Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-11-24

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mond breast-pin and broad bracelets Of gold.
Bouton's -four mill, in Toronto, was burned
on Friday night. Loss, 1885, 900.
Three hundred recruits have been ordered
from Cincinnati to San Diego, California
The Japanese merchants have arranged to
ship zoo, 900 cards of silkworms to Europe.
The weolen mill of David Dyers, in Maiden,
Mass, was burned on Saturday night. Loss,
$4,000.
Robert Dudley, a resident of Madison, Wis.,
consin, fell dead while giving testimony in q
court of law
The steamer Cimbria, which arrived at New
York on Saturday, brought two Thousand balloon
letters from Paris.
The propeller Sarah A. Brown, with cargo of
hay, was burned at New York last night. She
was valued at $4,000.
Full returns from all the counties of New
York State show total population Of 4,S70, ,846,
an increase Of 5s9,069 in five years.
A fire on Saturday night, in the marble front
building, No. 81 South Water street, Chicago,
caused damage to the amount of $4,000.
The President and Cabinet have received invi-
tations to attend the celebration Of the Pilgrims
Society at Plymouth Mass, on December 21st.
The receipts Of the French fair at New York
have exceeded $35, 600 for the first four days,
and it is expected that S150,0o0 will be realized.
The southern portion of Baldwinsville. N. Y,
with several large flour mills, was destroyed by
fire, yesterday morning. Estimated loss, $780,
900.
The Kansas Legislature stands-Republican
1903; Democrats 10; and Settlers Candidates"
s. The Republican majority in the State is over
10000.
The plains of Western Kansas are reported
to be covered with buffaloes which range in
droyes of two or three hundred each, and come
within gunshot of the railroad.
Barrett Scales, a colored Baptist minister, was
murdered near Topeka, Kansas, on Thursday.
His widow and Louis Ford. a young colored man,
have been arrested on suspicion.
Vice President Colfax has arrived in Washing
ton. Delegations from New Mexico and Colorado
are in Washington, and will urge Congress to
admit these Territories as States.
Mr.. T. Scott Stewart, United States Consul at
Hiogo, Japan, who is on leave Of absence, has
arrived at San Francisco. He is accompanied by
twelve young Japanese students.
The Chicago Journal asserts that Charles B.
Farwell Congressman elect from that Districts
has won a wager on his own election OF $l0,0OU,
above all his compaign expenses
Key's furniture factory, in East Twenty,ninth
street, New York, was destroyed by fire on Sat-
urday afternoon, and several adjoining dwellings,
were damaged. Total loss about S50,000.
AT San Francisco, on Friday night, a game Of
billiards between Joseph w. Little and John F.
coast and silver cue, was won by McCleery.
Milo H. Demmick, who was arrested in st.
Louis for fraudulently obtaining policy of life
insurance from the Republic Life Insurance
Company Of Chicago, has absconded and forfeit
ed his bail.
1t is expected that the United States ship
Delaware which arrived at New York on Satur-
day, from the East, will go out of commission.
The Tennessee is to sail from that port on FRI
day for the Pacific
The monthly report of the Bureau of Statistics
contains tables showing the immigration into the
United States for the last 81 years. The total
immigration to date (the last quarterof 1870 not
included) was AL ,619.
The official majority for Hawley, Rep, in the
Fourth Congressional District of Illinois, is IA.
The Illinois Legislature will stand as follows:
Senate-Republicans 35; Democrats 18. House
Republicans, 101 (; Democrats; 76.
Credentials from the Paris Government are
now on the way to NJ. Treilhard, the recently
appointed French Minister to Washington, and
when they have arrived he will be officially re-
ceiyed as the successor of NJ. Berthemy.
According to official data, the imports into the
United States for the eight months ending the
31st of August last exceeded the exports %, 750-
900. For the corresponding period Of 1869, the
imports exceeded the exports $50, 100000.
The ice companies of Maine are determined
to lay in large stock the coming winter Three
new houses are now being erected on the Ken
nebec with capacity of $4,000 TONS Arrange
ments are made in New York to break down ice
monopolists.
Captain George II. Cooper, of the U. s. steamer
Colorado, writes to Washington favorable ac-
count of that vessel. He says that she handles
beautiful from light royal breeze to good stiff
single reef, and that her sailing qualities up
| to eleven knots are excellent.
| The Governors of Kentucky and Dakota have
| appointed delegates to the Immigration Conven-
| tion to meet at indianapolis. Delegates will
| also attend from the Boards of Trade of Boston,
| Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville Milwaukee, Nash
willie. st. Paul, Cincinnati and other cities.
| While conductor John C. Smith was ejecting
two colored men from train on the Indianapolis
| Cincinnati, and Lafayette Railroad because Of
their refusal to pay their fare one of them fired
several shots at the conductor, seriously wound
ing him in the hip. The colored men were
| arrested.
A convention of Western and Northwestern
straw paper makers. representing s5OO0,O0O Of
manufacturing property, met at Cincinnati
Thursday. Resolutions were adopted declaring
for an alliance, offensive and defensive, against
the constant prosecutions of the American
Wood Paper Company.
James Kelly, wealthy and respectfully con
nected citizen. was held in $4,000 bail at New
York on Saturday, to answer the charge Of bur.
glary. 1t is alleged that he entered the house
of Vim. L. Peck adjoining his own, during tbs
familys absence in July last, and stole S100t
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Kelly's house.
1t is announced that Judge Merricks election
to Congress- from the Fifth Maryland District
will be contested by Mr.. Gary, his Republican
opponent. The grounds of the contest are thai
coiored voters in Charles and St.Mary's counties
were iutimidated, and that in some precincts
separate polling places were provided for tn
white and coored voters. The official Demo
cratic majority in the district is 1874.
During fire on South Charles street, Balti
more, yesterday morning, John Hayes. a fireman
was crirhed to death by falling walls. Fir
, Inspector Holloway was injured, but not danger
i ously The fire destroyed Felgner's Tobacco
factory, and an adjoining building, occupied b
j. b Il A. Berry, commission merchants, tunl
bled down when the factory building fell. Tn
( total loss is about $4,000.
b An exchange says: Two of the larget
! Boston millinery houses employ none but NAL
! women" In the next issue it will probably ex
plain itself by saying, g for women read worl
men,"
This year it is train-boy on Kansas raj
D road who has fallen heir to fortune Of over
{; million of dollars, left by an uncle in England
y II we mistake not, last year this identical for
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