Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-01-23
HOME NEWS.

A Grant Club was organized ia Boston on
Tuesday.
Virginia has the only negro luna'ic asy-
lum in tile world.
The wheat fields of Oregon arc reported
10 being luxuriantY green.
NJ. Catacazy, the late Russian Minister,
sailed from New York on Saturday.
The Memphis and Raleigh narrow-gauge
road will be open for travel by July
Mcclellan is nominated for Fisk's place-as
Gould's yoke-fellow on the Erie road
Duke Alexis, and General Sheridan visited
tho Colorado Legislature on Thursday'
The study OF the English language is be.
coming general among the youths OF
Mexico.
The fund for the Greeley monument IN
Printing House Square, New YORK, mas
reached $780,
A man was cut to pieces with butcher
knife n few days ago, 10 an eating saloon IN
New York city.
One Of the japanese Princess destined Tor
Yassar College is exquistely beautiful, aud
will make a sensation.
The Kentucky Senate on Friday, by 20
yeas TO 1G rays, voted 10 allow colored per-
sons to testify in the courts.
George II. Morgan was reelected Secre-
tarY of the 81. Louis Merchants Exchange
on Monday Tor the eighth time
John V, Chids, well-known engrayer,
was found dead in bed, at New Orleans
from an overdose Of laudanum
Jesse Grant, the Presidents father, has
recovered the use OF his speech, aud hopes
to be soon fully restored TO his former health.
Nearly six thousand dollars have been sub.
scribed in New York for statue 10 honor
OF Horace Greeley, the editor OF the Tribune.
Application has been made 10 the Legisla.
lure OF Salt Lake for the Incorporation oil a
company with 81 900, 900 to build street rail-
road.
FordLam College, New York, 10 greatly
excited over the attempted assassination oil
one Of the students by some person un-
known.
The Mddletown, Conn. Monumental
Association has voted to erect o soldiers,
monument which shall cost not less than
$4,000.
Two clerks of the Cleveland, OHIO, post
office were arrested on Wednesday, charged
with abstraclng drafts aud money orders
from letters.
The eleven Territories of the United
States are nearly two hundred thousand
square miles larger than all Of the States
now in the Union.
The City Mills at DAnvlle junction,
Autumn, Me-, owned by Hnley, Tasco, q
Co, was burned on Thursday, with the CON-
tents. The loss is $4,000, Insured for
$4,000
Michael Guick, was arrested last Tuesday
night, in New York for driving his wife and
two children into tue streets aud then set
ting fire to his room in a tenement house, &C.
cupied by over twenty families.
More snow bound trains on the Pacific
railroads are reported 10 have COTTON through
after several days delay on the road, the
passengers subsisting on crackers and cheese
and canned fruits and meats.
A little ten year old daughter OF MI.
Hanson, in Winnebag0 county, Wisconsin,
while returning from neighbours was over
taken by young man and thrown down
upon the snow and brutally ravished. The
perpetralor of the crime has been arrested.
On Thursday next, at halfpast ten o'clock
the Congressional Ways and Means Com
mittee will hear all parties who may desire
to appear before them on the subject Of rice,
and on February l, at the same hour, the
representatives. Of the salt interest
Stokes, the murderer of James Fisk, Jr,,
was taken to the Court of Oyer and Termi-
ner, New York, on Thursday, and arraigned
| His counsel asked for a pOstponement, al
they had not seen tue indictment yet. The
case was then adjourned until "Wednesday
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