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ERRORS OF YOUTH

N GENTLEMAN who suffered for years
10. from Nervous Debility, Premature Decay,
r All the efforts ofyouthful indiscretion will,
,the sake Of suffering humanity, send free
r u who need il, the recipe and direction
making the simple remedy by which he
4 Cured Sufferers wishing to profit by the
rsftiser's experience can do so by addressing
lericct confidence
NJ JOHN B. OGDEN, 42 Cedar St,
q ork. jan 4-Gm.
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hanged Hands.

Mr.. VIM. II. Ketchley having rent
&C the Steam Mill Of Col. Ammon, near
4 ~ place, gives notice in another column
n, be is prepared to fulfill all orders
IL ketehley, we understand, is a prac-
Il man and fully understands his bust
IS. Success to him.
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Death of a Faithful servant.

Ross Ford, a faithful old colored
man, died on Sunday morning at Mid
dletown, where he has been known for
years and appreciated for his polite at
tention to Miss Lizlic's guests
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II II e MA WAND IND r D
.ppointment Of Postmaster.

Francis E. Hardy has been appoint
4 postmaster at Gallant Green, Charles
lunty, in the place of John II. Padgett,
signed.
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TO CONSUMPTIVES.

be advertiser, having been permanently
4 of that dread disease, Consumption, by
nple remedy, is anxious to make known
IS fellow sufferers the means of cure. To
| no desire it, he will send a copy Of the
cription used, (iree Of charge) with the
stions for preparing al using the same
n they will liud a CURE CuRE for CoNsuNP-
Z ASTHMA, BRoNcHITIs, &c Parties wish
thc prescriptions will please address.
Rev. L. A. WILSON,
t94 Penn ST., Williamsburgh, New York
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BAIT. & POTOMAC RAILROAD.
From Calvert Station.

For Washington, 100 and II Is m. and 40
nm, daily. except Sunday; and 25 and
9l5 am. IFS and ll.5G pm. daily.
For Pope Greek Line, 7.00 am. and $40 p.
m. daily, except Sunday
For Annapolis, 700 and ll.l5 am, and 3.40
p.m. daily. except Sunday.
For Richmond and the South, So pm. dali
ly, and 3 80 pm. daily, except Sunday
For the South via va. Midland Railroad, II Sc
p daily.
For Gordonsvine and c. j. o. Railroad, 7.l5
pm daily.
crs on Monday and Thursday only, lib
From Charles-strect station.
For Washington, 4.4o am. daily. Limited
Express daily, except SUNDAY, 2.55 pm.
For Philadelphia and New York .05 pm.
daily, except SUNDAY, AID 335 am and
HOS pm. daily. Limited Express at 10. IS
am. daily, except Sunday For Philadel-
phia, 1.05 pm. daily
For the South via Lynchburg, 4.40 m daily.
From Pennsylvania-avenue Station.
For Washington, 10, 40 9.25 and II 80
am, 3.55 and 100 pm. On Sunday at
7.4d and 925 am, 80 pm.
For Annapolis, 7.l0 and IL 80 a m: 355pm.
Leave Washington for Baltimore, 2.O5, ! .35,
9.30, 80 am; 1870, 420 $50, 7.40, Q. 20
pm. On Sunday, 2.0j, 9.55 am, $50
TAO, $40 pm.
D. NJ BOYD, in,
General Passenger Agent.
FRANK THOMPSON, General Manager.
Jan 25-f
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Paragraphic.

photographic.
...Sleighing is done for.
...Oycrcoats are at a discount.
The weather speaks for itself
Corn cob pipes are fashionable now
The ground hog couldn't see his
shadow Friday 50, if he is to be de-
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j. SCH MID I,
Tailor, Scourer and Repairer,
PORT TOBACCO.
TAILORING BUSINESS

in all its branehes am prepared to cut and
make new garments in the latest style, and to
repair and clean old clothing in the best man
ner. All work done on the most reasonable
terms and at short notice ~ LOST
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From Charles-strect station.

FRANK THOMPSON, General Manager.
jan 25-uf
Middletown transcript., 1877-01-13
gelttt Story.
A Night of Terror.
BY SADIE E ARONs

Birdie Clifton was a very handsome
girl Of eighteen years Of age, whose
light golden curls, large, expressive
eyes, of deep blue, and complexion of
exquisite fairness, added to a form of
matchless grace, made her quite belle
in the small town of Riverton
Her fathers only child, petted and
caressed by him, all her wants instantly
obeyed, what wonder Birdie was as
spoiled a girl as could be found in that
part of the country.
The coming spring she was to have
married young man who was in every
respect worthy of her but angry words
were spoken which separated these two
who loved each other so well. She was
too proud to acknowledge herself in the
wrong. while he was only waiting for a
summons that would bring him to her
side once more.
Glide Hall had no reason to get an
CRY and scold me, because | waltzed
twice with Frank Vamburg," and she
would thus silence her conscience BY
believing herself greatly abused.
Middletown transcript., 1877-01-13
Slightly Mixed.
BY BIZARRE.

Whats this 'Somerard' affair all
about, pa ?' inquired Burdock's eldest
daughter of him the other day, as the
family were sitting around the table, af-
ter it had been cleared Of the supper
dishes
why in the world, Nellie, don't you
read the papers, and keep yourself post
ed, and be able to converse fuently up
on the topics of the day, like everybody
else ?" he asked, sharpening his razor
on strap for the mornings use.
II don't have any time, pa, to read
all about such things" said the young
lady, sorting her worsted for the motto
she was working.
Timel-why, hang it, you've got
Middletown transcript., 1877-01-13

"a Reminiscence of stonewnlI Jackson.
In a recently published letter the
Hon Charles James Faulkner furnishes
the following incident in the life of Gen.
Stonewall Jackson cat the age Of 16
years Thomas J. Jackson was consta-
BILE of the county of Lewis, Va, with
his uncle Cummings jackson as his Sc
curity. The first execution that came
into his hands was against a widow liv-
ing some twelve miles from the court
house. jackson summoned a man
named Charlie Post to accompany him
and to assist him in driving away the
cattle which he proposed to levy upon
When be arrived there be found that
the old woman had but one COW. the
principle means of her support So soon
as he learned this he turned to his com
panion and said Charlie, | will not
levy this execution on that poor woman's
COW as poor as | am l would rather
work night and day and pay the debt
myself Upon that he left there and
stated the facts to his uncle, his securi-
ty in his official bond He listened to
his narrative and then said q Tom [
see you were never born to be consta-
BILE, my boy resign your Office at once
and | will pay the execution" Mr.
Faulkner says also Il remember upon
one occasion received telegram Of
the extreme illness of daughter in APP
county, and communicating
message from her that she wished to
make some request OF me in person be-
fore she died | took the telegram to
Gen. Jackson and asked him for leave
Of absence for few days He read it,
and I observed tear trickling down his
cheek, and after pausing for few mo-
meuts he said Colonel, I shall not
refuse Your request, for there is nothing
now requiring your presence absolutely
at headquarters ; but l will announce
to you the rule that governs my con
duct. When | entered the army l gave
myself up to my country, and however
might deplore my separation from
those | love and especially under the
mentioned in this tele-
gram, yet I would not feel myself at
liberty to leave my post here have
left all that are dear to me in the hands
Of my country and of my God"
Middletown transcript., 1877-01-13
LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST.

THE undersigned respectfully informs the
1 citizens Of Middletown and vicinity that
he is prepared with excellent horse cart and
wagons, TO do all kinds Of Hauling at lower
rates than can be obtained elsewhere. Coal
and Lumber hauled at short notice. Sand of
all kinds on hand at low rates All orders
will receive prompt attention. Give me cal. .
JOHN w. HAYES,
Successor to L. G. Vandegrift
augls-6m MIDDLETowN, DEL
Middletown transcript., 1877-01-13
Doing Good,

Every human being has a mission to
perform Every man has a part to act
in the worlds great drama-one of IN
speakable Importance But how few
are there who come fully up to its
standard, and endeayor by divine assist
ance to fulfil it. Man was created for
a noble purpose, endowed with an i'm
mortal mind, and is capable of perform
ing good work. Consider how great
may be the influence of a single indi-
vidual, either for good or evil If We
have been influential in reforming one
being made in the image of God, but
sadly misled by the contaminating in
fuence Of vice, we have performed a
good work
There are various ways in which
good may be accomplished, but when a
good resolution is formed, the work is
too often begun with lack of conf
dence and perseverance, and impatient
to accomplish the undertaking, we des
pair at the first difficulty This should
not be, but with more faith, the more
distant the day Of reward, the harder
we should labor and not let our arms
become palsied because we do not meet
with immediate and large results of our
labor, but in time or eternity we shall
receive the reward
Much good may be done with the
pen, and how much good has been done
in this way, by which the Influence of
many still live while they have long
since gone to their final resting place
But we would not have you vainly am-
bilious to render your name immortal,
thinking to make a speck in the world
by figuring in the papers, or assume the
Importance of fly that imagined itself
turning the wheel upon which it was
only turning round But whatever
you do let it be done to the glory Of
God, and remember that 'He that con-
vcrteth the sinner from the error of his
way, shall save a soul from death, and
shall hide multitude Of sins"
Middletown transcript., 1877-01-13
Srlrtt Aoetrp.
BALDE's DIRGE ON THE DEATH OF
THE EMPRESS.
(CHoREA MoRTUALIs sIvE LEssUs

Jacob Balde was born in Alsace in 1903,
entered the order Of the Jesuites in 1924, and
died in 1868 His Latin poetry has very
high merit affixed to it in Germany. Such
critics as Herder and Schlegel have Geen very
enthusiastic in their praises Of it. The dirge,
which follows, was written 10 commemorate
the demise of the Empress Leopoldina, consort
of Ferdinand the Third, who departed this
life at Vienna, after one years marriage, Au-
gust l. l849 ''The great common places Of
death says Archbishop French, which, if al
ways old, are yet always new, have seldom
robed themselves ia grander form, or found
more solemn utterances than they do in this
sublime poem" The alluson, in the twenty
second verse, is 10 the Swedish invasion of
Germany, "only four years before the smoke
of the Swedish watch spires had been visible
from the ramparts Of Vienna" We have seen
several translations of the poem, but the one
given below is more literal than any that has
fallen under our notice From it your many
readers can form some conception of its re-
markable beauty and grandeur.-B. D., Ct-
clifton, Nd
Middletown transcript., 1877-01-13

conceived trips across the Delaware in
mid-winter of 1776-77 turned the tide
of the Revolutionary war, by the IN
spiritiDg influences of the success at
Trenton and Princeton. .-Philadelphia
Ledger.
Middletown transcript., 1877-01-13

We live in deeds not years E; in
thoughts, not breaths in feelings, not
in figures on dial. We should count
time by heart-throbs He mos: lives
who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts
the best
Believe, desire to find thy will in the
Divine will alone. Be silent when be
strikes, content when he denies, thank
full when he gives, and resigned when
he takes away
Flowers are the alphabet of angels,
scattered over hills and dales, and
speaking what the tongue cannot .ex-
press.
Middletown transcript., 1877-01-13
Reciprocity Shirt |!
ALL MADE.

ALL MADE,
WITH EXCEPTION OF THE BUTTON HOLES
Made Of Wansutta Muslin and
21OO Heavy Linen!
We feel confident that we are giving intrinsi-
cally
THE CHEAPEST.
BEST MADE and
BEST FITTING SHIRT
THAT HAS EVER BEEN OFFERED FOR s1.25.
The RECIPROCITY SHIRT is superior TO most
Of shirts, 6rst-class, (so-called) for the follow
ing reasons:
Our Collar Bands are Linen, and are Three
Ply.
Our Cuffs are Linen, and are Three Ply.
Our Blossoms are Lined with Heavy Linen,
and are Three Ply
Our Back Facings are both upper and uu-
der; made wide, giving Strength and finish
9~To the people that have been accus-
toned to buy materials for shirts, and have
them made up at home. we particularly call
to their notice our RECIPRocITY SHIRT. All
made but the button holes, and only 81 .25
each, at
J. P. DOUGHTEN'S
No. 4IO Market Street.
Middletown transcript., 1877-01-13

If | voluntarily do substantial favor
to anybody, and that person offers to
repay it without my wishing it, or the
occasion requiring it, he merely tries
thereby to excuse himself from recog-
nizing at future day the debt of graf
itude he ought to bear. and shows him
self to be an unworthy and selfish per-
son.-Haynes.
You are harming the world Cover
your mines, leave your gold in the
earth, and go to planting potatoes.
Every man who gives potato to the
world is the benefactor of his race but
you with your gold are overturning So
ciety, making the ignoble prominent.
increasing everywhere the expense of
living, and confusing all things.-Car-
lyle.
The man who shows that he is vain
of having done us favor pays himself
and saves US the trouble.
Middletown transcript., 1877-01-13
Tnmhfr and Aarduarr.
LINDLEY & KEMP,
DEALERS IN
HARDWARE,
Agricultural Implements,
OPPOSITE NATIONAL HOTEL,
OPPOSITE NATIONAL HOTEL,
MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE,
Hardware Denarfment.

iron and Steel, Horse and Mule Shoes, Horse
Nails, Blacksmith Supplies, Chain Traces,
Hames Trowels, Nails, Spikes, Locks, Hinges,
Bolts, Files, Chsels, Levels, Planes, Bevels,
Wrenches, Picks, Mattocks, Hubs, Rims,
Spokes, Shafts, Long and Short Arms, Clips,
Springs, Enameled Cloth, Gum Canvass, sc.
A complete stock of TOOLS and Supplies
for Carpenters, Builders, Masons, Saders,
Shoemakers and Others with many House
furnishing articles. We invite the public to
call and examine our prices.
Middletown transcript., 1877-01-13
AVERILL CHEMICAL PAINT,
TOWN AND COUNTRY PAINT,
(Ready -Mixed.)

"Blatchlsy's'' Celebrated Cucumber Wood
Pumps and everything in the building line.
Having made arrangements with large
wholesale dealers, | shall be prepared TO fur
nish large bills Of Lumber for buildings such
as may not have in stock, direct from whole
sale dealers, thereby securing the lowest prices
possible to be obtained.
Give me a call, and get MI prices, before
purchasing elsewhere. Feb 5-ly.
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MISCELLANY.

Apetition to the Texas Legislature Is
being circulated, asking the passage Of
law to punish horse thieves as follows:
First offence, whipping post, second.
whipping and branding; third, hang
ing.
The whipping post is sim used as o
means Of punishment In Virginia. At
Alexandria. recently, colored woman
was inflicted with ten lashes on her bare
back for stealing some articles of cloth
ing.
A chaHng dish has been invented In
Marseilles which folds in order to be
conveniently portable, and which will
cook steak in four minutes with only
lighted paper for fuel. 1t is to be in
troduced into this country.
A Cineinnatian prevented his sons
marriage by getting him very drunk on
the day set for the wedding.
A Salt Lake City paper asserts that
the recent gunpowder explosion caused
100 premature births.
The New Hampshire teetotalists are
investigating whether sap beer intoxi-
Gates.
A flash Of lightning at Cheshire. Mass.
tore holes in the ground all about .
farmer and the cow he was milking, and
then knocked both down.
The San Diego (cal.) Union says that
there are 1882 fruit trees In that coun-
ty. Of which 44,os5 are orange trees, and
1880 olive.
Herbert Spencer says the gold ring
now worn by married women is the sign
cfthe iron ring that was worn about the
neck or ankle In olden times, and indi-
Gated the submission Of the wearer. Mr..
Spencer is bachelor.
Texarkana, a town Of 200 inhabitants, Is
claimed by both Texas aud Arkansas, the
State line dividing the town in the GEN.
IRE. Taxpayers are happy because
they don't recognize the assessment Of
either State.
They suspended q Louisville Ky.)
policeman merely because, when he ar
rested q women at ball just for trying
to shoot fiddler, he held consultation
with her on the street corner and then
returned TO the hall and danced set
with her
.,usses should be careful not to dis
pirit or brighten their patients. BY
mistake married lady ia London gave
her husband, who was suffering from
heart disease, dose from wrong bottle,
labelled ..poison.r The mistake was i'm
mea;ately detected, but there was no poi
son in the bottle; the patient, however,
WAS 50 frightened that he died the same
afternoon.
IN London the new Coffee Palace for
the working classes Is very popular. 1t
IL an immense building we'll lighted, and
having hall for miscellaneous enter
tainnens r,sns fr talking, reading,
smoking and l'ayipg al sorts Of games
fsen do,ninws tpbiliiarlls. There are
r"ums for wuuAen al-s'. ADD huge dining
r,oin. wlivr. good food eaI. be bought
very cheavly, ba; M liqu"r.
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PENNSYLYANIA RAILROAD

BEL-NlT)ERE DN/ISlONIz
On and after Juns Is, 1877.
Tn ANS EnR NEW xnRK Am. sssrtl q af.r 1.rrr
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DR.. J. w. A. BIRKEY,
SURG EON DENTIST,

UNIFORMS his patrons aud the public that he con-
u tin.es 10 practice his profession at Ne, 2<o 6oaSth
Locust Street. and that he prepared 70 perform all the
most dieult and intricate operations appsrtaining to
Dentistry He also administers all the Gases for the
positive relief Of pain In the extracting Of teeth being
the first who dared % bring into use IN his profession
In the State of Pennsylvania He likewise sts every
description Of Artificial Teeth but especially the Terra
Metallic Of which he Is te dscoverer and inventory
in the most satisfactory manner to the Feafef Ex-
tracing Teeth specially.
Sept s, lS76-ly
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-06-14
Iseas And Mock Justice.

In bis address to the Presidential
Commission, GOV. Nicholas Said
that he but spoke the sentiments
of the people when he declared
that their government will secure :
/" IA vigorous and efficient en-
forcement Of the laws, SO that all
persons and property shall be
fally and equally protected A
very large area for reform in the
administration Of justice is covered
by this emphatic declaration. 1t
is not of a lack of laws for the
protection OF persons and property
that this community can complain.
But no one, except q blinded
partisan, will deny that the laws
to punish offenses of a criminal
character, have been most in
efficiently administered here. LII
this parish, under the new regime,
there have been number of
proofs given OF determination
to ipHiet the seyerest penalties re-
corded by the statutes against
criminal ofenses. But, again,
these infractiops, in other in
stances have met slighter punish.
ment as if Justice nodded at times,
or acted from impulse rather than
calm and well regulated judgment.
Without q vigorous and efficient
of tho laws, it is
farcical to talk Of "all persons
and property being fully and
equally protected" And II il
OF this point that the
egai power and moral inhuence
If the Chief Executive Of the
State have their greatest weight.
fae officials, seborginaiss to 81
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1t gratities us to be able TO announce
shat Messrs. Jacob Ryan and Geo. w.
Ryan expect to have in operation at an
early date, a shingle machine and rice
xniu at this place. Both are much
wanted, and the latter is necessity,
the want of which has been severely
felt by the people Of CalcaSieG for
several years.
We may safely put down our lands
available to cultivation of rice at two
hundred and fifty Thousand acres, and
while we can not hope that all of this
will ever be subjected to cultivation.
vet mention III to show the extent to
which rice culture might be expanded.
This is already a leading crop of this
pa1ash, being raised for stock feed us
we'll as for table nse, and we doubt not
but that with facilities for cleaning the
crops in q few years Caleasieu wild be
one OF the leading rice exporting par
fishes Of this State.
We wish the gentlemen complete
success in their enterprise, and believe
they viii, if successful, be regarded as
Soenefactors.
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4 We are told there is a movement OH
foot among some of the leading colored
men Of this city to organize colony
of their race for Liberia. Several
large colonies have emigrated from
different portions of the South to
Liberia. and only q few days ago we
4 published an extract from a latter
written from that country by an in
teiligent colored man who had emigra-
ted from North Carolina, to a gentle
man living in Georgia, in which he
expressed himself as being highly de-
lighted with the country, and said
that every member of the colony was
in q prosperous condition, aad advised
all the colored people, who were able,
to emigyate to that country as soon as
possible. Shreveport Times
America has no national flower or
plant. but many other nations have.
La England, the rose is the national
flower, the white and red roses being
the eml3ie'ns of the houses of York
aud Lancaster, and which figured in
what is known la history as the wars of
the roses. Scotland has its thistle,
because, duriDga Danished invasion,
a Dame stepped on it and cried out so
as to alarm the Scots in camp. Wales
has the leek, Ireland the shamrock,
France the .tseu1 de lis, Italy and
GTeece the olive. In Tennessee,
Mississippi and several other Southern
States, the beautif ii white magnolia is
probably the flower of the people in
Florida, the orange tree, in South |
Carolina, the palmetto. ETC., but the
United States, as government or
people, has not national flower, tree on
plant Memphis Appeal.
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cooperating with him,

cooperating with him, can be
compelled by determined and
watchful Governor to- Jealous
and prompt discharge of their
duties, tho perhaps he may give
each of them no special or per-
sonal instructions or requests.
A public rebuke from him, tho
courteously worded, will have all
the effect of the severest punish
ment in such a case, for it will
represent the Indignation and the
outraged moral sentiment cf the
entire community. So, when the
officers of the law are slow to make
arrests in cases of blood shedding,
whether resulting or not in life
taking, those officers are clearly
not capable of aiding the Gov
ernor in vigorous aud efficient
enforcement of the laws, +" for the
full and equal protection of life !"
and the community will assuredly
not be satisfied until such feeble
representatives of the laws terrors
are consigned to the obscurity
whence partisan zeal should never
be able to resuscitatc them. The
law officers who, when life has
been attempted or taken in an
ARRAY, made notorious at once to
all through the press, delay day
after day to make arrests and
give the offenders every oppor-
tonity to escape, are no better
than accessories to the murder,
where murder there is !; and. Sc
we're lesson should be taught them
from the State House. N. o. |
New Delta.