Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-04-04

Senator Sherman expects to visit
Europe aLout May LIST, remaining three
or four months. He will be accompanied
by Mrs Sherman.
Thomas b. Cochran, late chief clerk of
the senate OF Pennsylvania, and his
brother Harry, have purchased from
John A, Hiestsnd the Lancaster daily
and weekly Examiner. The price paid
is not stated.
Judge Lawrence, in New York, has con-
firmed the report Of the roferee awarding
Mrs. Helen G. Bishop an absolute divorce
from Washington Irving Bishop, the
mind reader. They were married in
December, 1886.
President Harrison received his first
months salary last week. 1t amounted
10 So 1888 8S, and was delivered to him in
the form of Treasury draft. 1t was for
the month OF March, minus the first three
days.
Il has been decided to consolidate the
Chattanooga University and the Grant
Memorial University of Athens, Tenn.,
uuder one board OF trustees selected from
Cincinnati, Chattanooga aud Athens, the
Athens members representing the society
AT large Iuo lnStttutioh WAts ~ AaoWA
as the Grant Memorial University. The
now trustees will meet at Chattanooga on
April 9. h TO elect the faculty.
The Secretary of State has received
report from our Consul at Colon saying
that work along the Panama Canal has
entirely ceased, and that the West India
negroes are returning to their homes. Up
to March 10th, fully 5000 OF the latter
had already left. The consul reports
great depression in business. The Pan
ANA railroad Company ia suffering from
the crisis, owing to the loss on local
traffic Ii appears that two unsuccessful
attempts have been made to burn Colon.
senator Pryor Carter of Macon county,
Tanpesaee. aad Mrs. QordeliG Jordon Of
NASHVILLE were united in marriage yester-
| day week IN the State senate chamber in
,he presence Of both houses of thegenerai
assembly, The ceremony was performed
nv Governor Taylor, this being the first
time that d marriage has been solemnized
in Tennessee by the governor. Both
branches OF tho Legislature Tuesday week
passed bill empowering the governor
and the speakers to perform the marriage
IN nnestiup. Tho members OF the senate
nrssented handsome silver service TO
he happy couple. The senator stands 8
feet inches in height and is 66 years old
and il one OF the leading members OF the
backwoods delegation. The bride is con-
siderably younger.
A telegram from Ensenada, Lower
California, says discovery is reported
there which is aaid to be filling the In
ternational Land Company people with
dread. 1t is said that, by mistake in the
English maps at the time of the treaty
az Guadaloupe Hidalgo, the boundary
line between tho United States and
Mexico was placed 60 miles too far north,
and that the real boundary terminates on
the Pacific ocean at q pointsome distance
south OF Ensenada. The treaty pre-
acribes that The line shall out the mouth
Of the Colorado river, but that English
maps-the only maps extant at that time
had the liila river, whose mouth is near
Yuma, incorrectly marked as the oolo-
RADIO river. The mouth Of the Colorado
river ia 60 miles south OF Yuma, at Point
Isabelle, and if the boundary line were to
he drawn from TINT point it wouid place
tbe Meaneadero, the town Of Ensenada
and ali the country north of those places
within tho Limit. vt the United States. ::