Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-05-18
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Mr.. Reynolds, clerk at the Lookout Noun
tain House, near Chattanooga, heard screams
issuing from the neighborhood of one of the
steep rocks on the summit OF the mountain,
on Saturday On. reaching the spot and
leaning over, he discovered a young lady
hanging by portion of her clothes to some
shrubs growing from tissures in the rocks
He let himself down over the cliff, and by
preternatural exertions relieved the young
lady from her embarrassing and perilous
situation, and restored her to her friends,
safe, alive and blushing.
Miss Cornelia Eames, young lady resid-
ing in Chesterfield, Va, met with painful
accident on Wednesday morning, from the
bursting OF an Old Dominion coffee pot
The loss of one eye, it is thought, will pro
badly be the result of this hitherto unheard.
of occurrence
In Homer, Michigan, few days ago, n
school-mistress named Dyer, whipped a
pupil who had inadvertently addressed her
without the accustomed nod of consent,
until she had used up three whips nearly as
thick as Il mans finger. She then took q
ierule, an inch in diameter, and scourged
the boy until his strength gave way The
subject of her discipline is covered with
assesses from head to waist, and one arm
has been rendered useless.
AT ten O'Clock on Friday night, young
woman named Margaret Burns made a des.
pcrute assault upon Patrick O'Bren and
his wife, while they were sitting in their
house on East Thirteenth Street, N. Y. She
rushed in upon them, and without word of
warning assaulted O'Brien with a large
carving knife with which she inflicted Sc
we're wound in his neck, and then turned
upon his wife, who fortunately escaped to
neighbours room. The would-be murderess
then made her escape, and has thus far
eludcd the pursuit of the officers Jealousy
is assigned as the cause of the horrible out
rage.
An attempt at matricide has taken place
at Montreul, near Paris. A workman, while
passing before house situated in an isolated
spot, heard screams proceeding from a room
on the ground floor, and having forced an
entry, found Young man endeavoring TO
strange his mother, aged nearly seventy,
who was struggling beneath her son on the
floor. After conflict between the two men
the assassin was overcome, but taking ad-
vantHge Of the arrival of several other per
sons who had been attracted to the spot he
broke away and escaped
The Vincenncs, Indiana Sun of the 4th,
says "on Saturday night, while the freight
train of Conductor Culver was on the side
switch at Shoals, couple of brakesmen got
into a difficulty with two strangers, passen-
gers on the train, inilicting fatal injuries on
them. Ono of the victims was found dead
next morning, on the track short distance
above the train, and the other, we under
stand, died at Green's Springs, nine miles
from the scene of tho conflict The only
offence committed by the murdered men
was an attempt to steal ride in an empty
box car short distance. The conductor
and engineer of the train have been arrested
1T Shoals as accessory to the deed"
AT Detroit, on Friday, an insane young
man, named Miller, being permitted by the
managers of the hospital where he was
under treatment, TO take walk, dcliber.
mcly threw himself under the wheels of an
approaching locomotive, and was instantly
killcd-his body being horribly mangled.