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The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-10
Washington Letter.


AohlNOlONt n pIll OlA, lOoO.
There is a genuine feeling of sympathy
for Secretary Manning among the en-
ployes of all grades in the department
over which he has presided since the adj
ministration of President Cleveland came
into power. As Secretary he has i'm
pressed his subordinated as just man
and no respector of persons. The poor
est and most humble man and woman
in his department received the same
courteous and kindly treatment as the
most prominent. All seem to feel a
sense of personal misfortune in the Sec
retary's illness.
There is nothing marvellous in the fact
that there has been good deal of sick
ness among President Cleveland's advis-
ers. Secretary Manning is gentlem an
of plethoric tendencies, and his duties
have been the severest kind of tax upon
his brain. Ii is, perhaps, not wonderful
that Mr.. Garland's physical resources
give out occasionally under the Telephone
troubles to which he has been subjected,
and Mr.. Lamar accepted Office under in
valid condition.
The report upon the unsanitary eondi-
ton of the Treasury building was start
ling document to the thousands of men
and women who are obliged to spend
seven hours day or more within its
walls. Many thousands of dollars have
from time to time within the past dozen
years been spent in attempts to improve
the ventilation of the building.
The subject has served for discussion
among the clerks of that great depart
ment all the week. Nothing new has
been said because the same subject has
been discussed every year since 1860
There is no reason to believe that the
building is very trying to the health of
its employees. There are too many very
healthy old clerks in that department to
warrant the conclusion that great fatality
attends employment in it. There are
men who have spent what constitutes a
pretty long life within its walls. Never
theless it is quite true that the ventila-
ton is defective. 1t was designed and
built at a time when little attention was
paid to the importance of sanitation, and
the style of the building is such that it is
probable that the form of Greek tenn
pie is an improper one to adopt for q
great work shop.
Two months ago a Democrat-an old
Irish veteran-was appointed to be a
Waterman in the Treasury Department.
He was assigned to duty at the door OF
one of the rooms connected with the re.
demption division. Every one noticed
the alertness of the new Waterman, and
the careful scrutiny given by him to the
employees as they passed in and out,
Last week he took a Democratic friend
aside and told him that the Republicans
could not be as bad as they were paint
ed. Il have been here" said he, 'eight
weeks, and watched every one of 'em
like cat watches mouse, and niver {
one Of them have been caught stealing .
thing"
The distance his home is from Wash.
ington has good deal to do with the
ease and comfort Of Senator's life dur.
ing the session Of Congress. Those Sen
ators coming from distance from thii
city are but seldom troubled with callers
while those representing states within
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The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-10
NEWARK DRUG
CHEMICAL STORE,
4. G. JAY, PHARMACIST.

Being educated to the drug
business, with an experience of
seventeen years handling drugs,
buying and selling, l feel safe
in guaranteeing everything l
sell. My customers will find
by II fair and just comparison
that | sell only the purest drugs,
chemicals, dc, at the lowest
prices. Call ut any hour of the
day or night for anything in the
drug line.
Il. q. j -AY.
DRUGGIST,
Near POst0illcc, Newark, Del.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-10

He WAS OLD, gray-haired, but she
loved him, and when the father I'M
dertook to break off the infatuation,
parental vigilance is eluded, and
the lovers fee. This is about the
pith of an article which appeared
in the dailies Monday. The girl was
twenty-old enough to be married,
of course-and the man was an
aged man, considerably older than
the girls father. The father objected,
which most fathers would have
done, under the circumstances, and
shut the girl in her room. "Love
laughs at locksmiths," and the girl
soon escaped to her old lovers
arms. They fed, and were married.
Now, if the tagged, white haired"
lover is wealthy perhaps the girl
was sensible. Evidentally case of
real love. Our advice to such an
ill-mated pair would have been
don't" but as the knot is tied, go
and live and grow wiser.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-10

THE Monitor Office in Woods
town, New Jersey, was painted
yellow" last Saturday night. The
Monitor is prohibition paper, and
has been slashing at liquor dealers,
to such an extent that the Office
front was assaulted with a full dozen
or so of eggs. 1t presented a beaui-
full sight on Sunday morning. The
yellow stains of eggs run from the
building into the gutter
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-10

Who will be town commissioners?
Several would not object. Consid-
cradle honor is attacted to the posi-
ton. Let there be a straight can
vasa.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-10

If THERE be any truth in the
adage that ones ears burn when
being talked about, then Jay Gould
must experience very disagreeable
sensation about that particular To-
cality of his Uranium. Hoxie,
ditto.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-10

THE NEWARK ACADEMY received
eleven new students this week, six
from New Castle County, one from
Kent, and four from Sussex. The
five from Kent and Sussex are all
teachers who have come to the
school to prepare themselves better
for their work. 1t begins to look
quite like old times to find so many
students enrolling at the old institu-
ton. There is still room for more
let all come that are DESTROYS of hav-
the very best culture and instruc-
ton.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-10
1885.
Is47.

dtO. W. WILLIAMS,
NEWARK, DELAWARE.
agent for the Kent County Mutual Fire
Insurance Co., of Dover Delaware, In
sures against loss of Fire, issuing Mutual
Policies only under which Payments are
made annually in advance during mem
bership, and on ccasing to be members
whatever remains unexpended after pay
ing loses, expenses and dividends are re-
turned, thereby furnishing Insurance at
cost. Dividends returned after the
second annual payment. Aug22tf
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-10

MINI O00ln presents given away. send 6ct
and by mail Won VIII S gst
stSg, package Of goods Of large value mar En-
many ou IN work that will at once bfins Son VIZ
al I'M h lSs's5 Than anything else IN America All
Agon,s ny. s@u9iUVO IN presents with eaeh 10,
a,scs wanted everywhere Of either ssx ~ ~
fr n, =, ~, ~ the time, or spare time only "a WOW
ors bsnn ueI own homes. Fortunes for All vorp
Co., Portland, Maine. ueiay' II. Haliett
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-10
WANAM4KERS

O~Nu t'ANA WIN VI aus diiN DuJ
ers.
All we care to show, how
ever, is the fact that when you
think of a braid, whatever the
material, color, width or pat
tern, here it is likely to be.
We may, perhaps with adj
vantage, add a list of the pat
rerns. The simplest is plain
binding; next comes Hercules,
diamond, basket, honeycomb,
soutache, tubular and many
fancy braids.
Our foreign braids have
come. These hints are out of
them. White abounds in all
materials and textures. Honey
comb in plain and mixed colors
is a favorite. Ombre Ozark in
centre shading, light toward
the edges bids fair. Alsace
trimmings (made by combining
shaped braid in a variety Of
ways) ready-made like pass
menterie; white, black and
leading colors.
Northeast from the cente..
Black camel's-hair' Priest
ly & Co., Bradford, England,
makers of finest black dress
stuffs, have made a series of
cameps-hair stufs exactly to
suit us. 1t seems a little
strange to read it, no doubt.
But we haven't seen for many
a day such a series Of cancels
hair twills as these now come
from Priestly.
Clear twill and sparkling
with that peculiar lustre Of hair
all through the texture.
We venture to say, with a
single exception-we happen
to know that a single house in
the rival city has these very
stuffs-there isn't anything like
this collection of camel's-hair
anywhere.
Every grade from 81 to So !;
eight grades in all. They all
look alike; but the lowest and
highest are far enough apart.
Southwest from the center.
Such dress-Aannel as
ought to be very rare at size.
80 inch; for, though we've had
it for weeks, we haven't till yes
terday had enough to make a
pile of and put a sign on. We
like to pile up good staple
stuff and put a sign on it, tell
ing what it is and the price.
A simple flannel, plain col
ors and lively mixtures, grays
and browns.
Southeast from the center
Lupin's armure yelling, a
very fine and beautiful black
dress-stuff, has tumbled from
81 to soc a yard ;42-inch.
We have bought all there is
in the wholesale market; and
shall sell it for soc, simply be-
cause we can.
Southeast from the center.
Women pay double for fine
muslin and cambria underwear,
We imagine they rarely get
finer or heater or better in any
respect, whatever it costs, than
we have readymade.
Such work is rare and costly.
You think, perhaps, it can't be
done in a factory. There you
are wrong. Fine factory-work
is rare. Fine work is rare,
wherever it comes from. We
have it out of factory though
extremely fine. There's a sort
of fneness easier to get in a
factory than in any little work
room. WHIT you look at our
finest factory-work? The pri-
ces and high enough. One
girl in a hundred, perhaps, is
skillful enough to do it.
Midway between our finest
factory-sewing and French en-
broidered underwear (sucE
as you used to see, piled-up
embroidery French hand-sewn
with Hamburg embroidery,
sometimes with a little hand
embroidery also.
We have also the ancient
hand-embroidery.
West Of Arcade, seventh and eight counters.
Ohm WANAMAKER
Chestnut Thirteenth and Market streets
and city hall square.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-10
Read and Reflect.

Read and Reflect.
Feeling confident that we Of
fer you Inducements well
worthy of your attention we
invite You to examine our
SpringStocb Of Men's Youths
Boys and Childrens' Cloth
ing, both in the selection of
styles and in general lowness
of prices. We manufacture
much of our clothing. We
purchase only reliable goods
and of reliable houses. We
buy and sell for Cash, and
intend that our customers
shs'' 70 satisfactory cloth.
Ing At .o'yest possible prices.
Cur Tailoring Depart
inent is even letter prepared
to meet your demands than
ever, and we shall be pleased
to show you the new Foreign
and Dome,t;c Styles Of Ma
terials for making fine suits
to order. We intend to please
you and at q very low price.
Jas. L. Mullin & Son,
TArLORs, CLOTHIERs,
9th s. MARKET Streets,
Viii, Del,
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Give Us a Call.

We are selling small fruits from the
celebrated Nursery of Geo. S. Josselyn of
Frcdonia, New York. All goods are guar
anteed to be just what they are sold for.
Prices us reasonable as any other nur-
sery. All orders promptly attended to
and delivered at Newark station free of
any freight expenses. We have gen
eral assortment of
Crane Vines, Currant, Gooseberries,
Rashberries, Blaokberries and Straw
berries. Fay's Prolific Currants.
Also, Flowers and a general assortment
of Vegetable Plants in their season.
WIN. H. COOK g co.
eb!3 SIN
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-10

A DI1I7I send six cents for POSTAGE an
n THII SSSelye free, costly box Of goods
" ! lIlLIIMhlch Will help you to moro
money right aWa y than anythins
sueceod tro, eise IN this world All Of either fcs
tune ons IU hd NJ hour. Tho broad road 70 for
At once address, True C co absolutely sure
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J. FRANK BIGGs

Attorney at Law.
WA, No. 1913 Market Street,
Delaware
Opposite Court Hopso
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The CENTURY
for 1886.

The remarkable interest in the War Papers and
in the many timely articles and strong serial feat.
ures published recently in The Century has given
thai magazine a regular circulation Of
MORE THAN 100000 COPIES MONTHLY.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-25
Caught by Clockwork.

A wealthy iron-master in the north
of England, whose home and works
are dazzlinglyilluminatedby the cleo
trio light, hes adopted an ingenious
continuance, by which he may CLEAN
some information as to what is going
on during his not unfrequent absence
from home. In several of his rooms
and in his Office there is a concealed
apparatus in the walls consisting of a
roll of Eastman paper and a train of
clockwork. Every hour a shutter is
silently opened by the machinery,
and an instantaneous photograph is
taken of all that is going on in the
room. On the great mans return he
delights to develop these pictures,
and it is said that they have furnish
ed some very strang information in
deed. One clerk, who received his
dismissal somewhat Unexpectedly,
and boldly wanted to know the rea-
son why, was Mortified when shown
photograph in which he was de-
picted lolling in an easy chair, with
his feet upon the Office desk, while
the clockupon the mantle-piece point
ed to an hour which he ought to have
been at his busiest. The servants
party in the best diningroom furn's h'
ed another thrilling scene.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-25
Cush ng's Manual in the Pl pit.

A Boston young man who had been
prominent in lyceum and semi-secret
societies, and whose strongest point
his friends thought was the natural
and easy way in which he grappled
parliamentary usage, recently began
studying for the ministry, and pro-
crossed so far that he was invited to
take charge on certain Sunday of
the service in a suburban church
where the minister had gone on his
vacation. "He'll be a shining light
without doubt" said his friends.
But, somehow, when the young man
came to get up in church to open the
service he felt himself all at sea, and
didn't know what in the world to do.
So he provided for all possible con-
tingencies by inviting one of the dea-
cons to sit up in the pulpit with him
where he could be on hand to prompt
him if any knotty question arose.
After the young student had pro-
nounced the invocation and the choir
had got up of its own motion and
sung a voluntary, and a chapter of
the Bible had been read, the young
man turned a little uneasily to the
deacon. "Hymn 1885," whispered
the deacon. The young man rose
again with great confidence and said:
"It is movedand seconded that hymn
No. 400 be now sung. AS many as
are in favor of the motion will signi-
fly it by saying aye" An awe-struck
silence fell upon the congregation.
Contrary minded, no." said the pre-
siding officer. "It is VOTE" he went
on. The hymn was sung and the
service proceeded from thatpoint like
clockwOrk. 1t was evident that the
young parliamentarian feltthe round
firm under his feet.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-25
Important.

When you visit orleave New York
City, save Baggage, Expressage and
Carriage Hire and stop at the Grand
Union Hotel, opposite Grandl Cen
trail Depot.
Elegant rooms fitted up at cost OF
one million dollars, reduced to $l.0C
and upwards per day. European
plan, Elevator. Restaurant supplied
with the best. Horse cars, stages and
elevated railroad to all depots. Fam.
lilies can live better for less money al
the Grand Union Hotel than at any
other first-class hotelin the city. 10
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-25
Cure for Piles.

Piles are frequently preceded by a
sense of weight in the back, loins and
lower part of the abdomen, causing
the patient to suppose he has some af.
lection of the kidneys or neighboring
organs. AT times, symptoms of indi.
gestion are present., flatulency, un.
easiness of the stomach, etc. A mois.
ture like perspiration, producing a
very disagraeeable itching, after get.
ting warm, is a common attendant
Blind, Bleeding, and Itching Piles
yield at once to theapplication of DIR
Bosanko's Pile remedy, which acts
directly upon the parts affected, alb
sorbing the Tumors, allaying the in
tense itching, and effecting a perma
nent cure. Price so cents. Address
The DR.. Bosanko Medicine Co.. Piqua
O.. Sold by w. H. Fleming.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-25
Ben Buffers Cou, ship.

Ben Butler was just as wicked when
he courted his first sweetheart as
when, in widows weeds, he laid siege
to the State of Massachusetts, the
following from Truth can be accepted
as truth. 1t recallsa story of the gov
ernor when he used to go accounting,
and was in love with a fair damsel
living some distance from his home,
and for whose favoring smiles there
were many aspirants. 1t goes with
out saying that they were all better
looking than Ben, but the latter de-
termined to put theinside of his head
against the outside of those of his OPP
ponents. The sequel was as follows:
The nearest way to their fair fiirt's
house, and the one talzen by all her
eager followers, was over a bridge
formed by a single and somewhat
slippery log, placed overa deep brook
in the rear of the house. Young But
Ter repaired to the bridge an hour
earlier than the accustomed "court-
ing-time," carrying pail of lard,
with which he carefully anointed the
log by the mellow moonlight, back
ing himself across astraddle. AS he
afterward sat with his sweetheart,
waiting for the other suffers to ap-
pear, loud splash came from the di-
rection of the brook.
Ben's game eye twinkled, and in
imagination he could see one of his
gorgeously gotten-up fellow candi-
dates climbing up the opposite bank
with his teeth chatteriug and head
ing for home across lots, but the con-
spirator looked as innocent as a cat
in the dairy and said nothing. Pref
ty soon there came another souse,
and after awhile another. The beauty
began to look at the clock and show
evidences of decided pique at the
negligence of her other admirers-a
circumstance Ben did not fail to turn
to his own profit. Presently he could
family hear voices in the distance,
and he knew that the last two SWANS
were approaching together. Pretty
soon there came a tremendous
double splash.
"Dear mel" said the young lady,
chow the fish are jumping tonightp'
The upshot of it was that when the
future governor rose togo, the slight
ed beauty gave him her hand, seal
ing the bargain with an old-fashion'
ed husking-bee kiss.
Eutler left his prize in such state
of exultation that he forgot all about
the creased log, and the first thing he
knew both heels hit him in the back
of the head, and he took a header
down below, just as his victims hat
done. He climbed up the already
well-clawed bank and made the si2
miles home, uttering Kearneyism'
unfit for publication.
He was taken with chills and feve
as a result, and when he got wei
found his tiancee had eloped with
hired man.
Butler tells this as the narrowes
escape of his life, as he said the cir
began eating onions the very mex
day after she becsme engaged.
The general has been lucky eve
since.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-25

ly fitted by nature to please the pub
lie with her lay.
/ therefore gave her two weeks to
decide on whether she would contrib
ute a few of her meritorious articles
or insert herself into a chicken pie.
She still continued naughty to the last
moment. So did her pardner. We
therefore treated ourselves to a SO din
ner in April.
then got some expensive eggs
from the effete East. They were not
robust eggs. They were layed dur
ing a time of great depression l
Judge. So they were that way them
selves also. They came by express,
and were injured while being trans
fered at Chicago. No one has ever
Travelled over that line of railroad
since.
do not say the eggs were bad, but
say that their instincts and their
inner life wasn't what they ort to
have been.
In early May I bought one of these
inkybaters that does the work of ten
setting hens. 1 hoped to head offthe
hen so far as possible, simply purchas-
ing her literary efforts and editing
them to suit myself. 1 cannot en-
dure the society of low-bred hen,
and refined hen seems to look down
on me, and so ] thought if 1 could
get one of these ottymatic inkybaters
! could have the whole process under
my own control, and if the blooded
hens wanted to go to the sanitarium
and sit around there with their hands
in their pockets while the great hun
cry world of traffic clamered for more
spring chickens fried in butter they
might do so and be doggoned.
Thereupon bought one of the me-
dunn size, two-story hatchers and
loaded it with eggs. In my dreams
l could see long procession of fuzzy
little chickens marching out of my
inkybater arm in arm, every day or
two, while my bank account swelled
up like a deceased horse.
was dreaming one of those dreams
night befoIe last at midnight's holy
hour, when I was rudely awakened
by a gallon of cold water in one ofmy
ears. arose in the darkness and re-
ceived squirt of cold water through
the window from our ever watchful
and courageous fire department. ]
opened the easement for the purpose
of thanking them for this little
demonstration, wholly unsolicited on
} my part, when I discovered the
hennery was in flames.
I went down to assist the depart
ment, forgetting to put on my panta
looms as is my custom out of Difference
to the usages of good society. We
, saved the other buildings, but thu
! hatchery is mass of smolderine
| ruins. So am /.
1t seems that the kerosene lamp
3 which I kept burning in the inkyba
ter for the purpose of maintaining al
l even temperature, and also for thu
purpose of showing the chickens TIN
D way to the elevator in case the.
e should hatch out in the night, haC
| torched up and ignited the hatchery
e so to speak.
}, I see by my paper that we are i'm
g porting 100000, 900 Of hens eggs from
n Europe every year. It'll be 100000,
: 900 next year so far as Pmconcerned
7, Henry, and you can bet your littl
d pleated jacket on it, too, if you wan
a to.
Today | send p. O. order No. l4G
n S76 for $3.50. Iagree with the Eible
It that "the fool and his money ar
q soon Darted.u