Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-07-27


There was light frost In Ulster county,
New York, on Sunday.
General Sherman expects to return from
Europe in September.
Spotted Tail and his Indian delegation
arrived in Washington Monday.
Secretary Robson visited the Ports
mouth, IN. H.,) Navy Yard, Saturday.
The cotton worm and excessive rains are
reported to he doing great damage 10 the
cotton crop in Mississippi.
The cbildren's free excursion fund In
Philadelphia now amounts to S3,76l, and
the first excursion goes this week.
Charles IL. Leavitt, of the firm Of Hunt
ingdon ,S Leavitt, real estate brokers OF
Boston, killed himself on Sunday.
John Whideman and Charles Bartlemus
were drowned, Sunday evening, near Pop
lar street wharf, Philadelphia, by the cap
sizing of boat.
A report has reached Wilmington, North
Carolina, that Tom Lowery, one of the
Robson county outlaws, and the brother
of Henry Berry Lowery, has been killed
The damage by the recent floods in the
rivers of Alabama is estimated at $4,000,
600, and il is announced that the waters
are higher than ever before known at this
season.
At the meeting on Saturday to organize
poor children's free excursions in Pniladel-
! phia, the subscriptions reached $2,4l5. In
New York the subscriptions for this worthy
object amounted Saturday to $1,000.
Boston takes so much water from the
tributaries of the Concord river, that il is
feared some of the Lowell factories de-
pending upon that river for water-power
will be obliged to suspend operations.
The Irish Band that visited the Boston
Jubilee have had disagreement. The
leader NJ fifteen members have returned
| to IFeNHd, whilst the balance intend max
| ing nm American tour before returning.
The iron works of William J. King, Jr.,
| at Buffalo, New York, one Of the moet
extensive establishments in the country,
have suspended operations, fifteen hundred
men being thrown out Of employment.
The impeachment trial of Judge Barnard
At Saratoga New York, continued ycster.
day,the case being begun by the manager:
OF the impeachment, who made theil
opening address and commenced taking
testimony.
Professor Alex. Biedeman, a German
resident Of Philadelphia, was drowned
whilst bathing Monday lat Cape May
lie Was sic1 "a with at after entering the
water, and died almost immediately. Th'
body was brought to that city Inst night
\ London letlcrto New York contem
porury states that a committee of the Eng
lish Board Of Trade, to whom was refer
red the Alabama claims, OF the United
States at Geneva, the total being S25,OOO
600, had reported that $4,000 900 will b.
sufficient 10 cover the just claims.
In the impeachment trial of Judg
Barnard, before the New York Senate, u
Saratoga, the defendants plea that th
Court had no Jurisdiction was negatiyed
23 to Q. Various motions of defendant
counsel to strike out different articles o
impeachment were also negatiyed in ever.
case
The peultentary at Albany, n. Y, ha
been designated by the Attorney Genera
as the place for the imprisonment Of al
persons who may be convicted in tn
United States Courts In South Carolin
and sentenced to Imprisonment at har
labor. This refers chiefly to Ku-Klui
convictions.
; BY the caving in OF a portion Of the roc
Of Copper Falls Mine, at Houghton, 0
Lake Superior, the lives of sixty miner
h were endangered on July 18th. Forty-si
r escaped without serious mishap, and of III
y balance four were taken out unnjured, on
dead, and three seriously wounded II
fate of the remaining six Is not yet know
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