Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-04-03
NO. 81
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| VI @NbiAiA AdIOllQN, on Saturday
forwarded him lull SET of United states
standard weights and measures to replace
those destroyed during the Rebellion.
A reconstructed negro in Petersburg, Va,
| recently pasted u cypher after the figure
on two dollar greenback, and passed il on
sussex county white man for twenty
dollar note.
A Fort Kearney paper declares on the
highest authority that Brigham Young pro.
poses to purchase two Of The sandwich Is.
lands, and emigrate thither with his flock.
Bishop Grace, of ST. Paul, Minnesota, de-
nounced the Fenans in the most bitter terms
in his address on st. PatriclS's day. He told
them they were the laughing stock of the
world.
Suicide is becoming an epidemic. We have
counted hfty-four cnses during one fortnight.
The last is of a discharged soldier named
Timothy f Heald Of the First Massachusetts
infantry He retired to his room at the U.
S.Hotel at Washington, on Wednesday night,
and was found the next morning dead In
bed, his throat cut with razor
The following are the reported sales Of
the merchants of New York during the past
year:-H. B. Ciafin & Co, S42, SOC, ,715; A.
7. Stewart, S39, ,93l, ,6ss; both an increase on
the previous year. The following firms re.
turn $40, 900, ,0O0;-Geo Bliss & Co., Antho.
ny & Hall, George A. Wicks & Co., and
Lathrop Luddington & Co., So, 800, 900; D.
$. Jatfray & Co, 7,OOOOOO S. B. Chitten.
den & Co, S0,292 900; Hoyt, Spague s. Co.,
80. 572, ,939; Low, Hartman & Durleec, &c..
0CO, 0O0i Garner & Co, S., Isl, 1873; j. T.
Little & Co, S., 100 600 The Lorrilards,
in eight months, paid. S275, 754 20 on their
sales.
The Brownsville (Texas) Courier, of the
sth ult., records the death by assassination,
of Mr.. Eben Cobb, native of Portland,
Maine, but resident of Texas for several
years. His body, with three bullet holes in
the head was found four or five miles below
Brownsville, on the Brazos road.
proposition is pending in Congress to
appoint mining and manufacturing Depart
ment, with Chief Of Bureau at salary of
SO, 1000
A despatch from Galveston states that a
mutiny has occurred in the 18th Ohio, the
men claiming that their term OF enlistment
is expired. Sixty are under arrest
Mr.. Pike, who has just lost a million of dol
lars by fire in Cincinnati, says lie hopes to
very soon begin new ediice Which will
exceed in elegance the Opera House Just
destroyed.
new and fatal disease among horses has
manifested itself in some livery stables IN
New York. 1t is supposed to have been
generated by contact with diseased army
horses. Livery stable keepers are keeping
very quiet about it,
n SAASuSO AtolJhlIll stults luNL tue ldSl Is
pretty certainly established that the man
Herman, who claimed TO have been robbed
some week or ten days since on Michigan
Central sleeping car of S22, 900, was never
robbed at all. He has since failed in busi-
ness in New York, and the pretended rob-
berry was simply dodge to blind the eyes
Of his creditors.
One night last week party of men at
tempted to force an entrance into Mr.. Cas-
tro's grocery store, situated near the Magno-
liza Cemetery, East Baton Rouge, La Being
in quest OF liquor they were refused admis-
sion. Undaunted by the proprielor's warn
ing, they proceeded to beat open the door,
whereupon Mr. Castro fired upon them, kill
ing one man instantly and wounding another
in the foot. The individual killed was a
young man "ell i,nor,.A IA Raiaa Ponge.
named Andrew E. Balsneur, whose parents
reside in that city. The wounded man is a
soldier Of the United States Army. Mr.. =,
Castro delivered himself up Immediately,
aud has the sympathies of the citzeus.
A recent attempt was made cat Etna Green,
Indiana, by Il man named jeremiah Albert
son. to poison Ills wife, 50 that he could
better enjoy the company of Il Miss Mary
Lloyd, of that place This Miss Lloyd was
ais assistant in the poisoning and a DR..
Kline was taken into their confidence, for a
large sum OF money giving them the poison.
The latter exposed the villanous scheme
uelOre lue pOlsOu was administered, ana the
guilty couple are now in Jail ut Wabash.
A man named Myers was shot dead last
week while crossing a stream near Kelly
Mills, Madison County, Alabama, by Saml.
Carter, who subsequently conveyed tile body
TO a livery stable, after which he was arrest
ed. No cause was assigned Tor the murder.
The men had been on lriendly terms. At
the time Of the tragedr they were on hunt
ing expedition.
4 man named Frank Eastman hired O
team ut FentOnville, Mass, last Thursday,
and stole two little girls named Randnll
The youngest made SO much noise that he
was forced to leave her. aud made his escape
with the eldest. Pursuit was Immediately
made, the man arrested, and the girl return
ed to her friends.
Mrs. Look, of Bridgewater Oneida Co.,
n Y, recently drowned herself in u brook,
while laboring under fit of melancholy.
General Miles, commanding at Fortress
Monroe, has issued an order directing that
all unemployed negroes shall be taken charge
of by guard and set to work cleaning the
country OF all substances OF a miasmatic
tendency.
General Terry, commanding the Depart
ment of Virginia, has issued an order for
the quarantine OF vessels from foreign ports,
in order to prevent the introduction of the
cholera.
A negro who had outraged white child
at Paris, KY, was taken from the jail by
citizens and hung
A tornado in Moutre County, Illinois, on
the 20lh, demolished twenty houses and in
jured several persons.
Christian Berger, who was to have been
hung next month for the murder of Miss
Mary L. Watts, of Germantown, in January
last, was found dead in his cell in Moya-
mensing prison, Philadelphia, on Thursday
morning.
Rev. David Curtis, of Stoughton, is eighty.
four years old, and has been in the ministry
for GU years, during which time his salary
has averaged Sl66 per year He lived with
his wife 55 years, and has had thirteen chill
dren.
The New Albany (Ind.) Commercial, re.
marks that houses are so scarce and rents so
high in that city, that several men are build
ing flat-bOat houses, intending to anchor
them out in front OF the city and move their
families into them. Several OF these marine
dwellings are now in course Of construction
at the city slip-yard.
Lieut.. Gen. Grant is shortly to sail for
Europe, and the Navy Department are now
looking up a vessel for his accommodation.
Captain Ammen, an old schoolmaster of the
Generals, and now oil the iron clad Mianto.
mona, is to be transferred to the man.ol. war
that conveys the military chetluin across
the ocean. The MiantOnOma Is ordered off +
for a short but important cruise in adjacent d
waters.
The evidence respecting the cruelties in
flicted upon the negroes in Jamaica by
British officers, is OF most revolving char. y
aeter. Men were first flogged and then
hung; others, after being tlogeed, were COM
PEELED TO run the gauntlet OF u Inc OF British
soldiers and sailors, who pelled them with
sFs- f.t,1 tfttass -f..