Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-12-17
THE PESfNs ULA.

William Clark, more Familiarity known
as Devil Bill, died on Sunday morning
last. His death was caused by exposure
and drink. He has been living somewhat
the life of q tramp for the laHt 40 years
and stood enough exposure to have killed
a dozen men.-Smyrna Record.
Commodore Charles Lowndes died yes
terday at his residence, near Easton, Md, |
aged 81 years. He was native Of South |
Carolina, and was placed on the retired |
list during the war because of his rele- |
ton by marriage to Admiral Franklin |
Buchanan of the Confederate navy.
Matthew Paris house, near huntsville, |
Queen Anne's county, was burned on
Sunday week. Mrs. Paris, who was ill,
and her children being rescued with diff
Guilty. Loss about $3.50.
The Middletown Ne0 Era reports that
William r.. Cochran's stolen team has
been found-this time hitched to fodder
rick on q farm between the Buck and
Chesapeake City.
The large steam saw and flooring mill
of Jefferson Il Stacks, about q mile east
of fredericksburg, Md, was destroyed by
fire Sunday morning week. The fire when
discovered was issuing from the engine
room, and is supposed to have originated
from spark from the engine. The loss
| is about SO, 900. No insurance.
Mrs. Mary j. Wade, wife of William
Wade of Appleton, Fourth district, Cecil
| county, Md, died after q short illness at
| her home on Saturday week. The de-
| ceased was in her 51st year, and promi-
nent member of Head of Christiana
Presbyterian Church, in the cemetery
adjoining which her remains were in
TERED.
Jerry Gould, who is known as "bad''
negro, was given hearing before Esquire
vasey, at Middletown Friday for ill
treating his wife. The Squire did not i'm
pose q fine but allowed Jerry to become
his own bondsman in the sum of 800 to
keep the peace for ayear. Constable Grad
dock, who arrested Jerry after chase and a
fight in which the negro received two cuts
on the head from blackjack, then pre-
ferred charge against Jerry, for which
the squire fined Jerry 81.
The barn on the Faithful farm, near
Church Hill, Nd, owned by George
Westcott of Chestertown, was burned Tues
day week, with lot of corn, fodder, har-
ness, reaper, drill and other things be-
longing to William and j. Scott, tenants.
The Messrs. Scott lose about $500 un-
insured. Westcott's loss is about 81 900 /;
believed to be insured. All the buildings
on the same farm were burned some 20
years ago by incendiaries.
A well-to-do young woman who lives in
the neighborhood of Seaford DEL, it is
said annually goes to Philadelphia, rents
wretched howell for few weeks, and,
Disgusting her identity in filthy rags and
other simulations of deserving mendi-
cant, joins the formidable army of city
beggars, and thus gets money enough to
do all her city shopping. A lady who
resides in that city and who sometimes
visits Seaford declares she has often seen
the woman acting the role of street
mendicant.- -Centrectlle Observer.
Edwin A. Pratt, veterinary surgeon Of
Centreville, Md, was found at an early houl
: Wednesday morning week dying on the
| pavement in front of the Perry building, il
! that town, in pool of blood He wal
Immediately taken to his home, and DR.
James Bordley summoned to render medi
' | cal assistance He found that the skull
r had been fractured over the right eye,ant
8 pronounced him to be in very oritica
s condition. He does not expect him t
s recover. It is supposed that Mr.. Pratt
r fell from window in the second story o
t the Perry building.
The Maryland court of appeals rem
n dered its decision in the case of Captain
n John IL. Williams, who was convicted i
is Somerset county of murder in the secon
10 degree for the murder of Otto Mayher i
10 November, 1884. Williams counsel col
IS ried the case to the court of appeals O
is exceptions to the rulings of the circu
court on the admission of evidence. III
court of appeals affirms the rulings of IL
lower court on all the points excepted t,
Mayher was employed on Williams vess
and the evidence at the trial showed Thu
he had been treated with great brutalit
by Williams. Mayher died and William
was arrested, charged with having cause
his death, and was convicted of murd
in the second degree.