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Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-14

WE HAVE SOME ELEGANT NEW
w type for letter and note headings and have
liked prices exceedingly low for fne class OF work
At the C0MnHBUIAL once
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-14

On motion Of Mr. Frock, the proper officers
were instructed to notify the Board of Trade
that the Board OF Education would give up the
room on the 25th of March.
Mr. Price complained OF water in the cellar OF
No. school which the committee of that school
was instructed to remove.
An adjournment was then made.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-14
Notiffs.

NOTICE.-PARTIES WHO INTEND
IN TO buy q frst-class Wheeler a Wilson sewing
machine will nud 1t to their advantage 10 call on
Ramo, Wheeler Wilson agent, NO. COS West sth
street, ilminglon, Del. decl4.Ist
NOTICE. E.-PERSONS HAVING HAIR
IN at Madame Pursals hair store No. 100 West
7th street, will please call and get It, the store
win he closed during the holidays. decl4,3t'
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-14
y5NO VIRGINIA

Pleasant and profitable homes In the best -
farming strict of Nirgnia-the upper James 4
River Valley. All things considered these are the
cheapest farming lands In the United States. They
are located n the Piedmont district the very best
For further description and particulars address
II. ID. HADLEY,
dfcl0,G' West Chester, Pa.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-14

E.,ANDREWs,
decli2 Agent,
NOIICE-CAME TO THE PREMISES
In OF the subscriber large black dog which the
oHner can have by paying for this advertisement.
H. MCMILLAN,
decl3-2' 30T Madison II,
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-14

( ERMANIA BUILDING AND LOAN
" ASSOCIATION, no. IA special meeting Of
this Association viii he neld Wednesday, the 18th
instant, at $50. p. NJ, to act on proposed amend
ments to bylaws. NJ. l.. LlCHTENSTEIN,
decl3 3t Secretary
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-14

EuK SALE-THREE STORY BRICK
Il dwelling house, TO3 Washington street. Mod
ern improvements aud fine side lot unning through
to Wollason street, or viii be exchanged for Mar
ket street property. Apply to
SAMUEL w. MCAULLEY,
nOvDT II TOR MARI at atraat
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-12-14

tATURDAY, 18th inst, at . p. m.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-02

II the reports that now arrive from Yer
mont are to he trusted, that time has come,
and this peculiar phase of naturalization
is now at. an end. With poetical Justice
The Eddys arc like the farmer who thawed
out the frozen snake owing their fate to
one of their own household, as II were
that is, medium who learned his trade of
them. This person, one Chaplin, was found
out by d. Z. Westcott of Fair Haven. who
for 20 years past has been an earnest be-
lever in Spiritualism, and taken TO his
home. There Chaplin has been holding
seances for the past six weeks, or therea-
bouts. in a small building prepared for the
purpose. 4 few nights ago, three unbe-
levers from Fair Haven village visited the
farm, and after the medium had been tied
in his cabinet aud the manifestations of vi
nlin-playing, bell-ringing, etc., had been
exhibited, Spirits began to emerge. At
a concerted signal one of the investigators
sprang upon promising apparition, and
then turned on light, and Chaplin, robed
in white, was found struggling in the grasp
of the skeptcs. Seeing the game was up,
he confessed his imposlure. but declared
that his performances were as honest rs
those Of the Eddys. Mr.. Weslcott now
publishes Il challenge 10 the brothers to
come and see themselves exposed as i'm
posters and humbugs. in the town hall at
Rutland. one who declares that he has,
through Chaplin's mediumship, seen his
dead mother and grandmother and little
boys, and has taken their hands, goes 10
the point of saying that, if his exhibitions
are fraud, SO are all others through the
country, and that, it Chaplin will repeat
these things aud explain how he does them,
he, for one, has done with Spiriiualism.
Bot this is not Robert Dale Owens ground.
notwithstanding the Katie King delusion,
he maintains the reality Of materializl-
lions, and thinks that the Holmests are
powerful mediums, who resorted to fraud
where their honest powers lailed in order
TO produce asensation. -Sprinlfeid RepHb-
/ienD.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-02
a Faithful Public ser, ant.

Gen. Spinner, whose resignation as Unit
ed States Treasurer has just been rendered
and accepted, was appointed early in the
war by Secretary Chase, and accepted the
office only afler earnest solicitation. The
General desired at that time to enter the
army, and would undoubtedly have been
gwen the command of New York regi-
ment had he taken part in the struggle.
He devoted himself so closely to the du-
ties of his position that during his first
five years of Office he never visited his
home in New York. and often worked
from fifteen to eighteen hours day. lie
has grown old in the public service, re-
manning in the same Office for period al
most unprecedented in a position so i'm
portant and prominent. Chase, Fessen-
den, McCulloch, Boutwell, and Rich ard
son held the office of Secretary and passed
away from it while he still remained. lie
has not been dependent upon political or
personal support for office, and might have
retained his position till the day OF his
death had he not chosen otherwise. Dur
ing the years in which Gen. Spinner has
been Treasurer the losses in his office have
been very insignificant, and would all
have been made good To the Government
out of his own fortune had he not been re-
lieved by special acts Of Congress. He has
had remarkably successful official ca
reer in this respect. The office had no
more honor TO confer upon him, he could
gain no greater distinction in discharGing
lis duties, and he has for some time con-
templaled resigninG. He has grown to
have an almost paternal love for his en-
ployes, and has kept his place for many
months out of personal regard and solicit
tude for some of them as much as for any
other reason. 1t is remarkable that dur
ing all the time of General Spinner's Ten
ure of Office, when so many high officers
have been accused OF crime and dishonesty,
so that few have escaped suspicion, rumor
has never so much as limited doubt Of his
integrity, He has earned this exemption
from suspicion by being what hr seemed,
an honest man.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-02

An andieHce OF one hundred and finy
gathered 10 enjoy an entertainment given
by the ladies of the Methodist sJcieiy in
Hopkins hail on Thursday evening, :he
2j.h ut. Music was furnished by the
choir, and recitations were given by sever
al Of the young ladies. But the principal
feature Of the evening was an original pO-
em on True Woman" delivered by Rev.
J. II. Hilinan OF Marlboro, a former pas
tor VI this society. In treating his subjAc.
Mr.. Ililman's verse flowed smoothly and
pleasantly, and sbuunded in illustrations
OF his ideal woman aud her opposite. And
while he honored and eXIoled true wo-
manhood, lie dealt out very many puugent
morsels OF blame aud protest for The bene-
iii OF the false, all Of which, however, was
duly sugar-c co lied with mirth- provoki ing
humor, and easy 10 take. Al the close OF
this intellectual treat the audience was in
yted to visit refreshment tables, and TO
put themselves outside of as many re-
freshments a. safety, comfort or their purs-
es would allow. The proceeds of the en-
tertainment Melted the society i1y-lhree
dollars.
Rev. j. p. Atkinson preached his clos
ing sermon, AZ supply for the water at the
Universalist church, last Sabbath evening.
Rev. NJ. II. Harris resumes his charge over
the society FIR the spring. summer aud an-
tumn.
The ''thaw' which We are enjoying is
making rapid changes In our streets, and
for want of proper drainage little rivulets
a ha al Ia .ll,
will. These are wearing many open and
some hidden channels for their free pas
sage. Some few places have, as n conse-
quence, becnme somewhat dangerous for
animals and vehicles in passing, except
with great care. 4 day or two ago Mr.. p.
+. Amidon's sleigh dropped into one OF
these water-worn crevices and was badly
broken. 1t would not be a bad idea for the
town, If, AS some think, ii is going into a
lavish expenditure on roads, to spend a tri-
fie on making cutters and. culverts on
Main street. II we must spent the money
let us put portion of il where il will do
the most good"
The ladies Of the Main street aptist
society propose at an early date To ri We an
entertainment in their church. They have
engaged The artist, ]. A. French, of Keene,
TO exhibit choice collection OF foreign,
American and miscellaneous scenes thrown
upon canvas from sciopIicon. The oeca-
sion will afford us an opportunity TO visit
Europe, Egypt and Palestine without the
fatigue aud expense OF travel. Refresh.
ments will probably be served in connec-
ton with the exhibition.
The ENey Guards dramatic club gave
an entertaining nj in American Hall ON
Tuesday evening. Taey were compliment
ed with full house, and are tlatterlnsly
spoken Of by those who attended.
The ladies Of The Congregational society
viii soon give sugar festival.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-02
TIE NEWS Nv BRIEF.

1t is thought that 10 per cent OF the cat
tic in Idaho have been killed by cold and
starvation this season.
1t has been colder in Sweden this win
ter than IN any other civilized country.
In Furudal The thermometer fell Ia 90 de.
grees below zero.
The Pail Mall Gazette (LOndon) states
that the national debt nf France is $780,
ON, 900, Of England $3.50. 1000, 900, and of the
United States GilO,OO0,OOO.
United States naval expenses amount
10 $500 for every enlisted man per annum.
II costs 81 .OOO,OO0 year iO take care of a
regiment Of Uniied States tronps.
Two colOred men were elected Sunday,
from the most aristocrhiic Catholic church
in Washington. because they insisted upon
occupying seats in the body Of the church
and refused TO 90 TO the gallery set apart
for colored people. The affair created
much exciteueui.
The Black Hills region which has sud-
denly sprung into nOtoriety on account OF
its supposed richness in the precious met
ais lies in the southwestern corner OF Da-
kota andis nearly approachedin three ways,
either by the Northern Pacific Railroad
from Bismark, the Central Pacific from
Cheyenne or by steamboat up The Missouri
river.
Horace Maynard, Of Knoxville, Ten
nessee, was born at Westborn', Mass, and
has been fourteen years in Congress. His
wife is Vermont woman, and a relative
of Bishop Bissell. He is to take the posi-
ton of Minister to Turkey, recently made
vacant by the promotion Of George II.
Boxer to 81. Petersburg. The salary is
$500.
"A terrible kerosene explosion took
place at the house ola farmer named Col
son. at Parker. prairie, - miles from
Wadena, Mimi, on the Northern Pacific
railroad, sunday. The explosion set fire
tc the clothes Of Cnlson, his wife and five
children. ColSon, finally jumped out of
window and his family followed him, sf-
Ter which, leaving their burning home,
they dragged themselves two miles over
the snow to the house Of neishbor. Col
son and Two of his children have since
died Of their burns, and the mother and
another child are beyond hope.
&C. The Z. $. Supreme Court has decided
that a suit to recover pay for services as a
lobbyist is not found I'd ia good morals and
cannot he maintained in the CO urts. This isa
severe blow to that brazen class who hang
around the national and state legislatures,
ready to sell their Influence, and will lie =
warning TO them to collect their pay as
they 60, or refrain from going.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-02
Dam naer~GOn.

Leonard Knapp of Braltleb0ro has
bought the Geo. W. Knapp place. which
was sold at auction last Saturday.
The school reports OF this town furnish
the following Items. District No. |, East,
has the largest number of pupils, thirty
for The summer and Ihirty-six for the
winter term. 1t also has the poorest at
Tendance uf any school in town, being "a
per cent the first term and Us the second.
Three pupils in summer and six in winter
were not absent day. The highest aver
age attendance is % per cent each for dis
iricts and . others range from Is to 81.
The smallest school is No. !, having only
sin pupils In summer and live in winter.
Two hundred twenty-three pupils attend
ell the eleven schools in town, with an
average daily attendance OF l3 pupils. No.
l, West, has the best school house, and No.
East, the poorest. The one in No. East
is in very good condition. Nos. 3, 4, and
West, are in fair condition, also No. G
East. No. l, 2, 3, and East are reported
by lhe teachers As unit for tue purpose,
and reflect no credit to lhe town, They
a'e certainly very uncomfortable Tor win
Ter use, Hut few worse places are known
where the seeds of i'll health aud premature
death arc engent cred than an old, cold,
smoky school house Weren't not in the pow
er of youth to quickly recuperate, sickness
aud death would be the rule and not the
exception.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-02

lie. throwing the blame upon the new priest
Father Lane. because of his non-compli-
ancc with the custom of former priests
who appointed their hoIrs for religious OBJ
servantes on holy days at such time as not
To interfere with the children's attendance
at school. 1t was also stated that the com
mittee in excluding the children for the
balance of the term were only carrying
out rule adopted by the district itself ma
ny years ago, and which experience bad
proven necessary IT, the well-bcing and
progress of the school. Remarks were
made in support Of the committee by Chas.
X. Field, Esq, and Or. Gale, and upon the
other side by Messrs. j. Il. kirwan aud l..
X. Fuller. The reports of the treasurer
and committee were accepted and adopted.
Mr.. Il. +. Bingham Of the visiting COM
mittee made favorable report, and strong
ly deprecated the trouble which bad aris-
en-. a tux Of 20 cenls--w nich it was judged
by the treasurer would yield u sum sutl-
cient TO free the district from debt--was
voted and the meeting adjourned with the
following list Of officers for the ensuing
year: ). NJ. Waite, moderator G. II. Ste
vens, clerk /; J. NJ. Tyler, $. NJ. Waite, II.
w. Clarke. prudential committe J. ".
Simonds. collector; G. +. Thompson,
treasurer; J. W. Frost, auditor; d. +.
Bingham, Miss Rebecca Crosby, visiting
committee.
The following Is the list of letters re-
manning in the post office in this village,
April LIST:
Gents.-D J Allen, Chas. T.. Bartlett, J..
w. CLARK. T.. y. Crowningshield, Charlie
Dratin, & b Dexter, J r Holden, j u
Mansfield, II d Newton, l. b Newell, + G
Sanxay, Henry A Smith Elehu II Thomas
Chas. + Wheeler, Charlie l. Washer, : b
Ward q.
Ladies. Mrs Emma Allen, Miss Jennie
Boyce, Miss Sadie Benson. Miss Matte
Colburn, Mary DoOling. Miss Frances NJ
Field. Mrs i a Hammond, Mrs F y Rob.
bins, Mrs : Rrgers. Mrs Elecla Stafford.
held for Postage. Miss Neltie G Hough-
ton. Wardsboro, Vt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-02


ity is life, while obscurity Is death. The
advertiser will then view the column in
the newspaper, not as mere contingent,
but as a permanent disbursement, OF the
same nature as store rent or taxes. This
point having been reached, aud the amount
that can he devoted having been fixed, The
next is to ascertain the journal which has
the widest aud best circulation. Let him
then prepare his advertisement, putting IL
into tue most attractive shape, aud il I've
needs any assistance II eau he Obtained at
the publication Office. Writing advertise
mens is an art in which some men excel,
and there are those in this city who make
IL a specially. Change the matter frequent
ly, because the shooting stars, though small,
attract more attention than planets or con-
slellations. A rocket always makes sem
satlon, and there Is Il rocket advertising
which always tells. Advertisements have
wrought wonders. In the patent medicine
business they made Sarsaparlla Towns
end and Buchu Hembold rich. They
walked into wealth with astonishing ra-
pidty by a judiciuus and liberal use of the
proper method. II Is pity that they did
not know how TO keep their money. 9th
er instances Of the same kind might be re.
ferred. Many a valuable invention, and
many deserving book has persisted for
lack tf advertising. Many Il Young mer-
chant has been dwarfed in development,
and finally extinguished for lack of that
notice which the papers would have rnrn-
ished. 1t might have been economy, but
such economy is species of suicide. Bet
ter TO go hungry for awhile than starve
your business.
The public loves the cheerful advertiser.
The public wants sympathy and assistance.
Almost everybody Is in trouble. aud Is
looking for friendship. Goldsmith got OFF
a very severe sarcasm on society when he
made his hermit say, "Man wants but lii
tie here below" etc. There is another her
nit who takes different position. Our
wants are legion, and people generally
turn to the newspaper to find relief. Who
is the friend to whom the public so read-
ly applies7 1t Is the cheerful advertiser
the man who opens his heart in para
graph, and welcomes you TO all that his
talents and capital can furnish. Who sells
at the cheapest rate? Who has the latest
patterns? Who has a new book to sell
Who has invented another Yankee no.
ton: Who can correct our failing health?
etc. The reply is found in the cheerful adj
vertiser. This man, while relieving hu-
man misery, will, like other philanthro-
pists, bee )ne happy, and he will find that
his efforts will bring greenbarks as well as
gratitude. Such are the men OF noble des-
tiny whose success has so often been no.
ticed. York Letter 10 Troy Times.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-02

That sort of false and morbid sentiment.
which finds an excuse for crime in the fact
that its perpetrator may have been drunk
when he committed an evil deed, finds no
sympathy in the minds of wise and emf
nent iurists. Not long since brutal New
York ruffian, thirty-four years old, struck
his mother, aged seventy, on the head with
an axe, while on drunken spree. When
brought up for trial he pleaded guilty, and,
in excuse for his unnatural crime, stated
that he was suffering from delirium
tremeDs at the time of the assault, and was
not conscious of what he was doing. But
Recorder Hackett said that drunkenness
was no excuse for the commission of SO
dastarhly crime. 1t was only by mer-
ciful interposition of Providence that the
prisoner was saved from standing at the
bar as a murderer. A man who could not
tell how many times he had been drunk,
and was capable of Draining his aged moth
or with an axe, was unfit TO be at large,
and should be placed where he would be
prevented from doing harm 10 others. Act
ing upon this principle, he sentenced the
criminal to three years in state prison at
hard labor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-02

and Improvements is cited. one man gets
a contract as lowest bidder to do some
work at $4,000; and yet he so manages in
one way and another rs to draw out of the
treasury s222, 900. Another contracts TO
improve certain sections of tbe canal for
S27 900 but he also improves his bill up to
SIS, 900, and gets his money. n third has a
contract for S252, 900 he has already been
paid $4,000, besides which is an amount
paid aud owing him of nearly s23j, 900.
In short. ten contracts which aggregated
1921 ,736, have already cost the State 81 $780,,
100. These are mere surface exposures.
and the Governor rightly demands that the
whole system shall be thoroughly investi-
gated as the first step toward dealing with
the question. The canal frauds show fully
as great degree of corruption as did tive
Tammany ring exposure. 1t is, indeed,
believed that between the two there is
more or less connection.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-02

Illinois new license law, which lakes
the place Of local option, requires each sa
loon keeper to give bonds of s., 600 to keep
an orderly house. and pay all damages
arising under the act. No liquor can he
lawfully sold on Sunday, nor on holiday.
No liquor can be sold to a person who is
in the habit of becoming intoxicated, or af-
ter notice served by his friends iorbidding
the sale 10 him; public drunkenness is
made a misdemeaEor selling without
license is punishable by fine and impris-
unment selling to a minor is made PEN
al offense, and the minor who misrepre-
sents his age is also 10 be punished the
ndnlteration of liquor or selling such liquor
is prohibited # a saloon Is kept in a dis
orderly manner il shall he deemed COM
mon nuisance and be closed ; saloon-keep-
ers are made personally liable, and also
liable on their bond, TO any person who
may sustain any injury or damage TO their
person or property, or means of support on
account of the use of such intoxicating
liquors. Ifsuch a law could only lie en-
forced
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-02

The perpetrator of the fiendish murder of
Mrs. Margaret f. Bingham, of East Bos-
ton on the afternoon Of the % ult., proves
to have been one Geo. w. Pembcrlon. Il
dissoute character who has already served
two or three terms IN the state prison. He
was evidently prowling about obtaining
admission to houses on the ptetence that
he was connected with the water works,
his object being a chance at robbery. Hav-
ing got Mrs Bingham into the cellar of her
mothers house he noticed her valuable
rings, and 10 obtain possession Of them
murdered her in the most horrible aud
monstrous manner. Alter committing the
crime he seems TO have hardly shown or
binary common sense in his movements.
for within lorty-eight hours lie sold the
rings TO Saloon keeper, one Of them a
diamond worth SlO0, for Sl45O. The police
obtained clew which they diligently fol-
lowed, and on Thursday he was arrested.
The evidence is undoubtedly enough to
convict him. Mrs. Bingham was a refined
and widely respected Christian woman.
Her husband, who died of diphiheria in
Chicago, not long ago, was, we learn,
nephew of Mr.. Bingham Of our Brattleooro
high school. 1t is rarely that the murder
of an individual in private life has attract
ed so wide degree of sympathy and at
tenlion, fact which is due to the brutal
and unnatural character of the crime. 1t
has commonly been supposed that wo-
man was reasonably secure from personal
violence in her own house in broad day
light, but an occurrence like this throws a
serious doubt on the point.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-02
Our Public schools.

Those Catholics who, like Father Walk
er in New York, denounce the public
schools, and the parents who sent their
children 10 them, show a lack of faith in
the miuistrations of their own church. The
American idea is to support public schools
for purely secular education, at the public
charge, and TO leave religious education 10
the churches and Sunday school, support
ed by voluntary contributions. Religion
has nothing to do with reading, writing
and casting accounts. The state under
takes to give all children an elementary
education which will enable them more ca
silly to earn livelihood and make them
more intelligent citizens when they shall
have grown to he men and women. Re-
lgious education is a different matter.
That is attended to, or should he, in the
homes, the Sunday schools and the church
es DO the Catholics of the Father Walk
er variety fear that their church cannot
hold its own with the others, and so retain
its OVID children? Are they conscious of
anything in the teachings OF their church
that cannot bear the light Of elementary
secular education? Their anxiety, which
we suppose is real, indicates distrust in
the reasonabIeness OF their doctrines which
they would be slow to acknowledge. When
Father Walker said in public the other
day, 81 would as soon administer the sac
rament to a dog as TO Catholics who send
their children 10 the public schools he
must have been laboring under a great
stress Of feeling, or else he niisrepresenied
T1Nfs