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Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
THIRD EDITION.
The Rifle Contest.

TIE IRISH TEAM AHEAD AT 800 YARDS TARGET.
DUBLIN, June 90
The international rifle con test began to-day,
at Dollymount, between the Irish and American
teams The total score at the 800-yards range,
was Americans, 337 Irish, 1888.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
ay,iyoly PardOninC Husincss.

Governor Beveridge, of Illinois, has been do
ing great business i'll the pardoning line, hav-
ing released sixty-6ye criminals during the frat
five months Of this year, Or st the rate of over
one hundred and fifty year. Among the num-
Der are seven murderers, who have served AL
average of only eight years.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29

The population of Milwaukee, according to
a census just taken by the State, ls ioI; ;oaS'
Its population in 1870, according 10 Inc " D.
census, was II, 400.
rha Grain shoyellers at Buffalo have struck
ooainst the uae of the steam shovels. and the
e1ssin business in that city is at a stand still.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
Unwilling a monument,

AT Beverly, N. j., Yesterday, the monument to
the soldiers WAS unveiled. A large number OF
persons were present, and several addresses
messed the ceremonies.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
Nfttt advertisements.

CEO. w. BUSH & SON NOW SELL
VI TIE BEST EGG AND STOVE COAL $50,
CASH NUT as, CASH. THEIR PATENT WA
CON SAVES ALL DIRT AND LABOR
GEO. w. BUSH d SON, French st. wharf.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
Weather Record.

REPORT or TIKI SIGNAL sERvI0x.
WAsHINaToN. June 90
Probabilities For the Middle States, station
ary or falling barometer, Northeast to South
east winds, increasing cloudiness, stationary or
lower temperature, and occasional light rains on
the immediate coast.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
DEAsoNS WHY THE
ARUNDEL PEBBLE SPECTACLES SHOULD BE
PRKRERRED TO ALL OTHERS.

- GASOAND w Ii LIZ
ARUNDEL PEBBLE SPECTACLES SHOULD BE
PRKRERRED TO ALL OTHERS.
They have the power of arrestlng the heat rays OF
Solar or Artificial Light before entering the eye
They are violet tinted yet constructed that when
applied to the eye appear colorless. The high and
low numbers are the same tint.
Mai. General A. Duryea, OF New York city, writes $
ait gives me pleasure to say that the Arundel Peh-
BILE Spectaces are the hest have ever seen or worn
and to them indebted for the return OF the sharp
vision OF my youthful days.
From Messrs. Queen Co., Opticians, CHESTNUT
Street, Philadelphia: ave have submitted your
samples to several of our leading physicians for ex-
animation and in every case the result would have
been satisfactory to you could you have been pres
ent."
W. F. westmoreland, NJ. D., Professor of Prlnci-
pies and practice Of Surgery in Atlanta, Ca, Medical
College, writes | am forced 10 operate for
Cataract in a few days, and do not see how can
do so without the Arundels."
From X. s. Mershon, Esq, GAINESVILLE Ohio: 81
have put the Arundes through the following tests: :
i placed an eight inch Arundel and an eight inch
sunlight with their foc directed the bulbs uf two
thermometers, and the difference was four (s) de-
grees in temperature in favor of the Arundel. Again.
placed the same lenses side by side on piece OF
sensitised Photographic paper, and the wnite glass
disc olored the surface quicker and more under 4
given exposure than the Arundel. These two tests
prove these two points, viz that the Arundel inter.
cents the solar heat rays and the chemical rays also.
G. r. RUDOLPH, Agent, Wilmington, Del.
importers and Dealers in line Watches, Jewelry
and Sverware.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
FOURTH EDITION.
still waiting,

NO VERDICT YET FROM THE IILroN JURY.
BRoogLyS, June 29-1 T. NJ.
No verdict has been rendered up to this hour.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29

BASE BALL On Thursday next, at 8 P. NJ, a
match game of base ball will be played between
the Qnicksteps and the Oreager club, Of Tren-
ton, N. ]. The game takes place at Shutzen
Dart.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29

TEMPERANCE MEETISa.-A temperance meet
ing will be held at Asbury M. Z. church, this
evening, which will be addressed by Rev. A. d.
Davis. No admission will be charged, and the
nuhlo ira ipvitad
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
WE OFFER FOR SALE,

WE OFFER FoH sAHH'
AT 90 AND ACCRUED INTEREST,
$4,000
OF THE FIRST-MORTGAGE sEvEE-PER CENT.
COUPON BONDS OF THE
WEST END PASSENGER RAILWAY CO.,
OF PHILADELPHIA,
Due September ], 1908; Interest Coupon payable
March and September /. Free from all taxes.
THE PHILADELPHIA TRUST SAFE DEPOSIT
AND INSURANCE COMPANY
Is the Mortgage Trustee for the bondholders.
The West End Passenger Railway Company have
their entire tracks almost laid, and It's equipment
Will be completed In few weeks.
For circulars or further information apply to
MARIS Il SMITH,
BANKERS,
No. IS SOUTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
je25-tf fp
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
The yellow Fever.

EPIDEMIC AT KIY wEsT, FLA.
New YORK, June 20.
The yellow fever has been declared epidemic
at Kew West, Fla.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29

SERIOUS FaLL--George Mccall, son Of Lewis
McCall Of 806 West Fifth st., fell yesterday,
while painting q third story window at the dwell
ing of @. H. Gallagher. Fortunately he fell up
on grass plot inside the railing, and though se-
verely hurt no bones were broken. He was
conveyed to his home and his injuries attended
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
Dry Goods.
Carpets
Oil Cloths

MATTINGs AND UPHoLsTKRING GOODS.
One Of the best assorted stocks In the United
States, al as low prices US any reliable house.
my2sfp&wtf
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
DaifD Geatmertial.
COMMERCIAL PRINTING COMPANY.
Howard II. Jenkins, Wilmer Atkinson,
Francis O. Ferris.
NJ Pcr Tsrr,s, etc.,, ses Second Page.
Personal.

Secretary Robcson left Washington on Sat-
urday night for Rye Beach. He expects to re-
turn next week.
DIR. s. W. Murphy,principal of Rugby Acad-
envy, leaves to-day for tho purpose OF spending
bs vacation in Canada. He will mako most OF
his stay in Toronto.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
COM M ercisy Reports.
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS,

PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.
PHILADELPHIA, June 80.
Flour dull, weak and unchanged. Wheat qui-
ct red s.. .2901. 80. Corn scarce yellow, SOC.
Oats quiet, at 61@G2c. Provisions steady.
Whiskey $1.19I1.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29

THE DELAWARE MAILS. s.--Postmaster Pyle i'll
forms US that hereafter the mails from the Del
aware II. r., will be brought up to the office
aud distributed immediately upon the arrival Of
the train due at sos A. M, and will be ready for
delivery at 1926 A. NJ The carriers, however,
will not deliver this mali before the usual hour,
but persons may call at the Office and obtain
their letters, &c.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
DEDUCTION
IN THF PRICE OF COAL

IN THE PRICE OF COAL.
The retail prices of coal on Monday, June 2lst
and until further nptlce, will be as follows:
BROKEN EGG AND STOVE, 6.75 per ton delivered
NUT COAL,......,........-...S6 5000
None but the best qualities sold from my yard,
such as the Enterprise, hhamokln, Harleigh, LIE.
high and Shawnee COAL Orange street and lailroad
avenue. % cents per ton less for cash on delivery.
eprlT-1yof JOSEPH FOUT.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29

DRUGGISTS LABELS AT THE COM
IL MERCIAL ONCE. We will print for druggists
as low as they can get work done at onices where
labels arc specially. Try u.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29

SUDDEN DEATH.-Just before noon, to-day, we
were informed Of the sudden decease OF Mrs.
Sarah Il. Mendinhall, a well-known and highly
respected lady, residing at COZ West ST. She had
been engaged in ironing, and had gone upstairs
when she fell and on being taken rp life was
found to be extinct. Mrs. M. was the mother OF
Henry Mendnhall, Esq, President of the Dia-
mond State Iron Co and mother-in-law to the
late T. Clarkson Taylor.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29

ITERARY SOCIETIES ISSUING
IL weekly or monthly papers are invited to avail
themselves of our facilities for neat work at prices
slightly above cost of production at the Cosnasa-
CIIL BTKAM POWER PRINTING R0ohs.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29

LARGE FuSERAL--A special car from this
city yesterday at Z o'clock took largo number OF
persons to Lanuenbeig where they were met by
Tie Chester county farmers and conveyed in car
riages to Chesterville to attend the funeral OF
Jacob Messmer who died suddenly on Thursday.
From Chestervllle the Wilmington friends made
a part OF the procession, IN which there were
nearly one hundred carriages, and proceeded to
New London where the remains were inferred.
The New London Lodges Of Odd Fellows and
knights of PythIas of which the deceased was
amembor, turned out in very large numbers and
created a very favorable impression by their
kindness to the afflicted widow and relatives OF
the deceased
1t is credtable to the farmers Of that neigh
boriood that they could leave their work in the
busy season Of hay-making to accommodate the
friends of the deceased from Wilmington.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29

EUROPEAN NOVERTIES-EIEG
IL PAINTED and Plain Fans. New style Combs,
Fancy Jewelry, Hair and Bonnet Ornaments, BeltA,
Buckles, Toilet and Ornamental Goods. Il. DIXON,
q Sontn EIGHTH St., Philadelphia.
my5 2uMWS
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29

PRIMARY EXHIBITION. The primary school OF
Harkness' Academy gave pleasing entertain
ment yesterday in which the talent Of the pupils
and the diligent labors of the teachers were evi-
dent. The exercises we're declamations, collo-
quies, and songs. Among the pupils giving
credtable performances were Robert Scott, Jr..
Eddie Gosiip, Mamie Wyle, George Hepbron,
Aubry Thatcher, Eugene and Frank Murphy,
Geo. D. Armstrong Jr., Carrie Publ, Albert
Vernon, jesse Welch. Roscoe Baylis, BERTHE
Cobb, John Simms, Eddie Henze, and Laura Nc
Canlley. This school is in a prosperous condi-
ton, apparently attractive TO it's pupils. and we
jndge from the character OF its attendance by
children of well known citizens, satisfactory to
parents.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29

r X. ID. SEEDS,
81 CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Bhop, Fourth Street, between West and TGtnall.
Residence Adams st., doors South of Delaware
Avenue Estimates furnished on all kinds of work
and jcbbing carefully attended to at reasonable
prtces. 1y2s-1y-lm
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
New Castle Items.

Boston. ..2023 OO03 o 2 ~.
Athletic. .. 0 0 8 0 0 2 O ....1
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
Neip advertisements.

CHERRY SEEDERS OF TWO STYLES,
" they are ths best seeders In the market, Tor
sale by u,, TT p,rY.Nv
ol4 Market Street, Wilmington.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29

The Bachelors are not yet satsned with
saturdays race, and hold that the Undne gig ia
the faster boat of the two. They. therefore ask
change of boats and a friendly race on Satur-
day week. 1t is understood that any PROPOSE
ton of this kind made to tho Undine Club will
be Immediately accepted. This will he a fine
chance to test both crews and boats, and spiri-
ted contest is expected May the best crew win.
Iron ORE BED.-Ex. Sheriff Thomas Of Elk
ton, Cecil county, Md, has recently discovered
what he believes to be very valuable bed of
iron ore The ore is heavy and the vein deep.
The bed was found on the west side Of Red Hill
near the top, in the midst of laurel thicket.
Mr.. Thomas is making arrangements to put up
steam engine and washer and commence TAX
ing out ore as soon as business revives suffi-
ciently to justify him in 30 doing. .-Middleto,cn
transcript
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-29
at 100000

G1 100000 -: ...
GEO. 8. GRUBB, BROKER.
All kinds Of Stocks and Loans Bought and Sold on
Commission. Any amount of money raised on pro-
per security. Pronissory notes a specially. City
Loan for Sale. feblO-iy
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-11
oUR MEXIcAN NETGHBoRs.

The Mexican Union is composed Of
twenty-seven States TO our thirty-four,
and covering a much smaller area, this
subdivision gives more of local self
government. There is also a Federal
District, and one territory, that of
Lower California. The total popula-
ton is 9,343,47O, to our forty million.
The total annual revenue Of their Fed
eral government is only Sl5,296,7 55.
At the same rate, we, with four times
the population, would have 10 pay only
Sol ,0OO,O 900 which was about the amount
collected before the war. Instead,
however, of paying only four times as
much as Mexico for Federal machinery,
we are paying twenty times as much,
the total annual receipts according to
the last report Of Secretary BristOw
being 1922, l86,23I. Nor is this the
worst Of it. The Mexican postal SER
vice is self-sustaining, contributing
nearly half a million of revenue which,
with import duties of So, 265, zoo, leaves
only about five and one-half millions to
be collected by domestic taxation, while
our Government collects about $780,
900, 900 from this source, or twenty
three times as much. About half of
Mexico's internal revenue arises from
the stamp tax on legal paper and car
riages. The Mexican army is nearly
as large as ours, numbering in all D.
3S7, andits support consumes over half
the entire revenue. Mexico has had
mqny reverses, and we are disposed to
regard her people as the shiftless vic
tins Of revolutionary demagOgues; but
in the matter of dollars and cents, so
far as cheap government is concerned,
they are wiser than we. And cheap
government, be it remembered, leaves
little margin for corruption or despOt-
ism.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-11
OUR STATE CREDIT.

The information contained in Mr..
Snyder's letter, which we published
Sunday, that Gov. Porter had nearly
perfected arrangements for the prompt
payment of the July interest, seems to
have been authentic. The noon dis
patches yesterday reported decided
improvement in Tennessee bonds. The
postponement of the collection Of taxes
had a very depressing influence upon
State credit, but Gov. Porser's ener-
getic and faithful discharge Of his du-
ties viii overcome this, and we should
not be surprised if State bonds approx
mated very nearly to par after the
July interest has been paid. As we
have shown In many previous articles,
there is no good reason why the credit
Of Tennessee should be as low as it is,
and we do not think the population
element viii ever again come as near
controlling another Legislature as they
did the last.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-11
WEST TENNESSEE CROPS AND BUS
MESS PROSPECTS.

There is more corn. wheat, oats and
potatoes and grass Of different kinds
growing within two hundred miles Of
Memphis than was ever known since
the country was settled by white men.
The people will need but little of these
things from abroad. The cotton crop
will be almost a clear surplus with
which to pay off old debts and improve
their places. The lesson learned we
are confident will be an abiding one.
When a community arrives at a con.
clusion after ten years of bitter expe-
rience it is apt to remember 1t. We see
l. stated that one and a half millions
bushels of wheat is growing within
easy reach of the Memphis market
Some of IL is ripe and ready for harvest
ing. This will bring money into circu-
lation five months earlier than usual.
& month from now the effect will be
visible upon our streets and In the ad-
vertisjng columns of the newspapers.
Tue mOnotOny of the long, dreary SUM-
mer months viii be broken by the
rattle Of heavily laden wagons and a
hustle about the depots and landings,
and on Front street, heretofore I'M
known in the middle Of summer. 1t is
a new departure as one Of the slowly
wrought out changes Of the times. 1t
is the adaptation of a whole people to a
new order of things, by which they viii
lift themselves up from the slavery of
old habits to walk proudly erect on the
highway to success and wealth and all
that is honorable and ennOblng.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-11
HOW OLD SPINNER THOUGHT HE
WAS ROBBED.
Washington Capital.


One fall when coming to attend a
session of Congress, he was requested
in New York, by Augustus Sebell, to
take charge of lady friend of his also
coming to Washington. When chang
ing cars at Baltimore a thief got be-
tween himself and his charge, and an
other one pushed closely up beside him.
As soon as he sat down he missed his
wallet. Horace Maynard, who hap
pened to be IN the same car, was ap-
prised Of the fact by the General, and
the two walked forward toward the
stair, where the General thought the
thieves were sitting. In the presence
Of Maynard he charged them with
picking his pocket, and Immediately
one Of them jumped up and ran
toward the rear of the car, but
before the General could catch
him be jumped from the platform, and
in the confusion the other one jumped
off the front platform. On arriving at
his hOteShere, the General hung up
his OvercOat with oilers, and IN the
morning be discovered his wallet in an
outside pocket, safe and sound, the
thieves, in escaping, having replaced 1t
there. And so good fortune may at
tend him again." That is sweet. Now
a wording with a thimbleful of brain
sees that the dear old duck did as many
have done since and before-put his
own wallet IN his own oTercoat pocket
in the hurry and confusion of Luying
a ticket for a fair friend. We have
done that more than once under ike
circumstances. But we never went
about charging other people with pick
ing orr pockets, and soaring innocent
youths out Of rear ends Of cars, TO the
great risk OF their necks. Dear old
prosecuted saint. Why don't he take
some soothing syrup and have a hot
brick put to the small Of his financial
back
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-11
ICE MANUFACTURES IN CHAT.
HANnnEA
Chattanooga Tlmes, June 10


We have become so accustomed al
ready to obtaining cheap ice that we
hardly ever stop to think to whom we
are indebted Tor this great blessing.
The reduction Of the price of ice from
3 to cent per pound retail is due en-
tirely to the establishment Of the Coat.
tanOoga Ice Factory, who can make ice
as cheap as it can be cut out of the
northern lakes and sold for at the spot.
We were in the factory yesterday and
found them getting out a car load Of
ice for shipment South. The ice ac-
cumulates much faster than it can be
sold at present, the daily yield being
five tons. The ice is beautifully clear
and hard, fully equal to the best lake
ice. 1t is really wonderful to see the
rows of columns of ice twenty
feet high and from two to three
feet IN diameter, and to reflect that
while these were forming, the Their
mOmeter on the outside had stood az
81 deg. and over. The consumption of
sixteen bushels Of coal daily converts
five tons of water into ice. This sur
passes as a paradox the old chemical
wonder Of loading a cannon with water
and firing it with a piece of ice, or the
other stranger one of freezing a lump
of ice IN a red hot crucible.
The people Of Chattanooga should
give the Ice Factory a hbsral support.
Every family Will now find 1t economi-
cal to use ice. Five cents worth of ice
daily through the summer viii save
many times its value Of perishable arti-
cles, besides adding greatly to the COM
fort of life. No Northern ice company
can retail'ice here at profit for less
than two cents, but while the ice facto-
~ continues, the retail price Will never
90 above one cent.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-11
THE SLANDERED SOUTH.
Why Northern Men are Afraid to Set
tie Among Us.
Pittsburg Post, June 9.

ANe1A-- 4 N1Nt c.--S -
Some time has now elapsed since ex-
Congressman w. d. Kelley and Vice
President Wilson paid their notable
visits to the South, and mingled freely
with the people there. They were rep
resentati7e men in their party-the
strictest Of their seton all subjects
pertaining to the late civil war, and the
results growing therefrom, and their
opinions and experiences were clearly
entitled to the most careful considera-
ton OF their party associates. But it
is unfortunate for the South that the
baseless and interested ISLANDERS clrcu-
lated through North and West by those
OF Messrs. Kelley and Wilson's politi-
cal associates who support the Admin
istratiOn through thick and thin, can
not be so readily and easily eradicated
from the minds of the thrifty and in
dustrious mechanics Of the North and
West, as they were implanted or as
they were eradicated from the minds
Of these two distinguished Radical pol
iticiaus.
In many portions Of the West there
exists a very strong desire among the
labOring classes and small CAPITALISTS,
to emigrate to some Of the more fertile
and favored districts Of the South At
lantic and Gulf coasts. Some few
have been going thither, feeling per-
haps that they were taking nearly the
same risks as their fathers took when
they turned their faces westward to
subdue the wilderness and the Indian
tribes that infe, ted it alike. But there
are still larger numbers who wonld be
glad to purchase small farms or set up
their workshops in the South, but they
have all along been deferred from so
doing by the wild fabrications of the
carpet-bag adventures who went
South to prey upon the people, and
who know that they can only main
tain themselves IN power by forging
the lies they tell, and inventing ou.-
RACES, which furnish a pretext for the
use Of the Federal Army to keep down
the Independent viii of the people.
These people who are anxious to go
to the South for the purpose Of settling,
lettering their fortunes and building
up It's prosperity, say that they have
learned these things from the Radical
politicians and papers, and that they
have no other source of information
concerning the condition Of affairs in
the South. They have neither the
leisure nor the means, ike Messrs.
Kelley and Wilson, to go and see for
themselves and be convinced that the
reported outrages and lawlessness are
the mere Pigments of an inhamed par
tisan imagination; so they stay at
home, and althoug they may not give
credit TO all they are told by the party
managers, yet they fear to risk their
little fortunes on the chances that the
stories so often repeated, on the eve of
elections, are false.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-11

THE manner Of profting by "straw
bids" is not perhaps understood by the
general public. A straw bid is one
made at a very low figure, and design
ed to fail. The bidder generally con-
ducts the mail service long enough to
get back the deposit he is required to
make at the tine of bidding as an
earnest Of good faith. After this the
contract is allowed to lapse suddenly,
and the department, in order to con-
rinue the mails, finds itself compelled
t. accede to the terms Of the old con-
tractors, who manage always to be on
the ground with their stock and teams,
ready to take up the work. By this
means the same contractors have kept
the business year after year on their
own terms, while honest competitors,
Offering to do the work at living rates
are driven out Of the field by the
ssstraw bids Unless the honest bid
der g3eg ahead, investing his money in
making ready for the business, and
then lose time waiting for the straw
lid-to- fail, he has no chance whatever
against the ring contractors.