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The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-03-08
The Fremonts at Home.

A correspondent from New York
says, | had the pleasure the other day of
taking midday luncheon with General
John @. Fremont and Mrs. Fremont at
their pleasant home in New Brighton,
L. 1. Twenty-eight years ago made
their acquaintance during that memoir
able campaign when the young ''Path-
iinder' was surrounded by the enthusi-
astic youth of America, and this 1 had
renewed more recently since their
settlement in New York. The resi-
dence of the Fremonts Is a modest
white house perched high on the inside
of the broad road that winds through
trees along the New Brighton beach,
and It's front windows command a wide
reach of the New York Bay and the
estuary of the Kill Won Kull. There
are two sons and a daughter in the
house of Fremont. The Oldest son,
John Charles, or Jack" as he is
familiarity called at home, lives, with
his handsome wife and two sturdy
boys, up the Hudson. He is in the
navy and his duties are connected with
the arrival and departure Of ships in this
harbor. His youngest brother, Frank,
is a lieutenant in the army, stationed
up in Montana Territory; whittier he
has aiken the young wife he recently
captured in New York-a daughter of
John ID. Townsend, the lawyer. Both
of the boys closely resemble theiI
father. "When Frank went West,'
said Mrs. Fremont, Il suggested that
he stop and call on General Sibley
in Minnesota, who had never seen him.
He did it; called in citizens dress, and
said: General Sibley, who am Ii
You're Fremont, said the General
there's no mistaking you. How is
your father?" The sons are both tall
black haired, black. eyed and "bearded
like pard," and they both, like theil
sister, show strains of their Gallo
blood-the influence of their grand
father, the poor, scholarly French
gentleman who came to Virginia at the
beglnnin Of the century and found
their grandmother in her teens.
Mrs. Fremont, that "Jessie Benton
the mention of whose name in the
notable campaign of '56 always evoked
a cheer, holds her own remarkably well
1t doesn't seem possible that she could
have made her famous runaway match
nearly forty-three years ago. She was
a handsome blonde when she ran away
from the headquarters of "Old Bullion, ,
in Washington, and Joined the fortunes
of the young explorer; now her hair il
as white as snow, but she shows few
indications Of aging and talks al
/, brilliantly as ever.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-03-08

A woman weighing 200 pounds called
IN a physician for advice. He gave her
the following Instructions:
For breakfast eat piece of beef or
mutton as large as your hand, with a
slice of white bread twice as large. For
dinner the same amount of meat, or, if
preferred, fish or poultry, with the same
amount of farinaceous or Vegetable food
in the form of bread or potato. For
supper, nothing.
Drink only when greatly annoyed
with thirst; then mouthful of lemon
ade without sugar.
Take three Tunes week some form
of bath in which there shall be i'm
mense perspiration. The Turkish bath
is best. You must work, either in
walking or some other way, several
hours day.
You must rise early in the morning
and retire late at night. Much sleep
fattens people.
The terrible corset you have on which
congresses the center of the body,
making you look good deal fatter
than you really are, must be taken off
and you must have a corset which any
dressmalSer can fit to you--a corset fol
the lower part of the abdomen-which
will raise this great mass and support
it.
She followed the advice for SIX
months and trained herself down to 15i
pounds.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-03-08

sentinel, to the Spanish Peaks, the two
northern sentinels of the Rockies. That
morning when I awoke found myself
as near to them as the evening before
had been to Pixies Peak. They were no
longer dim, blue, delicately defined out
lines, but vast, substantial mountains
rising out of the plains in lonely gran
deur. They rise harmoniously together,
almost perfect cones 12,720 feet, then
one shoots up alope another ], 900 feet.
On the other side OF the valley the hills
and mountains gather thick and fast as
the train moved steadily on. The
light In the valley was still dim, but the
mountains on either hand were being
clothed in mellow gold, and the snow
capped SUBMITS of the Spanish Peaks
were like FURNISHED silver. Several
hundred feet above us, cutting tie sides
of the mountain, could trace fine
and regularly ascending line. 1t was
the track over which we were to gain
the pass.
Gracefully the train swept around
the Muleshoe, so called because of its
sudden and narrow curve, like mules
shoe; passing over the curve, we changed
our course completely, going directly
back, but going higher with every foot.
And 80 we went, back azd forth, higher
and higher up, till the first line of track
by the brook in the valley was out OF
sight. Brighter grew the sky and
wider and wider our horizon; the
line seemed to lift and pass farther
on as range upon range came into sight,
an -cafna1 nd rlt in, fIa
which for us had not yet arose;sbut
great waves of light were pulsating
across the sky IN quick succession from
the East, splendid aurora heraldiDg
tho coming sun; and just as we reached
the summit he rose magnihcently above
the HORIZON. The sight was worth ali
the journey.
Before we reached the summit
we had passed the snow line,
and now we stood 9,400 feet
above the sea and on the borders of the
winter land. Snow was all about us;
the trees were white and shivering; the
air was sharp and crisp and clear.
The Veta range and the Spanish
Peaks, near us, were like us wrapped in
snow; beyond, in the West, stretched
the Sangre de Christie range, always
and from every point of view the most
beautiful range Of the Rockies that L
have seen, and from it rose Sierra
Blanca, the KING of Colorados share OF
the Rocky Mountains. Here beats the
heart of Winter, imprisoned by the
snow through all the Seasons changes,
Sangre de Christo-the blood of Christ
the Spaniards named these mountains.
Slowly L turned from these cleaning
submits to the still shadowy valleys fan
below us and the spreading plains.
They were all in another season; Winter
had not yet reached down to them, In
the valley we had seen touches OF his
| fingers, which was the most that many
spots down there would ever see OF
him, while over the plains in scattered
places he had trailed his garments
gently.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-03-08

The less highly wrought and intense
compositions which constitute the aver
age type of polonaise by Chopin sug-
gests the idea Of a brilliant and pictu-
rescue procession of men and women in
rich costumes, of gay head dresses and
flowing scarfs, the clank of swords and
spurs, and the flash of diamonds; but
with Chopin the march is not in the
ballroom but in the battlefield. His
Polonaise is Poland in revolt against
tyrants or In mourning for her sons who
have fallen in the strife; for In most of
the polonaises the two feelings are blend
ed or contrasted; nor is the feminine
element absent from them. The tur-
moil and strife Of one is interrupted by
a graceful and delicate mazurka, like
the surviving memory of happy days,
soon to be brushed aside again in the
conflict; in another, the great one in A
fiat, the shout Of whole people for
freedom and fatherland, is followed by
the march past of the army, drums
beating and colors flying, and the re-
sumption of the song of liberty at the
close. Or all Tyrtean strains that have
ever been written, this "a little hack
neyed, Of course now, through being
overplayed), is surely the widest and
most stirring, while the heroic and chiv-
alrous character of the principal motif
raises it almost to the dignity of mar
tial hymn; "martial yet courtly," for
even in his heroics Chopin always
maintains the tone of distinction, of
nobility; nor does he in this ardent
piece of music ever for moment lose
his sense and grasp Of artistic form;
every note is in its place, everything, is
finished down to the minutest detail.
Had he been known only by this and
his "Faneral March, =" which is equally
grand in style, he would probably have
been regarded as one Of the greatest of
composers, over the loss of whose other
works we could only mourn. Taking
his compositions en- masse, we recognize
eAie'S ehNiO 40 q iiihlb w LILO ldbSO hlllCi
must prevent his taking the highest
rank; that he could only move freely in
his own special path; and his concertos
and sonatas, considered as wholes, show
that the classic forms of composition
fettered him and dulled the edge of his
musical fancy ana lntertereu with the
cunning of his workmanship to some
extent But he remains a remarkable
and indeed unique example of COM
poser who has achieved all but the high
est place by works on a small scale and
written for an instrument in some
senses very limited IN its power Of ex-
preston, while his character as man
and artist forms an instructive COM
ment on that form of vulgarity which
regards the possession of genius as an
excuse for slovenly habits and uncour-
teouS manners-a superstition which
has done much at different times to Sc
parate art and society, to the detriment
OF both, but often much more from the
fault Of the artists than the latter are
at all willing to believe.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-03-08

The mountain was in a state of erup-
tion on February the 18th. Almost
sixty eruptions Of Mount Etna are re.
corded, the most notable within the last
hundred years being those of 1892, 1911,
1919, and 1882. The first Of these con-
tinued an entire year, the streams of
lava then being thirty feet deep. Dur
ing the last one mentioned, there opened
on the sides Of the mountain many fam
ing mouths in the midst Of tremendous
explosions and convulsions, prodigious
discharges of ashes, cinders, and lava,
which overran miles of cultivated fields
and threatened the town of Bron with
ruin. The river of lava was then twen-
ty miles long, over mile wide, and
forty feet deep. The lava which in 1869
overtopped the walls OF Catania may
still be seen cOiling over their summit
like frozen torrent. On that occasion
much of the city and $1,000 of its in
habitants were destroyed. The earliest
eruption mentioned in history was 476
years before the Christian era. Forty
years later vast volume of water isre-
ported to have rushed down the noun
tain side. 1t was supposed to have come
from the crater, showing apparently,
the connection between the volcano and
the sea. A great eruption occurred in
1852, when mighty clouds of ash-grey
dust were expelled, covering the whole
surrounding country. From two new
mouths ON the eastern flank issued tor
rents of lava, one moving towards Zaf-
farana, the other towards Clara. One
stream was two miles broad, in some
places 40 feet deep, flowed 600 feet in
an hour ordinarily, but when it ap-
preached abrupt cliffs it dashed over
like fiery cascade.
An eruption occurred last year, be-
ginning on February 23, which lasted
until March 81, when it ceased. A few
days afterwards severe shock of earth
quake took place at Riposto, and two
slight shocks at Catania, on the slope OF
the mountain. The summit of Etna,
being above the line of vegetation, pre-
sents, unless covered with snow, mel
ancholy waste of lava, ashes, lapilli, and
scoria, from the centre of which, in q
desolate PLAN, ascends the principa
cone. Around the base of the noun
tain is productive region of corn
olives, grapes, and fruits, from three tt
eleven miles broad. The eruptions o.
Etna are frequent and imposing.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-03-08
PEOPLE WILL TALK.

You may get through the world but twill
be very slow,
II you listen to all that Is said as you go;
You'll be worried and fretted and kept in
For meddlesome tongues must have some
thing to do,
And people will talk.
If quiet and modest, you'll have 1t presumed
That your humble position is only assumed
You're wolf In Sleeps clothing, or else
you're fool;
But don't get excited-keep perfectly cool
For people will talk.
And then if you show the least boldness Of
heart,
Or a slight inclination to tako your own
part,
Aney will ca you an upstart, conceited
and vain;
But keep straight ahead-don't stop to ex-
plain
For people will talk.
If threadbare your dress, or old fashioned
your hat,
Some one will surely take notice of that,
And hint rather strong that you can't pay
your way;
But don't get excited, whatever they say
For people will talk.
If your dress is the fashion, don't think to
escape,
For they criticise then in different shape
Your ahead of your means, or your tailor's
unpaid
But mind your own business, there's
naught to be made,
For people will talk.
Now, the best way to do is to do as you
please,
For you mind, If your have one, will then
be at ease;
OF course you will meet with all sorts Of
abuse,
But don't think to stop them-it amt any
USE
For people will talk.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-03-08

said Major Ford. "But how was 1 to
knowP Pm stranger in these parts;
you know, and half the fruit-trees were
stripped last night"
And Aunt Jane received his aeknow-
ledgment in frigid silence.
GA lady is a lady," she said to her
niece, afterward," even if she has
climbed on a stone-wall to gather bar
berriesl And no one but semi-bar-
barian could mistake her for anything
elsel''
And Miriam Green was too happy in
her own newborn felicity to argue the
question with her aunt.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-03-08
The st. Veta Pass at Sunrise.

Coming from the east on the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe road, as we enter
Colorado, says a tourist, almost stimuli
taneousIy one descres in the north a
solitary mountain and in the south twin
mountains; at first sight not the faIntest
outlines of attendant peaks break the
horizon from Pixies Peak, the northern
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-03-08

The speed at which explosions can
travel has been looked into by Nj. Ber-
theIot. He took for the gases carbonio
oxide and oxygen, and these he explo-
ded in tube sixteen inches long and
one-third of an inch in diameter by
means Of electricity. The rate observed
was the unexpectedly high one of 2500
metres a second.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-03-08

The ex-King of Naples has become
so reduced in circumstances that he
lives with the Queen on the third floor
of house in Paris, with retinue of
three servants.
Tea importations into this country
have undergone a marked diminution
during the past four years, though it is
generally supposed that tea-drinking is
on the increase.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-03-08

Self-respect is the noblest carmen
with which man may clothe himsel
the most elevating feeling with which
the mind can be inspired. One of
Pythagoras's wisest maxims enjoins the
pupil to reverence himself.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-03-08
ARIGHTEous sRErRisUr II ON.

For people will talk.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-23

these psoPle hare. bsrzzS N has 20 pay
n uer cent before abe can land II n
h,ms Thrs xe are hAndizPPed even
after va hare given or people the a0-
x.ut.zs oF free ships- Bet whsn yo1
make slips. that ZOE eoss bsrs, say
$4,000. wo<k against s0rs1p s1lo=
o...zaz $4,000, the bgr3sa i greatly
increased When or ship e1sa o0ly
$4,000. o. ID more than theirs. yOo
have taksa : great stride il the night
darecan; AZ lszzs y0a hare removed the
stigma sor q = Iezszsio1 q having
by treaty szrrs1ierei 70 foreigners TIE
rizh. 70 nonopolzs or own trade
Mary q the American people have
beeu last asleep TO the TINE ~nszrdDezs
Of what "~pross.;oa i doing i< them.
bos shsy are opening their eyes
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-23

T ADV AGENTS FOR THE "QUEEN
IL Protector" and Daisy" Stocking sur.
porter. two new inventions for ladies' aud
children's wear. Sell in every house. Large
profits. Steady employment. Address, win
stamp, Ladies' Undsrgsrment Mfg Co., . q.
May st., Chicago, III. is2aim
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

MOTE SOME OF TIE PRICES AND CON-
~ pErs them with what yUz have .
rxTs-z. On Gcd after th1s data / VIII sell for
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-23

- I carry also . complete stock Of Hard
ware. Mining Supplies, Clothing and Boots
and shoes. which I win sell At prices that defy
composition. Jk1tfI NV. CLUTE-
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-23
GeuId.s Hinge Tin Box.

NEw YoEE. Jan. 22.-Jay Gould is said
10 contemplate another exhibition Of hii
huge tin box. 70 sllay public distrust 81
TO his standing. Ii il believed 10 hold
$50, 000, 900 in Western Union. SIS, 600, 00(
in Missouri Pacific, SO, 100000 in TexA:
Pacific, and 8 large mount of Wabash
and Union Pacific.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20
SPRINGFIELD ITEMS.

NJ II. Hurras has been appointed
agent for the Woods Harvester and
Self-binders At this place and he will
open up in the spring with a new
stock Of machinery. Mr.. Hurras is \
good salesman and the farmers
friend.
John Roth of Lamberton, formerly
of this place, made us a visit on Mon
day last. John Says he is doing well.
We are glad to hear it, John.
S. J. Moe has moved to Lamberton.
His meat market h.re has been closed.
He has rented the Exchange Hotal at
Lambert0n.
The Springfield Post of the G. A. r.
held a meeting on the I'd. inst. and
elected their officers for the ensuing
year as follows: Commander, DR..
Hitchcock; S. V. c., H. Halpin; J. v.
c., Peter J. Moe; Surgeon. Peter Nc.
Keaver; @. NJ, D. Shifted; O. d., NJ.
Haggard; O. G., j. Walgel, S. NJ, J..
Small; adjt., ID. H. Semans; @. NJ. S.,
Watson Cady.
Springfield will have a Masquerade
ball on the evening Of the ed inst.
L. Fecker says beer is a great deal
better now owing to the high license.
A funny man, this Fecker.
A young man of this town-the
name we will omit-went TO New Ulm
a few weeks ago and procured mar.
riage license, and was to be married
to we'll TODD widow Of this town. As
the happy event was to take place at
the brides home, the Justice was
called for and every thing was in
readiness, the lady ON the left and the
young man on the right, hand in
band. just at this juncture the Jus.
tic- discovered that the young man
had wife living in the old country,
and the scene that followed can we'll
be imagi, ed. The waiting widow still
begged the Justice to marry them,
but all her entreaties were of no avail.
The young man swears he will live
with her anyway.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20
S2O. 600 Goue,

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL..-The Chron-
FicLe publishes in substance the follow
ing marvel. Captain w. F. Swas4y,
the oldest pioneer of the coast, makes
II statement of the intense suffering
Of his friend Col. D. j. Williamson,
an Army officer of distinction and an
Ex.U. S. Consul, who was attacked in
the winter Of 1851 with violent
rheumatism. ST. great was his agony
n after years, he became a helpless
cripple, and after trying numberless
remedies, the baths of other countries
and spending fortune of $1,000, the
d,sease seemed to assume more
virnlent type. Finally, he was per.
suaded to try St. Jacobs Oil. the great
conqueror of pain. 1t worked mir.
acle of cure. In letter to the Chron-
iCtc he confirms Capt. Swasey's state.
lnent and adds: 81 cheerfully give
my unqualified attestation to the
truthfulness Of the statement, because
l feel perfectly certain that a knowl-
Edge Of my cure Of St. Jacobs Oil,
will prove the means Of relieving
hundreds of sufferers.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20
OM1KRoN.

An advertisement of a country auc.
ton sale always strikes some young
people more favorably than call to
dinner. The latter is an every day
occurrence, but real old fashioned
country auction sale is more eagerly
looked forward to than a Fourth of
July picnic. There are always those
who attend an auction sale for the
sole purpose of having good time,
and it is but seldom thai they fail to
connect. The recent auction sale III
the town of Cottonwood was no ex-
ception to the rule. There was an
abundance oflager on hand, and the
boys were not slow in deciding upon
having time. One of them, in an
unguarded moment, had been ap-
pointed commissariat, and when tax
ing an inventory of his stores lie es-
pied hidden away in the innermost
recesses of the innermost cellar, a
demijohn of the ardent. At this
discovery he lost ali interest in the
auction; and no was not slow in i'm
parting the nature of his find to
his chnms. With the favored few the
cellar became the centre OF attrac-
ton. It's superfluous to say they
had time, but they would have had
a much greater time had they only
remained until the proprietor was
sent after the demijohn to give his
customers parting dram. Con-
sternation was depicted on every
countenance when the announce.
lnent was made that the demijohn had
taken legs The boys will be for
given if they'll return the demijohn.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE.

Default has been made in the conditions on cef
tain Mortgage executed and delivered by Edward
j. Foots and Mary T.. Foote his wife mortsagors.
day q March Eighteen hundred al. ana eisrye
and recorded as mortgage in tho Office Of the
Register o. Deeds Of the county Of Brown In IN
State Of Minnesota, on the 2sd day of March A. D.
on pages 1885, 4S9 and 400, given to secure the pay
ment Of Two hundred and atty tS250) dollars Ave
years from its date, with interest thereon. at the
rate OF nine per cent. per annum, payable AMIN
Ally 81 he Afst day Of June In sash 5saY, aDiti
h.oKsguxu siipnl1IeS That in case OF non payment
OF principal, interest or taxes, any part there
OF, when due, the whole principal sum, with In
terest, should, ut the option Of SAID mortgage his
heirs, executors, administrators or assigns thor
become due aad payable, In the same manner as
said mortgage. Default has been made by the
non.payment Of the interest, which became l.ne
June lei, 1882 and June LIST, 1883, amounting 10
deb, BE- ep, ao Q, p sa thar the
que therefore, upon said mortgage Three hundred
fourteen dollars and ffty CENTS (S314 5O, and the
further sum Of Thirty,two dollars and seventy
one cents, (s3e ~, paid by the said mortgage as
taxes upon said mortgaged premises, for which
he holds the receipts o1 the treasurer Of said com
~ No action o. has been
Notice is hereby given. that by virlne of DOW
er OF sale contained in said mortgage, and OF the
statue in such case made and provided, the said
gagged premises therein described, which sale vii
be AIDE at the front door of the Court House in
the City of New Ulm In the county of Brown aud
State o. Minnesota, at public auction by the sher
III OF said county, on Saturday the 18th cav Of
March A. D. eighteen hundred and eightv-ia1lr at
10 O'Clock In the forenoon, to satisfy the amount
which shall then be due on said mortgage with
the interest thereon, and cost and expenses of ale
and twenty five dollars attorneys fees, as stipu
lated IN said mortgage, in case of foreclosure.
The premises described in said mortgage, an.t
so to be sold are the lot, piece or parcel OF land
situated In the County of Brown and State OF Min.
nesota, and known and described as follows 10
wit: = -
The East half Of the North East quarter Of Sec
ton Twenty-Five (22) in Township One hundred
and eight QoS) North, Of Range Thrty-:wo (SaI
West. Containing Eighty (s0) more or less ar.
cording to the Government survey thereof
f. j. HoDasoN, Mor,oa.ea
Attorney for Mortgage
Dated Jan Goth, 1894. March 1o-s4