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New York correspondent says that ''sun-
dry bottles and glasses were smuggled into the
room occupied by the Brooklyn jury, during
their first evening ont. < =:
Personal and Political. =.

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Personal and Political.
The Democratic State convention of Maine
nominated Gen: c.. w. Roberts for Governor,
and passed resolution favoring one term for
the President at $25,0O0a= ,%*<2$. .6fsI@% .%N
The Democrats of Iowa have nominated
Sheppard Letter, of Des Moines TOR Governor.
The New Hampshire assembly has passed a
resolution censuring the governor for his &C
ton in hesenatorial matter. n.y.
Vice president Wilson has published letter
in reply to criticisms of his sayings and doings
while on his recent southern trip, by Republic
can newspapers.
E Senator Sergeant predicts that Senator Ere.
linghuysen will be the Republican candidate
for the Presidency, y, >.-' - MI. Z
Information has been received at Washing
ton that our resident minister to Brussels, J.
Russell Jones will soon resign. ~e- r.,, ,~ t~~
Col. Anthony, Of the Leavenworth Times,
who was shot no: long since, has escaped with
his life, but fears are entertained for his men,
tai condition. =
Thad. Stevens housekeeper, to whom he
willed five thousand dollars, has commenced q
suit against the estate for six years wages at
two hundred dollars a month.
The Southern Democrats are generally en-
thusiastic supporters of the initiation plank il:
the Ohio platform.
The Richmond Wing, (Democrat,) says the
men who fought for the Uhion on the one side,
and the men who Tough tor the Confederate
odhse on the other side, are after all the truest
and safest reconstructors. Fitz Lee in Boston,
bearing Virginias Offering of national patriot
ism and Southern goodwill to the North to be
laid on the altar of the Union at Bunker Hill,
and received with shouts ofjoy as he has been
is trul y typical OF genuine reconciliation OF
the best and bravest of both sections.
Crosby, the Vicksburg sheriff who was
thought to pe fatally wounded, in recent
saloon tracas, is again Oh the streets.
Gov CASTOR of Massachusetts has issued
special order dishonorably discharging John
H. Hill and William E. Harris, privates in
company H, fifth regiment, for intoxication
and disoraerly conduct while in uniform On
the 18th.
1t is said that Ralp Waldo Emerson had an
interview with the Sphinx when he was abroad.
He and the Sphinx looked at each other for
long time in silence, and then the Sphynx
said, ''You're another" and that ended the in
terview.
A pavilion for tine accommodation of the nu-
merous foreign delegates to the Geographical
Congress Which meets on July 10Th, is build
ing in the court Of the Tuileries at Paris.
Major General Crawford will represent the
American Geographical Society, and DR..
Schweinturth, the African explorer, comes in
as the representative of the Khedive.
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Terrible Loss Of Life and Property in
Southern Franco.
[Faris Telegralns of June "a

lralS leleSralnS OF June 20.
The loss Of life by the food at Toulouse
is appalling. At St. Cyprian quarter 2l5
corpses hove bee.. found. The violence of
the torrent frustrated all efforts to rescue
the unfortunate inmates Of the houses.
Several men were drowned in the attempt.
Twenty thousand persons were deprived
Of the means of subsistence in Toulouse.
Disasters elsewhere are Of almost equal
magnitude. The lower part of the city
Of Mousac, on the Lorne, is under water.
At Trcmsullet, in the department of Ar
rleGe, five houses only remain standing
out of four hundred. In the district Of
Faix, same department, two villages are
completely submerged and many dead
bodies found. Crops ofall kinds through
out the inundated districts have been
destroyed. President Mcmahon and
Minister Buffet have left Paris for the
scene Of the destruction.
Gen. De Cissey, minister of war. &C.
companied the president and minister Of
the interior to the scene of the inunda-
ton. The municipal council of Paris
has devoted $4,000 for the relief of the
sufferers. Eighty persons were drowned
in Verdun. Eight hundred houses have
fallen IN Toulouse. At Bordeaux the
Garinne is much swollen, but no serious
catastrophe is reported. 1t is said that
altogether one thousand lives have been
1Dct
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Thirty Years Asoa Foreign Minister
at Washing ton.
(From the Sioux City Journal.)

(From the Sioux City Journal)
VIM. NJ. Bell of Tietown, the old man
who was stabbed and beaten on the head
by squaw, a week since, is still alive,
though his chances Of recovery are very
slim. Mr.. Hale of this city, who is some
what acquainted with the subject of this
item. gives us some additional particulars
regarding the mystery surrounding the
old mans life. He is over seventy years
of age, but before receiving the attack
from which he is now suffering, he was as
spry and wiry as boy. He is presumed
to be of royal blood. Thirty years ago,
as near as Can be learned, he was repre-
sentative of foreign government at
Washington, but for some reason was dis
missed, and he remained in that city
teaching foreign languages for several
years, when he went to St. Louis and from
there to his present location. Mr.. Hale
says Bell is an assumed name. 1t is the
opinion of citizens Of Tietown that the
old man is worth large sum of money,
which they think he has buried upon his
premises. He has never been known to
squander any money, and for the past few
years he has enjoyed a rather extensive
and profitable trade.
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THE q H. s..
Crimes.

It is feared at Washington that the troubles
on the Texas border may iavolve the United
States and Mexica1 governments in serious
difficulties.
Horace Holcomb was lately arrested in s:Indi-
ana, charged with stealing 100000 worth OF
goods from merchants at Auburn, N. Y. : ,SS,TAs
The trial of w. S. King for perjury, has been
set for the October term.
Kansas City has minister named Johnston
who sedu,ed his twin step daughters, aged
IS, and married one OF them three months af-
ter his wife's death.
Boss Tweed was released from the peniten-
tiary on writ of habeas corpus, and re-arrest-
ed on civil warrant tor $4,000, 900, and put
in the city Jail. He requires bonds to the
amount of $1,000, 900 to secure his freedom.
A negro who committed aErapein Hancock
county, ILL.,, was taken from iail and hanged,
on the Goth.
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Capt. Eads' Jetty Building at tn.
South Pass.

A St. Louis telegram of the ed says !:
Capt. John N. Bofner, one of the oldest
and wealthiest Of the lower Mississippi
steamboatmen, and also one of Captain
Eads' chief associates in the scheme, ar.
rived here to-day direct from South pass.
He considers the prospects exceedingly
encouraging. The work is already going
forward The necessary wharves have
been built at the rivers mouth. Two
long buildings have been put ur for the
accommodation Of the workmen, and on
Monday the pile.driving out into the sea
was. commenced for the retaining
walls of the jetties, Ten thousand
feet of sheet-piling, each pile a
foot wide and three inches
thick, will be driven. This sheet.piling
of itself will form an almost water.tight
wall, and will retain the material for the
)etties in place during all kinds of wealth
or while they are being built up solid to
the surface Of the water. 1t is calculated
that this sheet piling alone will give Is
feet of water in the pass by next October.
The :jetty builders find the pass, now
about 700 feet wide and the artificial
banks preserve the same width. The
current is about three and half miles an
hour with the full tide The jetties will
be two and quarter miles long on the
east, and one and one half miles long on
the west. Capt. Eads has constructed
pile driver with which he can work unin-
tcrruptedly in all kinds of weather. 1t
is to he placed on pile and run out in
the water-driving the piles and finishing
its work as it moves out. The work will
progress more rapidly in this way than
by using fat boats for the driving.
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Shooting i'll tho Chamber of a Dying
Woman.

A terrible scene was recently enacted
at the death-bed of Mrs. Holmes, at Cho-
tard Landing, in 1ssaquena county, Miss.
Mrs. Holmes was dying, and sent her
brother, one Strong, for notary to come
and make her will. This displeased the
woman's husband, DR.. Holmes, between
whom and Strong feud existed, and
when the young man returned with the
official there was trouble. The will was
finished. and the three men were walking
out Of the chamber of the dying woman
when Holmes said to Strong: II under
stand you called me liar; are you
ready - and commenced firing, the first
shot passing through Strong's hip.
Strong drew ,istol and returned the
shots, each man discharging five barrels
of his revolver. Holmes fell, shot through
the heart: A brother Of Holmes rushed
IN to join the fray, but was secured, as
was Strong. A coroner's jury was sum-
moned at once and Strong released, the
homicide being fully justified.
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Runaway Wisconsin Husband Fol.
lowed to Florida and Murdered.
Florida papers of late dates coatain an
account of a peculiarly interesting trag-
edy, in which a Mr.. Keech, long miss;no
from Fond du Lac. Wis, enacts p verV
important part He arrived in Florida
about year and half ago. He pur-
chased . farm in St. Johns county. not
far from N atanzas inlet. He was indns.
trious and energetic, and soon became
noted as one of the most prosnero,;s
farmers in the country. Mr.. Keech was
accompanied by his wife, or a woman
supposed to be his wife: TO all appear
ancesthe two lived together in the utmost
peace and tranquility. Some time ago a
man calling himself j. Smith Newton.
and representing himself as land pros
pector, made his appearance in the Keech
neighborhood and remained several DAYS.
He finally left, and neither Mr.. keech nor
his neighbors thought any more of the
stranger. A few days ago, however, he
again made his appearance, and after
making some inquiries Of Mr.. Will
liams, proceeded to Keech's house. It
happened that Mr.. Keech owed Mr.. Will
liams small sum Of money, and had
promised to call and pay it the next day
after Newton made his appearance. That
day, however, sandHthe next passed, and
still Keech did not appear to fulfil his
promise. Knowing his neighbor to be
very prompt man in his business affairs.
Mr.. Williams at once proceeded to inves-
tigate the cause of the unusual delav.
Mounting a horse, he rode to the farm of
keech, and there discovered that a most
atrocous murder had been committed.
Mrs. Keech was found in her room,
shot to death, while Mr.. Keech
lay near by. with his throat cut,
a bullet-hole in the back of
his head, and his skull crushed in. Mr..
keechs neighbors Immediately assem-
bled and organized two pursuing parties
one under the commend of Mr.. Virgil
Dupont and the other under command of
the sheriff of St. Johns county. They
followed the murderer nearly fifty miles,
sparing neither whip nor spur, and finally
come up with him in Volusia county,
where he was endeavoring to make hie
way on foot to the St. Johns river. ThS
confession of the murderer, which ha.
been made, invests the crime with myste
rious interest. His name is j. Smith
Newton, and he says he was born in
Buenos Ayrcs. of Engli:,h parents. He
says that his purpose was not robbery
but the hope Of ultimate gain. He states
that the woman known as Mrs Ellen
Kecch was not the wife of Mr. Keech,
but his mistress, and that the real Mrs.
kcech is resident Of Fond du Lac, Wis.
Keech deserted his real wife, took up with
the murdered woman, and fed to Florida.
The prisoner says he was employed by
Mrs. Kccch, who is his aunt, to follow her
truant husband and murder him and his
mistress. AS reward for his trouble,
Newton was to receive a share OF the es-
tate OF Mr.. Kecch, which is said to be
worth about 100000. An attempt was
made by some of the citizens of Orange
county to lynch Newton, and it was the
fear Of this that led him to confess his
crime.
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conclusion, on level ground, 10 the
depth OF to 6 inches. All in
all it was one of i the most fearful
sto1ms that ever visited this section, and those
Congratulate that the losses Of property, and
personal injury to individuals are no greater.
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The Wisconsin Wife,s Revenge Upon
Her Runaway Husband and Para

Her Runaway Husband and Para
mour.
fond du Lac, Wis. June cath, Correspond
49,, s...t ence Chicago Tribune.]
The Henry Keech who was nearly
killed near St. Augustine, Fla, short
time since, proves to be the Keech who
was formerly lumberman in this city,
and who went to Florida for his health
seven s'e or eight years ago, leaving his wife
III this city, The woman who was killed
at the time he was wounded was not his
wife, but it seems they had lived as man
ana VILE tor some years. The following
letter. received in this city, shows that
the assassin has been captured, and that
he confesscs: 49,: =
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, June Is, 1S75.-DEAR
AUNT ELIZA: am very sorry that have to
write you this letter. Aunt Mary took me
from work to come down here and kill Keeoh
ana an'oat mat woman Woman ne was living with. She
pistol. came down here and done the deed
as she told me to. She offered me $4,000 to
90 So did it. Now am in j il to be tried
tor my life, a murderer. Mary Ann gave me
no money to get away with. l am feeling
very bad, and want a lawyer
to try and save my lie. | have no
! - CoA1 0eh - lttW yer am sorry
the day ever saw amt Mary Ann. That wo
man that Henry Kee: was living with l put
tour bullet-hoes through her head She is
dead. keech iss~not expected to recover. T
think Aunt Mary, ought to suffer with me if l
am to suffer, as She put me up to the deed |
have done. Let her have her share of it, I
wish had gone to work in Neenah. would
have been all right now. Want to see if YOU
can get me lawyer. am here for murder.
May God forgive me.
(Sisned) WILLIAM NEWTON.
II send my love to all. am in JAIL | will
send y91! picture-.that ola murderer. Wlite
soon: Direct to William Newton, St. August
Inc, Fla, U. S"
The Aunt Mary Ann is the wife Of
Mr.. Keech, left in Fond du Lac. Upon
learning that her husband was living
with another woman she became enraged,
and it does not much surprise those best
with her that she has been
charged with hiring this young man to
kill kcech and his mistre:s. The matter
causes much excitement in this part of
the State, where all the parties except
the murdered woman were we'll known.
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Il tell you WHAT said Holden wild
over the other night as he finished wash
ing the dishes, cts mighty solemn
thing to think that Maria Jane is down
in the cold ground, instead of being
around to churn- and saw wood and
SIGH"
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Waiting for the Verdict.

After waiting all day and evening for
the verdict, at 10 o'clock last night
Judge Nelson adjourned the court till II
O'Clock to-day, and the jury we're locked
up for the night.
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miscellaneous.

CNet SeO tllAI Tie jury naN Deen cr1mlnally ap-
preached, and demanded the appointment OF
time to hear the proofs. The judge said the
proper time would be at the end of the trial,
when somebody won d be punished.
letter from Col. Dodge, in command o!
the Black Hills geological expedition, sends
back the following semi. official report ::
"Gold found in paying. quantities on French's
creek. Custar's report confirmed in every
particular" Private reports state that hun
bred miners were found at work in Cus1er's
Guch, taking out gold at the rate OF S. to. S25
per day. Evidences are strong that there are
more miners in the country. Quartz mines are
abundant.
Gen. Pope makes a statement declaring bad
condition OF things at the Indian agencies, such
as to seriously involve the honor and good
faith OF the United States. and working shock
ing inhumanity to thousands of human be-
ings.
The Government geologist, Prof Jenny, has
made report which does much to dispel the
golden dreams about the Black Hills, and con-
tradicts the glowing accounts by the command
er OF the expedition. He says the region has
not been fully explored, but gold has been
found in small quantities; but the deposits of
gravel are very unfavorably situated for wash
ing.
Advices from Spotted Tails Agency state
that gigantic Indian war is about to be inau-
gurated.
Mr. Beecher announced in his Friday eve
nlng prayer meeting, last week, that he should
continue as pastor Of Plymouth church let the
verdict of the jury be for or against him.
Mortimer Thomson-better known as Doe
sticks-died on the 25th, in New York y
Judge Spence has given an opinion that post
masters are liable on their bond for the loss of
government property-stamps-w in their
possession.
The jury in the Beecher case had been ont
twenty-four hours when rnmor was circulat.
ed that they stood seven for Beecher and five
for Tilton. Though unfounded, this created
much excitement.
The New Hampshire supreme court is to ar
raign some OF the Concord editors and CORES
pondents Tor contempt.s" s. =
Of the twenty five commodores DOW in the
Urited States navy, it is rather singular fact
that rot one of them has served less than thir-
ty years, while the lor gest term of service ex-
tends over forty two years.
A special dispatch from San Francisco
dated June 25, announces that the reevvolu-
ton against the Mexican authorities at La
Paz is in full tide of success and the Mex
can troops had been sent from Mazatlan to
quell the movement.
new cigar stamp has been provided by the
internal revenue department II has coupon
to be pasted upon each cigar.
The police drove the crowd from the vicinity
Of the Brooklyn court room on the 26tl, where
they were watching the movements of the
jurors through the windows >"r': -
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Casualties.

A violent tornado and lightning storm pass
ed over the northeastern part Of Quincy, Ill.,,
on the 18th instant, continuing from
till 10 o'clock. A large number OF houses were
leveled to the ground and in numerous in
stances severe injuries were sustained John
Whine, brick maker, was struck Ly falling
timber AMI killed. Railroad trains arriving by
all the roads report the tracks considerably
damaged. The lightning continued until a
late hour at night though the wind abated
A fire broke out in warehouse in Dublin,
containing Is, 900 puncheons of whiskey. Ex-
plosion after explosion followed. The whisky
flowed into and along the streets, burning and
igniting other buildings, until millions of dol
lars worth of property was destroyed. People
dipped the liquor up in pals, and became so
riotous that troops were called out to restore
order.
An earthquake shook southwestern Ohio
and southern Indiana, on the 18th, cracking
walls and badly frightening the people.
A great flood occurred in Missouri and
Southern Illinois, on the 21st The damage
to crops, fences, and railroads is unprece-
dented.
A drunken rowdy named Hicks attacked the
marshal Of of Osceola, Mo, and received four
bullets in return, producing almost instant
DEATH
Three murderers were hung on last hang
mans day. Costly, in Boston, and Gordon
and Wagnerin Thomaston, were the unfortun-
ates.
Over Thousand lives were lost by unpreci-
denied floods in France, on the 25th. Fifty
thousand DeODle are derived of the ,nea,,s ct
subsistence thereby.
Great storms of wind, rain and hail contin-
ne to be reported from all directions. In
France million francs have been appropriate
ed to relieve SUFFERING
Smyrna times., 1875-09-22
HERTFF~ SALE

- HElHFF~ SALE
- By virtue Of Il writ Of LcYari Facias TO me
directed Will he exposed to Public sale az the hotel Of
Charles L. FoXWCl, i'm the town of smyrna Duck
Creek Hundred Kent County and state Of Delaware.
on THURSDAY the 9TH dH! of October ls75 at half
past clock, r. NJ, the following Real Estate To wit:
All that certain let piece or parcel of land with
stable erected thereon situate i'll the of Smyrna
Kent County and State Of Delaware bounded as fol-
lows, to wit: Beginning at stake in the southeast
corner of Mulberry and High Streets and running
thence with the south side of said Mulberry Street
north fOTtyniue degrees and forty minutes east
thrtyhree feet six inches to stake on the south side
of said Mulberry Street for back lot Nc Ii; ;
thence with the line of said back lot No lG south forty
degrees and thirty minutes east hundred and
thrtySeyen feet to stake, corner for land of Henry
EubGnks; thence with said Eubanks line south forty
nine degrees and ltyiivc minutes west thirty-three
feet and six inches to stake in the side Of said High
street and corner for said EubanEs thence with the
north side of said High street north forty degrees and
thirty minutes west one hundred and thirty-scYcn
feet to the place of beginning, containing FOu ThDV-
sand Fire HndyCd and EjghfyNjRC Square FCtof LGad
more or less, and being the same lot and premises
conveyed to The said John W. Lurty by & deed of bar
gain and sale of EbcncZcr Lurty, dated January 30
1865 reference To said deed will appear at large
together with all and singular the buildings improve
mcnts. fixtures, &c.
Seized and taken in execution as the property of
JOHN W. LUETN and EDITH, his wife and will be
sold FOR cash.
PETER L. COOPER, Sheriff
SHERIFF's OFFICE. DOVER, DELI
September - 1873.
Smyrna times., 1875-09-22
CHERIFFS SALE.

AlhEklff > SALE.
- BY virtue of a writ of VenditiOn ExpOnas to me
directed will be exposed TO Public Sale at the front
door of the County Building in the town Of Dover,
Dover Hundred, Kent County and State of Delaware,
on TUESDAY, the jth day of October, 1873 at 3
o'clock, p NJ. the following Real Estate. to wit
No. 1.-AI those lots, pieces or parcels of land
situated on Main Street in Silver Lake City adjacent
TO the town of Dover, in Kent County and State of
Delaware, and between Monroe Street and Marshal
Street of said City, and designated plot of said
City No. 16, No. II, No Is, No. 10, No 90 No 81
No D. No. 23 No. 81, No 49, and part of No 39 and
Is said to contain One Hundred and Eighty Fire Thou
sand Fire Hundred and Srt Three SquGre Fecof Land
more or less The improvements are a twostOry
frame dwelling house, with bodybuilding barn,
stable, &c.
No 2-Al those certain other lots pieces or parcels
of land situated in Silver Lake City aforesaid and on
Main Street. and designated plot of said City
as No. No. q and No g. and said to contain TiCen-
SeUen Thousand Square Feet Of Land more or less. No
improvements
No 3-A those certain 9th or lots pieces or parcels
of land situated in Silver Lake City aforesaid and on
Madison Street. running through TO Monroe Street and
designated on plot of said City Nos Al and 49,
and said to contain EightScUen Thousand Square Feet
Of Land, more Oh less, with no improvements
Seized and taken i'm execution as the prOperty OF
| CHARLES HlLLYARD, and will be sold for cash.
PETER l.. COOPER Sheriff.
| SHERIFFs OFFICE DOVER, DEL,
| September 13, 1875.