Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-01-15


eonfscation.
President Gefiard, of Hayti, it is reporied'
has been poisoned.
General Thayer, United States senator
elect from Nebraska, distinguished himself
in the Western army.
street row in Nankin, China, was quell-
ed by the decapitation of foriy-ive OF the
yipe-leaders. So says late advices.
The white folks of Carksburg, West Viz
GINA, are raising funds to build church Tor
the colored folks of that town.
The Empress Eugene has given one hun
dred and seventy. eight sewing machines TO
deserving poor women in France. .
Green peas-none OF your " Theoretically
scaled. ether-were offered for sale in the |
Tallahassee (Fla.) markets on New Years
Day.
A Boston physician complains that he was
aroused the other night, at eleven O'Clock,
and found at the door a small boy, who said
lie wanted sled
The colored lawyer in the Massachusetts
Legislature has been put upon the Commit
tee on Federal Relations, and the colored
printer upon the standing Committee on
Printing.
The Boston Journal states that the Ameri-
can colony of Jaffa is discouraged They
have been deceived by their leaders; many
have died, others are sick, and they beg for
man-of-war to take them home. Mean
while, the Porte has entered protest against
the whole project of an American colony in
Palestine.
II was decided in the New York Court of
Common Pleas, on Thursday, that the liabili-
ty of a baggage expressman was not limited
by the words expressed on check, will
not be liable for an amount exceeding $50
upon any article, and that the word "ar'
ticlen applied TO each item of the contents
Of the trunk, and not the trunk itself.
The New Orleans Crescent says that seve.
raj of the vicksburg merchants made up a
purse Of one hundred dollars for the men oil
the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry
as a testimonial of gratitude for the grea
service rendered by that command at thu
late disastrous fire. The gallant Twenty
fourth Immediately turned the amount owe
to the Mayor for the relief of the sufferers.
James Dixon, fireman OF Nashville liv
ing in humble circumstances with a wife ant
five children, has received information tina
through the death Of relative in Mississippi
he has fallen heir TO property valued O
100000, $4,000 in cash.
Indian depredations upon the settlement
along the river Platte are feared, in const
quence of large numbers of buffalo havin
appeared in that section. AS the buifal
never go north, in winter, it is thought Thu
the Indians are behind them.
The London Times thinks that the in
parchment of the President Of the Unite
States looks like a fatal blow at the Consult
tuition.
A Madrid dispatch states that the profile
ed mediation oil the United States in the d
fcrences between Spain and Chill is regar
ed as almost a certain forerunner of an no
orable and permanent peace.
Turkey has called out 100000 men
quell the Greek instruction in the Meditt
ranean.
The Massachusetts Legislature on Frd
instructed the Judiciary Committee to
quire into the expediency of abolishing t
reading and writing qualification of voter
The convention of type founders, now
session at Buffalo, it is said, has determin
upon a reduction in the price of type.
The House of Representatives of Mali
on Saturday, passed the constitution
amendment by vote of one hundred a
twenty-six to twelve.