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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-06
Moltkes S Daily Life.

In Miss Helen Zimmern's account Of
Count Won Moltke's life, published in
the Century, the daily routine of the Ger
man military leader is described as fol-
lows: Winter and summer, Moltke
enters his study at the stroke of A. NJ.
Here he drinks his morning coffee,
smokes a cigar. and writes until the
stroke of 9, when his business letters are
brought to him, which he reads and dis
patches. He then exchanges his dress
ing gown for his uniform, and is ready
at IL to receive his adjutants, to hear
their reports, and issue his orders.
While at work he partakes of simple
lunch, and when his adjutants are gone
resumes his writing until the stroke Of
., when the work is pushed aside. He
then receives the higher officers of the
staff and listens to their reports. This
ended, which may be longer or shorter
according to circumstances. Moltke goes
for walk. 1t is no infrequent thing to
encounter him in the busy streets of Ber-
lin, peeping into the shop windows.
which appear to have an attraction for
him. At he takes a frugal dinner
in company with his family, and the
hour of dinner is for them the happiest
of the day. Then the taciturn man be-
comes loquacious, and delights his hear
ers with his charming, cheerful talk.
From 5 to Z ne again devotes him
self to writing; from to 8 the
newspapers are perused. At 8 he
once more rejoins his family at the tea
table, after which follows game of
whist, in which the great strategist Is
naturally a proficient. The game over:
the evening is generally ended with
music, to which Moltlxe is devoted. At
eleven be retires to rest.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-06
FUN.


Don't allow your wife to visit much in
Patagonia. Postage there is twenty
seven cents half ounce philadelphia
Call.
Pop corn parties are now becoming
popular. They are intended to give the
girls a chance to pop the question.
Hoosier.
White elephants have dropped in price
from 5000, 900 to $175, 900. Now is the
time to lay in your summer supply.-Mer-
chant Traueler.
Knives are said to have been invented
in 1413, but it is not definitely known
how the average man ate pie before that
time.-statesman
A scientist asserts that bee can only
sting once in two minutes. We woul
respectfully add that's all it generally
needs to-BOston Post.
There is girl in Chicago who has ten
fingers on each hand. She ought to ad-
vertise herself as a remedy for superfuous
hair. Burlington Free Press.
A South End man did over $50 worth
of damage to the furniture yesterday
morning in looking for his collar-button.
And he wasn't in much of a hurry either.
Boston Post.
Encouraging: Arthur Dovely (present-
ing his girl plate and fifty cards on her
birthday)-tAfter you have used the
cards you can have some more struck off.
The plate ought to last you all your ifer'
Life.
A thirteen-year-old girl OF Amherst,
Wis, has only blue spots on her face
where her eyes should be. We have
seen such phenomena before, particularly
after Fourth Of July, Christmas and
elections.-TerGs s5iftings.
A fraud of the worst kind: In Dakota
John, have you been looking at the
thermometer latelyg" 'rYes, only half
an hour ago." What was itg' aTwenty-
three degrees below zero 1What a
fraud that weather bureau is. Old Prob.
said it would be cold today
A physician says that great deal Of
harm is constantly done to the health Of
communities from excessive use of sweets,
which produces too much fat for the
health, and is great source Of boils and
pimples. The impecunious young man,
who invests half his salary in caramels
and other sweets in order to boom his
courtship, should cut this out and show
it to his nirl = Norzisto1cn Herald
'Ts your sister IN, johnny "one Is.
She's in the parlor waitin' for you. Say,
what'n yer give me if I tell you what she
said last night when yon went awaya"
"In give you ten cents GAN right.
Thank yer Well, 1 guess she's a-goin'
to be awful kind to you, and feed you
well when you git married, cause she
said you had mighty high notions about
yourself and your folks, but she would
make you eat humble pie for it when
she's your wife. - ,SonaerriHe Journal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-06
The War on Goldfish.

A Hartford Conn., doctor, whose
name is HUM, announces that he has
found in Goldfish steak white worm an
inch and half long, with gimlet head,
and he decares that to the best of his
knowledge and belief it is retractile.'
With worms in our pork, worms in cod
fish, and the well authenticated &c worms
in the still,n it looks as if not only the
American products for export but those
for home consumption were becoming
very limited. The old reliable Goldfish
has been suspected Of many things.
Dragged across the country in bundles
with no other covering but piece OF
string, piled up at store doors in all sorts
of weather, it has still retained warm
place in the hearts OF, more properly
speaking, the stomachs of the American
people Ia people who are ever ready to
stand up in behalf of the ill-treated and
down-trodden), and to-day Goldfish ranks
as the chief aristocraey of this democratic
country. But it is doubtful if the cod
fish can Withstand a well-authenticated
charge of worms. The statement is made
on medical authority, to be sure, but
there is nothing on record to show that
DR.. HUM has the necessary diplomas to
fit hlm for discovering worms in cod
fish, and he may be quite at sea in this
matter. 1t may be only cod. At all
events the people will continue to take
any Goldfish story with good deal Of
salt.--Detyoit Free Press.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-06
Chatter Of the cherubs.

Mile. Andree is three years old; she is
playing with her doll, and in her talk
with it she calls herself lady.
seYou lady2" says one Of the friends
present, purposely to bother her.
Certainly, 1 am lady. I already
thrash my little one. "-French Fun.
Etheps mother was telling her about
the angels and heaven.
"And when we get to heaven will we
have wings like the angels2" asked Ethel,
eagerly.
II suppose SO, replied her mother.
"Whatl and eat worms like the birds9"
inquired Ethel, in tone of great dis
gust Youths Companion.
Little Nell -'fWhat church were you
married in, grandma3'
Grandma-'T was not married in a
church, dear"
Little Nell-'rWas you married at
home2"
-'sNo, dear, was a very
naughty girl and ran away with your
grandpa"
Little Nell-'Mercy me! I'd never
run away with such fussy old gentle
man as grandpa. Philadelphia Call
A little girl who slept near her mothers
bedside was taught not to wake her in
the morning. One morning after her
mother awoke she said:
you've had nice nap, mamma, and
didn't I keep still?"
"How did you know I was asleep,
my child9n
"'Cause you breathed a loud noise,
mamma"
"Why, Bessie, what do you meanan
"Well, then, you purred, mamma. y"
Youths Companion.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-06
Society in WashInaion.

Leaving dS1ue tDe question ol pOuGICdl
morality, few people who have passed
winter in Washington will deny the
charm of its society, Acknowledging
all its faults, its crudeness-narrownes
perhaps-and its lack of form, it must
yet be acknowledged that it differs from
all other American society in the fact
that it is not founded on wealth. 1t is
the only society which is really republi-
can. though it has little resemblance to
the republican court" of the first ad-
ministration-the only one in America
which has a well defined basis. And
that basis is public station, temporarily
conferred, whether directly or indirectly,
by the expressed wishes of fellow-men.
The holding of such public station nee
essarily implies intelligence, and such it
is intelligence, as distinguished from
lineage or wealth, which is the funda-
mental basis in Washington society.
Such society does not feel obliged to
adopt certain cuTtoms spse it is re-
ported at secol. ....Au they are good
form in London. Its opinions are ro-
bustly independent, its information is
extensive, and its subjects of conversa-
ton are many and varied.
1t is not to be imagined that such a
society is well defined, or that its rules
are clearly established-though it is true
that the etiquette of Social Life in
Washington" has been most elaborately
formulated in little pamphlet, of which
fresh edition is perennially produced,
and which is said to sell in great mum
bers. 1t is, undoubtedly, open to the
criticism of being raw, to the same ex-
tent-but no more-that society in Lon
don is subservient and snobbish, and in
New York illiterate and commercial
Nothing can be more ridiculous than the
public levees of the President, where the
doors are thrown open that every person
in the street may enter them in crush,
and stand in slowly moving procession
for two hours, in order that during half
minute of that time the President may
be seen and his arm may be wrenched.
But this is not peculiar to Wash
ington alone. Such s'public re-
ceptions" are inflicted upon Presi-
dents in all cities which they visit.
Hardly less incongruous are the Wednes-
day afternoon receptions of the wives of
cabinet officers, when their doors are
also thrown open and hundreds of stran-
gers tramp through their parlors Ito pay
their respects" " The wives of judges and
Senators and Representatives have . en-
dure the same thing on other afternoons
of the week. 1t has come to be con-
sidered as part of the price of public
station. But, no matter what Office a
man may hold, no one may come to his
dinner table without an invitation. And
it is in dinners that Washington society
excels. Diplomats and travellers from
every part of the world; men dis
tinguished in political life, on the bench
and in war; men of science and men of
letters; women of intelligence and cul-
ture, with the native grace and beauty
for which American women are justly
celebrated-there is no such wealth of
choice in any other American city, and
there are no other dinner-p parties SO en-
tertaining as those of Washington
Century.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-06
Running the Gauntlet.
AN ADVENTURE IN SOUTH AFRICA.

AN ADVENTURE IN SOUTH AFRICA,
We were merry party, one bright
morning in December (which is the
height of summer in South Africa, at
the little railway station of Hottentot
Camp, upon one of the half-finished- rail-
roads of Cape Colony. A branch line to
the Dutch market-town of Zwartberg
BLACK MountaiD had just been com
pleted, and the first train was to be run
over it that morning.
In Africa, where the making of rail-
ways advances as slowly as everything
else, the opening of new line is great
event, and must be celebrated according
ly. The excursion party which was to
make the trial trip included almost
every English settler within several
miles of the spot
The locomotive looked as gay as cir
Gus, with the bright-colored Dutch and
English flags that futtered over it. The
SA--1NASH7 N1OcC 1Outu. IudQg 4dCtb
peeped from every window Of the cars,
made the air ring with their shouts and
laughter. Ten Or twelve Caffre servants,
whose black faces were lighted up with
continual grin, were bustling about
with sun-shades and lunch baskets. while
crowd of gaunt, half-clad natives clus-
tered in the background, watching the
show, and chattering among themselves
like so many monkeys.
Beside the passengers in the cars,
there were five men on the tender-the
engine driver, his two mates, myself and
the engineer who had built the line, and
was now going to see how it worked.
The merry party in the cars were well
employed with the contents of their
lnnch baskets. The cool lemonade was
treat, plentifulIy peppered though ii
was with hot African dust; and the fruit
and sweet biscuits were thoroughly en-
joyed, IN spite Of the suarms Of black
6ies that settled upon them.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-06
A SERIES OF FATALITIES
Five Members of a Family Die, FouK
From Fire. Inn Two Months.

In the absence of Milton Highland, Of Ne
chanicsburg, Ind, two months ago, MS
house was destroyed by fire, and his httle
girls, seven and four years old. persisted In
the flames. A month after this his brothers
wife and child were burned to death
with four others, in the Orr building a.
Alliance Highland, almost crazad by these
calamIties, dec .ded tI move to Inliana, for
which Place he started few days ago with
his vile and a surviving daughter. When al
most within sight of his new home he wa
taken SICK and died within few hours. The
heart-broken mother, with her lit g girl the
only remaining member Of what was tvT
months ago happy family. has returned to
the vicinity of her former home almost Graz
thr1ngh grief
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-06
NUMBER %.

Arabs lost /, 100 men dead on the field at Teb,
beside guns and other munitions. Their whole
camp including 375 tents and many camels.
was also taken. The condition at the camp
showed that the Arabs had relied upon being
victorious
Queen Victoria sent a telegram congratu-
lating the troops on their victory.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-06

Forty cents week is all that it costs
John W. Nissley, Of Mount Carmel, Penn,
who is sixty-five years old, and weighs 175
pounds, to live His diet is dry bread
and hot water, and has bees 50 for the
last seven years.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-06

The United States takes the second
place among the copper-producing coun-
tries of the world Chill leads with Az
900 tons.for 1882 and the United States
follows with 80, 300 tons for the same
period.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-06

The ink product consumed in the
United States Is worth sis.6o9. 41a---aIl
but 81 5e7 made here.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-03-06

TIE brew Of malt liquors in this cQailtrt
last ye7r amounted TO III ,851 900 barrels. rAH
quiring about ens 0oQA A00p pcnnds of hpps
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-09-22

In one pound Packages. Nelth-
or Ground, Colored or 9th
wise Adultarated.
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FOREIGN NEWS.
Riotous Peasants Invade u Province
and Seize the Crops.
THE GERMAN COLONIAL uNlor
Minor seige Proclaimed Election Riots
Psper suppressed--Rditor Arrested
Mayor of Agram Sus-
pendetl-6en. Gordon.
The Movement ON Khar,oum.

CAIRO Sept. 2i.-The Mudir of Don
COLA telegraphs the authorities here thnt
messengers from General Gordon
brought eighteen dispatches. Two of
them were Tor the Sheixh OF the Kab-
habish tribe, which were delivered.
Two others were directed to she son-in-
law of the Sheikh, who had been pre-
viously publicly executed by order OF
the Mahdi, in order To overawe the peo-
pie aud compel them to join the Mahdi
The Ameer, with many of the chiefs
was afterwards killed in battle.
y Tho messenger who brought the dis
patches reports that on the 9th of JULY
| Gen. Gordun's troops slaughtered the
rebel army,which had been sent against
! him. Another hattie WAS fought th,
30th Of August, which resulted in Gen
Gordon forcing the rebels 10 raise The
siege of khartOum, and during which
| Sheikh Sidi. his son and their followers
were killed.
The above reports are confirmed by
Kharm Elmos, who IL holding Halfyicl
with Egyptian soldiers.
The Shaggieh and tribes have come II
and rendered their submission, Sen
mar Is now in perfect security. Tht
population of Berher has recovered iron
its fright over the anticipated descen
by GEN. Gordon, The whole Shaggiel
country IL now tranquil, the chiefs i'm
plorlng for mercy and have made
compact upon the Koran to abandon
Mahdi, and the compact has thus fa
been observed.
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
An Old Citizen Of Longview Cut to
Pieces by . Wild Train.
GRANDSON OF HENRY CLAY SHOT
A Mute Tale OF Crime--A Bar-kceper
Shoots a Negro at Cleburne-Nar-
row Escape From Inciaer-
alton Neurological.


ELMO, Sept. 2l- Special, Last night
about o'clock Mrs. +. \. Bennett met
with quite sad accident. While lighting
"a kerosene oil lamp to uso on her supper
table, the lamp exploding, spreading the
burning oil over her entire body. Mr.F.A.
Bennett, her husband, ,and our Mr., Scott,
travelling man for Blankenship n Blake,
of Dallas, We're sitting IN the front porch.
Mrs. Bennett started Tor the front door,
enwraped in flames. Mr., Bennett and
Mr.. Scott met her in the. front room
and extinguished tho flames. Mrs.
Bennett Is very badly burned
about the shoulders and head; also her
arms and hands are very badly burned,
Had ii not been for the presence of mind
of Mr.. Scott in reaching for the bucket
of water as he ran to the assistance OF
MIR. Il nnett and throwing its contents
over her, and then running to the bed
and vrrpm .hc lady igehod clothing
| there is no doubt she would have been
| burned IL death. Too much praise can
not ho given Mr.. Scott, iuld the entire
! family will never forget him. The lady
! though badly burned, Is easy this morn
ing, and will, we hope, soon recover.
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POLITICAL.
The subdu.d Nominee.


NEW YORK, Sept. 2l.-Blaine attended
divine services at the Brick Presbyte-
rian Church, and afterward, accompa-
MED by John A. Stewart, William
Walter Phelps and Walker Blaine,
walked up Fifth avenue ~ far as Forty
seventh street, where they met Stew
arts carriage and were driven TO lIar-
lem. The party returned to tho hotel by
the Sixth avenue elevated road.
Blaine ordered that no cards bo sent
to him to-day. He took Z
drive through Central Park, and on his
return he dined in the public dining.
room for the first time. As he entered
the hall he received round OF applause
Tomorrow Blaine win receive dele
CATION of the Union League club, and a
q p. IN, will start for Philadelphia, stop
ping for short time at Newark
and will return To New York Tuesday
night.
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Nnniinls-Cnnnlx-nIlnn.

KossE, sept. 2l.-.Spccial. The so
cial ovont Of tho season occurred al
the Methodist church tonight at s:lb
o'clock, In the marriage of MI. John T..
Conoly and Miss Ida Dillon by the Rev.
MIR. Ward, of this place. The attend
ants were Mr.. George Conoly aud Miss
Patlle Fanchcr, Mr.. VIII Dabbs and
Miss Minnie Baker, Mr.. Richard
Scruggs and Miss julia Frls-
bic, MIR. Wallace Stephens and
Miss Ernie Woods. After the cere-
mony was performed and tho usual rou-
tine of congratulations gone through
with, the bridal party and n few invited
guests repaired To tho residence of Capt.
j. w. Dillon, where splendid variety
of refreshments were served by that es-
timable aud accomplished lady, Mrs.
Dillon, Every one present seemed IA
enjoy the occasion hugely. especially
the yonng couple, who looked as " they
knew that both had found treasure
We wish them long life oil usefulness
and happiness.
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BosroN, MASS, Sept. 2l-A cable mes
sage at Harvard College observatory,
from tho European Association of AS
tronomy, announces discovery of q
bright comet by DR.. Wolf, OF
Zurich, on the nth instant. The comet
was observed ut Strasburg Saturday
evening. The Strashurg position Sop
tomber ~, is ii67, Greenwich mean
timc,right ascension,2l hours, 70 minutes,
2l;3 seconds; declination, degrees, -
minutes, ~ seconds; its daily motion in
right ascension, plus ~ seconds, aud in
declination north, ~ minutes.
$50 TON, Sept. 2l.-Au observation at
Harvard Observatory shows that the
comet discovered by DR.. Wolf IL
circular, two minutes In diameter and
well-deiined with nucleus OF the
ninth magnitude. Its position Is
as follows: September 2lst, II
hours, 30 minutes, 30 seconds
Greenwich time; right ascension, 81
hours, 10 minutes, 53 seconds; docli.
nation, q degrees, 81 minutes, Al sec
! OuuS,
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Hsayy pnmnrcs sned For

WAsuINaToN, Sept. 2i.-Suits have
been entered in the United States Su-
preme Court of Claims against the
United States by tho Chesapeake n
Ohio Canal company and
Great Falls Manufacturing company
for damages aggregating In two cases
nearly $l,MO,000. The actions were
brought by both companies on account OF
prospective damages to be caused by
the proposed extension of Washington
aqueduct provided by act OF Congress OF
July 10, 1882, work upon which has
already been begun. In the case
of the canal company $6OO,OO0 are
claimed for damages for appropriation
by the government oil certain
lands belonging to the COM
pany, and for damages 10 ia,
right In the waters of the Poto-
mac river; While In that Of the
Great Falls Manufacturing Company,
although no sum IL mentioned,
as damages, an offer IL made TO COM
promise for $2O,00O. This latter suit Is
TO be brought by Bonjamin II. Butler on
behalf of the stockholders.
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Iittle Loss Than a Rint.

CHICAGO, Sept. 2l.-This afternoon
thirteen reughs from the northern sub
urbs OF tho city, visited tho outlying
town Of Niles whore certain members
of tho party had been worsted In a
drunken fight last Sunday. The at
tempt 10 wroak vengeance on indi-
viduals who had incurred their
enmity led TO disturbance bor-
doring on the proportions OF
riot. Stones, clubs, and pistols were
used with serious results by
u number OF the combatants; 80
far as reported, however, the
only man seriously injured was
Joe Chissel, Niles gardner,
who received n bullet wound, producing
instant death. The invaders es-
capped from Niles In wagon
and were pursued long distance
by q crowd of iniuriated citizens, headed
by tho local constabulary, and were fin
ally captured by the Lakeview police
and lodged in the village Jail, where II il
feared a violent revenge will be at
| tempted.
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Manufacturer ~ the Bcst and Elghtebt FOt D.
POINT BARuED WIRE, made on our pstout ma
chimes owned exclusively by ns which do not siran
rRcture Ia, wire durne the prOcesS Of manufacture
consequently breakagcs Occur ID putting up teu,t'
no ,oues of badly shaped butus, az y Tho cbs s VII
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A Grandson of Henry CLAY shot.

LOUISVILLE, sept. 2l.-Harro Clay, a
well known lawyer and politician, was
shot, perhaps fatally wounded, this
morning, by Andy Wepler, councilman
from tho Eleventh ward, Clay was
drinking and wanted to borrow money
for friend FROM Wopler, who would
not let him have as much ~ he wanted,
and Clay abused him, and went out and
got pistol to shoot. On returning, the
two, each armed with pistols, said:
Ready, fight 1t out. They took stands
and Wepler fired, the ball striking Clay
in the groin, ranging downward in
the thigh. Clay is n grandson of the
great Henry Clay. lie made voyage
TO the Arctic regions in the Inflated
Proteus. lie is prominently mentioned
ior Congress from this district, Ciay's
wound is very dangerous, Though h'
may recover. Wepler gave, HIM elf up
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Font WORTH, Sept. 2l.-lSpecial, J.
Manuel Canapo is an italian who runs
an ice cream wagon, and to-day went
with the crowd to the Base Ball park to
sell his cream. A number Of boys fifteen
or twenty, bothered him very much and
naly stoned his wagon and horse. The
wild Italian, in order to rid himself of
their persecution, took pistol from the
wagon and fired 1t In the air, which
scattered the crowd of boys in short
order. Deputy Sheriff Tucker arrested
Canape and placed bond at $500, which
he promptly gave, with Capera Bros. az
bondsmen. There can ba no two ways
about the matter; q gang OF hoodlums
| of tho worst class, who have torn away
| from all paternal control, and who are
touched with delicate hands by our au-
thorities, run riot in this city. They are
fast becoming desperadoes, thugs and
thieves, and only year or two will
elapse until they develop into hardened
criminals, and desperate ones. II other
cities have tho same class of boys q
state reformatory is absolutely neces.
sary Tho matter Is becoming dosper.
ate in this city.