The weekly standard., 1869-10-20
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

A man named John Delvin was killed in
Salem, Mass, Tuesday last, by a;revolving
shaft.
r japanese priests relieve each other every
fifteen minutes and the relieved retire to
smoke.
The Russian government has decided
upon adopting severer censorship of the
public press
An arrangement is being concluded be-
tween England and France to exterminate
the Chinese pirates
In Australia, the demand for preserved
meats for European consumption is said to
exceed the supply.
An Englishman named Woodcock was
killed by an explosion of nitroglycerine, at
Sebajo Lake, Me-, on Monday.
Samuel Hecht, German resident of New
York, and profound scholar, committed
suicide by hanging on Tuesday.
San Francisco has precocious bad boys
who garrote nice children on the street and
rob them of candy and jacknives.
The two largest Protestant churches in
Ireland, the Episcopal and the Presbyterian,
are both busy at reconstruction.
The Governor of Sagua la Grande has di-
rected that hereafter the stores in shat city
shall be closed on Sunday afternoon.
A conspiracy has been lately discovered
in Rome, the object of which was to blow
up the barracks of the Pontifcisl Zouaves.
Disturbances are apprehended in France.
The government is taking measures to sup
press all meetings likely to disturb the peace.
Near Harpersville, on the Susquehanna
Railroad, on Tuesday. train was thrown
from the track. and several passengers were
injured.
The Spanish government is studing a new
plan of territorial division, which, if adopt
ed, will divide the country into fifty -four
provinces.
An English clipper ship has sailed from
the mouth of the Rio Grande for Cuba with
800 American and Mexican volunteers for
the Cuban army.
a Professor Behm, one of the most eminent
medical men of Berlin, died recently of a
slight wound on the finger, inflicted while
he was dissecting.
John Baptistc was fined $50 in New York
city for tying two cats together by the ex-
tremiiies and Z throwing them on a railroad
track to be massacred.
Joseph Dunn, hackmau, was killed the
other morning in front of the Peabody Ho-
tel. Memphis, by ]. M. Harris, young law
yer, while making an assault on the latter.
Interesting experiments as to the relative
merits Of light and heavy deep sea cables
are to be tried by the company which pro-
poses shortly to lay the Red Sea telegraph
line. l,
Hiram Fay is a Wisconsin man whose do.
mestic amusement consists in beating his
wife with large rod which he keeps for the
purpose, aud holding his children's heads
under the water until they become insensi
Bile.
Mary Baker, young married lady seven
teen years of age, died suddenly at Chicago
on Sunday evening after taking dose, pur.
! porting to be salts, procured at drug store
trPoison by mistake.
Il . young gymnast, who was killed al
Cherry Valley, Illinois, few days since, by
falling from adouble trapese, had promised
| his father to quit the business as soon as his
engagement was finished, of which that al
Cherry was the last night.
News from the Eastern shore of LAX,
Michigan reports the Canadian vessel Kat
Bully water logged and capsized. The cap
tain and first mate, Kennedy, Ed Corbet ant
Merritt Bully, were lost. The balance Of tn
Grey were picked up by the Black Hawl
! end saYed, Z a..osi'