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The daily gazette., 1877-12-01

clasp hands and gaze lovingly at each
other ere they made a pretense of study
ing the wonders of the deep.
The aquarium was reached. Faster
and faster beat her heart, brighter and
brighter sparkled her eyes, redder and
redder glowed her cheeks.
She never looked prettier in her life.
The band was playing as she entered
Was hs-were they there?
He was-directly in front of her, and
stepped eagerly forward with bland
smile, saying, "Why, how charming you
look. Tootsey, love! Wasn't it romantic
my putting that note for you in my pock
ct? 1 thought it a shame that you should
| search so patiently and so long without
finding something by way of recompense
By-the-by, that receipt you We got in youl
work-box, take care of it. 1 sent som,
money to your sister. She didn't wani
you to know it, for fear it would worry
you, but she's lost m ost of her scholar
and is very good.
| Mrs. Margerum blushed a still deepe
crimson, but all she said, in calm ant
childlike voice, was "John, where Is thu
hlppopotamus?"
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THE question raised by Mr.. Thurman
Yesterday as to the constitutional right of
the Vice-P President, as presiding officer of
the Senate, to throw the casting vote in
the case of tie ON the swearing-in of a
Senator is of sufficient Importance to be
definitely settled. So far as the letter OF
the Constitution goes, his right to vote
when the Senate is equally divided is not
limited, unless the provision that each
House of Congress shall be the judge of
the elections, returns, and qualifications
of its own members be construed as a
limitation. Moreover, Mr.. IIoar was able
to cite quasi precedent-a case in which
Vice>P President, by his casting vote,
elected Chaplain OF the Senate, twenty
seven years ago. But it requires only a
moments thought to feel the weight of
Mr.. Thurman's objection. If the Vice.
President has this unlimited power, a
State may be deprived of its right to
equal representation by men of its choice
on the floor of the Senate by the single
vote of a man who is not member of
that body the disapproving Senators are
powerless to prevent the wrong and
George Mason and Luther Martin were
in the right when they criticised the office
of Vices President at the time of its crea-
ton as an encroachment upon the power
of the Senate. 1t would be an unfortu-
nate business to have the casting vote
utiIized-or abused-in this way by lie.
gally elected Vice-President, but the
matter becomes much more serious wher
the chair of the Senate is usurped by the
accident of fraud.
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LOCAL TINE TABLE.
TRAINS LEAVE WILMINGTON.

TRAINS LEAVE WILMINGTON.
For Philadelphia: 209, 6.55, $40, 900,
5.46, 9.46, p. m. On Sundays: 2.O9, 10 a.
m; 500, 8 80, 8 46, p m.
For New York: 265, 5l4, a m, 70 81, 70 40,
JPN; on Sundays; 209 a m:
scam; 1851, IL SO, 8 90. p m. Sundays
70 81, l 16 m.
For Port Deposit: 5s p m; no Sunday
train.
m; no Sunday train.
For Delaware R. r.. Os, Q 80 a m; 6 80 p m;
no Sunday train.
For Wilmington & Northern r. R.: % q
M; 10 m; no Sunday train;
For Delaware Western II. r.: 10 20 a M; 5 80
pm: on Sundays: 10 80 m.
TRAINS ARRIVE AT WILMINGTON.
from PhiladelpnIa: II 66, 8 "a, 924 M; IL
nj 1244 iSS7, s65 4S1, snn,dsvs "a g S2s, 2s
10 S O. m m; 7 Sc 50, 81, ii 10 p m. - w.
From New York 12 56, 8 "a a m; IL a, 70 5s
5o4, ,s6lpm; on Sundays: IL 66 a m !;
From baltimore 1s, 941,a m; 127, 70 SO,
From Washington: 2 1s m; 12A, II SO,
636, 946p m; on Sundays 1S a m; 46
From Port Deposit; 8 90 a m no Sunday
From New Castle: 7 IS, 80 am 1900 m;
4 20, 40, 7 O5 p m; no Sunday trains.
From Delaware r. R.: $50 m; 20, 6 40 p
m; no Sunday trains.
From Wilmington & Northern r. R.: II SC
q m: 8 ID p m; no sunday trains.
From Delaware Western r. R.: 7 65 m
! 310p m; on SUNDAYS: 600 m.
| TRAINS FOR wILMINGT ON LEAVE PHIL
ADELPHIA.
From Broad street and Washington ave
nue.: Z 80, 8 90, 10 80, 1 As a m; Q 80, 8 30
400, s is, 645, Q 45, II 80 pm; on Sun,
days: 8 30 a m; 9 0O,9 45, II 30, p m.
| From Thirty Second and Market streets
1925, Ii 40 q m, 12 is, 8 IS. s 30, II 45 p m
on SUNDAYS 3 90. IL 45 p m.
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From the N. Y. Sun.
WHY DID 1T HAPPEN =?

Why happened it that the Huron, with
in fourteen hours of her sailing from
Hampton Roads, became total wreck
on the coast of North Carolina, and car
RED down with her one hundred and five
officers and men?
1t is true she started out in storm of
a good deal of severity, and had to pass a
dangerous coast, but several merchant
steamers encountered the same weather
off the same coast, and yet arrived in
New York in safety. The Huron had the
advantage over these vessels of being
manned with crew much larger than is
regarded as sufficient for trading
steamer of the same size. Unlike a
merchantmen or passenger vessel, she
stood in no necessity of making rapid
voyage, and SO could easily have taken
the safest course, which would have
kept her out at sea. The shallow coast
of North Carolina is carefully mapped
out on the charts, and there is no excuse
| for a competent seaman's ignorance of
| his position, whatever the weather. The
suggestion which has been thrown out
| that the Huron's compasses proved un-
rustworthy, because of variation due to
/ the circumstance that she was an iron
ship, is not worth anything. Before a
r1an-of-war sails onIa cruise her compass
ses are always examined and corrected.
The accounts the survivors of the disas
1 Ter give du HdEulOulA0s duu OuOy OIL III
dicate, first, that she was not vessel fit
for naval purposes; and secondly, that
| her loss was due to careless seamanship.
There is no escaping these conclusions.
If the Huron's steam machinery haG
been sufficiently powerful and properly
constructed; if she had been stanchly
built, suitably rigged, and skilfully and
prudently navigated, she never would
have gone ashore at Nag's Head.
| We maintain at great annual expense
Naval Academy which undertakes to
make efficient seamen, and yet we lind
its graduates thus losing fully manned
ship, in locality daily passed in safety,
in fair weather and foul, by all sorts Of
coasting vessels. 1t has long been alleg
ed that the old officers of the navy, who
F got their training at sea before this pre-
tenhous institution was established, are
much better practical seamen than those
it sends out; and the facts of experience
support the allegation.
| The Naval Academy may make scien
| tific officers, but if you wish thorough
, sailors YOU must educate them at sea
E and not on land. 1t is school which
, costs great deal of money, and makes
great show, but, as now organized, it Il
not of real service to the navy or th'
country. Some of its graduates are first
t rate seamen, we allow, but very many o
!. them are only fancy sailors, who appea
to greater advantage in the navy yaros
p bureau offices of the department, ant
, drawing rooms of Washington than ol
= shIpboard when an emergency arises.
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IN NORTHAMPTON!
MASS.

NORTHAMPTON, Mass, Nov. 29.-Mat--
thew Davenport, an Englishman, aged
80 years, whose. wife left HIM about a
month. ago ,(they having frequently quar-
relied ,)and who has since been living with
one Pratt, it is alleged. as a paramour,
concealed himself in Pratt's cellar, when
Mr.. Davenport came into the cellar, he
pounded her opSthehead with ball club
and then stabbed her in the right breast
with a butchers knife. Pratt, attracted
by her cries, rushed down stairs and
grappled with Davenport. The two
fought some time, when Pratt received
six-inch cut across the abdomen, which
let his intestines out. The neighbors
hearing the cries rushed in and separated
them. Pratt cannot live long, and the
woman's recovery is doubtful. Daven
port is in Jail. Pratt is an American
about 55 years old, and is said to have
| been Methodist preacher.
The daily gazette., 1877-12-01

Gen. Grant having raised, by some re-
cent statements, a question OF veraclty
between himself and the late MIR. Sumner
the editor of "Harper's Weekly" very
properly mixes in the debate. "It now
appears. +" he writes, "that MIR. Summers
statement was exactly true and General
Grants charge sho,os his oton hostile feel
iuo toaoa Td Mr. Sumnernot MIR Summers
falsehood.
We don't suppose it is possible to say
that Grant lied, in language neater OF
more delicate than this.
THE New Orleans Times says that the
Cotton Exchange of that city is taking
steps to raise a fund to send Senator
Gordon, of Georgia, to Europe, when the
regular session of Congress closes nexi
ing. "as an ambassador OF the materi
al interests OF the New South, to invite
the attention of the Old World to the
fact that these fertile States are now final
lv pacified, and reorganized upon a free
labor basis, and are consequently anxious
to receive and to foster European capita
and labor"
SOUTH UARoLINA's DEBT,-A Colum
bia Is. C.) dispatch states that the com
mittee appointed TO investigate the bond
ed indebtedness of that State have moi
completed their labors, and will not b'
able TO make their report during the first
week of the session Of the Legislature, a
required by law. The chairman will asl
an extension of time. Enough is know
however, to warrant the statement, not
wlthstanding their reticence, that th
report will be one damaging to the bond
holders.
OILY.-It is estimated that 10000 ol
wells have thus far been dug in Pennsyl
vania and Vest Virginia, at an aggre
gate cost of 8193, 100000. They hav
Yielded about eighty>eight millisns bar
rels of oil, valued at the wells at thre
hundred million dollars, or four hundre
million dollars at the seaboard.
The daily gazette., 1877-12-01
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-There are the
most confident intimations on the part
of some of the Republicans who adhere
to President Hayes and his policy that
there will be better feeling in the party
after the delivery of the Presidents mes
sage to Congress ON Monday next. 1t is
said the President will argue his South
ern policy at some length and present
facts to show that it has been successful
He will also, it is said, devote much space
to the civil service question, detailing
the Presidents adhesion to the Republl-
can party in terms which cannot be mis-
understood, and he comedies to the SEN
ate the right to reject appointments which
seem unsuitable to them. HIS message.
it is alleged, is so conciliatory IN It's Tone
that il will have the effect of bringing
back the dissatisfied Republicans.
The daily gazette., 1877-12-01

DIED AT THE AGE OF ONE HUNDRED
AND SIxTERN YEARs.-Mrs. Margaret
Gray died in Cabarrus county, N. c., last
week, aged 116 years, having been born
in that county in 176I. She was the
mother of sixteen children, had never
been out of the county in which she was
born, and had never seen railroad. She
was the daughter of Michael Garner
(familiarly known as old Mike Garner.
who is said to have been the wealthies
man who ever lived in Cabarrus county
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THE CHEAPEST DINNER IN THE
WORLD.

[George Francis Train In N. Y. Graphic. ]
dined ssmptuously to-day, all good
quality (my landlord being a college
graduate), on this bill of fare, at No. 4l3
Grand otrant
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HOW QUICKLY WE PASS AWAY
AND ARE FORGOTTEN.

General Joseph Lane, of Oregon, can
didate for Vice-President on the Demo-
cratic ticket with Gen. John q. Breckin-
ridge as candidate for President in 1860,
is still living, and is, perhaps, near eighty
years of age.
On the National Democratic ticket OF
1860, Herschel V. johnson, of Georgia,
candidate for Vice>President, with Ste
phen A. Douglass, as candidate for the
Presidency, is upward of seventy years
of age, and is still living.
The daily gazette., 1877-12-01
PATTERSoN'S PURCHASED SEAT.
TWENTY REPUBLICANS SWEARING THAI
THEY WE'RE BRIBED TO VOTE FOR HIM.

TWENTY REPUBLICANS SWEARING THAT
THEY WE'RE BRIBED TO VOTE FOR HIM.
COLUMBIA, S. o., Nov. 28.-The special
investigating committee appointed last
spring to examine, among other things,
into the election of John j. Patterson as
United States Senator in 1879, submitted
a report to the Legislature this morning.
The report gives an epitome of testi-
mony taken by the committee, including
that of forty ex-members of the Legisla-
ture, white and colored Republicans,
who concur in the statement that Patter-
sons election was secured through bribe-
ry. About twenty testified that they were
bribed either personally by Patterson or
his agent. Worthington, receiving
amounts ranging from 800 to $4,000.
About twenty more testified that offers
| of bribes were made to them and refused.
Mr.. Elliott (colored), ex-member OF Con
gress, who was Patterson's most formld-
able opponent, was offered 5000 to
withdraw from the contest, which he re-
| fused. The offer was made by j. B. Den
mis-, IN the name of Patterson. Major
NJ artin r. Delaney (colored) was present
and corroborated Elhott's statement
Gov. Moses afterward appointed j. B.
Dennis Jury Commissioner to draw jur-
les tor the protection of Patterson when
he was indicted in 1873 for procuring his
election by bribery. and the arrangement
was successfully completed. Every Wit
ness testified that it was generally known
and understood among the members that
Patterson was purchasing his election.
The evidence also shows that votes
were bought while the election was in
progress. Max well, colored Senator, was
paid to change his vote in favor of Pat
| terson, which gave him majority in the
Senate, and avoided the necessity of a
joint assembly on the next day.
THE lynching of the negro McGhee at
Columbia for an attempted crime which
| is only too common among his race In
the South, had some novel features. The
act was not sudden or unpremeditated,
nor committed by few men. The peo-
pie of the entire town and neighboring
country came together. There was
mass meeting, at which some twenty-five
hundred men were present, and speeches
were made by whites and blacks. After
fully debating the question, as calmly, if
we may believe the newspaper reports, as
the people of Massachusetts township
would their annual tax-rate, the meeting
came to the unanimous conclusion that
McGhee was guilty and that he should
be hanged and forthwith. And he was
hanged without any longer delay than
five minutes spent in securing rope of
the necessary length and thickness. This
is one of the uses and blessings Of the
township system which even de Tocque-
vile failed to detect.
The daily gazette., 1877-12-01

AN IRON MOUNTAIN, 10000 feet high.
rlvaIing the famous iron mountain OF
Missouri, has been discovered in ColfaX
county, New Mexico. The ore is almost
entirely iron, and IN connection with the
immense quantities of coal found in Col
fax county this huge deposit OF iron ore
must at no distant dav become the
source of industries which will gather
and support a large and thriving popu-
latIon.
The daily gazette., 1877-12-01
6, W0RRELL.
CARPETS & Dry Goods,
MASONIC TEMPLE.
Special Circular. f.; ,o-.
'f OCTOBER 1877.
DRY GOODS
DEPARTMENT.

In consequence Of the action Of lead
NO Drv Goods Houses of PhiIadet-
,,s aduert,s,ng their goods at EX-
TRE.uELY LOW RITES, toe an
wuncs from this date, and unt1
further notice, a SWEEPING RE-
DUCTIONm the prices Of our EN-
TIRE LINE OF DRY GOODS,ana
mpnttully suDmt the fOllO'oing:
For the last Is years ,oe haue mept
tie best qualities of Goods. Our Stock
vat this time complete in euery de-
,tment. We haze made prepara-
lions for thus Seasons Trade in ad-
vince Of any since 1873. Our sup
,Iis are from the best importing man
5aetwng and jobbang houses IN
lnrica. We thoroughly understand
/ &bwiaesS. In h,s special sale,and
dttsss special pr,ces, no change wiH
: kmade in our terms. While aoe re-
rt that the prices at ,ohach soe shall
fr goods wiU be TOO LOW for
/ rgftaJle competition, 'cs are SATISFIED
hat it is the proper course to pursue,
VINO store can be successful that does
ut rscognaze that IN PROTECT
i ING ITS CUSTOJMERSt 1T consults
aorn best interests.
In conclusion, our friends and the
public are asked to EXAMINE for
AHselres, and compare STYLES ana
QUALITIES. 1t DiH certainly
Pay THEM.
The daily gazette., 1877-12-01

Thus two hundred pounds of perfect
health was satiated with nickel. Two
meals daily, 10 cents, or $36.50 year.
This is ample for any laboring man !!
Discounts Juliet Corson! ruins Delmon-
leo! prolongs life! saves doctors bills,
prevents suicide from dyspepsia, and un-
der my lead will soor become universal
1 now pay So a week for room. soon
so cents will be ample; SO hats can be
bought for 81, $50 suits for $40, 40-cent
hair-cutting for 20 cents, 20>cent shaves
for cents, 50-cent neckties for cents.
see nothing but rainbows through psy.
chology, demonology, and dictatorship.
The daily gazette., 1877-12-01

Sale ofa Farm.-J. f. Pinder. has sold
101 acres of his farm in Spaniard's Neck
Queen Ann ss Co., Md. to w. 7. McClyN
ment and:Capt. Jas. Smith for $1100
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He who will not reason Is q biEoe,
he who viii cannot is 3 fool, and ne
who dares not is slave.
Half an hours practice on the piano
every day will bring On fatal attacks
of paralysis in eight months. This is
q lie, but il the press viii kindly assist
in giving the widest circulation, CRATE
ful people will neither misinterpret
nor fail to reward the generous and
humane motive which prompts the
item.)-Hawkeye.
A little boy of our acquaintance
who had just learned that the names
John and Jack were used inter-
changeably, took occasion, not IN
naturally, to air his knowledge on
the different readings of Scripture
by calling his sisters attention 10 q
picture OF "Jack the Baptist"
The wit OF Secretary EVarts
seems to have descended to his chill
dren. He said to . friend Ia Wash
ington: Il have received letter from
one of my little girls aRd she writes:
Dear Papa Thank you very kind
~ for the donkey you sent me, but
he's so lonely. Won't you soon be
home, papa? p
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lie comes in along toward evening with his
carpet bag in his hand.
And his viSage corrugated with smile so
meek and bland.
And he looks 80 sNeetly piouS standing nam
ell within the door,
That instinctively we mutter, "Iiere's the
ministerial bore"
An. how well we knew that buster, and thai
napless beaver hat,
And that fringe of snowy viii kers } uSt above
that white eraVat,
And that regulation broadc 10Th somewhat
shiny at the seams,
That pFoboscis red and cleaning nom the
SUMS more ardent beams.
Bnt Ethis pIous fraud on commerce has the
sympathy Of all,
And he draws upon that fountain when re
wanes TO make haul,
And he has bad brochitis or iacerated
chest,
Or he sunk his funds in missioss OF railroad
in the West.
Just imagine "Christ's yicegerents'' ped
Or subtle bedbug poison that is always sure
Or a washing fluid for your shirts that eats
Or some Internal compound that viii cure the
Whooping cough
But diIest form of earthly I'LL. what man in
" Sold only by subscription" that invade our
And then armed them with authority which
other hucksters lack,
Superannuated eloquence from q play out
pulpit hack
He talks and talks. through weary hours
why, talking is his forte,
And talking men into despair to him Is only
But harlem while tell to thee, dark and
horrid plot,
the spot.
babe my tender wife come in and sit down
And let him tell his tale to her from morn Till
Then after tea took him. and heard the
Nor did Interrupt Kim, but walked calmly to
and fro.
Three mortal hours heard him tell of won
ders rich and rare
Contained within that matchless book, It's
price beyOud compare,
Aud then had friend come in and take him
on my hands,
While let sleep, as Shakespeare says, knit up
the raVeled strands.
At midnight / awoke again and sought the ia
tai room,
But still his voce came hoarsely through the
awful midnight gloom;
So 1 relieved his listener, who thanked me
And Informed the agent / would hear about
his book
piteons look OF ,rOrr came upon his care
worn face
AS sat down beside him in the worn out list
ener's place,
And he dubbed on in whispers his accustom-
ed string of lies,
Till exhaustion claimed its victim as the sun
began to rise.
Prone he laid upon the carpet, his valise be-
meath his head,
Talked TO death in vigorous manhood, here he
laid before me dead;
But con gulsiyely he sho uted with his last eN-
ring breath,
"Take the book at agents prices" and then
closed his eyes in death
And remorse assailed my conscience as saw
him on the floor,
And 1 thought his florid language will be
heard on earth no more
Never more that linen buster down our coun-
try lanes will roam.
We embalmed him in a shoe-bOX and con-
signed him to his home.
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wise and Otherwr.e

Nor To BE BEATEN.-"My doll can
open her syesl' my doll never
shuts hers -
Punctuation Was first used in lit
ersture in 1920. Before that time
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Iikethis. s7zrz-F
thine flies, suggested che. "Yes;
he answered, sadly, taking q dark
object out Of the cream, slime Aies
were gone
"YOu're a smart fellow" sneered
q lawyer to q witness, the other
day. I'D return the compliment II
l wasn't ugder oatf,"' replied the
witness.
Francis First, having asked Cas-
telan, Bishop of Orleans, whether
he was OF noble extraction, 'ISire. .
replied he, Noah had three sons il
the ark /; l cannot say from which of
them descended
Uncle Jesse Lyon married . sec
ond wife the third day after the fu-
neral of his first, wbereat the neigh
bors serrnaded him with Tin pans,
horse fddles, and yells 10 signify
their indignation. Uncle Jesse
stood it as long as he could, and
then went forth and spoke thus
"Boya. il you care nothing for the
Joys OF bridegroom, I tiiak VOC
ought 10 respect the feelings of .
widower, the late partner of whose
bosom Is yet hardly cold In her
gravel The boys were stunned.
and silently departed.
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4
| Gov. McCleliani The country car
very easily forget that he was ever 4
| general.
The rain is different this yea
from the article we had last. 7 hat
used to stop.
Have / been mistaken! Does thu
leader of party go behind ?-Sam'
uel j. Tilden.
Four mince pies W II make 8 mar
intoxlcated. They will also make
his stomach ache
John MoErissey is certainly 6
working man. 1t is hard work to
deal brace faro without being de.
tected.
Bob Ingersoll is to enter the min.
the appointment of minister to Ber-
lin.
"IngersOli," says the Cincinnati
Commercial, ''conld get along beau
tifully With Bismarck. They have
the same religion"
| Wagner is writing q new opera
A big boiler with dozen men ham
mering Eivets inside lie to be one
Of the most sensational and melOdi-
Qua features.
Agony personifed-A bachelor edi-
tor trying to prepare an able and ju-
dicious article on the baby show.
"A barefooted little boy stepped or
| q bee, and soon after said to his moth.
err: Ma, didn't know bees had splin-
tiers Ia their tails