The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-03

Inc day that marked the epoch of
electric lights also brought with it the
terrible effects of this agent when ac-
cidently applied. The death of a man
named Doyle, instantaneously, while adj
justing broken CONNECTION, is "a thing
that might be of daily occurrence were
not skilled worknen employed, and
even then as was in this case, men of ex-
perience sometimes, are caught mapping.
1t is said that the man might have recus-
STATED had counter current passed
through him in the opposite direction.
But the cure is also as heroic as the
stroke, and would be no doubt as dias-
trous.
1t requires an immense amount of bev-
erage nova days to pry into the secrets
Of chartered institutions and franchises
given by legislatures and councils, yet
there is always one stone that don't fit
in the overhanging arch of fraud. where
in an entering wedge can be driven.
Such is the case with The New York
Broadway STEAL the afterclap of which
will be that many of this mans col
leagues will wear "Joehues' the rest of
their days in the penetentiary.
/ don't know whether the colored
people of Delaware know much about
their fatherland or not, but there was
reverned gentleman from Washington
up with US last Sunday and enlightened
the white people as regards the Africans
and the country on the west coast of
Africa, known as Liberia. don't think
many colored men enthuse much over
going to this far off land to settle for
life, and think there are very few that
know anything about it more than
general idea that the country is place
where white man dies of fever and the
black man has kind Of county Of his
own where he rulues to suit his taste.
DIR. Sunderland, for this was the rev.
erned clergyman's name, is an agent of
the Colonization Society, and is an earn
est advocate of the scheme to put 10000
negroes from this and other countries in
this new republic within the next two
years, ostensibly as a military force, for
he sees advances made by some Of the
foreign capitalists to seize it, and subject
the people who have struggled SO long to
slavery again. He wants the govern
ment to give million dollars to do the
transporting of these people, and be-
lieves this country is bound to look after
a sister republics, black or white.
The type setting contest was the at
traction at the museum the past week
A race Of this kind lacks the enthusiasm
Of walking match or a boat race, as il
lasts so long and is SO monotonous in its
composition, yet there were many there
to watch these fast typos, lay cline upon
line, here a little and there little," as
the Scriptures put it, and to see the
champion Barnes lay down the stick as
such to that Of another named Alexan'
der Duguid OF the Cincinnati Inquirer
He is a man who has never entered con
test before, has never drank liquor, never
worked on Sunday, and belongs to the
Presbyterian church, and as a conse
quence never chews tobacco or smokes
vile cigars. So We see how the better
class of our printers are working their
way to the front, which is quite an
incentive to those poor wretches who
have reeking spittoon by their side
so they toll, who are members of the
"bar" from choice, and who never say
the catechism or the ten commandments
once in a half century. Large cities have
their numerous characters in this line Of
trade and it is remarkable how long they
are seen upon the stage Of active life
when it would seem that the way they
are living death would soon overtakt
them.
The people at distant might suppose
we were very wicked lot in this city o.
brotherly love, should they chance have
read the accounts of raid on a number
of disreputable houses by the police on
Saturday evening. And so we are
Although we are not brazen with oui
poluting influences, yet the door tina
leadeth to obstruction is just as wide
open as those cities whose gilded halls o
shame are proclaimed at every turn, ant
if any of our Delaware friends arr
doubtful about the brotherly love part o
our hospitality, just let him walk arount
the neighborhood of Eight and Vin'
with the air of innocence, and see how
quick he will be made a martyr of. II
some of the houses raided fifteen ant
more females were taken in limbo, som'
of whom were girls not long out of shor
dresses. There are dives here RICH
under the very shadow of some Of oul
church steeples, where men have beer
known to take hayward youths an'
maidens, and when once under the in
fiuence of drags mock marriages hav'
taken place, where men have lost thu
entire suit of clothes, and are forced Il
buy some old ones before they hav
gotten out. SPHYNx.
, Death Of DR.. Garter.