Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-12-01

Ill lie Liberty Hotel. at Buffalo Tap Va, was
burned yesterday morning.
Advices from Mazatlan, via San Francisco,
report continued disorder i'll Mexico.
VIM. II. Wood, broker, committed suicide, by
hanging, at Portland Me-, yesterday.
b. n. Stevens, Congressman elect from the
Fifth Illinois District, is reported to be dying
The residence Of the late Major Hensley, at
San Jose, Cal, was burned yesterday. Loss
100000.
The population of New Jersey, four townships
being estimated, placed at sos 672, an increase
of 223, 637 since 1860.
The snow is nine inches deep iii Highland Co.
Va. A light snow fell at Santa Fe New Mexico,
on Monday morning.
Christopher Schweigert cigar manufacturer,
shot himself dead in Baltimore, yesterday. In
temperance was the cause.
At ST. Louis, on Friday, Henry keyer was gored
| to death by wild Texan steer, which was being
driven through the streets.
Frederick Henry weisthoff, "a travelling tinker,
Of Baltimore was killed by railroad train near
Chambersburg on Saturday.
Steward, Secretary Of the San Jose (Cal.) Gas
Company, is said to have aisconded, being
defaulter to II large amount.
John Wilson committed suicide by taking NOR
phine at Swopes Station, on the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad, yesterday.
III New York, number of conductors on the
Seventh Avenue Railroad were arrested for en-
bszzlement on Saturday evening.
Governor Clatn of Massachusetts,, has par
doned Farrell and McLain, sentenced in 1865 to
% years imprisonment each, for robbery.
The building 251 Washington street, Boston.
occupied by several small firms, was burned on
Thursday night. Loss $4,000 to 100000.
Thereport of the Commissioner of Agriculture
has been issued from the Government printing
office. 1t makes bound volume Of 700 pages.
The safe of the City Treasurer at Hoboken,N
j., was blown open and robbed on Friday night
OF 10000 in coupon bonds and $4,000 in other
| securities
Hofheimer Brothers, whiskey dealers of Gin
cinnati, have suspended. Their liabilities are
s5OOOOO, and their assets $3.50, 900. They ask
| an extension
Since July LIST, over 5000 disabl ed soldiers
have applied for the benefits OF the act Of Con-
gross giving them artificial limbs, or money
Communication.
proposed walk OF 10i consecutive hours, by
man named Ettrick, in Boston, has been pre-
vented by his arrest for giving an exhibition
without a license.
The Methodist Institute, at Concord n. H.,
which was erected for Westinghouse by the
| Congregational Society, 175l, was destroyed by
| fire on Londay night.
| John Armstrong and Charles jolly the drunken
UuttnerS, WHO murdered a family Oh lNe persons
| near Potos Mo-, few days ago, have been cap
| tured, and are now IN jail.
The steamer Post Boy is reported in sinking
condition at Napoleon, Arkansas, having sprung
a leak. At last account she was discharging her
cargo, the pumps being kept at work
| In Nevada it is announced that the Republic
cans elect their candidates for Secretary of
| State, Surveyor General, Superintendent Of
| Public Instruction, and State Mineralogist.
| n y Tanna naunaraf was yaatardav a1acf al
| L. s. senator by the North Carolina Legislature,
to succeed j. G. Abbott, Republican. His ma
| jorty on joint ballot was nearly two-thirds.
A despatch from Wilmington, y. c., reports
ashore on Frying Pan Shoals, the ship Persia, of
Bath which sailed from New Orleans for Liver
pool, with cargo of cotton valued at s225, 900.
Rev. d. +. Stone, ID. d., formerly editor of
the Congregational journal, and recently of the
Christian Recorder, died suddenly at Concord,
| n. H., yesterday morning, in the 10th year OF
his age.
The Quebec Government has decided to grant
5000, 900 acres of land in aid of the construction
of a railroad along the North shore of the st
| Lawrence, to connect Quebec with Montreal and
Ottawa.
At Boston, on Sunday, Charles +. White aged
%, committed suicide by taking poison. He was
suffering from i'll health. At East Cambridge
John Mallory waa choked to death while eating
breakfast
NJ PORTLAND. Me., leorbe uuuiOfu, editor Oi
the Press, has broaght SUIT against John NJ. Ad
ans, editor of the Argus, for defamation, claim
ing 100000 damages. He has put keeper in
the Argus office.
Peter Mccartney, alias Joe Woods, notoroui
counterfeiter, has been arrested, with Binion, hi,
confederate, at Springfield, Illinois. MCCARTNEY
had Sl3l 900 in counterfeit notes in his posses
sion when arrested.
Mcclellan & Stearns planning mill, in Chicago
was burned on Friday night. Loss. 100000. +
L. SIMPSONS hardware store, in Binghamton
New York, was burned on Saturday morning
Loss about $4,000.
The Spanish Minister Senior Roberts, was mar
red, at Now York, last evening, to Miss Angel,
Terry, beautiful young Cuban lady. The cere
mony took place in St Stephens Roman Catholi
Church. Distinguished persons we're present.
The Philadelphia schooner Queen Of the West
| from Morehead City for Cardenas, with stavee
| foundered in the gale of the 3d. sixty mile
southeast of Cape Lookout. Her captain AM
crew We're saved and taken to Fortress Monroe.
A despatch from Jefferson City to the 81
Louis Republican says nothing is know there o
the reported resignation of Senator Drake
also, that there is no foundation for the rumo
/ that an extra session of the Missouri Legisa
ture would be called
shanty near Plymouth, Mass, was burned o.
Friday morning, and the remains OF two younI
men, named Frank Garfield and Everett Curtis
were found in the ruins. They are supposed t
have been drinking the previous night and t
have entered the place to sleep.
; Territorial Immigration Convention met a
Santa Fe New Mexico on Saturday Afte
speeches in favor of measures to attract immi
grafton to the Territory. and the appointment o
organization committees, the Convention ad
journed until to-day.
On Monday night the bark Board Of Trad
ran ashore at Milwaukee, and now lies full o
water. The propeller Susqushanna, Of the West
ern Transportation Company, ran on reef tn
! game night, and filed with water. She va
loaded with flour and grain. No lfSse wsfe lost