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Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29

Ford, caused suit to be entered against R.
B. Hayes, Chief Justice Waite, and the
other claimants under the Baltimore Il lie,
and n commission WAS sent here to take
testimony. The aged sister of Mrs. Ford
was put under examination, but did not
disclose anything except that she mac,
never made the dispositions which were
presented in court at Toledo. Afterwsrd
she sent for Mr.. Handy come 10 her
hotel. To him she said that she had kept
that secret over fifty years, and SHE
couldn't keep 1t any longer. She was an
old woman now, she said, ard could not
from any fear Of shame SEQ a wrong like
this be done. She therefore Intended 10
make clean breast OF 1t. Accordingly,
when she appeared before tho commission,
she said she had never been asked the
direct que tion as to who was Emelir,e's
father aud mother; that she knew, land
was ready to tell. The Toledo lawyer
asked
who WAS her father and mother ?"
81 am her mother" she replied, "hnd
her father WAS an Irish sea captain, who
left Baltimore shortly after her BIRTH"
She then stated how her sister Lovey
had hid her shame for her huw she re-.
turned to her native place and mar led
and raised her Large family. and how tlios,,
who knew her secret faithfully Ike, il
The effects OF this disclosure, il q Ven
credence 10y the courts which, M the
statements of the sister have ben uiiplv
verified, il highly probable. will br that
Mr.. Hayes aud The other owners OF the
property, many NJ whom N" recent pur
chus"rs, will he dispossts.ed ia favor ot
the Connecticut heirs
Mrs johnson did nj her housr in
SOM rset county last year. MIS- timslirt
has been dead many years.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29
n NEW RAILROAD MOVE.
Humored Lease of The Eastern shore
railroad by the r., w A II IN


railroad by the r., w. a BCo
1t ia reported that the Phlad lphip,
Wilmington ~ Baltimore Railroad Con-
pany either has leased or il shout 10 lease
the Eastern Shore railroad and il also
making preliminary arrangements looking
towards thebuilding of abranch line from
the latter 10 extend down through North
ampton and Accomac counties Virginia.
The report could not be- verified last
might, but 1t was learned that about a
dozen leading stockholders o. the COM
psny went down to Cristi Id Tues 'ay.
Among the party were President Hlnck-
ley, Superintendent Mills, Charles Warner
and j. Taylor Cause, and it is understood
that the obj ct of tie visit is to examine
the Eastern Shore railroad thoroughly
and perhaps close the negotiations for its
lease
The Eastern Shore connects with the
Delaware railroad at ID lmar and is lracti-
oally continuation of the same from
there TO Crisfeld, a distance Of 80 miles.
The chief town on the line is Salisbury.
which is six miles below Delniar, and the
natural business center of II lal 20 slrrnnnd.
ing territory. very large ,radr is dom
mere In lumofr, oysters, Pc tches and truck,
the carriage of which forms large por-
ton of the revenue of the East, IN Shore
rond.
At Newtown Junction, about lG miles
below Salisbury and three south of
Princess Anne, branch road strikes off
southeastevly for distance If 10 miles TO
Newtown, small place some five miles
north of the Virginia State line. The
project of extending this branch down
through Eastern Virginia to Cberrystone
Inlet, In Northampton county, has been
aRitated before, but the project will doubt
less be fully carried out if the F., W. IL
Is. Do. takes hold of it.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29
motion was apparently from west to east md
was accompanied by loud rumblinp noise

motion was apparently from west to east md
was accompanied by loud rumbling noise
The coroner's investigation OF the death NJ
Mrs. hoddy, in Cincinnati, has shown that
she died, not from poison, but from eiTusion
OF blood upon the base of the brain.
Thomas j. Powers, Deputy Recorder of tbe
city OF Philadelphia, has been notified by Gov
Hoyt, to the office Of coroner, vacant by the
death of DIR. William Kent Gilbert w
The National Board of Health is adv,aed
that there were 8 cases OF yellow fever and 4
deaths at Nassau, N. p, during the week
which ended on the 10th instant
Milton Story, aged 81 years, died of hydro-
phobia at Thompson's station, near Nasbyille
on Sunday night. He was bitten by dor
about four months ago.
Patrick Swayne has confessed, at Auburn
n. y, that he and Horace Exner murdered
Henry Page Mt Montezuma, years ago. BotI
have been arrested.
b. dratz Brown'has announced that he will
be one one of the Democratic candidates fnr
United States Senator before the next Iepis.
lature of Missouri.
The Commonwealth newspaper. of Rich
mond, Va, ceased publication yesterday Tbe
cause is said to be the sufficient one, of "yant
of support"
telegram from Little Rock says that CITY.
has defaulted in the payment of about
rlO, 600 interest on its bonded debt due I'M
month. ''
Alexander Mattheson was fatally stabbea
by Mrs. Ann Lynch in Portland, Oregon, on
Monday, because, AZ sho alleged, he insnlted
her.
Two cars full of German immigrants -men
women and children. passed through Peters
burg, Va, Tuesday, ON their way to Georgia
continuous rain at Petersburg, Va. yes-
terday, replenished the water supply of that
CITY, which had become very low.
The complete census of Boston gives that
city population of 1868, 565, an increase ns
77,O66 during the last 10 years.
1t isdenied that there have been anv casa,
OF pleuro.pneumonia among the cattle in
| Nova Scotia. a.
Mrs. Lumsden was killed by lightning while
| lying sick in bed, near Wilmington, n G.,
Thursday. ~
Senator Conkling and General Chea,er
A. Arthur, of New York, are in Qubec To-
| gether.
The encampment Of the Grand Army of
| the Republic at Gettysburg was broken up
| Friday. ~
| The Pernambuco telegraph cable is broken
| between Pernambuco and Bahia.
All the plasterers in Omaha have struck for
an advance of 50 cents per day.
The population of Columbus. Ohio. IA fixed
by the census at 81 GA,
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29

There is a contest in the Second Mary
land district between Mfr. Talbot the
present member of Congress and MIR.
Constable who aspires to succeed him.
Those who heard Mr.. Tslbot's drunken
and treacherous Tilden speech from
the balcony of the Grand Hotel
at Cincinnati during the recent
convention, will be apt to think that
II the Second district does give him
another term, it had better elect a
constable also TO take care of the young
man when he goes from home. He was
forced to abandon his attempt to go as a
delegate to Cincinnati and then went out
there to treacherously oppose and thwart
the wishes of his people.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29

Signor Mnnti in the ATLANTIC for August,
describes ''Sicilian Hospitality" which
extends even to the payment of purchases
made by guests; also love-making among this
simple and kindly people, which appears to be
carried ON unblushillgly inpublic ''The still
water Tragedy reaches startling, but possibly
not unexpected d,7,o~mpd
There is well-written sketch Of the Pueblo
Indians, and one exceedingly clever and fam
tastic Of the supposed "Prcceptor of Moses
Except the brilliant and delicious bits Of
poetry there is little better in the number
though Mark Twain's contribution is
as bitingly sarcastic as if it claimed Dean
Swift for its author. ..--..
"An Englishwoman" accuses us of immense
waste of mental energy in objects of curiosity
and knowledge. Much of the mischief she
charges upon American newspapers. They,
she says, with very few exceptions, are con
temptible if you lind one page free from
triviality, vulgarity, sensationalism the
omission is fully made up elsewhere" She
bears down with special acrimony against
those Saturday night issues bonevolcntly
designed to spice the leisuroNof Sunday.
Altogether she secs no enticing amount OF
sweetness and light" iii the ''New England
Hills Country" but rather " surprising
amount of stagnation gossip, as much
enjoyed by men as women; drunken
ness, profanity, ill health and other
things sad to relate of the descen-
dants of the "Pilgrim Fathers" Her con-
Guiding words, however, arc more cheerful
and commendatory than the reader has any
right to expect.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29
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ION THE OTHER SIDEo
Generai TOrbert says He Does N
BelOng TO the Hancock yetera,

General TOrbert says He Does Not
heiong 10 the Hancock Veterans
Association.
Every Evening July 81.
EVERY EVENING printed yesterday the
names of the Executive Committee of the
National Association of Hancock veterans.
SO far as appointed and among the names
was that of General A. 4. A. Torbert of
this State, late Consul-General Mt Paris.
General Torbert in response to the publ
cation says:
Edaor Every Eoening: In your issue of
yesterday you give my name as member of
the Hancock Veteran Association. The action
taken by said association was without any
authority from mo. However much may
IKE Gen. Hancock personally am not 4
nation. am as usual on the other side in the
hght. A. 7. A. ToRBERr.
MILFORD, DEL, July 81.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29

PERSONAL.

The Town Commissioners of Middle.
town have posted notices warning tramps
to leave at once.
W. 7. Biggs, of Summit bridge, intends
removing to Middletown and is preparing
to erect handsome brick dwelling there.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29

Dr. Richardson's minute suggestions as to
"Health at Homo" are continued in the
August APPLETON, ono of his favorite
theories being the necessity for thorough and
frequent addition of walls; he has. during the
progress OF his essays, been furnished with
Wallpaper which will wash like linen" How
much more expensive than the ordinary this
is, is not stated
Stopford Brooke shows both his apprcca-
tion of Shelley and his sense of his insuh-
ciencies. He is, more than anything else, the
poet of the clouds and sky.
Bennington Atkinson expresses his views of
cart i'll Daily Life with refreshing freedom
from d0gmatism. The worth and interest of
German Dialect Poets, as bringing out the
simple life and deep feelings of the common
people, is charmingly expressed. Sir Robert
Collier discourses with excellent feeling upon
Landscape Painting" ...
The review of some old books of domestic
economy,th work of Dr. Kitchiner, musical
and medical gourmand Of generation or
two back, a perfect Brillat-Savarin; indeed, in
devotion to pleasures of the taste, reveals a
curious fund of old-fashioned notions, British
prcjudicGs and practical common sense. The
number contains nothing more readable.
Swinburncs last volume. almost unique III cX-
pressing the rhythm and glory Of the sea, and
Goodwin Smiths "Cowper' find fayorabl,
criticism. though the latter appears to carry
nosstartling developments
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29
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Maryland and Hayard,

New York World interview with Sen ator Iiormau
There Were great many i'll your
state, l suppose, who desired the nomiua.
ton of Senator Bayard?"
Mr. Btyard lisa great favorite through.
out Maryland. He married II MARYLAND
Lady, and as the Eastern Shore of our
State and Delaware have identical interests
Mr. B4yard Id regarded as being almost
one of our Maryland people and that
fact, taken III connection with the stand
which he had taken in the S nate ON the
great Questions affecting the interests of
the Whole country, and esp. c.aly upon ii
nancial matters, made him vcr, great
favurite with us. Indeed [ might say il
was almost the unanimous wish of the
Democrats OF ,h5 State that no eh.. uld be
nominated -
How then did his friends rect i've the
nomination of Hancock ?"
His friends in the State while adyo
eating him understood perfectly well that
1t was question not Of personal prefer
ence but OF the best policy to be pursued
and when 1t became evident at Cincinnati
that Hancock was a more available csndi
date, the loyal Democracy yieldt d IL cir full
adhesion and have all entered the canvass
as Bayard himself has done, with the de.
termination to do everything in their
power to secure to Hancock and the osuse
of Democracy glorious victory-as eIori.
Gus ~ If their Efforts were for Bayard."
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29

II is now asserted that DR.. Hammond,
OF New York, is egging DR.. Tanner on in
bis forty-day fast. But what sort of q
fast Is it when run on Harmon eggs.-
PhLadeLl1Aio Bulletin.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29

Ii the Boston fruit dealers are really
serious in their demand that peaches shall
be delivered in Boston as early as they are
in New York they had better tow Boston
down into New York harbor. We see no
other way to accomplish their desire.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29

General Garfield as a Congressman OPP
posed the bill restraining Chinese mmigra-
ton, aud after 1t was finally passt he
voted 10 sustain the Presidents veto of
it yet, ~ Presidential candidate, he
commits himself to the anti Chinese plank
in the Chicago PLATFORM and gols rather
beyond it in opposing Chinese immigra-
ton. As Congressman he voted as he
really believed rs a candidate, he makes
professions to catch the vote of the Pacific
coast
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29
A Prospective Heightened Wedding

UtOTRbtuWH UUTrtsIlOnueIce Sunday MirrOr
Rumor has il that we are to have high
toned wedding here some time next fall or
winter. The thigh contracting parties
i believe that is what you call them in
the city-are said to he a Milford news
paper man, noted for the good clothes he
wears, and daughter of a deceased
Attorney General of the State.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29

The New York HerdM should establish
geographical department in its office for
the benefit of its editors. One Of them
yesterday, in noticing the death Of the
fasting lady, Miss Belville, locates Della
ware City in New Jersey.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29

Amypos of the silly and ungraieful at
tacks on General Hancock, Tile Mutton
sarcastioally asks which side he fought on,
and EXPRESSES suspicion, suggested by
the utterances of its Republican exchanges,
that he was Confederate brigadier. F"
Why, certainly, more than that. We
already notice the three stars placed on
the collar which distinguish Confeder
ste Lieutenant General figuring in one OF
Nast's cartoons of Hancock.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29

There is no question rs to the desira-
bility Of the purchase by the State of
Delaware of the documents relating to its
early history now in the possession of the
heirs of the late Coroner Gilbert, of Phil
adelphia. Meanwhile the Historical.
Society should see what can be done to
delay any disposition of the documents
till the Legislature can act
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29
Our Mines the Only Real Hanks OF


tNsuts
BnlLOn declares for the recognition
of our gold and silver mines as our only
" real banks OF issue.' They are certainly
the onlJ institutions which add anything
to the stock of real money in tho world
and they give US the only real money we
have except the stock already in hand aud
that which comes to us by importation of
gold. II seems very difficult, however, to
make people comprehend that what
ever serves the purpose of money
is not yeritable money. The usual answer
of an uathiuking person assured that a
bank note is not money is 1t is good
'enough money for me" Yet these notes
only differ from the old state bank notes
in that their payment is secured by q
deposit OF bonds with the United States
treasury, and if they were not secured
they would not be good enough" for any
one who had not found out in some way
to his entire satisfaction that they would
be paid in money on presentation. If
notes were money they would not need to
be paid.
1t seems absurd to print such simple
truisms in newspaper, yet we believe
there are more people who have clear
comprehension of the action Cf the electric
pulsatious in producing simultaneously
identical Vibrations III two telephones
than there are who comprehend the essen
tial ference between what is called
"a dollar note and Il real dollar of
25s grains of gold, niua.tenths fine
The confusion Of thought seems
confined to treasury notes and bank notes,
for though checks play as important a
part in business transactions rs either of
the kinds OF notes named no one seems to
mistake them for money, but to regard
them rightly,as mere orders TO pay money.
yet drawn By good firm they serve some
Of the purposes of money quite as well as
bank notes can do. II BultiDa can make
people comprehend what money really is,
it will probably secure pretty wide
assent to the assertion We have copied
from IL in our first narapranh
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29

We hope the rumor that the Philsdel-
phia, Wilmington IL Baltimore railroad is
about to lease or acquire possession of the
Eastern Shore railroad is true. 1t is
ridiculous that the whole of the straight
line of continuous road from here to Girls
field should not be under one manage
ment.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-29

The Boston Ad0trt,Ser lustifying the
Louisiana fraud on the ground of State
Rights and quoting Senator Bayard's
opinions Of the rights of each state over
its own electoral votes, is a spectacle for
Gods and men. When did the AdCertiser
learn that states had any rights The four
villains in Louisiana, who swore to the lie
which the Electoral Commission accepted
concerning the vote of Louisiana had no
warrant under Louisiana laws to take
one of the steps they did take.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-18
Cumb erlauu CouCre.

The concert given Monday night at Union
Hall, Cumberland Centre, by the Yarmouth
Band under the dictatorship of Prof e. A.
Blanchard, and assisted by the Cumberland
Centre Male Quartette was the best of the
season, and was heartily enjoyed by the large
audience present The Yarmouth Band has
made wonderful strides during the past year il,
their playing and can now render operate
selections and all concert pieces almost equal
to the best. One of the best musicians in tn.
State ranks them next to Chandeliers incom
parable band. They certainly handled tn.
difficult potpourris fantasies, and selections
from the popular operas, in manner tina
would 10 credit to any of our leading bands.
We shall hear from them the coming presi
dential campaign undoubtedly. The Gu m.
herland Centre Male Quartette, consisting of
A. Howard Buxton, E P w. True, F. s.
Sanford and Carol J. Prince, have become
quite celebrated this winter in their concerts
throughout the surrounding towns. Their
singing Monday night fully justified the en-
comiums heaped upon them. Messrs. Bux-
ton and True are too well known and appre-
ciated to need further comment more than that
they fully sustained their well earned reputa.
ton, merely saying that Mr.. True's bass song
The Old Sexton" was finely sung and re
ceived merited applause Mr.. F. S. Sanford is
young aspirant for musical fame, and iudg-
ing from the manner in which he sung the
song entitled "Let me dream while life shall
linger," he is destined to make his mark in
that line. He has deep rich voice, very full
and clear in the lower tones, and has pleasing
presence
This combination of talent gives as fine and
pleasing concert as one wishes to hear. The
applause was frequent and loud, and the en-
cores numerous. &C
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-18
Burglaries.
A GANG OF BURGLARS IN PORT.
LAND.
Harris Wool Shop and Harmon's Jewelry
Store Entered.

The other night the wool shop of Messrs H.
M. and II. A. Hart on Portland street was en-
tered by burglars and some 400 wool pelts TAX
en-, valued at about $l.5O piece, or about
5000 in all. No trace of the burglars has vet
been found.
Some time Monday night the jewelry store
of George A. Harmon in Mechanics Building
was entered by burglars. The rascals broke
off two padlocks which fastened down the
grating in the rear of the store, and threw the
grating to one side. They next smashed a
window underneath the grating and gained en-
trance to the coal bin. Here their progress
was arrested by heavy door. This was burst
open and the thieves found themselves
in the cellar. At the foot of the stairs leading
to the store was another door, fastened by a
large prop, one end of which rested against the
door and the other against the doorsill of an
other door inside. The burglars evidently
used some sort of a battering ram here, for the
doorsill of the inside door, against which the
prop rested. was literally pushed from it's
place by the violence of the pressure which
had been brought to bear on it. At the top of
the stairs was another door which had to be
burst open before an entrance to the store
could be gained. After getting into the store
they turned down the gas and made thor.
ough rrmmage. They took, however, only
eight opera glasses, twelve silver and twenty
five plated silver napkin rings, some silver
plated spoons and forks, and revolver. TIL.
thieves left their tracks on the soft sand of tn.
cellar. These showed that one must have
been man and the other a boy. They ais
opened the drawer in the Mechanics Library,
where the fines we're kept, and got some IS
IS in cash. Two fellows were arrested on sus
picion yesterday afternoon.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-02-18
Obituary.

by the death Of Rev. Russell Streeter, on the
10Th inst, the Unversalist church has been
called to part with one of its earliest and ablest
ministers He was pastor of the First Univ err
salist church Of this city, and for six years,
lS2l-21, he struggled earnestly and ardently to-
win converts to then comparatively new sect
With voice and pen he increasingly advocated
the reason for the hope that was in him, and
established upon firm foundations the church
which grew up under his fostering care. He
was contemporary of Payson and Nichols,
honored names in Christian households. though
long since passed away. Mr.. Streeter while
hrst in Portland, established and edited "The
christian Intelligence" which greatly IL
creased his influence in the neighborng towns
lie was fearless and Jealous controversialst,
eminently fitted for the pioneer work which he
was called to perform. His second pastorate,
which he always called pastoral visit, extended
from lS47 to 1854, and was an eminvntly pleas
ant and profitable connection. What of the
hre of youth was lost, was more than counter
balanced by the calm conviction of age ami
experience, so that he was welcome to ALL His
later years have been years of stuff ering, pa
tiently borne, until he was released by DEATH
In few weeks he would have been 80 wears
old. He is to be buried this, Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock, at Woodstock, VT,
where he has resided for several years. We
think the members of the First Universalst
church and Congress Square cannot honor
themselves better than by honoring their first
pastor with a memorial painting or window in
their already attractive church. T..