Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11


ix'ne medium" has continued al the |
week and has proven one Of the greatest
sensations known in long time. Tho
expose has been complete, but that fact |
has not interested people 30 much o. the
personal nature Of the developments,
showing the connection with the fraud,
either a. helpers or victims, of various |
persons well known in the community,
Tho extent to which the thing has bee,.
carried, and the space given it in thu
newspaper reports, pretty well indicates
the proportions of Spiritualism in thia !
city. Tho belief is much larger than
people who have given the matter only
slight attention suppose, and the fraternity
is moved 10 its center by the Bliss dis.
closures, even more 30 than II was by tho
"Katy King" business. Very few or the
Spiritualists attempt to defend Bliss, how
ever. They say he ~ trickster who has
brought their cause into discredit, and
they are more earnest in hoping for his
punishment than any other class Thu
whole business Is shown up, and it is not
possible, seemingly, that the adventurer
can escape the charge. The indictment,
However, is not severe one, and Bliss
cannot be made to suffer greatly 1t il
not that point that people are making, but
the desire to once and for all expose ra,
cality on the part of mediums" BGss
may be yet brought to on severer charct
that of bigamy, for among tho pleasant
surprises of tho week in court was one of
this nature.
The sessions OF the medical colleges
opened this week, and were occasions Of
much interest Concern conferred 1T tho
University and at Jefferson, as ii Away
does, but the recent important changes il
rn1tie.l study makes the rivalry between
tt,se famous schools more marked tha,i
ever. Professor Rogers was put forward
by Jefferson to make the salutatory, sit
nation of Affairs which can hardly be fully
appreciated by any one outside of the
profession. DR.. Rogers seeded from the
University only few months ago, when
the fee system Mt that college was seen to
&c doomed. He was Dean of the Uniyer-
sly Faculty, its oldest professor, and had
I'D the fight against Jeff tiercely for
many years. yet he Went over the way As
meek as Moses the moment his pocket
book was touched. I fancy there must
have been some irony in the cheers which
greeted him in the. Jefferson lecture
room. The opening of the new
hospital also made this On occasion
OF marx for Jefferson. At the University,
Dr. Pepper delivered An elahcrate address
detailing tho reforms in the course of
study, giving fully the reasons therefor,
explaining the difficulties encountered, and
outlining the results which were expected.
AS large classes rs formerly are not
expected, nor are they desired. JEFF eau
nave It, hundreds but the University viii
be content with its fifties. DR.. Pepper
took the bold ground that there are already
Tar too many doctors, and that the colleges
yearly turn out numbers entirely dispro.
portioned to the population, and further,
tnat these numbers were very imperfect
educated. II was o powerful address and
every point told.
The UNITED Labor Party" have
managed to give us one very pretty sensa-
ton at all events. If to attract attention
Is the first duty of party this organiza-
ton has made good beginning. The
nomination of Mr.. j. II. Anders for
District Attorney did not seem to Civ
satisfaction. Whether this was because Of
an intimation somehow given that the
ticket could be strengthened by another
name, or whether Anders in himself wa.
Objectionable, is not known, and does nc.
now much matter, but it is certain tina
Andars was induced to withdraw, and Mr.
Benjamin II. Brewster was nominated for
the place. This news causedconsiderablc
OF a stir. 1t was on the instant felt that
Brewster had possible power over Repub.
hcans sufficient to divert enough votes from
Thayer to give the election to Hagert.
Brewster, for his part, was aggrieved with
the Republican managers, and tho
despised and rejected laborers storm be.
cause MI at once the head of the corner
for the District Attorneyship is the princi
pa matter of interest in the coming,
election. Brewster the aristocrat, on II
Labor ticket is funny to be sure, but when
business is to the fore there is no time to
laugh. So the United Laborers went to
the elegant Mr.. Brewster (the man who
thinks American artisans cannot even build
cl1'hes good enough for him, but who
regularly imports his waring apparel
from London) and laid the case before
him. The conclusion reached, after
some delay, was as amusinp
ms the original idea. 1t came to this-that
Mr.. Brewster could not conscientiously
accept the nomination, because he hal
st'an tie regulation pledge to the Repub-
Acan Convention to support whoever
might Gc the nominee of that party for
District Attorney, but while he could no,
formally accept, he would not object to
htytrS his name printed on the Labor
ticket, -and that he would serve if
elected! can well imagine what the
party papers will have to say about this
TO morrow, and in truth it is rather
tricky, but that is entirely after the
brewster nature, nor is it really as
Objectionable ms Judge Thayer's position
N hoiding on to his judsesbip until he
tis"nvers whether he is elected to a better
But the Labor Party is thus seen
done something tangible; if it can
elect Hagert, of which event there is HOW
fair chances it will have done the city
good service.
In the Morton affair the main move
Il mt dfags, although there are episodes of
llicrsat. Morton himself is reported to
b. We made an assignment of all his prop.
ri:y to his creditors, and Stokes, the ex-
Secretary of the Railway Company, has
fnuc insane, and has b, on committed to
FiTshride. Those are the tories, but SO
suspicious have people become that many
of them do not scruple to disbelieve both
reports, and to hold that Morton's assign
ment will still leave him, if not in his own
hands, in those of his relatives, Mt least,
plenty TO make him comfortable, and that
tho Nok.h movement is only way
OF getting that person orr Oh yeriona
entanglements.
It was n thousand pitcs that the rrir
s'or'' struck Germantown right in tie
pliou Of its centennial celebration. j
was 4. 'iy as complete thing in idea a.
we haE lately got up hereebouts, and but
for the storm it wonii have been a iiut
arceess. As it was, tho rarsders KEEP
nanfully vt their work under very dis
conraSinS circumstances, for after so mucl
hearty preparation the result wa most diH
appointing. The speech. cs-sS SlirJ
camp said OF the drinks WIS MI good
and brought the old time ba"k again
refnantown. n yon may hay, heard, wa
BOT the only place TaiDad on IL ct day, bu
u seemed harder for that town tim mo-,
towns, since centennf". does not com
.,,,.. '"n. Bat the poorie D no up, II
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