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The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-05-31
journalistic.

Watson R. Sperry, Jerome B. Bell and
]. Barton Cheyney will go 20 Chicago to
represent their respective papers at th e
Republican Convention next week.
The Talk and Back Talk" column Of the
Sunday Star has already becomea brilliant
and interesting feature in the paper. Our
boys must keep their weather-eye open when
Brother Jerome is around, or they may find
themselves as badly given away as was the
Delaware Western man over the Brandywine
Rar
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CLEAN THEM OUT.

Chief of Police Mcconnell has the chance
of inaugurating an excellent work during
his year of office, if lie gives his attention to
cleaning out the dens in which robbery and
even murder only wait their opportunity on
Water Street between the Malta House and
the Depot Since Mr. Reynolds has had
control of the Malta House he has rendered
it quite respectable and well-conducted
establishment, but it is impossible for any
man, however honest and energetic, to fight
against the surroundings which prevail in
this part of Water Street. Last Saturday an
unlucky Italian was assailed in one Of The
worst of the dens we have described, and
having been beaten within an inch of his
life, was put out of doors and left to his fate.
That the man had deadly weapon about him
and sought to use it, of course justified the
officers in locking him up,and that was very
properly done, But it is a regretable matter
that an information was not laid at that
time against the premises in which the ruff
fans who were implicated in the assault,
were then and there assembled.It has been a
matter of common notoriety that ex-Chief
Hawkins patronzed this house among other
establish ments, and that he accepted Gas an
affectionate tribute of admiration) pecul-
iarly lovely and lively ''dawg" from the
blackguards whose sports he allowed to pro-
ceed without molestati IN. Chief Mcconnell
would find himself backed by public opinion
# he signifed, in the most emphatic and
practical way, that whatever improper
license the so-called sporting houses enjoyed
under his predecessor was not by any means
intended to be perpetuated either by pre-
scription on custom, under Chiefs of Police
of all and any political orpersonal tastes. We
are entirely at loss to understand how it is
that the licenses OF the men who run the
Front aud Water Street dens are renewed
year after year when it IS fact within the
knowledge of all who read the newspapers
that one half the robberies are planned in
these sinks OF iniquity and that two thirds
OF more of the City Hall ''drunks" date
their trouble to visit to one of these estab-
lshments, where half pint Of fluid mad
ness can be obtained for the cost OF five cents
and delirium tremens for week can bt
secured for qualter of dollar. We say
to Chief Mcconnell that his own bitter per
sonal experience and suffering have laugh
him the danger Of entering single-handet
into the quarters of the Water Street ruff
ans Let him proceed at the proper time will
a force strong enough to oygrawe all resis
4 "A,
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as Straws show which way the wind
blows. The majority by which Martin Fan
rell rsbuked the pretensions of the Ford
Mcintyre combination to set mp dictator
ship in the Fourth Ward is hopeful indi-
cation that neither in the Seriffalty nor the
Water Department questions will the Sia-
mese twins have it all their own way.
ESs- An Ir sh Bird.-T Bob 0'Link.
gY-A Soldiers Sweetheart Kit
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3ral.t yolantariIy ensered the maddeninl

1Ahht fpiubhAAhJ ChpciSN hiiO hihbNStiA'S
whirlpool of political life; he laid aside his
claim upon the affections of the American
people as their military chieftain, and when
as President of the United States he fostered
every species of corruption which could be
devised by his prohigate associates; he for
feited the confidence and respect of all
Glasses without reference to party affilia-
tions. It is pertinent to inquire why Gen.
Grant has not been put on the stand and
under oath to tell what he knows about the
Grant Ward swindle. Ward has been
arrested and he has declared under oath
that Gen. Grant was intimately conversant
with the true inwardness of all of tho firms
operations. Nay more, it has come to the
surface, that not long prior to the breaking
of the Grant Ward bubble that Gen. Grant
specially invited to dinner a number of
prominent politicians and gentlemen of
wealth, and during the evening Mr.. Ward
also appeared upon the scene and was
apparently lion zed by Gen. Grant and by
Gen. Grant was conspicuously presented to
the distinguished gathering; so far so good,
but shortly after this MIR. Ward, visited
many of those gentlemen whom he had met
at Gen. Grants, aid Unveiled them into
the Grant-Ward tiasco This transaction
bears ON its face the evidence of conspiracy
on the part of Messrs. Grant and Ward to
'delude and entrap the unwary under the
guise of personal friendship.
Let the House of Representatives call Q
halt in the Grant pension business until the
whole matter is thoroughly Investigated
James D. Fisk of the late kite-aying firm o
Grant & Ward, has made some statements
which place General Grant in a worse lgh
than being simply the victim Of his ''wickec
partners" He says that Grant was takel
into the firm at his own request Grants
solicitations; that he saw they (Grant
WardJ were making money at rapid rat
and asked to be let in with 100000, an
become possessed Of one-seyenth interes
AS 20 the alleged government contracts
upon the faith OF which they We're enable
to raise so much money, Mr.. Fisk says thu
up to the day of the suspension of IL
Marine Bank he had not the remotest idt
they were not genuine. He based his fait
upon autograph letters from Gen. Gran
and he (Fish) holds now one letter writt'
entirely by Grant and another letter writt'
by Cashier Spencer and signed by Grant,
which letters Gen. Grant states 'that {
these transactions are all right and straigi
and that the profits are genuine" The
letters have been photographed and N
Fish claims that their publication wou
viudicate him but that he has been begg
not to publish them by all persons to wht
he has shown them, both Republicans a
Democrats He concludes his statement
follows: 81 placed great reliance on
statement of Gen. Grant, and those lett
of his to me threw Inc off my guard m
than anything else could have done.
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Delaware State Medical Society

UeIaWhre SIaUt NttIICdI SUCItNy'
The Ninety-flfth Annual Meeting of the
Delaware State Medical Society will be held
at Wilmington, Tuesday June 10th, 1884,
at the Lecture Room, Masonic Temple.
The Society will be called to order at 1s
O'Clock m. by the President DR.. R. W.
Haagadine. DIR. G. W. Marshall, the secre,
tary, has had the ordo of business printed
in a neat circular and forwarded to eacl
member of the Society copy of the same.
A very interesting meeting is anticipated
and full attendance may be expected,
The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-05-31
The CITY Election.

On next Saturday, June 7tL, between the
will be held for President of City Council,
for City Treasurer and for members of City
Council.
The following is list of candidates to be
voted for:-
President of City Council-Calvin B.
Rhoads, Democrat; Henry G. Conrad,
Republican.
City Treasurer-Alban X. Robinson, Dem
ocrat; Milton S. Shippers, Republican.
First ward-William G. Baugh, Demo
crat
Second-Tlomas B. Brison, Democrat;
Amos A. Eastburn, Republican.
Third-Merris Taylor, Democrat; Thomas
Johnson, Republican.
Fourth-Martin Farrell, Democrat.
Fifth-Col. Enoch Moore, Jr., Democrat;
f. b. F. Miller, Republican.
Sixth--George w. Bright, Democrat
Samuel H. Baynard, Republican.
Seventh-Thomas r. Latmer, Republican
Eighth-BennetI Hazlett, Democrat
Lewis I. Grubb, Republican.
Ninth-Edwn II. Barr, Democrat; DaviC
r. Smith, Republican.
Tenth--Dennis ]. Mention, Democrat.
Eleventh-Alfled S. Denuey, Democrat
Joshua Maris, Republican.
EY- Wonder how U. S. G. and the Marin
Bank directors will read the extract fror
'Yanity Fair" published in another col
umn Of this journal.
gB-We are indebted to Registrar Fraze
for copy of the report of the Board (
Health for 1884. 1t is all excellent tribut
to Mr.. Frazer's efficiency as public office
ES-It will interest the friends of the lat
y Alexander Hill to resurrect the ordinant
which declares that no train of cars sha
,s pass through this city, at a higher rate
a sp ed than six miles per hour.
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died in New York, on the 18th of january, |
| 1884. He was staying at the American
Hotel, and was attacked with ague and fever.
In attempting to dress himself when too
| weak to do SO, he swooned and fell, striking
the wash-water pitcher which cut cne of the
small arteries in the side of his face. He lost
SO much blood that he died in three days
afterwards He is buried in the Allegheny
Cemetery at PittsbuIg, beside his father and
mother, and not far from the spot where he
was born A plain tombstone marks his
grayc.-Mpsic in america. By DR.. H. r.
Ritter.
Madame Christine Nilsson states that her
present farewell tour is positively her last,
and hat she will shortly return to her native
land, Sweder, and retire into private life.
We have heard the same story ofevery great
singer since the days of Vestris and John
Braham, but they generally manage to lag
superliuous on the stage at last. 1t is the
public and not the vocalist that cries "Hold!
EnoughW
1t is a little noteworthy that there has not
, been single ballad, full of soul and mel
ody, produced within the last five years.
E Where are the dulcet strains of Claribel and
q Virginia Gabriel? We can think of dozen
4 ballads straight off which have no sort of
C parallelin the trash that is scribbled offnow-
# days, to say nothing of the beautiful themes
a of Henry Russell, George Lindey, and Vim
IL cent Wallace. But here are dozen ballads
! and airs we would like to see matched:-
Ruby" "Alice, where art thou?" ''rht
J. lost Chord" "Eily Mavourneen'' Sweet
i hearts;' 'sThe blue Alsatan Muuntains;'
| Good bye, Sweetheart, good bye;"" ""HappI
| be thy dreams;" "Neyermore;" THE Stir
rup-cup;' "The Vagabond."
Did any OF our masonic readers ever hea
the manly soul-stiring air "Tubal Cain
sung by full well cultivated BARTON
voice? Ifnnt they have missed a treat Tn
words speak for themselves
Old TuUal Cain man of might
= In the days when the world young
81 BY the steady glow of the furnace bright
- His brawny arms he swung t&c.)
ly It is tremendous task for the vocalis
as for baritone is the only voice that can d
nut it justice and it is D. E. F. high up and SUI
90 tanned for bars together, with plenty of rur
es- up and down, and lower G to break Il
wn heart Of the tenor who might be temple
act by the higher part of the score. We new,
os- heard ''Tubal Cain" properly sung but one
ay- and that was by man who could do justi
W. to the "Village Blacksmith"
or What q contrast between the mainline
be aud soulfulness of the music of the past, al
the sloppy-sentimental and religio-hystel
stuff that is palmed off ON the public now
the days at thirty cents copy or bound up
ub- books at dollar and a half. Can it be
he'd case of supply and demand? Is it possi
that Moody and Sankey's hymns are p
The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-05-31
GRANTS CROOKEDNESs.
James ID. Fish Makes Some ReyeIa-
tions Very Damaging to the
General.

IL the Democrats of the United States
Senate have not had their moral sensibilities
seriously blunted they must, at this time,
realize what an awkwR5d position they have
placed themselves in kytheir indecent haste
e'llow in the trail Of Gen. Logan in plac-
y. 8. Graoson the pension list. If Gen.
ant had retained his honored position at
the head of the Army grateful republic
would have signalized its appreciation Of
his efforts in terminating the Rebellion
BY placing him at the opportunc season on
the retired listat full pay, but wien Gen.
The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-05-31

An ordinary spy glass will now easily
show the crescentic figure of the planet as
exhibited in figure III. At the end of about
three weeks the planet will have drown too
near the Sun to be well seen, and tile cres-
cent will present the beautiful aspect shown
in figure ". If the position of the. planet
with respect to the sun be known, it is pos
sible to see it with thenaked eye in broad day
| light, and at night it casts sensible shadow.
! The present conditions are the most favor
able possible to be obtained, and will not be
repeated for eight years.
Stopped Short not to go again.
1t is reported as a suggestive fact that the
Grant ''Fund of Honor" of one dollar sub
scription, started in Ithaca has reached
three dollars and stopped short,
The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-05-31
Never Too Late to Mend.

If disappointed in the past by WALLPAPERS
that fade and Window Shades that bleach
do not despair but consult S. r. Ball and
Co., oil $40 Market street and report the
result. Messrs. Ball and Co. have never
failed to give satisfaction in their special
line, and their customers are numbered by
the hundred and the thousand.
t8- Teacher, instructing class of young
girls; 81 told you, young ladies, at the last
lesson, that mans brain is larger than
womau's. What would you deduce from
the fact, Miss Smith ?" Pupil: "That with
the brain, as with many other things, all
depends, hot upon the quantity, but the
quality"
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money for powdeling the footmen's heads;
or poor carpenter who has ruined himself
by fixing up ornaments and pavilions for
my lady's dejeuaer; or the poor devil Of a
tailor whom the steward patronizes, and
who has pledged all he is worth, and more,
to get the liyerirs ready, which my lord has
done him the honor to Disqualification the
great house tumbles down, these miserable
wretches fall under it unnoticed as they
say in the old legends, before man goes to
the devil himself, he sends plenty of othei
SC uls thither. (Thackeray. Vanity Fair.)
G8- Brothers-in-L Law.-Lawyers.
szy' The Mean Man.-0ne who is neither
short nor tall.
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DEAD ON THE RAILROAD.

Another Argument Against Grade
Crossings Written in Blood.
Ifthose members Of the City Council, who
The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-05-31
CRorC HETs ANDQUAyERs.

| The great-grandfather OF Foster Alexan-
der Foster the author of "0ld Dog Tray"
came to America from Londonderry, in North
Ireland, about the year 1895 The father of
our ballad composer was man of culture,
AMI wel-known for his generosity and hos
pitality. He performed with taste and feel
ing upon the violin, but never played much,
and then only for the amusement of his chill
dren. He built himself handsome residence
near Pittsburg, overlooking the Allegheny
River. 1t was here that Stephen Collins
Foster was born on July 4, 1926, while the
cannon at the arsenal were firing the salute
in honor of the tiftieth anniversary of the
Declaration of Independence. The mother
of Stephen c. Foster, Eliza Clayland Tom
linson, was brought up on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland, where her ancestors, the Clay
lands had lived since the first settlement Of
the State by the English. Mrs. Foster was
woman of superieF intellect and culture,
and endowed with a fine poetic fancy.
Stephen @. Foster entered in 1910 the Ath-
ens Academy in the northern part of Penn
syiyania; in IS41 he went to Jefferson Col
lege, near Pittsburg. But he never liked the
restraints of the school-room, and most of
his accomplishments he acquired himself,H II
was Il great student and taught himself
French and German, and was tolerably
good painter. He pored constantly over the
works of Mozart, Beethoven, and Weber. He
had from childhood been musician. and at
the age Of seven years lie learned, unaided,
to play upon the ilageulet, But it was at
Athens that his first musical composition
was perlormed-a waltz, which he arranged
for four flutes. In 1842 he composed his
first published song, ''Open Thy Lattice,
Love-" With the exception Of this song, he
nearly always wrote the words and music of
his ballads. In 1845 -46 he composed ''The
Louisiana Belle,'' "Old Uncle Ned, and so
Susannah," for his brother, and party of
young men who met twice week at his
fathers house, TO practice singing under his
instructions; and who had become tired of
the old ballads then in vogue. The next
pieces lie wrote were "My Old Kentucky
Home "old Dog Tray" "Massa's in the
Cold Ground, " "Gentle Annie" willie we
Have Missed You," 81 Would Not Die in
Springtime, Come Where My Love Lies
Dreaming, See Her Still in my Dreams" }"
''Old Black Joe," ELLEN Bayne" (from
which the air of ''John Browns Body" was
afterwards taken) Laura Lee," and about
150 others. Most of his ballads became
Immensely popular all over the country His
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endorse the suggestion that City Council
should authorise the extension ofthe Arnoux
Electric Light to all parts of the city.
The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-05-31
The New High School.

We are glad to see that DR.. Keablcs is
pushing the construction of the New High
School right along. Mr.. Kyne has got back
on the Board and will of course r,sume his
old policy of obstruction, but happily the
people of Wilmington are awakening o the
fact that in Educational facilities the State
of Delaware is a very long way behind the
owes 1t to the rising generation to place it on
the same footing as the most intelligent sec
tion in the most progressive States, instead
of sinking the question in the old alpthaetic
exclamation. "What was good enough fol-
me, is good enough for my boys and girls.
-+s.--
Us The letter forward ID to officer Andrew
Moore by Philadelphia lady whose lfe he
saved at the notorious Fourth and Church
railroad crossing is another indictment
against the Pennsylvania Railroad for their
disregard of the interests of the public sa ETY.
at this point. Remonstance will be vain till
Coroner Smith, backed by an independent
jury, can say on behalf OF the State ''1his
negligence is criminal''
The Little Victims of Big Failures.
wonder how many families are driven to
roguery and to ruin by great practitioners
in Crawley's ways-how many great nobl.-
men rob their petty tradesmen, condescend
to swindle their poor retainers out of wretch
ed little sums, aud cheat for a few shillingsf
| When we read that a noble nobleman has
left for the Continent, or that another noble
man has an execution in his house-and that
Oh or other owes six or seven millions, the
defeat seems glorious even, and we respect
| the victim in the vastness of his ruin. But
.l,.s a ,,of,r harha, ..,i,, o,,,Jt a4 lis
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By Joseph Osborne of Admiral s. f. DUPONT Post,
No. 2, Department of Delaware, g. A. n,
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San Francisco, August 22-Mrs. Alice NJ Stern
(nce Alice Z. White, eldest daughter of Mr.. and
Ms. d. c. White, of this city, Is years
months and day.
Funeral will take place from residence of
parents. No 912 Fourteenth street, tomorrow
Sunday afternoon at $50 elockl
Sacramento August 22-Samuel b. Harris,
native of New York. 80 years New York
papers please copyD Funeral notice here
after.
Sacramento. August 22-Mary j., daughter of
Manuel and Mary Silva, native OF Glarks-
burg, Yolo county, 10 months and 20 days.
Friends and acquaintance are respectfully in
vited TO attend the funeral, which will
take place from residence of parents, Fifth
and o streets, tomorrow Sunday afternoon
at O'Clock; thence to St. Rose Church, where
funeral services will be held
Sacramento. August 22-Dean c., only son of
George and Carry Brownson, native of Cali
fornia, year. 4months and 10 days, Funeral
IOtice hereafter
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CHANGED EVERY DAY FOR THE MECHANICS, STORE.
APPEALS DIRECTLY.

OF READY-MADE CLOTHING in Sacramento.
we can speak in highly agreeable manner No city
now has better
As long ago the started we
bethought ourselves to have stock in all departments
that should be worthy of the surroundings magn
tude and freshness. In CLOTHING that aim has
become fact.
And in this wise:
We virtually gave blanche orders to several
manufacturers for the finest things in low medium and
costly Clothing. They all men who supply the best
New York retail trademen who always do careful work
But when thus pitted against each other and aware
OF the rigid comparison the goods of each would be sub
ject to- it other than natural that unusually
good work should have been done Better work. in
fact than Sacramento has probably before had the
privilege OF selling
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SEAT OF HAPrINEss.-The center of hui
man happiness, says DR.. Ward Richard
son, is not in the brain but in the vital
nervous system i'll the great ganglia of the
sympathetic, lying not in the cercbro-spinal
cavities, but in the cavities of the body it
self, near the stomach and in the heart.
The man who is miserable is hypochon-
driac; his affection is seated under the
lower ribs. No man ever felt miserable in
his head. Every man who has felt misery
knows that it springs from the body. and
speaks of il as an exhaustion, a sinking
there; he is bent down because of the cen
trail failure, and his own shoulders, too
heavy to be borne, feel as if oppressed with
an added weight or burden. under which he
bends as though all the cares of the world
were upon him 10 bear him down
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A MODEL HCNGARIAN Gypsy. Johai
tells story OF a cipsy which illustrates the
happy freedom from all the ordinary re-
straints Of civilization which characterizes
the race. This gypsy was the happy father
of furnishing progeny of twelve chill
dren, one of whom hunter happened to
shoot one day, installing it for his more
lawful prey. 70 satisfy the unhappy
father, the repentant hunter gave him Il
compensation in money, which he consid-
cred approaching adequacy from his own
point of view, but which seemed so mag
nificent to the gypsy father that he venturcd
10 suggest that if his bencfactor should
thinI, OF hunting again he still had eleven
children who might be turned to account
by similar advantageous mistake-[Man-
haitian.
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RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

Westminster Presbyterian Church, Sixth
street, corner of l. Rev. II. II. Rice. pastor
will preach on Sabbath at 1n:4j i 81. and II,
p. ". Evening subject. The Book of Psalms.
Strangers cordially invited.
United Brethren in Christ-Corner Four
tenth and streets, Rev. II. J. Becker. pastor.
President Mobly, of San Joaquin Valley College,
viii preach morning and evening at the usual
hours. Sunday-schOOl at 9:i5 A. Y. Prayer
meeting Thursday evening All are welcome.
Sixill-strcet VI. F.. Church, between X
and Key. T. s. Dunn. pastor. Rev. Esiras
smith Will preach at 1915 \. NJ and 80 r. II.
Sunday-school at 12:l5 ?. ". The pastor viii
return and preach next sunday morning and
evening.
Preaching at First Baptist Church by
the pastor, 4. }. Frost. Morning subject. Look
ing Unto Jesus Evening subject, " Heaven"
Public cordially invited.
II. T.. Church South, Seventh street, be-
tween J and K-Thc pastor Rev II. c. Christian.
will preach ut II \. NJ. and 10 T. NJ Morning
subject, The Old and New Life: :" evening.
'lniquty Brings Ruin Everybody welcome.
especially unconverted people. Sabbath school
at 1915 P. NJ.
Kingsley VI. T.. Church. Eleventh street,
between II and |. Rev C.. Mckclvey, pastor.
Services will be conducted by the General Sec
rotary of the Young Mems Christian Association
at ll:l5 \. NJ Sundayschool at 12:l5 T. NJ. No
evening service.
Y. VI. {. 4. Rooms, 1909 Fourth street.
Reading-room open daily. Rev T. Smith, of
FlOrin. will address young men in the rooms
Sunday 7. ". at 1 O'Clock. Young men and
strangers come and hear.