Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-09-13
IN q EN- ERAL.

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Andrew Williams, ~ years of age, "play-
fully pointed" a revolveT q his sister,
aged Is, and shot her dead
A telegram from Petersburg, Virginia,
reports that the deer in that section are
dying in large numbers from diseife
known as the "black tongue -
H. s. Benjamin, dealer in cartridges at
Milwaukee, made an aesieim mi Mon
day. Hs liabilities are repot Jed at
100000; Assets about the same
"Abs" Harris, suspected hog thief,
was taken from Lis home, near Cheney
Vile, Louisiana, ON Sunday nj, hit by I'M
known pa ties, aud shot to death
The September report Of Oh > ndltiOn
Of the cotton crop, issued by The Depart
ment OF Agriculture, shows a f-,tsral
average OF "a, against 80 ii S i'tiaber Of
last year.
By collision between two trains on
the Long leland railroad, near hunters
Point, luesday night two men were killed
aud eight injured, one OF the latter
fatally. T."
A boiler used by contractors In build
ing u building bridge at Herl's Island,
near Allee heny City, Pa, burst Oh Mon
day evening, iDjuring iva wOrkmeu, one
OF whom ID not expected 10 recover.
A large number of persons were
poisoned by eating boiled shrimps at 8
celebration in Beaufort county, South
Carolina, on Saturday. Three have died
recover.
The last six or eight weeks are said Il
have been the driest known on Cape Cod
for several years. Great damage has
been done to the cranberry crop, aud the
cattle are suffering from the want o
pasturage.
The exports OF lumber from Whining
ton, North Carolina, during the IL month";
which ended on August 3lst, amounted
to 100000 feet, OF which $4,000, 00t
went to domestic and the remainder tt
foreign ports.
The laying of the concrete foundation
for the pedestal of the Bartholdi statue
in New York harbor, will be- begun OIL
next Monday, and 1t is expected that tn,
entire work will be completed OF
November 18th.
The SEVENTEEN anniversary of Perry
victory on Lake Erie WAS celebrated al
Erie, Pa, on Monday. The Anthem,
Wayne block house at Presque Isle wa
decorated, and there was parade OF TIN
Erie fire department.
Miss Hamer, aged II, daughter of thu
proprietor OF the Grand Central Hotel q
Bar Harbor, Me-, eloped OIL Saturday will
Louis Corinso, married man, aged rs
who WAS employed about the steamboa
wharf at Bar Harbor.
Karl Karstel and Lewis Garner, Swedisl
sailors, blew out the gas in their room il
lodging house In New York on Monda,
night. Tuesday morning Karstel wa
found dead and his companion insensible
The latter may Recover.
There Ia now direct communication b,
telegraph between New York City ant
Rio Janeiro, Brazil, and oongratulation
were exchanged yesterday between tn,
New York Coffee Exchange and the Com
meroisl Association OF Rio.
Two Richmond, Va, men, w. W
Rusby, lawyer, and Charles II. Prince
ton, collegian, rivals in love, fought
duel with Derringers Tuesday morning
through Prinoeton's coat.
Governor Knott of Kentucky, ha
designated October IL b a. tue day 70
the execution OF Ellis Graft, convicte,
OF the murder OF the q bbo'.i children, a
Ashland. William Neal, accused of com
plicity in the crime, awaits trial
AT Woodbury., New J-rsey, yesterday
the jury III the case OF GeOrg. Mullen
| charged with cruelty treating a bount
boy, were unable to agree and were dis
charged by the Court. 1t is said the,
stood nine tor aeluit al aud three 70
| conviction.
| President arthur has Issued procls
nation declaring that "the World
Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposi
tion will be opened on the first MOnda,
in December, 1854, at the city of Ne,
Orleans, continuing until the 3Ist G
May, 1885," ....".
On Saturday night a party OF men &c
fire to the stable, cottHH bouse and cor
crib OF "Stsve" SO.ssr, oolUfed, nea
ArlinS ion, ueorsia. Tle buildirgs ~.
contents We're destroyed. SJsssr wa
shot two months sso after having hse
warned to leave the vicinity, for havin
been too infinite wi b a white woman
| Herman R~if Ii, . pi nj 1ent citizg
OF Monroe Michigan, was found dead o
SUNDAY IN his cemetery lot, having con
mitted suicide. He left letter to til
| Prosecuting attorney saving ha wa
'goine to die Oh the only piece Ut pF1r
erty he owned in the word, ana snolo,
ing S3S for funeral expenses. lie La
served in the State Senate.
J. L. Dunn, 3 wealthy oolored man
residing in Windsor, Canada, has apulia
10 the supreme Court of the Province ,
ontario TOR a mandamus to compel Oh
authorities of Windsor to admit hi
daughter to the Central School. She ha
been excluded from the school by Ia
principal, because the white pupils re
belled at her presence there.
A Nashville paper says that Major q
W. Candle, paymaster in the army.
the possessor of the first IS grsenbaal
ever issued, being No ! Of seri4s A
is dated March lth loG3 aud Eea6s Ii.
initials of William II Seward in the cor
ner. The bill was found by him amor
the money sent III to pay tin. Cus.ar'
command, in 1876
There was received al III. Trrasur,
Department Monday morinre
monsv cams IN nm .''n W go, H
Paris IlIinois 49,, ''''f' i",7'h'',F. 3
had rscaivad ,h' " 80 ,"o Tsnter rN'i n
and witbh.la !, s.., '"r'iH .l'e wa
| bnt that H.. ,i', "on' ''' t"'el hiirh'
| Lord an, a,.a "oT m"'.',u !" ave th'
A ,nao;., 80 ~
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