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The daily gazette., 1880-09-23
From the New York Sun.
The Real Point Of the Maine
ElaCtl0n

Election.
Because Of the delinquencies Of the
Republi 3an newspapers and orators, the
rank ana file of that party are likely to
mis- the realpoint Of the M aine election o.
Viewed in It's national aspects and meas.
ured by lis legitimate effects upon con-
tests in other States, 1t Is not of the
slightest consequence whether Plaisted
Jr Davis has carried Maine by a plural
Ity Of q couple or hundred. 1t is not
the probable loss of Governor by a
handful of votes that 80 alarms the Re-
publican leaders BUTT Is the utter fail J.
ure of Blaine and his lieutenants to full
I'LL at the polls their pledges during the
canvass, which has aroused distrust in
Republican circles every where. IL Is
the wide Ill ference between the present
results and those of all previous Presi-
dental years, that has sent q chill of APP
prehension through the ranks of the
party all over the country.
We have looked into half a dozen
leading Republican journals In as many
Western States, and we find tina on the
morning of the election in Maine, they
predicted majority for Davis for Gov
srnor of from 1000 to $4,000. 1t Is evil
dent from the tone Of these newspapers
that they had received their Impressions
from Blaine. At the East, the Repub-
came more moderate in their anticipa-
tons. But even here aud in New Eng
land the leaders Of opinion In the party
claimed a majority of between 5000 and
5000. Just before the election, that
gorgeous, blower MsjOr-Gen. Judson l..
Fitzpatrick, fresh FROM the stump In
Maine, assured the New Jersey Repub-
licans that Davis would get q majority
of 10000
These glowing prophecies have come
TO naugbt. The tide sets strongly in the
opposite direction. The terri BILE disas-
ter in Maine at the Sc ptember contest
will be followed by the defeat of the
Garfield electoral ticket in November.
New Hampshire feels tho shock; and
the granite ribs of the party in that
State are likely to yield to the pressure.
Connecticut did not need.the inspiration
of victory 10 Maine to make 1t sure
for Hancock.
So much for New England. But 1t Is
at the west that the results In Maine
will produce the greatest effect. They
will certainly give Indiana to The Dem
oorats in October, and they will proba-
bly, cause a Republican defeat on the
same day in Ohio; while Pennsylvania
on the east and Illinois on the west will
be apt to follow their neighbors in No
mber.
We repeat then, that, looking at the |
Maine election In its effects upon the |
Presidential campaign, 1t is a matter of |
slight nom ent whether Plaisted or Da-
Wis has succeeded by handf2l of votes.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-23

A profuse and many times exces.
sively offensive discharge from the nose,
with stopping up" of the Nose Mt times,
impairment OF tine sense of smell and
taste, watering or weak eyes, impaired
hearing irregular appetite, pressure and
and pain over the eyes and at times In
the back of the head, cold feet, and q
feeling OF lassitude an 4 debility, are symp
toms which are common to caGarrh, yet
all of them are not present In every case.
DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures catarrh
In its worst form and stages. It's pleas
ant to use and contains no poisonous or
caustic drugs. So sure a cure IL It that
its former proprietor offered for years In
all the principal newspapers of the land
a standing reward of $500 for a case 1t
would not cure. Sold bv druggists at 80
cents. sept. SOW
The daily gazette., 1880-09-23

STRAwBERRY PLANTS. ca o.
y All the leading varieties, Crescant.
Col. Cheney. Sharpness, X entucky. Green
Prolific, &C., on hand and for sale ohesp.
The plants are vigorous, and are now In
time or very soon, II you want q oro
next year.
Plants In pots, rs cents per hundred
Is cents per hundred. All orders promplIv
attended TO-. A. +. kITTENHOUaE'
State Road p. o., New Castle CO.. lei
Road Station. Del. r, n a
The daily gazette., 1880-09-23

Philadelphia, New York and Boston E
change furnished to regular Depositors
without charge.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-23

President Hayes and party arrived
Ia Sacramento on Tuesday evening,
and were escorted 10 the residence of
Ex-Governor Stanford. Yesterday they
were escorted by a military procession
to the State capitol, where reception
was held. The city was decorated with
bunting, and business was partially
suspended.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-23
FJNHE ARTlzANS SAVINGS BANK.
500 MARKET STREET,

500 MARKET STREET,
INcoRPoRATED JANUARY oath, 1881.
Open to receive deposits dairy from A
M, until P. M, and on Tuesday and Sat
urday evenings from to O'Clock.
SEMI-ANNUAL DIVIDEND,
regularly made In April and October.
When dividends are not Withdrawn,
manent deposits compound their interes
twice In e@'n SM NAT;
Clement Il. smyth, George "; Bush,
Henry Hen1 F. ! Dure. Ed psriinstou
W. Hastings, Job III. jackson,
Anthony Higgins.
GEO. W. BUSH President.
feb2l:ly e, T: TAYLOR Treasurer.
L,IRsT NATIONAL BANh
OF WILMINGTON
REPOSITORY OF THE PUBLIC MONEY
FINANCIAL AGENTS ASG OF THE UNI
TED STATES.
EDWARD BETS, PRESIDENT.
GEO. ID. ARMSTRONG; CASHIER
Paid mp Capital. 100000.
Philadelphia, New York and Boston E
change furnished to regular Depositors
without charge.
Discount days. Mondays and ursda''
DIRECTORS.
GoSn r. R p asmsth eSO asrr vi Bust
Henri Henry ). McCOmb, sas'i bancroft, ur.
Daniel James, William Tatnall,
Edward B"us. ianI-1y
The daily gazette., 1880-09-23
General NeiUS.

Yesterday was the coolest day on
Mount Washington since the 10th of
May last. The thermometer register.
ed 81 degrees at o'clock in the MORN
ing ann "a degrees at o o'clock in the
evening.
The first order for silver certificates
based ON a gold deposit in New York
was received by the U. s. Treasury
yesterday. 1t was for 1916, 900 to be
paid in st. Louis.
The Spring Garden Bank of Phila-
delphia yesterday promptly honored
single check for $303, 912 Al, drawn to
the order Of California parties.
The following Democratic nomina-
tions for Congress were made yestsr-
day: First New Jersey District, Au-
gustus W Cutler; First New Hampshire
A w Sulloway; Second Wisconsin, J
G Gregory.
Arthur Bingham, ex-State Trsasur-
er, has been nominated for Congress
by the Republicans of the Seventh
District of Alabama.
The twelfth reunion of the Army of
the Cumberland began yesterday in
Toledo, Ohio. About 500 members of
the society were present, among them
Generals Sheridan and Garfield. Gen.
eral Sheridan presided.
The body of Gen A T A Torbert ar
rived in Jacksonville, Fla, yesterday,
and was laid in State at the armory,
honors being paid by ex-Confederates
as well as Union soldiers to the dis
tinguished dead. The body will leave
this evening by steamer for New
York.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-23
GEN. TOM EWING ILL.

LANCASTER, Ohio, September 21.-
General Ewing telegraphs to his wife
here from Charleston, Arizona, under
date Of the 10th, that while on his way
homeward he was taken down ON the
10th inst, with an attack of malarial
fever; that the doctor had ordered
linn to Santa Monica, CAL, for the ben
eft of the sea air, and interdicted all
business and politics.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-23

\, ss;' e., OF Oil iStidENy0ery.hing for the
!; cN Window Ks; Folding GRs% ocG,S or
'adred, Ana hats Other l men, q j,
augl0-da we
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-11
Why Aunt SalIie Never Married.

The following yarn is an old one
but Will bear reading several times. and
each time provoke a laugh:
Now, Aunt Sallie, do please tell us
why you never got married. You re-
member you said once that when Won
were girl you were engaged to minis
ter, and promised us you would tell us
about 1t sometime. Now, Aunt, please
tell u.s."
well, you see, when I was about
seventeen years old | was living in
Utica, in the State of New York,
Though [ say it myself I was quite
good looking girl then, and had several
Deaux. The one that took my fancy was
young minister, very pious young
man, and remarkably steady. He thought
a good deal of me, and kind of took a
fancy to him, and things went on until
we were engaged. One evening he came
to me, and put his arms around me, and
kind of Rugged me, when [ got excited.
and some Illustrated. It was long time
ago, and don't know but what might
have Rugged back little. I was like
any other girl, and pretty soon I pre-
tended to be mad about it, and pushed
him away, though [ wasn't mad bit.
lou must know the house where ] lived
was on one of the back streets of the
town. There were glass doors in the
parlor, which opened over the street.
These doors were drawn to. | stepped
back little from him, and when he
came up close [ pushed him back again.
pushed him harder than [ intended
to; and don't you think, girls, the poor
fellow lost his balance and fell through
one of the doors into the street."
ooh, Aunty! Was he killed."
No; he fell head first, and as he was
going caught him by the legs of his
trousers. I held on for minute and
tried to pull him back, but his suspen-
ders gave way, and the poor young man
fell clear out of his pantaloons into a
parcel of ladies and gentlemen along the
street."
'Oh Aunty Aunty LordyW
There, that's right; squall and giggle
asmuch as you want to. Girls that can't
hear little thing like that without tear
Ing, around the room and he-he-ing in
such way, don't know enough to come
Ii when it rains. Catch me telling you
anything again"
"But, Aunt sallie. what became of
him? Did you ever see him again?
NO; the moment he touched the
ground he got up and left that place in
81 tcII1DI0 uluIy C0lI YOU IL w dS d oISuG
to be remembered. How that man did
run We went out West, and believe
he is preaching in Illinois. But he never
married. He was very modest, and l
suppose he was SO badly frightened that
time that he never dared to trust him
self near woman again. That, girls, is
the reason why I never married. felt
very bad about it-for he was a real good
man, and I've often thought to myself
that we should have been very happy if
his suspenders hadn't given way"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-11
Artemus Wards Audience of Five

New York Tribune There are yet
living in Pottsville, Penn, several gentle
men who never hear the name of Artemus
Ward without smiling recollection of a
pleasant night spent with the drOll genius.
In the winter of one of the earliest years
OF the war. Artemus Ward was advertised
to deliver his famous lecture on the
"Mormons," in the town hall at Potts.
vile. Much curiosity was excited by the
announcement of his coming, and there
was every reason to expect that the hall
would be crowded on the evening of the
lecture. But one of the fercest snow
storms that ever visited the town ranged
without intermission all day, and the
night was wildly stormy when the lee
turer was driven to the hall. He found
there awaiting him only five men who
had 0efied the storm. Advancing to the
front of the stage, and reckoning with his
finger as if to single individual, Arte-
mus said, in the ordinary conversational
tone, "Come up closer" Not knowing
precisely what to do, the audience OF
five compromised with their embarrass-
ment by doing nothing. Artemus chang
ed his tone to that used by one who
wishes to coax, and said: "PIease come
up closer and be sociable; I want 10
speak to you about a little matter [ nave
thought Of" Having succeeded in getting
his audience 10 move up near the stage,
the humorist said: 81 move that we do
not have any lecture here this evening,
and I propose instead that we adjourn 10
the restaurant beneath and have a good
time" He then put the motion, voted on
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-11
Camel Riding.

Mounting the camel is not difficult,
but it has some surprises for the novice.
The camel lies upon the ground with all
his legs shut up under him like jack
knife. You seat yourself in the broad
saddle and cross your legs before you on
the pommel. Before you are ready,
something like private earthquake be-
gins under you. The camel raises his
headquarters suddenly, and throws you
over upon his neck, and before you re-
cover from that he straightens up his
knees and gives you jerk over his tail !;
and, while you are not at all certain what
has happened, he begins to move off
with that dislocated walk which sets you
into see-saw motion, a weaving back
ward and forward in the capacious sad
de- Not having hinge back fit for this
movement, you lash the beast with your
koorbash to make him change his gait.
He is nothing 10th to do it, and at once
starts into high trot, which sends you
q foot into the air at ever step, hobs
you from side to side, drives your back
bone into. your brain, and makes casta-
nets of your teeth. When you have
enough of it you pull up, and humbly
INQUIRE what is the heather method of
riding dromedary. 1t is simple enough.
Shake the loose halter rope Che has Meth
er bride nor bit) against his neck as you
swing the whip, and the animal at once
swings into an easy pace; that is, a
pretty easy pace, like that of a rocking
horse. But everything depends upon
the camel.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-11

il, even though he were insensible anC
inanimate all the while. In the mean
time, the wheel went round and round
with the ruff an along with 1t, steadily
and Increasingly, too. In vain did he
promise the stout-hearted girl to work
her no harm; in vain did he implore her
pity on his helpless :ndition; in vain
did he pray to all the powers OF heaven,
and adiure all the powers of hell, to his
aid. She would not hear nor heed him ;
and, unheard and UNDECIDED OF them like
wise mutterlng curses, he was whirled
round and round in the untiring wheel,
until at last feeling and perception failed
him, and he saw and heard no more. He
fell senseless on the bottom of the engine,
but even then his inanimale bOCy con-
tinued to be whirled round and round as
before. The brave girl not daring 10
trust to appearances in connection with
such villain, and being, therefore,
afraid to suspend the working of the
m machinery, Or stop the mill gear and
tackle from running at their fullest speed.
A loud knocking at the door was short
ly after heard, and she fastened thither
1t was her master and his family, acc IN
panied by several OF their neighbors. The
unaccustOmed appearance OF the mill
sails in full swing on the Sunday had, as
she had anticipated, attracted their atten-
ton, and they had fastened home from
church for the purpose of ascertaining
the cause OF the phenOm9 non. The faith.
er bore his little boy in his arms; he had
cut the cord wherewith the child ives tied,
but he was unable to obtain any account
of the extraordinary circumstances that
had occurred from the affrighted inno-
cent.
Hannchen in few words told ali aud
then the spirit which had sustained her
so long and so well while the emergency
lasted, forsook her at once as it passed
away. She fell sensoless into the arms of
the miller's Oldest son, and was with great
difficulty recovered.
The machinery of the mill was st once
stopped, and the inanimate ruffia1 drag
ged forth from the great whe5l The
other ruffian was brought down from his
prison. Both were then bound and sent
off to Bonn under strong escort, and in
due course came under the hands of the
town executioner.
It was not long till Hannchen became
q bride. The bridegroom was the miller's
son. who had loved her long and we'll, but
with q passion previously unrequited..
They lived thenceforward happily to-
gether for many years, and died at good
old age, surrounded by fourishing FAM
lily. To the latest hour of her life, this
Iave.hearted woman would shudder as
she told the tale of her danger and her
deliverance,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-11
Leather.

Leather has long history. If it is
too exclusive motto that there is moth
ing like leather" very few manufactured
things are older. It was probably the
very first bit of manufacture-rude, yet
suited to its purpose, the use of bark for
hardening and preserving skins having
no doubt, been practiced in prehistoric
times. Even our progenitor-tAe an
Gent Briton-used strong hide thong
to throw his. stones with, and was scantily
clad in leather-anticipating the odd
desire of George Fox, the founder Of
Quakerism. Within the period of au-
thentic history, it has been legislated for
and protected, and often included in
sumptuarv regulations. 1t is very odd to
read that in England in the sixteenth
century complaints were made that skins
were tanned in three weeks, thus uncon-
'sciously shortening the period of use
and wont, which had been about one
year, and that in consequence an act
was passed in 1888 prohibiting tanners
from selling hides that were not attested
to have been nine months in the tam
pit. And the jealousy of rival guilds
which did something in old days to Sc
cure the division of labor, if nothing
more, is also seen in the history of
leather. In 1899 tanners were pro-
hibited from being shoe makers; while
in 1865 butchers were precluded from
becoming tanners under a penalty.
Some of the restrictions which sur
rounded the eather-manufacturer
actually remained until 1880. when they
were completely removed by an act of
George ". Free trade in tanning, then
introduced. gave an immense impetus to
the application and extension of the
chemical discoveries which had been
made by Seguin in 1856, and by Sir .
Humphrey Davy in 1903.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-11
LITTLE BROWN HANDS.

The Following lines said to have been written b,
glri fifteen years of age, are pronounced by Miles
Ished them four times and declared he liked then
efter every time he read them:l
They drive home the cows from the pasture
Up through the long, shady lane.
Where the quail whistles loud in the wheat field
That is yellow with ripening grain.
They find, in the thick waving grasses,
Where the scarlet-lipped strawberry grows,-
They gather the earliest snow-drops,
And the first crimson buds of the rose.
They toss the hay jim the meadow,
They gather the elder bloom white,
They find where the dusky grapes purple
In the soft-tinted October light.
They know where the apples hang ripest,
And are sweeter than Itays wines;
They know where the fruit hangs the thicl1est,
On the long, thorny blackberry vines.
They gather the delicate sea-weeds
And build tiny castles of sand;
They pick up the beautiful sea-shells-
Fairy barks that have drifted to land
They wave from the tall, rocking tree-tops,
Where the orioles hammock nest swings,
And at nighttime are folded in slumber
BY song that fond mother sings
Those who toll bravely are strongest:
The humble and poor become great;
And from those brown-handed children
rShal grow mighty rulers of state
The pen of the author and statesman,
The noble and wise of our land
he sword and chisel and palette,
Shall be held in the little brown hand
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-11
cultured Charleston or Savannah woman
Leading her fork with nrai nn Of rioo xu;th

cultured Charleston or Savannah woman
leading her fork with grains of rice, with
out spllllng kernel, is the acme of In.
telllgent manipulation. The older one
grows, and the better he becomes acquain.
ted with the world and its habits, the less
IastlQlous one becomes in regard to the
conventionalities of life. The pretty
Japanese girl, with the clean hands, who
takes the boiled rice with extended fingers
out OF the well-scrubbed pail, and puts it
In your lacquer saucer, does it so we'll
and gracefully that you do not call for q
spoon Much.feedi Pasha, who has sedu
lousy washed his rather coarse
fingers before he tears off tor me the
thigh of the pillaued chicken, acts
according TO the rules OF etiquette
in his own country, and it is an ill-man.
nered man who finds fault with it. Ger
tainly the Turk would have right to feel
horrIiird if, at the conclusion of Eu-
ropean repast, he should see the concSues
gurgllng their mouths in q most foul and
disgusting way. Baron Won Kalbfe1sch,
attached to the Prussian legation, does
hold his knife in a most distressing way,
and the position of his cutting instrument
Is so awkward that he rarely does succeed
even in dlsmember1ng e sweetbread. But
tAoh WAC EVheiUAlau, tuouSu uo uhS UCCu
In France with the army at Gravelotte he
played distinguished part, has never
acquired the manners OF that country.
Still Miss Bwoun showed her bad breed
ing and ignorance to US (when he dined
last with her at her fathers table) in hav-
ing commented on his German ways
Different men, different manners.
Now, Miss Bwoun did try, in very
silly way, some years ago, to foster that
absurd fashion of eating with her gloves
on. If she had not been laughed out of
1t, she would have worn her marauise
ring outside of her glove. To eat with
gloves on is female snobbery. Young
women who 60 out to parties may be
lavish of gloves, and may be indifferent
to smearing them with lobster salad, or
to have the first finger and thumb darken-
ed where the spoon touches them. But
nothing is prettier than the freshness of
woman's hand, and the best fitting glove
is after all but an awkward thing. Gloved
hands that feed, to keep up the whole dig
nifty of the thing, should find mouths
which were hidden behind wells.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-11


"Gentlemen," said Mr.. Lincoln one
day during wartime, to several western
men who called upon him to criticise
the Administration, suppose all the
property you were worth was in gold,
and you had put it in the hands Of Blon-
din to carry across the Niagara Falls on
a tight-rope, would you shake the rope
while he was passing over it, or keep
shouting to him, 'Blondin, stoop little
more Go little fasterp No, am sure
you would not. You would hold your
breath as well as your tongue, and keep
your hands off until he was safely over.
Now, the Government is in the same sit
uation, and is carrying across stormy
ocean an immense weight; untold treas
ures are in its hands. It is doing the
best it can; don't badger it; keep silence
and it will get you safely over"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-11

it himself, declared 1t carr ed, and to give
no opportunity for an appeal from the
chair, at once led the way to the restau
rant. There he introduced himself to
his intended auditors, and spent several
hours in their company, richly compens-
atine them for their disappointment in
tbs matter OF the lecture by the wit and
humor OF the stories and anecdotes, with
out number, that he told And this is
how Artemus Ward lectured in Pottsville.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-11

A writer in the Springfield Republican,
without the fear of Richard Grant White
before ms eyes, asks "Shall we make it
querlod z" thereby avoiding cumbrously
speaking OF a mote of interrogation
1t is good Idea, and queriod is as good
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-11

Why are all games of chess of equal
duration? Because it always takes four.
knights to play game.