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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-22

Agent Stout of the S. Z. C. c., has Sc.
cured homes for Mary, aged II, and Reese,
aged s, children of Mrs. Hannah Evans,
who was frightfully burned to death at her
home on East Thirteenth street, and the
children have been taken to the Home for
Friendless Children. The oldest child will
be examined at the Delaware Hospital for
the Insane.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-22

Mrs. C. B. Rhoads and friend Of this
city, while driving in West Chester on
Tuesday week, had narrow escape from a
serious accident. One Of the wheels of the
carriage broke, soaring the horse and
throwing Mrs. Rhoads out of the wagon.
She held on to the horse and was dragged
a considerable distance through the streets
before rescued. Mrs, Rhoads' companion
escaped injury by leaping from the car
riage.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-22

Jefferson Butler of the Fame Hose fire
company was the winner of the clock
offered by Joseph Kern, the jeweler, for
the heaviest man in line during the parade.
Butler weighed 800 pounds. There was
considerable competition for the prize be-
tween the winner, John +. Dolan of the
Delaware and jefferson Chalfant of the
Moyamcnsing of Chester.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-22
THE co UNTr,s mo TAX.


The accounts made up by Clerk Of the
Peace W. P. Biggs, of licenses paid in
this county from April 1st to October
1st, detailed list Of which is given be.
low, will afford most interesting reading
to the general public. Mr.. Biggs stated
to a GAZETTE reporter on Thursday
morning in regard to this large total
that he had never seen anything to
euual it.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-22

Contractor John Mulvena began the
erection Thursday of 81 siS-roomed houses
for Booker e. Whitesell, at Thirteenth and
Dure streets. This is the largest single
been awarded in Wilmington for many
years.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-22

Donation day at the Homeopathic
Hospital will fall due on October 29th.
All persons desiring to send donations
are requested to send them to those in
charge of the hospital.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-22
Death After q Long Illness.

Mrs. Catharine L. NicShane, wife of P.
II. McShane, proprietor of McShane's
Hotel, Ridgely, Nd, died at her home on
Saturday, after long sickness, of con
sumption. She was Y years of age and
leaves her husband and four children
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-22
DELAwARE's BEAUTIFUL GIFT.

After assembling in front of its house,
preparatory to going to its place of for
nation for the parade, Della ware fire
company was presented by the Nov
amensing with beautiful gift, the State
colors. j. r. Bagshaw, president of the
Moyamensing, made the presentation
speech, and William b. Norton re-
sponded. The emblem is silk and 5xs4
feet.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-22

Mr.. Dolan presided. The pleasant af-
fair began at $50 o'clock and did not
conclude until near midnight. Most of
the members of the Moyamensing re-
turned to Chester during the evening.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-20

was therefore not subject to arrest. An
other grand Jury was summoned and bill
was presented against me alone and amend
ed by inserting specifications of overt acts.
General Lee was summoned as witness
before that grand jury, the object being to
prove by him that 1 was responsible for
certain things done by him during the war.
| was in Richmond, having been released
by virtue of the writ of hdbedS corpus.
General Lee met me very soon after having
given his testimony before the grand jury,
and told me that to the inquiry whether he
had not in the specified cases acted under
my orders he said that he had always con-
suited me when he had the opportunity,
both on the field and elsewhere; that after
discussion, if not before, we had always
agreed, and therefore he had done with my
consent and approval only what he might
have done If he had not consulted me, and
that he accepted the full responsibility for
his acts. He said he had endeavored to
present the matter as distinctly as be
could and looked up to see what effect he
was producing upon the grand jury. I'M
mediately before him sat q big black negro
whose head had fallen back on the rail of
the bench he sat on; his mouth was wide
open and he was fast asleep. General Lee
pleasantly added that if had had any vani-
ty as an orator it would have received O
rude check.
THE KNIGHTLY LEE.
The evident purpose was to offer to Lee
O chance to escape by transferring to me
the responsibility for overt acts. Not only
to repel the suggestion. but unequivocally
to avow his individual responsibility, with
all that, under existing circumstances.
was implied in this, was the highest reach
of moral courage and gentlemanly pride.
Those circumstances were exceptionally
perilous 20 him. He had been indicted
for treason the United States President
had vindictively threatened to make
treason odious; the dregs of society had
been thrown to the surfaces judicial seats
were held by political Adventures; the
United States judge of the Virginia district
had answered TO q committee of Congress
that he could pack jury so as to convict
Davis or Lee-and 1t was under such sur
roundings that he met the grand jury and
testified as stated above. Arbitrary power
might pervert justice and trample on right.
but could not turn the knightly Lee from
the path of honor and truth.
Descended from long line of illustrious
warriors aud statesmen, Robert Edward
Lee added new glory to the name be bore,
and, whether measured by q martial or an
intellectual standard, will compare favora-
bly with those whose reputation it de-
yoived upon him to sustain and emulate.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-20
lFor tho Dispstch.l
The Nineteenth of January--Tho Anniver-
sary Of the Birth of Robert Edward Lee.
BY MRS. J. WILLIAM JONES.

Once more this bonored day rolls round,
And loyal all are we,
For out of the past steals martial sound.
And our hearts beat quick, while our
pulses bound
To the memory dear of those days re-
nowned,
When we followed the banner of Lee.
We honor ourselves when we honor this
day.
To tell our to children while we may
OF the knightliest knight who "wore the
gray"
Come orator, statesman, and veteran, pay
Your tribute to Robert Lee. a
Oh, tell us the thrilling story again,
Familiar TO you ahd to Ine,
,Iis q glorious song, with q sad refrain,
But a history grand which will yet at
tain
A stainless right to live and reign,
In hearts which are loyal TO Lee.
You can tell to our youth Of warrior
brave
OF his wonderful life which he willingly
gave
To the people he loved and struggled to
save
Historian can write, and poet can rave
O'er the glorious career Of Lee.
To the closing days OF his life we viii turn,
And then we Will silent be.
He gave us o lesson of patience to learn,
Oaefaithfully practiced mid duties stern,
Oh comrade and soldier. our hearts doth
burn
When we speak Of our matehless Lee.
ATLANTA. Ga, January 10, 1891.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-20
SOLDIERS AND VETERANS MARCH.
Parade of the Military, Ex-confederatss,
and Their Sons

How crowd does like 20 follow the
soldiers, Men, women. and children
white aud black alike--always find in the
military some new and never-failing attrac-
tion.
Yesterday was no exception TO the rule,
and an hour or so after noon the gathering
people in tho streets told that nothing
short of military parade was on the tapis.
A little later and the waving of hags, tap
Of drum, and blast OF bugle gave notice
that the soldiers-artillerY, cavalry, and
infantry-were preparing 10 move.
The First regiment of Virginia volun-
teers formed in line at their Armory and
the Howitzers at theirs. Lee Camp and
the Sons of Veterans met at Veteran Hall
and Pickett Camp formed line on the west
side of Sixth street north of Broad. 1he
Chesterfield and Hanover Troops came to
town during the morning and showed-up
splendidly IN the parade.
FORMATION OF LINE.
Promptly at 2;S0 p. NJ. the line moved of
in the following order:
Detachment of mounted police-Captain
E. p. Hulce.
Dismounted police-Captain James B.
Angle.
Chief-Marshal Brigadier-G General Charles
j. Anderson and staff.
First Regimental Band.
Regimental Drum-Corps.
Colonel Henry @. Jones and staff.
First Regiment Virginia volunteers Gn-
fantry).
Blues Band.
Richmond Light Infantry Blues, Cap
tain Sol. Cutchins.
Colonel j. V. Bidgood. of the First regi-
ment Virginia cavalry, and staff.
Chesterfield Troop, Captain David Moore.
Hanover Troop. Captain 7. II. Hall.
Stuart Horse Guards, Captain Charles
Euker.
There was some delay in the movement
of the Howitzers, who were ten or
fifteen minutes behind the balance of the
column as it passed down Broad street to
Nineteenth, to Main. to Fifth TO Franklin.
THE VETERANS FALL IN.
Here the Veteran corps, under command
of Major Thomas A. Brander. fell in ahead
of the cavalry. This division consisted of
Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans,
Commander A. W. Archer; Pickett Camp,
Confederate Veterans, Commander Jen-
nings, and Sons of Confederate Veterans,
Captain w. Deane Courtney.
The march was then resumed up Frank
lin street to the Lee monument, where the
line arrived little before 4 o'clock.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-20
OUT AT GENERAL LEES MONUMENT.
Scenes of the dwelling Day Repeated on
a Small Scale.

Scenes of the Unveiling-Day Repeated on
Small Scale.
The ceremonies at the monument
grounds were very brief but interesting,
and in their picturesqueness tended to re-
mind those there assembled of the unveil-
ing Of the statue last May.
Just as the line passed ont Of Franklin
street it was reviewed by Governor Nc
Kinney and Mayor Ellyson from the porch
of Mr.. X. w. Powers's elegant residence,
the last on the street, while youth in the
yard below held aloft beautiful silk State
flag.
The column then marched around the
monument, the infantry passing onward
taking position in the open field several
hundred yards TO the north. The cavalry
followed in the same direction, while the
artillery wheeled into position consider
ably to the left. The veterans were drawn
up around the monument.
SALUTE AND MUSIC.
The regiment then fred q salute, firing
at will. Tie bands PLAYED Dixie" Garry
Me Back to Old Virginia, Bonnie Blue
Flag" and MY Maryland" The artillery
then fred q salute.
There were some manmuyres of the cav
airy; the infantry was marched back to
the west side of the monument. formed
into q dress-parade line, and photo
graphed, this last necessitating the
showing of number of women and chill
dren INTO the mud by soldiers with mus
kets in hand.
The line was then marched back to the
city.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-20
CENTS PER CoPY.

.n,vo,v that wont no to Heaven from the
sss,.siv.tried and sofeIy-stricksn South
sorra = responsive echo IN eyery Land
whore men honor the brave and love me
good.
y Mourn for ne man Of smplsss induo1ca
Yet cleavess q emotuoev enms.
Our erestess. yss with Isaes pfessnce
(,reet 10 counctI snd great u war;
Rich In saving common sense;
And, a. the greatest only aros
In his simpiicty subumo
The cause we celebrate tonight Not the
cause of sedition or treason, NOT tnat oL
disunion. but the cause Of the statehood Of
the States, of the Corsltitution ana union
Of the fathers; the cause that Lee bsetied
for with giants might; the cause 70,
which sydney Johnston and 6tonewau
Jackson gave their glorious lives, and TOR
which their hero soldiers were contont 70
bleed and die and sleepin unmarked graves
on an hundred fields; the cause OF corets;
tutional limitations and constitutiona
law. Thai is the cause we commemcrase
tonight
THE CAUSE WILL LIVE.
Il did not perish utterly at Appomattox.
Il did not die with Lee. II will survive
the passions of the hour and live when
sneering hypocrites and brazen dema-
eoeues with their force bills and their un-
koIy schemes of public plunder and private
gain shall only be remembered to arouse
the scorr and execration Of all patriotic
men. 1t cannot die, for IL Is the cause OF
liberty itself, and a
freedoms battle once begun,
Bequeathed from bleeding sire 70 son.
Though bafied Oft IL ever wou."
The land we celebrate tonight. the land
of brave and honest men. Of maids and
mothers yirtuous and true, OF statesmen,
sages. and heroes, the land whose whole
history is marked by great deeds and redo
lent Of glorious memories, the land OK
Washington and his great compatriots, the
land IN whose battle-scarred bosom Meep
Lee and his great Leutenants Stuart. Hill.
and Jackson, with tho unnumbered thou
sands Of those gallant men who followed
them with hearts as brave, that Is the land
we celebrate tonight.
The day, the man, the cause, the land We
meet to honor are all forever linked with
the history, the wonderful rise and the un-
timely fall of that Confederacy OF States
which in four short years-for years are
az nothing in the lifetime Of nations
earned for itself an immortality Of glory,
and then gave place IT, Union which FROM
our hearts we pray may endure forever
an indestructible Union of inde-
structible States" founded on mutual con.
fdence, mutual respect, and the eternal
principles of truth, justice, and right.
"Ah realm OF tom mbs--but let her bear
This blazon ~ the last OF tine;
No nation rose % white and fair
Or fell so FREQ Of crime.
"An ANGELS tongue, an angels mouth.
Not Homer's, could sicns for mo
Hymn we'll tho great Confederate South-s
Virgfnfa nrst and Lee"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-20
RICHMOND va TUESDAY JANUARY 20

as their introduction would necessarily
have made the rest of the design too di-
minutive.
In about the hcraldic phraseology they
are single crescent sable (black) on field
of azure, divided from three crescents be-
meath sable by chevron gules or red. The
cartouch is circled by close wreath Of
olive bound by scarf. on opposite folds of
which are Mexico-Appomattox." the be-
ginning and the ond of General Lees mill
tary career. On other folds are the dates
of his birth and death.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-20

NJ health and strength renewed and of ease
and comfort follows the use Of Syrupof
Fiex. as il acts in harmony with nature to
caectuslly cleanse the system when cos
five az bilious. For sale in SOC. a1d 81
bott,es by al leading druggists.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-20

After the close of the war, while l was IN
prison and Lee was on parole, we were both
indicted ON s charge of treason; but, in
hot haste 10 get Ia their work, the indicf-
Inept was drawn With the fatal omission OF
an overt act. densral Grant interposed
In the ease OF General Lee on the ground
that h6 had taken his parole snd That ~
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-20


railing in impotept rage at the reverses Of
his fortune, we can but wish sometimes
that he had put himself at the head Of the
Old Guard whom Cambronne led TO un-
diving fame at Waterloo, and perished on
that fateful field, but where lives the man
who does not feel that the world would
have sustained an irreparsble loss had
Robert T.. Lee hidden along his lines AZ
Appomattox and put an end to his grand
ment of pardonabie weakness be sug-
gested he could dol
When Gordon sent his word that his old
corps had by mere attrition been reduced to
a FRAGILE he knew that the end he bad
long foreseen had come. and calling his
staff officers around him prepared them
for the last sad act in the saddest drama ia
modern times WHAT said one Of them,
what will history say of our surrender Z /"
That is not the question:" Lee replied.
" The question Ia whether 10 u right, and II
There spoke tho Christian herol self
poised and self-sustained. As prosperity
lad never obscured neither could adversely
dim his clear perceptions Of right nor
cause him for one moment 20 falter in the
line of duty. You all remember that when
the tidings of the French Emperor's sur
render reached Paris Magenta and Solfe-
rino were forgotten. and his lovely wife
compelled in the darkness Of midnight 10
abandon her home and hy for her h{e nm
der the escort Of foreign prince; bat
when the people heard that Lee had laid
down his sword in tho midst Of It's own
overwhelming grief the great heart Of the
South beat with tenfold sympathy and
love for its fallen chief.
Sedan was the grave Of the Third Napo.
leon, Appomattox was for the paroled
prisoner Lee the beginning Of new life,
Illustrated by victory Ia peace moro glo'
rious than any that had crowned his aflnl
in war, tor be lived 10 conquer The px>ju.
dice and hate Of eli honorable koSe end
compel the homage of MANKIND it11H b
the exhibition Of such morok grandeur,
such unsurpassed patienoe n suf!es1ng,
such tcytitude IN iniatorcune. gnoh IN
e9ualled self-command. and poch Qhxiet
like self-sbnegntien. thn& Vkon q loet ~
sIss Sss 1Sirs S;s Z E ~ 81 ssss s -, s
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-01-15

Syrup"

Here is something from Mr.. Frank
A. Hale, proprietor of the De Witt
House, Lewiston, and the Tontine
Hotel, Brunswick, Ne. Hotel men
meet the world as it comes and goes,
and are not slow in sizing people
and things up for what they are
worth. He says that he has lost a
father and several brothers and SIS
tiers from Pulmonary Consumption,
and is himself frequently troubled
with colds, and he
Hereditary often coughs enough
to make him sick at
Consumptionhis stomach. When
ever he has taken O
cold of this kind he uses Boschee's
German Syrup, and it cures him
every time. Here is a man who
knows the full danger of lung trou-
bles, and would therefore be most
particular as to the medicine he used.
What is his opinion? Listen II
use nothing but Boschee's German
Syrup, and have advised, I presume,
more than hundred different per-
sons to take it. They agree with
me that it is the best cough syrup
in the market" d
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-01-15

Col. D. T. Casper Of the signal
service thinks that there may be
something in the idea that rain can
be produced by means of dynamite
explosions, and speaks favorably of
the proposed experiments in that
line to be made by the Government.
Many people will, as a matter OF
course, pronounce the scheme pre-
posterous, but, after all, it may
prove rs practical as was Franklin's
suggestion that lightning might be
brought under human control. Pos
sibly, few years hence, a rain-mak-
ing bureau will be attached to the
signal service, and expert cloud
creators will be in demand by the
Government. When Colorado, Ari-
IONA, and other western States, which
are now as barren of vegetation as
the great Sahara desert, will bloom
like a vast garden, then there will be
no droughts, and no failure of crops
through lack of moisture. and then
forests and prairie fires will be speed
lily extinguished.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-01-15
Dangerous Ground.

"San Salvador is all on g. volca-
no." said Senior Jose Fulano, ofPas-
olibre, to a Chicago Tribune man
at the Grand Pacific the other day.
1T has been three times destroyed
by earthquakes, but the people get
used to it and do not seem to mind
it. 1t comes at intervals, and, real
ly, while it makes one excessively
nervous, there is little danger to life.
l have known the shocks to come as
frequently as eighty times in an
hour. The effects are quite peculiar.
In the city Of Salvador is a brick
column nine feet high and three feet
square. That was showed some one
hundred feet without losing it's per-
pendicularity or cracking the mortar.
''The ground under the city of Sal
vador is full OF caverns of unknown
depth. A man was digging we'll
there. The last stroke he gave with
his pick the bottom fell out, and he
and his pick and all fell through no.
body knows where; to China proba-
bly,. There is a volcano not far from
Salvador that some years ago dis
charged lava over a forest. The
wood all burned, of course, but the
lava being light and easily cooled
hardened into long arcades through
which one may walk, and as you go
you can see the imprint of the trunks
and branches of the trees in the now
cooled lava"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-01-15

How Narrowly a Naval OFFICER Es.

How Narrowly a Naval Officer Es-
capped Furnishing a New Years
Dinner.
The approach of the LIST of Janu-
airy always reminds me how near l
once thought came to furnishing a
New Years dinner for cannibals,"
said a naval officer to a writer for
The Star.
"My ship stood for supplies at one
of the FIJI Islands, and, it being Sun
day, a brother officer and myself
started for a long walk inland.
About noontime we found ourselves
on the banks ofa stream, which
looked delightfully."- inviting to us,
tired and heated as we were. Said
/:
"What do you say to a bath?'
"'My companion assented, an d
within five minutes we had left our
clothing on the high bank and were
disporting ourselves in the water, |
dare say that we had been swimming
about for as much as ten minutes
when / CHANGED to look up and saw
the bank above actually fringed with
cannibals. Now, to properly con-
ceive the unpleasantness of this you
must remember that in those days,
twenty years ago, the Fiji group had
not been as yet redeemed from an
thropophagy. In fact several cases
ofman eating had excited attention
within a short time, and we fully
realized the imprudence of which we
had been guilty when our eyes light
ed upon the savages. But we per-
ceived at once that we were in for it
and SO made up our minds prompt
ly to put the best face possible upon
the situation. Perhaps what struck
us as most ominous was the abso-
lutte quiet with which the cannibals
had approached so that we had
heard not so much as a football.
However, we waded out of the
stream and, clambering up the bank,
smiled as if we had never been so
glad of an unexpected meeting in
our lives, and offered our hands in a
friendly way to him who appeared
go be the cannibal chief To our
treat relief, he exhibited signs OF re-
sponsive amity, said what were
doubtless many compli mentary
things, though our ignorance of
Fijian prevented us from under
standing his remark, and finally
sent a small boy to climb up CO.
coanut tree and fetch down a cocoa
nut, which he formally presented to
US. This we knew was a friendly in
dication, and we had something of a
pow-pow with his distinguished nibs
after we had got dressed once more.
A man, though he be a hero, never
feels very brave without his boots
on, and we felt more comfortable
upon finding ourselves attired. After
a while, when we signifed wish to
depart, a guide was provided for US,
lest we lose our way, and when we
started back for the village at the
harbor where the ship lay.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-01-15

the distance, when O solitary canni.
bal suddenly popped out of the for
est and joined us. We were a little
surprised, but thought nothing of it.
Presently, however, out popped an
other ind another cannibal, and
then at short intervals another and
another, until there must have been
a score of them forming one body
guard. Next they came by tours and
SKIES, until this party had augment
ed ton early 100. By this time our
original alarm had come back to
considerable extent. l said to our
guide:
"'We don't care how many OF
these gentlemen join US, but we mnst
insist that they all keep ahead, while
we bring up the rear
This we did, holding our drawn
revolvers in our hands ready for use.
But the cannibals went on ahead OF
us most amiably, aud when we got
within sight OF the village we said
goodbye very pleasantly to small
army of not less than 800 of them
l am very sure now that they meant
it all most kindly, and that they
merely desired to exhibit a polite in
terest in our welfare: But | should
not like again, even in imagination,
to come so near furnishing the piece
de resistance for a New Years din
ner as feared / did on that occa-
sion.