Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1883-12-27
PERSONAL.

Edwin Chase Ingeraoll, we'll known
member OF the bar of the District of
Columbis, died Tuesday at st. Elijah 9Th
asylum for the insane, aged about 40
| years.
Dennis j. Casey, many OF whose friends
aud relatives had given him up az lost,
turned up lsst Friday for the holidays.
He Is engineering on the Michigan Central
railroad.
W. N. Wilson, notary public, and in
srusDee agent, at Middletowp, has ac-
cepte1 the ons-half interest in the firm
Of Scott X CO of the Fruit Belt Land
| Agency.
Superintendent Robert Stewart has
been appointed acting general manager
OF the Baltimore & OHIO Telegraph COM
pauy in plaae OF George P. Frick, re-.
| signed. Superintendent William IL.
Trego has been appointed acting general
manager of Baltimore 4 Ohio express
| department.
Ralph P. Lowe, ex-governor of Iowa,
died in Washington on Saturday night,
| aged as ysars. He was native OF Ohio,
but settled ia Iowa while a young man.
He served his adopted state a. district
judge, Justice of the supreme court, of
which he became chief justice, and gov.
ernor. He removed to Washington in
1875.
Mrs. Mary Eirwin died at Newineton.
| Conn.,, on Monday, aged los years. Shs
was born in the County Fermanaph,
Ireland, in l77S, aud did rot come 10
America umtt! she was So year, old. She
has had exceptional good health, never
having been sick an entire week in her
life. Death resulted from old age. Her
eldest sou is IS.
Governor Murray arrived at Salt Lake
City, Utah, Tuesday morning, aud was
received by delegation Of leading citi.
zens. The governor assured his friends
of the cooperation of the President with
the people in bringing Utah into accord
| with the laws OF the Government. He
stated that measures would be adoeted
by tbs present Congress to bring about
this result. The whole country, he said,
intended that polyeamy and theocracy
should be wiped. -.
Christian Cooper of Livingston, Column
bia county, N. ", il in his 10th year,
the records of the Reformed Church al
Germantown, N. Y. neighboring town,
containing the entry of his baptism in
IVA. He il still erect in form, active
and vigorous, snd seems likely to live
yet for many years. He resides in the
house formerly occupied by Robert Full
ton, where he has always lived, except
when he served the United States gov.
ornment for brief period in the war OF
| 1872.
| After 0'Donnell hsd been sentenced
his wife had an opportunity OF seeing her
doomed husband, and then embarked ON
the steamship for this country. On the
voyage Mrs. 0'Donnell had dream that
her husband had been respited, and that
she would again bs enabled to see him
alive. She was 30 much overjoysd by
her dream that she told all her friends,
and expressed feeling OF great happi-
nese, which was, however, rudely dis
PEELED on the vessel reaching port Mon
day, when she learned from the papers
that he had been hanged.
The annual dinner of the New England
Society in New York took place on Satur-
day evening in Delmonico's, 256 gentle
men sitting down at the tables. NJ. W.
Cooper presided, and addresses were
made by General Grant, William Nj.
Evarts, George William Curtis, General
Horace Porter, the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, Mayor Low, Mayor Edson and
Chauncey nj. Depew (the latter "pro.
nouncing the benediction"). Some time
after midnight General Stewart L. Wood
ford was formally installed as president
of the society for the coming year, and
the company then dispersed.