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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-06-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A pair of slippers-Two eels.
Well-wishers-Thirsty travellers.
All watering places depend upon a
floating population.
Two hundred railroad bridges are said
to have fallen within the past ten
years.
About 1886, 800, 900 gallons Of fbeer were
manufactured in the United States in
1879, and I,545. 100000 gallons in Great
Britain.
The annual paper collar product is
now estimated at $50, 600, 600. Nine
teen establishments are engaged in their
manufacture.
The United States has 927 paper mills.
representing 800, 600, 900, which pays
out SO, ,555, 900 to %. coo employees. They
make one-third of all the paper produced
in the world.
German manufacturers have found
another use for paper. They make
stoves of that material, in which the fire
blazes cheerfuIly without the slightest
injury to the paper inclosing it.
Attention has been called to the ex-
istence of large apiaries in a crowded
quarter of Paris. From sugar reEReries,
in the vicinity the bees secure an abun-l
dant supply of sweets, making thd'
hives a profitable investment to theil
Owners
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-06-17
Four.

In 1853 four gentlemen entered their
sons at boarding school at Cokes bury,
South Carolina. They had been for
years intimate friends and clereymen
in the Methodist church. These boys
remained at this school, room-mates
and mates for two years. and
entered Wofford college, standing
relatively first, second, third and fourth
in large class. They remained at this
institution four years, were room-mates
al the time, graduating relatively first,
second, third and fourth. They then
entered a law office at Spartanburg and
studied law under the same chancellor.
The war broke out, and at the call for
troops they all entered Jenkins rife
regiment from South Carolina, and were
messmates in the same company.
Being near the same height, they stood
together as comrades in battle in this
regiment. At the second battle of
Manassas, August. 1864, a shell from
the enemy's battery fell into the ranks
of this company, killed these four boys
and none other in the company. They
are buried on the battlefield, and sleep
together in the same grave. Their
names were Capers, McSwain, Smith
and Duncan, and they were the sons Of
Bishop Capers, Rev. Drs. McSwain and
Smith, Of South Carolina, and ev. Mr..
Duncan, of Virginia, the last being a
brother of Rev. Mr.. Duncan, OF Ran
dolph Macon college The grave is
marked by q granite cross, and inclosed
with an iron railing.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-06-17
How Wheat Grows,

The first stalk (plumule) of wheat
that comes up is the only one the grain
itself produces. In the spring. when
the wheat plants begin to spread, each
stalk begins to throw out tillers, which
come from a ring encircling it, about
half an inch below the surface. Every
tiller, like its parents, has q ring and
follows suit in the same way, and so on
ad infniLum to four, five aud sometimes
many generations-if l may use the
term-provided the alluvial elements
in the soil are abundant enough. A
branch or limb of tree is not a tiller,
but corn suckers, wat 5r sprouts on fruit
and other trees, coming from the roots,
are tillers. Now, if your correspondent
will pull up stool of wheat in April,
and wash it carefully, he will find every
root and stem attached, first to the
parent, then to the next, and so on like
bees to their queen. or ants to one an
other, when they bridge the streams in
South America. One grain of wheat,
when given the proper plant food and
cultivation, and when permitted TO
carry out its habit, will cover from nine
to twenty-five square inches of ground.
Wheat is gregarious; it likes company
of its own kind, but not that of another.
i know of instances where bearded
wheats have almost entirely choked out
and killed smooth varieties, when sown
together. Rye and oats, chess, cookie,
cheat, and some early weeds, will de-
stroy almost any wheat field. Farmers
would do well--far better-to SOW
genuine seed, all of one kind, without 9
single grain of any other, either oi
wheat or foreign seed. Wheat is sc
sensitive that it will not tolerate ever
other wheats, especially bearded. tc
say nothing about weeds CssltiUntor-
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-06-17
Milk as Food.

Unadulterated, undiluted, unskimG
and properly treated milk, says the
London Lancet, taken from a healthy
COW in good condition, and produced
by the consumption of healthy and nu-
tritious grasses and other kinds of food,
contains within itself in proper propor-
tions, says Professor Sheldon, all the
elements necessary to sustain human
life through considerable period of
time. Scarcely any other article Of
food will do this. When we eat bread
and drink milk we eat bread, butter and
cheese and drink waterfall of them in
the best combination and condition to
nourish the human system. All things
considered, good milk is the cheapest
kind offood that we have, for three pints
of it, weighing three and three-quarter
pounds, and costing fen cents, contain
as much nutriment as one pound of
beef, which costs fifteen cents. There is
no loss in cooking milk, as there is in
cooking the beef, and there is no bone
in it that cannot be eaten; it is simple,
palatable, nutritious, healthful, cheap
and always ready for use with or with
out preparation. This is to say that,
chemically, three-seYentbs pounds of
milk is the equivalent of one pound of
beef, in fesh-forming or nitrogenous
constituents, and hree-seventeenths
pounds OF milk is the equivalent Of one
pound of beef, in heat-producing ele-
ments, or carbohydrates. We must
therefore assume from the data offered
that the relative of beef and milk as
human food are as three and one-half
pounds to eleven and one-half pounds,
or as, in round numbers, one to three
and one half
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-06-17
A Steep Railway.

A letter from Naples, written by one
of the nine persons who made the ex-
perimental trip on the new railway to
the crater of Vesuvius, gives some par
ticulars of the line and the journey The
actual railroad is 800 meters long, and
terminates 200 meters short of the
mouth of the crater. The inclines are
tremendous; four in ten for the first 135
meters; sixty-three in 100 for the mex
$50 meters; then fifty-six, fifty and
finally forty-eighu in the 100 for the re-
mainder. The carriages are drawn up
by a steel rope of forty-nine strands,
which is coated with tar as protection
against rust. An hours drive from
Naples takes the traveller to the noun
tain observatory. An excellent new
road, nearly two miles long, has been
built by the railway company from the
observatory to the railway station The
ascent on the railway was made in
seven minutes, but it can easily be made
in five. The motion was quite smooth,
but the sensation on looking out is far
from pleasant, and a feeling akin to
sea-sickness is said to arise. The view
from the summit repays all the trouble
The writer says that at every step one
feels the proximity of the great store
house Of heat. He was informed that
great pillars of smoke frequently burst
| up from the ground, close to the spol
| where the railroad ends and greai
| chasms open, swallowing up anything
which may be on the spot, so thatltht
expedition may sometimes not bi
wholly Tree from danger.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-06-17

little cioaks are entirely covered with
tiny sprays Of hand-wrought embroid-
cry. Besides the nainsook cloaks two
blankets are added for wraps in every
infants layette, one of fine flannel with
a simple border, the other of cashmere
ela5orately embroidered. The little
ecru muslin close-ftting infants caps
have an entire crown of delicate Saxony
work. They also have frill of muslin
around the face, and soft muslin strings
to tie beneath the chin. The general
fancy for bright coloring has caused
some encroachments in babies ward
robe effects, and. though the best taste
still prefers pure white sashes, many
fashionable mothers now include pale
rose-colored and baby-blue Surah
sash among the other effects Of thoir in
fants' layettes.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-06-17
How Ladies' Dress i'm Persia,

She wore bright red satin skirt,
richly embroidered with gold lace; it
was very full and short, barely reaching
to her knees; loose jacket of blue vel
vet, also much htrimmed-this time with
silver lace; the sleeves were made OF
cashmere shawl, buttoned by about
twenty small buttons. She wore several
necklaces, most of them very massive,
studded with several turquoises. On
her head she wore a white shawl, with
a band of Jewels round her forehead,
and at one side large pearl star. She
had on both arms at least dozen brace
lets-some handsome ones, some only
bands of colored glass. Her feet were
covered with coarse white socks: her
shoes green leather with scarlet heels.
Some of the ladies wore bright red
trousers reaching to the ankle; but this
was quite the exception. They wear a
long veil reaching from head to foot
generally made of some smart print OF
muslin. ought to mention that every
lady wore a small leather case around
her neck, containing some earth from
Mecca and verses from the Koran. The
faces of my hostess and friends were
much decorated, the eyebrows broad.
ened and carried quite arross the nose
Some had small designs iittooed on thl
cheeks. The hair is very long anC
thick, generally dyed red; it is worr
plated in many thin tails, twisted will
gold thread. The hands are we'll shaped
but nails and palms are stained darl
red. TSnsley's Magazine.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-06-17
A wonderful Cleck /.

An ingenious clock, the work OF
Professor Felix Meters, of Detroit, is on
exhibition in New York. This CLOCK is
eighteen feet high, eight feet wide, and
five feet deep, and weighs four thou
sand pounds. Ii is wound Orce in
twelve days, and is run by weights of
seven hundred pounds. 1t shows the
local time in hours, minutes and
seconds, and the time of thirteen other
cities OF the world, among which are
Washington, San Francisco, Melbourne,
Pekin. Cairo, Constantinople, st. Peters
burg London, Berlin and Paris. IL
also denotes the movements of the
planets, and measures their movements
by seasons, years and cycles for two
hundred years. including leap-years.
Concealed in its interior is a music
box. which plays when Death strikes
each hour. At the same moment the
figure of Washington, seated in chair
beneath a canopy, rises to his feet, hold-
ing the declaration of independent in
his right hand. A liveried servant sit
ting mt the right hand also rises and
opens door, through which come all
tile Presidents of the United States. who
march in review before the efiigy OF
Washington, saluting him as they PASS.
The procession disappears through q
door ON the opposite side Of the plat
form, which is opened and closed by 4
servant in livery. AS soon as the door
! IS closed. the figure Of Washington re-
sures its chair of state, and Hll y quies
until the hammer of Death again SOU
| the hour on the gong. when the, VI
ord mary scene IS repeated.
ter-hours are struck by au
half hours By youth and
| quarters hy q mann.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-06-17
VOL. IL.
A Fair Offer.

Scuri ous-lik e." said the tree-toad-
"Ive twittered for rain all day;
And got up soon,
And l hollered till noon,
But the sun Jest blazei away
Till Jest clumb down in crawfish hole
Weary at heart and sick at soul!
Dozed away for an hour,
And 1 tackled the thing again--
And l sung and sung,
Till I knowed my lung
Was jest about give in;
And then, thinks l, il it don't rain now
There's nothin' in singin', anyhow!
Once in while some farmer
Would come a drivin' past,
And he'd hear my cry,
And stop and sigh,
Till Jest laid back at last,
= Ana hollered rain till thought my tn oat
Would burst wide open at every note
But fetched her! Oh, fetched her
Case a little while ago
As 1 kind O. set
With one eye shet,
And singin' soft and low
A voice drapped down on my fevered
brain,
Sayin'-s If you'll jest hush I'll rainn'
j. ". Riley.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-06-17

ceived call from three bright, interest
ing young girls, who, to her utter as
tonishment, informed her that old Doc
tor Blunt had recommended her as Just
the person to become president of a
Dorcas society.
"Oh, you must, you mustn they
chirped in concert, and before they LETT
she had partially promised to accept
the position-to her own dismay.
But when the minister called a few
days afterward and said old Doctor
Blunt had insisted that a class of un-
ruly boys in the Sabbath-school, who
needed teacher, was just the work
adapted to her case, she succumbed at
once, " surrendering at discretion all
right 70 decide for herself
Miss Lacey finally wrote the doctor a
spicy little note, telling him she believed
any more of his peculiar prescriptions
would undo the wonderful cure already
accomplished.
But of late the village gossips could
not fail to notice how continually the
young doctor called at Mrs. Lowell's
house.
One morning as the elder doctor was
coming out of the house, he met Lawyer
Peckham, when the following charac-
teristic colloquy ensued:
Hi! Good-morning doctor. Well,
l hear the young doctor is about TO
bring daughter for you to the family
mansion"
Eyes. yes!'-very quickly. "Well,
well, there's room enough in the house
and my heart for the precious girl, the
good Lord knows, and as for young
Blunt, M. D.,-who actually presumes
to believe he loves and appreciates her
better than I do-the renegade! if she
can do anything toward reclaiming that
graceless case-There! forgotten my
gloves, true as the world must go back
for them. Morning, Peckham."
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-06-17
Fashion Fancies.

Large collars are to be revived.
Bismarck shades will be worn in the
fall.
Amber-colored roses are worn on
black hats.
All sorts of lace and net mitts are
worn.
Bunchy and aggressive draperies are
dying.
Illumination of red or orange grows
in favor for black dresses.
Almost all the female companions oi
Queen Victoria are widows.
The Queen of Sweden is liable to 90
out any moment with heart disease.
Many linen suits are made with al
most plain skirts and plain round cor
sages with wide belts.
The most fashionable long gloves for
full dress are of undressed kid, white
or in very pale shades of color.
The Norristown Herald thinks it queer
that the PhiIadelphia policeman who
turned to stone should be regarded as a
greater curiosity than the one that
turned into beer saloon.
Mrs. Southworth, the novelist, has a
quaint cottage at Georgetown, d. c.,
built in the crevice of high, steep
rock, and commanding q series OF ex-
gu site views of hill and river.
Rough and-ready straws, both black
and white, and with wide. irregular
brims, are worn as archery, lawn, gar
den and coaching hats, trimmed pro-
fusely with feathers and bright flowers.
A New York correspondent tells an
interesting story about four women who
go to dinners and receptions to talk and
to help the hostess entertain her guests
The price for their services is $25 an
hour.
1t is not safe to be like one of the pro-
tessional London beauties. A lady was
mobbed in Hyde Park the other day, the
crowd blocking up the walk in front OF
her chair, and some persons standing on
the seats to look at her, and all because
she resembled the Jersey lily.
For day we the old white skirt is
being superseded by those of black, IDs-
terless silk, trimmed with several mar
extreme elegance choose the petticoat
exactly Of the same shade or a decided
but harmonious contrast.
French dress designers make the
sides of some of their skirts to represent
five large box plaits Eyelet holes or
bound button holes are then made in
the front edges of two of these plaits,
and the front of the skirt is laced across
with cords that tie and fall in cluster
of spikes, balls or tassels near the bottom
of the skirt.
The double pins attached by chains,
that have been out of fashion for SO
many years, are now being revived, and
are used for caps and cravats. In the
caps they are placed either across the
front or to one side, and on the cravats
they are fastened in one above the
other. They are also to beseen in some
of the new velvet and lace toques for
outdoor wear.
Mittens of black and white silk are
still very popular for evening wear, and
some of the most elaborate are very open
and fine, and have small flowers en-
broidered on them in colored silks.
They are very long, and are kept up by
colored satin ribbon run in and out at
the top and tied in bow. The most
elaborate of evening hose match the
mittens in fneness and embroidery.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-06-17
NO. AZ.
Small Things.

The smallest crust nsy serve human life;
The smallest act may lead to human strife;
The smallest touch may cause the body pain
The smallest spark may fire a field oi grain
The simplest deed msy tell the truly brave;
The smallest skill may serve a lie to save;
The smallest drop the thirsty may relieve;
The slightest look may make heart to grieye,
Naught is SO much but that it may contain
The rose Of pleasure or the thorn of pain.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-06-17
Two Epitaphs.

We pause before stone in Luton
churchyard, and this is the warning it
gives us:
Reader, have lett world
In which | had world to do,
Sweating and fretting to get rich
Just such a fool rs you
In Ellington churchyard upon the
tomb of John Trees:
John Trees, aged seventy -tour Yeas,
Poorly lived and poorly died;
Poorly buried and no one cried.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-06-17

Full ruehes of black lace form ruffs
high about the necks Of most handsome
summer mentillas, dolman yisites and
shoulder cal1 l1es.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1880-06-17

In Paris the great rage of the season
is for dotted fabrics. Large dots. little
dots, polka dots, Japanese dots, Chinese
dots, French dots, printed dots, brocaded
dots, light dots, dark dots; dotted
dresses, dotted mantles, plain fabrics
every size and eyery stye dots forever ousS
such is fashions decree for this sea-
son The rage for dots equals that for
stripes which reigned a-short time ago.
The second daughter Of Nellie Grant
artoris Il named Vivian.
, 1880-10-10
OHIO.
AN IMMENSE DEMONSTRATION.
THE GREATEST, POLITICAL DEMONSTRATION
:, EVER WITNESSED IN CLEVELAND.
cr,efa1 nt.nn+rh IN 9y.s chs.ono T~sh.,-.


THE GREATEST, POLITICAL DEMONSTRATION
:, EVER WITNESSED IN CLEVELAND.
Special Dtspatea to 1as Chicago Tribune
CLEVELAND, O., Oct, 9.-The most excit-
ing campaign held in Ohio since the one Of
1S6o. eliminated here tonight. in one Of the
greatest demonstrations ever seen in the city
The past week has been one OF hard work on
both. sides, Democrats as we'll as-Repnblicans
exerting, themselves to the utmost, and the
canvass has been as thorough. as possible,
the Republicans having apparently the ad~
vantage all through. The great feature OF
to.day's gathering was; the mammoth parade
which took place this afternoon. The man.
ufacturing and business interests Of the
Western Reserve we're fully represented, and
it Is needless to say that spare horses we're
scarce. The procession was nearly an hour
in passing given point. In it were men Of
all classes, from bankers aud mer-
chAntB:t to. clerks and laborefs,- in
solid phalanx. There were about thousand
veteTan Boys In Blue. Tonight speaking
tpok' place at three points,--the Opera House,
the Armory, and the pavilion in the public
square,-large crowds being present at each
place. At the Opera-House "9-' -
3. -. THE HON. EMERY sToRRs,
OF Chicago, addressed fine audience, among
them large number OF ladies. On the plat
form were many Of the wealthiest and most
prominent citizens Of Cleveland. Afr. Stor1s'
speech related to the comparative state of
affairs, OF the country while under Dem
, 1880-10-10

THE POLITICAL ror BOILING OVER,
spfe.e1 ptspattA 70 Tie cnteqas qt1osn,s:
~MMwXuKEE, ssWis:;; Oct. a-TorchlfgR
.prosassl8 fis5: Assembly ;caucuses, and HaH
nlasSmeetings are the order througkoutsh
city tonight The interest in>politieal nal
tiers can, hardly become any greater aftentls
result in Indiana and Ohio Is heard nett
week. The hottest fight Is over The CD
gressional representation, although >1aaea
quiet figuring has been done in the Repuh
ltcan Assembly caucusess by the frlcnds,M
,Keyes and Sawyer. The tity ,resistfada
shows that there ;ars 600 or i, ,ooo more yol2
to be cast this fall than ever before. w
also known that the increase is fayorable44
the Republicans. It need not surpriseany oil
It Casper II. Sanger, the Republican n6tilna
for Congress, gets 5,000' niaj6rity In :4filwsn.
kee County. Hewitt certainly get 1000, and
his majority In the district cannot fall shot
Of 1900: The Republicans were never so;'
49,. =. ,.~->. WELL ORGANIZED =. j.. .;~El
I~more harmonious, and they are making
thorough, Intelligent, and effective canraH
while the opposition is without head, t1H
brains, or anything useful IN tho way Of r4
organization. Even the whisky is reported
as inferior this yeaE- SangeE's s.imuienSe pop
ularity and peuster's infamous War record:
which was not exposed in the calnpaESnot
1678; have killed the Democracy. OF MikHs&
kee County as dead as herring. =
, 1880-10-10
SOUTH CAROLINA.

- ''F =. AAEs afEtENI. IEASQc~ :'yu
WlAsHEGToy; D. C., Oct. 9.-Secretn!
Schuz this afternoon made public the repQr
of~Superintendent Walker: OF the Census
Bureau, on the: alleged census fra1lds$tal
South Carolina Thn General gives snis3s
reasons for believing the census" of 1870 q.
correct; attributing it mainly to defects o.
the law under ;whfch:it was taken that q
1850, and adds: i" The. Investigation :lnsa:
tuted places 1t beyond a doubt, first; that ~
census Of 1870 ewas: grossly detective; ~
second; that the census: of $3.50 gas, ssff
startially well taken. lnno instance die. apE
thing appear which bore the semhlanta e
fraud in the returns made TO this once ~ Y
the enuhneratprs Of 1880. III some distnta
nearly: every family was identified as. = Taas Tas.
dent in the township. nOtW ithstandsnE. .,st "
great extent Of South CaroIina to%nsat9s
some 90 . Of which :embraeo 1V rs E
Identification, was carried far enough
putIt beyond doubt that the fault Of lmpo,ss
bic gains reported over the census q -
lay with the preceding enumeration, * seHt
pears to me that the report OF Special Assya. Asyye..
Garrett satisfactorily settles the QuestlgMac;ss
70 ths fairness Of the tenth census IN 2esss
Gen: Walker in conclusion says of Ae.mF A:aF
yestigation:~ II know Of no reason wig hE,at1 Tx
further charge should be made .against4 .an W
enumeration recently brought to conc3asEstn1Ss 81 ia
Government In South Carolina, TIE. Ris
sumption which: existed against thetf Na1 NMS
has been completely oyerthrown,a and = ssfuhhT ~
countef-p has been fereate,a II Il
,verifieation upon the ground .of ,schedn!s31ss*
inhabitants, In the case OF eighteen ena%fs1l
ration districts successively taken foI syssifS sysifS
Investigation on account Of their excep
ably questionable character" ;;