Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-11-06


! An attempt was made 10 burn the town oI
L.banon, Pa, on Monday night, the incendi-
aries kindlng fires In five different places. The
barns of Hon. Josiah Tuuck and Henry Lon
dermilch were destroyed. The total loss is
about 10000.
| Prof. J. l.. Beggs of this city, has been en-
ployed to INSTRUCT the members Of brass band,
recently organized at Delmar. Prof. d. has
| been engaged 10 teaching music some thirty
| years, and Is fully competentto impart instruc-
| tion in the divine art. He Is widely known.
| and has had numerous classes.
! Henry Pratt, Esq, of West Dover HID, has
been testing the productive energies Of buck
wheat. From single seed, planned In season
was grown q stalk that yielded 1000 grains
which filled halEpint tumber three quarters
full
The DeiaUdredn has taken herculean task
In its endeay0r to convince the people that had
negro murdered West and all the circumstances
of the case been reversed, the negro wonI not
have been hung,
Jonathan McConaughy, Of Sussex county +,
was severely cut In the thigh 10y the circular
saw of his mill, being started unexpectedly and
striking HIM.
a First Glass City Property for sale, In Will
mington, Del, or exchange for farm In New
Castle County. Del Inquire at this office. novG3iu
A story comes from Whampoa, China, that
nine damsels Of that city, being filled with hor
TUT AZ Lno prospects Oh narrleu liie, idStentu
themselves together aud committed suicide by
jumping into the water.
A man in Utah has brought suit against the
I'm ion Pacific Railroad for $4,000 for the loss
OF his sea, killed by collision.
Encouraging. of our morocco manu-
featuring companies are engaged in building
large addition to their works, in Walnut street
below Second. This Is encouraging these hard
times.
Excellent Ne,o Spring Bed One of the best
and most luxurious, Eewly invented spring
beds, "a late inventory is now for sale by the
agents, Msssrs. Chapman " Harrison, in Shipley
street above Ninth, In the store of Mr. Walker.
number Of orders are being received for all
portions of the city. Those who have tried
them speak In the highest terms of them. They
are very cheap, costing only from So to S.
Those desiring to have cheap and excellent
bed, should call and judge for themselves.
Swedish Congregation is about being or
ganzed in this city. IL will consist Of about
thirty Swedish females that have settled here
For the past year a Mr.. jacobson u student of
the Lutheran Seminary at Philadelphia has
boon preaching TO them, but few Sundays ago
the Rev. j. w. Teindburg Of Tilisville, Pa
having preached for them they have inv ted him
TO tecome their regular pastor. He has ae-
cepted their invitation. Hereafter therefore
there will be regular Swedish service held in
the city.
Robert Banks offers a reward of 81 for the
arrest and conviction of the boys or men who
tore down the wall on the farm occupied by
him 10 Brandywine Hundred, on the 3lst inst.
The farm Of the late Robert Lysle, situated
In Franklin township, Chester county, Pa, and
containing las acres, was recently sold at pub
lie sale, 10 Thomas Marvel of Delaware, for SIS
per acre.
Geo. w. Bowers advert,ses his superior muce
msat. 1t has been manufactured for several
years, and ranks very high in the estimation of
many families. 1t is sold by Grocers generally.
Our country storekeepcrs should procure sup
ply Tor their cust. liners
The Moosic Powder Mills at Hyde Park, Pa,
exploded on Tuesday, killing three men named
Martin, llanaHy and Abbott.
Three men and boy are reported To have
been killed near Plttsburg on Tuesday by the
falling ofthe roof of an abandoned mine.
One man was killed and two Others were in
jured bya boiler explosion at Rutland, VT,
on Tuesday. One Of the injured men is not
expected 10 recover
Christopher Rafferty,, twice convicted of the
murder of policeman In Chicago, and sem
fenced to be hanged, has been granted new
trial by the Supreme Court of Illinois.
AT Augusta. Ga, nearly all the acceptance
due on Tuesday were met by the merchants
and cotton planters. About 100000 was paid
Cotton is coming in freely to Augusta.
The savings banks Of Concord, n H., de-
terlnined OH Tuesday 10 pay no depositors un-
I'll January
fatal shooting affair occurred at Cum.
berand, Md, last week. Lloyd l.. Cleary,
one Of the editors of the Daily Times of that
city, was shot and MORALLY wounded, in his
office, by John H. Resley, The affair grow
out Of the publication in the Times of an ar
ticle assailing the of6cial conduct of Horace
Resley, father of the murderer, in regard TO
paying jurors in the lear case tried last
week. Cleary died about o clock that even.
ing and Resley gave himself up to the Sher-
lit and was committed to Jail Ifthe reports
that come to US are correct the attack was
wholly unarmed and without any means of
defending himself
WE1TING Coal. People who prefer wet
ting the winters store Of coal to lay the dust
on putting it into their cellars, do not gencr
ally know that they are laying up for them
selves store Of sore threats and other evils |
consequent upon the plan. Even the lire
damp, says m exchange, which escapes from
ton Of coal at temperatures of but little
above the atmosphere but under augmen-
ted pressure. By wetting mass of fresh
broken coal and putting it into a cellar. the
mass Is heated to such degree that carbur-
cited and sulphuretted hydrogen are given
oil tor long periods of times and pervades the |
whole house The liability of wet coal to
results under such circunstan-
ces may be appreciated from the fact that
there are several instances ON record of spon-
taneous combustion of coal when slowed
into the bunkers or holds of vessels. And
from this cause, doubtless. many missing !
coal vessels have persisted.
TAG SEPARATION OF PARENTS AND CuI.
DIiEN We sometimes hear il said that the
American people ARE different from Europeans
that they are Il home loving race whereas the
European especially the French, have no home,
have no word for ''hune" in the language and
are forever gaddnG about whereas the Ameri-
cans ito not care for pleasures that are only To
he had in public hence, for them, no need OF
squares, 'piazlas,' places, public gardens parks
etc. We will not discuss here the question
whether the French are as domestic people AS
the English are. In the strict sense of thai
word they probably are not for their climate
does not make 1t necessary that they should
hug the hearth as their island neghbors do but |
that love OF the family Is us much developed in
france as IT Is anywhere in the wolli--that, IN
TACT TO speak the truth and fear not, il is rattle,
stronger in France than it is amyW here else in |
The world--we do most powerfully and poleniy
believe, and stand ready 10 give good reasons |
for so believing. Yet it is certainly true that !
they spend little OF their leisure time in doors
and the middle term that reconciles tho two |
statements il, that when they go abroad, The /
family, as rule, goes ell together. Now we /
zee no reason for doubling that Americans, if /
the proper means were provided would come in /
lime To take nnnn- air axarrisa NJ tho Er..nnh