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Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27
THE people are tired; the newspapers

THE people are tired; the newspapers
are tired; the politicians are tired; the
members of the General Assembly are
tired, of the Senatorial deadlock. "
If the advice of the TRANSCRIPT had
been followed weeks ago-to select a
Senator"-this tired feeling would
have vanished long since. 1t was we'll
meant advice; it was sensible advice;
it was the advice of the best people of
the State irrespective of party; it was
the advice of the loyal part of the Re-
publican party in the State, to whom
the majority of the members of the
General Assembly owe their election,
but the advice was not followed. Mr..
Addicks' papers, and his supporters by
their action said, like the sinner who
enjoys the pleasures Of sin for season,
"there is time enough yet" Mr..
Massey's quartet with stony hearts
turned away from the purest Republi-
Cdu SOSpCl W Hill Will OOLuOS1doiS
legislation. They reversed the grand
old Republican doctrine-majoIity rule
and said the minority, and the min
ority of the minority, shall henceforth
rule in Delaware. They have made
sick the heart of every true Republi-
can. Men who have loyalty struggled
for the mastery for years in this State
see nothing but hopeless division and
they are sad. They have asked who
are responsible for the present situation
of affairs and the answer comes. George
V. Massey and J. Edward Addicks. 1t
is the firm conviction of the rank and
file of the Republican party in this
county that to Mr.. Massey, primarily,
and to Mr.. Addicks, secondarily, is
due the deadlock, the defeat of major
ity rule, and they are saying to their
representatives, their loyal, manly Re-
publican Representatives, "let it be
nobody sooner than the men who would
force themselves upon an unwilling
party" And who shall say the people
are not right2
Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27

"WHAT can be done to bring
about the election of Senator2" is the
inquiry upon every Republican mind.
"Why will not the General Assembly
elect?" Because two selfish men stand
in the way and either can prevent, as
each has prevented, the election.
Those men are George V. Massey and
J. Edward Addicks, and apparently
they each have no interest in the future
of the Republican party-with them it
is all self. This is the way it appears
to the whole nation outside Delaware
and in twelve months it will be as
plainly seen by Delawareans. Mr..
Higgins, not only the logical candidate
and the ablest man in the politics Of
Delaware to-day, but the party's can
didate, has shown his true Republican
ism by his attitude during the past
three months. His friends have Of
fered other men as compromise and
now apparently they are forced to the
alternative of voting for disorganizer
and bolter or suffering the election
to 60 by default. If they choose one of
the boilers there is no certainty of an
election, for Mr.. Addicks expects to out
Massey Mr.. Massey and Mr.. Massey
expects to out-Addicks Mr.. Addicks.
There is little choice between the devil
and the deep sea, and the only refuge is
upon the grand old Republican rock of
majority rule. The men who shall
drag down the Republican party will
not live long enough to repent it. Mr..
Massey has directed his campaign
secretly, but he has directed it, and
Mr.. Addicks has been openly in the
field but they have both mistaken the
temper of the rank and fle of the Re-
publican party. They have thought
that loyalty and love of party will bring
the majority to them but the masses in
New Castle county say ''neyer' and it
is time that notice is served on them
and their selfish followers. The TRAN
SCRIPT speaks only for itself but had
we vote in the General Assembly no
man who has assumed the attitude of
Messls. Addicks and Massey should have
our vote. Mr.. Higgins could not get it
any sooner with such treachery to all
party organization and the public good,
were he guilty of such. We regret the
occasion for such language but we be-
lieve 1T to be the truth and as an earn
est Republican we believe it to be
our duty to speak the truth and to
speak it plainly. Any personal sacri-
fice we could make, short of dishonor,
to see united party, we would gladly |
make.
Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27

THE TRANSCRIPT has urged the
election of Senator with persistency
unequalled by any other paper in the
State. Though loyal to party organ
ization, holding to the right of major
ity rule, and with the firm conviction
that in ability, in craftsmanship, in
honesty of purpose and integrity of
character Anthony Higg ms, the nomi-
nee of his party, has no superior within
the State, we said to the members of
the General Assembly select Sena-
tor"-elect an honorable man, a good
Republican, if not your choice, the best
you can under the circumstances. This
advice was in harmony with the feel
ings of the loyal and majority-rule Re-
publicans of the Legislature, excepting
Mr.. Wilson whose honesty no one
doubts and who may have been wiser
in his course than all the rest, though
we cannot say that yet, and they made
an honest effort to elect Senator.
They offered the names of several gen.
tlemen, good Republicans and able
men, only to be laughed at by the
friends of Mr.. Addicks and to be ac-
cused of ''playing smart" by the friends
of Mr.. Massey. What more could
they do? For the honest effort they
have made to elect Senator, for their
loyalty to party organization and to
caucus rule even when against them,
for their labors as legislators often
hindered and harrassed by factional
opposition, they deserve the thanks of
all true Republicans. and with the
keenest regret and after consulting
with many leading Republicans in this
county, we are compelled to say to
those Representatives, you can do
worse than to adjourn without an cleo
tion. Honorable defeat is better than
dishonorable victory, and the people
will be with you.
Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27

THE TRANSCRIPT is delivered by carriers
every Saturday Morning to subscribers
residing in Middletown.
ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at as
reasonable a rate as is compatible with a
high-class newspaper having a large and
constantly increasing circulation.
ADVERTISING RATES-For Display Ads,
SOC. per inch for first insertion, Csc. per
inch for every succeeding insertion. Yearly
ads. 10c. per inch.
LOCAL ADS.-Under ''Briefs," Sc. per lin u;
Pure Reading Notices l0c. per line.
BILLS must be paid monthly.
CHECKS, money orders or postal notes should
be drawn to the order of, and CommuDi-
cations should be addressed to,
McKENDREE DOWNHAM,
MIDDLETowN, DEL.
a9-No communications published unless &C
companied by full name of the writer.
Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27

THE Erery Erening is helping along to
the extent of its ability what it calls
the "Addicks people" in the Whining
ton mayorality contest, in its news COL
umns. Evidently the editor has "seen
a man." Mr.. Addicks is too shrewd
to desire editorial endorsement from
EUery Erening but be may find even
the news columns of E. &. a hindrance
rather than help.
Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27
[F there is one line of error

IF there is one line Of error or untruth
in our conclusions or statements we
are not aware of it, and we stand
ready to make any correction. 1t
is not too late, nor is it too late for
Republicans to come to their senses and
to elect Senator-a Senator who will
unite the party and bring victory to
despairing people.
Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27

Rev. J. T. Prouse, the new pastor of
Kenton NJ. E. Church, was recently ten
dered donation party by the members of
his congregation.
Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27
MIDDLETOwN, DEL, APR. 81, 1895

paper shows the time to wfIch
your subscription Is paid.
Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27
900 to 500 Extras +!

Have been sent out each
week. The TRANSCRIPT
seeks readers and all extras
not ordered are sent as SAM
pie copies on Saturday.
Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27

Ely's PfneOla will be found excellent for
all throat and lung inflamations and for
asthma. The annoying tickling and nervous
irritation in the throat, producing hacking
coughs is quickly relieved by it. Consump-
tives will invariably derive benefit from the
use of Pineola Balsam, as 1t quickly abates
the cough, renders expectoration easy, assist
ing nature in restoring wasted tissues. The
Pineola Balsam is pleasant to the taste, is
soothing to the inflamed surface.
More lives are sacrificed by the neglect of
"slight coughs" than can be estimated.
Price Of Pineola Balsam, &C. per bottle. All
druggists. ELY BROS, So Warren St., N. Y
Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27

Fifty-two times for 81. TRANSCRIPT
Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27

Always a To feel we'll
Satisfaction DIRE ssed' and
to be we'll dressed is to
buy and wear clothing
that has been gotten up
to have some othe char
acteristic except that it is
cheap. A few cents spent
for extra time in careful
cutting, a few cents spent
extra for care and honest
labor in the making and
a few cents extra to get
trimmings that will match
nicely and wear, all add
dollars to the appearance
and service in wearing
any suit. We had a GUS
toner yesterday who said
he wanted a suit of our
own make because the last
suit he had did just what
we told him it would do,
wear well, hold it's own
and give him good service.
On mems Suits, think of |
the prices, all-wool Suits |
of our own make, from
$8 up.
Open evenings.
Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27

This useful piece of furniture in four
finishes, oak, birch, cherry and walnut at
6Oc. Call it what you like, costumer,
clothes tree or clothes pole. the fact re-
mains that tits indispensable when once
used. Only few hundred of them now
in stock; enough perhaps, to supply all
that wants them at this low price for the
next two weeks. Others at 81, 81 and
$3.50. pt# II
Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27

Remember we're still selling l0-wire
Tapestry Carpets at 6Oc any make you de.
sire. This is not sale of remnants or
unstable patterns, but the best patterns
that can be produced.
Middletown transcript., 1895-04-27

ROo Straw Mattngs S3 per roll of 40
wv yards and we guarantee it to be good
any yov find at S. From this the hgherpriced
novelties 3-4 widths to match for halls and stairs
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-09-05
Is there Tin in Virginia?

Lexington, Va, Aug. 31.-An
agreement has been made be-
tween E. A. Rust, and others, Of
Boston, and the Virginia Tin
Mining Company to develop the
Manufacturing Company, to de-
velop the tin mines in the Blue
Ridge Mountains along Irish
creek in Rockbridge county, with
the view of ascertaining whether
tin ore exists in paying quanti-
ties. About $75, 900 worth of
machinery was put in these
mines some years ago. The cap
italists have an option on the
land a5 500, 900 for twelve
months.
Circuit court met at Brandon
Monday last and the grand jury
immediately proceeded to work
or the case, and Thursday even
ing brought in true bill against
Marshall, Coleman and a Mr..
Fox.
The prisoners were arraigned
in court Fridry morning, and by
agreement pleaded guilty of muir
der in the first degree, and were
sentenced to life Imprisonment
in the State penitentiary. They
will be brought to Jackson Sat-
urday to begin their sentences
No delay in making the ar
rests, no delay by the grand
jury, no delay in the trial; no
appeal rs change of venue, no
plea of self defence or of insanity
no retrial!-why this is the most
astonishing news that has come
over the wires in many a day.
The liberties of murderers are
certainly endangered when such
an example is set.
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A HAND.
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
Colonel w. c.. p. Breckenridge
announces that he is out of poll
tics. He will never apply for or
accept a public position,
We have no desire to recall the
story of the Colonel's downfall,
but the close OF his political ca
reer has a lesson in it which
should be needed. The people
of this country are not as good
as they might be, but they are
united in the determination not
to accept the leadership of men
who are guilty of scandalous re-
lations with women whose youth
and helplessness should have
been their protection. Breckin-
ridge was a silver tongued BRA
tor and a popular idol, He was
strongly entrenched in the afec-
tions of his people. He had
scared SO high that his friends
confidently expected him to go
still higher.
Suddenly the strong man was
thrown down into the mire by g,
woman's hand. He was pushed
by that same hand from his lofty
station. One by one all the
places that had known him were
barred against him by that little
white hand.
In our civilization the whole
world is a unit against a great
man when he wrongs a woman
and leaves her to bear the bur.
den Of her shame. while he poses
before the people as an apostle
of mortality and wisdom. Then,
the silver tongue is only sound
ing brass. Then the strong man
becomes as weak as a child.
Then his boosted wisdom is folly,
and his eloquenoe is mere drivel.
Sometimes a little, soft, white
hand has nerves of steel under
its velvety surface-sometimes
it has the grip of a tigress-
sometimes it d pull down the
mighty and cast them into a pit
of darkness. It may be only a
woman's hand, but with a burn
ing wrong behind it no man can
measure its power:
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TRADE CONDITIONS.

The trade reviews of Dun and
BradstreetS are exceedingly
gratifying this week. They re
port a volume of business with
jobbers in staple lines in the big
centers that surprises even the
most optimistic. The same con-
dition prevails to a moderate ex-
tent in the South Atlantic and
Gulf States. Iron and steel have
both advanced to about so per
cent from the lowest level reach
ed in 1893-94, and a boom is i'm
pending in the metal market.
The volume of trade is large and
the outlook is for a still greater
demand, which, if realized, can
not fail to put the iron and steel
market on the biggest boom it
has experienced for a decade.
Bradstreet notes that the gen
eral upward and onward impulse
of the week is very noticeable.
Dun expresses the fear that the
rise in prices and expansion of
trade may become too rapid, the
result of which would tend to
check future business. How
evel, a conservative feeling is
finding expression and may yet
control the market. The food
crop prospects are simply i'm
mense and the upward tendency
OF cotton makes the South glad.
Altogether the situation and
outlook are indeed gratifying.
On the eve of the fall season the
commerce of the country finds
itself in better shape than it has
Seen for three years, with every
~indication not only for steady
and confined Improvement, but
IA boom. What more could be
desired?
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Astonishing News.
Asheville Citizen.

AlUlZ6n.
A week ago Hon, T. Dabney
Marshall. a member of the Mis-
sissippi legislature, accompan-
led by H. H. Coleman and R.. T.
Cox, prominent citizens of Vicks-
burg, arrived at Jackson, Miss,
il search of one Dinkins, de-
scribed is 'highly connected in
Mississippi. and cousin Of Bish-
op Galloway, of Jackson, who
had circulated very sensational
stories about MARSHALL" Din
kins was some fifteen miles in
the country. and thence went the
trio. Finding Dinkins, Marshall
opened fire on him, but
Dinkins, though unarmed, was
game and was giving Marshall
the worst end of the fight when
the latters friends came to his
rescue by shooting at Dinkins
till he was dead. Three armed
men did succeed, in other words.
IN overcoming one unarmed
man.
This is not, however, the re-
markable feature of the affair.
What followed is enough to take
ones breath away:
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Capt Allison's Narrow Escape.

Capt. J. A, Allison had a very
narrow escape from death yes
terday. AS the Florida train was
nearing Blythwood it slowed
down for water. He stepped on
the bottom step of the mail and
express car and the step dropped
from under, him. Luckily he
managed to cacth the car rail
with his hands and was dragged
along until the train could be
stopped. Had the train been ra
pidly death would have been
instaIteous, or his feet would
have been knocked to pieces
against the ties. He was not
frightened but powerfully scared,
Charlotte Observer, Il
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The Philosophy of Statesmen.

Whoever controls the volume
of money in any country is abSo.
Lutte master Of all industry and
cOmmerce.-James. A. Garfield.
Liberty cannot long endure in
any country where the tendency
of legislation is to concentrate
wealth in the hands of the few
Daniel Webster.
That prices will fall or rise as
the volume of money be increased
Or diminished is a law that is un-
alterab1e as any law Of nature
Prof. Walker.
If the whole volume of money
in circulation was doubled, prices
would double. If it was increased
one>fourth prices would Use
one-fourth.-John Stuart Mill.
If Congress has the right un-
der the Constitution to issue pa
per money it was given them to
be used by themselves, not to
be delegated to individuals or
Observation-Disclosures Jackson.
It is believed in Washington
that Secretary Carlisle will feel
it his duty to go to Kentucky to
promote harmony among the fac
tons, and that in a certain con-
tlngency. he may become a can
didate for the Senate.
A decreasing volume of money
and falling prices have been and
are now more fruitful of human
misery than war, pestilence and
famine. They have wrought
more injustice than all the bad
laws ever enacted.-U. S. Money
Commission.
/ believe that banking institu-
tons are more dangerous to our
liberties than standing armies.
Already they have raised up a
money aristocracy that has set
the government at defiance. The
issuing power should be taken
from the banks and restored to
to the government and the peo-
pie to whom it properly belongs.
Let the banks exist, but let them
bank on treasury notes.-Thomas
Jefferson.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-09-05
The Sessions are Open.
PreSS-Visitor.1

Press-Visitor.
The Arlington Tribunal, which
developed into a Disgusting
farce Saturday sobered up to-
day and had a meeting. The
committee, strange to relate, has
been converted to the idea of
having public meetings.. This
morning they arranged them
selves in the Senate chamber in
court like fashion, Lard Camp
bell holding down the speakers
chair, Phillips in the paquet and
Little Billie" out of sight. At.
torney Purnell and Mrs. AIRING
ton were on hand.
Mr.. G. B. Aycock was the only
witness examined. What he said
is nothing new to the public, and
did not amount to much as testi-
mony. He said that he was at
torney for Mrs. Arlington until
she began 10 write about him.
Then he took it that she had no
furthur use for his survice. He
received an order of 800 fee,
but never collected it.
Court adjourned at - m. until
more witnesses arrived,
Rev. Phillips did not attempt
to preach yesterday. He is said to
be peuitent of his conduct.
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A Dog Said to Be a Good Mimic.

The Rev. Frank M. Downing,
OF Moore county, Tenn. is the
owner of a most remarkable dog.
called Bench" In appearance
the animal is not prepossessing,
his color being a dirty yellow,
his hair course and wiry, his
legs short and his body rather
%unwieldy. In his eyes, however.
there CLEANS an intelligence al
most human. AT the word of
command "Bench" will crow like
g. Shanghai rooster, neigh like a
horse, low Ikea COW, grunt and
squeal in imitation of pigs, NEW
like a cat and repeat the various
voices incident to farm life. He
can give all the yelps Of a pack
of hounds in pursuit of a fox and
in so realistic a manner that you
could scarcely help believing
that a hunt was in progress.
The dog was never trained to
do this, but as a puppy picked
up the cries of the farm yard,
and has added to them the creak-
ing of wagons and the whirring
OF machinery as made by a
thresher. Mr.. Downing has
been offered fabulous sums for
the wonderful dog, but refuses
to part with him. Trained ami
NAL keepers who haye examined
Bench" and become familiar
with his powers of mimicry, say
that it would be an easy matter
tc teach the dog to articulate
words, perhaps even to talk con-
nectedly.-Chicago Times-Her-
aid.
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LIST OF LETTERS

Remaining in Post Office at Goldsboro,
N. c, Sept. ?.
LADIES LIST.
B-Iney Barnes. Sallie Boone,
Cler Boatell. MalviD Rry-
ant. Qensi Brooks.
E-Mrs. ]. .. Edgerton.
G-Jane Gary,
H-Mahel Hall. Richard Horn.
Pate.
R-Sarah ]. Redman.
S-Winnie Smith.
T-Sarah j. Toler,
W-Sureamer Williams, Mary L
Whitfield.
MEMS LIST.
R-Will Barnes, P. j. Best, J E
Byrd.
D-J S DYE.
Holm Harris, James Hearty,
w 2 Howell.
Pc y Pate, Jessie Patton.
st r Southerland.
W-Wesley Williams, G B Wat
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Coming South,

Baltimore, Md, Sept. 2.-The
Southern States Magazine has a
report showing that recent sales
along the Mobile & Ohio railroad
to Northern and Western people
aggregate 40, 900 acres, OF this
amount 90, 900 acres have been
sold to a colonization company
organized at Sioux City. Iowa,
which proposes to take active
steps at once to settle people
from Iowa and other western
states on this tract. The land
will be laid out for farming pur-
poses with a town in connection
with it for such settlers as pre-
fer town life. This property is
located about sixty miles North
of Mobile.
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A Husbands Deep Devotion to His
Dead Wife's Memory,

eff you die, I will sleep by
your grave all the rest of my
life" This remarkable vow was
made fifteen years ago to his
sick wife by Edwin L. Morrison,
at that time chief clerk Of the
Pennsylvania freight depart
ment at MEANWHILE, Ohio. He
built a rupe but at the side of his
wife's grave in the cemetery.
Now Edwin l.. Morrison, once
the handsome railroad man, is
old, wrinkled and haggared, but
still sits in his rude hut by the
side of the grave of the woman
he loved SO well. For fifteen
years he has kept up this solemn
vigil. In rain OF shine. summer
or winter, he fingers around the
little spot where his loved one
lies. Day after day during SO
many years. he has spent amid
the gloom Of this old grave yard.
No strife of the outer world mars
his calm existence.
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h Cap Outrage.

HICKMAN, Ky, September 2.
Between midnight and day
break this morning Will Butcher
a negro was taken from the city
lock up aud shot to pieces by
white-caps. Saturday night he
got into a quarrel with a crowd
of negroes, the police tried to ar
rest him, but he resisted and
threw a brick. striking a promi-
nent white citizen. He was i'm
mediately put behind the bars.
This morning the door of the
lock up was found open and the
prisoner gone. Later. Butcher
was found dead on the river
bank. with his head shot to pieces
and the body riddled with bull
let's. Eight or ten white masks
were found near by. No arrests
have been made.