Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-10-11
OVER 9HB H..1TER.
A Fine Castle Goes up In FIames-The
Blue Ktbb0B-Hndian wheat.


LIVERPOOL, Sept ~ --TbA ancient Eng
iish custom ot pres' ptine n silver cranlr
to the mayoress of 'n~n or city in COIN
oil child horn az II we're in
the purple, is a''il nhitofmiy honored 10
the obssrvane-. The interesting event OF
the birth OF daughter IN the family OF
W. u. rage, Mayor OF Laooln, during
lls mayaralty was made the occasion on
the 2o.h oi the time honored silver cradle
presentation by the citizens at cost OF
g2o0.
1t IA recorded with considerable news
paper nnotion, the moving cause OF
which can readily be understood, that a
patent medicine seller has Just given an
order for no fewer ,han eight million
copies OF IN almanac for 1884. As the
papers say, these patent medicine men
how to push business. Com
plant wss made at the annual conference
OF the British Pharmaceutical Society,
held this week at Southport, Lancashire,
that the drug trade is not prospecting in
ratio with tile increase in
population, and that tue enormous sale
OF patent medicines and the exlstenoe OF
homeopathy and OF hydropathy are re-
sponHbie for this result. The number of
registered chemists ten years ago was
~ 2l6, while last year there were only
i3,44i; an Increase not at all in proper
tlon to the increase OF population ard
wealth.
Obssrvant Americans must have re-
marked with surprise that the garden
like squares in our large towns are sur
rounded by high iron railipgs to prevent
the intrusion Of all save the favored resi-
dents of the adjacent flee houses who are
furnished with keys. The idea that they
might be thrown open to the public is at
last, though slowly, beginning to prevail.
A proposition was this week carried in
the City Council of Liverpool to refer to
the Finance Committee an instruction to
inquire how far it Was practicable to
throw open these garden oases to the
general public.
COrtachy Castle, one of the largest and
most admired of Fortarshire castles has
been LAID in ruins by fire. few weeks
ago the local presbytery hal under its
solemn consideration the alleged Sabbath
breaking by out door gunners and am use
ments at the castle. English critics of
Scottish sabbata-ispism made merry at
the decision arrived at that sermons were
to be preached on the sanctity of the
Lords Day and sneered that the Cortachy
Castle sinners were the least likely to
profit by the proposed diseourses, sesing
that they would fail to attend to hear
them. A couple of Sundays passed and
the castle was blazing and lighting up
the whole country side. The people
living round about with their strong be-
lief iii the sscredness of Sabbath
observance would have been much beyond
the average of mortals had they failtd 70
regard the contlegrstion otherwise than
as a visitation of Providence. One
of their ministers did indeed
speak out his belief that so it was. Lord
and Lady Dudley, the owners of the
castle, have accepted the hospitality of
Lord and Lady Dslhousie al Breechin
Castle and have received telegraphic CON
dolenees from ths Green az Bslmoral and
many of the nobility. The eservants hsye
been sent south. Lady Dudley is one of
the most beautiful women in Britain and
Lady DglhOusie, with whom che is nov
staying. won all heats in Liverpool by
her great besuty and smiability when
husband, then Lord Ramsey, contested
the representation of the city in one of
the most exciting elections ever fought.
Lord Dsdley is personally very popular
in the neigh borhood, but Whatever his
own views about Sundays, he, the master
of every kind OF possible enjoyment,
might have shown some respect for the
simple faith OF his poorer neighbors, sven
at the cost OF sacrificing hie Sunday
pleasures.
A trade complaint from Birmingham ia
to the effect that the demand for pewter
pots and drinking measures is falling oil
and Che Blue Ribbon army gets the main
credit of IL. The puhlicans are also lie
ginning to cry ont, The uumber Of
psople who have taken to decorating
themselves with the little bit OF blue il
very large III all parts OF the United
Kingdom. In country districts this Is
distinctly noticeable, whole villages
having adopted the new sign. Some ol
the highest in the land have put it on,
the Dutchess of Sutherland setting the
example.
Wheat cultivation in India lie exciting
intense interest in mercantile circles
Ever since the rsoant inauguration of Tres
trade for India under the government o
Lord Ripon this aubject has beeI
peculiarly attractive, for it ia naturally
ex o. eted that the immense population
will soon take vast quantities of goods o
English manufacture. The main ditfiellty
that of inability to pay, will be removed
| il wheat production proves as extra
ordinarily suocessful as there is gooG
ground for concluding. The people o
| India are poor, wages being extremely
| low, but with this oheapening o
| labor and their fine soil and climate, the,
ought 10 beat the world in the production
of wheat. / have been informed by goot
aushority that already half the whoa
coming 10 Epelald is from India. Tn
Indian Council is making increased
Efforts in this direction. In addition t
aboiishiug tariffs. the rates on the rail
wsys have been reduced, and Indial
| Wheat is delivered AZ IlEeIpOOl ~ n Gus
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