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Year: 1879

On Saturday afternoon City Council
had special meeting at Stalkup Run
which is situated between Walnut and
Poplar, and between Third street and
the Christiana Creek. This water
course in the days when Wilmington
was but small country town was a
stream of considerable size. Vessels
were known to ply between its high
banks up as far as Fifth and Poplar
streets. Since then it has been gradu-
ally filling up until it has become a
small running stream traversing a long
declivity and emptying the city's sew
erage into the creek at the Pusey 4
Co. Works.


For some time back there has been
considerable complaint from the citi-
zens in the vicinity Of Second and Pop
lar streets, arising through the accu-
mutation of filth near the outlet. The
Cily Council inspected the spot and
found that the runs mouth was too con-
tracted and that measures would have
to be taken to render the flow free
Year: 1879

Many schemes will die with this session
oi Congress that the country need not gricve
over, but there nre some others whose nail
urc there is good reason to regard in another
light. Some action should have been taken
toward the organization of n national quar-
antinc system, and VIC suppose that il in
the attempts to pass q bill for this purpose
the projectors had only kept in view the
Legitimate aim OF quarantine low they
would, perhaps, not have been defeated.


But, as is usual, less was thought Of the
ostenslblo purpose than of some other; yell
low fever and plague were forgotten in
considerations of the political scope OF the
measure. State right fancics stood in the
way of the protection of the people from
imported epidemic disease. There would
certainly DO no need OF national quarantine
Year: 1879

A great deal of credit is due tho members
of the Church Of the Messiah for their effort
in paying off the crushing debt which hung
over their cdifce, and the community nc
cords them its warmest congratulations.
The adverse. and critical circumstances
against which this church has been strug-
Cling during the last few years, the roman
tic story Of tho pious prayers of some aged
saint that every pastor might DO led to tho
evangelical faith, which has given it almos.
the reputation of haunted house. and THO
actual secession of two Of its ministers in,
rapid succession these things have tended
TO excite large degree OF public interest.
1t was feared, until within few days, that
the beautiful edifice was doomed to bear the
auctioncor's flag. The whole body of Uni
tarians have at last been reused, however,
to knowledge of the danger that threat
ened, and, knowing that such dire calam-
ity as tho sale OF q church in tho very centre
of y city like New York would DO almost a
fatal blow to the denomination. they have
nobly come to the rescue.


The peculiar theological dogmas OF the
huNc, uuAihS Couptc VI BSH.
erations of continuous effort taken such
slight hold on the religious community that
we are naturally led to seek the law which
underlios their gradual decadence. While
all other bodies of believers are constantly
building new churches and making new
converts in large numbers the advocates OF
this particular form Of belief have with diff
ficulty maintained their numerical integ-
rity. This is true not only in this city, but
also in Boston, the cradle of what is some
what boastiully called Liberal Christianity.
That Unitarianism long since reached the
limit OF its influence there and that tho
people of that city arc returning to the
Older forms of faith known as orthodox is
a very significant TACT. 1t has undoubt-
odly had an important mission to fulfill
and it has done its work with large
discretion and sagacity. That the task which
it SET itself is finished is suggestive. 1t
emphasized the moral side of life, too much
neglected generation since by tho evan
Gclical churches, and underscored the
Year: 1879

against foreign commerce if every port was
as we'll watched by State authorities as
this port is by our State government; but
other ports are not so well watched, and
especially in the Southern States there is
always a slipshod and ineffective system.
They always were feeble on this point in
their best days; but in the carpet-bag days
and in the days of colored great men they
seem to have become helpless, and they do
not or will not, perhaps cannot, protect
themselves with the necessary energy in
this respect. and they let in the trouble
that becomes scourge to the country.
Another point that would have fallen to the
function OF national quarantine authorities,
and that is now unco ntrolled, is the move
ment of the people behind the lines of ex-
ternal quarantine at periods when epidemics
are active. Here we keep ON foot an enor-
nous machinery to prevent the landing in
our city from seaward of a single creature
Infected with yellow fever. But if the fever
is at New Orleans a hundred q day muy
come in by the cars before even public
notice is taken of the evil, which is only
one Of the absurdities of our present con-
dition
Year: 1879

BILE interruption in the calculations
of traffic regulation. We must repeat
that under no consideration should
the Chatham square or any other Ill" cross
ing be permitted. The plan suggested in
the HERALD yesterday shows how the Chat
ham square crossing may be avoided alto
gether, and without interfering much with
the interests of either tho Metropolitan or
New York 81" company. But even if these
so-cailod vested interests are impaired by
the adoption Of such plan it is better
that they should be so than that Chatham
square should come to be known as
slaughter place." We must have no fool
ing with public safety on the els" and,
above all things. not in tho interests of pri-
vate corporations who owe these to public
GencroSity
Year: 1879

Reports from the Potter Committee
promise to be almost as numerous as the
members, four being positively announced,
with the probability Of another. The ma
jority report, which was given to the House
on Saturday, is far too voluminous to be
printed in full in a single issue of the
HERALD, but the careful synopsis which we
give on another page will indicate the opin-
ions and conclusions of the majority
of the committee. and thus prepare
readers for intelligent perusal of
the entire document. It is matter
for congratulation that the report is calm
and logical in tone, seeking no aid from
rhetoric, but trusting to facts alone to sus-
tain the deductions offered. It is also
eminently satisfactory to learn that the tes-
timony, so-callcd. of certain notoriously
untrustworthy romancers is treated accord
ing to its deserts, and, consequently, is
let severely alone. The committee hav-
ing divided exactly on the party line it
stands to reason that the minority re-
port will antagonize that of the majority,
which practically means that the entire
question comes back to the public for final
decision, and that the conduct of the late
Presidential campaign will again be largely
discussed, publicly and privately, but with
the difference that there is now available q
mass of evidence which will make an intel
ligent conclusion moro nearly possible than
it has hitherto been.
Year: 1879

Marrying for money has been one Of the
worlds most vigorous and successful in
dustries for hundreds Of years. but SO
secretly has the whole business been man.
aged that all evidence upon the subject has
been Of circumstantial and desultory
nature. A suit is now pending, however,
in which husband alleges and admits
that his lone heart was coaxed to beat with
another and tenderer one by tho witching
to be paid upon delivery of the romantic
organ before mentioned. We are glad
that some one has at last been honest
enough to confess to a business venture
OF nature of which 80 many other
people have been suspected, and his
avowal is particularly valuable because of
its specifying fixed consideration, which
may serve a useful purpose as basis Of
comparison in heart exchanges yet to be
made. We have no opinion 10 express upon
tho merits of the bargain, for the heart it.
self--the vital point of the transaction--has
not yet been submitted to experts for val ua.
ton. 1t is not sufficient to say that
DelrL lS u ucirt. ClCu tulk may Go In n
meat shop. but trade in the matrimonial
market recognizes standards other than
size. There are hearts, mostly mascu-
line, Of course, which would be ten
thousand times too costly ut the
price named, while, on the other
hand, millions of young men know OF hearts
worth ten thousand times as much. As the
suit progresses the public will note with
interest the various points of ten thou
sand-dollar heart, and thus arrive at some
standard OF valuation which may DO gen.
orally accepted, subject to such modifca-
tons as the varying relations OF supply and
demand may induce. It Is probable. too,
that prices may alter according to the
method Of settlement, and q liberal dis
count bo offered on cash transactions for
the complainant in the case alluded to has
not yet got his money, although the goods
were delivered, 1t Is claimed, according to
contract
Year: 1879

and the value of the property as appraised
by the company Whether the valua-
ton was excessive at the time of the
appraisement is OF little consequence now.
Property has immensely depreciated, and
the point of present interest to tho policy
holders is. whether the property could be
sold to-day for the amount Of the mortgage.
We furnish the means of enabling every
man to form his own judgment on this cardi-
nal point. lie need not 60 laboriously
through the whole list of tho mort
cages Of the company in which
he is insured. If a company has
been improvident in the half dozen in
stances which it may suit his convenience
to inquire into it is q safe inference that
it is not TO be trusted in any OF its invest
ments. man who feels that he is no
judge of particular piece of real estate
can obtain the opinions of neighbors as
to its value, or il he has no such
facilities for consultation no can easily
find, if the property is located in this city,
q guide to his judgment in the books of tho
Tax Commissioners, which are open to tho
inspection of oil citizens. We discharge
our duty in enabling policy holders to
test by their own inquiries the prudence
and fidelity OF the companies in which
they are insured.
Year: 1879

biblical Injunction of obedience to the law,
and. by vigorous assertion that not mere
faith but good works were the proof Of a
mans acceptance with God. showed plainly
that it had sufficient raison DEERE Now,
however, that all bodies of Christians
have absorbed this important phase of
religion. and added it to doctrinal belief
which has been cherished by the ablest and
wisest OF all generations, there seems to be
nothing moro which Unitarians are specially
gifted to accomplish. With a somewhat
majestic past, therefore, this denomination
cannot be said to have particularly hopeful
future. Its distinctively theological teach
ings have hardly been acceptable to the
majority of devout persons. They have
boen preached with singular ability and
eloquence. their advecates have been ac-
corded all possible Christian courtesy, but
still they have not been able to create such
demand as would warrant the expectation
that they will ever become vigorous ele-
ment in the religious life of this city. The
denomination is certainly to be praised for
its persistency and for its noble loyalty to
its flag; and the Church Of the Messiah will
begin its new epoch with the good wishes
of the community and with its admiration
for that sturdy determination which leads
somewhat forlorn hope
Year: 1879

BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATION OF police court
justice is elsewhere reported. Upon the COM
plant Of wifo that penniIess husband WAS
insane and annoying his family unfortunate
man is sent ON the Island for sixty days almost
before he could say word in his defence. If
the man was simply insane this treatment is a
disgrace to the administration OF the law.
Year: 1879

SENATOR JONES REPORT on the resolution of
Senator Sargent in regard to the protection Of
native wines contains % good deal Of intorma-
ton on the Subject Of tho adulterasion of that
article i'll France II Legislators and others will
look into the matter they may find that it has ID
good deal to do with the Temperance question.
Year: 1879

Afghan Ambassadors ut Turkestan.


In an interview between the HERALD COR
respondent at Tashkend and the chief Of
the Afghan Embassy which recently arrived
there, reported in the telegram from
Central Asia which we print to-day, will be
found statement Of the mission of the
representatives of the defnnct Ameer and
their opinions on the probable sequence
OF events in their country. They were sent
by their sovereign to solicit the advice of
Russia as to what course should be pursued
in view of the English invasion. Naturally
they do not say q word of appeals for assist
ance. They could help themselves if it
were determined after conference with
their powerful neighbor that it was wise to
do so.' That is the assumption behind all
that the Ambassador says. The attitude
taken is in this view one of politic indiffer-
ence to the worst that England may
do with the force she has. British
troops have been at Cabul before
this Afghanistan was none the worse
for it and the British army was. and the
Grand vizier seems to reason that that bit Of





that decision is taken as to whether the
A.ghans shall fight. With the Grand Vizier
thus sent in advance to request advice-to
study the lay of the land in a diplomatic
sense-and the Ameer to follow with his
elephant loads OF treasure, it is not diff
cult to comprehend the programme that
Shere Ali had in his minds eye of the way
he was to proceed in inducing Russia to
help him against the English invasion; for
he was not able to comprehend the differ
ence between the camp Of Russian COM
mander in Asia and the court Of an Asiatic
prince. His calculations would have been
at fault if he had reached the Russian lines,
but he has died on the way. It is the
opinion Of the Ambassador TINT Yakoob
Khan will recognize the mission as his own.
and will act as his father might have done
on what is said by the Russian; but tho
Czar will hardly take this for granted,
especially as Yakoob nny bs. as reported by
a later despatch, making advances toward
opening negotiations with the English.
Year: 1879

United Presbyterian: There
is Il good deal of quackery a
bout hart times. Times have
always been hard to him who
making ten dollars a month,
spends ten dollars and TWEEN


ty-five cents. People with
small incomes want to live
like those with large resour~
ces. BY no rule of arithme-
tic can this be done, and so
very soon the times grow fear
fully hard to them. People
want to make money fast !;
are not satisfied with small
gains; go into speculation
which can be measured by no
foot rule yet invented, andso
very soon the times grow
hard to them. Mon want to
eat without laboring for their
food; spend their time at
street corners; in Talnmany
or other halls working for
The good of their country. It
is no wonder times grow SO
hard and dlscordalI to such.
Year: 1879


Halls Journal of Health.
A bad cold, like measles or,
mumps, or ether similar ailrp
ment, will run its course I'M
about ten days, in spite Of
what may be done for it, m,
less remedial means are EN-.
ployed within forty-eight
hours after its Inception
Many a useful life may be
spared to be increasingly use
full, by cutting a coaa short
off, in the following safe and
simple manner: On The first
day of taking a cold there is
a very unpleasant sensation
Of chilliness. The moment,
you observe this, go to your
room and stay there; keep
it at snch a temperature as,
will entirely prevent this
chilly feeling, even if it re-
quires a hundred degrees of,
Fahrenheit. In addition, put
your feet in water, half leg
deep, as hot as You can bear
If, adding hotter water from
time to time for a quarter of
an hour, so that the water
shall be hotter when you
take your feet out than when
you put them in; then dry =
them thoroughly, and put
on warm thick wooden stock =
lngs, even ifis be summer,
for summer colds are the
most dangerous; and for "a
hours cat not an atom of food,
but drink as largely as you
desire of any kind of warm
teas, and at the end of that
time, if not sooner, the cold
will be- ellectually broken,
without any medicine whatev
er. Efficient as the above
measures are, not one in Il
thousand will attend to them,
led on as men are by the be-
lief that a cold will pass off
of itself. nevertheless this ar
ticle will now and then pass
under the eye of a wise man,
who does not choose the doub-
lie risk of taking physic and
dying too.
Year: 1879

Ribbons Of any description
should be washed in cold soap
suds and not rinsed.


Sieves to be cleaned props
crly should be put in hot wa
ter containing a little soda or
borax, but no soap; scrub them
well with a clean brush rinse
them thoroughly in plenty of
boiling water,and shake them
dry.


Simple remedies are fre-
quently the best for head
aches. A cup of sour milk
spread upon Il thin cloth and
applied to the head will ma
ny times give relief. Or, a
mustard plaster on the back
of the neck will often ease the
pain.


To remove Inlldew, soap
the linen previously wetted,
and apply salt and lemon
juice to both sides; or apply
finely powdered pipe-clay, or
fuller's earth, or finely pow~
dered chalk. Expose it for
several hours to the atmos-
pLere.


To cure a felon take pint
of common soft soap and stir
in air Stacked lime till it is of
the consistency of glazier's
putty. Make a leather thin
bic, Till it with this composi>
ton and insert tho finger
therein, and the cure is cer~
tain. This is II domestic ap>
p!ieation that every house
keeper can obtain promptly.
Clothing worn next to the
skin during the day should
never be worn to sleep in;-
change everything to get rid
of the products of the exhala-
ltions from the body, which
becomes lodged in the CLOTH
ling. When clothing has been
worn a long time, whether
worn next to the skin or not,
lit becomes loaded with ami
NAL matter. This is more apt
Year: 1879

The undersigned takes this thanks
to the people Of Yankton particularly and his many
friends throughout Dakota and Nebraska
DUDLEY & HAWLEY through the many years in which
that firm has carried business in this city, and he
desires to call the attention that Of
the people generay to the enlarged factes
sve assortment and commodious rooms which the
firm had provided and which Dudley
Hawley, possesses.
IN the trade in the manufacture
Tin Copper and Sheet Iron Ware es
tablishment equal in all anything north
tent.


In the future application business he hopes
the Hardware trade Of the region which naturally
to this point centered spare no
it for the interest Of the people within this REGION
chase their Hardware nwae Copper Sheet Iron
Stoves, and all other articles in this line from


/ Yours gratefully and respectfully,


GEO. e. HAWLEY,


Union Block, Third st.
Year: 1879

The north bound New York and
Washington express, which leaves this
city at 5:46 p m, met with considerable
delay on Monday night, and did not
reach Chester until 8 o'clock. There
were eight or ten parlor and sleeping
cars in the train, and the ice on the track
made 1t a difficult matter for the iron
horse to draw so heavy load. The
train left Wilmington on time, but came
to a standstill near Claymont station.
Some part of the machinery of the loco
motive became dsaranged, aud, like
balky horse, it refused to pull. Danger
signals were put out in front and rear,
and a trainman was dispatched on an
involuntary pedestrian tour Carrying
couple of lanterns above his head. The
sleet was beating down, and the condi-
tion of the track was not favorable for
this kind of exercise, but the man made
good time to Bellevue, and from there
despatched to Wilmington for an engine.
In the meantime some of the passengers
recalled the fact that terrible collision
occur ID very near to the spot on which
the train was standing, some years ago,
under circumstances almost precisely
similar, aud began to wish that the loco
motive would move on in the direction
of Philadelphia. However, when they
saw the colored signal lights halt mile
away, aud remembered that man was
running toward any train that might be
coming, northward, having a flag and
swinging lantern, they were reassured.
In fifty minutes an engine arrived from
Wilmington, and pushed the train to
Linwood. The disabled locomotive was
then switched off on to side track, and
the one from Wilmington went to the
front and pulled the train to Chester,
but at reduced rate of speed.
Year: 1879

It is stated that the Haviland Pottery
Company of Limoges, France, is now at
work upon q service of china for the
Executive Mansion at Washington. 1t
is entirely different from the sets mace
at this establishment for the terms OF
President Grant and also President Lin
coin, each course, from soup to dessert,
being of different shape and decorations
Year: 1879

Young man, beware of women who arc
not afraid Of mice. II is dangerous to risk
them. They arc either too good or too bad
FOR this world unl its washings. A woman
who can stand her ground unconccrnrtl
and mpcrturhcu at the advance of q
mouse, who can look upon the dun intruder
without the exercise Of Il lip or lid, with
out the lluttcr of heart or Il skirt, is not
the woman for ordinary wear and tear
She belongs to one of two forbidden trees
II to the first, she is too near cold pcrfcc-
ton, too much of II pulsclcss paragon "for
human natures daily food" Steer clear
OF her, young man; she will make your
life II perpetual Sunday, during which you
will bc doomed to the stocks Of stiff
shirt and climbing collars. You shull ever
rest beneath the shadow of her Sprouting
wings, and your sigh shall not be one of
regret If some day she plume them and
float away like Whit of stccly smoke in
to winter sky. If she belong to the other
class, she is woman formed of the dust
of pulvcrizcd granite and iron filings, into
which the breath of life WAS blown by a
sirocco, and who was tempered by being
set out on an iceberg and volcano by
turns. She it is who is fit for treason,
spolls, diplomacy, murder, bloomcrs and
boots, but not for you. If you would be
scalpcd, go directly to tho rcd man and
have it done III good order, but keep thco
away from Whitc-Squaw- not ot-Afraid .of-a
Niouse, Tor verify is she "yard wide and
all WOOL"


Turn away from these and come and
look upon the ideal womun-thc true ideal
of feminine bcauty--an ideal for which
PraXitilcs and Phydias sought in vain; m
ideal which all the philosophy of Plato and
his school could not create; an ideal which
never dawncd upon poet or painter in his
''drcam of far women; an ideal beside
which the OrO-faccd conceptions OF Raphael
arc lackadasical and lifelcss; an ideal
which all the world has looked and longcd
Tor, which all the world has had right under
its nose, and which all tho world has boon
too stupid to recognize when it saw 1t.
Look upon her if you WILL She stands in
chair in the middle Of the room her
eyes are rcsolutcly closed; her lips are
parted III half-supprcsscd shricks and hys-
tcrical laughter; her hands clutch her
skirts, which she frantlcaily llirte up and
down to ward off and frightcn the poor
little mouse, which has long since fled, ter
ror-strlckcn, away. Anon, you catch a
t3ntalizing glimpse of a pair Of dainty
slippers and ankles and the c0mical ripplcs
into which her face is broken, and the
shades of the lily and the rose, which shift
and Tilt after each other over it. add n charm
to the whole which ought to smitc as with
the rod the stonicst masculine hearts and
call forth the living fountains which some
where under the surface flow through them
all. Young man, this is not paragon or
an Amazon. This is woman. She is
your opportunity embrace it and be
blessed.