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The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-22

Concerning Books.
This is a book year, a bet
ter book year than last. More
enterprise with publishers.
More publications.
From the cradle to the grave
books touch this generation
of humanity. They touch your
bookshelf or carom On YOU
touch you and go off at an
angle-when you make gifts
of them.
One hundred feet ofcounter
space added to the Bookstore
to-day makes buying easier than
ever. A quiet corner, won
from fine stationary, gives an
ideal place for sets of standard
authors.
Are you not our debtors in
respect Of books? Was it not
the gauntlet which we threw
that "books are merchandise
and should be sold as such"
that brought down the sky
prices? Emancipated you from
paying tribute to a price system
that belonged to a dead past.
They called us hard names,
but we endured the hurt, and
to-day the claim is indicated.
Do you doubt? See Book
News. Let him laugh that
wins; we laugh, you laugh.
Here's little Book News for
December; little (?) II2 pages,
handsomely illustrated. SC,
soc a year. The best journal
Of current literature published
in this country. Holiday
Catalogue free. With either
or both and the postofhce you
can buy from a distance.
Ifyou are near by, it is bet
ter to buy in person.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-22
DYED
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES on the 10Th
inst Mattsop Guest, aged 66 years.
#anamaktr's

EHlLADALfhlA Ahonunyf Dcc. As 1000
Jnquestionably the widened
aisles, new staircases, central
elevator, and general clearing
away Of distractions make it
possible to serve at least ten
thousand more people a day
with even less crowding than
heretofore. If we cauld serve
4o,ooo day last year we can
now serve 10000 and more,
and do it comfortably too.
We are always improving.
If we we're to keep on printing
about il, we cou.I make per-
petual ALTERATION sales" You
may expect improvements
here constantly without our
talking about them.
The store is more a store
now than ever. Lighter,
brighter, completer: Our ideal
is being realized.
The Basement has ample
outlets and is more convenient.
The first floor is so arranged
that things can be more easily
found, and is regulated to pre-
vent overcrowding by a system
which experience has taught US.
The second floor, now SO
accessible and popular, pre-
SCENTS an entirely new arrange
ment Of stocks. This part Of
the store seems to be miles of
bewildering pleasure. An ever.
varying exhibition Of silver
and art articles. In the middle
Of the second floor the centre
of attraction in the Pneumatic
Tube System, gathering the
money from all parts Of the
6lore in plain view of every
'body-a good place to take
s$yangers.
he third floor is where we
keep Furniture store. The
whole ofthis two acres is given
up to Furniture. And every
thing is side by side for com.
parispn, and not on different
floors as before, and as other
folks have it.
Ii would be hard not to fall
in love with the store now un-
der it's new conditions. There
Is certainly room for 10000
more persons. See if you
don't think so when you look
at the Strengthened aisles, the
broadened, easy.going stair
ways, the spaces given to Gus
toners for elbow-room, or to
wait for elevators, or to see
things.
The store IS a sight, that's a
tact; working up today to its
full capacity; "a great and in
teresting OCCASION, as the
newspaper reporters would
put It.
The life Of a year Of prepar-
alton blooms out in these few
days. We have but little to
say about it, as what we are
doing day BY day is what we
are in business for; keeping
the best Of the best goods and
serving our customers in the
best Of the best ways. There
IS no need OF being ashamed
Of this kind Of bookkeeping.
And people viii sarely find out
ia the course Of time the value
Of services such as these
even without SO much news,
paper advertising.
The General Managerwishes
attention called to the follow
ing:
The stare mil be obeu EACH
svszfmg Ap n and mekaaingl
Christmas Err.
FOODS to 20 BY mail can BEL
aaf ne BareaH Of hsfoy-
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-22

PENIS Grove had a mad-dog scare on
Tuesday. The strange dog which was
mad hi. several other dogs and some
hogs in PENIS Grove and vicinity be-
fore it was shot at Perkintown. we
have not heard that the animals bitten
have become mad. Adam Lawrence's
dog. which was bitten, bit wilmer
Clark severely on the leg.
Jimmie, the ventriloquist and, at
times, the spirits-ualist. gave an knit
bition at ~Shoemaker's butcher shop on
Wednesday evening. His audience was
delighted and expressed their applause
by the present by-word "mad dog" He
certainly was an entertaining sight
with a straw hat and summer duster
with spare rib steamers on on a winters
night. Nevertheless, he also enJ yea
It. and wishes us to express his thanks
and say when his friends have any more
nice beef, liver, and spare ribs Of which
they wish to make presents, he will be
OH hand.
Nothing has been heard of Capt.
Aladdin Dole who left Philadelphia on
November 21st for st. Augustine. Oui
| sea. faring residents have no fear OF his
loss as his cargo consisted partly o.
| petroleum with which he could calm
the sea. 1t is thought he has beer
blown to the eastward of the gull
stream and has not had favorable wind
to get back About 25 years ago Capt
Thos. Naylor was bound for jackson
Vile; was blown eastward and did no
get back for Y days. The owners o
the schooner gave him up as lost AM
went after their insurance money.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-22

A member of George Dolhow's fam
ily was shot and wounded on Friday OF
last week by the accidental discharge
of a gun.
Samuel Holdcraft received a broken
leg on Tuesday by the falling of a tree
while chopping in the woods.
The Pennsville baseball club played
a game here with our home cluband de-
feated them, After being entertained at
supper by the Pedricktown boys they
returned home in the evening.
BENJAMIN Weatherby has removed
the tin heat conductors put in his new
house on Wall streas and replaced them
with brick flues.
The M. E. Sunday School will hold
| an entertainment on Christmas eve.
The members are endeavoring to make
| the occasion as interesting as possible.
Jerry Wentzell, while attending
| Church at Auburn last Sunday night
week was relieved of a valuable robe,
blanket and whip, from his buggy. He
is getting close onto the track OF the
thief.
James Strimple, who went to Oregon
recently to fish for sturgeon on the
Pacific coast has returned home as he
found the sturgeon had no roe in them
and it was a great risk to ship the meat
The thief in Pedricktown who stole
an article from a buggy on "Wednesday
evening is identified aud likely to be
introduced to the Sheriff in the neal
future. HEsALL WRIGHT.
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Is one which IL gnaranseed 70 bEine
you satisfactory result or III cAse s
failure a return Of purchase pFce< ~
this safe plan D en- bay frorn otr -
vertised bruggist : b lsle 81 prk king.s
New Discovery for coDsuBsp ti09- y
guaranteed to bring elssfi- very case
When used for any.aaeetiM o. Throat,
Lungs. or Che such assumption,
Inflammation ss Lung, Bronchitis,
Asthma, Who &C,
etc. 1t rs pler "
perfectly safe,
ed upon. Tria.
sons Drug 6to
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-22
Sufferer, Try a Box. This is No Humbug'
Woodbury., N. j. Dec. Sd, 1885
MR. / z TRIlITT. Rridgeport. n. j:

WUUUUUIy N u . DtC' vuf fNo'
MR. J. F. TRUITT, Bridgeport, ME-:
DEAR STIR was advised to try your yegeta-
able Lozenges. having suffered very much with
dyspepsia, and from their use l have received
sleh wonderful benefit that | feel 1t a duty l owe
YOU to acknowledge the same, and | deem 1t a
pleasure to recommend your valuable remedy
TO those / \ know 10 be afflicted. Yours Truly,
GEORGE I. RAMBo.
This article has no equal for dyspep-
STA in any form. You can eat what
ever you wish and at the same time be
cured. Price SOC a box. For sale at Div
er & Summerill's store or by mail.
Good men wanted to canvas every
home in every county. j. f. TRUITT,
Manufacturer, Bird geport, N. j. 9!22
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-22

Hand-run Lace Fichus that
were S. 50 and 5 last season,
are $3.50 now. Other grades
up to $28 as far your way.
So are hand-run Scarfs, and
machine-made S carfs and
Fichus, and most of the other
Laces.
$3.50 and 2 real Breton
Lace Handkerchief for 81
and las.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-22

REUNION e heA.LAsT 81!
Inc snnuAs ~ .he z4sn
iment. 9 sois' was he'd
woodbury. a'suay 81 iass "
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gatnerinf
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The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-22

A nice lot of fresh confectioneries,
mixtures, candy toys and broken candy
at Stites's.*
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-22
WIDE AWAKE!

w IDE AWAKE!
What a name for a boys and
girls paper! What a paper
for boys and girls if it fits the
name! 1t does. You won't
turn four leaves without say
ing SO.
The easy thing is to shoot a
child's paper over a child's
head, or under a child's feet,
or into blood and thunder on
one side or twaddle on the
other.
WIDE Awake has a different
aim. Neither stilted nor baby
ish. Clean, healthful, cheer
full. Full of just the pictures
and reading a bright, full
blooded boy or girl cares for.
Spirited, sparkling, never a
dull page, and never anything
to make the most careful
mamma hesitate.
Take the December number.
Mfnety -one pages apart from
advertisements and talk OF the
pretty and useful things little
workers for Wide Awake get
very big pay for little effort).
Stories, sketches, verses, Curl
GUS things racily told--by thir-
ty one popular contributors.
December Wide Awake for
20 cents. A year for $2.4o.
Can you do better for the chill.
dren with so little money?
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-22
HIST OVER THE RIVER.

ASH
The fire in Wilmington last Saturday
night about 8 O'Clock, which was seen
by many in Peun's Grove, wasi IN Moore's
ship yard. The fire started in the build
ing in which were stationed the boiler
and engine for operating the marine
railway. The building and its contents
we're destroyed as well as ah9nt 70 feet
of the railway. The tug Claudia was
Oh the railway and was badly scorched
so a new house forward will be requir-
ed. The damage is estimated at $4,000
with ali insurance of $4,000.
The Wilmington ship-yards are bus
Ter than they have beeu during this
year. Ten new vessels have been con-
tracted for to be built there.
The principal streets of Wilmington
were lighted by electricity for the first
time on Tuesday night.
Over neal Delaware City, on the Col
burn farm, they have a small steam
dredge that is used exclusively for dig
ging bitches. Those who have watched
it working say that it throws out red
bellied terrapins by the hundreds.
The Florida steamboat st. Lucia,
now under course of construction at
at Pussy & Jones' s%hipyard, Whining
ton, presents Il novel appearance when
compared with Northern steamboats,.
Her draft is so light that the boilers
have to be distributed in different Sec
tions of the boat to equalize the weight.
Messrs Tlelins and Dando, two Phil
adelphia capitalists who are largely in.
terested in the steamer Richard Stock
ton have purchased the hotel and
grounds at Collins Beach for $500.
1t is said the purchasers will spend
Considerable money IN improving the
place and that the Richard Stockton
will run there next summer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-22

The grip Black Silk. warp
Henrietta has on your liking
tightens with every season. A
! right royal stuff put togeth-
er right. Someis and some isn't.
There's no guesswork about
Priestley's. Year in and year
out the same-none better.
Color uniform and fast.
A new invoice just opened.
Every number from S5c to 81
a yard. No other store in town
does or can show such a COM
plete line OF Priestley's Blacks.
Black Dress sruffs are easy
to get at now; easy to see.
Nothing missing that ought to
be here.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-22

nation.
+ II a1X be a E0oy to rs Ey
customers to take their pack
ages smM them sOAeneuer THEY
can.
1t is best to try to keep to the
right aoAsn goang M,omgh The
aiskes.
Bear in mind, the people
make the crowds, and with a
little thought they can unmake
them.
The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-22

American Club Pattern
Skates that we're $2. so last
year are $I.75 now; $3.25
grade for $2.5o. Price-ice
broke through. Every worthy
sort soc to 400.
Raymond Extension skates-blue. sl.G;
nickel, $50.
Raymond Extension, racers, IS.
Ladies', Skates, sl.25 to sS.75.
John WANAMAKER.
Thirteenth and Market streets
and City-hali square
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE Arkansas Republican State Conven-
ton to select National delegates will be
held April 10 at Little Rock.
ADvICEs from Massowah say that KING
Menelek, of Shoa, has revolted against
King John, Of Abysslnla
SENIOR SOUZA Rosa, Portuguese Minis
ter to China, has been appointed Minister
at Washington, TO succeed Senior NO
gueiras, who recently died.
Hon. J. W. SCHUYLER, descendant OF
General Philip Schuyler and noted New
York politician, died recently at Ithaca,
aged seventy-eight.
CYRUS o. OBERLY, a noted Texas jour
nalist, died recently at Houston, aged forty
eight.
GEORGE |. FIHKLE, leader in the famous
anti-rent war in the Hudson and Mohawk
valleys in lS44-45, died at New York on the
1st, aged eighty-one.
THE Irish Catholic clergy and laity have
been much exercised over remark made
by the Pope that it was possible to settle
the Irish difficulties upon lines Identical
with the settlement of the difficulties be-
tween the Vatican and Prussia.
THE President has approved last years
Deficiency bill and the measures making
appropriations to carry into effect the Ag-
ricultural Experiment Stations bill.
FRANCIS MILLER, a leading lawyer and
Repubh politician of Maryland, died at
Sandy Spring, that State, on the I'd.
CHARLES HoAG, the man who named the
village of Minneapolis, Mimi, died on the
I'd.
LORD RIPoN and John Morley English
Home Rulers, met with cordial reception
in Ireland.
THE President has approved and promul-
gated a revision OF the Civil-Service rules,
which makes several very important
changes in the system of appointments
upon tests of fitness applied to applicants
for places in the departments at Washing
ten and in the class fed customs offices
and post-offices.
HORACE G. CLEVELAND, Of the firm OF
Cleveland, Brown q Co, one of the most
widely known iron manufacturers In the
West, died Of typhoid fever at Cleveland,
O., on the Sd
PROF. CHARLES LINDEN, the naturalist,
died in the Buffalo IN. W State Insane
Asylum recently, aged tifty-six. He was
prostrated by brain trouble while on va
cation trip at Carleton, Quebec, last sum-
mes, and never regained his natural facul-
ties.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

w. c. FARMER, commercial traveller
from St. Louis, was shot and killed at
Shreveport, La, on the 9th, by Charles
Parker from Georgia. Parker and man
named .Person had a difficulty over
card table, and Farmer received the bullet
meant for PersOn.
A CORPORATION has been formed at
Chicago whose object is the purchase and
removal to that city of the famous Libby
prison of Richmond, Va.
The Grant Monument Association has
issued a circular addressed to artists,
Architects and sculptors, inviting COM
petitve designs for monument to be
erected over Gen. Grants grave, to cost
$500, 900. Prizes of $500, $1,000, $500, 500
and 5000 are offered.
1T is reported that the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company
has decided to build a line from Jessup,
Ga, to Jacksonville, Fla. The new line
will be 10 miles long and will probably be
completed by next fall.
OwING to the alarming frequency Of
attacks of robbers upon mail trains on
| sparsely settled routes in the far west,
| and the almost constant peril in which the
| lives of postal employees are placed by
these marauders, the pOstofice DEPART
ment has determined TO arm, at the ex-
pense of the government, every postal
employ on these exposed routes, with
weapons of the most effective kind.
THE shutting down of so many furnaces
for want of coal has caused many of the
iron ore mines along the East Pennsyl-
vania railroad to close down. The miners,
who have large families, received but Y
to % cents per day, and consequently even
when working, are in almost abject pow
erty.
A COMMUNICATION signed by eighty
eight members of Congress, asking for the
dismissal of Statistician Dodge, was re-
| ceived on the 9th by the Commissioner Of
Agriculture. The movement is understood
to have originated with the tobacco
growers, who were aggrieved by the sta.
tistician's crop report last summer.
1T is reported that the Ways and Means
Committee will propose a reduction of the
sugar duties to the extent of 20 per cent,
with the understanding that such a reduce
tion will decrease by about $11, ,0O0, 900 the
revenue derived from duties on this staple.
jim CORNELIUS, negro IA years old, was
hanged at Minden, La, on the 4th for the
murder, a year ago, of Ernest Wren, the
4-yrar- -old sou of G. p. Wren, member Of
the Legislature from Webster parish.
A CONVENTION Of Prohibitionists is
called to meet at Nashville, Tenn, ON the
22d. The principal business Of the con-
vention will be the appointment of dele
gates to the National Prohibition Conven-
ton, which meets at indianapolis In the
spring.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

The Rhode Island Senate has con-
Cured in the House amendments to
the bill proposing submission of the
suffrage amendment to the Constitution
to the people on the first Wednesday in
Apri.-State election day. The amend
mcnt places foreign born citizens on
the same footing us native born. makes
poll tax and does away with the reg
istry tax; and deprives other than
property holders from voting for City
Council and on money matters in New
port and Pawtucket, as is the case in
Providence.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

WHEN the men employed at Glen
dover colliery, near Minersville, Pa,
came out from work the other night
they were met at the mouth of the
slope by large crowd of women from
the adjacent Heckscherville colliery.
who besought them to stand by their
striking brethren and offered, if they
would, to share their last crust with
them. As an earnest of their good
faith the women offered them sub
stantial contribution which they had
brought with them, consisting of bread,
meat and potatoes. Little or no atten-
ton was paid to the novel appeal.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09
A DISPATCH from ST. Petersburg

A DISPATCH from ST. Petersburg
states that the sentences of death
passed recently upon certain Nihilists
have been committed as follows: Pc
trowsky and Sigada. citizens. penal
servitude for life; Alexander, noble
man, eighteen years. Imprisonment;
Tchernoff a Cossack Captain, fifteen
wears; a woman named Trinitatskaja,
wife of an official, twelve years; a
woman named Sigada. wife of a citi-
zen, eight years, and woman named
Feodorowa, eight years. The prison
ers were charged with belonging to a
social society having bombs and sew
eral printing presses.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

A CHINESE native paper announces
solved to pay back to the United States
large sum of money as the unclaimed
balance of the Wyoming indemnity,
and hints that the United States might
initiate the example by refunding to
China the balance of the unclaimed in
demnity paid to the United States
thirty wears ago.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09
vTIsCErT.ANEOUS.

THE steamship .Belgic arrived at San
Francisco on the I'd with four cases OF
smallpox on board.
The Chicago & Alton railroad has de-
clared a quarterly dividend of two per
cent. on both preferred and common stocks.
Two miners were overcome by gas in the
Germania shaft near Hurley, Wis, re-
Gently and fell to the bottom, being IN
stantly killed.
THE jury IN the famous Paine will case Of
New York City were unable 10 agree and
were discharged.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

THOMAS A BECKET's bones have
been found in rough hewn stone
coffin under Canterbury Cathedral,
where heretofore their existence was
only legendary. The skull is well pre-
served and it is said to be magnificent
in size and proportions, in fact one of
the finest ever seen. It's crown bears
unmistakable marks of "A sword cut,
which the chroniclerS relate, took off
the top of his scalp.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

"OLD BUCKsKIN," the horse rode by
Lieutenant l.. b. Baker of Lansing,
Mich, in the pursuit and capture of j.
Wilkes Booth, died recently. His skin
will be mounted and placed on exhibit
ton in the Michigan museum.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

The bill recently introduced in the
Senate by Mr. Stewart to enforce re-
strictions on Chinese immigration pro-
vides that after ninety days from its
passage Chinese laborers shall not
have the right to enter the United
States on the ground of previous resi-
Inura
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

MILE. NoGUIERAs, daughter of the
late Portuguese Minister to Washing
ton, made her debut in Donizetti's
opera. Lucia" at Milan, recently, and
was phenomenally successful. After
the performance she was informed of
her fathers death, and was completely
DrOStratpd
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

CAPTAIN RITCHIE, of the State line
steamship State of Indiana, was pre-
sented at Liverpool recently with a
gold watch and chain and First Officer
Campbell with n binocular glass for
saving the crew of Boston ship.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

THE Italian Government has decided
not to renew the commercial treaty of
1882 with France, but will make new
and conciliatory proposals to france
upon which treaty can be based. If
France should reject Italy's offers,
negotiations will be brought to an end.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

THE American Publishers Copyright
League, embracing all of the prominent
publishers of the United States, have
issued an address asking the co-opera-
ton of all who deal and who read
books in obtaining Il copyright law
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

Two Frenchmen quarreled with a
German officer in the Casino at Stras-
burg recently, when the officer drew a
sword and the Frenchmen drew re-
volvers and fired, wounding the Ger
man. The Frenchmen escaped over
the frontier.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

THE city of Naiyen, north of Ming
Po, China, which was submerged about
a thousand years ago, has recently
been exposed to view, and a number
of vases, plates and other utensils of
the Sough dynasty, have been recov-
cred by the natives.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

The Spanish Minister of Foreign At
fairs declares that Spain has no desire
to make foreign conquests, but merely
wishes to maintain the integrity of Mo-
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

IT is reported in Berlin that Bis
mark has recently declared that the in
ternatiOnal situation will be settled
peacefully.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

No AMOUNT OF wealth sets one frse from
the obligation to work-in a world the God
of which is ever working. He who works
not has not yet discovered what God
made him for, and is false note in the
orchestra Of the universe &c, rye AGeDols-
add
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

The British Geological Society has
conferred the Murchison medal on Dr.
Newberry, of Columbia College, New
York City.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09
CURRENT COMMENT,

TIE weather in Alaska this winter
is reported to have been unusually
mild.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-09

REASON can not show itself more reason
able than to cease reasoning on things
above reason--Sr E1hiliD SidHey.