Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-05-09

day awarded to the Union Iron Works OF
san Freucisco, the contract for construct.
ing the great armored coast defence yes
sci, at a cost of 81, 628, 600.
Nearly $500 emigrants were landed at
Castle Garden on Sunday ,669 from
Liverpool, glS from Glasgow, 721 from
Copenhagen, ITO from Antwerp, 6b6 from
HAVE and 2Jl from Hamburg.
General Adam Il. King, formerly naval
officer at Baltimore, has, it Is said, been
decided upon at the state department Tor
consul general at Paris. The appointment
is attributed TO the close personal and
political friendship existing between
General King aud Secretary Blaine.
samuel Fessonden, treasurer of the
Cape God Ship Canal Company, has sued
The Boston Traveller FOR libel, laying
damages at 100000 On account of
special dispatch from Sandwich ON May
I'd alleging that Mr.. Fessenden had mys-
teriously disappeared and limiting at imam
cial irregularities.
The American Meat Company has been
organized in New York, with Warner
miller AS president aud ex Congressman
Belden of Syracuse AZ one OF the direc-
tors. The capital is said to be $685.
OO0, 600, aud 1t is said the company will
be a rival of the "Big Four dressed beef
combination. II will control large
ranches in the west and stock yard facili-
ties OF Kansas City.
A catboat, about IS feet long, with the
letter 'spn marked on the sail, was picked
upon Long Island Sound Monday after
noon bottom up and taken to City Island
A mans Goa. was found in the boat. The
same boat, it is aaid. was seen cruising In
the sound earlier in the dag, with q pleas
ure party of seven or eight persons on
board, and it is feared that the occupants
were drowned.
The Boston Morning Herald on Satur-
DAY received cable dispatch from Paris
| on the failure OF the copper conference,
| confirming dispatches 10 this effect that
| have appeared within day or two. The
amount of copper held for money adj
ynnced to the syndicate amounts to
It's, 600 tons, $50, 900 tens Of which is in
/ Paris, and the balance in London. The
| copper will, it Is stated, be put on the
open market and be soli for what It will
bring.
A warrant was issued in ooyington,
Tenn, for the arrest OF Henry Donald
son, cologed, who was charged with at
tempted assault on white woman.
Mayor Douglass was one Of the posse OF
10 man who went to Donaldson's cabin
on Saturday light to serve the warrant.
Donaldson put gun through the door
and fred, killing Mayor Douglass. The
posse at once retfeatee and Donaldson
escaped.
The battle OF Guiifori Couyl House, in
North Carolina, was fought in March,
1881. II was celebrated on Saturday BY
several thousand people, who gathered
on the spot. There was parade Of state
militia, headed by Is young ladies repre-
senting the original statss, and Senator
Vance delivered an grafton. Addresses
were also made by Governor Fowle
Chief Justice smith and other high state
officials. II is expected, two years hence
to dedicate on the fell monument &
General Greene.
The court OF claims Monday gave
, Judgment for $35 Dos in favor Of tho
state of Georgia in its suit against III,
United States TO recover money advanced
TO the government during the revolution
, airy war. The money had been withheld
f lie me accounting uiii,er
Of q Tt = 70 money du
! y "a ytru-l gae. Ets I.E
= Ine court held that as the state OF Geor
gia had never assumed the direct tax
there was no obligation on It's part 10 pa,
: the same aud that therefore, the ofse
, had been wropgtully made.
/, Lincoln Curtis, chief salesman To-
Conadou IL Aylsworth, wholesale boo
q and shoe dealers OF Providence, Rhod
i Island, was arrested Monday morning
! on the charge Of having embozzlet
b $4,000. 1t is said that his method wa
to ship goods to houses in New York am
A other cities, without entering the ship
4 ment on the books, and the money wa
: sent to him as chief clerk and he Kept il
i His workings covered q long period o
years, but suspicion has only lately bee
aroused by the upaccountsble disappear
L ance OF goods. he is said 10 have hs
I no bad habits. His case was continue
Q until the 14th inst.
;, At Lafayette, Louisians on Mon1a
u morning, an election being about to TAX
place, gang of rufiRns, armed wit
:, rides, surrounded the coutt house, yhil
Z larger armed bands remained last eutsid
the town, and proclaimed that no negr
IS would be allowed to vote at this m1nic
y pal election The sheriff attempting I
y bring IN voters they were driven hacl
N ana ne then entered the court house al
II closed the polls Later IN the day t.
sheriff arrested ten OF the regulators
" Inc governor has ordered force Of mi
D, itary to be ready 70 support the sheriff
9; necessary. Il is said that most Of Il
regulators were non.residents q Il
PARISH.
e, About month ego the time-lock {
] the outer door Of one Of the large yaul
B. IN the treasury Building In Washing!c
R, was taken apart and cleaned, and on i
n; ing replaced became diaarranged SO tn
B. when the door was closed it WAS foul