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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-10-07
GRANDPA'S BARN.

Oh, jolly old place is grandpa's barn,
Where the doors stand open throughout the
day,
lnd the cooin doves tlv In and out
And,the air is sweet with the fra. rant hay.
Where the grain lies ever the al ppery floor,
And tho hens are busi y looking around,
md the sunbeams flicker now here, now there
And the hroeze blows through with merry
sound.
The swallows twitter and chirp all day
With tluttenug wings. i'll the old brown
caves
Md the robins sing in the trees which lean
To brush tie roof with their rustling leaves.
. for the glad vacation time
When grandpas barn Will echo the shout
Of merry children, who romp and play
In the new-born freedom of school let out. "
Such soaring of doves from their cosy ne IS,
Such hunting for eggs in the lor. so high,
Iill the frightened hens with a cackle shrlll,
From their hidden treasures are fam to fly.
Oh, the dear cid barn so cool so wide
Its doors will open again ere long
To the summer sunshine, the new-mown hay,
And the merry ring Of vacation song.
For erandpa's harm il the jolllest place
For frolic and fun on summer day;
And e EN- old Time, as the years slip by,
It's memory never can steal away.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-10-07
A Prudent Prince.

The Prusslan Crown Prince is a wise
and thrifty gentleman. 1t is related that
the officers of a regiment which is annually
inspected by him have been in the habit of
inviting him to luncheon after parade.
Last year the entertainment was of the
most elaborate and costly kind. The
Prince would touch nothing, and even re-
fused the wine offered to him, observing
that che only drank champagne on extra
ordinary occasions" The reproof told and
this year when the Prince entered the
guardsmen's mess-room, after the inspec-
tion, he found only a modest repast of
sandwiches, light claret and beer awaiting
him. He at once sat down, paltook
heartily of the frugal fare, and, with the
observation "This is as it should be among
comrades" produced his meerschaum, lit
it, and remained for more than an hour,
smoking and chatting with his entertainers
in the most friendly and unceremonious
manner imaginable.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-10-07

and the strength OF Hercules, with the
wickedness of Mana She was known as
"The Woman with the iron Jaw" She
commanded large salary, and was the
principal attraction of every show with
which she travelled. One day she took as
sudden freak as the wicked and volup-
tuons Mana, and refused TO appear any
more in public. She settled down in the
little town of Tyner, some eight or ten
miles from Lebweder Huckleberry marsh,
lived decorOus life, joined church and
married. She soon tired of the matrimo-
nial career, and four years ago, when she
first made her appearance at the marsh,
she became the widest of the wild ones
there. Her strength. dash and utter
abandon won her by common consent the
title of ''Huckleberry Queen" A score
OF times her title has been disputed, and
she has asserted her assumed rights by
sheer fierce of her individual strength. She
has had more contests than any prize
fighter, and has never been whipped. Last
summer she drew two revolvers on two
Chicago rowdies, who attempted undue
liberties with one of her female friends.
The men were quick enough to knock the
revolvers from her hands, but she knocked
them both down and brought them to terms.
Her conduct frightened her husband into
running away last season, but she did not
mourn his absence On the contrary, she
picked up a green country youth named
Falkenberg, proposed to him, and, against
his feeble resistance, marched him out TO
Justice Schaffer's office TO have the cere-
mony performed. 1t was after midnight
when they got there. The justice is a
bachelor and sleeps in his office. She kick
ed the door open and ordered the frighten-
ed justice out of bed. lie attempted to
put on his clothes before striking a light,
but she told bim to ''dash" that formality,
lighted the lamp herself, and forced the
Justice to marry her to Falkenberg, while
he estood shlvering III that single garment on
which hotel clerks are wont TO display their
diamonds. This wedding took place last
November, but this summer she found it a
marriage of inconvenience, as it interfered
with her wild life, and she bought this
second husbands's absence with suit of
clothes. Despite her rough, wild life and
immOderate drinking, the "Huckleberry
Queen" is still handsome woman. Sun
day is always gala day at this marsh, and
at the stamping-g ground recently special at
fractions were offered. There were
walking match, greased-pole climbing,
rifle targetshooting, a greased-pig chase
and the Huckleberry queen lifted by her
teeth a chair with a man weighing 900
pounds seated in 1t. There was dancing
platform, where all day long prostitutes
and their associates danced to execrable
music and drank themselves into the widest
revelry.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-10-07
Weeds.

Prof. Prentiss reports the experiments
performed by his pupils to determine the
number of seeds usually existing in cult
waited soils. Small portions of the soil were
measured in bulk, and the number of weeds
obtained from these portions in pots coun-
ted. From these results, after a number
of trials, it was determined that from eight
million to forty million seeds usually exist
in cultivated soils-enough to supply any
number found in farm crops without re-
sorting to the rotion of transmutation. The
only soils in which the seeds of weeds were
not found, were peat from a bog after the
top was removed, and sand from an area
recently graded.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-10-07

1t is reported that the German Emperor,
after inspecting the new barracks of the
Second Guard Dragoonsin the Pionterstasse,
recently, contrived while chatting with the
officers in the mess room, to write few
words with "A chalk pencil upon the tunic
of the senior regimental captain, unper-
ceived by that officer. This done, HIS
Majesty left the room laughing heartily,
accompanied by the Colonel of the regi-
ment, Prince HohenzOllern, whereupon the
senior staff officer present. walked up to
Captain Won S, and, to his utter con-
sternatiOn, proceeded to unfasten and re-
move his epaulettes. Unconscious of
having committed any deriliCtion of duty,
Won s. remained motionless while this
ominous operation was being performed;
but his painful perplexity gave place to
jubilant eXultation, when tie Lieutenant
colonel produced pair of majors epau-
lettes and dexterously buttoned them to his
shoulders. The words hastily scribbled by
the Emperor upon Captain Won SIS
uniform, were, Zum-Major befoerdert!"
promoted TO major) and the subsequent
details of this general surprise, had been
arranged by His Majesty beforehand with
their executant. 1t is said that ir his re-
iOicing at his unexpected advancement the
newly made major called upon the senior
nom on-commissioned officer of the squadron,
and said to him, ''Sergeant-major, the
squadron is relieved from duty for to day.
Let the men have as much to drink as they
please. pay for all. "
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-10-07
The Origin of Champagne.

A monk of more taste than honesty, hav-
ing abstracted from cask in the monesterial
cellars of his convent, some still champagne,
which he bottled for his own private drink
ing, was alarmed one night by series of
explosions. Corks had been blown into
the air, and the stolen wine which he had
vainly endeavored to keep in confinement
was running in froth and foam over the
sides of the bottles. The terrified monk
concluded that the devil must have got in
to the wine; but the prior of the monastery
knew better. He tasted the wine, found
at once that it was good, shrewdly deter
mined to bottle some for himself, and en-
ded by going through series of expert
ments which had for result the discovery
of the true art of making champagne.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-10-07

WHEN storekeeper announces arti-
cles at the ''cost price" he often means
at the original price with lie added,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-10-07

I'm 1897, 10000 people in England
paid tax on hair powder.
The daily gazette., 1880-02-26
lutions expressive Of their determination
TO protect the negroes in their right to
vote the Demecraticticket.

THE IRISH SAVINGS BANKs.-In
1S47 the deposits in the Irish savings
banks were $42, 900, 600 in 1859, $780,
900, 900 and in 1876, s170. 000, ,0O0.-
The chief cause Of the crisis was the
failure of the potato crop for three sue
cessive years. The average crop for
three years ending 1876 was valued at
1000, 600. In 1877 it was only $780,
10000; in 1878 only $S7, 600, 900, and
1879 only $4,000, The potato
crop in good year like 1875, when it
was $62, ,O00, 900, is about equal in val
ue to all the other crops for human
food. While the Trustee Savings
Banks show a decrease Of 1910, 900,
the Post Office Savings Banks show an
increase of 100000. 1t is worthy to
remark that the investments in Gov
ernment stocks, which decreased in
the first two years of the crisis by s1,-
1000, increased last. year by $685.
O09.
The daily gazette., 1880-02-26
How is 1T WITH THE AMERICAN

How is 1T WITH THE AMERICAN
CITIZENS OF AFRICAN DESCENT
Who win undertake to say that hun
dreds of thousands of American citi-
zens of African descent, are not to-
day living in houses little better if as
good as those described as the habita-
tions of the poor suffering Irish. Look
at the mere wooden shanties all
through the country. Why a man
cannot ride from here to New Castle
without encountering some of these
negro houses situated, some of them.
on thei wet marsh where no people
could be supposed live and enjoy health.
So, too, many Of the white people in
different sections of our great country
are compelled to live in small log huts
that would seem so open as to be un-
comfortable in winter. And this state
of things has existed from the time
the country was settled. We wish it
were otherwise. Surely the poor in
Ireland ought to be better protected
and cared for by the great Empire
which they help to sustain. 1t is a
burning disgrace to the British aristoc-
racy that such a condition of things
exists in Ireland. But who shall we
blame for the condition in which the
black race is found in all through the
United States and Canada {:
The daily gazette., 1880-02-26

SEE TO 1T, THAT THE NEGRO BE
NOT ABUSED FOR vorING THE DEM
OcRATIC TICKEr.-We understand
from good authority that number of
colpred voters desire to cast their votes
for the Democratic ticket this fall But
heretofore it has been dangerous TO
colored mans life TO vote the Democrat
ic ticket in any part Of Delaware. Where
he was employed by Radicals he was
sure Of being discharged if he did so
or he was spotted by all negro clubs. and
even expelled from the colored churches
and the society Of his race in any neigh
borbood, ard this ostracism followed
him whithersoever he went insomucb
that his earthly peace was totally de-
stroyed. Now it is time that an end
were put TO this state OF things, and We
call upon the Democrats in all parts of
the Peninsula to see to It that this perse-
cut'on for the exercise of the righ, of
suffrage has stop put to it. Where il
Is known that colored men intend 20
vote the Democratic ticket in Delaware.
and come forward and say so. let the
Democrats in their meetings pass reso-
lutions expressive of a determination to
arrest all such outrages by prosecuting
the offenders and protecting the ipofTrn-
sive in their right. Let no negro who is
known to have uttered threats OF violence
against any other negro who wishes IN
vote the Democratic ticket be euplovaa
by Democrat, and when such threats
are persisted in, let the offensive negro
be arrested charged with such ofTense.
and made TO give bonds 10 keen the
peace. See to it that the negro men who
chose to vote the Democratic ticket he
not molested and that they be allowed
to exercise the right of suffrage unmo-
Tested.
Heretofore negro churches have been
made little less on various occasions
than headquarters for negro political
clubs. No negro who dared to vote the
Democratic ticket has been allowed IN
remain member; and these churches
have been sunk to the level of secret
societies where the wrath Of the unedu-
Gated has been cultivated against the
poor, helpless man who dared 10 vote as
he judged best. Now We hope to ;. e
these churches sustained undls.urbed .bnt
unless this persecution is stopped, we saw
that the Democrats should cease to con-
tribute one penny to keep them nm
They must cease to be secret political
club houses in which Radical whites
bold political harangres to urge neeroe,
on to the persecution of their race, and
to do injury to the whites, to advance
the interests of white ofice<eekIn0 Ra.
publieans,
And We call upon the Democratic
clubs througho ut the Sts'e to pass reso-
The daily gazette., 1880-02-26
fire In an opera House.

A FATAL PANIC PREvENTED-THE
FLAMES PUT OUT AND THE PLAY
CONTINUED.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 24.-At the Grand
Opera House last night portion of
the scenery caught fire from a gas jet
and blazed up in full view of the audi
ence. The curtain was run down to
stop the draft, and the flames were
put out in few minutes. The par
quette and dress circle was the scene
of wild confusion. Women left their
seats screaming at the top of their
voices and wild scramble for exit
was commenced, when the stage man
ager announced the fire was out. 1t
took fifteen minutes to quiet the crowd
after the curtain was rung up and the
play went on. Nobody was seriously
hurt. A few people sustained some
damage to clothing and good many
were badly frightened.
The daily gazette., 1880-02-26
Latest Cable Neics.
MARCH OF THE FAMINE IN COUNTY
GALWAY.
DrrBI.IN. Feb, 25, 1880.

MARCH OF THE FAMINE IN COUNTY
GALWAY.
DUBLIN, Feb, 25, 1880.
Galway now heads the list of dis
tressed counties, and countless are the
unhappy stories that come from with
in its borders. A correspondent on
Her Majesty's gunboat Goshawk,
which is distributing meal among the
western islands, writes from Innis-
bark, off Galway :-"It is a terrible
state of affairs. Fifty families here
eke out a miserable existence. Their
houses are small heaps of dirty stones.
Their land is rock and soft bog. Hun
ger and want are everywhere visible.
The people go naked and without
food. Many are slowly starving to
death. Such scenes of appalling des-
l never before Witnessed
Every step we took brought before our
view new and more fearful pictures of
and suffering. The more
we saw the more certain did death
from starvation appear the inevitable
fate of nearly every man, woman and
child on the island.
The daily gazette., 1880-02-26
SHERIFF s SALES.
CHERlFF,s SAFE

GHERaFF's SALE.
- BY virtue OF sundry writs ofVenditioni
Exponns 10 me directed, will be exposed
10 public sale. at the s4
HOTEL OF JOHN Il. LEWIS,
In the town OF Newark, In White Clay
Greek Hundred. New Castle County, Del
aware. on.
FRIDAY, the 18th Day OF March, 1880,
at 2 O'Clock p. M.
The following described real estate viz:
All that certain farm or tract OF hand,
situated in Pencader hundred. New Cas-
tie county, and State of Delaware, bound
cd on the south by the Turnpike Road
leading from the villase Of Glasgow TO
the town OF Elkton, on the west by lands
OF William Grinnage, Thomas Brown and
Others. on the north by lands of heirs OF
Cantweli Clark. deceased. and on the east
by lands of Jesse Boulden, containing
about 2o4 acres of land. more or less, with
two story brick dwelling house, frame
barn and granary thereon erected.
Seized and taken In execution as the
property OF Robert NJ. Black, deceased,
QSusan ". Black, Administratrix OF hobt
M. Black, deceased, and To be sold by
JOHN PYLE, sheriff.
Sheriff's ONCE, New Castle. February 26,
1881. feb2o-Stawts
The daily gazette., 1880-02-26
LHERIFR,s SALE

- HERIFF'S SALE.
= By virtue OF writ OF Levari FacIas
to me directed, will be exposed 10 public
sale, at the
LAFAYLTTEHorEI, No. sil shipiey ST..
kept by John J. Dougherty, In the city OF
wilmington, New Castle county, Della
ware, ON
WEDNESDAY, The 10th Day OF March,
A. D.. 1880. at 2 o'clock, p. m,
The following described Real Estate. viz :;
All those two certain lots or pieces OF
land and messuaKe or IenemeDts thereon
erected, situate In the city OF Wilmington
aforesaid, bounded asd described as fol-
lows, TO wit:
NO. /. Beginning on the southerly side
OF Third street hetweeu Piue street and
the Ran Road at the Il stance of 65 fee from
tue easteriy side OF Pine street, thence
-outherly and parallel With Pine street 40
leet TO stake III nee easterly and pa raj.
lei with Third street 10 feet TO another
sake, thence nortnerly and parallel with
Pine street and the first me eationei line ~
Ieet 70 the aforesaid side of Third street.
hnu thence along the same westerly 10 feet
~ the place of beginning, be the contents
thereof what they may.
NO, Z. Beginning hL the distance OF 50
ieel IRON Inird street ana g. fee from the
eaSterly side OF Pine street thence souIh-
eTiy aud parallel with Pine street about so
ieet To the line of the Philadelphia. VIII
mington 4 Baltimore Rail Road, theme
nor,heasteriy about ~ feet 10 corner
thence northerlv absut n ieet TO a corner OF
said W m. Lawrence land, thence wenler-
and parallel with Third street l6 feet To
the place OF beginning. be the contents
I6U. - "eS
Seized and taken In execution as the
property OF Edmund OMEN and 1. L, and
10 be sold by
JOHN PYLE, Sheriff.
ISL Sherins ONCE, New Castle, February 20,
Iooo. fen2l-endia
The daily gazette., 1880-02-26
Iretand's Oppression.

"The advantageous position, the fer
tility of the soil, and the salubrity 0i
the climate have conferred upon ireland
commercial fscilities capable of being
greatly increased. How far these natural
advantages have been made available
towards the internal improvement Of the
island itself, and the general benefit Of
the empire of which il forms an impor-
tant part, may be best ascertained from
the following details of its history and
statistics"
This is quoted to show what Ireland
is by nature, and what its capabilities
are as written by hand that certainly
was not biased in her favor, and for the
purpose of pointing out the intensity Of
the reproach which the gentle but preg-
naut words OF the writer east upon the
re- 'ults of British rule in that island by
referring to subsequent statistics and
history-a history and statistics that are
an ineffaceable disgrace TO the British
rulers of Ireland. As to the history, We
need not go into that. Concerning the
statistics We take the following from the
vast and instructive mas. In the year
1851 the population of ireland was H.
III ,40l, and it is returned by the decen
nisl census at the following figures for
years named:
In lS4l ii was S,l75, ,l24
In 1851 it was 6,55l ,g7O
In 1851 IL was b.JgS. .5e;4
In 1871 it was BALLAD
A fearfnlly descending scale for thirty
years-a loss Of 2,764, 70S out of s, l75,-
l24-nearly one-thIrd of the entire pop
uiation of lS4l, making no allowance
for what should have been the natural
increase. Who ruled Ireland in this so
years? That is the appalling sequel to
the famine of 1916. Aud what has the
British Government done in the mean
Time TO avert tina, which Is upon the uu-
happy islaud now? 1t is said at The
close of the history already quoted, re
ferring TO Irish troubles and the famine
OF 1916 as being the result of over-popu-
lation, that "the will of Providence
solved the difficulty then"-thai Is, that
d population, by starvation and emigra-
ti"n 10 the extent OF nearly three mil
lions of souls, had solved the Irish ques-
tion! Has ii? The cry Of the famisning
hundreds OF thousands for food, and the
wall OF the poverty stricken millions in
the midst of one of the most fertile spots
on the globe, show how. Aud in sight of
this, and in the face Of the history tina,
shows he loss OF third of the popula-
ton Of Ireland in thirty-three years, the
single comprehensive remedy yet sug-
gested Is emigraiion-emigration again
after The deportation Of nearly three mil
lions. This and pittances of money
scantily and erudeingly doled out for
PIE ent distress-this and wrangling
over miserable party disputes 10 Parhs-
nent. This is the height to which Brit
ish craftsmanship has risen in the year
of our Lord 2SSJ, to meet the deplorab 9
condition of Ireland and the appalling
calamlties that have afflicted the Irish
people twice in thirty three years. Could
Home Rule" by any possibility exhibit
results so p.tiably wrelched as these?
The daily gazette., 1880-02-26

On motion not to Instruct the dele
gates to Chicago for Grant or any one
else, lSO members of the Utica Conven-
ton voted ayes" and 217 voted "No."
That is, after all the efforts Of the ma
chine to pack the Convention for Grant
and the Third Term, Conkling and Ar
thur could only muster, on this vitality
important vote, becgarly majority Of
81 in convention of 397 delegates, pres
ent and voting.
That is, not far from a half of this
convention, in spite of the extraordinaiy y
exertions put forth to bring about a diff
ferent result, stood out stifily against the
third term.
This vote does not look as though the
Republican masses OF New FORK were
bowling for another four years of Grant
and his Rings.
The daily gazette., 1880-02-26

EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD BE As
sEssED.--Now when it is the avowed
determination Of the Radicals to attempt
to take possession of the State and
county government, it is the bounden
duty Of every Democrat to be assessed.
The Levy Court of New Castle County
will meet at New Castle on next Tues
day, and it is hoped that every Demo-
crat who finds he is not on the assess
ment lists will so personally to the
Court, or take such other means neces-
sary, to have himself put on the lists to
secure q vote In November Dost.
The daily gazette., 1880-02-26
Anchor Line.

ONll ED II TATES MAI STEAMERS,
sail from New Nork for
ShAS1OW every SATURDAY;
n.ni Ani regularly TO LONDON direct
'AAsase 10 Glasgow, Londonderry, Bel
s., last, Liverpool.
Heconi CABIN, including all reqaisiles. an
r,, STEERA q r s2s,
~ hoNDoN BY DIRECT STEAMER.
S.YDo~ No Steerage.
SALOON CABINS, ass and ss5
Excursion tickets nj resjpced ratas
'~ssehssr IONS uusurpassed
ioI eIegahce and comfor All state
rosms on main deck
TOT DOCKS OF Information, plans. kc
Apply 10 HENDERSON BROS
BOW ling Green, New York
VI - "a NJ r BETS, Adams Express,
Wilmington, Del
The daily gazette., 1880-02-26
CHERRIES SALE.

By virtue OF writ OF Levarl F1cias 20
me directed, will be exposed TO public
sale. at the
LAFAYETTE HOTEL, No. sil Shipley ST.,
kept by John ]. Dougherty, In the city OF
Wilmington, New castle county, Della
ware, on
WEDNESDAY. the 10th day OF March,
A. D., 1880, at Q O'Clock, p. m,
The following described real estate, viz /:
all that certain lot OF LAND Win three
story brick dwelling house the re m. stu
ate In tue city of wilmington. " bounded
and described as follows, TO wit: Begin
ming at the southeast corner of Eleventh
and Tatnall streets, thence easterly along
the southerly side OF Eleventh street 80 feet
ir ches TO n corner. thence southerly pa,-
allel 10 Tatnall street Is feet To a caraer,
thence westerly parallel TO Eleventh street
through the centre OF the patty wall he
tween this and the adjoining house on the
south 80 feet inches 20 the easI erly side OF
ratnall street aforesaid, and thence there
by noriherly rs rect TO the place of begin.
ming, be the contents thereof wnRt they
may.
Sc zed and taken In execution as the
property OF Frank u. Turner and Augusta
r., his vile and t. T.. and TO be sold by
JOHN PYLE, Sheriff.
Sheiiffs once, New Castle, February 10.
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