Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-09-02
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lawyer OF GOrthinoutn, flrgllnh, dled
suddenly Friday morning.
The treasury department has decided
that cases containing razors are dutiable
at tho rRte of 100 per cent ad valorem.
1t is said that Secretary Manning ap
poarsto be gaining In health and strength
and seems unusually bright and cheerful
In spirits.
The United States practice ahips Con-
stelIation and JRmestown arrived at An.
napolis, Md, Friday, with tho naval
cadets ON board.
Professor Thomas ]. Girardeeu, for
merly editor Of the Houston (Texas) Post,
died Ia Galveston on Thursday night.
He was born in 1890.
During the past year the Alaska Seal
Company, under II contract, took 30 $3.50
aeal skins, in return for which II paid the
government $262, ,437.
Fire In the freight house Of the Della
ware a. Hudson canal company's railroad,
at Saratoga, N. Y, on Wednesday week,
caused loss Of $4,000.
Tho business failures occurring In the
United States during the past seven days
number III, and in Uanadn 30 ; n total OF
20l az against 1856 last week.
A farmer, named Wells, living at Willis
Station, Mich, killed his wife OH Thurs
day by cutting her throat. They had a
quarrel over piece of property.
During tho absenoeof the commissioner
OF Indian affairs and the assistant seere-
tary Of the same office, Miss Minnie S.
Cook is acting Ms the head of the Indian
Office.
William Newbaum, q fireman at the
Pennsylvania Steel Works ut Harrisburg,
was fatally scalded Thursday, by the
bursting of o flue in one of the steam
boilers in tho rail mill.
The Gloucester schooner Howard drove
from her moorings at Portugal Cove dur
ing storm ON Wednesday week. The
ship and her cargo Of fish are total
loss. The crew were saved.
The receipts on account of the postal
service during the quarter ended March
9lst last were $11 ,53S. .63l; expenditures,
$l2,789, ,43s. The sale of postage stamps,
cards, 40, amounted to $l0,92i,523
A dispatch from Garter county, Tenn,
RayH John Ransom and James q. Gaines
have been oourting the same girl. A few
nights ago they met al her house, and in
her presence Gaines shot his rival dead.
Nathaniel Stillman Bates was hanged
at Richmond, Indiana, Thursday. He
murdered his wife in March last. He
made speech saying he was guilty, and
was glad and rehdy TO die.
George W. Brewer died of paralysis in
OhamberHburg, Pa, Thursday, aged Ga
years. Ho served az district attorney for
ka1 Ill lftNa VHa
Adams counties in the state senate from
1856 to 1863.
An earthquake shock was felt In Sum
merVills, South Carolina, Friday morn
Ing. The Lhook lasted several seconds
and was preceded by o dull rumbling,
followed by sound as of cannonshot
fire at distance.
The comptroller OF the currency has
declared dividend OF 100 per cent and
interest in full in favor of the creditors
of the Arlington National Dank, of Abing-
ton, Massachusetts. The bank closed its
doors on July list.
The jury in the case of John e, Duffy,
for the murder of Edward Gardner, in
New Orleans, Wednesday night week re-
turned verdict of guilty without capital
punishment. This was the third trial,
the jury in the previous trials having
failed to agree.
Captain William Cook, who served
ereditably in the war and suffered in
Libby prison, and who has since been q
professor at Harvard College and the
Institute of Technology in Boston, acoi-
dentally shot himself at Chatham, Mass. +,
Friday and died that night.
The special examiners in Pittsburg
have completed the investigation of ex-
Chief Pension Clerk Gays accounts. They
found that the shortage amounts to
$1l, 1887. Each account of the lS,oON
pensioners of the district had TO be gone
over separately and compared.
Henry Bergh has notified Lewis E.
Cook that the proposed attempt to have
the horse Blondin walk tight rope oven
Niagara Falls is contrary to the laws
governing cruelty TO animals, and that II
the attempt ia made he will lay himself
Liable to be arrested and prosecuted.
A dispatch from jackson, Miss, sayt
that Thomas ii. Johnston, who killed
Joseph Bolton at Brandon, on June 29th
Rnd who was recently indicted by th'
grand jury, was Thursday pardoned BY
Governor Lowry. The testimony showet
that Bolton had betrayed Johnston'i
daughter.
The barque Allnnwilde, at New Yorl
Friday from Matanzas, reports that OF
August 23d she foil in with the ship Viz
ginia Of Bath, Maine, with signals Of dis
tress flying. She was In sinking condl
tion. The Allanwilde took of the captain
and Grew, 20 all told, and landed them a
New York.
At the session of the German Evangeli
cal synod, in Buffalo, New York, Thurs
day, q change in tho seminary course wa
suggested, requiring a five-years' cours
in the seminary, ut Chicago, before th
graduate can teach, and three year
more at the st. LOuis Seminary befor
he can preach.
Editor Cutting has published IN addres
to the people Of the United States, Il
which he thanks the citizens Of Ell Paso
the press of Texas and Consul Brigham
for the interest taken in his case and th
assistance rendered him. He ends b
abusing Mexico and her institutions, m
hopes the United States will invade an
conquer the whole country.
A number of prominent manufacturer
from different parts of the country nae
In Chicago Thursday in response to cal
to consider the subject of convict laboi
and devise means of employing th
- prisoners confined in the penitentiary
The wardens of the various prisons di
fered in their opinions on the subject c
the damage done to honest labor by I'll
convict system.
Misses Sarah Gardner of New York
Susan Easton of Albany Emma Eberlet {
Philadelphia, and Mira Kennedy of y
Louis, left New York Saturday, on IL
steamer Umbrin, for missionary work
India. They were rendered q farewell n
oeption Friday by the Woman'a UniO
missionary Society, at the residence OF Y
corresponding secretary, Miss ,.
Doremus.
The slaughtering and cremation of o
the infected and suspected cattle ut Il
SiaquarRntine in Quebec, was complete
Saturday, but, M an additional me
anre of precantion, the county of Levi
within radius of hnlf mile from Il
quarantine station, hns been place
under quarantine for three months. Fac
transgresRiun of the quarantine will
punished by fine of $4O0.
A despatch from Galveston, TexAs, so.
that Captain William Moore and part
who were supposed to have been lost
the recent storm of Indianola, reach'
their destination In safety. The disco
cry OF their boat bottom upward In Ms
tagorda bay gave rise to the belieye th
shey were lost. Captain Bailey who wi
alao reported "a Lost, managed TO sa