Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-03-13
IN GENERAL.

A special dispatch to the New York
Post says: 1.-THE Mississippi river at
Blacklist station, this sids OF Memphis,
has been drowned In the flood"
The Northern Pacific Railway CON-
pany has bought from the New York
locomotive works IL locomotives at a cost
of 1929, $50.
David McLain, who entioed W. 5.
Saxton to his gate on February 5ta, 1879,
and shot him dead In the presence OF his
family, was hanged at Savannah, Georgia,
Friday. He rsved like a maniac.
A special from Jokpstowo, N, Y, re-
ports the capture Of three %hite deer In
shat nei2hborhooo one Of wtier. Il
fawn. has died, but the 0the.a Ag, daiNg
we'll aud attra ting much etlrn.iou -
ouriosities.
At a meeting Of the Torcat1 prssbyIery
Thursday a report was snhGii.t.i dc
nounoing seGret societies AS being OF Osed
10 religion. II ID said tue MISTER has
given rise to considerable exoit0lnoIt 10
Masonic and other circles
The Republican state copv ention Of
Louisiana raEsssmblsd Tha!siAy AID
confirmed the nomiualious OF deldgh."s
from the congressional districts to CHI
cago. A full state ticket was nominsted,
headed by John A. Stevenson Ct her
vile for governor.
The fofty-iourih annual commencement
Of the Baltimore College OF Dental
Surgery took place Thursday. Forty
two students received diplomas. The
annual commencement OF the Baltimore
Medical College took place Thursday.
Thirteen graduates were awarded dip.o-
mas.
Heavy rains fell Sunday in Virginia,
and flood ia the Appomattox river is
reported. Farming operations have been
greatly retarded by the protracted bad
weather. At Petersburg, the storm OF
yesterday included "two separate
hunder storms and considerable hail :"
Captain Annie Dixon, Annie Mather,
Addie Richards, Lucy Reed and Madam
Nelson, members of the Salvation Army,
were Thursday fned 81 and coats each in
Bridgeport, Conn. for violating a city
ordinsacs by parsding tbe streets. They
refused to pay the fine and were com.
niitted to jail Tor 10 days.
Treasurer Martin o Van Fleet of Nor
walk, Huron county, Ohio, has baen
missing since Saturday week and short
age ia his accounts amounting TO $50, 900
or 500, goo ia discovered, The city and
school funds are safe, but all ct er funds
we're carried of entire. His bondsmen
will be ruined. He is believed to have
specialized In grain,
social sensation was created in Balti-
more nine months ago by the marriage OF
Willie 0berendoier, au Israelite, 20 Miss
Calista Hopwood, daughter of a promi-
nent Bpisoophlian. She refused to become
a candidate for confirmation, saying she
intended to bsocme Jewess. Sstur-
day she adopted the Jewish religion, and
WAS married over again according to the
Jewish ritual. The lady is about II
yeArs OF age.
Statistics OF the hog product of Cincin-
nsti for the year show that besides n
decrease OF nearly 10000 head in the
number packed. there ID marked
decline In the Average weight, amount
ing to l3t pounds per head, making b
difference in weight between the psst
pounds. The average cast for tho pas,
winter per loo pOnnds gross was IS "a,
ssainst 81 A for the precsjing season
Westboro, Mass, is excited ever the
sudden disappearance since Monday OF
l. X. Travis, a Handsome man Of AZ years
acd SUPERINTENDENT CT the Bsptiat Sunday
school, aud the simultaneous departure
of 6 young LADY member Of his sunday
school clEss, vivsoioos brunette of Is
Travis ia reported to have d!sposed Of his
Law business, library aud Office fixtures
TO. g nominal sun IL il also rumOred
that he has taken $4,000 in money
belonging TO the Thsyer estate, for which
he acted as collector. He leaves pretty
young wife and one child.
A. j. MeDevit;, the Corning, O., drug
gist, who WAS .sken from his house by a
party of eight men, who stripped him and
let him naked IN the SNOW, has beer
heard from ct STaitsvilie, suffering
greatly irom his inhumau treatment. Tht
community ia excited, ard the end OF tn,
matter cannot bs fOretoid Father
o. Boy Ian aud five of the men who took
NoDevitt out of toWn came u . from Corn.
ing, aid are at the Residence OF Bishop
Watterson in Columbus, o. McDevit
will! come to Columbus, under the ptoteo
tion of the sheriff, and sn effort will be
made to compromise the matter.
The Crystal Palace Permanent Exposi
tiol Company is being tormsd in New
Y fE, for the purpose of opening al
International exhibition on July 4 IA
1856, AMI continuing the same as
| permanent attraction. Tie proposed CAPT
tai Of the company ia $l0,00O, 600, anC
the coat Of the main exhibition buildipl
Is estimated 3. S. 900, 900. /; is to be q
iron and glass, aud to cover IL acres
Fifty acres OF land will be secured, ad Join
ing, II possible, one OF the prospective
new parks, and the intention is 10 star
building operations this SEASON.
Tho wife Of DR.. b. B MG.thews o
Bund Brook, II j., wGa killed Saturds,
ni2ht by the accidental discharge of
ritis in the hands Of her soa. Tho younl
mar, Who "ss in ieiliug health spt
Gbiut TO start iOE Florida had purchase,
a reps ting riie Nd a part of his Outi.
aud was showing it II some friends " hei
the weapon was discharged, the bal
passing through the panel Of 4 door int
an adj linipg feom i'll which Mrs
Matthews was sittiyg, striking her in th
region Of th= heart she died almost IN
atsntly in the arms OF her huab.nd
DR.. B,ocher, who lives at Holms
station, five miles above Terra HGute
Ind s4Ii his son Corrie, aged Is, to tn
barn Sunday IN feed the horses,
younger son followed, and when he 81
rived at the stable found Clrfis hsngin
to leather halter with his limbs insid
of manger. The little fellow ran to til
house aud told Ills father, who hurris
TO the stable and out tho young ma
down, but life was extinct The how
SAID to have h.en defeated In filt
encounter at school. This preyei upo
bis mind nut! he determined TO take hi
life.
Nine lLaliane, seAmen of the crew
the Italian bsrque Tonic, refused 10 ga
with their vessel from Baltimore Il
other day on the ground that she WI
bouud for South American port whe
fever exists, they claiming that tn,
signed articles at Genoa which attpulat.
that they should not BE- taken to any il
fsc;ed port. The captain hal them re,
to jsil for mutiny. Friday moruin
: tLey we're taken, hsrdcuhsi, or heard
: the charge of police otiiiefs. When Il
: Gu tii we're removed they rushed at Il
CAPTAIN shouting Death TO the csptsi
wa'll kill him before we'll sail." Sever
declare if compelled to go to sea they W
/; murder the captain. The sailors We
: rearrested.
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