Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-08-12

sheep. Great interest is reported in the
l"Childreps Home" at Chautauqua, the
childrens temple being crowded daily. A
little Illustrated paper is published daily for
tho young ones and Frank Beard, artist
illustrates the lessons on the blackboard.
A man named Angelo was found dead
beside the Union Pacific railroad at Laramie
City, W. T., last Thursday He had, it
is said "been run over by the cars, and ended |
his life by shooting himself through the |
heart. The man Is supposed to be st. |
Aubrey z. Angelo, correspondent OF the |
Liverpool Courier, who was with Prince |
Napoleon in Zululand, and since the Princes |
death has been writing up" the West for his
paper. He left Cheyenne on Wednesday for |
the Yellowstone Park, to join the party of |
Secretary Sehurz.
In accordance with its resolution that, after |
the thirty-second ballot for gubernatorial |
candidate if no one received two-thirds of |
the votes cast, Governor A. II. Colquitt would |
be recommended to the people, the Georgia |
State Democratic Convention Tuesday 30
placed him on their ticket the thirty-second
ballot standing; Colquitt 30, Lester So,
Hnrdeman All, Gartrell 10, Warner g. They
then placed an electoral ticket in the field and
adjourned until tomorrow.
Adjutant- Drum received kilograms
at Washington, d. c., Tuesday from Eagle
Springs, stating that investigation at Rock
hluBt NiONS tuuI uU least lUU lnuluUS OF
Nlclorin's most effective force were engaged
with the United States troops on the 3Oth
Mt, at the Ridge, and were more severely
handled than ut first reported. Their camp
Ii III the Mexican mountains, and since they
crossed the river il has risen and is only pass
able with great difficulty.
Preparations are being actively pushed in
Chicago. ILL.,, for the grand Conclave of
Knights Tcmplar. next Monday. On Monday
will h.A a urin -
public halls; Tuesday the street parade of
3O,0OD knights will take place, followed i'll the
evening by grand ball in tho Exposition
building. 1t il expected that there will be
lOO,OOO of the Masonic fraternity in the city
during the week.
Commodore Jeflers does not expect any
report from the United States steamship
Pophdtdn, recently returned from Cuban
waters. She was not specially instructed, he
says, to inquire into the boarding of the
schooner Ge0rge Washington, but to learn
everything possible in regard to the alleged
outrages in general way. He does not APP
prehend any further indignities to the United
States flag.
The fisherman at Newfoundland have for
cibly stopped the railway surveys, and will
notpermt the work to proceed. Ii is believed
that the railway is u scheme to get New
Foundland into the Canadian Confederation,
and the idea il 80 unpopular that the people
have taken this means of manifesting their
dislike towards the remotcst step being taken
towards altering the Constitution of the
colony.
George ID. Horn. master, and Henry W.
bni, plot, OF the steamer Gdridild which
recently ran down the yacht Mamie, on the
Detroit river, have been censured by the
coruners Jury for gross carolessness and
| criminal negligence. On the afldayits of
Michael Kelly, father of the two boys drowned
on the Mamie, Horn and Bun have been held
to answer for manslaughter.
The National Board OF Health is advised
that during the week which ended on July
3lst there were 81 deaths from yellow fever
IN Havana. On that date there We're probably
2OO cases of the fever in the city. There were
llve deaths from yellow fever in Rio Janeiro
III the week which ended OH July 10th. and
three deaths from yellow fever in Guadaloupe
during the same period.
II is reported from Texas that the '.prand
army OF occupation" an organization "for
the INVASION Of Mexico under General Dial
rymple," il growing i'll strength and receiving
hundreds OF recruits in that State, and in
New Mexico, Arizona and California. The
opinion is expressed in Texas that, 'f the
Government does not interfere, serious
trouble will result"
Mr.. Pitman clerk of n building association
III Toronto. was making deposit in the
Dominion Bank, in that city last week and
laid his bank book and notes on the counter
while getting checks marked of. When he
turned round, in n few seconds, bank book
and money, amounting to $1,000, were gone,
anu two Americans who had been standing
by, were gone Also
Adyices from 20 counties in North Carolina
and Virginia to the Norfolk (ya.) Gotten Ex-
change show that since the Goth of July there
have been frequent and heavy rains, warm
nal 10
shedding, rust and too great u growth of the
plant. Six counties report vernn and the
army worm, but as yet comparatively little
damage
The coroner's Jury in the case of Catharine
Monahan, who died from the effects of a
solution of morphine, given in mistake by
druggist George IL. Nanbrunt, of Seabrght,
NJ D., for epson salts, brought i'll Il verdict
last night that death was caused by Van.
hrnnts negligence, and asking that he be
held for manslanghter. He was placed under
arrest.
Raptste Fcrschncidcr, cook at tho United
States Hotel i'll Saratoga, NJ w. was shot
dead by his friend and room mate, August
I lrimner,on Tuesday week night. They wcr,
. | about TO 30 To bed, when Trimmer sin fun =
, pointed revolver ut his friend. The weapon
was discharged and the ball entered Fer
! schneidors forehead, killing him instantly.
:, In San Francisco, on Saturday, Judge Sn
. Ivan nycrrllcd the dcmurrcrs in the case o
. John II. Burke against James C. Flood ant
D others. This action was begun IL month,
q ago to recover 0,i2o,OOO value of Consoi
q dated Virginia COmpany's stock. alleged /,
" have been appropriated by the defendant,
while directors OF the company.
A The dead body of Robert Allison, Il painter
A was found in the corn field of Christian
Stouller, wealthy farmer, near Chambers
> burg, Pa, on Monday. When the alarm wa
L given Stouflcr confessed that he had shot til,
e man, because, seeing him in the field ON Sat
y llrday night, he supposed him to he stealing
/. corn. StOufler il in jail.
- Julius II. A. Y l.. Assola has been ARRESTED
d for passing upon tho Bank of North America
q New York, three forged checks bearing TIN
, false signatures of the Clyde Steamship Com
- pany and of Il. II. Swiasborongh, No. 9
. broadway. Assoa has been, it is said. tloinl
successful Smuggling business under TIL
Is di'as of Henry Watson.
l. IN organized gang Of ''rcguators" in tn
If northern part Of Fleming county, Ky., La
If notified Charles Marshall defeated candidat
d for State Senator, to leave the county in q
n days. Similar warning has been given Il
" another citizen. Both the ostracfzed ar
- llhy, and ''the people are much excite,
y over the affair"
m W; IL. Cushman, the dcfaulting Prcsiden
- OF the First National Bank of Georgetown
u night from New York. in custody of a Unite
re States Marshal. and gave bail in 81. 1000. 1t
SAID lio las been arrested ''at his own nc
in quest, as he is DESTROYS of clearing M tn
, matter
,e Alexander Holland, treasurer of the Amer
IL can Express Company, was terribly injuro
: on saturday at West Park, on the Hudson, b
"a his horses running away while he was on
W driving with his family. lie was drngge
t, over the dashboard under the horses heel,
or and badly bruised about the head and bod,
L. Two section bosses were arrested ON Satul
'e day by the police while trying, with gangs d
NJ wurlimcn,to cut IN inlet at Deal Beach, n, J
III To draw on Deal Lake, which has been 4
II much swollen by recent storms us to cndange
Of the new tracks Of the Long Branch railroad
- The matter will be tested in the courts.
~ The returns of the recent Alabama elcctio
:H show thai III many counties the Grecnbac
III State ticket, endorsed by the Rcpubloa
Committee, was unknown. The Legislatul
d will he almost solidly Democratic and all Ill
I; Judges and ChHncellors. The Democrat
majority IN the State ticket is $4,000.
t; The number of deaths in PHILADELPHIA fr
y. the week ending August Ith was 3Dl, as con
IN pared with 3IS for the previous week, an
va Sll for the corresponding week of 1870. {
:, the total number l3S were children under
~ years of age, cholera ipiantmm being ii
no cause OF death OF 81,
W The streams in North Carolina. swollen l
"a the recent rainfall, have carried away bridg,
1t and considerably damaged the corn crop II
a. lands adjoining Cape Fear river have bee
d. submerged. The people, however, are hop
no ful, as the prospects for I'LL crops are bctt,
a, than for 90 years.