Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-11-01
IN q ENERAL.

refer omuii, the morse thief, In the iai
at Belvidere, N. y Monday began thu
tweDty-hrst day of his fast. He said hs
had no desire for food, "but his stomsah
felt solid and he could keep anything an
1t II he tried"
The Earl of Cork has lodged complain,
with the police authorities in Montraa,
that he was robbed on Saturday of
pocket book containing circular no,s
for % 900, some valuable papers, a,i
$50 in Canadian money.
A tornado passed over Catalonia md
Tensas parishes, in Louisiana, Monday
morning. As far as known l6 honsa,
and barn on different plantations were
demolished, and 10 persons were injured
several badly, while three children hsvs
disappeared.
The Brown Lomax murder trial n,
Annapolis closed Monday, with .hs
| scquittal of both the prisoners. H.sisr
Lomax and George Brown. The acuut,.
tai is regarded as great victory Tor ths
counsel for the defense, as Brown oon.
teased his guilt to aeven different persons
Charles dehring and John Issacs. lettsr
carriers in Baltimore, were arr.stad
Monday on the charge If having "open.d
envelopes containing election tickets sent
through the post office addressed to ysri.
GUS parties, aud destroying the tickets by
burning them" They were held in al 500
| bail.
John Simmons, an inoffensive old man
o. Montgomery, New York, who had
attained some notoriety by buying Liza
own coffin and predicting the dav Of bis
death, had his barn and stock DESTROYED
by an inoendiary fire on Sunday night.
| An attempt had bsen made to burn bis
dwelling.
An explosion Of fire damp occurred
Monday afternoon in shaft No. 7 of tina
PsnnsylAauia Coal Company, three miles
from Pittston, Pa. Thirty men were in
the mine at the time. Thomas and Jsmes
Gallagher we're burned to death, and six
others were 80 badly burned that thsir
recovery is doubtful.
During the year which ended on Juns
S0th last, 2,2l5 building permits were
issued in the District of Columbia, which
exceeded by 4o5 the number issued dur.
ing the previous year. The total cost OF
the buildings were So, 33l, 1868 an increase
in valuation on the figures of the previous
year OF $S63 UUO.
In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Monday, Chief Justice Mercur auashed
the write OF error in the case of Cashier
Ruth, who, it Is charged, defaulted with
over $lOO, 600 from the Washington.
Penna., Savings Bank. Unless the stay
of proceedings is removed, which is said
not to be likely Ruth will escape punish.
ment.
Respe citing the probable request OF the
Forestry Commission TO have Congress
give California the land III Nevada bor-
dering on Lake Tahoe, to be reserved as
pleasure resort, the Central Pacific
Railroad Company, which owns the land,
says it will exchange it for other land il
Congress is willing to donate 1t to the
public.
In collision between empty coal cara
at Oil City, Pa, Monday, one of the
cars was lifted bodily and hurled into
the second story OF dwelling house.
almost completely demolishing the build
ing. This people who were in the house
fortunately escaped uninjured, as dii a
brakeman who was on the car when 1t
made its wild leap. He went through
the ordeal with slight bruises only.
The second annual report of the Utah
Anti-P0lygamy Commission was Tues.
day submitted to the Secretary of the In
terror. After referring to the difficulty of the
situation, aud suggesting additional and
more stringent legislation II it shall be
found necessary for the suppression Of
doctrines and practices so odious to the
civilized world, recommendations made in
previous reports are resubmitted. Among
these recommendations are the enactment
OF civil marriage law, the adjustment
!, OF female suffrage and law making the
first wife competent witness in prosecu.
tions for polygamy.
S. j. Hudson of Bslvidere, ILL.,, who
, came to Waupun, Wis, recently with
two children in search of his runaway
wife, found her incorporating in male
attire under the name of Frank Dubois
: She was living with Gertrude Fuller,
having been married to her early last
spring by the Rev. Ii L. Morrison, at the
D home of the brides mother. The d.cep.
tion had not been suspected, but many
, parsons thought that Frank Dubois
had many charaetetisties 81 woman
Under this name he had solicited odd
Z Jobs OF painting, and was making
sumcient money to support them both.
Mary Cnurchill, the young girl who
mysteriously dis. ppeared from her
tather's house in St. Louis last July, has
been heard from, Her father has 10.
ceived letter from her, dated ths 18th
inst, and mailed at Indianapolis on the
9th, and has furnished to the press the
iollowing extract thersfrom | write To
| al ut I 4
am not on the stage, as you supposed
Have | eloped On, how could Won
think 40, wheI | cared so little for gen.
tlemen's society am earning nv own
living honestly. Teach my little sisters
and darling little brother to think kind,
of their sister.
While the tug boat Edge was putting
TO sea, Monday, in search OF tow, aud
when four miles south of Fort Morgan,
Mobile bay, her boiler exploded. Tie
boat sank Immediately, carrying down
with her the captain, John Carney, the
mate, named Andrews aud colored fire.
man. The engineer and cook were picktd
mp, but the latter died while being carried
back to Fort Morgan The engineer is
badly wounded 1t is believed the bodies
OF Tho drowned men have been eaten by
Tue sharks which intsst tn At locality. 1t
Is thonsht that tLe Eige was racing with
another boat to catch TOW, and crowded
GU TOO much steam.
Two suits to test the VALIDITY Ut the
Chinese government certificates were
Drought Monday before Judge Hoffman
In the United States Circuit Court OF San
Francisco telegram from that city
says that the Judge pronounced the suits
exceedingly embarrassing. In one of the
cases Chinaman alleged that he was a
cigar manufacturer. The Judge said
thet Congress used the word merchant,
not Manufacturer, and that if every
Cinnamon who made q few cigars or ped
died matches was to bs classified as
merchant the restriction act would bs
practically dead letter. The second
case was that of a boy, II years of age,
whose certincate Set forth that the bearer
was going to San Francisco to manage a
business IN the interest of mercantile
hrm' was the boy laborer or a mer-
chant This question was difficult to
decide, and judgment waa deferred,
a statement prepared for the use of the
fost oihee Department shows that the
.otai receipts from the postal service
during the fiscal year ended June S0th,
1858, We're S45, sos, 692, made up as fol-
lows Letter postage paid in money,
Si46, Il9; box rents and branch offices,
9l'ooz, o64; fines ard penalties, SO 1852;
postage stamps, stamped envelopes, news
paper wrappers and postal cards, $4S-