Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-11-15

ordered. The entire transaction ocou-
pied 40 minutes.
The historical wgr vessel Niagara, to
which Commodore Perry rowed after the
flag ship Lawrence had been disabled by
British shot at tho battle OF Lake Erie, is
to be raised and presented to Cleveland
on condition that the city pays the
expenses OF removal. This relic OF the
war of 1912 has bsen sunk mile from
Erie for so years, and her timbers are
now as solid as when they were trodden
by the intrepid Perry.
Truman j. Smith, well-to-do farmer
of Watertown, Conn, ohoked and beat
his wife Wednesday week breaking onA OF
her legs during the melee. Mrs. Smith
says hs was angry because all their chill
dren are girls. Their third child was
born two weeks ago and Smith has bsen
especially sulky ever since. Smith says
his wife began the trouble by hitting him
with a broom and trying to pour a kettle
of hot water on him. The neighbors
side with Mrs. Smith and threaten TO take
Smiths punishment into their own hands.
| Miss Mary Tanner, damented woman,
was found in the woods near Rockton,
Ontario, last Friday She was nearly
dead from exposure. Being unable TO
| stand erect, abe was conveyed to the
house OF a Mr.. Charless, where she died
| during the afternoon. The woman,
who was about 80 years of age, clsi1Ied
| to be sister of DR.. Tanner, the American
| faster. She lived around the county in a
gypsyish sort of way, wandering from
house 20 house and sometimes spending
1ou ND p..a .bs in ha ny In F1ih
| deserted outbuildings.
The Washington monument reached q
| hight of 396 feet Friday. The super
intsndent says the work will be pushed
right along. When asked if many acci.
dents had not happened during the
building of the great shaft, he replied
Accidents : Why there have never
been any accidents. This may appear
strange, but it is true. The only thing
that approached an accident was the cat
that accidentally fell from the top and
through the safety netting, but in the
many years that have elapsed since the
| work begun not human being has been
hurt"
In New Bedford, Mass, daughter.in-
Law attempted to pass off on her mother
in-law a borrowed infant as her own, in
order to get $4,000 deposited in the
bank to the credit of the child. She
failed to accomplish her purpose, and
tried to get the baby taken back by the
authorities of the Boston Lyiug-iu Hos
pital, from which it was procured. They
refused to receive the child, and, as the
daug ghter-in law has no further uss Tor it,
she applied to the overseer of the poor,
and the baby will be sent to the Masss-
ohusetts Infant Asylum.
Baltimore dispatch confirms report
that Moses, the husband of the fat
woman, who died suddenly two weeks
ago, has sold her body to a physician,
The dispatch says that Moses called sew
eral times on the day of his wite's death
Offering the body Tor sale, and it was
finally bought by Dir. Hill, on the I'M
portunity of Moses, who gave as an
excuse for his mercsnary proposal that
he WAS in great poverty aud needed
money. The body will not be- exhutned
| until December. The price said to have
been paid to Moses is s25.
| Jim Troxtell, who assaulted Mrs SoOby
| CoDmer, young married woman OF Clio,
Ky, on the lst inst, was captured by
| Mrs. Coomer's relatives on Friday. They
| took him to bridge over tbs CumbeT
| land river and allowed him to choose
| whether he would teke Ia chances lur
| life at 80 yards distance and let them fire
| on him, or be hanged. He chose The
latter. A rope WAS fastened about his
| neck, and was drawn upward, the rope
being attached to the ties Of the bridge.
| His neck was not broken, dsath being
produced by strangulstlon.
Pension Commissioner Dudley says
that the estimate made by him Of
| $40, 900, 600, IS being requisite 10 pay
pensions in 1885, is but ona item OF the
whole estimated appropriation necessary
| There is now available, for the prerent
fiscal year, $l24,000, 900 and the Com
missioner calouistes ta..t If this lneH-
pected balance be made available, the
additional appropriation required from
Congress- will bs $4,000, 900. His cal
culati0ns are based upon The settlements
of two years, and give an average Of tAis
and the year TO come at sS2,OOO,000 per
| year.
Three notorious oounterieiters, William
| 4. Brockway, Nathanial d Foster aud
| Lewis Martin we're captured and oked
up by New York detectives yesterday IL
their apartments were found all tue par
aphernalia sId apparatus for counterfeit
| ing per cent first mortgage Central
Pacific bonds and tbs Z per cent con
atructions bonds of the Morris & Essex
railroad. roll OF printed, bat ua-
signed bonds was found, which were ex
cellently executed. 1t is the halief o. the
authorities that none OF these counterfeit
bonds have yet been disposed Of
On election day in Long Island City,
N. Y, the Rev. MIR. G bbs, the Baptist
pastor, stood all day at tbs polls ald dis
tributed tickets for PstFy, the aueeeis'u!
candidate for mayor. A large number uf
his congregation who favored the election
of Gleason, have taken umbrage at this
action, and threaten to prefer charges
against their pastor at the next msstilg (
of the synod. He claims ouiy TO have
taken citizens part in political coz
test. Gleason's friehds are very bitter
over his defeat, and charge that Police
Justice kavsnauGh opposed him because
he was Investigating the accounts Of the
various city departments. ...
Alfred, Count OF Ssim, eldest spa Of
Frederick, Prince Of ssim and one OF the
wealthRest of German mobiles, was recently
discovered among gang of naVvie5 in
the employ of the Illinois Central Rail
road Company. Count Salm, Will e
student at Bonn, fell in love with tht
daughter Of wealthy bat untitled citi.
zen. His father opposed the match aud
the Count left Germany forthwith and
nothing more was heard from him unit
he was recognized by fellow country
man among the railroad laburers. TIA,
Count has since started for home, all
differences between him aud his father
having been ''amicsbiy adjusted" ="
Danbury, Conn, ia excited over Gas,
of mRlpfaotioe in which the victim Is tn,
daughter OF the Rev. S. Y. Lum, pastO
of the First congregational Church Q
New Fairfield, Conn. DR.. W. F. Lacey
Jr., who attended the young woman q
the time of her desth has been place
7 uldsr arr.st The Rev. $ Y Luin pub
! fishes card in the Danbury Ns0s, ii
which he states that he was unaware 0
g his daughters condition, hut that sh
had told her mother SONS three Rsrk
: ago that she was assaulted last May
/ while living ill at friends Eoaas i
Il New Jersey, by a young nau, who
d name she refused TO reveal for fear tua
8 the divulgins thereof would result in TIA
y death of either her sssaiaut or he
b father. --.r.- -..- 49,. o..
n Edward Marks, alias Henry W. Wal
field, coored, was convicted at Towsol
h Md. yesterday week, of fobbing the burl'
IS srounds at Bay View of dead bodies. TIL
h evidence showed quite coucIusiveiy ths