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The daily gazette., 1879-08-13

tunes of his family. Sometimes he will
60 to what people call sextremes" IN his
endeavor to do something to satisfy his
mind In this direction. During . great
food In Rhode Island several years ago,
In which number Of dams were swept
away at the Sprague mills at the village
of Baltic, Governor Sprague Joined bis
gang Of laborers with . shovel and did
his hest to repair the damage.
William Sprague's prominence was at
Its height during the war. As the War
Governor he was most active. In raising
and equipping troops for the service. He
too, served in the army awhile As q colo
mel. 1t was after the war that his politi-
cal experience began. The Spragues had
long been . power in the politics OF
Rhode Island. William was most active
in this direction. Amasa is more con-
servative, and though probably not less
influential in politics cares nothing for
its honors. Alter the close of the war
William was elected the United States
Senate. In Washington his dash and
wealth at once made him q favorite In
society. Managing mammas were never
exercised over anything more than they
were by the advent of this very desirable
young man. Miss Kate Chase was then q
reigning belle in Washington society,
and the facts Of her marriage to Senator
Sprague subsequently are too well
known to need repetition.
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immense Fees or Lawyers.

William II. Vanderbilt is reported 10
have paid George +. Comstock Of Syra-
cuse $50, 900 for his services in the Van
derbilt will contest, 'but'he demurs at
Henry L. Clinton's little bill for $780,
900. Mr.. Clinton evidently never ex-
poets to have another SO good a chance
to collect big fee, and he means to
make the most of IL. But a quarter of a
million dollars is a good deal of money
for conducting one case, and 1t Is not
strange that Mr.. Vanderbilt's estate of
Mr.. Clinton's legal abilities should not
be equal to drawing check for larger
fee than one lawyer in million realizes
by a lifetime Of. hard work. There
have been several single fees of from
$4,000 to $10O,0O0 paid in This country
during the last few years, though they
have not been numerous at all Clark.
son N. Potter received 100000 few
years ago in railroad case, and Charlie:
O'Conor had $4,000 in the Jumel will
case and 100000 in the Parrish viii
case. Scott Lord bad 500, 900 for fight
| ing Mr.. Clinton in the Vanderbilt
| case.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13
SHERIFF'S S4LES

SALE,
- BY vilus OF y writ VI Levari Facias, y
me directed. will be exposed 70 Pubito
Sale at the
LAFAYETTE HOTEL, sti snipley g.,
Kept by John J. Dougheriy, IN the city Of
Wilmington, New Castle County. Della
WEDNESDAY,
The 9th Day Of August, A. d., 1879,
at 2 O'Clock p. M,
The following described Real Estate, viz:
All that certain LIT or piece of land stu
ate In the city or Wilmington aforesaid,
having two story brick dwelling thereon
erected, bounded and described a. FOL ows,
70 wit Beginning A. the northerly side OF
Front street At the distance OF two hundred
and nine feet westerly from the westerly
side OF Van Buren street. thence nortberi y
parallel TO van Buren, street sixty feet 10
the southerlv side OF q three and hall
feet wide alley, thence ther, by westerly
parallel IN Front street sixteen feet TO q
stake. thence southsrly parallel 70 Harri-
son street sixty ieeL 10 the side OF Front
street sfOresaid and thenc ce thereby easter
~ 10 feet to the place OF beginning, De the
contents thereof what II may.
Seized and taken In execution a. the
property of Eliza Harris and Mary Horril
and Robert n. Randall. {. rs, and 10 bt
sold by JOHN PYLE, Sheriff.
sheriTs once, New Castle, August 7
1879. aug9-3tawts.
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Cost OF Raising English Wheat.

A writer in the London Times, in an
intelligent discussion of the causes of the
agricultural distress in England, comes
TO the almost desparing conclusion that
there Is no remedy fol IL that can be seen.
"The British farmer" he says, "has fall
Ell on evil times. Gradually he IS being
thrust out of his profession. His capita
dimin'shes annually and bankruptcy
stares him in the face. Unfortunately
so far as he Is concerned, there Is no
chance of improvement. Foreign ma
lions can undersell him in everything he
produces, and he is obliged TO sell at a
price that not only lessons his own mar
amount of loss." In explana ion OF this,
| he states that the average cost OF produc
| ing wheat in + gland is Ats Cd to ASS,
per quarter of eight bushels, and in Scot
md about the sa,ke. The cost of butch
el' meat, so far as the fai mer is concern
ed, is a to u pence per pound. But the
cost Of raising wheat in America Is only
twenty shi,lings per quarter, and of butch
-r's meat 2 to "a pence per pound. Ii
costs only about ten shillings per quarter
to transport American wheat from the
interior of the United States to Liver
pool, making the total cost of such wheat
delivered in Liverpool, 80 shillings pei
quarter. Add five shiliines for profit
and the price at which it can be sold Il
30 shillines per quarter-or IL shilling
less than the net cost of production il
England. The case of dead meat is sim
liar. The net cost of such meat in Amer
ica is 2 to "a peuce per pound, and tn
cost OF taking it to Liverpool, whethe
, on the hoof or in slaughtered condition
, is as much more, making the net cost a
Liverpool five pence per pound, Will
!, the net cost of English raised meat is nc
e less than u pence per pound. So tia
y in raising the two great staples Of foot
e bread and meal, the British farmer Ii
+ bors under constant disadvantage whic
y no amount of economy and no degree Q
n carefulness in farming can overcome
IS sit is apparent" says the writer, "thi
5. competition is impossible, and as Amer
20 ca has all but an unlimited supply
a, wheat, the English farmer will have
E. retire from the contest. Continuance
j. this rivalry means ruin to the Englsl
ct man-ruin short, sharp and decisiv
ID No fortune whatever will enable q ina
Or to face a competition of this kind. III
Ks farmers are, accordingly, retreating fro
their farms, and those who are slayil
TO are faring badly, and tryin. to dra
IN from the earth every available penny
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NOTnCEs,

"A 0TlCE TO DELlNAUENTs OF
Al i vdIx vdIxx Z AkP ys,1 stAooL "a xEs FOK
Ax0ur Attention Il called 10 tue following
extract from abection 10 Of an act OF lie
General Assembly, pcs d II Dover. M arch
y, it7; ''On the hret Saturday OF Sep
iember In each year the Assessors and
Collectors shall advertise in Two of the
daily newspapers OF the city OF Whining
ton fun list OF the persons, whose taxes
as aferesaid, for the pi eoeding yer are At
that date unpaid together with brief de
scrtptfon Of the real estate In xed and shall
within Two weeks thereafter make and de-
liver The certificates REQUIRE bv this sec
tion TO the Solicitor for said city, foi ali
such taxes sest ed on real estate a. afore-
said, which shall not then have been
We the undersigned Assessors and Col
iectors OF this city. are In duty bound TO
carry out the provisions Of the above Ct,
and shall proce. d 10 do 80
EDM UND PROVOST,
Receiver OF Northern District,
(Including all North OF Sixth ST.,
WILLIAM KvNE,
Receiver OF southern District,
(Inc uding All South OF Sixth Rt.)
once No. u Il. Sixth street, between
Market and King. Hours, y q. m. TO II
M. = 70 b and 70 p. m. Rug5-tf.
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Professor George Linck, who Is mixed
up in the Sprague-Conkling trouble,
prints long statement in the Provi-
dence Journal of yesterday. He says
that Governor Sprague gave him an in
sultiDg glance when they first met some
weeks ago, and that afterwards he i'm
proved every opportunity to repeat the
insult. About the middle Of July Sprague
chased him away from the house, and on
the 9th of that month entered . saloon
where he was slipping beer and tried to
shoot him with musket. As he never
did an, thing in the world to offend
Governor Sprague, or any member ol
Governor Sprague's family, he Is forced
to conclude that Governor Spraguo ii
| crazy.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13

WHY THE CoLoRED MEN WILL NOT
VoTE.-It is admitted that the colored
men were enfranchized in Delaware to
put Republican partisans in office, and
the colored people have found this out,
and quit paying tax and consequently
quit voting also. At least the colored
Republicans not being put on any of the
tickets for office assign as a reason fol
not paying their taxes that the Republi.
can party will not give them a share Of
the offices, and it seems a plausible ex.
cuse for their want of sufficient patriot
ism to help bear the burden of State ant
city government.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13

As the GAZETTE Is 90 profuse In its
apologies for its friends down In Mtssis-
sippi and calls the recent attempt to
assassinate Mr.. Dixon because be choose
TO run on an Independent Democratic
ticket, only q great row. We would like
TO know ifit favors assassinating anybody
Democrat or Republican, who would
aspire to an Office on ticket other than
the regular Democratic ticket.-Repub-
Hcan.
Why no! The GAZETTE IL in favor
OF the largest liberty. If the Yaxoo
county, Mississippi, Democrats arc such
great fools As to go to fighting about the
election they deserve all the censure the
Republican has been heaping upon them,
aud hence the GAZETTE has not inter
fered, There was no use In our using
our lash when our neighbor was saving
US the trouble. The Yazoo Democrats
will wake up before long and find that
they have ruined all their party chances
for success and disgusted many Of their
own party as well - their negro allies.
1t turns out, however, that nobody
was killed in Yazoo, and that they are
all quiet there now and heartily ashAm-
ed Of giving the Republicans an oppor-
tunity to tell SO many awful stories
about them. But the people Of Will
mlngton want little to do with Yazoo'
They don't want to be diverted from an
earnest effort to have their taxes reduced,
and will take no ''hearsay" evidence that
this cannot be accomplished by voting
for the Democrats when they have the
better evidence in the fac. that the
Democrats have already reduced taxa
ton about 4 per cent, and in another
year may, perhaps, reduce it other 4
per cent. Who knows?
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IT Is the purest nonsense to suppose
for moment that the police Of this city
could prevent, or are in any way re-
eponsible for the several House rob-
berries that have been committed during
the summer. II the police force had
been treble what 1t was these robberies
of vacant houses would not have been
prevented. The thieves may be traced
out perhaps and brought to punishment /;
and no doubt this will be done as soon
a. time will permit.
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SENATOR CoNKLING will find it very
difficult to explain away his conduct.
Every honest man of family will at
once ask why Mr.. Conkling did not give
attention to his own wife. Had he
taken Mrs. C. with him to Ex-Governor
Sprague's mansion the latter would
probably not have been so easily offended.
Few people will commend such gallantry
in the Senator, as he exhibited in fol-
lowing the weak and eccentric lady of the
Ex-Governor to her husbands home will
his baggage. 1t was brazen act of effron-
terry quite sufficient to make Spragut
shear the turkey cock of his much culti-
waited locks if he posses sed the power
and the pluck.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13
WEpyUDAY, AUGUST Is, ls7s.

The Republican now says 1t has mo
objections to the Democrats reducing the
civ expenses but they have commenced
the wrong way to do it." Very well, then'
We will admit that you have no objec-
tions. to the reduction that the Demo-
Gratis have made (; but you still Keep
complaining so much about it that one
/, forced to the conclusion that you do
not like it. If you would say at once
that the reduction in taxation is not
enough we might agree with you; but
this continued argument against re-
duction of the tax rate Is vexing to us
and the Democrats who are favorging an
effort to make the tax still lighter. As
a rule people never like to trust those to
perfect a job who say it is an impossi-
bility and cannot be done. The Demo-
Gratis have reduced the taxes and believe
they can do better next year. 1t Is
therefore useless to attempt to discour-
age them by objecting to the way they
take to do it. The fact that they have
accomplished reduction IN one year In
the face of the other fact that the Repub-
licans were fifteen years in Council and
steadily increased expenses ought to be
sufficient evidence to every candid tax
payer and house-owner as to where his
interest laid. Everybody knows that
lax opera'e both ways. enormously
diminishes the worth of property while
it also drains the owner Of part Of the
earnings of his property annually. Re
duce this tax and it operates tremend
ously toward increasing property values
it is the most effective lever that car
be applied, all things properly consider
ed; and reduction of five per cent. OF
the tax rate Of property will operate t.
increase property fifteen per cent. Thi
is a matter which deeply interests thu
city taxpayers, and they should vot'
with their interest. In fact the electiv,
franchise is held by the people in orde
that they may secure 10 themselve
good, cheap government. But some
low or other since the rebellion the Re
publican press have inculcated and il
Luced belief that right ofvoting is onl
TO give Republicans high salaried offict
and keep them in Office.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13
The Disease-Inylting Conditlon ol
Memphis.


WAsHINaroN, Aug. 12.-Captain
John Cowden, Of Memphis, for many
years Unidentified more or less with the
improvement of the Mississippi, has just
arrived here, and says that the sanitary
condition Of Memphis is worse than any
one can form an idea Of; that he Is not
so much surprised that people die of yel-
low fever, as that they can live there at
all that although the city is SO situa' ed
as to afford the finest natural advantages
for drainage, yet the authorities have
paid do attention to this important mat
ter whatever. He says that the entire
city is scanned with dry wells, privies,
and sinks, and the spaces between these
are occupied by cisterns and wells from
which the supply OF v ater for the inhab-
itants is drawn; that from this state Of
affairs the public can form some idea Of
the prevailing causes that exist there to
create epidemics and diseases Of all kinds.
He states further that since such large
numbers Of the colored people have come
into the city the fever appears to have as
sumed more Of the type of plague, and
completely battles the skill Of the physi-
clans that SO far are the whites concern
ed, the city Is nearly depopulated, that,
all told there are not now 5000 people
left IN Memphis, and .even-eights Of
these are colored. He further adds
that this last attack of yellow fever
has been such blow to the business in
terests Of Memphis that it is doubtful
that the city will ever recover from it.
Most of the principal merchants have
abandoned the place and located per-
manently in st. Louis, Cincinnati, and
other healthy cities, that nothing will
bring back the city to its former prosper
ity but new race Of people, Of a class
that will 80 modernize it as to make i
an acceptable place to dwell in
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13
The White Wing sunk.

Saturday party of young men Start
ed down the river in the yacht White
Wing, and when near Port Penn they
ran the boat against something and
stove hole in it. She took in water
badly, and the men who had her run
her ashore and deserted her. She partly
sunk. Commodore Klotz, OF Chester,
went down Monday morning and sue
ceeded in pumping her out and having
her towed to Chester.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13
POLITICAL.
From the Ledger N. Y. Letter.

From the Ledger N. Y. Letter.
OF course, the denomination of Rob.
inson will place Mr.. Kelly and his friends
in an awkward dilemma but then it
would be no worse a dilemma than that
In which they found themselves at st.
Louis, whittier they went pro otesting
that they would never support Samuel
J. Tiden for President-"No, never"
but when the nomination was made
they were the first to move that it be
made unanimous. This little reminis-
cence is worth recalling at this time, in
order that the outof-town reader, un~
familiar with the ways of the Tammany
folks, mag not attach an undue impor-
ings.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13
THE TWO SPRAGUE BROTHERS
AND THEIR WEALTH..

Before their financial embarrassment,
Rhode Island fairly groaned with the
weight of the Spragues' property. They
owned whole villages ard towns, whose
sole subsistence depended upon the pros
perity of their factories. In their pAlmy
days they employed upwards Of ten
thousand hands, to say nothing of agents
and others outside regular operatives.
Among the towns they may be said to
have practically owned were Crauston,
Arctic, Natick, Baltic, Quidnick. Be-
sides, they had large factories In Provi-
dence and Olneyville. T hey owned street
railways and lumber mills they owned
Sound steamship lines; they owned or
controlled three or four savings banks
and as many more national banks.
The failure of the Spragues is said to
have been due to the Duncan, Sherman
& Co., crash in New York. 1t is believ-
ed they will yet come out all right.
They own millions of dollars worth of
property In Rhode Island still and their
factories are all in operation, under.th
management of trustee. This is Mr..
Zachariah Chaffey. At the time of the
failure of the brothers they put their
property all into Mr.. Chaffey's hands.
Their assests ran up to about $1,000.
OOO, while their liabilities were some
thing over 100000. Notwithstandlne
, the shrinkage in values the prospect
according to competent judges, is thai
the debts will be paid dollar for dollar
and with large property still in their pos
session. Patience on the part Of thei
creditors is the main thing. II the lat
7 ter do not press them it is believed thei
: business will in time regain its old foot
ing. Both brothers have applied them
selves actively of late years toward help
: ing the trustee in his management o
l their affairs.
8 EX-GOVERNOR sPRAGUK.
William Sprague is q man of sligh
l build, dark complexion, black moustach
and wears glasses. A somewhat pecul
lar trait has developed itself in HIM sine
the failure. He has the notion that i
devolves on him to rai,e the fallen for
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13

HERIFF'6 SALE.
= BY virtue of u writ of Levari Facias
% me directed, will os exposed to Public
sale at the
LAFAYETTE HOTEL, Sal shipley ST.,
Kept by John ]. Dougherty, In the city OF
Wilmington, New Castle County, Della
ware, on
WEDNESDAY,
The 9th Day of Ausust, A. D., 1870,
at2 O'Clock P. M,
The following described hsaI Estate viz
All thai certain lot or piece OF land stu
ate In the city OF Wilmington and bound
d and described as follows, that Is 10 say {:
beginning for the same on the northetly
ide OF Eighth street, al the distance o.
20 feet inches from the corner formed
~ the intersec ion OF the northerly side OF
Eighth street with the cas- erly side OF Wal
tut street, thence nOrtherly passing
end wall dividing this from Thos. Aliens
orit k m essuage, and by his land feet to
II alley feet Wide, thence along the
sOutherly side of said alley IA feet to a
corner stake. thence southerly parallel
with Walnut street by land OF George T..
Ward passing through the middle OI the
inch gable end wall dividing this from
SAID George C. Wards messuage eight,
feet to the said northerly side OF Eighth
street. thence westerly along taid aide OF
said street IA feet 10 the place OF beginning
Seized ana taken IN execution as the
property of Anna M. Smith, surviving
morIgagor OF Richard smith and Anus
NJ. his wife. and Henry Finney, /. t., and
TO be sc Id by JOHN PYLE, Sheriff.
Sheriffs office, New Castle, August q
1878. aug9- 3tAWA.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13

The FLOOD of negroes let loose upon
Kansas by the ignorant political rascals
who sought to injure the South are now
competing with all honest laborers in
Kansas and working them out Of living
prices.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13

G HERIFF'B SALE
- by virtue oil u writ OF Levari Facias,
TO me diret ted. will. be exposed 70 Public
Sale at the
LAFAYETTE HOTEL, Sal Bhipley st.,
kept by John J. Dougherty, IN the city of
Wilmington, New Castle County, Della
WEDNESDAY,
The 9th Day of August, A. D., 1870,
at 2 O'Clock p. m,
The following de- sribed Real Estate, viz :
All that certain lot OF land aud wo story
brick dwelling thereon, situated In the city
of Wilmington, led and described as
follows, TO wit (; Beginning at the noriher-
~ side OF Seventh street between Monroe
and Adams streets. at the distance OF l63
'eet from the easterly side OF Adams
street thence nOrtherlv through the centre
OF an alley dividing this from the adjoiD-
Ing dwelling of said Henry Evans on the
west and parallel 10 A dams street 10 feet
seventh street II feet 70 another corner,
thence sOutherly parallel TO tn. first men
Toned line and Adams street through the
centre OF the party wall between this and
the adjoining dwelling Of the said Henry
Evans, OH the east % feet TO the said nOrtn-
eriy side OF seventh street and then ce
thereby W, sterly II feet to the place OF be
ginning, be the contents thei eOf what they
may.
Seized and taken In execution as the pro-
perty OF Levi Taylor Woodrow and Liyxie
his wife, and William H. Pennock and
Margaret, his wife. and I. T.. and TO be sold
by JOHN PYLE, Sheriff.
Sherif's Once, New Castle, August 7
1873. aug9-3tawts.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13

NJ oTICk.-Persons who were drafted In
~ the state of Delaware for the United
States military service In May, June or
July, 1851. and paid com mutation, fees,
we're afterwards again drafted in 1865 ami
we're required TO procure a substitute OF
enuer the military servi g under the latte r
draft ,w,ll md II 10 their ad antage TO com.
Insnlcate, elther personally or by lettei
with The undersigned, who has been au-
thorIzed by the State L. ~ islature to colleci
from The Secretary OF War, the com muta
ton money paid by such persons. TIT
Secretary OF War having been directed by
act Of Congress TO refund the commuIa-
tion paid ON such cases. q, II. B. ID ",
Dover. DEL, July 20. 1870. wtf
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13

EX-GOVERNOR SPRAGUE's shotgun
policy in Rhode Island has undoubtedly
completely swept one promising Presi-
Dental candidate from the field.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13

THE N. Y. Herald to-day says the
body of A. T. Stewart has never been
recovered and that bold demand of a
quarter of a million dollars has been
made for it.
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13

NJ OTiCE,-J. Ii. Primrose mas taAen LAe
IN management OF the old and reliable
sewing machine company--the Wheeler d
wilson. This machjue has been lately
improved, and is an en.irely new M achine,
and IL known as the Improved Wheeler a
Wilson. II In the finest made lock-ssitcf
sewing machine now In use, and has nd
vantages superior 70 any other.
We hope our friends Will give us call
and not buy until they have examined this
new machine.
Our terrltery embraces Delaware and
Chester counties, Pa, and Delaware and
the Eastern Shore OF Maryla
Our ONCE, at present, will be found al
'2S Market street. After tlls 10Th of M arch
next we will be found at eur old stand, tn.
Garrett building, No. 7lS Market street,
1-A9ENTS WANTED.
febk-dtf J. II. PRIMROSD
The daily gazette., 1879-08-13
The Belfast Riot.

LONDON, Aug. 12.-Twenly-two per-
sons injured at the riot at Belfast last
night, growing out Of . Catholic pro.
cessi0n, had their wounds dressed at the
Royal Hospital in that city.