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Middletown transcript., 1875-10-02
poRr PENN. August 7th. 1875.

CHARLES ADAMS, EsQ-Deay Sir Your
improved wheel attachment for plows is in
INV opinion success. / have been using the
one you left with me for four days, and am
much pleased with it. Every farmer should
see it. expect to order them for my plows
next spring. You can refer any one to me
and will be glad to give all the information
can. Yours, &C., ...,s
Aug 14-lm. Il. PRICE.
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Is your Life Worth 10 Cents?

Sickness prevails everywhere, and every
body complains of some disease during their
life. When sick, the object is to get we'll
now we say plainly that no person in this
world that is suffe ring with Dyspepsia, Liver
Complaint and it's effects, such as Indigestion,
Costiveness, Sick Headache, Sour Stomach,
Heartburn, Palpitation of the Heart Depress-
ed Spirits; Biliousness, &C., can take Gresn's
August Fiower without gettiug relief II you
doubt this 60 to your Druggist Dr.. Cham
berlain, Middletown, Del, or HIP. Baker,
Odessa, Del. and get q sample bottle for 10
cents and try it. OF regular size for 75 cts.
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NEW
Wheel Attachment for Pl0Vs.


Charles Adams, of Odessa, Delaware, has
invented an Attachment for Plows which has
been thorough tested, and gives perfect satis-
faction to all farmers who have seen il work.
1t consists of an adjustable iron clamp or col
lar which can be attached to the beam of any
pow with which the amount of land to be
taken can be accurately gauged, to this clamp
is attached two adjustable wheels, one rum
ming in the furrow and one on the land,
which gauges any depth of furrow desired.
The advantages of this attachment are, that
it takes uniform amount of land and holds
the plow at fixed depth without being held
BY the plowman, which saves large per-
centage Of draft, that it is cheap and within
the reach of all persons needing plows, that
it can be attached to any plow in a few min
utes. These attachments are being manu-
factured by D. Woodall Co., at Middle
town, Del, and it will be to the interest of
the farming community to examine them.
William Polk, r. A. Cochran,
Err. Cochran, Daniel Stevens,
Alfred Herrick.
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Spetial 4otites.

II Is USELESS to attempt to cleanse 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 VINEGAR
BrrTERs, the great and infallible purifier of the
blood, and renovator of the system. 1t has
never been known to fail, provided the patien
had not delayed using it until the vitality of
his system was too far gone.
Middletown transcript., 1875-10-02

All who want good SEWING MACHINE
and having the CASE to pay for it, will have
offered them at the Great Sewing
Machine Depot of A. T. STOOPS, N. E. Cor.
Fourth and Arch St., Phila., they can get al
no other Sewing Machine place in this city.
All kinds of needles, oil, silk, cotton, linen
thread, &C., low for cash. ~ liis
Old Machines taken in exchange, and par
ties allowed literally for them.
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$1,000 PROFIT on 500

Invested in Stock Privileges in Wall st
Books and Circulars telling, How it's done,
sent free. Address BAXTER h Co., Bankers
II Wall ST., New York. Sep ls-4v
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ST. ANNE'S SCHOOL,

Will open on MONDAY, OCTOBER 9TH, on
Lake Street, Middletown, one door west of
Broad. WILLIAM G. BUTLER.
Sep 25-2t. ,y
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= Business Locals and Special Notices 10 cents
a line for each insertion. Obituaries charged
for at the rate Of cents per line of eight
words. Marriages and deaths inserted free.
TERMS: Cash in advance, invariably.
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1000 yards of the best Calicoes, selling off
at 8 and 9 cents, at
SIN. REYNOLDS.
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New Orleans and Porto Rico Molasses,
Choice Sugar Loaf Drips and Sugar House
Syrups, at S. N. REYNOLDS.
A good Black Tea for so cents, at
s. NJ. REYNOLDS.
Rumford's Yeast Powder the best in the
market, for sale by SIN. REYNOLDS.
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The best l23 cent Hose in the market, for
sale by s. NJ. REYNOLDS.
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Sussex County Fairs.

sThe absence Of fairs in the lower counties
Of this State shows lack of enterprise upon
| the part of the people who form their popula'
| tions that should be recti6ed."
This is the beginning of short article on
the subject of county fairs that appeared in
the Morning Herald, of Wilmington, of Thurs
day. Can it be possible that the worthy
editors of that spicy paper have never heard
of the Agricultural Fairs soon to take place
at Bridgeville and Laurel both in Sussex
county? Even should they not have heard
Of the Bridgeville Fair, as this is but its first
year, yetthey or some one of them, might have
heard of the very successful fair which was
held at Laurel last year, and which the good
people of that community propose 10 repeat
this year on much more extensive scale.
Judging from the preparations that are being
made the second annual exhibition of the
Laurel Peninsula Agricultural and Mechan-
ical Society bids fair to rival if not surpass
that of the Peninsula Agricultural Associa-
ton, Of this county.
C0lored Bush Meeting.
QUEER PROCEEDINGS AT HiRE's CORNER
A colored bush meeting was held in Nc
Crone's woods, near Hare's Corner, Friday
afternoon. 1t was attended by about 200
persons. Some of the proceedings of the
brethren who took part were unique and in
teresting, Notwithstanding they were wholly
unintelligible to the uninitiated. In the
midst of the religious exercises the man in
charge formed into line twelve men, who
claimed to be representatives of the "twelve
tribes of Israel" Then they marched of,
followed the concourse, and halted at spring
close by. This they termed the river of Jor-
dan and here the chosen twelve each armed
himself with q stone and marched back to the
place of starting. The stones were then de-
posted in a hole in the ground and covered
with earth, after which the religious exercises
proper commenced.
What all this meant we do not know, nor
did half of those present understand it.
''What significance has all this" !" asked a
visitor of colored man who had rock in
his hand.
IL dunno" he said thoughtfully, "but if
eny one'll say the word, SO help me God, I'll
strike one of 'em mokes back of de neck with
dis stone"
He had, doubtless, been angered at Witness
ing what most people considered q senseless
formula, and wanted to vent his anger by the
physical and dangerous demonstration be
Ebening.
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A full line Of heavy Merino Underwear for
s. M. REYNOLDS.
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HOUSE FOR RENT.

2 ST. ANNES RECTORY. Possession lst
October. Apply to GEO. W. INGRAM.
q Sep lift
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CARRIAGE FOR SALE.

A light family CARRIAGE, in good condi-
ton, for sale. Can be seen at
SAMUEL B. GINN'S,
Aug l4-tf Middletown
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Ladies and Gents newest style Windsor
Ties and Scarfs in all shades and widths from
20 cents to 81 90, at s. N. REYNOLDS.
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If you want big plate Of Ice Cream for 10
cents, 60 to Rice's.
If you want the finest Confectionery, 60 to
Rice's. ..-.. ....-...-
If you want Foreign and Domestic Fruits,
20 to Rice's. III
If you want Cakes, plain or fancy, 60 to
Rice's.
If you want Crackers, 60 to Rice's.
If you want Ice Cream for Parties, Pic-Nics,
Church Festivals, ETC., 60 to Rice's.
If you want Toys for the children, go to
Rice's.
If you want Children's Coaches, go to
Rice's.
Boys and young gentlemen, if you want
Base Balls and Bats, 60 to Rice's.
If you want the finest Cigars, 60 to Rice's.
Ifyou want Wedding Cake, 60 to Rice's.
II you want good glass of Soda Water, 60
to Rice's.
If you want Ice for your family, you can
have it delivered at your door by Rice.
All of the above, and many things not here
in mentioned, will sell as cheap as they can
be bought anywhere in the world.
E. B. RICE.
May l-ly.
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ENVELOPES of all sizes, and letter heads with
business cards, furnished, very cheap at the
TRANSCRIPT Office.
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Clark's best Spool Cotton, 6 cents per Spool
S. II. REYNOLDS.
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Ladies call at s. NJ. REYNOLDS and look
at the new assortment of Hamburg Edgings
and Insertings, in all widths and prices from
10 cents and upwards.
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Ladies in need of a nice Silk Dress, call al
S. NJ. REYNOLDS and look at those Guinet
Black Silks at $l.50 and $1.75 per yard, just
received direct from the importers.
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Job lot Ladies' Two-Button and Gauntlet
Llsle Gloves, 124 and 25 cents-worth SO cts.
s. NJ REYNOLDS.
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Attempted Burglary.
Some scoundrel broke into the dwelling
house of Mr.. B. F. Kanely on Thursday night,
but, after ransacking all the rooms on the
lower floor, be departed none the richer,
except in pair Of boots. He appears to have
gone about the business with great deal OF
cool deliberation. He brought his own lamp
with him, and having lighted it, be went into
the pantry and helped himself to bountiful
supper from the contents thereof. He then
searched diligently for the keys of Mr.. KS
desk which he evidently intended to tighten
of whatever money or other valuables he
might find therein. Unsuccessful in his
search be finally left, after having exchanged
his lamp for one of Mr.. Kanely's, doubtless
as souvenir Of his midnight visit.
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Charles Fisher.

| for felonious crime committed at " Washington
brings good deal Of sorrow to the friends Of
the family in this town and vicinity. The
part of Charles is well known here, and his
bad deed creates no suaprise; but the warm
est sympathies Of this community GO out to-
wards his mother who is native of this
town, and one of the purest and most excel
lent of women. With this wayward son she
has labored day and night, both by the best
example that mother could set before son,
and the most persistent effort 10 inculcate the
highest moral and christian precepts; as well
as by prayers and tears, to lead him 10
higher moral life, but without avail. There
appears to be defect in his organization, in
consequence Of which he does not clearly
realize the enormous difference that exists
between right and wrong doing.
Laurel Agricultural Fair.
Old Sussex seems to be waking up in the
matter of agriculture, and her farmers and
artisans are determined to prove to their
brothers Of New Castle and Kent counties,
that they are not to be excelled in their labors.
If we may Judge from the extensive prepara-
tions now being made by the management of
the Laurel Peninsula Agricultural and Me-
chanical Society, for their second annual fair,
on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Octo-
9th, 2sth and 29th, this fair will surpass
that Of last year, and hope all our people will
endeavor to encourage the Society by con-
tributing something for exhibition. The
preparation for this fair will be the best the
Society can do, and liberal premiums will be
offered, amply sufficient, it is thought, to
bring out on exhibition the finest productions
aud best stock of this Peninsula. Fine sta
bling, exhibition halls, &C., have been fitted
up and an excellent opportunity will be given
for each and every one to exhibit or display
his or their invention, manufactures, &c
Citizen.
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1900 yards Hamburg Edgings, at W. H.
MOORE b CO.'S, very cheap.
If you want a pair of good Shop-Made
Boots, 60 to W. Il. MOORE & CO.'S. Every
pair warranted.
Middletown transcript., 1875-10-02

You can buy Organs for $40, $50, $75,
$lO0 and beautiful Organs with stops, fol
$llo, at ROBELEN l. BROS, TO Market ST.,
Wilmington, Del.
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Beautiful u octave PIANOS, Rosewood
case with all improvements, for $24O, war
ranted for five years, at ROBELEN h BROS,
ITO Market Street, Wilmington, Del.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-26
Cotton Crop Returns for June

The department of agriculture is now
receiving the June returns OF cotton,
which will form the basis of the esti-
mates of area of the present crop.
During May preliminary returns were
received from 316 cotton counties. In
sixty-three counties in Georgia the area
averaged the same as last year, as also
in the district represented in North
Carolina, Florida and Texas. A reduc-
ton of one per cent. appears in thirty
nine counties in Alabama of two per
cent. in eighteen counties in South
Carolina, and of three per cent in thir-
ty-eight counties in Arkansas. The
average reduction is eleven per cent.
in Louisiana aud seventeen in Ten
nessee, but there are only twenty coun-
ties represt nted i'll each that the full
returns in June may make a different
showing. The season is reported late
in nearly every instance, from ten days
to two weeks generally, but in some
cases three and even four weeks. More
than two-thirds of the returns make the
season too wet, especially in the time
of planting and terminating. In some
districts the past two weeks have been
too dry. The stand is reported good in
q majority of the returns from North
Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Texas rather
above the average in Arkansas and
Tennessee, and scarcely average in
Louisiana. The condition Is repre-
scented below the average in Florida,
Tennessee and Arkansas; slightly below
in Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, and average in Alabama and in
the Carolinas.
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AMONG the Ogallalla Sioux chiefs is

AMONG the Ogallalla Sioux chiefs is
one named Blue Horse, who was unable
to come to Washington with the delega-
ton, and he has sent the following letter
to the president "There are fifty
families of my people who wish to go to
farming. We wish to go to work, and
do not want white men to run over us.
We intend to remain here, and we want
the neat houses and fences and every
thing that the white men use. We want
COW, two yoke of oxen and a wagon /;
also chickens. Whatever the president
may give those who visit Washing
ton wish share also. 1 also want a
sewing machine and other farming i'm
plements. The Great Father has prom
ised us that we should not starve, and I
wish to make a living Tor myself on
these rivers in this way"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-26
At it Again.

The more those English scientific men
investigate the so-called phenomena of
spiritualism, the more confusing to the
average mind are the results Of their
study. Messrs. Crookes and Wallace
first tried it, and ended by embracing
spiritua1is1n outright. The phenomena
wefe then studied by q committee of the
London Dialectical society, which made
a report 80 obviously worded that the
Dialectics were aectlsed of an intention
to 60 over bodily to the spiritualists.
Among the Investigators appointed by
the Dialects were DIR. Higgins, the
celebrated spectroscopist and astrono-
mer, and Edward W. Cox, a London
sitting evidence. The latter gentleman,
seeing the work of himself and his COM
panions criticized by the papers, and
themselves char cterized as incompe-
tents and gu1libles, has published q
plain statement of his own connection
with the investigation. He went into
the examination fully convinced that
phenomena were fraudulent. he says
that no professional medium was en-
plo7ed, but lady who had never at
tended ttssance," the wife of a member
of the committee, served as the medium.
Their Investigations fully convinced
them that what they saw was not the
work of slight of-hand or trickery. On
one occasion, in brilliantly-ighted
room, table around which the members
of the committee were seated, but which
none of them were touching, was lifted
eight inches above the floor repeatedly,
BY come unseen force. The table was
then placed ii q position where neither
the feet nor hands, nor any part
of the persons of the investiRa-
tors could possibly come in con-
tact with it, but it still continued to
move. As final result of these and
many other observations, the committee
came to the conclusion that there exists
force which proceeds from the human
organization, by which motion may be
prodt,ced In heavy substances without
the employment Of muscular power, and
without contact or material connection
of any kind. The force they call
''psychic force" and declare that it is
exercised i'll the presence OF certain
highly-developed organisms more read
ily than others. The committee did not
meet with ary manifestations which
they believed to proceed from the spirits
of the dead. Mr.. Cox, since his report,
has been chosen president of the Psyche
logical Association of Great Britain
an organization formed to study this
and kindred subjects. Spiritualism has
been long enough before the public to
demonstrate that it has "something sin
it" beside fraud, and the Psychological
association, which goes to neither ex-
IRENE in interpreting it's manifestations,
should be encouraged by the British
press in it's honest effort to find just
where the truth lies.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-26
GOD BLESS THE FARM.

God bless the farm the dear old farm!
God bless Its every rood,
Where willing hearts and sturdy arms
Can earn an honest livelihood!
Can from the coarse and fertile coil
win back a reeonpense for toll.
God bless eath meadow. field and nook,
Begemmed with faifest Howets,
And every leaf that's gently shock
BY evening breeze or morning showers:
God bless them all each leafs gem
IL natures gorgeous diadem.
The orchards that, in early Apripr,
Blush rich in fragrant flowers.
And with each autumn surely bring
Their wealth of fruits in golden showers;
Like pomegranates on Aaron's rod,
miracle from Natures God.
And may He bless the farmers home,
Where peace and plenty reign;
No happier spot meath heavens high dome
Doth this broad, beauteous earth contain,
Thai where secure from care and strife
The farmer leads Ills peaceful Ife.
Unyexed by toll and tricks fot gain;
He turns the fertile mould;
Then scatfers on the golden grain,
And rssps reward hundred-fold;
He dwelIs where & race and beauty charm,
For God hath blessed his hons and farm!
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THE sURsIse PRAIRIE.

The prairie stretched ~ smooth rs . floor,
As far - the eye couid see,
And the settler sat at his cabin door,
with his little girl on his knee;
Serving her letters to repeat,
And pulling her apron over her feet.
His face was wrinkled but not old,
For be bore an upright form,
And his shirt sleeves back TO the elbow rolled,
They showed orawny arm.
And near m the grass with toes upturned,
wss pair q old shoes, cracksd and burned.
a dog With his head betwixt his pawn,
Lay iazily doing near.
Nos and then swapping his tar black jaws
At the DIV that buzzed in his ear;
And near wa. . cow-pen, made of rails.
Anda bench that held two milking pals.
In the open door an ox-yoke lay,
The mothers odd r~doubt
To keep the little one. ut or play
On the floor, from falling out:
while she swept the hearth with . turkey wing.
And flied her tea-hstle at the spring.
The little girl on her fafbers knee,
With eyes go BRIGHT and blue,
From a, B. G, to x, Y, z,
Had aid her lesson through:
when . Wind came over the prairie land,
And caught the primer out OF her hand.
The witch dog vhined. the cattle lowed
And tsseed their horns about,
The air grev gray a. II IT showed.
There wfn be storm, no doubt"
So In hfrnself the setfler safd;
But fafher. why fs the sky 30 redf"
The Iitf,e girl did OF his knee,
And all Of . tremhle stood:
"0ood ~'fe,- he cried. "come out and see,
TIE sfses sre red % blood
~iGod ave us ~ cried the settlers wife,
The prairies a-hre. we must run for life ~
8be caught the baby up, Come.
Arc We mad7 to youf heels, my mani"
BE followed. terror-stricken. dumb,
And 90 they ran and ran
Clo-e rpon them was the mort and swinR
or buhaloes madiy gsloping.
rhe Wild wind, lie . sover. BOWS
ThJ Rrounf with sparkles red;
And the dappiuR wings Of the bats and crows,
And the ashes overhead,
And the belowinz deer. and the Kissing snAke.
What swirl Of ia rrible sounds they make.
No CLEAN Of the river water yet,
And the names leap and on.
crash snd hercer whirl and je.
And the rettler's house In gone.
The air grown hot &c this hutterfuR curi
Would burn Ike fsx.- said the little girl
And N the smoke against her drift,
And the lizard slips close by her,
She teu- h~v the little COW uplifs
Her specified face from The nre:
For ste cannot be hinde e I from looking back
At the hery dragon on their track.
They besr the cracking erass and sedee,
The hannes Is trey vhir and rave.
On, on they are close TO The waters edge
They are bresst-tfeep in the wave:
And lifting their little one high orr the tide
We are es~ed, thank God. we are saved! 7, the.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-06-26

SHRINKAaK ON CorToN.-A CORES
pondent of the Arkansas Grange gives
hisexperience on the shrink age of cot
ton as follows
I had a dispute last September with
a Memphis merchant about the loss of
weight on cotton. To test tho matter I
ginned a bale on the 18th of October,
weighing 1852 pounds. l then put it in
a dry shed on plank floor, so situated
that it had sunshine on it every day
that was clear until December 9Th,
when it was again weighed, and found
to weigh 1853 pounds. I had three men
to see the test. 1 wish all my brother
planters would make a test, and see if
it brings the same result. This is the
third year I have tried with the same
results. The average loss on cotton
shipped to Memphis is about ten
pounds per bale; this, at Is cents,
amounts to $500, 600 on the cotton
shipped to that place. This would pay
all our taxes.