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Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-04
TIE CHRISTMAS GIFT.



Around the Chrlstmas.tree We stood.
And watched the childrena faces
As thcy their little gifts received
With childish airs aud grnceS
We grown folks had our share OF fun
In making Wcl ones merry
And laughed 70 see the Juveniles
kiss meath the holly berry.
Beside me sat sweet Bessie Moore,
A lovely dark-eyed maiden,
While near her stood our little Eve
Her arms with love gifts laden,
Until around the room she went.
The hlue-oyed baby, shily.
And, blushing red, into each lap
Her offerings dropped slyly.
Bnt when to M the darling came
All empty handed was she,
Anl when asked. "Why slight me thus y
She answered "uh. betnuse We
We dinna know you tumming here
And then, with blue eyes shining
To Bessiea side slic vent, her arms
Her sisters neck eniwlning
But someihiag must have sad J.
nv Christmas night t0. glad1en,
A shade or thought the baby lace
Seemed suddenly 10 shdden,
Til all at once. with gleefnl laugh
"Oh know what do, Sir
I've only sister Bessie left,
And Ill div nor to you, Sir
Amid the laugh that came from all
drew my new gift TO me, .-.,-.
While with flushed cheeks her eyes met niue
And sent a thrill all through me.
"Oh blessed little Ever cried
Your gift / welcome glAdlyW
The little one looked up AZ mo,
Half wondenngly, half sadly.
Then 10 her father straight turned
And humbly asked his blessing
Upon my Christmas gift, the while
MY long.storcd hopes e0nfessng.
Aud az his aged hands were raised
Above our heads, bowed lowly,
The blessed time Of Christmas ne'er
Had seemed 10 me so holy,
$50 Hdvper's Maqqstne for January
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-04

The Chief Of Police has received the
following letter at 81. Louis
CHARLESTON, LII, December Z, 1873.
Mr.. Chief Of Police;
Nv wife lof mo aud went wcast with
fcllar that ainl her husbsn -cuss her and
him two. My wife IL twenty years old aud
rail ood-ookln', !, the way she slipped
up on me and tuck iue inn --cuss her and
him two
AT fust Yc got oin fust rait, i'll isller
cam along tcachiu' singin' schulc with a
big hddle, and when she seed him il was all
day with me, and rcfcwsed to lot her go
too the siugin' schulz any more.
We was livin' In Kaintuc, and Jeff an
cum in Illinois to git rid OF Hmm, an
liour long he tollored US and she fo,lercd
hmm -cuss her and him two don't want
bur any moore an onle rite YOU TO give
uctis that I will not pa anv Of hur dets.
never fit hut one letter befour 10 a
Stranger, and now ] got Lowycr Naudike
10 look over this fol me and coIreo mis-
talks, aud be said tha aint any.
No mooIe at present.
ApoLFHus Y. SNOW.
s.-NandiLe sails it is your dooty 10
catch mi wife an send her bae to me. God
{ forbid !-cuss hur and Hmm two ! want
nothen moore tu do with hur. A J, 8.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-04

Carson, New, is holding coch-llghl
TO pay for II State University.
There is TO be a baby show at Red
Bank, n. j., on New Years evening. There
ars about forty babies In the town.
"A Burlington, To-, policeman got asleep
on his beat, recently, and had his pockets
picked and his badge Of Office stolen.
Mr.. Robert Browning is at work on a
new poem, and hss been forswcarins din
ner parties Of late, In order 10 wiitc the
more diligently.
A little Nashville boy was asked re-
Gently now old he was, TO which he re-
sponded ;-"Well, sir, Pm mighty old )
Pm four years old, sir"
"A St. Louis editor, who, in a moment
I of abstraction wrote an item OF news,
has been peremptorily discharged, says
the Louisville Courier-Jourual.
An English clergyman las been ar
rested for resurrocting dead bodies, not by
the power Of the spirit, but with pick and
spade, according to the ordinary method.
4 "A window shutter fell in Springfield,
o., the other day and struck nine candl-
dates for the Springfield Po,t-oilcc. Fiji
teen more, who were just out OF range
escaped.
-For ten cents worth of "lova powders
-'ssomething that wouldn't stir her NJ
much, but would make her dream Of hinl
nights"-a Savannah clerk put up mag
nUsia.
Carl Prctzel says "Der young mAu
vot did said der vOrldt owed him some liiiu
vas ladely turned der door ont on akound
he's landlady vos unwilling 10 took on hcl
shoulder plade der Indebtedness Of del
yOrldt,"
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-04
CONTRAST.


The exquisite charm of springs first ringing
laughter
We measure only by the winters gloom;
The wailing Winds. the whirllng snowe,
make room
In our half-frozen hearts for sunshine after
II every morn were fair and all days golden,
Aud only emerald turf our footsteps trod
Our sated souls would tire Of velvet sod,
Our eyes in spells Of snow.capped peaks he
holden
We gauge the now'rei's beauty hv the mould
That lies so long and dark its sweetness
Overt
AZ absence makes his rapture fot the lover
Who secs no light till he fond eyes bcholds
So God be praised for wintry blasts and
SHOWS.
That end their lessons when the yiole
hlOwsi
--Harper's Mag0 : inc
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-04
Written for the JoUREAL. ]
AN ANSWER.

Happy am that TO me is given
Tho power 10 feel this earth Heaven,
To see IN all mortals, with open eyes,
The angel within them stripped OF disguise.
To drape in shadow all wicked and wrong,
And see bright rainbow 10 every storm
TO feel the warm sunshine tlno' every cloud
All pain and sorrow and trouble enehroud.
10 hide In the mist Of my fancy's eyes
The faults Of my iriends-and idcalize
All whom know, aud DER those whom love
Throw bright halo Of light from above.
Then chidc me no more ior my fancy light,
For believe ne, It's this makes the whole
wide world bright,
To In the great loom Of our lives behold
Only the wool Of threads shining with
gold
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-04
Inr.i rinnnthv nnxter.

An advert sement in the Boston news
papers, announcing the sale at auction Of
Inc Dexter property in Newburyport,
brings to miud numerous stories current
10 that Uly respecting the eccentric indl-
vidual who hOurishod there in the latter
Part of the last century, under tho self
assumed title of Lord Timothy Dexter.
This was the fortunate merchant who,
with brains iher 20 scaut or disordeIed
that he was continually ma'dng himself
an object of derision, blunder, into what
in those days was considered stupondous
blunder
IL was Lord Dexter who, on consulting
a wngeish acquaintance as TO a plodtable
way Of Investing certain moueys, was
advised TO ship cargo of warming pans
/ to the West Indies, and availcd himse { OF
| the advice. to the great mirh OF all who
heard of the transaction. The cream oil
the Joke, however, was the warming pans
1 found sale to the sugar manufacturers Tor
ladies, aud Dexter realized great profit
ON tho venture. A shipment of red
wooden night. caps to the coast Of Guinea,
snngt sted as a Joke, turned out most
fortunate speculation. Somebody, wishing
TO humhug the old fellow, told him one
day that news had come that oil the
whales were dying oil, Dexter vent to
work and bought up all the whaleoone DC
could gel hold of, fairly conering the
market, after which he unloadcd at i'm
mensc profit.
Having at last blundcred into grcal
wealth, he assumed the title of Lord Dcx'
ter, aud spent n great deal OF money Ia
LAYING out attractive grounds about hl'
house, hut ruined the effects produced bl
skillfnl gardeners by setting up in every
direction carved wooden figures OF the
most hldeous description. Twenty-Five
years ago some of these figures were stll
10 bs seen upon the grounds. Lord DeX'
ter, becoming ambitious Of literary dis
tinction. published book, with the tltl'
of "a Pickle for Knowing Ones (" bu
being conscious of weakness in tie mattel
of punctuation, put all the periods, comas
somicolons, and the like At the end Of u
book, telling his readers that they nigh
pepper and salt his productions to sui
themselves.
A lew days before his death he had
mock iureIal, and af etwards beat hil
wife because she did not exhibit suiiicien
I grief over his fictitious demise. SOM
,, time ago the house and grounds one
occupied by this strange character cam
into the possession of II wealthy citizen o
NewburypOri, who has made the plac
ono OF The most beautiful residences d
New England.
A., ,tt-,,scd mi in Ninuceots ha
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-04
How TO Know Them.

The reporter of Montana paper has
discover a son of the first Napoleon
living in a cave somewhere in that coun.
try. As the sons Of the first Napoleon all
live In caves, and the sons Of nobody else
do, you can easily tell the one from the
other as far as you can SCI them. Louis
iills Couyier-,TonrNdf.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-04

Wesley, at tho age 9f seventeen,
wrote ~ do not remember TO have felt
lowness of spirits for one quarter Of an
hour since l was born" An exchange
remarks that his marriage occurred later.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-04

A jackson (Mich.) man has a deg
team that he draws hail ton with.
DO all baby-lineu warehouses belong
TO the Early Clolhos-ing Association
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-04

--Pompeius Phnlippi, of Illinois, an
uounces that he has invented a new but
tonhole for harness
In conversation a wise man may be
at a loss where to bsgin, but u fool never
knows whore 10 stop
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-04

An ill-uscd husband in Miancsota has
applici fora divorce because his better
half beats him.
John Robinson Sinclair Syphax is the
best name that bis parents could afford The
colored clerk Of Alexandria.
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GENERAL Ne rs.

Seven steamers left New York on Saturday
for Europe, and nearly all of them full of pas
sengers.
The Government Of Guatemala has decided
in favor Of religious freedom to all sects.
Only two deaths, last week in Boston, by
smallpox.
| Six dealers in obscene literature were ar
rested at Albany, N. Y, last Saturday, and
in default of bail were committed to prison.
Stucco is being shipped from the Fort
Dodge, Ia, works, where they manufacture
daily from fifty to one hundred barrels.
Two foolish young girls took poison to-
gether in gainesville, Wis, but TIE family
do ctor came in time to save their lives.
| Cholera, it is alleged, has been raging all
winter at Corinthia, Austria. Four deaths
have recently occurred from that disease at
Vienna.
The only comment the Charleston Is. c., }
News and Courier makes is that the whites in
Collax Parish, La, "made thorough job of
it,"
Steamer West Wind, from Fort Smith for
New Orleans with 500 bales of cotton, was
sunk in six feet of water at Memphis Satur-
urday
Gen. Tom Ewing is likely to be the next
Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio.
Hon. John I. Wilson is candidate for the
Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio
Professor Tyndall has, since his return to
Ensland, been lecturing on Niagara. lie
predicted that in time the American fall would
be abolished, leaving a whirlpool.
The annual reunion of the graduates of
Colby University in Ros,on, will he held at
founs's Hotel, Friday fvening, May I'd.
The approaching 18th of June will be the
Zoo'h anniversary of the discovery of the
Mississippi; and in st. Ebuis, and possiblv
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elsewhere on the line Of that historic river, it
is proposed to commemorate the event.

elsewhere on the line of that historic river, it
is proposed to commemorate the event.
A large meeting of merchants, bankers, real
estate owners and business men generally was
held at Merchants Exchange, St. Louis, Sat-
urday afternoon, to further consider the ques-
ton Of holding a convention of Western and
Southern Congressman there next month.
placed on the summit of granite shaft over
the old heros grave at Burlington, VT, on
the Fourth Of July.
Puget Sound produces CLANS weighing from
one to two pounds each.
Roman Catholic journals claim rapid rate
of progress for Catholicism in England.
The undaunted perseverance of the mule
has again been exemplifed by four of them,
late Of Kentucky. they refused to look out
for the locomotive engine, and were disposed
of accordingly.
A truant boy having been sentenced to the
almshouse for two years in Cambridge. Mass,
the School Committee have held a meeting
and formally resolved ''that the almshouse is
Hot u III plaCc iOi tHS ihS"' etA"''o" Va Via
dren of tender years"
The wife of NJ. Henri Rochefort has just
died. The lady was, quite lately, solemnly
and publicly married to the distinguished
French political convict for the purpose OF
legitmatizing their children.
colored man has sued the proprietor OF
the theatre in Cleveland, Ohio, for $1,000
damages, for refusing to admit him to seat
in the dress circle after be had obtained q
ticket.
The most iliotic juror lives in Wisconsin
His name is Watson, AMI he stood up and
asked the judge if a man could be convicted
of murder which nobody had seen him com
nit.
A ST. Louis man applied for a divorce or
the ground that his wife threw a butcher
knife at him, but she proved much worse
things against him, and bis suit was thrown
| out.
| Ex-Gov. Bigler has at last got into th'
| Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention
through the retirement of another Democrat
ic member, who resigned in his favor.
Ex-Se cretary Boutw ell contradicts the state
ment of Phelps, Dodge Co., that the sur
of $27l, 600 was forced from them by the Gov
eminent by way of compromise.
The cold Sixth" regiment which wen
) through Baltimore in 1861 held reunion 6
Stoneham on Saturday. A business meeting
J procession and dinner comprised the exer
cises.
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Competitive Examination for West
Point Cadetship.

4 COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION for a cadet
n appointment in the T. 5. Military Academy
at West Point n. V, from the Third Congress sonal
District, will be held in Waterve, on Thursday,
the first day of May, beginning at 10 o'clock A. Nj.
The examination will be under the direction of
the Faculty of Colby University.
An experienced hyscian will be present to pass
upon the ply qualifications of the candidates
Candidates admitted to the Academy only
between the ages of seventeen and twenty-five
years. They must be free from any deformity, dis
ease or inihmity that may render them unfit for
arluous military service.
The candidate at the time of admission to the
Academy is required by law to be proficient in
Reading and Wrtingi in the elements of English
Grammar; in Descriptive Geography particularly
of our own country, and in the History ofe United
States.
In A7fthmetic the various operations in addition
sudfrdction multiplication and driSi0n reduction
simple and compound proportion, and vulgar and
decimal fractions, must be thoroughly understood
and readily performed.
The examination of all competitive applicants on
the foregoing branches will therefore be rigid,
searching and impartial
All actual residents of the Third Congressional
District, of proper age entitled to enter into
competition for the appointment. Whoever is GER
titled to me by the Faculty of Colby University, as
best fitted for the Cadetship, will be Immediately
nominated thereto and will be required to report
at West Point on or before the 25th day of May.
All papers published in the Third Congressional
District largely circulating therein, are respect
fully requested to insert this notice.
JAMES G. BLAINE,
Representative Third Con. Dist.
Augusta, March, 1873 aprl-t &w3w
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The best way to relieve tightness of
money is for all who are indebted to open
their purses and pay what they owe.
Merchants in Maine would experience lit
tie difficulty in meeting their bills in Bos-
ton and New York, if their customers
would walk up and make a square settle
ment at least once in three months The
exorbitant interest that business men have
to pay for money in such financial pinch
as the recent one, will come from the
pockets of delinquent customers in the
end, and ought TO.
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Special Notices.
Consumption can be Cured
SCHENCK's PULMONIC SYRUP,
SCHENCK'S SEAWEED TONIC,

SCHESCk'S MANDRAKE PILLS,
Are the only medicines that will cure Pulmonary
Consumption.
Sometimes medicines that will stop cough will
often occasion the death of the patient 1t locks up
the liver, stops the circulation OF the blood heInor-
rhage follows, and, in fact cloggng the action of
the very organs that caused the cough.
Liver complaint and dyspepsia are the causes of
two-thirds of the cases of consumption. Many are
now complaining with dull pain in the side, the
bowels sometimes costive and sonnet ines too loose,
tongue coated pain in the shoulder blade, feeling
sometimes very restless, and at other times drow-
ach, accompanied with acidity and belching OF
disordered condition of the stomach or a torpid
liver. Persons SO affected if they take or two
heavy colds, and if the cough in these cases be
suddenly stopped, the lungs, liver and stomach
clog, and remain torpid and inactive and before
the patient is aware OF his situation, the lungs are
mass of sores, and liberated, and death is the in.
evitable result.
Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup is an eXpectorant,
which does not contain any opium, nor anything
calculated TO check a cough suddenly.
Schenck's Seaweed Tonic dissolves the food,
mixes with the gastric juice ofthe stomach, digests
easily nOurishes the system, and creates healthy
circulation of the blood. When the bowels are
cosve, skin sallow, and the patient is of bilious
habit, Schenck's Mandrake Pills are required.
These medicines are prepared by DR.. j. II.
SCHENCk Il SON, Northeast corner of Sixth and
Arch streets, Philadelphia, Pens, and for sale bv
GEO. Z. GOODWIN Il co 80 Hanover street,
Boston, and John f. Henry, College place. New
York, Wholesale agents.
For sale by Druggists generally. eod&wti
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The high price OF iron is stimulating the
growth Of the production Of the article
wonderfully in this country. A few years
of continued high prices will develop a
greater iron producing capability in the
United States than has yet been more than
dreamed Of New beds of ore will be dis
covered and these now considered worth
less will be made productive. Corrcspon-
dents in the middle and western States
speak OF great activity among iron manu-.
features.
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The war which the Dutch have on their
hands at Sumatra or Whereabouts is quite
peppery affair according to accounts.
If the Dutchmen lose their monopoly of the
trade which they have so long held in that
quarter, the war will not be spicy thing
in their estimation. But Mynheer will
not easily let 60 his grip.
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AUGU 8 ia,

Late accounts show that the San Saliva
dor earthquake was great calamity.
Had it not been for previous warning the
loss of life must have been fearful. The
city is annihilated, many of the surround
ing villages are destroyed. and thousands
Of people are without food or shelter
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These who think men are incapacitated
for public. duties or active life at three
score and ten, will be startled to learn
that the President of the French govern
ment is seventy-six, and fills the most diff
ficult position in Europe with admirable
success.
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Loud walls are coming up over the
land at the approach Of the housekeeping
season. There is no escape except to
migrate as doth the wild goose. Resig-
nation to diet, living in the kitchen and
sleeping in the attic, and hurly-burly all
around. is not attained except by the
sweetest dispositions.
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Kept Alive by Fellows TypophOsphites

This is to certify that in the autumn oflSG7
/ contracted severe cold and cough, and
was seized with pains in the chest and back.
/ obtained medical advice, but the prescrip-
tons effected no good whatever. The cough
kept growing worse, and other symptoms set
in which complicated my case, until finally I
was given up to die by three physicians, who
said was far advanced in consumption, and
could not recover.
l had been fourteen months gradually
wasting away. unable to perform the lightest
service, and fast approaching the end. AT
this time had never heard of Fellows Com
pound Syrup of Hypophosphites, but some OF
my family noticed the letter from Capt Coffll,
concerning the cure it had effected in his
case, and was persuaded to send for some
of the medicine.
l commenced to take il in accordance with
directions, and before had used half a bottle
l was able to resume light work in my shop,
and, notwithstanding that my disease was SC
far advanced as to be incurable, by making
use of it from time to time during The last
three years, it has sustained my strength and
enabled me to knock about and attend to my
work. l feel certain.that had used it at an
earlier stage of the disease it would have eff
fected perfect cure.
w. III. LEIGHTON.
Having been acquainted with the case of
Mr. w. III. Leighton during the last five
years, We, the undersigned fully indorse the
above statement made by him.
j. b. DAVIDSON, il
ISRAEL BENJAMIN, ]. p.
HORTON, n. S., 18th February. 1878.
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Also on Green Street.

4 VERY DESIRABLE HOUSE splendidly fin.
n ished throughout. Bay windows. Hard and
soft water. Lighted with gas; furnace, cemented
cellar, with all the modern improvements of first
class house with Stable attached Large lot with
fruit trees and vines.
For sale by A. G. LONGFELLOW,
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On Green Street.

nNE SPLENDID COTTAGE, finished in good
~ style. Cemented cellar with good furnace.
One of the most desl able situations in the city for
small family.
For sale by
LONGFELLOw & SANBORN.
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On Crescent Street,

nNE TWO.STORY HOUSE with l.. Large 10
~ with nice variety of fruit trees. Fine loca
ton, and will be sold low by
LONGFEkLOW & SANBORN.
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Notice.

WHEREAS Holmes 4 Shaw have petitioned the
w Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Augusta
for authority to place n Stationary Steam Engine in
their bakery corner Water and Court streets, for
the purpose of running the machinery in their es-
April 26th 1873 at O'Clock r. NJ, at the Alder.
mems room, are the time and place assigned for
its consideration.
r. W. BLACK, City Clerk.
Augusta Me-, April 10th, 1873. aprll-t tl26
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STATE OF MAINE.

STATE OF MAINE,
LAND OFFICE,
AUGUSTA, Feb. ~, 1873.
IN compliance with an order of Council approved
L Feb. 26, 1873, and under the direction of the
Board for the Management and Sale of the Public
Lands of the State of Maine have set apart under
the provisions of chapter of the revised statutes
ofthis state the following townships and parts OF
townships of the public lands belonging to this
State, to be sold at the Land Oflice in Bangor, by
sealed proposals, on the mst day of September,
1878, viz.
Township No. 3, Range4
" No. 3, RANGE
/" No. 3, Ranged
And seven hundred lhrty-four acres of Township
No. 2, Ranger,
All lying in the County of Franklin and west of
Bngham's Kennebec Purchase.
PARKER =. DURLEIGH, Land Agent.
mars. t&wtlsepl
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The atmosphere of love is pure, sweet
breath. This desideratum is one of the re-
suits of using Sozodont, which not only in
vigorates and preserves the teeth, but renders
the mouth as trgarant as a rose.
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