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The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-08-22

Prepare your exhibits for the
Cecil Country Fair, to be held at
ISIlktOm, Nd, oct. o, Z 3 and 9.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-08-22
Things in Quaker City

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. q, 1885.
The idea of the people of this city liy-
ing in the hope of the millennium when
there is IL dozen camp meetings about the
county is something to be wondered at
Sinners are now being prayed for at the
rate of about five hundred thousand Il day
away off in some secluded spot, while
the five hundred thousand sinners are
languishing in the city for want of some
spiritual advice. That is always the
funny part of this religious interest, to
think that all the good ones go to Il nice,
cool place, and pray TO the Lord that
nothing would please them better than
that the whole world might he trans
formed into as good people as they are,
when very few Of them would exchange
places for the sake Of trying to find out
whether their religion would fit every
phase of life. Bear with one another
is what the instruction is. Yet there is Il
charm in the thought Of this going away
and leaving your old church behind for
the cranky sexton to dust, and for him
to oil up the mite socicty's sewing ma
chine, and clear the scandal cObwCbs out
of the organ loft. You relish it all the
more when the autumn leaves are begin
ming to drop and an utter loneliness
brings you home.
The cable cars are still at II stand still.
First it was the winter frost, then it was
the summer heat that affected the run
ming, but the stubborn fact still remains
that they are not a success so far. Iun-
dcrstand that there is considerable
"cabal" among the management over the
state of affairs, and some that now hold
the grip" will have to go.
The crepe is coming down, and it is
well. Some of it is very shabby, and
is no credit to a mourning people. | sup
pose the regulation time is thirty days,
which is long enough for any man. Since
Grant has died, it seems to me | can't
get the hang of the days, as there has
been so much mourning and so very lit
TIC sleep III lllBilI VII hNNbhAb VI NilO htslAj
that the days seem all one-sided.
A woman was let out of the State
insane asylum the other day who was an
inmate there for over quarter of CEN
turv. Put in when she was bright de-
votee of society against her will and
without flaw in her sanity she comes
out an old woman with mind still unim-
paired. Her only fault seems to have
been that of opposition to a cranky old
father who didn't want to have the fam
lily name clouded over some little debt
she incurred. Miss BrincRley ought to
have lived in these days of extravaganza
when young ladies sit for hours knitting
ricl,-rack, and months on crazy quilts.
The explosion on board the FELTON, on
Monday was a curious affair. 1t is not
vet known what caused it, and it is but
family surmised that ii might have been
Il piece of vindictiveness on the part of
the opposition steamers which ply be-
tween the same places that the FELTON,
does. At any rate it is causing great
stir in this river excursion business, and
may deter many from the little trips
which the crafts afford that run up and
down the Delaware. One thing is Ger.
tain, that many infants would "climb the
golden stairs" if many explosions were tt
occur on the steamers, as it is Il pano'
| q -, e..
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-08-22

Mr.. VIM. Thomas, of Newton, Ia, says
"My wife has been seriously affected
with q cough for twenty five years, and
this spring more severely than eyer be-
fore. She had used many remedies
without relief, and being urged to try
DIR. Kings New Discovery, did so, with
most gratifying results. The first bottle
relieved her very much, and the second
bottle has absolutely cured her. She
has not had so good health for thirty
wears" Trial Bottle Free at T. G Jays
Drug Store, Newark, Del. Large size 81
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-08-22

If you are suffering with low and de-
pressed spirits, loss of appetite, general
debility, disordered blood, weak consti-
tuition, headache, or any disease of bill
ious nature, by all means procure bot
tie of Electric Bitters. You will be
inspired with new life strength and
activity will return pain and misery
will cease, and henceiOrh You will re-
joicc in praise of Electric Bittcrs. Sold
ut fifty cents a bottle by +, G, Jay New.
ark, Del. IL
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-08-22

VITAL Power is INFUSED INTO THE SYs-
tenn, every organ regulated, every sccrc-
ton purified, the nerves of motion and
sensation strengthened, the brain refresh
ed, the appetite renewed, the digestion
improved by that irresistible Vegetable
Restorative, DIR. WALKERS VINEGAR BIT-
TIERS. 1t does not change disease from
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-08-22
Eblitt.

A. w. Gookin, proprietor of the Ebbitt
House. 10th and Market street, Whining
ton, Del, keeps his bar supplied with the
choicest wines, liquors and cigars.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-08-22
DIED.

Strickcrsvillc, Chester
County, Pa, Friday morning August
2lst. 1855, Thomas Whann, in his SIth
wear. Funeral from his late residence,
Sunday, August 23d, 1888, leave the
honse 1880 a. IN. Services and inter
ment at Head of Christiana Church.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-08-22
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

FOR SALE.-One half-Alderney
Cow with calf by side.
JOHN DoNNELL, SR
Above Armstrong; store,
aug 22-lt* Newark, Del.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-08-07
Known to police as "Mark II
Stop Growing.

The dollar is mighty the strong
arm of man is mightier still. The one
represents labor completed the other
represents labor in progress. Both are
of kindred origin and destiny. If each
is permitted to perform its legitimate
functions, without help or hindrance,
tAAs SbpfeY Yilb aagriabu ,EInGHienaliye, gsaass
wrought such marvels that our capaci-
ties Of production appear to have out
grown our requirements of consumpt
ion. We are in something like the
condition in which the Egyptians were
after their seven years of plenty. Our
granaries are overlooking our ware
houses are piled full of all sorts of
merchandise; there Is greater accumu
lation of money than ever before, and
the farmers, mechanics and bankers,
forlorn OF aspect and heavy of heart,
are bemoaning the hardships of the
situation, and inquiring, "When will
times be better ?" Everybody remem
bers the veritable story that has been
repeated so often about Eben Francis
who was the Cresus of Boston half {
century ago. Called upon for mod
crate subscription, he exclaimed, "Of
dear don't ask me 10 give anything
I've had half million dollars lying
idle in the bank for six weeks Iv'
lost the interest on it all that time.
There are a good many millionaire
lamenting losses of similar kind, bu
their less afhuent fellow-beings car
hardly be expected to regard then
compassionately. There are vast mul
ttudes whose toll is sweetened an'
whose spirits are lightened by the know
edge that they are dwelling in the mids
of abundance in which they can s
far participate as to make themselve
and those dependent upon them CON
fortable.5 Fortune is never prodig;
in her gifts to them, but they have les
cause of complaint about hard time
than usual, and that is blessing thu
ought to reconcile everybody to tn
temporary curtailment of the resource
of the favored few, who in their wor
estate have more money than they ca
find any good use for.-10e of iSee
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-08-07
A New Theory As to Dlsembodied Spirits.

Spiritualism has a new hobby. That
famous Methodist, the Rev. DIR. ID. ID.
Wheden, had, shortly before his death,
evolved curious theory as to disem-
bodied spirits. His idea was that the
entire nervous system of human be-
ing, not the contents of the Uranium
alone, constituted the mind. There
fore, the ramifcations of the nerves,
forming in themselves shape conform
ing exactly to that of the whole figure,
made the soul of man Just like his body
so far as con6guration was concerned.
lie believed that at death this contour
and semblance of the dead body separ-
ated itself, and became the eternal
form of the spirit, visible to its fellows,
and, under some conditions, to terres-
uial folks. DR.. Wheden described how
the soul gets out of the body. "Emerg
ing upward" he says, "the spirit
awakes into the pure ether-a blessed
atmosphere. This paradisiac ether il
an eilluence from the divine essence
and the emancipated soul bsthes, swims
hives in its own genial and native ele
ment. Paradise thus pervades our al
above and around us, and at death tn
spirit enters thereinto as through
veil" He intimated that apparition
are glimpses of the beings of this clos
| by but usually invisible world. "Eve
the resurrected body of Christ" h
says, "walked through the solid wall G
the house, and first revealed itself t
His disciples at the table" lie calle
these beings angeloids, and argued the
} leave behind them, in tho discarde
col pse, the baser attributes, The pc
tinency of Wheden's theory to modeI
spiritualism lies in the harmony wit
4 the alleged phenomena of materializ
. ton, II has been seized upon by Sc
eral of the professional mediums, al
9 in some of the seances, forms in sci
l blance comporting with the conditio
) of angeloids, have been shown to q
ltonished disciples.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-08-07
Knocking Out Burglars.

Any Of your detectives got on TO
that new mob of burglars yet 2 he
asked as he entered the office of the
Chief of Police of Detroit.
"Well, no arrests have yet been
made
"And there won't be. The chaps
have got enough, | reckon, and if
they haven't left town by this time
I'm sinner
"What do you know about burg
lars p
"Sec that p he queried, as he held
out a hand with every knuckle skin
ned, don't wait for burglars TO
up and burgle me; l try to get
in the first blow, Last night took a
little walk around and met burglar,
"How do you know ?"
"Well, l asked his name and bust
and he told me to go to Sheol. With
that popped him, and you ought tc
have seen him get up and fly lr
less'n half an hour l met another"
"IIow did you indentify him 7"
81 took him by the collar and told
him that his jig was up, and his con
fusion gave him away. With tha
popped him, and you ought to have
seen him take the grass The thirt
one | met at about | l O'Clock"
"What Another p
"You bet! He was walking along
as softly as you please, and l dodge
in on him and says |;
"Spotted, old fellow, and you're IN
meat "
"lIe yells for the police, but I'm u
to all these lodges, With that | POI
/ ped him, and / left him crawlin
around on the grass. Say, | want
be detective.
lie was told that the matter woul
be considered and within the nel
hour three eminent citizens, having 6
eminent black eye, called at the Off,
/ aud each story began with,
"As | was about to enter my ga
) last night desperate scoundrel rush'
, upon me and dealt me stuunir
) blow
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-08-07
Relics and Cures.

Tie relics of saints were once used as
a cure for nearly every disease, and the
miraculous cures reported to have been
pelformed by saints and bishops are
so numerous that, as MIR. Thrupp
points out, the accounts of them ''pro-
baby occupy more than one-half the
writings of Bede and many other of
the eaIly chroniclers." In the Church
of ST Sophia, at Jerusalem there used
to BE- exhibited stone upon which
Christ was alleged to have stood when
being examined before Plate. This
stone was considered so miraculous
that pilgrims hocked by thousands to
the church to see it, and took the
MEASURE of the foot prints, which were
said to be perfectly visible, which they
henccforth wore around their necks as
a remedy for disease. AS further in
stances Of this species of faith-healing
we are told how an abbess was healed
of disease which had baffled all ply
si"ians by wearing the girdle of ST.
Cuthbert. There is, too, the famous
legend relating to the Virgin of the
Pillar at Saragossa, who is related in
answer to the prayer OF one of her
worshipers, to have restored a leg that
had been amputated, There is a pict-
ure of the miracle in the cathedral OF
Saragossa, opposite the image. Again
a broken arm was mended by the
application of the wood of cross
erected by st. Oswald, and innumer-
able cures are said to have been
wrought by holy water into which
chips of oak blessed by st. Oswald, or
pieces of Bishop Earconwald's horse
litter had been dipped. Once more
Mr.. Thrupp mentions how the hair of
saints beard dipped in holy water
and taken inwardly was constantly
presc;bed as a powerful remedy tor
fever, while blindness was said to have
been frequently cured by rubbing the
eyes with relics. Hallam. it may bc
remembered, denounced in no measur
ed terms these pretended miracles OF
the church which he explains as "th'
work of deliberate imposture.' Every
: cathedral and monastery had its tutela
saint aud every saint his legend, fabri
> Gated in order to enrich the churche
, under his protection by exaggeratinl
, his miracles, his virtues, and conse
q quenlly his power of serving thos
= who paid literally for his patronage.
: Among the numerous survivals of thes
. miraculous faith cures associated wit
= our Lord and the saints which still eS
. . ist in our own country may be ment
& ioned the apocyphal correspondence
. between our Lord aud Abgar, King o
! Odessa, copy of which when wor
- - on the person is considered a preser
y vative against fever.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-08-07
Grant and the Young Sentinel.
now THE GENERAL WAS COW "ELLED TO
tut OUT HIS INEVITABLE CIGAR,
From the Cinclnattl Enquirer.

Captain John X. Steere, now an in
mate of the Soldiers Home, tells
good story, showing how he, when but
l6 years of age, made General Grant
obey his own orders.
TIL occurrence took place in the early
stages of the war, shortly after Grant
had receiyed his commission as briga-
der general. .Johu Steere, then boy
little over 16 years of age, enlisted.
The morning after young Steere got
his gun he was stationed at General
Grants headquarters as guard. 1t
was in November and the day was
a cold and boisterous one. As every
pers N who came near the place seem
ed TO be an officer he molested no one,
devoting all his time and attention to
keeping himself warm and comfort
able Morpheus courted him and he
wa, on the verge of taking pleasant
sno re when some one coming down
the stairway aroused bim. Looking
up he saw an officer buckling on an
elegant sword. After passing through
the door the officer came TO halt, and,
looking at the guard Indignantly ask
ed.
"What are you doing there ~ I'm
the guard" replied Steere.
"An excellent guard indeed. Do
you know whose headquarters this So
"Ye4, sir; General Grants
The officer looked at the guard
moment in silence, ard then thunder
ed: Stand up there, sir, and bling
your gun to a shoulder y
Young Steere did as requested, bring
ing his gun to a shoulder like a squir-
rel hunter. The officer took the gun
from him and went through the man.
ual Of arms for him. He remained
with HIM for fifteen or twenty minutes
until ne taught him how to handle his
gun, when he asked
"IIow long have you been in the
servics ?" ''Several days
do you know who l am p mo,
sir ; never saw you before.
81 am General Grant. You have
deserted your post of duty, sir, which
is very serious breach of discipline.
l will not punish you this time, bu.,
young man, be very careful it does not
occur again. Orders must be strictly
obeycd always.
Several days after this young Steere
was put on guard on steamboat
which was being loaded with provis-
ions and ammunition. with orders to
allow no one with lighted pipe or
cigar to come within a given distance.
He Lad not been at his post of duty
more than an hour when General
Grant approached with lighted cigar
between his teeth He seemed to be
deep in thought but, the moment he
came near the gangplank his musings
were interrupted.
''IIalt !" cried the young guard,
bringing his gun to his shoulder.
The General was taken completely
si sgiard wis naF AlA" "tedeatdhea SsaqnHg
gun, amazed and then his countenance
showed signs of rising anger. But he
did not bulge an inch.
Il have been taughts.to obey orders
strictly and promptly" exclaimed
Steere, quoting the General; "and as
myIorders are not to allow any one to
approach this boat with a lighted
cigar, you will please throw yours
awaI.'
Grant smiled, threw his cigar in to the
river, and crossed the gangplank on to
the boat.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-08-07
CHAPTER III.

For week or two Estelle went
about in frame of mind which is apt
to upset the caluest natures, and,
which in a girl of her excitable tenn
perament, took the shape of extreme
iitful alterations between turbulent
gaiety and fearful depression, She
would have worked herself into fever
had iC not been for the sincere good
sense and unobtrusive sympathy Of
quiet Mary Cotterell, who understood
her visitor well.
Then one day she darted into the
house, dragged Mary to her room, and
there burst out crying and laughing
wildly,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-08-07

A Washington telegram is as fol-
lows: On the 20th Of June General
Black addressed the following letter to
Samuel Clements, pension applicant
Elmira, New York:
"Replying to your inquiry relative
to your pension claim, Gel tificate No.
207, ,520, it is proper to state that so
much therein as is based on rheuma.
tism, piles and sore eyes was rejected
May 23, 1885, on the ground that there
has been no pensionable disability there
from since June 20, 1884, the date
your claim therefor was fled"
Clements claim was being looked
after by Senator Hawley, and Mrs.
Hawley attends to all her husbands
pension office business She sent Glenn
ents the follow ing postal card:
| am informed that your pension is
allowed, ana 1 congratulate you.
Very truly,
JOSEPH r. HAwLEY.
per ii. w. HAwLEY.
ELMRA, N. Y, July 8, lsS5.-John
G. Black, Esq, Conmissioner-Dear
Sir: have not applied for a pension.
| have often wanted a penson-often
ever so often, may say but mas
much as the only military service l
performed during the war was in the
Confederate amy, have always felt
a delicacy about asking you for it.
However, since you have suggested the
thing yourself, l feel strengthened. l
haven't any very pensionable diseases
myself, but l can furnish substitute
a man who is just simply chaos, a
museum of all the different kinds of
aches and pains, fractures, dislocations
and maformations there area man
who would regard rheumatism, piles
and sore eyes as mere recreation and
refreshment after the serious occupa-
tions of his day. If you grant me the
pension, dear sir, please hand it to
Gen. Hawley, United States Senator.
| mean, hand him the certificate, not
the money, and he will forward it TO
me. You will observe by his postal
card, which inclose, that he takes a
friendly interest in the matter. He
thinks I've already got the pension,
whereas I've only got the rheumatism,
but | didn't want that had that be-
fore. wish it were catching; l know
a man that l would load up with it
pretty early. Lord, but we all feel
that way sometimes. have seen the
day when-but never mind that, you
may be busy. Just hand it to Hawley
the certificate, you understand, ii
not transferable.
Very truly yours,
S. L. CLEMENTS
Known to police as "Mark Twain.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-08-07

An English cutler now makes what
he calls fisherman's knife, which
weighs less than pound, and is car
ried at the belt, yet contains gaff,
scissors, weing scale up to twenty
pounds, large and small blade. screw
driver and file, tin opener, cork
screw, gimlet, an eighth-inch measur-
er, tweezers, and pricker.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-08-07
SELECT POETRY.
CYPRESS.

J.
Moonlight, aud love, and magnolia trees;
A bare, gray house on lonely hill;
river below, with the sweep Of seas
An afr of stillnsss, so strangely strl-
so still Of trouble or strife or stir,
I heard my heart as 1t beat for her
Her lover and she and the cypress trccs
And IL Alone by the black lagoon
a place of ghosts and Of mystereS
Lake lilies upheld to the loveless nc IN;
The darkness slain by the sword Of day
And Under the cypress trcss hidden away.
ILL.,
Her wondrous hair Her eyes were as large
As torch-lost deer's that feeding in moss
And seeing the light in the huntsman's barge,
Lifts UP its head and comes wadlng across,
Wide-eyed and dazed, and reaches its head
Trusting and reachlng-and so, shot dead
''The cy press is secret as Death" said /,
"And Death he Is dearer to me than gold"
SO the cypress woods and the waves hard by
Have many and many a secret to hold
For why did she turn to the wood and the wave
And look and look as in dead loves graye7
joaquin Ml!er IN ne current.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-15
THE AMERICAN CONSUL.

The appointment by the President
of a successor to the United States
Consul, Mr.. D. a. Mckinley, is in
violation of the spirit of the Civil
Service Act. Upon taking Office it
was announced, on the Presidents
behalf, that Consuls who had per-
formed their duty need not fear re-
moval but he no sooner found him
self relieved of Senatorial supervision
than he cut loose from the Civil
Service regulations and began remov-
ing the most efficient officers in the
service. General MOseby at Hong
keng was an early victim, and Consul
Mckinley at Honolulu is another,
and an equally conspicuous example
of the bad faith of the President. This
gentleman has been four years and
three months in office, and for the
first time in the history of the Ha
waiian Consulate, during his tenure OF
office it has been a source of revenue
to the United States Government.
Moreover, he has given uniform salts
faction in the discharge of his duties,
and there are on file in the State De-
partment at Washington the very
strongest testimony of his unvarying
urbanity, attention and accuracy in
the dispatch of business. Yet at the
first opportunity after the President
had been relieved of political super
vision, an honest, experienced and
capable official is removed TO make
room for a political hanger-on from
Ohio. If this is the way President
Cleveland is going to give effect to
Civil Service reform, then are his pro-
fessions the merest shams, and polit-
zeal purity under a Democratic ad
ministration fraud. During all the
term of Cansul McKinley's service he
was only one day absent through
illness. If he had been absent half
his time he would probably have
been continued in Office.