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The daily gazette., 1882-02-07

HEAVY TAX ON THE Poor MAN
WITH A FAMILY.-A Washington cor =.
respondent Of the New York Herald,
dated Feb. 6, says "The people are
now forced to pay into the Treasury
10000, 600 per annum more than is
required fer tbe payment OF interest
on the debt, pensions and all the ex-
penses of the government on a liberal
scale-that il, SO per head for our
whole population, taken unnecessarily
out of the peoples pockets. That is
to say; where farmer, mechanic OF
laborer has a family of wife and four
children, he must, besides paying his
share OF all the necessary expenses Of
the government Of every kind, pay SIS
year extra toward a vast fund which
is to become subject TO the picking
and stealing Of the lobby.
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07

One hundred and twenty thousand
American grapevInes have been planted
on the island of Monte Cristo, rendered
so famous by Dumas novel, and are
growing finely.
Mr.. Calvin Fletcher, tue Commits
sioner of Fisheries for Indians, says thai
ten years hence there will be 25,OOC
corpponds in that State. The rage fol
carp ponds Is great in the Southern
States, success IN recent experiments
having come quickly.
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07
PUBLIC, SALES.

DUBLIC SALE OF A VALUABLE
Il FARM VIII be sold at public sale
on the premi ies in Min Creek Hundred,
New Castle county, Delaware, on the
Limestone Road, one-half mile south OF
Southwood station, on the Delaware
Western X. r., on Wednesday, February
sth, ihS2, "A valuable farm, kaoWn as the
Springer HON estead,' Containing 1877
are goo timber. The improvements are
substantial stone house, full double
decker stone barn, with stable room for
twenty head OF stock, with necessary
oulouHdlngs. a young orchard of APP
Piles, peaches and pears. The land Is in a
good state of cultivation. VIII be sold az
whole or in lols TO suit purchasers. Sale
at o CLOCK. Conditions IN ade known by
II. GRAHAM
Robinson, Auct. Iiws
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07

One of the London fire insurance
companies recently celebrated it's CEN
tennial anniversary. Some very stri-
king figures are published concerning
the business the company has done
within its century of existence; also
of insurance in general. In London
alone property to the amount OF
$4,000, 600, 900 is now insured, and in
the whole Kingdom the risks taken in
amount to as much as $25, 600, 900, 600.
During the long history of the com
pany in question upwards of EOS ,00O,-
900 in fire claims have been paid, with
satisfactory profit to the company AT
the same time.
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07
. TUESDAY FEBRUARY =, Issa.

TIE PRoPosED SHIP CANAL across
the Peninsula will probably be the
anbjset Of discussion in Congress in a
few weeks. There has been several
surveys attempted +; the report Of the
most important and only accurate one,
that Of Capt. Turtle, was received at
the War Department on Saturday,
and, therefore, will no doubt soon find
its way to the committee of the House
under whose direction it properly be-
longs. This report, with an accom-
panying map, recommends the route
BY the Choptank river.
This route leaves the Choptank
about 20 miles above its mouth, Is
miles above OamBtidge, Dorchester
county hd.,) passes up Ferry creek,
through a marsh, and over a fat
country, about 20 feet above '1ow
waeT," to the Nanticoke river, at
Walnut Landing, (abcut 10 miles
from the Choptank) thence up that
stream and its drainage to the
divide" and thence down the Broad.
kill and its marshes to its mouth,
about 8 miles above Lewes, Delaware.
1t is one hundred and fifty miles, and
the cost is estimated at sixteen and a
half million dollars. Another Chop
tank route, called the inland route, is
one hundred and thirty-nine miles
long, and the cost is put at eighteen
and quarter millions of dollars.
The time by the former for the pas
sage is put at nineteen and half
hours, and by the latter at eighteen
hours. The report is very long and
we give in another column a fair
synopsis of all the routes. The Sassa-
fras river route has been considered
the easiest and cheapest, and its cost
is put at eight millions of dollars.
There is some hope that this cana
may receive the sanction of Congress
and be made because of the benefits
it may confer on the nation at large.
1t is urged that it would be a great
outlet for the grain of the West by
which, through the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, western products could
be more quickly and cheaply sent tC
the markets of the European world
A few millions of dollars now are re-
garded of so little value that there il
great probability of the work being
undertaken. Were it not for the ire
mendous tax the pension arrearagel
bill makes upon the people we shouc
feel quite certain of this work beina
ordered and completed by Congress.
Of late years canals have not beer
regarded as profitable when compared
with railroads. But this is one excep
ton, because there is no way of reach
ing the ocean SO we'll by railroad, ex
cept at a cost so great that it is no
thought of; nor would railroad
cheaper freights. Engineers nearl,
always find that the estimates are to-
small and it is quite probable tina
should this ship canal be built it will
be found to cost at least a million o.
two more than the estimates.
1t is hoped by the people on thu
Peninsula that this work will fine
favor among the western members o
Congress and be ordered, since it will
cause the outlay of large amount o
money along its route, and in the enc
prove an immense advantage to tn
nstion as great inland route to tn
ocean.
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07

Ann Enza Dickinson.) IN CHANuERY,
uS. : New Castle Co, IS,
Mary Jane Hill,et al. Cause Of Partition
Ii pursuance Of an order of the Chan
ceilor in the above cause, made at the
September term, 1881, all persons havil z
any lien or liens affecting The interest or
estate Of Ann Eliza Dickinson, Mary Jane
Hin, james McAllister susan McA lister,
David Jones, samuel Jones, John ID.
Jones and William Jones, or either OF
them, in The lands anu premises 10 which
said cat Sc relates, are hereby notified 10
file a petition setting forth the nature and
amount OF the same in the office of toe
Register in Chancery for New Castle
County, ten days before tue tn lTd Monday
in February, A. D., 1857, and 10 appear
nd prove sid lieu or liens at he ensu-
ing term OF the Court. beIo o the rising
OF the Court on the thlrd day OF the term.
LHAS. Is. LORE,
Trustee.
WILMINGTON, Del, Jan. IL. 1882.
ianl 1. IfpbSU
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07

GOLD TO SPARE IN PARIs.-A de-
spatch to the London Daily Newl
says Gold is being shipped to Lon
don. There is considerable amount
of money unemployed. The outside
brokers absorbed only 10000, 0O0f. in
advances on stock oout of 90, 900, O0Of.
The stoppage of large jobbing house
in Vienna is reported"
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07

DR.. q. w. Benson Of Baltimore, Nd,
prepares skin cure that is the bet
thing for skin diseases ever known. 1t
cures eczema, tettsr, ring-w worm and all
rough and scaly skin diseases IN The
shortest time. Sold by all druggists at
81. per package.
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07
IN CHANCERY.

IN RE IN CHANCERY,
Isaac II. Wright, ct New castle Co, IS.
al. Petitioners. } Cause OF Partition.
In pursuance of an order of the Chan
cellor in The above cause made at his
chambers, IN Dover, on the fifth day OF
January, 1857, all persons having any
lieu or liens, affecting 1he interest or
estate of sac Ii. Wright, Charles A.
Wright,1arah w Wright, Duffas Wright,
George II. Wright, John Wright and
William VIZ gh TOR either of them in the
Lands and premises to which said cause
relates are hereby notified TO file a petit
ton setting forth the nature and amount
OF the same IN the Office of the Register
IN Chancery for New Castle county, u
days before the third Monday In Febru-
AIRY, A. d 1852, and to appear and prove
said lien or liens, at the ensuing term OF
the Court before The rising OF the Court
ON the third day Of the term.
WALTER CUMMINS,
Trustee
"nMINGToE, Del Jan. 0, 1882
3taw-tfeb2O
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07
1XLmEELRIGIIT SHOE FOR RENT.

Inc Wheelrlght shop, with Planting
Department attached. al kirkwood. Del,
is offered for rent. The shop Is situated
IN IA good nelghborhood, and is doing a
paying business. Possession 18th Of
March next address
R.T. BURGESS,
jan2I-2w* KirkwoUd, Del.
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07
NOTICE TO WATER RENTERS

NOTICE TO WATER RENTERS
IN The bills for 1882 are now ready and
payable at the Registrars office X. w.
corner Sixth and King streets. The law
requires Tor all oils on or before Jan.
usry Slst, 1882 the lace OF the bill those
pald Curing tue month Of February five
per cent. additional; those paid during
The month " March ten per cent. addi-
Jional, aud any amount remaining In
paid after April lat, 1852 the X gistrar il
require d to have the ferTules Withdrawn
and suit Instituted for tAe recovery OF
the amount due, and the water Will not
be let into such premises until snch ar
rears with asa ssnenls and 500 for
drawing feirules are paid.
Ofilce hours from y "A. NJ. TO s u. m.
THOMAS NJ. Ual4E,
decl-2m Registrar.
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07

ElOR SALE.-Three adjoining lots, on
E A street. 50 feet by 81 feet inches,
aud % II. on Goodman street 100 feet deep;
near Railroad Avenue, South side,
Also, one lot on Thirteenth street, near
Head street. Apply al Il6 Market street.
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07
A POSITIVE CUR E

Without MedlcIneS.
Han Soluble MedIcated BOuZieS
Patented October 10, 1876. one box.
No. will cure case In four days or
les.
No. Will cure the most obstinate CO Sc,
no matter OF how long standing.
No nauseOus doses OF cubebs, copalba
or oil of sandalwOod, that are certain 10
produce dyspepsia ) destroying the
coatinEs of the stomach
Price sl.b0. Sold by all druggists, or
particulars send for circular. p. O. Box
1888. J. q. ALLAN 60.
janl6-6m 80 John ST., New YORK.
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07
F54A q NDh
The 18th Day of February 1899

The lsth Day of February, 1882,
VIZ good horses; u head of cows, SONS
q with calf by their side, ,.1z1as-,
In and others springing BtsYE
heller, 2 years Id -
-4A-&44s two 2-horse wagons: q caifS.
market dearoorns trotting wagon
grain fan; nay cutter; horse rake
ploughs; narroWs, cultivators, shovels,
spades, hoes, pickle, wagon, dearborn car.
riage and cart harness, gears, etc.
Dairy fixtures, such rs churns, milk
pans, buckets, cream crooks, DC. Also
about SO tons OF timothy and clover nav ;
ten tons OF meadow hay lot OF chickens
2OO bushels of wheat, and many otbei
articles not mentioned.
CoNDTTIoSs.-All sums of $50 or less
cash ON all above a credit of Fix months
by the purchaser giving a bankable note
with an app owed endoTseT.
sale 10 commence at ~ o'clock sharp.
JOSEPH HANDY
l.. W. Stidham & Son, Auct.
February 4, lsSI. 4tdd2tW.
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07
Robin son, Auct.
DgBLEC SALE.

The subscriber having rented his place
and Intend ng to quit farming, will sell
his sock and farming imp sments at
pubic sale, on the farm on which he now
resides IN BrandywIne Hundred, on The
Marsh road, half mile north of snellpot
hill, on
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07
NOTICE.

"
The annual meeting OF the mil Creek
Union Association Ior the Detection OF
Horse Thieves d recovery OF stolen
Nil Creek Hundred, on Saturday, the
18th Of January. 1852, II O'Clock, y. IN.
K. q. BULK NGHAM, Secretary.
d. IA STBURH, Pre- ident. janI!, 3twk
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07

And every Saturday,
NEW YORK TO LONDON DIRECT.
CABINS, tD5 TO sos Excursion at Re
duced Rates.
Passenger accommodations are unsur-
passed.
All StateroomB on Main Deck.
Passengers booked at lowest rates to or
from any Railroad station In Europe
or America.
Drafts at lowest rates, payable free OF
charge, throughout England, Scotland
and Ireland.
apply 10 HENDERSON BRoTHEIls, Bow
LING GREEH, N. Y, Or TO SAMUEL
+, BELTS, Adams Express. W ilmingtOn,
hal,
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07
NOTICE.
TO THE CITIZENS OF WILMINGTON
THE WILMINGTON
ODORLESS BXCAVATINGCOM

In - -
Is nov prepared to receive orders for
cleaning CESS POOLS PROMPTLY AND
WITH DESPATCH. Their machinery
isan new and of The latest improve
ments. All wells cleansed without any
aunoyanc whatever.
Orders left at 3II KING STREET will
receive prompt attention. oct2S Gin
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07
M OTICE-DIVIDEND DECLARED.

NJ OTICE.-The Mutual Loan AssociR-
IN lion Is now issuing new series Of
stock, which may be secure on appliee-
tior, day or evening, 10 Ger. q. Mails,
Secretary. Office. 6Ol Sbipley street, sec
ond foor jan2l-lm.
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07

EOR RENT.-The large three-stOry
Il store and dwelling, No. sH3 Market
street. Pos esslon on 2otn OF March,
Apply to C. L. JOHNSON,
ii 4 10 Market street
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07

JN0R SALE.-BulIdlng lot 100 feet =
IL inches front on south side of Beech
street; 81 feet front on Van Buren, street
and 81 feet front on Maryland Avenue |;
fronts ON the CITY line, and lies IN Chris
ti&na HID. Apply at this office. u,
The daily gazette., 1882-02-07

ENTERED AT WILMINGTON POsTLoFFTcY
isag4si As sKc0ND-CLAss MATrER,
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-04-06

may and always be. safer but to q practi-
cal ebservero of to-day the danger OF it is
glaring. / have watched these Brook
1yn girls closely and am bound to adj
NIT that in almost every ease the. girl
devotes thirteen-fourteenths of her time
in flirting or trying to ..pick up or be
..picked up" by some one of the useless
Young men before alluded to. You walk
along Fulton avenue, and first one pretty
girl will look over her shoulder and ogle
a young man swinging along behind
her, and then another girl will smile in
a half-bashful, but wholly charming,
way at youth struggling with cigar
on the opposite side of the street. He
generally smirks in a sheepish way and
sometimes tips his hat awkwardly, but
when he meets his friends the story he
tells of his ssmash'' would astonish
Chinaman. The girls are usually be-
tween the ages of 16 and 20 years. They
are often reckless in flirting, but wish
to be understood emphatically that they
are almost never vicious. If flirting can
be entirely innocentpastimei it is in most
of these cases. 1t is not often that they
ever come to speaking terms with the
young men, but the pernicious effect of
the pastime, or whatever it may be
called, is apparent. I think I am safe
in saying that the Brooklyn girls have
worse street manners than the girls of
any great city in the country.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-04-06
Oil Shale Discovered IN Inwa.

Frank Alexander, one of the proprie-
tors OF the infiammable shale mine late
lY discovered in Charles, Mix county,
Iowa. In answer to question from
Sioux City Journal reporter about the
mine. said that the burning qualities of
the rock were discovered by a piece
thrown out by blast falling into a fire
which the workmen had near the mouth
of the shaft. The shaft was sunk in
search of coal Some of the shale had
been tried in coal stoves in Bon Homme
and worked wen. A pile of some three
bushels of the stuff was set on fire out of
doors and burned freely. There were
live embers left twenty-four hours after
the fire was kindled. Mr.. Alexander
said that on his return a wagon-load of
this new fuel would be hauled to Plank
ington, on the Milwaukee road, where it
will be tested as fuel for engines. The
shaft where the shale is found is ra-
vine within q few rods of the river. The
shale is found thirty-six feet from the
surface: Over it is roof of slate, and
under it block of earth that is neither
clay nor loan. The bed of shale could
be traced along the river bluff for sever
al miles, but, excepting in one place,
was not as thick as where found in the
shaft. A piece of the shale about as
big as a hickory nut had been tried in
retort by Yankton scientist, andfound
to contain three drops of OIL. The in
fiammable property of the shale came
from this oil. 1T win be remembered"
says the Journal, s'that little oil was
found in the artesian well at this city
when the shale was being penetrated,
and the same was noticed at Yankton
and Ponca" A small piece of the shale
which Mr.. Alexander had in his pocket
was shown to the reporter. 1t looked
gray and gritless, like common shale,
only it had greasy look and touch
something like camel coal. The only
foreign mineral that showed were specks
of iron pvrites. The owner of the mine
evidently has no knowledge of true
Scotch shale oils
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-04-06
Telegraphing.

Few workshops are as unhealthfui as
the telegraph offices of our large cities.
The ventilation is imperfect; fifty men
are breathing an atmosphere that should
sustain but ten. There is a draft from
an open window on one side and the
heat from a hot stove on the other, or
an artificial heat from pipes that smell
not sweetly! Why, simply to sit in such
a room and have no duty to perform
but twirl your thumbs and take your
ease, sows in your system the seeds of
disease and death! And to work there,
to bend over your desk to catch the
mystic click of the instrument as it tells
its ever changing story; to double up
your chest and contract your lungs; to
keep every nerve at it's highest tension;
to have your brain power concentrated
on the last word you have written or the
one that is coming; to have your mental
faculties all narrowed down to the bus-
iaess before you, and yet be unable to
follow one thread of thought for two
consecutive moments, but to jump from
one to the other as new words suggest
them-this is making of the mind and
the body less than the Creator intended
it fora machine that is running under
such high pressure that it must neces-
sarily collapse years before, in the ordi-
nary course of nature, its usefulness
should ceasei-The Operator.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-04-06
Victor Hugo's Joyous Faith.

81 feel in myself the future life. am
ike forest which has been more than
once cut down. The new shoots are
stronger aud livelier than ever. [ am
rising, know, toward the sky, The
sunshine is on my head. The earth
gives me its generous sap, but Heaven
lights me with the reflection of unknown
worlds. You say the soul is nothing
but the resultant of bodily powers Why,
then, is my soul the more luminous when
my bodily powers begin to failP Winter
is on my head, and eternal Spring is in
my heart Then I breathe, at this hour,
the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets
and the roses as at 20 years. The near
er approach the end the palmer hear
around me the immortal symphonies of
the worlds which invite me. It is mar
velous yet simple 1t is fairy tale, and
it is history. For half century have
been writing my thoughts in prose,
verse, history, philosophy. drama, ro-
nance, tradition, satire, ode, song-T
have tried all. But I feel that / have
not said the thousandth part of what is
in me. When L go down to the grave I
can say, like so many others, Il have
finished my days work. but / cannot
say, i have finished my life My days
work viii begin again the next morning.
The tomb is not blind alley; it is a
thoroughfare. 1t closes in the twilight
to open with the dawn. / improve every
hour, because / love this world as my
fatherland, because the truth compels
me as it compelled Voltaire, that human
divinity. My work is only a beginning.
Ny monument is hardly above its foun-
dation. | would be glad to see itmount-
ing and mounting forever. The thirst
for the infinite proves infinity."
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-04-06
Bricks That are Magnetic.

1t was lately observed by Herr Kep-.
ner, at Salzburg, in the Tyrol, that some
old bricks had an attractive or repellant
force on compass. From each of eight
varieties of clay in the neighborhood two
bricks were nodded, and one of the two
in each case was baked. The unbaked
brick had no action on magnetic
needle, but seven of the eight baked
bricks proved polarly magnetic. Some
further experiments have been made by
Herren KelI and Trientl. Particles of
powder of the magnetic bricks adhered
to a steel magnet. Breunerite, mica
slate, argillaeeous miea-slate, argillaee-
GUS iron garnet, chlorite and horn
blende were. before heating, unmagnetie,
but intense heating produced magnet
ic polarity, the axis of which seemea to
be perpendicular to the plane of stl'atifi-
cation. The magnetism of newly heat
ed rocks seems to fall off somewhat in
course of time, but some Stag of the Orr
thai. perhaps thousands of years old,
was found to be still magnetic.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-04-06
Bril,ed bv a Kiss.

A temperance lecturer who had been
at work in the towns of the Hudson has
been giving a reporter page from his
early experience in Michigan. Previous
to his arrival in small town where he
intended to do some work, the boys had
agreed among themselves to go to the
meeting, but not to sign the pledge. He
appealed in vain for recruits in the tenn
perance cause; not man would move.
At this stage of the proceedings the belle
of the town sprang to her feet and cried
out in the sweetest of voices
''Boys, this is really too bad. Won't
you sign the pledgeP''
Not assoul moved from his seat. Again
the fair belle appealed to the mems bet
ter nature, but it was of no avail; they
had promised they wouldn't sign. Finally
the lady said.-
Now. boys, I'll kiss the first man
who signs the pledge" ~
At this juncture up jumped q back
woodsman, who exclaimed
ISIS, I'm yer huckleberry. Whar's $
yer pledge, til! sign. y
The brave girl kissed the fellow, and
the cheering which followed made the
building rattle. This incident broke the
ice, and before the reformer left the
town nearly every one had donned the
ribbon.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-04-06
Great Flirts.

Brooklyn girls, says a correspondent,
always interest me. l mean viewed as
a whole The city has the reputation
of having more really pretty young
women than any other in the Union, and
nobody seems to deny it. In Baltimore
there are more really beautiful faces,
and in Washington and New York more
striking and stylish looking women, but
for pretty, graceful, and charming girls,
Brooklyn undoubtedly leads the van.
But it is not about their beauty / wish
to speak so much as about their extra
ordinary freedom of action in the streets.
In New York a lady is never SO orcum-
spect, careful, and discreet. as when in
the thoroughfares unaecompanied by
gentleman If woman is at all care
less of fiirtations in the streets in New
York, it simply shows what she iss but,
in Brooklyn this rule certainly does not
hold good. The girls there are allowed
the most extraordinary freedom. Their
fathers and brothers colne to New York
to business after breakfast and do not
return till night. and the women are left
entirely to their own resources and 70
the attention of q class OF young men
who are too young or too lndoienfsfo go
to business, and spend their time instead
in the streets. The girls parade up ana
down the avenues, 60 Tor long tT1ps IN
Prospect Park, drive and play 3nd shop.
but always unattended. This would De
well enough. as an illustration OF the
idea. of the early part OF the century that
woman in America may 60 WhIther sne
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-04-06
Peter Cooner's Esoanes.

Mr.. Peter Cooper has had several hair
breadth escapes during his lifetime of 80
years. On one occasion, when he was a
mere lad, he was rambling with several
other boys in tannery, and fell into
tan-vat. As the vat was nearly full of a
strong solution of acid water. he was, as
he expresses it, ..nearly picked to death. y
His playfellows, instead of trying to help
him out of his predicament, stood and
laughed right nlerrily at his predicament.
Finally workman employed in the tam
merry heard his piteous cries for assist
ance, and came to his relief. Forty
years ago Mr. Cooper was thrown from
a wagon which was attached to runa-
way horse. His head struck upon a
stone in the road, and his recovery was
regarded us wonder. A few years ago
he was nearly drowned by the upsettiDg
of boat in which he and half dozen
men were making experiments with a
new kind of paddle-wheel.