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The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-06-21
Items Of Interest.

Oysters. fall bonnets, ulsters and empty cas-
tors are out of season.
Sheridan's twins look very much alike, espe-
cially the younger one.
When tai or makes up his mind, what does
he do with the remnants?
A New Orleans man was lately killed by
bullet from . rubber bean-snapper.
"The only way to look at a lady's faults,
exclaimed gallant, is to shut your e. es.
What lovers swear-To be true until death.
! What husbands swear-Unft for publication.
Said he: "Fannie, do you love me| SAID
she "Johnny, look over your collar and hear
me say yes"
The cakes sold in some of the eating saloons
have become SO small that customers call for
"coffee and sleeve buttons.
Thursday, June IA, will be the one hundredth
anniversary of the adoption OF the stars ana
stripes as national ensign.
A little boy seeing the swan plunge its head
under the water, called ont: Mother, come
and see the duck cast anchor y
Whatever else may be said against the
Chinese. no one can truthfully say that he ever
saw one who parted his hair in the middle
It's approaching the time when the average
small boy will not feel happy unless his hair Is
cut SO as to look like the rough side OF match
box.
There is peddler in Sheffield, England, who
has been one hundred and eight years on the
road and is peddling still. He lives on sugar
and beer.
A party of twenty-eight Chinese naval
cadets are now on their way to Paris and Liver
pool, where they will pass course Of instruc-
! ton in the naval academies.
The Houston Age offers years subscription
to any member of the last Legislature who VIII
answer this conundrum correctly: "How
many counties are there in Texas?"
If Won have good sister, love and cherish
her with all your heart. If you have none,
whv then love and cherish the good sister OF
some other man with all your heart.
An English collector of autographs is said to
have offered Prince Bismarck 75,0 0OO francs 1or
his written resignation which the emperor re-
turned with the word 'nienlals (never.)
Some men can never take a joke. There was
an old doctor who, when asked what was GOOD
for mosquitoes wrote back "How DO you
suppose can tell unless I know what ais the
mosquito ?"
Aunt Rosy was dividing O mince pie among
tke bows. and when Jim, who had wlckedly
pulled the cats tail, asked for his share, the
dame replied: "No, Jim, you are wicked
boy, and the Bible says there is no piece Tor the
wicked"
An ingenious girl, who has never 81 feuer
in the wor,;. goads the other girls in her neigh-
borhood to madness by lighting up the parlor
brilliantly and then setting her fathers nat
where its shadow will be boldly marked against
the curtain
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-06-21
A Bitter Lesson for Her.

A dark haired, slender young girl,
with large brown eyes and pleasant
face, stood at the prisoners dock in q
New York police court. She was neatly
dressed, though her attire was we'll worn,
and she stood with bowed head, while an
occasional sob shook her slender form
Two other female prisoners stood in the
dock with her. The one ON her right
was bold-faced woman, dressed in
cheap but gaudy fnery, bedecked with
tawdry jewelry and evidently familiar
with her surroundings. The other was
an old woman in dirty rags, which she
scarcely held upon her shoulders with
one thin and grimy hand. Her eyes
were bleared and her face bruised and
bloated
The Judge looked at the strangely as
sorted trio. Then he said to the weeping
girl:
How is it that so young girl as you
should have come to this .
CT did not intend to get drunk,
Judge" said the girl. 81 went to a
woman's house and we drank some beer
together, and somehow I don't remember
what happened after that until I found
myself in the CELL"
"How old are you2"
81 am going on sixteen, sir"
"Sixteen How DO you like your
neighbors? Look to your right; that is
your next step. 1t won't take very long
for you to reach that stage if you con-
tinue as you have begun. Now, look to
your left; that is nearly the end, but
it is the sure end of the downward
path.
| The young girl sobbed, but said moth
ing.
"You are young" resumed his honor.
"This is your first offense; l hope it
will be your last. You can 60"
The girl left the courtroom with
hanging head, but the woman on the
right laughed and the woman on the left
leered as they waited for their turn.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-06-21
How He Didn't Know 1t All.

He was practical but rather pedan-
tic sort of a man, and said he did not be-
lieve language was made to conceal
thought. More than this, he did believe
that the dictionary was work made to
use, and that every man should be
familiar with its minutest contents.
"But," said the student, that would
be impossible for any man."
"N Nonsense !" exclaimed the practical
man, "why, there are few words that
could be mentioned that L wouldn't be
quite at home with"
"I should like to give you few
samples" replied the student. 81 be-
ieve could commence with the begin
ming of Webster and stump you before
you got through the AS.
"Go on with your sample AS" de-
manded the self-confdent one, "and
then tackle the BIS and run on 10 Us. I"
"Ill try" said the student, calmly,
"by first giving you a few sentences in
AS"
And squaring off for the work, the
student asked the practical man to please
bear in mind and translate, when he had
done, the few sample sentences follow
ing:
"Approach, adorers at Alterations
altar. Assemble abdals and abderian
adopts, and analyze an ambagitory and
amphibiological .allocution. Accept, as
an apparently acataleptic and absonous
arrangement, an ailiterative aggregation,
actually anagogetical. AS an acephalist,
abiure all adscititious arts and adven-
titious aids as addititious and ardently
advance. Ablepsy and audacity are
alike anatreptic and adiaphorus, ds ad-
iuvants and anamnestic adhibitions at
abstringing and ablaqueating all ab-
struse anfractuosities and anagogios, as
all adopts are aware. Avoid anastrophes
as anacoluthic and anisomeric and aban-
doning abditories, advance against ap-
parantly antiphrastical anagraphs. Ap-
ply apomecometry, and arrive at apo
deictical anagnorisis and accept an
authors Acknowledgements. y
"There p demanded the student,
"translate that and I'll commence with
the BIS and run on to the rs !"
But the practical man who was so init
mate with his own language had fled.
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Brutal Revenge.

A young lady school teacher in ALA
makee county, Ill, had a lover whose
affections turned to rage in singular
manner. Declining to receive his at
tention any more, she gave him the
mitten. This sorely perplexed the
young man. He packed up his duds for
leaving the country, but before going
called at the school to say farewell.
After a few minutes conversation he re-
quested the favor of parting kiss, and
reached out to embrace her, when she
struggled, under bashful moaesty.
seizing the opportunity, he drew her
face to his and bit her nose nearly off.
The end part, good mouthful, hung
by the gristle, and was sewed in place
by a neighboring surgeon. With the
best possible care she will be disiigtTed
for life.
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A Triding Mistake.
"And may at last my weary age
Find out my peaceful Hermitage

In the House of Peers, during the ex-
animation of the magistrates of Edin-
burgh, touching the particulars of the
Porteous mob, in 1736, the Duke OF
Newcastle having asked the provost
with what kind of shot the town-guard,
commanded by Porteous, had loaded
their muskets, received the unexpected
reply: "Ou, just sic as ane shoots dukes
and fools wi p The answer was con-
sidered as contempt of the House OF
Lords, apo the poor provost would have
suffered from misconception. of his
patois, had not the Duke of Argyle (who
must have been exceedingly amused)
explained that the worthy chief mag
istrate's expression, when rendered into
English, meant to describe the shot used
for ducks and water fowl.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-06-21
A Haunted Clock.

There is a clock in Raleigh, n. C.,
owned by gentleman who is not at all
given to superstition, but yet he cannot
account for curious way his old family
clock is acting of late. 1t is an eight
day clock. but wind it up when you may,
and at haif-past six o'clock on Saturday
evening that clock is dead sure to
stand still. It can be easily started
by moving the pendulum, and it Will
tien continue till it runs down. 1t has
been wound up from the eighth day to
with an hour of the time, but it never
fails to stop when it reaches the half-past
six hour mark on Saturday evening:
This is strange and unacconntable, but
as true as gospel, according to the
Raleigh Observer.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-06-21

A FIGHT FOR LIFE WITH BEAVER
IIr. Jackson Kirksey was standing in
the door of mill house when he saw a
large beaver, on the bank of the Patsal-
aga creek. He seized a pole and ran
between the creek and the beaver, ex-
pecting the beaver to make for the water.
To his astonishment, the animal turned
fiercely on him. when a regular fight for
Life ensued. Mr.. Kirksey broke his pole
into three pieces during the fight, but
finally killed the beaver. which was q
very large one, weighing fifty pounds.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-06-21
With Thee.
BY W. W. ELLSWORTH.

BY W. W. ELLSWORTH.
I'd rather walk through shower with thee,
Than with another when the air
Is soft with summer, and as fair
The heavens above us as sea
OF dim, unfathomed sapphire, where,
Slow drifting on a liquid sky,
The white-sailed ships of God float by.
Sweeter in storm to be with thee,
Dark waters round us, and the roar
OF breakers on an unseen shore
Resembling louder on the lee
Than with another, sailing DER
A ripping lake, where angry gale
MAY never rend the silken sail.
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Has that jury agreed p asked the judge of
q sheriff. whom he met on the stairs with
they have agreed. to send out for half
gallon"
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Somebody asserts that blue glass chin.
ney on parlor lamp will bring young man
up to point, of proposing to hemely made
ia three suaday evenings.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-06-21

The Rail,oay Age saws that 395 American
locomotives, worth s5,49O,64n. have been ex-
ported in seven years. and that 1.-The reputa-
ton of American engines is steadily increas-
inC,"
The Morning herald., 1877-10-03
NHERIFF'S SALE,

g HERIFF'6 SALE.
BY virtue of writ of Levari Facias Il
me directed will be exposed to public sall
at the Hotel kept by George W. Ortlip. 81
ehipley street. In the CITY of Wilmington
New Castle Couoty, Delaware. on .,.iI A..
SATUDAY. the Goth dav of OCTOBER, 1877
at 2 o'clock. p. m.
The following described Real Estate. viz
An that certain lo* o, niece Of lend
having three stO. led brick horse thereon
erected. s!tusted IL, the city OF Whining gion
md bounded and described a. follows. tn
wit Eeglnuing on the phsterly side nj
We5t street. between Ejshth and Niutb
streets, at tho d stance ofa l30 feet ~ ia.
from the eouthcrlv side of Ninth street,
thence passing through the m: :dd'e Of the
brick division wall between the Aforesaid
pouse and tbe house OF Isaac Pyle, or the
sOntheasterly aud parallel with Ninth
street 40 feet tn a stase, thence northarly
and parallel with West steet n feet l01h
in. to q line Of Phillip Garrett's land thence
olonq said line westerly ppra1'e' win Ninth
street 100 feet tn the said side OF West street
and thence thersby southerly 3: feet 10 Il
in 10 the p)ace ofbeginning, bethe contents
ther Ewhat they may. 81
Seized and Zen in execution "a the
property ef Passhsore H. Mi chell aud Ada
line Mitchell, his e, aad t. t.'s, and to be
sold by sa. !
ISAAC GRUBB Sheriff.
sheriffs ONCE, New Castle, Oct ]. A.: u
1877. ocS-ts
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SHERIFF SALES.
CHERIFF'S SALE.

By virtue Of q writ of Ievor, u
N directed, will be exposed tn p,,hclas haclas 70
at the Lafayette Hotel. S4l Sb =, ,uollc ~. eals
kept by Geo. W. Ortlip In the iat7y a!reet,
mington, New Castle County' Ty Se,aWil. si WI.
WEDNESDAY, the Sd day of octoher ,o,r
at 2 O'Clock, 2. M,
the following described Real Estate W.T..
NO. !. beginning at the Westerlv sida: z:
Pine st., between Fifth and Sixth sts SIue Q! o.
tle distance 81 eighty #. from the nor.t ~
'rly Side OF Fifth st., thence Westerlv no W.
allel with Fifth at eighty It. t., stpp1.r tpai-
thence northerly parallel with Pine stnaos' ae'
twelve IT. SIX In. to another stake thans
easterly parallel with Fifth st.. eigntw f6oce
the said side Of Pine st., thence fheyo,,,,.WH ~, -
southerly twelve #. six in to the nians WIN
beginning, be The contents thereof more y. y.
less. WI 1aole or
NO. 2. Beginning at the easterlv s,do =.
Pine below Third, at a distance of thirtv = -
from the south side Of frame HvnsS ~ ~.
said st., owned by Charles CANDY. and a1a W
tending along said street parallel thano
with south sixteen feet to q corner thans. th.vte'
east parallel with Third st., flfty. nins :, ~
corner, thence north parallel with DIV "
ST., sixteen IT. to a corner. thenca maas
parallel with Third st., tft, mine # tn VIZ ~.
place of beginning, be the conten ts tbsrsss tn Ss
Of more or less 1,. o''
Seized and taken in execution as N.
property Of William Silver and Eliza low ,ms
his wife, t, t's. and to Re hold by '"'la'
ISAAC GRUbB. sher,f
sher1ff,s ofhce, New Castle, Sept. Il, iSz
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CHERIFF's SALE.

-
By virtue OF writ OF Levari Facias. to
me directed, will be exposed to public sale,
at the Laiavette Hotel. s4l Shfpley street
kept by, George W: OrtNip, In tho city Of
Wi)minton, New Castle County, Della
ware, on ~ 81"
SATURDAY. the 2nth day Of OCTOBER
1871 at2o'clock, pm.
Tho following described real estate. viz.
All that certai, let ot piece Of land ard
brck message tnereoh e'ecied. situated
in The city Of Whining on. bo'' nded and de-
scrjbed as follows, 10 W.T.: Beginning pm the
westerly side Of Mel X ct 81 Get, at the dis
tapce Of II feet ~ ia. rom The northevly
side OF second street at 40 feet b. Dad At .
corner Of lp I'd lately sold by the sad e L.
Rice to Morris Dick :nsop; thence westerly
AVID parallel wi.h Secood 81 eel. (aAn pass
ing a'ong the souihe, " side Of an alley
th1 ee fee6 Ia width and 81 feet and Ia. in
iength) III feet7 in. to tue s'eriy side .
Sh ipIey street, thence nor nerly along ga u
side of shiplev street, anu across the HOu, i
of said allev 20 feet 70 land OF william B.
SharDe. thence alocg said i1nd eaeterly
pnd parallel with second strees. 81 feet 7
in. 10 q stake northe,'v end para'lei with
Market street. 6Hi.n TO sake End east.
the aforesaid side of NarBe. street., and
hence thereby southery q feet 81 In. to
the place of beginning, b. The COZ vents
thereof what thev NAV with the brick
bui ding thereon erected,
Seized and taken J., execution a. the
ploper.7 heretofore OF WI liam TatnaiI
aud wife. Tut now 'he pronerty Of vii.
nail and wife, end t. It's AID 10 be sold by
ISAAC GRUBR. sheriff.
Sheriff ONCE. New Castle, Oct. /. A. D
1877 costs
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SHERIFF SALES.
CHERIFF'S SALE.

BY virtue of writ of Ais. Levari Facias,
to me directed, will be exposed to ruDnc
Sale, at the Hotel of william b. Hollis, a.
Townsend, Appoquinimlnk Hundred, new
Castle County, Delaware. on
THURSDAY. the 18th, day Of October, lS7,
at l O'Clock. P. M,
The following described Real sstate. W w; Z;
land, situate, lying, and being IN Black bird
Hundred formerly Part OF Of Ap'oauhanIi,, thS %anhIic
road leading from Tay lor's Bridge to Flem-
minss' Landing, by the smyrna Cree Crssk' by by
lands Of James G. Lattomus, and by lands
now he'd by ''atharine Mailley, as tenant
in dover, con ntaining one hundred and sixty
acres. be the .ane more or less. Book N,
VOL Page 49, etc.
Seized an6 taken in execution as the pro-
perty Of Jacob Deakyne, and Catharine
beakyne, his wife, and t. t., and to be sold
by
ISAAC GRURB, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, New Castle. september S.
lV77, sep26-t>
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CHERIFF'S SALE.

By virtue OF writ OF Levarla pabIic paGI1
to me directed, will be exposed 10 a ,tnlav
Sale, at The Lafayette Hotel ~ nphs ~ Ike
street, KEEP by George W. Ortilp' n,,rtv. ~
city Of Wilmington, New Castle couN"'
Delaware. en- ,or,
WEDNESD DAY, the Sd day Of Octooef' ''''
at2o.clock P. M.
The following described Real Estate, VII situ.
All hat certain lot or piece OF aau aanurasald.
uate, in the City Of Wilmington, alo, eS~i ,uit
bounded and described as follows, 10 TO- ",de
Beginning AT q point on the easteij; nj;ne n,
of Hea d ST. at the distance OF niy Nv sido
nne in. norIher!y from the norlnsiiy}e to
Of Twelfth ST., thence easterly pa thanct
Twelfth 81. s xty five IT. TO corner, nm.
nOrtherly parallel with Heald ST., ont thirty
dred feet to the suutherly slre or. o, ron,
IT, wide street said street runn'n- -orallel
deald ST., towards Claymsut st., rv by
with Thirteenth st thence Wiso Wese street.
said side OF said thirty. feet WIZ a. I'D st.,
sixty-tive feet to tue said size OF Ehrndrsd
and thence thereby southerly one tha ron.
feeG 10 the place of beginning, o. Su'
tents thereof what they may: -, the pro.
Seized and TAX en- in execution az r. Iones,
per'y of John w. Leekjns, Barton r. =. a. and
Isaac Back US, and Eliza, ms wa Ann,
Peter Spencer Villains, a'd *,
his wife, and t. It's. and to be sn,o ou"nyarifK ~
ISAAC GRUbbi "a iW,1
sheriffs Office, New Ussue, Sep" ~ '
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A DJOURNED sHERIFF's SALE.

By virtue of writ of Levari Facias TO
me directed will be exposed to PuDhc
Sale at the Lafayette Hotel, No S4lS Shlp,ey
street, kept by george W. Ortlip. in the
city of Wilmington, New Castle county,
Del, on
WEDNESDAY, the Sd day Of October, 1871
at Z o'clock. p. M,
The follow ing described Real Estate, w,
All that certain lot of land with Drlckt
messuage thereon, situate in said C1ty "
Wilmington, and particularly describes -
follows, TO wit: Beg nniDg on the nortns,
erly side of Front 81, between Walnut anu
FIR nch SIS, at about 50 IT 9inches lroM on
the westerly side of Walnut ST., being tne
middle of partition wall, thence n0rtnei,
lv parallel with Walnut street through
said wall about 50 ft. to land OF - SIM ~
thence west rly paral 81 with FROM s.'
about IS #. Inches to | nd OF Mlcnaeel Ie
Lally, thence souLherly parallel with wa, ar
nut ST.. about SO fv, to the said nnrtne.,;y u;.
side of Front ST., and thence thereby easr
erly about IS r.. 3 in. to the place OF pesin'
ming, be the contents what they may. N.
Seized and taken in execution ~ t.iS sis
property Of William Duffy and Mary LIE
"A'e "no W Nc sE,a IsAay AZ GRUBB, Sheriff.
Sheriffs Office. New Castle, Sept IT. l0'"
sep BITS
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CHERIFF"S SALE.

By virtue OF. writ Of Ievari Facias
to me directed, will be exposed to
Public sale at the Hotel Of william b.
Hollis, at Townsend. Appoquinimink hun
dred. New Castle County, Delaware. on
THURSDAY. the 18th day of October, lS77.
atl O'Clock, P. NJ,
The following described Real Estate. viz:
All that CERTAIN tract Of land situated in
Blaokbird Hundred, formerly part Of Ap-
poquinimink Hundred, County and Atate
aforesaid, bounded as follows, viz: Begis-
ming at a large chestnut white oak. being
corner also f,r lands of George Deakyne,
and Henry K. Walker; running thence
with the land of Henry r. Walker, sou'h
40N degrees, west8l 4O.l0O perches to stone
on the sou h side Ofthe rOad eading from
Smyrna to the thoroughfare. thence south
23K degrees. east SO perches and 7G.l00 Ia .
stone at the root Of willow On the edge OF
ditch thence with said ditch through the
centre thereof, north S6 degrees and half
east 4 perches- and 92-lOO, thence south 70
degrees and a hal east 80 psrches and 60 100
thence south s. degrees AID a-half. east
perches and IL l0O thence south IA d. grees
and .a.half, asst s. perches and 81 2-lsU, thence
south 80 degrees, east q perches, thence
south SO degrees, east 65 perches, thence
sou h "a degrees, east - perches to the edge
Its several courses S5l pelches and II. 10 to q
stake at the edge Of said creek. corner also
for George Deakyne; thence with the land
Of said George Deakyne by line establish
cd BY the report Of James Rogess and Jas.
r. BlacR, un ter rule of the Court of Com
mon Pleas, for New Castle County, entered
at No. 90 Of January Term, A. D. 1925 bear
ing now north 4SL degrees west. being an
allowance of half degree varia ion, 65
perches and 76.lOO to large chestnut white
Oak, as Aforesaid and place Of ginning,
containing three hundred acres, be the
lpSl Rnnk a Vol
$50, etc.
Seiz and taken in execution as the pro-
perty OF Jacob Deakyne, and Catharine, hts
wife. and Robert Warren, and his wife. It's,
and to be sold Dy
ISAAC CRUDE, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office. New Castle, Septsnbe 18th
A. D.. 1877. sept2SN
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SHERIFF'S SALES.
LyHERIFFS SALE.

By virtue of writ of ais. I.evari Facias
to me directed, will be exposed to Public
Sale, at the Lafayette Hotel, 84l ehipley
street. kept by Geo. W. Ortlip, in the City
of Wilmington, New Castle County. DEL,
on 90
WEDNESDAY, the Sd day of October, 1877
at 2 o'clock. p. M.
The following described Real Estate viz:
All that certain lot of land and situate In
the City of Wilmington, bounded as fol-
lows, to wit: Beginning on the sOutherly
side Of So #. wide street. laid out paral lei
with, and at the distance of $50 it,, north
erly, fIom the northerly side Of LObdell
street, and opening into Heald and Cay
mont streets, and at the distance of LIS it.
westerly, from the westerly side of Clay
inout street; thence southeriy, parallel
with Claymont street Is It to q corner
thence westerly, oarallel with Lobdell
street, Is It. to corner; thence nOrtherly
parallel with Claymont street rs feet 70 the
aforesaid side of the said 50 #. wide street ;
thence thereby easterly Is IT. to the place
of, beginning, be the contents thereof what
they may. Book 9, vol. 8. page 43O, &c.
Seized and taken in execution as the
property of William H. Farrier and Mary
e., his vile, and t. t (, and to be sold by
ISAAC GRUBB Sheriff
sheriff's Office, New Castle, Sept. "A, 1877.
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