Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-09-06


troubles or apprehended attack.
Thirty.two thousand postal cards,
which are not up to the contract stipula.
ton, have been ordered 10 be destroyed.
The yellow fever is reported at Calves
ton, Key West and Pensacola. It Is very
severe at Kew West and the Dry Tortugas
During a severe storm in Nansemond
county, Va, Thursday, two children OF
Chas. L. sumner we're killed by lightning.
Robert l.. Hickman, known as " Beau"
Hickman, died In Providence Hospital,
at Washington, Tuesday, of paralysis.
General d. VI. Barringer, of North
Carolina, formerly Minister to Spain, died
at the White sulphur Springs last evening.
Secretary Belknap, Attorney General
Williams and Internal Revenue Commits
sioner Douglass have returned to Wash
ingtOn.
There were four more deaths from
cholera In Millershnrg, Ky, on Wednes-
day, aud number of new cases were
reported.
Two horse thieves were hanged by o
mob in Benton county, Mo-, on Saturday.
Another of the same gang is in jail at
Sedalia
? A fire In the Antietam paper mills, two
miles from llagerstown, Md, Thursday
night, destroyed about $4,000 worth OF
property.
Thomas Lynch committed suicide In
Pawtucket, 4. l., Oh Sunday, by throw
ng himself into well. lie leaves q
wife and family.
The Italian Convention at St. Louis
adopted a petition asking Congress- to
egislate for the suppression VI the traGlc
In italian children.
William Wilhelm, a cattle dealer Of
Baltimore, committed suicide at Mount
Hope Retreat, near that city, on Sunday.
lie was So years Of age.
Five werkmen in a brewery at Jersey
City were arrested Thursday, for fatally
beating Patrick llagan aud assaulting
others on Wednesday night.
Mr.. Reeves, who was badly injured by
the upsHtiuC Of White Mountain stage
coach, three weeks since, has recovered,
and left Tor home on Tuesday.
A meeting Of Italians from all parts of
the country is called 10 meet In New York
next Thursday, to adopt measures to pre-
vent the traffic in Italian children.
/ The Republican, have carried New
/ Mexico, clrcting their candidate TO Con-
I gr, s., : tephen b. Eikius, 10y majority
Of 1000 over the present Democratic dele
gate.
4 A deialcaiion of $4,000 has been dis
/ covered in the accounts OF JOHN Bern
/ htrdt, town treasurer at Union I'M, y. j.
/ His hondsmtn have made good the
amount.
Al Patterson, n. j., TUESDAY morn
ing, Bridget Buas, aged II. was A.
severely burned while kindling FIR,
with coal oil, that she is not expected tC
recover.
man calling himself Henry Sweet
sixty years of aye, was arrested Ht Titus
vile Tuesday, for passing one of III,
new $500 counterfeit erecubacks. II,
gave bail in 5000.
Two millions additional postal cards
b required to COM .cte Tie orders from all
rosI-C iliccs, Will probably be- Shippci
within the neat week, "and the Who'll,
country will then be- supplicd.'
An Italian organ grinder was struck ~
a locomotive Whie walking on the Ntv
Jersey Central Railroad, near Phillips
burg, Tuesday. and died soon aftrr
Wards. llis name IN unknown.
s. TIE billiard match between DAILY an
T. CARRIER, at NV York, for the champion
r ship and diamond cue, hae been postpone
3 until October "a, ON account of difficult
in obtaining Il ssitahlchall for playing.
It is reported from Augusta, Ga, tina
large deislcations by several officers q
9 the Georgia Railroad have been di,
10 covered. The dciaulters have been die
Y charged, and, il is said, Will he prosecuted
2 Mrs. Brown, aged 10, was struck by
, railroad train aud killed near Salem
Mass, on Wednesday. A young ma
named Rome, was killed by jumpin
from Il train at McdlOrd, Mass, yesterday
j. j. McTeman was shot dead by i. "
! Force, near Laramie, Wyoming Territorl
u on Tuesday night. They had quarrclle
" "about voting" and Force is said /
70 have acted entirely on the defensive.
The number of Gloucester fishing vel
p sells reported disabled in the Nova Scott
e gale is -, Of which g are supposed to ;
% totally lost. The lives lost number g
e and the loss in money Is estimated 4
r. SgO,OOO
n The body Of Fannie Smith, colured, WI
" found near the Glen Cove branch OF IL
+ Long Island Railroad, on Sunday mon
e ing, "cut almost completely In two l,ngtl
10 wise - and near hJ was the hcadless bod
y of her child.
/, Colonel Hiram Appelman, late secrctai
If of State of Conn clicut, died Thursday
II. Mystic Bridge, in that State. His deaf
/, was the result of wounds received at Il
!. battle Of Antietam, where he command,
- the Eighth Connecticut Regiment.
m The body Of Isaac Russell, farme
-, was found beside the railroad track, me-
a, Lowell, Mass, On Tuesday. It was teri
- bly, mangled, and he Is supposed to ha'
'S been killed by a freight iram, viii
~ drunk, the night before. lie leaves
&c wife and four children.
H. During August, lO,O35 emigrants n
ih rived at New York, decrease of mo
ls than 5000 compared with the arri,a
ST. during August OF last year. The arriva
'h lrum January Let to August 3lst, We
IT, y 1877, decrease OF 4,o7i from Il
ng number Tor the corresponding period
IA. ls73.
Is +. c. Wildwood was arrested In Bali
IT.. more, gu Tuesday, on the charge
ie- ipudultnuy obtaining $1,000 fran d
n. Gould Manufacturing Company,
Dir seneca Falls, \. y, some months sine
re After hearing yesterday he was cor
no mltted TO await a requsitiun FROM II
- Governor Of New York.
il The Democratic City and County Co
L yenlous of Philadelphia met Wednesd
y, and nominated The following tickle
Sheriff, Benjamin F. lloll City Ire
"a surer, William j. Mead Register
lS' Wills, John Cadwallder, DR.; Clerk
&C. Orphans Court, Andrew Sterling u
49, Commissioner, Joseph k.nike.
nl The Democratic state Convention
lN Massachusetts met AZ Worcester Wedn,
he tay, and nominated the following Sta
Ill., ticket Governor, william ,iastou,
b.. Boston; MISUNDERSTANDING, VILLA
led 5. smith, of Springfield; Secretary
ms state. b. +. Mills, at Wlliamstow
Treasurer, Nathan Clark, OF Lynn
he Auditor, Waldo Cubnm, OF Dldhar
n, Att0rucy-Gencral, &. OsgOod Morse,
., northampton.
Inn An AuStrallan Yankee.
.k. An Australian millionaire named D\
ln shou. is receiving deal Of attention
Il Paris on account of his wealth. lie !,
lis Yankee, and his doings in MolhOur
M, that brought his riches are thorough