Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-10-11
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Lieutenant Colonel Ebsnezer Swift of
the Medical Department of the Army,
will be placed on the retired list on the
8th instant, when he will have reached
his Gath year.
Henry FarDam, who gave the Fsrnam
Dormitory to Yale College, and was noted
for his libarality in other dire ctions, died
Thursday in New Haven, at the age OF so
years.
Rear Admiral Pierce Crosby, command
ing the Asistic squadron, has asked TO be
relieved from his present duty and
placed On the retired list, uuder the pro-
vision relating to 40 years' service.
Bishop O'Hara of Scranton, Pa, sailed
for Rome on Monday to attend the confer
euce of American archblshops. He shares
with Bishop Shanahan of Harrisburg,
and Bishop Becker, the honor of being
tho prospective successor OF the late
Archbishop Wood.
Edward Payson Weston, the father of
long distance peiestrianism, is about to
undertake remarkable feat in connec-
tiou with the work of the Church of
England Temperance Society, with which
he is prominently connected. He pro-
poses to travel over the highways OF
England aud Wales on. foot and in ordi-
nary costume, fifty miles daily for 100
consecutive days, Sundays excepted. He
will travel only during the day time, and
will lecture each evening on "Tea versus
Beer" He will be accompanied by two
friends aud representative of tho press
in carriage.
Monsignore Capel, in the course of some
conversation Friday with 8 New York
reporter, said. 81 think before | leave
America | must treat the press to a
lecture on Journals aud Journalists
must give them my ideas of newspaper
mans pruviucr. | shall 60 to Fall RivHT
| or Saturday, ara re urn about ths 10TH
| instant, steu ] AN TO bs made The sub
| i-ot OF sn ovation or reception by the
| students Of ST. Francis Xayiei's College.
| | shall then deliver course of lectures
Oh he Dogmss of the Church and other
subjects in one or two OF the city
churches, after which my attention viii
ba directed to 8 course of public lectures
at Cnickering Hall on social questions y
Jay Gould is reported to have bought
Burns' Point on Long Island Sound somt
| / 2 miles tIotu NbW naNru, SoLbsp WIN
| view OF creating summer resort whlct
shall take the starch out of Newport, X
L., the blue-b -blooded cottage owners o
which latter place Outgeneraled Gould'i
efforts last summer to secure All eligihl,
site for q cottage there. He will erect |
large hotel and cottages and develop thu
natural advantages of Burns' Point il
readiness for next season, and many per
sons now owning cottages at Newport ar
quoted as planning TO remove to Could
resort. Among she purchasers of lot
already marketed, Samuel j. Titden j
named.
"Miss Hill" of San Francisco, VIII
claims to be- the wife of exSepato
Sharon, says their marriage was KEEP
seerect on account of Sharon's fear
might, if known, prejudice his chance
for reelection to the United States SENATE
Her reason for having the Senator al
rested was, she states, because she ba
learned that he was going East to MARI
young lady i'll New York, and she wa
determined to prevent it. She says sh
spoke to Sharon about the proposed mai
riage, saying 'Senstor, you know yo
have no right to marry that woman.
He raplied, "Bsby, it's all right wi
only be gone few weeks" But" col
tinued Miss Hill, 81 made up my min
that would maintain my rights and
intend to do 500