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The daily gazette., 1879-12-03
II LudU's Generosity.

The will OF Miss Sallie Ii amilton l..
deceased, who resided III this city, u
SAID to contain the following pubNc Le
q1ests
To the trustees of the First Pr-sbyte.
rian Church, Of Wilmington. $500, for
the purpose of providing All iron railiie 3
around the graveyard of said church.
To the same church, $500 for parsOn-
age.
To the Female Bible Society Of Will
mingtOn, 500.
Part OF pew owned bv her in Hanover
Presbyterian Church, 10 tue trustees OF
SAID church.
To the. American B ,ard of Foreign
Missions, 500.
To The Presby teriaD Committee Of
Home Missions of New York, $500
To the Hsme for Frienuless Children
Of Wilmington, 500.
To the Trustees of Hanover Presbyte.
ian Church, for the benetiG uf the
Hedgeville Mission School, SlUO.
10 the Home for Aged Women OF
New Castle county, 500; also set OF
bed room furniture.
The interest in the sum of 81 600 IL
bequeathed TO cousin OF the deceastu,
ami at her death the principal is to Dc
divided AZ follows:
$500 to the Ministerial Relief Fund of
the Presby terian Church of An-ric {.
$500 to tie American Seaman's Friends
Society of New York.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-03
Suicide

The Centreville, Nd, Observer says !:
"Mr. Henry Mullikin, of this county
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the heart with a pistol on Fri
day last. He had been quite indisposed
for several weeks. On Friday morning
he ate his breakfast as usual and went TO
his room. Mrs Mullikin (his brothers
wife) having occa>ion to pass his room,
locke in and found him sittiAg in a
chair, with one foot resting on another
chair and his head inclined forward in a
dropping position. She went 20 him and
found that he was dead. His pistol was
lying on the chair upon which his foot
was resting, and 1t is supposed that after
shooting himself he had laid the pistol
there. The suicide Was very deliberate
affair. He had gotten up from his chair,
gone to his chest, taken out his pistol,
returned to his chair, opened his shirt
bosom, placed the pistol to his side, shot
himself and then laid the pistol Oh an
adj ,ining chair at his foot. The ball ell
tered between the sixth and seventh rib
and passed upwards through the heart.
He leaves good estate, and was himself
a bachelor"
The daily gazette., 1879-12-03
BRIEF Locals.

npolice cases this morning.
frces remained unchanged in market
ea morning.
Nll Council, at It's meeting on Thurs.
evening, take kome action In regard
sne T. r. Government building an ice
M"lue mouth OF the Christians?
vras next performance at the Opera
s'I ss'1 VII be on Friday evening next by
~Ae Ihayer Concert Company.
.aTe were seventy. nine deaths in this
W curing last month.
", ISs harris case will probably be finish
s3Vourt to-day.
NVourt has ordered the case OF Hugh
taa 70 10 takea up on Monday next.
hu,SSdsy goods will soon be display. d
"ue merchants,
rE rapod Sized audience witnessed "Kit"
~'opera House last evening.
,w@pELAwARK GAZETTE will be Issued
"ao'row afternoon.
AZ. hironS, who met with an accident
ss,~u.aay evening last, Was somewhat
,p'o'ed This morning.
.m"u .su ourt finally adJourns there will
n' local news than at present.
a,ass,y under the able and economical
bms,aah bmsehl OF the Democrats will have
|uofe rl hoating debt.
Naln lssO. VIII 'on'ain 'o'oU inhapi-
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A hpee!Al Offer 70 l.Ndiss.

y,woman who has the care Of IA hou,e
40 .nord 10 get along without the House.
InpIR, handsome illustrated monthly
,alsh Is so practical and helpIu that 1t
Avs any housekeeper time, steps. labor
md very often trouble and perplexity.
vsch Is worse than work. II Is as full q
iia, and suggestions OF use In house
ispng as an egg is OF meat. The publish
uue bent on introducing 1t everywhere
ntihey offer to send II TO Jan. /. 1881. for
Scents tbare cost OF postage and mailing)
nAeladywho first sends cents from any
utoilce in the United States or Cana
M for their grand pictorial premium
f. The regular price OF the House.
irlPrR is Is cents. They also offer TO send
Sioner's, Harper's, the Atlantic, Godey's
rAars, Potter's. .Lippincott's, or. indeed.
~ Of the monthly magazines for one
'Mn those who get up small clubs. For
FNmen copies and Premium list which
ImiulI particulars, address, the HOUSE
h'per Minneapolis. MINI.
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Some Citn M0ttcrSs

II is now an assured tact that the city
government will have to be conducted
uhtii July LIST next, on . purely cash
OASIS, the Union bank directors having
decided that they will not loan the city
any money oD notes, ~ was the custom
Ior yoars past. Therefore all munsipal
expenses Will have to be met with the
current revenues, until tho July taxes
come iU,
From present Indications there will be
a6aiance IN bank on the first of January
OF at least S25 900. To this may be added
ABOUT 800 900 from next years water
rents, and $4,000 for receipts from the
AUDITORS books and other trarsiert col-
Itctions. and It will make total of &90,-
600 which the Council will have to run
the city government with until the first
OF Jul y. This will be- equal to S16, 900 por
month.
The unavoidable expenses for these
six months, will be NJ follows: Interest,
about $500 per month; public schools
70 OOO per mouth; salaries, about 81, 300
ger honth; water department lat the
lowest estimat+) $1,000 per month; light,
tu' !, cleaning streets, and other miscel-
lan-ous expenses, tat the lowest esti-
mate) $1,000 per month. Total. SIC 800.
AT This rate the funds will o. sufficient
to run the city up to the middle Ut June,
alter which no funds will be required
until the hrst meeting In July, when the
taxes tor the year will Oe " oil In hand.
But II will also be seen tn to secure
this desired end, the closest economy
Will be necessary. All improvements
viii have to be stopped, aud only such
work performed - cannot be dispensed
With. No extension OF water pipes or
opening and grading of new streets can
be done until after July, and those who
suffer for such improvements must con-
tent themselves with the knowledge
that they cannot be effected without
money. aud that the Council will not
have the mouey in hand Tor the purpos
for several months.
For the past year md half the affairs
Of Council have been very carefully aud
wisely administered ny the Democratic
majority. They have been unusually
economic In their management, and will
have, on the LIST OF January next, what
no previous Council could show for
years back-a balance IN bank and no
Hoating debt.
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a Refatndiss0 Scare

According to reports in some Of the
New York papers an excitement was
created there on Monday among the
holders OF Government bonds, ey an
nouncement that Secretary Sherman
had, in his report, asked Congress for
authority to proceed at once to the re-
funding of the bonds OF 1881 into four
per cents, the holders of the former to
be credited with the difference in inter
est. Immediately there was decline
IN four per cent bonds, the price falling
from 1904 to 103. If Congress should
grant Secretary SheIman's reported re-
quest, the latter will be authorized to
provide lor the refunding OF $79l, ,l76,-
100 five and six per cent boUds into four
per cents. The bonds affected would be
$l3,v9l 900 reg stored aud $4,424,OOO
coupons six per cent bonds Of 1881, is
sued under act of February 8, 1861, pay
able December 81, 1880; $l3O,267, 900
registered and $50, $50 coupon six
per cent bonds Of 1881, issued under
acts of July II aud August 8, 1851, and
redeemable at the option of the Gov, rn-
meut after June 80, 1881 $55 1853, $50
registered and $19, 9,256,25O coupon six
per cent bonds OF 1881, issued under act
of Maj ch 8, 1868, and redeemabIe at the
option OF the Government after June
Both, 1881 and $3.50, $500 registered
and $255, 70, $50 coupon five per cent.
bonds Of 1881, issued under acts Of July
14tb, 1870, and January 10th, 1871, aud
redeemable at the option of the Govern
ment after May 1st, 1881. In case au-
thority should be given the Secretary to
refund these bonds into four per cents,
the entire debt Of tho United States, with
the exception of $l85, 900, 900 four and q
half per cent bonds, will be placed at
four per cent interest.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-03
1He CGsaV0ss Of TIE Tote -
Maine. -

AUGUSTA Me-, December 2.-Tbo In
teiesI concerning the count of the vo6re
OF the september election for Senators
ana members Of the House of Represen-
tatives eliminated to-day in the positive
"Htten refusal of the Governor
ana Council to make public the returne
!or those Offices. The practices elvsyp
mas been to allow inspection Of the 70
turns BY any person. In the abspncs e
any declara ion In The Constitution o.
statutes that the returns shall be public.
ene council have refused to make them
80. :,
The Republicans. therefore, have NJ
opportunity to make corrections. Thsy
WI, IN consequence, apply to-morrOw
~ .ne Uourt for mandAmus seAi0st tho
council 10 produce the returns. 1t y very
doubtful If the Court takes any sction
Ia the premises, for the reason that there
Is q serious Constitutional question
wDether the Judicial Department has
any right to meddle with the Executive
department in the discharge Of it, du-
time prescribed by the Constitution for
tne Issuance of certificates to members
Will have elapsed before any process ef
Court can be brought to bear.
Ihe Republicans have acted ill-advi-
sedly In this matter, having heaped un-
quaiihed abuse ON the Council, and
charged them with all sorts of evil inten-
tions, which has undoubtedly had much
eject in driving them to the extreme
stand taken to-day. .fLsN -
Prominent Democrats have besn
Doasting to-day that tie count IL all set-
tied, and that the Republicans are r. b
counted out in both House and Senate.
This is undoubtedly the true state Of ths
case, and the action of the Council will
be based entirely upon irregularities In
the returns.
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FIRST EDITION.
Our County Courts.

THE HuMoRS OF THk EJECTMENT CASE
-THE EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENSE
THE END APPROACHING.
Specially reported for the Gazette.
NEW CASTLE, Dec. 2.-The bar and
jury smiled to-day and the court frown-
ed severely when the evidence of David
X. Hayes, which was being given in the
ejectment case, was near its close. MIR.
Hayes has been q great fiiend Of Mr..
Harris, and he came to court with the
Intention fixed In his mind that nothing
should escape his lips that would be
damaging to the cause OF his former
patron saint and employer. He had
testified at great length and fixed things
around Tommy Vests old dock Just as
Mr. Cummins had wanted 1t to appear,
but the witness b, gan to squirm uneasily
when MIR. Spruan,e started q searching
cross ss-examir alton. After this had gone
ON for some time, and the witness felt
his statements rapidly weakening through
adm ssions forcrd upon him by The head
long attorney, he turned to he court and
with oil seriousness asked, eyer Honors,
am here to establish q line favorable
10 the side Mr.. Spruance is ON ?" Some
how or other MIR. Hayes escaped without
a reprimaDd, and q terse lecture MS to
the dut, OF holding to facts aud nothing
but facts In the witness box.
During the whole Jay there was rat
tling cross fire between the examining
counselIors, Mr.. Cummins and Mr..
Spruance, and while both may have lost
patience, Mr.. Spruance showed it the
most.
This was evidenced In the forenoon
when Mr.. Eoch Moore as on the
stand. Mr.. Moore is rs years old and
he was called upon to prove the app ar
ance Of the ground when he was three
or four years old. After he had been
racking his brain for an. hour or more
in . vain endeavor to understand inter-
minable questions, MIR. Spruance pro-
pounded one that fairly made the court
hide their faces in their hands In q vain
endeavor to comprehend. Mr.. Moore
hesitated aud 1t is no wonder he did so.
and, Noticing this, MIR. Spruance remark
ed tartly, "Oh, well, l cannot supply
the witness with brains." "rhe reason
you cannot Is obvious" remarked Mr..
Cummins insinuating!y, and the whole
court room was filled with laus hter at
the expense of MIR. Spruance.
During the afternoon Enoch Moore,
Jr., George r. Young, James X. Wright
and Egbert Nutter were called and ex-
amined, as TO the appearance of the
land when they worked there fifteen or
twenty years ago.
They were particularly questioned
about the fence as it stood along the
dock-line and all testified that IL had
stood ever frem the line of the dock
toward the Railroad Compauy's land
five OF six feet ever since they could re-
member.
Court adjourned at 9 o'clock, and to-
morrow morning the case will be resum
ed, and 1t will be concluded before the
evening journment.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-03
A BLOOdVthirsty Turk.

CoNsrANTINoPLE, December 2.-Yes
terdav a man forced his way into the
Hall of the Medical Council, at the War
Ministry, and wounded four persons
with a dagger. The motive which promp
ted the act was private vengeance aDG
had no political significance.
Col. VIM. BarbOur's House Burned.
FREDERICK BURG, Va, December q
The yelling house of Col. Will. am Bar
pour, an old colonial homestead in Stat
ford county, was burned last night with
all It's contents, including much antique
furniture and other articles OF value.
Col, Barbour, no W in his Goth year, saved
nirns- II from the flames. There was but
Que other occupant Of the building.
SIAMEsK advises state that "since the
visit of General Grant there has been
manifest tendency towards commercial
intercourse with the United states" dis
PLAYED IN that country Of twins. If the
General succeeds in steering clear Vt the
Canal without being sucked down by the
Presidency it might not be bad plan
for American manufacturers to keep
him moving around the world in the
capacity Of y " ! ing Advertisements
TiNO.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-03
A Loss of Betr.

Kaufman Il Fehrenbach, brewers, lost
about seventy barrels OF beer, last We'd
nesday night, under peculiar circum-
stances. 1t appears that the head brew
er had just flushed wha. they call a
"brew," aud had pumped it from the
mash tub to the cooling pans, in the up
per part efthe building. The workmen tili-
lshed their work shortly before 8 O'Clock,
and, after locking up the brewery safely,
left there and attended ball at the
Saenger Hall, during The night. While
they were absent some one entered the
brewery, aud opened the valve of the
cooling pan. In short time the street
leading from the building was mass of
fam and running beer. The accident was
discovered by some ladies returning
home from the Shields Library ball,
about ll.30 o'clock. The firm have no
idea as to who did the deed, but it must
have been some one who was acqu amt
ed with the building and the blood
hounds.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-03
SECOND EDITION
From the Phila. Press.
From Washington.
AN INCREASE IN The COINAGE OF
sTANDARD DQLLAR6 PREDICTED.

AN INCREASE IN THn COINAGE OF
STANDARD DoLLARs PREDICTED.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-The silver
men will not hear to restricting the COIN
age Of standard dollars. They affirm
that il the administration bad only taken
as much trouble to get these dollars into
circulation as 1t has t0 impress the coun-
try with the fact that they wont circulate
that there would never have been any
trouble. The silver men say that the
country can absorb 10O, ,000,0O0 of these
dollars without indigestion. They pro-
oose, therefore, not to restrict the coin
age but TO X ep it up and devise means
to put all the silver coined into immedi-
ate circulation. so far from restricting
silver coinage there is more likely to be
an effort to increase 1t.
Mr.. Mcmillan of Tennessee 10 prepar-
ing speech in support Of his bill, Intro
auced last session, 70 reduce the Presi-
dents salary 10 SIS, 600 after March 4,
1881. He is getting up the bills Of the
White House expenses for . series Of
years to show how much more expensive
it is now than twenty years ago. He
thinks from facts that he has gathered
that if the Republicans vote against his
proposition the Dems. will get the bene-
fit of some campaign capital. Being
scarce of the article they propose to put
1t up in small lots.
PRESIDENT HAYES FINANCIAL VIEWS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-The Presi-
dent to-day in conversation on the finan-
cial topics in his message, reitered his
views as expressed in the message
fnt tlal S<a hat Hs,r
dissentions in the party on this account.
He had his views, members Uf Congress
had theirs. They were the law-making
power. He could only suggest and
recommend. He has expressed his views
and he had no fault to find with Con-
gress for not thinking - he did GU this
question.
sEsAroR EAToN's PLAN OF ACTON ron
THE SESSION.
Senator Eaton Ii trying to convince
his colleagues that the best thing the
democrats in Congress can do toward ae-
curing a democratic President next year
is . let President making alone, stick t.
business leave the republicans to pound
their desks over the distressed condition
of things in the South and let the hnan-
cial question remain In peace tho re-
maiuder of the session. He admits that
there is bad state of affairs in his own
State (Connecticut), there being at the
present time four clergy men under in
dictmcnt for murder and lesser offences.
He says 1t is truly deplorAble and some
hing might be done to reform the clergy,
but what Congress has to do with 1t he
does not understand. Yet he thinks IL
has quite as much TO do with the morals
of his State As Senators from New Eng
land have to meddle with the affairs Of
the Southern States. He has prepared y
resolution proposing the reference OF the
tariff question TO q commission to be
composed of eminent men, and repre-
seDtinR the commercial, agricultural,
iron, wool, cotton aud manufacturing in
terests Of the country.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-03

Ia. 18th, i,7s, the Rev. J. L. Rankin,
a n. of Washington. ID. c.. certified AZ
Alov.: 81 have known Of several per
uu, who regarded themselves a. greatly
so.osd and some OF them ~ perma-
wpuy cured OF diseases Of the kidneys
md urinary organs by the medicine pre-.
ua by chas. Craig. OF Charlotte. N, Y.
Inys known, too, Of Its use In similar
us, by physicians OF the highest charac
wand standing. do not doubt that IL
Iugreat virtue" In previous commu-
,Iuuon TO the Congregationaiist, DIR.
hrkiu referred at length 10 the benefi-
tL treatment OF case In his own fami y
rouounced Brights Disease by six physi-
s,ns with the Safe Kidney and Liver
cur, and said: "This treatment l want,
b tn. interest OF humanity, to describe
sd Commend" novl9-2w
The daily gazette., 1879-12-03
n NeQrO Brute.

Says the West Chester Local Ne,cs:
"a large and powerful colored man made
a felonious assault upon young lady
who was coming up North Darlington
street last Saturday evening. The ruff
fan grasped her by the shoulder, and
from the gripe of his hand large lump
has raised, which is quite painful. Her
screams brought assistance aud the fiend
ran away. Her description of him wa
such as to correspond with that of the
man who has been annoying females OF
our borough for a long time, and our
many officers should search for him and
bring him to justice as quickly as possi-
ble"
The daily gazette., 1879-12-03
The Last Rites.
FUNERAL OF MRS. HxnxAsr 1Axo

oHAAAL OF MRS. HERMANN LANoR.
Ne sad death Of Mrs. Hermann Lanse
u .ook place at her hus bands residence last
SUNDAY morning about o O'Clock from a
psraiytic stroke, which seized her about
ociock that morning, and after which
sne never spoke. TIE funeral took place
atS clock yesterday morning. IL prO-
ceeoeu from the house to st. Peters
church at Sixth and West streets. Here
nikn mass was celebrated by the Rev.
ratner Taylor. Father Myers was also
inside the altar. Mass having been said
Inc funeral service was pei iforms I'd by
Father Taylor, an excellent discourse
oeing delivered. Aftor this the process
sioh departed from the church and pro-
ceeued along West street to the old
Catholic cemetery on Delaware Avenue.
Father Taylor here performed the last
rites Of the church, aod said the Lords
prayer and the creed over The grave.
which closed the sad performances.
There were about twenty carriages IN
the procession, and the crowd at the
cemetery WAS very large and comp osed
Of inournars who had been mad. bosom
fr'ends OF the d.-ceasrd lady BY her gem
erai klndheas aud ex 9ellence of charac-
ter.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-03
Congress-.

n 0o'' 'e'sloli In the Senate yesterday
m upled "S mainly by The biennial re-
n.,mb,s Tue Attorney General, q set Of
Y, o'es Go.a and resolutions Offered by
to ~Sg,aon, NJ % urging the speedy construc-
Nd :, W .'le Nicaragua interoceanic canal
s,don suihent by Senator Burnside
dE,on. nsasures to prevent the powers
sNrr,iapr pe from estab ishing under their
.ns, .s,''Vh M and domination a ship canal
lam NJ, ,slhinus OF Darien. In the
Hbs ~. W., rrlce Of Iowa offered q pre-
Zoo Of 'uG Ga resolution calling the atten-
A ,l,sos congress to the success which
Ayusm INSTITUTED the resumption of specie
sn,jnnirs snd urging the advisabllity oil
d, ous,sss; s sne presen, system of tinan.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-03
The IurDin Case

] Wesley Turpin, who killed VIM.
IL Harrington and who was refused bail
by the Justice of the Peace on the hear
ing of the evidence in the case, was
brought before Judge E. X. Wilton OIL
last Monday by writ of hdbeas corpus.
The evidence W as all rehearsed before
His Honor and argument made by coun-
.el on each side. The State was repre-
sented by MIR. E. Stanley Toadvine,
States Attorney, assisted by y, F. Hol-
land, Esq. The prisoner as represent
ed by Mess. Crisfield and Page, Of this
town and Houston Humphreys, Esq, of
Salisbury. The argument was conclud-
ed late on Wednesday night. Decision
reserved for the time and Lot yet an
nounced. Anne Paper.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-03
Deaths for November.

During November there were seventy
nine deaths In this city, classified a. fol-
lows:
Born in the United States, 20; foreign
born, 0; males, 80; females, A.; whites ,66;
blacks, 13; sill-born 8; premature birth,
$; a1der one year Of age, IL; from one to
nve years, 10; from hve to ten, 4; from
ten 10 twenty, 4; from twenty to thirty,
8; from thirty 10 forty, 4; from forty To
iiity, 4; from fifty to sixty, 8; from sixty
To seventy, .; from seventy to eighty, 3;
from eighty to ninety, Z; Coroner's cases
y; brought here for iuterment, 8; sent
away for interment, 8.
The disease causing the greatest mum.
Der OF deaths was membraneous Group,
from which eight died. Tn re were five
cases OF scarlet fever, two of t. Dhoid fe-
Yer, and three from whooping cough.
the deaths during Novem ber, 1873,
amounted to 50; increase, 90:
The daily gazette., 1879-12-03
Protecting Ships t,a Wimter.

At yesterdays meeting of the Board
navigation committee, and Mr. Gartside
of Chester, were appointed as a commit
tee of two, In pursuance Of request
from the United States Engineer's office
Philadelphia TO accompany deputation
from that office to See about the pre-
posed re- esta blisbment of the ice har Dor
near Reedy Island, and the construction
of new harbor at Chester, where the
present harbor Can no longer be made To
furnish the facilities for which 1t was
designed.
The daily gazette., 1879-12-03
TurDentine Stone.

Two ladies stopped in front Of the
new Court House, this morning, and
made inquiries OF sable hod-carrier in
relation to the character of the different
kind, of stone used in the construction
Of the building. he man politely and
correctly answered all questions until
one of the ladies asked him what variety
was the green-bued stone, with which
the walls are mainly constl ucled. ."Dat,"
responded the man, scratching his head,
"dat's what dey call de turpentine
stOne."
The daily gazette., 1879-12-03

r.r Tribune, it would seem from the
-. -" n il, money market, would not
WV .,n much il the price Of New Yo'k
p0. railroad shares should decline,
~I !, .,oyes,s the idea that probably
~. Vanderbilt ought TO be - good q
-. If the value of Central and Hud-
r.' ~ .,ocL A. we're the recent purchasers
- y ,,,uO,OoO of 1t, and that II he was
. .ilIiOa to part with it at l2o, perhaps
. -, not a desirable puI chase for other
,.ron, Al l36 or $780,"