Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-11-08
described as large in build and we'll

to have been dense forest of trses and
thick growth of plants. The formation of
the trees is perfect They resemble asb .,
cedar and poplar, and 1t has probably
been thousands Of years since they saw
the light of day. Hundreds of people
visited the spot, and many specimens of
the trees and grass were carried away as
curiosities. One piece of wood aud a
dump Of grass were sent to the White
House.
1t ia authentically stated at Jackson
Vile, Fla that Hamilton Disston of
Philadelphia has sold all that remains of
his 1000, 900 acres of Florida land to an
English syndicate at 81 rs per acre. Mr..
Disston sold 100000 acres last year to
Sir Edward Reeds syndicate of London.
Disston's agents have sold, or reserved
for the company, about 10000 aores,
and the EnRlish syndicate has ppid a
good price for the remaining l 100000
acres. Disston will realize huge profit
on his investment, besides retaining
about half million acres Of the reserved
land.
Coroner Cattell Thursday held an
inquest at Woodbury., N. j., upon the
body OF Mrs, Rudolph Hines, who was
killed on Sunday last by her hueb band
kicking her during dispute over game
of croquet. The prisoner testified that
he had kicked his wife accidentally while
trying to kick her oroqust ball out Of
place. The two other players were un-
certain whether the kick was accidental
or malicious. Hines was committed to
ha ut fhA oranA mr. HI,
is almost frantic with grief at the fatal
result. His friends claim that he loved
his wife too we'll to be guilty of the crime
imputed to him.
The supreme court of South Carolina,
on Saturday, decided an interesting suit
in favor OF the city of Charleston. Iu
July, 1877, lawyer, named Young, was
riding on horseback through an avenue
in the suburbs of that city, when the
horse put his foot into hole in the road
way and threw his rider, who, however,
was not severely injured. The lawyer
sued the city for damages and was
awarded 1890. The city appealed,
claiming that municipal corporation
WAS not liable in an action for damages
in tort, unless specially authorized by
the complaint was dismissed.
The st. Louis grand jury Friday
made a report exooriating Governor Crit
tenden for his Wholesale pardoning of
gamblers. The grand jury also made
presentmepts against two police commits
sioners and several other prominent per
sons, and against Henry W. Moore, man
aging editor, and Florence ID. White, re-
porter of the Post DisDQtch, under the
statute concerning the abstraction of
court records. 1t Was White that stole
the stenogrspher's notes OF the testimony
taken before the Rraud jury, which, when
published in the Post Disp Itch. revealed
the existence of gambling ring.
In his annual report the commissioner of
the general land otic. OF the United States
says presumption filings are used largely
for speculative purposes, and recommends
the repeal of the pre- emption law. He
Also recommends the repeal Of the timber
culture law and the desert land act for
the same reason. He says that much of
the valuable timber land belonging to
the Government on the Pacific coast ia
being taken up by home and foreign cap
italists through the medium of entries
made by persons hired for that purpose.
In consequence he has Suspended sill
entries of this class and directed an in
vestigstion.
The great IorpOise net or trap OF the
Atlantic Oil and Fertiliziug Company of
Cape May was successfully tried last
week, and the result WAS the taking of a
large number of porp1ises. These fish
have heretofore batisd all attempts to
capture them by Wholesale. The seine
used is 3,OOe feet long, "a feet deep from
the cork line to the lead line, and Is laid
out in two wings or ssrtions, with two
boats In attendance. In the centre is a
wide opening so feet by "a, leading into
great bag 100 feet long, into which the
DO poises went IN their efforts to escape.
The bag is 40 constructed that when once
inside the iish cannot get out.
Corkhill says that for years the num-
Der OF pension agents has steadily in
crcased until it ia estimated there were
in round fgureS in the city of Washing
ton six months ago 900 OF them Many
of them have no Offices, merely lock- box
in the post office, and transact all theiI
business at their rooms and through the
mails. Others have offices, but no out
side signs. Some who send out Haunting
circulars are not even known at the pen
sion office by the names they use on theil
stationary. During the last IS month.
more than 800 have been suspended from
practieing before the commissioner and
| fully one-half as many disbsrred. Tn,
| business methods cf 800 more are nov
being investigated.
Thomas Hosg, the New York jeweler
who mysteriously dsappeaaed ON SEP
| tember 4th, and almost as mysteriunsl!
returned to his shop Thursday, says tina
on the night OF his disappearance Ia
| drank three glasses of ale with strange
and hthree weeks later woke up in Lon
don.'' He found himself in privat
boarding house, at Is Highgate street
| where ne WAS told that he had been siul
and ad been brought there thr.e day
before by a young man who claimed tc b
his nephew. The money in his pocket
had not been disturbed, but his watG
was gone. 81 took walk out5ide,n sal
Mr. Hoag, "and found that WAS reall
in London. had been there before, an
l knew, you know"
Patrick O'Dhnnell, who shot Carey
the intormer, and who is now awsitin
trial in London, is we'll known TO man
Irishmen in Philadelphia, having live
there for several years. His friends al
preparing affiisvits to be- sent to Londo
for the purpose of showing that IL
prisoner crossed the Atlantic on business
aud that the killing was not premrd
tated, as has been charged. O'Donnell
wife is now living in that city. Some
o. Donnell's friends wish to bring hi
forward in her husbands behalf, bl
others advise against such proceedir
for reasons which they will not mai
public. The couple came to Philadelph
: eight years ago from Ireland, and it
! said lived unhsppiiy together. In MI
: last O'Donnell returned to Ireland.
: Mrs. Henry Turnbull, wife of Il
member of the Union Club of New Yor
who did rot fight duel with his fellO
memb ber, Mr.. Loubat, in May, 1883. h
: taken up her residence at Newport, R.
T and will remain there year in order,
ia currently reported, to obtain q divoI
uuder favorable Rhode Island laws.
ia also reported that she has conveyed
, large amount of property to her husban
t enough certainly place Mr. Turnbull IL
J., comfortable position. Their infelici
8 had its origin in the Union Club row.
n would reem that In his chivalrie defer
n OF the lady alleged to have been u
T. duced by Loubst, Mr.. Turnbull {
/. hibited feeling enough to arouse I
3. green-eyed monster in the mind of
# wife, who has since refused to live vi
le him.
The assistant general manager of