Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-07-17
IN GENERAL.


Hugh Murray Of Hamilton, Ontario,
was Thursday elected grand master Of
the Freemasons Of Canada.
The contract for supplying post Gffoe
lock boxes throughout, the United States
has been awarded to Yale x Towns.
II is announced that the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company has purchased
the Cleveland 4 Toledo railroad, which
will assure II uninterrupted western con.
neotioDs.
The total c'iDaRe OF the United States
mipts durips tbs fiscal year sticb ended
June 3Oti, inc nded 92,56S 66l pie es. Of
whin' 2S,O99 800 w'te standard dollars,
aud 55 1856 O29 minor coius The total
value was $t7, $50 92l 50
The assignee OF the Penn Bank OF Pitts.
burg last week b gan m as aiust Presi
dert Riddle, Cashier R-ib-r. aud oil
brokers', MoMuilip, WAis"u d X mr. edy,
9aarsing that they hal ovaTdiAwa the
fluids OF the bauk 81 t75, 900, after CON
biniDg to control ard mau pula'a the oil
market Bail was fixed at 500, 600 each
foI Riddle aud Rsiber, aud as 900 each
Tor the others
WYNN HtIhultu vi lnt DtlhWhFR,
LackawAna X Western railroad, near
Bjonton, Nav Jersey, were filing in some
places sioug the track from a gravel train
on Saturday I'll ,rniug, a chain broke. up.
setting car load Of dirt oil them. John
+. Kelley was fatally and four others
severely injured. A coal train was pass
ipg at the time, and the men were work
ing in the space between the two trains.
A suit against Mclean, p. II. manu-
fAoturer OF oleoine, was marsar decided
last week In Bro II was oklyn. claimed
for the defence that the material sold and
made by defendant was properly labelled,
aud that, as no deception had been prao.
tlced in the sale Of oleomargarine, the
oompl int could not be sustained. The
court, however, decided TO impose on the
defendant fine Of 800 or six mon hs'
imprisonment. An appeal will be taken.
A special dispatch from Dallas, Texas,
says duel with pistols was fought on
Saturday night bstween W. IL Bsale and
man named Bowie, in 3 room on the
third floor OF the National Hotel. The
shots were heard and the door was forced.
Both men were found lying on the floor
dead. The pistol Of each was by his side.
"Both were shot through the heart and
head" The men had been fast friends,
and the oause OF the quarrel Is not known.
A di patch from St. John, New rars
wick, says the steamer Empress went TO
LIE Preaux Sunday morning and took
on board the Passengers of the wrecked
steamer State Of Maine also the pas
sengers' luggage and the vessels furni-
ture, and returned to 81. John. It mp.
pears the State OF Maine was going at
full speed through dense fog when she
struck rock. II ia thought she will
prove total loss, but her machinery will
probably be saved.
1t is reported from Wooster, Ohio, that
the announcement that Swedes and Hun-
gerians are to be imported into the Hook
Ing valley &c take the place OF the
locked-out miners, has caused intense in
tense indignation, "and serious oonse-
quenoes are threatened f." Detectives
employed by the oompAuies "Tepurt the
advent Of bodies Of strange men into the
district, and II is feared that an attempt
TO I'LL the mines with foreign laborers
will be the signal for a riotous demon
strstion on the part of the miuers.
A'teleRram from Richmond, Mo says
that Joseph Smith, son OF the founder
OF the Mormon Church; Alexander Smith.
7. W. Smith and W, H. Kslly, com
mittee appointed by the Mormon co l.
lei ence at Salt Lake, are now in that
place comparing the Book Of Mormon, as
at present published, with the original
manuscript in possession Of David Whit
mer OF Richmond. Whitmer claims to be
one Of three person who saw an angel
give Craven plates to Joseph Smith, and
this manuscript is a copy OF the plates
made by the prophet himself, and is the
only one in existence.
The National Colored Press Assoola.
ton last week concluded its annual sea.
sion In Richmond, Virginia. Before ad.
journing an address to the country was
adopted, oonRratulating the oolored
people on their progress ard advance.
ment, and pledging the efforts Of the
members of the association IS journalists,
to support and sustain all institutions Of
learning and industry. The oolored
people OF America are appealed to to use
every hon Fable means 10 maintain and
improve the present public educational
system. The address also urges the
colored youth Of the country to ELI
gage In industrial pursuits; calls
attention to the great Importance Of ac
oumu'atipg wealth in real estate az an
essential step towards the amelioratlou
of their condition, and encourages the
purchase and settling Of homes on the
public domain. demand is also made
upon the national aud piate governments
Tor protection In the exercise of the
rights and privileges If the colored
people as American citizens. The pext
meeting OF the association will he hold
IA Philadelphia on the second Wednes.
day in July, 1885.