Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-03-04
NEWS SUMMARY.
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Items Of News.

The Delaware river WAS l2 feet abov
low water mark at Trenton yesIerda, /,
and several factories We're stopped b
being flooded. At Bordentowr, tn
flood covered Duck Island, compellin
the people to leave on boats. The raj
road track, for three miles between
Bordentown and Trenton, was covere,
to the depth OF eighteen inches, pre-
venslng the .unnlng of trains. Th
upper Delaware was subsiding, and al
danger of further damage in that sec
tion was believed to be passed.
The Rfpublican State Executive Com
mlttee and prominent Republicans O
Tennessee, in conference at Nashvill,
on Thursday night, resolved to call s
State Convention, to nominate a Cover
nor, on April 9th. They will "adher.
to the Hawkins platform, which was tt
settle the State debt on the best compro
mise to which the bond holders will
submit.
The floods in the New England rivers
continued YESTERDAY, though in some
places relief was given by the breaking
up and passing out of the ice. Trestles
on the Fitchburg Railroad, near Pequog,
Massachusetts, and ON the Vermont
Central Railroad near Montpelier, have
been carried away by the ice.
At secret conference of the Republi.
can leaders of South Caro- ina, held on
Thursday night, in Columbia, T. L. Mil
Ter, colored, State Senator from Beau
fort, presiding, resolutions were adopt
ed setting forth the grievances of the
Republicans under ths reg stration and
election laws, and asking Congression-
al relief
The inundation at Bolivar, Mississip-
pi, is increasing, and it is now thought
all the Deer Greek country, except the
higher points in the Bogue Settlement,
will be covered. Many of the people are
reported to have taken refuge in the
trees, and boats have been SEM to their
assistance.
The National Board of Health ad-
vised that, during the week ending
February 10Th, there were sixty new
cases OF smallpox and II deaths in
Plttsburg, fifteen cases and seven deaths
in st. Louis, aud thirty-tive deaths in
Chicago.
Generals Sherman, Hancock and
others, passed through ST.. Louis yester-
day, on their way to Texas, to inspect
the frontier posts. They will extend their
trip to the Yosemite Valley and San
Francisco.
1t is stated now that the two Mormous
and the wife and daughters of Thomas
Matheson were not killed by Indians in
Arizona, as reported, but were 'lost
during a "trip through Arizona and New
Mexico.'
In Corsicanna, Texas, on Thursday
night, John York, thinking TO "fright.
en Charles Alexander, who was Sleep
ing in an adjoining room, fired through
the partition and blew off the top of
Alexander s head.
George Hayward, private banker of
Auburn, Indiana, charged with having
two years ago embezzled $4,000 of his
depositors money, WAS arrested on
Thursday in Chicago.
The Senate of Iowa has agreed to the
House resolution proposing cOnstitu.
tional amendment prohibiting tho man
ufacture and sale OF Intoxicating liquors
as a beverage.
Rev. Thaddeus Salters, the first col
ored man ever admitted to the protes-
tant Episcopal ministry in South Caro-.
lima, was ordained yesterday in Char
lesion by Bishop Howe.
Annie Murray, notorious woman,
shot and killed Henry G Prang, and
then fatally wounded herself, in Port.
land, Oregon, yesterday. Jealousy was
The cause.
The large agricultural works of Ben.
Iamln Plank, Jr, at Cnurchtown,
Cumberland county, Pa, were destroyed
by fire yesterday. The loss is not
stated.
Hartley x Brothers tannery, at Pitts
burg, was burned yesterday morning.
Loss. $4,000.
John Gerst, leather dealer, sh OF hi o.
self dead yesterday, in Mobile.