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Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25

The advisory council in the Beecher
business has at least been partially
organized, and quite a company of
clergy and laymen have assembled to
take look into the history of a case
that has troubled so many tribunals.
Some of Beecher's partisans have as
sumed that the acceptance of three
quarters or two thirds of the churches
invited has shown general sympathy
for Plymouth Church on the part of
sister societies of the same faith; but
that is certainly begging tho question,
and is about as sensible view to take
as that prisoner is innocent because
twelve jurymen are in their seats to
render a verdict. Probably satisfac-
tory results are not generally expected
from this gathering. No matter how
good it's disposition may be, it possess
ges no power to 60 farther than Ply.
mouth Church gives it leave; that fea-
ture has already been arranged. It
was called together, not for the purs
pose of investigation, but to be used.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25
PtsL1GH.

The Augusta CtrOpicIe gives a
severe rasping to some of the South
ern papers for their criticisms upon
Jefferson Davis reply to Blaine's slam
ders' We agree with the Chronicle
M toto. And while we heartily endorse
and urge the concillatory spirit which
has animated the North Carolina delega-
ton IN Congress, espe ciaily the spirit
manifested in the able speeches of
Senators Ransom and Merriman and
Representatives Waddeu and Robbins,
We will unfinchingly mainta that
the spirit of Cancellation should not be
suffered to smother under the spirit of
justice. In the war between the States
the South lost ell save honor and the
glory OF the battle field. The one
hist Dry will award to her, in spite OF
the malignant SANDERS of legion of
Blaines; the other is in our own keep
ing. If that be aspersed the Southern
people alone will defend it. The honor
of the South, and of her leaders in the
great struggle, remains unimpaired
aud unimpeachabla, and whenever it
shall be assailed, or by whomsoever,
we too will continue too cry out
for justlce-justice, Though the heav-
ems fall
In speaking of the newspaper talk
about policy, the Chronicle. says:
"We have heard something too
much of this sort of talk The damna-
bic iteration of policy policy has
become as disgusting as it is stupid.
We would like to know the names of
some of these same sensible Southern
Democrats who regret Mr.. Dag
letter and think st was entirely uncall-
ed for We venture the prediction
that they will not be i'll a hurry to re-
veal their ldentit to their constitu-
ents. The leader of the Republican
party rises in his place in Congress
and charges Mr.. Davis with outrage
GUS cruelty and inhumnnity to defense
less prisoners of war. Ii Mr.. Davis
were guilty of such a crime he would
be Justly considered infamous as long
AZ his name could be remembered:
Yet because he docs not remain quiet
under this accusation and allow his ST.
lence to be construed as admitting its
truth, he is censured in the harshest
term. And when he alewers his sc-
cuser aud pronounces his Statements |
false, proves his statements false, |
Southern Democrats cay his letter is |
entirely uncalled for Ont upon such |
Southern Democrats they are too po-
lite to be entirely honest.''
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25

A man does not know what he NAV
do until he is tried. I came of honest
stock-my parents were honest. L
would not steal. I have fan is. but
thy lie in different direct on. -
Bcechey''s sunday .ScrD7On ''He who
steals my purse steals trash; but he
who rohs me CT my good name en-
riches not himself, but makes me poor
Indeed, is what Gen. Othello said when
he suspected NJ. Cassie of ''nest hid
ing" Ergo, it is less criminal TO steal
mans purse than his peace of mind.
Boston Post.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25
Paris posses at the present date, 6

Paris posses at the present date, ac-
col ding to the Journal Official, four
circus establishments, exclusive of the
hippodronle, the menageries, and the
numerous establishments where sing
ers, gymnasts, wild beast tanners, rope
dancers and clowns ply their avocations.
The taste Of the Parisians for such
amusements dates very far back. No
public tete nor royal entry ever took
place in the middle ages without being
accompanied by exhibitions and shows
of strength and agility. In the year
1885, on the occasion of the entry of
Charles vi. and Isabeau Of Bavaria, a
Genoese, according to the old chroni-
clers, won the admiration Ct the whole
populace. Arope having been stretched
from the towers of the Church of
Notre Dame to one of the house On the
bridge of the same name, the Genoese,
descended from the towers of the
church along this rope, holding in one
hand torch and in the other a crown,
which the moment the queen passed,
he managed, suspended from the rope,
to deposit on her he>d. He afterward
returned along the rope to the towers
of the church. It would be
easy to multiply examples of exhi-
b'tion of this kind, and to find in the
acrobats of the olden times the counter.
parts of the rope walk ers and gymnasts
of the p esent day, the only difference
being that the former were obliged to
exhibit their dexterity in the open air.
Nicolot, the founder of the Gaiety
Theatre in Paris. was the first to offer
them the opportunity of an indoor ex-
hbition in the year 1854. In his
theatre the entr'actes were always occu-
pied by the performances of rope
dancers, tamborine players and aero
bats, an arrangement which pleased
the spectators immensely. Sixteen
years later, in 1880, an English riding
master, the we'll known Ashley, accom-
panied by Benoit Guerre, De Balp and |
other English riders and jugglers,
after having travelled through the |
greater part Of France, and having |
made large profits, conceived the idea |
of fixing his troupe pcrma emily in
Paris. He accordingly opened, in the |
Rou Faubourg de Temple, an eatab-
ishment destined for the performance
Of horsemanship. This vas the first
Partisan circus, and proved an i'm
nense success.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25
COLC m BGA.

The seventeenth was the anniversary
of the burning of this beautiful city by
Sherman's army. It is a natural thing
for the people of that city, upon the
recurrence of the anniversary of the
horrible deed, to remember it with
sadness, although those hearts be long
since likewise filled with forgiveness.
The Columbia Register. of the seven
teenth has the following sad reflection: !:
"Eleven years ago to-day, an incen-
diary. who. if the report be true, as
pires 10 be President of the United
States, entered this city with from
10000 to 5000 troops at his back, and
burned one of the most beautiful.
prosperous, yet defenseless cities in
the South. The vindictive spirit which
actuated the man has, in a long meas
ure. been forgiven by the brave and
generous people he sought to humble
and degrade. Men, women and child
rem alive in,,Col,1mbia to-day rem, mber
how his ruthless incendiaries entered
Colu mbia, throwing their fire balls in the
stores along Richardson street; how
guards placed by order of his subordi-
nate officers to protect houses set fire
TO the very premises they were sent to
save; how the beautiful unfinished mar
BILE work, intended to complete South
Cardinals splendid capitol building,
vas burned to ashes. All this, and the
sought to be heaped upon
! brave, chivalrous people has been
orgiYen and tried to be forgotten; and
ret such men as Morton and Blaine |
re still urging additional persecution
md prescription upon a people who
hey pretend to think should throw up |
heir hats and glorify the greatest
the world ever saw and
which if they cannot do under it's pres
mt management, they propose to count
hem out as 'disloyap and rebels
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25
Madame Janauschek has been havil

madame JauauSchek mas been having
hard time of it in Australia It ap-
pears that she made a contract for a
six weeks engagement at Sidney, at
the theatre of which James Allison is
manager. She played twice, when she
took a terrible cold and became i'll.
With her usual spirit she insisted on
playing, until she tainted on the stage
Then she was forced to take to her
bed. Then Allison sued for $3, 900
| damages, and q drunken agent whom
they had discharged also sued them
for like amount. Allison's suit was
brought against her manager, Pilot, as
the Msdame's husband (Which he
doesn't happen to be), by a mi'take.
1t now became necessary for Pilot to
put up cash security, but it happened,
unfortunately. that they had not taken
any large sum from this country.
What she made in America in the last
tour she had invested in bonds and de-
posted here. So it became necessary
to put up some Of her magnificent
jewels as ceIlaterals, which she did, in
order to keep Pilot out of prison.
The arrest was in October, and the
trial was set for November. They
went to Melbourne, and did poorly
there, and, when Pilot returned to Sid
nay, he was Mortified to find that ALI
son had procured continuance of the
case to this month, and had then left
for the United States. AS it was nec-
essary now for the Madame to go to
Europe, and as the only bail they
could give was one of cash or jewels,
Pilot concluded, in order to save the
S3, 900, to surrender himself to the
sheriff. This he did after arr ,nging
for the Madame's departure for Lon-
don. She will probably reach London
at the end of this month, and will then
go direct to her villa at Darmstadt. In
the meantime, Pilot remains prisoner
at Sidney until the set day for his trial. |
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25

The lynching ola murderer in West
Virginia some time ago. aud the mar
row escape of his female accomplice
from similar fate, created not little
excitement at the time, and local
paper describes the w etched condi-
ton of the woman who is now in Jail
awaiting trial. 1t will be remembered
that the victim of the murder was
the won.an's husband, she having en-
tered into conspiracy with her para
mour to dispose of him: ''She is be-
yond doubt the most wretched female
ever inc ,rceratedin the Jail at Barbors-
" lie. To her d. ath would be a most
Welcome messenger, but her guilt
stained heart has not the cou'aIe TO
suggest suicide, and did she enter tain
such thought her hands would betoo
By day gory-stained phantoms fit be-
fore her gaze. while her sleep is ac-
c ,mpanied with dreams of skele+ons,
aud fiends dance around her bedside,
their mocklng laugh derid'ug her for
the assassination of her husband. When
asked few days ago what troubled
her most. the past or the future" she
| answered 'the horrible past She
PAGES up and down her strong ly-barred
room wishing for death, aud occasion
ally dashes her hands into her eyes as
if to keep from her gaze the awful
scenes attending the inhuman butch
cry of her husband. She has wasted
in flesh to such an extent since her
imprisonment as to present the ap-
pearance of an animated skeleton, her
appetite has deserted her. her mind is
oD the ve.ge of losing its sway, and
terrible indeed must be her expecta-
tions respecting the issue of her ap-
preaching trial for murder"
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25

It is little more than six years since
Geo. Peabody died, and already IN of
the commodious and subs antial
dwelling houses he bequeathed to the
workingmen of London have risen in
the metropolis, all, save one, being
completed and occupied. The first.
built in Spitatields and completed
during the lifetime of Mr.. Peabody,
has since been followed by tue erec
ton of nine others in various parts of
tie city. Another is now il course of
building, and promises to be the largt st
of all, for it stands on five acres of
ground and affords site for thirty-six
blocks. In the aggregate the ropula-
tion of Peabody's buildings is not less
than ten thousand persons. What .he
population will be in tho course of
twenty years might be calculated by
an easy sum. The amount left by Mr..
Peabody, with the Object of providing
'<imp~oved dwellings, for the poor of
London" was 81. 100000. This is a
capital sum laid ont in. an investment
returning a certain moderate but safe
interest, which interest, as it accumu-
lates, becomes available for the build
ing of dwellings,; and these will them
selves, in the magical manner peculiar
to compound interest, add further sums
to the capital. Each of the ten houses
is substantial building of twelve
blocks, and, taking the averae of four
in each family, will supply hous room
for about Ole thousand persons. In
each block there are twenty-five tene :
ments, a few consisting of one room,
some of two, and many of three. but
each absolutely self-contained, and all
tensments is well provided with all
manner of conveniences. There are IL
few simple rules enforced in the build
ings, but they are designed simply in
the interests of order and cleanliness,
and for the general good of the little
community. Peabody's buildings
never have any empty rooms. At the
present moment the one on Southwark
street has upon its books three hun
dred applicants over and above the
available accommodation. The tenants
are strictly of the laboring classes, it
being an imprinted rule of the place
that 40 man earning more than twenty
five, or at most thirty, shilings a week
is eligible for admission. Nothing
else is required of an incoming tenant
further than u voucher of his respecta-
bility, generally soughta at the hands of
his employer.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25

aid was too sharp to talk to me
directly in person about it. 1t would
never have done. And besides. the
whole matter was all arranged. and
what need Was there for Mcdonald and
me to talk about it ?" The deposition
of General Grant Is full of jokes and is
right good reading. But he does not
think that cent of money was given
by the whisky ring toward the Presl-
Dental campaign Of 1872. Ii this be
so there must have been millions in it
for the members of the ring. McDon-
aid gave the President a span OF
splendid horses. Wonder who paid for
them ? Joyce?
Mr.. Williams concluded his opening
argument for the defence in the case
yesterday. He referred to tue dis
patches, laying that the use of the
signature ''Sylph" was a mere act of
playfulness. Illustrative of the prac-
tices of Mcdonald, MIR. Williams re-
ferred to the dispatch, Had long
rlQ0 Win Tue Icslucub, 0C%% "bASu
he sent to Joyce, and said:
s'The purpose of this was to enable
| Joyce to show this to the distiilers, and
convince them that the President was
hobnobbing with Mcdonald and wink
| ing at the conspiracy. Yet the Presl-
dent testifies that he was riding out /
| q day When he saw Mcdonald standing
| on the sldew TX, and asked him to
ride with him. During that ride moth
ing whatever was said relative to st.
Louis affairs. It is such little Incl
dents rs tbis which have placed the
President under su-picio on, and which
have occ stoned the daily avalanche OF
newspaper scurrility which is directed
at the President. The testimony OF
Everest shows another trick of Joyce.
He did not place the letter privately i'll
the postoffice, a., was natural to crlmt-
nal act, but he got $1,000, paraded
two envelopes addressed to Babcock
and Avery. pretended to put money IL
each and sent them by Everest to the
mail. This was only damnable trick
of desperate villain to convince the
distiIlers, through Everest, of thei'
securitv."
General A. A. Humphreys, u. W.
McMahon, first officer of the II easury
ex Postmaster Berrell, of Washington,
and General Banks we're called tc
prove Babcock's good character. Elk
Supervisor Tuition began testifying te
his Interference when the order for 6
transfer of supervisors was made, bE'
| nj, MOO roioo6
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25

General Robert E. Lee wrote in
1867: 'I believe every one who has i'll
vestigatcd the affections of the Federal
prisoners is of the opinion that they
were incident to their condition as
prisoners of war, AID to the distressed
state of the whole Southern county,
and $ear they were fully shared by
the Lonfederate prisoners in Federal
prisons" =
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25

A granddaughter of Gen. Nathannie
Greene is resident of Toledo, Ohio
She has in her possession two relics,
one of which is an old style double
sugar bowl, owned originally by Gen.
Greene's mother, and the ether is an
eight-dollar Continental bill. number
ed Ia, 922 and dated 1777.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25
President Grant has sioned tho con

President Graut has signed the Gen.
tennial bill, and the appropriation i.
thus fixed fact. The buildings are
nearly done, the principal ones altoe
gether finished, and all the prepara-
tions arc certain to be completed long
in advance of the time designated for
the opening. Now just let the effete
monarchies of Europe look on and
learn how an international exposition
ought to be managed.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25

The Lippincotts will soon publish a
life of Stonewall jackson, from the pen
of Miss 8. N. Randolph, of Virginia.
Mrs. Jackson has assisted Miss r. in
furnishing biographical material, and
the work will, doubtless, be the best
yet given to the public, relative to the
life of this Christian soldier and pat
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25
81. 200 PROFIT ON 500

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Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25
Administrators NOtice.

II ETTERs OF ADMINISTRATORS on the
IL eatata OF the ia'e MARY J. PRICE hay-
in been granted to Q undersigned by the
Judge of rohias If the County of New Hano.
YER all persons having claiH $ against said de-
cedent are hereby notIfi ii to exhibit the Gam
TO the unleregne on or before the I2Ia day OF
January, A. ID, 1S17 j. X. BROWN.
- Administrator.
Wilmington, Jan. 13-w-6WI
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25

Henri Joseph Guillarelni Patton, the
French litterateur and Accademician,
is dead.
Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,
WALL STREET CARIcATuRES.-

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illustr ati'ns III iifern2 itian for stock specu-
lators. Price 10 cents bT ali. rUN BRIpGE f
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Wilmington journal., 1876-02-25

which, however, had extended through
several years. 7 find him high toned
chivalrous gentleman, and a faithful
Representative, destined to take high
stand in the House. Indeed I do not
know when [ have met gentleman
who has more favorably impressed me.
His better acquaintance is one of the
most pleasant features of my visit here.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-10-25
The Advantages of Being Ugly.

1t may be egotistical to say so, doubt
less il is, says an English writer, but
have ever loved, and ever shall love,
ugly people. Apart from the charms
OF their conversation, which has moth
ing of the frivolity that so often dis
graces the talk of the beautiful, find a
strange delight in perusing the features
of the ugly. There is intolerable mo-
notony in finely chiseled face. Its
regularity is irksome to behold. The
ugly, and they alone, are picturesque.
Irregularity is to their lineaments what
undulatiOn is to landscape, the key TO
that variety of outline which is all es-
sential to artistic effect. A fellow on
whom nature has graciously bestowed
a turned-up nose bears about him the
physical emblem of disdain, and always
seems TO be treating the world with the
scorn and contempt of which the world
is richly deserving. Beetle eyebrows
call to mind glossy, amiable insect ;
big cheek bones have bold, majestic,
cliff-liSe look; low forehead bespeaks
the gentle virtue of humility; and a
mouth that is like unto an oven resem-
bles good thing. And then for eyes
why shoIld eyes be fellows? Surely
it is much more useful as well as orna-
mental that one eye should look to the
west, the other TO the east. l love a
man with a squint:
II ancient poets Argus prize,
Who boasted Of a hundred eyes.
Sure. greater praise Of him Is due
Who sees hundred wiys with two.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-10-25
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plaint, j,undice, dyspepsia, chronic or
nervous debility, chronic diarrhpa, dl-
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or intestines, such as constipation, fia-
tulence, inward piles, fullness of blood
10 the head, scidity of the stomach,
nausea, heartburn, disgust for food,
fullness of weight in the stomach, sour
eructations, sinking or fiuttering at the
pit of the stomach, swimming of the
head, hurried or difficult breathing,
fiuttering at the heart, choking or suffo-
eating sensations when in lying pos
ture, dimDess of vision, dcts or webs
before the sight, dull pain in the he I'd,
deficiency OF perspiration, yellowness
OF the skin and eyes, pain in the side,
back, head, chest, limbs, etc, sudden
fiushes of heat, burning in the flesh,
constant imaginings of evil and great
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only in 81 bottles. +. F. kunkel,
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Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-10-25
Egyptian Cbarlets.

Three kinds of chariots were en-
ployed By the ancients.
The war chariots were two-wheeled
vehicles often made entirely Of brass,
and were driven by two or three horses
yoked abreast. There was no seat in
them, and the riders. of whom there
were usually two, one to drive, and one
to carry the weapons, stood upright,
side by side. The floor of these chart
ots sloped backward. and the wheels
being small, the riders could easily
step in or out. These chariots often
had long scythe blades thrust out on
each side.
The Gaulish chariot was also a two
wheeled vehicle, made very light and
employed in races.
The ''family chariot" was in shape
somewhat like the others but the floor
much longer and the sides much higher.
The women and children sat on the
floor, on mats made for the purpose.
The horses driven before these char
lots were voked abreast, sometimes as
many as four, and even more, were
employed.