Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-10-11
IN GENERAL.

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The chief of post office inspactlrs after
investigation, declares the statement of
Mr.. Dezsndorf, that political assrasn nts
have een levied by Mshone's sg-n in
he Norfolk post office, untrue.
At eQuinoy, Illinois, Monday, an
0ssga Indian doctor, PANIED Joseph
Rogers, shot and killed his wife, white
woman, and then oommitted suicide.
Jealousy was the csuse OF the act.
While William Street, a policeman of
Huntsville, Alabama, WAS Muuday try
Ing to arrest two calored meu he WAS
seized by one OF them while the other
split his head open with an axe, killing
him instantly.
Thompson & Brother, New York, are
about building a steamship expressly to
beat the Alaska's tune scross the Atlai,-
tic. The new steamer will he named the
America. She is to be $50 feet long, 81
feet beam and 3Si feet deep.
Mrs. j. j. Prior, the actress, for two
seasons member Of Maggie Mitehell's
company, died suddenly at Boston Tuet-
day, from internal hemorrbags caused
by the Judgment Of small chicken hone
in her throat at lunch in Cincinnati
last Thursday.
The Free Will Baptist conference, in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tuesday
adopted resolutions declaring that the
use of tobacco and opium in any form
should be- prohibited and recommend that
any minister who INDUCES i'll it be re-
fused ordination.
The custom house officers in Nav York
Mond ay seized package containing
l32 iamonds, 200 saphirss and So rubes,
sent through the mails from France to a
jewesry firm in New York. The firm de-
MES that there WAS any intention to
evade payment of duty.
Two tramps entered the residence Of
Franklin Monroe, at Hunlook's Creek,
Wilsesbarre, Pa, Tuesday. They we're
ordered to leave, and when on the on side
threw stones at the house. Monroe
picksd up a shotgun and fired, killing
one OF the trapms named Samuel McNeal.
a special dispatch states that Tailor
Raillard WAS seized In the jail at New
Orleans Tuesday by prisoners, bueked
and gagged, and had his pistols taken
from him. He was then locked in cell,
and the six prisoners walked out.
Citizens pursued and captured four Of
the prisoners.
A sloop with IL Chinese, who we're
being struggled across the frontier from
British Columbia, has been captured by
custom officials. The Chinese had paid
$l5 per head for their passage across the
river. Two Victoria 'longshoremen said
they had cleared $500 last month by
ferrying Cinnamon across.
At meeting of bank presidents In
Boston, Mass, Monday, resolutions
were adopted declaring it the opni III of
the Bank Presidents Association of Bos-
ton that a speedy enactment by Congress-
of g. national bankrupt law, equitable in
its provisions for the debtor and creditor,
in all sections OF the country, is indis-
pensable to the maintenance of confidence
between banks aud their constituents.
Appeals in addition to that filed Ivy A.
G.. Bell have been filed In the Patent
Offics by other parties in interest az ainst
the decision of the examiner Of int"rfer-
enc&s in the telephone csse. That deci.
sio,a awarded to Bell priority of invention
of the art OF increasing and decreasing
the strength of electric currents so as to
produce electric waves" and against
the decision on that patent Edison and
Walker have appealed.
Theresa W. B, King colored girl, was
refused admission to public school, No. 5,
of Brooklyn, aud directed to attend
colered school, No. l. She applied for
writ of mandamus to compel Principal
Gallagher to admit her to No. s. Chief
Justice Nelson OF the city court of
Brooklyn, refused the writ. The general
term of the city court affirmed that
decision. Tuesday the Court of Appeals
affirmed the lower courts.
a decision was rendered by the Com
missioner Of Patents Monday In the in
reference case of Sawyer g. Mann against
Thomas A. Edison, which involves the
question of priority in the invention of
an "inoandescent conductor for an cleo
trio lamp, formed of carboplzsd paper"
The commissioner awards the pat, Mt to
Sawyer & Mann, and in 60 doing reverses
the decision of the Board OF Examiners
In Chief made July 18th, 1883, in which
priority was awarded to Edison.
Monday afternoon the locomotive OF
a gravel train on the Boston Il Lowell
railroad, near Lowell, Massachusetts, was
run into by a freight train. The engi-
neer aud fireman Jumped from the engine
without shutting off the steam, and the
engine ran alone to Lowell, where the
track ends, and buried itself in the cellar
under the express office at the station,
causing much damage. Miss Mary
Nutter, who was in the express offics, was
struck by the engine and died soon after.
A working model, IL feet high, of Bar.
tloldi's statue of liberty, was Tuesday
exhibited in the Bryant Building, New
York. Among those present were Gen.
Grant, William NJ. Evsrts, Joseph Drexel,
Park Goodwin and others. Several
speeches were made. G. II. link paid to
the treasurer OF the State fluid check
for So, 600, and reported that the Sun
shine Company, OF which he ia manager,
authorized him to guarantee the further
sum of $50, 900, to be paid by March lat,
1884.
The Secretary OF State, on behalf of the
President, Monday notified the Commits
sioner of Agriculture that inasmuch as
certain foreign governments have charged
that the hog products of the United
States are affected with disease, and not
proper for export purposes, the President
has decided to appoint a commission to
thoroughly investigate the curing of pork
in this country, and has named as mem
beirs OF such commission Hon. George B.
Lbring, Professor C. r. Chandler, Z W.
Blatohford, +. D. Curtis and Professor
d. Salmon.
Surgeon Main of the Marine Hospital
Service, reports tn at yellow fever is still
raging in Mexico, and that it is said to
DO travelling northward up the Cali
fornia gulf. The last advices received
by him from Mapzathan were dated
September 10th. At that time there
we're 2, 900 people sick, some of whom
were dying of ysllow fever and others
from want of attention or on account of a
prevailing famine. At Mauz.nill' the
report says: "Cart loads Of dead DO lies
hive been buried in one common re-
ceptacle."
Miss Eliza Hencksman, a young col
ored woman of Flushing, l.. L., was mar
ried on Monday evening to Joseph Miller
a thrifty white German farmer of that
vicinity. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. G, C, Lssby, the pastor oil
the Flushing Methodist Church, at the
house of friend, where he was stopping
temporarily. Some OF Mr. Lasby's par
ishioners found fault with him for his
part in the affair He said the bride
groom was much sunburnt and almost ss
dark as the bride, so that he mistook hin
for colored man. The bride is only Il
year old Her family live in their house
| aud have long been rer psGtt,i residents o