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The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29
Crushed TO Death in a Cathedral
Clock.

The bell-ringer IN the Cathedral of
Wurtzburg has perished under very
singular circumstances. The church
possesses a splendid clock, with ponder
GUS and complicated works, while a
pendulum of proportionate length vi
otonous "thud." Recently the clock
ne sded cleaning, and the ringer was dep
utized to superintend the work though
lie ruefully endeavored to be excused
from the task. 1t seems that he never
willingly approached the belfry, from
certain unpleasant associations. About
twenty years ago he had killed his pro-
decessor in office, accusing him of carry
ing Oh criminal intrigue with his wife.
When brought to trial he escaped the
gallows, owing to deficiency of legal
proof.
The patronage of one of the canons
then procured him the appointment va
cant through the death of his victim
Hence it is said, arose his superstious
dread in connection with the belfry,
which was supposed to be haunted by
the ghost of the murdered ringer. On
the morning when the clock was to be
cleaned it suddenly stopped, and the bell
ringer was nowhere to be found, A
workman from the town was sent for,
and assembled the tower, when lie was
Mortified to find the pendulum and low
er words dripping with blood. Upon
searching further, the Dody of the bell
ringer was found entangled int the works,
frightfully mangled and crushed. One
supposition is, that he committed sui
eide By climbing up the pendulum and
then pitching himself into the middle of
the machinery of the clock.
But the wonder-loving gossips of the
place, with thoroughly Gel man pro-
pensity for the horrible, declare that the
guilty man, upon reaching the gloomy
chamber wherein the work revolved,
was horror struck by the apparition of
his murdered predecessor sitting astride
the great ballance-wheel of the clock,
and had then been drawn into the works
by species of horrible fascination sim
liar to that which the rattlesnake is said
to exercise over its prep. There sat the
specter, rubbing its CORY hands with
hideous glee as the victim was slowly
drawn in among the cogged wheels and
rachets of the machinery. An agonized
yell, a crushing of bones, and all was
still Such according TO the Italic, is
the newest legend of the belfry of Wurtz-
burg.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29
sPURGEON's ADVICE GRATIS.

Nobody is more like an honest man
than a thorough rogue.
When you see man with great deal
of religion displayed in his window you
may depend upon it he keeps very small
stock within.
Do not chose your friend by his
looks; handsome shoes often pinch the
feet.
Do not be fond of compliments, re-
member that "that thank you, pussy,
and thank you, pussy" killed the cat.
Don't believe the man who talks most;
for mewing cats are very seldom good
mousers.
BY no means put yourself in another
PERSONS power; il you put your thumb
between two grinders they are very apt
to bite.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign
nothing without reading it; and make
sure that it means no more than it
/ says. g4llr. .l-...r
Don't go to law unless you have meth
ing to lose; lawyers houses are built on
fools heads,
Put no dependence on the label of a
bag; and count money after your kind.
In any business don't wade einto water
where you cannot see the bottom.
See the sack open before you buy what
is in it; for he who trades in the dark
asks to be cheated.
Keep clear of man who does not val
ue his own character.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29

RELIEVING CHoKED CATrLE.-We
have \ remedy in our neighborhood for
relieving choked cattle. II is simply a
tarred rope one and a half inches in di-
ameter, and five or six feet long. The
end that is intended to go down the
throat is trimmed oil, and wound with "a
piece Of cotton cloth, and smeared with
soft grease before using. With this, I
have relieved five within two years. Tie
the creature up; let one man hold the
left horn with his right hand, and take
the creatures tongue out with his left,
while another man runs the rope down.
1t is timber enough to 70 lew the, pas
sage, yet stiff enough to remove all OBJ
structions. There should be one or more
in every neighborhood.--No NorthaSestern
Farmer.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29
LET ME TURN OVER.

I was passenger on a steamer from
Panama to San Francisco when the rush
of travel on that line was immense. We
were badly crowded, and there was no
room for chairs or tables, yet we were
bound to have game of 'old sledge."
A Baptist minister, smiiten with the
n st for gold, had deserted his flock, and
occupied a sleeping-place OH the cabin
floor. Being large, corpulent man,
and finding him a sound sleeper, four of
us squatted around him, and commence
ed to play ON his broad stomach, scoring
the points of the game On his black vest.
We played for several hours, undisturb-
ed, except by an occasional snore of UNI
common force. 1 had won considerable
and one of my opponents, Jim Doyle by
name, becoming excited at my turning
up "Jack," brought down his fist on the
lower part of the parsons stomach with
great power. The pious old gentleman
was awakened thereby, and looked up
with some surprise; but seeing the state
of the case, quietly exclaimed: go on
with your game, boys; but if you are
going to ponnd me in that manner, you
had better let me turn over"
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29
agricultural.
GROWTH Or CEREALS.

AT the last meeting of the British AS
sociation, Mr.. F. G. Hallett read paper
on the "Law of Development in Cere-
ais. His experience showed him sever
al years ago, that grain, and especially
wheat, was injured by being planted too
closely.
He found a wheat plant would in
crease above the ground in proportion
as the roots had room to develop, and
that the roots might bs hindered by
being in contact with the roots of an
othef plant. Mr.. Hallet thus sums up
the results OF his extended expert
ments
l. Everv fully-developed plant,
whether of wheat, oats, or barley, pre-
sents one ear superior in productive
power to any one OF the rest on that
plant.
2. Every such plant contains one
grain, which, unon trial, proves more
productive than any other.
8. The best grain in given plant is
in its best ear.
4. Inc superior vigor OF this grain is
transmissble in different degrees to IFS
progeny.
5. By repeated careful selection the
superiority is accumulated.
6. The improvement, which is first
raised gradually, after a series Of years
is diminished in amount and eventually
so far arrested that. practically speaking
limit to improvement in the desired
quality is reached. eW
z. BY still continuing to select, the
improvement is maintained, and practi-
cally fixed type is the result.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29
SMYRNA DEL. SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 1871

"The devil you were r. muttered old
Archibald, as he rose and departed, with
out deigning to cast another glunce at
his enterprising son-in-law.
But the old man did not remain long
mad. He saw that he was completely
sold, and that the best thing he could do
was to forgive the happy couple and take
them to his home.
SO, on that self same evening, he sent
his carriage around, with an inv nvitation
to Tom and Bessie to come; and when
they had come and knelD at his feet, he
magnanimously forgave them.
Nor had he, in after years, any cause
to repeUU of Bessi's choice, or of the
mode Tom took to get his wife.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29


THERE has been a striking mortality
among the Bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church during the past year.
Bishops Kingley and Thomas died last
Summer, and now Bishop D.. w. Clark
is reported lying at the point of death at
Poughkeepsie. There are left to the
Church only five effective bishops,
whose episcopal duties require them to
meet seventy-two conferences every
year, sixty nine of which scattered over
the entire territory of the United States.
rrhere is one in Germany, one in India,
and one IN China.l The quardrennial
session of the General Conference will
be held in May, 1872, when the vaoan-
cies i'll the Board of Bishops will be FILL
ed.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29
Doetrp.
Pretty Alphabet for Pretty Ladies

Pretty Alphabet for Pretty Ladies.
A is miss Alice, the belle Of the bail;
b is her Boot, with heel three inches tall;
ois the Chignon she puts on her head;
D is the Dye used to turn her curls red;
E is her Ear, which is open to folly;
f is the Fashion which makes her lcolS like
dolly;
G is her Glove, of the daintiest kid;
H is her Hand, which is luckily hid;
l is the Impudent look of the lass;
] her sham Jewelry, tinsel and glass;
X is Knot of false hair--don't defend her.
L is tight lacing. to make her waist slender;
NJ is the Mode she is dressed in tonight;
N is her Neck, made with pearl-powder
7 white; 4
o is an Ornament, put on with grace;
P is the Paint, which o'erplasters her face;
Q is the Quaintness of fashions mad freaks
II is the Rouge Alice puts on her cheeks;
s is the Stocking, display'd when she walks;
t the false Teeth that she shows when she
talks; fn
is Unreality-bane of the age,
the Vain feeling that makes 1t the rage;
w is the Wickedness. Wantonness, Waste
x the Xcesscs of ladies of taste;
perhaps is you, my ingenious youth,
who are zany. and think beauty truth
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29

RE-INTERM ENT OF JOHN @. CAL
HoUN.-The remains of John On CAL
houn were exhumed on Saturday morn
ing, and replaced in the vault where
they originally reposed. 1t will be res
membered by chosen few thar6fe the
night preceding the evacuation of Nor
ris Island by the Confederate forces, the
bones of Calhoun were taken from their
vault, for obvious reasons, and were laid
in st. Philips churchyard, to the east of
the venerable church. There the re-
mains of our great statesman have rest
ed in peace, during these six eventful
years. The rector, assistant rector, and
vestrymen of st. Philips were present
at the disinterment, and followed the
coffin as it was borne to the old vault,
west of the church. 1t was indeed a
solemn scene.. While all else is trop-
bled and sad, the mighty spirit of Cal.
houn stalks abroad, and his dust, its
wanderings over, is laid for aye in the
humble, silent grave-laid in the bosom
of that Carolina which her wisest son
Lived so long and well.-CharIeSton
NetDS l0Lh.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29
SOUTH.

Also, Freight Train with Passenger
10 A M. New Castle, AS, Middletown, $50,
CLAYTON, 30, Dover, $50, Camden, 9.l5, Fell
ten, TO- 10, and he due at Harrington. about
.bout oj' p. NJ, FELTON, $50, Camden, ass
1,,ver, 5.35, Morton, 600. Clayton, $50, Mid
d stown. 800, New Castle, l0.0e, and be due at
Wilmington, about 1890 r. NJ. Subject to de-
ays Incident to Freight Business:
This Train will stop to take up Passengers
emily at, stations. naned.7 but Will set down
Passengers at any stopping place except
1ars's Corner. State Road. Del. Junction
nd Dupont. go
New castle Tralms-Leave New Castle
or Wilmington and Philrdelphia at 7.40 A.
VI LsaVa Philadelphia 1900 M. and Will
ninxton LILO P. NJ. for New Castle.
ginyrua Branch Trafns.-Addltional
te tn ose above leave Smyrna for Clayton
III A. M, and 500 P. M. Leave Clayton fol
Smyrna, $40 A. M, and 200 p. M, to make
and Stations South.
e Q. sEWALL. sup't Del. r. r.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29

A contented mind is continual feasts
yes perhaps, but there are men-gastro-
phillistic parties who read 1t, that a
continual feast is tie best way of getting
a coltented mind.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29

By the above arrangement, close .connec-
gers will arrive early both in New York and
baltimore, and will be able to visit Phila-
ielphia and Baltimore, returning the same
tAy.r a iflH0Tr IFFg y ltnDf r4.rI
All Frefghts must o at the various sta
lions at least (30) thir v minutes before star
flag OF Trains, otherwise they will lay over
avgenty-four hours. j. L. CALDW ELL,
superintendent.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29
VILTBERGER'S IBDgHELE INK

VIII be found on trial to be a superior arti-
Bile. Always on hand and for sale at reason
able prices. Pure Ground SPICES, Genuine
MEDICINES, Chamois Skins, SpUnges, Ia
pioca, Pearl, Sage, and all articles in the
drug line at
ALFRED wILTBERGER's DRUG STORE,
No. 2ss North Second ST., Pniladelphia.
july2-l0m.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29
eAELoW's INDIGO BLUE

Is, with ,ut doubt, the best article in the
market for blueing c'othes. 1t will color
of indigo, and much more than any other
wash blue in the market. The ONLY GEN
UINE is that put up at
ALFRED WILTBERGER'S DRUGSTORE
No. ass North Second St., Philadelphia
The Labels have both WILTBERGER'S
and BARLOW'S name on them. ALI, 9TH
ERS ARE COUNTERFEIT. For sale by
most Grocers and Druggists.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29

Female gatherings-ladies> ruflies.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29
VOL. Ii.
TIME TABLES.
summer Arrangement. 1870
Delaware Railroad Lime.
Is E ~ ~ls.s!

OH HANGE OF HOURS.
On and after Monday, April 4,
1870.
snenger Trains will run as follows until
further notice.
ALI. TRAINS SUNDAYS EXCEPTED
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29
WILTBERGER'S,
Flavoring Extracts

Are warranted equal to any made. They
are prepared from the fruits and will be
found much better than many of the Ex-
tracts that are sold.
a5-Aslx your Grocer or Druggist for WILT
BERGERS EXTRACTS.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1871-04-29

beg leave to inform my customers that
have sold my right, title and interest in the
manufacture OF PHUINE to MORO PHIL
LIPS, Esq, and will continue to snperin-
tend the manufacture Of Phuine for him.
M. Il. SHOEMAKER.
ITO s. Delaware Avenue, Phila., Pa.
May-l4-70-6m, ......-
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-18
RADICAL TENDENCIES.

1t is amusing tesee what pains the
Republican journals are at to dis
avow the Communistic sentiments
of Wendell Phillips. They say
these sentiments are too radical, too
extreme, too revolutionary, etc. But
that is just what they said of his old
time anti-slavery, anti-war senti-
ments, and yet the Republican party
in due course of time, as We all
know, walked in the path which the
old Radical marked out for it. Wen
dell processes to be always just a
little ahead OF his party, but boasts
that in a little while he can whip
them up to his mark. As the boast
as regards the past was not an idle
one, so with reference to the future
one neednot be surprisedat anything.
The men who lead the Republican,
party and who give it ideas are. not
the conservatives, but the Radicals.
So it has been Ill time past ; so will
it be again ; SO. Will it be always.
Hear Phillips:
The men who led the Commune
We're among the foremost, the purest,
and the noblest patriots of France
men who. unlike Timers and his aSsas-
sins, never bowed the knee to NapO-
leon. During long and weary years
those of them rich and high in social
life refuSed TO enter his doors. Those
OF them who were poor. starved rather
than taste his bread. These long,
honorable lives, ali spent in noble
protest against "A cruel and sensual
De>pot, while TaierS basked in his
smile, end. at last, in a desperate eff
fort to lift France ont of her horrible
degradation. Such efforts never fail.
Brutus, falling on his useless sword
Hainpdes3. riding out of the lost battle,
leaning, death-struck, on his saddle
bow-Nane, Sidney, and John Brown,
from their scaifoldS, call out to these,
their last followers, 'HBe ofgood cheer,
Brothers, the seed your blood has
planted shall not die. Redeemed
France shall yet bless you, and the
worlG, seeing your lives, shall learn
TO think nobler things of human ma
ture." WENDELL PHILLIPS.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-18

z. n. E.-Poople continue to ask us
what the prospect is-though We as
sured all readers, two weeks ago, that
all is safe. Not TO divulge too much.
we may remark, for the assurance of
those whom It concerns, that the
company has closed a contract with
Il London company, which ~securesthe
construction of the road from ElkO TO
Hamilton, and half enough money to
construct the side read from Eureka.
This Eureka connection is ii necessity.
The large amount Of freight to and
from that place justiies and requires
the earliest possible extension OF rail-
road advantages to IL. Leading citi-
Zens OF that place agree to Join the
Il. N. Company in taking the stock
necessary to put the work through,
and the appropriation from the Lon
don company, as above mentioned.
together with the subscriptions in
EIko, Hamilton and Eureka, will in
sure the completion of the Eureka
line by the time the main line gets up
to it from Eiko. This Will really he
an advantage to Eureka, making it a
terminus instead OF having a road
pass through it. The stock will be
good, and will notneed to hunt takers
when put on the market. Meantime,
speaking OF the E. N, grading will
commence at EikO on the 18th OF
August.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-18

RACEs.-We are glad to learn that
Reno is likely TO have races thi, Fall.
Last Monday the citizens of Reno held
a public meeting with a view to form
ing a permanent jockey club i'll this
.own. We understand thai the track
is to be enlarged and put i'll thorough
repair, aud that all will be done that
can be to make the races a grand sue
cess. There will be another meeting
at Dyer's Theater next Monday even
ing, when the various committee
will render their reports and we shall
be able to place something more def
mite before the public. with regard TO
this very desirable mOxenleEI.-Ck Reno
Crescent.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-18

After indulging i'll a whole column
OF ~inyectire against the New York
Tribune, referring to its past history
and abusing it's editor, it must I've
pleasant to the editor of the Register
TO I've informed that he quoted from
the wrong paper. The article which
so excited his ire was from the Chi
cage acknowledgements.
Why did not the editor of the
Enterprise say the London Times
or the Calcutta Gazette? 1t would
have been equally as near the truth.
We commented on an editorial in the
New York Tribune, as teiegraPhed by
both associations, and as it appeared
in all the journals, including the FER
ritoriai Enterprise. There is consider
able information to be Obtainea from
the Enterprise if it is read up closely.
and we would advise the editor of that
journal to hang up his stick, put on
his spectacles, and read il Tor q while,
for he evidently dealt know what his
own paper contains.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-18

GRAIN AND GRASS, ETC.-A party
just in from a trip extending from
Belmont, Nye county, to the Hum
boldt river. in Eiko county. reports
the growing grain on the route as
healthy but not very abundant-per-
hapS aot average.
The hay grass also. is not sc abund-
ant as IN, tCrmer Years. although the
yield Will be fair. and perhaps of finer
quality than heretofore.
There appears to be two 6roves, or
herds. GEthe large black cricket. cross
ing the State-one via South Fork
river. the other via old Fort Ruby and
Diamond Springs. These. .bug~.''
enough numerous, are not out in suf-
ticient force to materially injure the
crops. Perhaps they are crickets and
perhaps not. They seem to be a COM
promise between a Seven-vear old To-
Gust and a grass-hOpper, having no
wings. chirruping like a cricket, not
splitting like u gra>s-hopper. though
having the gait of both. They are
perhaps the bald headed locust, SO
highly commended in the Jewish Lee
vifirus. rs a clean article. OF diet. Try
tkenG-LEureka SentinBl..
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-18

QUANTEALL.-The Eureka Sentinel
comments on an article from a Kansas
paper which believes that Quantrall OF
former Kansas no,oriety is still alive,
and was at one time at White Pine.
The Sentinel corroborates this with the
following:
There is no doubt that Quantrall
was i'll Hamilton several times during
the Summer OF 1868, and hat until
late i'll the Fall OF that rear his home
was in spring Valley and Kern Dis
trict, White Pine county. He was
known t o a few as Quantrell, but his
alias was Captain Deard>ley. He was
always fully armed, and apparently
on his guard continually. A gentle
man vino knew hi.n a. Kern. informs
us that he several times expressed an
intention of going to Texas, and pur-
chasing cattle 10 drive 10 Nevada. 1t
was understood that he had several
thousand dollars.
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-18

WHAT BEcAMEoFT HEM.-The Santa
Clara Argus replies to lis neighbor's
remarks about Republican treatment
wears agc, with the following truthful
hit:
The editor of the Patriot ought to
know that many of Those who, Fifteen
wears ago." insulted him on account
of his Republicanism, themselves be
came Republicans when they tound
it would pay to BECAME such. 1t IS
stated land we believe trulylt that Geo.
G. GorhaIn, i'll early days. at hiarys-
vile, was once severely reproVed by
McDutfie Ia Southern Dalnocrat) for
attempting to disturb a Republican
meeting. COnnesS, only a lew years
age, when a merchant at Georgetown,
drove 4 gentleman from his store,
with a pick handle. because he was q
id Black Republican," We mea-
ton these things merely to show what
has become of those men who, fifteen
years ago. insulted their neishbors Oh
account of their Republicanisna-
The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-18

HUMRGLDT.-The Silver State says
l.. F. Damn of Galena has sold out
his interest in the Grant mine for
$4,000.
John c. Fall has returned from the
East. He pays taxes on S75. 0OC. in that
county.
j. II. Kincaid, one of the early
settlers of Carson, paid a visit to
Unionville last week. He is DOW a
postmaster at Sitka.
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TELEGRAPH


PARR, July IA great fire has oc.
CURED al Rheims, caused by the eN-
plosio0 OF a quantity of petroleum.
Fifty persons were killed and wound
ell by the. g plOsiOn and many build
ingS ia the business portion of the city
are burned.
The Official Journal states that the
explosion of the works of st. Maur,
at N~incennes, was accidental. Six
persons were killed and about thirty
wounded.
LONDON, July l7.-Prince Gorts-
chakoff has expressed to the deputation
of the American Evangelical Alliance
the sympathy of his august master,
the Gar, with the object of their
prayers for the advancement of the
cause of religious liberty in Russia.
The police dispersed a meeting in
Hyde Park, the object of which was
the prOmOtkaA Ot emigration from the
United Kingdom. Their action vas
rendered necessary by the noise and
confusion incident to the proceedings.
The Chief OF Police in dublin died
yesterday from wounds received a
few days since at the hands of a sup
posed FenianA The murderer is un-
der arrest.
1t is officially announced that the
Asiatic cholera has appeared at sew
erai places in Poland.
SAN Francesca, July l1--Chas. w.
Croker returned from Washington
Territory yesterday, and will organize
a company Immediately to- work valu-
able coal beds, which he discovered
near Olympia, within IA stones throw
of anchorage for vessels of any draft.
The Grass Valley Miners Home
Gift Concert has been postponed TO
September 10th. Thirty thousand
tickets having been sold. the drawing
will positively take place at that time.
T8e weather is fine.
The Pigeon Point Railroad Com
pany, to build a railroad FROM Pigeon
Point to Poiat Nuevo, in san Ma:eo
county, six and a half miles, at a cost
of S30,0se, was incorporated to-day.
1t is asserted that Harry Meiggs has
contracted with San Francisco firm
for the shipment of l,60o Cinnamon
from this port to work on his railroads.
The report Is doubtful.
Gold l p. M. ll2%s. G~reenbacks
S9L4; selling al s92i.