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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-05-16
ID ROPosALs FOR MATERIALS.


BUREAU or YIRDs AND DOCKS,
Sealed proposals foI each class. sspsrstr4y in.
hs hsys & % m twss sf s
of June, at hlch hour the opening Of the bids will
and articles em6rased in printed schedules, which.
srucSns % VII be % farnished on sppeion a n,eG and nd
Sc by mall, 80 requested, 70 persons desiring 70
tierein, BY the comm Of the sewers several % navy
yard for the classes for the yards under their con-
Ths classes of ihis bureau are Numbered and dSs;
nSiIsS ~: I. BRICKS; Eo; = Stone; No . yellow
and HsTd &ood hs Witt Pas PSScs sS
Juni er and oypreEs; Nc, !. Lime. Hair and Plas.
ssies; s sP1 FPa iron S spsSs Ss snS 13f ss R Ne
Steel; No IA, Files; No. IS, Paints Oils and 0lass
S ssP 80 as and S siaH f. SS
der; No =, Charcoal; No, u, Beliins, Packing and
Iron MoEk: PPihs kS5 No q. AuEsfs; No. 81. Cop.
A.: 10 bsSy:ia5s No afeosSiss: % NJ ! Sn6S;; 6ff
s q ny
required al tie rssPoStiVs navy = SsTds and nSVsI
Nos g. 7, II, II, 10, IL, %, ai. a. ~
Nos I.9,GSTSsi H. a. Is. iS. Il. Il. %, 81. a. 20,
BROOKLYN. NY
.. Nee ,aGS.TSSI IL ID IL Is. 10, If, Is 90. 81. "a.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
N0'' I1iRASSJRE ASJRE isII&SSlb. Il x SSlb PA.
-,SAS%I ASYLUM, PHILADELPHIA. PA.
Nos hH"tS'SssasiSsaiI4Fo $S'SSssaa,iSsaiI4Fos.f Il B B q 3. ID
NOShaS%" Hdif,fgSiik laf,g x; "A a.
Nos. LbGLs 10, II, H. ID, 10, II, is %, a. ., ~,
PENSACOLA. FLA
Nos l. "a T. IL, II, IA. ", 2t,
MARE ISLAND, CAL
Nos, Ia. 3Lb,tI So II. H. H. ib ls, II, is, 81, g.
H. mylb
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D RoPosAIs FOR ARMY SUPPLIES.

- NOfOoAlo fOh Ahm1 bUPfLlkS.
orrIcE GuIEr ouEnrEnx.srKnl
ssa pFSPCsss VII s FScsssa 4 tSEs Nc snd
81 $;%: $s$:$
tsoS cords q Hard Wood, OF ''
attO tons BtuminOuA Goal
10 tons Of Hay, tPraific or Timothy)
PORT RILEY, KANSAS.
"a tons Bituminous Coal
otohs OF nay.
,.o,. oorss gSaT 8 WdS3, WSSTGs' Gs KANSAS
q? tons Biinminous Coal.
=. FORT WALLACE, KANSAS.
W tons Bliaminous Goal
al tons Of Hay.
FORT LYONS, CoLoRADo TERRITORY.
i,ssS tons Bitnminous Coal.
FORT LhRYED. KANSAS.
i,gsS ions Bitrminous Coal.
2b9 tons OF Hay.
.sa cords SoRE y W6Sd' WP9PeE, 81 KANSAS.
~ tons Bitnminous Coal
CANT SUPPLY, INDIAN TKRRIroRY
iwe tons Dltnminous Coal.
l.2S tons OF Hay.
The wood to be Of the best quality growing in the
SSn,y ny of %oas sS ESs
snt In nS gren fr Ieei IGn spi 20 eSnYea.
der. viii staie t6e hind or hinds o9 wnoa and .
NV ~ aach NM ~ ~ anu luhn-
he isS enbia feet mo coaI 20 ~ ILL h,, Uo,u 70
coal free from dirt aud suitable in ali respects Tor
heating purp9ses The mine from which the coal
also b reeeiVsd FOR fSraishins III coal on board W. ,ss
cars q, semo point near the mines. ton to be 2oOO
The hay 20 be good. msrcbsntabls. prairie hay; to
Se MEL and securely 'acsSd "a by the and
thai an o. 4. ~ 80 ~
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cPRING AND suMNIRR GOODS.

Elegant Line SPRING DELAINEs. lBc. worth cSc
IfkgR LINE ia DIS, u NEN stITiSGs.
P9Sa,EE SnS nd yAIhSEiSyh AR \ aiy u SILKS, cheap
GRENADINES, from laH cents upward.
Closing out LLAMA LACE FONTS at cost
GOODS. In full stock. New things In Para soils and
sEn p%Syesa sSa bEfe line 20siSSs
06 Pennsylvania avenue, south side,
myie below Seventh street.
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MEDICAL
OBSTACLES I0 MARRIAGE.

Happy relief for Young Men from the effects Of
rSrs and Abuse rs IN ssrir is MaPSS1d rest9Tsd
Of Treatment New and remarkable remedies. books
dress HOWARD kssoCikTioN. No. solth Ninth
street, PhilAdelph!a, PAN Institution having .
high reputation for honorable conduct and grofes-
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". II, 70, n, n, 7e 81, g.
OHARLEsTowN,
~ ~ " u % d, q. u. q. u q, q, a. 70 IL y. IS
" :" ~ 20 w. o' bRooKLYN,
a NSsi & * Y u jStSGSS%
FRiI.ADELPHIA.
Nos. La II, 10 To- is, u, 80, u, ~, 81, %, u, ~ ",
q y. Y. T. @ y. %, CO. 'es' Is, %, eS, ~ II,
WASHINGTON
Nos, J. lB 10, lb 2I e, 81, 81 aS, 81, g. N,
B u. II, ~, ", VI, IS, ~.
NORFOLK.
HOa I, o. a. o. ~, H. 10, 10, lA 10, -, a. a. n a.
81 b, 81 "a 9 o, q, ~ i, - a. b6,bg, Is, u d, u,
81, 81
MARE ISLAND,
NoA LSG 49, IS 10, ls ", 81, 81, 81 81, %, a. o. %
~ ), ~ = d. w. ~. 0o. o. o. IS, o.. %, NJ y e,
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5I6 Ninth Street N. w.
DRoPosAIs FOR MATERIALS TO BE SUP
ThE COD oIzkNcf 81 81 ri tThE siip BUREA0 0DjF 6F
CONSTRUCTION ANp hEpAIR.

a., MAsnIsoIon. u, q, April y. lsls,
materials for the Navy for the tiscsi year ending
June ~ sIt, will be rec tySd At tins Bureaa untl
ths BIDS viii be opened may N'A'' ~ "A.eA ''l''S
Ihs groPo%sss % %9, SS addrSsseS to the cSief Of
Partmsnt washlnsion," and must 5e indorsed
they nSy be distinguished from ordinary business
a. Sd, pslti.s SSG"S % %Sr ,sppiiss az - s.Ssra sar
sfu iseloss Astr btds IN separate eHrsi9pss edeh o.
dOr.edSiA ne NAME " ne yard IOr Shish he bid Is
Printed schedules for such classes a. parties deal
Zee. and Of csriiAeSte Of susrSnt6fs WIN printed
aeslre o 6ld on application to !hs commaldaptsof
the 5ssPes;,yS % NlSy 6fEda Ard and those OF the
81 a % OSs s a.ss
snahaton an Snl N order that Gsrso1s wh0 70 intend 70
piication lori Tor any the classes Is 81 Of those yards,
Ihs proposals must be for the whole OF 4 class,
require j. before he sISsatiSssi the sSStraeI ali
f aon u samples, must 6c iaSde 70 the Co@mandanis
Of the rospsdtiye yards.
s,iisis. AZ eS, 20 IaTi.6 Ths, suarantcrs must
for The di;iris, u which they reside A. -, a.,
quired BY law. the Navy Department. however. re.
sseh may d.sm % mo any
Usd.r az Pres.sisa. ~ ns .seOsd section a a. art
ssersi.a s ~ e "Si %S .a ' & :S" ':"s Ss. .; 8;
ls72-'7b tsfli nod 30 rsestped.
.S Ss n sa a 30
certified TO the satisfaclion Of the Navy Depart.
As additional security twenty Per centum will be
withheld from the amount Of the bills 9ntil the con
esntum Of the amount cf zach bin, approved in
.rpieats ~ The oSmma1a,nts q. 81 ths FespeSuNe I've
Gf ssS tss sS % ncas sPssas
by the paymaster Of tho station nearest the yard
ths Tsirsht foT ths same snail have Dssa passed BY
the Secretary q TIE irsasnry; y a.. ,,r,,.-.. an,
No. l. White Ssk Loss; No 4 White Oak Keel
Wtiits bSS Pisnr1 r1oSescn Pine Dscf Plank al Mare
Island ysrd; ~ YslI9w tns S. IoH.9gEssoR b Pine
ysliSs Flns MAJ IiRSsr N9 Y Mh,!S Pine I; LSSs:
Pins piAnf. boards Sugar Pine PlsnE and Boards
a MS,s I.SId SIsd No Is Aih d9 Resss Sa
y Waite Ash Oars So, ,is Pssk W4InH Mahogany,
White oak stayss and Heading; Ne y, Lienupyitsi
Ne iSS r I1Pd aSp and Pas S6 S
zSs n ISR So fIi NJ Sc i = JsasiP 5tais PRS rs ;af q s
h Sa Ssd dT TO sS SG e. 4 u o. s S q
yard and Ihopss No o., H4FdWare; No. "a White
bas N 1nS HS.asa ssP SSEss s1Rs splP:
Tu5Psntlns; Ne q sPsEET and Lard : on: Eo. g.
sasSss Ss s' ~ aoods @ fat SS ti SS
N stationery; Ne u gruei6lesj No a. a,p Snip
S4as TarpsSfine nj No. ~ IsIilns. PR PSeRinsr rISsS, M,
q. Leather pump riFnng. lasinS; so, 3, Jpnt Ne,
6ltuminSus Coal 80; y, biIuninous Coal; No .,
Quired At the respective yAruHI
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LOST AND FOUND.

7 osT-oN FIFTRENTH STREET, BETWEEN
II @ and PennsylyAn avenue north, PACKAGE
Of about thirty dollars. all new one dollars Ten
dollars reward Will be paid II delivered to the Re.
PUBLICAN once. myl5-a
DoARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
ID DIaTRIcr OF CoLuMBIA,
wAHHIN0Tos, April ,, isTa
A reward Of FIFTY 1850 DOLLARs will be paid
persons who have stolen. or who may hereafter be
found stealing the Ma g.hole aud Sewer.trap Covers
In the cities Of Wellington and Georgetown.
by order OF the Board,
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pRoPosALs FOR FREsn BEEF.

orIIcE or AcrIsq ooM'ay ey sypsrryScS.,
Prorosala, IN duplicate viii bc received until Il
n on ne lg,h day oi June, isIs. for al the fresh
aistenee Pepsrtment at This Posi during the hscal
Information and condition. ospInsaet
myis First Lieut. Fourth krtiilery, <. u's.
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pRoPosALs FOR FRESH BEEF.

ynLy1s popr. 'iof Il, oI Iay Ggr iS 4 81 8 p
,bis bsslsS ap pTSIGTSI TnI In d9ss,e ~ sscsiysd At
the fresh Beef required by the Subsistence Depart
i. ment, nn.ed states army, ~ this station. during
be obtained by application TO
myis First Lieut. corps Of Ensinesrs' RCa
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For SALE AND RENT.

- n
ron cATp ANn DENT
rOh ohLh hND hENl.
i street porthyest; three story brick, cumpsra-
ps,a nm Y5anitr ~ tkpT
ssPeihansinss store. ialS Penn. sSenue. myisf
ISoR sALF-LRAsF oooD-wuI. Avn Fly.
,s. IL ne st ns% STd now doing ne bust
mya LAtshH tstsfi oLsh5 sisa 6ss AsTsssi sSiisins isssi
/, - ., . Ssn No.. -. - :; 80
II HoIisfs for s,is rent ~ ,a,ss o or IoTs
sgqA,ss pr sections o. Squares e ground for ssls
haro,a nnb b prShp, anu ensTksnG ssn y si'e"
Real Ests.s Assn,s ara Brokers' No lilo FTs, sTset
sou'neast Oap'oi hiii. . nSi''u
NOR sALE.-AR RARE CHANCE is OFFERED |
70 Esss scS5ns q s Ss Sns s
ass PSf SfSa lgSRG
TST 9nsr .gP 70 LAIiML9 .,Ird
and Fs9ansylVSnia avenue star once Building.
cur.o ore nv ouo cprnIY
o ~
ocorr..p u.,,,
one Of the finest situations about the city, elevated
and sOmmanans nm % ss,nfn Sisx q . The si ND nd
lots of convenient size and are Tor sale on long
credits 90, ~ u.xn
pAIANoE WITHIN FIVE YEARS.
IS PER MONTH.
COTTAGES are being built on the property;
''I RyEI,Y " MAN GAN NOW SECURE
A HOMIE
1,a Ca half what thaV IN
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IrBAL LITTLE CURIOUS that the politicians are
fighting shy Of the farmers oranges. SO far as
we have been able to see not a single prominent
public man has yet taken any active part in the
agitation. What Is the reason7 Do they dread
the power Of the mOnopolles7
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BOARDING.

COUNTRY BOARD.-PERSONS WISHING
~ good board In healthy location near the city
can md Particular by nquirins at la2l street for
two days myltu
DoARDING.-BoARD, WITH OR WITHOUT
ID ROOMS In good locality, convenient to the
street. between and streets northwest sep1Su
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OSs nsfsst Tor soSd a and fSsaipS s9iSiSrin
WI Indiana avenue sad JifR IGts,
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Looh hArr'N'.s.
Just received. our usual supply Of very superior
CANTON MATING,
for our special sustomsrs, The best in the MARKET
l.. n. CLARK,
myi6gw i2oa Pennaylyania ayenue
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-04-24
Railway Excursion Party.
INSPECTION OF THE WILMINGTON Il WESTERN
R-vIsIr TO wIIMINaToN

INSPECTION OF THE WILMINGTON Il WESTERN r
R.-vIsrr TO WILMINGTON.
An excursion party left Philadelphia in 4
special train, yesterday merning, OH the Penn.
sylvania Railroad, and went to Pomeroy, thence
down the new line by I,andenberg to Delaware
CITY, where dinner was provided. Returning
the train came to Landenburg, where it was met
by special engine of the Wilmington d West
ern road, in charge of Superintendent Connell,
and the party came down to Wilmington over
our new road. Vice President Strickland Kneass,
and Chief Engineer Wilson, (both of the Penn
sylvania Central insrscted the W. & W., care
fully, from Landenberg to Wilmington, and did
not fail to observe its excellent condition. The
run down was made in As minutes, and the par
ty reached this city in time for the $40 train
North, but as it was half an hour DELAYED. the
time was occupied in an inspection of the car
works of the Jackson Il Sharp 90. Mr.. Kneass
expressed his surprise and qualification at what
he saw Of Wilmington.
The excursion was accompanied Throughout by
President George G.. Lobdell and Directors job
II. Jackson and Il. Emmett Robinson, of the
Wilmington il Western r. R., who Joined it at
Coatesville, in the morning. During the stop
at Landenberg, going down, fine collation. was
partaken of, in the Hall, the refreshments
having been prepared by Charles Weller, Henry
Burnett, r. b. Moore and other interprising and
wide awake citizens of Landenberg. Martin
Landenberger after whom the town takes its
name, and who is also the principal proprietor
Of the large manufactures in the town, natural
ly feeling at home there, welcomed the excur-
sionists, in neat little speech.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-04-24
Entertainments,

TIRE "HAYMAKERB" "oANTATA, THIS EVENING.
We anticipate vory delightful musical enter
tainment, at Institute Hall, this evening" in the
Cantata of THE Haymakers," to be given entire
by the Mendelssohn Choral Union The very at
tempt to execute 30 elaborate a work is highly
creditabe to our amateur musical talent and we
are quite confident it will be success
LECTURE BY REV. o. F. FLIPPo.
The third lecture of the course at Delaware
Avenue Baptist Church will be delivered this
evening, by Rev. o. F. FlippO, of Baltimore, on
the rather quaint topic OF Ice in the Pulpit and
Who Put il There" Mr.. Flppo s known as a
fertile and energetic writer and speaker, and
notwithstanding his subject, we sure there
will be nothing chilling in the lecture.
THE CAROLINA SINGERS, AT INSTITUTE HALL.
The Troupe of Carolina Singers, who visited
Wilmington some weeks ago, gave very sat
isfactory Concert, will give another at Institute
Hall, this evening. The Company is composed
of colored people from the South, and they have
placed on their programme some OF their quaint
and touching melodies of the camp-meeting, and
plantation life. The proceeds go to benefit Col
ored Education, and to the treasury of the La
dies Aid Society of Scott NJ. Il Church.
Mr.. Nasty ON HANNAH JANE.
1t is a matter of regret. both for the sake of
the lecturer and the lesson inculcated by the
story of Hannah Jane, that larger audience
was not present at tho Opera House last eve
ming. The lecture. however, was merely an
elaboration of Mr.. Nasbys great poem of the
same name, in which the contrast was more
strongly brought out, and the event of the
lives of Hannah Jane and her superior husband
MIR. Merriweather, more gracefully and plainly
pictured. The moral OF the story was too plain
to be misunderstood and il there were any Han
that matter, present, we hope the lecture was
one of profit to them.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-04-24
A Lessen of Life.

| THE HOME OF THE DEAD BECOMING THE HABITA-
| TIoNs OF THE LIVING.
The progress that overleaps rivers. tunnels
| mountains, and binds in chains of iron two
| oceans rtops not at the sacred memories of the
past, and is not confined by the places hallowed
with sighs and tears and the graves OF loved
ones 1t overruna the waste places. makes the
| desert to blossom as the rose, aud builds up
marts of commerce on sterile plains, or in wilds
where the savage Indian wooedIhis dusky mate,
and the wild fox dug his hole unscared."
II is not, therefore, surprising that III the ex-
pausion of Cities the homes Of the dead should
become the haDitations OF the living. Bu-
rial grounds, in long years after they
they have ceased to become tine receptacle for
the ever increasing multitude of the dead, lose
that veneration which clusters about them while
''ashes to ashes and dust to dust" is repeated
over the commitment to their silent precincts of
the remains of some one inst entered into the
great unknown Generation after generation
rises and falls and each succeeding generation
imbibes less and less Of the reverence Of the
fathers than its predecessors.
We have living example of this truth pres
ent with us. Two generations ago, mourning
in all its acuteness might have been observed
in the old Hanover church burying ground, on
Poplar street, above 9Th, extending to Wal
nut To-day excavations are being made there
for residences, and the passer.by may perceive
all that remains of some of our fathers, their
crumbling and decayed collins protruding from
the sides of the opening thus made. As the
pick of the laborer breaks through the lid of the
coffin, upon which many tears of anguish have
been shed, the remaining portion of the bones
Of our ancestors drops ont to be hustled away
with the earth removed, or stored away in large
box for re-interment elsewhere.
The generation which consigned those bodies
to the grave has joined them IN the land beyond
the river. Their children have also died the
traditions of their fathers have been forgotten
twenty years have elapsed since the burial OF
any one in the graveyard the lot has long been
a vacant one, and nothing remane to mark the
spot of the graves, or to tell anything of the
history of the former occupant of the coffin.
Death, indeed, is the common leveler of us all,
and no stronger impression of this fact can be
given than visit to this sacred spot. The
proud, the arrogant and the naughty should go
there, and read in the vision before them the
counterpart of their own future.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-04-24
Ask for TicL cts via Bombay Hook.

THE TOMS RIVER, vINELAND, BAYsIDE, SMYRNA
ALL RAIL AND wArERRoUTE.
The New York Tribune, of Tuesday, enlightens
ui as to the purposes of the enterprising gentle
men who propose to establish new through
route between New York and Norfolk, and via
Baltimore, between New York and st. Louis:
For considerable time past the affairs of the
New Jersey Southern Railroad Company have
been the subject of very general discussion in
railroad and financial circles. 1t lis officially an
nounced that 1t is now on the point of complete
organization. When all arrangements and con-
solldations are perfected the New Jersey South
ern will embrace tho following roads,
The Long Branch and Seashore, the New
Egypt and Farmingdale the Toms River and
Watertown, the Pemberton and New York the
Nineand, the Smyrna and Delaware Bay the
Kent County, the Maryland and Delaware with
power to consolidate and amalgamate with other
railroads i'll the States Of New Jersy, MARYLAND,
and Delaware, as may be requisite to make a
continuous line to Baltimore Maryland, and
Norfolk Virginia,
The road owns and controls the ferry from
Bayside, N. j., to Bombay Hook, Del, and the
steamers between its terminus at Port Mon
mouth and Sandy Hook and New York. For the
purpose OF facilitating it's business the company
ls now having constructed a number of large
boats, one of which will be completed by the
middle OF June. This boat will be named the
Metropolis, and will be used exclusively for the
transportation OF freight between Sandy Hook
and New York.
1t will be $40 feet long and 81 feet wide, and
1t will be fitted with tracks SO that the train Of
33 loaded freight which it is intended to
transport can be rolled on board carried to the
city, unloaded, and returned to Sandy Hook for
removal to the West. This boat will cost $780,
600, and will make the trip in two hours. An
other boat that will ply between Bayside and
Bombay Hook will transport "a loaded freight
cars, and cost S150, 900.
The vessels now in course of construction are
intended for the Chesapeake Bay. The passen
ger vessels of the company are intended to rival
those of the Fall River line in luxury and ex-
pense.
The officers of the road say that it will be
completed about July (the contracts specify
ing that date as the limit, and that it will be
trunk line extending from New York to st. Louis
by means OF a connection which will be made
with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near Balti-
more. The new line, they claim will be rs miles
shorter than the Erie line. and will run through
the most fruitful regions of New Jersey. Della
ware Maryland, and Virginia. The capital stock
Of the road will be $4,000, 900, and the bonded
debt $6000,000.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-04-24
The d. q p. H. H.

LIST or THE STATIONS ALONG THE LINE.
Tho following is,a list of the stations along
the line of the Delaware Il Perna. R. r., be-
ginning at the Pennsylvania line
l. Thompson. The name originally fixed up
on for the station was Glenwood, but out of
consideration OF the gift of the land upon which
the station is located it was changed to Thomp-
son in honor Of the donor,
g. Newark.
8. Newark Junction-the point OF junction with
the p, W. Il b. Railroad.
f. Cooch's, Near the post Office Of the same
name.
5. Glasgow.
6. Porter's-the point of junction with the
Delaware Railroad.
z. Oorbitts. At Corbitt's crossing.
s. Reybold's. At Reybold's crossing.
o. Delaware City.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-04-24
PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR.

-Eoery Erening can't be bullied 1t says so
| itself.
Professor Mackey, of Delaware College, IL
universally we'll spoken Of.
Senator Sumner passes most of his time in
bed seeking entire rest and quiet.
Red hot-Sam Townsend and Euey.y Euen-
ing attempting to bully each other.
The New York Assembly yesterday passed q
bill suppressing the sale of 'prize packages"
Model wives formerly took ''stitch in
time;' now, with the aid Of sewing machines,
they take one in no time.
Tho Republics of Hayti Ecuador and another
South American Republic want their coinage
executed by the United States.
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
have combined their humor and cynicism in a
book which is shortly TO be published,
"A pretty Middletown school girl, thirteen
years old and six feet one inch hga, Is causing
u general rupture among the su.penders of the
short boys who try to kiss her.
-Gen. Hancock is understood to havo regard
ed twenty-five cents as to small fee for seeing
him with his full uulform on Hereafter, 1t
must be half dollar, or free admission.
The distinguished guests in attendance upon
the Flag presentation were finally removed from
the city, yesterday. They were somewhat de-
tained by several railway trains failing to wait
for them.
Those gentlemen who skillfully extracted
high numbers for their summer residences at
Rehoboth, say that while they are content
ed with their lot, this way of getting it is good
deal of Il lot-tery.
The Worcester papers inform us OF lady
now stopping in that city, not yet thirty years
old, who Ii the mother of thirteen children. In-
deed, we think it is high time she should stop,
even if it be at Worcester.
Chief Engineer jackson, of the Wilmington
Il Western Railroad, has revived the recollec-
tions of youth, by recently having the whooping
cough. He is now considered out of danger un-
less measles should supervene.
Mr.. Beecher announced last Sunday a meet
ing of the Plymouth sociable. Visitors were re-
quested to come in the garments of their an
cestors Mr. Beecher said he did not know
how far back the request had reference,
"A malicious libel is going the rounds that
vegetation is 80 scarce at Cape Cod that two
mullen stalks and whortleberry bush are called
q grove. The truth il that unless there are
three whortlederry bushes they never think of
saying grove.
"A number of the prisoners in the Jail at Ex-
eter N. H., are not satisfied with their quarters
on account of the behavior of the boy Fits
sent there a few days ago for the murder of a
youthful companion. FIIts saw fit to attempt
to cut several of their throats on Sunday
night, with razor, and all of them arc muca
displeased about it.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-04-24
PhIIadeIpbIa Topics.
Fame is a vapor.-Inqutrer.

Fame is vapor.-Ilquirer
The Park is to be provided with music every
afternoon, Sunday excepted during the sum-
mer.
-Apropos of the high bonnet the Bulletin ex-
claims . What happy day it will be for the
male sight-seers when the female head is level
once more /"
"A great Floral Exhibition, at Horticultural
Hall, is now open. A flower market will be held
during its continuance for the sale OF ornamen-
tai plants, cut flowers, boquets, etc.
-Janauschek prolongs her stay at the Walnut
and has had very successful engagement
Throughout. Last evening, on the 3O9th ami
versary Of Shakspeare's birth, (thOugh the GER
tam date Of that event is decidedly obscure the
play WAS Winters Tale, Janauschek playing
Queen Hermione, of course. Her appearance in
the beautiful statue scene, at the close Of the
nth act, was greatly praised.