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Evening journal., 1890-05-31
FLOWERS sTRewN AT ELKroN.
The Burial of Miss Partrldge-An Old
Confederate's Return.
speeIal oorrespondenoe EynNlNo JounNA1


ELKroN. Nd, May 31.--Decoration Day has
been observed with sll honor in Elkton. All
day ladies and children have been strewing
flowers on the graves Of the buried
been unusually large this year. The
program o. the days ceremonies was as
follows; ~ ! p, m, Grant tost g. A. r..
Commander J. r.. Wilson and Company A.,
3rd Battalion NJ. N. e., under command Of
Capt. w. q. Pnrnell, met at their respective
armories, marched together to the Catholic
| Cemetery. From there they marched to the
o'd Methodist burying ground on High street.
thence To the Presbyterian Cemetery, and
from there to the new cemetery, where appro-
pirate services were held.
The services were commenced by prayer by
Rev. Charles I'LL. Mr.. Hill made appropriate
remarks after the prayer lie was followed
The members Of the Loyal Leagion lsang the
hymn. My Country tits OF Thee.
Colonel George Johnston Historian Of
Cecil county read a very line original poem
Legion sang "Ihe Star Spaneled banner =" A
military salute of i've rounds was fired by
address The exercises closed with prayer and
benediction by Rev. William Schereler. The
decoration was made at other burying grounds
in detail, as follows Cherry HILL Comrades
George Spence, John Drummand, John
Miller. A, McLane, ). Cantwell, kmory Lee,
Thomas Kelly, A. McCrtary, r. Matthew'S
Sebold. John Campbell. z. Matthews. ID. Me
Cauley; Chesapeake City and Bethel, Com
rades Watson, Whaley, Buckworth and
Hemphill
other towns and burying grounds where de-
tails We're sent were Union, head of Chris
| tiana; Boulden's Chapel, st. Johns
Mrs. Al w. Mitchell gave party last night
at her residence on Main Sc, in honor Of
her mother Mrs. Lewis There were about
forty guests present.
The remains Of Miss Mary Partridge, who
/ died suddenly last TUESDAY aite noon, were
/ buried to-day in the new cemetery 1he pail
/ bearers We're: Dr.. Charles M Ellis, senator
John 5. Writ, DR.. Il g. Macsal. Alfred
Wetherill, w. Ii. MackalI. Ceorg Mc0nilken.
| Rev, William schuer of the Protestant Epis-
c0pal Church oiilciated
John Gilpin, an Old Confederate artillery
ist, has returned from Richmond, where lie
participated in the Lee monument cere-
/ monies
The infant son of DR. j. w, Cooper died Of
Group last night. The funeral services win
/ be held on Monday
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peutsehe Turnremsinds.

The German Turngemeinde or Athletic
Club gave a very enjoyable athletic en-
tertainment and hop ia the
German Hail last evening. The
program consisted OF general
Indoor athletic sports. All the active
members Of the society were present and
participated ia the sports Emil
Maurer acted as master Of
ceremonies. j. @. and William
gave a very interesting 10 minute wrest-
ling match which was declared draw by
the referee. very good exhibition OF
club winging was given by Emil
Maurer, Emil Relchart, Max Funk,
Robert Kramer and Earnest Rink. The
sports were OF such good character that
the society decided to give the next en-
tertainment at Atlantic City.
The society feels the need Of a larger
hall than that which they now have, but
no steps have yet been taken to secure a
larger ole. Emil Maurer was accounted
the chief turner or athlete.
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fraudulent pensioners are revellng in the
'liberality" policy. The soldiers are
becoming debauched by greed. It will
soon be a disgrace to draw pension. 1t
is matter of impossibility to pay
$3.50, 600, 600 annually in honest pensions
twentY-fiv. years after the war. 1t is a
fraud on its face. It is an expenditure
of $50, 900, 900 in excess ..of the amount
that supports the finest army establish
ment in the world of 100000 men in
Garmanv
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Rice Ahrenk.

Thomas B. Rice was married TO Miss
Mary l. Ahrens, daughter Of John
Ahrens, in Camden n j., on Wednesday
eve ling May 2S, by the Rev. w. a.
Burrell. After the ceremony Mr..
and Mrs. Rice went. direct to their new
house at Ridley Park Pa, where they
held taeir reception, which was attended
by large number Of Wilmingtonians.
Mr. Rice was former resident of this
city and late captain Of Troop. B..
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Atlantic OitY Via Pennsgrove

The popular route to Atlantic CITY by
New Jersey and Wilmington Ferry, Della
ware River and West Jersey Railroads
will open for the season on Sunday June
8. Steamer Christina leaves Wilmington
at 30 a, m. Train leaves Atlantic City
to resurn during month Of June) at a 90
p. 10. People Of Wilmington and vicinity
will find this delightful route and a
most enjoyable way to spend the day.
During the month Of June this service
will be on Sunday only Excursion fare
&f 20
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Health Report

Register Lee reports the total number
of deaths for the week ending to day at
25. compared with Is for the same period
last year. The total number of births Is
80 compared with % for last
year. The deaths were divided as follows
White, 1S; Black Z Males, II Females.
III Minors. H. Adults 18; native. %:
foreign, 3;Births, We're White. 32; col.
ored, Il Total number marriage 2; both
WhitQ
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8 to 3. The game was interesting
throue ehout. and was witnessed by q
large crowd of spectators There were
but few errors ON either side, while
neither pitchers delivery was solved to
any great extent.
Jacob Hermann and Jefferson Down.
ham, formerly of this city, visited
friends here yesterday.
A boat race between fourteen shad
skiffs was the centre of attraction at the
wharves yesterday morning. AS the
judges disagreed, there was no decision
as to the winner OF the race.
Evening journal., 1890-05-31

THE reputation Of the Grand Army is
in its own keeping. It is charged with
being political body. and with having a
candidate for the Presidency. General
Palmer OF Illinois and General Bragg Of
Wisconsin freely charge that 1t made
notorious efforts to beat them in their
canvasses for office, because they were
Democrats. Suck charges are so frequent
that they do not excite comment in the
West. In many places the Grand Army
poets, like the negro churches, are
eouxted as soIidly Republican on issues
which ere purely economic and financial.
The pension drawers are rapidly falling
under the same suspicion. The r epubli-
can party promises ''liberal pensions
and they rapidly move over into the Re
publican ranks and claim the reward
Prominent soldiers and Republicans con-
denim the reckless pension Legislation
which has been passed and which is
proposed by Congress. The list includes
fasneral sGrant and Senator Hawley.
Neither one of these men would have
condemned the pension rscklessness
without the strongest evidences of its
evils. The scandal of Pension Agent
Lemons use of the mails with Postmaster
General Wanamaker's approval to push
1ala pension business and to add to his
private fortune already vast. is only one
Of the many new developments at Wash
snQton which will bring shame to the
Grand Army and to the pensioners. The
nnworthy, the Able-bodied ard tbs
Evening journal., 1890-05-31

We make no pretense of
naming all the seasonable
Dress Stuffs. The two or
three picked out now and then
from this counter and that
stand for hundreds that never
get a word in the papers. You
know they're anything
that ought to be in the biggest,
fullest, most popular gathering
of Dress Fabrics in America.
These for illustration:
Three of the popular Scotch
Cottons for hot weather wear
Madras. Oxford, Cambridge.
Sturdy stuffs. Pull a thread
from either: strong enough to
sew with-almost. Each has
goodness peculiar to itself, and
the color is woven into the
fabric every time.
Madras is the stuff that has
driven out that old-time favor.
ite, printed Penang. Cooler,
lighter, pleasanter to wear, and
prettier withal. 80 styles at
4oc, 2S styles at soc.
For hard knockabout the
Oxford. Look of linen, wears
like linen; solid, substantial.
23 styles, soc.
Cambridge is a twin brother
of Oxford, only that it is
a twill instead of a plain weave,
"a styles, 3oc.
Any of these stuffs are ex-
cellent for women's dresses,
mems shirts, or for children's
wear. Styles that are as bright
and breezy as a May morning.
We believe our $o.75 Baby
Carriage the best ever offered
for that money. Shellacked
reed body, silk plush upholstery
{ H9e colors to choose from),
satin parasol, Richmond brake.
Nothing sighted.
a strong, neat, serviceable
Carriage for SIS. That's the
one for least. Most that you
pay above that goes for pretty
ing but you get your moneys
worth every time.
Basement, northeast Of centre.
You'll hear that Mexican
Grass Hammocks are scarce.
They are-in some stores.
Plenty enough here. IA feet,
9I.75.
Macreme Cord Hammocks,
strong, clean, handsome, $I.75,
$2.5o, and $3.
Palmer Pillow Hammocks,
75c to $3.75
Union Webb" Hammocks,
ST to $3.25; Baby" soc.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
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Contracta AMnrded.

The contract for bnilding the addition
70 Odd Fellows Hall. a. Third and
King streets has been awarded to j. Nj.
Collins. The contract for steam heating
has been awarded to the Gawthrop and
Brother Company. The cost OF the inn
proyements will be 50, 00G.
Evening journal., 1890-05-31

Ipitis debt Of honor and gratitude
we owe the soldiers, we cannot discharge
Ii with money. II it is debt Of money,
then we will not give them honor and
gratitude. As the soldiers become
mercenary, they sacrifice honor.
Evening journal., 1890-05-31
A Small FlRE.
A Man Caught in a Revolving Fan,
Injuries His Hand.

IhJufeb IT'S Hhnds
CHEsTERTowN, Md, May 31.- The
kitchen Of the two and a. half-story
frame dwelling on Kent street occu pied
by Mr.. Hill was partly burned Yesterday
morning The loss will be about $3.50
The building, which belongs to Mrs.
Sarah A. Fiddis, was insured in the Kent
Mutual Company for 1915.
While nan named Emory was at
work yesterday in the steam saw mill on
the Wooddale farm he slipped and fell
toward the revolving fan. In trying to
avoid the saw he threw out his hand.
which was nearly cut off
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IfYou Want
MARINE MATTERS.

The schooner Victor Is unloading a cargo Of
sand at Third street bridge.
The. yacht Anita left Moore's shipyarl this
morning on an excursion trip.
Moore's shipyard for repairs.
The schsSaer Fannie, Of Bridgeton \ I ,s
being loaded with Ice at Church street wharf
The bark Platina which was renairsa a,
jackson and sharp Company's ward viii elaas
for Greenland on Monday
The three -masted schooner "Blue Halls ar
rived 1T George w. Bush and sons wharf VIII
load Of lamEer this morning
The schooner Mary smith is az Moore,s
shipyard and she will be hauled sut 81 tbs
marine railway there, on next tuesday,.
The three -masted schooner Harrison Hielr
man which ha3 been discharging a cargo II
ice at the kenrebec Ice and Coal Company
wharf. cleared this port Yesterday afternoon
The funeral of john 4 Davis took piac,
this afternoon from his late resi- lence, No
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Improved Train Service From HTarke
Street Station Ii. &O.R.R,

The B. & o. r. R. recognizing the de-
mand for better train service from it's
Market street station, has added num-
ber of new express trains, which leave
week days at 30, 9.27,. 40 and II. .35
a. m, arriving at Philadelphia at $40.
$50. 1927 m, 1890 p. m The above
trains stop at Delaware avenue station.
Returning, express trains leave Phila-
delphia at 1.50 and 90 p m. daily, except
Sunday Arriving ut Market street
station at 2.40 and 4 so p m. Other
trains from Market street station will be
found in the regular time table published
In to days issue. Special attention is
called to the convenient arrangement OF
the above trains for commuters and
persons having business in Phi ladelphia.
Excursion tickets, good for two (2) days,
$1.00 Quarterly. 180 ride tickets,
s23 %; monthly, $50 trip tickets, )$10. 90;
school, (46 trip tickets. 5000.
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PREPARING FoR THE WORK.
Enumerators TO Receive Final Instruc
tions This Afternoon.


tions This Afternoon.
The census emmerators Of Wilmington
city will meet Supervisor Wiley at 1
o'clock this afternoon, aud receive fnal
instruc tions for their works. which will
begin. The enumerators blanks are in
great demand as many people desire to
fill them up In advance of the enumera-
tors visit. A box containing 5000 popu-
lation schedules was received Yesterday,
and when the blanks were lnclosed in
packages for each enumerator, they
filed two large express wagons
William II. Watts has been commis-
stoned enumerator for the eastern part
Of New Castle, ]. NJ, Davidson, who was
appointed to that position, having been
compelled TO resign on account of busi-
ness duties. Great care Is to be taken in
collecting the facts about manufacturers.
and this will be done by special employees
Of the census Office to assure the manu-
facturers that their business will be
given no publicity, and the facts are
wanted for tabulaton only.
Evening journal., 1890-05-31

SENATOR INGALLS, should not be 50
barshly criticised for plagiarism. It might
deter other Senators from stealing better
speeches than they can write.
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wilminxton Clearing house.

The exchanges of the Wilmington banks
at the clearing house to-day were Clear
ings, $l25, 170 AZ; balance, SIS, s07 49,
May, 1890, S34, 4,01424; 1889, $31, 100. SO:
1888. 500. 767. IA.
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injured II Edremonr.

Henry Sanders an employe Of the Edge
moor Bridge Works, was injured in the
back and neck at the works yesterday.
be is under treatment at the Delaware
HosuitAl
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SATURDAY. MAY 81. 1890.

THE census enumerators will not as
certain how many able-bodied men are
drawing pensions.
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WHERE is Foraker while we need
somebody to 60 to Richmond to tear
down those rebel fiagsY In the soup.
Evening journal., 1890-05-31

PRIVATE SECRETARY BACH should
borrow Ingallss copy Of Massillon ana
write new speech for Senator Higgins.
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WANAMAKER,s.

PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, May 81. 1890.
Tie aOeatheY to-day as hkely
TO be clear.
Evening journal., 1890-05-31

The funeral of John u Davis took piac,
this afternoon from his late resi- lence, Nn
So West Eleventh street,
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-10-01

When Mr.. A. B. Farquhar said that
the adoption of the tin-plate duty
meant the transfer to this country OF
$4,000 pauper tin-plate workers his
statement was disputed. The junior
Protection organ, however, declares
that an ample duty on tin-plate will
import great industry employing 25,'
900 people. Both are right. We
now pay for our tin-plate with our sur
plus agricultural products, and to shut
off that purchase simply closes that
much of the foreign market to our
agricultural surplus. Nor can the
farmers crowded off their land 60 into
tin-plate making, for the tin-plate
workmen will be imported" Why
should we import the pauper indus.
tries and their pauper vorkmen, and
why should Americsl workmen be
asked to compete with the pauper
workmen Of Europe and Asia, by pro-
ducing here what the foreign pauper
makes abroad, when the American
can be employed here in making
American goods which do not compete
with the products of foreign pauper
labor.-New York World.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-10-01
The Crusade Against the Importer

The Republican theory as to the
importer seems to be that he is the
enemy of American mankind and
that against him the hand Of every
true patriot should be appraised. Such
is the tenor and spirit of the McKin-
ley bill and the tone of the protection.
list organs is in thorough accord with
it. Foreign trade they regard as an
injury, if not curse, and the men
who engage in it are necessarily public
enemies. Not infrequently they go
so far as to speak of the importers as
the representatives of British interests
and disbursers of british gold" to
corrupt the moral sense Of the country
or to disseminate the loathsome doc
trines of unhampered trade.
This position of the protectionist
party has been taken, ostensibly, for
the benefit of the farmer whose home
market is to be increased by stopping
importation, and by manufacturing
here-at such price as the manufac.
turers sees fit to change-everything
the farmer wants. 1t is we'll, there
fore, that the farmer should consider
the matter and decide just how far
the ostracism of the-importer is likely
to confer on him the benefits promised.
One of the necessary results of driv-
ing the importers out of business will
be the farmers loss of them as GUS
toners. Another and still more i'm
portant result will be the loss of for
eigners as customers. There is a good
deal of protectionist assumption that
the nations of Europe must have our
farm products, but it is only assump-
ton. During the twelve months end
ing on the 30th of June last, the farm
ers of this country sold to their for.
eign customers farming products,
to the value of 1916 ,866.620.
How long does the American farm
err suppose it would take. under the
most favorable of tariffs, for the
manufacturers to create for him a
home market where he can sell this
amount annually in addition to what
he now sells at home? He should
get pretty definite answer in his own
mind to this question before he joins
his alleged friends, the protectionists,
in their crusade against the importers
and foreign trade.-Detroit Free
Press.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-10-01
The Foreign Market is a Valuable
One to the Farmers.

We call the attention of our farm
er readers to the following figures,
taken from the Baltimore Journal of
Commerce, and which it obtained
from the report of the United States
Bureau of Statistics. The figures are
therefore official ones, compiled by
the present Republican administra-
ton.
This report shows the exports of
farming products sent to foreign coun-
tries, during the fiscal year ending
June 30th, 1890, to be as follows:
Wheat, to the value of $45, 275,-
906; -four, to the value of $57,036,-
1853; corn, to the value of $42,65S,-
015; bacon, to the value of $50, 149,-
635; hams, to the value of $780,
1876; sailed pork, to the value of
$4,753,4sS; lard, to the value of
$33, 455, go; fresh beef, to the value
of $12, 1904; sailed beef, to the
value of $5,250,O 6s; canned beef, to
the value of $6,787,193; tallow, to
the value of $5,243,10S; butter, to
the value of $4,187 ,489; cheese. to
the value of 1851 ,042; tobacco, to
the value of $21 ,479,556; cattle, to
the value of $31, 261, 131; cotton, TO
the value of S25O,96S,792.
The total value of the above
agricultural products amounts to the
very large sum of s576,S66,62O, and
is what the farmers sold to people of
other countries during twelve months.
The foreign market is therefore
valuable one to the farmers. Close
that foreign market and where will
the farmers sell their vast amount of
surplus products I Who will buy the
five hundred million dollars worth of
farm products
Now, farmers, the object of the
protection men and the Republican
Mckinley tariff bill is to close this
foreign market to the farmers. They
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-10-01

insist on high protective tariff SO
that foreign manufactured goods, such
as the farmers need, can not be i'm.
ported to this country. These Ameri-
can manufacturers are working for
their own selfish interest. They care
nothing for the farmers. They want
the farmers prevented from buying
where they can the cheapest. They
demand that the farmers be turned
over to them to be preyed upon and
robbed, and as long as the protected
manufacturers can accumulate i'm
mense fortunes, so as to live like
princes, they care nothing for farm
ers.
Now the foreigner can not buy
over five hundred millions of agricul-
tural products per year of the Ameri-
can farmers, unless they pay for the
products in goods they produce
They can not pay cash. American
farm products can not be sold to for.
eign countries unless foreign goods
are taken in exchange.
If the.protected laws should close
this valuable foreign market to the
American farmer, then he will have
vast amount of his products left on
his hands. He will have to buy hi,
manufactured articles of wealthy
monopolists, and he will have to pay
their price.
1t is for the interest of the farmer
to sell wherever he can find a buyer,
and it is also for his interest to bu,
where he can do so the cheapest.
The protective system compels thu
farmer to give large part of hi
earnings to the protected industries
He has to support them, and TIT
system makes him do so, by running
himself and impoverishing his family
These millionaires will not share
their wealth with the farmers they
have robbed SO many years, aud why
should the farmers continue to support
system which taxes them so heavily
for the benefit of such men? Why
should the farmers be forced to make
protected manufactures profitable a
the expense of their own business ?
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-10-01
Detroit Markets.

The following market quotations
are copied from the Detroit Free
Press.
Apples, $3.50 to 800 per Dbl.
Butter, 16 to "a per pound.
Live fowls, &c TO Sc per pound.
Live turkeys, lie to 12c per pound.
Eggs, 16 to II cents per dozen.
Flour per barrel, $500 to 1926
Hay, baied, 5000 to SIC. $50 per ton.
Oats per bushel, 4lc to 42c.
Onious, $50 to 2.75 per Dbl.
Pork, $11.0O to $500 per Dbl.
Potatoes, 65 to as per bushel.
Wheat, 5000 to 5000 per bushel.
The quotations, given by the Free
Press, are mostly Of wholesale ma.
ture. The prices at retail stores must
be somewhat higher.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-10-01

es' organ itself take up this pleasing
and necessary duty instead of leaving
it to people at Washington 1t pro-
fesses to have large agricultural
constituency. Why does it not pro-
coed to enlighten them and keep them
and keep at it till the last obstinate
farmer owns up that it is right
and proper that fat should be fried
out of him, and admits that the high
er the necessaries he buys are taxed
the better for him 7
Why does not the organ explain to
the farmer that it is his highest and
hottest duty to pay more for many OF
the necessities of life in order that
mill bosses in New Jersey, Rhode
Island and Connecticut may make
larger profts-which they will not
divide among their employees, which
would increase their ability to buy,
but which they will put into their
own pockets till they spend them for
the purchase of titled European hus.
bands for their daughters?
Why does it not explain carefully
to its granger readers that the main
object of legislation is not and must
not be to get wider markets for their
surpluses, as Blaine proposes, so that
they may get better prices for their
crops, but must be to put the control
of the home market so absolutely in
the hands of the eastern mill boss
trusts that they can fleece the farmers
to their hearts content, and the latter
can have no redress?
When this "organ" has convinced
the farmers of Illinois that they were
meant to be hewers of wood and draw.
ers of water for eastern mill bosses
and that they ought to be thankful
that their masters leave them the bare
means of subsistence, the last vestige
of disaffection with the Mckinley bill
will vanish from Illinois and the
farmers will rally joyfully to the de-
Tense of the new creed of "higher tax.
es for the good of the mill bosses; no
new markets wanted for the good OF
the agriculturist."
1t will take from now till election
day for the "organ" to convert its
farming readers to the new faith. So
the soonerit begins the better.--Chica-
go Times.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1890-10-01
Meteorological Report

The meteorological report of the
weather at Alpena city, is as follows
during the week ending Monday
September Goth, 1890:
Highest temperature, 81 degrees, on 26th.
Lowest temperature, so on the 2sth.
Average temperature, As degrees.
Highest barometric pressure, $3.50 inches.
Lowest barometric PRESSURE 2993 inches.
Total rainfall, 300 inches.
Prevailing wind, from the west
Total movement of the wind, l,426 miles.
Greatest daily rain fall o 90 inches, on the
Highest velocity of the wind, 27 miles, from tn,
northwest, on the 23rd
JAMES j. FITZGERALD,
Serg't Signal Corps, u. 3. A.