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The Wilmingtonian., 1885-09-26
Reform, Not Party Ingratitude.

From the Wilmington IN. C,) Star.
Ex-Gov. Seymour has been interviewed
by The World. He is opposed to the pres
ent Civil Service reform humbug. He is a
true Democrat. He does not believe in pun
ishing politicians for party service. He says
there is need of reform but not of party in
gratitude.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-09-26
N0JoH ffITrv.

The annual excursion Of the George
Washington Fishing Club, given under the
auspices of the Norning Naos Monday last,
was by universal verdict most enjoyable
affair.
There seems to be the usual unaninity of
opinion, customarily found in the reports
of fishing parties, as to the i'm menso take of
fish.
1t appears, however, that no larger fish
than porpoise was seen, and that, of
course, the thoroughly sporusmaniike fish
erman refused to hook. No doubt the re-
Gurns of the number of fish taken would
have shown a much larger total than seven
or eight hundred, had not the denzens of the
deep that inhabit the waters surrounding
the Ship John Light suspected the gallant
steamer Susie Mccall of being one of the
rev vessels of the United States Fish Com
mission, and recognized in the dert and
willy members of the G. W. Fishing Club so
many offensive partlzans" in Uncle sam's
pay, bent on scpoping Delaware Bay of its
fines. Psychological specimens for the spec
ial behest of Spencer Baird and the Smith.
sonian Institute.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-09-26

bers. \
On June 4th, the Rev. Chas. Hill, PreFid-
ing Elder, met the society and organizgd the
first quarterly conference which was held at
corner of Maryland Avenue and Dh street
when the following officers were elected and
commit ees appointed stewards"
]. A. Stone, W. T. Morris, W. E. Gray,
E. S. Meeteer and T. F. Woodrow; Record
ing Steward, w. I. Morris; Committee on
Missions, T. F. Woodrow, j. Wilhelm and
Mrs. S Gray; Church Extension, w. 7.
Morris and Mr.. Adams; Sunday School,
Messrs. Wright, Hyatt and Mrs. W. T.
Morris; Tracts, Mis-. j. r. Wright, Beckley
and Hyatt; Temperance, p. S. Meeteer and
W. E. Gray; Education, W. H. Mullen, w.
7. Morris and Mrs Diser; Church Records
W. II. Mullen, ]. r. Wright and W. E.
Gray; Estimating Committee, the Board of
Stewards and W. H. Mullen.
The quarterly conference resolved by an
unanimous vote to adopt the name of the
church wesley Methodist Episcopal
Chusch.
twill be observed that the organization
has not at any time or under any circum-
stances been mission or branch society
depending upon any other church, but from
the first became full hedged church,
Before the holding of the first quarterly
conference the Rev. S. T. Gardner had
bought before tie preachers meeting in
| Asbury Church the subject of holding Q
grand Sunday School Jubilee to be partici
pated in by all the NJ. E. Sunday Schools oi
Wilmington and vicinity, for the purpose
of raising money to purchase lot on which
to erect church. The proposition me
with great favor; it was earnestly advocated
and heartily approved, and The preachers
pamed two representatives from each o
their Sunday Schools to meet at the call o
w. II Mullen, to take into account the ad
visibility of such an enterprise.
The committee thus appointed met in st
Paul's NJ. E. Church and resolved TO holt
the Jubilee. 1t was held in Riddles
Woods on July 4th; the occasion will lonI
be remembered by all who participated il
tie festivities, as one of the most enjoyabl
affairs that it has been the privilege of Wi
mingtonians to engage in for long while
the day was clear, the air was balmy an
all nature seemed to favor the occasion
The Hon. Charles B. Lore, Josef h Pyle an
]. Howald Seal, Esq, contributed mos
eloquent addresses.
Declarations and singing by the varior
schools were presented, winding up by n
alizing handsome profit out OF the sale
} icr cram, etc, of 5000, which has sine
been added to by private subscriptions unit
: now the lot fund has reached about $50
a and no doubt the day is not far distant wht
D the ground will be secured on which
b erect the new church.
: The trustees have purchased, through Il
f courtesy and Kindness of the Rev. E.
Hubberd and Eli Meudenhall, at a low Fl
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-09-26
Brinlf'ul of Sound Sense.

Daily Republican.
Not only has tae Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, determjned to give the Baltimore
s. Ohio Companylall the possible trouble to
get into Philadels hia, but private business
company, the KaSlin Chemical Works, be.
tween Gray's Ferry road and the schuylkill
river, is taxing hand as an obstructionist.
II these clem ~ works people would take
our advice tt nal...-...-.... :. 8 = 1. uu,eg1.,
menus WIN s'atai7. n
passing through Wifmingtor> company
always paid less when forced to litigation
through commission to condemn land,
Mr.. Smith was always willing to pay the
highest price rather than to have the trouble
and expense of commission and suit, aud
he has changed very much he has offered
less than what property is worth through
which the new line passes to Philadelphia.
Neither railroad companies, ncr private
corporations or individuals will gain any.
thing by fighting the Baltimore and Ohio
Company. 1t is bound to go through Phil.
adelphia and on to New York, aud the en-
lighrened sentiment of the times will strike
pown through legislation, if by no othel
means, all the barriers chat may be erected
against free railroading.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-09-26
Why is This Thus?
New York World tDem J

y
The editor Ofthe American Protectionst,
who supported Mr.. Blaine last year, has
been appointed to Special Agency in the
Treasury Department at a salary of SO per
day. 1t is presumed that his support of
Bla inc was not of the offensive kind.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-09-26
The Day of Retribution is Coming

Daily Republican.
The farce now being played by the Aims.
house investigating committee of the Levy
Court has small but very select audience.
If the committee is at a loss for name fol
the play, we would suggest: "How not to dc
it; enlarged and improved" The people
however, will want to sea this play on larg
er scale at the next election in New Castle
County,
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-09-26
Hitting at the President.
p, ~. r.,,,a,,no,,. M,nr,e

From the indianapolis Minute,
A man who is determined to do just as he
pleases, regardless of the views of others, is
of no use in political party, or anywhere
else for that matter.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-09-26
The BrandYMine.

The patronage of the beautiful and COM
Portable Steamer Brandywine is unprec-
edtntly large for this season of the year.
This steamer has been a great favorIte with
Wilmingtonian ladies since its first intro.
duction to the river; but latterly business
men are showing a tangible appreciation of
the restful opportunities afforded by a river
trip homeward on the Brandywine after the
tiresome experience of hours of business
transactions in Philadelphia.
The management ever mindful of the
comfort and convenience of their patrons
are introducing into the saloons of the
steamer most complete outfit of steam
heating appliances, so that it will not mat
ter how Boreas dominates the thermometer
the passengers will be as snug as a bug in a
rug.
The mere mention of the fact that Gaw-
throp & Brother will place in position the
heating apparatus will convince our citl-
zens of its utility,
No dust no smoke, no confusion on the
steamer such as is experSsaoed on the roll
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-09-26
Dornan Ii. Eaton,

Should Civil Service Commissioner Dor
man B. Eaton resign, he will ouly be doing
his moral duty. He does not deserve tue
thanks that the New York Herald profiers
him on hearing the rumor of his resigna-
tion.
His presence in the Civil Service Comrni S.
sion only Jrammels the present administra-
tion. In it there should be a Democratic
majority. Were the spirit of Civil Service
legislation not of the elastic nature as it is
constituted, capable only of fanti-administra-
tion action, no matter which side holds
power, Republican or Democratic, then Mr..
Eaton's resignation or retention would be a
matter Of inconsequence.
The Civil Service Law, OF the spirit of it,
seems to be an Gritty that nobody respects
but that all take advantage of as 1t may suit
their purpose. In this phase oft, the only
distinctive feature it possesses, the evolu-
ton of this wonderful enactment by the
Promethean brain Of the present Secretary
of State, ex-senator Thomas F. Bayard, it
is an ever recurring cause for astonishment,
similar to what Europeans felt when they
saw for the first time that terrible weapon,
the boomerang of the Australian Bushmen,
which, when thrown TO great distance in
the air flies back with redoubled and fatal
effect upon the incautious or ignorant per
son who launched it forth.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-09-26

so refreshing that it banishes all thought Of
the fatigue which had been superinduced by
running hither and thither in Philadel-
pkia.
If the Brandywine grows propcrtionately
in public favor and esteem the coming year,
railroad travel will be virtually ignored by
our citizens on, at least, the return trips
from Philadelphia.
Captain Wilson is growing more and
more in pablo esteem, and his courteous
manners and his accommodating methods
have been no insignificant factor in popu'
larizipg the Steamer Brandywine.
The Wilmingtonian., 1885-09-26
New Advertisements this Issue.

New Advertisements this Issue.
Seamless Hosiery and Merino Underwear
S II. Stats.
The Largest Furnishing Warerooms in the
state-J. & ]. n. Harman.
Black Diamonds
Geo. w. Bush & Sons,
"In Medicine, quality is of the first inn
portauce"-Z. James Belt.
To the mecca" of Wilmington tourists
-Gouley.
Dress Goods and Ladies' Suitngs
-Cranor & Co.
'Iusic will charm the savage breast
W. II. Mullen.
All buy the Domestic Sewing Machine
-S14 Market street.
Its like was never seen
The MaraschinO Ice Cream.
Change of time-Philadelphia Chester
and Wilmington River Line.
Sealing Wax, Spices and Cogks
n. b Danforth.
A Card for the Ladies
-Suawhrldge q Clother.
Undertaking carefully attended to
johnson S Barnhill.
Boarding Stables-S. G. Brown,
-.s-.--
Notices.
Hop Btters.
Eiy's Cream Balm.
Red Star Cough Syrup.
Salvation Oil.
Bulls Cough Syrup.
St. Jacobs Oil,
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-09-01

If DR.. Leonard desires to settle the question
as to his use Of liquors as medicine" he
should sue for libel. The Cincincinnati Com
mercial Gazette says it can furnish legal proof
that while he has preached the most intolerant
determination doctrine as to the use of in
toxicating liquors, yet that he himself has for
a long period used wine brandy, whisky and
ale ''as medicine" The paper says:
''Dr. Leonard cannot deny that members of
his old church on Walnut Hills supplied him
with wine for months. His own physician,
DR.. /. d. Jones, in card published at Dr.
Leonard's own request, admits that the Pro
hibition candidate for Governor used alcoholic
stimulants under protest, as he explains.
The attention Of the public is particularly di-
rected to the fact that DIR. Leonard has never
replied to the charge of the Hon. Thomas Nc
Dougall, OF Cincinnati, made in public
speech at Urbana, month ago, and pub
lished broadcast over Ohio, that the Doctor
had continuously used wine for his stomach's
sake Attention is also directed to the fact
that DR.. Leonard has not denied that he cen
fessed to an old parishoner of his, reputable
physician in Cincinnati that he owed his life,
health and flesh to the use of alcoholic stimu-
lanCS we nave neId ourselves pledged to
forward DR.. Leonard the name of our inform
ant (the physician in question:, should he
deny the charge"
Mr.. Geo. Davis, of GAINESVILLE states in an
interview that DR.. Leonard recommended him
to take "good liquor and cod liver oil" for
pleuro-pneumonia, his advice being, as DIR.
Leonard told him, based on personal expert
ence. These things, of course, are very an
noying to Prohibition candidate running
for the benefit of the Democratic-free whisky
alliance; but truth is truth, aud must be told
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-09-01
Senfamhar MAGAZINES.

The September Century, without making
special effort, is one of the finest magazines ever
issued in this or any other country. Artistically
it is one of the best periodicals published It&
illustrations are fine beyond rivalry, while ito
subject-matte is good as the best The
interest in this number naturally centersan
General Grants paper on ''The Siege of Vicks-
burg" accompanied by maps and fac SMILES Of
Grants famous unconditional surrender" dis
patch and that announcing the surrender Of
Lee. The frontispiece is very striking
portrait of the General Among the other
illustrated articles are 'Panforte di Siena,' by
w. d. Howells ''Among the Red Roses of Sus-
SEX" a charming glimpse of rural life in Eng-
land The number will add greatly to the Gem
tury's popularity.
One of the finest portraits Of General Grans
yet published accompanies article on his life
by Jessie Benton Fremont, in the Septembef
Wide Awake, which juvenile magazine, as usual,
is full of entertsining and instructive reading.
September St Nicholas Is repete with read
ing for young folks, richly illustrated. An ar.
ticle on Spiders of the Sea" gives an insight TO
tie habits and nature of all manner of crabs,
land and water with drawings of several varier
ties. Sketches and stories. poetry and puzzles
make it an inexhaustbe museum for the curis
Gus and mentally hungry.
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-09-01

The Duke was, reported angry that, reaching
his own country he caused to be displayed in
each of his guest chambers notices to the effect that
any who should fee his servants under any cir
cumstances would incur his serious displeasure."
ACCORDING to CORES pondent of the Baltimore
Sun. an old hotel proprietor says greater humbug
exists in bookkeeping than the 'bridalchamber''
business and far he is concerned he proposes to
abolish all such arrangements for the future. He
says bridal couples will take just what you give them,
and Will submit to most anything without nurmur.
They are too much occupied with themselves to take
any note OF their surroundings 1t is the people, he
says who have been married long enough to get
the honeymoon and in the intervals of fussing with
themselves fuss with every one around who give the
hotel-keepers the trouble
AN English paper tells the following little story:
AT the Wimbledon rifle meeting is a bookstal. which
IS opened every year for the sale of papers and peri
odcals, SO that dwellers in camp may obtain at the
earliest possible moment copy of their favorite
journal On the opening day of the camp a tall,
brawny Scotchman turned up and asked for paper.
He served. and then producing a coin from his
pocket said: "Look here young man, ye gave me
baed penny last year. and have saved it for ye"
The penny. by the way, was a French copper, which
would not pass muster in Scotland 1t was coated
with verdigris, having evidently been slowed away
long time
AN old lady in Wilton, Conn, has passed her one
hundred and third birthday She is bright and sensi
ble except for singular delusion about her age She
kept the record straight until she became hundred
and two when she insisted that she was two hundred
years DID, though she admitted that 'this last hum
dred years didn't as long as the first hum
dred" Since her last birthday she has called herself
three hundred years old. There is custom in that
part of New England in accordance with which the
church bell is tolled at funeral-the number OF
strokes indicating the age of the deceased person.
The old lady recently said to her grandson II feel
real sorry for the SEXTON because if do not die
he may have to ring 400 times"
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-09-01

the most noted bruisers Of that time, McCool
and Joe Coburn, were arrested in Lawrence
burg and one Of them, if not both, given an
inside view of the county safe. Coburn
then expressed the opinion that prize-fghting
had seen its best days, and there would prob
ably never be any more such encounters as
those that had illustrated 'Fistic History In
the cases of Morrissey and Sullivan, Heenan
and Sayres, and other noted champions. In
fact, there never has been. Those fights were
honest, bare listed, hard hitting, blood-spurt-
ing, eye blacking fights, that had the merit Of
honesty if they were degraded by brutality
The fights now are, as one of the professors Of
pugilism in this city says, "hippodromes,
like the affair at Cincinnati on Saturday, be-
tween the wife-whipper Sullivan and McCaf-
frey. There is more show for 'fgate money"
than fight about them. But undoubtedly
there has been lately revival Of this effemi-
mated fighting as decided as the subsidence of
the harder and more creditable kind some
years ago. 1t has come mainly with the
knocking out" feats of Sullivan. So far as
we can recall at this moment, he is the first
of the bullies to flight against time" as it
may be designated; that is to engage in a
contest conditioned that one person shall
'knock" the other ''out' in a given number
of rounds. 1t was new fashion, and at once
revived the lost interest of certain class of
the public in that sort of entertainment
Either to evade the law or escape pain, these
"knocks out" have been mainly glove fights,
and in that point are AN amelioration of the
old kind, as they tend to run out in sparring
matches and spare blood and bad hurts
They are more contemplate, certainly, as
exhibitions of bulldog pluck, but less brutal
and like gladiatorial show OF Spanish bull
fight This revival, we think, has gone far
enough. In their best form public fights, or
physical conflicts of any kind, for money, are
demoralizing fact abundantly attested by
the character of the bulk of the spectators
The strongest attraction is to the coarsest and
basest classes. They ought to be stopped,
and they can be as easily as the earlier kind
was stopped
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-09-01
WITH how much earnestness and sincerity

WITH how much earnestness and sincerity
we can second these words, taken from an
editorial in the Atlanta Constitution:
"Policy, then, as we'll as patriotism, will hold
the Southern people to the large-minded and
abiding love of the Union, the manly and
candid desire for peace and brotherhood, the
deep and inspiring sympathy with American
institutions and American glory, that lives in
the hearts of her people and makes itself
manifest on every proper occasion. Far above
the mere triumph of party or the petty
plunder of Office, the election Of Mr.. Cleve-
land was precious to her. in that it closed the
chasm into which she had cast her blood and
her treasure, and it reunited in heart as
in hand in the Union she had honestly
sought to divide"
The Republican North could almost gladly
accept the election of Mr.. Cleveland and the
temporary triumph of the Democratic party
because of the hope that the sullen South
would mend its temper and its ways more
quickly under Democratic than Republican
administration. But the North was not pre-
pared, and is not now prepared, for return
to power of the old South, with
its principles Of antagonism to the new order
Of things and to the new Union, the successor
of that one which the South fhonestly sought
to divide" The Republican North was
willing to accept the election Of Cleveland
without h murmur, based as it was on fraud
and murder, and sectionalism, but it was not
prepared to see the old South come to the
front, and witness the rehabilitation of po-
itical ideas ana principles that it thought had
been settled by the dread wager of war.
1t is what the Republican North has
seen and heard within the past few
months-in the appointment to high office of
only those Southern men who were leaders in
rebellion and have remained leaders in revolt
against the settlements of the reconstruction
period, and the recognition Of no other class,
the eulogies of jeff Davis in the United States
Senate, and the expressions of such men as
Kelley, who was taken up and made representa-
tive Of the Democratic party and administra-
tion-that has brought about the speech of
John Sherman, the Iowa Republican platform,
and the general attitude of the Northern Re
publican press All the shrieks of "bloody
shirt" from the Southern papers and from their
doughface echoes in the North, will not serve
to stampede one single Republican who has
the manhood to stand up for the principles
upon which his party was called into exist
ence, and for which it has devoted the thirty
years of its life. From another column of the
editorial page of the Atlanta Constitution, we
clip the following:
''We print this morning a description of
Mr. Jefferson Davis, the venerable ex-Presi-
dent of the Confederate States, at his home in
Mississippi Our readers will be glad to know
that the declining years of this illustrious
man are full of pleasantness and peace, and
that his lines at last are cast in quiet places.
In spite of all things, Mr.. Davis holds and
will hold in larger measure than any man
living or dead, the love of the Southern peo-
nle "
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-09-01

Mr.. WIGGINs, of Texas cannot succeed in
making himself national issue. General
Holabird the quartermaster- general himself
a Democrat, says Wiggins was not discharged
because he was Democrat but because he
was an incompetent clerk; and proffers the
further information that being bright young
man he might make good statesman, but, as
it happened, copyists and not statesmen were
needed in the department This suggestion
ought to serve as a pointer to the army of
workers" who are out and can't get in. Com
mon men who can read, and write and spell
are good enough for the departments, but
they, the workers, are kept out so they can
90 and practice craftsmanship in their re-
spective wards
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-09-01
THE Brooklyn Union, mugwump, says:
sometimes.

'Mr. Alexander Troup, the newly appointed
collector of internal revenue at New Haven,
said of the deputy whom he has discharged:
Mr.. Dawson is a Republican. That is Just
why | shall suspend him. Why do you sup
poss | was appointed collector? / know moth
ing about the Office and l was appointed to it
simply because l was Democrat What
reason have to keep Republican office
holder in his placer AS a Democrat shall
have no Republican under me. That is all
there is about it. They will have to go, for
don't believe the President put me in COL
Selden's place to keep lot of Republicans in
office Since Troup has taken it upon him
self not only to confess his own incompetence
with such candor. but also to explain why he
was appointed, the President and Secretary
Manning may find a certain duty to perform
by comparing these declarations with Mr..
Cleveland's letter to Mr.. Curtis"
viii the Union be kind enough to send us
word when Mr.. Troup is removedG The Pres
ident was informed Of the character of Mr.
TrOup when he appointed him. The appoint
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-09-01

SECRETARY BAYARD is not in Washington.
Secretary Manning is not at his post of duty.
Secretary Endicott is up home. Secretary
Whitney is eating lobster salad and slipping
wine on board government vessel somewhere.
Postmaster general Villas is in Wisconsin look
ing after his senatorial boom. Secretary
Lamar has fed. Lamont has gone and Hig
gins has gone. Even the President has quit
getting up at half-past and putting in nine
teen hours day. Attorney general Garland
alone remains. This used to be called ink ting.
1t is reform now
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-09-01

some ten or twelve years ago there was a
decided subsdence of the popularity of
pugilism, at least as a public exhibition.
Courts laid heavy hand upon it, and minis
ters OF the law were vigilant to thwart its ap-
pointments All about the country prize
fights We're prevented by arrests, and the
fighters put, to cool their courage, in Jail. In
this State it viii be remembered that two of
The Indianapolis journal., 1885-09-01

ONE of the most prominent Republicans of
Indiana, man honored and trusted as lead
or in his party, yesterday sent a letter to the
Journal in which he said: '.Accept my COM
pliments and congratulations on the general
course of the Journal, and especially my
thanks for leading editorial of yesterday"
The editorial referred to was the one entitled,
"Bury the Bloody Shirt"