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The daily gazette., 1879-02-24
Ann luseIllents
"a Celebrated Cdse' at the Grand
Opera House.

opera House.
A good sized audience assent bled at
the Grand Opera House, on Saturday
evening, TO witness the presentation of
that most powerful of modern dramas,
"a Celebrated Case" The play was pre-.
sented with a most careful attention to
detail and effect, and the leading charac-
ters were ably sustained, The character
of Jean Rendtd, by Edmund X. Collier,
was presented in that thorough and ar
tistic manner that not only interests but
attracts the warmest sympathy of the au-
dience. rhe ladies of the troupe looked
well, and were splendidly costumed,
while their acting was sati, factory In the
highest degree. The other members of
the company did exceedingly well, and
altogether the performance was of the
most pleasing character, meriting, as it
received, the warmest applause OF the
audience.
MRS. CHAEFRAU TONIGHT.
Tonight, Mrs. Chanfrau, the New Or
leans favorite, whose reputation extends
on both sides of the ocean, will appear
at the Grand Opera House in the power
ful drama, an arie, the Woman OF the
People" Or this play the Toledo Blade
says:
Mrs. Chanfrau, as "Marie," gave a
most touching and truthful portrayal OF
the loving wife and mother, bearing all
things, taupts and vile abuse and priva-
tions from the Il unken husband, until
when at last forced to abandon her Child,
she turns in her despair and misery, upon
the husban who has so wronged her
like "A tigress in her wrath, and with a
most eloquent and grand burst of emo.
uion and scorn, spurns him from her.
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Out of suffering have emerged the
strongest souls, and the most massive
characters are scanned with scars. This
reads nicely, but any one suffering with
rheumatism or neuralgia wonld do much
better ny using keller's Roman Llni.
ment. Price so cents.
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A s'SlaRv p.-.

nyphss peasant "stag' party was given
|saf, ,''Soer as Nae,r Of young gentlemen Of
the rssidan,o rn, Oh ast Thursday evening
hcnp .hce w.a OF Mr.. Isaac Biddle,
III d'yIias, Gas 'he .t., order and was continued
ns,ia, ,a, with with the exception Of in
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Justices l,ases.

On Saturday evening, Mary Reed, was
arraipned before Esquire Ber olette,
charged by Margaret Toadwin, with u.s.
ing abusive and threatening language
toward her. The defendant WAS requir-
cd to pay so cents and costs.
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Indications for To-Day.

u or partly cloudy weather, westerly
Iihrly uinds, slight fali, Jsllotosd by
rising temperature and in the eastern
put.Tn portions rising barometer.
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Public Sale.

The wines, liquors and other effects of
the late trln of Dever x Baxter, whole-
sale liquor dealers, at Fourth and Mar
ket streets, were sold this morning at
executors sale. The prices obtained
were very fair.
The daily gazette., 1879-02-24

The Harvest Home Range when CON.
pared with any otberis far ahead in point
of size and durability. 1t will pay to ex :
anime it at III. f. Pickels's, Nos. and 9
+. Fourth street. fsb9l-tf
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Extra Meetiny.

htral prseellhgs will commence ,,
BIT, and 'cauyterian cop,,an Church, to-morrow
'eSA except Saturday. e'"s 'uring
The daily gazette., 1879-02-24

Edward Belden finished the last half
mile in his two thousand half mile walk
last night in New York.
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ance en- heifers. and 2 bulls, yearlings.
Farming Utensils,-2 hay wagons, near
ly new, farm wagons, horse cart, OK cart,
OK cart beds, one carriage one dearborn,
with pole and shafts, nearly new. sleigh
and bells, one grain fan, corn sheller. one
pion, one Russell reaper, one Tiger horse
rake, peach bed and springs, one hay press
half hushel measure, Harpoon hay fork
and locks, 2 Saraycuse ploughs, two
horse ploushs, . one horse ploughs cul-
tivators, one twin harrow, lot single and
dou ble-trees, forks and shovels, grindsJOne
and iced chest
Harness. sets wagon harness, 4 sets
plough harness. one set dol hle harm. SIS.
made TO order and nearly new, sets sin
gle harness, collars, brides, halters, 4 c.,
lot COW CHAINS, % toi good timothy hay by
the ton, Ten ton of wheat straw, lot rough
hay by the ten, lot of manure, 60 chickens
turkies, IA Chester County and Jersey
red shoats.
milk buckets, cream kettles, butter worF-
er, butter tubs, butter prints, large slraip-
er, one hand churn, one horse charn horse
pow er. Household and Kitchen Furni-
ture and many other articles not here
enumerated.
ed with great care and judgment, and a e
worthy the tention OF persons wanting
good butter cows.
CONDITION NS.-Au sums of 1928 and
less. cash; on all sums over that amount a
credit of Z months will be given by the
purchaser giving q bankable note with ap
proved indorser, interest added or per
''n'' ''- 'A' ''e' ~ T. B. ENGLM.
L. w. Stidham q Son, A Auctioneers, i'll
E. 4th street, Wilmington, Del.
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[RST EDITION.
fEALD & co.
..,uERs & BROKERS.
AND DEALE@ IN

poNDs. LOANS. MORT
kSS;s = COM NJ ERCiAL PAPER.
uoIrsE, WILMINGTON, DBL.
COMMON and General Collec .
Prev, er;,ckets to and drafts on 6reA'
inJ otner parts Of the world.
n lyd
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DUBLlC SALE OF WHARVES

VIII be sold at Public sale, at the City
hall, ON Monoay. March 3rd, at O'Clock
p. M. Lomb bard, Orange and Fourth street
Wharves. Said Wharves 10 be sold to the
highest and best bidder for a term of three
years. Rent paya )le half yearly in au-
vance X. ii. TAYLOR,
Chairman Public Building committee.
feb2i-ts
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Local stocks and Bonds.
Wilmington Markets.

SILNISGToS, Oe.., Feb. "a, no.
bttt1ons at the Brandywine Mi'ls roi
u AID Grain, furnished by w. G
bypacKer \ 10 nrrected Da,'y.
n rMleht Process FlOur IHa I Il
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,.,.c,aI and'Commerctai.

WILMINGTON, Del. Feb. "a, is's
esI STOCK quotations mrhi nnd ny
4 CO.. Clayton ~ honse 'nIav nd''ains
sroCK QUOTATIONS.
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SAIE

The subscriber about to remove from the
State, Will sell at public sale. on the farm
of I. b. Enele, on the road from Port Penn
to Delaware City. one mile from Port
Penn, on
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 9th, 1879.
at ten o clock, a. M, sharp, as Follows.
good work or driving horses,
2 col S, both coming three years O~
old, one pair of good work ~
mules, 90 head of cattle, 48 of A[2
The daily gazette., 1879-02-24

DOR RENT.-A new storehouss at
4 Cherry Hill. Cecil County, Md. well
furnished and large, suitable for general
merchandise Alsoa SIN aIler one at same
place suitable for millinery or dress maxi
Ing. This is thriving town in a rich
manufacturing district. and good field
for business. Apply to,
S. h. MILLER,
feh22-9t. Cherry Hill, Md.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

i and LON bard to Fifth and French Sts.,
q plain gold ring. reward OF i've dollars
will be given by leaving the ring 1t 9th
and ON bard streets.
febn1 CARRIE HAYES.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-10
The Judges Insight.

You will, perhaps, be surprised when tell
you that the ablest lawyer of this or any other
bar, when he is for the first time appointed
judge, has to learn the trade as much as the
mechanics apprentice. OF course, do not
mean by this that he has to learn the law, for
l am supposing him to Ee learned in the law.
But what the apprenticed mechanic learns of
his master is not the science of mechanical
forces, at least not mainly that. What he
does acquire in that apprenticeship is skill in
the use of his tools. This is precisely what
am saying of a new judge. Let me illustrate
this from my own experience, for it is closely
related to training in q lawyer. 1t is in fact,
the same thing. am very sure that it does not
take me half the time now that it did at first
to eliminate from a complex case presented to
me for decision what is irrelevant or inmate
rial, and to ascertain the point of conflict nee
essary to be decided. And this is equally true
whether the contest be one of law or of fact, or
both. BY practice and attention / can listen
to a lawyer, read document offered in evil
dence, pass with him lightly over the formal
parts OF the instrument, and when he comes to
the vital matter, the few words, perhaps,
which alone touch the issue, catch their pre-
else meaning, and if do not get that clearly
stop there until L do. 1t is rare that L need go
over that instrument again. So L have ac-
quired, hardly know how, except by practice
= by training-the faculty of taking an i'm
mense record of 800 or 1000 pages, and turning
at once to the material parts, whether of plead
ing, OF evidence, or whatever it may be, and
in one-third the time it took me when first
went ON the bench, gather the materials for
my judgment, without digesting a mass of use
less chaff. So of briefs of counsel. A Judge
who for the first time has presented to him in
an important case one of those things called by
way of Joke, l suppose, brief of 100 or 200
twenty heads, taken indiscrminately from a
digest, would be appalled, But the practiced
| judge soon gets the ear-mark by which he
recognizes the cases which are in point, and
| those which are not, and gives his earnest at
tention to the forme.-Judge Miller's Address
Before the Iowa Bar
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-10
PROPOSALS.
For Dredging ut the ssGut'' opposite Bath
i'm Back River, Maine.
U. S. ENGINEER OFFICE,

U. S. ENGINEER OFFICE,
Portland, Me-, June z, 1879.
SEALED PROPOSALS. in duplicate, addressed to
- the undersigned, will be received at his office
in Portland, Me-. until / o'clock A. NJ. on Monday
the 23d day of June 1879, at which time and place
they will be opened in the presence of bidders for
about II 900 cubic yards Of dredging.
One copy of this advertisement must be securely
attached to each duplicate proposal, and must be
mentioned therein as comprising part of it.
Blanks for proposals and specifications contain
office of the undersigned, either in 4531a Congress
Street, Portland Maine, or No. 26 PembeTton
Square, Boston, Mass. One copy of the specifca-
tions must be securely attached to each duplicate
proposal, and must be mentioned therein as COM
prising part of it.
Proposals must be accompanied by a bond, with
two suretes in the sum of twenty-five per cent of
the amount of bid, in accordance with the act of
Congress of April TO- 1878, and in the form pre-
scribed. proposal unaccompanied by such bond
will not be considered.
The successful bidder will be required to enter in
to written contract with the United States with
good and approved security in the sum of fifty per
cent of the entire amount of contract, within ten
days after being notified of the acceptance of his
proposal.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed envelopes
and indorsed proposals for Dredging at the Gut
opposite Bath Maine.''
The United States the right to reject any
or all proposals; also to disregard the proposal of
any person known to the Department as a '.failing
bidder or contrdctor;'' or of any other person who
will not faithfully, promptly and satisfactorily per-
form the contract GEO. THOM,
Lieut.. Col of Engineers,
je7d1w Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. A.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-10
An Old Tragedy.
Recalled by the Pocasset Murder.
[Seaford (Del.) Special Correspondence Of Ever

[seaford (Del.) Special Correspondence Of Every
EVENING"
An old man nearly seventy years of age, oc-
casionally shufies nervously into this, one of
the most beautiful places in Sussex county,
from his home between here and Concord on
the line of the Wilmington and Delaware rail-
road. A few days ago, while here, he was
listening to an account of the Pocasset tragedy
which was being read to q group of men in
Squire Aliens office. The story seemed to
fascinate him, although he did not wait for
the end of it, but went away apparently over
come with emotion. This was no wonder, for,
as afterward heard, he had been the princi-
pal actor in tragedy as horrible as the crime
of the New England Adventist. Giles Hitch
ems was tried twenty-five years ago in the
Georgetown court for the murder of his own
child, and the circumstances of the case have
almost faded away from the memory even of
old people. L heard the story the other day
from an old man who assisted in Kitchens ar
rest. "In February, 1857" said he, "Giles
was farmer, and lived near Concord, at the
same place | think where he now resides. He
was well known in this section, but was al
ways looked upon as queer sort of a fellow
with no very established character. His wife
was an estimable woman, much liked by the
neighbors. One day 1 was in the woods split
ting rails, when a neighbor came to me in
great excitement, and said 1 must go with him
to Giles Kitchens house, for he had murdered
his baby and his wife was almost frantic. Two
or three of us got together, supposing we might
meet with resistance, and when we arrived at
the house we found Kitchens bending over the
bedside where lay his child, boy of about
eighteen months, with his head gashed from ear
to ear, and almost completely severed from the
body The bed was soaked with blood,
which was ooZing from the wound and
there was line of blood from the front
door to the bed. The mother was weeping
historically, but by this time had become
| much exhausted. Kitchens was calm, but
| there was a fierce, burning light in his eyes.
| He seemed to be praying, and made no resis-
tance when we were securing him so as to
| take him to Georgetown He said he loved
| hiss boy, but that the Lord had commanded him
| "Stay thy hand" The night before the horri-
| BILE deed he attended q Methodist pro-
| tracted meeting and confessed conviction.
When he came home late in the
| night he appeared to be under great
excitement. The sermon had been about
! Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. This an
| peared to have made great impression upon
| him, and he slept but little, getting up early
| and going to the woods to pray. His own story
| was that during the night he had heard the
| voice of God which commanded him to kill his
I little son and offer his blood as a sacrifice. In
/ the morning he went to the woods, and was
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-10
The CallouS Reporter.

Perhaps the reason for the Indifference
which the reporter betrays on all occasions is
that he has had somewhat too close a peep into
the seamy side of public life. A new charit-
able institution is started; the papers laud the
philanthopic endeayors OF the promoters; but
the reporter, mayhap, who takes a note of its
first general meeting, finds himself entirely
unable to feel any enthusiasm for the charity
or its objects, knowing too we'll that the real
purpose of the concern was to provide a snug
berth for the Secretary; a well-appointed club,
disguised under the name of 'the committee .
for dozen busy idlers, and the addition of a
j. p. to the name of the self-appointed Chair
man. Were he to trouble himself to think at
all about these matters, it is possible that the
reporter might in time retire from his profess
sion, saddened by too frequent contact with
the fact that "things are not what they SEEM"
But he never does trouble himself in the least;
ald perhaps it is as well for the impartiality of
his reports that he does not.-The University
Magazine.
The Count de Chambord, otherwise Henri V,
is quoted as saying of the late NJ. de Villemes-
SAINT, editor of Figaro: "He is an excellent
man, entirely devoted to my interests, but
don't you think he is little familiar?"
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-10
MISCELLANEOUS.
Centaur
LIN | M EN- S

THE GREAT PAIN RELIEVING and
curative remedies have already worked their
way into every hamlet where the English Ian
guage is spoken. That the reputation OF and
demand for such remedies as these are
should extend and increase, could not be other
wise. THERE is NO PAIN, soreness or
swelling which they will not alleviate. There
are but exceptional cases of constitutional
humors and distorted joints, which they do not
cure, and none they will not benefit They
are SOOTHING, absorbing and emollient
They EXTRACT THE PAIN from and heal
burns and scalds without scars. For RHEU-
MATIC AFFECTIONS, pains in the back,
stiff joints, wounds, strains and eruptions they
act with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY. These
preparations are of two kinds, the FAMILY
and the ANIMAL Liniments. Being univer-
sally adapted to the external ailments of man
and beast, the name of the HALF-HORSE
and HALF-MAN Centaurs was naturally at
tached to them. They perform cures never be-
fore effected by any remedy. Undoubtedly
more of them are sold than of all other lini-
ments, ointments, oils embrocations, plasters
and so-called pain-killers combined.
The WHITE Centaur Liniment cures Rheu-
matism, Sciatica Lumbago and Tic doul-
ourux.
IT RELIEVES Neuralgia and all kinds of
pain.
1T HEALS wounds sores, gals and pois-
onous bites.
IT CURES Itch, Pimples and Salt Rheum.
IT SUBDUES inflammation and pain.
IT CURES broken breasts and sore nipples.
BOILS, FELONS, ETC. are rendered near
ly painless,
CONTRACTED CORDS and stiff joints are
limbered.
MRS. L. KIRBY, 800 Eighth Avenue n. Y; Had
Rheumatism and Erysipelas years Cured;
Total cost; one dollar.
r. F. SToBo, 165 w. 21st., n. Y; mfammatory
Rheumatism; ankle supppurated; foot turned black;
amputation recommended. Cured and leg saved
by two dollars worth of Centaur Lniment. Had
spent several hundred dollars with physicians and
for other remedies
JACOB BYRD, Bellfair, Va, hobbled Oh "A crutch
six years. Maturated sore leg. Cured. Cost; SOC.
Mrs. CATHERINE LYNCH, South Boston, inaam-
matOry rheumatism; hands, feet and Joints
drawn out of shape Cured. Cost: one dollar
R. HANCE 81 years old. West Windsor, Eaton
Co. Mich; Rheumatism 10 years. Cured.
Cost one dollar.
P T. BARNUM. the celebrated Snowman, says:
'y teamsters and veterinaries speak in the highest
terms of the Centaur Liniments
ssThe Yellow Centaur Lniment is the best
remedy ever in our stables. We have used it upon
hundreds of horses' Signed:
H. MARSH, Supt. Adams Express Co. stables, Ny.
E. PULTz, Supt. U. S. Express Co. stables, N Y.
n. S. OLIN, Supt National Exp Co. stables, N Y.
P. McGRATH Esq, the great Kentucky horse and
mule breeder, says: Nothing to be compared with
it (the Yellow LinimenD, has been used on my
stock"
Ten thousand similar testimonials could be added.
There is no doubt no uncertainty as to what
the Centaur Liniments will do They perform more
than is advertised for them every time. They are
reliable, they are cheap, and they are everywhere
obtainable.
The Centaur Co., 46 Dey ST., NY.
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-10
A Republican State Convention
WILL BE HELD IN
NOROMBEGA HALL, BANGOR,

NOROMBEGA HALL, BANGOR,
Thursday, June 26, 1879, at 1 o'cpk A. NJ.
for the purpose of nominating candidte for Gov
ernor, and for transacting whatever business may
properly come before it.
The basis of representation will be one delegate
for each city, town and plantation, and addition
al delegate for every seventyve votes cast for the
Republican candidate for Governor in 1876. A
majority fraction will be entitled to a delegate
The State Committee will be in session the evening
preceding and at o'clock the morning of the Con-
vention, to receive the credentials of delegates
In selecting the Delegates the Republicans are
urged to assemble in full numbers and to invoke the
aid and cooperation of all voters who willing to
unite with them to the following ends:
l. To maintain the power and prestige of the
Union against all attempts to subvert or oppose its
just authority and to insist that the Government of
the United States shall be controlled by loyal men.
2. To discountenance and reprobate the treason
able and revolutionary course of the Democrats in
Congress, who threaten to cripple and destroy the
functions of the Government if constitutionally
vented from enacting their partisan measures into
law.
8. To uphold the right of the United States to
enforce its own laws wherever they to operate,
and to frown down and put down the dangerous
heresy of the States Right secessionists who have
already plunged the country into one bloody war
and who now attempting TO control the Govern
ment of the Union with the same measures that
preceded the rebellion of 1861.
4. To insist upon free elections-not only free
from National military inference, which no de-
sires, but also free from the interference and yio
lence of socalled State militia and the assassns who
with deadly weapons have seized the polls in many
of the Southern States driving innocent and de-
fenceless voters from the ballotbox and making a
mockery of elections, which upon free suffrage
has been made distinct political issue by every
Democrat in the Senate and House voting against a
measure designed to prevent and suppress it.
5. To uphold the financial credit of the Govern
ment and to assure to the people of all sections a
sound currency, equivalent to coin at all times and
in all places, and redeemable in coin. And to this
end to oppose all distractng, repudiating aud mis-
chievous efforts against the peace, welfare and in
dustrial prosperity of the People.
6. In these aims and purposes all citizens of
Maine are invited to unite, that the hands of the
President and of the Republican minority in both
branches of Congress may be strengthened in their
efforts to uphold the honor of the Government and
the just authority of National Law.
By order of the Republican State Committee
GEORGE c. WING, Suh
G. A. BOUTELLE, coitt oup.
FRED N DOW, Oommttee'
May %, 1879. j. o. SMITH, Secretary,
The Portland daily press., 1879-06-10
This Year and Last Year

The Greenbackers come before the voters
summer they assured the people of this
State that resumption could not be accom-
plished, tha' the attempt to enforce the re-
sumption act would bring about widespread
disaster and that the Republicans were
busily engaged in increasing the national
debt Many thousands of people, who
ought to have known better, were credulous
enough to put faith in their assurances.
Resumption has been accomplished and
the notes of the United States are redeem
able in coin on presentation at the Treasury.
Its paper is as good as gold-or wheat. The
attempt to enforce the resumption act has
been made and is successful. The enforce
ment has not brought about disaster and
ruin. On the contrary the country in all its
sections is on the mending hand. Business
is improving, trade is looking up, prices are
advancing, collections are easier to make
Even Solon Chase's steers, put on short
commons as he assures us they have been,
can command better price than they could
last Fall. The national debt has been re-
duced over six hundred millions from it's
highest tigures-an average reduction of
nearly fifty millions a year. The interest
charge has been cut down almost seventy
millions of dollars. Above all the paper
dollar will buy as much of food or clothing
or rent or of the luxuries of life as will the
gold dollar. These are facts, and 50 gener-
ally admitted that the Greenbackers in their
convention did not dare to assail the re-
sumption of specie payments or to repeat
the denunciations of what they called last
summer ''the robber resumption act"
That act has been positive and clearly ap-
parent benefit to the country, and they
know that and have ceased to denounce it.
False in one, false in all. The prophets of
disaster made false predictions last summer.
The ruin they predicted and prayed for did
not come. The country has thriven instead
of going to the bad. They showed as little
of political sagacity as they did of patriotic
hopefulness. And they come now before
the people discredted. Last year they rep.
resented feeling of discomfort that though
mistaken and misdirected was honest. This
year they are merely the agents of an in.
trigue whose aim it is to thrust out of power
the political organization whose wise policy
has brought about that better state of affairs
they predicted would not come.