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Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-09-25
Aastioi, Sails.

WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION
to the highest ana bes. bldler .or oash, at 80 NJ
ON TUESDAY, THE5TH DAY OF OCTOBER, isis
at the whaif OF the q = Lighthouse Depot mouth of
Christiana creek. el the L'sht snip o. i. aid
yessel ~ about 2G0 tons, g. - y lenglh 30 feet,
bealn ~ feet .pth OF mold 10 feet inchcs Nnte
OAK frame. oak Panklng. and white pi-e deck, bot
tom sheathsi sifh yell w metal. she Is c1oOneT
riga yed standing rigging OF h mn.
Ihe b ats salts. awnings amt running rigging Will
be sold wi the vessel.
Anth1s chains, vlrches, lanterns, day marks
and al otnet outfits will be reserved.
. he vessel will be open Tor lnspec ion az The place
desigaa ed above ultil he day OF sale, aud al in
fHs'iO1 desired e n he Oh aimed bS application al
the cilce of Light House Inspt ctor, 20g s Oh st.
Philadelphia.
Az the same time time and place and on the same
conditions will be sold the fast sa ling yscn
"gEM,"i9 feet long, : feet 70 iuehes beam. Cat
rieged well 1T ed With new sailsand iigsing
The GayeInins mt reserves the ght I I,1t tct any
or all bids a toyerDmeI st amer vii esYe v ! =
mingion at O'Clock on We day rumtd 10 comfy
Parties desrous OF attendi q the sale,
fy order of the Light iuass Poard.
G.. wEIri, ommsnder L Navy,
ighi-f ouse lDEpt ctof, Fourth District.
feptl5-i5 20-f2-2 -25-2s 30 oci2
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-09-25
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IN TdE pI,rNitr COuK1 Oc' TuE
l UNITED STAT = FOR THE i SrGIlT OF
nELAHARs.
Ia Re NJ r.
le'tcs CaTphyl IN BsLk:up''y )
Babktup'.
7 -ls 70 giFc vi 6 nat nave 81 r. G1t aes
coun rs ass ggte u 'ie csiete gt sal hsIslu r 10
eail 5ur AID tia 81 fdtsy, 'cioper isJ 80 e
A. N. viii apiis'p sod o1r5 'e' me ssr r.
ment o. my sad E1t a d inr a di g ar. ff3la
81! lAttiya'ss tirs o, slit 's.at- ~ ate9lGiGle
vi h .s.l ,ectlon hltetu / n
sc 95-1c2 e>o-. J ETIv, AsfIg oe.
IN THE DISTRICT COCkT OF lHE
4 FITTED sTA1 ; los reE u.sr- 1T /
b-LAMARF.
Rr - 1872.
anAlup'
Thsi4t,,iye ~, ma- nay ae'm7 nas' te.
cOnn' az AtslgLCt n q ID II, ~ 10 I4ukrl L. t
sall Coat, nni tfGtU % + Ify 0 tabsrls', ls5e II
ia. ~, Iwi1 ~ :" 30 s.l N4uu 1oa .hett;vt-
non ni nv said ac 'olij rLh . dI.r, g - ir IN
laettS az >. " ,ee ~ al STATE In 4.c1tjau &
Hl,A 4sh stc'ien b.. l.Gp; tct
JJTiA r. TIdMTo ST.,
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-09-25

I9iS SsLs- Tic Home Ian Aszocat;ou
hellrs l0l monthly ueotug. laat eeerinp
and sali II, 10 at 43i6 1850 at q and $40
nv
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-09-25
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csrT A'sD scn1oL rAX Foals7s
.T,e und f,gnei, Rtcelyats Of ja14s .ot the city
~ v ----!- stoL, Ai.I &C -
So. 10 Z. GIN sTAG :.

~. 10 l. o. u > Ais. T,
he twc Martet and Etng Streets On anu after the
Hr5t nH q IllA $50 h't%erti 'r i0frs NJ and u
IN the morR'tg LHd irrn e. IN tie afterlvln,
TOR ihe lilsi6se ( rccFtvisE iaHsS.
On al tag pl q during Tie lHIuin nf luy thcle
VIII bH al Tr IA ton 81 Iyo cons on every
IN Jar Gii II 'aA' pa an ~ a''"T r." tr-t OF
Augp-t, lncHd.Ig me iirst 'ueaduy sept mhtT,
shu hs payau. ',itnDnt G'due-i7n or ad i4ii01
81 atnIas ,t aIl IN raHes pGt tlj uI iue tg rext
after ihe tlfs, IG. LAG af -ep ein rr -t,a lie ~
creased oy Tie ai illuu Of iya ~ ulH ca tie
a.4Iuh tleiuOf.
Fe"e'Ver c'0finern District uncluding oil North of
s,n stIsotl
Frcey soi, cru district uneludlng all outn o!
6th stree } jyl-t
staQGstAt hlRkAt NJ4IlE
An property h5.le.s within aogl,g who nave no,
had Their property registered, are respectiHiy r.
qrcs'en p present to this olGe Correct desCEip-
ton Oi t.eif property
q CGpy OF the kegistry Law ed biRrk fl-1s ffr
he i.ie in'ion 81 r:opeTis I'll! % :rs,s9eG 5 ai,-
pucatiuu 81 this Glloe
AG dH5.iS 2onve.Bnces or transfers cf Rem p
tate, inn' 4''cf Jly tI. 1874 most he entered Ia
ths one, -! = ;lf- arc ccCt 70 .,c8 ta4-l, - ta
gsa,ii;st
n. C. COlyWELB
Chief Engineer and Surveyor,
iGrSo-u TeG.h and King Streets.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-09-25

TlE s0T NJ sIT3 CA1fP lIFEIIN0 --INe s . v
3ile C@np at Maleiey Chapel is sill e5n-
tuuiug with unAbstei ilterest lev Man.
ship, of phiiaielpAll, ~ eysnlng to an i'm
mnnse crowd OF poople. Tho altar was well
iled with pentent1 md FIX conversions were
reported. / Was determine; 10 continue Il c
meeting Over Sunday lev. A. Mau-hp Will
atcgcA tH4 evening Rev W. i Slmneli at
1850 A. VI. Tomorrow aad tie pastor, ~. 4.
=. Dav.-, tomorrow elou'ug.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-09-25

&oricf-TUE OF ZIHs' LOAg ~
~ Sf Cfaf IoN NV rIer- iis 81 Iies OF 200
shares g ale. = r'z fayuent cue 'ciplbtt1.f,
~. GEO G ~ II
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-09-25


hesr tie great elocl'ionist aud Iumorist mu-t
s.tendat the Grand Opera House on fniay even
iug October lst. Tue subject of the lecture vii
be " Funny People we Meet. A1tlce the follow
ing opinions OF the Press
the DIS remarkable talent for
changing Lie entire appearance in one moment
from you,i. 10 tic aged man was the wonder Of
all il seemed Hpos-ible IL was he same man. -
Adc3c7ts ant I.mos, GgADag =. J.
Those present seemed well REPAID
fol their ATTENDANCE the lecture aud Illustrations
beng mfth-proyoLiBg iu the cStreme.-NUr-
trg't Conn GGgehe Sep. Y, 1874
Never before has lecture OF t'iis
eharac.er ciy,a much satisfaction to our ci'-
z-p--- S1mford, Conn, Adeoeste, Srp,, IS,
1871.
Tie entertainment wat pleas'ng ard
showed ,nsrkei ability in every Representation
siyen.- 5aentca v j. D@gdteh Aog. ~.
1874
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-09-25

i few insurHact c3niliuie- have not vet at
7ert,scd the,i rta., ius;t7. a. required b. l8E.
This riG=t be Indaa summer
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-09-25

Locm7trys s5lp.-Ihe WtlmGst5n : Wes-
ter L. j O.. have sold their oll Ioco-
motive NJ. !, to tire Z. ", 4 B Il Il
G5 !; viii be overhaule1, redited. aud
used "a iAs Smyrna B-ancn. l. il a Very
OH eus.tc. having hesI nI for maay years on
tie T. ". x b ro8d and known a. tho ID an
2yEibe II hsd become 80 shachlIuy AZ to
be nuli far wee in it4 present condition. Tie
y y " 81" bay ueF shif ec engine, suitable
both !sr s.,f li G IN tui- city, aid for naa4ug
ezra f.e.3h .trNa- Oh she road.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-09-25
waKc,Al ssu COMMERCIAL
wfIxEgTos, rEL., September si 1875.
s-ccx QUOTATIONS., Al O'CLOCK To-oAr.

reported oy Crsiga, Johnson \ 70, banAsE Az
Brokers, 9Th ana Market stsl
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-17
The Irish Marketman.

1t was the market day, and rainy, says
the Danbury man in letter from Ire
land. 1 was up early, and from the cof-
fee-room window could look down n
street leading from the country into the
market square. And up this street for
full hour the farmers struggled along
with their produce. Each one had a
little pony or donkey hitched to n low
cart which appeared to have thills Mt
each end, and on the cart were a half
dozen or so of long bags filled with pota-
toes. Some of them had oats, and a few
brought i'll hay or straw. The farmer
appeared at the head of the animal with
his hand on the bride, while the wife
either rode or walked behind She wore
Il blush cloak of freize, which reached
nearly to her feet, with cape over her
head. Some of them wore white caps
under the cape, and red petticoats under
the cloak. They were well-formed,
healthy looking women, with faces and
arms Drowned by outdoor work. Some
of them were very old and shriveled,
and worn out by years of toll. This was
their life: Toll all the week, and trudge
into town every market day. The shriv-
eled was once buxom, and the bllxom
could look mt the shriveled and see the
end as plainly as if she had already
reached it.
The clerk Of the market met them ut
the head of the street and collected their
toll, and they passed on into the square
and took up their position. Then the
buyers came about and examined their
produce, and shook their heads very de-
spondently over the exhibit, rs being so
much inferior to what they had expect
ed, but finally endeavored to look more
hopeful, and at last offered, rs an en-
couragement to farming, five per cent.
under the market price. L wandered
among them for an hour or more, listen
ing to blarney, pickering and wit.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-17
Origin Of Salem Witchcraft.

During the winter of 1912, circle
of young girls was formed in Salem
Farms, which met at the house of the
Rev. Mr.. Paris, for the practice of
palmistry and fortune-telling, necroman-
cy, magic, and spiritualism. In this
circle there were Cd Elizabeth Paris,
the minister slaughter, aged nine years,
who Mt first had n leading part III the
subsequent excitements, but was early
removed from them by her father; (2)
Abigail Williams, Parris's niece, living
III his house, aged eleven; CD Ann Put.
nam, aged twelve, daughter of the parish
clerk and recorder, q prominent man at
the Farms; (4) Mary Walcott, seventeen,
daughter of Jonathan Walcott, Mr..
Parrls's next-door neighbor; (5) Mercy
Lewis, seventeen; CO. Elizabeth Hub
bard, seventeen, niece of DIR. Griggs,
the village physician, and resident in his
family; G-S) Elizabeth Booth and
Sllsannah Sheldon, each eighteen, be-
longing to families living near Mt hand
t9) Mary Warren, aged twenty. servant
Ill the family of John Proctor, who was
brought to the scaffold by the girls; and
(1O) Sarah Churchill, servant in the
family of George Jacobs, Sr. Her en-
ploycr also became their victim. With
act. There We're John Indian and
Tituba, two slaves Of Mr.. Parris's, who
probably were brought to the colony
from the Barbadoes, and besides these.
one or two others; but the girls, with
the slaves, formed the circle, and we're
the leading characters in the events
which have been horror and mystery
ever since they transpired. In those
events these girls were bold and even
vicious III their bearing, and evinced an
utter absence of compunction or COM
mlscration; except i'll one or two in
stances, displaying complete disregard
OF the agony and destruction which they
brought upon others.
In the course of the winter they be-
came expert i'll theart they were learning
Gradually they came to exhibit their at
talnments to beholders. At first these
exhibitions consisted of creeping into
holes, and under benches and chairs :;
putting themselves into odd and uu-
natural postures, making wild gestures,
and uttering mcoherent and unintelligi-
bic sounds. They were seized with
spasms, dropped insensiblc to the floor,
or wrlthcd Ill agony, pretending to srlf-
fer tortures, with loud and piercing out
cries. Naturally they began to draw
upon themselves general attention.
Soon they became to be styled "the
afflicted children" In the early stages
no explanation of their condition was so
much as suggested by any one; but as
soon rs DIR. Griggs was called in, and
had examined them, he declared them
bewitched. In those days, and prior to
those days, physicians frequently dis
posed of difficult cases which came be-
fore them by such resort. The pro-
fession must bear it's fair share of re-
sponsibility for succeeding occurrences.
Tile GaiatV.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-17
Farm LabOrers.

There is n persistent decline in the
numbers of those who till farms in
Great Britain. By census returns, farm
laborers had fallen in number from $685.
600 in 1861 to 79S,000 in 1871, or seven
teen per cent. The Scotch decrease was
not SO large, being from 105, 900 to 93,-
600, or about twelve per cent; still,
there is q great decrease, for which it is
difficult to account in some ways. The
introduction of improved means of till
age can hardly have wrought SO great q
revolution as to enable SO many hands
to be dispensed with, and, in fact, the
character of the cultivation does not
change so fast nor so radically rs many
have supposed. The true cause Of the
change, beyond tho effect of super
abundant rural neutrality-suspicious.
dant for the work done-is TO be found
in the great labor. absorbing capacity of
our cities and towns. The man with only
his hands can find endless varieties of
rough work III towns Mt better pay
usually than the country districts can
afford. Hence our towns become crowd
ed with rustics, who, it is to be feared,
often become degraded there, and do not
Il little-themselves and their sickly pro-
geny-to increase the poverty and
Indebtedness which breed to such a
strange degree i'll all our cities, however
prosperous
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-17
Where to Find Gold.

An exchange, referring to the serious
losses in the silver mine stock specula-
tions in the West, says: Our readers
will find it good rule to remember the
words of Emerson, that they can find
gold wherever they choose to dig for it.
There have, no doubt, been many cases
in the rise of petroleum, coal, gold, sill
yer, copper and other industries where
fortunate speculators have become sud-
denly rich. If people go into the pur-
chase of mining stocks and other
property as speculation they must
not complain if they fail. 1t is gambling.
All gambling is based on chance. If
people gamble and lose it is their own
fault, committed with open eyes. The
true way is, after all, to dig for gold and
find it wherever fate places us; to dig for
it by industry, thrift, economy, patience
and good humor; not to buy what we do
not want; not to sell what we do not
have; not to purchase property ON
margin in the hope that it will be worth
80 much more within six months. These
simple rules underlying the success of
our richest men will, if followed pru-
IDENTIFY, prevent these "Big Bonanza"
excitements, and the suffering that so
frequently happens with the collapse
of petroleum wells and fanciful gold
mining stocks.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-17
How to Settle Strikes.

The lesson taught by the present great
strike in Massachusetts,, and the still
more extensive ones in Great Britain,
says the New York Times, is of the
highest Importance to employers and
operatives everywhere. It has Justly
been said of the thousands of Golfers
who recently "struck in South Wales,
that as the result of their strike neither
capitalists nor laborers will attain any
advantage which could not have been
secured ut the outset by the exercise of
q little moderation and sacrifice. Pre-
cisely the same remark may with truth
be made of the striking men and women
and the capitalists in New England.
The eirreconcilable attitude of the strikers
has been productive of nothing but fresh
obstinacy and misunderstanding on
both sides. The property owners, firmly
established i'll their right to pay such
wages rs they chooseto give for a certain
amount and quality of labor, scoff at all
violent and threatening efforts to change
their determination, just as the master
colliers in South Wales have for some
weeks ridiculed the demonstrations of
the fifteen thousand men who threaten
to compel them. When employers and
employed disagree in such times as the
present, there is little sense in q pro-
longed struggle on either side. It is
likely enough that justice may be fully
gratified by that concession on both
sides which can be gained only through
the medium of arbitration. At the sug-
gestion of the members of the Social
Science Congress ut Belfast, in Ireland,
lust year, strike then in progress there
was successfully settled by the arbitra-
tion court. There is no reason why the
same effective and pacifcatory method
should not be adopted everywhere when
ever disagreements occur between large
numbers of operatives and the capitalists
who employ them.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-17
Stick 10 Your Farms.

The feeling that you are settled and
fixed will induce you to go to work to
improve your farm, to plant orchards, to
set out shade trees, to inclose pastures,
to build comfortable out-houses; and
each successive Improvement is bond
to bind you still closer to your homes.
This will bring contentment i'll the
family. Your wives and daughters will
fall i'll love with the country, your sons
will love home more than the grog-shop,
and prefer farming to measuring tape or
professional loafing, and you will be
happy III seeing the contented and cheer
ful faces of your family.
Make your home beautiful, convenient
and pleasant, and your children will love
it above all other places; they will leave
it with regret, think of it with fondness,
come back to it joyfully, and seek their
chief happiness around their homo fire
side.
Women and children need more than
meat, bread and raiment; more than
acres of corn and cotton spread out all
around them. Their love of the beau
tiful must be satisfied; their tastes
must be cultivated; their sensibilities
humored, not shocked. To accomplish
this good end, home must be made
lovely, conveniences multiplied, COM
forts provided, and choerfulness fostered.
There must be sunshine and shade,
luscious fruits and fragrant flowers, as
well as corn and cotton. The mind and
heart, as we'll as the field, must be cul.
tivated; and then intelligence and con-
tentment will be the rule instead of the
exception. Stick to, improve, and
beautify your homesteads, for with this
good work comes contentment.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-17
Funeral Expenses.

Among the items of the accounts pre-
sented for the funeral expenses of Hon.
Francis Malbone, Senator from Rhode
Island, who died in Washington in June,
1909, and whose remains were inferred in
the Congressional burial ground, are the
following:
III pounds cheese at 25 cents. ......... 2.S1
The committee to audit the contingent
expenses of the Senate directed that pay
ment be made for crackers, but rejected
the claim for the cheese. The next
voucher presented to them for their ap-
proval read thus
z gallons best Madeira wine. .S28.oG
gallons Cognac brandy. .... 500
IL pounds almonds at 40 cents .. 4.S0
10 pounds raisins at 80 cents. ..... 500
Of this account the committee would
only allow 4" for four gallons wine and
three quarts brandy, $29," but they
passed another voucher for fourteen
pounds of pound cake, $7," purchased
from Monsieur Julien, a confectioner,
who, also supplied "twelve pounds
crackers"
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-17
4 Horror Of the Cold.

Tho particulars of sad case of death
by freezing have been received i'll this
place from the town OF Exeter, N. Y,
during the intense cold weather that
prevailed. The victims were three
boys, named Patrick, Martin and
Michal O'Brien, the first aged eight, the
second ten and the third eleven years.
They were brothers, living with their
parents in Exeter. The father and
mother are lazy and dissipnted people,
and live OH the fruits of the labor of their
children, who were seven in number.
The four Oldest made baskets and the
three others just named travelled on foot
about the country selling them.
The thermometer in the town of
Exeter marked twenty-five degrees be-
low zero. Mr.. and Mrs. O'Brien told
their three little children that they must
start out with n lot of baskets. The
boys begged to be allowed to wait until
poorly clad and barely able to keep warm
III the miserable house in which the
family lived.
The brutal parents forced them with
threats and beatings, however, to go out
with the baskets. They started in the
direction of Westville, some miles dis
tant, over n bleak and desolate road,
hilly and in some places badly drifted.
Each boy had number of baskets tied
to him reaching above his head. When
last seen alive by any of the family they
were struggling up the hill away from
the house, two of them weeping bitterly.
They never reached Westville.
The next morning gentleman who
was driving from Westville over the
Exeter road saw tine bodies of three
children lying i'll the road. Each had
a number of baskets tied around his
body, and the largest of the three had
his arms around the neck of the smallest.
1t needed but glance to enable the
gentleman to see that the boys were
dead, and had doubtless been frozen
to death. There were frozen tracks of
tears on the cheeks of each one. The
bodies were taken to Westville, where
they were recognized as those of the
three little basket peddlers who were
well known throughout the section.
They were taken home, and when it was
learned that the little fellows had been
driven out in the cold to sell their bas-
kets the popular indignation was intense
against theparents. If there is any legal
punishment it will be invoked on the un-
natural father and mother.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-17
Items Of Interest.

A little boy in Albany bit his
tongue while rocking on q chair, and
bled to death.
A bright boy recently told his teacher
there were three sects, the male sect,
the female sect, and insects.
Among the things sent to the starving
people of Kansas was q tract headed
The Wickedness of Gluttony."
Love linked with economy will carry a
young couple great deal more safely
on the road of life than extravagance and
show.
Next to Mont Gents tunnel, the
Hoosac is the longest in the world, being
only 800 feet less than five miles in
length,
Dried fruit is being shipped from
Cortlandt, New York, to Germany. The
other day fifteen tons of dried apples
were sent.
After travelling up and down Europe,
Col. Forney says the working people of
America are the happiest and best paid
on earth. They eat the white bread of
the world.
An old topper chanced to drink glass
of water one day, for want of something
stronger. Smacking his lips and turning
to one of his companions, he remarked,
"Why, it don't taste badly"
An improvident Danbury youth en-
tertains high appreciation for the State
prison, which he regards as tho only
place where a fellow is not dunped for
his board and washing every Saturday
night"
I hate anything that occupies more
space than it is worth, says William
Hazlitt; hate to see load of band
boxes go along the street, and hate to
see parcel of big words without any
thing in them.
Nurse-"My dear sir, just look here"
taking the blanket from fine pair of
twins with which the master of the
house had been presented. "Oh, yes,"
said the blushing young husband, "I
suppose I can Take my choice"
Spelling matches are in vogue this
winter in Ohio, taking the place of other
entertainments for grown folks. One in
Springfield was held in large hall, was
attended by thousand persons, and
the wife of q leading lawyer took the
prize, which was a finely bound diction-
ary. In many instances refreshments
are sold, the profit going to churches or
charities.
Anna Dickinson describes the new
society bow, as executed by Washing
ton ladies. She says that to bend the
head, except to acknowledged superiors,
is out of fashion. The lady looks you
coolly in the face, smiles as sweetly as
she can, and gently inclines her head
toward the right shoulder, with little
backward movement at the same time.
A slight Frenchy shrug heightens the
effect.
A San Francisco wife by mistake took
liquid ammonia, and it burned her
mouth terribly. Her husband, upon
hearing the doctors opinion that she
would not be able to speak for month,
said with intense and spontaneous
fervor, "Thank God for that!" Later he
explained that he meant to express graft
tude for the probability of her recovery,
but she did not seem to be entirely
satisfied.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-17
How Ice Freezes.

One of the officers Mt West Point re-
Gently resorted to the following expert
ment to determine whether the ice on
rivers and creeks thickens on the bottom
or on the top. He cut hole in the ice
opposite West Point, and bolted piece
of board to the under side Examining
it three or four days afterward he found
the bolt head on the top just as he left
it; and cutting through the ice found the
board sandwiched between tho upper
layer of ice to which it had been bolted,
and about four inches of solid ice which
had formed underneath it, showing con-
clusively that leo thickens on the under
side, and not on the top.