Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-08-19

series Of 1875, letter b, and bearing the s sno
nature of A. U. Wyman, treasurer. II ia an
exceedingly poor imitation, and is supposed
to have come originally from Canada
The Sanitary Commission appointed by fine
Trustees of Princeton College, to exaInine
into the causes of the late sickness, attribnie
them to defects in the construction and over.
sight in the sewer system, all of which bav.
now been remedied and the institution mt in
II thorough sanitary condition.
Investigation has shown that 500 of tbe
1000 residents of Harris Falls, Troy, N. Y
have within two years suffered from malaria
fever. Physicians of the State Board nT
Health say that to restore the healthfuness
of the village the Hoosac river must hr
restored to its former bed.
Advices have been received in ST. LOUIS. Ma
that 10000 negroes will emigrate from Missis
sppi and Louisiana within the next two
months to Kansas and other northern states
About 40 per day have been cared for by the
st. Louis Colored Relief Board, and iorwardaJ
to their destinations.
At Buenos Ayres the political crisis has b,.
come more serious. The National CongreAs
refuses to accept President Ayellanedas resip
nation and insists upon the overthrow of the
Provincial Chambers. He, however, adhere,
to his resignation. The garrison Of Buenna
has been reinforced.
The First Comptroller of the United States
Treasury has decided that there is no law re
quiring the Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer
of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers to give bonds to the United State, and
that neither of those officials are officers Of
the United States.
United States Treasury officials assert thai
owing to crop movements, the demand far
standard silver dollars continues to increase
Orders received ut the Treasury for them To-
day amounted to S5S, UO0 which is the largest
nuinuut prtprau mi q nv t,tia ,iovF ,p,
year
The Birds Eye Indians, 1,5OO strong, have
says n dispatch from Winnipeg, seized the
| Indian Departments stores ut Duck Lake
| Five ringleaders one of them wounded have
been taken to Fort Albert. Captains Herck
mer and Moore are endeayoring to restore
order.
1t IL stated at st. John, N. b., that the
harbor fishing season is ended and that il
has not been AZ good this season as last. The
receipts frem Gaspereaux were about equal to
those of last year, but from the salmon fish,
ing they We're not over half as much.
Large shipments of cigars manufactured
| by Chinese i'll San Francisco. have recently
been made to New York. Leaf tobacco from
| Connecticut and Pennsylvania returns East
by rail as cigars, which are invoiced in San
Francisco from ii22 to S35 per 1000.
An explosion of 900 pounds of powder on
l
the South Park Road, Col, blew the railroad
depot and four adjacent buildings to atoms,
| killed Charles Hilton and terribly injured
three other railroad employers.
Annie Rung, the girl alleged to have been
abducted by n Phiadelphian on the Fall
River boat, on Saturday week last, entirely
exonerated him last week at the
police headquarters i'll New York He was
promptly discharged.
Sat Chautauquu, N. V, Tuesday, Joseph
Cook lectured on the "Ihree Despised Races"
He denounced the people and Government as
failing to secure the rights of the negro in
the South, wronging the Indian, and ostraciz-
ing the Chnaman.
John l.. Brooks, wheelwright, No. 357 West
Pratt street, Baltimore, Md, has been arrested
for refusing to give II true account of his
business as Il manufacturer to census agent,
authorized to collect statistics of that city'e
manufactures.
The War Department has been notified of
the escape of Victoria and his renegades into
Mexico, and that the United States troops are
in pursuit Nictoria's force is badly democrat
lied lie has lost So to 100 annals and his
supply camp.
A party of ruflians chased an unknown
man, Tuesday, who had stolen bunch of
grapes into the river pear Agnew Station,
!, near pittsburg, and pelted him with stones
un,il he was drowned. No effort was made
to save lin.
; Lizzie Griffin Il resident Of Federal street,
Philadelphia, who, being deserted by her
husband, went to New York to find him, was
. last week committed to the care of the Com
, missioners of Charities, being i'll destitute
9 condition.
Jules richards, formerly Il drummer in the
> Thirteenth Infantry, unsuccessfully attempted
to murder Miss Marie Condcau Tuesday at
New Orleans, La, because she refused to
marry him, and then cut his own throat with
a razor.
Two Cincinnati drummers who had an
:, afTray with the hostler of the Cooper House
: Lancaster, Pa, during which some of hit
: teeth We're knocked out with u stone, have
: been committed for trial ut the next term of
court
= The physicians in New York Friday
y stopped keeping record of Dir. Tanner
$ regimen, &c. lie brcakfasted in restaur
t ant, and during the afternoon received d
present of Il mammoth turtle from Pensacola,
y A despatch from Portland Oregon, say
II that there is considerable restlcssness among
= the Indians in the whole upper country,
: though the season is 10 far advanced that nj
" active hostllitles are anticipated.
Col. Miles, Indian Agent, will leave Fort
= Reno, Indian Territory, on the 18th inst, witt
a IL Cheyenne and ArapahOe children for til,
= school at Carlisle, Pa, or Hampton, Va
/ Several chiefs will accompany them.
q John Doblcr, of Chicago, Illinois, has wol
/. the O'lcary "I2-hour correspondence
n pedestrian contest, at Buffalo, N. y, beating
/. the best record for contest of this kind BY
d two miles. his score being Al miles
i telegram from Winnepeg says that Chief
d Cut NOSE and Bcardy, with two other Indians
IL have been arrested ut Duck Lake, nea
3attleford, for shooting treaty cattle. The,
A. will be tried at Prince Alberts.
is The State department at Washington, d
r. g., has been notified that the Prince .
f. ltOumania will shortly send special envoy I,
D. the United States to announce the indie
d pendence OF Eoumania.
&c dispatch from Quitman, Texas, says
Ie Indians are all around liz. 1t Ii impossible
u to get word to Gen. Grierson They ar
driving of the stock and numbering everyone
Y along the route
u John j. Murphy, cripple, one of TIN
u census enlmcratorS in New York, was held
10 yesterday, by the United States COMMISSIONS
~ on charge OF making ont false and iietitiou
20 census returns.
% Two Jacksonville Crexas) farmers, names
1 johnson and Odom, fought on Saturday
- The latter was fatally stabbed, and the formc
died yesterday from the effects of the wound
y received.
D Complications between Guatemala ant
~ Honduras on one side, and with sal
Dt to disturb the tranquility OF Central America
err The number of deaths in Philadelphia ia
ut the week ending August 18th was 333, n
compared with 3O2 for the previous week an
.. i46 for the corresponding week of 1879.
ID Thomas Hogan and Lawrence Malteei
ir while driving loaded beer wagon last we6l
~ from Albany to Newtonyille, N. y, fel
in beneath the wheels and were killed.
es The safe in DIR. I. Edgar Hunts residence
Ie at Easton, Pa, was blown open by burglar
te early last week, and S3O,2OO wort
of securities and jewelry stolen.
in Attorneys have filed petition i'll tn
I'd Supreme Court at indianapolis, Ind, for +,
er hearing of the case involving the validity 9
Is the constitutional amendments.
NJ William Evans, aged 90 years. was browne
., Mt Bay Ridge, Md, Sunday, while bathing
~ He ventnred out too far i'll the bay and wa
w swept OIL by strong current.
The Spanish brig Chdnjto arrived at Bait
IL more, Md, yesterday from Havauna. and bo
~ ing reported infected with yellow fever, In
w. been detained at quarantine.
~ Wallace Ross, the sculler, has not receives
he the reply alleged to have been semi him b
NJ Leahy, of California, accepting his ch;llleng
n for single-scull race.
=" A barge containing about 1000 excursion
IL lists struck flood rock in the East river, N. Y
D., Wednesday week. Great excitement elsueG
lis but all We're rescued
st The Republicans of the Nineteenth Obi
o. district nominated last week Judge Ezra /