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The daily gazette., 1878-01-16
HARPER'S MAGAZINE FOR FEB
t'fFT RUARY, 1877.

Harper's Magazine for February is a
very strong and brilliant number. Two
celebrated English novelists, WIN. Black
and Thomas Hardy, contribute the early
chapters of their new novels. Blacks
story, "Macleod of Dare" is laid in Scot
land, and at the head of the first chapter
is bold illustration by Petite. Hardy's
novel, "The Return of the Native" In
troduces us TO Egdon Heath, a furry
briery wilderness in Wessex, and is also
illustrated ...--t.lHn
A thrilling short story, entitled, "Pun,
ished Enough"-adapted from an old
French feuiIleton by Mrs. II. b. Latimer-
is etfectually illustrated by Abbey.
The opening article of the number is 9
picturesque description, by William IL
Rideing, of life and scenery "Along ouI
Jersey Shore" with twenty-four beauti.
full and characteristicil illustrations.
The pre-eminence of HUper's Magazine
in the treatment of art subjects IL fully
sustained in this number. There is an
admirably written paper by Helen 5. Co,
nant on ]. NJ. w. Turner, with score OF
engravings from that artists most remark
able paintings, including "The. Slave
Ship" from which no engraving has
ever previously been made, but which
the owner miss Alice Hooper, of Bos-
tom has graciously permitted to be cop
led for this article. The readers of this
article will peruse with eager interest
another paper in this number, "a Painter
on painting" which reports an exceed.
ingly Interesting talk on art by our most
celebrated landscape painter, George In,
ness. Mr.. Inness very freely, and in an
original manner, gives his views of land
scape painters-including Turner-of pic
ture-buyers, and of the principles of true
art. ~. 5s 4r#ss
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16
TRADE WITH MEXICO.

Were not Mexico prey to chronic
civil war it would be one of the richest
countries of the world. 1t has the ele-
ments of wealth in superabundance. No
where are there such vast deposits of the
precious minerals. Up to 1873 the total
coinage of the product of the mines was
S4, ,450, 600 millions. Before the War of
Independence there were 5000 mines in
operation, yielding s21 100000 of silver
and $2,000,0O0 of gold annually. The
country has never been systematically
surveyed by geologists, and there is a
great deal of hidden wealth that has not
yet seen the light. Neither have the
mines been properly worked. In 1873 the
imports were $50 600, 900, and the value of
the exports was $31 ,47O, 900, of which
S26 100000 was in gold and silver. Only
one-sixth of the imports was furnished
by the United States, although they were
chiefly fabrics that are madA in this coun
iry. 1t needs but little enterprise to
greatly enlarge our exports to Mexico
We have a decided advantage in the les
ser cost of transportation. When the
capital is connected with our railway sys-
TEN the heart of the Republic can be
reached in a few days by continuous
line of rail from New York and Philadel-
phia. Brazil and Mexico have the same
population, and yet the former furnished
us in 1873 with S36 100000 worth of cof-
fee, against 100000 only from Mexico.
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16
NEW JERSEY FISHING GROUNDS

Few other parts Of the coast are as pop
ulous with food fishes as New jersey
Nineteen different specie are caught in
abundance, and not Ness than one million
dollars worth is sold annually, the prin-
cipal markets are New York and Phila'
delphia The tautog or black-fish, weigh
ing from one and a half to four pounds,
is taken with bait in large numbers both
in summer and winter; the porgee weigh
ing from one-quarter to two pounds, is
taken with bait in July and August; the
sheep's-head, weighing from two to
twelve pounds, is taken by hand and net;
and about fifty thousand maekerel day
are caught during June and July. The
other varieties that are more or less COM
mon include the drum fish, the Lafayette
fish $50 called from the fact that it first ap-
peared on the coast during the revisit to
America of the French marquis) the blue
fish, the sword fish, the cod fish, the had
dock, the winter founder, the oblong
founder, the salmon, the anchovy, the
smelt, the fan shad, the herring, and the
menhaden or m9ss,oanserw %,o,s vod",jne ea,.
February.
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16
LIGHTING AND HEATING PASS
ENGER CARS 4

The average passenger who sits in the
brightly lighted passenger coaches on our
great railway lines, and reads his evening
paper as pleasantly as if under the chan
de1ier of his own library, scarcely thinks
of the ingenuity and care by which the
soft gaslight has taken the place of the
sickly and unsteady illumination afforded
by oil On the Pennsylvania Railroad,
whose cars are lighted with gas, the gas
tanks are suspended under the floor of the
cars, in which the gas is condensed to
pressure of two hundred pounds per
square inch. The size ofthese tanks may
be regulated to hold the amount of gas
required. The improvement in the heat
ing apparatus is not less marked. The
old wood stoves of other days, which af-
forded intermittent heat, and were sure
| to set the coach on fire under the jostle
of the most trifing accident, gave way to
the more comfortable coal stoves, which
were scarcely less dangerous than their
predecessors, until by the plan adopted
on the above named road, they were
securely bolted to the floor and the fire
doors supplied with gratings which eff
| fectually prevents the escape of fire in
case the car is upset. The appliances
above referred to, involving but slight
addition to cost of the old methods OF
| lighting and heating, illustr ate the ad-
vantages of progressive and careful man.
agement, and contribute essentially to the
comfort as well as safety of passengers
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16
THE MAN WHO DON'T GET Ex-
CITED


Augustus Bergmeyer, who keeps q
small grocery store on Leonard street was
charged, at the Court of Special Sessions,
New York, with having bit his wife's
finger. The prisoner was particularly
good hunored during the trial He fire.
quently smiled and laughed, and appear
ed tolenjoy the proceedings as first class
Joke. Calling him to the witness stand
In his own behalf, Judge Otterbourg ask.
ed: "Were you ever arrested before"
Bergmeyer smiled and answered, "No,
sir; really, never was. This is, in fact,
the first time ever entered this Court
House, and assure you was astonish-
ed to find it such fine building. 1t is a
| magnificent structure" and the prisoner
/ turned in his choir to view with more
minuteness the, architectural beauties of
the court room. i'''
The judges looked at the man in as
| tonishment. Such GOODNESS, with liberty
| at stake, was an unusual sight.
"Never mind the beauty of the build
ing" said the Court, "tell US about the as
sault on your wife,"
"Oh" the prisoner smiled apologeti-
cally, as though the occurrence had slip
ped his memory, "well the fact is, it was
a slight misunderstanding. didt mean
to hurt herr tj't
Mr.. Bergmeyer was sentenced to two
months ON the Island. When the sen.
tence was announced he trippingly re-
peated the words with a smile, "Ah, two
months on the Island" and, in a light and
airy way proceeded with the officer in the
direction of his cell. .t
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16

The Russian army that is marching
upon Adrianople will not be the first to
occupy that ancient city and thence to
dictate terms of peace to the Turks, but
never before has the Turkish military
power been broken as it is now, or the
Sultan's emissaries been compelled to sue
for peace so humbly. The Turkish army
appears to be as completely crushed and
annihilated as was the army of France
nv the victorious Germans, and the Turks
have no such recuperative power as the
French. They have been, in their day,
among the bravest and most successful
soldiers of the world but that was in
the time when, untrammeled by the pre-
tense of civilization and with vigor un-
impaired by modern luxury, they had
swept into Europe and pushed their con-
quests to the very gates Of the Austrian
Capital From the day when the con-
quests of the Ottomans ceased, their
bower of necessity withered, for it was a
power that could not remain quiescent,
but must, when it ceased to grow, begin
to decay. And this decay has gone on
with continually increasing rapidity,
hastened rather than checked by the at
tempts to engraft a European civilization
upon an Asiatic stock until the whole em-
ptre was ready to crumble as soon as its
outer shell was broken through. The
military organization of Turkey in our
time has not been that which subjugated
Southern Europe, but only the remains
of it, held together by outside support,
and though il made a stalwart resistance
for q time, the elements of endurance
were not in it, and once broken, it has
gone to pieces utterly.-Phtto. Times.
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16
THE PEACH TREE.
,.resnondence of he Gozette.

Correspondence oJ We UuZeUe.
In the mountains of East Tennessee, the
peach tree thrives and lives from fifty to
one hundred years, and up to this day
none of the diseases that destroy and
shorten the life of the tree have as YET
made their appearance. The greater por-
ton of the trees are grown from the seed
and produce the natural fruit, and SO
certain can you rely on the seed repro.
ducing its kind that seed is generally se-
lected from the tree that you desire the
fruit like, and planted. The fruit is large
and much higher favored than that
grown in the orchards in the States OF
Delaware and New Jersey.
The climate seems to be natural for the
growth of this fruit. / wonder that those
who grow trees in these States do moi
seek their seed from this section, both for
growing good healthy stalks for grating
ON as well as getting new seedlings to i'm.
prove their fruit, and prolong the life OF
their orchards. Among the varieties OF
natural fruit you find those similar to the
"Morris Whites" "White Heath,
"Molykatoon," ""Crawford." The Indian
peach Is a very fine peach, is very fine
and large variety, and frequently grows
to the, weight of half and three-quarters
of pound. / sent IA to the Department
of Agriculture, that weighed seven
pounds. There is one variety of white
peach very large, juicy and rich in flavor
which is superior to the Morris White
Peach seed should be selected from sec
tions, where there is no yellows to de.
stroy and shorten the crop.
az Hl.....I .I.La. EDWIN HENRY,
Greenville, Tennessee.
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16
SENATOR VOORHEES, SPEECH
BooUETs AND KISSES FROM THE ADMIR-
ING LADY FRIENDS OF THE ORATOR.
WAsUINGTON Jan liz \

BooUETs AND KISSES FROM THE ADMIR-
ING LADY FRIENDS OF THE ORATOR.
WASHINGTON, Jan. L.
Senator Voorhees, made his first speech
in open session of the Senate to-day. The
announcement that he would speak drew
an immense crowd to the Senate, and
not vacant seat was to be seen except
in the diplomatic gallery. Voorhees,,
owing TO his towering form, his fine
voice and his well-chosen rhetoric, was
always a favorite with the galleries. He
spoke for nearly three hours against pay
ing any debts of the government in gold
The speech shows great labor and re-
search, but is full of sophistry, and will,
therefore, capture the ignorant. Senator
Jones' silver speech year ago contained
most of the facts. When the tall In.
dianian had finished he was overwhelmed
with congratulations, and the excitement
was so great that the Senate had to ad
journ. Most of the members of the
House listened to the close and they were
particularly warm in their congratula
lions. The Senator received two or three
bouquets, and when he went into the
lobby an enthusiastic lady, not very at
tractive as to personal appearance, i'm
printed chaste kiss on the cheek of the
handsome orator. She was not recog
nized as one of the suffragists. 9
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16
VENUS IN JANUARY.
From the Providence (R. l.) Jouranl.

Venus will reign in the western sky
without rival during the rest of the
month, though the full moon of the 18th
will somewhat diminish her light. She
win, however, increase in brightness un-
til the 10th, when she reaches her greatest
briliancy and praetced eyes may then
catch a glimpse of her at MONDAY as a
tiny point Of cloudy light. She is now
rapidly approaching the.su setting earl
ier every night and will continue do so
until the Goth of February, the time of
her inferior conjunction. Seen through
the telescope, she presents the same
appearance as the moon at the. present
time, only in reversed order, as the one is
a waxing and the other waning crescent.
The reason she is at her brightest when
only small portion of her Illuminated
disc is turned toward the earth is on ac-
count of her being so much nearer. Her
apparent diameter is now six and half
times as great as when, at her superior
conjunction, her whole enlightened face
is turned toward us. .....I
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16
THE NURSERY,

Parents who are at any loss for means
to am,9e their little ones, will not
go amiss in carrying home q copy of The
Nursery. The pictures, stories and verses
are all of quality that the young folks
will appreciate. The Nursery was estab-
lished in 1867. Since the time many chill
drens magazines have been started, and
after fiourishing for a brief period, have
closed their career and disappeared. But
The Nursery still lives, and is as vigorous
and full of life and animation as ever
The secret of its success is an open one,
and is found in its uniform excellence, in
its recognition and appreciation of the
wants of s'our youngest readers" and IN
the iudicious manner in which those
wants are catered for Its contributor
whether in, prose or rhyme, are evident
Iy acquainted with children, and under
stand not only what Is pleasing to them
but what is suitable for them.
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16
LOCAL TIME TABLE.
TRAINS LEAVE wILMINoro

TRAINS LEAVE WILMINGTON. ~
For Philadelphia: 2.oo, 6.cb, $40, 800,
$40, sis, p. m. On sundays: soS. 10 a.
For New York: a1S, SA, q m, 70 81, 10 10,
sap m; on sundaysi 2 70 m:
sbea mi 10 81, n 90, 8 90. p m. Sundays
For Port deposit: 4cs p m; no sunday
For New Castle: 8, 9 20, 90 . m; 30, . 30 p
For Delaware Il. R.; 08, Q 30 q m; Q 30 p m;
no Sunday train. 5a.sLI u aJI-It'
For Wilmington q Northern n. r, g. % q
m; 2 %. 800 m; no sunday train. .,
pm; on sundays: 10 30 m. ttiisIo a
TRAINS ARRIVE AT WILMINGTON.
from Philadelpnla; IL B6, 8 "a, o "a a m; II
mi t244, 1eH, sbS, Adj, 614. 6D
~ Il Il e %, 81 il pn 70 sundays md u 50
From New York; u So, ss4 a m; u Y. u y
so4,e6ipm; on Sundays: 10 ea m
From Baltimore Q is, 0 Al, a m; 1a I, 10 ss
ss,esep m; on sundsys'2iss q m q
From VI washington is m 12a, II IS
6ss, o 20 p m; ON Sundays Is q m; 0 y
FROM Port peposis' sooa m no Sunday
From New Castle: %. 8 80 q m 70 90 m
/ ID 4 20, o 40, Z % p m; no Sunday trains.
From Delaware r, R.: 500 m; 4 20, Q 40 /
m; no Sunday trains.
From Wilmington & Northern r. R.: 8 0e
II 30a m: 8 10 p m; no sunday trains.
From Delaware Western r. r.: 7 % a m
3 I0p m: on sundays: 8 90 y m.
TRAINS FOR wILMfNGr ON LEAVE PHI
ADELPHfA. f'
From Broad street and Washington ave
nue.: 80, 800, 10 30, 40 m; . 30, . y
400, 8 10, 9 45, o 10, II 30 p m; on Sun
days: 8 80 a m; 9 01,9 ~, II 30, m.
From Thirty Second and Market street,
725, IL 40 a m, IL Is % 90, 8 80, IL 40 p N
on SUNDAYS: 8 90. II 45 p m.
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16
Greenville, Tennessee.
For the GAZETTE.
b. THE DISHONEST DOLLAR.

The advocates of the decentralization of
silver, are lond IN their denunciation of
the dishonesty of paying the public debt
in what they term dishonest dollar,
that is silver dollar. The same bill
with which they are so enamored (de-
monetizing silver makes this dishonest
dollar they refer to, a legal tender for
debts amounting to So or less Great IL
the indignation at the idea Of paying a
large sum in dollar which they say
only amounts in value to 92 cents. Query,
is it any more dishonest to pay small
debt, under So, or that amount, in silver
currency than a larger one IN the same
coin? What kind of moralists are they,
| who assume it is right to pay a small
| debt in debased currency, but dreadful
outrage to pay a large amount in any
thing save gold? The legislation seems
to be, taking the argument OF these men,
poor money for poor men, nothing but
NUTSH ELL. o
WilniinRton Del, Jan. 18th, 1873.
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16
A LITTLE GIRLS FATAL RIDE.

The wythevillee (va) Enterprise of the
9TH inst. says -tI-s
ION Friday before Christmas a little
girl, aged about years, daughter of Mr..
Alfred Copenhaver, who lives near Mt.
Airy Depot, was thrown from horse and
Instantly killed. Some members of the
family, it seems, had been out riding, and
three horses were hitched near the gate.
A brother of the little girl unhitched two
of the horses and started with them to
the stable :; another brother, yielding to
the request of his sister, put her on the
remaining horse, and starting it toward
the stable, returned to the house. The
horse, it is supposed, started at q pretty
fast gait to overtake the ones which had
preceded it, when the little one lost her
balance and fell of. When her brother
returned from the stable he found her
lying insthe road dead. mo- islt
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16
PERSONAL.

George Cruikshank, the artist, is dan
gerously Ill in London. ~
1t is reported that Mr.. Boucicault, the
dramatist, is about to build steam yacht
of large size. " % f'i.t
1t is claimed that the real Arthur Nor
ton will arrive in England, from Austria,
early in February.
Rev. A. w. Mann, of Chicago, and
Rev. H.nW. Syle, of Philadelphia, arr
said 10 be the only deaf mute clergymeI
in the United States.
The Rev. DIR. John Hall denied from
the pulpit on Sunday that city churches
take in rich men without sufficient inves
tigation of their personal character.
The Rev. ID. III. Moore, president of tn,
Cincinnati Wesleyan Female College, o
which the Presidents wife is n graduate
says there is no probability of the colleg'
being closed. Ilt aH-.i y-.l'..s
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16
HEAD BLOWN OFF.

BALTIMORE, Jan. 15.-Wm. Wrench, a
foreman employed in excavating rock in
the water works tunnel, near this city,
was killed yesterday by the explosion Of
a dynamite cartridge. He had just fired
a round of holes with dynamite, and went
back to attend to a missed hole, when as
he reached the heading, the cartridge,
which had hung fire, exploded and blew
his head entirely off '
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16
STARRED BY HIS PARTNER.

NEW York, Jan. 15.-John Collins and
Dennis Flynn are partners in the hat
store at 716 Greenwich street. They drank
freely last evening, and accused each
other of cheating. Flynn threw block
ing board at Collins, who picked up
knife and stabbed him on the head
Collins has been arrested.
The daily gazette., 1878-01-16

At the seat of war IN Bulgaria the price
of a human jaw is about 50. 1t varies ac-
eording to the regularity, soundness and
whiteness of the teeth In Paris the quo
tation is 80 per cent. greater at wholesale
rates. The gastly wares are packed IN
cases of 500. and the teeth are extracted
after their arrival at the city to which the
laws are consigned. ,N.. .sA
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-07-12
A DRY Goods Palace Car.

A correspondent of the american
Manufacturer says: The United States
Rolling Stock Company, at their shops
in Chicago, are getting up what may be
called a new departure. This is palace
dry goods car, to be used on railroads
by dealers in dry goods, carrying sam
pies along as well as stock to be deliver
ed when sold. This car is sixty feet long,
not including platforms at each end, or
sixty-six feet long over all. 1t is built
as light as possible and yet is strong.
The construction of the body is very
simple, having only two large windows
on each side for lighting purposes, but
at each end there is to be a stateroom
for the travelling merchants to occupy
nights or days, while on the roads.
These staterooms are lighted by three
small windows each. The inside of the
car was not finished for use, so we can
not tell just how it is to be arranged,
but no doubt convenient for the pur-
pose. This car has sub cellar, as-they
call it, between the fore and aft trucks,
where may be stored large quantities Of
domestic goods while in transit, and it
has what may be called a mansard roof,
or double deck, for light and ventila-
ton, giving it the appearance of sleep
ing car-except the finish. This is a
new enterprise, and it remains to be
seen upon trial if it shall prove a sue
cessful one.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-07-12
A Girl VanQuishes a Wolf.

Five miles from Eureka, Kan, lives a
prosperous farmer named Robert 10y,
who is engaged in raising sheep. His
"boys are all girls" and one of his
daughters, Mary Belle 10y, barely
fourteen years of age, is the shepherdess,
whose rosy cheeks, sun-burned face and
graceful form as she mounts her pony
would excite the envy of many city
bellies and charm the eye of connois-
seur in search of sensitive rose to COM
plete the latest work of his easel. Some
weeks since, while looking after her wool
ly wards, she discovered ull-grown wolf
of the coyote species and an uncommon
ly large one stealthily approaching the
flock, when she put her horse to his
speed, and the wolf, feeling that his
sanitary condition in that locality was
very unsatisfactory, the race and chase
commenced, over the hills and prairie,
neither showing any indication of fatigue,
until he was compelled to consider him
self "run down." Now came the "tug
of war;" and any one who has ever seen
coyote at bay swapping and snarling,
holding his position against a dozen
dogs, can realize her situation as the
aggressor. Nothing daunted, however,
she unbuckled her bride rein, and with
the ring at the end, and this only, made
good her position as mistress of the sit
uation, and without alighting from her
saddle she had soon disabled her foe,
saved her lambs, and deprived him of
at least one toothsome morsel. Then
she started out for the nearest neighbor
to the battle-ground, nearly two miles
distant, for assistance, but found no one
at home who could assist her save anoth-
err girl, who mounted another pony, and
armed only with dull knife, these two
young girls were soon galloping over
the prairie to save the scalp, for which
the county pays "royalty" when pre-
scented to the proper officer. When they
returned, the principal of this Red Rid
ing Hood escapade had partially recov,
cred, and was moving off. At this juno
ture he was again invited to remain,
while one girl threw him down and the
other proceeded to administer Western
Justice by searching for his iugular
vein with the knife. Such instances Of
feminine bravery as this are rarely met
with, even on the frontier.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-07-12
Spanish Train Robbers.

The express which leaves Barcelona
at 1925 P. Nj. for the French frontier
by way of Corona and .Figueras, was
stopped the other night short distance
north of the San Andres station, not
far from Barcelona, and all the passen-
gers were stripped of what they had
about them. The brigands who achieved
this exploit surprised one of the
signal men, and having gagged him,
turned on the danger signal. The
engine driver stopped the train, and
while the passengers were looking out of
the windows to see what was the cause
of the stoppage, some fifty men, all
armed with daggers and revolvers, clus-
tered up on the carriage steps and forced
their way into the compartments.
Money, watches, jewelry, and all other
objects of any value had to be de-
hvered up; and in one or two instances,
where passengers were inclined to be
recalcitrant, the robbers placed the
muzzles OF their revolvers in unpleasant
proximity with the persons of the vic
Tins. After the carriages had been care.
fully examined they sacked the contents
of the luggage van and then disappeared.
The train put back to Barcelona, and
arrived there at about one in the morn
ing.