Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-01-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A grocer in New Haven, in moving an
old counter recently, found two mice nests
made entirely of bank bills and fractional
currency. On pulling themto pieces, sixty
OF seventy ng-missing dollars turned up.
All the bills were more or less mutilated,
but some fifteen or twenty dollars worth
were saved.
On sunday, young man named COnklin,
living on Hudson Street, New York who
had been in delicate health for some time,
and had grown melancholy, went to his
chamber, drew a razor across his throat,
staggered into the parlor, and expired in
the arms of his sister, bathing her with his
blood.
A house in New York has received a ship
ment of half a ton of silver bricks from
Idaho, valued at over $50, ,OOO
-Four years ago needlewoman of Paris
lost her husband, and in the violence of her
grief made vow that she would never marry
again. Last October she was remarred-
She went on the Feast of the dead to pray
on her first husbands grave; she begged
him to pardon her violation of the VOW; her
excited imagination seemed to hear a voice
from the grave exclaim, " "Neverp She
tainted away and remained in a swoon for
six hours, and died next day.
The only Provisional Governor appointed
by President johnson, who has not been re-
lieved, is Governor Hamilton, of Texas. In
that State no convention has yet been held.
r. A. Warren, editor of the Charlotte, N.
G. Times, has been arrested by order of Gen.
Ruger, on account of the publication of trea-
sonable articles in his paper.
Mr.. Pollard, the former editor of the Rich
mond Examiner, and the Rebel historian of
the late Rebellion proposes to write new
history of the war, which, with ielicitous
adaptation to circumstances, he entities ''The
Lost Cause He is getting subscriptions to
the work throughout the South.
The Circuit Court at Wilmington, N c.,
tried two freedmen, Walter McCay and John
Walker, for vagrancy, and ordered them TO
be sold into penal servitude for five years.
Gen Crocker has overruled the sentence,
and Major Wickersham, of the Freedmen's
bureau, orders it to be revoked-the mem
bers of the Court to be arrested in default
A sprightly pair of lovers, both nearly
three-score and ten, recently elopcd from
Bellair, Md, because their cruel children
didn't approve of the match, and were tri-
Iumphantly married.
Joseph Howard was recently sent to the
Reform School in Michigan as a boy, and
discharged as girl She had worn boys
clothes for seven years without suspicion
A farmer named John Morrison, from
Highland Madison County, Illinois, drove
over to ST. Louis with his wife, last Thurs
day, and on the return trip on Friday morn
ing, proposed to try the ice and save TOLL
Both himself and wife were drowned, and
their bodies, together with two-horse team,
are lost beyond recovery.
The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
has begun a suit against its late President
for one million dollars damages, for permit
ting the Rebel government to- use the road
and its machinery during the war.
In the South Carolina Legislature, the
other day, Mr.. John Harleston Reid, of
Georgetown, offered resolution in the
House, looking to the revival of the time
honored custom Of arrayng the Speaker in
the garb of office, which is the parliamentary
blue gown. 1t has been the custom in South
Carolina from her birth as a State, and
ceased only when the approach of Sherman IS
army endangered the safety of the robe,
which, for security sake, was removed.
| A peculiar feature of the services at the
Episcopal Chapel of st. Adams, in Forty
seventh Street, New York, on Christmas
: 1ae' as to have been midnight service,
This is @ soio I to he the aP9, of the Eucharist
| service was held in Protestant S9sSSuch
this country, though the practice Is not al
uncommon one in England, with the ecclesl
asties of the High Church persuasion,
AT meeting of young girls at senaca, n
lY., recently, it was Resolved, That if VIC
the young ladies of Seneca Balls, don't &c
| married during the year to come, somebod
: 1 will be to blame"
The Emperor of China, not content wit
II a palace as large as some towns, inside Peki
itself. and another vast palace and domain o
: a few miles distance, has park snrrounde
with wall, which extends forty miles, clos
to the city.
Cain has found an apologist in DR.. Gun
: mings, of London, who, in his "Lives of til
p Patriarchs," " says that as Cain can nevc
" have seen dead human being, or learne
u anything about, Or known that a heavy blo'
y would destroy the vitality, OF which, agair
II he can have perceived nothing, his guilt wal
y at the outside, only mansaughter,
Y The marriageable girls in Chicago hay
81 been disarmed, TO save the lives of the beau
:, :, | who do no: marry up promptly.
y Mr.. Seward, in reply to letter from Ne
70 York Merchants on the Chilian spanis
= difficulty, says that the good offices of IL
= government of the United States have bee
- rendered toward intervention, and to obtai
~ cessation of hostilities until the question
~ in dispute between the two Powers can
= made the subject of negotiations.
A PERSISTENT SUIcIDE.-There is livir
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