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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-06-06
Mrs. Cleveland on for Huzzard's Bay.

Associated Peas Dt3pIs,l ov soe;isi wlrsL
WASHINGTON. June 5.-Mrs. Cleve-
land and her two children, accompanied
by Mrs. Olney and her daughter. left
Washington at 750 O'Clock on the
Colonial express for the Presidents
summer home at Gray Gables on Buzz
Yards Bay, Mass. At Providence, Mrs,
Cleveland will take another train for
Buzzard's Bay while Mrs. Olney will
go on to Falmouth.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-06-06

Col. II. NJ. Floyd is IN his city on a visit
to his son. r. Wentworth Floyd, who is
Ill at The Gables. Col. Floyd is the guest
OF d.. A, L, Frantz
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-06-06
Al ETEoR0LoGiCAL.
temperature and OGnsr Conditions n
Various Points rhro u "a ont the Country

WEATHER BrREAu OFFICER BALTIMORE,
Mn. June 5.-rhe' table below gives the
minimum temperature reported this morn
ing. and the sthte'o the weather ut S a. IN.
tn.dnJ If the stationS named.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-06-06

Mrs. ARENAS Smith; has returned from
visit to the lower part Of New Castle
'.county.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-06-06

William. ". Puseys family has gone to
Spring Lake, s
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-06-06
FOR A BREACH or CONTRACT
Suit of Curry VS.. The Charles
Warner Co.
QUESTION OF SAND AND MORTAR
Trouble of an Inventor with
His Capitalists.

Beginning of the Trial of John Franklin
Curry VA. The Charles Warner co.--An
Action Concerning an Inventors Claim
on the Profits of His Invention.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-06-06

Mrs. Pennell King of this city, who Is
visiting friends in West Chester, has been
sick for the past eight weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
NO REALLY Wild HORSES.

All Are Said to BE Descendants of
Those That Once We're Demonstrated.
From a Paper Read Before the Bombay Historical
Society.
Is there such thing as the wild horse,
an aboriginal or truly wild horse in the
world now? The -ansWer is more than
doubtful. The mustang Of Mexico, the wild
horse of the South American pampas, the
brumbi of Australia, faIl are descendants
Of the domesticated animals introduced
from Europe. The first horse was landed. In
America at Buenos Ayres in 1887. In 1850
that is. in less than fifty years-horses had
spread to regions a as remote as Patagonia:
have escaped from civilization has been
quite as rapid, and in. 1875 it was found
necessary to shoot as many as 1000 wild
horses in the colony of New South Wales
alone.
In some parts of Australia the horse pest
has received legislative notice The wild
horses tempt domestic horses to join them,
and wild stations also invade the Aus
tralian horse runs and vitiate choice herds
in a most annoying manner. They recur
to the ancestral manners in a way that Is
always the same. Each stallion has his
following Of mares, ranging from few up
to forty and even fifty, and these parties
may be separate or banded together In
herds of considerable size, even, it is said,
400 strong. The young and the weak mares
remain with a scanty or even no following
The stallion has to maintain his supremacy
by frequent combats, which especially oc-
cur at certain seasons Of the year. The
animals are suspicious in the extreme,
swift in flight, but bold in defense with
tooth and heel in emergency They range
extensively in search Of pasture and water,
and when hard pressed by danger and
famine the herds break up. It is said that
each troop has leader and implicitly
obeys him. He is the first to face danger
and give the hint to fly. When pressed the
horses form a ring, with the mares and
foals in the center. and defend themselves
vigorously with their heels, or they close in
on their opponent in dense masses and
trample him to death.
It is distinctly proven, then, that there
can be no aboriginal or wild horse in either
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20

permit them to be loaned to those states
which have naval reserves, as practice
boats. OF the four monitors which will re-
main here some time longer 1t is said some
will be sold for scrap iron.
So long as the navy had more officers
than ships the monitors served as a berth
for a commander and goodly number of
officers and men, but now that the navy
has grown and there are many ships with
out crews the Secretary of the Navy has
determined to utilize these men for more
active service and to save the expense Of
$50, 600 year required for their mafnten-
ance.
For years the monitors and their crews
this city, and the merchants have reaped
the profit Of the supplies furnished them.
Periodically threats have been made of re-
moving them, but the protest of the
chamber of commerce, backed by the in
fluence of their Congressman, was sufficient
to keep them here. This method, however,
was no longer potent.
The monitors have also played their part
in the fashionable life of the city. Super
structure after superstructure was placed
on board the Ajax until the commander 8
quarters became quite ample for purposes
Of entertaining, and the steam launch car
ried down many gay parties in summer to
enjoy the Inequalities of the commander
family.
The eighty or a hundred men who now
make up their crews have had lazy time
of it for years and berth on the monitors
has long been a synonym for an easy place.
Most of them have married in Richmond
and some of them built up little homes and
families and the change for them will be
very distressing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20

the wire and get into the yard, but the big
fellows are practically circumvented Every
morning, though, a man goes all over the
yard on tour of inspection, killing all the
small snakes that may have crept in, be-
fore Mrs. Hughes or the little girls venture
out of the house. 1t is not a very pleasant
prospect. either, although you are seated in
the house in comparative security, to look
over the fence and see the reptiles writhing
and squirming In the sun, now and then
butting against the fence or clinging to the
wire In hideous coiling festoons.
about two miles away from the place is
i little bog or marsh. whence a little stream
makes into the river. and here the reptiles
breed. Hughes inveigled me into going
over one night to the neighborhood of the
bog, and I shall never forget the horrible
noises that emanated therefrom. The
snakes were evidently fighting among
themselves, and the bog seemed to be alive
with them. Deliver me from another ex-
perience like the one that night, and from
a home in Texas down by Abe Rio Grande
Hughes thinks it is the garden spot of the
universe, however, and says when he sue
ceeds in getting that marsh properly drain
ed the snakes will disappear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
Ruins of the Henry House.

She was injured while being carried down,
and struck while there. Terrified, she
begged to be taken back again, and was
scarcely laid upon her bed when a bursting
shell wounded her cruelty in the side. Thir-
teen times she was wounded and torn by
balls and splintered shells before death cut
her torment short. The daughter was not
wounded seriously
Prof. Henry's first sad duty was to bury
his mother. You can see the grave today,
close by the house, with its tall. white slab,
Sacred to the memory of Judith Henry"
the first woman killed in the war of the re-
bellion. Close beside her lies her daughter
You have to push the briar roses aside to
find the graves, roses as red as the blood Of
the martyr, and roses as white as the pure
purpose of her life.
Prof Henry has never left the old place.
He is a feeble old man now, and very deaf,
but always courteous to callers. He reads
and thinks and broods over the incidents of
that awful time, and since that July day
life has not held much of interest else. With
infinite patience he has marked every spot
on the whole plan tation inside the Henry
bounds with placards, showing where each
command stood and how the batteries were
located, where each brave officer fell, and
where the high tide of blood rolled deepest.
That spot was marked by other hands
than his before the close of the war. Those
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q time to keep out of the way Of the en-
envy, and he did not reach home till the
second day after the battle.
Even yet, he cannot speak calmly of the
fearful sight that met his eyes. Along the
lane leading UP to his home the roadside
was red with the scarlet uniformed zou-
ayes, who sold their lives dearly in the
last fearful charge. The demoralized ar
mics had gone off and left their dead un-
buried. and the air was black with the
birds of prey. greedy for the fast preparing
gorge. His home was blackened and bat
tered ruin. and his mother was dead
When order came to open fire, 1t was so
hastily given that the confederates, who
held the Henry house, gave no thought to
its inmates. and the frightened women
were left alone in the center of the field
with the enfilading fire of heavy batteries
from both sides of the conflict raking their
residence from front and rear, from right
flank and left 1t was a cruel thing to
leave them thus, for there was absolutely
no mode of escape. The poor bedridden old
lady and her daughter crawled into the big
wide fireplace, but the bricks and mortar
knocked off by flying bullets fell upon them
and drove them back.
Then Mrs. Henry asked to be carried to
a small Iavne close to the house, where 1t
seemed to her the bursting shell might fly
over and leave her in peace. Vain hope!
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II stood was the whole aim Of the federal
army. and to keep 1t the whole aim Of the
confederates. They kept it, The old house
was pretty badly demoralized by the cross
firing Of friend and foe, and a new house
was built or the stones that held the old
one. Bleak and bare. and brown with the
storms of many winters, the warnings Of
many summer sun. 1t stands, as Star
writer found on a recent visit in the midst
of as fair scene as artist ever pictured,
with walls Of corn and waving grain fields
Its sole tenants are Prof. Henry, son Of
the former owner, and faithful colored
servant, who Is cook and pillow hand, valet
and chamberma!d to the old man, the sum Of
whose life was totaled when the smoke of
that battle rolled beyond the Blue Ridge
mountains leaving him lonely ard bereft Of
loved ones, when the sun of existence was
already far down the western slopes. For
twenty years or more he had been the pro-
lessor Of young ladies' seminary in Alex
andr.a. When he heard that the battle was
raging about the home of his mother, who
was tedridden with old age, with no one to
care for her but her daughter, then a wo-
man near sixty. and black servant or two
he left his school and started home He
had to walk and hide himself for hours at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
TEXAS SNAKE BARS.
Necessary Precautions In Homes
Along the Rio Grnnde.

Necessary Precautions in Homes
Along the Rio Grnnde.
From the Philadelphia Times.
j. D. Mason, a well-known travelling man,
who has just returned from business trip
through southwest Texas gives the follow
ing interesting account Of a peculiar phase
Of life in that part of the world: =
There is little strip of country" said
Mason Sin Texas down by the Rio Grande
where snakes are literally too numerous to
mention. They are really as thick as the
proverbial dead leaves Of Vallombrosa, and
the most abstemious man in existence sees
enough snakes in a minute to knock him
silly 1 have friend, Jim Hughes by name,
living down in that region. who owns a
cattle ranch, consisting Of 1.5OO acres OF
land, and really and truly the trail OF the
serpent was over them all. jim mas
wife who is the prettiest little woman west
Of the Mississippi, and two OF the dearest
little girls in the whole world, I reckon,
and for long time Jim was put to 1t to
know how to protect his FAMILY from
the snakes. He said that 1t used to be SO
that during the first warm days of early
spring, when the snakes were just awaken
ing from their torpor, he and his ranchmen,
cowboys, &C., would just have to leave the
cattle to their fate and form Gordon about
the house to keep the reptiles out. Nova
days, though, such constant precaution Is
not necessary, as he has hit upon device
to circumvent the snakes to certain ex-
tent He manages to do this by fencing in
the house yard with close-woven wire net
ting.
ITO begin with, however, he had to dig
ditch all around the place to depth OF
about four feet, and plant cedar posts. let
ting them stand about six feet above the
level of the ground Then on these posts he
stretched ten-foot wire netting and threw
the dirt back in the ditch By this means
you see, he had four feet Of netting under
ground, which prevented the snakes bur
rowing beneath and coming into the yard,
and six-foot fence above, which only the
more adventurous reptiles try to sur
mount. Now and then little snake will
manage to wriggle through the meshes of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
THE OLD MONITORS.


The Antiquated Craft Which Are to
Come to League Island.
Richmond Correspondence Philadelphia Times.
The fleet Of single turreted monitors that
for a decade have been in keeping near
Richmond will be taken to Philadelphia
as soon as they can be made seaworthy
enough to get them there, and the James
river tourists will hereafter miss one Of the
most unique scenes of the river trip.
For the last twenty years they have been
in soak, as 1t were, In the muddy waters
of this historic stream. They are all single
turret monitors, built on the model Of the
waspish craft which fought the memorable
duel with the confederate ironclad Merri-
mac, in Hampton Roads, and set the fash
ion for the armor-protected navies Of the
world.
The monitor fleet originally numbering
thirteen vessels, were placed in James river
to protect them from the deteriorating eff
fects of salt water
They were all single-screw steamers Of
$40 horse power. and each carried two guns.
The Ajax. Canonicus, Mahopac, Manhattan
and Wyandotte are 2, 100 tons each, while
the Catskill Jason, Lehigh. Montauk, Ma
liant, Nantucket, Passaic and Comanche
are Of 1875 tons each.
Their number has gradually been decreas-
ed by detail for practice boats for the naval
reserve. and on account Of worthlessness,
came to remove them to Philadelphia, only
six remained in the fleet here. Two of
these-the Catskill and Lehigh-were last
week put in shape under the supervision
of Chief Engineer John Love, as far as
could be done at this point, to be towed to
the Norfolk navy yard to be prepared for
their trip to Philadelphia.
Powerful government tugs were assigned
to the removal Of these relics of the late
war, and though the monitors have had
steam up in the last few days to test their
machinery. they were not trusted to their
own power, but were towed to Norfolk Sum
day by the tugs.
It is the purpose of the government to
have these two boats, which are the best
of the feet, put In such condition as will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
The New Henry House.

who took part on the loyal side in that
battle erected a monument on the spot
where the fighting was a hand-to-hand
conflict. 1t is of soft sandstone, found near
the Manassas Junction, is twenty-sevan
feet high. including the base. and stands on
an elevated mound. On each corner is
tall block of sandstone and on each rests
a conical 1OO-pounder shell, the top being
surmounted by one of the same.
On one side of the monument is the in
scription in Memory of the Patriots Who
Fell at Bull Run. July 81, 1851" On the
other side, Erected June 10. 1865 1t was
constructed by the sixteenth Massachusetts
light battery, and nearly every surviving
officer who fought in that battle was pres
ent at the dedication. Envious tine has
laid her vandal fingers heavily upon the,
at best, rough memorial stone, and it is far
on the way to tumbling over, while the soft
sandstone will soon leave of the inscription
only a memory Relic hunters have wan
tony defaced II, tco. 1t ought to be reno
waited before 1t is too late.
Hardly a day passes that some one who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
SETTING THE DAY.
The Wooing of Her as 1t Will Be In
the Years to Come.

The Wooing of Her as 1t VIII Be In
the Years to Come.
From Brooklyn Life.
You look tired, dear"
The man who had given up his life to
the young girl who so solicitously ques-
toned him, gazed down tenderly into the
eyes uplifted so searchingly into his.
IT am a trife tired. my darling" he said.
"Our cooking class was little longer than
usual this afternoon, and it has told upon
me-"
Eyes. dear" she replied alphabetically.
IT have heard mother tell how wearing
they were to her, and I can understand
in a measure how irksome they must be.
Is this all you have been doing today?"
"Oh, nor he cried: This morning !
attended a most absorbing lecture on the
care of the household, the first of series
that are to be given this season. 1t was
SO helpful"
although subject that has never claim
ed my serious thought, l can appreciate
just how inspiring talks of this sort must
be to one so ambitious as yourself"
Indeed yes, and that Is not ALL" he eX-
claimed, enthusiastically. Il am looking
Up the subject of home decoration, and II
is wonderful what vast field it is. They
asked me if 1 would prepare a paper on
the use and abuse of ttdies." he added
modestly, "but 1 haven't enough conf
dence IN myself"
''Oh, why don't your she cried. Il am
sure you could do it, dear, and all these
things will be such a help in your future
life. You are a dear, good boy, and YOU
try so hard to please me-
With an exclamation of delight, her fu-
ture life companion, the look of WEAKNESS
on his face giving place to one of the great
est hopefulness, drew her swiftly to his
arms.
do you think so?' he said. "Ah, my
dearest, how have toiled to hear you say
those words-the first words of praise for
me that have ever fallen from your lips
and now that You have spoken, tell me
when can claim my reward and call you
my OWN"
And there was look of intermingled
satisfaction and complacency in her face
as she replied:
Il think, James, dear, if you keep on in
the way that YOU have begun. that in three
or four years you will be fitted to take up
on yourself the duties of a husband"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
Debit and Credit,
From Truth

From Truth
l never was good at figures,
But now that the ball Is done
III square my accounts. and balance
Expenses with girls and fun
Let's see?the tickets two dollars.
AND four for the carriage and pair,
And three for the Jacqueminot roses
She looked out of sight, declare.
That's nine. Well, guess that completes II
From the liability side
And now for the assets-one item
Is all that find for a guide
And yet that lone figures sufficient
To more than Offset it-and this
Is the fractional part of a minute
That spent in a last goodnight kiss.
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fought in the battle OF Bull Run, or who
had friends in 1t, does not call upon Prof.
Henry and ask to be shown over the battle
ground. He has told the story so often that
break in on him with a question 1t confuses
him, and he has to go back and begin all
over again. He tells the story well. though,
and there isn't much room for questions,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
She Studied to Please,

F1cm the Chicago Record.
you know de wife house over yere on
de hill?"
yep"
''Wat you s'pose the ole woman said
wen I axed for hand-out?'
"Give it up
''She seq, DO you like ven'son?' 1 seq,
Yes An then she SEE. There's a saw
buck out yere-mebbe you can rassle off a
piece if you work right hard"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20

America or Australia, although there are
tens of thousands of unknown horses. Ira
dition pcintsAto Central Asia as the orig
inal abode of the horse, and there the
original stock of wild horses may still pos
sibly exist Darwin 8 statement that no alb
original or truly wild horse is known to
exist must still be held as explaining the
exact position of this question. But we
not certain that truly wild horses do not
exist and, on the whole, conclude that the
evidence Is in favor Of tiae existence of the
have no evider ce as to his pedigree in re-
lation to domestication. The wild horse of
the British Islands is now practically the
Shetland pony, but he is not the powerful
animal described by Caesar. The domes-
ticated animal everywhere. however. re-
verts very easily to the savage state The
PAGES of wild horse are walk and gal
lcp. The double ana the canter are arti-
ficiai, and 1t is stills nlooted question as
to whether the wild horse ever trots.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
The First View.
From Life

FROM Lie.
She-"So. there are the Alps at last!'
He-"Must be. You don't suppose first
class tourist company like this would work
off any substitutions or limitations on ITS
patrons?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
TRAGEDY OF TEE HENRY HOUSE
sc E MES OF AC E
PIN RTY- OUR

H 1 r T Y-F o U r
years ago today and
tomorrow, July 2O-21,
1861. the first serious
battle of the civil
war was fought at
Bull Run.
Every man who
fought in the battle
of Bull Run remem-
b RS the Henry
house. It was the
center of the fight.
and the taking of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
Enough to Begin On.
From Life,

From Lie.
She-"Father says If he comes to live with
us he expects to pay board. How much do
you think I ought to charge himT'
He-"rhat depends. If he is satisfied with
only a hall bed room, 1 think about $1,000
a year would be enough.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
Her Father Taught Her.

From the Wheeling Corner Stone.
First Wall Flower-"How gracefully Miss
Western holds up her train
Second Wall Flower-"It ought to come
natural, for they say her father started
life as a road agent"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
The Seasons Change.

From the Boston Transcript.
Helen-''Hcw could you give up Harry
Haussmann for Tom Waterman? You used
to think everything of Harry"
Martha-'I know; but the theaters are
nearly all closed now, and Tom has such a
lovely yacht"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
Theory and Practice.

Theory and Practice.
From the Halifax Herald
He-"My views Of bringing up family
are"
She-"Never mind your views, I'll bring
up the family. You go and bring up the
COAL"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
Defuelizlng Wood.

DefuelfzIngr WOOD.
From the New York Tribune.
LIBERALIZATION" is a new word added to
the language, told in a story by Senator
Palmer about an Illinois farmer who for
several years had been selling him wood
for Sc cord.
This year, says Senator Palmer, "he
came to me with load and told him tina t
I did not want it. He offered it at 81 a
cord. still refused, and he wanted to
know why I would not take it at 81. I told
him l was using soft coal, for which I
paid $1.37 a ton
'Gosh!' he exclaimed, I heard you was
trying to demonettze silver, but now you're
trying to defuelize wood"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
The Inevitable Conclusion.

T
Freddy-''Mamma, our principal says that
his school days were the happiest days Of
his life. Do you believe that?
Mamma-"Certainly. He wouldn't say so
If it were not true"
Freddy-''Well I suppose he played hook
ey and didn't get caught
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20
Changed.
From Life,

He used to be the meekest man
In all the human race;
But since he bought bicycle
He travels on his face.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20

This Color Warranted Not to Run.
From Clothier and Furnisher