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What q Western Spider Did.

A very curious and interesting
spectacle was to be seen on Monday
morning in the office OF a liyery
stable in this city. Against the wall
OF the room stands a tolerablv tall
desk, and under this a small spider,
not larger than common pea con.
structed an extensive web reaching
to the floor.
About 1l.30 O'Clock Monday
forenoon 1t was discovered that the
spider had ensnared a young mouse
by passing filaments of her web
around its tail. When first seen
the mouse had its hind foot on the
noor and could barely touch the
door with Its fore feet. The spider
was full of business, running up and
down the line, occasionally biting
the mouse's tail, making it struggle
desperately. Its efforts to escape
Wers unavailing, as the slender
hlaments about its tail were too
strong for il to break. In short
time 1t was seen that the spider
was slowly hoisting its victim into
the air. By two o'clock in the after.
noon the mouse could barely touch
the floor with its fore feet; by dusk
the point of its noze was an inch
above the floor. At nine O'Clock
at night the mouse was still alive,
but made no sign except when the
spider descended and bit its tail.
at this time it was an inch and
a-half from the floor. Yesterday
morning the mouse was dead and
hung three inches from the
floor.
The news Of the novel sight soon
become circulated, and hundreds of
people visited the stable to witness
il. The mouse is small one, prob-
ably less than half grown, measur~
ing about one and a half inches
from the point of its nose to the root
of the tail. How the spider succeed
ed in ensnaring it is not known.
The mechanical ingenuity of the
spider, which enables her to raise
a body which must weigh forty or
fifty times as much as herself, has
been the subject of great deal of
comment and speculation, and no
satisfactory solution of the difficulty
has been found. All agree that it
is q most remarkable case, and one
that would be received with utter
incredulity if 1t were not so amply
attested.-Le6anon (Ky) Standard.
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Ato meetino oftbe cioor Mot.r.,

AT a meeting of the Cigar Makers
Union Of Chicago, held yesterday,
Charles F. Bergman, delegate
from San Francisco to the Labor
Congress TO meet in Pittsburg spoke
OF the effect of Chinese labor on the
trade of the Pacific Coast. Michael
Welsh, the Milwaukee delegate to
the Congress, said it would not be
long before every cigar manufac-
turer in Milwaukee would acknow.
ledge the supremacy Of the strik~
ers.o
The Mexican Congress has ap-
proved the tranfer by General
Frisbie of the Mexican Pacific Rail-
way concession to the Yuma -and
Guaymas Railroad Campany. The
Diqrio, official organ of the Mexi~
can Government, denies the reports
that the National Railroad Must
Withdraw from GuadalaJaroa on the
route to the Pacific.
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THE ROUND OF LIFE.
From Chamberh, IonrnaI.

from Chambers' journal.
Awo children down by the shining strand
WIN eyes as blue as the summer sea.
Wnlie The sinking sun fills all the land
WIN the glow of q agolden mystery
Laughing aloud al the sea nevis crv
aazing with icy on its snowy breast.
I'LL the first star looks frem The evening
sky,
And the amber bars stretch over the
west.
a soit green dell by the breezy shore.
A sailor lad and maiden fair.
hand ciasped In hand, while the tale of
yore
IL borne again on the listening air.
for love is young, though love be old.
hnd love alone the heart can fill
Ano the dear old tale that hiss been told
IN the days gone by. is spoken st II.
A trlm-built home on sheltered bav.
wife looking out ON the glistening sea
a prayer for the loved one far away,
ana prattling imps meath the old roof
tree;
A lifted latch and a Radiant face
BY the open door In the falling nipbt.
A welcome home and warm embrace
from the love of his youth and his
children bright.
An aged man In an old armchair:
A golden light from the western sky.
His wife by his side. with her silver huir.
And the opened book of dod close by
sweet on the bay the g loaming fails,
And bright is the glow OF the eyenine
star
But dearer to them are the jasper walls,
And the golden streets Of the laud afar.
An Old churchyard on green hillside,
Two lying still In their peaceful rest:
The hshefmen's boais going out with The
tide
In the fiery grow of the amber west,
Children's laughter and old men q slghs.
A rainbow bridging our darkened skies,
Are the round OF our lives from year 10
year
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The Consumption Of Hers .aesh. .


The open consumption Of horsefiesh il
decidedly extensive in Germany, and ia
growing. A very careful supervision is
exercised over the trade In Berlin. The
inspector has a list of the stables where
the existence Of any contagious disease
has been reported, and If he finds that
the animal brought before him comes
from any of these, q prosecution against
the seller is at once instituted. Should
the horse be found by the veterinary
surgeons to be suffering from any dis
ease not contagious, 1t is at once killed;
but the body 10 sent to the geological
gardens. The Berlin butcher pays a6ont
Sl0.50 for piece Of horsefesh weighing
from 25U to 800 pounds but he retails It
at l0 cents pound for the fillet, 81
cents per pound for other pieces, and s
cents for parts only fit to be made Tito
sausagas, and as horseAesh is naturally
very dry, good deal of IL can be only
utilized by being mixed with lard and
converted into sausages, which, IL may
be added, are, it is shrewdly suspected,
largely consumed by persons VINO are
little aware Of what they are eating. In
one or two other German towns the con-
sumption of horssfiesh is, In proportion
to their population, even larger than In
Berlin. In Breslau, for instances a town
with 100000 inhabitants, 1900 horses
are killed annually for the market, and
in Altoona, with population of 100 600,
the number reaches 800. In the wes-
tern provinces, on the other hand, horse
flesh is more rarely eaten even in the
more dsnsely peopled townsville aver
age number of hGr rses killed annually In
Dortmund being only 240, ana In Biels-
field about 100.
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Isa Positi Cure

for all those Painful Complaints and
weaknesses 10 common To our best
female population. -f
It will cure entirely the worst form OF
Female Complaints, all ovarian troubles,
Displacements, and the consequent Spi-
nal Weakness, and is particularly adapt
ed 70 the Change of Life. .fA
1t wLll dissolve and expel tumoYs from
the uterus In an early stage of develop
ment. The tendency TO cancerous humors
there is checked very speedily by It's use.
1t removes faintness, fiatuiepcy, de-
stroys all craving for stimulants, and
relieves weaknsss OF the stomach. It
tration, General Debility. Sleeplessness,
Depression and Indigestion. Il ~ I5ss
That feeling of bearing down eau ing
pain, weight and backache. is always per-
manently cured by Its use. .sI. t4
1t will at all times and under all cir
cumstances act In harmony with the laws
that govern the female system.
For the cure Of Kidney Complaints of
either sex this Compound Ia unsurpassed.
Lydia =. Pfnkham's Vegetable
C0mpound is prepared at 233 and 2s5
Six bottles Tor s5. Sent BY mail In the
form Of pills, also in the form OF IoZenges
on receipt ofprice, u per box for either.
Mrs. Pinkham freely answers all letters
ofinqairy. Send for pamphlet. Address
as above. Mention this paper.
No family should be without LYDIA
E. PINKHAM'S LIVER PILLS. They
cure constipation, biliousness, and tor.
pidity of the liver, 25 cents per box.
A@Sold bv all druggists. t
The daily gazette., 1881-11-14

IT. UNDERSTOOD that the Ger.
man Minister at Washington will
shortly be instructed to make official
inquiries of our Government whet-
her 1t is or is not true that one OF
our high official has asserted that he
would rather undertake to carry a
plass.case full of stuffed birds up
Broad way from the Battery to Cen,
trail Park at 80 clock in the after
noon than to take charge again Tor
a single day of the descendants OF
Baron Steuben.
The daily gazette., 1881-11-14
war ON Cheap Lodging-Houses.

The New York health authorities are
conducting vigorous campaign against
the so.called cheap lodging-houses In
the lower part of the CITY, many Of
which are frightful nests of disease aud
filth. Wednesday the proprietors of
two of these places were brought before
the Special Sessions and fined each $50
for violating the sanitary code. In one
of these cellars there were no fewer
than twenty beds, and that, two in q
space not much bigger than an ordinary
horse rail car. Another had sixteen.
The price charged for "lodging" In these
dens is five and ten cents.
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A Philadelphia Society Dinner.


The menu OF Philadelphia Society
dinner is thus described in the Times:
There was a dish made of chicken
breasts done up and cooked like outlets,
which had name almost as fascinating
as 1t tasted and there was salad made
Of oyster crabs brought from Baltimore
especially, champignons and all that
sort Of thing, OF course, and the cream
was frozen in horse shoes, with the nails
of different color to the shoe itself.
For the first time here there was intro
duced the latest Partisan thing in din
ner favors large imitation roses in
different colors, with stems, leaves and
all, which are dlled with frozen ices and
other sweets. The flower opens SO that
Its contents can be eaten with a spoon.
There were ever so many other fayors--
miniature muifs, candy babies, frogs,
toy helmets and a museum of other
things-from which the ladies extrac cd
the sweetness aud then carried off as
trophies strung to their girdles. The
cards containing the guests names were
worked In silk with raised figures OF
various domestic animals. No two bou-
qusts were alike and each was OF two
colors, one lady, for instance, having
her bouquet made one half of pure
white and the other half of pale pink
roses, with two bows and slreamer oi
ribbons of the same colors. The ladies
and gentlemen who were partners had
slmilar cards and bouquets and bouton
nieres to match. Cut glass pitchers con-
tained the champagne, frozen to ths
consistency of cream and showing its
fine natural color. Following the din
ner the party adjourned to the Chestnut
Street Opera House, where they had
one of the lower boxes to themselves
and were charmed for the hours that
followed by Emma Abbott and her yo
cal AWAY.
The daily gazette., 1881-11-14

Nervous Irritability, Sciatica and nj,
painful Nervous Diseases.-A treatise bv
well known physician, a specialist on
these subjects. concludes as follows !.
sNeualgia is one Of the most painfn, y,
diseases, and is attended with more or
Tess nervous irritation. Sciatica Ia aiso q
form OF neuralgia. and ali painful ners
vous diseases come under that nama
Neuralgia means nerve ache, and thare.
fore you can suffer with neuralgia in eny
pnrt OF fhe body, as the nerves are ann,
Piled TO every part ""P-
nave Tor many years closely studted
me cause OF neuralgia, and the natnre
q the nervous system. with the mani
diseases that IL Ii subject TO- and hava
found BY actual experience that the trne
AND primary cause of neuralgia In NV
efty o. the nervous fluid-it becomes i'm
poverished poor, aud In some cases
starved, not because the patient does moi
eat. but because what is eaten is moi an
pSopriated to the nervous system there
are many causes tor this, but Dr. q. W
Benson's Celery and Chamomile pills
nave In my hands proved perfect rem-
edy for this condition and these Iseases
sold by all druggists. Price 50 cents n
box. Depot l06 North Eutaw St. Balti-
more, Md. BY mail. two boxes for 81. or
Six boxes for 90 50. 10 any address,
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A Dispute About a Lottery Ticket.

A special dispatch from Helena, Ark,
says Night before last (0et. 3D. an at
tempt was made to assassinate s.. Sill
Five shots were fired at him from behind
a tree, with no 9th er effect than to fright
en- the horse rldde by Silverman which
threw Its rider Without injuring him.
HE is The legal dispute now before the
New Orleans courts about the ownership p
of the lottery tickel which won the si5,.
600 prize In the Loulsians State Lottery
silvefman claiming 1t to be his, and y
Mrs. Clark claiming that 1t had been
purloined from her, The ticket was
taken from him at the muzzle of the
pistol and he has In stituted suit for the
money. IL is supposed that the attempt
o his life W, made to keep him from
prosecuting the suit.-New Orleans
Picaj un, Oct. 10.
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There are political outbreaks so popu-
lar with the whole people that the state
dare not interfere. The breaking out of
puslules, pimples, letter and the like on
the face, can be pleasantly cared by DR.,
Benson's Skin Cure. Ass sesA for Ne
hair and scalp.
The daily gazette., 1881-11-14
RAILROAD LIN Els.
DHILADEL.PMIA WILMINGTON
AND BALTIMORE y HAILROAD

i AND BALTIMORE y RAILROAO,
-- oCToRER 90, 1881.
Trains will leave Wilmington - foil IVA,
for
Philadelphia and Intsrmedisse statlons
100. $40. ola. t0.s0 q. M; zss. 0eT.@. fs.ee
p. M. fs-f t5
PniladeIphia tKxprssD SO. s.s'. eL
.. N. l2.l5. 9.66 p. m
Phila- and Nov York, 205, I2S, 6.3n T.uA
8.55. 1l.53 q. M, 2.A8, 2.06, 5.A, e.35 p In.
Baltimore and intermediate station,.
B,88 O, m. 4.45 p. m.
PerrvvilIe and intermediate Stations
6.16 p. m. Ed 4
Baltimore and Bay line, $50 p. m.
Baltimore and Washington. 1851, 1.ST'
4.02, 7.55, s.SS, q. M; lass, sI.O4, $50, lJ.5i
Trains for Delaware Division, leave icI
New Castle 800, 9.35. a. m.; l.U6 Boz. 6.25
p. m.
Harrington and intermediate static sl
9.35 q. m. ; LOS, 8.25 p. m.
Delmar and intermediate stations, a.3.
p m.; LOS p. m.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Philadelphia and intermediate Stations
8.l0 q. m. 800, 7.0O, 1000 p. M.
Phi,adelphia New York, 2.05, 2.25 q. m
5.47, 8.38 p. m.
baltimore and Washington, 1851, l 81,
4.02, 7.65, .. M. 10.5l p. m,
For further Information passengers are
referred to the time tables posted at the
depot,
Trains marKed thus (*) are linn tied ex-
J. Il. WOOD,
General Passenger Agent.
FRANK THOMSON,
General Manager.
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TBRN1.
HARFKR's YOUNG PnOPEE, Per
Year, Postage Prepaia, $3.50.

Single Numbers Four Cents each.
The bous volume for 1881 W Ill be ready
early In November. Price 49, postage
prepaid. Cover for YOUNG PEOPLE for
1881, IS cents; posiase,l3 ceD ts additional.
Remittauces should be made by Post
Offi.e Money Order or Draft to avoid
chance OF loss.
Newspapers are not to copy this adyer-
tisement without ME express order OF
HARPER a BROTHERS.
Address HARPER & BROTHERS..
New York
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TO Ph SnCIA NJ 8
AND
CONSUMERS OF
GOD LIVER OIL.

knowing from experience the dlssRtis-
of many of the eA ulsions in the market
would call yonr attention to some OF !.
features OF the emulsion which have pre-
pared and dispensed for years with un.
finest Norwegian and the most scrupu-
lous care is exercised in the choice OF all
M material and In g. cry detail of Its manu-
facture. BY careful manipulation this
em ulsi0 ia m ade with the smallest pos
sible amount ofgunn, and by the very MI
mute division of the oil globuies is render
ed very huid and perfectly paiataDle.-
Each tablespoonful contains 90 per cent.
OF Cil and 8 grains of Hypophosphite Of
Lime. Samples will be Grady furnished
10 a.. physjci:.ns who may desire them.-
Put t In pint botti x, i1ce al. Manu-
acturel and sold va l. sSale and retail by
q ". &. WILLIAMS,
DRUGGIST.
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And every saturday,
rrW YORK TO LONDON DIRECT.
GAINS AS TO SOS Excursion at Re
dnced Rates.
passenger accommodations are unsur-
'''' passed.
All stateroens on Main Deck.
u,..anesrs booked at lowest rates to or
,som eny Railroad station In Europe
A'- or America. sA.
nra,,s at lowest rates, payable free OF
|tbMse, throughout Eng land. Scotland
|apd Ireland.
|.nDIy 10 HENDERSON BRorHERs, Z Bow
|sfsg Efsa GREEN, N. Y. Or TO SAMUEL
n BETS, Adams Express. Wilmington,
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fiAsf NATIONAL BANk
Rrpo.,.. OF WILMINGTON
'Ai OF THE PUBLIC MONEY
VAN lAL AGENTS OF THE I'M
TED STATES.
'Anp BEITS, PRESIDENT.
taid IN : Ce.,D,..As y. ARMSTRONG, CAsHIER
Pis $500, 900.
ttahge efa, fnrn, New York and Boston H..
'''aout charge. " regular pepositors
" sS S4' A aaays, Mondays and Thnrsda Q
Ev,,, = DIRECTORS.
SStnent h s,, John H. Adams,
stOrge W Rna myth, Henry Il. McComb.
sauel JamsS William Tatnall,
sam,, Eli Garrett,
ssml Bancroft. Jr. jan, -iy
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The YOUNG PEOPLE has been from the
first successful beyond anticipation
N. Y. EUent,tg Post.
1t has distinct purpose to which II
steadily adheres-that, namely, of sup
planting the vicious papers for the yonng
with paper more attractive, as we'll as
more wholesome.-Boston Journal.
For neatness, elegance OF engraving,
and contents generally, 1t is unsurpassed
by any publication of the kind yet
biz ,ght to our notice. Pittsburgh Gazette.
Its weekly visits are eagerly look ed
for, not only by the children, but also by
parents who are an xious TO provide pure
literature for their girls and boys.
Giristtan Advocate, Buffalo. N. Y.
A weekly paper ior children which par
ents need not fear to let their children
read at the family fires slde. Hartford
Daily Times.
Just the paper to take the eye and ss-
cure tho attention OF the b0ys and girIs
Springfield Unton.
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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-07-20
British Population.

The Island of Great Britain, by the new
census just taken, is found to contain thirty
millions Of inhabitants. This is an enormous
number Of souls to be crowded upon a space
no larger than Illinois and Indiana, and
whose agricultural capabilities are much less.
Illinois alone, properly farmed, has more
food producing power than England, Scot.
land, and Wales combined, although she
now supports only three millions of inhabit-
ants, against ten times that number on the
British Isle. While great Britain has in
creased some four millions during the past
decade, the sister Misunderstanding actu-
ally sunk down a quarter of q million. Ire
land is considerably more than one-third as
large as Great Britain, but has barely one
sixth as many inhabitants. The natural ca
pability Of Ireland to support population is
fully IS great as that Of the larger Island,
but, under the accused land laws established
and enforced by the British Government,
there is the phenomenon of q poverty-strick-
en-, decaying people gradually willing away
and becoming extinct in the land of their
fathers.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-07-20
PARTED.

Can | believe what yet mine eyes have seen.
That we are parted who were once SO near!
That far behind us lie the meadows green,
Where we no more may greet the early year,
And praise the cTocus-buds, while yet,
More happy in each other than ia spring!
II | remember, how should you forget,
And leave me lonely in my wandering.
Can I believe, what yet mine ears have heard,
That severed is our sweet compromising
An autumn wind among the woodland stirred
And blew your kisses from my grieving lip;
Time stepped between US and unclasped our hands
That reach in vain across the widening days;
Life met our wistful look with stern commands,
And led us coldly down divided ways.
Can I believe, what yet my heart has felt,
That never more our paths will be the same?
That even now your joyous musings melt
To tenderer longing at q dearer name?
Then say farewell, since that must be the word,
In life's strange journey | may yet rejoice,
But still through all it's voices will be heard
The lingering echo of your vanished voice.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-07-20
GItteau's Cabinet.

Among the papers found on the person of
Gitteau, which the district authorities are
endeavoring to keep secret, is . letter ad-
dressed to Gen. Chester A. Arthur, as the
President Of the United States. It considers
him as the President by his (Gitteau's) act,
and gives him advice as to the choice Of his
advisers. The Cabinet proposed by Gitteau
is as follows:
Roscoe Conkling, Secretary Of State.
Levi 2. Morton, Secretary Of the Treasury.
John a. Logan, Secretary Of War.
Emory a.. Storrs, Attorney General.
James is to be retained as Postmaster Gen
eral.
The positions Of Secretary of the Navy
and Of the Interior, he says, are of no con-
sequence. Gltteau adds that the system Of
prohibiting the appointment Of more than
one cabinet officer from q State had better be
abolished.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-07-20
Champion Liars.

Hanks grocery is situated on the edge of q
prairie in southern Texas, and on Sunday
quite a crowd used to meet there and swap
news and lies and have horse races, and get
boiling drunk and indulge in other harmless
amusementa. Old Lem Williams used to be
on hand every Sunday, and was considered
the boss liar in the State. One Sunday Lem
Williams himself was seated in front Of the
grocery store, splitting tobacco juice at a lone
~grasshopper, when Bill Barker remarked
CLOVIS crops up your way, LEM"
"WelI," he replied, s'corn's sorter gin to
tasselling, but the stand is powerful poor"
'.That seems to be the general complaint"
remarked Bill.
Yes, this here country amt good for rails
in corn" said Lem, as he took a fresh chew,
',but if you a see corn what is corn, you
just orter go to Fort Bend. When / was
farming on the Brazos, in that country, my
corn grew so tall and SO thick that [ had to
hang lanterns on the mules ears to see how
to plow a furrow. 1t was corn, and no mis-
take, and in the fall the stalks were SO high
that | had to knock the ears down with a
sassafras pole. Darn my skin, the ears were
SO big that 1t took a strong man to carry
more'n three Of EN- at a time"
''Speakin' about strong men," remarked
Bill Barker, :" 'ssorter causes me to remember
an old steamboat captain vino used to run on
the Yazoo river in SO. One day he stopped
at q landing for some wood, and the niggers
were kinder slow about bringin' it aboard.
Old Judkins, the captain, reused up and
cussed everything in reach. Says he, walk
in up to the Woodpile Whar the niggers were
at work: Pile on yer timber, yer ornery
skunks, and let me show yer how to carry
wood an he stretched out his arms. Well,
sir, the niggers piled on the wood ard kept
piIin' until Judkins had a cord and q half of
freWeod on his shoulders, and he turned and
carried it Or the boat just as easy as il it was
q bokay. He was what I'd call q purity toll
cradle stout man"
THAT reminds me of q man / used to know
in Buford county, Alabamy," said q stranger
named Upper, who had been id the neigh
borhood but q short time. All eyes were
turned towards the speaker and they began
to size him up.
81 guess old Pete jennings" continued the
stranger, was the heftiest man in these IN.
tied States, if / amt mistaken. You sees
one day he was hauling some fence posts in
an OK wagon, when the wheels begin to
creek like they needed greasin.' He looked
under the wagon for his tar bucket an found
it warn't there, and what do you suppose he
did ~
IT don't know" growled Bill Parker and
Lem Williams in chorus.
well, I'll just tell you what he did. He
propped up the axle-tree, tux the wheel off,
and steppin' out il the woods he picked up a
pine knot, held it over the axle and squeezed
the tar outen it. Old Pete Jennings had q
grip what beat a wise, you bet"
up, II don't like to dispute q mans word,
but that's a blazing lie, and I amt gWine ter
believe it" and he and Bill Barker, Quilted
and disguised, mounted their horses, and left
Upper with serene smile on his face as he
whitfield the edge Of a cracker box.