Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-02-24

The University of Chicago, endowed by
| Stephen A. Douglas, has been for several
years financially embarrassed. Five years
ago its trustees borrowed $3.50, 600 from
an insurance company in Maine, execut-
| lug mortgage to the company. Not only
has the mortgage not been paid, but the
| interest has been allowed to accumulate
and compound, aud both principal and
| interest being come days overdue, the
| trustees have filed bill In tie Superior
| Court to restrain the company from fore
| closing under the trust deed, claiming
that the trustees never had any power to
mortgage the University property. The
company on the other hand, has filed q
bill in the United States court 10 prevent
the University authorities from interfering
with the proceedings ia foreclosure.
Pork declined 30 to 60 cents per barrel
in Chicago ON Saturday, owing probably
| to u cable dispatch stating that tho French
Government had embBrgued the imporia-
| ton OF sailed meat from the United
States "This," says q Chicago despatch,
ia believed to be the result OF shipping
meat which ia not more than half cured,
and 80 is unfit 10 withstand an ocean voy-
age, and through heat and fermentation
arrives in ca uasound or tainted state.
The connecting rod of the engine of a
passenger train on the Wabash Railroad
broke about four miles east of Lafayette,
Indiana, on Saturday afternoon, and the
revolving rod knocked the cab TO pieces,
injuripg the engineer so badly that he
died the same evening Fla stood at bis
post to put on the air brakes and shut off
the steam, for the purpose of saving the
passengers, until he was knocked out of
the cab.
A fire ut Monroe, Louisiana, before day
light on Sunday morning, destroyed the
steamer Fdirplay with 800 bales of cotton,
the wharf boat Katie, with 800 baies of
cotton, aud a large lot of merchandise
The captain and the clerk of the Fdirpldy
had their faces aud hands badly burned,
and printer named Edwin Hancock per-
ished in the flames.
The large fold of Is iuch ice, which
has all winter covered tue horseshoe"
between Sandy Hook and the Highlands
OF Navesink, broke yesterday from either
shore and drfted out, carrying everything
in its path About so feet of the New
Jersey Southern railway freight lock was
broken down by the moving mass.
While some gentlemen were ice boating
on tho Great South Bay, Long Island, last
Thursday, their boat, going at high
speed, ran into man-hole, and all on
board were pitched to considerable dis
tence Captain Mott, of Staten Island,
was the only one seriously injured, ard it
Is feared be rnay no+ survive.
One hundred aud fourteen ship ya,d
laOorera from the Clyde passed through
Montreal, Friday, on their way to
Detroit, where they are TO work in the
Wyulock ship yard under contract.
An Illicit distillery hes just been cap
tured in Oarte'et county, North Carolina,
with 800 gallons OF mash, and quantity
Of spirits, wines, 60 Two stills were
captured and two men arrested.
Information has reached Tucson,
Arizona, that the Yoqui indiana, in the
Nj xicin State Of Sonora. are preparing
for "a general volt"
Ann MCCARTHY and Eliza Martin were
terribly burned by the explosion OF a
kerosene lamp. in New York, on
Wednesday night.