Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-07
IN GENERAL.

The Secretary Of the Navy has onspsa
negotiations for the purchase of either the
British ship Pandora or the British sb;,s
Alert for the Greedy expedition.
Judge Henry Cooper, formerly Upi,ad
States senator from Tennessee, was killsd
by robbers near Culixoap, Mexico. on
Monday. He WAS manager Of the PoIk
silver mine
Rear Admiral Thomas Patterson will
| bs retired on the 9Th inst, and Raar
Admiral R. NJ. Shufeldt on the 2Is,
| These rstirements will promote Commo
dores Edward Simpson and William IL
Temple respectively.
| Advices from Indian Territory rsno,,
the finding by herders of the BODY Of
stook dealer, OF some prominence, nam.d
Muron. II is supposed he WAS killed hv
Indians, as 1t is said that be was nm
popular with them.
In the senate Of Mississippi, Monday
bill WAS passed providing for the trial
of habtual drunkards, and, at ths
judges discretion, for the appointment of
guardians for the same unfortupstes IN
their confinement In lunatio asylum
A dispatch from Birmingham. Ala
says an old man named Nswsoms a
psuper, died in the poor house last weak
Tuesday his brother, Pbiladelphia
banker, WAS at Birmingham looking for
him, say ing that rich relative Recently
bequeathed $40, 900 to the dead man nm.
known TO him.
Dispatches from all points on the Ohio
river report a continued rise, with inter
ruption Of railroad and other travel il,
some places, and great loss Of lumber. Al
Pittsburg the tracks of the Lake Eris
and MoKeesport & Youghiogheny rail.
roads are submerged. Trains on the Bal.
tjmore & Ohio road we're interrupted yes.
teiday for several hours.
The eleventh annual meeting of the
New Jersey State Board of Agriculture
!, was held Tuesday in Trenton. In the
morning session reports were read; in the
. afternoon papers were read on "Chemis.
try and Feeding of Plants" by Professor
a W. 0. Atwstsr; on "The Manufacture of
! Sugar from Sorghum" by Professor
q Arthur T. Neall; and on "Ensilsge and
DS!ry Interests" by John Mayer.
!. A certificate of inoor poration was filed
|. Monday of The Maryland Overland
J. Telephone and Telegraph Company Of
9 Baltimore, for the purpose Of conducting
0 the business Of telephoning and tels.
It graphing under letters patent which arc
n now or may hereafter be- held by the cor
e porstion. The capital stock OF the CON.
7. pany is 100000, divided into 25, ,O0C
v ehares Of $40 each. The incorporation
:. are James A. Carey, George A. Won
Lingen, Hase.tine G. vioksry, Louil
q MoMurry, Oliver C. Zell, Charles Weber
d Jr., c. +. Roehle and John W. hidden
"a dorf.
10 In the United States court at Richmond
\, Virginia, Monday, Judge Hughes CAV
B. decision in the matter Of the csnnons
le gums and other war material seized las
ie July on board the schooner K. G. Irwin
II on the charge that they were intende,
3, for the insurgents in Hayti. He deoide
. that "the steamer called Mary N. Hogsi
b. was, in July last, in New York, mad
as ready to be sent to the waters Of Hayt
., to cruise aud commit hostilities in thos
waters as a gun boat, In behalf Of the iu
surgents of that island against its gov
ernment, and that the munitions seile
p on board the Irwin wsrs intended TO
a. put on board the Hogan and used as he
le armament in hostilities against tn
le Haytian republic, and that, therefor,
h, the property WAS forfeited" A deere
9, was accordingly entered to-day for tn
n. forfeiture and sale OF the sci zed goods.