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The daily gazette., 1879-04-05

A STREET TO THE DELAwARE.-
There has been an urgent necessity for
street to the Delaware for many years,
and for the last twenty-five years the
newspapers and the people have been
urging the City Council to adopt some
practical policy by which this object may
be accomplished. But unfortunately
there has never been man at the head
of the Street Committee with sufficient
brains and sagacity to introduce an ordi-
nance causing policy that would effect
this desire, who was not opposed to it or
controlled by the wharf owners and marsh
owners on the Christiana to defeat the
purpose in view.
Instead of taking one street and EN-
blowing ashes and all the waste dirt tc
filling up that street, whenever the op
portunity was presented to effect pur
pose of this kind, the Council has was
ted the time and opportunity by dump
ing the dirt on several streets.
In the removal of the dirt from thu
square of the Christiana Improvement
Company's land, that is now being done
the Council and the chairman Of the
Street Committee had an excellent op
portunity to make a valuable use of thu
dirt; but unfortunately the Street Com
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05
Bonaparte's Ancestry

The article entitled "Madame Bona
parte," published in the issue Of the
lines of the 30th instant-Sunday last
has been generally read and has occa-
stoned considerable com,nent. | was
told severa. years ago by a gentleman OF
Baltimore, in W ose historical research
repose much confidence, that William
Patterson, father OF Elizabeth (Patterson)
Bonaparie, was the grandson Of Robert
Patterson, the "Old Mortality" of Sir
Walter Scott's novel OF that name. "Old
Mortality" 1t is well known, bad three
SONS, Robert, Walter and John. The two
former lived and died IN Scotland. John
emigrated with his immediate family to
the United States in the memorable
year 1776, aud settled in the then small
town of Baltimore. His son William sub
sequently became the wealthy merchant
ami father of Elizabeth PATTERSON, whose
marriage with jerome Bonaparte has
made Ler noted. II. Ga
CHESTER, March 81, 1870.
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05
ATHLETICISM AND CRUELTY,

The Philadelphia doctors have called
the attention of the police authorities 20
the spectacle ofa "womau show" now be-
fore the public in that city. By the
terms of the match in which The women
are there engaged they must made four
thousand qual er miles in four thousand
consecutive quarter hours. -Four thous-
and quarter hours run through forty-one
days and sixteen hours, AID for that ex-
tended period these women can never
get good sleer-since even with the
best strategy on the part of their alien
dants they can never be oil the course
for mole than twenty minutes at any one
time. The physicians very properly sug-
gest that the police put stop to this cru.
city exhibition.
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05


HA1D MONEY seems abundant in the
hands of the people. The order for the
coinage of silver and its circulation has
done more to restore the confidence OF
the people than any other act Of the gov
ernment for the past ten years. The
rapid sale of the per cent. bonds with
in the past three months is the financial
wonder of the day. The bonds Of the
State of Delaware drawn for ten year:
would be preferred and would have sold
quite as readily, as soon as it was ascer
tanned they would be paid punctually.-
1t is q mistake to say that our business
people prefer very long bonds. The gov
ernment will soon have no bonds on the
market for sale.
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05
Chicago RePudintes the he
publican Party.
Chicago Tribune, April L.


The election to-day will end the SYM
pathv, encouragement and assistance
which the Republican, parry has always
from Chicago, and, once installed in the
city government with the power and
plunder in their lands, Carter Han irison
and his gang will claim it as Democrat
10 city and Keep il so in the general cleo
ton. 1t Mr.. Wright is elected, on the
other hand, Chicago will not only secure
an honest and economical government,
but will Keep her place as the banner
Republican city of the West and exercise
a powerful influence for the Republican
candidare in 1880. With this thought In
view, that national as well as local inter-
esls depend upon the result OF the cleo
ton to-day, can any Republican voter
hesitate as to bis duty? Remember that
the dispatches announcing the result of
to-day's work VIII be watched for with
earge-ness all over the country.
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05

PUBLIC CONPIDENCE.-The Radical
wing Of the Repu olican party-:he wing
which followed Grant and sustained the
cry of the "Dloody Shirt" and use of the
bayonet and Deputy Marshals at the
Iolls--have in every way possible tried
to alarm and destroy the confidence OF
the people in the government because Of
the triumph Of the Democratic party in
the elections and the determination OF
the people to entrust the management of
the affairs of the country with the mem
bers of that party, which has shown itself
opposed to war and civil strife, and in
favor of peace and union, and harmonic
ing all sections on some common ground
which all may occupy without fear of
molestation.
But, Notwithstanding the screams of
the opposition press and the odium it has
attempted to attach to the Democratic
party, the confidence OF the people has
grown stronger day by day just in pro-
portion as that party has fought its way
to power first over bayonets at the polls,
and then over Returning Boards, and
lastly over U. S. Deputy Marshals and
the corruption funds of hundred thou
sand office-holders. At each stage of lis
progress to power the Radical alarmists
have prophesed the loss of confidence
and ruin to the country. But after each
Democratic victory confidence grew
stronger.
And during the present week, wher
the last struggle is about to be fought fol
the rights of the people at The polls, ant
the Democrats have within the past thre'
weeks came into power in both Houses o
the national legislature, public conidenc
was never more strongly exhibited. S
much greater is the faith of the people il
the intentions of this party of union
peace and prosperity, that the sales of til
per cent. bonds have astounded nearl
everybody not excepting John Sherman
of bad emiEence, the Secretary of tn
Treasury himself, who seemed to hay
tried every way in the world to destro
she confidence of the people in the Den
ocratlc party. The people know that tt
officers of the army make money an
acquire fame by war; and that the |
S. MarshaIs gather fees from strife, ar
they approve of putting it out of IL
power of the Federal officers to mai
trouble at the polls with State officers.
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05
CHICAGO SALUTES GENERAL
GARFIELD.
Phila. Times, April 8.


The Republicans Of Chicago either had
no local issue upon which to conduct
their municipal campaign or they Dehev-
ell they could do better by dragging In
In natioual questions and making the
fight on them, for that is what was done.
The Chicago Tribune, which was once
an able an Influential newspaper and
altogether above the small clap-trap OF
party, did the best 1t could to make the
Issue oat of jeff. Davis and the Demo
cratic attitude in Congress. 1t was vigo-
rou>ly assisted by two or three other
organs and the war was fought all over
again. Carter Harrison was held up ~ .
horrible example OF JEFF. DAVIS sympa-
thizer, and Garfield's revolution WI
spread before the Chicago voter In the
most hideous shape posssible for an Or
gan to devise. III spite Of all this-or
rather with the assistance OF all This
| Carter Harrison wa, elected Mayor, the
| first Democrat chosen ~ that ofhce In
Chicago in twenty years. This first APP
plication OF the Republican issues for this
year does not seem to promise an over
| whelming success.
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05

mittee contracted 10 have half Of this
dirt hauled over Eleventh street bridge
and half over Third street bridge. This
is contract, as we are told, with bonds
for Its fulfillment, and the city 10 equally
bound with the contracSot. Therefore
all the resolutions and talk which may
be had over the matter will not alter the
case. II is unfortunate that this whole
matter was not talked over before the
contract was made, and some one street
named In it on which the dirt should be
dumped and spread to proper width by
the contractor. But so far as we can
learn from the noisy, confused and unsat-
isfacsory talk in Council al its last meet
ing the contract is wholly deficient In not
requiring how the dirt may be applied,
no promise being made for spreading II
when dumped or as to how wide space
of the avenue or street 1t shall be applied
to; hence Mr.. Paynlsr is reported as
saving he had TO "drive around" TO get
past the piles of dirt when passing along
Christiana Avenue. 1t is a pity that
men who are not competent for public
position should be found undertaking
public works of this kind without con-
sulting and taking the advice of persons
competent to give it; and the city will
suffer so long as it entiusts incompetent
parties with its affairs. 1t is scanda-
lous shame that an intelligent commu-
nifty will entrlst its money to be expen-
ded by those who from foolhardiness sac
rifice others, are incompetent to manage
their own affairs and pay nothing to the
general tax. The City Council must dc
better if it ever expects 10 reduce taxa
ton and retain the respect OF the people
whom 1t should represent.
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05

IN 1867 the Republicans of Congress,
with President Hayes and General Gar
field Of members and acting with the
majority forced into the army appropria-
tion bill part of the very Legislation the
Democrats now propose thus to repeal.
They refused to consider it as a separate
measure and they held the bill until the
last days of the session to coerce Presi-
dent johnson to sign the bill. Was it
revolutionary then ou the part of Hayes
and Garfield?
In 1872, the Supervisor and Deputy
Marshal section as forced into the civil
appropriation bill under the lead of EN-
Garfield, and the arbitrary powers con
ferred upon Federal officials to interfere
with elections was thus forced upon the
then Democratic minority by Genera
Garneld's party lash. The Democrats
then denounced it as revolutionary to
force revolutionary legislation in such
manner, but General Garfield pressed il
to success.
If General Garfield deemed 1t not reyo
lutionary to pass violent and revolution
ary legislation in that way in 1867 and il
1872, can he respect himself or hope t,
be respected by others, for declaring i
revolutionary to repeal revolutionar,
legislation in like manner?
If President Hayes, as a Republican
member Of Congress, regarded it a
proper to inject political sections into ap
I
bills until the last days of the session t,
, force the Executive approval, will h
veto an appropriation bill because tn
, Democrats have now foolishly imitate
his example ?-Phila Times
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05

THE full, able and brilliant discussion
of the repeal Of the Federal Election
Laws in the House will leave very little
to be said on them by the time the bills
get to the Senate.
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05

WE VENTURE the assertion that Mr..
Bayard's vote will not be recorded
against his party friends or his party's
caucus decisions. 1t is mistake to sup
pose the Republicans can lead him to do
this, and some Of the critics who have
been expressing opinions of late will find
that they do not know the man.
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05

Mr.. GARFIELD begged the question
yesterday aud gave up every vital point
that he had made in his previous speech,
when he frankly said to Mr.. Tucker in
the House, yesterday, that he would vote
for the repeal Of the election laws if they
came up separately. The question arose
thus. Mr.. Tucker, in his eloquent spec ch
said
The great danger when tr ops were
used at elections was that The cartridge
box would be exchanged for the ballot
box, the bullet for the ballot that the
sword protesting to guard the voter at
| the polls would iniimidate him away
f ON the polls. Would his friends from
Ohio and Connecticut (Messrs. Garfield
and Hawley) vote for the proposed repeal
as a separate measure?
Mr.. Gsrfield-I would vote to repeal
these clauses if brought up separately,
but not to make them as you propose 10
make them.
Mr.. Tucker-Wouldt the President with
hold his consent and say that unless
Congress gave him the power TO control
elections lie would let the government
die of starvation? Would he say, in the
language of bishwayman df presi-
dent could use such language), "Y cur
money Or your life. The money de-
mand or the life Of The government"
| In conclusion Mr.. Tucker said if hi.
aspirations and hopes, his dreams and
visions, could be realized, feeling as bt
did that the seIe and yellow leaf was APP
preaching, that The evening of his life
was coming o its close, he might then,
with humble reverence, e,iepeat the prayer,
''Now, o Lord, lettest thou thy servant
depart in peace, for mine eyes hath seer
the salvation of nv peoples liberty, anc
seen restored the grand and noble sys ELI
OF the cohsti ution of our forefatheis."
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05
ONLY ONE CASE.

There was only one case before Mayor
Almond. this morning, it being drunk,
upon which penalty of 30 cents aud
costs WAS imposed.
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05

APRIL 9 1870.

This paper has no advertising agents
n Philadelphia.
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05
WOTI(,Es.

Nj OTICE.-We, Thompson a Locke. w
compliance with the requirements 81
the act OF Assem- bly,, In such cases msoe
and provided, do hereby give notice tnAt
Ge' erai Sessions OF the Pesce and jail De-
livery. of the State Of Delaware. In and FOR
New Castle county, on Monday, the 12th
day Of May, next, a. D., 1879, being me
court. for a license TO keep An Inn or tav-
ern, At the p, ". Il b. Railroad depot res
tauraDt, ON Water street between FIench
and Walnut streets, In the Second Ward,
TO sell Intoxicating liquors in less quanti-
ties than one quart, To be drunk on tne
premises and the following respectable
citizens recomm end the said application, I,
to wit:
I Il Brison, Eph Wise,
Murphy, Robert M Gibson,
Joseph X vickers, John Mari.
George n Wheeler, Fred'k Bush,
W y Townsend, John B How,
Jacob Denney, l. Brown,
James Christy, Sd Townsend,
John M ealey, Charles T. sparks,
Geo W Ortlip, Michael kenney,
Harry Christy. = b Merritt,
i, = Cauik. VIM Legg,
Sam i Roberts, w Hukin,
James M Sweeten.
W. THOMPSON,
apr3-3ts JOSEPH N. LOCKE.
Al OTICE.-I, JOHN MEALEY. In COM
~ pliance with the requirements of the
act OF Assembly, In suck case made and
provided, do hereby give notice that
shall apply In writli q TO the Court Of Gen.
eral Sessions of the Peace and jail Deliv-
cry, OF the State OF Delaware. In and for
New Castle county. on Monday. the 18th
day OF May, next, A. D., 1879. being the
| first day OF the next May term oi the IA Id
court, for a license TO keep an Inn or tav.
ern, at Nos. 1Os and 40 Market street in
the Second Waid, in the city OF Whining
ton, Delaware, and To sell Intoxicating 4
liquors in less quantities than one quart
To be drum on the prem ises and the fol-
lOw.ng respectable citizens recon mend
the said application. TO wit:
VIM egg. Henry Feltmeir,
T Il Brison, Charles Weyl,
Jos N Locke, l. q File,
VIM II Bowman, Bernard Row,
Daniel Ross, Adolph kiOberg,
| Wright King, Joseph Stoeckle,
Charles u Sparkes, John Parker,
Michael Kenney, Nicholas Jenny,
John McCafiery, Joseph II Richards,
aeo w Ortiip, Charles ii r Gross.
| andrew Fulmele, Richard o Booth,
Il Wolfson, Anon HENCE,
Geo X Higgins, Robert NJ Gibson,
Geo W Rival, Martin lraub.
arri-3ts JOHN MEALY.
AZ OTI8E.-The annual meeting OF the
IN Christiana River m proven ent Com.
pany. will be held ON Monday, April 18th
1873, at the ono OF the Co.. In the Clayton
n..tI a
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05

NJ JOTIeE.-The annual meeting of the
IN Christiana River Improvement Com.
pany will be held ON Monday, April 18th,
1879, al the ono OF the Co.. IN the Clayton
House Building, at from 4 to S p. m. Tor
the election OF 7 directors.
M. M. CHILD,
apr3,6,i2 Secretary.
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05

NJ OTiCE.-J. II. Primrose as taken the
~ management OF the old and reliable
sewing machine com pany-the Wheeler q
Wilson. This machjue has been lately
improved, and IL AN enulrely new machine,
and Is known as the Improved W heeler a
Wilson. IL IL the finest made lock-stitct
sewing machine now in use, and has ad
vantages superior 10 any other.
We hope our friends will give us a call
and not buy until they have examined this
new machine
Our terrItery embraces Delaware and
Chester counties. Pa, and delaware and
the Eastern Store of Maryland.
Our office, at present, will be found AT
72s Market street. After the 25th OF March
next we will be found at our old stand, the
Garrett building, No. 71s Market street.
IAGENTS WANTED.
feb5 .dtf J. H.PRIMROsE
The daily gazette., 1879-04-05
apr3,b,i2

NJ OTILE.-The Whining ton Loan Asso-
~ cIation now offers new Atock for sale.
he first payment may DO made At any
time 10 the Secretary GEO. (. MAR1S,
mar3,-im COL Shipiey st., Ind moor.
NUTICH.-THE DIAMOND STATE
IN LOAN AsSOCIA ALTON Offers . new
Series OF stock for sale, the nrst pay ment
may be IN ade any time 10 the Secretary.
GEORGE q. MARIS,
marr-1m COL shipi, y II, 2nd story.
nIVIDEND.-A dividend has been de-
- clared by the Wilmington 4 rhila-
delphia Turnpike Company OF thirty cents
per share, payable on or after the 10Th
inst, NJ the N. Il. corner OF Front 4 Or
ange streets. JOS. TA1NAlL.
feb7-2mO Treasurer.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-12-03
Cost of the "Know How"
fHarpsr's Magazine

There was much gumption evincedby that
particular darkey whose master was sur
geon, who had performed on another darkey
an operation requiring high degree of skill.
This latter darkey was well-to-do, and the
surgeon charged him S25 for the operation.
Meeting the doctors servant afterward, this
dialogue occurred:
dat was mighty steep charge ofthe doc
tors for Gu ting on me tudder day"
allow much did de boss charger"
well, Julius, he charged me S25.'
"Go long niggah. dat amt much charge"
"Well, he wasn't more dan three or four
minutes doin' it, and think s5 was all he
oughter took
"Look-a-heah, Sam; you don't unstan'
bout dat ting. You see de boss have to
spend great many years larnin' how to
use dat knife, an it cost him heaps O money.
Now de fact am dat he only charge you So
for de operstion; de tudder 20 he charge for
de know how."
That's 1.-THE time and money to learn the
know how.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-12-03

attended to at the time of entering the theater,
owing to the crush. it is necessary for the
men to report between acts
If my younger--that Is my very old
brother we're not given to the wholesale aid
somewhat reprehensible practice of manu-
featuring stories to suit occasions, l might
credit this explanation, but as it Is am not
prepared to adopt it with faith. Please, then,
Mr.. Editor, tell the poor, suffering women Of
New York why men do go out between acts
Alfred-A Alfred is my husband-scowls when
ask him the question and murmurs some
thing indefinite about 'tstock indicators and
the .sexigencies of the markets" But when
in his calmer moments, / reproach Alfred
with wasting his money in Wall street, he
assures me that he never in his life ventured
to think of stock speculation am not a
child; am not shallow harc-brained wo-
man. make it a matter of conscience to
keep myself well informed concerning my
husbands business and affairs, but l confess
that this upstarting of the entire male au-
dience every time a theater curtain drops
puzzles and disturbs ine.
If my husband were a drinking man
how do hate that low expression!-I should
imagine simply that he went out for beer or
something worse, but my husband does not
drink-he has often told me so. He does not
even smoke He has only silly habit of
chewing coffee-beans and cloves, not whole
some, but neater and better than tobacco.
The whole matter is therefore shrouded in a
mystery which hope you will unravel.
The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-12-03

Miss Corsons lecture on cooking had a
singular effect upon the wife of gentleman
residing in Washington. The gentleman
was awakened from a sound sleep about 2
o'clock in the morning by flood of gaslight
in the chamber. coming from the Jets in the
chandelier, burning at full head. Standing
over him, evidently in somnambulistic
state, and in pose closely resembling that
of the late Charlotte Cushman in the cele-
); brated sleep-walking scene of Lady Macbeth,
stood his wife, while In either hand, and
oninonsly flashing in the gaslight, she grasp
ed the mammoth carving-knife and fork
Curious to know just what was going to be
the denouement of this singular scene, he
kept quiet, while the lady soliloquized
"Hold the carver in an easy position in the
righ. hand, thus" and she dipped the point
of the huge knife as gracefully as fencing
master in the broadsword exercise. "Then,"
continued the culinary student, "bend slight
ly the left wrist and insert the fork in the
breast of the turkey, one prong on either side
of the breast-bone," and suiting the action to
the word, she was about to plunge the fork
into her husbands anatomy, about where the
ribs join the sternum, when he caught and
disarmed her. She drew back and glared at
him for q moment, and then, pushing back
the sleeves of her robe de mutt, pointed her
finger at him and exclaimed in a loud, the
atrircal manner: "The only way to reach
you husbands heart is through the stom-
achl" Since that night this gentleman has
slept in another apartment, with the door
bolted and stack of trunks piled up against
il
The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-12-03
WAITS.

When a schooner of beer Is crossing the
bar there is always somebody ready to pilot
in
If your wife doesn't appear perfectly con-
tented this weather, sealskin sacque will fill
the bill.
There's one good thing about these wide
belts; they keep the human arm from mark
iag the dress. That is, so we have been told.
Tennyson and Carlyle are both inveterate
smokers, and both suffer from dyspepsia, but
then they think about everything else than
their stomachs.
The rage for decoration has not vet ex-
tended to buckwheat cakes. They are still
made plain and are seldom Eailed up on
parlor walls.
Perhaps Hanlen and Courtney will row q
race some day Life is short, and there is
another and better world. but water may
be scarce there.
The chief end of man is the end that has
that has the boots on-at least so says Tim
minis, who has been courting old Smither's
daughter against her fathers wishes
.sWhy," the boy asked, ''do 70 you blow
down the muzzle of your gun?' ITO see, !"
replied the man, ssif it is, And Just then
he discovered that it was.
An Oswego woman fell out of a fourth
story window, the other day, and the first
thing she did after being brought to her senses
was to wish she had had on her new silk hose
instead Of those old cotton stockings
Josh Billings: "I wouldn't give you 10
cents yard for all the pedigrees in the
world. If man has got q level head on his
shoulders, and an honest heart in his body,
he has got all the pedigree l am in search
of"
in Greensboro, KY, and 10 cents will get an
average toddy, and a good many seem to
think, says the Examiner, that more warmth
result from the 10 than the seven cent in
vestment
The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-12-03

.sr - .;..;~ .,cs i, m. vnrasn to-day thooxh the
sr,ns.sr 4. relf-nivb dead \
w --,hs-ss ths frr;S nj -a,bered the hav and
,s. -;,hsr;nv woods are rrd
Am a. ~. ar the serr.re are VET aSlow and the
~ ~ rc.ss are rlnstering stiI
NJ. .h ss,,d.r h,o.son,s I. :. ali l.id low and the
..' '-s .-as;. . hrseSe gr,v. chilli
,;r,. ssr~;ns robin Comes chirrupinx near: he IA
,w.rs Of a Terrible dav
vrh -, ~, sha,I he hare sna the xoodla nts sere
' - - ~ ch;rrnns ,sbiia chirrnn he NAV
Tn. .h;isr-n 70 sbonr;nv with lire and with ball
swsv bx the ba xeI-wood lane
And TT have stolen .xav from them all just to
rite 70 voy, once srsin
rs
"But OF what can tell you, my oniy i1,eno' inss