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The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
City AMairs

In certain deGnitive &c ! is gratui-
tous thing to praise an offic .or doing his
duty. For fulfilling his sworn obligations
no man should LOOK for thanks. However,
it is now some measurable . ace OF time
since Mr.. Rhoads has taken charge of the
chief magistracy of our city,
1t was feared at the outset OF his incum-
bency of the office that tension in certain d-
rections would place difficulties in the way
of the new mayor, and, Whatever his good
intentions might be, succes sful admins
tIation Of municipal matters, with the best
good of the citizens in view, vas quite prob
lematicai.
Now, however, those views have been dis
PEELED and Mr.. Rhoads is revealing himself
as a conservative and conscientious official.
Nothing but words of ccm.mendaton are
heard on all sides for his quiz aud unassum-
ing management of public s5aifs To be
SURE ldDy VI 1he Responsiveness anu Tl5uI-
full pTerogatiyes of the chief magistrate of
Wilmington have disappeared through pro
cess of law and the accident Of the ideas of
certain sages. But shorn Of his rightful
dignities as he is, our new mayor does his
duty in a quiet exemplary manner The
ity business pertaining to the mayors of
flee is punetually attended to and effectively
administered.
Mr.. Rhoads is always at his post. Police
affairs are running as smoothly as the most
exacting citizen could demand. The Chief
of Police is an undemonstratiye but effect.
i've official and the citizens appear gratified
and well served by the new appontees upon
the police force,
This is condition of things that we feel
considerable qualification i'll perceiving and
of being enabled to place on record.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
The English Incursion.

The English yachtsmen and ericketers
nave had very pleasant sojourn with US
this season. We have beaten them in their
national sports, and they have returned the
compliment in secondary degree. Both
sides are pleased The Britishers proved
their thorough worthiness as the most gal
liant and chivalric of opponents
Sir Richard Sutton goes home with a
hearty estimation of America. He has had
the best proof obtainable that we can build
sailing craft, and navigate them too with
Incompatible skill. Our experience also,
with the Genesta, shows that our superior
ity, though proved in the test, must be
maintained with the most tireless vigilance.
Oar English rivals are Of the same blood as
ourselves and that means that America
must keep sharp look out for her laurels.
The English cricketers, too, with that wiz
ard parson, retrieved their honor at Nice
town with far too great tax ON our crack
Philadelphia team.
Still honors are easy and the Newhall
brothers did famously for America. The
great point to be noted in this international
jnnketing is the advantage to either people
in the close personal communion of indiyid-
uals of the two greatest rival nationalities
OF the world-perhaps of any age of the
world. The same in blood, traditions, So
cial ideas and language, separated simply
by two centuries Of political severance, but
recognizing although by diverse methods,
the inherent rights of man and the present
folms of democratic or constitutional gov
ernment.
Another visitor is in our midst, Canon
Farrar, perhaps the foremost representative
churchman, in the ecclesiastical sense, of
the hierarchy of the Church of England,
He too has bsen feted and lionizsd wherever
his footsteps have carried him. This per-
haps, is excusabe in his case, as he was
well known to many Americans before he
| set foot on our shores.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
NO COMPROMISE.

In speaking upon the silver question the
New York Herald d mands that there be no
compromise and calls for an unconditional
repeal ....
These are the terms also properly belong
ing to that misbegotten offspring of Sec
retary Bayards indefinite statesmenship,
the starvelng Civil Service enactment What
debt of eternal gratitude O the Democracy
of the United States is indebted to that gen
tleman's lack Of foresight for fathering.
We are lashed stingingly by the political
obfuseation Of the great Democrat of Della
ware. Like the physician in Cervantes
great story, the rich banquet is placed be-
fore poor Saneho Papza, but the Republ-
can DOCTORS wand orders the servants to
take it away as it is not suitable to Demo
cratic digestion,
| Through ex Senator Bayard Democratic
in the fruits of success! While the Republi-
can party enjoy the position the Democracy
how and gnash their teeth in stifled rage,
their opponents cry 'let the CALLED jade
vince" And we well deserve all this pun
shment for so blindly putting our trust in
such lack witted statesman.
The Civil Service enactment is neither one
thing nor the other. Whichever way we
shuttle the cards the most deft of Democra-
cy's politicians can discover no good from the
predicament the enactment has placed us in.
But trumps turn up for our opponents at
every deal, Suppose the Republican party
succeeds at the next presidential election,
this law does not bind their politicians On
the contrary Mr.. Bayard, in pushing the
strange enactment took such high moral
grounds that he is bound 'flip and thigh
and constrained to concede anything and
everything his political opponents may ask
for.
IfeVer man got himself entangled in the
meshes of political net, it is our admirable
ex-senator. How fervcntly now Democra-
cy mathematics the accident of high NOR
ais that waited itself at that extraordinarily
infortuitous moment in MIR. Bayard's direc-
ton. At that moment when he posed as a
superior man, lauding the purity and high
standing of Thomas f. Bayard's statesman
ship, while ''all the world wondered" who
of his friends suspected the terrible trap the
guileless senator was laying for his party ?
It is on record, however, that some of the
astute Republican Senators on that day saw
the point and smiled in their sleeves while
their countenances bespoke naught but
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He innocently accepted their willy endorse
ment Of him as fattering homage to his
moral greatness, and they craftily withheld
congressional opposition to the measure
which was thereupon launched, the veriest
boomerang that any political party ever in
vented for self-chastisement.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
An ErratuIn.

1t was announced in these columns on last
Saturday that Gouley would ttke an excur-
sion to Mauch Chunk, via the p, w. & B.
Railroad to Philadelphia, thence by the
Reading road, passing through the
cities of Bethlehem, Allentown and
Scranton but as the Pennsylvania Railroad
officials obstinately refused to give excur-
sion rates between this city and Philadel-
phia, and also insisted that the excursionists
should be compelled TO change cars, both al
the station in Philadelphia and at German
town junction, Mr.. Gouley cancelled his
contemplated contract with the Pennsylva-
mia management,
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
--ITn the Switchhack

F-AIB bnS SM1tCHDdclk,
him will nurse him as faithfully and we'll
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
charged excursionists from Wilmington to
Mauch Chunk $3.70-the Wilmington &
Northern Railroad Company will Charge the
excursionists to Mauch Chunk on Thursday
October 18th, only $3.50, and the Whining
ton 6 Northern skirts the historic Brandy
wine TO its very origin.
1t is universally conceded that the 'mar-
velous Switchback," Mt Pisgah and the
enchanting Glen Onoko" are lnatchless on
the Western Continent, and the only scenery
at all approaching in grandeur those locali-
ties is found in the Yosemite Valley.
All, without single exception, who have
been permitted to enjoy Mauch Chunk seen
cry in its autumnal beauty admit that it is
simply grand beyond description. 1t must
be seen to be appreciated,
The appellation of Switzerland of Amer
lea, as applied to Mauch Chunk, is no Chi
merical term as all testify who have once
beheld its amazing beauties.
Mr.. L. A. Bower, the general passenger
agent, will give his personal supervision
to the entire management of the excursion
and will also accompany the party on the
18th inst Mr.. Bower has the happy facili-
ty of making every one enjoy them selves
and his genial presence will add much tC
the enjoyment of the occasion.
The special excursion train will leave foo
of Market street Thursday morning at 63I
o'clock, and Maueh Chunk will be reached
at eleven o'clock. Elegant coaches-n,
change of cars, and seats will be numbered
Adults ticket, $3.50. Children between
aud 12 years, $1.25.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
Disinterested Philanthropy

DIR. Howard Ogle, true to the instincts of
his kindly and philanthtopic nature, has at
length prevailed upon the Trustees of the
Poor to allow the use of the second floor of
their building 1O7 W. Sixth street, for
charitable dispensary.
For months Dr. ogIe has earnestly inter
estei himself in devisiug ways by which the
afflicted needy might be relieved of their
sufferings, and the consummation of his
hearts labor is about to be realized. The
county has furnished the bui lding, the City
Council will be asked to furnish the medi-
cine and the medical attendance will be fur
nished gratuitously by a score of physicians.
'The poor ye always have with you," il
was written, and DR., ogle's earnest efforts
to look after the dependent class, are wor.
thy of extended emulation,
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
Bayard's Ingratitude.
Dover Sentinel


Bayards friends in Delaware are getting
uneasy at the way they have been treated
by him. They begin to think that he has
used them simply as ladder to climb up
on, and that as soon as he secured his seat
in the Cabinet he kicked away his only
means of either climbing higher or retreat
ing in case of necessity. They have been
waiting SO impatiently for onths, for him
to do something for them, but nothing
eomes-the Bayard people say they ought to
be remembered. They think it rather hard
luck for him to acts as though he ignored
them entirely. They expect to have hard
tussle with the Lore combination, and they
desire to have all the backing that is pos
sible for Bayard to give them.
The Lore people ara active, and profess to
feel perfectly sure of downing the Bayard
Clique when the time comes.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
Interesting to the Hungry,

Those accompanying the Wilmington &
Northern excursion on the 10Th inst will be
directed for dinner by Mr.. L. A. Bower, to
the Washington House at Su mmit Hill,
where most appetizing ms4l may be had
for fifty cents.
Any one not pleased with the dinners fur
nished by the Washington House is not au :
thority upon good feeding. Those excur-
sionists who follow the programme laid out
for the days enjoyment by Mr., Bower will
not go wrong
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
Porpoise Leather.

1t will be exceedingly gratifying to the
large number Of Wilmington stock holders
of the Wilmington Oil and Porpoise Leather
Company, to know that S. Lloyd Boldly, the
well known shoe dealer, at No. 8 West
Fourth street, reports rapidly increasing
demand for boots and shoes manufact ured
from porpoise leather.
Porpoise leather shoes are very eomforta
BILE for the most tender feet aud wear ex
ceedingly well, S. Lloyd Boldly was the
first to introduce porpoise leather in thii
market and their hterprise has beel amply
rewarded.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
Music and Morals.

1t is stated that the Rev H. r. Haweis
will begin his lecture course i'll New York
City with one on Music ant. Morals" The
New York World says "three or four opera
bouite companies in full blast in this city
afford unusually felicitous suggestions
fer the juxtaposition.
In our last issue but one we found it in
cumbent upon US to make animadversion
upon the peculiar opera boutfe rendition by
certain company of player occupying the
boards at our theatre that week, of the
charming operetta ''rhe Chi INES Of Norman
die. .
We still see no reason fo5 reversing our
strong condemnation Of tbs condition. The
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beat bead II Mt,nHa.sM. N Hss.s 70 (fhe most
belonging legitimately I'd u play was to a
great extent blotted out Ny vitiaton aud
vulgar substitution, vice With which sec
ond rate players too often victimize their
audiences.
1t is too much the CUSTOM nowadays TO SO
adapt some Of the more popular plays,
both as regards tho music and the story, in
supposed consideration of wanton public
taste, thar complete metamorphosis Of the
drama is often seen.
This is process Of degradation which we
trust Mi. Haweis, as a missionary of good
taste, pure taste and good morals, will indi-
cate and stigmatize, as one of his high liter
airy attachments is SO thoroughly capacita-
ted to do.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
Sizing up Civil Service.

Some days since a we'll known member Of
the legal fraternity was extolling the virtues
of the "Civl Service idea" to a representa-
tive of THE WILMINGroNIAN, ''but," said
the knight of the quill to the attorney,
suppose the Republican party should tri,
umph in 1888, what system of Civil Service
would you then favor?" "Favor," said he,
'the denies should not stand upon the
order Of going, but that they would gov'
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
The Greatest show on Earth.

All who wish to visit the great show of
Barnum & Co. to be held in Wilmington,
Oct. 12th, can do so, and can save the price
of admission by calling at Patent Medicine
Depot 315 Shipley st, where you can get
Patent Medicines, Spices, Flavoring Ex-
tracts, Soap, Perfnmery, Brushes, Shoe and
Stove Backing &c. All at greatly reduced
prices Bear in mind all we assert is true.
Call and get one of our price lists and bot
tie of Cough Syrup FREE at 3l5 shipley
street.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03

Mr.. S. D. Brown, general manager of the
Domestic Sewing Machine Co., for this jur-
isdction had the most unique assortment
of sewing machines at the recent Dover
Fair ever exhibited. The cabinet work of
the machines was not only charming but
the variety and beauty of tile work perform
ed was simply marvellous. Mr., Brown was
constantly surrounded by admiring groups
of country bellies, who were enthusiastic in
their praises of "the Domestic"
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
Resolutions of Respect

A special meeting of the Artists Society
was held Wednesday evening in Clawson S.
Hammitts studio to take action regarding
the death of Henry L. Tatnall George w.
Humphry presided and J. Trayers Jones
acted as secretary. The other members
present were Messrs. Hanmitt, Kane,
Braunstein and Chalfant, the committee
on resolutions, reported suitable paper
which was adopted as follows;
''Since it has pleased an all-wse Provi-
dence to remove our talented and beloved
president, the late Henry L. Tatnall, we,
the members of the Society of Artists of the
State Of Delaware, assembled to record our
sorrow al and the appreciation Of loss
this society has sustained, desire at the
same time to express our trust that our loss
is his gain, and that, in another sphere of
existence, our departei friend may attain to
an immeasurably higher, broader and grand
er realization of the aspirations of his in
llose soul ellsen ne co ula eySE nave attalned
TO in this earthly IfTe. We extend oaf heart.
felt sympathy to the beroayed family Of our
old friend in this, their hour of affection,
and to all others who were near and dear to
him. And, in commemoration hereof, we
have directed this tribute to the memory ol
him who has been taken from us, to be
spread upon the minutes Of the society and
a copy thereof to be sent to the stricken
family, and that the press OF the city be re
quested to publish the same"
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
What Our Citizens Exactly Think


Our esteemed cotemporary EOery Eoeaing
has exactly voiced public opinion in the fol-
lowing words:
1T was for the promotion of Interstate
trade-not for its repression by traffic pool
ing, concerted extortion aud oppressive alli-
ances that the Delaware Legislature confer
red upon the Baltimore and PHILADELPHIA
railroad the important franchises which it
r sr7s 'srSrc.
Nothing could be more pointed nor more
fully descriptive of the situation. 1t was
never supposed or contemplated that when
tue citizens of the State of Delaware grant
ed certain lucrative privileges to the Balti-
more and Philadelphia Railway Company
that those franchises were to be traded up
on as negotiable market goods. If that
company cannot in itself, as a primary
agent aud recipient of these privileges re.
ceived from the State of Delaware, develop
aud manipulate them ab initio, she practi.
cally cancels her implied contract with the
state
1t was never contemplated in that fran.
chise that the privileges and franchises were
to be traded upon, that the B. & P. Co.,
could sell their position and advantages, o.
any part Of them, 10 another or other com
panies better able through larger capital Of
other condition to develop railroad construe
tion in Delaware Public rights are no
salable or negotiable in the common accep a
tion in barter and trade. The contrary is
most iniquitous and condemnablo para
phrase of any state charter franchise.
Itmay be clearly seen how that any com
pany, intending to conspire in the direction
indicated might gain franchise from tn
state, and, having little or no pecuniar!
backing of its own, can put up for public o
private sale its privileges, make handsom
profit by that sale, and then retire into pri
vacy after having contributed or done moth
! ing whatever towards its share of the impli
ed contract with the state.
The question is whether public franchise
are negotiable in the public market as real
estate, etc. We think not.
We thoroughly recognize the need of dc
velopiug the commercial and agriculture
conditions Of our state, but to do 50 it is nc
necessary that the farms of our agriculture
fellow citizens and the real estate Of our III
ban population be mortgaged and under
appraised in order to fill the pockets of
number of smart middlemen. Let there
two principals alone in this business, til
State Of Delaware and the Company t
whom the franchise Of railroad buildiug
granted.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-03
Personal.

Mr.. George Gray, the popular bachelor
grocer of Second and King streets, has been
confined to his room in the hotel this past
week, but is now convalescing,
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Natural Gas.

The natural gas which, caused the
Pittsburg explosions Is perfectly odor-
less after having been conveyed any
distance in pipes or after standing
twenty-four hours. One engineer urges
that no pipes carrying over four ounces
per square inch pressure should be
allowed in the streets, this pressure be-
Ing sufficient for any house and most
manufactures. Frozen earth Is more
impervious than granite, and O leak
underground causes the escaping gas
to follow a water or artificial gas-pipe
into the nearest cellar, where It ex.
plodes whenever exposed to o light.
The engineer expects to next hear of
an explosion In a sewer, like one In
London several years ago, caused by
the leaking of artificial gas, which blew
up half q mile of a large sewer. He
thinks that 1t needs greater care to lay
high-pressure mains than to lay the
roadbed Of railroad. His plan would
be to lay them only along the river
banks, four feet below the surface, and
have each joint protected by safety
jacket consisting Of two semi-cylindri.
cal parts bolted together and covered
on the inside with rubber. and from
each jacket he would have pipe run
up to waste-pipe just below the sur
face, which should have escape-pipes
running up to the top OF telegraph
pole at each street corner. Another
expert lays the breakages entirely to
the cold weather, which has stripped
the thread on the sleeves, thus leaving
q space for the gas to escape. He
would put on discs or expansion joints
every 300 feet of the long lines, and
says that their use in the oil regions
has prevented explosions during the
many years in which natural gas has
been in use.
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TRUTHFUL COMMENT.

The New York Times in speaking edi,
torially of the terrible rage of typhoid
fever at Plymouth, Penn, makes the
following very sensible remarks upon
sanitary practices:
The people of Plymouth, Penn, have been
dlsregardlng sanitary laws that ought TO be
plain to all persons OF ordinary intelligence
and they are now paying terrible penalty.
them are suffering with typhoid fever. On
Friday there were thirteen deaths and on Sat.
urday thirteen more. The undertakers are
working night and day, and the villages thir-
ing towns for ASST stance.
Cleanliness would have saved these lives.
II the inhabitants OF this stricken village had
laws which are ut the same time laws OF de-
cenCy-these bereaved families would not now
be In mourning. Typhoid fever is filth dis
There is not a sewer In Plymouth. There are
no properly constructed drains. Refuse mat
ter is allowed to accumulate around the
houses or Is put into cesspools, These cess.
pools are never emptied, but when one is full
another is dug beside II. This soil, saturated
with filth, Ia pierced by the shallow wells from
which the inhabitants take the water which
they drink and use In cooking. The first warm
days of spring softened the earth and hasten.
ed the birth OF disease germs In the rottinR
refuse exposed to the sun. The wells became
After the fever had begun its work under
such conditions nothing could prevent Il from
spreading from house TO house.
1t Is only when thriving town Is paralyzed
by such an epidemic that one realizes the as
founding ignorance OF village people con
corning sanitary laws. One could not expect
that all of the inhabitants of Plymouth would
know how deadly decaying vegetable and ami
nal matter becomes under certain cond lions
or how poisonous is the water that is polluted
with tho soakage OF cesspools and outhouses
| but there must be some persons there-tht
| clergymen and doctors, for example-whC
know these things It was their duty 10 war;
| the ignorant.
In every local epidemic Of this kind thert
| small cities. There Is death In cesspools an,
shallow wells and accumulatious Of garbag,
and filth; there is safety In drainage and goos
plumbing and a supply OF good water.
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ANGUS s s;i DEcgTr BATTLES OF THE WORLD

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COUNTY CoRREsPoNDnNoE.

De Soto, Mo.
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Ladies' Day at the Ranch" Is the I.

Ladies' Day at the Ranch" is the tax
ing title of paper in the Forthcoming
(June) Harper's, describing life on
Western ranch, owned by "quite an idea
frm"-"consisting as it did of a Million
aire blissfully indifferent to the ways ir
which his millions were being spent, {
Man of Leisure, with nothing to do bu
to travel-for the best interests of the
'concern'-between New York and Car
metro, and an enthusiast who desired
nothing but the privilege of doing al
the work." II was the enthusiast, o.
course, who lived at the ranch, and one
spring the family of the Man of Leisure
took II into their heads to visit him, and
liked the life so well that they stayed
from April to November. The paper
gives very lively description of thai
life, its perils and neutrality-suspicious.
for instance, and prairie fires; and
one of its most entertaining bits is the
written description sent by the host to
his prospective visitors, in the way OF
travelling directions-a strange enough
piece of literature to those accustomed
to the well-marked roads of settled
states. The paper is written by Alice
Wellington Rollins, and charmingly IL
Illustrated by r. Swain Clifford and his
wife.