Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-05-22
MISCELLANEOUS 1TEms.

lying dead at his shop door on the 9th inst
1t appears that on several occasions u set @
graceless scamps had during the night tim
put old wagons, cutters, and other article
on the roof and all sorts of rubbish befor
his shop door, breaking the window lights
and committing other acts of meanness, en-
titling them to free lodgings in State Prison
On the Sunday night previous, they put
, long pole down the chimney and fastened
an old cutter at the top. 1t is supposed tina
Mr. p, in attempting to remove the articles
fell from the roof, causing his death. Mr.
Peabody was quiet, inoffensive old gentle
man.
A singular and fatal accident occurred
during recent heavy thunder storm, in
which little daughter of Bohemian family
living in Shakopee Village. Minnesota We.
."s'antiy killed by lightning, while sleeping
in bed with two other children. The
lightning entered through a whole pane Of
glass, making hole not larger than rifle
bullet. The little girl that was killed lay on
the side of the bed next the window, and
the child lying upon the opposite side of the
bed Yas badly burned, while the youngest,
sleeping in the middle, did not receive the
slightest injury.
Martin Lutz, a wealthy farmer, living neal
Cookstown, Fayette County, Pa, recently
returned home at night from few days
absence, and resolved to test the courage oi
his cousin, a lad of sixtaen, who was alone
in the house and did not expect Lutz back
for a week Lutz accordingly entered
stealthily, and in the darkness was supposed
to be robber by the lad. who challenged
him to appear three times to appear, or he
would shoot him. Lutz kept quiet when the
boy fired with navy revolver, when Lutz
fell to the floor exclaiming, You have
killed me, but it was all my faultn In fif.
teen minutes, he was dead
The Pittsburg Gazette says:-On Friday a
lad named Porter, while at work in Saw.
yers soap factory, on the corner of Penn.
sylyania Avenue and Stevenson Street, fell
through hatchway, receiving injuries from
which he died a few hours after The
funeral took place on Saturday, and while
the solemn cortege was en- route to Hilldale
Cemetery, the carriage containing the mother
and sister of the deceased capsized. Mrs.
Porter and daughter were thrown violently
to the ground, along which they were drag
ged for some distance with the wreck of the
vehicle. The old lady had her collar bone
broken, besides being injured internally 10
such an extent that it is feared she cannot
recover. Miss Porter's injuries, though
painful, are not regarded as dangerous.
Gov. Sutter, the first discover of gold in
California, is supported by pension from
the State; Comstock, who found and gave
his name to the great silver lode in Nevada,
is vagrant trespasser in Montana; Alva
Gould, locator of the Gould & Curry claim,
is making shingles at Washoe Valley; Mar
shall and Wemer, who found the first gold
on the South Fork of the American River,
in 1S47, are both reduced to biting poverty.
The war cost Baton Rouge, La, eight
thousand slaves, one hundred dwellings,
five thousand bales of cotton burned, five
thousand stolen or captured, and an incred-
BILE number of horses, cattle and agricultural
implements, which will, it is thought, amount
to ten millions of dollars.
A committee from Salt Lake has arrived
in New York, to prepare for the reception
of about three thousand Mormons, who are
expected from Europe this summer.
The sum of $228, 900 has thus far been
realized by the granting OF liquor licenses in
New York.
On the first inst, at Leavenworth, Kansas,
apoliceman, in attempting 10 make an arrest
was mortally wounded, and soon died. The
murderer was seized by the crowd and hung
in the rear of the jail. The Journal regrets
that the people of Leavenworth felt it to be
their duty to thus trample upon the laws
and infiict summary punishment upon the
cowardly criminal
A handsome unknown man, evidently a
German, and about thirty-fve years of age,
was found dead in one of the streets of New
ark, on Monday week, from hemorrhage of
the lungs.
There is famine at the Cape de Verde
Islands, and the Portuguese Government de-
crees the free entrance there of various arti-
cles of food.
Captain Fox, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy, goes to Europe to formally present
the resolutions adopted by Congress, con.
graduating the Czar of Russia on his escape
from assassination.
The Legislature (House) of Tennessee, sn
che nth inst. passed a bill comforting civil
rights on the colored people, by close vote
of 81 to 2s. An amendment, excluding
blacks from juries, was carried by 80 against
go, and one excluding their children from
! common schools hy a close vote
During April, there were 1856 post.offices
reopened throughout the Southern States.
A correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune
says:-It is said that the indictment under
which JEFF. Davis will be tried, has been
drawn 10 meet the provisions of the act TO
punish treason, passed July II, 1862, the
second section of which provides that 'any
person who shall hereafter set on foot, or
engage in any rebellion against the authority
of the United States, shall be imprisoned
not exceeding ten years, or be fined not ex-
ceeding ten thousand dollars and the libera.
ton of all his slaYes;" tremendous method
of making treason odious. 1t Is also said
that Justice Field, of the Supreme Court,
has expressed the opinion that this section
repeals all previous provisions of the law
for the punishment Of treason. Johnson's
plan for the trial of JEFF. is regarded hero as
a farce and a mockery.
Jamaica advices of the 7th say that Sir
Henry Storks is expected as the new Cover
nor. Col Hobbs, who ordered such afro
cious treatment of the negroes, has commit
ted suicide Mrs. Gordon, the widow of