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Middletown transcript., 1869-05-22

The PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER.
This journal, under the energetic and iu-
dicious management of George W. Childs,
Esq is enjoying high degree of prosper
ity. Recently, for one issue, fifteen hun
dred new advertisements were presented.
OF course supplement was issued. Mar
ley Mills. in Cecil county, belongs to Mr..
Childs, and there the Ledger paper is
manufactured. 1t cannot supply a suffi-
cheney, however, and portion of its daily
fssne is obtained somewhere else. The ca
pacity Of the mill is about two tons per
day, but the Ledger requires moro. The
attention bestowed upon commercial and
financial subjects, in the Ledger, makes it
popular with business men. Its money
articles are from men of experience, and
are written with great care.
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MuRMURs FROM THE Town HAIL
They call me the "pride of the town"
Wonder ifitis SO, and if the directors par
ticipate in that pride. If they do, should
think they would take more pride in my
appearance. Just look at me:-Spire not
finished yet. Iron Railing lying around
loose for the want of somebody to put it
up; pavement unfinished; part of my
front to be protected By awning and part
not; dirt inside something less than an
inch deep; ladies afraid to venture in to
look at my goodly proportions lest they
soil their garments; don't blame them a
bit-tobacco-juice, stumps of cigars; and
old soldiers, stumbled over at every step
no brooms or scrubbing- brushes to be had.
Look at the eorniee in my auditorium its
enough to rouse ones spleen to look at it.
A word of advice to all who come here
to see Signor Blitz, or the Velocipedes, or
who attend the Concerts, or other Exhibi-
tions-necer look up, because it is enough
to give the good folks of Middletown a
doom took, to see such sight, after ma
king SO much ado over their {" beautiful"
magnificent" +" elegant" splendid"
Town Hall ! Really, I am not only a.
shamed of my board of directors, but, 1
am ashamed of myself, to be seen in such
a plight. But what can I do; here 1
must stand, a spectacle to all bcholders.
l wish I could dissolve the mortar that
holds my walls together, and resolve the
particles of burnt clay into their original
condition; or, that l could crouch down
into the big hole they have dug in the
cellar for the weight of the gasometer,
and hide myself. l feel that my reputa-
tion is to suffer, considerably, and all
through sheer neglect. There is no jan
itor to take care of me, arrange my seats,
sweep my floors, light my lamps, or re-
move the dust and cobwebs, which must
accumulate as time advances. In the Ian
guage of the old song, slightly amended,
| can only cry out:
"0h dearl what's to become of me?
Oh dear what shall do?
Nobody's coming to care for me,
Any more than they do an old shoe l''
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THE LADY's FRIEND FOR JUNE.-The
Steel Plate for this number is the beauti-
full, sanity face of Isabella, one of Shak-
speare's characters The Colored Fash
ion Plate gives rich and tasteful bridal
dress, and others of the latest style; and
a number of well-executed wood-cuts illus
trate the most picturesque varieties of the
present mode. For music, we find, ap-
propriately for June, Roses Fair as
Jcnny's Cheek" The literary department
looks attractive: "Dimey's Company,
by Mary L. Bolles; the continuation of
Mrs. Woods Roland Yorke," which is
growing exceedingly interesting " The
Jews in Rome" by Julia Ward Howe :;
Miss Prescott's fascinating novelette,, ''Be-
tween Two" and an exquisite poem by
Florence Percy, furnish choice entertain
ment in the way of light reading. The
ladies will find among the illustrations two
patterns of Bathing Dresses. Published
by Deacon & Peterson, 319 Walnut Street.
Philadelphia, at $3.50 year (Which also
includes large steel engraving.) -Four
copies, So. Five copies (and one gratis, J
IS. 1.-The Lady's Friend" and " The
Saturday Evening POST (and one engra-
ving,) $4.00. Specimen numbers sent for
ten cents.
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The New York Tribune, of Saturday,
afirms that there is no good reason to
doubt the truth of the dispatch concern
ing the triple alliance of France, England
and Spain, against this country The
subject has been much discussed in Wash
ington, and Gen. Grant is said to be in
favor of war, as in that event England
would lose her commerce and Canada.
He probably has not taken into account
what we should lose by such a war.
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Cheapest Carpets in Philadelphia.
WHERE TO BUY THEM.

NHO has not heard of EVANS CHEAP
w CARPET ST0RE2 Where you can buy
much lower than at any other establishment. and
rely upon all goods being just as they are repre-
sented. This season our stock is unusually large.
comprising the latest styles of BRUSELLS,
IHREE-PLY, INGRAM, STAIR CARPETS,
OIL CLOTHS, MATTINGS, and WINDOW
SHADES. Elegant Irish Brussels Carpets, yard
wide from 60 to 10 cents, equal in appearance to
the finest Brussels.
pte- Don't buy without examining our low
prices, as we guarantee you great saving.
JOHN NJ. EVANS,
No 3l7 n. Second ST. first Carpet Store above
Vine st. directly opposite Wood St. Philadelphia,
April l7-2mos.
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SALAR1Es.-The Delaware. Lackavo

SALARrEs.-The Delaware, Lackawan.
ma and Western Coal Company pays Sl5.-
900 for its President. The President Of
one of the Wall street insurance compa-
nies also receives $15, 200. The Erie
Railway has paid its President $25, 900,
and the perquisites amount to millions
One of the large New York sugar refine
ries paid its manager $40, 900 per annum.
The first class of New York municipal
officers range as follows. the emolument
being made up of fees Register, $780,
600; Sheriff, $50, Corporation At
torney, $50, 900; while the Collector Of
the Port, it is said, receives from $780,
900 to $780, 900, if he is fortunate.
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The printers of Washington are much
excited over the introduction of negro
compositor, the son of Fred Douglas, into
the Government Printing Office. Negroes
have been appointed postmasters, foreign
ministers, clerks in the departments, and
nov the different mechanics in Govern
ment employ are to be required to work
with them or give up their situations.
They are to be introduced into the Navy
Yards and all Government work shops !;
orders tethat effect are shortly to be issued.
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A new whipping-post has been erected
at New Castle, in place of the old one,
which was worn out; whereat lachrymose
wailings 60 up from all the namby-pamby
Miss Nancys, whose sympathies overflow
with more certainty than the Nile, and
must be poured out, at least twice year,
or they would become stagnant pools. The
New York World thus adverts to the SUBJ
jeet, under the caption of
DELAwAREAN BARBARrTY "A Philadelphia eve
ming paper howls, and the tuneful Times, echo
ing, prolongs the howl, because the whipping-post
is still extant in DELAWARE and because ten per-
sons guilty of petty crimes were the other day
fustgated upon it. If these men had been i'm
prisoned, instead Of flogged, as indeed some of
them were both imprisoned and fogged, the in
dlgnation of these two journals would have slept.
The families OF the men might have suffered the
desututon which the labor of their heads had
been necessary to avert the men themselves might
have benefited the community by pentent con-
temptation of the ehinks of a white-washed wall
for several months, instead of being turned out,
with smarting backs, to earn their livings-the
smartng backs serving as a memorandum that it
would not do to steal them; and all would have
been serene. Suffering and waste are nothing il
only our sentimentalism is saved. Yet the Phil
adelphia paper had nothing to say against the gal
lows, much more venerable implement than the
whipping-post, when TwITcHELL was driven by
fear OF it into the exhibition of that neffable pol
troonery which has lately scandalized and nau-
seated nation. In disregard of such tender SEN
sibilities, people in general win continue to think
it right that murder should be punished by death,
and not very horrible wrong that the larceny
OF a ham should lie expated by thirty lashes
IT is possible that as in SoLoMoS's S time, the rod
should visit the FOOLS back, namby panBy to the
contrary notwithstanding.
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THE TRIPLE ALLIANcE.-The New York
Albion copies the Tribune's rumor about
an alliance between England, France, and
Spain against the United States, and an
pends this contradiction
We have the best authority for saving that
so far as England at least is concerned, this re,
port is entirely without foundation in fact and
the inference therefore, is that it is equally true
with regard to the other powers"
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Umpire Mr.. N. willets; Scorers Caleb Foster Frank
Eliason. Time of game, 2,30.
Another match game is to come off this
afternoon, in Middletown, between the
same clubs.
Mrs Muzzy, wife of former Mission
ary to India, lectured here on Wednesday
evening, in the Presbyterian Church, Civ
ing very interesting account of her ex-
perience and observations while connected
with the mission in that distant land The
evening was unpropitious, and there we're
but few persons in attendance, much to
the regret of those who felt lively inter
est in this estimable lady.
A white man while riding past the col
ored peoples pic mic, at Back Creek, on
Monday, had his horse seized by the bri-
die and beaten over the head with stick
in the hands of negro man, until the
blood ran from the horses nose. We did
not learn what provocation there was for
the act, or whether there was any. The
negro was supposed to be drunk,
A base ball match between the Youths
OF Middletown and Odessa, came off at
Odessa, on Saturday last, with victory for
the former, although it was close work,
The Odessians mean to turn the tables
upon their Middletown competitors here
this afternoon. There are some fine play
ers on both sides.
The Annual Meeting of the Fruit Grow
ers' Association of Delaware and Mary
land, will be held in Odessa, on Saturday
the 10Th of June, at l o'clock, P. M. at
the Hotel Of Mr.. VIM. Z. Chance. A full
attendance is desirable as the business is
important,
We learn that the Peninsular Machine
Works will be opened during the season of
repairing, under the superintendancy of
j. L. Budd. Persons having agricultur-
al implements to repair will do we'll to send
them in at once.
Mr.. Samuel NJ. Enos, of Odessa, is
building two snug frame houses at the cor
ner of Lake and Cass streets, in Middle
town, Mr.. W. j. H. Lingo, contractor.
The Presbyterian Church will be closed
tomorrow, DR.. Patton being absent as
delegate to the General Assembly, now in
session In New York.
The Jewish rite of circumcision was ad-
ministered to Solomon, infant son of Mr..
L., X. Shortman, of Smyrna, last week,
when 8 days old.
"C Cool Spring Charley" like Monsieur
Tonson, has come again, and our citizens
are glad to see his welcome ice-cart once
more,
The annual meeting of the Medical So
Getty of Delaware will be held in George
town on the Sth proximo.
The wife of the Rev. Mr.. Miller of Lau-
rel was fatally poisoned on Thursday week,
by taking strychnine.
Bishop Lee will visit SMYRNA on Sum-
day, the Both inst. to administer the rite
of confirmation.
Two negro men fought for forty min
utes, at Warwick, by way of celebrating
Whit-Monday.
Mr.. JAS. Wilson, of Townsend, was
thrown from buggy on Thursday and
considerably bruised.
j. A. Stevenson, Dover, has single
strawberry plant with $40 blossoms or ber-
ries on it.
Deakyne advertises delicious Ice Cream.
but don't take his word for it, go and try
it.
ExGov. Ross was in Middletowp. in
the early part of this week.
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The Philadelphia Ledger, the Whining
ton Daily Commercial, the Delawarean, ,
and Transcript, were represented at the
Fruit Growers Convention, Dover, on
Tuesday. Mr.. Coleman of the Ledger,
said he had never seen finer looking
body of men assembled together, than the
farmers and peach growers of Delaware
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DEAFNESS, BLINDNESS, and CATARRH
treated with the utmost success, by j. 'IsAAcs,
N. D. and Professor of Disease of the Eve ana
Ear, in the Medical College of PennsylvaSia, I2
years experience, formerly Of Leyden, Holland. n
No. sO5 Arch Street. Phila. Testimonials can
be seen at his Office. The medical faculty are in,
yited to accompany their patients, as he has Ro
without pain. No charge for examination.
Middletown transcript., 1869-05-22

1t is boldly asserted in several journals
that the coal companies of Pennsylvania
instigated the strike which has lately Ia
ken place among the coal miners Of that
State for the purpose of raising the price
of coal.
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DIED.

In Elkton, on the evening of the 18th instant,
Rev. r. II. b. Mitchell, rector of Trinity Church
Suddenly on Monday morning last near Odes-
sa, Mrs. Adelaide Davis, consort of MI, Nehemiah
Davis, and daughter of Mr. Joseph A. Lord, in
the 23d year of her age.
In New Castle on the llth Inst. John s. Car.
penter, aged about so years.
Middletown transcript., 1869-05-22

The Hearth and Home seems to be
growing in interest and in public favor.
The publishers will commence in the next
number a fine story full of interest, by
Mrs. Edison, to be entitled, MARRYING
Well," to be illustrated by Stephens &
Perkins. Send for it.
Middletown transcript., 1869-05-22

DAMAGES AwARDED.-Damages to the.
amount of $4,000 were awarded against
the United States Telegraph Company on.
Thursday at New York, for failing to send,
messages ordering petroleum from Pitts
burg to New York for Warren & King.
Middletown transcript., 1869-05-22
FINE READY MADE CLOTHING.
22s MARKET STREET, End Door below THIRD
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.

22s MARKET STREET, End Door below THIRD
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.
THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF
Ready Made Clothing in Delaware,
Our Own Make, now on hand, and will be sold
at less than Philadelphia Prices.
ALI our Clothing is made in Superior manner bv
PRACTICAL TAILORS. .-
The Proprietor having an experience of over
thirty years in this Business will guarantees sat;s.
faction to any purchaser.
full line of
FINE CLOTHS,
CAsSIMRRES, and
Constantly on hand for
ORDER WORK,
which will be made In the
~ LATEST STYLE AND BEST MANNER,
Az No. 22s Market Street,
@s>The Oldest Established Clothing Emporium
in Delaware.
Narehe--ly Edwara Moore.
Middletown transcript., 1869-05-22
MARRIED.

In Philadelphia, August 4th, 1868, by Rev,
W. j. Paxson, John McVey, Ir. of Chesapeake
City, Md. and Miss Helen Fleming, Of Bohemia
Manor, Nd.
On the llth inst. by Rev. ]. s. Inskip vii.
liam d. Hollis, of Kent county, Md. to Hannah
B. Townsend, daughter Of John Townsend, Of
Delaware.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
INGRAM GIBsoN,s PRICE Crppr,
Beans
$500.

The above prices will be paid in cash for pros
duce delivered in good order; and we wish to
say that we keep constantly on hand a good as
sortment of Groceries and Provisions which we
Will sell reasonably for cash, at the Corner of
Broad and Anderson Streets, Middletown, Del.
March 20--tf INGRAM A. GIBSON
Middletown transcript., 1869-05-22

The New York common council have
appropriated $50, 200 to celebrate the
Fourth of July.
Middletown transcript., 1869-05-22

Gen. Daniel e. Sickles has been ap-
pointed Minister to Spain. vice John P.
Hale, recalled.
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-20
The Ecunenical Council.
Reported Action of American
..t Bishops.

1t is rumored, with what de-
gree of truth it is impossible to
say, states the New Yor,
raid, that ever since tbs call
iag of the Ecumenical Council
by Pope Pho Nino quite a busy
correspondence has been carried
on with regard to it between
the Archbishop and Bishops of
the Roman Catholic Church in
| this country. The object of
| this, it is said, was to come to
some understanding between
themselves in order to act, so
far as was possible, in full CO.
operation during the delibera-
tions of the Council. One
point which these rumors have
is that an agreement was ar
rived at, mentioned as being
the relation of the State and the
Church, and that this agree
ment was to the effect that the
representatives in the Council
of their Church in this country
will urge for general adoption
the American system of COM
plete severance of the Church
from the State, restoring to it.
full liberty of motion untran1m-
elled by, the political power
of the country, and basing it
upon the voluntary adhesion OF
its followers, at the same time
renouncing all active interfer-
ence with the political admin
istration of government. A
merican prelates may exercise
a healthy influence upon the
future of the Catholic world.
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ton, the assembly voted the
following motion

ton, the assembly voted the
following motion
Considering that that the
Ecumenical Council which is
to meet on December 9Th has
been imposed on the Papal GO
vernment by the party of Jesu-
it's, by which it is and will con-
tinue to be controlled; consider
ing that the resolutions likely
to be passed by that assembly
will thus be directed against
intellectual and moral progress,
this body accepts with satisfac-
ton the invitation addressed by
the independent thinkers of It.
ally to those who share their
opinions to take part in the
meeting they convoke at Ma
pies, the object of which is to
encourage civilization and char
ity and to counterbalance the
intellectual and moral degrade
ton of humanity which Jesu-
ism Systematically seeks to
produce.
The assembly composed Of
1000 person then nominated
M. Zimmerman, editor of Die
! Freyheit of Gratz, to represent
it at Naples.
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THE DAY BOOK.
FR1pAY MORNING, Aug. &c, 1869.
Desire and Need OF Girls.

A lady writing from N. York
city to a journal in Cincinnati
treats of the young women so
numerous in the great metrop-
oils, and moralizes a little, as
follows
One half of the girls who are
now filling situations in stores,
offices, &C.. 60 there II the first
place in order to b. able to
, dress better. They live in plain
but comfortable homes, and
must help with the homework
or the children of their kin !;
but they want the fnery that
is denied them, and they want
to go from those peace :
lives, from the kind g .ardian-
ship of parents, to the tolls
and temptations of the ten hour
system.
They go plain, country girls,
with modest, blushing cheeks
and smooth, shining hair
They stay there a year or two,
and their cheeks are pale and
their hair is frizzed. They
have lost the gaucherie of
blushing and are bold at repair
tee. They dress somehow but
they have hours of desponden-
cy that make them old. 1t is
one long struggle with tempta-
ton, and how they preserve
their integrity God only knows.
Now would not these girls be
) happier as the wives OF farmers
or mechanics ? Would not one
word OF genuine love outweigh
ton Of admiration Would
not the smile of a little child
be a thousand times better than
the gaze of a libertine =? Is it
not easier to work for one $
own than for strangers ? to feel
that you are king in your
own castle, if it's only one sto-
ry cottage? Woman's indie
pendence will work a deadller
wrong than any bond she has
ever worn. When she steps
beyond the fair threshold OF
woman power, the archetypal
home where God has made heg
supreme, to fight the demon
! of political or commercial lite,
she lays down a sceptre to take
I'D a chain whose iron canker
will eat into her soul.
That was true and beautl-
| full reply which one of our
strongest advocates of suffrage
in this city gave to a gentleman
who called on her at her office
and demanded to know the
meaning of woman's rights. =
She looked up with a troubled
face-the face of a delicate,
thoughtful woman-from the
pile Of exchanges and manu-
scripts which lay before her.
and answered with earnest SO
lsmnity, Il can give you the
entire definition at this mo
ment in two words, Home anc
| Peace. .. ...t
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$500 Per Day Discontinued

Having obtained an extensive and
widespread sale for our "CENTUR1"
brand of Fine out Cnea0tn9 Tobacco, we
desire to announce that we shall not pack
dai.y 500 IN the small tin foil papers
after this date, July LIST, 1859, its merits
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MA N HO Cd!

A MEDICAL Essay ON THE CAUSE
AND CUBE OF PREMATURE DECLINE
IN MA n, the Treatment OF Nervous ana
Physical Debility, DC.
"rhere is no member OF Society by
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