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The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1891-05-02
Fourth Of July Excursion 10 Gettysburg
Via Pennsylvania Railroad.

The widespread interest which cen
Tres in the battlefield Of Gettysburg
has induced the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company to arrange a general
excursion to that joint from all prin-
cipal stations on its SYSTEM on July
Bird and 4th next. Not only the fact
that this day is national holiday
renders the date appropriate, but it is
at the same time the twenty-oighth an
niversary Of the great battle. indie
pendence Day is also a fayorite date
for the visit Of veterans to the field,
and there are always ceremonies Of
interest to civilians as we'll as soldiers
On tbs occasion excursion tickets
will be sold from all principal stations
on the Pennsylvania System ON July
Bird and 4th, valid for return until
July 9th. The rates which will pre-.
vail are exceedingly low, Round
trip tickets will be sold from New
York at SIS, Philadelphia at SO
Washington at SO, Canandaigua $50
Pittsburg $3.50, and at proportiately
low figures from other stations.
The regular train service will b.
available in most cases, but specia
service may also be provided, due no
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1891-05-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
TFrom Our Regular CORRESPONDENCE
Washington. April %, 1891

Washington, April 70, 1871.
One by one of the reciprocity con,
ventions that were arranged for in the
Mckinley tariff act, and which it has
been the care of the administration to
conclude so far us this republic could
conclude them, are maturing as fast as
time and circumstances permit. The
Spanish convention touching Cuban
and American products after consid-
cradle discussion of details, is an.
nounced. Not to recite here the par.
ticulars Of the agreement it sufIices to
say that Spain yields to us, so far as
theSpanish West Indies are concerned,
her trade in -four, beans, olives-prac-
tically monopoly in these articles
in exchange for the privilege of free
market here for the Antilles sugar mo-
lasses, coffee, hides and reduction of
the tea duty. 1t may be that the
Spanish manufacturers Of -four, pro-
ducers of the other articles effected,
and exporters of all these products
from the mother country will object
with exceeding yigor; indeed, they
murmured at the first hint of the pro-
posed agreement. And as to the Span
ish government it was choice be-
tween alternating the Spanish West In
dies or offending interested but not
dominant classes of idividuals at home.
Who will say that Premier Canovas
del Castillo did not make valuable,
nay necessary, concessions to the unity
and welfare of the Spanish monarchy
On the American side Secretary
Blaine and Special Commissioner Eos,
ter of the State Department deserve
commentator in including the affair
on basis satisfactory to the American
interests.
"There is absolutely nothing new ii
the political field" said Senator VIM
+. Chandler to your correspondent
recently. "No, there isn't even an,
gossip as to presidential possibilities o
impossibilities. Personally I am al
I administration man and expect to Civ
/ President Harrison my hearty support
E There is Il strong sentiment in the cas-
I and. al over the country favorable t
Blaine. This sentiment is growing
= but, as l understand the situation, MI
e Blaine will not allow his name to b
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1891-05-02
Every Evening.

Every Evening,
For the position of receiver of taxes
and county treasurer, it would be both
graceful and proper on the part of the
governor to appoint the outgoing
county treasurer, provided he be quail
flied and worthy. The bill aims to
take the Office out of politics and to
make its incumbent a purely fiscal
agent and in doing this it necessarily
legislates the present county treasurer
out of office. 1t does this not to
change the man but to change the
system. Such being the case, if the
man is of the right size to fit the new
place he has strong claim upon it; a
claim which very many good Demo.
Gratis in New castle county recognize
the rightfulness of. One month age
there would have been a great cutlery
| il the Five Commissioners bill had
been so amended as not to go into eff
feet until after the next general cleo
ton. Yet within one week this very
thing has been done and that, too, witt
the endorsement Of the Democrat,
masses, And, if tie governor find
the outgoing cnunty treasurer viii
measure up to the standard Of re
ceiver Of taxes and county treasurer
he can put him there in the confden
assurance that the same real Democ
racy which insisted upon justice helm
done toward the Republican commits
sionors will back him up in doin.
equal justice by the Republican treas
lurer
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1891-05-02


irst day Of June, 1891, the rate per
,entum necessary for the maintenance
If the roads in their respective huns
lreds, and issue their warrants to the
said receiver Of taxes for collection.
Section IA provides for the transfer
Of all moneys and books to the county
treasurer to be appointed.
Section Is requires all moneys to
be deposited in the Farmers Bank.
Section 16 creates the Office Of
County Comptroller, to be appointed
by the Governor and to hold Office.
until the first Tuesday in January,
1893, and 20 be succeeded by a Comp
troller elected by the people at the
general election in November, 1892,
to serve for four years. He is to give
bond of $4,000.
Section II makes it the duty of the
County Comptroller to audit all the
accounts of the Levy Court, counter
sign all warrants drawn by said court
after he has ascertained them to be
correct. Every month he is to inspect
and audit the books and accounts Of
the County Treasurer and receive the
taxes inspect and audit the books Of
the delinquent tax collectors each
month, aud he is to have a general
oversight Of the receipts and dis
bursements Of the moneys Of th'
county.
| Section Is compels the Levy Cour
to advertise for proposals for all con
tracts exceeding $500, and the loves
responsible bidder is to be awarded
the contract.
Section 10 provides that the Count
Treasurer and Comptroller shall OF
cupy the room in the Court Hous
now occupied by the present Count
: Treasurer. The Levy Court is to pre-
; vide everything needed for the ofic
) and new seals are to be delivered t
" the receiver of taxes on or before til
25th day of June, 1891.
Section 20 provides that any count
! comptroller, after conviction of will
full neglect or malfeasance in offic'
. may be removed by the Superio
Court. The salary of the Count
Treasurer is to be $4,000 and Ii
: Comptroller, $4,000.
Section 81 gives the Levy Coui
authority to employ legal counsel an
: clerical assistance to the Comptrolle
when they deem it necessary.
Section % provides that the Asst
7 ciate Justice of New Castle county, i
: December of each year, shall appoir
three freeholders to inspect the book
of the comptroller, treasurer and II
!, ceiver of taxes, and publish the resul
: of their inspection for thre
weeks in two of the dali
: newspapers Of Wilmington, at the ez
pense of the county. The eommitte
of freeholders are to receive So eacl
4er day, for tfalaa ey are employ
. ed. The Copaty COMPTROLLER, 1reaI
J urer, and Receiver Of Taxes, are I
= make an annual statement of thei
accounts in December in two dali
: newspapers of Wilmington.
: Section 90 provides that the severi
= Constables of the county shall perforl
. the duties of Collectors in relation
. licenses.
: Section "a provides that no officii
= , bond heretofore given shall be vacate
until all obligations are fully satisfie'
Section 25 reads thus: THAT a
= laws or parts of laws inconsistent wit
. the provisions of this act are heret
y repealed
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1891-05-02
Phila., Wilmington & Baltimore R. R
DELAWARE DIVISION.

on and after Feb. 2ud 1891, trains will
leave as follows;
SOUTHWARK. NORTHwARD.
PASS PASS EXP pass pAss rXp rAss nA g
The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1891-05-02
BRANCH RoApS.

Delaware, Maryland & Virginia r.. R.-Leave
Harrington for Franklin and way stations 10. 10 a.
m. weekdays. Returning, train leaves Franklin
200 n. M. weekdays,
For Berlin, leave Harrington lO.4O a. IN. week
days. Returning, leave Berlin 7.5s a. m. week
days
Queen Anne 4 Kent r. R.-LeAve Townsend for
CentrCyillc and way stations D. % H. IN. and AS p.
nj weeRdnys.
Delaware & Chesapeake II. R-IeavS CLAYTON
for ford and way stations 9.i2 a. IN. and 5lO p.
m. weekdays. =
Cambrkige K seaford r. R,-Leave seaford fol
Cambridge and intermediate stations ll.2U a m
weekdays, and Tuesdays, Thursdays and sltur.
days 62l p. IN.
CoNSEcTIoN.-At Porter, with Newark & Della
ware City Railroad, At Townsend, with QleeI
Anne's Kent Railroad. AT Clayton, with bella
ware " Chesapeake Railroad and BaltiInoe &
Delaware Bay Railroad. Al Harrington, with Del
aware, Maryland and Virginia Railroad, Al Sea
| ford, with Cambridge and Seaforl Railroad. A
Delniar, with New York, PHILADELPHIA and Nor
i9lk, WtcomirqSAnd Poconoke, and Peninsula
| Railroads
| Daily except sunday.
ChAS. L, PUGH, Gepcral Manager.
| J. =, WOou. iencnl passenger Agent.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-30

ON, "by numbers or by square miles, or
by counted millions of wealth.
Boston will not say nay to these
things, for Boston's pride is notorious.
But it is pride honorable to the city, a
pride having a marvellous stiInulative
power. The impelling optimism of EN-
erson, an optimism that has superbly
leavened cur national impulses, is ad-
mirably illustrated in this passage:
SIN an age of trade and material pros
perity, we have stood a little stupifed
by the elevation of our ancestors. We
praised the Puritains because we did not
find in ourselves the spirit to do the like.
We praised with certain adulation the
invariable valor of the old war-gods and
war-councilors of the Revolution.
Washington has seemed an exceptional
virtue, This praise was concession of
unworthiness in those who had SO much
to say of it. The heroes only shared this
power of sentiment which, if it now
breathes into us, will make it easy for
us to understand them, and we shall not
longer fatter them. Let us shame the
fathers by superior virtue in the sons"
A breath of this wholesome philoso-
ply is refreshing as the door opens to
admit the new year.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-30

The British Medical journal is GER
tainly high authority but it tells some
awful tarratiddles in its article upon
coffee quoted recently in the News, when
it says in explanation of the diminuition
of the use of coffee i'm Great Britain:
There are many theories put forward TO
explain this One is that coffee is more
adulterated here than on the Continent.
That is certainly not the case. IL is easier
TO get pure coffee here than in France,
Austria, Italy or Germany. The next and
most common explanation Is that we
don't know how TO make good coffee here.
But that again is "a fallacy and its terms
n misstatement. We all know how Co
make good coffee, and there is no one who
cannot make IT,
In this little paragraph are several
distinct lies. English coffee, owing 60
the duty. is so universally adulterated
that the government has cannily put q
duty on chiccory, too, without stopping
its use, however. Again, Britons don't
"all know how 10 make good coffee.
Not one i'm a thousand does know how.
or apparently ever will. though France
is only few miles away. British insu-
lar prejudice is too strong to admit Of
Britons learning anything, especially
from France. 1t is the universal obser-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-30
THE PULSE OF THE PRESS.

There is one thing Dark Lantern Dave
cannot dominate-time. His time of
usurpation will be over on Jan. l. 1892.
New York Press.
The British schooner Grover Cleveland
was i'm Boston harbor last week. British
shipbuilders know who their friends are. -
Boston Journal.
Russell Sages time is worth $l5 min
ute, which partly explains why he was in
such hurry to get rid OF the bomb
thrower.-Boston News.
IL the Boston tax collectors would arm
themselves with suspicious-lookingb black
bags the city's revenue might be greatly
benefited. boston Advertiser.
If every newspaper were to suddenly
and simultaneously suspend publication,
even il 10 were for one day only, this life
would seem drear aud blank indeed We
would be i'm worse predicament than the
man without "a country. May the spirit
of Ben Franklin forefend such calamity
Springfield Union.
The Secretary of State i'm Michigan, who
is reported To be short in his accounts,
draws the magnificent salary of $500 a
year and is expected to devote all his ener-
gies to his Office. Perhaps some people
will be able To trace the connection be-
tween this officials shortage and his
salary. boston Herald.
Gov. Hill shows his sympathy with the
ballot thieves in New York by pardoning
Thomas Welch, who was Judged guilty of
contempt Of court by Judge Kennedy and
sent TO the penitentiary. IL is now APP
parent why Gov Hill hangs on to the
Governorship. lie could trust no success
sor to pardon the men who did the dirty
work of stealing the Legislature. e.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-30

vation of American tourists that il is as
difficult to get good cup of coffee in
England AS bad in France. On the
transatlantic steamers the food may be
good, indifferent or bad. The coffee has
never redeeming trait. Surely 1t is
not such
Coffee, which makes the politician wise,
To see through all things with his half-shut
The real reasons why coffee is not
much used in England are, first, its un-
deniable badness, and second, the la
mentable vice of tea-toping. The
amount of tea consumed in Great Brit
ain is appalling. Its use as substitute
for meat by the poorly-paid laboring
masses must be responsible for the
physical degeneracy so noticeable in all
manufacturing districts.
While upon this subject the NEWS
will add two rules for making coffee
which may interest Providence house
wives:
CAFE AU LAIT, or ordinary breakfast
coffee-Make by any approved method
and of any good brand of freshly ground
berry, a small quantity of very strong
coffee. Heat to the boiling point lar
ger quantity of milk. In pouring use
one-third of a cupful only of coffee, fill
ing up the cup with milk. BY this
means the drinker gets the aroma and
mild stimulus of the coffee and the food
properties of the milk. OF course coffee
should not be boiled till it is bitter, nor
should old grounds be permitted to re-
main in the pot.
CAFE NoIR, or black after dinner coffee
Don't make it at all; it at place
where it is served, don't drink it. 1t is
poisonous drug at best, and keeps folks
awake o nights.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-30
AS L WAS SAYING.

There is no reason to disparge the efforts
of the members of temperance societies,
but what they can do, by way of influence,
sinks into oblivion when compared to the
object studies one sometimes sees in
travelling about: here is one. The other
day, there stood up to the cashiers win
dow, at one of the national banks, hand
somely dressed man, robust and of most
fiorid countenance, on his nose rested an
expensive pair of lorgnettes, and heavy
gold chain strayed across his aldermanic
front. On the counter, covering its space
for wide distance, was mass OF money,
all specie: five, ten, twenty-five cent pieces
were besides. The clerk counted them in
dustriously, while second official deftly
rolled them into packages At last the
sum was counted "Eighty-nine fifty,
Mr.. Blank" said the official.
About this time shabby, thinly clad
little boy of about seven years came in,
and walking towards the counter, looked
up wistful, pale, and anxious, NEWS,
fellow" said the bank man. The boy
went out. Then the fiorid, handsomely
dressed man left.
The bank clerk said, "That sight made
me mournful; l knew lots of those five
and ten cent pieces Blanck left here, had
been paid in over his bar for liquor by
that little news boys drunken, brutal
father; knew that little fellow was cold
and hungry, and so were his brothers and
sisters, and that his mother sat up many
night, in n cold room waiting for her
drunken husband to come home from
Blanks place. / know all that, but what
/ don't know is, what place in the Divine
plan can drunkards children fill Z" All
was silence. For no one knew.
One might as well be out of the world
as in it If he is not progressive, yet there
is limit to all things In reading the
various newspaper comments on the trial
trip of our new electric cars / was sur
prised to find in one bearing the ancient
Greek headline " Eureka" the following
statement The seating capacity is
nineteen on each side, making n total of
thirty-eight passengers, and when crowd
ed 1856" IL this is not progression will
some kind person please let the world
know what it is
1--WE have several men out with the
grip" said clerk in a big store, but the
proprietor decided he couldn't let any
more go, so the rest of US are deprived of
having the disease and we don't seem to
like it very much"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-30
NO TIME TO SWAP HORSES.

NJ ItmE IO S"AG hohsEs.
There was never perhaps a more criti-
cal period in the history of Republican
municipal principles than the year about
to open. 1t is true we have City Coun-
Gil which is Republican in both branches,
but we have also Democratic mayor
elected by methods that can but expose
him to suspicion. We must be prepared
to see the onslaught of the Democrats,
hungry for spoils, prove too much for
the courage of any MAN.; we must be
prepared, also to see the heads of the
various executive departments selected
on the principle of their inexperience in
city work, and of their experience in
ward politics Already the successors of
some of the most efficient of the present
incumbents are said to have been slated,
and the names mentioned are anything
but creditable to their party.
1t is to be hoped of course that Mayor
Potter will be able TO Withstand this
pressure, but the Republican council can
not afford to take any such utopian
view of the matter Every member of
the incoming council must bear in mind
that the city appropriations are to be
made by them and that only through
their united efforts can the most extrav-
agant steals for which Democracy is
noted be hindered. Republicans can
not afford to waver in their allegiance to
some definite line of action. Those
gentlemen who have proven themselves
efficient in committees and in other Off
cial duties should be retained. This
is no time to swap horses" The
stream of opposition swells too high and
only tried leaders can direct the forces
of the Republicans to success. We have
no time to discuss entanglements or
questions of petty expediency which ex-
ist in the minds of only disgruntled
few. These gentlemen must remember
that every measure which the Republi-
cans advocated was approved by the
people. The old council was almost
unanimously reelected. The defeat of
Mayor Smith was in no sense party de-
feat. 1t was the result of revenge which
some men, whose party fealty does not
extend beyond their own personal desires,
took the opportunity of wreaking upon
a man whose Official integrity is above
reproach.
We are therefore to remember that
Republican principles and measures
which have been advocated in the past
are to continue to be party measures in
the future. There must not be the
slightest thought of retreat from any
measures now pending. They must be
pushed through TO the mayors desk.
After that Republicans have no more to
do with them. IL this is to be done
what better can the council do than to
make up its committees and select its
officers, as nearly as possible, out of the
same material as last year. These men
have had experience, and just now we
need experience and the best of expe-
rience at that
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-30
THE CHILEAN SITUATION.

A little war talk, and good deal of
-bustling about in the navy department
at Washington and ordering of vessels
to the South Pacific will do no harm, in
the present state of semi-savagery which
prevails in international relations. 1t
will serve to convince Chile that the
United States is altogether ready to pro-
tect its right by force If needs be.
But there is no sensible person who
will not rejoice if the need proves not to
exist. The Chileans are pretty pep
perry lot, but they have had fighting
enough to last quite while and Uncle
Sam is big and strong. On our side we
are eminently peaceful nation, though
from the Revolution up to the civil war
no generation passed without something
in the nature of a foreign war. If it be
possible, as recently suggested, to settle
the Chilean dispute by arbitration, both
sides ought heartily to welcome the op-
portunity.
The day will come, though probably
not till after another great European
war; when all the nations of the earth
will unite i'm the Parliament of Man,
the Federation of the World, to explore
waste places, to put down slavery and
piracy wherever they exist, and to settle
all matters of international controversy
by legal forms. We shall be doing
to humanity great service by setting a
good example.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-30
OH SLY MIR. CAMPBELL,

Gov. Campbell of Ohio, whose official
title expires by limitation so soon, has
been interviewed by Pittsburg reporter
why is it SO many interviews come
from Pittsburg? He said he thought
neither Cleveland nor Hill would receive
the nomination for President by the
Democrats in 1892, but that the nomina-
tion would go TO the West. and Palmer
of Illinois seems TO be the most likely
candidate.
Oh, sly Mr.. Campbell The nomina-
ton will go West, will it? And likely
t o Palmer of Illinois? Why, didn't
you know that Palmer is SO old that no
party would for a moment think of run
ming him so old that even Palmer him.
self realizes that the jig is up for him ?
Why not mention younger and more
vigorous man? II would take vigor to
Withstand the onset of the hungry and
thirsty if the Democrats should win.
The nomination will go West, will it t?
Perhaps Mr.. Campbell thinks it will go
no farther than Ohio, and that certain
handsome, hot-tempered Ex-Governor
may get it. Don't deceive yourself,
Governor. The nomination viii not go
to man who can't carry his own State
in gubernatorial contest.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-30
THE NEW YORK STATE SENATE.

THE NEW YORK STATE SENATE.
In the four disputed, senate district
cases in New York, Deane Rep.) had a
majority of SO votes; Peck Rep.), of 313
votes; Derby Rep.), of 670 votes, and
Sherwood Rep.), of 1870 votes. Yet
the State Board of Canvassers, all of
whose members are Democrats, while
seating Derby, as compelled to by the
decision of the Court of Appeals, has
decided in favor of the Democratic OPP
ponents of Deane and Peck, and left the
Senate itself, now Democratic, to decide
as to the seating of Sherwood's opponent
or the holding of new election.
1t appears that in New York elections
do not elect. if the Democratic party
happens to have Governor without
scruples and strong pull in every de-
partment.