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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-01
KETTEN AND HIS HOST.

Henry Ketten, the pianist, not only
left behind him the good will and hearty
favor due this most accomplished artist
and courteous gentleman, but as well
the memory Of so thorough and match
less a snub to one of those intolerable
vulgarians who form at least the super
structure of Frisco society, that we
could afford to ever hold him in grateful
remembrance for the latter reason alone.
It appears that Mr.. Ketten was invit-
ed to party at the house Of one of our
local Plutocrats, large importing mer-
chant, and attended the same with his
wife, precisely as would any other ex-
pected guest.
To his surprise, however, he found
the company sitting solemnly around as
though in concert hall, and himself at
once pressed to "play something" by
the host. The courteous Frenchman.
complied, and, in response to repeated
requests, continued to entertain the
company for nearly two hours. When,
at last, he was thoroughly fatgued, sup
per was announced, whereupon the host
arose and said:
"You've got piano punching down
fine, Ketten, old fellow. Now, if you'll
play these young folks few quadrilles
and polkas while the balance Of us go
down to hash, I'll send up Martha
Louise to relieve you, presently: or if
you like you can have something sent
up and eat it right here ON the piano. I
first kinder calculated to have engageda
couple of folders, but the old lady said
she thought you wouldn't mind. I'll
make it all right when you go"
The astounded artist gazed at the
speaker (who was well known to have
been a barkeeper in the "good old
days. for few moments, utterly
dumbfounded; then, controlling him-
self, he gravely turned his back and be-
gan playing dance music, as requested.
When the company had all assembled in
the parlors he raised his voice and said ::
'sPray, let some whisky, lemons and
sugar be brought in
1t was done.
'sNow then," said Mr.. ketten, fixing
his eye on the host "now then, mix us
some cocktails, my good fellow; every
man to his trade
There was an awful silence, and then
the shoddycrat, with a CHASTITY attempt
to carry off the joke, prepared the drink
and handed it to the musician.
The latter drank the beverage critic
ally. "You're losing practice, my good
man the fellow at the hotel bar does
much better. There, you may keep the
change" " and, tossing the almostasphyx-
lated millionaire half dollar, he put his
wife under his arm and walked out
San Francisco Post.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-01
PLEASANI.RIES.

ROSE EYTINeE is said to be poverty
stricken.
LIKE cures like. To guard against
the rays of the sun we raise an UNI
brella.
SANKEY'S new hymn, els your Lamp
still Burning?" should be inscribed to
Edison.
Gov. WnTz, of Louisiana, has
been presented with $4,000 house In
New Orleans.
The fullest and best ears of wheat
hang lowest toward the ground. Bishop
Reynolds.
EVERY year the winter grows milder.
The time will come when sleighs will be
fitted with mosquito-nets.
ILL winter night fair Isabel;
III spring upon nay knees and tell
No girl is hand summer than she,
And that she autumn marry me.
I. ToLDYoUso is one Of the most know
ing men in the country, though to be
sure he is a little late.-New Orleans
Picayune.
The Fall River corporations have long
enforced rule by which employees who
left without giving ten days notice for
feited ten days pay. The legality Of
this is now to be tested by lawsuit.
"JUL1Us, did you attend de last meet
ing OBJ de debating society?" "Yes,
sir" "Well, what was de fust ting
dat cum afore de house?" ''Why,
was a charcoal cart"
The Boston Post has got an idea that
there is no love in second marriages,
and that where the wife lends the hus-
band a quarter she expects it back in
something beside kisses.
TUTOR :" Come, now, MI. B, give
me familiar example Of Hogarth's line
Of grace. Can't you think of it? It's
curved article that you see every day."
Mr.. B = desperately "A-a-pretzel."
MAMMA seeks to console her crying
child. "Why do you cry, John? What
has hurt you?" Mamma (and he
bawls more Justify than ever, yesterday
I fell down and hurt myself" "Yester-
day! They why do you cry to-day?"
sob, because you were not at home
yesterday"
A POLITE scoundrel is brought up be-
fore the police court. Just as the pre-
siding magistrate is about to begin his
questioning, the prisoner says, afably,
to the policeman: "Wears his years
well, the Judge does. Doesn't look
day older than he did when we were in
troduced to each other, ten years ago.
A BOY who had charge of very
stubborn donkey was one day beating
it numerically because it would not
go, when the minister of the parish,
coming up, censured him for his
cruelty. The boy resented the inter-
ference, and exclaimed ''Im sure you
needn't care; it's none Of your congre-
cation"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-01

Col. JOHN P. BROOKS, OF Cherokee
county, Ga, now 80 years old, was born
on the Old Volunteer, while at sea. He
has filed every civil Office in his COM
munity, from constable up to legislator
His descendants number 200, and ex-
tend to the fifth generation.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-01
POISONED TOYS.

In Paris, there have been several cases
Of poisoning Of children who have played
with, and doubtless sucked, colored toys,
end now the Project Of Police has or
dered that all colored toys offered for
sale and supposed to contain poisonous
matter shall be seized and sent to the
municipal laboratory for examination.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-01

Mr.. J. T. TRowBRDGE is said to never
compose his poems with pen in hand,
nor his prose without it. His poetic
muse visits him chiefly in the open air,
during his walks, or while floating in
boaton the pond near his house. He often
holds as many as fifty lines in bis mind
in this way, and in writing them down
he revises them repeatedly.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-01

A GAMBLER always heaves ace high Of
relief when his opponent backs away
from bluff bet on nary pair.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-01

IT is wonderful how silent man can
be when he knows his cause is just, and
how boisterous he becomes when he
knows he is in the wrong.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-01

THERE is Boston Bible-class with
eacher on salary Of s., 200 year.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-01

A FTvE-YEAR-oID daughter Of one of
our citizens observed to him, in the pres
ence Of company, at breakfast: "You
mustn't go off without kissing me, papa
ct never forget to do it, do II" he
asked, surprised. "You may not forget
it, but sometimes you go off mad, you
know" she artlessly replied. The COM
pany consulted their coffee
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-01

HELEN Hunt JACKSON (H. H. has
gone to Europe.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-01

VERMONT is the greatest maple-sugar
producing State in the Union. Its aver
age yield is about 100000 pounds,
worth 500, 900, OF about an average al
lowance of thirty pounds for each inhab-
liant.
The daily gazette., 1880-07-01
A Motto For 1850.

have no sort of sympathy with the
Republican pa ty because of that act,
and because Il justifiet and sustained 1t.
After such an act have no desire to
sustain the Republican party in any
way. would not vote for parry that
would carry through such a fraud. /
think Mr.. Hayes was elected by fraud,
and do not mean To have 1t SAID hat at
the next ele ction had forgotten 1t. L
do not say that Nj. Hayes committed
the fraud, but 10 was committed by his
party. l have no enmitS to Mr.. Hayes,
but after the fraud by which he became
President | could not vote for any per-
son put up for President on the Republic
can side who did not disay ow the fraud
committed. l would not support any
member of that party who had any sort
of mixture with that fraud. feel thar
lie counting out is just as much fraud
now as at the time II was perpetrated
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
The daily gazette., 1880-07-01
THE NEW YORK EXCURSION
BOATS LIABLE TO BURN.

The correspondent of the Ledger,
writes as follows:
There is not a single excursion boat
that plies these waters that is not every
hour of the day exposed to precisely
the same peril which overlook the
Scawanhaka with such calamitous con-
sequences last night, and, when it is
borne in mind that there are some
twenty or thirty vessels of that class
constantly employed at this season OF
the year transporting hitherand thitheI
thousands of men, women and chill
dren, the wonder is, not thai there
should be such holooausts, but that
these should not occur more frequently
than they do. According to the testi-
mony of one of the officers of the boat,
the moment "the flames broke out she
burnt like gunpowder; the fire exin-
gushing apparatus was os no earthly
use." All the Coney Island and Rock
away boats in like manner have an i'm
posing exhibition of water buckets,
axes, fire extinguishers, hose, ETC.. be-
tween decks, but it may as well be un-
derstood, now, that these amount to
nothing, and that when fire occurs it
simply means the destruction of the
boat and all who cannot by hook or by
crook effect their escape. 1t is some
thing to impress upon the travelling
and pleasure-seeking public the real
magnitude of the risks they thus incur |
in venturing upon these floating tin
der boxes, for if they refuse to patron
ize them, it will no longer pay to keep
them afioat. Science, invention, and
enterprise will be Obliged then to dis
cover some style of marine architec-
ture that will not "burn like POWDER"
and defy all the ordinary means Of
conhagration. Sad as
the case is as regards the Seawanhaka
it is dreadful to think how much worse
it would have been had the fire broken
out when she was out in Long Island
Sound miles from the shore.
The daily gazette., 1880-07-01

AN OPEN CoNFEssIoN.-It is said
that "an open confession is good for the
SOUL" 1t was in this vein no doubt, that
the Philadelphia Telegraph, a Republi-
can newspaper of high standing in its
party, says:
-" There ts nothing to fight for in the
Chicago platform, but there is some
thing to tight against in the Cincinnati
platform. There is a genuine ring in
the demand for "tarH for revenue
only"
That is just where the cause of the
people Genes in. "'There is nothing in
the Chicago platform to fight for" and
the people see it plainly. Now, the
Democrats have made frequent efforts
TO reduce the expenditures of the gov
srnment, and there is this for the Re-
publicans to eight against" and this is
about all. There are two ways in
which the Democrats proposed to reduce
the expenses of the government. One
is the reduction of salaries and reduc-
ton Of the army, and curtailment of
extravaganza in the Navy, as well as
revision of the civil and diplomatic list.
Senator Bayard's plan was the reduc-
tion of the officers and not of the sala-
ries. He aimed at one time making a
saving of from $5O,O0O,OOO 10 S75,OOO,-
600 year. But every effort made was
opposed by the Republicans and de-
feated in the Senate or vetoed by the
Republican Presidents. 1t matters not
so much which mode for the needed
retrenchmenL is adopted.
The people desire their taxes reduced
Tor they ara more burdensome than they
are able to bear and hence the terrible
d'thculties that weigh down the farming
and laboring interests in every section,
and expressly this section on the Atlau-
tic seaboard. The Telegraph very prop
erly, therefore, remarks that "there is
nothing to fight tor in the Chicago plat
FORM" but "there il something to fight
~e@ihSS III bhO SlhNlLHdIl
And now the fight against Democratic
efforts to reduce the expenditures is to he
kept up. This hgh: has been going on
for years. We hope the people will de
eide it now. They have it in their own
hands. They will do as they please.
They decided it in 1876. But the army
and the Navy, (Which their hard labor
bought and kept up,) was used by Grant,
o Shermans,and Garfield and his he lp-
srs to change the result in favor of Radi-
cal extravaganza. Hence, the fight goes
on and theRepubllcans are given nothing
in their platform to fight tor that they
may the better fight against retrenchment
and reform offered in the Democratic
platform. The latter must win or the
people must lose.
The daily gazette., 1880-07-01

could have escaped the bullets that
hailed about his presence so many times
in Mexico and In the Indian wars where
his tall figure presented so fine a spot
for the unerring rife of the geurilla and
the savage. The Democratic voters Of
Delaware will not ask at what altar
Hancock prays, they are confident that
SO noble man as he Is is sure to pray
fervently and patriotically somewhere.
The daily gazette., 1880-07-01
SHERIFF SALES.

CHERIFF's SALE.
- By virtue of writ OF Levari Factas,
10 me directed, will be exposed to public
sale at the
LAFAYETTE HOTEL,
No. S4l Shipley street. kept by Isaac G.
Pyle, In the city of Wilmington, New
Castle county, Delaware. on
FRIDAY, The 10th Day of July, 1880,
at 2 O'Clock p. m.
The following described real estate. viz I:
All that mtssuage, or tenement, or lot,
or piece of land or ground situate lying
and bel In the city OF Wilmington,
bounded and described as follows, 10 wit /:
Beginning at q stake standing in the
nofthwesterly side of Market street a
corner of a lot formerly of Joseph Robin
son, now of the heirs of Mary Riley de
ceased. thence through the middle of the
partition wall OF the messuage hereby
granted and the meSsuage late of the said
Joseph r. 'binson. deceahed, north 5S de-
grees west by line of the said late
Joseph Robinson's lot liz feet Inches 10
TO the southeast side of ShipIey street,
thence north thirty two degrees east
about 2l feet 10 inches 10 a corner OF land
late of Theophilus Jones. deceased,
thence Herewith south fifty-eisht de-
grees east III feet iuches to Mark ct street
Aforesaid, thence south thirty two degrees
west about 2l feet 10 inches down Market
street, 10 the place of beginning, be the
contents thereof what 1t may, with four
story brick store house thereon.
Seized and taken in execution as the
properly OF David Lemon and Maria
Lemon, his wife and t. T.. and to be sold
by JOHN PYLE, Sheriff.
1880. je29- -eodts.
The daily gazette., 1880-07-01

THE Cleveland Leader (Rep.) de-
scribing Hancock's boyhood, says that
he was selected for appointment to
West Point "because of his manliness
of character and fine physique. And
to-day he is what Henry Ward Beech
er once said he wished above all other
things to be, ga manly man." In
firmness of character he resembles the
Duke of Wellington, in geniality Of
disposition he is like the immortal
Clay, and for elegance of manners he
deserves the title given him by Thad
Stevens, "of the modern Chester
field"
The daily gazette., 1880-07-01

7 GENERAL HANCoCK's RELIGION is
now called in question. We think his
Republican friends ought not to be too
fastidious about this matter since their
great embodiment for the past ten or
twelve years, Gen. Grant, never seemed
to concern himself about it. 1t matters
very little what mans church is, yet
1t is the duty of all good citizens to sus-
tain some church. 1t shows at the very
least an interest in his aeighborhood !;
its society, and disposition to submit
ones self to restraint. 1t is a good sign
TO see man connected with a church.
Tie best people of the land are always
found in the church the worst never /;
or, "hardly ever" However, we are
told by some Of our contemporaries who
ought to know, that Hancock Is an
Episcopalian. That ought to satisfy the
curious on this score. A good Episco-
palian is Objectionable no where. And
Hancock must be good or he never
The daily gazette., 1880-07-01

Buenos Ayres is reported to bave
been surrounded by the National troo, n
on the 10Th inst, and summoned In
capltulato within twenty-four hours.
The struggle for the Presidency lea,iing
to these serious disturbances had yari-
Gus precedents, Notwithstanding winch
the Argentine Republic has, on tho
whoie, Dcen wisely and temporarily
governed, under laws more nearly an.
preaching the tone of North than Of
Soath America, and tue country, with
all lts troubles, has enjoyed much nros-
perlty. The Argentine Confederation
embraces group of States, fourteen in
number, formerly known an the United
States OF Rio de la Plata. The Confed.
Grafton is the largest of the South Am
erican republics, and is only second in
extent TO the empire of Brazil. Its area
Is ABOUT three times as that OF Texas
emsr sracing some 100000 square miIes
OF territory, while the population il
only abOuG 2,500 GOO The increase of
the population by immigration, how
ever, has risen from 10000 in 1868. to
nearly 800 600 In 1879. is climate is one
OF the finest in the world, and is soil Ia
equally productive. In addition To its
natural advantages for grazing and agri-
culture, IL possesses large stores of M u :
erals, and when provided with the
necessary means of transportation it 40
doubt will become an Important rival of
Chill in the production of copper and
silver: The constitution OF the ArRen-
tine Confederation is dated May 10, 1858
lts government 10 very similar to that of
the United States, its constitution being
almost a direct copy of ours In all esse n,
tial points, except that its chief execu-
i've officer, also called the President, is
elected for SIX years, and Is not then
ehglble for reelection. Colonel Domiu-
90 Faustino Sarmiento was elected
PRESIDENT in 1868, while representing his
Government In Washington. HIS term
OF office euded In 1874, an insurrection
having been preoipitated before DR..
Avelianeda could be installed by his adj
hersnts.
The daily gazette., 1880-07-01
SHE tIFF'5 SALE.

BY virtue of a writ of Leyari Facias
10 me directed, will be exposed to public
LAFA ETTE HOTEL, No. 81 Shipley St,
kepl by Isaac G. Pyle, in the city OF
wilmington. New Castle county, Della
ware. on
oN FRIDAY, the I'd day of July, A. D.,
1881, at 2o'ciock, %. m,
Inc lollOMing desert bed real estate, viz.
a. that certain lot or piece or parce lof land
situate IN the city of Wilmington. afore
salu' FOUNDED and described IS follows.
~ WIZ: Beeinning at point on the north,
81 sue OF seventh street. between JEFF
,trsoh ana Wollaston streets at the dis.
tlnce oI ~ feet, q inches from the easterIy
sile s,,' Oh Jefferson street, thence northeriy
parallel with Jefferson street 81 feet to an
a. icy, feet wide, thence easterIy along
salu alley, and parallel with Seventh
ntieet' ' 10 ieet 10 stake, then southerly
parallel with Jefferson st, 81 feet to aiore-
@ salu Sue OF Seventh st. and thence along
h1s,, me sane westerly lS feet to the place OF
,ueslhnlng' be the contents thereof what
tIney may, with a three-story brick dwell
inS mousse 'hereon erected,
seized anu taken In execution as the
propefty or Thomas B. Beeson and Mary.
"a MS Wlie, and I. t., and TO be sold nv
sbar,e,s JOHN PYLE, Sheriff.
jel7-3tawLs.
The daily gazette., 1880-07-01
ENGLISH, the Vice Presidential can

ENGLISH, the Vice-Presidential can
didate OH the Democratic ticket, is said
to be "bloated bondholder," and is
very penuriOus, even to mesnness. He
is said 10 have enriched himself by
grinding the faces of the poor.-Neps.
The reverse Of the above is the fact.
Any gentleman who read the biography
Of Hon. VIM. Ii. English, as published
in the GAZETTE some months ago,
showing what q faithful Congres sional
representative he had been; his duty as a
son, and his great popularity with his
nelghbors for many years, will never be-
lieve the statement of the News.
The daily gazette., 1880-07-01

GEN. HANCOCK will not resign his
commission of Major General to run for
the Presidency. When General Scott
was nominated by the Whigs in 1852 he
did not resign, nor did Grant. Pr, ce-
dents are the other way. Garfield has
not resigned his Senatorship, nor will
he. Hancock loves to serve his country
as a soldier; and will therefore not re-
sign his position in the army until he is
called to serve it in the capacity Of
President and Commander-in-chie
The daily gazette., 1880-07-01

THE HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCE
MENT last night was beautiful
sight, and filled many a parents
heart with delightful emotions. 1t
is not often that a candidate for
Presidential nomination has an op-
portunity of presenting awards to
competing scholars. Classic history
records nothing more elevating and
ennobling than we may find culmi-
mating in our annual High School
Commencement exercises.
The daily gazette., 1880-07-01

SHERTFF'S SALE.
u by virtue of writ OF Ievari FaeIas
TO me directed, will be exposed to publ,
sale, at
THE HOTEL OF JOHN f.. LEWIS
In the iown of Newark. In White cIsy
Creek hundred. New Castle county. DeI';,
ware 'ei"-
On TUESDAY, the 9th day of July. lsso
at 10 O'Clock a. m, 'N'''
Ihe following described r, nj esfata IT.;
All u1aI certain tract of land Situated T.,
IehcAder hundred, in he county of Nev,
Oaslle ana state OF Delaware on lhe rusf
eTly klde OF ChTistlana creek VII 80
stored brlck dwelling house therenn .Ten,
ed, bounded by lands OF = Si,,,,ts,'t -
William ShakespeGF, Andrew EipsH''
DAVID McCo aughey and { thers and a.,
the public road leading from i,n"e,,,2y
nrids9 10 Newark, Obtaining 90 acres al
laid, De the same more or iesS. t5,.o, 80 y,
tne certain other tract of land siI,,,,iR 4 a. a.
rencduer hundred aforesaid. on Tho so,,,t. ~
erly slide OF Christian creek nnd hn1,,' u
Dy lands late OF William Nci'on,p'',',,'es" e"
deceased, ands of Joseph Moore efearI9i
warren. II lam Shakespear. Sndra,, a. -
fisher ana others and by Chrisiiana or,'5M,
aatoresaiu, aa ,r, cGhlainlng IS acres | rood ami
~ perches of land, more Or l.ss "hi
oei1ed anu taken In execution as H.
plop' Tiy OF David McConaughev na
ceased, (Wi liam Mct'Ouaughev' 'i ue
nn,'i4I nnieAAh@ueI @ wilson, administrators nf
Dagla McConaughey, Gece tse1D. and IN ha m
'vid ~ ~, JOHN PYLE, sheriff
$50 III oiilce' New Castle, June l6ih
Jel7-3tWts
The daily gazette., 1880-07-01

- HERIFF'S SALE.
~ by Virtue of writ OF Levari acias,
TO me directed, will be exposed to public
sale at the
LAFAYETTE HOTEL,
No. Sil Shipley street, kept by Isaac G..
Pyle, in the city of Wilmington, New
Castle County, Delaware, on
FRIDAY, The 10th Day of July, 1880,
at 2o'clock p. m.
The following described Real Estate, viz !:
All that certain farm or tract of land,
situated In Brandywine Hundred, county
ana state aforesaid, bounded and describ-
Ell as follows to wit: Beginning at a cor
ner OF land of tsau Sharpley, (now or
late OF his son, John Sharpley.) near the
three mile stone on the east side of the
Wilmington and Great Valley Turnpike
road, thence by line of said land and
land of Thomas Gibson, now or late of
Richard Rowland, north seventy-six de-
greeS east two hundred and fifty six
perches and eight tenths OF perch TO the
centre OF the newroad thence with the CEN
TIRE OF said road north twenty-four degrees
west thirty perches to Il bridge over "A
branch OF Shellpot in Jacob Martins line,
thence north the several courses OF said
bra. ch BorthweSterly by lands of said
Martin and William McCaulley sixty-one
perches more or less To William SayerS'
land, thence norh Of said Sayers land by
tne next iour courses south seventy-fOur
degrees west seventy-four and four
tenths perches TO cedar post south eighty
one degrees west ninety-one and seven
tenths perches to a stone south three an
a half degrees east twelve and eight
tenths perches TO n cedar post and south
eighty-nine and half degrees west forty
Two perches To the said turnpike road and
thehce herewith south one-half deg rec
east seventy-one perches to the place OF
oeginnlng, containing IS acres and one
hundred and eighteen perches of land, he
me same more or less with "A hOuya and
barn and other outbuildlngs.
Seized aud taken in execution az the
property of William Rotthouse and Lou
lisa, ms vile and I, t., and TO be sold by
JOHN 1 YLE, Sheriff.
Sherih's Office, New Castle. June 2Sth,
1851. JeHl-eOdtS.
The daily gazette., 1880-07-01

Don CAMERON refuses to accept
the craftsmanship Of the National Re-
publican Committee, and no one else
seems to desire it. Garfield and sal
ary-grab, sounds very badly, and is so
closely connected, and being allied
with B. Been Butler and bribe TAX
ing, that according to the Philadelphia
Times, "an engineer is wanted at any
price"