Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-02-09
sTaaE INSTITUTE BUILDING watydroy

The north bound trains on the p. w. q Il.
r. r. early on Saturday Nir delayed about
Three hours; .lose soutp bound, ona hour --
The Delaware X. u. train dc itlr al lu,lj a.
NJ. did aot arrive III shortly after IL IA. l. deg
in the day the trains ran nearly ~ tine.
The lFdyide.-The publishers of This week
ly paper issue supplementary cover Tor each
months numbeTs-theIe being five numbers
for January. The contents for last month show
d general articles, % editorial, poetry, . H.
Illustrations, 4 supplement-. The paper speaks
for itself; Published At GOT Market street
City Harrants.- Treasurer Vincent aiycr-
tises that he Is ready TO redeem city warrants
to the amount of $4,000 commencing with the
first issue, and taking them in rotation. The
interest on the said issue will cease ftom this
date. Those who purchased at discount ii
ten per cent. will make something handsome
by the operation.
city Engineer.-At the meeting OF the tty
Council last Thursday evening", Myers. g Con
well was elected Chief Engineer q tho Surrey
Ing Departmental salary Of $1,000 per annum;
aud Geo. l.. Hickman and Seymour l.. Thorn
as, were elected Assistants at salary Of 5000
each. Daniel Fa'ra who is superseded by Mr..
Conweil, has been the principal surveyor IN our
| tisy for fifteen or twenty yeats, aud wss gen
orally prompt and obliging, yet according I"
the Democratic theory that go"d Il ings should
| 80 rJund he has no reason +" complain iAa' b"
/ has beel, supplanted by another VIII, is tity
worldly of the position
| Mississippi has chosen Is. l.. blucs, c1iYfed,
| I. >. Senator for the long term.
AT Washington City, female cop ISIS and
counters of oney ID Treasury Department -et
| 5000 year.
The California Mhrat crop OF last ), a,oa is
estimated at l7,0l9,4i5 bushels, Of which about
enc half was exported.
The famine is increasing, in India AMI it is
estimated that 10000 natives are already
severely distressed
john X. Lynch. the coiored Representative
from Mississippi, is the youngest Member q
Congress, being only twenty six years Old. IL
was slave before the war
The concert and sciopticau exhibition By lhr
Virginia Singers THIS evening, at Zion c lore,
, | Methodist church. Is for the benefit of III,
/ church and the Chrlstiansbmg Normal Inst
, tute Of Virginia,
General Sickles took his final leave of tn
: Spanish government at Madrid Feb 9th an
! placed Mr.. Secretary Adce in charge Of til
4 legation.
4 Shocking Mardtr.," Robert Carney of Gee
County, Md, shot aud killed Thomas Full
o who it'll two Other men were about walk in
d across his wheat field last Tuesday af enooi
= Carney ordered the parties of hi; premises bl
= Fuller declinging to 90 was killed by Carney
c above stated.
81 Outrage. Some scOuudtels VISITED the bar
Il Mrs HendricE3on, near the Buck, in Chr
u tiana Hundred, on Thursday night week, at
- killed one OF her COWS skinned her and left II
a carcass lying on the ovcrshoo,, merely cur
- | ing away the hide. Mrs. Hendricks IN can
Is 10 this city and found the hide at tanner
N hen she learned that it had been sen, the
u by II Mr.. Dunn, who had purchased ii lrpiu
colnred man.
, From the description given i, is suppos,
~ that the outrage WAS committed by two blat
~ villains who formerly occupied u tenant hon
~ on the farm # Mr.: lIofeckrr, and worked
81 Mrs. Hendrirkson, in The early part Of II lie Sc
/ son We hope that they may be ar,--'ed
n punished Whipping is lot 10 severe fir al
IL Villains