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The Princeton union., 1881-03-17
Healing the Sick by PRAYER.

The Macon (Mo.l Register, says that
q wonderful recovery of a young lady,
who has been confined to her bed for
five years, is reported from Eagle
township, this county, and not only
reported, but vouched for as a fact, by
some OF our best citizens, who are
acquainted with the facts in the case,
who saw the girl frequently while
confined to her bed and have seen and
conVersed with her since her recovery.
The name Of the young lady, who is
now about 81 years Of age, is Ada
Whitehead, daughter of Richard
Whitehead, Esq. During her long
confinement of five years she has been
ATTENDED, at different times, byseveral
OF our leading physicians, and at times
her life was despaired of. she having
on several occasions seemingly been at
DEATH S door. with the door partly
open for her ingress to the world
beyond. a protracted meeting. under
the auspices of the Cumberland Pres
byterian church. had been going onin
the neighborhood where Nh. White
head resides, and during it's con-
tinuance day and an hour was agreed
upon, at which all should unite, wher-
ever they might be. in one common
prayer, as it were, for the speedy
recovery and complete restoration to
health of Miss Whitehead. The hour
came one day last week. The prayers
were begun and continued with a
fervency and zeal that must produce a
required result. if answer in these
days is given from OH high to pray ers
sincere. Prayer was made at the
residence of MI. Whitehead, as we'll
as at other dwellings, and before the
hour had near expired, Miss White
head, unaided, rose from her bed,
called for clothes. and declared she was
healed. She got up and has been going
about ever since. Persons going to
Mr.. Whitehead s the same OF next day.
and before the fact became generally
known, were surprised to have the
door opened by Miss Ada in response
to their knock. Let it be remembered
that for five years she had been q
helpless invalid. and for eighteen
months has been confined to her bed
unable to rise OF turn without aid, that
she had wasted away to a mere skele-
ton, and that in (, moment time, as
it were, she was able to get up with
out aid and go about the house prais-
ing God and declaring she was we'll
9r9jJ r.
The Princeton union., 1881-03-17
EVENING.

What beautiful setting the sun has,
Now melting away in the west
It's long days work is happily done
And it lays itself down to its rest
Up o'er the widened fields it glows,
And richens and ripens the grain;
Then sinks to its peaceful and honored repose,
And silence comes over the plain.
So sank in the quiet and silence of rest
A dear, faithful pilgrim knew
His kind, patient hands folded down on his
breast
To be hidden away from our view.
But the sun in its splendor of crimson and
gold,
Sinks not to the rest he has won;
For the face of the Father he now may be-
hold,
And the plaudit is his " Well done"
The Princeton union., 1881-03-17
a H.4NDSOME P.xIH.

He was a sturdy yeoman,
She was a maiden fair;
Yet as they walked together
They were a handsome pair,
he was a noble Saxon,
Ruddy, like all his race
She, in her homely duties,
Carried herself with grace.
He at his daily labor
Plodded with might and main;
She in her quiet corner,
Ever with busy BRAIN,
Saw, as it were a vision,
Paths that they might pursue
She had the wit to counsel.
He had the strength to do.
Many a one had whispered;
Strange that men of Drawn
Always prefer to marry
Maidens as fair as the dawn!
This is an error, surely,
One of the freaks Of love:
Why should the mighty eagle
Mate with the gentle dove?''
He with muscle and sinew
Fought the battles of life;
She with her love and pity
Soothed the fevers of strife:
He with the nerve of stole,
She with a tender heart
Better were they together
Than journeying far apart.
The Princeton union., 1881-03-17
BEFORE THE DAYBREAK.s

Before the daybreak shines a star
That in the days great glory fades
Too fercely bright is the full light
That her pale cleaning lamp upbraids.
Before the daybreak sings a bird,
That stills her song ere morning light;
Too loud for her is the days S stir,
The woodlands thousand -tongued delight
All great the honor is to shine
A light wherein no traveller errs;
And rich the prize to rank divine
Among the worlds loud choristers.
But would be that paler star,
And would be that lonelier bird;
To shine with hope while hopes afa.,
And sing of love when loves unheard.
London Spectacle.
The Princeton union., 1881-03-17

MICHAEL DAvITT is said to be
strikingly handsome. His height is
about five feet eight inches, and he
has a slight. compact figure. His COM
plexion is fresh and clear, with dark,
closely cut hair and eyes, and he wears
a mustache and small side-whiskers.
His spare, high forehead and clear cut
features give him an intellectual and
thoughtful appearance. E8
The Princeton union., 1881-03-17
America.

The Englislman who makes Il tour
in America-and trips across the
Atlantic are becoming more and more
common every day-returns home
after SIX months with a definite
though somewhat condensed picture
OF a vast and prosperous country,
made up in the main of bustling, busy
cities and crowded pleasure resorts.
He sees New York with it's teenling
streets, it's long line of Broadway
stores, it's marble drapery shops, it's
beautiful Central Park, it's fast-trot-
ting horses, it's Fifth Avenue filed
with spacious houses of stately New
haven stone, it's Irish quarter cram
med with a squalid poverty which
reminds him only too faithfully of
European capitals in their .dreariest
aspect. He sees Chicago with it's
monster hotels; Philadelphia, with its
Quakerish avenues; Boston with it's
crooked, old-fashioned streets Wash
ington, with it's empty squares and
hedeous architectural snightnares,ya all
too solid for an ugly dream. He goes,
Of course, to Niagara; and there he
finds a small city of huge wooden
hotels, with tin-plated cupolas, and q
crowd of well-dressed people from all
nations upon earth patiently. paying
their dollars with exemplary resi- gna-
tion. at the ubiquitous turnstiles which
fence in every separate point Of view.
He goes also to suburban Long
Branch, with its echoes OF shoddy
New York society; to pleasant, leafy,-
overdressed Saratoga to the much
infested surf Of Newport and per-
haps even to the White Mountains,
OF the lakes of north western New
York. Everywhere he finds masses
of human beings. lnOnstfous over
grown inns, well-paved road ways.
iced drinks, exorbitant prices, electric
bell, abundant telephones, unlimited
wealth, copious yulgarity, and all the
latest modern improvements OF mon
strosities, as the case may be. Then
he comes home again, perfectly sat
isfied that he had seen America, and
greatly interested in what he had
learned.
The Baby.
The youngest is always emperor
Of the household. Father and mother.
brother and sisters, all bend to his
baby dictation. He can SOW the par
lor carpet with cake crumbs, tin over
the plant stand, spill the milk pitcher
and get nothing but hugs and kisses
for his rascality;; he is kept on the
laugh and screech by all the members
OF his family, and their nerves are
not strained in the least he picks up
the art of talking without any trouble,
and 'sgives away = family secrets to
high-toned callers, and is rewarded
by candies innumerable !; he is chubby
and and round, and sweet and happy, and
househould affairs revolve in thier
orbits around him, as though he was
a. grand central sun. We pity q fam-
lily who hasen'ta a :. youngest. =
What politics is to a man. shop
ping is to woman: while the former
The Princeton union., 1881-03-17

WHAT politics is to man, shop
ping is to a woman: while the former
work up the ward, the latter works up
the wardrobe.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-31
Dangers In Electric Lighting 10 be
Guarded Against.

The property owners and UNDER
Writers OF Philadelphia are fully alive
to the Importance of asc rita ming in
the outset TO just what dangers from
fire the introduction of the electric
light exposes them. Interesting ex-
perlments at the generating station of
the Brush Electric Light Company are
detailed by the Ledger, experiments
having for their object to show Chow
accidental fires might be produced by
electric light conductors" The first
experiment was to show the likelihood
OF voltaic arcs being formed al the
junction OF two wires along which a
current is Eassing. At the beginning
perfect, but "by moving the wires
sligbtly-jarring them, in fact
momentary arcs were formed, and it
was made plain enough that fires
might be thus occasioned." In the
next experiment one of the wires was
ounded"-connected with the
ground SO as to make the earth do the
duty of one of the ordinary conducting
wires. One Of the lamps in operation
was then set upon wet board floor,
with the consequence that ".he water
about its base soon began to bubble,
and then little flashes of fire were seen
al the end of the board several inches
away, and smoke began to arise. -
The third experiment illustrated the
formation of an arc by the breakage of
q wire. $50 long as the ends were
separated no more than an inch and a
half or two Inches an arc similar TO
that in the lamps was formed, the
vapor of the melting copper, instead Of
the vapor of carbon, forming the con-
nection between the separate ends OF
wire. just at the moment when the
arc reached Its limit of length and
finally failed, the current beina unable
to leap the distance between the wires,
considerable sheet of flame, like
ball of fire, shot up for an instant.
This may be the means of setting fire
to combustible material at a distance
of several inches from the wire, or 10
the insulating covering OF the wire
itself if that be combustible." Water
is tolerably good conductor OF cleo
tricity, especially when containing in
and hence there is chance that it
may at times intervene to destroy the
Insulation of conductors. This was
thus illustrated The "outward" and
"return" wire of the electric circui
we're fastened to board parallel to
each other, and not more than an inch
or an inch and half from each other.
Both were insulated by a cotton GOV
ering, and as long as they were dry all
was well. "But tincupful of water
having been poured on the board be-
tween them, the water soon saturated
the cotton covering, and, with the
water as conductor, connection was
formed between the wires. The water
boi ed and bubbled, and in a few
minutes the wood was charfed and
began 60 burn in places near the
wires"
The daily gazette., 1881-12-31

In the matter of marrying a young
woman of Seneca county, OHIO, plainly
appropriates the wedding cake. Her
maiden name was Melissa J. Rems-
burg, but whether it now is Mrs.
Chauncy L. Wyatt or Mrs. Wesley
NJ. Kline, or both, the future must be
relied upon to disclose. AS the story
is chronicled locally, Miss Remsburg
told Mr.. Wyant that she would meet
and marry him in Tiffin, fifteen miles
from her fathers house, at 3 O'Clock
on the afternoon of Monday succeed.
ing Christmas. She also told Mr..
Kline that she would see him and wed
him 10 Tiffin at $50 O'Clock on the
same day. She kept both promises,
for she became the wife of Mr.. Wyant
at one end of the town and marriedMr.
Kline at the other, twenty-four min
utes only elapsing between the
ceremonies. Immed ately after the
first wedding the bride had excused
herself, 'Just to run down the street
to see a FRIEND" and thus it came
about that she had time to marry Mr..
Kline and take westward bound
train before Mr.. Wyant suspected
treaohery. AS to the purpose of the
young woman everybody seems to be
In the dark, and her conduct is so
mysterious that she probably will
figure hereafter in novel or a lunatic
asylum,
The daily gazette., 1881-12-31

A RAT SToRY.-A female rat had the
misfortune tv be caught alive in Phila-
delphia trap not long ago, and the fol-
lowing day she presented her captor with
five small pledges. One of these escaped
and ran into a bottle, from which it
could not get out owing to the smooth
ness of its prison walls. There it was
found, and the old rat and the bottled
young one were placed together in a
cage. Since that time the mother has
fed her offspring by dropping bits of food
down the neck of the bottle, and
auenched its thirst by sticking into the
same orifice her tail dripping with water
from the non provided for her own use.
In THE Common Pleas Court in
Philadelphia, yesterday, a hearing was
had upon the bill in equity filed by the
McCalmonts against the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad Company, pray
ing for the appointment of master to
take supervision aud control of the
election next January. Franklin b.
Gowen presented petition praying that
he might be allowed to come In as q de-
fendant. and charging that the object OF
the suit was meloly to delay the elec
ton. The order was granted and Mr..
Gowen was made defendant. The
case wi be argued on Saturday.
BARTHoLDI's STATUE OF LIBERTY
The committee formed several years
ago to provide for the reception and ereC
ton in New York OF Bartholdi's colos
sal statue OF "Liberty Enlightening the
World" announ ce that the full amount
needed to complete the statue ($250, ,000)
has been raised in France, and that the
work will soon be ready for shipment.
An appeal is now made for subscriptions
to build pedestal, which it is estimated
will cost as much as the statue itself.
TREATMENT OF THE PHILADELPHIA
Poon.-At the session yesterday of he
Philadelphia almshouse investigating
committee tho chief nurse of one of the
hospital wards test fed that her patients
were uuderfed with inferior food. Capt.
MoCormick related how, when he took
a boatlo I'd of coal to the Almshouse
wharf for the institution, pleasure
Yacht belonging to an Influential politi-
| clan was frst filed with coal. An off,
| Ger testified that oLe-half of the meats
should have been rejected, and that
several hogsheads Of pork which had
spoiled was the only meat distributed
| among the inmates for some six weeks,
| and during that time he bad seen in-
IN ates swarming around the slop barrels
endeavorlnx to pick up something to
eat. There was al-0 testimony to the ef-
feet that while inmates were thus soan-
tlly provided for, supplies that should
have gone into the Institution were sent
10 outside parties.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-31
THE STRANGER ON THE SILL.

Between broad fields OF wheat and corn:
In the lowly home VIII re was born
the peach tree leans against the wall.
And the woodbine wanders over all;
There IL Swallowed doorway still.
But strangers foot has crossed the sill,
There is the barn-and as Of yore.
can smell the hay from the open door
And see the busy swallows throng,
And hear the peewee's mourDful song:
Out The stronger comes oh, painful proc,
His sheayes are piled To the heated roof
There is the orchard-the very trees
Where my childhood knew long hours
of ease,
And watched the thadowy moments run
TIL my life has imblbed more shade than
sun;
The swing from the bow still sweeps the
air,
But the strangers children are swinging
there.
There bubbles the shady spring below,
grow.
Twas there found the calamus root,
Aud watched the minnows poise the
shoot,
And heard the robin lave his wing
But strangers bucket Is at the spring.
oh. ye who daily cross the sill,
Step lightly, for 1 love IT still;
And when you crowd the old barn caves,
Then think wnat countless harvest
sheaves
Have pas ed within that scented door
To gladden. eyes that are no more.
Deal kindly with those orchard trees
And when your children crowd your
knees,
Their sweetest fruit they sh. IL impart,
AS II cd memories stirred their heart
To youthful spor, still leave the swing,
And in sweet reverence hold the spring,
The b I'm, the trees, the the brook, birds.
The meadows with their lowing herds,
Ihs woodbine on the cottage wall
My heart still fingers with them all.
Ye strangers on my native sid.
Step lightly, for love 1t still.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-31
HOARD OF EDUCATION.
Special Meeting Last Evening to
Consider u suit in the U. 8
COnrt

Special Meeting Last Evening tG
Consider q suit I'm the U. 3
Court.
A special meeting of the Board oI
Education was called by the PRESS
dent to meet last evening at 7.3(
o'clock. BY that time only four mem.
bers were present, but the y keptIdrop,
ping in very slowly one by one until
about 8 O'Clock when quorum was
present.
The President failed to put in an
appearance and on motion of Mr.
Lobdell, DR.. Grimshaw was called
10 the chair.
The Secretary was requested to
read the call for the meeting, but be
stated that he had no copy, The
President merely requested him to
notify the members of special
meeting for the purpose of taking
action in reference to a suit in the
U. S. District Court against the
Mayor and City Council of Whining
ton also the Board of Education
for an alleged infringement on seats
used in the public schools.
After the object had been stated,
Mr.. Kenney moved that a,committee
Of three be appointed to EMPLOY
counsel If necessary to look after The
interests OF the Board.
Mr.. Lobdell asked that the motion
be withdrawn Tor a few moments IN
order that he might know something
about the matter.
After an explanation by Mr..
Kenney and Morrow, Mr.. Lobdell
said that If the Board owned a suffi,
cient number of seats to make it an
object to employ counsel, 1t was
necessary to employ a good one and
one who was familiar with the patent
laws.
The motion of Mr.. Kenney was
then adopted. and the chair appoint
ed Messrs. Kenney, Lobdell and
Morrow as the committee. Mr..
Kenney asked to be excused from
acting chairman. His request was
granted, and Mr.. Lobdell was made
chairman.
The Board then adjourned.
The suit referred.to is instituted
by the executors of the patentee OF
the folding seats used in the scho Dis
since 1854 to 1875 upon which roy
atty is claimed during that time.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-31
Current Notes.

"Let us live on the invisible,"
says Victor Hugo.
There is in Massachusetts man
eighty years, who has never moved
from the home where he was born.
81 don't like that cat. It's got
spllnters in It's feet" was the excuse
OF four-year old Tor throwing the
kitten away.
Half dozen young seapegraces
are going about in Minnesota
yaccinating the inhabitants Of that
enlightened State with mucilage.
A resident of Belfast, Ohio, has
been put Under bends of $500 to
appear before theGrand Jury on the
barge OF opening letter written
by his wife to her father.
Mustapha Bey, the ruler of Tunis,
bought lO0,0 900 umbrellas while in
Paris. He is bound to have one
around when wanted. Mustapha is
evidently preparing for a long
reign.
Professor Cunning up in Michigan
IS lecturing on" After Man, WhaI?"
A Fort Wayne editor, who has beer
there rises to remark that it is''gen.
orally the Sheriff or some woman"
The Palals de Justice at Brussels
is fast approaching completion, but
the original plans to give 1t dome
of copper have been abandoned. In
the place of the copper will be
substituted paper mache, and even
of this material the. e.colossa' structure
will weigh about sixteen tons.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-31
'ToDD's FAMILY MEDICINES.

IODD'S FAMILY MEDICIN Els.
lof Dyspepsia and Consti patton
lOr DnrthGa ,Dysentery and Chol-
lAhlum No. IL, Tor Brisht's Dis
W 0iher Diseases OF the Kidneys
W. Coughs and Colds No. rs, for
hfunchllls and Lung Difficulties;
w hslhina, Group and whooping
NOS % and 40, for Catarrh No.
hoarseness and Sore Throat Nos.
%, Diseases Of the Blood and Skin;
ana % lChroAie Infiamma ion oil
RssH, stomach, Kidneys, Bladder,
te Nos. ~ and 7h, Neuralgia,
stislh and Gout; No, 50, for
no. -, Functional ID sease OF the
no. ", for Nervous Weakness
Diseases Of the Ears No. 100, Pre-
~ smallpox, Specific Nos. le5
ither hgue all low types of Fe-
,snal Diseases generally No. lis,
ulaIe the Menst uRl Discharge,
taGa, Dysmenorrhea, etc.; No,
"ntlhence OF Urine In Children ;
Diseases OF the Urinary Organs /;
dheulclhes are especially prepared
ge Ieiltu upon 10 cure the Dis
Nnlch they are recommended.
,sa, veeIs and 81 per bottle. For sale
iistsH i,,,I and the Proprietor, Dr.
WI, Ioo,L No. l. Almond Build
", cot.stf and Market streets |;
M u Eighth street. Wilmington.
m M ',' s,uierlng from any chronic dis
81, 81" wen 10 consult DR.. Todd.
on including medicines, 81.
n. tuesdays and Fridays from
IA p m, and iro N 7 to y p. IN.
'uaSs except SUNDAY.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-31
LYDIA E. PINKHAMS'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND.
Is a Positive Cure


Ior all those Painful Complaints and
weaknesses 80 CONN TO our best
female population.
1t will cure entirely the worst form OF
Female Complaints, all ovarian troubles,
Inf1amatio and liberation, Failing and
D1splacements, and the consequent Spi-
nal weakness, and is particularly adapt
ed TO the Change of Life.
the uterus In an early stage of develop
ment. The tendency to generous humors
there is checked very speedily by its use.
IL removes faintness, f1atulency, de-
stroys all craving for stlmulants, and
relieves weakness OF the stomach. 1t
cures Bloatipg, Headaches, Nervous Pros
tration, General Debility, Sleeplessness,
Depression and indigestion.
That feeling of bearing down eau ing
pain, weight and back ache. Is always Der
manently cured by its use.
IL 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 is unsurpassed.
Lydia Il. Pinkbam's Vegetable
compound is prepared at 233 and 235
western Avenue, Lynn Mass. Price 81.
Six bottles Tor e5. Sent by mail In the
form ef pills, also in the form OF 'ozenges
on receipt OF price, VI per box flor either.
Mrs. Pinkham freely answers all letters
OF inqairy. Send for pamphlet. Address
as above. Mention this paper.
No family should be without LYDIA
| T.. PINKHAM'S L1V Err PILLS. They
cure constipation, biliousness, and tor-
pidity of the liver, 25 cents per box.
~-Sold by all druggists.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-31
a. EGIsTER's ORDER.
REGIsTER's OFFICE.

hEGISTERiS OFFICE.
New Castle Co.. December %, 1881.
Upon the application OF Joseph N. Har-
man, Adm in istrator OF Hanson Harman,
late OF W ilmington Hd., in said county,
deceased, 1T is ordered and directed by
the Register that the Administrator, ,afore-
said give notice of the granting of letters
OF Administration upon the estate of the
deceased, with the date of granting there
OF, by causing advertisements to be posted
within forty days from the date oi such
letters, in SIX of the most public places OF
the county of New Castle, requiring all
persons having demands against the es-
late TO present the same or abide by an
act of Assembly in such case made and
provided. And also cause the same TO be
inserted within the same period in the
WILMINGTON GAZETTE, anewspaper pub
.isbed in Wilmington, and to be continued
therein three weeks, g. o. d.
-" Given under the hand and seal
IL. s. of office of the Register aforesaid
s)@) at Wilmington, In New Castle
county aforesaid, the day and year above
written. s. G. B1GGS, Register.
NOTICE.
Ali persons having claims against the
estate of the deceased must present the
same duly attested to the Administrator,
on or before Dec. I'd. 1882, or abide
the act of Assembly In sucn case made
aud provided.
JOSEPH N. HARMAN,
Administrator,
Address: Wilmington, Del.
dec2-3weod.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-31
IL seems Impossible

that remedy made of such common,
supple plants as Hops, Buchu, Man
drake, Dandelion, &C., should make SO
many and such great cures as Hop Bit
ters do; but when old and young, rich
and poor, pastor and doctor, lawyer and
editor, all testify to having been cured
by them, you must believe and try
them yourself, and doubt no longer.
The daily gazette., 1881-12-31
BE Sensible.

You have allowed your bowels to be-
come habitually costive, your liver has
become torpid, the same thing aiis } our
kidneys, and you are just used up. Now
ha sensible get q package of Kidney
Wort, take 1t faithfully and soon you
will forget you've got any such organs,
tor you will be o well Mandatory ar
gus.