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Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-07-21

~ pounus ana over, at tRe rate "a SlVO per U ips
The above prices to take effect on Monday April
18th, 1874.
Our Ice is as good as any ice that can be offered
in the market and will be sold low the lowest.
WALTON & JAMES,
-aprsn 18th and King and No. W. Third SITS.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-07-21
Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad,
APRIL 20. 1sH

APRIL 20. 1sH.
Train, will leave Wilmington as follows for
Philadelphia and intermediate Stations d so, s 10,
g 80, 10 30 a. m; 2. 4 As, Is, 10 "A p. m.
Philadelphia and New York. 81 o. M; IL II. 6 AZ
p m.
Baltimore and Intermediate Stations. L. 50. 10 O2.
a. m. 5 20 p. m.
Baltimore and Washington, 12 81, 2 O3. 10 90 a. M
1855 20, 10p.m.
Trains for Delaware Division, leave for
New Castle, II 55 10 10 a. M. 25, So, 60 p. m.
m 35 p. m.
Delmsr and intermediate Stations, IL IS, 10 10
m.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Philadelphia and intermediate Stations 45, C 30,
m.
Philadelphia and New York, 81 a.: m,
baltimore and Washington. ~ So, ? 05 a.
fof further Information passengers are referred
to tic time tables posted at the depot.
II. F. KENNEY,
msrll-]ydkw Superintendent.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-07-21

PhiIadelphia and New York Exoh apge furnished
to regular Depositors witho ut charge.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-07-21

Although the above price sare as low as
good Eastern Ice can be sold in this market at a
profit, We do not intend to be undersold upon any
consideration.
These prices to take effect and after Monday.
April IL.
POSEY RICE.
.OrrIRcs-4o6 Shpley, 4th and Poplar. and 1876
Walnut SITS. apr1N
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-02-06
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making money. More wanted-ladies and gentle
men. JAM 3W
STAR LAMINA WARE, 50 Beekman St, n. Y.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-02-06
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APPLETON'S
AMERICAN CYCLOP EDIA.
New Revised Edition.

Entirely rewritten by the abest writers on every
subject. Printed from new type, and illustrated
VITA Several thousand Engrayngs and Mars,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-18
REPLY OF MR. FLEEOE.


EDIToRs APPEAL-The general inter.
probation Of my letter Of defamation oil
nomination TO the senate OnSthe indie
pendent ticket, and your comments
! thereon. such as Fleece was the hrst
I to desert the shaking ship places me
I in an attitude toward the friends VINO
COMMUNICATED me by their unsOught IN
dorsement. that 1 ana very unwilling to
occupy, and dos them, a. well as my
self great Injustice. The independent
movement, ~ / understO0d il, was IN
tended 10 be thoroughly independent Of
and disconnected with national politics,
or existing organized political parties.
The measures of reform proposed EN-
braeed permanently the reduction OF
the,number and pay of officers. Reform
alton OF the judiciary system, in va
riety OF details which appeared to meet
the demands OF Justice and economical
efficiency. SuboTdination OF tine bond.
Ell debt 10 the pryor payment OF the ne.
cessary expenses OF the State govern
ment, administered on the most eco.
nOmical principles possible; limitation
Of the taxing power Of the state, cities,
towns and counties, 20 a very low fixed
rate; a searching scrutiny into the his
tory and character OF the bonded debt,
and its reduction TO that amount and
class, which shall prove to be fairly and
honestly due; protection and advance
ment Of the producing classes by
measures deemed prOmotive Of this end.
These foregoing measures seemed to me
to be more Democratic than Republican,
and, withal, had no reason, drawn
from the measures proposed, nor the
men by whom proposed, TO believe that
the new party was, as has been charged,
the Radical party in disguise. While l
was considering the probable mission
and destiny Of the new party, with a
view to my proposed connection with il,
l met several OF our regular Democratic
candidates, who seemed to favor the
very measures proposed by the new par
ty, so l concluded that the new party
and the Democratic would occupy COM
mon ground on questions of reform, and
the inevitable result Of hotly-contested
canvass would be an Identification of
the independents with the Radical par
". Upon this theory alone, and not
upon my knowledge of, or belief in,
any "dark-lanternn or claDdestine alli-
sDee with Rsdicalism, i determined to
decline the race for the senate. By the
way, is il not high time that all the can
didates on the regular Democratic tick
ct should speak out on the practical
issues of the canvass, and no longer
leave their expected supporters TO doubt
ing speculatiOns as to their intended
specific action on the generalities of the
Democratic platform? Very respect
fully, GEORGE b. FLEECE.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-18
PEAL-SUNDAY, OCTOBER Is. 1874.

Of the entry. He got up, however, with
out aid, and seemed to have received 20
injury except q few slight bruises,
though his right hand was a little
famed. Mr.. H. and myself called on
HIM two days after, aud. while tell
Ing US Of the circumstance Of the
fall, he mentioned this coincidence:
He had q letter In his hand which he
had just received from his son Hem
ry, living at Kansas City. His son
wrote: Are you well; for last night !
had q dream that troubles me. heard
a crash, and, standing up, said to my
wife: "Did you hear that crash? j
dreamed that father had a fall and was
dead" got up and looked at my
watch, and 1t was two o'clock. I could
not sleep again, 80 vivid was the dream
And 1t made him anxious to lear nom
home.
"The bishop said he was not supersti-
tlous, but he thought it remarkable that
Henry should have bad the dream at
the very hour Of the sanie night that the
accident occurred. The difference in the
time there and here Is just fifteen min
utes, and it was quarter past two by his
watch, making il at the same moment.
II was as If he actually heard the fall.
And the fall finally caused the bishops
death. His hand became intensely pain
ful, and gangrene set in, which, aftel
two weeks OF suffering, terminated bis
life. We are none OF US spiritualists, a.
you know, but surely facts like this must
go far to make us realize that there is q
basis of truth for their hypothesis Of spir-
itual faculties resident In man. How
did Henry Lee become eOgnizant of the
accident to bis fathef?n
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-18
The DISCOVERY OF AMERICA

In historical sketch of the discovery
of America by the NOrsemen, by Prof
4. B. Anderson, Of the University Of
Wisconsin published by s. c. GriggS
IL Co., Of Chicago), we have very con-
elusive proof that rs early as 966 the
continent Of America was sighted by
the bold Morse nayigstOrs, and fourteen
years later was visitf1 by Lief ErikseD,
and repeated thereafter by his brothers
and descendants; that they established
q colony in what is now known as Mas
sachusetts, and were familiar with the
Atlantic coast as far south as the Caro-
linas. The Ssgas gave en- account of
"Great Iceland which included the
CarOlinas, Georgia and Florida. This
country was known to Europe IS Vim
land. As early as ll12, Pope PSschal
II appointed Erik Upsi bishop Of Ice
land, Greenland and Vinland, of which
he gives some account ia a missionary
tour. These facts were well known in
Iceland, although communication was
no longer kept up with the new world,
the colony having been abandoned at
the time Columbus visited Iceland in
l477, and be must have become ac-
quainted with the main facts. More
over there was map Of the Morse dis
eoVeries in the Vatican, procured for it
from the Pinzons, and it is pres1mptive,
at least, that Columbus saw it. His
pOsitiveness that there was land west Of
the Canaries was founded as much upon
the knowledge that he had gained from
his visit to Iceland as from any scientific
conclusions to which he had arrived by
study or otherwise. While, therefore,
he is not to be regarded as the original
discoverer of America, he is not the less
to be credited with the sagaeiOUsness he
made of the information he had gather
ed in his northern voyages. We shall,
therefore, have to give up Columbus
and put Erik the Red on the pedestal he
has so long occupied.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-18
DANBURY BAILEY IN ENGLAND
From his Manchester letter.

from bis Manchester Lebter.l
! A dog show was the principal feature
to-day, and am extravagantly fond o
dogs. The afternoon l came into the
city found two mastiffs in the depot
In the confusion 1 thought they were
two freight-ears that had by some in
scrutable means got off the track. l
was glad to find they were dogs. The
larger Of the two was called the cham
piOn of England, and added other lau-
rels by carrying of the prize at the
show. This was the largest dog / ever
saw; it was the largest dog any two peo-
pie ever saw. / thought at first would
buy him, but partly hesitated on learning
the Driee-One thousand dollars
and completely gave up the
idea before / saw him out of the
depot. He was secured by a chain in
the hands of an attendant, a man who
appeared to be in q chronic state of per-
epiration and pro.eststiOn. And he was
an cratic dog. lie made violent and
entirely unexpected dashes at various
objects or openings, and wherever he
went the peTspiFing and protesting indi-
vidual was sure to go. He snapped him
of his feet every other minute, and in
the intervals hauled him over square
cornered trunks, bumped him against
other people with luggage in their
hands, or showed him over highly indig-
nant but utterly helpless little boys,
whose unrestrained curiosity had led
them too close to the performance. The
last saw Of the keeper (?) he was pass
ing through the door In charge of the
a boy was running after with
bis hat, and people on the sidewalk
were appropriating elevated places with
spotless aiacrity.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-18
TIE ..GENTRY.-
From the Cincinnati COMMERCIAL

AAuuA LAE NDiuInerc1dIst
The "Blair family" belong to IN,
gentry Of this country, and Mont
gOmery Blair represents the views o
the gentry" who are looking, ia a Sc
rene and elegant way, to the Democrat
ic party. This particular scion of the
Blair stock told the reporter of the New
York Graphic the other day that CHS
family represented the better class OF
southern gentry, being descended f-om
Lord Falkland, from Archie Cary, who
controlled the house of burgesses, aud
closely connected with the PrestOns, the
largest family of gentry in the south. -
1t is pleasing to be told that Mr.. Blair
did not mention these facts "bosstiDg.
ly;" but yet, We should suppose, he
could not refrain from showing some
satisfaction at the thought OF them. In
speaking Of politics, Mr. Blair referred
to one Of the heresies of modern Demoe-
rscy, which, he said, "fOund no favor
among the fine gentry of the south. y
He also declared that "the gentry are
not unkind to the blacks, bat are trying
to pacify them, because they need their
labor" These statements are encour-
aging, as far SIS they go; bat we wish
Mr.. Blair had told Us more about the
gentry, and the heightened sentiments
which they entertain, 81 they move soft
ly over the surface of this world. We
would like, in particular, to know his
opinion about one representative Of the
Blair gentry who got an office under
Abraham Lincoln, the "rail-splitter, "
and about another member of it who
tried to get the office of the Vice-Presi-
iency six years ago, and about another
Of it, older than either Of the
foregoing, who knew something about
party patronage in Andrew Jaekson's
lime. The Blair gentry don't object
% their own lust for office-hOldiDg.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-18

GENERAL Buffers denomination
prompts the Boston Advertiser to give
this entirely accurate sketch Of his char
acter and public career: "He has made
his Office a source Of profit, not only to
himself, but TO large number Of follow
ers-dependents, who have repaid him
by such political services as they could
render whenever he has stood in need of
them. Spies, detectives, revenue-job-
bers, salary grabbers, every one who has
drawn money out of the public treasury
dishonesty, OF has been made 10 believe
that an opportunity for doing so might
b. found for him, have been among his
staunch and unfailing defen ieTs. These
things alone, affecting his personal hon
OF aud measuring his estimate of what
is becoming in a public man, afford
ground enough for opposition, and make
him utterly unworthy OF the place he
holds. This is not all, nor is it the
worst. On the great issues now before
and destined to remain there
during the political life az least Of those
who have passed the age Of fifty years,
he has taken direct and defiant issue
with the Republican sentiment of the
State and the nstion.u
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-18
From CONVICTION.
Tase county Fatr-The Stock s1a fhe
Prfzes-sfabIes worthy Of Notice.


From an Occasional CouespoudentJ
CONVICTION, TENN, October H.
Thinking you would like to hear from
this portion Of the country, have con
cluded TO drop you few lines. COving
ton is a live county town, judging from
what / have seen OF It; has a pOpula'
ton of about fifteen hundred inhab-
itants; exhibits some signs Of enter.
prise and prosperity, more 50 than most
places Of like size. The county fair Il
being held here this week, commencing
on Thursday last, and as far as stock il
concerned is q success. The stables are
already filed with fine horses, cattle,
sheep, hogs, etc, from Upton, Shelby,
Haywood, Lauderdale and Fayette
counties. Owing to bad weather on
Thursday and Friday, the attendance
was not large, but to-day q large crowd
Is expected and a fine show anticipated
The exhibition in the arena on the first
| day was for the best driver Of sin.
| gle, also dOuble-tsam. The premium
| for siDgle-dfiyer was awarded to Mr.. Sid
Douglas, Of this place; best driver Of
dOuble-team TO DIR. Moore. A pacing
race came of In the afternoon on th'
J trotti0g-track, which was Handsomely
won by Mr.. WOOldridge's entry, Pos
sum Hunter" from Kentucky. The ex
/ hibitions yesterday were fine, consisting
/ principally Of saddle and harness horse
and mares, brood mares, and the ring
were filed especially for the best saddle
mares or geldings, there beng twelve
I entries. Among the number who Te-
| ceived premiums yesterday, l noticed
Hall & CO., Of your city, who received
premiums for best gelding for all pur
I poses, best saddle mare or gelding, fOu
years and over, best harness horse o.
mare, and sweepstakes foT the best haT
ness gelding o. mare, any age. Tit
trOtting-face, mile heats, best two il
three, for twenty dollars, was won By
i. Is. Caruthersis entry; time 9 :G4.
and 2:53l, good time for muddy track
Among other things we noticed on th'
ground yesterday was the great numbel
OF young stock, horses and cattle, anC
all OF them very fine, which shows u:
that fine horses and cattle can be raised
in this portion of the state as well as
elsewhere. Among the exhibitors Of
thoTOughbreds, noticed the stables o.
Mr.. MOnan, Of this county, and Others
whose names do not remember. Ar
accident occurred yesterday afternoon
in the arena, when the ring for horses
for all purposes was being shown. A
horse attached to q buggy containing
two men ran away and plunged into w.
Halls buggy, knocking him, buggy and
horse UPSIDE down, rendering the buggy
fit object for q earriage-shOp, and the
two men good subjects for doctor. The
frightened horse was badly injured; the
other escaped unhuTt. On account Of
bad weather, the fair will continue over
until Monday. To the officers OF the
ASSOCIATION, DR.. w. H. Hill, president;
Colonel G. G. Hall, secretary, and his
assistant, Mr.. Barrett; also, 10 Messrs.
Cummins, Smith aud Woodbridge, we
are under many obligations for fayors
shown.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-18
BURNS AND BEE UHER.


The following poem was written b.
Mrs. J. Webb, of Scotland, sixteen yeal
ago, on the occasion of the appointment
Of Henry Ward Beecher to lecture at tn
celebration Of Burns's one hundredth an
niversary, January, 1859
learn the task has fan 70 you
To gle The bard o Ayr his due;
But use him well;
And keep sweet Charity in view,
Zen for the DeiL
His few sma' faults ye need ma tell;
Folks say ye're no Ger guild you sell;
But Dell may care;
Gin ye,re but half as guild as Rap,
Wen ask nae mar.
Taen dinna seek TO md Flaw,
Bat DER his fau Is 2 mantle thraW,
And leave the rest
To Him VINO N AIDE and tried the heart;
He kens TIE best.
A century hence, an VIVA can tell
What may BETA yer cannie sell"
come molly preacher
May tax the cudgels up fOr ane
Cad Harry Beecher.
Iha'e no doubt you d like 10 ken
VIVA tits that tak's the suld quill pen
To write this rhyme.
The knowledge wad be little worth
I'm past my prime.
But when a iassie young an fair
I've wandered by the bonnie Ayr
Wi heaFts0me glee;
Fer fate's stern mandate sent me forth
Far Ger the sea.
sun Scotia hills and Scotias plains,
Her poets and her poets strains
To me are dear
A desert sIring within my heart
They claim a tear.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-18

The Nashville Banner says OF the
delegates to the carpetbsg convention
at Chattanooga, that on the day Of the
reception Of the news from the west
they were much depressed and cha
grined that their plans had not worked
10 better satisfaction. Their schemes
had proven unsuccessful, they had ac-
complished nothing, and the eonven-
ton had not been given that promi-
hence they had so ardently desired
should be done. They complain also
that though every effort had been MADE
by the people Of Chattanooga TO have
them properly entertained, yet, never
theless, they had been given the cold
shoulder, and that, too, in Republican
city. This is very sad. Il were enough
to set one to weeping. They deserve
All the COMMUNICATION that may be be-
slowed upon them. The measure Of
their ambitious hopes has been filled,
and there is now no longer any danger
Of its "sioshing' over. Their political
career is about al al end, and 50 mote
II loo
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-18
NEW MOTOR PROMISED.

It is well-known to professional men
that by applying heat to water, or other
fuid, , pressure may be developed by
the expansion of the mass, and this
without the production OF steam. It is
not uncommon TO test steam-boilers in
this way, any desired pressure being
obtained by simply filling the boiler 10
the ssfety-valve, and making a fire in
the furnace. Sign0F Ferdinand Tommasi
recently exhibited before q body of
English engineers an instrument de-
signed to give q practical illustration of
this force. 1t Is simply an iron tube,
three feet long and about tbTee.eighths
OF an inch in diameter. This tube was
fitted at one end with q screw-cap
having an opening the size Of the inte-
rior bore Of the tube, and wholly closed
at the other end. A ieaden disc, quar-.
ter Of an inch in diameter, was placed
between the serew-cap and the end of
the tube, and the same filled with oil.
Upon lighting series of gas-jets be-
meath the tube the disc ozAead was imne-
tiately forced out by the expansion of
The fluid. It is proposed TO util-
lie the force thus shown to exist
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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-18

AZ The carpetbag convention at Chat.
tanooga the other day, one of the Ar
kansas delegates said it was the inten-
ton Of the Brooks Republicans to disre-
gard the new constitution and the elec-
ton under it, inaugurate Brooks as
governor, and call on the President to
support him with the army. We shall
see now, since the late election, il they
are mad enough for such an enterprise.
But If they aie, We hope, with the Chat
tanooga Times, that in such a game they
will find that when it comes to powder
and ball, Garland will hold the strong
cards, and play them more effectively
than Baxter did.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-18
A POET,S WELCOME HOME.

From the New York Tribrne,l
The demonstration of last week, in
the HOcksessin Valley, in honor Of Mr..
Bayard Taylor's return, appears TO have
been as hearty and generous as il was de-
served. Mr.. TayIOr's old friends and
neighbOrs by hundreds came from far
and near. The pavilion was splendid
with flowers and autumn leaves; pas
sages from his poems were framed in
ivy, and the German and American
flags were intertwined. In a brief pri-
vate note, received in New York by one
of his literary friends, Mr.. Taylor says;
The speeches, songs, and poems quite
overwhelmed me. 1t seemed that all /
once thought best and supposed to be
forgotten was Tevived-that all the re-
cognitiOn l craved in vain was poured
upon me at once. For three hours /
had 10 keep myself, by force Of will,
from crying like a baby" Mr.. Taylor
seems to have been thoroughly taken
by surprise by The magnitude of the
demonstration. dissatisfied with his
brief speech, he has sought to make a
more careful response, which We have
the pleasure of presenting herewith:
AID AMIGOS.
=
Strikes through our changeful sky its COM
Somewhere above US in elusive ether,
Waits the fulhliment of our dearest dreams.
So, when the Maynard time and gift have
When hope behOlds reliuquished visions
The heavens are broken and a view more
splendid
Holds in its bosom an enchanted sum
Then words unguessed, in faiths own shyness
guarded,
To ears unused their welcome music tear;
Then hands help on that dOubtlngly retarded,
And love IS liberal Is the summer air.
The thorpy chaplet Of a slow probation
Becomes the laurel fate 50 long denied.
The form achieved smiles on the aspiration,
And dream is dead, and Art 5 JUSTIFIED!
All, nevermore the dull neglect that smother
The bard's dependent being, shall return;
Forgotten lines are on the lips CT others,
Exunguished thoughts in other spirits burn I!
stilI boarded lives what seemed.so spent and
wasted,
And echoes come from dark or empty years;
Here brims the golden cup, no more untasted;
But fame is dim through mists OF greatfui
tears.
sang but as the living spirit taught me,
Beat toward the light, perchanee with
And sui must answer, for the cheer you've
brought me;
I sang because could not choose but sing.
From that wide air, whose greedy silence
swallows
So many voices, even as mine seemed lost,
hear you speak, and sudden glory follows,
as from falling tongue o. Pentecost.
30 heard and hailed by you, that standing
nearest,
Make love a blessing, faith a purer lame,
rraa FrrsF a
The happy song that cares not FOR its fanei
BATARD TAYLOR.