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Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-03-09
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SITUATED oNruE KENNETH TURNPIKE
IN MILES FROM WILMINGTON,
a0t,oOO fRAuu TRIES, OF the loading Orchard VA
Tietcs.
100000 HALR'a EkRLy rRAoH, a new variety, and
itrens two weeks cartier than any other Peach.
zoo, 900 STANDARD and Dwarf Pearl OF leading knie
STANDARD APrLR TEERs, Including 100 varietie..
standard Cherry Trees, Loading varieties.
Nectnrtnc, Apricot and Plumb Trees.
lpn,UOO OF one and two year old GRApHyIhns com,
prisng all the Leading Varieties.
ARo large stock of Dwarf Cherries, Dwarf A pple
Trees, Including Ornamental Trees. ShruLheII and
EVefgrueIs IA variety.
| 100000 STnAwBRklY PLAETs,ViE:
ufeat Agricultural, ltussel's froinc French Seed
| ling, ureRt buffalo Seeding, Albany Seeding
| dorchester, high bush Wilson's early aid Kit.
| fanny.
100 900 Raspberres OF Leading Varieties, Phisdel-
| phia, hardy aud productive DoUlittle d improved
Black Cap, Aliens Red Cane, Red Prolific, Belle
| de fountenay, everbearing, perfectly hardy and
| productive from July 10 October. Miami and
| CLARK
| Currnnts- Cherry, White Crane, Red Dutch White
| .utch, Black English and Black Maple.
| Observation-Disclosures Seeding, American an
| English IN variety.
| Rhubarb Victoria, host or market or table us.,
| Aspa rag uB-Two year old planA.
| HRDeIhs PLAsTs in variety.
For complete description OF varieties Of Fr,, nc
| Flowers, see my Descriptive Catalogue. Wv
AL of the above will be sold In small or large An
/ titles To suit the purchasers.
AllItees and Plants guaranteed true to name
] For Descriptive Catalogue, address
WM. M. PETERS,
| Centrevle. De
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-09
How Death Supports Life.

In 1870 there were in the United States
1896 professional undertakers, of whom
twenty were women. The deaths in that
time were 260, 673, so that to the average
undertaken there fell 131 cases. Besides
the undertakers there were 1895 coffin
makers, who, of course, depend upon the
undertakers for sales. These classes to-
gether make 4,361 persons who lived by
the deaths of 260,673 persons. Doctors
and dressmakers aside, therefore, under
our present methods, about 60 deaths
avail to keep one person alive for year,
or one dead body is guaranty of six
days sustenance to one person, or one
days support for six persons. Or, to take
another view of the case, if each of these
bodies were allowed fullsized grave,
the whole would occupy but about 202
acres, and each of those acres would sup
port about twenty-five persons for year,
which is better yield than that of the
best wheat field. Now it is very hard to
see how death can be more literally
utilized than il is under the present
system. As was said, by every one that
dies six live, and that, too, exclusive of
shroud- makers, trimmers, milliners,
dressmakers, livery men, and others who
make their appearance at or send their
wares to the house of mourning. If the
cremators should establish their methods
several of these classes would be without
vocation-save as they cried out against
the change. The undertaken should re-
solve himself into monopoly, and bury
ing would be done by the gross at a con-
yenient season, the coffin would be abolish
ed, and 1866 persons at once thrown out
of employment, while under the new
regime people would lose the satisfaction
that the present contemplation of post
norton utility might afford. That in our
national poetry we should have TO sub
stitute the "hot hot urn" for the "cold,
cold grave" is only one instance of the
subversion of ideas that would follow
Hartford C0urdnt.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-09
Where Does Water Come From!

How NATURAL for a child, standing by
the banks of a river, to inquire where all
the water comes fromy To inquire why
The gr ASS Is efeehs what makes 1T grown
how it Is that birds can fly. why fishes
are not drowned in the scar or where all
the sand comes from they see on the shore
They will ask, also, where the rain or
snow comes from! what is thunder
what are cloudsS or how is IL that the
grass is so wet with the dew? Thousands
OF questions like these are asked by
thoughtful children, and what parent
would not wish TO be able TO give them
satisfactory answerss But to answer these
questions satisfactorily requires knowl.
edge of natural phenomena and the
causes producing them. II any one OF
whom the child asked, while standing by
a rivers banks, "Where does all the
water come fromr" were to take him TO
his home, however humble, and show
him the vapor arising from the water
boiling for tea, and ask him TO put cool
plate or glass in the path of the yapor for
a few moments, and then look at it and
notice the drops OF water condensed upon
II, and make him understand that these
drops were formed by the vapor; then
pihlu W MN thhs E'D"t Pn's " .Ai~
earth was covered with water, from which
vapor was always rising, and that, when
1t rose into the upper regions of the air,
1t was condensed into drops Of water,
just as the vapor had been by the cold
plate, and that when thus condensed 1t
fell in rain that great part OF tins
rain ran on the surface OF the ground,
forming little streams ard brooks, which
were gradually joined by others till those
united streams formed rivers, which by
the unceasing flow, which has led 10 his
question, gave back TO the ocean the
waters which had been raised from them
in vapor by the heat Of the sun, just as
the vapor had been raised from the water
boiling for tea by the heat OF the fire,
what child would readily forget such
lessony Or what child, constantly so re-
piled TO, could fail to grow up an intellt-
gent observer Of all the natural events oc.
curing around him.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-09

HERE is phase of city life and at the
same time forcible reflex Of the hard.
ness of the times on which we have fall
en-: Yesterday morning the son-in-law of
one of New York's most wealthy and re-
spected citizens was to have taken his
place on the platform of a city Car as its
conductor-a place which he had sue.
ceeded in securing only after much effort
and with actual starvation staring him in
the face, having previously had all his en-
deavors TO secure employment meet with
failure. A brother-in-law, for many years
holding among the highest of our judicial
positions, hearing by chance of. the dis
grace o. which threatened the family,
prevented him from taking the place by
promising to pay him an amount equal TO
what he would have earned until by his
influence better position could be pro-
cured for him. Another brother-in law,
who few years back, through his infu.
ence with Peter b. Sweeny, was one Of
the most impudent and conceited Of the
city's assumed dictators, is said 10 be to-
day pensioner on the bounty of few
friends. Does not this little story carry
its own morally. y. Graphic.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-09

ties, as this would diminish or entirely
destroy fermentation, and retard the gem
Grafton of heat
We have been supposing in these direc-
tions that no previous preparations had
been made, such as pits, or permanent
frames in part below ground, as is usual
when hotbeds are made every year. As
soon as the soil within the frame becomes
warm seeds may be sown of radish, let
tuce, tomato, cabbage, and similar veg
etables. From this time forward some
care will be required in watering, weed
ing, and thinning out the plants If too
thick; giving air in very warm days and
putting on an extra covering during very
cold nights. The water applied to the
plants should not be that drawn direct
from wells, springs, or cisterns, for this
would be likely TO check the growth and
lower the temperature of the bed. The
water should be slightly warmed, either
by keeping in vessel in warm place or
by adding little hot water.
In addition to the plants we have named
which are readily transplanted, others
may be started by using very small boxes
or pots, from which the plants may be
turned out without disturbing the roots.
For Lima beans, cucumbers and melons,
small pieces of sod, say four inches
square, turned bottom side up, may be
employed with advantage. one or two
seeds being thrust into each piece and
then plunged in the bed. When the time
arrives to transplant into the open ground
each piece of sod is lifted entire. The
roots of the plants will usually be con-
fined within, and none will be injured
during removal. After all the plants of
the first sowing of seeds have been plant
ed out the hotbed may be used for start
ing late cabbages, caulifowers and celery,
and, although the heat from the manure
will be spent, still the frames are prefera-
bic to the open ground, inasmuch as heat,
light and moisture are under our control
in such structures. Insects, also, which
frequently attack late-sown seeds may be
more readily destroyed, or even prevented
from making an attack ON them in the
open garden.
We hope every reader of the Weekly
Sun who has not already made hotbed
will do so at once, and learn from expert
ence the pleasure and profit which may
be derived therefrom.-Neao York Sun.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-09
Industrial.

The manufacture Of wrapping paper
from rice straw is now successfully car
ried on at new factory in Savannah.
"A Mauch Chunk man has invented
machine for separating coal from slate,
for which he has been offered $4,000.
Alexander s. Wilson states that the
ash of diseased potatoes is deficient in
lime compounds. The remedy is, there
fore, selfevident
Experiments are being made by an
English railroad company to ascertain
whether steel tubes can profltably replace
those OF copper and brass in locomotives.
"A curious feature OF the Texas cattle
trade IS that many who are engaged in 1t
do not own an acre Of the land. They
brand and mark their cattle, and turn
them loose on the uninclosed prairies To
multiply and increase.
Reports from various sections Of New
England exhibit little improvement in
the boot and shoe business--which has
been dull for long time. The conclusion
is forced upon both large and small man
nfacturers that there are too many goods
on the market, and that the production is
ahead of the demand. This may be
correct conclusion, but the increase of
heavy boot and shoe manufacturing in the
Western States has swallowed up por-
ton of the business that was formerly
supplied by New England.
"A writer in Nature, speaking of the
fact that the detonation OF gun-cotton can
be carried along line Of any length, the
force being as powerful and violent at the
end as it was in the beginning, states that
this property Of the article may be put to
various valuable uses in industrial and
other operations. In any case where 1t is
Of importance that series of blasting or
mining charges should be fired simultane-
ously, their connection together by means
OF gun-cotton would insure such result.
For cutting down palisades or stout
wooden walls, line Of gun-cotton discs
exploded in this way would be most eff
cacious; and more ready plan of telling
timber does not probably exist than that
OF placing around the stem Of tree q
chain or necklace OF this explosive In the
form of compressed cakes, the defamation
Of these dividing the trunk as sharply a.
the keenest Ak.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-09

boy by the collar and thrust him out of
the gate, which was done by the blue-coat,
who added by way of emphasis good,
sound kick.
AS the pretended greenhorn reached
the road he was laughed at by the crowd
and in reply said: have finished my
business in there" The next day the
Squire proceeded to deposit the fifty
dollar greenback in the bank, when he
was informed that 1t was counterfeit.
Imagine the feelings of "the Court. y
Solo," said he, "and got the money!
The Justice has decided that appearances
are deceptive, and with regard to the
honesty of strangers "you can't most
always tell" The Squire will keep a
sharp lookout for country pumpkins
hereafter. Troy Times.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-09
A Squire BamDo0zied.

IT is fact pretty generally known that
In order 10 dispose Of disorderly charac-
tiers promptly at the State fairs Justice
OF the Peace is continually on the fair
grounds. A. West Troy Justice attended TO
this business last fall, and many offenders
were brought before the "big Judge"
Among the number arrested was young
man having the appearance OF hall.
witted, overgrown country boy. lie was
detected IN "scaling the fence" and
brought by policeman 10 the office ofthe
Justice. The lubberly boy admitted the
charge, but pleaded in extenuation that
he had no money, and his desire to see
" the show" had induced him to commit
the wrong. The Squire quickly sen.
fenced him to Jail for thirty days or to
pay fine Of five dollars. The culprit
began to cry, saying he had no money,
but the Squire was memorable, and unless
the five dollars were paid at once the out
side world would be a stranger to him for
thirty days. After continuing TO blnb-
Der" for some time the boy said his
mother had just sent him TO the savings
bank in Albany TO deposit fifty dollars
and he had the money with hiE.
/" Well" said the Justice, ifyou would
avoid going TO Jail, take five dollars OF
your mothers money, and go home and
explain matters TO her" The boy finally
drew off one Of his cowhide boots, and,
taking from II small piece Of newspa-
per, displayed a fifty-doliar bill rolled
within. With sorrowful look and
trembling hand the bank-note was
handed to "His Honor who returned
forty-flye dollars change This done, the
Justice directed the policeman to take the
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-09
Personal and Literary.

--Conkling calls financial theories
"nebulous generalities."
Six of ex.President Fillmore's i'm
mediate ancestors averaged sc years.
james Harrod, of New York, claims
To have introduced the tomato into Amer
lea.
His name is George Charles William
Frederick Algernon Sartoris, with the &C
cent on the first syllable of the surname.
"A Wisconsin paper says of Sumner:
" He was great statesman, and If he Dor
rowed dollar he didn't forget to return
it,"
Ed win Booth SAYS that he shall not
leave this country and shall not cease
playing until his creditors have been paid
in full.
Somebody, apparently green Ameri-
can, proposes monument to the late
Senator Sumner, TO be erected by dime
subscriptions.
Harvard says that enquire" Is right,
and Yale says IL is Enquire" We think
acquire" is pretty near the thing.-De-
troit Free Press.
Prof Wise Is the worst "shut up"
man ever heard of since the balloon bust
ness. He won't even interview on the
subject OF an early opening of naviga-
ton.
Grace Greenwood says that when her
first child-a daughter-was born, her
husband purchased revolver for use
against the first sutton who should come
around.
Brigham Young denies that he has
any money in the Bank of England, and
further, that he has any money to send
there. He isn't any better off than a man
with only one wife.
Willard Fillmore's ancestors, on the
mothers side, were ciock-makcrs near
Apponaug, X. L., in the last century, and
many of the clocks made by them hun
dred years ago are running to-day. The
old Willard house Is still standing.
-"Sumner," writes an occasional cor
respondent at Washington, gave one in
vitation 10 his own funeral. A young
man from Massachusetts last week called
on the Senator. He told Mr.. Sumner that
he would like TO see the inside of the SEN
ate Chamber. Sumner gave him line
requesting the doorkeeper to admit him.
On the day Of the funeral this man APP
peared at the door, showed his card, and
was admitted 10 the floor"
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-09
THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF
ELINBURGH.

WELCOME By MR. ALFRED TEsSYsoN, THE POET
LAUREATE.
THE son of him with whom we strove for power
whose viii is lord thro' all his world domain
who made the serf man, and burst his chain
Has given our Prince his own Imperial Flower,
Alexandrowna
And welcome, Russian flower, peoples pride
To Britain, when her flowers begin to bowl
From love to love, from home to home you go,
From mother unto mother, stately bride,
Marie Alexandrowna.
The golden news along the steppes is blown,
And at thy name the Tartar tents are stirred;
Eburz ana all the Caucasus have heard;
And all the sultry palms of India known,
Alexandrowna.
The voices OF our universal sea
On capes Of Afrc as on cliffs Of Kent,
The Maors and that Isle Of Continent,
And loyal pines OF Canada murmur thee,
Marie Alexandrowna
Fair empires branching, both, in lusty lifel
Yet Harold's England fell to Norman swords;
Vet thine own land has how'd to Tartar hordes
Since English Harold gave its throne wife,
Alexandrownal
For thrones and peoples are as walls tnat SWING,
And float and fall, in endless ebb and flow;
But who love best have best the grace TO know
That Love by right Divine il deathless King,
Marie Alexandrowna!
And Love has led thee to the stranger land,
Where men are bold and strongly say their say /;
See, empire upon empire smiles TO day,
Az thou with thy young lover hand In hand,
Aexandrownal
So now thy fuller life Is in the West,
Whose hand at home was gracious to thy poor !;
Thy name was blest within the narrow door;
Here also, Marie, shall thy name be blest,
Marie Alcxandrowna!
Shall fears and jealous hatred flame again.
Or at thy coming, Princess, everywhere.
The blue heaven break, and some Dviner air
Breathe thro' the world and change the hearts OF
men,
Alexandrowna7
But hearts that change not, love that cannot
cease,
And peace be you4l, the peace OF soul in soul!
And howsoever this wild world may roll,
Between your peoples truth and manful peace,
Alfred-Alexandrowna!
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-09

The Fat Contributor thinks he Ia
going TO die Of consumption, and has
made his win and is trying TO be good.
How mad he would be If 1t should turn
out liver complaint.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-09

WELCOME By MR. ALFRED TESNTsoN, THE POE
LAUREATE.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-08
THE WHEELING DAILY
The Rlm Grove RnIlrnnn.



We noticed several items during the
past week calling the attention OF our
Council to the urgent and pressing demand
Tor q bridge TO the Peninsula 10 accommo.
date, not the Elm Grove Railroad, but to
afford safe and handy way to reach the
Cemetery and afford opportunity for our
population 10 expand and buy loo priccd
country lots. The Cemetery has existed
for years and we have as yet to hear Of q
serious accident. The present road Is as
good and safe as any in our country and
better twice over than our principal
streets, VIC are sorry tosay.
We would like, before our Council
PUSHES in, TO be informed where the cheap
lots for homes for the wOrkingmen OF the
city are TO be hRd-as land tlegiNy situa.
ted cannot be reached at less than from
one to two thousand dollars per acre, TO
our knowledge.
The building of one bridge by the city
is only halt Of the job. The newly elect.
cd Board Of Commissioners are pledged
10 build another TO cross the creek on the
opposite side, and while the estimates Of
cost are but a few thousand, We would
simply refer TO the Market street bridge,
which cost we believe about $4,000, and
It would certainly be bad policy to put up
anything less substantial.
With the present hard times pressing
u5 making taxes double burden, with
our streets ankle deep in mud, our alleys
reekirg in filth for want Of proper sewer
age, 1t seems to US u bad time to 20 into
anything that is not absolutely necessary
Why not make il IN issue at the next
election Tor Council, and let us have a full
expression oil opinion on the subject. W.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-08
9peoial RorloeS.
Laughlin's Infant Cordial,

The Cniid's tu'c when tcething-to relieve In
Illumination Of the Gums, 10 allay uIcasinCss, tC
quiet Colo Pains, 10 promote Sleep, 10 care
summer Complaint This we consider one olth(
most valuable remedies to be kept In the family
when the children arc cutting their teeth. WI
arc selling thousands Of bottles, and have L
hear the first person tGy It is rot all we recon-
mend It II be.
MoTHsRs, have you Slcky. fettiiHq 6Ibs tha'
TURNS the HOURS OF NIGHT (ShCn you 80 Ions
Ior rcsD INTO OIL c LONG. WEARY DAY TIME @
woRHlNEST and CARE; Cry try C1y-all day
and all night long, II You have-HS,sn Il
tedSOH-bc convinced, hesitate no longsr-a PEW
drops o! lHPANT CORDIAL and your child Will
be rAClFiED, and SWEET, REFRESHING SLEEP vii
take the place OF WAKErUL sUPPERING- prOcuII
ut once bottle. Sold by all Druggists and
LAUGHLlN BROS. u co, ProprietOrs.
Wheeling, W. Va
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-08

D. D. Mccoy, of Martins Ferry, pro
claims in tho Wheeling ISTELuGENcER
that In view Of the tight rub just now
between labor and capital and his owr
|" thirty years experience in the mai
business, he will not hesitate to get up 9
cooperative company that will build anC
run better nail mill than any now IN
operation" He asks miners, boilers
majors, etc to join him without delay
Go it Mccoy, we are one OF the "ctc.
party, and you are our man-come uT
and let US see YOU W!!SJu1a Herald.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-08
FOR SALE

J.CnAunIns H1RvrY, 1aetIcncG a"DA noVsS
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-08
Eor Bale.

A UCTION SALE OF BUILDINGS
u OF THEODORE PINK q CO. The
undersigned having be0n appointed a special
receiver Of tho assets OF Theodore Fink q CO ,
ny an order OF the Municipal Court OF Wheeling,
Will on saturday tho 18TH day OF December al I
O'Clock r. n, at the front door OF the Court
House In Wheeling, proceed 10 sell Of Public
Auction to the highest and best bidder the two
wooden buildings on Sixteenth John street,
IN Wheeling, belonging 10 said Fink d Co. The
building occupied by Smith Mcdonald will be
eold tuDlCct TO lOlse expiring April lst, 1875,
ana rents Tor 500 per annun, the purchaser To
receive same from day Of sale. The ground
upon which said buildings ate Piuated Is rent.
cd BY SAID Arm until April let, 1875, tho lease Of
at the same tins on GIo ring Wapoa. Terms
Of sale arc cash All pCrlons knowing themselves
indebted 10 Theodore Fink d Co Will settle i'm.
mediately with the undersigned, as suit will DO
brought at once against all delInquCnts, All
persons having claims against said arm will
please present them for audit.
JOIN o. PENDLEroN,
J.CHATBERs HBRvEY, Auc,Ioneor noVS5
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-08
BOOKS & STATIONERY

In keeping with our roons, we ask tho attention
OF tho intelligent public 10 q few words in con.
nCctlon with our business. 1t Is well es'ab.
llthcd fact that next to Church and School, II
Bookstore, where all the latest works upon
Science, Art and General Literature may BIO OBJ.
tAtncd, Is the most necessary adjunct 10 cult.
Vated and intelligent community.
tits a fact, no less apparent, that Wheeling
has fallen behind towns Of much smaller proper.
tons in the encouragement and support Of such
an Institution, and in fact tho Book business In
Itself has never been paying one in our city,
and consequently has always been kept In con.
nGction with some Other, and thus received but
little attention.
While we have no cause for complaint thus
far, VIC ask Tor more general support as We
shall devote ourselves exclusively to the Book
and Stationery business, and hope that our In.
creased outlSy of money and labor, may meet
with corresponding increase Of your p1tro.
mage, 10 that We may be enabled at all times TO
provide our citizens with all tho advantages OF
a complete and well stocked Book Store.
Yours, respectfully,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-08
DIED.

HAHMOND-On Monday morning, December
Z, 1874, a. O'Clock, JOMS HANIjEp, AGED Al
years months and day.
Funeral from his late residence, No 100 Zlnt
sueet, Wheeling leland, on We'd csday morning
at Z O'Clock, when The remains will be taken tt
the Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad Depot ard thence
70 Belmont, Ohio, for intcrmCnt Friends aIC
inyilcd