Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-10-27


George w. Kcitlier, a post-otlice clerk, was
arrested In Boston OH Tuesday for robbing the
maile.
The propeller Estabrooke, with n cargo of
lumber, was wrecked at Faiiport, Lake Erie,on
Sunday night No lives were lost.
Five men were injured, three of them fatally,
by a collision on the Southwestern Railroad,
near Seago Station, Georgia.
Mr. Thos. l.. j. Baldwin, of Mill Creek,who
Is scientist If not a politician, nominates Colo
mel jesse Sharpe, Of this city, for Governor,
promising that the Democratic candidate is to
come from New Castle county,
Moses Williams,a convict in the Illinois peni-
tentiary, has offered TO point out the persons
who murdered Hon. Sharon Tyndale, in April,
1871, provided he is pardoned upon their CON
| viction.
AT meeting of the Horticultural Society Of
Penn, held Oh Tuesday evening last, the com
mittee on fruits reported that the pears grown
| by Mr. Robert II. Cummlns, of Smyrna, Del,
were the largest ever put on exhibition before
that Society.
| 1t Is reported that Jay Goulds broker in Lon
don has disappeared with 100000, profits Oh
Erie stock belonging TO Gould, and has also
carried off the funds Of several other New York
| spectators.
A delegation from Pittsburg arrived in Wash
| ington on Monday to ask the Government to
withdraw the criminal prosecution against ex-
postmaster Stewart upon the reiunding of the
moneys embe2zled by him.
An engine and two freight cars on the New
York, Oswego and Midland Railroad broke
through brlr' on Monday night, and the
engineer, firema "A brakeman were severely
injured. An abn mt Of the bridge had been
undermined by the H. ain.
The New England Reformed Mems Associa-
ton" was organized at a meeting of seventy
five reformed drunkards in Boston Wednesday
night. Henry s. Woodwork, of Providence,
was chosen president, and two vice presidents
were elected for each New England State.
; Jay Gould has resigned the presidency of the
New Jersey Southern Railroad, and the Bonn
bay Hook and Chestertovn line across the
Delaware peninsula, and the control of the
whole route from Baltimore to New York has
gone into the hands of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad managers.
The body of a man, SUPP osed to bo Hugh
Mclaughlin, of Brooklyn, n. Y, 81 years Of
f age, was found mans led on the railroad track
at Allentown, Pa, on Wednesday evening, he
, having been run over by passing train. Dur.
] ing the evening he had been seen around III,
depot drunk.
AT Louisville on Thursday lawyer named
John Mccarthy was shot in the head ny JOSEPH
: is said 10 have been the retention since 1SGi
y by Mccarthy of bounty money belonging I,
Crawford. The latter, who is a wealthy Ten
hesseail, was arr, sted.
John Mclaughlin, a vaprant. wen: int "A
unfinished building in New York, on lrcdncs
a tlay night, 10 sleep. a few hours afterwards Il,
was found with his lead fractured lily cu
, iurs and hc died before morning. Miclmr
Cody, his son James, and another man, WcIo
arrested on suspicion.
: The Grand Lodge Of Masons of kentucky
, and other Masonic bodies of That state, lG,v
V been in session at Louisville for several ,iyt
g Several hundred delegates are inaicndancc
@ The treasurer of the Grand Lodge reports IT,
II resources TO be 10000; surplus fund. lOD,OUC
II stock and mortgage bends in tie Masonic Ten
: pie, S9I0O0
The trial Of Captain Clarke, of the ship sun
rise, for cruelty to scamcn, is progressing b.
fore the U. S. Circuit Court at San Francisc,
: The testimony for the prosecution shows fright
e full brutality ON the pant Of Clarke. The ere,
generally have expressed the belief that ilip
IT Of their number who committed suicide, we,
driven to do by the cruelty of She capa
r, and mates. Peter johnson, one of the saio
) was beaten and abused until lie lost his rct,c !,
h and is now sCmi-idiut;c.