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Middletown transcript., 1882-03-31
Chips.

MAN that goeth behind mule is Of
few days and full of trouble.
a QUESTION for the Mormons :
What shall we do with our surplus
wives d?
CORRESPONDENTS who send us snake
stories this spring will please send the
snake, not for publication but as an
evidence of good faith.
THERE is, this season, a decided i'm
provement in Peninsular newspapers.
Not one that we know of has yet stated
that "winter fingers in the lap of
spring.
IT is terribly discouraging to an edi-
tor to see his wife pass carelessly over
his brightest paragraphs and settle
down to solid comfort with the obitu-
ary column.
YOUNG wife from the city: John,
dear, shall have that saucy looking
chicken killed Tomorrow "But, my
dear, that is the only rooster we've
got.'' al don't care if it is; I've had
my eye on it all along and it hasn't laid
an egg since we've been here
THE editor wrote it: " We have come
out of this contest with clean skirts )"
and when he read it in his paper: "We
have come out of this contest with
clean shirts, 2 he was-well, he was ex-
cited. Fortunately for the grief-stricken
family of the compositor, his life was
insured.
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Literarr and Journalistic. J

H. S. Brown, city editor of EUery
Erening, will have charge nf the local
department of the Gazette, under the
new management. H. G. Bertolette, an
experienced journalist who has been con-
nected with EUery Evening for num-
Der of years, sewers his connection with
that paper on Saturday, and in few
weeks will go West and engage in cattle
raising.-Morning NelCs.
THE daily and weekly Gdzette,o Will
mington, has been sold to J. B. Bell,
proprietor of The Sunday Star, and Mer-
ris Taylor, formerly of the Gazette, who
has been associated with Mr.. Bell upon
The Star for month or so past. 1t is
understood that the paper will change
hands on the list Of May and will be
continued at the old stand as a one-cent
journal, that it will be Give" as to news,
and vigorously Democratic" T" The
price paid Mr.. Johnson for the paper
has not been stated. The publication
Of The Star will be continued with its
office in the Gazette building but it will
have no connection with that paper, and
will remain a nolr-partisan journal. -
Erery Euening.
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CLERK CoCHRAN's ILLNESS.

One Of the Republican papers of
Wilmington has strongly limited and
the other mildly insinuated that the
illness of E. R. Cochran, Clerk Of the
Peace, which kept him from his desk
for several days, was, in a measure,
assumed. The Clerk Of the Peace is
the only person empowered by the law
to swear a freehold voucher of claim
ant for assessment. On Tuesday the
Republicans had number of persons
in attendance upon the Levy Court to
get their names on the assessment list,
but owing to the absence Of the Clerk
of the Peace, there was no one who
could lawfully take the affidavit of
their vouchers, so they were compelled
to go home without being assessed.
Thus arise the insinuations of these
Republican organs, who are ever ready
to charge Democratic officials with sins
of omission and commission without
the slightest investigation. 1t seems
to us a grave charge to make against
the Clerk of the Peace that he
purposely absented himself from his
desk under a false plea of illness, in
order to keep a few Republicans off
the assessment list. And it is charge
that all decent Republicans who
know Mr.. Cochran will spurn as un-
worthy Of belief. The Clerk of the
Peace is party mana Democrat of
the true and tried sort-who may al
ways be depended upon to do anything
that is honorable for the success of his
party, but he is not the man to stoop to
such petty trickery for little party ad-
vantage, such as is basely insinuated
by these Wilmington organs. Mr..
Cochran attended the sessions of the
Levy Court for several days when he
ought to have been at home under the
care of his physician, and only gave up
his official duties when too i'll to
leave his room. Whilst the organs
were RECALLING their readers with their
innuendoes about him, he was in bed
under the care of his physician, and
we learn that he went to Wilmington
yesterday contrary to that physicians s
advice, and at the risk of a relapse, ex-
pressly that those claiming the right to
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LONGFELLOW.

Henry w. Longfellow, Americas
most gifted poet, is gone. He passed
peacefully beyond the river, at his home
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Fri
day last. He celebrated the seventy
fifth anniversary of his birth but few
weeks ago, when his songs were re-
sung and the incidents Of his life re-
counted in hundreds of schools and
homes throughout the land of the peo-
pie who loved him so well. Mr.. Long
fellow first sought the road to public
honors by pursuing the beaten path,
time out Of mind the highway Of tremb-
ling authorship, contribution to the
literary periodicals, which on every
side, tempt unfedged genius to make
the first essay of its pinions on the mcer-
tain atmosphere of popular apprecia-
tion.n Many ofhisearlierp rpoemsappear-
ed the United Literary Gazette, a Bos-
tonmagazine. SevenOf these, An April
Day. Autumn = "Woods in Win
ter, 4" " Hymn of the Maravian, ~" Nuns
at Bethlehem . " Sunrise on the Hills, :"
"The Spirit Of Poetry y and :" Burial
of Minnisink, were written before the
poet was nineteen years of age. His
life was devoted to literature, and the
fruitage of his labors is indeed rich.
Perhaps there has been no better esti-
mate given of him than that by
J. Russell Lowell, in the North Amer
ican Review: 1--WE shall only say that
he is the most popular Of American
poets, and that his popularity may
safely be assumed to contain in itself
the elements of permanence, since it
has been fairly earned, without any Of
that subservience to the baser tastes of
the public which characterizes the
quack Of letters. His are laurels hon
orably gained and gently worn. With
out comparing him with others, it is
enough if we declare our conviction
that he composed poems which will
live as long as the language in which
they are written"
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THE INIQUIToUs TARIFF.-In near
ly every State in the Union large bodies
of workingmen are clamoring for higher
wages and are complaining that they
find it impossible to live. If they will
look below the surface they will find
that the chief cause of their distress lies
in the iniquitous tariff which compels
them to pay double for more than half
the necessaries of life. This outrageous
agglomeration of jobs and swindles the
republican leaders are endeavoring to
perpetuate for the benefit of the manu-
facturers. Was there ever a greater eX-
hibition of party insanity? War taxes
are maintained in time of peace that
capital may reap unprecedented profits
and that the taxes wrung from the
people may be divided among the lob
byists and subsidy seekers who are
darkening the halls of the Capitol.-N.
Y Hernh
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JUDGE NELSON, in the Brooklyn,
New York City Court, has rendered
an important decision as to the rights
of colored applicants for admission to
public schools not specially set apart
for eolored pupils. The decision was
rendered in the case of Theresa King,
the daughter of high-toned sort Of
negro, who thinks his daughter too
highly select specimen to associate with
other colored children. She applied for
admission to one of the public schools
and was refused on the ground that the
school was used exclusively for white
pupils, and also because within few
blocks of the girls residence there is an
excellent school set apart for colored
children. The Board of Education
sustained the action of the principal of
the school that refused the girl admis-
sion, and her father applied in the city
Court for a writ of mandamus to
compel the admission Of his daugh-
ter to the society Of white pupils.
Judge Nelson sustained the principal
Of the white school and the board of
education BY denying the application
for a mandamus. 1t was shown that
the colored pupils in their own schools
enioyed equal advantages with the
white pupils, and, therefore, as Judge
Nelson said, if there had been any
discrimination it had been in favor of
the colored child, as a school was pro
vided where she could be taught and
would have that social fellowship and
sympathy she could not expect in a
scbool set apart for white pupils.
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MARYLAND's FIRST PEACH GROW
Err" An old Marylander" writes to
the Philadelphia Ledger as follows: Il
would supply an omission in the account
given by your correspondent ''Name-
loc" of the origin and progress of the
peach culture on the Delaware and Mary
land peninsula. The beginner Of that
culture on an extensive scale in the State
of Maryland was James Cassaday, corn
merchant of Philadelphia, who planted
an orchard on the Sassafras river, in
Cecil county, in the year 1887, which he
subsequently extended to over 10000
trees. At that period there was no con-
siderable orchard Of budded peach trees
anywhere on the peninsula south Of the
vicinity of Delaware City; and ''the
Reybolds and others did not transfer
their plants to Maryland until years
afterward. AS a result of thorough till
age and the liberal use of fertilizers the
fruit of this once well-known orchard
acquired high reputation for size, color
and flavor in the Northern markets, and
as many as so, 900 baskets were produced
in a single year. Mr.. Cassaday, in as
sociation with j. G. Davis-now a large
grower on the Ohio river, in Indiana
was also first in the culture of budded
peaches at the West. !"
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MASON is not such an unlucky fellow,
after all. Judge Advocate General
Swain has decided that he was illegally
convicted and sentenced, by reason of
certain Irregularities in the proceedings
Of the court martial, and has made a
report to the Secretary of War embody-
ing that conclusion. The effect of this
will be to annul the sentence. If Ma
son can be again tried for shooting with
attempt to kill Guiteau, he will proba-
bly, be tried by civil court. The senti-
ment Of the country will be strongly
against a second military trial in his
case. No civil court in the country
would have imposed such a severe SEN
tence for the offence of which he is
charged.
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A CoNFLAGRATIoN in Richmond,
Virginia, on Sunday, destroyed three
tobacco factories, six tobacco stemmer-
les, twenty tenement houses, grist
mill, kaolin works, three hundred feet
Of railroad trestle work, ten freight
cars, and a great quantity Of coal and
lumber. The loss is estimated at half
a million dollars. Richmond seems to
be an unfortunate city. 1t has been
scourged by fire three or four times.
On December 26th, 1911, its theatre
was burned while crowded with people
and upward of seventy perished, among
them the Governor of the State. The
catastrophe was one which the city
for many years. AT the evac-
uation by the Confederates, April I'd,
1865, a conhagration destroyed one
third of the city, including nearly all
the business part. 1t took Richmond
years to recover from that fire, and now
she is again badly scorched.
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THE last Sunday issue of the New
York Herald contained one hundred
and twelve columns Of advertisements,
and the paper used for the edition
weighed twenty-six and quarter tons.
When the TRANSCRIPT can print that
many advertisements and use that much
paper for one issue, we shall buy a
goldheaded cane and 60 to Europe for
our health.
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PROFESSOR GROVES, State Superin-
tendent of Public Schools, has prepared
and printed in the form of handy vol
ume, "Digest of Laws Relating to
the Free Schools of the State of Della
ware" Those interested in the cause
of education in our State will find it a
valuable volume, as it brings together
in a reasonably small compass all the
laws relating to our public schools.
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Two Of Elkton's citizens, Joseph L.
Wells and John Thackery, have drawn
prizes in the lottery of assassination. /"
They both 60 to the Baltimore Custom
House, the former into an 1880 posi-
tion and the latter into the old place
which he left by request" when the
Stalwarts were the underneath dog.
Other Elkton citizens are knocking at
the door.
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be assessed might no longer be kept
waiting, or left off altogether, through
his absence from his desk. In or
der that none may lose their right
of assessment through his unavoidable
absence, Mr.. Cochran has signified his
intention of asking the Levy Court to
extend it's session this afternoon to a
later hour than usual.
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THE YOUNG
Trotting Stallion Typhoon.

CIRE, GENERAL KNOX, by Yer -
= mont Hero; dam, by Young Ham
bletonian. General Knox has l3N$Tl
in the 2 % list, which is exceeded by but three
living Stallions-Volunteer Daniel Lambert
and Almont-and by but five living or dead,
which would include Rysdyke's Iambleto-
MAN and Blue Bull. He possesses to a Won
derful degree the capacity to transmit his
speed to his progeny, all of his colts having
the trotting quality largely developed. and,
mentioned in having had the best quality and
greatest number OF mares. -TYPHO0N'S Dam
was by Conklin's American Star, Conklin's
American Star by Seelyfs American Star
American Star Mares have gloWn into such
popularity as to stand at the head of the list
as fashionable dams, having produced more
trotters by far in the go list than any other
family of mares. and being particularly
adapted to training ana campaigning. For
above facts refer to official trotting register.
DESCRIPTION :-TYPHooN is Il jet black
151% hands high weighs over 1000 pounds
beautifully proportioned, power being nicely
blended with quality. his back. lOins and
other propelling points being exceedingly
good, large bone and excellent feet; his fine
presence and beautiful action making him
many admirers.
TERMS Single service, $40; Season SER
vice, $50, with privilege of another season if
mare should not prove in foal Mares kept
on reasonable terms with best care and atten-
ton, but at owners risk.
Will stand at MAXWELL'S HOTEL Mid
dletown, one week, commencing March 9th :;
next week at home, and at each place alter
nate weeks during the season.
GEORGE a. MILLINGTON.
mch2+4t Woodland Beach.
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IT is said that Newark, this State, is
soon to have a second weekly paper.
There may be good opening up there
for glory, but the field does not seem
to promise much more to a second
newspaper venture. Newark has only
about half supported one paper; what
it will do for two remains to be seen.
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THE proposition Of the misguided
Pennsylvania youth who offers to fur
nish us with puzzle column for 81 a
week is respectfully declined. Our
readers are puzzled enough to know
what we are writing about, half the
time, and we are puzzled more than we
want to be dodging sight drafts and
the people we make mad.
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SOME Of our exchanges who study the
nice little economies of the newspaper
business, have at last discovered use
for the Congressional Globes, Patent
Office Reports and other valuable
public documents that come from
Washington. They cut the leaves out
and use them for mailing wrappers.
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On THIRTY DAYS TRIAL-We will send DR..
Dyes Celebrated Electro-Voltaic Belts and
other Electric Appliances on trial for thirty
days to young men and older persons who
are afflicted with Nervous Debility, Lost vi
tality, etc, guaranteeing speedy relief and
complete restoration of vigor and manhood.
Also for rheumatism, Neuralgia, Paralysis,
Liver and Kidney difficulties Ruptures, and
many other diseases. Illustrated pamphlet
sent free. Address yoltaic Belt Co., Mar
shall, Mich. nov silly
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THE TRUE STORY OF A HATTER's FATE.-He
was halter living at No. 369 Kent Ave.
Brooklyn, n. Y. He was out of work for the
nonce, having been with Dunlap, the Broad.
way halter, for years. His name was Michael
Doyle. He had friend who bought for him
half Of ticket No. 95,7s5 in the February
drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery by
communicating with NJ. a. Dauphin, New
Orleans, La, and he received $4,000 cash.
He had bought tickets for four years before.
At last luck came to his door. He was at
home. Who is the next to do likewise before
April l1th, the day of the next drawing?
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A steamer i'm FIames.

The steamer "Golden City, = en- route
from New Orleans to Cincinnati, when
approaching the wharf at Memphis,
yesterday morning at half-past four o.
clock was discovered to be on fire by
the second engineer, who Immediately
notified the pilot on watch. The boats
bow was at once headed for the shore,
and in four minutes afterwards she
touched the wharf at the foot of Beale
street. A line was hastily thrown and
made fast to coal barge, but the cur
rent being swift, it soon parted and the
burning steamer foated on down the
river, mass of flames, with many of
her passengers and crew aboard, who
were unable to reach the shore, and
were lost. The "Golden City" left
New Orleans last Saturday. She car
ried crew of go, and had on board 40
cabin passengers. Her cargo consisted
of 300 tons. When she floated off from
the wharf about twenty of her passen-
gers and crew jumped on board barge,
which floated down the stream, but
they were rescued by one of the harbor
boats.
The fire was caused by watchman
accidentally setting fire to lot of jute
which was stored amidships. The
steamer had just whistled to land and
the watchman went among the deck
passengers to notify them that they
were approaching Memphis and that
those destined for the CITY must get
ashore, when the bottom of his lamp
dropped into some jute, and before the
flames could be eXtinguished they had
spread all over the deck of the vessel.
So rapidly did the flames spread that
within five minutes after the discovery
of the fire, which broke out amidships,
the aft part of the steamer was all
ablaze, and those that were saved had
to flee in their night clothes. Stoves
circus, which was taken on board at
Vidalia, La, and six cages of animals
and birds, together with the ticket and
band wagons, tents and horses, were
lost. J. II. Cronk, owner of a side
show to the circus, is supposed to have
perished. 1t is not yet known how
many perished. AS far as can be as
certained there were twenty-three ladies
on board the Inflated steamer.
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From an extensive use of st. Jacobs
Oil in the EDITORS family, we are able to
speak confidently of its great worth in
numerous ailments, and fully recon-
mended it as an article most desirble to
have on hand in the medicine chest
Stamford Conn. Herald.
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MOTHERS DON'T KNow-How many

MOTHERS DON'T KNOw-How many
children are punished for being uncouth,
wilful, and Indifferent to instructions or
rewards simply because they are out Of
health! An intelligent lady said of a
child of this kind: Mothers should know
that if they would give the little ones
moderate doses of Hop Bitters for two
or three weeks the children would be all
a parent could desire. "
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAR. 81, 1882.

Miss PHOEBE CozzENs, lawyer and
champion Of the cause Of female suf-
frage, has asked the President to ap-
point her on the commission to re-or-
ganize the Territory Of Utah, under
the recent act of Congress.
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gfnal AOtites.
,EGIsTER,s ORDER.

ID EGISIER7S URDEh.
II REGISTERS OFFICE,
NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DEL.
February 9th. 1882.
Upon the application of Mark NJ. Cleaver.
Administrat or of sylvester W. Clement. late OF
st. Georges Hd., in said county, deceased, it is
ordered and directed by the Register that the
Administrator aforesaid give notice of grant
ing of Letters of Administration upon the es-
tate of the deceased, with the date of granting
thereof by causing advertisements to be
posted within forty days from the date OF
such Letters in six ofthe most public places
of the county of New Castle, requiring all
persons having demands against the estate
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 MIDDLETOwN TRANS
CRIPT, a newspaper published i'll Middletown,
and to be continued therein two months.
Given under the hand and Seal of Office of
the Register aforesaid, at Wilmington, in New
Castle county aforesaid, the day and year
above written. S. G. BIGGS, Register.
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Latest from Europe.

The latest and most acceptable things are
the Spring Importations of BAILEY. BANKS
& BIDDLE. in PORCELAINES, BISQUES,
B BRONZES, CLOCKS, and the various BEAU
TIFUL FANCIES which refined people
prize.
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81 90 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.

To CoRREsPoNDENTs.-Com on
topics of local interest are always welcome,
but to insure insertion they must be briefan
to the point We do not hold ourselves re-
sponsible for the views of correspondents.
Anonymous articles will receive no attention.
Address all communications to the PropT1e-
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9rw advertisements,
Whence Comes the Unbounded
Popularity Of
AlIcock's Porous PIasters :?

Because they have proved themselves
the Best External Remedy ever in
vented. They will cure asthma, colds,
coughs, rheumatism, neuralgia, and
any local pains.
Applied to the small of the back
they are infallible in Back-Ache, Ner-
vous debility, and all Kidney troubles !;
to the pit of the stomach they are a
sure cure for Dyspepsia and Liver
Complaint.
ALLCOCK'S POROUS Plasters
are painless, fragrant, and quick to
cure. Beware Of limitations that blis-
ter and burn. Get ALLCOCK'S,
the only Genuine Porous Plaster.
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DEGIsTER S ORDER.
II REGISTERS OFFICE,
n crT Il HOrrNry nrT


NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DEL,
March 18th, 1882.
Upon the application of Olivia A. Caven-
der EXecutriX of Lewis A. CaYender, late
of st. Georges hundred, in said county,
deceased, it is ordered and directed by the
Register that the EXecutriX aforesaid give
notice of granting of Letters Testamentary
upon the estate of the deceased, with the date
of granting thereof. by causing advertise
ments to be posted within forty days from
the date of such Letters in six of the most
public places of the county of New Castle,
requiring all persons having demands against
the estate to present the same, or abide by an
Act of Assembly in such case made and pro-
vidPd and also cause the same to be inserted
within the same period in the Middletown
TRANscRIPT, Il newspaper published in Mid
dletown and to be continued therein two
months.
Given under the hand and Seal of Office of
the Register aforesaid, at Wilmington. in
New Castle county aforesaid, the day and
year above written. S. C. BIGGS, Register.
NoTIcE.-All persons having claims against
the estate of the deceased must present the
same, duly attested to the EXecutriX. on or
before the 18th day of March, A. D., 1888 or
abide the Act of Assembly in such case made
and provided. OLIVIA A. LAVENDER,
mchl7-2m EXecutrix
Address-Ch Chesapeake City, Cecil co., Md.
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They are moreover very acceptable as to
their PRICES. Our immense facilities for
,lr,
the most splendid objects of Decorative Art
at surprisingly low figures. These figures
are plainly Marked and can be seen by all
who examine our stock.
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gpetial Aotites.
Forks, shovels, Hoes and Axes, the best at
the lowest prices at G. E. HUKILL's.

CATARRH.-Relief in five minutes in every
case; gratifying, wholesome relief beyond
money value. Cure begins from first appli-
cation, and is rapid, radical and permanent
Ask for Sanford's Radical Cure. Complete
fr,r.
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NOTICE

All persons having claims againstthe estate
of the deceased must present the same, duly
attested, to the Administrator, on or before
February 27th, A. D. 1888, or abide the
Act of Assembly in such case made and
provided MARK NJ. CLEAVER,
Administrator.
Address, No. 6O2 Market ST., or
ALEXANDER B. COOPER, Attorney,
mch8-2m No. W. 7th ST., Wilmington, Del.