Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-22
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solomon H. Easterly, aged As years, a tenn.
perate man, in easy circumstances. living naa,
Lyons, N. Y, murdered his wife and nf bia
mother-in-law and then committed suicide an
Monday evening. The progocation for H.,
tragedy seems to have been the exasperat;n,.
disposition of his mother-in-law. iS
Justua Hoffman, shoemaker. abot lila
wife and baby at Pittston, Pa, Monday eyenin n
The infant was killed and its mother mortaf,
wounded, Hoffman, who was drunk al NY
time, was taken to the Wilkesbarre Jail under
q strong guard to prevent him from helm,
lynched. 'ib
The complete census returns of Camaon
N. j., give that city Il population of Al 7a7'
ana Camden county 63, 064, an increase in thn
county during the last ten years of lG 9ia
The population OF Salem county is placed ai
24,6l2, an increase of $50 persons over lS70
The full census returns of Utah give that
Territory population OF about IA 900 nm
increase OF 20 per cent since 1870. At their
Inst conference, the Mormon leaders repori,d
the Mormon population at liz. 900 which
would leave about 1900 for the Gentiles.
violent cyclone and hail storm yisitod
Monroe county, Mich, on Sunday afternoon
All vegetation was destroyed in path seven
miles long by from half u mile to mile wide
and several houses and barns were wrecked
The damage il estimated at 100000.
DIR. Wright, Sanitary Inspector, and DIR. Jones
President of the Health Board, Of New
Orleans, certify that there il not case Of
yellow fever in that city, and there has not
been case this summer, except the one I'M.
ported on the barque Excelsior.
james Dunnigan, policeman of Santa Fe
N. NJ, being drunk ON Wednesday night, was
arrested by jesse Antonio Guego. On the WAY
TO tie jail Dunngan asked to be let OH, and
being refused shot Guego dead The muir.
derer was arrested, and is in jail.
Judge Advocate General Dunn has finished
| his report in the Whitaker case and submit.
ted it to the Secretary Of War II il very
voluminous, being greatly swelled by the nc
complaining documents, and the Secretary has
not been able to read it yet.
| The rum0r Of n fight between two com.
panies of the Seventh Cavalry and hostil,
| Sions, in Montana IL dscredited by the
military authorities. II is believed to have
| grown out of the recent fight between Sious
and Crows i'll that Territory.
Australian advices received at San Fran.
cisco say the British gunboat Danae had
shelled village in Samoa, to punish some
| attractions of the peace, but none of the in.
habitants were killed. Trickett, the oarsnan,
had sailed foe England.
Tho schooner DtUdl, capsized on Lake
Michigan last week, was found and righted
| yesterday. The bodies of the captains son
aud seaman We're found on the deck, and it
| was believed the remainder of the crow would
be found in the cabin.
Very heavy rains fell on Thursday night in
| the country around Petersburg, Va, and
| thence southward to the North Carolina line
All the streams, which had been nearly dried
| up, are now filled and the drought in that
section il at an end.
A telegram from Montreal states that three
men, sick of small pox, were deserted by their
friends" at Hochelaga, and nearly starved to
death. One of them died while being taken 10
the hospital, Thursday; the others are cx-
peoted to recover.
James Jackson, a wealthy farmer of Ripley
county, Ind, committed suicide Il few DAYS
ago, because his step-daughter threatened 10
prefer u grave charge against him. He was
AZ years of age, and leaves wife and four
children.
An oil-line pipe line burst near Salamanca
N. u, on Wednesday evening, and the oil BY
some means caught fire. A five-year-old
daughter of John Washburne, playing near
the spot, was caught in the flames and burned
to death
Mrs. l.. Il. Nesmith, aged 80 years. wife of
Lieutenant Nesmith, u. :. A., Miss Helen
Deakon, aged IL years, and Miss Bessie Fan
shaw, aged 10 years, all of Philadelphia. were
drowned while bathing, ut Atlantic City,
Monday.
The American steamer Guiadre, of the
Arctic Exploring Expedition, was to leave st.
Johns IN. f., after coaling, for Rigoulettc,
where she il to procure sledgos, dogs and
drivers, and then proceed TO Lady Franklin
Bay.
Sharks have appeared i'll Bedford Basin
Noria Scotia. Warren Smith, the oarsman
while practising i'll his shell on Wednesday
| ~ INIT ,nl lni,
set by getting into shallow water.
During dance at the house of a coloreG
man, named Martina, at New Albany, Ind ,ol
Saturday night the host was shot dead, with
out provochtion, by colored guest, NAMED
Woods. The latter was arrested.
Tho first bale of Georgia cotton of th,
season arrived in Albany, Ga, on Saturda,
afternoon, and sold for 10 cents per pound
1t is the earliest bale of cotton ever producot
i'll amy season in that state.
barge, belonging to tine Mississippi Vale,
transportation Company and containing
35,OOO bushels of corn, was broken in two ant
sunk by collision with the bridge ut st. Louis
The loss il about 500 900.
: Hon. Jacob Brinkerhoif, author of iii,
original draft of the Wimot Proviso, an,
Judge of the Supreme Court OF Ohio from
1856 to 1871, died. Monday, at Mansfield, il
that State aged ~ years.
,, A son and daughter of Andrew Sammis, o
, Babylon, l.. L., aged respectively and /
years, We're kidnapped on Tuesday by Georg,
Walton, alias 'IinlI Eve Downs'~ and hav,
not been recovered yet.
Captain Payne and % men, trospasscrs il
the Indian Territory were arrested by scout
, on the 18th instant. They will be taken /,
Polecat Creek, Kansas, and turned over Il
Col. Robinson.
+ The investigation of the NdlrdganseH dis
aster, which was to have begun in New
London Thursday, has been postponed, fol
REASONS not known, TO II date not vet deter
mined upon.
The body of the boy johnny Cain, who dis
: appeared III New Orleans on June 9th, wal
found, Monday IN vault on his father
/ premises 1t il believed that he fell in acci
4 dentally.
telegram from Key West saws the new
e lighthouse ON American ShOal was Lighted
Tor the first time on Thursday night, and tina
| IL flashes II splendid white light every five
seconds.
> Mollie Deiarnettc, shot by her brother in
: house Of Ill reputc ut Dunville Va, las
week, died yesterday. Her brother remain
in jail.
I The house of Daniel Kern at NefIsville
I near Allentown, Pa, was robbed by masket
/ burglars ON Saturday night of $500 in casl
| "''Hhh'thib " SStpuu
, The apple crop in Camden, N j., and il,
adjacent counties, il said to be excellent
notwithstanding the drought, extreme heat
and the ravages Of the worms.
The taxable property in Gloucester county
N. D., has been valued 10y the assessors II
Sl3,33j,GA for 1850, an increase over las
years valuation of .l0l,4i7.
General Chester A. Arthur, the Republican
candidate for Vice President, has written 1,
formal letter of acceptance to lion. Geurs,
f. lluar.
: The War Department has received tcle
| gram from General Pope, denying that ther,
Is any organized invasion of the Indian Ter
ritOry.
, The President of the local Board of Health
OF Memphis says there il no case of yellow
fever, nor anything resembling it, in tina
r city.
The population of Providence, H. l., i,
gwen by the census as 10i, 7GO, an increase o
35,S56 since 1870
The cotton crop in Grcenyillc county, Va.
was greatly damaged by a hail storm on Wed
nesduy night.
The tax rate of Camden, n. j.. has beer
liked mt S2.2U on the 600.
; THE EGPPTIAN OBELISK.