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Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-09
EASTERN SHOR E.

The lightning recently killed four COWS
at one stroke, for MIR. W. Simpson, OF
Trappe. -5
A tournament in which the riders are TO
be ladies will come of at Salisbury on
October ID
Capt Valentine Insely furnished the
Salisbury convention with watermelon
weighing 81 pounds.
Some one broke into the Crisfield post
office last Thursday night and stole two
boxes of cigars and few pennies.
Ebenezer camp, Cambridge, closed
Friday morning. The managers claim
that it was a success both financially and
spiritually.
George Conner, colored deck hand on
the schooner Aurelia, fell overheard in
Christield harbor Friday morning and was
drowned. He hailed from Newton.
Joseph r.. Prices barn and stables, at
Cedar Point four miles below Eastop, were
destroyed by fire Thursday evening.
Besides the buildings one horse and 1000
bushels of wheat were burned.
Whisky is now sold in a Crisfield saloon
through an ingenious arrangement of
sliding doors SO arranged that the pur-
chaser never sees the bartender and con
sequently no one can say who sells the
liquor.
John Ward, aten- years-old boy living in
Brinkley's district, Somerset county, was
bitten on the arm by a eopperherd snake
few days ago, while pulling water
melon. A tight bandage was placed around
the arm above the wound and melted lard
and whisky administered in generous
quantities. The arm swelled considerably,
but no further injury resulted.
Martin Dyshiell, colored, thief
well known in Somerset and Dor
chester, was recently caught stealing goods
from store. He was given his choice of
being horsewhipped or taking his chances
for the penitentiary. He chose the for
mer, and was severely cowhided. He then
babe the place adieu. Some dsys after
wards his body was found in a marsh
surrounded by buzzards. -.=-.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-09
SUSSEX POLITfCS.
The Meeting oil The Democratic
Elective Cominittee-A Proposition
10 Remand the Sheriffaity Contest
10 II Democratic Nomination Eiec-

10 Remand the Sheriffaity Contest
10 IL Democratic Nomination fiiec-
ton.
Special Correspondence OF state Journal ...#
GEORGETOWN Sept The Democratic
County Executive Committee will meet
here to-day to make out the call for the
county convention, which will be held
probably during the first week in October.
The fight for the nomination for sheriff
between John NJ. Houston and John W.
Short of Dagsboro and Mr.. Martin, of
Broadkiln, and MIR. Stevens, of Seaford,
owing to the peculiar relation OF Houston
to the party, will probably be discussed.
Houston does not az is the usual custom,
in his card announcing his candidacy, pledge
himfelf to support the successful, candi.
date and il is pretty generally known that
il Short is nominated Houston will bolt,
and there is some talk that he will run as
an Independent candidate. hoping to get
the Republicans to endorse him, and thus
TO get elected. The executive committee
have two plans which will be under discus.
sion. one being to demand the usual
pledge of Houston before permitting his
name to go before the county convention,
and the other ia to remand the whole
question to the Democratic voters of the
county and holding nominating election,
as is done in New Castle. The latter plan
has been but recently suggested, but meets
with general approval. The committee
has several presidents for such Il
course, the most recent one being
the action of the Kent County Committee
same Years ago when the candidates from
Mispiilion hundred were required to
choose between several candidates from
that hundred when the nomination WAS
conceded to it. 1t is not unlikely that
this thing will be done in the pr. sent case.
Should the election be ordered the chances
of John W. Short for the nomination
would be the best, and he would probohly
be the nominee by a large majority. He
would he nominated anyhow were it not
that the party fears the boiling OF
/ Houston if the nomination were made by
I the convention. If the nomination were
made in the other wsv suggested, his
boiling would loose its force, and would
not make any material difference,
As the contest now stands, if Short sue
ceeds in carrying his own hundred
| (Dagsboro) which is also Houston's hun
dred, he will get the nomination Houston
cannot possibly get it, and only wants 10
defeat Short anyway.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-09

Representative Frank E. Beltzhoover,
of the Nineteenth district of Pennsylvania,
Is in peck of trouble. BE ia charged
with having written very foolish Letter
to one of his constituents who applied to
him for information relative to the prob
able passage of q certain pension bill in
which the constituent was interested The
New York Tribune printed this alleged
letter last Friday, and in it Mr.. Beliz.
hoover is represented as saying that
"icith the present Democratic House pen
''sion bills do not hare much ,tagor. 1t has
"become almost impossible to get cousid-
''eration of such "a bill at all, and when
considered its chance of passing the
"House is very remote, and The rebel gen.
"eral aoho is at the head Of the Pension
"Oommittee in the Senate, is 6tW more
"averse to allo,oing any saich bills to pass.
The Philadelphia Times having also
printed the letter with some comment. Mr.
Beltzhooyer telegraphed to the editor,
tcSihiihR IL hh AoikoiNf uhh
adding that "there was no occasion or
necessity for such letter aud no reason
"why ii should have been written" Now
a Mr.. Trychett, the editor of the Carlisle,
Pa, Herald, in which paper it seems the
letter originally appeared, comes forward
with communication to the Philadelp hia
Press, declaring that the disputed letter
is genuine, that it twas received by most
respectable citizen of the Cumberland
"yalley, and that he he's ample proof to
sustain his words
The New York Tribune of this morning
takes up the cue again at this point and
says that it has the original manuscript
letter in its possession; that it bears every
evidence of being in Mr.. Beltzhoover's
hand and intimates that it will shortly
publish the letter in fac siaiile. The
Philadelphia Times of today appears to
think that the whole matter is conspiracy
ton to the suspicious fact that the "most
respectable citizen OF the Cumberland
valley is discreeily kept in ambush
If Mr.. Beltzhoover be not the author of
the letter it urges him to prosecute the
parties connected with it for conspiracy
and forgery; on the other baud If he did
write the letter it thinks it would be a
charitable Judgment to say guilty, but
drunk 5-E=".
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-09
nay Stntc Democracy.

The Democratic State Convention Of AlaHsa-
chusetts met Wednesday week in Worcester
and organized with Z, A. Collins, of Boston,
a. permanent chairman. Genera Ii. L. Butler
was chosen one of the vice presidents. When
nominations were in order motion WAS made
to nominate Butler for Governor by acclama-
ton. whereupou he briefly addressed the CON
vention, giving his reasons for going back to
the party, and positively declined to be a can
didate. Fifteen menlbers-at-large Of the
State Central Committee, including both
wings of the PARTY, were then chosen, after
which State ticket was nominated, headed
by Charles ?. Thompson, of Gloucester, for
Governor. Thompson received 536 votes to
44s for CASTOR and AZ scattering. The reso-
lutions adopted approve the Cincinnati plat
form and candidates. denounce the Republl-
can party as sectional, condemn the Republic
can administration in the State, and congratu-
late the Democracy of Massachusetts upon
the settlement Of their differences.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-09
pHILADBLpHI4 FRAUDS.



Philadelphia Times of sunday. a. -
Accustomed as the public of Philadel-
phia is TO tho careless or fraudulent expan-
sion of the list of voters, the returns of
tine registry Just completed will never
theless prove startling The highest vote
ever returned in PhiludelphlH WAS 1879 go,
in the Presidential election of 1876, and
the generally accepted average of one
voter in every five persons would make
the aggregate voting population Of Phila-
delphia, under the new census lGH, 800
This is probably not far from the actual
number of qualified electors; hut the
registry just completed by tha assessors
foots up The astonishing total of 2l0,3iG
To accept this registration as correct, we
must assume that one'fourth of the entire
population of Philadelphia consists of
qualified electors, which is simply incredi-
bic. The registration of last year was
known to be grossly ii flated, ard yet this
years lists show al increase OF some | Z 900
names. 1t is doubtful, indttd, whether
the assessors ever leave off name which
has once been recorded, uuloEs il be struck
oil by the courts. The most of them
simply copy tho lists of the year hefe' o,
without attempting 10 canvass III If div
siors, and add the names If those wi o
present Il emseives for reg stratum. return
ing the lists thus made as though they
were the result of the acua. rauvsss
which is contemplated by bw In part
this is simply Garclsssrrss; but 1T many
if not in II IN 5HtJ nt cases, il Is done
with fraudui hi Intention. HE names OF
non-rGsident- nre lift uyol TN, nsis Ill
order that they may be vnl, on ny re
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-09

The city election Tuesday resulted in
surprise to both parties, and to the Repub'
iicsns it was as agreeable as it was dis
agreeable TO the Democrats. Quiet as the
election was in most the wards and
apsthetic as the people seemed the vote
poIled was much the largest ever cast at
municipal election in this city, the sggre-
gate vote for members of Council being
g757, against 4749 last year, and 1861 in
the exciting Mayoralty election OF 1873.
The aclole OF this increase aoas in tdoor of
the Republicans, which accounts for the
change in the majority. The vote for
Council at tine three elections was as fol.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-09
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Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-09

The Fail Trade Hriak--New York's
Advantages.
The fall trade has already opened 10
New York and is in full blast. The city
ia crowded with Southern and Western
merchants, aud al unusual number OF
them are making cash purchases. It is
noted that men are buying carefully, aud
that there is very little speculation, goods
being bought to supply actual demand,
and the merchants selling at fair. though
not exorbitant, profit. The feeling among
the business men of the metropolis is one
OF great hope aud confidence, and there is
particularly a feeling that the Southern
trade is likely to grow to proportions
never before reached. The reason for
this is that the cotton crop has been
large and profitable one for several years
and agriculture of all kinds is springing
into unusual activity under the influence
of the demand for exports to foreign
countries. The South has ceased to make
her prosperity dependent on Northern or
foreign capital and her people have gone
to work making money and saving it
themselves so that the home capital is
constantly growing.
OF course the bulk of the Southern
trade goes naturally to New York. First,
because that is the greatest mart of trade
and the greatest importing city in the
country and, secondly, because the
Southern merchants feel that the New
Workers are not their enemies, as the
business men of Philadelphia have never
omitted an opportunity to show themselves.
OF course there are men of both parties
engaged in business in New York, and
doubtless they almost equally enjoy the pa
tronage of Southern buyers, but taking the
business men of that city as whole they are
not addicted to assembling in a Union
League and denouncing the Southern
people as cut-throats and assassins, as is
the habit with the Philadelphia merchants
aud manufacturers This has its effect,
aud AN artificial advantage is thus brought
to aid the natural ones of the metropolis.
I We recently heard Pennsylvania man
ufacturer declare publicly that he believed
this wretched habit on the part of Phila-
delphia business men was the cause of the
necessity which exists on the part of
Philadelphia manufacturers for opening
salesroom in New York or consigping
their manufactured goods to New York
commission merchants. People will not go
among people who choose to show them
selves bitterly hostile to them, and the
Southerners who recognize the fact that
tn Philadelphia Union League with its
bitterness and intolerance is nothing but an
a.semblage of the Philadelphia business
men with their war psint on, naturally
avoid the city. This fact containsa useful
lesson for great many of our Wilmington
people who at one Time seemed TO desire
to show that, as WHOLE they despised
the people of this State and Peninsula.
Taere is happily less of this folly now,
but It had its effect in alternating the good
will OF a people whose trade ought natu-
rally to come to this city, We know that
" business is business, and that men go
where tLey can buy the cheapest,
but after ali sentiment has
! something to do with the matter
) and irhlences men not a little wher,
, the business advantages are nearly equal
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-09

We Lave read carefully our own report
of Mr., Higgins speech seconding the
nomination of Judge Houston for Con
gress and we have also read the Morning
Nea0S report of the same to see if it agreed
with our own, and found that it did. 1t
seems, then, that what we print elsewhere
was what Mr.. Higgins said; but that is
about as far as we can get
in understanding anything about it.
How is history repeating itself in
nominating man who ran as the candi.
date of different party, and was elected
in the far off days of "the distant and
dead generations ?" And, what under
heaven has William H. English to do with
Judge Houston? We cannot understand
what it means, and doubt if any one else
can. We hope Mr.. Higgins will publish
a card telling the people what he meant
to say, lie does not Task either clearness
or brilliancy, and we are satisfied that il
he would he could talk most entertainingly
about last weeks convention.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-09

1t certainly was hard that the young
Dslawarean pro tenn. who went up to
Chester county to abuse his adopted State
and charge the party in power with fraud,
should himself have been thrown out of
Republican State convention on the
ground that he WAS frsudulently elected.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-09
The Isepublicnn pln,lnrm.

The resolutions adopted by the lsepub-
liean Convention at Dover last week, 50
far as they relate to National affairs, doubt.
less express the sentiments of the great
majority Of Delaware Republicans. The
open denunciation Of the old Jefferaonian
doctrine Of States Rights is in accord with
the temper Of border State Republicans,
oven more than with that Of tn party in
the states surely Republican, for there
is feeling in the latter that States Rights
may be a very good thing TO fall back on
if the Democrats gel hold of the Federal
Government Here however there is no
holding back and the foundation stone of
our dual system Of government is frankly
seorned and Capitalization openly pro-
claimed as the ore great good accom-
plished by the war.
Bat, when it comes to the declaration Of
ideas ard principles concerning local
matters, we doubt if the resolutions will
be so entirely accep'as l. % Delaware
Republicans lhey may agree with the
declaration Of di4trics presentation on
the basis of population Tor that is % OBJ
yiousiy falr that sry purity sec king power
would nnur1jy advocate il. but
We aopbt il the conservative farmer
element ia The Republican party,
which Us the way, Vas once more promi-
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-09

The harmony at Dlyer last week,
appears to have been of that kind decrihed
by the old dsrkey when, speaking of some
trouble he had had with another man, he
said "Oh, YES, verse made up long 'go
II aiot Rwine'ter hab no fuss wild dat
imam he kyars ton long an arm for dis
''chile.'
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-09
Afraid That Wilmington Will Conn
pete With Philadelphia.

All that may be done to make Wilmington,
Delaware, larger, more prosperous and more
populous, either as u commercial city or man
ufacturing emporium. has our heartiest good
wishes for its success, since nothing can be
clearer than that the city pays tribute TO Phil
adelphia very largely at present, and must
continue to do SO even ii it should attain the
magnitude of Newark or Brooklyn. Our only
regret is that while the minor cities of New
England still retain their commercial interests
undimnished by the Capitalization of Boston,
the city of Wilmington, Delaware, thinks it
necessary TO enter into competition with Phil
adelphia, instead of seeking a commerce of
its own. PhHddelIhid North american.
The idea somewhat vaguely expressed
in the above paragraph is that while the
North american would like very well to
see Wilmington grow so as to be II good
customer TO its large neighbor, it would
prefer that it should do so without i'm
proving its natural advantages. Whining
ton has within its corporate limits, and
but three quarters of a mile from some OF
its greatest manufacturing establishments,
fine port on the Delaware river, thirty
miles nearer the sea than Philadelphia, and
OF en- when the port of Philadelphia is
blockaded by ice in the Horse Shoe Bend
OF course, il that wharf front were util-
lied, connected, as it would be, closely
with Philadelphia byI rail, il would for
many Years be in the winter season of
vastly more advantage to the trade of
Philadelphia than to the general husin. IS
[ of Wilmington. htt+ - IL .ut ,llV nF opnrca
that Philadelphia newspapers should fail
to see this and let their jealousy crop out
in such paragraphs as that quoted.
Some day, We suppose, the idea of the
identity OF interests of the commerce Il
the Delaware will penetrate the Phil9del.
phia brain, but for the present it is impos.
sibe to enlarge the scope of even Philadel.
phia's imagination so az to widen itt
horizon thirty or forty miles. Meanwhile
Wilmington will 60 ahead, doing all in its
power to improve her natural advantages
without asking whether it pleases Phia
delphia or not. We owe that city neither
thanks nor consideration. 1t has never
treated MS with justice, much less gener
osity, and the narrow selfshness which
dominates its business policy, has mad
Wilmington, which might have been to i
an ally and q willing contributor to il
greatness and growth, look upon it as
almost an enemy. Our people who desit
the speedy extension of the citys from
. to the Delaware are NOT likely fo hnv
their enthusiasm checked by tie evidenc
.hat the Philadelphia North 4merfca
thinks We ought TO seek prosperity in SOM
: other way.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-09

We now have Judge Houstons own
word for it that he does not intend to
resign his place on the bench, though run
ming as a party candidate for office. This
is a gross violation of the best traditions
of the State and public scandal. We
regret it for the sake of the State and the
bench, and We also regret it for Judge
Houston's own sake as we cannot shut our
eyes to the fact that he will lose the
respect of many who have hitherto looked
up to him as model public officer and a
genuine Delawsrean of the old school.