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Year: 1878

The DELAWARE WHEAT CRoP-A letter
from Harrington, Del, to the Wilmington
EGery Etentng, saws the farmers are now sat
lshed that no injury has been done TO the
wheat, and that they will have, upon an aver
age, one OF the best crops of this grain ever
grown in the State. The straw is heavy and
the beads are large and full Examinations
have been made in a large number of fields,
age of any kind is visible, and the average
crop promises To be at least twenty per cent.
better than last year, when the yield was very
heavy.
Year: 1878

SURPRISING SOCIALISM IN GERMANY.-At
Berlin woman has been sentenced to four
years imprisonment for reasonable utter
ances against the emperor. Two men guilty
oi similar offences were sent to prison for
regulating passports and the press and public
meetings are. to be rigidly enforced for the
suppression Of socialism,
Year: 1878

The treasurer Of the Virginia Fish and
Game Protective Association has Just re-
ceived from London Paterson'S "Treatise
on The Fishery Laws Of the United King
DOM" 1t was gotten for the use OF the
Committee on Laws belonging to the Asso-
citation, and will doubtless prove OF great
service to them in the work OF arranging
such code in this behalf as will best pro-
mote both the protection and culture Of fish
in this Commonwealth.


We make quotation from the preface to
this volume, which we are persuaded will
be interesting to our readers:


"The rivers and streams abound in fish,
which are not only equally attractive for
purposes Of sport and Of food, but which
have this superiority over game: that from
their being in constant communication with
the sea they partake OF its illimitable quail
ties in their powers Of reproduction. The
riparian owners, however, have exclusive
access to most of the waters. Holding the
key of the situation, they monopolize the
means OF capture. As between themselves,
they have been distinguished for unncigh.
borly cupidity. The common law un-
doubtedly was too easy in its tencts,
for it allowed each to catch all the fish he
could by whatever means he pleased, pro-
ViGeQ THESE were not SuCn as TO destroy anu
annihilate the neighbors' share of the COM
mon subiect-matter; and even this check
there was no efficient machinery for en-
forcing. Each accordingly sought to do
what he liked with his own part OF the river,
and often selishly resorted to wears, dams,
and fixed engines, with the view OF driving
every living inhabitant of the water into his
net, rega, dless of the impoverishment Of
bis neighbors. This practice, though IN
strictness Of law illegal, had become too
firmly. settled to be easily put down by
the courts or the older statutes. The
decay OF the fisheries having then be-
come conspicuous, it was deemed necessary
for the Legislature to intervene on grounds
OF public policy, and. with an eye to the
benefit of all parties, to restrain the suicidal
policy Of the riparian owners, making 1t no
longer possible for each to do what seemed
good in his own eyes. The salmon statutes
have, only one common object, which is
more or less imperfectly attained-namely,
to secure fair play TO the instincts of the
fish. All tnat the fish need is free run,
and if they have this their numbers will
amply suffice for every purpose OF pleasure
or Of business"


Weobserve how this picture fits the State
OF Virginia !; and if proper legislation has
accomplished beneficial results in the United
Kingdom, and this is the case, it should not
do less for US.
Year: 1878

Bridge Auenue.-As the rclaying OF the
on this thoroughfare seems an i'm
possibility it could be greatly improved
from Hull TO Baiabrldge streets by putting
down Il few loads OF dirt and filling up the
holes made when the gutter was laid. The
cutter also needs cleaning out.
Year: 1878

Tue WILLIAM SHASKs reported in our
edition OF Thursday as being fined for keep
ing his place OF business open on Sunday
is not the gentleman5of the same name who
resides at the corner of Twenty-ffth and M
Year: 1878

what do ycu think would be the character
of it?


The Judge: 1t is hard to conjecture,
even approximately, what sort of law so
numerous a body as Congress now is would
pass on such subject. But my own feel
ing is that the simpler the provisions Of
the law the better, and that there should be
no machinery provided for its execution
other than belongs to courts as courts OF
equity.


Practically, for year or two past the
Year: 1878




We have been touching bottom so
often during the past few years that
people have become accustomed to
the announcement that the lowest
depths of all has been finally reached;
but the bottom is so decidedly an un-
pleasant place to be, that everybody
rejoices when anyone else sees signs
of a resurrection. The prophet of
good finds many believers in his
words, though he nay hear no con-
vincing evidences Of his predictions;
for mans hopes are generally the
forerunner of their beliefs. 1t is now
gratifying to notice that many writer's
of the highest class are giving the
matter that careful thought it de-
serves, and are beginning to see indi-
cations that point Enthusiastically to a
better state of business affairs. Eve
rybody is learning and practicing
economy to an extent never before
known to the present rising genera
ton.


The signs are good, and the careful
reader will have little difficulty in
finding many evidences confirmatory
of the prediction that times will very
soon improve. In fact, we are at the
bottom of fortunes wheel, and ne
matter which way the wheel turns W.
are bound to 90 up.
Year: 1878

tenderness is unworthy of her esteem:
she thinks to lift him to her level by
lowering herself to his. AS rule a
woman writes well when she writes
for herself or her friends because she
writes what she feels; the trouble is
that when she comes to address her.
self to the public she will write what
she imagines she thinks.
Year: 1878

When you hear man talking so
big about the I'D rebels or the
"d-d federals," just mark it down
that he was too cowardly to engage
on either side during the "late un-
pleasantness," or, if he was in the
army at all, he could always be found
skulking in the rear when there was
danger ahead. No true soldier talks
in that manner.
Year: 1878

She on her lovers arm did hang,
And oft her heart went pit-a-pat,
Her hair did have frightful bang,
Which hung beneath new spring


hat;


They walked together down the street,
And pleasant all the earth did seem,
Until she said, with voice so sweet,
ST must have candy or / scream =
Year: 1878

My name is Edney-Philip Clement
Edney. That was my fathers name be-
re me. Twenty odd years ago he had
small but comfortable dry goods busi-
oss in Utica. But in the panic of 81
he met with severe losses; and he had
hardly weathered the financial storm
when he was taken down with a disease
from which he never recovered.


In his last illness he was deeply con-
cerned for the future of his family. ]
was the eldest son, and he frequently
expressed the hope to my mother and
to me that in some way we should be
able to find Harringford.


Thomas Harringford was a generous
hearted but rather unprincipled young
man who had been in my fathers employ
several years before.


He had got into bad company, and
was guilty of some irregularity, as the
modern genteel phrase is, having helped
himself to my fathers cash to the
amount OF several hundred dollars, be-
fore his dishonesty mean his irregular
ity-was discovered. lie was penitent,
and confessed everything, but it was
impossible for him to make restitution.


He had been q fayorite of both my
father and mother, and they could not
bear to have him sent to prison. So, ON
his promising to reform, lead au honest
life in future, and repay my father
when he was able the sums he had stolen
i mean nisappropriated-he was let
off.


He went to parts where he was un-
known, and only vague rumors concern
ing him had reached us since. One of
these rumors was that he had been seen
in Buffalo and Detroit, and that he was
doing prosperous business.


On settling up my fathers estate, my
mother found that she and her little
family were left in straitened circum-
stances. Then we remembered what he
had said about Harringford. 1 wrote to
him letters addressed Buffalo and De-
trOit, but failed to receive answers.
At last we were so mnch in need that l
said:


"Mother, if You can spare the money
for me TO make the journey, / believe
1 can find him, and get at least part
payment of what he owes us"


1t was long time before she would
listen to this proposal. She could i'll
afford the expense. Though we held
Harringford's note to my father, it was
outlawed, and she had not much faith in
my being able to get any)money of him,
even if he could be found in either of
the two cities named.


At last, however, thinking the journey
might do me some good, at any rate, she
consented to it, and in July 1 set out.


1 went first to Buffalo, where began
with the post-ofice and directory, but
without being able to find the man was
searching for there, proceeded to De-
troit No luck there either. / returned
TO Buffalo, stopping at Cleveland by the
way and finally gave up the search,
concluding that Harringford must have
gone elsewhere, and that the world was
too large a haystack for mo to hunt in
for such a needle.
Year: 1878

The following communication, adj
dressed to the chairman of the New York
Chamber of Commerce by the president
of the Howard Association and the act
ing mayor of Vicksburg, Miss, is vivid
pen picture of the terrors of yellow
fever, IS experienced in that city "Our
entire force, as well as the physicians,
nurses and we'll nurses, are solely occu-
pied in this fearful struggle with death.
Doctors do not pause for necessary
sleep, and continue their endless rounds
even when the dread destroyer is in their
own households, and we therefore fail to
have reports from them of the number Of
cases under treatment They have tried
to report in person, but we have always
to request their immediate departure to.
see other and later cases. Most of us
on duty at our rooms and elsewhere have
fever in our families, but we are trying
to supply the calls for doctors, nurses,
medicines and food, and to do 80 under
such rules and regulations as wall pro-
tect us from impostors and enable us TO
meet the wants of all the needy.


"There is. however, but little danger
of charity going astray or being wronged
when the entire city and its suburbs is
vast hospital, with every chamber occq-
pied and no outlet save to the grave.
The struggle is now so desperate that
we can scarcely realize other wants than
the immediate necessities of the sick
dying and dead, and this takes over 50. +
600 daily of our funds and fully as much
from outside organizations. But as the
fever lessons we then shall have distress
in another form. The children will beg
for bread. Deaths horrors are reduced
for want of subjects. Nature will assist
itself. and the survivors of the wreck
will be helpless mariners afioat without
rudder, sail or motive power.


"The fever may subside by the MID
die of October, but no work or tratfic or
commerce of any kind will come TO un
until the middle of November gives a.
surances of no contagion. We are help
less to set the wheels of our life IN mo-
ton sooner, and must need the good
viii and kindly Offices of those more
happilv situated. Till then, if there
was not another case of fever to occur


we should still be isolated and stricken


for no one would come TO us nor dea


us to come TO them,
Year: 1878

What summer songs are sweet and fair,


Aud who shall sing them blythe and gsR
With cadence lexile-soft as sir


Aud CHEEKY as the summer day.
What poot comes with sandal shoon,


Aud clear brown eye OF dreamy gaze a
Brown as the wave whose forest gloom


Has drank the light OF autumn days
The light OF autumn days
Deep, deep within his quiet heart


He holds the sunshine OF the year,
The music OF the meadow lark


And bells that echo faint and clear
The hare-bell, may be- on the slope,
The bubble that the wave has broke,
Cor the soft, sombre tones that fall
In memory of birthday chime
Faded in that far lapse Of time


That comes and goes for all
And thus within his eyes the haze
Doepens Of autumn days
The sky is blue, the sky is fair,
Aud writ with fleecy clouds in air
And bcughs are waving fresh and FREQ,
As foam-crest on a summer sea
And Lrds with wings whose flashing light
Makes the worn spirit yoarn for fight
Are passing on to some bright zone
We picture in the heart alone;
Add nature chimes in undertono
Its murmurous anthem bright and clear -
Yet he apart


Drinks iu with subtle sense and heart
The rapture Of the year
And with his far-off gaze
Turnsit to autumn days
He garners up the perfect time,


He stores at will OF pain or mirth,
For him nor season comes nor cline


He stands alone Of all the earth:
To him the forest tells its tale,
The brooklet pours its plaintive wall,
The wild pine rocks, the wild winds moan,
To him the torrent speaks alone,
The tempest from its mountain throne,
Toe tumult OF the angry sea.
The m1rmur of the rowing bee,
The pale anemone that blows
In sunshine DER its native SHOWS
The blue-bell or the meadow-pink,
Or osier by the streamlets brink,
All tell their tales in murmurs free
The secrets OF the land or sea


And in his patient eyes,


Awaiting sorrow and surprise
Gather like falling leaves or sunset rays
dreamy wistful gloom


A light too far too soon
The light OF autumn days


= William H. Briggs.
Year: 1878

Astronomers find that the average
number of meteors which traverse the
atmosphere daily, and which are large
enough to be visible to the naked eye
On dark clear night, is no less than
10000
Year: 1878

sooner or later, and then the farm is minus
a boy. If, however, adjacent farmers will
allow their boys to exchange labor
change works." in farm parlance-the re-
suit will be to create a spirit Of emulation
that will make the boy love his home and
endeavor to excel in the work he is to per-
form. There should be no grumbling and
scolding, no cuffs or rebutts,, if there be oc-
casional bursts Of boy mature that make the
old farm ring, and hush for the moment the
song birds of the field and forest. Do not
attempt to restrain or restrict. Give nature
full vent. 1t may rot be amiss to aid and
encourage.


Something like this must be done or the
boys will be stealing down the back stairs
and out at the side door at unreasonable
hours and questionable purposes. If they
are denied their innocent pleasures by day,
they will find ways and means to hunt wat
ernelons, steal apples, rob grapes, plunder
corn fields and raise the devil generally, by
night.-Es:
Year: 1878

Can we apply the Same laws of hygiene to
our domestic animals with similar good re-
suits? 1t would be hazardous to give an
affirmative answer to this question. Our
stock breeding has been constantly in the
direction of producing radical changes in
the physical constitution of animals, affect
ing directly, their form, size and period of
growth.


Under the influence Of this special treat
ment we have produced a race of hogs
which will make growth of $50 to 800 pounds
in ten or twelve months, while our woods
hogs would hardly make that the weight in
two years, with the best feeding. Now, such
mushroom growth must have but little
power to resist disease.


Zymohc disease of the nature of colera,
yellow fever, typhus, in the human subject,
are propagated by the poison operating on
those whose feeble vitality is insufficient to
resist the epidemic tendency. So in the low
er animals, as we make forced growth,
the bulk of living matter is greatly dispro-
portioned to the vital force, and the power
of resistance is correspondingly diminished.
Now. if such animals be over-fed, or fed on
unWholesome food, disease will be generat-
ed, and if fever assumes typhoid character
which it is likely to do, then it will become
epidemic and will be communicated to all
animals which have not vital force enough
to resist the contagioI,, if they are exposed
to it..


What is true of the hog, is equally true of
our exaggerated breeds Of barn-yard fowls {;
and they become diseased from the same
cause. What shall we do then? Shall we go
back to the mast hog, and duck-legge hens,
to get clear Of cholera? That we should,
does not necessarily follow. If a man can
raise ten hogs in year, to the weight OF
$50 pounds, he can afford to risk the loss OF
five of them, rather than feed the ten for
two years to get the same weight Of pork,
and that Of an inferior quality.


Much can be done. no doubt, to prevent
the original generation Of the fever (or such
it is) in proper attention to zood; water anC
the general condition of the animal. but we
cannot speak Of these now.-iadiana Fayne
Year: 1878




Again the public Is Informed that railway
is to be peace and harmony. As affecting stock
speculatious our readers must form their own iudg-
ment concerning the value of this latest assurance
in comparison with the half hundred which have
preceded IT, But how does the new arrangement,
If adhered to- affect the commerce OF New-York Z
The rates from Baltimore and Philadelphia to the
West are less than from New-York, because of the
shorter distances of those cities from Chicago But
the rates ir0m Boston, greater disaucc-are 90 be
the same as from New-IOrk. Was it for this pur-
pose that the Chamber of Commerce yesterday
convenedi Was the object in view simply to re-
store rates which would he remunerativc to the
raNays' Tue TRIBUNE has steadily main
taned that the question of the amount
of the rates is OF secondary importance
in comparison with the necessity that New-forks
rates shall be as low as those from any Other Allan
tie port We read that "the merchants Of New-lo
have no right to complain that the railways are OPP
Grated in the interest OF the companies instead of
the city or State of New York" This argument
would he equally valid if the railways were such
engines of oppression rs TO be earning annual divi-
dcuds Of 100 or 800 per cent. But we assert q
matter of right, that the State, which grants the
special privileges held by railways-such as the
right TO take land against the will of its owner.
liability for the debt of the corporations has tho
power at any time 20 prevent those corporations
from taxing the people sums sufficient To pay an ex-
traordinary return upon the capital invested


Our proposition is perfectly plain. Over one-half
Year: 1878

The principal feature to-day at the Mining Board
was the activity and advance in the price Of
Bertha and Edith from to l. The alleged cause
for this was the private infOrmatoa-whIch was
made public after boarl hours-that the president
of the company had returned from the mines with
n full release, properly executed upon all the mine
heyes the company from all IFS embarrassments.
The remainder of the market exhibited steadiness
or iirmuess and activity for the owpriced shares.


SAN FRANCISCO CLOSING PRICES OF MINING STOCKS
Year: 1878

JOHN SHERMAN and the men who join
him in defending Wells and Anderson,
the guilty criminals forming theLouisiana
Returning Board make themselves par
Ties to the crime ,andlt is of such horrid
nature that the men deserve to be hung
for it far more than the petty thief de-
serves the punishment meted out to him.
The enormity of this crime is fearful in
the consequences that might have result
ed. 1t carried the nation to the very
precipice of war and civil strife from
one end to the other.If strict justice were
metz d out every man connected with the
Returning Boards of Louisiana and
Florida who made false returns on the
Presidential count knowing them to be
false and thus imperrilled the peace of
the nation, would now be in chains and
suffering the severest punishment. If
John Sherman had not been a lawyer and
possessing great wealth with brother in
command of the army, he would ere now
have been in disgraceful private life for
his connection with the crime. 1t placed
him at the head of the Treasury; but the
disgrace Of the returning board crime
will not be thus wiped out. 1t will stick
to him as the shirt of Nesis, to the end
of time.
Year: 1878

The NEW METHOD OF HEATING.-A
paper at Lockport, n. Y, says that "forty
dwellings and the largest hallin the town,
with many other rooms in the same build
ing, are all heated by steam made in
single boiler five feet by sixteen in size
and, in addition, two steam engines, one
of them more than half a mile from the
boiler-house, are run by steam from the
same boiler. About three miles of street
mains have been Understanding through
fifteen streets, and furnished with steam
at pressure of thirty pounds to the
square inch. The Worcester Spg, from
which we have derived this information,
says that the total space warmed by this
single boiler is more than 1,000, 900 cubic
feet. The originator of this system claims
that he has proved that a district of four
square miles can be economically warmed
from one central point. The company
lay the pipes in the streets, like the gas
company, and collect from their custom
ers the expense of laying the service
pipe from the curbstone. The style and
expense of the radiators in the houses
are determined by the taste or means OF
the householder.


"The steam supplied by this company
may be put to the following practical
uses: The warming of dwelling houses
the cooking of food, the washing and
drying of clothes, the running of steam
engines and the extinguishment of fires
Both pure dry steam for heating purpo-
ses, and hot water from condensed stean
for laundry purposes, are delivered il
every dwelling. The apparatus in eacl
dwelling is under ready and perfect con
troll. The condensed steam furnishes tt
each house an abundant supply of pur,
and soft water.


"The price is not mentioned, but if il
its pecuniary aspect the experimen
should prove as attractive as in other re
spects, the dust and smoke and SCOT an,
general uncomfortableness of our presen
heating methods will soon give place t.
something more in accordance with tn
growth of the age and the wants of ou
civilization"


Here is an opportunity for some of ou
enterprising men. Wilmington need
something now to attract attention, an,
we believe the proposition to heat tn
houses throughout the city by steam
just as feasible as to light them with gas
If this is so, and what Is stated above a
having been done in Lockport is true
whyshouldit not take practical shape her
with results as remuneratiye as the sur
ply of gas has been found to be here am
elsewhere ?


We all know what steam can do. Ou
great hotels are heated by it-our grea
workshops, by its use, through pipes i
connection with the boilers that drive a
the machinery, are made more comforts
BILE in winter than in summer by its tran
mission to every corner of the works.
Why, then, shall our dwellings be file
with smoke, land coal dust and coal ashe,
Why are our domestics kept great pa
of their time making, coaxing and sti
ring up fires, when we could so readil
avoid all this trouble and unpleasantne
by the expenditure of little surpl
capital in utilizing steam after havir
acquired this knowledge of the feasibi
ty of heating, cooking and warming vii
it? Why should not our present gas COL
pany, which is wealthy, also furnish hea
and sell it as they do gas, only at me-
Year: 1878

ALIEN H. STEPHENS has come out for
HENDHICKs and HAMPTON as the Demo-
cratic ticket for ls-o modcstly declining at
the same time nomination, or suggestion
OF it, of himself in place of HAMPTON. This
declaration ought to settle the status of the
little intrigucr in the minds of those who
may have been deceived with the idea that
his late opposition TO the POTTER commit
tee was an indication of his conversion from
Democracy. A man of his intelligence who
would stoop to indorse HAMPTON with his
record of dishonest bankruptcy and of pro-
lection and sympathy for notorious outlaws,
can hardly be accepted us Conservative.
In fact, he indorses the bloody Ku-Klux and
ritle-club tyranny that has robbed the peo-
pie of South Carolina of Legitimate govern
ment but the Gushers will keep OH admir-
ing him all the same.