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FROZEN OynR.-The cold last night
was so extreme. that the Brandywine
was frozen over, and q considerable
quantity Of ice was formed in the Chras-
tiana,
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Comc ehtrat4d Fhyorilir ENtrnct.

OF Vanilla, Lemon. Orange, Rose, Bitter Al
nond. GingeF, Mace: Celery, etc, etc, male
TF5r TIT T KtiSGHERsT q CO., !.
Conner Sixth ann Market streets.
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fULICE CASES.

arrests FOR DECEMBER ASSAULT AL
| BATTERY.
The following is summary Of police
operations for December just closed
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Total number of arrests. ... ..


Amount of fines, $50; sent to Jail, Il
Samuel Porter WAS arrested for vi, :
lently assnulting Charles Schmidt. some.
time ago. He will have hearing this
afternoon. It
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A NNUAL MEETING. ..
IA OFFICE OF THE DELAWARE RAIL-
!. ROAD COMPANY.
Dover. Dec. 81, 1874.
The twenty-third annual meeting of the
|Stockhoiders of this Company, will be held al
sneir once, IN Dover, on THURSDAY, JAN.
fUARY l4th, 1876, Mt which time an Election
Will be held for Directors and Treasurer to
serve the ensuing year.. M. HAYES,
dec2i-d2taw.e&Wte Secretary.
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arsdic's MiraeuIous Cure fer Corn

An EngIish remedy of great popularity, tor
removing corns without pain.
/ rA - E.+BRiNGHuksT Il CO,
Apothecaries,
Corner. Sixth and Market streets.
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NJ oIiCE.-All owners OF Real Estate in the
~ city disposing of the same will please
notify the undersigned, and oblige
EDWARD FARMER
EDMUND PROVOST,
uecovN ASsessorE,
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I0IvIDEND
NOTICES /

The annual meeting ef the Farmers Asso-
eiaien Of New Castle County for the recov.
9 sph Building, corner third and Market
stress. Wilmington. Del . on SATURDAY.
I January 9Th. 1875. OF 10 O'Clock, A NJ
Mhsn the officers for the ensuing year will be
siected. and other business transacted
Punc.ual attendanc. of men. bers is requested
dec3l ,ld2w. j. II. HOFFECKER. Sec'y.
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NoTICE.-I herewith give notice that ]
~ intend to prefer petition to the Gen.
erai Assembly, at its next session, for a di-
vorce from my wife Mary L. Maxwell.
.decl6-2tawlm BENJAMIN d. MAXWELL.
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B. HtALTH.--The 3 oard Q
He ,. = .pccial meeting yester
day li.. ..A and examined the City
Hall ~:.ns
A.: :. C lntcre hange of opinion
in rcga. :. H. tbis intolerable nuisance,
MIR. henntuy Introduced a resolution
declaring the cells public nuisance,
whic.. should be abated without further
delay:
/ Tt;s was unaui imously adopted as was
..lso t..e followin Ing, introduced by Mr..
I'll ,iahar:
R..>.s.i. -. T:y Coancil be, and
hereby are, re4ucsted 10 discontinue
the use OF the the present cells as place
OF confinement CT detention, and proceed
without further delay to provide another
place for that purpose as q sanitary
measure Of the q rst public Importance.
Col. Eckel, DR.. Shortledge, Mr..
Thather, DR.. Draper Col. Mccullough
and Mr.. Kenn edy were appointed q
committee to lay the resolution before
Council.
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Prime vaniIia BEANS

sola Wholesale and retail by. e.,
,a. a.. Il. BRINGHURST. Il &C
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During the evening, orders were di-
rected to be drawn, as follows:
Street Commissioner to pay awards
S176. A; Alex. Montgomery, $37 80; Jos
Flanagan, $500; :Sundry bondholders, in
terest, S9,667.50; James Maharty, s43S ~
M. c.. Conwell, % so; =. j. lDougherty,
On motion, Council adjourned.
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A Reeen, right with the chyenHes.

WAsuISGToN, April 29.-L;euteu-
ant-Colonel Thomas II. NELL. Of the
Sixth Cavalry, under date of Camp
near Cheyenne Agency, April T."
reports to the War Department the
circumstances attending the fight
between the Cheyenne Indians and
the troops under his command, at
that camp on the sixth Of April.
The hostile Indians numbered $50.
and occupied a strong commanding
position on an isolated elevated sand
bill, on the south side Of the North
Fork Of the Canadian. The fight
was commenced about 2:30 2. NJ,
and Continued till dark. \ Gattling
gun was brought into use by the
troops and prevented the Indians
from further eutrenching themselves.
At daylight on the morning Of the
18th instant, it was found that the In
dians had left the sand hill, and a
pursuit was ordered. On their trail,
going west up the North Fork of tie
Canadian, be reports that the dead
bodies Of six Cheyenne men and one
squaw were found. Of the troops
nineteen men were wounded, three
severely and dangerously. None
are reported killed. Lieutenant
Colonel Neill speaks highly ofbis Off
GERS and men. The Indians had a
large supply Of arms. The Arapa-
hoes and Cheyennes took no part in
the fight, and no trouble with them
vas anticipated. 1t is thought the
total number Of hostile Cheyennes
out is two hundred or two hundred
and fifty. They had stolen one hun
dred head Of stock from the Cheyenne
agency.
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Express Robbery.

MEMPHIS May On the S,h Of
last January, three masked men en-.
tered the Southern Express office al
Corning, Ark, on the Cairo and Ful.
ton Railroad. and demanded all the
money AID vaiuables IN the possession
of the agent, who gave them bis
watch and three hundred dollars. in
Guiding a n hundred dollar bill sent
by a lawyer from Dresden, Tenn.
Since then Superintendent William
Willis and Route Agent Ogee have
beer quietly at work trying to trace
the robbers. A few weeks since the
identical u hundred dollar bill was
found in a country store in Southern
Missouri and traced back to Corning
to a widow named Montgomery and
a nan named Jackson. The latter
was arrested, and implicated Bud
Montgomery and Ben Hale. The
latter confessed to the robbery Of the
express Office and stated that Jack
son was the leader in this aud nu-
merous other robberies. While be-
ing taken to Jail by a guard Of five
men Jackson threw bis U7ercoat over
the head Of the nearest guard and
ran and, though fired at several times.
succeeded in making bis escape.
The others were placed in jail to
gvait their trial. Superintendent
Willis thinks Jackson is Bender, The
chief Of the Gads Hill robbers.
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wind Storm.

CINCINNATI, April 29.-During
the prevalence of a high wind, a por-
ton of a wooden sidewalk was lifted
from its place, and n plank, blown
with great force, struck a man nam.
ed VIM. Finnegan and knocked him
down. \ wagon then ran over and
killed him.
CLEVELAND, April GA severe
rain and wind storm passed over this
city this afternoou, doing much dam
age TO roofs, cbimneys, unfinished
buildings and shade and fruit trees.
The flagstaff in the PUBLIC square
was broken of, and the spire Of the
First Presbyterian church was badly
damaged. No loss Of life is reported,
The velocity OF the wind was forty
miles per hour.
COLUMBUS, April 29-An unusual
ly heavy wind prevailed here during
this afternoon, blowing down Chin
neys, fences and a section Of the
sheet-irop roofing from the new
Union Depot.
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Battle I'm Luzerne County.

WILKEsBARRE, April 29.-This
forenoon Constable Michael Casey
went 10 Plymouth township to levy
upon the goods of James Council.
Being resisted, be returned for assis
lance Police officer Reibsenner
went with him, and they found that
the whole CoUaell connection, COM
prising ten or a dozen men, had as
sembled ia one house and barrieaded
it. As the officers approached they
were fired upon, Reibsenner receiv-
ing three balls. Casey was also
shot. Reibsenner was brought to
this city, where he is dying. Casey
is yet in Plymouth and in a very crit
zeal condition. The news Of the af-
fair created intense excitement here,
and Sheriff Kirkendall al once col
lected IA posse, armed with rifles, and
went to the scene of the shooting.
Two of the Councils were arrested,
and the others it is thought cannot
escape.
Tue Sheriff and posse returned
this evening with the old man Con
nell, and three more of his SONS
Edward, Lawrence and Thomas
The posse numbered one hundred
men,, all armed with carbines and
muskels. They surrounded the house
and Deputy Sheriff Rhoads and Chief
Of Police Nelly approached it and de-
manded the surrender of the Con-
nells. They refused, and the old man
threatened TO shoot any person who
approached with hostile intent
Three men were then placed at the
rear window to cover Connell while
an attempt was made to break in the
front door which was heavily barri-
caded Several volleys were fired
from the inside while this was TAX
ing place, but no II was hit.
Everything being in readiness, the
door was battered down and a por-
ton of the posse rushed in and over
powered the Councils before any of
them had time TO fire, except the
father, and his shot did o take
effect. They all fought desperately,
but without avail, and were finally
handcuffed and brought here. When
the procession entered the city the
whole population were on the streets.
and the excitement was most intense.
Lawrence and Edward, who fired
the shots from the window which
struck officer Reibsenner, were held
for that cause, aud the others, in de-
fault of s. 1000 bail each, were also
sent to prison. Reibsenner is sink
ing rapidly. Casey will probably re-
cover, although be has fourteen buck
shot in his body. Over a dozen
muskets and rifles, most of them
loaded, were found in the house of
the Councils after their capture.
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s,tro.GIycerIne Explosion.

Wednesday afternoon about one
o'clock Roberts nitro %glycerine mag
azine. located on the Foreman tract,
three miles from Oil City, exploded.
The explosion was heard and felt IN
this city, and for a few minutes caus-
ed considerable excitement. The ex-
plosion was caused by ires IN the
woods. During the early part OF the
day the brush in the vicinity Of the
magazine was fired, and the flames
spread over a wide tract of territory,
threatening several wells on the
Sands farm. A large force OF men
we're employed during the day fight
ing the flames, and by great exertion
several rigs and oil tanks were saved.
The flames at last reached the maya
zine, in which was stored a small
quantity Of nitro-glyeerine and sew
eral loaded torpedoes and caps
When the fire reschcd these, several
small explosions took place, followed
a few minutes after by the whole
case of glycerine. This explosion
was terrific Large pieces OF the iron
case, containing the compound, were
thrown a distance Of nearly a quarter
of a mile. The windows in Mr..
Smiths house, located a long dis
lance from the magazine were shat
tered. A hole four feet in depth and
eight feet across was blown in the
earth where the %glycerine had been
stored, and large trees standing near
the spot, we're torn up by the flying
missiles. A tree six inches in diane,
ter, standing several rods from the
magazine, was struck by a piece Of
iron and severed in two places
Those who were near hen the ex-
plosion occurred said the air seemed
filled with flying missiles, and the
Jagged pieces made a strange whist
ling suggestive of bullets in a battle.
The chunks Of iron weighed IRON a
half to two pounds, and were 50
heated as to fire wherever they
struck. In this way fires were set
in many places on the Sands farm,
some in close proximity to oil wells,
and the men were again called upon
to fight the flames. \ piece Of the
case fell within a few feet Of an oil
tank, a quarter Of a mile from the ex-
plosion, and set fire to a quantity Of
brush and leaves. Luckily the flames
were discovered before they had COM
municated with the oil, and a de-
structiye coGfagration was averted-
Happily no one was injured, and
this may be set down as One Of the
luckiest nitroglyeerine explosions
Which ever occurredin the Oil Region.
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AFIeod in the s.Issour. l.i,er

OMAHA, April 25-Tbe river at
this point is the highest for many
years. The bottoms are covered
With water or both sides Of the liver
as far as the eye can reach. aud still
rising. The Union Pacific, b. & NJ.
aud U. &N. w. freight depots are en-
tirely surround ed by water and all
tracks except the main to the Union
Pacific shop yard are covered to a
depth Of from two to three feet of wa
ter a heavy stream Of water is
pouring over the bottoms between
the Union Pacific shops and the sand
bills. Considerable anxiety is felt for
the safety of the shopsand smelling
works. The water is also cutting
away the great Gil at the east an
proach to the bridge. 4 large num-
Der of men are at work endeayorlng
to stay it. The river is at a stand at
Sioux City, with two feet eight inches
above the lew water mark.
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A Man Poisoned.

COLUMBUS, May 2.-Richard Con
nett, an Englishman, a saw maker by
trade, was fatally poisoned to-day.
He had been i'll with fever for some
days, but was getting better. To-
day his nurse went TO o promrnen:
physician and was given a prescrip-
ton calling for two ounees Of castor
oil and one dram of turpentine.-
This paper was taken to a drug store,
and although very plainly written,
the drug clerk misunderstood it and,
instead of castor oil, put up croton
oil. The sick man soon after took
half an ounce of this terrible mix
ture, aud vas a corpse in a few
hours.
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Late Indian News.

LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, April 60
4 special to the Leavenworth Times,
from Wachits, Kan, says: A letter
from the Cheyenne agency, dated
the oath inst, states that thirty-twO
Cheyenne Indians had left there in
chains, ria Fort Sill, bound for Fort
Leavenworth. The rest of the hos
tile Cheyennes now at the agency
were moved the same day and turn
ed over by the Indian agent to the
military. There is also reliable In
formation that a small band of Osa-
ges were out with a party of hostile
Cheyennes above Salt Plains on the
Cimmaron. The Osages are prepar-
ing to go on a buffalo hunt. The
following Indian news is obtained
from military headquarters at Fit.
Leavenworth. A party of one hun
dred and twenty-five Indians, COM
posed of thirty-two Cheyennes, two
Arapahoes and ninety-one kiowas
and COmanches, will arrive here as
prisoners on Saturday, from the In
dian Territory. Among them Is the
famous chief Medicine Water" who
COMMANDED the band that murdered
a portion of the German family and
took the four girls prisoners; also
the Arapahoe chief, White Bear"
They are to be encamped on the
reservation between this city and
Fort Leayenworth, known as blue
Grass" and will be guarded by a
company of cavalry.
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ing for. He leads the lett sing q
the Democracy, AID though lie sas
had the State Temperance organ'za-
ton TO back him, be has so TAR sue
ceeded in roping in very ie" oil the
most earnest AID consistent temper
ance men from the Republican party
In Lehigh County we have as many
conscientious and active temp rance
men as can be found in any other
county Of the same population, bat
Mr.. Black has not yet succeeded in
invcigling a single oneinto voting his
ticket. Though those Of them who
belong to the Republican party are
earnest il their cause, they place
some value on the blessings Of free
institutions and they will never help
to obliterate the results Of the war
by doing any act which viii assist
the Democratic party to power. But
Mr.. Black has a mission to fill and on
the 10Th Of June be will assemble
bis followers IL State Convention
in Harrisburg, to RoTiaate candl
dates who viii be supported at The
polls by Dearly D in three hundred
of the voting population Of tho
State"
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F;evoIiing Murder in Detroit.

DETROIT April 29-One Of the
post bloody aud appalling tragedies
ever eo"aAjtted in this city was
brought to light lsst e5aDirs. Two
colored women, II mother anu daAgl-
ter, the former named Eiizabelh
Thomas and the latter Harriet Fish
ef, we're found dead ia their beds ia
a smah AoGss Oh The gest side Of
Hastings street, their bodies chopped
and hacked with an ak almost be.
yond the sewhlance of human beings.
Suspicion points To John Thomas,
the husband of the FIRST named gis-
tim, a eolored barber, sixty-two years
of age. lie has been arrested. A
motive for the bloody deed il not
known as vet.
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Violation of The Revenue.

WASHINGTON, u. O., April 20
The Illicit Manufacture Of 'whiskey IS
increasing to an alarming extent in
the mountainous districts of Virginia
and the CaEolinas, and the Govern
ment is losing thereby an immense
revenue, to whichi it is entitled. In
fornetion was received here TODAY
that a mob in Lee COMFY, Virginia,
bad broken into the jail aud released
several persons who had been arTest,
ed and were awaiting trial Tor illicit
d%istillaiion. Unless these violations
OF Inc law are discontinued, the Coz
eminent wiii be compelled to detail
posses of military TO assist the yeyen-
ue officials in the sections indicated,
in the collection of the tax.
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II is ~c0nsoling to know that there
IS one Southern State that confcsses
TO prosperity. The Arkansas papers
are al pervaded with a cheerful tone
10 reference to agriculture and trade,
and the Little Rock Gazette says:
Never in the history Of Arkansas
were there such signs Of industry and
improvement. From every county
ia the State we have the most cheer
ing rows. More wheat has been
sown, and il looks in a better condi-
lion than ever before known. More
new ground has been under fence,
more new fencing made, more farm
Improvements and more industry dis
PLAYED than was ever witnessed in
our State in any q year previous to
this"
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Memphis.

MEMPHIS, April 29.-The appeal
publishes the particulars of the horri-
BILE murder of two colorcd children,
Nettie and Dock Hodges, aged six
and eight respectively, near Cuba, in
this county, some weeks since, which
was only brought to light yesterday
by a negro man finding their bodies
on the bank of the Bayou, where the
receding water had left them. The
bodies were nearly devoured by buz-
yards, but th-ir skulls were crushed
and showed that they had been MUIR
dered aud thrown into the Bayou.
1t has been ascertained that recently
Dave Hodges attempted to hang his
wife, but her cries, with those Of the
children, brought assistance, and
Hodges fed. He then went TO see
Jack Woodbridge, another colored
man, a preacher, and, it is believed,
induced him and his wife to kill the
children. As the children were last
seen alive with him, and their disap-
pearance having aroused suspicion,
both Hodges and Woodbridge fed
the country. After the inquest, yes
terday, Wo0ldridge's wife was ares
ted and held 10 answer.
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Two Men KILLED.

J%oHNsTowNT Pa, siay 1.-Two
brothers, named Godfrey, living near
New Florence, Westmoreland coun-
ty, game to this ciy yesterday and
spent the day. About ten O'Clock in
the evening they started to walk on
the railroad track to Conemaugh for
the purpose OF taking passage on a
freight train for heme. 4 short dis.
lance beyond the Johnstown station
the Fast Line east overlook them and
they attempted to board it for a ride
TO C~onemaugh. One Of them sue
ceeded, but the other, missing bis
bold, was thrown under the train
and instantly killed. His body was
cut Ia two and frightfully mangled.
The survivor jumped from the train
at Conemaugh. and, not finding his
brother, started to walk back toward
Iohnstown, when a passing freight
train strack sna instantly killed him.
The Waterman this morning found
the remains, which were gathered
together, put in collins and sent to
New Florence.
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Two brothers named GaT have es-
tablished a mammoth hennery in Col
orado, ten miles from Denver. 1t
covers four acres, which is laid out
like a village, with streets and ave.
nues, along which are built long rows
Of houses Of various designs. Reg
ulas families Of hens are assigned to
these houses, and it is found tina: they
quickly dSmesticate themselves, with
cut troubling their neighbors. The
population Of the village is about two
thousand, divided closely into social
ciiques Of Brahmas, Cocbins, Shan
ghaes, and Dorkings, and the chief
products are eggs and spring chick
eEs. Sundays included, the industri-
Gus matrons If the village turn out
daily from forty to fifty dozens of
eggs, which are sold in Denver for
from thirty to fifty cents a dozen.
The brothers CAT express but a sin
gle regret, aud that is that they did
not found their colony fifteen years
ago, when eggs brought Eve dollars
a dozen, and a spring chicken was
worth a pennyweigbt of gold dust.
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Destructive Tornado.

AUGUSTA, GA, May IA fearful
tornado struck Columbia, 3. c., at
half past five this afternoon. The
steeple of the Presbyterian church
was demolished, and the roof of the
market blown off. Although hun
dreds were in the neighborhood, no
one was seriously injured. The de-
pots of the Gteehvilfe and 0olumbis
aud the South Carolina Railroads
were unroOfed and otherwise damag-
ed. Trees were uprooted in every
direction. Only one death IS re-
ported.
A storm struck a passenger train
Oh the Georgia Railroad, leaving
Rutledge. Dr.. MontgomeFy's house,
neal Rutiedge, was blown down and
his son, four years old, blown away,
John Norton's wife and child were
badly hurt at Covington.
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at the South. Hence the conclusion
Is all the more important, that safety
requires that they be held in the mi
nority. If onee they precipitated the
country 10 war rather than abandon
power, is it likely that a second time
they would hesitate to do this, ifsur-
rounded the same condition?
We sal these things, not tha; we
fear their success. We fully believe
the Republican party win achieve
one Of its old-time victories in 1876.
But it is well occasionally for the
people TO be reminded thatthey have
been delivered from serious peril.
Oftentimes light ard transient rea-
sons are urged against fidelity to the
Republican party. In some triding
particulars the interior arrangements,
or the exterior policy, is not what is
desired. Ridicule and sarcasm are
employed against it, independent
Journals, whose politics are paid for,
urge its abandonment, because its
mission is ended; and weak minded
theorists accept such aimsy views.
Bot we should remember that SO long
as a chance for ra~scality exists, the
mission Of the Democratic party does
not seem to be ended, and the mis-
SIGN Of the Republican party is ever
10 antagenize it. All that has been
alleged against the Republican party
be il true or false-has never rep
resented it so blackly as the history
of the Democratic party shows it to
be. We have been loyal; it has been
disloyal. We have urged freedom; 1t
fought for slavery. We were for en-
reimbursement; it against it. We
sustain the spirit Of our Institutions;
1T seeks 10 subyert them. These
things are worth remembering
p;1tebug.gb Gazette.
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An Fire

ANCHEsTER, April 20.-Au ex-
tensiye FIRE is raging in the woods
near this city extending along the
line of the Manchester and Lawrence
railroad to Londonderry and trains
on that road cannot pass through
the flames. A construction train
with a gang of men left here this
afternoon to fight the FIRE Many
miles have been burned over, aud
immense damage will be done If the
flames are not CHECKED,