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CANADIAN NEWS.

pVes4os 17kpR4eA - Inv 1YtoRH1s
ToRonTo, Sept. Ala majority OF tho ves-
sel-ownars trading with this port have formed q
combination to obtain higher tretgtts. Tho rata
Tor eoal demanded Is 80 cents per ton, free Of
oil charges, and Tor grain between Lake Ontario
porta two cents per bushel. Many Lower Lake
port tvessel~owners have expressed their approval,
and Intend Joining the combination.
Special 6sp1scA 10 7ns 1>JbnAA
LolDoa, Qak, Sept. 3L-TAs oil trade u az
, 1876-09-22

LEXINGTON, KY, Sept. 2l.--A large and dc.
structtyo fire took place at Gcorgctown, u
milos from this city, this morning ut an early
hour. The CourtIIousc. McKcc'a drugstore,
Iko 8fasks'' clothing-housc. Louis. and Gus
Straus' clothlug-storc, Penn l. t@ucll's grocery,
grocery were cntirely destroyed. Loss, $685.
do; Insurance, $4,000, IN tho franklin, Queen
City, rhnnix, Hartford; Unaerwrters' md
Hoinc, Now York; North American, Farincrs'
y Drovcrs aud r!'fnlx, New iosk, Yhe steam I,i
arrived in time to assist III putting onl thu are.
, 1876-09-22
1EtEGRAPHlC NOTES.

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DECATUR. ILL.,, supt. 2i.-Thc lAl~oa County
Sunday schools annual Conyentte.+ this
morning, aud Is to continue In sesstou two days
The attendance is large, ind great interest fs
taken. Delegates arc hero FROM all denomina;
to-day "The Relation Of tho Teacher " 1ila
ClaSs, ~
, 1876-09-22
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION.

srR1HoriELl, ILL.,, Sept. 2l.-At the session
to-day Ut tho statc Duard Of Equalization, the
Committee OIL Equalization Of Lands, to whom
lad been recolntnttsed their former report,
again reported recommending an additton of VI
not cent 10 Cook County lands. The report
was referred to the Committee on General
EulinlI1A{lojl,
, 1876-09-22
ANIUSEnI IsN'TSs
ALL READY---EXPOSlTION,

Thr Fourth Annual Expost,on Of Chicago Il NOW
OPEN trnn IN = 4 ~ t. t. 1n;:9 f. N. daily; lhe E1tn!.
crai MACHINERY n 0rEiiATl0N i'roc.aaes q slan-
nfactre IN Wood itgn ieathet ttiass. &c.: thr ".
giltutnl society std others. the Museum of ATURA1
HlIS9 .ss s e'n ssaS akg,a s;t s sar S5ss
Battle Aoye Tho Clouds and the ufaha Orchestral! nr
Eat together ltHtG tto 1ntAt display tycr nlkia.
IN or.lcr t!Iai oil lnay Sirw tllr WESTERN CEATEN.
NAL l..pohltH,. the management hnFe alUrted tho
TItlCES or ADMISSION.
evening 80
For Children, atimss1oH gdoa for AL day aud
Fur Adults on Satnfaay, oHe aailnfssl1n Euoa tos
all InT anu evening -
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For Children, cyrry day nfttrE y. ....... ii
CppNutuIju0 Tickets AfIcep atat snun4. G,CU
Thr Communication Tickets arc especially adapted to
nrr1lltlnu nnrflIk.
, 1876-09-22

The Listls Rock {Ar}c) Herald Of tho 11th Inst.
says: "When thu drop fell at the hanging Ut
belonging to Charlie Elsel, sprung 1T the dying
lneil as tlley cau,o through tho door. Scveya!
loud barks wero given, which .allscd tho spccta-
tors To lalgh, aid Il lulfcrous scene. fur few
moments, fuliuWEd.n
, 1876-09-22
IN CHICAGO,

Tho alarm from Box SAC at 8 o'clock yestcr-
day morning was caused by tse discovery Of d
aru in tho onestory cottage, No. 793 KInz!o
street, owned and occupied by Benny johnson
a. dwelling. Loss upon structure atld fural-
ture, &l00i no insurance. Cause, spontaneous
combustion.
, 1876-09-22
SlilclnE.

SUICIDE.
6pecta, Dtspatch to The 7Ti5unt
ELusx, ILL.,, Sept. W.-,Iohn Free1and, we'll
known farmer, ss1 tnllcs west of here, shot anti
killed hItnscif In his own yard to-day. Ile had
shown signs Of sicrangs.nent fos 10 days past.
fourtlI member Of the same family who has
taken his own life.
, 1876-09-22


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, 1876-09-22

ccc,lingIy brisk hero. Seycrni works arc being
run night and day With efull complement o.
hnnds~ Five new scancrfcs hre IN course OF
erection here, and sixth at Wyoming.
, 1876-09-22
PORT HURON,

PORT HURON.
spectdi DISpotcA u TIE TrtbuhA
PoRr uuNoN, Mich. Sept. 2l.-DowN-Props
II. c. scllnoor, Wtndna; Il. Holland, Burlington,
and bnrRes.
Ur-props Chhmriatn, Fountain City; Marine
City, Dubuque, and consort. Bclrs eu,lpysldc,
Z. f., and MarAcl.
Wfnp-North, gentle: weather, anc.
, 1876-09-22
FINANCIAL,

fIflNNCIAL, -,
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 2l.-At meeting Of the
creditors Of r. ?. Allls i Co., held to-day,
facts were developed which sslow that the fall
tire Is more serious than hitherto reported.
There arc dcbts unsecured 10 tho amount Of
4915,00D.
, 1876-09-22
OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS.

VCEKN 5 ENmSF1IP NEWS.
LoNpos, Sept. M.-Stcanlsldpa Italy md 81.
Laurent, frn,n New York, and Leipzig, from
baltimore, have arrived out.
Steamer Canadian, Which has bcen ashore ncnf
Ilarne, was towetl oil tho rocks t0-Iay and
beacIIel in Larne Lo,lgh
, 1876-09-22
QRlIIlARl'.

NEW YoRK, Sept. 3l.-Willla,n X. Kitchen,
tie President oi tho Park Bank, died this moTu-
luz.
gaectas Dispatea 10 The Tribune.
MnSporA, ILL.,, Bept. al.-prof, A. Eennauer,
an eminent musician Of this city, died at
o'clock t4s morning In his 50th year, after d
shurt but sayere Illness. Deceased was neIn.
bcr Of tho !. o. OF .. f., aud MSS we'll known lu
musical circles lie leaves wife,. 1ya childEen,
and large uumbcr Of fHsni- ~ mourn hls
early death.
, 1876-09-22

CHICAGO, ALTON 81 LOUIS and CHICAGO
KANSAS CITY & DENVER BH0Rr Lines.
Unlun Depot, West Side, near MAd!son.Et- bridx&.
Ticket Odces: At Depot, aud Ia lssndeph.st.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-04
Hotel Rates.

The closing of the New York hotel
has been made the text of a number of
articles in the press of that city, which
hotel proprieters and managers would
do well to study. In the first place,
the rents of these establishments are
so enormous that the scale OF charges
which they are compelled to make are
utterly inconsistent with the pockets
of the period" For instance, at one
of the leading establishments OF this
character twenty cents are charged for
an egg, when dozen of them can be
bought in the market for twenty-five;
Two potatoes, neither new nor Bermu-
das, cost fifteen cents, and Delmonico
will not serve a cup of coffee for less
than forty cents. The moral of these
extravagant prices is that there are
not five customers at the bars during
a couple of hours in the evening, and
the dining room of one high priced es-
tablishment is almost deserted" Hotel
charges are now practically as high as
they were when gold was ITO, Lotwith-
standing the great reduction in all the
necessaries of life. When hotel men
learn to accommodate their prices to
the times we shall have fewer COM
plants about the lack of business, and
fewer suspensions and fail Tres in that
line.-Balt, Sun.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-04
The Camphor free.

One of the most useful and magnifi-
cent productions of the vegetable
kingdom that enriches China, and
more particularly Ithe provinces of
kiang-sl and Canton, is the camphor
tree. This stupendous laurel, which
often adorns the banks of the rivers,
was in several places found by Lord
Amherst's embassy above fifty feet
high, with its stem twenty feet in cir
conference. The Chinese themselves
affirm that il sometimes attains the
height of more than three hundred
feet, and circumference greater than
the extended arms of twenty men could
embrace.
Camphor is obtained from the
branches by stepping them, while fresh
cut, in water for two or three days,
and then boiling them till the gum, in
the form of white jelly adheres to a
stick which is used in constantly stir
ring the branches The fluid Is then
poured into q glazed vessel, where it
concretes in few hours.
Topurify it the Chinese take quan.
tity of finely powdered earth, which
they lay at the bottom of copper
basin; over this they place layer of
camphor, and then another layer of
earth. and so on until the vessel is
nearly filled, the last or topmost layer
being of earth. They cover this layer
with the leaves of plant called po-ho
which seems to be species of mentha
(minU. They now invert second basin
over the first, and make it air tight by
luting. The whole is then submitted
to the action of regulated fire for a
certain length of time, and then left to
cool gradually. On separating the
vessels the camphor is found to have
sublImned, and to have adhered to the
upper basin. Repetitions of the same
process complete its refinement.
Besides yielding this valuable ingre-
dent, the campbor tree is one of the
principal timber trees of China, and is
used not only in building but in most
articles of furniture. The wood is dry
and of a light color, and although light
and easy to work, is durable and not
liable to be injured by insects.-Mam
bers' Journal.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-04
IN OYSTER MATCH.

OPENING BIvALvEs FOE PURSE OF $500.
Two ambitious Philadelphians, George
Beach and George Skilman, tested each
others agility AS oyster-openers in a
Chestnut street saloon, yesterday alter
noon, the contestants being backed re-
spectively by Jim Boyd and Sam Nichols
in the SUM of $500. Beach chose large
primes for his victims. taken fresh from
the wharf yesterday morning, while Skill
man decided to exert his strength on
what oystermen call cullings-the young
est and smallest to be found in sack
just removed from temporary resting
place of ice, which caused them, as the
warm air struck them, to weaken and
open up more easily. About eight hun
dred spectators were crowded around the
openers. At two o'clock Skilman sat
and Beach stood, oyster and knife in
hand, waiting for the sign to strike. 1t
was apparent, from the first, as the oys-
terB and shells flew in different direc-
tions, that the match would be close
one, and every eye was strained to de-
tcct which was ahead. Beach slowly
took the lead and kept it till about half
the number had passed through his
hands, when his knife fell to the floor,
and several seconds were lost in regain
ing it. Then they went on evenly as be-
fore, and the excitement became more in
tense, until Beach's work was again in.
terrupted by having to empty a basket
of the bivalves into the box at his elbow
This loss of time told heavily against
him, and when Skilman tossed his last
aside Beach had six in his box yet un-
touched. The numher opened was 500,
and the time rs minutes and 16 seconds.
Sam Fichols growled considerably at the
basket emptying and various other little
things, but, when he saw that no fouls
would be allowed, he ponied ever like a
man.-Phild. Times.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-04
The Heathen Chinese.

A Commission appointed by the
California Senate, to investigate the
Chinese question, is taking testimony
at Sacramento. A policeman testified
that he had witnessed sale of Chi
nese woman for $3.50, and the woman,
not liking the man who bought her,
committed suicide soon after. Chinese
had informed him that they attended
the mission schools only to learn Eng
lish and "laughed at the idea of be-
coming Christians" All Dan, Chi
nese Interpreter, said that two Chinese
interpreters had been killed in Sacra-
mento for procuring convictions in
Court, "and reward was outstanding
for his life," etc. Charles 7, Jones,
District Attorney for Sacramento, told
how the Chinese companies comprom-
ise felonies, abduct women, and do
other unlawful things.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-04

Instead Of closing the great Centn-
NAL show on Sunday, the exhibition
should be kept open on that day at half
price for the benefit of those who can
not go any other day. This may be
considered very wicked by the Puri-
tans, but surely anything that limo
Gently tends to benefit the working
classes, and give them happiness in
the midst of their daily oil, cannot be
sinful in the eyes of Him who said.
"The poor ye have always" There
are thousands who will he prevented
frsm seeing the exhibition if they can
not visit it on Sunday-thousand
who spend the week in fighting the
battle of life in humble homes made
bright and happy by honest labor
these are the men who, with their
wives and children, are to be ignored
by the rule of exclusion adopted by
the commissioners in mistaken sense
Of duty. However. not too much
common sense in thought or action
should be expected from a body of
managers who, for some mysterious
and inscrutable purpose, have come TO
the remarkable conclusion that two
twenty-five cent notes are not as good
as one tifty-cent promise to pay, and
have determined to close the doors OF
the show to man and wife who can
not afford to break a dollar note in
wo.-Bdttimor Gazette.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-04
General NetVs.

The Willamette woollen mills. in
Salem, Oregon, were burned yester.
day morning. Loss, $150,OOo.
Talbot, Chase, White and Bsrnacle,
charged with setting fire to many baild
ings in Passaic. N. j., last year, were
arranged yesterday, All pleaded not
guilty, except Tolbut. who will give
evidence. Their trial is set for the 9th
inst.
The Grand Jury of the District of
Columbia have agreed upon present.
ment against ex.Secretary Belknap, for
accepting bribes in office. The present.
ment is now in the hands of the Dis
trict Attorney, who will prepare for
NAL indictment.
Messrs. Randall and Hale yesterday
completed the Naval Appropriation
bill, and will present it to the full
committee at their next meeting. 1t
appropriates about $12, 790, 600 against
$17, zoe, 900 last year. The reductions
are mostly in the items for theBureaus
of Construction, Steam Engineering
and Repairs.
The special committee to investigate
the Federal offices in New Orleans, of
which Mr.. Gibson is chairman, will
leave for New Orleans about the 18th
inst. The committee will ask the At
torney General, Postmaster General
and Secretary of the Treasury for lists
of the appointees in their respective
Departments. at New Orleans, since
March 4, 1869, with the dismissals,
causes for dismissals, etc.
,
!, The U. s. Centennial commission
committee on accommodations for
visitors report that the hotels ane
boarding houses in Philadelphia will
accommodate 9S, 900 visitors, and the
accommodation offered by private
houses will increase the number to
5000. If necessary these accommo-
dations can be increased to the wants
of $50, 900 persons. This includes the
facilities offered by hotels at from $3.50
to S. per day, boarding houses from
$3.50 to $3.50 per day, the patrons
camp at Elm Station and Camp Scott
for the accommodation of the soldiery.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-04
APRIL RTIyG.

A single golden planet leans
Out of the rosy sunset sky,
When through the lovely evening calm
We wonder, ysu and l.
Deep-purple shadows drape the hills
That melt in distance far away;
Around us forest, vale, and glen.
Are toned with tender gray.
A spring-time fragrance fills the air
VI wild wsod, orchard, hedge and field (;
We cannot tell what scent most sweet
The star-like blossoms yield.
We wander through the twilight land,
All wrapped in dewy, dusk repose.
Until we gain the fowery bank
fast Which the river flows.
Its restless current soon will sweep
Between your path and mine. sweetheart
And we who stand together now
Shall then walk on apart.
But love has forged about our lives
In many link his golden chain,
And faith is strong that we shall meet
In joy who part in pain.
We pause beneath the dropping trees,
Where the sweet tangled wild flowers
bloom
While round our form the dusky sha les
Are deepening into gloom.
We say farewell, we kiss, we part,
o gentle lips o fair. sad face.
Where lights and shadows softly blend
In wistful April sracei
push my boat into the stream,
You wave your hand and say "Good- by;'
The tender word floats out between
A tear, smile a sigh,
The daily gazette., 1876-05-04

Washington dispatches say that Mr.
Banks proposes to introduce bill
authorizing the issue of depositnotes by
the mints and assay offices, for the net
value of gold and silver bullion de-
posted thereat, these notes to
be TO bearer, except for sums of $500
or over, and to be receivable without
limit for all dues to the United States.
In short, the bill provides for another
kind of currency, and, the New York
Post says. to the extent issued it would
be- an addition to the present volume
of the currency. 1t would be well
secured, the same::as if issued. with a
proper margin, on cotton, grain. iron
or -other base metal or any other
American product. If it were not a
serious matter it would be amusing to
see the various expedients proposed to
dodge the question of specie payments
in 1879.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-04

UNDoING A WRoNG.-The House of
Representatives adopted a resolution
offered by Mr.. Lamar, ofMiss. ,resciud-
ing and expunging so much of the
resolution of censure of Hon. John
Young Brown, of Ky, passed by the
last Congress, as charged himiwith
prevarieatlon In his controversy with
Gen. Butler, of Mass. In sec0nding
the resolutionMr. Blaine paid tribute
to Mr.. Browns high character and sus-
tanned his veracity. The House has
but performed an act of justice in ex-
punging a record which never could
have gone upon the journal except
through strong party feeling.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-04
RUBBER AND CAPCINE.

There is scarcely branch OF human indus-
try in which India Rubber has not in some
form found its way. Although widely known
and used, but few are aware Of its medicinal
virtues and great curative properties. Prac-
tical experiment has proven that it is natur-
al reservoir OF electricity, containing more
than any known subs stance or compound
Owing to this fact it has been used with suo-
cess in curing Nervous complaints and Rheu-
matism that were invulnerable to drugs.
1t has also been discovered that India Rub
Der possesses all the properties valuable as
aspe ihc for Pulmonary complaints and cures
many forms OF Consumption and Lung dis
cases. Combined with Capcine 1t is unparal-
leled as Pain Reliever. whether external
or internal. Nearly all the Surgeons have
adopted it on account OF its great healing
properties.
The most efIectual way of using the article
is in the form of a perforated plaster. The
extensive use of Ordinary PerfoI ated or Por-
GUS Plasters. is testimony to its merit.
The only objection ever found with the or
dinary Rubber Porous Plaster is that it acts
too slowly-requiring days and continuous
wear to relieve pain or to effect a cure.
A celebrated Physician Of New York. who
has long made the medical properties of Rub
Der a study has succeeded in making grea
improvement in Porous Plaster by introduc
ing Capcine, which overcomes all the former
objections, causing the Plaster to do in a
few m oments or hours. that which 1t former
ly required days or weeks.
Capcine Is the most valuable ingredient
ever used as an externalremedy. ItOperates
with astonishing vigorand relieves pain i'm
mediately. Its curative properties have be-
come so famous that anenterprising firm in
New York took it in hand. and by bringing
CapcIne rIaster to the attention of Physi-
clans, have met with unprecedented success.
The article 10 known as BENSON'S CAP
CINE PLASTER The price IS the same as
the ordinary Porous Pla ster, 25 cents. Every
Druggist ha them.
SEABURY & JOHNSON,
Pharmaceutical Chemists, N. Y.
ATFor sale IN Wilmington by +. Bring
hurst Il Co., 9th and Market and e. McInall.
ID and Market. janl9eod&we3dm-ly
The daily gazette., 1876-05-04
MIR. Brvant,s New History,

NEW YaRK, May 2.-William Cul-
len Byrant, though past his eighty
second year, has been for consider
able time engaged upon a history of
the United States. The first velume
will be issued in few days by Serib-
ner, and three other volumes are to
follow at intervals of six months each.
Mr.. Sidney Howard Gay, formerly
managing editor of the Tribune, is
chief assistant to Mr., Bryant, but every
sentence passes the rigid revision of
the latter, and the wsrk will be pub
lished under his entire responsibility.
The cost of the work will reach $780,
COO, the engravings for the first volume
alone costing upwards of $4,000.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-04
NEW PoTAToEs.-This season is red

NEW PoTAToEs.-Thiss season is red
olent Of new varieties of the potato,
all of which are cracked up by the
crackers-up to supersede anything
hitherto known. Just so. Farmers,
who will not finish their planting for
some days to come yet, are too shrewd
to be taken in by new sorts at exhor-
bitant prices, without possessing some
accurate knowledge of their quality
and productiveness. 1t would be rather
monotonous for us to recommend
again the cultivation of the White
Peachblow-just as much SO as the
Springfield Republican nominating
Charles Francis Adams for ever i'm
portart Political post that looms up
but we shall engage no other for our
next winters supply, even though we
pay twenty-five per cent. advance on
il others in the market. Ger manto,on
Ielegraph.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-04

Senator Jones of Nevada, has made
his elaborately prepared speech in the
U. s. Senate, speaking two days, in
favor of coming silver dollars and in
creasing their legal tender value, max
ing it correspondent with that of the
gold coins The movement is looked
upon with much distrust by bankers
and others, most experienced in finan-
cial matters, who fear it may prove an
entering wedge to double standard. "a
thing almost impossible to maintain.
While silver is a commodity over al
most all Europe it cannot be held of
prescribed value here, and it would
certainly be unjust to issue money as
specie that does not represent the full
value of the gold dollar. The silver
dollar will bring its worth, no more;
and if, when discredited, it should be
forced on public creditors at a price
greater than its real value, it would
smack of reputation. The hardship
of the thing is shown in the fact that
silver is now much cheaper than gold.
The daily gazette., 1876-05-04
A Young LadY,s Novel Turnout.

Miss Smith, about 90 years of age,
residing on Cedar street near Walnut,
Reading, Pa, has coach and twin
goats, with which she drives out me-
ly every day. The little animals were
trained specially for her use, and she
guides them we'll with the reins. The
goats with brides on their heads and
handsome new harness on their backs,
constitute an attractive little team
Miss Smith when quite child los the
use of her lower limbs through scar
let fever,
The daily gazette., 1876-05-04

Burlington Hapkeye: A Garden
Grove man recently caught rat in
his kitchen that had valuable gold
ring around his neck. The rat had
evidently slipped its head into the
ring in its younger days, for the neck
had grown up all about its 1eweiry,
which was far too small to come on
the same way it was put on. And
everybody in Garden Grove has ne
elected business and gone to rat hunt
ing, In the hope of finding an old,
notify, respectable looking rat with a
two hundred and fifty dollar gold
watch in its vest pocket,