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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-27

W. B. Grossly of this city has rented
the driery OF Hatdcsstle & Jones, at Clay
ton, and will opan rag hon there
about April LIST. He has rented house
in the town snd will move bis family
down in few days.
The Rev. A. De r. Meares OF Port Ds.
posit has accepted q rectoIship in BaiIi-
more.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-27

Mr.. John Grossoup brought to the
GAZETTE office Thursd y morning several
copies OF The CircuIa /, found among the
etfeois of the late @'s. Kitty Steen of
Chester county. ~ Cjrcular was q
weekly paper plblisAei by Robert Porter
a, what was then No ~ Market street.
The issues were all . tie y. ar 1924 snd
one of them contained call for town
meeting to arrange for public welcome
to Lafayette.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-27
A woiI-kno,s Civt, Engineer mead.

Fralcis Llghtfoot Of MtdiN, Ia, a
well-knoWn c,izsn, died last week. He
was GS years of age and was civil engi
neer of considerable pramiaenoe, having
laid out msny Philadelphia streets at
one time he resia in New CASTLE county
near this city aud wRl employed by tho
Eige Moor Iron Company. second
wife and three children aud daughter
by his first wife rviye hin.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-27

Isaac N. Grub, executor of Thomas
Pooia's estate. sold farm of 27 acrss,
n4nr Poster's station last week, to Henry
Gray, ovLyred, for 1856.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-27

J. Fl. Anderson has been appointed post
master at McDonoush, DEL. to sueses3 d.
Yendegrifs.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-27
OUR ANTIQuArED SYSTEM
6PEECHE BR HON. q. III. RATES
AND Il. O. VAhDEaRfPF.

Az the Ynung Ncn's Dcnocratsr club
s.Hst Night ~ Ncrk-ESpresstonl Upon
Guestions Of stirr'ag PIbite Tan
Ierest-sniaries We. Fees uiAcusseI;.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-27

Thursday Nigk.'s Session. ofCUul-
cai-lMr. DiIiin's Ordinance Efesu-
Iatinx Fire Department. Elections
Irregu,arly NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
OF the Fire Companies.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-27
some FACTS FOR the CONSIDERATION or new CASTLE
COUNTY TAXPAYERS.
CHESTER, DELAWARE AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY JsIL2
WEST CHESTER AND NO2RST OWN AS FEED PRISONERS FoR
LESS THAN CENTS PER DIEM.
Delaware CNny Taxpayers Protest Against 20 tents Per Day
ard the "ystem IL hanged-A the Prisoners Nsra
Worked and Well Fedlheir Industry Pays he EXPENSE Cf
Subsistence.

aged to read. Many who only know
the alphabet earn to read in eompara-
lively short space of time. While the
wants and comforts OF the prisoners are
we'll looked after the discipline OF the
institution is such that the prisoners
nave- lose sight of tho fact inst they are
paying the penalty Tor on infraction Of
the Law. Solitary confinement empha-
szss this fact. They are not permitted
to speak to any one, rarely ses each
other, can only have few callers, wives
and parents being allowed to have few
momants' conversation with their hus-
bands and sona once in two months.
Nothing can be brought into the jsii for
the prisoners and they are allowed TO
write two letters per mouth, the missivss
subject to the inspection OF the warden.
Ehi, is nodsl jail aud il admirably
IN snsysd by Warden Wells, VINO is heartily
interested In the welfare of his charges,
and in the welfare of tho Taxpayers.
Tha most salient point OF interest in
the institution Just now to tho operhur.
deaei tax pay, ,rs Of New CASTLE coanty is
the economy of its Standardization. To
further illustrate that feature the re-
oeipts and expenses as audited ready to
appear 10 tho annual report are given:
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-06-26

The railroad, now under construction,
branches from the Spokane and Pal
ousc road, runs eastward to Moscow,
thence southeast and south down Bear
creek and the Potlacth to the Clear
water, and then turns west and follows
the Clearwater to the Snake Mt Lewis
ton. It's length is seventy-two miles,
and it will in time make Of the whole
Potlatch country u thickly settled re-
gion of small farmers and fruit growers,
shipping their products to Spokane
Falls, about $50 miles distant. The
streams all head in well-timbered
mountains, where there Is white pine,
as we'll as the universal bull pine; fuel
and lumber are close at hand for all
the farmers; prospects of coal and
silver ore has been found in the moun-
tains. All desirable conditions exist
for making this an exceptionally pros
porous Observation-Disclosures Magazine.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-06-26

Daily large quantities of wool are
being drawn to this point for shipment
Why should all our wool be shipped
away for manufacturing? It is an in
dustry we can easily develop here. We
have an excellent water power lying
Idle. A large manufacturing interest
here would draw large population of
non-producers who would furnish q
market for our food products. No city
can hope to attain any considerable
sine unless 1t develops diversified in
dustries. Nature has fitted us with
the necessary qualifications for develop
ing . manufacturing interest. Let
energy and enterprise take advantage
Of the gifts.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-06-26

The results of the present term of the
U. s. District Court, ut Blackfoot, in
Bingham county, shows concltisively
that polygamy Is still practiced vigor.
ously and defiantly by the members Of
the so-called church of Latter Day
Saints. Idaho Democrats have long
since given up the task Of defending
the "Saints" on any ground, but in the
Congress of the United States, Demo-
cratic members have been persistently
asserting that polygamy was dying out
both In Utah and Idaho. This view
of the case was made the ground Of
their opposition to the Idaho constitu-
ton, and to the admission of Idaho
into the Union. Yet it seems that in
every term of court in Utah and In
the Mormon infested counties of Idaho
violations of the Edmunds-Tucker law
are actually increasing instead Of
diminishing. In this Second Judicial
District, presided over by a Democratic
Judge, there have been ut this present
term in Bingham county, fourteen
convictions for illegal cohabitation and
several others for kindred offenses, four
of the guilty parties being sentenced to
long terms In the penitentiary at Sioux
Falls, Dabota. There have been several
other convictions for violation of the
election laws of the Territory. This is
far from showing any indications on
the part Of the Mormons Of being less
disloyal and law defying. The show.
ing now made ought to satisfy the
Democrats in Congress and the whole
country that there Is nothing to bt
gained or hoped for by any othel
method of treatment for the Mormons
than that Of a vigorous enforcement Of
the laws, both Federal and Territorial
and that the easiest way to save troubl,
in Idaho is to pass the admission bill
with the constitution as 1t is, and leav,
the new State Of Idaho to deal will
her share of the observation-disclosures
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-06-26

A somewhat important bill, looking
TO the compulsory education Of Indian
children, has been reported favorably
TO the senate. 1t provides for the e.
tablishment Of an indu strial boarding
school on every reservation, where the
adult population exceeds 500, in which
minors between the age of eight and
eighteen shall be instructed in the ele.
mentary studies. The boys are also
10 be instructed in agricultural pur.
suits, In the care and MANAGEMENT Of
stock, and in general farm work, and
shall In all cases be taught some me-
chanical trade. 1t IL required that the
girls shall be instructed in Homework,
sewing and other employnients suit.
able to their sex. BY way Of securing
compliance with the law, 1t IL required
that parents and guardians who refuse
or neglect to send their children ia
these schools shall be deprived of theii
rataons and annuities The provisions
II this bill are an enlargement Of the
methods pursued at the Hampton In.
statute In Virginia, where Indian boys
and girls are instructed In the mechan.
heal trades and In household work, and
where those who are married are given
. taste a domestic life by being placed
In cottages and compelled to rely upon
themselves in the infringement Of
domestic economy. 1t has been found
that the idea Of family life has been
inculcated by the method thus pursued
and the results in other respects has
been most benehcient. 1t is to be
hoped that the compulsory educational
system win be vigorously enforced
The education of the Indian, intellect
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-06-26

The primary objects Of taking the
census, ~ announced in the Constitu-
ton, ore to form the basis Of apportion-
Ii1ent for representation and taxation.
Later, however, a. the different decades
have gone by, the taking Of the census
has grown to include q compilation Of
statistics on nearly every known indus
try in the Union. At each taking it
has grown more complicated and far
reaching In Its aims till now the census
reports all many large volumes. The
present census seeks to out do all for
mer attempts to form compilations of
the exact condition Of the country.
1t seeks not only to ascertain the
growth of industries, the accumulation
and Investment Of capital, and the de-
velopment Of resources, but inquiries
after the financial and physical condi-
ton Of the individual. Now, just how
far the government can, even for off,
cial purposes, pry into the private in.
terests and ailments Of On individual IL
the question that Is causing the census
enumesator SO much trouble. It may
be embarrassing to some to recount
their ills and enumerate their mort
cages, but this is another instance o.
the greatest good to the greatest mum
bef. The government does not come a.
3 curiosity seeker. It seeks knowledge
in the aggregate, but must arrive al
that through the individual. Whether
your farm has mortgage or your wife
has the measles will not figure In the
report Of the census. The questions
the government wants to settle are
What Il the average increase or decreas,
Of Indebtedness? What percentage d.
Investments In business pay? Wha
development have the industries made
What IL the increase Of the death rate
Of disease and disorders? And, judging
from reports, they are likely to Obtain
all they ask for.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-06-26
OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY PAPER.
Entered at the Lewiston Postoffice q!
Second Glass Mail Matter.
THURSDAY, JUNE %, 1890.

What has become Of the Lewiston
Board Of Trade? Daily We read Of the
advertising being done by vigorous
workers on the Boards Of Trade In
ineighboring towns. Is there nothing
that can be done In any line to help
along the growth and prominence Of
our city, A little vigorous concerted
action here would be refreshing.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-06-26

ually, and in industrial pursuits, seems
to furnish the only feasible solution Of
the many difficulties which have here
tOfore characterized his relations with
the whites.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-12-15
The Rrand of Pnrta.

Supposing the population of Paris to be 2, 400. 900 individuals, figure which is not far from reality, and an average consumption of 500 grsmmes per head, Paris consumes 1,20O, 900 kilogrammes (about 2,5oO. 900 pounds) of bread per day. This enormous figure gives the mind no idea, but it can be placed in a more striking form, which we owe to one of our most distinguished engi- neers. If we suppose all the bread con- stunned at Paris in one day to arrive in the form of roll of great length pene- trating into the town with constant speed, and supposing this roll to be the average thickness of bread of the first quality. the weight of which is about one kilogramme @ 1-5 pounds) per metre (s91< inchesE a very simple calculation shows that this roll should find its way into Paris, without interruption or stop page of any kind, at the rate of fifty kill ometres (about thirty miles) per hour equivalent to that of our express trains, La Nature.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-12-15
The suez Canal at Might.

Says an American lady, who has just passed through the Suez canal: "Ships no longer have to tie up for the night,
 but, go up and come down by eletric light the effect of which, when once seen, can never be forgotten. There is a rule of the road by which one or the other of the vessels going or coming down has to tie while they are actually passing each other. I think we were fastened two or three times, and it was most interesting watching the steamers coming in from the next signaling station. In the bow of each was an electric light of enormous power, supplied by the Canal company. The company charges ten guineas for each lamp. hear it reported that the British Government is about to withdraw from Egypt. I sincerely hope the rumor is not true. It is pitiable to see how con- cerned the poorer classes of the com munity are over the intelligence. They dread return to the cruelties and ex- actions of the pachas, and besiege one with questions about the truth of the rumor. It would be disgrace to En- gland if she abandons this poor, trust. full people to the cruelties of Mohame- dan rule, after having given them a taste of real liberty. "-N. Y. Tribune
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-12-15

Raid after raid was made, but John Wilson was too shrewd to be captured, and th9 officers went away without hay ing detected him or any of his men.
 For two years he ran his still, tho largest in the mountains, when his daughter, now grown into young wom- anhood, returned from school. She was beautiful girl, and in her pretty dresses seemed strangely out of place among these rude mountain folk. She went with her father to the store as she did when child, and the two were again inseparable, He could not bear to have her out of his sight. The moonshiners however, continued to make the Wilson cabin their rendezvous. a> .--
 "Why do these men come here, fa- ther2" his daughter asked.
 Fl have business with them, my child. It won't be long am rich man here, but would be poor man in the city. Next year I will have enough, and we will move to the city" z--.-. .r
 With this she was content, but as the weeks passed by she learned the truth, and begged her father to stop.
 "Only a few weeks now, my child," he would answer.
 One night two men came running to the house. She heard her father go to the corner where he kept his rifle; then he hurried out of the door. Dressing quickly, she ran to catch him. She had learned where the still was, and she divined that there was trouble there. She ran as she never ran before, for fear lent speed to her feet Approaching the still, she saw the revenue officers riding up the creek just behind her. Never needing the rife barrels resting in the crevices between the logs of the still-house, she ran on, when the sharp crack of a rife rang out on the night air. She threw up her hands and fell on her face, shot through the heart It was her father who had fired; and as he pulled the trigger he saw 1t was wom- ans form, and divined who it was, but it was too late. He fell by the side of his gun. After short fight in which no one was wounded, however, the rev. enue officers retreated.
 His companions picked John Wilson up and carried him to the nearest cabin. They did not know what the trouble was until, going along the creek with | the unconscious man, they found the body of his daughter. They picked her up and tenderly bore them both away.
 The next day the girl was buried near the cabin. For weeks the ia ther lay fin delirium; and when he got well he wont to the grave of his daughter, and placed the headstone there that had seen. The cabin and store were closed; the still was | burned.
 He lives in cave. He never speaks to any mortal, living on wild berries and the game that he kills. His rife is his only companion, and to this he will talk as if 1t understood him. Every day he visits the grave of his daughter. His step is growing feeble, and it will not be long before he, too, passes into the unknown beyond.
 The simple mountain folk say that when the moon is shining through the pines and the whip-poor-will's mournful call is heard, a white-robed figure car be seen running up the crock, with long hair moving in the wind, just as on that night ten years ago when beautiful Srsie, the moonshiuer's daughter, wal shot-St Louis Globe Democrat
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-12-15
4 MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY,
The Sad Fate of the MoonshineFs
 Daughter.

- In the autumn of 1s- went up into the mountains of Eastern Kentucky to look at some timber land wanted to buy. It was one of those golden days, and exulted in the beauty of the scene ry. The last yellow rays of the sun were still lingering on the mountain tops, when a tall man with massive frame and long white hair flowing over shoulders which were bent as with age, passed us, walking slowly down the mountain path. could not sec his face, but there was sonnet hing about his movements which attracted my at- tention.
 ''Who is that man?" I asked of the mountaineer who was acting as our guide.
 ''Thet air old John Wilson. His mine ben'tquite right sence he losthis daugh- ter. He's been to her grave now, Ireck- on, an is goin' back to the cave whar he meks his home. He don' go with no one no more."
 "When did his daughter die?" asked.
 "Wall, reckon it's been about two var. I'll show you whar she's buried directly"
 We had proceeded but few yards when we came to a deserted cabin, the windows of which were tightly closed. In front of this cabin was mound, and at it's head rude slab on which was painted in bold letters:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-12-15

From this date until after the holidays the EVENING DEMOCRAT columns are "worth their weight in gold" to advertis- CTS.
 The enterprising merchants of tbia town, who know good thing when they experience it, are showering favors upon us in such abundance that it is possible we may be obliged to publish a supplement- before Christmas.
 It is needless to say that merchants car find no better advertising medium in Wa. terbury for the next two weeks than ,ha DEMOCRAT. The columns will teem w,th desirable reading matter and the natural bent of the reader will be to turn fror. the reading matter to the adyertisinc Al umns for valuable suggestions in . ,bo matter of holiday presents.
 It will be well for merchants who fo.;, :. good positions to make their arrangements ct once. II
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-12-15

the capture of Jefferson Dayis. This oc- cured May 10, 1865, at lrwinsville, Ga.
 The captors were Q body of men under
 Colonel Pritchard, of the Fourth Michigan
 cavalry.
 The capture of the President of the
 Southern Confederacy at the tlme of its
 occurrence occasioned much rejoicing, and
 removed the last vestige of Southern re- sistance. +.E
 One day in June the writer, with two or
 three companions, went blaclz-berrying in a heavily timbered section, two or three
 miles from camp, situated in a low region
 of country in which were several swamps
 and bayous,
 After time, while picking some berries and moving about in quest of others, the writer became separated from his compan- ions. Meantime the sun became obscured ! by heavy clouds, it began to thunder and | threaten rain, while in almost every direc- ton could be heard the deep believing of alhgators. They scene ed near by. and their l unearthly noise was not calculated to add | to the cheerfulness of one alone in heavy, strange forest Tn an enemy's country and with a terrific storm approaching. Fortunately, however, the storm passed around and the writer soon found his way out of the timber and in due time reached | camp with good supply of nice berrles. Speaking of alligators, the writer recalls | an experience, with what was supposed to
 be one, in the early spring of 1863. while | marching across the peninsula opposite ! Vicksburg, when upon tho campaign | against that stronghold.
 The command had halted for day or two l at Holiness plantation, and with a compan- | ion the writer set out for hunt The 1 whole region nearly was more or less under | water, and we were obliged to make our | way for the most part upon levee that 1 led along the banks of bayou. Pretty
 soon we saw what was thought to be an l alligator sticking his head out of the water. We both had army muskets that carried a large minnie ball One of us took aim and
 fired very deliberately, but made no i'm. l pression upon the object aimed at, but as | alligators are notoriously non-impression-
 able to bullets, nothing was thought of
 this, and another shot was fired.
 About this tlmc the "allgator'' ierked l hIs head under water, but soon put it out
 again, and this operation he repeated | at short intervals. Meantime shot after | shot was fired, and at last one knocked off | large piece of bark from the end of a | gray, weather-beaten log that lay in the | stream in such Q position that while one | end was imbedded in the mud the other | projected up stream and just came to the | surface upon which it rose and fell with
 the current. This, technically called by | boatmen a sawyer'', was what we had | taken for an allgator's head and fired at | so many times.
 One day the writer was sitting upon the
 fence around the house near which his com
 pany was encamped when all at once a
 terrific explosion was heard that seemed to
 be right at hand. The first thought was
 that the Brigade Battery had, unnouiced,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-12-15
Cloth Made of Glass.

M. Dubas Comet of Lille, France, has invented a process of spinning and weaving glass into cloth. The warp is composed of silk, forming the body and groundwork on which the pattern in glass appears. The requisite flexibility of glass thread for manufacturing pur- poses is to be ascribed to its extreme fineness, as not less than 59 or 60 of the original threads (spun by steam-power)
 are required to form one threa, used in the weft of the cloth. The process of weaving glass is very slow and tedious, no more than yard of the cloth coming from one loom in 12 hours. The work, however, is extremely beautiful, and considering the work put in upon it, is comparatively cheap. When we picture to ourselves company dressed in vari' ous colors of glass cloth, in an apart ment decorated with the same glitter ing material, the whole resplendent with lights, we will no longer wonder at the enchanted palaces mentioned in the Arabian tales.-St. Louis Republic.