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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-10-22

Brton Market. 80 West Main Street, Kal
amazoo, Mich.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-10-22

HI TRIED TO SoAR.-"Speakin'
bout dos flying machines, said Hans
Swiebecr. wen ! vas young | vas al
Ways making experiments to fly NIT
some wings Won day | climb my
fater's parn up, put on my wings and
dried to soar away like pirt. y
I'D you soar like bird?'
mo, but ven der groundt struck me
| vas sore like temnation
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-10-22

The cultivation OF bamboo has proved
quite successful in California.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-10-22

HI WAS SHARP" on are n comical
fellow" remarked Texas gentleman
to a newly married friend. y
lin what respect?N
You might have married the pretty
young daughter, but You went and
married her ugly old mother"
STRATEGY. my boy. Don't You see
how headed her of from being my
mother in-law?'
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-10-22

Ir WAS NEws.-The frequency with
viii III young people get married secret
~, and forget to inform their parents
until afterwards, lends color to the fol-
lowing:
What's the news, Jimmy?" asked a
fond father.
Nothing that | know of. o, yes.
Pa, now that come to come to think
of it, ! was married last week
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-10-22

The pope's table expenses are less than
$3.50 week.
Fannie Davenport gets all her shoes
from Paris.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
Legitimate Storekeeping

Mayor Rhoads action last week in inhibi-
ting fakirs and street peddlers from selling
staple merchandise in the streets of Will
mington is most commendable.
Our storekeepers, considering their heavy
rentals, taxes, and almost innumerable other
petty expenses should not be handicapped
by the added disadvantage of being put into
competition with sellers who pay no rent
and almost nothing towards the heavy mu-
nicipal expenses.
In this connection the much assaied Mr..
David Lemon is revealed as occupying a
relatively logical position in his perennial
crusade against the peanut vender.
1t his misfortune that the necessities of his
business place him in the peculiar position
of persuing a warfare against the obscure
Italian.
Mr.. Lemon, to state the logically, follow
ing his legitimate trade, and he is one of our
oldest storekeepers, finds his staple business
daily lessened by the greatly increasing trade
of the street vender of candies, nuts, &c.
No discrimination should be made in re-
gard to staple businesses. Mr.. Lemon is as
much entitled to municipal protection in his
business of candy and peanut selling as
those merchants on our business avenues
who consider that the street vending of shoe
backing interferes with staple branch OF
| their trade.
What will be endorsed in this city by our
citizens is the protection and encouragement
of Wilmington merchants who pay the great
share of municipal expenses.
This is the general line of argument, to
which of course there may be some excep-
tions. But it is probably the principle which
actuated Mayor Rhoads action last week.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
PRICETWOCENT

it was the recediug in value of farming and
dairy lands to the extent of 5000, 600, 900 in
value, that hundreds OF thousands of milch
kline were being sent to the slanghterhouse
and that practically speaking the dairying
business was on the fair road to obiiteration
as one of the staple industries. And yet
although it was proved that this new but
filthy industry was naught but monopoly
and that the evil effects of the destruction
of the darying business aud the threatened
reduction in the value of real estate would
in time reach his own State of Delaware,
Senator Gray still persisted in opposing
the bill.
The above are few citations from the
brilliant record of the would be Senator from
Delaware, the Hon. George Gray.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
oleomargarine and Delaware.

A contemporary has stated in reference to
the Oleomargarne bill that as there is no
mandatory of that article in this State, or
as long as there is no mandatory of it in
Delaware, the citizens of this State will not
be affected by the provisions of that law.
1t would appear however on reflection that
it is not the manufacture of any given article
that would affect community but the sale
of it. 1t is the sale of the article that has al
most killed the dairying business of New
York State, has damaged its butter export
trade to the extent of $780, 900 the past
year, has sent 100000 milch kline to the
slaughter house, has placed thousands of
dairy farms for sale on the Real Estate
agents bulletin board and reduced the value
of land in the State of New York from 80 to
40 per cent.
This has been accomplished by the sale of
ileomal gariue which has thus displaced Dut-
ter in the New York market and in the ex-
port trade.
1t is in this way that New York State has
cen affected by the sale of the article.
Even though not manufactured in our
State oleomargarine finds ready and unimpe-
ded sale in Wilmington and throughout Del
aware.
The provisions of the new law directly at
tack the sale of it and places restrictive taxa
tion upon it.
1t may readily be seen how that our State
is just as much open to the danger of loss to
the staple dairy business by the sale of oleo-
margarine as it would be with several facto-
ries producing it in our midst.
1t sells for the same prices in New York
and Illinois, where the factories exist, as in
this State, where at present there are no fac
tories, No State law can prohibit the sale
of New York legitimate products in this
State. Such an enactment would be uncon-
stitutional.
So the necessity of general Federal en-
actment is seen.
Delaware as well as every other State in
the Union would experience irretrievable
loss in its staple industries were the provi-
sions of the oleomargarine enactment re.
stricted simply to the manufacturing of tie
goods.
As it stands the tax is altogether too light
and it is a question whether it will meet the
requirements of public opinion.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
$4,000 Visitors

Since the opening of Birmingham Park,
this season, the Wilmington and Northern
RAILROAD has carried 43, 900 visitors to that
attractive resort of Wilmingtonians.
So much for the happy selection of salu.
brious healthy and beautiful park viii.
mington may just as well annex Birmingham
Park at once as a regular sanitary resort for
Delawareans.
With that immense total OF two or three
months holiday travel over its road the Will
mington and Northern Railroad has yet to
record single accident
This is an unprecedented record in holi-
day railroad travelling with any railroad in
the United States.
We congratulate Messrs. Bower and Nc
Causland, the Passenger Agent and Superin-
tendent, upon the above figures, they afford
sound cause for mutual appreciation between
them and the travelling public.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
Marrying Drinking Men.

Marrying men to reform them has never
been successful enterprise on the part of
women. Girls are worth too much unnar-
ried to sacrifice themselves to beat sense
into the head of any man on God footstool.
Such man does not wean so easily as a
calf. He will go home only to sober up, and
then not till the other places are closed. A
girl will marry sucfra man, hoping that on
next year he will be better; but the next
year he will be worse. There are sober boys
enough for all the girls; and there is no need
for marrying drunkard New York Sun,
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
The Bastardized Deal.

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In tbs issue of THE WILMINeToNIAN, of
July 10th the attention of the public was
first called to the Biggs-H Herbert deal, " under
the head of "Brand new DEAL"
AS popular sentiment sat down so heavily
upon the alliance that Messrs. Biggs and
Herbert had been committed to, the frail lit
tie waif which had been go ostentatiously
christened the "Biggs-H Herbert deal'' has
been denied parentage, and henceiorward
and forever must be known only as ''The
Bastard Deal"
"What was begun for
Ii so soon was done for"
Is the plaintve wall of the bastardized
waif.
A''deal" has been denied-we declare that
the statement as made in these columns con-
cerning this alliance is absolutely true. The
parties originating the Biggs-Herbert COM
pact did say that that this "deal" would
prove a monumental political strategic
hofohehU do ~ "oulu compass Iue ueledG ol
the administrationsts. But with all this
loud-mouthed promise of future success
based upon this compact-lo and behold, the
IDEAL" has been suddenly disowned, driven
from its own home, out into the cold wild
erness, friendless without parentage and
without q namel The "Grand Strategic
Movement" now wanders at large shiftless,
attenuated, with sympathy from none, the
ptiful laughing stock of all,
So much for the strategic movements of
political hedglets.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
state Teachers at Rehoboth.

The four days session of the State
Teachers Association at Rehoboth August
23 will afford abundant opportunity for con-
sideration of important topics.
That of the subject of forming a New
Castle County Teachers Association with
headquarters at Wilmington and of allowing
as members of such an association all past
teachers whether Of Delaware or other States
may perhaps be worthy of consideration. AT
the meeting in December Wilmington will
then be ready to give all teachers who flock
hither an official as well as hearty welcome.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
THE NEW COM BIN ALTON
VERSUS
EDWIN R. COCHRAN.

The madness of the proverbial March hare
pales into insgnificance when compared
with the madness of the Biggs-Herbert-
Turner Nc cWhorter-S Salisbury coterie be-
cause thei- schemlngs were discounted by
those who have neither lot nor parcel with
political hucksters.
This crowd impugned every mans motives
who did not join their cry of "down with the
Court House Ring and up with our Ring
The columns of the Epery EUening and
Republican being barred against them
they found willing and a superserviceable
ally in the Morning Ne,os for spreading be-
fore the public their vacuous diatribes,
groundless inuendoes and wholesale falsifi-
cations.
This political cabal having exhausted all
the swear words in the English language
and running short in false accusations are
now extracting whatever consolation there
may be found in making wry faces at their
opponents
The manner and method which has char.
acterized Mr.. Cochran in this canvass is in
happy contrast to the electioneering systems
introduced by the rival candidates. Mr. Coch-
ran has made no effort to subsidize the press
in his interests-he has not maligned nor
spoken contumaciously of his gubernatorial
competitors-he has made no promises of
political preferment-he has not paid court
to the worst influences of the land-no alli-
ances, no compacts no deals to defeat the
will of the people-but since tine campaign
opened his entire demeanor has been in per-
feet harmony with the dignity of the office
to which he aspires.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
The Curb Stone Market Again

The constituting by municipal ordinance
of those sections of Fourth street on either
side of Market as truckers market has
again aroused strong publ, comrnent.
The lovers of the Curb Stone Market are
up again with their old arguments for peo-
ple's cheap market-whatever that may
meanwhile on the other hand the mer-
chants of the locality referred to, many of
whom are doing good and increasingly
large trade assert vehemently that their
business will be interfered with by the es-
tabishment of curb stone market on
Fourth street.
1t is conceded that market of this ma
ture excites a certain amount Of local trade.
But in the particular locality of the newly
projected truck market the vested rights of
the merchants, the demands of whose trade
require the frequent daily use of the curb
frontage for the ladirg and un!ading from
drays and express wagons of heavy goods
WIN winch vllo ~l-e,- l,y ~ ,,,nrping's in
trusion of a market wagon interferes, would
be seriously affected.
For instance Fourth street merchant gets
a telephone order to dispatch couple of
barrels of kerosene by train at certain hour.
To catch that train he would possibly have
to drive with all the hurry possible in order
to meet his customers order. Now, under
the new regulation it is probable that the
merchant will be compelled to hitch his wag-
on up two blocks off from his store. How
does it look then for business man to be
seen bowling along the sidewalk two heavy
Kerosene barrels, rolling them along two
blocks away to the distant spot where his
dray is hltched
This is only one example of the great va
riety of possible dilemmas that the wholesale
dealer on Fourth street may be placed in.
It seems to us that the locating of truck
market at such a busy section of the city as
the projected one is an unfortunate selection.
1t is one of the growing wholesale and retail
business places of the city, and to place such
hindrance just there would be very short
sighted piece of municipal legislation
1t is asserted by some that the merchant
has the option of renting his own frontag 6
from the Clerk of the Market. 1t is ques-
tion whether the Clerk of the Market is fol.
lowing the spirit Of the ordinance when
granting such permission or selling truck
rentals to Wilmington business men.
Whether tue Curb Stone Market enact
ments are of themselves right or wrong is
not the question here, but as to whether GER
tain enactments existing for the relief of
truckmen who are distinctively defined as
non-residents, any other individuals not
truck men are entitled to be renters of curb
stone market rights.
Many truckmen will be found who will
only be too glad to accommodate the mer-
chant in front of whose store he may stand.
But the question is who has a right in the
matter.
Perhaps considering all the recent devel-
opments of the Inconvenience of the
curb stone system, it would be better to
erect market houses, send the truck men off
the street and leave it for its legitimate pur-
poses.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
Reunion.

The survivors of the 4th Regiment Della
aware Volunteers with their families, VIII
hold reunion at Brandywine Springs Della
aware on Thursday, August 10, 1885, The
train will leave foot of Market Street at 10
a. m. Tickets are good on all tt aims during
the day. Music will be furnished by the
Fist Regiment Band. Excursion tickets 30
cents, for sale at S. II. Baynard's 9TH 6 Market
Street and at the Depot on the morning of
the reunion. JOSEPH DUFFY.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
Personal.

Mr.. John B. Dougherty and Mr.. c. II.
Mcguire leave this city, the 18th Inst, for
Barranquilla, South America.
Both these gentlemen go to fill positions,
the first as President, and the second as
Auditor of the Bolivar Railway, running be-
tween Savanilla and Barrauquilla. They
have already had experience in railway mat
ters in South America, Mr.. Mcguire on the
Pacific Coast and Mr.. Dougherty on the
Mexican Gulf shore of Colombia.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
On the Eve of Battle.


With the closing of the polls this evening
it will be practically determined who is to
be the deroocraJlc guVelnavo4I"i .~-IiAa4a
Whatever may be the result, it is patent to
all that personal animosities have been in.
jected into this preliminary contest by the
faction denominated Anti-Administrationi
which threaten to distract, and disrupt Della
ware democracy. "You're another" is the
sole line of argument adduced by this fac
tion and of it's winning qualities this days
work must determine.
The result of the delegate election, as far
as Wilmington is concerned is SO clearly
foreshadowed that he who cannot predict
the result must be suffering from an aggra-
vated case of color blindness.
That meetng-that now historic meeting
in McWhorter's amphitheatre, at which
Turner, McWhorter and John f. Salisbury
were the leading stars-decided the guber-
material fate of Benjamin T. Bggs. One
who attended said meeting, and who is re-
garded as a man of more than ordinary iudg-
ment remarked to the writer that "that
crowd would ruin any cause it might
espouse."
Up to the date of that meeting Mr.. Biggs
was reasonably assured majority of the del.
egation from Wilmington, but with the close
of that conference it was manifest to all
save the purblind that Mr.. Biggs would be
frozen out of the entire city. We predicted
this result within twenty-four hours after
the consummation of the "Biggs- Herbert
deal' and we now reiterate the opinion that
the closing Of the polls will leave Mr. Biggs
without single delegate from Wilmington
Hundred. In fact, Mr.. Biggs has been SO
crowded that there will be but one straight
Biggs delegate run in the entire city, viz
Mr.. Harry Emmons of the Seventh Ward.
The Biggs- Herbert deal boomeranged Mr..
Biggs in vital spot aud unhorsed him ere
the fray began.
Mr.. Biggs did not deserve so cruel fate.
His burning eloquence has so often thrilled
this community that our people have most
kindly feeling for him. They also have
faith in his integrity and administrative cap.
pacity but when he allowed himself to be
committed to the unholy alliance of s'any,
thing to win,' he compromised his status
and his friends could no longer enthuse in
his behalf. Had Mr., ,Biggs frankly disaVow.
ed his connection witch those who essayed tc
speak for him his candidacy would not have
been beyond the range of possibilities, but
upon the Biggs gubernatorial tomb it will
be written she was slain in McWhorter's
wigwam."
We are still of the opinion had Mr.. Biggs
specified distinctive line of public policy
had he outlined platform which gave pro
mise of Transforming some of the antedilu
vian measures which afflict this State anC
then steered clear of those who would no
hesitate to trade in his good name, that h,
would have had decisive majority of th,
delegation from New Castle County.
Mr.. Biggs hesitated like unto the maidel
and in hesitating he is lost to the guberna
tcrial honor of Delaware.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
Herbert's New Friends,

Candidate Herbert evidently has estab-
lished political bureau at the office of the
Morning AstOs and the style of the literary
efforts gives coloring to the suspicion that
the material for 'Herbert's Boom is ground
out by the staff of the Ne,0s.
The magnanimity of the Neus in furnish
ing "Herbert ammunition will naturally
suggest the inquiry, show much is there in
it''-for the Nesos?
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
Not as Hard as the Name He's Got
Here.

Henry Ward Beecher, in speech in Lv-
erpool, said he was half Scotch and half
Irish. When he got to London he alluded
70 his English ancestry" and in a speech
III Cardiff on last Monday night he an
nounced that his grandmother was a Welsh
woman. Hereafter the distinguished poly
glot should be addressed as Henllfroch
Waarryd Beepcheryteddfod.- Washington
Post.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
No Domestic Division of Labor
There

Bob Burdette in the Brooklyn Eagle.
"What is your husbands business ?" de-
manded the census marshal. "He has no
business" " replied the woman of the house.
"Well, what does he work at?" ''He doesn't
work at all he's labor reformer." ''Sure
enough, and what do you do?" "Plain
sewing, and washing, and ironing.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
MIR. Lore has Care for his Con-
stituents.
Daily Republican

Mr.. Lore turns up all right with his appro-
priation of st5O,OOO for building the new
Wilmington postoffice. The people were
considerably concerned about him, fearful
that he might lose his grip in the face of
contending factions. Now then, let us have
as possible, and let the work proceed right
along.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
Toying with Fire.

1t will be amusing, if nothing more, to see
the facial gyrations of the Morning NewS
wriggling itself into the temperance fold after
editorially encouraging the gubernatorial
candidacy of democratic canuluato u,u is
reported to have placed his photograph"
IN every groggery, of high and low degree, in
the State of Delaware. Nay more, if our
memory serves us correctly it was the Nor.
ming NeUS which first called attention to this
novel electioneering device and suggested it's
possibilities for evil.
1t has been charitably suggested that edi-
tor Sperry has been vacatiug during the past
fortnight.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-14
Joseph Pyle the Republicans OPP
Daily Republican.

If the Democrats really want a good gov
ernor of Delaware in whom politics is a sec
ondary consideration, let them drop the meu
on whom they cannot unite and take up
Joseph Pyle as the candidate of the people.
They will then get a good governor but
very poor politician.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-04-07
SH0CsAS,sS rC9 GO aUr.

Wha, ~Il. be sad D, the good demo- orArs and mus~iDps who have been declaurg that less than q thousand otsics-holdeIs have been removed ty ,he president, when they read ,ha; the post master general has ,nf~rmed the senate tha, in the year ending March 5. S.63s !ourih-olass pos,mas,ers have been re- moyecs
 h Pennsylvania alone o3s PotcA6oes have changed ihe.r holders from Repub- Eesns 70 democrats. New York, Ohio and limos have io-, from 6oo 10 [ ooo each and ,he r.,, oi ,he state. have underscn: changes ,n ptaporton, except sha; in Massachusetts lhere have been fever changes ;n proportion than iu any other republican state.
 Demoera's doubtless viii rejoice 10 isasn Iha, so many of their friends are sin Republicans will shrug their shoulders and say fortune of war" Blu what ~iG the mugSump, say. Accord ins Ia Sh-is ,heones these petty offices are just the ones which ou.h, L. remain unchanged with change ot admin,s,,a- sion. We fear that neither ,his nor any other administration will evr- aocep, ,he ;ns;~uno wv O: the DDS 0 fices. -Ex
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-04-07

Rev. ] ,hn Ran kin, sho Is ist dead at ironlon, O., Af the advance age't Sas me vf .ue P,"nrer sbul'tlonisis of Inc country. H,, trends claim tha, nr Jrsanl.ed the 6rst abel,t.un sOciesy in Kentucky m 1878. sod that he v.s ire- qurntly despo,lei ~,th decaycd eggs as he vas preaching his then unp"pdlar sentiments m Pennsylvaria He ciaim' d tha, he first told the incidents that form some of the most interesting and exciting portions of "Uncle Toms Cabin" Nota- ble among these vas the light of Ehaa and her child. He claims to have con- cealed these n his house until nishtfall and then taken them . considerable dts sance on their journey. Ma Humph- reys, his daughter. says she got breakias' for the original Eliza sod her child on ,hls occa sio n.-Ex
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-04-07

The announcement has been briefly made of the death of Tuthill King, a Chicago millionaire. who died reoen y on his wedding trip The Chicago Nal has unearth-d . chapter in his his- tory that reads like romance. He had reached the mature aee oi ss, and hso family of married daughters. The oio gentleman was fond of travelling, but h. children observed wi,h pam that as h'' wears grew m number he developed an .morous propensity. What if on one oi his trips he should fall ia with one oi those designing females who lay in wa'' to sobble respectable and wealthy old senrIem~n as Mrx BardrI" tried to entrap "Mr. P,ckwickr The thought vas harrowlng to their hlial minds. So .hey hunted up an exceptionable widow made a bargain with her for an hundred thousand dollars, and had their father mary her. ThIs was n bad specula- toa all around. The widow nursed nm faithfully for three months, and IS ar hundred thousand dollars ahead.