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On Monday Morning, says the Solano (Cal.) Press of June 3, J. H. Mundall, of Gold Hill (Nevada), and a step-son of Philip Lynch of the News, committed suicide by taking an overdose of morphine at Fairfield. He came here on the boat on Saturday night, and was laboring under a mild form of delirium tremens. He constantly imagined that a mob was intending to assassinate him, and he made threats of taking his own life. On Monday he was found in a dying condition on the Vaca road, and died shortly after being brought to Fairfield. He had on his person $316 50 in coin, besides a gold watch, breastpin and sleeve buttons. He was rather a fine looking man, about thirty-five years of age, and his insanity no doubt was caused by excessive drinking. Three physicians were summoned to his assistance when first found, but before they arrived he died, almost without a struggle. They unanimously concur in the statement that his death was owing to morphine, and there is no doubt but that he took his own life.