Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-08-29
NEWS SUN AIRY.
WORK OF TEE FLAMES-OCEAN
GROVE CAMP FINED FOR
WATCHING A CONDUCTOR

There seemed to be no decrease yes
terday in the attendance at the Ocean
Grove Camp Meeting. Two excursions
arrived from Philadelphia and one
from Jamesburg. Twelve services
were held. Rev DIR. j. B. Graw,
Presiding Elder of the Camden Dis
trict of the New Jersey Conference,
preached in the monring, and in the af-
ternoon Rev. Waldo MessarOs, of Phila-
delpha, addressed an audience of 5000
persons
AT Chicago. on Monday, conductor
of the Chicago and Alton Railroad had
"A private detective arrested for follow
ing him about, and the "spotter" was
fined $40 by a magistrate. The managers
Of the road said yesterday that they
had discharged a number Of suspected
conductors, and had employed de-
tectives to keep certain Of them under
surveillance.
Hee Sing, Chinaman, made appli-
cation yesterday in the Superior Court
of New York for his papers of naturali-
zation as citizen Of the United States.
As he had taken out his first papers in
1880, he did not come under the opera
ton of the Act of Congress of 1882, and
his application was granted. Sing keeps
a boarding house for Cinnamon.
c. w. Rich, Receiver of the St.
Adams Trust Company, of st Albans,
Vermont, says there are available assets
sufficient to pay the depositors 80 per
cent of their claims. 1t is too soon 10
form an opinion as to what may here
after be realized from the assets now
considered doubtful.
A fire in Galveston, Texas, on Monday
night, destroyed the building of f.
Groos & Co., bankers, causing loss of
100000 Half Of the loss falls upon
Hugo & Schneider, grOcers, occupying
the same building. Five men were in
jured, three severely, during the fire.
One new case of yellow fever has de-
veluped at Pensacola Navy Yard, the
patient being the second daughter of
Surgeon Owen. The widow of Surgeon
owen died on Monday night. No cases
Of yellow fever have appeared in Pen
sacola.
y There was frost in the low lands
around Leominster, Massachusetts, on
and Monday nights. No dam
age to vegetation is reported beyond
the destruction of one acre of cucum-
berS.
The exports of domestic produce from
New York for the week ending August
18th, amounted to SS,623, 29S. The to-
al exports since January lst aggregate
S233, S26, ,3o4, against S2lS, ,2,2, 122 for the
amt time in 1882
The white screwmen at Galveston,
Texas, numbering over l5O who have
,een on strike since the organization
If the colored screwmens ) association
everal months ago, returned to work
yesterday.
The failure of William Montieth,
commission merchant of Toronto, was
'eported yesterday. Liabilities, $4,000;
he dollar.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal
md Iron Company yesterday took pos
esSion Of the Buck Ridge Colliery, at
ihamokin. More than five hundred
nen are employed at the coliery.
Simmons, Ely u Hamilton's plan
ng mill and a number of frame houses
II Louisville, Kentucky, were destroy
d by fire yesterday. Loss twenty thou
and dollars.
The National Lancers of Boston have
een ordered out to escort General But
er at the opening of the Worlds Fair
n that city on the Sd proximo.
The hog cholera is reported to be pre-
alent at Patchague, Long Island, and
ausing heavy loss of swine.
A fire at Laredo, Texas, on Sunday
light, destroyed three stores, causing a
)ss of twenty-four thousand dollars.