Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10
NEWS ITEMS.

Miid'etown people pasture their COWS in the
| Streets
| VIM. Green, Of Middletown, gave delightful
outdoors party in the lawn OF his residence last
week. Lights were suspended amongst the trees
| and the scene was one of rare beauty.
On Tuesday of last week green sea-turtle,
weighing 80 pounds, was caught in sturgeon
| net in the Delaware River, opposite Delaware
City.
satanta and Big Tree, the Indian chiefs
convicted of murder, have been sentenced to be
hanged on September 1st
The Lebanon Courier says that the Democratic
party at the present moment reminds one OF
wasp-very nearly in two pieces, with the largest
piece behind.
The corpols ston Of the University Of Vermont
has voted to admit women to that institution,
under rules to be hereafter prescribed by tho
Faculty.
An immense business in manuf acturng ready
made clothing is done in the eastern section OF
Maine One firm in Winterport manufacture
from 81, 900 to 75 600 vests annually, giving
ployment at their homes to 1900 women, and
number of firms do business almost ~ large.
Riveted shoes are to come into fashion. We
now have screw fastened, cable screwed, riyeted,
pegged, sewed and cemented.
-Four hundred prisoners in the Now Jersey
State Prison, at Trenton, are engaged in the
manufacture Of boots and Shoes.
The Government expenditures for July, not
including payments on account Of the public
debt, were !l3, l42 769.
The personal property Of the Iron Mountain
Railroad in Missouri, has been seized for non.
payment Of taxes, amounting to S33 900, and
will be sold on the l1th
Mrs. Lake. who was shot by Mrs. Server, at
Stockton, CAL, III fit OF jealousy, died on the
I'd inst
The National Division of the Sons Of Temper
ance will hold convention at Boston, beginning
on September 9Th, and lasting five days.
The official count of the Charleston. 8. c.,
election, gives Gen. John A. Wagner, Citizens
candidate for Mayor, III majority over Pillsbury,
Republican. The rest Of the Citizens ticket re.
ceives about the ssme majority.
George Culton, formerly State Comptroller,
and W. 4. Garrett, brass founder, have been
nominated by the Republicans ss State Senators
from San Francisco.
The - female sufGragists" of San Francisco
and Stockton, California, are preparing to suo
the county clerks for refusing to register them
as voters.
g. Smith DieiTendorf, alias Calvin King, has
been sentenced to seven years in the Massachu-
se,ts Penitentiary for obtaining IS O7O on forged
paper from a Boston broker in 1868. He has
been fourteen months in jail. lie has wife
and two children at Rochester, New York.
DIR. W. G. Beck, of Springfield Mass, has been
awarded $4,000 damages against the Connecti-
cut River Railroad, for injuries receive by col
lssion in 1870.
A company OF San Francisco capitalists have
purchased the land grant of $500, 900 acres to tho
willamette Valley aud Cascade Mountain Wagon
Road Company.
l.. Graf y Bro, of Newark. n. j., are about
building Il shoe factory, which, whom completed,
will be the largest in the State.
Most Of the furnaces in Schuylkil Valley have
resumed operations, and d. o. & Ii. s. Hitner's
third furnace at Spring Mill. which had been idle
for short time, WAS blown in a few days ago.
1t is rumored in Mauch Chunk that stock
company is being organized in that place to eth
| er buy or lease the Mauch Chunk, Summit Hill
| aud Switchback Railroad, and thus preserve one
OF Mauch Chunks greatest attractions.
Two companies of U. s. troops arrived at New
Orleans ON Friday night. Their presence is said
To be for the preservation OF order on Wednes-
dHy. tho day for the meeting OF the Republican
State Convention.
A census of Chicago Just flushed gives that
CITY a population OF 33i,270, the males having
ma jority of 62S2.
The Italians in San Francisco yesterday cele-
bra,ed the occupation OF Rome by the King of
Italy with a street parade. The German and
Swiss rifle copmanies joined in the procession.
The five German consulates at New York are
to he consolidated into the - Consulate General
of the German Empire"
1t is reported from Chicago that the French
Consulate in that city will be abolished, and a
Consular Agency, under The French Consul at
New York. substituted.
The famous trotting mare Purity" dropped
dead of heart disease while exercising At Buffalo
yesterday.
Al Terre Haute, Ind, lubrcating oil Was
''struckn on Saturday night at depth OF 1886
feet.