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| Boston Post 'Dem)
The more we hear and see, the more
we think that the Democratic delega-
tior in Congress from this State is gov
ing to be increased rather than dimIn-
ished this fall.
New Haven Register DEM
An old Maine farmer illustrates the
absurdity of seeking reform by put>
ting Hayes atthe head of the Cameron,
Boss Shepherd, Kemble, Spencer and
Babcock rings, instead of Grant, as
follows: "When a hen has set on her
nest so long that the eggs have become
rotten, what is the use of trying to
mend the matter by putting new hen
into the old nest?
Boston Post (DemJ
Blaine does well in his first after.
sickness speech, to allude to Governer
Tilden as man who has "the reputa
tion of possessing large wealth, and of
being ready to use it to promote poli1
tical ends" How came he by his
wealth? BY applying himself with
unceasing industry to his profession,
in which he ranks among the first. Mr..
Blaine, on the other hand, has follow
ed politics and got rich by being a
member of Congress in period of uni
eXampled fraud and corruption.
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EH- Ridges Food for Infants and Invalids
See advertisement,
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War On Congressman vanos.
pecial Dispatch to the Gazette.


WASHINGTON, August 14.-Despite
the provisions of the legislative bill
the employees at the government print
ing office, enraged at the action of the
house committee on printing have been
assessed to raise a sum sufficient to
send two energetic men into the Elevs
enth Ohio district to defeat the re-elec
tion of Mr.. Vance, who is chairman
of the printing committee. Vance is a
practical printer. and the object in
sending these emissaries is to persuade
all the prisoners In his district that he
ought to be defeated for doing his du-
ty in investigating as corrupt and ex-
travagant branch of the public SER
viceas has been examined this session.
Vance has the evidence of the collect
ion of the money, and were Congress
to remain in session the charges
would be promptly investigated. How.
ever. the question of fact will be the
same at the next session, and should
he be defeated, tne next Congress will
be called upon to decide upon the eli
gibility of the successful candidate
elected under such circumstances,
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FROM HARRINE TON
HARRINGTON, DEL.,

August, 18th, 1876.
once writing you, Harrington has
been greatly cheered by renewed pros
poets OF improvements at the depot sta
tlon; six fine chairs and two settees
have arrived and been put in the tick
ct office just in time for the acc ommo.
dation OF the Rehoboth passengers
windows are opened, sash will be re.
stored and the ticket office will be pa
pered aud its inner face will nut on
new contour; We with several others
enjoy the luxury of the change; 1t is
astonishing what an excitement this
little improvement makes, and how
the people enjoy it: honor to the rail.
road office.
This is acceptable as an earnest of
their favorable consideration, and ex-
cites the hope that it is the presage of
a new depot; two officials Of TIE rail,
road, too were down here.
Since we wrote wishing rain it has
decended in plentiful showers, water
ed the earth, revived the corn and
made hearts rejoice. 1t is impossible
for rejecting mind to look at the re.
loicing corn, Buckwheat, turnips and
grasses with promise of plenty for man
and beast without grateful emotions.
Since writing the above, sat down in
my friends parsonage to a delightful
supper of crocus fish, chicken salad.
and Delaware biscuit most grateful to
a stranger. Lady caterers of Della
ware shall be praised in the gates of
the city. The watermelons, too here
are of the largest size and sweetest
taste and greatest variety. wonder
as we proceed south whether fruits are
not more sweet, flowers more beauti,
full and birds more yellow and red just
as their horses and people are more
blooded and spirits more subtle.
Is not this under God the effect of
the sun? The temperature this way
greatly changed and the air is really
pleasant. To day some of the Reho-
both people are returning above and
| could not but remark :he change
from thin to fall faces in some of our
lady friends of Wilmington; l was
glad to hear of the twenty visitors who
left the Bright" House yesterday the
same number filled up their places
showing no diminuition in visitors
though the camp is over. There is
now going on this day camp meeting
at Spring Branch about equi distant
from FELTON,, Harrington, Frederick
and Camden. They have a very encour
aging showing of tents and the prom
ise of good is equally as encouraging.
Camp meetings seem to be numerous
Caroline men refused camp meeting
this year, and the ladies called a meet
ing of ladies and determined on one to
be held the 18th of this month at Con
cord. There is one to be held at
Greensborough, Camden, one is going
on now at Red Lion and another at
Talley's Woods. May they all be
good and useful and the friend at the
parsonage says amen.
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dolI Medal Awarded to the Author ry
the National Medical Assoeia-
,ion," March 81, 1879
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The old silver dollar has record
which, IN these days of cheap bullion,
is worth preserving, as it retained a
unit value from Washington 10 Grant
in 1878. The act of 1887 (sectIon 81
made the silver dollar thereafter coin
ed 412l grains, standard, alloy includ-
ed, The standard of silver was then
fixed at 900 parts pure to 100 alloy.
The old silver dollar was 371t grains
pure silver. The coin of 1887 was
nine~tenths pure, and contained just
3714 grains pure. as did the old silver
dollar of Hamilton's time. The same
amount of pure silver was in the silv'
er from 1892 to 1878, the only differ
ence being that there were 81 grains
more of alloy added to the weight of
the silver dollar in 1887, which did not
debase it-probably to make it harder.
The intrinsic value of silver was
the same, unless 81 grains Of copper
alloy makean issue,
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News has been received in Washing
ton of the death of Rev L. 2. Smith,
President of Howard University and
formerly Commissioner of Indian Af-
fairs. He died at Accra, on the West
Coast of Africa, in the latter part Of
June, in the 10th year of his age. He
went to Africa in January last, under
the auspices of the American Mission
ary Association, to inspect the African
missions and ascertain the best means
for their enlargement
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excuse will the Times proffer for bav-
ing published this editoriais

[ From the Ner Fork Times, Sept. lG, 1874. ]
Mr.. Tilden has been opposed solely on
personally uron Tweed in court of law,
the proof Of his guilt. There has been
no other objection urged to him. The
Republicans could well afford, from
party standpoint, to stand by and see
him rejected. . +
o. the other hand, qrs must all admit that
Iilden is not supported by the canal
plunderers.
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SILK MANUFACTURE IN New JER.
sEY.-The Newark On. j. Advertiser
states that the greatest addition to the
industries of that State within the
last thirty years is the manufacture OF
silk. OF the entire product in all the
States New Jersey is responsible for
more than third. the total figures tor
1875 being $27. 5S,07l, and for that
State S10,950,0 ,035. New York stands
next, and then Connecticut, the two
together producing about the same
amount. In 1870 the silk manufactured
in this country was but one fourth
the value of that imported, while last
year the home production exceeded
our importations by $2,775,000. The
great centre of the trade is Paterson.
Seven new factories were erected or
completed last year.
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THE NEXT UNITED STATES SEN.
ATE. E.-Twenty-ni7e new United States
Senators will be elected next winter.
The Senate is divided between forty.
two republicans, twenty shine demo-
Gratis and two independents, giving
the republicans majority of cleo
ven. The next Senate democrats
hold their present seats and elect nine
other of the twenty, mine Senators to
be closen, then, with a democratic
Fice>President in the chair, they
would control the upper house of
Congress. The sixteen republicans
whose terms expire with the. present
Congress are from the States of Arkan
sas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana,
Maine, Massachusetts,, Michigan, Mis-
sissippi, Nebraska, NewJersey, Rhode
Island, South Carolina, and Wisconsin
The nine democrats going out from
Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky
North Carolina. Oregon, Tennessee,
Virginia and West Virginia. One of
the retiring Standardization, of
Texas-is classed as an Independent,
In addition to these the new State of
Colorado, whose politics are in doubt
will elect two Senators, and Louisiana
will eject second Senator to fill the
vacancy for which Pinchback contend
cd. The Boston Transcript, in refer
ring to this matter, says "the demo-
Gratis are certain to make more gains.
and it would not require great deal
of careless independent voting to give
the government entirely over to demo
cratic control in the event of the suc'
cess of the democratic national ticks
et.
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WE1IHER REPORT.
MAsnINeToN, Aug. 16. ! A. "

For the Lower Lake region, Middle
States and New England, rising bar
ometer, cooler northerly to easterly
winds, and: generally clear weather,
except possibly rain areas along the
Middle Atlantic coast,
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MORE lHANi 100000 COPIES. soLp.
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ARCTIC ICE
COMPANY.
No. 9 East Second Street.
PRICES FOR 1916.

e5 to 100 pounds at 70 cents per hundred /;
100 to 200 pounds, 60 cents per hundred; to
8 tons, $40 per ton. Special rates for larger
ouontities. Eastern ice only.
4aprIiitf j. B. CONROW 81 SON,
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The Custer Battle-FOrty Indians TO
One White Man,

LAWRENCE, Kan, Aug. 15.-The
Journal to day publishes an account
of Clusters battle, as reported by
Agent Miles to Superintendent Nichols
1t is strictly the Indian version of the
story, and agrees in important particu.
lars with the military report of the
affair. The Indians are said to have
had forty men engaged to Clusters
one.
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to everything to be seen during the time
he remains within the Enclosure.
A narrow gauge double track steam
railway, three miles in length, has been
furnished with its equipment as special
exhibit, and is operated for the con-
veyance of passengers within the inclosed
grounds, at a fixed charge of five cents
per passenger per trip.
Rolling chairs are kept on hand, at
designated stations within the principal
exhibition buildings, for conveyance of
visitors who may desire to use them.
With attendants, the charge for their
use by the hour will be not exceeding
seventy-five cents each per hour; with
out attendants. not exceeding thirty-five
or fifty cents each per hour for each class
OF chair respectively. Reduced rates are
charged where chairs are engaged for
number of hours.
Ordinary chairs that can be used by
visitors when desired, no charge being
made therefor, are kept on hand at des
ignated stations within the principal
exhibition buildings.
Soda water fountains are located al
convenient points within the principal
buildings. and in pavilions erected fol
the purpose on the grounds. Charge Pei
glass ten cents.
Every convenience for visitors is pro
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make big show, and finally the deed is
done. If the house be under the direc-
ton of these really skillful artists it is
sure not only to he effective, but often
times, from the upholstery point of view,
really fine. Augustus eats in his Gothic
dining-room and goes to sleep in his mo-
dernized medieval parlor, furnished ac-
cording to the true principles of high
art Whatever it costs he can at least
hug his soul the pleasing satisfaction OF
knowing he has the real thing in the
noycnnge line. His knowledge of what
it is all about may be as dmly vague as
his wiies. Put one thing he does know +;
they are on the tip top crest OF the fash
ionable walk In the splendor of their
maenificence they may even condescend
to spaltcr their less fortunate neighbors
by few drops of their boughten knowl-
edge. In time, by dipping into Clarence
Cooks articles or Eastlake's book, they
even tickle themselves with the deluslve
fancy that they are authorities and lead
ers of the new decorative crusade.
The same thing holds true of the rage
for old china. Mrs. B, who really un-
derstands something of the principles
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vided in the house of public comfort, in
Guiding separate parlors for ladies and
gentlemen, retiring rooms, barber shops,
and coat and baggage rooms, where pack
ages of all kinds are taken care of, checks
being given. Retiring rooms are also To-
Gated at the entrances to all the princi-
pal buildings. Checks are given at the
carriage stands, near the carriage con-
course, for vehicles left in charge.
The telegraph service on the grounds
embraces central Office, in connection
with numerous suh-oflices located in all
parts of the grounds and buildings, ard
at the carriage stands.
A number of light wagonettes, seating
ten passengers each, are run between the
city and the exhibition grounds by the
exhibition transfer company, limited
The fare is fifty cents per passenger each
way.
The centennial national bank has es
tablished convenient offices on the exhi
bition grounds, and deals in coin and ex
change, cash letters of credit, and afiort
visitors every banking facility.
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Those who were on the sick list had to
seek temporary shelter wherever it could
be found among the farmers of the neigh
borhood. According to the regulations
in the orderly book, each hut was to be
fourteen feet by sixteen, with walls of
logs filed with clay six feet and a half;
the fireplaces were of logs, plastered ;
and logs split into rude planks or slabs
furnished the roofing. A hut was al
lotted to twelve on-commissioned Of
ficers and soldiers. A general officer had
hut to himself The same was allowed
to the staff of each brigade and regiment,
and the field officers of each regiment.
and hut to the commissioned officers
of each company. The huts of the SOL
diers fronted on the streets; those of the
officers formed a line in the rear; and
the encarpment gradually assumed the
looks of rude military village"
In this encampment, called by the
wits of the British army "Slab City"
the American army passed a sad and
dreary winter, for weeks at a time on
half allowance, sometimes without meat,
sometimes without bread, often without
both. The transportation of supplies
was INSTRUCTED the magazines were ex-
hausted, and the commissaries had
neither money or credit to enable them
to replenish them. At Valley Forge,
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A PREHISTOHTc C4TE-DWELLING IN
FRANCE.

From Nature.
A discovery of great importance to
prehistoric archaeology has just been
made in France. On March 2, while
some workmen were excavating in a
quarry of Jurassic limestone, near the
little commune of Carvanche, about
three kilometres northwest of Belfort, at
the base of hillock, they came upon
small opening which was found to lead
into cave of large dimensions. On en-
tering the cavern its floor was found to
be covered with human bones, 30 disposed
as to lead to the belief that the cave
formed prehistoric place of sepulture.
Magnificent stalagmitic columns rise
from the floor, but without correspond
ing stalactites. 1t would seem rs if
these columns were partly natural and
partly artificial, as they appear to be dis
posed in a sort of systematic method,
after the form of dolmens. 1t is in these
cavities that the multitude of bones
have been found. The skulls are raised
slightly above the level of the rest of the
bodies, which appear to be in some
what benedd position. Several polished
flint weapons have also been found, three
beautiful ornamented vases in the form
of urns, polished stone bracelets and
mat of plated rushes. The cave itself
is calculated to be about thirty-six
metres long and about twelve in breadth
and height and numerous galleries or
side-cayerns run off the main one. I'M
mediately on the discovery of the cav
ern, the authorities of Belfort took meas
ures to guard it and the treasures it con-
tains in the interests of science, and M.
Felix, Voulot, who have given great at
tention to the subject of prehistoric
archaeology, has been charged with car
rving on the researches. M. Voulot
hopes to be able to disengage from the
stalagmitic covering at least one entire
skeleton. There is no doubt that We
have here important remains of the pol
ished stone period, but it is confidently
expected that further research will bring
to light relics of much older period
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atien tly until we have sufficient kDowI-
edge of the subject to judge of its use
and beauty. To gain this knowledge re-
quires time, and time is with us but an
other synonyme for money. So the
house furnishing is given over to uphol-
sters, and our home becomes stereotyped.
Even the most artistic of our artist-up-
holsters can only ring varieties and
changes upon the same fashionable tune.
A house thus furnished stands for moth
ing. 1t stands for just $40, 900 worth of
Gothic chairs, horizontal bar-hung cur
tains, dados, and frescOed friezes. AL
these may make handsomely furnished
honse, but they can never make even the
phantom of truly artistic home. 1t
may be all the rage, the fashion, the
style, but>it is sure to become both old
fashioned and old style.
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THE HEDLEyL A1IANI4.

From the GRAPHIC
For some time past peopiss have been
possessed by new mania. This time we
have all gone mad Oh the matter of
household decoration. Books, pamphlets,
newspapers, and the magazines have been.
full of instruction to the ignorant on sub
jects pertaining the beds, stools, bric-a-
brac, pottery, and the like. The very
air is full OF the clamor of the rival. \ OF
alene upholstercrs. but artists, poets, and
men of letters, talk lcarnedly of tiles,
plaques, Egyptian and arabesque mould
ings, and discuss the relative merits of
theGrecian and japanese frieze.
The truth is, Americans are too prone
to accept anything which doesn't involve
the trouble of thinking Thus they be-
ers, and seem to be willing to have any
thing, short of death, applied upon them
as an experiment. When fashion is
once set, we run into its moulds with
such unanimity that we soon become ex-
act reproductions of one another. We
must do or die in the matter of fashion.
A witty Frenchwoman once said, You
Americans are like the Chinese. You
are all alike. You dress alike, walk
alike, and furnish your houses all alike.
You never seem SO happy as when you
are copying something or somebody"
One reason of the prevalence of this de-
-: he Il. xxyhn no
in millinery or furniture, is that the
| c.pyist is mostly of the feminine gender.
| Our American women are naturally far
more artistic in their instincts than the
men. They possess not only the time,
which makes the opportunity, but they
also possess the brains, which lie in their
adaptive fingers eager for any new COM
bination in ruffie or frill, lamorequin or
curtain.
When Augustus and Belinda proceed
| to furnish their marital nest it is Belinda,
of course, who chooses chairs and carpets,
and Augustus who pays the bills. The
little wife goes to Herter and Narcotic.
She hears of Eastlake sideboards and
Morris wall papers. She listens, with
newly awakened artistic emotions, of the
rival claims of the pure Gothic, with its
severe simplicity of style, and the Orient
al, with its more gorgeous harmonies of
tint and color. Then there follow long
consultations concerning Dutch tiled
mantel- pieces, Venetian chandeliers,
dados, friezes, and the like. In all she
trusts confdingly in the bought knowl-
edge of these artist upholsterers. Her
own discriminating qualities have but a
poor play. She knows nothing of all
this nonsense about art and architecture.
All she wants is to be in the fashion and
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in the midst of frost and snow, disease
and restitution, Liberty erected her
altar; and in all the worlds history we
have no record of purer devotion, holier
sincerity. or more heroic self-sacrifice,
than was exhibited in the camp of Wash
ington. The courage that nerves the
arm on the battlefield, and dazzles by its
brilliant but evanescent flashes, pales
before the steadier and more intense
flame of patient endurance the sum of
the sublime heroism displayed at Valley
Forge. If there is spot on the face of
our broad land whereon patriotism
should delight to pile its highest and
most venerated monument, it should be
in the bosom of that little vale on the
banks of the Schuylkill, amid the
tempted hills" consecrated by the
presence and sufferings of those who
achieved our independence"
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appearance.


TIME OF -IGRICULTURIL DISPL.I Us.
The following stated displays, under
their respective dates, will be held dur
ing the international exhibition. Appli-
cations for entry may now be made, on
forms which will be supplied by the
chief of bureau:
Agricultural products = genealogical
products and vegetables, May 10th to
24th; Strawberries, June 18th to 18th (;
early grass butter and cheese. June 18th
to 18th; early summer vegetables, June
Goth to 9th; honey, June Goth to 24th;
raspberries and blackberries, June Sd to
Sth; southern genealogical products,
July 18th to odd; melons, August 22d
to Goth; peaches, September 4th to 9th;
northern genealogical products. Septem-
Der 18th to 18th; autumn vegetables,
September 10Th To esd; cereals, Septem-
Der Goth to 30th; potatoes and feeding
roots, October Cd to It'll autumn but
ter ami cheese, October 17ih to Dist
nuts, October 23d to November LIST
autumn honey and wax, October 23d to
November LIST.
Field trials-Mowing machines, ted
ders and hay rakes, June 18th to 30th
reaping machines, July 5th to 18th.
Live steck-Horses, September LIST to
18th dogs, September LIST to September
Sth neat cattle, September 2lst to DC
tober 4th sheep, October 10th to 18th
swine, October 10th to 18th; poultry
October Goth to November 9th.
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CENTENNIAL FLOATING HOTELS.

We hear on every side, says contem-
porary, of parties being formed and
schooners being chartered, both as
means of conveyance to Philadelphia and
for homes while there. All along the
coast of New England, and even as faras
New Orleans, such parties are being
formed, old schooners are being fitted up
with new cabins and hunks, and dining
saloons arranged in the holds, until they
are transformed into floating hotel, or
club houses It would remind an old
Californian of the days of 10, when crew.
less vessels were made to do duty as
lodging houses.
On the south side of Long Island sew
eral vessels are being fitted up for the
purpose of carrying centennial parties,
and five dollars to ten dollars each would
cover the entire expenses of a yachting
party and include the important item OF
transportation. And then the jolity and
fun of such party, when properly COM
posed, can scarcely be described.
A gun and a set of colors are import
ant additions, and the expense of low
der is we'll repaid in the noise and smoke
attained, as we'll as the similar acknowl-
edgements received in return. The TRIP
to Philadelphia by water is amply diver
sified with sea and river sailing, and there
| is just enough "outside work in it t.
make it interesting. Long Branch ant
Cape May can be visited en- route, ane
perhaps school of bluefsh might b'
sufficiently accommodating to put in al
appearance.