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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21

George H. Woodward, clerk en-
ployed by J. II. Joslyn, butcher in
Second street Market, left the city rather
suddenly on Tuesday and $25 of the
butchers hard earned cash left at the
same time. 1t is said Woodward has
collected money from customers which
he did not turn over and when he
learned that he had been discovered ne
quickly got out of town.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21
IN HARD LUCK.
He Tried to Steal the Pants, but Failed
and Was Knocked Out by u Woman.

and was hhocKed UuG Dy u WOmnh,
A drunken man took pair of panta-
looms from hook in front of the store
of S. Spellman, No. 115 West Front
street, on Monday afternoon, and was
walking off with them when the pro-
prietor's wife demonstrated. The thief
refused to return the trousers, where
upon Mrs. Spellman took them away
from him aud knocked him into the
street.
She returned to the store and the
man was picked up and carried into
neighboring saloon, where he was al.
lowed to remain until he sobered up.
MIR. Spellman was absent at the time.
He will net prosecute the thief.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21
Urging Compulsory Education.

A committee representing the various
patriotic orders in this city went to Dover
yesterday morning, to ask the Legislature
to pass the compulsory education bill and
also the bill excluding any flag but the
starry emblem from the public buildings
George w. Mckee, Jr., chairman; ]. b.
Roberts, Sylvester Solomon, Charles A.
Foster, Charles IL. Blaine and the Rev.
1saac Waddell.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21

Walter Brown and Johnny Joyce, two
small boys, were given hearing in muni-
cipal court yesterday and held for fur
Their examination ON the charge of stealing
money from Mary Gosner, Sixth and
Spruce streets. The boys were quarreling
in the Wonderland Musee Tuesday over a
distribution of, the spoils and this led to
their arrest,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21
Elkton & Middletewn Ratlroad.

ELKToN, MD., Feb. 19-rhe road'bed of
the Elkton & Middletown railroad has been
run from the Philadelphia, Wilmington "
Baltimore tracks 100 yards south OF Elkton
tower to the Elk river. The directors have
not decided when the road would be com
pleted but MIR. Swartz, the vice-president
OF the road stated that great deal depends
on business prospects. Ii the hard times
continue be could not tell how soon. the
road would be completed but il times
improved the road would soon be con-
structed.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21

The tug Emily, belonging to the Will
mington & Northern Railroad Co., sus-
ming machinery while moving about the
Delaware river Monday afternoon, and
was compelled to remain there all night.
Tuesday afternoon the tug came into
the Harlan s. Hollingsworth yards for
repairs.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21
JoHN 4. pICK ET,s DENIAL.
He is Not Interested in Quarry Property
offered to the Levy Court.

: ~ 71T7 E7uF5 -V71TFr ---
In reference to certain printed charges
that County Receiver John T. Dickey is
interested in stone quarry, the owners
OF which are DESTROYS of selling out TO
the county for public purposes, that
official stated Tuesday emphatically
II am not interested in any stone
quarry offered or proposed to be offered
to the county or to the Levy Court com
missioners, and never had any such
interest. Nor have l ever mentioned
anything one way or the other in regard
to the proposed penltenIiary TO parties
here nor in Doyer.n
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21
PYrHIANs CELEBSATE.
The Thirty-ffrst Anniversary OF the Order
COMMUNICATED Tuesday Night,

COMMUNICATED Tuesday Night.
Wilmington Division, No. /, Uniform
Rank, Knights of Pythias, lest night
celebrated the 31st anniversary of the
order by giving mu steal and literary
entertainment in K. of P. Hall. The
occasion was very enjoyable. The fol-
lowing programme was given:
Orchestra. .......-.........Fi First Regiment
Opening address. :. Colonel w. ]. Jefferis
Quartet, "0ver the Hills at Breakof Day."
Miss Marion A. Bacon. Miss Lizzie F.
Bacon, James A. Ward, John b. Butler;
organist, Miss Megill.
Recitation, "Clown's Baby"
Albert w. Foreman
Song, "Her Eyes Don't Shine Like Dia.
monds. .Msster Alfred O'Connor
Instrumental, with song sights of Dime
Museums" ..................A.C Z. Lingo
Reading. .....................J. X. King
Orchestra ..................F First Regiment
Quartet, Come Where the Lilies Bloom, !"
The Misses Bacon, J. A. Ward and ]. b.
Butler.
Recitation, "The Old Bachelors Sale
Coronet solo,. John wallschmiti
Recitation, bingham ON the Rhine"
A. w. Foreman
Instrumental, with song. .....R. Russell
At 9.45 O'clock the members and
guests sat down to a banquet. which
was presided over by Captain Thomas
Mullin, Jr., and toasts were responded to
as follows: "rhe Supreme Lodge" w.
w. Simmons, s. r.; "rhe Grand Lodge
q. P. Maroney, p. S. r.; "rhe Uniform
Rank" Colonel w. ], Jefferis. P.,S. R.;
1.-The Ladies'" Daniel Ross; "The
Press" G. w. Roberts.
Quite number of invited guests were
in attendance, some coming from dis.
lance
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21

At the meeting of the Board of Street
and Sewer Directors Tuesday it was
decided to ask for proposals for printing
the annual report of the department.
The residents of Seventh and French
streets asked for an arc light by petition.
The board accepted deed for the bed
of Oak street from A. g. Banning and
wife
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21

Tomorrow morning at 10 O'clock a
crayon of General Washington given by
Col. Robert NJ. Floyd, will be presented
to the Alexis /. du Pont School. High.
lands. There will also be Interesting
exercises commemorative Of the day by
the pupils of the school.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21
PHIL4pBLPHI4 .4FEAiRs.

Six men were arrested on Tuesday on
charges of voting or attempting to vote
illegally at various polling places.
Adolph Smith, aged Years, was, II is
feared, fatally burned Tuesday by plsy-
mate throwing brand from bonfire at
him and setting fire to his clothing.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21

Edward Cox had his collar bone
broken Tuesday afternoon while as
sisting to unload barge at the Edge
Moor Iron Works. He was brought 10
this city and sent to the Delaware Hos,
pltal.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21

The United States coast and geodetic
Survey gives notice that the wreck and
H. s. buoy in Delaware bay, heretofore
shown about miles north by east, one
half, from Brandywine Shoal Light are
erased from the chart.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21

The "Story OF the Reformation" an
illustrated lecture which was 81 success
fully rendered here by local talent last
November, will be repeated some time
during Lent for the benefit of the Girls
industrial School.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21
A Drunken Man Cuts His Throat.

James Flynn, Elsmere, while drunk
slashed himself with razor Tuesday night
and his condition is alarming. Flynn
went on spree Tuesday and while under
the influence of liquor used razor on his
throat. DIR William c. Pierce was called
in and dressed his injuries. He is lying
at his home as the result of the injury.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21
S49.524.22

The Judgment of the Wilmington &
Brandywine Bank of this city is entered
against the property of the company
stored in their bazaar at North Broad
street, Philadelphia.
The firm of McLear g. Kendall was
established in 1864 by Henry G. McLear
and Caspar Kendall, who are still the
members of the firm. 1t is known all
over the country as one of tae most ex-
tensive carriage building manufactures
in the United States. At one time ii
ranked second in the trade. From 1875
to $50 men are employed.
MIR. Mclean is widely known in his
business. For many years he has been
a prominent official of the National Car
riage Builders Association, and is at
present the secretary.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21

Tuesday Sheriff Paul Gillis sold the
household effects of William W. Thomp-
son, No. 1919 Washington street, to Eli
ID. Seminar for $3.50.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21
M,LEAR G KENDALL FAIL.
Suspension of Wilninston's Largest Car
rage Observation-Disclosures Entered Here
and in Philadelphia.

Suspension of WilminetOn's Largest Car
rage Factory--Judem ents Entered Here
and in Philadelphia.
The big carriage factory of McLear 81
Kendall, Ninth and King streets. passed
into the sheiiff's hands Tuesday morn
ing. The local judgments total $780,
524.22, TO which is added the sum of
100000, judgment held by the Will
mington and Brandywine Bank of this
city.
Henry O. McLear, the senior member
of the firm was seen Tuesday by a
representative of THE GAZETTE. He
said that the failure is due to the con-
tipued dull times and the general bust.
ness depression existing.
In answer to the reporters questions
in the direction OF an arrangement of
affairs with subsequent resumption of
business Mr.. McLear said:
at is so whelming that | have
not given the question of resumption
consideration even."
The list of judgments SO far as known
is as follows: ......
First National Bank, .$17. 642. 80
Artisans Bank. .................. 4,63l. 80
Franklin Murphy. 100000
Elizabeth Mclean ...,........,... 2,250.00
Wilmington and Brandywine
Observation-Disclosures. 2o,oOo.O 90
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E14 ol
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21

London, Feb. 19.-Henry Irving, the
actor, is severely indisposed. Influenza
is the malady from which he is suffer
ing.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-02-21
END OF THE SILVER FIGHT
The Senate Abandons the
Free Coinage Bill.
WHY ITS ADVOCATES GAVE UP
Appropriation Bills Would Be
Jeopardized.

II Would Have Been Impossible to Force
Vote. and to Continue tho Contest
Would Have Made 1t Impossible to Act
Upon tho Regular Appropriation Bills.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-13
CONCERNING "DUPPIES. q"

When first came to Jamaica the sur
roundings Of that lovely tropical island
seemed to my unsophisticated eyes to
forbid the conventional ghost. The tiny
wooden boxes, bright with creepers, and
gay with green and white paint, that for
the most part did duty for houses, offered
surely neither space nor attraction to
a properly constituted apparition.
1t was a surprise, therefore, to find
that in the daily life of the negro popula-
tion "Duppies' occupied a very consid-
cradle, and, indeed, dignified position,
and were not only recognized as a SER
ious fact, but were to be spoken Off,
indeed, 1t was advisable to speak of them
at all to strangers-with fitting reverence
Even the more educated were not above
a lurking beEef in their existance; while
for the ordinary negro, that there were
Duppies around him was as undoubted a
truth as the clear sunlight in which he
lived.
Now, it is the general idea of English
people, even of those who have lived
all their lives in the West Indies, that a
"Duppy' is simply the negro equivalent
for our ghost" but after many and pa
tient inquiries from the negroes them
selves this found to be a mistake.
To be exact, Ia true "Duppy," although
an apparition, Is not the spirit of the
soul, but only the shadow of the de-
parted, the soul being perfectly distinct
from its Duppy, and going to heaven or
he'll as the case may be, leaving its sha-
dow or duppy to finger behind on earth,
where, unless exercised by certain cere-
monies, 1t may work mischief or, at
best, cause annoyance to the living. For
instance the soul OF a notorious evil-doer,
a noted Obeah man, for example, is
supposed by them, naturally enough, to
go straight to hell for his crimes, but
his Duppy wiM remain behind him; only,
being the shadow of a bad man, it will
partake of his vicious qualities, and prob
ably become transformed into "Rolling
Calf" that bugbear of all negroes. A
Rolling Calf is very terrible creature
that haunts the hillsides and lonely
places, to the terror of travellers. 1t has
fiery eyes, and Is accompanied by ths
sound as of clanking chains. Apart
from this it is shaped much like an or
dinary cow, and to be caught by one
is death, with the additional horror of
being forced afterwards to become
Rolling Calf ones self. One chance of
escape, however, remains to the unfor-
tunate victim. The Rolling Calf" cannot
run up hill and therefore if slope can
be reached, so that one is above, instead
of on a level with or below this terriblt
pursuer, safety is insured Possibly some
dim remembrance of the African buffalo
and its habits les at the root of all this
strange tradition, for believe the buffalo
cannot charge up hill.-National Review.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-13
PERSONAL MENTION.

E. A. Seeley, of Portland, is in town.
Mrs. Logan left for Portland last even
ing.
Mr., R. H. Burney. of Grays River, will
soon leave for Dallas, Tex.
Miss E. C. Warren is spending a week
with relatives at Warrenton.
Captain U. b. Scott was "a passenger up
river on the Telephone last evening.
George McNally and wife. of Chicago,
are registered at the Parker House.
B. L. sharpstein, Of Walla Walla, was
one of the Occ.dent's arrivals yesterday.
H. w. Goddard returned to Portland
last evening. after a few days visit
in Astoria.
Miss Lillian Baine, of Portland, is WIS.,
iting in this city, the guest Of MIR. and
Mrs. w. S. Kinney
Chas D. Stuart, captain of the Fort
Candy life saving crew, accompanied by
his wife, is in the city.
j. X. Armsby, the Chicago salmon
broker, was in Astoria yesterday. He left
for Portland in the evening.
w. A. Frost and wife. of Chicago, are
spending a few days in Astoria. They
ere stopping at the Occi1ent.
Miss Edith Baum, of Portland, arrived
on the Telephone yesterday afternoon.
She left this morning for a brief So
journ with friends at Seaview.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-13
A Party Of Prominent Citizens
Visit Warrenton.
NEW CARS ON SEASIDE ROAD
Prominent Residents Visited and
Many Pleasant Events Fill a Day
to Be Remembered.

AT Ii o'clock yesterday morning par
ty of fifteen went aboard Capt. Bob"
loves launch, the Eagle" and steamed
down the bay for a trip to Warrenton.
The excursionists were II. A. Eddy, Judge
f. j. Taylor, Dr. j. A. Fulton, w. G.
Gosslin, G. w. Wingate, r. M. Stewart,
Thos. Trullinger, Dr. Alfred Kinney,
PhLneas Warren, Geo. Hill, the Masters
Hammond and Tuttle, end press rep
resentatlve. Some little delay was oc-
casioned In getting off on account Of
the tide, b utflnally Mate Wingate, who
was heaving the lead, announced four
feet one-quarter, and Captain Lowe pass
ed the word to Engineer Eddy, the screw
revolved, and the launch was off.
On the way down the bay, an elegant
luncheon, furnished by the Occident, was
served by Chef Fulton, and the refresh
ed party soon were smoking the pipe
of peace.
The citizens of Warrenton turned out
en- masse to receive the visitors and es-
corted them to the town hall and the
railroad station, where the first train,
consisting of the new coaches brought
down from Portland the day before,
was being prepared for it's trip to Sea-
SIDE In a few moments the conductor
gave the signal of departure, and amid
the cheers Of the throng the first train
of real railroad coaches to run in Clatsop
county pulled around the curve and was
lost to sight. The new engine is No. Is,
of the o and c., and the coaches 145 and
"a, o. r. and N. The Seaside road is
now prepared to do all the business that
offers and passengers will have the best
of service. The new company is bal
lasting and repairing the road bed and
putting in new ties where needed.
Messrs. Preston and Grain, of Astoria,
came over on the Dwyer and called upon
Campbell Bros, who report business
good.
The visitors called upon all the prom
inent citizens, among them being Mr..
ID. K Warren, Mr.. Phineas Warren,
Mr.. Hill, and Col. John Adair. Mr.. p.
Warren's new house, which he has just
occupied, was much admired by all, it
being particularly well constructed as far
as light and ventilation are concerned.
The return trip was made at o'clock
and every one declared that they had
had most delightful time. The air was
fine and as the launch sped along the
bay innumerable fishing boats were pass
ed on their way to the nights work.
They made a beautiful picture, as they
clipped along over the water under a
good breeze and a swift current, and one
Which is always new and full Of interest.
The gentlemen of the party rendered a
vote of thanks to Capt Lowe, and will
probably accept his invitation for an
other trip today.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-13
THE QUESTION OF PRICES,

New York Tribune.
At the bottom of all strife and costly
blundering about money is found the
hoary assumption that the quantitty of
gold in use as money determines the
price of commodities. ages ago men
reasoned; Purchase is exchange of gold
for commodities and If there is less gold
in proportion TO commodities prices will
fall" If that is so, as gold in use has
not doubled while quantities of products
have more than doubled, prices must
fall perpetually. Some philosophers have
gone further, and have tried to show
how the Increased quantity OF gold in
circulation stimulates buying and thus
advances prices, but they have never ex-
planned how more gold produces more
consumption per head, or how buying in
the long run can increase more than
consumption. Unreasoning minds have
been unable to go beyond the ancient
notion that more money must make
higher prices, and so have clamored for
more paper or credit money. But the
country had in circulation A4 per capita
of all kinds of money in 1860, and in 1890
had so per capsta, and nevertheless
prices had fallen about 20 per cent.
More recently 1t has been shown that
the cost in human labor of producing
and transporting commodities has been
so vastly reduced that every days work
ought to be worth more bushels, pounds
or yards. But this does not touch the
question whether bushels, pounds or
yards ought to be worth less money while
labor is worth more. Indeed. Mr.. Edward
Atkinson, in the Bankers Magazine, sug
gests the question whether gold and
silver have both deprecated in respect
to commodities and lost part Of their
purchasing power" because "the guam
tity Of goods placed upon the markets"
having doubled, had not 'sthe quantity
OF gold by which we rate the commodit-
les In estimating the prices" also doubled,
prices would have been reduced. and
mo such esfect has occurred" He would
have put the case more correctly and
might readily have submitted a demon
straItion instead Of a question, IL he
were entirely emancipated from the no
tion that ''the quantity of gold'' had
anything to do with the matter. Whether
there are 5000 yardsticks at hand or only
one. three feet OF cloth measure just
the same.
The piece Of paper or OF silver that
men readily accept in place Of gold rep
resents the same buying power that the
gold itself represents. Il may be a pri-
vate check. it may be an accepted
draft. Il may be a letter OF credit; all
that anybody wants Is the buying power
which the gold represents often less safely
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-13
LOOK OUT FOR THEM.
Two Carloads of Kimball Pianos and Or
gans Are Coming.


The largest and finest shipment ever
brought to Astoria.
l am pleased to announce to the music
loving public and my friends of Astoria,
that two carloads of Kimball pianos and
organs left our factory in Chicago for
Astoria on July 3. This shipment con-
tains an elegant assortment of pianos
of all styles, sizes and prices, from a
plain case to our handsomest cabinet
grand upright containing our world S
fair scale. 1t also embraces a fine as
sortment of organs from plain neat case
to a most elaborate case with French
plate mirrors.
These instruments win be sold to pri-
vate buyers by the manufacturers direct
at wholesale prices, plus the expense of
laying them down at Astoria. This will
give every one a chance to get a high
grade instrument from first hand and save
refill dealers profits and agents COM
missions. This is your chance to get
ahead of the middle man and get a
fine piano and organ for less than agents
are asking for second grade instruments.
The Kimball piano and organ have been
sold IN Astoria for the last four years
and there are dozens of them in use here
now They stand the severe climate of
Astoria and give universal. satisfaction.
Only last August a carload of Kimballs
was sold In Astoria and they are SO we'll
and favorably known that 1t would be
superfious to tell the citizens of Astoria
anything about their merits. In conclu-
sion we will say that these instruments
will be on exhibition in Astoria by July
10th or 18th. L. V. MOORE.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-13

or conveniently. What fixes prices is not
the quantity Of gold anywhere, but the
buying power, of which part is repre-
senlted by the check or letter. Ancient
theories are blotted out by the enormous
development OF currency, banking ana
credit systems, by which the volume OF
money available at any ordinary time mas
been made practically unlimited. The
revolution IN modes Of doing business,
If 1t has not altered the very nature
OF transactions, has at least disclosed
to us that all unexpended wealth forms
the buying power by which prices ol
commodities are determined, and not that
fraction of 1t which may happen to be
embodied in any form Of money. A piece
Of New York Central, fraction OF an
iron mine or COTTON mill, can be used
just as We'll as gold to buy Thousand
bushels of wheat
Accumulated wealth has grown four
fold s.nce 1860 IN this country. But popu-
lation has doubled, and the productive
ness of each human hand has much
more than doubled so that products to
be bought have increased somewhat more
than wealth, and prices naturally fall.
In other countries population is nearly
stationary, while accumulated wealth in
creases but slowly, but products OF labor
have multiplied, so that the same ten
dency towards lower prices prevails.
Gold is nothing but an expression of un-
expended wealth or buying power in
one of its best and most available forms.
Hence it buys more things than thirty
years ago, not because there is rela-
lively less gold, but because the guam
t.ty of things to be bought has increased
more than the whole unexpended wealth
or buying power Human hands have
only doubled since 1860 in this country,
while realized wealth has increased four
fold, and so wages of labor have nearly
doubled. The share of uneXpended wealth
which wages represent determines con-
sumption, but consumption limits the op-
portunity for investment of money IN
production, transportation or trade, and
as 1t increases less rapidly than unex-
pended wealth the interest on money
necessarily fails.
The quantity of gold in use has moth
ing to do with any of these things, prices,
wages, consumption or interest, except
as affects the certainty, that current rep
resentatlves Of purchasing power will be
instantly accepted. Wherever 1t does, in
that way and no other abundance or
scarcity of gold affects prices. Modern
commerce is abundantly able to make
all the buying tools 1t wants for itself,
each referring to gold as the unit OF
value, but it blunders fatally when 1t
provides any tool which is not certain
to be unhesitatingly accepted for the ex-
act buying power 1t represents.