Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-09
Personal.

N. j. Coleman, commissioner of agri-
culture, qualified Friday and took pos
session of his office.
William W. Astor, lately minister to
Italy, arrived in New York Sunday by
the steamer Republic.
The Scott Temperance act has been
carried in Wellington county, Ontario,
by over 1000 majority.
A. G.. Jowett, prominent lawyer of
Maine, died Sunday in Belfast, aged 80
years. He served as Mayor of Belfast for
several years. and was minister to Peru
under President Polk.
The New York county committee of the
Woman Suffrage party, on motion of Mrs.
Lille Deyereu Blake, has passed resolu-
don asking the President to remove Gov.
Pierce of Dakota, for vetoing woman
outrage bill.
Charles Baber, n prominent citizen of
louisville, died ON Saturday inorning,aged
t3 years. He was president of the Peoples
,treet railway and the Safe Deposit Bank,
md director of the Schuylkill Naviga-
tion Company.
During the special session of the United
States Senate Just closed, the President
sent in 10 nominations, OF which 1856
were confirmed, 2 rejected and IL not
acted upon. The Washington STIR says: :
II seems to be generally agreed among
senators thut the fact of certain nomina-
tions having been left over without action
does not signify thut there is any disposi-
tion among the majority to antagonize the
President.
Mrs, Garfield thus disposes of what to
many persons was u painful story. One
of her friends in Cleveland, Ohio, has
furnished the following to the Associated
Press: "rhe report that has been so ex-
tensively circulated that Mrs. Garfield is
to he married undoubtedly originated
from some malicious person who wished
to annoy her, MS it has been authorita-
lively ascertained that the rumor is
utterly false. having no foundation what
ever. Mrs. Garfield has only recently
heard of it. She still wears mourning,
and matrimony has no place in her
thoughts.
The cable announces the death of Franz
| Abt, the German musician and composer.
He was the son of n Lutheran clergyman,
and was born at Ellenberg, Prussian
Saxony, December 22d, 1919. His com
| positions as early as 1Sil won him the
| place of music director Of the Zurich
theatre. His "Agathe," composed soon
after, made him known all over the world.
| He remained in Zurich till 1852, when he
accepted the position of second kGpell-
meister of the Brunswick theatre. In
1865 he was made kapellmeister to the
court chapel as well. During the Worlds
Peace Jubilee, in Boston, in June, 1872,
Aht directed the performance of some oi
his own works.
The United States Senate, Thursday il
addition to toconiirming Postmaster Pearson
of New York, confrme A. M. Kelley
of Virginia, to be minister to Italy l.
j. Jarvis of North Carolina, minister tC
Brazil; G. w. Buck of Kentucky, minis
ter to Perm; II. b. Hubbard of Texas
minister to Japan; II. b. Anderson o
Wisconsin, minister TO Denmark Isaa'
Bell, Jr., of New York, minister tt
Netherlands William II. Roberts o
New York, minister to Chill George W
Merrill of Nevada, to the Hawaiian
Islands Edward Parke Custis Levi
of New Jersey, to Portugal; and Ruff
Magee, of Indiana, to Sweden; L. NJ
Waller, of Connecticut, consul-general II
London; Frederick Raine, of Maryland
consul-general at Berlin; Edmund Jussen
of Illinois, consul general at Vienna
Norman J. Colman, of Missouri, commits
sioner of agriculture; Joseph L. Johnston
of Virginia, commissioner of railroads
Alexander McCue, of New York, solieito
of the treasury and A. Leo Knott, Q
Maryland, second assistant postmaster
: general. A number of Federal appoint
ments in various states, includin
postmasters, were also confirmed.