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Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1878-06-07

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Smyrna times., 1878-08-07
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

The Old Dominion Steamship Company
now carries about ten car loads of peaches
at each trip.
1t is said that the prettiest girl in Viii,
mlngton arrived home, q few days ago,
from her summer visit.
Several hundred crates of peaches are
being shipped from Georgetown to New
York and Philadelphia daily.
The Harrington Camp Meeting com.
menced Friday, and will continue one
week. Rev. j. L. Willis preached on Sun.
day morniag.
PURHCAsED CoTTAGE.-John Walraven.
of Wilmington, has purchased from Rev.
A. D. Davis, the latter's cottage on Surf
Avenue, Rehoboth, together with the furni-
ture, for 5000.
The Drying Factory, of Georgetown, was
opened on Wednesday last by Mr.. Arnold,
of Milford. 1t gives employment, says the
Journal, to about so people.
The P, w. & B. r. r. Co. has, on account
of the prevalence of yellow fever in New
Orleans, discon tinued the reception of
freight at Philadelphia from the North for
Austin, Galveston and other points beyond.
by way of New Orleans, for the present.
The New MORGAN STEAMBOAT Mary
Morgan, the thirtieth iron boat built by the
Harlan & Hollingsworth Company for the
late Charles Morgan, now Morgan's Loui.
siana and Texas Railroad and Steamship
Company, left for Galveston, Texas, on
Saturday.
There are yet about dozen families So
Journing in the grove, but since the closing
OF the camp everything here looks gloomy
and isolated. Those that are here do mo-
look at all cheerful, but as though they hao
lost something, or like boy who had drop
ped his jack.knife down well.-RehOJOtl
Record.
DEEMS KEARNEY.-At meeting of the
Labor Party, in Wilmington, held las
Saturday night, Committee was appoint
ed for the purpose Of corresponding will
Dennis Kearney, the noted California Laho
Agitator, now in the East, and invite hin
to visit that city, at his earliest convenience
to address the workingmen on the genera
subject of labor and its restricted rights
&c, at Union Labor Mass Meeting to b
J held on the occasion.
Smyrna times., 1878-08-07

Cotton and woolen mills, machine shops
and factories, in addition to those connect
ed with railroads, either ceased altogether
or worked only on short time. In these
cases, also, many thousands of operatives,
forced into idleness through no fault
of theirs, were added to the large army of
the unemployed. The depression in trade
and the breaking down of industries
seriously affected the railroads, and up to
this time one of the principal causes of the
continuance of the hard times has been
the forced reduction of labor and the wages
of labor on them by the demand for rates
of transportation so low that, but for the
discharge of hands and the cutting down of
salaries, they would not have been able to
meet their current operating expenses.
Fortunately for US, all the signs and
| tokens point now to the setting in of a
healthy reaction. The prospect of a revival
in the business of railroads is stronger by
far now than it has been at any time since
the panic of 1873. The abundant crops
of the West, partly duplicated as they are
| by the holding back of so considerable q
proportion of the last years crop, will
propably, from the latest advces, be largely
wanted in Europe, and although low prices
will prevail, the aggregate money value
must necessarily be very great, and its dis
tribution give corresponding impetus to
trade and all the varied branches of oul
industry. Moreover, the excess of our ex
ports over our imports has been SO large oi
late years that we have not only been
lessening very materially thereby our foreign
indebtedness, but, by the concurrent exer
else of economy at home, have been re
trieving our losses and growing compare
lively rich. The best evidence of this is
that we are now paying our debts almost
wholly in products, instead of the precious
metals, and at this time experienced bank
ers in New York are predicting that in thC
course of few months, instead of sending
any more of our gold abroad, there will bC
a steady inflow Of gold this way. Consider
ing the remarkable increase in the expor
demand recently, from a local point o
view, we have a striking illustration in the
unusual number of steamships and sailing
vessels coming to Baltimore, some freighteC
and some in ballast, but all carrying away
full cargoes of grain and other products TO
consumption abroad.
Smyrna times., 1878-08-07

BISMARCK.-A correspondent writes as follows from
Berlin of Prince Bismarck: He lives generally at
the Radzwill Palace which has lately been purchased
by the German Government, and added to the old
Foreign Office next door. At the back is O large
garden; called here Park, and originally cut of
from the Thier Garen, Bois de BoelOgne Of Berlin.
1t is surrounded by high walls and the great Chan
cellor. when he walks there, is carefully watched
over by the police, and protected by his now Cee.
brated dog, large smooth, black boar-hound which
mas succeeded the famous Sultan, who was poisoned
by the Social Democrats. The Prince hardly ever
ventures into the streets of Berlin and indeed
to the capital as little possible In conversation
ms manner is frank and cordial; he talks of English
books as one who has read most of them and ne
seems to be possessed of thoroughly encyclopedia
mind 1t is his habit after dinner to stroll upon the
terrace at the back of his palace and puff volumes
OF smoke from an enormous china pipe with a long
cherry ystick stem. / do not know whether his two
sons are possessed of any of his intellectual powers
but they have inherited, at any rate, their father.
vigorous and massive frame.'-N j. Tribune
Smyrna times., 1878-08-07

HARD TINES AND BETTER PRosPEcTs.-
The industrial and commercial depression
from which we have suffered so long was
not due, says the b B.l,tnore Sun, to the
over-building of railroads alone and the
sudden cessation of the employment which
they gave directly and indirectly to hun
dreds of thousands of men. During the
flush times we plunged into q general
course of overtrading and lavish expendi-
ture. Mills and factories sprang up every
where largely in excess of the needs of the
country, and when the crash came they
were overloaded with stocks of goods for
which there was comparatively no sale
Smyrna times., 1878-08-07

THE TIMES is published every Wednesday after
noon by ROBERT D. HoFFEcKER, Editor and Pub
Usher, at Smyrna Delaware.
s-suBscRIPr1oN-On year 200 in advance, or
$3.50 if not paid till the end of the year. No paper
discontinued until all arrears paid-ony at the
option of the Publisher.
ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the rate OF
Seven Cents alne for the irstnsertion; subsequent
insertions Three and a-halfcents. Alberal discount
made to quarterly, sem-annual and yearly adverti-
sers.
OBITUARY NOTICES will be charged two cents per
line
Smyrna times., 1878-08-07

tee to wait on the nominees and inf.
them of their nomination, which was 'a, ar N
appointed as follows: "l'
George Gray and Samuel Townsend ,r
New Castle county, James l.. Walcott arI vi
James II. Mitchell Of Kent county, WV W'
II. Scrbncr and Payntcr Frame Of Sussnr ~,
county.
On motion Of Mr.. salisbury the STAT.
Central Committee was appointed as fol- r"1
lows:
New Castle county--Georgc GRAY. Caln,.
bus Watkins, James McGary.
Kent county-James r. Mitchell, jana.
l.. Walcott, A. II. Stocklcy.
Sussex county-R. 6. Ellegood, Ebon
c. Tunnel, DR.. Chas Richards.
Smyrna times., 1878-08-07

RAILROAD ACCIDENT.-Two men who were
trying to steal a ride to the Dover conven-
ton, by the brakcsman uncoupling the
cars at Delaware junction on Tuesday
morning met with q terrible accident,
killing one, James Yates, and greatly en-
dangering the life of the other, Jos. Long.
They were from Wilmington.
THE PEACHEs.-Sixteen chartered car
loads of peaches were shipped to New
York over the Delaware railroad on Mon
day. The shipment, including Monday, is
Smyrna times., 1878-08-07

Thus far the battle with the Indians in Oregon have
all been victorious for the Government troops the
reports concerning them are veritable the hostiles
VIII not be able to hold out very long against the
heavy in proportion to the whole number of their
braves.
Smyrna times., 1878-08-07

EUROPE LAST WEEK.-During the past week the
Russian troops have commenced their hOmeward
mistaken measures proclaim Servian independence,
and the Roumanian troops are preparing to enter
Buckharest, their capital, covered with glory
BeacOnsield and SALISBURY were received in great
pomp On Saturday by the Lord Mayor and Council of
of the city of London and were subsequently enter
tanned at banquet in the City Hall. In the course
of Speech BeacOnseld said he could not conceive OF
a greater misfortune to England than the estrange
ment of France.
The German elections have not resulted favoraby
to Bismarck The very large increase of the Socialist
vote is very alarming. The semiannual returns
show a very marked decrease in pauperism in
France, Notwithstanding the increase in population
Heavy storms occurred last week in the South OF
France and also in Southern Germany, which may
in some measure affect our produce markets favora
bly,.
Smyrna times., 1878-08-07

Few have any adequate conception Of the magni-
tude of the emigrant movement to the Far West this
season. The st. Louis Journal is authority for the
statement that "in Kansas Nebraska Dakota and
Minnesota the amount of free land taken up prnci-
paly for homescads, exceeds that of the last wear
by more than three and half million acres The
movement, though not great is very noticeable i'm
Montana, Colorado Wyoming and other Western
States and Territories, and in Texas and Arkansas
SOUTH This is of the best indications of return
ing prosperity that could be cited The benefits sure
70 follow the depletion of the overcrowded ranks OF
LABOR III the East cannot be estimated The recent
decision OF the Secretary of the Interior whereby thou
SANDS OF acres of land along the lines of the Pacific
much to give new impetus to this westward move.
ment
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23

Mr.. HENRY M. STANLEY recently gave
a dinner to Col. Thomas M. Knox, at
Paris, ut which a score of journalists
and literary men were present At their
request Stanley gave minute and
thrilling account of the relief of his
starving expedition at the mouth of the
Congo. This recital, which was given
in the simplest and most modest man.
ner, occupied two hours, was listened to
with breathless attention throughout,
and at the close there was not dry eye
in the room. It's eloquence was its
simple truth, and one who was present
says that it was the most interesting and
pathetic narrative he had ever heard.
Surely man who can hold for two
whole hours a company of journalists
and authors, many of whom had travelled
far and wide, and had moving and peril
GUS experiences themselves, must have
something extraordinary to relate, and
must be possessed of the gift of true
eloquence.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23

AS JACOB Lands, of Erwin, N. Y,
was twisting the wisp around sheaf of
wheat the other day, large rattlesnake
sprung from the straw directly toward
his face. The farmer mechanically
threw his hand out and caught the snake
around the neck just in time to prevent
its fastening it's fangs in his nose. He
held the snake firmly in his hand and
called for aid. A companion ran up and
cut the serpent's head off with scythe.
The rattlesnake had wound itself 80
tightly about Lands bare arm that a
broad red mark on the flesh showed
every coil. The snake was three and a
half feet long, and had nine rattles.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23

AN official report, made to the Bureau
of Statistics, shows that during the
month ending July 81, 1878, there ar
rived at the port of New York IL, $50
passengers, of whom 1853 were immi-
grants, 3,167 citizens of the United
States, and 1914 sojourners. OF the to-
tai number of immigrants 500 were
males and 3,079 females. There were
from Germany, 2,O74; Russia, ,246; En-
gland, LIE, Ireland, 1,072; Sweden,
SAB; Denmark, 500; Norway, 435; Italy,
$40; Scotland, 312; Austria, 301 France,
217; Switzerland, 100; Hungary, 70;
Wales, 6S; Poland, Ga; Holland, AS;
Spain, 81; Belgium, 10; Sicily, II; Fin
land, 8; Trinidad, Cuba, Turkey in Eu-
rope, each; Brazil and born at sea,
each; st. Thomas and Barbados, 4 each;
Greece, Jamaica, Mexico, Nova Scotia
and United States of Colombia, 2 each;
Venezuela, Portugal, Heligoland, BAHIA
ma islands, India, Curacao, and New
foundland, l each. During the CORE
spending month of 1877 there arrived al
the same port $3.50 passengers, OF
whom 6,713 were emigrants, 2, ga citi.
zens of the United States, and COB so
iourners.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23
Baby Carriages and Baby.Killers.

The time has come for the inevitable
baby carriage. A generation ago these
things were little more than baskets
screwed on to axles without springs.
Then came protest, originally from
physicians, against trundling the little
ones on the pavement in vans which
would rack the bones and addle the
brains of the toughest man. Out OF this
discussion the modern baby carriage was
evolved, and, as at first constructed, was
provided with real springs, and, if used
with ordinary care, did not endanger
life. Gradually the springs have given
way to rigid strips of iron, initiating
springs, leaving the carriage as unfit and
dangerous as a wheelbarrow for the del
icate mission of transporting an infant
over rough crossings and along the aver
age sidewalk. The baby's tissues will
not bear much iolting. It's brain is
gelatinous, and even its bones are soft.
Nature has made its bed in the mothers
arms and on the mothers breast. To
change this for a springless cart is al
most murder. Let any man or woman
try riding short distance on the smooth
est road, in a wagon without springs.
The jar will be found fatiguirg and soon
become painful. The Intervention of q
cushion or pillow does not ease il
much. If any parent wishes to get q
baby carriage for a child whose life il
worth insuring, let him or her buy none
in which the body pressed by the hand
does not rise and fall easily ON the
springs.-Provide' 0e Journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23
ALTHOUGH the Russian Mennonites

ALTHOUGH the Russian Mennonites at
home are now exempt from military duty
there, in 1880 they will be liable to
serve. Accordingly strong emigration
to this country has set in. There are
now more than 2OO,OO of this curious
sect in the United States, distributed
through perhaps dozen States. They
are people of thrift and energy, and by
their good conduct commend themselves
to those among whom they live. Their
religious beliefs approach more nearly
to those of the Quakers than any others.
They refuse the Old Testament, and
deny there is any original sin.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

HAIR has been successfully trans
planted from one part of the body to
another.
NEAR-sIGHTED persons are called my
opes. Their eye is too convex. A con-
cave glass corrects the defect, just as a
convex glass enables us to see nearer by
converging the rays.
KEPLER promulgated three laws of
planetary motion: l. That the squares
of the times are as the cubes of the dis
tances. 2. That planet moves through
equal areas in equal times; and, 3.
That the planets describe elliptical orb
its, with the sun in one of the foci.
The Arabians are highly magma
tive and poetical people. Their power
of story telling is very remarkable.
Job was an Arabian. They have never
been conquered by any foreign nation.
The sands Of Arabia have been its Sc
curity, and the poverty of the people
has offered no temptation to invaders.
THE year 1880 was remarkable for three
revolutions-that in France, July 27,
when Charles x. was expelled and q
constitutional government formed by
Louis Philippe and the Chamber OF
Deputies that in Belgium, in Septem-
Der, by which the Orange family were
driven into Holland and popular gov
eminent established, and that in Pc.
land, in December, by which the Rus
slams were expelled and popular gov
eminent formed.
OF the structures, ancient and mod
ern, extant, those which rank first IN
height are Cologne Cathedral, 81 Cup
ward of half the height built; Wash.
ington Monument, 4S5 feet, modelled
plan (original plan 600 feet, at time o.
resuming work TIA feet; Pyramid Of
Cheops, Egypt, 4S0 feet; Strasboure
Cathedral, 474 feet st. Peters Stellar
Basilica, Rome, 45S feet; ST. Stephens
Cathedral, Vienna, 445 feet; Salisbury
Cathedral, England, 400 feet; Antwerp
Cathedral, 405 feet st. Paul's Cathe
dral, London, 404 feet; Milan Cathe
dral, 400 feet; Capitol Of the United
States, 3O7I feet from base line OF thu
building to the apex of the statue o
Freedom.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23
TUE first Cbinaman who came I

The first Chinaman who came to
America, according to the San Francisco
Chronicle. was Chum Ming, in 1S47.
He was native merchant of Mai Sang,
a province of Canton, intelligent and
enterprising. He went into the mount
aims, and, finding gold, wrote to a
friend, Cheong Yum, in 1S4S, about the
new country. Cheong Yum immediate
ly came to the Pacific slope, but, before
doing so, told number of his country
men of the discovery of gold in America.
1t was then that the Cinnamon began to
flock to the Pacific coast. There were
at the time no steamers to bring them,
80 they came in sailing vessels. In
1S49 the Argonauts began to arrive
from the East, and at that time the
Chinese influx was mere drop in the
bucket. Within the next four years the
arrivals of Mongolians became more fire.
quent and in larger proportions, DO that
in 1852 there were 1000 on the coast,
1000 of whom lived in San Francisco.
AS soon as the tide of Chinese emigra-
ton had set in toward California, the
Yeoung Wo and the Kong Chow, the first
two of the present Six Companies, be.
gan the business of aiding the ship
| manta
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23

The circulation of almanacs being
limited in Texas, the negroes in the
path of the eclipse did not know what
was to happen, and were overcome with
fright. On Senator Coke's plantation,
near Waco, they fell on their knees in
the fields, and exclaimed that the day OF
Judgment had come. In Buchanan,
where the eclipse began, Ephraim Miller
ran into his hut, split his sons head
open with Ratchet, ascended by lad
der to the roof, and cut his throat from
ear to ear. His wife at the same mo-
ment ran out into the fields to hear GA
briels trumpet, and screamed, "Come,
sweet chariot u
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23
Tur cargo of the lost ocean steamship

THE cargo of the lost ocean steamship
Idaho gives some idea of what America
is now contributing to the Old World.
Her cargo comprised 141 packages of
agricultural implements, 1900 pounds
of bacon, SO packages of clocks, $1,000
bushels of corn, 1900 bales of cotton,
"a bales of hops, So horses, 200 tons of
fresh meat, rs tierces of salt meat, 2
cases of machinery, 5 pianos, IL kegs of
ink, 25, 900 bushels of wheat, IL pack
ages of manufactured wool. This was
the bulk of the ships cargo, but did not
embrace the entire bill. 1t is suffi-
ciently varied to show to what an almost
unlimited extent the New is contributing
to the necessities and comfort of the Old.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23
DURING the Turko- Russian war in Asia

DURING the Turko- Russian war in Asia
occasional mention was made by CORE
spondents with the Russian army of a
Moslem girl who led some of the most
daring cavalry charges against the Rus
SLAMS. Many stories were told OF her
reckless courage, and at last she was re-
ported killed. This heroine of the war,
Adile Hamm, has been received at Con-
stantinople with distinguished honors.
She was severely wounded in the charge
in which her command was completely
annihilated, but recovered, and was more
than ever heroine. She is described as
&c beautiful, rich and enthusiastic, and a
Mohammedan of the old school"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23
The Trlle agurthsrllsr.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1878.

THE strife in the Church of England
is invested with renewed interest by the
sweeping decision OF the Court OF
Queens Bench in favor of the Rev. Mr..
Mackonochie, who is henceforth released
from the suspension imposed on him for
"ritualism" by the Court of Arches. In
its scope, the judgment is almost revo-
lutionary, since it openly conflicts with
a decision of the Privy Council that the
lower court was competent to pass the
sentence which has been set aside.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23

A COMMISSION appointed to investigate
fraudulent practices in the delivery of
supplies to the Russian army during the
war has been in session in Odessa, and
has exposed astounding trickery. A
Colonel of a regiment endeavored to
pocket $4,000 rubles by reporting that
-four to that value was lost in a storm.
In another instance an enormous guam
tity Of hay was falsely reported to have
been spoiled by rain. At fifteen differ
ent places bread intended for the army
was discovered that was only half baked,
and was partly composed of entirely in
digestible ingredients. The vodki (grog),
that in Russia is in indispensable part
of the army supplies, was most unblush-
ipgly watered.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23
LINCOLN, New Mexico, must b,

LINCOLN, New Mexico, must be a
pleasant place as a summer resort. The
Cimarron Net0s and Press of Aug.
reports that one Peppin, who was lille
eally appointed Sheriff, summoned a
posse of roughs and renegades and pro-
ceeded to arrest one McSween, who had
opposed him politically. McSween,
with some of bis friends, took refuge in
his house. Peppin and his gang there
nn,n surrounded the house and COM
mencec firing upon it. In the mean
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23

AT Texas ball large number of
married women who had brought their
babies found it impossible to dance un-
less some of the young men became
nurses. The young men took the ba-
bies into another room, and changed
their clothes, 80 that when the mothers
reached home that night there was con-
steInat:on over the interchanges.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23
IL Never Fails.

A young man named Amos Gregor. OF
Fredericksburg, Ohio, was instantly
killed by the accidental discharge of his
gun. His mother called to him to get
his rife and shoot rat that was in the
yard. He got his gun, and, to see
whether it was loaded, placed his mouth
over the muzzle and raised the hammer
with his foot. His foot slipping of, the
ball severed the large artery and lodged
in the base of the brain.