Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-09-16

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A fire ut Middlebury, N Y, Thurda,
morning, destroyed several dwellings
stores and barns, causing n loss Of $35, 900
Mra Charlotte NJ. CLARK OF the Distric
Of Columbia, has been appointed tean
porary special agent TO examine th,
Indian school service.
Giles Millor, n Missouri stockman, waI
robbed OF $500 and mortally wounded b,
three unknown highwaymen in Stont
county, Arkansas, ON Tuesday week.
Governor Ireland Of Texas, has issuot
proclamation declaring quarantin,
against Biloxi and other places that art
now or may lie hereafter infected by yellow
fovor or other infectious diseases.
At Hamilton, Ontario, Thnrsday, Ea
ward Myers OF at. Louis, who stole R2, ,50t
ftom his employer and fled there, WA
sentenced tO Rix months Imprisonment
for bringing stolen money into Cnnada
A train on the Virginia Midland rail
road, due in Washington at $50 Tnurs
day morning, was wrecked by a land
slillo betwe,n Iynohburg and Charlotte
vile about 3 O'Clock. Two mon were in
jured.
The village OF Woodstock, Conn. cele
brsted Iis bi-centcnnial on Tuesday week,
Olaronce Winthrop Bowen read 4 llisior.
ical sketch, and there were prayers, read
ing Of poems, speechmaking, troe plant
ings, banqueis nnd fireworks.
Tho Treasury Department decide thai
wearing apparel boqneAthed to the person
who seeks to import it ia subject TO duty,
and free entry Of suoh apparel is limited
TO the effects belonging to persons nrriv,
ing in the United States and owned by
them before their arrival.
The governor of Minnesota on Tuesday
week received q telegram saying TINT
trainps and rioters were in possession OF
Campbell, comfy scat of Wilkin county.
lie at once telegraphed to the sheriff Of
tho county to enforce order, or, il unable
10 do so, 20 report to the governor.
In 0swego, N. Y, 10 days ago, Viii.
liam Shannon, aged So years. stabbed his
wife, aged so, twice in the back for
throwing dish water on him. tla waR ar
rested, but released on bail, as the doctors
ahid she would recover. Tlinrsdav nhe
died, il Is said from tho effects /,
wound, and Shannon was reArresteu.
Yates Dam, ON Walnut creek, near
Raleigh, N. o., broke Thursday morning.
Two mills, another dam and several
bridges wcro wrecked, and the loss is
ostimntod at nearly $l5,O00. A small
stream near Clayton also rose suddonly
Thnrsday morning. md swept away pnrt
Of an embankment on the North Carolina
railroad.
More cases Of pleuro. pneumonia are
reported in Manor township, Lancaster
county, tho hord Of John Frey, 81 in
number being infected. DIR. Bridge,
state veterinarian, yesterday Ind two Of
the animals killed and inoculated the re-.
nainder of the herd. The disease is re.
ported In several other sections of the
county,
A latlor to tho San Francisco bulletin
from Seoul, Oorea, says the deaths from
Asiatio cholera, from July 18th to July
25th, numbered 8, l40. Since then, from
267to i97 persons have died daily. Collins
could not he obtained and bodies were
wrapped in sncking. In many cases dogt
aud vulturos scratched away the lighi
covering Of earth and dovoured tho
bodies.
AT Hong Kong, on August 2Sth, p. Il
iieiiram, a cierk in ih5 Spaniali ConsuhIte,
forged tho name of Senior Menoarini, tho
Spanish consul, TO bill Of exchange for
$500 on tho chartered bank Of India,
Australia and China, drawn in favor OF
the Manila government, and iniue'
diatoly disappeared. II is believed that
he h,ls gcne TO British Columbia on u
Chinese barque.
John Enright and his wife, married Sun
day week, wero found dead in bod at their
room in Now York yesterday week. They
were last seen alive Monday week, The eap-
pearanoe of tho bodies indicated that they
had been dcnd Mt laast ~ hours. Tho lid
was partly of the cook stove III tho noxt
room, and the coroner's jury rendered a
verdict that the deceased came 10 thoir
death by mifocation, caused by mn acci
dental Bcape of coal gas from the stove
In the health department of the Anori
can social science association at Saratoga
yesterday wook, Dr. Grace Peekhan
OF New York, reRd u paper on NERVOUS
ness Of Americans. " She said nervousness
of Americans was due mainly to thu
higher form OF civilization, the excite
ment due to self-government and pro
gressivo ideas and tie airuggle TO wiz
large fortunes, and not TO climate or diet
II should be looked upon as mn attribute
not n stigma.
A Telegram from Hartford says the in
vcstigntiOn Of 4. Il. Plunkett'A Affairs, &C
far as II has gone, reveRls no defnlcntiol
whatever in tho Union Manufacturing
Company. In the ailk company it. il
found that, of tho s5l 900 worth OF pnpel
which plunkott had, S10,0 was not ne
gntinteh, and IS, 900 was put to tho use o.
the company. This reduces the amnun
to 800, 900 OF which some may yet b'
accounted for. Resides this, he tool
S25, 900 worth of negotiable paper, bu
does not appear TO hnye realized ON it.
Tho liglihun hoard giyos notice tina
the light. ship which was moored to mari
thc wreck Of the Oregon of the coast o
Long Island, Nov York, will bO remove,
on or about November LIST, 1856 Mari
ners are warmed that the removal of th'
light ship dOea not imply that tho DANCE
Inns eGnand 10 exist. Tho light-hous
bonrd cannot maintain light ship owe
mn obstruction for my hut tamporar!
period without special authority OF law
The danger has been marked for perio'
Of six months and n half, ample tim
hoing thus given for the wrecking OF 'l
vessel.
Pleuro pnenpnnin prevails largely II
IIunters Point and Maspeth, Lon
Island, whence large portion of th
supply Of milk used in Brooklyn is OF
tainod. In one stable, owned by M
Rosenberg. 96 cows have diod within tw
months and five within n few days. j
Wnndrecker has lost nine COWS from tn
diseaso within two weeks, Milk from tll
sick COWS hns been sent TO Brookly
dnily. The discovery OF the disease WI
made accidentally through the shori
lovying on llOsenborg's cattlo. Hehlt
Officer Wickham reports that tho diseai
prevails in nearly every stable III u
vicinity.
A great Lutheran reunion was hold ye
terday week at Pen Mar, ON tho Blue ltidt
Mountains, of the junction of tho stat
Of Maryland, PenpsS lvania and we
Virginia. Fully $4,000 members of u
church nsaomblod there from NIL pom
within u radius of 200 miles. Abont
prominent clergymen were present fro
Harrisburg, York, Pennsylvania, Bait
more and Washington. Religious exc
csos were held in tho open air, Luther
battle hymn WIS sung, addresses WI
Innde 10y several ministers, and mus
was furnished by tho Marine band, who
accompanied tho Washington contingen
In the trial of j. B. Alannix, cx-nssign'
of tho Purcell estates in Cincinnati, Il
fondant Thursday testified in his ov
behalf. lie admitted with tears IN i
eyes that out of tho money which shou