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Middletown transcript., 1873-11-01
VOL. vi.
A. LIST

" the names OF persons licensed 10 retail
goods, WIRES and merchandise. produce and 9th
er property. manufactures Of NIL kinds whaisocy-
er, persons licensed 10 cell intoxicating liquors,
pcddiers, tavern keepers. ealing houses. eating
houses to sell liquor life insurance fire insurance,
vending goods by sample, real estate agencies
brokers. private bankers, auc,ion-ers, pho,ogra-
piers. stallions, lawyers, conve,anccrs, doctors,
dcu,is's, circnscs, juggrrs, from the fire, day Of
October, A. d. 1874. TO the first day OF April, A.
y. 1873, with the sums by them respectively paid,
for each liccnse, 10 the Clerk Of, The Peace OF New
Castle County, for the use Of the State Of Della
ware
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cal discussion. and said, EG heG dem
men hsb told The ,rua. what pair Il IA
rascals deg mast be-"
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Boy. you are not far from issl."
We'll, a. we ain, more than three ksl
apart. l give in TO that" ~as the reply.
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Employmeu. l. os.sr.'s ptssieiss. .sa
10 ssscs.ial 10 hsptiseps.
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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13
Yellow Fever at Calvert, Texas.

The death of DIR. W. B. Field was not
unexpected by the deceased. When the
plague came, he pronounced it yellow
fever. He continued at the post of duty
until attacked and FRUSTRATED. He then
became resigned to his fate. Relief
came too late. It was a natural I'M
possibility, he said, for him to recover.
To the last he retained his senses, and
sent for his BROTHER Scott. He did not
dread death, but gave up life unmur-
muringly, having sacrificed it in the
service of his fellow-man. His was the
last funeral In Calvert. Max Brennan,
the foreman of Hook and Ladder Com
pany No. /, with eight other members
of the company, of which deceased was
an active member, decorated the COM
pany truck, and laid upon it all that was
mortal of DR.. Field. The mournful
procession marched to the graveyard,
drawing the truck. On their way they
were stopped by a colored man, who
rushed out of house occupied by Mr..
Brooks, a photographer, and his wife,
asking them to stop and come In, as the
face of white man had not been seen
there for q week. They halted, and
some of them entered. The sight that
met their gaze was enough to strike
terror into stout hearts. Lying dead
upon bed. covered with black vomit,
was Mr.. Brooks. His wife, delirious
with yellow fever, was wildly screaming,
unconscious of her husbands death.
Such assistance as could be rendered
was freely and promptly given. AS
there were no sheets in the house, some
plain white cambria was purchased in a
neighboring store. The party then re-
sumed their march, bowed down by the
surrounding horrors, and reached the
graveyard, where they inferred their
late friend and companion, the beauti-
full service of the Episcopal Church
being read over him by Mr.. T. p. Ter
rell. They left and separated = con-
tinue their work of waiting upon the
sick. This, however, was the last at
tempt at anything approaching display
in interring the dead.at Calvert.-Hous-
ton Mercuru.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13
The Transportation Question.

The committee of the United States
Senate are now prosecuting their in
quiries into matters pertaining to the
carrying trade with very gratifying ear
nestness and vigor. 1t is very likely
that an able and exhaustive report upon
this important subject will be submitted
to Congress Immediately at the opening
of the session. In the language of
Senator Conkling: "In the East and
the West the problem of creating chan
nels for commerce will assert itself and
hold supremacy until it is successfully
solved" The popular mind is now
fully aroused to the vast interests in
volved In the question, and the agita-
ton prevailing will not subside until
every effort has been exhausted which
promises to bring producer and con-
sumner nearer to each other. There is
no stimulant so potent as self-interest
in directing the thought and the action
of the masses, and in this matter every
man in the country may be said to have
practical concern. At the same time
there are difficulties in the way of &C
comphshing the objects in view which
it will not do to ignore or overrate. One
of these is the jealousy with which any
local system of internal improvements
undertaken by the Federal Government
is likely to be regarded in certain quar-
tiers and the other is the opposition of
the existing companies, whose monopo-
ly of the carrying business will be
threatened. But the necessity for a
remedy of the evils complained of is
SO imperative and urgent that all minor
considerations must give way before it.
The interior of our continent, the gran
airy of the world, must have direct, con-
tinuous, and uninterrupted outlets to
the ocean, and to secure this no sacrifice
can be too great. -Inter- Ocean.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13
OF Growing Old.

When are we growing old? A sound
judgment and strict honesty are neces-
sary to answer the question fairly to
ones self. Here is what the County
Parson" says of it !:
"By growing old 1 now understand
reaching midway between 40 and so, not
without atendency to get nearer the lat
ter age, once hardly imaginable as a per-
sonal reality. And when one has in this
grave sense grown old, is there any fact
which is more pressed upon one than
this that there is such long look back
now? The prospect stretches far.
Memory is still keen and retentive the
distant prospect has not faded into mis-
tiness and as you go on, and now and
then turn to look back, there is just so
much added to the view. Once it was
wonderful to hear a man talk of what he
had done twenty years ago still more,
of what had happened thirty years ago !;
it seemed vast stretch of time, pos
sible indeed in the experience of others,
but inconceivable In ones own. For
every human being isiike Sidney's shep-
herd boy in this, that he fails to take in
that he will ever grow old. 1t seems
yesterday since the writer, reading for
the bar chow much English law lost In
him y diligently frequented Westminis-
ter Hall and the Guildhall; and seeing
vigorous barristers roaring away to COM
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13
Legal Rates of Interest i'm the Several
States.
Alabama-Eight per cent,

Alabama-Eight per cent,
Arkansas-Six per cent by contract,
any rate.
California-Ten per cent by contract,
any rate.
Connecticut--Six per cent; by agree
ment, any rate.
Delaware-Six per cent.
Florida-Eight per cent; by agree
ment, ten per cent.
Georgia-Seven per cent.
Illinois-Six per cent by agreement,
ten per cent.
Indiana-Six per cent; by contract,
ten per cent.
Iowa-Six per cent by contract, ten
per cent.
Kansas-Seven per cent, unless by
contract, twelve per cent.
Kentucky-Six per cent.
Louisiania-Five per cent; by con-
tract, eight per cent.
Maine-Six per cent by agreement,
any rate.
Maryland-Six per cent.
Massachusetts-Six per cent; by
agreement, any rate.
Michigan-Seven per cent by agree
ment, ten per cent.
Minnesota-Seven per cent by agree
ment, twelve per cent.
Mississippi-Six per cent, on debts,
eight per cent on lent money; by con-
tract, ten per cent.
Missouri-Six per cent; by agree
ment, ten per cent.
Nebraska-Ten per cent; by contract,
twelve per cent.
Nevada-Ten per cent ; by contract,
any rate.
New Hampshire-Six per cent.
New Jersey-Seven per cent.
New York-Seven per cent.
North Carolina-Six per cent.
Ohio-Six per cent; by agreement,
eight per cent.
Oregon-Ten per cent; by agreement,
one per cent per month.
Pennsylvania-Six per cent.
Rhode Island-Six per cent by con-
tract, any rate.
South Carolina-Seven per cent; by
contract, any rate.
Tennessee-Six per cent; by agree
ment, ten per cent.
Texas-Eight per Cent by agree
ment, any rate.
Vermont-Six per cent.
Virginia-lSix per cent.
West Virginia-Six per cent.
Wisconsin-Seven per cent by agree
ment, twelve per cent.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13
PAYING OUT SILVER COIN.
The Purpose fthe Treasury Department
i'm Issuing Silver-It is Not a Schem,
for Specie Resumption.

The Purpose of the Treasury Department
i'm Issuing Silver-It Is Not a Scheme
for Specie Resumption.
The Director of the United States
Mint has made the following statement
of the purpose of the Government in
paying out silver coin: In this, as other
countries, where gold is the sole stand
ard or measure of value, silver coins are
overvalued for the purpose of rendering
them inexportable. They are manufac-
tured and issued on Government ac-
count, the law, however, placing, directly
or indirectly, limit on their issue to
prevent redundancy. If issued in times
of specie payment beyond the require
ment of the public for change, such coin
will not maintain their purchasing power
with the standard coins. Owing to
various causes in this and other coun-
tries, silver has declined in value to a
point at which the Government can pur-
chase it with gold, manufacture it into
small coin, and pay it out at a fair
profit. The Government has recently
purchased a quantity of silver bullion
sufficient for its purposes at S1.123
per standard ounce, and will manufac-
ture it into coin at the fixed legal rate
of 123 40 cents per ounce, the differ
ence between the purchasing and issu-
ing rates being fraction of II cents
per ounce, or about 10I per cent. on the
gold coin paid in purchase. This opera
ton it believed to be more profitable
one for the Treasury, and also more adj
vantageous to the public in the present
condition of the money market than the
sale of gold for legal-tender notes, and
is not scheme for the resumption of
specie payments, but simply compli-
ance with the mint laws. A dollar In
United States currency will purchase a
little more gold in the market than
dollar of small silver coins. The dollars
will, therefore, soon find their level, and
unless there be rise in both the prices
of gold and silver, small coins must cir
culate concurrently with paper money.
Tho Government has in possession of
Assistant Treasurers about $4,000 in
silver coin, and at the mint and assay
offices in silver bullion and coin about
s., 100000. This stock is ample for the
present. This mode of paying out silver
coin will be continued until circumstan-
ces shall dictate contrary course. AS
proper, the Government will exact the
full seignorage required by law, but
will not undertake to control the dispo-
sition of the coin after it is paid out.
The coin will then become the prop
erty of holders, who may do what they
please with it. This course was not de-
cided upon until it had been fully con-
sidered by the Secretary of the Treas
ury.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13

mon Jurles, or going on with a cross
examination In which every question be-
gan with the sharp and minacious Now.
sir listened with wonder to the assur-
ance that the vigorous barrister had
worn wig and gown for ive-and-twenty
years, or fve-aud-thirty. Surely he
ought to be dead long ago. That was
the reflection then. 1t is different now.
1t has been discovered that the time
passes away to the amount of twenty
years or more but that it is really a
very short while; and it leaves the hui
man being not so msch changed still
with the old likings, hopes, and wishes
still with the old weakness and faults
still the same man. Furthermore, as
years accumulate behind one, so does
work. You have done such deal 1t
mounts up into something awful to think
OF. And this though very much of the
work done leaves no permanent trace,
but just suffices to do what is required
by the day, and to keep the machinery
going. You have written fourteen let
tiers this morning you have visited
eighteen sick folk this afternoon. 1t had
all to be done. Had you not done it,
you would have been miserable in the
sense of duty neglected. But there IS
nothing to show for it. 1t is not like the
abiding pages Of inestimable theology
or mild morality, which, being written,
you lay up in a box-the abiding me-
mortal of past labor. It frightened one,
in the old days, to hear men in advanced
life speak of the work they had done. 1
remember the sense of awe with which
1 heard a clergyman of about sixty years
mention with no air of recording an ex-
ploit) that he had at one period of his
life, written one hundred and fifty lee
lures on st. Luke's Gospel. gazed
upon him with the feeling: And are you
there living to tell it."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13
The Best Disinfectant.

Carbolic acid, in some of the various
forms in which it is offered to the pub
lie, is one of the most popular disinfect-
ants, and deservedly so. For simple
disinfection, where the cause has been
removed, nothing is superior to the
acid itself, either concentrated or in So
luton. For disinfecting the air of a
sick-room few drops may be put upon
a hot shovel or stove-lid, or any arti-
Gle that will retain its heat for some
time. 1t has the advantage that it does
not injure clothing or metal articles
with which the vapor comes in contrct.
II should be used with care, however, as
the liquid itself is violent poison, even
in small doses.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13
The Coming City.

A few days ago the Governor of the
State of New Jersey, IN an address of
welcome to a New York regiment of the
National Guard, predicted that in fifty
or seventy-fve years from that time the
greatest city ON the continent would be
on the west side of tie Hudson, In the
vicinity Of where they then stood.
Doubtless the boys from New York re-
garded this as a little innocent "Jersey"
Boosting, but those who knew Gov
Parker better paid more respect
to the utterance. The almost marvel
Gus increase In the population of all the
New Jersey towns within a radius of
sixteen or seventeen miles from Taylor's
Hotel, in New York city, during the lat
est decade, the concentration of the
great freight lines of the West on the
Jersey City waterfront, and the ten
dency of ocean commerce to meet this
railroad focus, where the products of
the continent can be transhipped from
freight trains into the holds of ocean
steamers, and Uice versa for another
continent, are facts well-known to every
one. Gov. Parker is by no means the
only careful observer who has predicted
that unless great change takes place
the natural result of all this will be to
build up an immense commercial city
on the New Jersey side of the Hudson
river and the retrogradation of New
York from her position as commercial
center. Indeed, the plan of the new
city is already being laid out, and
during the coming winter strong effort
will be made to get bill passed by the
New Jersey Legislature establishing its
boundaries. 1t is proposed to incor-
porate all the cities and towns from and
including Railway ON the south, and
Patterson ON the north, into one munic-
ipality. The district to be embraced is
ten times as large as Manhattan Island,
and includes Jersey City, Newark,
Elizabeth, Railway, Elizabethport,
Bayonne. Greenville, Hoboken, Seacau-
Gus, Orange, Rutherfurd Park, Passaic,
and Patterson, besides all the villages
and ownships embraced within the
line, hich is to be drawn from Railway
to terson, thence easterly to the
Hudkon river so as to include Hacken-
sack and Englewood, thence following
the shore of the Hudson river and New
York bay down to the Kill Won Kull,
thence to the westerly shore of Staten
Island Sound, and thence as far as the
mouth of the river, which leads up to
Railway again. The present population
included in this district is about
400, 000.-New York World.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13

is obtained in price above the actual
cost is actual profit. We shah be
pleased to have our readers initiate the
above example il estimating the actual
cost of production. To this it would
be well to add the yearly increase in the
market value of the land.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13

COSTLY WINE.-A few weeks ago
there was sold at the castle of Johannis-
berg, from the famous cellars of Prince
Metternich, cask of the finest wine in
those who like it-genuine Johannis-
berger. It was the best of the famous
vintage of 1861, and was bought by
Consul Bauer, of Moscow, at the enor-
nous price of SOS, 900 guilders, or about
$40 bottle.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13
ORIGIN OF THE WORD Panic

ORIGIN OF THE WORD PANIC.-The
word panic arose out of the battle of
Marathon. In that immortal fight a
mere handful of Greeks encountered an
infinite host of Persians, and put them
to utter rout. How did they do it |?
The Persians were smitten by the god
Pan with sudden causeless and ex-
treme fright. They lost their wits and
that state of things took its name from
the god who produced it.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13

WHEN Gounod, the French composer,
is at work writing music he keeps tub
of very cold water uader his desk to put
his feet in. After writing an hour his
head grows extremely hot, and then he
plunges his feet in the water and OBJ
tains relief. 1t is dangerous remedy.
He works from twelve to fourteen hours
aday. r.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13

SOME interesting and important sta
tistics of casualties occurring to emf
grant ships dispatched from England
during the last twenty-one years have
been furnished by the Emigration Com
missioners. The result for the entire
period shows that 15,057 ships were
sent to sea with 4,741, $3.50 persons on
board, and the total losses to have been
fifty-nine vessels, with 1896 lives, or
about one tenth of one per cent. of the
whole number who sailed.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13
for the plOW. etc.
CR1BB1Ne CoRN.-The Journal o.

CRIBBrNG CORN.-The Journal of the
Farm says: Many a !. sore-fngered
husker has wished that his load of'corn
could be shoveled direct from the wagon
into the crib, without having to throw
out a portion by hand until the shovel
could reach the bottom of the wagon.
In loading corn take out piece of pine
board six feet long and little wider
than your shovel place an end on the
tail-board close to one corner of the
wagon; and the other on the bottom
end fill up as usual. In unloading,
shovel down the board to the bottom of
the wagon, and not an ear need be
touched by the hands.
This estimate undoubtedly approx
mates very closely to the actual cost of
the production of wheat in the older
settled sectors of the country. Esti-
mates on raw prairie, or the second year
from the sod, might show still more
profitable result. He says it must be
borne in mind that the above figu re
|pay for the payment of taxes, and fair
Interest on money invested, so that what
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13
Return of the Juniata.

The United States steamer Juniata
has returned from five months cruise
in the Arctic seas, in search of the Hall
expedition. Although the Juniata did
not have the honor of rescuing the
missing men--all of whom are now safe
at home-she made a perilous voyage,
in circumstances which are exceedingly
creditable both to the bravery and sea-
manship of her officers and crew. 1t is
understood that she brings with her
documents of much importance, which
were found by the Tigress, and which
will throw new light upon the melan-
choly fate of Sir John Franklin and his
men.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13
re- caRRKsrsNpENrs.

All esnnunisssses Dor this paper should Be accom-
panied ~ ~ Of tAs aseksr sscsssAriiy for
pubnsessss. bat an sviSssss Of essd faish the
part e ne writer Wriss ssy siAs 81 The paper.
BE parts0 ars1 earsss IN piviax names Asa sAtss 70
have the letters and figures plain and disizst
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13
The slowly-starving editor of paper
in Brattleboro, VT, drops into poetry,
as follows

"we had sweet dreams the other night,
When all around was still;
We dreamed we saw host of folks
Pay up their printers bill.
We wish the dream would come to pass,
And our empty pockets fill
Tar da Jump te diddle dunn,
TIE lump tie iddle dill.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13

A BIT of red pepper, size of your
fnger-end, dropped into boiling meat
or vegetables Will kill all unpleasant
odor. Remember this with boiled cab
bage.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13

WHEN does man feel girlish p
When he makes his maiden speech.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-11-13
Life in Greenland.
TCor. of the New York Tribune


The climate of Greenland is consid-
cred by the Danes as very healthy, and
the natives seldom die of any other dis
ease than consumption, which is very
prevalent among the Esquimaux, and is
no doubt contracted through their care
less habits. The hut is simple build
ing of stone (boarded up on the inside),
with layer of turf on the outside, and
long, low tunnel entrance, about 10 or
Is feet in length, opening to the south.
This hut is about II feet square and 6
feet high, with two windows in the side
which are blocked up with turf during
the winter, SO as to keep the cold out.
This room is generally supplied with a
stove, in which peat is burned, for they
have no other kind of fuel. There is
always In these huts close, depressing
atmosphere, while outside, especially on
q foggy day, the atmosphere is cold.
These people sit in the house sewing,
etc., with their heavy seal skin clothing
on, and will run In and out of doors,
make visits, and attend their dances,
without making any addition to their
clothing, or reducing it when they re-
turn to their homes. Then family of
six or eight sleep in this same room, on
a platform which serves as bed, lying
very close together, and breathing the
same atmosphere over and over again.
The French being convinced that
their failure In the late war was in a
great measure due to the inferiority of
their muzzle-loading field guns, are now
disposed to discard all cannon of that
class and adopt breech-loaders exclu-
sively.
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-09-11
Barnum's Worlds Fair.


The veteran Snowman, with his incompar-
able show, is to visit Washington on the
Goth and 27th of the present month, when
the wonders of the great Worlds Fair will
be opened for visitors. This combination is
the largest travelling, and is ten times larger
than any other show. and three times larger
than it was last season. Among the star
attractions are Prof. Faber's wonderful talk
ing machine, that talks and sings in all Ian
guages the FIJI Cannibals: Admiral Dot,
the famous California dwarf; the horse-rid-
ing goat, automatic bell-ringers, three great
circus troupes, the black rhinoceros, four
living girafes, only ones in the country
performing elephants, herds Of camels, and
numerous other attractions too numerous TO
mention all of which will be exhibited under
the city of tents for one price of admission.