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*Run on Sundays.

*Run on Sundays.
Newark and Perryville accommodation.
AS-For the time of trains leaving North East
station on Northbound, deduct II minutes, and on
Southbound. add IL minutes to the above time.
PORT DEPOSIT BRANCH.
1910, sos, $50, 1855 A. NJ.
Leave fort Deposit' 80, 2.35, 500 els P. NJ.
Leave perryvine: 81 81 aG 7 i's N NJ
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Over 33 Bushels Per Acre.

Over 33 Bushels Per Acre.
RED POINT FARM, CECIL COUNTY, !
July 25th, 1888.
MEssRs. ID. SCOTT & Bro:
Dear Sirs-I raised $50 bushels of
wheat from 'Sure Growth" on sixteen
06) acres on the Red Point Farm, Elk
Neck. You can publish this; it will
benefit yon.
Yours truly,
RoBT. McCULLoUGH.
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II Saw a Very Ugly Ghost.

: = Peach orchard for sale. Apply to
j. I. COLLINS, E.ktOn, Md.
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The directors expect to have the Peo-
PIES National Bank Of Middletown open
for deposit and discount early in August
Bonds to the amount OF oue-halfthe capital
Ter neNt week, aud it is expected that he
will at once authorize the bank To begin
business. They lave elected George u.
Kelley ot Wilmington cashier.
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S45.O2

DIR. T. r. WOLFE,
State Chemist and Professor of Chemistry, Delaware College
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P, W. 4 B. Branch Penna. Railroad.
TIME TABLE,.

TRAINS LEAVE KLKToN STATION:
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| up the ghost at about noon. The animal
was thought advisable to lead him out and
turn him into an adjacent lot, but just as
he reached the street he dropped dead in
front of j. +. Merritts store, causing quite
a sensation to the numerous persons return
ing from church. In n half hour, how
ever, from the time he died, the owners had
him hauled away to 4 secluded spot, where
the buzZards could pick his bones and where
no annoyance could be caused by the smell
of his decayed car caSs.
| MIR. +. Wagner, of Market street, Will
mington, has one of the finest collections OF
musical instruments outside of New York,
and he sells ut such prices as suit every body.
| We recently had the pleasure of listening
to good performer on one of his cabinet
pianos, and sweeIer music it would be hard
to produce This firm manufacturers and
also deals in all other makes, buying in large
quantities, and are therefore enabled to sell
low. They recently placed a handsome in,
strumeut in the residence of Mr.. Jas. II
| Scott, of this town, one hard to equal
for richness of tone and beauty of finish
They warrant all Instruments and keep al
sold in tune for five years, without one cen,
of cost to the purchaser.
The much abused sparrow seems tc
have some friends after all. We clip from
an exchange the following: John Watson
farmer and gardener of Spring Grove (Mary,
land) Hospital for the Insane, takes up the
cudgsl for the little sparrow. He says he
lived % years in his native county in
Scotland where the sparrows literally
swarm, and does not remember even to have
heard word of complaint about them
Mr.. Watson says he is engaged in trucking
and would be glad to welcome all the spar
rows in Maryland on the place. He is not
aware that sparrows do much good in the
world, but the idea that they will becone a
plague on the truck farms is Il cranky no
ton, in his judgment" Here is place fol
the sparrow, and we suggest that they be
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-20
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
ASHiNCTON.

! The fifth annual convention of edu-
Gators assembled yesterday. President
Wilt delivered his annual address, and
in the evening the delegates were given
a reception.
THE treasury department has been in
formed Of the arrest, at Port Townsend,
w. T., of nine Cinnamon smuggled into
this country through British Columbia.
The facts have been reported to the
/ president, who will order their departa-
/ tiOn.
| CAPT. JOHN =. WALKER, of the third
cavalry, recently adjudged insane at
jefferson Barracks, Mo-. has been
/ brought here and committed to the gov
ernment insane asylum for treatment.
/ THE president has appointed John II.
Livingston United States marshal for
South Carolina, vice Absalom Blythe,
resigned and the following postmasters:
Miss Francis l.. Stewart, Ypsilanti,
Mich; Lemuel +. GandZ, York, Neb. j;
John ID. Frink, at Taylor, Tex.
/ IT is said the civil service commission
will come to congress this winter and
ask for an increased appropriation for
the support of the reform movement. 1t
appears that the commission is already
hampercd for want of clerks and funds
to employ them.
CAPT. KREss, Of the ordnance service,
for whose trial court martial has been
ordered to convene at San Antonio.
Texas, is charged with having expended
more than the amount appropriated for
the purpose in building Il military store
house in San Antonio.
COMMISSIONER EVANS has instructed
I'nllartn- IIarXrny IN En demand lIDun
the manufacturers of rock and rye for
payment of special taxes as recttiers
and liquor dealers from the LIST inst, and
to require all persons in his district who
sell that compound to pay special taxes
as liquor dealers.
JAMES IRWIN, Indian agent at the
Shoshone agency, Wash. T., has tele
graphed Commissioner Price that the
Uiutah agency Indians i'll Utah are
passing into the ShoShone agency III
great numbers, not less than fifty. Com
missioner Price replied directing the
agent to order the Indians to return to
their reservation and not to issue ratIons
to them from his supplies
SECRETARY TELLER has issued an or
der that no proposal be received for con-
sidrration by the department of the i'll
terror from any person, firm or corpora
tiun in default in the performance of
any contract or agreement made with
the department. or who has failed to
perform the same to the satisfaction of
the department: nor will any contract
hereafter be awarded to such person,
firm or corporation. The order went
into effect on the 18th instant. In de
cision Secretary Teller holds that Il filing
made before Il clerk in the Office of Il
register of the land office who may be
acting dc facto, but not de jure, has the
same effect ;us if made before the regis
ter, and is valid.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-20
Stories of Animals.

In a dwelling house that burned
near North Adams, Mass, three chill
dren We're sleeping, their parents being
absent from home. The house dog
succeeded IN getting into the children s
room and rescued them with great diff
iiculty, as two of them had tainted
As a dog in South Bend Ind. was
quietly gnawing a bone, a rat crawled
out from under the sidewalk on the
opposite side of the street, and, rush
ing close up to the mouth of the dog,
made off with the bone before the as
tonished dog could recover sufficiently
to pursue it.
A boy of Luther Mich, on his way
to school, met a bear and hastily
climbed a tree. He clung to his din
ner pail, but as bruin sat at the foot of
the tree patiently waiting for him to
come down, he finally tossed the pail
to him. The bear gulped down the
contents of the pail and then leisurely
walked off
\ dog at Newcastle, Penn, was for
twelve years the mseparable compan-
ION of Sidney Davis. Davis died re
Gently, and after searching in vain for
his master, the dog finally settled
down in his armchair and awaited his
coming. 1t required stratagem to get
him to ia ke the smallest quantity of
food, and he gradually pinned away
and died
A Boston lady had a dog which,
when it or its friend, the cat, wished
to go into the kitchen, stood by the
door and allowed the cat to Jump upon
its back. The cat would then reach
one paw over the latch, and by press
ing the other paw on the thumb-piece
was able to open the door. The cat
would then drop on the dogs back
ride into the kitchen in triumph.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-20
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

s. i. WELLER died at Aitkm. Mimi,
the result of an accidental gunshot
wound received June %.
by Il premature discharge of a blast
in the Twin City slate quarry at Walnut
Port. Pa, yesterday, VIM. Kcyser was
fatally, Oliver Deshler seriously. and
Robert Parry and Griffith Ellis slightly
injured.
A sp,, iaI from McRac, Ga, reports the
killing of three persons and severe
wounding Of ten by Il train on theDodges
road by running over a burning trcstle.
-Four cars were burned.
Daniel Hayes of Boston. went on the
roof of his house to cool off Saturday.
He was sunstruck and rolled off the roof
To the street, distance of three stories.
dying soon afterward.
4 CYCLONE struck near Lawrence.
kans, rs Saturday al -ernoon. destroying
wheat fields. fences and everything IN
its way No estimate has yet been made
of the damage.
BARNEY GEoLAN. a farmer of Empire.
Wis. fell from the roof of his barn, re
criving severe injuries from which he
cannot recover. He went to the roof to
repair il from the damage done by the
recent storm.
2GEORGE WIENER. aged fourteen years,
fell into Il boiling beer vat ut llclidort-
cr's brewery. Baltimore. and died in
stantlv. The beer was drawn from the
vat and the body taken out and sent to
the home of the boy parents.
MRS. PHIIIrS. an aged lady. Mrs. Phil
ips. Jr.. ~ the lattcr's daughter, two
wears old. were killed ut Roauke. \. Y,
Saturday. ON the Lackawanna railway
crossing. The horses also were killed.
JOSIAH. a little 13-year-old SON of VIM.
Otry. of Ortouvillc. Mimi, was gored
nearly to death bv bull: the animals
horn passed through his abdomen, let
ting out the intestncs and making Il
dangerous wound in the thigh. He es-
caped from being killed outright by
crawling into a marsh and remaining
there till help arrived.
A DOCTOR of Amigo. Wis, wrote NOR
phine bv mistake for quiniue i'll II pre-
scription. and killed his patient, a Bo-
hcnian boy. Monday. There is great
excitement at Amigo among the Bohe-
mians, and rsreats of violence are made.
1t is not thought that-the doctor will be
prosecuted.
j. Il. LoPER. proprietor of I.oper 5
large soap works and one of Oshkosh 5
leading citizens. accidentally fell into a
vat of boiling lye and grease. Saturday.
and was literally boiled to death. When
the remains were found at F. NJ,
scarcely bit of flesh remained ON the
body, it being literally boiled off of him.
The deceased leaves wife and one
child.
4 PASSENGER train on the WoonsoCket
division of the New York 4 Me- Eng
land railroad was thrown from the track
nj Franklin Mass. The engine and one
car went down the bank. Mrs. {. w.
Saunders had her shoulder broken, and
several Others We're injured: none fa-
tally.
JoHN MASKEE. - years of age. la
borer employed with other men i'll re-
moving earth from the surface of the
rock Mt the Stockton Mimi QUAR- les
was instantly killed Saturday afternoon
by land slide. A body of earth and
stone four feet square fell distance OF
ten feet on his head literally crushing
him to death. He was unmarried and
had no relatives in this country.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-20
Why the Prairies are TreeIess.

The salvation of the great new
prairie empire of America depends IN
great measure on the feasibility of
cultivating forests to serve its farmers
as windbreaks. The potency of a
grove of leafiess trees in shielding one
from the winter winds is hardly
credible. Its influence on the open
prairie reaches houses a mile distant
The laws of all the northwestern
states favor the planting of forest
trees, and the subject employs ncC a
little of the rattling rhetoric of their
numerous orators. The expediency of
these laws was never questioned until
recently A few months since a pro-
fessor of Harvard university after ten
years of study pronounced these laws
useless and unscientific The learned
professor announced that trees will
grow where they ought to grow and
will not grow where they ought not to
grow; that the great inland prairie
lacks trees because it has not large
enough rainfall to support them, and
that the laws encouraging arboricul-
ture will be futile. In travelling
through western Minnesota we ex-
planned this thory with no little pride
to our fellow-traveler. a teamster.
The teamster made no reply except to
quicken the pulse of his pipe At
length, having made sure that he had
smoked it to the bottom of its socket,
he drew the pipe from his mouth
and pointed its handle towards a
| clump of native trees that skirted one
side of a large mud lake DO you
notice, he asked, on which side of
the lake those trees stand? The south
east. Well, that settles it. F." There are.
as he afterward explained. hundreds
of these lakes dotting the prairie land
of Minnesota. Most of the lakes on
| their southeastern shores have clusters
| of forest trees. The reason of this is
| not far to seek. There are two winds
there prevalent-the northwestern
and southeastern The southeast wind
is the rain-bringer The northwest is
cold and dry. The prairie fires are
| spread BY the northwest, never by the
southeast wind When the prairie fires
swept over the prairie they burned the
| young trees on all sides of the lake
except the southeastern, which was
/ sheltered by the water. There could be
no more conclusive proof of the pow
er of the prairie fires to destroy the
growth of forests even In soil favor
able to their production. Massachusetts,
may well be proud Of the wealth and
leisure that enable her to secure astute
professors to elaborate theories that a
teamster can explode between two
puffs of his pipe.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-20
GRIM e.

WILLIAM SHINGLEDECKER. of Millvale.
Pa. eloped with his sons wife. taking
with him 800 of his wife's own money.
Two BOYS. aged II and 16 years. have
been arrested at Denison. Iowa. for soap
ing the railway track and opening a
switch.
Two Northern Pacific brakemen have
been arrested and taken to Bismarck,
charged with robbing Nathan Lodonsky
a passenger on a freight train, of so.
PETER GEIsINGEK, a German aged 45,
was fatally stabbed ut Phonixville, Pa,
by James Caughlin. The latter was ar
rested. but with the other prisoners i'll
the Jail tumeled his way out and escap-
ed.
FRANCIS i. WEBSTER. of Cambridge,
Mass, has been arrested on a charge of
swindIing the Alta gold and silver min
ing company. of New Mexico, out of
$50. 900. He was committed in default of
SO. 600 bail
HOSEA KING, charged with the muir
der of Long Meyer, doorkeepcr Of Coles
circus, in Lonoke, Ark. several months
ago. has surrendered to the sheriff there,
and has been committed in default of
$40. 900 bail
FRED SCHLCDT, Sr.. Of Reading Pa,
had his son Fred arrested for threaten
ing his life. The son was locked up and
half an hour afterward was found dead
in his cell, having hanged himself with
strips torn from his shirt. The elder
SChIudt is one of the wealthiest citizens
of Reading.
SATURDAY afternoon. at Kensington
station. on the Illinois Central Railroad,
robbers entered the station house. APP
preached John Foshicr. the agent, from
behind, clappcd their hands over his
eyes, beat him inSCnSible, bound and
gagged him. and robbed him of 81, 300
$500 of which belonged to the company.
Six tranps were arrested on suspicion.
c. b. FOWLER and Ford Caldwell. of
Benton. Mont, while ON a trip through
the judith country, had their horses
stolen. 1t is not known positively
whether the thieves were white men or
Indians but it is reported that twelve
soldiers deserted from Fort Magnnis the
day previous, and it is probable that
they appropriated the horses to help
them out of the country.
\ GENTLEMAN residing in what is
known as Little Park. between Sturgis
and Crook. in the Black Hills. was held
up while on his way home from Sturgis
Monday night by two men on horse
back He was made to dismount, and
hold up his hands under the persuasive
eloquence of couple of siX-shooters.
The robbers failed to secure anything,
as he had only 20 cents with him.
T. T.. WILMoRTH of Massillon, Iowa.
eX-agent for the Cedar Rapids Marriage
Fund association. has been arrested for
offering to sell counterfeit greenbacks-
s. for 80 cents, $35 in bills of different
denominations for $l.i5: $50 in bills of
different denominations for 50. 800
in bills of different denominations for
1919. and sending his circulars through
the mails.
THOMAS CONNOLLY. who was burned
by vitriol by Bridget McCae in South
ington. week ago. is very low at a hos
pital in Boston. The sight of both eyes
is gone. and death is soon expected. The
woman has not vet been arrested. al
though the selectmen of Southington
have offered reward of 5000 for her
capture. Henry Pardloe. who was with
Connolly the same evening is also III a
precarious condition.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-20
BRIGHT THOUGHTS.

Comparison, more than reality.
makes men happy, and can make
them wretched
If anything affects your eye, you
hasten to have it removed: but il
your mind is disordered you postpone
the term of cure for a year.
To what atrocities cannot that mind
reach which Is impelled by selfish
avaricel
Many are ambitious of saying grand
things Is, of being grandilo-
puent. Eloquence is speaking out. a
quality few esteem and fewer aim at.
Let friendship creep gently to a
height; if it rush to it. 1t may soon
run itself out of breath
The lightsome countenance of q
friend giyeth such an inward decking
to the house where it lodgeth. a
proudest palaces have cause to envy
the gliding.
What we call miracles and won
ders of art are not so to Him who
created them; for they We're created
by the natural movements Of his own
great soul. Statues. paintings
churches. poems, are but shadows oi
himself.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-20
Showing His Gratitude.

He inquired his way through the
city hall Yesterday until he finally
found himself in the presence of the
chief of police Then he removed his
hat, took a chair and said:
You've got a right good lot of
policemen in this town.
Yes"
Il got drunk here one day seven
years ago, and instead of locking me
up and sending me to the work house
an officer walked me down to the
depot and put me on the train. I'm
a man as never forgets kindness.
Mo-
And I've said that if ever the sign
came right I'd show my gratitude
The sign has come.
Take your statement, said the
chief.
We'll. was waiting for the train
when fellow with long, sharp nose
and an eye like hawk edges up to
me, and says he: Colonel. can you
change ten-dollar billI Says I:
Judge, can Says he: Colonel, if
YOU can you will greatly obleege me,
for I'm after some paregoric for sick
child. And then it was says | and
says he, until | gave him two tives.
and away he went. That ten of his
was counterfeit.
Il see. When did this happen."
About six weeks ago, but this is
the first chance I've had to tell you"
Where was it,"
Down IN Ohio. at a town called
Akron"
But what can we do about it,"
Send some of the police down there
to scare up and arrest the scoundrel.
1t is the biggest sort of a chance to
create a sensation. and let people
know that you are wide awake.
Think of what a scoop it would be
over the police of Chicago Just how
mad the police of New York and Phil
adelpnia would be to hear that Detroit
had taken the cake
I can't help YOU any
And l can't help you, Ell? Do you
scorn my gratitude
I'm this case I'll be obliged to-"
We'll. that settles it, said the
stranger, as he rose up. Il got drunk
here, was used like gentleman, and
in my gratitude I've put you up to a
big thing-a chance to rake in crowns
and wreaths and glory and fame till
YOU can't rest You wave my graft
tude aside. She'll stay waved. Some
one horse Ohio constable will carry
off the cake, and you want be heard
Of We are square. Good day. sir. :"
And he walked out with a spine as
stiff as drum-major's, and refused to
look to the right or left
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-20
GENERAL NOTES.

New YORK city is suffering from the
caterpillar pest.
RYE harvesting has begun in northern
Indiana.
FIFTY-FIvE persons died of yellow
fever ut Havana last week.
THE New Hamphire legislature has
passed bill prohibiting the sale of toy
pistols.
THE Legislature of Massachusetts has
passed bill fixing the State tax at ST.
500 900. in place of the S2.000,0o0 levy We
toed 10y the Governor.
4 PRIVATE in the Fourteenth New
York Regiment was drummed out of the
State camp at PeekSkill by order of Col
onel Austin. and has brought suit for
S25.000 damages.
IT is reported that silver has been dis
covered in the Black Mountains in
Essex county, \. \. Specimens of the
rock are being analyzed.
NJ de Lesseps and the government of
Great Britain have made an agreement
for the construction of new SueZ canal
/ parallel to the present one.
j. ]. ALLEY. a clerk in the pension
bureau at Washington. and 4 pension
3
conspiring to defraud pensioners.
\ TEIEGRAPHIC cable was laid between
Marthas Vineyard and the MasSachu-
setts mainland Saturday by the Western
I Union company,
Ten deaths from back measles have
occurred among the boys in St. Mary's
Industrial School. Catholic reforma,
tory institution, near Baltimore. and
fifteen inmates are now PROSTATE.
Much excitement has been caused in
( San Francisco by the reported marriage
OF German tourist To a Chinese woman
an inmate of a house of ill-fanle.
( ID. w. Luck. special agent of the in
ternal revenue department at Spring
field. H.. has received notice of his re
movaI from Office to make room for .
Kentucky friend of Mr. Evans named
HILL
THE Executive Committee of the An
thracite Coal Association held meeting
at Buffalo Wednesday, and issued pro
hibitory orders against Buffalo dealers
selling to Western men for delivery
after July. Ii is asserted a corner il
being formed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-20
DEATH OF TOM THUMB
Demise of the Noted Dwarf in
His Connecticut Home.
Brief Sketch OF His Career--The Dali,
List Of Deaths.

Charles Haywood Sratton. better
known as Gen. Tom Thumb" died at
his residence at Middleboro, Mass,
Sunday, of apoplexy. He had been
slightly indisposed for few DAYS. but
nothing serious was anticipated. The
remains will be taken to Bridgeport
for interment. The time of the flu
neral will be decided upon the arrival
of the widow from Cincinnati. Gen.
Tom Thumb" was born at Bridgeport.
Conn, Jan. 4, 1888. At the age of Il
he entered the service of P. T. Barnum
and ever since has been before the
public. 1t was curious coincidence
that the year the famous Polish dwarf,
Aoruluaski, died, the line of publicly
exhibited dwarfs was continued by
the birth OF the American pigmy 1t
was III 1854, after tour of the United
States, that Barnum took Tom Thumb
to England, where his grace, vivacity
and good humor made him popular.
from the royal family to the general
public before whom he acted. at the
Lyceum Theater in London. He was
presented III person to the queen, and
appeared III most of the continental
cities, receiving recognition from the
crowned heads of Europe, and many
valuable medals, which he always
took great pride i'll displaying
AGAIN IN ENGLAND.
After extensive travels in both hemis-
pheres he again visited England in
1857, but the dwarfman, despite his
personal and intellectual qualities,
was less attractive than the dwarf
boy. In 1868 he was married to the
very minute American lady, Lavinia
Warren who was born in 1912, and
with whom he travelled around the
world and visited many lands.