Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1867-01-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

taloons pocket which the thief did not touch.
A little girl, Eve years old, was Knocked down
and severely injured by a careless driver near
Quebec, on New YEARS. day. The driver did not
stop to ascertain what injury he had inflicted,
but left the poor child PROSTATE, by the road
side, with the Thermometer 90 degrees below
freezing. The little sufferer, unable TO move,
would have soon persisted had not passer-by
rescued her.
A young lady at Berlin committed suicide
recently because her betrothed was among the
Killed at Ssdova. She was playing one of
Beethoven's sonatos on the plano, when she
suddenly left the Instrument opened window,
and dashed herself on the pavement below.
They have man in Harrisburg who frequenIs
the depot, and when the trains arrive and the
passengers have got out for refreshments, goes
through the ears and steals all the newspapers,
books etc. This individual is worth SIS, 600
The Harrisburg Telegraph says hi1 conduct is
mean.
abort time since tailor at Croydon, Eug
land. was carelessly bending needle with his
teeth, when ii suddenly snapped, and the greater
portion Of it passed some distance into his
throat. Severe Inflammation followed, and the
injury terminated fatally.
little boy asked another little boy in Peoria.
Illinois, last week, to put his foot on log, and
let him see how near ho could strike with an
axe aud not hit it. Part Of the little boys foot
was chopped of.
In Berlin, horse meat has found so much favor
that the number Of horses slaughtered in a year
has already reached 1900, and Is constantly
increasing.
Queen Emma, in celebration Of her safe return
from her recent European and American tour,
held grand general reception at her residence
in Hawaiia, Nov. 2lst
MIR. Henry Bishop, one of tho best printing
telegraph operators in the United States, Acd
at his residence Ia New York on Friday
The people Of Chicago who went into costa
Oiea over the supply Of pure water recently
introduced into the city from Lake Michigan,
are now puzzling their brains with the problem
Of how to get rid Of the dirty water. They are
afraid to turn it into the lake lest it will return
through the tunnel.
Two thousand people have signed ;he tenn
perance pledge at POughkeepsie, N. Y, since
September.
A Richmond doctor says rubbing with kero.
sene oil With cure rheumatism.
A little boy, in Columbia, Pa, drew ton of
coal at fair rattle, and gave the same to two
poor old women.
james Lauderdale recently died in Washing
ton county, Texas, at the advanced age of 9G
years He was with General Jackson at the
battle of New Orleans.
man named Sheppard has successfully &C.
complshed the feat of walking one huudret
miles in succession. The trial came Oh N,
Charleston, S O.
There lie a salt well in Tuscarawas county
Ohio, which yields ak hundred barrels Of waite
in twenty four hours. thirty five gallons of til
water making bushel of salt.
1t is said that English spectators are buyiu
up the milk on the Continent, reducing ii by
drying process to powder, importing it to Eng
land aud mixing it with water for use
Gov. A. J. Hamilton Of Texas has settled i
Harrisburg, Penn, and will commence til
practice Of law.
Tho Shah of Persia is about to bring n libt
tuit against French author who has abuse
him In book.
Mr.. E. R. Parker (coiOred) is announced q
an independent candidate for Mayor Of AK
ghany City Pa.
D. x, Jaekman Of Philadelphia, and Milto
Cartwright of Erie. Pa, have purchased 90
acres Of the richeet cotton lands in South Care
lima, and intend putting II Mt once under cult
walton. The price paid was sl2 per acre.
Gen. Grant has purchased his father-in-law
homestead, 10 miles from ST. Louis, for $40 0Ol
as final residence for himself and family.
l.; Mr.. Greenwood a shoemaker of IIarveyebur
%, Ohio, has fallen heir to an estate in New Jerse
d, worth $4,000
O. Professor s. F. d. Morse. nov in pars be
be purchased Alston'a "Ieremiah" for 81 OO0. f
~ presentation to tho Yale ST. 20 lie FIJI
''s Arts
lis Shortly before II O'Clock Sunday night Cha
ng Sumner, native of Germany, Al years of ag
shot himself through the head with pistC
~ while In his bedroom at 25i East Houston Stree
he New York.
", ut, A gentleman in Elizabeth, N. j., is the pc
= SCISSOR of the pistol with which Col. Burr kill
ier Hamilton.
Passed Assistant Paymnster Mcdaniel, Al
toned at Pensacola, writes that few days n
r. Stephen r., Mallory late Rebel Secretary of /
~ Navy, recently pardoned by President Johnst
delivered an address to the young men of p,
IN sacola, exhortiug them to devote particular
lnu tentiou to military studies, ms that was a mat
Of much more Importance to the South III
ha' literature.
'"s The fathers of Generals Mcclellan, Ora
Sherman, sedgWck and Mansfield were born
te' Connecticut.
Joy A lady of high rank and exquisite taste hi
'" ing read an advertisement of a London sily
VI smith, in which ii was stated that by the 81
trotype process walters and other articles C4
hat not be distinguished from the real things, b
'ed' her three footmen aud page to be electricity
us by the advertiser.
An Arabian having brought bushes to i
lcks denis cheek by the earncstuess of his gaze,
in to her, my looks have planted roses in h
cheeks why forbid me to gather them? b
ard, law permits him who sows to reap q harvest
'eu' An editor announced the death of q lai
his acquaintance, and thus touehiugly adds'l
"'ue her decease the sick lost an invaluable FIN
n Long will she seem to stand at their bedsis
LOU she was wont, with the balm Of consoati
ode hand and cup of rhubarb in the othe
ne An Irish washerwoman in Calayeras Cot