Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-06-26
NO. 81.
MIscELLANEOUs ITEMS.

Holland.
Madame Russel whipped Victor Curtz in
lair stand up fight, in Norfolk, Sunday
evening week.
man named Cung shot his wife in West
Hoboken, N. j., mistaking her for burglar.
An election has been ordered by Gov.
Murphy, of Arkansas, on August 9th, for
three Congressman and two Supreme Judges.
The grasshoppers have appeared in strong
force in Buchanan county, Miss, and fears
are entertained from their ravages upon
vegetation.
The latest reports from the Red river
country are unhvorable as to the prospects
Of. the crops, Tho over1owed lands have
been newly planted.
On the afternoon OF the 18th instant, Mar
garet Flandery, servant girl aged s1s, was
burned to death while attempting to kindle
fire with kerosene, at Holley, Orleans coun.
ty, New York.
Major General Pope's expedition left
LeavenwOrth for Fort Bliss Texas, on the
3lst ult., with an escort of 800 men and
baggage train of 40 wagons.
A travelling correspondent off New York
paper says Beaufort, s. c., is nearly Yam
keeized, one-half of the present residents
hailing from Massachusetts and other New
England States. .-. .t5...ta5.
Two men were found dead in their beds
in Poughkeepsie, on Tuesday, and a colored
woman and an Irish laborer dropped dead
in Hudson, on Sunday week. ftr.
An American watch factory, at Elgin, iii
with $250, 900 capital, will be ready to make
sixty watchesper day by September. Most
OF the stockholders were formerly workmen
at Waltham.
In late murder case in England, chemist
succeeded in proving that certain spots on
an axe handle were stains of human blood,
by microscopic examination.
A house in Augusta, Maine, which was
burned on Tuesday, was built in 1910, and
was the quarters of Benedict Arnold when
he was on his Quebec expedition. q.
Harper noted guerrilla, entered Bowling
Green, Kentucky, on Thursday night, In
command of fifty armed men, and released
from prison three OF his coniederates in rob-
berry and horse stealing. 5maL
Gen. Ortega, now in Washington, has is
sued protest against the recent decree of
President Juarez reappointing himself to
office, and denounces the act as arbitrary,
illegal, tending to establish dictatorship,
an insult to the people, and a calumny upon
Gen. ortega himself.
Rev. Father Bender, priest of one of
the Catholic churches in Cincinnati refused
to permit any insignia of the Fenian Brother
hood to be brought within his church on the
occasion of the burial service of one of the
men who was killed at the fight at Limestone
Ridge. 4
VIM. Bowling, charged with Captain j. s.
NJ. Harrow's murder, IN Fredericksburg,
Va, some two years ago, was released from
the Jail by the military on Saturday last.
1t will be remembered that Harrow was
rebel conscription officer, and undertook to
force Bowling into the Confederate army,
when the latter shot him. .y
The people of Holland, Western, Massa-
chusetts, were not little surprised the other
day to see the sexton driving into town at a
brisk pace, in light trotting skeleton buggy,
with coffin strapped to the axle, and a
funeral procession coming up in the rear as
fast as possible
The late General Scott considered himself
the ranking officer of the armies of The
United States, even after Gen. Grant was
commissioned Lieutenant General The act
authorizing Gen. Grants appointment pro-
vided that ''nothing in this contained shall
hn afrund in NV To afra l.
pay or allowance of Winfield Scott, Lieu
tenant General by brevet, now on the retired
list Of the army
A new idea has been taken hold of by an
enterpnsing Californian. He has started for
the East with drove of California horses,
the native breed-some 500, intending to
drive them into Missouri to supply the de-
mand. As these horses cost but little on the
Pacific slope, are tough, hardy, and can live
on tho photograph Of a bunch of grass, they
will be sure to go through all right, and be
greatly welcomed in the Trans. Mississippi
region, where rebellion and bushwhacking
has left the horse.crop inevitably short for
few days. s. -.l r.
Gunner o'Neil, of the Canadian Royal
Artillery, was recently convicted of com-
pllcity in the Fenian conspiracy, and on be-
ing drummed out of the service, shouted,
"Hurrah for the Irish Republicr' He was
then rearrested and was hogged in the pres
ence of the members of his late corps.
The wife of William Estelle, residing at
Winchester, Tennessee, committed suicide
on Tuesday last by hanging herself from the
banisters of hall staircase with child's
skipping rope. She was an accomplished
musician, and had taught acass of music
up to few months previous to her death,
when she gave up her class on account of
declining health.
MI Colfax has written TO the Indianapolis
journal to correct the rumor that he is going
to Europe, and to announce himself as a
candidate for reelection. A Mr.. Tyva is
willing to accept the Radical nomination for
Congress in Mr.. Colfax's district, in case
Mr.. Colfax's friends shall urge him for the
United States Senate.
George Squibbs, aged seventy-two years,
and his granddaughter were butchered last
Sunday evening week, near Rossyille, York
county, Pennsylvania, Miss squibbs was in
dying condition at last accounts. The
weapon used is supposed to have been a
hatchet A man named Conovan was ar
rested on suspicion of having perpetrated
the act. Money is believed to have been the
object Of the murderer.
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