Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-12-22

Out west raw potatoes are administered as
cure for intoxication-
Sixteen counties in Iowa are trying the effect
Of the prohibition law.
Ex-Governor fletcher, of Virginia, is reported
seriously i'll of pneumonia.
The Senate, on Friday confirmed General
Pleasanton az Commissioner of Internal Reye-
nue..
Sturgeon thinks some ministers would make
good martyrs--they are 10 dry they would burn
well.
Three grandsons of Cen Lafayette are in the
French army, fighting for the defence of the
Republic.
The store of Bray 4 Moore, at Portland, Me-,
was robbed Of s25,000 worth of goods on Thurs
day night.
General Hiram Walbridge left fortune of
about million of dollars, most of which goes
to his wife,
Eight thousand dollars worth of presents
were handed in at a recent wedding occasion in
Reading, Pa.
Professor Vim. Chauyenet, the distinguished
mathematician and astronomer, died at st. Paul
on Tuesday.
Three inches of snow fell at Memphis, Tenn.
on Thursday night and four inches at Little
Rock, Arkansas.
A vessel with small party of emgrants for
diamond fields of South Africa sailed from Bos-
ton on Thursday.
Fechter has resigned tho management of the
Globe, Theatre, Boston, i'll consequence of trouble
with the company.
| The Galveston Ners says that while cotton was
once King, g Railroad is now Emperor-he is
the coming despot."
Rev. Charles Samuel Stewart, senior chaplain
in the regular army died at Cooperstown, New
| York, on Wednesday.
| Many youths. not sixteen years Of age, are said
| TO De found killed NyOunUe1 nm fba Era
German battle fields
The father Of girl who was abducted from
| Cohoes, N. ". some time since, has become in
sane from grief at the disgrace.
despatch from Bath, Maine, says Back river
| il now closed by ice, and submarine operations
at Hell Gate are suspended for the season.
One of A. 7. Stewards clerks, who was arreat.
ed for stealing an eight-dollar shawl, confessed
that he had stolen twenty-sevon shaws in al
many days.
James Il. Blake, Mayor of Worcester. Mass.
died yesterday morning, of injuries received al
the explosion of the gas works in that city on
Friday night.
@. B. Hutchlns, of Ann Arbor, Mich, has in.
vented and patented process for converting the
refuse potato pomace from starch factories into
pulp for making paper.
Peter NJ Adams, merchant Of Bath, Me. wa,
swnded in New York, on Saturday, by t,coni
dence men," out of s1475, with which he had
| coHo W puN Wuitbf HoOub
VIM. II. Schroeder, bookkeeper for Cook. CO
burn ~ Co., advertising agents, of Chicago. is
reported to be a defaulter for 100000, which lie
has stolen during the last two years.
Governor McClurg of Missouri, has appointed
u. Il. Jewett, of st. Louis, U. s. Senator to fill
the vacancy caused by Senator brakes appoint
ment as Chief Justice of the Court Of Claims
The gas works at Cincinnati were DESTROYED b,
an explosion last evening. The holder contained
$50, 900 cubic feet of gas. The loss to the com
pany is Sl0O,OO0 One man was slightly injured
Oliver 9. Fitch, of Troy, a life insurance agent
was found dead ip his bed at Hudson, N. Y, OF
Saturday morning, he had large insurance OF
his life, and his death is accounted mysterious.
On Tuesday night three masked men went /,
the house of Dabney kennell few miles iron
Nashville, and demanded his money Kennel
struck one of the robbers whereupon they sho
him dead.
There is cold weather along the Pacific coast
On Sunday, the thermometer marked is degree
at San Francisco; % at Sacramento and 2 a
Virginia, Nevada There have been heavy frost
for four nights in San Francisco, but the day
are warm.
The Railroad Convention representing the i'm
portant trunk lines met at Erie YESTERDAY
Thirteen railroads are represented by forty Off
GERS. The object is to devise plan for maxim
an equitable division of the earnings of the var
GUS roads represented.
At Sacramento, CAL, seven men, named Pas
cal Geary, William Price, Samuel Gibney DAME
Hubbard, James Nelson, VIM Moore and Jane,
McKellar have been arrested for committin,
g fourteen incendiares, thirteen highway rob
baries and sixteen burglaries" One Of then
confessed his crimes,