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, 1877-08-17
A Household Blessing.

Thousands OF housekeepers are annoyed
and yexed because they cannot get good
yeast. This is the reason why the California
yeast cakes are becoming so popular wher.
ever they are known. They recommend
themselves, and those who have been pre-.
yously bothered to keep yeast on hand find
these cakes always ready for use, and save
themselves great deal Of time and expense
The advertisement can be seen in another
place, and the best evidence OF their merits
is shown in the fact that the prOpretors Of.
fer to send samples free by mail to all who
wish to try them. Another evidence OF their
worth is shown by the increasing demand
for them by the wholesale grocers OF San
Francisco. II your grocer does not keep
them, tell him to order them from any whole.
sale dealer; or packages can be sent by mail.
The man who Is at the head Of the firm man.
ufacturing them is an industrious, hard.
working man, and deserves to succeed, and
he does wherever the California Yeast cakes
become known.
, 1877-08-17
A Remedial Agent Of Uncommon
Power

1t Is fact which became patent years ago
to the people of the United States, that Hos
letters Stomach Bitters is a remedial agent
of uncommon power. AS consequence of
this recognition, its sales have increased i'm
mensely at home and abroad, and 1t has risen
to foremost rank among the proprietary
after submitting it to the closest scrutiny,
pronounce itabsolutely pure, and skillfu and
conscientious medical practitioners recon-.
mend its use, A wide range OF disorders
falls within the scope Of its curative opera
ton. Among them may be enumerated dys-
pepsia, liver complaint, constipation, nervous
ailments, urinary and uterine affections,
rheumatism and gout. 1t is q supremely eff.
tcacious tonic, hastens convalescence cheers
the minds, inparts appetite, and promotes
sound seep
, 1877-08-17

TENNESSEE has 139 newspapers.
, 1877-08-17
One Drop Enough.

Madame de Y, feeling rather poor
", sent for her doctor, homTpathist,
and asked him to give her potion
which might make her able to 60 the same
evening to a ball. The "Esculapian'
wrote his prescription, and the servant
was at once sent to the chemist. On his
return, as he met Monsieur de ", he
gave him the potion. That gentleman,
whose father was an allopathic doctor,
dislikes Hahnemann's pupils, and thought
it rare opportunity of correcting for
ever his wife's mania for the principle OF
"Similia stmtIibus curantur." He threw
away all that was in the bottle, and filled
it with fresh water. Madame de Y
drank with confidence the contents of the
bottle, felt herself much better (or at
least thought so, for c'eSt Ia fol quG sauDe)
a few hours afterward, and finally went
the same evening with her husband to the
ball, for which she had been longing so
much for some time. The homeopathic
doctor had been also invited. AS soon
as he saw Mr. de Y he took him
aside and told him: "Now, awful unbe-
lever, will you dare any more in future
to deny the prodigious effects of our
medicnes2" NJ. de Y began to laugh
so loud that all the persons present asked
him the reason of his hilarity. AS, al
though the two gentlemen differ on med
ical matters, they are, however, on very
good terms, NJ. de Y thought the best
was to relate his1raud. The homepathist,
without being disturbed in the least, an
swered: "My dear sir, you must have
shaken the bottle; one drop was left very
likely, and it was quite enough to oper-
ate the cure"
, 1877-08-17

FROM all that we are able to learn Of the
Sacramento Medical and Surgical ILtlrmary
we believe 1t to be reliable institution and
worthy OF public confidence. The advertise.
ment can be found in another place. The
men at the head of the institution appear to
be gentlemen, who will do all that they can
reasonably be expected to do They do not
promise to raise the dead or do any lmpossi.
blity, but we believe them all the more
worthy of confidence that they make no ex.
trayagant claims.
, 1877-08-17
A Singular Woman.

A short time since some of the Boston
papers noticed the death of Miss Joanna
Farnhani, about eighty years of age, and
for long series of years known as the
housekeeper at the American House, in
Boston. She went from Milton, N. H.,
in her early days, and during her long
life at the hotel nobody supposed she had
any property, and at her death it was not
generally known that she had surplus
dollar anywhere. But she had trunk at
the American House, which was opened,
and found To contain variety of dry
goods, notes for five thousand dollars
against the proprietor of the American
House, a bank book of the Blackstone
bank, showing deposits of seventeen hun
dred dollars, small sum Of money, and
also a piece of paper having a trunk key
wrapped up in it, and on the paper was
writing stating that the key belonged to
another trunk, which could be found at
the house of relative in Milton.
This led to visit to Milton, and there
some very curious developments were
made. The trunk referred to rs being at
Milton was found, opened with the key
found in the former trunk, and this sec.
ond trunk was packed full of all sorts of
fine wearing apparel, and contained also
a key in piece of paper, upon which
was statement that this key belonged
to another trunk at a certain other house.
And so this thing was followed up un-
til twenty very large.sized trunks and
three huge packing chests were found,
all crammed full of the most expensive
articles Of ladies wearing apparel and
house furnishings that the Boston market
could afford. When these trunks and
boxes were all collected they loaded down
four-ox team, and we're drawn to a large
hall in Milton, unpacked and inventorled,
preparatory to an auction sale for the
benefit Of the heirs.
Among these valuables were 80 dress
es, new and perfect, made of silk-velvet,
satin, and all kinds of plaid silks, black
and colored thibets, poplins, alpacas,
brilIiantines, cashmeres, etc, ETC.; 3 silk
velvet cloaks, 10 shawis, from common
to the richest Paisley and wrought Grape;
105 skirts of all colors; IA pairs of hose
under garments too numerous to men,
tion,, table linen, towels, handkerchiefs,
counterpanes blankets, coverets, sheets,
live geese feathers; sets of elegant China
ware; large lot of table and tea spoons
Of best coin silver; fine gold watch and
chain, and large lot of fine jewery, and
so forth and so on. 1t is said that the
best dress cost not less than 5000.
All of these goods are perfectly new,
and in the best of order, never having
been used at all. There is enough of the
whole to stock large store, and all in
all the largest legacy ever left by poor
housekeeper, who worked for small wages
all her life. Yet there is said to be no
doubt that she came honestly by all, as it
has since been ascertained where and of
whom she purchased them at various
times as she went along. The original
cost of all these goods was not less than
$4,000, and the owner, while she lived,
went clad all her days in the very cheap
est sort Of apparel-the strangest speci-
men of humanity ever known in these
parts.
, 1877-08-17

DURING thunderstorm few evenings
since young woman seated at a sewing
machine, in house on Wylie avenue,
was frightened from it by peculiar dem
onstrations of the electric fluid, which
seemed to fill the room, and made hiss.
ing sound as it played upon the steel
work of the machine. After the storm
had subsidized, it was noticed that the
glass in the room windows was cracked,
but no crash had been heard or flash OBJ
served.-Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.
, 1877-08-17

"HoNEsTY is the best policy" said
Griggs, the grocer, "but it keeps man
shocking poor" and he wetted the sugar
without sanding it.
, 1877-08-17

Two hundred and twenty oranges have
been organized in Vermont during the
last six years, with a membership of
1000.
, 1877-08-17

CRIPPLEs are favored above all men in
Florida, where the laws provide that nc
man who has lost an arm or leg, no
matter how or when, or from what cause
can be taxed for any business he may en-
ter into, always excepting the liquor
business.
, 1877-08-17

USE Burnhsm's Abietine for rheumatism
and neuralgia,
The daily gazette., 1877-07-09

twenty years ago the Western Bank
OF Scotland failed through fraud and
mismanagement. The capital was ST.
$4,000, and the liability of the share
holders was unlimited. Though the
liabilities of $40,oOO,Ooo were nominally
no larger than the assets through depre-
ciasion and necessary slowness of CONVEX
sion deficiency of sl5, ,oOO, 900 had to be
made good by the unhappy shareholders
Ihe accounts have just been settled. and
on each ESQ share the stockholders lose
Ilo2 5s., not including interest. The
only redeeming feature connected with
'hls gigantic failure is the economy Of
management in the liquidation-.tbe
"noie having been accomplished for /,
Per cent OF the sums disposed of-almost a
solitary case of what honesty and abilit,
can do in the liquidation of a bankrun
estate.
The daily gazette., 1877-07-09
A MARKET STREET SCENE.

The vicinity of Third and Market
streets, last evening was enlivened by
the appearance ofea young man from the
country" in a carriage, with damsel from
Front and King streets beside him. The
young man was very drunk, and likewise
stubborn, as he persisteDtly refused to al
low his more sober companion to drive
the hprse. While prpceeding along Third
street the carriage tottered several times,
owing to the unsteadiness Of the driver
and when turning around into Market
street, bis drunken man9uyres caused
the carriageto upset Il threw the occupants
out upon the telegraph office pavement
Fortunately the horse did not attempt 10
run away, and neither the carriage nor the
occupants sustained any injury.
A large crowd quickly collected, but
their 81 ort was soon stopped by the ap
pearance of Sergeant Legg, of the police
force, who sent the team to livery sta
BILE and took the young man TO the police
station, while the women took charge of
the whip and hurried down King street.
The young man was kept in the cells until
morning, when he was allowed TO take
his team and drive home. 1t is hoped
that he will conduct himself more decent
ly in the future, and not make any more
such disgraceful exhibitions of his moral
depraviiy.
The daily gazette., 1877-07-09

CHERIFF'S SALE.
y By virtue of a writ of Levari Facias,
10 me directed, will be exposed to Public
Sale, at the
LAFAYETTE HOTEL, s41 Shipley St.,
kept by George w. Ortlip, in the city OF
Wilmington, New Castle county, Del, on
Saturday, the 2Sth day of July,
A. d. 1877, at O'Clock, p. M.
The following described Real Estate, viz
All that certain Messuage, Tenement and
lot of land, bounded and described as fol-
lows, to wit Situate on the easterly side
of Orange street between 9th and 7th streets
in the city of Wilmington, afores nd
bounded on the north by three feet wide
alley; on the south by lands now or former
ly of Jesse Rogers, being about 2 feet {
indhes front on Orange street, and running
back easterly that width about 80 feet, more
or less. Book ID, vol. I, page 29i, &c.
Seized and taken in execution as the pro-
perty of Neil Mclaughlin, decd. (Jacob p.
Herdman, administrator of Neil McLaugh-
lin, decd and h. Short, Elizabeth Short
James Tlghman, and Mary f., his wile
terre tenants, and to be sold by
ISAAC GRUBB. Sheriff.
Sherifi7s Office. New Castle.
July 9. 1877. jy93tawts
The daily gazette., 1877-07-09

The Ohio and Mississippi Railway Com
pany having deiaulted in the payment of
interest on their bonds, there is some an
prehension that the trustee for the holders
pt first mortage securities may sue for fore
closure. The second mortage bondholders.
who represent capital Of 0,O0O, 900. ar, =,
therefore, anxious that their interests III
the matter should be protected, and the ey
were asked to confer as To the best course
to he adopted. The object has been, and 9
to get authority IRON the boudholders TO
act, in case the necessity should arise. It is
proposed TO asses So the bondholders at the
rate of three dollars per bond, for the pur-
pose OF resisting by legal means the absarp-
ton OF the property by the first moltage
Dondholders. Parties holding to the
amount of 81 200 600 have already signified
their willingness to join, but want the re-
nainder to come in. II is very desirable,
ioI tleir own sake, that they should, as
otherwise they will be debarred from any
benefit.
The daily gazette., 1877-07-09

to advertise SO much gold to be drawn
out at the date prescribed.
When all this is done, if it should 60
so far, the real pinch would begin with
the banks themselves, asthey- would be
required not only to pay specie on theiI
notes, but on the entire deposits if called
for "a resumption many do not take into
account), and to adjust all their relations
TO the public on the basis Of the gold
standard.
But if the banks are allowed to manage
the loan for the Government the process
would be simpler, and resumption would
begin without violence at the very point
where most difficulty is apprehended-
that is, at the counter where the people
are dealing with these financial agents.
The gold accumulated there would be a
banking reserve. whose stimulating effect
would be felt in all the avenues Of busi-
ness; so that, in gathering fund of re-
demption, it would supply in banking
facilities more than would be lost to the
public by the withdrawal of the legal
tenders. The latter, when in surplus
and the bonds at any time would be de-
posted in the National Treasury as Sc
curity, thus fully protecting the Govern
ment from any possibility Of loss.
In our judgment, if this plan is adopt
ed and the funds thus secured are held
in the banks to the credit of the Treas
ury, gold would quietly drop to par, and
there would be no need of any formal ar
for resumption"
The daily gazette., 1877-07-09
From the Philadelphia Ledger, of July 5.

From the Philadelphia Ledger, of July 8.
Financial Editor of the Public Ledger
You will confer great favor upon Inc,
and no doubt many others, if you can,
kindly. at an early date, answer the fol-
lowing: John Smith has occasion to bor-
row on plomisory note from a society
(lodgel certain amount of money, and
for which j. Roe and r. Doe agree TO be
his security (endorsers). The note given
reads thus: "Six months after date !
promise to pay to the order of myself the
sum of, etc., etc " Signed J. Smith, and
endorsed on the back by J. Smith, J. Roe
anu X. Doe. The question | want TO
ask is, whether the note worded as above
is legal, so that j. Roe and X. Doe may
be sued as security (endorsers) in case }.
Smith does not pay at maturity? Or else,
should the Lote have read thus: "Slx
months after date promise to pay to the
order of j. Roe and X. Doe the sum of
etc, etc.," and is the latter the only legal
and correct way that notes of this kind
should be worded? So that you could
sue the security (endorsers), am told a
note made payable "to myself" and en-
dorsed ny even dozen, is not worth the
paper it is written on in case should
not pay, and which is queer news to me.
For what are the endorsers on the back
ia such case? On the other hand, am
told that if the note is made out "to the
order of j. Roe and K. Doe" and then
endorsed by them, they are responsible
L Know that the endorsers, being merely
accommodation, could plead ''no consid-
Grafton" TO evade payment, but could
they not do so in both cases? In answer
ing the above you will oblige many who
have dealings with lodges, etc, and par
ticularly All.
Recent judicial decisions lead to the
belief that such endorsers, having receiv-
ed no value for the endorsement, are not
held by it. Our best managed banking
institutions do not discount for the drawer
OF note with such endorsement. II
such transaction is desirable the bank
requires the guarantor TO sign a paper
like this "For a valuable consideration
and the sum of one dollar in hand paid
the receipt of which Is acknowledged dc
hereby guarantee unto the said bank the
prompt payment, at maturity, of the
promissory note hereinafter described
and in case of non-payment at maturity
hereby agree to pay the said bank the
amount thereof together with expenses
and interest until paid" In this article
our correspondent will see that there is a
consideration neutrality-suspicious. dol.
lar. III d0er.
The daily gazette., 1877-07-09

IHE CAC1 Us.-The Arizona cactus
oner some peculiar and practical ouali-
Ties. Tne candelabra cactus has been
employed by the Apache Indians for
communicating signals, ills height is
10 or 20 feet, but occasionally speci.
mems are found so feet high. To
make 1t signal light 1t is only neces,
sary to set fire near the ground to one
OF the vertical rows of prickles with
which the plant is adorned, the fame
runs to the top, and the candelabra
becomes torch. The "niggerhead"
cactus furnishes ready-made tish-hooks
10 countless numbers; by surrounding
the plant with fire it produces water
for the thirsty traveller, the heat driv-
ing It's fluids to the interior, whence
nearly half gallon is obtained. The
"ocotillO" is an assemblage of green
poles, l0 to- 10 feet long ined only at
the base. These poles are cut off and
Planted (rootles) as fences, and con-
tinne green for several years. but do
not nower if the tops are cut off. Very
serviceable fences are thus Obtained,
cal rows. ' 10 ~ '''''
The daily gazette., 1877-07-09

THE Four PER CENTS rho NJ
York journal Of Commerce doos M, ~
prove of the present arranaemaa. e.
issuing the per cent bonds by tha o-e
dicate. 1t proposes that the Mali =,
Banks, Shall take the place of the svnd,.
cate and manage the loan for the Gover,,
ment. 1t say S:
1--WE do not see that the countrv !,
pound to maintain the as sumed relations
10 The Syndicate to its own great disaal
vantage. There is much very prec,on,
time now running to waste. The nro.
cess OF funding by that means is far sInw. p,U
er thah II would be if the agency of tbe
national banks were used, and the on Sne
portunity is also lost of directino tbi,
process toward the desired resumnt;on
10 gather gold into great recentahles
where 1t is be garnered against the day
announced for specie payments. is to in.
Vlte long continued depression in trade
70 throw into the intervening time ali the
elements ofa first class panic: and if tbs M
puollc do hot by their clamor las tbae
probably would) arrest the progress 'I9 ~.
ward resumption at or about this noint
The daily gazette., 1877-07-09

CHERIFF'S SALE.
y By virtue OF a writ of Levari Facias
To me directed, will be exposed to Public
Sale, at the
LAFAYETTE HOTEL. Si1 Shipley St.,
kept by Geo. W. Ortlip, in the city of VII
mington, New Castle county, Delaware, on
SATURDAY, the 2sth Day of July,
A. D. 1877. at 2 o'clock, p. m,
The following described Real Estate. viz:
NO l. All that cei tain lot of land, situate
in the city OF Wilmington, New Castle
county, Del, bounded and described as
follows: Beginning at the corner formed
by the intersection of the easterly side of
DUPONT street and the southerly side of 9th
street, thence along said southerly side of
9th street, easterly about sixty eight feet to
a stake, thence southerly parallel with Du-
Pont street about eighty six and half feet
to stake, thence in a northwesterly direc-
tion about seventy three and half feet to
the said easterly side of DUPONT sueet,
thence by said street northerly about tifty
feet to the place of beginning be the con
tents what they may.
No. Q. All that lot of land with Frame
Rouse thereon, situate in The city of viii
mington, State of Delaware. beginning on
the northerly side of Front street between
Jefferson and Madison streets at 80 feet
from the eaSterly side of Madison street nj
the middle OF the party wall thence north
erly parallel with Ma lisOn street Ga feet IN
Inches to a corner land formerly of Thomas
Curley, thence herewith easterly parallel
with Front street l6 feet inches to a stake,
Inehce northerly parallel with Madison
street "a feet inches passing through the
middle of party wall OF this and house for
merly of Jacob Lloyd TO said side of Front
street, and thence westerly 16 feet & inches
to the place of beginning
seized and taken In execution as the pro-
perty OF Patrick Lally, ana 10 be sold by
ISAAC CRUDE, sheriff.
Sherifs Office. New Castle,
July 8, 1877. iy9-3tawts
The daily gazette., 1877-07-09

CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCs ALLIANCE.
AT regular weekly meeting of the Exec
utive Committee on church Temperance
work, composed of ministers and delegates
OF various churches and the Young Mems
Asso citation, it was resolved to organize
Christian Temperance Alliance for the
purpose Of founding the cause of religion
and temperance in this community. The
attendance Of the christian workers, mem
bers of all Temperance organizations, and
all interested in this movement under
the direct auspices of the ch hurches is earn
estly requested on Monday evening next
at the rooms of the Young Mems Christ
tian Association No. S37 Market street.
The daily gazette., 1877-07-09

A PRIVATE LETTER from New Orleans
to gentleman in this city gives a Curl
GUS twist to the significance of the excite
ment there over the threatened proceed
ings against the Returning Board. This
letter intimates that the object of those
who are pushing the matter is to force
out the truth not only in regard to the re-
lations between the Returning Board and
the "visiting statesmen of the Republi-
can party, but also in regard to certain
alleged negotiations, of which three per-
sons alone are said to have an absolute
and accurate knowlege, between the Re.
turning Board and certain leaders of the
Democratic party at the North.
The above, from the New York World.
expresses an inference that has been often
hinted at before. Whether any "leaders
of the Democratic party North" had any
improper "relations" with the Louisiana
Returning Board Or not, the truth ought
TO be made known. The great party
winch had sacrificed so much for decade
and half, in patriotic efforts to change
The corrupt tide of national affairs, ought
not to be sold out and the people deprived
OF their right by secret cabal, if one
existed, guilty of offense; and the scandal
should be probed deeply and ventilated
fully,
The daily gazette., 1877-07-09

The illustrious but injured Pinchback
spoke to large audience of color, d citi.
zens of San Francisco few days ago and
defended the Nichols administration fol
its hberality and equality. There, be
said, the colored people were as well of
as under any Republican government
and he would rather trust his interests to
the bitterest rebel than to the adventu
rous, tricky carpet-bagger. After all
Plnchback can learn by adversely, which
Is more than can be said OF Chamber
lain