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Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1874-10-12
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Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1874-10-12

Seaford. Cambridge. ........4.20
This train makes close connection with trains on
the Delaware Railroad for all points North and south
of Seaford, and with Steamers at Cambridge to ana
from Baltimore. JAMES M. MURPHY,
SuperntendeJ
N. BAH freight must be on the platform au
properly marked, half an hour before the schedul
time for the trains leaving. janiG-tf
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-01

democracy VINO leu or followed In the
rejoicings. The only response they gave
was to regird their loins to hinder a
peaceful restoration and to impede the
hopedfor regeneration of the South.
Whatever hindered or embarrassed Re-
publican effort 20 this desirable end
sprung from Democratic opposition, and
where sincerely resisted it was by argu-
ments based upon old-time Democratic
theories and policies. So it has been all
through.
1t is Democracy that has hindered
Southern restoration and progress. The
opposition to emancipation came from
that source. From that source was the
antagon ism that hindered enfranchse-
ment. 1t was Democratic friendship for
sectional politics that formed the Ku-Klux
into horrible reality. 1t is their contin-
ued hatred of national ideas based upon
the civic equality of all-that cardinal
principle on which alone the Republic
can stand-that has fomcnted the race
issue and organized the iniquitous
White Leagues" The Democracy
stands only as an agency for destruction.
Its highest virtue is retrospection. It's
best methods are only critical 1t has
nothing to offer, if IN power, except to
undo. And the only result SO far
achieved by it as the party of opposition
is to arouse race-hatreds and fan into re.
newed flames the fires of sectional strife,
whenever evidence was given of proba-
BILE smoldering and dying ou; 1t accepts
no national issue. 1t knows nothing but
the dead past. 1t can only hinder, and
then cry aloud in scorp at the troubles
which itself has largely fomented. Its
chief strategy is to raise false issues,
and the final punishment its managers
always receive is to see their best.laid
plans overthrow bv the spirit they raise
but cannot control They raise the
whirlwind" and reap, but cannot control,
the storm.
Whatever may be the derelictions of
the party in power there can be but one
choice among all those who prefer the
rule of civil liberty to class and race OPP
pressions and inequalities; who desire a
national rather than a sectional spirit
controlling the Government; who want
legislation to be unmarried by cunningiy-
devised attempts at multiplying those ordi-
nances of freedom which are the result
of our struggles and sacrifices; who de-
sire to see protection accorded to the
humhlest; the right of free locomotion
maintained; who oppose civic serfdom
as they did chattel slavery; who want
progress the rule and education as broad
and free as the 9gis of the Union-we
say that with such issues there can be
but one choice for the people who desire
peace and liberty--as regulated by law
and provided for in the Constitution.
Such are the real issues There can be
no doubt of it. Good citizens have got to
face it, and GO to the ballot-box deter
mined that the next Congress shall not
be transferred to the hands of the party
whose only aim is power and whose
steadfast policy is to go backward just as
far and fast as it dare.-Republtc Maya
zine
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-01
The Real and Only Issue.

There are in reality but two issues be-
fore the people. They are, whether the
party in power has been so derelict to its
great trust that it ought not to be re-
tanned, or whether the party in oppos-
ton has made for itself, in or out of
power, so excellent a record that it
should again receive the public conf
dence. All other issues are but details
of administration questions of policy to
be settled within one or both of organ
lied party lines. Economic theories are
the work Of theorists and schools. Par
ties are modified and influenced, but not
organized on them. Those that are now
marching to the front are powerfully in
fluencing both the great parties, but they
will divide neither. The real issue is,
Which of these two political organiza-
tions can be most fairly trusted? 1t must
be one or the other Col. VIM. Grosvenor,
of st. Louis, by many regarded as the
inspiring brain of the Liberal" move
ment as first indicated and before itcom
mitted Mra-kart by the nomination of
Mr.. Greeley, said in substance year ago
that as an original Republican, whenever
he saw that the issue was one between
the general record of the two old parties,
he should be, as before, a Republican in
earnestncss of spirit. Col. Grosvenor
only expressed what the sincere men of
the so-called Liberal movement all
feel. There is nothing in any one of the
pretenses at reform put forth by
the Democracy but the most alb
iect and craving lust of power.
Their whole career in opposition
presents striking series of proof. Their
loyalty during the war was stinted by
their determination to pander to such
prejudices and policies as slavery had
created in the North, and nullified, even
in this penurious MEASURE, by their desire
| to condone treason with political ALI
ance, and rebuild that unclean temple of
power the honest indignation of the
Northern masses had overthrow. To
this end hostility to the war was made a
party shibboleth Where most rampant
it manifested itself in the wickedest Of
riots, the participants in which, reeking
with the fumes of their own thuggery,
were addressed by the foremost Demo
cratic statesman-the Governor of a
great State--as my friends" twas an
unconscious satireon his political asso
Citations worthy of Juvenal himself To
the end of rebuilding power through
open treason and secret sympathy the
party in opposition declared the war a
| failure on the vert day that the guns OF
Grant at Vicksbug and those OF Meade
at Gettysburg proclaimed that the Con
federate shell was broken by those de-
feats. While tier Southern allies were
alike robbing Inc cradle and the grave
to defend the fdb carcasses OF slavery
and disunion, he Northern branch OF
their forces was giving aid and comfort
to the enemy by such declarations. When
the rebellion was defeated, it was not the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-01
PHUNN YGRAMS.

"A small boy forgot, and asked his
rather for "chaw Nv tubaccer" the
other day, and is very reticent on the
subject now.
-" My dear child, this telegram is not
from George; I've known Georges
handwriting ever since he was boy, and
this is quite ditferent!"
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says Miss Josephine Connor got lost at
picnic the other day, and ever since then
her friends have been getting a Joe Con-
ner.
| Detroit boys do not say "a stitch in
| time saves nine" but yell out: Here,
mum, If we don't yank this old rent
together pretty soon the hole will be all
over my clothes" e
A New York State Quaker was
found in patch of grass behind a
fence, looking at circus procession, and
he turned it off by saying: Friend, hast
thee seen the king. bolt of my wagon
around here?"
"A New York newsboy who said
Thank you" to stranger was re-
warded with dollar, and now all the
boys say the same However, if they all
fail to get the dollar, they add, "You
stingy old cuss YOU"
-" Yes, Job suffered some" said a
New York deacon, "but he never knew
what it was to have his team run away
and kill his wife right in the busy sea
son, when hired girls want three dollars
per week"
"A North Adams (Mass) boy, being
away from home recently, was ques-
v..l 10, SAL 4.
had spent the day. lie replied he had
been to the funeral of, Mr., -, and car
ried chairs, so they let him in frec
"A Western man set fire to the prai-
RE for fun, but after he had run seven
miles and climbed tree, with his pants
about all burned off, he CONCLUDED the
sport was little too violent exercise to
be INDUCED in oftener than once in a life
time
-" Now, then, Joseph, parse court
ing said a teacher to rather slow boy.
"Courtin is an irregular active transi
tive verb, Indicative mood, present
tense, third person, and singular number,
and SO on" said Joseph Well, but
what does it agree with" demanded the
teacher. 1T agrees with all the gals in
town. triumphantly exclaimed Joseph.
-Gentleman (who has stepped upon
her dress)--A thousand pardons, madam.
Lady (pleasantly)-lts of no conse-
quence, sir. What she said of him:
Awkward, stupid fellow! My gathers
are all torn out, and I've got to 60
home" What he said TO himself:
"Confoundedly ridiculous fashion, these
trains in the street, Make man look
like fool, cutting up such capers with
themw
"A clergyman, who owned farm,
found his plowman sitting on his pillow
resting his horse. Quoth the clergyman:
John, wouldn't ii be good plan for
you to have good stub-scythe here and
| be cutting a few bushes along the fence
while the horse is resting short timer"
wouldn't it be well, sir" said John,
for you to have n tub Of potatoes In the
| pulpit, and, when they are singing, peel
em awhile to be ready for the potY"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-01
Drfblets.
BY JOSH BILLINGS.

large proporshun 0v the welth ov
this world IL only used and enjoyed to
excite the envy ov other people.
Mankind kan be divided into two
klasses, thoze who lead and thoze who
follow; and thoze who lead hav more
vanity and stubborness than honesty.
LaZyness is safer than dleness.
There liz nothing like adversely to sho
the strong spots and the weak ones in u
mans karakter
The wize people in this world are thoze
who think az we do, and the phools are
thoze who disagree with us.
One ov the most diillkult things for us
old phellows to comprehend is, that we
are most butifully played out
1t IL difficult for me to tell whether
luv or fear makes IA man commit the most
phoolish axis.
| don't rekoekt now ov ever meeting u
man who didn't luv to phrovecy, and who
didn't think he could beat emmy other
man at it.
Thare amt nothing that would ruin
man quicker than to Civ him all he hank
ers for.
Friendship IL about seckond cuzzin to
luv.
II IL a very fu, if emmy, hippokrits
who hay been able to slip thru this life
without being kctched at 1t.
The majority ov people had rather say
a sharp thing than Il true thing.
Avarice is its own whipping-post, it
eats its own vitals out.
1t takes tue to get up aquarrel, but one
kan settle it.
The wizest men that the world has
ever produced, and at the same time the
biggest phools are the philosophers.
Adversely IL the only thing that will set
a lazy man in moshun, and il takes good
deal ov that sumtimes,
Vanity and Envy arc the tue most UNI
worthy, and at the same time most com.
monI traits in every mans karakter.
Thare IL advice enuffnow laying around
loose to run Just three sutch worlds az
this-what we are suffering most for, liz
sum more good examples.
A man haz got just az mulch right to
be afeckted az he haz to limp when he
amt lame.
The only wayto get thro this world and
eskape censure and abuse IL to take sum
back road. Yu kant travel the main turn
pike and do it.
Thare is now and then phool so well
bred that he IL really quite endurable.
Notoriety IL a short-lived deceit, and
its ashes are like the ashes of brush
heap.
A good rcputashun kant be bought,
nor inherited, nor stumbled into, it liz the
personal labour ov a life time, and amt
fully ours, until we hav been ded and
buried fu years.
Employment IL the absolute necessity
ov our naturs. The man whs kan liv in
idleness and keep happy, and virtuous,
| haz got no more intrinsk value in him
| than "a tudstool haz.-Neo York Weekly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-01
Two men, Familiarity known as Whit

Two men, Familiarity known as Whit
Stoddard and Jack Carver, of Walton,
Eaton County, Mich, went out hunting
early the other morning unknown to
each other When about four miles from
Olivet, Carver who was using turkey
caller, was creeping through the bushes,
and heard, as he thought, an answer to
his call, and cautiously crept toward the
supposed game. After going some dis
lance he perceived dark object moving
through the brush and leaves, and, rails
ing his rifle and taking exact aim, fired
1t seems that at the same time Stoddard
was pursuing an exactly similar course,
using turkey caller, and thinking he
was answered by turkey, when sud
denly he received the contents of Car
ver's gun in the side of his head, the ball
passing out at the back. Carver ran to
pick up his turkey, as he supposed, and
to his horror and utter dismay found his
neighbor in the agony of death. tie lived
only about fifteen minutes after the fatal
shot. Carver, utterly distracted, ran for
assistance, and in very short time two
physicians were at the spot with num-
Der of neighbors. 1t was pronounced an
accident by those present and no in
quest WIS deemed necessary The heart
rending occurrence has cast the deepest
gloom over the entire community. Car.
yer is in the deepest distress at the fatal
results of his carelessness, and fears are
entertained that in his utter despair ne
may attempt to take his own llfe.-Oe'
tr0tt free Press.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-01
A Microscopic Architect--The "Brick.
maker"

No bird no other animal, not even man
himself, can excel the beautiful work
manship of this tiny creature, scarcely
visible to the naked eye, yet, under the
microscope, assuming vast proportions.
She not only builds her house, but manu-
features her own brick, and lays them
up one by one with no workmen to as
sist The house is usually attached to
some water-plant; but have seen the
young ones, upon a few occasions, an
chor their dwellings to the parent house.
When the animal is restingor is in any
way disturbed, she settles down in the
lower part OF the tube; but when all is
quiet and she is in good working con-
dition, with no nursery OF young ones
around her, she is pretty sure to reward
us with the sight of her four beautiful
wheels, which she sets in rapid motion,
thus forming swift current which brings
the food and the material for the brick
close to her head; and she has the power
Of selection, for she often rejects parti-
clcs brought to her mouth. The appa-
ratus for moldng the brick is within the
body. The material is brought through
the action of the wheels to small open
ing, where it is passed down TO the APP
paratus which is in rapid, whirling mo-
ton, soldering the particles together un-
til they become, seemingly, a solid ball
now she elects the brick from its mold,
bends her head over, and securely places
it on top of the structure. 1t takes her
about three minutes to manufacture each
brick. Popular Science Monthly for Octo-
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-01

The London Metropolitan Railway
Company are able to boast that since the
opening of their line in 1863, though they
have carried 305 900, 900 persons, they
have never killed one passenger.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-01

A TASTEFUL villa proprietor OF Lee
Mass, has imported basaltic column
from the Giants Causeway as an orna-
ment for his lawn.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-11-20
Discovery Of a Socialistic Con-
spiracy in Moscow.
Unsuccessful Attempt to
Murder the Gar.
Irun Again Resieged by
the CaTlistS.
An Express Train Robbed Near
Toronto, Canada.
Another Political Emeute i'm
Arkansas.
ETC, Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc.

ETC., Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-11-20
I" The Two Breaths."

So FAR as pure air is concerned, some
hints are given by Canon Kingley which
may be useful even to the poor, or to
employers who care for the poor. He
describes what he calls the two
breaths," and their effects. The two are,
of course, the breath you take in--which
ais, or ought to be, pure air, composed, on
the whole, of oxygen and nitrogen, with
a minute portion of carbonic acid"-and
the breath you give out, which is an
impure air, to which has been added,
among other matters which will not sup
port life, an excess of carbonic acid"
He then points out that this carbonic
acid gas, when warm, is lighter than the
air, and ascends; and when at the same
temperature as common air is heavier
than that air, and descends, lying along
the floor, "just as it lies often in the bot
tom of old wells or old brewers watts, as
stratum of poison, killing occasionally
the men who descend into it," Hence a
word of admonition is addressed to those
who think nothing of sleeping on the
floor; and hence, as "the poor are too
apt, in times of distress, to pawn their
bedsteads and keep their beds" the
friends of the poor are entreated never
to let this happen, and to keep the
bedstead, whatever else may go, to save
the sleeper from the carbonic acid on the
.foor"-C Cbdnabers' Journal.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-11-20
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE


THE express safe belonging to the Ameri-
can Express Company was robbed in Cincin-
natl on the 18th of $4,000. The safe was put
into trunk and carried off by two men.
The trunk had not been discovered up to the
18th One of the men, named Black, had been
arrested.
THE returns from the Ninth Kentucky Dis
trict, received on the 10th, indicated the cleo
ton Of J. D. White (Rep.) to Congress by 500
majority.
THE Supervisor of Registration and the
Court Clerk of st. James Parish, La, were
arrested on the 10th, upon the charge of alter
ing election returns They were held to bail
in the sum of 81 900 each. The troops had been
ordered to vacate the State House on the
morning of the 18th.
THE Alabama House of Representatives was
organized on the 10th by the election of An
derson (Dem.) as Speaker.
THE North Carolina Legislature was organ
lied on the 18th by the election of Col. r. F.
Armfield as President of the Senate and John
L. Robinson as Speaker OF the House. The
House stands eighty -four Democrats, thirty
four Republicans and two Independents The
Senate, thirty eight Democrats and twelve
Republicans.
On the 10th Gov. Garland sent a communi-
cation to the Legislature of Arkansas, stating,
what action he had taken in regard to Smiths
proclamation, and asking that body to amend
the law so that he could offer a larger reward
than 5000 for the arrest of the two conspirators
Smith and Wheeler.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-11-20
Eighty Costumes.

A TERRIBLE fashion has been intro
duced this autumn in Paris to swell bills
and excite an honorable emulation in eX-
travagance. Some one has discovered
that trimming a dress with birds feath-
ers has an exceedingly charming appear
ance, and that envy is excited in proper
tion to the rarity of the fowl that is
plucked. The lady who has introduced
this novelty made her first appearance
in costume which evidently left moth
ing to be desired; though we are unable
to understand the millinery iargon in
which it is described. The tunic was
trimmed with the feathers of the jay, but
only the blue ones that form part Of the
wing. AS the jay is not very common
bird-for he is deadly enemy to game
keepers, and even the Legislature has
put price on his head-those feathers
must have cost a pretty sum. But what
will old ladies and children eXclaim when
they hear that another aaerUeSlleuse, not to
be outdone, has ordered black silk
dress to be trimmed with canary feath-
ers? 1t is not easy to calculate how
many hundreds of these little creatures
would have to be butchered before the
quantity requisite to produce the effect
would be obtained. Then arises the cues
tion, what next? To ladies of inventive
genius, the Geological Gardens offer OPP
portunities, the thought of which ought
to strike terror into the breast of DR..
Sclater. A pelican's beak as a hair-pin
would set off the largest chignon. How
many cockatoos' graceful top-knots,
would be required to furnish forth cos
tune de jour could only be matter of
speculation, and the judicious expendi-
ture of few six-penny visits. A flamin-
go's leg would make an elegant parasol
handle, and tigers tail comfortable,
as well as an unusual, boa. The mask of
the Polar bear, neatly trimmed with vul
lures feathers, would make very strik-
ing as well as a warm covering for the
head during the coming winter. But
these are rather speculations for the man
milliners If we only live long enough
we shall no doubt see the elephant and
rhinoceros contribute something else be-
sides their "ivories" to the exigencies of
fashion, and when the earth and the air
are exhausted there will remain the great
deep and its inhabitants to help to crafty
feminine vanity.-L0ndon Globe.