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The daily gazette., 1878-12-05

After justly complimenting the wife of
Senator Gordon, who is of great service
TO him in political matters and affairs of
statecraft, the EUening Bulletin says that
mable ladies at Washington possess as
thorough an insight into and compr.hen-
sion of public affairs as their husbands !"
This is poor piece Of puiiery. 1t would
have heen better 10 have said that quite
number of ceuckle-headed men get to
, ongress through the assistance of their
Intelligent wives, and that there arc al
least half dozen gentlemen in the Sen.
a'e who, if dressed in petucoats, would
have great difficulty in passing for sensi.
Ole OLD women. There's Burnside, foI
instance.-Bdit. Gazette.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05
Sapper This Evening.

This evening the Ladies Aid Society of
the First Pr, sbyterian Church, will give a
supper in the parlor rs of the Young Mems
Christian Association rooms. From the
arrangements that have been made, it
promises to be the largest aud best con-
Quoted supper that has bren given this
season. All who atend may feel assu,- :
ed. that they will be amply provided for
with the best that the markets and culi-
nary efforts can afford. The price OF ad-
mission will be % ceuts, including sup
DpT
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05
A Denuneimtory Sermon

On next Sunday evening, Rev. |. NJ.
Haldemap, pastor of u q Delaware Ave-
hue Baptist Church, willpreach asermon
against :-"Shall we turu Our churches
into oyster saloons, fancy bazasrs, pro-
nouncing bees, and cheap theatresw In
the evening is subject will be The
Spending of Life" special efforts will
be made to seat strangers, upon applica-
tion 10 the "chlef ushers" at the church.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05
The Best Qualities of MEDICINES

The Best Qualities of MEDICINES
AT WILLIAMS
THE MOST RELIABLE Proprietary
MEDICINES,
AT Ninth and Market
Choice PERFUMERY, COLOGNES, &c
AT WILLIAMS
A fne assortment OF HAIR, TOOTH, and
NAIL BRUSHES,
At Ninth and Market.
A choice Imported Key West, Pride OF Key'
West or Greuley Cigar,
AT WILLIAMS
Choice FLAVORING EXTRA
Strong and Pure,
At Ninth and Market,
AT WILLIAMS
Fine AMERICAN d IMPORTED SOAPS
At Ninth and Market.
" Get the best" VILLA MS HAPONA.
CEOUS DENTIFRICE,
AT WILLIAMS
Choice Goeds, Accuracy in dispensing oplG
Reasonable Prices.
WILLIAMS PRESCRIPTION STORE
apl2-tf Corner Ninth and Market.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05

"A A CoSDlTIoNAL GIFT ABOUT To LAPSE
The conditional proposition of Mr.. Rem.
ben X. Springer, Cincinnatl's liberal mil.
honalre, to give $50, 900 for a permanent
exhibition building, to be erected i'm
that city, lapSes On the 1st of fJanuarv mn.
less the citizens Will make up 500 900
only $4,000 of which has been subscrih,
ed, The brewers offered $1,000 on condi
ton that they should have place Ia
show their products but the offer VIZ,
declined.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05
NEW YORK TO BE RUN BY sTrAM NJ

NEW YORK, Dec. 3-The board of alder.
men to-day passed a resolution giving
Francis B. SPinola and his associates pef.
mission to lay mains In the city subject
to the conditions which may be fixed by
The commissioners OF the sinking fund
for the purpose Of supplying steam under
the Holly comb nation system, TO the
city and its inhabitants for heating COOK
ing and al other domesuc purposes, AS
Wen as Tor any and all uses for which
'tsam can be employed. ..,ca
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05
Executors sale.

AT an executors sale on Saturday last
of the real estate of the late Col. George
DAVIS, situated in New Castle county,
the farm "Ausiralia," three miles from
Smyrna containing 325 acres, was knock
of to Tschudy & Cats for 5000. And
the Walker" farm in Thoroughfare
Neck, 275 acres, to G. Reed Lofland for
k6 76J
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05

The RAPID GROWTH OF TExAs.-Ii
IS estimated, says the Railway w rid lbal
during the last eight years there has been
an addition OF at least 400, 600 to the poou-
latlpn OF Texas, and that the assessed
valuation of the property in the State has
been increased during the same period
$3.50 900 600.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05
CHIMNEY ON FIRE.

About o'clock this afternoon, a slight
fire occurred in the chimney at the con
fectionaiy store of A. Simmons, No. Alb
Market street. The flames were extiu-
gulshed by the application of a bucket
of water
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05
Larceny Of q Watch.

James Stewart was before the Mayor
last evening on the charge Of stealing a
silver wa'ch and gold chain, the prop
erty Of +. III. Ianf. He was held in the
sum of 500 to answer the charge at
Court.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05
THE FIRST SNOW.

The "tirst snow If the season" llthis
morning, quite briskly for over AL hour,
when ii ceased. This afternoon the wealth
er is quite cool, and appearances Indicate
more SLOW
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05
rNHE ARTIzANs SAVINGS BANK

oo2 MARK EFT STREET,
INCORPORATED JANUARY 24d, 1861
Open 10 receive deposits daily from A
Nj. until r. NJ, and on Tuesday and Sat
urdav evenings rom tn 8 o'clock
SEMl-ANNU UAL DIVIDEND,
regularly made In April and October
When dividends are not withdrawn they
re accounted as deposits. Thus permanent
deposits compound their interest twice In
each year.
MANAGERS.
1ien ell II myth, George " Bush,
Shah. W., own q. George y, Capclle,
NathanI X. Benson, NJ. l.. Lichepstein rs
Henry r. Dure, Edward DarlngtsI
W. Hastings, job II. Jackson,
Edward Pusey, VIM. IL. Swim,
Anthony Higgins.
GEO. W. BUSH, President.
GEO. 3. CAPELLE, Vice President.
feb2l E. T. Taylor. Treasurer
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05
VITAL ABSTINENCE SAylsG VINE TILL
RIPENS.

There Is a curious story about some n !
wines which are extensively advertised nd
days. and have only recently been put 4
the market. DR.. Cnderhill the wellknl
grape-grower Of Croton Point died in 4
Some OF his heirs entertained tcmpda
views Of such exkeme kind that they
unwilling TO allow the stock Of wines thei
hand to be sold or any more to be nj
The grapes have sometime been scnl
market, and sometimes let 70 decay 4
the vines. 1t is only now tha. 'he oiaF
have succeeded in arranging ior n s-N
Of the estai- and the sale Of q w'ei
hand. Among thcsc IL VINE q t''' m
Of 1864. described as "svcst yrl"7 t1
but suggesting the lmpe"al ioSliy 4
than any o'hcr Europcan ~'n', f.d 4
wholly ankle any cther vine 4 "1'7
growth. It's purify. ace sra ta'.o'a, i
remarkable. and both pfy iaah' -'a 4
fancicrs have special he'c'i D. y
oldest native wine now acc"s' his 'l
siderable quantity. The whol. st 'h
hands Of the weil-LnoAn whg!esls
house Of the 1hurbefs.-A. l. ~
Nov. y0, 1871.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05
A Counter Suit.

Angelo Ratti, Jr., who was arrested
and required by the Mayor to pay 81 and
costs, for splitting tobacco juice, in the
eyes Of horse belonging 10 Jsmrs C.
Twaddell, brought suit against rwaddell
Berthtte. AT a hearing last evening
Twaddell was required to pay 80 cents
and costs.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05

E,IRST NATIONAL BAkk
L OF WILMINGTON,
RsPosIToRr OF THE PUBLIC MONEYS
AND
FINANCIAL AGENTS OF THE I'm
TED STATES,
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05

The above speaks for itself bui~"
add that this is tn. pure ju..e Of The g.
neither Syxggei. H4HorrJ nor ''1i''''
has been ripened and mello"ed b! age
for medicinal or sacramento pufpO'"
unsurpassed. 1t can be obtained hon
Of tho leading Druggists lhTouGn0''
United States, and at wholesale ""
undersigned. who will forward de''l
pamphlet, free of charge. on aPpI'''"'"
Respectfully, eis''
H.K. az. B. THURBER 4 "
West B,usS.-ay. Reads 4~5 HAf'" '
NEw.YpRr
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05

EDWARD BELTS, PREsIDEET.
GEO. ID. ARMSTRONG. CASHIER
Paid up Capital, $500, 900.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05

TIE term Of the Clerk 10 the City
Treasurer expires tonight.
The daily gazette., 1878-12-05

Philadelphia and New York Exchange fur
nished to regular Depositors without charge.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-18
VOL. 74.-3766. NO. 10.

The matter was never mentioned by Aunt
Martha again. When Ruth went home she
kissed her after the same grim fashion Of
her welcome, and told her she should expect
TO see her next summer, if nothing hap
pened.
something did happen. II will happen
to all OF us some time. Aunt Martha had
not expected il so soon, and none of her
relatives had thought of her dying for years
to come. But the call came for her sud
denly, and she went away in the darkness of
a winter night, and there was no coming
back from journey like hers.
Ruth and her mother were at the funeral.
The lawyer invited all the relatives to tarry
to the reading of her will. That had been
| her request.
10 her dear nephew, John Hunt, she gave
the sum of thirty thousand dollars to her
dear niece, Ruth Gerrish, she gave her BIZ
BILE, with all the papers therein contained.
That was the sum and substance of the
document.
Ruth took her legacy, which was found
In Aunt Marthas room, securely tied up in
a thick wrapper, with her name upon it, as
the VIII had stated, and they went back
| home.
' wonder who has the homestead ?" said
Mrs. Gerrish that evening. GAN the prop
erty willed to John was 10 bonds and notes"
Rodney Craig came in, and Ruth brought
out her legacy to show him. She removed
the wrapper and they sat down together to
look the well-worn Bible over. A paper
fluttered to the floor. Ruth picked It up
and read;
MY DEAR NIECE Rtyru;-I believe that the wo-
man who is true to the manshe loves even il he is
poor and hasn't but one arm, is honor to her
,iSa sfS IL you you mao oeen wiling TO marry John and
As il L. respect Won apJ a. 't teen pf you
spect give you this old Bible and all you find in
it, and pray that You will be happy, as you de-
serve 10 De- MARTHA FIELDING
Then, OF course, Ruth had to tell Rodney
all about it. She had told her mother be-
tore. How his eyes shone when he knew
the sacrifice she had made for his sake
And he said something about it in a broken
voice but she stopped him.
=" made no sacrifice at all, she said. 81
didnt do it for your sake, either; | did it
Tor toce.S sake.
1he Bible slipped from his knee to the
ioor, and several documents slipped out
upon the carpet. He picked them up to re-
place them. Ruth took them from his hand
TO examine them.
On, mother Rodney she cried, ex-
citedIy, "hey're deeds"
And sure enough they were The old
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-18

What habit we have of crediting all our
ills to Providence. We are never willing to
admit that our own inactivity, folly and
self-love have wrought out the dire results
over which we mourn. We only see the
shipwreck of our lives. We only hear the
voices of the storm, and instead OF owning
that it was our indifferent and unskillful
navigation that brought our craft upon the
rock, we fold our hands and cry out bindly,
" Strange and mysterious are thy ways, o
Providencel' 1t is well TO have faith and
trust. 1t is well to be resigned to trials that
cannot be avoided but it is not well TO hide
our talents in napkin, to take our fill Of
ease and pleasures, and bow down to the
gods of pride aud fashion, then shrink back
from the consequences aud say that the
work is none of ours. Some of us really
imagine that we are suffering the will of the
Lord because the flour barrel is empty and
our coat is out at the elbows, when little
more self-denial, little less folding of the
hands TO rest would raise us out of the
slough of poverty, and set us on our feet
crowned with the gift of goodly heritage.
We eat rich, unwholesome food, keep late
hours, transgress all the laws of health, and
when we pay the penalty with shattered
nerves and broken constitutions, we wonder
why we are not as strong and vigorous as
our neighbor who has lived moderately all
his days Because the neck and arms OF
oui tender infants are soft and white and
dimpled, We let them go bare and unpro-
tected; then, some day when we leave the
little one out under the snow, we murmur
because the Father hath been unkind. In
too many cases, with little more flannel
the family circle might be kept unbroken
for many year.-SeLected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-18

music, checkers, puzzles, not TO forget nut
cracking and .apple-eating take your pick,
friends, according to your conscience and
the degree of Ignorance God has left you
in but pick some of them, or invent some
thing equally good as a duty you owe to
your children.
One of the very best games that can be
introduced into family of children is chess
playing. As source of mental discipline
it belongs TO the higher branches of mathe-
matics. The slowness with which it must
needs be played, If it is played well, makes
it game that lasts the evening out and
often several evenings. The chess-board
and chess-men are comparatively inexpen-
sive. Nearly every family can afford them.
And best of all, perhaN1 is the fact that it
can be played in concert in family of four
children father and two of the children
making one side, mother and the other two
children making the other side After the
tea things are cleared away they gather to
the table feeling that before them is whole
evenings entertainment, of the highest
order. We have known a single game
played thus between six people-three
against three-where both sides were equally
matched, and as the result the game was
played cautiously, to last three successive
N''hihbo' hih lic pltdSuTt
grow stronger and keener still, TO the cul-
minating checlSmate.
One of the good things in connection with
chess playing is that it must be played with
the help of all the deliberate faculties. Haste,
impatience aud reckless smartness will easily
be brought to recognize themselves in their
true light at the chesstable. The reckless and
hot-headed player will soon be taught to re.
alize what fool his impatience makes of
him. If there is anything that can put the
brakes on to feverishness, and teach a wag-
ging tongue the admirable art of reticence,
it is the discipline of this magnificent game.
The game is readily learned in its rudiments,
and has this further excellent quality about
1t, that it never wears out" as the SAYING
IS. After family has played it forty nj ghts
they have just got the hang of the thing"
and are more eager to start on campaign
OF another forty nights, than they were to
play any preceding game.
There are many other excellent things
about chess playing which we, in our edi-
torial wisdom, could suggest; but we will
condense all our remaining wit into this
sentence OF advice-especially directed at
fathers and mothers - buy a chess-board
and set of chess-men, and 90 to playing
with your children.
Between the dark and the daylight,
When dark is beginning to lower,
Comes pause in the days occupations
That is known as the children's hour"
Golden Rule.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-18
The Art of Going Away.

1t has been said that one of the most i'm.
portant social accomplishments is that of
entering room gracefully; but to our
mind that of leaving one easily and Judi
ciously is to be preferred. 1t is painful to
see people anxious to beat a retreat from a
call or visit, and yet apparently as unable
TO escape as rats in trap, although nothing
bars their egress, and all persons concerned
would gladly dispense with their company.
The art or science of departure both from
localities and positions is worth studying in
great as well AS little matters. To under
stand when to bring to an end a morning
call or public career, requires, in lesser
or greater degree, the exercise of the same
faculty. No visitor is likely to be popular
who has not the tact to leave at the proper
time house at which he may be staying
1t is one of the greatest merits Of novelist
to know when to wind up his story, and the
orator who can sit down at the right mo.
ment and in the right way, is master of a
good half of his art Preachers sometimes
complain that their greatest difficulty is
that of concluding their sermons but in
this particular case there is little need fol
the exercise of any special ingenuity, as an
abrupt but early ending is the fault, of al
Others, which is most readily pardoned by
| their hearers.-Home Journal.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-18
Trust in Providence,

l have known timd traveller whose
route lay across the higher Alps, on path
that, no broader than a mules foothod,
sklrted dizzy precipice, where we saw the
foaming river far below diminished to sill
yer thread, find it safest to shut her eyes
nor attempt to guide the course, or touch
the bride where a touch were fatal, throw
ing steed and rider over TO bound from shelf
to shelf, and be dashed 10 pieces in the val
ley below. And there are times and cir
cumstances when to be saved from falling
into sinful doubts, and even into blank de-
spair, the believer must, if we NAV say so,
shut his eyes, and, committing his way to
God, let the bride lie on the neck of Provi-
dence, and walk not by sight, but faith.
God, however things may look, has not for
gotten to be gracious, nor is his mercy clean
gone forever; and when we are walking in
darkness and have no light, there is moth
lug Tor 1t but TO trust in the Lord, and
stay ourselves on God" Had Jacob done
So he had not been so utterly distracted
and crushed by the loss of Joseph; nor, as
he clung to BEN had he turned on his
other sons, like a bear on the hunter come
to bereave her of her whelps, with this dole
ful, angry cry: "Me have ye bereaved of
my children; Joseph is not, and Simeon is
not and will ye also take Ben jamin away
All these things are against me-" Had he
done so, he had borne himself more erect
before the king of Egypt, venerable and
noble witness for God in heather palace,
instead of wailing out this pitiful complaint ::
Few and evil have been the days of my
pilgrimage on EARTH" He lived to unsay
that, and regret that he had walked so much
by sight, and not by faith living to see, as
all Gods people shall in another world, if
not in this, that all things-the bitter and
the sweet together, losses as well as gains,
collins as much as cradles-were not against,
but for him. See him dying his faith
breaking out in full and bright effulgence,
like the sun at the close of cloudy day.
Propped up on pillows, with one hand on
Ephraim's and the other on Manasseh's s
head he raises his sghtless orbs to heaven,
to breathe out the grand confession and
prayer "The God which fed me all my
life long unto this day, the angels which re-
deemed me from all evil, bless the lads p
With that history, and many such before
them, never let Gods dear children yield
no, not in ife's darkest hour-to the thought
that all things are against them. Even when
deep answereth unto deep at the noise of his
waterspouts, and all Gods pillows and waves
go over them, and their bark, with sails torn
to ribbons and bulwarks gone by the board
is staggering through a sea of troubles
never let them fancy that they are the sport
of wind and waves. Your Father is at the
helm The Lord reigneth, let his people re.
joice; he will make all things work together
for good to them " no love him, and are the
called according to his purpose. Guthrie.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-18
Christian View Of Popular Amusements.

nv, =.
What can DE done then, II Is asked, to
meet the demand OF popular amusements
ana supply their place we answer, there
Is nothing which the church can do to rival
,hem' one can never get anything asPopu-
laf as circus, nor as fascinating as
rouhu uance, nor as brilliant as theatre
ana aitnough she often tries, she lamentably
laiis; Inc theatre around the corner, small
ana low ,nough II De, with Its trained corps
OF actresses can give her nine out oil game
9l ten' ana then peat her every time; Her
uaace, : .ry as nara as she may, VIII lack
Juse tnac element whicn makes the Dali SO
a.'raco,ve, ana VIII iheVitaoiy oe ridiculed
as Poky. one can 10 much In the matter
oL ~ Pleasan'' sociai recreation 70 culs yate
sn,so snoso oasI are no' 80 popular. one can en-
Iou'age Ecu 'he pay ana enjoyment oil home
a'ie, one eau encourage taxing amusement
- a' aIlu ioo seeking itas an
CIV GU NV any a..emPt 10 rlvai .ne attraction
T.; pDPuia, pP;, auiuse'nehos n:, arouuu her VIII ehu
y. IL laiuie ,yii wnne sue continues 10 oe
.;,'t, n0., ~ nniie oiai'nihg .he onrisuan
go y. 1 an1usou'eh's, anu .ue eAceiiehce Oh
a,aroa',, ' as an,s i" u.seoPneue y. nature Che
ta oIv " !. "a ihoe Is noC 70 9e forgot
sre 70 he ,nos, O,r. ~, ua'S very ead Una. we
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-12-18
The Future Will Weigh the Past.

Look forward, we sometimes say. a few
days, or few months, and how differently
will all things seem. Yes; but look for
ward few more years and how yet more
differently will all things seem, from the
height of that future, to which on the wings
OF the ancient prophetic belief we can trans
port ourselves, and look back on the present.
Think of our troubles, as they will seem
when we know their end. Think Of those
good thoughts and deeds which alone will
survive in that unknown world. Think of
our controversies as they will appear, when
we shall be forced to sit down at the feast
with those whom we have known only as
opponents here, but whom we must recognize
as companions there. To that future of
futures which shall fulfil the yearnings of
all the prophets have desired on earth, it is
for us, wherever we are, to look onward,
upward and forward in the constant expec-
tatlon of something better than we see or
know. Uncertain as to the day and hour"
and as to the manner of fulflment, this last
of all the predictions still, like those of old,
builds itself upon the present. at doth not
yet appear what we shall be; but we know
that when he shall appear, we shall be like
him; for we shall see him as he is."-Dean
Sidniey.