Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-01-10
IN GENERAL.


About 10 inches Of snow fell Tmo,,
morning throughout the valley ofvirp,n;:y
The schooner Adrianns, ashore a, RE-
Island, ia total wreck. Har os,,.ov
says the disaster was due To A varip.a
Of the compass, caused by the presence !,
metals. 0u'e OF
Henry Shields, Edward shields -,
James Anderson, hunters, were frogoa auu
death on the prairie in the Cbicta n 70
country, Indian Territory, on the uioh, ",
the 9th inst. ''su' OF
The stock helders aud directors o,u.
Baltimore x OHIO Telegraph oom ", ,ne
met IN Baltimore, Maryland. MoISay
and elected David II. Bates pfesiden, 10y
general manager. anu
The Catasauqua manufacturino o...
pany OF Cstassuqua, Pa, started ali wr
departments of its works MONDAY n,o 'ae
Ing after having been idle ahout Wv,
weeks. 1t employs 200 men. sur
Proctor & CANDLES soap and osnu
works, in Cincinnati, were dsstIovsd hs
fire Monday. The works w.r, ~
largest OF the kind In that eitv IA ,ao
loss Is estimated at 5000, 900. '"o
At meeting OF the Knights of I.h,.
held in Boston on Sunday, It was vn,sa
to assist the striking glassmskers svd
tho statement was made tha, NV
workmen would have six eoon.ts,,no
factories by tAe middle OF February,
| The body OF young girl named Fame
haskell Watkins was found Ont LrnioaI
and frozen IL creek at Cars Co,nas'
near Elmirs, New York, on sppdsv g.
was last seen In company with a younp
man Of bad reputation, nsmad vioL.S
hacke't, and foul play is suspected.
The National rolling mill and fora.
company S worke at MeKeesport. panns
resumed operations Tuesday, the Am.
p'oyes accepting reduction in thai,
wages Of 124 TO rs per cent. WooSi.
non works ~ the same place resumed \,
the old wages. The National tub- VOL,
Will resume to day at the reduction.
The wire mills OF Stewart a N i,
south Easton, Pa, are again in iull opsrs,
ton after several weeks suspension in
consequence of the depression Of trade
These mills employ 200 hands. they viii
supply the Iowa barb wire company
which recently removed to South Bastop
from Johnstown, and employs 90 men.
The Secretary OF State mas reeaivsd
from United States Consul Packard. At
Liverpool, the annual commercial report
Tor 1882. The value of the total import.
from this country ia placed at 1919. ia.
SOB of which $277, Az, 1856 was for traa
goods, and ~, 2S7 ,3ls for dutisble goods,
There Is decrease of S23, l40, l24 from
1881.
In the city court at Bridgeport Conn.
Tuesday morning, Capt James Hunter
ohm Mayhem and John Stewart. man.
bers OF the salvation army, were con.
victed of having violated a city ordinance
by paradipg the streets. Judge Beers
hned them each 50 and costs, and in
default OF payment, sent them to jail for
10 days.
The steamer Illyriau, at Boston from
Liverpool, brought 10 immigrants who
were shipped by one "Paddy" West, as
seamen, aud who present wretChed
appearance. -Four OF the number, 1t Ia
SAID, came from the Brownow workhouss
in London. O1e Is OF unsOund mind, ons
partially paralyzed and not one of the 10
is able bodied. The alien commissioners
have notified the British consul not 10
allow the men to land, and watch Las
been Set to prevent their leaving the
vessel
Arguments were heard Monday in
the United states court at Trenton, New
Jersey, in the snit of Abraham Csllerd
against the Delaware, Lackawanaa 4
Western railroad company. This Is one
OF 90 suits for damages, aggregstiug
$780, on aooount OF an explosion in
, May, 1876, of Blasting powder stored in
the magazine at Bergen Hill, Jersey City,
, and used IN excavatipg tunnel for the
company. A large percentage Of the
powder WAS nitro glycerine, Great dam.
age was done to the adjoining property
I within radius Of quarter Of mile.
The question raised is az to the liability
, OF the company.
The United States Supreme Cont
Monday rendered IN important decision in
the patent cases of Jacob B5ty At. al. VS.
Riley Burdelt, both well.knoWn manu-
faoturers of parlOr organs. The special
= case under considerations was sui!
brought by Burdett, who was plaintiff in
the court below against Estey et al. for
alleged infringement Of patent granted
3 to the former in 1869 upon sn improve
> meut ia reed organs. The court below
rendered decisiGn in favor OF Burdstt
and gave him degree for Sl6l GOO. The
: Supreme Court reversed this decision,
, holding that a reed board, with two 5et5
J of rseds aud a third partial set, was
made and put into al organ BY one
Dayton prior to the Invention If Burdettr
and The alleged infringing orgaus Of the
I Ea;ey company contained nothing which,
> 30 far as claim one Of the paisDt IVES
concerned, was not found i'll tuoh prior
organ. ....
Serious damage has been dOue by the
cold snap to the young orange groves,
garden truck and pineapplee along the
Florida coast as far south a. MausIee'
r telegram from Atlanta, Georgia says the
! mercury touched zero there on Friday
and Saturday nights, and adds; "such
weather in this latitude is productive OIL
the most dreadful consequences among
tue poor, who are prepared with neither
, shelter, food nor provisions for Suoh
stats of things. On Saturday 1t was
learned that hundreds Of poor women
and children were budding around thelf
t last burning stick Of wood, aud the Con-
| stitutioH OF Sunday morning made an
+ appeal to the citzsus TO send to tls
, paper mouey provisions and inel." Ihs
cat was responded to, sad suppIsa Of 81
kinds we're generously given aud DIS
tributed among the needy, b1'h WINE
and colored. l. ia estimated tina. between
$4,000 aad 10000 worth Of PROVISIONS
we're distributed