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Year: 1878

Gov. CoCHRAN's decision to allow
the law to take its course in the Cham
bers-Collins case will, in the end, meet
the approval Of the larger portion Of
the best citizens Of New Castle County.
Indeed, we think the most Of those
who have been in favor Of a respite or
pardon haven not thoroughly understood
the case. The Governor, no doubt,
has been giving the matter serious con
sideration fer months has viewed it
in all its bearings, and has had light
upon it from all sources, and we can
not hesitate to think his decision is
other than just one. It seems ter
rible thing to hang q man-to take a
human life in punishment Of crime
but the majesty Of the law and the
welfare Of society demand it, and there
can be no shrinking on the part Of those
IN whom the execution OF the law IS
vested. The crime for which these
two colored men suffered death on the
gallows, at New Castle, yesterday, has
within the past few years become a
fearfully common one in tire Middle
and Southern States, and nothing but
severe and summary punishment will
suffice te check these fearful and fre-
quent outrages. The fate Of Collins
and Chambers should be warning to
evil doers, not only in this State, but
throughout the country, and should
teach them that the iron grip Of the
law, in Delaware at least, is both hard
and sure.
Year: 1878

was erected at the north end Of the jail
yard, and Immediately in front Of the
whipping post and pillory. The trap
was hung with hinges at the back and
secured BY a rope passing from it over
the beam to one Of the corner braces,
where it was secured.


The doomed men were confined in
cell No. 8, upon the lower corridor,
where, during the hours Of the morn
ing, they we're with their religious ad-
visers, Rev. Isaac Young and others,
engaged in singing and praying.


THE EXECUTION.


At 1918 o'clock the jury took their
Year: 1878

An exchange propounds the follow
ing conupdlums:


Can any one tell how men who can
not absolutely pay small bills always
find plenty Of money to buy liquor and
treat when happening among iriendsT


Can anyone tell how it is that many,
young men who dodge their wash
erwoman aud are always behind with
their landlord, aa,pluy billiards night
and day and are always ready Tor q
game of poker or seven up?"


Can any one tell how it is that
some men who owe for tailoring, shoes.
&C., can have everything that's nice, cat
oysters at night, wear fae clothes. and.
have all the delicacies of the seasontf


Can any, one tell how men live and
support their families, who have no in
come and don't work X, while Others who
are Industrious and always employed,
almost starve?


We give it up.
Year: 1878

know not II there be He'll
The thought scarce troubles me-
have full faith in good 81. Paurs
Advice to Timothy:
"Beware Of questions that perplex,
That minister but to strife:
Forget not that the end Of law
Is towards a holy life"
The whole creation travaileth


And groane,h for to know,
Not how to flee from future pain,
But from the present woe.
O save men from their evil selves,
AnGirom conscience vile;
Give them, In place of,sin stained soul,
A heart that's free from guile.
Then In regard to coming wrath
They surely need not fear;
what shall remove the Joy that springs
From perfect life while herst
While they who stay In paths Of sin
punishment may dare
More great than that Of quilts remorse,
More terrible to bear.
That virtue brings its own reward,
And vice it's penalty,
On earth we fully knew, beyond,
Let's leave to Deity
Caring for naught but to possess.
A heart from sin that's tree,
So may we fully rest assured


or blest Eternity.
Year: 1878

In 1874 BlUndcau was fortunate
enough TO be successful i'll saving the
life OF man who had been canght in
the ropes rs the balloon left the ground.
This was at Oran, in Algeria. Blon-
deau had got his Montgolfere, with the
trapeze underneath, all in readiness;
more than twenty men were ut the ropes
that held the swaying monster down the
order wns given to let go; the balloon
dashed up; but an unfortunate man was
caught by one leg and carried up by the
loose cordage above the trapeze. The
crowd remained silent and horror. struck
in that horrible moment of suspense.
the usunl stereotyped occurrence-the
fainting OF ladics-took place. How
ever, Blondoau did not faiut but coura-
oeouly slid down to the trapeze, shout
ing to the man to hold on. The crowd
heard no more, and soon could distin.
guish nothing. The balloon sped on
till from hight of nearly 1000 feet i
commenced to descend. then Blondeau
was seen standing on the trapoze with
the man still suspended by ono foot,
the other swinging about and the mid
die OF his body resting on the head Of
the aeronaut. At first Blondeau was
ON the point of climbing up to get out
of the way of the man, whose fall would
have endangered him; but the poor
man exclaimed pit"onsly: my wife!
my children! and Blondeau stopped,
and forgetting all personal danger
stood right mp on tho trapezc and slow.
ly placed his head under tho mans
back, saying firmly: "Now, look ut
the balloon or close your eyes; IL you
try to disengage your foot we aro lost
keep still and you will he SAFE" And
they came down to the ground in safe.
ty,
Year: 1878

small convention of colored men met in Will
mington last Thursday and passed resolutions declar
ing the present election laws as corrupt and i'll def
ance of the supreme law. and declared their inten-
ton hereafter to pay their own taxes and vote inde
pendently


In speaking of the proceedings Of this convention
the Every EUening says it has of what is known
here among Republicans as 1.-The Democratic preju-
dice against the Niger" and has with regret
instead of eXultation that negro suffrage has been
made altogether instrument for evil in politics
The colored voters have not only been bound to the
Republican party without the right to exercise an in
dependent Judgment, but they have voluntarily per-
mitted themselves to be used mGSSe by the very
worst element in that party and against is re-
spectacle members who their friends in the old
abolition days. when it cost something in the way of
popularity and influence to espouse their cause. If
now that the assistance rendered in maintaining the
worst men in their party in control of its organiza


ons has brought the whole party to disorganizaton
and themselves very largely to disfranchisement,
they may cease to be- what race they have been,
an injury, nuisance and power for evil in our
politics.


RD- For additional County and State Items, second
| DQOe.
Year: 1878

Allwho aid the afflicted and give to the poor
Are lending those sums to the Lord,
And he will repay them hundred times o'er
For assurance we have his own word.
He says in this life, those large profits he'll give
To all who have faith to invest;
And in the next world grand prize they'll receive,
Crowns of Glory and Heavenly rest.
Your gifts must come freely-and straight from the


heart


No pretensions can stand for the true;
Whilst your right hand is giving your left may take


part,


But must never let each other know
On the books of the Lord full credit you'll get
For all that's ungrudgingly given,
And ever remember, that poor widows mite,
How its clear ringing tones reached to Heaven.
And that mite went for more than large sums from
the rich
| For had she not given her all;
Then should not such faith our benevolencc teach
To give help, when our brethren call
The pcStilence stalks through fair Southern States
And decmates city and town,
| All conditions of peope-its summons awaits,
In dread fear who may next be struck down.
Like the lepers of old they're cut off from their kind,
And all busines is brought to a stand
AndwithOut greater help, aworse thing comes behind


For famine must spread DER the land.
The States not infected have made quick response,


And have nobly come forward with aid
But more liberal assistance is needed at once,


As they can't even bury their dead.
Whilst many INTENDED, all day and night long,


Are scorching with fcver's great heat
Not cup of cold water to cool their parched tongue


Nor the gaze of friend can they meet.
PhilanthrOpsts, daily succumb to the scourge


And lengthcn the list of the slan
An example they've set, to the Nation at large;


What they did was for no earthly gain.
Whilss thousands of poor out of work. out of bread


Cry aloud for the help of the rich;
From the funds of benevoence, they must be fed,
BY small portions dealt daily to each.
Then brethren and sisters, make haste with you
| loans,
9 Ungrudgingy give of your store


And the Lord will repay you-no debt lie disowns


He'll reward you with life evermorc.
; SMYRNA, DEL, Sept. Dist, 1878. S. f. c.
|
Year: 1878

Long weary years have passed away,
Since last knelt me there,
At mothers knee with clasped hand
To lisp my evening prayer.
Since then have to manhood grown,
Have had both grief and care
But still keep the faith learned
By mothers side at prayer.
The world is full of wickedness,
And many a cruel snare,
But have worn the shield gained
At mothers feet in prayer.
Temptations oft beset me now
In vain-that shield is there
My faith ard trust in Gods my shield,
Found when a child through prayer.
Though Satans art and power at times
Have made it hard to bear;
That shield though Scared and dim with strife,
Is unimpaired by prayer.
And though often am cast down,
And fearful of despair
My faith will rise and conquer all
That faith is kept by prayer.
My mother soon will pass away,


Her starry crown to wear;
But still know she'll often plead


For NE with God in prayer.
And should pass those gates of gold


And meet her over there,
Twill be because she taught her son


To lisp his evening prayer.
By d. d.. in her 10th year, a ndtiUe Of Kent count
nO,c a rsideIUt ot Washington, D. {.
Year: 1878

The Middletown Transcript man rejOices to think
that nearly ten months will intervene before another
excursion season will roll around, when man will
have to get up in the middle of the night for fear of
getting left; breakfast on three cold sweet potatoes;
carry lunch basket an umbrella and two children
to the depot ride one hundred and fifty miles
through the dust; worry for an hour with ancient
sea-shOre chicken; look after five small children "
for = hours at the sea-shorc" and come home with
pint of cinders in his hair and tea cupfu of dust
down his back and call it rest and recreation from the
cares of business. Good by Steamboat good by cars
Year: 1878

WALKING.-The most natural, the most
healthy, the most attractive, the most
frugal, the most ready of all exercises, is
walking. Nature has made the body's
locomotion on its legs a thorough move
ment Of all the bodily organs, stimulating
them ali with new life and driving off the
evil humors from each, a method open to all
to use, however small their pecuniary re-
sources. Only let it be walking and not
sauntering. Carry the head erect, expand
the chest and drink in the pure air, and
move briskly enough to secure your end.
Let the eye turn from one object to
another, and not be fixed on the ground in
contemplation (that sort of thing is for the
Sa,mterer); note the beauties or deformities OF
the landscape; take a companion with you
if you can, to whom you can refer your
opinions on what you see, and from whom
you can receive suggestive thoughts in re-
turn stop at times and sit upon rock OIL
fence both for rest and for enjoyment oi
some striking scene, and let not the
pleasure be turned to weariness by any
overstraining for the name and fame ot
fast walker. Such is. the normal, and
presume Adamic, method of bodily exer
else, against which we have arrayed the
conventionalities of moneyworshipinl
society.-Ho,Oard Crosby, ID. d., in the Chris
tan Union Ertra, "HOW to Spend the Sum
mer,n
Year: 1878

On Thursday last Sheriff Blackston captured three
large and one small file in one of the prisoners cells
Also, key that had been made of pewter spoons
with which to unlock the cell doors 50 that they
could get to the hall windows. With these files they
could have cut the window bars in an hour Sheriff
BlackstOn, with the number of prisoners now in Jail
has his hands full to watch them from the number
of persons prowling around they have the best OF
chances for slipping tools to them with which to
make their escape. The county should put wall
around the iail.-ScRtiHcL.
Year: 1878


To Bake T5matoes.-Season them with |
salt and pepper; flour them over; put
them in a deep plate with little butter
and bake them in the stove.


Water Ice.-Boil quart of water and a
pound of sugar three minutes, and then
freeze This is good substitute for lemon
ade for persons who dislike sour drinks.


Corn Oysters.-Grate six ears of sweet
corn, add half pint of rich milk, a scant
tea-spoonful of pepper, half as much of salt
and half a teacup of -four. Mix we'll
together and fry in hot butter.


TO Stc,0 C6rn.-Select tender but we'll
filled ears; shave with sharp knife the
grains into two or three pieces; then scrape
the cob add water and stir for few min
utes, season salt, pepper, butter and cream.


Puddings.-A bread pudding should be
tied loose if batter, it must be tied tight
over, and batter pudding should be
strained through coarse sieve when all is
mixed; in others, the eggs only. If you
boil the pudding in a basin or pan take
care it is always well buttered.


Making Cake from Raised Dough.-Take a
pint of light bread dough, one cup of but
ter, two cups of sugar, four eggs-miX
them together with the hand, working
long enough to get well mixed, then add
half nutmeg and pound of raisins.
Place in tins in warm place to rise, then
bake.


Duk Cake.-Three eggs, two cups Of
sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of milk.
If the milk is sour, leave out cream of
tartar; one teaspoonful soda, two teaspoon
fuls cream tartar, three and one.half cups
of flour, one teaspoonful different spice, two
cups of raisins, one of the two cups chop
ped fine.


Cucumber ReliSh.-This pickle may be
made from those cucumbers which have
grown too large for picking whole. Peel,
cut in half remove the seeds, and CRATE on
a coarse crater; drain the water from the
mass, season highly with pepper, salt and
ground cloves, cover with cold vinegar
bottle and seal.


Minute Pudding.-Put one quart of milk
upon the fire when it comes to q boil al .
three tablespoonfuls of flour, wet up in a
little of the cold milk stir briskly with &
wooden spoon until it thickens; then flavor
with one teaspoonful of extract of lemon
put in a mould. To be eaten cold with
milk and sugar.


Corn FritterS.-Take half dozen ears O
sweet corn, CRATE it from the cob as fine al
possible; three well-beaten eggs, table
spoonful and a-half of flour; season with
= pepper and salt; melt equal portions 0
lard and butter in a frying pan; when boil
ing hot drop in the mixture one at time
4 Fry brown, and send to the table hot
. Sponge GngerJread-Melt piece of but
|, ter the size of hens egg; mix it with
e pint of nice molasses, one tablespoonful 0
i ginger and quart of -four. Dissolve
e heaping tablespoonful of soda in half
pint of milk, and mix it with the rest o
), the ingredients. The above makes sof
:. gingerbread-bu if you wish dough, adj
o sufficient flour to enable you to roll ou
!. easily; roll about half an inch thick
n Bake in a quick oven. We have foun
K this recipe very convenient.
Year: 1878

Politics are growing lively all over the
country. The Democrats, the Republicans
and the Nationals are all busy slandering
each other and each trying to elect its own
men. The agitation will continue to No.
yember.
Year: 1878

DEAR FRIENDs:-You have had many private ap-
peals to you for help for churches and youh given
freely, and God will bless you for SO doing Now
make public appeal to all the friends of Gods Zion
ior help TO quldate our church debt There three
hundred dollars now due and must be paid and if it
is not paid Heaven only knows what will become Of
the church. We have done and are doing all that we
can to raise the money but poor and have not
the money to meet the payment. Dear friends YOU
see the condition that the church is in please have
mercy on US. Are there any lovers of Gods cause in
Smyrna who will sympathize with our conditions and
help us i'll this our time Of distress. May God help
you to help us.


In the name of God, l earnestly appeal to every
Methodist i'll and about the town Of Smyrna to hcp
us to the Centennial Methodist Episcopal Church
of Smyrna Now, who will be the first to do a noble
act for God by helping us. Dear friends remember
that we cannot help ourselves at this juuctuTc and
shall we look i'll vain to you white friends for
help in this great peril.


Our Grand Rally will come of on the 2nth OF
October. 1875 and if white friends of all denOmi-
nations will help us to raise the above said money
will promise that this shall be last appeal u
you for money TO pay off our church debt.
All donations will be kindly received for by Mr.
Vim. H. Baggs, Postmaster, who will give you credit


for the same. We also intend TO put out few books
for subscription.


Yours in the cause of Christ,
T. LUM.
| J. MII.BURN,
| J. GIBBS and others,
| Trustees.
| W. II. COFFEY, Pastor.
Year: 1878

The people who have money which they
wish to invest for safe keeping, are with
drawing it from savings banks just as fast
as they can get it out, and investing it in
the new, government four per cent. bonds.
Here their money is at least safe and they
know it.
Year: 1878

SMYRNA, Sept Goth, 1878.


Mr.. EDITOR AS a friend to the cause of
Temperance, and being interested in the
success Of the same, would like to ask
few questions through the medium of your
columns. The few leading Temperance
men Of this community are good, sound,
well-meaning men, and as such, have done
much to further the cause, and we would
not say anything that would discourage
them, not one word to their rdisparagement; :;
on the contrary, we admire their persistence.
We commend their zeal in the good work
and yet to our mind, they ncper made so
grand mistake as in framing a remon-
STRANGE against but one or two places in
this community. Now allow me to ask
why was it that the remonstrance was
against tire grog shops alone and the hotels
allowed to 90 free and unmolested? Is it
not the same vile stuff, though drank from
the polished glasses taken from off the
marble covered bars found in our hotels
Is it less poisonous, less deadly in its influ.
ence? Cannot our young men form the
habit of drinking there, just as we'll as in
the common GROCERY, and do we not virtualy
say by signing remonstrance against GER
tain parties only, that these shall not sell
liquor while the others may? All, gentle
men, you may say that you would teal
down this monster wall of evil by beginning
at the top and thus take down stone by
stone, until there is not one left upor
another, but not so. How many, oh how
many will perish before it is thus tori
down? How many widows will it make
How many children will it starve? How
many homes will it desolate? No, tn,
great battering ram of truth and .justic,
must be brought to bear upon it fair ant
square, and the sale Of liquor must b
stopped in this way alone, and let us sa
by our actions, that there shall not witt
our consent, directly or indirectly, one dro
of intoxicating liquor be sold in the land
Humanity demands this; christianity dc
mands it, and when every christian ma,
and woman laying aside their prejudice
will join hand in hand in the good work
then will it be done. Now word more:
the men who govern the land in which W
live, will not join us in removeing this an
other evils, let us see to it as christian


that none but christian men, without regar
to politics shall rule over us.


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Year: 1878

Havana adyices state that the sugar
crop of Cuba will fall short one third
of what was expected. Commercial
failures are frequent. and there is a
panicky feeling among business men.
Year: 1878

A clerical gentleman in China writes
as follows concerning the terrible famine
existing in parts of that country: Deaths
are extremely common in almost all the
larger villages where we have any relief,
as well as in all the villages where we
have no relief. Some of the sights we
see are indeed pitiable. In some fami-
lies who live almost exclusively upon
leaves, there is peculiar kind of bloat-
ing, which is induced by eating the
leaves of the locust, which forms large
part of the diet. The bloating seems to
be in the follicular membranes of the
skin, and rapidly advances until in many
cases the face is swollen to an enormous
size and the eyes are obliterated. I saw
little boy who, from msl-nutrition-it
such it can be called-had swollen to an
appalling extent. Such cases as these
generally prove fatal. The vitality OF
Chinese is astonishing. When one
would expect to see them succumb at
once to the influences which combine to
end their sorrowful days, they still seem
to linper on with next to nothing to eat.


Even when they become faint, and the
physical powers become totally exhaust
ed, and they fall a prey to the "famine
fever" (typhus). very large number OF
them recover, where it would not seem
that a single one could survive: Under
the same circumstances I think the
deaths in any Anglo-Saxon community
would be far moro numeroue. 1t ls,


however, impossible to get anything


like statistics in regard to anything
Chinese, 30 that all comparisons OF this
kind are but inferenoes. =.
Year: 1878

A writer in Nature discusses the COM
parative Dutritive qualities of white
bread, brown bread, and whole-meal
bread. he says: We shall find it i'm
possible to make, by means of .leaven or
yeast, light spongy loaf from whole
wheat finely ground, the so-called cere-
alin of tho bran inducing chemical
changes which result in moist, clam
my. dense product. Even whole wheat
merely crushed into meal, and not
ground, partakes of the same defect.
Fine flour, on the other hand, yields a
bread which is light enough before
mastication, but which, when masticat-
ed, possesses a marked tendency to be-
come compacted into dense Jumps which
may never be penetrated by the gastric
and intestinal juices, and which are a
frequent cause of constipation. Whole
meal bread cannot be charged with this
defect indeed it acts incidentally as a
laxative, and by reason of its mechanical
texture is hurried rather too quickly
along the digestive tract, 80 that the
full virtue of such of it's nutrients as are
really soluble becomes in part lost. Yet
there is no doubt that for many per-
sons, especially those who have passed
middle age and are engaged in sedentary
occupations, whole-wheaten meal in the
form of bread, biscuits, scones, etc.,
forms an invaluable diet. If we could
reckon all the heterogeneous matter in
whole-meal bread as equally effective
with that contained in white bread, we
should possess in the former far more
perfectly adjusted food for the ratio of
flesh formers to heat-givers is about one
to seven and a half in white bread, while
it approaches one to four in some sam
pies, at least, OF whole-meal bread. Add
to this the higher proportion of phos.
pilates in the latter, and its chemical
superiority over white bread becomes
still more marked it's flavor, too, is far
richer. Ordinarily brown bread is o
poor preparation at the best. BY add
ing dish of rather rough bran to flour
we do not obtain a satisfactory or rich
product analysis demonstrates this fact
clearly.