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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-17
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pnlLApELrnlA. December IA, 1891
Holiday Points:

PHILADELPHIA, December "a, 1891.
Holiday Points:
Tie Ikoh2ay Fair. Second
Floor Thirteenth and Chest
nut streets.
The Hohday Bagar. Sec
ond Floor near Market street,
in the Carpet store.
Tie Tapestry Pictures.
Cavalier Of the time of Louis
XIII and Saintonge Dogs,
Second Floor, over entrance
in centre Chestnut street.
Festi0ak Of tic Brides OF
Penice. In the Holiday Fair.
Machinery in melton. Gal
lery in underground hall.
Reached by stairway from
Ladies' Waiting Room, West
Transept.
Dress Patterns IN Boxes
have come to be one Of the
Holiday attractions. So handy
for the sensible, scrviceable
gifts that more and more peo-
pie every year are turning to.
Neater, better boxes than ever
before. Besides ample mate
rial for a Dress there is in
most of them Passementerie
Tor trimming.
Wo0k Dress Patterns, dofed..
Each of these Dress Patterns is put
III II neat box suitable for Christ
mas Presents.
Mixed Chevron, So.
Whip Cord Suiting with passemen-
ierie, SO.
Plain Color Ghevron with passemen-
turc, $3.50.
Snow-iaked Cheviot with passemen-
tcrie, 81.
All-wool Cheviot with passemen-
terie, S4.
Fancy Cheviot with passementorie,
"a.
Lupin's Cashmere with passemen-
terie, So.
Lupin's Cashmere with passemcn-
terie, So.
Bordered Serge, IS.
All-wool French Foule, IS.
All-wool French Surah, $6.
Atwood French Camcls-lIair, 81.
All-wool French Serge, $3.50.
Cotton Dress Patterns.
Indigo Blue prints, 60c.
Indigo Blue Percales, $i25.
Century Cloths, 81.
36.incil Light Porcales, SIPS.
Silyer-gray prints, soc.
Black and White prints, SOC.
Scotch Ginghams lin boxes, 1926.
Scotch Ginchams lin boXes), S3.75.
scotch Glngllams lin boxes), $3.50.
Skirt Patterns.
Atwood Striped Skirts with borders.
81, $1.25, $3.50, $l75.
Atwood Plain and Striped Skirts,
with Bourette and Boucle borders.
So.
Atwood Plain and Striped Skirts
with Broche and l3ourette borders,
1925.
Atwood Plain Color Skits, En-
broidered borders, SO, $3.50.
All-wopl White Skirts Patterns.
Embroidered border, put up neatly
in Boxes, $2.25, $3.50, S2,75; 49,
There are rafting prices on
half a dozen or SO of the me-
dunn cost Dress Stuffs-by
the yard.
36-inch Suitings in Plaids and
Stripes at 129c. Made to sell at
95c.
36.inch Homespuns in Cheyron and
Diagonal weaves at 25c. Made to
sell at &c.
36-nch Broken Stripe Cheviot at
25c. Made to sell al 37Je.
42-nch Fancy Plaid Cheviot at 25c.
Made to sell at 374c.
36-inch All-wool Tricots in all tie
popular shades at SHE.
30-inch Mixed Cheviot, with Mohair
Stripe, at 374c. Made to sell at
Soc.
36.nch Plaids and Stripes in great
variety at 37ic. Stylish Atwood
goods and made TO sell at 50c.
Our enterprising Silk man
already has hundreds of styles
for Spring and Summer.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-17
ELKTOy.


Sper'nl Correspondence Of taaet,e and journal
i.LNroS, Mp. Dec. D.--'ihr new route Of
the Lancaster, oxford IL Southern rail
road, surveyed ON the west side of Little
Elk creek to Childs Station, on the liati-
more II Ohio railroad, has been found to
be one thousand feet shorter than by the
original survey to Singerly. As vet II has
not been decided which oil the two routes
will be chosen.
EX-stata's Attorney William s. Evans
was to-day appointed counsel to the county
commissioners.
General smith, United States engineer,
visited lelktun to-day, and i'll company
with Thomas i Cleavcr, Of the Delaware
and Chesapeake Canal Company, and
William H. Maekal of Elktui inspected
in tughoat the dredge work recently
completed in tile t,lk river bv the Norfolk
Dredging Company
Andrew NJ russell, an aged and highly
Monday morning. after Il lingering illness
in his 10Th year. Ills remains we're ill
TERED yesterday at Sharpis cemetery.
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ELKToN, Mn, Dee. l0.--'rhomas Strof-
ston, an aged and hrhly-respected farmer
residing At lmyview Il few wears ago and "A
noted fox hunter Of this county. died ves
terdav at tile home of his sister In Wil-
mingion. lie was IN his sOth wear. Ills
remains will be brought to Rayyicw Tor
interment.
A fire at lO. 30 this morning Near Childs'
station. On the Il. X q. Ruilrnni d.sirnycl
a log aud frame house of Daniel Harvey
Sr.. and lmrt of the furnitiiren If lieninmin
Biddle, colnrrd. Loss OH house. S5ln. III
sarcd III the Mutual Insurance Cotunanv
of Cecil county for SlOO Loss ON iiirni
ture, Slu0; uninsured. The fire broke am
in the second story of The house ana In
origin Is unknown.
Mr.. John Il. Lewis of philadelnliin an
empluye of the PENNSYLVANIA railrt,nd md
Miss Elizabeth 4. S,lnnn onlv iniIvhtnr m
David l.. sloan. Il weli.known rrsldrnt II
this place, we're married this evcninr nj
the home Of the brides parents. on stack
ton street The Rev. Charles Mn ~ IllLt,u
Methodist Episcopal Chureh nerfnr,ned
the ceremony IN thc nrcsencn ~ their
families. relatives and a. few friends The
couple will reside in PHILADELPHIA.
ELKToN, Mn, Dec. l5.-A Jury of in
quest over the body of Frank Alsxnnder
who was killed Monday evening. hv IN
engine of the congressional exnres4 II liz
r., W. Il Is. railroad. rendered 4 ver,lict
this morning that Alexander met his dnntb
through his own negligence In mn eiTnrt
to cross the track ahead of tho anprf,nchin,r
train, and recommended that the railroa9
company run their trains through Elktnn
at a lower rate of speed,
Henry Fisher. c6ioretl. CHARGED with m
assault upon Edward Clark Iis sten.
father. with intent 10 hill ,yns tri,.S T.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-17

DELAWARE Cry, Dec. l5.-The machine
for digging bitches on the ColburIl prop
crty, after many and futile attempts to
made il do successful work, has been put
IN such shape that it now answers the pur-
pose. BY means of a revolving head,
which can be shifted at will, the mud is
pumped through q long tube, and dis
charged on either side ut will. The motor
power is steam, and two men are required
q operate it when NJ work.
The Rev. Julius Dodd Of the New York
Conference. has been placed in charge of
the NJ. +: Church here as permanent sup
ply until the meeting of conference in
March.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-17

During the fiscal year 1890 there were
imported into the United States 6,100
gallons of castor oil valued at $2,910,
on which import duties amounting to
$500 We're paid If, as Secretary Eos
ter says, the duties ''are paid by the
foreigner as a tax for the privilege of
selling his goods here" ii Is manifest
that the foreign producers of this castor
oil not only made us present of their
product, but paid $3.50 in addition to
induce us to take il off their handsl
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-17
DELAWARE CRY.


VI ''IAtlVe HIlH JOufnhI
DELAWARE Cry, Dec. 10,-A large mum
Der 81 PEOPLE We're in attendance ut
!. Pennington on Tuesday lnsi.
Services We're held at the house. tlle
Rev. II, l.. llraddon, rector of Christ
Church, officiating. The intermcnt was 1T
y. Anus church yard, near Mddletown,
where the body was taken, accompanied
by large number OF relatives and friends.
Mrs, Pennington was born at Port Penn,
but removed 10 Delaware CITY many years
ago. She married Mr.. Jacob Pennington,
By whom she had two sons. one diving In
infancy; the other, Joseph Il. Pennington,
prominent and influential business man
in this town. Mrs. Pennington survived
her husband many years, and at the time
Of her death was in her 70 year.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-17

William Butler, formerly employed on
the construction train of the r., W. d. Is.
road, has been appointed foreman ON the
Claymont section. Mr.. Butler has been
recently married and become u resident Of
this place.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-17
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be 61tflacdte6. therefore
present choice is a great adj
vantage. 1t would demand
hours Of your time to look
through the assortment which
includes the palmer kinds with
smaller figures and some of the
Louis XIV patterns. There
are plain grounds with SHIN
mering, changeable, capricious
figures, there are plain figures
with variable grounds-but
description is folly. Shang-
hais, Soc. to SI.35; Surahs, 81
Mo SI.25; Pongees, ooc. to 81;
Japanese, 81 to $I.25.
Apropos of the Holidays.
If somewhere on your list is a
dear old lady whose tastes
touch a precious past it may
be that you would like to get
her a Dress Pattern of old
fashioned black All-silk Canton
Crepe. If 50, now's your
chance for 22 pieces lately
bought by us in the natural in
London and dyed to our order
in Lyons, 60 down from s. to
SI.35 a yard.
If a more modern sort may
suit your notion better the
chance of the day is in IS
pieces excellent Black Ben
galine that step down from Sc
to $50. And these two bar
gains are just because Christ
mas is coming,
A gap in the line of Mems
$500 and 5000 Suits.
Down go $500 and $1,000
Suits to fill it-llomespuns,
some blucgray, some gray
and brown, some'brown check.
$500 and S22.5o seems
very little for mems fine
Tibet Cape Ovcrcoats, lined
throughout with fine all-wool
Cashmere. 1t is; but the
Clothing store does business
that way. Note the Atwood
lfrieze listers at $1,000 and
$3.50; the Oxford Mixed
Fur Beaver listers at Sla.oo
and SI5.oo--or any Of the
grades up to $500. Or, at
the other end, Mems Atwood
Trousers at $3.50.
At $500 a fairly good Cape
Overcoat for the small boy.
That's the one for least to-
day. Shape and fit, as they
should bc-but that goes with
out saying, here. Other Cape
Overcoat prices, $3.50, $500,
5000 and up to $500, with
a grand stock to choose from.
Rceicrs, A to IS years, $500
to SI2.oo.
For the large boy GA to IS
years. good Overcoat for as
little as $500 good for
warmth and wear. From that
up to $4,000.
Storm Coats and listers for
big and little Boys-as well as
for Men.
Our Book Catalogue for the
Holidays and 1892 is out and
has been circulated freely. If
you have not received it send
a postal card request or ask
for 1t in person ia -s.., &.a.S
store.
1t seems past believing that
ten cents Saoed each aay fer
Tess than a gear latter you
have paid 81 for volume y
will buy Encyclopedia Britain
MICA, that grandest compilation
Of the worlds wisdom that has
ever been made. There are
twenty-five handsome volumes
SHxIoH inches square and
over inches thick on the
average. Printed on an ex-
cellent quality of paper with
wide margins, and tastefully
and substantially bound.
OF this precise edition of
Britannica 00c, fve thousand
sets were lately sold in two
months in New York and last
week in Boston one thousand
sets were subscribed for in
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-17
MTDDLE TOWN.
speclal correspondence lia1eite anal lour

| MIDDLETnWN Dec N rrinna which
is prevalent here, has added another To lie
already long list of patients. Among the
number are ID. II. Cochran r. ana IL
| Horace Vaughn.
Dr. ]. G. Mccoy has had 200 applications
extended nv owners If fashiopah HI, hro,l
sbaped track the ensuin,, season '''e
The managers of the new shirt foctor,,
enterprise are exnerieneing n great d;isi
Guilty in securing operators. Mr. Va,ghn
| the superintendent went ~ Townsa,,,i
| Yesterday in homes Of enoag;ng III
| reouisite number
James Janvier nf McDonougb d;od las,
| evening of nnenmnnin He ,yas 10 ,,aa,,
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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-17

The Newark Ledger thinks that viii.
mington ought to pay "for her owr
bridges" or words to that effect. Now
this is a contention that won't stand al
all; for the simple reason that Whining
ton pays the bulk Of the taxes of New
Castle county. Give Wilmington the
taxes that she pays into the county
treasury and she will undoubtedly build
her own bridges. But 1t is matter Of
interest to the Taxpayers of the whole
county, including Wilmington, whether
the county finances will justify the ex.
penditure of 100000 for new bridge
over the Brandywine at this time, and
If SO, where shall that bridge be located
TO serve the best interests of Wilmington
and the county. Surprising the first
question to be answered in the afflrma.
tive, we fail TO understand how the
rural members Of the Levy Court will
explain TO their constituents the sclee.
ton of Washington street as the site
10 put the bridge there, almost
within stones throw of the present
bridge, will necessitate the erection OF
another bridge farther up the creek in a
very few years and will bring no advan-
tage worth mentioning to the people OF
the rural hundreds. A bridge at Wash
ington street would no doubt be a great
convenience to pedestrians strolling
through the park; but simple foot
bridge, somewhat like the one at Angus
tine mills, would meet this public need.
70 the men who drive in and out of
Wilmington there would be no object
in crossing the Brandywine at Wash
ington street. Most of them would as
lief go by way Of Market street at once.
But bridge at Broome street would
open up TO public travel large area of
both city and country. Broome street
is the natural artery Of West
Wilmington. 1t would connect the
regions east of the Brandywine
directly with the turnpikes, and vice
versa; the Kennett, the Lancaster and
the Newport pixies, by one of the best
paved roads in this section, one that is
even now being macadamized through
a great part Of its length. 1t is built up
largely with fine residences to the very
verge of the Brandywine and is the
most convenient outlet for the travel to
and from the thousands of homes that
have already grown up between it and
Union street and beyond, including the
tiourishing suburbs of the Forty Acres,
Highlands, Kentmere, McDowelville,
Silverbrook and others. Ii you ask for
the picturesque, there is no comparison
between the Brandywine scenery at
Broome street and at Washington street.
A bridge at Washington street may be
convenience, but bridge at Broome
street, or at least in that immediate
neighborhood, will in the near future,
with the westward growth of Whining
ton, become public necessity, as much
so to the country MS to tho city.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-17


William j Gibbons has Ind i fair
trial before fair jury whe had no aim
Guilty in reaching a verdict of guilty.
The prisoner was well defended by his
counsel, Mr.. llillcs, Who did ali that 4
lawyer could have done for him and did
i to9 n m unexccptionable manner
that Won universal commentator. For
the state, A'tosneY-general 3iggs has
abundant reason e be satisfied with liz
management Of the case. Twelve intcl-
lisenl men, fairly chosen, after weighing
carefully and impariially the testimony
70 which they attentiyely listened
throughout, were so firmly satisfied of
Gibbons guilt TINT they came Is an
agreement without taking a bulIot, and
we are warranted in accepting their
verdict as Just one. In doing this wo
are also warranted in expressing e the
Messrs' du Point public acknowledgment,
that, in protecting their own interests,
they have rendered the whole cummu-
nifty all important service By bringing
this incendiary to justice,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-17

Our Book Catalogue for the
Holidays and 1892 is out and
has been circulated freely. If
you have not received it send
a postal card request or ask
for it in person i'A .'.~ &..aas
store.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-17

Cards, Booklets, Calendars
and all that bright procession
have spread out North and
South and West from the
Book store.
Cards, I to S cents.
Booklets, S to IS cents.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Southern live-stock journal., 1891-05-28

Only few more issues of the
JOURNAL will be devoted to publish
ing reports of Mississippi dairymen;
then we will solicit the reports of
dairymen from other States, taking
them in the order in which they ap-
pear upon our subscription books.
We are satisfied large number of
Mississippi dairymen have failed to
report. For this we are truly sor-
ry. The reports published have
been encouraging as we'll as interest
ing to brother dairymen and we
had hoped that the dairymer of the
State would view our efforts in this
matter with more favor and encour-
age the effort with their reports.
We trust the dairymen of other
States, when called upon, will reply
promptly and show to the world
what they are doing in this line.
Nothing but good can result from
these reports, no matter how small
your interest in this industry may be.
Southern live-stock journal., 1891-05-28
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in Fig. y are called wire worms be-
cause they are long, slender and
nearly round. The eggs from which
the wire worms hatch are laid in
early spring, but worms which
hatch from these do not become
beetles like those by which the eggs
were laid until nearly three years
afterward.
Prof. j. II. Comstock of Cornell
Southern live-stock journal., 1891-05-28

little less than an acre and a half in
these nuts, and harvested hundred
and ten bushels and left many for
the hogs to dig. They sell readily
in the home market at dollar a
bushel. He is one of the many
Monroe county farmers who has a
sub-treasury scheme of his own"
In the May crop report issued
by the Georgia Department of Agri-
culture, attention is called to the
fact that the castor bean, which
grows SO luxuriantly about the yards
and gardens of Georgia, is a deadly
poison to horses and cattle when
eaten in any quantity. The COM
missioner says few sound seed are
rather beneficial than otherwise, but
when the seed are undergoing de-
composition the poison is of such a
character as to produce death in a
short while. Several animals near
Atlanta died from eating seed from
stalks throwa out of a garden.
From the May crop report is
sued by the Department of Agricul-
ture of Georgia, we CLEAN the follow
ing crop items:
Considerably increased acreage
has been planted in corn, 1O5 per
cent.
The area in cotton is much de-
creased, being only 80 per cent.
The oat crop is only S5 per cent,
and only 81 per cent fall sowing.
Wheat falls down to 76 per cent,
but the condition is 1O2 per cent.
Only 35 per cent of the peach
crop is left. and as they continue to
fall, probably 25 per cent will be
nearer correct.
Cholera prevails in a mild form
throughout most of the State.
The stand of corn is reported as
poor, and the preparation of the
land very imperfect. The outlook
for this crop is not encouraging. The
average cash price for the State is
$1.OO; time, $1.19.
The stand of cotton is not at all
satisfactory; 40 per cent, and is IA
days late.
Southern live-stock journal., 1891-05-28
Wire Worms.
LocKHART, MISS, May Is.

LocKHART, MISS, May Is.
PROF. S. M. TRACY:
I send you by to-night's mail
small box containing few insects of
the worm species. They are some
thing similar to the pin or bud worm
80 destructive to young corn. This
insect does not inhabit damp or stiff
land-only loose sandy loan. 1t
feeds upon the roots of corn or cot
ton or peas. Nothing can grow.
The corn will come up but will soon
wilt and has the appearance that
mole has run under it. / never dis
covered this insect until last year,
when was damaged hundreds of
dollars by them. / had a plot of
corn of about eight acres that I had
highly fertilized and planted early;
the stand was destroyed and I plant
ed over the third time in corn, and
then in cotton, the season being SO
late, and the cotton was destroyed.
Late in June I planted in peas and
cultivated and had heavy growth
OF pea vines on the land, that let
remain. This spring planted
part of the same land in corn, got a
fine stand without any trouble from
this pest. The corn Is now fine and
bids fair to make a yield of rs to 80
bushels per acre. Just adjoining
this plot l have another piece Of
corn that was considerably damaged
last year by this pest, but not SO much
so as the first piece; on this they are
more destructive this season than
last. They don't care anything
about heavy applications of acid
phosphate-seem to thrive on it.
Can you tell me what the insect is?
There is one in the box that is larg-
er than the others and I don't know
that it is one of the same family.
but it is found in company with
them. Yours truly,
JOHN K. MosBY.
REPLY.-The insects which YOU
send are known as wire worms, and
are the larvae of the we'll known
click or swapping beetles. These
feed almost entirely upon corn, at
tacking at the roots generally very
near the surface. When corn is
not abundant, many other cultivat-
ed crops are attacked. Nor does it
confine itself to cultivated crops, but
also feeds upon the roots of many
wild plants and grasses. Sometimes
It's manner of work consists of eat
ing the roots of the plants attacked
or by destroying the stems just
above the roots, very similar to the
cut-Torms. But in general the
roots are the parts most attacked.
The worms Gone of which is shown