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Year: 1874

THE Charleston Courier, whose editor Is
always keenly alive to even the appearance
of wrong doing Of any kind, is naturally
much worked up in consequence Of the
admission Of HAaANs to a seat in Con.
gress as Representative of the Second
District. BE does not feel so bad over
the admission Of DAVIS, since DAVE beat
his competitor in a fair, square, stand up
fight, before the people, and received the
endorsement Of large, popular vote.


"Not so with Mr.. HAaANs. He ran In
three counties at one time, when nobody
in his District considered that his race
was anything but farce. Fifteen Of the
counties Of his District had no voice in
choosing him. Had their wishes been
consulted he would never have been
heard Of, even as pretender to Congress
sional honors Claiming and receiving his
seat upon the strength Of mere handful Of
votes, his admission is an outrage,
and his continuance in Office will be q
gross fraud upon the people Of the Second
Dlstrict-a fraud whose enormity Is only
equalled by those which were perpetrated
when registration laws and test oaths ex.
cluded intelligence from the ballot-box,
and sent boobies and adventures to speak
for people whose free votes would new.
er have made them eVerseers Of the.
roads"


Very well. Now let WALKER tell us
wherein the case Of Col. BEN. Wilson,
had he been admitted, would have differ.
ed very materially in the respect named
from that Of HAaANs. To be sure he was
a candidate in August and received a
very respectable vote at that election, but
in October the vote was mere corporals
guard, and not vastly greater than that Of
Mr.. HAeANs'. The fact that he proclaim.
cd himself candidate before the day o!
election in Octobera and that it was known
that the polls would be open on that day
for an election, while 1t differs in these
respects from the case Of HAeANs, yet 1t
does not do away with the meagre vote
that he received. The less, therefore, that
is said about the insufacency ofthe vote
the better. r ~
Year: 1874

The days Of Dick TuRPH and JouN
MRRRrIL are apparently upon us once
more. A st. Louis dispatch gives the
particulars Of the daring and successful
robbery Of train on the Iron Mountain
Railroad last Saturday evening and the
escape Of the robbers with considerable
amount Of booty This performance Is a
reproduction OF the affair that took
place several months ago on the
Rock Island & Pacific road, an
affair that astonished the whole country
by its novelty and audaclty. Aitef this,
however, the country will not be so much
aStonished, seeing that train can be
stopped and robbed in daylight Enter.
priSing banditti are liable now to spring
up all over the country. 1T would not
astonish US 70 read most any time that
some gay Fra Dlayolo had organized q
band in the mountains Of West Virginia
for such romantic feats.
Year: 1874

The Republican papers and speakers
are trying to hide from the people the
real question at issue between the par
ties in this State, and resort to various
expedients to accomplish their purpose.
But the people have as much sense as
the editors of small newspapers, and a
good deal more than petifogging lawyers
who imagine they can deceive somebody
by their Misrepresentation. Every ill.,
telligent man in Delaware understands
that the continued success Of the Demo-
cratic party means the control of State
affairs by white men-and that the sue
cess of the Republican party means that
the management of all the interests of
the State will be in the hands of men
who will be compelled to act in defer
ence to the wishes Of the colored men,
bers of the party. If DIR. Jump is elect
ed by negro votes, will he not defer to
the wishes of the men to whom he would
owe his election? If the Radicals should
have majority in the Legislature would
they not enact laws to crafty the de-
mands of their colored constituents?
Would they not abolish distinctions be-
tween white men and negroes so far as
they could? Why the negroes, who con-
stitute majority of the party, in many
localities, would make them do so. The
negroes are their political masters, and
their white Radical allies would not dare
to disregard their wishes. DIR. Jump
would be compelled to give some of them
office. The Radical Legislature would
have to legislate in accordance to their
behcsts and n Radical Levy Court would
have to appoint some of them collectors,
overscers of the poor, overseers of the
roads, constables, &C., &c. The people
of Delaware understand all this and will
guard against it by electing the Demo-
cratic ticket.


Let DIR. Jump come out and say over
his own signature that he will appoint
no negro to Office. He dare not do it
Let any of the Republican candidates
come out over their own signature and
say that they will oppose by voice and
vote any and all measures which look
to making negroes partners in the man.
agement of State affairs with white men.
All. they dare not say so publicly. how
eyer TREY may privately promise their
friends opposed to such things that they
will not. The people however krow that
Democratic rule means white supremacy
in Delaware, and that Radical rule means
partnership in the management of State
affairs with negroes. ''There's no use
talking" The Democratic party is the
white mans party, and the Radical par
ty Id "a heterogeneous conglomeratlon"
Of few white men and all the negroes
of the State. Young men Of Delaware,
look at each picture and then make your
choice.
Year: 1874

1t appears that the city can no longer snap its
fingers at those who hold bills against 1t, Re
Gently the water ren,s that are payable on the lst
of January in each year have been attached in
the hands OF several gentlemen 10 their utter as
tonisLment. Not knowing what to do some of
them applied at the Water Department. Here
they were told that they did not owe the city, as
the water rents were paid in advance and if they
did snswer" and refuse 10 pay the wafer rent they
would incur the risk of having the water shut of
and NIGH, also be subjeced 10 an addition of five
per cent to the bill. The consequence was that
the gentlemen in whose hands the money was at
iached did not know what to do; some were Re
publicans and others were Democrats. Finally
suring the parties to the suits that the bills would
be paid ou Friday or Saturday, or as soon as the
Council met to act on the matter. But will the
matter stop here If water tax can be attached,
why not the property tax Here rs a trouble
ahead The city has floating debt of fifty or
sixty thousand dollars and will have to pay its
small bills or be put into costs in many cases
where people get impatta.t. Never has the city
been SO lew before. Noiwithstanding the Coun-
ell expended over 5000 600 last year it is in debt
enormously and cannot find money enough TO
pay as fast rs the necessary work IS done BY Its
employees. This is deeply regretted by every
citizen ana taxpayer WHO feels deep interest in
the city
Year: 1874

As one CT the iollies OF past era,this unsightly
fabric still stands as warning against the cree
tion of Improvements before they are needed and
where they will not be used,


This building, like The City Hospital, had It's
persistent advocates among gentlemen of expert
ence and g,eat influence. And like the City
Hospital, it was found entirely unnecessary AID
was suffered to be idle until some one wouli go inio
1t TO take care Oft.


Many Of our older residents remember how long
AMI how srduously eN-Alierman Vincent, labored
in The editorial columns of the " Blue Hens
Chicken TO get an ordinance through the City
Council 10 authorize the erection of the Twelfth
Street Market House but there are doubtless
very many cit sus who beng uninformed on the
subject, often wonder why this market house is not
used, and why it was abandoned.


The cause IL in the fact that this market house
was never required it was built before its time,
ani never was used except b, butcher now and
then and Tor about twenty years, We believe,
was entirely vacant, or occupied by enc of the
brandywine eoopera as a place to store his
barIels.


We believe 1t .ost about s20,UO1, and The money
inichi almost u We'll have been cast into the
Delaware. Ii IS really sstonis hing how we'll the
old market house has worn. Had 1t blown down
i've year, after as erection those who earnestly
lsbored u have il ere cted, would have been glad
VI tit " as to them greater cye-sore than TO
any portion Of our people. They saw in At a con-
slant reminder of the fact that the money was
wasted, and that il might have done great good
had it been spent in other needed improvements


Bat something as demanded for that section
OF the city, and 10 satisfy the clamor of several
politicians who thought their election 10 the
Council depended upon it, the mistake of erect
lug the Twelfth Street Market thirty years before
It was needed occurred. II is fast going to decay
now. and We doubt whether it will be repair
ed OF rebuilt. The wives and families of the very
persons that clamored for the erection OF thi:
house would not stop at 1t TO purchase their mar
keting, and country farmers would not 20 nearer
than 10 drive past it on Market or King street
nor could huxter be got TO remain in it long
enough 10 make business. The reasons they
assigned were the best in the word-the people
would not stop at II on come 10 it 10 buy, anc
they had to 60 where they could sell their stock


We hope the Council will have more success
with the CITY Hospital" that they may finall,
get somebody or some society to take it off thei
But its purchase was unnecessary and an evidenc,
of the utter want OF wisdom about such matters
Aud the best thing that the city could do woulC
be to saddle the loss at once and dispose Of tn
building for what 1t cost when purchased. 9th
erwise it will prove lar more costly afflir thai
the old Twelfth Street Market House.
Year: 1874

CHANGE OF POSTAL SERvICE.-The mail route
the Wilmington 4 Reading Railroad has hereto
fore extended only to Blrdsboro, from which point
the mail was conveyed to Reading over the Phil
adelphia & Reading Railroad. since the extension
Of the Wilmington Il Reading Railroad into Read
log, a change has been ordered by the Post Office
Deps.tment TO the effect that the mail route shall
extend over the entire length of the latter road
The change win 90 into efe ct about the first oi
next week.
Year: 1874

Last Sunday night during the sermon
in our church the gas suddenly went out
and there was complete darkness. The
minister requested the congregation to
remain perfectly quiet until the cause Of
trouble could be ascertained and other
lights procured. Old Mrs. Smiley, it
appears, was sound asleep when the ac-
cident occurred, but just after the clergy
man had finished speaking to the congrc'
CATION she awoke. At first she thought
she had become blind, but as she sat by
the window she Immediately saw the
light in the street and then she knew that
the congregation had gone home and that
she had accidentally been locked in by
the sexton. Dreadfully frightened at the
loneliness and the horror of her situation
she picked up by mn book and dashing
il through pane OF glass in the window
she put her head out aud began to scream
for help. Her shrek impressed passers
by with the idea that the church was on
fire, aud in an instant the alaim was
given, A moment later the engines ar.
rived and just as the sexton began to
light the gas again one gang OF tiremen
began playing through the window on
Mrs. smiey's spring bonnet, while an
other gang poured three inch stream
up the middle aisle with such force as to
wash Rev. DIR. Hopkins, the minister,
out of the pulpit and down among the
high hats which were floating around by
the pew doors Eventually the matter
was explained, and the fire department
shut off the water and went home. But
the deaeons want to know how, If Mr..
Smiley refuses to pay the bill for repairs
to the church, he can ever look fellow
worshipper in the face again.
Year: 1874




Present appearances indicate that the
Congressional Convention tomorrow will
be well attended. Wood county and also
Harrison have appointed large delegA-
tlons. Very decided interest Is fell
throughou. tho District In the result ol
the Convention: There Is q widespread
belief that its delegates can name the man
who will be the next Congressman from
this District Were this feeling not pretty
general there would NOT be so much com.
petition for the nomination. Asplrants for
Congressional honors are not generally
4nbitiousior an empty nomination. When
they enter the lists they ieel that there Ia OF
least Q chance for success. And this Is the
way that several gentlemen arc supposed
to feel in regard 10 to.morrow's nomina.
tiOn. They count upon u certain amount
OF help from the Independent Democrats
OF the District. 1t Is altogether impoasi.
BILE to tell how much this help will amount
to. There are Democrats who do not
conceal the fact that they do not
expect to support the Ellenboro nominee,
and there are others who are more
cautious about expressing themselves ct
present. Between the two 1t Is believed
that In the aggregate considerable mum.
ber Of Democratic votes throughout the
District will be cast for the Opera House
nominee, provided he Is man who com.
mAnds:generalrrespect for character and
abilities. 1t Is well understood that
COL Wilson's nomination aw9kens no
enthusiasm among the Democracy. This
end Of the District did not want him
nominated. Speeches were made in the
Ellenboro Convention protesting agsinst
the nomination as weak one. The nom.
inaIlou is as weak to-day as 1t was then.
1t does notimprove with discussion. Itcan
be made still weaker by discussion, and
this fact Is well understood. Hence the
feeling that the nominee tomorrow may
be tho next Congressman.
Year: 1874

Mark Twain made speech on acci-
dent insurance, i'll which he said :
"Ever since I have been a director in
an accident insurance company [ have
felt that am better man. Life has
seemed more precious. Accidents have
assumed kindlier aspect. Distressing
special providences have lost half their
horror. I look upon q cripple, now,
with affectionate interest-as an adver-
tisement. I do not seem to care for
poetry any more. I do not care for
politics, even agriculture does not ex-
cite me. But to me, now, there is a
charm about railway collision that is
unspeakable. There is nothing more
benefcent than accident insurance. I
have seen an entire family lifted out of
poverty and into afiuence by the SIM
pie boon of broken leg. I have had
people come to me on crutches, with
tears in their eyes, to bless this bene-
fcert institution. In all my expert
ente of life I have seen nothing SO
seraphic as the look that comes into a
freshly-mutilated mans face when he
feels in his vest pocket with his re-
naming hand and finds his accident
ticket all right. And I have seen moth
ing so sad as the look that came into
another splintered customers face when
he found he couldn't collect on wooden
leg. I will remark here, by way of an
advertisement, that that noble charity
is ait institution which is peculiarly to
be depended upon. A man is bound to
prosper who gives it his custom. No
man can take out a policy in it and not
get crippled before the year is out.
Now there was one INDECENT man who
had been disappointed SO often with
other companies that he had grown
disheartened, his appetite left him, he
ceased to smile-said life was but a
wearinass Thrna waArs osa T got hina
to insure with us, and now he is tn


brightest, happiest spirit in this land
has good steady income and stylish
suit of new bandages every day, and
travels around on shutter"
Year: 1874

The terrible scourge of leprosy has
prevailed for eighty or ninety years in
the village of Tracodie, near the mouth
of the Miramichi river, Canada. What
will strike refined people as being un-
natural, if not criminal, is the fact that
the residents do not consider the plague
contagious, or believe that it should
offer any barrier against marriage. No
hesitation is manifested by well per-
son to live with leper, and it is claim
ed that no one engaged about the
Government hospital has ever contract
ed the disease. A very distressing fact
is admitted, however that the taint
manifests itself in every alternate gen.
GRAFTON. Instead of enforcing hygienic
laws to prevent its spread, the au-
therities take no pains to prevent its
increase by marriage.
Year: 1874

somebody extra, dsaling yith the
powers that should not be.


Here is the explanation, as shortly as
can put it to non mining readers. The
mine had two shafts, as is ususl-the
downcast, by which fresh air was sup
piled to the working the upcsst, up
which the foul air escaped. The down
cast vas the ordinary working shaft
but the rpcast was furnished with
winding engine and travelling cage for
occasional use. Now, when this cage
was used, its passage downward would
naturally check the ascending volume
of foul air, and would for the moment
press it back down the shaft, and con-
sequently would, to some degres, drive
back the air which was in the erdinary
way rushing along the air-roads Now.
returning for moment to our Old friend
the air-door, we shall see The effect of
this.


We remember that the balance of air.
pressure was against thedpor on the
side on which it opened-ihe handle
side but when the cage descended the
upcast, it would reverse fora moment
the natural direction of the ar. currents,
and then the balance of dr-pressure
would be on the side of the door oppo-
site to the handle, and would opsn it.
When the cage stopped at the bottom
of the upcast, the natura order of
things would gradually restore itself,
and the door would gradually close,
The opening of the door would, of
course, be repeated each time the cage
descended the upcast. It's recurrence,
three times, at particular time each
day, was explained by the fact that a
set of men, just numerous enough to
fill the cage three times, were then work
ing near the upcast, and we're lowered
to their work at that Particular time
each day. They were also drawn up and
down at other periods of the day, and
the air-door would have been seen
opening and shutting at those times
also, had there been any one there to
observe it. Happening to be at the up
cast when these men were descending,
I was struck by the coincidence of the
time, and of the number of descents
of the cage, with the circumstances of
the door opening, and this led me to
unravel the mystery.


When I explained it to Jenny, the
poor fellow seemed to get rid of night
mare his parchment face became
lustrous with relief. The other men,
who had been quite as much "struck
of heap" as Jenny, mathematical
themselves for not having seen it be-
fore, declared Jenny to be fool, and
did not cease to joke him for long
time about his "opening door," But
he took it all very good-humoredly.
He was, I have no doubt, as rejoiced to
get that incubus off his mind as Sind
bad was to get rid of the old man of the
sea and I was not sorry myself
Year: 1874

A gentleman was walking with his
little boy at the close of the day, and
in passing the cottage of German la
borer the boys attention was attracted
to the dog. It was not high-bred
dog, but common cur. Still, the boy
took a fancy to him, and wanted his
father to buy him. Just then the owner
of the dog came home from his labors
and was met by the dog with every de-
monstration of dog JOY. The gentle
man said to the owner "My little
boy has taken a fancy to your dog and
I will buy him. What do you ask for
himP" 81 can't sell dat dog T. said
the German. "Look here" said the
gentleman, "that is poor dog any
way, but as my boy wants him will
give you five.dollars for him. " Yaas, "
says the German, CT knows he Is a
very poor dog, and he amt wort al
most nottin, but dere ish Won leetle
ding nit dat dog vot can't sell. l
can't sell the vag of his tail ven l
comes home at night"
Year: 1874

A NEW CURE.-A while ago it waa
announced that the poison of vipers was
cure for hydrophobia, and case cited
to prove the statement. That one
poison may counteract another in the
human system is illustrated by would
be suicide in Indiana who swallowed
nearly fifty grains of opium. Being at
the point of death, as a last resort two
thirds of dram of nux vomica, dis
solved in water, was injected under the
skin over various parts of the body.
The quantity of poison administered
was sufficient to kill we'll man, but in
this case its antagonism to opium made
it an agent of life, for in twenty
minutes the man was sitting up in bed,
conscious and rapidly recovering.
Year: 1874

ECONOMY. - The most economical
governor is the Governor of Wisconsin.
The Chief Justice of that Common
wealth rendered decision some weeks
ago, in the railroad cases, which was
thought the most important decision
that was ever rendered in that State.
But the Governor sent message to
the Chief Justice requesting him to cut
down his opinion to about one-third or
one-half its present length, because IT
will cost too much to print it.
Year: 1874

Father Francis to the erring woman,
"but the fault was yours" That this
fault was Mrs. Tilten's she admits in her
remarkable letter; that the graver sin
was Mr.. Beecher's seems the deduction
of his statement which we print this
morning. That there was no crime is
now plain enough. The Brooklyn story
is the story of Catherine Gaunt over
again, only the Plymouth pastor was no
silly ecclesiastic, as the novelist calls
the other, and it was hardly priestly in
him to take pleasure in the paternal
affection" which is now the gravamen OF
the charge against him. This, we are
inclined to think, is the whole story
which Mr.. Tilton's heated Imagination
has distorted into terrible crime, and
the lesson to be learned from it is in that
deduction which stands out with such
startling prominence in Mrs, Tilton's s
letter-a virtuous woman should check
instantly an absorbing love,
Year: 1874

An Irish glazier was putting pane Of
glass into a window when a groom who
was standing by began joking him, tell
ing him to mind and put in plenty Of
putty. The Irishman bore the banter
for some time, but at last silenced his
tormentor with: Arrah, now, be off
wild ye. or I'll put pain in your head
without any putty.
Year: 1874

lar enough about things, and he saw
but little difference as far as the stigma
was concerned, between going to the
penitentiary and lying in q county jail
pending the hearing Of an appeal.
Year: 1874

General Heiskell hoped that
some measure looking to the working
out Of costs by convicted felons, after
being sent to the penitentiary, would be
considered, and suggested that THESE
costa be worked out by the conVlel he
fore his term Of sentence begins. A8 Z
Year: 1874

REMOVAL OF CARRoNIC ACID FROM WELLS AND
CELLARs.-Recently ignted charcoal absorbs about
35 times its volume of carbonc acid in q hours. A
pan Of glowing charcoal therefore, lowered into a
we'll or cellar containing carbonic acid soon ceases
to glow and begins Immediately to absorb the gas.
By testing the air from time to time by lowering a
lighted taper into it, aud renewing the coal from
hour to hour as long as necessary all the carbonic
acid may be rapidly removed.
Year: 1874

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and those desiring purchase or rent such property
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Union The advertisement should be as brief as VIII
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reader We would especially dwell on the fact that the
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semi-weeIy and Weekly, comprise ndiyidu lis IN every
business profession consequently each
are read by all classes The TRIBUNE deyotcs especial
attention to reports ses Of real estate both in city
and country thus adding greatly to the value OF Its col
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