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Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-15
NOTICE, ,

DROGRAMMES FOR CONCERTS AND
Il Sunday School entertainments quickly printed,
with clear type on tinted paper at the COMMERCIAL
office, at prices slightly above cost
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-15

LECTURE ON EGyPT AND PAIEsTINE.-The no.
tice of this lecture which appears among our adj
yertisements of to-day should command atten-
ton. 1t has been given with great success IN
Philadelphia. The lecturer, Rev. Thos A. Gill,
Chaplain in the U. s. Navy, is an eloquent and
pleasing speaker and his account OF personal
observations cannot fail to interest, while the
htercopticon views are among the finest in the
country and alone worthy the price of ad-
m
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-15
DHILADELPHIA, WILMINGTON g.
il BALTIMORE RAILROAD.

HHANGE OF HOURS-WILMINGT
" Il WESTERN NRAILROAD.-Commencin Mon
day, September 14th, 1874, Trains will run as fol-
lows:
Leave Wilmington 1890 q. M. and b35 p. m.
Leave Landenberg 6.s5 m, and 80 p III,
Arrive Wilmington 1855 a. IN. and 3.l5 p. IN.
Arrive Landenberg 11.lo .. n and $50 p. ln
CONNECTIONS.-At Wilmington, with p. w.
and Delaware X. X. trains. At Landenberg with
Penna & Delaware Railroad.
jy29-tf DAVID CONNELI, sup
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-15

HORSE AND CARRIAGE SToLEN.-On Wednes-
day night horse and carriage was stolen from
the sheds of the National Hotel in Middletown.
The horse belonged to Mr.. Clothier, of Bohemia
Mills, Md and the carriage was owned by MIR.
q. r. STILES, of the same place, they being in
charge Of the last named gentleman's son on the
evening above mentioned.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-15

vEGETINE for the complaints for which it is recon-
mended is having larger sale throughout the
the United States than any other one medicine
Why? VEGETINE VIII Cure these Complaints.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-15

The PEACH TREEs.-The peach trees in the
lower part of the State, and even az far North
as Greenwood, are very red in the tops, indicat-
ing an early bloom. 1t is not now believed that
any injury has been done the trees by the cold
weather, and there never has been better pros
pect for q full crop.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-15

CALL ExTENDED.-It is stated that the New
Jerusalem church have extended a call to Rev.
Mr.. Seward, who has preached for them on sew
eral occasions. The reverend gentleman is a
nephew of the late VIM. II. Seward.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-15

SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNIVERSARIES. To morrow
afternoon the missionary anniversaries OF the
Sabbath Schools of Grace and Brandywine
churches will take place, the former at o'clock
and the latter at 2. Addresses will be made at
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-15

ARM BRoKEN.-A son of Thomas Samworth,
who resides at Front and Clayton streets, fell
in the street, yesterday afternoon, and broke
his arm,
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-15

10 INCREASE THEIR FoRCE.-It is irmored that
the Tasker Co., having recently received some
large contracts, ENTHUSIASTICALLY increase the
force in their works at New Castle.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-15
8ai1 Bnad Y:ues.

nORCHESTER u DELAWARE r. X.
TIME TABLE.
On and after MONDAY, September Ah, 1874
Passenger trains, with Freight Cars attached,
until further notice, run follows, sundays
cepted
Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-03-15

GOODS AT PRIVATE SALE AT ALL TIMES.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-22
A Gigantic Water-LiIy,

While the celebrated traveller, M.
Marcoy, was exploring the tributaries
of the Amazon, he found in the Nuna
lake, near the mouth OF the UcagaIi
river, gigantic species of the Nym-
ph8a, which he concluded to belong to
the same genus as the Nymph@a Victo-
ria. The surface of the lake was, in
places, covered with the immense leaves
and magnificent flowers of this huge
water-lily. The leaves, of q brownish
green tint, lay like broad carpets on the
water, a multitude of plovers, ibises,
spoonbilIs, Brazilian ostriches, and
other tropical birds, were running over
them without al Y danger of being sub
merged. The outer petals of the flow
ers were of a milky whiteness, and the
inner ones of a dull red with violet
spots. The weight of single leaf
which the discoverer secured was four
teen and half pounds, and its circum-
ference was twenty-four feet nine inches.
The flower, which measured four feet
two inches in circumference, weighed
hree and a half pounds. It's outer
petals were nine inches in length. A
bud weighed two and a quarter pounds.
The stout stems of the flower and bud
were covered with hairs three or four
inches in length. The leaf stalks were
as large as a ships cable, and resisted
the combined efforts { f several men to
detach them from their anchorage at
the bottom of the water. They had to
be severed with woodman's axe. The
veins of the leaf, which was perfectly
smooth on its upper surface, were an
inch in diameter and bristling with
prickles. This giant plant abounds in
various waters in the region of the
Amazons its interlaciug stems often
forming an effeotual barrier to the pro-
gress of a canoe.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-22
The Styles.

Lucy Hooper, writing of Paris fash
ions, says that they are taking a new
and attractive departure. Trimmings
have had their day, and founces, pleat-
ings, puffs and lcopings are virtually
defunct issues. Long, plain trains, re-
quiring no end OF material, and rich,
heavy stutfs are the grande mode. In
trimmings jet is out of vogue entirely.
Fur bands are worn extremely wide,
and feather bands are very much the
fashion. The great novelty is band of
birds down in different colors, in which,
at equal distances, q small hollow is
formed to simulate a nest, in each of
which the head of bird is placed.
The aim of dress now is to show off the
figure as much as possible. The close
fitting cuirass corsage and apron tunic
have been supplemented by the cuirass
and the tablier in one, a sort of sleeve
less polonaise composed of steel or Jet
beads, fastened up the back and fitting
close and smooth to the wearer's figure.
A woman with a beautiful figure, at
tired in these later styles, is delightful
to look upon. Evening dresses are
worn with corsages cut extremely long
in front and excessively low. Bonnets
are growing larger and larger, and are
trimmed with ostrich-feather trimming,
or else With two ostrich feathers crossed
over each other, a silk scarf around the
crown, and behind large bow falling
on the catogan braid.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-22

me pin-not even when, being in a
particularly good humor, asked him
to stay ard share my not very sumptu-
GUS dinner. He just looks as usual, as
if there was nobody in the world but
himself. was SO nettled that thought
of repeating the invitation and point
ing to the young ladies chair but it
was bad thought, and I am glad now
that kept it down. He grew more
and more infrm until, at last, one New
Years he came and went in carriage,
although he would not make use of the
coachee's arm either in getting in or
out. I had sore heart and dim eye
looking arter him.
"The next year, you may be sure, I
was at my post as usual but when he
came near the house, was so fgety
and nervous that could not sit down,
but kept going from the parler window
to the door, and looking at the clock.
fThe clock struck and there was no
knock. Poor old young man! In ten
minutes more there wss the postman's
knock, and took the letter he gave me
into the parlor-slow and desoIate like.
The girl was out; we had hardly any
dodgers things were very blue indeed;
our dinner was almost failure; I was
sore cast down. But business is bus
mess, and opened the letter, which
was no doubt about the apartments, for
I never got any other kind?
"This time it was from country at
torney, telling re of that death and
clause in the will leaving two Thousand
dollars to me, for my troubIe in show
ing the lodgings that wouldn't suit. I
tell you I was took all of heap. The
whole twenty years seemed to be upon
my brain. The young man-the young
lady-the meeting he couldn't stand
the long loving looks across the street
the visits to the parlor where she had
lived, and sat, and never saw him-the
grave face-the sinking limbs-the
whitening hair-the empty lodgings
the money. was alone in the house
felt alone in the world and straight
way [ throws the letter down on the Ia
BILE, and plumps me down in chair,
and burst ont a-crying and a-sobbing."
Here my landlady stopped, and here
ends tale that wants nothing but in
cident, plot, character, coloring, be-
ginning, middle and an end, to be
rather more than of the common run.
The reader may write the history of the
young man in volumes, may complicate
the incidents TO his hearts content, and
marry them all if so desired, but he
cannot now find my landlady in the
lodgings Lat wouldn't suit
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-22


In many portions of the South, before
the war, very much of the tobacco used
among the farmers was grown upon
their farms and plantations. In Missis-
sippi, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, the
CaroIinas and Louisiana, there was
considerable tobacco grown but a few
years ago. Now there is but little at.
tention paid to growing this important
crop. The cons .mer confines himself
to better or finer cultivated and manu-
factured article. The old ''home twist"
is hardly to be seen, where few years
ago little other was to be had. The
poorer classes, with colored population,
since the settlement among them Of the
northern element, have received very
luxurious notions in their drinking,
smoking, and chewing habits. The finest
whisky or brandy is sought after, while
the old "white wheat" and "peach and
molasses" are fast going ont of use.
Fine smoking brands of tobacco are now
in use, as well as the most popular plug
auu uub CuJSs AuObb WIZ blOulu TO
the producers are consumers of the very
article they could grow more cheaply
than others. How much like nonsense
it looks for Connecticut, Iowa, Missouri,
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennes-
see to raise tobacco for the south and a
large export trade
The idea that cotton had ceased TO be
king in the south was most absurd and
premature one. That more corn is
grown, we do not deny, but not to the
considerable extent we have been led to
believe by the reports of those who de-
sired to make it a corn-producing coun-
try.
Experiments have been made in more
than thirty counties in Texas, the past
season, in growing tobacco of the vari-
GUS varieties, to test their adaptability
to that soil and climate. The greater
part of these tests have been made in
northern and central counties of the
state, where the Missouri and Ohio
population has settled. With a pro-
tracted drouth and an early frost, still
the result to the planters has been the
most satisfactory. Texas will become
one of our most excellent tobacco states.
Cor. Rural World.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-22
Postal Statistics.

The senate subcommittee ON post
offices and postroads have been at
work on the subject of postal defcien-
cies, and the following figures are given:
The states which report an excess of
receipts over the expenditures are !;
New Hampshire. $41, 1888; Massa-
chusetts, $616, ,778.74; Rhode Island,
$11, ,865.79; Connecticut, $189, 9,811.33 ::
New York, 81, ,121, ,468.98; New Jersey,
S47, ,573.O5; Pennsylvania, $431, $50 62 +;
all the rest of the states show that their
expenditures are in excess of their re-
ceipts. Texas and California show the
largest deficiencies, they being as fol-
lows: Texas, 1924, ,854.01 California,
$504, 1876. Next come, on the losing
side, Missouri, Utah, New Mexico, Illi-
nois, Nebraska, Ohio, Kansas and Min
nesota, all of which run over $3.50, 900,
and most of them 100000. The dis
trict shows a deficiency of $73, ,309 81.
The total deficiency is $7,3O9, 1859 !;
total in excess, 81, $50, $3.50. From
this exhibit it will be seen that in the
New England states, where there is a
dense population, postal service more
than pays for itself whereas, in other
states, most of which are sparely set
tied, the post Office department is
minus.
A SOMEWHAT simple woman was asked
whether her husband feared God, and
replied: ''I guess he does, for he never
goes out on Sundays without his gun
with him.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-22
Men We Don't Want 10 Meet.

The man who grunts and gasps as he
gobbles up the soup, and at every other
mouthful seems threatened with n
choking fit.
The man who, having by an accident
been thrown once in your company,
makes bold to brawl your name out,
and TO shake your hand proiusely when
you pass him in the street.
The man who artfully provokes you
to play game of billiards with him,
and, though he feigns 10 be novice,
produce his own chalk.
The man who can't sit at your table
on any set occasion without getting on
his legs TO propose some stupid toast.
The man who, thinking you are mu-
sical, bores you with his notions on the
music Of the future, Of which yOu Enow
as little as the music Of the spheros.
The man who wears a white hat in
winter, and smokes a pipe when walk
ing, and accosts you as "old fellow"
Just as you are hoping 10 make a good
impression on some well-drcFPed lady
friends.
The man who, knowing that your
doctor faces him at table, turns tho
talk 30 as tosset him talking doctors
shop.
The man who, with look Of urgent
business, when you are in a hurry,
takes you by the button-hole 10 tell you
a bad joke.
The man who, sitting inst behind You
at the opera, destroys half your enjoy
ment by humming all the airs.
The man who makes remarks on your
personal adornmeut, asks you where
you buy your waistooats, and what you
paid for your dress-boots.
The man who lards his talk with lit
tie scraps Of French and German after
his return from a continental tour.
The man who spoils your pleasure in
seeing a new play by applauding in
wrong places, and muttering in stage
whispers his comments on the plot.
And, to finish with, the man who
draws back slightly b. appreciate a
picture, cody comes and stands in front
of you, and then recediug also, treada
upon your toes,-Ptfqch.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-22
The song of Sixpence.

Mr.. Tyler, in his Primitive Cul-
ture," thus applies to this work the law
of the Interpretation of myths =" OBJ
viousIy, the four and twenty blackbirds
are four and twenty hours, and the pie
that holds them is the underlying earth,
covered with the over-arching sky : how
true a touch of nature it is, when the
day breaks-the birds begin to sing J
The king is the sun, and his counting
out his money is pouring out the sun
shine, the golden shower OF Dan@. The
queen is the moon, and her Transparent
honey the moonlight: The maid is the
rosv figure drawn, who rises before the
sun, her master, and hangs out the
clouds, his clothes. across the sky.
The particular blsckbird Who so tragi-
cally ends the tale by shipping off her
nose is the hour of sunshine, -
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-22
A LITERARY. CURIOSITY.

The following is one Of the most reT1ar kanle
compositions we have met with II eNlhCes al ~
planafion be initial capitals spell My Boast Is
in the Glorious Cross of Christ 1ne NCIus an
Italics, when read from top TO bottom ana Dottom
to top, form the Lords Prayer comPleVe'I
Make known the Gospel truths, our Father king,
Yield up thy grace, dear Father, from above,
Bless us with hearts lchich feelingly sing,
ssOur life thou art for-eUer God of LOve?H
Assuage our grief IN love for Christ we pray,
Since the bright prince Of HeaUen and gl0ry died,
Took al our sins and halIoiced the display,
Infant being, first man, and then Was crucifed.
s:upendous God! LRv grace and Fo,per make known;
IN Jesus name let al he world rejoice,
Now labor in thu heavenly KINGDOM own
That blessed Kingdom for thy saints tEs choice,
How vile to come to thee IS ali our cry,
Enemies Of ty-self and all that's thine,
Graceless our lriU We live for vanity,
Loathing thy being, eUil in design.
On God, thy viii be done, from earth TO heaven;
Reclining on the Gospel let lts live,
In eIrth from sin deliUer-ed and forgiven.
Oh as thyself 6ut teach us TO forgive,
Unless It's power temptation doth destroy,
Sure Is our fall into the depths Of woe,
Carnal IA mind, we've not glimpse Of joy
Raised against beuUeu; in as hope we can flow.
o giue US grace and lepd MS in thy ways;
Shine on as with thy love and give as peace,
Self and this sin that rise against rs say.
Oh grant each day our trcsDass-es may cease,
Forgive our evil deeds that oft We Dc.
Convince Us daily of them to our shame,
Help with heavenly tread Aforgice MS too,
Recurrent Iusls and tcelI adore thy name,
In thy forgire-ness.we as saints can Gle,
Since for as and our bsspgsses so high,
Thy Son our Saviour, bled on Calvary.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-22
THE RATE OF INTEREST.
a World of FInsneiaI Philosophy TO

| a World of Financial Philosophy for
Honey Lenders.
The usual rate of interest in the west
is ten per cent, and it is generally be-
lieved that this is the correct measure
of the value of money. If the measure
of the value of commodity is what it
will bring, this is true but if the true
measure of value is " lat the article can
be made to yield, it Ss not true. Ex-
perienced capitalists md business men
give it as their maHare opinion that
there is no kind of Hoperty as profit
able as money loaned ht ten per cent
which is tantamount to saying that the
average yield of industries, enterprises
and speculations is less than ten per
cent. on the amount invested, or in
other words, that money is not really
worth ten per cent. There are several
considerations that - ngbhen this con-
clusion. Money loaned at ten per cent
will double itself in seven and half
years: ten thousand dollars will grow
into twenty thousand in that time, and
twenty thousand will grow into forty
thousand. That the average investments
in business ventures and industries will
not do this is too well known to need q
demonstration. While hundred men
who loan money at ten per cent. COM
pounded, will, with prudent manage
ment, double their fortunes in seven
and half years, one hundred men who
borrow monty at that rate will fall, in
spite of all the prudence and foresight
they may exercise, to double theirs. So
far from it, fifty of them, if not more,
will break. There is nothing more
clearly established by the experience of
business than the fact that a man who
conducts his enterprises on borrowed
capital-whose only resources, or chief
resources, are the products Of bills
drawn on his shipments will, in four
cases out of five, come to bankruptcy,
and a farmer who mortgages his farm
for half its value to secure money at ten
per cent in hope that its net yield will
pay the interest and principal. will, in
four cases out of five. be sold out.
These plain ard we'll known facts ap-
pear to prove that the average annual |
product of money invested in COM
merce, speculation, industry and agri-
culture is not ten per cent, and that,
while it may bring that price, it is
really not worth it. IF all classes Of
borrowers in the west could be brought |
to appreciate this important fact, it |
would be worth millions to this region.
There is q world of financial philosophy |
in it. Nothing is more absurd, and, in
the long run, more disastrous than the
delusion that a man can get rich by
borrowing money TO speculate on it is
the secret of four-fifths of the cases of
bankruptcy that occur in business and
of the sheriff's sales that take place in
the co1ntry.-St. Louis Republican.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-22
Reproduction of Old Thoughts.

Nothing is more strange than the in
cessant reproduction of old thoughts
under the guise of new and advanced
opinions. It would seem as if the hu
man mind, with all it's restless activity,
were destined to revolve in an endless
circle. It's progress is marked by many
changes and discoveries +; it sees and IN
derstands far more clearly the facts that
lie along the line Of its route, and the
modes or laws under which these facts
occur but this route in its higher levels
always returns upon itself. Nature and
oil it's secrets become better known,
and the powers of nature are brought
more under human control; but the
sources of nature and life, and thought
all the ultimate problems of being
never become more closely intelligible.
Not only SO, but the last efforts of hu-
man reasoning on these subjects are
even as the first. Differing in form,
and even sometimes not greatly in form,
they are in substance the same. Bold
as the course of scientific adventure has
seemed for time, it ends very much
it began; and men of the nineteenth
century look over the same abysses of
speculation as did their forefathers
thousands of years before. No philoso-
ply of theism can be said to have ad-
vanced beyond the Book OF Job +; and
Prof. Tyndall, addressing the world
from the throne of modern science
which the chair of the British associa-
ton ought to be-repeats the thoughts
of Democritus and Epicurus, as the
last guesses of the modern scientific
uen BZGcElDOOd
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-22
The Style at Washington Weddings.

The English fashion has become uni
versal in Washington in conducting
weddings. Groomsmen are done away
with, and ushers take their places. As
these last are essential to the number Of
eight, the supply of suitable and avail
able young men would be exhausted if
eight more were necessary as grooms-
men. Besides the effect around the
chancel is finer, if the girls pretty
dresses are not marred by the inter
mingling of black coats. Gentlemen
ought to rejoice that they do not have
to go through the trying ordeal of kneel-
ing around a chancel in full view of
hundreds Of eager, curious eyes behind
them girls who attend wedding just
for the sake of the scenic effecr. The
floating drapery of the bridesmaids ap-
pears to even greater advantage when
the fair wearers kneel in graceful pos
lures, but the men look ridiculous with
their coat-tails touching the steps, and
the soles of their boots turned upwards.
At glance the observers can easily tell
if those boots are old or new, and the
number worn. Sogroomsmen are things
of the past, and the best man has only
to stand by the groom until he receives
the bride. The ushers, after seating
the guests. walk up the aisles Of which
they have charge, after the bridal party
enter, and take side seats.- Washington
Letter,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-22

A NUMBER of prominent young men in
New Orleans have organized a society
under the name of the "Young Mems
Monumental Association" having for
its object the erection of monument
to the memory of the men who fell In
defense of the popular movement of
the 14th of September. One thousand
dollars have already been subscribed,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-22

TIMES are hard in Spain, but the ma
tional spirit of the people is not crushed
by any means. The cry of the masses
is: "Bread and bull fights" No steps
OF importance have been taken to pro-
vide bread, but they have just inaugu-
rated a $500, 900 amphitheatre at Mad
rid for the bull-fghting.