Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-12-04
oRImEs AND cAsuALr1Es.

On last Monday evening, the ferry boat
Idaho, plying between New York and Will
liamsburg, took fire in the stream and
burned to the waters edge. About thirty
passengers were on board, all of whom were
saved. Some of the ladies, with children in
thsir arms, jumped overheard, but were
rescued.
At least e15,0OO passes annually through
the hands of the editors of Bella Life, in
London, as Stockholders for the various
matches mentioned in their paper. This
will give faint idea of the extent to which
betting is carried in England.
A tragical affair took place on the evening
Of Oct. 31st, at the Theatre der Nouveautes,
small sale on the Boulevard des Italiens,
Paris. One of the prettiest and most popular
actresses, Madame Chapules, received a
message in the course of the performance
that her husband was at the stage door, and
wanted to speak TO her on important bust
ness. Though she had not seen him for a
long time, she thought ii as we'll to hear
what he had to say, and went to the stage
door to see him. He said nothing but stabbed
her in the throat, and then stabbed himself
ive times in the chest and stomach. The
lady's wounds are very slight, but the hus.
band is in desperate state. The papers say
that people are puzzled to account for the
crime, hut il is set down to jealousy.
In Chicago, recently, Mrs. Sullivan
died Her husband, drunkard, who was
absent from the house at the time, being in
formed OF his wife's death, returned in an
intoxicated condition, and entering the room
where the body lay, struck it several blows,
accompanying them with terrible oaths. He
then returned to his debauch, making nc
provision for the interment of the body
which remained in the house until removed
by the police.
On Monday night last Mrs. Hattie b,
Hurd, of Haverhill, Mass, was so seriously
frightened by the falling of window cur
tain, that she was thrown into spasms which
resulted in death.
A notorious guerilla named Paddy Diggs
has been arrested and is now in jail at Nash.
vile. He circulated in West Tennessee
during the war, and is said to be guilty of as
many murders Of Union men as Chamr
Ferguson, He will be first sent TO Henry
county, to be tried for killing the sheriff Of
that county, who endeavored to arrest him
last spring.
A collision took place on Friday last OF
the Memphis and Charleston railroad, toui
miles beyond Corinth, between a passenger
and freight train. Both were totally
wrecked and several cars were burned
-Four persons were killed and several wound
ed
A railroad collision, costing four lives ant
iniuring several more, besides wrecking two
trains, occurred near Corinth, on the Mem
pills and Charleston Railroad, on the Both
Henry Greatrex, an English forger, wa
arrested in New York on Tuesday, on {
charge of having forged two thousand on,
pound notes on the Union Bank of Glasgow
Scotland. The crime was committed seyera
weeks ago, and the forger had succeeded il
passing two hundred of the notes when th
forgery was detected. The prisoner brough
with him young lady who had been EN-
ployed in his photograph gallery, leavinl
behind a wife and three children. He vii
be sent back under the extradtion treat
with Great Britain
consumptiye gambler in Denver City
has bet $50 against coffin that he will di
before January.