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Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-08-09

=Nhf is-h ch@h ANf~f 'oAl ~
he taken 10 our Ready
money System of business
for II relieves the customer
from payments OF extra
profits, made necessary 10
cover losses by the old
credit and loss system, and
gives him his Clothing at
the Lowest Rate of Cash
Profit.
NO EXCEPTION can lie
or j. taken to our Garments
ON the score Of either elc.
gance. excellence, or econ
Omy by persons who are
judges of good Clothing.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23
The Elysium of Bummers.

San Francisco is the elysium of "bummers." Nowhere else can a worth less fellow, too lazy to work, too coward ly to steal, get on so well. The climate befriends him, for he can sleep out of doors four-ffths of the year, and the free lunch opens to him boundless vistas of carnal delights. He can gorge him. self daily for nominal sum; get din ner that king might envy for fifty cents. There are two classes of saloons where these midday repasts are fur nished-" two-bit" places and cone bit places. In the first he gets drink and 8 meal; in the second 8 drink and a meal of inferior quality. He pays for the drink Twenty-Five or fifteen cents, according to the grade of the place) and gets his meal for nothing. This con- sists, in the better class of establish ments, of soup, boiled salmon, roast beef of the best quality, bread and but ter, potatoes, tomatoes, crackers and cheese. Many of these places are fitted up in style of almost Oriental grandeur. A stranger, entering one of them casually, might labor under the delusion that he had found his way, by mistake, to the salon of San Francisco millionaire. He would find immense mirrors reach ing from floor to ceiling; carpets of the finest texture and the most exquisite pattern; massive tables covered with papers and periodicals; the walls em- belished with expensive paintings. A large picture which had adorneda famous drinking and free-lunch house was sold the other day for $12,500. Some of the keepers are men of education and cul- ture. One is an art critic of high local repute, who has written book, and a very readable one, of San Francisco eminiscenccs.- Monthly.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23
How they Do it in California.

An Alameda county paper says: The following actually occurred in our vicinity this week. The parties thereto are we'll known and respectable; the lady is fifty five years of age, and the gentlemen five years her senior. They had frequently heard of each other through mutual friends, but had never met until a few days ago, when tie following converse tion took place:
 Gent-Madam, what is your namea
 Lady-My name is -.
 Gent-My name is s---. live in Livermore, where own ranch. Ahem :! how would you like me for a husband
 Lady-Well, really I don't know. I've heard your name, MT. -, but how would you like me for wife9
 Gent-Madam, the sight of you more than does justice to what I have heard. Will you be my wife9
 The lady assented. The gentleman went immediately to Oakland to get a license, and twenty-four hours after their first meeting the couple were man and wife, and by this time are on his ranch at Livermore.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23
The Twin Genii of Destruction,


 The difference between so-called good and bad people is substantially the in- difference, in majority of cases, be- tween the good and bad health "enjoy- ed by those people. But, looking at the bad health which affects so many, how far are they not, themselves, re- sponsible for it? It was the once fa- nous Dr. Abernethy, we believe, who maintained that nearly all the maladies that persecuted mankind arose from two things, viz. stuffng and fretting. The doctor was shrewd observer of human nature. besides being an experienced physician, and as he had the rude habit of uttering 8 candid opinion without much respect for individuals, his asser- tions have, at least, the merit of honest independence. It was his belief that the poor often fret themselves into dis order for want of the means to purchase those luxuries which would disorder them without fretting, while the rich feast themselves into that disorder which fretting for would-be superfuous. In no condition of ifo does man, meddle- some man, seem disposed to "let we'll enough alone' if he can avoid it. He seems reckless of his own destruction, and sometimes intent upon 1t. That de- struction, particularly in this country, whese the "good things of life" are so accessible, is attempted through the agency of the stomach. Some eat the stomach up alive, as it were, with cor rosive combinations christened as popu- lar beverages. Some ruin it, little by little, by gorging it to repletion with luxurious viands, and overlooking it with dainty dishes. Some, on the contrary, poison it systematically with insidious drugs. They imagine themselves the victims of various maladies, and indulge in assorted medicines until they pro- duce 8 real one, and then die of it's nal treatment accordingly.
 Stufing and fretting do the work set before them bravely and efectually. They are valuable and never failing ad- juncts to the undertaken. The querul- ous spirit whines away all the recupera- tive energies of nature, and then laments their loss, as if innocent of any hand in occasioning it. The selfish spirit thinks of nothing but indulgences, which in duce afaiction, and then af1icts afdic- tion by feeding it up to suffocation point for remedy. Every physician knows how difficult it is to keep his patients from " stufing" themselves into a re- turn of the disease the moment his skill has produced an abatement. Every physician also knows how he has to bat tie with the mischievous effects of that petulance which not only follows dis ease, but so often characterizes it's first steps of departure. Stuffng and fret ting are the twin genii of destruction. Either is bad enough, and both con- bined are next to irresistible.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23
A SOCiabIe Steer.

About six months ago MT. F. A. Wright, while walking down pleasant lane near Osceola, Iowa, was met and accosted by restless steer, who sug- gested little promenade. MT. Wright had no objection, so he turned around and went back on his track, so as to go the same way as the steer was going. Then the steer waltzed him down that lane, in and out of the fence corners across forty acre lot, under bridge, through a stackyard, around a barn three or four times, under haywagon and out again, through an orchard over a pair of bars, into milkhouse, through @ blackberry patch, and up shell-bark hickory, and, while trying to climb the tree after him, the steer fell and broke his neck, and, if the owner of that sociable animal didn't bring suit against MT. Wright for malicious mischief in killing that steer But the jury dis charged the murderer without strug- gle, and piled the costs on the 1oroaooutOr
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23
Settling A Shit.

A suit which is singular even for di- vorce, and contains at least one complica- tion which that highly popular form of litigation might not be expected to pre- sent, has just been decided in Alameda county, Cal. The parties to the suit were Maduela Higuera, married Mexi- can woman who lives at Livermore, and Jose Reyes Bernal, wealthy rancher, who owns considerable property in the same vicinity. While Manuela was yet a senorita Jose promised to marry her, but subsequently, he repented and for sock her. She commenced an action for breach of promise, but while the suit was pending, impatient at the laws delay, she imprudently married senor Hi guerra. The defense claimed that if the plaintiff had suffered in feelings or any other respect by Bernal's behavior, her subsequent marriage with Higuera made everything even. Judge Mckee seemed to view the matter in that light, for he rendered decision in favor of the defendant
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23
Why He Rode.

Leo Lespes, the brilliant French writer who died recently, never went on foot, but this custom was introduced, says Charivari, by Count d'Alton-Shee, and had the following origin. One day he was walking in Paris with young lady, who suddenly said
 "Oh! what charming bracelet Look there, my friend"
 So he bought it. A little further on she saw fan.
 "Ah the delicious fam" quoth she.
 He bought it. A little further and she saw an ebony casket.
 "Ah what casket!" said she, '' I've wanted just such one ever so long!"
 How could he help buying it?
 The next day the count said to him. self "Let us always take cabriolet 1t will not cost more than walking"
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23
The Great Trial.

The following are the most notable events which occurred in the great Tilton- -Beecher trial at Brooklyn:
 January 5. Trial proper begins before Chief Justice Nelson.
 January 8. Jury completed.
 January II. Judge Morris begins his opening, which was concluded on the 18th.
 January 13. Francis D. Monlton called as witness. Kept on the stand until
 February 1. Tilton's testimony ad- mitted and his examination begins. Kept on the stand until February 18th.
 February 19. Mrs. Moulton testifes; her cross-examination begins.
 February 23. Mrs. Moulton cross-ex- amined, re-examined, recross- examined and dismissed; Kate Carey recalled. The prosecution rests.
 February "A. General Tracy opens for defense, and closes March 1st.
 February 25th to March 18th various witnesses called for defense.
 March 19. Bessie Turner called; her evidence concluding March 23d.
 April 1st Henry Ward Beecher on the stand. Left the stand April 21.
 Apfn OU. D6I0nS0 r0SGS, uaVlLg uau General Tracy on the stand three days. Prosecution introduces rebuttal evi- dence.
 May 7. Trial adjourned because of absence in New York of Messrs. Beach and Shearman.
 May 13. Close of evidence.
 May 19. MT. Porter sums up for de- fense; speech continued May 20, 21, A, 25, 26.
 May 27. MT. Evarts sums up for de, fense; speech continued May 28, June 1, 2, 3, 4, ', 8.
 June g. MT. Beach sums up for plain tiff; speech continued June 9, 10, II, IA, 15, 16, IF, 21, 22, 23.
 June 23. Evidence of Loader and Price rendered.
 June "A. Motion to reopen case and admit the upholsterers' testimony de- nied. Mrs. Hilton publishes card of ab- solute denial. Loader is arrested on the 29th on the confession of Price.
 June 25. Judge Nelson charges the jury. which retires, and is out June 26, 27, 28, 29, 3O,and July 1.
 July g. Jury reports disagreement, and is discharged.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23
With a Grave Digger.

The song of labor, however pleasant 1t generally is, is dreary when 1t is sung by the grave digger's pick. The dull notes come blunted and smothered from the half-dug tomb, and the grating sound of the shovel as it gathered the earth of the newly made grave told its own story of death that found echo somewhere in 6 homo of sorrow and mourning.
 He was smoking short clay pipe, and his coat was buttoned up close under his chin.. He was down about four feet, and all the evidence there was of hu- man being in the grave was the tossing of clay and gravel to the surface. He spoke not word, and after looking up and finding but curious observer, he continued his labor. Tho robins sang and the sparrows twittered, and the new born breezes of early spring sighed in the ceders and pines; and the cemetery, just disrobed of its mantle of snow, was indeed weird yet pleasant picture.
 "How deep do you dig 'emG'' was the first question ventured.
 The man looked up, wiped his per spired brow with his sleeve and bluntly replied, "accordin' to orders."
 con an average, how deep do you go down 2" was the next question.
 Eight feet is pretty good depth, sometimes little more and sometimes a little less. I've dug graves ten feet deep in other parts; its all accordin' to how the soil is."
 And the toiler went on with his work. He seemed impressed with the solemnity of his calling and he appeared unwilling to talk.
 "How long does it take to dig grave, sir ?" was asked.
 According to what we have to go through. Sometimes it is clay, or gravel or rock. All depends on that. I've dug two in day, and then we've been as high as three days at one. Then we had rock to go through several feet, and then again we have given up jobs when they couldn't, be done, if we'd strike solid ledge that we couldn't get through"
 "Pretty hard work, ain't it 2"
 "Yes, sir; it's all stoopin' and mighty hard on the back. Ain't much room to turn around, and you've got to work right and left-handed. Some diggers gets paid so much for every grave and others are hired by the day. Most graves is plain, while the rest are walled up from the bottom. They cost more. D
 Presume you are accustomed to tearsl"
 "Yes, pretty much," said the man with a sigh. "I'm been to many a funeral and seen many sad sight. Fillin' up the graves, and droppin' the dirt on the coffin lid when the preachers say dust to dust, ain't a very pleasant job at all times. Sometimes it's very tryin' to hold 8 woman and keep her from tumblin' right into the grave. But it only lasts couple of minutes with us, and then they go and leave us to fill in the hole that we worked hard to dig out. It touches anybody's heart to see mothers get buried, and that's about what hate most. When the smallpox plague was we were very busy. Some times we'd bury 'em and nobody would be around. It is dangerous then. When there is no graves to be dug we work around on the lots."
 The above is the pith of the converse tion held with the man as he toiled in the grave. He was blunt and plain, and spoke only when he stopped to straighten his back.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23
A GrasshOpper Parasite.

There appears to be 8 chance that, after all, the grasshopper infiction will not be productive of such widespread devastation as has heretofore appeared probable. Messrs. Dunkee and Stout,
 farmers of extensive tracts of land near Fort Scott, Kansas, according to 8 re- port in the St. Louis RepubIicas,, have examined by dissection large numbers of grasshoppers, and have found that about three-quarters of them contained well developed live maggot. As heaps of dead grasshoppers have been encounter ed, literally alive with the parasites, it is believed that the latter may ultimate ly cause an extinction of these most troublesome vegetable-destroying in
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23
English Military Camps.

During the Crimean war, when Eng land was sending off her best blood, many camps of instruction were formed throughout the country. Some were discontinued at the close of the war, and some-the Currah was of the number were maintained as permanent, Q. There are accommodations for 12,000 men, and at certain seasons of the year the camp is full. At other times no more than 5000 or 5000 men are kept there, and frequently not so many. At pres ent there are about 9, ,000 men ill the camp, most of them rnilitia men from the southern counties,
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23
Welcome Death.

A Canadian newspaper, in amour ing the death of citizen of Didequs u N. B., says: About twenty minutes ore his death he quietly got up frtI. his bed, unlocked his trunk, took cut his grave clothes, which he had always kept in readiness for number of years, then washed and dressed himself for burial. When the last enemy approached to close a long career of intense suffering he ex- claimed in ecstacies of delight: "Wel- come death, I have long waited for %hao 1,'
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23
Sizes.

I'll try and make little song
 Of unrequited passion, And though in writing I am wrong,
 I'm surely in the fashion: My love was quite the pink of loves. And one of her sweet tricks is To wear such captivating gloves
 Indisputable sixes. recollect month ago,
 A week, and then knew her; Yes, thirty days have passed, know, Yet somehow they seem fewer. But digress recollect
 Last Friday three weeks clearly; Meath wine and beauty's joint effect I said I loved her dearly. And oh, that glove, that right-hand glove Lay in my hand 80 nicely. Thought I--of course aside---". My love, " Your hand is six precisely" And then said the usual things
 About the hearts devotion, And added, as the poet sings,
 Some reference to the ocean. Her pretty hand remained in mine She said: "Now really, Mr. The Smith " remained unsaid. in fine, I grieve to say kissed her. I can't say what she really thought, But somehow she looked frightened; Alas, by sad experience taught,
 My mind is now enlightened.
 k I'm writing at country place,
 Fit only to write rhymes in, A hundred miles from her sweet face Here, waiter, bring the paper in! Whats this Oh, can it be yes-no! How have my hopes miscarried It only was three weeks ago,
 And now-and now she's married :!
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23
AbOlishing a Plague.

In 1870 there was plague of cater pillars in Auvergne, and, by order of the bishop, 8 legal document was made out calling on the caterpillers to appear in court before him, and requiring them, under pain of communication, to leave the country. A recent English writer on travels assures the skeptical that the original document may be seen in the library at Clermont.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23

AN ArTAoK.-A man went into 6 furniture store at Mankato the other day and sat down on a wooden bottomed chair. He immediately arose and danced and howled like the widest kind of Dervish. The proprietor anxiously inquired if he had an attack of any kind. "A tack !" yelled the man, "I ahould say 50, and +he infernal thing stood on it's head tee.'
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-23
Unbeloyed.

Like tree beside the river ru
 Of her life that runs from mo, Do I lean me, murmuring ever Ll
 My fond loves idolatry; Las And Ireach out hands of blessing,
 And stretch out hands of prsye And with passionate caressing gtg
 Waste my life upon the air, bsd In my ears the siren river 3 ...W
 Sings, and smiles up in my face, But forever and forever ie lGi4
 Runs from my embrace. t. S-'.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-08-26

MAJOR Mart V. Brown, State Printer Of
Oregon, enjoys joke now and then.
Notlong since he dined at the st. Charles,
in Albany. The bill of fare was printed
with the fly leaf covered with cards OF
various business houses. The Historian
tells the story thus.
On our late travels through Oregon we
CHANGED to call in at hotelabout dinner
time with that jolly, jovial, and sociable
fellow Maj. NJ. Y. Brown, State printer,
and publisher of the Albany States Rights
Democrat. The printed bill of fare was
laid before us, and our minds made up as
to tie various dishes we should order,
when the waiter reappeared and with
grace that would have done the highest
tone at Delmonico's addressed the Major
"What will you have sir?" To our
astonishment and the utter confusion Of
the waiter Mart leisurely remarked
" You may fetch me new set of teeth
in gutta percha; a Florence Sewing ma
chine, with patent lock stitch a box o.
Brandreth's pills, and a pair Of No.
French Calf-skin boots" In "a moment
the waiter replied eve do not furnish
those articles" Then what the =
have you got it on the bill of fare for p
retorted Mart. "Oh," said he, " thatit
only an advertising dodge, those persona
whose cards you see furnish us with the
blank bills of fare for the privilege, O.
having us circulating them amongst oul
patrons.p "Well," says Mart, "Tve beer
in the printing business a great many
years, and this is the first time my INsGDl
was ever beaten by a patent outside
Give us something to eat" u
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-08-26
A FRU17LESS EFFORT TO ESCAPE

A prisoner in Paris lately received a
letter containing merely lock of hair
wrapped in the leaf of small book.
The iailor did rot consider the souvenir
imp rtant enough to be delivered, but a
few days after came similar enclosure
and vet another. This aroused the sus-
picion, and the governor took the matter
in hand. He examined the leaf of the
book. 1t was only that of common
novel, twenty-six lines on page. Then
he studied the hair, and noticed the
small quantity of the gift. Counting the
hairs, be found them of unequal length,
and twenty-six in number, the same as
the lines of the page. Struck with the
coincidence, he laid the hairs along the
line of the page which they respectively
reached, beginning at the top with the
smallest hair. After, some trouble, he
found that the end of each hair pointed
to adieefent letter, and that these letters
combined formed slang gsentence, which
informed the prisoner that his friends
we're on the watch, and that the next
time he left the prison to be examined,
an attempt would be made to rescue him,
The Governor laid his plans accordingly,
the attempt at rescue was made, but the
rescuers fell into their own trap. -
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-08-26
MEDICAL.
TASTELESS -.
MEDICINES

A prominent New York physician lately com
planned TO DUNDAS DICK Il co. about their SAN,
DALwooD OIL CAPSULES, stating that sometimes
they cured miraCulOusly, but that patient of his
had taken them without effect On being inform.
ed that several limitations were sold, he inquired
and found his patient had not been taking DUNDAs
DICK Il cos.
What happened to this physician may have
happened 70 Others, and DUNDAS DICK 4 CO.
take this method Of protecting physicians druggists
ana henlSetves; and preventing Oil Of Sandalwood
from coming Into dlsrepute.
PHYSICIANS who once prescribe the Capsules
Will continue to do 80, for they contain the pure
OIL In the best and cheapest form. n. -
Dundas Dick.& Co. use more Oil OF SRndalwo0d
than all the Wholesale and retail druggists and
perfumeTs In the United States combined, and this
Is the sole reason why the pure OIL Is sold cheaper
In their capsules than In any other form 1iIl'
OIL OF SAFDALW0OD Il fast superseding ev.
cry other remedy, sixty capsules only being re-
quired 70 insure safe and certain cure in six or
eight days; From no other medicine can this re.
suit be had
DUNDAs DICK & Co.'S soPr CAPSULES solve the
problem, long considered by eminent physIciaiis
OF how TO avoid the nausea and disgust experien.
ced In swallowing, which are well known 10 de.
tract from, If not destroy the good effects of many
valuable remedies ..Vt.'.
Soft capsules are put up in un.foll and neat
boxes, thirty In each, and are the only capsules
prescribed by physicians 80 ..
TASTELESS MED ICINES- Castor Oil and many
other nauseous medicines can be taken easily and
safely In Dund@ Dick g. Cos Soft Capsules. No
taste. No SMELL
These were the only Capsules admitted
to the last Paris Exposition.
Send for circular To S5 Wooster street. NY.
Sold at al Drug Stores here auI2-h