Delaware State journal and statesman., 1865-11-21
GRIMES ANp cAsuALrIns.


GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
About week since Gen. James p Brown
low and Col. Ed. Maynard, while on their
way to Franklin, Tenn, in buggy, were
attacked at Hollow Tree Gap by highway.
men. One Of the party seized the reins OF
the horse, while the other two presented
their pistols and demanded their valuables
Gen. Brownlow handed them over $500 in
money and fine gold watch, and they took
from Col. Maynard pistol, which they af.
terward returned to him, he, fortunately moi
having any money on his person. The rob.
oers were dressed in Union Uniform The
same party, it is supposed, robbed a cotton
planter on the same night of 1000
man named John Stevenson, farmer OF
Lambdon county, Canada, was murdered on
Saturday night week It appears that he
formerly lived in Michigan, and few months
ago left to reside in Canada Two men
came over on Saturday night from Newport
(where Stevenson also formerly liyed), and
and killed him, taking from the house about
$50 Stevenson had the week previous, de.
FNN'SNN - NbAplhtAAplt buul III lut Dirk at
Sarnia, and it is supposed the men came
over expecting 10 get all the money ho pos.
sessed They are now in Sarnia jail One
Of the murderers, named Drummond, was
identified by stevenson's wife.
On Thursday morning, as the Alexandria
Railroad train was backing out on the Penn
sylyania Avenue, Washington, where the
city railroad crosses the Alexandria track, il
came in contact with city passenger car,
striking 1t in the rear, and throwing it en-.
hrely off the track. Miss Marion Hutton of
Philadelphia, who is clerk in tho Treasury
Department, and C. J. Riddle the conduc,
'or, were seriously wounded, and Mr.
Bayne, agent Of the Adams Express Com
pany, and Others slightly wounded.
The Cumberland County Almshouse at
Carlisle, Pa, was destroyed by Gre on
Thursday, The furniture was mostly saved
The inmates all escaped. The loss is Gov
cred by insurance in the Franklin Company
Of Philadelphia
The Savannah Herald of the llth states
that Sam Whaley, freedman, in the latter
part Of last month attempted to shoot Rev.
Geo. II, Eaton, Superintendent of Freedmen
on st. Helena Island, and was instantly shot
and killed by several freedmen. Hope Mcln.
'osh, an abettor OF Whaley, was lodged in
Savannah Jail
Two men on rail were recently discover.
ed of Cape Hatteras. They were the only
surViyors Of the fourteen men who escaped
from the steamer Republic, formerly the
Tennessee They had been eight days with.
out food and water. Some of the passengers
were washed off, having no strength 10 hold
on, and others becoming crazy, jumped into
the sea
A man in ST. Louis tried to commit suicide
ON the public street by plunging into his
breast dagger the blade of which was
about six inches in length His suicidal eff
forts were frustrated by blow on the head
from one Of the bystanders, which knocked
him to the pavement and relaxed his hold
on the knife. He gave his name as Henry
Hencke, and stated that he was 4 discharged
soldier of the First Kansas, and made out
that woman was the cause of his sorrows.
A train on the Pittsburg road went of the
track a short distance from Altoona, Tues.
day, on account of the breaking of aange
-tumbling down high embankment and
rolling over once or twice, when it was
brought up by contact with trees The 10.
eomotive and cars were badly damaged; but
wonderful to state, nobody was killed
First Lieutenent Thomas Keele, of the
Fourth Massachusetts, cavalry, who, it will
be remembered, murdered DR.. George Mar
lin, in Nelson county, Kentucky, some
weeks since while in pursuit of an alleged
horse thief, brother.in.law of Martin, has
been tried by court-martial and adiudgsd
guilty. II is underslood that Major General
Terry has approved the sentence of the
court, which is that Lieutenent Keefe be i'm.
prisoned for period OF twenty yearsln
prison to be selected BY the Secretary of
War
schoolhouse in North Mansfield (Vt.)
was burned on Friday by boy niue years
of Ere, his motive being to revenge himself
upon his father for sending him to school -
A loss of $4,000 was involved.
A dog, whose drunken master fell face
down, into ditch in Chicago last Thursday
night, saved the latter from sufFocation by
his piteous whining, which attracted the at.
tention of policeman
A man in Louisville, Ky, recently rob.
bed his own mother, poor woman. Of
barrel Of -four and barrel of potatoes
which she had just purchased with her hard
earnings
The Great Miltonian Ta5lsauz of Povo5,ss