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WE TWO
IN. Y. Evening Post.)

IN. Y. Evening Post.)
Strangers, but a week before
Giving pleasant word for word,
Smile for smile, and nothing more!
Can You tell what look or tone
First this tide Of feeling stirred?
What strange tremor broke the calm
OF our friendly greeting. j.. gave
Such tremulous, wild delight
In the meeting of the eyes
And the touch Of palm to palm?
All the gladness of good-day,
All the passion of goodnight!
Was it, then, a swift surprise
To your soul as to my own?
Did you watch the words, .unsaid,
On my lips. . . and dream awake
All the long night for my sake
Lost, in fancy's eager bliss
At the phantom of kiss9
Was it not enough for years,
Wealth enough, to last to deaths
What strong love, beyond control
What so blent us, soul with soul,
Pulse with pulse, and breath with breath
One brief meeting at the last,
Once your strong arms round me cast.
Hurried words and burning tears,
Kisses-(ah, how sweeter far
Than the dreams of kisses areD
Last, goodbye. But no one knew
What we found, and lost-we two!
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baltimore EVERY SaturuayJ
Only a bundle of old yellowed paper
tied together with faded ribbon, these
are all that may be left to remind the
gray haired creature. that tearfully bends
over them of one on whom the grassy sod
may have mouldered for years, or whose
affections, trifled with by her, have found
peaceful dwelling place in more con-
slant heart. This tear stained packet is
all that connects her present with the past,
and as she pours over its contents, the
frosty clasp of years is relaxed before the
burning words of love, only to be clenched
tighter as stern realities now draw the cur
tain of regret before all tie alluring
promises of the long ago. From these
faded lines, the c.rord Of memory runs
back'to the dne when they grew fresh
and g.Iossy beneath the writer's hand,
..nute messengers from the burning heart
that breathed its love upon the page. But
why touch the chord when every note
awakens longing that can never be graf
fled, for who can recall an echo from the
past' Fold them up carefully, they are
the tomb of your own dead hopes mould
ering slowly into nothingness. Peace
| peace to their ashes!
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A Child's Heart.
detroit Free Press.1

The other day a curious old woman,
having bundle in her hand, and walking
with painful effort, sat down on a curb
step, up Woodward avenue, to rest. She
was curious because her garments were
neat and clean, though threadbare, and
curious because a smile crossed her
wrinkled face as children passed her. 1t
might have been this smile that attracted
group of three little ones, the oldest
about O. They stood in row in front
OF the old woman, saying never word,
but watching her face. The smile bright
ened, fingered, and then suddenly faded
away, and corner Of her old calico apron
went up to wipe away tear. Then the
eldest child stepped forward and asked:
Are you sorry because you hayn't .
any children?" got
"I-I had children once. Int
all d-dead'" whispererI., the they are
in her throat. Will An SOD
VI m awful sorry" said the Il tt,e oirl a.
her own chin quivered. "J,i oive vor "
one OF my little brothers her n ~ ,,o, ses t
! |, haven t got but two, and 7 don't believe
Ia ike to spare one"
ever" ~ sobbsd oIIsS ypa' tb eO hd-bless you for
full minute ber ID woman, and for
apron. 'aee was o"i 'ea III III
" continned nt c1i you what I'll do" serious
US Us all once the child, you may kis
Won NAV and if little Ben isn't afrai
ss sweS kiss him four times, for he's jus
Pc t as candy"
chi, Iestrians who saw three well dresse
$. ldren put their arms around thu
range old woman's neck and kiss he
were greatly puzzled. They didn't kno
the hearts of children, and they didn
hear the woman's words as she ro'
to go: ,.
"Oh! children, I'm only poor o
' woman, believing I'd nSthing to live fc
+. but you've given me lighter heart ths
I've had for ten long years"
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Detroit Free Press.1

Sorrows are like thunder clouds; in the
distance they look black, over our heads
hardly gray.
The Infinite has sowed his name in the
heavens in burning stars, but in the earth
He has sown His name in tender flowers.
No man is ever good for anything until
he has found two things-frst something
to love, and second, something to rever-
ence.
Gentleness which belongs to virtue is to
be carefully distinguished from the mean
spirit of towards and the fawning assent
of sycophants.
Genius loves toll, impediment and pow
erty; for from these it gains its strength,
throws off the shadows, and lifts its proud
head to immortality.
Nothing is more amiable than true
modestv, and nothing is more contempt
ible than the false. The one guards vir-
tue, the other betrays it.
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike
those Of the body, they are increased by
repetition, approved ihy reflection and
strengthened by enjoyment.
Overburden not thy memory to make
so faithful servant Gtly slave. Have as
much reason as camel, to rise when
thou hast thy full loa1.
The worthiest people are the most in,
iured by slander, as we usually find that
to be the best fruit which the birds have
been pecking at . E..
A full. blown rose besprinkled with the
purest dew is not so beautiful as d chile
blushing beneath its parents displeasurc
and shedding tears of sorrow for Its
faults.
Never has one person forgotten hi'
pure, right educating mother. On th'
blue mountains of our. dim childhood
toward which we ever turn and look
stand the mothers who marked out to Ii
from thence our life. -...
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Our Insane (:) Murderers.

1t is odd how uncrringly your insane
murderer picks out the very person he
wants to wreak his vengence on. The
dangerous lunatics in the asylum don't
select their victims with such judgment.
They would just as lief kill one man as
another, and sometimes little rather.
The insane murderer is up to snuff. lie
discrlninates, he calculates, he works up
his insane fit at the most timely moment,
ard he wastes no force on people that he
has no grudge against. No hap-hazard
killing for him. His victims are selected
with great care, and his killing is gener-
ally done symmetrically and successfully.
All, the insane murderer, is the very up
per crust of insanity. He makes his mark
in the world He does not live in vain.
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Iwar about to deserve" said the Presi.
dent of the Limekiln Club, "dat sum OF
de cuIPd folks in dis nayburhood a n
very much concerned bout de Presider ,t,s
veto. | h'ar dem talkin' bout it n de-
shops, an on de streets, an las ,te de-
old man stover drapped in on m e. ewes
baupin' out an knees shakin', an ayed If
Th hearn de news. He was % unsot
dat he couldn't keep still, spe' .tin' dat de
world war on de pint of for mn, bottom
side up. Now | want to S ~ yf 10 al Of We
dat a dozen wetoes won't ~ ~ ol,r w WAGES 40 4 =
cent, nor yit make a drap, an dat our
way am to keep RI lht along blackin'
stoves and doin' fu ,teclass whitewashin.
We can't eat W ,etoes-we can't war
'em--dey won't keep roofs ober our
heads, an de lie asst YOU talk bout 'em de
more silver. you'll hev down in yer
pockets. De President may be a great
man, an one of his wetoes. may weigh a
ton, but de President aint gwine down
, inter ais wallet to feed an clothe us
Let d white folks waste der breaf if dey
| wan to, but let de culpd man keep his
t mo uf shet an his elbows movin'.,"
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GcssG Sense.
Methodist Recorder

We have more faith in constant love-
power at home, seizing and controlling
the thought-centers Of the soul, before
the children become alienated by tha
scowing breath of sectarianism, than in
all these winter campaigns made against
them after they have taken up arms In
rebellion.
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Rat Catching Extraordinary.


The other day Mr.. Mike Maloney
who, we need hardly say, being work
ingman, is gentleman of elegant Mile
sian leisure, concluded to earn an honest
penny by catching rats for Jake Snyder,
Esd.'s great rat hunt next week. lie ac-
cordingly scattered me cheese around in
the cellar of Doolegan's saloon, and when
sufficient time had elapsed, rushed in,
stopped up the holes Of exit, and began
transferring the squeaking rodents to an
empty barrel previously provided. The
first rat Mike seized with his tongs was a
very large gray fellow, which he speedily
slipped into the barrel, quickly covering
the top again with cloth.
In few minutes he caught another,
and then another. The rats were all
large, game-looking fellows, and after
shaking them out from behind the boxes
and corners for some hours, Mike con-
cIuded that he must have about couple
of hundred, and braced himself for a
square lift to get the barrel on his shoul-
der. 1t was so light that in amazement
the industrious man raised the cover and
looked in. Instead of four or five bushels
of dog bait, he saw nothing but a bung-
hole he had forgotten to stop up. Mr..
Maloney had been catching the same rat
| all day. He has now given up labor
permanently in disgust, and is training
to become Sand Lot speaker.
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At last it has been discovered "How'
to keep boy on the farm" The plan Is
to kill him and bury him six feet deep
in the barnyard. This rule does not ap-
ply in Ohio, however, where body Snatch
ing makes it extremely doubtful where
the boy would be week after burial,
[Norristown Herald
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lust 90.
Burlington Hawkeye.

Emma Abbott writes to an Eastern
paper, ITO this day love the school girl
who gave me half her apple one day
when I was hungry" We can see your
half apple, Emma, and can go you bush.
el better. We still love the girl out of
whose grandfather's orchard we used to
steal gallons and pecks of apples when
we weren't particle hungry. And now
If you could just see her baby oh, Emma
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"Why papa" said Market street gin
to her father, as he sauntered into the
parlor, away long in the night, when she
and her Adolphus were conversing upon
the ethics of the dust and kindred topics,
"'why papa, what are you looking forf"
"Oh, nothin, Just thought I'd get up to
see the sun rise" Then the clock struck
and the son rose and vanished and the old
man went back to bed.-[Stenhenvills
Herald.
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Scientific.

Huxley says "there was time when
men walked on all fours." He probably
alludes to that interesting time in the
early life of us all when we approached
neighbours melon patch from the back
way Kentucky New Era.
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Prince Napoleon Jerome Bonaparte
has veritable museum of Napoleonic
relics. There is the sabre worn by the
great Emperor at the battle of Marengo,
a silver dressing-case which he gave TO
King Jerome, the little three-cornered
hat, and the feld-glass with which he
watched his battles a
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Ili-gotten gains are never worth the
price, and good conscience never costs
what 1t is worth.
The daily gazette., 1879-02-12
The Minstrels To O-MOrrOw Even
ing.

Lovers of minstrelay should remember
that Emerson's California NJ nstrels will
appear at the Grand Opera House In this
city tomorrow evening. In speaking Of
the company the 81. Louis Gl ,be Demo-
crdt says:
Emerson's Minstrels have been play
ing during The week to this best bust ness
ofthe season. They have nightly turned
away numbers of visitors who have come
too late to ohtain seats. and on more than
one occasion have been unable to supply
even standing room to those who wished
il. This looks well for the party, and, as
success is deserved, exerybodv will he
glad it has been met with. The COM
pany, as before observed, is the best there
In in the country at the present time, GER
tainly the best that ever came West.
Emerson is one of the funniest and neat
est minstrels ever seen on the boards,
and with the favorite Big Four-Smith,
Waldron, Morton and Martin-and the
superb quintet of vocalsts, should carry
all before them. The entertainment Is
refresbingly free from anything that
could give offence.
The daily gazette., 1879-02-12
N . re w Ork.
Enoch Moore, Jr., Receives q Contract
for Buildin0 q Bdrge.

Enoch Moore, Jr., Receives q Contract
for building a Barge.
Almost every day the welcome news is
received in this city, that contracts are
beiug received by our manufacturers.
Yesterday Enoch Moore Jr., went to
New York and signed contract with G.
Holmes & Son, Of Greenwich, Conn, for
the building If freight and passenger
barge. The vessel will b. 100 feet long,
% feet beam, and % d'1h of hold.
She will have 1Sx 20 Ach propeller
engine.T he vessel is to ie completed
in about 10 days. The wok Of con-
structing her commence to day.
Mr.. Moor, is also engaged in over
hauling a schooner that Will sail for the
West Indies, loaded with corn meal, fiom
w. G. Pennepacker & Co. AS sign
that the times are improving, Mr.. Moore,
states that he has had more inquiries in
regard 10 building vessels within the
past week. than he had during any one
month of the last year.
The engine for tn. barge will be built
by firm in Connecticut, as the Harlan
&Holliugsworth, Co., this city, who we're
invited TO bid for it, stated that they
would not be able to build the engine
for three or four month as they would
now be obliged to work day and night to
complete contracts already on hand.
The daily gazette., 1879-02-12
EXTENSIVE PUBLIC SALE
Ia OF
PERSONAL PROPEATY.

VIII be sold at Public Sale, on the farm
Of Mr.. Sharp. near Christiana village, in
New Castle hundred, New castle county
Del, on
TUESDAY, FEBRU AIRY 9th, 1879,
at II o'clock, a. M, the following Personal
Property, viz:
Ten head OF horses, bay horse only 7
years Old, a good ROAD and farm horse; ore
sorrel horse, years old, a good road or
farm horse; gray horse. a good
farm horse; bay mare, good LNN
farm mare, supposed to De with ">
foal; "a good bay mare, fully as AGA
good "a brood mare as there Is In the state,
with foal; bay mare, yea old, and o. q
black horse, Bob, years old, will tiot a
nile in minutes; colt, coming years
old; colts, coming year cid.
Suxxry Ten head of COWS, some fresh the
H1E balance coming in March and
2ARw A pril. A lot Of fearllng Heifers
and a lot OF shoat pigs
Farming Implements.-l good farm
wagon, mar.et wagon, sets wagon har-
ness, 1 set mark narn IS, sets plow har-
ness col ars brides, lines, &c l Wheeler
No. q combl ei mower and reaper, one
Bickiord 4 Hoff'pan grain drill, horse
rake, plow Gu tivators, lot of double
and single trees, hay cutter, grain fans, |
corn sheIler, pairs twin harrows, hoes,
iakes, shoyels, p, 81 spade, grindstone,
cross-cut saw, forks, &c. Dairy Fixtures.
Butter tubs, milk pans, and sundry 9TH
er things not me ntluned.
NDIIIONS.-All sums under 40 },
cash; on all sums exceeding $50 a creiit of
d months will be given, by the purch a ser
uorser. Els d. KAY q Co,
for MRS. DILLEN.
l.. W. Stiaham q Son, Auctioneers.
febls-w2t
The daily gazette., 1879-02-12
Congress Yesterday.

In the Uuted States Senate ye ,terd ",
the confefe &c report on the naval !, pro-
priation bill, which appropriates 1920,
96S, was agreed to, aud the hill II w goes
10 the President. Mr.. Cameron of Pa,
submitted joint tesolul on provide g
for comm ssion to consider and report
what legislation is needei for the better
regulation of commerce am ing the States.
Bills were passed remov ng the political
disabilities Of l aac X. Trimble, Ii Ii.
Lewis ami W. E. Wysh I'm, of Maryland;
Asa Wall, +. K. S epherd, G. b. Oliver,
ID. Nj. W. Nash, II. &. Thomas, G. F. NJ.
Spottswood, j. ID. 5 INNS, q. IL. Kennedy
W. B. Sin lair, snd K. l.. Page, of Vir-
gina, aud Jnh I. Tucker, of the Dis
t. let OF Go um ia.
In tine House, the conferenc, rep Drt on
the naval appropri 'tion II was agreed
to. The remand r of the sesson was
spent Oh the legislative, judicial and ex-
ecutve appr ,priation bill, the clus. to
ab lish tn, pr Sc system of the survey
of the puullc lands and t. consolidate .
the same uader one head having led to a
long debate.
The daily gazette., 1879-02-12
NEW CASTLE LETTER.
NEw CAsTIR Eah 10 10

NEW CASTLE, Feb, IL, 1879.
The entersainm In the Court House,
last evening, was az it should have been
well attended. The grouping of the
tableaux was very effective Mrs. Jar
ley's wax works AS by her -xhi bited be-
fore the crowned heads of Europe was
the feature of the evening and received
merited applause. The exhibition will
be repeated this evening.
Undertaken Giles learning that His
Honor, the Mayer, was often in danger
OF being talked or ouestioDed To death,
has very kindly plac. d his card in per-
maneut place in the Sneritf's office. Now
If any Of those "talkists" drop in they
can be referred to Giles az "A suitable man
to furnish their work.
i understand that Mrs. DIR. Pepper will
favor our citizens with select reading
some evening soon.
The caucus of the Levy Court yester-
day was very long and apparently very
heatesi to Judge from the fact that every
half hour or 40 Lodge of Braniywine
made his appearance in his shirt sleeves.
On reassemblng the members fled out
az If going to funeral and IL would have
taken M ask TN ain to have raised their
risibilities Smiles natural and forced
were to be seen upon the countsnances
of the applicants, and the Quietness with
which those who drew blank got away
was amusing.
The reappointment Of VIM. Herbert as
County Treasurer meets with the appro-
baton Of our entire population, and no
more energetic official is to be found in
the State. Mr.. Herbert, Is always affa-
BILE aud ready to give any desired infor-
nation as to the county finances.
The daily gazette., 1879-02-12
THE NJ ARK ETS,

Beef steak, 14a20c; sirloin, 1sa2Oc
roast, l4a18c; corned, 8a12c; Clipped
25a,0c; ham sliced, 16alsc; wholesale, 1Oc
shoulders, 8al0c; fitch, 11al2c; pud
ding, 16c hog's-head cheese, 12c; lard
lOc; mutton, 10a12c; chops, l6a1Sc veal
10al6c; outlets, 1Sa20c; chickens, 10a12
per pd 81 a S1.50 per pair but,
ter, % 28c. tub butter, 2Oa25C
roll, 2Oa25; eggs 22a23c onions 12 cents
soup beans, cents; honey, 25c. per
Psuna eaGoise h@ ducks le 1Ss Per ne9 h9ad
potatoes 20a25c. per half peck beetsI
lOa12c. half peck apples, l2a2O per
half peck; turkeys, 81 50as2 so per piece
turnips, &c per halt peck; sausage, lOo
per h.; scrapple, &c; Rock fish, 12tc
per pound; pike, 15c sea-bass,2 lbs
for 25c founders, 10; cider &c pr qt., ,25c
pr gal; celery. Sa15 per bunch.
The daily gazette., 1879-02-12
THE COUNTY APPOINTMENTS.
The Levy Court Disposes Of its First
Butch of Official Work.

The Levy Court Disposes Of its First
Butch Of Official Work.
The Levy Court, in session at New
Castle, yesterday, made the following ap-
pointments
County Treasurer-Wm. Herbert.
Attorney-George Gray.
Jail Pbysician-Dr. j. J. Black.
TRUSTEES OF THE POOR.
Wilmington Hd.-C. Hill Brinton, II.
ID. Hickman.
Mill Creek-Stephen Springer.
Pencader-J. Wilkins Cooch.
st. Georges-Henry Davis.
COLLECTORS.
Brandywine Hd.-Walter Peirce.
Wilmington, Northern DISTRICT. L
Carp ntrr, Jr.
Southern District-Chas. II. ID. Bed
ford.
Christiana-Thomas Toy.
Mill Creek-H. NJ. Whiteman.
White Clay Creek-Wm. NJ. Haw-
thorne.
New Csstle-Wm. F. Thompson.
Pencader-Samuel Clendenln.
Red Lion-J. A. Cleaver.
st. George's-Wm. S. Vandyke.
Appoquinimink-H: A. Wilson.
Blackbird-Wm. S. Reynolds.
Bailiff to the Ivy Court-1homas B
Smith.
This winds up the appointments until
the March meeting of the Court, wher
consiables and bridge-teuders will be ap
pointed.
County Treasurer Herbert's re-appoint
menr was urged by a large number o
citizens from all parts of the County,
particularly from the upper part. Iii,
recommendations numbered over six
hundred, and included letters from
many of the best residents of the city
and county.
The daily gazette., 1879-02-12
RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVE
MENTS

WARRINGTON. Feb. 1.-THE river and
harbor appropriation bill which was con-
cluded by the House committee on COM
merce to-day and ordered to be reported
to the House, contains the following -
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware
-Raritan river, $60,OOO Railway. s1O,-
900. Manasquan river, 81, 900 Delaware
river (between Trenton and White HalD
5000; Delaware river below Brides
burg, Pa.0, $4,000; ice harbor, New
Castle, Del, 5000 pier near Lewes,
Del, $40, 800; Delaware river at Cherry
Island fats, 10000 Erie harbor, $40, 900;
Schuykill river, s2b 900; Mononeahela
river, $4,000; Little Kanawha river,
$4,000. Observation-Disclosures harbor,
800, 900.
The daily gazette., 1879-02-12
Lecture.

Professor f. A. Willis, of Chicago,
lectured in Hanover Presbyterian Church
last night, but owing TO the driving rain
Storm only small audience assembled.
However, those preseLt gathered closely
about the speaker, who proceeded to
speak for about an ho,V aud half on the
"Cause and cure of dissipation and
crime" He spoke of crime and its ap-
palling increase, giving number of sta
tlsnc- in support of the latter. He thought
the evil was due in a great measure, to
the improper education aud training of
youth, and classed novel.reading AZ one
of the most damaging influences upon
the minds of youth particularly of young
ladies'. He favored co-rducation of the
sexes aS one of the remedies for the evil,
claiming hat much of the prevailing
social wicke lness emanafes from young
lady sen inar rs and medical colleges
The lecture was extremely interesting,
and the little audience listened with close
attention to the end
The daily gazette., 1879-02-12
Tho Plague.
Renewed Acticity Throughout Europe to
Check Its Progress-High Time for
America ts Act.

Renewed Acticity Throughout Europe to
Check It's Progress-High Time for
America tV Act.
LONDON, Feb. IL, 1s79.-Gen. Loris
Melikoh, Governor General of th- plague
stricken districts, has summoned the
Governors OF the governments of Astra-
khan, Samara and Saratofr to Tzaritzin,
and proposed to them that all the old
paper money now circul ,ting be ex-
changed for new through the Kama
Volga bank and destroyed. The atten-
ton of the medical authoril les is now
concentrated on Selitreno and the neigh
boring d str cts Inhabited by the Khirgis.
The st. Petersburg Sanitary Committee
have proposed to cleanse the canals and
to organize barge hospitals OH the Neva
which could be anchored in thu Gull OF
Bothna, AID also to organize sanitary
committees in each district of the city
and province of st. Petersburg. The
President Of the Board of Health, speak-
Ing yesterday in The Italian Chamber of
Deputies, predicted that If th- plague
penetrated Europe it would destroy a
third OF the population. The Italian
government has ordered twenty days'
quara tine asains. arrivals from Egypt.
The North German Gazette, of Berlin,
denies the report that an Austrian propo-
sal for the establishment OF joint mill
tary Gordon is under consideration at
Berlin. Vessels with foul bills OF health
are refused admission into Egypt Al
ports. via has formed pattlal cor
don on her Turkish frontiers against the
plague. Th" British Plivy Council has
ordered careful inspection of he bills
of health and of the c.ews and passen.
gers of vessels arriving from the Black
Sea.