Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1867-07-19


The Receiver of Taxes will be at his office,
Institute Building, on every secular day |
during the months OF July and August, and !
in September until the hour Of holding the |
City Election, from s O'Clock, A. NJ, until |
lS NJ, and from 9 o'clock, p. M, until
p. M. deduction of per cent will be
allowed on all taxes paid during the month
of July. None will be allowed on those paid
in August, and 8 per cent. will be added TO
the amount of those taxes remaining unpaid
after the day of the City Election.
$. d. SMITH, Receiver of Taxes,
Insurance Office, Institute Building.
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A PULPIT PRopIaY.-The editor OF the
Petersburg Inder writes to that paper from
Baltimore the following;-There is pulpit
prodigy here vino is growing into such fame
ms bids fair to rival that of Spurgeon His
name is Munsey, and he is a member of the
Baltimore Conference, we believe, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He
has not been long at this calling, and was an
unlettered man ia humble life, but compare
lively few months back, when his talent
was revealed to friend, who aided him to
the short culture with which he is producing
such wonderful effect. His power of oratory
is sand to be miraculous. and his reasoning
faculties no less 80. People here and in the
Valley flock TO hear him, and his influence
is talked of and felt everywhere. | could
not gain a seat in the Church in which he
held forth Sunday night, but several friends
who were more fortunate reported that all
the praises they had previously heard Tell
far short OF the real height of his powers.
| Certain il is that hereafter he will be so
famous as to cause interest even to this
meagre notice of his ministerial beginning.
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A STORY is related of a young woman in
Clinton, III, who while washing windows,
pressed her hand through one ofthem, run
ming several pieces of glass into the flesh.
| A physician extracted all the pieces, as was
supposed But instead oil that the substance
penetrated every part of her body, and has
been extracted from eyes, head, arms, feet
and other members Up TO the 18th instant,
over twelve hundred pieces Of glass had been
cut out OF her flesh. Six months ago lock
jaw was commenced, with which she was
afflicted for about ak weeks, except thai
she could drink between her clenched teeth
At present she 10 a raving maniac more thar
half the time, and in such agony as words
will not describe, and too incredible to tell
At intervals she is rational, and able to 81
up and do some work
LAsT SEPTEMBER, young lady had sew
eral teeth extracted while under the influence
OF ether. After recovering from the effect
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in breathing Soon she began TO cough, anC
would. bave long intervals oil continued cough
ing until the other day, (alter consulting
various physicians,) during violent fit o
coughing, she raised from her lungs, coveret
with blood and pus, a whole TOOTH Til
she must have swallowed and taken into he
lungs at the time OF the dental operation
From the moment of raising this tooth he
cough subsidized, the pain ceased, her appe
I a cd aud al.n.. t., -
complete recovery now entertained by be
physician,
lr seems strange to hear of the Counties
, Guiccioli as person still living and writing
: She Is so associated with Bryon, and Shelley
and others who belong wholly to a far-awa
! past, that one falls insenaibly into vagu
, belief that she must have been dead long ago
Yet it is now announced that she is about /
bring out a book OF "reminiscences of he
, former admirer, with the simple title O
; 'Bryon." 1t Is in two octave volumes, an
snow going through the press in PARIS. Tn
countess was latterly the wife ofthe eccentri
Marquis de Boissy, the Anglophobist; an
as his widow she survives him.
, MAxMu1AN's DEATH has caused CORES
pondents 10 examine INTO the records of hi
family. Il appears from Vienna letter tina
/ many OF Maximilian's relatives have suifere
, rom sau DloWs oil fortune. The Princes
Charlotte, wife of Leopold, died in chile
birth. HIS daughter married the Duke
Orleans, who was killed by fall from cal
n Their children were expelled from the thron
. OF France. The Princess Carlotta is craze(
, Maria Antonnetie was executed. Mari
+, Louisa was expelled from France. A
. arehduchess of the Austrian royal tamil
: was lately burned to death.
o THE Groendyke divorce case Chicago,
c terminated. Its history is a singular on,
S Mrs. Groendyke sued for n divorce on til
= ground of cruelty. The jury found hi
+ guilty, but before the decree was rendere
+ she was caught in Gd9rante delictu wit
+ George Warner. She excused herself, sayin
c she was engaged 10 marry him after b,
a divorce. The husband filed cross bill an
X obtained decree on Tuesday. An hour alte
II ward she married Warner. She marie
d Asa II. Groendyke similarly lust after b,
If divorce from French.
Il The CONSTITUTIONAL UNION, of Was
ngtOn city, reports that Runc inscriptic
Il has been discovered near the Great Falls
~ the Potomac; that 1t records the death of q
i. lcelandic woman, named Susan, in 1906
% that the discovery proves the visit of Il
i Mortimer 10 our shores five centuries belo
the time of Columbus, and that they mac
explorations inland. 1t is also stated tht
fragments OF teeth, bronze irinkets, coli
i, and other curious things have been exhumt
~ from the grave.