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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-01-12
INTEREST.
MOTTO Ell
MAYORS OFFICE, CITY HALL.
MENPHIs. December Is, 1870.

MENPHIs. December Is. ls7o.
TlHE Interest falling due On the lst day sf
January, ISL. on the bonds Of the eity Of
Memphis, viii be paid on presentation Of the
proper coupons At the once Of P. N. Myers a
Co.. Bankers. No. y Pine strsst. in the sity,
OfNeW York, on and Ahsr Mondsy. Jpnusr15
2. ISL.
G-f JOHN John son, Mayonl
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10
Philadelphia Topics.

Mr.. J. T. Carncross is going into the grand
concert business.
The old Paramount Engine Company have
sold their steamer to the Baltimore Board OF
Fire Commissioners, for 525OO. 1t cost $4,000.
Tile wool trade has been unusually active
since the LIST of January.
A heavy thunder storm visited the city yes
terday morning, during which brig lying at
Catharine st. was struck by lightning and con-
siderably damaged.
The Germantown hotel keepers are taking
measures to test the constitutionality OF the
Local Option Law.
Hon. Charles Sumner is in the city, where
he will remain for several days the guest Of
Col. Forney.
A number of gentlemen and ladies went out
on pleasure trip in a sail-boat, on the Della
ware, Monday night, aud when opposite
| Gloucester the boat was upset by being rur
into by a passing steamer. All the party were
rescued except young man named William
Price, who was drowned.
--Confagrations are scarce.
During the month of July, the Philadelphia
Water Works pumped i,266, $50, 1872 gallons OF
water.
-Beck's Band Bay excursions ale popular.
The colored Odd Fellows have purchased
aud occupy the building formerly belonging to
| the Good Intent Hose Company.
Miss Susan Cation Kellcher has been en-
gagged by manager Pugh, to sing at each OF his
star lectures.
Jewellers complain Of dull times
--Sentz's evening concerts increase in popu
laiity.
| The Bee has resumed the plan OF clsssifyin.
| its local items.
| A colored Lodge Of the American Protestan
| Association Is meditated.
| The Philadelphia schuetzea veiren hole
their Summer Festival on the 28th 29th, 30tl
| and 31st of this month
The Eastwick Skating Park is being rapidly
| filled in a. dumping ground, preparatory to
| the erosion Of the car works thereon.
In the way Of 'heads,' the Press is away
| ahead.
The Walnut street theatre will reopen next
Monday evening.
The number OF deaths last week 49, being q
decrease Of 55 from those of the previous week
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10


At the Patent Office in Washington every yisi-
tor to the "model room can understand the
truth Of the saying that there il no end to the
number and variety OF ''reapers." mowers, "
''harvesters" and other Improved" agricultural
implements. With all this il is somewhat remark
able that there has been no successful machine
heretofore provided for harvesting 'Indan corn,
and at the same time Kidding the farmer of the
tme-consuming nuisance of "husking.' 1t has
remained until now, and for q clergyman, to
produce this machine, the model OF which is
now in Philadelphia.
The machine is on two wheels and drawn by
two horses. 1t operates on the outside row OF
corn, passing continuously around the field.
The stalk in each hill are all cut off at once by
two circular cutters, revolving towars each Other,
at the front ofthe machine. The stalks are car
ried thence, butts first, by revolving arms and nm
endless apron to pair Of tiuted, rollers, which
grasp the stalks and carry them rapidly through
The ears, however, being too large to pass
between the rollers, arc pushed out OF the htlsks
in the neatest and most effective manner. This
is because the joint of the car with the stalk il
the weakest po.nt and easily broken by contact
with the rollers. The ears fall into hopper
and are taken up by an elevator to trough
whence they slide into wagon that accompan-
los the machine, and carries the corn to the
granary The stalks with the husks entire are
passed between the rollers to platform, ant
when sufficient for bundle to accumulate i
opens and drops them on the ground reAdy fol
binding and stacking. Tho machine /.
provided with an arrangement by which the corr
when it has fallen can be lifted off the ground
and brought into contract with the SAWS Pro.
vision is also made for cutting the corn while
green, and placing it in bundles without husking
that process to be the subject OF another opera
ton Of passing between the rollers when the corr
has became perfectly ripe. 1t is worthy Of note
that the husking accomplished without shell
ling grain Of corn. One man and four boy.
with three horses have run a working model Of
the machine, and cut and husked corn at the
rate of ten acres per day, saving the stalks ant
| husks perfectly.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10
N9Hhhp aFk ShfSsk5ss EDITORS paOrnrro.
WILMINGTON, DEL.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. 1871.
OUR RAILROAD TO THE WEST,

Happily, though by great effort We have Be-
cured the needful stock subscriptions 10 build
our Western railroad to its first connecting point,
ncction, QsD with the White Clay creek and Doe
Run road; (2nd) tho Philadelphia 4 Baltimore
Central Railroad, at Avonla!e; (srd) with tho
Pennsylvania Railroad at Pomeroy.
All these are valuable connections, and they
are bound to bring new trade, new life, and new
prosperity to our city. II the Wilmington 4
Western road is never extended single mile
West OF Landenberg, its value to Wilmington
will be monument in the future to the wisdom
and energy OF the men who built it. Any railroad
which pours into our city tho amount Of business
which this certainly will from the teeming valleys
OF the Red Clay creek, llockessin, White Clay
creek and Doe Run, to say nothing of the traffic
to come from the Pennsylvania Central must be
a source Of increasing wealth aud development.
The first step is good. 1t is excellent We
rejoice At its taking. But We desire to familiarize
the public mind with the necessity of building
our road further West than its present terminus
We say "necessity," because Wilmington canno
afford not to get first-rate connection with tina
great through route, which is now certain to BE-
built through the Southern counties of Pennsy
vania. We must build, certainly, at least as fal
as Oxford, to secure connection, and it will be
better if we 60 much further.
What, then must we look to- In our opinion
Wilmingtons next enterprise must be the con
struction of a thrce-foot gauge railway, from Ian
denberg, by Oxford, Peachbotom, Hanove
Iunctiop q ,tt y,al-iny al nnppao.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10
suMaaGe RasiIars.
Cape May. =

A nav hotel, Of moderate ~ h. among the
new enterprises talked Of. u y proposed to
build It on The ocean front to contain over 800
rooms, and accommodate absls 100 suests,-
The cost would probably DO in ~ nslghborhood
Of 900. Plans have besn ntpassd, and We
had the pleasure Of looking OK them, . few
days sgo The building, ~ 4asasd bv III.
architects would be four std1sns hixh built In
the shape Of the letter E-a MN buildlns vith
two wings. These wings will lku tovard ths
beach, 20 that the enclosed spai4 which wotid
form the lawn would be open t0}he ocaan view,
A fine piazza, with supporting hillars the full
height Of the building would ext6nd completely
around, except on the rear aide, forming pro-
menade 40 feet (0ver one-sevenA Of mile) in
length. The main building IL proposed To be
200 fest in length, and the wings each ITO. The
dining room will DO very largs-Aeccupyinu tbe
whole Of the main building on thS first door, 400
feet by 40. -
Tho site for the now hotel has not bean chosen
but there are several which might be cousidered
eligible. The fine ocean front, on which The
Atlantic Hotel. (burned in 1882 stood would
make desirable location, in the very midst Of
the leading hotels. II is understood 70 be held
at something over 475,000. In the neighbor
hood Of the Excursion House, there u plenty Of
room yet available for tho purpose.
Good judges say, by the way, that moderate
sized hotel, to accommodate not leg than 800 AMI
not over 500 or 600 guests are tho best invest
ment. The margin of pro9t in small hotel i,
too slight and large one is too hard to al.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Odessa.


THE INVASION OF PEACH P1CxERs = OUTRAGEOUS
AssAULr-oENKRAL ITEMS
ODEssA, DEL, Aug. sth, 1s7l.-we are having
lots Of rain, which IL very hard on the peaches,
and by tho by, Is very hard on the pickers. who
appear to BIO divided into about three classes, -
follows: No. l, peach pickers; No. 2, peach pluck
ers No. 8, wharf rats, or drunken sots, with
thsir Mr.. wharf 1ts, do. do, with them. Bo1ae
Of the above nasnsd, no doubt, are from the
Aims Houses and State prisons Of our neighbor-
ing States but that 10 no excuse for the brave
and courageous Michael Bozensheets attacking
an inoRonsive man between 60 and 70 years OF
age, while asleep in shed, one mile from said
Bozenshsets' house, knocking several OF the old
mans teeth out, and outing his head and face
in fearful manner. Now recommend said
Bozensheets to King William, Of Prussia, ~ =
very brave man and would like very much to
have him commissioned as an officer Of sufficient
rank 10 command all men east Of the Appoquin-
imink, who are Is brave - he is, and NO Others
Squire Ridgaway held him In the sum Of seven
hundred dollars to appear at Court.
Our town IL remarkably healthy 1t this time.
Mordecai Doughten has remodeled and re-
painted his dwelling, which greatly improves the
appearance.
number Of our citizens are in Philadadelphia
| at this time dealing In peaches.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10
THE PENINSULA.
TALBOT COUNTY


A movement is on foot to build new T. Z.
Church in st. Michaels. We hope it will be a
success.
Lamdin 4 Son arc building new schooner.
Il. b. Rawlings, n much-esteemed young man
Of Easton, died last week from typhoid fever.
Harry Rumph, German farm laborer, took
his family out boating on Saturday week, and
one of his children, six months old child ono,
of a pair of twins. was lost overheard and
drowned.
The Star is bitterly opposed to letting the
people make their own nominations
An old colored man. named Perry Nicols. was
found dead in his bed on the morning Of tho
29th ult., at his residence in Ivytown. Justice
Thomas Il. Lloyd, of Trappe, held an inquest
over his body-verdict, cause Of his death I'M
known to the jury.
Rev. Dr.. living, EpiscopaD of New York, is
visiting Talbot.
The Harper's woods NJ. L. camp meeting near
st. Michaels. will commence on Friday, the It'll.
The prospect is that it will be very large camp.
The Easten market was literally overrun with
water melons last week,
CECIL COUNTY.
The Ovens property, near Charlestown, was
sold at public sale one day last week, for Sc, 9S0-
W. p. Ewing becoming the purchaser.
James SLAYER, man of dssipated habits, was
run over by the night express train on the T., W..
4 b. Railroad, near Elk Neck crossing, on We'd
nesday last, and killed. The Railroad Company
refused to inter the body, and it lay alongside
the track until taken charge of by the county
authorities.
The annual examination Of teachers brought
quite number of handsome ladies' to Elkton.
Elkton has Young Mems Literary Associa-
ton, and this association held grand parade
and picnic in DIR. Mitchels grove near the town.
The legal proportion OF the tax for the colored
schools Of the Third District is but Sl2. This
discovery will cause the schools to be graded and
paid as white schools.
WORCESTER COUNTY
General Cresswell was at Scott q
Beach.
Jane Robbins, a colored woman, Of Snow Hill.
WAS bitten by snake, last week. The wound
was exceedingly painful but not very severe
This il a very rare occurrence, for notwthstand-
ing the general horror of snakes they seldom
hurt any one.
Work continues to progress on the Worcester
County Railroad, and sixty-nine tons of rails for
it IL expected to arrive shortly.
CAROLINE COUNTY.
Early sweet potatoes have appeared.
The Denton schools, kept open by their
teachers ~ private schools since July LIST, closed
on the 3lst
Jeremiah Nichols residing near Hurlocks 8, had
ten head Of sheep killed by lightning, recently.
The drawing for Mr.. Patroni's Caroline county
Land Lottery took place Oh the 18th inst.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The True Mdryldnder complains OF the irreg-
ular arrival of the evening train.
Sweet potatoes are being shipped from Prn-
cess Anne.
Attorney General Jones is visiting Princess
Anne.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10

THE coaoNER's INQUEST COMMENCED.
New York, Aug. O..
The Coroner's inquest on the WestAcld di-as-
tor commenced to.dsy.
julius Raymond testified that his father was
killed by the explosion. He said he stood beside
the engine. He was certain no ono but himself
was in the engine room for about ten minutes
before the explosion.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10

The Ku Klux investigating committee on Sat-
urday concluded their examination Of witnesses
in attendance from the South, and took q recess
until the goth Of September.
Professor Baird Of the Smithsonian Institute,
who WAS commissioned recently by the govern
ment to make = full and minute examination OF
all the species of fish occurring in American
waters, and to report thereon, is now occupied
with researches in the neighborhood Of Newport
Rhode Island
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10

A terrible tornado swept over Wnneconne and
Granville, Wis. on Monday night. causing great
destruction of property. The steamer Star was
capsized on the river, and her captain George
Smith, and another man were drowned. A boom
containing 80, 900, 900 feet of logs was broken M
Catholic church demolished, a number Of raft
houses destroyed, thirty chimneys blown down,
thousands Of panos of window glass smashed.
and the growing corn'prostrated.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10
horticultural Visitors to Delaware md the
Fruit ReHions Of the Peninsula.

Fruit REGIONS Of the Peninsuia,
A party Of agricultural editors, and others in
terested in fruit growing, propose making visit
to this State on Monday, August 14th, and spend
week in visiting the prominent orchards and
shipping points of Delaware and Maryland. The
party will embrace Charles Downing, of Newburg,
New York, author of " Fruit and Fruit Trees of
Amerca;" p. T. Quinn, author Of q work on "Pear
Culture" and agricultural editor OF the New York
Tribune; Professor Thurber, Of the American
AgricuHurist; A. s. Fuller, author of works on
grapes and small fruits, and Of Moore's Rural
he,p Yorker ; Rev. DR. Ohm A. Forsyth, President
OF New York State horticultural Society; Doctor
Hexamer, President OF American Farmers Club
Of New York City; William Parry ESQ.,, of New
| Jersey, one OF our most successful small fruit
growers.
On their arrival in Delaware they will be Joined
| by Randolph Peters, Esq. the largest cultiyator
lessor Of Agriculture in Delaware College and
Charles P. Williams, State Chemist. and one Of
the editors of the american Exchange and
Rerie,c
The party will leave Wilmington on Tuesday
morning, August 18th, and visit the extensive
pear orchards of Randolph Peters, at Newark
and the orchards, vineyards and small fruit plan
tation of the experimental farm Of Delaware
College,-belonging to Professor 4. D. Porter
from thence by the orchards Of Messrs Clark
J. 1. Ellison, Hon. B. T. Biggs, Henry Clayton,
Andrew Eliason and others, to Middletown
After visiting the orchards of that vicinity and
witnessing the process Of picking, asserting and
loading fruit, the party will go to Smyrna, where
they will be joined by the leading fruit men of
that section, and shown the points of interest
there. From thence they propose going to the
extensive orchards of Dr. @. H. B. Massy, Hon,
Stephen II. Boyer, ..Round Top Col f. Will
kins, and others on the Eastern Shore of Mary
land. They will then return to Delaware, and
| visit Dover, Seaford, Georgetown and Lewes /;
thus passing through the best farming and fruit
| region of the Peninsula. As the party is com
posed Of prominent pomologists, and writer's on
horticulture, their visit to our Peninsula will, we
trust, be pleasant and interesting one for them,
| and beneficial to our community
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10

George Francis Train, who is now in Barney
county Cork, Ireland. on being asked why he
refused to speak in Cork. replied: What was
the use of upsetting the lord lieutenant, imprs-
onipg tho chief OF police, creating q panic in the
Gladstone ministry, putting Disraeli into power,
making the royal household shake with the
palsy, Bismarck quake with paralysis, Theirs
goto bed with Banquo's ghost under the table. and
the spiLdling treaties OF the high joint dead
beats scattered to the ,winds;" The questloner
said he'd give il up
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10

The report Of the Auditor of the Post Office
Department to the POSTMASTER General of the
receipts and expenditures of the Department
for the quarter ending March ~, 1871, just rem
dered, shows an increase in the item of postage
stamps sold over the corresponding quarter of
1870, SSdJ.ODD. The report also shows a large
increase Of receipts over those OF the quarter
named with a small increase of expenditures
The deficiency of the Department for the fiscal
year ending June 80, last, will be less than
"a ,OOO, 900 which does not include credit on
free mail matter which amounts to several hun-
lrel tlDtisanl dollars.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10

TIE DAILY COMMERCIAL u issued eues7
afternoon. ssoept Sunday. II 70 ire only Ddth
Paper IN Wilmington, and ths Stale Of Deaasoa's.
Tznss, Sr Dollars pr annvsa, or Toel0s Ctssta
sassk Single copies Too Csnts.
TEE DELA WARE TRIBUNE Is issued
from 0s COMMERCIAL office. spssy Thursday
morning, and contains priscipolsy reading mat
ter Published in ne Daily. II i ne largest paper
asd oo~sa.ns BY far Ire nsost reading matter Of
those pxh,tasnd on ne Pentassla TERMS Ttoo
Dollars F.r owsss,
TIRE COMMERCIAL JOB OFFICE Il am
pH provtdsd WiM prinsins material Of ne latest
styles, and our ,oork is done equalto Philadelphia
Offices and al no higher rates.
THE OFFICE OF THE COMMERCIAL
and TRIB UNE is at he S. w. Corner Of Fifth
and Market Streets, Wilmington, Deld,care.
JENKINS & ATKINSON.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10

The Heather Chinee has = new and excellent
recommendation Koopmanschap, the we'll
known importer Of Chinese went to Tuscaloosa.
Fla, lately to see how the $50 Celestials, work.
ing on = railray there. were getting on without
any pay. He found them living on crawfish
and blackberries and quite contented.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10

The Boston AdccriiSer, Of July 9th, has, in
its financial column, the following statement
concerning one OF the leading railroad enter
prises now under construction. Referring to
Southern securities, as class, the editor says !:
1.-The general Generalization of Southern bust
ness consequent npon the war, and the lack of
the means and the energy by the aid of which
the North so rapidly RECEIVERS from any tempo
rary depression, have combined to give the
preference to new industrial enterprises at the
West rather than at the South But that the
South presents splendid openings for Northern
capital there has never been any doubt among
shrewd business men, and many Northern CAPT.
tallsts are now busy in developing the enormous
natural advantages Of the Southwestern States
OF Louisiana and Texas. They are reyiying plan
tatons ; retaining waste lands improving
water powers and, above all. utilizing the les
SONS OF tho West, by building railroads where
they are demanded by the wants Of the rapidly
increasing population and production. Such en-
terprises are Southern by location. but Northern
IN capital, in energy and in management, and
they are located at the South because their pro-
Jectors have seen that that was the most promis-
| ING held for the employment of capital One Of
the foremost of these undertakings is the build
ing OF the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Rail.
| road, from Mobile through the metropolis of the
south to the railroad center of Texas. Into this
work many of the leading and most honored
capitalists of Boaiun and New York have put
nearly ten millions of dollars of their own funds
because thew Hoyed that nowhere else in this
country Wa -oprotabe return promised
FOR their 70, as MI Of this large land very
unusual " t'.lIturO of private MEANS before
asking any H. "t"" from the public. is protection
| to the bond s'ie company nov offer for
sale as all in 4 ahililes must be mot before
| any dividends can so to the stockholders Such
a Southern security" as this seems to be worth
tle attention OF those having fands for invest
| ment'
The bonds especially noted above have also
been indorsed by many other leading financial
authorities, as among tho very safest and most
profitable in the market, 1t will be seen, by
reference to our advertising columns. that either
| bonds or further information can be obtained
| here of local agents for the loan
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10

The contractors finished their work on the
railroad and discharged their hands last Friday.
The Company will take possession in few days.
The Wye or Golden River Camp-meeting
commenced last Friday.
DORCHESTER COUNTY.
The Herald and Ne,cs is in perpetual hot water
over disparaging statements concerning that
county made by correspondents of Northern
newspapers.
Water melons are cheaper in Cambridge this
year than was ever before known.
II is expected that the harbor Improvements
now in progress at Cambridge, will enable the
steamboats, to make direct connection with the
d. Il ID. II. II
I The Chronicle is busily engaged in sugar coat
ing the Pinkney White pill for it's readers to
swallow.
The mud machine is busy in Cambridge creek.
Some villains recently attempted to throw a
camp meeting train off the track on tile Dorches-
ter 4 Delaware II. Il.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10
The scott Cenlenulal

THE CELEBRATION ALREADY BEGUN.
EDESsBuRa, Aug. 9th.
Tho Walter Scott anniversary celebration is
taking place to-day, instead of on the 18th.
The city is Overlooking with people, and Is
gaily decorated.
There WAS partial illumination last night
and there will DO grand banquet this evening
A similar celebration il being held at Glasgow
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1871-08-10
Political lntclligencc.

The Democrats of York county, Pa nominated
General Glasz for State Senator, yesterday.
The Young Mems Democratic Club of Boston.
at meeting yesterday, adopted an address to
the Young Democracy Of Massachusetts, approv-
ing the new departure and recommending
club Orpanizations o