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The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-05

HERE seems to be some difficulty
about the Government printing in the
way of printing internal revenue
stamps From present appearances
1t would seem that the Bureau Of
Printing and Engraving will not re.
ceIve th~contract. The Hosmer Lee
Company will no doubt print the
stamps.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-05

BEFORE another issue candidate
will be named, in all probability for
President of the United States on
the Democratic ticket. The name
of that candidate will, in all events,
begin with b.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-05

Cremation seems to be having boom
just now. Several new "crematories, -
as the furnaces are called, are to be built.
The nearest one, for the convenience of
any in this section to use, will be at Lam
caster.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-05

FOR SALE,-A two seat carrige.
Shifting top; only used seven weeks. A
bargain for cash. Apply at
June26-2t This Office.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

FOR SALE: "A Blacksmith and
Wheelwright Shops, with one acre of land
attached, on SOUTHEAST corner, Glasgow,
Del. LEVI HIGGINS,
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-05

Did some one say that the School
Commissioners held another adjourned
meeting2 1t is a cruel Islander.
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REGISTERS ORDER.
REGISTERS OFFICE.
agf1 Ia naa

4
New Castle County, Del, June 18th, 1884
Upon the application Of Joseph W. Powell and
James Powell, Administrators of William O..
Powell, late of White Clay Greek Hundred,
In said county. deceased, IL is ordered and
directed by the Register that the Administrators
aforesaid give notice Of granting Of Letters of Adj
mnlstratiOn upon the estate the deceaF ed with
the date of granting thereof, by causing adver-
tisements to be posted within forty days from the
date Of such Letters In six Of the most public
places Of the county of New Castle, requiring all
persons having demands against the estate to
present the same. or abide by an Act of Assembly
in such case made and provided: and also cause
the same to be inse ted within the same Period in
the DELAWARE LELGER, a newspaper published
in Newark, and to be continued therein two
months.
(~N~ Given under the hand and Seal of
}sEAL. Office of the Register aforesaid, at VIII
t~-~ mingtOn, in New Castle county afo O..
said, the day and year above written.
S. O. BIGGS, Register.
NOTICE.
All persons having claims against the estate CT
the deceased must present the same, duly attest
ed to the Administrators, on or before June 18th,
1885, or abide the Act OF Assembly in such case
made and.prOvided
JOSEPH W. POWELL,
JAMES POWELL.
Address, Newark, Del. Administrators
lun2l 2m
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-05

The one great day of the year when
every American feelsproud of his coun-
try, - the Fourth of July.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-05
SPRING

has come and with it the hand
soonest Stock of FINE GooDs
for Gentlemen's wear ever Of
fered at such prices. Our
Counters are filled with all the
newest fabrics for making FINE
SUITS for Gents. To attempt
to describe our Stock to you
without seeing it would be
foolish. Suffice is to say we
have made our greatest effort,
and can show you such Goods
and at prices that will astonish
you. We buy for the ready
Cash and in quantities, thereby
getting a big start for low
prices. We employ the best
workmen. Each have their
particular part to do, so that
they become experts in this
branch, We so manage as to
do the very best work at the
least cost. Our particular aim
is to excel in our Goods and
Prices
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-05

believe we can sell you Good
Goods at half prices, we will
prove to you by a fair trial we
can sell you Clothing for
yourself or boys at the most
reasonable prices, and on the
most satisfactory terms.
We know the ready Cash is
the great lever to make prices
low, and we use it.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-05
FARMERS TAKE NOTICE

From April Goth to June Goth, is the
best and safest time for the CASTRA-
TION OF COLTS. r. ]. HANLEY,
Veterinary Surgeon, 107 Shipley street,
Wilmington, Del, CASTRATES Colts
on the most Improved and Scientific
method. Fees reasonable. Clubs, of five
Colts, SO each. Apply to r. j. HANLEY,
V. s.. No. 107 Shipley street, Whining
ton, Del. Orders by mail attended to.
mnrRgtn
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
To whom It may concern, that on this 20 day of
June, 1884, an assignment was made by authority
Of Newark Brick Manufacturing Co, to myself of
all It's property and effects Of whatsoever kind at
wheresoever located for the benefit pro rata of all
its creditors All parties indebted to, or having
claims against the same will send them to
s. j. WRIGHT.
June 7S-tf Assignee.
The National tribune., 1884-10-02
NOT A SECRET SOCIETY.

The question of whether the GAR. is prop
erly secret society is receiving very earnest
consideration by those Christian bodies which
are opposed to secret societies on principle.
That the Order is not truly secret society has
been held from the first by those active in it.
1t has none of the essential characteristics of
such an organization, except that the outside
public is not admitted to many of its meetings,
and its members take an obligation of frater-
nifty with each other and loyalty to the coun-
try. This, however, is no more, if so much, as
the vows and promises made on entering
church, or in many other organizations not at
all secret
Its exceedingly gratifying to all comrades to
know that the churches themselves are taking
this view of the Order. There is no church or
sect in the country that sets its face so like flint
against secret societies as the United Brethren.
Hostility to these is part of the organic law of
the church, and it is embodied in its Book of
Discipline. Ministers are required to preach
against them, and any member joining the
Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, or
similar organizations, is relentlessly expelled.
There has been much discussion in the church
as to whether the GAR. should be included in
the ban, and it has at last been decided ad-
versely. Recently the Conference of Ohio had
test vote on the subject, which resulted in 58
votes for the GAR. to 2 against it. The United
Presbyterians who are equally inhexible
against secret societies, are also agitating the
question. with every prospect of coming to a
like favorable conclusion.
As yet there has been no authorized ex-
preston by the Catholic Church on hesubject.
1t has been left within the discretion of each
priest, and with one or two exceptions, these
! have decided fayorably to the Order. Indeed,
very many Of the priests were gallant soldiers
during the war-havipg taken orders since,
and their sympathes are all with their old
comrades. The present Commander-in-C Chief,
4 Gen Kountz, is consistent Catholic, and
there are in nearly every Post true sons of the
church, like Gen. Rosecrans, who wore the
/ blue with honor.
The attitude of the church in the United
States toward the GAR viii be taken up,
discussed, and probably settled at the Plenary
Council, which viii meet in Baltimore next
month
Comrades viii await the decision with much
anxiety, for it is of very great importance to
the Order, and to thousands of devout Catholics
who served their country faithfully, and who
desire to continue to meet with their comrades
in fraternal reunion. There is every reason,
however, to hope for a favorable result. The
eminent prelates who will constitute the
Plenary Council are believed TO be wcll-dis-
posed toward the Order, and the subject will
be ably presented to them.
The National tribune., 1884-10-02
WHO ARE REIoIcEn.

With amazing effrontery Col. Dudley con-
tinues to reiterate his statement that no one
rejoices at his expulsion from the Pension
Bureau but dishonest pension applicants and
swindling agents"
This is monstrous
Among all the $4,000 officials of the Govern
ment there was not one whose continuance in
Office was such an offense and grief to so many
thousands in every part of the country as his.
Among all these $4,000 therewas not another
man whom substantially everybody complained
of, against whom letters were written by scores
from every County in the Nation, and from
nearly every post office.
Among all these there is not another man
who has had the opportunity to be cruel and
unjust to one or more men in every little COM
munity, and there is no one else who has i'm
proved that opportunity so well, either through
ignorance incompetence, or deliberate design.
Among all these there is not another one
whom the great newspapers of the country,
without regard to politics or religion, have
been daily besought to expose, denounce, and
drive from office.
Everywhere that one can look are men to
whom pensions and allowances are rightfuIy
due, many of whom are in absolute need of the
same, but who have been deprived and kept
out of them for precious years of their lives
by Dndley's incapacity to handle the bust
ness Of his Office with reasonable promptness
and expedition, or By his disposition to inter
pose unjust and scnseless technicalities to pre-
vent the settlement of claims
Every soldier or sailor to whom the Govern
nent is under just obligations, and every man
who IS in favor Of the Government treating its
defenders honorably, rejoices at his departure
from place where he was not guardian of
the peoples money, but an obstruction in the
way of transacting business.
Every person who has to do business with
the Pension Bureau, and even every clerk or
employe of the Bureau reioices at the outgoing
of a chief who gave as little cause for satisfac-
ton to those who came in direct contact with
him. as he did to the general public.
/ Only those people and papers grieve at his
/ departure who hate the soldier and scorn his
claims, and would deny him any allowances
except that of public charity in the County
poorhouses.
The National tribune., 1884-10-02
WHY HE FAUED.

One of the reasons why Dudley's admins
tration of the Pension Bureau was such con-
spicuous failure was because of his utter ina
bility to grasp and handle the volume of busi-
ness. >The people demanded that some one be
put in there who could reach around the
whole business and put it in shape to be fin
ished up Immediately. Dudley understood
what was wanted of him when he was ap-
pointed, and faithfully promised TO fulfill the
wishes of those appointing him. He was given
every facility for doing so. Money by millions
and clerks by hundreds were given him, and
he was only asked to settle the business rap
idly He has not fulfilled q single promise, or
justified a solitary expectation. In place of
finishing up the business in three years, as he
promised on entering office, he is now, after
three years in Office as far behind as
as ever. In place of introducing facili-
ties for the dispatch of business, he has
thrown more obstacles in the way of its trans
action. In place of using his hundreds OF
additional clerks to clear away the accumula-
tions of his predecessor, be seems to employ
them to build up accumulations of his own.
In place of quiekening the process of adjust
ing claims, either by allowance or rejection,
he has retarded and clogged the same, so that
the chances are much the greater that death
will come to the pension applicant before de-
cision on his application does. No wonder, af-
ter three years of this experience, the secre-
tary of the Interior wearied of and desired to
get rid of him.
We can congratulate the comrades that there
is better day dawning Col. Dudley's retire
ment is the beginning of great change for the
better,
The National tribune., 1884-10-02
UNCERTAINTY OF DIAGNOSES.

If there IS any one thing connected with his
professional knowledge that the true physician
is more modest about than another it is as to
the correctness Of his diagnoses.
The human body is the most complex of
machines and while life exists it can not be
pulled apart and its movements examined ike
those Of watch. And also medicine is as
yet the farthest from being exact Of any of the
great sciences.
The best that can be done toward deternin-
ing the nature of any bodily ailment is 10 make
a shrewd guess. The best diagnosis is only
the best guess that can be made at conundrum
which only time can solve.
The most that any conscientious physician
viii allow himself osay is that the symptoms
seem to indicate that this or that organ is
deranged. He is always prepared to find that
what he supposed was an affection Of the liver
is really a disease OF the kidneys, and that
where he believed the heart was the seat of the
trouble. the main difficulty was with the di-
gestion or the nerves, and SO on.
The great sympathy Of the organs with each
other makes the problem intensely perplexing.
A deranged heart deranges tie lungs liver.
stomach and bowels, and congested liver
throws every other portion of the machinery
out of gear, and so on, until it IS simply inn
possible TO tell with certainty which organ is
the main delinquent, and which should receive
the principal treatment
This is especially true when dealing with
bodily systems like those Of old soldiers, where
advancing years uncover old-time hurts and
LESSONS incurred and forgotten in the heat and
strength Of youth. To the complexities which
beset every diagnosis there is, then, added still
more embarrassing quantity in the far.reach-
ing effects of the intense strains to which every
organ has been subjected in past years.
The fault that has been found with Col
/ Dudley's methods is that he viii not take
these obvious facts into consideration. He vii
persist in the amazing absurdity that he car
measure mans strength and vitality with the
certainty of cord Of wood He constantly as
sunes a knowledge that the wisest physician:
in the world shrink from claiming. He dali,
commits the gigantic folly Of pretending that i
can inspect and determine mans disabilitie
with the ease and certainty of mechanic goinl
over coarse machine with rule and compass
Every one viii say on the instant that this il
egregious presumption, and yet there j
scarcely day in which the Commissioner o
Pensions does not write himself down an as
in this particular way.
The National tribune., 1884-10-02
THE REASON.


The worst that can be said of Col. Dudley is
that he has been but slender improvement
on John A. Bentley. In place of radically re-
forming the Bureaus methods and practices,
he has made only the smallest notifications
in the aggravated system of red-tape STUN
bling blocks in the way of the pension -appli-
cant.
We must not be mistaken in our meaning.
Neither we nor any other who welcomed Col
Dudleys advent into the Pension Bureau, ex-
pected him to be illegally free with the Ma
tion's money. He was not expected to strain
in favor of an applicant a single provision of
the laws. He was not expected to do away
with single safeguard against fraud. He was
not expected to pay a single dollar TO any man
who was not clearly entitled to the same.
But he was expected to reverse his predeces-
sors plan of constituting the pension laws
harshly against the pension-applicant He
was expected to put an end to the treatment
Of an applicant as presumptively fraud, with
QfcIciiI5S 1itGhtc dtJH IlB was
expected to be fair and just. He was expected
to act as Judge between the soldier and
the Government, and not as Prosecuting At
torney, seeking TO convict of crime every one
who applied for pension. He was expected
to substitute for the exasperating and justice
denying red-tapeism of John A. Bentley, such
plain, simple requirements as experience and
common sense showed to be necessary to pro-
tect the Government against imposition.
Above all, he was expected to infuse such
business capacity and energy into the manage
ment of his Burean that an end would be made
to the criminal absurdity Of making an appli-
cant wait weary years for a decision on his
claim, which should have been reached in as
many months. His sluggish dilatoriness has
made him the laughing stock of the live busi-
ness men of the Nation, and at once the scorn
and terror of the poor men who seek him as the
dispenser Of the Nations bounty.
| Col. Dudley has disappointed every one of
| these reasonable expectations Instead of de-
cding cases on broad grounds of justice and
merit he has decided them on bases of petty
| details and narrow technicalities. Instead of
/ facilitating the adjustment of claims against
the Government, he has maintained and null
/ tiplied obstacles that merely harassed the hon
est claimant, while they were worthless as a
safeguard against designing rascal. Though
given all the clerical assistance asked for, he
takes years to decide applications that should
have been determined III 4 few months. AT the
J rate he has disposed of the business Of his
The National tribune., 1884-10-02
he should be subjected to the annoyance and
anxiety attending such an arrest

FROM childhood up we have always heard
of the man in the moon, but now, Dr. Blend
mann, of the Royal Academy of Berlin, as
sures us that the moon contains cities. towns,
and villages without number. so that the old
man cannot be the lonely individual our fancy
has so long painted him. DIR. Blendmann has
reached his conclusions by taking Photographic
views of the disk of the moon, that he after
wards exposed under an immense solar micro
scope, which magnifed the photographs to a
diameter of over 90 feet In this way he
claims to have discovered that rich vegetation
covers the spots which have been supposed to
be seas, and that the parts Of the moons sur
face, hitherto claimed by scientists to be mount
aims, ar reality deserts aud seas. The Doc
tor says that if stronger telescopes can be OBJ
tanned, he can still more completely confirm
his discovery.
The National tribune., 1884-10-02

Mrs. BELvA A. LOCKWOOD, the Presidential
candidate of the Equal Rights party, is evil
IDENTIFY one of the few persons in the United
States who look upon her nomination in
serious light. She hopes to bring about meet
ing of the several Presidential candidates at
Wheeling, W. Va, and has already addressed q
letter to Mr.. Cleveland, in which she expresses
the hope that the nominees of the various Po-
liticai parties Of the country, in conference as
sembled, VIII agree to soften the asperities of
the campaign" as far as possible. This letter
win be followed by a similar one to each Of her
Presidential competitors
The National tribune., 1884-10-02
epFcfAL INSTRUMENTATION,

THE NATIONAL TRIBUSE VIII shortly issue
. ssplendid little volume Of war poems by that
queen Of lyric song, Hrs. Kate Brownlee sher-
wood. This viii contain her poems which have
met with such joyous acceptance ali over the
Nation. and for whose presentation in pernla-
nent form there has been such an urgent de-
mand. Il is book that VIII be welcomed by
every soldier and soldiers wife and child in
the land.
The National tribune., 1884-10-02
WE MUST nAvE a NAVY.

The English papers are in ferment over the
discovery Of the nnmistakable fact that the
day of England's absolute supremacy upon the
seas has departed The time has been when
the English feet could whip the combined
fleets Of all the maritime nations Of the world
and she has fattcred herself that this pleasing
condition of affairs still existed She is now
rudelY awakened with the information that
she not only cannot oyerpower any possible COM
bination of fleets against her, but that it is
exceedingly doubtful if she could defend her
self against IN attack Of the French. The re-
ports for last year showed that France had 25S
vessels, manned by 1928 men, to England S
23S vessels, manned by $500 men. This does
not show the whole facts, for the English navy
must be dispersed all oyer the whole globe, while
France has fewer interests to protect, and so
can better concentrate her strength. France
has been going ahead with improvements in
hnlls, machinery, armor aud guns a little
The National tribune., 1884-10-02
,sExT WEEK.s PApER.

IN next weeks paper Gen. Howard win tell
Of the siege Of Knoxville and Of Gen Sherman 5
movement. which drove Longstreet away from
the metropolis Of East Tennesse. Carleton .
viii take Up the second day Of the great battle
Oh the banksor stones River and Comrades
Fry and Mason win relate how the Army Of
the Tennessee settled down to besiege the city
Of Nicksburg how il forced its capitulation.
and the swift pursuit Of Johnston that fol-
lowed. The story Of How Got Rid of My
HotheriD-Iaw" wil be concluded, and a
variety Of entertaining matter viii fn the
columns.
The 3oiional T'iJaae Casts oalg Tgo Cents q
Week
The National tribune., 1884-10-02

CAPT DUDLEY. of the yacht Mignonette,
which was disabled last July between Madeira
and the Cape, and who, together with his crew
consisting of three men and boy, drifted
about fer some weeks in an open boat has been
arrested and is to be tried for murder under
very peculiar circumstances. During the first
few days of their sojourn in the boat they SUBJ
sisted on the flesh of turtle they were fortu-
nate enough to capture aud after then starved
for some time. The Captain at last proposed
that they should east lots which should die to
feed the others. This proposition was rejected,
but after they had tasted fifteen days it was
agreed that the boy Parker, who was sinking
rapidly, should die, and Dudley killed him.
These facts have all been learned from the
Captain himself, who evidently had no idea of
having committed crime. The Magistrate at
Falmouth, England, where the unfortunate
men were carried by the vessel that picked
them up, thought differently, however, and
had the Captain arrested. While the whole
affair is sickening and horrible in the extreme
the inexorable law of sclf-preservation seemed
TO demand it, as the curtaiiing of the poor lads
life, which at most could have lasted but few
days, was the means of saving the lives of three
men. 1t is not probable that the charge, which
is the first of the kind ever made under similar
circumstances, will stand; but it is hard ON
Capt Dudley that after his fearful sufierings
The National tribune., 1884-10-02

A New YORK Judge made a decision last
week that will attract much attention. A
guest at the st. James Hotel in that city lost
diamond pin, and accused the ehambermaid of
having stolen it. The manager of the hotel
charged the chambermaid with the theft in
presence of witnesses, and she sued him for
slander. The Judge dismissed the suit. point
ing out as he did so the relations that must
exist between master and servant, and holding
that under the circumstances the manager had
the right to make the charges complained of.
What the defendant said was in perform
ance of duty he owed not only to the guest,
but to the good reputation and management of
the hotel under his charge" OF course this
does not estop suit where the malice and
faIschood exist
The National tribune., 1884-10-02

THE relentless gage of the scientist shows
that criminal is as inferior creature physi-
eally as he is mentally and morally. The
researches of the Anthropometric Committee
of the British Association for the Advance
ment of Science show that the men belonging
to the criminal classes in England average 45
pounds less than the police, and are four and
one-half inches shorter. They are Is pounds
lighter and two inches shorter than the aY-
erage of the population.