Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-12-03

last night, tolls the following story Of
longevity "Charlotte Wtckliffe, col.
ored, died here to night, aged III. ehe
has Il fteen living children, the Oldest
nearly hundred years old, and sixty
grandchildren. She claims to have
handed Washington a cup OF water At
the battle Of Yorktown. Her second
husband was 112 years old. She was
hale and hearty until recently"
Ths United States Consal At saE -
writes to the San Francisco Mercha1ts
Exchange that +" IN island never before
rep orted has been thrown mp out OF thessea
about forty miles of Tonga Islands,
bearing toward the Fiji Islands, and in
the track of California vessels. Tho
island IL two miles long and260feet high ,
and is In latitude POPS south, Longitude
1881 West.
y is reported from Deming, New
Mexico, that hostile Indians few daye
ago visited the reservation and tried to
induce the remainder OF the Indians TO
join them. A fight ensued in which
twenty one Of the reservation Indiane
and one of the renegades were killed. II
is reported that seven white men have
been killed by the Indians within two
days.
An aged woman named Miles was
murdered and her honse was robbed Of
$f1s In Medina, New York, yesterday
morning. The murder was discovered
by her husband, who, on going home
1 to dinner, found his wife's throat cut.
A basin of bloody water showed that
the murderer had washed his hands
afte the deed.
A cable despatch was received ut Har.
ward College yesterday announcing tne
discovery Of a faint comet at Paris. II
was In right ascension Oh. ..39m. t58 q. /,
declination north q degrees, Q mtnutes,
% seconds declination south, 8 min.
utes. The comet WAS seen at Harvard
Observatory last night.
Bills have been introduced In the
Mexican Congress authorizing the
expenditure, jointly by the City Of
Mexico and the Federal Government,
OF 800, 900 yearly for the drainage Of
the Valley of Mexico, and increasing
the duty ON foreign beer il the interest
of domestic brewers.
There were 744 deaths from small. .pox
In Montreal and the surrounding mu.
|nicipalities during November. OF the
deaths 578 occurred In Montreal. and
all but 10 of them were French Cana
dians Since the beginning of the cpl.
demic there have been.3, 513 deaths.
Four new cases OF small. pox and
seven deaths were reported on Wednes.
day in Charlottetown, Prince Edwards
Island. Thus far there have been les
| cases of the disease in the city and
suburb, and SO deaths.
The fund for the relief Of the sufferers
by the Galveston FIRE now amounts to
1918, 100, of which $101,29 has been
paid the Relief Com mittee. THUS far
tho committee has disbursei $50, 600
among the needy.
Five Of the family of J. A. Galyon,
at Knoxville, were poisoned yesterday
by drinking coffee " in which their
colored cook had placed half pound
of arsenic" Two of them are in a
critical condition. The cook is in
ljail.
In tho City Court at Baltimore On
Wednesday,, John ii. Lenhardt was
awarded 81, 900 damages for having had
one OF his arms broken by a collision
on the York Road Horse Railway.
Il Twenty. six insane soldiers from Day.
ton, Ohio, and three from Hampton
Virginia. arrived In Washington OF
Wednesday, and were sent to the Gcv,
ernment Hospital for the insane.
i AT a meeting of business men o.
Williamsport, Pa, held last night
steps were taken for the organization ri
la board of trade. One hundred nsmel
were obtained to start with.