Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-10-04
IN GENERAL.

1 TEN D6I Ii 6btlmkt6O ~ tQo treasury Do-
pArtment at $15, 900, 900.
The remaining Gases against the naval
cadets charged with hasing have been
disposed of by the court martial.
1t is expected that the bodies Of De
Long and his comrades will reach the
United States some time In January next.
The Stsrnberg elevator at Buffalo and
the grain contained in 1t were destroyed
| by fire last week. The loss is sstimr ted
at S175,O00.
| Patrick Mozambique WAS shot dead at
Bdwardsville, Illinois, on Monday week.
while trying to get his two sons out Of
bar room fight.
Professor Brooks, OF the Red House
Observatory, has been awarded the
Warner prize 5000 for his recent discovery
Of the comet Of 1872.
The Second Comptroller of the Treasury
has decided that certain ioers, among
whom are General Daniel K Siokles and
Captain A lam Bad, au, are I0t leg ally In
the army.
The schooner .Kodiack has brought to
San Francisco four Alaskan mummiss,
which are supposed to bs at least three
centuries old. They are intended for the
| Berlin museum.
The gross revenue Of the Post Office
Department for the fiscal year which
ended June Both last WAS ~, S27 ,473, an
increase of SO, 5e2, $50 on the revenue for
the preceding fiscal year.
The total value Of our exports of provi-
sions, tallow and dairy products during
the eight months which ended August
3lst last was s77 ,457, $40, against $685.
1872, 1856 during the corresponding period
Of 1882.
| Two strangers took a pair Of alleged
| blood stained trousers from StrAtford into
ssail boat on the Housatonio river, and
were not seen to bring them back. 1t Is
surmised that this is a olex TO the Rose
Amber murder.
Mrs. Conrad, who shot and killed her
husband, l.. l.. Conrad, at their country
seat in Baltimore county, Md, on the
night Of the 9th ult, has been Ad]udged
insane by a commission, and will be con-
fined in an asylum.
An Indian chief, performing with a
company near Cleveland, Ohio, became
intoxicated and, securing revolver and
knife, threatened those around him.
He WAS quieted by the application Of q
shovel to his Uranium.
A dispatch from Bracket, Texas, says:
"The jury rendered verdict Of gully in
the case of Montgomery, who murdered
Mr.. Quigley, a railroad contractor, last
summer, and the punishment was fixed
at IS years in the penitentiary.
At Rockport, Indiana, on Saturday
morning, q stors-boat which had been
occupied by two men was found burned
to the waters edge. In the hull was the
| oharred body Of a man who had been sho.
in the head aud struck with Ratchet
The body of Harry Street, the 5-year
/ old boy who disappeared from his homt
g in Trenton, New Jersey last week, was
found last evening in the canal few
+, yards from his parents house. 1t is sup
a posed he fell overheard while playing or
. the bank.
At Pt.sburg on Saturday, John G
A Gordon, R. M. Geary and Albert Cruzsn
a members OF gang of highway robber
who have operated in Maryland, Yves
7 Virginia and western Pennsylvania, wer
}, sentenced each to 20 years. imprisonmsn
in the penitentiary.
A A strange German entered Block 4 CO.
, intelligence office, New York, Saturds,
~ night, and demanded OF Henry, Swed
/. who wss in charge, a place to sleep
N Being refused, he drew knife an,
v stabbed Henry, killing him almos
instantly. The assassin escaped.
~ The Protestant Episcopal Diocesan Con
=; veDtion Of New York met Thursday, an,
; elected the Rev. DR.. Potter of arao
4 Church, to be Assistant Bishop and sue
~ cessor Of his uncle, the present Bishop
"a Haratio Potter. The Assistant Bishop
elect Ia a son OF the late Bishop Alonz
Potter of Pennsylvania.
- John Calvin and wife were arrested 70
~ drunkenness in Waterbury, Conn, o.
& Wednesday week, and Calvin, in a At {
N desperation, committed suicide by cuttin
~ his throat. His case was peculiarly sad
After trying every mrthod for reclaim
IN bis drunken wife, lie took to drin
g. himself in sheer desperation.
~ An Al3a!ian, calling himself J. c
a Devean, who had been doing an extensiv
a businsss in imported cheese, has disal
=, peared from Montreal, after victimizin
" the banks of that city to the extent
100000. Business houses in New Yorb
" Chicago, Boston and Liverpool have ais
D. a financial interest in his whereabouts.
y At Pittsburg Thursday, Umpire Nj,
10 Cune, of the trade tribunal, decide
~ that 81 cents per bushel should /
90 the wages OF railroad coal miners in .hs
district from October lst to April Is
1854. The miners wanted 81 cents an
&c the operators were willing to pay 8
w cents. Both sides have accepted IL
OF Umpire's decision and there will be 4
sd strike.
aann Thursday this body Of Edward Bates
n. OF Boston, wealthy and aged 60 year
who was to have married Miss Houdle
OF Cstskill, N. y, Tuesday week, but WI
!, IN mysteriously disappeared on Saturds,
n was found floating in the river. I'll
no would-be bride was approached Thursda
u by mysterious woman who said, "Yo
u, needn't wal, around here he'll neve
lot marry you"
- q. Y. Pomeroy, assignee of the Quit
neck Company, has applied to the 5,
20, preme Court OF Rhode Island for
'er writ OF assistance to enable him to abtai
u possession OF the oompany's property,
TO- accordance with the decree Of the Cunr
US William Sprague and the superintendent
~ OF the mills at Quidneck and Arctic ha,
''e been cited to appear on Saturday an
'ai show cause why such writ should not |
issued, and why he should not be or,
d. ceeded against for contempt Of Court.
'.n In Baltimore, on the 18th of July las
ne the Peoples Passenger railway line, e,
rs, tending from Fort McHenry to Drui
Ate Hill, was sold by order of court, and W,
sh bout, 1T by S4nat Patterson for tl06, 90,
w Subsequently exceptions to the ra,ihc,
WI tlon OF the sale were filed, aud y-ptrrda,
IL the Circuit Court, Judge Duffy q,
700 aside the eals Oh the ground that Ii
lge uuSsrra Dni'' ant convey tiLl- to TIN
on pat If rot lying in Baltimore oount,
OF Which wa included in the sale, a. III
~. company did not own that portion of Il
in road"
es, Mrs. Annie Cooper OF Baltimore, age
aw 70 years and hut reosntly married, a
tempted to commit suicide Thursds
icy morning by swallowing four ounces
1to laudanum while on a visit to her mothe
cir Mrs. Sarah oberly, who is housekeeper (,
700 Mrs. King, corner Charles and Bidd
In streets. Sne was restored by prompt a,
? a ministration OF emetics and is in fair wa
Of recovery. The cause which led to IL
.he attempt is said to be- domestic intellect,
In, 1t is claimed She had a quarrel with h,
he husband Tuesday week, which preyed G
ida her mind.
mp A IumeS-DemOcrat 0pelousas, La
? special says: civilian McNsely, fro,
rs. McComb City, Miss, one OF the enginee,
led on Payne's plantation. WAS sbot dan