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Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
sbocked by a shameful Son.

MONTREAL, Feb. % "A movement is on
foot in the ST. James, an aristocratic club
here, to strike from its list of members
the name of Walter Wilson, who basely
deserted his intended bride on the day
appointed for their marriage. letter
has been received from Glasgow stating
that Wilson's father, who is wealthy
contractor there, was so shocked on hear
ing of his sons conduct that he had q
stroke Of paralysis.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
Engineers Not Dissatisiied.

The p, W. & b. engineers and rail
road authorities in this city deny that
the engineers are dissatisfied with the
wages which they now receive. An engi-
neer informed representative of the
GAZETTE Thursday that the manner OF
pay ing engineers has not been changed.
Several Philadelphia papers stated
that "the engineers are very much
dissatisfied with the system adopted Of
paying them by the trip, which is, they
say, equal to reduction of 10 per cent.
| in their wages"
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
Three sailors, Horrible Experience.

LONDON, Feb. % The three survivors
Of the barque Ada Barton, from St. John,
N. B for Glasgow, who were landed at
Queenstown yesterday by the steamer
Parklsnds, state they olung to the masts
five days and nights without food. On
the third day the dog tried to devour one
OF them. When they were rescued they
were casting lots to decide which Of the
three should furnish food for the other
two,
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
Lawyers faxes.

Special Correspondence OF g ze.te and journal.
DOVER, Feb. 2l.-All of the lawyers Of
this town went before the levy court yes
terdsy and asked Tor diminution Of
their taxes. Edward Ridgely and George
V. Massey, Esqs., wers the spokesmeu.
The court listened to them very at
tentively, but gave them no encourage
ment.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
Delaware Patents.

The following patents were granted to
citizens of Delaware, bsaring date Feb
rusry 10Th, 1884. Reported expressly
for this paper by Louis Bsgger & Co.,
mechanical experts and solicitors Of
patents, Washington: II. D. Cobb, Will
mington, machine for laying electric con.
ducting wires; John J. Harris, Whining
ton, paper making machine; G. W. and
s. Taylor, Smyrna, cultivstor.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
rhs Crand Indua Of Kniphts Of Pxthiaa

IHb UTHHu LUuBt UI NHIHHlb UI EuIHs
of Virginia, in session at Petersburg, last
week, elected the following officers
Grand Chancellor, d. C. Richardson of
Richmond; Vice Grand Chancellor, Z. H.
Parry OF Charlottesville; Grand Prelste,
W. t. Lithgow Of Manchester: Grand
Master OF Exohequer, L. T. Courtney Of
Richmond; Grand Keeper OF Records and
Seals, Leroy s. Edwards Of Richmond;
Grand Master Of Arms, George NJ. Reohter
Of Hampton; Grand Inner Guard, W. s.
Oliver OF Staunton; Grand Outer Guard,
J. A. Casby OF Richmond. .. ..
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
A Criminal OF over Three Score

BALTIMORE, Feb. 23.-Mrs. Mary l.
Hundertmark, who was convicted in
Baltimore county on the 9th inst, of man
slaughter in killing Charles A, Ensor by
shooting on the 18th Of October last, was
to-day sentenced by Judge Yellott to the
penitentiary for five years and three
months. She is now 81 years old.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
Child Badly Burned.

A child 2 years old, whose parents live
at DAVIS Cross Roads near Pocomoke City,
was horribly burned Friday. Its
mother had gone to one OF the neighbor's,
leaving the child near the fireplace on a
quilt, which by some means caught FIRE,
burning the child nearly to a crisp.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
RabttI Dog Shot.

DR.. J. +, Fiantz shot large black mad
dog on Market street near Ninth about
1918 Sunday morning. The animal
was running up Market street, trothipg
at the mouth and swapping at anybody
it saw, when DR.. Frsntz procured re-
volver from Col. William A. LsMotte and
emptied several chambers into the brute.
No one WAS bitten,
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
Railroad contract Rcscinded.

An Eibtou letter TO the Baltimore Sun,
da'sd yesterday week, says 1t is stated
that Burns & Noskes, contractors with the
Baltimore & 0hiO railroad for sections II
TO 20, which extend from a point two
miles northwest of Elkton to Newark,
D4l., have rsFcinded their contract, which
amounted to half a million dollars OF
work, 1t is understood they refused to
pay the debts Of Trcxal & Combs, their
sub contractors, who bavs uspended.
MIR Nnakes met Ch'et Ergineer
u.uRlssa iu Baltimore yesterday week,
and lad with him all the books
and papsr5 p-rtsiuiug TO the work,
and he says Mr Douglass expressed
himself satisfied that the firm lad paid
all their Indebtedness hut the difficulty
seemed to lie ia the tact that the company
hold Burns & N0skes for the payment OF
men employed by the sub contractors,
shorid tney fail 10 psy, recognizing none
but Bnyns & NoabAs IN the matter. There
ia also a controversy, it is stated. ss to
he suiieiepcy OF tue estimates, which has
existed for severel mouths. Burma &
Noskes having abandoned, will pay mp
all the iude bteduess, and have Thursday
instructed their COUNCIL, MIR. Constable,
TO bring suit at once against the compapy
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
Destroying a Celebratcd Rock.

lad,Gn rock, the monuweu; in legend
ary history 10 the place where th- last
Indian steod looking down on the
Brsudywine and the Delaware in the
distance, his home and his fishing
grounds, wildly lamenting his destiny, is
heiug demolished by Andrews &
Locke, eud the stone taken there.
from will be used in the
construction OF the b & P. railroad
bridge across the Brandywine creek.
This rock IA also iha plaoe where the
grandfather of Isaac s. Elliott, the late
owner, hid his team, which was in the
service u General Washington, to keep it
from falling into the hands of the British
army before and after the battle Of Bran
iywine.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28

A fire in Goodwater, Alabama, on
Tuesday week, desIoye ed "a buildings
including stores, dwellings, hotels, and
the depot and telegraph office. The loss
Ia estimated At &l00, 900.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
Five Murderer, 10 be uapved.

TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA, Feb. 2l.-The five
Bisbee murderers have been sentenced to
be hanged on March 2Sth.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28

Two men were drowned Friday near
Lynohburg, Va, by the upsetting of a
soow In the James river.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28

A Spanish Professor Found Dead.
ANNAPOLIS, ND, Feb. % Pedro Mon
tsldo, professor Of Spanish at the Naval
Academy, was found dead hore this morn
ing in the grounds o. the academy.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-19
How to Observe Wild Animals.

Whenever | have seen a mink in my
meadow rambles, says DIR. C. C. Abbott in
August Popular Science Monthly have
been impressed with the fact that all ami
mails that fear man are as much on the
lookout for him, and try as sedulously to
avoid him as they do any of their natural
enemies. If they do so, is it al all strange
that we so seldom see them when we go
bungling about their haunts? We proba-
bly, never take walk in the woods that we
are not watched by many creatures which
we do not see; and many a squeak or
whistle which, if heard at all, is attributed
to some bird, is signal cry OF danger made
by some one animal which, having seen us,
takes this method of warning its fellows |
have more than once tested this in the case
of the mink. Mooring my boat near where
! had reason TO believe these animals had
their nests, and remaining perfectly quiet
and in hiding, have usually been reward
ed by seeing the minks moving about as
soon as their confidence was restored by
the absence of all signs of life in or about
the boat They would come out of their
burrows, or from under large roots, and
dive into the water, or it might be that they
carried mussel from the shore to their re-
treat. ANY act Of this kind, free from the
restraint of fear, is in the case of all ami
mails the most interesting and instructive,
and, were our opportunities of this kind
more frequent, our knowledge of animal
life would soon be largely increased.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-19
The MILITARY in Germanv.

Germany has gone to extraordinary OK
pense since 1871 in order to consolidate her
military supremacy. In Alsace Lorraine
alone they have expended S32,000O00 to
make their possession unassailable The
fortified camp of Strasberg- Kehl is simply
imprcgnable 1t contains immense stores
of provisions of every kind: others are
packed in trains waiting, as it were, under
steam, and require but telegraphic order
to be dispatched in any direction. Anxious
to strengthen their position on the sea they
have spent S95000,000 to defend their long
coast line As regards inland places they
have swalled $4,000 O00 Metz, Thionville
and Saarlouis form together the so-calied
Lorraine triangle, toward which all the
forces can be directed in an incredibly
short space of time. Ten lines of railway
end at the Rhine; eight lines connect the
Rhine with the fortified parts of Lorraine,
and seven lines reach the Russian frontier.
Thus, to east or west, Germany is able to
mass at a moment notice enor1nou bodies
of men at any given point, and with equally
enormous quantities of supplies and am
munition Aiiitarism is indeed an incubus
on the German people, and there are many
signs that its oppressiveness is felt.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-19
ArnoId,s Hiding Place.

An interesting discovery was mad
Thomas Alling a few days ago at
Benedict Arnold House in Water 81.
New Haven, Conn. In taking out a
ton of the garnet Eoor he found a Va,
which is supposed to have been used
Arnold during the war of the Rcvolutio
as hiding place for suspects or fugitive
whom he wished to befiiend. The lifting
of some of the garnet floor planking re-
vealed the pocket or vault underneath. 1t
is about a feet deep and feet square, and
is plastered on the sides Two or more
persons could remain in concealment there
without being crowded The vault is 10
Gated by the side of the large old-fashioned
chimney On the floor adjacent to the
vault formerly stood q large bookcase, and
it is supposed that through this entrance
was obtained to the hiding place. Inside
the vault are plain evidences of a former
staircase extending to a small inclosed
space on another side of the chimney. This
place, which is now plGstered up, is supposed
TO have been a sort of closet. Whether
Arnold used the vault for secreting Tories
or the patriots, or built it to afford retreat
for himself, no one knows That it should
have remained undiscovered until Mr. All
ing accidentally found it shows that it was
well designed for the purpose which led to
its constructions Boston Post
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-19

SOME PIECES OF COOP ADvIcE.-Dond got
mat on little things. Ofer spider-bug
break out his web down, eleven or eight
times, yoost so often he makes it all right,
und neber dond speak a mouthful on ac-
cound of dot misfortunes vat come on his
house yoost make your head out to do it
and you SURF wood have been a great sue
coed, Dond be afraid ven troubles vas
comed keep up good shift under lip
down, and pooty gwick dot dark clouds vas
busted all TO der deuce. 0fer il was de
time ven der sun vas going out, keep your
eyes on der shtars. Ofer de ground vas
dark, look indo der heafens. Offer yer tenn
per vas a shmart, gwick one, doris besser you
look out. Even q fire wood sets house on
shparks. One leedle misfit of temper may
make you unhappy so long vot you lii.
Never shtrike 20 der front, dond give some
evil on ackound you dond get it from an
odder Teller. Offer you got enemys yot dond
like you pooty veil, treat him kindly like
der deuce and hafe him for friend, but
dond trust him so far as mule can throw
you NIT his tail, for you know dot.-[Pret-
zels Weekly.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-19
PONDS EXTRACT CO.,
10 Fifth Ave-, New York,
NOTICE TO STOCK OWNERS.

HAVE YOUR HORSES CURED n
IL The undersigned is fitting up his IN
ranch IN a suitable manner TO receive IN
al kinds of animals and cure them of any kind
of diseases, more particularly for noTses. He
has also engaged two OF the most skillful and
experienced Veterinary Surgeons there are in
Europe With their assistance he thinks he viii
be able 10 cure any and all diseased animals.
All persons having horses or other animals sick,
and want them treated in a skillful manner, can
leave their orders or ANIMALS at No. go street,
between Ninth and Tenth, Sacramento. No
Cure, no charges. NJ KEISER,
san Juan Ranch, miles northeast from Sacra.
meDto, Cal. JyS4pu
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-19
WHOLE NO. 10,378.
TnE ruRLIc LAvps.


The strength tho Republic is increased by
the multiplication of landholders. our laws
should look to the iudieious encouragement of
actual settlers on the public domain, while it
should hencetorth be held as q sacred trust for
the benefit of those seeking homes. The
tendency to consolidate large tracts of land in
the ownership of individuals or corpo-
rations should with proper regard to
vested rights be discouraged, One hundred
thousand acres of land in the hands of one man
is far less profitable to the nation in every way
than when its ownership is divided among
1000. The evil ofpermitting large tracts of the
national domain to be consolidated and con
troled by the few against the many is en-
HANGED when the persons controlling it are
aliens. 1t is but fair that the public
lands should be disposed of only to actual set
tiers, and TO those who are citizens OF the repub
lie, or are willing to become so.
OUR SHIPPING INTERESTS
Among cur national interests one languishes-
the foreign carrying trade 1t was seriously
crippled in our civil war, and another blow was
given TO it in the general substitution of steam
for sail in ocean traffic. With a frontage on the
two great oceans, with freightage larger than
that of any other nation, We have every induce
ment to restore our navigation. yet the Govern
ment has hitherto refused its help. Asmall share
OF the encouragement given by the Government
10 railways and to manufactures, and small
share Of the capital and the zeal given by our
citizens to these enterprises, would have
carried our ships 70 every sea and to
every port. law just enacted removes
some OF the burdens upon our navigation. and
inspires a hope that this great interest may at
last receive its due share of attention All
efforts in this direction should receive en-
enlargement
SACREpNESS OF THE BALLOT
This survey of our condition as nation re-
minds us that material prosperity is but IA
mockery if it does not tend to preserve the
liberty of the people A free ballot is the
safeguard OF Republican institutions with
ont which the national welfare is as
sured. A popular election. honestly con-
Quoted, embodies the very majesty of
true government. Ten millions of voters desire
10 take part in the pending contest The safety
the Republic rests upon the integrity OF
the ballot-upon the security of suffrage
to the citizen. To deposit Il fraudulent
vote is no worse crime against constitutional
liberty than to obstruct the deposit of an honest
| vote. He who eorrupts suffrage, strikes at the
very root of free government. He is the
arch enemy of the Republic. He forgets that
in tampering upon the rights of others he fatally
| imperils his own rights. cit is good land
which the Lord our God doth give us" but we
can maintain our heritage only by guarding
with vigilance the source of popular power
am, with great respect your obedient ser
| want, JAMES G. BLAINE.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-19
MATRUsHEK PIANOS!
LEON ARDS
ECONOMICAL SUBTRACTION METHODS.

YIIHE ABOVE TITLED WORK, JUST PUB
lished, gives economical rules for obtaining
results in FRACTIONS without reducing them 10
a common denominator Also gives many eco
r1ornieaI rules for operations IN SIMPLE NUN
BERS These rules are original. They are not
50 be found in the works OF any other mathe
matical author. They are general in their mp
plicatiou Teachers, pupils and all whose busi-
ness feeessitates mathematical calculations are
especially invited TO examine the work. For
sale at all bookstores in Sacramento; L. X. Cup
py san Jose: s. Davis, College city J. X. Eistou,
Woodland; J. T. White q Co, san Francisco; and
" X Hardy Oakland. Agents wanted, Author
and publisher, J. II. LEONARD, Woodland, Cal
ie2l-1plmF
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-19
IN MAKING SELECTIONS

Nearly EVERYONE likes to find the largest variety to pick FROM He
feel that in our DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT, you will meet
with no disappointment for our stock this date is larger than ever
before and the assortment much more varied While our prices
we warrant be low and in many cases lower than those Of
anV Retail House on this coast quality considered There no
that we buy in large quantities. and mostly from first hands We
py CASH and SELL FOR CASH. Our account is one that hanufaGt
are offered US not enjoyed by smaller dealers We in turn give our
patrons the benefits our advantages and We are glad to note the
fact that the people are not slow taking advantage the values
We are daily giving in each and every Department Of our House
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-19
BLAINE.
Full Text Of His Letter Of
Acceptance.
NO BEATING ABOUT TEE BUSH
Public Questions Discussed Simply
and Directly.
THE ShCREDNESS OF THE BALLOT.
Importance of the Protection of
American Labor.
RINGING WORDS on P0LYGAMY.
Civil Service Reform and American
Commerce.
RINGING WORDS on P0LYGAMY.
Civil Service Reform and American
Commerce.
SPECIAL rr TELEGRAPH TO THE RECORD usloN.l

NEW YORK, July 1Sth.-Following is Mr..
Blaine's letter of acceptance
AUGUSTA (Maine), July Is, 1884.
The Hsn. John B. Henderson, ana Others OF the
Con9mihee-GENTLEMEN In accepting the nom
nation for the Presidency, rendered me by the
Republican National Convention, l beg to ex-
press deep sense of the honor which is con-
ferred and of the duty which is imposed. I ven
ture to accompany the acceptance with some
observations upon the questions involved in the
contest-questions whose settlement may affect
the future of the nation favorably or unfavor
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-19
OUR CURRENCY.

The people of the United States, though often
urged and tempted, have never seriously
contemplated the recognition of any other
money than gold and silver, and cur
rency directly convertible into them.
They have not done 50, and they viii
not do so under any necessity less
pressing than that of a desperate war. The
special requisite for the completion of our mon
etary system is the fixing of the relative values
of silver and gold. The large use of silver as
the money of account among Asatic nations,
taken in connection with the increasing com
meree of the world, gives the weightiest rea-
sons for international agreement in the prem
ises Our Government should not cease to urge
this measure until a common standard of value
shall be reached and established-a standard
that shall enable the United States to use the
silver from its mines as an auxiliary to gold in
settling the balances of commercial exchange.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

Railroad and was killed. The child had
its arms and legs crushed and could not
survive.
EIGHT or nine men were killed and twelve
wounded by fall of rock in Knupp's tun-
mel, on the South Pennsylvania Railroad
recently. The men killed were principally
Italians.
The sixty-fourth annual session Of the
general convention Of the Church Of the
New Jerusalem of the United States con-
vened in Philadelphia on the 10Th.
THE Mayor of New York has accepted
the resignation of City Chamberlain Tap.
pan, and appointed Henry Laidlaw, agent
of the Bank of California, in his stead.
Ex-BANK PRESIDENT FISH testified re-
Gently in New York that he understood the
firm Of Grant & Ward were engaged in
manipulating some fat Government con-
tracts, and that therefore they could afford
to pay the thirty per cent. interest which
be charged them for discounting their pa
per.
FIFTEEN hundred coal miners Of the
third pool at Pittsburgh, Pa, re-
fused to accept the reduction of a quarter
of a cent and threatened to strike unless
the district price was paid. A delegate
meeting was to be held at Monongahala
City to consider the advisability of order
ing general strike of the fourth pool.
GEORGE MoUNTFooT died in Boston re-
Gently, aged eighty-seven. He was son
of Joseph Mountfoot, one of the famous
Boston tea party.
President WHITE, of Cornell University,
left Ithaca, N. Y, for Chicago lately. He
received letter from Hiram Sibley, max
ing donation to the University of an ad-
ditional building costing SSS,OOO.
The National Greenback Convention, on
the Goth, at Indianapolis, nominated Gen.
eral B. F. Butler for President and General
A. N. West, of Mississippi, for Vice-Presi
dent.
A CAVE in under the track of the Reading
Railway at Turkey Run, Pa, recently, rem
dered six colleries idle. All traffic on the
railroad was suspended. The body OF
workman was not recovered. The breach
covered two hundred feet. A new track
was being built around the breach.
FROST was very general on the Goth and
30sh. The damage in the Eastern States
reached hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Along the West Shore Railroad and other
places there was quite a heavy snow fall.
Six degrees of frost was reported in New
Jersey.
SPIEGEL Bros, book and gents furnish
ing store, at Greenburg, Pa, was closed by
the Sheriff on executions amounting to $2O,-
600.
p FERDINAND WARD the other day said the
responsibility of General Grant and John
d. Fish in the firm of Grant & Ward, was
| the same as his own.
PERRIN H. SUMNER, a broker, was ar
rested at New York on the charge of
swindling Daniel NJ. Davidson, late of West
| Virginia, out of $4,000.
THE stove molders of all establishments
at Pittsburgh, Pa, have struck against 8
| fifteen per cent. reduction.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-05

wife and family in company with q woman
of loose character.
SPECIAL BAILIFF W. K. KILLIoN was
killed in Laurel County, KY, recently by
a party of moonshiners while trying to ar.
rest them. Four moonshiners entrenched
themselves in q house which was attacked
by the officers. Eight or ten volleys were
fired before the men surrendered, and Kill
lion was shot four times, dying almost in
stantly.
A DISPATCH from Vicksburg, Miss, says:
An examination of the new cutoff made
from Waterproof to Largent, discloses the
following facts: The maximum depth OF
water in the cutoff is 102 feet; the width
from / 100 to 1900 feet; the length over
1900 feet. 1t will shorten the river twelve
miles.
The impeachment trial of Mayor I. +.
Linde, of Hot Springs, Ark, for malfeas-
ance in office, resulted in the charges being
substantially sustained, and the Mayor was
suspended from Office. The vote of the
Council was four to two. A new election
was ordered, and Linde will carry his cause
to the polls.
ANDREW BRUoN, the defaulting Hot
Springs, Ark, banker, was arrested at st.
Louis in company with Mrs. Steele,
woman with whom he fed.
THE Hooper cotton warehouse at Balti-
more fell on the 3Oth. A large number of
persons were killed in the ruins and many
injured. The disaster was due to the build
ing being overloaded, the foundation sud-
denly sinking.
THE murderer Suggs, who escaped from
Jail three months ago in Texas, was cap
tured at Carterville, Ark. He was the
actor who killed Manager Plotter in
Adairsville last fall.