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The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31
A Blasphemer's Fate.

Simon Wilcox, well-to-do farmer
of Bradford Junction, O., is raving
maniac. His mental malady was
apparently the direct outgrowth Of a
stroke ofpsralysis visited upon him,
it is generally believed by the AL
mighty, as a punishment for BIAS
phemous language uttered by him.
Wilcox's farm, with others in the
vicinity, was visited by heavy
storm of wind and hail on Thursday
afternoon which beat down and ruin
ed all of his crops. Wilcox was abb
sent from home at the time, and
when he returned and surveyed the
ruin about him he uttered the most
fearful oaths, cursing God for allow
ing and causing the destruction In
the midst of his rawlings he fell to
the earth, and when his family and
the neighors came to his aid he was
found suffering from a stroke of par
alysis. On attempting to raise him
from the earth they found the soil
so hot about him that they could
not tread on it, and the end of a pole
with which he was pushed away
was charred and blackened. Wilcox
was finally got home, where, on
Thursday night, he went crazy, and
is now a maniac, writhing in per
petual and terrible agony, and al
most helpless.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31
THE PEOPLES COLUMN.
This column is open 10 ali. All articles must be
brief and couehcd in respectful languagel


MEssRs EDIroRs Allow me space in
your valuable paper to make a sugges-
ton to owners of hacks in our town. On
Thursday, August ~, the Fair View
Lodge of Good Templars will hold one
of the largest picnics ever held in this
county in Whitemans woods, Milford Y
Roads. Messrs., Hoffecker and Cooper,
Hon. Mr.. Stubs, Revs. McNeal, Hub
bard, Wiley, Umberger and dozen
other speakers will be present, and every
thing to please and entertain visitors
will be done. We believe great many
Newarkers would like to attend this pic
mic if an opportunity were given them.
Now Messrs lIackmen, would it not be
a good idea to run hacks TO and from
Newark to the picnic grounds during the
day, leaving here at about O'Clock a. m,
l:30 and 7;30 p. M, thus giving those
who wish to spend the entire day a
chance to attend and those who only de-
sire to spend the afternoon or evening
an opportunity to do So A moderate
charge could be made of about 80 or 80
cents for round trip fairs. Where the
hacks to run, an announcement should
be made of that fact, stating time Of
starting and the price of fairs. We be.
lieve at least $50 Or 200 people would GO
by way of hacks, if they will run.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

The time for summer girl is at hand
mean the GIRL who snans nor Gngers at
a,, ,,.5.;.,. ~. M, ~
9''''iis anu ''isO'iliS 10 put oii SILKS me
one who doesn't try to rob the birds of
their plumage to put on her hat until
she looks like the show-window of
,,.;i,;,,.. - A.. -.
hiiiiiheIy STORE mean the girl VINO De-
lieves in white and in the lawns that look
like what Mr. Bulwer calls the pavilions
octh.sl.,, Il, o,l,o, ,,,,,.1., olo,,d, Thaua
are oirls who are afraid 70 inf on ,lis ~
-. -, i'1' va '', rs, ~
TIRE OUTSIDE OF Ileir own homes. lhey
look well enough there but are too careful
when they 90 out on the street. The
-,,,,,,,,,,,, i'll go, -, 81. =: . III. -
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

A register of every horse and mule
in Francois kept by the government
for reference in case of war, when the
government may need to call for
horses.
The Turkish women eat much
sweet food, candies, and preserves
and drink inordinate quantities of
Serkys tea and milk for their com
plexion, and eat rice in every imagi-
nable form.
The Romans considered the eagle
Il bird of good omen, and its pres
ence in time of battle was supposed
to foretell victory 1t was selected
as the Roman legionary standard,
through being the king and the
most powerful of all birds.
Leaves of larch which had been
rolled into balls, the largest more
than foot in diameter, by the whirl-
ing motion of water, have Just been
exhibited before the Berne Natural
lists Society. Such balls, free from
cementing mud, are formed in GER
tain Swiss lakes, and other places
are produced from various plants.
The modern names ofsizes ofbooks
are derived from the folding of paper
When the sheet is not folded, it is
called 9f5iio, irad this size was very
fashionable thronghoutthe sixteenth
ana seventeenth centuries. The folio
sheet doubled becomes aquarto; an
other double constitutes the octave
of eight leaves or sixleen pages.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31
THE THOROUGHBRED IMPORTED
Clydesdale Stallion.
NORFOLK HERO.

For the improvement of our stock and
and increasing its size the subscribers
will oiler the service of this beautiful
and powerful young horse to the public
as follows on Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday of each week at the stable of j.
+. Irons, West Grove, Penna., and the
three last days Of each week at the Deer
Park Hotel stables, Newark. Del.
Norfolk Hero, is a chestnut II hands
high, was bred by Mr.. &. Jones. stowe
England and registered in stud book 10.
1858.
His Sire, Leviathan. No. 1894; his
grand sire, Hercules, No. 1921 his grand
grand sire, Heart of Oak, No. 1905 Ills
dam by Honest Tom, No. 1898. who took
six first Royal prizes and never was
beaten.
TERMS,-Sl5 to insure, 50 10 he paid
at the time Of service, which will be bart
OF the insurance if with foal. So the
season TO be paid cash. Insurance TO he
paid as soon as ascertained to be with
foal' Any person parting with mare
which has been insured will he held for
the insurance.
Good stable keep or pasture furnished
Tor mares from distance at reasonable
rates. Lindsey * HOssinper,
hyl-i Newark, Delaware
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31
YOUR CHANCE

To save Money or
Clothing, as we are de.
termed to reduce our
stock. All prices are cut
10 per cent. for cash
from date, and remem-
Der that we are not
marking down Il few
odd lots OF sizes, but our
stock of Ready made
Clothing and Furnishing
Goods. Call and ex-
anime our stock and
prices. We will cheer.
fully show you the
goods and let You decide
for yourselves where you
can get the best for the
money. In the Custom
department we offer ovel
60 styles which we will
make to order for $40 a
suit.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

IT IS NOT yet settled whether all
the papevs that came out and pro-
claimed their choice for Governor
have received new presses. THE
LEDGER has not been complimented
with any new machinery, not even a
call from prospective. candidate.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

The Morainy Ne,os gets a little
Hurried over a letter in the New
York Star in relation to Delaware
politics, and says some uncompli-
mentary things. AS this is not the
NelOs fight it would have been,
probably, more to its credit to have
kept silent.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31
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The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

THE KEEEY moter NOTED on Sat
urday, and description has been
given. 1t is not quite clear to what
purpose the machine can be put to.
However, it is encouraging to the
stockholders to know that Keely is
still at work and using capital. 1t
will soon be in order now for anoth-
err assessment.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

SOME one has said that the
use of Niagara Falls has been found
it serves nicely as the fool-killer.
1t looks as if the Brooklyn Bridge
was giving Niagara a close race to
score the greatest number of fools
killed.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

VINO will be our next Governor?
New Castle county has not been able
to name an executive officer for the
last forty years, and this is no reason
why one should come from this sec
ton now, argues one of our contem-
poraries. However some of these
coming years the Democratic party
may be asked to select man from
this end of the State. A little more
patience to those aspiridg and then
may be you can get there.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

The remarkable act of cruelty of
an insane colored woman butchering
a child and serving it roasted to a
party of colored picnickers in Geor-
gia surpasses anything we have yet
heard in the way of news. Weread
it with large pinch of salt because
we did not have faith enough to be-
lieve the story.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

The little bubble between Mexico
and the United States is badly burst
ed. Mexico is a wonderful country,
but the United States is more won
derful, therefore, editor Cutting was
released.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

A new building material, for which re-
markable fire-resisting qualities are
claimed, as well as superior hardness and
adhesiveness and applicability at all tenn
peratures, is called "asbestine" 1t is pro-
posed to make it a substitute for plaster
as at present mixed, because it requires
no hair, and it is represented not to
crack under the influence af fire, as ordi-
nary plaster does, and will therefore
prove check to the spread of flames.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

The Hon. VIM. Dean gives the
fellow who proposes to know so
much and says nothing a heavy dig
in the ribs for his silence. Mr.. Dean
urges him to come outand tell what
he knows, so that the charges may
be placed where they belong, TINS
purging the party of scheming men,
whose only aim is to secure office
and then enact trickery Of the bold
est type. Let every deal be exposed
at whatever cost. A trickster in
politics should receive no encourage
ment, and he should be driven from
the ranks Of any party in which he
may be. Honest officials, like ex
petitions to the North Pole. are
scarce. Voters would do well ifthey
would sean more closely those who
rush into the market for lavors Al
every opportunity.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

The report of the suffering of the
many families Newfoundland is ter
rible. The fishermen along thecoast
have been unable to fish owing to
ice. 1t is said not less than Is 900
have died.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

The anarchists, Of Chicago, who
threw the bombs and killed the
policemen begin to quake as the evil
dence against them is weaving a
chain which places them in an un-
enviable position.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

Kisses admit of a great variety of char
acter than perhaps many are aware Of.
Eight libial deversities are mentioned in
the Bible-the kiss OF salutation, vale
diction, reconciliation, subsection, appro-
baton, alteration, treachery and effec-
ton.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

A new black silk, Cachemire
Ethiopien, by Etienne Charbin
of Lyons.
And why do we bring you
a new one with the market full
of well known silks? Because
the new maker wants your
trade and makes his prices to
get it.
People are just so foolish
when they have once secured
your confidence they want to
get rich too fast. But thatgives
new men a change. How
rarely you find a maker or
merchant who can bear SUCCESS
without getting his head turn
ed and putting his prices up to
the point that drives you away!
This new black silk-In the
first place the maker guaran-
tees it to wear as we'll as silk
ought to wear; and so do we.
1t is a beautiful silk; the black
is exactly right for a medium
black -neith er blue nor
smoky; its luster is perfect-a
granny luster, not a surface
shine its weight betokens an
honest silk-there are plenty
heavier; but the prices-there's
the rub-ooc, 81, $I.25 and
$3.50 for silks that only a new
man sells for the money.
West Transept
We have told of wooden
dress-stuffs at half of the prices
a month ago, 1t doesn't seem
exactly the thing to do to go
into particulars much. A stuff
goes down from SI.25 to so or
90 cents-that of itself is
about enough
We don't mean extravagant
dress-decorations- they were
forgotten weeks ago.
We don't mean staples
they almost never go down.
We do mean acceptable
stufs just off from staples. A
year from now they may be
out of fashion. That's why the
the prices are 371l to 75c in
stead of IS and $3.50.
Southeast OF the center
There are a dozen such
among the black dress-stuffs.
Almost staples-we scarcely
like to speak of them well
enough-the palmer the bet
ter. SIN to 75c.
Southeast Of the center.
Another dozen of them are
cream.
By the Thlrteenth-street door.
Just such Jerseys as we have
sold all along for So to SC
for half for a day or two more
more. We had fifty-one style.
to begin with. May have more
don't know.
1903 Chestnut.
Take the city together, We
suspect there are not so many
pretty sateens in the whole o
it as we have at this one count
er-half a counter at that
SIZE.
Batistes are dainty as wei
as pretty, aye.
The spider-web crates a
I6c are as pretty with quite
another sort of beauty rougl
and touchable. Rough dr.
them in the sun.
Seersuckers, crinkled ant
pretty or ugly-no matte
which = substantial and airy
not SO light as they look, bu
cooler than many a lighte
stuff. I2H, 10 and CSC; bu
the I24 are as good as any
Rough-dry EN- in the sun.
Fine indigo chintz with whit
hair lines and clusters of line
and CROSSINGS very pretty in
deed. Yard-wide, I8c. AnotI
er grade, not so wide and fnel
I24c.
Northwest OF the center.
Thirty different styles {
Wilton carpets at $L6o var
} -Bigelow, Lowell and othe
standard makes.
Moquettes the same way
$I.25 Alexander Smith
l Sons'-twenty styles or more
Borders for all. Stair an
hall Wiltons.
, We are clearing the stock {
all the styles we are going
. stop. Brussels, tapestry, il
, grain also.
Market-street 'front.' second noor. Take car.
JOHN WANAMAKER
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

A little newsboy of Orlando, Fla, being
suddenly told of his fathers death drop
ped his papers and hurried home. A
citizen picking them up sold them
through the town, telling the circum-
stances, and realized $40, some of them
fetching S. apiece.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

STRIKES still continue, but not of
such a serious character as hereto
fore.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31
NEWARK DRUG
and
CHEMICAL STORE,
E. G. JAY, PHARMACIST,

Being educated to the drug
business, with an experience of
seventeen years handling drugs,
buying and selling, | feel safe
in guaranteeing everything l
sell. My customers will find
by fair and just comparison
that ! sell only the purest drugs,
chemicals, DC, at the lowest
prices. Call ut amy hour of the
day or night for anything in the
drug line.
e. 6. JAY.
DRUGGIST,
Near POstOillee, Newark, Del.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

500 000in presents gwen away send 5et
sYnVVJvVVpostage, and by mail you will GET
Nv Nv package Of goods Of large value that vim
ssalt you N work that will al once min, ~, VIZ
absni ~ bss's sd shan anything else in America A
AGENT .HS $4,000 IN presents with each box
ages for all the time or spare linz eni sex OF az
ers Shsoin unef own homes Fortunes for ali Wor
~ ~ apsqsulely assured Don't delay. il iImiieft
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31
YOUNG MEN AND W0MFN Fraoilosijy

tith tpheke IN the branches fir11a ~ n 49,, - lh
OF business, By competent ma li1 aa customs
fian VIII ,r nsa improved ofinstrue..
Typs Uriiiis I,i, t-nh incilltieH. Shorthand mn
fhadelplii1 N e Hmdekoper Tos,niastepips i ~
hrh; bpeu the entire wear si,, WV MISS X. j
Men aiil l ,t .'i.ariieds Addnss to Y9yn .n
XFsl ,i i,T ig BRYANT SIR Arr'n w ,,! SCI
"Noo "'l'NLeE irn'h 4 Chestnut X" a nb biHssl'
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31
$1.OO
I9 VVEEKs

Ihs POLICE GAZETTE will he mailed So.
ss,vs! W. wfahned TO any address in tae United
ONE DOLLAR
Liberal discount allowed 10 postmasters a.,..,.
ana clubs. sample copies mailed free - "eo"'s
ia,ia 10 All oruers TO RICHARD X FOX,
lahlo 10 Franklin Square, ny
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

A woman's labor union has been incor-
porated at San Francisco for the purpose
of manufacturing wearing apparel, estab-
fishing laundries, eating houses, restaur-
ants and reading-rooms.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

MAYOR RHoADs, of Wilmington,
is coming down upon the policy
shops with telling effect The policy
dens should have been closed long
ago. but we are glad to know that
the present Mayor is the man
Wilmington has wanted for some
time.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

IT HAS been forty years since a
Governor was elected from New
Castle county.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

In about another mouth the Acad-
envy of Newark and Delaware Nor
NAL School will throw open its doors
for the reception of students Since
DIR. Raub's principalship the institu-
ton has taken new lease on life.
The catalogues Just issued for 1886
and 81 gives a full outline of the
studies to bepursued. Here is offer
ed an opportunity toparents to have
theirchildren educated at q thorough
ly equipped academy and normal
school. Never before was the institu-
ton so ably governed. We earnest
ly hope that it will reap the reward
and success it SO richly deserves.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

SUCH hot weather is caused prob.
ably by Congress not adjourning.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

TnE Peninsula Press Association
will hold its annual meeting at the
Ashland House, Atlantic City,
August IS and 31st inclusive. These
meetings have been of such a char
acter as TO afford much benefit and
amusement tothe Peninsula Editors.
AS yet we have been unable to attend
owing TO the fact that we have been
in the journalistic field but short
time, yet we hope to sec a good turn
out of the faithful at the coming
meeting.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

THERE CERTAINLY is a great diver
sity in the Democratic Party in this
State at present. Only time will
heal old wounds.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31
WAMAMAKERS.


Till late in September the
store will close at one O'Clock
on Saturdays.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

n YSPEPSIA.--lts Nature, Causes. Proven.
- ton ana Cure. BY john H. MCALviS. Lowell.
Mass, II years Tax collector sent frec to any
address. inov9atf ''
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

It'll DloI working people Send 10 cents nost
HtI pags, and we will mail you free, roysl
HILL valuable sample box Of goods MAT Vii
put you in the way OF makina NJ,
.., money IN few days than YOU tRonvbt
ever possible az any business Capital NOT reo,,iSad
iou cah liSe At homeand work in spare tine oriy
or all the time. All Of both sexes or III my ly
grandly successful 80 cents to ~ easily axe sges
every evening That all who want work NAV tes,
all who are not well satisfied We viii ss,d 1 =, 10
rr inc trouble OF writing us. Fun particular ~
Isr r S eie sent nee lmmenee pay a6soinieIv
ress SllnsOn 4 90. pnrilnhH ni.inl ueIAy. AID
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

The sea serpent yarn season is at
hand, and now it is in order to hear
of the terrible reptiles. Several have
already been seen along the Atlantic
coast, and they vary in size, some
being as large around as a hogshead.
The trusted clerk and book-keeper
who does not get away with the funds
of a trusting firm, are becoming
scarcer every day. Stock gambling
is assigned as a cause of the down
fall of this class of persons. 1t is
well to have a convenient thing to
lay their shortcomings to. Thank
heaven, country editors will not be
numbered among these gentry.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

Ned Buntline passed his youth in the
navy, and when other midshipmen refus-
ed to associate with him because he had
served 'before the mast" he challenged
thirteen ofthem to mortal combat. Seven
of them accepted and were marked for
life" by his "unerring rifle"
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

Pat O'Flaherty said his wife was
very ungrateful, for when l married
her she hadn't a rag to her back,
and now she's covered with en-
Ingomisca-"You look very like
Senator F., John" John delighted
ly)-"Oh, do /? Is he smart ?" Il
don't know. He doesn't look so.
Mrs. STILLrooR-And so you
really sail tomorrow for Europe,
Mrs. Newlyrich? Mrs. Newlyrich-
Yes; everything is all ready. Mrs,
Stillpoor-Hasy ourhusband obtain
ed letter of credit yet? Mrs. New
lyrich-Oh, we shan't ask for credit
John expects to pay cash right down
for everything.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

Outing not content with sending
Thomas stevens on bicycle to 'circum-
wheel" the world, has just dispatched an
other special correspondent to the Arctic
Ocean, for the purpose of travelling on a
tricycle. which serves as Il bed at night,
through the heart of Russia, from Arch
angle to the Crmea
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31
Six Wonders of the World

The Capital at Washington, with
its iron dome weighing 8, 100000
pounds.
The Bunker Hill Monument, where
the noble Warren fell.
The Washington Monument, an
obliscal shaft 555 feet 81 inches high.
Niagara Falls, the stupendous cat
aract where 80, 600, 600, 600 cubic
feet of water pour hourly over the
precipice.
The Mammoth Cave, where you
may wander for 200 miles through
the bowels of Kentucky.
Old Faithful, the tireless geyser ol
the Yellowstone Park, which moi
only spouts 1870 feet, but spouts
punctually every SO minutes.
'.'e',|.'S's's.'.'tr'.'"sN
There is some hope that the eli
mate of New York may finish John
L. Sullivan, say a Boston paper Il
has just killed a rhinoceros.
A story is told ola Western woman
who prevented crowd of thirteer
men from getting through a door
way to lynch her husband. We know
that western women are plucky. Blu
New York can beat that. Not lont
since a woman kept back an angry
crowd of fifty on the elevated station
while endeavoring to fish a nicklt
for her fare out of a satchel cramm
ed full of dress-samples and buttons
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

The ideal young peoples magazine, II holds the
hrst place among periodicals Of itsclass.
-BOston Journal.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-31

Not content with driving the princes
out of the country, the French govern.
ment has determined to get rid of the
Seine washerwoman and of the washing
ships moored along the banks Oft the river
There are over fifty of these huge barges
which are made use of throughout the
year by no less than 3s, 600 washerwomen