Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-07-05

TeruVlsh toWnb are prOnounolhs ioi
lglesias AZ president.
The War Department ia informed that
Major Nickerson sailed for Kur0pe on the
18th inst.
The Pullman Palace Car Company ex-
poets to erect branch manu,aciory At
San Francisco.
Two of the six firms In the shoemskers'
lockout at Cincinnati have taken back
their workmen at the old wages.
General Crook denies that the captured
Chirioabuas nave been forced on the San
Carlos reservation, as stated by Agent
Wilcox.
Valentiui's reoumbent fgnre of General
Robert Il. Lee, in the cemetery at Licking
ton, Va, was unveiled Thursday iii the
presence of 10000 people.
Fifteen hundred tons Of No. l Powell
iron were sold Thursday in Baltimore at
an advance Of 81 per ton on the quotation
for the same iron 10 days ago.
According to the report of the commits
sioner Of railroad taxation in New Jersey
the railroad property in that State is
valued at about $500, 100000.
A woman named Pope died Thursday
in Milan, Tennessee, from the sting of a
bee. The insect stuug her on the nose,
and she expired in few moments.
Secretary Chandler has decided to
permit Commander Frederick Smith.
oourt-martisled for duplicating his pay
accounts, to resign from the service.
A telegram from New Brunswick, New
Jersey, reports that the deficiency in the
accounts of l.. ID. Jarrard, the missing
ex Collector OF Middlesex county, amounts
to $780, 900.
General Crook is expected in Washing
ton to consult with the Secretaries OF
War and Interior in regard to the dispo-
sition of the captured Apaohes about the
Fourth of July.
The suit of James Gordon Bennett
against the city of New York to recover
100000, with interest, due on account of
advertising, resulted last week in YER
dict for plaintiff for $l9,213.
The trustees of Pennsylvania College at
Gettysburg last week elected DR.. Ii. l..
Baugher, lately OF Howard University at
Washington, to the professorship vacated
by the resignation Of Ii. II. Jacobs.
The Minnesota Republican Convention
last week renominated Governor Hub
bard, by acolamation. Resolutions were
adopted approving the River and Harbor
bill and the Arrears Of Pensions act.
The Surgeon General Of the Marine
Hospital Service is advised that on the
25th instant, the American barquo Helen
Sands left Havana for New York, several
of her crew being sick OF yellow fever.
The President has approved the fluid
ings and senteno, Of the court-martial in
the case of Paymaster Wasson. The
sentence is that he be dismissed from the
army and be imprisoned at hard labor for
Is months.
A statue of Washington, the gift of the
children of the bublic schools, has been
lying hidden away for years in the Arse
nal at Central Park, New York. 1t is
now proposed to erect it on one OF the
boulevards.
A dock, with 500, 900 feet of lumber, at
Muskegon, Michigan, tumbled into the
lake Thursday, preeipitating 20 men into
the water. Four OF the men are missing.
A boy was crushed to death by one oil
the falling lumber piles.
The one hundred and thirteenth
annns! commencement OF DsrtinuuLh
College, New Hansbire, took place
Thursday. The degrees OF Master of Arts
was conferred on 81 grad uates, aud
Bachelor OF Science upon s.
The retirement of Commander Thomas
Eastman has been recommended by the
| Naval Retiring Board. Whom the reUOm
incubation is approved by the President,
| Commander Byron Wilson will be ordered
before the examing board for promotion.
! L apeuisi dispatch from Greeuvilie
Texas, to the New Orleans Times Democrat
says that two colored men who committed
All assault npon Young lady, neal
Jefferson, we're last week taken from jail
one being hanged and the other bnrped
to death.
| The Secretary of the Treasury has in.
formed Collector Robertson that l,a must
send bsok on board ship the Immigrant;
detained at Castle Garden who may
prove to be paupers. Two of the ismilie.
have been taken away by their friends
who promise to care for them.
| Governor Butler is preparing veto o
the bill for State tax OF $1,000, 900. Ii
is said he will claim that the State II
| $500, 600 better off thsn 1t was last year
that the tax should consequently be but
| 81, 500, ,000, and that the State can borrow
II necessary, at much lower rate thar
cities and towns.
A tire occurred last week afternoon in
a heading in breast at the Mouitor Col
liery, siiuxted shout two miles from
Mount Carmel, Pa. Several msn were
overcome by gas and were carried out o
the mine. The origin and extent OF tn,
fire are at present unknown. The colliery
employs over 300 men and boys.
Alfred +. Baldwin WAS arrested In New
York Thursday on suspicion Of having
been engaged in. n.oounterfeiting 10 and q
cent pieces. A city marshal who had
placed his household effects on the side
walk, by virtue of dispossess warrant
discovered peculiar looking moulds among
them and notified the authorities.
The notorious "Capt." David L. Payn,
has applied to the United States Circui
Court at Topeka for an injunction to re
strain the Secretary of War and Genera
Pope from interfering with his invasion
and occupancy Of the Oklahoma distric
of the Indian Territory. Secretary Lin
roln has referred the matter to the Attor
ney General Of the United States.
A six-year-old daughter OF Lswrenc,
johnson, Of Hunterville township, Nortl
Carolina, was found dead in her father
barn last week hanging by halter. Sh
was alone playing in the barn with
halter, ous end OF which was fastened Il
door hinge, and it is supposed her foo
slipped and she fell, the moose olosinl
under her chin and breaking her neck.
An experimental trip was made las
week between Washington and Baltimore
distance OF 40 miles, by the new engin
No. 1G7, of the Philadelphia & Readip
Railroad Company, which carried If th
prize at the recent Chicago railroad expo
sition. The engine was attached to on
Of the regular passenger trains aud de
spite three stops the distance was covore
in fraction loss than As minutes.
Tho Trustees of the Soldiers Home o
Bath, New York, Thursday Investigates
the charges of cruelty To the inmates
! published on Wednesday. The prnoips
; signtr Of the sflidsylts admitted tina
: saiJle Of his statements were untrue an
, o,h+rs made on hearsay. The trustee
will begin y full investigation ON the lot
prOxinio, III connection with committe
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The Central Union Telephone Con
pany, operating under the American Be
: Telephone Company of Boston, Thursda
= purchased the property Of the Midland
? Western and Central Telephone Comp,
= nies, embracing the States OF Ohio, Ii
diana and illinois,, and the princip,