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Middletown transcript., 1898-02-12
BRANCH ROADS.

DELAWARE, MARYLAND & VIRGINIA R R.
Leave Harrington for Franklin City and way
stations 1913 a m week days, 81 p M Tuesdays,
thursdays and Saturdays. Returning train
leaves Franklin City $50 a. II. week days, and
l.42 Tuesdays, Thurs a S and Saturdays onl, .
Leave Franklin City for Chincoteague (via
steamer) 43 p. m. week days Returning
leave Chincoteague 4. AZ a. M, weekdays
Leave Harrington for Georgetown and Lewes
at 1879 a m 637 p. m weekdays. Returning
leave Lewes 6.45 a. m.,3 IL p. m. week days
Leave Harrington for Berlin, 10 80 a. M week
days and 6.37 p. III. Tuesdays, Thursdays and
saturdays. Returning, leave Berlin 6.57 a. IN.
week days and 2.43 p. IN. Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays.
QUEEN ANNE & KENT R. R.-Leave Townsend
for Centreville and way stations 9 % a. M, and
o32 M. week days Returning, leave Centre
vile 30 a. m. and LIZ p. M, weekdays.
DELAWARE & CHESAPEAKE R. R-Leave Clay
ton for Oxford and way stations IS a. m, and
5F p. M, week days. Returning, leave Oxford
6.49 a. NJ, and 40 p. M, weekdays.
CAMBRIDGE & SEAEoRD R. K.-Leave Seaford
for Cambridge and intermediate stations II. IL u.
m. and ia p IN. weekdays, Returning leave
Cambridge 7 0 and 10 55 p. m. weekdays
CoNNECTIOE.-At Porter, with Newark and
Delaware City Railroad. At Townsend with
Queen Anne's & Kent Railroad. At Clayton
with Delaware e. Chesapeake Railroad and
Baltimore & Delaware Bay kailroad At Har-
ringtoil, with Delaware Maryland & Virginia
Railroad. At Seaford: with Cambridge u Seaford
Railroad. At Delmar, with New York Phila-
delphia 4 Norfolk. Wicomico & Pocomoke and
Peninsula Railroads
j. B. HUTCHIsON ON, General Manager.
J. il. WOOD, General Passenger Agent.
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Schedule in effect November Ihth, 1857
All trains Illuminated with Pintsch Light
*Exp~ess trains.
TRAINS LEAVE WILMINGTON. DEL
AWARE AVE STATION FOR
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rliddIetown Directory.
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
Presidentz-G. w. w. Naudain; Secretary
w. s. Letherbury; Charles II. Howell.
RANKS.

MUN1C1fAL QFFlCEtCS.
Presidentz-G. w. w. Naudain; Secretary,
w. s. Letherbury; Charles II. Howell.
BANKS.
Peoples National Bank.-President, G.. w,
w Naudain; Cashier, Geo. d. Kelley; Tell er.
w. G. Lockwood. Bank Building on East
Main Street.
Citizens National Bank.-President, JOSEPH
Biggs; Cashier, John s. Crouch; Teller, a..
Darlington. Bank Building on South Broad
Street.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
Middletown Council, No. 2, Jr. 0. y. A. M.
Meets every Monday night in McWhorter's g
Hall at O'Clock.
Union Lodge, No. s, A. r. & A. M. Meets
first Tuesday of each month in Town Hall.
Good Samaritan Lodge, No. 8, I. y. o. F.
Meets every Thursday night in McWhorter's
Hall at s O'Clock.
Damon Lodge, No. II, K. Of p. Meets every
Wednesday night in McWhor4er's Hall at
Major John Jones Post, No. q, G. A. r.
Meets every Friday night in Reynolds Build
ing at Z O'Clock
Welcome Conclave Heptasophs. Meets
every second and fourth Friday night in K.
Of p, Hall.
Union Lodge, No. 6, A. o. U. W., meets every
I'd and 4th Tuesday night IN McWhorter's
Hall.
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Volunteer Hose Company, meets drst Fri
day night of each month in Hose House.
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How to Make Money

Ifyou are out of employment and want q
clear above expenses by working regularly,
or, II you want to increase your present In.
come from $500 to $500 yearly, by working at
odd times. write the GLOBE CO., 723 Chestnut
St.. Phila., Pa, stating age, whether married
or single, last or present employ ment ana
you can secure position with them by Whicn
than you ever made before In your life.
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Rents Boxes

In its New Burglar and Fire-prco
Vaults, Makes ample provision in it>
Store Room and Vaults for the safe keep.
ing Of Securities and Valuable package
placed in its cussody.
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Tiue GABLE.
Phila. Wiln. and Baltimore R. R
DELAWARE DIVISION
SOUTHWARK,

On and after January l7th 1897, train
will leave as follows:
SOTTTIJ N ARD
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Attends to the

Management of Real Estate and to the
Collection and Remittance Of Rents In
terest on Securities aEl Dividends
Stocks.
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3. & 9. Railroad.

J. *. WOOD, General Passenger Agent.
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the month, of the political, the
economic, and literary happenings
which are Of value to intelligent
nen and women. The Editors
"Progress Of the World " tells sue
cinctly an illustrated story ct the
month. The Leading Ar,ielss"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-26
TARANTULA IN COURT.
Francis Pope's Pet Created a Scene
Among Toperg.

New York Dec. 26.-A scene in Essex
Market police court this morning recalled
the story of one "Crawfish jim" who,
when the leading citizens of Wolfville
were getting their nerves in shape one
morning about second drink time"
blandly drew a large pet bullsnake from
his pocket and, stretching it on the bar,
offered to give odds that it was the fat
test serpent in Arizona; likewise the best
behaved.
Francis Pope turned loose a big taran-
tula among the men arraigned for intoxi-
cation before Magistrate Cornell this
Pope does not carry tarantulas as a
rule, but he has a fondness for bugs and
able to collect these walking Deaths" as
he is a porter in the employ of a whole
ing bananas at pier No. 6, East river, on
Wednesday, he heard that a tarantula had
particular spider was of unusual size and,
consequently, all the more attractive to
Pope, who thought it the Hkeliest pet he
had encountered since he began to ike
such. things. He contrtved to beg or Dor
it first and, placing it in cigar box, car
He was to be witness in an assault
case called in Essex Market today, and he
remembered that Policeman Burns OF the
things and would be tickled, no doubt, by
a glimpse of a lively tarantula: So Pope
took his tarantula to court. It was not
as lively as he would like to see it, and
he thought he would consult Byrnes about
the best means of bringing it up by hand.
He thought it was benumbed by cold But
the tarantula was only playing possom-"
AS Pope sat among the other witnesses
he became interested in the proceedings
and the cover swung wide. The tarantula
James Dorian" said the magistrate to
the foremost of long line of men charged
with intoxication, tine policeman says
you were helplessly drunk in the street.
What have you to say?"
Whatever the prisoner had to say he
did not say it. A man further back in
the line sprang aside with a yell Of terror.
Take EN- away!' he shouted Keep
'em off -
A policeman seized him and shock him,
but he only pointed to the bridge and
The men in the line followed his point
and the policeman beside him looked down
and there at their feet, crawling briSklys
was Pope's tarantula-
Both said together: ''Do you see it?'
and answered., Y es, sure: -. -.
pet had escaped and was interfering with
court business, was not satisfied to escape
censure by keeping quiet.
Don't touch it," he exclaimed, spring
ing forward. Its mine! If it bites you
a dead man within an hour"
''A-hi'' said policemen and prisoners In
chorus, giving the bug more room
1T can jump 10 feet, they tell me-, said
The circle widened until its diameter
was Is feet, and the sergeant said menac-
ingly to Pope: IF it's your bug, why
don't you take it away? Dye want to go
Thus encouraged, Pope gingerly herded
the tarantula into the cigar box and bust
ness was resumed. Pope apolOS1zed to
the court and retired.
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DE RESZKE CONFIRMS 1T.
Tells of New Opera House he Is Plan.
ming for Paris Exposition.

New York, Dec. 26.-M Jean de
Reszke processes to be amazed because
the story regarding his interest in a
new opera house in Paris has leaked
out on this side of the Atlantic. When
asked to discuss the plans he expressed
the deepest kind of surprise.
This amazes me- he said. cit was
agreed on all sides in Paris that 1t
should be kept secret, but as it has
leaked out there is no reason why [
shouldn't speak quite frankly about it.
1t is true, and the new opera house will
be opened during the exposition year.
The site is in the Place Vendome, and
the new structure will cost don't ex-
actly know how many millions francs.
AS the people who are interested in the
project stand high in the world of fin
ance and fashion, need only mention
Baron Erlanger, the ROthschilds and
the Duchess d'Uzes-it really doesn't
matter what it costs.
1T is not only enthusiasm for Wagner
and the classics that has brought about
this new order of things, but the need
rather Of a theater in Paris in which
you are not constantly exposed to
draughts, and in which you can recIine
in your chair with some degree of COM
fort. Moreover, the repertory of the
grand opera has become the laughing
stock not only of every Partisan but
also of the floating population, which
formerly contributed largely to the re-
ceiptS of that house. Faust and sam
son and Samson and Faust with the
same people in the cast week in and
week out. Only once in a while do they
venture on an innovation. Then they
give Les Huguenots.' 1t will be differ
ent in the new house that it to go up in
the Place Vendome-to which, let me
add en- parenthesis, there will be attach
ed a school OF acting and singing.
During the exposition we will pro-
duce 'Siegfried, Goetterdaemmerung,
La Damnation de Faust and GIuck's
'Armida' Each of these will be a mod
el performance in the true sense of the
word.
ION the way over sounded LilIi Leh-
mann, and was delighted to hear that
nothing would give her greater pleasure
than to appear with US in tArmida.'
At this juncture Mr.. Grau arrived.
Why did NJ. Jean not care to appear
in the role of Romeo and would he pre-
FER Lohengrin? % Both men looked pleas
antIy determined, and both emerged
from the debate triumphantly. NJ. Jean
consented to sing Romeo, and Mr.. Grau
not to be Outdone in distinguished con-
sideration. promised him, in order to
hefghten the brilliancy of the perform
ance, to cast Mime. Sembrich as Juliet
instead of Miss Suzanne Adams.
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POSTAL BANKS OF HAWAII

The Omaha. Bee is opposed to 'imper-
aa1Sm but it recognizes a good thing
when it exists even in recently acquired
territory and takes strong ground
against the abolition of the postal saw
ings bank system of Hawaii which is
Waitan commission. The Bees senti-
ment are expressed as follows:
Among the recommendations made by
the Hawaiian commission is the aboI-
ton of the Hawaiian postal savings
banks This recommendation should be
negatived by congress The expert
ment inaugurated in Hawaii has prov
ed successful and no valid reason can
be presented for remanding the people
concerns that want to make a profit
out Of savings deposits.
While there VIII be nothing to hinder
the establishment of private savings
banks under the proposed territorial
government it may be safely asserted
that the people OF Hawaii who have
been willing to entrust their savings to
the safe keeping of the uncertain re-
public OF Hawaii will prefer to trust
than any private Individual or corpora
ton The very fact that postal savings
banks have been successfully managed
by an unstable government in cOun-
try whose people are mostly poor af-
lords a strong argument not only for
their retention, but also for the eStab-
ushment Of postal savings banks on a
similar plan in the United States.
Nothing that congress could do would
give more universal satisfaction to the
masses than the organization of postal
savings repositories as an auxiliary to
the postoffice at least at the principal
Industrial centerS.
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TITLES ARE BOGUS.
Anna GOuId's Husband is Not
Real C0unt-Other Pre-
tenders.

Paris, Dec. 26.-According to vicomte
de Boyer, an expert on titles, the title
of Count Castellane, who married Miss
Anna Gould, is bogus. He says:
There were two CastelIane families,
one from Provence and one from TouI-
ouse. The former, which is now extinct,
rightly bore the title. The Toulouse
Castellanes, to whom belongs Miss
Gould's husband, never had a title, but
assumed one when the Provence family
died out.
Count de Rohan-Chabot, who mar
ried Miss Hayward, is not a count,
either. His name is Chabot The name
De Rohan he took from his first wife.
There is no Baron de Giers, although
the man whom Chauncey NJ. Depew's
ward Miss Collins, married last year,
bears that name. The Due Decazes,
husband of Mary Singer of New York,
is son of a police project, and bears
a title of no value in France, being
granted by the king of Denmark.
count de ViIlars, who married Garcia
Livingstone, has no right to a title. He
is descended from a man who came to
Paris and started in the hotel business
and quietly assumed the title of count
CLARA Ward married an alleged
Prince de Chimay. There is no original
Prince Chimay. A Chimay married a
princess and took the title of prince"
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slight variation of ATTITUDES, which has
been observed in all countries.
NJ. Albrecht attributes this disp1ace-
ment more especially to the variation of
the equilibrium produced by the move
ment of the oceans atmosphere. The
newly discovered movement is supposed
to have been a potent agent in affecting
the relative distribution of land and
water in the equatorial zone, which
theory is corroborated by the actual
state thereof M. Albrecht says:
"One of the results of the change in
the position of the polar axis and the
variations of the intensities of centrifu-
gal force on the equatorial zone would
be that, for points diametrically oppos-
ed, the decrease in centrifugal force at
one point would necessarily imply an in
crease at the opposite point, so that if
a subsistence took place in one elevation
it should be the result in the other, so
that, wherever the equator traverses
land representing elevation it should
be found traversing the ocean or low
land at the opposite end of the diameter
corresponding to this elevated land sur
face.''
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roof. An unidentified man was killed
and three were wounded in other af-
trays.
Christmas at Camp Quemados was as
lively as the troops could make it with
slender materials. Turkeys at 81 apiece
were scarce, and everybody said that,
with the heat at a, summer temperature
and the hedge rows brilliant with flow
ers, the day did not seem much like
Christmas.
All the company messes of the Forty
ninth Iowa, the First North Carolina,
the Fourth Virginia, the Second Illinois
and the One Hundred and Sixty-f1rst
Indiana regiments had extra spreads
out of company funds, with gifts from
we1l-to-do members The army ration
was supplemented by fruit, canned
goods, sweet potatoes and sometimes
chicken.
The Sixth Missouri regiment, the last
to arrive, had no chance to prepare an
extra dinner; so the men dined on fresh
beef, rice and beans. One battalion
reached camp yesterday, the other two
marching today distance OF elsht
miles over a dusty road.
All the regimentaI bands played and
the men were granted leave within a
mile radius of the camp.
Company F, of the One Hundred and
Sixty-first Indiana regiment, has
cactus tree with a present for every
body stuck on the points, as, for in
stance, bareback beans, salt pork and
candles. The officers of the One Hun
after dinner in songs and speech-mak-
ing, with several solo dances.
At Ell Wedado, the Eight and Tenth
regular infantry regiments dined well
at the expense of the company funds.
Major General Lee and his staff par
took of a modest dinner. Gen. Lee had
a number of live turkeys available, but,
as the birds are very lean, he decided to
kepe them, on the chance of improve
ment for the New Years feast, after the
fagraising. Gen. Lee spent most of the
day on horseback, studying the best
route for the New Years parade. The
streets are too narrow to allow the
troops to march past the palace, so that
the route will probably be through the
Prado and Central park. to Cerro, the
Havana suburb. Gen. Lee expects 1000
men, including the Cubans, in the mil
itary procession.
Major General Butler will go to Ma
tanzas and Cienfuegos tomorrow night
on official business. The American troops
are about to take possession OF the San
Ambrosios hospital.
C. S. Beaver, the United States postal
agent in Havana, has complained to the
postmaster general of the irregularity
in the arrival of mails from the United
States.
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TRIES TO HANG HIS WIFE.
Failing in This, an Ohio Man Drags
Her to Police Station With a Rome.

Cleveland. O., Dec. 26-AIrs. Joseph Grar
OF 149 Seymour avenue declares that her
husband early this morning attempted TO
hang her, and, failing in that. dragged
her to a police station with rope around
her neck. The policemen at the Ninth
precinct station cOrrobOrate the portion OF
the woman's statement relating to her
being dragged through the streets. When
Graft arrived at the station with his vile
he was locked up, and when the rope was
united from around the woman's neck
she told her story.
She. said she had been awakened about
midnight by her husband, who made
charges against her and threatened to kill
her Because she would not admit the
charges he became violently angry.
An hour or so later she was awakened
by a choking sensation and found her hus-
band standing over her with a rope around
her neck. Mrs. Graf says he attempted
to kill her, and dragged her into another
room and there tried to throw the rope
over a hook in the ceiling. The woman
fought like a demon, and finally her Etls-
band dragged her into the street and to
the police station.
In police court this morning Gran was
fined $500 and costs and sentenced to tho
WorkhOuse for thirty days and until the
fine and costs are paid.
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reform school. and possibly the board
of correction and charities
The present system is very cumber-
some, very complicated and very ex-
pensive. The members serve without
compensation, except a per diem and
expenses while employed in actual
work, but there are so many of them,
and they find so many reasons for
meeting and visiting and inspecting
that somebody is under pay pretty
much all the time. and the expenses
cut a very respectable figure in the dis
bursements of the state.
And with all these boards running
all these institutions there is naturally
a different plan of manag cement for
each, and no two are uniform in their
regulations or conduct. With one
board in charge of all, there might GER
tainly be better system, and in the
matter of purchasing fuel and sup
plies a considerable saving could be
effected. Then, too, the various insti-
tutiOns might be made to contribute to
each others support in such a way
as to compete as little as possible with
free labor. The state prison cOnVicts
might be put to making shoes and
clothes for the insane patients, and the
better class of the insane could raise
vegetables for the convicts. The asy-
lums have large agricultural facilities,
which, properly managed, might pro-
duce enough vegetables for all the state
institutions, while the prison labor
could as readily clothe the total insane
population.
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The city of Topeka. has been libeled.
The St Louis Republic says that while
the train. on which Lieutenant HobsOn
was riding, stopped 20 minutes for din
ner at Topeka. Hobson kissed a good
portion of the crowd of 500 women who
were said to have been at the depot.
The Republic is mistaken. Topeka is
in Kansas; not Missouri. The Topeka
papers say HObsOn did not get a single
kiss in Topeka, and we haven't seen
any reports of where he got any at
any other Kansas station. He didn't
kiss any women in Denver either. When
you get west of the Missouri river you
strike a pretty well civilized country
Wellington Journal
Hobson did not kiss anybody at To-
peka and not a woman even shook
hands with him It was not generally
known that he was going through To-
peka and there was no unusual crowd
at the depot.
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Burlington and the Northwest
ern Fight For a Mail Contract.
Have a Seven Days RaceAgainst
Time Beginning Jan L.
THE PRIZE is $75O,OOO.
Amount of Carrying Overland
Mail From Chicago to Omaha.
Burlington Leaves at $3.50,
Northwestern Out at 10.

Omaha, Neb., Dec. ga seven days
race against time will be inaugurated
on Jan. 1 between the Chicago and
Northwestern and the Chicago. Burling-
ton and Quincy railroads. The prize is
the $500 contract for the carrying Of
the overland mails between Chicago and
Omaha. The Northwestern throws the
gauntlet to the Burlington, which now
has the contract, by putting on a new
fast mail train on New Years day. To
win the prize from the present cham
pion, the Burlington, the winner will
have to show the best time for seven
days. The new train of the Chicago and
Northwestern will leave Chicago at 10
p. m. daily and arrive at the Council
Bluffs transfer station at 8:15 a. m. the
next morning, covering the 492 miles in
ten hours and fifteen minutes.
The BurlingtOn'S new train will leave
Chicago at $50 p, m. and the North
western leaves a. half hour later The
Burlington will arrive in Council Blu1S
at 1850 a. M, or twenty-five minutes
earlier than the Northwestern new
train. Both trains will arrive here in
time to connect with the WeSt-bOund
Overland Limited of the Union Pa
cific leaving Omaha at $50 a. for
the west The Union Pacific has about
completed the list of changes it will
make in it's time card on Jan. 1. Train
No. 2, which now arrives here from the
coast, will be split into two sections at
Green River, WyO. The mail cars viii
be hurried along as the first section into
Omaha. This train with the mail from
the Pacific coast and the orient, instead
of arriving here at 4;45 p. m as now,
will arrive in Omaha at 3:15 p. M
cut of one hour and a half in time.
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COTTON MILLS CLOSE
After Striking Operators Had Ac-
cepted q Cut.

Augusta, Ca, Dec. 26.-The Augusta
and Enterprise cotton factories Of this
city have closed down indefinitely, ad-
ding about 5000 more to the unem-
ployed of the city. Five weeks ago the
Southern Manufacturers association re-
duced the wages of the mill operatives.
Those of the King and Sibley mills Of
this city and the Langley and Bath in
South Carolina refused to accept the
cut The employees of the Augusta and
Enterprise returned to work at the re-
duced scale. Because of an agreement
entered into by the Southern Manufac-
turers' association, the first named mills
were compelled to close down in order to
force the striking operatives in the other
mills to return to work.
There are in the neighborhood of 5000
people in and around this city out of
employment because OF the shutting
down Of the mills.
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MANAGEMENT OF STATE IN
SITUATIONS.

Minnesota appears to have a system
of management OF state institutions
similar to that which is in practice in
Kansas and one which is as unsatisfac-
tory there as ours is here. The state
auditor has proposed a plan of reform
in reference to which the st. Paul Dis
patch makes some comments which
seem to apply with some force to the
situation in this state. The Dispatch
says:
The state institutions are of three
classes charitable and
penal. OF these the first should, OF
course, be under a. separate manage
ment, and all the institutions of that
class might be placed under the con-
troll of a. general board of education.
The other two classes would include
the state prison. reformatiory, reform
school, insane asylums, county jails
and lock-ups. and the board Of con-
trol suggested by the auditor might
have general supervision of all. This
would have the effect Of abolishing the
boards of management Of the state
prison. raformatorys insane hospitals