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Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-18
LICENSED BY THE
II N L It e ID : II A It f s
A U7HORITY
S.. q. THOMPSON g. CO.'S
GREAT
ONE DOL L AR S LIE

SC. THOMPSON g. CO.'S
GREAT
ONE DOLL l. AR s ALE
Dry Gods, Dress Goods, Linsns, cottoss, FANCY
GOODS Albups, Bibles Silrcr-Pla,ed Ware,
Cutlery, Lether and German Gcoas
ofepcry description, dc.
These articles will be sold at the uniform price Of
ONE DOLLAR EACH,
and not tn BE pal for until You know what you are
The IN ,st popular and economical method of doing
business in the country.
The goods we have for Sale are described on print
Of 10 cents each g pay for potage, printing &c II
is then at the option of holders whether they will
send one dollar for the article or not.
BY PArRoNlzING THIS SALE you have chance to
exchange your goods should the article entioned
on the printed slip not be desired.
Tbs Smallest Articles sold for ONE DOLLAR can be
exchanged for S,iuerplated, Fiue-Boitled Re.
roluing Castor, or your Choice Of large
Variety Of other articles upon
Eachange List,
comprising over $50 useful articles, not of whi:h
could be bought any retail country store for near
lyNdouble the amount
TERMS TO AGENTS.
We send as commission to Agents
For Club of Thirty and $500
one Of the following articles Musket, Shot Gun,
or Austrian Fife 70 Yards Cotton. .Ladys Fancy
sss Of wGI KNIVES snd oE Von and
Bow Fancy Dress Pattern, Pair Ladies extra quality
Cloth Boots, one dozen large Linen Towels, Alham-
bra Quilt, Honeycomb Quilt, Cottage Clock, White
Wool Blanket, 10 yds best quality print IL yds De-
laine, dozen Linen Napkins, etc.
For u Club of Sixty and $500.
One Of the following articles Revolver. Shot Gun,or
Sailts cslinder Watch4 ysrs DoSs wiStS Wstsr
proof Coakng, Ladys D Juble Wool Shaw, LANCASTER
Qnilt Alpaca Dress Pattern, Engraved SilvcrPlated
six-bottsd Revolving Castor, SCI Of Ivory-handled
Knives, with Silver-plated Forks, Pair OF Atwood
Blankets pair Of ALEXANDRA lns, 80 yards print, or
Webster's National Pictorial Dictionary 600 engrav-
ings. 900 pages), 81 yards Docskin for suit, etc.
For club of One Hundf ed, and $1,000.
Double barrel shot gun, rifle cane, Sharps rifle, s.
yards sheetins fancy cashmere coat pants ana vest
fancy plaid wool long shawl, 20 yds hemp carpeting
splendid violin and bow splendid Alpscca dress pat.
gun, Sharps revolver one pair fine uamask table
covers, with one dozen dinner napkins to match,
worcesters Illustrated Unabridged Dictionary usoo
AZ For additional list of commissions, see circular
COMMISSIONS FOR LARGER CLups IN PROPORTION.
Agents will please take notice OF this. Do not send
names, but number your clubs from one upward.
Make your letters short and plain ms possible
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE OF THIS;
rn-Be sure and send money in all cases by Regis
tered Letter. which can be sent from any Post ONCE.
This way of sending money is preferred to any
other method whatever.
We cannot be responsible for money lost, unless
some precautions are taken to insure Its SAFETY.
SEND FOR CIRCULARS.
Send your address in full. Town County, and State
S. @. Thompson &c Co.,
1876 Federal street,
marls4w BOSTON, MASS.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-18

rB- Ladies wishing Childrens Clothing made and
perfect satisfaction guaranteed should go to
A. u e. STEVENSON,
7l2 Market street.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-18

tS- A. Dc Il. Stevenson are the agents of the cele-
brat, Florence Sewing Mainline which has given
.iversi satisfaction and took the premium ut the
Paris Exposition in 1867. Those In want of y good
machine ahuu,h call aud them nj Ti2 Market st.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-18

TAYLOR q JAcKsSN's AoADEMY.-The spring
term of this excellent institution will commence
March goth. Catalogues may be had by address,
ing the principals.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-18

~ Laiies asd Misses Mcrino Vests, Trimmings,
Hosiery. Bindings, Buttons, &C., for Boys Clothes AT
A. Il Il. STEVENSON'S,
TIl Market street
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-18

PLEASANT SURPRIsE.-Some of the congre5a-
ton of Asbnry NJ. e. Church called at the resi-
dencc of their pastor Rev. J. d. Curtis last Mon
day evening, and presented him with handsome
gown, and his wife with lot of muslin and fine
silk dress.
On last Thursday evening the teachers and larg-
or scholars of 81. Pauls Sunday School surprised
their pastor, Rev. A. Rittenhouse, very pleasantly
by calling and presenting him with a silvertca set
and gown.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-18

S5OOOsHn%s' new ss and valuable ~ s
ton. Address j. AtEARN G3 Second St., Baltimore,
Md, feb19 Iw
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-18

Sales of Real Estate.
W. B. Collins has purchased of George Miller
a house and lot OF half an acre in the village O
Newark, for $1,000.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-18

The Chestertown Transcript continues to dis
correspondents. What it is all about, we have
not time to learn. We find no local news in the
paper which is what we, as well as its readers.
want.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-18
spsetal gutiess.
SHIRTS

Made Of New York Mills Muslin and Linen Fronts
for $50 per Dozen warranted to At, at
WYATT d GARRETTS,
Gents Furnishing Store,
nov7-1yw %. C21 Market st., Wilmington, Del.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-18

Mr.. Jump introduced bill TO charter lottery
grant to George w. 8. Nicholson, for a term Of
twenty years, for the sum OF 100000, to be paid
which was read
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-18

C,HEArEsr LADIES'
Hair Dressing stove In Phiiada,
AT GLADISG e GoLDYs,
No, 92s South St., Philadelphia,
B--Combings made INTO Brads and Curtis.
martini
MARYLAND Collar & SADDLE coMrANS'
PATENT ELASTIC RUBBER LINED COLLARS,
SADDLES AND PADS,
Warranted not to Gall Horses, but will Heal Her
ses already Called under Work.
No. 81 GERMAN ST., SEtE EUrAw, BALTIMORE
For Samples and Testimonials apply to
HOMER BARRY,
noyia-tmar1o 10 Water St.. wilmington
THOR SALE-lawton agd Dorchester Blackberry
II plants IS per III usand. Asparagus Plants "a per
thou aud Concord Grape Vines x years oldl Si2 per
hundred A large quantity Of Silver Pine and other
febsS-itw Lovevilla, Del
csToREKEEPERs In the country may order print
y ing by mail and have 1t executed as carefully.
quickly and cheapy as they gave the order in per-
son. D''e'' y DELAWARE TRIsuNE OFFICE,
Wilmington, Del.
AN ASSORTMENT OF TABLE CUTLERY nne-
n qualled in the state can he seen a. ,,o,s
!. A. ROBINSON ~ Cos,
Second and MarlSetsts'
,NIjasti.oT OF CLOVER AMI TiMorhi sE~i
AVE" '''' J. A. ROBINSON q cos.
oil and Market SITS
TABLE FORKS separate" from Knives eau be
| had NJ !. A. ROBINSON 4 COS,
Second aud Market sis
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-03-18
MORO PHILLIPS,

Sole Proprietor and Manufacturer
March let, 1869. mat15 9m-w
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-28

is only too much disposed to listen to such
advice. On rising market, therefore, il
the holder is willing to let go in time, the
adventure becomes successful
Suppose the stock does not advance nor
define How long will it take for the in
terest and expenses due this broker to eat
up the $1,000 margin?
Now suppose the stock takes turn
downwards-as lately we have seen-fall-
ing 20 per cent in day. Mr.. Clerks
stock is sold for what it will bring, and be-
fore he can get flash from his broker, he
has lost his margin and mortgaged his flu
ture for another $1,000. AT best, suppose
the fall to be gradual. The clerk holds on
hoping for turn. His $1,000 margin is
gone, he borrows another $1,000 and that
goes into his brokers' hands, and finally,
disguised with the whole thing, he sells
out at what the stock will fetch--losing
his first $1,000 and, say one-half of his
second margin. # he is wise, he will
thank God it is no worse, and record a
vow in Heaven that he never will buy one
dollar of stock above what he has money
to pay for Cleoeldnd Herald.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-28

quences. 1t finds pain annexed to certain
actions, and that their commission entails
inevitable punishment There is no lur-
ing or lying here, no empty threats, no
false promises. Nature not only incul-
Gates moral code, but reduces it to mex
orable truth by enforcing stern, moral
discipline. And, because it is obviously
truthful and honest, and based on the
reality of things, it is accepted as reason
able and right. Even her scale of justice
is recognized and admitted. There is a
proportion, confessed harmony, between
offence and penalty; slight transgressions
entail slight punishments, more serious
improprieties provoke graver conse-
quences. The whole policy is just, faith
full kind, ana true. Indeed, if there is
one term which more fifty than any other
marks the policy of Nature in her contri-
buttons to human character, that term is
geractty.
Let Nature, then, be exonerated from
this infamous charge, as she has done her
part faithfully and in the right direction !;
and, in relieving her Of this imputation,
we clear the way for fixing the response
bility where it justly belongs. -App'etons'
Journal
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-28

had become frozen. For q few minutes
the balloon kept ascending and then, as
the gas escaped, it reached an equipoise.
and moment after commenced gradually
to descend to the earth, Every instant in.
creased the downward speed. The pro.
fessor says that he heard the cloth tearing
the rents enlargng, until, with crash that
sounded like death-knell, the cloth gave
way to the pressure, opening seam on
both sides from the bottom to the ton.
The gas escaped instantly, leaving not
thousanth cubic feet, while the air rushed
in, filing up the vacuum the balloon act.
ing as parachute. The professor gives
it as his opinion that at the height of two
miles there was not foot of gas in the
balloon. The CLOTH bellying out, formed
strong resistance to the atmosphere, and
retarded the descent He remembers dis.
tinctly passing through a cloud, and the
sensation on regaining sight of the earth
He has an almost indistinct recollection of
approaching the earths surface, A dull
moaning like the surging of the waves
greeted his ears, the Tapping Oft the cloth
became louder, and moment after he
became unconscious. On regaining his
senses he found himselflying in the woods,
and his balloon was some yards distant.
Several persons who had seen the balloon
descend had come to the scene ard were
standing near. They atterward assisted
him. His arms and legs were badly
bruised, and himself stunned, but no bones
were broken or internal injury sustained.
The spot where he fell was seven miles
from Bay City, He stopped over night at
a farm house near by, and yesterday morn
ing returned to Bay City. The time that
he was in the air was less than so minutes,
and the reason that he was not carried fur
ther was on account Of passing through
different currents of air.-S1sinao, Mich,
LMtegprlSe
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-28
A Dull Clerk.

Pickernel a successful dry goods mer
chant of Boston, was waited upon at his
hotel by gentleman farmer who was de-
sirous of getting boy, for whom he was
guardian, "place" in Boston-of course
he was an uncommonly smart boy, quick
at figures, strong of intuition, and one
every way fit, as he should Judge" to be-
come a merchant Pickernel thought it
over, and said he would try and make q
place for him. In due time the boy arrived
at pickle lers store, his broad face ruddy
with health, and soapy from the morning
wash, his hair slicked, his clothes new and
uncomfortable, and stiff dickey cutting
his ears He announced himself as the
boy, &c.
"Ah, you are the boy, ere your" said
Pickernel
Eyes, l 'spose So" replied the young
ster.
"Well, come in here, then; I'm very
busy, but will examine you in few prac
teal questions"
The boy came in, and, sitting down on
the desk, swung his heels underneath it as
though he felt entirely at home, waiting
the questions.
"Wen," said Pickernel, "suppose a
lady should come in here and buy dress
of fifteen and half yards of calico
for eleven and a halt cents a yard, what
would it come to-"
The boy looked at his questioner at the
ceiling, a. the floor, in state of great be-
wilderment.
"How much caliker? ?" he asked
"Fiheen and a half yards"
"What priceY'
eleven and a half cents"
He thought moment
"Well, said he, "pm darned if | be-
leve any woman ever wanted so much
cloth for a dress as that"
This was throwing up the sponge, and
Pickernel put another question.
Chow much would five and q half
pounds of tea come to at sevensy-tiye cents
and three-quarters per pound"
He received this pretty much the same
as the other, and after waiting minute
he asked:
"Was it green or black tea?'
Without answering, Pickernel put an
other question;
"Suppose should send you out with a
| twodollar bill, and you should buy four
teen and a half pounds OF beef at seven
and half cents a pound, how much
money would you have lett?'
The boy looked at him for an instant,
and then INDUCED in low whistle,
"You don't spose,' said he, "you could
get beef anywhere at seven and hall
cents pound, do ye?'
Pickernel gave up at this. He asked
him no more questions, but sent him back
next day with letter, stating that he
/ didn't think he would answer.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-28
A Romantic Incident.

The interruption of travel on the Erie
Railway, owing to the recent great storm,
occasioned bit of romance worth record
ing. Mr. Irving ID. Booth, of Elmira, and
Miss Esther d. Shaw, of Middletown, N.
Y, were to have been united in wedlock
on Wednesday. The bridegroom, accom-
panied by his friends, started on Tuesday
morning for the wedding. At Deposit,
owing to the damage done to the railroad
track by the storm, trains could run no
further. Here was dilemma. The tele-
graph wires were broken down, so that he
could not communicate to his bride the
cause Of his detention, and the prospects
of the track being repaired for some days
were anything but encouraging Faint
heart never won fair lady" he thought,
and accordingly resolved to brave all dan
gers and difficulties and push forward as
best he could and endeavor to get to Mid
dletown in time to assume the marital OBJ
legations At Middetown the bride and
friends had made all the preparations for
an elegant wedding; but, when they as
certained that no trains would arrive from
the West, they postponed the ceremony,
The bridegroom and friends, despite the
many obstacles. pushed bravely on, some
times on foot, in wrecking trains and on
hand cars, until they arrived at Port Ter
Wis, where they took a passenger train,
and arrived almost in time for the wedding,
as first announced, the marriage being
duly celebrated on Thursday .-Rrchaage.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-28
Fisk, Jr., in Washington.

George Alfred Townsend writes to the
Chicago Tribune, under recent date;
limitations have been given out in sew
eral quarters that we are to be gratitied
with glimpse of the combined Erie and
Tammany ring in Washington this win
ter, New York being, for the future alto
gether too small a theatre for their per-
formances Whether it be Sweeney, or
Gould, or Fisk, Jr., Is not clearly made
out, but Fisk, Jr., has been here already.
1t was in this wise:
Mr. Riley dry goods merchant on the
avenue, says that, some few years ago,
when his patience had been pretty well
run down by dry goods drummers, he was
amazed to see enter his store stoutlsh,
stylish young man, dressed like a blue-jay,
in velvet, and varnish, and gold seals, who,
calm as horse jockey, said
RILEY, my names Fisk; | want to sell
you some goods"
81 don't want any goods, of any sort
"Riley, you do! You want just the
goods | have, Riley, and | mean to sell
them to you. | want you, old boy, to re-
port yourself at the Metropolitan Hotel
this evening, and I'll fix you off with some
goods that you'll be ruined without"
Mr., Riley says that the rollicking gray
ity of the man was original and he found
himself, presently, promising to go to the
/ hotel.
When he arrived there the same night,
he was ushered up to pair of parlors.
In the back room were the ribbons, SAM
Piles, and iimcracks of the future financier,
and through the half opon door Riley
could see in the other par,or, gathered
about an elaborate champagne spread,
some forty Senators, Representatives, and
heads of departments, Fisk slapping them
familiarity, making everybody roar with
laughter, and otherwise showing the most
ancient forms of friendship with each and
| every one Of them.
"Come in," he said to Riley, "heres
the tatted calf that died squealing for
you"
moi" sad Riley, al won't go in there.
don't drink"
"All right, Riley, old boy" said Fisk.
Keep your upper story clear; that's my
little game"
Fisk look here, how long have you
! known those men,"
Never met one of them before to-day
| set them spread. always lay nest
/ egg like this, you know"
1t presumable that Fisk, therefore, will
not be without friends when ne comes to
| Washington.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-28
Our Presidents.

THERE have leen fifteen persons elected
by the people to the office of President OF
the United States. OF this number the
present incumbent is tNe only survivor 1t
is true that Messrs. Fillmore and Andrew
johnson, who were chosen Vice. presidents
and became Presidents by the deaths OF
their chiefs, Taylor and Lincoln, are still
living This is extraordinary mortality.
The first President, Gen Washington,
died while the second President was in
Office.
The fourth President, James Madison,
and the fifth, James Monroe, expired dur
ing the administration of President jack
son. But the fifth President, James Mon
roe, died five years before the fourth,
James Madison.
The sixth President, John Quincy
Adams, lived until 1S4S, and died when
James X. Polk, the tenth President, was
in office.
The seventh President, Gen. Andrew
Jackson, died three years before his pre-
decessor, the sixth President, viz, in 1915.
The eighth, Martin Van Buren,, died
in 1866, when Andrew johnson was in
Office.
The ninth, Gen. Harrison, expired one
month after his Inauguration, in 1871.
The tenth, James X. Polk, 'ied within
three months after leaving the office, in
May, 1S49.
Gen. Taylor, the eleventh President,
died in Office in July, 1850.
Gen. Franklin Pierce the twelfth Pres
dent, has just deceased, being the last sur
vivor of the ex-Presidents.
His successor, James Buchanan, depart
ed this life in June of last year, being the
thirteenth President
Abraham Lincoln, the fourteenth Presi-
dent, as is well known, was assassinated
in April, 1865, being the second month OF
his second term.
We give below table showing the
number of years each President lived after
the expiration of his Presidential term,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-28
Gambling in Stocks.

ALL over the laud men Of great m ans,
and men OF limited means, and men with.
out means gamble in stocks. A clerk, for
instance, by working nights ana by frugal
living has laid up thousand dollars, He
proposes to invest that in stocks. But he
does not purchase just what that 1000
will buy; he uses the entire amount for a
margin. The stock he selectes for pur.
chase is ruling at par, we will say. He
sends on his $1,000 inStructing his broker
to purchase $4,000, par value, of the
stock. The broker loans the clerk $4,000,
which he puts with the clerks $1,000 and
buys the $4,000 in stock The stock goes
into the brokers' hands as security for the
loan, the clerk is credited with $1,000 and
charged with the $4,000; and interest
commences to draw-like a mustard plas.
ter on sick mans stomach. So long as
the stock purchased holds its own and the
$1,000 is good for the interest, the broker
will carry the debt, provided Mr. Bro.
ker himself does not get hard us; in
which case the clerks stock "goes In A
spout
But suppose the broker honest and able,
i the stock purchased goes up; all's we'll.
The great danger then is that the clerk
will hold on too long, for with the market
daily rising, the brokers advice usually Is,
hold on for further rise, = while the clerk
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-28

"A man in Tennessee lately bought a
bottle Of cherry brandy, and after using it
threw the cherry pits in the yard, when
the chickens slowed them away in their
crops. His wife going out soon after, saw
the chickens lying around the yard appa-
rently dead and told an old negro woman
that she might pick the feathers off them
for her bed, which she Immediately did.
The surprise of the lady may be imagined
when, the next morning at early dawn,
she heard old chanticleer delivering his
usual morning salute, and the hens cackling
as though nothing had happened. A
funny sight it was on looking out, to see
every hen and rooster, young and old,
marching around cycling each other with
suspicion, many of them entirely naked,
while only few had wings and tail feath-
ers. The cherry pits had made them
drunk.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-28
StinlulantS.

There is time when the pulse lies low
in the bosom and beats low in the veins,
when the spirit sleeps which, apparently
knows no waking, sleepsinits house of clay,
and the windows are shut, the doors hung
in the invisible Grape of melancholy
when we wish the golden sunshine pitcliy
darkness, and wish to fancy clouds where
no clouds be. This + a state of sickness
where physic may be thrown to The dogs,
for we wish none of it, What shall raise
the spirit? What shall make the hca
beat music again, and the pulse through
all the myriad thropged halls in the house
of lifeg What shall make the sun kiss he
eastern hills for us with all his old awak-
euing gladness, and the night over.
flow with moonlight, love and flowers
Love itself is the greatest stimulant the
most intoxicating of all, and performs all
these miracles, and is miracle itself,
and is not at the drug store, whatever they
say. The counterfeit is in the market, but
the winged god is not money changer,
we assure you,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-28

GoDEY's LADY's BooK-Godey, in the
November number, presents some very fine illus
trations 10 his subscribers. His steel plate fashion
plate, and tinted picture are all that could be de
sired as embellishments. In addition is gwen an
extension sheet containing thirtynine illustrations
of articles especially designed for ladies and
children an extra plate OF children
fashions front aud back view of opera cloak
and design for homemade toilet table A great
variety of useful designs for fancy work are also
given in the work department. capital story ap-
pears in this number written by Mrs. Hopkinson,
entitled Scenes connected with the Life ola Weak
Man Marion lIarland, Mrs. Victor Miss Frost,
aud other welEknown writer's contribute articles.
Published by l.. A. Cooley, Philadelphia. one
copy one year 81; two copies IS; three, $50;
four $40; five, and one extra, Sli, eight, and one
extra, s2i eleven, and one extra, $3.50. Extra
inducements to clubs.