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L. s. BLAND,
COMMISSIONER.

To the Creditors Of Robert hsine. de.
ceased:
In pursuance to decree Of tie Circuit
Court Uf The county Of Lewis, made in II
cause therein pending, to subject the real
estate Of The said Robert Irvine. 10 The pay
ment Of his debts, you are required 10 PIE.
sent your claims against the Said Robert IT.
viae, for adjudication, TO E. S. Bland. Cons
missioner, Al his Office in tue said county Ia
or before the 3Oth day oil april, 1877
Fitness, ". II. Byrne, CLERK Of sad
Court, this 24.h day OF March, 1871.
". Il. BYRNE, Clerk.
March "a, 4T
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V1CK's FLORAL GUIDE.
A beautiful Quarterly Journal, finely illus.
trated, and containing IN elegant colosed
Flower Plate with the irst nUIn6er. Price
2JctS q year. Tho 6rsl nambtr for 1877 Jus,
issued ID German mud English.
flCK'S CATAL0GuE-S9o iilus,rat Ions
only two cents,
Address, JAMES WICK,
: Rochester, \. Y,
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Political Memoranda.
Hayes Strong Points.

Mr.. Train.-That 10 is unlike the
Central Railroad oratorical lawyer,
custom house champion the naughty
statesman Conklin that be is not i'm.
moral like Morton and can stand square
on his legs; that ho was not mule
contractors lawyer. and whiskey de.
tectiye candidate like Bristow that 10
was not tho hungmsn Of Airs. Surratt
like Hartranft; that DO has never re-.
esived presents like Grant; that he
never invented sunstroke. Senator
Caldwell kilograms, brokerized subsidy
bonds, or stole Mullignn's letters Ike
Blaine. 10 short, that he is u sleep
surrounded BY wolves. Like Lincoln.
ho had no enemies, His nomination
came unsoaght, hence be had no friends
10 reward. lie saved tho party the
party does not save him. Ills absorp.
ton Of all bis rivals, tue boiling Press.
and drawing the Democratic fire by
taking on board Curtis, Schurz. Bty-
mt and all that ilk is decidedly unique;
a good ohutclman, good family man;
q HANDSOME wife, sound on the school
question FREQ from political jobs; a
fine physique; fair ora.OrieaI powers ;
a sound war record u high forehead
= splendid beard i; what matters il be-
did not rob the freedmen. squnnder tho
Custom House funds or credit Mobi.
liCr Congress-
Have we not lad thunder and light.
ming enough since 1860? Why nO'
have ono Dish Water" President
Was 1t not better than q whiskcy cam.
paisn! Let them call him q mouse
il they ike so long as be has distan.
Gsd all the larger animals. Let thusc
laugh who win. The candidates asked
for bread and the convention gayo
them stone they sat down to their
Cincinnati feast Of corn. aud were
obliged to gil themselves with the swill
the Cincinnati hogs did cat
The party full Of hcpa and hilarity
vent in palace car style to n Wedding
banque. and returned di,gusted WHOM
they found 4 corpse on tho supper
table.
WAsuisGroS, March 3l.-Gcn. raj
Dix. Drake Dc Kay, and a few other
New York Republicans Of the same
sort, tried to use tho machinery of the
Boys in Blue last fall. through Ma.
tional Veteran Unien Association. to
push the Republican campaign. Dir
resigned bis place as President recently.
Since then Drake De Kay has bncn
carrying on q quiet intrigue to elect
Grant to the position Dix resigned by
tue unanimous vote Of the Executive
COMMITTEE, which includes somc OK.
Generals from each State, SOmc mem
bsrs Of tie Committee have interfcred,
nndcr the suggestion Of some tf Hayes
friends, and Grant will not be elected.
So far ho has had small eountenance
and small gratitude from Hayes for the
palt he took III counting bin in. 1t
was rather curious that Mrs. Grant was
indispsscd to attend the family lunch to
which Mrs. Hayes invited the hosts
who gave her tho rarmest welcome any
incoming Presidents family has had for
years. aud familiar acquaiutances count
The absence rs the las. sign Of ,ouis.
thing very like social enlargement
between tbs Hayes family and the man
who NAL: llsyss rE:.i4crL.-N y
SIN.
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WAnlxurOS. March 80 After oh.
timing absolute Control If the Post
Office Department. without response
bi!i.y for its management. and getting
Vi! his p'rtisaus III and "uI Of ludi liz
re.SPpO:ntrd to Office, aud buIIipzing
Hayes so MS to make him 60 back Oh
his promises Hnd his ''Sou hrru poll.
cy," Senator Morton hns gone hume to
eajoy his achievements. aUd 10 make
fun Of Eyarts mud Schurz and tl"ir
sham civil service reform He dur.
not conceal that this triumph was not
obtaiucd without some trouble, for
John Sherman had Hayes under lock
and key in bis house at the start.
where he was surrounded BY the select
set who were in the secrets Of the new
regime. Stanley Mathews, Drnnison,
and few others mounted guard. aud
kept cut their aspiring rivals But
when Hayes got into the White House
.his restraint Tas partially removed and
DO became more Of a free agent. Then
Morton and bis faction and their fol.
lowers gathered in force by day and by
night. They made no war, but rather
captured the Fraudulent President by
persuasion. skill, and by a seeming ac-
quistcence in bis views, which they, 10
fact, had iustilled into bis dull mind.
Having carried all bis points against q
formidable combination, and also
against the proclaimed purpose Of
Hayes himself, Morton shook the dust
Of the capital from bis feet, and nov
proposes leisurely to make another
Cabinet. although he finds that nov in
Office sufficiently accommodating. Still
be prefers to send schurE, EYar,s and
Devsns about their business and to
have fresh deal.
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ghaIPant's Building, Weston, w. va.

Having NsoClAed oar"
selges together ri. the
purpose Of conducting tbs
bRtG TRADE. W eda
The attention Of The pdrtls
to our stock, which Is var
led and complete; and DIR
long experience III the
practical bearings Of tho
Drug business Is sImeieu,
TO command the eon6deaeo
heretofore repOsed ia ths
members Of the firm. Our
only desire Is 10 eoadass
the business In every pas-
,iculhr 10 the satisfaction
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VlCk'S
illustrated Priced Gaia.

IUHUt.
Fifty pages-s0o Illustrations, with Dos.
criptlOns Of Thousands Of tho best Flowers
and Yegetab lSs In the world, and the way
TO grow them-All for u cent postage
stamp. PIlntel In German and English.
flCk'S FLORAL GUIDE, quarterly, IS
cents 4 year.
YlCR'S FLOWER and VEGETABLE
GARDEN, 50 cents In paper In elegan.
cloth corers, 81.
Address, JAMES WICK,
Rochester, n. Y.
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THE 81 Louis Republican tax" the
trouble 10 find out how the differen.
sections Of tho country will be repre-
ssntcd in the next House Of Rrprcscn.
tatiyos, and from its table it appears
shat the sir New England States will
be represented by five Democrats mud
twsnty.shree Republicans, tho three
Middle States by thirty Democrats and
thirty seven Republicans, the sixteen
Southern States BY ninety Democrats
and sixteen Republicans. the ten
Western States by :wenty four Demo.
Gratis aud sixty-twO Republicans, and
the three Pacific States b. one Demo.
crat aud five Republicans, making the
total representation one hundred ind
fifty De- lnocrats aud one hundred snd
fOrty.rh,rr Republicans.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

mar244w
The daily gazette., 1877-04-17

COL. A. K, MCCLURE, of the Philadel-
phia Times, was attacked yesterday morn
ing, as the readers of the GAZETTE
learned a few hours afterwards by tele-
gram, in brutal and cowardly manner
by the Navy Yard thieves and accompli-
ees. The whole story is told in this
mornings Times and ether Philadelphia
papers. From the accounts as published
1t appears that MCCLURE would soon
have given bis assailant more than he
looked for and chastised him as he we'll
deserved, had not two hired rutfians.
cowardly bullies, struck him from behind
while holding his rascally assailant by
Inc throat. These towards would proba.
ply have been chastised by the crowd haf
they not escaped Or the police interfered
They richly merited it. Mcclure has tb,
sympathy of all honest men. and we hon,
his enemies, the Navy Yard thieves. will
ma this out to their cost.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-17
General News.

Miss Anna Dickinson abruptly
closed her engagement with the Eagle
Theatre, in New Yrok last night, ow-
ing to her dissatisfaction with the
management. She will not play again
until she appears at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre early next season in a stal
engagement for which Mr.. DAILY has
arranged with her.
The Ashtabula Sentinel, edited al
Jefferson, Ohio, by w. g. Howells
was perhaps the first newspaper to
nominate Gov. Hayes for the presi
dency. 1t did 80 October IA, 1875 two
days after the election which retired
Coy. Allen to private life and put an
end to his chances of securing the
Dem ocratic nomination in 1876.
King Alfonso, who has been making
tour of Spain pays as much attention
to the religious ideas of the nation as
he did when he visited the northern
provinces Immediately after the reJto-
ratIou. Wherever he went his first
act was to proceed to the Cathedral
or principal church, and there listen
to deum amid crowd of priests
and friars.
Hoosick, New York, has a case OF
suspended animation. DR.. X. Fl. II.
Green was supposed to be dead, but
having once before narrowly escaped
burial while in trance he was put
in vault and visited frequently by
his wife, 1t is now stated that on Sat
urday signs of life were noticed, and
the body was removed from the vault
and taken home for further develop.
ments.
According to the researches of an
eminent German naturalist our earth
has at one time or other been inhabit-
ed by 1856, ,00U kinds OF animals, Of
which 90, 900 are now extinct, while
the other 1850 are still with us.
Among the survivors are 2,06o varie-
ties of mammalia, 1000 of birds, 1880
creeping things. $500 of fish, 100, ,000
of insects, 1000 radiata $500 poly
pifera, /, 4OO infusoria, and the Ger
man aforementioned.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-17
CHERIFF'S SALE

GHERIFF'S SALE
- by virtue of a writ of Levari Facjas,
20 me directed, will be exposed to Public
Sale, at the
LAFAYETTE HOTEL, si1 Shipley St..
kept by Geo w. Ortlip, in the city of VIII
mington, New Castle county, Delaware, on
Saturday, the 2Sth day of April,
1877, at O'Clock, p. M.
the following described Real Estate, viz :;
All that certain lot of land and two story
Drlck dwelling thereon situate in the said
city OF Wilmington, bounded and described
as follows, to wit: Beginning at the wes-
terly side Of Windsor street between
Eighth and Ninth streets, at the distance OF
| TWO hundred and thirty one feet three inch
es more or less from the southerly side OF
| Ninth street, thence westerly parallel to
| Nnth street through the centre of the party
wall between this and adjoining dwelling
| on the north, now conveyed to William
| Hector, eighty eight feet 20 the eaSterly side
of five feet wide alley communicating
| with "a four feet wide alley leading from
| windsor to Madison street. thence south.
| erly along said easterly side of the first
| mentioned alley and parallel to Windsor
| street fourteen feet to a corner, thence east.
| erly parallel to the first mentioned line ant
Ninth street through the centre of the party
| wall between this and the adjoining dwell.
Ing on the south of the said Daniel II. Ken
| eighey- EIGHT feet to the aforesaid westerly
side OF Windsor street, and thence thereby
northerly fourteen feet to the place of he
ginning, be the contents thereof what the,
| may,
Seized and taken in execution as tho nyo
perty of Annie Maria Purnell suryiYin,
mortgagor and I {. :, and to be sold by
ISAAC GRUBB. Sheriff.
Sherlf~s Office, New Castle,
! April IL, 1871. apris-3tawt
The daily gazette., 1877-04-17

CHERIFF'S SALE
~ by virtue of writ of Levar1 Facias.
TO me directed, wih be exposed to Public
Sale, at '''o
THE HOTEL OF JOHN E. LEWIS.
IN the town of Newark, in White Claw
Creek Hd.. New Castle county, Bel. on
Thursday, 26th day of April, 1877.
at 2o'clock, p. M,
Ihe following DESCRIBED Real Estate. viz.
All that certain Iftessuage or tenemant
anu tract of land situated in Pencader
Hundred, New Castle County and Stale of
to wit: 90 ioiio"S
beginning at stone on the south side of
the philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad
ana Wnere the south border of the premises
OF salu Railroad Company intersects the
S:jhbnns oioeI no,,l Vi t1e land formerly of VIM.
ElpponS now of Edward Stroud. thence
along the outline OF said Stroud,s land
| SCUM Two and II half degrees east fifty two
| anu anu one louth perches to stone a course al
aiI,Ses ait','t, lanu, thence along the said north
| eishIy seven and Chree-fourth degrees en- 81
one hundred and thirty-two and seven.
| Ienths perches to stone or corner of Nc
| oolaughey's land, thence along the same
nor, horih lpnr and half degrees west one hun.
| plcu anu ninety perches to a stone on tbe
Dorder OF the premises of the said Roiiroad
| Com pany and along the same the nine FOL
| rowing lines to wit: South forty one do
sIres rt west twenty-three perches south
| taan ,,ornlnt oiiS. nan ueSreeS, west nine.
,tarap ,e1no percneS, M south A degrees, west min,
| perches south 1orty-one and one-fourtb DO
grees r west forty perches south forty degree,
. wesa fourteen perches south forty-one de
ICES west eighteen perches south thirty
seNthi se,th Eegrees west twenty-five perche,
souin forty and one-half degrees wes
iweuty-six perches and thence by n riSh
,lme soatn i forty-one and three fourth de
grees west fourteen and one-haif perches !,
iebPf ene pace aer OF beginnln! containing ninety
elsht acres TWO roods and fourteen .nnaSS,
perches of land be the same more Or sHiuar' ins.
SeIze9 ana taken in execution as the nro
perry 9f 3 George N. Husler and Ann Husie Sii
VIII Wife wl9 snd ahe no av6 WIN; G. Rambo, Mary hi
SheriH's office, New Castle 8neiin'
April 1, 1917. anr-os..
The daily gazette., 1877-04-17

NOTICE.--We, William Baxter and
IN Matthew Baxter trading under the
l me of William Baxter & Bro, do here
by give notice that we shall apply TO
the Judges of the Court of General Sessions
of The Peace and Jail Delivery of the State
of Delaware. in and for the county of New
Castle, on Monday, the 7th day of May
next, being the first day of the May term.
A. D., 1877, for a license to sell into xieating
liquors in quantities not lie IS than one-half
gallon, at No. w 4th street, being the S
f. corner of Fourth and Shipies streets, In
the Third Ward in the city of Wilmington,
Delaware. and the following respectable
citizens recommend the said application,
to wit:
Thomas d. Gibson, Thos l. Russell,
Henry Grebe, Geo. O'Neil,
Conrad Keller, Edward Farmar,
James Clark, p. B. Forman.
Thomas Farmar William Kane,
f. j. McManus, S. H. Staats,
August Bierman, Edwin A. Parker,
William Barker, Samuel Culbert,
Nathan Lieberman, Charles Schmith.
James Smith, S. G.. Logan
George II. Daugh, A. j. Maxwell
A. A. Chapman, Patrick Monaghan.
Patrick Kelley,
WILLIAM BAXTER,
ap14-3t* MATTHEW BAXTER.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-17
CHERIFF,S SALE.

HERIFF'S SALE. r,,i.,
- By virtue of writ of Levatl TS,1G pnb1,
to me directed, will be exposed 10 lu'"
Sale, at the
LAFAYETTE HOTEL. Si1 Sh1pey '7
kept by Geo. w. Orlip, in the city OF WI, dn
mfngton, New Castle county, Deia"ais'vD
SAT6RDAY, the 28th Day OF APRIL
1877, at 2 o'clock, pm,
the following described Real Es'o'e' '"'
All those several ana Respective eI,,Sd tlSi1i6 t6e
parcels of land situated IN anu aiV", isVo"varally
city of Wilmington aforesaid so Wit
bounded and described as follows, " in
No. 1.-Situate in New Castle HUM hl Ihonnls
said county containing within saiu "a nineteen
by computation two acres anu the same
perches of land more or less, De'nT nTTsvlor by
premises conveyed to RoDeIt SG,h ISL
VIM. Peoples and wife March -VAi'
book 2. vol. 6, page %, &C; .,ono Hundred
No. 2-Situate in Christians and tbir.
containing two acres one quartIita being
ty-five perches of land more OF ieI'' III lanes
the same land and premises WlISJb Pobt Tay-
Morrison and wife conveyed 10 NV"
lor book s, vol. 8, page 81, &c, ,roctspieCes
No. 3.-All those two certain Wv Nnr castle
or parcels ofland situate IN NsT To sand
Hundred aforesaid designated ~ acres and
No. 10, number containing N four "a Se1tain contain
10 perches more or less, and NO. or ~ less, be.
ing two and q halfacres,, more mo'jlas IL which
ing the same land and prSesliiiaTseerrd Webb
Vim. Webb and wife and Etalscb EaMJb,9 9l, lSS,
conveyed TO Robert Taylor, Mai'n
Book X, vol. 6, page |, &c cosue Hundred
No. 4.-Situate in New Cans Cas',t hreerO0ds
aforesaid containing three acrGs Eo the same
and thirty perches of land, pe land and
more or less, being the silaiTariiey sili,Te and
premises which William MN" MT,os Smith,
William Bright assignees OF ~ l1o' 1855, did
on the 9th day of March, a; AR;obert bert Taylor
grant and confirm unto k9oei'
Book r, volume I, page 70 of SSW wilmington
No. 5.-Situate in the Guy III u, street, j cR,
aforesaid bounded by seventh o',tents s,ent more
son streets aad others, be the eeD,ises c0nt whca
or less, being the same Conveyed 70
William Morrow and wife tST TsGi Book Z,
Robert Taylor December iSI og ~ altogether
vol, 8. page 434, &C., conlallll'dEr l,l,'dErrhes, moIe
fifteen acres and thirty-four pe'N" .,o
or less. o,ocution as 't,r hc
Seized and taken in eXe1Gut'bbe e1 ~ he soldIE
property of Ro5t Taylor am aa1rRR m Sheriff
r-'f' ISAAC Cru 3D.
Sherif's office, New Castle, onrl2-StaTp
April 10, 1871.
The daily gazette., 1877-04-17

OHERIFF'S SALE. s-f,-r-r
y BY virtue of writ of Levari Facias,
10 me directed, will be exposed 10 Public
Sale, at the
HOTEL OF BENZ. d. LoNGLAND,
in the village OF ST. Georges in Red Lion
Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware on
Friday, the 9th day of April, 1877,
at O'Clock p. M,
The following described Real Estate. viz,
All that certain plantation or tract of
land lying and being in the hundred of fed
State of Delaware aforesaid bounded and
described as follows, to wit: Beginning at
a large poplar tree standing on the south
side OF Coxe's Neck Road and which Is also
nington; thence with the land late OF the
said John A Pennington south four degrees
and three quarters of a degree, east one
hundred and ninety perches TO st. Georges
creek; thence up the said creek by the
several courses thereof about two hundred
perches to the mouth OF n ditch on the land
late of Enoch Thomas, deceased; thence
along the land late of the said Z, Thomas,
deceased, and by land formerly of Lewis
Reece north thirty-nine and one-fourth de-
grees, west fifty and six tenths perches to O
corner ofland late ofthe said Lewis Reece;
thence north sixty-six and two-tenths per-
ches to corner for land late of Samuel b.
Sutton; thence north twenty -four and one
fourth degrees, east sixty-three and four
tenths perches to a stone six-tenths east OF
a stone in a line of land late ofHenry Grin
dage, now of Anthony M. Higgins; thence
north twenty and three-fourths degrees,
east tifty-five and eight tenths perches 10
the CoXe's Neck road aforesaid thence
along said road eighty three and one-fourth
degrees eighteen and one fourth perches;
thence south eiehty-four degrees, east one
hundred and twelve perches to the place OF
beginning. containing one hundred and
ninety-one acres of land be the same more
or less.
Seized and taken into execution as the
property of Samuel b. Sutton, and to be
sold by
ISAAC GRUBB, Sheriff.
Sherlf's office, New Castle,l
April 9. 1911. j { nnrln= 2faWts
The daily gazette., 1877-04-17
CHERIFF's SALE

@ HERIFF'S SALE.
~ by virtue OF writ of Levar, NJ.
20 si me directed, will be exposed IL TpscIas,
LAFAYETTE HOTEL. "a, Git,
Kept by George W. ortlip, in tbnpley st..
wilmington. New Castle countv t,ie city Of
Saturday, the 2Sth day Of An An',iI $p
1877. at Q O'Clock. m fN'
Tne touowing described Real Rs,..
All thet certain lot. piece or ',ate, Sn, viz
land with two-story frame bom,Ip ", parcel Of
erected situate In the city of Wiz Wiz, uIlereOn
bounded and described as follow n,ngton
nSeinnins ~ tne Intersection of tho WI WI
erly side OF Eighth street and the ei,u ,, NORTH.
side of Madison street, thencoe cue westerly
along said side of Eighth street street, q, westerly
feet TO the east side of Monroe ssn,Iy-hve
forty-nve feet wide thence north 1ileet at
said side of Monroe street sixtv sa,g Slung lhe
six Inches TO corner thence esot WI ,eh eet
allel with Eighth street eighty ,fiva ene u par.
the aforesaid Side of Madison street t'e. oI .
thence thereby southerly Sixty sava, ana
three inches to the place of deginm, diren ieet
the contents what they may. "ils' De
Also all that lot or piece or p,os.,
known as the Deer Cheek marsh si,,,a.llli nall
In Christians Hundred. New C;ast,a ,.ualed oaaed
Aforesaid, beginning at q point in Tho nilIy
die of marsh land, being also n earn nv ,ild,
CIuIlts "a MuTpney marsh land thnn
extending south nineteen and three nna... ,u,I,ee
degrees west along the middle of satS ftdqnei iaNi
and four perchesa and sixty six bundres,hIaI e Iaa a
q perch toa point, thence still alons ~
same south twelve and three. ouartas, tne
grees west sixteen perches and ninetvi e'a. ue.
one hundreths of q perch to n corn. r,vut u,
marsh belonging to heirs of Caleb stror% 4
thenee by the said last mentioned mSss
north seven degrees west forty one naraSs ot'o
and one-tenth ofa perch to a popt ptieu5 lug
north twenty-nine and one-hatf s de1,asa s.u
west three hundred and five-hundretbss ~.
perchtoW. W. ID. @. Wright's marsh ,ibaOss %s
by the same north forty and one-anay,se
degrees east twenty perches and fi1tv'iS11 fi1usi,1
huudreths of o perch TO corner of tIo ,Ss
said Charles A. Murphey's marsh fbanos MY
| by the same south siXty-six and INV hrSss
quarter degrees east thirty-four nercbss bss
and sixteen hundreths of a perch brtc'i1s IN ,bs
place of beginning containing five acras Ss
and twenty-eight perches OF land, '''
Seized and taken in execution as the nm
perty OF Robert Taylor and John Dunnan5
Elizabeth Dunn, t. t., and to be sold by
ISAAC CRUDE, Sheriff.
Sheriff7s Office, New Castle,
April IL, 1877. aprl2 3tawt,