Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-07-16
Telegraphio Summary.

The French gun-b0at Entre Gasteau&i Hohi
Tahiti, arrived at San Francisco on Monday
r, M, Field, who has stood for many years
at the head of the St. Louis bar, died on Mon-
day.
Marshal Packard, of New Orleans, has seized
the books of Augusta Contouri Co., for ex
animation relative to the recent sugar frauds.
The Connecticut Legislature adjourned ON
Saturday. The session was shorter than last
year, and cost the State $2d.OO5 less.
Another fight has been arranged between
McCoole and Allen, for $500 side, to be
fought in four months, within nifty miles Of
Cincinnati.
Lightning struck the house of Mr.. Sullivan,
at + asst Boston, on Sunday, and killed his son,
aged l2 years, and damaged the house by
fire.
John II. Bailey has assumed the duties of
Collector of the Port of Portsmouth and the
District of New Hampshire, which includes
the Canada border.
Stephen Porter aged IS, son of W. q. Por'
Ter, Methodist minister at Whitehall, N. y,
was drowned near that village on Saturday
night while bathing.
A boy about 10 years of age son of Edwin ].
in Albany on Monday, OH the Northern Rail
road, and instantly killed.
An explosion, caused by lire damp, occurred
in the Empire Colliery, near Wilkesbarrei Pa,
on Monday Eight men were injured. but it
is thought none fatally.
The U. S. steamer Narragansett has arrived
at Portsmouth, N H., with six cases of yellow
| fever ON board. Lieut.. R. X. Duer died on
the passage from Key West.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
| Companys foundry, at Scranton, Pa, was
destroyed by fire on Monday evening Loss,
$50, ,oOO insured in New York Companies.
| The arch tunnel OF the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad at Cambridge, Ohio, gave way on
| Monday, letting down great mass of dit and
rock. Very little detention to travel will be
caused.
The petition OF William Kriel wife murder
er, for re-hearing of his case before the Court
of Appeals at Louisville, has been granted. =
The matter will come up before that Court in
September next.
The brig Sophie, OF Hamburg, from Minatit-
Ian for Queenstown, which was ashore Oh
Pickles Reef, Fla. has been relieved by wreck
eTs. All hands are sick with the Chagres
fever, and one man is dead.
A portion of the Yellow Jacket Mine, at Colo
Hill, Nevada, has been reclosed on account O.
the prevalence of smoke and gas. 1t is believed
the fire is still burning i'll the Crown POM
Mine.
The wheat crop in Santa Barbara County
) California, is generally iaiiure The grass
: hoppers have appeared in great numbers il
several counties in that State, but they hav'
dana hut little damage as vet.
The body of midshipman William Writ, o
, Augusta, Maine, who was accidentally drowned
on the 18th of June, in San Francisco Bay, wa
recovered ON Sunday, and sent to Mare
I Island for interment,
fatal shooting aifray occurred at Louisvill
!: last week, resulting in the killing of jaime
Il Wheeler by Wash, Ferguson. Wheeler re
a ceived two shots, causing almost instant death
0 Ferguson was committed to jail.
v On Thursday two wealthy farmers name
IS Blackburn, cousins, residing near Van Buren,
g burg, ILL.,, began tossing apples at each otht
in sport, which led 10 a quarrel when on
stabbed the other, killing him instantly Tll
N murderer was arrested.
~ The will of the atu John Clarke, Of Nortl
I ampton, Mass. gives SlO, 900 to varions chair
a able institutions, so, 900 To his relatives, S4U
il 900 to the Northampton Public Library, an
re $120, ,000to the Clarke Institute for Deaf Nut
m in that town.
W The Dominion Rifle Association match vi
W take place at Toronto on the 9Th ot Scptenbr
Over S4, 900 in noney are to be given in prize
80 Fifteen hundred competitors are expected.
is The aforementioned will be present and OPP
~ the shooting
ly A woman named Louisa Walsh was arrest
Sc in Albany on Saturday with portions of I
OF siver chalice statue, from ST. Mary's Churc
ar in her possession. The woman says she i
all two children in Brooklyn; that her husba
IL deserted her, and she is destitute.
A singular election has just taken place
Santiago. The Superintendent OF the Pc
tentiary having deemed it necessary that Il
=. establishment should have Patron Saint,
u, u, election was held, and resulted in the cho
pa of Nuestra Sonora del Carmen by 3dl vo
IT, tr over all the other Saints, after which she '
''e duly declared elected.