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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-29


There was municipal election on
Monday in Hagerstown, Md, and there
are indications in the local news col.
umns of the city press that some bust
ness in the way Of vote buying was in
progress. The Hagerstown Mail, an
afternoon paper which went to press
before the polls closed, contained such
items as the following:
Votes from early in the morning brought
fair market price. with q slight incline
as the crowd got thicker about the polls
OH West Franklin street. Prices ranged
from quart of whisky, for steamer, to
$3.50 for fair, with slightly better rates for
exceptional lots. One colored block of
four went for 81 apiece, but this was about
the regular rate.
The Republicans held the colored tloaters
well in hand, bringing them up in small
attachments so as not TO excite suspicion
or let them get scattered. At 10 o'clock
the supply of Republican money was still
| easy aud rates were maintained.
The reporters made another round at
ii o'clock and found the suffrage mar
ket still steady, The last round before
going to press developed the following
The latest quotations WERE Asked, So;
bid, S2-in bull market, with the voters
holding out pretty firmly, rs the totals OF
votes cast show. Bidders are biding their
time and standing firm for cut rate when
the supply will begin to unload for fear OF
being shut out by time limit. Visible sup
ply Of iloaters still heavy. A movement
may be looked for at o'Clock, with higher
prices for A !, and slightly lower rates fol
blocks of fair to middling.
If there was fact behind this facetious
ness, Hagerstown ought to take strong
dose OF Grayesend justice, and take i
soon. The Jail is the proper place fol
these poiluters of the ballot, both SELLER
and buyers.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-29

The Shoe and Leather Reporter chron-
icles q notable increase in exports of
packer hides within year. Calf skins
are sent abroad in considerable quanti-
ties, A new thing last year was the ex-
portation of sheep skins. A French tam
ncr who visited the Chicago stockyards
investigated the methods of curing
them. He bought carload, and soon
after.ordered duplicate lots. Other pur-
chasers came here, and good many
skins, wool on, have been sold to go to
Europe and Canada. Our sales of
leather for expectation have been con-
tinually increasing for 20 years. They are
still far from large, as coutrasted with
the domestic consumption, but they are
Of sufficient magnitude to be of import
ance. 1t would be better if we could ex-
port the hides after making them into
leather, and better still would it be il
we could make the leather into shoes
before shipping it. That would make SC
much the larger market for our labor
Perhaps these things will follow in
time. 1t seems as if they ought. With
our abundance of bark and our unsur.
passable facilities for producing Leather
Of the best quality, at the lowest cos
and in the least time, we have the RICH
to expect steadily increasing foreigl
demand for leather. Nor do we beliey
that if our manufacturers were to Sc
themselves about it in earnest, the
would fail to secure large share of tn
worlds custom in shoes.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-29

Just as true Of the Wooden
stuffs and the Silk-and-wools.
New conceits almost every
day. Nothing lacking that
ought to be here and the
'1eaped-up shelves are filed
with only the freshest, choicest
of their kinds. Better than
that (for you)-b,7ces are IS
to 50 Per cent less than usual.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-29

"rhere is much more at stake in the
national Senate than difference Of
tariff percentages on the various classes
Of foreign imports" says the Baltimore
SIN. "'rhe assault made by the group
of sa.cal!cd conservative Senators upon
the very vitais OF tho Tariff Reform bill
free coal, free iron and lead ore and
free sugar-brings into view this funda-
mental question: Can the government
be rescued frem the corrupting domina-
ton of privileged wealth under which a
generation of Republican rule has placed
itf" The Sun goes on to show that
more than half of all the wealth created
in this country during the last half CEN
fury is in the possession of $4,000 men,
md that this small body of enormously
rich citizens has been created by the
high tariffs dating from the war. "Ten
of these tariff.made milionaires hold
among them $600,O0o,o00 of the cream
taken from the milk of American in
dustry by the skinner of protection
More than thousand more of them
hold 100000 each, acquired by the
same process of plumber by unequal
taxation" 1t AIDES:
This draining off of the common wealth
into the pockets Of the privileged and pro
tected few has been not only going OF
steadily and cumulntively since the war
but it has beenslrocecding ON sectional
lines. Manufacturing, mining and trans
portation have been continuously favored
and the farming and planting Interest,"
have been as continuously Impoverished
| And now, at the end Of 33 years of thi
vicious class and sectional legislation, thu
| protectionists have the impudence 10 poln
to the vast concentration of wealth il ;
| few favored centres Of the country, and il
| the hands of only few men i'll thos
centres, as evidence that the iron hand o
blackmail tariff has produced marvel
GUS prosperity. But what of the victims
the farmers and planters and what of tn
great States of the South and West, witt
their millions of honest and hard-workin
people, who have had TO be content witt
the Skinned milk left after the cream ha
been taken off by the protected plutocrac
Of the North, and especially of the East
l
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-29

The government weather bureau re.
ports that last Thursday was the
warmest day, in the Middle and South
Atlantic States, that ever occurred
during the mouth of March, so far as the
bureau records go. Some of the maxima
recorded on Thursday were; Philadel-
phia, 76o; Atlantic City, T6o; Baltimore,
ss0; Washington, $50; Lynchburg, s0'i
Norfolk, sso Raleigh, 1872 Charlotte
$40; Wilmington, N. G., $50; Charles
ton, s40; Savannah, 49, Atlanta, ss0
Montgomery, s6'; Chattanooga, s4o
/ Knoxville, s29. ai
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-29

A decision involving liability for
damage by electrolysis has recently
been passed upon by the supreme court
of Tennessee. 1t was the suit of the
Cumberland Telegraph and Telephone
Company vs.. the United Electric Rail-
way, and was brought to recover dam
ages alleged to have been sustained by
the plaintiff company by reason of the
construction and operation of a con-
tiguous plant by the defendant COM
pany. The plaintiff alleged that the
defendant, in the operation of its plant,
generated or collected electricity in
such unusual quantities and applied
and used it in such violent, turbulent
and varying currents as to produce an
unnatural and disturbed condition cleo
trically not only within tine streets butfor
distance of half mile on either side,
and that in consequence the plaintiff :
plant was for time paralyzed and its
utility destroyed. The court held that
in so far as the loss was due to con
tlict of poles and wires, it was imput-
able to defendants fault or want Of
care, but that the loss by induction
could not be imputed to any fault OF
negligence of the defendant. The court
further held that it was not the legal
duty of the plaintiff, upon the institu-
ton of the defendants electric system
to protect itself against injurious conse
quences by making, at its own ultimate
cost, such changes in its pre-existinG
plant as would obviate the effects of in
ductlon, but that the defendant mus
take care of the natural and reasonable
consequences of its own act.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-29

The report of the New York State
Board Of Charities, based upon a long and
searching investigation into the misdeeds
Of Brute Brockway, of the Elmira reform
atory, is so conclusive and irresistible
that Governor Flower has summoned
the managers of that institution to show
cause why that inhuman bully should
not be bounced forthwith. In showing
up the brutality of Brockway and
bringing him to investigation and con,
domination, the New York World has
performed service in the cause o.
humanity deserving to be remembered
with the similar good work wrought by
Dickens in his mastery portraiture o
the infamous Squeers, the mercenary
tyrant of Dotheboys Hall. 1t has beef
grand demonstration of the power o
the press, rightfully used.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-29


The fact that many of the most earnest
and emphatic protests against the enact
ment of the Bland bill were received
from the leading cities Of the West and
South, including Cincinnati, Chicago,
ST. Louis, Kansas City, Baltimore, Rich
mond, Charleston, Savannah, New
Orleans and Galveston, is additional
confirmation Of what was pretty con-
clusively demonstrated last summer
while the senate was lettering over the
Sherman act-that the men who voted
to coin the seigniorage are mistaken
about the prevailing public sentiment
and prone to take the mouthings OF
Populists and cranks for the voice OF
the people. A Presidential veto of this
lnischieyous measure will DO received
| with approval all over the United States
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-29

CHICAGO. ILL.,, March 27.-The Union
League Club, the most influential social
organization of Chicago. is, 1t is said, seri-
ously considering the question of expelliug
membership. There are but three names
on the clubs list of honorary members,
ex-President Harrison, Chauncey NJ.
Depew and the Kentucky Congressman.
The Washington times., 1894-04-24

when they came to his shop, not infrequently
obliging them to repeat their demands twice
before stopping to serve them. Sensible
enough to recognize the barrier created be-
tween them by nature and art, the students.
all the same, harbored malice for his rudeness,
and Eudore on his side, returned the hatred
with interest.
'.Those animals of artists" he called them.
''living by the hand of established peoplel''
The cashier, clerks, porter and parcel boys,
one and all, knew, for certainly they had
heard them often enough, the grocers senti-
ments in this regard and believed them un-
changeable. Judge then of their surprise as
time wore on to observe sort of weakening
or modifying of Eudore's harsh opinion of
his young neighbors: animals they were
still, yes, but some of them came OF honorable
families and had fathers in trade, too, or SO
he was told"
Intelligent, well to do, the creator Of the
"Bonjard Pickles and Sauces." bending his
passion always to the yoke OF his principles.
who would have believed that vanity would
open the road to compass the downfall of this
man? But great events are often evolved
from the simplest incidents.
One day Eudore, reclining with superb
composure upon a keg of prunes, his arms
crossed on his breast, his head thrown back,
his left leg outstretched on soap box on the
floor, chatted idly with a student waiting at
the moment while they tied up for him his
purchase of bottle of sour wine.
Suddenly the student began to regard Eu-
dore attentively. to turn, round and round
him. squirting his eyes, wrinkling his brow,
exhibiting. in short, every known symptom OF
to himself at last by the voice Of the master of
the house demanding what allied him, the
artist cried out, with deep breath Of emo
ton:
The Washington times., 1894-04-24

"You cannot have forgotten. monsieur ~
said he, 1.-THE impression recently produced
upon me by the perfection of your form,
Judging by what l saw of it. l could not re-
frain from mentioning it to my comrades,
who unanimously unite with me in regretting
that you cannot pose for US in the atel-
ier"-
.'Sir," interrupted Eudore. doubtful rs to
how he should receive these words
''Unanimously regret" resumed the sculp-
tor, ''but we should never, all the same, have
dreamed but for the insistance of the class
from whom we ccme in the name of art,
OF proposing such a thing to a man of
your position, of demanding of you similar
favor"
"a favor? What, messieurs?" said Eudore,
with dignity that Louis XIV might have
envied.
"Allow US to mold your legs"
'.Eh? What did you say?"
"To mold your legs: to copy them in plaster
to serve us as model.
Like those-those members that see car
ried to your school once in a while?'
Precisely, only far more beautiful. Well
give you, moreover, some Of the castings and
you can sell them at handsome profit
"Truly?'
'Truly; but see you, NJ. Boniard. do not
refuse us; it will be such favor. and you
will earn our eternal gratitude. Think, too.
how your name will pass down to posterity;
how. a hundred years from now, students Of
art, like US, will be copying and modelling
from the Bonjard leg!''
That settled it. Eudore now only spared
for time.
..Will twill it take very long, messieurs?"
said he.
''Half an hour, maybe. You will do 1t,
then? You will lend us your legs?''
mon Dieu! How can say no when see
The Washington times., 1894-04-24
FASHION FANCIES.

Duck and linen suits are TO be popular
again this year. They are made in the coat
and-skirt style and worn with vests and shirts.
The russet shoe is decidedly popular again
this Spring. and is receiving more attention
than heretofore. They are of lighter color
than last season. have either square or pointed
toes, and are OF better quality for the same
money.
The bow knot is the latest thing in hair
dressing; it is set high on the top OF the head
and stuck through with tortoise-shell dag
ger; the front hair is parted in somewhat
demure fashion and brought rather low down
on the forehead.
The size and print of II new visiting card in
Paris do not vary from the conventional pat
tern but it is thin as letter paper. The reason
given for this style of card is that fifty them
can be carried in a cardcase. where dozen
of the heavy kind would ill it.
A pretty new silk is the ''chevron glace"
Four icolors-violet. reseda black and rose
are woven into changeable ground with a
faint effect of large chevrons or points. over
which pea dots of black or green are seat
tered irregula-ly. A relief trimming or panels
of black satin moire or bengaline is required
on u gown of this fabric.
Even shot straws are shown This is due.
Of course. to the craze for shot materials
The round hats are nearly all picturesque in
effect. For dress occasions the toy bonnet
remains in undisturbed reign. The sailor hat
is worth over in ''Lonnop" because n royal
parsonage wore one, and now half the women
are rendering themselves hideous by wearing
the extreme style. The extreme style tthe
high crown and narrow brim) will not be 50
popular as the medium high box crown and
broad brim sailors will be. American women
can adopt extreme things, and they are nearly
always becoming to most OF them. but this
new sailor is.not. 1t takes q mighty stylish
girl to wear it to advantage.
The Washington times., 1894-04-24
COURT RECORD.

EQUITY, No 1, Justice Cox-Daish vs. Hodge;
reference to auditor ordered. Smithson VS..
Prudential Insurance Company; demurrer sus-
tanned and amended bill dismissed. Iieacock
VS.. Dravy; sale of notes by trustee authorized
Davenport VS.. Gordon; release OF purchase and
return of part of deposit ordered.
EQUITY, No Q, Justice Hagner-Ebbert vs., Eb-
bert; divorce "a vinculo matrimonii granted
CIRCUIT COURT, No. 1, Justice Bradley-E and
ii. L. Anthony Company Va >. b. Chamberlain;
Judgment by default Scoyilie and Adams Com
pany VS.. j. B. Chamberlain; Judgment by de-
fault Bradfsch and Pierce vs. j. b. Chamber
lain; Judgment by default Lyon, Hall 4 Com
pany VS.. E. Flick; Judgment by default. Emden,
Gerstle & Company VS.. j. Lansbufgh; judgment
by default A. Lisner vs. L. X. Gordon; 1udg-
ment on motion. Henry +. Marks VS. District Of
Columbia; Judgment in certorari E. A. keyser
VS.. District Of Columbia; iudgmen. in certiorari.
NJ L. Prall VS.. District of Columbia; judgment in
certiorari. j. c. Davidson vs.. District of
Columbia; judgment in certiorarL Crump
vs.. Washington and Georgetown Railroad
Company; death of plaintiff suggested and suit
abated. W. II. Saunders * Co. VS.. II. T. Hurst;
peake and Ohio railroad Company; judgment
on verdict G. W. Cssen Il Co. vs. Johnston
Bros. Il Co.: order fixing amount OF appeal
bond at 800 Evening Star Newspaper COM
pany Johnston Bros. Co; order fixing
amount of appeal bond at 500.
CIRCUIT COURT. No. ., Chief Justice Bingham
Jury again respited.
CRIMINAL COURT, No ., Justice Cole-United
States vs. Julia Smallwood, larceny; verdict,
guilty; sentence three years and labor at Al
bany. United States vs.. Eli Moore, petit lar
cenr; second ofIense: plea not guilty. United
withdraws plea of not guilty and pleads guilty;
order TO return boots and shoes TO Henry Adler.
United States vs. Thomas Williams, housebreak-
ing; attachment for David N. Reed issued.
The Washington times., 1894-04-24
burn Yko fire; my legs. / can't stir them,

burn Nke fire; my legs. ! can't stir them,
eitherl"
.'wait, let us see; the mortar has set, doubt
less," and they began, the traitors, to thump
and prod, with wise looks and mods, the finty
monument in which they had half entombed
Eudore.
s"Yes, it had set splendidly, perfectly, hard
as a rockl The cast would be marvel; they
would run to the atelier for the tools to release
HINT wouldn't take a minute-and then
they would thank, as he.deserved, the gener-
Gus man to whom art owed so muchF'
A minute, they had said; an hour, two
hours fed, and no one came; the Ecole des
Beaux Arts had closed for the night, and be-
sides, IL it hadn't, the students had given no
names; Eudore did not know for whom to
call.
He rayed, he cursed, swore that he was dy-
ing, and shrieked alternately for priest and
the police. Thepolice came and with the
police the commissaire In his scarf and a
crowd that wedged-full as box Of his own
matches-the Rue Bonaparte from end to
end.
But, to abridge useless details, a mason had
at last to be summoned to demolish the con-
struction that made of Eudore a martyr. A
demolition that required some time to accom-
plish and skinned the victim. Literally
skinned him, for the torturers had used
cement harder than iron instead OF plaster,
and also carefully refrained from greasing
the cuticle.
To-day, In the Rue Bonaparte, the house OF
Bonjard stands with closed and bolted doors.
Eudore, unable to support the double isno-
hospital cot and the close proximity OF tnas
odicus Ecole des Beaux Arts, has moved n1s
legs, his soaps, sardines and sauces to . safsg
quarter.
The Washington times., 1894-04-24

You so set on it? I have always helped work
ers to the measure of my means, and as it
assists your studies when, messieurs, will the
operation take place?''
Tomorrow between noon and O'clock
My friend here will take charge of the work" :"
That night Eudore slept badly, tossed rest
lessly on his couch, and rose next morning
with grave face and gesture of a general
about to eng age himself in decisive battle.
Prompt to the hour named he saw enter his
back shop the visitor Of the day before sur
rounded by horde of assistants. one carry
ing hod or mortar box, another a sack of
plaster a third a trowel, fourth pick, a
fifth pound or two Of loose nails, debris of
broken bricks, bits of stone and ruined stat
ues-enough material, in short, to have built
a cottage, and OF the most amazingly varied
character.
Eudore was surprised and far from at ease,
seeing these preparations, but a word or two
Of fiattery from the artists restored his con-
fidence and he set himself to bare to the eye
Of the public the limbs so coveted by art.
Meanwhile corps Of jealous workers had
been mixing a copious mortar, which they
proceeded to apply, and apply literally, leg at
a time, to the majestic members. Then upon
the mortar they heaped layer of nails,
broken bricks and bits of stone, and on that
again another layer of mortar, and so on,
layer for layer, till they had built upon and
around Eudore's legs and loins yard thick
Of masonry, for the solidity Of which they
would be able to answer.
"Do not stir now, monsieur, please" said
the director Of the work, sthe plaster must
set and harden, you see, or the cast will be
spoiled. A half hour, ut most, and we'll come
to deliver you. Behold the paper to read till
our return; the time will seem less long,"
And they departed, carrying their tools
The Washington times., 1894-04-24

national dishonor. There must be good reasons
why this government desires to withdraw from
such compacts and asks to be released from Its
obligations"
Senator washburn. in proving the popu-
larity of reciprocity, quoted extracts from
many Democratic papers commencing the
proposition OF Mr.. Blaine, also report made
In the Fifty-second Congress "by Demo-
cratic committee commencing policy which
that party would now destroy" He turned
his attention to the reason why there was no
reciprocity with Mexico, and said that the ex-
clusion Of wool and lead ore from the articles
Of reciprocity prevented the negotiation Of a
treaty The advantage OF reciprocal relations
with Mexico he discussed at considerable
length. He also mentioned other countries
with whom the commercial relations of the
United States might be improved, and dwelt
especially upon the trade which might be
built up with Australia. He followed with an
argument OF some length in favor OF complete
reciprocity arrangements with Canada.
"No government" he said, in conclusion, "ever
threw away greater opportunity TO promote its
foreign trade and secure commercial advantages
for its citizens than is being sacrificed by the
pending bill Not only are the reciprocity trea-
ties that were made by the last administration
to be absolutely and peremptorily revoked with
out consulting the rights and wishes OF the other
parties to the agreements, but the duties upon
a long list of imported merchandise are to be re-
moved and reduced without even giving the
countries which will enjoy the benefits a chance
TO offer us some concessions in return"
The Washington times., 1894-04-24
TIE:
Tx
Warren Shoe House
GEO. W. RICH,
0l0 F STREET..
BOniard's Legs.

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH FOR THE
MERCURY.
His name was Eudore and he had found it
good one till it come to painting it in let
tiers foot long over the front of the grocery
store, which was why the inhabitants of the
Rue Bonaparte beheld the new sign abbre-
waited to "E. Bonjard, Successor to His
Father
Eudore, too, by all the bonnes of the neigh
borhood was considered personally fine
looking fellow. Why, it would be hard to
say; women have odd tastes, and in tho gro
Gerry business, as in others. there are reputa-
tions whose source is as mysterious as that of
the Nile.
Eudore. as others saw him-with the afore-
SAID ladies of the sixth ACCOMPLISHMENT of
farls-was merely a brawny. broad-shoul-
dered bourgeois, with red eyelids, huge hands
and an air overbearing and rough.
Inc Bonlard store, as stated. was situated
IN the hue Bonaparte Immediately facing-a
TACT that has an important bearing upon this
story-the Ecole des Beaux Arts. 1t was
there that the Ecole des Beaux Arts students
purchased their black soap to cleanse their
brushes, the sardines and sandwiches of their
frugal lunches-everything. indeed. that was
not too dear IN the grocery goods line.
But they were not always so prompt as thew
should have been in settling the bills, which.
very naturally. created a lack of sympathy
between Eudore and his artist clients. He
treated them tartly, not to say disdainfulIy,