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The National tribune., 1881-02-01
Another Warning.

Deer and ooer and over have we requested cor
respondents when writing to give their p. o.,
County, and State and yet many are still delin-
quent in this respect Now, how is it possible for
us to answer letters or send papers when we don't
know where to address them?
The National tribune., 1881-02-01
Give Your Names.

In writing US soldiers should always give their
names, not Ex-Soldier," or Union Soldier" or
Twentieth Regiment Soldier" Their names will
not be mentioned if the parties desire they should
be kept private
The National tribune., 1881-02-01
Gro. w. HooE

Department Commander,
H E. TAYLOR Assist Ad1tGeaI
Daily Republican., 1881-06-11

Con. &. T. BEAUREGARD. of La. co,o, =,
Gen. JUBAL A. EARLY, ofNa. NonA ls'
Application for rates to clubs should only
be made at the office of the Company in New
Orleans.
Write for circulars or send orders to
M. A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans, La.
or same person at
No. 2l2 Broadway, New York.
Daily Republican., 1881-06-11
Carrying the Mail.

The contract for carrying the mail
from the depot to the Post office in this
city will soon be let out by contract,
Mr.. Pyle having resigned the position
he held for many years. For some time
he wheeled the mail on barrow for
about 500 per annum, afterward it be-
came necessary to use horse and wagon
when the rates were very much increas-
ed having at one time reached about
$17OO per annum, which was afterward
reduced to about $500 where it remain
ed at the time Mr.. Pyle resigned. 1t is
presumed that the bidders will be num-
erouS. There are Is trips made daily ,c.m
mencing about $50 Il. IN. and ending at
70 o'clock midnight.
Daily Republican., 1881-06-11
LETTER FROM BLACKBIRD.
An nAppOquinimink Circuit Pastor
Surprised - Prosperity of Old
VfnfOn Chnrch


Special Correspondence of the REpuB LICAN
BLACKBIRD, June 8.
About thirty members of the Union
NJ. E. church, OF the Appoquinimink
Circuit, made call, on Wednesday
last, at the parsonage, in Blackbird, for
the purpose of ofspending an evening with
our young and beloved minister, Rev.
Il. X. Stephenson and wife, who, by
the-way, are, as they should be, the
centre of attraction with, not only the
members of the above church, but with
those who are thrown in contact with
their every day life.
The object of the party was to spend
a social evening and testify the esteem
in which they hold their pastor and his
wife They brought with them ice
cream, cakes, lemons and sugar in pro-
| fusion, and with the assistance of the
minister, his wife and your correspon-
dent waged war upon the goodies and
ere the ice could desert the cream, the
flavor eXtriCate itsel, from the cakes, or
the lemon could lose its freshness, they
all meel1ly surrendered and were ruth
lessly devoured by the festive Epicu-
rians. During this sweetmeat disaster
the pastor dissected large cake, nicely
iced, favored with burnt almond, a
present to him from some friends at
tending the Townsend festival, which
was held recently at that place for the
benefit Of their CnurCh. At IL o'clock
the company assembled in the parlor
and listened to a neat address Of well
come and thanks from the preacher.
He then led the company in prayer and
by II o'clock the echoes of the last
vehicle was dying away in the distance
and thus leaving the happy pair in their
solitude to comment on the events of
the evening.
We predict for our minister year OF
spiritual prosperity at the Union ap-
pOintment, notwithstanding the pre-
dicton Of his predecessor that the down
fall Of that church was only a question
Of time, all that now holds it together
is the tie ofattection that exists for those
whose spirits have been gathered to the
mansions above, aud their remains i'll
tered in Gods acre which surrounds
the church. We sincerely believe,
through the help of God, and the inStru-
mentality of the Gospel and the CO.
workers Of Gods Kingdom that the old
Union NJ. +. church, the church where
the dear old Bishop Scott in his feeble
ness has so frequently of late tottered
up and down its aisles and where ere
long, according to the workings Of ma
turc, his remains will be resting from
his lahorS almost ut its very portal, will |
yet be built up and made prosperous
church. May the God Of destinies fal.
sity the prediction OF that prophet
RAD.
Daily Republican., 1881-06-11
What the People are Waiting for

The First Presbyterian Sunday school
and Male Bible class will give an ex-
cursion to Cape May next Friday The
First Regiment Band will accompany
the excursionists, and will give concerts
on the down and return trips. The
steamer Thomas Clyde will leave French
street wharf at six o'clock, and will
thus give the excursonists five hours
upon the beach at Cape May. The COM
mittee is exerting itself tot the utmost to
make the excursion first class in every
particular. The number of tickets is
limited.
Daily Republican., 1881-06-11

DR.. j. II. Stubbs of Kennett Square,
Pa, is about locating in this city.
Daily Republican., 1881-06-11
PUBLIC SALES.
NXECUTOR'S SALE
REAL ESTATE E I.

IL II a u II > "A Il.
VIII be sold at Public Sale, at the Gilpir
House, in New Castle, the farm of the late
John ii. McE'arln, deceased, known as the
Nonsuch Farm, situated in New Castle Hun
dred, New Castle county and State Of Della
ware, on
TUESDAY, the 14th day ofJUNE,
at 2o'clock, p. m,
Containing 100 acres ofcxcellent land, about
10 acres of which is woodland, which has been
useO for pc-nics for several years, 10 acres in
wheat and % in corn, and the rest in grass.
is well calculated for n dairy or hay farm and
in high state of cultivation, well fenced and
watered. 1t Is beautifully located ON the pub
lie road leading from Newport to New Gas.
tie, mile from the Philadelphia, Whining
ton and Baltimore Railroad station at New
port, 3 miles from New Castle, and 8 miles
from Wilmington, joining lands of Jason
Davis, Mrs. Eugene Rogers and Thomas
H0lcom6. The dwelling Is a No. three @asEs
story frame, containing l3 well finished E.ai
rooms, bath room, large hall and piazza ON
two sides, splendid cellar with cement floor
wash house with stationary boiler detached
from dwelling, and every convenience ncccs
sary about II tirst-class place large barn,
nearly new, with stone basement for stabling
with stalls for horses and about 20 cows; also
a good poultry house and lot well fenced.
There is also fine young apple orchard in
full bearing, with cherries, pears and grapes
in abundance, The above is u very desirable
and worthy the attention of those
wishing to purchase, and is sold under the
provisions Of the will to close the estate.
TERMS :--One half the purchase money will
be left on land in mortgage. For particulars
apply to EDWARD A. McFARLlN.
Executor Of John II. McFarln, decd,
Ridleyville Z. o.. Delaware co., Pa,
or CHARLES b. LORE, Attorney,
702 Market street, Wilmington, Del.
Full particulars made known Mt sale.
l.. W. SrlDuAM " Son Auctrs. myl0
Daily Republican., 1881-06-11
GUINET BLACK SILKS
From $l.25 TO $3.50.

Ten (1o) years ex-
perience with "Guinet
Silks" gives us suffl-
cientconfdence in them
to guarantee every
dress we sell. We do
not think it necessary
to say anything more
except that we have
Satin de Lyon, manu-
factured by the same
company. We have
also a fine line OF Black
Colored Damasse Silks
at low prices.
Daily Republican., 1881-06-11

ASSETS.
Amount invested in bonds and
mortgage. e........................1 1,O3S, ,58S 90
Amount invested in Delaware
State bonds cost. t.....,,........ 1870 90
Amount invested in ground rent. $50 %
Amount invested in Delaware
Railroad bonds (co t........... 1890 90
Amount invested in bills receiya-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 6,178 6S
Amount invested in Delaware
Railroad stock (cOSt) ............ 15,l25 90
Amount invested in Wilmington
City Loan....,............... $4,000 90
Amount invested in New Castle
Water Loan. Observation-Disclosures. l4,OOO 90
Amount invested in real estate. ~, ,977 81
Amount interest due on invest
mcnts and taxes to date ......... 24,952 Is
Amount cash in ban ,k............ 1851, 81
Total. Observation-Disclosures. 81, ,lyb, 572 Il
LIABILITIES,
Whole amount due dGpOsitOrS. -. ], ,O8l, ,796 IS
Guarantee fund to protect deposi-
Total. l................. 81, 19s, 572 Il
J. L. SMITH, Treasurer
Wilmington Savings Fund Society
Attest; Jos. A. RICHARDSON, Auditor.
jG24 6-S.ll-l3-l5-lS
Daily Republican., 1881-06-11
OUR MARK ETS.
How the Strike u Visitor to the City
He gives vent to his feelings in
MOngrel Rhyme.

NOW tne SIrlkeA SlSltOr 10 tne Skuy
He gives vent to his feelings In
Momgrel Rhyme.
For the REPUBLICAN.
MESSNs. EDIToRs:-I dropped into
your nice little city, on Wednesday
morning from Chicago, via the Lehigl
Valley, and after having passed through
such grand roughnesS and terrible seen.
cry as is exhibited along the Lehigl
Valley II. Il. it feels really refreshing tc
come to this beautiful city.
Ii seems very much like home here,
in Wilmington. Wilmington is ahead
in the display of her markets. On this
beautiful June morning it would be Il
difficult task to ujurc up or make a
finer picture than is presented on King
street started to 90 down to your Of
flee on the east side Of said street but
was compelled to make my steps meas
ured and slow because OF the moving,
swaving mass of "S;sterS and the cOuS-
ms and the aunts" with their arms full
of the goodies" of this early ripening
climate for instance:
Chickens, and txings, cherries and fairies;
Cabbage and gab-agc, as aragus nd lettuce;
Lemons and WOmcns, sauce and gas;
Oranges and milk, calicOs and silks;
Cucumbers and beans, smearcaSe and greens;
Potatoes and lappels bonnets and apples
COcoanuts and peas, and honey from bees
Bushes and pinks, roses and kinks;
hunions and pork, and lots of hard work;
Frizzes and pieats, bright eyes and red cheeks
And butter and eggs and bects.
Oh dear | cannot tell Of near the
worth of the vegetables, flowers, sc.
| believe that there cannot be found a
better market than that of Wilmington
where articles are exhibited with 50
much newness and freshness right from
the hand of the producer.
think very highly Ofthis city on its
hills, | started ont to write on anoher
subject but this sgrandly beautiful morn.
ing took my thoughts away in the di-
rcction of the splendid and beautiful pic
ture which was presented to Inc.
w. V. p.
Daily Republican., 1881-06-11
Omitted.

In yesterdays report of the Olivet
Presbyterian Sunday school anniversa-
ry the compositor omitted that portion
of the report which referred to Samuel
Sample reading poem which was writ
ten for the occasion by Miss Maggie
Carpenter.
Daily Republican., 1881-06-11
COLORED SILKS,
AT $1.oo.

1t will only be neces-
sary for one to see
these goods to appre-
ciate them, as we have
been paying $1,o5 for
the same. But deter
mined to have the best
silk for a dollar in the
city we purchased a
large line at a reduced
price, and now offer
them at $I.oo.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-02-12
FUN.

There are 1926 other idiots in the
United States; so cheer up.
False hair is now so perfectly made,
that when woman head is fixed you
can't tell which is switch.
The most stylish purse of the season
is made of undressed sealskin, with
nothing in it. Darlington HasoEeye.
A wag suggests that a suitable open-
ing for many choirs would be: Lord,
have mercy on us miserable singers"
Willing hands always find some
thing to do even to going through
another mans pocket Waterloo o.
server.
We see an article in the papers about
boy inventors. We hope they will in
vent boy who won't whistle through
his fingers and yell on the streets at
night.
A little boy refusing to takea pill, his
mother placed it in piece OF preserved
pear and gave it to him. In q few min
utes she said: Tommy, have you eaten
the pearp" :" Yes, mother. all but the
seed"
An American, after dining at a Lon
don restaurant, paid his bill and was
about leaving, when the waiter sug-
gested that the amount did not include
the waiter. "Ah,' said the man, "but
l didn't eat the waiter"
"What does Boycotting meanp" asks
young man in Peoria. We have not
time to enter into full explanation of
the term, but you have doubtless been
enamored of beautiful being whose
father failed to harmonic with you and
persistently sat in the parlor when you
called. -Chte1go Tribune.
ct don't like cottage-built man. >
said young Sweeps to his rich old uncle,
who was telling the story of his early
trials for the hundredth time. "What
do you mean by cottage-built man?"
asked his uncle. "a man with only
one story" answered young Sweeps.
That settled it. Young Sweeps was left
out of his uncle's will.
An English lawyer went into bar
ber's shop to procure wig. In taking
the dimensions of the lawyers head the
barber exclaimed "Way, how long
your head is, STRIP Yes, replied the
legal gentleman, "we lawyers must
have long heads. The barber proceeded
with his vocation, but at length ex-
claimed: Why, sir, your head is as
thick as it is longi" Blackstone WINGED.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-02-12
Why the Red Sea is Red:

G eographers were not able to deter
mine why the Red Sea was SO named
until Ehrenberg sailed over par. of it,
observed that the water Of the whole
Gulf of Tor was colored blood red.
Drawing up some of the water, and
examining it with microscope. be
found that the color was due to a minute,
thread-ike oscillatoria or alga. Tie
same alga was observed by Dupont
twenty years afterward giving rise to
the same appearance over an extent Of
$50 nautical miles
A similar plant was noticed by OAR
win, in his voyage around the world,
covering the water near Abrolhos
island, off the coast of Brazil. Oersted,
in lS45, noticed that the water near
Madeira had peculiar obscurity which
was occasioned by numerous minute
tufts of oscilIatoria waving in the mass.
These plants are found all the way to
the West Indies, sometimes thick
enough to give color to the water, but
never wholly wanting. In other cases
the sea is colored red by animals OF
different kinds, by minute crustaceans
or infosori@, or eggs. The name red or
Vermillion sea has been given to two
different microscopic infusori@. One
of the coloring animals is irritating to
the skin, and produces blisters and
sores on the bodies of those who come
in contact with it.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-02-12
Trafficking in GuIIs' Eggs.

In Long Island Sound, five miles off
the Guilford shore, is little island
locally known as Gull island. 1t is per-
haps q mile from Faulkner's island,
where Captain O. N. Brooks has kept
that light for a period of 1--WE think very
nearly thirty years.
Gull island, q little barren patch of
perhaps fourth to half an acre, is the
annuald breeing ground of thousands of
so-called gulls-not the true sea gull,
but the tern, commonly known as the
gull on the shores of the sound. It is
said these birds have there every sum-
mer upward of Il thousand nests-if the
bare little spots, scarcely followed
out any, in the sand where they
lay their eggs, can be called
nests. The nests are so crowded
that it is difficult to walk about without
crushing the eggs. Captain Brooks
bought the island many years ago of the
Federal government for the sake of ben
citing by the gulls' eggs and also to
preserve the birds from extinction by
ruthless egg hunters. From his watch
! tower he can overlook the little island,
note the annual arrival and departure ct
| the birds, and also protect them from
parties who would W ithout such own
| ership and supervision overrun the spot,
destroy the eggs and kill off the birds.
He says that for a period of nearly thirty
years he has never known the annual
arrival of the gulls in the spring to vary
more than day or two. Usually it is
on the same day of the month; and it
| never varies more than two days at
once, regardless of weather.
Their eggs, two in nest, are about
the size of pullet's eggs; but it seems
they are more valuable. Instead of
being. as many persons think, spoilt by
a rank, fishy taste, they are much pre-
ferred to hens eggs; and Captain
| Brooks gets fifty cents dozen for them
when hens eggs are selling at twenty
five. He takes all the eggs from the
| time of the first laying-about mid day.
| or a few days earlier--until the end of
| about six weeks, or near the end of
June. Then he not only stops this raid
| himself but forbids others to go upon
the island, and let's the birds go en- and
rear their broods. For they do not,
curiously enough, desert their
nests because of this repeated
! robbery, bat keep on laying till they find
their eggs are left undisturbed. That
/ island ought TO be worth to its owner
800 year for its eggs, and we presume
he didn't pay as much as that for it in
the first place. The eggs show sort
of salmon color when cooked, and are
very fine eating. Most of the little
island is covered with coat of sedge
grass, where the nesting chiefly is. but
so crowded is all the available space
that hundreds of birds lay their eggs
outside the line of grass, on the sand
where the rising tide would probably
reach them, and all of these, at all
times, Captain Brooks appropriates.-
Hartford Comm Times.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-02-12
Sheen Washinu in Australia.

A Washington letter to the Boston
Globe says American wool growers and
wooden manufacturers have long been
at war on the question of washing. The
growers say it is cruelty to both men
and animals to require washing, and it
is noticed that the sheep fall off very
materially, even so far south as Ohio,
where the streams are usually very cold
up to shearing time. Mr.. Mcclellan told
how they wash in Australia and New
Zealand. They construct large dips in
which the water is warmed and kept up
to temperature of about 100 degrees
Fahrenheit. Benches of battens are
made just about the surface of the vat
upon which the sheep is held for wash
ing. The fleece is thoroughly lathered,
about 100 pounds of soap being used for
1000 sheep. After lathering, the sheep
is removed to another table be-
meath sprout, through which
clean water pours, with the force created
by a powerful pressure above. The
water is led down in iron pipes to sort
of trough, about the length of a sheep.
The lower edge of this trough is split,
the opening of which can be regulated
by screws to any required width. Upon
table beneath this sprout the sheep
are held and turned till thoroughly
washed, when they are released and run
into clean paddock of English grass,
with "fleece as white as the driven
snow" To-day's washed are moved up
one paddock; to-morrow's wash take
their place, and so on for six days after
the washing and before the shearing.
On the sixth day after the washing the
sheep are taken into shed, where,
sometimes, thousands are found at
time, for shearing. AS they are shorn,
the feeces are graded, the bellies, TANKS
and ends being separated and thrown
into screw presses, where they are baled
or the London market.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-02-12

be sure. His favors sometimes make a
marriage and sometimes mar one. Only
for stupid Valentine sonnet, we had
not quarreled; and only for fanciful
Valentine game we might not have been
reconciled so soon and happily. How
ever, imagine that our shrewd, ro-
guish Minnie plotted this pleasant de-
nouement-pleasant to four very glad
and eratified young people.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-02-12
People VIII Talk.


You may get through the world, but twill BE-
very slow,
II You listen to all that is said as you go;
You'll be worried and fretted. and kent ~
stew,
For meddlesome tongues will have Some.
thing to do
For people will talk.
Ii quiet and modest, you'll have it presumed
That your humble position is only assumed d.
You're wolf in sleeps clothing, or else
you're fool;
But don't get excited-keep perfectly cool
For people will talk,
And then If you show the least holiness Of
cart,
or slight inclination to take your own part.
lhey will call you an upstart, conceited and
But Keep straight ahead-don't stop to ex-
For people will talk.
Ii threadbare your dress, or old-tashioned
yOuI Hal,
Some one will surely take notice of that,
And hint rather strong that you can't pay your
way,
But don't get excited whatever they say,
For people will talk.
II your dress in the fashion, don't think to
escape,
For they criticise then in different shape:
You're ahead of your means, or your tailor's
unpaid;
But mind your own business-there's naught
to be made
For people will talk
Now, the best Was to do is to do as you please,
For your mind, if you have one, will then be
at ease;
OF course you will m eet with all sorts of abuse;
But don't think to stop them-it isn't any
use
For people will talk.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-02-12
TICKLE ST. VALENTINE.

"O.d things are becoming fashion,
able, and why should we not have an
ancient game of St. Valentines eve to
entertain our guests tonight You
know the game, Lalia? MOP II is very
pretty and romantic. Cards inscribed
with the names of the ladies of the party
ar, p aced in some kind OF receptacle
and drawn by the gentlemen, who, by
this sort of lottery, select their valen
tines to whom they are supposed to de-
vote themselves faithfully, not only for
the evening but for whole year. Are
not my cards unique-pale blue with
names in script and silver inkp That
big terra Gotta urn in the drawing room
will be the precious prize-box. But we
must go down, dear. hear carriage
wheels coming up the drive"
And suddenly beginning gay chan
sonette, Minnie Nichols danced down
the stairs. followed slowly by her less
vivacious and less nonsensical cousin.
Eulalia Marquand cared little for
gayety that night. She was pensive,
serious; and her thoughts had gone back
to another eve and day of st. Valentine.
She had been happy that other eve. On
that other day she had been foolishly
vexed by an absurd bit of doggerel SEN
timentality that { he had believed to be
unkindly meant.
"You are too easily offended, Lalia,"
her lover had demonstrated. 81 only
intended a Jest that thought to make
witty. But I have been stupid and
ungracious, perhaps, and have angered
you"
She could never remember how she an
swered him. But she knew her words
were passionate and unjust. She knew
that his lips were white and his fine eyes
grieved and gloomy.
eff you really think so meanly of me.
Lalia," he had returned, gravely, sit is
best we should part now-now, before
we may both regret the inexpediency of
so doing. desire to have no misunder-
standings, no unpleasant feelings, no
petty chickering's in our married life.
Eulalla."
His seriousness had not paciied her.
although she was humiliatingly con-
scious that her petulance was childish
and her error silly. But she did not
yet know how lovely and laudible a
confession can be; neither had she ever
learned to say 1.-The fault was mine.
Forgive me-"
So she had turned from her betrothed
with the seeming of bitter. resentful
ACC uiescence she did not quite feel.
Your desires are mine," she had
enunciated, colby. eft is best we part
now"
"As you will. Good-morning and
goodbye" had been his last words.
And since that foolish quarrel on thai
St. Valentine morning year before
she and he had never met. She had
never blamed him! and knew she
would never cease loving him even il
she had lost him on earth forever.
ct wonder if he thinks sometimes O.
me yetp" she murmured, as she gazee
idly out into the soundless, desolat'
night. "But one so ridiculously ex-
acting as I was in those old days, doe
not deserve single remembrance"
| Some one was singing in the music
room. She heard the sound Of swee
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-02-12
Before the Day-Break.

Before the day-break shines star
That in the days great glory fades;
Too fercely bright is the full light
That her pale-gleaming lamp upbraids.
Before the day-break sings bird
That stills her song ere morning light;
Too loud for her is the days stir,
The woodlands acknowledgement 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 afar,
And sing of love, when loves unheard.
- The Spectator.