Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-01-13

General H. NJ. Plaiated, Governor-elect
of Maine, will marry an Augusta lady
next month.
Mr.. Berjlmin p Shillabor, better know
as Mrs. Partington, is again quite i'll at
Chelsea, Mass
Fl. W. Sage, Of Ithaca. New York, has
given SO 600 10 tire Botanical Depart
ment of Cornell University
james Noxon, Judge of the Supreme
Court of the Syracuse district of New
York, died yesterday of pneumonia,
George Brent, Associate Justice of the
Court Of Appeals of Maryland, died yes
terday morning of vaivular disease of the
heart.
Mr. Jay Cooke, whose failure in 1873
brought on the hard times. is said to have
been for the last three years enj Dying an
income of ga, 600
John Clay the brother of Henry Clay,
is living III Kentucky, and is still a strong
and active man. Henry Clay's estate Of
Ashland, is rapidly going to decay.
Robert G. Robb, formerly captain in
the United States Navy and afterwards in
the confederate service, died in Caroline
county, Virginia, last Saturday, aged II
years.
Abraham Liucolns idea OF studying law
was work, work, work, beginning with
Blackstone's Commentaries and following
with Chitty's Pieadings, Greenleaf's Evil
dence aud Story's Equity. .....
Frank Hereford, present Senator, H. NJ.
Matthews, present g vernon, and j. N
Camden, vice president of the Standard
Oil Company are the leading candidates
for the West Virginia Senatorship.
Gen. Sir frederick Roberts doesn't
want to be paid by pesrage for bis
service il Afghanistsn. He is compare
lively poor man and fsel4 that he can't
properly support the dignity of peer.
Dr. E N. Wight, member Of the Ten.
nessee Board of Health, formerly Mayor
of Chattanooga, ard Republican candidate
for Governor of Teuuessre two esrs ago
died yesterday morning Of pneumonis, al
the age of 40 years.
Mr.. Charles II Wurthern who lo.t IL.
by all accident on the Graud Trunk Rail
/ road several years 90 has beed paid S47
I 5i7 damages This Is the largest sum evel
received from railroad corporation in
sui for personal damages.
The runor Of the death of Nine d,
Osiacazg proves 20 be untrue. She wa
divorced from the Prince OF Santa SeverinI
10 marry her present husband, severa
Years ego, and Ii still living with hia il
Paris, LII hopes Of a recall to the Russia,
service.
William Sexton, the American billiar
champion, referring 10 tine match game Il
Paris between Schiosson and VieuauS
says THE French Gre so extremel
patriotic they forget to ha honest, and II
for igner can win match at billiards i
that country"
The splendid jewels worn by Nine
Robellard, the wife Of a tobacco menufaC
turer, at bali at the Tuileries in 1871
first gave Napoleon the IDEA of maxim
the tobacco trade state monopoly.
now yields the French government q
annual income of 59,000,00O of dollars.
O. Z Howard Vincent is az the head {
the detective force iu London. and has Al
regular detectives unher his control. II
IL said to ba man of great energy c
character, kind to the unfortuDate, BIT
most persistent in bringing criminals
justice. He speaks French, German an
Russian with great auency.
Jay tiorld's railway consultations en-
brace the following roads: The thre
divisions Of the Wabash, 2 4S7 miles, III
Missouri Pacific and branches, ,O75 mile
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, 81
miles the Kansas Pacific, 10l1 miles
the Union Pacific, 2,115 miles the Der
J yer and South Park. pol miles; the Iro
I Mountain, 68i; the International an
t Great Northern, 664 and the Tex
, Pacific, 587-a grand total Of ., $40 mile
Zola says that an author lives better an
in more dignined way in an age Of con
mercial naturalism than in period
'idealism" and patronage. A book, |
says, does not pay WELL but II helps
make man a name. For l 900 copies
a novel French writer will make sbo,
800, and 5000 or 1000 copies make
= respectable success. A play which rui
q 100 nights in Paris should give the writ
8 about So, 900.
Charles Lemas, the White House ba
Der, is likely to be suspended after IL
4th of March. Lemus is a oolored ma
!. He has been White House barber sin
. 1866, and at the same time has held
81, 200 dollar olerkship in the treasu
Q until one year ago, when he was promot,
Q to 5 400 place. He not only shaw
johnson, Grant and Hayes, but also Il
l. third auditors, In whose Office he holds
: place. He keeps barber shop on Il
/, avenue and has various other soft thing
= Grant took him to Long Branch for a
: months one summer and he rarely ey
n performs any Office work except to drs
his salary regularly.