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The Morning herald., 1876-09-23
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

The next collegiate year will commence
on WEDNESDAY evening, September 9Th.
There are three courses Of study
!, The Classical.
II. The Scientific and Agricultural.
Ill. The Literary.
A selection of studies. however may be
made, but regular course Is strongly re-
commended.
The Morning herald., 1876-09-23
xxw ADvERr1s1KRxES

CoAl-Buah.
Funeral Notice.
Coal Mills 4 Combs.
Fullmer's Restaurant
Cnardler's Free Lunch.
Harness maker-YerEer.
RestauTant-Sixth and Market.
Lightning rods-W. j. Morrow.
Turkish Baths-Drs. Lutte n Bissel
NOtice-Ftfth Ward Democratic Meeting.
DIED
HOLTON-On the 22d inst, Minnie g., wife
W. B. Holton, in the 3 year Of her age.
The relatives and friends Of the family
are respectfully invited to attend the funeral
from her late residence, lS7 Adams street.
on SUNDAY afternoon at &30 O'Clock. Ser
vices at 2o'clock.
The Morning herald., 1876-09-23
Y TILLANOVA COLLEGE DELAWARE
v COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA,

Y COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
This institution, chartered with Univer.
sity Privileges, is under the charge OF the
August!nian Fathers, and offers superio,
advantages to students, who desire to make
a thorough Classical, Scientific or CONNER.
cial course. It is situated on the Pennsyl.
vania Central Railroad, eleven miles from
PhiIadelphia. Railroad Station and Posi-
Office on the College grounds.
Terms: Per session offive months, Tin ad.
vance, $50.
For full particulars, send for catalogue,
Very Rev. T. GALBREY,
dec. l-lyr. President
The Morning herald., 1876-09-23
NPENING OF THE SECOND YEAR
r. BECMxR's MUsIC SCHOOL.

The term consists of ten months, begin
ming with first Monday Of September, end.
ing with the last day Of June.
Terms for beginners, 10 months, 80; five
months SIS. Advanced scholars whole
term) 10 months, 80; half term, S months,
go. All the necessary music furnished
gratis by the school.
All scholars entering the school meet for
classification at the music room, McClary's
building, No. COS Shipley street on first and
second day Of September. from to 4
O'Clock, augl8-lm
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EDU6ATIoNAL.
1TI10 RORERTAON'D BOARDING.
M AND DAY SCHOOL,
FOR YOUNG LADIES AND CHILDREN.
SIS NARKKr STREET,

1EAPLEWOOD MUSIC SEMINARY
M for Young Ladies'. established 1858. A
thorough graduate course: the finest locas
tiOn on the Connecticut River. Pupils can
enter at any time. For catalogues address
Prof. d. g. BABCOCK,
aug2-lm East Haddam, Conn.
, 1876-03-10
New and Important Inventions.

San Francisco Steam Pump Works, on
Beale street, have been established under the
present proprietors, w. e. Wilcox & Co.,
Since August last. 1t is a general machine
shop but makes a specially of the Wilcox
Steam Pump, which is a California invention
patented last year. On account of having OBJ
tanned the first premium gold medal for the
best steam pump at the Mechanics Fair, San
Francisco, this specially has attracted great
attention and is fast developing a business
that will be second to none in Its line. The ne
cessity that the inventor, Mr. Wilcox, should
do all the pattern draughting, limits the pres
ent capacity of the shop to from fifteen to
twenty hands; but within a few months,
when the patterns shall have accumulated in
such variety ofform as to meet all sizes and
conditions Of the trade, the superiority of
their manufacture must rapidly develop an
immense trade. There is now standing in
the shop massive engine, the invention Of
Mr.. Wilcox, OF three feet stroke, resting on
two large huted iron columns, seven feet high,
and these are to stand on the solid iron bed
plate now being laid over the large artesian
well at the Palace Hotel. The pump to be
run by this engine will be dropped into the
well so feet when the water will be raised by
single stroke to the top Of the building
say $50 feet-and there will be delivered
i5OOOO gallons in every ten hours. Another
invention by Mr.. Wilcox, on exhibition in the
shop, is steam pump for the Bay Sugar Re-
inery. 1t is designed for pumping moIasses,
coal tar, quicksilver, or any heavy liquid, and
is so arranged as to produce an instanta-
neous reversion by sliding valves at the in
slant steam is reversed in the engine, leaving
the proper valves with clean, Hnobstructed
openings at the proper time for action. In
view OF our great mining and irrigating in
terests, demanding machinery Of the most
powerful and efficient construction, every
Californian must feel pride in the local in
ventive talent developed by Mr.. Wilcox and
satisfaction at results pregnant with deepest
consequences to the material interests OF the
whole coast. This is further illustration OF
what patient thought and industry can ac-
eomplish when steadily pursued in given
dlrectOn.-S f. Evening Post
, 1876-03-10
Dangers of the Sea.

Many ocean steamships have been lost,
and left no trace behind to reveal the
cause of their sudden fate. We can
understand how some may have gone
down by the thrilling story told by the
Quebec Chronicle of recent voyage of
the MordVfan:
"a passenger who had left the SALOON
and come on deck prior 70 retiring, thus
describes What occurred: was on the
point of walking forward in the direction
of the bridge, when the sailor stationed
in the bow called out, "Ice aheadp
The captain, who was on the bridge at
the time, instantly called out, very dis
tinctly, "Ice ahead !" and simultaneously
gave the orders to the engineers through
the electric wires to ease, stop and reverse
the engines; he also wired the signal to
the man at the wheel. "Hard-a-portln
His orders were-immediately acted
upon, and a signal to that effect was
sounded on the bells, so that he might
know his instructions were promptly
obeyed. This action, of course, only took
few seconds to carry out, when the pas
senger, on looking towards the prov of
the boat saw large iceberg directly in
the ships course, and looming up through
the darkness as high as was the lower
yard on the foremast.
Immediately after, spite of the shifting
of the helm and reversing of the engines
she struck the ice mountain with a
tremendous conclusion.
The MoraVidn is provided with a stout
bowsprit, some twenty feet in length, and,
under Providence, its bearing so well the
the first brunt of the shock the hull was
not completely STAYED in. This tough
timber pierced the ice in an oblique up-
ward direction, and was for half its length
shattered and splintered in a most strange
manner to within few feet from the
bulkheads.
The hull next came in contact with
this dread of the sea, and with such force
as to bend and twist several of the vessels
ribs, and bulging the outer plates in such
a manner that they were forced in and
out until they looked like undulatinR
waves Of the ocean.
The strain on the rivets was terrible.
and had it not been for the unusual
strength and excellence of the construc-
ton, hole big enough to have sunk her
immediately would have been the result.
As it was, the leakage commenced i'm.
mediately. The engines being uniniured.
the vessel slid of the ledge Of ice, on to
which she had thrust herself, and backed
into deep water.
The effect of the conclusion on the
berg was to entirely demolish it; it was
split in two, and the passengers on both
starboard and port sides could see and
hear the fragments as they crumbled past
the statero ON windows.
, 1876-03-10
An Aged Heroine.

Did you ever buy paper of pins of one
of the street peddlers3 And when those
pins bent double at the first push, and
you found the paper four rows short, did
you feel that honesty was by-word and
areproach2 Some such feeling must have
come over the old lady who, walking up
Woodward avenue yesterday, encountered
a"pin-boy." She took him by the col
lar without warning, shook him right and
left lifted him clear off the walk and
grimly observed:
"Only five cents apaper, ehl Best kind
Of pins, eh9"
"Hold on-what yer doingf" he yelled
out in his great surprise, and she shook
away and answered:
''Swindle me, will you9 Thought I'd
never see you again, ehi"
eLet go-what you mean9n heshouted.
Thought didn't know what good
pins were, supposed" she said, as she
cuffed his ear.
He tried to break away, but bringing
him another cuff and using her foot at the
same time, she said:
"Now go on with your swindling pins,
but look out for me as long as you live
I'm old, but when a boy tries lies his
pins off on to me I'm going to travel till
! find himl''-Detr0it Free Press.
, 1876-03-10
Speech of a Mississippi Editor.

At a reception to an excursion party
of Mississippi editors, at Buffalo, n. Y,
Mr.. S. H. Stackhouse, of the Hazelhurst
(NIiss.) Copiahdn, made the following re-
ply to the address of welcome =
'When the Queen of Sheba visited old
Solomons dominions in the ancient time,
flew over the hills and dales in his lightning
railroad trains, sailed over his great lakes
in his big steamers, rode upon his keel
boats as they plowed his canals, examined
critically his farms and his machine shops,
she finally made her way to the head
quarters and formally interviewed the
thrifty old autocrat of all the Jews; and in
that interview candor constrained her to
acknowledge that although she had heard
much of his greatness and magnifcence,
yet the half had not been told her. So
it is with us, fellow-c citizens of Buffalo,
in reference to this tremendous country
you have got. We have heard great
deal about you. We have read much
concerning you in your big newspapers,
of your thrift, your push, your genius,
enterprise, wealth, progress and irrepres-
sibility. But now since we have traversed
a considerable scope of your grand
domain, we are, like the Queen of Sheba,
forced to acknowledge that the half has
not been told us.
"We are not going into any war with
you fellows. If we had known how con-
founded numerous you were-what vast
resources you had-what nation of get
up and gitters you are-we should never
have been guilty of the absurdity of try
ing to whip you in the first place. Now
that we have seen for ourselves, and gotten
some sort of an idea of the magnitude of
the job of cleaning you out, we consider
that another war on our side would be
prepOsterous and ridiculous, and we are
for peace. Yes, fellow-citizens of Buffalo,
we are here in the interest of peace-God-
like peace. In the glowing language of
the inspired psalmist, Peace had her
victories no less renowned than war.
We believe in peace. We are quite ready
to be harmonized And l am glad to be
able to say that everywhere we have been
in the North and West we have met with
cordial welcome and kindly greeting.
Nobody has made faces at us. We have
felt o. K. all the time. The railroads
have dead-headed us and given US the
finest drawing-room cars to sleep in. The
hotels reduced their rates and some Of
them didn't have the heart to charge us
at all. We have been fed at all your
eating institutions where we have stopped
In some places they wined US and they
dined US, rode us out in carriages and
showed US the sights, made speeches to
US, serenaded US with their brass. bands,
ETC., etc. We have had justa splendid time
of it. The ladies GOD bless 'em, always)
have smiled upon US, and the men have
sometimes even gone to the extent of ask
ing US take drink. That last is the cap
stone to the climax of reconciliation.
Hear, hear The true road to a Missis-
sippi editors heart is to invite him to take
a drink with you. If that don't harmonic
him-if that don't capture him-if thai
don't bring peace to the land and save the
country, nothing else on earth will"
, 1876-03-10
wellingtOn's Opinion of Napoleon.

Wellington has been censured for want
of judgment in selecting the plains of
Waterloo as his battle ground, French
military critics contending that the Duke
fought the battle in position full of diff
ficulty. This charge he Indignantly re-
PEELED, and, after thoroughly exonerating
himself, concluded by saying: "My plan
was to keep my ground till the Prussians
appeared, and then toattack the French
position, and l executed my plan"
Wellington was ever Just toward those
who opposed him. When asked what he
really thought of the Emperor Napoleon
as a great general, he said: 81 have al
ways considered the presence of Napoleon
with an army equal to force of 10000
men, from his superior talent and from
the enthusiasm which his name and pres
ence inspired in the troops" On another
occasion tie Duke also ssid thse he
thought Napoleon superior to Turenne,
Tallard, or any of the old generals of
former times; but Napoleon had this ad-
vantage over every other general, himself
in particular, that his power was unlim-
tied. he could order everything on the
spot as he pleased. If he wanted rein
forcements they were sent; if to change
the plan of campaign, it was changed; if
to reward services, he could confer honors
on the field of battle; whereas, he, the
Duke, and other generals, were obliged
to write home to Ministers, and await
their decision, perhaps that of Parlia-
ment; and he himself had never had the
power of comforting the slightest reward
on any of his followers, however deserving.
, 1876-03-10

-
Says the wise man, "a pleasant thing
it is for the eyes to behold the sun" And
the pleasant thingis tolook at an open
wood fire, with ample hearth, brass and
irons, fender, shovel and tongs to match,
a bellows, hearth-brush and the whole
surmounted by handsome mantle-piece.
We ought to make more of sunshine
in our homes all the year round; and
having trapped every sunbeam, at least
in the winter months, consider next
the fireplace with its radiant heat and
social glow as the best adjunct to our
domestic cheer
And then the mantle-piece-nOt a mea-
ger, narrow shelf nor scrimpiug bracket,
but mantle-piece indeed, with depth and
breadth, and room for shells, and hya-
cinths, and bronzes, and photographs Of
friends, and stuffed birds, and bits of por-
celain or whatever oddities and curiosities
of the mantle-piece kind that have pleas
ant associations belonging to them, and
that your purse or fancy can afford.
"But we can't afford it. Hard times
and household economy forbid" Well,
health and domestic cheer are very rea-
sonable luxuries, and good ventilation and
well oxigenated air are the prime con-
ditions. Nothing will secure these con-
ditions like an open fire. place. tits beyond
all comparison the best Ventilator. 1t
warns the lower part of the room, Gre
ating a current where impurities are most
likely to accumulate, and whisking them
up the chimney. 1t sucks in the purer
air from every outside crevice and creates
an invigorating flow and change. Better
still, it sends out radiant heat, which is
quite a different thing from heated dir
from cast-iron or sheet iron surfaces. 1t
has penetrating and stimulating inhu-
ence peculiar to itself; and oxegenates the
blood in way altogether more healthy to
the brain and nervous system gener-
ally than the heated air of furnaces or
stoves.
Even little fire on the hearth will
suffice for the benefits of health and COM
fort, and when the arrival of friend
demands your best expression of ofhospital-
ity, the very look of an open fireplace
with the wood laid and the kindlings
under, all ready for the match, is sug-
gestive of an open heart, a kindly well
come and a CHEEKY home.
For the sick-roOm there is no question
about it. 1t is hygienic necessity. And
what is a necessity for the sick-room
should set the well man thinking. If
you have much brain work to do, your
head hot and feet cold, your nerves tired
and sense of gonsness, dissatisfaction
and futility mingling with your best
work, reflect on the above. Economy is
sometimes double-edged. 1t may be that
you cannot afford not to have an open
fire. And by all means, if you contem-
plate building house, provide for it, as
one that "loveth life and would see many
days."-COndenSed. from Springfield Mass. }
Republican.
, 1876-03-10
Detroit Currency.

There we're only ffty-fve murdeEScom-
mitted in New York in 1872, phd that
was her best year for ten years.
Punch says it rejects al average of
fifty contributions per day, and several
persons remarked: "Thys what ails the
paper J.
Living and rents are very cheap at Bar
bersville, Virginia, and it is the town
where three murderers were lynched in
one day.
In the opinion of the Boston Globe sit
is more than half the fun in going skating
to see the maneuvres ofthe ladies in pull
back dresses"
Most any sensible American girl will
rather marry an Italian beggar with a
titled name than a moderately we'll of
but humble American.
A Halifax letter carrier was saving a
firms letters until he could get dozen
or two and thus make a call an object.
He doesn't carry letters any more.
The Sultan of Turkey frankly admits
that he doesn't know how many wives he
has. That was what allied the late Mr..
Singer, but he didn't brag about it.
There are many Massachusetts, people
who believe in witches. For instance, if
a husband gets upin the morning and finds
his money five dollars short, who took
that wealth. Wasn't his wife asleep all
the timel
1t has not yet been decided whether
any one will be allowed to sell molasses
candy on the Centennial grounds. Gen
tlemen, your hesitation may prevent the
State of Michigan from taking any active
part in the great exhibition.
After man has been around circus
all day, and seen the big animals and the
snakes and the double-performance, and
eaten gingerbread until he is happy, how
it discourages him to go home and find
that some one has got to saw wood before
supper can be had.
Chicago is growing. She says so. And
after man has hung around there for a
week and met a bunko man on every cor
9er, and a confidence man in the middle
Of the block, he will agree with the Chi
eago papers. It's big town and not a
foot of real estate is under mortgage.
Step up to citizen and tell him that
his father and grandfather were lunatics
and see how quickly he'll crook his
elbow. Yet let that citizen shoot some
body, and he'll bless you if you help him
prove that all his ancestors were not only
crazy but the biggest fools in the neigh
borhood.
, 1876-03-10
The Slave Trade.

In spite of the efforts of Christian ma
tions and the labors of devoted mission
aries, the practice of stealing and selling
men and women as slaves is still carried
on. This slave trade exists mainly in
two widely separated parts of the globe.
1t seems to have almost wholly ceased on
the western and southern coasts of Africa
but on the east coast, opposite the island
of Zanzibar, 1t is still pursued by Turks
and Arabs, who find it profitable to sell
their human wares to Muscat and Persia.
These half-saYage men steal along the
coast, and make sudden descents upon
the villages of the poor ignorant natives.
They seize all the vigorous men and
women and likely children, and not con-
tent with tearing them from their homes,
they leave the old people and infants to
starve, or to be consumed by the flames
which the marauders set to the huts.
The captives are crowded on board the
slave-dhows, or boats, and hurried off;
for English men-of-war are on the watch,
and they must be cautious to escape them.
Often the poor creatures die of starvation,
or of disease created by want of air and
nourishment before they reach the slave
markets.
The slave trade also fiourishes but too
proftably in the far-off South Sea Islands.
Here the kidnappers are not half-savage
Moslems, but Englishmen, who have been
brought up within the range of Christian
and enlightened influences. They seize
the natives of one island, and sell them to
work on the plantations of another.
1t is stated that the cruelties practised
by these English slave traders are quite
as bad as those of the Arabs on the Afri-
can coast, They have been known to kill
whole tribes who resisted the effort to
bind them in exile and slavery; and cases
have been related Of horrible torture ap-
piled to the poor savages who dared to
resist the fate intended for them.
1t must be said, to the credit of the
English Government, that it has used
vigorous efforts to destroy this wretched
traffic, both on the African coast and in
the South Sea; but these efforts have not
yet succeeded in wholly putting an end
, 1876-03-10

MoHAMMEDAN observation-disclosures
nations have low estimate of Turkish
soldiers, as deficient alike in equipments
and In courage; but an Englishman, tray-
cling in the East, says that these soldiers
are under wonderful discipline, and are
trained to habits of self-control and good
order, elsewhere unknown. He saw q
body Of four thousand soldiers enter Con.
stantinople after a weary march of many
weeks, but they made no disturbance in
the city, and their presence was hardly
known.
"Not single extra case was BROUGHT
before the police courts; not a voice 81
quarrel or complaint was heard in the
streets. The few officers who accom-
panied the men sat at ease in the coffee.
houses. Evening after evening passed off
quiet and orderly, into the unbroken
silence Of an Eastern. night. Morning
dawned, and if the bazaars and baths
were crowded, the mosques were no less
so. Not one Of the four thousand but
turned to Mecca five times a day, in wit.
ness to the unity of God and the mission
of the prophet"
Soldiers of this stamp, if led by great
Generals, ought'to do good service on the
battlefield.
, 1876-03-10
Pimples, Eruptions, Rough Skin.

The system being put under the influence
OF DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for
a few weeks, the skin becomes smooth, clear,
soft, and velvety, and being Illuminated with
the glow Of perfect health from within, true
beauty stands forth In all its glory. The ef.
the system through the medium of The
blood are necessarily somewhat slow, no
matter how good the remedy employed
While one TO three bottles clear the skin Of
pimples, blotehes, eruptions, yellow spots,
eomedones, or "grubs," a DOZEN may posi-.
bly, be required to cure some cases where the
system is rotten with scrofulous/ or virulent
blood poisOns. The cure -oE/all these dis
eases, however, from the common pimple to
the worst scrofula is, with the use OF this
most potent agent, only a matter Of time.
Sold by dealers IN medicines.
, 1876-03-10

SOME WORDS ABOUT WATCHES. =
"Watchn is from Saxon word signifying
to wake. At first the watch was as large
as saucer; it had weights, and was used
as pocket clock" The earliest known
use Of the modern name occurs in a rec
ord of 1862, which mentions that Edward
vi. had ''one larum or watch of iron, the
case being likewise of iron gilt, with two
plummetts Of Iead.n The first great i'm
provement, the substitution of the springs
for weights, was in 1850. The earliest
springs were not coiled, but only straight
pieces Of steel. Early watches had only
one hand, and required winding twice a
day. The dial was of silver or brass; the
cases had no crystals, but opened at the
back and front, and were four or five
inches in diameter. A plain watch cost
the equivalent of 81 900 In our currency,
and after one was ordered it took year
to make it. There is a watch in Swiss
museum only three-sixteenths of an inch
in diameter inserted in the top of a pen
cil-case. Its little dial indicates not only
hours, minutes and seconds, but also days
of the month. It is q relic Of old times,
when watches were inserted in saddles,
snuff boxes, shirt studs, breast pins, brace
lets and finger rings. Some were fantas-
tlc-oval, octangular, cruciform, or in
the shape of pearl, nelson's, tulips or cof-
fms.