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The Morning herald., 1878-10-23
THE HERALD

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DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
ssass 1sosss.
ron GOVERNOR
JOHN w. HALL,
OF KENT.
EoR CONGRESS
.EDwARD l.. MARTIN,
OF sUssKx.
oosnty Tsekss.
FOB sIERrFF,
JOHN PYLE.
FOR CORONER,
JACOB Butt.
FOR STATE SENATORS.
Wilkins Cooch, Of Pencader, Hd.
Charles II. McWhorter, OF Red Llon'
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,.
james w. Ware, of Wilmington.
DR.. Swithin Chandler, of Mill Creek.
William Dean, Of White Clay Greek.
John Doran, of Christiana. aI.l.
Giles Lambson, Of New Castle. ~
Edwin z. Cochran, of st. Georges.
William 3. Riggs, sr:, of Blackbird.
Fer LEVY soURTs COMMISSIONERS.
William r. Bright, of Red Lion.
William Polk, of St. Georges.
William A. Morrison, Of Mill Creek.
William L. Wier, Of White Clay Greek
james T. Taylor, of Appoquinimink.
Henry Fl. Wells, of Blackbird.
The Morning herald., 1878-10-23
HERALD NOTES.

Erie is to haye fire alarm telegraph.
Just Erie it.
Brutus was an honorable man, but In the
end he contrived to stick poor Caesar.
Baltimore has . character known as
"Kicking Kate" alias Kate the Miner.
Rev. Gilbert De La Martyr, NJ: E.
minister, has been elected to Congress from
Indianapolis, by the Greenback Labor
Party.
A farmer living in North Severn, about
two miles from Annapolis, Nd, named
Capt. Edward Tours, died recently. he
was supposed to have money secreted, as
he was 80 miserly that he denied his family
the necessaries of life. This morning, in
an old ash barrel in his cern crib, ,OoC
in gold, silver and government bonds were
found.
The Morning herald., 1878-10-23
The Morning Herald

is published every morning, Sunday ex-
oeptedy and delivered In the city OF Will
mfpgton and surrounding places for six
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per annum.
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The Morning herald., 1878-10-23
DELAWARE AND THE EASTERN
SHORE.

DELAWARE AND THE EASTEkN
SHORE.
Court Is going on in Chestertown.
Wheat looks well around Smyrna.
Chestnuts are scarce around Seaford..
Georgetown was thronged all last week.
Pocomoke City would like to have lock-
up. ..,, ...-- n.r st, Sra d' "a
The Queen Anne's Court commences Nov
4th. asy
The last estimated loss by Easton's fire Is
$4,000. ae
There is little talk Of ''reading circle'
In Seaford. ..r.
Cecil county's chestnut crop is of some
Importance. e
Lyman, the Wilmington trotter, came
from Cecil county.
Some Sussex county people will start for
Kentucky this week.
Down in Worcester county everybody is
busy and times are good.
Greenbackers in the lower county were to
nominate a ticket yesterday.
The chairman of the Democratic Central
Com mittee for Sussex county is DIR. Hugh
Martin.
The editor of the Cambridge Chronicle
who advertised for wife three weeks ago
has Just been married. ,nE
A fifty year old passenger list of the
maryland" The FIRST steamer that ever
made her appearance in the Choptank, has
just been found. ..-.. ...
Samuel ,Snowden, colored hand on a
wrecking schooner, at Lewes, has just been
cleared OF the charge of numbering his cap
tain named Brown.
The Morning herald., 1878-10-23

NJ NOTICE-special attention paid to clean
machines by John Ramo, No. 606 West Sth
street, Wilmington Del, Findings and
attachments for all sewing machines
needles, oils, &c always on hand.
The Morning herald., 1878-10-23

NJOTICE-The Citizens Loan Association,
IN New stock for sale, no back payments
Apply to GEO, c. MARIS, Sec'y., COL Snip
ley street. sep ll.1m
The Morning herald., 1878-10-23
NOTICES.

NIOTICE-Will the scoundrel that stole
~ the oysters from No.4 W. 4th street
be kind enough to return the basket.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-02-09
Turkish Currency.
here.

The Rev. Edwin M. Bliss speaks thus
of the perplexities due to the unsettled
state of Turkish currency:
We have the most astounding style of
money values that the world ever heard
OF, 1 think. The Turkish Ira, our larg-
est gold piece in ordinary use equal to
$40 gold), has five different values. 1t
is equal to 100 piasters gold, 105 silver,
1G9 copper, III cairne Cor paperJ, and
in market value goes at about 235 pias
ters. The smaller gold pieces are in
proportion, viz. the half and quarter
Ira. Then come the silver pieces of
twenty. ten, five, two and one piasters,
each having "a separate value. in silver,
copper, cairne and market use. There
is also another kind called "metal-
lique," made up of mixture of silver
and copper, which runs at nearly the
same rate as the silver, though little
less. Then comes the copper, one, half
and quarter plaster, but these are nearly
the same as the paper, and in small
sums are reckoned as the same, the diff.
AOAOhNO OClhS LudHl1CoC OHlJ Al 1dI SO
sums. But the strangest of all is
the cairne, or paper money, which
in market value is worth more
than its face. A 1OO-piaster cairne bill
is worth, in market value, $50 piasters,
and this runs through the whole range.
The 50-piaster cairne bill is equal to 65
piasters, and the One-piaster cairne, the
smallest, to one and a quarter piasters.
1t is annoying that this continues with
out much, if any variation. Occasion
ally the Ira is quoted at 176 or 178
cairne, but it rarely varies much from
III. But there is another element to
mix the matter inextricably, which is,
that the same rates do not maintain in
different parts of the city. For example,
take the five-piaster silver piece. If
wish to buy fruit or any thing in the
Stamboul market, it is worth ten or
eleven piasters. If 1 give it as toll on
the bridge or for ticket on the steam
er, it is worth eight piasters. If go
into shop at Pera, it is five and half or
six piasters, as the case may be. At the
bank it is five piasters. Other pieces
are in proportion. The result is that
we have to keep money with us of every
denomination, SO as to be able to use
each to its best advantage.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-02-09
Climate Changed by Cultivation.

ApropoS of the general theory that
marked changes in climate are cOnse-
quent upon the settlement of region,
Mr.. Landsborough, an explorer of note,
gives the result of his observations in
Australia. Keeping sheep is no longer
profitable there, as it used to be, but,
on the other hand, large tracts of land
that were worthless before have latterly
become fit for agriculture. There is a
decided increase of forests and of moist
ure in parts of Australia, giving hopes
that eventually the whole interior des-
ert may be reclaimed. The direct effect
of sheep-raising has been to keep down
the tall grass which formerly afforded
material for destructive fires. The
trees, young and old, had been periodi-
cally burned by these fires, until, the
country becoming almost treeless, its
climate had been rendered arid and its
soil sterile. If the facts in Australia
can be established, they will afford the
most remarkable instance yet recorded
of climate being modified by the labors
and surroundings of civilized man.
Detroit NeWS.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-02-09
A Fathers Terrible Crime.

A Pittsburg dispatch of the 29th ult-
is as follows: Frank Lynch, a would
be suicide, was arrested on the For
Wayne Railroad bridge over the Ale
gheny last night, the officer coming up
on him while he was preparing to jump
While being taken to the statiOn-housc
Lynch confessed to having murdered his
little child, a boy two years and half
old, by throwing him into the river Oh
the night of the 18th of December. AT
that time Mrs. Lynch was living at Glen
field, few miles down the river, hav
ing separated from her husband and re-
tanning the child. She came to this city,
bringing the child with her, was met at
the station by her husband and on her
way over the. river they quarreled.
Lynch knocked the woman down and
Selling the child fed. He secreted HIM
self until dark and then started over the
river. On his way over, he says, the q
thought struck him that now was the
time to end the little ones troubles, and
lifting him in his arms dropped him in
to the stream. He got work on a steam
boat the next day and went down the
river, but his conscience troubled him,
and when he went home few days ago
he went to his wife and confessed the
deed, and while she was overcome with
the tidings he again made his escape.
An information for murder was made
against him, and the officer following
him to this city was just in time pre-
vent self murder. Lynch has been com
mitted for trial.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-02-09
The Romance of a Divorce.

A divorce case was decided in the Dis
trict Court yesterday, the details of
which would form the nucleus for rich,
rare and racy novel. We will state that
the parties live in Atchison County, and
have always been reputed especially re-
spectable-people of wealth and stand
ing-and that the divorce was granted
yesterday without aliInony or other re-
lief. Inasmuch as the matter is now
disposed of we will omit the mention of
names, referring our curious readers
to the records of the District Court. The
wife was the plaintiff and she is now
about 80 years old, and the defendant is
about 65. The parties lived in Indiana,
and when they were married the young
wife was less that IS while the husband
was 80. One child was the fruit of this
marriage, and for a time they lived hap
PLY together. Finally, however, the
wife accused the husband of infidelitv
and instituted proceedings for divorce,
and as he interposed no defense, di-
vorce was granted with 81 800 alimony.
Both married again, and moved to sep
arate States. Finally the new wife of
the old man absconded with lightning
rod peddler, aAd the young wife's hus-
band eloped with a strange woman
A year or two after this the man
moved to Texas and entered in the
Texas cattle trade, and coming to Kan
sas with drove of cattle, by strange
chance met his former wife in Atchison.
They then became reconciled to each
other again and undertook to live to-
gether once more, Squire Jackson unit
ing them as husband and wife 1t seems
that the husband had got divorce from
the wife who eloped with the lightning
rod peddler, but the wife had not been
so particular. They were now living in
Atchison County, duly and legally mar
ried, when great religious revival oc-
CURED in their vicinity and both became
imbued with spirit of religion. Under
this influence the wife confessed her
shortcomings to the minister and he
recommended that they live separate
and apart. Again separation occurred,
including division of all the property
In short time the religious excitement
wore away and once more they joined |
their fortunes as husband and wife, liv-
ing together until few months ago.
Then the wife came into the District
Court and sued for divorce on the
grounds of neglect and i'll treatment,
with the results as above stated. The |
above are facts, and the records and pa
pers in the case are there to show for
themselves.-Atchison (Karasas) Cham
,lint1
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-02-09
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Col. JOHN 81. KING, Ninth Infantry.
and It. Col. VIM. H. Lewis, Nineteenth In.
faHtry, have been detailed, by order of the
| President, to act in conjunction with one
person to be designated by the Governor OF
Texas, asa board to investigate the recent
troubles in Ell Paso County, Texas.
HON. JOHN B. KERR, formerly repre-
sentative in Congress from Maryland, and
Minister to Central America under President
Fillmore, died in Washington on the 9th.
GENERAL w. w. LoRING, who left
the United States Army to join that of the
Confederates, and who is at present second
in command of the army of the Khedive in
Egypt, has asked Senator Lamar, through a
| friend, to Introduce a bill to relieve his DO
litical disabilities ~.
THE trial of Gen. Anderson, of the
late Louisiana Returning Board, was begun
at New Orleans on the 29th. The iurv is
composed of 10 white and two colored men.
Up to that date Wells had not put in his ap-
pearance.
GEORGE p GORDON, inventor of the
well known printing-press bearing his
name, died at Norfolk, Va, on the 2sth.
CAPT. JAMES B. EADs has been ap-
pointed by the President one of the Hon
orary Commissioners to the Paris Expo
sition.
Mrs. ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER
made a woman-suffrage argument before
the House Judiciary Committee on the Both.
She took the ground that every person who
was taxpayer was entitled to vote.
Hon. j. w. FOSTER, Minister to Mex
leo, has arrived in Washington, where he
was summoned to testify before the Con-
gressiOnal Committee
GEORGE CRUIKsHANK,t the well known
English draughtsman and caricaturist, is
dead.
MIR. and Mrs. Thomas Lord, whose
marriage in New York recently caused so
great a sensation, have emerged from their
retirement and begun an offensive move
ment against the young Lords who en-
deavored to have the father adjudged in
sane Physicians pronounce the old gem
tleman's brain entirely clear, and he says
the object of his late retirement was simply
to escape for time the opportunities of his
sons, who have been conspiring against his
peace and happiness.
Miss FRANCES f. WILLARD, of Hi
nois, Secretary of the Woman's National
Christian Temperance Union, made an able
argument before the House Judiciary Com
mittee on the 1st, to the effect that women
should be permitted the use of the ballot up
on liquor questions.
Dom PEDRO, finding upon his return
home that some of the members of his Cab
met had been using their positions to ad-
vance their personal interests, has turned
them all adrift and appointed u new Min
istry.
GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON has con-
sented to be a candidate for Congress from
Richmond, Va, district, ex-Goy. Walker
declining reelection.
GEN. CHARLES THOMAS, who entered
the army in 1919 and was retired in 1866.
died in Washington on the Sd.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-02-09
A Subterranean River.

How many of the readers of the
journal are aware that one of the Won
ders of nature may be seen four miles
west of SWANS prairie and one mile in
the Indian TerritoryP Here you will find
cave which is perfect wonder to the
brave adventurer who will provide him
self with the necessary outfit for ex-
plorng the subterranean cavern of
darkness, inhabited by wild animals and
bats in countless thousands. The nee
essary outfit consists of good lights and
a boat in which to navigate a subterra-
mean river, which, so far as we know of,
has never been traced to its source.
The entrance to the cave is grove OF
tall trees under the jutting rocks of
small mountain. Long before you enter
the wood you can hear the roaring of
the falling waters, which rush forth in
crystal pureness, far excelling the noted
springs of Neosho. A short distance
from the cave stands single Indian
cabin, inhabited by Alexander Zane, Of
the Wyandotte tribe of Indians. To the
east, south and west of his dwelling
stretches out one of those beautiful
valleys, which would be fortune to many
man if he could have the control Of it..
Here, in their original grandeur, is a
water-power sufficient TO run Touring
mill, a valley large and rich enough to
produce the grain to keep the mill go
ing. For a full knowledge of this re-
gion you must see it to appreciate the
/ Importance Of this wonder of wonders
-Neosho (1I0 } Journal.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-02-09

person, or to the widow, child or heirs of any
deceased person who in any manner Volun-
tarlly engaged in or aided or abetted the late
rebellion.
In the Senate, on the 31st, Senator MaXey
called up the Senate bill appropriating $780,
900 for the erection of suitable posts for the
protection of the Rio Grande frontier, and it
was passed. At the expiration of the morning
nours consideration was resumed of the Silver
bill Amendments were proposed by Sena-
tors Morgan and Booth, and after some dis
cusslon the Senate adjourned till Monday.
.-..In the House, the Military Academy aD-
preparation bill was discussed in Committee
OF the Whole, action being taken
The Committee on Elections reported
IN the California case, against Pacheco,
the sitting member, and in favor OF Wiggin-
ton. the contestant. The report was ordered
printed, and notice given that the case would
be called up on Tuesday.
The Senate was not in session on the 1st
.--..-In the House, Mr.. Phillips of Kansas in
troduced bill to provide for the funding of
the National debt in home bonds
convertible into currency. Referred
Mr.. Baker of Indiana offered Il resolution re-
citing the charges that John w. Polk, Door
keeper, has been guilty of corruption and
Inalfeasance in office, and directing
that the matter be inquired into.
AFTER some discussion, in which several
speakers expressed their entire confidence
In Mr. Polk's honesty and good Intentions
the matter was referred to the Committee on
Civil Service Reform. Adjourned till Monday.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-02-09
Deaths from Trichina.

A special from Youngstown, o., to
the st. Louis Gtobe-DemOcrdt, says: ::
I There is great excitement here and at
Girard, five miles northwest, over the
discovery of several cases of trichina.
Six weeks ago Fred. Benk, Sen, a la
boter at the Girard furnace, killed hog
and from the head and other rough
parts made what is called wurst, and of
this the entire family, numbering five,
ate heartily in its raw state. A few
days afterward Mr.. Frederick Benk was
taken sick and died on New Years
day, the family physician pronouncing
the disease typhus fever and rheumatism.
Their two children, Eva and Frederick,
Jr., aged respectively five and seven
years, were taken sick shortly before
their father died, the symptoms being
the same. Another physician was
called in, and he pronounced the disease
spotted-fever. Wednesday last week
DR.. Lauterrnap, of this city, graduate
of the University of Austria, at Vienna,
was called in. He Immediately declared
the disease trichina, other physicians
ridiculing his diagnosis. Sunday each
died and was buried. Yesterday Dir.
Lauterman insisted on re-eXaminfng
the pork in use by the family, and with
the naked eye white bodies were discov-
cred in the muscles, while, with the aid of
microscope, the threadlike worm,
wound up spirally,was found in countless
millions. To-day small portion of the
muscle was taken from an arm of the
dead girl by DIR. Lauterman, and from
calculations made by him one cubic
inch of muscle contains 100,000 trichine
spiral. The boy Fred. was visited to-
day by an Enquirer correspondent, who
found him in bed lying or his back, with !
his arms and legs wonderfully swollen |
and drawn out of shape by contraction |
of the muscles. On touching the mus
cles his pain became indescribable /
His physician says death is almost inev-
liable. Mrs. Benk, sister of Fred. Benk,
Sen, who lives with him, was taken i'll |
to-day. DR.. Lauterman says that with
in twenty-four hours she will be pros
trated with the terrible disease. Ernst
Benk, of this city, attended the funeral
of Frederick on New Years Day, and
partook of the meat in use in the Benk
family, and yesterday was prostrated
with tfichina Pork is at a discount
here.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-02-09

dered his wife with hatchet, last Septem-
Der, was hanged at Covington, Ky, on the
| 1st, in the presence of 5000 spectators.
| Previous to the execution he made an ac-
| acknowledgement of the crime and expressed
repentance.
Joseph Woods was hanged at Malone,
n. y, on the 1st, for the murder of Stephen
! Woods.
The Providence County Savings Bank,
of Pawtucket, r. l., has been enjoined from
doing further business on account of i'm
! paired capital.
| A violent snow-storm occurred
throughout the Middle and Eastern States on
the last day of January, seriously impeding
railroad travel on nearly all lines. Along
the coast the storm was the most severe that
has occurred for years, and caused great
distress among mariners and probably
some loss Of life. On Coney Island (New
York; eight persons were drowned by the
waves running so high upon the beach as to
wash away the houses. Several summer
resorts were entirely destroyed, and from
Sandy Hook to Long Branch on the Jersey
coast the shore was lined with wrecks of
summer-houses and other structures.
The Commissioners of the Freedmen's
Savings and Trust Company have declared
a dividend of 10 per cent, payments to COM
mence March 20.
The Secretary of the Treasury de-
sires that all drafts sent him in payment of
the per cent. loan be drawn payable to his
order; otherwise they can not be received.
Gen. Miles is confident that Sitting
Bull is now upon United States territory,
and his command has gone from Fort Peck
to discover the whereabouts of the hostiIes:
1t is reported from Fort Randall that 500 of
Red Clouds Indians have left the agency
and gone north, it is believed with the inten-
tion of joining Sitting-B1ll.
Greece has marched an army of sew
eral thousand men overthe Turkish frontier
from Lamia, with the avowed intention of
Greek subjects. The Turkish
commanders have been instructed not to OBJ |
struct the movement of Greek troops.
2 The Topeka Bank and Savings Insti-
tuition resumed business on the 4th. the de-
positors having agreed to give six months
time on all accounts over 500. An examin-
alton of the banks securities shows that |
they are sufficient to meet all liabilities.
John Smith, alias Lew Mooring |
(colored), was hanged at Chester, S. c., on |
the 1st, for the murder of Bergin Conger in
December, 1877.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-02-09
WIT AND WISDOM.

SOMEBODY says it takes pickpocket
to dispurse a crowd.-BOsto1e Ad0erti-
ser.
RICHES will never take wings and fly
away, if you sprinkle little economy
on its Whitehall Times.
No Congressman from Illinois has
ever been SO full, but what there's one
from Indiana who's Ben Fuller.-Con'-
n1erciaL AdUeTtiSer.
TBE fashionable style of sackcloch
for Lent will have three rows of gored
ruching down the front, bias trail and
the sashes will be worn pompadou.-
Easton Free Press
BANKERS generally roll their hard
money in paper, and make it look like
so many large spools. We rolled our
hard money up. the other day, and it
looked like a button.-OiL CITY Call.
NEXT to committing matrimony, COM
mitting perjury in swearing to a saw
ings-bank return is the most likely TO
Withdraw a prominent citizen from
general circulation.-NeW York 1Ttd-
me.
SUNDAY-sCHOoL teacher to astonished
child" My dear, every hair of your
head is numbered Scholar (hesitat-
ing) to astonished teacher-"Pull out
No. for me, then, please! !"-Port
Chester JournaL. .-..,. a
WHEN we think of the villain who
stole our umbrella, and then of the bare
possibility that there is no hell, we feel
as if we could bury our head in the
waste paper basket and smother right to
death.-Nes0 HaUe1s Union.
GAN Old Maids Show is talked of at
Utica" That is right. Give the old
maids show. To be sure, many of
them had a good show when they were
younger, and refused to embrace the
opportunity, and--and-and now they
are old maids, and have no lazy hus-
band to Norristoa0n Herald.
DURING the last session of the District
Court Judge Noonan had occasion toPut
the usual question to convicted colored
burglar if he knew of any reason why
sentence should not be pronounced upon
him, whereupon the prisoner said en-
phatically that he did. What is youT
reason? ?'' asked Judge Noonan, blandly.
g De jury tuck sich a one-sided view OBJ
de case,'' was the reply.-Saa5 Ar1tont9
Express.
THE other day good-sized boy visit
ed the editorial rooms to ask how a GER
tain word was spelled. He was refer
red to the dictionary, and he began ut
page one and carefully studied the
book till noon. He returned at ]
O'Clock, read until 4, and then closed
the book with a heavy sigh. " Cart
you find the wordP'' was the inquiry as
he was leaving. g | suppose could.''
he answered, "but L haven't time. I've.
been reading here for good half day,
and I've only got along to the head ot
8 Occasional Sounds of a. I guess 'thh
whole thing's sham. '''-DetroH- Frs
Press.