Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-01-07
IN GENERAL.

The next Connections Legislature will be |
asked TO appropriate 81 500 or $4,000 to |
assist the Hartford foot guard in trip to
London.
Cheshire Mass. farmers are disposing
of their surplus apples at $l0n ton, TO be
shipped to mince meat factory in
Mexico.
John Z. Owens, the comedian, was
Monday taken from his country seat to his
house in Baltimore. There is little change
in his condition.
]. b. Quimet, his son and two brothers
in-law, were drowned Tuesday while
crossing the ice on small lake in Argen-
teuil county, Quebec.
Tho United States dispatch boat ar
rived at Fortress Monroe Friday morn
ing. She made the run from Newport to
Cape Henry in 25 hours.
The Potomac river excursion steamer
America was burned Tuesday morning
at the wharf Mt Alexandria, Virginia. The
vessel was valued at $50, 900.
b. Harris, ex-member of the Legisla-
lature Of Alabama, committed suicide in
Lee county, in that state on Thursday.
Pecuniary trouble was the cause.
Mr.. and Mrs. DIR. Guildford were ar
rested Friday in Linn, Massachusetts,
on the charge Of malpractice, causing the
death of Sadie L. Taylor, aged 23 years.
During n prayer meeting, at Indian
Run, Greenup county, KY, on Sunday,
| Charles McAllister and Charles Martin
quarreled. McAllister fatally stabbed
Martin and then fled.
John f. Vogeler, aged 55 years, was
fatally injured near Camden station, Bal
timore, on Monday, by crossing the track
in front of an engine after he had been
warned not to do SO.
The First National Bank of Lake City,
Mimi. suspended in consequence of arun,
and will go into liquidation. The depos-
itors will lose nothing, the stockholders
being able to meet all demands.
Thomas Lyde and Thomas Sharp, both
colored, caught in the act of setting fire TO
the cotton of farmer nenr Crawford,
Ala, were taken from the Jail at that place
Monday week and lynched by mob.
Lorenzo Snow one of the twelve npos.
ties of the Mormon church, was convicted
at Salt Lake City, on Thursday, of I'M
lawful cohabitation. He is ~ years OF
age and has seven wives and % children.
The pension agent Mt Pittsburg on Mon.
day issued to Alexander Gilchrist of In
diana, Pa, back pay aggregating $12, 157
. Gilchrist is a blind, decrepit old man
and had been in the poorhouse for !.
years.
The Cunard steamer Pavonia arrived n
! Boston Friday from Liverpool, having
| made the passage from port to port ii
. eight days, 15t hours. This is the quickes
passage yet made between Liverpool an'
! Boston.
Five prisoners, four of them murderers
: escaped from the county Jail at Charles
1 ton, W. Va. on Sunday night. They over
powered the night guard and rushed on
of the Jail before the jailer could fastel
the outergates.
:, Col. Irvine Of the Northwest mounte,
!, police, reports that the Indians iu TIM
!. region are behaving better than they hay
- done for the last two years His intoi
q views with the Bloods and Piegans wer
particularly satisfactory.
The steamer City of Chester gronnde
r Friday near Eureka, California, and
n is feared. will be total wreck. He
v passengers were saved. She is I'm iro
o vessel was built by John Roach in 1873
v and was valued at 100000.
n John B.Archer md David Craine, men
> bers of what is known MS the 'Arche
e gang" have been arrested in Indiana, til
Il former near Vincennes and the latter a
is Shoals, for the murder of John b. Burcl
e committed four years ago.
x There was fight between smugglei
L and customs guards, near Mier, Mexico
e on Wednesday week, in which one smul
u gler was killed and several were wounded
l. The customs officers captured valuabl
u lot of silks, laces and velvets.
n Heavy rains have fallen in wester
~ Pennsylvania, causing rise in the SUI
Ia quehanna river and its tributaries, sweeI
~ ing away bridges over the smaller stream
=, and causing landslides on the Philade
= phia " Erie railroad, near WILLIAMSON
d Brigham Young Hampton, convicted i
m Salt Lake City of conspiracy to entra
g. Federal officials and other prominel
1t Gentiles by means of lewd women, wa
re sentenced TO one years imprisonment /
the county iail-the maximum penalty {
n the law.
, AT Allentown, Pa, yesterday, Fran
" Murdoch, Frank McGovern, John Hal
rington and William Daley were arraigne
d for the murder of the Polander foun
d dead at Catasauqua, on December 21s
/ The evidence is said to point to Murdoc
If as the guilty man.
70 The Warrior river has risen 60 feet {
y Tuscaloosa, Ala. At Greensboro, in Ill
same state, 63 inches of rain have falle
e in 10 hours. Nearly all the railroads
y Alabama have been damaged by wasl
e outs, but the interruption has lasted onl
IL few hours.
y AT Jersey City, Tuesday, the Jury i
"a the case of Am Ende, the druggist on trii
"a for causing the death of Marguerite Holt
"a by putting up morphia instead of quinn
n in filling prescription, returned verde
n OF mot guilty" There is another Indie
ment against him for also causing III
= death of Miss Ella Holtz.
p Addie Davis 20 years of nge, of Sarnif
1t Ontario, committed suicide in Toronto O
l. Thursday evening by swallowing cnrboli
Ii acid. She WIS of respectable an
l. wealthy family, but hnd fallen from yirtu
e while visiting in Toronto, and destroye
d herself because OF her shame,
If A census of Charleston South Carolin,
n was completed last week, which Shove
l. population of go, IDS, against 49, 934 i
e 1850, I'm increase of over 90 per cent
4 The colored population is 80, $40, and
o Is stated that the colored surplus consist
l. mainly Of children.
u Lieutenant James NJ. Jones, aged 3
&c years, of the Fodrth United States Arti
y lery, committed suicide by shooting hin
. self at Fort Adams, Newport, yesterda
week. He had recently outs;ayed
u leave of absence, and, il is supposed
y feared a court-martial.
~ The Chicago Railtoay Age saws the toto
+ length of main railway line. NOT h,clnd
# ing second track, sidings or renewals, lai
NJ in the United States during 1885 wa
u BIB miles. The principal activity ho
y been i'll the southern states and in the bel
between the Missouri river and the Pacifi
4 states and territories.
il The Lancaster National Bank, of Clip
Ii ton, Mass, has closed its doors. II
It president, w. H. Mcneil, who is charge,
with having used the banks money /,
Is speculations, disappeared Tuesday week
n The City Institution for Savings, o
It Lowell, has $4,000 on deposit In th
}, Lancaster Bank
u Governor Knott, in his annual messae
! TO the Kentucky legislature, read Thurs
day, speaks of 1.-THE deplorable condition
OF the state finances, chiefly attributed 1,
bad assessment" and suggests ms q remed,
thorough revision of the states reyenu,
system for uniform and fair assessmen
Il on taxable property.
d DIR. Bridges, state veterinary surseon
u Tuesday -killad Hva oottla q al; = o 81,