Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-07-10
IN GENERALS

New York yesterday week none fatal.
The annual session of the Morocco
Manufaosur National Exchange will
be held this week at Loug Branch.
The supreme ooprt Of Connecticut has
inst decided test care confirming the
title Of oyster growers Of Clinton, In that
stste, to submerged lands valued at
S500, 900.
= A number Of cases OF violent sickness
have been reported in Brooklyn and In
J Jamscia, L l., from eating vanilla
favored ice cream. Several Of the sick
narrowly escaped death.
Senator Logan made q personal
explanation in the United States Senate
on Saturday, vindicating himself from
the charge Of having been concerned in
land -jobbing transaction.
The corner stone OF the Home for Aged
Germans was laid Sunday in Baltimore.
There was a procession, including the
German Cavalry, Knights Of Pythiss,
Grand Army Of the Republic and the
Butohers' Association,
In the United States district court at
Key West, on Saturday, the schooner
Shevers was declared forfeited, and
Emilio Diaz, the 6libuster, was sentenced
to eight months' imprisonment and $500
fiue.
mhe United States Senate on Saturday
confirmed John A. Kasson to be minester
to Germany; John NJ. Francis, minister
to Austria; Alphonso TAFT, minister TO
Russia, and Lswis Richmond, minister to
Portugal.
The Rev. DR.. John A. Broadus Of LouiR-
Vile, while preaching in the Washington
Avenue Baptist Church, in Brooklyn,
Sunday morning,swas overcome tby the
heat and tainted.
In the Louisiana house Of representa-.
tives last week, q memorial was received
from J. Madison Wells, asking the i'm.
peachment Of District Judge Blackburn,
Of Rapides Parish, ,on charges of burglary,
bAllot-box stufiug and packing the grand
jury.
A telegram from Duluth says move
ment is on foot among the lumbermen Of
the northwest TO close all the mills on
September 18th for the remainder of the
year. The mill men say there is no profit
in the present prices, and ii Ia Necessary
10 40 bOuletnlhR vi tuab hihu.
A courier has arrived at Fort Davis,
Texas, and reported that Mexioans dis.
guised as Indians raided the Abbot &
Dukes rancho, SO miles south Of that
place, killing two herdsrs, and that the
men in charge o. the camp deserted leav-
ing everything in the hands OF the
robbers.
The Bsrks county (Penna } poor direc
tors on Saturday ipvestis ated the cs 81 OF
two brothers, Henry and Frank Herh. VII,
have been coufned in cells In the itsane
asylum at Reading for six years, sno
treated as dangerous iunatics. The drec
tors declared that they were pert city
sane, released them from their oells, and
allowed them the libsrty of toe grounds.
The National Association Of Potters, in
session at Sprii & Lake; New Jersey, ad
jdurnsd on Saturday. Charles 8. Cook
Of Trenton, New Jersey, was elected
President II. g. Knowles Of East Liver
pool, Ohio, K. W. Pierson of Wheeling,
West Virginia, and Alfred Day Of Stan
benville, Ohio, Vice Presidents J. II.
Goodman OF Esst Liverpool, Ohio, Secre.
tary, and John L. Moses of Trenton, New
Jersey, Treasurer.
The Rev. Henry Ward Bsecher, in his
practice OF cremation. He said that the
idea of the resurrection of the body would
present lasting objection to the Pagan
. custom OF burning the desd. There
might be sanitary reasons in crowded
populations, or reasons Of preference In
favor OF cremation, but all the beliefs Of
Euglish and German speaking people
were violated by the idea Of such dispo
siticn of bodies.
A dispatch from Fort Smith, Arkansas,
says the Choctaw troubles, which
originated in the refusal Of oertain prop
erty owners to pay the permit tax, have
become serious. Milo Hoyt, a prominent
Choctaw leader, has been outlawed and
driven into the Cherokee nation, where
he has gang Of sbout 30 men, mostly
desperate characters, who have rallied to
his support. Fifty Choctaw militiamen
have been called out, and the Cherokee
authorities have been asked to cooperate
with the militia in effaoting the arrests Of
Hoyt's gang. A fight is daily expected.
A man named Vanderburg left IOnia
county, Michigan, last fall, with 0ioar
DuOth1 W HO1A III q Ahhhbca bhhPs AOub
returned alone, sand could give NO
account Of Vanderburg." 1t was ascer-
tanned last week that Mrs. VRnderburg
and Scott were living together in Mon
tealm county, and suspicion -as aroused.
Search was made for her husbands body,
and while it was going on Scott COM
init ed suicide, The body, with marks Of
violence upon 1t, was soon afterwards
found in half filled well, aud Mrs. Van
dsrburg confessed that she knew OF the
| murder.
The cotton duck mills OF William L.
Hooper & Sons, at Woodbury., in Balti-
more county, Maryland, have shut down,
probably until September next. There
are fonr Of the Hooper mills in all, em-
ploying 1900 hands, and Mr.. William
| Z. Hooper Gays that one Of them may be
kept running to fill orders. He could
not say when the others would start up
again, but would consider 1t fortunate if
the trade should justify such step be
fore September. II pr0duo ion were to
stop all the over the country, he said,
there would still be cotton duck enough
In stock to Rupply the demand of six
months.
The receipts Of Goldfish at Gloucester,
Massachusetts, during She last siS
months have been much lighter than
during the corresponding period fol
several years past. owing TO light hauls
at the banks. Total goldfish, is. 1856, ,00C
pounds, against 23,01l, 800 pounds ioi
the same period in 1888; total halitut
3,912,0l5 pounds, against 3,431, ,21t
pounds for the first six months Of the
previous year; aggregate haddook, hske
pollock, ousk and mixed fish, 2,ls2, ooC
pounds, against 3,076, 900 pounds; tota
maoksrel, 1855 barrels, against IL, All
barrels total frozen herring, Ia $780, ,0Ot
fish, against 16, 939, 900 fish for the flrs
half Of 1888.