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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-25
German and Latin In the Wilmington Higi
~ School.
[From the smyrna Timesl

The debate on this question was to whether
such instruction was needed in a practical bust
ness education such as the public school il
supposed to give. But majority Of the Board
decided that that question was for the parents
and children to decide, they being
the parties personally concerned; that
il they wanted it the public school ought
TO be as competent to give the instruction as the
''select" school that there wss no reason why
the public school should be behind any other !;
that teaching Latin to children who do want 1t
does not require any to learn it who do not want
il, &c. The meaning, in short, in the resolution
d that the public school shall be as competent
as any school. 1t is the school for the masses,
one OF our great American institutions, and to
be maintained must meet the requirement of
the masses.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-25
NUTRINA,
NONDENSED MILK

Ia made by carefully evaporang the watery portion
Of Fresh Mus adding to 1t small portion of white
sugar and sealing it up hermetcally. In thla way
it will keep for years aud can again be brought very
pure water 1t is very largely used in the prepara-
lion OF food for infants AID Is especially adapted TO
the use of travellers on account of its portability
and answering all the pur 2Hes OF tresh mllK. Inc
'o1 h. BRINGHURST Il CO.,
Corner sixth and Market straetA.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-25
5te1t advertisements.
NHEAP COAL.

For sale, a large stock of Lebigh and shamokn
Coal. Persons wishing 10 buy the genuine HarleRh
Lehieh and Excelsior sbamokln Goals Will please
TO ID more pressed with orders this season than
ever. Coal will be no lower and may be higher as
the season advances.
JOSEPH FoUT,
Orange and Water Streets, and at the
apT19-1y-of Wharf OF j. Morton Poole Co.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-25
CURRY POWDER.

A popular kitchen requisite of East India origin
for fiavoring soups, meats, fow's game, catsups,
chow chow, &c, small portion impartlng very
agreeable, slightly pungent aroma. Prepared from
'A' e'-A''.' IL. BRINGHgRST 4 CO.,
Apothecares,
Corner sixth and Market streets
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-25
Commercial Reports.

C0mmerCinI KepOfta
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.
PHILADELPHIA, Sep. 25.
Cotton quiet 191S02O flour quiet super
fine 316@iy6 extras 4@51S. Penna. extra
family 713@8l5 wheat quiet red 55 ; white TOO
80 corn active yellow 65@6G oats 46@50 whis-
key dollar gold II q.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-25

APOM
Prepared from Wheat, an excellent artc.e OF 1000
Tor inia1ts and inyallds Also, Hubbell's Prepared
Wheat, Crews Prepared Food, and full line OF
dietetics for the sick, sold ny ...-.,,.., -
Corner Sixth and Market streets
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-25
Ecu, advertisements.

FyHiLDRENs KNIVES AND FORKS of neat
" styles just opened by
TRUMAN d SHAW,
No, s9b iElRht Thrty-nve Market st below Ninth,
" phfladalnhln
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-25

CtPICRs.-PURK GREEN GINGER MUSTARD
- Seed, and Mustard, at the only Tea House In
he cIty No. II X 4th Street,
Wilmington, lei.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-08
'rhe Clnnabar Mines.


The cinnabar. sulphuret Of mercury mine.
at NeW-Almaden, In California. has had in
some respects, curious history. Long be-
fore the Spaniards possessed the land. the IN.
dian came. even from as TAR North Ar Oreoon
to obtain the red ore, which they used for
war paint, the substance being O natural Or
native vermilion. The earliest settlers dino
in the mountain for gold and silver but found
none. Al las. an ecclesiastic from the neigh
boring mission, ard Spanish captain. de-
tected the presence OF cinnabar, and obtained
The first sample by rude process of smelt-
ing, or rather OF sublimation. The apparatus
was original and unique. II consisted, SO
the records tell, of only an old pun-barrel
and tub of water. But 1t is easy to imao-
ihe how, by placing the pulverized ore in the
metal tube, heating the main length. closing
one end and placing the other in the water.
the mercurlal yapors could be driyeno Oft. con-
aensed and collected in metallic form. The
great mine at Ipria, in Austria. owed, its dis
covery 10 the presence OF gobules OF quick
silver III the sand of \ small mountain stream.
A poor cooper having placed some pals in
the rivuIet to swell their seams close before
taking them to market filled them with sand
to keep them from floating away. but when
he tried to empty the pals next morning, he
could not lit them. He attributed this to
Witchcraft, but the par sh priest was wiser.
and from his counsels the search successful
after much tribulation, was Instituted The
third great source Of quicksilver is the re-
nowhed Almaden mine in SPAN, after witch
hat in California was named. This was
profitable. lis workings ave reached depth
# 300 feet.-.Saa Francisco Herald.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-08
Oregon.

Chinese gambling hell in Portland il
called an Opera house, by the papers.
A chair factory is in operation at Jefferson
The chairs are made entirely OF Oregon wood
The beach gold mines at Coos Bag are be-
ing prospected with view OF working with
process by which the fine beach gold can
be sayed.
There are now sixteen Oranges of the order
Of Patrons Of Husbandry, and nine Farmers
Clubs have made application for grange or
ganizatson in the State.
Mrs. S. 4. Clarke. Of Salem. has received
from her. husband. who is ut military head
quarters IN tie Khan aih country. as cores
ponder Of ..ie New York Times. the bow.
qanyer and arrows Of the noted Mode Indian
Sconchin. the man who was not only killed
by Meacham, bur atterwar5l blown all To
pieces By bomb-shell, lad his head cut off
and put into whisky at headquarters, and
then killed agaia seven or eight times Ia va
rions and sundry terrible battles: but who
still lives, TO hang Us we tondly trust.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-08
Items from Bislnarck.

4
We copy the following from the Bismarck
Tribune OF the 18th ult !:
The steamer g. II. Durfee, came down from
/ Fort Btlford, aud loaded at Bismarck with
26O tons Of freight. Indian goods for the Te-
/ ton Sioux ct Fort Peck, and left for up river
on the 10th Of July.
/ Inc Miner arrived on the 18th from yank-
ton, which point she left on the I'd inst. She
left ~ tons of goods at Cheyenne. and
brought lS5 tens to Lincoln. Included IN
her Lincoln cargo was 1.90O sacks of corn.
two pieces OF artillery and 122 boxes of ammu-
milton. She loaded with goods for the Grand
River Agency.
The Ida Stockton has been transferred to
the Coulson Line By the N. p. r. R., and il
now engaged in transferring goods from Bis
marck to Lincoln.
Col. Peck, OF Dnrfee & Peck came down
on the Durfae This firm is engaged very
extensively in the Indian trade, and ship an
nually large quantities Of buffalo robes from
the up river country. The Esperanza
brought down ten thousand robes for this
| firm.
The new cavalry post now being con-
structed near Bismarck, is adding to the bus
mess OF this young and growing city. This
evening abont seventy carpenters arrived
from st. Paul and Minneapolis, and next
week about eighty more viii come. About
fifty carloads of lumber are already here. 1t
vii take about seven hundred car loads of
lumber and other supplies tH eomplela tho
officers quarters, three to each Co. naf.
racks. stables, etc., for six companies of cav
airy, quarters for the post commander and
staff, and in addition, two large warehouses.
About two hundred men will be EMPLOYED in
the construction until October 1st. The inn
portance of the work to Bismarck can
scarcely be'estimated as it involves the i'm
mediate expenditure of $2Oe, 900, not to speak
OF other advantages which will come from it.
Tile lumber for the buildings was purchased
at the N. +. junction, at So 45 per thousand.
Father Keller, Of Duluth, preached his
first sermon at Bismarck, July IL. A Cath
olic chapel will be erected at an early day.
Twenty-Five Indiana editors. with their
wives and sisters, arrived ON All excursion
train at Bismarck.
The Indians at Fort Berthold have 1000
acres under cultivation. and included in their
products is 10000 bushels OF corn annually.
The corn is small bur early variety, called
Rec corn, yielding from Is to 40 bushels to |
The acre. They raise all kinds of vegetables
md several hundred acres of wheat. Their |
wheat last year averaged Is bushels to the
lcre. This, is 100 miles north of Bismarck.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-08
Washington Intelligence.

WASHINGTON, July "a.
4 delegation OF prominent South Carolina
citizens, headed by Hon. w. p. Porter, Gen.
j. B. kersaw and j. III. Sims, had an inter-
view with Acknowledgement Williams this
morning. and urged that the further prosecu-
ton of Ku-klux offenders in the South be
discontinued, as that organization was broken
up, and q cessation OF the prosecutions would
have consoling effect upon all classes OF
thatsection. They also urged that those con-
victed and now serving terms of sentence be
paidened. The Attorney-G General, III reply,
said: instructions have already been issued
to stop the prosecutions against Ku-Klux
offenders, except very aggravated cases, and
some of those convicted have already beer
pardoned. Its the policy Of the President
to pardon them all. keeping the most aggra-
waited cases, however, until the last
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-08
The Causes For Hard Times.

The universal prevalence of dull and har,
times in this conntry very naturally leads tn
political economist into careful investiga
slfaaoia Condition Of affairs. and the s,lgges
ton of remedies that ought to be applied to
bring about the desired change. Western
people are of late in the habit of ascribug
all the prevailing human ills to the avarice OF
monopolies. This, of course, is only partially
true. There are causes reaching the very
more disastrously upou the American people
than the most greedy and snulless corpora
tion. These causes may be briefly summe
up as follows;
First. Among the American people as
mass there Is altogether to- much scheming
to get living without an equivalent in hon
est toll aud honorable labor. Our boys are
not ierning useful trades, our farmers sons
crowd tile small towns ard large cities, seek
ing employment as clerks, our girls consider
housework and culinary employment beneath
their dignity, and we are compelled 20 send
TO Europe for our skilful artizalls, our farm
hands and our domestic servants.
Second. Through the prevailing extraya.
giant customs, our young men and women
are acquiring the habit of living beyond their
means and income. They shine in foreign
fabrics ard dress in imported clothes, thus
compelling the export of many millions of
money annually, because our exported raw
products are not an equivalent.
Now. as long as this incubus IS allowed TO
weigh down our national prosperity, VIC can
not expect relief from hard times. AS long |
as we continue to raise ige crops OF rascals
and small crops of hemp; as long as our
farmers have to hire foreign help to cut their
wood and feed their stock while their sons are
loafing around saloons, spending their prcci-
rus time playing billiards and gambling. we
hail. in spite of the best efforts of the Gran
gers and political nostrums, continue to be
ramped in our finances. and driven into the
hands OF the sheriff. We appreliend the time
,as come when wemustturn over new leaf.
Our youth must learn to love and respect la
Dor. and qualify themselves for it Efficiently.
We must turn out fewer preachers, lawyers,
doctors, politicians aud SPECTATORS, aud
mere practiea! farmers and mechanics. We
must encourage the manufacture and con-
sumption OF American products instead OF
importing them from foreign countries, and
adding 70 our already enormous foreign debt.
we must qualify our clever boys to erect ard
rear factories, machine shops, tannerles and
saw mills, and let our girls be qualified to do
their knitting, sewing. cooking and manual
labor incident to housekeeping. These re-
T..~- - i 4
ioi his are absolutely necessary if the Ameri.
can people desire to free themselves from i'm
pending general bankruptcy.
II the Oranges of the new-iangled secret
ofder OF American farmers and mechanics
VIII undertake these reforms, they will ac-
c0mpiish more toward effectually uprooting
'hard tines than could be done by airy cru
SADIE against privileged railway corporations
or banking monopoles. Omaha Bee.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-08
Dead statesmen

Austeriiiz killed Pitt as surely os Trafalgar
killed Nelson. Each died tor his country.
but that country mourned more deeply for
the great admiral, stricken down in the bat
tie where he WAS the victor. than it did for
the great II mister who died of a broken
heart. The last book he read, at Bath. was
Miss Over sons Lady Morgan's) Novice Oh
St. Dominic That now unreliable ro-
nance. Pitt said, he could not lay down till
he had finished it, and thence did the ssNo.
vice" come to be rage Tor time. People
aimoss fought to obtain it at the libraries.
and nothing III literature was talked of but 4
BOOK which has long since fallen out Of liter
AZURE and OF memory altogether. People.
TOO, fought for another novel, "a Winter in
London in which fashionable life was ilus-
trated by an Incapable whose name and
whose works are equally wrapt In oblivion.
Fox did not long survive his great rival.
Pitt. lie died on the 18Th of September. 1906.
a week previously, when lie was already dy-
ing, ne Transacted public business. He gave
an audience lii his bedroom to George Jack
son, with Instructions as to how the Latter
was to act on his new mission to Germany
There was q mixture or the solemn and the
ludicrous ID the scene. When Jackson was
announced. Mrs. Fox, in complete dishabiile.
was In the room. In her furry she slipped
into closet. and, rs the interview wa PRO-
ionged. the ghtly draped lady kept signal.
ing 70 MIR. Fox, as if lie alone could hear her.
hy little panohS and r,t,rrat,r~ - $780,. n ~.
not to oyer.exert himself, or.to dismiss the
envoy, that she might be set freei Alamo
mcnt wien there was puse In the CONVERSE
ton between the minister ana lis agent, the
iair captive tapped az the panel. and asked If
the .pHng gentleman was net gone and COM
planned OF being cold. The dying statesman
looked at Jackson with q languid smile. and
with friendly wishes babe him tarewell--as it
proved, forever.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-08
The Great Mormon Divorce suit.

SALT LAKE, July 80.
The papers in the case of Ann Eliza Webb
Young, praying for q divorce from Brigham
Young, were served yesterday. The prophet
seemed andlsturbed and passed the docu.
ments to his secretary. The following are
the main points of the complaint: Plaintiff
AYERS tina. she Is the wife OF the defendant
was married to him tile 9th of April, 1868;
has two children BIZ former marriage: has no
personal property OF means or living, Tor
one year after marriage defendant lived with
her, but since then has almost entirely de-
serted her. Defendant sent her and her chill
dTen to live on farm, four miles from Salt
Lake City, where she and her only compan-
lon, her mother, had to perform mental labor
TOR their support, dressing coarse.y and far
Ing badly. Defendant visited her occasion
ally and never remained over half an hour.
lie treated her with contempt and scorn, and
exacied the earnings OF the farm. In the fall
OF 1872, BY direction OF the defendant, plain
til took up her residence in Salt Lake CITY,
which she has been compelled to leave for
want OF support and fear Of violence from
defendant; has called upon defendant FREE
quentiy for maintenance, but had been re-
fused; IS in feeble health, and is under medi-
cal treatment; has been obliged to sell her
furniture to meet current expenses. She sues
Tor divorce on account of neglect and bad
treatment. and states that her husband has an
income OF $4,000 month. She prays for
lawyers fees OF SIC. 900. 81, 900 Of which is TO
be paid down as preliminary fee, and the
balance on the termination of the s,,it. nla
month for support. She finally prays that
The sum of $4,000 be set aside from the de-
estate, and paid TO her as alimony.
Inc reply is set for August 9th, when Jud ge
Emerson will probably hold court.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-08
Less by the baltimore Fire.

BALTIMORE, July 26th.
This mornings Sun estimates the loss by
the fire yesterday at $500.00o, and states
that good judges place the damage as low as
between three and four hundred thousand.
The Gazette estimates the loss at from five
to eight hundred thousand, and the Amer
lean says it will come closely to million.
The German Fire Insurance Company re-
ports its l IS by the fire Yesterday at $4,000
and thinks the entiie loss by the fire viii APP
proximate one million. The Baltimore Com
pany estimates its losses at $40 600. and the
Howard $4,000. Fireman's aud Equitable
and Baltimore each had risks.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-08

4
The THREE MEN OF GoTHAM.--Astor's
wealth is mainly in real estate and revenues
Vanderbilt's in railway stocks and dividends;
Stewards in goods, houses, stores, factories,
land and stocks The aggregate wealth of
all OF them Is supposed to be between seven
ty-five and one hundred millions. Astof lives
plainly Vanderbilt Occupies a three-story
brick house on thlrd-class street; Stewart
lives in marble palace OH Fifth avenue, one
OF the finest residences in the world Astor
is native of New York. and a large, heavy
man Of seventy, with strong features and a
rubcund face; he is an independent Metho-
dist. The Commodore, also native of New
York, is a TALL slim, handsome, proud look
ing man of nearly eighty, straight as an ar
row. Stewart is a native OF North Ireland
Is a medium-sized man, rather slender and
tall. with face like parchment. which gives
the expression Of being hsrd up. Aston has
heirs; Vanderbilt, children; Stewart is child
less. Astor gave couple hundred thousand
dollars TO tho Aston Library, and two golden
candlesticks, nine feet high, to Trinity
Church. The ether two are inclined to be
close-isted. Stewart Is the scholarly man !;
Vanderbilt the shrewd man; Aston the man
of the world. Such are the three wealthiest
men in America.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-08
Woman's Rights Among the Mo.
docs.


A correspondent who has visited the Mo-
oocs as prisoners of war says: s.The har.
mGny existing in these Modoc families is won
deriut TO behold. Never have Iseen its equal
in any other country. The woman has things
her own way all the time. She can get up
first in the morning, build the fire, clean up
the premises, lug all the ratons from the
Commissary's to her home, do the cooking.
wrap the rags about the children, and never
be intertered with once. The male Modoc
never gets under foot. He remains under
the blankets until he is satisfied that muck
a-muck' Is ready, and then he comes forth
and eats. He seldom or meyer trifes with
the domestic economy Of the establishment
as long as re gets enough food. Under these
circumstances the wiye ought to look bright
and happy. But they do not Mrs. Steam
boat and Mrs. Huka and Mrs. Bogus and ev-
cry other woman who has the privilege of
taking care of man, and the children he be-
gets, look prematureiy aged and unhappy
Bogus Charley says there is no satisfying
these women anyway; that he has three or
tour squaws, and none of them are cheerful
unless shaken up occasionally"
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-08

EULoGY ON GENERAL lea writer In
the Edinburgh Review. who presents most
beautifully written eulogy of the late Robert
e. Lee. the great leader of the armies Of tie
Southern Coniederacy. concludes as follows:
$50 passed away the great victim of the civil
war. Even IN the farthest North, where he
had once been execrated as the worst enemy
of the Uuion, the tidings caused a thrill Of
regret. Btu though America has learned to
pardon. she Las yet to attain The full recon
Citation tr which the dead here would have
sacrificed hundred lives. Time can only
bring this to n land which in her agony bled
ateyery pore. Time. the healer of all wounds.
will bring tyet. The day will come when
the evii passions of the great civil strife will.
sleep in oblivion, and North and South do
justice to each others motives. and forget
each others wrongs. Then history will
speak in clear voice CT the deeds on either
side, and the citizens of the whole Union do
Justice to the memories of the dead, and
place above all Others the name of the great
chief of whom we have written. In strategy
mighty, in battle terrible. in adversely as ia
prosperity hero indeed. with the simple de-
votion to duty and the rare purity of the ideal
Christian knight, he joined all the kingly
qualities Of a LEADER
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-08

A MEMPHIS paper says t hat chap wander
cd into the Mayors office in that city recently
and asked permission TO lock at the book in
entered. The clerk blandly asked him what
Office he was running for, when he replied,
'swall, dunno; thought I'd look over and 60
for any vacancy that might turn up. I'm
beastly fond of orfis.n
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-08

n MExIco is not one of the nngrateful re-
publics. She has voted Sc, 900 Tor a monu-
ment to the late President Juarez. The Ma
tional flag is to be run UP every time his
birthday comes round, and each OF his
daughters has been voted a pension Of $4,000
while single, and 100 after marriage. The
best biographer Of Jnarez will be rewarded
with So 900. !.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-08-08

'sput his foot in it, In Talma City. Iowa, a
horse was found PROSTATE, with his left hind
foot in his mouth, the heel of the shoe so
caught In the teeth that the poor animal was
utterly helpless. II took three men to get
the foot out Of that horses mouth. How it
got there must bca matter OF conjecture, but
it is supposed that the foot itched, that the
horse tried to bite it, and so got the heel OF
the shoe caught in his teeth. He was. in his
struggles. thrown down. and but for assist
ance must have persisted of hunger. since no
horse can eat with a hind foot In his mouth
- any advantage.
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Domestic Trials.

4
when you are carrying several articles and
one OF Item SHIPS it is best not to try to re-
cover II. An Essex street man named Rob-
erts was helping his wife prepare tn. dinner
table on Sunday, as one Of the deacons was
TO take dinner with them. Roberts took
plate OF steak in one hand and The coffee not
in the other, and had dish OF meas ~ H.
arm with the steak. TIE wind ulew he din.
hSS-foom door partly too as he approached
u, and putting out his foot to push it back,
The arm with the peas moved out of plumb.
and that dish commenced to slide. A cold
streak flew up Roberts spine, and his hair
began to raise. and he felt sudden sickness
at The stomach, hut he lodged ahead to save
TIE peas, caught them, made Il wrong move.
lest them again, jahbed at them with coffee
pot, and upset the steak dish, and in spring.
ing back to avoid the gravy, stepped on tile
cat that belonged to the family down stairs.
and came to the floor in keap, with the
steak and the peas and terribly mad eat mn
der him. and an OVERLOOKING pot of scaling
coffee ON top of him. Then he bounded up.
asd stamped on the steak dish and threw it
out OF the window. and flushed in time to
hurl the coffee pot and the remaining con-
ents after the cat, which was making the
Fery best time down the front stairway The
leacon didn't stay to dinner. Roberts retired
o the bedroom with bottle of sweet oil and |
oil OF cotton ting, and Mrs. Roberts went |
'yer to her mothers to cry.-Danbury Necs.