Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-07-20

The Prince and Princess Ot wales Visit
the ileei On the 31st inst.
Prcsi lent Grant left Long Branch for
Washin gton last evening.
Secretary Boutwell, left Washington yea
terday morning for North Carolina
The TAPER mill of Moore " Dawes, at
Pepper iill, Mass, WAS burned on Sun
day. Loss, $4,000.
The city of Southampton will soon give
a banquet to Admiral Alden and the Off
Gers of the American fleet.
One of the work shops connected with
Indiana State prison was destroyed ny fire
Of accidental origin on Saturday.
The New York Herald reporter at Long
Branch says; Senator Wilson, thinks things
look 'alarmingly blue"
Al Phoebe, Utah, desperate named
Jerry Fuller, yesterday shOta woman who
lived with him, fatally wounding her.
Quite number Of politicians, among
them number Of former rebel generals
visited Horace Greeley at Chappaqua Sun
day.
Gratz Brown, though able to be out, is
not yet fully recovered Ills wife will ar
rive in New York in a day or two, having
been telegraphed for on his first illness.
Several freight cars were thrown from
tie track of the Morris and Essex Railroad,
at Newark, on Sunday, by the breaking %
coupling, and two Of them were wrecked.
Tie storms and Hoods have been partic-
ularly disastrous in Cheshire and Lanca-
shire Much property has been destroyed
and several cases Of loss of life are repor-
ted.
Thirty-nine friars have Just arrived in
Sacramento, California, from Guatemala
whence they had been banished by the
Revolutionary Government now in power
there.
Hon. B. Gratz Rrown came near dying
from violent attack OF Cholera MOThus
at New York last week. He is getting
better.
Sarah NJ. Marsh, a female physician of
Boston has been arrested for malpractice
ON II young woman, whose recovery is
doubtful.
The latest advieos from the cotton fields
of South Carolina confirm the previous re-
ports of the general presence of the cotton
caterpillar.
There was cholera scene in portions of
New York on Saturday, ON account Of a
report that genuine case of Asiatc chOl-
era had appeared. Subsequent invcsliga-
tion proved IL otherwise
The annual festival of the Baltimore
schcutzenfest began Monday. The Kaiser
/ Franz Guarde Band was present also,
delegations from Washington, Phladel-
phia and other places.
A San Francisco dispatch says that
some Of the Canadian Pacific survey Ing
party have returned 10 Kamloops, and re-
port that the Chilcotan indians are openly
hostile and threaten to stop the survey.
In trot at Saratoga Saturday between
the bay mare Topsy, the bay mare sally,
and the bay mare Young Thone for a
purse uf $500 Sally won IN three straight
heats her best time being 2.37.
On the first day at the Saratoga races
the Traver's Stakes worth ! 1900 were won
by 10 Daniels, ~ miles S.0Slg. In the
race for the sweepstakes open tu all was,
H., mics the English horse Harry Bas-
sett in 2ll1s.
The Senate OF New York has finished
the hearing of testimony in Judge Prin.
dies case, and adjourned until September
10th. The Senate has rejected the ap-
p0intment Of James f. Spencer as success
sor TO McCunn.
Part of the track of the Central PscitiC
Railroad, near Boca, Navada, was washed
away by "cloud burst" day or two
since, and travel was interrupted. The
damage has been repaired and trains are
again running regularly.
The heavy rains have caused an over.
flow in the Alabama river and its tributar.
les washing away railroad tracks and de.
stroying cotton and corn 10 an amount es
timated at f2,000,000. In addition to the
caterpillar, the bole worm is reported tC
have appeared on some cotton plantations
The st. Louis Tines publishes to-day q
, letter from Senator Sumner in which ate
declaring ii unadyisablc for him to writ,
|, a public letter he says he honors Greclel
very much; Between him and anothe
> person who shall be nameless I am 70
him earnestly"
On Tuesday evening 18th inst, as
e party of boys were bathing in the river "a
; Memphis, Tenn, a watehman named Stur
, gem, after threatening the boys for bath
3, ing there he took deliberate aim at one q
: the number, John Murphy, with "A muske
and shot him killing Kim Instantly. Tn
2 Coroner's jury rendered 4 verdict that dc
ceased was wilfully murdered