Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-16
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upon, will include a procession of all the in
dustries of the city, the police aud fire depart
ments and $4,000 pupils OF the public schools.
Mayor Latrobe will issue proclamation to-
| day, calling on ell citizens to unite in the
celebration.
| The tabulation Of the wealth, debt and tax
alton Of the State of Ohio has just been fin
ished by the Census Bureau II shows a large
mcreaee in the valuation since 1870. mod
crate increase in taxation, and marked
| inCreace" in the debt, the latter being almost
exclusively in the large cities. The grand
| total of 'local' indebtedness in 1880 is
1864, l6s, against sl2, 500, 9l0in 1870. The
| total assessed valuation of the State is
sl,5i7 TAG, 800 against 81 1867, 73l ,6g7 i'll 1870.
deputy marshal has Just arrived at Fort
| Smith with nine prisoners from Oklahoma, in
the Indian Territory. Among them are two
Seminoles. charged with the murder OF two
/ white men IN the Chickasaw country, in 1873.
/ Six Seminoles We're engaged in the murders,
and four of them have met violent deaths,
| leaving only the two survivors taken TO Fort
Smith. The object of the murders was rob-
/ berry, hut only 5l3 were found on the mur-
dercd men.
stage coach was attacked by Indians, 10
/ miles from Fort Cummings, New Mexico, a
+ few days ago. and the driver and two passen-
gers were Killed. General Buell. sent party
4 of soldiers IN pursuit OF the Indians. The
/ pursuing soldiers overlook the Indians on
Tuesday afternoon, and had short fight in
which one soldier and two Indian scouts were
killed, two soldiers being seriously wounded
/ Tie enelny's casualties are not known
/ Manhattan Market, covering the block ex-
tending from Eleventh avenue to the North
river, and from 3ith to 35th streets, New
| York, was destroyed by fire early last Thurs
day. The loss is estimated at considerably
more than one million Of dollars. The hay
| store of Il. Il. Clarke, and the Newmarket
| Hotel, on the south side of Thirty-fourth
street, caught fire and were burning at two
| O'Clock.
| Nirhe motion for 4 new trial for James
| Thomas Dejarnctte, convicted of the murder
OF his sister, in Danvlle Va, was oyerruled
| on Saturday, and he was sentenced to be
! hanged on October 2gth. The case has been
| appealed Ia the Court of Appeals, 1t being
allodBed among other things, that one of the
| jurors was incompetent because of mental
alteration during the trial.
telegram from Evansville, Ind. saws j.
! VI. Wimley and James Mills passed through
| That clty Sunday on their way to Somerset
| where Il brother of Wmley lies in Jail under
sentence Of death, for the imputed murder of
Milllh. The latter mysteriously disappeared
] from Somerset II years ago and was not
heard OF until discovered by J. NJ. Wimey, in
Kentucky ON Saturday.
| Forty thousand people gathered on the
race course at Minneapolis on Tuesday week, to
| witness race between Mrs. Cook, of Cali
tornla, and miss Jewett, of Minnesota, 20
| miles on horseback, for a purse of $4,000.
| The contest ended with the seventh mile, the
| girth OF Miss Jewett's saddle slipping, and
dashng her to the ground. She was severely
hut not fatally injured.
| The arrangements for the holding of the
Second General Council of the Presbyterian
Alliance i'll Philadelphia ON the 23d instant
are almost completed. reception will be
given the delegates in the Academy of Fine
| Arts on the evening of the 22d instant. Rev.
Dr. w. NJ. Paxton, of New York, will deliver
the opening sermon i'll the Academy of Music
on the following morning.
| The extensive tobacco works of FINER
I Brothers, in Louisville, were DESTROYED by
lire, with large quantity of leaf and plug
tobacco, carly Friday morning. During
the progress of the fire several sharp
| explosions. from the bursting of barrels filed
with gasoline, took place The losses on
building and stock are estimated at about
| sl5O,00O
| Dr. Tanner lecturcd in New York last week.
| lie denounced Dr. Hammond and reviewed
The controversy between them advocated
fasting AZ remedy for all intlammatory dis
cases, especially dyspepsia and rheumatism,
and said that ITO establish that system for the
benefit of science he was willing to again
undergo his arduouS task
Jacob Balmcs was committed to iail in
Pottsvillc, on Saturday night, on complaint
OF his wife, who swore that she was afraid he
would kill her. He was found dead in his
cell yesterday morning. from the effects of
dose of arsenic which he took before his
commitment. His wife refused TO have any
thing to do with the body.
William Doyle and Timothy Council, en-.