Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-11-20
an GENERAL.

The battle monument at Monmouth,
New Jersey, was unveiled Thursday with
appropriate ceremonies.
The ship Andrew Johnson, Of Thomas
ton, Maine, was sunk by collision re-
II OF her crew were lest.
The bAIque Julia Rollins, the first
square-rigged vessel built In Baltimore
slnce 1878, was launched Thursday. She
hss q registered ospaoity OF 600 tons.
Miss Nancy Gould Of Portland, Maine,
who died recently, devised house and
lot in Portland, valued at about 80, 600,
to bs used in aid OF the pay ment OF the
national debt.
The total number OF immigrants who
arrived in the United Statss during the
ten months ending Oo'cber 3lst was
Ala 1874. sgAIust Sol C37 during the clr-
responding period OF 1883
an old negro named J,hnFou ont his
throat, near Clinton, Miss., on fidSy
night, hpCause Of the election OF q eve
land and ll,ndriokR. He said he pre-.
isIred death 10 slavery ia 10 mol eS.
pscted TO recover.
Mr.. Foote, our minister 10 Cnrea III.
forms the state department, under dEe
Of September 4th, that Thom A. Edison
has bsen granted pefn,ssioD 10 place his
system Of electric lights within the palace
grounds aud hnildiDgs at Seoul.
An express train on the Houston &
Texas railroad was preoipitated into the
Brazos river st Hampstead before day.
light Friday morning. Eight pasaen-
gers were killed and 15 injured, The
train fell down . 80 foot embAnkment.
The naval academy board has reoam.
mended that the navy be increased by IL
new cruisers, to be provided for In the
appropriations for the fiscal year which
will end June 3Oth, 1886. TIE total es-
timsted cost Of the proposed vessels is
%, 443,9ls
Louis Shift, shoemaker, and his hired
man and boy perished Of suffocstion in
store in which they slept in Brooklyn on
Thursday night. GAsfitters who were at
work in the store had left two OF the
pipes without tops and neglected to turn
of the gas at the meter.
John Evans Of Denver, Colorado, on
Saturday ext outed a contract, and will
organize . syndicate to build the Texas
Central railro'd from Albany, Texas,
north to a correction with the Denver &
New 0rlsaDs railway. The work is to be
completed in three years.
During ootober, II 7ls iwmisrsuts ar
rived iu Canada, of shOm q, 100 were fol
the United Slates. Siuce January LIST,
the total arrivals Of immigrants 10 Canada
numb red 1888 1856, OF whom 81, $40 were
passengers to the United Slsles, though
landing at Canadian ports.
Doxsy's 0oera House, ct Auderson,
Illinois, wa. burned Friday morning.
The loss is stated at $50, 900, without any
insurance. The building had iust bstn
completed. It's owner recently lost ~
handle factory by fire, aud he was de.
feated for Congress in the late election,
The managers Of the New Orleans
Exhibition have invited President
Arthur and cabinet, Governor Cleveland
and Mr., Blaine, President. elect Diaz of
Mexico, aud the Emperor OF Brazil to
attend the opening If the exhibition.
The Mex can congress will adjourn TO
attend the opening ceremonies.
Robert staudrIg and wife were found
murdered Thursday morning In their
house on rsnOhe seven miles from Pine
Grovs, Colorado. Standing was com,
paratively wealthy, and was an ordained
preacher Of the anti. polygsmous Mormo 3
1t lie probable that robbery was the motive
Of the crime.
At BinRhsmton Thurslay James
| Wilsey, who last June killed Allen
Mcclure In Il bsr room fight "wIth one
blow OF his fist on the ohin,' WAS CON
victed Of granddaughter In the second
degree and sent need to nine years and
six months imprisonment at hard labor
10 the Auburn penitentiary.
A telegram from Petersburg, Va, re-
ports the drouth in that section still nm.
broken. In some Of the counties syringe
and streams are drying up, and the
around Ia 30 hard that farmers can not
do any blowing. In Petersburg only hall
the water supply. is obtained from the
city reservoirs, the rest being tAken from
the river.
A large qua :tity Of giant powder
stored in shed four miles from Toledo
Ohio, exploded Thursday morning with ,
terrific shock The concussion wss fel
for great distance, people in towns ant
villages 100 miles CT mistaking it for an
earthquake. Strangely enough, no per.
son was killed, a fsw persons only beinf
injured, and none dangerously,
fire iu Goldsboro, North Carolina
Sunday, dest Dyed rs or the principa
business places in the city, including th,
machine chops Of W. + KornegRv & Co.
the WsthofiH AdvaHce and MesIenoe
printing fiji ,es, aud several large stcfel
filled with meschsndis, The total los
/, ,timatsd at $3.50, 900, the insurance
100000.
| The total values Of our exports O
domestic bIesds.ufs during octobe
amounted to ell, 641, 112, against $14,
74O, 1874 exported during the correspond
iLg month Of 1883. The total values G
the exports for the ten months whiol
ended October 3lst, 1884, were $l2O,
99S, 074, and Sl45, 1875, 1881 during the COZ
responding period Of 1883.
The November crop report Of the aRri
cultural department indicates a oottol
crop somewhat larger than that OF lea
year gathered in unusually good oondi
tion. The yield Of corn will aggregat
100000 bushels, the quality bein
much better than that Of 1883 There 1
an average yield of potatoes, the tota
being over 100, 900, 0o0 bushels
The Washington monument last weel
reached greater hight than that Of an,
9th structure in the world, being 81
feet 10 inches above the flor of tn
monument. The next highest structur
lie the spire Of the Cologne Cathedra al
which is 5l5 fset above the a or OF tn
buildinR. 1t has been estimated that /
will take but rs working days to com
plete the monument II will be dedioAtet
on February 221 next. a.
During a Demoorati, celebration a
Wei iDRton, Missouri, op Thursday night
Mrs. John Scbrau was killed by tn
stick OF skyToOket going through he
eye Another rocket went into the ofic
OF the Phillips House, and striking tn
night clerk 10 the mouth, went out benin,
his ear. His condition is prscarious
Another man was als) danEerousl,
wounded In the face.
An iDoendiary Are in Brunswick, Ga.
early Suudsy m rni1e, destroyed poI
lions OF two whole blocks and the Who'll
OF two others. The loss ia estimated a
&2IO,000; Insurance.. 858 ZOO. Tb