Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-11-04
IN FNERAL.

| ist In the treatment OF luocy anu hueu hei
vous diseases, died on Thursday at bis resi-
dence ia New York, aged SO years. He Was
| native OF France, and received bis medical
| education in Paris, his teachers being ltard
and Esquirol In 1887 he undertook the
treatment OF an idiot boy, and in about year
after. established the first school for idiots,
| which was the parent establishment OF ABOUT
| rs similar institutions now existing In CIVIL
ICED countries. He came to this country after
the revolution of 1913, settling first In ONO;
| After visit to his native country he settled
| in New York and completed his studies as an
NJ D. in the University College in 1861. He
wrote number of books and papers on his
| specially, and also on Medical Thermometry
which are regarded as standards. Al the
time Of his death DIR. Sequin was president OF
the American Association of Medical Officers,
having charge OF schools for the education OF
idiots.
1t is announced that the American Bible
Revision Committee have finished their
revision OF the English version of the New
Testament, and transmitted the result to
England. The British Committee will meet
this month for final action, and il ia expected
that the Oxford and Cambridge presses will
issue the revised New Testament in February
next. The Old Testament will not I've ready
for publication for nearly three years
Robert Payne and Scott Thompson were
arrested in Danyille, Va, Monday for the
murder of Scott Hankens, whose body was
found in the canal n week ago. Payne con-
fesses that he and Thompson were playing
cards with the murdered man IN shanty
near the canal, on the night Of the murder,
and quarreled over the stakes Thompson
| struck Haukens on the head with an axe and
threw the body into the canal.
The murdered body of the seventeen-years-
old daughter OF Samuel Bittenbender, Of
fnKt I.afti ,fIatt
was found Monday morning on the roadside
The girl left home ON Sunday afternoon to go
to II nelghbor's, where she was TO do some
housework. Several tramps seen early Mon
day morning i'll the vicinity are suspected
of the crime.
Commander Glass of the United States
| steamer jamestown, ut Sitka, reports TO the
! Navy Department under date of October 18th,
that perfect order exists in Alaska. He
/ attributes this to the admirable system of
control established there by Commander
Beardslee, which Commander Glass will
endeavor to continue.
1t has been found at the Treasury Depart
ment that several detached coupons in the
packages of bonds taken from the counter
! feitor Doyle, do not, upon examination, agree
with any of those bonds. This would indi-
cate that more bonds We're printed than have
been captured, and they may have been
nSpolhoV"l'u'
The Delaware a Hudson Canal was enabled
10y the recent copious rain to resume nayiga-
ton on Sunday. Several hundred boats with
m0oO tons of coal were waiting for water.
Should the water last, ii is expected that
5000 tons of coal will reach tide water daily
until navigation is closed by ice.
John r Homes formerly, nm e,,,,yo,,,. Of the
Un,lj uJn,sS ond .inc. thon ftro,aI;,,',
preacher and tract distrihmtnr ottemnt"5
suicide in New Ynrk lnst week hv shnnt,n,,
himself tlr.n Zines in H.. bnaJ III "ro,,n1s
are not fatal. Religious mania is said to have
caused the deed.
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'oLil liadl'H ana Aipell hray, Molhiilg u,
tne oaNteNi!lt' n; DE-, cay PITS We're buried
mnnt i, ~ IA the Clays pit Gomn, nv had
been nornra of me- nrobabiiitv ~ si,ch a
disaster INF tonl, no nrecant,nrs ogainat il
jean B0ptste Narbonne has been arrested
at Iachutc, Quebec, for having murdered his
brother AiSAis' hNe years ago. Inc prisoner
confessed lhe crime saying ne was urged 10
rs commission by ms step mother, IN order
that they might get the brother money.
The Census Bureaus bulletin of the result
Of the ilr-t count OF the population of south
tar"hna thowh total OF 905,30B Of which
l'u.a@. az. mAlts and 3Ol,9I9 females, and
,'bI' foreign p"ih' me whites hunbel
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Inc ItN7Nhlh Ia Itf6id gives the num-
Ter Of complete wells ~ the oil region foi
octoher Nr ~ production s'35l new drlll'
i's NetH' ,''2 cM ileS ~ anu D!iilulg, Soo
t,, "',H, q ~ '"iiis ol IRON
'"e 'ei''lnpei INJURIES
Bishop Dasget, of the Methodist Church
h h"sn M al t Sneh1 Ho"t i"sa week; e mac
80 %s Wv Pgi..t VI uuuti' H,Nesai sliiieS u.li
Aib thN lhHt itN ll'AtllH' bNt VI lHlc llhu I'M