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AFTERNOON SESSION.

Court rcassemblcd at P. NJ. The
Grand Jury list was called and they
were retired.
State as. John Conner, assault and
battery upon Owen McCullion, Jan.
%, last, at Rising Sun. The Jury re-
turned verdict Of mot guilty."
State a.. Wesley Butcher, negro,
larceny Of 40 lbs. of Ham and 80 lbs,
of Shoulder from John Biddle, of New
Castle Hundred, Feb. 9th, 1875. The
testimony in this case was rather con.
vincing that if Wesley did not steal
tho meat himself he had it in his pos
gssion and afterwards was selling it
Jury out.
John kecgan who broke into Wyatt
store was sentenced to pay $25.25 res
titution money, and on Saturday, May
-, one hour in the pillory, 20 lashe!
and IS months imprisonment.
John O'Brion, who was convicted Of
| the same oifense, was sentenced to pa.
scr. -, costs, on Saturday, May %, ,oni
hour in the pillory. 20 lashes and Il
months in Jail.
State as. Illnnah J. james, negress
assault and battery upon John w
Gray, at New Castle, April 2, 1915
This was complicated war between
the master, the mistress and the mait
servant Hannah, in which pokers, po
tito mashcrs, sticks of wood and /
butcher knife flew freely around. I h'
jury found Hannah guilty" " notwitll
| Standing the fact that the burden o
evidence was clearly in her favor.
! AT 5.04 p. AL. the Grand Jury re
turned.
The daily gazette., 1875-05-13
DURE GROUND RAW BONE

Furnished by car in lots of five tons and
upwards. or smaller quantities from store.
Parties ordering early will geE al the beneii Is
of the lowest prices.
Also. materials for manufacturing Phos-
pilates. always On hand. Prices rs low Ms
the lowest, quality as good as the best Or
ders and inquiries by mail promptly attended
to. J. A. CRANST0N.
sfsh1Sw toiel Newport. Del
The daily gazette., 1875-05-13

A Halifax, N. c., lad picked uo
that was fighting a hen.
The daily gazette., 1875-05-13
EPILEPSY or FITS.

A SURE CURE for this distressing com
plant Is now made known in n Treatise (oi
is octave pages) on Foreign and Native Her
bal Preparations, published by DIR. o. PHELPS
BROWN. The prescription was discovered by
him in such providential manner that he
cannot conscientiously refuse to make II
known, as it has cured everybody who has
used it for Fits, never having failed in n sin.
gle case. The ingredients may be obtained
from any druggist. A copy sent free to Ill
ap3aicants by mail. Address, DIR. q. PHELPS
BR6wN, 2l Grand s'-aat. Jersey City, New
Jersey. apr22wit
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EFFERSON HOUSE,
YEU -.GSTLE, DELAWARE,

JOHN w. GRAY, PROPRIETOR
This large and beautifully situated house
.has been put in the very best repair for the
reception OF visitors, who will find at it all tne
Accommodations Of FIRST-CLASS uOrEi .
1t commands a fine view Of the Delaware Bay,
and Is one OF the most pleasant and delightful
places In the State for excursions or pic-nlcs.
The house is kept in the best style, the la.
1lled with the choicest wines. liquors and
malt drinks, and table supplied with the sub
stantlals and luxuries of the market. Excm
sionists can arrive by boat or rail, Partiee
who wish to go fishing or boat riding on the
noble Delaware, can be accommodated with
suitable boats. The patronage Of the public
is respectfully solicited.
jyz2-n J. w. GRAY.
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HOTELS.
NXrEsTERN HOTEL.
N. W. COR. FOURTH AND ORANGE SIS.
q. }. KYLE, PROPRIETOR.

The above House has been put In complete
repair for the reception OF guests, where
they will receive all the accommodations OF
O FIRST CLASS HOTEL.
Bar flied with choicest wines, liquors, cigars,
&C., and the table supplied withth best the
market affords. Transient and pernanen
boarders accommodated at moderate rates.
Good stabiing and attentive hostlers. a ilo-
eral share of public patronage is respectfully y
solicited.
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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23
A $2,OOO,OOO Head of Hair.

The London Echo prints the follow
ing: "We have it upon the authority
of a medical journal that there are
"from 100000 to 100000 hairs in a
lady's head" and upon other, if not
higher authority, we know that "beauty
leads us by a single hair" What, then,
in this eminently commercial and
money-making age is the obvious con
clusion? Is it not evident that every
one should consider what is the worth
of a single hair "upOn a lady's head,
what is the worth of it when removed
from lady's head, and what fortune
may she, under penalty of badness, be
supposed to carry? And we are not
without data, for the same journal tells
us that Nine. Nilsson lately sold hair
from her head for 60, "and in a few
moments the Swedish songstress was
surrounded by admirers anxious to buy
a hair at the same rate" OF course,
this pelican-like conduct on the part of
Nine. Nilsson was, we need not say,
done with a good object-it was to feed
the sick and wounded, and of course 1t
occurred at a fancy fair, and in New
York. "Mme. Nilsson was asked by
an American banker to let him have
hair at her own price ;" and she valued
the treasure at $40, which at once set
our cousins to calculate that " the
Swedish sOngstress " carried S2,000,O 900
on her air head. Here, then, is new
line of business for young ladies at
fancy fairs. But all may not have Nine.
NilssOn's success. We once saw an
English lady displaying to an Arab fam
lily hair of Chas. James Fox, at which
they distinctly turned up their noses.
But, then, he was man.
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WachreI Singing While His Child is
Dying.

The opera-hOuse is thronged with an
expectant audience, for Theodore Wach-
tel is to appear in "Der Position Won
Lonjumeau, and all LEIPZIG must hear
him. Perhaps more than one person in
that assembly is thinking what fire
thing it is to be a favorite actor, and
wishing that he could charge places
with Wachtel. The audience even fancy
that he must be as impatient as they for
the curtain to rise and the opera TO
begin. While they are waiting let MS
take a peep back of the scenes. The
pOstbOy stands at the threshold, and the
attendants look from one to the other
with awe-struck faces. Through the
half.Open door of a dressing. room we
see the celebrated Wachtel in an agony
of grief, and can easily guess that the
paper he has dropped on the floor is
telegram with bad news. In truth it If,
for it brings word that his youngest son
is dying and wants to see him. He can
not go the audience must not be dis
appointed he must swallow the lump
that rises in his throat till it almost
chokes him, and assume all the gayety
of Chapelon, the position of Lonju
mean. At the end of the second act,
while the audience is making the house
ring with applause, Wachtel is reading
another telegram. This one tells him
that his 500 Is dead. At the end of the
third act he thrills the audience as he
sings "Gute Nacht, mein Herzliches
Kind" They think the position is
singing that song, but We know that
Theodore Wachtel is bidding his child
a last good night. t.-LeiJziQ Letter.
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monial, and desirable men, the genuine,
hlgh-prlced articles, rarely are kept on
hand at the more modest resorts. When,
however, they are found there, thev are
had at as eminent disadvantages as
whales in shoal water, and. helpless for
stout and prolonged resistance, fall an
easy prey to their great enemy. Veter
an dowager dealers, VINO for the last
forty years have been engaged in this
branch of trade, freely confess that
during the whole course of their COM
mercial experiences they have never
known SO prolonged period of extreme
depression, with not the faintest. glim-
mer of better times. The outlook is,
indeed, gloomy. Washington, which
during the Writer season is q sort OF
matrimonial Novgorod or Leipzig, offer
ing to the speculative investor greater
choice of goods than can be found at
any other center in this country, was so
overstocked last year that there was n
fall of at least fifty per cent. in first
class fancy calicoes, and even at these
ruinous sacrifices, though the offerings
were large, but little property changed
hands,
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Death of George WashingtOn's Grand
Niece,


We are called upon to chronicle the
death of that distinguished lady, Mrs.
Frances Parke Butler, wife of our es-
teemed friend, Col. E. G. W. Butler, of
Dunboyne, parish of Iberville, but for
the past four years a resident of Pass
Christian, Miss.
The deceased, one of the most gifted
and accomplished women of her time,
was born at Mount Vernon, Nov. 27,
1897 and was the dauohter of Lawrence
Lewis and Eleanor Parke Custis, of
Woodlawn, Fairfax county, Va. Law
renee Lewis was the SOL of Fielding
Lewis and Elizabeth Washington, only
sister of Gen. Washington, and was one
of the executors of his uncle's estate.
Eleanor Parke Custis was the youngest
daughter of John Parke Custis, only
son of Mrs Washington by her first
husband, Daniel Parke Custis, and her
mother was Eleanor Calvert, of Mary
land, granddaughter of Lord Baltimore
and she, in common with her brother,
George Washington Parke Custis, of
Arlington, father of the late Mrs.
Robert E Lee, was adopted by Gen.
and Mrs. Washington, ct the death of
their father, at the close of the revolu-
tion. Her eldest son, Edward George
Washington Butler, resigned his posi-
ton as secretary of legation at Berlin,
and fell at Belmont as major of the 18th
Louisiana regiment, requesting Gen.
Polk to say that he died like Butler,
in the discharge of his duty.
Her second son, Maj. Lawrence Lewis
Butler, served, during the late civil
war, on the staff of Lieut.. Gen. Polk,
and now resides in St. Louis, Mo-, as q
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23
Plants as Gather Guides.

1t is well known that certain plants
are very sensitive to changes in the at
mosphere, and by their behavior, the
opening and closing of their leaves and
flowers, etc, serve as natural barome-
ters to indicate the coming weather
A Prussian horticulturst, Mr.. Hanne.
man, of Broskau, has published long
list of plants, the indications of which
he has found Trustworthy. The PIN
pernell, or poor mans weather-glass,
(AnGgGLLis GrUe1aSjs,) expand their
flowers at the approach of wet weather,
whilst on the other hand the different
varieties of clover contact their leaves
before rain. If fine bright weather Is
in prospect, the leaves of the chickweed
(.SteLldrjG media unfold and its flowers
remain awake and erect until mid day.
When the plant drOops and its flowers
do not expand, rain may be expected.
The half opening of the flowers is a
sign that the wet will not last long.
The Burnet saxifrage (Pjml1ineLia sar-
ifrdgd) indicates the coming weather III
the same manner. As to the small Cape
marigOld, (CaIend1LLd 30la1UiGJjS,) should
it open at six or seven a. M, and not
close till four p. No., we may reckon on
settled weather if the flower continues
sleeping after seven. it betokens rains.
Wood sorrel, (OUdLiS, GcetOcetld,) and
other species of OTGLi8, indicate rain
by closing their leaves.
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Early Birds.

My idea of perfect happiness is the
consciousness of having done our whole
duty, and the certainty of getting our
reward for it.
Life is short, but the majority out
live themselves anyhow.
It is a great deal easier to be saucy
than to be sarcastic but there is many
critics who haven't discovered the diff
ference yet, and probably never will.
The man whom success renders more
humble, and at the same time more eau
tiCus, is one whom a defeat couldn't
weaken.
If man is going to leave the world
and retire into solitude he must take a
large stock of virtues with him, for
these are the only things he can enjoy
there.
There has seldom been a great occa-
sion yet but what there has been found
some one equal TO it, and that one has
often sprung from an unexpected
source.
The man who fully understands a
subject is always satisfied to use the
simplest terms to explain it.
II you expect to keep yure friend yu
have got to see all his virtues with both
eyes and bis failings with one.
The man who tells you that there
aiu't an honest person living has studied
his own character too we'll.
OF all created things animate or in
animate, we find no fools except among
mankind.
He who has the most authority and
uses it the least is truly noble char
acter.
The world has always longed for
sensations if man could invent a new
Punch and Judy, he would be admired
more than the one who could make one
barrel of flour go as far as two.
You can't separate wit from truth
truth may not be wit, but wit is always
truth.
Our FASHIONS we're not given to US to
be destroyed, but to be controlled.
The man who told us /" that virtue is
its own reward, might have added that
vice was too.
The theory of medicine has cured
more patients than the practice of it
ever has.
No really wise man ever asks ques-
tions that he thinks can't be answered.
Silence has been priced more perhaps
than it really deserves, but in the case
of folly it can't be commended too
much.
You can't make an enemy of the
M anest wretch with impunity, for the
meanest wretch can set fire to your pig
pen just as easy as anybody. Josh
Billings an N Y. Weekly.
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Love of Flowers.

A wealthy farmer, a widower, lived in
a happy retiredness with his only
daughter, whom he cherished tenderly.
Many courted her, but upon one among
the suitOrs, the son of a poor woman,
she bestowed her affections. After her
father was pressed hard by many of them
in regard to the marriage of his daugh-
ter, he said calmly: "He who can eR-
plain and solve the question l ask him
shall carry off the prize" The knotty
query is "What is on earth the oldest
and least lasting, the most admirable
and ill-treated; it speaks without a
voice, and after demise is useful" The
young fellows tried to solve this riddle,
but did not succeed. The poor girl be-
came alarmed, lest one of her undesired
wOoers might hit upon the cOnjectures of
herfather. Meanwhile one eveI ing her ia
voredlover entered the room of the old
man with a nosegay, presented it to him
and said: "The flower appears sooner
than the fruit none are older than they
are nothing is less durable they are
admired above all things, and at the same
time used i'll the hand pulls them, the
sickle cuts them off without mercy ;
they speak without a voice, because
they have for lovers a secret language.
In fine, to be useful, the tooth of the
animal and the scythe of the reaper give
them the finishing stroke" After few
moments of deep reflection, the old
man answered, BE my son take my
blessing. l suppose that a man who
loves flowers will also love his wife"
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Learned Fools.

The exuberant fecundity of the i'm
aginative faculties of some geological
savants led them into a bIunder re-
Gently, which would be amusing if only
it were a degree or two less ridiculous.
1t appears that in the Turkish collection
OF geological specimens which were ex
hibited at the Vienna exposition were 8
number of odd-looking instruments of
flint, six inches long, an inch broad,
and a quarter of an inch thick. After
a close examination of these UNIQUE
curiOsities, and large amount of reck
ondite cackling over them by learned
geological experts, they were pro-
nounced to be flint knives of the yer
liable stone age. The discovery was
hailed as great acquisition to science /;
and in the opinion of theselearned pun
dts, went far to prove that man ex listed
and delved and worked with tools at a
period far earlier than anv of which We
have any record in the Bible. Biologists
were triumphant over these wonderful
flints, which had proved the antiquity
of prehistoric man and dissipated an
other of the fables of the Inspired
Record. But "mark now, how plain a
tale" has put the savants down, and
how completely they hoaxed themselves
by trusting to their own fertile lmagin
ations. 1t has been discovered that the
f1ints in question are modern instru-
ments which are in universal use at this
day by peasant husbandmen of Rune
liza, Anatolia and Syria. IN the con-
struction of their threshing machines,
which are armed with these knives.
There is the whole of the mystery The
learned geologists knew all about the
stone age, but were utterly ignorant
the present age. The Incl
dent is an evidence of the slight foun-
iation on which the scientists are wont
to build their facts, as we'll as of their
easy credulity. or shall we say gull
bility ?-ChrjstjGn LatelLigencer.
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Our Rif1emen Abroad.

AS the details of the great rife match
at Dollymount, ireland, reach us, they
confirm the skill of our marksmen and
| the completeness of their victory. The
results show a great improvement over
| the shooting at Creedmoor last year. At
both places the ranges were 800, 900, and
1000 yards; the targets six feet by
twelve in size, with a center six feet by
six, and "bull's eye" three feet by
three. The sporting journals tell us
that shot in the bulls eye counts four,
IN the center three, in the outer part of
the target two. The teams are each six
men, each man having fifteen shots at
man range, and forty five in all.
BY comparison of the shooting at
CreedmoOr and that at Dollymount it
will be seen that there was great i'm
provement in favor of the latter. The
figures are thus given at Creedmoor
The total of the Americans was 934, that
of the Irish, 931-thus made up: At
300 yards, Americans, 325; Irish, 317
900 yards, Americas, 80; Irish, BIS;
1000 yards, Americans, 298; Irish, 303.
At Dollymount the total was as fol-
lows Americans, 967, Irish, 929-
thus made up At 800 yards, the Amer
leans made 337; the Irish, 338; 900
yards, Americans, 327; Irish, 292; l..
600 yards, Americans, 303; Irish, 299
Therefore the Americans beat their
former scores heavily in each case-12,
II and 5 points, respectively. The
Irish gained heavily at 800 yards, 81
points lost % points at 900 yards, and
at 1000 yards lost 4. The Americans
beat the Irish by 38 points, and their |
Creedmoor score by 80 points the Irish |
fell behind their CreedmOor perform |
ance points.
Toward the conclusion of the shoot
ing at Dellymount the Irish blood got |
up too high and great excitement pre-
vailed. The police were unable to pre-
serve order. The crowd swayed to and |
fro and gave ominous signs of disorder,
and the Americans refused to proceed
until quiet could be restored. The Irish
did not seem to entertain any particular
hostility to the Americans.
Theywere more enraged, perhaps, against
their own team. Butthey seemed to want
90 bit of a row" on general princi-
Piles, and it was feared they would in
dulge their proverbial propensity of
hitting at every head they saw. Every
thing passed off peaceably and pleasant
IyJ nO"eNeI, anu Gdey OSCdLuo mOIo eu-
thusiastic than ever over the Americans.
But there are new triumphs for our
to win. Their shooting,
though excellent, was not superior to
the best shooting at Wimbledon, the
great English rife ground. The match
will come off at that range in a few
days, and the American team wilt have
TO guard with great care the laurels
they have won. The English are cooler
and more delibel ate than the Irish, and
On the Whole better shots. They will
be nerved to their best shooting at the 1
match, and we may expect
;he public interest of both countries to
De greatly stimulated by the result in
Ireland. Courier Journal.
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Good Hints

Pipsy Potts, in Arthnr's, is full of
hints, all helping tired housekeepers to
Tighten their work
About squash. Did you ever try any?
l cooked some that way to-day, and it
was nice. Take a summer squash, cut
it up in slices, roll it in flour and fry it
in a spider in hot butter. Salt and pep
per it; and if you like fried oysters,
youn like this.
Two other things. Take your board
that you scour knives on and nail 1t
firmly so that it will be stationary near
the table where you wash dishes. You
don't know, unless you've tried, how
much labor it saves /; for If at any time
you use knife, just step right there
and rub ii over with the securing mate
rial. use both brick and large cork.
And you wouldn't do this if You had to
go to some cupboard; take down the
board, and afterward have to put it
back again.
I learned something from a little
twelve year old girl who worked for me
last winter, that l never thought of be-
fore. She was scrubbing and mOpping
in the pantry, and got too much water
on the floor and how did she go to
work to get it up but take the dustpan
and scoop it up with that, and then
wipe the floor nicely with the mop.
How much better that was than wiring
ing out the mop ten or dozen times,
until your hands are almost blistered,
and your back almost broken.
CAUSE and consequence. The great
New York merchant prince, Stewart,
advertised to the extent of SS5, 900 last
year. Brit it was less than one per cent
of the total amount of his sales.
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IRON N THE SourH.-The editor OF
the Iron World, published at PlttHburg,
whl has lately made trip through the
southern states, gives the following as
ono az tbo rcsuits Of his observations /.
Nncb has been published concerning
the low price at which pig iron can bo
made in the south. The frequent con-
tignity Of the various ores, coal aud
limestone, generally alt Of excellent
1uality, is the reason for asserting that
Il can be made there cheaper than else
where. Most persons IN the northern
states, who have seen these figures CAV
ing the cost of iron making in the south,
have doubted the statements, but We
believe. after a somewhat exhaustive
examination OF the subject, that m
either of the three sta.es-Tennessee,
Georgia or Alabama pig iron can be
made from six 10 nine dollars cheaper
than in the most favored localities OF
the more prominent iron producing
states.
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THE MATRIMONIAL MARKET.
Its Distressing Dizziness All over tn
Country.


Its Distressing Dizziness All over the
Country.
Since the panic, the matrimonial
market has been extremely dull, and
heads of families are in most despond-
ent mood. It had been hoped last fall
that the usual winters festivities or
marriage fairs would have witnessed
revival in trade, and every legitimate
effort was made by those having on
hand stocks held over from the previous
season to force off goods that were
rapidly growing out of fashion and
depreciating in value. Prices were
literally marked down; young ladies
who before the panic were held 10y
themselves) at a Fifth avenue house, a
Newport villa and an opera box, mod
estIy hung out signals of distress and
openly avowed their predictions for
love in a cottage. But so depressed
was the general feeling that even with
these concessions very lutte real busl-
ness was transacted there was much
skirmishing but few serious engage
ments. It is well known that at this
moment it is a matter of anxious debate
with the heads of our leading uptown
houses as TO what is the best plan to
adopt during the coming summer cam
paign to infuse more briskness and
firmress into the market. 1t is, at
least, an open question whether the
increased budget necessary to Wig
orous taking of the field at Sharon or
Saratoga would be justified in view OF
the barren results at these matrimonial
centres during the past two years.
These summer exchanges certainly at
tract the better class of buyers, but
competition is necessar ly so much the
keener. Experience, too, has shown
that two weeks at a quiet seaside or
mountain resort will practically pro
mote more business mot to speak OF the
vastly reduced percentage OF operating
a1nenses) than two months at fash
ionabIe watering. place; but without men
it is impossible for even the most beauti-
fnI and accomplished of maldens to
launch her little bark on the sea matrl-