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Year: 1878

In this issue Of the TRANSCRIPT we
commence the publication of the ad-
dress delivered at the harvest home, on
Thursday Of last week, by Senator
Bayard. 1t was a plain talk to the
people Of his State on the financial
questions, and the business depression
OF our county, and as such will be read
with widespread interest, not only here
in Delaware, but throughout the whole
country. 1t is plain and compre-
hensive address-one that will throw
considerable light upon many things in
connection with the cause of the hard
times that the people have for so long
failed to thoroughly understand. We
regret that owing to the great length
OF the address we are unable to publish
it in full this week, and it is possible
that we may not be able to complete
its publication until week after next,
but 1t will bear reading carefully, and
more than once, and our readers, by
receiving it in these instalments, wifi
have a better opportunity of digesting
ltas they go along. For thereport Of
this able address we are indebted 10
our live Wilmington contemporary,
the Every Evening.
Year: 1878

IT is stated that there is much sick
ness and suffering in Kansas this sea-
son, which should be a warning to those
who are longing to follow the "Star of
Empire" The man who cannot make
a living on this Peninsula wouldstand
q poor chance in the West.
Year: 1878

p certain doctor struck with
the largo number of boys un-
der fifteen Years of age whom
he observed smoking. WAS lod
to inquire into the effect this
had upon the general health.
He took for his purpose 3S
boys, from nine to fifteen aad
carefully examined them; in
twenty seven OF them he dis
covered injurious traces Of
the habit. In twenty two
there were various disorders
Of the circulation and diges
lion, palpitation Of the heart,
and a more Or less marked
taste for strong drink. In
twelve there was frequent
bleeding of the nose, ten had
disturbed sleep, and twelve
had slight alteration Of the
mucus membranes of the
mouth, which disappeared on
ceaSIng from the use of to
bacco for some days. The
doctor treated them all for
weakness, but with little eff
feet until the smoking was
discontinued, when health
and strength were soon res
Eored. Now this is no cold
Wifb'> tale,' as these facts are
gwen under authority of the
British Medical Journal
Exchange.
Year: 1878

Every housewife, as we'll
as laundry maid, should know
how to starch. Here are good
directions from an experienc
ed hand: When hot starch is
used, take one lieapcd table
spoonful of starch to a quart
of boiling water :; af
tcrit has been beaten down
smooth with a little cold. If
it does not turn into IL jelly,
put it into a saucepan, and
Stir it while it is over the fire
till it does. To prevent the
iron sticking, Stir II piece of
Rax candle two orthree times
~Terafti IN the hot starch, ur
add four drops Of turpentine.
Strain the starch through a
itihce OF muslin, and cover it
dp< till nearly cold. When
the things to be starched are
dry, they should be dipped
inte the starch !; then wiring
them ont, and when half dry


place them in a owe!,sprink


lie with a little water, and
roll them ~ till You are rea-
dy to iron them. Instead Of
the candle, it is a good plan
to keepa small piece Of skins
ny fat beside you, and each
new thing YOU take np,touch
the tip Of the iron with the
Fat.
Year: 1878

One thousand shingles laid
four inches to the weather
will cover one hundred square
f"etnf surface, land five pounds
of S!inglo nails will fasten
them on.


Oae fifth more siding and
flooring is needed than the
number of square feet of sur
face to be covered, because of
the lap in the siding and
matching of the floor.


One thousand laths VIII
cover seventy yards of sur
face, and eleven pounds Of
lath nails will nal! them on.


Eight bushels of good lime,
sixteen bushels Of sand and
one bushel Of hair will make
enough mortar to plaster one
hundred square yards,
Year: 1878

For some time Mr.. Walker, living
up on Panther Creek, has been Sc
riously annoyed by bear that has
been foraging upon his sheep and
goats, and made several good meals
off the carcasses of number of the
flock All pursuit of the animal
proved fruitless and finally Mr..
Walker sent to Portland for a good
steel trap and determined to try a
new trick on his tormentor. The
scheme proved a success. Thursday
morning of last week Bruin put his
foot in it" and was captured. He
was black bear and weighed over $50
pounds. His carcass was nicely
dressed, anda liberal piece oft found
its way to the residence of "the sub
scriber," for which all concerned have
the Acknowledgements of the printer.
1t was the first meat of the kind we
had ever had opportunity to tackle,
and despite some little indehnable
prejudice we had against it, we are
now ready to confess that there are
many things a good deal harder to
bear than slice of good sweet bear.
-YanahW Reporter.
Year: 1878

The Snohomish STIR learns the fol-
lowing particulars of the operations
now going on at the mines which
created such an excitement on the
Sound last Fall: ''The party now
consisting of j. 7. Cotton, NJ. Barrett,
Robt. Barrett and Peter Henry have
joined the other three original pros
pectors there and are now engaged
in making ditch one and half miles
long, for the purpose of conducting
water into the mine. Six weeks
more will be required to finish this
channel, which will afford about 800
inches of water, which will have a
fall Of 100 feet. They have run cut
from the edge of the bluff to the
Sultan river bank, abort 125 feet
above the level of the river from
its north bank to its old river bed.
This cut is now three feet deep and is
fourteen feet wide on top and four
feet wide at bottom. This cut is
made to get drainage from the old
river bed to the present bed of the
Sultan river. These prospectors have
put in six months time already, and
are determined to continue as
much longer, if necessary, to deter
mine the matter they are testing.
They have not tried to take out any
gold yet but have found by testing
that where gravel is found precious
metal is evenly distributed, but as to
the thickness of the gravel in the old
bed they have not yet determined.
This will not be accomplished until
after the rim is cut through and the
old channel is gained and drainage
perfected, so that practical test can
be made by regular mining work.
These men are old practical miners,
and declare that they are perfectly
satisfied with the prospect, and are
determined to test the matter thor
oughly.
Year: 1878

MINING ON THE kLAMArH.-The
river mining on the klamath has been
paving better this season than ever
before, every company having been
doing well, all the way from the
mouth of Humbug down to Oak Bar
and Hamburg Bar, below the mouth
of Scott River. The companies in
terested have been taking out from
15 to l25 ounces or more per week,
and will continue to do even better,
unless heavy storms cause big rise
in the stream to drive them out The
general supposition is that we may
have light winter, in consequence
of last being such stormy one, in
which case the miners may be able
to continue operations until later
than usual, or probably all winter. If
such be the case, the gold yield will
certainly be the greatest ever realized
on this stream during any one sea
son. Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville.
Year: 1878

We desire to return our thanks to
the people of this city and vicinity
for the liberal support extended to
us during the past year, enabling us
by our large sales and extended
business, to rapidly tu urn our stock
and offer the best quality of goods,
fresh from the mark Jet, at prices
which defy competition. -.


With largely incre eased stock of
goods purchased in the Eastern mar
ket at the goo 20 ~ '''
Year: 1878

It seems to be a fundamental principle
in human affairs that one extreme invaria
bly, succeeds another, as in nature calm
follows or precedcs a storm, so in the com.
mercial world and in financial matters.
The hurricane OF 1873 is fresh in our
minds, and its tracks are still visible and
its sad monument will remain for warn
ings for those that are to come along after.
Whatever may have been the cause, we
have all felt the blighting withering breath,
and have long looked for the lifting Of this
CO Llmercial SIMEON.


Dakota and North. western iowa. and
portions OF Minnesota have had added to
their share of the general depressing effect,
the local curse of an almost total destruc-
ton Of their only base Of operation for
successive years. and have thus been sub.
jccted to more serious drawbacks than
older and more wealthy portions Of the
great west. This blow was too effective to
to recover from at once, even if the eastern
portion where our capital comes from
should recover from its financial stagna.
ti)n.
Commercial reports state that the
month OF June just past has been without
a parallel tor dullness in twenty years, and
ye: many of US supposed the bottom had
been touched long since, and particularly
when the fact WAS known that money was
drug in eastern vaults, and was seeking
healthy investments. The causes we're nu
merous but it is generally conceded that
the principal cause was the large decline
in agricultural values.


The indications that the war in Europe
was ended, and that the result Of the peace
congress would be what its name implied,
sent wheat tnmhling twenty cents bush,
ell, and during the last month also pork
went lower than at any period during the
last 80 days.


So much for what the farmer produces
other articles were affected in almost like
proportion. Lead for instance was worth
but little over one cent pound in The
lead districts, and iron is much lower than
1t could be manufactured for in the days
Of gold currency, but that will rise as the
demand is increasing.


Congress also had its share in the sink
ing effect, business men were apprehensive
what it might do, as some Of its new mem
he-s seemed bound to do everything bu
| what was reasonable. I: repealed the
bankrupt law, and only tinkered the re
sumption act


Now reaction has commenced, and fav
orsbly too. Pork has jumped up twenty
per cent within the past week, and the
great base OF our national wealth, the farm
er's crop, bids fair to excel that OF any
previous years both in Yield and acrea !:
1t appears unquestionably to our mind
that we are out of the breakers aud cleal
! sen ahead; with our sad experience AND
the timely warnings, no individual or ma
tion, were ever better prepared to welcome
appreciate or profit at the happy reaction
that we will now daily witness. and the
farmers Of this portion of Iowa and Dako
ia can heartily rejoice that the worst il
over and the dark day is to De followed b,
the BRIGHT sunlight Of prosperity.
Year: 1878

Indianapolis Sentinel: The harvest Is
beias gathered, and the abundant reward
for harvest labor greets the husbandman
on every hand. The wheat crop Is SO
abundant the croaker has no profession
left to pursue.
Year: 1878

A detailed description of the fine dress.
es worn by the Countess Bozenta,


Madame Helena Modjeska, in the play
of +" Camille" by painstaking writer,
may be of value. He says these dresses
are recently from Paris, and concludes
thus:


"It will be observed that all these
dresses are fourreaux. There is noteven
a simulated basque among them. While
they are not offered as exact models Of
what lady would wish to initiate in
her attire, they undoubtedly show the
tendency of the fashions Of the day.
Basques will not probably be
worn much longer. They indicate
the entire and certain banishment
of crinoline from the feminine toilet;
they show that there is return to the
use OF satin for full dress they make it
evident that the ridiculous fashion Of
tying back will be abandoned, but that
the clinging and close effect will be pre-
served by the cut of the skirt itself.
They show that evening toilets are most
fashionable when sleeveless; that the hair
should be dressed high, and false cheva-
lure will be necessary; that square necks
and high shouldered corsages are pre-
ferred. And that bracelets both above
and below the elbow are worn that
pockets are exploded except for home
dresses, and that all fashionable feminine
robes are trained, whether worn in the
evening, morning, afternoon or night.
Year: 1878

l was in Franklin but very short
time, and, as 1 have already been re-
called to that happy little city, shall
defer what l have to say until 1 know
more about it. ( only know now that
its first name is Benjamin, but they all
ways call it Franklin for short. 1t gets
up early and goes to bed early, except
on lecture nights, and is conseouentlv
" "healthy and wealthy and wise" You
should have seen me chase the train out
of Franklin. Heard the whistle lust in
time to collar a valise that weighs a ton
(carry stove legs in it to keep it from
fiying up over the housetops like a bal
loon, when I set it DOWN, tear myself
away from a pleasant little circle of
friends and perhaps l didn't pick up my
feet about 500 times minute! Started
the wrong way and would have been in
Cincinnatiin twenty minutesif commit
teeman hadn't caught me and turned
me around. Dashed down an alley to
make a short cut to the depot and fell
over a two horse wagon, eollided with
COW and at last fell into retired horse
power. Agonized committeeman shout
ing after me, trying to catch me and
endeavoring to keep me headed straight.
Every time that valse hit my legs I
thought the train had run into me. Fell
down twice, and got up with a general
impre 5 sion of having corralled an earth
quake, and wished that 1 hadn't. Ran
down the middle of the street at length.
got to the depot clear out of breath, ard
in one final, magnificent burst of speed,
headed off the train.


Freight; going the wrong way. Man
at the depot told me to go in and sit
down, my train was lste and would be
along in about an hour and a half
went in, but there were too many people
in there, and it was teo light. I went
out in the dark and sat down on the
loneliest trunk couh find. I felt re-
fective and cad ike.-rBurlington
Hawkeye.
Year: 1878

When you join q church, you should
calculate to stand by your colors. What
IS a soldier good for who drops out of the
ranks, or skuIks, or runs, the moment
the cause is in peril? What is a church
member worth who becomes invisible
Just when his services could be of some


value? If you are in a large church
where workers are abundant, you may
without harm keep modestly in the back
ground; but, in case the ranks are thin,
your response should ring out at every
roll-call. AS a Christian soldier, you
have enlisted for the war how can you
settle it in the court of conscience that
you are delinquent in the breach ? What
good opinion can you have of yourself,
if, when in a large church, you press
your way to the front ranks and seek
promotion, and then when your lot falls
among small people, who really need
your help, you keep your letter in your
pocket or pass it over to some other
denomination which happens to be larger
or more popular than your own? That
course IS Il sad commentary on your re-
ligion. Bat we fear it is a true history
OF many a sham professor. If they are
not deserters from the ranks, they are
shirks and pretenders, and, as such, a
source OF positive weakness to any body
TO which they belong lions Herald.
Year: 1878

To man, time is for sowing seed, while
eternity is for reaping the harvest. An
inch of time is given us here to decide
whether we shall spend our eternity in
endless weeping, or in supernal bliss. A
pious life, however short, is followed by
an eternity of joy. a wicked life, how
ever long, is followed by an uuending
existence in every part of which man
wishes that he had never been born. No
man ever had an adequate conception of
the variety and brevity OF our earthly
life. 10 man ever had an adequate con-
ception of the vastness and grandeur of
a happy eternity. Ii l only knew how
man lived, could easily tell how he
died.-[S. >. Times.
Year: 1878

Irregular Practice but Novel and Successful
I Cure.


No less shrewd man than Montainge
has recorded his conviction that many
an old woman knows more about surgery
and medicine than many doctor who
stands high in his profession. At Fort
Wayne, Ind, the other day, a child
was creeping on the floor, testing, after
the manner of babies, the edible qualities
Of All that came in its way. Finding that
the kitten filled his mouth with hair,
that the poker was not a succulent morsel,
and that there was no milk to be drawn


fom the leg of steol, the youngster
solemnly looked about for something
better, which presently he found in
e kernel OF corn. Had it been a tack his
s.other, though her back had been turned,
kssgaid aaave known thu fact and flown to
the rescue; for mothers, ike the saints in
Swedenborg's heaven, have eyes in the
back of their heads for such things. The
impression sac had through her feelings
she was hanging clothes in the yard at
the time-wss that no harm could come
from a kernel Of corn for a baby to
humble. She was in error, however, and
shortly was startled by q hoarse bark, as
of suffocating child. With bound she
was in the house, and found her blessed
babe black as to its face and kicking as to
its limbs. Hastily she ran for the doctor,
who on his arrival looked at the patient,
fumbled with it, and finally said that
there must be some foreign substance in
the trachea, which could be removed only
by bronchotomy. The mother, looking at
thepractitioner with all ner eyes, inquired
what IN the world he meant by such
language in her house. He explained,
as doctors will on such occasions, that,
d" in order to save the child's life, it would
be necessary to make an incision in the
median line of the throat, near the
thyroid gland, dissect down to the
trachea, push aside the streno-hyoid
muscles, introduce a canula and then





remove the obstruction" In the mean
time the babe had almost ceased to
wriggle, and the doctor, jamming his
hat OH his head, started for the door to
look for a boy to run for his instruments.
Before he had reached the door, however,
he heard a resounding spank, and looking
around beneld with horror that mother
holding up her child by the left leg,
head downward, and administering to it
a common domestic remedy, such as the
Widow MacStinger gave Master Mac
Singer ere seating him on cold stone
to remove the sequeI@. He rushed to the
rescue of the patient from such unpro-
fessional hands, but as he rushed had his
eye neany put out out by the kernel of
corn which shot from that trachea as if
propelled by catapult.
Year: 1878

A tragedy occurred at Oakley, Caro-
line county, Va, @hici1 equals in de-
pravity and wickedness any thing recently
known in the catalogue Of blood. -


Willie Dillard,agod. II. son ef F5usssss
billiard, wealthy farmer of Caroline
county, went to field where his fathers
faithful negro overaeer, Dick Thompson,
was engaged at work. He was on friend
ly terms with the man, and rs he passed
him in the field the usual salutations
were exchanged. youth went to
fence-corner and du with a spade hole
seven feet long and four feet wide. Then,
calling Dick to him, he said, You see
that ditch well, that is your grave"
and with these words. and before the
negro man had time to collect
his thoughts, Willie jerked up ain axe
which it seems ne had secreied in the
fence corner, and struck him on the head.
The negro attempted to defend himself.
but the boy followed up the first blow
with one across the throat with the edge
of the axe, halt severiDg the windpipe.
The unfortunate man ran about one
hundred yards and dropped exhausted.
Young billiard went straight to the house
and told his sister the rest of the family
being absent from hOme) what he had
done He was perfectly cool, and said
% Sister, you had better send out and see
Dick" The horrifed girl dispatched
servants to the field, where lay the dying
man weltering in gore. 1t is said he
cannot recover.


The murderer was arrested by a
constable, and after an examination
before a magistrate, was sent to the
criminal court. There had been no
difficulty between the prisoner and
mis- victim, and the only cause
Willie gives for the bloody deed is that
he Just wanted to kill somebody. He
told the story in substance as it is
given above, snd seemed perfectly
rational all the while. He had dug
grave not long since, but did not succeed
in finding tenant for it. Il is said that
from his early boyhood he had fond
ness which amounted to a mania for kill
ing cats, dogs and osher innocent crea-
lures.


The affair has caused a great sensa-
ton in Caroline Dick Thompson was
an old man, and was much respected by
white and black. Willie billiard is
strongly built and is well grown for his
age. He has not a bad countenance, but
on the contrary may be called hard
aODne
Year: 1878

Mr.. Edward King, the correspondent


of the Boston Journal in Paris, gives an


interesting account of the illumination


three weeks age of Place de POpera in


Paris by the electrical light. He says the


effect was singularly magnificent, and:


"The intense white glow from the


electric burners directly in front Of the
STEPS leading up to the operas entrance,
and scattered at intervals across the
grand boulevard to the corner of the new
avenue leading to the Comedie Frapcaise,
made the spaces for hundreds of yards
around about as light as day. One
of the electric candles seemed to give as
much light as an hundred gas gets. Gas
looks yellow, muddy and petty beside
this grand fire, which defies darkness.
For city lighted by the new process all
the terrors of midnight would vanish.
Burglars would find their occupation
gone. The assassin would have to sell
his stilleto Vice of all kinds would
either stink away, disgusted at the small
reward which it would obtain when it
could no longer walk in darkness"


The illumination was SO splendid, that
the electric light is to be introduced in all
parts of the city. The system adopted is
that of Mr.. Jablochkof, Russian. The
Figaro newspaper lights the front of the
office, where it is produced, with the
magical candle. Mr.. King says;


''The electric candle used by Jabloch-
koff is formed of two cylindrical strips of
coal, placed one beside the other, ana
separated by peculiar isolating matter
The lower extremities of these strips of
coal are set in two brass tubes, and these
in turn are fastened into a chandelier
bracket, The strips are bound so that
they cannot fall apart. When the cur
rent is passed in the voltaic arch it springs
into life between the two extremities of
the coal strips, which burn little by little
by contact with the air. The isolating
matter heats, melts, party voltaizes and
makes the space between the coal a good
conductor-far better than it is in the
ordinary system of Lighting with the
regulator. The candle should be pro-
tected by an opaline globe, as it is in
most places where it is used in Paris.
The price of one of these candles, burn
ing an hour and a half, and giving
light equal to one hundred and thirty
gas Jets, is fifteen cents. All sizes of
candles can be furnished, and they can
be placed in almost every conceivable
position. One horse power of an ordi-
nary steam engine is required for each
separate electric light, or group of lights;
that is, force equivalent to that must
be supplied to the dynamo electric
machine"


lis already proposed to use the elec-
trical candle in festivals associated with
the great exnositiOn.