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Arrest in Baltimore Of Geo. II.
Paxton, the Alleged Chester
County DeGapllter.

On November 25, last, a warrant was
issued for the arrest of Geo. II. Paxton,
late Register OF Wills, of Chester county,
on the charge Of embezzling public funds.
Bat the Whereabouts of Paxton was not
discovered till fews days ago, when it
was learned that he was in Baltimore,
where he wanted to draw his pension
from the United States Government. On
last Monday District Attorney Pierce de-
tailed an officer to 60 TO Harrisburg and
secure requisition from Governor Hoyt
to the Governor Of Maryland for the
body of Paxton. The requisition was
granted, and the officer went to Annapo-
lis and presented his requisition to Gov.
Carroll, who issued warrant for Pax
tons arrest. The warrant was placed in
the hands of the Baltimore detectives,
who went to the Pension Office, when
they learned that Paxton had been there
a few hours before to get his pension, but
his papers had to be sent to Philadelphia
to be vouched for. The search for the
prisoner was continued until last Satur-
day, when he was arrested, and on Sun
day he was brought to West Chester
and committed to prison to await
trial.
George II. Paxton, the alleged defaul-
ter, was elected Register of Wills of
Chester county in 1875. He had been a
soldier during the rebellion and lost
leg, TO which cause he principally owed
his election. Last summer his bondsmen
began to suspect that all was not right in
the conduct of the Office, Paxton being
engaged in the cigar and liquor business
in Philadelphia, where he was losing
money. In the latter part Of November,
Paxton confessed to his bondsmen that
he was behindhand for collacteral inherit
ance taxes due the Commonwealth and
made an assignment of all his property
for the benefit of his securities. He
then disappeared and an officer from the
Auditor Generals office at Harrisburg
examined the records of the Registers
Office and found deficiency Of about
$l1, 200. At that time it came out that
Paxton bad been living fast life in
Philadelphia, running two cigar stores
and a liquor store in all of which he
sank money.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12
Brief Locals.
Has spring really come,


Strawberry time will soon be here.
Where will the new court house be
built.
The f.hermen are getting ready for
shaa fishing.
1t is not fashionable to play polo on
ice any longer.
There was fair-sized audience at the
concert last night
The cheapest place to buy lots is on
Delaware Avenue.
The renowned Wilhelmj at the Opera
House this evening.
Grassy butter will soon makes its ap-
pearanee In market
There has nothing been said yet about
the peach crop beiug killed.
If you have an aching tooth see DIR.
Gallagher, the dentist, No. S35 Market
street.
If you are in need of boots and shoes
call at Adams & Bros. They are selling
cheap.
Thompson & Dawson have opened
their new Jewelry store, No. 229 Market
street.
Go and see that new line of carpets
and oil cloths at Adams q Bros. at bot
tom prices.
Do not wait, but go al once and buy
the baby new carriage, at Adams &
Bros. BOG Market street. d12-152tw.
There will be mum sociabe and mu-
slcal entertainment at the Wilmington
Temperance Reform Association rooms
! this evening.
Wilmington won in the Senate yester-
day; that portion of the General Assem-
bly, has sad unanimously that the court
house shall be built in Wilmington.
If the court house bill passes the House
of Representatives, the citizens of Will
mington should get up torchlight pro-
cession and have good time general
ly.
A very choice line of cassimeres all
pure wool at 50 cents yd., may be found
at Kennard Il Co.'S. 621 Market street.
These are no old goods but new choice
styles and worth your attention.
Everything needed in first class cook
stoye. Ii to be found in theHrUest Home
Range. This range with twenty other
patterns of cook stoves is to be found at
H. +. Pickels's, Nos. 7 and Il. Fourth
| street. feb21-tf
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Sale of Stocks.

Among large number of stocks and
bonds sold at the Philadelphia Exchange,
by M. Thomas & Sons, yesterday, were
the following:
$4,000 Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad Company, January
and July, due 1884, convertible mort
gage loan, 127a per cent.
$1,000 Chesapeake and Delaware Ca
nal Company, first mortgage, 6per cent,
January and July, Is per cent.
106 shares Wilmington and Northern
Railroad Co., par $50, Sl2a612a per sh.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12
LETTER FROM SAM'L TOWNSEND d
For the DELAWARE GAZETTE.

MR.. EDITOR IL send you few lines.
/, as one taxpayer of New Castle county,
protest against the Legislature passing
bill empowering the Levy Court of this
county to borrow or appropriate money
TO build new Court-house in Whining
ton or New Castle and wish the Kent
and Sussex members of our Legislature
to understand that, by voting for new
Courthouse appropriations at either Will
mington or New Castle, they cannot buy
the people Of New Castle county off from
their rights of representation. l also
protest against the Levy Court Of our
county being allowed to appropriate one
thousand dullars TO put proposed repairs
on county buildings at New Castle. 1
also protest against the white people of
New Castle county or the State OF Della
ware being taxed four thousand dollars,
or any sum, to educate the negroes. The
Democracy at the last session made a
liberal offer to onegroes-to tax themselves
to educate themselves. The Democratic
party Of Delaware Is purely white
mans party. All negro votes have been
cast against it, and the Democratic party
owes its success in the counties to that
poilcy' Hcu tllc IucluDeT llldJ udTcS
change 1t to get negro votes or curry ia
vor with them had better go over to the
negro party. for no white Democrat will
vote for him hereafter; and although the
agricultural interest of Delaware was
not for the last fifty years so sorely pressed
as in the last year, this Legislature has
been marked by perfectly reckless at
tempts by some of the members to ap-
propriate money for unnecessary schemes
to still further cramp the poor tax-pay er.
Some members say, "Why do not the
people get up protests, sign them and
send them down to US ?" The reason is
plain. When we selected you we sup
posed you already knew what white De-
mocracy meant, and as you went fresh
from the people and knew their situa-
tion, your own good sense should be
your own best guide to economy. If the
majority Of the voters were compelled to
run around and get signatures to pro-
test against every scheme of the men
who have the money and can spare the
time to run down to Dover during the
session of the Legislature, they would
pray God session of the Legislature
was not 10 he held more than once IN ten
years. SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
Townsend, March ~, 1879.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12

The Butler Democracy made clean
sweep in Mondays election al Westfield,
Mass, electing their full ticket for select
men by large majorities. They also
elected two out of three of the School
Committee, Rev. Thomas Sm3th, Catho-
lie, being defeated, A full board OF as
SCISSORS and all but one of the Constapies
were elected on the Butler ticket. Inc
election was run by the Butterflies under
the head of s'Independent Reform" A
heavy vote was polled and there was
great excitement.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12
YOUNG MANS COSTLY RE-
VENICE.

WILLIAMspoRr, Pa, March TO-
Charles Hill, the young man who set fire
to his neighbors' barn, entirely destroying
it, on the night Of February IA, was
sentenced ON Saturday evening last to
pay fine of $500 and the cost of the
prosecution and undergo solitary impris-
onment at hard labor in the state peni-
tentiary for 10 years. Hill and his neigh
Dor, Thomas Barclay, attended party
on the evening Of the burning they had
dispute, the latter coming off victorious
and Hill for revenge set the barn ON fire.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12
FAILURE TOsREALIZE ON AN
APPROPRIATION.

The Sundry civil bill contained Sec
ton directing the Secretary of the Treas
ury to pay to the State of Georgia little
over 1000, in fun settlement of all ad-
vances made by the State for the sup
preston of the Cherokee and Indian
wars of 1858. 1t is stated that the
agent of the State Of Georgia called at
the Treasury last Friday to get the
money. He was informed that the Geor-
gia, under land tax levied after the
war, owed to the government more than
the amount of the claim, and that under
the law applicable to such cases the
81, 900 granted to Georgia might be
placed to the credit of the State, as liqui-
dating in part this debt. The question
was contested, and has been referred to
Comptroller Porter for decision.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12
TeIlllDerance.

Last evening temperance meeting
was held at Bethany Baptist church, cor
ner of Elm and Jackson streets. The
meeting was under the auspices of the
Moral Suasion Reform Association, and
was presided over by Robert Green. The
attendance was good and the proceedings
were of an interesting nature. Addresses
were made by Thomas Scott, Frauk
Wbelan aud j. b. Cook.
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Mum SOciable.

This evening mum sociable and musi-
cal entertainment will be given by the
Ladies Aid Society in the Wilmington
Temperance, Reform Association room,
second story of No 220 and 222 Market
street. Refreshments will be served and
ample arrangements made to insure the
comfort aud pleasure of all who attend
Admission only ten cents.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12
I'm Favor Of the Removal.

1t is stated on good authority that Geo.
Gray, John II. Rodney aud Alex. B..
Cooper, Esqs., of New Castle, and all
well-known lawyers, are in favor of the
removal of the county seat 10 Whining
ton. 1t is also stated that in the event of
the removal Mr.. Gray would take up his
residence III this city.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12
A LARGE SHIPMEN 7.

Hart and Bro, provision dealers, of
this city, yesterday received seven car
loads of hams from the West, on which
the freight amounted to $400. This is
an unusually large shipment of this kind
of provision to any one hrm in this city.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12
Large Contract.

We learn that Messrs. Clarke, Reeves
& Company, Bridge builders at Phoenix
Vile, have secured the contract for a
large number of spans of bridges to 60 te
South America. We trust this may be
so.-West Chester NeaCs.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12

STREET Observation-Disclosures
Y was dull and steady. Govern
Oonds were firm, States weak and
aus irregular. Money on call lent
4per cent, advanced for while to
Closed at per cent.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12
Endorsement of Tilden

AT large and enthusiastic meeting of
the Americus Club at Allentown, Pa,
last evening, resolutions were unani-
mously adopted in favor of Tilden and
Hendricks as the Democratic nominees
in 1880. The Americus Club includes in
its membership all the promident Demo-
cratic politicians in Lehigh county.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12
AN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTOR

AN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTOR.
Mr.. Lewis B. Morrow, of this city, has
a large collection of autographs, embra-
clng the signatures of some of the most
famous personages, not only of this
country, but of the world. Last night he
called upon Ole Bull at the Grand Opera
House, and added that distinguished vio-
linist's signature to his large collection of
autographs.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12

",oAN or',a IRON FOR CHINA
rican IRON nor ta one hundred tons of
pst been dlIo,p 10 pe exported to China.
of an iron a'ea eay BY the New York
Of British piv piivu'a'rany. al Large guam.
u but this are annually sent to
VI 'ne kind eyer made dne''can
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12

What's the use sitting all day in the
house with bad cold or hacking cough
when DR.. Bulls cough syrup will cure
you in short time.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12
SPECIAL CONFERENCE TRAIN

During the session of the Wilmington
M. Il. Conference, which commences at
New Castle on Tuesday next, a special
train will be run daily, leaving this city
at $50 a. m., aud leaving New Castle, to
return at 9:45 p. IN.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12

Three applications cured me of severe
rheumatic pain, and l cheerfully
recommend Ksller's Roman Lini-
ment. Cornelius Noonan, Lieutenant
NJ etropolltan Police, Washington, ID. G.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12

| INDICATIONS FOR TODAY.
Indications for the Middle States
Ioniag are sl,ghtly colder and clear or
rsdter, NTH northerty TO Uesterty
0i rising barometer.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12
Wilmington Markets.

HILMrsGroN. Del, Mar III IL. 1879.
Nations at the Brandywine Mills for
and Grain, furnished by W. e.
|kpacker 4 Co. Corrected Daily.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12
PUBLIC SALE.

|tl tifss' and = mule" mules, 6 cows at the sale of
rnion " saylor, .,iH. Saturday, the 18th
'A street near Delaware Ave-
The daily gazette., 1879-03-12
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

DOR SALE.-The stock, good will and
T. fixtures of a grocery store, now doing
very good business, for sale at sacrifi ce
Satisfactory reasons given for selling out.
Apply to THOMAS R. LALLY,
marl2-3t* COZ Market st.
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[IRsT EDITION.
and'COsn mercaaa.
Sn DEALERS IN

grlxlseros. Del, March e b, u; 2, .s1'; .s h.
s' Va To. Clayton House bu'lding
os,on, Del. at IL M. to-day.
, 1879-01-28

Indians wcre near .hero and firing away At The
froopt. lie didn't think fllc movement to the
r!ver wna run, but 1t was pretty fast retreat.
lLanghter.l Witnets d!1u't get to the top Of
t!sr hill until nost Of tho command got up. md
Kcn" wsa supervising the formation Of Tho line.
There WAS 1ring all tha time from the indians
on the hlun on the right bank. ami three or four
tnen weEo killed.
Tie command, ha continued, was scattered m
reaching the top Of tue hill, but he did not
think T. WA demoralixed, Judging from tho
prompt way in whtrn It formed into line. In his
Judgment, the command In the timber could
lave resistet! the Indians until 1}enleen came
mp, although the poaltion on tho hill WAS
much better for defcnsc. The difference IN
position, he thought, wonId more than compcl,-
safe the l0sA of tic men In gaining the bill. II
the +! y Indians had charged right dovn on the men
~ The timber, The 1attoF couldn't hare st.,od
Them two minutes. But lndians didn't general
4 DO That, and, under Tue ctrcu.nsta1.cts, he
thought ti'e command could have stall there
Tor prutaby thirty minutes. There were 100
ioilnds OF ammunition per man, md Tho witness
~ his position expended about dozen, Though
the trnons might have expended more per n,nf,.
. This did not close the direct examination, but
u waa already aftcr o'clock hnd the Court or
defcd IN adjournment until this morning Ut II.
, 1879-01-28

Joint uso and occupation Of herself md James
Long during thffr natural lives. 6econdt for
her own use ami occupation during her life In
cAat el76 survived her husband. Third. IN trust
i"r said James Long aud hts heirs and afsfens
forever, in fee simple, after her deccnae In raso
her husband survived hcr. Fourth. IN trust. IN
casc she survived him and nfter her dece7se for
such persons and IN such manner a. the said
5amca Long might by his last will ami testament
direct ami appoint; and In case he should nut 70
direct, then for hs hefra-at-taw after her de-
eea;f. Ths marriage took p!,ee thc ,s. next l.y
tlvo children BY a former marriage A. hts only
helrs.1t-law. The atlm!nEstsator applied for
an order Of the Court to sell The land In ques-
tcsistcd this on the ground that the property
descended TO them a. pnrchasers and there was
no tttto in James Long under the trust-lecd.
The Court. 10 giving his decision, bald that
crt5. subject only to 1ifc-cstate In }a wife un-
der the provisions of the declaration of trust.
Al order was entered that the lots 10 sold by
the administrator for the benefit Of the crct1-
itorh Of the estate.
judge Van II. Higgins appeared for the heirs
and Clhrance A. Burley for The administrator.
CRIMINAL COURT.
Charles WooIard antl George Lee, alias
=" s'iatchcm." pleaded guilty to robbinR The
foom Of Max Frrund at the Palmer Housc in
q 1ewc'ry. n,Ml were semandcd fur sentence.
Wnot'aru tiat previously agreed to turn Biatc'e
evidence aud plead guilty, nnl thus forced Ice
Aaron Graves md Al Saunders pleaded guilty
10 larceny, nml wefa reminded.
iefre'ee Mckcrtlan pleaded guilty Of larceny,
an! WA Ktvcn thirty days In tbs County jail.
m Aat seuttleF pleaded guilty to larceny, md
john Mclean was tried for larceny md &C.
quilted.
Walter Brown was found guilty Of burglary,
A'ai ;.,f was given one year In the Pcnitentiary.
, 1879-01-28
WAUKEGAN,

ProJertct IInrh0r improvements,
WAuKkoAN. ILL.,, Jau. M.-Pnreaiant to call 4
meeting Of the citizens OF Wankcgan and yicin..
", III favor OF memoriallng Congress for m ap-
proprtation for building 1larbor at Waukcgau,
aud for tile purposo of taking other necessary
steps In TINT behalf, was held at phnuix Hall
Saturday evening, juu. e.
Willinm u. Dodge, Chairman OF o general
committee, appointed at previous meeting, rr-
ported the action they bad takcn to the present
time, and recommended the appointment Of
committed in behalf OF the objects Of this meet
thy, as ret fortn In the following resolutions:
tee Of t4een 10 Interest tho oars Trndd Of Chi
cago and Milwaukee III behalf Of building 1 haEbpr
Of refuge at auke9an:
Ftso!rfd. Thai t1Io Chairman appoint commit.
tee OF thste 10 secure the cooperation at tho
marine lnterfnts Of J.Aks Michigan In behalt Of
builiin9 ha5so1 =, Of Istags = w.akoraa.
by tho Chairman to Interest Tho lumber. tF0n, and
manufacturing Interests Of Chicago sud Milwaukee
In behalf Of building hhsbot Of refuge At Waukt.
gan.
Tie resolutions were adopted, and the Chair
man appointed .lr committees "a follows:
Toranyass tfl' Boards OF 'rrale-A. J, Den-
nsson. William u. Dogc, alItl George Kirk.
To satlsnss the marine tntercsts.A. 7. spen-
Ger, Cant. Roberts, and Capt. Judd Minsky.
{. Nuwer, NJ. i. spaf1ori, j. +. Powell, Cant.
Clement, and Theodore lIerbcrgcr
Itaotr<d, That tho Committee apptIntud at \
meeting held on Tuescny eschng, the .lst inst.
be tho Standing Executive Committee, 10 have
charge Of aal matters rslAtin. to the acquiring OF
harbor for Waukcgsn.
nn motion OF Ur. A. Lewis, tho resolution
WIS nttopted.
Tho adoption Of The following resolution was
moved by Wil.nm u. Dodge:
R<soir<a. That In the opnoa Of thls meeting Of
Tho citizens Of Rhuxslan, the tlme las arrived
n inf IN tIn1
teresta of Lake Michigan. anu VI tle lakes fener.
ally, cnngrcks, Ia tho dt*c>asce Of . great na.
t!onal duty, should mEke an Immediate nppf0pr!s-
lion tor thd building Of hafnor Of EcluRo at Wan.
krEnn. surh ~ tho txigenctrs OF tho case demand,
aud This meeting ur:ca upon IT, REPRESENTATIVES, ia
spectfu1y sollcts thelr sctIEc operation In pro-
curing tho neceasarY sssps 10 be taken In teIst!ua
th1Feto; and thls meeting further expresses ita
opinion tnst no Representative eau calculate upon
Tho support OF this constituency who ahAll neglect
40 evident aud paramount 4 duty.
, 1879-01-28
WESTERN PATENTS.

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y. REX. slAcomt'. 1as1u Fase hhn&ingd.
, 1879-01-28
EtAect! all this will be done 1t the County
Clerk'A Office. The meeting adjourned with



The members OF the Oriental lpstttuto held a
scmsnonthly meeting In the Sherman f1ouse
club.room yesterday afternoon. The Rev. Dr..
Owen occupied the chair. The obIcc, Of the
meeting was a discussion Of portions OF the
Old Testament teaching tlle Immortality OF the
soul. Tho seventy-third Pratm wss taken up
ami debated at some length. at the conclusion
Of which the meeting adjourned for two weeks,
The Methodist ministers assembled In regular
weekly meeting In their rooms, No. C9 Wash
ington street, At II .. m. YESTERDAY, DR.. Willing
in the chair. Devotional exercises were led by
the Rev Mr. Crafts, Of Trinity Church, after
which the order Of exercises was taken IN.
This cotBfsted Uf a pancr on "rhc Circ,,ti,-
stances aud Methods Under which We EhUujl
Hold Protrastcd Meettnes e Dur Churches.'
followed BY Mr. Miller in a few remarks upofi
the subject vi revIra, meetings. Both urged the
Importance OF rcvyals and prhtraetcd meetings
~ thc Methodist Churches, and spoke Of tic
Eo4Nl t'sat had been done by tlrse methods OF
devotion In winning souls to Christ. TIE Busf.
ness Committee reported ~ tue order ior next
week, "bcriptural Fasting, md Its Bearing on
sp:stua! Character anu Aggressive Wnrk,h 10
adopted, and the ministers adjourned in i1iy
70 attend tile noon prayer.Mecting ut Earwe1l
The Baptist clergy held their regular weekly
meeting yesterday nurning, the Rev. {, +,
Mcwctt Moderator. The Rcv. Samuel
Baker, Jr., Of thu Wheltun Daptjst
Church, belsI0 called upon 10 out1nc fis ser.
mon Of Sunday, answered that he hHd re.
signed his paeturate and preached from ,hn text
''T'iere was fcfutclnR IN that city," 'rl,Is was
received rs clerical Joke, but tie sneaker, in
the course Of bis remarks. state,i that he
should preach his farewell sermon next
sundny. lis was going to Austria.
The 1sey. DR.. Abbltt Mil the Rev, X. I. ALI,
son both were called, hut chose not TO "1kcic.
ton.h The Chairman, i,owever, responded. iio
had preached from The tcxt, Who.pcvcr Will,
let him take Of the whtors Ut lifs freely" "'rhc
Great Invitation " being the subject At tho
close Of thu service he baptized anu received Ia.
to membership, he said, young msn whose
conversion wHs remarkable EVIDENCE Of tho
saving grace af our Haviur. lis Ind hren Riyen
up To all vices. guilty Of various crimes, un,l
thought himself wholly lost. Ho,ue tmd ago
lie visited one VI the temperance meetings
being held At Furwcll Hall. While there b.
came under the observation of Mtsa Baker, ons
Of the secretaries OF ttir Wonlei's Christian
Temperance Union. and through her intcrres-
sions WIS brought 10 rcnizationof lis sins, uni
thereby saved. Tile Rev. DE. Custte, VI the
Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, rcud
an essay on the "ll,ghts OF Conscience
md the Relation OF the Baptists."
After bricf discussion. which Was taken part
tn by tho Revs. K. X. Crcssy, john rs.luic, A.
Own, and others, tile meeting adjourned witt, a
bcnedtc&ton. Next Monday being scs apnst for
the regular monthly u,epting, ihcro will be no
subject considered, the hour being devoted to
the reception OF church fep0rts.