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MAY DO AS HE PLEASES.

From the Evening Journal OF Yesterday.
Every Evening staggers all over the
broad highway OF platitudes in en-
deavors to make political capital out of a
possible change of clerks in the post
office at New Castle. Among other things
it says:
SIT is we'll understood why, in the
ways OF modern politics, Postmaster
Hunter, a Democrat, should be com
PEELED to give way to Mr.. King, Re
publican. The political complexion OF
the national administration has changed
since Mr.. Hunters appointment, and
that settles it. But whv should the
capable young woman who holds the
position oi clerk in the office be required
to give up her position in favor OF one OF
the twenty or more other women VINO
are now hot.foot after il?
''It is conceded that the young woman
at present filling the position is COM
petent in every way, and that is the
main thing to the patrons of the post
Office. She cannot vote, and it IS safe to
assert that she exerts no political intlu-
ence. Neither can the twenty women
applicants for her place cast vote at
the general election, nor is it presumed
that they possess any political influence.
And yet, because the family associations
of the present clerk are Democratic, and
the family associations OF the twenty
applicants are Republican, change
must be made that may interfere, for
awhile at least, with the successful con-
duct of the business OF the Office. Is it
not ridiculous? y The best thing
for the new postmaster at New Castle to
do would be to retain the present clerk
as long as she performs her duties in a
capable and satisfactory manner"
To begin with: 1t is none of Every
Evenings business who Postmaster King
selects for his clerk in New Castle!
In the next place it is the exclusive
business of the postmaster whom he has
as assistants and it is arrint impertin.
ence for Every Evening to presume to
dictate in the matter.
The incumbent administration al
Washington is responsible to the public
for the proper conduct of the postoffice
at New Castle and it is the prerogativt
of that administration, and its duty, tc
remove officials who are not in accord
with it:
The postmaster is expected to havt
his office conducted satisfactorily to th,
people depending upon its facilities anC
it is for his Judgment to determine
who can best assist him. The clark whit
is acceptable TO one postmaster may no
be so to another.
When the present owner of Ever,
Evening bought that paper he was unde
no oblgaten to its patLons to retain al
of the former owners employees; aud h
had natural, legal, moral and absolut
right to remove and replace as many Q
them as he thought best. The same
true OF u public office.
Ne person should be permitted to ac
quire y vested and interminable right t
any official place."
The sun., 1900-02-23
Want Railroad Extended.

Dover, Del, Feb. % The movement
by the citizens OF Trappe, Md, to have
the Delaware and Chesapeake railroad
extended to that town, distance Of
three miles, through Que Of the richest
sections in the Eastern States, has now
assumed such proportions that all the
farmers and property owners along the
proposed ronte have donated a free right
of way. Tire committee OF rrappe citi-
zens, which has been appointed 10 peti-
tlon the Delaware railroad and the
Pennsylvania railroad oilicials, is headed
by j. II. Caulk Kemp, OF rrappe, and
they are now conferrlng with Colonel
Charles A. Chinley.
The sun., 1900-02-23
NEGRO ASSAULTED HER.
Near Her Aberdeen Home Jessie
Bradford Was a Victim ofa
EienI.

Almost within the shadow OF her own
fathers house Jessie Bradford, the 10.
year-old daughter of Edward Bradford, a
farmer living near Aberdeen, Md, was
brutally and outrageously assaulted by a
tiendsh negro. The crime was COM
mitted near the Baltimore d Ohio tracks,
and in sight of the victims home. The
railroad rms through a thick woods at
this place. The crew OF passing freight
troin saw the negro struggling with the
girl, and by dropping off note, reported
it to the operator and station agent at
Aberdeen.
The girls assailant fed and the Will
mington police have been notified to
look out for the man.
AS soon as the railroad operator re-
ceived the note he secured a revolver
and started to the scene, but was too
late to see anything of the negro. Miss
Bradford was taken to her home, and
DIR. j. H. Kennedy hurriedly summoned,
She is i'll from nervous shock, but it il
not thought she is seriously injured. DR.
Kennedy said there was no doubt that
her assailant had accomplished his puT.
pose.
The victim is sure she can identify hel
assailant should he be captured, although
she is not able to give iull statement u
the facts Of the assault, nor a clear de-
scription OF the man. He is said to be Q
short, stout man, wearing light coat.
Large bodies of men are securing
the woods in every direction for him
the main body under Constable Harry
Aronson.
Late Wednesday night it was reported
thaa man suspected had been tracked
to his house, being we'll known in The
neighborhood. His name is William
Black. When his home was visited Dy
a crowd of searchers they found his wife
III highly excited condition. She sale
Black had left the house and she did no.
know where ne had gone.
The sun., 1900-02-23
CLAYToN.sMYRNA TROLLEY.
Rumor That Pennsylvania Railroad
is 30 Discard the Smyrna Branch.

Smyrna, Feb. 22,-There is a rumor,
says the SMYRNA Times, that the Penn
sylYania Railroad Co. is to take possess
sion Of the old Bombay Hook Railroad
between Clayton and Woodland Beach,
and that plans are being made to do
away with the Smyrna Branch and in its
place, to substitute trolley line con
Meeting the twin towns-Clyyton and
Smyrna. In this event, communication
will be more frequent.
1t is also rumored that they propose TO
run Il line to Woodland Beach and con-
meet there by boat to Phladelphia, so as
to compete with the Kent county trolley
companies and the Smyrna boat lines. 1t
is not known that the purchase Of tie old
Bombay Hook Railroad has been made,
but II is known that party Of railroad
men have been over the ground and
plans are under discussion.
The sun., 1900-02-23
ON THURSDAY.
THE sth DAY OF MARCH, 1900
At $50 O'Clock a. N.

the following described Real Estate viz;
in the town OF Middetown, Saint Georges hun
drcd, New Castle County, Delaware b1unded by
Main street On the south. Oh the east by land Of
Miss Lydia Cannon, on the moth by Anderson
street and on the west by lands of William
Cochran, the metes and bounds OF which are AS
follows;
Beginning at a point on the north side of
Main street, q c1rner for these premises and land
of William Cochran; thence With Main street
south eighty-nine degrees, east fty-five feet to
co, ner for these premises and lands OF Miss
Lydia cannon; thence with her line north one
degree, west two hundred and twenty one feet to
a Sc ke corner as aforesaid; thence north eight
and three quarters degrees west fottvtwo feet
four inches to stake on the north side of Ander-
son street corner as aforesaid; thence with
Anderson street south eightv-one and one-quar-
ter degrees west ffty-tw feet ten inches TO
these premises and lands of William Cochran;
thence with the said Cochran's line south eight
and three-quar'er degrees east thirt, two feet
six inches To o stake. corner for these premises
aud lands OF the said Cochran; thence south one
degree east two hundred and twenty-one feet to
the place OF beginning, containing within these
metes and bounds thirteen thousand seven hun
dted and ninetythree square feeG of land be tine
same more or less, with n dwelling house and
other buildings thereon erected.
Seized and taken in execution as the property
of ElinoIn ". ScOwdrick and James ii Scow-
drlck, her husband and IT'S, and to be sold by
JOHN +. TAYLOR, Sheriff,
sheriffs Office, Wilmington, Delaware, Feb
TuaIy 20, 1000
The sun., 1900-02-23

Ready Black and blue
cheviot suits, with
Made single and double
breasted vests, at
Clothing. $1o, $12 and SIS;
with 10 per cent.
off, making them $o, $Io.So
and SIS so. Nobby black
and blue serges, with single
and double breasted coats
and vests, at $40, $I2 and
SIS; less 10 per cent discount.
Mixed and striped worsteds,
with single and double
breasted vests; coats cut
higk with full back; pants
narrow width, at $40, $I2
and SIS; with the usual 10
per cent. discount. Odd
trousers, in all sizes and
shades, at $r.5o to $500
with 10 per cent. off. The
we'll known Reading pants,
at So nett. Full line Of
corduroy pants, at So to $4.
Closed evenings except
SATURDAY..
The sun., 1900-02-23
FIRST SPIKE DRIVEN
In KENT TROLLEY ROAD
Attorney General Robert @. White
Does the Act Witnessed by About
600 Persons.
By Special Dispatch to "The sun"

600 Persons.
BY Special Dispatch to 1.-THE sun"
Dover, Del, Feb. 22.-Kent county's
proposed trolley road from Woodland
Beach to Milford is under way. The first
spike in the road was driven this after
noon at 2.l0 o'clock by Attorney General
Robert Z. White. The Delaware Gen
eral Electric Railway will soon be thing
of reality. The scene of the spike driving
today was on Hayes Hill Just below
Dover on ground given to the Delaware
General Electric Company by Manlove
Hayes, treasurer of the Delaware Rail-
road.
Governor Tunnell had been invited 10
drive the first spike, which is made ol
silver, but the Governor disappointed
the officials of the electrical company.
The chief executive was in Washington
last night and did not return today. Mr..
Tunaell is director in the p, w. & b.
Railroad, and it was said today that il
was convenient for him TO absent him.
self from any connection with the new
trolley road
About 600 persons witnessed the be.
ginning OF operations. Mr.. White rained
sixty-lour blows ON the spike in his
effort to fasten it securely.
Walter ID. Stone and Joseph Nc.
Glathery of the firm Of Stone, McGlathery
x Company, who had the contract foi
building the road were present today
They have forty ruen engaged in laying
the track. The Levy Court and many
prominent Kent countians were present.
Speeches were made by Attorney Gen.
eral White and DR.. +. w. Cooper oi
Camden.
The sun., 1900-02-23
RAISING CONVENTION FUND.

From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
When the Milwaukee boomers started
for Washington to secure, if possible, the
Democratic National Convention for
their city, they carried with them, in
addition TO hundreds of bottles OF cham
pagne and thousands OF beer, certified
check f,r 100000. That is the right way
The sun., 1900-02-23

ductor Welsh attempted to board the
locomotive OF his train at the Chester
town paper mills, having orders for the
engineer, when his footing became inse-
cure and he fell beneath the wheels. By
quick presence Of mind, Conductor
Welsh extricated himself, and threy his
whole body on safe ground, except his
right foot, which was severed above the
toes.
The sun., 1900-02-23
short Session of Council.

The session Of City Council last even
ing was remarkable for its brevity.
President Alexander was absent, being
in Philadelphia. Council was called to
order and the roll called. A motion WAS
then made to adjourn until this evening,
ont Of respect to it's being Washinatun's )
Birthday.
The sun., 1900-02-23
Granted Articles OF incorporation

Dover, Del, Feb. 22-Secretary of
State Hughes yesterday granted articles
of Incorporation to the Electrical Devel-
opment Company of Wilmington, whose
capital stock is n presented at 100000,
and whose business will be the operating
and contracting for, the buying OF elec.
trical and other mechanical operated
machinery and vehicles.
The sun., 1900-02-23
CONDUCTOR WELSH CRIPPLED
Misstep Caused Popular Railroad
Man TO Lose One of His Feet.

Clayton, Del, Feb. 22.-Condnctor
John Welsh, one of tile best known
trainmen of the Baltimore & Delaware
Bay Railroad, running between Clayton
and Chestertown, slipped from his NOV
ing train and is cripple for life. Con.
The sun., 1900-02-23
EAST SIDE REPUBLICAN
ASSOCIATION ENTERTAINS
Members OF That Popular Organiza-
tioa Hold Musicale ana
supper.

The musicale and supper given last
night by the East side Republican Asso-
citation was a decided success ia every
particular. Az excellent musical pro
gram was rendered aud an elaborate
aapper was served. The clubs rooms,
at NJ. SOS King street, were crowded,
nearly three hundree: people being pres
enr.
This program was rendered:
overtue,.... .,.t.;....,..,.st ,Iohas Orchestra
Piano and vocal selections. dis josephine Egle
Gonm snnss ..'...... ..,.,...... Harry Dawson
lttrtt@iions. s.....t...,........... AleN. Macgeoch
Vocal UueJ,
Misses Minlic Palmer ana Lillian Cole
;Nessrs. Henderson, Rradfoid and Easou
pfa,ge Maadoln Club
Me>sis. DiegHuS, Murphy. pe!mar Murphy
NJ liarting and Hurting.
iSi teiot Soi2 tiiltide
% s,'tu MISS NloA Lott
Mes.rs J, Gilhide and J. Howard Morris
liuml tlwn Banf,
Messrs {, Edauids, II. siawter, w. I;igby, l..
1hohl son.
The officers of the association are:
President, George g. Byron; vice -presi-
dent, Il. |. Watson; financial secretary,
Wll!lam Wintrnp; recording secretary,
j. Il. Blackburn; treasurer, James H..
Morris.
The entertainment committee last
night was: A. q. Leibrick, chairman,
William Lott, Samue! Morris, Il. NJ
Burns and j. Howard Morris.
The supper committee was composed
Of William Page, chairman;J p. james,
treasurer; Frank Davis, secretary; r. Il.
Kendall, G. L. Watson, j. A. Maclilin,
e c. Hignutt, A. 6. Leibfick and H. 81
Burns
The sun., 1900-02-23
PROPOSAL.
MOREHoI,sli BUILDINGS.

WORKIIOUSE BUILDINGS.
Sealed proposals will be received by the Board
OF Trustees Of the New Castle County Wo-khuusc
until II O'Clock, u. M, March &, 1870, fur tle
building OF u warkhouse ard appurteuancey
also for the building ola power hniIse and un-
dergrolud pasSageway at Greenbank New
Castle county, Del.
Plans can be seen aud specifications ard forms
Of proposals may lie had by appyinga az BOARD ni
Trade rooms, in the Equitable BullGing. vii.
mrgtOll, Del on and after FerIuaiy 20, 1900.
The Board OF Trustees reserves the right 10 re-
ject any and all bids.
j. FRANK BALL. J. y, GAWTUROP,
Secretary. President.
The sun., 1900-02-23
A. j. CONNER,
W. y. SMITHERS,
Secretary.

dealer in new and second hand
stoves and furniture. Best prices
paid for all household goods.
Ali orders promptly attended to.
Repairing promptly done.
Coz and Gf3 w. Front ST.,
Wilmington, Del.
The sun., 1900-02-23
SHERIFF'S SALES.

Ss HFRIFF'S sALE-BY VIRTUEOF WRIT
- Of Levari Facias to me directed win he ex-
posed to public sale at the National Hotel in the
town OF Midnletown, st. Georges hundred, New
Castle County, Delaware,
The sun., 1900-02-23
HAPPENINGS
THROUGHOUT
THE STATE

O--O-O-O--O
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Lieut. Col. John Simpson. deputy quarter
master general. has been ordered from At
ianta' Ga, to Jacksonville. Fla, on official
business pertaining to the Quartermaster S
department.
Capt. John L. Phillips, assistant surgeon.
now on temporary duty at Governors Is
land, New York, has been ordered to report
to Maj James c. Merrill, surgeon. presi.
dent of the examining board at the Army
Medical Museum building in this city, to
be examined for promotion
First Lieut. Spencer Cosby, CORPS of En-
gineers. has been relieved from temporary
duty in the office Of the chief of engi-
neers, and will take station at Philadel-
phfa, "a, and report to Lieut. Col Charles
w. Raymond. Corps of Engineers, for duty
under his immediate orders
Acting Assistant Surgeon Thos. c. Stun
kard has been relieved from duty at the
.. s. general hospital at San Francisco,
Cal, and will proceed to his home, Terre
aaute, Ind, for the annulment Of his con-
tract.
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Exciting Contest Expected.
DIR. GRIFFIN's LECTURE.
An Exposition of Some Triumphs of
Synthetic Chemistry.

DR.. Griftin's lecture on Some Triurnphs
of Synthetic Chemistry" at the Catholic
University, Friday, February 16, was an
Illustration Of the Interesting manner in
which scientific topic can be presented to
the lay mind. The work of chemist who
sees in the bubbling and boiling of the
contents of his retorts and TASKS. and in the
color and other changes they undergo iudi-
cations and evidences of motion and re-
arrangement of the tiny particles which he
calls atoms, and who brings forth from
these mixtures new compounds. possesses
ar air or mystery, attractive in itself; but
when the chemist explains his method of
work, telling how he perceives and identi-
fieS the changes and groupings of these mi
mute particles, too small to be seen even
by the most powerful microscope; how he
discovers their mutual relations In COM
pick natural substances; how he then brings
several elements together, SO as to form
these same natural products, one can hard
~ understand that these wonders are but
the application of well-defined scientific
principles and not manifestations of magic.
The lecture began with brief descrip-
ton of the discovery which led to the prin-
ciplsS on which constitutional or structural
formulate are based: Woher's synthesis of
urea in 1898; Liebig and Wohler's work on
the radicie of the oil Of bitter almonds, and
Dumas concept of types. Perkins forma-
ton of the first aniine color. mauve was
Illustrated, and the beginning and marvel
Gus development Of coal-tar preparations
were described and made clear by numer-
Gus lantern slides and experiments. The
latter were performed in small glass tanks
SO constructed as to premit OF their being
introduced in the lantern in the place of
the ordinary slides.
One very impressive experiment showed
the effect Of increasing the density Of the
rnolecule by substituting for some Of its
hydrogen atoms various radicies or groups
of elements. To Illustrate this the transit
ton Of aniline yellow to a deep brown, and
that of the deep scarlet of rosaniline
through various shades of violet to bright
blue were shown by projection, the varia-
ton in color and shade being clearly evi.
dent.
The probabilities of synthetic alcohol were
next dwelt upon, and the exhibition of q
specimen Of the substance obtained from
limestone as the raw material. brought the
entertaining lecture to close.
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EXCELLENT SLEIGHING.
Snowfall Gives smooth Track for
the Flyers.

Everything that Slides on runners, from
the magnificent imported Russian rig of
royal elegance to the homemade piano.
box contraption from across the Eastern
branch. was out today taking advantage of
the excellent going over the beaten-down
snow and the keen, but not too eager, air
that shimmered in the sunshine above it.
Owners of the smooth-speeding vehicles en-
joyed the sport no more than those who
were compelled to go down in their Jeans
and produce the long green certificates of
Uncle Samuel wherewith to make the
liveryman pleasant looking and their horses
uneasy.
Pennsylvania avenue was atinkle all day
with the jingle Of the merry bells and other
streets and avenues. where traffic was not
SO heavy. saw many trials Of speed which
temporarily near-sighted peace guardians
hadn't the heart to prevent.
On the suburban drives the sleighing was
first class and those who enjoy sleighing
more for itself than for the purpose OF
making the less fortunate envious sped out
through the country, where beauty reigned
supreme, and reveled in the real pleasure
that snow gives to those who can afford 1t
The suburban sleighing promises to be
excellent for the next three or four DAYS
and. within city limits. save on much-used
thoroughfares, will be good. The tempera-
ture viii rise slowly, but pronounced thaw
is not probable very soon.
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REV HAMMOND IN TOWN.
Conducted Revival Meeting Here
Twenty-FOur Years Ago.

Conducted Revival Meeting Heie
Twenty-FOur Years Ago.
Rev Edward Payson Hammond. evan
gel;st who has for the last month been
1abor,ns in South and North Carolina was
nresent at st. Pauls Lutheran Church, Rev.
nv Domer pastor, at the morning service
Yesterday. and was invited to preach after
the Introductory service, conducted by the
nastor. It is stated that in the church
named the work was begun in 1876 in con-
nection with which Mr.. Hammond spent
twelve weeks here He preached from the
Can,to1 steps to an audience estimated at
% GOO people, gathered there every Sunday
FOR ton weeks. Morning prayer meetings
vera held in several churches, among them
the Calvary Baptist and English Lutheran
churches. while the principal meetings were
heid in the First Congregational Church, OF
which Or. 7. e. Rankin was then pastor.
Rev. D, v. Mays, Presbyterian clergy-
man. from near hPittsburg. Pa, has been.
with Mr.. Hammond on this trip. On their
wav home to New England they were de-
iaved Inv the storm and stopped over in
this citv. It vast too late to arrange for
union meeting by Mr.. Hammonds friends,
and as DIR. Dorner was an active worker
in these meetings of long ago his Sabbath
school was visited and, as stated, Mr.. Ham
mond was asked to preach and accepted.
In introducing Evangelist Hammond DR..
Domer spoke most kindly Of him, and as
he looked upon him again in his own pull
nit he said: "You don't seem to have
grown old in these years. but seem as young
and vigorous as you were twenty-four
wears ago" The audience seemed to be in
l. fense,v interested in the DISCOURSE and
among the people who, at the conclusion
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Naval Orders.

Commander r. r. Ingersoll has been de-
tached from the Naval Academy and order
ed to the Norfolk navy yard.
Commander T. H. Stevens, from duty as
ordnance inspector at the Norfolk navy
yard.
Lieut.. c. L. Hussey, from the Constella-
ton and granted two months sick leave.
Prof. w. s. Eichelberger, to duty at the
naval observatory, Washington. D. c.
Passed Assistant Surgeon G. H. Barber,
to the. Kearsarge.
Assistant Paymasters w. T. Camp, Geo.
w. Reeves and Stewart Rhodes, to tempo
rary duty on the Independence at Mare Is
land for instruction. and then to the Asiatic
station.
Lieut. J. K Robson has been detached
from the Philadelphia and ordered to line
duty on the Marblehead.
Lieut. Com. R. 1. Reid. from navy yard,
Norfolk, to navy yard. New York.
Lieut.. G. E. Burd, from the navy yard,
New York. to the Pensacola; thence to the
Asiatic station for engineer duty.
Assistant Paymaster w. T. Camp. to re-
port to the eonmander-in-chief of the
Asiatic station for duty on the Petrol.
Ensign L. C. Richardson from the Phila-
delphia to the Abarenda.
Naval Cadet ]. T. Bowers, from the Iowa
to the Abarenda.
Pharmacist r. Waggener has been grant,
ed sick leave for four months.
Acting Boatswain P. Hennig, from the
Constellation to the Vermont.
Lieutenant VIM. Truxtun has been de-
tached from the recruiting rendezvous at
Detroit, Mich. and ordered to duty on the
Franklin, Norfolk.
Lieutenant Commander B. A. Fiske has
been ordered home on waiting orders
Chief Boatswain VIM. Anderson, from
navy yard. New York. to command of the
Triton at navy yard. Washington.
Chief Boatswain John Mclaughlin, from
command OF Triton to navy yard. Boston.
Chief Carpenter E. w. Smith. from navy
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yard. --<''y
CMet CARPENTER ]. B. Fletcher tn the
navy yard, Portsmouth. INC
Boatswain J, j. Holden, from recrnitiny
rendezvous, Detroit, Mich, to the Frank
Pay Director H. T. Wright has hae,
&C ls pay director from Decemher
81, ray inspector s. R. Colhoun, commits
1899. VIA Deeehaper %,
faymasters ]. J. Cheatham and M. Mem
ramsay, commissioned paymasters from
december i, - and November L. 1899, re-
X. f. Sawyer. United States marine earns
appointed second lieutenant p@'
Joseph A. Murphy, appointed assistant
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GRAlM-0g
GRAlM-0g

appetizing nourishng food drink to take the Mace
OF coffee Sold oy all grocers and liked by ali who
have used II Grain-0 Is made OF pure grain IL
aids digestion and strengthens the nerves. II IL
not stimulant. but health builder and rhe
children, as well the adults, can drink il with
great benefit. Costs about u much as cofYee.
1bc. and 25c. per package. Ask your grocer fos
GrainrO.