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The daily gazette., 1879-03-24
REGISTERS OFFICE,
New Castle county, Mar. II. 1Si


Upon the application OF Sallie b. Davis,
Administrative of Eliza Moore, late
of Wilmington Hundred, in said coun-
ty deceased 1t is ordered and directed by the
Regist er that the Administratrix aforesaid
give notice OF the granting of letters OF adj
LIlnistration, upon the estate of the
deceased, with Tie datt OF granting there
of, by causing advertisements To be post
ed within forty days from the date of SUCH
letters, in six of the most public places of
the county of New Castle, requiring all
persons having demands against the es-
tate to present the same or abide by an
act of Assembly In such case made and
provided. And also cause the same to he
inserted within the same period in the
WILMIEGToS GAZETTE,a news paperpub-
iished in Wilmington, and to be contln-
ued therein three weeks, (e o d..
Given under The hand and seal
l.. =. of Office OF the Register aforesaid
t-~~-) at New Castle, In New Castle
county, aforesaid, the day and yeqr above
written. S. & BIGGS. Register.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-24
No11TCE

All persons having claims against the
estate of the deceased must present the
on or before the seventeenth day of March,
A. ID. ls>O, or abide the act of Assembly In
such case made and provided.
SALLIE Il. DAVIS.
Administrative.
Address, $40 South 2lst ST., Philadel-
phia, Pa. marl8-3w cod.
The daily gazette., 1879-03-24
NOTES.

An effort will be made to work up the
business of the Conference this after
noon, so as to adjourn sine die Tonight.
Despite all assertions To the contrary,
:he other papers did copy some of Tie
GAzETTks Conference reports. One day
the Il, Il. d G. reporter copied the G A.
zETTE correspondents report uerbdtin1,
and the same report appeared in the
Herald and Conference Worker the next
morning. This certainly looked like
copyi X the GAzETTE's report
Sentman, publisher of the daily Con-
ference Workc.', sells his paper at five
cents per copy, but numbers of ministers
seemed to think the copies on tie table
We're for free distribution and helped
ly.
Among the visitors to Conference this
morning were Ex Senator Shakespeare.
OF Dover, and ex- representative Wilbur
Il. Burnite, of FELTON,.
The following visitors were intro luced
during this mornings session:
The daily gazette., 1879-03-24
REGISTERS ORDER.

A ddress, Wilmington, Del.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-24
PERSONAL

NJ. w. Sheafe. OF Elk Point, is in town
today.
G. G. Sperry. trader at Yankton agency,
arrived last night.
Major and Mrs. Sharp went down to
Sioux City this morning.
o. P. Randall was u passenger on this
mornings east bound train.
L. r. Partridge is skirmishing around
among the property owners of Elk Point
to-day.
Bishop Hare and Major w. Fl. II. Was
son, agent of the Flsndreau Indians, ar
rived last night from the Flaadreau agency
and are in town to-day.
L. Danbaum, of Council Bluffs, Mrs.
Hirhstein's brother, who has been visiting
here for q few days. left this morning. He
is preparing to leave Council Bluffs for
Lsadville. to engage in business.
Major w. D. E. Andrus, the newly sp.
pointed agent of the Yankton Indiana, ar.
rived last night from Washington and will
proceed to the agency in . day or two
The major has been . resident of Rockford
Illinois. and though he has had no exper
fence in Indian matters, he looks like q mar
who might speedily learn TO solve tn,
problem.
Bismarck Tribune: DR.. Burleigh. tn.
father of Burleigh county, ex-member o
congress. and proprietor of the stesne
Gen. Terry, arrived yesterday morning, AM
10 waiting for his craft to steam into port
He has . large store on board for Fort Al
sinibolne. An ex-genersl Of the army |
Burlsigh,s candidate for post trader. %
the lively doctor thinks be will get there
Dr.. W.. H. II. Brown, oeuust, Unto
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-24
LADIES

Call at Mrs. C.. A. Lyons and inspect her
stock of Millinery and Ladies' Furnishing
Goods. I have the finest limo Of Corsets
In this city.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-24

Dr.. W. H. H. Brown, o~.ntst, Union
block, Yankton.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-24

REBUTTAL TESTIMONY
was started by Dougherty explaining what
the ration checks spoken of were. They
were discontinued when l took the agency
because l received no authority to use them.
l received about $2l5 from Antoine LIE
Claire. Have seen over $500 worth. Haines'
place is about As miles from Grow Creek
agency. The checks were a sort Of a circu-
lating medium. The Indians sometimes
called it money.
There was no mode of account which
could be used for accounting for rations dis
tributed under these checks. There was
nothing to prevent the holders of these
from selling them. l know John FURY,
and his general reputation for truth and
veracity. l can't say that it is bad. have
heard John tell lies about hunting. ] would
believe him under oath.
CROSS EXAMINATION.
These ration ckecks bad no date. Don't
know q thing Livingston did In Juoe and
July. Don't knO1o as he issued check In the
last five years. was there 10 the summer
of 1877.
D!da't you go there 10 get q loan OF
money from DR.. Livingston! Collected to
and objection sustsined.) Don't know
where Haines lives. Been to the Wessing
ton Hills . good many times. The exteD,
Of the reservation Is defined 10 the treaty
l judge by that.
Q-You say you never heard but one per
son speak bad Of John FURY. How many
did you ever hear speak good Of him? Al
have q recollection Of only one person
speak Of his reputation.
Q-Captain, you haven't go. any yer,
good feelings toward DR.. Livingston, hav,
you? Al have no unfriendIy feelings 70
ward him.
I WIS directed BY the deparsnsat 70 TAX
up add redeem all The rsiioa checks By Civ
Ing face valus IN sssious.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-14
Work ana worry.

"Studying too hard,' ssover-worked," are
charged with many deaths, but not wisely.
Trouble kills. 1t is a very rare. thing for a
man to think himself to death, unless con-
nected with something more or less Distress
ing. Study is a bliss to the student-he had
rather study than eat; the sound of the dinner
bell is always unWelcome. The greatest
students in moral philosophy, and divinity,
and physics (not physic), have lived long, and
worked efficiently to fourscore and beyond.
Thought is to the brain what exercise is to
the physical constitutions; it keeps the channels
of life clear, the blood-vessels ~unobstructed,
and the vital fluid courses along them, dis
tributing newness of life and vigor of action
to the latest hour of existence, while the want
OF Thought brings stagDation to the circula-
ton, and causes man to drivel and sleep in
old age-dead as to everything except to eat
ing, and doing, and lowering over a fire.
Men may study ever so hard, and after so may
study with comfort and advantave for 5 10
and Is hours, day after day and, if the
studies are pleasurable, they promote ''e
general well-being of the system, boz.
physical and mental, if only abundant sleep
is had, with a regular supply of simple and
nourishing food, sitting down to meals in
pleasant moods, and allowing a good half
hour before study is resumed Many of our
literary men die prematurely, not from over
study, but from depressing mental states and
irregular or excessive eating or drinking.
1t is haste, rather than steady, continuous
labor of body or mind, which hurries multi
tudes to their graves scores of years before
their time. With all haste there isimpatience,
solitude, worry. The fastest trains, the
~f1eetest steamers, the first ~trotters, everywhere
command premiums. To save time, ''night
boats are patronized, breakfast is bolted, the
morning paper read on the cars. and every
thing is done under high pressure. But, just
as certainly as a bank balance, rapidly drawn
upon, melts ava before it was expected, so
does this reserve of vital stamina disappear
is used up and the man dies in his prime,
at the very moment, often, when he had just
got into a position where he could afford to
enjoy himself.-HdU;s Journal of Health.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-14
Interesting Facts About the Blind.

The organ of vision is considered the most
delicate organization of the human frame;
yet many who have been born blind have
been enabled to see by surgical operations,
and the following is an interesting fact con-
corning one of that class: A youth had be-
come thilteen years of age when his eyes
scarlet the most beautiful color; black was
him, and he could not distinguish by sight
what he perfectly knew by feeling; for in
stance, the cat and the dog. When his second
eye was touched, he remarked that the objects
were not so large in appearance to this as to
the one opened at first. Pictures he consid-
cred only partly covered surfaces, and a min
ature absolutely astonlshed him, seeming to
him like putting a bushel into a pint. Stanly,
the organist, and many blind musicians have
been the best performers of their time aud
a schoolmistress in England could discover
that the boys were PLAYING in a distant corner
of the room instead of studying, although .
person using his eyes could not detect the
slightest sound. Professor Sanderson, who
was blind, could, in a few minutes, tell how
many persons were in a mixed company, and
Of each sex. A blind French lady could dance
in figure dances. sew and thread her own
needle. A blind man in Derbyshire, Eng
land, has actually been a surveyor and plan
ner of roads, his ear guiding him as to distance
as acurately as The eye to others and the late
Justice Fielding, who was blind, OH walking
into a room for the first time, after speaking
a few words, said "This room is twenty-five
feet long, eighteen wide, and twelve high
all of which was true.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-14
AUTUMN.

What visionary tints the year puts, ON,
When falling leaves falter through Inotionless
And numbly cling and shiver to be gone!
How simmer the low flats and pastures bare,
As with hdn he 6etw eeear me- Me eed h tbose distant naas hills.
And smiles and shakes abroad her misty,
tremulous hair.
Far distant sounds the hidden chickadee
Close at my side far distant sound the leaves;
The fields seem fields of dream, where Memory
Wanders like cleaning Ruth; and as the
or wheat and barley wavered in the eye
OF Boaz as the maiden's glow went by,
SO tremble and seem remote all thir gs the
sense receives.
The sobered robin. hunger-silent now,
Seeks cedar-berries blue, his Autumn cheer;
The squirrel, on the shingl'y shagbark's bough,
Now saws, now lists with downward eye and
Then drops his nut, and, with a chipping bound
Whisks to his winding fastness underground;
The clouds, like swans, drift down the stream
ing atmosphere.
The red oak, softer grained, yields all for lost,
And, with his crumpled foliage stiff and dry,
After the first betrayal of the frost,
Rebufis the kiss of the relenting sky;
The chestnuts, lavish of their long hid gold,
To the faint Summer, beggard now and DID,.
Pour back the sunshine boarded meath her
fayoring eye.
Ger yon bare knoll the pointed cedar shadows
browse on the crisp, gray moss; the plough
MANS call
Creeps faint as smoke from black, fresh-fur.
roWed meadows;
The single crow a single cav lets fall;
And all around me every bush and tree
Says. AutLmn's here, and Winter soon will be,
Who SHOWS his soft, white sleep and silence
over all.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-14
Electric Light Telegraph.

Mr.. F. Peppard, of Basking Ridge, U. s. A.,
while using a small vibrating electric light,
conceived the idea of making and breaking
the circuit by means Of a finger-key or COM
mutator, and of employing this intermittent
light for fash-signaling. When the current is
on, if the key be touched, at each depression
it makes a corresponding flash in the light,
which can be seen and read miles away-in
fact as far as the light can be seen; in this
way each letter of the alphabet can be flashed
out, the flashes taking the place of the dots
and dashes in the Morse system. For govern
ment or private use, a secret system could be
used which could be read only by those hold
ing the key TO it. The advantage to the Ad-
mirality of giving secret orders to officers who
may be miles away. and which can only be
understood by them, would be invaluable for
war-vessels, forts, etc. The garrison of a fort
could attach a light to a very small balloon,
and send it up a few hundred feet, and fash
out lis dispatches, which could be seen and
read as far as the light could be seen. The
light used is of a vibrating kind, with an
armature that will give instantaneous flashes,
and the cost of an apparatus sufficient to pro-
duce a light which may be- seen for many
miles does not exceed 500.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-14

The Grand Lodge L. q. q. T. of Montana
convened in this city yesterday. The follow
ing officers and members were present:
q. w. &. T., Z. E. Collins of Diamond City.
g. Counsellor, Matt w. Anderson, of Boze-
man.
G. w V. T., Mrs. Kate Chapman, of Butte.
G. W. S., Massena Bullard, of Heleua.
G. Marshal, Roman T.. Kuhn, of Park City.
G.. Chaplain, P. b. Mills, of Boulder.
G. w. 1. G., Horace Welch, of Butte.
G. W. o.. g., James W.. Kempef, of Butte.
Representatives and past oficers-Mrs. r.
E. Collins and John Y. Phillips, of Diamond
City Mrs. Jennie Wilmer, O.. C. Bundy,
Walter Corwin, Miss Nettie Kirkendall, of
Helena; George A. Douglas and Alexander
j. Elder, of Boulder; George Comfort, of
Sheridan; Daniel Berry, of New Chicago;
Richard McNeal, Of Park City; John w.
Chapman, of Butte. a
The reports of the officers contain many
items of great interest, and the session yes
terday was devoted to the consideration OF
these reports.
A special meeting for the reception of the
Grand Lodge was held last evening by Hell
ena Lodge No. 2. An excellent lunch was
spread, many interesting speeches made, and
the meeting greatly enjoyed.-Herald.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-14
THOUGHTS.

He that never changed any of his opinions,
never corrected any Of his mistakes.
A weak mind is like a microscope which
magnifes -triding things but cannot receive
great things.-CAesterield.
The pleasure of doing good is the only
pleasure that never wears out.
The error of a moment becomes the sorrow
OF a whole life.
Ifyou wish to lead the life of a man and
not OF a fungus, be social, be sympathetic, be
brotherly, be charitable, and always speak q
kind word when you can.
John Bright has said 81 never undertook
TO do anything for my race but that the demon
drink rose up to prevent me !"
Ceremonies are different in every country
but true politeness is everywhere the same
Goldsmith.
'Neyer deceive your children says Prof.
Swing. No, don't do it. Many a child has
been ruined for life by a pill hidden under a
spoonful OF preserves.
The whole duty Of a man is embraced in
two principles of abstinence and patience ;
temperance in prosperity, and courage in ad-
versity,-Seteca.
A mans action is only a picture book of
his creed. He does, after all, what he be-
lieves.-Emerson.
Every man should reap from his occupation
as much as he can, and men in congenial
occupations have little need to seek beyord
them for amusement.
Mountains never shake hands. Their root
may touch, they may keep together some way
up, but at length they part company and rise
into individual. isolated peaks. So it is with
great men.
A resident in the County of Clare, Ireland,
writes 70 the London Times that people who
know The country we'll consider that there are
two Irelands--the Ireland they read about in
the English papers, generally represented by
q class who do not own property, and whose
intelligence is warped by these extremely
one-sided views, and the Ireland in which
they live, where every day they meet
adectionate people who are mosi grateful for
their acts of kindness, and whose manners
vie with those Of any nation on earth.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-14

BonapaLte lost four aides-de-camp during
the short time he was in Egypt. One of them,
Crosier, appearing to Napoleon to lack the
proper degree of boldness at the proper mo-
ment, he burst out against him in one of his
violent and humiliating attacks of abuse and
contempt. The word coward escaped him /;
CrOsier determined not to survive it; he
sought death on several occasions, but did not
succeed till the siege of Acre. He was in at
tendance on Napoleon in the trenches there,
when such a sharp lookout was kept by the
garrison that if an elbow Or feather showed
itself above or beside them, it was iInmedi-
ately grazed by a bullet. Crosier watched
his opportunity and jumped upon the plat
form. "COme down, l command you'll" cried
Napoleon, in a voice of thunder; but it was
too late the victim of his severity fell at his
feet. Murat, the ch%ivalrous, drawer of all
danger, had also his moment of fear, which
lost him the countepance of his General until
displeasure could no longer resist the bril-
liancy of his achievements. 1t was at the
siege of Mantua, in the first Italian campaign,
that Murat was ordered to charge a body of
roops that were making a sortie from the gar
risol. He hesitated, and in his confusion de-
clared himself wounded he was removed
from the presence of the General and in ev-
cry way discountenanced. In Egypt he was
sent out on the most distant and dangerous
services; in short he more than reconquered
his character before the battle of Aboukir, on
which occasion Napoleon himself was obliged
to declare he was superb. The. brave Mar
shall Lannes one day severely reprimanded a
Colonel who had punished a young officer for
a moment of fear. sThat man. said he ;. is
worse than a poltroon who pretends he never
Knows fear"
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-14


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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-14

A special reporter Of the Chicago Times,
who was sent to Yazoo City to ascertain the
facts in regard to the killing of Dixon, has
given a long and apparently conscientious
account of the murdered mans history. 1t
appears from this that Dixon, who was born
in Virginia in 1S47, and who ran away to join
the Confederate army, arrived in Yazoo early
in 1866 as a professional gambler, and pres
emily opened a ~gambling-house, which he
gave up only a short time before he ran as
Independent candidate for sheriff, and on the
stairs of which he was lately assassinated.
In 1872 and 1873 he openly shot down u
negro to whom he owed money. In the
political campaign of 1875 he became the
head of a body of regulators called "Dixon's
Scouts" among whom was Barksdale, and
who passed their time in breaking up Repub-
lican meetings, terrorizing the colored popu-
lation, and hanging such of them as were
charged with crime or were otherwise obnOX-
ious. One of these victims had 81, 600 on his
person, which he begged the Scouts to send
to his mother in Ohio. Dixon demanded
this money of the man to whom it was en-
trusted, and pretended That he paid it into
the Democratic campaign fund, to be used
'to stuff the ballot-boXes, if necessary )" but
the Democratic Committee denied having
received it, and the probability is that Dixon
appropriated it for his own advantage. In
January, 1876, on the eve of the Democratic
return to power through the efforts of the
regulators, the county treasurer's safe was
robbed of $4,000, an act of which the out
going treasurer could not be accused, for he
had handed over his accounts, but which was
publicly fastened upon Dixon by a fellow
gambler named Harrison. This led to fire.
quent encounters between the two men, until
Dixon had killed his accuser. He was tried,
but was acquitted and escorted home with a
brass band. Barksdale at this time was
depu;y-sheriff, and during the Imprisonment
an enmity arose between them which culmin-
ated in Dixon's death. Barksdale is said to
have shot him not because he was trying as a
negro candidate to divide his party, but be.
cause he had made the grossest and flthiest
attacks on the character of his mother and
sister. 1t appears, however, that Dixon wa
getting to be regarded as too dangerous a mar
to be tolerated any longer, and that there wa
some concert in his taking of. In spite of his
many atrocities the negroes eagerly followed
him as a political leader, and it is plain that
the power of such a man in the community,
with such a constituency, was as much to be
dreaded as if he had been a Northern carpet
bagger.-N. Y. Nation, (Republican).
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-10-14
NOTES.

James Gordon Bennett is going to India
for a years relaxation from catching and polo.
There are over fifty patent cow-milkers in
existence and udder patents applied for.
Grants home at Galena has been undergo
| ing through repairs in view OF the owners
speedy occupancy thereof.
One hundred and ninety applicants for
admission to Yale passed the June
items. Thirty were rejected.
The eight years idle rolling mills at Spuy-
| ten Duyvile, N. Y, are starting up with an
order for 10000 tons of railroad iron.
A new volume by Gail Hamilton, with the
| title sour Common School SYSTEM" is in
preparation at Estes 4 Lauriat's, Boston.
The enthusiasm of the New York Tribune
| in respect to the Maine campaign is said to
have been enhanced by the fact that Blaine
contracted with the publishers to send ~
600 newspapers a week into Maine.
The Chicago daily papers of Saturday and
| Sunday, had over five hundred advertise
ments from parties wanting to engage help of
various kinds, and less than one bundled and
! fifty in the same issues from persons seeking
employment.
The leading New York gambling houses
are connected by telephone, n when the
police come to one place all the rest are
notified. This saves the police from pre-
| viously giving notice themselves, which they
! have had the credit of doing.
The Interior is curious to know how the
| money raised for Methodist mission is eX-
! pended. 1t tells a pittiful story about a poor
missionary getting $500 a year while the
| secretaries roll in the fat of the land on a
yearly stipened of 5000. "
Really now, President Hayes, you are doing
no harm peregrinatlng among the State and
| County fairs of the West, but competition
| with pigs and pumpkins for public attention,
| is scarcely a dignifed business for the President
of the United States.-Chicago Herald.
In thirty-two counties in Missouri 10,O52
| sheep have been killed by dogs. A farmer
| estimates that there are 1862, 900 dogs in these
| counties that it takes as much to feed a dog
| as it would to keep a hog that would weigh
| 200 pounds at the end of a year: and that it
the food fed to dogs was fed to swine the re-
suit would be o., 100000 pounds Of pork, worth
S4,550, 900.
The general improvement in business IS
| strikingly illustrated by the experience of an
agent of the Albany and Rensselaer, Iron and
| Steel Company, who has been on a prolonged
tour in search of r%olling-mill hands. He
found no idle iron-workers in this State,
could engage but a small number in Boston,
and secured only four men by a visit to
Portland, Observation-Disclosures Times.
A sad instance of inherited love for strong
drink was given at New York a few days ago,
when a title girl, only five years old, was
taken to a hospital by the police so mtoxi-
Gated as to be quite helpless. Her parents
are both drinkers and went away, leaving her
alone in the house with a pint bottle full OF
whisky. During their absence the child
apparently without any of that aversion for
liquor which children usually show-drank
the entire contents of the bottle.