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The daily gazette., 1878-12-16

BRANDYwINE VS.. SCHUYLKILL WA
TER.-We hope the Messrs. Bancroft
will not continue to discharge the pois-
onous substances from their mills into
the Braudy"ine water any longer, other
wise it might be inferred that it was
continued to induce the people to pur-
chase the water privileges that firm offers
to sell the city. To poison the wells of
water i'll any country was always con-
sidered an otiense, and to poison the
streams from which drinking water is
drawn cannot be less an ofiense against
all law, human and divine.
Nevertheless our Brandywine waite is
not near so disastrous to the appetite and
| nauseous TO the taste as the water of the
| Schuylkill seems to have become if the
paragraph below, we copy from the
Press of to-day, is true. 1t says =
| Persons having mortgages In Mont
gomery and Schuylkill counties had bet
ter foreclose them as soon as possible.
while there is any security left. Ever
since the big storm DIR. McFadden has
been pumping, first Laurel Hill drain
age down the throats of our citizens in
the northwestern part Of the city then
the farms of Montgomery county, and
last, Of Schuylkill county. Connoisseurs
in water recognize the source Of their
water supply by its taste and color. |,
varies from soupy to a mineral taste as
the waters come from our neighborhood
or from above. 1t changes color as tn,
overflow is from the farms of Mont.
gomery to the coal heaps and mines o
Schuylkill. But while our citizens ar,
swallowing these counties, the avalanche
is destroying the security Of real esrat,
owners on the opposite waters Of til,
Schuylkill.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-16
DECEM BER Io 1878

THE EXPOSED condition of our harbor
and the difficulty Of approaching the
mouth Of the Christiana, and the prox-
unity Of Wilmington. the Delaware
river, renders some measures to put the
one in better condition and protect the
other from attacks, necessary at some
early day and the sooner the better. No
intelligent man will dare say there is
any work between this city and the At
lantic ocean that is....anything like ade-
quate to the protection.. of the residents
on the banks Of the Delaware river from
hostile fleet Of iron-clads. The Eng
lish, Spanish, French or Italian IRON
clads could run past any fort in the
Delaware, and if all is true that is said
of it Fort Delaware could be battered
down upon the heads of its inmates in a
night by one of our own ''cheese-box'
monitors, small as they are. The fort in
its present condition is mere humbup.
1t is useless for us to talk of protecting
our nag as we did protect it quarter of
a century ago, when money was not
thrown away by the million on usele IS
hulks and sham forts. No man in the
Presidential chair would now dare talk
10 the French President as President
jackson did to Louis Philippe, the
King OF the French, or even as Mr..
POLK did to the British Ministry with
reference to our Northwestern boundary
and The difference growing out of the
Clayton-Bulwer or Ashburton treaty. as
TO the Mosquito Coast and European
colonizations on this Continent as ayerse
10 the Monroe doctrine. But we do not
want to refer to hese matters. We f. el
the need of some protection at the month
OF the Christiana and we believe that the
Government ought to build some sub
stantlal work of protection there and
make proper road to it. The Govern.
meht Keeps its light station there and
ought to have more solid, permanent
way OF reaching the station. Pbiladel.
ph'a is deeply interested in this matter
forl Mlliiin is the best work on the Della
ware, but it would be better that a for
should encounter opposi ion here A
single vessel, with guns well served
couiu cat Off our railway communica
tioh with that city. Wilmington is
point al which number of railroad
converge, and more troops could by raj
be concentrated here IN a given tim,
than at any other point within fifty mill,
south OF us and these railroads meme
trate The interior of several great State
where foundries exist that cast inmens
guns, so that ordnance could readily h
supplied and shipped from our wbarves
The hills adjaceut would afford fin
heids Tor extensive military camps. w
have made these suggestions. If ou
people deem them unwise we shall hon
10 be excused but we believe hat th
government is in duty bound to tax
such steps, and as Democratic Cor
gress VIII shortly be looked to for mea,
ures IN all the States, we thought it on
duty to be in time with our demands fo
TINS necessary protection What we pa
the general government in a year or tw
VIII bu Id all the works that are needle
Tor our safety. We hope never to Sc
another war But no one can tell wha
may happen.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-16
JUDGEIYNCH AGAIN.
NEGROES TAKEN FROM PRISON AND
KILLED ny MOB.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. IA.
One night about month since a mill
at NJ Mount Carrie, Columbia county, was
set on fire by four negroes. The superiu-
tendent of the mill, living near by, saw
the flames and extipguished them before
much damage was done. While the su-
periutendent was absent from his house
the negroes entered, beat his wife severe
ly and compelled her to show where her
husbands money was. They obtained
5000 The men were arrested the next
day, confessed the crime and were CON-
mitted to jail in Lake City. About a
week since the Jail was burned and the
men were removed TO the CouIt House.
This morning, at three o'clock, some
thirty or forty disguised men overpower-
ed the guard, took the prisoners out into
the street In front of the Baptist Church,
shot wo of them dead and mortally in
jured the third. The other escaped and
has since given himself up to the au-
thorities.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-16

NJ OTfCE.-By virtue oil an Act OF the
~ General assembly pass Vt Dover,
Feb. ~, 1871, hereby give notice TO hold
ers Of Delaware state bonds, that / shall
attend at the Philadelphia National Bank
In the city OF Philadelphia, during the
business hours of that bank, on the three
FIRST secular dsvs OF January. 1879, prepsr-
ed 10 redeem and pay Off all the bonds
from No. 1872 10 275. both inclusive OF the
denomination of one thousand dollars
each, fthe issue OF the bonds of the State
OF Delaware, under date OF Jan. |, ls65.
And from and after the said Jan LIST, 1873.
the interest on said bonds Will cease.
THOS. b. GILES. tate Treas.
ONCE OF tate Treas, Dover, Nov,l.
owl 2tawtIa
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vestment for persons who desired TO in
vest small sums that could be had, and
answer, in purchasing, all the needs of
currency. As we would be able to pay
about 100000 of our debt off every year
they might be issued in such amounts as
that they should be so redeemed the first
one hundred thousand on or before a
certain date in 1880 the next one hum
dred thousand on or before the same date
in 1881, and so on until the whole
were taken up and cancelled. These small
bonds would be far more convenient than
U. s. bonds and would be preferable.
II this be done we have no doubt our
whole State debt could be paid in six or
seven years. The bonds could be re-
deemed and cancelled by the State Trea-
surer at such times as he found the means
in his hands TO do so. BY this process
the interest would be well kept down and
nothing lost by the accumulation of
money in the State Treasury, as is the
cae now. The State of Georgia has
taken a step in this direction and has the
assurance of brokers and bankers that the
whole of her loan of nine millions will
be taken in small bonds. She has Or
dered half million of per cent. issue
to take up an eight per cent. bond and
In July will nrda, auntbar hale ,n;Il;,,,
We believe that three per cent. Della
ware bond would sell quite as readily as
4 per cent. Georgia bond. Our readers
will remember that the interest bearing
demand notes were the most popular
notes of all that were issued by the gov
ernment, and the State bonds we believe
would become just as popular, and we
do not see why they would not circulate
just as freely as currency in the purchase
of property or be received by our State
banks on deposit just as readily as bank
notes. or course these bonds would not
be taxable and we think they might
be made receivable for taxes. Philadel-
phia runs line of city certificates equal
ling, We are told, some ten or twelve
millions, and thus manages her enormous
floating debt without funding it; and we
feel quite sure our State could float her
small amount Of debt in the shape of
small bonds if her people were disposed
to make All effort to get themselves out
of debt. Her present Executive has al
ways been favorable to the most econom-
cal measul es, and his successor is none the
less disposed to follow an example in
this direction. The former has so far
done all his people expected of him the
latter, we believe, will do all they hope
for from him, as he las always lived and
managed his own large business affairs
in the most safe and prudent way. Now
let the Legislature when it convenes tr,
whether it cannot accomplish something
in the direction of reduction OF Stat,
interest that other States are doing.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-16
NJ OTICE-To WATER RENTERS.
IN OFFICE WATER DEPARTMENT.

WILMINGTON. DEL., Dec 10th, 1878
The bills for t7g are now ready and pay
able At the registrars office, No. 1000 Mar-
ket street. The law requires that all bills
paid on or before January 3lsi, 1879, the
face Of the bill (; those paid during the
month OF February, fve per cent. addi-
tionsl those paid during the month of
March, ten per cent. additional, and any
amount remaining unpaid after A pril list.
1879. the registrar IL required 10 have the
ferrules Withdrawn and suit instituted for
the recovery OF The amount due, and the
watsr will not be lei into such premis ses
until such arrears, with assrssm ents and
81 for drawing ferrules are paid. ONCE
hours, a m " p IN.
w. j. MORROW,
decli-eod, Jan feb cod Registrar.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-16
NOTICES..

L,OR SALE.
800 Shares OF Clayton Loan Stock,
New Series, at one dollar per share. New
plan, loanirg the full amount and collect
ing the premium monthly.
NJ. l.. LICHTENSTEIN,
pnyth-im kecretary.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-16

ESLEYAN FEMALE CULLEGE
w WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.
Atthe opening OF the Fall term, non
day, Sept. o, 1873. there will Dc N "
President, NEW furniture. NEW repairs
throughout the building, NEW pienos
duced 10 add To the comfort of Tho young
ladies' both In the public end private
rooms, and all this AZ the OLD rncss'
For catalogues address the president,
REV. ]. NJ. WILLIAMS A. NJ
jyl-u
The daily gazette., 1878-12-16
NEGROES Convicted
NORFOLK, Va. Dec. l

AT Winton, Hartford county, N.C.,on
the 18th inst, Samuel Jacob and Elbert
Gothng, colored, were tried in the In
frnor Court for assault and battery with
intent to Kill Marcus Williams. colered,
for voting for j. j. Yeates, the demo.
cratic candidate for Congress. The misc
ners were found gully and sentenced 10
six years in the State Penitentlary.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-16

j. ii; Grant, well known ex-deputy
United States marshal, who went to
south Carolina with the army, dropped
dead in store in Columbia Friday
last.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-16

The Best Qualities of MEDICINES
AT WILLIAMS
THE MOST RELIABLE Proprietary
MEDICINES,
AT Ninth and Market.
Choice PEKFUMERY, COLOGNES, DC
AT WILLIAMS
A fine assortment OF HAIR, TOOTH, and
NAIL BRUSHES,
AT Ninth and Market.
choice Imported Key West, Pride OF X eys
West or Greuley Cigar,
AT WILLIAMS
Choice FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Strong and Pure,
At Ninth and Market,
AT WILLIAMS
Fine AMERICAN 4 IMPORTED SOAPS
Al Ninth and Market.
" Get the best WILLIAMS SAPONA-
CEOUS DENTIFRICE,
AT WILLIAMS
Choice Goods, Accuracy In dispensing and
Reasonable Prices.
WILLIAMS PRESCRIPTION STORE
apl2-f Corner Ninth and Market.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-16
II OrICE
\ SMOKERS OF FINE CIGARS
Would do well by calling at
ANTHONY j. HARkINS.
nnv'H-Irn

g. Il. COR. SEVENTH AND TATNALL.
where they will receive straight rller,
clear Havana Cigar. These cigars are
his own retail trade, and h lso IA fine selec
tion OF Chewing and smoking Tobacco al
w.ys on hand.
NoTIcE-These Cigars are retailed at
cents piece Don't iaii 10 give him n call.
nov ig-ilK
The daily gazette., 1878-12-16
EDUC'A1IONdL.
APLEwooD IN sTlTUTE,
CONCORDVILLF.P PA,

Boys $50 per quarter; Girls sfo. Htu-
dents prepaT ed for business, Yale or har-
ward College. Eirst-class Prsfessors
JOSEPH SHORTLIDdE, A, M -,
Jyls-w5m Prineipal.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-16
Pratt's Astral Oil.

Pratt'S Astral Oil.
Supplies fully the want for a perfectly
safe and reliable Illuminating OIL for fam
ily use. free not only from the danger OF
explosion but from the danger OF the fluid
igniting should the lighted lamp be upset.
II /. PIT up in gal, and gal. tin cans,
each OF which IL closed with a metal cap,
bearing the manufacturers stamp. Hav-
ing handled several hundreds OF thousands
OF gallons of this oil without a single cci-
dent resulting from It's use we can conf
dentilly recommend II as a perfectly pure
and safe oil. For sale Wholesale and retail
by u. JAMES BELT,
Cor. sixth 4 Market Sis.
Physicians Pocket Cases, Buggy
Gases, &C., for sale by
FLAMES BELT,
Cor. sixth 3 Market Sts.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS. - The
most com plete stock, and the largest as
sortment OF Surgical Instruments ever ex-
hibited in this city. For sale at New York
prices. illustrated catalogues furnished
by u. JAMES BELT,
Cor. Sixln q Market sta.
Prof. j. A. Going's Horse Remedies
veterinary Editor o" "Spiylt orthe Tunes ~
Going's Worm Destroyer, Copeman's Ton
ic Powder, Going's Collc Powder. GoinX's
Cough Powder, Goine's "Anatomy Of the
Horse" "a card-skeleton upon which ls
located every important disease To which
the horse is liable.) All the above fot haIe
by the Agent, u. JAMES BELT,
Wholesale Retail Druggist,
Cor. Sixth 4 Market Sis,
LADIES'DEPAR
For supporters, Braces. Trusses, Elastic
stockings, Anklets, X nee Caps, Syringes
&c.
g%Private Room. Lady Attendant.
Private entrance Tor Ladies at No. West
SiAtn street.
u. JAMES BELT,
Wholesale and Retail Druggist,
Corner Sixth and Market sreets,
| Wilmington, Delaware.
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

IKE county, Mississippi, is so i'm
bruied that decent, honest people are
abandoning their homes and grand ju-
ries and justices fear to indict or con-
denim scoundrelism and crime. The
good and upright are overswed by the
knife and pistol, aud neither life nor
property nor virtue is protected. The
ccanty's condition Is worse perhaps
than that of any portion of Texas. The
people have discovered when too lste
thai the rapid execution OF the laws
aud perfect security of life are alike
essential to the purity of public NOR
ais and TO the value of homes and farms
and town lots. Idleness, vice and
desolation and beggary brood over the
place. invaded by whisky and gunpow-
der and murder. Self-interest. If nc
higher incentive to sction, should i'm,
pei jaries and courts to execute ths
law and render human life inviolate.
Public vices are as ruinous to comm
mites as private to individuals. Th'
drunken town sinks to poverty andin
fanny and rags, and finally into the en-
braces of crime. as surely as does th'
wretched victim of whisky.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21

Seventy or eighty papers have come
to hand this week, inquiring in pa
thetic voice who it is that loses the
eight cents when a leboring man takes
a ninety-two cent silver piece for dol
lar. Now, this is the very thing that
puzzles rs. If carpenter receives from
the government q nlnety-two cent sill
yer piece for a dollar and passes il
upon his butcher for dollar, and the
butcher passes it upon the shoemaker
for dollar, aud the shoemaker passes
it upon his landlord for dollar, and
the landlord passes it for dollar upon
the State for taxes, and the State passes
1t for dollar upon mason for work
on the new State house, and the mason
passes 1t for a dollar to a merchant for
q silk dress for his wife, and the mer-
chant passes it for dollar to the cns-
tom house officer for import duties, and
the United States Treasury passes it as
a dollar TO a soldier, and the soldier
passes il as dollar 70 the same car
penter hereinbefore previously men,
toned, we are unable 20 see who has
lost the eight cents- Happy thought
perhaps the loss fell on some man who
didn't get 1t. Seriously, the same man
who lost the eight cents also loses six
teen cents every time he takes four sill
yer quarters. that have only eighty-four
cents worth OF silver IN them But,
even then the i've cent nickel puzzles
us. In dollars worth OF these there
Is only nineteen cents worth Of metal.
Now viii some Of the editors who lie
awake nights 70 figure such things out
please to inform Us who Il is
that loses the eightF-oEe cents every
time a dollars worth Of nickels Is
passed Who loses four esuls every
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21
THE DAY OF BLOOD.


It would require larger sheet than
the STATESMAN to contain fall accounts
of the daily murders perpetrated in the
United States. In fact there are news
papers haYing special columns devoted
to 'sCrime in Texas" These overflow
with hideous, disgusting recitals of
brutal, bloody deeds. II ignorance
could read and vice and ungoverned
passion were not ciezed with whisky,
a single copy OF one of these fearful
newspapers would put period to the
commission of crime. But men, still
pretending to be patriots and sitting
In churches every Sunday, bow before
God with prayers upon their lips and
murder In their pocket on the hip, or,
belted about them. Decent, civilized
people shun such country. Absn-
doned by deeency and Christless, a
city constituted of such a popula-
ton creates a hell for itself, and
properly enough Beecher has abolished
that once famous institution. Very
certainly there is no more need for it
in Texas than IN Chicago. 1t is not
the outrage done themselves by these
explosive arsenals whom we call men !;
it is not that they make towards of
themselves and thus murderers. This
signifies nothing; bur they destroy O
community. They render a town or
village infamous. They blacken the
fame of decent, Industrious people.
They pollute the morals, pervert the
tastes and degrade the habits of the
young. Children reared in such
society grow up with crime in their
hearts and deeming murder the choicest
of fine arts. Honest men in Texas and
those interested in the well-being of
the State to-day and in its future, in
volving the fortunes of their children,
should study with horror and disgust
the stories of bloody deeds recited in
the Galveston Ne'cs of last hangman's
day. Every patriot should pray that
another like dies nefas may never dawn
upon Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21
Laws Relating to Newspapers.

1. Subscribers who do not give ex-
press notice to the contrary. are coz
sidered wishing to continue their sub
scription.
Q. II subscribers order the discon-
tinuance Of their periodicals, the pub
fishers may continue to send them un-
til all arrearages are paid.
3. II subscribers neglect or refuse to
take their periodicals from the Office
TO which they are directed, they are
held responsible until they have settled
their bills and ordered them discon-
tinued.
4. II subscribers move to other
places without informing the publish
ers, and the papers are sent to the
former direction, they are held respon-
nible.
8. The courts have decided that ere.
Ising to take periodicals from the
office, or removing and leaving them
uncalled for, is primG .fdcie evidence of
Intentional fraud"
@. Any person who receives a news
paper and makes use of it, whether he
has ordered it or not, is held In law to
be subscriber.
z 2. II subscribers pay in advance,
they are bound to give notice to the
publisher, at the end of their time, if
they do not wish to continue taking
it; otherwise the publisher is author
lzed to send it on, and the subscriber
will be responsible until an express no
tice, with payment of all arrears, is
sent to the publisher. -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-03-21
a Night OF Terror.

MARCH Is, 1878.
Editors Democratic Statesman
ty-six years ago occurred the big fresh
ct of 1852, and as spent night up a
tree, in the Colorado river, an impress
sion was made upon me that can never
be forgotten. At that time DR.. Rowe
lived on what Is still known as the
Rowe farm" The house stood near
the bank of the river in full view of
the high prairie; and the impression
was that the house would wash away,
and the family were in the house. 1t
was some six hundred yards, or more,
to the high land, and all the way a
sea of water, with all kinds of
debris atloat on its surging bosom.
There was not n canoe or skiff
to be had on that side of the Colorado,
and something had to be done to save
the family. William Burdltt said he
would give a thousand dollars to any
one that would rescue the doctor and
his family. There was on hand some
green pine lumber from Bastrop for
Austin. 1t was hauled to the waters
edge and nailed together, and a sort of
batteau made of it. 1t was placed on
the water, ard Newton ,Burditt, Rob
ert Giler and myself started for the
house, having provided ourselves
with two coils of bhling rope. We ran
across the main slough or deepest chan
mel to large pecan tree, which stood
some four hundred yards above the
Doctors house, and here we found
Kentucky Rowe safely seated among
its branches, and we took him aboard,
and tied our rope to the tree in order
to pull back up stream by it in case we
reached the house. The current was
so swift we could not manage our
craft, but had to let it go with the
current, and missed the house about
two hundred yards. Our craft struck
tree and went to the bottom, Rowe,
Giler and myself succeeding IN getting
up small box elder, and Burditt
caught to tree a little lower down.
Here we were without coats or hats,
and a quarter Of mile from land,
and 1t was then about four o'clock
in the afternoon. There we stayed
until 6 o'clock next morning. About
10 o'clock at night norther blew up,
and 1t became almost hurricane. The
thunder roared and the llghtnings
flashed, revealing to us our helpless
condition. Trees were uprooted the
fences in the prairies were nearly all
blown down, and yet our little box
elder, brittle through twas, withstood
the blast. We frequently reminded
each other to keep cool, which we did.
By morning the river had run down.
The Doctor got horse he had In the
stable and rode to- US, and we came
from our roost and Joined hands, and
one taking the horse by the tail he
towed US in. He had big jug of
brandy which we did ample justice to,
and we got good breakfast and some
dry clothing and went to bed and soon
forgot all about being in the river.
/ .s- E. s. BERREY,