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Middletown transcript., 1877-07-28
successfuI Men.

Who are they? In most cases they
are those who, when boys, were COM
PEELED to help themselves or their pa.
rents, and who, when a little older,
were under the stern necessity of doing
more than their legitimate share Of
labor; who, as young men, had their
wits sharpened by having to devise
ways and means of making their time
more available than it would be under
ordinary circumstances. Hence, in
reading the lives of eminent men who
have greatly distinguished themselves,
we find their youth passed ia self
denials of food, sleep, rest and recrea-
ton. They sat up late. rose early to
the performance of imperative duties,
doing by daylight the work of one
man, and by night that of another
Said banker Of high integrity, the
other day, and who started in life with
out a shilling; "For years was at my
place of business at sunrise, and often
did not leave it for fifteen or eighteen
hours" Let not, then, any youth be
discouraged if he has to make his own
living, or even to support a widowed
or sick sister, or unfortunate relative
for this has been the road to success
Of many an eminent name. This is
the path which men have often trod-
thorny enough at times, at others so
beset with obstacles as to be almost
impassable; but the way was cleared,
came, success followed-then
the glory and renown.
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Southwark the course of empire takes
its way. Emigration is pouring into
the South, lands are cheap, soil pro-
ductive, labor and capital in demand.
Go South, young man, go South, if
you want to establish yourself profta-
bly, and permanently upon the soil.
From five to fifteen dollars an acre
will give you lands with improvements,
established conditions, fine markets,
good prices, all facilities, and time pay
ments on the purchase money. You
can't do that by going West and buy
ing government land, settling upon and
improving it from the start. This ad-
vice is good and there are one hundred
counties in the eSouth which can afford
such chances. "Go South. = Vest
minister (Md.) Advocate.
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Selett gtorp.
ONLY a HUSK.

Tom Darcy, yet young man, had
grown to be very bad one. At heart
he might have been all right, if his
head and his will had only been all
right but these being wrong, the whole
machine was going to the bad very
fast, though there were times when the
heart felt something Of its old truthful
yearnings. Tom had lost his place as
foreman in the great machine shop,
and what money he had now earned
came from odd jobs of tinkering which
he was able to do here and there,
at private houses for Tom was a
genius as well as mechanic, and
when his head was steady enough, he
could mend a clock, or clean watch,
as well as he could set up and regulate
steam engine-and this latter he
could do better than any other man
ever employed by the Scott Falls
Manufacturing Company.
One day Tom had a job to mend a
broken moving machine and reaper,
for which he received five dollars, and
on the following morning he started
out for his old haunt-the village
tavern. He knew his wife sadly need
ed the money, and that his two little
children were in absolute suferings
from want of clothing, and that morn
ing he held debate with the better
part Of himself; but the better part
had become very weak and shaky, and
the demon Of appetite carried the day.
So away to the tavern Tom went,
where, for two or three hours, he felt
the exhilarating effects of the alcoholic
draught, and fancied himself happy, as
he could sing and laugh but, as usual,
stupefaction followed, and the man
died out. He drank while he could
stand, and then lay down in corner,
where his companions left him.
It was late at night, almost mid
night, when the landlords wife came
into the bar room to see what kept her
husband up, and she quickly saw Tom.
Peter" said she, not in a pleasant
mood, "why don't you send that miser-
able Tom Darcy home = He's been
hanging around here long enough"
Toms stupefaction was not sound
asleep. The dead coma bad left the
brain, and the calling of his name
stung his senses to keen attention. He
had an insane love for rum, but did
not love the landlord. In other years,
Peter Tindar and himself had loved
and wooed the sweet maiden-Ellen
Goss-and he won her, leaving Peter
to take up with the vinegary spinster
who had brought him to the tavern,
and he knew that lately the tapster
had gloated over the misery of the
woman who had once discarded him.
"Why don't you send him home ?"
demanded Mrs. Tindar, with an impa-
tient stamp of the foot
Hush, Betsy He's got money
Let him be, and he'll be sure to spend
it before he goes home. "I'll have the
kernel of the nut, and his wife may
have the huskp
With sniff and a snap Betsy turn
ed away, and shortly afterward Tom
Darcy lifted himself upon his elbow.
"Ah, Tom, are you awake ?"
"Yes."
"Then rouse up and have warm
glass"
Tom got upon his feet and steadied
himself.
"No, Peter, I won't drink any more
tonight"
at won't hurt you, Tom-just
glass"
q know it won't" said Tom, but.
toning up his coat by the only solitary
button left II know it WON'T
And with this he went out into the
chill air of night. When he got away
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A WORD FOR FIcTIoN.-To sup
pose that fiction could permanently
appeal to so many classes of mind, fit
were only fiction, is to suppose an alb
surdity. Fiction is most powerful when
it contains most truth; and there is
but little truth that we get so true as
that which we find in fiction. So long
as history is written by partisans, and
science by theorists, and philosophy by
hobby-riders, the faithful studies Of hu-
man life, as we find them in the best
novels, are the truest things we have /;
and they cannot fail to continue to be
the source of our favorite knowledge,
our best amusements, and our finest
inspirations.
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@I have forsaken only the evil you
have in store, Peter. The fact is, I
concluded my wife and little ones had
fed on husks long enough, and if there
was kernel left, in my heart, or in
my manhood, they should have it"
"Ah, you heard what I said to my
wife that night"
eyes, Peter and I shall be CRATE
ful to you for it as long as I live. My
remembrance Of you will always be
relieved by that tipge of warmth and
brightness"
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GOODNESS IN DANGER.-Panic is,
of course, one of the things against
which it is most easy to preach, but
which it is most difficult to preach
down. Still, if it could be got into the
heads of all the people in their cooler
hours that, in case Of an alarm Of fire
in theater, the principal danger
comes from themselves and is in their
own control, it is probable that, even
under the influence of sudden excite
ment and.fear, many who now would
show a bad example might then show a
good one. Not very long ago a sudden
alarm took place in one of the best of
the Paris theatres. 1t was not an alarm
of fire, but only a chattering and crash
ing among the branches, chains and
lamps of the huge glass chandelier
which hung from the roof. Those who
were under the chandelier thought it
was coming down upon them, and
made wildly for the doors. The thea
ter was well enough constructed, and
had many outlets, but in an instant
some of the passages were completely
jammed and choked by excited people.
Luckily single instant was enough to
allow one of the performers on the
stage to see and explain the whole
cause of alarm, and to convince the
fugitives that there was no danger.
The whole stampede was set going by
the sudden pattering of hailstones
through an open window among the
metal and glass of the chandelier In
that instant the alarm was but momen-
tary, and in many parts of the house
was unobserved. Yet it was evident
to all cool observers that had it lasted
only a few minutes longer, and been
allowed to spread, the passages and
the doors would have been hopelessly
choked by panic-strieken crowd, and
some loss of life most infallibly have
occurred.
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"Did you never p asked trapscen-
dental young lady just graduated from
the Conference Academy of a young
man, did you never feel vague
unrestful yearning after the beyond ?
A wild, strange, impulsive longing and
reaching out after an unattainable 2'
And the man said he often had last
summer, atsuch times as he was trying
to scratch square inch full of mos
quitoes right between his shoulder
blades, and just out of reach of any
thing.
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A Thoughtrul Husband.

If he had confined himself to his lie.
gitimate quill driving duties, there
would have been no occasion for him
to be shutting around with his left
hand in a sling, a patch on his nose,
and an absurd old gum shoe on one
foot. He was, however, only another
victim to that egotistical opinion of all
men that they can do anything better
than a woman. He went home the
other day, and found his wife putting
up peaches in those old fashioned tin
cans that are closed with sealing wax.
She had an old apron on, and two or
three little splotches of sealing-wax or
namented the floor, while the cat uni
der the table was licking piece the
size of a postage stamp with great as
siduity.
"see here, Maria, he said, you'll
cripple yourself with that hot wax di-
rectly," but as she made no answer, he
continued oracularly, "Women never
hqYe any mechanical genius, any way.
If there is a way of doing anything
wrong, they're sure to try ii.
"Do you think you can do it any
better 2' she observed, with some acid
ity.
"Why, of course I can
@Well, here; just distinguish your
self then"
So he sat down. She handed him a
fresh can, just out Of the hot water.
He took it in his hand and dropped it
as though it had been a streak Of light
ming, while he stuck his fingers in his
mouth and looked sudden death to her
because he could not swear. She gave
him towel to hold the next one with,
and he took it on his knee, lighted the
sealing-wax stick, and commenced prod
ding around the top, but the bottom
burnt his knee, and he jerked, bring
ing the burning wax stick across the
back of his left hand, Then he jumped
up and howled, dropping the can,
which emptied a spoonful of burning
preserves into his slipper. This made
him frantic, and he went dancing about
the kitchen like an inebriated dervish,
waving the burning wax until a drop
took him on the nose. In his agony
he kicked the offending can through
the window. scattering its contents over
the dog, who rushed into the street
howling and raising an alarm of mad
dog, which occupied the attention of
all the people within three squares.
Then he submitted to be laid on the
sofa, and plastered with -four and sweet
oil, until he looked like a badly pre-
pared scare-crow. He is now willing
to take an affidavit the size of barn
door that he will let the women be just
as awkward as they choose.
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MIDDLETOWN STOVE HOUSE,
Middletown, Delaware.
Hardware Department.


IRON and Steel, Horse and Mule Shoes, Horse
Nails, Blacksmith Supplies, Chain Traces,
Hames, Trowels, Nails, Spikes, Locks, Hinges,
Bolts, Files, Chisels, Levels, Planes, Bevels,
wrenches, Picks, Mattoeks, Hubs, Rims,
spokes, Shafts, Long and Short Arms, Clips,
Springs, Enameled Cloth, Gum Canvass, &c.
A complete stock of TOOLS and Supplies
for Carpenters, Builders, Masons, sadlers,
shoemakers and Others, with many Rouse
furnishing articles. We invite the public to
call and examine our prices.
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Now is Your Time to Buy Low for
Cash at Naudain's
POPULAR CORNER.

A general reduction of from ten TO twenty
five per cent. on all Staple and Fancy Dry
Goods, to reduce stock preparatory to Stock
taking in May.
BLEACHED MUSLINS:
Four-quarter Wamsuta, l3c. do. Doval,
l23c.; do. Fruit of the Loom, 1lc.; do. Hill,
l0c do Forest Dale, l0c; seven-eights Po-
cassett r., 64c.i do Statewide, cents.
HEAVY BROWN MUSLINS:
Pocassett, 40 inch, l0c.; Adriatic four
quarter, SC Massachusetts, four-quarter, &c.;
Harrisburg, seYen-eighihs, 73c.; Augusta. do.
cents.
FINE BROWN MUSLINS:
Boston Fine Brown, 40 inches, l21c., Law
renee Xxx four-quarter, l03 c.; Continental
G, do, lOe.; Saranac R, do, 10 cents.
BLACK ALPACAS,
As LOW as THE LOWEST.
Is ct. Black Alpaca reduced to co cents /;
623 ct. do. to so cts; so et do, to 40 cts;
45 ct. do, to 35 cts; 373 ct. do, to 80 cts;
3l4 Ct do, to 25 cts.
Cashmeres, Poplins, Serges, ETC.. ETC., in
like proportion.
All cassimeres, of which we have good
stock, are reduced 20 per cent.
We respectfully invite you TO cone and ex-
anime our goods and see the inducements
which are held out to you to buy bargains at
Naudain's Popular Corner,
where complete stock of Staple and Fancy
Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Car
pets, Oil Cloths, Crockery and Queensware,
and a full line of Groceries, ETC., ETC., are al
ways kept, and to be had cheap for Cash
G. W.. W. NAUDAIN,
jan. 26-tf MIDDLET0WN, DEL.
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FRUIT GROW ER S
Look to Your Interests, and
BUY
THE WILLIAMS
E Y AP 0 RATIO R!

We would call the attention Of all persons
interested in the Preservation of Fruit TO the
illustration and description of the WILLIAMS
EVAP0RAT0R, and request them TO read
carefully the following facts:
1st. As to the Quality OF It's products,
which enhances their value.
2d. In Quantity OF product in propor-
tIOn 20 cost Of Evaporation.
Sd. In Cost of Building required to
operate them.
4th. In Ease and Economy of operat-
5th. In the Evenness and Equality Of
distribution or heated air through the
hues.
9Th. In the RapIdity OF Evaporation
without danger of scOrching or scnlding
the fruit.
The manufacturers of this Evaporator
Warrant II in all Respects as Represented,
and as being inferior to none, but
Superior to all other EVaporators
now in use.
II has been used on this Peninsula for the
years Of 1856, and has given universal sat
isfaction-bsth as regards its working capac-
ity and the quality and saleableness Of the
fruit evaporated. And in view of an abund-
ant crop Of peaches and low prices the com
ing season for green fruit, we call the atten-
ton Of Fruit Growers 10 the paying and in
creasing demand for fruit prepared in this
way as
Superior to any other process,
and would respectfully invite their attention
to this machine before purchasing, Satisfae-
ton guaranteed IN every particular Circu-
lars sent free, as regards price, description.
&c., by addre sing
S. Z. S. j. Nj. SPROUT.
F0ARD h C0MEGYS, MUNCY, PA.
Agents for New Castle County, Delaware,
and Cecil County. Maryland may lett
wholesale Tobacco House.
Remember that you can find the LARGEST
ASSORTMENT of
TOBACCO AND CIGARS
in the State, and the CHEAPEST IN THE
COUNTRY, at the
Wilmington Wholesale Tobacco House,
S. W. Corner of Fourth and Shpley Streets,
WILMINGTON, DEL.
A. A. CHAPMAN.
May 5, ls77.-sm
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When birds soar they warble, but
when a athroat's sore it doesn't.
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The feast of reason-The entertain
ment of an idea.
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LOCAL NEWS.
Coudepsed Locals.

IJst ing of the street lamps al 1.o5 p. m,
e1tiT gushing az 1i.-o t. n
From J. 4. Parker We have the We" loiD
paVers In advance OF the mails. ,.
III pump doctor is wanted on 20 street
bsfweeH Fast Capitol AID \ stree HOTth.ss
The excursion OF Carroll Institute, To Mar
shall Hall on Thursday, Will be q pleasant
ore ICsts Will leave a. Z. IN. aud T. 10.
A portion OF the reserve ponce, which
during the recent strike excitement has been
Dn cor slant dirty. was relieved To day.
On Monday next the Grand United Orler
of Odd Fellows tCOlOrCd) Of his District viii
have a celebration, procession and jubilee in
Gales woods. (GeTmSnia SchuetZcn Park }
n pair of siIveT-noJnted Nslacca clutches
Was presented TO Major !. II. Reeve. of the
Post Office department by his friends and
fellow CLERKS last evening.
Members Of the police force state this
morning that the two officers VINO were
Intoxicated at the SchuetZrn Park last Night
are not members OF the District force, but
were visitors from a neighbOriug city.
Today jury was sum noncd under a
writ OF Dc flHtOficO BtgUiTenfO ia the case o.
Mrs. Eliza NJ. MOSheT, a suit having been
entered for The appointment OF a committee
10 take cbaTZs of uCr estate. Before the iuTS
was CmIaUHellct the cOunsei-Mr. 4. a
Isamhert for petitioners ard NcSsrS. Bradley
ard Elliott for respondent-cOucludeI thai
they would lot proceed further with tht
cause. aud il Is stated that this ends the
case.
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A HOBOEFN EoMANCE-d DdShiHg Ger
man LttuHcAGhi Ei"peS VIII 4 Mss or SereI'-
fes4-Lieulenant Herman Meyenbarg, OF the
fourth battery. twenty. seventh regiment of
artillery of the German Empire, elop4t on
Thursday night with Miss Emma Lang
mark, pretty German girl of seventeen
summers, who res idei with her parents at 81
Hudson street. IIOboken. Meyepbery is a
handsome man and is well propOrtiOued.
lie is the son OF a rich merchant OF Frank
fort-on-'he Main. The fathers name is c.
name OF his grandfather, MayenbsrE az the
latter's especial request, and was In return
bequeathed q fortune of 5000 when the
grand father died several years ago. He OBJ
tanned a years furlOugh, and last August he
wss sent TO this country plentifully supplied
with money. He trave-ei until his means
were exhausted. and then settled down at
Mrs. Won MolLke's boarding house No -
Hudson street, Hoooken. was there IN AZ
he became acquainted with Mss Lansmark
Starvation staring him in the face he sought
employment 10 furnish the naceSsarieS OF
lie. Meyenherg was deeply enanore3 of
Miss LaDgmark, ard kept up "A secret cor
resporieTce with her, her parents having
forbidden The house. Several weeks ago tue
lieutenant procured some peclnisrv a'd
from some irtmate friends of hiS father in
this city and Chicago, and on Thursday last
he ClopCd with Miss Iangmark Tae ls;ter's
Parents src greatly distracted, and have
asked the police to learn the whereabouts Of
the runaway couple.
MeytHbcIg'S furloGgh expires next month
and It is possible that the German Consul
viii look after him. = was reported last
night thar tie PAL had sailed Tor EurOoe-
v. \. Word, IIH.
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a Man shot NV N Policeman.

This afternoon, Officer Adolph Miller, of
the fifth precinct, accompanied by Mr.. c. NJ.
Nye, went to the river shore TO shoot a horse
which had been left there to die. On the way
the owner of the horse, John Dennis,
colOred, living on Virginia avenue near
street. was taken in custody under the
clCelty 10 animals act, and when Ohcer
Miller was shooting at the horse Den
MS started to run. Officer Miller states
that the pistol was discharged accidentally.
The ball entered the hip of Dennis near the
iofnt. fracturing the bone. and made a very
dangerous wound. Dennis was brought 10
the 9Th precinct station, and was attended by
hrs T. dorsey ard Walters, ter which ne
was sent TO Prov idence hospital.
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FORGET o WN.

THE POSTAL CARRIER SYSTEM WANTED.
Petitions to the Postmaster General for mail
carriers and the introduction at convenient
places Of drop letter boxes, have been left al
The follOwing-ram~ places. AMI are receiv-
ing numerous signatures: West End Hotel;
Braces drug stoIe; Buckley K Msrbury's
hardware store; I. l.. CrOoley's drug stores;
Bscker's drug store, and Ficklin's drug store.
Measurements have industriOusly been cir
culated rha. tie accomplishment 81 this pur-
pose would result in the abolition OF the post
Office here. than which nothing cOal1 be
more unfounded; for the changes desired will
be only for the public convenience. Instead
of having 10 send to the .oSi Office for or V n
letters. carrier will bring them to the doors
of the people, and convey 10 the office what
ever mail may during the day b. dropped
into the boxes from neighboring dwellings or
p!aTas of buSiItsS.
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To Ladies' ,ub Gentlemen.

We wish To call attention 10 \. FiscaeT'S
Chemical Securing and Dyeing Establish
meut. No. 200 & street. near 9Th street. Hy
promptly adopting the latest Improvement,
Whether OF American or European invention
he is enabled TO do his wori; in a manner 10!
10 be equaied by those not possessing these
facilities. Bis cleansing and dyeing Ladies
and Gents Suits are, in fact, the CHEAPEST In
the CITY on GCcOrnt of his superior work
Give I'm 4 osll-9O6 q street. PuDctgSlity
gJ7arau Ted.
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x MAJOR Gen. Pearson, who figured in
iittsbuTS as Commander Of the militia ia 4
6fCtAtr 10 the Legro minstrel known as w
L. Collins.
~ The Rev. w. II. III. Murray says the
black ny OF the AdirOndacks is "a uuiCt
orderly lille GLOW, hard worker who
goes steadily about his business, and earns
his living by constant application"
FvSeverRl county clerks in Indiana an
nounce that they will grant no marriage
licenses 10 minors, without Inc written con
sent OF parents or guardians. This action is
due 10 great many Opponents in that
region lately.
f<A young man OF Perry, Ca, hired a
lady riding, but tie young lady had gone OF
with q ''handsomer man." which made the
Ferry youth wrathy, and he complained of
having TO pay 81 for nothing. The young
70 the astringent youth In polite note.
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st. LOUIS PRINTERS UNION DISSOLVED
n meeting OF the members of 81. Louis Ty
IosraPhical Union, No. s, was held yeSter
nay AFTERNOON, TO take into consideration
the exrediency of disorganizng and with
drawing from the International Union. The
subject was discussed and a vote taken on
the question of surTenderipg the charter, re-
oJJL N' N|'''0N' '"'
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y GIRL OF SIXTEEN TO BE HUyG.-Sarah
r.. Johnson, aged 16, who killed her child in
June last In Iredell county, N. c., has been
found guilty and has been sentenced TO be
hanged On November 23th. The Charlotte
C0serrer says: The case of Frank w. HouS-
lou, accessory to the crime, is being tried.
me girl Sarah Johnson, who is the chief
witness against him, testfeS that she COM
United the crime al his instance. he having
Dy threats, etc, urged her to the commission
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FATAL RESULT OF A FOURTH OF July
FRoLIo-The colored girl Tennie Brown,
who was so badly shot on the Fourth of july
on the steamer n. y: Ranks by Assistant
States frigate Franklin, at Norfolk, Va,
fingered until Friday night. when she ex,
plrod. at the hospital OF st. Vincent de Paul.
lr. Wilson, who was q. large on pail was
rearrested and committed to Jail. William
iiroWn. WHO vas also sho. by DIR. Wilson, at
Ike same time time, has recovered.
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- DROWNING OF FATEER AND Two
SoNs--Alfred Davis. sn English settler in
Nahsenond county, Va and two sons, aged
respectively II and u years, were drowned
While bathing in Nansemond river Friday.
OLE mile below Suffolk. TIE youngest boy
ventured beyond his depth aud called for as
ISSUANCE, winch the father aud Othep son at
tempted TO render, when all three were
uIoWbeu. Ihe scene was witnessed by u
tllru son, Still Younger. who escane