Elizabeth daily monitor., 1868-10-12
Gunnty ,lnd State.

| General Daniel E. Sickles was the recipient
of an ovation at the Newark wigwam on Sat-
urday night. The spacious tannery was
crowded to excess, the aisles being packed
and the doorways filed by earnest Republi-
cans The appearance of the General on the
platform, escorted by Gov Marcus l.. Ward,
was the signal for a spontaneous outburst of
applause, and the enthusiasm was epidemic.
For over an hour the General addressed the
large audience, the utmost attention being
paid to every word that fell from his lips.
A domestic, Mcclure by name, employed by
family on Bellevue ave., Newark, on retiring
Saturday night, blew out her gas. Yesterday
morning she was found in an insensible con-
dition. DIR. Hitchcock was summoned, and
the woman is now out Of danger.
VIM. s. Starr was arrested by the police of
Newark on Saturday for grand larceny. 1t is
alleged that Starr stole from his uncle at Rah-
way horse and buggy valued at $3.50. The
horse had been traded at Elizabeth, and the
buggy was found in the possession of one Co.
hen in Newark. Starr was committed for tri-
al in default of bail
Silver Lake has been dyked and bridged to
finish that end of the Paterson and Newark
Railwag- The Cedar Lawn Railway Company
of Paterson proposes to keep a portion of
Dundee Lake clear for skating this winter.
The digging up of Robert Corrick's body
for dissection after two years burial, in Pater
son, at the instance of the contestants of his
will occasions little comment. Mr.. Corrick
was an old man, and long an invalid.
George Topley, the English pedestrian, at
4 P. NJ. to-day, in Paterson, will attempt to
walk seven and half miles in one hour, on
wager Of $500,
The annual parade of the Bergen City Ere
Department will take place on Thursday, 10Th
instant. Reinhard's Newark Band will fur
nish the music.
Four large fires occurred in Newark on
Friday evening. The old colored church on
Catherine street was set on fire and consumed
The house of Mr. Isaac French, near West
field, was entered on Sunday, 4th inst, while
the family was absent at church, and robbed
of about $50 in money, belonging to Mrs.
French, and some notes of various values
The burglars searched every drawer and clos
ct in the house, breaking locks, and scatter
ing the household goods about promiscuous-
ly, and leaving a lamp burning near the bed
in one of the upper rooms, the shutters being
closed tight and making the room very dark.
No clue has yet been found as to who the rob-
| bers were.
On Thursday morning last, rs a daughter
of Mr.. Samuel Titus, Of Washing was
attempting to start fire in the stove with
kerosene, she carelessly left the can sitting
on the pan of the stove, and the flames COM
municating with the fluid, an explosion tool,
place, burning her so severely that she died
the next morning. Her father in attempting
to put out the flames was also severely burned.
Last Monday night as the passenger train
due here from New York at 9:55, was coming
into the depot a man named Robert McClint-
ock, living at Westfield and formerly of this
place, was struck by the locomotive and
knocked insensible. His wife, who was with
him at the time, would inevitably have been
run over by the locomotive, but for the pres
ence Of mind of colored man named Joseph
Vail, who pulled her off the track just in the
nick of time Plainfeld Times.