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Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19

Proceedings Of the L. q. q. #. Grand Lodge.
In the GI and Lodge Of Odd Fellows yesterday,
an amendment to the Constitution was unani-
mously adopted, providing that members ex-
PEELED from lodges or encampments 10 one juris-
diction shall not be admitted to membership in
another jurisdiction without the consent OF Il o
lodges or encampments from which they we' Q
expelled; but permitting the admission in anoth-
er jurisdiction Of members suspended or dropped
for non.payment of dues only.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19

OLD Folks CoNoERT.-The "Old Folks" will
give a concert at West Chester on the 9th inst.
in this city in May last, which elected such eulo-
gestic encomiums.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19

HIS WIFE PERMITTED TO SEE HIM.
PARIS, Sept, 10. d"
The wife of Edmund About is permitted to see
her husband, who has been imprisoned by the
Government authorities
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19
Bankruptcy.

FAILURE OF A LONDON FIRM.
LONDON, Sept. 10.
Fox Il Co., of London, have failed. Their
liabilities are five hundred thousand pounds. 1t
was in consequence of the Baltimore failures
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19

REPORT OF THE SIGNAL SERVICE.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.
Probabilities Northerly winds, with clear and
clearing weather for the Middle States.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19
Commercial Reports.


PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10.
Cotton 201S6D2215c. Flour more active SUI
vania extra family s80S.5O. Brandywine corn
meal S3.500360. Red wheat S1.70 amber
S1.74@177 !; Western white S1.7S. Western
rye sue. Yellow corn 66c mixed 6Sc White
oats 41G43c old do. 44Ca4Sc new mixed 400
Ale. WhiskNy 94c.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19
Auftiutr Sales.
GALE OF LOTS.
so BUILDING LHTs Sf TssunL,c SALE,

VIII be sold, on the Premises
on SATURDAY, SEPT. 81, 1872, at 4 O'Clock, P. NJ.
Those very beautifully located Building Lots, 'front.'
ing on R0dmaD, Hawley, Webb bth and 9th streets.
as extended from tn city. These lots are q short
distance from the city line, about three squares
south rom the Shooting Park, and are not subject
to city Tax They will be sold great bargain, and
on very easy tetms-being only 20 percent cash and
six aud II months for the balance 80 that any poor
man can ny " and make himself freeholder. At
my last sale Of 80 OGs this property, from 9Th to
7th Sts some Of the lots 20 by l2s feet sold low
as so; so there was only S. to ray cash and and
~ months for the balance.
Persons Of small means should not fail to attend
this SALE
VIM. BRIGHT, Agt
sept 1877
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19

Theodore Tilton hes turned his back-hair on
the past He said in one of his Maine speeches
that he was sorry he wrete the Woodhuls life
and that Greeley was right when he denounced
it an outrageous thing. But poor Woodruff,
what shall become of her, asks the Missouri
Democrat, seeing that her amorous biographer
has
"Rlned her Of all her sweetness,
And nunR her like wlthered weed away"
The Nation wickedly declares that "vagarious
elderly men with bees in their bonnets, under
done young men, enthusiasts of all ages and
sizes aud sexes with imperfect control over their
mental processes, have always had natural
fondness for the Sage"
Complete official returns from the Congress
sional districts OF Maine show the following Re-
ubcan majorities First District. 2195 Sec
ond, 4157; Third, 3640 Fourth, $3.50; Fifth,
3O3l. The Third District is Speaker Blaine's.
Phe Democrats yesterday nominated William
]. 0'Brien for Congress in the Third Maryland
District, and re-nominated Thomas Swami III the
Fourth.
Stanley Woodward, of Wilkesbarre, was NOM
mated for Congress yesterday by the Democrat
ic conferees Of Luzerne and Susquehanna coun-
ties,
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19
RenIFstals. 3.

SALE OF HoUsEs-Mr. VIM. Bright will sell at
public sale on the premises, on Saturday, 28th
inst, seven houses Six of these houses are
three-story, and situated at Harrison street and
Shallcross avenue. The seventh one, is a cot
tage, at the N. L. corner Of the same streets.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19

DRAIDED CHALK LINES and sash cords, which
I'D neither kink, st,etch or unravel, for sale by
TRUMAN A SHAW,
No. ss5 eight Thlrty-nve) Market St below Ninth,
PHILADELPHIA.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19
L. w. sTIDHAM g. SON,
Itfa al Estate Agents, Auctieneers
No. Ill Enst Fourth Street,
WILMINGTON, pEI.
seven Valuable Houses mt Public Sale.

Seven Valuable Houses at Public Sale.
WI be sgld at Public Sale, on the premises, on
SATURDAY, SET. 2STH, 1879, AT 8 O'CLr CK p. NJ.
six latgs three story BRICK HOUSES. contain On
Ing II rooms, flashed Ia the best STYLE with al vi
the modern improvements, with front aud sue
yards situated at the of Harrison street and
Shalcross avenue, lots 20 feet front and 100 feet
deep. each
Also, very nice Cottage House at the Northeast
corner Of Harrison street and ShallcrOss avenue,
with { Cne nundIed and nfty-seven feet on Har-
risOn street. and hundred feet on Shalcross aV,
with fruit trees and grape vines. The situation OF
this property Is high and healthy with splendid
view OF the Br hdy9ine and Delaware rivers-and
on one square from Delaware avenue,
Terms Will he very easy, only small amount to
be ia in cash. WM. BRIGHT. Agt-
sepl9-St
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19

ENNTERPRISE COAL-Persons VINO are tired OF
~ trying to burn slate and dirt, should go &c
FOUT, West and Water streets, and buy the EN-
TERPRISE COAL, and get clear OF both. Try 10
you will want no other.
NJOW is THE TINE to buy coal, as 1t has not
~ been lower for years. Reliance Mt. Carmel
aud Lehign are the favOrite kinds. All sizes Kept
under cover, and carefully screened.
GEO. W. BUSH. French-St. Wharf.
XNHEELER a. WILSON
w SEWING MACHINES,
apr26-ly sol Market Street.
HEALDS' HYcEIAN HOME.
Cor. Van Barren st. and shalIcrOss Ave-,
WILMINGTON, DEL.
PUSEY HEAID NJ D.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19

A GENTLEMAN having a farm containing three
N hundred acres with four thousand peach trees
all In good bearing, would exchange It for a nrst-
class drug store In the city OF Wilmington.
sepl9-4ts
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19
8ettt advertisements.

FTNo MAKE YOUR CARPETS LIE TIGHT and
j smooth use the Lev Carpet Stretchers For
sale, with superior quality of carpet tacks, and
various patterns of carpet hammers, by
TRUMAN a SHAW,
No. sa5 eight Thlrty-rye) Market st. below Ninth,
phtladelnhta
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19

Murder near Bnltimore-DeRd Bodies In the
Thicket.
The dead bouies of two white men were found
ol Tuesday in a thicket on the old Washington
road, about three miles from Baltimore. A pis-
Lol WAS found lying by each, one OF the pistols
being discharged The bodies were much de-
cayed. 1t is supposed the men were murdered
and robbed three weeks since by a band of
glpsies.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-09-19

A PHYSICIAN OF EXPERIENCE having a
IN large county practice would sell out cheap.
and associate himself with another In the city OF
Mim gIOn on reHsOnabla terms. seplg.4Ls
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-04
INCONvENIENT ETIQUETTE

a professor in one of our Western col
leges, whose bodily presence was weak, but
who, having a tall spirit, was determined to
bate no inch of the respect due to his office
or himself, disappearing also of the lax con-
ventionality of the "frontier," requested
the studenets whenever they should meet
him, DR.. H, their friend and their profes-
sor, to take off their hats This enactment
did not suit the Western temper, and stirred
slightly the Western pulse. No remOn-
STRANGE, however, was offered, and the Doc
tor, who had been visited by nisgivings as
to the result, breathed freely, felt that the
rough point was rounded, and felicitated
himself upon his Hrmness.
Returning cne evening from a supper
party, in unusually genial mood, DR.. II. as
cended the long flight of stone steps leading
to his room. When about half way up be
deserted Mr.. g., from st. Paul, coming
| down, both arms clasped round bundle
| of kindling wood. AS he drew near, the
Doctor uttered his bland ''goOd evening,
| (the rising English infection managed to a
nicely, touching his hat as he spoke. The
| Minnesotian returned the salute de riguelu,
unloosing as he did so the fatal fagots with
fall like thunderi Hop, skip and jump
| could hot save b0o uuiOTJuudbo OOCtOT,
when, sent surely by his evil genius, at
this moment who should appear upon the
scene but Captain K, the one-armed
hero from Wisconsin, striding rapidly down
| with his Saturday nights pail of hot water!
Because his friend was in grief should
he pass him by? Beholding his chief, fol
the moment stripped of Office, capering up
on the stairs, should he refuse to salute HIM
He, to whom "regulation" was both Law
and instinct? Never! and his faithful "left
sought his hat. Away weLt the pail
bump! thump! splashl dash!
"Confound you both, roared the unfor
tunate recipient of college honors, rubbing
and wringing by turns!
| Hot water is known to be emollient i
may have expedited the Doctors recovery
Certain it is that after a few days seclusion
during which there came frequent puffs OF
camphor and opodeldoc from his quiet
room, and ''like horns from Elfland family
blowing" the echo of much din and ghost
ly laughter from distant halls and corridors
the professor again stood before his class
There was something in bis whole air anC
| department as new to him as to them
something suggesting not exactly defeat
but rather depreciation-non-res resistance, o.
as then ard there described, "Unstarched
by JoVe! limp as rag"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-04
THE POETRY OF TIE TABLE.

In the hrst place, starched and smooth
ly-ironed able-cloth-which, if neatly fold
ed after every meal, will look well for sew
eral days. Then flowers and ferns in fat
dishes, baskets, or small vases-or else a
tiny nosegay land upon every napkin.
The salt must be pure and smooth. The
butter should be moulded into crossed
diamonds, shells, or globes, with the
paddles made for this purpose.
A few pretty dishes will make the pain
est table glow;-a small bright colored plat
ter for pickles, horse-raddish, or jelly; and
butter-plates representing green leaves are
also attractive.
A few pennies worth of parsley or cress,
mingled with small scraps of white paper
daintily clipped, will cause plain dish to
assume the air Of French entree. A plat
ter of hash may be ornamented with an
edging of toasted or fried bread cut into
points; and a dish Of mutton chops is much
more impressive with the bones stacked
as soldiers stack their guns, forming pyra-
mid in the center-each bone adorned
lemon mingled with sp1gs of parsley and
slices of hard boiled eggs, form pretty gar
nlsh to many dishes and nothing could be
more appetizing than beef, veal, mutton or
lamb made into mince-meat, and pressed
into form in q wine-glass, then fried
in pork fat, with a sprig of green
placed on the top of each little cone.
The basket Of fruit-peaches, pears, grapes
or apples, oranges and grapes-should be
tastefully arranged and trimmed with leaves
and flowers. The bowl of salad should be
ornamented with the scarlet and orange
flowers of the trop@olum-their piquant
flavor adding zest to the lettuce, with which
they can be eaten.-Scribner's for July.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-04
SOMETHING ABOUT WOMAN.

The Parson says that woman is always
most restless under the most favorable con-
ditions, and that there is no state in which
she is really happy except that Of change.
| suppose this is the truth taught in what
has been called the ''Myth Of the Garden"
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that
element in the world which con-
tinually destroys and re-createS.
She is the experinlenter and the
suggester of new combinations. She has
no belief in any law of eternal fitness of
things. She is never even content with any
arrangement of her own house. The only
reason the mistress could give, when she
re-arranged her apartment, for hanging
picture in what seemed the most inapprc-
pirate place, was that it had never been
there before. Woman has no respect for
tradition, and because thing is as it is, is
sufficient reason for changing it. When
she gets into law, as she has
come into literature, we shall gain some
thing in the destruction of all our vast and
musty libraries of precedents, which now
fetter our administration of individual JUS
tice. 1t is Mandeville's opinion that women
are not so sentimental as men, and are not
so easily touched with the ~unspoken poetry
OF nature; being less pOetlcal and having less
| imag gination, they are more fitted for practi
cal affairs, and would make less failures in
business. l have noticed the almost selfish
passion for their flowers which old gardeners
have, and their reluctance to part with a
leaf or blossom from their family. They
love the flowers for themselves. A woman
raises flowers for their use. She is destruc-
tion in a conservatory. She wants the
flowers for her lover, for the sick, for the
poor, for the Lord on Easter day, for the
ornamentation of her house. She delights
in the costly pleasure of sacrificing them.
She never sees flower but she has an in
tense but probably sinless desire 10 pick it.
From Warmers Backlog Studies, Ia
Scri6ner'S for july.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-04
DEMOCRATsC MEETING IN JEFFER-
SON COUNTY

A convention met at the Courthouse in
cambridge, Jefferson county, Tennessee,
July /, 1872. DR.. A. A. Caldwell was
chosen Chairman, and E. e. Watkins ap-
pointed Secretary.
A committee was appointed to report the
names Of suitable gentlemen to elect as del
egates to the the Sparta Convention, who
reported as follows:
Whereas, the Congressional Committee
has called convention to meet at Sparta,
Tenn, on the 9th inst. to nominate can
didate for Congress for the Second district
of Tennessee, and we deem it important
that the Democracy of Jefferson county be
represented; therefore
Resolved that we indorse the action of
said committee in calling the convention,
and the following delegates are suggested
TO cast the vote of the county, to-wit: DR..
A. A. Caldwell, F. B. Cowan, Eli D. Rain
water, P. Taylor, Col. Ben Cluck, VIM.
French, r. F. Galyon, John c. johnson,
Sam Odell, w. III. Moffett, C. Zimmerman
and DIR. VIM. Roderfen.
Your committee respectfully suggest that
should none of the above gentlemen be
delegation be empowered to cast the vote
Of the county.
j. c. CAwooD,
w. w. DEAN,
G. A. MILLER and
z. E. WATKINS, Com.
Alter the resolution was reported it was
adnended by placing DR.. J. G. Cawood on
said committee, which, with the report
was unanimously adopted.
Adjourned sine die.
I. E. WATKINS, Sec'Y.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-04
DESTRUCTION OF THE GERMS OF
DISEASE.

As The result of a series of experiments
on the destruction of low forms of lifs by
heat, DR.. Grace Calver demonstrates that
the germs of disease will withstand tenn
perature Of 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Ex-
posure to such Seat as this injures the
fibers of all kinds of cloth so seriously that
they are unfit for further use. It. is, there
fore, evident that the mere agency of heat
cannot be depended upon for the de-
struction of the germs or corruscles at
tached to the clothing of persons who
have suffered from any contagious dis
ease. The necessity for a change in opin-
ion regarding the power of chlorine gas to
accomplish this purpose is urged in recent
report of the New York Board of Health
on the disinfeetion of clothing and rooms
that have been exposed to contamination
by smallpox. In the report in question,
carbolc acid is especially recommended for
the disinfection of clothing and bedding,
and sulphurous acid gas, prepared by burn
ing sulphur, for the disinfection of rooms.
The latter substance especially seems to
have the power of utterly destroying the
germs of smallpox, while chlorine frequent
ly fails altogether, or only accompIishes the
object in an imperfect manner.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-04
MAKING SPORT OUE OF MISFOR-
TUNE.
From the New York Mail.

The people of the West are the most sue
cessful in the world in making sport of their
msfortunes. One of their several afflic-
tions at this season is visitation of potato
bugs, and yet they era jokes on the vii
famous insects as though their potatoes
were in no danger. The vermln, by the
way, bear the cracking of jokes remarka-
bly, well. One day we are told
that the whole army of potato bugs has
pitched its tents on the plains of Kansas,
and is on short rations waiting for the es-
culent root to put forth its sprouts. Then
we hear that in Wisconsin the potato bugs
are sitting around on the fences,
offering seventy-fve cents a bushel
for potatoes end $1.50 a day for men
To plant them, Next we hear that the
potato bugs will poll full vote in
Indiana, and propose to adopt the cumula-
tive system. Then we hear that these in
teresting creatures are holding joint con-
ventiOn at Council Bluffs, and repudiate
the e-termed principle. The latest ad-
vices are to the effect that potato bugs are
loaing about on the street corners in Du-
buque, awaiting the tardy growth of their
faVOrite vegetable.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-04
SAYINGS VI BY Josh BILLINGs.

Thare IL no person worth being jealous
of who IL willing to be the kause of it.
Wise men hav but few konfdents, and
cunning ones, none. lo -,T oL} zs,u
Pashunce il good thing for man to
hay, provided he don't hav tew mutch ov It;
thare IL a point at which pashunee begins
tew,be ignorance. t --
T AXE the mistery out ov things and they
lose two-thirds ov their attrackshun.
When a man IL thoroughly lazy, he IL
good for nothing only tew shoot at. &
Thare would be but mighty few sekrets
in this world if folks would tend tew Sheir
own biZness. er7- n' e
The man who wears out IL like nimble
sixpence-he IL alwus worth the face, and
keeps bright to the last. l
Natur never half finishes job, nor un-
derlets kontrakt.
Take all the dangers out of this world
and II would be a towards paradise.
Thare aint ennything that viii komplete-
" kure lazyness, but i hav known a second
wife to hurry it sum. -r
A good natured man haz got one Ov
them kind ov souls that will gro ennything
that IL planted in it, good, bad, or indif-
ferent. st
Thare are men in this world whom fat
terry makes stronger, bekaus it makes them
more kareful; but sutch men ale skarse.
Yu kant larn a piggin tew fill slo, nor a
snail tew trot fast.
The only safe way for most people tew
git along in this world IL teW watch others,
and do jist as they do.
Human happiness il like Joseph's coat
a thing of many colors.
| kant tell which il the wuss of, the man
who IL all he'd and no heart, or the one who
iz all heart and no he'd. -..
Hope is no fatterer-she cheats every
body alike, but, after all, IL the best friend
we hay got.
Everybody seems to dispize hippok-it
God, man, and the devil.
An idle man is always lazy one-he
spends all hiz time hunting for nothing to
do.
Thare are but phew people in this world
who makes more trouble than bizZy
phool. e.
knowledge is power, no doubt, but it is
not always yirtew-thare are some people
who only edukate their vices.
Every man should know sumthing ov law
if he knows enough to keep out Of it, he
IL a pretty good lawyer.
Waiting for ded mans shoes is just az
mean az stealing the shoes before the man
dies.
The best reformers are those who are all
the time trieing tew reform themselfs, thus
presenting tew the world one good example,
worth at least dozen precepts.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-04
EYES.

What variety of eyes there are in the
worldt- There are loving eyes, admiring
ewes, longing eyes, inquisitiVe eyes, jealous
ewes, envious eyes, malicious eyes. smiling
ewes, fearful eyes, meddlesome eyes, pene-
trsting eyes, and eyes that look and yet
see nothing; besides many other kind of
eyes which, in their own peculiar way,
are peering into theiworld's mysteries.
A good way to make loving eyes is to be
true, devoted and thoughtful OF home COM
forts.
To attract admiring eyes, be cheerful IT,
dy and industrious.
To cure longing eyes, call in and give
some supper to the poor, talf-starved little
creature, who is gazing in at your bounti-
FLY supplied table.
To satisfy iLquisitive eyes, let them see
the very thing they had rather not.
To avoid jealous eyes, be neither distrust'
ful nor do that to another which you would
not bave done TO you.
To avoid enyious eyes, be squint-eyed
pcck-marked, hump-backed, squatty, dis
agreeable, and no sort of use to anybody
To keep clear of malicious eyes, die al
once and 90 TO heaven. -
To cause smiling eyes, speak kindly, dea
gently and be light-hearted and merry, re
membeIing life is to enjoy.
Have fearful eyes whenever the heart il
full. 1t is a good way to work Off troubles
and tighten the spirit.
To avoid medGlesome eyes, stay at home
lock all doors and draw the curtains. Thel
filthy look through the keyhole, throw no
water u2 them, if you are oVer-sensitive
otherwise 60 ahead with your own affair
in your own wsy, and let them meddle.
Penetrating eyes must lock up and U
to forget all the secrets discovered OF ID
shortcomings of others, only Iememoerln
the beautiful things which the BIND cal
not see.
For eyes that look and see nothing thel
is no cure, excepting an awakening OF sol
or intellectual energies. Will it not
heaven when all eyes see clearly and froI
kindly motives?-Elm OrlOu.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-07-04
CONDENSD TELEGRAMS.

Gen. Grant writes that he cannot attend
the Reunion of the Army of the Tennessee
now in session at Madison, Wis, because
he must see his second son off to Europe
on the 9th.
The fund for the Mcpherson monument
is still incomplete, only Sl5,517.
Twenty lady clerks were dropped from
the rolls of the Internal Revenue office at
Washington yesterday, there being no
money appropriated to pay their salaries.
Senator Morton spoke at Terre-Haute last
night. .. ..r.e....
Cincinnati reports several sunstrokes yes
terday. ----. .--
The Kansas Central narrow gauge will be
opened to-day from Eeavenworth to Grass
hopper Falls, 36 miles.
A firm in St. Louis have been swindled
out Of $1,000 by one of their travelling
statesmen.
The International Prison Congress met
in London last night.
The Archbishop of Madrid is dead.