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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23
FRIENDS YEARLY MEETING.
Condenning Music aud singing in
Mecting-OtIc business.

At Tuesdays session of the philndel-
phin Yearly meeting of Friends, after the
renppointment of Joseph Walton anil
Joseph ScattergOod NJ clerks, the consid
Grafton of the proceedings of the meeting
for sulfrrings for the past year was CON
tinued, occupying nearly the whole sit
ting. document setting forth the
views of Friends on singing and music,
especially in meetings for worship, was
approved and directed to be published.
and the practice now i'll vogue in some
meetings of reading the scriptures and
singing condemned. The position of
Friends in regard to missionary enter
prises was discussed, and the subject re-
committed 10 the meeting for suilerings
for their careful consideration and advice
to members, should way open. The
minute relating to the uncovering OF
heads i'll the meeting houses was adopted,
with the warning to all members TO main
tain the old custom.
The following officers of the Friends
Freedmen's Association hive been elected
IL serve for the following year: james l..
Rhonds, President ; William II. Hnines,
Secretary; Edward NJ. Wistar, Treasurer ;
Marmaduke g. Cope, Benjamin Contes,
Francis Il. Cope, Elliston p. Morris,
Richard Cadbury, Richard Wood, Thomas
p. Cope, Jr., John Il. Wood, Henry
Hartshorne, John NJ. Whitall. Samuel
Biddle, George yaux, Jr., David j.
Brown and Francis G. Hainos, Executive
Bonrd.
Tue twenty-fouith annual meeting of
the Friends First day School Association
" 'sheldiI', heeveningatt lie Twelfth Street
Affecting house. Officers for the ensuing
yenr We're elected us follows: DIR. James
E. Rhoads, president; G. A. Longstreth,
secretary; Henry Longstreth, treasurer.
The old executive committee, consisting
of As members, was reelected. Reports
from the various schools were received,
showing that there are 40 male teachers,
100 female, 800 white scholars, 100 col
ored, and total on the rolls of 1000
scholars.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23
Fn,nI E,re N.nr n.nhinr.

READING, April l9-The truck farm of
Augustus l.. Vented, two miles from this
city, was the scene of terrible fire mt
o'clock this morning. Two of Mr..
Wentzel's SONS and two of his hired men
occupied ms their sleeping quarters il
frame building, two stories high 30 feet
away from the farm mansion, where the
rest of the family lived. Last night the
family retired MS usual. Early this morn
ing Mr.. Vented and his family were
awakened by cries of fire, and saw the
frame building in flames Mr.. Vented
and one of his hired men made desperate
efforts to rescue the men in the building.
Vented was badly burned-pn the hired
man who had entered the burning build
ing lost his life. The building fell in
shortly afterwards and when the ruins
were cleared away four charred trunks
were carried out. The dead are Charles
Vented, aged 10 years Harry Vented,
aged 10 years Charles Hettinger, aged
about IL years, and Fred Hettinger (the
man who lost his life in trying to rescue
his friends), aged 26 wears.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23

The Legislature of 1885 expired Friday
night. We give to-day complete sum-
mary of what it has done, which every
reader can examine for himself. Among
the acts chronicled in this summary are
some in the line of good, proper and
and salutary Legislature. But the
Legislature of 1885 will be memorable
chiefly for what it has not done.
1t has not given New Castle county the
increased representation which the party
had pledged should be given. 1t has not
given the people the privilege of con-
voking constitutional convention. II has
not passed the Judiciary amendment nor
the incorporation amendment. 1t, or
rather small, obstructive, short sighted
minority of its members, has broken
faith with the people and inspired in
them a distrust of future pledges. To
those members who labored to
carry out honestly and squarely
the obligations which they assumed
by remaining upon the tickets OF
their respective counties after the enunci.
alton of the State convention we would
say that in doing the best they could they
have done we'll. 10 the small minority
who, recreant to the trust confded Il
them, stood in the way of the work which
the Legislature of 1883, the Governor ant
the state conventions of 1852 and 1884
had striven to accomplish we would 50!
that the next time the majority
of the people of Delaware undertake Il
do this work, it will be neither thei
privilege nor their desire to stand in til
way. They can devote the interval t
rejecting upon the leaden heel and irol
hand of justice.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23
cnuRcH OF TIE FUTURE.
A Methodist Minister Denounces the
Dance and Drama.

From sermon by the Rev. j. I. Swlndells.
There's the dance. II has always been
popular and l do not wonder at it. There
can be no objection to the mechanical
movements. But all these things mean
something else. There are moral reasons
concerned in this as there are in a great
many other apparently harmless amuse-
ments. The objection TO dancing is that
it generally leads TO something else. 1t
usually extends into the late hours of the
night and exposes "a body that has been
heated with the exercises of the evening
to sudden change of temperature. IL
brings the sexes into too close contact and
leads to sin. 1t opens the way to asso-
Citations that are far from being pure,
besides exposing people to an expense
which they cannot well afford. The his
tory of the ball room is the history of
evil. 1t is evil to the home, the family
circle, and to many cherished hopes.
1--WE believe in a proper dance, select
society, in the presence Of the parents,
says some one. That is very beautiful,
in theory, but can it be carried out? 10
the young people it gently opens the way
to the more promiscuous party and finally
to the extended ball II imbues into then
the desire to excel; and when young
girl is smitten with wish to excel il
dancing she is indeed in danger.
There is the theatre. 1t is always wei
patronized. What is its character? Tn,
very history of it is bad. 1t has been on,
of the most destructive of the devil'i
agencies. 1t has not been reformed, i
cannot be reformed. Such players a
Edwin Booth, Henry Irving and Mis-
Terry occasionally come along and Civ
the last of Shakespeare's plays; but wha
are they? Not what everyone can read
made up of characters in those stations o
life of which we want to know little. The
who is it that go to the theatres Not til
best and most respectable people.
The speaker then went on to allude t
private theatricals, the skating rink Graz,
the circus and the national game, bus
ball, which he said had fallen from
most wholesome amusement among me
that in themselves condemn the play. |
II few brief words he told what the churc
of the future would be, the amusemen
and attractions it would furnish for Il
young man and the young woman
would not be of the stiff formal charucte
but free, open and social, with the be
music and speakers, and occasional
have concerts and lectures of high al
, elevating character
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23
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DROWNING 100 MEN.
HOW the COlOmbians Treat the Gem
tral American Rebels.

CHICAGO, April IA special from the
City of Mexico, says: When the troops
of the Colombian government finally
entered Colon, after it had been burned
by the rebels under the leadership of
Preston, they captured several squads OF
rebels. During the past 10 days the
number of these prisoners Inns been con,
siderably augmented by the receipt Of
struggling rebels captured in surround
ing districts. It is not known now Just
how many rebels were thus held prisoners
at Colon, but good authorities place the
number at about 400.
Authentic information reached this city
last night that on Wednesday the officers
of the Colombian government selected
100 of the worst rebels imprisoned at
Colon and, placing them on board 4
steamer, carried them out into the baS
where the entire 100 were thrown over
board and drowned.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23
Secretary liaynrd,s policy.


From the columns of our esteemed
though excitable Republican contcnl-
porlry, the New York 7rbuac. We learn
that the really desperate ind unscrupu-
lous partisan of the new administration il
Secretary Bayard, who is rapidly filling
the entire diplomatic and consular ser
vice with Democrats of the deepest dye,
i'll wicked disregard of the civil service
principle. From our esteemed Demo-
cratic contemporary, the New York
HorH, we learn that Secretary Bayard, in
utter contempt of the expectations of the
Democratic party, is not only retaining
Republicans in Office hut has even had
the eifrontcry 60 promote TO the position
of chief of the diplomatic bureau MIR.
Sidney Everett, man of long and wide
experience, but n Republican in politics.
or mt least not Il Democrat.
These statements of Mr.. Baynrds
policy appear somewhat conflicting, but
they nre not irreconcilable. 1t is clear
that he is not running his department to
please the extreme partisans ON either
side, but rather to please the great body
of the people. 1t is probable that Mr..
Bayard's head is more nearly level than
the heads Of some of the critical CORE
spOndents.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23
" nlegtOn. ! thursday, ap n29. l8e {
'T,,u CIty I.egisIatiol,.


II ~ u matter OF copgrtulation that the |
Legislation obtained by the city of Will |
lnington, ut the recent session of the |
Legislature hts been mainly of good |
and Wholesome character, and, for a
wonder, thc local politicians kept hands
oil and asked for no laws calculated to
advance partisan interests. The only en-
actment snacking in the least of partisan
bias in the section of one of the city bills
changing the division line of the two
Fourth ward election districts from Lom-
bard TO Poplar street, and this is justified
by the fact that Poplar street was the
original line, and was changed to LON
bard street in the new city charter passed
two years ngo.
The bill prohibiting the transfer of
sums from one appropriation to another
without the assent of the finance COM
mittee and the further concurrence of
two-thirds of the members of Council
will tend to make committees careful i'll
their expenditures, so as to leave enough
on hand to see them through the closing
months Of the fiscal year. The act ere.
ating new board of revision provides
salaries aggregating 5000 per year, against
5000 for the retiring board-a gain to the
city of 300 per year, with every likelihood
of an improved service. The act increasing
the maximum limit of capitation assess
ments from $4,000 to $1,000 (the Cit.
Council asked for limit of $4,000, bu
the Senate cut it DOWN will increase tn
revenue from taxation few thousan'
dollars each year. The act for the bette
regulation of street markets also promise
we'll.
While it is much to be regretted that
should have been found necessary or I'D
visable to authorize a temporary loa
of $4,000 to help the city out of il
financial quagmire, yet there is matte
temporary and that it has been cut dow
to that sum. In this matter, as we'll I
in refusing the unreasonable demand {
the Board of Education, the Legislatui
has pursued course that entities it
the thanks of the taxpayers.
If the late General Assembly had ON
ratified the amendments or given us Il
privilege of convoking constitution
convention there would have been lit
in the session to look back upon wi
regret.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23
NOTICE., JOSEPH A. KIDD, THF

NOTICE., JOSEPH A. KIDD, THE
IN TENANT Of the house known as the Della
ware City Hotel, situated at Delaware City, In
school district, No. 20, county Of New Castle and
State Of Delaware, In compliance with the re-
quiromenis OF the acts Of the General Assembly
In such case made and provided, do hereby give
Of General Sessions Of the peace and jail De-
livery Of the State of Delaware, I'm and for New
Castle county, on MONDAY, the 18th day of
May, A. d., 1885, being the next torn Of said
court, for license for said houae as an inn or
tavern for the sale therein of Intoxicating
liquors In less quantities than one quart, TO DO
drunk on the premises, and the following re-
spectacle citizens Of the said school district
rernmmenl Tim alIld annlianiinn a.iz.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA
OFFICIAL Notice by the Commissioner
of Agriculture LOsses I'm
lli.snnnri-

official Notice by the Commissioner
of Agriculture-EHea losses I'm
Missouri. .
The commissioner of agriculture has
issued circular giving official notice OF
the existence of contagious pleuro-pneu-
monia in Galloway county, Missouri, and
calling the attention Of all persons inter
ested to Sections and 7 of the act estab-
fishing the bureau of animal industry,
which make it penal otfense for any
railroad company or vessel owner to
transport, and for any person to drive OF
convey, diseased animals from one state
to another.
Fully 1000 cattle are diseased with the
pleuro-pneumonia in Galloway county,
Missouri, or have been exposed to the
contagion, and the loss to the stockmen
in the state is over $500,0O0. The stock.
men of St. Louis have sent an address Il
Governor Marmaduke, asking him to cal
special session of the Legislature to take
vigorous and effective measures at once tc
stamp out the disease.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23
HOME STUDIES IN NATURE, by Mary Treat
pp. 2iS; Illustrated Published by Harper Il
Rrnlhnra. NnNY York.

This little book Is made up of excerpts
from recent magazine articles by the fur
author who, holder than her sex III general
Is perfectly ut home among big, vicious
looking spiders and horrid bugs Of ali
grades Of hideousness. While perhaps not
soothing to sensitive nerves or conducive to
the most agreeable dreams to pore over
some of the woodcuts which embellish tho
text, It IL yet entertaining 10 read Of Mary's
adventures among her pet spiders and
wasps and ants. When 1t comes to going
and doing likewise, however, her sister
MaTys will probably ask 10 be- excused pre-
ferring rather to devote their leisure
moments to astronomical lessons M
the skating rink. There are other
domains OF natural history touched on
in the book into which they can follow her
with more equanimity of spirit. She has
spent some time among the graceful and
attractive as well as among the repulsiye
and unappreciated and chats breezily of
the habits and habitat of birds and butter
flies; she describes some of the pretty wild
flowers OF Floridan jungles and Jersey pine
groves which are either entirely new or but
little known to other botanists, and she also
devotes considerable attention to carnivor.
GUS plants Of diverse species. We receive
the book from O. F. Thomas q Co.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23

The Delanarean rejoices at the defeat
of the bill providing for mn expression of
the people upon the subject of holding a
constitutional convention. If it could
only overcome its antipathy to the sum
requisite for the purchase of the neces-
sary lumber and decorating material, it is
entirely safe to assert that our venerable
contemporary would be pleased to see the
State (outsidc of Wilmington fenced in
and the fence whitewashed
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23
PERSONAL.

II. II. Mccormick, ex-district attorney,
and who was speaker of the house OF
representatives Mt Harrisburg in 1871,
died Sunday in Pittsburg.
The Rev. Father Phelan, vicar general
of the Roman Catholic diocese Of Pitts
burg, has been appointed coadjutor of
Bishop Tuigg, who has been disabled by
illness for about two years
Monsignor A. j. Glorieux, the newly
appointed vicar apostolic of Idaho, was
Sunday consecrated bishop in the
Cathedral ut Baltimore. Archbishop
Gibbons was the consecrator, his assist
ants being Bishops Gross of Savannah,
and Macs of Covington, Ky. Bishop
Keane of Richmond, preached the sermon.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23

In miscellaneous article elsewhere
entitled Church of the Future" are to be
found the cavilings of theological
misanthrope, whose language shows he
does not know what he is talking about. 1t
would be just as sensible for n man to
argue against the immortality of going to
church, because young people have such
great freedom in meeting one another
there and especially in the evening of
pairing of on the way home to suit them
selves.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23
THE TR UNR MURDER CASE.
Evidence from N Detective ON the
Pacific Coast.

SAN Francisco, April 16.-Chief de-
tective Lees has discovered thnt Lennox
Maxwell, who is alleged to have muir
dered Arthur Preller in st. Louis, recently
arrived in this city. Maxwell purchased
a steerage ticket ON the steamer City of
Sydney for New Zealand. A cable dis.
patch will be sent to Auckland for his
arrest and letter WINS sent yesterday by
the steamer to Honolulu So that in the
event of his stopping there, that place
being coaling port, he may be appre-
hended. The police. however, think that
and take passage for China or Japan by
some sailing vessel, i'll which case all
trace of him will probably be lost.
After Maxwell left st. Louis and had
changed cars this side of La Junta, it
was noticed that he took Il large silver
| opdhl- faced watch from his pocket and
tried 10 wind it by using the heel of his
knife handle. Failing IN this he asked
several passengers if they had watch keys
| 1t was learned last night that while he
was ut the Palace Hotel he was unable to
open the trunks he had with him
and sent for lockslnith saying that he
had lost his keys. After the trunks were
opened large quantity of burned papers
WIS found i'll CRATE i'll the room. These
may have been Prellers letters and
papers A most important fact discov-
cred is that the baggage checks delivered
by Maxwell under I'M alias of D'Auguier
TO the Pacific Transfer Company of this
city, correspond with the numbers issued
Mt st. Louis by the st. Louis Il San Fran
cisco railroad to Hugh NJ. Brooks.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23

By an arrangement between the Oxford
and Cambridge Universities, where the
revision of the Old Testament has been
completed, and the American publishers
or agents, the new version will it is said,
be issued simultaneously in London, New
York and Philadelphia ON May 2lst. The
j. b. Eppincott company of Philadelphia
represented the Cambridge edition, and,
it is said, have received large orders from
New York, Boston and other places. The
demand, however, ii seems, is not so large
us il was Mt the time the revised edition of
the New Testament was first sold. Both
universities, it appears, have an equal in
terest in the new work, and, although
each will have its own edition, they will
be printed from plates made from the
same type. The agents for the Oxford
edition nre Thomas Nelson n Sons of New
York. Harper Bros, of New York, are
also to issue Cambridge edition to CORE
spond with their own reprint of the
revised New Testament. The j. b. Lip
pincott Company state that the different
houses are working in entire harmony,
and that it will not be possible to secure
n copy of the new work before the time
| specified. The different editions to he
offered in America, it seems, nre brought
from England in the completed state.
| The styles of the volumes will vary in
| quality and price. ....a
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23

70 relieve those who are paying the penalty of a
vicious course of life, but far more to induce the
young To keep to the path OF virtue, health and
happiness. The "Science Of LIFE directly ac-
complishes both. 1t contains secret truths that
every young man should know. Don't fail TO
send for II next mail.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23

LEXINGTON, KY, April 18.-Mrs. Hem
rietta Morgan of this city inherits
u 900. 600 by the death of the Baroness
DeFannemberg Mt Cannes, France, April
18th. The baroness WAS born here
and is the daughter of Colonel james
Strother. Mrs. Morgan, who is her
nearest relative, is the mother Of the
Confederate General John II. MORGAN.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23
THE RIOTS IN CORK.
The Reports ExaEgerated-''tiet
Off Their Exuberance.s,


Cork, April 15.-While the Prince and
Princess of Wales were being driven in
to-day's procession q Nationalist threw II
vegetable at the royal carriage. The
vegetable struck one of the footmnn with
considerable force, and if he had not
been, by the progress of the carriage,
moved across its path, it might have
struck the Princess. Many stones were
thrown by the roughs at the people who
followed and cheered the royal carriage,
and the police several times fired at the
roughs. No injuries are reported.
Immediately after the procession was
over a meeting of the Cork National
League was held. The meeting declared
that the Loyalist attempt to get up
| fictitious demonstration of welcome in
honor of royalty had proven IL failure
and passed resolution congratulating
John O'Connor, the Tipperary member OF
Parliament, who managed the hostile
demonstrations, for the victory he had
achieved for the Nationalist cause.
Infammatory speeches were made, and
the latest London newspapers containing
accounts of the royal progress were
burned in bonfire.
After the mass meeting the Nationalists
scattered through the city in parties num-
bering from so to 500 men. Doors and
windows were smashed, flags and decora-
tions were torn down and heaped upon
blazing bonfires, and many gun stores
were broken into for the purpose of arm
ing the mob. @
Policemen, when encountered singly or
in small squads, were attacked and beaten
numerically with their own truncheons.
In many cases the police rallied and
charged desperately upon the mob, but
they were invariably surrounded and re
pulsed. The police then resorted to a
free use of their revolvers and bayonets
IL was hand to hand fighting of the mos
desperate sort, the police standing bacl
} to back and receiving and intlicting terri
BILE injuries.
. AT midnight the streets were PRACTICAL.
| i'll possession of the mob. The policemen
/ who remained uninjured could not Mt
4 tempt to do more than maintain thei
d positions, and fight on the defensive. Ii
y addition to attacks from the crowds in tn
= streets the police were exposed to mul
I derous volleys of stones from Windows
:. house-tops, and other points of vantage
u The belief ut midnight was that the street
Y could not he cleared without the use q
Il artillery. 5..
LONDON, April 1G-la. 1.-THE riotin
Mt Cork has been suppressed. Many nj
rests were made and the hospitals are fu
of wounded policemen and rioters.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23

READING, Pa, April Is. Early this
morning the Philadelphia " Reading rail
road station mt Hamburg, this county
was entered by three thieves who blew
open the safe, causing terrific explosion.
The snfe was drilled and large quantity
of powder was usel The burglars
secured over 800 in money
besides stamps. tickets, &c. The
station was without Waterman. that
official being discharged ON the score Of
economy. The work was done by the
same gang who have been robhing and
starting fires in Lancaster county foi some
time