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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-27
Bathing.

The necessity OF water for cleanliness is acKnow-
lodged by all aud the luxury OF Geld oath partiou-
larry during the hot weather, rs or should be fan-
liar TO every one.
70 those prosti ated by ardHjus labors OF MUD or
body during the the " heat, tem," VIZ KNOW Of
nothing more invigorati aud refreshing than the
application OF cold water 10 the surface of the BODY
cleansing and opening the pores OF the skin thereby
promoti ths different secretions and iInpartlng
renewed vigOr TO the muscular SYSTEM For those
app eciating convenient and desirable appliances
for the bath we have
Bath Brushes In variety,
Bath Towels (sOfL)
Bath Towels, (larsh.)
Bathing spOhges,
Sponge Pads,
Friction l4loves for Bah,
Bath Belts or straps,
Calefac1o Gloves,
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-27

p. S.-We can also furnish parties wishing the
Excelsior avn MoReTs at reduced rates, having
been used only onn year and taken In exchange for
the Philadelphia Mowers.
Ew-Special attention given TO Sharpening and Re
pairing Mowera spre-n R.&H.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-27
TENBE PHILADELPHIA LAWN MOWER,
The Best in the Market

We guarantee the Philadelphia Lawn Mower to
give entire satisfaction For sale ut manufacturers
prices, by RICH RD5 N d HOPES,
1853 Market Street, City
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-27
The Beckwith $40 Portable SOWING
Machine.

IN 81 days trial; many advantages over ALL Salts
faction guaranteed, or So refunded. sent complete
with fuli directions. BuckwIth sewing Machine
]Ompany, S6z broadway New York.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-27
The Parlor Companion.

Every lady wants one!
avery Man ought to have onel!
sent on recelpt OF Ten cents. address |. II,
HYDE q CO.. 1876 seventh Avenue New York.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-27

kXyLLMINGroN TRANSFER AND BAGGAGE
and packages 10 and from ali parts OF Inc city Rail
road Depot and boat. Also, baggage called for and
checked (wheTe Railroad tickets are heidi TO al
points from private Residences or hotels 0rderE
left at tthe Franklin Telegraph Once, No
{, West Third street, K. Brnghurat d Co.
Sixth and Market; Smith Painter, Seventh
and Market, and b. Il c. Shoemaker, 500 Market ST.
will receive prompt attention. Principal Of1ca Bag
gage Room, r., W. aud b. Railroad Depot
j. j. MCMULLRN,
sapt1a-lV ] II. AKAi. PPopfiatnH
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-27

The track through the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad tunnel trayersing the western portion
of Baltimore and connecting with the Northern
Central Railroad was completed yesterday and
the tunnel will be open for travel on the Goth.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-27

The Maryland Delaware Ship Canal is taking
definite shape. An association, WITH charter
from the State OF Maryland, and right of way
through the State of Delaware, has been organ
lied, which has named the route between the
Sassafras river and BlackOird creek as a feasible
one, but the inal location has not been made yet
other routes will be surveyed, AID some other
may be selected
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-27

The Onion Pacific Railway Board of Directors,
at meeting in Boston yesterday, appointed
John Dun Acting President and also appointed
the successors of oakes Ames and Horace F.
Clark on the Executive Committee Messrs Oil.
yer Ames and Elisha Atkins.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-06-27

day or two earlier than they expected the
Maryland Editors returned from their Western
trip, last night They were much fatgued from
their long journey, having travelled more than
5000 miles. but express an entire satisfac ton
with their trim
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08

his statements are corroborated by Ames
and Alley. We have no hesitation in
saying that the record of the Speaker in con-
nection with this affair seems to be absolutely
clean; and it is great satisfaction to us to
be able to say 1.-THE greater, since, from the
accidental fact of his names heading Nc
Combs list, he has had to bear the brunt
of the general attack upon the whole
business. One or two others, perhaps,
are also vindicated. Mr.. Boutwell, seems to be
innocent; so does the late Mr.. Eliot so does
Mr.. Conkling, whose name has been mentioned
by McCOmb, though it does not appear in the
original memorandum. While the inyestiga-
ton, however, is incomplete, it would be i'll
vidious to single out particular persons for
acQuittal, except in such exceptional cases as
those just named. We prefer to suspend
Judgment upon all for the present, and when
the trial closes we shall try to allot to all the
fullest measure of justice.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08

delay in the completion of the work. He was
originally to have received fifteen per cent on
all the payments for building the piers below
high-water mark. About the time that the
Committee of Fifty discovered this arrange
ment by which the Superintendent would nave
received about 100000 year for his services
the per centum allowance was reduced two
thirds. and finally to nothing, and he is now
serving without pay.
The reports also call attention to the fact
that Mr.. Kingsley is practically the Directory
He holds and votes majority OF the STOCK
subscribed by private individuals, and al the
two cities which furnish nine-tenths OF the
money are without actual representation Id
the Direction, it follows that Mr.. Kingsley Is
supreme in his control of the work. with
absolute power in the hands of one man, the
marvel is that the Committee have not found
fraud at every step of the investigation. Ihe
result ia an Endorsement of Mr.. Kingsley as
gratifying to the public as it doubtless
is to himself, and will inspire renewed
confidence in a gentleman whose energy
was long since recognized, and whose honesty
and economy will be no longer questioned.
But because the past is secure that is no
reason why we should go forward in this
great work with the door for the thieves who
may get into possession left wide open.
Hence the recommendation of the majority
report that the charter be amended, so as to
give the two cities of New-York and Brooklyn
proper representation in the Direction, is a
wise suggestion, which ought at once to be
acted on We hope the Company will adopt
the resolution submitted by the Committee,
and take immediate steps to secure amended
lpCislation
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08
WITH SUPPLEMENT.

TIE condition Of the Emperor Napoleon is favor
able == NJ Thiers ana subcommittee Of the Com
mittee OF Thirty have agreed when the President shall
address tie Assembly More disorders are reported
from Span.
The Credit Mobler Investigation was RESUMED, Vice
President COlL4X making statement =-=s A. B. Cor
nell was chosen Speaker OF the Assembly at Albany
The Rrpublican General Committee submitted a draft
of . new chartcr. The Majority, Minority, and
Executive Committees reports of the East River Bridge
Company were made public. === Judge Davis over
ruled appeals for delay in the Tweed case. =--
merchant was charged with attempting 10 set fire 70
warehouse. ==== Gold, Ill., ma Thermometer, 2l!''
cq!o gri1
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08
THE STORY or THE BRIDGE.


Relieved of much irrelevant matter, intro
duced to prove what was already admitted.
the several reports on the management of the
East River Bridge fail to establish fraud.
but prove that there is only ample op-
pOrtunity for peculatiOn. Material has
not been bought without competition, as
charged, and contracts have been awarded
to the lowest bidders. Supplies have been
purchased of a company in which the Super
intendent and at least one Director of the
Bridge were interested but in no instance
cited have they as Bridge officials contracted
with themselves at higher prices than were
paid to others. To few cases the bills of
this company have been paid upon the certif-
cation of the purchasing agent only, but the
amount involved in these transactions is small.
and there is no proof that they were fraudu-
lent.
The one monstrOus irregulariy ia found in
the amount of Superi ntendent Kingsleys COM
pensatiOn and the manner of its payment
This is not a new discovery, for nearly or quito
a year ago the Committee Of Fifty of Brook
rection, and the return by Mr.. Kingsley of
$4,000 which had been oveTpaid to him under
a system which, TO say tho least, was indef-
mite and imperfect, and which would have in
cited a corrupt man to extravaganza rather than
to economy in the expenditures for the Company.
The amount of his pay was made 10 depend upon
the magnitude of his expenditures. and the
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08
"RESPECTABLEn CONVICT

Mr.. Stokes having committed murder, been
indicted, arrafgped, tried, found guilty upon
the clearest evidence and sentenced to death,
Immediately after retiring to the condemned
cell remarks to a visitor "They convicted
"me because of my responsibility. 1t was my
"social position yes, it was my social posi-
"tion.n Any reader ignorant of the facts will
he naturally confused by the observation, for
responsibility" is a word. as social posi-
+" ton is a phrase, suggesting the idea of
virtue, integrity, and good reputation.
Now, whatever else this unfortunate young
man may have been, it will not be
pretended that one who associates with
harlots is specially vrtuous that one
who from motives of revenge assassinates a
feIlow-creature is particularly honest or,
Judged by the old rule of noscitur sociis,
chat Mr. Stokes was bird of any whittier
feather than those with whom no lived and
moved and had his fast and feversh being
IL is evident, therefore, that Mr.. Stokes, who
is not enough impressed by his fearful posi-
ton to keep him from swearing like pirate
only o few moments after listening To his
doom, must have other ideas of "respecta-
"biltyr and "social position" than those which
usually obtain among severe mOralists. But it is
easy 10 guess what be meant. Unfortunately
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08

Abusing THE TRIBUNE is not a good way
to make a newspaper. While some of our CO.
temporaries were wasting their time in scold-
ing US on Monday night, we were busy re-
coiving by telegraph from our vigilant
Washington correspondents, and preparing
for our readers the fullest and most intel
ligible account of the Credit Mobilier In
vestigatiOn that has anywhere been published,
giving about three times as much testimony
as any other paper in the city, with the evl-
dence of McCOmb, Ames, and Alley IN full,
and the cross-examinations, which no other
journal even attempted to give THE TRIBUNE,
in fact, was the only paper which printed yes
terday the whole story developed by the secret
investigation. and the consequence was that
the people threw aside other papers and came
after ours. To succeed in journalism, as IN
| other professions, man must keep his temper
and mind his own business.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08

Now that the House Of Representatives has
fairly gotten into the investigation OF the
Credit Mobilier business, it evinces determi-
nation to go to the bottom of things. The
additional Committee which has been ordered
is for the purpose Of inquiring into the legality
of the Credit Mobilier Association. The sup
position is that Mr. Ames's organization has
received bonds from the Union Pacific Rail
road Company, and that the United States Is
liable for the interest on those bonds. Have
those bonds been legally acquired by the
Credit MObilier Association, which is crea-
ture of the Union Pacific corporation Have
any of the shares of the Association, which Is
supposed to hold these bonds, been held by
Copgressmen or other officers of the Govern
mentR These are questions which the new
investigation will seek to satisfy. They are
questions in which not only the taxpayers OF
the country are interested, but also every man
who desires to see the tone Of public morals
kept high and pure.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08
amocmcnls, etc, 0bis Guenins.

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SOt1erB.
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Heari Wien,awsk. sni Theodore Thomas
ASSOCIATION HAII---Lecture. Prof. Lambert.
ST. JAMES THEATER.-San Francisco Mmstrels
Tony PASTORS OPERA HoUsE-"A Miners Life"
and NsrelicS
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08

A curious proposition has been made III the
House of Representatives by Tennessee
member. 1t is in the interest of the whisky
and tobacco men, and proposes an entire re-
peal of all taxes on these two commodlties
To replace the revenue thus abstracted OF
diverted it is further proposed that one per cent
shall be levied on the gross earnings OF rail-
roads, and half that amount on bankers,
brokers, and insurance companies transac-
tons. Without discussing the expediency or
justice of imposing this new tax, 1T must be
admitted, that as long as any taxes are laid
on anything, the Objectionable luxures of
whisky and tobacco ought to bear their share
The probability is that these articles will be
taxed as long as we have any internal revenue
duties of any kind.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08

Much 20 the popular relief, pleas for further
delay in the Tweed case have been overruled,
and it is now in a fair way for trial. The
jury panel has been prepared, and it is hoped
that to-day will witness the actual beginning
OF this long deferred suit.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08

II is said that the Committee of Congress
which investigated the Johnson defalcatiOn
in the u. S. ub-TreasuIy in this city, while
generating the officers, will suggest preven-
tive measures against future operations of
that kind. That is just what we want. 1t is
idle now to talk of how dodge, johnson, and
Others accomplished their thefts save to show
how their duplication is to be avoided here
after.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08

Quoting The Cincinnati ,Ga'e't3 as SO found 1t
quoted in other papers, wjAyero inadvertently lsi
into the error of attributing TO it as editorial am
nowlodgment about the Cr6dit Mobilier which
was only made by its Washington correspondent.
We trust however. that The Gdsette is not going 10
suGor It's correspondent TO outdo 1t it candnr
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08

- ~.er 2 sF--yxt1,---i
The Temperance Reform in England continues to
keep the public attention in a remarkable and en-
couraging way. prize of $50 g9lneas s .Q1srgd by
an advertisement in the pablic Journals f9f lho Best
essay on the following subject "The Temp6iaa6e
Reformation-its Claims spon the Christian Church
prize Of 80 guineas is also offered for the second
best essay on the same subject. The adjudicators
are Dr. Smith, Dean of Canterbury; Prof. Calder
wood of the University of Marlborough, and the
Rev. Mr. Oliver of the Battersea wesleyan) Training
College. AS twelve months will be given for the
writing of the essay it would not be amiss for
of our own well-informed writers on the subject to
compete. Information upon the subject may be OBJ
tained of Messrs Holder 81 Stoughton. No. "a Pater-
nOster-row, London.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08

3se49'2ork Dnilp SribM>pe.
FOUNDED By HORACE GREELEY.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08
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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 8. 1878.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08

without some qualifications there il a reason
ably good prospect of an arrangement peihg
made on the other points in dispute
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08

The hea 'hen Chinees ideas of the uses and habits
of deep-sae telegraphic cables are rather pc
culiar. Some Of these innocent Confuciaus make a
living by fslIin,y up the wires. cutting them, and
selling the pieces Occasionally they vary their dark
ways by resetting the cable like veybena or a M.
ranium in order tina, it may grow aud serve Tor la
ture provision.
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08

The last victims of the rage for personal abuse.
under which one or two of the local journals suffer
are Horace F. Clark and Augustus SChcll Why
these gentlemen should be singled out for attack is
hard to be seen. They old citizens of NewY
identified with great enterprises largely trusted in
tho most responsible positions. and enjoying tho
fuh Jest confidence and respect of ALL doubtless
inclo ding those who abnse them. What good comes
of such blaokguardismr
New-York tribune., 1873-01-08
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-10-04
How Briggs Baby was Treated.

Thomas Briggs, of Detroit, has boy
baby about ten months old, who is ad-
mitted at the beginning of this article
to look just like his father and to be
the smartest boy baby of his age in De-
troit. Yesterday morning the child was
sitting on the floor, playing with five or
six big coat buttons on q string, and
taking an occasional nibble at an apple
to bring out his first crop of teeth.
Mrs. Briggs and a neighbor were talk
ing away as only women can gossip,
when the baby hid the buttons under a
mat and started to finish the apple. A
bit of the skin got in his throat, and he
gave cough and whoop and paved
the air and rolled over on his head.
"Oh, them buttons he has swallowed
them buttons p cried the mother, as she
yanked him up and shook him. "Pound
him on the back p yelled the other wo-
man, trying to hold the baby's legs still.
Run for the neighbors p cried Mrs.
Briggs. "Oh, he'll die q! he'll die /"
screamed the other, as sheran out. And
the neighbors came in and made him
lie on his stomach and cough, and then
turned him on his back and rubbed his
stomach, and jagged him about allsorts
of ways until he got mad and he went to
bowling. Then boy ran for Briggs,
and Briggs ran for doctor, and the
doctor came and choked the baby, and
ordered sweet oil and a mustard plas-
ter, and told them to hold him on his
back. Everybody knew that those six
big buttons were lodged in the baby's
throat, because he was red in the face,
and because he strangled as he howled
and wept. They poured down sweet
oil, and put mustard across 'him, and
wept over him, and the mother said she
could never forgive herself. Boys drove
by calling out: "Slab wood for sale p
and the scissors man went by shouting
"Sharp sharp p but that distressed
crowd held the baby down and shed
their tears over his whole length. The
doctor was looking serious and Briggs
was thinking that he hadn't done any
thing to deserve such a blow, when one
of the women pushed the mat and dis
covered the buttons. Then everybody
laughed and danced, and they kicked
the sweet oil bottle under the bed,
threw the mustard plaster at the doctor,
and Mrs. Briggs hugged the bowling
angel to her bosom and called him her
"wopsy topsy hopsy dropsy popsy little
cherub,"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-10-04
Territorial Secretary Assassinated.

An alteration occurred between Gen.
E. S. McCook, Secretary of Dakota, and
P. P. Wintermute, a broker at Yankton,
in billiard parlor of the st. Charles
Hotel, in which Wintermute used in
sulting language, which was resented
by the General, who gave Wintermute
a thrasAing. The General then went to
his room. Wintermute, washing blood
from his face, remarked to the bystand-
ers that McCook could whip him, but
that he (Wintermute) would shoot him,
and Immediately went five blocks, got
pistol and returned.
A railroad meeting was in session in
the hotel at the time Wintermute en-
tered the assembly. McCook, unaware
of his presence, also entered the room,
when Wintermute raised, and, approach
ing, fred his pistol, the shot taking eff
feet in the left breast. The General
graphing with his assassin, second
shot was fired, and Wintermute was
thrown to the floor. During the strug-
gle two more shots were fired, one of
which slightly wounded bystander.
Only one shot took effect, which proved
fatal. The General fingered until 7
o'clock tie next morning, when he ex-
pired. He was fully conscious to the
last, and died like brave man. Win
termute is under arrest.
The city of Yankton was shrouded in
gloom, and flags flying at half mast. At
the time it was feared that Wintermute
might be lynched, but cooler counsels
prevailed. The body was dressed in the
uniform of a Major General which he
wore during the war. The coffin was
draped with United States flag, and a
large concourse of citizens escorted the
body to the depot, from whence it was
forwarded by a special train to his friends
in the East, accompanied by Gov. Bur
bank and other distinguished gentle
men
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-10-04
An Indian AerOlite.

A very curious visitor from unknown
regions is described by farmer Of Tip
pecanoe county in the Lafayette Qnd.)
Journal as follows:
"Mention was made short time since
of the fall of q wonderful aerolite, in the
lower part of this county. We met Mr..
Harter, who discovered it upon his
farm, near Romney. The fragments in
all, it is supposed, will amount to about
a thousand pounds in weight, and some
features are presented which will be OF
great interest to scientific men. The
aerolites heretofore found are of solid
and metallic nature. having evidently
struck the earth as compact bodies.
This one is entirely different. From
the traces it is easily determined that
the vast descending globe came hurting
through the air in one glowing, motion
mass, and that at the moment of its i'm
pingement it was in liquid state. The
fragments are honeycombed, like Gin
der, and vary greatly in their weight.
It is further evident that the globe was
hollow, from the smoothness of the con-
cave parts. The outside presents the
appearance of soft body that has
struck upon solid particles, as the in
dentation of grass blades, straws and
sticks are plainly discernible. One of
the fragments had fallen on large
stick of wood, and conforms to it exact
ly. The very texture of the wood can be
seen. Further than they fell around
the spot where the main bodies were
found numerous little balls of the same
material varying from q shot to an or
dinary sized marble. They were per-
feet spheres, and can be accounted for
upon no other hypothesis than that the
rapid revolution Of the liquid mass in
its descent threw off these particles by
centrifugal force. Parts of the mate
rial have been subjected to intense heat
without the least effect being produced,
and they show unquestionable evidence
Of igneous action. A box of these frag-
ments will be shipped to the Smithson-
ian Institute, and the remainder are in
tended for the Purdue Agricultural Col
lege."