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The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07
Badeau, Grant and johnson.

Adam Badeau is not successful as a racon-
teur
| As narrator of English social life he at
tracts only in his personalisms which are
vulgar and in his assertions in regard En-
glish home life which are usually untrue and
almost without exception one-sided and ex-
aggerated.
In his recent letter to the Sunday Press
Mr.. Badeau places his protege, General
Grant in the most unenviabe of positions.
He puts General Graut in the position of
one who Intentionally miseads and deceives
lie places the General in the position of one
who, after having accepted a subordinate
office under President johnson, and promis-
ing, in vrtus of that acceptance a soldiers
obedience to bis chief, and additionally that
personal loyalty always facility inferred un-
der such circumstances he makes of him
conniver, one who hides and plots and over
tly contrives that the orders of the Copiman-
der in Chief be promptly disobeyed -
What manner of man is that?
Surely Badeaus picturing of such char
acter docs not draw our adulation? How
could it?
If the Generals historian tell the truth, all
that can be said is why did not General
Grant resign, instanter ! Mr.. Badeau seems
to forget that that option was always in
General Grants hands Were he surround
ed by what he considered incongruous or
uncongenial conditions it was, according to
common judgment, his duty to do SO.
1t would be better, in the eyes Of the pub.
lie to whom Mr.. Badeau speaks, to explain
General Grants anomalous status of holding
on to his office, which it would appear was
so extremely uncongenial, while simultan.
seously opposing secretly, and contriving,
that the Presidents orders be disubeyed
In this connection it is not asserted by Mr..
Badeau which side was right-nor, is that
the question, for General Grant, at that time
was a subordinate whose sole province was
to obey-or resign
Adam Badeau has not placed General
Grant in very admirable pos ton in the
eyes OF the public.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07
Hotels without Bars,

The Millville Bulletin, in very interesting
and suggestive article upon the results OF
ten years of prohibition in Millvlle, N. j..
says: at is believed by many licensed ad-
vocates in many places that without the
revenue ftom the rumshops the town will 20
to financial ruin, grass grow in the streets.
weeds in the hotel yards, and the traveller,
both man and BEAST go cold and hungry if
the licensed inn does not offer them food and
shelter. Millvile has demonstrated the
falsity of all these claims. Two of these
hotels which used to keep open doors and
open bars in this city are now occupied as
temperan ce hotels or boarding houses, OF
the other two, one has been cut up into
stores and the other is used as a dwelling.
The travelling is better provided for than in
the license days. Most small cities az d towns
from one to dozen taverns exist beyond the
needs of the public service, and their pro
prietors grow fat from selling rum. Such is
the condition Of things in Mlllvlle that the
proprietor of the leading hotel in the city
says that she would not have license if it
cost nothing, and this when it was not very
long ago when the keeping of temperance
hotel was considered such dubious under
taking that public subscription was made
to maintain such an institution, and so get
rid of the licensed tavern"
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07
still Striking.

The Morocco dressers are still walking the
streets, with the prospects of an indefinite
walk. The contempt which the more intelli-
gent part Of the strikers must have for them
selves for blindly following the vagaries of
Mr.. Caldwell, their late geneIalissimo, must
border on the indescribable.
Men, like dumb, driven cattle threwn aside
the accoutrements of their office, turned their
backs upon the legitimate avenues which had
been opened to them for the maintainauce
of their families and entered upon life of
idleness because an irresponsible triumvirate
so ordered.
The streets echoed with the bolsts that
two weeks would suffice to compel the mo-
rocco manufacturers to submit to whatever
proposition Caldwell and his clique might
suggest, yet weeks have passed into months
and the strikers are still striking.
The morocco strike is the most illy-ad-
vised strike that ever was ordered and the
harvest of want and distress which must fol-
low in the wake of said strike is too uninvi.
ting to contemplate.
Should the strikers resume labor to-day
it will take them at least one full year to
atone for the losses which they have brought
upon themselves.
The morocco men were deceived by ignor
ant aud designing men when they SO precip-
itately went out on what was supposed to be
few days strike, and justice to themselves
and justice to their Families suggest
speedy retracing Of their steps as far as is
practicable.
Over 100000 has already been absolute
ly lost to the morocco wage worker since the
institution Of the strike and this sum is be.
ing swelled by every week that the strike
continues How long will the morocco en-
ployees shut their eyes and turn deaf ears to
their best interests?
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07
THE GALATEA.
The Galatea has arrived at last.

| L ne Galatea mas arrived at last.
AS everybody knows she is an Euglish
racing yacht come over here for the direct
purpose of wrestling the America Cup from
our gallant and hitherto successful yachts
men.
VIII the Englshman succeed-or, more
exactly, and more authoritatively speaking,
has the Galatea any chances of succeeding
against such glorious specimens of racing
architecture as the Puritan, the Pris ella,
Mayfower or Atlantic
1t is the concensus OF opinion among both
American and English yachtsmen that she
can't
The Galatea has not successful racing
record.
But she looks like u fast ,at, and there
fore it will not do for us to be over confident.
'Tbe most unexpected" said the epigram-
matte Lord Deaconsfield sis that that hap
pens''
reporter of the New York Herald who
saw her Sunday morning as she rounded the
point of Marblehead Neck gives his impress
sions of the Englishman-"T wind was
light from the South, and the Gaeata was
under the short sail necesstated by her jury
rig, but she moved though the water rapidly
as her sheets were flaUted to make a short
tack to the anchorage, e,-when she was in
stays it was noticed that she forged ahead
wonderfully, so that there was gain, in
stead of loss in tackng. The long lean
hull glided through the water with scarcely
a ripple under the overhauging stern &C."
However, yachtsmen in New York and
Boston, amateur and professional, and hun
dreds of thousands of Americans all over the
land are intensely interested in the coming
trial between the Gaatea and our champion.
'NIay the best boat win" is the true sports
mans motto.
Lieutenant Hem, an English naval officer
and the owner of the Galatea is receiving all
the hospitalities of cultured Boston. He is
accompanied by his wife, who, it is said is
as good sailor as her husband.
The following is the measurements of the
English yacht 3
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07
The Bachelors To-day.

To-day's great local event is the Bachelor
Boat Club Regatta.
1t is to be Ladies' Day on the Christi
ana The club will appear in their new
uniforms The barges will be decked in
new bunting and silk monograms. The
Club House is already tluttering with flags
and gala array and is ready for the recep-
tion of its lady patrons. 1t will be an inter
esting event
The course is from the club boat house, at
the foot of Market street, to Third street
bridge and return. After the procession
turns at Third street bridge a scrub race will
take place ON the return home.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07
The OIeomargarine Bill.

1t is matter of qualification that Presi.
dent Cleveland has signed the O!eomargariue
bill-and this notwithstanding the alleged
splendid atorical effort in the Senate of
the Hon. George Gray upon the unconsti-
tutionality of the enactment, a speech,
which, upon that phase of the bill, was
not spoken by the Senator, although the
Hon. George Gray vigorously opposed the
passage of the bill in its general discussion.
1t is matter of sincere qualification to see
that we have a President who discerns a
stronger point in the urgent demand for 'the
general welfare than in the fostering f an
iniquitous and undoubted monopolistic man
ufacture (for it is not in the full sense, legi-
timately, an industry to the detriment of a
staple industry or in other words the Presi-
dent perceives and appreciates the direct
needs and protection of the masses in prefer
ence to somewhat vaguely called abuse of
the Federal Constitution. 81 =,
1t is not necessary to ask-is the Constitu-
tion made for the people, or the people for
the Constitution Or rather, are certain CO.
rollaries of constitutional law to be continu
ally construed to the hurt of the masses,
and contrarwise be ruled in favor of what
in its own nature, is conceded to be wrong
1t would appear reasonble to suppose that
when any difficulty of exact apprehension or
application of Federal law arises that Con-
gress will iegisate in the direction of ad-
vantage to the masses or parallel with the
line of the general welfare.
And this is what President Cleveland has
done.
He has not over-rdden the constitution
unless the pressing, iightful needs of the
people and one of their greatest staple ill.,
dustries clashes with its action
An invasion of the Constitution by the
President is affirmed only by certain soph-
lists or would.be casusts of the Senator Gray
type who would construe its terms as iron
clad inelastic articles inapplicable to the
larger needs of the present generation of
Americans. Even these sophsts subside and
quickly drop their theories when informed
upon the truer construction as did Senator
Gray upon this question when informed by
Senator Evarts.
The Constitution is not hidebound, nor is
President Cleveland.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07
PRICE TWO GENTS.

significant words for our picayunish, small
minded Senators in Washington
Compare their purblind, bat-liko action
with the astute commercial policy of these
English statesmen.
They indeed are capable servants of their
country! They have proved it by results, by
hard facts that no abstract thcolizing or
petty squabbling over nceties in legal talk
can obfuscate.
The limited foresight, halting action, reit-
Grated obstruction to patriotic favoring of
American needs in Congress by such men as
the Hon. George Gray will always hold and
keep our country in slough of despond"
Let us not dabble in small nicetits or minor
points of constitutional law or international
law but look up and out on the grand ex-
panse of the country's general needs, and
push forward en- 1adSSe. If penny be lost
here and there, a comprehensive policy which
sees in the future ga step forward along the
whole line" of American trade and CON-
merce, will abundantly sanction or excuse
the slight peccadilo!
When the large seine is thrown out, no
business-like fisherman stops the work OF
the day to patch up one little mesh whereby
a single sprat may be lost ! At the end of
the day when the overwhelmingly large har-
vest is drawn in, is that little loss noticed |
Let us not interfere with proper eompre.
hensive measures for the general onward |
progress of the country, because one little
obscure point may strike us as lacking COM
plete exactness and symmetry.
Senator Gray is accused of this picayu-
nishness and the accusation is a true one if
his action and record III Congress bear any
relevancy whatever to his pit ,nal ideas ur-
on national questions.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07
JUSTICE IRIUMPHS.
The Unrighteous Insurance Com
pany Commanded to DisgOrge

Ine UnrIghte0uS Insurance Com
pany Commanded to Disgorge.
In the case of William II. Pierson VS.. the
Htna Insurance Company, which was de-
cided in favor of the plaintiff at the May
term of the Superior Court for this county
the defendant filed exceptions to various ru.
lings of the court, upon which they proposed
to take the case to the court of Errors and
Appeals. The court (Chicf Justice Comcgys
and Judges Wootten and Houston), however,
refused to sign the defendants bill of excep-
tioIs, which prevents the case from being
taken to the higher court. The Judgment
of the Super rior Court is therefore, final and
conclusive.
This action on the part Of the court vir-
tually declares that the other insurance
companies which conspired with the 4Etna to
deftaud Mr.. Plerson out of his Just deserts,
must settle their claims
Never before in the courts of Delaware
was man so falsified and so vilified as was
Mr.. Pierson by the attorneys of the Ktna
Insurance Company. That the decision of
the Superior Court is irrevocable will be
greeted with universal satisfaction
The Superior Court declared with en-
phasis that the attorneys of the Etna Com
pany aspersed and libeled tue character of
William II. Pierson. The indications are
very clear for the institution of suit for
damages for libel and defamation, on the
part Of Mr.. Pierson
Mr.. Pierson was most cruelly y-most foully
wrOnged at the hands of the Ktna Insur-
ance Company aud that Co., should be COM
PEELED to pay, at least $50 900 for the lati-
tude it assumed in assailing one of Whining
toms most trusted-most respected-and
most honorable citizens.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07
c. b. Lore's Crowning Effort

The Hon. Charles b. Lore reports Thurs.
day last the passing by both Houses of Cyn.
gress of the Suudry Civil Appropriation bill
which includes the item of s15O,OOO appro-
priated for the Wilmington Post Office
To the Hon. Chas. B. Lore is due the
credit Of this acquisition. There need be nc
mincing of the matter-no attempt to plac e
credit in any other direction. The citizens
of Wilmington have to thank Mr.. Lore alone
for his vigorous and persistent following up
of this matter to its present successful issue.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07
One Thing Absent.

A very fashionable wedding took place re-
Gently in a town not far from Philadelphia.
The bride was the daughter Of a wealthy
mill.owner, who employs about three thous-
and wolkmcn. No money was spared to
make the occasion one of joy and festivity.
The mills were stopped, and the workmen
formed lane through which the bride,
groom and attendants walked from the
brides 'me to the church, aud as many Of
them as possible crowded into the church to
witness the ceremony. There was one thing
absent that is considered almost essential IN
these days on such occasions-wine. The
father of the bride has never allowed liquor
to be sold in the town, and said that he
would not allow it to be used on this uceas-
ion. Iii, example in his own home should
haImonize with his preccpt outside of it.
When the bride drove away, men, women
aud children waved and wished her all ioy
Christian Union.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07
Samuel j. TiIden.

Tie greatest and most prominent demo
crat, Samuel J., Tilden, died Wednesday
morning last at his home at Greystone, on
the banks of the Hudson.
Seymour, Hancock, Mcclellan, Hendricks,
Tilden 1t would seem that all the great
leaders of the democracy had gone from us.
In necessarily short notice of this great
man but one or two of the prominent points
of his career may be referred to.
Undoubtedly the most salient point in this
illustrious Americans life is that Incident of
his public career when having been elected
President Of the United States by majority
vote Of over quarter of million of his feI-
low citizens, Samuel J. Tilden advised that
as the question of the legitimacy of a part of
this vote had been raised, aud that what was
possible, should he press his righ's, was
another bitter, perhaps bloody struggle-he
advised the democracy not to insist on their
rights.
The leaders of the democracy conceded to
this most patriotic request and thereby
placed themselves and their party forever
upon the highest pinnacle of national re-
spect.
The name of Samuel j. Tiden will here
after be inseparately connected with all that
is noble, pure, and elevated 10 regard to the
permanent growth and solidification of the
nations future.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07
The Moonlight Excursion.

Of the Baohelors' Boat Club will be given
Wednesday next August 11th. The Steame,
Brandywine, and First Regiment Orchestra
Gin their new uniforms as an offset to the
Bachelors new uniforms have been engaged,
Tickets on sale at First & Davis's or Grin.
pen Riggs, 7th and Market.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07
Elegant Workmanship

j. Q. Finn & Son, Gl0 Market street, are
engaged decorating and paperng the resi-
denee of Alfred D. Poole, Seventh and West
streets. Some extremely elegant decorative
work is to be seen on the ceilings, hallways
and the interior generally.
Messrs. Finn's designers have introduced
to this city the beautiful and artistic work
seen only in the best private residences in
Philadelphia.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07
The Grand Opera House.

Till within the lass day os SO the Grand
Opera House has presented internally an ap-
pearance sufficient to suggest the idea that
Manager Baylis was preparing most nat
ural spectacular rendering of the effects of a
Western Cyclone for the benefit of his pa.
irons here
The auditorium has entirely been torn out,
flooring and seats scattered right and left,
boxes disappeared, and the denuded chaotic
appearance of the whole scene Indicating a
complete turning inside out.
The whole grade of the lower floor is
changed. The back rows of the parquet
will be raised, grading fourteen inches high
er than at present in gentle sweep TO the
front rows. The first row of the circle "a,
will be thrown into the parquet. The stage
itself will be dropped twelve inches and by
the meditated change in the boxes a gain of
eight feet will be made on the stage bring
ing the actors that degree nearer the audi
ence.
All the lower floor that is the parquet and
circle, will be furnished with chairs, which
will be new and upholstered in red plush.
The benches upstairs will be in red leather
'We want" said Manager Baylis ito have
things as near perfect as possible this time,
now that we are going to such an expense in
the matter"
Mr.. Baylis says that he does not expect to
be ready before the middle of September.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

A party of ladies and gentlemen including
DIR, A. J. Funk and wife. Isaac Pyle and
wife, Leonard Pyle, the Misses Sadie and
Helen p lie, Bella Funk, Carrie and May
Mosley Minnie Able, Josie Fogg, Ella Ga
hart, Clarence Pyle, Norris Fogg and VIM.
Miggitt started early Thursday morning on
their annual grabbing excursion. The point
Of destination was Porter's farm uear Edge
moor. Two boat loads started from Market
street bridge, the remainder going by train.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

Miss Ella Porter, Miss Julia Porter, and
Miss Belle Morrison, accompanied by Frank
Carpenter, teller of the Union Bank, and
Willard Thompson, of the Harlan & Hol-
lingswo'th Co., left Monday last for ten
days trip to Boston. They went via Balti-
more.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

Mrs. Edward Harrison left here Wednes-
day last for months stay at Hockessin.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07
PERSONALS.

NJ IS Natalie Johns, accompanied by her
mother, is recuperating at Ocean city.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

Miss Nan Woodward of Reading is visi-
ting her friend Miss Emma Barton in this
city. She is accompanied by Mr. A. A. Mil
Ter, of Sharnokin.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

Mr.. Joseph X. Adams aud family, of 7O7
French street will spend ten days camping
out on the Brandywine at a point between
Chadd's Ford and Birmingham Park.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

Thomas Davis, Esq, goes to Milford, Del,
to-day for few weeks holiday.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

Miss Salle Shaw, Miss Ella Marvel, and
Miss Annie Faust go to Camden Camp, Del,
to-day. They will stay visiting in the neigh
borhood for three weeks.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

Mr.. Philemma Chandler, excluding In-
specto" has been offered the contrac5 of
building the Lew b. X o. depot at Delaware
Avenue and Dupont streets. There is a
possibility of commencement of the struc-
ture early the coming week.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

MIS-, DR.. j. X. Brown, the wife of vii.
mington's most celebrated dentist is at
Ocean Grove.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

-, -. - Nlfl7.ta
I lJoseph Richardson, Esq, is at Saratoga
he will return llth August. -".- =, =,
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

RobeIt Shaw, the Wilmington artist, who
has been staying for some months past with
relatives in North Wales has entered as
student at the British School of Design,
Liverpool, England.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

Miss Lizzie Enos, young lady of much
intellectual promise, has boycotted Will
mington for the remainder of the heated sea
son, and is ditiusing her smiles among the
natives at Colchester Beach.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

Colonel John Wainwright, Superintendent
of the Wilmington Oil and Leather Co., re-
turns in few days to Hatteras, his family
go to Rehoboth.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

The Rev. r. B. Cook, d. D., sent his
children Monday morning last to Virginia
for few weeks change of air.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

Miss Lizzie Talley who, SO royalty en-
tertained her friends at progressive euchre
during the past Winter left this city to-day,
for Bnsstleton for a few weeks soiourn.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

Mrs. L. L. Baldwin returned Monday
evening fiom few days at Brandywine
Summit.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

Miss Emma Barton, who has achieved
quite an enviable reputation as an artist
will spend the dog-days at French Creek
Falls.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

Miss Essio Chandler is on visit with the
family of d.. Jefliies at Rehoboth FOR the
Summer
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

Mrs. Aldrich, 202 West Ninth street, is
making a stay at Brandywine Summit Camp,
she is accompanied by Mrs. Thomas Brown,
Sr
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

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The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

The Misses Pusey, 925 Market street, left
for Eagles Mere, Sullivan, County, Pennsyl-
vania, last week, for the Summer months.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

MI. Thomas McCorkle has gone to Sara
toga. He left Thursday last and will be
gone month.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

Mr.. Geo. II. Ash, 5O6 West Ninth street
and family left hele Wednesday last for a
two-weeks soiourn at Ocean Grove.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-08-07

MIR. Roberts, organist of st. johns p.
E. church of this city, and his mother are at
Brandywinc Summit Camp.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-03-17
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

Such bright and halmy st. Patrick q
Day is not remembered by the Oldest inhab-
liant.
St. Paul's Church lecture room has been
repaired and handsomely reftted and this
evening services were held there for the
first time in several weeks.
1t is said that favorable reports will be
made to Congress on the bill to authorize
the construction of an iron pier at Fort Mon
roe at cost not to exceed $3.50, 600:
Messrs John and Harry Aitcheson, two
practical and experienced machinsts and
engineers of this city, to-day purchased CT
Messrs. Cathcart & Co. the Neptune Iron
Works in this city, situated on Union street,
south of King, and will hereafter carry on
business there on an extensive scale.
The arrivals of fish at this city are on the in
crease, and yesterday evening lot of Potomac
herring were received here FROM Lower Cedar
Point, consigned to Mr.. Thomas Perry.
A cooking main for 500 a fight and 500 on
the main took place at Bladensburg on Monday
between Georgetown and Washington, which was
won by the Washington birds.
The chain gang was out in force to-day clean
ing the streets and making Improvements in the
western part Of the city.
The Grand Lodge I. o. NJ. of Virginia will meet
in this city in May next.
During the past three days twenty seven ar
rests have been made by the police force.