Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-12-28


In General.
The jury for Stokes second trial was
completed on saturday.
The present snow storm extended from
South Carolina to Canada.
Gen. Crook is enlisting friendly Indians
to fight the hostile Apaches.
Three sehooners were reported ashore
below Portland. Me, Thursday.
james A. Elland fatally stabbed his
wife, in Brooklyn, Saturday night.
The destitute Italians are leaving New
York to work on Virginia railroads.
The father Of Father Burke, the Denim
icaE orator, died in Dublin on the 9th
inst.
Minister Washburne is TO sail from New
York in the steamship 81. laurent to-
morrow.
Five members Of the New York militia
are reported TO be In Jail for nou- payment
Of fines.
Copious rains fell throughout California
on Tuesday, and plentiful harvest is cx-
pected in that State.
|. The report of the burning of the PAIL
SADIE Hotel, at Englewood, n. D., Is "re-
ported TO be untrue"
The President will sustain the Clayton
purity in Arkansas as the legally elected
officers OF the state.
The annual encampment of the Grand
Army OF the Republic Of Ohio will meet
at Daton, January 22l.
A. T. Stewart, Of New York, had his
leg broken and ankle dislocated by a TALL
on his own steps Saturday.
The steamer Wild Cat and barge swal-
low were sunk at Cairo, ILL.,, on Tuesday
evening, by the floating ice.
During llght IN New York saloon ON
Christmas night, John Erfata was stabbed,
and his brother Louis shot.
Woodhnll aud Claim ave been refused
Il license hy the Boston Board Of Alder.
/ men iot d lecture In Flueull Hall.
The Memlhl Bank. Of Memphis Tenn.
I suspended Yesterday morning. Its hah,li
tics ur $1,000, its assets sel,0
Dewitt Ialmaps's Tabernacle (suppose,
To le tire pIuuD In Brooklyn. was de
suONcl uy fire Sunday. Loss $40, 900
Judge or, of Soath Carolina, the ncsl
! appointed Minister TO Russia, Will sail 10
Eurol about the middle Of next month.
Ferdinand Hahn, boy uiuo Years 0
age, was kl.lod .u Sew York on Weduca
| day hy % snowfall thrown by a playmate
The Young Meas hiisiiau Association
lof Saratoga. hUs prevented cock fight
announced Tor that Yilluge, from tgkin
p.ace.
VIM. Golfers rolling mill at Paterson
n. j was burned Sunday night, aud III
owner Is arrested On charge OF hayip
fired it.
At Yisalia. Cal, Charles Allen. in la
ON Il charge OF murder, was taken an
hanged On rucsday hy II vigilance con
mittre,
George farwoll, an cutelprisipg SEWN
machine agent, at Cleveland, babe isrewe
10 this earth, on Saturday, by help {
liydraie of Choral.
Joseph Jefferson, The great comedian,
Is said Will reWpear on the Baltimoi
stage next week, his health being rcgardc
as prlcIly RESTORED.
Tie $ cntar, OF the Treasury has u
] commend @ that the appropriations fC
iLeLcN Post ilicc in Philadelphia be n
lrca'c t, S3,O0O,OOO.
A barn ana twenty horses and sleigh
{ belonging 20 a dancing party at Luttsyill
Warren county. Pa, we've d, strol ed |
e fire ou Christmas % ght
q jacob Martin broke through the /,
q whiI" 'r1s.i g the iiNcr al Columbia. Pa
- vtst.rltv uofiiDg. and was browne
e Ills body WA, net recovered.
Martin li,aley WAS run over and kin,
+, on tle Fourth Avenue Railroad, in Ne
i York, on Christmas day. Ills body va
u terribly mungled aud crushed
=, Several gambling houses in Boston We
VISITED 10y the state police on Christm
day. Eighty nine persons were urresle.
and $4,000 worth OF furniture seized.
The entire through mails from Ne
York for Mobile OF December 10Th and Il
e failed 10 reach their destination. Sever
IL malls Of laIes date have been received.
~ A powder nil explosion, mar 5
2 Francisco, on Saturday killed two Chin
u, men, aud failed to quite knl Il drums
-, ireman' named CCok, whose cartlossn,
~ caused It.
n "Tom " Wight, IA cOlored dcspernd
20 has been arrested in Washington on su.
M cion OF being the murderer Of Rogers
N whose body was found on lot last Mo
ne day night.
" rhsiu' Ut anu nrelhch OF a uisnbl
locomotive on the Cincinnati, Wabash
Michigan X. H., on Saturday, were frog
., to death while trying to reach IL house II
- .l'''' N's'""''
~ -FOUR cjlored women were shot durl
me- we Christmas festivities at Memph
~ Tenn, Two OF them fatally The lat
o. were shot by their husbands Tue oil
cr TWO by 'admlreis.'
IL Miss Martha Baker, aged 90, died
ai Richmond. Va, or Christmas bieht, fir,
We INJURIES received from her clothes taxi
,d IRE lHe evening before. she was to la
at oeeh married III "a SHORT Tine
We The steamship Nebraska, from n
1t, Z aland, arrived at San francisco on W,
IL nesday, with news Of the wreck of
id ship. New Castle, with the loss of sixtt
e lives, oil Cooks strait, November 18Th