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Middletown transcript., 1888-11-28
Blsitellanedns advertisements.
OLD KRIss AT RICE,S.
ToTHE CHILDREN, BOTH OLD AND YOUNG { !.

TO THE CHILDREN, BOTH OLD AND YOUNG =
Now1Czshayes
have Just returned from New York where have had an inter-
view with old K,Iss Kze and have arranged for him to have
his Headgna,s my this Christmas as usual and ne
has requested to find just what wanted IN this COM
munty Now girls and boys you uv7s me letter
for old Krss and tell him Just a on aa and send to me
and will put in THE TRANSCRIPT he see get what
YOU ask for and shall have great many Pretty presents tor
odand og Come and see them We shall open about Dec
10th. Z. b. K1ce;
Middletown Del.
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Then Against 1t.

In an interview with a representative
of Eli Salisbury and printed in the New
York Sun to-day as dispatch from
Dover, the following paragraph appears:
s'They talk now wotrelegating US to the rear
in the future. 1t can't be done. We
have 1,5OO adherents in this county and
they all are good Democrats who will
stick to us through thick and thin. We
have made up our minds that in any re-
organization of the party which takes
place in this State we are TO be counted
in or else we will be against it.-From
Every Evening.
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Saved the Value OF a Farm,

Seller Cough Syrup has attained repu-
tation almost equal to Sellers Pills, and
more can hardly be said of any other medi-
cine. The Syrup should be kept in every
family where there are children, and grown
up people find it a most valuable medicine
FOR coughs, colds, hoarseness and throat and
lung diseases. The pills are such standard
remedy in some parts of the country that a
family never thinks of doing without them.
Said an old gentleman in Eastern Maryland,
Why have raised my family on Sellers
Pills, and consider them almost as essential
to family as bread. In the last thirty
years they have saved me enough, in doctor
bills, to pay for farm.-Cincinnati Times
Star
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The Philadelphia Record says: Il has
been rumored that Secretary Bayard intends
establishing himself in the practice oflaw in
Philadelphia after he shall have laid down
his Cabinet portfolio The Secretary was
formerly resident of this city, and before
be became student of the law he was con :
nected with the mercantile house of s. Mor-
ris VAIN After he was admitted to the
Delaware bar he moved to Philadelphia and
was associated for several years in legal
practice with William Shippen.
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An Invitation to Temperance
Friends.

HoCKEssIN, DEL, Nov. 26, '8S.
To THE FRIENDS OF TEMPERANCE.
We wish to
invite the Middletown Unions to visit
our Unions at the first meeting to be held
in our new Temperance Hotel on next
Saturday the first OF December at 2 p. m.
We propose suspending our regular
order of business and hearing report OF
our building committee and hope to have
some dedicatory remarks suitable to the
open ing OF our Public Hotel.
All, both men and women, who feel In
clined to meet with us will be more than
welcome. Truly your sister worker,
p. w. Kent.
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"An Old Friend"

Is the term which people apply to Has
sons Compound Syrup Of Tar. When
the summer days are gone and the chilly
blasts of eutumn come, they go to their
medicine closets and get their bottle of
Hasson 8 as regularly as they put their
stoves up, and they are right, too, for
Hasson's g Syrup is sure cure for Coughs
and Co Ids. For sale by Mrs. Mary J.
Baker, Odessa, Del.
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John McKinsey, q brakeman on the Lam
denburg branch Of the B. b o. Railroad,
was killed about O'Clock near Hockessin,
Del, by being struck on the head by 8
bridge. His skull was fractured and he died
in an hour. BE was about 23 years old and
the SON of the late John McKinsey who died
suddenly in his wagon near Red Mill several
years apo
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John Bolesby, aged ls years, son of West.
ley Bolesby, living near Zion, met with a
painful accident while cunning on Tuesday
evening. The gun was sccidently discharg.
ed while the muzzle was resting on his foot.
The entire load passing through his foot
DR.. q. q. Mitchell, P. B. Housekeeper and
D. L. Clifford amputated the shattered parts.
-Elkton Whig.
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rHANKsGIYING.

We are all ready with nice clean fresh
stock of Fine Groceries suitable for the
Thanksgiving Dinner. Canned Tomatoes,
Corn, Peas, Lobster, and Fruits, Plum Pud-
ding, etc., Foreign Fruits, Oranges, Lemons,
Raisins, Figs, English Walnuts, Almonds,
Confectionery, Mince Meat, Buckwheat,
Flour, ETC., etc. s. NJ. Reynolds b Co.
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Neriuditals.
1889.
Harper's Bazaar.
LLLusTRArEp.

HARPER's BAzAR viii 70 resssatsair, tsair,
Its reputation as an unequalled famiiy Jour.
order, its literature is OF the choicest Kind.
and its Fashion and Household Department.
OF the most practical and economical eI1arats !.
ter. Its pattern-sheet supplements and fash
ivn-plates alone will save its readers ten
times the cost of subscription. and Its arfi-
cles on decorative art, social etiquette.
pensable to every household. Its briebt
short stories. and timely essays are am6ng
the best published; and not O line is ad.
mftted to its columns that could offend the
tions ofthe new volume VIII be serial stories
by FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT, MRs. ALEX
ment by Mrs. CHRISTINE TERHuEE HERRIoK,
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d DEGIsTER's ORDER. =.
~ REGISTERS OFFICE.
NEW CASTLE COTrNTy DrT

~N" SAo1LE ,
Upon the application of James n. Ilovd
Administrator OF David w. LLOYD. late
of Blackbird hundred, in said
county, deceased, it is ordered and
directed by the Register that the Admin.
istrator aforesaid give notice of granting
OF etters of Administration upon the
estate of the deceased, with the date Of grant.
ing thereof by causing advertisements TO he
posted within forty days from the date OF
such Letters in six of the most.public places
of the county of New Castle, recurring All
persons having demands against the estate
to present the same, or abide by an Act of
Assembly In such case made and provided
ana also cause the same to be inserted with,
In the same period in the Middletown TRAN
SCRIPT. newspaper published in Middletown
DEL, ana to be continued therein two
months. WV
Given under the Hand and Seal of Office ot
the Register aforesaid, at Wilmington, in
New Castle County aforesaid, the day and
year above written
JOHN X. BRADFORD, Register.
NoTICE.-All persons having claims against
the estate OF the deceased must present the
same duly attested to the Administrator.
on or before September 26, 1889. or
abide the Act OF Assembly in such case
made and provided.
JAMES N. LLOYD,
Address Delaneys z. o., Del oct4.sm
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The Volumes of the Bazaar begin with the
first Number for January of each wear
When no time is mentioned, subscriptions
will begin with the Number current at time
OF receipt of order.
Bound Volumes If HARPER's BAzAR. for
three years back, in neat cloth binding. Will
be sent by mail, postage paid, or by express.
free OF expense (provfded the freight does
not exceed one dollar per volume), for 81 90
per volume.
Cloth Cases for each volume, suitable for
binding, will be sent by mail, postpaid, on
receipt OF 81 90 each. -
Remittances should be made by Post-Of
fee Money Order or Draft, to avoid chance
of loss.
Newspapers are not to copy this advertise
71ent tUsth0tH the express order of HARPER &
BROTHERS
Address: HARPER 6 BROTHERS New
York
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DIED.

HARBERT.-On November 9th, 1883, Sarah
r. Harbert, wife of T.. C. Harbert, aged 5s
years, j month and 2l days.
Funeral Friday afternoon at . O'Clock,
from the residence of her husband, on North
Broad street, Middleto wn, Del. Interment
Forest Cemetery. Friends will please at
tend without further notice.
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years ago.

CURE YoURsELF.-Don' It pay large DOCTORS
bills. The best medical books published,
100 pages, elegant colored plates, will be
sent you on receipt of three 2-cent stamps to
pay postage. Address A..P. Ordway Co.,
Boston, Mass.
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To call on us for your leather or gum boots
and shoes, as we can save you at least ten
per cent on your purchases at 3. Penn ington
4 Son.
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Wanted {!

A RELIABLE MAN AND WIFE.
or woman without husband. the woman fc,
have entire charge OF the house.
Address, II. G. WHITTOCK,
noVIo u Mt.Pleasant, Del
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AEAnQuARTERS

tor Salt, Saltpetre, Pepper and Sage during
the coming pork season at
W.T.. CoNNELLEE & Cos.
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ROPE YARN,

The best rope yarn at W. T. Oounellee &
Co.'s.
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TRANSCRIPT and Harpers Young
People 1 year, $3.50. Haspers Young
People $1.6O.
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DON'T FAIL

The best mince meat at W. T. Connellee &
noio
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CLUBBING ARRANGEM,r

IMPORTANT CLUBBING ARRANGEM,T
By special arrangement with all the lead.
ing weekly ana monthly periodicais of
America, subscriptions are taken tor anv
one or more of these journals in connection
with the WEEKLY PRESS at such low rates
FREE to the subscriber P'Pei
Sample copies free upon application. Ad
dress THE PRESS COMPANY, LIMITED.
Philadelphia, Pa. i4D'
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mIRCE MEAT.

To give you the best shoe for the money in
town at s. Pennington b Son
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FOR Low PRICES
And good Goods 60 to s. Pennington & Son
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ONE Tr,uuaANn.
WE ARE NOW PREPARED

One thousand yards of New Mating o
W. q. Moore l. Co.'S.
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WE SELL FOR CASH
But give our trade the advantage, of it. s.
Pennington & Son.
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DELAwARE oIry DEpARrMENr
sooiety Meetines.

Delaware City Loan Association second
Friday of each month.
= Delaware City Volunteer Fire COM
pany. first Thursday OF each month.
Jackson Lodge, f. & A. NJ, first Tues
day of each month.
Patrick Henry Lodge I. o. o. f., every
Wednesday night.
delaware Castle No. IL, K. G. e. every
Tuesday evening.
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by the Barrel and Half Barrel, Rock Salt for
Cattle and Fresh Creamery Butter at s. NJ.
Reynolds & Co.
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MACKEREL

OF Tarred Fodder Yarn in Store and for Sale
by 8. N. Reynolds & Co.
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wOMAN,s PAPER
1 CHILDREN,s PAPER.
AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.

A CHILDREN'S PAPER,
With Winter games and entertainment
for little people. Instruction in the Wavs
of making things and doing things. SUM
mer excursions to the fields and woods.
Puzzles for the quick-witted, and plenty
of prizes to make the slow-witted QUICK
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One hundred New Hassocks and Ottomanl
soc, 65c and 95c at W. a. Moore Co.'s.
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-HARPER'S PERIODICALS.

Postage Free TO al Subscribers IN Me United
States, Canada, or MeTico. - =
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GOTO
S. Pennington's b Son for your fall hats.
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COD FISH
At W. T. Connellee & Co.'s.
Use Bragdon's Teaberry Tooth Powder
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ONE HUNDRED.

Pure Lard Oil, Paratne and other machine
oils at s. NJ. Reynolds b Co.'S.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-06
THE rERRoRs OF CIVILIZATION.

The Injuns never teched him,
Nor tho bars;
An the r~nttlers never bit him,
An the train robbers couldn'tge him
On the cars.
Twas a frigid day.an' drizzly
When the rocky mountain grizzly
Ever Crep' within a rod of Jim, the scout;
An the CatamOunt an bison
Never teched him more than pizen,
Which they allus more prefer to do without.
Bnt he moved into the city
just for fun;
An he sold his big siX-shOoter,
An he thought it would not do ter
Keep his gun.
But a muscular gaTTOteT,
Who was not a legal voter,
Robbed him ofhiS watch and walletlike a child;
Then h Raspipe overloaded
Bust, and Jim he got exploded,
IN came down considerable permiscuous
and riIed.
An the hunco s~tearers feeced him
Left and right;
An the gamins ulster boot him
An a sluEger tried to shoot him
T" other night.
An a hOOdlum tried to skin him,
An an iuiine ran agin him,
An d herdic an a boss car an Il dray;
An Ngin, a little later,
In a rotten elevator,
He fell down thirteen stories in one day
An his house it caught afre
~ other night;
An his gas meter exploded
(Jim didn't know it vas loaded).
Awful sight
An his house was widely scattered,
Ger the country it was bcspattered,
In a shower ofchunks and cinders so they said.
Jim was SO completely shivered,
He hain't never been diskivered,
But the coroner concluded he was dead.
Yankee Blade.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-06
Catching un.


The popular belief is that. girls
grow old faster than do boys; but
perhaps, alter ali, the reverse is true.
The interesting race between brother
and sister i'll the following story, in
which the brother went ahead, may
be taken as typical of many others.
Miss G. was born only two years
earlier than her brother Tom. When
Tom was ten years old she gloried
because she was twelve; when Tom
was known to be fourteen she con-
fessed to sweet sixteen; when Tom
proudly boasted Of eighteen she tim
idly acknowledged herself past nine
teen; when Tom came home from
college with d moustache and a. vote,
and had a party in honor Of his
twenty-first birthday, she said to her
friends:
what a boyish fellow he isl Who
would think that he is only a year
younger than r."
When Tom declared he was twenty.
five, and old enough to get married,
she said to an intimate friend.
"Do you know, l feel sayagely
jealous to think Of Toni getting mar
ried. But then, I suppose twins are
always more attached to each other
than other bTothesB and sisters
And two yea~rslater, at Toms wed
ding, she sud, With girilsh vlfaeity,
to the wedding guests
"DeaT old Toni to see him married
tonight, and then to think how
when he was only five years old, theS
brought him to- see me, his baby Sis
teri / wonder if he thinks oft to
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-06
WRAr rHE CHIMNEY a n

Over the chimney the night vino sang,
And chanted o melody nc one knew;
And the woman stopYed, and her babe she
tossed,
And thought oftbe one she had long since
lost,
az hate the wind in the chimney"
Over the chimney the night wind sang,
And chanted a melody no one knew;
And ths children said, as they closer drew,
10Tis some witch that Is cleaying the black
night through,
IT'S a fairy trumpet that Just then blew,
And we fear the wind in the chimney.
Over the chimney the night wind sang,
And chanted n melody no one knew
And the man, as he sat on his hearth below,
Said to himself, at will surely snow,
And fuel is dear and wages low,
And III stop the leak in the chimney
Over the chimney the night wind sang,
And chanted a melody no one knew;
But the poet listened ana smiled, for ne
Was man, and q woman, and child, all three,
And said. at is Gods own harmony, "
This wind we hear in the chimney
Bret Hortc.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-06
smooped Uron BIZ a. EagIe.

1890
John Granger, a Newark peddler,
was attacked By 4 bald Headed eagle
OH a high hill near Martinsville, Mid
dlesex county, n. j., a few evenings
since. He vas driving down the hut
when lie saw the bird NV into d tree.
As he drew near he fired at the eagle
withhis revolver, but as the bullet
went wide 81 thNmark he fired again.
Tie result was thesame, but the bird
became enraged and swooped down
with talons spread and beak dis
tended. The bird circled about Che
horse, whicIi broke into asrun and
went dashing through the bushes
and over roclgsat abreak neck speed
Granger with, difficulty kept IN tile
buggy until The foot 0f the hill was
reached Here one az The wheels
struck d los and The horse was
.afonght to "a halt. Granger jumped
from the vehicle and, crouching mi.
der II. fired at the eagle Az it came
doWnwifh 1miehfg sWoop Ihebuilet
STRUCK the bird ii a vital part and il
feh into q stream neag
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-06
V~iViparOus Fishes.
San Francisco Alta.

San francisco Alta.
An item that has been going the
rounds of the Eastern press heralds
as a startling scientific discovery the
finding of fish in Florida waters that
produce their young after the man
ner of mammals. As a matter of
fact viyiparous fishes were discovered
on the Pacific coast nearly thirty-fve
years ago, and were then classified
by the elder Agassn. The way in
which this departure from fnny hab-
its of reproduction first became
known to science was described as
follows to an Alta reporter by DR..
Hewston, the expert icthyologist of
the Academy Of Sciences:
Some where in the early part of
the ifties John Carey, a prominent
San Franciscan and brother-inlaw
of Agassiz, observed the curious fact
thSt a variety of silver perch peddled
by bay fishermen produced their
young alive. Thinking that it might
interest his brother-inlaw he wrote
to him, describing the fish and it's
habits in unscientific terms. The
prince of American scientists pooh
poohed the idea, saying that it was
sapremely ridiculous and utterly inn
possible according to all known laws
of Technology. Carey, however, knew
whereof he spoke, and having OBJ
tanned q pregnant perch sent it TO
Agassiz, who had perforce to believe
his own eyes. Pursuing the discov-
cry Agassiz classified the fish and
assigned to it d new genus, enbiotca,
from the Greek words Gen." within
and sbios,n life.
In 1853 DR.. Herman, then at
tached to what was called the "Neu
Pacific Coast Railroad Survey dis
covered the same thing and elassi
fed the fish as ~ennicthys, but The
honor Of the original discovery be
longs to Mr., Carey, and that Of thl
first classification TO Agassiz. Som'
five or six varieties of the viyiparoul
perch are found al along this coast
but especially in Puget Sound ans
San Francisco and San Diego bays
There is also a fresh water variety j
San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-06
Two Kinds Of Courage.

Indifference to danger is not al
WAYS the form of courage which
should eutitle it's pOSsessOr to the
highest credit" says General Horace
Porter in an article on The PhilOso,
ply of Courage" in the Century. 1T
is a negativevirtue ascompared with
the quality which enables one to per.
form 4 dangerous duty, while rruliz.
ing the full measure of the peril en-,
countered.
These two traits are best illustrate
! cd by theOId story of thetwO soldiers
whose regiment was charging up n
hill in a desperate attemptto capture
n battery. When halfway up, One0t
| them turned to the other and said,
| Why, you're as pale as a sheet; YOU
look like a ghost; | believe you're a
fraid.' Yes | am was the answer;
| and if you were half as much afraid
as | am you'd have run long ago
1t is something higher than physical
courage, it is a species of moral cOur-
aye, which recognizes the danger and
vet OVermasterS the sense of fear.
When the famous mine in front of
Petersburg had been completed, and
the National troops drawn up ready
to charge the eupmy'S works as soon
as the mine addOneits work in Great
irg Il breach. the signal was given
just before daylight, the fuse was
lighted, and the command stood
waiting with intense anxiety for the
explosion which was to follow. But
seconds, then minutes, then tens OF
minutes passed, and still no sound
from the mine. The suspense became
painful, and the gloom of dissapOint-
ment O~verspread the anxious faces of
officers and men. The fuse had been
spliced about midway. 1t was now
thought that there was a defect in
the splice, and that it was at this
point that the fuse was hanging fire.
The daywas breaking, the enemy was
becoming alert at sight of our I'M
masked columns, there was not q
moment to he lost. Lieutenant
Doughty and Sergeant Rees, of the
4Sth Pennsylvania infantry, nowvOl-
unteered to examine the fuse. They
entered the long dark gallery which
led to the mine, and without stop
ping to calculate the chances of life,
calmly exposed themselves to one of
the most horrible forms of death.
With no excitement to lend them it's
i~ntoxication, with nothing to divert
their mindsfrom the fate which SEEM
ed to await them, they followed the
course of the fuse through the long
subterranean passage, found the de-
feet at which the spark had been ar
rested and made a new splice. On
their return the match was again ap-
piled, and the train was now prompt
to do it's deadly work. These men
displayed even a higher order of cour-
age than those who afterwards
charged into the breach"
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-06

The xix largest potato dealers il Boston
have combined in d trust known ~ Che Con-
soIidafed Produce company lately organized
az Portland. under the laws Of this state
with a capital stock Of Sao0,000s q which
100000 il preferred. Tho object Of tfls
trusti Is said Il be e regulate tie price o. pos
.tatoes. which for the past few yenr has bssn
subject to somEcn competition and plce
tang as to TAKE away an the profits 81 ~
business. The msmber Of tlie company re
claim an Intention Of creating 2 mohopes4
but the ten smnilof deulefF ii Booster. atF
not fesaseafed rs the report that t'Nk aes1s
ogs OF the new c0aeern are 10 moft dang -
regulate and make prices foy pgtatefs
ia expected to have things "a WorkiHs 7osvss
ny nextn43nth. Dividends orr feftfiftea Z
Z per cent. per ennun on either pttt9fts1
Eor eommon stock, Int the whole WI net1
to ia paid on thf preferred before fn3 81 ne
common "a due This ucw Efoxenent X ~ ~
less infefest 10 Maine farnaets than g tns
smaller EoftoR deale3p. Tits b. thtr pptfs
"a break Il np. Il they zee atLeHlstep
(Mv) Jouynni