Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-11-12

woods at Bersimis say the lumber mer-
chants would not employ them,
The brigantine Laurella, from Halifnx
for Kingston, Jamaica, with cargo OF
fish, potatoes and lumber, was totally
wrecked in Caico's Passage on the night
of the Gath ult. No lives we're lost. About
one-fourth Of the cargo was asved.
The eighth annual American fat stock
aud dairy show opened Tuesday In the
Exposition Building at Chicago. Nearly
all the famous herds of fancy cattle in tho
United States and Canada are represented,
and the display of draft horses is said TO
be unusually large and fine. sgf
The Rev. DR.. o'Reilly, treasurer of
the Irish National League of America,
has received a letter from Mr.. Parnell,
thanking him for the forwarding Of
bill of exchange for 81 ,000to Mr.. Harring-
ton for the Irish Parliamentary Fund.
MIR. Parnell says ''this and other re-
mittances will shortly be of enormous
service, as the Parliamentary campaign
is drawing very near"
A sensation was caused Tuesday at
Lincoln, Illinois, by the discovery of the
bones of at least three human skeletons
under the smokehouse of homestead
which belonged TO John Haines from 1872
to 1880. Haines was rough character,
the terror of his neighbors, and after
participating in several bloody ARRAYS at
Lincoln, was killed in Kansas year ago.
1t is generally believed that the bones are
remains of his victims.
Mrs. Martha Wilkerson lived few
miles from Greensboro, N. O., with her
only child, youth of IS. She became in
fatuated with young hired man who
worked for neighbor, and was about to
marry him, but her son opposed the
match. Last Saturday mother and son had
bitter quarrel. On Sunday morning the
neighbors found mother and son lying
dead ON the floor of their house, each
with bullet wound in the head.
A Pittsburg paper says that the Balti
more IL Ohio Railroad Company, which
has claims against the government for
several hundred thousand dollars for
transporting troops and supplies to the
Army of the Potomac during the late war,
is making preparations to have Congress
appropriate sufficient amount of money
for the payment of these claims in full.
Two young Germans, one of them
butcher, named Adam Kilgersten, the
other q baker, whose name is unknown,
were swept over Niagara Falls ON Sunday
afternoon. They were drawn into the
rapids above the falls while trying to
cross the river in a row-boat, and were
carried over the great Horseshoe Fall.
Their bodies will probably be found in
the eddies of the river or in the whirlpool
within a few days.
The tornado which passed over the sec
tion of Alabama just north of Selma last
Friday night was one of the most
destructive ever known in that state. II
swept through Dallas, Perry and Rib
counties, over track half a mile in
width, leveling forests, tearing up cotton,
potatoes and other vegetables and demol-
ishing buildings. Thirteen persons are
known to have been killed, and nearly so
dangerously injured.
The wife of L. G. Sanford, planter of
Clay county, Texas, was murdered by the
ld-year-old son, Valentine, during his
fathers absence from home few DAYS
ago. The young monster fired five shots
at his mother with Winchester rifle as
she was doing some work in field. He
afterwards assisted his father in searching
for her. The body was found by neigh
bors ON Sunday evening, and the boy then
confessed his crime. He snid he had also
intended to kill his father, then sell the
plantation and turn brigand.
Tho last thing at which General
Mcclellan worked on the day of his death
was an account of the battle of Antietam.
He was preparing q series of articles for
the Century Magazine and the first of
them was TO be one on Antietam. II was
not finished. From between the leaves of
book lying on the generals table when
he died protruded numerous pages of
manuscript. The book was an authority
the general had been consulting and the
manuscript was the half written article
on his most famous battle.
On Tuesday week Freddie McAllister,
aged years, and Edward Townsend,
aged H., ran away from the Troy, New
YORK, orphan asylum, to see the election
bontires. On Thursday morning tho body
Freddie was found buried up TO the head
In n clay bank, near Poestenkill creek. A
| coroners inquest Monday showed that
the boys started to cross the quicksand,
that Freddie began to cry, and that his
companion deliberately threw him into
the quicksand. He went back next day
and tried to cover up the body. When
threatened with punishment he confessed
what he had done. The coroner's iury
recommended that the case be II ferred to
the district attorney.
A meeting of citizens of Tappan, New
York, was held Monday night, to take action
regarding the destruction of the Andre
monument. One hundred and thirty
persons were present. Resolutions were
adopted condemning the defiance of law
that was manifested by the use of dyna-
mite in destroying the monument ex-
pressing the conviction that no person in
the vicinity had the remotest connection
with its destruction; declaring that it
was desirable that the spot of Major John
Andres execution should be marked by
memorial stone, having thereon suit
able inscription, and that the zeal mani
tested by Mr.. Cyrus W. Field in per.
petuating revolutionary events by erect
ing suitable monument is deserving of
the most hearty commentator.
The Dd'ty Commercial B,slletip of
Chicago Tuesday published returns from
24O leading counties in the west, in re-
gard TO the hog crop. The quality is
shown by the correspondence to be uni
tormly good, " per cent of the replies
making the quality as good as last year.
Inc aggregate OF the returns shows that
as per cent will be marketed early. In
Indiana, Ohio and some of the states
which give the raising of winter wheat
the preference, some of the farmers will
be compelled to sell to meet current ex-
penses. AS to the prevalence of disease,
reports show that in Indiana, Illinois
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri dis,
eases have prevailed to considerable ex.
tent IN some sections If returns from
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and
Dakota, where there is virtually no dis,
ease, were omitted, 81 per cent Of the re.
manning counties report disease, and 30
per cent the prevalence of cholera.
AT Blackfoot, Idaho, on Saturday. Chief
Justice Hays pronounced sentence upon
seven Mormons, convicted of unlawful
cohabitation, and upon George G. Park.
inson, convicted of hiding polyqamous
wives from the United States marshal
-Four of the prisoners were sentenced
each to six months Imprisonment and
S5OO fine, besides payment of $3.50 costs.
Ihfee others were sentenced to three
months Imprisonment, and Parkinson TO
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