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Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-04-15
Qatlp Commercial.
COMMERCIAL PRINTING COMPANY.
The Temperature, To-day

As REGISTERED AT THE COMMERCIAL OFFICE.
AtTA M............. .50 AT A. M.......,......64 .64'
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-04-15
Weather ProbablIities.
Associated Press Special telegram.

AHs0c1oteu FTe85 ope0tut 4sItJFUHIa
WAsH1NGroN, April 15 Probabilities for
the Middle States, rising barometer, south
and west winds, stationary temperature,
partly cloudy and clear weather.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-04-15

Sheriff Lambson did not make sale of the
printing material Of James Brown, this
morning, as advertised. MIR. Brown having
met the judgments against him.
Jaekson's new bill board at 9th and Penn
was dedicated with handsome spread OF
bills for the Calender Troupe and " Around
tue World"
llr. Hanna. the Chief Engineer elect OF
tie Ere Department was sereaaded by his
frauds iasg eveuIaS
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-04-15

HIsToRIcAL SccIETY.-A meeting of the
members of the Historic Il Society will be
held this afternoon, at the rooms, at 5
O'clock with reference to the death of DR..
r. h. Porter, who was one of the active
Jnembers of the Society,"
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-04-15

MILLS BusY.-The Haven Woollen mills
Of P. F. Causey, at Milford, are very busy
at present, and the N'e,oS says they have
enough orders ahead to continue their ac-
tiviry in its present state for year to
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-04-15
Financial.

Associated Press Special TeIegrGm.
New YORK, April 15.-Gold opened, this
morning, at $1.13.94.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-04-15
Freak OF "A Pheasant.

A few mornings since fl 1ck of pheas-
ants passed over Johnstown, Pa. One OF
them separated itself from the others and
dashed into store window breaking the
glass, killing itself, and causing 500 worth
of damages.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-04-15
n n, ID, SEEDS.

II X ID. SEEDN,
Gs CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
. Shop, Fourth Street, between West and Tatnai,
Resldense, Adams St, ) doors south OF Dslawars
Avenue; Estimatss furnished On all kinds OF work.
and Jooons Carefully attended Ito at -AesOnsbl
pcgea, ys8lY-ln%
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-04-15

EASTER PRAISE NJ EXITING. There will bC
q praise meeting tomorrow evening at 7.3(
o'clock in the West Presbyterian church,
consisting of Easter songs and carols.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-04-15

A. T Stewart clung to oatmeal rorridge
to tAs last.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-04-15

The Kent County Levy Court has fixed
the rate of tax at As cents on the $l0o., the
same as last year.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-04-15
New Castle Item ;.

Correspondence of the Commercial.
New CASTLE, April 15.-The French
steamship 81. Laurent, the third of that
line that has come to Philadelphia, passed
up yesterday with French goods for the
Centennial.
Quite number of our fishermen have
met with serious losses from coming III
contact with passing vessels. One had
several hundred feet of his net stripped
from the lines.
Mr.. George Maxwell, clerk of the late
Couacil, has been offered the position by
for the position, and would be from his
knowledge of city affairs of great assistance
To the new members.
Considerable preparations are being
made by the different churches TO celebrate
Easter with extra services, suited to the oc-
casion.
Some action should be taken by our city
futAers in regard TO the great number Of
tpgs lutesting our streets by day, and maxi
i',, night hideous with their 4howlings.
lqt us have registry LAWN fact, any
thing to abate the nuisance.
The Moss Rose Assembly are busily en-
-aged in arranging for their ball on Mon
"a. lilgnI. 10 une lovers OF the light fan
tastic this will be rare treat, and should
not be missed.
"IHE WANAMAKER AND Brown OF VIII
MISaroN. What Wanamaker and Browns
establishment is to Philadelphia in the
clothing business, Nathan Lieberman has
become to Wilmington i'll a similar enter
prise. People are just awakening to the
fac. that iG Is useless to go TO Philadelphia
to buy clothing while at Liebermans Fifth
and Market mammoth store mems good
suits can be purchased for 81 so aud. .chll-
drens suits for $3.50 Notwithstanding
the cry OF stringent times, MIR. L. has re-
stocked his store with d larger assortment
OF clothing than ever before, and the pat
ronage with which he is favored shows that
his efforts are fully appreciated by the pub
| lie. His clerks are good natured, attentive,
and polite. ever ready either for Joke or to
talk business; and are fully resolved that no
customer who wants to purchase shall go
unsupplied. ii any reasonable accommoda-
zion in price will induce HIM to buy.
EoUALIzING SALARIEs.-Mr. McIntre in
trodueed IN Council, last evening, batch
of ordinances the object of which is, he
says, to equ1;ze salaries of certain employ
ees of the city. Some reductions, as well
| as some increases are contemplated, but
Mr.. McInhre claims that the amount to be
paid in the aggregate will remain the same.
Thus 1t ls proposed to cut down the salary
of the chief engineer OF the Water Work.
from 81, 500 to 81 200 per annum, and tc
increase the auditors salary from $500 tt
1000; TO cut down the salary Of the clerl
in the Registry Bureau from $75 per montl
little service being performed there, to the
level of the auditors clerk, making botl
about $50 per month. Ii is also proposed
TO increase the salary of the Clerk of th,
Market, additional duties having been i'm
posed on him, but how much has not beel
decided upon.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-04-15

PREMATURE HASTE DISPLAYED BY PARTY OR
GAN-How CERTAIN DEMOCRATIC PLANS
WERE Spoiled
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-04-15
PnliAdeIphia Markets.
.asonintsd Press Speetal Tslearam

PHILADELPHIA, April 15-Flour in better
demand Penna. family Sc 25@6.50; high
grades SS Co., Wheat firm; Penna.red 81 80:
amber 81. .51@1. SO; white 81. .50@1.5 IS. Rye
Sic. Corn steady; yellow 66@6Sc; white
Csc. Oats active white 43@5l15c. Lard
14@145sc. Whiskey $1.13.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-04-15

Rev. |. NJ. Haldeman has returned to
Wilmington and will preach tomorrow, as
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18
A Hundred Years Ago.

A gentleman of the olden time, writ
ing of the Maryland planter one hun
dred years ago, says: They shipped their
own tobacco-brought to a landing in
stout hogsheads, with revolving axle
driven through the middle, and dragged
by strong mule guided by plantation
hand, over what are still known as the
rolling roads. In return they received
not only all kinds of necessaries for
their own consumption, but for supply
ing the lesser planters and their SER
wants. OF provisions they never had
any lack. They raised their own NUT
ton and beef and pork; then there was
venison to be had in the forest, wild
ducks in abundance in their season,
fish and oysters in the estuaries of the
bay and in the rivers that flowed into
it. They led life of independence in
a land of plenty; dwelt on their own
estates, surrounded by their servants,
and dispensed to all comers lavish hos
pitality. Their chief pleasures were of
the ruder sort. They had their horses
and hounds, and hunted and fished;
were fond of races and cock fighting;
often drank freely, and sometimes
gambled heavily. At Doughoregan
manor saddle horses were regularly
brought every summer morning and
bitched under the trees in picturesque,
nervous group, and any one of the
guests was free to take his choice, and
gallop off over the hills either alone or
with chosen companions. The custom
is still kept up there. Ladies were
among the boldest of riders. 1t was the
only mode of quick iourneying.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18
There Might Have Been.

a man in want of load of wood
visited one of the markets to make 6
choice. Finding load that suited, he
asked the owner if there was cord OIL
the wagon.
81 think there is, was the reply.
"Do you know that there ISL"
"My son William loaded it up, and
he said there was cord"
"Well, what do you say9" asked the
citizen.
"And my other son, John, helped
William load it up, and he said there
was a cord"
Do you say so9"
"And my neighbor came along, and
he said there was cord"
"I don't believe there is.
"And my wife stood at the gate as
came away, and she said there was O
cord," continued the farmer.
"There may be three-quarters," said
the citizen.
"And as I came through the toll gate
the keeper said he'd eat it if there
wasn't cord and half"
"He did2"
"And a policeman stopped me and
wanted to know how much l asked fol
that cord and three-quarters of beautiful
wood"
The citizen took it before the load
could swell any more. e.-Detrott Free
Press
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18
A LESSON TO A DEBTOR.
A Good square Hit that was Well Deserve,

A Good square Hit that was Well Deserved.
Says the Boston Commercial Bulle-
tin: The following, with but slight
variation, sufficient not to betray the
identity of the parties, is the report of a
recent actual interview and the forcible
truths expressed in the conclusion of the
dialogue will doubtless be recognized as
applicable to many similar cases of great
er or lesser magnitude.
A business man in difficulties calls,
with long face, on one of his principal
creditors, and says:
"Mr. Prompt, 1 find, owing to the
pressure of the times, shall be obliged
to call meeting of my creditors.
Indeed" said Prompt, then you
cannot meet your liabilities"
Debtor-"I regret to say cannot. +"
Prompt" Well, let me see, how long
have you been in business9"
Debtor" About eight years."
Prompt" How much capital did you
have to start with 2"
Debtor (proudly)-"I had only one
thousand dollars, sir, and my knowl-
edge of the business, in which 1 was
salesman"
Prompt-"You were since married 2"
Debtor" Yes"
Prompt" Wife any property9"
Debtor" at all /; have done
everything by my own unaided exer-
tions."
Prompt" How much do you expect
to be able to pay your creditors2"
Debtor" Well, think could get
out for twenty cents on dollar"
Prompt" much would that
leave you after you got your bankruptcy
discharge
Debtor" Well, if I could go right
on with the old stock, might realize a
couple Of thousand dollars, but the
creditors couldn't do so much with it. "
Prompt" But how about your house
in the suburbs9 That goes in with the
assets, 1 suppose" :"
Debtor" Well, hardly. That's only
worth six or seven thousand dollars,
and I settled that on my wife two years
ago."
Prompt" HIM, hum Let me see
what are your liabilities 2"
Debtor" should say, at rough
calculation, twenty thousand dollars"
Prompt Gndignantly)-" Why, con-
found it, sir, it is just such men as you
that have been cheating and are cheat
ing honest men either through your
rascality or accursed ignorance. You
haven't been solvent, according to your
own confession, the whole eight years
you've been in trade, I'll be bound.
Here you acknowledge you started with
only one thousand dollars of real capital
you have your family living eight years,
saved out a $1,000 house, and after set
tling with your creditors will have
double the capital you began with.
Such men as you have no right to be in
business for themselves, but should be
the employees of those who have brains
to guide them. I'll accept no pro-
position, and only wish creditors, in
stead of setting on their feet such shams
as you to compete with genuine bust
ness men, would send you back into the
ranks where you belong"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18
Questions and Answers.

How can I made lime water9 An
swer.-Slake four ounces lime with
little distilled water, then add distilled
water to make one gallon. Cover the
vessel and set it aside for three hours.
Pour off the clear liquor for use.
Is there any remedy for tender fin
gers2 L am a printer, and my fingers
get sore and the skin peels off. An
wer.-Printers frequently burn paper
on an iron surface, and rub the sore
place with the resulting oil.
How can 1 prevent oil paintings from
cracking2 Answer. Cracks occur in
oil paintings when the colors were
ground in oil containing impurity OF
otherwise unfit for the purpose. Lin.
seed oil is the best, poppy oil the next
but purity is the essential quality of ali
vehicles for colors.
I am finishing wire work with paint
mixed with varnish it takes too long
for it to dry hard. What will dry
quickly and not break off easily2 An.
swer. Boil good linseed oil with enough
iitharge to make a stiff paint; add one
part by weight of pigment to every ten
parts of the litharge. Boil for three
hours over gentle fire.
How can I make a stain for wood to
initiate mahogany9 Answer. "A simple
way of effecting the object is to brush
the wood with aquafortis, and dry it at
the fire. This is good for veined birch
and beech. The latter may also be
stained by putting two ounces dragons
blood into one quart rectifed spirit; let
the bottle stand in a warm place and
shake it frequently; and when the gum
is dissolved, the stain is fit for use.
Will you please inform me how I can
restore edge tools, such as plane bits,
chisels, ETC., to their original temper,
after they have gone through a fire
Answer. them to cherry red,
and quench them endwise in lukewarm
clean water. Then brighten the surface
with emery and reheat them slowly over
q piece of heated iron until brown
color appears, then quench them in wa
ter.
Can you inform me how white wine
or whisky vinegar is made? Answer
Obtain a large cask, and about a foot
above the bottom construct false per-
forated bottom. Above this fill the cask
with good, well burnt charcoal in coarse
Jumps, over which pour first sufficient
quantity of good vinegar to thoroughly
moisten it. Let the whole stand for a
short time, when it will be ready for
the introduction of the alcoholic1iquors.
This should be introduced in small
quantities at time, and the apparatus
kept in a moderately cool place to pre-
vent too energetic an action. This
method will give you pure vinegar,
which will suffer considerable dilution.
Use very small quantity of annatto as
colol ing matter. .-Scient5fc american.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18

did it and collided with the rug
again, which l threw into the fire. Mrs.
McWilliams sprang out of bed and res
cued it, and we had some words. 1 had
another trifing interval of sleep aud
then got up, by request, and construct
ed haxseed poultice. This was placed
upon the child's breast and left there to
do its healing work.
A wood fire is not q permanent thing.
1 got up every twenty minutes and re-
newed ours, and this gave Mrs. McWil-
liams an opportunity to shorten the
times of giving the medicines by ten
minutes, which was great satisfaction
to her. Now and then, between times,
reorganized the fsxseed poultices, and
applied sinapisms and other blisters
where unoccupied places could be found
upon the child. Well, toward morning
the wood gave out, and my wife wanted
me to go down cellar and get some
more. / said:
"My dear, it is laborious job, and
the child must be nearly warm enough,
with her extra clothing. Now, mightn' t
we put on another layer of poultices
and"-
did not finish because 1 was inter-
rupted. 1 lugged up wood from below
for some little time, and then turned in
and fell to snoring as only man can
whose soul is worn out. Last at broad
daylight l felt grip on my shoulder
that brought me to my senses suddenly.
My wife was glaring down on me and
gasping. As soon as she could command
her tongue she said:
"It is over All over The child's
perspiring! What shall we do"
Mercy, how you terrify me! l
don't know what we ought to do. May
be if we scraped her and put her in the
draft again" -
"Oh, idiot There is not a moment
to lose. Go for the doctor. Go your
self. Tell him he must come, dead OF
alive"
dragged that poor sick man from his
bed and brought him. He looked at
the child and said she was not dying.
This was JOY unspeakable to me, but il
made my wife as if he had offered per
sonal affront. Then he said the child's
cough was only caused by some trifing
irritation or other in the throat. At tais
I thought my wife had mind to show
him the door. Now the doctor said he
would make the child cough harder and
dislodge the trouble. So he gave he1
something that sent her into a spasm OF
coughing, and presently up came lit,
tie wood splinter or so.
This child has no membranous
Group" said he. "She has been chew
ing bit of pine shingle or something
of the kind, and got some little slivers
in her throat. They won't do her any
hurt"
"No," said I. "I can well believe
that. Indeed, the turpentine that is in
them is very good for certain sorts CT
diseases that are peculiar to children.
My wife will tell you SO.
But she did not. She turned away in
disdain, and left the room; and since
that time there is one episode in our life
which we never refer to. Hence the
tide of our days flows by in deep and
untroubled serenity.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18
That Chain Pump.

A left handed man in Burlington
rushed out to a chain pump to get q
bucket of water. He made some ILL
natured remark about men making
pumps wrong side to, and commenced
to grind. He turned and turned, and
ground and ground, and stopped and
rested, and talked softly to himself, and
ground again, and kicked the pump,
and took off the lid and looked down
into the cistern, and put on the lid and
eat down to think, and got up and turn
ed the crank and sweat, and kicked the
pump again, and there hung the bucket.
And there came woman to the back
door, and voice fell like falling star:
"Turn that crank the other way, you
stupid thing, or you won't get any water
tonight"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18
A Large Increase.

It may be said that the population of
England increased in the quarter of a
century about twenty per cent. that the
people living in 1874 were, on an aver
age, at least twice as we'll off as they
we've in 1851; that they drank in 1874
twice as much tea and sugar as they did
in 1851, and forty per cent. more spirits,
wine and beer; that they had saved
twice as much and travelled nearly five
times as much; that, taking the increase
of population into account, serious
crime had decreased by nearly seventy
per cent, pauperism by more than TWEEN
ty-five per cent, while primary educa-
tion had become six times as general.
These are striking symptoms Of material
and social progress.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18
How to Make Mischief.

Keep your eye on your neighbors.
Take care of them. Do not let them
stir without watching. They may do
something wrong if you do. TO be sure
you never knew them to do anything
very bad, but it may be on your account
they have not. Perhaps if it had not
been for your kind care they might have
disgraced themselves long ago. Then
do not relax in your efforts to keep them
where they ought to be. Never mind
your own business-that will take care
of itself. If you find any symptoms of
any one passing out of the path of duty,
tell every one else what you see, and be
particular to see a great many. 1t is a
good way to circulate such things, though
It may not benefit yourself, or any one
particularly. Do keep something a-going
silence is a dreadful thing. 1t is said
there was silence in heaven for the space
of half an hour. Do not let any such
thing occur on earth. 1t would be too
much for this mundane sphere.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18
Watching.

He loitered up through the meadow,
His foot in the trailing swath
BE stopped where the keen scythes blade had
passed,
And plucked the aftermath.
And oh, love and alb, Lowell
And what shall my sad heart say2
What bold prayer breathe by night, love,
1t burst not breathe by day2
She sat by the open window,
Looking unto the west
And the sun went down, and the stars came up
Beyond the gray hills crest.
And oh, love and ah, love
And when will his footsteps fall?
The skies are empty and barren, love,
But God is over all ~
A step on the garden walk,
shadow under the stare,
And the moons first gleam slides sudden
through ..-
The twilights jealous bars.
And oh, love and ah, love
And open love to me
My heart ID knocking at thy door,
All lift the latch and see
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18
An Imbecile'S Work.

A few years ago there was exhibited
in England beautiful model of ship,
pronounced by competent judges to be a
perfect specimen of naval architecture,
every detail being proportioned and fin
ished with neatest exactness. 1t was
made by the imbecile son of gardener
in an interior county. Up to that time,
it is claimed, he had never seen the sea
or ship, his pattern being printed
ship on an old pocket handkerchief.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18
IN ADVANCE.
NO. r..
Western Love.

UNotOAh hO'Os
A youth of Indiana, in love with girl
in Minnesota, addresses her in this beau
tiful strain:
I Just come down from the buckeye state
some pleasure for to find handsome
girl from minsplis just suited to my
mind.
Her rosy cheeks and rolling eyes like arrows
pesrced my brest and they called her
handsome clara the liley of the west.
I corted her for just three days, her love 1
thought to gain to soon, to soon she
slited me which gave me grief and
pain.
she robbed me of my liberty and deprived me
of my rest but still I love my clara the
liley Of the west
MY DREAM.
1 dreamp dream the other night down by
yon shady grove saw a chap Of high
degree convercing with my love.
he sung he sung 80 merryly while was soar
oprest and he sung to lovely clara the
liley Of the west.
1 rushed up to my rival dagger in my hand
tore him from my true love and boldly
bad him stand.
being mad to desperation my dagger pearced
his brest, and 1 was betrade by clara
the liley of the west.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18
Turkish Honesty.

A little trait of Turkish honesty
might be initiated: A gentleman wan
dering through the bazaars desired to
buy an embroidered handkerchief of a
Turkish shopkeeper. He asked tine
price. "Seventy-five piastres." "No,"
said the gentleman, aware that it is usual
among all traders, whatever their creed,
to ask at first more than the value;
that is too much; I will give you
seventy" and as the dealer seemed to
assent he counted out the money. But
great was his surprise when the heavy
bearded Osmanl, gravely pushed back
to him twenty piastres, observing !:
"This is more than the just price. 1t is
always the custom here to bargain over
thing down to its fair value, and as
fifty piastres is my fair price, these
twenty belong to you"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18
That Rule.

A young woman who seems to be op-
posed to girls being taught to sew,
writes as follows to the Woman'S Jour
nal: Some time since gentleman of
Ithaca said, in quite company: II
mean to offer prize for the best shirt
made by the lady students of the uni
versity.' eff you do, reioined, i'm
pulsively, "I will offer an equal one for
the best chemise made by male stu
dent. 1t is poor rule that won't work
both ways"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-18

Two brave men, having fought and
shaken hands, are the last men in the
world to cherish small animosities
against each other. No point in any
drama is more heartily appreciated by an
English or American audience than that
in the Lady vi Lyons" where Colonel
Damas remarks how much he likes
another man after he has fought with
him.