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Daily Republican., 1881-09-19
NEW FALL GOODS
JOHN WANAMAKER'S,
Chestnut, Thirteenth Market Street and City faA o41
PHILADELPHIA.

r INENS.
taEsn as SAMPLES OF our summer buying OF
linens !; isarnsley double-dams.k table-linen
Mt Il. 50. scotch ditto at ". and German
napkins. q half.inch under = yard square,
~ rs dozen. There are about six patterns
Of each. s,,,,,
We have wide range in linens very iuliy
covered. JOHN WANhAhhrnn. ii! n. !,
Outer and next-outer circle, City Hail
Square,
Daily Republican., 1881-09-19
u0TICEa.
JDROPOSAL1

-TDn-
RENOVINC} THE GARBAGE AND Or,
FAL in THE FOURTH nSIRlOI FUN
l,lIE WEAR lSSl-D
Daily Republican., 1881-09-19
PUBLIC SALES.
TIBI.lC SALE.

DUBLlC SALE.
Will be sold at public sale, on the 'alhruh
farm. on the elaware City AID NeWarh roao
between Ferris Corner and Testers Cornt,'
halt a mile from lorter's Station, on the Dcl
aware Railroad. Pcncader Hundred Ne"
Castle County, Del on
Tuesday. SEPTEMBER y, lsoi,
at II o'clock, a. IN.
Three Horses four Cows, one Bull, TWO
Calves, 8 fit Berkshire Hogs. f' ese, ,duihea.'
Dncks, Turkeys, Chickens, market wagons
new, cart, one carriage, one double SET OF cal :
ri.se harness. double set Of wagon harness, = =
tets Of single harness. set of iead harness. AZ
tens of good timothy hay, oats IN the sheai,
IA acres of corn in the field. wheat oy the
bushel, apples in the orchard, cider press
buckwhoat and millet in the ground, a lot o.
cid or and vinegar, potatoes by the pushel
plows, harrows, cultivators. forAs srakes, hoes
shovels, SC. n.
Also a lot of household furniture such ~
stoves, dishes. pots. pans, enurhs, npii'
butter, ayd o grea. variety OF other articies
L W, STlDHAM Il SON,
s.nt1..otd.1w Auctoneers.
Daily Republican., 1881-09-19

SALE OFGOuD FuRNllOhh
viii he sold at the Episcopal Iarsonss.
p1 re ''N on THIIRSDAY, September 10Th, at
q clock, a. u, Har Cloth Parlor FURNITURE,
reception chairs. marble tah'es ettasha, WIN
french plate glass ! elegant book case, a a
good assortment Of law and miscellaneous at
books, oil paintings, choice selection o5 y
steel enyrpvings with French pate glass,
,eptlemens dressing cases, 100 yarus oi
Brussels. and 100 yards OF all ~o'i ih9Ia.i
Garnet, walnut marble top chamber suits,
White and Ita Ian marble elegant hair mat
tresses, Sc goose father beds, beading lace cur W
tsins side board, extension able, dishes
cloak and room stoves. etc The above gonh'
nrE oil In good order and Will be sold. fo
further PARTICULARS, cal at our auction room ~
and 1et a catalogue. septll ,.o:2'.+,Io,L, .
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-17
Underground Telephone Wires.

A successful test Of the workings of
the National Underground Electric
Company's new line in Philadelphia, was
made Saturday, in the presence of n
large number of Philadelphia, Chicago
and New York capitalists. Three tele-
graphic and two telephone instruments
were in connection with similar instru-
ments in distant buildings, and an cleo
trio lamp was in connection with a dy-
namo-electric machine across the street.
The Geographic instruments and one
telephone instrument were connected
with solenoid wires, and the other tele-
phone with the ordinary ground cur
rent wire as used in the present system
Of air lines. In the experiments a ca
bic, doubled so as to represent straight
length Of two and one-half miles was
used. The telegraphio instruments
were first tested, and found to work
without n hitch. The experiments with
the telephones were more interesting,
A solenoid wire used as an ordinary
wire, with the endsTgrounded, connect
ed one OF the telephones. When the
receiver was held to the ear various
sounds could be heard in addition to the
voice OF the person at the other end Of
the line. There were the sounds gath
cred in by the induction of the ground
ed wire. The click of Geographic instru-
ments could plainly be heard, while the
buzzing and whirring sounds made the
operation Of the wire anything but sat
isfactory.' The telegraphic clicking
sounds came by induction from the
Western Union and other poles 40 feet
away to the wire buried four feet under
the stones in the street The messages
could hardly be read owing to the back
strokes of TIE instruments. The other
telephone connected with a solenoid
wire, used III It's proper way with the
metallic circuit, was then tested. When
the receiver was placed to the ear not
sound could be heard except the voice.
clear and distinct, Of the person talking
into the transmitter. The slightest
whisper was distinctly audible, and con
yersation could be carried on with the
greatest ease.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-17
The Story of a Hundred Dollar Bill.

A distinguished statesman forty years
ago was on visit to Baltimore, and
he gave to a colored girl while here
what he supposed to be at the time q
one dollar bill. The next morning the
girl went to a grocery store, and after
making few siiii.ug purchases, gave
the bill in payment, under the SUPPOSE
ton that it was dollar. The pro-
prietor of the store, highly esteemed
citizen of Baltimore, noticed with great
surprise that 1t was for hundred dol
lars, and ne supposed at once that the
woman had stolen it. Ascertalning
the delusion she was under, he inform
ed her Of the true character OF the
note, and told her he would detain it
until the true owner was found. The
Girl told how she had received it, per-
sisted that it had not been stolen, and
assented to the gentleman retaining 1t
until the owner was found. He adver-
tised the bill, and the statesman, in
answer, called so say that the girls
story was true, and that As her honesty
had been suspected she should keep
the bill. He then departed to the
scene of his daily triumphs, and in the
acquisition of GREET fame perhaps
forgot the incident The grocery mer-
chant retained the note, in expectation
of the girl returning, but she never
called for it, it is supposed being fright
ened and fearing to be charged with Its
theft He deposited it at interest.
Years rolled on and she married, bore
children and died. and few years ago
a son applied to the merchant for the
note and the interest, which now
amounted to a large sum of money.
This amount the custodians of the fund
paid into one of our city courts, in or
der that the court should decide
whether or not the claimant was enti-
tied to it. The court sustained the
claim, and the money was paid to the
heir, and thus ends the true story of .
hundred dollar bill Baltimore Gazette.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-17
Burned.
GREAT FIRE AT WOODSTOCK, n. b.

GREAT FIRE AT WOODSTOCK, n. Il.
ST.. JOHN, n. B. Nov. 1.-THE fire
which broke out in Woodstock at mid
night, caught in the Institute building,
and it is supposed to be the work of an
incendiary. High winds are prevail
ing, and all efforts to stop the progress
of the flames are unavailing. The
Western Union telegraph office, both
in the depot and the regular office, are
destroyed, and it was impossible to get
the particulars. At l O'Clock the oper-
ator in the depot office told the oper-
ator at St. Johns: "Thc flames sre
coming down on me, and | must 60"
A few minutes Afterwards the circuit
was discovered open and 1t is presumed
that the station building has gone. Ats
o'clock the operator at the general of
flee said The upper half of the town
is gone and part of the lower; flames
are all round me, and 1t is getting too
hot to stay any longer. | expect this
Office to catch fire at any moment.
DIR. Smiths residence is gone,
and the Free Baptist church and
registry Office in flames. Efforts are
being made to save the new hotel, out
it is now in great danger If the hotel
goes it will be difficult to save the
town" These are the last particulars
that reached st. John. 1t is learned
that there have been lives lost. Wood
stock is on the st. John River, and is
a shire of the town of Carellton. 1t
contains about 100 stores; had large
lumber yard, several foundries and
manufactures, and population OF
5000.
WOODSTOCK, n. b., Nov. ia great
part of Woodstock is for the third time
III ashes. Incendlaries, without doubt,
were the cause of the disaster. About
half an .ioor after Midnight, an alarm
was given that the mechanics institute
was On fire. A heavy northwest wind
vas blowing, and in a few minutes the
building was enveloped il flames. An
engine was soon ut work, but the fire
seized on w. f. Diffles' and Benjamin
Smiths new residences, and they were
burned to the ground. In the mean
time, flames burst out of Mayor Il. A.
| Jones barn, a third Cf mile to the
windward of the first fire. The wind
now seemed to blow hurricane, and
swept the flames out to Jones resi-
| dence, then across the street, the fire
spreading each way. Soon both sides
| OF Main street were tiercelv burning.
The Free Baptist church, the old and
new Episcopal churches and the regis
ter's offices, were wrapped in flames,
| CONSERVATION was now on every face,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-17
A Trick that Ought to he Patented.

Some time ago the Virginian report
ed numerous depredations by dogs
upon the sheep folds in certain neigh
borhood in Bedford county, in which,
in some cases, the farmers lost all
their sheep. At the time the names of
the heaviest losers were printed, and
the number of dogs killed approx
mated, subsequently a well.known
farmer, who owns n large boundary Of
land IN the same nelghborhood, COM
planned that q second raid had been
made on his sheep in which he had
lost nearly twenty, and indirectly indi-
Gated his opinion that a certain dog,
belonging to one of his neighbors, who
has positively refused 20 permit his
dog to be killed in the previous general
massacre, was one Of the guilty ones,
and asked that the dog be then killed.
To this his owner vehemently objected
avowing that his dog had never touched
II sheep, and threatening to visit CON
Stunning wrath upon any person who
dared to trouble or Iumple hair on
his ugly ours worthless carcass.
The owner of the slaughtered sheep
merely remarked that it was "all
right, and good humoredly said good
by to the owner of the dog. Upon
reaching homo he had all the dead
sheep hauled TO a convenient point and
laid out in regular graveyard style.
He then built rail fence about
twelve feet high and about ten feet
square at the ground. and gradually
diminishing in dimensions until il was
not more than five feet square at the
top. He then retired to his home and
awaited results, knowing that even q
clumsy hound could climb the fence
and jump into the pen, but that not
even greyhound cound escape from
1t. The next morning gun in hand
he visited the place and planted his
bullet in the head of the obnoxious
dog which the master had before re-
fused to kill, and the remaining ones
were then Systematically and cody
dispatched. On the third morning he
completed the roster of the dead, and
found that it looted up forty-six dogs,
including fifteen or twenty which had
never before been seen in that vicinity.
At last accounts the carcass of the
sheep and dogs were all lying III a con
fused heap, and it is said the bark of q
dog in that neighborhood now would
cure the most aggravated case of here
dltary deafness. -Lynchburg PirgiaidN.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-17

and passed on along the lines as fast as
the greetings were interchanged. That
is TO say that he and those escorting
him moved, while the visitors stood
still until he was gone. Hitherto, at
least since have b.ed ir Washington,
when President W as to receive anyone
officially, he took his stand in the APP
pointed place and the visitors entered
and went up to him, and. after greet
ings were exchanged the visitors pass
ed On, and the President stood until all
were gone. So the new man reverses
the old order. In the manner OF CON
Quoting his first official reception of the
representatives offoreign Governments,
President Arthur followed q custom
usual in certain European courts, but
not often, if ever, observed heretofore
by our Presidents. Comment is made
upon this change because it was a
change.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-17

San Francisco Examiner.
We hitcSed couple Of farm horses
to spring wagon, filled it with provis-
ions, tents and blankets, and struck out
for the mountains, travelling from fif-
teen to twenty miles per day. The
first place we reached of importance
was the big trees of Calaveras county.
| must admit that they staggered my
imagination, and exceeded anything in
the vegetable growth | had ever seen.
In the stump of one Of these trees a
ballroom thirty-three feet across is
built, and it requires ladder of eigh-
teen steps to ascend the top of the log,
on which was built a ten-pin alley. 1t
has been burnt up, but the body of the
old charred monarch of the forest still
remains. Think of it A hollow log
through which one can ride on horse
back 100 feet and come out through a
knot-hole There are some ninety
trees, measuring from 50 to 100 feet in
circumference, and reaching up to the
skies-hom 800 to 450 feet. They
are the remnant of past flora that
one time was more common, but Is
now confined to some dozen groves
scattered from here to Kings river
grand old trees that have withstood the
storms of thousands CT winters, and
were saplings when Moses was a little
boy, found in the bullrushes of the Nile
What a history could they tell What
monument of growth Enough to
shame the vanity of proud Cheops, the
builder of the Pyramids. They have
grown and lifted their heads higher and
higher, while the proud kings and en-
pires of Egypt, Persia, Greece and
Rome have passed away. They lived
and tlourishod when Christ preached
repentance to the Jews, and were full
grown trees when our Anglo.Saxon an
cestors ran wild in the woods, and
painted their faces like the Indians.
From the rings that denote the annual
growth of these trees, science has esti-
mated some of them to be 1900 years
old, while they stand over the fallen
bodies of much older growth, covered
over with earth and large growing trees,
and it is one of the peculiarities of this
timber not to decay. 1t appears TO be
a species of redwood.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-17

speaking, bat, for all practical purpose
we're very distant from one another.
Take Tax c, :-S az. instance, the two import
ant towns Of Bristol and Newport,
which, as the crow flies, are less than
twenty miles apart, but, for the pun
poses OF land communication, were
separated by nearly eighty miles of
railroad. The new line will cut off
three fourths of this distance, and en-
able railway passengers and mechan-
disc to go in quarter Of the time, and
at, no doubt, very reduced expense.
A sim liar change will be effected in the
facilities for communication between
Bath, Exeter, and, in fine, all the towns
of Somersetshire, Devon and Cornwall,
and the whole Of South Wales. Ola
morganshire and Monmouthshire will
no longer look across the British Chan
mel at shore which can. only be
reached by an uncomfortable sea pass.
age, or by detour of eighty miles or
more, and the citizens Of Bristol and
Bridgewater will begin to find it almost
as easy to take their holidays on the
Welsh sea beaches as at the rather
muddy watering place. of the Somer-
setshire coast.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-17
-
Hotels In EurOnp.

An Edinburgh correspondent writes
Hotels III Europe are conducted on the
theory that the guest is a private per
sonage to be entertained in private
manner. He is not required to register
his name-he goes only by the, number
of his room, and most frequently no
one but the waiter-not even the land
lord will have anything to say or do
with him. Meals may be sent to the
guests bedroom, or he may take them
in the dining-room; in many hotels,
also, in the 'cofee-room," the ''smok-
ing-room," the "commercialroom, )"
and even in the parlor. Some hotels,
but not all, have a table d'hots.
In many hotels in Great British,
rather good ones, too, as far as furnish
ings go, nothing but cold cuts are to be
had-except at breakfast or at the late
dinner, cold ham, roast beef, corn beef
or chicken, bread and beer form the
ordinary lunch. Some hotels in Lon
don furnish no vegetables. At such
the bill of fare is coffee, roast beef, soles
or salmon and bread. Even with this
indifferent bill of fare they are often
crowded and at times decline to re-
ceive guests unless rooms have been
bespoken.
Most usually-invariahly so in the
Lctels Of the middle class-women are
the housekeepers assign guests to
rooms, keep the accounts and manage
the internal arrangements. Payment
is exacted only for what the guest has
ordered. He will be charged for the
room, but is under no obligation to
take meals in the house. A cup of
coffee and biscuit will be as cheerful
ly furnished as the most elaborate
meal.
The waiter is the principal executive
officer, He invariably wears a suit of
black broadcloth, claw-hammer coat,
white neck-tie, broad expanse of shirt
bosom and sometimes white vest.
"What is your number, please?" he
will say on first coming in contact with
you, and will quietly book against that
number the price Of dishes ordered for
the meal as well as the lodging. Pre-
vious to departing you will ask him to
render you an account, or at any rate
he is the official, who will present the
bill to you, receive the payment and
make the change.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-17
Recruits for Utah.

A special from New York of the Sd
inst, to the Milwaukee Republican says.
Three hundred and sixty-seven Nor
mon converts and twenty returning
missionaries were on board the Guion
steamer Wisconsin when she arrived
yesterday. The converts came in the
steerage and the missionaries in the
saloon Elder j.. K. Martineau, who
has been the Liverpool agent Of the
Mormon emigration society for about
three years was in charge of the COM
pany. The converts were from Eng
land, Scotland, Wales, Switzerland,
Germany and Scandinavia The party
will start west this afternoon. Elder
Martineau said: st is the custom in
some countries to prosecute US for
making converts, and Elder Ludwig
Suhoke was arrested in Hambug the
very day we left. The officers were
looking for brother Hammer, too, but
be escaped them and is with us. Elder
Suhoka has been preaching at Kiel
and Hamburg with great zeal for two
years, and during that time has been
ia days in prison for making prose
lytes to our faith. They sentenced him
to seven days imprisonment in Kiel
once, and then gave him another week
because he sang hymns in prison. He
has mission church with $50 mem
bers which prosecution of the German
government can put down.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-17
EXPENSIVE LIVING.
Almost Every Article Required to
support n Family Higher than a
Ienr Ago. .
New Ysrk World.

Ne" srk " orid
Living expenses threaten to be higher
during the coming winter than for
some years. The falling off in the
grain crop in the west has increased the
prices of -four, and the long drouth in
the east has seriously diminished the
supply of many other articles that
enter largely into household consump-
ton. Good to choice family brands OF
wheat flour bring now from $3.50 to
$3.50 per barrel, against from $3.50 to
$3.50 a year ago. The buckwheat crop
has been very short, and the price OF
buckwheat -four is from $3.50 to "a. 90
per 100 pounds, or almost double the
quotations a year ago, which were
from $2.15 to 1925. Potatoes are
scarce and high. Last October they
ranged from 81 to Sl.S7 per barrel;
during the past month they have sold
at from 1915 to 1926. Beans cost
more than twice rs much as year
ago ; mediums, the variety best known
to the New York trade, sell now from
$3.50 to 1856 bushel, against from
81 80 to $1.55 twelve month ago
All kinds of fruit, except pears, have
been scarce and high this fall. Green
apples bring more than double last
years prices good winter fruit sells
for from $3.50 TO 800 per barrel,
against from 81 to 81 80 last fall. Gran
berries, which sold for from SO to 1915
per barrel year ago, are now held at
from IS to $40. Garden truck" is I'M
usually high, and the novelty is seen in
the market of cabbages imported from
Germany and other countries, tho
price of this vegetable being now from
SO to $40 per hundred, against only 50
or 50 year ago. Butter shows some
advance, good to choice grades being
quoted at from % to 81 cents pound,
against from 26 to 80 last fall; but the
rise has not kept pace with that in the
cost of milk, which was never sold
higher at this time of the year. IN
fortunately for consumers, there is little
prospect that the chief articles of sup
PITY will fall below the present high
prices, while it is to be feared that
some of them will go still higher
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-17
A War Relic.

Senator Vest has received Gen. Lees
original order disbanding the army of
Virginia, and delivered the same to A i.
w. Slayback for presentation to the
Historical society at the next meeting.
The relic was inclosed with the follow
ing letter:
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 81, 1881
Col. A. w. SLAYBACK- Dear Sir: VIII
you be kind enouga to present to the
Historical society of Missouri the ac-
companying paper? 1t is the original
order of Gen. Il. E. Lee disbanding the
army of Virginia. 1t was placed in my
hands by one who, like you and my
sell, was loyal TO the cause for which
that army fought, and who accepted in
good faith the results of its defeat. 7
received the trust, but, upon reflection,
| think that a paper SO valuable to the
historian and antiquarian, the last rec
ord of an army unequaled in history
for Its achievements, should be deposit
ted with society permanent in dura-
ton and devoted to preserving the cor
rect history of each successive age.
Truly, etc, G. G. VEST.
Inc OI'ltT TtHus as IOllONs.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN
VIRGINIA, April 10, 1S65.-General Or
ders No. g. After four years of ardu-
Gus services, marked by unsurpassed
courage and fortitude, the army of
nothern Virginia has been compelled
to yield to overwhelming numbers and
resources.
| need not tell the brave survivors of
so many hard fought battles, who have
remained steadfast to the last, that |
have consented to this result from no
distrust to them; but feeling that valor
and devotion could accomplish nothing
that would compensate for the loss that
must have attended the continuance of
the contest, | determined to avoid the
useless sacrifice of those whose past
services have endeared them to their
countrymen.
By the terms of the agreement Off
GERS and men can return to their
homes and remain until exchanged.
You will take with you the satisfaction
that proceeds from the consciousness
of duty faithfully performed. and I
earnestly pray that q merciful God will
extend to you His blessing and pro-
lection.
With an increasing admiration of
your constancy and devotion to your
country, and grateful remembrance
of your kind and generous considera-
ton for myself, | bid you all an affect
ionate farewell.
r. +. LEE, General.