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Gen. Sully's Indian Daughter.

tst. Paul MINI J fioneer-Press.
The Yankton (Dak.) Herald reitcrates
the statement that the late Gen. Sully
left a Sioux daughter, and that she is
now living on the Yankton reservation;
and the Bon Homme (Dak.) Citizen says:
The Indians call her Ah-kee-chee-dah
Wetchin-chee, soldiers girl When
last we saw her, about nine years ago,
she was about fourteen years of age, and
the best looking girl in that part of the
country. We think her mother is a half
breed. Her mother said in our presence
at the house of Collins La Mont that the
girlwas Gen. Sully's daughter, and that
the General sent her dresses and money
quite often, and Also offered to have her
educated"
The Press and Ddkotian publishes a
letter from a correspondent at White
Swan, which tells the whole story as
follows:
"Gen. Sully, when Captain in the I'd
Infantry. took half breed girl, daughter
of Peg Leg Smith, a trapper Of the
Rocky Mountains, at Pierre, in 1856
He brought her with him to Fort Ran.
dali, lived with her in tent, and in
1857 had a female child by her, to whom
he gave the name of Madeline Col
Gardner has seen Gen. Sully playing
with the child, and Mr.. Guion, the in.
terpreter, can swear that Madeline is
the daughter of Gen. Sully. The girl is
now living on the agency"
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How NitrO.Glycerine is Made.


This wonderful explosive was discov-
cred in 1S47, by an Italian named
Soboro, but its practical application was
made by Alfred, Swedish engineer.
The process by which it is made is thus
described: Every one knows what
glyccrine is-a clear, syruPy liquid,
sweet to the taste and somewhat greasy
to the touch. Its scope for employment
ranges from the surgeons dispensary to
the lady's boudoir Chemists term it
tratomic alcohol, and it may be derived
from fat or tallow by action of lime and
sulphuric acid. Its properties are many
and various, but as they. have no bear
ing upon the present subject we shall alb
stain from noticing them. If a quantity
of nitric acid be added to twice its
weight of sulphuric acid, glycerine be
poured into this, and stirred carefully,
the whole being surrounded by freezing
! mixture, we obtain that wonderful sub
stance known as nitro-glycerine, which
has more than ten times the explosive
force of gun-powder. 1t forms on the
surface as an oil of pale yellow color,
is perfectly inodorous, and has sweet,
aromatic taste. 1t is poisonous whether
taken internally or absorbed through the
| skin, and small doses produce distressing
| headaches. 1t docs not explode when
brought into contact with fire, and re-
mains unchanged even when brought to
temperature of boiling water; but at
forty degrees Fahrenheit it becomes con-
verted into an icy mass, which merely
requires friction to develop all its explo-
| sive qualities .-..
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Ignorance Wasn't Bliss in This Case.

One should never be ashamed to con-
fess Ignorance, or to receive instruction
in matters of which he has no knowledge.
A wise man seeks to learn something
from everybody he meets. But fools
often boast of knowledge till their igno-
rance is exposed.
A young organist, who had permission
to practice on fine instrument, was
obliged, one evening, to find a substitute
for the boy who generally blew the bel
lows. He asked raw country boy if he
knew how to blow the bellows of an or
gan. Yes, sor," was the confident re-
ply, 81 can blow an organ" The re-
cruit was taken to the church, and the
use of the indicator explained to him.
by which he could know how full of all
the bellows were.
The player then asked him if he un.
derstood what he had to do. The
answer was prompt, ~ knaw all abOot
it." The player seated himself at the
keys, but no music came. He shouted
elbow, my ladp
saws blowing, sor."
Still. no music. elbow harder, boy
But the keys gave no sound. "Blow
harder yet, boy" .- 0-.
"Aw's blawin' as hard as ever | can
sor."
Going round to find what was the
trouble, the player found the boy, with
distended cheeks, and face red as beet
blowing away for dear life into the hole
of the indicator.
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The Advantages of a Tail.


The monkeys seem to amuse the peo-
pie most. like monkey myself. Do
you know / believe it positive loss to
human beings that they haven't got tails
like monkeys? Why, a monkey can hold
any thing with his tail, just like you can
with your hand. It's really a third
hand. Now s'posin' you had such tail?
If you had to hang on to the platform of
a crowded horse-car with your hands,
you could hold your umbrella with your
tail. If you were walking up and down
the room at night with the baby, you
could carry him in your arms and give
him spoonful of paregoric with your
tail If you wanted to take your family
out for an airing, you could. grab child
with each hand and pull the babycoach
with your tail. / tell you, sir, it's a
dead loss to you that you are not built
like the monkey.
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ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HOUSE,

GREEN corn pudding: Take a dozen
ears and gra-e them add teacupful of
milk, a spoonful of butter, teacupful
of salt and some grated nutmeg; mix
we'll together; put in pan, place in a
hot oven, and bake for an hour. ttt
APPLE preserves: Take some pleas
ant sour apples, remove the core from
the bottom and leave in the stem at the
top. Make syrup of white sugar and
water to cover them half way up Bake
or boil until they are just done through,
and serve up whole with sugar and
cream.
PEACH pickles: Pare the peaches,
stick Glove in each, or if preferred,
put them in the syrup; fill an earthen
jar with peaches, packed; fill up with
syrup made of white or brown sugar,
and in short time you will have
pickles fit to tempt the fastidious
taste of the gods. 10 keep we'll, seal
air-tight Ft4.-...
WATERMELON rind pickle: Ten
pounds Of apples, pared and guartered
four pounds sugar, one quart of vinegar,
one-half ounce of cloves, one ounce OF
cinnamon; boil all this, and pour over
the rind boiling hot; drain off the syrup
and let come to boil then pour it over
the melons.
SPICED apples: Eight pounds of ap'
pies, pared and quartered; four pounds
sugar, one quart vinegar, one-hall
ounce cloves. Boil the vinegar, sugar
and spice together; put in the apples
while boiling, and let them remain until
| tender (about twenty minutes) then put
the apples in a jar; bod down the syruI
until thick and pour over them.
TOBACCO antidote: Gentian root j,
said TO be tobacco antidote. Buy two
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Poor Patti.

The Paris correspondent says: When
in London last / saw one whom I have
all her life associated with the name of
{" dear little Patti" for the reason that I
have been thrown with her socially, off
and on, from the time when, as sweet
little bird of song, she warbled those
pretty domestic ballads that endeared
her name and youth to America. Well,
as | saw dear little Patti" passing up
Fleet street in an open carriage, with a
bearded-looking parsonage, and both sit
ting still and distrdits, / said to myself,
those large dark eyes are not sorrowful
without a reason. desire not to reveal
the skeleton in the house of this child of
song. Idesire not to picture Niccolini
the lover on the stage and terror at
home; the presenter of posey before the
public and the wielder Of lash in pri-
vate. But such is woman's fate. To be
the bearer of burdens is her doom, be
these burdens through the medium of
love or jealousy.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-28
Publishing Death Notices to Injure q
Rival.

boston Advertiser.
City Marshal Stone and Officer Mears,
of Lynn, arrested young woman named
Ida NJ. Eddy at one Of the hotels in
Nahant yesterday afternoon upon a
charge of publishing her own death in
the Lynn Record of August %, 1873,
and the Lynn Item of June 6, 1879.
The notices purported to be sent from
Arlington, Mass, in each case, and were
accompanied by letters signed in the
first instance by deacon Gilmore" and
in the second by the "Rev. Samuel
Lee" The first notice stated that Ida
NJ. Eddy died in Arlington, of heart
disease, August 26, 1878, at the age of
twenty-one years; the second, that Ida
NJ. Eddy, died in Abingdon June 4,
1879, at the age of twenty-one years and
ten noRths. The accompanying letters
gave a detailed statement as to the
suffering of the deceased during her last
illness. The notices were published in
good faith each time by the papers to
which they were sent. Immediately
after the last publication in the Item,
Miss Eddy herself called at the Office of
the paper and upbraided the editors in
no measured terms for publishing the
announcement of her death, when she
was still in the land of the living. She,
at the time, intimated that Miss Jennie
Bessom, respectable young woman
residing at Woodend, had caused the
publication of the notices by forging
the letters i'm which they were sent.
The police took up the matter, and soon
learned that young man had transferred
his affections from Miss Eddy to Miss
Bessom, and that the former has since
endeavored to win him back by compos-
ing malicious forged letters written to
herself, and purporting to come from
the latter. These letters have been
publicly exhibited, and so much feeling
created in the locality against Miss Bes-
som, that when she was accused by Miss
Eddy in the Item Office of being the
author of the fraudulent notices, the
city marshal was notified. Miss Bessom,
however, soon proved her innocence, and
it became apparent that Miss Eddy her
self was the guilty party. A number of
| forged letters written to the young man
l. are in the hands of the police, and cir
cumstantial evidence points strongly to
the Eddy girl as their author. The
animus of the whole appears to have
been desire to destroy Miss Bessom's
reputation. The Eddy girl will be ar
raigned this morning on complaint OF
publishing a fraudulent death notice in
a public Journal, the penalty for which
is 100 fine. She freely admitted her
completely in the matter.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-28

CANCEROus DISEASES AND TUMORs and their
Successful Treatment, edited and published by
O. e. Newton, M. D., Cincinnati, Ohio, is just
issued. The author of this work has attempted
to give the true Origin, Progress and Symptoms
treatment. -.
He claims that these Diseases, if properly
treated, are curcabe. To prove which PROPOSE
ton he introduces over 40 letters written to hin,
by his former Patients who were affected with
Cancerous Diseases and Tumors who have ac-
knowledged that they remained permanently
cured.
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Curious Illusion.

Form a tube of card or paper some
nine or ten inches long, and an inch or
SO in diameter. Look through this at
any object with either eye, holding q
hand in front of the other eye close by
the farther end of the tube, in such a
way that the middle of the hand hides
from the view of that eye the object seen
throughout the tube with the other.
Then, when both eyes are open, you
seem to zee the object through a round
hole in your own hand; and looking
scrutinizingly at this singular opening
you perceive that it is lined with card or
paper.
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Easily Incurred. Terribly Obstinate,

Is rheumatism. Even Mt the outset the ordi-
nary remedies are frequently powcrcss to cope
with it. This is more particularly the case
when tendency to it is inherited. 1t should
be combatted before it becomes chronic. When
the first twinges are felt, recourse should be had
to Hostetters Stomach Bitters, n dcpurent
which compeIs from the blood those irritating
principles which, by contact, cause Inflammation
and pain in the muscles and joints. Poisonous
medicines which are usually administered for
this disease, but which, in a slight overdose
may terminate it by destroying life itself, should
be avoided, and this safe and more effective med
icine used instead. Those disorders of the
bowels, stomach and liver which frequently ac-
company rheumatic and gouty ailments, are in
vnriably removed by this excellent botanic
corrective.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-28

To answer ne taste q tbe Day, ny boy,
Whatever Il IN,
They hit on the key,
And pipe In full conccrt away, my boy.
News from all countries and climates. my boy,
Advertisements, essays and rhymes, my boy,
Mixed up with all sorts
OF 10 lying reports,
And published at regular times, my boy.
Article, able and wise, my boy,
At least in the editorssyes, nay boy.
And logic ~ grand
That few understand
To what In the world II applies, my boy.
Statistics, reflections, reviews, my boz,
Little scraps 70 instruct and amuse, my boy,
- Upon matters Of state,
For wise-hc&dei folks 70 peruses my boy.
The funds a. they vsre add they are, my boy,
The qnibblcs AMI quirks of the bar, my BOY,
And every week
A clever critiqne
ON somc rising thoatrical star. my boy.
These q JuPiier's moons. my boy.
me stsfe Of the crops,
Ara the vii d the public bss6ons, my boy
List "A All phy.seal1n, nv 10y,
TN you ask With sufprise
- Why any one dies,
Or what the disorder that kills, my boy.
who has got married, 10 whom, my boy,
Who were cut of In the bloom, my boy,
Who has had birth
On the sorrow-stained earth,
And who tottcrs fast 10 the tomb, my boy.
The price of cattle aud grain, my boy,
Directions to dig and to drain, my boy,
But 'twould take me too long
To tell you In song
A quarter Of all they contain, my boy.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-28

A SCAMP, who represented himself as a
government agent, excited the negroes of
Holmes county, Miss, by telling them
that free train would take them on
the following Sunday to Kansas He
charged every man one dollar for flag,
which wss olbe his title to spot of
land when he reached Kansas. The news
spread like wildfire, and, selling their
cows for two dollars their chickens for a
penny apiece, and other possessions at rs
ruinous rates, 200 negroes gathered to
wait for the train that never came.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-28

UNDER recent instructions of the Post
Office Department, all mail matter adj
dressed to other than post-office names,
is taken out of the mails, and that
bearing the address of the sender re-
turned for correct address. All other is
s .l.t c tue Dead Letter Office t1 =
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-28

ONLY one American Cabinet or Parlor Organ
maker has over succeeded in bearing of tho
highest honors ut any Worlds Exposition,
whore they came in competition with the best
European makers, and this is the Mason 4
llamlin Organ Co., who have taken first medal,
highest honors ut every such Exposition for
twelve years, ending with the Paris Exposition
this year, whore they were awarded the highest
gold medal,
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CARE you ready for trial, Mrs. Furge

"Not yet, Yer Honor"
"And why not, .prayT
"Shure, Pm maxim new pollynaize
to appear in. the watness sthand, an it's
not quite ready, may it plaze the koort."
when will the gown be finishedT
"Pve got it all done but thrimmin'
an I'll have that on by Chcwsday, Yer
Honor" r... t-e.5
"Oyez! oyez! All witnesses in the
case of the State of Ohio versus Mrs.
Furgeson will appear here next Tuesday
without further notice."
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Hint to Werlxinemen.

The honest workingmen of the country, many
OF whom have large and increasing families to
support, have been the chief sufferers from tho
great financial pressure under which we have
labored for the last few years. Diminished
wages have not been attended by a correspond
ing diminution in price of every thing which
the workingman needs. Rents, fuel, food, and
clothing, cheaper, but these do not con-
stitute all his necessities. 1t is sometimes ne
cessary for him to employ a lawyer or physi-,
clan, yet the fee rates of physicians and lawyers
are as high they were in " flush - times.
Yet cheap medicines are as necessary as cheap
rents or fuel. Cheap medicines are not neces-
sarily poor medicines. 1t must be obvious to
every intelligent person that medicines, COM
pounded and put up at wholesale can be sold at
much lower rates than when retailed from the
doctors pill bags. DR.. Pierces Golden Medi-
cal Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets
have completely restored persons who had spent
hundreds of dollars in vainly seeking relief
from private practitioner, and all at very
slight expenditure.
To DEVELOP HEALTHY AND HARMONIOUS Ac-
TIoN among the organs of secretion, digestion,
and evacuation, take DR.. Morris VEGETABLE
Liver PILLS, which healthfully stimulate the
liver, give tone and regularity to the liver,
counteracta a tendency to costveness and purify
the blood. Their eathartic action is unaccom-
panied by gripping and is never violent and
abrupt but always gradual and natural. These
pills are of the greatest assistance in overcom-
ing scrofulous tumors and eruptive maladies.
All Druggists sell it,
TESTED BY TIME.--For Throat Diseases, Colds
and Coughs, Browns BRoNcHIAL TRocHEs .
have proved their efficacy by a test of many
| years. 25 cents a box.
CHEW Jack sens Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
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MASON & HAMLtN CABINET ORGANS

demonstrated hes, by HIGHEST HONoRS At Alb
WoELDS EXfo,tTIONS FOR TWELVE YEARS;
viz: at PxRis, 1866 VIENNA. 1873: SANTIAGO, 1875;
:mtL L,DELrBiA, isle; PAsrs, 1873; aud GRAND SwED-
,warL d hi.hest DONORS at anv euch. Sold for cash
,rins'an,ents. iiustrated Caa!ogues and Circulars
with styles and prices, sent free. MASON q HAM
osaAS 20 BsSroN NE'o toaK. or CHICAGO
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THE MARKED CHEEK. | I
ny ROSE HURST.
f" Il this Mr.. Rushton'sT"

"Is this Mr.. Rushton'sT'
IL was a handsome young man who
asked this question. And the girl who
had opened the door for him, in that
pretty country place where the richest
people were not very fashionable, was
MIR. Rushton's only daughter Fanny
herself.
"What a pretty little soulp he
Then, assshe turse6 bes head, he won
dered for moment wheth@ somebody
had just slapped her on the LETT cheek,
there was such a singular mark there,
exactly like the scarlet print of palm
and four fingers.
But that mark had been there all
Fanny Rushton's life, and it was her one
grief, her perpetual torment. She had
grown morbid about itin these early days
of womaDhood. But there were no cos
metics and no arts of surgery that could
remove it, There the red mark must be
as long as she breathed, its hateful scarlet
Attracting the first glance Of every
=. {" "M. Rushton at home p said Luke
Robins = @ss J with itia : bow bow; ttgfltFFs
Daily Republican., 1879-05-28
FIFTH EDITION
LAndenbere Items.

The weather Is a little too cod for
corn, which gives it yellow color, but
1t will bs all right the first hot days
that come around.
Wheat never looked better, and Is
now shooting out In head. Grass also
promises large crop. Fruit is very
promising, especially cherries and the
smaller fruits.
Whann & Armstrong, the enterpris-
ing phosphate manufacturers, are en-
gagged in building new dam breast in
place of the old one, which was washed
out last fall. They are doing q very
large business.
Washington Ewing has caught the
spirit of improvement, and is having
all Of his houses freshly repainted and
enclosed with handsome pale fences.
He is also extending the porch to his
store.
The Landenberg woollsn mills, en-
gagged in making worsted yarns, are
running night and day, with two sets
of hands.
The NJ. S. R. A. will hold public
temperance meeting on next Saturday
night, and another on Sunday after
noon. Mr.. Frank Whplan, Of this city,
will be among the speakers. The AS
socation vii have Il strawberry frsti'
val Oh Saturday afternoon and evening,
June 7th.
Daily Republican., 1879-05-28
Minor LNCaIA.

The Jefferson Democratic club has de-
sided to have no l;quor on the excur-
sion to Cape May this season. Can it
be a democratic excursion without.
The Wilmington & Northern Rail
road will run no freight trains on Dec
Grafton day.
John OByrne Esq, will crate tonight
at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia,
ON the Tooth birth day of Tom Moore,
the poet.
The anniversary of the Ladies Ii
quidation Society of Grace NJ. f. Church
will be held in the Sunday School par
lors, to morrow (Thursday) evening. A
pleasant time is anticipated.
Farmers from Brandywine hundred
say there was frost there yesterday
morning which showed prrceptibly OF
bean and other vegetable plants.
Daily Republican., 1879-05-28
Amendments at New Castle.

Frank +. Herbert received by mail
this morning an appointment to the of.
fee of Notary Public and Benjamin R.
Ustick to that of Justice of the Peace of
New Castle. Both of these gentlemen
were applicants for the combined posi-
tions made vacant by tn. death of Peter
B. Vandever, but the Governor saw fit to
divide with the result above stated.
Mr.. Ustick declines to accept unless
he receives the position of notary with
that Of Justice Of the Peace, and will
probably return his commission to-day.
Mr.. Herbert is Young man, son of
William Herbert, of New Castle, who
has recently entered into the real es,
tate business, and is active and enter
prising.
Daily Republican., 1879-05-28
LOCAL TIME FABLE.
NOVEMBER 10, 1878.

TRAINS LKAvB WILMINGTON.
FOR Philadelphia: 2.37. 706. $40, 800, $50,
900 a. M: l2.37, 1879, 23O, 100, SAC
T.2Q, o.46 +. N.
FIR New York: 227, a. m; 7O5, $50. l2.37,
1879, b.46 d. m. On Sundays: 2.37, SAC
For Bal,lmore and Washington: 1851, 2.lC'
s.39 q. M; 1857, l.O4, 6.lS, pm.
For Baltimore: 7OS, Express. On Sunday,
tor Baltimore and Washington: 1851, 2.10,
8.39 a. III.
For Baltimore and way stations: s.39 a. m.,
5l8 p. m.
For New Castle: go, s.l5 a. M, LOS, $50
For Delaware R. R.: elsa. m.: Les, c.as p,
II.
No Sunday trains.
For Wilmington Northern X. r.: c.26 a
M; 3 p. H.; and 800 p. m. Saturdays
urday's only. HOO p. IN
or delaware Western r. r.: 7.lb, 1880, am.
$50 p. m. No Sunday trains.
TRhIEB ARRIVE AT WILMINGTON.
From Philadelphia: l2.45, 2.03, 834, $40 u. no E,
1903. l2.47, 1.02, 4.20, 5.l3, e.25, 100, 7.40,
1l..hp m. On sundays: I3.43, 2.OS, s.34,
1910 a. m.; 1885. ll.lh, y. IN.
From kaitimore:2Yl, a.b2 9.45a. m; 1877. 1897,
6.3e, 9.3e p. m. On Sundays:2Sl, am. $50,
From Washington: 2.3l, a. m: 1921, l2.37,
5.36, 9.36 p. IN. On Sundays: Isl a. M:
6.3o, s.36 p. m.
From New Castle: $50, 1910 a. m;
7.lOp. m. No Sunday trains
From Delaware X. R.: $50 q. m.; l2l0, 7.le
pm.
From Wilmington & Northern X. X: sos
a. IN. 11.3O q. M; and 1876 p. N. Satur-
days only, 1920.
From Delaware Westerh X. X: 500 \. m.
2.lb. 800 y. N. No Sunday trains.
TRAINS FOR WILMINGTON LEAvI FnILADEL-
PuIA.
From Broad street and Washington avenue
73O, 800. 1919, l1.45 a. m.; 800, 100, 6.l6,
800, 8.15 9.45. 11.30 p. IN. On Sundays:
7.3OB.30 a, m.; 900, ll.3O p. N.
F ON Thrty-Second and Market streets: l.so
7.3O, ll.35 Il. m; l2.25, 100 600, IL p. III.
On ~undays. 100. 1850 "a. III