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The Wilmingtonian., 1885-04-04
Business Improving.

There are indubtable evidences of i'm
Many of our trades-people and shop-keepers
are already doing fair spring trade, and
none of them now enuuciate those doleful
presages so frequently dropped from ther
lips but few weeks back.
Visitors upoa our main thoroughfares are
truck by the numerous improvements in
rebuilding and alteration going on in our
main thoroughfares. Shipley street is uu-
dergoing transformation The silent edict
has gone forth that business people need
that street as an avenue for trade ard shops.
1t is no longer street for private resilen-
ccs No more ncontestabe proof Of the
latent business vitality of the metropo is OF
Delaware could be afforded than this. 1t is
a highly gratifying picture for the contem-
plation of our citizens 1t is result due
entirely to the natural demands of trade,
there has been no pre-concelted effort to
this end and for this reason may be looked
upon as the healthiest evidence of prosper
| ity for Wilmington. Every variety of di-
verse retail business is carried on in this
newly opening up trade locality. Among
the firms recently commencing business on
Shpley between Sixth and Seventh streets,
are, A. s. Jones, leather findings; ]. A
Cannon, furniture store; Bratton & Pyle
painters and decorators; Rossi'cr & McSor
ley, printers; Mccartney s. Kenny, carpets
and upholstery; J. Simpers undertaken; s
F. Marshall, agent, Howe Sewing Machine
Smiley King, undertaken; w. F. Crossley
the New Home Sewing Machine etc. 9th
ers in that neighborbood have made exteE
sive improvements in their premises. Ain
scows oyster depot has undergone grea
changes and improvements as also has ]. T
Gardner's restaurant. G. p. Marony ha
remodeled his premises. The Safe Deposi
Company will have an entrance to their ney
structure on Shipley street. Other struct
ures are being put up and changes are il
contemplation. Business people in tina
quarter also complain of tie restricted ex
tent of their premises and lack of room.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-04-04
Notable Book.

We have just received from the publisher
a handy little volame entitled,
"GASKELL's HANDBOOK OF USE
FUL INFORMATION"
1t contains Calculations, Trade Secrets,
Rules, Business Forms, Legal Items, and
Statistical Tables of practical value for Me-
chanics, Farmers, Lumbermen, Bankers,
Book-keepers, Politicians, and all classes of
workers in every department of human eff
fort, from the household to the manufac-
tory; and compilation of facts for ready
reference on almost every subject. 1t is in
fact portable encyclopaedia.
No more valuable book has ever been of
fered, as it contains so much information of
practical value in everyday life. 1t is nicely
COTTON up, and will be sent to any address
by mail, post paid ON receipt of % cents, by
GEO. w. OGILVIE, PUBLISHER, ESQ LAKE
ST., CHICAGO, ILL. m14-Gt.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-04-04

rive at Cincinnati at 10 a. m, where they
will spend the day. Dinner will be served
at the Grand Hotel at 1890. AT , p. M,
the party will be entertained by an Organ
Concert at the celebrated Music Hall, after
which visits will be made to the Art Mu-
scum, the College of Music and other places
of interest in the city. The train will leave
Cincinnati at p. m,. and reach Cairo at
noon, Saturday,
At this point the entire train will
cross the Ohio on the large trans
fer steamer and have full view of the
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-04-04

Two tablespoonfuls grated horse-radish, to
which add half teaspoonful of white SUI
gar, one tablespoonful of vinegar, two ta-
blespoonfuls of cream and pinch of salt.
The ingredients should be added in the ord
er in which they are named, the cream and
salt last Of all.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-04-04

early in the morning Of May 2nd, passing
through jackson and Grenada, Miss, and
enabling the party TO view many points of
interest that were passed in the night on
the trip south. The train will be so timed
as to enable the excursionisls TO sec the
grand and imposing scenery Of the Ale
gheny Mountains for which the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad is 50 justly celebrated; a
brief stop being made at the Buck Horn
Wall to permit the party to view the Cheat
River Gorge.
Those of the excursionists who SO prefer,
can remain in Washington, the tickets al
lowing a stop off there and also at Balti-
more.
1t is sufficient to say that everything will
be done by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road to make the excursion successful
que.
Col G. 5. Wood, Proprietor of the Eutaw
House, who had charge of the catering for
the recent excursion of the St. Johns Com
mandery, Knights Templar, will again at
tend TO this department.
The train while in New Orleans will re-
main in the Great jackson Route Depot
from which point cars run every five min
utes to all parts of the city, including the
Exposition grounds. .
The cost Of the entire trip will be $85,
this including railroad fare, sleeping car ac-
commodations, both en- tic and while in
New Orleans, and three meals per day dur
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-04-04
New Spring Style.

We compliment our able evening contem-
paay, Euery Erening upon its beautiful
new dress. We had to look twice and rub
our eyes before its identity could be rec
ognized
Egery Eceaitag, as the Morning Mems says
is good afternoon paper. Its enterprispg
treasurer Mr. John Whitford has tbs thanks
of the community for presenting them with
a handsome new sheet.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-04-04

timore and Ohio Railroad Company, who
will accompany the party throughout the
entire trip.
Those who formed part of the recent
Knight Templars' excursion to New Orleans
state that the courtesy and consideration ex-
tended them by Mr.. Mackenzie, not only in
tensified the pleasures of the journey, but
his exceeding urbanity was in such decided
contrast to the average railroad official, that
he was regarded in the light of modern
phenomenon.
The excursion party will leave Broad
Street Station at 7.20 Thursday morning,
April Esd, and dine at the Eutaw House,
Baltimore, at noon. At Camden Station,
Baltimore, they will board special train,
consisting of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Palace Sleeping and Dining cars. Leaving
Baltimore at t.i0 p. M, the first stop will
be at Washington City at 2.40p. m, where
those who have gone ahead can Join the
party. The next stop will be at Harper's
Ferry, so as to give the excursionists an op-
portunity of viewing the picturesque and
romantic scenery Of this spot, which is as
socated with so many thrilling events in
the country's history.
Cumberland, Md, will be reached
at 7.30 p. m, where the party
will sup at the famous Queen City Hotel.
On Friday, April 2lth, the party will ar
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-04-04

To PREPARE HoEsE-RAD While on
the subject of cookery, ! should like to say
a word about the preparation of that most
excellent sharpener of the appetite, horse.
radsh, which is frequently drowned in vine
gat that it does not differ very essentially
from oak shavings picked, The following
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-04-04

junction of the Ohio with the Great Father
of Waters. Passing through Milan and
Jackson. Tenn, by daylight, the excursion
will reach New Orleans at 10 a. M, Sunday,
April Goth. Six days will he spent in New
Orleans in attending the Thirty-sixth An
nua Session of the American Medical Associ-
alton and in visiting the Worlds Industrial
Exposition, which is now in the full tide of
success. In this season of the year, New
Orleans and its environs are in the full
splendor of their tropical beauty.
The excursion will leave New Orleans
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-04-04
FArmer's Market.

MessIs. Carr and Patton, the Unknown
commission merchants Of this city, have re-
Gently taken possession of the large and
commodious building at the S. L. corner of
Front and Madison streets, and stocked the
same with a full line Of goods common to a
general grocery. This enterpr sing firm have
contracted with number of large farmers
for continuous supply of eggs butter and
general farm produce. A large addition is
already being made to the store for the pur-
pose of accommodating the trade in Flour,
Feed and Hay. Messrs. Carr and Patton
have already establis' ed a reputation for fair
dealing, and the western section of the city
will find the western Market" before the
summer wanes, an indispensable luxury.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-04-04
BEEF! Beef! beef!
807A KING STREET
Superior cuts of Chicago and
Chester County Beef.

Guaranteed to be the most
tender and finest flavor of any
meat in the market.
Shambles open and ready for
business at S o'clock a. m., until
6 p. m, every day in the week,
save the Sabbath day.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-04-04

ing the entire trip.
It will lie necessary lol those desrous Of
accompanying the Excursion TO enrol them
selves promptly. Twenty y-fve dollars must
accompany each name and balance be paid
by April 20th
As names are received herths, etc will be
assigned.
Any further information sill ha gladly
supplied BY
h. MACKENZIE,
Passenger Agent, B. & o. r. r.,
S43 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-03-26
He Doesn't Like Florida.

A correspondent of the Worcester
Spy who is wintering in Florida,
writes:
| wish the thousands of people up
North who are aching to get down
here and start an "Orange grove
could see some of the poor fellows
who have located on their sand lots,
out in the burning sun, put up little
hard pine shanty, worse than anything
in Massachusetts, set out their orange
trees, which look withered and sick,
living on "hOg and hominy," breath
ing in malaria, deprived of all priv
leges, fOOling away years in which
they might make fortune North or
West. Again, oranges are very per-
ishable fruit, cannot be dried, canned
or preserved, the larger and nicer the
harder to transport and the quicker to
decay. For every tree now in bearing
there are 30 not bearing, and the num-
Der to come into bearing the next four
or five years is enormous, still the crop
this year cannot be marketed at "a
profit to growers.
Many boxes ofchOice fruit are spoiled
by rough handling in transit, and the
sender receives bill of expenses, in
stead of a check. Hundreds of men
have come here, looked about a little,
got the fever, bought land at 500 per
acre, of the actual value of 20 cents,
started a grove" and gone home,
about the worst Cleft fellows in the
country. Not all the land in Florida
will grow oranges, and generally the
best place to grow the fruit is the
worst place for man, full of malaria,
sand flies, tieas and mosquitoes. The
Crackers" have made but little money
by this Florida craze men came here,
bought land at a big price, which for
years had been for sale for the taxes,
the native was paralvzed, and when
he came to, the land had passed into
the hands of spectators, and they are
trying to work it off on greenhOrDs
from the North and West. Nature
never tried to grow anything here but
hard pine, live oak, cypress and alliga-
tors.
The trees make DO effort to obtain
any nourishment from the soil or top
of ground, but send their tap root
right down about six feet where they
find something to live on, no doubt.
The climate of Florida is said to be
favorable for consumptives, but the
moist air and sudden changes would
seem to be rather against that theory,
but for dyspepsia 1t is perfect cure,
for there is nothing here in the food
line to tempt one to overload their
stomach, and those who eat little have
a corresponding amount of dyspepsia.
A few people make meney in Florida,
the rumseller, hotel keeper and real
estate man. One of the latter who has
been here IA years, and made money
enough So he can afford to tell the
truth, said to me this: "Unless a man |
has lost his health and wants Florida !
for it's climate, he had not better come |
here to engage in any business the |
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-03-26

plete history of Mr.. Coughs life and
work.
The book itself is bran new from be-
ginning to end, no part of it ever hav-
ing been published before. Mr.. Cough
says it contains Giving Truths for
Head and Heart" So it does; and it
takes firm hold on both. He illustrates
great truths by strikingly pertinent
facts and stories. In every chapter he
sparkles and glows, rises and falls,
now lifting the reader in breathless
citation in some sublime picture, now
depressing him to tears with n graphic
tale of domestic ruin, dcsOlatiOn, re-
morse, or death,-then like flash OF
lightning he comes to his relief with a
story so irresistibly funny that the
reader is instantly convulsed with
lau liter. 1t is pre-eminently book
for the home circle, and its influence
will be felt long after John B. Cough
has passed away.
There are 227 illustrations. Many
of them happily illustrate the humOr-
Gus side of life while others illustrate
life's pathOs. There are two fine steel
plates of Mr.. Cough. One is full
length, and shows him as he was in
1855, when the marks of his terrible
dissipation were upon him. The other
portrait is from a photograph just
taken. Once begun the volume will
not be laid aside till the last page is
finished.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-03-26

was taken away from him, also his
watch and pocket book. He was shut
up in a cell with an intoxicated tramp
who had arrived at that stage of de-
liTium tremens at which snakes are the
favorite delusien, and who took poor
Mr.. Jones for one or several of them,
and insisted on treading on his head.
In argument and single combat with
this gentleman Mr. Jones passed the
hours until morning, when he was
taken from his highly perfumed Sc
questration and dragged through the
bleak streets to a court of justice,
where he attempted to explain matters
once more, and was still explaining
them without producing the slightest
effect upon any one, when his wife and
son arrived.
Even then the ulster, the cap, aud
the black eye deceived poor Mrs. Jones
for a few minutes, and but for Sam,
there is no knowing what might have
become of the unhappy gentleman.
However, Sam came to his rescue, and
the three went home together in cab,
Mrs. Jones moaning and wringing her
hands all the way, and Mr.. Jones
threatening to sue for divorce.
He fOrgave his wife at last, however,
but he never forgave the alarm, which
he demolished forthwith.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-03-26

For seventeen years a judge, his SER
vice on the bench is reckOned as among
the most brilliant in the history of the
supreme court of the state, while for
twenty years he has been one of the
conspicuous men of the Nation in pol
itics and at the bar. His tenure of the
judgeship has the halo with which
distinguished and sustained success
surrounds its favOrite. The Revised
Laws of the Nation are a lasting mon
ument to his tireless industry as
a legislator, his great ability as a
lawyer, and the implicit confidence
tidence congress reposed in his talents,
his faithfulness and his capacity for
great trusts. He will also be
remembered as the central figure and
inquisitorial spirit of the Credit Mo
bilier investigation, and the hero of
the brilliant Arkansas episode, when,
in the teeth of Ben Buffers impudent
and intimidating opposition, he snatch
ed splendid victory from a hostile
house. His later career in the
House, where, as a member of the mi
nority party, the opportunities for dis
tinction have been few, but where he
has had the privilege of doing the
greater part of the work of the Judicial
~ committee and has secured the en-
actment of certain laws of the greatest
Importance, with his previous distin-
guished career in the lower House,
have fairly won for him the title of the
Great Commoner.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-03-26
Fast Trains and Fast Living.

Three of the oldest and most cOmpe-
tent engineers to whom was committed
the running of fast trains, not long
since asked relief at the hands of the
superintendent of the road. They had
found that the mental and nervous
strain which came upol them while
urging their locomotives to this high
rate of speed was so great that they
found themselves unable to bear ii.
One of those men, an acquaintance OF
our informer, was Il few months before
stalwart man, with nervous Organi-
cation which seemed capable of bear
ing anything that could be put upon
it. He now had grown thin and bag
gard, while his brawny hand was
trem bling as if an incipient palsy had
stricken him. He had been compelled
to say to the management: "You must
give me slow freight train, on which
| can have an opportunity to recover
myself, or | shall be compelled to re-
sign my position in order to save my
health, and even my life" To these
men, the excitement coupled with re-
sponsiOility, great enough at ordinary
times, had become simply unbsarable
when their engine was rushing over
the rails at a speed of 50 or 80 miles
an hour. These men were trained
ness combined, and had years of expe-
rience, but this excessive demand was
too much for them. There is some
thing pathetic in this statement. 1t is
well known that the relative cost of
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-03-26
The Big Snow Storm of 1893.

The thirty first day of March, 1929,
is remembered by many old people as
the day when most terrific snow
prevailed throughout New England,
the storm being especially severe in
this locality. On the day preceding
the weather was so warm that people
sat at open windows. There was a
sudden change in the temperature dur
ing the night, and the next day the
most intense cold prevailed, accompa-
MED by the heaviest fall of snow that
had been known for years. DR.. Thorn
son, a well-known physician of Charles
town, Mass, at that time, in order to
90 from the foot of Green street to
High street, a very short distance, was
obliged to go on horseback, the horse
with great difficulty and danger
stumbling through the drifts. A dress
maker who was at work at a house on
Charlestown Neck, started early in the
afternoon to walk through Main street
to her home on Bow street, lost her
way in the drifts near Guilds tanneries
and would have persisted from cold
and exhaustion if a man coming along
most OppOrtunely had not extricated
her from her peTilOus position. A
CharlestOwn boy of twelve years had
started out the day before to drive a
COW to Stew, was Overtaken by the
storm and obliged to stay three days
at a tavern in Sudbury until the roads
could be broken out so that he could
return home.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-03-26
The New Postal Regulations.

The following are the important
changes, under the new legislation of
Congress, which will take effect be-
ginning with July /, 1885:
First-The weight of all single rate
letters is increased from One-half ounce
each, or fraction thereof, to one ounce
each or fraction thereof.
Second-All newspapers sent from
the office of publication, including
sample copies, or when sent from a
news agency to actual subscribers will
be entitled to transmission at one cent
per pound.
Third-Any article in newspaper, or
other publication, may be marked for
observation, except by written or
printed words, without increase Ofpos-
tage.
Fourth-That special stamp of the
value ten cents may be issued, which
when attached to a letter, in addition
to the regular postage will entitle the
letter to immediate delivery at any
place containing four thousand pOpu-
lation or over, within the carrier limit
of any free delivery office, or within
one mile of the post office-such special
delivery by messenger to be between
Z o'clock a. IN. and midnight.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-03-26
A Particular Lawyer.

"Do you take will cases 7" asked a
tall young man, with a country air, as
he entered the office OF prominent
lawyer. eyes, sir" replied the attor-
ney. "What can | do for You ?" ''If a
man dies and leaves million dollars
to his widow, can his step-children
come in ?" "Why, certainly they can.
Has your step father" Gould you be
engaged in such Il case ?" Certainly
can. my friend. When do you want
me to begin the suit ~ "Well, not
just yet. You see it's this way.
Mother is engaged to an old man who
has pointer on Western Union stock,
and ii she marries him, and the market
comes out all right, and If he should
die, and if he made IL Withhold on {;
quit your kicking. I'll 60 out"
''Seems to me-" he sOlilOquized, as he
limped up the street, "these lawyers
offer mighty little encouragement for a
man to be cautious. "-[ New York
Graphic.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-03-26
MISS CLEVELAND.

She is tall and thin, with a bright
intelligent face, and looks as though
she were fully equal to any emergency
She has the knack of remembering
names and faces, not general talent
by any means, which will serve her
well in Washington. 1t is said that in
one of her lectures she has advanced
pronounced views upon the temper
ance question, but that she will not
obtrude her ideas so as to indicate
what course she desires her distin-
guished brother to pursue in relation
to furnishing wines at state dinners.
She has quite a reputation in educa-
tiOnal circles, as lecturer on histori-
cal subjects. She is ready and bril-
liant cOnversatiOnalist, and speaks flu
emily several foreign languages. Al
together, she is quite novelty in
Washington society and, while it
cannot be denied that many ladies
wish that she did not wear short hair,
they admit that they forget all about
it after talking to her for n little time.
She has frankly told her acquaintance
here that she regarded the incessant
round of the whirl of society as some
thing to be feared, and has about the
same opinion as the President, of the
real necessity of it. Mrs. H0yt may
possibly remain here during the winter
season. She is pretty little woman.