She was the relict of the poet Byron
! who died ps long ago as the year 1924, an
VI wa3 in her own right, Baroness Wentworth
I'm addition 10 100000 personally, she we
m possessed Of number Of valuable estates. ST
: has left a considerable amount for various cha
= table purposes; but the most remarkable tie
q in the will is the following: She giyes -.
ce Charles Fpllen, of Boston, United States, E3(
h. (about 81 t5009 To assist him in the dificulti
he will have 10 contend with 10 his disnteres
y : ed advocacy for the rights of,he colored race
Z - RKxoLT;kr SING SrSss-- A desperate sttem
lr- to escape from Sing Sing prison was ma
IS Friday BY party of convicts, headed by d
on notorious Tom Kelly They bolted from t
., hat shop and boarded sloop at the wha
!. where bloody fight ensued between the CO
~ vieis and the captain of the sloop and the kes
ON ers. During the conflict one of the keep,
led and the captain of the sloop, named LafarI
he were wounded so severely that their Tecoys
is considered doubtful. The convicts were
!, naly subdped by the officers Herald.
!. TaE Boston Traveller says the crop of
plesr inihe New England States, this seas
OF win be larger and Of better quality than for
Of or twelve years past, provided the trees
,ity not shaken heavily by September gales. At
~, present time, in the Boston market, app
50 bring % SO so per barrel.