Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-03-06
NO. 10.

Mr.. VIM. Lloyd Garrison delivered a dis.
course on Tuesday evening in the BROOKLYN
Academy of Music on the political questions
Of the day, including the Presidents recon.
s.rucllon pohcy and recent speech The
Presidents policy was denounced in severn
terms, and Mr.. johnson was charged with
attempting coup d'etat by the expulsion of
Congress and the introduction of members
from the Southern States.
The deaths among Indiana troops during
the rebellion were as follows: Officers. s14:
men, 1883.
letter from Emporia, Southwest Kansas.
dated the 18th instant says the spring has
fairly opened in that region, and the farmers
are all hustle in regard to spring work.
william Wilks, shoemaker of Jersey
City disappeared from his home ON the Goth
oil January, Last week his body was wash
ed ashore near Guttenburg, the skull having
Deen broken in by some blunt instrument,
and bearing evidences of murder.
AT Evansville, Indiana, a disease is pre.
Valling having malignant character, which
some OF the physicians call smallpox others
chicken-pox, and others, again, the measles.
Inc doctorsin that vicinity must be possessed
OF unusual penetrative powers. The diver.
sity OF opinion would be of little moment If
the patients recovered; but most of them
die.
The Lebanon (Tenn.) Herald of the gath
ult, says: 1--WE have been informed bv
several OF our most intelligent farmers that
the wheat crop has been badly damaged by
the recent cold weather. We fear. from
what we have learned, that there will be
very small crop harvested next summer"
An old bruiser, on the verge of delirium
tremens, attempted to butt out his brains in
the county Jail at indianapolis, Ind, few
days since, because he fancied they were
going to hang him. Backing out like goat,
he took six square drives at the wall. striking
1t as if shot from catapult, but 'weakened"
on the seventh, concluding that he either
had no brains to knock out, or that the old
shell was too hard to crush
-Four days after the rebels fred on Fort
Sumter, son of Mrs. Duncan, of Mecca.
Ohio, enlisted for the war. He Joined a
Western regiment, and after being in several
battles was reported killed at the battle of
Stone River. His body was brought home
and inferred. Afterward intelligence was
brought to the parents, by returned Union
prisoners, that their son was not dead but a
prisoner in Georgia. Other prisoners return
ing from there last Spring, brought the sad
news of his death to the sorely distressed
family. When the war closed an opportu-
nifty was offered to penetrate the rebel lines.
Mr.. Duncan went down and had his son
brought home again and buried Having
had him buried twice, as he supposed, it was
natural that they should be reconciled to
their loss, but few days ago their SON Bob,
in spite of his wounds, and deaths, and Gu-
nerals, came marching home" and is now
enjoying the hospitality of his paternal roof.
Daring burglaries are being committed in
Atlanta.
A daughter of the late Hon. w. P. Man
gum, formerly United States Senator from
North Carolina, is teaching school in that
State
A sergeant in Richmond has had two noses
shot of-his own and an India. rubber one
in his campaigns
Two negro women got up prize fight at
Cairo, ILL.,, the other day, and were fined $50
each after the battle ended
Fifteen young men, from Kenton and ad.
joining counties, in Kentucky, all of whom
have been in the Confederate army, took
their departure on the goth for Mexico.
A man named Myers, of Houston, Texas,
has killed in his life Che is fifty years old)
10000 deer. His average for many years
past has been $40 per year.
A little boy recently died at West Bethel,
Me-, in consequence of another boy piling
stones, while at play, on his stomach, while
lying down, so that he could not rise.
In Georgia, very short bill, giving a
negro all the rights of a white person. except
to vote and sit on jury, and making him
subject to the same criminal code, has been
passed by the Legislature.
A shoemaker in Leeds, England, under
took, lately, for wager, to eat an uncooked
rabbit, fur, skin and all. He succeeded, but
Immediately went into convulsions, which
continued for an hour, when he died.
The Maine Legislature has passed bill
granting pension of eight dollars per month
to all residents of Maine who served in the
war on Maine's quota, and were wounded
and are in need of assistance, aside from
the United States pension and their own re.
sources