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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-20
FIRST EDITOR,
Philadelphia Politics,

THE CENTENNIAL MAYOR WILL HToRLEY DO p
COLONEL FoRNEY PHoPOsED-HE DON'T WANT 1T
JUDGE KELLEY FOR CONGRESS LEN MYERS
AND Al. HARMER BACKING AdAINsr EACH OTHER
Correspondence Of Ae Washington Republicans
Philadelphia is considerably agitated Just now
over the question of the next mayor. The ap-
proaching centennial exhibition clothes this mag
isterial position with pecu liar interest Philadel-
phla, you know, is strong on ''socal status, and
the prevailing cry now is. I" We must have gem
tleman for our centennial mayor Mayor Stok-
ley, the incumbent, is in the field, but Stukley
is not the mould OF fashion or the gloss Of form.
We want man who has grace in every step and
dignity in every posture man who can fit
tingly welcome official visitors. preside at official
dinners and talk gby without Strengthening the
vernacular. Now, Stokley is very good offi-
Ger for quiet city he is hale fellow with
the boys, buf he is not the man to represent
an intelligent people upon an International oc-
cakion
His syntax would not look well in a State pa
per, and his orthography Is of the elder Welar
pattern, and in conversation he manifests he
r0ic difference to all grammatical rules These
qualities may pass muster now, but the belief
IL rapidly gaining ground that they would not
look we'll psradel before the world in 1876 Ac-
cordingly. We are casting about for centennial
mavor, aud many visit ful glancos are turned to-
ward. Colonel John W. FJrney, who unques-
tionaby possesses all the attributes which
Stokely 80 painfully lacks. Forney don't care for
the place. but have good reasons for saying
that II movement he started. independent of
politics, and with no purpose save to serve the
public interests hu wOuld accept, al he should
do. AT all events, for the sake Of tho American
character, it is to bs hoped that Philadelphia
will not choose Satyr whom she caH WOO Hyper
ion.
Judge Kelley will be candidate for Congress-
again next year. He contemplated retiring from
public life, but his friends insist upon his candi-
dacy again, to show the country that the Credit
Mobilier business has not shaken their confidence
in him There is little doubt of his re-nomina-
tion, and less still of his election
The new Congressional apportionment gives
Philadelphia five districts insteal Of four r-and-a-
half. Leonard Myers will compete with Harmer
for the Fifth district. This district il largely
Republican, and the contest for the nomination
between these two a-picants will be hot Both
arc now shaping things for the coming struggle
O'Neill will have but little trouble to be again
nominated, but will lind determined opDosiliou
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-20
Intlr ,r,nu News:

The conductors anu brakemen Of the freight
trains on the Western Division of the Now York
Central Railway struck on Monday night for ad-
Vanced wages. No freight trains were running
between Rochester and Buffalo yesterday.
There are said to be more articles marked
''sold" in the American department OF the Vien-
ma Exposition than in any other.
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com =
pany have commenced, and are now proseout-
ing with great vigor, one of the most important
Improvements ever made in Port Richmond.
The company purchased recently tract of land,
facing the Delaware Tlver, and extending from
below Ann street to Allegheny avenue, compris-
ing some II or Is acres of ground, upon which
they propose to erect shipyards dry docks, ma
chine and boiler Shops for the construction of
steam cOiers, to be used in tho business the
company The buildings to be erected include
a ship-honse, 497 feet long and 100 wide a
brick boiler shop, 222 feet by 63 chip mould
and joiner shop 2iO by t3 a smith shop, 1853 by
So and other smaller structures marine rail
way is also proposed. The work on the build
ings was begun in June last and ii is hoped that
il will be sufficiently advanced by October to be-
gin to place the machinery, though the work
has been considerably delayed by the recent
heavy rains.
meeting OF coopers was held in Philadelphia
last evening to take action for the support of
the men on tho strike from the shop At twenty
third and Washington avenue, and tnat the men,
bers were in favor of the same. He also stated
that tho coopers made from Sl5 to $40 week
working at piecework, and that the convention
had about six hundred members.
I he mills at Fall River, Mass, after being idle
two weeks, started up on Monday.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-20
PhiIndeIphIn Topics.

The Record complains that the city drainage
is not efficient.
1t only cost Tom Flynn "ten dollars and
costs" to knock out the eye Of a horse
In spite OF the discouragiug weather, the
fourteenth of the Chidren's Free Excursion
went to Rockland yesterday,
-Philadephia has carried OFF the lions share
OF the grand diplomas OF honor awarded to
America at the Vienna Exposition.
The banking house of the United States
Banking Company, new State corporation, is
located at S24 Chestnut street, under the Com
tlnental William j. Fell, Esq, is one Of the
Directors
The Trustees Of the Jefferson Medical Ool-
lege having requested Professor Joseph Pan
coast to Withdraw his resignation of the chair of
Anatomy in that institution. he has compiled
with the request and will deliver the course of
lectures on Anatomy during the ensuing term.
The ohio reached Liverpool at four o'clock
Tuesday morning Tho LefJer says: She made
the run from wharf to wharf in eleven days and
a half from the capes OF the Delaware to Liv
erpool i'll ten days and twenty-three hours, and
from the oapes Of the Delaware to Queenstown
in ten days and three hours. The latter is equiv
alent to voyage from Sandy Hook to Queen
town in nine days and nineteen hours, the diff
florence OF distance being equal to eight hours
bteAnlng.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-20
The Coal Monopoly.
The orIRA1IoNs OF THE READING RAILROAD co


THE oFERA1IoNs OF THE READING RAILROAD co.
IN MINING.
Since 1871 the Reading Railroad has steppedin-
to the Schuylkl county region with thirty million
dollars aud bought up all the coal mines and lands
1t could lay its hands on. The produc ion of
anthracite coal is no longer business the move
ments of which are regulated by competition. A
gigantic monopoly has been constituted.
Hence 1t is that with wholesale prices of coal
higher than they were in 1871, the production
is barely even with that OF 1879, when, We are
told, the mines we're operated at a loss. To
guard ourselves against misrepresentation, we
viii Hay that we are comparing the prices and
production Of the mouths Of June and July only
not those OF the whole year, for in the first five
months of 1871 production was almost stopped
by the miners strike against reduction Of wa
ges.
We have not the exact figures, but we arc able
to state from an examination of the weekly re-
turns that the production of 1873 ia barely
equal for June and July to that Of 1872, and
twenty per cent less than 1871. We're it not that
the coal monopoly restricts the supply, the pri
ces now ruling would bring to market larger
quantities than we were receiving two years ago
for there is under ordinary circumstances a large
annual increase in the consumption of ccal
The facts admit Of only one Interpretation
that the coal monopoly, by creating an artificial
scarcity, has raised the price and checked the
consumption. Whether the extortion amounts
to a dollar or dollar and half a ton, or more
or less there il 10 room for doubt that in ad-
ditiOn to all their other taxes the people are
compelled to pay good round tax on their fuel
into the treasures of half a dozen bloated
Pennsylvania corporations whose stock is most
ly in the hands OF millionaires and Englishmen.
~. \. Tribune
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-20
The RnilrOnd Troubles.

THE PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL. ABOUT TO MoNoPoLIZR
THE THROUGH TRAVEL.
On Monday next it is anticipated that the
Pennsylvania Central will resume the running
of its through trains between New York and
Washington. The repairs to the Potomac Rail-
road are now about completed, and trains began
to rass over the road again to-day.
With the resumption by the Pennsylvania Cen
tral, a new phase is looked for in the war between
this corporation and the Baltimore a. Ohio Com
pany. just what it will be is not clearly known,
but it is gravely limited that the next move will
be- i'll the direction of effort on the part of the
Pennsylvania Central to monopolize all the
through travel between New York and Washing
ton. 70 accomplish this, it il quietly inti-
mated in railroad circles, that the Pennsylvania
Company will refuse to longer convey the Bllti-
more Il Ohio cars beyond Philadelphia, or to
even recognize the tickets which are sold by the
latter Co. on its (tbe Penn-yvania) trains be-
yond that point, This will effectually cut off the
Baltimore Il Ohio Co. from all communication
beyond Philadelphia, and it's through express
trains will have to be withdrawn.
lMWe cannot say positively that this matter ia in
serious contemplation. 1t is one OF the rumors
in the war between the companies which has
come to our ears several times during the past
few days, which rumors we are somewhat dispo-
sed to give some credenee to, basing our belief
upon other matters which have come to our
knowledge. Thus for Instance, we are led not
to confidently expect another change in the p.
W. II b. II. II. within the next few days, but to
look upon the change as contingency which
may and most likely will arise. Whatever changes
may be made are likely to come through the ex-
press trains, and the Foundation for these
changes may be in the withdrawal of the BALTIC.
IL Ohio trains. Certain it is-the through New
York and Washington travel is not sufficient to
compensate both roads for the running OF two
express trains daily each way, and now that the
Pennsylvania Central Co. has obtained footing
in the only air line route now built, its adoption
of some such summary method as is proposed
above would not be very susprising.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-20
This Wet spell.

soME DAMP FIGURES ABOUT Ir-wATER by INCHES
AND FEET-How MUCH MOISTURE WE HAVE HAD
-DHIP DAIP, DRIP.
The rain storm or succession of storms of the
last eight days has been the heaviest that has
occurred during the last ten years, and the re-
cord kept at the Pennsylvania Hospital shows
that more rain has fallen during the week than
fell during any month since January, 1864, ex-
cept the months of June and August, 1867, and
July, 1872. The storm commenced during the
afternoon of August 18th, and continued into the
night OF the l4th. Daring the first 36 hours II
q 323) inches fell, greater quantity than any
one rain fall during the last ten years. There
wore small rainfas each successive day until
yesterday inclusive and the whole amount of the
rainfall was "a incnes. On the 18th, (Monday)
the rainfall amounted to nearly ali inch and one
third. During the month Of August, 1872 the
total rainfall was So inche and during nineteen
days of the present month little over 10 n-
ches. The only other rainfalls OF the last ton
years comparing with this for volume and per-
slstence were tue following.
In June, 1860, rain fell for five successive
days, but the whole amount was less than three
inches. In July, 1865, there was rain for five
successive days total, about half an inch. Dur
ing the month of June, 1867 the total rainfall
was eleven inches, and during August of the
same year 1874 inches. During the latter month
rain fell on eighteen days and the largest fall
in any one day was 638 inches, two-thirds of an
inch less than during the first thirty-six hours
OF the late storm. But in August, 1867. the
longest duration of rain storms five days.
There was clear weather then for three days,
followed by four days of rain, one of clear
weather, and four more OF rain. In May, 1870,
there was rain during Six successive days, but
the total fall was less than 3I5 inches. During
this rainy weather the great hail storm that de-
stroyed many thousands of dollars worth OF
property occurred In July, 1872, rain to the
amount of 4225 inches fell during four successive
days. The total rainfall for August, 1867, was
15$l inches, for July, 1872, IL TO inches, for
June, 1867, II inches, and for nineteen days OF
the present month, little over ten inches
These are the months of greatest rainfall since
January. 1864 the average monthly fall not ex-
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-20
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

Andy johnson now limits himself to ginger
pop.
Mark Twain will do up Ireland and Scotland
this fall.
AN Evansville, Ind. boy was choked in box
OF brand.
Clam dsgers at Warren, II. 1. make So and
SO day.
Boss Tweed's Americus clubhouse is still in
full swing
Even the apprentices in London have their
Rev Newman Hall will be in this country
next month.
Secretary Richardson left Long Branch for
Washington yesterday afternoon.
General d. NJ. Barringer who is i'll at Green
Brier White Sulphur Springs, is regarded AZ al
most past recovery.
The iron trade in the United States gives
employment to 1877 545 operatives, and the lum-
Der trade to 1G3, 1897 operatives.
The Erie (Pa.) policemen are resigning their
positions III consequence OF the city refusing to
increase their pay from $50 to $75 per MONTH
"A beggar of ''cold vittles" recently sent
COMMUNICATION to the Danbury NeBs, warning
people against making apple sauce in iron ves-
sells, as it not only spos the flavor of the sauce,
but does not agree with him.
ALI Sing, the Chinese overseer at North
Adams. Mass, has been charging his followers
500 for rice which cost him $50, and fifty cents
for mailing letters which didn't cost him any
thing. Ah Sing is civilizing very fast.
Scene in Fort Wayne dry good stores Lady
How much for this print Gentlemonly and
obliging cleIk-Nine cents mum. Lady-Nine-
teen cents I'll give you eighteen, Clerk
Nine cents, mum you misunderstood me- Lady
oh nine cents +; I'll give you eight.
g. A. Wetmore. of the Sau Francisco Alta,
believing tobacco to be injurious, quit smoking,
and said that at the end of the first tv enty. four
hours OF the trial, he already felt 80 much better
for abolishing the filthy habit that he thought he
would be strong enough to resumeI it again very
soon.
The Baltimore Gazette thinks Logfellows
genius has faded 1t says 4" Time was when he
could dip little water from the sacred spring.
but now the fountain flows no more for him. The
Of the pump alone is heard. Instead
OF the gush of poesy, we have only the dry hc-
cough of imperfect suction"
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-20
PoIirirnI Items.
steanilng.

The term OF U. s. Senator Scott, of Pennsylva
mia, expires in March, 1876, and already atten-
tion is turned to the Legislature by several as
pirants for the place. Members OF the Senate
elected in 1872 and 1873, will join in the choice
their term being three years. Mr. Scott desires
to succeed himself, and William II Kemble OF
Philadelphia, the ex-State Treasurer, and Rus
sell Errett, of Plttsburg, also entered for the
race. Kemble a candidate when Scott was
elected ia 1869, and he says il cost Simon Came
ron $3.50 600 to beat him. Such All expenditure
made 1t very profitable to be in the Legislature,
that year Kemble has become still richer, since
that, and perhaps he will make the expense of
defeating him half Million this time.
The Republicans of Somerset county, Md, are
to choose delegates 10 their County Convention
on Saturday afternoon, September 9th. Each
district to have four delegates. The Convention
will meet at Princess Anne, on the following
Tuesday, September 9th. The County officers
to be elected this year, are a Senator, members
OF the House of Delegates, Register, Sheriff,
Commissioner and Surveyor.
The Texas Republican State Convention met
at Dallas yesterday, and Mallory was chos-
en temporary chairman. Governor Davis made
q speech urging the Convention to act harmDni-
onsy. He SAID "he did not care vino they nomi-
mated, but let them be honest men' 1t
the impression that Davis would be renUminat-
ed.
McEnery, the Conservative claimant of the
Governorship of Louisiana, hasw rltten a letter
recommending the holding of Il State Couveu-
tion in December and the appointment OF com
mittee to appeal to Congress for relief from the
present State government.
The Labor Reformers of Schuylkill county will
b I'D convention at the court house in Potts
vile, on Tuesday, September 9th, for the pur-
pose of nominating county ticket. The delegate
election takes place the Monday previous.
The editor of the Milwaukee Sentipsi is looked
for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant
Governor of Wisconsin. The Chicago Post says
he is the proper man for the place.
The Republican State Central Committee OF
Massachusetts has changed the time OF holding
the State Convention to September 10th.
General Robert Lowry declines the Democratic
nomAation for Governor of Minnesota.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-20
Celehrntinr INSTRUMENTAL

The Baltimore American, to-day, celebrates
the one hundredth anniversary Of the Maryland
journal and baltimore Adoertiser, a weekly
started by W. Goddard, on the 10th OF August
1773, to which the american il direct lineal
successor. In honor of the occasion, it issues
supplement, giving pictures of the old newspa
per Office and the present one, history of the
paper, he; and yet another supplement, which
is fac silile Of the first number OF the l.Iour-
nal. This is rare enterprise, upon which We con-
gratulate our venerable but active and successful
neighbor,
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-20
A Frnnd ON the Fnrmer..

The Iowa Anti-monopoly Convention is de-
nounced as fraud. There were some honest,
candid man present, but the convention was en-
glneered and oflieered by political hacks, who had
lost standing with both political parties. These
men took the farmers names in vain, and al
though calling the convention ostensibly as a
farmers gathering, they took care, by holding it
at harvest time that very few farmers should be
able to attend it. The nominations were all cut
and dried beforehand, and everything was man
aged by caucuses. OF the four candidates NOM
mated, three are practicing lawyers, but men Of
such small repute that the Des Moines Register
raises Its figures for the Republican major ty in
the State from fifty to sixty Thousand.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-20
Origin of the Fallawater Apple.

1t may not be generally known that this large
and excellent variety Of apple, now extensively
grown, originated in Coleraine township, Lau-
caster county. about forty years ago, on the farm
of James G. Morrison. which was then owned by
his father. The original tree was Seeding and
grew on the bank OF a stream into which the ap-
Piles fell, and from this the name was derived
fall-in-water, Fallawater. The fruit of this tree
soon obtained a reputation throughout the
neighborhood and abroad and many gratis were
taken from it by nurserymen, and it soon grew
into general favor. Mr. Morrison remembers
the incidents and recognises the present cele-
brated Fallawater as the same apple The name
is frequently mispelled and misprounced Fal-
lowater, Fallingwater Form walder, etc. These
facts have been published in pomological works,
with the addition that in some sections 1t is
called the Morrison apple.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-20
Wit aud Wisdom.

The secret of fashion is to surprise, never tc
disappoint,-
Custom may lead man into many errors;
bnt it justities none.-Fieldmg.
In these times we fight for ideas, and news
papers are our fortresses
-Liberaity consists less in giving profusely
than in giving judiciously sly.-Bruyere.
Aristotle says there is one thing which God
cannot change and that is yesterday
If you wouldst bear thy neighbours faults,
cast thine eyes upon thine own.-NIoline.
-Repose and cheerfuness are the badge OF
TIE gentleman-repose in energy-Emerson.
He who is only in good health, and is willing
to work. has nothing to fear in this world. Cole
bridge
Have the courage to be ignorant of great
number of things, in order to avoid the calamity
of being ignorant of everything. Sydney Smith,
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-20
From Newark.

| THE WET wEATHER-BUsINEss DULL = THE COL
LEdE-IMPRoyEMENTs, &C., DC.
Correspondence OF the Commercially
NEWARK, Aug. 20.
The influence of the wet weather, for the past
week, is having very depressing influence upon
business operations of all kinds. All work of an
outdoor nature is, of course stopped. and things
in general wear a gloomy appearance. Crop re-
ports are extremely meagre. Corn appears,
however, to be doing we'll, and, IL the rain does
not continue too long, promises full crop.
The college seems quiet and deserted at pres
ent. 1t has been cleaned, and renovated for
ted that the fall term will open with large in
crease in their number, and all things promises
we'll for the future Of the institution,
Quite number or improvements have been
progress but the rainy weather has sus-
pended operations on them, for while at least
Mr.. Hiram johnson has built on White Clay
creek st., four commodious dwellings, two of
which are now completed and occupied, and the
others nearly finished. The Messrs. Cur
tbs are also building at their paper
mills, some houses for their oper-
atives, which are ia an advanced state of
construction Messrs Dean d Pilling are begin
ing to slack work at their mills, preparatory to
changing their series of winter CLOTH and as
soon as the coarse WOOL now on hand. is worked
up will commence the manufacturing of spring
and summer goods. s. B. Wright d Son are
making extensive preparations to engage in the
grain aud coal business. on Main street, where
II intersects the p. 4 d. Il. r.. and opposite the
locality known as the Green Tree Sta
tion," which name. by the way expresses
as exactly as possible the condition of the p &
d. r. r. depot, at this place.
Messrs. Wright q Son will open their coal
yards, as soon as the weather permits the COM
pletion of the necessary buildings, DC. We
should certainly suppose that this enterprise
ought to prove success. as coal can now be
shipped per the Pennsylvania and Delaware
Railroad directly from the mines.
Prof e d. Porter is tearing down the house
at his farm, near here, and erecting additions
to the parts which he will allow to remain,
thus making quite handsome dwelling. where
he expects to remove as soon as possible Miss
obamberlin taking his position in the Academy,
and occupying the portion Of the buildings in
watch he now lives.
A horse a very fine animal belonging to Mr.
Garrett of Strickersville, had its leg broken by
being kicked by one of the horses in the field
Fl n n
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-08-20
THE PENN suLA.
SOMERSET COUNTY.

One OF Wesley Gibson's houses on Deals Island
was burned last Friday, and another built near
it was barely saved 1t was thought that it was
set on fire by the lightning.
On the Annamessex Circuit, in Handy's woods.
four miles from Orisield, there will be held a
camp meeting, commencing on August 10th.
A lady sleeper had the clothing burned from
around her neck, one night recently, by light
ming bolt, and was not awakened.
The colored people of this county intend to
hold a camp meeting at Folks road about five
miles from Princess Anne commencing on Fri
day, the 10th OF August.
The Republican primaries will be held in the
several districts on the 9th Of September.