Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-04-22

a Ot. raul TREND OF Henry NUlafu says
that Mr.. Willard writes from Germany
that he intends to return to this country
very soon and embark in active railroad
operations again.
Tom Sands was at work at the bottom
of well 20 feet deep, when man at the
top dropped crowbar. He yelled, Tom
looked up, saw the bar, and succeeded in
lodging it as it came down.
The special mail delivery system is
voted to be great annoyance by postal
clerks, who have to keep sharp watch
for few letters bearing its stamp while
sorting thousands of two-centers.
Gambling has grown to be so common
a cause of ruin in respectable towns of
Berkshire, Massachusetts, ittsfield, Lee,
Lenox, North Adams, &c.-thnt power
full movement has been begun against the
practice.
Peter Melnnson, SO years old, died sud-
denly in Clure, N. S., Oh Tuesday, and
his wife, two years younger, who had al
ways said that she hoped she should die
with her husband lived only four hours
after him. ......
A visitor had returned from Washing
ton and was asked whether he had seen
the great New York statesmen Eyes
was in the gallery and heard Evarts
speak" "What was he talking about ?"
"oh! he didn't say"
A wine merchant at Schweinfurt having
sold as genuine wine a decoction in
which tannac acid, glucose, ely cerine,
salicine, coriander and other adulterants
were found, has been sent to prison for
three months and fined 1000 marks.
The recent loss of the steamer Feronia
on the Dutch coast involved also that of
q shipment of 5000 600, 900 needles, sent
by four large manufacturers in 1serlohn
to China. There will doubtless be "cor-
ner" on needles in the Celestial Empire.
Various processes have been brought
forward for producing a satisfactory sub
stitute for the ordinary wooden pail, and
the most successful effort in this direc-
ton appears to have been accomplished
with paper pulp.
If Mrs. Clarissa Davenport Raymond
of Wilton, Conn, lives until the 25th of
next month, as she bids fair to do, she
will be 104 years. She shows her burden
of years in her indistinct speech and fail
ing vision, but her hearing is as acute as
ever.
When, three years ago, two lakes in
Lyme, Conn, were stocked with black
bass, they swarmed with perch and pick.
erel. The bass have been protected by
law and have increased largely, but the
perch and pickerel have entirely disap
| peared.
The information comes from western
| New York that the bottom has fallen out
of the apple market, because Thousands
of barrels which the farmers have hat
stored all winter, hoping for higher price
are now being rushed upon the market at
very low figures.
A constable at Canaan, Conn, while il
search of criminal in an old coloreC
woman's house a week ago. found si1
burly negroes packed away in small
cavern underneath the hearthstone. The,
were all wanted for one crime or an
other, and the constable reaped reward
for the arrest of each.
Young Mackenzie of Waverly, Ind
was firing Mt mark with a rifle on Tues
day. He did not know that his mothel
bad entered COW shed against which h,
was firing, and when he went up to Sc,
how well he had shot he found her lynn
dead with bullet hole through her head
Western Kansas wants to be a separat
state. Its inhabitants claim that it is th
richest part of the state; but the capita
being hundreds of miles away, and all tn
state institutions located along the Mis-
souri, border, western Kansas is deprive
of n fair representation both in state an,
nation. -.
| While Mr.. Cleveland may not be wha
is termed q "crack shot, T." still he can har
die breach-loader very neatly. His bes
shot yesterday was seven redheads at on
crack. The ducks rose from cove i
front of our skiff, and as they were grace
fully passing. JUS on the right the Pres
dent let them have both barrels, bang
bang and smiled broadly as he saw lii
water in front of him covered with flu
tering birds. These ducks were gathere
up by attendants in another skiff, an
will be served on the White House dinin
table to-morrow.-JerSey city argus
A curious combination of domestic tic
! was effected last Wednesday evening i
the marriage of Widow David Baker.
woman of GO and mother of some II
10 children, more or less, to Charles T
, Stratton, about ~ years old. Strattc
+ and his brother had previously Marie
. two of the old lady's daughters, one I
I whom had obtained divorce from Il
present bridegroom, SO that Stratton h
now become father-in to his form
a wife and husband to his mother-in. la,
Z while he is brother-in-law to his broth
n and brothers wife, besides being the
i" father-in-law.- NiAtiham County 7ra
csript.
A well-to-do old man was DIR. Oseo
parson of the First Church, In his lii
IT Springfield was mere village and Indi
n Orchard sheep pasture. The pars
10 owned the main portion of that wal
Ie conducting it as farm and sheep ranC
If and employed John Corey and his wife
it run it. The parson drove out there
II view his possessions one day and fou
lie old Corey drunk, beating his wi
lie well, we'll, Mr.. Corey" said the pars
lie "a man whipping his wife !" aye
Mr.. Corey, recollect that n woman
the weaker vessel.n "Well. d-n her,
her carry less sail then 7" DIR. Osgc
%, used to tell this story often, and ne
40 omitted word of old Corey's reply
ot Springfield Homestead.
W And now it appears that the New Y,
NO militia wants to be paid for attend
General Grants funeral. Well, mayb
m is all right. l guess it is, but someh,
nj you see, one fancies the last trum
he sounding, the dead awakening, the sh,
y and goats going their respective VIZ
4 the saints joyously pouring into heay
re when one new saint stops in the strai
m gate and blocks the way. "Well, wha
it," says st. Peter "My mileage, if
please, sir, says the new saint. "M
nd Rge!" shouts the astonished Peter, g
Is | what for ~ WIf Won plense sir nnmf