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"SHALL help you to some toma-
tusses :" inquired . young exquisite of
venerable physician. as be sat oppo-
site to him at one of our hotel tables.
!" No. sir, | think you." replied the
learned savant. but I'll trouble yen
for some of the potatussss, If you
please"
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BUILDING AND LOAN.

MIDDLErowN B. & L. AssocIArIoH.-Samue
Pennington, Pres; A. G. Cox, Secretary. Meets
on the frst Thursday Of every month at 8
O'Clock, p. m.
MUTUAL LOAN ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLEr0wN.
Jas. H. Scowdrick, Pres; A. @. Cox, Sec
retary. Meets on the third Tuesday of every
month at o'clock, pm.
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IT Was Hz.-A nan forty years
old. and as long as rail, went into q
bank, Saturday, to get the cash on a
$13 check, drawn BY aparty living in
Nankin township.
You will have to be identified, !"
SAID the cashier, as he looked at the
check.
" am the man." was the reply.
- But I don't knowl who you iare." |
!" But | do"
I lyon must bring some one here
that knows yeu.y'
>. g Don't I knog myself?" exclaimed
Tie check .tenderer.
u f'Bst 4 mpst know Jon. You may
be Tom Jones for all that | know"
/" You must be consarned fool to
think I'm some one else y growled the
man in response ia ef 5f,a
81 !" You must be identified = observed
the cashier oAa3a iAA
8 That's my. nepep I1tell ys, and
this Il ne, and II this bank gets rilsd
I1llliex the hull crowd Of yea over be-
hind that railing! ~
The cashier wouldn't pay, and the
man couldn't fad, any one who knew
him, and at nooh hs s.as. waitiags" fof
that. fsller who sassed him to come
out"
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MASONIC.

ADosIRAx CHAPTER No. &, R. A. N. Meets
in Masonic Hall on the second and fourth Fri
days of every month at o'clock, p. N.
UNION LoDaE No. s, A. F. A. N. Meets on
the first and third Tuesdays Of. every month
at8 o clock, p. m. Masonic Hall.
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The Utica Herald says that party
OF hunters threw away 4 bad potato in
their camp in the North Woods. The
potato spHouted in day or two, and
within . few hours a potato bug was
seen on the sprout. This was miles
from any potato patch.
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cYliddletowll 4irtttorp.
CORPORATION OFFICERS.

TowH ConnssIosERs. IT. &. Hurn, Presi
dent; Thos. Massey, Jr., Secretary; Jas. b
Scowdrick, G. w. Wilson, VIM. W. Wilson
ASSESSOR &C. e. Anderson.
TREAsuRER.-lsaac Jones.
JUSTICE OF THE PsAcE.-DeW. @. Walker.
CONSTABLE AND PoLlCEMAE.-L. B. Lee.
LAMpLIGHTER.-F.S Schreitz.
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STAGE LINES

Stage for Odessa, with o. s. Mail, leaves
shortly after arrival Of the l0.4s am and 8.52
p m mail trains.
Stages for Warwick, Sassafras and Ceeilton
leave shortly after arrival of the l0.43 q m
train.
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8faister' 8 Orders.
REGISTERS ORDER.

REGISTERS OFFICE,
New Castle County, June 9Th, 1876.
Upon the application of SsREcK F. SHALL
CROSS, Administrator of HUGH FLEMING,
late of 81. Georges Hundred, in said County,
deceased, it is ordered and directed by the
Register that the Administrator aforesaid
give notice of the granting of Letters
Of Administration upon the Estate Of the de-
ceased, with the date Of granting thereof, by
causing advertisements to be posted within
forty days from the date of such Letters, in
six Of the most public places of the County Of
New Castle, requiring all persons having de-
mands against the Estate to present the same
or abide an Act of Assembly in such case
made and provided; and also cause the Same
to be inserted within the same period in the
MIDDLErowH TRANSCRIPT, newspaper pub
lished in Middletown, and to be continued
therein two months.
Given under the hand and Seal of Office
~, Of the Register aforesaid, at New
LIS. Castle, in New Castle County afore-
.~' said, the day and year above writ
ten. s. G. BIGGS, Register.
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CULTIvArING WHEAT.-Mr. John b.
Evans. of Rolph's Wharf, informs us
that be intends the coming fall to try
the experiment. Of cultivsting wheat.
he intends to try the experiment on
two scses. frst and if il proves success
full then be may in the future enlarge
his cultivation. The wheat is first
sown broadcast, and then by means Of
a new harrow just invented for the
purpose. it IL narrowed into rows. A
gentleman near York. Pa, who has
tried the experiment, reports a crop of
IS bushels to the acre this season.
Centerci1e VA. } Observer.
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pOST.OFFICE.

OEF1cE HoURs. "Opens at 80 m and
closes at 9 p m every day except Sunday
Mails for the North close at 8.i5 m, and
$40 p m.
Msihfor the South closes at 10 l5 . a.,
Nails for Odessa close at 10. 20 m and $50
pm.
Mails for Warwick, Sassairas and Cecilton
close at 1923 m.
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Look to the weeds.

Cut down al weeds before they run
to seed If your sloyenly neigbbor
wont cut bis, 30 and cnt them for hiim,
If be will give you permission. II will
pay you we'll, for the seeds from his
filthy weeds will be sure to germ;nate
on your soil unless his farm is kept as
free Of them as your own. If ali far
mers would pursue this plan, there
would be less trouble in keeping clean
fields, clean crops, clean hedge-rows
and clean turning rows. A clean farm
is one Of the best evidences of a good
farmer.
If you would raise good plums, tie a
hen with chickens beneath your plum
trees. and give her a range as great as
the extent iof the, sboughs of the trees.
Shs1 and her litile ones will deyour
every curculio or other hurtful insect
which inds shelter in the ground and
rises to prey upon the young fruit.
No good farmer will allow . drain to
carry of from bis barn yard the liquid
treasnresswhich it contains. s,s
The best and cheapest fertilizers are
those raised upon the farm.
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.
l. O. 0. F.

DAMON LODGE, No. IL. Meets every Friday
evening at o'clock. Lodge room in the
Town Hall.
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.ETRUMPETER.
will leave Georgetown, Md, at o'clk, a. m.,
Shallcross' at 1880, Turner's Greek at 8, Bet
terton at $50, and Buck Neck at 10 o'clock,
every Monday, Wednesdays and Friday, ar
irving In Baltimore at O'Clock, p. m. Re-
turning will leave Baltimore at 1890 a. IN.
every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
The ''Trumpeter" has recently been thor
oughly overhauled and repaired, and is now
in frst-class condition, furnishing excellent
accommodations for passengers; and we sim
cerely trnst that the friendly relations hitherto
existing between her and the public may con.
tinue to exist, for which end we will ever be
found striving to the utmost of our ability.
marl.ly WIN. CUNDIFF, Master.
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&ulllorous.


II D1pN'r SEEM RIaHT. resi-.
dent Of Detroit, the Free Press says.
who il the owner Of horse and an old
wagon, Was hired to draw some dire for
a yard On Beaubien street, and when
his work was completed the owner Of
the premises handed him a check for
$3.50.
~ Is that q seven dollar and . half
bill 7" asked the man,, turning the
check over and over. and regarding it
with great curiosity
That is q check on the bank" was
the reply. I" Take it down there and
get your money"
{. The fellow at the bank owes you,
does be ?" was the next query.
Il have money there, and he will
hand you seven dollars and half"
II don't know About that" slowly
remarked the man. 'Sposen f. go
down there and be says this document
is an order on hardware store ?''iy
"Oh, it will be all right" replied
the citizen, and be started down town
and left the man looking at the back Of
the check. When be reached honae at
night bis creditor was there and wait
ing. Holding out the check the man
said: sssgs
This here paper doesn't seem - be
worth cent. took it down. there
and the fellow in the bank looked at it
and looked at it and then looked atme,
and then he stuck up his nose and
yelled out: What's your name. and
where do you liver told him mighty
straight, and then he wanted ps to
write my name on the back. and fool
around and fool around. and Z gust
picked up the manuscript and walked
out.. The family is out of potatoesland
meat, and I'd like to settle that ac-
,ount for postage stamps or shinplast-
.rs."
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Coon SAMARITAN LODGE, 9. Meets every
Thursday evening at 4 o'clk- Lodge Room
in Cochran Hall, No. q, Cochran Square.
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MEA.I,
GuAnArrrrp ANALYSIS: :

Ammonia, Ito Al per cent,
Phosphate of Lime, 4S to so /"
~The above prices for Bones are given
for the date Of this advertisement and we do
not bind ourselves to them for the season
through. Early engagements are strongly
advised for our friends and customers as pri-
ces will probably advance.
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NOTICE

All persons having claims against the Es-
duly attested, to the Administrator on or be-
fore June 9th, 1877, or abide the Act of As
sembIy in such case made and provided.
s. F. SHALLCROSS, Administrator.
Address-Middletown Del. junl7-2m
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OFFICERS OF CITIZENS NAT.
BANK.

DIRrcroRs. Henry Clayton, B. Gibbs, B.
T. Biggs, John A.. Reynolds, James Culbert-
son, b. G. Fenimore, M. &. Walker, J. B.
Cazier, Joseph Biz.
PRESIDENT Clayton,
CAsHIER.-J. R. Hall.
TRLLER.-John s. Crouch.
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DIAMOND STATE BRASS BAND.
Meets for practice every Monday evening at
8 o'clock.
anEEAMARR RAIIRnAD. ].

Passenger trains going North leave at 7.07
s.33 m and 3.69 p m going South at 10. AZ
q m, and 7.s4 and s.52 m. Freight trains
with passenger car attached, going North,
leave at 8.05 p m; going South, at 2.40 M.
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AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
PEN1Ns. AGRIcULTURAL AND PoHoLoGIcAL As
socArIoN. VIM. R. Cochran, President and
Chairman of Board Of Managers; J. B. Nau-
dain, Secretary. Annual Meeting fourth Sat
urday in January. Next annual fair will be
held on October 4th, 9Th and eth, 1876.
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DIRECTORs OF TOWN HALL co.

JIM Cox, Pres; Samuel Pennington, Sec;
J. r. Hall, Treas; R. "a. Cochran, jas. Gull
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TO THE PEOPLE OF
Port Penn, Bombay Hook, Collins
Beach and Delaware Bay Shore.
For the last six weeks the steamer
|ARIEL, -
CAPT. j. L. RoBEsoN,
Has been running regularly ACROSS THE
BAY from Bombay Hook, making very de-
lightfnl and cheap EXCURSION. This is to
announce that from and after the present date
the Music of q fine
PARLOR ORCHESTRA
will be added to the attractions of the trip.
The ARIEL, on down trip, will leave the
different landings according to the tides) as
follows: Port Penn, from 1854 to IL .l5 m.
back at $50 pm.
Collins Beach, ll.l5 to ll.45 a. M, back
at t3p.m.
Bombay Hook, from IL 80 to IL, back at
2p.m.
Excursion TICKETS across the Bay, from
either landing, IS Cents. No Halffares.
Children under 6, no charge.
REFRESHMENTS AND MEALS, BUT NO
LIQUORS ARE SOLD ON THE ARIEL.
FOR PHILADELPHIA.
The ARIEL leaves Bombay Hook for Phil
adelphia daily, Sundays included at 2.30 p.
m. Collins, daily, Sundays included) at 3
pm. Port Penn at 3.45 pm. daily, Except
Sundays) touching at Chester, and reaching
the city from $50 to 7.30 pm. FARE from
either landing) to Philadelphia, so cts. Chill
dren to 10, Halffare.
PEACHES and other FRUIT will be car
ried on the ARIEL as in former years.
E. B. TAGGART, AGENT,
l04 North Delaware Avenue.
W. GO. ELIAsoN, Clerk. July 20, '76.
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OppossD no ALL CoRRupr RIses

Independent in eusrytAiagl Neutral in Nothingi
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PHILADELPHIA
GROUND BONES

Ammonia, from to per cent.
Bone Phosphate, Z" AZ to As
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NOTARY PUBLIC.
John A. Reynolds.
TRUSTEEs OF THE ACADEMY.

Hon John P. Cochran, Pres. Henry Davis,
Treas. Samuel Pennington, Secretary; James
Kanely, B. Gibbs, R. T. Cochran, q. Williams.
PRINcIpAL OF AcADEMY.-T. 8. Stevens.
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to all who may want it to the amount Of 5
lbs. daily, at our store from to 8 o. clock in
the morning. No Ice sold after O clock and
none delivered without the CASH DOWN
and in no quantity of less than lbs.
e. B. RICE& co.
may 6-tf AGENTS.
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STANDARD OF QUALITY STRICTLY

S1ANDANO OF QUAIITY STRICTLY
MAINTAINED.
While we announce reduction in the price
of our RAW BONE SUPER-PHOSPATE. We
would respectfully represent to dealers and
farmers that its standard of quality has been
strictly maintained. The proportions of SOL
uble and precipitated Phosphoric Acid, and
Ammonia, have never been higher than they
are in the article we are now selling our Gus
toners. This statement we make as a bind
ing guarantee.
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dime GABLES.
PHILADELPHIA, RILMNGTON AND
BALTIMORE RAILROAD.
fAW@4
Delaware Division. Time Table.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
nN and after Tuesday, AUG. 1st, 1875, Sundays
u excepted,) Trains willleave as follows:

souTHWARD NORTHwARD.
Passenger. Mixed. Passenger Mixed
~ y y n
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In MUNICIPAL, STATE AND NATIONAL AFFAIRS |
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the latest improved kind while our stock of dis
play TYPES, CUTS, &C., cannot be surpassed by any
office on the peninsula. Employing skilled workmen
and giving our personal and constant attention
to our business, feel satisfied of ability to give
satisfaction to all who may favor with ORDERS and
invite an examination Of the style and quality OF our
work.
Orders by mail, or otherwise, will re.
ceive prompt attention.
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plete dissatisfaction with the political situation,
and much personal anger,
There IS little doubt that Grant inten-
ded and expected to be elected president
for third term. and that he had visions
Of stayingIin TIE White Househs long as
he lived: and until, as Frank Blair said,
he was carried out heels first.
We sympathize with Ulysses. On tn e
down into nothingness. He looks for
ward to that Gay as the condemned pris-
oner looks to the day set for his execu-
ton. But the na,lbn can draw a long
breath OF relief when it comes; for al
though we would not d;sparage Grants
great military ability, or his magnificent
services during the war, he has some
traits OF mind that unfit him for civil
life. He is, like Marlborough, exceed
ingly greedy for money; he is a wor-
shipper OF money-bags; he is violent,
unreasoning friend, and bitter, vindic-
tive enemy; and he seems to have had
no conception OF the great principles
which underlie the republic.
We say these things reluctantly. for
now that Grants day OF power is draw
ing 10 a close, every republican eultOr,
who has heretofore abased himself be-
tore him. is vigorously engaged in kick
ing him. This perhaps is human nature.
Ii it be true, as Darwin claims, that we
are descended from the monkeys, devel>
opment has not always been improve
ment; for we do not believe any respec-
table apes would rend the object of their
svcophantic batteries as the republicans
are now rending Grant.
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BD~Tf.

That old master Of department" old
Turvey drop. Genl- John A. Dix. who
wanted 10 shoot on the ten-spot any
man who would haul down the American
dag. even in 4 hurricane. mas just come
out in \ ringing appeal to the "boys in
blue. TO vote the Republican ticket. II
he mad addressed them as the .bovs in
rags il would have been much more
appropriate. tor that is the condition q
good many of our soldiers are reduced
10 by the unlimited thieveries Of Grant
and his adherents.
Dix wants to fight the rebellion over
again; ne wants 10 shoot the spot some
more: and SO he SAYS.
L Is the old light again. the same party and
the same n.sn are azr~yed against you Cron
II. issue # ih- contest depends the question
whether history shall vindica;- you or your
opponentS-.hsther vou arr they were on the
night side
The democratic party are a. this time - ever
true 10 their sentiments. and they have pre-
sentei two Candidates who had little sym patty
for You or yoU. cause. That party depends for
is success upon the votes o. the men whom
ron conquered in The field and If successful il
vii. he dominated and led by the same political
el-msnt- Crippled union soldiers viii b. r.
moved from public o.Hces. - they have been,
aud their PLACES filed By confedsra,es-
We interpret the situation differently:
We understand the issue TO be whether
toe soldiers who saved the nation shall.
BEG bitter brad through realms their Yalor
saved
Probably cne-half OF our late army Is
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THE CHINESE QUESTION.

To make party capital on the Pacific coast,
it proposes to bar out certain immigrations
from its shores, concealing the fact from its
eastern supports that the same principle, carried
out to its legitimate end, would cut off the
English, Irish, German and Scandinavian
erulgrants from the eastern as we'll as the Mon
gollan race from the western coast.-Fara6auH
Republican.
Indeed, Do YOU mean to say that the
English, Irish. German and Scandina>
VANS are to be compared as citizens with
the Chinese? The former came here as
freemen to settle permanently; they are
OF our own race, OF our own kith and
kin; they buy land, open farms, raise
crops,a land add to the wealth OF the coun-
try. They marry and raise children,
support churches. and schools, and in a
generation or two are merged into the
common stock OF the great American
race. But the Chinaman comes to collect
wages and leave; lie is not a freeman
but a seml-serf. Z coolie; his wife or
daughter is pledged into slavery at home
tc raise the money that brings him here
he buys no land, he pays 40 taxes, he
supports no schools or churches; even
his bones are shipped to China when he
dies. He comes simply to take the bread
out OF the mouth OF some poor English
man, Iri-hman. German or Scandina-
Wan, and reduce our voters, on whose
integrity and intelligence our republic
depends for its prosperity, to a condi-
ton as miserable as mis- own. No white
laborer no attempts to diicharge the
duties OF man, u citizen, 4 father and
husband can compete with one who
lives on = few pounds OF rice per week.
1t may be said that we should be gen.
erous 10 the poor, oyercrowded. ancient
MongoEan race. TrEe; but not at the
expense OF our own people For ii we
even allo we'd ten or twenty millions Of
them to enter this country and reduce
to pauperism every white iaborer in i.
what ret;ef would that be to that vast
population OF over toGr hundred millions
still! in China. The humanitarian might
Just as we'll argue that the farmers OF
our frontier should submit with patience
to see their crops destroyed By grass
hoppers, because it would afford the
grasshoppers SO much comfort. Every
farm n Minnesota might be swept bare
and the accountable billions between
here and the Rocky Mountains still 60
hungry.
1t must never be forgotten that this
Republic rests on the intelligence. the
virtue and the patriotism OF the MAORI
t. and that the majority Is and must
always be those who earn their bread in
the sweat of their brow To degrade or
lmporeriatl them is TO destroy the very
foundations OF liberty and society: and
we have 10 sympathy with the man or
the party who would sacrifice them TO
any vaporous principle. or any heart
less theory, or any selfish in terest.
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hNOlK NOIW{NGiSU .aG.lYN.


He 3" ''io ,'ce'1l '1o'il Aii'uel
~ - - iAei'i' 'tcoci =
Na''i"i I'ei 0Sa1
PHILADELPHIA, JulF An important secret
4,''s - iiei'i ~ liis
81 H. t,,~,,.s1 s'li@',... ~, 49, ..'..'.
were preset. tram twenty nil,t. states. IN com
phace Wltfla et! issued on tn 9TH y Jane by
lA@e%, tuIIV" e"lnnAtt"' OF TIE grand national
'ttii'4tNF = w issul' - ttle M
,ti,,tu,,,..3 49,, ~. ION, - NJ. -, .,,+
braces t!l- o. \. T.. the Patriotic Orauv Of
American Mechanics .lnIall similar secret Or
defs. Ill- alliance has already 5op,e1 melG-
''i ~ l'tt',l states lVV'oOo IN ~" ORR
m. mn, -
ii Americans and prot,,tanjs - rul.. America
The tueinber> are known only 10 each o.ne.
AMI arr sworn - secrecy
'..e.'i,7 "'s ''s'' :. eng rooms ~ fs.AA-
49,, ,yf,I ''',''' w ~ Z !,
tl,,. order. i distinguishes MAJOR t;..n,.r,,I
prominent Democrat, Eresided. IL being tAy
tlst ies Grand Comnlanaer ~ the (irani
soai'e+! q W. hl'ti state. wenty NOR
fonnrIs tor,nsd 3nri' m, 'o -. = ~
/, showed an average ct ten ~a.neils ! ,4y m
ali t!4- states from naiire 10 California
The convention unanimously adnnted
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SI'tlENS COL WY.

The grasshoppers. in flying over thi:
elton. stopped for dinner. and lid !
nail amount Of damage; ana then VI
ing and away. \ large number q
heat fields were not touched At nj
>me lost five or ton per CT and few
ne half. But . Stevens county wheat
cid halt-eaten by the hoppers Will Weld
ore this year then any other whea;
Id in any other part OF the State. not
uched by them. We have seen fields
Stevens county that will this year
cid twenty five. thirty and even thirty
e bushels 10 the acre
Judge Deakin writes to the Pioneer.
tSS- Ii9bimt from Morris. that the
oppers have dcne bu; little damage in
at vicinity that immi grafton still pours
and that houses are going up In all
rtS OF the town.
The country around Douglas is filling
+, rapidly. James McGowen Esq. Tor
erly oil Lake City. Wabasha county.
broken o50 acres within one mile
,m the depot; he has now purchased
lumber 10 erect handsome house in
village. T. Stout Esq. OF Lake City
II open store at Douglas in two
eeks. David HuddleSton Esq. also OF
ke City proceeds at once to erect :
ndsome hotel. s0x5o. with brick front.
In store on first f.oor The country
9und Douglas Is the richest il Mime
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to-day ..tramping' it through the coun-
try, halt-ied, half-clothed, demoralized,
disheartened; whilea parcel OF scoun-
drels who gave neither money, labor nor
blood to the cause Of the republic, are
stealing the land naked.
1T is the old fight again." says Dix.
No; it isn't. That old fight was to tree
the slave, lift up the lowly, preserve
liberty and maintain the Union. The is
sue to-day is whether the Belknaps, Bah
cocks, Robesons, Joyces, McDonalds,
Mckees, etc., shall roll in ill-gotten
wealth while the laboring people starve
whether the peoples greenbacks shall
DE withdrawn to give place to ma
tional bank notes; whether all prosper
ity and enterprise shall be crushed out
of the country, in order to swell the
treasures OF the capitalists; in short,
whether the republic shall or shall not
give way to an oligarchy or despotisn
And now old Dix toots his little horn
and seeks to rally the ragged, neglected
soldiers to perpetuate the very system OF
things which has plundered them. And
very appropriately his illumination is
signeu by General James H. Baker,
whose only military feat was his bril-
liant charge on Miss Sweets money box.
He is one Of the ''boys in blue" He
ought to be in black and blue, especially
around the eyes.
Itwon't dc, johnny. That kind Of aa
captdndem stuff would have served its1
purpose well enough tour years ago bu
hungry bellies and bare backs cry GU,
against it.