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The N. N. l.. railroads s excursion rates for this season are
 ",' Osprey. w'h Hill. Brk Isl'd Regular fare one way, $2.OO $2.2O $2.6O Round trip, limited to 7, ..... *.
 one day, 200 2.25 2.75 Round trip, unlimited, 300 $50 400
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insert notices of births marriages and deaths free; but have no system of obtaining them, and de- pend upon parties interested to send them n Obit- uary notices in prose verse, beyond mere announce ment of death charged at one-haf advertising rates
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A Chicago association called the Lake Bluff convocation, areigoing to have tenn. perance camp mecting, in which the scien- tific side of htis subject will be the chief topic of discussion, beginning August IA and lasting ono week. Dr. F. D. Brothers of Hartford will lecture before this associ. ation on Friday of next week, his subject being, 'Voices of Science Concerning In. ebriety," and ''The Social Science Rela. tions of Inebriety." The other topics to be presented will be the relation of alec. hol to crime. it's heredity, how far it causes idiocy, insanity and other diseases, the remedy in asylums and the medical care of these cases. This is the first attempt to discuss the scientific side of the tenn perance cause before popular audience, and will attract much attention,
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It is said that country editors wear belt to hold up their pants instead of suspen- ders. When they get word from home that there is nothing for dinner, they sim ply tighten up one hole, and feel too full for utterance.
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JAMES MCLAUGHLIN, PUBLISHER. also per year. Postage prepaid by the pab ishar. discount of 35 cents made when payment is made STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
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 WHILE public sympathy is with the striking telegraph operators there is a growing feeling that in the end they must gives in. As time goes on the inefficient operators who took their places grow skill ed with practice, and occasionally 8 striker succumbs. Telegraph wires are nightly being cut, and though this is more likely to be the work of others than of the strik- CTS, to whom such acts are ruinous, yet the telegraph company manages adroitly to throw suspicious of its doing or sncour- agement upon them. It costs money to live without work, and every day the strik- CTS grow weaker, and the company better entrenched in their opposition to their de- mands. The result will no doubt be vic tory for the company, and later conces- sion to the justice of the demands of the strikers to the public sympathy given them in a raising of wages. In fact it may be less the unwillingness to pay more than a determination not to recognize the broth erhood and treat with it as an organiza- tion that stiffens up the corporation in this contest. The public pays the company for prompt and skilled service, and will expect that the latter furnish it, and pay its servants accordingly.
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Yung Wing, the Chinese educational commissioner for New England, arrives al Hartford this week, and will at once move into his new house on Prospect street which was completed about the time he left for China IS months ago. His wife and children have been staying with friends in Avon.
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What strange language we have: In. sanity is often pronounced 'sincurable.
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Enterprising local agents wanted in this town for an article that is sure to sell live druggists and groeers preferred. Address Humiston Food Preseryative Co.,, "A Kilby Street, Boston.
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TheEvillage.of Vineyard Haven, Mass., Con Martha's vineyard) has. suffered from a.disastrous fire, which hroh out late Sat
 urday night, and ragged for several hours. The territory burned over embraced about fifty..acres of the heart of the village, be- ing the entire business part, with the ex. ception of one store, besides over thirty dwellings. The fire strikes almost 8 death blow at this ancient village. It leaves hundreds of people homeless, many oi whom are thrown upon the charity of their neighbors. The. town was full of summer boarders, and probably 200 were turned out of doors by the fire.
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MT. Dennis McCarthy of Willimantit attended the annual meeting of the Ma tional Catholic Temperance association held in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Eagles report of the addresses speaks as follows of Mir. M. "Mf. Dennis Mccarthy was : the last speaker of the meeting, and was listened to with the closest attention. He rendered his thanks for the grandeur oi the reception, and feryently expressed the wish that the influence of the thirteenth annual convention would not ibs elost, but serve as stimulus to greater and even nobler effort. He recalled visit to g re- fermatory institute in Massachusetts, where hundreds of children could be seen-s re- suit due to the drinking habit of their fathers and mothers. In closing, MT. Nc Carthy advised all Irishmen to 'boyeot' English ale and Scotch whiskey, for it was the saloon keeper that was doing thou sand times more harm than English land lords" (Applause.)
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Ir is an advantage to either political party to be in the minority in congress al the session preceding presidential cleo tion, an advantage that either. party is willing to concede to the other, but an ad. vantage nevertheless. This never was more the case than in the coming session, where, whatever action is taken on tariff, or river and harbor appropriations, large portion of the. people will be disaffected
 and, according to democrating rulings, nc matter how the majority of the dominant side may vote, they are to be held respon sible, as party, for all measures passed.
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Dr. John H. Simmons has been appoint ed postmaster at Ashford, in place of W M Whitaker -'s
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Sunday Republican: A factor often overlooked by statisticians in estimating the capacities2of our mills and factories is the marked increase in the speed of ma- chinery brought about within few years. Thus the cotton machinery of Lowell, says the Commercial Bulletin has sbeen accel. erated 30 per cent within 8 dozen years, and while there are now IF, 900, 900 cotton spindles in the United States against 1000. 900 in 1870, the actual productive capac. consumption of 1888, AT bales of cotton in the country for the 10 months preced. ing July l, 1883, against 1,O73, 900 bales the annual average for three Iyears begin. ming with 1869, corroborates the above es. innate. The same holds true of woolen manufacturing. The faster speeding ot the machinery has been coupled with 2 considerable enlargement of the cards, and the increased production largely benefits the consumer, of course, by materially cheapening the cost of making goods.
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The reunion of confederate and Union
 veterans of the battle of Wilson's Creek on
 the battle-ground near Springfield, Mo-,
 was held Friday, from 15,0OO to 10000
 people being present. Lieut. Gov. Camp.
 bell, acting governor of Missouri, deliver ed the welcoming speech, and responses
 were made by Gov. Berry of Arkansas, Col. w. Merritt of Iowa and others. The veterans of both armies camped together, and between them only the most courte- ous and generous sentiments have been expressed Not single unpleasant word has been uttered to mar the general har- mony and enthusiasm. An organization to be known as the Surviving Soldiers Union league was made on the battle ground It embraces soldiers of both armies, and the officers elected were chos- en from both federal and confederate sol diers.
 POWDER MILL EXPLOSION About 9 o'clock Tuesday morning the old cracking machine mill at the Hazardville Powder Works blew up with noise that was heard miles away. James Leonard, who was just outside the door, was the only person killed. The trunk of his body was found against and partly suspended from 8 tree 20 rods away. His legs, arms, and part of his head could not be found. Two team sters had just left the building, and had a narrow escape. About ton of powder exploded, and considerable damage was done to other buildings of the powder works.
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Hartford Post: That was most hide ous spectacle presented on the. gallows in central New York last Friday. William Henry Ostrander, for the murder of his brother, went to the expiaion of his crime with the vilest profanity upon lips and with the swagger of bully in his manner. And yet, his terrible ending was but the logical conclusion of life made up of bull lying and swagger. His percentage was not of the best class, but there was an at tempt on the part of his sister and his brother to lift themselves above the sur roundings of their home and bring them selves into the pale of a better civilization. This was too much for the young brute, and he could not endure it. He had, when at home, mastered the house by his bully ing manner, and when his sisters and brothers were at home spending Christ mas vacation, he objected to their good clothes, and especially to the. pretense of his brother to 'run things.' Occasions were not lacking for him to display his brutal nature, as he was on the alert to see that none of his ''rights" were transgress- ed The three girls and William and their mother were in the room with George The latter placed mirror. on bureau. Williams hat was lying in the way, and George threw it on chair. William said "You mustn't throw my hat around" George answered that he didn't know whose hat it was, and he would have treat ed his own in the same way. William put the hat on his head and drew his revolver. George may have seen the motion, or he may have apprehended violence. Any way, he turned half around toward. his brother just in time and just far enough to receive the bullet from Williams pistol in his right eye. He fell to the floor dead, because he was ''too decent" to be'a living member of the same family with the bully. And yet there are hundreds of just such bullies growing up in this country :; bullies who will glory in the defiant death of young Ostrander on the gallows. It is g problem deeper than that Of party princi- ples even, what is to be done with this ever increasing army of young roughs and brutes. The time may come, and that possibly may not be far distant, when, in the event of great labor disturbances, the country will be at the mercy of this class of 'Thugs," whose sole objection to socie- ty as it is now constituted is that it is "too good" for them. ,-'I.
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The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-08
Poker in Thompson Street.

1t was a poker party in Thompson
street, and big Jackpot had been
opened. There were evidently big
hands out, and bets and excitement ran
high. "Looker hyer, Gus, whuffer yo'
risedat pot ?" exclaimed Mr.. Tooter
Williams. 'Nebber yo'miHd-yo' call,
Of yo' isn't afraid-yes, yo' call--dat's IS
all ~ retorted Gus, sullenly. 81 won't
call ! rise yo' back" said Mr.. Will
liams, whose vertebr@ was ascending.
II rise yo' ag'in," retorted Gus.
And 80 they went at each other until
chips, money and collateral were gone
then Williams concluded to call.
'What yo' got, niggah, dat yo' do all
dat risin' onp What yo' got, nohow ?
Gus laid down his hand--ace, king,
queen, jack and ten of clubs. SIS dat
good 9'' he inquired, beginning to seize
up the pot. ''No, dat's not good ="
said Mr.. Williams, reaching down in
his bootleg. "What yo' got, den p"
inquired Gus. Mr.. Williams looked
mt him ixedly. "Ise jes' got two jacks
an a razzer." ''Dat's good" said
Gus.
The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-08
Personal.

The King of Greece is at Wiesbaden.
Professor David Swing is fifty-two
years old.
Ex-Governor Stanford, of California,
is in London.
Professor Bell, is preparing bib.
biography Of electricity.
Dry Goods Clafflin, of New York,
now seventy, is climbing the Catskills.
Anna Dickinson's manager says that
she is best appreciated in the West.
Miss Ellen Terry will have $500 a
week during her tour of the United
States.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky,
has issued S45 pardons during his ad-
ministration.
General Beauregard is summering at
Wisconsin lake. He says he believed
in Mississippi jetties in 1851.
Peter Lorillard and Roland p. Jeph.
thah Davis are travelling through New
England with retiAue of wagons and
servants, and marquee tent which
once belonged to the Prince of Wales.
Among prominent English people
coming to America are the Earl of Cork
and Hardwicke, master of the buck
hounds; the Earl and Countess of Car
narvon, the Earl of Lathom, Lord Doug
las Gordon, Mr.. Bryce and Horace
Davey, M. P. for Christ church.
Mr.. Millais' painting of Henry Irving
which he will present to the Garrick
Club of London, is described as most
admirable portrait. 1t is half-length,
and represents the actor in profile clad
in ordinary morning dress, looking to-
ward the left of the spectator.
The Duke of Norfolk, with all his
immense wealth, is obliged to retrench.
He has given so much money for relig.
ious purposes and spent so much al
Arundel and other places, that he has
been obliged to dismiss 30O work people
and cut down his household expenses
He is very significant looking mar
for premier duke.
Mr.. st. John, the ex-governor O.
Kansas, is thought to be the wors
fisherman in the country. He went
trolling for pickerel at Silver Lake
N. Y, the other day, but.talked with
companion constantly until their return
to the shore. He was leaving the lax,
when boy said: 'Look a.here, Mister
Man, there's pickerel ON your line y,
forgot to pull in." The pickere
weighed four pounds.
A. B. Fox, of Gowanda, N. Y,
six feet two inches high, and weigh
$50 pounds. His wife is six feet tai
and weighs 200 pounds. He has five
brothers and six sisters, not one o
them being less than six feet tall, an,
the lightest one weighs 200 pounds.
The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-08
The True Holiday.

Why 1t Is Wise to Diversity Ones |
Usual Work Rather than be Idle.
1t is quite mistake to suppose that |
nothing of the nature of work should
be allowed to haunt the mind on holi-
day. The only result of that is that
holiday-making itself is very apt to be-
come laborious piece of pleasure-seek-
ing. 1t is quite true, of course, that
you should not, if you can help it, take
task work on a holiday. But it is quite
as true that if there is anything requir
ing some effort and method and care,
in which, nevertheless, the mind.inds
a fresh spring of buoyancy-such as
many men, for instance, who are not
musicians by profession, find in music,
and many more find in art-the holiday
will be twice as enjoyable if some dis
tinct and recognizable progress can be
made in that province. 1t isnot pains,
effort and care which fatigue the mind,
but pains effort and care expended on
the same class of subjects on which
they are day by day regularly expended.
Devote a moderate portion of pains,
effort and care to other than the regular
subjects-to subjects with which no
sense of worry, routine and fag is asso.
ciated-and you will find that the pains,
effort and care so directed increase the
sense of elasticity and buoyancy in
your holiday, instead of diminishing it,.
Pleasure-seeking unadulterated is, after
all, very wearisome occupation.
The man of business who has turn
r for literature OF art should be literary
man or an artist in his holiday, while
$ the literary man or artist should turn
9 his attention to natural science or an
tiquarian research, or, at least, to some
t outlying province of his own pursuit
e the prosecution of which may be com
T patible with the ardor of generally re
Q pressed and restrained interest. N,
e doubt such course would involve som,
+ change of plan in relation to holidays
e some considerable breaks in the con
It stant rush of travel, some contrivanc
e for interviewing at least frequent morn
h ings of quiet with the whirl of exhaust
d ing excitements. But that is precisel
N what gives keener flavor to the air @
change itself ; for otherwise, even th
1t change becomes wearisome and mono
le tonous, and looses all the air of vivid
n ness and sharp distinction. Travel col
of tinued and prolonged, without interval
or Of close attention concentrated on coheI
a ent subjects, becomes mere movin
x, kaleidoscope ofscenes, in which, thoug
ul the variation Of order is infinite, IL
ct elements seem too much the same I
nd command your interest. But whe
n travel is diversified by some steady pu
1t, suit in which you exert your traint
at powers, though with sense of freedo
at and enjoyment belonging to new lii
ed of direction, you renew enough of Il
ito tension of purpose belonging to dai
ed life to renovate constantly the delight
ny leisure, without renewing any of Il
aniexty and responsibility of professio
en al undertakings.
The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-08
Giants Graveyard.

Two miles from Mandan, on the
bluffs near the junction of the Hart
and Missouri rivers, is an old ceme-
terry of fully 100 acres in extent, filled
with bones of giant race. This vast
city of the dead lies just east of the
Fort Lincoln road. The ground has
the appearance of having been filled
with trenches piled full of dead bodies,
both man and beast, and covered with
several feet of earth. In many places
mounds from eight to ten feet high,
and some of them 100 feet or more in
length, have been filed with bones and
broken pottery, vases of various bright
colored fiints and agates. The pottery
is of dark material, beautifully deco
rated, delicate in finish and as light
as wood, showing the work of people
skilled in the arts and possessed of
high state of civilization. This has
evidently been grand battlefield,
where thousands of men and horses
have fallen. Nothing like systematic
or intelligent exploration has been
made, as only little holes two or three
feet in depth have been dug in some Of
the mounds, but many of the bones Of
man and beast and beautiful specimens
of broken pottery and other curiositiei
have been found in these feeble efforts al
excavation. We asked an aged Indiar
what his people knew of these anciont
graveyards. He answered: "Me know
nething about them. They were here
before the red man.,
The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-08
Henry James Appearance.

At the Boston train when we were
entering the town a person of rather
robust size, wearing blush gray suit
and with blackish side whiskers, began
to speak to lady in the most ultra
awfully awful West End of London
style. The first word he got out of his
mouth was invariably stutter, and he
stumbled on as if biting at his sentences.
When he had passed out my friend re-
marked to me "Whom do you sus-
pect that to be P'' Said L: SIT might
be Lord Manderville, or it might be his
valet" NO." said he, that is Henry
James, the author"
The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-08

diet'' on lambs. Three lambs, which
for some unexplained cause had been
abandoned by their mothers, were fed
on powdered blood'' with the most
gratifying results. The lambs increased
in size in the most marvellous fashion,
and attained unusual proportions for
their age. The coats of wool also be-
came double in thickness. Encouraged
by his success with the lambs, M. Reg
nard is now feeding some calves on
blood.
The editor of the New Genesee Far.
naer lately witnessed an experiment of
driving nails into hard seasoned timber
fairly dried. He says that the first two
nails, after passing through a pine
board, entered about one inch and then
double down under the hammer; but
on dipping the points of the other six
or eight nails into lard, every one
was driven home without the least diff
fculty. Carpenters who are engaged
in repairing old buildings sometimes
carry small lump of lard or tallow
for this purpose ON one of their boots or
shoes
DIR. Skinner, of the Academy Of
Natural Science, referring to the Cir
cumstance that butterflies are in the
habit of depositins their eggs upon such
plants as affords the lroper nourishment
to the larv@, l. e., the plants upon
which the caterpillars of a given
species feed, stated that he had observed
the female of certain species drop heI
eggs while in fight, singular perfor.
nance which the speaker verified
through repeated observation. Tht
eggs thus distributed from a consider
able distance above ground tell upon
, mass of grass and violet leaves.
A Treasury official at San Francisc,
: states that 100000 worth of opium
: has within ten years been smuggled in
0 to ports, Government officials receivin,
9 30 per cent. of the amount. He say
!, 81, 100000 worth of the drug can b
= brought in at time.
Copper, at present prices, only cost
: twice as much as tin, while, unlike til
: it does not need painting and is nj
y worn out in twenty years, being pra,
n tically indestructible, circumstanc,
70 which ought TO lead to its free use f,
j. roofing, the american Architect says.
The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-08
The Trouble with Modern
HeroineS.

Indeed, it is the serious-minded hero
ines who behave worst in their love
affairs. The calm manner in which
they argue the point out with their
parents, always getting the best of it in
argument as well as in fact, is enough
to make the father of past fiction turn
in his grave. This trait is, after all,
the most alarming to us who are ap-
preaching the age when "the heavy
father' is more interesting than the
young lover. For the heroine of fiction
is, let us remember, the ideal woman of
the period, the mold Of form with
which our young women naturally COM
pare themselves. Her example will
outweigh with them all the exhortaiions
OF their guardians, and for them, there
fore, there is the pleasant prospect Of
seeing the attractive qualities described
produced in their daughters and wards.