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Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-05-31
Stolen.

AS Ben. Lofman, a dilapidated print
er, was sleeping on lumber pile on the
New Castle causeway, this morning,
some hummer carried off his coat and
hat. He is consequently in rather a
destitute condition, and it would be
well if the authorities would take
charge of him. Thirty days in the Coun-
ty prison would enable him to sober up.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-05-31
Two Drum \ =.

Henry O'Nell cane to town yester-
day to see the procession, and partook
Of Toe much Front street whisky. He
landed in Councilman Qninn's yard,
and was taken from there in a wagon
TO the hall This morning he paid 81
and costs.
Edward Holman was fined 81 and
costs for being drunk and disurderly.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-05-31

that l.. +. Adair, 207 Market street,
will have another public sale to-mor-
row (Friday) afternoon, at one o'clock
As the goods will be sold at any price,
look out for bargains, as the stock must
be closed out.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-05-31
Fine ParlOr

and chamber furniture will be sold at
the public sale Of l.. F. Adair, 207 Mar
ket street tomorrow (Friday )afternoon
at one o'clock Attend the sale if you
want bargains.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-05-31
/NRAND ANNUAL OPENING OF THE

WI " IT n I'M n y w TINIJNNT VT I II II
VI Miller Cottage, Georgia Avenue, n bove
Atlantic avenue, Atlantic CITY, New Jersey.
Mrs. Isaac H. Miller, PrOprievrcss, Having
carefully overhauled and rettted the house
for the accommodation Of her guests. she
would respectfully invite the attention Of her
'riends AMI the public to the Annual Opening
on SATURDAY., June z. 1883 on which OCCASION
the house, with its full accommodations and
grand dinners, will be given fire." to all. Terms
Of the sens0n VIII be usually modcrate. m3l.l
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-05-31

Yesterday tt rruoOn horse attached
t. Il German town wagon became
frightened Oh Delaware avenue at the
- lug Nauu.. JuU started 10 run away
II lad pw hu ID hort distance before
he was caught although he succeeded
ia airing luu-ct loose from the wagon.
With the InrL" number Of persons in
TIE vicinity il is fortunate none were
iniMrod.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-05-31
TA|R D EDITION
QUICKhTEP VICTORIOUS.
The Merritts Defeated by the
QWtekSt pr Y esterday I'm Two Ex.
hib,tt On flames.

The Merritts Defeated by the
Qutekst ps Y yesterday in Two Elk.
hib,ti On flames.
Yes erday morning the Quickstel
met he Merritt Of Camden, on the
latter ground, and by fine playing sue
eeed-, in defeating them by score OF
4 10 6
Being highly pIated over their victory
in Brooklyn The day before, the Viii
mingtrn nine did their best and showed
their VI ponents that they were tough
team. Cusick caught without an error
or passed ball. Pyle pitched very eff
fectiyeIy, only two men hitting him,
each of whom made two hits. Parker
and Cusick were both laboring under
difficulties and by rights should have
been on the sick list, but the latter
showed his metal and played the game
out. Parker was struck with ball
and was forced to retire, McKenna
taking his place. Benners, the new
Quickstep man, made a difficult fly
catch and did well at the bat
Warner and Emslie comprised the
Merritts battery and did effective work,
but our boys outplayed them at every
point
The score is as follows:
Quickstep, 003 0002 0-6
Merritt, 20 / 000 D o.
Runs earned-Quickstep, /, Merritt
2. Struck Mckenna, Benners,
Barber 2, Snyder 5, Warner, Greenwood
Sweeney 3, Emslie, Bcrtlebach, 2.
Base en- balls-Quickstep 9, Merritt !.
Left on base--Quickstep 8, Merritt 3.
Passed balls--Cusick o. Sweeney 9.
Wild pitches-pyle 0, Emslie 1. I'm
pire-F. j. Burt Time of game-Two
hours.
AFTERNOON GAME.
A return game between these two
clubs was played in the afternoon at
Quickstep Park in the presence of near
ly 1900 people, every available seat and
vacant spot being occupied. When the
members of the home team came upon
the field they were greeted with round
after round Of applause to which they
expressed their thanks by tipping their
caps. The visitors were also received
with applause. The Quickstepw the
toss and sent the Merritt to the bal, who
retired in short order. The Quickstep
followed suit and were likewise retired
without run In the second inning
the visitors scored through an error Of
Barber, who did not play up to his
usual standard in the afternoon.
The second inning of the home team
was big one and seven runs were
scored. Snyder opened out with "A two
has Ram ara at rupk ont Rlrkpr ,rt,t
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-05-31

Nervous debility, the curse i o.
American people, immedia'eIy .s
the action of Browns Iron Blt'ei''
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-05-31

WANTED IN NJ EDlATELN--A GIRL,
w at $40 Market street. MRS JON rs.
m3l ITS
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-09
Items Of Interest.

President Barnard of Columbia Col
lege, gives the result of careful compu-
tations which he has made relative ia
the disintegrarion of the New York
Central park obelisk's surface due to
the exposure to the weather. His Opin-
ion is that it will take 5000 years of
exposure in this climate to reduce the
volume of obelisk to the depth of one
centimetre on each side.
Il. J. Warner is building a large and
handsome structure ut Broadway and
Willoughby-av New York, to be
known rs the Memorial building
and dedicated to the memory of Will
liam f. Dodge. 1t is to have large
temperance halls, reading and coffee
rooms and offices, and to he place
where the youth of the city will find il
friendly and pleasant resort without
going to saloons. The building is to
cost Sl00,000.
This is Gov. Walters proclamation, of
Connecticut: In conformity to an i'm
memorial and hallOwed usage of our
fathers, designate and appoint Thurs
day, the 29th of November next, as a
day of public thanksgiving and prayer,
and | recommend to the people of this
that they celebrate this
Joyous festival by words of loving
kindness, by deeds of Christian charity
and by grateful offerings to Almighty
God of praise, thanksgiving and prayer.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-09
Lead Pencils.

There have been none for fifty
years. There was time when a spira-
Gle of lead, cut from the bar or sheet,
sufficed to make marks on white paper
or some rougher abrading material.
The name of lead pencil came from the
old notion that the products OF the
Cumberland mines, England, were lead
instead of being plumbago or graphite,
Il carbonate of iron, capable of leaving
Il lead-cOlored mark. With the original
lead pencil or slip, and with the earlier
styles of the "lead' pencil made direct
from the Cumberland mine, the wet
ting of the pencil was preliminary of
writing. But since it has become II
manufacture the lead pencil is adapted,
by numbers or letters, to each par
ticular design. There are grades OF
hardness, from the pencil that may be
sharpened to a needle point, to one
that makes broad mark. Between
the two extremes there are II number
of graduations that cover all the con
veniences of the lead pencil. These
ordinations are made by taking the
original carbonate and grinding it, and
mixing it with fine quality of clay in
differing proportions, regard being had
to the use of the pencil. The mixture
is thorough, the mass is squeezed
through dies to form and size it, is
dried, and encased in it's wood en-
velopc.- Scientific American.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-09
The Insurance Monopoly.

The various insurance companies
doing business in this portion of the
country have consolidated" upon
rates and rules, each being bound, as
we understand, to abide by the code
esta blished. Recently they sent party
of men into some of the towns of Yer
mont who, on hasty examinations and
from, in some cases, an imperfect I'M
Outstanding of facts, have largely
raised the rates on various classes of
risks. That the companies have a
right to raise their rates no one will
care to deny, but it savOrs greatly of
the worst spirit of monopoly when the
larger companies which have grown
rich and influential gu the patronage
heretofore given them, see fit arbi-
trarily to make rates intOlerable in
many places. The insurance business,
stock companies especially, have in al
most all cases paid dividends, and this
in spite of the enormous salaries of
officers and agents, and the magniti
cent expenditures in offices and build
ings.
The people have "A just right to utter
n protest, and the privilege of refusing
to insure at all, but there ought to be
some Just means where justice could
he done both ways. We learn of sew
eral towns where the large increase in
rates are to he made that will refuse to
accede and will not insure. This is
the way to meet the matter, but often
times parties who are doing business
III so-called hazardous positions, have
their property all invested i'll stock and
goods, machinery, etc, and they dare
not risk their property uninsured.
The eXOrbitant rates are unjust toward
them, especially.
This monopoly is of bad nature
from the fact that new insurance com
panies are not easily started and put
upon a financial standing, which makes
them popular among those seeking in
surance. Hence that spirit of bust
ness rivalry, which, in most matters,
so governs prices and rates as to pro
tect the public, cannot exist i'll the i'll
surance business. The large COM
panies which have combined to put up
prices are liable to crush, so far as they
are able, any new ones that shall be
formed. Unless there is Il fair spirit
of concession we see no better way for
those who feel that they are to he
cheated than to take their own risks.
The local agents are powerless to
remedy the evil, but the public can go
uninsured and put their chances of fire
against IN insurance tax which III
very few years would balance the loss
of their property.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-09
Farming East or West.

Perhaps the perpetual discussion of
the question whether farming yields
greater and better rewards. ut the
West than at the East viii never be
settled in favor of the latter except on
a sentimental basis. So far rs it may
be settled ut all but even such IA
basis is a soundcr than what is called
the practical one, in that it's returns
are far more Sclf-satiStviug than all the
money which the sale of abundant
grain and hog crops will bring. at the
always low prices by which the west
ern farmer is limited. We are willing
howe yer, to dismiss the sentimental
consideration for the moment, and look
exclusively at the practical side of the
matter only. Where is there Il single
and compact section of the country
that is gridironed with railroads that
connect markets of every size and de
gree of Importance, to which every
farm may be made constantly tributary,
rs this New England of ours Where
is society 50 knit together, where are
separate communities 50 intimately
related. and where is exchange in con
sequence 50 frequent and rapid?
II our eastern farming must bc on II
smaller scale, it Is therefore capable of
all the greater thoroughness, than
which nothing yields more solid salts
faction. II it cannot produce what
the square miles of prairie produce, it
compcnsates for it 10y being drawn
upon for greater variety of products.
The Boston market is the common re-
ceptacle for butter, eggs, cheese, milk.
pork, lamb, mutton, fruit, and every
thing else that is the result of New
England farming: and there il not a
farm in "a single New England state
whose owner cannot, if he 81 chooses,
reach this great central market with
almost ~ little trouble aud expense as
he can get to Il much smaller neigh
boring market.
The diversified character of our east
erm farming is. in fact, its chief attrac-
ton. Ii keeps the faculties awake all
the time. There l. no chance to slum
Der between the quickly recurring
problems of cultivation and thrift that
are all the time presenting themselves
for solution. What is TO be done must
be done its proper turn and place, and
there il no time tor waiting. suppose
that our average farmers do not man
age to accumulate large properties in
the course of AN industrious life they
have "A visible and substantial property;
they may have an investment that
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-09
ST. cSulmsbmp Galedunian.
y. John.hury. ". FrIday. Nor. .. 1sss.
why Not!

Ought there not to bc law prohib-
iting the smoking of tobacco upon the
streets and in public places The re-
currence of the season for travel,
amusement. and life in the open air
brings this forcibly to mind. Wher-
ever we may seek fresh air and ont
door life during the summer months,
whether in country or city. at Coney
Island or ut Central Park, on the steam
boat or on the car. the man with
cigar in his mouth is there before us.
On the steamboat he invariably selects
Il breezy position on the front part of
the boat, and allows the efiiuvia from
his tobacco to float into the faces of
those behind him. He always gets on
the windward side of the boat 4; in
deed. there Is generally Il placard
warning him that there is To lie ''nO
smoking ahalt the wheel" thus en-
couraging him to smoke where he will
most annoy the greatest number.
through traditional reverence for the
quarter deck. ON steam or horse car
some gent" is usually tn he seen hold
ing lighted ''fumer" between the tips
OF his fingers, taking Whit occasion
ally, and allowing the fumes to laZily
diiluSe themselves about him. I'm the
parks and ut the pleasure resorts the
smoking brigade is always out in full
force. apparently happy in making
others unhappy. The air of a crowded
depot or waiting-room is almost sure
to he thick with the poisonous cXhala-
tinus of consumers of cigars, cigarettes
and pipes. IN spite OF the dead letter
announcement, "NO smoking allowed
Everywhere the pure air is turned into
foul and presidential congregation
of vapors." Is it not time that some
thing should he done towards the
righting of this wrong2
We have "whiskey crusades," "pro-
hihition." agitation. civil service re-
form; why not public smoking
reform Cannot the public hc brought
to th" conviction that people who do
not smoke have rights which smokers
ought to respect, and which they will
Ice made to respect if they do not do it
voluntarily The average smoker, on
hcing demonstrated with for smoking
where it will annoy others, will say,
"Wcll, ! guess I've got right to
smoke: if You don't like it you can
cmiglate." That is his standpoint
that lac has Il right To smoke. But has
he Il right to smoke his neighhor too
Has any man right to poison and
Vitiatc the common air for the sake of
his own enjoyment? Have men any
more right to pollutc the atmosphere
with the smoke from poisonous weeds
than they have to pollutc it with the
n0NiouS 0dorS of a Sludgcacid factory
Have men any more right to puff out
tobacco smoke in Il crowd than they
have to throw around vitriol i'm Il
crowd We grant that Il man has ii
right to smoke; but has he any right
To compel others To take his smoke ?
In his pursuit of happiness he has no
right to infringe on that of another
man. If man must smoke, let
him do it in private, and not where
lac will annoy and iniurc others. Public
opinion ought to compel this; if it is
not powerful enough to do it unaidcd,
ought not the law to aid If not,
why not = Christian Union.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-09
A walking Horse.

\ fast walking horse has IL quality
far more valuable than an extra trotter.
And yet pretended agricultural sOcie-
ties, ignoring agricultural and practi-
cal virtue of horse, give thousands
to the professional trotter, and nothing
to the walker. There are professional
trainers of horses in running, trOttinS
aud pacing, but when it comes to
the practical gait, the one i'll which
the horse works, no one can be found to
teach the horse how to he useful. This
is ii past age in follieS. Once in Il
while man of SENSE calls Il halt to the
horse iockeying world. and tries to call
attention to something besides the
furorc for professional speed. The
editor of the Breeders Gazette, Mr.. j.
II. Saunders, of Chicago. in his last
paper. offers Il broad, liberal and eX
tensive premium for the fastest walk
ing horses. As there may be two con
StructiOns put upon his liberal offer,
we put i'll his own words:
In order to set the ball i'll motion,
and to foster and encourage walking
matches ut the fairs, the Breeders
Gazette will give Il solid silver cup of
the cash value of 500 to the owner of
the horse that shall make the fastest
record for Il full mile ut any fair during
the season of lSS3. The time to he ac
curately taken and made u record of
10y Judges appointed by the association,
and duly certified to MS. For the
present season we shall not limit the
contest to any particular way of going !;
the record may he in double or single
harness To four-whcclcd vehicles, or
under saddle. Sulkies alone will be
barred, as this way of going is of no
practical use aud is confined to racing ;
and this prize is for the purpose of de
veIopng neglected business gait in
the horse.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-09

Yields a sure annual income as the
fruit of healthful labor, which is far
preferable to unhealthy anxiety over a
stock investment; and, above all, they
have home from which no power on
earth can ALLEVIATE them and of which
it is strange series of disasters that
can deprive them.
And what if our farmer friends do
not habitually dress like our other
friends of the large cities The dis
similarity in the occupations of the
two classes is sufficient to reconcile all
differences, while the slightest refiec
ton will satisfy the former that there
is no good reason why they should not
he as cOntented with their habiliments
and surroundings as their brethren of
the cities are. There is no one stand
ard to he set up for both. Besides, be-
meath the cOstlicr fabrics and more
elaborate makeup of the city man
there are no more cOntented hearts
than beneath those of the men whose
lives are passed in country occupations.
These things are but relative ut best.
Our country friends need to cultivate
contcntment quite as much as to Guilt
vate their acres. And that should be
no such hard matter in an age like this,
when 1T Is 50 easy to come and 90 ut
pleasure, to he in the moving currents
of life while living out of them, to have
pictures and books and all the tasteful
comforts and cOnyeniences of living,
though far distant from the centers of
population, and to enjoy an indescrib-
ably larger, sweeter, and purer exist
cnce in the midst of what the men of
the streets themselves cOvet, even
while eXpatiating OF the burdensome-
ness OF country silence and solitude
The universal Judgment tavors the con-
dition of the intelligent and indnstri-
Gus farmer of New England Massa-
chuSctts Ploughman.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-09
Relieving the school Children.

Principal Jones, of the Bedford
school, has written IA letter to Superin-
tendcnt Luckey containing Il plea for
overworlied school children in the
grammar department, especially in
arithmetic. 1t requests that the fol-
lowing he dropped us useless: The
tables of English money, French mon
cy, German money, troy weight, apoth
ecaries' weight, apothecaries' fluid
measure, square measure, cOrd-wood
measure. shoemakers' measure, to-
gcthcr with all the problems in addi-
ton, subtraction, multiplication and
division requiring II knowledge of the
above tables for their solution, also
compound proportion, distributive pro-
portion, involution, square root and
cubic root, in all numbering 456 diff
cult and useless problems, which, at
the rate of eight problems day, would
require fifty seven days, or nearly
three months of the pupils school
time Pittsburg Telegraph.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-09
PATENTS.
r.. II + ID ID Y

No. &c State Street, opposite Kilby Street Boston
secures patents in the United States also in
Great Britain, France and other foreign countries
Copies uf the claims of any Patent furnished by
RENTING one dollar. Assignments recorded at
Washington. No agency in the United States pos
superior facilities for obtaining Patents or
dceridiiiHg the pGteHiGbiii,y Of intentions. X. II.
EDDY, Solicitor of Patents
IMONIALS.
Il regard Mr. Eddy Of the most successful
and capable practitioners with whom | have had
official intercourse. CHAS. MASON.
Commissioner of Patents.
Inventors cannot employ person more trust
worthy OF more capable of securing for them au
early and favorable consideration at the Patent Of
fce.'-EDMUND BURKE, late Commissioner OF
Patents
Boston. October 49, 1876
Il. II. EDDY, Esq.-Dear Sir: you procured for
me, in $40, my first patent. Since then you have
acted for and advised me in hundreds Of eases, and
procured many patents, reissues and extensions
have occasionally employed the best agencies in
New York Philadelphia and Washington, but l
still give ynu almost the whole of my business, in
your line and advise others to employ you.
Yours truly GEORGE DRAPER.
Boston. Jan. !. lSSI.-ly
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-09
SILKS AND VELVETS.

In this department purchases have been very large and
complete and offering black silks at 81 90, $25
$150 81 81 co. 225, So 49, So 90 and $3.50 per yard
the celebrated production of r. Savoie & Co. and Guinot
Co. We invite inspection of this stock, feeling very
dent show superior goods at low prices In vevets
purchases made August previous the advance
prices and therefore enabled offer veIvets old
prices We invite the closest inspection of this stock and
prices Also full assortment of satns and coored silks.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-09
General Harrison and Wine.

A PENNSYLVANIA lady tells that when
Gen. Harrison was running for the
presidency, he stopped at the old
Washington house, in Chester, for din
ner After dinner was served, it was
noticed that the General pledged his
toast in water. and one of the gentle
men from New York, in offering another
said, "Grnrral, will you not favor me
10y drinking Il glass of wine p The
General refused in Il very "cntlcmanly
manner. Again he was urged to JON
in Il glass of wine. This was too much.
He rose from the table, his form erect,
aud in the digniiicd manner replied {:
''Gcutlcmcn, ! have refused twice to
partakc of the wine cup. That should
have been sufficient. Though YOU
press the cup to my lips, not Il drop
shall pass the portals. | made Il re
solve when started in life that |
would avoid strong drink, and | have
never broken it. | am one of seven
teen young men who graduated, and
the other sixteen till drunkards' graves
all through the pcrniciouS habit of
wine drinking. owe all my health.
happiness and prosperity to that reso-
luton. Will you urge me now ?"
Whiskcy is good in its own place.
There is nothing in the world like
whiskcy for preserving Il man when he
is dead. But it is one of the worst
things in the world for preserving II
man when he is living. If YOU want
to keep dead man, put him into whis-
key. If YOU want to Kill living man,
put whiSkey into him Il DR. Guthrie.