Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-08-14
MIscELLANEous ITEMS.

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lady was out walking in Syracuse the
otner aay, accompanied by her servant who
was drawing an infant in one of the little
carriages made for the purpose, when nm.
noticed by mother or servant, the child fell
out upon the walk. The couple passed along
and had gone some distance from the babv.
When they were accosted by gentleman
VINO had witnessed the whole transaction
with MADAM, you've dropped something y
at the same time pointing to the infant on
the walk in the distance. The sequel can
be imagined.
A German paper relates the following
story OF one of the late battles, which is not
altogether incredible:-A young soldier. in
the midst oil the tumult of battle, thought he
saw on the grass four-leaved shamrock
growing AS such plant is rare and ia
considered to bring good luck, he STONED to
'aKe II. AT that very instant cannon ball
passed over his head so near that he must
have been killed if he had not been bending
down. The man so miraculously saved has
sent the plant to which he owes his life 10
his betrothed at Kenigsberg.
German employed in pottery at Evans.
vile, Ind, recently fell heir to $1,O75. 900.
lett him by a relative In Germany. He is
said to deplore this wicked favor of fortune,
preierring to remain an humble potter.
Sarah Waltz, young girl Of Hepburn
township, Pa, on Thursday was bitten by
copperhead snake. At last accounts she was
in critical condition.
John Miller, lonely bachelor of Mon.
trose, Pa, got tired of life and ended his
days by opening his juguiar vein with a
pocket knife a few days ago.
A very sedate gentleman entered the Bos.
ton journal office Sunday evening, and asked
with the most perfect nonchalence what the
London Times said yesterday about the Eu.
ropean war.
DR.. Seldom Cady, of Canaan, Columbia
county, N. Y.,.while engaged in shooting
rats in his barn, few days since, accidently
shot his son, lad of nine years, through the
heart, killing him instantly.
Mrs. Abbott. widow, died of cholera in
Brooklyn a few days since. Three little
children, dependent upon her for their bread.
were the only witnesses of the death scene.
Frederick D. Tator, Chicago merchant.
has suddenly disappeared, leaving behind
him very jealous wife and business in
good shape
The tract OF land which the Government
purchased near Vicksburg lately, as a ceme-
terry for the dead of the Union army, cost
$4,000.
A pretty word to look at. The news from
the minor German States is given in the
journals of Fatherland' under the following
simple heading-"Mi "Mitteleuropaischest
grippe"
Several thousand coloredpeople celebrated
the anniversary of the Jamaica emancipation
at Memphis, on Wednesday The proces.
sion marched through the principal streets
without disturbance.
A German woman who arrived in Belle.
vile, ILL.,, about week ago, from the old
country, was robbed Of chest containing
SlO,3OO in gold and silver by some scamp
whom she had hired to convey her baggage.
On the s7th ult., the wife of David w.
Stambaugh, Esq, of New Philadelphia,
Ohio, with view to hasten the kindling Of
the hre IN her cooking stove, poured coal oil
out OF can upon the Goals. An explosion
followed, and instantly Mrs s. was envel.
oped in a sheet Of fame, which burned her
almost to crisp before it was extinguished.
She survived only six or eight hours. Two
or three fatalities, identical with this, occur
every week of late.
Gen. Bailey, who saved Gen. Banks'
Texan Army and Admiral Porter's fleet, bv
damming the Red River, has become one of
the heaviest stock breeders in Missouri.
A young lady of Columbus walked, satur.
day night week, in her sleep, out of fourth
story window. Strange to say, she was only
slightly bruised. 4-t
At the ball given at Saratoga SPRINGS.
New York, on Friday night week, the Coun.
tess Romero, of Havana, wore diamonds 10
the value of $4,000.
The New York Express saws:
what would the Republican editors do
IT Vallandigham and the Woods shoulddeY"
They would next pray that the Brookses
might have sense enough to follow the er-
cellent example. Pitts5urg Gasette.
The illustrious Antonio Lopez de Santa
Anna seems to be getting himself into trou,
BILE lately. The advocates Of the cause 70
which he now processes to be friendly dis.
trust his offers of assistance, the sheriff nabn
him, and the Emperor Macmillan robs him,
and all because he was not satisfied in Sta
Thomas with "letting well enough alone"
few weeks since Southern young man
of wealth visiting Boston on business was
taken sick at his hotel, and during his sick.
ness was devotedly nursed by an Irish girl
of remarkable beauty. Last Saturday week
the young man married his nurse in Charles.
town, Mass The groom is "a, the bride not
yet -.
A justly enraged husband publicly horse.
whipped travelling photographer at Ply.
mouth, few days since, for distributine
photographs of his wife, which had been
disfgured by the addition of whiskers and
mustaches. The artist went to law, and
was comfortsd to the extent of six csnts
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