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Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11
CURRNa LuRRArU11.

I The number q Tn L1vuo AGE for the
hrst week Of October, begins . new
volume. It has valuable article on Ths
Scientific Movement and Literature from
ME- Contemporary Revie,s very interest,"
ing sketch entitled "The Princess
Paolini," Oornhtu;; part fourth of The
Life and Times of Thomas Beckett, by the
historian James A. Froude, Nineteenth
Century; Green Pastures and Piccadilly,
by the noted author, William Black; A
Study Of Lower Life, Cornhi4; German
Society Forty Years Since, Macmillan !
The Poetry of September, CornAi0;; Quiet
People, Saturday Reoieso and tho usual
choice poetry. In the next weekly number
will be begun a new serial. Yorkshire
story, by the author of that charming
story "Patty." The beginning of the
present volume is therefore an excellent
time for the beginning of new subscrip-
tons. For fifty-two numbers of sixty-fou'
large pages each Tor more than three
thousand pages Year,, the subscription
price (Ss) is low while for SlO.5O the
publishers offer to send any one of the
American ~ monthlies or weeklies will
The Lining Age for year, both postpaid
Little & Gay, Publishers, II BroNiielt
street, Boston.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11
DELIWlRE AFFJIRS.

Smyrna has uniformed police force.
They are still playing base ball in the
country.
A meeting is to be held at Newark to-
night i'll aid of the proposed circulating
library.
A carload of evaporated fruit was sent
to Milwaukee from the vicinity of Milford
last week.
1t is said that place ia Milford called
the Young Mems Reading Room is a
gambling den.
The fruit curers, says the Milford
Ne,os, are selling of their seasons pro-
duets at good prices.
Oh, don't The Newark Ledger says
that the Citizens Cornet Band, of that
place, is the pride Of the peninsula.
Col. Small gave an oyster supper and
dancing party to the employees of his
canning factory, at Lincoln, last Monday.
The new church at Armstrong;, near
bIiddletown, the Second Forest Presby-
terrain, was organized on Sunday last with
eleven members.
The Sentinel is of the opinion that W.
r. Cooper, the forger, fraudulent stock
operator, Sc., of San Francisco, fourishetl
around Smyrna in 'GG or 'G7, and was con.
nected with the robbery of safe there.
In relation TO the appointment of Mr..
Iatughiey rs Clerk of tue Peace for Kent
about which inur' Inns been so much dis
satisfaction, the Milford Meas says: IL l.
said that many aI .he former friends o.
Mr. Moore quietly went hack on hin, aus
said that it you'd not be wise TO reap
point NM, aud the current formed b
these and others run so strongly in Mr.
ltaushley's favor that the Goverunicc."
could not wril avoid appointing him Clerl
of the Peace for Kent.
The Milford Ne,os thinks that if thu
people of that town had the enterpris,
they could have the best agricultural
society and get up the best fair of any
town on the peninsula. 1t urges that i
joint stock company be formed for ths
purpose, and that land be bought OF
rented, buildings put up, track laid out
&C., before another summer.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11
A NEW COAL COMBINATION,
Mr.. Gowep and the Beading 10 be Left
OUt-A Rise in Stocks.

sepola' ID sphtoh to the NOW FORK lines.
PH1LApELruIA, Oct. s.-There are
rumors here on very good authority of
proposed new coal combination, composed
of all the companies in the OLD organiza-
ton, but which will exclude the Reading
Company, and leave Mr.. Gowen out in
the cold. The Reading has been winning
m immense business Of late, and it is said
by the officers that there are orders on
hand for three months more delivery,
even if another one does not come in.
A meeting has been called, it is said to
take place in New York on Friday next,
after gathering here on Wednesday of
this week. The present rates of coal are
unremunerative, and the Ssg;fe ~ 10
advance prices to paying basis, or else
all will cut under Mr., Gowen and compel
him to reduce his prices, aud embarr,ss
hirp in bis contracts.
There was considerable excitement OF
the Stock Board to-day when Pennsylvan
shares, which week ago sold at twenty
eight aud seven-eighths, ran up to thirty
three, and afterward declined to thirty -one
and one-fourth. Whenever there is a
great bull movement here it is attributed
to purchasers for New York parties,
especially if the sales are large, as there
are DO manipulators of the market here
who would 60 into things GU such an
extensive scale. Tho whole list sympa-
thiaod with this, and Reading closed at
seventeen and onb-fourth, IN advance of
nearly ~ per share in week.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11
DU1ROUMDlNG COUNT

CROKER Theological Semins : f,s =,
larger number Of students til ~ n..
previous period in its history.
DR.. W. N. Hutchinson.
Chester county, WAS drowned
way home from the Middl to.
Friday. He attempted to ford the H..
Elk creek in two morse carriage, and wus
carried away by the force of the stream,
His body was afterwards found LODGED
against tree, about mile below the
crossing. He was assistant surgeon of the
Eleventh Regiment, P. N. G., and will be
turisd to-day with military honors.
The storm caused the streams in Chester
county to be higher than for many years.
Along their courses fully one-half Of the
smaller bridges have been carried away
and travel greatly interfered with On
Chester Greek the bridges At Bridgewater,
Presbyterian Ford, Wilcoxs's, were swept
away. On the Philadelphia 4 Baltimore
Central railroad, between West Grove and
Oxford, an embankment sixty feet in
length WINS washed away, and travel on
that line will not be resumed for week
or more.
A young lady WAS drowned 1t Oak Hill,
Upper Darby, Delaware county, on the
night Of the storm. Catarine Maurrel and
Mary OHare, were going home from
work in the mill. It was dark and rninino
hard and the girls trudged on hardly know
ing whether they were going the right way
or not. Over the run at the foot of the
hill there has been for years an old bridge.
The heavy storm had washed this away
before the girls came along. They, not
knowing this. stepped into the stream
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11

The next County Teachers Institute
will be held in Horticultural Hail. West
Chester, commencing Monday October
10th, 1877. Superintendent Harvey is
using every effort to make this, his first
Institute, equal to the best ever held in
the county. In addition to s'home talent"
he has engaged Prof. Mark Bailey, of Yale
College, Prof. Johonnet, of New York,
Prof. Henry Houeh, Deputy superintend-
emit of Public Instruction, Pa, Prof
james II. Groves, Superintendent of Free
Schools, Delaware, Mr.W. W. Woodruff,
Superintendent of Bucks county, aud
Prof. J. V. Montgomery, of Millersville,
for day Instructors, and for evening
lecturers such distinguished men as Hon.
schuyler Coifax, Hon. Daniel Dougherty,
Gen. Davis, of Doylestown, Prof, Mark
Bailey and Prof. Johonnet. One promi-
nent feature Of the InGtiiute will be its
practical character The exercises will be
adapted TO the needs of teachers, and the
teachers of the county will tsko a
prominent part.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11
Shippers mt Parties.

A good dinner is a good thing, and any
hospitabis person able and disposed to
give one deserves to be encouraged in his
laudable design, but it is not to be pre-
sumed if he did not give the dinner that
those whom he would have invited would
have gone hungry that day. People who
are likely to go into auy sort of society
are likely to be able to satisfy the crav-
ings of appetite Mt their own tables md it
is not worth while that there should be so
much thought, worry and expense to feed
them whenever they spend few hours
together away from their respective homes.
Where dinner is given, it is well that the
food should be abundant and attractive,
for people are invited there to eat, but
where eating is otthe entertainment there
shorld be less thought of it than theirs
generally is.
Why should party of people coming
together after die usual supper hour for
dancing cards or conversation, expect or
have provided for them large supper?
If they are dancing, and keeping it up
somewhat late, there mny be an actual
need of coffee and sandwiches or some
other thing easily handed around, and if
long evening is to be spent, leo cream,
lemonade ard cake, or cake and VINE,
where the hostess does not object, are
undoubtedly quite refreshing, bu, all
these things ,,e easily hanaisd md merely
make pleasant interruption vastly diff
ferent from the abominabie rush for
supper SO common at large parties.
People have no need to eat supper at such
m hour, and would DO better without it.
But if suppers are to be given, let them be
given as dinners are, to party no larger
than the hosts table will accommodate.
Feeling iH cEaw6j Is never elegant.
II tbs notion Llat giving n party in.
volved gy!ag also large and costly
supper could once be done away with,
there would be three times as many par.
ties as there are, and consequently less
growing over the dnllness of our city, and
we sueges, to the people Of all the numer,
GUS social circles o. Wilmington that they
quietly give it out that LEY shall board
Themselves, hereafter, and ihaSc they
neither expect nor desire a supper nj III
evening enter ainment, and they will wit
ness revival of social activity witllout
waiting so long as they did for the revival
of business. If any man thinks he canuo!
stand it, he can take lunch in his over.
coat pocket.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11

When will wonders in telegraphy cease2
A physician of Salem, Massachusetts,, ex-
hibited before an audience to whom he
was occurring on diseases, an instrument
for feeling the pulse by telegraph. He
not only showed his hearers his machine,
bat he put it to practical test In order
to explain the variations CT the pulse la
certain diseases, the lecture room, by
means of common wire, was, placed in
Geographic communication with the city
hospital of Boston, which is distant from
Salem, fifteen miles. Then, with the
apparatus referred to, the pulse beats of
various patients were received md
converted by means of a delicate
electrometer into vibrating ray of
magnesium light which was thrown
upon the wall. These experiments
have been repeated at Paris with success.
We arc confidently expecting at no distant
dry the announcement of an invention by
which man will be able, while On &
journey, to take his meals by telegraph
from any point he mny oider it.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11

It looks now very nueh Us though the
United States will have to supply the
whole OF Europe with brsadstuifs this
year. The grain crop IN Eusis is reported
to be very poor in quality Gni vastly de-
tiei5nt in quantity. The Frauch grain
yield ii also far below the usual amount,
and grain buyers from both countries
named are already in this country making
arrangements for the purchase Ind snip
men. Of large amounts of corn Gal wheat
From no county in Europe is reported a
surplus, and it is likely that all vii haY to
depend more Or less upon the mpor,a-
tons of grain froa this conn!ry. The
prospects are certainly very brighton orr
agricultural districts and for thJ whole
| country, which will thus be able 10 find a
| paying market for its enormou. grain
surplus.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11

MIR. John Roach wants the Government
to subsidize enough foreign steam ship
lines to call for the building Of twen.y five
new steam ships, and thinks that thu way
in which TO bring about renewed pros
per:tv, Doubtless, at Chester. Ii Mr..
Roach were 10 bring his great inference
with Congress and his lOyeris! intellect
to secgre the adoption of such measure,
he would wish 10 greater recompense for
his efforts than he obtained for his work in
behalf of the famous Pacific Mail Subsidy,
which was the contract for building the
steamers provided for.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11
WILMINGTON, DEL.
OCrOBER n, 1877.
Wtluainxton and the PeaAasuiar
Fair.

FA1Es
The great success Of the Peuinsular
Fair Mt Middletown this year is most graft
syine and we hope is only the beginning |
Of still more successful series OF exhibit |
tons. 1t is = good thing 10 have the
farmers Of the whole peninsula brought
together every year In friendly oompeti-
ton and a great opportunity for those
engaged in the sale or manufacture OK
farming implements to present them to
those whose custom they seek for i'll
suaction and criticism. All this can 10
better accomplished q. some one large
exhibition than at numerous small ones,
and Middletown is admirably situated for
a fair for the whole peninsula, bang TINS
side of any junction of the branch roads,
and therefore readily accessible by regular
traina- One more exhibition as successful
"A that of this year, will demonstrate this
IN everybody and awaken interest and
pride in the exhibition throughout the
whole territory between the bays.
Among the people who should be the
first to recognize the value Of such an
exhibition, drawing together people from
ali parts of the peninsula, should be those
of Wilmington. How interesting an en-
hibition tbs manufacturers of this city con
make was shown by the fair Of the ueii
ware Institute Of Mechanic arts, in tie
Third street market house, some E4fc'
ago, and if. OH manufacturer you'd .la..'
as much effort to help the Middleton
display rs they did at that fair they woui'
impress the importance of our city's manu-
featuring interests more fully on The peopl
of the Slate than 1t previously has been
But they can and might do more t4an tla'
and make such m exhibit as wou
be q wondyr and delight to thou
Sands wNc ilsIa .over visited, or scarcci
faruled ~ ID 4 !, the variety and extern
of Our iu.,,' t.-es.
Many of our manufacturers mako thing
for which there is lttla or no denan
down the PENINSULA but even these Shout
have enough pride and interest i'll our eli
to contribute to the exhibit and he'
create {. little machinery Halr' there tn
would be as attractive q feature of Il
fair Us the great Machinery Hall WAS
the Centennial. The large manufacture
ought TO be as much interested in Il
growth and development Of ort city
the smaller onee end the merchants, q,
it would be a comparatively little thit
for them to do as we have suggested
bringing the city more prominsnt
before the people for whom it is boeomi'
more and more the business centre. W
mingtouians have not paid as much attic
ton as they should 10 the peninsula 81
here is good place to begin. We do
doubt that if the managers of the fl
would make an effort in this direction IL
tho conli Id greatly to the attractiN
ness anu success of their admirably ma
aged exhibition
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11

The Delawsss StAts Firs and Marine
Insurance Company, Of DsaAwazs City,
recently got three gentlemen to sign a
paper deelaiifg itao be "a sound 6napeiA
ins.ituaop; wIAsh la not trus. We
wondered at the time what new rascali,y
tbs managers OF the concern were up to,
but we hnd they have levied an ASSESS
ment on their stockholasrs, ami conclude
that 1t il the reason for this new coat Of
whitewash. Now this company, at least,
pretends that it is going to press libel
suit against EVERY EVENING AND CoMMsI.
o1AL at the coming fall term of our county
courts, and hence we have RETAINED
from anything that might appear like
an attempt to prejudice public opinion
against the concern In advance Of the
trial but we cannot permit it to go on
swindling people without warning, and We
caution the public that 20 far from with
drawing our denunciation of the concern
as fraud run by swindlers, we know by
this time That it is worse than we at first
suspected, and intend proving it SO to the
abundant satisfaction of all concerned
unless it be those most nearly concerned
who can scarcely be expected to fnt
satisfaction in the result of the ordea
they have invited.
Do not, then, imagine for a mcmen
i A. n a II.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11

The disagreement of the jury in the
Bliss case, is one Of those things
which bring the jury system into disrepute
and contempt. We are in certain sense
bound to at least pretend to believe that
juror, whose stubbornuess caused dsa-
greement, is honest, but really nobody
does believe this, and there arises feeling
of bitter impotence that his wilful shut
ting Of his eyes to the trutn. and declara-
ton OF an opinion utterly uAwarranted by
the facts has 10 be accepted as an honest
mans honest opinion
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11

In tho United States Court today,
Judge Bradford presiding, Fl, E. Turner,
Esq, assignee of Martin Alsberg, asked
for IN order on Isaac Grubb, Sheriff, for
the production Of said Alsberg before the
Registrar on the 18th instant for examine
ton under the bankrupt law. In the
matter of the contributors to the Penn
sylvania hospital versus Z. e. Shortlidge
plea of nil debit Withdrawn.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11
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8arifa,eNs,'r writings.

Harriet Martineau wrote with singular
facility, and never corrected her manu-
script. She had no sympathy with
Horsce's plan of laying by manuscript for
future revision, nor with Macaulay's fas-
tiiionsness, which compelled the rewriting
of whole chapter OF his history to i'm
prove tho opening sentences, She thought
that all attempts at polishing the style i'm
paired freshness of thought and natural
ness of expression.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11

The helpers in the pudding furnaces of
i. Il G. Bloolse's extensive rolling mill, at
Birasboro, Ia, have struck, for a very
singular grievance. An improved double
pudding furnace, lately erected, requiring
the assistance of an extra puddler, a
former employee, but WHO was recently
working elsewhere, was given the situation.
The helpers claim that an outsider should
not have been employed, but that one OF
their number should haye been promoted,
The new puddler, however, was put to
work, when tho whole force of helpers
quit the mills. Operations at the mill
have been consequently suspended ill.,
definitely.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11
The 81, 900 Counterfeit.

Washington kilograms contradict ..
statement IN some newspapers that the
81 1000 greenback of 1863 has been
eounterfeited. 1t is the 81, 900 greenbecl,
printed from the American Bank Note
Company's pists t4.Ge in 1869 that has
been thus initiated. 70 enable the public
to distinguish between them it is stated
that the former note contains the portrait
OF De Witt Clinton, and vignette of
Columbus in sitting position; while the
note which has been counterfeited bears
the portrait Of Robert Morris, but no
yipuetle.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11

A radish was exhibited at this Office yes.
terday that ought to have been sent to the
MiddIetown fair for a premium. 1t was
grown by Rufus Monckton, OF Uhristiana
hundred, and measured O. inches in
length, a inches in diameter and 13s
inches in circumference. Its weight is %
pounds. Mr.. VI. does not consider it a
very largo radish either, rs he used one
for the table that was larger. IT was
good eating, too.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11

Tue Sasser Journal thinks tie Demo
cratic convention will have something to
say about that party's candidate for Con-
gress and not allow the nomination to be
made by the correspondents of EVERY
EVENING AND CusnGEECi,L. We are will.
ing that it should, but we give it timely
warming that if it does rot DO well We and
our correspondents will PUT an opposition
ticket in the fisld bearing the name of W.
Fiske Townsend.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11

The world renowned Swiss watch schools,
in which the old-fashioned method of watch
making was taught, are said to have en-
tirely passed away, the last one having
been recently discontinued, This result
has been caused by the introduction of
American machinery and the American
system of watch manufacture, by which
much more accurate worl; can be done at
q cost far below that of the old process.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11
aE,,crt ;.tsaSia an a:ie Eastern shore.

Denton Union: A son of Mr.. John P.
Edes, about . years old, died of hydro
phobia at the residence of his grandfather,
near Eaesville, Kent county, last week
The family had removed from Baltimore o
few days previous, in which city the lad
was bitten by a dog some seven weeks
ago. but it was not known the animal was
mad.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11

The !SRaslr Journ.g!I says there is no
doubt that the Delaware Raii.t.ld Com
pany will be restrained if it attempts to
build branch road from Dover to Lewes.
Well then let the JoHraa5 be happy. The
Delaware road will not build this branch
it is prevented from doing SO.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11
FIRST DOSE
on A BOSTON POL ICE OFFICER

II. r. STEVENS:
Dear Sir-In the spring of 1859 Vas stricken
down with fever which lad lo,.y and almost
hopeless run. The best medic al advice being
In attendance, was taken through tho fever;
but 1t left me terribly redncei and weak, with
was completely Frustrated with Kidney Com
plant, and no medicine seemed to reach my
case.
In this condition was persuaded to try
VE8ETINE by friend whom 1t cured Of the
same disease, aud 1t seemed as though could
feel the effect Of the first dose through my
whole system; and from that moment began
to mend, gradually growing better from day
to day; and followed on with the VEGETINE,
until 1t completely restored me to health,
since which time have been able to perform
my duties as police officer, enjoying good
value Of v20kTlNs In Kidney Complaint and
simlIar diseaseA am, sir, respectfully,
LAFAYETTE FORD, b64 Broadway.
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11
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throat and lung dsessa, Ais, sure rel Of npa ner
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nervous affections by simple veg, table ,neIicise
which curet venerable nissio AIRY physician wbo
WIS long ago resident Of Syria and the Er.t and
Who has freely given this valuable specific To tbau
SANDS 81 kindred saersrs with the gre test possble
n.hs, and he now fss,s IL his s,ored Christian
duy TO import TO others this wonderful iuyro arinv
rene y md viii .eni free The original recipe cont
peao, WIN Ial niiections, 70 nnv person enclosing
sunny Tor reply. Or. CLARK A, RpBBISS
freely block, Syracuse, N. Y. 70. Boz rs
Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-10-11

The Delauoarsan's opinion that Hon.
Samuel Randall will, amt ought to be
reelected Speaker would count far more
for that individual if the owner Of the
paper were member Of the House
instead of the Senate.