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Middletown transcript., 1875-07-24

IT Is USELESS to attempt to cleanse a stream
while the fountain is impure. Dyspepsia,
complaints of the liver and kidneys, eruptions
of the skin, scrofula, headaches, and all d.
seases arising from impure blood, are at once
removed by DR.. Walkers CALIFORNIA VIsRGAB
BrrTERs, the great and ipfallible purifier of the
blood, and renovator Of the system. II has
never been known to fail, provided the patient
had not delayed using it until the vitality of
his system was too far gone.
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SATURDAY MORNING, JULY "a, 1875.

WR.HAsE not, heretofore, taken the
trouble to pay any attention to the ego
tistical remarks Of Euery Evening and
its brilliant reporters that its accounts
Of the several meetings Of the peach
growers held at this place were the only
full and correct ones. &c., and we
should not notice them now were it not
that Ro consider such notice due to the
gentleman who rhas furnished Us from
week toeweek with the report Of these
meetings. The TRAsscRIrr has had
every week not only a fuA, but = per-
fectly correct account Of the proceedings
Of all these conventions. These reports
have been furnished to rs BY J. Thomas
Budd, Esq the Secretary q Of every one
ofthe ineetingsse.g The mention of this
fact is al that d necessary to prove the
fsilaey Of ESery Epeniiag' assertions.
t.s.. Iu.s{w..( a r.sy4as.k ny arers,t lS-ft K.
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REGISTERS ORDER.
REGISTERS OFFICE,


NEW CASTLE County. JULy 18th, 1875.
Upon the application of Edward W. Lock-
wood, Executor of Richard Lockwood, late of
St Georges Hundred, in said County, decd !;
it is ordered and directed by the Register that
the Executor Aforesaid give notice of the
granting Of Letters Testamentary upon
the Estate of the deceased, with the date Of
granting thereof, by causing advertisements
to be. posted within forty days from the date
of such letters, in six of the most public places
of the County of New Castle, requiring all
persons having demands against the Estate,
to present the same, or abide by an Act Of
Assembly in such case made and provided.
And also cause the same to be inserted within
the same period in the MlDnLErowN TRAM
SCRIPT, . newspaper published in Middletown,
and to be continued therein two months.
Given under the hand and Seal of
(@> Office of the Register Aforesaid, at
LIS. New Castle, in New Castle County
49, aforesaid, the day and year above
written, ho s. @. BIGGS, sa1
fIs REGsrER.
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BOOTS s6x 9BOESs

Ladies' iineSvelvst asd Kid Slippsv, $l.oo
to BIAS per pair; Ladies' Bnttop Pebble Cal
ters, s.. .9a 70 $2.7B. LadieS Lsce baimofaI
Shoes sewedi - 10 sto % 80 = Nsn's INts
hfs'5 S6ss sst sa'd Gsil:,: sss so 2sS q
e p. Psicssl ON, zkissib tnA ihs pahllb
waH plsasf and exsmi9e eqr stock before ppl.
s. r. STEPHENS & co.
Middletown, Del, April II, 1875.
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9 THIRTY ACRES s0F LAND,
MORE OR LESS

No. $3.50 ~ 1901 .-sff e y
With "A Dwelling House, Store House and out.
buildings thereon erected, adjoining lands Of
James Rogers heirs, bounded partly by
Blackbird Greek, land of Louis McLane and
DR.. Robert P. johnson.
And it is ordered that the purchaser or pur.
chasers thereof be and appear at thenext' Or
phans' Court for New Castle county, that the
Court may assign to him, her or them the
premises sold pursuant to- said order, be, she
or they with sufficient surety or sureties TO be
approved BY the Court, entering into recor-
nizance to the State, to be taken and acknow-
lodged in said Court, in penal sum, to be
determined by the said Court with condition
to pay to the parties entitled severally or their
executors, administrators or assigns respec-
lively, their just and proportionaie shares u
the said purchase money, with interest from
such time as the Court may determine, in
manner and form as may by the direction Of
the said Court be prescribed and appointed in.
said condition. ia $50 - 81 seis,i +
Attendance will besgisen and terms of sale
made known at the. time and place aforesaid.
by JOHN Fl. RODNEY, ESQ.,, Trustee,
sdj n 1870 haegli f0r16y iss .Atto-ssv.5 ;
gwAttest, 20. NJ, vAsbxysa,sss bGs tec,
...,... ..~,, Clerk Orphans Court
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All who want good SEWING MACHINE
and having the Cash TO pay for it,. will have
inducements offered them at the Great Sewing
Machine Depot Of A. 4. -STOOPS, N. d. Cor.
Fourth and Arch ST., Phila., they can get at
no other Sewing Machine place in this city.
All kinds. of needles, oil; silk, cotton, linen
thread, &C., low for cash.
Old Machines taken in exchange, and par
ties allowed literally fer them. a.f. .ssp
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CI.OTHING.

Mems and Boys Ready-Made Suits from
81 90 to $500 Mems Hne cloth Colts and
Cassimere Pants Also, Fins Saiss made to
order for $40. 90 to $25 90.
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NOTICE.

NOTICE. ll6 .98|s
All persons having claims against the Es-
tate Of the deceased, must present the same,
duly attested, to the Executor. on Or before
July 18th, 1876, or abide the Act of Assembly
in snch case made and provided.
EDWARD VI. LOCKWOOD, Executor
Address -Aiddletown, Del.
July 24-2m.
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's',F ss'rss. sssss- y = m .scfessv ssesssf
DRESS GOODS,

y1ass siesE W sxaassi "a IN EAS sssest
fsIeeH sx;,; @s5is 40 zsS'esss yaIssrsf
Plnin, sPlaid and Twilied Saiiines; 5oaay .Tis'
ber, Basathea and BiarFitz Cloths; Tusqnoiss
ra.!,31 and Al3cs tqs'Fs silk Yesg; Rb,ia and
Silver Stripe and Pine Apple Jap~nest; Plain.
Mixtures and Percales. so
The best Black Alpacas ia the market (f:ol-s
lingwood Brandt 81, 373, As, SO. 90, GO, Gs.s
75 and so cents per yard.
Middletown transcript., 1875-07-24

Rbet Rraxisr .ffom the jsileat Ne = Cas-.
tle will scarcely be regretted by The
majority Of the taxpayers Of this coun-
ty.Ii He has been confined in onrcounty
prison since the fall Of 1864. excepting
ope,agFatvo, brief intervals when /" Jail
brsAAking" epablsa him 70 enjoy . little
outdoor. sxsrcisey This is the second
time that be has succeeded in sludiDg
the, vatchfulness of his keepers, and il
he is never caught very few people. will
care, provided DO makes bis future hab-
itation on some portion Of the sarth's
surface beyond the confines Of Delaware
and the Eastern Shore Of Maryland
Ho would havs ! very slender chance
ofbsiGg psfdoned during the term II
the present Executive, and now that be
isiods ks wosld act the part Of wisdom
to put snucii greater distance between
hfhSslF and biz prison chat he did the
last time be escaped. The farther of
he goes thssster hssvill bsffom arrest.
ssfitsfo s==s=s9z=====.+.=. sss
s,JopRx4nrszIcr M John T. Hand.
publisher and proprietor of the Centre
yillf, il Md sa Git;ssn fti Elblls EpHlblisssed vail
dictcry editpris| dis | lass saEa.s xeek announcing
biz ds!srT9ginstioP !s19gls s e csass TIE publiea-
ton Of ths paper fpE pE, n tie 3 very iqstifable
reason that il didn't pay. The Citizen
hss bcon 10 existence 1fiftesp ! years and
Mr.. Hand IS s.ys j,Ii;t i has scsl.,rIccely more
than paid expenses, It was Ropubf-
can in politics. which doubtless had
grsat deal 70 sdU With its want Of
patronage. s'rbe past year has been
al czcaesdingly hard one one on newspapers. M
IIdndfsds, It Il said, have failed, entail.
ing more than million dollars of loss
upon their swners. The present year,
tits hoped, WIN be Better Ifitis not,
iEie liRelyshat the Cftssn will not lack
conplAy ylpi'AtS slways regret 10 heara
Of the failure of newspaper, and are
glad 10 hB6r that Mr.. Hand has recon-
sidcred mis- sdctermindtiuua to suspend,
znal c6Aclnded ttoatry itstlittls longer.
1Dr .9I0HgD. Knowles, Of the Byeaky
'0ataeHsght has begun the second am
npal publication Of the Rehoboth Record
lhs b. little paper in xhieh hf reqorda the
i0ioes ,9f the camp meeting at Relbp'
Ioth !sal'ai during itf season; anil ,lsisI,r II
Middletown transcript., 1875-07-24

es~Gataiogues withfdfi information AZ 10
Terms, Course of Study, etc., furnished gra-
tuitously. Address ]. T. WARD, D. D., Pres
ident,i Westminster, Md @'f' Jy24-6t
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M. L. HARDCAsTLE, ai,ss
S. R. Stephens & Co.
N-.E;w
SILKS.

Fine Cashmere and Gfos Grain Black ,Slks
$2. 50 70 $3.0o-wcrth $500 Striped Japan
ese Silk, 81 to 50 centssIayt' aas sfsi'snq
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i, DRESS GOODS. o1lil s'''ls s.
New shades Of Alpacas, Popljns, Delaines,
and Wash P6pfss- -42} 1876 eeats:l md "
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Yelu advertisements.
TRUSTEES SALE
IS d .sss OF 4sSif i f:ds
REAL ESTATE.

By virtue of an Order Of the Orphans Court
of the State Of Delaware, in and for New Cas-
tie County. made the l7lh day Of February,
A. D. 1875, will be exposed to sale, at Public
Auction, at the house Of James C. Townsend,
IN THE VILLAGE OF TOwnsEND.
ON FRIDAY,
The, 18th day Of August, A. D. 1876
AT n O'CtOCKaM..is bio sru
The following described lands and teneuents,
being the Real Estate of Frances Armstrong,
deceased, to-wit: lso3 20 3sa..ss lgsc. ~
A certain tract Of land AT Taylor,s' Bridge
IN New Castle County, containing in upland
and marsh ,.fc4. l9ai SHea rs
THIRTY ACRES aOF LAND. q
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sasss 10 81 f'FlS 7i'Ty FIi; n s. DO:
Vi .itsos - Irs,spirsi ,4sas!s si4a f.:s .sssx
-. q iitassT ~ "
And, Ba!tea sad Congress Gaiiess for ssE
and boys wear.
Nay lA 1875.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-05
How MIR. Lincoln Forgave Him.

The editor of weekly paper, pub
lished in little village in Missouri, call
ed at the White House one day, and was
admitted to Mr.. Lincoln's presence. He
told Mr.. Lincoln that be was the man
who first suggested his name for the
Presidency, and pulling from his pocket
an old, worn, defaced copy of his paper,
exhibited an item on the subject.
Do you really think, said Mr.. Lincoln,
that announcement was the means of my
nomination?
Certainly, said the editor, the sugges-
tion was so opportune that it was at once
taken up by other papers, and the result
was your nomination and election.
Ali Well, said Mr.. Lincoln with a
sigh, and assuming arather gloomy coun-
tenance, am glad to see you and to
know this but you will have to excuse
me; lam just going to the War Depart
ment to see Mr.. Stanton.
Well, said the editor, | will walk over
with you.
The President, with that apt good-na-
ture so characteristic of him, took up
his hat and said, come along.
When they reached the door of the
Secretary's office, Mr. Lincoln turned to
his companion and said, | shall have to
see Mr.. Stanton alone, and you must ex-
cuse me, and taking him by the hand he
continued, goodbye. l hope you feel
perfectly easy about having nominated
me don't be troubled about it forgive
you.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-05
TriheS.

Our lives, or rather their happiness or
misery are in a great measure made up
of trifles, just as time is made up of mo-
ments.
The discomfort of having to wait for
a meal beyond its regular hour, of find
ing hingsill-prepared or carelessly done,
or meeting slovenliness and discomfort
when little thought and pains might
have introduced ease and even elegance,
or of being brought up sharp at every
turn by want of punctuality and of
method-these areills more difficult than
the uninitiated imagine.
Most houses might be comfortable and
elegant Yes, elegant for comfort con-
sists in finding everything where and as
it should be; elegance, in adding to what
should be there, that which need not be
there, but whose presence surprises, at
tracts and gratifies.
There is often neither comfort nor ele-
gance IN the richer mansions, while both
are found in the laborer's cottage. A
jug filled with flowers, a neat white cur
tain, a couple of flower pots, effect what
the expenditure of as many dollars has
not achieved. Let it not be said that
these are mere trfes, unworthy of atten-
tion.
Distrust the pretence of that spirituali-
ty whose eyes are too lofty for the COM
mon things of life. In the long catal-
ogues of things to "think on they rank
at any rate among the whatsoever things
are lovely" You say they are trifes
then all the more they ought not to be
neglected. But, trifes though they be,
to neglect them is not a trife; it is a
breach of plain duty.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-05
A Real Romance.

On the 30th ult., Sylvester Guiberson,
son of N. w. Guiberson, of Madison
county, Iowa, was married to Miss Min
ME Waters, of Excelsior, Mimi, and
this is the way it happened: A young
gentleman and Miss Waters were on the
lake skating, when suddenly the ice gave
way, and they were treated to remark
ably deep and cold bath. Three big
towards stood near them but would lend
no assistance. Mr.. Guiberson was al
most quarter of mile distant, but
heard their cries of distress, rushed to
the scene, at once comprehended the sit
uation, and in a moment proceeded to
rescue the young lady, who was almost
drowned and frozen, and on arriving at
the shore informed the three cowardly
whelps that if they did not go and gether
young companion he would throw each
one in after him an order they at once
obeyed. Mr.. Guiberson carried his prize
to the nearest house, where she was prop
erly cared for, and as soon as she was
able he escorted her to her home. This
was enough for the old aunt of the young
lass, and straightway the courtship be-
gun, which eliminated in their mar
riage.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-05
A Hard Winter for Birds.

The severity Of the late extremely cold
weather is said to have played havoc
with the birds of the air and water fowl
Thousands of crows have been starved
and frozen to death. They have also
been found blind, unable to navigate
from loss of sight and helpless from cold
and want of food. This blindness is
caused by the starved birds picking each
others eyes out at night on their roosts,
where in their reduced state from hunger
they fight with desperation, and practice
in extremity sort of fierce cannibalism
on each other. Many wild ducks have
been captured, stupified and starving.
The Baltimore Sun mentions a gentleman
in that city who reports that the robins
in great numbers, having exhausted the
food available in the up country or cut
off from supplies by the ice and snow, are
driven to the borders of the city to salts.
fly their hunger. In some places they
have stripped the holly trees of all the
berries and eaten all the food they could
find. In one instance there was robin
on a holly tree for almost every berry it
bore, and the tree being within few
yards of one of the windows of the house,
they could all have been shot within
few hours The humane master of the
house, however, fed them, and the con-
sequence was that not only the robins,
but the English sparrows and other poor
little birds found hospitable resting
place and secure harbor, compensating
the family by their songs of thanks and
presence. The crows, however, have been
reduced to the greatest extremity there,
and hundreds Of them are to be seen dali
ly in the streets of Baltimore picking up
whatever droppings they can find, and
the boys have caught many of them,
helpless, sightless and starving in the
snow. The pigeons have also suffered
very much from the cold. 1t is not un-
common to see score of gulls and twice
as many crows together upon the ice in
localities where some choice morsels are
to be found, which have been cast over
board from vessels, and the cawing OF
the crows, commingled with the shrill
notes of their white friends, the gulls,
makes rather discordant music.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-05
New England Farmers.

Hon. Daniel Needham, Secretary of
the New England Agricultural Society.
in au address before the Farmers Con-
vention, held at Worcester, the 26th and
9th ult., makes the farming interest Of
New England compare very favorably
with that of the West. If all were of
his mind in the matter we should not so
often hear OF deserted homesteads in the
East and decaying farmhouses upon our
hillsides We quote the following from
his address
People who have become tired of
farming in this section of the country
and moved West only to be disappointed
in so far as great expectations are con-
cerned, will soon learn that New Eng
land has not retrograded, but is moving
on, and to-day it is the wonder, in indus
trial pursuits, of the civilized world.
These same states have, at the same time.
furnished some of the best men for other
sections of the world that those sections
have ever had, and Vermont alone has
sent seventeen thousand sturdy farmers
to Wisconsin. We have built schools,
colleges and institutes for our children,
that are unequaled in the world. With
the prestige of success already marked
to its record we can we'll invite compari-
son with what we have done.
Not only have the farmers Of New
England paid for their farms and their
stock-and supplied their families with
the comforts and luxuries of life; and
educated their sons and daughters but
deceived to large extent by advertise
ments published by the religious press,
supposing the paid articles we're honest
editorials, they have invested millions of
their hard.earned surplus earnings in
worthless bonds of western railroads.
True great many men have gone west
from New England and got rich, but it
was by land speculation and not by le-
gitimate farming. The moral character
of New England farmers is one Of the
country's strongest safeguards, and it
makes, to great extent, New England
what it is. But when those same men
go West they lose that restraint which
is so necessary for good, and decline to
shiftlessness and Incidence. He closed
with an appeal for New England farm
ers, and hoped young men would adopt
the farm as their homes"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-05
5Hiseeltamu.
A Word of Comfort.
BY FANNY FERN.

'Send me word to comfort me for
the death of my baby" writes broken
hearted mother to me-
Ny dear friend, might tell you that
there are thousands of childless mothers
all over the land, who, likeyou, are look
ing for comfort here and there, and find
none but that would not help you. /
might tell you, too, that if you knew all
the histories that have been told me by
tongue and pen, for many years, you
would be glad that your baby has gone
where there is no more pain; but that
would not cause you to shed one tear
the less, or keep you from telling that
your sorrows was harder than theirs. |
could tell you that God was good, even
in this afhiction but your vision is so
dimmed, that time only can enable you
to see it. 1t is because know that ma
ture must have her own way, or you
could not live and bear it, that / cau
only say to you now, that | am so sorry
for you. | know just how you go about
listening for the little appealing cry that
you may never hear more touching
listlessly the little clothes that you fash
ioned with your heart so full of love and
hope. l, too, have doneall this. | have
lain with my cheek close to the grass
upon my baby's grave, lest she should
be lonely without me, though | knew
she was not there. And yet / have tried
to thank Him who took her so early, that
the storms of life which afterwards over
took me, did not burst over her little
head. So, as | say, / shall not reason
with you now, for that were worse than
useless. | only reach out my woman's
hand and clasp yours in sympathy, al
though we may never meet in the world
/, But one thing know, that in the 9TH
er world your baby and mine will know
US, their mothers, else God were not God.
BY the strong love that came with them,
this must be; we could not be so cruelty
mocked if this were to be the end.
Now, do not sit down and brood over
your grief, if you can help it. Do not
close your blinds and shut out the sun.
shine. Let it warm you, though your
baby is cold You would rather have
felt its little warm clasp even for that
brief time, than not to have known the
bliss Of motherhood, would you not
Well, then warm your poor heart with
that bit of comfort Now, there is lad
der reaching to heaven, only seen by
you, only used by you. Heaven is moi
now to you the misty land it used to be
You see it clearly. By and by you will
hear its music, and one little voice your
mothers ear will detect; and none who
see the peace which illumines your face
will know wherefore, save "He who
doeth all things we'll" And so, with
my love, | leave you.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-05
The Sick ChamDer at Night

The glare of a bright light at night
tends 10 keep an invalid from sleeping
and yet, in many cases, it is not desira-
BILE to be in total darkness. If burn
ing candle has common salt put on the
melted part of the candle, until it reach
es the black part of the wick, it will not
only cause the candle to burn very slow,
but make it give dim, mild, and mel
low light, proving very agreeable to the
invalid.
Another expedient in this connection
room can be very well ventilated in
the hotter nights, by lighting candle
and placing it on the hearth in the fire
place; this causes a draught upwards,
which is promoted by the fresh air COM
ing in at an open window or door. In
the winter, fire should be always burn
ing in the CRATE or fire place, more nee
essary at night than in the daytime; it
not only keeps the air of the room pure
and good, but it prevents the room get
ting too cool, thus endangering pneumo-
MIA or lung fever, in proportion as the
invalid is debilitated.