Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1869-08-03
TELEaRApHlc SUMMARY.

Samuel C. Harley, County Attorney for
Kennebec County, Me-, died on Thursday of
appoplexy.
The Hon. Isaac Toucey, ex. secretary Of the
Navy and Ex-Governor Of Connecticut, is very
i'll, and no hopes are entertained of his re-
oovery.
Mrs. Lizzie ~ Cheney, of Parishyille, New
York housekeeper for Mr.. Harris, in Lowell,
Mass, committed suicide on "Wednesday by
hanging.
Tho town of Denton, on the Kansas Pacific
Railroad, was destroyed by rain and hail
storm on Tuesday night. No loss of life has
been reported.
A Chicago firm has just received an order for
half a dozen ready-made dwellings, to he ship
ped TO Yokohama via the Pacific Railroad and
Pacific Mail steamship.
The Massachusetts, Democratic State Con.
vention will be held in Worcester on the Oath
inst.
General SchoGeld received complimentary
dinner at Denver on Friday evening. Many
prominent citizens were present.
An effort is being made to secure the remov-
al of the capital of Missouri from jefferson City
TO St. Louis
The smoke-house Of Wheat, Fletcher & Co.,
at Indianapolis, containing 10000 pounds of
meats, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday
night. The loss is $4,000. Insured for &c.
900.
Frederick Strader, farmer, about so years
of age, residing near Elmira, N. Y, is charged
with causing the death of an infant child of q
young woman who lived in his family in the
capacity of servant.
Dr. Thomas W. Evans, of the Emperor's
household, Paris, was at Saratoga on Sunday,
and engaged two cottages in the Union Grounds
for members of the Imperial family, who will
occupy them early next season.
Alvin Blake, of Boston, is under arrest in
Portland, Me-, charged with robbing Adams
Express Company of $3.50. He claims 10 be
one of the Ocean Bank robbers, but his story
is not believed.
~ resident of Baltimore was killed ON Friday
evening by the administration of a dose OF
aqua ammonia, put up by careless apothe-
cary, instead of aqua cinnamon, as ordered by
the physicians prescription.
The fifteen gunboats in course of construc.
tion at the Mystic shipyards for the Spanish
Government to cruise in the Cuban waters, are
to be completed in six weeks and will each
carry single gun carrying 100 Id. shot
Milton Alden, the patentee of Alden's horse
hoe cultivator, and of several other agricultu.
raj implements, was caught in a revolving
wheel at his establishment in Auburn, N. Y,
on Friday afternoon, and instantly killed.
There was a heavy thunder storm in the vi.
cinily of Rochester on Wednesday. Consider
able damage was done to the crops. Peter
Pentlers, of Ontario, Wayne County, was in.
stutly killed by lightning while riding on a
load of hay.
John Cannon, aged eighty years, was run
over and fatally injured by train on the
Grand Trunk Railway at Lewiston, Me-, on
saturday morning. He was sitting on the
track, and the engineer thought he was track
man.
Suit has been commenced against the city oil
Albany by the owners of the property on the
piers damaged by the freshet last winter. The
aggregate of the claims amount to Sl37, O0O.-
Unless settled, the suit will be tried in No
vember next.
Official information has been received that
the through mails, Northern and Eastern,
which left new Orleans on the 26th inst, to
gether with the through mails sent from points
between New Orleans and Clarksville, Tenn,
We're burned in the Memphis Railroad disaster.
Burglars entered the store of A. ]. Bird &
Co., in Rockland, Me-, on Thursday night,
blew open the safe, and made off with about
500 in currency. Fortunately bonds to the
value of $1,000 escaped the notice of the
thieves.
The effort by the Good Templars of Buffalo
to enforce the Sunday Liquor Law, resulted
in two of the informers before the Police Com
missioners being attacked and maltreated in
the streets on Friday afternoon by some indg.
nant tipplers.
Rev. Sanford Halbert, editor of the Chris
tian Advocate, a.politioh and religious papp
\ In Buffalo, was thrashed on Thursday evening
| by Norman Holley, son of the Collector o
Customs of the port of Buffalo, for defama
tory article relative to himself and father.
A soldier of the war of 1872, named jaime
Moore, died at Perry, Missouri, on the 10th o
July, aged 80 years. Captain Moore wa
taken prisoner by the British and confined il
Fort Gibralter. He was member of the Lee
glslature and State Senator from Medina Co.
Ohio.
dispatch from Sioux City, Iowa, says:-
General Hancock and staff arrived from th,
Upper Missouri this morning. A public re
oeption was given them by the citizens Tn
General spent the day at the residence of Gen
Harvey. lie will leave Tonight for st. Paul
thence to the British colony.
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