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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-03

The stock, fixtures and license Of the
Eddystone Hotel, in Chester, which
were sold by the sheriff of Delaware
county Tuesday, were purchased by
W. b. Sykes for Wood & Slack and the
Diamond State Brewery of this city.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-03

Information has been received here
to the effect that j. E. Brown, who
was taken from Wilmington to Seneca
Falls, N. Y, ON the charge of bigamy,
has been liberated. 1t is understood
that the charge was not sustained.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-03

Associated Press Dispatch by Special Wires
st. Adams, VT, Sept. Returns
from 235 out of 245 towns in the State
give circuit, R., so, ISL votes, and Jack
son, D., IA, 450. The Republican
plurality is 3S,30l. The Democrats
have elected seven Representatives to
the Legislature.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-03

AssociatedPrs's Dispat,n nv sns,isl Wires
Philadelphia. Sept. 2.-Wheat. steady; No. .
Pennsylvania red in EXPORT elevator, 6lka6ec.;
No. red spot in export elevator. 60Aa6lc.
Corn, steady: No. , for local trade. 26as7c.
Oats, dull and easier: No. white, 2skc.; No.
white, new, l9f2Oc.; No mixed old, csc,
Bran, steady, unchanged
Butter, firm. good demand. fancy Western
creamery. l6sai7c.; do. Pepnsylvania prints. iac;
do. do. 1obbing, 2oa23c.
Eggs, steady; fresh nearby. 15Nc.; do. Western,
l5al5hc.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-03

County Constable Thomas Reardon
has resigned, but his resignation has
not yet been accepted by the Levy
Court There are several applicants
TOR tho position, -.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-03

Mrs. W. M. Phillips died Tuesday at
her home, No. IT'S Kirkwood street,
aged 81 years.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-03

\ An effort is being made to force Gen.
Bragg out of the Presidential race in
favor of Senator Villas. Many dele
gates, believing Senator Villas is the
strongest candidate, have rendered him
their support. Other delegates have
withheld expressing opinions until
some definite arrangement can be made
or determination reached as &c
whether or not Bragg will retire IN
favor of Villas. The Senator has SAID
that he cannot be candidate, as Gen.
Bragg Is a candidate from his owr
State. The delegates who are in the
movement to secure Bragg's win,
drawal In favor of Villas will no doub1
present the name Of Gen. John u
Black of Illinois il Gen. Bragg remains
in the field. Blacks name will pc
snEa4sntaas by the Illinois dslsEEslen,
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when he reached home, the most un- pretentious frame house-just box or q house-in that village of frame houses. he found his good wife anxiously walt- ing at the door, with their cluster of four children about her.
 "Oh. John, dear, dear John. you won't have to kill yourself working any nore," she cried, passionately, and threw her arms around his neck, sob- bine. The excitement of the day had beer. too much for Old Jack Benn and he wept also, as he pressed her to his breast and the children wept in symPa- thy.
 The S125,ooo had brought the assur- apce to Mrs. Benn that her man would not have to toll in heat and cold, wet or dry any more, and she was satisfied When the happy little family sat down to their meal that evening they all eX- prsssed the desire of their hearts. Mi ehael. the eldest, 23 years old, who IS working as an hostler in the round- house of the L. I. k. R. at Oyster Bay, said that now he would like to study the business of civil engineer. His father said he could. Mary. aged 10, had only one desire. She wanted to learn stenog- raphv and fypewriting so that she could earn her own living, while the two
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youngest children, Nicholas, aged 13, and John, aged eight, were pleased with the knowledge that hereafter they could have all they wanted to eat, even pie with every meal; and their heaven was complete when their father said they could each have bicycle. The knowl- edge that the money was theirs reached them on June IA. They are living yet as they were then. The bicycles have not materialized, but the boys are satisfied in the knowledge that they are going to get them.
 When the writer visited the family he found them all sitting around late breakfast table. In a minute kind- hearted Mrs. Benn had another plate on the table and insisted that the vis- itor, stranger though he was, should join them, while old Jack told what he intended to do with his money. A request that he should write detailed account of how he intended to spend it was met with refusal, the old man say ing he couldn't write it. However, he talked it.
 "When q man." he said, "has been
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working for a dollar day for the best part of his life he cannot conceive the possibilities of an income of $500 month, such as 1 have now. If the money was thrown in a heap there on the floor it would frighten me more than it would please me. Now, I only pay five dollars month for this house, but l have spent many pleasant hours here, and hate to leave it."
 "But you will?"
 "Yes. The old woman and the kids want better house. don't blame 'em. This box ain't much of a place. It's bitter cold in winter and too hot in sum- mer. Yes, I am thinking of building a fine house here in Hicksville, and will spend the rest of my days here"
 How do you propose to spend your money?" he was asked.
 q am not going to use it all. My uncle left it safely invested in houses and real estate; and, while I could draw it and invest it in something else, don't propose to dc so. I'll leave it as it is. I have no head for business, So I'll never disturb cent of it, but leave it till the boys is grown up, and then they will know how to use it.'
 "You mean to give them a college education, then?"
 That 1 do. The best in the land. Its what have often missed"
 "But you will not work again ?"
 "Now, there. That's the very thing that's puzzling me. Mebbe you would advise me. The old woman and the children don't want me to, but 'tis as true as you're sitting there, sir, would feel more to home with myself if was out on the road there again."
 "'Deed you wouldn't" interjeeted Mrs. Benn. You'll stay home now"
 q suppose I'll have to, with you and the young ones all against me- he re- torted, with a comicar smile.
 "How do you spend your time nowP" he was asked.
 "Moping around. get up as early as ever l don't eat as much as 1 used to, and I don't sleep as well. Sometimes, upon me soul, if it wasn't for them"-- indicating the loving group around him -s.I could wish I had never been left cent" he concluded.
 Benn is B years old. He was born in Wodentown, County Loud, Ireland, where his rich uncle was also born.
 Earle preceded him to America and settled in Hicksville, where by shrewd investments he amassed a fortune of nearly a million dollars. He was bachelor, and when he died, few weeks ago, he left his vast fortune equally among five nephews and nieces, and also left large amount to various Catholic charities.
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Tie Pope,s GardensParty

Leo XIII appeared in new character the other day-namely, as the giver oi a garden party. His grandniece is a pupil at the Convent of the Assumption in Rome, and at his request she brought 50 of her companions to the vatican gar dens for an afternoon outing. The pope received them in his pavilion in the most gracious and amiable fashion. The rigid etiquette of the vatican was cast aside for the nonce, and the successor of St. Peter took most paternal :n' terest in the girlish games, even help inc to hand around the fruit and cake among his young guests. It was not until the approach of the evening, after a most enjoyable afternoon, that the holy father returned to the vatican. Be- fore retiring from the scene he gave his benediction 10 the 50 little maidens l5Deeling on the greenswafd.
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wonder, for shortly after noon that day lawyers in fine clothes had visited him on the road and had called him Mr Benn, and while he was wondering what all this friendliness meant from such fine folks they had told him that the will of his uncle, Bernard Earle, had been opened that day, and that he had been left fortune of $125,000. He could not realize all that that sum of money meant. He, the hard-teiliag railroad laborer, was stunned by this announcement, and he puzzled over the sum, S125,000, much in the same way that he had tried to figure out the appearance of Heaven when he was lad.
 Four years he had worked on the road at a dollar a day, and he could not tell just what the change in his prospects meant. He began to realize it though as he plodded home. Men and women whom he had known for years ap- preached him with a difffdence he had lever noticed before, and saluted him as "Mr. Benn." It had always been Jack" or 'Old Man. and truth to tell he did not like the change.
 Then there were men, his social SUI periors, whom he had always recognized as such, who stopped him, greeting him effusiyely, shaking his hand, asking his opinion on politics, and in various ways betraying an interest in his welfare, and deep down in his heart he blamed him. self for ever having thought them cold or naughty, or supercilious. How could he ever have so called these friendly people, whom he now understood for the first time had been his warm friends even all the time he had been working for a dollar a day on the road.
 All these meetings and greetings had detained him later than usual. so that
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cause of backaehe. I slwavr risa l., company. If there is one thing I gua1,J against 1t is overdoing. Nothing ;s galned by scorching My wheel is qante heavy, but I believe that wbeels will be made heavier next year than ot present. The 24 to 26-pound whee1 Will be the wheel of the future. Ir;aa . 78 gear. '
 Do feel better mentally and phvsic- ally since began to ride than before 2 Most assuredly do. I can do my worl, more easily. My limbs, formerly soft and flabby, are solid and sinewy. and I feel like fighting cock. You see. ;" com tlnued the old gentleman. q have had a great deal of experience horseback rid ing During three years in my western career when younger by several decades than l am at present I trayersed the plains on horseback, and on a. sing,e trip have made over l, 400 miles. have never had any set theory to govern my everyday actions and diet, but I avoid eXcesses of every kind. I had used to- baeco for over 50 years, chewing and smoking, until last year I concluded I would quit chewing and did so without difficulty and have not chewed tobacco since.''
 Mir. Parsons was and is to-day an adept at wrestling, and it is said of him that only one amateur has ever been able to stand up before him for any length of time in a wrestling match. That contest, however, was decidedly interesting and lasted about two hours and was finally declared draw. He has always been an operator of the tele- graph, and was one of the pioneers, talk ing up the business when it was in it's infancy at Hamilton, N. Y. He built the lines from St. Louis to Jefferson City, Mo, for the Missouri and Western telegraph company before the war. On the breaking out of the rebellion he was impressed into the union service as an operator just before the battle of Shiloh and served during that battle, two days, thence he went to Savannah, Tenn. un- der orders, and there for a week they
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JACK BENN'S NEW FORTUNE.
Day Laborer on Long Island Sud-
 denly Receives S125,ooo.
NOW That Dame Fortune Has Given Him fhousands, lie Repents Ills Illit- eracy and Longs to Get Back
 to His Work.
TcoPYR1GHr. 1896. I

It's signed article ye wants, tell ing how it feels to find yourself sud- oenly rieh, said old Jack Benn 10 the writer. Well, it's divil bit of signing l can do, although 1 like to be that obliging, for to write my name is some thing never knew how, but what's the matter with you putting it down just as I tell you?''
 Old Jack Benn, section hand on the Long Island railway, threw down his tools at the close of summers day re- gently, and with a fervent Thank God, I'm through with the1n,' started for his home in Hiel1sville, Long Island.
 Old Jack was seemingly dazed, and no
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laee far beyond what would naturally

ace far beyond what would naturally kxpected of one of his build.
 Farsons has four children, who are
 men and women now. They are all
 @solees of the wheel, and one day his 10angest son came home angry. The lae shaft of an old secondhand 35-
 puad wheel he owned had broken six eght miles from home, and he had
 "walk that distance, dragging the old
 uacane after him. He threw it down
 aseorner and said: "Pa, you can have
 'a4' wheel. I'm going to buy new
 "a accepted the gift, to the sur
 rise of his wife, who ridiculed the idea,
 '. sau enereupon he said that he'd ride it
 7" LOOK all summer to learn. Three
 pssls ps nard work accomplished it, and
 aafsons has ever since been a lover of ,s, plke.D Within three weeks he had
 ~a nneh trips to villages ten or twelve s.n ss away on several occasions. The r"Owlhg year he secured machine bs sning 2s pounds, and the past year U, Aas travelled 5000 miles on bis wheel. h.. st'aes sumner and winter. In every rs, iuns to and from his meals he raAs5 as over four miles, and of Sun ,.s. nas run frequently and with great o.s .s0 0o or 60 miles, and has covered York ''''o ih horoherh NC" ,osl As haolts and costume of MT. Par ssco., ale very simple. He never tries sDa sNiag' being satisfied with fair dnsa sssauy ra1e of speed. He wears cor rSi1as' Ahlekerboekers, bicycle cap and eves u ms shirt sleeves, carrying, how rbar sweater and light coat to slip on tns ng aismounts for any length of sae.. l1e never rides 8 wheel in 6 s s,' and has never known what it tpo S ~. 'ake cold after a ride. @There are sves IFS l believe in,,' he said, in an inp ~ ao qaerles as to his habits in rid 0o one is that stimulants should sta01 used by bicyclists who wish to aoa .l T Journey without serious results, sit0s 4s oeher is that the medium po- orrso4 - riding is the easiest and the sarl l sl;l ;l'0slelon. Throwing myself for blf N, a'a htly and still not humping my netbe., monkey find is the best ssay o1 riding. The position does ;:s,,sx ::s lzaen the hasel.s:aels tAat ssaaa9s !aeor,s'''' .'''se complained Of. I believe aa l'osafion to he the principal
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neasrvad RehnI,e.

"It seems to me, shouted Uncle Allen Sparks to the fleeing bIoomer girl, whose bicycle had given him severe jolt at ! crossing, you might stop a second or at least look around to see whether you've knocked anybody down or not! That would be the gentleman ly thing to Chicago Tribune.
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eonlars and Lightning.

A careful examination of the trees that are struck by lightning shows that over half of them are white poplar, From this fact scientists conclude that the poplar has some value as a eondue- tor of hgtning. This being the case aerieulturists are advised to plant these trees in the vicinity of their farm build i,1oe
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x rHE OLDEST CYCLERs
.,.n Who Gan Ride Over ola I .+u Miles in a Day.
.nry Runs at sixty-Four Years ,log Cen' ged eyeier Describes His qId- I'd , of Riding and His
 Habits of Life.
COPYRIGHT, 1sss.l

n N. Y, Aug. 5, 1896.- fstsrlg0Tpaar Y parsons, of this city, is prob qps ', most f remarkable wheelman of
 the n ,n the United States. His snow
 ags II .s - and slight figure challenge 5ts l0en| 'sntion and are seen daily on our ss 14 1ras a mere accident that led fsls. .ans to engage in the pastime of
 s at the age of 60 years, and 's ssan lan' growing. younger. Several
 Fsn nrdnous office duties had caused aIsoi q +o he bent over and had forced
 lolh u, tbe conviction that he was |paa 4 old Parsons is sound as a dol |seps sbvsioue and mind to-day, is 0
 y s,r rs of the L. \. ". and is just at E ps me expecting to take his vacation P .la Sbeel He will ride to Syracuse, lg,.nce ns of 72 miles the first day, 's,4 to IItiea, 50 miles, and to the old aalss stsod in New Hartford, where he 'sa's 4 All with all the ardor of his re- 2 ; " vo,,th in the little brook from si 'ssb he tempted the speckled beau lp,r s.W q century ago; and after that < { sIl i wheel across the country to New Irl z ss'1 city and return. He feels conf as 7. of his ability to do this without " sgt fatigue and says further that he l'p, sI sIsttgmpt to make a century ride be !. +be season is over.
 y p.,sons ,s was born in 1894 of a sturdy, ,sity race, and is a descendant of Eng { ,',s asoDle. his mother being a distant a.ire of Lord Howe, of England. ..sgb @ small of stature, and rather Isbt. he is sinewy and especially since Inc the bicycle has shown an endnr-
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sfreo c.t,l in Coarse Bread.

After analyzing various qualities of flour, M. Girard informs the Paris Acad- emy of Sciences that the common De lief that fine white bread has less nu- tr;+ive newer tlian coarse brown bread is wrong, as both the fine and the coarse breads contain practically the same amounts of gluten and of phosFhates-
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were engaged in the sad duty of inform. ing the relatives of dead and wounded of the losses that had been sustained Afterwards he was detailed on Gen, sherman's staff as operator. Since the war he has never known a day of sick ness
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 Anything for a Change.

q want a pound of butter" said MT. Spudds to the grocer.
 "Yes, sir; the real or the imitation ." (Which kind was it you gave me day before yesterday?" ?"
 'That was the genuine"
 "Then I'll take the imitation this time,"-N. Y. World
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Solieituae.

"William," she said, will you do something that is for your own good?"
 '.What is it?'
 q want you to give up smoking You are simply running your health and my lace curtains. Washington Star.
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The Reason of Peace.

T like summer. my wife is always so gentle and aniabie in hot weather"
 "So is mine; it must be because all the progressive euchre clubs have shut down. 's- llicago Record.
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Ra+pras Not in.

q coneratulate you, Wigginton' on having your three daughters marriea off o,n,t tell vet whether I have three daughters ', arried of or three sons-in-iaW mar ,sed Claicago Record.
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Don't bear

the burden of the wash-board any longer. Hasn'tit caused enough dam
 age and trouble and weariness? Do you realize the amount of wear and
 tear thatit brings to your clothes in a single year? Get Pearline-get i'd of the wash-board and that eternal rubbing. Be free woman. You ought to see for yourself that Pearl \ ines easy wayof washing soak ' ing, boiling, rinsing-is better for
 / the clothes and better for you. 5ls
The record-union., 1896-06-25
Practical Lesson i'm Finance.

Inc free-cOinage advocate tells the
farmer that the silver standard will
give him dollar bushel for his wheat.
Suppose it should? The wheat grower
need not wait for free coinage to real
re this price. Let him sell his crop for
Mexican dollars and he will be able
to get more than dollar a bushel
even now Wheat was quoted in the
local market yesterday at sixty-two
cents and Mexican dollars sold last
Friday in New York at fifty-four cents
Sixty-two cents in our gold-standard
currency would be worth 81 II 10 in
Mexican coinage, and this 81 II would
buy more than a silver dollar under
free coinage, since the Mexican money
would contain nearly four grains more
of pure silver
So with cotton. The Richmond
state tells a story illustrative of the
arguments brought to bear upon the
Southern farmer A planter has a $500
mortgage, and has twenty bales for
which he expects to get six and half
cents pound. A free coinage advocate
tells him that in Mexico cotton is worth
about thirteen cents, because that coun-
try has free silver coinage, and at
thirteen cents a pound he would get
81, ,Z0o for his twenty bales. But. if he
Will sell his cotton in Mexico or for
Mexican currency he can get as much
now as he would were there to be free
coinage in the United States.-Louis-
Vile Courier Journal
The record-union., 1896-06-25
PORTUGUESE IN AFRICA.
Their Power and Influence Has COM
pieteIy Passed Away.

The first to come were the men of POr.
! tugal, then in the fresh springtime of it:
| power, Bartholomew DiaZ discovered
| the Cape of Storms, as he called it, ir
14S6; and after Vasco da Cana, in 1897
9S, had traced the southeast coast as
far as Sofala Ga little TO the south of
the modern port of Beira), the Portu-
guese established settlements at that
place, and farther to the north of it,
and thence carried on considerable
trade with the natives, chiefly in gold
brought down from the mines of Ma
shonaland. However, the unhealthiness
OF the flat country which lies between
the coast and the interior plateau
checked their projects of eXplora ton
and conquest. Individual traders, and
sometimes missionaries also, penetra ted
far into the interior, and articles which
the Portuguese must have brought to
Africa, such as fragments of Indian and
Chinese pottery, and even, in one or two
instances, small cannon, have been
found many hundreds OF miles from the
seaboard. But on the whole the Portu-
guese exerted little influence on the
country and it's inhabitants.
The white population remained very
small, and it became degraded by in
termarriage with che Kafirs: for in
Africa as we'll as Brazil the Portuguese
have shown little of that contempt for
the native blacks, and aversion to
mixing of their blood with the latter,
which has been SO generally character
istic of the Dutch and the English. Dur
ing the seventeenth and eighteenth CEN
frrir IOr,-
declined with the decline of her Euro
pean power. She made no further efforts
to explore, and even abandoned some
CT her stations on the Zambesi. She
remained, however, undisturbed in her
possessions till a few years ago. when
e question arose between her and Great
Britain regarding the right to Delagoa
Bay, a port, the value of which, as the
only deep water harbor fit for large yes
sells along the whole stretch of the
southeast coast south of Beira, was now
generally perceived. President Nc
Mahon, to whom as arbitrator the con-
troversy was referred, decided in favor
of Portugal. Subsequently Germany ap-
peared as a formidable neighbor on the
north, while boundary disputes arose
with the British settlers who in 1890 had
occupied the inland country to the west.
Thus the Portuguese frontier, which
had been very uncertain, has now be-
come defined. 1t includes vast area.
but in that area the number of white
men. or even of semi-civiliZed half
breeds, is so small that, although some
ftful efforts have been made by the Mo-
zambique Company, little or no progress
iii occupying or improving the country
can be recorded. Portugal sends no
emigrants to Africa. Her Government
now hard pressed for money, cannot find
the sums needed to develop her African
territories, nor is there private cepital
in Portugal to supplement the weakness
OF the Government. The Beira Railway
and the Delagoa Bay Railway (of which
more anon) have both been built nv
foreign companies. Practically. Portu-
sal may be looked on as an extinct force
in South Africa.-James Bryce, M. p.
in the Century.