Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-05-28
Teleeraphic Summary.

remplur, ]. II. Orno, of Massachusetts, Is ~
,iesiling, assisted by the Grand Vice Tenn in
ilar, Rebeeca j. Reed, of West Nirgina, W
and the leading men III the organization are ol
present Nearly every State in the Union n
and tic Territories and Provinces of Canada IA
are represented. The delegates from Cali in
lornn and Montana arrived last week. Dele ii
gates are arriving by every tram. 1t is un- ii
1oubtedly the largest and most important =,
gathering that the Tempars have ever held. II
A World Washington SPECIAL says adyices II
from Georgia fatty contradict the sensational q
reports OF political murders in thai State. y
Tie State is tranquil and bu mess is brisk c
The little disturbances which have occurred q
have been the murder Of ON nr twu carpet i
bargers by reckless scalawaes, Ia whom they u
owed money. That with the absence OF y
Bullock and the prospect oil good crops, the :
State Is in II thriving condition.
Tie gasometer of the city gas works at a
Cincinnati, Ohio, exploded nn Monday, and !,
the huge iron holder, 1870 .eeI in diameter ,
and AZ feet in height, with II capacity oi
million cubic leet ol gas, was torn in pieces.
Tue cause is unknown. Several woikmen
were severely injured but will probably re.
cover. The loss Is about $4,000
A Washington dispatch says the supply Of
fractional currency being exhausted, NO new
fractional notes, or notes oil the denomlna
tons OF one and two dollars, Will be issued
in exchange for old currency until The new
plates and water marked paper recently
ordered by the Secretary are ready, which
will! he about the first OF July.
\ The Cuban revoutionists give unmis
| taxable evidence Of their determination TO !
| fight for Their independence 10 the bitter ,
end. They have established IL republican /.
government, with lis headquarters IN the /,
| iutcrinr elpptp1 Gan (taenplpH Drnei.
dent. Quesada, commander Of the repubi.
can forces, has issued a stirring proclamation
10 the Cubnns.
A dispatch from Helena, Montana, gives
Munchausen like story Of sixty white men
fighting two hundred Indians for seven
hours, killing and scalping thirty, and only
losing one while man killed and ono wound
ed. All the Indians would probably have
been killed had they not succeeded in escnp
ing by swimming the river.
Tie fist invoice oil teas over the Pacific
Railroad, from Yokahama, Japan, via San
Francisco, California, was received by Jas.
I II. Gibson, ol ST. Louis, ON the 18Th inst.
i Time per steamer from Japan tn San Fran.
r cisco, twenty days; from San Francisco per
r Pacific Railroad TO ST. Louis ten days.
. Several letter.boxcs in the Boston post
g Office were broken open and robbed OF their
: Nuutthts- nG 0uuolh DhHh luSl TlUUibuu
d worth Of checks, wil.- - iound in q
: cellar-way. Young boys are suspected as
n the perpetrators.
An attempt was made Oh Saturday 10
= murder an Internal Revenue officer hy a
h gang OF men between Louisville and Mem
!, phis, WHO had man in custody arrested for
~ running an Illicit distillery. He succeeded
70 IN killing one OF the gang.
= The body of John Lloyd, well known
~ manufacturer ui chemicals in Providence,
q II. l., who had been missing since Wednes-
" day, was found on Tuesday in the Woonas
quetuckei river. He probably lel in acc
dentally and was drowned.
Two farm nhorers, named Mcrrims Ma
in ginnis and Patrick Behan, residing al Mum
toId, N. Y., quarreled ON Saturday night
33 when Behan stabbed Aaginnis six time
nm with knife, luiicing wounds which ~
m. suited in hls death. Behan Is in custody.
w The Secretary of The Navy has issued at
~ order changing the names OF number q
ny war vessels in accordance with the law c
l1a CnnEfcss, which requires ships ul the frs
'a, class TO be named after States, and nl III
,a' ,,,' second clnss after cities.
lis On Wednesday afternoon the sale in III
Wholesale grocery establishment OF r. Rol
st. insnn u Co on Liberty Street, Pntsburp
nd was robbed OF S2, 900 in money, and check
at and noles TO similar amount.
ow A package containing 500, 900 was loun
en- y Ing around loose in Que OF the side room
%, ,at .. the Treasury Department the otLer day
lhr l,hr There has bten little more care III Ills
~ room since.
rss The steamer Nurwulk was run iuto la.
Tuesday by scow ou the East River an
sal Immediately sunk. There were no passei
itv gers aboard and The crew escaped by swim
I ,est ming ashore Loss $4,000.
1t. Us Devoe II Prall's oil establishment at IIu
~ ~ ler's Point, N. u, was destroyed by fl
s,, aus Tuesday. A brig lying at the deck ludt
ru rry with oil, was also destroyed. Total los
iIS Si00,000
VS. Forty buildings were destroyed by fire
Saturday morning at Eau Claire, Wis. ri
nly fire broke out in the Chandler house, co
nd. sumlng II and all the block on both sides
tel lhe post ctlice.
!, oil A sndden and violent thunder storm swe
@ 4u over Charleston, S. c., on Saturday eve
~ ~ ing, damaging property to large exleI
" A boat in the harbor WINS capslzed, aud
Mrs. Douglass and TWO children browne
'her A one armed soldier named Gilligan, =
and siding at Mill Greek, near Fortress hlonrC
,da- on Monday night while under the iEfluen
nor liquor, beat his wife to death. He is now
mai jail
ton, ghe establishment of Miller S Co, ma
siers, at Cleytland, Ohio, was destroyed
fire on Monday The loss is sea, 900 |
suIanec 5000. The loss was mustly m
destroyed and damaged.
r. OF Tie six vessels built ior Revenue S
'o' vice on the lakes, only one will go lnlo co
mission this season, which will be station
for al Detroit.
ong.
Herald special says that Attorney. CT
o,,a lloar is not at all pleased with the Pre-
q an ~, deuis proclamation overriding his opinl
- on the eight hour labor law.
for AT New Orleans, ON Saturday, two Fl
men were killed, six severely injured, Il
for several others slightly hurt by the falling
the walls Of building at fire.
for The boiler Of a locomotive on the Cent
Raioad exploded al Rochester, n. Y,
t,r Monday, severely scalding the engineer a
tTa demolisliing FIVE cars.
vii A Californian, name not given, lad
alteration W It'll man named Chas. Dur
and at kalamazoo, Michigan, on Monday, a
for shot him dead,
The Austrian ship Figlia Maggiore, "
ioii, run into by the steamer Russia, Tuesday,
New York harbor, and sunk in i
AIDES minutes. No lives lost.
Henry Loucks, an old passenger cond
X. tor GU tie New York Central Railroad, di
alter severe illness at Fonda N l.,
NJ ar Tuesday.
Over eight hundred vocal organizatic
have reported 10 the Executive Commit
PA their intention To join in the great Nation
uec- Peace Jubilee chorus
arli- John White, produce dealer at Con
at", land Village, N. ", committed suicide