Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-08-14

Island that the continuous rains are
Injurlng the growing crops. The cabbAges,
applec and peaches are being eaten BY
worms; there will be . short crop of
potatoes, and the pears, while plentiful,
will be poor in quality.
During the Bscal year, which ended
June Both last, the total exports Of
petroleum from the United States
amounted 10 513, SO, 092 gallons, Of the
value Of al, lot, 24s, being Al increase Of
Z, T3s 40 gallons and q 1901 a. CON-
pared With the expuris f1r the preceding |
fiscal year.
Three ms1 oEnsd NsilsUn, Snslsstt ~ q |
Watis we're L-raEtsa IN New York IN
Friday nighS I'm posting on the HtrAsts
proelGrnktianf IN r.siBrAnns 10 the sxeuu
tion Of Schumacher, the Vienna SDpRliBt
Thsy were tos; o. ahGh M SEsrTdEy fnf
violkiion q 0ity ordinance, End 1ustuH
SehwGb paid the tnsB.
While the family Of IEmaE Eggs were
returning from shzrBh II = wagon, nsEf
Mount Vernon, Georgia, On FridEy night,
they were fred II by David z. Conner,
and Alice HigsE, aged lG year,, Was
mortally wounded BY charge Of buck
shot. Conner was q rejected Euitor OF
Misc Higgs, and had threatened her LIE.
At Asbury Park last week, William
Bear Of Norfolk, Vs., was robbed Of q
gold vGteh and chain valued al $500,
sl15 in money and some railroad tickets.
He had his valuAbles checked by the
bathing master, but left the check in his
bath room, from which It was taken by
the thief, TO whom the property was de.
livered.
William J. Lansing, q lawyer, WAS ar
raigned In the police court at Cohoes, New
York, Thursday : or drunkenness. He
tried to kill himself in the court room by
cutting his head with large stone paper
weight, and when he was returned TO the
station house he seized o kerosene coal
oil can and drank quantity Of the oil
1t Ia thought that he ia insane.
The collector Of customs at Key West
has been instructed to release the
schooner Julia Baker, II her cargo Is Of
domestic origin, on payment Of his
expenses. The collector reported the,
the vessel was detained for not producing
manifest Of cargo, which had been tam,
pered with and portion Of 1t landed al
ports of the West Indies"
A train on the Gettysburg x Herrisbur,
railroad, containing the companies OF thu
Tenth and Fifteenth Regiments returning
from the state enoampmsnt, was throw
from the track, near Carlisle junction, Of
Saturday, by the spreading of the rails
and the engine and tender fell down 81
embankment. Frank Small, conductor
and Fuller Thompson, fireman, wer
killed.
1t ia announced from Washington tina
Professor Stevenson Of the Smithsonian
Institution has gone with party OF ex
plorers TO the region of the cliff and cav
jewellers TO make collection OF relic
and ouriosities 10 be taken to the New
Orleans cotton centennial exposition
Explorations will BE- made in Arizona an
New Mexico, and will be conducted Il
part among Villages never before visited
Near ,Wilkesbarre Thursday Solomon
David and Frank Slusher, who had bes
for some days engaged in sinking q well
prepared blast and fred it of at III
, bottom. A few minutes later Solomo
. descended, and when half way dow
cried Cor help. The others went to hi
relief, and all were overcome by foul all
, When brought TO the surface, Solomo
, and David were dead. Frank was nj
conscious, but fiually revived.
A question having arisen between IL
emigration commissioners and the cuu
| missioners Of charities and correction
, New York, in regard to the care
, pauper immigrants who are detaine
} here pending their return TO their home
/ the matter was submitted TO the oorpori
, ton counsel for his opinion. He decid,
] that they are state paupers, and as suc
, the emigration commissioners are respoi
sible for their support" There are now,
] Ia said, over 400 euoh immigrants q
J Wards Island. Ten or twelve were d.
. tanned yesterday on the steamer Pol,
q nesia.
r The management Of the worlds expos
Q tion at New Orleans has given TO Messr
q Jones & Mclaughlin OF PittsburR the COL
tract for supplying the entire shaftin
: coupling, pillow blocks and post hangei
q for the use Of the great industrial fair.
9 letter from the state agent in Nebrasl
+ shows that every county in that state HI
d formed an expedition society, and In the
n behalf he asks for all the floor and wa
" space that can be allowed.
u An elopement which occurred
% Rochester, N. Y, last Thursday, Great
y some sensation from the previous I
. speciality OF the parties. Adrit
% Vonthof, aged 81, deacon in the Fir
. Reformed Church, and Mrs. Render
" aged az, left the city on the 40 D. I
y train goisg east on the day in questio
taking advantage of the busting caus,
| hy al haf L..
the crowd. Vonthof took one child 81
$4,000 with him, and the woman to,
% two children and $500 OF her husband
!, money. Vonthof leaves a wife and I,
Q children In destitute circumstances, al
70 Mrs. Renders leaves her husband al
10 two children. No trace Of their whel
9, abOuts have been learned.
A party OF IL Brazilian immigrants a
- rived at New York Friday from h
n Isneiro on the steamship Derweut. T.
men say they have little money left al
- that they wish to find homes eomewhe
/. In the United States. They said th
4 they came here because there was
"a chance for q man Of little means
u Brazil. The land there was in the han
/ OF few who paid scarcely any tax,
q In the province OF San Paulo, whe
=, they came from, people still used 1
az forked log in planting and employed 1
"a old Indian mortar. They were bEd
y behind the times in Brazil and few Il
n eigners were settling there.
or 6 DR.. o'Donnell, "oi leper notoriety
arrived in Washington Thursday.
called at the newspaper offices and adv,
8. tised a lecture which he proposes to
IL liver from the capitol steps this aft,
IA noon. He said she left the lepers a
g. point Just outside the District limits,
to that he will bring them into the city q
90 exhibit them from the steps OF the oa
le itol." Nineteen lepers were sent back
" China from Ban Francisco, yesterday,
III the steamer Oceanic. A telegram fir
O. San Francisco says the dispatches fr,
ID the east about DR.. o'Donnell and 4
at lepers shave caused much amusement,
fe II is known that he has no lepers wi
Ia him."