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Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-11
WILMINGTON. DEL. AUG. II, 1874.
Democratic State Convention.

The Democratic voters throughout the State
are hereby notified to meet in their respective
hundreds of each county-due notice thereof
being given-for the purpose Of electing fifty
five delegates from each county to attend a
State Convention, to be held at DOVER on
THURSDAY, the 9th day of AUGUST, 1874,
at one o'clock, p. m, for the purpose of nomi-
mating candidates for the Offices of Governor
and Representative in Congress, and to take
such other action in relation to the approach
ing canvass as shall be deemed advisable.
BY order Of the State Executive Committee.
JOHN Z. COCHRAN, Chairman.
August 9TH, 1871
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-11

Corn bread" said the Irish waiter; eve
haven't got it, I'm isn't IT corn bafe We mane?''
- Scene at Baltimore hotel
Those afflicted with consumption and throat
diseases cannot be too careful in these change.
able August days.
All the fortune-tellers say this is to be a
most favorable year for those who have been
unlucky.
Udderzook look3 hopefully forward to the sth
Of October.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-11
Troiting Test of G. ,ltismIth Maid.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y. Aug. 1O.-It has been
arranged that the trial to test Goldsmith
Maids time of > 1917 will take place in a "free
for all" race on Wednesday, a good day and n
good track, or these conditions falling, the
next good day and good track. The purse ioI
that race has been Increased to So O00, and the
horses entered for it are Goldsmith Maid
Judge Fullerton, American Girl, and Henry
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-11

DOCTOR WmrRLRY.-Tbe Milford Meas has
the following
Dr. Albert Whiteley is the third Gubernatorial
candidate which the Democratic party speak of
from the little town OF Frederick. Mr.. William
Townsend, of the same place, used to be mention
ed In tbs connection and il we should count him
in now, he would make the fourth. This does
pretty well for "Hog Island" Speaking Of DIR.
Whiteley, we arc moved TO say that The Demo-
cracy might go farther. and fare worse than in
nominating him. He is man well qualified Tor
the position, and while he makes no pretentions
to being politician, We know that lie is possessed
OF many of the qualifications which ought to make
him successful in his line. In fact he is almost
equal TO DR.. Jump in suavity aud all the social
graces; bnt then his is the misfortune to belong
to party OF such pernicious principles GEN
uiae Democrat can respect or support; and II
would be pity to ret up such man as DR..
Whitley to be hooked ct" al ut the polls. Isn't
it strange that such men = .Du.. in ouch compa.
ny.
Well if the Doctor is pu np aud Jump goes
down. How ten r
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-11

THERE is a society at Bloomington, H.,
called The Woman's Educational Association Of
illinois Wesleyan University, having for its OBJ
ject the raising Of fund TO assist youog women
10 an education. Over $40. 900 have beeo raised
already. TIE total sum to be collected will be
$40 OOU
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-11
GENERAL NEWS.

Another child answering to the description
of Charles Brewster Ross, turns up inV ermont.
The identity of the child will doubtless be es
tablished to-day.
Francis d. Moulton, ''the mutual friend,
made his statement yesterday before the
Beecher committee. 1t was withheld from
publication, last night, but will be furnished
to the press to-day.
The storm of Saturday was more than usual
~ destructive, and covered n wide range Of
country. The meteoric and magnetic storm
prophesied for yesterday, and which was to
have such dire effects, did not put in an APP
pearance.
Mr.. Marsh, keeper of the new lighthouse at
Hereford Inlet, near Five-Mile Beach, Cape
May, has been missing since Sunday morning
when he went home after visit to the Court
House. His boat was found yesterday upside
down. W. w. Ware, of the life saving station
will have temporary charge of the lighthouse
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-11
ID. b. Main. iswelIer OF Midway, woo,

ID. b. Main, jeweler of Midway, Wood
ward county. KY, was seized while going
home, on Sunday evening, by four masked
men. and no trace of him could be found yes
terday. There were evidences OF struggle
at the place where he was seized A man
who heard hiscries was driven oil by threats of
death. subsequently several colorcd men
saw Main struggling with his captors. It is
supposed that he was murdered and his body
concealed but it is not known whether the oh
ject OF the murder was robbery OF revenge.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-11
NOTICES..
REaIsrRY BUREAU.

NTOTICF.-The Registry Bureau Will be opened
~ on MONDAY, July 18th. inst; 10 ayoid con
usion and the better to arrange ing Morn VI as
Dennrtmep Mt, the city has been dividea lnto see
t,ons and the time apro cd in when tne cluhe .
(urOperty holders in .cton hIG Leepes,
requested to present their dee9s VIII eoi's.'
description of their property ut TINS omSfS 49,,
Section LIST extends from Market 10 on.on, a.u
from Front to Seventh Streets; from july A''n !"
Section 2. extends from Market to Union. and
from Seventh to Thirteenth streets; IRON July ~ "
August 10th.
Section 8. extends from Market to Union. and
from Thirteenth to Brandywine; from August lUth
to oath.
Section 4. extends from Market to Union, and
from Front street South to City Line hom August
2ith to September 9Th.
Section 5. West of Market and North Of brandy
wine; IRON September 9TH to 2lst,
Section q. East OF Market and North OF Ninth
streets; irOin September list to October 9TH
Section 7. East OF Market street and from Third
to Ninth streets: from Oct 9th to 18th.
Section s. East of Mark ct street. and South from
Third to A streets from Oct 18th TO Nov, n.
Section g East OF Market and South from A ST.
10 City Line from Nov. "a to 10th.
All Deeds. Conveyances or Transfers OF Real Es-
u made after July llth. 1874. must be entered in
tins office before they are sent TO New Castle to be
recorded
\ copy of the Registry Law and blank forms for
the description OF property will be furnished on ap
pIrntiOn at this oGsce.
NJ. G. CONWELL.
Chici Engineer and Surveyor,
j'a-Sh Tenth and King Streets.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-11

"ANTED..A Student for Delaware College
aug6 JOSHUA MARIS.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-11
WANTS..

- Situations and Help Wanted, under
this cfassif ication head, are published al
only Three Cents per line for each inser-
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-11

Inc scandal originating in the recent game be-
tween inc 10, Mutual Base Ball Club OF New York,
immense injury to the national game as a "pro.
lesson Inc Chicago papers openly charge
that the Mntuals sold out to The eamble1s
and permitted the Chicago Club to win the inter
est Oh those VINO had large bets npon the contest.
We cease to admire base ball from tha ,noment
1t ceased 10 be generous rivalry betwe IN anna.
tears following 1t as a healthful exercise. Ithas
fallen year by year in public esteem, :md this
expose promises to rcndor professional ali play.
ness.-Bahimore .NescS.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-11
Are Negroes Qualified Voters :

The managers Of the Republican party have
decided for themselves one of the most i'm
portant questions growing out of the recent
Constitutional Amendments.
BY refusing in Delaware to give the negro
fair proportion Of the delegates to their party
conventions the Republican party decides the
question that tho negroes, who compose more
IMAM half OF their party, are not qualified vo-
tiers. What right have they to clamor for the
right Of representation according to popula-
ton when they deny it to the very men in
their own party by whose aid they hope. if
they have any hope, to be able to carry the
state election. We are gravely told there was
not one negro in the Republican State Con-
ventlon at Georgetown from Sussex county.
ind only one or two from Kent county, and
only fifteen from New Castle county, where
the negroes poll u majority of the votes of
the Republican party, and yet that party
POUNDS its representation in its conventions
upon population, and its organs clamor for
representation according to population.
Was there eeer such Inconsistency Could
there be more practical and decided mega
tive given to the question, is the negro Q
qualified voter? If there could be stronge,
negative to this question it is in the fact that
notwithstanding the Republican party is com
posed OF more than half negroes, not one ne
gro has ever been put upon the Republican
ticket in either county in this State; nor dar,
the Republican party do this much justice t,
the half Of its voters, whom the National Re
publican party propose to invest with Civi
Rights by lawful enactments that viii guar
antee negroes superior rights to the whites
That Is to say Major LoAand, if elected, vii
or will not vote for a law that will protect an,
negro in going into a hotel and demanding On
tertainment and enforce this demand at tn,
risk Of penalty for ejectment, while an intel
hgent white man may make the same demand
and II he complains of not being entertainee
may be kicked out, and he has no redress
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-11

WANTED-A girl to do clapkerwork and at
jystf ''"D ~ 'N il65 mHRkET STREET
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-11

NTANTED.-Wimington Coal Gas Stock kd.
w dress b." Gazette letter box apr2stf
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-08-11

DRIVY WELLS CLEANED BY THE ODOR-
y less Excayating Co. Orders left with the Sec.
until further notice) will be promptly attended to
tie b12-tf
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-04
TIE NEW FRENCH MUsKET.

The Journal de Paris states that Or
ders have been given to proceed sfmme-
diately with the manufacture of fhenew
musket, model 1874 (system Gras).
These weapons will only be constructed
in the workshops of the state private
firms will not be called upon to assist.
The calculation is that in about ssyear
million of them will be made. Then
only will the arm be placed in the hands
of the soldiers of the active army, and
the men of the reserve and the terri
torial army will be drilled in the man
agement of this musket. The chasse-
pots will be withdrawn, and they will be
altered to the new pattern. France has
at present l, 800, 900 of them. One year
will be necessary for that transforma-
tion; SO that, by adding 200, 600 new
ones to be constructed in the interval,
the Minister of War counts upon pcs
sessing, at the end of 1876, 5000, 00Q-of
muskets (modeI Grass, Wits store of
$50 metal cartridges per weapon The
manufacture will afterwards be Con
tinued on a normal scale, and in pro
portion to the resources of the ordinary
budget of war. The news concerning
the artillery is no less satisfactory.
France will have, at the end of the year
1875, 494 batteries of six cannon each of
calibers and Z, with iron carriages,
the pieces in bronze, breech-Ioading, on
the Refye system. From the begin
ming of next year the construction of
bronze cannon viii be abandoned, and
those in steel on the Lahitolle system
| will be adopted ss1@ e
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-04
A GOOD REPUTATION.


The young live much in the future !;
they are fond of gazing into it's un-
known. depths, and of euSleavoring to
trace the outlines, at least, of the for
tune that awaits them. With ardent
hope, with eager expectation, they an
ticipate the approach of coming years
when they shall be called upon the
grand stage of action, confident that the
future will bring to them naught but
unalloyed felicity.
But they should allow their anticipa-
tions of the future to be controlled by a
weu-balanced judgment, and moderated
by the experience of those who have
gone before them. In looking to the
future there is one important inquiry
which the young should make: 's What
do I most desire to become in future
life2 What position am I anxious to
occupy in society? WHAT'S the estima-
tion in which 1 wish to beheld by those
within the circle of my acquaintances 2"
|,i The answer to these inquiries from
the great mass of youngpeople can well
be anticipated. There are none among
them who desire. to be held in disre-
spect, and Stunned by the wise and
good; none who are anxious to be COW
cred with disgrace and infamy; none
who seek to be outcasts and vagabonds
in the world. The thought, if they are
doomed to such a condition, would fill
them with alarm. Every discreet youth
will exclaim Nothing would crafty
me more tLan to be honored and re-
spected as advance in years to move
in good society to have people ask my
company rather than shun it, to be
looked up to as an example for others to
initiate, and to enjoy the confidence of
all around me-
Surely there can be none so blind to
the future, SO lost to their own good, as
to prefer life of lnfaIny and it's ever
accompanying wretchedness, to re-
spectability, prosperity and true enjoy
nent. But how are these to be OBJ
tanned? They do not come at your
bidding. You cannot reach forth your
hands and take them as you would
pluck the ripe fruit from the bending
branch. Neither will wishing or hoping
! for them shower their blessings on you,
| if you would obtain and enjoy them,
you must labor for them-earn them.
They are only secured as the we'll
merited reward of a pure and useful
| life.
The first thing to be aimed at by the
young should be the establishment of a
good character. In all their plans, an
ticipations and prospects for future
years, this should form the grand start
ing point, the chief corner stone. 1t
should be the foundation of every hope
and thought of prosperity and happi-
ness in days to come. It is the only
basis on which such hope can mature
to full fruition. A good character es.
tablished in the season of youth be-
comes rich and productive soil to its
possessor.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-04
THE JUDGES OF THE SUPREME
G0TPT


A Washington correspondent writes
as follows of the nine black-robed ven-
erable Judges of the nations high court ::
Chief Justice Waite is the youngest
man on the bench, and looks still
younger than he is. With solid and
erect form and bearing, square and
massive head, covered heavily with
black hair, which years are nothing
into gray strong and expressing face,
genial but decided manner on the bench,
he looks the Chief Justice Of the pres
ent, being clearly disti9etl from the
ideal Judge of the past, when Wh1teand
scanty locks, bald and glistening dome
of thought, great age, and somewhat of
coldness and reserve marked the typical
jurist.
Seated on the right of the Chief JUS
tice are Judges Clifford, Miller, Field,
and Bradley. in their order, and on his
left Judges Swayne, Davis, Strong, and
Hunt, the various positions being de-
termined by seniority of appointment,
beginning with Judge Clifford on the
right, continuing with Judge Swayne
on the left, Miller on the right, Davis
on the left, and SO on through the list.
Among the Associate Justices there are
three distinct types of men. Swayne.
Davis and Miller are the large and
weighty men, who impress you with
gigantic ability to digest either an
abundant dinner or an abstruse legal
question. Clifford and Bradley, though
no pigmies in stature, seem rather the
sages of the bench, who, with voices
| somewhat broken by age, ply the ad-
vocate with questions that show there
is no lack of mental sWgor. Field,
/ Strong, and Hunt, on the other hand,
are the clear cut, cold, and college
bred men who seem to furnish to the
bench the culture and polish of the
East, as Swayne, Miller, and Davis do
the native vigor of the West.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-04
NOT TO BE FRIGHrENED.

An oil French shoemaker, who boasted
that nothing could frighten him, was.
put to the test by two young men.
One of them pretended to be dead, and
the other, going to the shoemaker, dn-
duced him to "sit up" with the sup
posed corpse. The shoemaker was in a.
hurry with some work he had promised
to have completed the next. morning.
So he took his tools and leather, and
began working beside the corpse.
About II o'clock at night cup of black
coffee was brought him to keep him
awake. He drank it and resumed work.
About 1 O'Clock, the coffee having ex-
hilarated him, forgetting that he was
in the presence of death, he commenced
to sing lively tune, keeping time with
his hammer. Suddenly the corpse
arose and exclaimed, in hollow voice
"When a man is in the presence of
death he should not sing p
The shoemaker started, then sud
denly dealt the corpse blow~on the
head, exclaiming at the same time
"When man is dead he should not
speak,"
It was the last time they tried to-
scare the shoemaker.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-04

THE Brunswick (Me.) Telegraph re-
lates a strange occurrence. It says that
Mr.. John Fitzgerald, a we'll known
temperance lecturer, was confined to his
bed and quite feeble, being able to
speak scarcely above whisper. Satur-
day morning, the time of the Fall River
disaster, his wife had just left him to
go out into the stable, when she was
startled by the cry of fire. She went to
her husband, when he repeated the cry.
He was greatly excited, and attempted
to get out of bed, saying, .qhere is a
fire in factory in Fall Rfver,5 = Mass, in
the upper story-the mule room II see
sparks flying from the machinery, as
sparks fly from grindstone when men
are grinding their tools, and the factory
is full of women and children. I see It
all" After a while he fell back ex-.
hAqsted, saying the roof had fallen in
ana the poor people were burned. This
occurred about the same time in the
morning that the fire did.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-04
death NOT GENERALLY PAIN
FUL,'

Full
When the blood ceases to be oxygen
ated, physical sensihility is destroyed,
and the oxygenation of the blood being
accomplished by the lungs, if these or
gans are aobstructed, a proportionate;
prTvation of sensibility will necessarily
be the eresults The lungs are the weak
est of all the greativitaI organs they
ordinarily begin to die sooner than
other parts, and their function is actual
" suspended before that of other or
gans. Thence it follows that the oxy-
genation of the blood being gradually
suspended, the privation of nervous
sensibility Immediately ensues, and
there can be no suffering. These
theoretical notions a1e supported by
facts. So far as my experience goes, if
afdying man be asked whether he suf-
fers pain, he will. in the greater nrun-
Der of instances, answer in the mega
tive yet there may be at the same
.tin4e frightful appearance of distress.
|te,4My opinion, therefore, founded ON a
great number of observations of the
character above mentioned, is that
death isynot generally painful, and that
nature, 91iiiilke 9.1'iiike q kind mother, !" while she
surr8hnds its idea, with Imaginary ter
rors, has, s,contrived the animal organiza-
tion in such q, way as TO produce a
natural anodyne in depriving the blood
of oxygen. There win be found, no
doubt, exceptions in chronic diseases
already alludeda to, as arising from
physical causes, and there will be an
other class of exceptions of different.
nature from moral causes, such as the
recollection of abadlife.Dr. Warren.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-04
SIN SPOTS

The idea that some connection exists
between the weather on the earth and
the spots on the sun is supported by
the numerous series of meteorological
observations which have been collated
by Mr.. Charles Meldrum, of the Island
of Mauritius, with special reference to
the subject. These show that there is
terrestrial rainfall periodicity CORE
spending with the periodicity of solar
spots. There is an increase of rain
when the spots occupy the largest area
on the suns surface; and, conversely,
when the sun-spot area is the smallest,
there is a decrease of rain. Whether
changes of temperature upon the earth
also correspond with the fluctuations of
the sun-spots is yet to be determined.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-04
HOME

A trite maxim hath it that &c Home is
where the heart is ;" and if we might
sometimes be disposed to quarrel little
with the assertion, we should har i1y be
inclined to do more than transpose it
slightly, and say "the true heart is
where the home is - for it is undoubt-
eAly true that the first instinct of man,
after the merely animal instinct of self
preservation, is to provide for himself a
home. And let that home be what it
will-squalid, dingy, meagre, comfort
able, or palatial-let it be desolate and
lonely, or illuminated with the presence
of fond companions and musical with
the laughter of children, it will be.
through all, the central point of exist
ence, around which will cling and grow
lovingly all the truest, purest and
noblest sensibilities and aspirations.
Our first thoughts in moments of tri
umph, success, or happiness, and alike
in moments of pain, sorrow, danger and
despair, is of home; for there, more
than anywhere else, we are sure of
that tender or exuberant sympathy
which our varying moods demand. The
spot hallowed by our tears, our prayers,
our hopes, our sacrifices, and above all
our love, becomes the Mecca of all
our pilgrimages and let us be cratic,
truant, discontented as we will, we
shall eventually double upon our own
wayward footsteps and return to it once
mo4es'if only to die surrounded By its
holy affections and influences. :.l
How the poets have sung in e1oqutnt
numbers of home, and how they still
sing tirelessly upon the same darling
theme Search the language through,
and there is no fitting or beautiful word
which has not been used for its exalta-
tion. Who has not seen gay and mer-
ry company, seemingly careless,
thoughtless-heartless, almost-hushed
into the most tender and touching rev.
erence, when some sweet young voice
among them rang, with bel1-like vibra-
tions through their hearts, those sweet
lines SO replete with holiest meaning:
% Mid pleasures and palaces
Though we may roam,
Be it ever humble,
There's no place like home"
And with what pathetic pathos and
fervor every soul found utterance in the
simple chorus, grand in its very sim
plicity:
Home, home, sweet, sweet home,
Be it ever humble,
There's place like heme.n
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-04

Mr.. ORToN's report of the condition
and doings of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company is interesting reading
to those who have a mind for~ such
things. The capital of this company is
in round numbers forty-one millions, OF
which the company holds little over
seven millions and quarter, with no
floating debt. The income of the COM
pany last year was nine millions and
quarter, and its expenses fell short OF
six and three-quarters, leaving clear
profit of 50. 506, 800. And it has added
21, ,264 miles of wire to it's lines by pur-
chase and construction during the year.
It has II, ,585 miles of line, 175, 135 miles
of wire, and 6, 188 offices.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-04

A NOVEL and exciting race lately took
place at Cork, Ireland, between Mr..
Playfair and horse ridden by a Mr.
Arnott. The conditions of the race
were that Mr.. Playfair should run
hundred yards while, the horse ran the
same distance, the rider to stand at the
horses head and mount at the wofd
ego" The race was run in eleven sec
onds, and won by two yards by tue
rider of the horse, who exhibited great
agility in mounting. In most Ike con-
tests the mounted horse has neen
beaten.