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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29

NEW YORK, March 29.-Prince Bismarck,
the famous Iron Chancellor" of the Ger
man empire, is very near death according
to private cablegram received in this city.
The gentleman who received this alarm
ing news about Bismarck's condition Is
DR.. Emil Dorm, who resides at 127 East
Tenth street.
Dr. Dorm was for many years an aide-de-
camp on Count Won Moltkes staff He
has for two years been in New York city
as the American correspondent of the
hamburger Nachrichten and other lead
ing German journals.
The cablegram received by DIR. Dorm
reads as follows:
Prince Bismarck Is in critical con-
dition. He has been suffering for several
weeks with neuralgia and insomnia, and
his doctors have not been able this time to
conquer the two enemies, which attack
him every winter.
His strength and vigor are giving
away rapidly, his pulse is very weak
and his appetite is exceedingly bad.
In spite OF all this, 1t is very difficult
to keep the patient in bed and tran
quill. As sotn as he awakes he wants
to get up, and he will not rest until
the Princess Bismarck, who is herself sick,
comes to his bedside to read to him his
correspondence ana newspapers from Bpr-
lin and Hamburg Yesterday he had fit
and his two sons, in Fiume and Hamburg,
have been wired for
Ills doctors wanted to remove him to a
better climate He will not listen to them,
but insists on receiving his friends on the
1st of April, his birthday. Emperor Will
lam receives daily bulletins'
DIR. Dorm said that the physicians of Bis
marck had much to contend with in the
infiexible will o. the patient. "Even at
the present time" said DIR. Dorm, ''the
prince refuses to be limited in his con-
sumption of wine and brandy, and his con-
dition has been growing more and more
serious. Prince Bismarck will be 70 years
of age on April l, and the terrific mental
strain he has endured as the prime mill
lister OF three German empires would have
killed dozen ordinary men,
MY reason for believing what my
usually reliable correspondent says is a
very simple one. / can appreciate that
more fully than answer the question to
newspapers who print everything, es-
pecially such alarming rumors"
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29
A Decision Next Monday,

TOLEDO, O, March 29.-The arguments
In the Arthur injunction case were con
eiuded Yesterday, and Judge Kicks an
nounoed that decisions would be rendered
next Monday
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29
Perth Amboy.s Finance. All Right

PERTH ANBoY, N. j., March 2e-The
balance sheet of the city for the year end
Ing March l, 1898, shows an excess of assets
over liabilities OF sac, ,3Gs 50. Instead OF q
deficit Of ESQ, ,StS g.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29

GENERAL KIRBY SMITH AS A PROFESSOR
ida, In which state he spent his boyhood
days. His illness was only Of a few days
duration, and death was caused by stomach
trouble, which had caused considerable
pain for months.
This veteran warrior and teacher is the
last of that galaxy of soldiers who headed
the armies whose vanquishment tells the
mournful but brilliant history of the
lost Cause" He was tho Junior of the
seven full generals of the Confederacy and
the last to receive that promotion. A wife
and eleven children survive him.
Although 20 years of age General Smith
held the chair of mathematics in the Uni
versity of the South Mt Sewanee, and was
actively engaged in the instruction of the
students. He was graduate of West
Point
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29
No state s1llitla Eneampment at the rair.

CHICAGO, March 29-The proposed en-
campment Of the National Guards of the
different states to be held during the
Worlds fair has been definitely aban-
doned. The model Worlds fair Sunday
school building is now an assured fact.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29
Commissioner webor,s Successor.

WASHINGTON, March 2oxssy5ecretary Car
hsle has appointed DIR. .x3eph II, Senner
commissioner of immigration at the port
of New York, in tho place of Mr.. Weber,
resigned.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29
VIM. B. SHARP e. CO,
Fourth and Market StF.,ss

NOllCE-CIIY ASSESSMENNI,--
IN Notice u hercby given thar the
City Asses me Il lai been onpletcA and
Tho boo piac a ia TIE D III ~ OF the tlierk
OF Tho Council al the CITY Halt. " Iers
th can be sxa'nin d by taE-bes rfou
SATURDAY APRIL is'. ls9s.
UNfIL sATr rRDAY.tP.;lLl l5th, !s9a.
Between the tears oI SD O'Clock. a. m.
and s - p IN, '
The Hoard Of As e,smeat. Revision and
Appeals viii sit ~ hear appeals from The
Assessment, from April 1 to AnriI 10
lSH, at the oHoc OF tho Tax Collie ors, ID
East sixth street. betwe n the hou ; or,
and o'clock in the afternoon, ami aud
. clock in the evening. 1ssgle- 4
SOLOMON HERSEY,
mts-1 Clerk Of CITY Council.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29
DEATH OF KIRBY SMITH.
The Soldier-Teacher Sudden Victim o
Stomach Trouble.

NASHVILLE, March 20-General f. Kirby
Smith died late yesterday afternoon at his
horne Sewanee, Tenn. He had just returned
from visit to New Orleans, where he had
numerous relatives aud friends and Flor
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29

Death Of Wolf Known PhilanthropIst.
CLEVELAND, March 29.-Mr John L.
Woods the well known banker and phil
anthropist of this city, died at Augusta.
Ga, where he had gone for the benefit OF
his health. He was 70 years Of age.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29
ON FRIDAY.
THE 7th DAY OF APRIL. 1898,
At 10 O'Clock, a. M.

The following described real estate. viz;
All that farm or tract ot land situate In
Blackbrd hundred. In New Castle coun.
ty. Delaware. BeglDnlug ut a point in
the centre of the bridge by which the
publ lic road leading from Smyrna Land
ing to tue Tho rough Neck road Gro. ses
over Morris branch and running thence
with the centre of said aforementioned
public road Us follows. to wit: North 2iS
degrees west "a Derches north 2Od de-
grees west 30 pelches and north 25 de-
gfees west 70 4-l0 prrches 10 lands OF Ben.
1aihiu +. c. Rothwcit; thence with saId
land north Gi degrees east 50 PEI chrs:
thence still with said land south 30 de-
gfees east 81 parcllcs to the centre OF Nor
lis branch. and ttcnce M the centre of
said branch noni hwestcrly about 9s
pefehcs to the place OF bcgilning. con-
tanning nity.tNe acres two roods and
three perehes OF land. mCre or less, with
q b use and iarn and other outbu ding
thereon erected
seized aud taken in execution as the
property OF George Z. .ltothweli and Saiie
Hothwell, his vile. and 1 is. and TO bs
sold by
PIERCE GOULD, Sheriff.
81, s9j. Ir.i.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29
WIN. B. SHARP eco !
Fourth and Market Sis.

This is pre-eminently ~
Silk and fine dress goods
season. We have accumu.
lated from the importers and
manufacturers a stock of
these goods far SURPRISING
anything we have ever here.
tofore shown.
We have a magnificent as1
sortment of stylish and beat
tifully-designed i'm p ort
Shanghai India Silks an
most exhaustive efforts
home manufacturers in CHM
Silk effects.
We have the real India
figured Silks, soft as satin,
and of exquisite quality,
worth $l.25 per yard-parS
OF Jile balance OF an I'M.
porter's stock who is quitting
business-which we shall sell
at 81 per yard-and 30,inch
wide China Silks, in large
and small figures, for "a
cents per yard. Twenty@J
inch wide China Silks in
figures are "A and SO cents
per yard, and a remarkable
bargain. All these India and
China Silks appear in low.
toned combinations of the
following colors:
Cream Black Navy
Hello Brown Cardinal
Rose Reseda Pearl
Mode Tan Slate
The new weave of Crysta
Bengaline Black Silks we
have in magnificent qualities
for $1.25 and $3.50 per yard.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29

NEW YORK, March a9..-OswaId Often.
dorfer, proprietor otrhe Staats 1eitung.
who has been critically i'll for several days,
u reported as much improved.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29

NASHVILLE, March 20-The Legislature
passed a Joint resolution to allow the re-
mains OF eSPresident Polk and Mrs. Polk
TO be placed in the state capital grounds,
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29

TOT superintendent OF ImmIgrntIon.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-It is under
stood that the appointment OF ex-Repre-
sentative Stump, of Maryland, has been
agreed upon for superintendent of immi-
grafton
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29
BISMARCK IN DANGER.
The Great German Lying at
the Point of Death.
HIS SONS ORDERED HOME.
His Pulse Weak and Appetite
Exceedingly Bad.
VERY LITTLE HOPE OF RECOVERY.

Tho News Comes in Private Cablegram
to DIR. Dorm, of New York, Who for
Many Years Was an Aide-de- Camp on
the Staf of Count. Won Moltke-The
"Iron Chancellor" Insists, However,
on Receiving His Friends on April 1,
His Seventy-eighth Birthday, Should
He Survive. ....55..
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-29
BABY four WEEKS OLD
Distressing Skin Disease from Birth.
Cured in 8 Weeks. Made
Healthy and Beautiful by
Cuticura Remedies.

My baby boy had been suffering from birth with
some sort of an eruption. The doctors called IL
eczema. His little neck was raw and exposed
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-23
the Atlantic Ocean.

The area of the Atlantic is about
80, 900, 900 square miles, less than half
the area of the Pacific, and between
one-sixth and one-seventh of the total
surface area of the world. It would
form O circle 61S0 miles in diameter,
which is rather more than double the
distance from Liverpool to New York.
Its depth is much better known than
that of the Pacific, and averages more
than 1000 fathoms, probably about
$4,000 feet, or about two and two
thirds miles. The height of Mont
Blanc is about three miles.
The cubic contents are therefore
nearly 80, 900, 900 cubic miles, so that
the Atlantic could be contained bodily
in the Pacific nearly three times. The
number of cubic feet is III followed
by seventeen ciphers, number that
would be ticked off by our million
clocks in $4,000 years. It's weight is
S25, 900 billion tons, and the number
of gallons in it is seventy-three trill-
ions. A sphere to hold the Atlantic
would have to be 53S4 miles in diam.
eter.
If it were made to fill acircular pipe
reaching from the earth to the sun
distance Of SO, 900, 900 miles-the di-
ameter of the pipe would be 1887
yards, or rather over mile; while o
pipe of similar length to contain the
Pacific would be over n mile and three.
quarters across. Yet the distance to
the sun is SO great that, as has been
pointed out, if a child were born with
an arm long enough to reach to the
sun it would not live long enough to
know that it had touched it, for sensa-
tion passes along our nerves Mt the
rate of 100 feet second, and to travel
from the sun to the earth at that rate
would take century and a half, and
such an abnormal infant is an un-
likely centenarian. .-Longman's Mag
azine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-23
About Alligator Pears.

'"Those are called alligator pears, !"
said Fulton street fruiterer. 'They
are grown in Florida, and constitute
one of the most delicious fruits which
we get from that famed region. Try
one." The reporter picked pear out
of the case and examined it with no
little curiosity. It looked like Cross
between a mango apple and a green
pepper. There was nothing in its ap.
pearance that suggested any reason for
the name it bore. The surface WAS al
most perfectly smooth and quite soft
to the touch. Its odor resembled that
of fresh fig.
GLOW do you try it. ?"
The fruiterer cut it open with his
pocket-knife. It was pretty nearly all
pit. Underneath the skin was layer
not more than half an inch thick. This
narrow slice comprised the eatable
part. When thus laid open it would
have passed for small nutmeg, canta-
loupe or musk melon. The reporter
scooped out piece and tasted it. He
didn't like it and said so. ,
Il suppose one has to try it very
often before he acquires a relish for
it," was his remark as he passed the
pear back to the donor.
"It's plain to see you've never lived
in Florida" said the latter. "Folks
there consider it great delicacy, and
many of my customers would rather
have it than the finest melon the
market affords. AS for myself, I could
cat half q dozen of them at a meal, "
and he proceeded to dispose of the
fruit with a gusto that convinced the
reporter of his sincerity. "At any
rate," he added, handing over the pit,
"keep this"
"Do you mean that 1 should plant
it?"
NO; it would never come to any.
thing in soil. Fill glass to within an
inch or two of the top with water.
Suspend the pit in it, leaving the up
per portion of it exposed to the air.
As fast as the water evaporates add
more, taking care to see that at least
one-fourth of the pit is covered. Then
give it plenty of light, and in the
course of few weeks you will have as
beautiful a household plant as you
want to see. New York News.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-23
Electricity on the Farm.

An interesting example of electricity
as applied to farm work Is now in
operation at Scotch farm. The whole
of the usual farm machinery, such as
tbreshing, sowing, corn threshing and
the like, are here driven by an electric
motor. The electricity is generated
by water power, the turbine wheel
which drives the dynamo being about
1000 yards from the farm. The electric
current is conveyed by underground
wires to the house and farm, in each
of which storage battery is placed.
These supply the electric current for
lighting and motive purposes when
the machinery is not working. The
whole of the mansion is illuminated
by electric light, and an electric motor
is provided for pumping the water tor
domestic purposes. New York World
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-23
SHINGLES AND sHINGLING.

1t is matter of no small expense to
keep the roofs of farm buildings in a
sound and tight condition. Want of
proper selection of shingles, of proper
care in laying them, and in protecting
them from the weather, are responsible
for much of the cost which often seems
a burden. Tn. saying that what is
worth doing as all, is worth doing
we'll, is eminently true ofthe selection,
laying and care of shingles. In the
first place, it is false economy to buy,
or have made from the product of ones
own wood lot, shingles of inferior
quality, full of sap, or of a coarse,
porous, or shsky nature, which per-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-23
Scotland's Precious Belt.

The belt OF the sword of state OF
Scotland has been restored to its ~ '.ce
in the regalia OF Scotlandin Edinburgh
Castle by the Marquise of Breadal-
bane, the Lord High Commissioner to
the General Assembly of the Church OF
Scotland. After the battle OF Dunbar
it became necessary to place the
regalia of Scotland in place OF
greater safety than Edinburgh Castle,
and it was removed to the strong
Castle of Dunnottar, where Sir G.
Ogilvy defended it. He had, how
ever, only forty men and could not
hold out, and he allowed his wife to
remove the regalia from the castle. 1t
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-23
Recalling a Mailed Letter.

To recall letter once mailed is al.
most as difficult task as to take back
an assertion once uttered. The send.
er must appear at the postofice and
is handed blank to fill out. In this
he must state when and where he
mailed the letter, how it was ad.
dressed, must describe the envelope,
STATE the amount of postage prepaid,
and testify that the above mentioned
letter was written by me, or by my
authority and desire to recall it for
the following reason"-and then state
the reason, which is usually, ENABLED
by mistake" He must then sign his
name, 30 that the handwriting may be
compared with that on the letter, and
sign receipt. If the address cannot
be shown to be in his handwriting, or
printed or typewriter, he must de-
scribe some peculiarities of the en-
velope sufficient to identify it. If he
is unable to do this the letter is re.
fused unless the postmaster knows the
applicant and is satisfied concerning
his good intentions. If he is satisfied
be asks for statement concerning
the contents, and the applicant is then
obliged to open the letter and read
portions of it in the postmaster's pres
ence to prove that it is the one he
described.
But if the letter has been sent away
the process of,recalling it is still more
difficult A similar blank has to be
filled out, and o minute description
telegraphed at the sender's expense to
the postmaster at the Office Of its des-
tination. If discovered in time the
letter is then intercepted and sent to
the department at Washington with
statement Of the case. Why should
any one want to recall letter so much
as to take this trouble? Well, there
was one case ut the local Office recent
ly where n valuable deed was mailed
and the sender received information
that satisfied him that the sale should
not be made. In another case an i'm
portant contract WAS sent, and infor-
nation received Immediately after
made it imperative that it should be
revoked. Springfield Republican.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-23
WORDS Of WiSUUN.

Nothing is old but. the mind.
Thought is the fertilizer of speech.
Vehemence without feeling is but
rant.
A woman's Judgment is usually cut
bias.
Justice to one is mercy to thou
sands
We forget in labor what troubles us
in rest.
Happiness is not the end of life;
character is.
The beautiful is beauty seen with the
eye of the soul.
The test of civilization is the esti-
mate of woman.
The mountains of youth are the
molehills of age.
Life is q mission to serve; to most
it is submission.
Soap and water don't make an honest
hand any less attractive.
When people once begin to deviate
they do not know where to stop.
The poets judged like philosophers
when they feigned love to be blind.
A man does more toward making
fate than fate does toward making
him. ..
No paddock, bolts or bars can &C..
cure a maiden as well as her own re-
serve.
The truly brave are soft of heart and
eyes, and feel for what their duty bids
them do.
If all men had that which they de-
sire many would not have that which
is now theirs.
Old friends are best King James
used to call for his old shoes, Tor they
were easiest for his feet.
The frmest friendships have been
formed in mutual adversely, as iron is
most strongly united by the fercest
fame.
Good advice is one of those injuries
which a good man ought, if possible,
to forgive, but at all events to forget
at once.
If we could see in ourselves that
which we see in others, as others can
see in us that which they do not see
in themselves, where would we be at?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-23
WOOL BALLS IN LAMBS sToMACHs.

The presence of foreign substances
in the stomachs of animals is not at all
infrequent. The causes of it vary.
Sometimes they are due to the animals
licking themselves or each other in the
spring, when the hair is shedding, and
lambs often pull the wool from the
sleeps udders in the act of sucking.
But sometimes it is due to indigestion,
by which an abnormal appetite is pro-
duced and the animals pull the wool
or bite off the hair to satisfy this un-
natural appetite. The same cause leads
animals to eat wood or other rubbish,
chew bags or harness, and some swal-
low earth, and this gathers in balls in
the stomach with undigested grass OF
hay. This, of course, increases the
disease of the stomach and soon pro-
duces failure of appetite, emaciation,
dierrhoea, or prolonged constipation.
Then follows the common partial par
alysis due to the disorder of the nerv-
GUS system resulting from maluutri-
tion, and the animals stagger about,
falling and lying disabled, or unable
to stand on their fore or hind legs.
The remedy is difficult, as the collec-
tion of hair forms ball or wad that
cannot pass the openinginto the bowels
or collects in these and stops the pass
age. The only remedy is prevention
by closely watching the stock, clipping
the wool from the udders of the sheep
and thoroughly carding and brushing
the COWS and horses to remove the
loosened hair and preventit from be-
ing licked off.-New York Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-23
ter to enter the grain, soon

mits water to enter the grain, soon
ending its usefulness.
Roofs soon become almost worthless
through carelessness in laying the
shingles, joints not being properly
"broken," and water thus let in to
cause rapid decay. Another point is
that an unprotected shingle, even a
good one, severely exposed as it is to
the action of the weather, has vastly
less durability than it would have if
covered with some moisture-proof
material. Even cheap quality Of
paint will prove q great protection.
If paint is thought to be too costly,
there are often materials to be had
that will we'll repey applying to the
newly-laid shingles, or to use as dip
before they are laid. Tar, crude,
petroleum, whitewash-all these are
eficacious, if properly and thoroughly
applied. Such applications mean
better looking buildings, and roofs
that will long outlast those not similarly
treated.
It is much better, in cold climates,
at least, to use shingles, underlaid by
thick building paper, upon the walls
of farm buildings, instead of clap
boards, as the former are warmer, and,
if well laid, and painted, or stained,
will look better than clapboards. In
any event warmth ought not to be sac
rifced to looks, and shingles certainly
afford far better protection against
the entrance OF cold air than do clap
boards. The great point in the use of
the former is to secure good quality,
to lay them with great care, as regards
joints, and to properly protect the
wood from the action of the weather.
Such care will be repaid in the dura-
bility that will thus be secured
American Agricultural.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-23
IDLE LAND.

If there is any land upon the farm
which is not. earning anything it is q
direct menace to the prosperity OF the
rest of the farm. The taxes and the
interest on it's cost 60 on just the
same as if it were earning something,
and this detracts from the net profit
of the whole. Often these idle and
waste places are but harbor for YER
min and weeds, or if they do not be-
come 80 it is because there is con-
slant expenditure of labor to keep it
clean, and this labor might be far
better expended in the cultivation OF
some crop. 1t will pay better to clean
such places up once for all and put
them to some use. Most of them are
capable of some good. Not infre-
quently they would serve admirably
for a timber tract. Chicago Times.