Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1871-11-03
AMERICAN NEWS.

Death in Philadelphia from small poS
last week numbered 85. Number of cases
under treatment last week 450.
The United States steam frigale Richmond
passed upIhe Delaware Oct. 3lst for Phila-
delphis, from Gibraltar.
Hon. Thomas II. Dudley, Consul to Liv
trpool, returns to that port in the steamer
City Of Paris, which leaves N. Y. Nov. 11th'
The vessel tonnage of the United States Is
16 go, 1857 tons in l, lS9 vessels.
The Teachers Institute, under the direc-
of Prof. Geo. L. Mars, superintendent, held
their meeting at West Chester Pa, on Mon
day. The teachers present numbered 232,
and instructors present were Prof. White
Miss Parsons, and Prof Mason:
On Oct. 31st. the new Minister of Colon
pa S. A., presented his credentials to tie
President.
Two Indians have been ordained clergy
man Of the Episcopal Church in Dakota
during The past year.
The next National camp meeting is 10 be
held in Urbana, Ohio, commencing August
s, 1872.
Gloucester, Massachusetts,, is the ONLY
place where thesentiment of any considerable
part of the people appears to be against the
Washington Treaty.
Persons in Washington, il is stated, have
completed arrangements with the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad and several lines at the
West 10 bring excursion parties of five or
more persons from the principal towns in
Ohio and Indiana, and from st. Louis to
Washington, and return them, at hall fare,
at any time during the coming session of
Congress.
James Fisk, Jr., of New York, on Mon
day, was arrested on suit OF Josephine Mans
field on civil action TO recover $780, which
he is charged with having used.
The ship Edith Rose, 500 tons burden,
Capt Alexander, chartered by the Amerl-
can Colonization Society, arrived in IIamp-
ton Roads on Sunday morning.
Prof Joseph Henry, of the Smithsonian
Institution at Washington, ID. G., was cho
sen chairman of the Light House Board,
Oct. 30h.
The North American and United States
Gazette OF Philadelphia, completed the one
hundredth year OF its existence and the eigh-
lieth year of its continuous daily publication
on Oct. 30lh, it being the Oldest daily news
paper on the American continent.
An autograph edition of the complete
works OF Charles Sumner is in course of
publication by Lee u Shepard. After the
publication OF the Autograph Edition" an
edition in the same style will be issued for
the public at large.
1t is reported that for months past a firm
IN New York city has been profitably enga-
ged in shipping lots OF arms and ammuni-
ton TO the Southern States. They consist Of
the Spencer titles and the smaller munitions
of war, and are packed secretly aud forward
ed in small lots, SO as to allay suspicion.
Geo. o. Evans, the Pennsylvania embez.
zler, has been held in 500, 900 bait 10 appear
on capias.
A steam road roller, weighing about thir-
ty tons, made IN Rochester, Kent England,
is used in pressing the concrete pavement 10
Pennsylvania Avenue, near the War De-
parlment, D. g.
On Oct. 30th, the President OF tue Wash
ington, ID. c., Newsboys Association receiv-
ed from TWO publishers Sc so in geld aud So
in paper, for selling the largest number OF
Sunday newspapers, Oct. Goth.