Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-07-12


Jen Davis is in New York.
Joseph Jefferson, the eommedian, sailed |
for Europe Wednesday.
Crop reports from Illinois Indicate an
average yield of wheat and corn.
The customs receipts for the year
ending June 80 were q, $780, 900 below the
estimates.
The so-called cholera has almost dis
appeared from Memphis, Nashville and
Cincinnati.
The Philadelphia Club defeated the
Atlantic, ut New York, Wednesday, by a
score of IL to2.
The Connecticut Senate Tuesday
passed resolutions approving the Centen-
NAL celebration.
e. S. Mason, aged So, a barber, COM
mltied suicide in Boston on Sunday, by
taking laudanum.
Wednesdays internal revenue receipts
were S227309, making total since June
30th of 81, $50, 1893.
Professor Thomas d. Baird, principa
of Baltimore City College, died Wednesday
in Baltimore, aged 81.
The Grand Jury at Richmo nd. Va, has
indicted the seconds in the late fatal duel
there for wilful murder.
A National Hebrew Conference with
view to establishing theological semi
nary is in session at Cincinnati.
Peabody, who was stabbed by Ewell,
at Gorham, N. H., on the Fourth, died on
Sunday night. Elwell is in jail.
A fire at St. Anthony. on Sunday, de-
atn nA nh
gallery, causing Il loss OF 100000
The President has appointed Mrs. S. s.
Farrell postmistress at Covington, KY,
to succeed Jesse X. Grant, deceased.
The business potion of tho village of
Frog Level, in Newbury county, 5. O.,
Vas burned on sunday. Loss, SCI, 900.
The customs receipts at the various
poits OF Tho United Siatcs for the week
ending June 3Jth amounted to So 5U0, 900.
William Tyler, coloied, was shot dead
by Andrew Stewart, colored, during a
iracas In Washington, ON Monday night.
Barnabas NJ. Roberts, Collector Of
Customs at Belfast, Nc, has been ar
rested for engaging in trade, contrary IL
law.
The Secretary Of the Treasury decides
that canned lobster and salmon can com,
IN free of duty under the Washington
treaty.
The wrecked steamer CITY Of Washing
ton broke IN two Thursday morning. II
had been hoped that she could he got of
whole.
Daniel Dalton aged go, was killed al
Pacific Mills, in Lawrence, Mass, Thurs
Hay morning, by the falling Of AZ
elevator.
= number OF Pennsylvania capitalist
passed through Washington ON Monday
ON their way to purchase land in IL,
Shenandoah Valley.
The lumbe- yard Of Collinwood, Nil
lard * Co., AT Puughkeepsie. was de
siroyed by an inceudiary lire On Wcdncs
day night. Less $4,000.
James Ross, formerly clerk Of tue EX
cc1tiVe Council of Ontario, committee
suicide at Belleville, in that province, OF
sunday, by cutting his throat.
The Treasury Department will soor
begin printing new fifty cent notes
shorter and wider THAI those of tina
denomination now in circulation.
The Connecticut House of Representa-
tiyes has defeated the bill calling Con
stitutiOnal Convention. IL had beei
previously deie tied in the Senate.
The Directors of the Canada Pacld
Rail~ay,a lat a meeting en- Saturday,m Moi
q treal, accepted the terms proposed by 81
Hugh Allen for the construction OF Oh
D road.
The Agricultural Department belicv,
: that Notwithstanding the injury to III
q "a a. all. q A
4 make tue gross product equal in amoui
, to that OF last year.
. The house of Thomas Adams, Of We'll
:. erslleld, Conn, was burned Wednesdu
morning. One child persisted, ami tN
others were 10 injured by suilJcation TIL
it is doubtful if they will live.
o At Boston, Wednesday, jeremiah At
d Patrick Sullivan and Patrick ouruy We
0 held each In $4,000 bail on the charge
e stahbing and robbing colorei ma
:. named Fleming, in Maiden, few nigh
n since.
The question of releasing Satanic al
Big Tree has been postponed until co
ference shall be held in Texas, GA the s
% of August, between the Indians, Go
4, crnor Davis, and the Commissioner
Indian Affairs.
,, While WIN. b. Lincoln was taking
walk with his wife ueur l9edham, Mast
ON sunday evening, he was shot and da
gerOusly Wounded by some unknu,
person. There is no clue 10 the identi
Of theassassin.
Al boston, Wednesday, while two no,
Of named John Mrkunna aud Wm. Lyme
IL were scuillng 10 get possession of a pisl
t. II was dlsch irgcd, dangerously wounai
70 Mckenna in the breast aud cutting
is one of Lynch's fingers.
N The report that half mile of the NJ
ut souri, Pacific Railroad was washed aw
near Kickapoo Station, on Tu, sday, "
an exaggeration. Only 300 feet Of /
track were washed away, and travel
n. the road has been resumed.
II n. Rufus Gill, President Of the Co
X, moa Council Of Baltimore, was nrres
Is N that city on Monday, and fined
if Justice llageity for displaying ii
90 works and shooting fire. crackers ON
*. streets, oA the Fourth of July.
At Cincinnati on attempt was made
Tuesday by John ". Gregg, alias do
Young, 10 obtain money from the p,
in- oiie' upua counterfeit order, purport
-ly - be from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. lie
n. been operating Tor several wecks thrOui
ed ont the West,
IN AZ Boston, Michael Desmond drove
as wifi end her two children by a iori
"s husband into the street, On last Saturd
Ter Tuesday he followed her TO lodgli
IS. wltsfe she had taken refuge, shot
dead, anu then committed suicide
shooting himself.
er- A storm Of wind, rain and hail yisi
al Iowa City Iowa, on Wednesday AFT
IRE noon (which devastated the trees,
IAN ehards ard crops" over four farms, 8
cl. eilcctually as Il fire could have don
w The storm was equally remarkable
to its dcstuctiyeness and limited range.
ted
he
"rs Suicides.
icd f. Davis. of Brooklyn, n. T., '
found Thursday in field, near ST. Lol
with his throat cut. lie was still "a
at last accounts, but his recovery
the hopeless.
no J. W nan frnVn!fusr a,r.,,t & ID.