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The Morning herald., 1876-08-10
FOR SHERIFF,
ISAAC GRUBB.
FOR CORONER
DAVID c. ROSE.
SKULL AND CROssBONEs.

Pirates when securing the seas, bent on
murder and booty, carry at their mast
head a black flag with skull and CROSS
bones This is the pirates ensign. There
is political party in this county sailing
under similar colors, (but with less hon.
esty,) on a buccaneering expedition for
white mems votes. Jacobin leaders are
faithful in devices. If they fail in making
one device effective, they will resort to
a mother. The latest raw head and bloody
bone buggaboos got up to frighten children
of mature age, are Boutwells skull and
crossbones on Mississippi affairs and For
neys bloody shirt discovery ofa widespread
Southern conspiracy. These designing
Jacobin leaders are trying to frighten the
people Of the North into the support Of
their party, by making them believe that
the people of the South are unmitigated
fiends and devils, and that the whole South
is parfect hell-hole. The over watchfu'
honest I? Forney, has discovered wide
spread conspiracy. This faithful sentinel
on the Jacobin watch tower, has discovered
armed bands patrolling the Southern States
intimidating Republican voters. "Such
degree of intimidation has this armed
band established, that the Republican
voters dare not go to the poles to vote in
accordance with their own convictions" !"
Desperate must be the political neces-
sites Of party demanding such bugga
boo stories as Forney publishes and such
bloody reports as that of BoutwelPs COM
mittee on Mississippi affairs. Nothing
better could be expected of Forney, but it
is astonishing and lamentable, that gentle
men such as Boutwell, and his partisan
associates should be guilty of wantonly
concealing truths aud making false
report. They have to bolster up and
save the sinking fortunes Of debauched
party, doubtless made gross misrepre-
sentation of facts. If the Senate adjourns
without any legislation on Boutwelrs
report, it will prove to the nation thai
Boutwell, and his partisan associates on the
committee are deliberate falsifers, and
that the Mississippi investigation was
campaign invention, prosecuted and con-
summated, not to give the country the
truth, but to save debauched party anc
its plundering leaders from the righteous
condemnation of an outraged people.
These Jacobin fuglemen presume toe
much on their raw head and bloody bones
stories and reports. Such bloody shlr
warns have been the order for the last ter
wears, and these last ones are too much or
the nursery pattern to frighten children o
an old growth. These scull and cross
bone stories will not serve as "scare crows
to drive the people Of the North into tn
Jacobin ranks.
The Morning herald., 1876-08-10

The patriotism Of century ago must
have been made of sterner stuff than that
which fires the American heart of to-day,
or the experience Of a Cincinnati military
company at the Centennial may be taken
as no reason of contrast. The Cincinnati
Light Guard left that city Of hog-meat and
disastrous conventions with colors flying,
plumage bright, and wallets we'll stuffed
with that which answers as collateral
for grub. They marched eight weeks and
arrived at the Centennial grounds the mil
itary heroes of the day. The Colonel,
with the sanity name of St. Martin,
flashed his brilliant weapon in the sun
light, and there was never a happier set Of
soldiers. But recent developments have
proved that they we're rejoicing while woe
was in their household. The gallant
Colonel soon after abandoned them to the
unpleasant situation Of being without funds
and far away from home. Patriotism
oozed out and gave way to the demand Of
hungry stomachs, pleasure gave way tc
business, and they began to look around
for food and drink, which was furnished
them by the Centennial Fire Department
and they were secured free transportation
home. But what a difference between
patriotism one hundred years ago and now
If the soldiers Of that day had gone arounc
begging for ride home, or have laid dowr
and rolled in despair because they hae
nothing to put in their stomachs, there
would have been no Centennial, but gentl'
Johnny Bull would have reminded you .
what set Of milk-and- water old fool, you
fore-fathers were every time he applied th'
screws and made you pony up your shar'
for the Prince Of Wales trip to the East OF
an elephants snout.
The Morning herald., 1876-08-10
T0O Cheap.
From the Boston Post.]

TFTOH C1Ie BOsU0H TUSJ.J
Fort, the loud d-mouthed Radical from H.
linois, who has had more to say about the
purity of the Republican party than almost
any member of his party, is proved to have
sold his vote for doorkeeper in the Forty
second Congress for one hundred copies of
the Agricultural Report. The evidence
taken before the Committee of Accounts is
unim peachable.
The Morning herald., 1876-08-10

By error We were made to say yesterday
morning, that the opposition to Mr.. Bird
in a nominating convention was James ~
LofFman,9 instead Of Lofland. We also
gave Mr.. Higgins a middle name when he
has none. nj Lan.4TD ~ wv u
The Morning herald., 1876-08-10
Tho Square Truth.
TEuovsa ha Moth rAd fst

Gov, Tilden was elected to his present
office by fifty thousand majority over Gov
John A. Dix, decisive test OF persona
popularity. After Mr.. Bristow, he Is thu
only man In high place who has risked any
thing in q fight against corruptionists.
The Morning herald., 1876-08-10

Ericsson is experimenting, with the object
of obtaining mechanical power from the
direct action of the SUMS rays.
Whittier is spending the summer at the
Isles of Shoals. He appears rarely In pub
lie, and thus keeps the curious at . dis
|tsuce. lU.s
The Morning herald., 1876-08-10
THE HERALD.

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postage free, three dollars per annum 10
advance.
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No. $40 Shipley Street,
Wilmington, Del.
The Morning herald., 1876-08-10
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The Morning herald., 1876-01-25
MINOR DISPATCHES.

New YORK, Jan. M.-The sugar refinery
Of Kopke q Co., at Hastings, on the Hud-
son, was burned this morning, loss heavy
and fully insured. '.@.'F"
BEARDsrowN, qIll.,s Jan. A.-Sunday
morning fire broke out in u three story
building on the corner of Main and Wash
ington streets, doing q damage to the
amount of $4,000; insurance $4,000.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 2G-The Clerk of Ply
mouth church will this evening or to-mor-
row serve upon Henry G. Bowen, = formal
copy of 8. v. Whites statement Of grievances
agaiest him. ,....., .s......., .'
NEW YORK, Jan. A.-walling, super1n-
tendent of Police, has received information
that Mr.. Bridges and Mrs. Mckenzie are
together in Philadelphia, but nothing can
be done, as the extradition treaty does not
cover tho case. -. "a y ..i .15l '
DUBUQUE, Iowa., Jan. pa fire at Ga.
lena, yesterday, destroyed the Merchants
National Bank, Western Union Telegraph
Office, Pierce's Photograph Gallery and Or.
Howard's office. The total loss is estimated
at SO 500; insurance 81 800. ..o.r,.
ian. A.-The President
sent In the following nominations to-day
>;has. Bartlett, United States Consul at
Manila; Geo. Bur CESS, Postmaster at New
Brighton; Alfred Fairfax, as Appraiser OF
Merchandise at New Orleans; Thomas X
Mosely, Peruvian Agent at San Francisco;
Adolphus Waltz, Register at Land Office at
Carson City, Nevada. 'a
The Morning herald., 1876-01-25

81 WASHINGTON, Jan. M.-The Select Com
mittee on Texas Border Troubles to-day
Examined two citizens Of that State, who
gave detailed accounts of cattle thisvmg Py
Mexicaus. on the Texas side tof tne MO
Grande. and referred to the excltement
caused amons the people in consequence u
invasions and depredatioons'
/ a;wXs ;wXsaYf No TON, Jan. "a. Major Joseph I'
r.. johnson has arrived here as 2 sPecAl
messenger from Montgomery, Aiaoama, ~,
hringinea with him the memorial OF tne
Leoislature and other papers alleging inc
ilierality Of the election of Mr.. spencer "
tha United States Senate.
WASHING TON, {Jap. :.A.-TAe Comm,s, ahe
S,oner of Indian Affairs was before tne ls
House % Committee on Appropriation to-day
askinr for S2l6, 600, this amount Deing re, re,
ouired % deficiency, owing 70 inc iac' ,ar. .nr'
extraordinary issues OF supPIess as s;o,,, Ms,,
made to subsist numerous bands 'ot S,. e,oa.
called M together at the Red Cloud Agency,
IN conference held by the late CommiMs1IE,. M.,,l
to treat for the cession of the BLACK nm an
and the supplies having become neA''' "a
] hausted.
The Morning herald., 1876-01-25
THE NEW MORGAN SHIPS.

LAUNCH NEXT MoNTH-Two IRON SHIPS
COMPLETED IN SIX MONTHS.
In the early part of last fall, the Harlan
4 Hollingsworth Co., obtained the contract
for two new ships, for the Morgan Steam
ship Company Of NY. Work on the two
vessels was commenced almost Immediately
and has been vigorously pushed ever since.
The mildpess Of the winter so far has help
ed the company considerably, and now the
hulls of both vessels are completed, and a
great portion Of the other work has been
finished.
One of these ships will be launched on, OF
about the 9th of next month, and will be
completed In six weeks after
wards, and ready to sail. The
other, which is not much behind Its con-
sort in the work which has been accom-
plished upon it, will be launched probably q
month later, and completed in about siz
weeks after, so that averaging the time
which It will take to complete both vessels
It will be seen that It will not be much OveI
six months. This certainly is quick work
and the company will be able to present the
pair of ships to the Morgan Company even
before the time of contract. The vessel
which Is furtherest under way, and which ii
to be launched in February will be christen
ed Algisrs, and the other will receive the
name Of Lone Star
The Morning herald., 1876-01-25
In q BOX.

A well,6xed plan for the escape Of con-
vict from Auburn prison was foiled Friday
afternoon. While one of the keepers was at
a grocery, boy who was driving team Of
the prison tool-shop informed the keeper
that he had Just come out Of the prison
yard, and thought there was convict stow
ed away in large box on his wagon. Be-
fore the keeper could get to the wagon he
saw a convict running, and ordered him to
halt, and fired three shots at him, one going
through his bootleg, and another grazing
his side. He was only winged, and darted
on. The officers pursued, intereepting the
fugitive. The escaper proved to be Michael
Hurley, transfer from Sing Sing, sent for
twenty years for burglary in the first degree
and larceny in October, 1874. He had dis.
guised himself in overalls, overshirt, and
hat, and slowed himself into the box before
II had been placed on the wagon. He attemp-
ted to escape through sewer some two
months ago, and was locked up for his want
of success.
The Morning herald., 1876-01-25
A Bold Larceny
DARING THEFT OF $11S.

Yesterday afternoon, Miss Mary Clayton
from Bridgeton, N. j., who is visiting her
friends at 400 Taylor street, while passing
from the back door dropped her pocket
book containing e113,60 in bank notes.
She had not gone far, before she discovered
her loss, and Immediately went back to the
steps, when she imagined she might have
lost 1t, but failed to find the money. Sne
Immediately suspected that Eliza Dixon q
colored woman who was washing the steps
at the time, had picked 1t up
Awarrant was obtained from the Mayor,
and the girl taken TO the station, when
search was made, and the bill found intact
upon her person. She was held in $500
bail for her appearance at the next term Of
court, and in default she was detained in
the cells, aud will be taken to New Castle
to day
The Morning herald., 1876-01-25
A Sad Spectacle.
TEN BOYS BEFORE TEE MAYOR LAST EVEN
1NG-THE TArNALL STREET ROBBERY.

TEN BOYS BEFORE TIE MAYOR LAST EVEN
ING-THE TATNALL STREET ROBBERY.
The police court last evening, at O'Clock,
was so 'densely packed that It would have
been almost impossible to have squeezed
another person in, and the sad spectacle of
ten youthful law breakers before his Honor,
in one evening was presented.
The first batch Of five were arraigned for
throwing stones and breaking windows, and
the case was postponed until this evening.
Henry Starr, Henry Derry, Samuel King,
Chas. Schaefer and John Craven, were then
called to the dock, upon charge of robbing
the building at the northwest corner Of
Third and Tatnall streets, lately occupied
by A. L. Henderer & Co., as q machine
shop. ST - "y'' salpwE.a t,Iu
The thieves went all over the building and
tore all the gas pipes and burners from the
wells and also stole the wash basins and
the lead pipe leading from them into the
ground. ~ ,...y
King was discharged, he only having
been witness in the case, and Craven only
8 years old was dismissed on account Of his
youth. The others were held each in $500
bail for their appearance at court. It ap-
peared from the evidence that Chas. Harper,
who keeps junk shop at Front, between
Orange and Tatnall, received some Of the
goods, as also did Hutton, the King street
plumber, and they we're also held in $500
each for their appearance at Court, upon
charge Of receiving stolen goods.
The boys failed to furnish bail and will
90 to New Castle to-day, but the two, mer-
chants promptly furnished ths required
amount.
The Morning herald., 1876-01-25
RY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH.

The direct United States cable broke
again yesterday about 14O miles west OF
Tarbay, Nova Scotia. l
The Pope has recovered from his late
epileptic seizure, and 10 now able to receive
vlsitorH' HT,n w..
Thirteen people were killed in the Hunt
ingdon (England) railroad accident
John Bright, in an address to his constitu-
ents at, Birmingham, reviewed the Con.
servative policy and declared his political
creed.
The students of the Dublin University
have declined to take part in the interna-
tioaal boat race to take place in Philadelphia
this year !" 49,
The Ambassadors of the Powers, collec-
lively, will support note to the forte, W
which written reply will be required.
Three prisoners escaped from tie county
isil ct Knoxville, Tenn, by saving through
q grated window at an early hour on Satur-
day morning. a, ,+r'DI
The Judges selected to examine the plays
m the American Revolution for the
Michaels prize met in Paris, on Saturday,
Int were Unable to decide who was the win
ner of the first prize.
At Barboursville, West Virginia, an infu-
rated mob broke into the jail and took Out
Edwark Williams and Mrs. Meeling. both
Accused of numbering the husband OF tne
latter. Williams confessed himself guilty,
and was cruelty put to death. The woman
denied having taken an active part, ano
pleaded so bitterly that the mob relented,
and she was returned to prison.
The Morning herald., 1876-01-25
BOARD OF EDUCATION.

REGULAR SESSION LAST NIGHT-COMMUN-
ICATIoNs, ETC.
Board Of Education met last night in
regular session, President shortledge pre-
siding.
The Committee on Books moved that
Clarke's and Stewards Virgil be added to
the list of books. Adopted. Allan Ruth,
in the absence of Mr.. Woolley, Chairman o.
the Committee on Accounts, moved thai
an order be drawn in favor of Mr.. McIn
tire for $164. Adopted.
Accommodation from J. X, Taylor ask
ing to rent two rooms in Taylor Academy
for thirteen weeks from March 10Th, was
read. n,.
On motion Mr.. Taylor's request was
granted, and the president authorized to
make the necessary arrangements.
Mr. Bird moved that q carpet for covering
the platforms in No.. 4 School, be pur-
chased. Considerable discussion followed
upon the subject by several members: Mr..
Birds request was finally granted.
Col. Hesler gave notice to the Board
that he intended to introduce at
Cno next McetluX, Luc buuJOcV VI e1sel'nS ~"
amendment to the By.Laws made on May
10th, 1875, which provides for the annual
election of School Superintendent, and sub
ssitute in its stead one providing that the
election take place once every three years.
A communication from the Visiting Com
mittee of School No. 16, asking for an assist
ant teacher for period of three months
was referred to Committee on Teachers
with power to act.
A request from Signor Deyali, wishing to
announce in the Public Schools an exhibition
of trained birds, which he proposed to give
in one of the Halls OF the city, was decided
out of order.
Mr.. Eckel called the attention Of the
Board to the mode of heating new School
house, No. Is, and said that the growing
preference was for steam instead Of the
heaters. !. .l !
Mr.. Baird. moved that the Committee on
Buildings make the arrangements Tor
steam. .1 =.
Mr.. Frame offered . substitute to ihe
motion providing that the committee first
ascertain the cost Of heating the new build.
ing by steam to prepare It for flues, and to
report 1T the next meeting of the Board. II
was accepted. i
Mr.. Heisler moved that the Committed
ON Teachers in regard to fixing the salaries
bo discharged. Adopted. ..
The Board then adjourned. 40. .WY
The Morning herald., 1876-01-25
Thr eatcning . Life.

DR.. 8. L. West appeared before Esquire
Frazer, yesterday and complained that he
WAS in fear of his life from tho account of
Lewis Ricards. It appears that the doc
tor attended Ricards' wife, who although
DR.. West paid her every attention, died,
and the husband was incensed against the
doctor, and upon several Sccasions, ss Doc
tor West ewore, threate1ed his life, and has
insulted him frequently in the streets.
The Squire, upon . hearing of the ease
imposed bail Of $500 for Ricards' app ar
ance at Court to answer the charge which
was promptly furnished.
The Morning herald., 1876-01-25
The COloroll Evangellst.

Mrs. Amanda Smith, the colored Evange
list, who has been in Wilmington for three
weeks, laboring in the cause of religion, has
wonderful powers of exhortation. Her
language is plain, but delivered with force
that is at once effective. She stated to .
representative of The HERALD yesterday,
that she never chooses text, but she judges
her audience and its needs by the pulse OF
feeling manifest among them, what she
said came with spontanisty, land the remarks
applied directly to them. See preached
the gospel in its plainest form, so that the
most ignorant could comprehend of what
she was speaking, and she had always
found it the most successful way.
Mrs. Smith in appearance is tall, and
straight as an Indian Queen, with an angu-
lar form, and an eye that is searching in its
glance and full of expression. The features
are regular, and her color is shade be-
tween black and the color known as the
dark brown ginger thread. In conversation
she is easy and atfable, tinged with quick
ness in expression of ideas that embraces q
great deal in terse language and in very
short short time. She dresses plainly,
wearing that costume adopted by Quaker
esses, and arranged with precisely the same
simplicity.
she was born in Hartford county, Mary
land, near Long Green, but removed to
Philadelphia with her parents when very
Young. She had the advantages Of very
limited education, but improved all she
could her small opportunities. She has ex
horted for sometime but has only been In
the work of evangelism for five years during
which time she has met with considerable
success, and that her manner of speaking Is
effective, is shown by the number OF CONVEX
sions that have been made under her preach
ing in Wilmington, which has been ninety
ty-fve. She remains in Wilmington one
week longer, when she will visit Harlem,
New York.
The Morning herald., 1876-01-25
The Laurel Thieves.
REcAPTuRE or pURNEI--ruE STATEMENT
I OF HAMERsLEY AN UNExPECTED

RECAPTURE or pURNEG-THE STATEMENT
OF HAMERsLEY -. AN UNEXPECTED
PRISONER. .a,I ,W' liMi
Yesterday afternoon the Post master Of
Laurel came to this city with Purnel, the
colored boy who was charged with the rob
berry of the Office in that town, and who was
caught in Wilmington and carried back to
Laurel, but who escaped from his prison
there last week.
The postmaster says that he had been
summoned to attend the hearing of Ham
ersly, the supposed confederate of Purnell
this afternoon, and was about to jump upon
the train, the bell having rung for a start,
when upon turning to look for companion
he espied Constable Matthews Taylor, with
Purnell. He had only time to jump on the
train with his unexpected prisoner, when
the cars started off. He could not cosjec-
ture how when or where he had been cap
tured, but HERALD reporter subsequently
discovered from Purnell that he had been
captured on Saturday evening, at Saulsbury,
on the wharf. He had walked all the way
from Laurel to the latter place.
The postmaster and Hamersly made state
ments before Commissioner Smith, yester-
day afternoon, the former testifying to the
loss of the money from the Office, and the
identification Of portion OF the bills found
in the possession of the boy as some which
he had lost. if ri
Hamersly stated that Purnel came to him
and asked him to 60 to Philadelphia, prom
Using to furnish the money, and on Monday
they started. He said that he did know that
the money was stolen. Purnel he said has
since confessed to him that he had stolen
the money from the pest Office. .u .-
Purnels statement will be taken this
morning. He stated to HERALD reporter
last night that Hamersly's story was true
except in his statement that he (Purnel)
had taken the money from the post effice
and that the escaped with spoon. He stated
that he:got away from the prison at Laurel
by means of knife of Hammersly's.
The hearing will be concluded to-day.