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Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-02-28

FRESH SHAD.-Captain Barry has favored our
people with q supply of fine fresh shad from
North Carolina. They can be had OF 4l6H Market
street. Also, fresh herring. from the South Fifty
cents dozen. At this season they are a luxury
to our people not often induIged in
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-02-28
Personal

Rev. D. @. Ridgway, of Milford. has been
suffering recently from symptoms OF heart
disease aud disq uallitied thereby from MS
nsual pulpit and pastoral work. We are
! Glad to say that he Il now Improving.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-02-28
STATE EITE N s.

Only two places in Milford now dispense
liquor
Seaford, Smyrna aad. Milford elect town
officers on Monday.
Mr.. J. B. Thomas, OF Milford Hnndrej,
has just returned from trip to Michigan.
Rev. Wm. Carroll, of the Bridgevills Cir.
cult received y liberal donation Sisit last
week.
Six vessels, OF an aggregate tonnage of
2,s40, are now under way In the Milford ship
yards.
The Rrotherh hood of the Union of Milford.
celebrated Wsshngton's birth day by a
festival.
Mrs. VIM. Pierce. OF South Milford, fell
down stairs, last week, and fractured her
knoe cap.
Mr., Benjamin harrington. near the viii
lage OF Harrington, was SO years old on
Wednesday last.
The main bridge across the Mlspillion at
Milford, being old and rotten, is 10 be re-
placed with new one.
The sum of $4,000 has ALT eady been sub
scribed towards the erection of canning
factory, at Drawbridge.
Mr.. John Jerome, of Rochester, N. y,
has purchased of Mr.. Joseph b. Tracey, a
farm near Freders, containing 20 acres for
about $500.
APhosphate Factory Is to he started soon
at the foot of Front street, Milford, near the
canal. Messrs. Isaac Simpson, Jr., 4 Co..
are to be the proprieters OF the new busi-
pess.
A Two story frame house. With all the
furniture, belonging to mrs. Pepper. near
Whites Chapel. in Broadkiln Hundred
Sussex county, was entirely destr Dyed by
| fire on Sunday last.
! The grist and saw mill OF Mr.. William
Ward, at HarrinRton. caught fire from the
smok estsck on Monday afternoon, 2Si inst,
!, hut the fire was soon pat out with slight
damage to the buildings.
The FIRST GRANGE IN DELAwARE.-Las
night J. NJ. Barr. Esq Deputy Master for the
Delaware Peninsula, organized at Newport, the
first Grange.of the Patrons Of Husbandry il
Delaware. 1t is known as Diamond State
Grange, No. !. The following officers were elec
ted
Master, j. NJ. Btackiu; ovsrsesr, Joseph Der
icksop. Lecturer Alex. Irons; Steward, II. c
Catlin; Asst Steward, Edward Woodward
Chaplain, V. G. Finn; Treas. W. B. Cranston
SecratarY,- r. c.. Justis, Gate Keeper, J. W. X
/ Killgore; Ceres, Miss Lizzie Catlin; Pomona
MRS. Lizzie G. Justis: Flora, Miss Ella F. Gran
ston; Assistant Lady Steward, Miss Georgian
Grubb.
u The Grange organizes with tweniy-thre
ue's' - g.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-02-28
A CARD.

HoME FOR OLD PEOPLE when, not abia
III work or not wishing the perplexities et
ment aud eonfus ION of hotels and public boarding.
houses, where they can find the physical and social
comforts of LIVING HoNE. -. .---..-
d, ,ferent institutions in several States. have &c
been able to ind any one that seemed calculated
active useful ci'iGens, and made the world better
Tor having been in il: Such an Institution / in
lies in my power. hoping it may coon be placed co
foundation that will continue its usefuln lens
after the present sen Grafton shall have passed
| '- - IA. BROWN.
ianiT-s.&wts West wilmingten.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-02-28

SALE OF MoNKY-At the regular monthly meet
ing of the Home Loan Association, last evening,
$500 sold al 29lI premium. $1,000 at 2sl9 and
$500 at %.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-02-28
REGISTERS ORDERS.
Registers ORDER,
REGIsTER's OFF

New Castle County, FEB. 10th 1874.
Upon the application OF NESLEY L. HIR0NS
and CHARLES b. LORE. Executors OF W ES-
LEY HIRoNS. late of Wilmington hundred,
in said county deceased; it is ordered and directed
By the Register that the Executors aforesaid give
notice OF tn eerantng Letters lestam enary upon
the Estate of the deceased wit the date of grant
posted within forty days from the date of such
Letters. in six of the most public, places Of the
ing demands against the Estate to present the
same. or abide by an Act Of Assembly in such
case made and provided. And also cause the same
to be inserted within the same period In the
WILMINGTON Gazette anewspaperpublsh he'd in Wi
nington and to be continued therein three weeks
-, Given underline hand and Seal o f Office Of
}L.s. the Register afor esaid Castle in New
49, Castle CoGD ~ aforeaid, the day ana year
above written. B. dIBBS, esister.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-02-28
NOTICE


Allpsrsons hav in lains gain b Estate the
deceased must present the same duly atested TO the
Executors on or before Feb 18th. 1875. OF abide
he Act of Assembly in such case made and proyi
ded WESLEY B. HIRoNS.
CHAS. Il, LORE.
Executors.
Address Wilmington Del febl1eod W
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-02-28
SERIOUS CHARGE.

A wILMINdToNIAN TRIED FOR GRAVE OFFENCE
AT WEST CHESTER.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-02-28
Register s Order.

Address, Wilmington. Del.
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13
Rules Of the Democratic Party of the
County of New Castle, State
of Delaware.

As to Sheriff and Coroner-Rule L.
On the first Saturday in June, at II
o'clock, M, in each. and every year pre-
ceeding general election, the polls shall
be opened in the several Hundreds of the
County, and closed at 7 o'clock, p. NJ. -,
for the purpose of nominating candidates
for the offices of Sheriff and Coroner.
Every free white male citizen who will
be entitled to vote at the succeeding cleo
tion may vote on the occasion, provid-
ed, and it is distinctly understood. whether
by question from the Judges or otherwise
such citizen will support the successful
candidates.
The places of holding the election in the
several Hundreds shall be selected by tho
Judges thereof, but shall be the usual
places for such purposes, if practicable.
In case there be more than two candi-
dates, plurality throughout the County,
shall nominate.
Rule 2-It shall be the duty of the
Chairman of the County meeting, held at
New Castle on the first Saturday in Sep
tember, as hereafter provided for, or in
the event Of his inability then the next
officer, upon the recommendation of the
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13
From the New York Times, Republican.
The Republican Party and the South

Mr.. Eaton, the newly-elected Senator
of Connecticut, recently delivered an ad-
dress to his citizens, in which he
referred in general way to his political
opinions. These opinions are tolerably
well kno wn to everybody who has follow
ed the course ofpoitcs with any attention,
and it does not seem very probable that
Mr.. Eaton will mako any change in them
lie declared that he is now, "and always
has been, and always would be, State
Rights Democrat of the old Jeffersonian
school" He said, also, ''First, first, first
the State of Connecticut, and then the
Federal Union, which, of course, is essen
TALLY the position formerly taken by men
like Gen. Lee. II shall try" added Mr..
Eaton, "to take away the Federal bayonets
from our brothers in the South, SO that
every State in this land shall have the
same right of local government, and the
same exercise of it, as our State"
The regulation" way of answering all
this is to stick label on Mr. Eaton's back
certifying that he is Bourbon and a cop
perhead, and to call attention to the fact
that he was by no means "sound" on ma
tional issues during the war. But even
after all this had been done, there would
still remain question in the background
which will have to be met fairly in the face
some day or other. The extreme length
to which State Rights theories were push
ed in 1860 and 1861, brought about re-
action, and that reaction has led many
people to think that State Rights belong
to the dead-and-gonc class of questions, and
that any man who talks about State Rights
is sufficiently answered when he is called
Bourbon. 1t is unnecessary to say
to any intelligent reader that this view is
a miserably shallow one, and that in reali-
ty the right of States to govern themselves
is as dear to the people as ever it was.
And it ought to be dear to them, for when
they abandon it they will have utterly for
saken the system of government establish
ed under the Federal Constitution. They
may set up something else in its place,
which may be called by any name that
may please the persons then living; but
it will not be the government designed by
the founders of the Constitution. 1t may
be civil polty based upon parliamentary
rule, or it may be monarchy or despot-
ism; but it will no longer be constitu-
tional republic such as we have seen here
for nearly hundred years. We say.
then, that when Mr. Eaton talks of the
necessity of maintaining State Rights, and
of giving the citizens of South Carolina
the same freedom which the citizens of
Connecticut enjoy, it is not enough to
allege that he is "copperhead," and to
fling at him the missiles which darkened
the air between 1861 and 1865. If the
citizens Of the South are living in state
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13
Pyramid of Cholula.

The city of the plain is only distin-
guishable by single mound, that towers
to respectable hill. Mr.. Beecher says
somewhere that one can understand the
labor involved in making a mountain by
shovelng and wheeling and dumping a
few barrows of earth in his own lot. The
Cholulans shovelod, wheeled, and dumped
(if, indeed, they did wheel, and did not
carry it on their shoulders and heads,
which is more likely not less than score
or two of millions of such barrow-loads,
to make temple to their chief god, and
on which many of those who built it. or
their children, were offered in sacrifice.
1t is big as well as a bad faith that
would thus make multitudes erect joyfully
their own funeral pyre.
This pyre has a base of forty acres, the
size of Boston Common Conceive of
those free-religion Puritans leveling off
that sacred place, and bringing loads of
earth from Brighton, Brookline, Dorchcs-
ter, and Somerville to erect the whole
level square into pyramid as high as the
pine apple of its State-house! Up, up,
up slowly creeps the mighty plateau,
growing narrow as it grows taller, like
many uplifted men. Yet when above the
tallest house of Beacon Street, it is twenty
acres across; and when it reaches the
dome of the Capitol, it is ten acres across
And all this for faith, and faith which
involved their own immolation, or that of
their nearest friends and kindred ! How
happens 1t that Boston goes to Buddha
for its god? He lies nearer home on
these Aztec plains; he is native Amer
lean, the better suiting their national or
continental conceit he shows us faith
that makes Buddha's nirvana tame, for
suieide is always baser than submission to
another's knife. The pyramid of Cholua
is the shrine that should draw these wor-
shippers. Here is the eleventh religion
that should swallow up all their ten, for it
is more majestic than any, save the one
that builds its temple in the skies, and Of
fers up its one victim, the Divine Author
thereof, freely and of His own will, for
the worlds salvation
The pyramid is mounted by roadway
cut to the top. You see along the cleft
edge the strata of thin brick and other
substances which went to its composition.
Orchards open halfway up, ravines drop
down near the summit; all the traits of
natural hills appear. A winding row of
steps makes the last ascent. The pros
pect is one of great breadth and beauty
and desolation. Scores of empty church
ea stand in an empty town. The popula-
ton has dwindled to its shortest span
few hundreds hug the broad plaza, bigger
than any in the country save that of the
capital, and as void of life at midday as a
graveyard. Great expectations is
written all over this place. A tiny
church, fresh in stucco and colorcd
washes, flush with the street, accommo-
dates all the people of this town. A tt
nior one going up on this summit still
more richly arrayed in fresco and fiction,
is for festal uses, and as a monument of
the triumph of the Church over fratrcide.
-OR. GILBERT HAVEN, in Hoper'S Nag
a=ine for June,
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13
Waiting for a Dinner.

When the Union Pacific Railroad was
finished and the cars commenced running,
there was lofty feeling among the people
of Omaha 1t was to be the biggest city
outside Of the planet Neptune, and they
wanted verything-theatres operas, cir
cusses, dog fights, and bull rings There
were restaurants at various corners, but
"Le Grande Restaurant" was on the ..Eu.
ro-peo- an plan, and conducted in high
style. The best walters at hand were pre-
cured, not all from la belle France, but
there was mixture of red, black, and
''yaller border rufhan"
A good looking stranger, with stamps
to invest, stopped over at Omaha one
night. He went to the ''grands' eating
house. "Can you bring me u good din
ner ~
Waiter-"Yaas, sir; what lee haave 2"
Guest-''ll Have you roast beef 2"
"Yaas"
"Bring me roast for one, with boiled
potatoes, caulihower, cold baked beans,
and pint of caret"
"1aas, sir; all right"
The guest waited twenty minutes, md
became impatient He cried out: "Wait-
er, where's my dinner?''
"On 'ee stove, "A bakin'."
CIV hats on the stove, baking ~
"Roas' beef, sar finest beef ever sec;
sixteen POUND piece, out of that ar tear
rilick bull"
"What Z"
"Out of Ger great Texas bull, what cum
down roarin, Tuesday. an was shot.
Thaim's his harms"
The stranger looked up, and over the
doorway, sure enough, were pair of
stubbcd horns, on which he counted thir-
teen rings.
"Oh!' said he, eyes. got it on, =
all roasting, nice p
"Yaas," said the waiter.
"Thon," said the stranger, "Ill take
the train for Chicago and return next
week, Thursday. au going over to get
my teeth set-have it all ready aud hot
when | return"
Waiter Yaas, sir; til bo ready and
hot"
Farewell, and forever farewell" said
the stranger, grating his teeth, and cast
ing hasty glance at the stubbed horns Of
the tearriflck bull" He didn't locate
any lots in Omaha
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13

EXPULSION OF jews FROM SPAIN .-Un-
shaken in their faith by the rage of ty-
rants or the malice of the people, the Is
raelites prepared to abandon forever their
luxurious homes, their lands, and their
rich possessions, and go forth once mere
to some distant and unknown refuge
During the short time allowed them for
their departure the roads of Spain were
filled with the emigrant throng hast ming
to the coast to seek passage over the
sea. They had sold their property for
whatever they could obtain for it; they
were permitted to carry no gold nor sill
yer with them; but many hid money in
their clothes, which was often stolen from
them by prying inquisitors; some had
even swallowed coins of gold. The mise
ry of the wandering throngs, of mothers
bearing their infants in their arms, of
starving children and the feeble and the
aged, sometimes touched the pity of their
foes, and generous Christians venturod to
offer them shelter or refreshmcnt The
Jews were connected by intermarriage
with the noblest families of Spain, and
the great estates of its fierce hidalgos had
often sprung from the dover of a Hebrew
heiress. These ties were now sundered
forever, AT the sea-ports there were
scarcely ships enough to bear away so
great a multitude, 1t is variously esti-
mated that from two to eight hundred
thousand Jews were banished by tie fatal
edict. What woes they bore in their
fight, how they were crowded in comfort
less vessels, racked by disease, famine,
pain, what insults they received, what
outrages they endured, history almost re-
fuses to relate. Nor is it possible that
any large proportion of the exiles survived
the dreadful fight, Many were seized by
tho Arabs and sold into slavery in thy
harems of Cairo and Constantinople. -
Many killed themselves in despair
EUGENE LAWRENCE, in Harpcr's Magazine
for Junc.
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13
60lit and 4nmor.
Dot Lambs Vot Mary Haf Got.

Translated from The original by Skoondtndyke.1 ]
Mary haf got leetle lambs already;
Dose WOOL vos vite like shnow;
Und efery times dot Mary dit vcnd oud,
Dot lambs vent also oud, Wit Mary.
Dot lambs dit follow Mary Won day of der
shchool-house;
Vich vos obbosition TO der rules of der sbchool-
Alzo, vich it dit caused dose schiller TO shmile
oud loud,
Ven dey dit zaw dose lambs on der insides Of der
shchool-heuse.
Und 20, dot shcheol-master dit kick dot lambs
gwick oued;
Likewise dot lambs dit loaf around on der oud-
sides
Und dit shoe der flies nit his tail off patiently
aboud,
Undil Mary dit come also, fon dot shchoo-house
oued.
Und den dot lambs dit run right away gwick TO
Mary,
Und dit make his het on Mary's arms,
Like he would zaid, "a dond vos shcared,
Mary would kept fon droubblcs ena how p
''Vot vos der reason aboud it, of dot lambs und
Dose schiller dit ask it, dot shchool-mast,r
''Vell, doend you know it, dot Mary loIc dose
lambs already -
Dot shchoolmaster dit zaid.
Und 20, alzo, dot moral vas,
Boued Mary's lambs relations;
"Of you lote desc like she loie dose,
Dot lambs vos obligations"
-Eglio
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13

He. ."-lIighlanders have the habit,
when talking their English. such as it is,
of interjecting the personal prenoun "he"
where not required--such as 1.-THE King
he has come" instead of "the King has
come" Often, in consequence, sentence
or an expression is rendered sufficiently
ludicrous, as the sequel will show. A
gentlemen says he has had the pleasure of
listening to clever man, the Rev. Mr..
-, (et his locality be secret), and
recently he began his discourse thus: "My
friends, you will find the subject of dis
course this afternoon in the first Epistlc
general of the Apostle Peter, chapter 5th,
and verse s, in the words: The Devil
he goeth about like roaring lion, seek
ing whom he may devour.' Now, my
friends, with your leave we will divide tho
subject of our text to-day in four heads.
Firstly We shall eudeavor to ascertain who
the Devil he was Secondly we shall in
quire into his geographical position
namely, where the Devil he was going
Thirdly, and this of personal character,
who the Devil he was seeking And
fourtbly, and lastly, we shall endeavor to
solve question which has never been
solved yet-'What the Devil he was roar
ing about 2"
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13
By DIR. ROB. MORRIS, LII. D.

Sero rccusat .ferre quod subia ,ugum. SENECA
[Too late he strives to escape the yoke to which
he has submitted.
| stood beside the grave,
The last and dreamless bed
One whom knew in other days,
Lay there amidst the dead,
His head towards the setting sun;
For oh, his life and pilgrimage were done.
Twas evenings pensive hour
The rich and painted west
Had called earth's laborers, ones,-
To home delights and rest
Bird-songs and voices of the day
Had melted all in evenings hush away.
Then came upon my soul
rush of memories
| seemed to see beside that grave
My friend of other days:
His beaming eye,--hs generous band,-
The largest, brightest, readiest of our band
] seemed TO hear once more
His voice SO full and free
Ny hama, my hedrf,-my purse, my life
tyre from me 10 thee!
The scalding tears my grief confessed
While night and darkness settled Ger tn
west.
For oh, I thought me then
OF all his sad decline:
He fell from honor's topmost height,
The victim Of one sin
YEA he the generous and the brave,
Lay there dshonored in Il Druntdrds grape
Long years and hard he strove
Against the syren-cup;
Wife, children, Brotherhood combined
To bear him kindly up,
And cheer him midst that mighty woe
With which the unhappy drupkard has TO do.
We plead by this and his; -
We urged his plighted word
We told him what IL shameful tale
His story would afford
We gathered round him all our band
And warned and threatened with IL stern
command.
In rain: too strong his chain
Oar cahle-tow too weak
That cursed thirst had burned his soul
lie would no warning take:
He broke the heart that leaned on his,
And brought himself at last, nj last, TO this
His sun went down at noon -
His life expired in sprng-
Ills work undone, his column broke
A ruined, loathsome thing
Expelled from Masonry, his grave
No emblems of the ancient Art can have.
turned away in tears;
The night hud settled round -
| heard, in cypress branches nigh,
The owl $ complaining sound,
Then homeward fled, amidst the gloom,
And left my Brother in the Drunkard tomb !
The Square and compass.
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13
AGENTS WANTED FOR
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will be sold Agents, now is your opportunity.
Our descriptive pamphlet, terms, &C., sent free
to all. Address A. D. WORTHINGT0N b. CO.,
Hartford, Conn. may 30-4t
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13

A window-full of pot-pants suddenly
descended into the street, Monday morn
ing, filling the back, bosom and hair Of
an elderly party with bulbs, earth, thorns
and hair pins. As soon as he recovered
his speech he stated that he was pilgrim
and a stranger, but he'd be id if he
couldn't lick the man who touched off that
powder.
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13
HOT BED PLANTS.

LHOR SALE-a superior lot Of Hot Bed Plants
IL of all varieties, transplanted in cold frames,
and now ready for use, including 100, 900 Sweet
Potato Plants, of extra quality Apply to
GEORGE LovELEss,
T. G. MURPHEY,
may 2a-H Home Place.
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13

The drummers came down like wolves
on the fold, their toes were all frosted,
their noses all cold. Their weather. peel
ed bugles soon shone through the town,
they gobbled tho money and salted it
down, then took few orders and lit out
of here, with their heads full of business
and skins full Of beer.
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13
MIDDLETON CASTLE COUNTY, MIAWA MWR4YMOR UNEmN Nq
,reated, in accordance with the foregoing

created, IN aecOrdance with the foregoing
rules.
Rule 10-As to alterations, amendments
and suspension of rules.-Thesc rules
shall govern the Democratic party of the
several Hundreds, in their primary meet
ings, and in all County and State Con-
ventions, and shall not be altered, amen
ded or suspended, except by the Septem-
ber Convention, which by number 8, is
called.
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13

Good company and good conversation
are the very sincws of virtue,
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13

A Brooklyn woman is completely un-
manned by the loss Of hor husband.
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13
Selett poetrp,
THE DRUNKARD'S GRAVE.

sunset revery; cxhortation to the practice OF
Temperance, first of the Cardinal Virtues
Written in 1866.
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13
N e w FL O II e L
At Townsend, Del.
TOWNSEND HOUSE.

open June lst 1872, will accommodate the
" travelling public and permanent boarders
at very reasonable rates. The bar will at all
times be stocked with choice wines, liquors, To-
bacco and Segars. Fine oysters in season.
Hoping by strict attention to business to merit
liberal, share of the public patronage generally.
JAMES G. TOWNSEND,
June Sly. Proprietor.
Middletown transcript., 1874-06-13

Sero recusat .ferre quod subia ,ugum. SENECA
[Too late he strives to escape the yoke to which
he has submitted