Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-12-09

Snow began falling at Memphis. Tenn. nj
o'clock friday afternoon, and by ii
nclork at night there were four inches on
the gtound. -
mo Detroit Pipe Foundry Company's
works In Detroit, were burned eatiy Fri
dlurnlng. Loss, S1OO 600: Insurance.
Siu,OOO. Onu hundred and fifty men are
tnrown ont Of work
j. Byrd, merchant, was murdered nj
dray's, Ark, on Thursday nigbt. by two
nsRroes. Their motive was robbery, but
they secured nothing, being frightened
away by passer- by.
Arnold's -four mill, at st. Cloud Mimi.
was wrecked and burned by IN explosion
on Thursday night Loss, 5GD,01O; insur,
ance, $4,000 Guslavus Krause, d miller.
was dangerously burned.
Eight cOiored men OF the crew of the
steamer Matte Bell arrived In 1t. Louis on
Ihnrsday night with badly frozen hands,
feht ana faces, they having been exposed
during the recent storm. The hands and
tatsd.
A house, occupied by family named
Powell, at Pennsylvania Furnace, near w.
rome, Pa, was destroyed by fire early Fri
lay morning, and two Of the sinmates-
John Barr and oDa Of the Powell children.
Woio buiutu 10 uNdln.
A report reached Chicago Friday that
~ car loads of cattle were ia danger of
freezing Oh the S.teator branch of the
Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy railroad.
Inc bridge over the Fox river was broken
and trains were stopped.
b + Perry, ex-governor Of South Caro-.
lima, dt Friday at his home in Green
VIE, 10 that state aged 81 yHars. He was
ways leader of the Union party, and was
appointed provisional governor Of tho state
by President Johnson In 1865.
The crop report of the state board Of
agriculture Of Ohio of the lst instant shows
tnat the wheat aTea sown was l0l per cent
estimated number Of acres, 2,74l ,0OD; com
dition, 81. The condition Of livestock was
generally good, excepting hogs. The hog
cholera prevailed In % counties Of the
state.
An unknown three.masted schooner. SUD-
posed to be the William J. Donnelly, from
Baltimore for Boston, with coal, went
ashore on Thursday on T. Hommedieu
Shoal, In Vineyard Sound. Signals Of dis
tress were still flying from her Friday,
but no assistance could be given owing to
the north west gale,
New Laredo, Mexico, was excited on
Thursday night over the arrest and i'm
prisonmant Of Pedro Morales, chief of
pOllct lne pTb9lubnL OF Lne municipal cOurt
and also the chief aleade OF the town, under
orders from the city of Mexico, whittier the
prisoners are directed to be forwarded, The
arrests grew out OF the capture and de-
livery to the Texas authorities, several
weeks ago, of Juan Coy, charged with the
murder of Sheriff Elder Of Karnes county,
Texas.
The Women's Christian Tempe rance
Uh on of ST. Louis Friday adopted the
folluwing Whereas the newspapers report
that Mrs. Whitney, wife OF the Secretary Of
tue Navy, not long since gave n dinner, at
which were present is ladies, Including
President Cleyelands young wife, but no
gentlemen; and, whereas, the papers re-
port that courses of different alcoholic drinks
were served; therefore, be II resolved, that
the W. q. T. u. Of Missouri, express their
deep mortitleation and regret that ladies' In
this high social position should themselves
set this had example to the people Of this
already drink diseased country; and, he 1t
further resolved, that the secretary OF this
convention transmit "a copy of this reso-
Luton TO Mrs. Cleveland"