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/, Thomas NJ. Darrah, Clerk Of the Munipal
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Clerk Of the Municipal Court Of Wheeling.
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JHN. kUIIkIH UIII NOTtTI TOIWVlJ
Pursuant to the authority vested In him by Il
decree made and entered in the above entitled
causes on the third day of June. lS6, (Which
causes were consolidated by II decree made on the
eth day Of April, 1856 the undersigned special
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on and after MAY :, 1886, Trains will run a
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-01-23
Delaware,s EXPENSES.

Among all the expenditures found in State
Treasurer Houston's report, there is perhaps
none which afforded such commensurate re-
turns than the little item Of $500 paid for
Teachers Institutes. 1t is an extremely
small amount in consideration of what is
needed. Ten times that sum might abun-
dantly well be expended in Delaware for
such purpose FIVE are to have live tea
chers, abreast of the times, and capable Of
standing shoulder to shoulder with the edn-
Gators Of other States we must Lave more
and better Teachers Institutes than the ones
with which we have recently been made ia
miliar They were the first in the State.
Bat they demonstrated solely their own in
suficieucy and the need of the thorough es-
tablishment of such institutions in perpetui-
ty. Delaware's first step forward must be
from the educational platform We do not
want in this State only medium or far
schools. We want the best that can be got.
Then we want the best teachers. To have
the best teachers experience, gathered out
side of Delaware, demonstrates without fear
of contradiction thai Teachers Institutes are
an absolute necessity of the day.
A teacher scholastically qualified is not
by any manner of means qualified teacher.
Book learning is not all that is needed.
There is great deal more than that want
ed 1t is only in an Institute that those who
hold certificates for the purpose of teaching
can see the newest and best methods denon-
strated by selected educators from recoguiz-
ed educational centres.
The Teachers Institute is species oil
Clearing House and Exchange Office, OF
school merhods, theory and practice of teach
ings, of imparting instruction, of time saving
methods. of Interchange of IDEAS, and O.
general frightening up in educational times
One point we should like to make and il
is this that the expenses of the teacher at
tending institute should be borne by th'
State, it should not be extracted from tbs
hard earned pay of this best of public sery
ants. 10 order that country teachers ma.
avail themselves of the advantages of {
Teachers Institute, grant Of say, So fo
the weeks expenses (for no Institute shoul'
last less than week) should be made eael
teacher attending an Institute. No publi
money could be laid out for better purpose
1t is necess ty, and we hope win 500
be recognized as such.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-01-23
RICETwO CENTS.

remain of value, that they are certain not to
be blind to the advantage of piutual trade,
under international regulation, in the north
ern seas"
In regard to the collection of customs dues
along the international boundary line, it is
quite startling to read the following from
such an authority as Lord Lorne the vol
ume of trade increases now along lines Of
latitude instead of along lines of longitude
that is, between the people who are political
ly united rather than across the information
al boundary. When men speak of that
boundary they are apt to suppose that the
customs line excludes everything : but it is
notorious that it does not do so and one can
drive coach and six through the acts of
the assemblies of the two countries at many
points, so that local inconvenience is much
eased by smuggling, which it is impossible
to prevent, aud is practically winked at by
both governments. The whole question
should be settled by neighbors rejoicing in
SO much common sense and real friendship.
In reverting to the point of Canadian 10y
atty to England Lord Lorne says :-"She
(Canada) is loyal to the backbone to the
great traditions and the wonderful ia brio of
the Empire"
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-01-23
what business Men Think

W. J. Spicer, superintendent of the Grand
Trunk railway, in his circular to his employees
of the road, says: "You have the lives Of
the public and the safety of persons and
property entrusted to your care, requiring at
all times the utmost caution and vigilance
in the performance of your duty. Men sub
jected to such temptations at any time are
safe only as total abstaipers The zone
glass more" often has the effect of making a
man careless, sleepy and Indifferent to dan
ger, if not more at time when he most
needs to have his senses clear and wide.
awake for his own and Others safety"
The Central Railroad of Georgia has a
rule prohibiting the use of Intoxicating Ii
quors while on duty, and any employe
known to use them will be dismissed from
theiT service.
Mr.. Nelson, distinguished insurance man,
makes the following computations "a
total abstainer, 90 years old, has the chance
of living till he is GA. A total abstainer at
30 has the chance Of living till he is 644. A
total abstaiuer at 40 has the chance of living
till be is S82. A moderate drinker, 20 years
old, has the chance Of living until he is 35l
moderate drinker, 30 years old, has the
chance of living till he is 44a. A moderate
| drinker, 40 years old has the chance of lv-
ing till he is SIG Probably no business on
the face Of the earth is SO mathematically
correct as the insurance business. Its fig
ures are not madeup iu the interest Of any
church or party. They are not the result of
any temperance fanaticisin, but simply
from cold business calculation.
The American Express company has decid-
ed to dismiss any and every employe using
intoxicating liquors. This is purely bust
ness arrangement. A great corporation
serving the public'as a conveyor of goods
finds that its service is impaired by any tol-
Grafton of drinking habits among its EN-
ployes When will the greater corporations,
the city, the State, the Nation, learn the
same truth? ...
Some of the more important railroad
, companies will not permit their employees,
whether on or off duty, to drink Intoxicating
liquors.
The superintendent Of tho Chicago and
Alton railroad, which has issued an order tc
discharge all employees who drink, say
c whiskey has been found foe of railroad
4. ing. 1t has caused the loss Of great many
lives and much money. Railroad managers
have learned that man whn drinks il
dangerous and is not fit to hold position
of trust.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-01-23
Some New Ideas.

In most interesting contribution to the
current number orthe North American Rerieo,
Lord Lorne, Ex-Governor General of Canada,
in speaking upon the topic of Canadian
prospects and politics says 1t is not so
very long ago that many of the men now
prominent in Canadian political life put
their hand and seal to a document, drawn up
at Montreal, which recited the reasons for
the annexation of Canada to the American
Union, and yet, in the comparatively short
lifetime that has passed, what change |!
An annexationst now, il not regarded as a
"crank," is hardly regarded as either a
sound politician or as possessing half the
spirit of a man"
Again in passing reference to the Fisher
les question, which at this moment is such
thorn in the side Of our Head Of the State
Department, the Queens son-in,law re-
marks :--"There is much reason to b. liey'
the time OF the entrance Of salmon differs il
various rivers, and joint commission, com
posed of Canadian and American spractica
scientists, if sent around the shores to max
inquiry and draw up report, would proba
bly, result in an agreement as to the mail
points-There is no part of the internationa
ground which a treaty might cover that is s
much in need of an agreement, for unwal
ranted intrusions are certain as soon a
temptation takes the fishermen toward th
prescribed water boundery,and that it is onl
between the fishermen that quarrels ma
develop into unpleasant circumstances {
which the governments of the respectiy
countries noed take heed. Americans uudci
staud 50 ell from their own experience an
the teachings of their scientists the necess
| ty of protecting the fisheries, if they are
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-01-23
The Cost of Gas.

1t is stated that the price of gas in London,
England, is sixty-fve cents for the thousand
feet, yet the companies pay dividends of
twelve per cent. In Wilmington the tax
per thousand feet is s160 and the local
companys dividend is the same as that Of
Loadon. Thore is a margin OF nearly one
hundred per cent il favor Of the customer
in London In Brussels too, the late is
cighty-tive cents per thousand feet. Will
mngton is nearer the great coal folds of
Pennsylvania than London is to the coal
mines of Northumberland, Durham, or
Wales. The probabilities are that the lions
share Of the difference between the contrast
ed charges oil sixty five cents and one dollar
and sixty cents finds its way into the golfers
Of the Pennsylvania r ilroad Company. 1t
is a remarkable illustration Of what is posi-
bic under the management of an over grown
corporation such as the one referred to, that
after placing eopgeries of states under
contribution to it, after receiving lordly con
cessions from every town, village and city
through which the main and tributary line;
pass, it can through It's ability 10 buy up th'
coal fields, further perpetuate this condition
of vussaldom and cause every individual ii
the region OF those states referred to pay a
daily tax into its Golfers, tax which differ
MT an iota from the fact of oxtcrtion, upot
the necessities Of life namely artificial ligh
. and warmth.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-01-23
An Admirable Prayer.

Tho New-York Herald rcproduces from
the London Truth copy oI certain prayer
found in the liturgy of the English church
of some three hundred or 50 years ago. 1t
is SO apropos in the direction Of what is
needed just now in Ireland, SO elegant and
quaint in diction, that it is well worthy the
attention Of our readers. 1t is as follows:-
We heartily pray Thee to send Thy Holy
Spirit to the hearts of them that possess the
grounds, pastures and dwelling places Of the
earth, that they, remembering themselves
to be Thy tenants, may not rack and stretch
out the rents of their houses and lands, nor
yet take unreasonable fines and incomes
after the manner Of coyetous wordlings,
but SO let them out to others that the inhah-
itauts thereof may both bo able to pay the
rents and also honestly to live, to nonrish
their families and to relieve the poor.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-01-23
Isnhinsnn must Hung.

On last Wednesday, at an adjourned sea-
sion of the Criminal Court. Chief Justice
Comegys delivered the opinion which debar
red Charles Robinson, who was convicted of
rape on December Sth, 1885, new trial.
The decision OF tile Court was based upon
precedent established in capital oiIenses, and
the Chief Justice said 3
''Gentlemen, we have come to the e9nclu.
sion that we will noJ hear any further
applications for new trials in capital cases.
There is strong proof in our minds that there
is no warrant for it, The court will hear no
more such applications.
Walter Bacon Esq, who most ably defended
Robinson, asked for anew trial on the ground
that one of the jurors John Il. Allfrey had
repeatedly expressed opinions concerning
the guilt of the accused before the trial was
called. Those who heard Allfrey's contra
dctory statements CONCERNING his relations
TO the Robinson case were most thoroughly
convinced of his (Alllrey's) total untitness
to sit in judgment upon any mans life.
F, AIthou IS man, 10 the fe40noe Of tine
court aduGitted that he had said "that the
damned nigger ought to hang and would,
we're he on the jary," yet he asserted
that she had not expressed an opinion" :"
| When the Chief Justice asked Allfrey to
explain how he could reconcile his diane
srically opposed statements this brilliant
Juror said that he merely talked SO as to save
himself from serving as juror in the Robin
son case yet when Allfrey was placed in
the panel his, mouth was closed tighter than
a clam. II Ailfrcy did make those state.
ments to escape the service OF a juror, why
did he not insist upon his discharge because
of said utterances? Those who closlly follow
ed this case admitted the remoteness will
alleged outrage. Tie doubtful and semi
impeachable testimony of the prosecutri:
! was the culet fellance OIL IHe stdut' lneF
was an entire absence of medical Testimony
to prove that an outrage had been COMMITTEES
and much of the testimony advanced strong
ly demonstrated that that the "outrage" wa
= a subsequent thought.
The grave uncertainty that coupled Robin
son with the alleged crime together wit
4 Allfrey's unlitness for a juror, encouraged IL
hope that the accused might have the adval
tage of p new trial.
But Robinson has the misfortune to
a poor, to be fliendless to be penniless and
Q be c0lored man, aud IL order that hangr
Re shall not be numbered among the lost art
il. in Delaware, guilty or not guilty, "nigge
must hang"
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-01-23
Miss Bayard's Death.

1t is very sad aud touching to see one SO
bright and young, one adored by SO many
friends, stricken in such a startlingly sud
den manner by the chill hand Of death All
Wilmington sympathizes from the depth of
les heart with the boreaved family = y
y y But what can be said for the acute
grief, it can bs nothing less, Of the father.
lie has lost, it seems, not alone favoritc
daughter, but trusted friend. The weak
but sincere expressions Of his fuliow-towus-
mems sorrow can bs but slight comfort, il
any, to family tnshroudcd aud dar&encd
while the sunlight Of the household has gone
out--fjrever
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-01-23
Serfs, not Freeman.

In Kent and Sussex, as most are aware,
landowners who wish to give up occupying
their land, when letting them out TO tenants,
are in the habit, as general rule, of demand
ing half the crop of the farm as rental pay
ment. This is customary throughout the state
of Delaware, and is varied. in New Castle
County, in some instances, by money pay
meut being made by the tenant iustead of
half the crop, which payment is assessed
however upon the half crop basis.
This is the general rent payment feature
on tenant farms throughout the Union. Re-
cent census reports show that there are in
this state 3,70S tenant farmers who have
their holdings on the half crop basis.
In the January number Of the NORTH Amer
lean RepseU, Thomas P. Gill writing upon the
subject of landlordism in America says -
At the census OF 1880 there were found to be
/, 1924, SOL farms rented by tenants in tho
United States. That figure alone entities
America to take rank as possessing the lar
gest tenant farming class now furnished by
any nation-as strange slngularity fora nation,
one of whose proudest boasts is that the old
fendal institution of lapdlordism has found
no footing on her free soil but to bring it
nearer the actual truth those figures must be
| made bigger still. In the five years since
the census was taken, it is a modest and
well-considered calculation that the number
of tenant holdings has increased twenty-five
per cent. This would raise the number of
tenant holdings at present in the United
States to million and quarter.
These facts tend to show the direction in
which we are civilizngl What different
picture from that which we have habitually
imagined for ourselves Instead of COM
munity OF independent freeholders we are
gradually developing to something very
| different, something more in the direction of
vassadom. The immense majority of the
landlords, in the large figures referred to
are absentees, who live in the various capi-
tails of their states, seldom looking after
their property which is usually left in the
hands of an agent, while the owner, well
satisfied with the grinding exation of 30 per
cent Of the fruits of the land, enjoys without
annoyance, or the lifting of a finger on his
part what the sweat and toll of his fellow
man garnered through the twelyemonth' 4
arduous toll.
The point emphasized here, apart from
any attempt to define whore the right or the
wrong in the matter lies, is that this country
, is drifting at race-horse speed into the very
cond Jon under which the Irish agrcultur-
ist cf ms to ~ ecw II his cenipialnti sgsins
landlordism. Taking all sentiments aside
the herne, of his trouble is that the Landlord
demands more than his share.
t Are we, in this country to introduce ano
, perpetuate similar practices? 1t must b'
remembered that this is the moment, th'
latest moment to make such an inquiry
for according to the report of the Commits
sioner of Public lands, Congress has beel
informed that we are on the eve of the dis
4; covery of the fact that there are no NOR
government lands for public occupation.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-01-23
Married.

Last Wednesday evening a large number
of friends and relatives gathered at the resi-
dence of Mr. and Mrs. w. H. Toulson to
witness the marriage ceremony of their pretty
and interesting daughter Miss Anna and Mr.
Charles A. Publ.
The nuptial knot was tied by the Rev. G.
W. Prettyman. The happy bride and proud
groom were the recipients of many practical
and ornamental presents.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-01-23

however, greater field and more probable
laurels. He is one of the masters of English
of our day. His fugitive pieces are what
are needed as salt to SAVIOUR our literature.
His phraseology affords a model of style,
Just as did the contributions Of the Spectator
for England a century and a half ago. And
would not that be great achievement for
the writer of any nationality to accomplish !!
We think George William Curtis is one of
the greatest factors for the accomplishment
Of a similar end for American literature
to-day.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-01-23
The ODera House.

Johu t. Raymond, as was easily predicted
drew a splendid house Saturday last at the
Grand Opera House. On Wednesday and
Thursday evenings Carmen" and Martha"
were rendered by the Strakosch English
Opera Company to fair houses. The orches-
tration under Herman Perle was very fine.
Tonight Toney Denier will give tie popu-
lar pautomine performance "Humpty Dump
ty." This troupe is the brightest and mer-
riest, and the most thoroughly organized and
equipped Of any on the read. Mr. Denier
has gathered about him company Of pains
taking and capable performers who never
fail to give satisfaction.
''The Count of Monte Christie" will be
presented Thursday night, FEBRUARY 4th, for
the benefit of Manager Baylis. There is a
brilliant caste, as may be gathered from ON
advertising columns. James O'Neill, the
leader is considered a worthy successor of
the great Fechter, the creator of the play.
The costumes and appointments will be
superb and the presentation viii be unique
in every particular
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-01-23
The Temperance MissiOners.


1t is good sign, though perhaps a super
fetal one, that the temperance evangelists,
Messrs Maybee and English, are receiving
quite considerable amount of attention
from our citizens.
Their mission is one that deserves serious
attention, especially from intelligent people.
Unfortunately heretofore, the statements
made from the temperance platform, espec-
tally those, where statistical information has
been attempted, have we fear, been some
what open to the charge of exaggeration.
This fact has weakened the efforts of the
temperance cause incalculably. An audience
usually listens to its orator, and just because
it does listen, and because among that aud
enoe are many who have sufficient of fund
of general information on affairs of the day
to recognize platform exaggeration, it is
for this reason that temperance orators
should be more exact in their statistical
not turned silently by their listeners against
this most worthy cause, and that the more
intelligent Of their audience, ladies' and gen.
tlemen who recognize its rectitude and whom
the opportunity might have converted into
strong temperance workers, are moi compel.
ed TO leave the room disgusted with the un.
fitness Of those chosen to lead the move
ment
We believe this to have happened in in
Vulnerable instances, but at tho same timt
the attempt is not made here to criticise the
logic Of the temperance movement. 1t i
right and beneficial and the times deman,
it. No worthier effort outside the salvation
of souls could be essayed than the salvation
of tho body, aud we may add any differeuta
tion Of effort would be difficult to define
one is the herald of the other and as ofte
the two missionaries 60 ont together wit
joined hands.
The argument of the temperance evange
, list ought to be sufficiently strong, it apple
with such distinct logic to humanity, i
repertoire of reasons, why it is better to
} temperate is so prolific, that the wonder
, that any of its speakers Should risk the su
? cess of the cause by the statement of exa
6 | gers ed figures " hen reference to Etatisti
, may be found necessary upon the publ
platform. Messrs. Mabbee and English a
pear to be an exception in their piatfor
: talk to the failing referred to of some of til,
o predecessors. ....-
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-01-23
T,,e d. o. Elrst Ytcto1sn


Tne-long- talked of struggle between the
Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania
Railroad companies, touching the bridging
of Staten Island Sound for the former com
pany's benefit, was precipitated in the
Assembly Monday evening in the presence Of
crowded galleries and lobbies. Mr.. Parker,
of Essex County, fired the FIRST gunby offer
ing a resolution similar to that cfiast winter,
requesting Congress to pass no measure
looking to the bridging of the Sound. He
made an eloquent appeal in behalf of the
rights of New Jersey against the encroach-
ments of foreign corporations. Mr.. Colbin,
of Union County, assumed the leadership OF
the opposition. He, said he and the two
other members from his county, which is
deeply interested, desired to make speeches
on the resolution, but there was not time to-
night, aud he moved TO refer the whole mat
ter for the present to the Committee Oh
Riparian Rights. Mr.. Parker opposed sucl
a course. lie believed there was no need OF
time for any Jerseyman to make up his mnc
how he should vote on a question so keenl.
affecting the States rights. Mr. Harrigan
of Essex Mr.. Hudspeth, of Hudson Nj
Beekwtb, of Atlantic, and others favored
the reference on viva voce vote, when ther
was clear majority for the reference.
The vote for referring was regarded as
test vote between the B. aud o. and til
Pennsylvania and it practically settles til
bridging Staten Island Sound in the interest
OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Con
pany.