Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-06-25
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light.
The first comptroller of the treasury
has approved the action of the first audi
tor in refusing to pass certain accounts
of the late commissioner of agriculture,
Loring, for the purchase of seed, amount
ing to 800 S08. The first comptroller
holds that this sum should have been
charged to the appropriation made for
the purchase, propagation and distribu-
tion Of seeds, and not TO the appropria.
tion made for the laboratory, as had been
done. The appropriation for the pur-
chase, propagation and distribution of
seeds is that which had been reduced TO
$3S on the first of May. 1t was originally
800, 1000.
The steamer Guyandotte, of the Old
Dominion line, was sunk early Thursday
morning at her pier on the North river,
New York, by the carelessness of two
firemen. They pulled plug, 12 inches
in diameter, out of her bottom, and the
water rushed in 80 rapidly that they had
barely time to escape. The damage is
estimated at 1886, 900. When the men saw
what they had done they ran on deck
and one Of them, Latin, made for the
pier. He has not since been seen. He
lives in Delaware, and is supposed to
have left for home. Many people are
looking for him.
Grasshoppers are doing much damage
in California. Specimens of the insect
have been sent from various parts Of the
state to Professor Riley, at Washington,
aud he finds them to be the melanoplus
Iauaatatpr aud tha naln,NAa,,,ta 1snara,,it
alis. The last named ls common to all
parts of the land, and seldom proves very
destructive, while the other is peculiar to
the Pacific slope, and is probably doing
the present work of destruction. The
professor recommends the use of coal oil
pans, found 30 useful against the eastern
species, and further refers the California
farmers to the remedies described in the
reports of the chronological commission
as the best yet discovered. An agent OF
the agricultural department is already in
California to make full investigation OF
the pest.
Charles Campbell, colored, was Friday
hanged for murder at Point la Hutche
Louisiana.
Henry Howard, ,colored who had assaulted
two young women, one of whom is not OK.
pected to recover, was taken from the jail
ut Coshocton, Ohio, Friday, by u mob oi
| 900 men and hanged from u tree in the
court yard.
Andrew Shannon, As years of age, fel
asleep while sitting on II keg in the door
way of the second story of IL factory in Bal
timore, Friday afternoon. He fell tU the
first floor and broke his neck, dying in
stantly.
A telegram from Washington says the
wives of three naval officers having JOINED
their husbands In Japan, the latter have
been detached from duty. There is I'm order
| forbidding naval officers to have their wives
with them on foreign stations.
james II. Tanning, an actor, known form
| erly throughout the United States as al
| impersonator Of "Uncle Tom," was Fri
| day, at his own request, sent to the houst
of industry In Boston for six months on {
| charge of vagrancy. The old man asked
that his dog be allowed to go with him, ant
| this request was granted.
1t is stated that, In pursuance of tn,
| policy adopted by Secretary Manning o
| cutting down expenses in the varioui
bureaus Of the treasury department, wher
| ever possible without detriment to thu
| prompt transaction of public business, 3OI
| persons employed as storekeepers, gaugers
i &c., in the internal revenue service hay,
been removed since March Goth. Th'
average per diem pay OF these employe
i was "a.
The will OF Robert Treat Paine Of Boston
bequeaths 550,0O0 to Harvard College TO
the maintenance Of professorship of prac
| tical astronomy. All the remainder Of III,
property and real estate the testator leave
to the president and fellows, the net income
only to be expended in the support of tn
observatory and of the assistants, and il
the purchase or repair of instruments, o
| in rewards by medals or otherwise for tn
| discovery OF new comets and planets, o
i for the writing of new and valuable essay
on astronomical subjects, &c.
At Charleston, W. Va, FIilay after
noon, n balloon ascension was to take plac
ON the circus grounds, just prior to III
/ opening of the performance. Hot air wa
USED to initiate the balloon. Just as tn
ropes holding the balloon were cast off, tn
hOt-air stove was upset and the structur
caught fire. The burning mass shot raridl
into the air, with William Patterson, tn
aeronaut in the basket. The crowd sh0ute
to him to jump, but he did not heed thei
advice, aud after going up several hundre
feet the balloon collapsed, and Patterso
fel. to the earth lifeless. He was % year
old, and lived at Wellsville, Ohio, where h
leaves wife and family, 1t was his flrs
ascension. .5. ..M..g.... .