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The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1874-08-22
4 South Carolina Negro Ufifes
Nome from Liberia.

We copy the following letter from the
Iorkville Enquirer, written by solomon
Hill, c,lored man who went from York,
$. G., to Liberia in 1871. Industrious
colored people can get rich III Liberia:
~ have made oae crop and am nearly
done planting another. aud l know II a
person will half work hs can make good
living in Liberia. raised last year rice,
POTATOES and csssida, of which had all
abundance for my oWI Use and quantity
Tor sale. sold over loo kroves Of sweet
potato,s :, and fifty kroves Of cassada and
fifty kroves Of rice. Potatoes are worth 10
cents per kroye; csssada Is cents, aud rice,
half cltaaed ISL. My corn is now inatured.
have sown a large crop Of rice. have
made good corn hero with no other work
than the labor Of planting OF ginger,
which is staple PRODUCT have this year
planted over l00pounds, hich is sufficient
for one acre, and will yield 1000 pounds
Of dried ginger, worth in this market len
cents per pound. have an orchard OF
1000 coffee trees. Sixty of my trees,
planted in 1872, are bearing, and are now
laden with coffee June Moore has 800
trees, Joe Watson, 500, Scott Mason. L.
600, aud nearly all Of our colony are en-
gagged in coffee raising. Coffee is worth
here Is CENTS in gold, 20 cents 10 United
States currency, and % cents 10 the cur
rency of Liberia. Other articles rate
about as follows: Calico, from l24 TO Is
cents per yard, tobacco, 40 cents per
pounds, suger,$4 to SIS per hundred pounds
molasses, SO cents per gallon; bacon, %
cents per pound flour, 10 cents per pound,
mackerel, 4 cents each; chickens,25 cents;
eggs, % cents, turkeys, S.; ducks, 81.
Good milk COWS sell at various prices.
from 1928 to $40. am better satisfied
than ever was since emancipation, and
am worth more than ever before. have
three good framed houses with single
roofs, and neat boarding paling around my
lot. The timber in use here bears strong
resemblance to birthstone as to color of the
grain, and consequently has the appro-
priate namo of brmstone wood. Wild
game is plentiful, including the ordinary
COW, the seacow, deer,squirrels, monkeys.
&c. have seen as many as thousand
monkeys in one drove. The meat OF this
animal is highly priced as an article of
food. Tell Colonel McCorkle for me that
within five years, if live, will be able
10 send him 1000 pounds Of Liberia coffee
of my own raising, and it is the desire of
myself and friends,to sell him our crops
aud ship direct to him."
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COZ. CUftin's Prospective DdH
Dhter.

This Louisville Courier-Journal de-
scription OF young lady from Wilkesbar
re, Pa
Sho is young girl So are many other4l
But this girl is unrivaled If shonld sav
she was pretty, that would only half ex-
press the charm OF her face. If were to
say she was merry, the quality would be
gagged by the pranks and fun of some other
girl. | were 10 say sho was witty and
ready the mind would at once compare the
quality to that possessed by another.
She il the drollest, most fascinating and
entertaining sprite / have ever met. She
is saucy without being pert, funny without
h ing rude or boisterous, and handsome
y,hou being vain. She sings the sweetest
Oi..4, sie rollIcks in all her bright airs
vra the opera bouffe, and has 30 many
ih ard, ridiculous anecdotes that she max es
her audience ache from incessant laugh
ter.
As her foreman she had graduate from
Princeton. They spared in the most enter
taining manner. Both were quick at repair
tee, and sufficiently we'll acquainted to
understand each others meltle. There
never was any danger ofeither being hurt.
A Il these charms are embodied in thegrace.
iulforln Of Hattie Harding,the only dau2h-
ter of Judge Harding, of Wilkesbarre. lie
save further trouble The Courier-.I onrnal
mentions that she is the iiancee of Mr.
VIM. Curtin, son OF Gov Cariin.
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A full. assortment of all sizes. inclu ling
double magnifying, ne.
HG Ii. BRINGHURST & CO.,
- NE Corner of Sixth and Market streets.
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More Rererrnd Detcn,iGnts.

No doubt the story of poor Mary Pom
eroy will be forgotten by the public be
fore the Beecher scandal shall have
ceased TO be theme of animated popu-
lar discussion. And yet hers is the more
sOrrowlul ease; and if she told true
tale on her deathbed il is not likely that
the Roy. Glendenning Will receive much
sympathy and support even from his
own congregation. Perhaps, now that
the victim is in her grave, there will be
no necessity for the accused minister TO
publish his statement" The voice that
accused nj 8 hnshed for ever; and the
complainant in the cases of breach OF
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LINES OFF TRlTEL.
ELpHIA. WILMINGTON d
BALTIMORE RAILROAD.
APRII. 2OrH, INII.

Trains leave Wilmington as follows, for;
Philadelphia and intermediate stations,
i 80. s.lo, 20, l0to. q. Ii :. i.41' tl7' io'-t
y. M. 80,
Philadelphia and New York. l.3l a. M
12.H, 5.i2. p. ~. mr.,
Baltimore and intermediate stations. 1852,
10 OF, a. m; 20, p. Ill. o,,oo,
Baltimore and Tvs shin gton, l. So. 20}.l0.O"
a. IN; I.23. $50, 40, pm
Trains Tor Delaware Division. leave Tor:
New Castle l2.55, 1910, a. m; l..o. 6,'O
$50, y. III. . ,,--
seaiord and intermtd iate stations. l. 20.
10. 10. a. m; 6,35. y. IN.
Delmar and intermediate Stations lZ.a'
SUNDAY TRAINS:
Philadelphia and intermediate stations.
4s5. go, u. III. 50,
Philadelphia and New York. LII. a. m.
Baltimore and Washington. l2.5l. I.O3. n.
ID. -
For further information passengers are re-
fsrred to the time tables posttd at the depot
Ii. f. kENNEY. Superintendent.
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MILMINGTON AND READING RAIL-
w ROAD.
on and after Tuesday. May 18th 1874 trains
will run over the READING BRANCH as fol
lOws:-
Going Northwari doing Southwark
STATIONS.
Nos. No.. Mol. No.. MOI. No.6.
D. m d. M d. II. u. u. p. IN. p. IN.
SIS As $50 Wilmington 80 3.l2 ~
6.03 2.3S ia Chadd's Ford 825 2.l9 Jay
T.U5 3.SS S.21 COatesville. 7.25 10, 5o1
Sol 4s6 9l1 Springfield, 6.2o l2O6 o.Oi
S.a4 4.56 VA Birdsboro', BOD ll.a4 40
90I $50 1915 Reading, 5.2o ll.cO 4.oO
CONNECTIONS:
At Wilmington with trains on philadelphia
Wilmington IL Baltimore,and Delaware Rail
roads; at Chadd's Ford with trains on Phila-
delphia i Baltimore Central Railroad; ~
Coatesville with trains on Pennsylvania Il.
H., and at Reading with trains on Phlladel-
phia 4 Reading. Lebanon Valley, East Penna.
and Reading ~ Columbil and the Berks
County Railroads.
SUNDAY TkAINS.--A train will elye
Reading at 40 II. M, on Sunday. arriving at
Wilmington at IL II IA. III. Leaving Whining
ton at $50 p. H., arriving at Chadd's Ford ut
Az; Coatciville. 5,25 and ,keading, at 1877
u. m, Il. C0LLINHS,
General Superintendent.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05
The SczarOcll.

The Russians, it is said, have adopted
a new shell which, from its formidable
character, according to recent expert
ments, is attracting much attention on
the part of military authorities. The
following description of the new pro-
jectile is going the rounds of the scien-
tiGc press. 1t is well known that the
ordinary elongated bolt will not permit
of ricochet fire, and as this species
of firing is very effective against masses
OF troops, the loss is a matter of con-
siderable moment. The sczaroch, as
the new projectile is called, is either a
percussion or a time shell, combined
with a shot. The latter ricochets
beyond the point of explosion of
the bursting charge. The shell por-
ton is a simple iron cylinder, to one
end of which is secured by thin sheet
of lead spherical shot. On leaving
the gun the combined proiectile acts
like an ordinary elongated shell, but as
soon as the explosion of the charge
takes place the cylinder flies to pieces,
while the shot, impelled with the addi-
tional velocity ricochets for hundreds of
feet ahead. In firing at batteries it is
claimed that the double effect of this
projectile comes into excellent use, as
the shell might be exploded among the
guns, while the ball would strike far in
the rear among the reserves; or while
the shell might burst in the front rank
of an advancing column, the ball would
continue its course through several sue
ceeding columns.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05

their lives by the burning of cotton mill in
Chester county, England, on the 2Sth u't....
Count Won Arnim, who has been held in du-
rance vile by Prince Bismarck's order,
was released on the 28th ult., by orGer
of the Municipal Tribunal of Berlin. $50.
The British Foreign Office is advised that
Sir Hercules Robinson hiss established pro-
visional government in the Fiji Islands. The
annual revenue from the islands is estimated
at 3 5000.
ADvIcEs from Buenos Ayres report that the
Argentine Bank was about to reopen its doors
for business. The CHILEAN Minister had de-
handed his passports. -. The trial of Kull.
man for tho attempted assassination of Bis
marck has begun at Wurzburg. The prisoner
admits his guilt. John Laird, ex-membel
of Parliament, who constructed the Alabams
and other Confederate cruisers, died in Lon
don recently.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05
The Warmth of CIOthin =.

The London Medical Record says
that DIR. Won Pettenkofer, in ! careful
study of this subject recently published,
has pointed out that the permeabiliry
of stuffs to air is condition of their
warmth. Of equal surfaces of the fol-
lowing materials, he found that they
were permeated by the following relative
quantities of air, the most porous flannel,
such as is used ordinarily for clothing,
being taxed at 100; flannel, 100; linen
of medium fineness, IS; silk, 40 buck
skin, So: tanned leather, l; channels
leather, 81. Hence, if the warmth of
clothing depend upon the degree in
which it keeps out the air from our
bodies, then glove-kid must be 100
times warmer than flannel, which every
one knows is not the fact. The whole
question, then, is resolved into that of
ventilation. If several layers of the
same material be placed together, and
the air be allowed to permeate through
them, the ventilation through the sec
ond layer is not much less than through
the first, since the meshes of the two
form a system of continuous tubes OF
uniform diameter, and the rapidity OF
the movement of the air through these
is affected merely by the resulting fric-
ton. Through our clothing, then, there
passes a stream of air, the amount OF
which, as in ventilation, depends upon
the size of the meshes, upon the differ
enc, of temperature between the exter-
nal and internal atmosphere, and upon
the velocity of the surrounding air.
Our clothing, then, is required not tc
prevent the admission of the air, but tC
regulate the same so that our nervous
system shall be sensible of no move
ment in the air. Further, our clothes
at the same time, regulate the tempera
ture of the contained air, as it passes
through them, so that the temperature
of the air between the clothing and thu
surface Of our body averages 81 deg. t.
sc deg. Fahrenheit. The MICROSCOPIC
property of different material used fol
clothing essentially nnodifies their func
tons. This property varies with thu
different materials wool, for instance
takes up more water than linen, Will
the latter takes up and gives off its wa
terry contents more rapidly than tn
former. The more the air is displace,
by water from the clothes, the less vii
be their power of retaining the heat
in other words, they will conduct th
heat more rapidly, and hence we ar
quickly chilled by wet garments.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05
PolifeneSS Extraordinary.

When the "Te Deum" for the VIC
tory was celebrated, Theirs and Mac
Mahon both attended the solemn cere-
mony in the church at Versailles. Two
arm-chairs had been placed near the
high altar, one for Madame the wife OF
the Marshal, the other for Nine. Theirs,
wife of the President of the Republic.
Nine. MacMahon, born Duchess Of
Castree, understood her position, and,
knowing that the right is the place of
honor. modestly seated herself on the
left. While the Duchess was still
kneeling, Nine. Theirs arrived.
"Dear Madame, your chair is on the
other side l''
"You are too good, Madame. Really
1 cannot consent"
"Take it. beg -
"Since you desire it but really yov
embarrass me !" And Nine. MacMahon
rose from her knees and ketook herself
to the right and continued her pray ers
while Nine. President Theirs knelt os-
tentatiously at the left. The ceremony
over Nine. MacMahon expressed her
Acknowledgements for the courtesy OF
Nine. Theirs.
" You have nothing to thank me Tor,
the latter replied. You did not
know, of course, that when 1 came in
you were occupying my place !"
"Your place ! On the LETT, Nine.
Presidente ?"
Certainly, Nine. MARSHALL. The
Queens of France always placed them
selves at the left of the altar. 1t was
the only place, indeed, where the Queen
did not seat herself on the right I; it is
so in order that the Queen might be
turns to give the benediction. "
The gratitude of Nine. Mac Mahon,
born Castree, for this lesson N royal
etiquette which the daughter of NJ.
Dosne had condescended to give her,
may be lmagined.-Galary.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05
RecoIIectious of q Dentists she's.

Mark Twain, in his new book about
England, tells how he had the tooth
ache one night in London, and gives
some pleasing recollections of the
dentists shop which he was wont to
patronize when he lived in Elmira. He
says "One night that tooth did jump,
and every time it jumped it raised my
head right off the pillow. How 1 did
lie awake.and think about That dentists
shop in Elmira, where l had been under
torture SO many times-of those pretty
dental instruments, SO polished and So
cold How did long to lay my cheek
against one-one of those short, thick,
heavy, twisted chaps, with the bow
legged, futed, and curved handles ana
short hawk-b bill jaws How I reveled
in delight at the thought of having such
thing clutch my refractory tooth, and
'yank it z With what pleasarable emo
tons came crowding into my mind the
recollections of that dentist and his
room and it's fixtures his big cas-.
chair, with the pretty, white-curtaine6
window before it, and the nice, big, res
in the bottom, and the bits of wet cot
ton and the bright pieces of gold and
streams of blood-stained saliva on the
sides. And then the pretty little bureau
with the bottles on the top, and the Ii
tie yellow drawers which he jerks out Sc
gently when seeking for some new al
more delicate instrument of torture
And then the beautiful little round
yelvet-covered stand on the gas fixture
covered with the nice drills and prett-
files, and the lovely little crowbars witt
the stained ivory handles, and the long
steel crochet needle with which he hunts
for new cavities, and the little round.
pasteboard box full of gold plugs,
and the dirty little napkin and the rub
Der bail syringe, and the singular smell
of his thumb, and all that ! Oh, how
nice I"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05

AN invention is now on exhibition in
Liverpool by which oil or glycerine is
made 20 perform the functions of steam,
by the same means-application of heat
which expands the oil placed in small
cylinders, from which it is claimed a
pressure of 10000 pounds per square
inch may be obtained without the dam
ger of steam explosion, which prevents
using pressure of more than 200
pounds to the square inch generally. In
this case an explosion would only crack
the cylinder containing the oil, it is
claimed. The application of this pro-
cess has been made to printing press
and punching and riveting machine,
which are on exhibition.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05

of Remington is known the world over as
that of the inventor an6 manufacturer
of the famous Remington printing press,
the Remington rife, and the Reming-
ton sewing machine. The name has
recently acquired fresh fame in connec-
ton with the Remington revolver, one
of the most effective weapons ever in
vented-as superior to Colts al the lat
ter is to the old-fashioned blunderbuss.
This pistol, elegantly nickel-plated, and
accompanied by 100 cartridges, is being
given away to canvassers for THE
CHICAGO LEDGER. Send seven names
and SO to the LEDGER Company, Chi
cago. and procure a Remington re-
volver for nothing.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05

The ruins of an ancient city, sup
posed to have been a mile square, have
recently been discovered on the banks
of the Rio Grande, near the boundary
line between Colorado and New Mexico.
The buildings appear to have been
chiefly of adobe. In cave was found
a large earthen vessel containing pieces
Of human skeleton.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05

vicus the third-teTrn question was preached
by one OF 'hs Ministers. President Grant, in
reply, said that the offer of third-term cam
didacy had never baen made to him in any
way which could command bic attention, and
that in the absence Of formal offer from
some authorized body, he considered that it
would not be consistent With the dignity of
tho Presiden. of the United States to make
any public statement concerning the matter.
The President added that he had never
thought OF becoming a candidate for the
third term, and that the whole third-term
excitement was the result of idle or mali
cious newspaper sensation, and was ridiculous
nonsense.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05

JONES is always finding out queer fell
lows. He found out man the other
day WHO was always unfair in all his re-
marks. The only way Jones could ac-
count for it was, that when the man
was young he fell down on the sidewalk
and Knocked all his brains into one side
of his head. Therefore he can't help
being one-sided in his ideas.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05

BIG HOME STRETCH. conversed,"
says writer, "with a racist to-day.
He told me how he won race in New
Haven. For four weeks he mixed soft
rubber with the horses OATS, and every
day he hitched that horse to post and
opened blue-cott umbrella in his
face, making him pull pack, stretching
his neck awfully. Then when he shut
his umbrella the horse would stop pull
ing. and his neck would resume its
original length. He got the horses
neck very elastic, and on the day of the
race, as his and other horses were on
the home-stretch, side by side, just at
the finish, the driver struck this man
horse blow behind his ears, and his
neck shot out almost rod, winning the
race by a neck. 1t is said to be the
biggest home stretch on record"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05

GLUE FOR WoUNDs.-Glue of best
quality on cloth placed ever a flesh
wound is said to be not only a speedy
curative but a formidable protection
against further injury. When dry it
shrinks, holding tia wound tight and
firm. Every two or three days the
wound should be dressed and fresh APP
phcation of glue be made.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05
A Romance of Portsmouth.

T. B. Aldrich, writing of the Stavers
House, Portsmouth, says "One o. the
romantic episodes of the place has been
turned to very pretty account by Long
fellow in the last series of THE Tales
of a Wayside Inn the marriage of
Gov. Benning Wentworth with Martha
Hilton, sort of second edition of King
Cophetus and the Beggar Maid. Mar
tina Hilton was poor girl, whose bare
feet and ankles and scant drapery when
she was child, and even after she was
in the bloom of her teens, used to scan
dalize good Dame Stavers, the inn
keepers wife. Standing one afternoon
in the doorway of the Earl of Halifax,
Dame Stavers took occasion to remon.
strate with the sleek limbed and lightly
draped Martha, who CHANGED to be
passing the tavern, carrying a pail of
water, in which, as the poet neatly says,
the shifting sunbeam danced. You
Pat you Pat! cried Mrs. Stavers,
severely; why do you go looking so?
You should be ashamed to be seen in
the street. Never mind how look
says Miss Martha, with a merry laugh,
letting slip saucy brown shoulder out
of her dress l shall ride in my chariot
yet, ma'am. Fortunate prophecy
Martha went to live as servant with
Gov. Wentworth at his mansion at
Little Harbor, looking out to sea.
Seven years passed, and the thin slip
of girl, who promised to be no great
beauty, had Powered into the loveiest
of women, with lip like cherry and
a cheek like rosa lady by instinct,
one of natures own ladies. The Gov
ernor, a lonely widower, and not too
young, fell in love with his fair hand
maid. Without stating his purpose to
any one Gov. Wentworth invited num-
Der of friends (amopg others the Rev.
Arthur Brown to dine with him at Lit
tie Harbor on his birthday. After the
dinner, which was very elaborate one,
was at an end, and the guests were dis
cussing their tobacco pipes, Martha
Hilton glided into the room and stood
blushing in front of the chimney place.
She was exquisitely dressed, as you may
conceive, and wore her hair three
stories high. The guests stared at each
other, and particularly at her, ard Won
dered. Then the Governor rising from
DIS seat,
played slightly with his rufes, then looked down
And said unto the Reverend Arthur Brown:
. This is my birthday; it shall likewise be
My wedding day, and you shall marry mel"
"The rector was dumbfounded, know
ing the humble footing Martha hai
held IN the house, and could think o.
nothing cleverer to say than TO whom
your Excellency?' TO this lady, re
piled the Governor, taking Martha Hi
ton by the hand. The Rev. Arthur
Brown hesitated. AS the Chief Mag
istrate of New Hampshire I coanaant
, you to marry me cried the firm oil,
Governor. And SO it was done, and s.
the pretty kitchen maid became Lad
Wentworth, and did ride in her owl
, chariot after all. She wasn't woma
if she didn't drive by Stavers Hotel"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05

A GEORGIA planter drained his rice
swamp last year, and planted the ground
with corn last spring. A hybrid crop
is his reward, the stalk. blades and cob
being that of corn, while the kernels on
the cob are rice.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05

EVERY married man in Pittsburgh has
turned boat-builder, and is creating
gondola unto himself, since returned
Venetial traveller upset one on the river
and drowned HE wife. The girls look
on IN calm approval.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05

A PERSON in Hardwick, No., dis
played the following inscription on his
fence Nobuddy hitch no bosses to
this fens."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05

Four times as many patents were is
sued in this country last year as were
granted in England during he same,
time.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-11-05

The Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railway is a deservedly popular route
to the Southwest Those who desire
to reach points in Missouri, Kansas, the
Indian Territory, or Texas, situated on
or adjacent to it's lines, will find that
there are very few transfers, that they
will make quick time, and can have all
the conveniences and comforts of mod
ern railway travel. The genial general
passenger agent of the road, Mr.. Thos.
Dorwin, at Sedalia, Mo-, will cheerful
ly furnish information in reference to
general or excursion rates over this
road