Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-04-17
IN q GENEie5L.

| passed bill alowi1g widows and un
married women to vote in municipal
elections.
The Elisha Graves house, at Northemp
ton, Mass, was burned Thursday morn.
ing. II was built as block house more
than 200 years ago.
Bradford 0lley, veterinary surgeon
/ of Auburn, N. Y, took dose of aconite
on Saturday in mistake for ginger and
died within an hour.
A fire IN Hampton, Va. yesterday week
morning, destroyed 80 buildings, mostly
of wood, occupied as stores and dwellings.
The loss ia estimated at 100000.
The commissioner Of agriculture, has
decided to send Professor Solomon to in
vestigate the foot aud mouth disease
among cattle in Maine.
The steamer Leopold has arrived at St.
Johns, Newfoundland, with la-ge cargo
of seals, and reports seals abundant in
the Gulf Of St. Lawrence.
An Indian named Grand Louis has
been tried, convicted aud hanged by the
Indians Of the Colville Agency in Wash
!ngton Territory, for murder and other
crimes.
The suicide OF O4sisn Terburgh, the
yonuR lawyer OF Pittsburgh, is now ex.
planned by the fact that he had been
Tilted by young woman to whom he had
been engaged.
A rich vein of salt water was struck on
Saturday morning on q farm at Liverpool,
near Syracuse, New York. The new
well, which was drilled like an oil well,
is ,4l0 feet deep.
On the 7th instant, the schooner Ann
j. 1'rsiper fell in with the schooner Eva
Holmes of Barnegst, from ST. Mary's,
Md for New York, with oysters, in q
sinking condition, aud took off her cap
tain and crew.
ohio canal met Thursday in Baltimore,
aud reduced the rate from 40 to 36 cents
per ton for coal between Cumberland,
Maryland aud Georgetown, District Of
Columbia.
A fire in Pensacola, Florida, Thursday
morning, destr0ye; the Louisville &
Nashville freight depot, the Hoffman
House, Masonic Hall, and several other
buildings, causing loss estimated at
$G5 900.
Cur total exports of domestic bread.
stutfs during March amounted in value
to $40, ,45S,466, sgaiust $l7, ,S4l $50 in
March, 1885, and for the nine iooItrs
which ended on March 3lst last th-g
amounted $12O, 79s, SAC, against $l67173.
025 during the corresponding period OF
the previous year.
The br0nzs statue of Martin Luther,
which is to be erected in tie city o.
Washington next month, arrived ht
Baltimore yesterday week, in the steamer
Hoher zlllern. The statue was cast IL
Germany. 1t weighs 3 tons, is IL. feet
high aud is fac ,simile of the figure of
Luther in the Reformation group a.
Worms.
The Rev. DR.. Newman preached an
Easter sermon Sunday in the Madison
Avenue Congregational Church, New
York. At the close Of the service an
insane woman created a sensation by
wa king up the central aisle to the pulpit
crying for water to quench the fire that
was consuming her soul, She was led
out by one Of the church officers.
The steamship GreeiGn, from Glasgow,
arrived at Boston yesterday week with
1876 immigrants, said to have been
shipped from the workh0use at Swine.
ford, ireland. The customs authorities
sscertainei that they were assisted immi
grant and not paupers, and had from IS
to $40 according to the size of each family,
givsn them by the agent Of tho Tuke fund
on the other side. Most OF them are to
go far west.
Tbs wife OF Guilford Richie, who was
but recently married, committed suicide,
III Franklin county, Georgia, a few days
ago. She swallowed dose OF stryohnine
while driving homa from Toccos in a
buggy, Just as her husband, who had
hesn lola Of her intention, wss approach
ing to prevent it. She was only 20 years
OF age. There was an estraugement
between the couple.
Eight prisoners escaped from the jail ct
Gainesville, Arkansas, on Saturday
night, after having assaulted the jailOr
aud secured arms from his house. A
posse of 80 citizsns started in pursuit, and
contest took place in which about 100
shots we're fired. a Burglar named
Breckman was killed, and thrss other
prisoners Tere wounded and secured.
The rest escaped. The jaiior was iau
serously injaled.
Official statistics show that 1,27j miles
Of railway were built IL Capada ia,t year,
making = total of sos miles under
traffic, agd when the liAes ct present
undeF construction ara completed. which
will be within two years, the railway
system Of Canada will comprise over
II 400 milcs The paid mp capital was
increased to $494 27l .26+, or 10 per cent.
The number uf passengers cRrtisd was
3, 500 ,964. There were 169 persons
killed and $50 injured.
John Michael, baggage master on the
Philadelphia division, Pennsylvania rail
road, was struck and ran over by loco
motive OF the Pennsylvania railroad at
Columbia Thursday. When extricsted
it Was found that both his legs were
taken OF, one above and one below the
knee, and that he had received internal
injuries. lie died at O'Clock. He had
been in the Pennsylvania oompsny's
employ for rs years. He was SIS pears Of
age aud leaves wife and six children.
AT Wanesboro, N. c., lazy young
man named W, II, johnson had been
sponging for some time upon the hospi-
taitY Of an aged widow named Crawford,
About midnight OF Wednesday week The
daughter and granddaughter of Mrs.
Crawford went to her house, and, forcing
open the front door, entered the room in
| which Johnson slept. The elder girl lit
the lamp. johnson stared wildly around
at his visitors, who ordered him 10 get
up at once. "Leave the room first," said
the frightened man. The two women,
both strong aud active, without further
parley pulled him from the bed and
began belaboring him with cOwhides. He
was in his night shirt, and he beat re-
treat to the hall They followed, and
whipped him out into the street. His
screams for aid brought out the police,
who rescued him. The women warned
him never TO come into the house sgain.
A Huntingdon, Pa, dispatch says: A
confinement OF 80 years: which WAS the
result of inssnity-s secret long kept
from the public terminated here Thurs
day in the death of Daniel Hawn, in
Juniata township, ak miles from thia
city. He had been confined since 1928
by his brothers, and was s4 years old,
The maniac was one of five brothers who,
when young men, worked together on
their father's farm. His mslady is said
to have been caused by drinking from a
cool stream while overhested in har-
vest time. He was immediately
confined by his brothers, aud WAS ever
afterwsrd totally excluded from the
world. But once in the subsequent IL
years did he regain his freedom, and that
was about so years ago, when he suo
ceeded in escaping from the house. HI
was soon captured and returned to his