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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18

The success which has attended the
administration Of the New York law
substituting the dynamo for the hang.
mans rope has led to the introduction
of bill in the Maryland Legislature
providing for the same method of in.
fiicting capital punishment in that State.
Experience has justified the claim of
the promoters of the New York law,
that the electric method is more hui
name, expeditions and reliable than the
moose.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18
sold Glory" MaEsZS,ss.

Worthy the name. Honest
Muslins. No dressings, no
loading. The weight and feel
come from pure Cotton and
nothing else. Good, clean,
round thread, quality equal tc
a full standard I2Hc. grade.
The PRICE Ioc.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18

The Philadelphia Ledger admonishes
the voters of that city, who are prone to
be very derelict on this score, that
"every citizen should pay his own poll
tax and should refuse to authorize party
committees to procure receipt for him.
j is degrading and demoralizing 10
ones manhood to vote on receipt pre-
scented by a political party and paid for
by assessments levied on letter carriers,
lamplighters, policemen, and other office
holders" The poll tax in Philadelphia
is, we, believe, only % cents year, but
there are tens of thousands in that city
so ineffably mean as to habitually look
to the party to supply them with tax
receipts. The voters of Wilmington
make much better showing, but there
are some here who should read and
ponder the words of the Ledger and try
TO get firmly into their heads the full
meaning thereof.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18

The Duyal Athletic Club, in itsrecent
pronunciamento, assured the public that
the Corbett-DIltchell fight would come
OIL according to programme, barring
accidents of a providential nature"
The word is strangely chosen in such a
document, but their are thousands Of
people in Florida who will incline to re.
gard as "proyidential" any accident"
lor incident which may intervene to pre-
went this encounter.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18

The Electrical World says of the ex-
piry, on the 30th Of this month, of the
patent on the metallic diaphragm tele.
phone, that after that date it will be
possible to use the telephone for COM
mercial purposes on short lines and
even to operate an exchange system in
competition with the Bell monopoly,
but that competitors will still be ham.
pered by the SO long hung-up Berliner
patent. "Ead the ordinary course been
followed in the Patent Office, in rela-
ton to the Berliner patent" it explains,
1.-THE principle of telephony by means of
variable contact resistance would also
soon be public property, but until
this patent expires or is annulled the
Bell monopoly cannot be very seriously
affected. If by proper means this pat
ent was retained in the Patent Office for
fourteen years, by this process practi-
cally prolonging the life of an absolute
monopoly to that extent, monstrous
state of affairs is admitted, which, if it
cannot be otherwise remedied, would
almost justify the entire abolition of the
patent system" 1t is true that the gov
eminent has a suit under way to annul
this patent, which has already cost the
government $4,000, but the indications
are not encouraging to speedy deci-
sion, Notwithstanding the obvious out
rage on the public, in the case of its
final annulment, that every day after
January Both the decision may be de-
layed would carry with it.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18
GRAY FOR SUPREME COURT
He Would Be the Choice of
the U. S. Senate.
TALK ABOUT THE APPOINTMENT
Also, of the Probable Sena-
torial Succession.

Washington Comment, Started by Mem
tion of Senator Gray's Name in Connec-
ton with the supreme Court Vacancy
who Would Succeed Him as senator
II He Were Made Supreme Justice.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18

When Detectives McVey and Witsil
go after man they generally get him,
and 1t doesn't matter if he be wild and
oloodthirsty and pretty well "heeled /"
TO boot
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18
dUanamaker's.
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. IS, 1884,
NeaC Dress COtfO3ss.

Fresh features with almost
every day.
Japonettes, csc.
silk striped Ginghams, Acc.
French Sateens, 35c
Rahma Silk Ginghams, Coo.
Swivel Silk Ginghams, Coo.
Some of the stuhs never
seen before this season.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18

The police census of the unemployed
in Boston, to which we referred the
recently without being able to give the
figures, shows that they number only
little over 5000, instead of 10000, as had
been previously currently reported.
This illustrates the tendency to exag-
geration in such matters, partly due, we
are sorry to believe, to the deliberate
action of partisaus DESTROYS of putting
the very worst possible face forward for
purposes of their own. But the people
have a way of getting down to the
truth in the long run, and the truth is
what the calamity howlers have most
reason to fear.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18


| do not assume to speak for the
manufacturers of the United States, but
| know / speak for some of them when
/ respectfully urge that it would be in
fnitely better to have a moderately salts.
factory tariff bill passed by the Demo.
cratic party than even more satisfac.
tory bill passed by the Republican
party. Is it not better for
manufacturers, as class, to have the
party which has opposed the present
tariff frame tariff which shall pass as
just TO all interests, and for which it is
responsibleg Should the Democratic
party pass tariff bill it will be its own
work, and it will be estopped from at
lacking it as made for the few and not
for the general interests of the nation
The question would be removed from
politics for many years. Tho party who
made it could not attack il, and The
other party would have no disposition
to do so. l submit that it is far better
to obtain moderate Democratic tariff
bill, securing US stability and perma-
nence satisfactory to all, rather than a
high protective bill passed by the Repub-
lican party and certain to be the object
rot continual political attack. We all
know that uncertainty in regard to i'm
port duties is ruinous to our interests
Andrea Carnegie.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18

Senator Higgins unavailing fight, in
executive session, against the confirma-
ton of Major Isaac J. Wootten's APP
pointment, recalls previous executive
session." held at the house of Post.
master George L. Smith, in Laurel, on
the night Of Thursday, October 18th,
1909, on which occasion only three per-
sons--Higgins, Smith and Wootten-
were present 1t is recorded that Mrs.
Smith entered the room at one time
during the session, but, on Mr.. Higgins
winking the other eye at her, she with
drew from the meeting. We have two
reports of what occurred at that execu-
tive session-the written statement fur
nished by Mr.. Higgins himself to the
press and the affidavit of Major Wootten.
Mr.. Higgins admitted, in this written
statement, that
Wootten called on me at the house of
George +. Smith, informing me that he
desired to change his political connections
and to solicit anAoilice under the govern
ment. Having understood him to be a
man of influence and good standing, told
him thought an office could be had for
him.
Major Wootten's affidavit gives the
following version Of the negotiation to
which Senator Higgins refers.
He .(Higgins) said he didn't want to
know all about Smiths and my arrange
ments, but whatever Smith said was right
and he would do whatever he said for him;
that he would get any place for me outside
of the civil service.
1t is little late now for Mr.. Higgins
to discover that the man whom he ad-
mits was qualified by "influence and
good standing" to hold office under the
Harrison administration is now unfit to
become an Indian agent under the Cleve-
land administration. OF course the real
reason for this somersault was Major
Wootten's refusal to barter his influence
Ito change his political connections
at the solicitation of Postmaster Smith
and Senator Higgins.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18


Those who were fortunate enough to
hear the Hon, Bourke Cochran on the
memorable occasion of his appearance
before a Wilmington audience, in the
campaign of 1899, can readily under.
stand how the national House of Repre-
sentatives went fairly wild at the con-
clusion of his great effort on Saturday
afternoon. The matchless eloouence Of
this rarely gifted orator wrought his
hearers up to pitch of enthusiasm al
most unprecedented in the history of
the American Congress. We are told
that both the floor and the galleries
broke forth into uncomfortable cheering
and applause that lasted for seven
minutes; that there were frequent and
loud cries of "votew and that the Re-
publican members were so ratified that
they at once proceeded to get together
in caucus. 1t was a scene that will be.
come historic. Even at this distance,
those of us who sat under the inspira.
ton of the wonderful orator of Tam.
many Hall, can almost picture to our
selves the power, the force, the ire.
sistible enthusiasm, with which he
swayed his auditors in such utterances
as the following: "Mr. Wilson has told
US, in words which will last long after
he has disappeared from this scene of
his activity which he has done so much
to adorn-he has told us that the pros
perity of this country depends, not on
the tariff but on its labor; not on its
mines but on its men; not on the Repub-
lican party but on Almighty God"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18

The desperation of the beneficiaries of
the Mckinley system of taxation per-
meates the whole breadth and depth of
the conspiracy to discredit the Cleve-
land administration, and the evidences
OF the internal ingenuity that is being
employed to compass this end are be-
coming so patent that it is only neces-
sary to call the attention of the reading
public to it to open their eyes to its true
significance. II is most marked in the
banding together of the elements
opposed to the nomination of Mr.. Cleve-
land at Chicago, in 1902, with the
Harrison and Mckinley factions of the
Republican party and the resultant at.
tacks from different directions, on the
Cleveland administration = on his
Hawaiian policy as much as on his
tariff policy, In the Hawaiian matter,
an analysis of the United Press dis
patches has already made it very plain
that the Harrison Republicans are being
aided, covertly as well as openly, by
Charles A. Dana and his associates in
the Democratic party. Attention has
been called by people who have been
thinking over this Hawaiian business to
the manifest lack of discussion of the
real principles at issue and the actual
occurrences, and the resort, instead, to
shouting and waving the American flag
on the part of those factions of the Re-
publican party who are defending the
stealing of little kingdom because it is
only stealing from "nigger."
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18
EA1sS.

HCtfSs
Fur Collarettes, in Seal,
Marten, Astrakhan, Persian
and combination.
Fur Elton Jackets (the latest
Paris craze) in Seal, Otter,
Electric Seal and combination.
Fur Trimmings in all widths.
These are a few hints of yard
prices:
Brook Mink &c.,, worth 75c.
Gray Coney &c., worth 6Oc.
Astrakhans 60c,, worth 81.
French Seal G5c., worth 81.
Nutria Beaver 75c.. worth $1.25.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18

The James Bradford Company, as re-
ported in our local columns, received
Wednesday an invoice of French glass,
the duties upon which amounted to the
cost of the glass on the other side, plus
the freight and $142 over. OF course,
according to the Mckinley theory, the
self-denying Frenchmen not only make
the American purchasers a free gift of
this glass, but also pay the freight
thereon and donate $142 in cash as an
inducement to us to take it off their
hands. This glass, be it remembered, is
not the product Of the free trade labor
of Great Britain. France is high tariff
country and there is no Wilson bill he
fore the French Chamber of Deputies.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18

EAsToN, Pa, Jan. 16.-The Warren
Foundry and Machine Company of
Philipsburg, MI, which shut down the
third week in December, is now employ
ing its entire force of $50 men, with
wages reduced 10 per cent. The Ameri.
can Sheet Mill, employing 100 hands,
Will resume. on February LIST. The
National Switch and Signal Company
OF this place, will resume work soon.
1t will employ more than 100 hand.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-18
Dress IrIcOts.

Thirty Thousand Xarae I
All the mill man had-fne
Atwood Tricots, Sc an. sudc.
They cost him more to
make, they'd cost him more to
make to-day. But he's glad
to have us pass them out to
you at
rs AND 3oC. THE YARD.
Two qualities, easily the best
value of the kind we ever had.
Colors include
The National tribune., 1894-06-28
ARMY AND NAVY.

The Bethlehem Steel Co. shipped to the
Cramps shipyard, where the battfeship Massa-
chusetts is nearing completion, 300 tons Of IL
inch nickel steel Harveyized armor, constitut-
ing one of the barbettes of that ship. A similar
amount for the ether barbette of the Massachu-
setts will be delivered this week This lot of
600 tons was accepted by the Navy Department
as the result of the successful ballistic test at
Indian Head week ago.
In New York the other day business was
suspended for 10 mi niites on the Stock Ex-
change to allow an interesting and impressive
ceremony, the presentation 10 the representa-
tives of the National Government of the en-
sign and compass of the historic warship Kear-
sarge. The relics were recovered by Capt.
Footc. of the brgantine Frederika Schepp,
owned by Mr. Leopold Schepp, a member of
the Stock Exchange. Two officers represented
the Government at the presentation, Capt. Ell
mer and Lieut.. Henry Morell. who were in full
uniform. with Quartermaster Peter Steinbern,
of the Vermont, whose distinction it was to
bear tho recovered treasures. Speeches were
made by Vice-President G. II. Thomas. who
presented the flag in behalf of the Stock Ex-
change, and by Capt. Elmer who has had six
years of service on the Kearsarge. A telegram
of thanks was received from Secretary Her
bert
There is q determined movement on foot to
place Capt. John w. Phillip, commanding the
cruiser New York, as superintendent of the
Naval Academy, to succeed Capt. Pythian. The
entire New York delegation in Congress is at
Phillips back, and is making a strong effort to
secure the detail from him.
The National tribune., 1894-06-28
SIMPLY COINCIDENCE.
The Strange Thing that Happened at Pit
hole the Night Lincoln was Shot.

The Strange Thing that Happened at Pit
hole the Night Lincoln was Shot.
- may forget all of the numerous re-
markable and startling incidents that were
part of the pioneer development of the
Pennsylvania oil regions-and / have for
gotten many of them, but there is one that
is indelibly impressed upon my mind as it no
doubt is on the minds of every surviving
participant in the doings of those lively
days." said one of those old-timers. "The
famous old Homestead well, where oil was
struck in the early part of 1865, was the
gusher that started the rush to Pithole Creek
and brought into existence in the wilderness
city of 10000 inhabitants almost as
quickly as it could have been done by the
magic of Aladdin's lamp. John Wilkes
Booth was on a visit to the oil country about
that time, looking for investments, and he
paid 1000 for a one-thirteenth interest in
the Homestead well. Oil was selling for $4 a
barrel then, and the Homestead was gushing
hundreds of barrels day.
When the news came in April that Lee
had surrendered and that the war was over,
among the hundreds of flags that were
foated in Pitbole as evidence of the Joy
that WAS felt over the great event was one
from the top of the derrick at the Home
stead well. When, quickly following these
glad tidings, the terrible news was received
of the assassination of President Lincoln,
every one Of these flags except one was
lowered to half-mast as q mark of the
peoples mourning for the martyred chief.
That one flag was the one that had been
raised over the Homestead well in rejoicing
for the triumph of our arms-the we'll of
which the Presidents assassin was part
owner. Why was that flag unloweredP
Because on the evening of April IA, 1865, at
shot at the President, an explosion as of
clap of thunder shook PithOle City and
angry flames instantly wrapped the Home
stead well from base to summit. When the
sad news was received at PithOle of the
death of President Lincoln, the town was
overhuDg with pail as black as night from
the smoke that rose from the ruins of the
we'll that had poured money into the assas-
sims hands; money, no doubt, which he
used in laying out and perfecting his
murderous plans. The flag that had floated
from the derrick was consumed with the
rest of the property.
"Of course, matter-of-fact people at Pit
hole and elsewhere in the region said that
the explosion that made consuming pillar
of fire and pail of smoke of the Home
stead we'll would have occurred just the same
if the President had not been assassinated,
but they were few compared with those who
declared that the coincidence was too
startling and appalling to have been other
than visitation of the wrath of Providence
against the wretched Booth. And there are
good many hard-headed folks who hold to
that opinion STILL"
The National tribune., 1894-06-28
AN EX-SENATOR DEAD.

Bishop w. Perkins, ex-senator from Kansas,
died in this city June 20. Comrsde Perkins
WAS born in Rochester, Lorain County, O., in
1912; entered Knox College. at Galesburg, ILL.,
He enlisted in the S3d Ill. in July. 1862. and
was elected Sergeant Of his company was at
the second battle of Fort Donelson, and served
through the Nashville campaign under Gen.
Thomas; was appointed Captain the Spring of
1864, and was shortly afterward detailed Act
ing Adjutsnt-G General of the post of Chattanooga,
which position he held until May, 1866, when
he was mustered out of the service.
After about years reading of law he was
admitted to the bar in 1867 at Ottawa, Ill.,. and
removed to Oswego, Kan, in the Spring of
1869. He was appointed County Attorney,
elected Probate Judge in 1870, elected in
1872. and appointed Judge of the 1lth Judicial
District in 1873. In 1876 ard 1882 lie was a
candidate for Congress He was elected in the
Third Congressional District in 1884, 1856 and
1883. being defeated in 1890 by the combined
vote of the Democrats and Farmers Alliance
with b. ii. Clover as the candidate. In 1892
he was appointed TO succeed Preston B. Plumb,
deceased, in the United States Senate.
The National tribune., 1894-06-28

THE JOURNAL OF MARTHA PTNTARD BAY
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Mrs Baysrd was daughter Of Lewis Pintard,
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by Gen. George Washing gton in a letter to Gen.
Howe. Her journal was kept during thres
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nave been OF the type OF sweet gentlew0men of
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IS quaint portrait of the writer.
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One of the best books ever published for
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Magazines and Notes.
Table Talk for June will be welcome guesS
in every household where il enters il ia so full
and complete in all its departments which are
teeming with good things, demonstrating as
usual its position as the American authority on
culinary topics and asserting its popularity
throughout the land.
Home and Country for June is full Of interest
ing matter and good pictures. 1t has stories
sketches, poems. bits of history, etc, Published
at 53 East Tenth street, New York. Price %
cents
We have received from John Picht, 70 Ave
nue. c, New York City, copy of Elements of
Music, which represents q book on one page.
being the pupils first years study. II contains
all the rudiments, from the first lesson to all
the major and minor scales, chords, and key
notes; how to commit signatures to memory;
dictionary; and full-sized keyboard, which
shows position of all the treble and bass notes
on, above, and below the staff. Price five cents.
The National tribune., 1894-06-28
For Peary's Relief.

The members of the auxiliary Peary party,
who propose to go to North Greenland to bring
back the Arctic explorer and his family and
associates, after their years in high latitudes,
sailed last week by the Red Cross steamer Portia
for Newfoundland.
From st. Johns, Newfoundland, Bryants
party will proceed by the mailing steamer Fall
con to Bowdon Bay, North Greenland. latitude
77 degrees 43 minutes, where the Peary ex-
petition passed the Winter, whore Mrs. Peary
and some other members of the party, it is ex-
pected, will be found. The party hopes to
reach that point in month from now. Then
a month will be devoted to original explora-
tion, for which Mr. Bryant has been commits
stoned by the Philadelphia Geographical
Society,
The National tribune., 1894-06-28
WORDS OF PRAISE.

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