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Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-14
rinston, postponed until tomorrow morn

rlhstof, postponed until tomorrow morn
ing at . o'clock.
The following bills were PASSED:
The Phillips Ditch Improvement act,
The act To incorporate the Delaware
Trust and Safe Deposit Company.
The vote by which the bill vesting the
public buildings OF New Castle in the
hands of trustees was lost, was rec6nsil-
cred and the bill passed.
The act in relation to the Mispilliun
Navigation Company.
The Otwell, Mccoy and Tibbitt divorce
bills.
The bill to incorporate the Roman Cath
Ollie Male Protectory of Wilmington.
The bill supplementary to the charter
OF the Delaware City, Salem ami Philad"l-
phla Navigation Company.
The Baker divorce bill.
The lladley divorce bill.
The House joint resolution increasing
the appropriation to buy books for the
state Library was non-concurred in.
The bill amendatory to chapter 81 Of
the Revised Statutes was passed.
The act to amend chapter 4jl, volume
10, Laws of Delaware, was read twice
and referred
The act to incorporate the "Star Of
Bethlehem" Of the town of Milford, was
read twice and referred
The resolution authorizing the State
Librarian. to place duplicate copies of all
books of the State Library in the Law
Library at Wilmington was concurred in.
The Wilmington Board of Education
bill was read twice and referred.
The bill to incorporate the Wilmington
Malleable Iron Company was read twice
and referred.
The supplement to the charter of the
city of Wilmington (prOviding that the
Eleventh ward should pay only one-third
of the tax rate for three years and one
half for the succeeding three years) was
| read twice and referred. a"
The act making it obligatory to stamp
tax receipts was passed.
The bill to enable J. A. Fulton to locate
certain salt marsh was passed.
The act incorporating the Wilmington
Malleable Iron Company, under suspen-
sion of rule ii, was passed.
The bill to incorporate the Farmers
| Land and Improvement Association was
read twice and referred.
ID. y. Burton, agent for the Adams
| EApTesa company hau Ifeatnlcu u tIull
Of Sjl.Gl, which was referred to the Com.
mittee on Claims.
| The bill to incorporate the Derrickson
Mill Pond and st. Georges Branch Ditch
Company was read twice and referred.
] The act to incorporate the Delaware
Locomotive Company was passed.
The hill to incorporate the Arlington
Mills Manufacturing Company was read
twice and referred.
The bill to incorporate the Delawar,
Land improvement Company was reaC
twice and referred.
The Dill divorce bill was reconsidered
and passed.
The act to incorporate the DianonC
State Wheel Company was read twice am
referred.
The bill appointing State Chemist wa
passed.
The bill in relation to the public school
of Wilmington was read twice and re
terred.
The vote by which the bill TO Great
another school district in Kent county wa
lost, WAS reconsidered and the bill takel
up and passed.
Adioururu
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-14

Special Correspondence of state journal.
CHRISTIAN, DEL, April 9.-Robert Arm
strong's son. who lived about two miles from
here, on the road to Cooch's Bridge, died
yesterday morning from self-intlicted wounds.
The young man cut his throat some weeks
since while suffering from insanity, and since
| then he has been gradually sinking.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-14

House met lt y Il. III.
The bill incorporating the Shipley
Street Drain Company was passed.
The bill amendatury to the school law
of Wilmington, by change of date, to
conform to the requirements of the fiscal
bill, was passed also the Senate bill
amendatory to the charter of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church of Delaware and
the bill for the better regulation Of the
streets OF Newark.
The bill for the suppression Of lottery
tickets designed to legslatate Maxwell 5
printing establishment out of existence
was reported, without recommendation,
by the Committee on Vice, Crime and
immortality.
Mr. Tomlinson moved that it be ndeli-
nitely postponed, which was agreed to by
the following vote:
Ayes-Cahall, Jones, Matthews, Nc
Neal, Moore, Pilling, Robinson, stayton,
romlinson, VanBurkalow, Speaker Will
liams-ll.
Nays-l.astbur Graham, Register,
Swayne, Townsend-5.
The bill to encourage the keeping OF
public watering troughs in Mill Creek
and Christiana hundreds was passed
also the bill amendatory of chapter 73,
Revised Code (rendered necessary by the
Fiscal Year bilD.
The Senate bill confirming the terms oi
the Wilmington City Solicitor and City
| Auditor, was read.
The bill supplementary to the Intern
perance bill (giving the Governor til,
| appointing of the Wilmington bailiil)was,
after u sharp interchange OF inSinuations
passed by Il vote of II to 5.
The Senate amendments to the deadly
weapons bill were non-concurrcd in and
Il COMMITTEES of conference appointed ol
the bill.
The Senate joint resolution extending
the time Of the payment of halE-intcres
hv the j. x b. railroad until the reduc
tion OF interest on its mortgages goes int
effect, was eoncurred in.
The bill incorporating the i. NJ
Chambers Packing Company (eanneryD
of Dover, was passed also the bill in
cooperating the Farmers (tiregg iiowe
Market Company of Wilmington.
The Senate bill authorizing the cnl
structiun of Il new bridge to replace III
Third street bridge at Wilmington wa
read twice and referred,
Senate bills confirming ternr of office q
Wilmington City Solicitor and City Audi
tor, and authorizing the New Castl
county Levy Court to fund $lOo,uo
(court house and marsh banks drbt) at
per cent, were read n second time ah'
referred.
The bill incorporating the Butchers
Hide and fallow Association of Whining
ton was defeated by i ayes to noes.
Th,. I'LL incorporating the Drrrirksun
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The Senate bill supplementary to Til"
charter of the New Castle County Mutual
Insurance Company was passed also the
Senate bill authorizing the construction
of a new bridge over the thristiana. on
or near the site OF Third street bridge :;
the bill providing that the trustees OF the
poor of New Castle county shall receive
So per day for attendance at the aims
house on official duty, for not more than
II days in any one year; the bill amend
ing chapter As, Revised Code. Limiting
the amount of property to br held by the
trustees of the poor.
Mr.. Bradford introduced Il bill Lpre-
pared by Chief Justice Comegysl sup
Elementary to the intempera1cc bill AMI
designed to adapt the phraseology OF in
documents which may be drawn under the
new law to conform to said law. Read
tvs ice and referred.
Rules Nos. Il and 2j We're suspended
for the balance of the session. 49,.
On motion of 4. N. Williams, the vote
by which the sugar beet bill was defeated
was reconsidered and the bill laid on the
table. ... ..
The bill authorizing the Governor Il
appoint two additional constables iol
| wilmington, lor term ol luliI yc"iai ""'
token up and, after the reading OF batcl
of petitions and remonstrances, passed by
a vote of Is to g.
The Sugar Beet bill was taken from th'
table and indefinitely postponed.
The bill to divorce Elizabeth and
Charles Stevenson was read.
The bill supplementary to the eharte
of the Fenwick Island Improvement Com
pany was passed also the bill incorporat
ing the Capelle Iron & Hardware Co.
Mr.. Graham offered joint resolution
requiring the Junction Il Breakwater an'
Breakwater x Frankford Railroad Com
panies to continue to pay e per cent. ol
their mortgages (s6Oo, 600 held by tn
State, the interest on which has latel.
been reduced to per cent?, the surplu
per cent. to be credited as payments o.
arrearages. In point of fact these road
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have for years past paid only 3 per cent.
out Of their regular revenues, though they
have actually na,le up the quarter patt
by giving Il second mortgage for S25o, ,oo''
to the Old Dominion Steamship Company !
The resolution was defeated by Il vote al
Ii To 81 Messrs. Graham, Pilling and A..
c. Williams voting in the Affirmative.
The bill Incorporating the Exchans''
Building Company of Wilmington, wa
passed.
The Senate amendment to the bill
incorporating the Delaware Heat, Light
and Water Company forbidding IL"
company to operate in any town in the
state, Wilmington excepted, where any
company has prior possession was coi-
Cured in.
The Senate bill Incorporating the Dio
nonl state Coal Gas Company, was read
twice.
The bill to prevent the Dissertation oi
the Sabbath, with amendments, wa
| passed.
The Senate bill relating TO the old court
house at New Castle, was read twice and
referred. .-..
Adjourned.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-14

DOVER, April 9.-The Committee on
Accounts reported the allowances for men,
bers and officers.
The clam of j. Alexander Fulton for ?160
was disallowed.
House Joint resolutions authorizing S4O0 to
be appropriated for contingent expenses of
the Secretary of States office; thanking rail-
roads for passes appointing William Hunter
janitor at 800 per annum were concurTed in.
The Committee on Accounts presented their
report which was adopted.
The accounts of the Secretary of State were
approved.
Mr.. Belts presented resolution returning
the thanks of the Senate to the Speaker for
his kindness and uniform fairness toward
every one and supplemented it in neat
speech. The resolution was adopted by a
rising and unanimous vote.
The clerk of the House being admitted in
formed the Senate that the House would be
ready to adjourn in 10 minutes.
A resolution of thanks to the clerk was
] unanimously adopted,
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-14


DOVER, April S.-Senate met at a. M,
and, after prayer by the chaplain, took II
recess until 9.l5.
At that hour it wa5 again called to order
aud, upon Mr.. Pennewill's motion, the bill To
allow the Town Council of Dover to borrow
$40, 900 with which to erect water works was
| taken up. Two romonstrances were presented
and two petitions for the passage of the bill.
| The question ON final passage being put the
| bill passed unanimously.
| The conference committee on the deadly
weapon bill reported that the Senate had re-
ceded from its amendments and reported Il
substitute which was read three times aud
| passed.
The bill to incorporate the Derrickson's
| Mill Pond Company was passed also the bill
to make Ii live stock law for district 81, Sussex
county; the bill to incorporate the Arlington
| Mills Manufacturing Company, and The }. NJ.
Chambers Packing Company.
The supplement to the lntemperance bill,
relating to indictments. WAS read twice aud
referred, and subsequently reported favor
| ably and passed.
House bill amending chapter 81 volume i6
and chapter 453, volume ID, Laws of Della
ware, was passed.
The supplement to the Eleventh Ward bil
in reference to taxation of Browntown wat
passed.
The Fenwck Island Improvement Com
pany amGndatory act was passed,
House bill Incorporating the Star of Beth
lehem, of Milford. was passed.
House bill to prevent the dissertation of the
| Sabbath was read twice.
The supplement to the Intemperance bil
relating tn the appointment of II bailih fortht
city of Wilmington was lost McWhOrtc
changing his vote 10 nav iii order to move ;
| reconsideration.
The act to incorporate the Delaware Loco
motive Company; the bill authorizing th,
Council of Wilmington to borrow 56O,OOO It
build school houses and the act to incorporate
the Farmers Loan and Improvement Assucl
alton were passed.
Mr.. McWhOrter introduced Il bill to reduce
the number of justices of the peace in Vii
ningtun to three and couiining the jursdic
ton of New Castle justices to the hundred il
which they reside and that immedintci!
ad Joining. 1t was read twice aud referred t,
the New Castle members.
The acts To incorporate the Delaware Lane
Improvement Company and the Diamon
state Wheel Company were passed.
The house joint resolution iu relation t.
printing was concurrcd in.
The act amending section ., chapter i5l
volume 10, Laws of Delaware; the supple
nent to the acts for the prevention OF cruelt
to children aud animals the bill proyidn
for public watering trOughS III Mill Greek an
Christianu hundreds mn act prescribing Gel
tain duties Of prothonOtaries, Nc; an act 1T
ating to witnesses in criminal cases the az
in relation to the Indian River schools, wer
passed alao the bill to repeal chapter 81
volume Is.
Adjourned
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Oli IuOllOu VI hr. lOulIlllhDll' MShhTs lOlll-
linson, Cahall and Bradford were appointed,
Oh the part OF the House, members of the
committee on IL Legislative reunion at Reho-
both next summer.
Adjourned,
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-14


Senate met at p. m.
The Dover bill was called up for con-
sideration but, upon motion OF Mr. har-
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-14

MIR. Bradford introduced u bill to amend
chapter 70, Revised Code, entitled "of
the city of Wilmington" Read twice
aud referred. The bill makes a slight
change in the mode of school assessments, ,
striking out thirty" and inserting
Fifteen" to conform to the requirements
of the 'flscal bill."l
Mr.. Cahall called up the Eleventh
ward bill for final action, as amended and
it was passed by Il strict party vote ot
ii to I.
The bill in relation to the printing ot
lottery tickets was read a second time
and referred to the Committee ON Vice,
Crime and immortality. Adjourned.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-25
southwestern Beneat GuiId.

A charter for an association with the
above lame has been secured in accord
ance with the forms of law. and m organ
ization was effected at Gaston's hotel this
morning blythe election Of the following
officers:
Judge John L. T. Sneed, president.
Judge H. I. Elicit, vice president.
w. Spot Smith, Secretary.
j. Harvey Mathes, treasurer.
Capt. G. B. Simonton, attorney and
actuary.
John Green Hall, superintendent.
General 10 b. Heiskoll was elected rs
an original incorporation.
The objects of the Guild are somewhat
similar to those of other benevolent or
ders, except that people do not have to
die in order to benefit somebody. The
benefit begins at the other end of the line.
1t is given on the marriage of the member
or some one named in the benefit certii-
cate as a beneficiary. Those who do not
marry may draw out at the end of q GER
tain number of years and be paid $1,000.
A beneficiary receives 5000 at marriage,
provided that no one can be paid under
eighteen months from date Of membership.
The plan has been very carefully ma
tured, and Is based upon sound business
principles. The general superintendent
will appoint agents for different states and
20 to work at once, The central office
will continue to be n Memphis. Ladies
car be members as well as gentlemen.
Members will be known rs knights and
Ladies of the Guild"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-25
TROUBLE IN THE COUNTRY.
BlOOdshed Among the COlOred
People at M Ellington.

A bloody row occurred on a farm up
near Millington, Tennessee, on the
Paducah railway, fifteen miles north
of this city, neal sunset last evening,
and the colorcd population of the
vicinity are in a high state Of excite
ment overit.
A negro near that place, for some
cause not explained, hot and wound
ed his wife. She fell, but soon gained
her feet and ran to her mother near by.
The enraged husband took after and
caught her, and the mother screamed
for help, and then took to her heels in
search of it. While his mother-in-
law was absent the fsndish fellow tied
a rope around tho wounded woman's
neck and was in the act Of hauling her
up over the limb of a tree when the
neighbors approached the scene. AS
the men came up, the would-be MUIR
derer stopped his hanging exercise,
took up his gun, aimed it at the APP
preaching party, and fred into them,
wounding several. The crowd then
overpowered and secured the blood
thirsty fellow. The names Of the par
ties mixed up in the fracas have not
been ascertained.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-25
'EM GENTS Pc WE x.
THE CITY.
weanesAay EseninE, May. %. IssI.
LEpGER LINES

Showery egain to-day.
Tomorrow is Ascension day.
Golden hams. Lyle & Shields.
New scrap pictures at Williams's.
LEDGER job printing Office, ID Mad
ison street.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers. 282
Main street.
Telephone Adler & Bro. for boots,
shoes and slippers.
The price of cotton is bc better in
New Orleans to-day.
Peanuts and stock peas very low.
Ike A. Chase, 900 Front.
All kinds of job printing executed
at the LEDGER office, 13 Madison.
Best quality fresh roasted coffeel
always in stock at Lytle & Shields.
Telephone Haherling, 281 Second
for rubber stamps, stencils and seals
Some trotting and other races come
off this afternoon at the fair grounds
The Memphis Light Guards are t,
give an exhibition drill at the fail
grounds next Friday.
Street cars on all the lines will rul
tonight until after the close of tn
Tennessee club musical soiree.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-25

The Chickssaw Guards and their
guests recent visit to the gulf states is
a prolific theme in many circles.
The people Of the village of Moscow,
40 miles east Of here, were in a state
of ecstacy yesterday over a fine game
Of base ball.
w. H.. Henderson is the name Of the
colored man who shot his wife near
Wilmington last evening. He was ar
rested and lodged in jail by Mr.. w.
P. York.
Col. Charles L. Hooker, member of
congress from the fifth district Of
Mississippi, arrived in the city this
morning to attend the Cotton Planters
Association.
The Bluff City Grays are to drill to
day at Nashville for the first Prize,
and on Friday next for the grand
$500 one. The rain yesterday caused
a change of programme.
The Avery cotton gin is on exhib-
ition out at the fair grounds. As
usual, the gin has many friends and
admirers, and all cotton growers going
to the fair will examine it.
The Stanley Fits grand concert is
announced to come off on the first Of
next month. Details of programme
not yet fully agreed upon but every
member is to be new to u people.
Several lodges Of the Immaculates,
in full regalia, paraded the streets to-
day, led by a band of martial music.
They went to Estlval park for picnic,
and are to enjoy a fine supperto-night.
The Bluff City Grays may carry off
the chief prize at the Nashville drill
to day. Some lucky individual will
carr off the chief prize in the Com
monwe 18th lottery drawing next Tues
day. Get a ticket at the usual place.
Our city officials being of an ex-
tremely economical turn, except on
salary day, and not caring a copper for
the public's admiration Of flowers in
Court Square, Mr.. James Elder and a
few of his friends have adorned Court
Squares vases with plants of various
kinds at their private expense.
The voting enumerators for this
county, as appointed by the governor,
are: J.. L. Talley, S. Hammontree,
J. Sykes, W. H. Tyler, W. f. Gowan,
Charles Shotwell, w. II. Allen, j. H.
Barnum, Charles Daniel, and S. D.
Davis. These officials must supply
their own blanks for the state will not
do it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-25
Brutnl Murder.

A colored woman named Margaret
Washington was murdered about five
o'clock yesterday evening by her para
mour, Bill Rivers, on GayoSo street,
between Second and Third. Jealousy
was the cause. Rivers and the woman
had been living together as man and
wife for some time, though lately bad
feeling had sprung up between them
Yesterday evening he called her out
in the alley back of the place where
she was working, and after a few
harsh words stabbed her about a dozen
times in the back and breast. She
fell over dead. Her cries aroused the
neighborhood, and Rivers, after rum
ming a short distance, stopped and
gave himself up, bloody knife and all.
He appeared to be entirely bereft of
his senses-prayed, sang, laughed,
cursed, and repeated poetry Of q rustic
order by turns. At first he was glad
he had killed the woman, but this
morning was cooler and sorry for it.
He says he knows he will hang, but
don't want to live now that he has
killed the only woman he wei loved.
Rivers was a good worker, but impu
dent and crazy when angry. He was
a garbage cart driver.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-25
Miller's confections ,292 Main street
40
TheFair.

The Shelby County Agricultural Fair
opened yesterday under fair auspices, the
showery weather alone interfering to pre-
vent a large attendance.
The display of live stock, machinery,
manufactures, farm products and miscel-
laneous articles is liberal, and the fair will
doubtless draw large crowds between this
and Saturday.
The Mississippi Valley Planters asso-
citation held their first meeting at the fair
ground buildings this afternoon.
Among the prizes 10 be awarded to-day,
the second Of the fair, is $40 to the best
family buggy horse, the same TO the best
buggy mare, the same TO the best family
sweepstakes ANIMAL and SIS TO the best
pair Of horses or mares driven by their
owner.
A purse Of $150is to be trotted for best
three in five S75 to the first horse, $40 10
the second, and SIS to the third. A run
ming race also comes off for a purse OF
$l85, Of which first horse gets Sl00, second
$50, and third S25.
Trains u out the Charleston road ev-
cry hour from 9 TO 3p.m, and return at
1890, 1890, and $780,. The fare out and
back is only Is cents.
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A Pair OF Young Scamps.

Two young darkies, neither more
than thirteen years of age, we're ar
rested yesterday for a robbery daring
enough in its conception for older
criminals.
One of them, George Randalls,
watched the residence of Mrs. John.
son, on the fernando road, until the
family went out, and then, procuring a
ladder, climbed in an open upper win
dow. He broke open drawers and
scattered the contents on the floor,
forced doors, and instituted a general
and deliberate search for valuables
Picking out two or three suits Of
clothing, a pair of gold bracelets and
cuff buttons, he made a bundle of
them, and departed the way he came.
The clothing was sold at Glasses sec
ond hand store on Beale street for
seven dollars, and tile JeWelry was
spirited away to a house on Poplar
street by the boy Nels., SO his partner
charges. Officer jackson was detailed
to work up the affair, and succeeded
in capturing both the young imps, who
are lodged in the calaboose. Glasse has
also been arrested on a charge of re
ceiving stolen goods, but is out on
bond. Randalls, though young in
years, is old in crime. He began life
as a crap shooter" with his uncle,
Jesse Woods, and has but recently
been released from the st. Louis
house of correction, where he was put
for robbing a jewelry store.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-25
7T0Droved Power for Gins.

Messrs. Willis Harvey and Frank
Trimble, of S%omerville, have taken out
a patent on an improved horse power for
running gins and other plantation ma
chinery. 1t is very simple in construc-
ton, is strong, and works like a charm
Over a dozen are in operation in Fayette
county. A beautiful little model is on
exhibition at the fair grounds. By this
power two mules can run a gin that I'M
der the old system requires six mules.
Planters will sec the advantage at once.
State and county rights for sale.