The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-04-19

wIaeISs, W. Va, April IS 1891
have been SO busy OF late repairing
damages sustained by that cloud
burst of last year and the labor re-
quired to set my garden In order and
plant vegeatablee and other garden
truck together with second spell
of grip that find myself much DO.
hind in my correspondence.
get your paper regularly together
with tho daily Philadelphia Inquirer.
Sometimes my head seems fairly
turned by reading the current news of
lie day. the great tarit1 trouble. the
silver q u estlun. the contested election
cases, oxey's army. the tidal wave In
elections all over the country, the
thousand and one catch.your-eye ad.
vertiselnente OF patent medicines from
tutieurs all tho way down 10 Pink
Pills and PERFUME. aud then tile Pol
MISUNDERSTANDING scandal makes my
soul sick.
But when turn to something of a
more pleasing nature / can smile and
has wit and humor in 1t. The other
day l came across o new ''Dixie' -
here 1t Is.
Dixie Is the land of cotton.
springtine there is most furg o item;
F'eelo away. freeze away,
Freeze away down south IN Dixie.
q. Spring. she cano cross a flleld OF
eluYer,
Stepped on the ice and then tutnl led
over;
Freeze away, freeze away,
Freeze away down South in Dixie.
Speaking OF freezing. the recent cold
snap has seriously damaged our wheat
and oats aud destroyed all our fruit
except some late trees. Ever since
Adam transRressed. whenever the peo-
pie einned God sent upon them the
locust, the caterpillar. tue blasting
and mildew. famine and pestllence.
When Thy Judgments arc In the Garth
the people learn righteousness. wish
our Congress would heed this Scrip
ture. then perhaps they would do what
the large mass OF the people required
and adjourn.
/ feel much sympathy for Mr.. Cleve-
land. because his party contains huge
element OF dlscord. and portion are
fighting him on this tariff question.
1t IL said that Mr.. Matterson. of tho
Courier-Journal, remarked
that 1t would have been woll II this
matter of tariff reform could have
beeu handled during his first term,
and limited that he then would not
have had chance for O second. MIR.
Cleveland Is blessed with what every
man should possoss. a strong will
power. but unfortunately for him his
party la like the boys donkey. who,
when he failed to make him go. and
was told by his father that the animal
had great will power. replied. No
father, 1t ls not that. It's his great
won't power. anu that's what hateiln
him."
MIR. Cleveland acts as he deems
would DO best for the party. built
won't have anS OF 1t.
Our county court has refused to
grant license to any one this year to
sell spirituous or malt liquors or wine,
and we all feel like the good Metho.
dist brother of BrandywIne Hundred,
who, when he heard tho Wings had
cs rriea delaware, came running into
the headquarters shouting, Praise
God. from whom all blessings Ito W :"
That wus II good while ago. in the
days uf John NJ. lastcn and his COM
peers, days of Alexander Porter. John
McClung. Archibald Hamilton, jesse
Sharp. john Gordon, tho booths,
Rogers, ct. al
Well do | remember these old stand.
Ibysi ell ate - ne. ami soon tho writer
OF this with DO smonk The number who
haye passed away. W. D. W.