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The daily gazette., 1880-03-16

THE la w-abiding citizens of Cali
fornia are sincerely desirous of sub
sidence of that social revolution whose
advocates promised so much and ac-
complished no results beneficial to the
masses. On the contrary, nearly all
the industries at San Francisco have
been suspended by excitement gotten
up by the Kearneyites. The Pioneer
Wooden Mills company have discharg-
ed every Chinaman in their Employ
Hitherto that company paid out $16,-
900 per month for white and SO 900 to
its Chinese employees. The. jute. fac
tory at Oakland has discharged all its
Chinese employees, 800 in number
Both the mills and the factory have
ceased operations and shut up for the
present. Similar suspensions have
taken place in every other branch of
business, causing extreme distress
among the working-classes. They look
in vain for the relief confidently prom
ised by the arch agitator and his gang.
Riot and plunder are interdicted by
the State and Federal authorities -
The old Vigilence Committee that sup
| pressed anarchy in San Francisco
twenty years ago have entered their
protest against turbulence and vio-
lence, and as protective association
will aid in the establishment of local
order and in insuring to the Chinese
residents of that city the rights and
privileges secured to them by treaty.
Tbus ali the buster and bravado of a
lawless mob have ended in naught
that could possibly rebound to the
benefit of the working classes.
A preventive of malaria and fever will
be fnnnd in DIR. Bulls Baltimore Pills
Pncs only only % GEMS
The daily gazette., 1880-03-16
Ctmcimmatt's White Elephant.
ITS OPENING TO BE CELEBRATED BY
THE BIGGEST FEED ON RECORD.

ITS OPENING TO BE CELEBRATED BY
THE BIGGEST FEED ON RECORD.
The Cincinnati mind will be occu-
pied this week with the great Southern
Railroad excursion and banquet. 1t
is the means adopted by the merchants
and manufacturers of Cincinnati OF
forming the acquaintance of the bust
ness men of the region opened to trade
by the new Southern Railroad. Dele
cations will come from Tennessee,
Alabama, Georgia, and South Caro-
lima. They will be brought from
Chattanooga in three long trains and
returned there, transportation free.
Arriving Wednesday evening, they
will be driven to Music Hall, where the
banquet will be spread. The arrange
ments isr this feast are on colossal
scale. Thirty tables on the floor oi
the auditorium will seat 1900 guests
10 on the stage 240, and these with the
reporters and special tables, will make
the total number of plates set 1, ,770.
The contract for the banquet was
taken by Mr.. Roth, Of the st. Nicholas,
at $4,000. There will be 500 walters,
all colored men, dressed in uniform,
with white gloves and jackets. The
tables will be set with 1900 glasses
1000 dessert plates, 8, 400 dinner plates
and other articles in proportion. The
floral decorations will be elaborate,
one of the features being an locomo.
tive eight feet in length. The streets
traversed by tho party from the depot
to the Music Hall will be brilliantly
Illuminated, and an effort is being
made to secure the general illumina-
Of the city. The object Of the Gin.
cinnati merchants is to impress the
visitors with the city's hospitality and
good will towards them, and so lay the
foundation for future profitable bust
ness relations. The excursion parties
will have nearly all their expenses paid
from the time they start till they re.
turn to their homes. Some difficulty
has been experienced in making a
distribution Of invitations and com.
plants are heard from the lower end
of the line that lawyers and politicians
have secured an undue share. Through
trains are running daily on the new
road and making good schedule time
The daily gazette., 1880-03-16
Rain 70 order.

General Ruggle's plan for making
rain to order by exploding dynamite
in balloons recalls the scheme propos-
ed by Professor Espy, some years ago,
for producing rain over the whole
country at once. 1t is well-known
fact that large confagrations tend to
cause rain by sending warm, moist air
into the upper regions of the atmos-
phere, where the vapor condenses and
descends again in showers. As rain
storms in the United States have a
general motion to the eastward, Pro-
fe Ssor Espy suggested that once week I,
in the summer time, line of fires, ex-
tending 500 or 900 miles in north and
south direction, should be started in
the far West. This, he calculated,
would produce q belt Of rain that
would sweep sideways across the cotin-
try, lasting only two or three hours in
one place, and finally passing the At
lantic sea-boapd to carry grateful
showers and welcome breezes to be
calmed and sun-warped vessels many
miles out sea. The trouble with
these schemes for improving upon ma
ture is, that the rain bureau would
never be able to satisfy all the people
10 be rained on. One farmer might
want a shower to revive his parching
crops, another would wish fair wealth.
er in order to harvest his hay. Rain
storms are unruiy, and good smart
shower, started for the benefit Of New
Jersey agriculture, might easily es-
cape across Che North River and
pounce upon the unsuspecting shop
pers and pedestrians in Broadway
Upon the whole, it would seem to be
wiser to let nature continue to regu-
late the rain rather than turn that
duty over to General Ruggles of Vir-
ginia or Professor Espy.
The daily gazette., 1880-03-16
Female Suffrage IN WISCONSIN.

Wisconsin must in future be set down
as the champion female suffrage State.
While Massachusetts and Connecticut
and New York and other States have
been doling out small installments of
what is called justice to woman, accord
i4g to the gentler sex--the petty conces-
sions Of the right to serve upon school
boards and to vote when they possess a
certain amount of property-the Legis'a
tnre of the Badger Stale has at bou d
st aside the scruples of the more con
servative Commonwealth, and without
regard to previous condition of servitude,
race, religion or sex, declared that in
their opinion women are as fully en-
titled to exercise the right of suffrage as
men, A resolu ion to this effect has been
almost unanimously passed by the two
houses of the Legislature, and we are
told by the local Journals that the pas
sage Of the bill vas greeted in the Senate
with ssthunderS" of applause by the fair
occupants of the galleries. The ques-
ton is not, however, definitely decided,
for it seems the trifiing obstacle of the
State constitution STANDS in the way, and
it will be Necessary to amend that ill.,
strument before the women of Wiscon-
sin can enter upon the full career of If !,
liber and the pursuit Of happiness.
The daily gazette., 1880-03-16

ISIRST NATIONAL BANk
OF WILMINGTON
REPOSITORY OF THE PUBLIC MONEY
AND
FINANCIAL AGENTS OF THE UNI
TED STATES.
EDWARD BELTS, PRESIDENT. no.
GEO. ID. ARMSTRONG; CASHIER.
Paid mp Capital, S0OO,OOO.
change furnished TO regular Depositors
without charge. :,
Discount days, Mondays and ursday.
at $50 A. M.
DIRECTORS. 90.
Clement B. Smyth, George W. Bush
John III. Adams, iii GARRETT
Henry s. McComb, sam,l Bancroft. .Jr.
Daniel James, Wiiilam TatnaI
The daily gazette., 1880-03-16
listers ORDER.
REGISTERS OFFICE

REGISTERS OFFICE.
New Cattle Co. Feb. IL 1881
or Samuel Hanby9
hatSr ~ OF John Osborne, late OF
wihe hundred, In said county, de-
N ORDERED and directed by the
mat the Administrator aforesaid
u.,ee OF granting OF letters OF ad-
a,oh upon the estate OF the deceas-
ale GATE OF granting thereof, by
snNertlsements TO be posted with
uays from the date OF such letters.
VI tns most public places of the
VI NeW Castle, requiring all per-
IN uehlands against the estate LO
ule saine or abide by an ACT oTAs-
~ such case made and provided
ho cause the same to he in.artaj
rrn % same period In the DAI.Y
IN - newspaper published in vii
ana anu W Dc continued therein three
4 Given under The hand and seal
I o,ollce Mlce OF tue Register aforesaid.
4, ~ NeW Castle, In New Castle
"'o'esaid the day and year above
d q. BlGGs. Register.
NOTICE.
PIh,sohs having claims againat the Ia
.ne deceased. must present the same
pssl p 10 the AdmInistrator on n,
bblv 7, u, iooi, or abide the Act of
4 :" 'uch case made and provid-
SAMUEL HANDY.
brss, C,. Administrators.
'"vmont, Del. febi4-eod3w
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-07
Evanishing Thought.

It's said Of Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson
that once, when student of Harvard
college went to him asking the meaning
OF one OF his sentences the sage of Con-
cord replied, l do not remember what 7
meant; you should have asked before the
ink was dryr"
Here are some of the sentences to
which we suppose he lost the kew. yerv
soon, and which no one else has been 50
fortunate as to find. He is speaking in
them OF the religious sentiment" IIt
Is mountain air. 1t is the embalmer of
the world. 1t is myrrh and storax and
chlorine and rosemary. Tt makes the
sky and the hills sublime, and the silent
song of the stars is it." The irreverenf
criticism of later generation would
call that simply "gush."
Furthermore, when the ink was dried
on such sentences as these which follow,
what did they contain, save, perhaps an
OBSCURE lntlmation Of pantheism? eve
1--we IN succession, in division, in parts in
PARTICLES. Meanwhile within the man is
the soul of the whole the wise silence
the universal beauty, to which everv part
and particle rs equally related; the Fter-
nal One. Was it to Justify such ont
givings that "the Sage of Concord" once
quoted the opinion Of a worthy Of tbe
past who said that " man never rises 90
nigh as when he knows not whittier he
is going?' "
We recall as we read these sentences
whose meaning evaporated before the ink
was dry, the judgment passed by that
Keen keen critic and most accomplished man.
Dr; James W. Alexander, upon the
Essay Of Mr.. Emerson. A book .
SAID ne, more void of real meaning GER
ta1nly. never fell into our hands. nor one
winch seems 50 much to be Constructed
with a view of hoaxing the public. The
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-07
How to Avoid Sudden Death.

A correspondent of the Belfast Ne,os
Letter says Permit me- pro bono pabLco,
to state that very few of the sudden
deaths which are said to arise from dis
ease of the heart do really arise from that
cause. To ascertain the real origin of
sudden deaths the experiment has been
tried IN Europe, and reported to a scien-
tlfc congress held at Strasburg. Sixty
SIX cases of sudden death was made the
subject of a thorough post mortena exam
NATION; IN these cases only two were
found who had died from disease of the
heart. Nine out of the sixty-six had died
from apoplexy, while there were fifty five
cases Of congestion of the lungs-that is,
the lungs were so full of blood they could
not work, there not being room for a sufi-
Gent quantity of air to enter to support
lie; The causes that produce congestion
OF the lungs are: cold feet, tight clothing,
costive bowels, sitting still until chilled
after being warmed with labor, or a rapid
walk, going too suddenly from a close.
heated room into the cold air, especially
after speaking, and sudden, depressing
news operating on the blood. These
causes of sudden death being known. an
avoidance of them may serve to lengthen
many valuable lives, which would other
wise be lost under the verdict of heart
complaint. That disease il. supposed to
be inevitable and incurable: hence MANY
would not take the pains they would to
avoid sudden death, if they knew it Law
In their power. r
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-07
The Man Who Stops His Paper

Philip Gilbert Hamerton, in his adj
mirable papers on Intellectual Life"
thus talks to the man who stopped his pa
per-: Newspapers are to the civilized
world what the daily house talk is to
the members of the family-they keep
up our daily interest in each other, they
save us from the evils of isolation. To
live as member of the great white race
that has filed Europe and America,
and colonized or conquered whatever
territory it has been pleased to occupy,
to share from day to day its thoughts its
cares, its inspirations, it is necessary
that every man should read his paper
Why are the French peasants so Devil
dered and at sea? 1t is because they
never read a newspaper. And why are
the inhabitants of the United States,
though scattered over territory four
teen times the area of France, so much
more capable of firm, concerted action,
so much more alive and modern, so much
more interested in the new discoveries of
all kinds, and capable of selecting and
utilizing the best of them? 1t is because
the newspaper penetrates everywhere,
and even the lonely dweller on the
prairie or in the forest, is not intellec-
tually isolated from the great currents of
public life which flow through the tele
graph and press"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-07
Intellect in 1Brutes.

One evening soon after my arrival in
Eastern Assum, and while the five ele-
plants were, as usual, being fed opposite
the bungalow, | saw young and lately
caught one step up to a bamboo-stake
fence and quietly pull one of the stakes
up. Placing it under foot it broke a
piece off with the trunk, and after lifting
1t to It's mouth, threw it away. 1t re-
Peated this twice and thrice, and then
drew another stake and began again.
Seeing that the bamboo was old and
dry asked the reason of this, and was
told to wait and see what it would do
At last it seemed to get piece that
suited, and holding it in the trunk firmly
and stepping the left fore-leg well for
ward passed the piece of bamboo under the
armplt, so to speak, and began to scratch
with some force. My surprise reached
It's climax when saw large elephant
ieech fall on the ground, quite six inches
long, and as thick as ones finger, and
which from its position, could not easily
be detached without this scraper or
scratch, which was deliberately made by
the elephant. | subsequently found that
IL was common occurrence. Leecb
s9craapers are used by every elephant
daily. On another occasion, when travel
ling at time of the year when large
NE? are 50 toTrmenting to an elephant, 1
noticed that the one 1 road had no fan
or ,wisp to beat them off with. The
m15ahout, at my order, slackened pace, and
allowed her to 60 to the side Of the road
where for some moments she moved
along rummaging the smaller Jungle on
the bank. AT last she came to cluster
OF young shoots, well branched, and after
feeling among them and selecting one
raised her trunk and neatly stripped
down the stem, taking off all the lower
branches, and leaving fine bunch on
top. She deliberately cleaned it down
several SCI Tunes and then laying hold at
the lower end, broke off beautiful fan
or switch, about five feet long-handle
included. With this she kept the flies
at bay as we went along, tapping them
OFT at each side every now and then.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-07

cloth wrapped around it. This was
passed once around the offenders neck.
Then two men came forward, each
grasped an end of the rope and pulled
hard Sufocation was Immediate AS
the condemned man felt the strain of the
cord and insensibility supervened, the
lower jaw dropped Into the mouth
thus opened lighted wick was quickly
thrown. This constituted the burning.
Decapitation was performed by the
Jews after the fashion of the surrounding
nations. 1t was considered the most
humiliating, the most SYNONYMOUS and
degrading, death that any man could
suffer.
Strangulation was form of death by
suffocation. 1t was effected as in burn
ing.-PaU Nall Gazette.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-07
IF Bismarck Would only Laugh

The smaller potentates wait upon him
humbly, the strongest of them, Bavaria,
having changed her representative in
the Federal Council because the Chan
cellor condescended to give him verbal
setting down. The Executive Ministers
obey him implicitly, though with sort
of reluctance which every now and then
draws from the Chancellor some fiery
word. But, nevertheless, there are en-
tire classes and bodies of the people with
whom his popularity has long been de-
oaying. The Conservatives never heart
lily trust him. The entire body of
Catholics, a third of the whole popula-
ton, look on him as an enemy. The
lower masses, the artisans, the factory
hands, and the miners, are becoming
Socialists in politics, mainly in antipathy
to his system. The Free Towns, the
petty States, the great municipalities
all resent his disposition to white away
their privileges and their separateness,
and with the Free Towns 90 nearly all
those deeply engaged in foreign trade.
This is a very great body of opinion,
and it is reflected, with some faithful
ness, in Parliament, where the Prince
has this session suffered several serious
rebuffs. His South Sea Trading bill was
openly thrown out, though he sent down
a message that he had it much at heart.
His coming Tobacco bill was anticipated
by resolution, apparently in the air,
but really directed dd hoe, that no such
proposal would be acceptable. And now
this bill for transferring part of Ham
burg to Altoona, and putting the Customs
line below Hamburg, instead of above it
that is sublecting Hamburg trade to
the inconvenience of perpetual search
after the Prince had himself spoken and
threatened resignation, has been "sent
back to the committee the German
form of the English order that bill be
read six months hence. These things
look as if the Chancellor had wearied
out the parties, and as if his threat of re-
firing had begun to lose its force. We
do not say it has lost it. We can hardly
think of any proposal, except, perhaps, a
heavy increase of direct taxation, to
which Germany would not listen, rather
than finally loose the services of her
hero : but still there are signs of growing
lmpatience, of annoyance under needless
pressure, Of doubt whether, after all, the
Empire is supported only by one man.
No doubt Prince Bismarck could still
dissolve with full certainty that ma
(ority would be returned in his name
but a dissolution cannot be ordered
every day, and representatives, however
faithful, grow restless and angry when
denied their freedom even of debate.
There are clouds gathering about. Prince
Bismarck, and perhaps the most serious
OF them is this, that opposition now
rouses in him such fretfuf anger. He
has grown too great in his own eyes to
laugh when laugh would often extin-
gu1sh dangerous hostility.-The Specta-
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-07

air of philos ophic profundity which is
thrown over it is the obscurity not of
deep, but muddy stream, and the bril-
hancy of the surface is little else than the
irridescence on bowl of soap-bubbles.
The critic and the author seemed to
be of the same mind as to the evanescence
OF the "sage's" thought.-Presbuezfan.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-07
Ants at PIav.

Ants, [ have noticed have "a pecu-
liar way OF skipping, leaping, and stand
ing on their hind legs and prancing with
the others. These frolics they make use
OF both to congratulate each other when
they meet, and to show their regard for
the queen" have observed them also in
the case Of the Formica umbratta thus
gamboling together when guarding the
youthful princess at the entrance of their
palaces, while welcoming their presence
and at the same time methodicallv re-
pressing their enthusiasm and natural
longing for independence. These frolic-
some exercises | have witnessed in the
case Of the Formica aliena, when the sun
has shed its gladstone rays suddenly upon
them through the glass sides of one of
my artificial formicaria or formic crystal
palaces. | have been also delighted to
witness them in the case Of the Formica
flava, when, having placed formicarium
which enclosed this common yellow
species near the fire, and the welcome
heat caused the little people to swarm in
the passages and testify their gladness
at the suddenly increased temperature
they seemed hardly to be able to contain
themselves with joy. They embraced
each other, and skipped and danced like
playful lambs or kittens eU. W. T.
White IN Leisure Hour. >
D.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-07

The unknown is an ocean, and con-
SCIENCE IS the compass Of the unknown
Thought, meditation and prayer are the
three great mysterious pointings Of the
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-07-07

PERSEVERANCE in faith is the best evi-
dence Of the sincerity of our faith.
The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1880-10-05
Sardines.

These little funny creatures are caught
in nets, and after being well washed the
heads are cut off, and the fish are sprin-
killed. lightly with salt. After lying for
few hours they are placed on girds in
rows almost perpendicular. The frames
are then placed in pans containing boil
ing olive oil. This oil is changed as
soon as it becomes too black and dirty
for continuing the cooking process. AS
soon as the fish are considered sufficiently
cooked they are withdrawn from the
pans of oil, and the girds are placed on
the tables covered with zinc, the surface
oithe tables inclining toward groove
in the center. The oil is thus carried to
a vessel prepared to receive it. Around
these tables stand the women whose
business it is to pack the fish closely and
uniformly in boxes. The boxes being
full, the fish are covered with fresh oil.
and the lids are then soldered down.
Thus Theoretically sealed they are placed
In iron baskets and immersed in boiling
water. The smaller boxes are thus
boiled for about half an hour and the
larger ones somewhat longer, in proper
ton to size of box. The fish are then
ready for the market, and being packed
in cases, are sent to the ends of the
earth.
The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1880-10-05
An Old Sicilian Town.

1t Is very old place, with narrow
streets going up and down by means OF
wide, stone paved stairs, which prevent
any carriages. The walls of the houses
which are never more than two stories
high, seemed crumbling to dust. and re-
mind us more of Pompeii as it looks
now than any other old town; the inte-
riors were mere dark holes, crowded bv
rural population. There is hut one
object of antiquity, church, of which
the walls and most of the columns once
belonged to temple of Vesta. There is
an old tradition about this temple and
the .progenitors of the people of this town
which is worth relating:
during the many centuries of decay
OF the Roman empire, tine strict relig-
lous laws and customs were SO far re-
laxed that whenever any one of the
vestal virgins was discovered faithless
to her vows, instead of being buried
alive, according to the old law, she was
relegated to this temple of Vesta on
Mount Eryx, where, at length, she and
others like her intermarried with the
priests and people of the place, who
were of Trojan origin. From their
union descended the present population.
This, Of course, is mere tradition, vet
~ lSkSuppOrted by very curious phVSiOn
logical fact. The natives of this noun
tain town have more of the old Roman
type of face and person than any of the
other two millions of people that in :
habit Sicily. The women are famous
for their beauty, their fair compilations,
long necks, large black eyes and superb
busts. nThere are also many blondes with
blue eyes among them-a type never
seen in the true Sicilian race.
We had heard this story, and were
anxious to observe the female part of
the population; but as we walked, or
rather climbed, up and down the steps
OF the streets, we saw none but men and
very old women sitting in front of their
dismal house doors.
There were shops where they sold
oil, contained in just such huge CLAW
as one sees at Pompeii; public cooks
frying their meats at the threshold of
their front door; lamps both of clay and
bronze, of Pompeian shape; bread on
the bakers counters of the precise pat
tern as that found carbonlzed at Pom
pei and many other thing reminded MS
Of that old Roman town.-Atlanttc
MOnthLu.