The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-05
News,


The ladies are wearing their dresses
now as tight as they can get them, espec-
tally from the knees to the waist.
During June the public debt has been
decreased 50, 100000, making SOL, 00O,-
600 for the fiscal year, against $137, $685.
253 for the first fiscal year.
The eleventh annual Interstate exhi-
bition Of the Patrons of Husbandry of
Pennsylvania. Maryland, West Virginia,
New Jersey and Delaware will begin at
Williams Grove, Cumberland county,
Pa, August %.
Fifteen or twenty Democratic Senators
intend co leave by II special train TO Chi
caso on Saturday morning. Should Con-
gress not adjourn on Friday night the
absentees being paired with the Republi-
cans will break the quorum, and make
the transaction Of any but 'unobjected'
business, of which there is very little left,
impossible.
A new steel gun, 32.pound calibre,
made entirely Of American steel, which
was completed few days ago at the
WATERFOWL Arsenal, has been taken to
Sandy Hook to be tested. If this gun
proves as successful as is expected the
excellence of homemade steel will be
proved beyond question. 1t is intended
to supply our batteries with these steel
breech-loaders on the interrupted screw
system.
An Athens, Ohio, special to The Balti-
more Day says: The general coal mi
ners' strike that has been inaugurated
throughout the Hooking valley threa tens
to be attended by more serious consc-
quences than any similar movement that
has transpired since the development of
the coal resources in that section of the
State. Five thousand or more miners,
whom the strike wholly throws out of
employment, have during the spring and
this much of the summer been working
on but partial time. and as very large
portion of them have families dependent
upon them, the Inauguration of the strike
finds an immense number destitute of
means for immediate support. 1t is evil
dent that considerable alarm exists on
the part Of those interests in the several
mining corporations of the valley. AL
ready in n large number of instances the
local representatives of these corporations
have applied for special police protection,
Further developments of the strike are
awaited with solicitude on the part of the
residents of the valley.
| Allan Pinkerton the famous detective
died ON July LIST, at Chicago. Allan Pin
kerton was born in Muirhead street,
Ruglen Loan, in the Gorbals of the city
of Glasgow, Scotland, August 25th. 1919.
His father, William Pinkerton, was en-
ployed as police sergeant by the mu-
nicipality, and died from injuries receiv-
ed at the hands of prisoner. Young
Pinkerton learned the trade of cooper.
Before attaining his majority he became
identified with the celebrated Chartist
movement in Great Britain, and was
obliged to leave the country in 1s43 He
married Miss Jane Carfral, and on the
following day the young couple set sail
for America, landing at Quebec, after a
perilous voyage, in which their vessel
was wrecked. On May 18th, 1869, Mr..
Pinkerton was stricken with paralysis,
| from which he never fully recovered.
Since then the management of the bust
ness was left to his two sons and other
superintendent. Mr. Pinkerton leaves
widow and three children, one daugh-
ter. The others are VIM. A., who has
has charge of the Chicago Office and the
Western division, and Robert A., who is
the General Superintendent with imme-
diate charge of the Eastern office.