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Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-28
NEW SERIES. VOL. /. NO. "A
-sSOTHEE RAILROAD MOVE.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Conn
pany Buys UP fitc Milford e. BAY
Shore Charter.

| special Correspondence Of state Jnurnal.
Dover, April 22.-Thr Pennsylvania
| Railroad Company oil Tuesday bought
| ont the charter Of the Milford K Bay
4 Shore Railroad Company. The terms OF
| the sale have not learned, but "Judge'
| George Dickson, secretary Of the NJ. X B.
| $. Co., is reported 10 have received $500,
and C. II. b. Day, ESD, one OF the
directors, between 81 ,O0O and $1,000.
Since the sale there has been much
talk about its validity, on the ground OF
there having been prior charter of the
| same road. | asked one of the corpora
| tors who sold his right under this charter
about the facts concerning the older cor
poration. He says there never was any
talk about it until this transaction be-
came known, and doubts its existence.
because had there been prior charter he
thinks something would have been said
about it when tins charter was procured,
in 1871.
The NJ. x b. $. charter is an extremely
liberal one. II authorizes the construc-
tion of Il railroad beginning at or near
Milford and running thence to the north
ern line of the State sin the direction to-
wards Wilmington via Frederick. Magno-
liza or otherwise" with power to construct
lateral branches TO Mahon river, Bombay
Hook, Port Penn, Delaware City and ''any
other points or places within the limits OF
this State, also to cooperate with such
companies as are or may be incorporated
in the States of Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania for the purpose Of constructing con-
Meeting railroads.
The charter also authorizes the pur-
chase Of real estate, the building of
wharyes, HOUSES, shops, &c, and the
purchase or hire OF steamboats, to ply
in connection with said railroads 10 any
place whatsoever.
The eorporators named in the original
charter included Governor Hall, lIarbeson
Hickman, William NJ. Shakespeare,
George b. Money, John nj. Vosiell and
others. A supplement passed April 10TH
unite with the junction " Break
water road and such othel roads of this
state and Maryland and Virginia as may
be agreed upon, and to unite, CONSOLE
date, merge its stock with or lease any
roads in Delaware, Maryland or New
Jersey, whether such roads be constructed
or only authorized as shall form con-
tinuous line with each other, either
direct or by means of amy intervening
railroad, bridge or ferry.
An organization was effected soon after
the act of incorporation was passed, but
no money was ever paid in and this COM
prehensive charter has lain idle until the
present day.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-28

There are $50 men at work now in the F.,
W. ~ b. car shops, larger number than ever
before The removal of the bridge building
department to Delaware Junction has given
more room, especially in the painting depart
ment. The painters now work in large
well-lighted building supplied with permanent
jacks and other conveniences, great i'm
provement on their old shop. New passenger
cars are being built and old passenger and
freight cars repaired and done up making a
scene of bustling activity. All the new and
repaired cars are fitted with Janney eouplers
and Westinghouse automatic brakes and other
cars are run in from time to time to have the
old couplers changed, the company intending
to equip every car on the line with these coup
lers and brakes The U. S. Fish Commission
car previously noticed, was taken away on
! Tuesday night to Baltimore where some
plumbing work is to be done on 1t, after
! which it is to be taken South for load of
| young shad. This car was constructed from
a baggage car generously loaned by the COM
| pany to the Fish Commission and fitted up at
the expense of the latter under the superv:-
sion of Professor Baird and Major Ferguson.
| Through the centre of the car runs a Ridg-
way refrigerator 30 feet long, at one end of
the car is a kitchen about u feet long, the
other end is fitted up with Pullman berths
| and passenger accommodations. The refrig-
orator will be kept at an average temperature
of 40 degrees. The car Is to be used for the
distribution of fish spawn and young fry to
inland rivers and lakes.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-28
rnH LuN4ric nE4RD rno.u.
rae Turns Up ia Canndcn- ". s.. and
HAS Very Profitable Eucid
Interval

About the middle OF las; February a
q young man, evidently a foreigner, well
dressed and hearing evidences Of 4 fine
education was arrested in this city and
taken To the police station. When
arrested he was barranguing I'M imaei-
nary audience at Front and King streets
On the suhirct Of religion, talking alter
Haicly in English. French, Latin. and
Italian. Now and then he had semi
lucid movements and during on Of these
he gave his laiue lis Walter Baker and
said he was Il native of Australia.
The young man was sent to the aims
house for treatment and remained there
about six weeks, hting discharged ON
April lth. Upon his departure he ap-
prared perfectly rational aud was pro-
Yidrd with means by Mr.. Barlow, the
superintendent. to so to Philadelphia.
He promised to write, hut that was the
last heard ot linn until last week, when
it was Learned from u Camden, y. L.,
paper that he has been i'll that city for
several weeks and has not been conduct-
ing himself at all to the satisfaction Of
the CamaenitrS.
When he first arrived in Camden he
was apparently insane and attracted much
attention by the evidence he gave of un-
usual learning. lie was kindly cared for
by tllt authorities until his reason was
restored and lie then went to hoard with
officer John Lee. lie called himself An
toine Maretti, John Baptist Zan and made
use Of various other names.
TN Wednesday the strange young man
had another attack of insanity but he
appears to have gotten over it quickly
tI = a "a
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-28
TINE RE.tNDrTINE's IND1iy MIME
An Interesting Historical Relic at
West Chester.

Thomas Louis Ogier of the West
Chester Microscopical Society has laid
before the society an indenture of a land
conveyance containing the original or
Indian name of the Brandywine creek.
The document reads as follows:
This indenture. made the Seventh day of
the Fourth month. called June, in tine fourth
year Of the reign of King George the Second
over Great Britain, &e., Ammo Domini, 1871.
between James Harlem of or near the Town
ship of Nantwell, in the County of Chester, in
the Province of Pennsylvania. hpsbandman
of the one part, and James Gibbons OF West
Town, in the same County and Province, of
the other part.
WHEREAS, The said James Harlem hath
been admitted by James Stool, secretary
under the proprietor, TO settle and improve
500 acres of land lying and being upon the
branch of the Brandywine called Chichokatus.
The document then goes on to explain the
conditions and the price, which was Forty
pounds Of lawful money of Pensilvania" !"
Judge Futhey has secured copy of the
paper, which he will incorporate in his His
tory of Chester County.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-28
THE MY coz Rf.
Something About The Cases to he
Tried Then.

The Court of General Sessions for this
county will convene here on the second
Monday in May the Superior Court on the
Monday following;
There are no important criminal cases to
be tried. Ten persons are charged with
larceny Kate Murray, John W. Sordon, Car
oline Fisher George Ogle. Joseph Walker,
james Butcher, James Wollsdale, Alexander
Worthenberg, Harrison Rothwell and John
Fryer; and one, Joseph Starting, colored,
also five or six liquor cases thus far; more
expected. OF course the grand jury will first
have to pass on these cases.
There will be large Superior Court trial
list, owing to the large number of cases con-
tinued from last term, but not many are
likely to come to trial. 1t is yet too early to
learn whether any important civil cases will
be disposed of.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-28
Terrific ExpIOstOns,

,,,a thursday morning two terrific and
Siu"n Si,ilost simultaneous explosions of nitro
sttsesrlne ~ .i took place in the nitre vaults of
Ga,. "s Dlttman Powder Works, near Bing-
"@ pton, New York. About five minutes
,rtwards noa,1 10000 pounds of sporting
hT"uei iro,, III storehouse about 100 feet
yin th, the nitre vaults ignited, and caused
ishd 'n1fd explosion, which utterly demol-
nasss ea the buildings and destroyed pro-
dia.y ddy 'or miles around. The shock was
,;S,'lhetly felt at a distance of 40 miles.
ThS Tph,es. No person was seriously injured.
ra,', man having charge of the nitre
s1,a ,nalls discovered the danger in time to
rasr, US The men to escape. The explosions
suited nsol from a fire caused by an i'm
proper mixture of acids.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-28

James Kane, father of policeman Kane.
found the body of prematurely born
white female infant in the yard attached
to his residence, No. 6l3 East Sixth
street, Friday morning. The body was
wrapped in rags and had evidently been
thrown over the fence by some person
who had designed that it should go into
the vacant lot adjoining, but it had been
diverted from its course by striking the
branches of a pear tree. 1t was taken to
the police station and subsequently
handed over to the coroner.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-28

At the lirst stated meeting in May the City
Council Will chuuse city solicitor for a term
Of three years, AIr, Macalllsicr's tenn then ex-
pirins. The length Of the term has been
lately fixed by Legislative enactment which Sc
cures the lucky man in office as the pre-exist-
ing ordinance would not have done. The
Legislature also prescribed as II qualification
for the Office that the appomtee shall have
been five years u member of the bar. This
probably, although not so far as known de-
signed to that end, sweeps the way clear for
Henry Q. Turner, Esq. His competitor H.
Il, Pennington, ESQ, was admitted to the bar
at the May term of court, 1876, and his five
years will lack eleven days of being completed
at the time the appointment is to be made
Harry Sharpley, Esq, who says he ia not an
applicant but ready to accept the office if it be
rendered him, was admitted to the bar at the
same term of court and is clearly of the opin-
ion that he is therefore ineligible. Mr.. PEN
ington il not SO clear on this point and has
no idea of giving up the race. Mr.. Turner
said of the law that he thought it was aimed
at him, ''but if so, he added sit missed me
by nearly year. .--
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-28

Reports from all the counties of Kansas,
collected within 10 days, show that the
winter wheat is in excellent condition
better than usual at this season. The
weather for the last few days has been
hot and windy, but the farmers believe
that, with rain and favorable weather
following, the crop will be the largest
ever harvested in the State. The reports
of the condition of the spring wheat are
unfavorable.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-28

There is secret closet in Bob Inger-
soils house, and he visits it every day,
taking with him an anxious countenance,
and returning with look of reinsurance.
This secret closet (now, don't give this
away contains fan and linen duster.
-Atlaata RoSt-Appeai.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-28
RERE IND IHfsjsh.


GLattnnnoeo,.. frat ,,,,i,,,, law af ttt..
s,asnn was Snpdo,. ln.t
| exnrass ro,nn,niss
| \.
AZ" man can pe wise on an empty
S'o'''''''''- '."'m 1''"e'
~ Is 's'',atea ~, tat iast wintnf in ~ SHOW @
s'or'i.s c'9t western rai'f""'s 91'o"o''""''
m!Miyla,1 mi,!9MlIy,tolt{; idm liHdmmpsy,tumpsey N
'''' ''7 - tG,,,,lj,".,I,u,n,,,
The tonnage of the Chinese mercantile
marine is nearly as great us that Of the
| United States.
The buds swell slowly under tbe .,cuiii
and springlike influence of the hand
organ.
The class in bur,tlarv in phillins
| Andoya,, Arodn,ov il hrnlk.n mn VI
bWgpoH HraiH.
An the horses ot .Iero,ne porl, ara ,vo,,l,
ing steadily. and their health and nppe-
till. are excellent
rha mas, ot,., ., ro.,r,..on., ,.,,,,..,
Territory. would be n suitable nlocr fo,. 4
branch bead LATTER Oi,ice
,lf..l,,. u,,..,,t a.-,,,,,1 a.. -. ~
nanmared IN tha drow;npt " ,' roo,, ~, ""' a,,I ,
l" nSar,haI i ~ ~" hm, d a"o .;'i an'
N., ~. ~ ,.uI..l ~, ,l,i,,.,...
80 49,, "i'' N'..ela iIi NV o''''lV'
,.i -. 's''''+''s' 'i''' ~ ''''' i'''' % ;"
''',,' ''''
me contribution box is superior to the
,'''9s 20 iio'o' '''''e' '''''' III ny
''",'5'i " iop''''''a'
Inc national exhibition at Toxic is en-
| inehtly SUCCESSFUL having had bo'ooo
Vi5lt"rs III the htst lofthiSht'
Fatrlck on the zebra; 'Phawt Kind ot "A
| paste Is tiiat the mule wid ms RIBS ON
the outside oi ms SKIN ehtolrly.'
Reports from trustworthy sources PROVE
| ineontestably that the peach crop has
been entirely destroyed in Alaska.
A man has actually been convicted of
murder in San Francisco but then he
| had no influence with the houdiums
p.onln are calling Rarnnm = fr,ud bs-
cause his fat woman who travelled ut
$50 pounds weighed i'll death but 400.
A boy who want trv is like trntb
beeaus. the hoy won't endeayor and
| trutb won't end ever either Bos,on
| Past.
Thousand of Am,r;c.n tov sk;ns ar.
| seut to Russia every v,,ar Ia be used IN,
linin,t garments worn in that conntrv nf
| cold climate. Nihilism and bnmbs
Tba ,,ta Chi.f I,s.,h of tl,. tro,,o;.
Win was n Mnthndist 6,d INST rniSbn5
tha translation al th. NV r.cta,n,ut intn
lro,n,nis langi,a,r, b.fnr. bis a.aib
,,.i, ~.
~ ~ a. N"I y''.,i - i'" pNI'9 % a"oul "
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Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-28
.sGoyernor HaII, In Trouble.

The schooner Governor Hall of Philadel-
phia, with coal for Havana, 81 days. was
picked up by steam pilot boat, Friday
afternoon, 10 miles south of Cape Henry,
with her rudder gear broken, and towed into
Norfolk harbor.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-28

serious accident, arising out of a
laughabe incident, is reported at the
recent grand battue at Mrs. Gerard Leigh's
where 1000 pheasants Were killed in two
days shooting by 10 guns-a sort of
slaughter which aristocrats in England
call sport. Dry, with much expenditure
of powder, the Prince ordered his attend
ant to uncork bottle of fApollinaris but,
forgetting the order the minute after, he
"wheeled" to wing cock rising behind
him, just as the keeper was approaching
with the bottle. The man let fly the
cork in his fright, and it cut the Prince
severly on the eyelid he was in return
accidentally of course) so severely pep
pered in the calves that he is likely to
remember Apollinaris as a source of
anything but Exquisite sensations.
1t is related that California pioneer,
seeing Chinaman coolly draw a "navy
six" and shoot white rutiian neatly
through the abdomen, exclaimed with
much earnest enthusiasm: "Them
Chinese is takin' on Christian ways sur
prism fast.''
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-28

If you wish to be sure you're giving
the wrong credit to witticism, make it
"New York World"
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-28

lhe Mercedes is beautiful novelty in
rt"lasols' tt The handle does not extend
,Ho"gh the outer covering and the ribs
"'e Ten in number, while the shape is UNI
Sauaily graceful. 1t comes in all grades,
,i .oni the cheapest to the costliest and in
,4gi variety of material that something
NJ match the costume can easily be found.
a'aiy are ornamented with beads, steel,
H. :" gilt Spanish lace forms rich finish
ss, While others are simply of white
rYtvaie fot or pique or of pretty colored
tto'!on, i, to correspond with dresses. But
u IS impossible to hint at the different
,ts,iiieS, ,t,i', yet one can he sure of finding some
's 10 suit. RosALINp MAY.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-02-03
GOING IT BLIND.

A purchaser for q horse that he was
| trying to sell could perceive no defect in
the animal, but still he did not care to
buy. He said to the seller:
"The horse seems all right, but he
may have some defect / can't perceive. "
The seller, who was standing at the
head OF the animal, replied:
81 stand between You and any dam.
age"
The buyer thought this was sufficient
guarantee, SO he closed the sale. Next
day he came around raving. Tho seller
was as calm as May morning. The
irate purchaser said:
81 want my money back. You guar
antced the horse sound, and find he is
blind in one eye. You promised to make
good any defect there was about the
horse"
81 did nothing Of the kind. If you
take me Tor a fool, You are mistaken. 1t
must have been somebody else"
"What did you tell me when l said
the horse might have some defect l
didn't perceive?"
81 told you / would stand between
you and any damage !; and so l did. /
stood between you and tho damaged eye
of the horse and perhaps that WAS the
reason You didn't see it. l got on the
blind side Of the horse / sold"
EYES," responded tho disconsolate
purchaser, "you pot OH my blind side.
and sold me at the same line. "--GalVes-
ton .Nci0S.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-02-03
MAyKATo En- f Press
THE COUNTY, ROAD.
BY CAPIToLA BLACK.


The drives of city paIl, are considered
very beautiful, with their artistic curves
and carefully arranged borders but
their beauty is thrown entirely in the
shade when compared with the ever.
changing, sl-yarying beauty, which
nature with such a lavish hand scatter
along dear old country road.
Indeed, | think, country road is al
most past description, for at every iurn
you come upon IA new panorama of pictu
rescue grandeur. Here ana there Il
shade tree hangs over it and throws
strange fantastic shadows upon the
smooth. pebbly surface, changing dark
emerald chestnut burrs and unique clus-
tors OF acorns into creeping things of life.
IL seecms To come from nowhere and to
end nowhere, for wherever we stop IL
still stretches on before us like the fit
ting spirit of Dante, Gliding us and yet
Reckoning us on with its beautiful views
so pleasing to the eye. and so agreeable
to our finer sense of the aesthetic. Ii
winds around large hills, then leap
ing the little foothills it stretches
ont through fair. fertile valley, past
pleasant-loolling farm-houscs with pref
~ green door-yards, filled with clus
ters of sweet Williams and Nesting mass
es of modest pinks. Ever and anon, il
dips into hollows, filed with the music
of tinkling water, lined with soft, green
fern ironds, and redolent with the per-
fume of wood violets. Its sides are lined
with daisies, wild roses, and tiny blue
star-flowers, and often the fences are
covered with a drapery of thick, green.
clossy-leaved vines, which wind in and
out through the old rails, making the
irregular fence II thing of beauty. There
y Il marked difference between the words
drive and road, the first instantly sug-
gests something artificial, somethingcon-
structed for pleasure only, while at the
very sound OF the word road there looms
up before ones mental VISION round
loads of sweet-scented hay drawn by
sturdy horses, and long lines of sleek,
Ai,d-eycd COWS. followed 10y fair speci-
men of Winters Barefoot boy. :"
There is an objection, which some might
bring forth, 10 the road, which is its
utter loneliness and silence. For those
who love noise, hustle and confusion it
would certainly not be pleasant to ride,
as 1 have done for hours, with nothing
TO break the perfect stiffness of woods,
whose tall trees over-arched my head
Ike a canopy. Cooper writes thus:
they love the country, and none else,
Who seek COR their OVID sakos
IT, silence and its shade
WHITE HAUL, IA.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-02-03
REFORNED IN A WE'LL.

Somewhere in New Jersey lives
farmer OF such social habits that hi
coming home intoxicated was once N
unusual thing. His wife urged him ii
vain to take the pledge.
"Why, you seo," he would say, "Pl
take it after while, but don't like t.
break off at once. The best way is {,
get used to things by degrees, yor
know"
"Very well, old man," his helpmee'
would rejoin "see, now, if you don'i
iali into hole one of these days, when
you can't take care Of yourself, and no.
body near to help you out"
Sure enough, as if to verify the proph-
ecy, rs he returned home drunk the
next day, he fell into shallow well, and,
after great deal of useless scramblinG,
he shouted for the "light of his eyes
to come up and help him out.
Didn't tell You SO ?" said the good
soul, showing her cap-frill over tho edge
OF the parapet; "you've got into n hole
at last, aud it's lucky I'm in hearing OF
you might have been drowned. Well"
she continued after q pause, letting
down the bucket, "take hold"
And up he came, higher at each turn
of the windlass, until, the old lady's
grasp slipping from the handle, down he
went to the bottom again. This, occur
ring more than once, caused the tempe
rary occupant of the well to become sus-
picious.
"See here !" he exclaimed, in fury,
at the last splash, "you're doing that
on purpose know you are."
"Well, now l am, responded his wife,
TRANQUILITY, while winding him up once
more. "Don't you remember telling
me it's best to get used to things by de-
grees ? I'm afraid if I bring you right
up of sudden you wouldn't find it
wholesome y
The old fellow couldn't help chuck
ling at the application of his principle,
and protested he would take the pledge
on that instant If she would lift him
fairly out. This she did, and packed
him off to take the pledge, wet as he
was.
"For, you see," she added, very en-
I" if you ever fall into the
we'll again I'll leave you there-I will"