Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-06-03
The Oregon Enterprise says that State

ans near Shirley, Kansas, on Monday last.
-Pendleton was thrown from his carriage
last Saturday and sprained his ankle.
-Ex-President Johnson is to talk at q
fair in Gainesville, Tennessee, to-day.
Dom Piatt's journal is announced. 1t
is to be called imply the Dayton Daily.
Miss Yonge, author Of the "Hcir of
Redclyffe," is supposed to be becoming in
sane.
"A Newburg, IN. Y. )servant girl routed
a burglar last week, with pail of boiling
water.
"A young woman has just carried of ihe
prize as the best rifle shot at Lucerne, Swift
zerland.
"A Georgia hen kas laid an egg upon
which is inscribed warning to Governor
Bullock.
"A lot of beautiful leaf tobacco sold in
Lynchburg, Va, on Tuesday last,a 1901 per
hundred weight.
One man in Janesville, Wisconsin, has
already shipped this year forty thousand
muskrat skins.
The present Rhode Island Senate con-
tains but one lawyer-General Van Zandt
of Newport.
"A clergyman of Pittsfeld, Massachusetts,
being away from home telegraphed his SER
mon to his aock.
Portland, Maine, is advancing to the
Philadelphia standard, aud intends to estab-
lish drinking fountains in the streets.
"A firm in Madison, Wis. has ordered six
thousand reaping machines for the coming
season.
American locomotives are in use on the
great railway over the Alps, between France
and Italy.
Pike of opera house fame intends TO
build splendid summer residence in Long
Braach.
s. S. Lewis, formerly agent of the Cunard
Steamships Company, died at Boston, on
Thursday night.
"A Wisconsin person of leisure has dis
| covered that in bushel of clover seed there
are l6, 6,G0S, 900 seeds, in round numbers.
james ii. Piles, colorcd lawyer, from
Ohio, was admitted to practice in the United
| States courts at New Orleans on the l4h inst.
| Another railway war has begun in the
New York Courts between two parties quar-
cling about the control of the Michigan South
ern railroad.
On the occasion of the opening of the
Suez Canal there is likely to be remarka-
BILE gathering of the junior members of the
reigning families of Europe.
| There is community of Mormons
numbering l75 families at, Williamsburg, N.
Y. They are chiefly English and Welsh, it,
literate and rather poor.
Hon. Hugh McCullocb, ex- Secretary o
the Treasury, and his two daughters, are al
home in Fort Wayne, Ind, on visit for q
few weeks.
Hon. G. H.Pendlcton was thrown from
his buggy in Cincinnati on Saturday, hi.
horse having taken fright, but escaped with.
out other injury than sprained ankle.
-Bismark thinks that Napoleon and Fran
els Joseph are in favor of peace, but thai
their wives, Eugene and Sophie want wal
with Prussia.
The counting-house of c. & E. Miliken
lumber merchants, at Augusta, Me-, wa
robbed on Wednesday night of securities
amounting to $4,000.
The State of Massachusetts, expended
$3.50, 7s2 for the education of children, no
including amounts paid by individuals fol
tuition in the colleges
-Ex-President johnson has accepted ar
invitation 10 be present at u fair in Clarks
vile, Tenn, on the Goth instant, and is eX
pected to deliver an address.
Reports from Lake Superior are to th,
effect that the production of iron ore is lar
ger than ever before, and that there is
greatly improved feeling in the copper re
gions.
The British ships zetur and Margaret hay,
been wrecked in the Gulf of ST. Lawrence
All on board are reported lost except the
mate of the Margaret, who has arrived a
Quebec.
Owing to large customs and internal reve
nue. receipts during the month, il is antici
pated that the next statement of the publ
debt will show decrease of ten or twelv,
millions.
George Truman, colored, was hanged a
Frederick Nd, for the murder of an un
known white man some months since. Th
murder was committed to obtain carpe
bag containing $25 worth of clothing.
The Republican Convention of Kentuck
met on Thursday, and nominated E. Ram
sey Wing for State Treasurer. Among th
resolutions adopted was one rccommendin
the ratification of the Suffrage amendment
The colleges at Cambridge are raising
, fund by subscription to dredge the Cam, sub
| stitute bridges without piers for those whic
! are now in the way, and cut off the bad cor
ners in the stream, so as to make a bette
practising course for the rowing men.
"A drunken man walking along the stree
at night with his head thrown back, lookin
at the moon with sovereign contempt, wa
, heard to exclaim :-''You needn't be 8
| proud, Madame Moon. You are full ono
a month and every night"
,, In thunder storm at Avon, CT, las
week, n tree eighteen feet in circumference
was struck by lightning and torn to frac
ments, the ground to distance of five huI
drcd and forty feet being covered wit
pieces of it.
james Webb, Jr., of Portland, Me
working before the war for So, so per week
! saved regularly 81 of that sum. Five yeaI
! ago he bought shoe shop and tools wit
! $50 of his earnings. He is now maxim
! 10000 pairs of ladies shoes per year.
T "A new invention for boring oil well
= has been introduced into the petroleum di.
tricts of Pennsylvania. 1t does away wit
the expensive machinery now used. TIL
Y motive power is horse attached to swee
< and wells are sunk at cost of 81 25 pt
foot.
= Not the least remarkable man in III
4 Old School Presbyterian Convention, in SCI
sion in New York, is one of the colore
members from Georgia. At his home whic
is the whole State, he is known by the f,
milar title of "Uncle Joe Williams" /
the assembly he is looked upon as one {
> the uncommon men of his race.
The Fon du Lac (Wisconsin) Reporte
a is responsible for the statement that five Sc,
i tions of Lake Winnebago, north of th,
y city, not one foot OF which has less tina
. twenty feet of water over it; has been sol
and resold by spectators south for twcnt
years, and still they arc at it. Parties ha,
come there to see it. 1t has been valued
$4,000.
: Within mile of Elko, on the road
J. White Pine, is large natural swimmir
h bath, where visitors can choose their tempe
ature, from tepid to boiling. The depth
/ said to be very great, aud some say that
Q 200 feet no bottom has been found. III
floating population of Elko, which is vel
large, to their credit be it said, indulge
IS frequent bathing.
l. Geo. II. Howard and Edward Dennis we
o indicted in the Criminal Court at Baltimor
n on Saturday, for the recent robbery of Il
|. Harnden Express messenger in that cit
s250O of the $4,000 stolen have been reco
: cred.
A military commission is trying citize