Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-11-22
rrnItIiALf NEAN 5.

Hon. Dayd Davis, administrator Of lhe
estate Of the late Abraham Lincoln, made
final settlement of the estate nj Springfield,
Illinois, last Thursday Aner paying all tho
debts Ihcre remained S110,204,62, which,
divided among tic widow and heirs, gives
$50. T65, 80 10 Mrs. Lincoln, and the SAME
amount to each son.
Returns from Florida show that the Con-
veBlion has been carried by decided ma |
,lority of the registered voters.
Dispatches ria Havana say that another
negro rebellion is imminent in Jamaica
-Four hundred negroes, disciplined and arm
I'd, were awaiting au opportunity ior ue-
monstralion against the whites in the Parish
OF ST. Thomas in the East. Government
officials were ON the alert.
Washington City has population OF 49,
0os whites, and 92,7 ,742 colored. Total, lOo,-
770.
Ii is stated that Juarcz has ut last given
up the remains of Msximilian 20 Admiral
1'egeihoff, and he is expected to auiFo at
Vera Cruz about the end of the month.
Thaddeus Stevens has under consideration
the question of dividing the State of Texas.
He Is collecting information regarding the
Commonwealth.
Last week distressing accident occurred
near Allentown, Lehigh county. Five young
men from that place went cunning, and see
ing rabbit, gave chase, whenit took refuge
in pile of rails. -Four of the men set io
work 10 drive it ont while the fifth stood
ready to shoot. AS soon as tic rahbit was
dislodged the man on The watch whose nam'
was Ward, discharged his gun, and as h'
did so, George Morgan, who had been stoor
ing, raised himself, and the whole load en-
tered the back of his head, killing him in
stantly.
Cooperative stores are springing up nea
NIL the large collcries in Schuykill, Carbon
and other counties.
Tie Philadelphia North American an
United States Gazette reached its hundredt
volume, and fftieth birthday, on "Wednesday
1t appeared in a new dress on the occasion
The war in Crete is renewed with ires
energy. Tie Russians, Prussians and Frenc
are still conveying non-combNlants TO Greece
AnA American lady has increased America
prestige in the East and strengthened Gree
determination by an address.
Mr.. Charles Dickens reached Boston
Tuesday evening, on the Cuba.
Mr. Seward has asked England TO sho
clemcncy TO O'Bren and McCondon, F.
mans under sentence of death nj Manchesto
MarIiagesare decreasing in Boston. Caus
Increased cost Of living in welded life. N
three per cent. of the young men OF III
city, dependent directly on their daily labc
can afford TO get married.
In the towns of Port Byron and Alban
ILL.,, not a single Copperhead vote was poll
at the late election.
Mr. Stewart, the merchant prince of M
York. is about 10 erect a home for workir
women at a cost Of $1,000,000.
In Wilmington, North Carolina, the eli
tion was quiet. The Radicals carried evei
thing, and not one negro voted n Conser'
tive ticket.
The Convention is thought 10 be defeat
IN Mississippi. The vote was small.
Two carloads OF firearms arrived at Mo
peier, VT, on the 10Th, consigned TO a |
torious Fenian.
Fitz Greene Halleck, the poet, died N
ember 10, aged so years.
The Feejeans killed and eat a mssioni
and six native Christians.
A prize fight came of near petersbu
Va, on the goth. Troops arrested the pr
ciples, and some of the spectators.
The election in South Carolina was qui
the whites generally declined to vote.