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Middletown transcript., 1892-06-02
Delaware Diocesan Convention.


The one hundred and sixth Conven-
tion of the Diocese of Delaware was
held in Laurel and commenced on
Tuesday evening by missionary meet
ing, when addresses were delivered by
the Revs. 7. G. Littell of Wilmington,
J. Beers Of Middletown and Mr.. Num-
ford Of Salisbury.
On Wednesday morning the business
session commenced under the presi-
dency Of Bishop Coleman. Reports
were read of the different depart
ments of work done, and the various
committees were appointed for the en-
suing year, and delegates were elected
to attend the General Convention to
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Mr.. Mcwhorter's disappointment.
lCoMMUNIcATED.l'

COMMUNICATED.
Mr.. EDITOR IL read with genuine
regret the announcement in the Will
mington Euery EUening Of this date of
the fact that Mr.. McWhorter was not
re-appointed Clerk of the Orphans
Court Of New Castle county. I can
not help feeling that the re-appoint-
ment Of the present Clerk, Chas. H.
McWhorter would not only have been
.justifable, but one that would have
been approved by all that have had oc-
casion to transact business with that
official. Clerk McWhorter was entit-
led to the office for several good reasons.
First. For expending the revenues Of
the Office which by right belonged to
him in the employment of clerks to
transact the routine business, while he
was engaged in expert work that
should have been provided for by a
state appropriation, i e, the straighten-
ing out of the muddled and inaccurate
condition of the records and accounts
of the orphans Court. Second, for
his introduction of a concise and lucid
system Of keeping the same, task
completed only short time since.
Third. He has come through his
term with a record unimpeached for
honesty, ability and devotion to the
interests of those who are compelled to
do business with the Orphans Court.
Courteous and obliging at all times,
faithful in the discharge of his official
duties, he has has made it a pleasure
to transact business with that office.
Unfortunately, after having COM
pleted work that should not have
devolved upon him, Mr.. McWhor-
ters term expired before he could reap
scarcely the first benefits of his arduous
task, and it is scarcely equitable that
another should be rewarded for what
he has accomplished by the sacrifice Of
time, money, and at a severe strain
upon his health.
Again, the Democratic party from
it's inception to the present time has
declared for clean, safe and economi-
cal administration of public affairs,
and to the support of men for office as
shall ensure such administration. Mr..
has given such an admin
istration and every assurance that if
he would do so again. As
i Democrat, as a man, and as an official
who has more than discharged the
luty devolving upon him, he was en-
titled to and should have been honored
with another term as Clerk of the
Orphans Court.
Yours Respectfully,
- DEMOCRAT.
IT. Georges, Del, May 31st.
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T;kt M'ta,tsfttpt
ABRAM vANDEGRIFT,
EDITOR AND PRorRIEroR.
ADVERTISING RATES.

Advertisements viii be inserted OF the
rate Of ATTY cents an inch for the first inser-
t,on ana twenty-five cents an inch for eacn
subsequent insertion. A liberal discount
to yearly advertisers.
Local Notices i've cents line for the nrst
insertion. Death and Marriage Notices m
serted tree.
subscription Price, one dollar per anhuA'
in advance. Single copy, three cents.
Objectionable medicine notices ana quss
tionable advertisements ofany nature VIM 7
4 ,soeyer are not taken at any price
Advertisers have the privilege Of changing
their advertisements as often as they DESIRE
but n.aast positively put their copy In the
hands OF the printer not later than Wednes-
day morning to be sure of change in their n
announcements the same week. new au, u
yertisemeats will be received up TO Il
o'clock of the day of publication.
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be held in Baltimore next October.
The whole business was done in COM
mendable haste and good spirit. and
the Convention adjourned to meet in
st. Andrews Church, Wilmington,
next June. The delegates from. St.
Anne,s Parish in this town were
Messrs. Fl. A. Nowland and w. d.
Bradford.
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@allanlahfr's.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday. May 80.

If you stand on tip-toe and
strain your eyes you may al
most look into the Summer.
And yet there is still busy agii-
tation in Dress Goods. Here
come some of the Imperial
Blacks. Replicas of the Lyons
Figured Grenadines that YOU
raved over a month ago. The
designs are delicate and the
fabric like the film of a fairy's
wing. They are we'll known
and scarce, very scarce. The
mere mention will awaken en-
vious thoughts in the minds of
Dress Goods men-in New
York? Well, yes, say New
York-Al-silk, 20 in,, $1.so;
A. in, $2.5o.
Wonder of another sort.
Striped CamePs- Hair-only
the hair warmed a goat-cloth
with stylish fancy stripes, IL
colorings. This store is the
manufacturers wicket gate
where overloaded stocks roll
off. The prices roll off too.
= muchness of a few hundred
pieces. Value, SO; price
,71c, 36 in. Il Dress Patteau'
yards, So.
Another lot are sheen IS
WOOL, no : goats hair, stripes
llso, 38 in, go from soc to
'7ac. Sheep or goat I? Your
hoice at the one price. Take
:ither an d you'll make no mis-
axe.
It's the hidden cotton warp
that makes Ceylon Flannel
o strong and unshrinking.
'ut its only the weft of wool,
oft and generous, that you
&c or feel.
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Grenadines are fayorites
sure to stay favorites. That
makes a Grenadine price-tir
yoar way a most unlikely hap.
pening just now. The tilt is
here nevertheless-All-wo
Black Ground Grenadines with
colored silk stripes.
45-inch, s1.25. regularly 50.
Grenadine Novelties
prices are still further a-slant.
Dots of Wool and Mohair, tan,
blue, pink or yellow, on Black
Grenadine, 81 from S2-45 inches
Black Camel's-Hair Grenadine,
with border of Bengaline edged
with colored Silk, Slips regular
So kind.
< Polka Dot Berege, 44-incb, ecru
ground with green, blue, pink
and lavender dots, at 75c.
Silk-and-wool navy blue Mexican
Mesh Grenadines, "a in, 75c !;
regularly $1.25.
Silk-and-wool navy blue Striped
Grenadine, 4S in, $3.50 from so.
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susscRIpTloN PRICE. 81 90 AYEAR
thursday Afternoon. June 2. 1882
rur annointment of Colen Ferguson

THE appointment of Colen Ferguson
to the Office of Clerk of the Orphans .
Court gives general satisfaction. tie
is known as man Of sterling
character and integrity and has always
been q staunch democrat. Against
him no word Of reproach can be truth
fully uttered. In bis acts while occupy
ing the high position of State Senator ne
was always consistent, taking the ground
that public duties should be performed
without regard to the exigencies OF
the hour or for the benefit Oh the
few to the detriment of the many.
Governor Reynolds has made, in this as
IN other cases, an appointment which
win reflect credit upon his administra-
tion and insure good service to the
State.
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THE scene at the polls in Whining
ton Saturday on the occasion OF the
Republican nomination election for
Sheriff and Coroner was but a repiti-
tion Of what occurs at every election
held by that party. The negroes were
\ used for all they were worth, and the
Door drunken, ignorant wretches were
compelled to put in ballot for whom (
why the friend of the white Republic
cans who sought them out of the slums,
rave them liquor and took them to
the polls. There are respectable color
ed men in Wilmington, and is it any
wonder that some of these are becom-
discusted with the methods Of the Re-
publicans in using the less fortunate OF
their race in the manner they do. One
of them has written as follows to
the Morning Ne,os 8 am eolofed
man and Republican. l have never
voted any other ticket and ! hope
that I never will, but if the party does
not stop this disgraceful mode Of going
around in all Of the slums in town,
hiring poor, ignorant negroes and tiil-
ing them full of whiskey and making
the polls hell and a disgrace for any
decent man to 60 to them to cast his
vote-and bringing reproach upon my
race-I prefer to stay at home and let
the party go until men who want office
stand on their merits and not on their
money and rum"
1t is safe to say that two thirds OF
the class of negroes the writer OF the
above communication refers to, never
know who they vote for and would
probably have not known there was an
election bad not they been sought out
aud told OF the fact.
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Only one maker can use the
name Lansdowne for a Dress
Stuff. Of course there are
limitations, but they masquer-
ade under other names.
For the simon-pure and only
Lansdowne the one headquar-
tiers hereabout is under our
root. No one else in town has
this dainty stuff except in hand
fuls. They can't get it. Some
times even a0s can't get it fast
enough.
AS perfect a Silk,and-wool
as you need ever expect to
see. 45 colors in stock to-day.
Price SI.25, width 40 in.
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For Road Commissioner,
TcoAlMUNIcATED.1 I

Mr.. EDITOR AS the time will
soon be here when the Road Commits
sioners of this Hundred are to be
selected, I wish to suggest man as a
candidate, whom, am sure would fill
the Office with credit to himself and to
the taxpayers, and who would not fail
to appreciate the honor and trust con-
ferred upon him by the voters in elect
ing him to the Office. That man is
John W. Davidson. Mr.. Davidson
was a candidate for the same position
at the last election and was defeated
by small majority. By electing him
the taxpayers of st. Georges Hundred
will, I feel confident, have no regrets
to make in the future.
X UArrrr
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A man who has practiced medicine
for 40 years, ought to know salt from
sugar; read what he says:.
Tor Enn n Tan IN 1907

TOLEDO, O., Jan 10, 1887.
Messrs. F. J. Cheney & o.-Gentle-
men II have been in the general
practice of medicine for most 40 years,
and would say that in all my practice
and experience have never seen prep
aration that could prescribe with as
much confidence of success as can
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
you. Have prescribed it great many
times and its effect is wonderful. and
would say in conclusion that l have
yet to find case of Catarrh that it
would not cure, il they would take il
according to directions.
Yours Truly,
L. L. GORSUCH M. d.
Office, 215 Summit st.
We will give 500 for any case of
Catarrh that cannot be cured with
Halls Catarrh Cure. Taken internally
/. ]. CHENEY & CO., Props.
Toledo, Q. EySold by Druggists, 75c |
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THE MARKETS.

MIDDLETOWN GRAIN MARKET.
CORRECTED WEEKLY By JOHN W. JoLLs.
WHEAT-No.2 2 red s5INew cob Corn AZ
Steamer No.2, s2lCORN
oats, 05Oc
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New patterns in the 1Sc
Challis. The wonder is that
SO much Of beauty can be got
onto any printed stuff. Color
combines are as charmingly
novel as the dainty designs.
1t the manufacturer mad hit
the quality right these Striped
Suitings (WooD would be soc
a yard. His mistakes makes
the price 37ac.
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@istellaneous Sdrs.
Eternal
Vigilance

Is the price Of good health. But with all the
precaution we may take there are enemies
always lurking about our systems, only wait
ing favorable opportunity to assert them
selves. Scrofula and other impurities in the
blood may be hidden for years or even for
generations, and suddenly break forth, under
mining health and Fastening death. For all
diseases arising from impure blood
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Is the unequa1ed and unapproached remedy.
tits King of them all, for it conquers disease.
1t builds up in perfectly natural way all the
weakened parts, vitalizes, enriches and
Purifies the Blood
And assists to healthy action those important
organs, the kidneys and liver. II you need
good medicine YOU should certainly take
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BOYS Sntts.

oOVS SHzkE.
Do you notice the scram-
bling of around town Clothiers
to get into the $3.50 process
sion? Pace too fast for them.
Such Suits as the q to 14-year
boy shall have here at So. 50
startle the trade as much as
they delight customers.
Only the beginning. Suits
at IS to S12 and just as wor-
thily worth it.
Sailor Suits, fast blue, $3.50
to $3.50; also gray and brown,
plain and fancy trimmed.
Refers, blue Flannel and
Serge, $3.50; sizes 2a to 6
years. Betterlat $50, S., So.
Five shades Boys Short
Trousers, All-wool, 4 to IS
years, 81.
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MIDDLETOwN PRODUCE MARKET.
CORRECTED WEEKLY By s. N. REYNOLDS co.
Eggs, % doz 49,. l50l6
Butter, % b .l0120
Lard, New, p n. -. S1569L
Potatoes Tabasket :. 4050
Spring Chickens n b Live. 1890
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Cream Ha1suek.

Cream Flannel.
For the Outing and Tennis
and romp-about days. Flan-
mel that won't shrink. Cotton
warp? No. But the Cotton
is there, enough oft to do all
the possible Cotton good with
out hurting the wooleny worth
of the stuff.
Two qualities, three styles,
oudM 56 inches.
Plain Flannel, soc grade at 37ac.
Marrow Diagonal Flannel, Csc
grade, at SOC.
Wide Diagonal Flannel, 65c grade.
at SOC.
Four other grades, heavier
Cream Flannels, heavy enough
for mems wear, rich enough
for anybody's wear. And
handsomely under the usual
prices. 5o-inch, at ST.; So
inch, at SLIPS $I.5o. $I.75.
Cream All-wool Flannel.
too. Alderny cream for rich.
ness. Light weight and
sprightly as il the joyous spirits
of the French weavers had
been caught in the stuff. AZ
inch. 75c; 52-inch $I25.
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Thirty patterns regular 10
and I5c Wall Paper reduced
to &c. Can be used in anv
room. Samples to any
address.
g
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5s


I'LL nature will put on its
mantle of loveliness dur
ing this month. The
prospects Of a Bountiful
Harvest gladdens the heart
of the Farmer, and whatever
benefits the Farmer helps the
Merchant and the rest of
mankind. We are busy sup
plying the wants of our Gus
toners from our well-flled
stores. h
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JOHN WANAMAKIsR
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-05-12
Glad to Get Rid of Him.

A few days ago Governor Buchanan
was called upon to exercise executive
clemency in very peculiar case. The
person concerned was man held in Jail
at jackson till he should produce 5000
fine. He had been there over year
without showing any signs of liquidating
with the commonwealth, and it is prob
able he would have remained prisoner
for the next fifty years if payment had
been waited for. The county court,
recognizing him as an incubus to the
amount of forty cents day, passed a
resolution asking the governor "for the
Lords sake" to forgive that little 5000
and let the man get out and earn his own
living. The trial judge and the attorney
general and the members of the jury all
appeared on the petition sent up in ac-
cordance with the resolution, but not a
single friend of the prisoner was among
the igners.-Nashville American.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-05-12
A Terrible Thing in n Battle.

The house committee on naval affairs
for some days has had under considera-
ton bill providing for the addition to
the navy of a novel craft.
The feature of the design is found in
an enormous submarine gun carried at
the bow below the water line. The pro-
jectors feel that they have now a prac-
ticable means at hand to drive an enor-
nous shell loaded with an explosive
charge of gunpowder or gun cotton into
the hull of any ironclad afoat and ex-
plode it in the very vitals of the ship.
According to the design submitted to
the committee and explained by Cen
eral Berdan, a hydraulic buffer projects
from the bow of the vessel This is SO
adjusted that it will stop the boat dis
tance of eight feet from the enemy's ship
without injury to the boat At this
short range the buffer automatically dis
charges the submarine gun directly at
the hull of the ship, and lodges within
it shell carrying bursting charge of
450 pounds of powder, sufficient to blow
down every bulkhead in the ship and
wreck the bottom.-Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-05-12
Eireproof Materials.

At the Berlin exhibition of means and
contrivances for the prevention of acci-
dents in industries and otherwise, prizes
were awarded for the following proc
esses for fireproofng, respectively dimin-
ishing the combustibility of tissues, cur
tain materials and theatrical scenery:
For light tissues, sixteen pounds ammo
mum sulphates, five pounds ammonium
carbonate, four pounds borax, six pounds
boric acid, four pounds starch, or one
pound dextrine, or one pound gelatine,
and twenty-five gallons water, mixed to-
gether, heated to SO degs. Fahrenheit,
and the material impregnated with the
mixture, centrifugated and dried, and
then ironed as usual. One quart of the
mixture, costing about three or four
cents, is enough to impregnate fifteen
yards of material.
For curtain materials, theatrical deco
rations, wood and furniture thirty
pounds ammonium chloride are mixed
with so much foated chalk as to give
the mass consistency. 1t is then heated
to 1875 to $50 degs. Fahrenheit, and the
material given one or two coats of it by
means of brush. A pound of it, cost
ing about eight-tenths of cent, is suffi-
cient to cover five square rods.-Berlin
Letter
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-05-12

'Now notice; the heavier the load the
better the horses draw. There is moth
ing in this world so good for horses as a
big load of bricks"
But, as Carl Schurz says, such a policy
will make US rotten. That is the saddest
part of this ridiculous policy. When a
government by and for the people is
changed into a government by and for
the monopolist; when politicians sink so
low that they legislate for party advan-
tage only, agree to pass certain extortion-
ate measures in exchange for generous
donations to the next campaign fund,
betray the rights of the people to an
oppressive syndicate or trust, as Benedict
Arnold sold out to the British officers, it
is full time for the people to take alarm,
unseat the treacherous party, and inau-
gurate an era of decency and honesty.
Under such circumstances it is unneces-
sary to predict that we shall become
rotten, for we are rotten already.
There are two kinds of revolution.
One is illustrated by the coup d'etat in
which a bold, ambitious knave seizes
the government, knocks long established
institutions into flinders and with infin-
lite insolence, like that of the third Napo-
leon, wins his way by the sheer impetus
of bribery and corruption. The more
dangerous kind, however, is seen when
political party undermines the spirit of
the people, deprives them of their rights
by slow degrees, taxes them to the point
of rebellion, plays into the hands of cap
ital by special legislation, digs a chasm
between the very rich and very poor,
saps the enterprise of the masses and
keeps itself in power by an unblushine
defence of all conceivable deviltry.
1t is true, we are prosperous as ma.
ton, for nothing can check our vgor and
energy, not even misrule at Washington
1t is also true that higher taxes and low
er wages are making serious nroad or
the general contentment The only rem.
edy is stern and peremptory reversal
of our national policy by the forcible re.
tirement of the party which is respons.
ible for it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-05-12
Made Her Left Handed by Blow

Three years ago young lady of Fall
River, Mass, was hit upon the left side
of her head by falling sign as she was
walking along street in Boston. This
was followed by brain fever. After
some weeks she was as well in mind and
body as ever, but from right handed
person she had become SO left handed
that she could neither cut, sew nor write
with her right hand, but found it easy
to do all these things with her left.
Her right hand was just about as useful
as her left had been before she was hurt
What is strange is that, with so recent
change in the use of her hands, she
never makes an awkward motion and is
as graceful in the use of her left hand as
if she had been born left handed. .-Bos-
ton Post,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-05-12
Man Against Shark.

A desperate fight between man and
a shark occurred recently in Manukau
harbor. Mr.. Henry Jacobson, who is
employed at the North Manukau Heads
as beacon light keeper, was out in his
boat about six miles down the harbo1
when it was struck by squall and
swamped and the occupant left in the
water. jacobson dived and endeavored
to relieve the ballast, but without sue
cess. He then grasped an oar, and being
good swimmer struck out for land
but as a strong tide was running he was
swept down the harbor a distance OF
three miles. At that point he was at
tackled by a large shark, which grabbed
at his hand. He protected himself, how
ever, with the oar, which he tried to ram
down the sharks throat
The fish then made a circle around
him, and renewed the attack. By this
time, however, jacobson had his sheath
knife drawn, and desperately stabbed
the shark, ripping its side open, so that
the water became red with blood. A
further attack was made, when Jacob
son again stabbed the monster near the
tail, and it swan away. AT that time a
boat came in sight, and jacobson, ex-
hausted, was hauled into the boat, hay
ing been in the water two hours and
thirty minutes. Zealand Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-05-12
A Greedy Mountain Lions Fate.

DIR. French, a seventy-year-old resi-
dent of Alamo, killed mountain lion
one day last week at the Tule ranch in
the pineries. The lion had crawled into
a pig pen through small hole, and after
feasting on two shoats was too big to
get out through the hole. Thus he was
an easy prey to the doctor, who gave
him hypodermic injection of birdshot
in order to see him perform. He per-
formed to the entire satisfaction of his
tormentor. The doctor administered a
A-caliber pill, which put him to sleep.
The animal had immense claws, and
measured six feet from tip to tip.-San
Diego Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-05-12

Mr.. V. N. Edwards, of the United
States fish commission, has obtained
from Cuttyhunk pond very singular
eel. The eyes are entirely concealed
under the skin and the color is uniform
ly dark, almost black. In form and
proportions it is like the common eel,
and may prove to be merely dark col
ored blind example of this species.
Trout and other fish become dark in
color as result of blindness, and this
may be another illustration of a phe-
nomenon which is often observed by fish
culturists. The length of the specimen
is about thirteen inches.-Forest and
Stream