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Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19
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THEIRS THREATENS TO REsIGN-PERsoNAL.
PARIS, Jan. 49,
1t is rumored that Thiers threatens to resign
il the Assembly rejects the tariff on material.
Minister Curtin has left st. Petersburg to
meet General Sherman at Nice.
The American officials connected with the
Geneva arbitration will remain in Paris until
the next meeting of the Board.
THE TOBACCO MONOPOLY AND GERMAN INDEMNITY.
The rumor that the German indemnity had
been ceded to private parties, at the recent ses-
sion of the Tobacco Monopoly, so as to secure
immediate payment is contradicted.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19

In addition to the indications of the direction
Of fire alarms at present prevailing in this city,
Mr. Iichtenstein introduced an ordinance into
Council, last evening, providing for others, as
follows
One stroke, with a short interval, and three
strokes in quick succession followed by a con
siderable interval, shall indicate orth-Easterly
direction one stroke, with short interval. and
four strokes in quick succession, followed by
considerable interval "a North Westerly direction;
two strokes in rapid succession, with a short in
terval, and three strokes in quick succession,
followed by considerable interval South
EaHterly direction, and two strokes in rapid sue
cession, with a short interval, and four strokes
in quick succession, followed by a considerable
interval, a SouthWesterly direction.
This ordinance passed toits third reading last
evening and will come up in Council for adop-
ton or rejection the next meeting.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19
MORNING NEWS.


John V. Childs, wel-known engraver, was
found dead in bed. in New Orleans, yesterdy,
from an overdose of laudanum.
At Leavenworth. Kansas, Deputy Sheriff Rob
ert Palmer, was shot through the lungs by John
Elder, while making an arrest, on Wednesday.
He liz not expected to recover.
Mrs. Cornelius Burke was burned to death by
her clothes catching fire in her bedroom, at
Hartford, Conn, yesterday. clothes press in
the room was set on fire. and the engines had to
be called out to save the house.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19

The JUBrLEE.--1he Jubilee will be a grand
success. One Thousand children have already
been secured for the grand chorus, and Prof
Cemmer, who has the affair in charge, is obliged
daily to decline the services of numerous appl-
cants. The second rehearsal takes place at the
Institute Hall, at 2 o'clock, on Saturday after
noon, January Goth, but no visitors will be adj
mitted, only the children holding rehearsal
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19
Personal Intelligence.

Joseph II. Holfecker, Esq, editor and propr-
etor of the Smyrna Times, was in town, to-day.
A Harrisburg despatch reports that William
NJ Tweed passed there on Wednesday evening,
going West.
An increase of the family of the Prince of
Wales is expected next month.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19

OPERATIONS AGAINST THE REBELS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 10.
The Mexican Federal General Corona, is pre-
pairing to attack Mazatlan by land ana sea- and
will no doubt defeat the rebels who now OCCUPY
it.
All of oaxaca and Queretare are in the possess
sion Of the Federal authorities.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19

ACCIDENT AND DETENTION OF FATRAIY.-Several
hours delay was caused to the mail and passen-
ger train, from Baltimore, this morning, which
is due in this city, at 10 30, A. NJ. When about
one mile north of Perrymans Station, the tire
driving wheel of the locomotive broke, but do
ing no other serious damage. An engine with
construction cars and workmen were immedi-
ately sent from this city to the relief of the dis
ahled train
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19

Managers.



1st No persons shall be admitted into the
Asylum but those who bring satisfactory testimo-
malls to the proprietyof their conduct and the
spectability of their characters.
and. When they are pensioners on any Society
it is expected their pensions will be continued, to
assist in their support and that their funeral ex-
penses will be betrayed.
3rd. Those who have any property are required
to secure the same to the Institution, before they
are admitted; in case of their obtaining property
after their admission, if they remain in the
Asylum, it will be necessary to make it over to
this Institution.
4th. 1t will be required that any one admitted
shall pay 300 in advance.
9th. Furniture and other articles brought into
the Asylum are to remain for the benefit Of the
Institution.
9th. Persons may be admitted as boarders but
not to the exclusion of such as are entirely de-
pendent.
7th. No person shall be admitted as boardeI
unless satisfactory security be given for the
regular payment of her board.
Sth. The age of persons admitted into the
Asylum, whether as boarders or pensioners, mus
not be under 60 years, and any pensioner
must have been a resident of New Castle county
for two wears.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19
9eaths.

JACQUoT.-In this city, on the 18th instant, Albert
JacquOt, in the 67th year Of his age.
The relatives and friends of the family are re-
spectfully invited to attend his funeral, from his
late residence, Claymont street, South Wilmington
Tomorrow Saturday afternoon, at O'Clock, with
out further notice.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19

lIAoih thC ShShNSA INcpuhilVail'J
Some of the Wilmington editors mot any of
those attached to the COMMERCIAL, for they are
always wide awake-dont know a flying sqir-
rel from a kangaroo. They should study Good
rich, or some other naturalist, and post them
selves on this important subject.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19
LOCAL AFFAIRs.

H,mpty Dunpiy Matinee tomorrow after
noon.
The Friends First day School Conference
meets tomorrow.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.
SENATE.
The Senate is not in session.
HOUSE.
The House discussed the Arkansas election
case of Bolis against Edwards
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19


The agent for Madam Janauschel, g The
Queen of Tragedy" has been in correspondence
with the Opera House Directors, In reference to
an engagement Of about two nights in Whining
ton. Should she come, it will probably be early
in February.
PANToArAfE, TONIGHT.
This evening, at the Opera House, the Her
nandez Foster Company present two panto-
mines, the -Four LOUers, and the Magic Ty7np-
pet. Tomorrow afternoon, AZ already noticed
there will be a Hnnpty D,tmpty matinee.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19
Dailv GemmertiAF.
JENKINS 8 ATKINsoN.


: Mr. Horsfall, NJ. p, doesn't approve of the
Gladstone government. OF course he may easily
be wrong, but there arc other people thinking
the same way.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19

FoR PANAMA.-The Harlan 4 Hollngsworth
Company shipped, yesterday, to New York. a
large smoke-staek for shipment, by steamer, to
the Panama Railroad o.. South America.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19

Mazatlan. queer old Mexican town on the
Pacific coast is held by the rebels and is TO be
attacked by the Federal troops under Coron.
Mazatlan doesen't mind such little affairs, hay
ing had enough experience to be quite used to
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19

wHIsKEY ACrIVE-sEVES ARRESTS.
AT the hearing, this morning, before the May
or. there were seven for drunkenness.
They were tined in each case, so cents and COSTS
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19
SECOND EDITION.
3.3O, p. M.


WOMAN BLOWS OUT HER BRAINS.
New York, Jan. 49,
Isabel A. Titus, of Boston, blew ont her brains
with pistol while on visit to the house of DR.
Pray.
The cause OF the suicide is unknown.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19
The Wharton Trial.

COMBINATION OF ARGUMENT FOR DEFENCE
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 10.
Mr.. Thomas resumed his argument for the de-
fence in the Wharton trial this morning.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19
TELEGRAMS.


REroRT OF THE SIGNAL SERVICE BUREAU.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 1872.
Probabilities Barometer will continue falling
from Michigan to Florida and Eastward to At
lantc, with rising temperature, and Easterly and
Southeasterly area of rain will extend Eastward
over Southern Atlantic and Southern Middle
States during day and Southern Middle States
tonight.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19

WHAT THE PRESS SAYS OF IT.

From the Norrlstown Pa.) Herald
1t must prove a valuable work of reference to
the people OF Delaware, and to all others who
wish to keep themselves posted ON the affairs Of
that State, 1t is very credtable work typo
graphically and otherwise
From tEe Philadelphia lnquirerl
This s very useful compilation.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19

PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10.
Cotton steady; uplands, 2l9lc Flour dull,
holders more anxious to realize, extras 6CD6A /;
Pennsylvania extra family, $7.25. Wheat dull
weak State and Western red, $1.58@1.61 am
ber 65 white 70075. Rye SOC. Corn dull new
yellow, 65@67 mixed Western 69@7Oc. Oats
dull white, 54@55c, mixed so. Provisions dull
Whisky in limited request, at 95c.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19
II w. sTIDHAM q SON,
Real Estate Agents q AuotIoneern,
No. Ill East FouI tn street,
WILMINGTON Du

Public sales.
We will sell at O'Clock, FRIDAY and SATUR-
DAY evenings, at our Auction Rooms, quantity OF
mems, womens, and boys boots, gums, boys caps,
cutlery &C.
On SATURDAY morning, at . O'Clock, household
furniture, sucn as bedsteads. mattresses, feather
beds, bedding, tables chairs .ingrain and rag car
pets, good as new, stove, table ware, milk pans,
tubs, buckets. Also, horse blankets, whips, gum
blankets, &c. jani9-lt
Sales Of Real and Personal Property promptly at
tended to, In City State. Regular Sales of Firni-
ture at their Auction Room. every WEDN RSD NY
and SATURDAY mornings. Also, TUESDAY, FRI
Day and SATURDAY evenings. All goods con.
signed TO them will be promptly attended to. Lib
eral advance on cOnsignments. dec12-u
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19

OPINIONS AGAINST THE MINISTRY.
LONDON Jan. 10.
Mr.. Horsfall the member of parliment. in a
speech to his constituents, declared the present
government was unfit to deal with English ques-
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19
AGLR E MILLER,
ReA. Estate Agents a AuctIoneers.
Uerzsr Of Fourth aad KiaG srrssIa,
WILMINGTON, DHL
OGI.R & MILLER,


Every Tuesday and Friday evenings, and Wednesday
and Saturday Mornings, at the Auction Rooms corner
Fourth and King streets mYld,n
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19

ENoR this extremely cold weather try BUSHs
IL KOH-I-NOOR LEHIGH COAL from his self
screening bins
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-01-19

Officers and Managers
First Directress,
Mrs. SARAH II MENDENHALL.
Second Directress.
Mrs. GREGG CHANDLER,
Secretary,
Mrs. EMILY G. WoLLAsToN,
Treasurer,
Miss ANNA SEMpLE.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-02-23
The Weather and Piety.

There is mystery about the effect of the
weather on piety. Sabbath heat seems hot
ter, Sabbath cold colder, and Sabbath rain
wetter than that of any other day.; for the
same measure of heat, or cold, or rain, on
week day, will not keep one from his
usual business. Weneed Sabbath alman-
&C, calculated for our churches, that will
show by its weather scale when it will be
safe for vigorous Christian to expose him
self ON the Sabbath by going to the house
of God. Such an almanac would enable
pastors and superintendent of Sabbath
schools to know whom they could depend
on in church, Sabbath school and prayer
meeting. Writes some one: II have re-
Gently been examining microscopic views
OF the different snow-fakes, o hundred or
so of them, and 1 would suggest to our
curious Swans an examination of Sabbath
snow, to see if it has q peculiarly sharp
and injurious crystal"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-02-23
VARIETIES.

Josh Billings says: "Success don't kon-
sist in never making blunders, but in never
making the same one the seckond time"
How many who use the needle ever
dreamed that we send to Great Britain,
annually, fifteen million dollars in gold for
the single article of spool cotton.
A Western editor speaks of his rival
as mean enough to steal the swill from II
blind hogn The rival retorts by saying:
He knows he lies; I never stole his swill"
An old lady from one of the rural dis
tricts astonishcd clerk in one of the stores
few days ago by inquiring if he had any
'yaller Developments SIGH rs they did up
letters in
"A man on the day he became one hun.
dred years old, went to have a pair of shoes
made, remarking that he wanted them
built substantial, with plenty of hobnails
The storekeeper suggested that he might
not live to wear such pair of shoes out,
when the old gentleman reported that he
commenced this one hundred years good
deal stronger than he did the last one!
A SERIOUS DILEMMA.-There is an old
German occupying beer cellar in New
York who has not been outside the place
for several years. He has grown so enor
mously stout from beer and Incidence that
he could not possibly be got through the
doorway; and as he will be obliged to leave
it in May, the question with his friends
now is whether to reduce him by training
or to enlarge the doorway.
"A writer who had cautioned his read
ers against casting their pearls before
swine, was amazed and grieved to per-
ceive that the compositor had warned the
public against carting their pills before
sunrise" This was corrected in proof but
the reporter who declared that certain
new store had go fancy windows" was
even more indignant than the storckeeper,
when he saw in his paper the statement
that the establishment contained go faded
widows" The poets suffer most deeply.
Nothing could be worse, for instance, than
the misery of the bard who asserted, in his
copy, that he kissed her under the silent
stars, only to find that the compositor COM
PEELED him to "kick her under the cellar
stairs"
81 give and bequeath to Mary, my
wife, the sum of one hundred pounds
year," said an old farmer. sis that writ
ten down, measter2"
YES" replied the lawyer; but she is
not so old; she may marry again. Won't
you make any change in that caseS Most
people do"
"Ah do they9" said the farmer. "Well,
write again give and bequeath to her the
sum of two hundred pounds year."
That'll do, won't it, measter9"
why, it's just doubling the sum she
would receive if she remained unmarried
said the lawyer; lit is generally the other
way-the legacy is lessened if the widow
marries again.
'Ahp said the farmer; but him as gets
her'll deserve it,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-02-23

in 1869 there were n Schools and 4,O44
pupils attending terms OF Schools. In
1870 there were rs Schools and 1882 pu-
pills attending terms ofSchools. In 1871
there were S3 Schools in operation for
terms, attended by 1913 pupils-an in
crease in attendance ofpnpils over 1870 OF
1871.
There are Scolored schools in tie county
under the jurisdiction of the Boarl. The
taxes on the assessed property ofthe colored
people ($112,O00) for the years 1868, 1869
1870 and 1871, amounts to S767.2O, which
the Board is directed by law to pay back to
the colored schools.
The Board have decided to suspend the
Colored Schools at the end of this term, Jan.
31st, 1872, until some other provision is
made for the education of the colored race.
The law leaves it optional with patrons and
pupils either to purchase the text books
and stationery, or pay not more than 81
per term for their use. The Board deemed
it judicious to change this provision so as
either to require all to rent or all to pur-
chase text books.
In conclusion the Board have endeavor-
ed to discharge the duty appertaining to
their office faithfully and economically, al
though they have had to contend with diff
fculties.
The Board believe that there is no tax
which will be more cheerfully paid by the
majority Of the tax payers, than that for
the education the rising generation, be-
cause on the intelligence and morality of
the citizens depend the prosperity of the
people, and the perpetuity of their liberties.
BY order,
ROBERT HENRY,
Secretary.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-02-23

Nor AsHAMED.-The other day, in the
city of London, the people were astonished
by Il Hindoo gentleman. 1t was in their
grand park-Hyde Park-where people go
to drive, and ride, and walk. This Hindoo
was Mohammedan, and the hour of pray
er came while he was in the park. So I'M
rolling little mat which he carried, he laid
it on the grass, and kneeling down on it, he
went gravely through his prayers He did
not think of emitting his prayers because
people would see him pray. How often does
it happen that our boys and girls do not
pray in the morning or at evening because
they are ashamed to be seen praying. In
almost every case they would be more res
pected if they went forward not minding
what people thought or said. Even if any
one should laugh at them, what would it
matter' Christ wants us to confess Him
before men-never be ashamed of Him.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-02-23

SAVED by HIS Doe.-A Western woods,
man recently found himself help
lessly pinned to the ground by prema-
turely falling tree. He was a great dis
lance from homo, and in few hours would
doubtless have died from the pain and ex-
posture, had not little whining cur who
had missed his master, and tracked him
to his wood prison, begun mornful howl
as possible relief from the dreary monoto.
tony of the situation, This suggested to
the suffering man something of the story
book kind, and calling to his little pet, he
smeared his shaggy face with blood, and
babe him return home for help. The little
creature evidently realized the Importance
OF his mission, for be trotted homeward
forthwith, and breaking in upon the
astounded household, gave the first alarm.
He led the way back, the wounded man,
and in an ecstacy of whines attested his
satisfaction at the deliverance.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-02-23
WoMAN's MARKMANsHIP.-A writ,
MARS.

WoMAN's MARKMANsHIP.-A writer
thus happily alludes to remarkable pecu-
liarity of the down -trodden sex:
Did You ever see woman throw stone
at hen? 1t is one of the most ludicrous
scenes in every day life. We recently OBJ
served the process-indeed we paid more
attention than the hen did, for she didn't
mind it at all, and laid an egg the next day
as if nothing had happened. In fact, that
hen will now learn for the first time that
she served in the capacity of a target.
The predatory fowl had invaded the sa-
cred precincts of the flower bed, and was
industriously pecking and scratching for
the nutritious seed and the early worm,
blissfully unconscious of impending dan
ger. The lady now appears upon the scene
with broom. This she drops, and picks
up rocky fragment of the Silurian age
"they all 60 it,"-seizing the projectile
with the wrong hand. Then, with malice
aforethought, she makes the further blum
der of swinging her arm perpendicularly
instead of rizontally-whereupo the
stone flies into the air, describing an irreg-
ular, clliptical curve, and strikes the sur
| face of the earth about as far from the hen
, as the thrower stood at the time, and in a
course due west from the same, the hen
then bearing by compass N N. E. by E.
half east At the second attempt the stone
narrowly missed the head of the thrower
herself, who, seeing that any further at
tempt of the kind might have been suici-
dial, does what she might have done at
| frst-starts after the hen with an old fam
lily weapon. The moral of which is "stick
| to the broom stick"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-02-23
VOL. XVI.---NO. 8,
Novel Leap Year Move.

Rather novel method of celebrating the
advent of leap year has been adopted at
southville, Kentucky, and one quite I'M
pleasant for the victims. This is nothing
more or less than public sale of the
bachelors and widowers of that enterpris-
ing town by the young ladies of that vicin-
ity. They brought the following prices:
Lawyers Gan inferior grade), S. head;
farmers, from 1925 to $3.50; doctors (com-
mon stock, and evidently drugs in the
market'), So; widowers, $1,000, bidding
spirited; bachelors without any distinctive
professions or trades, rs cents to $1.05, and
the bidding slow. The high price paid for
the widowers seems unaccountable to the
bachelors. 1t is pity to hold up so strong
an inducemcnt for men to wish to be wild
overs
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-02-23

BEAUTIES OF THE SUsoUEHANNA.-Rev
Theodore Tilton, editor of the Golden Age,
thus speaks in the last issue of that paper of
the beauties of the Susquehanna, in the Vi
cinity of Columbia:
zone of the loveliest landscapes on
which our eyes have fallen during any re-
cent travels is the scene which on sun
shiny day (even in midwinter) one surveys
from the summit of Chickies' Rock, at Col
umbia, Pa. This eminence boldly projects
into the Susquehanna river, that winds
with its picturesque majesty about its foot,
fringed on the right with the ambitious
town of Marietta, and spanned the left with
the rebel-scarred bridge of Columbia
This sequesrered haunt is so easy of access
that we wonder at its fame remaining so
much less than its beauty. The whole re-
gion round about is miracle of Gods
handiwork-not mountains but hilly, "as
if,'A Gin Mrs. Browning's phrase Ellis fin
ger touched, but did not press, in making
it." Indeed the Susquehanna is sister to
the Hudson both are fair children of a
common Father. And there ought to be a
statute-aw against going to Switzerland
till one has seen Pennsylvania.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-02-23

A VnLAINoUs DEcoCTIoN.-"Ten gal
Ions of kerosene, three pounds of potash,
one ounce of strychnine, mixed with soft
water" 1t was according to this cheerful,
not to say convivial formula, that guam
tity of"whiskey" seized last week in New
ton, Mass, was compounded, the receipt
having also been found in the possession of
the unfortunate dealor IT, you want gin,
add guantum su6icit of oil ofjuniper! The
mystery is that men who drink this dia-
bolical fluid do not drop down stone-dead
at once
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-02-23
PO g t &c al.
THE OTHER WORLD.
EY MRS. II. u. STOWE.

II lies around us like cloud
A world We do not see;
Yet the sweet closing of an eye
May bring us there TO be.
Its gentle breezes fan our cheek,
Amid our worldly cares;
Its gentle voices whisper love,
And mingle with our prayers.
Sweet hearts around us throb and beat,
Sweet helping hands are stirred;
And palpitates the veil between
With breathings almost heard.
and in the hush of rest they bring,
lis easy now to sec
How lovely and how sweet pass
The hnnr of death may be.
7" cln,e the eye and close the ear,
Wrapped in trance of bliss,
nd @"ntly laid in loving arms,
10 sYoOu to thlt-from this.
Scarce knowing ii we wake or sheep,
Scarce asking where we are,
TO feel all evil sink away,
All sorrow and all care.
Sweet souls around us watch us still,
Press nearer to our side;
Into our thoughts, into our prayers,
With gentle helpings glide.
Let death between us be as naught-
A dried and vanished stream
Your joy be the reality,
Our suffering life the dream.