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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-09-17
Death Gfthc Duo dc(nye,

PARIS, Sept. 1.-The Due deCs,s.
whose serious illness was reported yester.
day, is dead.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-09-17

The War Department mas not yet decided
what to do with Geronimo, the Apache
chief.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-09-17

Two more slight earthquake shocks were
felt in Charleston yesterday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-09-17

THoICE SUGAR CURED SHOULDERS: FRESH
~ just received by j. c. MlLBUkN'
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17
About Time for the Stars to
Fall.

Inc November meteOric showers are
about due. Outside of the planet Mars.
which is next to the earth and between
1t and Jupiter, there is an immense
space filled with pieces of matter which
astronomers say once formed a world
which was shattered by some unknown
force at some unknown time, and it is
while the earth is passing through this
belt in August and November each
year that the showers of shooting
stars occur. Some meteOrs have al
ready been seen this month, notably
very brilliant one in the sky over
Brooklyn, which, like almost all other
shooting stars, flashed across the hori-
zon and was consumed, in all prObabii-
ity, by friction with the air.
This is the fate of most meteOrs, for
they move with inconceivable velocity.
but many cases are recorded when me.
teoric stones, in state of intense heat,
have fallen on the earth. In the old
Astronomical works mention is made of
q shower of meteOric stones which fell
near RoquefOrt, in France, some of
which weighed thirty pounds. In 1903
a great tireball exploded in Normandy.
u winch IlumDOIuJ gives an account III
his " Cosmos" Morethan 1000 mete-
Oric stones, some of them weighing
seventeen pounds, are said to have fall
len from this bolide. A great meteor
fell at Poitiers in 1922, another near
Munster in 1868; an aerOlite measur-
ing cubic yard, which was found lin
Texas, is now in the British Museum.
If any of our readers have access to
a good telescope they might enjoy these
clear November nights, watching for
the meteOric showers. Even with the
naked eye numbers of these beautiful
. shooting stars can be observed in
the heavens, and they are we'll worth
observing. There need beno fears that
the meteOric showers will not be on
hand, and, as an evidence of the num-
Der of shooting stars seen in our sky,
we may state that Professor Olmsted.
in New Haven, on November 18th,
1888, counted in nine hours 100000.
from the size Of a point of phospheres-
ence to a globe as large as the face of
the mOon.-PhiddelphiG DaiLv NeUs.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17
A Serious Matter.

You seem unhappy" ventured
hotel lOiterer to a glum-looking citizen
of the woody west, yesterday.
" Guess you'd be so to, if you lived
where do. I'm going to Washington
to see the President"
" Political trouble?"
National trouble, sir; international
trouble. Don't letters come from mi
over the globe? Say, now!"
Oh, | see; something wrong in the
Postotiice department ?'
" Wrong l should say there was.
You see live at Snag Forks, and Bill
Wilkins, he's been postmaster for nigh
on to six year. At first he done the
square thing. When the letters come
they wos dumped in a candle box on
the bar-rOOm floor, an the boys had no
trouble a tindin' their mail. But Bill
amt the man he uster be. He's GOT as
unaccOmmodatin' as a Texas steer
Fust he moved the box to the counter.
and we. had to nearly break our arms a
divin' fer the letters. Then if the
burned coyote didn't get a new painted
consarn with glass in front so we could
not git at the mail at all, and, as if that
weren't insult enough to honest men,
he went to work, rugged up a lot of
boxes, and hang me if he didn't put
locks onto 'em an got to chargin' stor-
age. l just tell you I'll GIT that Bill
Wilkins out of that there place or die
FUR 1t, now you see."
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17
The Singing Of g Home Sweet
Home"

Perhaps the most thrilling quarter of
an hour of John Howard Pavne's life
was that when Jenny Lind sang
F." Home, Sweet Home" to him. The
occasion was the Jenny Lind concert
IN Washington, the night of December
l7th, 1850. The assembly was perhaps
the most distinguished ever seen in n
concert room in this country. The i'm
mense National Hall, hastily con
structed for the occasion on the ruins
of the burned National Theatre. was
filled to oVerflowing. Among the no.
tables present and occupying front
seats were President Fillmore. Daniel
Webster, Henry Clay, General Scott
and John Howard Payne. Jenny Lind
opened with the "Casta Diva and
followed with the Flute Song" lin
which her voice contested rivalry for
purity and sweetness with flute in the
duet, then the famous Bird Song. "
and next on her programme the
" Greeting to America" All the
pieces were applauded apparently to
the full capacity of am enthusiastic au-
dience, and Mr.. Webster. who was in
his most genial after-diuner mood, en-
phasized the plaudit by rising from his
seat and making Jenny a profound
bow, as if responding for the country
to her Greeting" But when the
" Swedish Nightingale answered the
encore by turning in the direction of
John Howard Payne and giving
" Home, Sweet Home" with all the
wonderful tenderness, purity and sim
plicity fitting both the words and air of
of theimmortal song, the difference was
at once seen between the mechanical
applause called out by display of fine
vOcalizatiOn, and that elected bv the
" touch of nature that makes the whole
world kin" Before the first line of the
song was completed the audience was
fairly " off its feet" aud could scarcely
wait for "A pause to give expression to
its enthusiasm. People ordinarily of
the undemonstrative sort clapped.
stamped and shouted as if they were
mad, and it seemed as if there would
be no end to the uproar. Meantime
all eyes were turned upon Payne, a
small-sized, elegantly-m0ulded, gray
haired gentleman, who blushed vio-
lently at finding himself the centre of
so many glances.-Brooklyn Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17
Tilton and His Wife,

1t is now nearly a score of wears
since cOmely, graceful woman stood
between the lace curtains that shaded
the window Of a lovely home in Brook
lyn watching Il slender, dark-haired
man, who turned to wave his hand
before passing out of sight. There was
a smile on both faces as the hurrving
feet of the pedestrian carried him
around a corner, and the woman
leaned out the window to watch his
vanishing form. Two childran plaved
about her feet, and so far as the ordi-
nary eye could see the house itself was
the abode of domestic contentment, if
not love. The dark-haired man was
Theodore Tilton and the woman, it is
needless to add, was his wife; but
what home has undergone a sadder
and greater change in the same relent-
less time? After roaming from place
to place the restless Tilton had settled
down in Paris where it is announced
that he means to stay. In a lonely
chamber of the Protestant Convent at
Newark, Mrs. Tilton sits and sews from
day to day, the gray light of November
falling upon her furrowed face and
lending an ashen color to her ALWAYS
pallid checks. OF the little girls that
played at her feet that September
morning in Brooklyn, one, Florence, is
living a students life in Switzerland
and the other has found a home among
friends in Chicago. They say that
Tilton expects to marry again, but the
rumOr is Onlya rumor. 1t is quite too
late for him to retrieve his former
errors, whatever they were, and he
best serves himself by his dignified 81
lence. For the other parties to the
great controversy perhaps the same can
also be charitably said. All the ele-
ments of tragedy are contained in the
affair, excepting the necessary death,
and that is more than equaled by the
unbrOken silence which at least two of
the principals maintain.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17
Analysing The Baking Powders.

Under the direction of the New York
State Board of Health, eighty-four diff
ferent kinds of baking powders. embrac
ing all the brands that could be found
for sale in the State, were submitted to
examination and analysis by Prof. c. f.
Chandler, member of the State Board
of Health, assisted by Prof. Edward G.
Love, the well-knOwn United States
Government chemist.
The official report shows that a large
number of the powders examined were
found to contain alum or lime: many
of them to such an extent as to render
them seriously Objectionable for use in
the preparation of human food.
Alum was found in tWenty-nine sam
pies. This drug is employed In baking
powders to Oheapen their cost. The
presence of lime is attributed to the
impure cream of tartar of commerce
used IN their manufacture. Such cream
OF tartar was also analyzed, and found
TO contain lime and other impurities !;
IN some samples to the extent of 90 per
cent. of their entire weight.
All the baking powders of the mar
ket, with the single exception of
Royal" mot including the alum and
phosphate powders, which were long
since discarded as unsafe or inefficient
by prudent housekeepers) are made
from the impure cream of tartar of COM
merce, and consequently contain lime
to a corresponding extent.
The only baking powder yet found
by chemical analysis to be entirely free
lime and absolutely pure is the
Royal" This perfect purity results
from the exclusive use of cream of tar
tar specially refined and prepared bv
patent processes which totally remove
the tartrate of lime and other impuri-
ties. The cost of this chemically pure
cream of tartar is much greater than
any other, and on account ofthis great
er cost is used in no baking powder but
the " Royal.'
Prof. Love, who made the analyses
OF baking powders for the New York
state Board of Health, as we'll as for
the Government, says of the purity and
wholesOmeness of "Royal":
" | have tested package of ROYAL
Baking Powder, which 1 purchased in
open market, and find it composed of
pure and wholesome ingredients. It is
q cream of tartar powder of high de-
gree of merit, and does not contain
either alum or phosphates or any in
furious substance.
Z. G. LOVE, Pm, D."
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17
Perils of an Amateur Photographer

lam afraid this amateur photorraph-
ing craze will have to be stopped. l
met man the other day aud the con-
versation, by his dexterous manage
ment, turned to the subject.
Do you know -?" he asked
naming one of the amateur photogra-
pliers.
" | do, very we'll"
II wish you'd go up and see him."
What for?"
" Well, he was over at Saucelito the
other day and saw him taking a pic
ture of very pretty bit of view.
want to get it,"
YES"
Yes" he went on, as a fellow al
ways does, and gave himself away.
" l was over there with a friend and
-" he hesitated.
" Was she very pretty ?"
knew I'd make a mess of it. I
say, don't put in the paper. The fact
is took Miss -, you know we are
to be married very soon? We were
walking very happily. l won't DENY
1t, we were tenderly inclined. -
these photographers. You can't go
anywhere but you will find lens on
you. Well, we were walking along,
when happened to turn, and there was
cursed photographer and he'd Just
taken picture. I want you to 90 up
and see him and find out if-well-if-
there's anything in that plate except
the landscape"
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17
Political Sp9culations.
AN INTERESTING THEME FOR REFLEC-
TION.


In 1884 the Democrats carried all the
southern States and Connecticut. New
York, New Jersey and Indiana. These
States cast 2l9 electoral votes. The re-
naming eighteen States, having in the
electoral college 182 votes, supported
Blaine and Logan. This year the Re-
puhllcanS appear to have lost Colorado
while the latest reports from California
indicate that the result i'm that State is
mixed, some candidates on each ticket
being elected, and all by very small
pIurallties, but the greatest prizes-tbe
goVernOrship and Senatorship--are
captured by the Democrats. Deduct
ing Calltornia's eight votes and Col
orado's three from the Republican total
OF 1854, that party would be left with
put III electoral votes. IF COloradO's
three be added to the total vote cast for
Cleveland it would increase the arore-
gate on the Democratic side to 222
But on the other hand the Republicans
nave this year been successful in In
diana and Virginia, both of which
States in 1884 were Democratic. These
States have together twenty. seven elec-
toral votes. Transferring these from
one slde To the other we find this wear
the Republicans have had a plurality
IN eighteen States, with 1913 electoral
votes, and the Democrats in nineteen
states, with 1875 votes, and possibly the
eight votes of California. This sum
mary IS important only as showing the
almost precisely evenly balanced
strength of the two parties. The polit.
ical complexion of the two Houses of
the next Congress emphasizes the same
fact. In total membership of 325 the
Democrats in the House will have n
majority of about fifteen. In the
Senate, with its seventy-six members.
the Republicans, counting the Vir-
ginia Readjuster with them, will have
two majority. In other words, of the
4Ol members of both Houses the Dem
01crats have a majority of about a
dOzen.-BdLt. Sun.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

Succession. The Church, the Bride of
| Christ, will then come into her own
again, and will blot ont from her men,
ory and from the record of her life the
splendid though goddess achievements
OF merely secular progress. The Episco-
pal Church will then be no longer one
of the OftshOOts of the great ecclesiasti-
cal renaissance of the Reformation. but
will aVOw herself to be an integral part
of the old Catholic civilization, op-
posed, it is true, to the special claims
of the Bishop of Rome, bnt in all other
respects in full sympathy with the
Latin and Greek ideal of Christian
life.
But, it may be said. these dreamers
surely cannot thus bind a great Church
with the chains Of ecclesiasticism, un-
less that Church is willing to be bound.
Where is the grand old Low Church
party? Where is the Broad Church
party? And, above all, where are the
educated, progressive laity? Was not
their influence felt in the Convention
on the side of simpler faith and more
Scriptural creed? Yes their influence
was felt, but that influence is not in
manyiways as great as it ought to,be.
The Low Church party of to-day is not
the power that itIonce, was. 1t has
never entirely recovered from the with
drawal from the Church Of the Re-
formed Episcopalians, andihas no men
to take the place of the peerless
McIlvane and the elder Tyng. 1t has
lost its distinctive character as the
fighting brigade of Professionalism, and
its members have become either inef-
iective sharpshootcrs, or have retired
to view the conflict from some quiet
and secluded vantage ground.
The intelligent laity. on the other
hand have long ago dismissed ritual
ism from consideration rs IA childish
though harmless exhibition of eccles-
iastical millinery, and weak imita-
tion Of Popery"
have given this review of the par
ties in the Church, first, because some
knowledge Of them is necessary to q
full understanding of the work of this
General Convention, and, secondly. be-
cause it will enable the reader to see
more clearly than he would otherwise
do what are the tendencies and cues
tions at issue in the Episcopal Church
to-day. This Church occupies a most
honorable and even powerful position
in this country at the present time
and all intelligent Christians, whether
they are members of it or not, must be
Interested in the great movement that
is attempting to drag it back again
INTO the semi-darkness of medievalism.
-Nel0 York independent.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

The Prohibition party doubled the
st. John vote in every State that had
that ticket in the field. Maryland
jumped from 5000 to over 1000; Penn
sylvania from $1,000 to $1,000. The
same proportiOnate increase is reported
from all other sections. A low esti-
mate places the total number of Prohi-
bition votes cast at 100000.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

The twenty-frst annual meeting of
the general committee of the board of
church extension of the Methodist
Episcopal Church was held in Phila.
delphia Thursday. The committee
is composed of the bishops of the
church, thirteen ministers from differ
ent sections of the country, and thir-
teen delegates from the board located
in Philadelphia. Bishop Bowman pre-
sided. The animal report of the board
to the general committee maks very
favorable showing. Two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars is needed to
carry on the work of church extension
during 1887.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

1t seems that, in spite of his name.
the New York Prohibition candidate,
Judge GrOo, has polled about 10000
votes, 5000 more than the candidate of
that party for Governor received last
year. In thirteen northeastern and
northwestern States 211,2 ,224 Prohibi-
tionists voted this year. In 1885 the
aggregate for the same States was
119,404.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

The West is the land of poesy. A
Minneapolis paper says: Corn, the
friend alike to poet, peasant and specu-
latOr, lowered lovingly a moment at 43
cents and then alighted with pink
doved feet at A." The man who
wrote that apOstrophe must have been
badly cOrned
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

Flossie had been presented with a
box of French candy.
Now, FlOssie," said her mother,
you have eaten all that you ought to.
You can have one piece more, and then
we will put the box away until to-mor-
row."
Can have any piece I like ?"
asked Flossie.
best"
FlOssie hesitated. "Well, mamma"
she said, finally, "if take the kind l
don't like best, can have two pieces?"
-HdTper's Bazaar.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

Jay Gould, says "a New York paper.
has become a willing victim to bis pref
ty daughter-in-law, nee Edith Kingdom.
She keeps the family in roars of laugh
ter, and Jay Gould declares that She is
just the element he needed in his home.
Her stories of her adventures in differ
ent theatrical companies on the same
railroads over which she now travels
in grand style are very funnily given.
and the contrast she draws between
then and now is the source of constant
merriment. They are indeed won
derful roads" she said the other day.
" I'd like to own the whole SYSTEM"
Whereupon Papa Gould made her a
present of Sl2, 800 worth of stock, with
the remark I can't give you all Of
them, but here's q little piece,n
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17
IA Cantain,a Fnrtnnnto nisonuo.,.

Capt. Coleman, schr Weymouth, plying between
Atlantic City and N. Y, had been troubled with a
cough so that he was unable 10 sleep, and was in
duced 70 try DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption. IL not only gave him instant relief
put allayed the extreme soreness in his breast
lis children were similarly affected and a single
dose mad the same happy effect. DR.. Kings New
discovery is now the standard remedy in the
Coleman household aud on board the schooner.
Free Trial Bottles of this Standard Remedy al
James T. Hofecker's, Drug Store Smyrna.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

More than twenty-one million shad-
lings have been put into the Delaware
within year. Crazed by the cold and
the absence of the pap, they were fed
on in the hatcheries, who would be
surprised at the poor things going in
seine next Spring2
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

DR.. Gross, physician at st. Vincent's
Hospital, Baltimore, Md, considers
Red Star Cough Cure perfectly harm
lesss, being purely vegetable and en-
tirely free from opiates, poisons, and
other narcotics. Other professionals
also endorse it as prompt, safe and
sure. Price, twenty-five cents per
bottle.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

1t was said at the White House last
week that the President and Mrs.
Cleveland after a mature considera-
ton of various names which had been
suggested, had decided to call their
country place "Oak View" The place
will be ready for occupancy by the first
of the coming month, being occupied
by Mrs. Folsom, and the President and
his wife will visit it as their conven-
ience suggests.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

The Postmaster--Geneml Thursday
ordered the discoutinuance of92 fourth
class post-oflices, mainly for the rea-
son that there were no candidates for
the postmasterships." In large num-
Der Of cases the business of the offices
did not justify their continuance.
Nearly every state and territory is rep
resented in the list During the pres
ent month, to date, there have been $50
pOst-Oflices discontinued and 24 estab-
lished.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

We have heard many of our old
friends say that Salvation Oil cured
them of rheumatism. Those who have
not tried it, should do so. Our drug
gists sell it for twenty-five cents a
bottle.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17
Ruelrlen's Arnioa SaIva-

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises
Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores letter
Chapped Hands, Chilblains, COrns, aud all Skin
kruptions, and positively cures Piles or no pay
required. IL is guaranteed 70 give perfect salts
faction, OF money refunded. Price IS cents per
box. FoF sale by JAMES p. HoFFEcKER,
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

Mr.. Powderly's ability and excel
lence of administration receives gen
eral recognition. Nor is that five
thousand dollar salary more probably
than he earns. And yet, according to
the latest Improved labor platform, it
seems sort of odd that one laboring
man should have five dollars week
salary and another hundred. Nor is
this solitary case. Mr.. would-be-
Mayor George wrote his well-known
book, Progress and Poverty" while
holding an almost sinecure office in
San Francisco as gas inspector. His
stipend was only three thousand dol
lars annually, but it sulficed fora work
ing man to keep body and soul to-
gether, so he was content. There is
this to be said in Mr.. Georges favor.
that the salary could easily have been
doubled if he had chosen, but he pre-
ferred to be honest.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

The Boston Courier is somewhat un-
happy because people use the little
Esq" after their names. "The GUS
tom" it says, " is merely one of those
silly and thoughtless instances of the
adherance to an old traditionary usage
from which all meaning has long since
vanished. There is no more harm in
it than there would be in drawing the
picture of cat ON the address upon an
envelope, and, for that matter, no more
good. Since every country bumpkim
becomes on his letters at least an
esquire and ignoramusea go even to
the extent of adding esq, after 'ir.,'
: L. 1. D. or ID. d. itself, it would
seem that the habit had made itself
too ridiculous to endure longer, and
that it must quickly work its own ex-
tinction; so that, perhaps, it is needless
to expend words in attacking the esq.,
folly"
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17
The Good Effects of Local Option.

Since local option has been in effect
in Kent county, Md, Rock Hall. a viii
lage in the lower part of the county,
principally occupied by fishermen and
oystermen, has grown most wonder
fully. Scarcely is there a man in the
village who does not own his own
house and lot. Then their harbor was
almost without a sail, and all the busi-
ness done by vessels hailing from Bal
timore, while now as many as thirty
large-sized schooners, pungies and
sloops are owned and manned bv the
citizens of Rock Hall. Rock Hall can
boast of two churches, a large school
house, shOemakers' shops, an apothe-
cary shop, doctors Office, Knights of
Pythias Hall, a canning factory giving
employment to 100 hands during the
Summer season, boat builders, etc.
There are four stores, which are visi-
ted daily by drummers from Baltimore.
Philadelphia and New York, and thew
say that one would be surprised to
know how many goods they sell there
and that they are able to discount
their own bills.-BaltimOr Herald.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

The Record deplOres " the scarcity Of
girls" Ice cream season is over, it is
true, but our distressed cotemporary's
young men can catch the girls every
time if they try theatre tickets for their
halt.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

The magical effects of st. Jacobs Oil
in removing soreness and stiffness
makes it Invaluable at all times.
Rhematism and Neuralgia promptly
yield to it.
Smyrna times., 1886-11-17

Then, curtains down, around the fire we press,
To sing and jest, to romp and laugh and play;
But while the fun goes round, each heart can
say,
" November brings Thanksgiving Lord, we
bless
Thee for our happineSSr'
Sophie L. Schelck. IN Brooklyn lfdgaziae.