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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-03-24
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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-03-24

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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-03-24
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Everett Mills, of No. go King street
is i'll with fever.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-03-24
DEGIsTER's ORDER
IN kEGlSTER'S OFFICE,
NEW CASTLE TO-. DhI.

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Del. InIg
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
A LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Written to General Schuyler In Reply T.
Congratulations After His Inauguration.

Written to General Schuyler In Reply to
Congratulations After His Inauguration.
NEW YORK, May Q, 1889.
DEAR SIR yesterday had the pleasure to
receive your favor of the I'd inst, and must
beg you to accept of my most grateful acknowl-
edgments for your good wishes and kind gratu-
lations upon my entrance on q new and ardu-
GUS task. II is only from the assurances of
support which l have received from the re-
spectacle and worthy characters in every part
of the Union that am able to overcome the diff
fidence which l have in my own abilities to ex-
ecute my great and important trust to the best
interest of our country. An honest zeal and
an unremitting attention to tho interest of
united America is all that dare promise.
The good dispositions which seem ut present
TO pervade every class Of people afford reason
for your observation that the clouds which
have long darkened our political hemisphere
are now dispensing, and that America will soon
feel the effects of her natural advantages. That
invisible hand which has SO often interposed
to save our country from impending destruc-
ton seems In no instance to have been more
remarkably exerted than In that of disposing
the people Of this extensive continent to adopt
In peaceablo manner q constitution which,
IL we'll administered, bids fair to make Amer
ica happy nation. With very sincere regard
and esteem, am, dear sir, your most obedt
h'ble serv't. s,,e,f.s G. WAsHrNGroN
General Schuyler. rs.. .elr..
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
washington,s Birthday.

The first celebration of the birthday Of
Washington was in ITO, so far as the
records show, and it has been observed
ever since. Here are two verses
Of song written for and sung in New
York at the celebration of 1885:
From scenes of rural peace,
From affiuence and ease,
At freedoms call,
A hero from his birth.
Great Washington stands forth,
The scoarge Of George and North
And tyrants all
Those mighty chiefs Of old,
CAESARS and heroes bold
Who realms have won,
Smit by his brighter blaze.
Hide their diminished rays
And yield the palm Of praise
To Washington.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
WASHINGTON JOKES.
They Are Not Indicative of Waning Re-
spect For His Country's Father.

They Are Not Indicative of Waning Re-
spect For His Country's Father.
The date of the beginning of the Gus
tom of making jokes about that Ameri-
can we have all agreed to call the Father
of His Country and whose memory we
all revere beyond that of any other
American, in spite of our jests about
him, is lost in obscurity. The earliest,
so far as know, came in at about the
beginning of Washington's birthday
celebrations. and perhaps was, when
first perpetrated, slip of the tongue,
by which some one Inadvertently alluded
to the day of the additions of family
whose name was hitherto unknown in
that neighborhood. This joke is still ac-
ceptable to boys, who think it excruciat-
ingly funny and work it off with great
zest every year. l have also heard it,
and recently, on the lips of hoary headed
men who thought it a masterpiece.
1t was not till the rise of the profess
sionally funny writer that the original
Washington joke began to flourish. Joke
writers made money at the industry for
few years. but nowadays they groan in
spirit and sometimes use unconventional
verbalities when batch of jokes for
Feb. % is ordered, for nothing seems
left after the work of themselves and
their fellow humorists in past years. The
funny artist has the advantage over the
writer, for by divers tricks of the time he
may make the dullest Joke acceptable
sometimes. Here is reproduced part of
two page picture by G. d. Gibson that
appeared in Life in 1889, the year that
the centennial of Washington's inaugura-
ton as president was celebrated. No
legend went with this picture:
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
The Record In Brief.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-Unsuccess.
full effort made in the house Wednes-
day to close debate on the Bland seign-
forage bill. Senate: No business of
Importance transacted.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-Senate: Okla
homa town site bill passed. House:
Bland seigniorage bill occupied the
time Thursday.
WASHINGTON, Feb. T.-Senate: Peck
hams nomination was rejecte i by a
vote of 80 to Al. House: Ent ire day
consumed by the Bland bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. House: Bland
bill debated until 2 o'clock Saturday;
the remainder of the day was devoted
to eulogies of the late Representative
Lilley of Pennsylvania.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-Senate: E.
d. White, senator from Louisiana, was
confirmed as associate justice of the
supreme court. House: Filibuster on
the Bland bill consumed the time Mon
day.
When the scalp Is atrOphied, or shinybald
no preparation will restore the hair; in all
other cases, Halls Hair Remover will start
q growth.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
MURDER AT A WEDDING.
Two Men stabbed and Killed and th'
Bride Wounded.


RALEIGH. N. c.. Feb. i9.-News comes
of a double murder at wedding in
Allegheny county. Among those pres
emit was Daniel Slaughter of Carroll
county, Va. just as the wedding cere-
mong ended Slaughter passed near an
old man, who seized his hand and made
some remark, Slaughter spoke roughly
and was told to leave the house. He did
so. but in few minutesreturned.
The friends of the old man were
angry and peacemaker endeavored to
keep them back. while at the same time
he told Slaughter to keep quiet. Sud
denly Slaughter sprang at John Bare
and stabbed him to the heart. Bare
fell dead and Slaughter made an at.
tempt to again stab him, but the bride
seized his hand. She was cut in the
hand and arms.
Slaughter dashed for the door and on
the way he stabbed Ed Long. killing
him instantly, and then fled. He was
captured two miles away. There were
threats of lynching, but he was safely
taken to Jail at Sparta. He elaine some
Of the crowd struck him in the face.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23

a WASHINGTON BIRTHDAY STORY BY N.
QUAD.
copyright, 1894. by American Press AssociA-
tion.l

copyright, 1894. by American Press AssociA-
1t was the boast of Farmer Simmons
that he was self made man. He was
uneducated, uncouth and not we'll liked
by his neighbors because of his mulish
disposition, and at the age of so all his
real and personal property would not
sell for over $4,000. He had very little
TO boast of as matter of fact. but he
was never tired of Dragging about how
he had started on nothing and grown to
be what he was. AS for education, he
used to cut off fresh hunk of plug to-
bacco and say:
Its all folderol fur anybody but q
fulel OF course, if man is born fule,
he has got to hev books stuffed into him
to make him the ekal of others. | never
went to skule but three days, and yit see
whar' I've got toll I've knowed men to
go through seven colleges and then land
in the poorhouse."
He could read little bit, and if he had
time he could add 10 and 10together and
make the total 10 or 90 or 81, but he was
totally ignorant Of geography, orthog-
raphy and the pen. He could write some
thing which he declared was Samuel
Simmons" and which passed as his sig
nature. but he had to have lots of elbow
room and his mouth open and his tongue
hanging out.
Farmer Simmons wife knew even less
than he did and was just as proud Of the
fact. When anybody said anything about
education, she smiled in pity and replied:
Poor critters, how pity 'em! Unjust
be dreadful to be born withouta any brains.
but s'pose they kinder get used to it.
Wall, everybody knows that my butter
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23

Default having been made In the conditions OF
o certain mortage made by Charles r. Prime and
Sophia Prime. his wife. Of Lansing. Michigan,
to John Owen Il. G. Merrick and f. j. Conable,
'The Albion College Endowment Fund Com.
mittee," of Albion, Michigan, at the date of the
execution Of said mortage, and their successors,
recorded in the ONCE of the Register OF Deeds,
for the county OF Shtawassee, State of Michigan
on the sixteenth day Of January 1877 In Liber s
Of mortgages ''l2a to i26' on which mortgage
notice the sum of Eleven hundred fortyeight
and thirty-two ne-hundreths dollars. That by
reason Of such default the power OF sale In said
mortgage contained has became operative, and
no suit or proceedings at law or In equity having
been instituted to recover the debt secured by
said mortgage or any part thereof
OF the power of sale in said mortgage contained
and of the Statutes OF the Safe OF Michigan In
such case made and provided the said mort
gage will be foreclosed by sale Of the premises
necessary to satisfy the amount due on said
mortgage at the date OF said sale together with
the legal costs and expenses OF said sale at pub
teenth day OF April, A. D., 1894 at one O'Clock p
m. OF thats dav at the front door of the Court
House In the city Of Corunna In said county OF
premises described In said mortgage and 10 be
sold are as follows: All those certain pieces or
parcels OF land situate and being in the town OF
Wo dhull county o, s ,sn as, and State Of
south.e quarter and southwest fractional
quarter OF section number twenty nine (2o)
township number Eve Ol north of range one O)
east containing one hundred eleven and seventy
two one hundredths acres, more or less.
DANIEL STRIKER
WILLIAM p. SIDMAN,
WILLIAM II. Haze,
The Albion College Endowment Fund Com
mittee and successors OF Mortgages.
DANIEL STRIKER,
Attorney tor said committec ana the Successors
OF the Mortgages.
Dated January 8, 1924.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
Muscle and vigor-A Difference.

Many muscular men succumb to fatigues
borne with ease by persons far their interiors In
physical strength. Muscle does not imply vigor
In fact IL is not difficult OF proof that athletes
do not live as long nor enjoy as good health az
the average individual who Is Tvigorous--that IL
to say, whose digestion and sleep are unim
paired, whose nerves are tranquil and who has
no organic tendency to disease, These requi
sites of vigor are conferred upon those inhs r
emily weak, no less than upon those debilitated
through wasting disease. by a thorough, per
sstent course of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
the leading national tonic, indorsed and recon
mended by physicians of eminence. 1t will not
endow you with the muscle of q Corbett, but 4,
will infuse energy into your system and renew
the active and healthful performance OF its
functions. 1t averts and cures malarial. rheu
matte and kidney complains, and overcomes
dyspepsia constipation, liver trouble and ner
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh tina
Contain Mere ury.

AS mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smln and completely derange the whole
system when entering it through the mu-
cous surfaces. Such articles should never
be used except on prescriptions from repu-
table physicians as the damage they will do
is tel fold 20 the good you can possibly de-
rive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure man
ufactured by +. j. Cheney Il Co.. Toledo,
o., contains no mercury and is taken in
ternaly, acting directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces ofthe system. Ia buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. IL is taken internally and ma ie
Testimonials free. Sold by druggists 75c
mar betN0
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
washineton's Quiet Sarcasm.

Many writer's have asserted that George
Washington was totally devoid of the
sense of humor. This is, however, a mis-
take. Washington could be humorously
satirical when occasion required. While
his opponents were msligning him fear
fully and hauling him over the Goals for
all sorts Of things. real and imaginary.
Washington wrote private letter con-
cerning the outlook to Gouverneur Nor
ris, in which he said; THE affairs of
this country cannot 60 smiss. There are
20 many watchful guardians of them, and
such infallible guides, that one is ct no
los for director at any turn"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23

II WILL CALL YOU HAN FUR SHORT"
brings cents pound over the market
price and that folks send fur three miles
around to git my soft soap. and where
would eddecashun benefit me anyY'
In January, 18S-, Farmer Simmons
"took on" hired man named William
Burt The man was fairly well educated
and great reader, and on several occa-
sions he read extracts from different
books to the farmer and his wife. Both
of them were quite interested in the life
of Washington, and the farmer himself
became so enthusiastic over the doings of
the great patriot that one evening he
slapped his leg and exclaimed:
Wall, ! swan, but he was consid-
cradle of Teller after all, and mebbe
he'd hev made purity good farmerl Say,
Bill was he self made man."
III guess he was"
Then he was all right, and me and
him wouldn't hev no trouble. Licked
the British in most every fight, you say?"
He did,"
Crossed the Delaware with the ice
Jest a-boomin down. ehT'
Yes"
"And finally got to be president of the
United States?"
Yes"
Wall, that's purity smart = purity
smart---a leetle better than hev done
myself. though he p'obably never had
run of typhoid fever to sot him back"
A day or two before Washington's
birthday the hired man had to go away
for several days. Farmer Simmons had
only one holiday, and that was Fourth Of
July. and even then he didn't knock off
work until o'clock in the afternoon.
He knew about the anniversary, because
he had heard some one speak of it. On
the 22d of February he was repairing the
barnyard gate and thinking what the
hired man had read about Washington
when a stranger on foot came along. He
was tramp of the first water, but he
knew thing or two about history. By
way of introducing himself he loosely
said: s,.,-,. ~
'Bein it's my birthday, think you
orter set me out square meal and gim-
me pocketful Of apples to boot"
Your birthday, ehy" queried the farm
er. Why, bless me, but You can't be
George Washington ~
Cant n Why not?"
'Because-why. durn my hide, but
you may be, after ALL Did you lick the
British e
"A dozen times over. and will do it
again If necessary"
did you cross the Delaware?"
"You betr
BY gum, but Bill read that to me
outer bookr
''Yes. it's right in the books. I'm trav-
elm around the country to see how folks
git along. Excuse my looks, but I'm in
disguise. don't keer about everybody
KNOWN who am. as they'd raise great
fuss over me-"
Il see." thoughtfully replied the farm
or. "Accordin to what Bill read in the
book you wss 1ected president Couldn't
hev bin lately. as ! remember back to
Buchanan
That was an error in the print" ex-
planned the tramp. They offered to
make me president. but declined with
thanks. bad too much other biznees
on hand. Some Of the books hev got It
that was actually elected. You seem
to be a smart. go ahead sorter Teller.
Reckon you are gittin along the best OF
any farmer in this county"
II don't want to bragg replied the
farmer. highly pleased at the words.
but don't think I'm fur behind the
best Of EN-. Never went to skule but
three days. and begun life on 4 shillins.
and yet here amr'
"Wonderful--wonderfuli II does me
good to meet sich man. l think III
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23

ON HIS WAY TO THE INAUGURATION, 1850.
One Of the best pictorial jokes re-
member was drawing showing line
Of bent and hoary negro men and wom-
en- stretching away in endless perspect-
i've, labeled "Washington's Cooks and
Body Servants A favorite line for the
professional humorists to work out their
jokes on Is, Suppose George hadn't told
the truth about the cherry treer' The
rhymes below show how one chap utilized
that idea and sold his production to the
same paper that published the picture of
Washington's trip In 1889:
4 wAsHINGToN's BIRTHDAY THOUGHT.
II Washington had lied that day
He chopped the cherry tree,
How different II would have been
Our country's history
For nono can doubt that had he lied
Old Bt shrod wbuld have jumped
For his right heavy hickory stick.
And Georges life out thumped. M
And then--ah, mel--our loved state
Indeed would have been sad;
For IL q. w. then had died
II would have had
No Dad
The rhymester (unidentified) who pro
duced the following took a negative view
Of things and paid the immortal George
= high compliment at the same time:
When Washington was president.
As cold rs any icicle
He never on railroad went,
And never rode . bicycle.
He read by no electric lamp.
Nor heard about the Yellowstone:
He never licked postage stamp.
And never saw . telephone.
His trousers ended at the knees:
BY wire he could not send dispatch;
He filed his lamp with whale oil groaoA
And never had . match TO scrseoh.
But in these days it's come to pass.
All work IL with such dashing done
We've all those things, but then, alasl
We seem to have no Washington
JOSEPH FARNswoR7u.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
Still No Quorum.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-The' deadlock
on the Bland seigniorage bill was not
broken in the house on Tuesday. Roll
call followed rollcall until 4 o'clock,
when it being apparent that Mr.. Bland
could not muster a quorum on his
proposition he moved an adjournment.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
DUMPED DOWN THE BANK.
Novel Method Of Escape by Penitentiary
Convict.


Convict.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 21.-Details have
reached here of the escape from the
Chester Qlls.) prison of Joseph &.
Hardin, the Centralia Qlls.) train rob-
Der. sent up for 20 years. 1t seems that
Hardin, from the time ne stepped into
the penitentiary at Chester, began to
cultivate the friendship of the trusty
convicts, who were employed as cart
drivers
He became fast friend of one Of
these and the cart driver permitted him
to Jump into his vehicle and, lying
down ON the bottom of the bed, the trusty
driver loaded the cart with clay, COM
pletely covering the form OF the train
robber f't fhf gR s
When the cart was loaded, the trusty
drove out of the gates of the peniten-
tiary and arriving at the river bank,
where dump had been established for
the purpose of strengthening the levee,
Hardin was dumped with the clay down
the embankment and into the river,
and, it is thought, that by pre-arrange.
ment there was skiff near at hand
into which he jumped and was rowed
beyond the reach and sight Of the au-
thOrities. f le-
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
p.lssl Piles! itching pilesl

SYMPTOMS Moisture, intense itching and
50 nging most At night; worse by scratching
bleed and ulcerate, becoming very sore
SwAYNR's OINTMENT stops the itching and
pieeolnS Meals nicerat3n, anH IN most cases 20
bOcents. DR.. Swavne & Son Philadelphia. 81.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
TABLESPOONFUL PICTURE.

historical painting from the brush of the
artist Luntz, of which an outline is given.
There are many conflicting stories as
to the manner in which the crossing was
effected, it being stoutly maintained in
some quarters that RATS, much as shown
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
DEVOID OF INTEREST.
No Business OF Importance Transacted In
the senate.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-The session
of the senate Tuesday was devoid of
special interest. Senator Daniel of Vir-
ginia concluded his speech on the Ha-
waiian question and, while supporting
warmly the course that has been fol-
lowed by the administration, he de-
clared that now there was nothing to
do but recognize the new government
and wish it godspeed
After Senator Daniels speech the bill
for additional printing Office facilities
was taken up and discussed in de.
sultory manner the remainder of the
day.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
AS ITMIGHr HAVE BEEN.

in the second cut, were used, and not
boats. In either case, the passage of the
river on that cold winter night was a
great achievement and one fraught with
important consequence.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
reg s.sr> An Open.Letter.
Frsm the Flint Journals:


EDITOR EVENING JOURNAL. In last
evenings issue 1 see the Owosso Argus
taIASs i morbid, short-sighted liberty
with the affairs of his neighbor, showing
a lack of courtesy; which lis The mark of
gentleman and evinces weakness of
mental calibre when he says "the Spirit
ualisiic medium of Flint" when many
of his subscribers are Spiritualists. Mr..
and Mrs. Rourk mot Bourke), the par
ents 0r the deceased, requested me to
oficjete with Rev w. b. Matteson at the
funeral of their son. The reverend
brother kindly extended the courtesy of
true Christian. and by my expressed
wish ho gave his sermon first. / followed
with u part of our funeral service and at
the close said my dear daughter who
was in Spirit life going with me and be-
coming acquainted with my friends had
requested me to read Abdailah's farewell
at the grave not Ito his soul" but as a
fitting expression of Gods sublime truth
through the second birth which is called
death into that higher life, the All
Fathers Kingdom.
Yours for the truth,
DIR. SARAH ALLEN.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23

Inter Ocean: President Dole has had his
salary raised TO $4,000. He deserves 1t.
A man on small island who can beet the
President Of the United States and al his
istectives backed up by royalty Is . good
Ell OF man. Dole has shown himself q
niny, courageous, wise man, who has been
able at every turn to beat his enemies In
heIr diplomacy and intrigues.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
CROSSING fAE DELAWARE.

1t Was Great Achievements, Whether AT
fected by Means of Boats or Rats.
The crossing of the Delaware by Wash.
ngton has been celebrated in many ways,
but in none more effectually than by the
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23

Rheumatism racks the system like a
thumbscrew. II retreats before the power
OF Hoods Sarsaparilla, which purifies the
blood.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-02-23
The Puzzle Solved.

Perhaps NO local disease has puzzled and
bafYied the medical profession more than
nasal catarrh. While not Immediately fatal
IL II among the most nause0us and disgust
ing Ills the flesh is heir to, and the records
show very few or no cases Of radical cure OF
chronic catsrrh by any Ut the many modes
Of treatment until the introduction Of Ely's
Cream Palm q few years ago. The success
Of this preparation has been most gratifying
and surprising. No druggist Is without It.