another fatal occurrence on thursday last mayad may ad as we have been informed john IV brown son of ebenezer brown of draperville Drap erville in this county and one of the missionaries that went to the sandwich islands in 1856 was instantly killed by the falling 0 of a rock while engaged with ten or twelve others in di digging g ind ing 0 a canal to convey the waters of dry creek to the draper settlement for irrigating purposes the deceased was ed engaged C aged alone in undermining the rock which were on the upper line of the canal when whon it suddenly gave way and came down upon him with a crash carrying his bis body with it shockingly a mutilated fro from in fifteen to twenty feet down the side bide of the hill near the foot of which the canal is being dug the rock was a granite and said to be twelve feet long s x feet wide and five feet in thickness ile lie was a young man of promise and much respected by all who were acquainted with I 1 b bim him m an and a esp especially by his co laborers on the islands oe of the pacific where he faithfully discharged his duties as a missionary ana from which neld field of labor be he returned home to his fath fathers erys house about one year ago ile he was in the year of his ame age age D and I 1 leaves eaves a wife whom he married in november last and a large larme circle of relatives and friends who mo mourn u rn his hia loss