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The Morning herald., 1876-10-24

The electoral college consists OF electors
from each State, chosen by the people, in
number equal to tie whole number OF
Senators and Representatives. The elec-
tors meet in their respective States and vote
by ballot for President and Nice-President.
After voting, they make list Of the per-
sons voted for, and the number Of votes
cast for each, sign and certify this list, and
send it, sealed to the President OF the
Senate at Washington. This individual
must open all Of these certificates, anc
announce their contents in the presence o
both Houses Of Congress. The persor
having the greatest number OF votes Il
then declared President, if such numbe
be majority of all the electors appointed
Congress determines the times of choosing
electors, also the day on which they shal
cast their votes. This day must be the sam
throughout the whole United States.
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ars paaaags from 'The Wondrsm Tale q
Alroy," which mot one in ) hundred Of Tie
present gsnsration has read. Here is one
passage With the melo dramatic interjec-
tions and punctuation preserved:
Tomorrow it was doemed Alroy should
die, and what DEATH A death Of infinite
tortured Hast ever seen man impaled?'
"Hahv ITO view it is alone doom! Il
is so horrible, that tits even remarked that
when this direful ceremony occurs, the av'
erage deaths in cities greatly increase. Til
| from the turning of the blood in the spec
tators, who yet, from some ungovernable
madness, cannot refrain from rushing to
the scene p Z
If the Premier should seek to parry this
thrust by referring the passage to the work
Of imagination, the merciless critic con-
fronts him with his own foot-note. A char
acter in the romance speaks as above. The
author of the romance adds, at the bottom
of the page "A friend Of mine witnessed
this horrible punishment in Upper Egypt"
Mr.. Disraeli may regret, but he cannot
help the summoning Of the author s' wit
ness against the Premier.
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WHAT WAS ONCE SAID.

That mine adversary had WIlCten b pooh
Job.
In many respects it is pleasant thing
to be enrolled among the representatives in
the republic of letters by the author
shin of a book. In others it is not so con-
venient. All readers of Congressional de-
bates remember instances in which fluent
speakers have been afflicted with an i'm
pediment in their speech by the produc.
lion of volume from the library, used by
some merciless opponent to embarrass the
orator by the use of his own past words
printed at first for his pleasure, used at last
| for his confusion.
The English Premier is just now subjec
ted to a like process of disqualification
All the iaunty airs which he can ASSUME
are not equal to the emergency presente'
bv the eastern Question" England i
popularly moved, from Lands End
| John OGroat's House, by the story Q
Turkish cruelties. Disraeli, with the weigh
of the empire on him, strives in vain tt
stay the storm, and affects to believe tina
things are not so bad as they are represen
, ted One of his sophistries is that as tn
Turks are an "Oriental power in Europe,
we are not 80 to be surprised that the Or
entail power persist in its Oriental practice
!. That the offence has been condoned, an
I still must be. But the newspapers al
o pelting him with the pellets Of his ov
3 lbrsin. Among the forgotten things Intro t
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WARLlKE STATIsTICS.

We have gathered tht following statis-
tics from the most reliable sources, and
may be depended upon as correct:
The Russian army cor 1sists of about $780,
600 men on the peape- footing, and of
2,os5.ooo on the war-footing. The Rus
sian feet consisted, in 1872, Of 26S vessels
having 34,277 horsepower, with 1886
guns. The greater and more formidable
part Of this navy was stationed in the
Baltic. The Black-Sea feet numbered 80;
the Caspian 81 the sibeian or Pacific SO;
and the Lake Aral or Terkistan squadron
| vessels. The rest Of theships were either
| stationed at Cronstadt or engaged in
cruising in European waters.
The British navy in 1873 had 226 ships
in commission, So Of thes iron-clads and
generally oflarge size, ,2So1he number rang.
ing from 5000 toll, 900 tos, and several Of
the remainder rating owe 5000 tons.
There were also at tat time 20 new
ships building, four Of fthse of the largest
class are iren-clads. Tht62 iron-clads il
commission and building have an aggre
gate horse power Of 95,l7 and an aggre-
gate tonnage Of Isl ,79.
The British military irces exclusive
ofthe Indian army const of the regular
forces, numbering 12S;9@eAsctive officers
and men ond $4,000 militia officers and
men; about $4,000 yeoma,ry cavalry
volunteers, l6o,75o effective officers ane
i, men, together with 113}0oextra eficient'
r and 35, 900 army resere in two classe
| including pensioners.
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The Sensation of o iOlent Death.

During the old days ,warlike clanship
in Scotland, humble rainer, being cap,
tured by hostile sept, as sentenced to
be hanged. On being pmitted, as very
great favor, to select thetyle of tree from
which he should prefer swing, he very
naively chose grocer s ;ooseberry) bush.
The humor of the choicso appealed to
the chieftain's love Of a Ike that he per-
| mitted the dhuni-wassato depart with
his neck in healthy edition. 1t is not
the custom of the worldowadays to per-
NIT a condemned crimi1 to choose either
the STYLE of instrument (which he shall
be put out of pain, or az particular vari-
ety thereof. in the Brsh Isles he is
hanged in public; in thenited States in
private. In France his ad is artistically
severed from his body b means Of the
guillotine; in the majoribf the German
States he is beheaded.
| In the case of John Dice, convicted
and sentenced to death Fl completely in
| the Mountain meadow macre, the law
of Utah has permit ID hito choose either
, of three methods Of extion-hanging,
>, beheading or the bullet.Ie has chosen
the last.
1t is interesting to splate upon the
feelings of this man, sting as it were
upon the threshold Of dlution, calmly
debating within hims whether he
< should prefer the clutch rope, the cold
steel of an axe, or the gu sharp pang of
: the little leaden messent Perhaps the
q man in his moments Of ioundest medi-
= tation has never permitteis thoughts to
stray towards the possibly of violent
death. Even the bravehudder when
standing face to face withrnity. Hang
1t ing, we are told on NAL authority,
l. found, it is to be supposeapon the testi.
, mony of those who haveen cut down
- while yet alive, is not anoleasant death
y when properly perform The awful
le wrench, which lasts but moment, is
: succeeded, we are led to pose, by that
at species Of dreamy lang produced by
sufiusion of blood on thtain. During
the act of drowning, we aaformed upon
c. undoubted testimony, thae life Of the
,e him. Who can tell " dreams may
~ guard the flicker Of the lswhich lights
~ the murderer to eternity. he sensations
Is produced, if any, while pig from life to
to death beneath the guillo we have no
of possible means Of tellini During the
bt Reign of Terror in Paris, ng the many
~ thousands who fell victo the brutal
10 rage Of the red caps, there few in whom
'at fear and despair did not a happy an.
nj aesthetic at the moment creme agony
be Madame Roland was, We've, a rare
~ ~ exception to the general rtor the blood
,, flowed full and free the mt her heal
RI rolled prone into the bask In nearly
es. every other instance tlood circled
~ round the heart and ceasedow. Many
singular cases are mentiorf the reac-
're tionary effect Of this vi ending o.
wn existence -eyes rolling itir sockets,
. tongues prosrudins h4s shassly
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We recently mentioned the singular
case of wholesale dealer in Canada suing
mercantile agency for damages resulting
from a sale of goods to party whose
standing was incorrectly reported by the
agency. The lower court awarded damages
to the amount of $521, and now on appeal
the Judgment has been affirmed by thu
higher court.
The Morning herald., 1876-10-24

The strong case against Wheeler, the
Vice Presidential candidate of the Repub-
licans, as a blackmailer of the stockhol-
ders Of the Ogdensburg and Champlain
Railroad. still remains without a reply.
The Morning herald., 1876-10-24

WHY cannot we get along with the
Indians as peaceably as they do in Can
ada. In that country the Indians and the
colonists have not had quarrel for lis
years. Nine -tenths of all the work of the
Hudson Bay Company is done by Indians
The Morning herald., 1876-10-24

The leading Vice President Of Blaine's
meeting at Cooper Institute, New York,
was Dittenhoefer, the whisky thief, who
was driven out of Indiana.
The Morning herald., 1876-10-24

BEN BUTLER, in his speech at Andover,
Mass, on the 18th inst, said ''The cleo
tions of the past week show that there is to
be contest of most determined charac-
ter; a contest which is doubtful. say il
frankly, Mr.. Tilden's election is not i'm.
possible; nay, not improbable"
The Morning herald., 1876-10-24

Don't forget the election on the 9TH Of
November.
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THE herald.

TIKI MORNING HERALD u publishsd
every morning, (6un0ays exceptedJ and
delivered In the city Of Wilmington ano
surrounding places for six cents per week
payable to the carriers. Mall subscriptions
postage free. three dollars per annum ID
O'BY1NE Bros, Publishers.
No. 500 Shipley Street,
Wilmington, Del.
The Morning herald., 1876-10-24
FOR PRESIDENT.
SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
FOB VICE PRECEDENT,
THOMAS A. HENDRICKS

. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
JOHN H. RODNEY, New Castle Co.
JOHN w. SHARP, Kent Co.
GEO. w. WILLEN, Sussex Co.
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS.
Hon. JAMES WILLIAMS.
TOR SHERIFF,
ISAAC GRUBB.
FOR CORONER,
DAVID G. ROSE.
FOR STATE SENATOR,
HARRY sHAKPLEY, Brandywine Hd.
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FOR LEVY COUR

FOR LEVY COURT.
WILLIAM P. LODGE, Brandywine.
JAMES CARSWELL. Wilmington.
ADOI.PHUS HUSBANDS, Christ1ana.
ALBERT H. SILVER. New Castle.
ALEXANDER WILSON, Pencader.
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FOR REPRESENTATIVES.
JAMES W. WARE, Wilmington:
JOHN w. r. KILLGORE, Christiana.
JOHN e. BARTHOLOMEW, Mill Greek.
THOMAS HOLCOMB, New Castle.
THOMAS BIRD, Red Lion.
JAMES NICHOLSON, Pencader.
EDWIN r. COCHRAN, st. Georges,
The Morning herald., 1876-10-24

WILMINGTON, OCTOBER "a, 1875.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-04-06

cortege moved on through the main
street of the city. 1t was a picturesque
scene, on this bright, sunny day. A
wagon containing the unpainted coffin,
upon which lay the ladies' evergreen
wreath. Then the Mayor, Judge, Coun-
cilmen and Marshal, rough blue-shirted
men in miners boots and slodch hats.
A dozen or two miners, merchants and
hunters brought up the rear, and the
procession moved silently on.
Then a shallow grave on the hillsides
sunk, as one of the amateur sections
said, "clar down tothe bedrock, gentle
men, down whar the dirt shows good
color" Silently the body was taken
from the wagon and tenderly laid in the
golden earth upon the bedrock. Then
every head was barred and every bronzed
countenance bowed while one or two Sc
lections of scripture were read. The
grave was soon filled and a white pine
headstone set in the earth, and thus the
city of Custer inaugurated its grave
yard.
The saddest point about this affecting
incident is vet to be mentioned. No
letters, papers, or even the slightest
clew to his home or friends have been
found. All that is known is that he
walked all the way from Sioux City to
the Black Hills to die and start grave
ward. PUCK.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-04-06
How to " Time - a Train.

Travellers on railroads are often de-
sirous of knowing the speed at which
they are moving, and, as a general
thing, are not aware that with the aid
of watch they may readily do so, even
when mile-posts are not placed along
the track. This may be done, says the
Scientific Press, by simply couating the
number Of rails which are passed over
in any given minute. On the best laid
roads the hammering sound made by
the wheels in passing from one rail to
another is quite audible, and may be
easily noted on whatever side Of the car
the observer may be sitting. All rails
are either twenty-four or thirty feet
long-the length may be easily ascer-
tanned by pacing or by measuring with
pocket rule at any station where the
train stops. Then by counting the
lumber of rails passed in thirty or sixty
seconds, the speed of travel may bt
calculated by any passenger When
train moves 14.67 feet second it i
travelling at the rate of ten miles al
! hour, OF a mile in six minutes.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-04-06
Washington Society as Seen by
Juandiced Observer.

If you want to see as much of the
sex as possible, go to an evening
dress parade in Washington. In the
crush, the tout ensemble is that of a
billowy sea of drapery, with animated
busts moving about in it. The pillows
move to the voluptuous swell of per-
fumed airs from the grand orchestra
and the busts are protected from the
winter weather by various calOrific de-
vices, in the nature of earrings, neck
laces, and point-lace. BObbing about
in the sea are misunderstanding buoys
in white neckties and claw-hammer
coats. These buoys seem to mark the
points of danger. Where there is a
specially dangerous point, with syren
to draw the unwary to destruction, you
will see several of these black buOys,
helplessly bobbing their Intellectual
heads.
don't know how it is or why it is,
but one woman steals over the senses
like bower of honeysuckles, twined
with graceful tendrils and Odorous bios
SONS; she is as harmoniously perfect
throughout as a faultless vine or flow
ing gladiolus; there is no touch Of color
or fold of drapery lacking; one would as
soon think of adorning rose bush
with elephants ears as to imagine any
evolution of more fitness in the perfect
symmetry of form and color. Another,
with eStimable qualities of mind and
heart, looks like Dutch farm yard in
Pennsylvania, with hollyhocks and sun
flowers dabbed on with a tack-hammer,
on the inside of her head, the flat of
her back, or wherever there is vacant
space among the garden vegetables.
Men and brethren, we can not be eX-
pected to know why this is Onewise,
while that is otherwise. The same wise
Creator that gave us apple blossoms
gives US also onions, and we can only be
silent and adore.
The first axiom of taste | would put
down is this: 1t is not the. costliest
dress that is handsomeSt or even most
elegant. There are ladies ~here who
have spent small fortune on one toilet,
which is worn until it is as well known
as the dome of the Capitol, and as un-
pleasant to the sense as Dickens found
the "ghOst of pie" which
confronted him for weary
week at country inn. The
fashion gossips become raging maniacs
in the attempt to invent new phases for
such a costume, aggressive in colOrS,
and resplendent with obtrusive jewelry,
as it appears again and again before
their agonized vision. On the other
hand, stately matrons, CONNIE IL tau,
in all the graces of manner born of So
cial distinction, have gone through the
season with one black silk and no dia-
monds," winning the homage of both
sexes by the unObtrusive mOdesty and
simplicity of worth and assured posi-
ton. Such women can afford to look
with calm disdain on the elbowing and
pushing of the throng which wins dis
tinction in the " Social Notes. of the
local press, by the same arts that are
used by actresses in the dry goods dra-
ma, where the costuming of the " lead
ing lady" is the chief attraction of the
play.-COr. Ohio State journal.
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What Two Sons Of BeliaI Did.

Miss Clara Morris, the actress, in a
letter to friend in Washington, gives
this lively reminiscence of two well
known actors: "They were boys then,
one tall, blonde, and lazy, the other
short, dark, and active. 1t was Sunday
night; every one had gone to the Quak-
er meeting house few doors above.
They were alone, without cards, or
checkers, or books, but Satan came to
the rescue. A certain proposal was
drawled by the long chap, and eagerly
accepted by the short one. They then
put on their hats and coats, armed
themselves with broom, pail of wa
ter, and a dipper, and went forth into
the still, bitter cold of the night, and
worked diligently. They swey swepta
broad path over the slOping sidewalk,
quite free from snow; over this they
poured a dipper of water, then waited.
In a few minutes it had frozen; then an
other dipper of water, and another
wait, until the path was glass-like in its
icy smoothnes. A whisk Of the broom
sent a slight covering of snow
over it; the work was done,
and the goddess laborers, gathering up
their tools, scrOuged themselves down
on the doorstep and cOnversed pleas
antly. Presently the doors of the meet
ing-house opened, and two lines of
Friends-one made up of males, the
other of females-came out. These lines,
coming down the steps separately, met
and mingled in a crowd on the pave
ment for few moments, then broke
into twOs and threes, and came gravely
down the sidewalk. Suddenly the still
ness of the night was broken by
whacki whacki and two snOrts that
were as one. A female Friend flew to
the rescue-whackl The whole congre-
CATION, filed with wonder, came am
bling down to the scene of Disaster
whackl whackl whaeki grOans and
snorts; thees' and 'thous' filed the
air, and, with cheeks stained with tears
of laughter, they sat on the step and
: took it in those sons of Belial, since
so well known to the world as Joseph
Jefferson and John Ellsler.n -
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worm. We must fight our paltry adj
versaries more efficiently, or allow them
to drive US wholly from the field"
The estimate is far below the mark.
The eotton-worn in 1874 cost the
Southern States $50, eco, 900 in a single
week. The Colorado potato-beetle al
most vetoed the growing of potatoes in
some of the Western States until we
learned how to successfully manage 1t.
The chinch-bug every few years saps
the life from our small grains until they
are hardly worth harvesting. In 1871,
it kept, at the very lowest estimate,
$50, 600, 600 out of the pockets of the
farmers of the Northwestern States, and
in 1874 twice that sum would not have
paid for its injuries in the same terri
tory. From careful returns, published
in nv Seventh Report, have shown that
Missouri alone suffered, at the very low
est estimates, over a loss of 100000
from this insect in 1874. The HesSian
fly often ruins our wheat-fields over i'm
mense areas, and $4,000, 900 would not
cover the country's loss from the Rocky
Mountain locust plague in the years
1878, 1874 and 1915, to say nothlng>Of
the suffering it entailed. The army
worm last year again very generally
marched through the wheat :aifd c.4s
fields of the country, as it not unfre-
quently does. The fruit-grOwer is beset
on all sides with insect pests that di-
minish the profits of his business, and
not unfrequently oblige him to abandon
it. And so the catalogue of insects in
furious to agriculture might be length
ened almost indefinitely, but enough has
been said to give an idea of the losses
we continually sustain from them.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-04-06
Two Little Children Burned to Death
Near Wichita, Kan.

On Monday morning, says the Wlchl-
ia EGQLe, word was brought into town
of most heart-rending disaster, which
occurred about eleven miles east of
Wichita on Sunday night, wherein the
home of VIM. McGary was destroyed
by fire, and two of his children burned
up. We were unable to gather but a
few of the sickening details. The night
was the widest of any during the past
winter, as our home readers well know.
The piercing winds and binding drifts
of snow swept down from the north as
in fierce anger shrieking across the
bleak prairies, causing our houses to
tremble to the very foundation. 1t ap-
pears that Mr.. McGary's family consist
ed of himself, wife and six children, and
that at the usual bedtime four of the
children went upstairs to bed, taking
with them some matches with which to
light a lamp. Nothing further is GER
tainly known by the parents until one
son fell through the floor, and a girl, a
lame child, ran down the stairway. The
parents and the two children down
stairs and the two that escaped from
above could hardly get out of the house
before it was one sheet of flame.
1t seems that about the middle
of the night two children were awakened
by fire and smoke. The boy, who fell
through, finding the house on fire, en-
deavored to pull young child out OF
bed when he fell. 1t is further sup
posed that after lighting the lamp a
burning match must have fallen among
some clothes, which were set afire, but
did not break into a flame for three
hours afterward. We could not Learn
the sex, name or ages of the children
burned. Hardly had the eterror-stricken
family made their escape whenthe home,
that had but few short hours before
sheltered from the pitiless storm the
father and mother, and protected from
the midnight blasts all that to them was
most dear, was not only blackened
smoldering heap, but within its expir
inc embers il. held the crisped remain:
of two little forms whose spirits haC
winged their flight for that cline WHERE
pitiless storms and death-dark desola
| ton never come.
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"Any place that is good enough for
you, John, is good enough for me. My
place is with you. / can assist you
more than you think" she said.
Then Margaret commenced the battle
of life in earnest. 1t is not easy to
turn from life of pleasure and luxury
to Zone of comparative poverty. Mar
garet at first did not find her path
strewn with roses; there were difficult
ties TO be encountered, sights to be en-
dured, ease TO be sacrificed; but she
had brave heart, and love had changed
the gay, careless girl into the tender,
self-sacrificing woman. She became
her husbands closest friend, his best
adviser, the sympathizing confdante of
all his plans ever ready to cheer in mo-
ments of depressiOn-the first to re-
jeice in his success.
John Graham is a wealthy man again
now; success has crowned his efforts
but he ever blesses the adversely which
taught him to know the real value of
his wife.
So Margaret found her mission as a
devoted wife and mother, much to her
mothers amazement; and John Gra-
ham found he had married not a pref
ty butterfly of fashion, but an earnest,
loving woman.
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A New York Jewelry Store Plundered
in Daylight.

The Sun says: At half past o'clock
Yesterday afternoon a daring robbery
was perpetrated in the jewelry store of
Mr.. William Koontz, at 2,06S Third Ave
nue.. Mr. rKoontz says that man of ap-
parently 80 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches
high, with black moustache and short
black hair, wearing dark clothes, asked
to look at clocks. Several were shown
to him, but he pointed to one in the
back part of the store. Mr.. KoontZ
went to get it, and as he reached up to
the shelf he heard several other men
enter the store; and, just as he was
turning to face the front door, the one
who had asked for the clock struck him
a heavy blow upon the back of the
head. He fell to the floor stunned and
nearly insensible. A handkerchief was
then clapped over his mouth, and he
was dragged to the back room, where
he was bound, and watched by some of
the gang while the others helped them
selves to the contents of the showcase.
After the robbers had hastily gather
ed up nearly the entire contents of the
case, consisting of gold and silver
watches and chains, finger and ear
rings, and other jewelry, they quietly
left the store through the back door,
and from thence went into 11Sth Street.
There they waited for Third Avenue
car on its down trip.
Just at this moment Officer Norton OF
the 10th street police was walking on
his beat down the avenue, and seeing
the men standing upon the corner
watching him closely, he took them TO
be what is termed among the policemen
"Shoo Fly Detectives" sent from the
Central Office to watch patrolmen. He
turned back en- his post. The thieve:
jumped upon car and escaped.