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Middletown transcript., 1877-11-03

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THE MARYLAND ELECTIoN.-The
State election in Maryland for the
Comptroller Of the Treasury and mem
bers Of the Legislature will take place
next Tuesday, November 9Th. The
democratic candidate for Comptroller
is Hon. Thomas J. Keating, Of Queen
Anne's county. and the republican can
didate Fer the same Office is DR.. G. E.
Forter, Of Allegheny. These are the
only candidates who will be voted for
throughout the State. Senators are to
be elected from Allegheny, Baltimore
Second district), Calvert Ito fiji va
cancy), Caroline, Cecil, Charles, Dor
chester, Garrett, Hartford, Montgomery,
Prince Georges, St. Mary's, Talbot
and Worcester counties-fourteen in
all. Twelve Senators hold over. Be
sides the regular democratic and re-
publican tickets there are, in some Of
the counties, other tickets, such as the
Workingmen's, Citizens Reform, Flu
sion, etc, etc. Only two Of the East
tern Shore counties have these side
shows-Cecil and Talbot. In some Of
the counties the republicans have not
thought it worth while to make any
nominations, and after the election they
will begin 10 think it would have been
about as well if they had not made any
at all.
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WE shall be pleased to receive com
munications from all parts Of the coun-
ty; also, from Cecil county, Nd, and
other sections Of the Peninsula, con
tanning brief items Of news Of interest
to the general reader but all such
communications. to receive attention,
must invariably be accompanied with
the full name and post oficeIaddress
Of the writer.
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The PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Com
MITTEE.-The Senate committee Of nine,
appointed under Mr.. Edmund's resolu-
ton in relation to the election of Pres
dent and Vice President, comprises
some of the very best legal minds in
that body. All the plans proposed for
amending or making a radical change
in the electoral law will come up be-
fore the committee sfor consideration,
and as it is a question outside of party
politics, whilst it is Of the first impor-
tanee to all parties and the people gen
orally to make law that will secure a
fair and Just election without encroach-
ing on the rights of the States, there is
a reasonable hope that the committee
will succeed in agreeing upon such
a measure as will satisfy the public
mind and avoid such a collision Of par
ties as was Imminent at the last cleo
ton. A special committee of eleven
is already determined upon in the
House on the like subject, but is not
yet named.-BaH. Sun.
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THE Republican organs" DO not
seem to like the appointment Of Mr..
John Welsh as Minister to England,
but the public will not be disposed to
find fault with him on that account.
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THE President, by proclamation, has
set apart the last Thursday in Noyem-
Der as a day Of thanksgiving and
prayer.
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MISS COLE.
TEACHER.
Piano, Parlor Organ

Piano, Parlor Organ
and Singing.
CPECIAL ATTENTION given to the culii-
y walton of the voice, and TO the practice Of
Solfeggio. Voice Building specially.
N. B.-Will form a class during Fall and
Winter in the art of Elocution or Culture in
General Literature.
Is prepared to receive propositions for Pub
lie Readings throughout the country.
For terms and other particulars please ad-
dress MISS COLE,
oct 20-5m Middletown, Delaware.
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CAPTAIN JOHN CURRY,

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viii Leave second wharf above Race Street.
Philadelphia, for Port Penn AID Collins
Beach, every Tuesday and Friday, at IL NJ,
arriving at Port Penn about 3, and Collins
Beach, about $50 P. N.
Up from Collins Beach, Mondays and Thurs
days, about 2. BOP. NJ, and Port Penn, about
3 p. NJ, arriving in Philadelphia about 7.3O
Pm.
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Farming Implements.

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viii be sold / Champion Mower and
Reaper combined, in good repair; Peach
Wagon, Peach Body and Springs, Farm
Wagons, iron axles, in God order; York
Carriages, one new; Dearborn, Sleigh,
Corn Shelter, Jones' Peach CUller, Plows,
Harrows. Culiivators, Shovels, Hoes, Forks,
Rakes, etc. sets Of Wagon Harness, 2 sets
Of Carriage Harness, a lot of Plough Har-
ness, d lot of Berry Crates, Hot-Bed Sash, 10
Hives Of Bees, Zimmerman Fruit Drier,
Cross-cut Saw, Iron Wise. Household and
Kitchen Furniture, consisting of Beds, Bed
ding, Tables, Chairs, Carpets, Stoves, etc. A
lot Of Picked Pork, Hams and Shoulders, by
the pound
Terms Of Sale :-All sums of Thirty Dollars
and under, Cash; all over that amount a
credit Of Ten Months y i'll be given by the
purchaser giving judgment note or bond,
with approved endorsers.
W.M VANDEGRIFT.
November Sd, I877-tspd
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BoMBAY HOOK SPECIAL SCHEDULE.

BR1peEroS NOTICE THE ARIEL runs each
trip to Br.dgeton, N. j., and the landings on
the Cohansey River. Leaving Bridgetou,
Mondays and Thursdays, at u noon.
Stock and Freight Of all kinds taken on
the 'Ariel."
Fare from either Landing, to Philadelphia,
HI. OGDEN. Clerk,
nov 3-tf Office l04 N. Delaware Ave.
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Having two delivery wagons in full opera
ton, am now prepared to fill orders and de-
liver goods at your homes free of charge
Maryland deliveries, Wednesday and SAtur-
day. Delaware deliveries, Monday, Tuesday
and Friday. G. W. W NAUDAIN.
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w COL Flannels.
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Something for Richard Grant White.

1t is to be hoped that this, from the San
Francisco Neaos Letter, will reach the eye
of Richard Grant White, who talks SO
sweetly of his Englishmen ga party of
Londoners, newly arrived here, went into
fashionable saloon on Kearney street, this
week. They retired to card room, and
one of them remarked to the bar-keeper
that it was his shout, and ne was going to
stand nobblers round. The party called
for two quartens Of gin and four out, q
church warden aud screw of bird's-eye.
The astonished saloon-keeper locked the
door ON them and sent to the City Hall for
q squad of policemen, stating that there
were some dangerous lunatics in his estab-
lishment. The matter was eventually
Strengthened out by an officer who halls
from the classic purlieus of Whitechapel.
He explained that the gentlemen were not
Insane, but merely asked, il their own
way, for certain quantity OF spirits, a long
pipe and paper of tobacco =
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Eecentr cities In Postage.

Under the present postage law news
paper may be sent by post from New York
to London for less postage than from Naw.
York to Brooklyn or Jersey City. A SINH
lar anomaly prevails IN France. One of
the large stores in Paris lately wanted to
get up an immense catalogue, illustrated
with over five hundred wood engravings,
the contractor to send million copies by
post to all parts of the world. The number
of addresses to each country was given,
SO that the postage could be calculated to
centime. A Swiss printing house made a
bid which was SO much below everything
that was offered in France, that it got the
contract. Now, the reason is not only
found in the fact that postage is cheaper
from Switzerland to France than from ono
part of France to another, but also III the
duty impert upon paper. White or un-
printed paper is taxed 10 francs to 40 CEN
times Tue hundred kilos, and the same tax
is upon white paper imported from abroad.
but printed paper pays no tax, and the
above sum, or about twenty-five per cent.
could be deducted from the price Of fabri-
cation by the Swiss firm. Goods samples
can be sent to Fuauoe by mail, but the
French tradesman does not share the ad-
vantage. eft is singular says the corre-
spondent from whom we derive the fore
going facts, "to receive a catalogue of an
establishment only few blocks away from
your own door, mailed to you from Brussels
or Geneva, aud bearing Belgian or Swiss
postal stamp"
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Saved Her Money but Lost Her Life

Mrs. Elizabeth Dorner, a woman fifty
years of age, was fatally burned at her res
idenee in Baltimore on Tuesday under the
following circumstances as described by
the American While lighting fire in the
stove, having poured oil on the wood, the
oil blazed up and communicated flame to
the bed clothing and then to her clothes.
She started to run out, but remembering
she had money hidden in the house, al
though her clothes were ablaze, she retra-
ced her steps aad sought the money boxes.
One box, containing over $400 dollars, was
in the cellar, and the other, containing over
5000 was hidden under the hearth of ths
fire place. Both of these tin boxes, con-
tanning her boarded money, she obtained,
and with one under each already bare and
blackened arm she ran into the yard scream
ing, No one but herself was in the house
up to this time. With much presence of
mind she set the hydrant running and then
threw herself under it. By this time sew
eral citizens h;.d entered and rendered her
assistance, but nearly all the clnthes had
been burned from her body. Yet she had
firm hold on her boxes of money. She
was carried to house near by and attend
ed by surgeons, but she Aisd about mid
u;phf
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Hayes Rule in Making Appointments.

WASHINGTON, April 4th.-In making
appointments the President has adopted
the general rule that where an officer has
served four years in satisfactory manner,
the character of his official services will
stand as a recommendation for reappoint-
ment, unless there are well sustained OBJ
jeetions of personal or moral character
to the reappointment of the incumbent.
Where, however, an officer serves for eight
years, this period of servitude will operate
against reappointment, the President hold
ing that eight years is tho maximum, pro-
vided an equally competent and meritori-
GUS man is an apl licant for the place, the
rule to be specially applied to the appoint
ment of postmasters whose salaries exceed
81, 900, and who are commissioned by the
President. The rule will not be applied
with the Same rigor to postmasters whose
salaries are below 81 600, and who are ap-
pointed under the law by the Postmaster
General, as to those postmasters who are
commissioned by the President. There are
about 1000 postmastels who are required
to receive their appointments from the
President and over $4,000 who are ap-
pointed by the postmaster General.
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Photographs Upon the Eye,

Everybody at one time or another has
heard about the eye Of a murdered man
presenting the image ofbim who slew him.
Some recent optical discoveries made by
Prof. Boil, of Rome, and M Kuehne, of
Heidelberg, will go far to sustain popu-
lar belief in stories Of this kind, for these
two psychologists certainly prove that ac-
tual photographs do exist upon the retina
of objects which have been looked upon
during life. Prof. Boil lately discovered
that the external layer of the retina, or
what may be popularity the back of the eye,
IS in all living animals of purple color,
and maybe liken I'd in most respects to a
sensitive Photographic plate. Following
up the investigation, M. Keuhne now finds
that this purple which enables us to see
SehpNrper he terms it-though acted upon,
or bleach, d by strong light, returns to it's
normal condition in the dark, aud that is
why. when any brilliant object strikes our
eyes and remains persistent for. some sec
onds, we only feel comfortable again after
having closed our lids for while. There is
a compensating or re-sensitizing medium
behind the Sshpwrpur, and this, under or
dinary circumstances restores to the or
gan It's functions, only falling, indeed, in
a case where the purple has been severely
acted upon. To set the correctness Of
these facts beyond doubt, NJ. Kuehne has
actually succeeded in procuring photo
graph upon the retina of q rabbit. The an
imal was made to look at a square orfce
in u shutter through which daylight was
caused 10 stream through for the space of
three minutes, when it was rapidly decapi-
tated. Without an infants delay the eye
was prepared and put in an alum bath, and
subsequently upon examination, sharply
defined object was found upon the retina,
corresponding TO the object the rabbit had
looked upon,
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The Period Of CESSATION.

In the elephant the period of CESSATION
extends over twenty or twenty zone months;
in the giraffe it is fourteen months in the
dromedary twelve month in the marc up
wards Of eleven months in the tapir be-
tween ten and eleven months in the cow,
nine and in the larger deer, somewhat
more than eight months. In the sheep
and the goat the period is five months !; in
the sow four months. OF the rodentia,
in the beaver it is four months in the rat-
it and hare from thirty to forty days In
the squirrel and rat, four weeks, and in
the guinca-pig three weeks or less. Of the
carnivora, in the bear it is six months; in
the lion one hundred and eight days in
the puma seventy-nine; in the dog, wolf
and the fox sixty-swo or sixty-three days;
in the cat fifty-tive or fifty-six days. In
the kangaroo, the largest'of the marsupial
animals, the period is thirty nine days /;
in the opossum only twenty-six days. In
the human race the usual period of gesta-
tion is forty weeks, or nine months.
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Cleaning Carpets.

The subject of carpets and disease, says
writer in an exchange, Is one am often
troubled about. They are quite overlooked
in cleaning rooms where contagious dis
eases have been, and are doubtless the
means of carrying disease to others. | use
damp cornmoal and salt. To sweep car
pet thoroughly with broom, take pint Of
meal and half pint OF salt and moisten
them together with just water enough to
keep the meal from flying about, not wet
enough to stick to the carpet, sprinkle pref
ty thickly on one side of the room and
sweep straight across add little more
meal as the dust begins to fiy-this cleans
the carpet nicely, too. But for daily
sweeping use carpet sweeper-this eff
fectually gathers up the dust, shreds and
particles of lint which usually fly furiously
and must settle down on every particle of
furniture in the room, and then be removed
with the dusting cloth. have found the
carpet sweeper grand helper all around,
saving dust, labor and weary backs. Even
In the sick room it can be used slowly, and
thus guard against the noise which sweep
ers make. The cost of it will certainly be
made up by any woman who has many
rooms 10 sweep. / think ii viii sweep a
room sufficiently four times ont of five
the fifth time ! use the cornnieal and salt,
and good broom.
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Hayes Private Secretary.

The correspondent of the Chicago Trs-
6une says Mr.. Rogers has long been law
partner of the President and is wholly and
entirely in his confidence. He receives all
visitors to the President, and, SO far as
possible, transacts their business for them.
He thus saves the President many interr
views and sends away many persons salts
fed who, but for his courtesy, would be
forced to lose much time in waiting. He
is described as ssa singed-cat-looking man."
one who improves upon acquaintance, who
is polite and patient, full of good advice,
and quite us determined as his superior.
He is a good listener, receiving much more
by the ears than be let's out by the mouth.
His visitors pour into his ears the tales OF
their hopes and fears, all of which are fled
away in his memory for future reference.
Between the kindness Of the Private Secre-
tary and the urbanitY of the President the
applicants for Office come away from the
White House favorably impressed that fair
ness and Justice will be meted out to them.
The number who get any positive assurance
that the Office they seek will be theirs is
very small indeed, yet the amount OF
grumbling at the lack of such assurance is
also very small. That civil service reform
is fairly under way is an accepted fact, and
even the office-seekers are inclined to wait
and see how it works. The appointments
which the President feels inclined to make
have thus far all been submitted to the
Cabinet for consideration, and some days
last week there were two Cabinet meetings
a day for the sole purpose OF considering
nominations. If approved by the Cabinet
they we're forthwith sent to the Senate for
its approval. By this means the President
makes assurance doubly sure illat his selec-
tions are proper ones. Mr.. Rogers is pres
ent at these Cabinet meetings. and is freely
consulted by all the members upon the sub
iects brought up for consideration.
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The AssToRs.
Net Fast Young Man Among Them.
Henry, the Bowery Butcher.

New YORK, March 17.-Speaking of the
dissipation Of our first families, it is to be
noticed that an exception is found among
the Astors. This house has never had a
fast young man. The special weakness in
this family is found in its idiotic character.
William B. Astor's youngest son, Henry,
was recently mulcted $4,000 for an as
sault upon child. Henry is partially i'd
lotto. He was kept at the farm at Rhine
beck, but contrived 70 get away, and he
married into queer family. He was in
the habit of preaching" in the kitchen,
and on one occasion child laughed at
him, whereupon he kicked her in violent
| manner. The result was an action for as
sault, and the jury, in view of the family,
gave verdict of $4,000. This is the
heaviest damages on record for such an of
fense in this country. The Astors at first,
as it is said, determined not to pay it, but
on thought they reached a different conclu-
sion, and the judgment was satisfied. The
great Astor estate is now in the hands of
Williams other sons, John Jacob and
William. The former is leading propri-
etor and director of the Delaware and
Hudson Canal Company, which is one the
heaviest Of our coal corporations. It is
now in great trouble, its stock having de-
clined $63 (per share of 5000 since last
March. AS director Astor has to bear
part of this difficulty, and the decline in
the market value of his stock is estimated at
nearly million dollars. The company is
threatened with bankruptcy.
John Jacobs brother William has been
spending the winter i'll Florida, bat will
return as soon as the northern climate is
sufficiently mild He has improved his
southern opportunities by joining Ma
sonic lodge at Jacksonville. In doing this
he follows the example of his grandfather,
(the original John Jacob, who was in his
day a noted member Of the fraternity. Old
John Jacob was of social turn, and was
fond of both billiards and theatricals. He
loved to attend the Park Theater, of which
he was the owner.
His brother Henry, the noted butcher,
owned the Bowery, and the sole theatrical
establishments of that day were in the
hands of the pair. John Jacobs son
William differed in these points from the
old man. He was not social, ard | never
heard of him ever giving even a dinner
party. He was not theater goer, while,
far from joining a lodge, it may be said he
never Joined anything but the ranks of
married life. He was never a member of
political party, nor of a club, norof lodge
of any kind. He never joined a fire COM
pany nor church. He never was director
of bank nor insurance company, never
was in the militia, never did jury duty, and
never had any marked friendships. The fact
is lie was the most striking negation this
city ever produced. All he did was collect his
rents and invest his money. Only as ten
ants could mankind become of any value
AS family pride. he
added to the endowme Mt of the library,
and his sons are now Gas another matter of
family pride,) erecting an altar in Trinity
church sacred to his memory - Cincinnati
Gasette.
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The Ground Giving Way.

The Gold Hill Nesos says: The rate at
which the upper portion Of Gold Hill is
settling is illustrated by the pulling apart
of the water and gas pipes which traverse
Main street. All that part of the town
within the vicinity of this Office is gradual
sliding down hill, the crevice south of Fort
Homestead being really \ guage by which
the extent of the sliding may be accurately
judged. The gas pipe on Main street was
repaired thoroughly last fall. In examin-
ing the joints tho other morning it was
found that some Of them had pulled out of
their connections two or three inches, scarce
ly one remaining in its proper position. At
the bottom of the hill, below the scales, the
ground is comparatively solid, and the set
ting is scarcely perceptible. Here the sec
tions are crowded together by the weight of
the pipe above, causing the ends to be for
ced up and crushing the bells of the coup
lings. This gradual sinking is unques-
tionably caused by the ground underneath
being mined out and the old timbers giving
way under the great strain which is
brought TO bear upon them.
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A New contrivanee.
night.

The latest Parlsian contribution TO the
dress of woman is thus described, seriously,
in Demorest's Monthly: :. Word comes to
us from Paris Of recent cantrivanoe of the
madistes, by which the long trains and col
liant dresses are to be retained in position.
A strong elastic is attached to one garter,
Just above the knee, carried over and fast
ened to the other thus the length of the
step taken by the wearer is regulated; and
the classic folds Of the costume remain un-
diaturhed.n A similar eontriVance has long
been used in the far West for the purpose
Of hohbling mules and it has proved very
servioeable. Nobody ever dreamed that it
would be adopted by the women Of the
country, and there is still chance that it
may not be. If il shall be, = fashionable
American woman engaged in the evolutions
Of the mazy dance win be a very interest
ing spectacle.
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They Got Married.

THE Quebec Chronicle publishes 'he
e,,,a,vine notice, which only requires q
statement Of the relationship with Aaam
and Eve to make it complete Martleu'on
Tnnrsday. the 1st February, at satnspoeA'
- .he Rev. James Reed. rector q "eA-
sord Henry Brown, Esq, Of ha1hlafnes'
County Wexford, brother Of the laeo zap
.a;n Brown, and grandson oI the 'a.o
I;sntenant TIA, Brown, R. n, to Kate oopnla
1sophy,. youngest daughter Of the ,l lale
Gantain James Atkins, r. NJ q hoss @
Rock Wexford, granddaughter q 'n9 @ .a.9
rsntaiu 1 Joseph Gray, Of jamestown houss, !, =
,,o,,,,tv n Wexford, and great-g randaaugnssl
aDa = sns late Major crozier, and grand-n'ece
!, = cantaius John and Thomas urey' =,
!, up.srayd and Wicklow Militia, ana q
I;sntsnapt-colonel "sat Lotus Gray, nlhs
ls n.;rsde and cousin Of the Rey. M'cnae,
I,asa II Abioip, of Ballybrood Rectory' ana
& a i,;naifield, County Limerick.