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Year: 1878

Anybody can make telephone useful
at distance of one hundred yards if he
follows the directions given by Professor
Barrett in recent lecture. The mate
rials needed are cheap and easily
obtained-two wooden tooth powder
boxes, two disks of timed sheet-iron,
two bar magnets, two small silk reels
and some iron wire. Gut hole about
the size of a half-dollar piece in the lid
and bottom of one Of the wooden boxes,
place one OF the disks of tin on the out
side. .of.the bottom of the box, and fix the
cover on the tin; on one end OF one Of
the bar magnets place the reel and wind
on the reel the iron wire, leaving the
ends loose; and, lastly, attach the other
end of the magnet as near as possible to
the disk, but take care that it does
not touch the disk. One end of the
telephone is now finished. Follow the
same directions in making the other
end. Connect both ends of the telephone
with the wire and the machine is COM
plete.
Year: 1878

A young man who would in this coun-
try probably be described rs druggists
clerk, but who is called in French
phraseology student in pharmacy, has
just been making a very sensational ex-
pertinent upon himself. He had been
dining not quite SO wisely as well at one
OF the restaurants of Paris, and had
afterward gone to call upon friend, in
whose drawing-ro room he was sitting when
he suddenly rose from his chair, and,
muttering some rather incoherent words
about finishing with life, swallowed
small packet which he took from his
pocket. The proceeding, which might
have been treated as merely harmless
pleasantly on the part of less learned
person, appeared to the entertainer of
the embryo apothecary very bad joke
indeed, and whole host of questions
showered upon the head of the youth
extracted from him at last the confession
that he had taken a violent poison. A
doctor was sent for, the usual remedies
were applied, after two hours the langer-
GUS pill reappeared. 1t proved to be
formidable packet, larger in size than
the largest almond, and SO carefully
packed and sealed that its long inter
ment in the stomach of the would-be
suicide had not done it any material
damage. 1t was amid some excitement
that the paper was oper.ed and the con-
tents discovered. They were found to
consist of strychnine, very few grains
of which, if they had escaped from the
envelope, would have caused the mans
certain death. The situation OF person
who knows that there is inside him q
packet, the contents OF which may at any
moment escape aud consign him to tor
lures and death, may be only fully COM
pared with that of man carrying a
loaded and primed shell. If thelattempt
at suicide was not bona fde, but was
planned with view to the result which
actually followed, the perpetrator of the
joke had certainly studied physiology to
some purpose.
Year: 1878

There is no person in the Democratic
party able to close the gates to those who
seek to enter its ranks, nor do we know
a single Democrat who would do so.-
Many sensible and valuable citizens who
are Republicans, have been Republi-
cans, but who are favorable to economy ol
voted at the late nomination election, ,and
the most of those gentlemen will vote
our whole ticket in November. We ex'
tend to all such the hand of universal fel
lowship-by changing their votes they
only show the glory and value of oul
Democratic Republican institutions-th'
chief of which is that revolutions arr
to be determined by the ballot and no
by the old heather system Of the javlir
and the bullet.
Year: 1878

THE FRIENDS of DR.. Swithen Chand-
Ter, in Mill Creek Hd., are urging him to
become a candidate for nomination for
the State Senate. They have not yet pre-
vailed upon him to do so, but it is pre-
sumed they will. The Doctor is very
competent man and would add strength
to the ticket, and dignity to the Senate
His name has several times been connect
ed with the Congressional nomination.
Year: 1878

If YOU WANT an estate "picked to
pieces" put it In the hands of lawyers.
This has become proverbial. Their scale of
prices is fixed only in one way, it goes
no lower than such point; but then as
to the upward tendency there is no legal
limit-it does not even rest on conscience
otherwise the proverb would have never
obtained credence.
Year: 1878

THE Smyrna Times, like the Republican
gathers rocks from the columns of the
GAZETTE TO throw at prominent Demo
Gratis. Well, as this was the only way
that these papers could be made to speak
favorably of some gentlemen, the GA
zErTE will take credit for this too
Year: 1878

Washington, March 11.-Ewing Of
fered joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the constitution. provi-
ding that in order that the people of the
United States may be furnished with
permanent and stable paper currency,
congress shall provide for issuing
million of dollars of United States notes,
not bearing interest, which shall be
legal for all debts, public and private,
except for such existing debts as are by
contract payable only in coin, and that
the number Of such notes shall be in
creased each year at a rate equal to the
average increase Of population, and
that the first issue Of said notes shall
be used, as far as necessary, in retiring
United States notes not bearing inter
est, now outstanding, and the remain
der in reducing the interest bearing
debt. 1t further provides, that no law
OF the United States, or of any state.
shall authorize the issuing of notes,
payable on demand, for the benefit of
any person or corporation, and that
congress shall provide for the with
drawing of all bank notes now out
standing.
Year: 1878

IN the Senate yesterday Mr.. Conk-
ling reported bill in aid of the Polar
expedition designed by James Gordon
Bennett, and gave notice that he would
seek an early opportunity to have it
considered,
Year: 1878

THE Cubans residing in New York
city and neighborhood have resolved to
send men and means to their faithful
compatriots who still struggle to win
the independence of their native island
Year: 1878

neighboring chapel bell. They inter
rupted their terrible work and began
to mediate upon the wickedness of
angry passions. "Then appeared upon
the scene an unexpected witness. 1t
was the clergyman of the aforesaid
chapel" whose counsels promptly
reconciled the two quondam friends,
and who, as it appears, has reconciled
many pairs Of duelists in the same
way. AS soon as the report of fire.
arms rings through the valley of death
the good man always sets his bell toll
ing and hurries to the scene. One is
tempted to think that this humane
practice is pretty well known at Nice
and some other places, and that the
pugnacious young blades who repair to
the Mortola Valley are not always so
nightly surprised to hear the sound
of the chapel bell and to see the "un-
expected witness " appear on the
scene. There must, however, very
often be an anxious period of suspense
while the first few shots are being ex-
changed, lest a too clumsy champion
should chance to hold his pistol
straight and shoot his adversary in
continently before the benefit Of
clergy is obtained.
Year: 1878

It has been suggested by some of
our citizens that it would be proper to
hold the proposed mass meeting of
citizens to take into consideration the
affairs of Memphis next Thursday
Thanksgiving Day. This is an excel
lent idea, proyidedit it does not interfere
with people attending services which
will be held that day at some of the
churches. Whatever day may be set
for the meeting it will no doubt be an
occasion of large and intelligent
gathering which will include men of
thought and brain who have given our
city affairs serious attention, and will
be able to submit their intelligent,
practical views.
Year: 1878

Memphis thinks of surrendering her
charter to get rid Of her debt-LColumbia
journal.


This is not correct statement,
though it has foundation in the fact
that Memphis is overburdened with
debt, and at the mercy of creditors,
who are ready to press our people to
the wall in a time Of great distress
The only reason presumably thatnum-
erous mandamuses have been served
upon the city authorities for three
months spastwas the presence of theyel-
low fever and the absence of a quorum
of the general council. Only day or
two ago one of the creditors of the
city applied to the judge of the Circuit
Court for a premptory mandamus to
enforce the levy of a special tax
for a large amount. We may as
well expect no mercy at the hands
of any of our creditors. Many
of the people, therefore, look to the
legislature for temporary relief. 1t is
thought by many citizens, including
good lawyers, that this can be accom-
plished by repeating the charter OF
modifying it so as to give us a breath
ing spell and time to do something to-
ward sewering and paving the city
The idea is not to repudiate any JUS
debt, but possibly to secure a compro
mise that would afford relief. This
matter will be discussed fully between
now and the meeting of the legislature
and we doubt not the members cleo
from this county will endeavor to as
certain the popular will, frame int
legal shape and present it upon tn,
organization of the general assembly
Year: 1878

1t is not always safe to set prisoner
to watch prisoner. A New Yorker,
confined in jail on the charge Of an as
sault with q deadly weapon, was in
structed to keep Q careful eye upon
his companion in tho cell lest he
should succeed in taking his own life
as he had twice attempted TO do, The
prisoner thus trusted found a sugges-
ton in this upon which he acted. He
killed himself,
Year: 1878

THE New York Tribune says: Post
master General Key has abandoned
the Old Line Wing and taken as a new
hobby Grant for third term. 1t will
be unfortunate for Grant if the cham
pionship is as fatal to him as it was to
the O. L. W. Mr.. Key says he went
clear out to the Pacific Coast, saw a
great many people, and saw scarcely
anybody who was not for Grant. He
is sure the general is very popular in
the West, and the Pacific Slope is
solid for him. Blaine has good deaI
of popularity in the West too, but
Grant is the first choice. Mr.. Key is
not so talkatiye about the second place
on the ticket, but he suspects the per.
sons who have been putting his name
there are doing it in a joke. 1t il
barely possible that they are.
Year: 1878

Determined that the Crown Jewel shall
maintain its enviahle position at the head
of Base Burners (and realizing that great
efforts would be made by our competitors to
equal the stove, at least in appearance) the
manufacturers have again remodeled'the ex-
terror of the stove for the Season of 1878,
and offer it to The Trade as The
Year: 1878

THE Shoe and Leather Reporter very
sensibly says: Commercial affairs are in a
state of transition and reconstruction. There
must necessarily be a reduction in the num-
ber of people engaged in the business of buy
ing and selling commodities, and a cores
ponding increase of producers by the loom
and the plow. 1t is only fair that those who
have been unsuccessful should "step down
and out" and take their places among the
surplus population who are to be transferred
to occupations in which there is abundant
room for all new comers. 1t is exceedingly
questionable whether it is either expedient or
in accordance with enlightened philanthropy
to hold out inducements to such persons to
renew their struggle to recruit their ex-
hausted fortunes in line of effort in which
they will encounter still harder competition
than that which proved too much for their
strength before it had been impaired by the
reverses which carried them down. At any
rate, ii is decidedly adverse to the interests of
those who have survived the crisis TO help to
perpetuate the odds against which they have
had to contend so bravely and so long by
multiplying the number of their rivals.
Year: 1878

The Canadians believe they will be called
upon to furnish contingent of 100000 men
in case of war between England and Russia,
and they are casting about to see how many
men they can get from this side the border.
They think to open recruiting offices all along
the frontier and expect to recruit large por-
ton of their contingent from our floating pop
ulation. Our tramps, they say, will make
good soldiers. They certainly seem to be
good for nothing else.
Year: 1878

THIS Democratic House will be famous, or
infamous rather, for its treatment of con-
tested election cases. Thus far it has in
creased its majority by six, and hasn't got
through yet. Three more Republicans are to
be turned out of their seats, all of them COL
ored men. These are Smalls, Rainey and
Cain and only in the first-named case Is
there any valid excuse for the contemplate
action
Year: 1878

We DO not read anonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
Dut as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

Thursday, the Eleventh day of ApriI,l 1878


AS A DAY OF


Public Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer,
to be observed by the people of this State in solemn
recognition of the obedience and worship due from
us to Almighty God, in humble acknowledgement of
cur transgressions of His laws and in earnest sup
plication for divine help and guidance.


Given at the Council Chamber, at Augusta, this
twenty-ffth day of March, in the year Of our Lerd
one Thousand eight hundred and seventy eight
and OF the Independence of the United States the
one hundred andsecond.
By the Governor.
s. j. CHADBoURNE, Secretary of State,
Year: 1878

Every club is invited to send delegateJ, and it is
earnestly hoped that large number will be present,
it is desired to make this one Of the most benef-
cent mass meetings ever held in the State and give
new impetus to the reform work in Brunswick.


The usual reduction on the railroads will be made.
Year: 1878

Judge Charles A. Tweed has served the people of Arizona faithfully, impartially. and efficiently for eight years upon the bench, and will carry with him into retire mcnt the regard and respect of the com munity,

 The Washington press teleram announ- cing the appointment of Judge Tweed's sue ccssor, contained statements which can do him no harm in Arizona, where he is known, but which are worthless, fiagrantly unjust and incorrect. He is the last man in the world who could ever be justly suspected of "immorality" or corruption" or of be- ing the instrument of any ring With one or two exceptions, occurring at long in tervals, and under peculiar and most excu- sable circumstances, his habits have been not only temperate but abstemeous, and we do not believe there are dozen men in Ari- zona who believe that he was ever guilty of a corrupt act, or ever knowingly perpetrated an injustice on the bench or of. The story of e respectable lawyer'' vouched for by respectable Californians" about his name being forged" to Judge Tweed's petition for re-appointment, is either unmitigated bosh, or else most discreditable trick. After considerable inquiry among the members of tho bar here, we have been un- able tp ind any one to own that he was the respectable lawyer'' referred to, and we do not believe anybodys name was forged ? as stated in the telegram.

 We have only words of courtesy and well come for Judge Silent, but it is only just to the outgoing Judge that he should receive this public expression of the regard and esteem of his neighbors and friends, and theIr assurance that they do not in anywise believe the islanders which seem to have been used to serve his defeat at Washing ton.
Year: 1878

~ AND ZZZ MARKET STREET.


WILMINGTON, DEL, May 81, 1873.


We are informed, on credible authori-
ty, that large number of people resid-
ing in this city purchase their DRY
GOODS in Philadelphia. We believe
the statement to be correct, for If the
$4,000 people who reside in and around
this city did their shopping at home all
the stores that are here now would do
about twice as much business, df that
were possible) and, as consequence, the
city would be more prosperous We beg
to assure the people who think they can
not buy their dry goods in Wilmington,
we mean the general run of dry goods,
1--WE except very fine goods that we think
they are mistaken. You can get just as
good goods, and can buy them Just as
cheap, and some goods you can buy
CHEAPER HERE
THAN IN PHILADELPHIA.


Since opening our store we have been
hononed with visit from several Gus
TONERS from Philadelphia, who have as





they were talking about) that we are
selling goods CHEAPER than they can
buy them in that city.


Save your time and railroad fares by
patronizing the stores in your own city,
where you will do just as well, and in
some kinds of goods little better.


Our store is large, well lighted and at
tractlve, and stocked with a large and
desirable stock of all kinds of staple and
fancy dry goods, which we will guarantee
to sell as low, if not lower, than any store
in Philadelphia. We have but one price
and sell for cash only, which, with our
small expenses, enables us to sell goods
for mere commission, which is doubt
less appreciated by the multitude of peo-
pie who deal with us.
Year: 1878

A MIsCREANT DRowNED.-One of the sur
vivors OF The Metropolis says he saw the line
east by the life-saving crew over the vessel be-
fore She was wreck by means of the mortar,
deliberately cut with knife by a man who
was afterwards drowned. This act was evil
IDENTITY done to prevent any one else from try
ing to get ashore on the line before himself.
Year: 1878

ALLEGED DISCRIMINATION IN FREIGHT
RATEs.-At a monthly meeting of the New
York importers and GrOcerS' Board of Trade
yesterday. the subject of discrimination in
freight between Boston and Baltimore versus
New York with the west was discussed, and a
committee appointed to act in conjunction
with committee of the chamber of commerce
to condemn the alleged discrimination against
New York. The Pennsylvania Senate yes
terday unanimously passed a resolution urg
ing Congress to pass an act to provide for
equality in rates of reight upon certain prop
erty carried wholly or in part by railroad in
commerce with foreign nations or among the
several states and territories, and to prevent
violent and injurious fluctuations and unjust
Determinations III such commerce.
Year: 1878

We stand around the grave. The day
seems different from any other day, and
the light not Of the same color-of a
saddcr color Now there is a solemn
hush, which we have brought from home
with what is resting in the mold and
while we stand ] hear n voice sounding
remote in the open air, and yet distinct
and p ain, saying: Z" am the resurrec-
ton and the life, saith the LordW The
hearer turns 70 the one, Of whom IL il
certain the Lord vii one day say We'll
done"


It is over, and the earth is filled in.
and we turn to come away. The house
remains 80 pretty and unchanged, 80
linked in tho mind with the idea OF what
is gone, that all our sorrow has been moth
ing 70 the sorrow 10 calls forth.


And this is yesterday event Other
events will float from us to the shore.
where all iorgOtten things will reappear.
but this stands like a high rock In the
ocean.
Year: 1878

do not dread an altered heart


OR that long line of land or sca


Should separate my love from me;
dread that drifting slow apart


All uurcsistcd, unrcstTaincd-


Which comes to some when they have gained


The dear cndeavor of their soul,
As two light skifis that sailed together,
Through days and nights oi tranquil weather,
Adown Some inland strcsm, might be
Drifting asundct, each from each,
when floating with the tide, they reach
The hoped Tor end, the promised eoRl,


The sudden glory of the sea.
Year: 1878

As the campaign progresses, the fact
presents itself more clearly that truths
which should always have been present in
the mind of every voter, have not been
recognized. and that financial education
Is needed for people whose boast has
hitherto been that they are the shrewdest
Of money makers. Instead of widespread
knowledge concerning q lestion which
vitality affects the nation, we find masses OF
men blindly following pretentious doctrines
whose fallacies have been exposed az lin
and again. The extent of this ignorance
Is revealed by the utterances of men reck-
oned among the souudest lawyers, of pol
iticans whose voices are potent in the ma
ti0nal councils, and of educated men
whose writings on ether subjects show
judgment and wisdom.


With all the leaders of this new finan-
cial school the attack upon national banks
Is popular. The radical wing recognize
the attack as an onward step in their
scheme OF fat money. The conservative
element favor the abolition of The bank
ing system for many reasons. They say
the system is monopoly and gives to the
rich too fine chance for making money
That il Is monopoly has been disproved
effectually by the citation of The statute
which made banking free. Nor is
the system beneficial to the rich alone.
Any one who cares to do so may Inspect
the records of the Comptroller OF the
currency. and he will fad that full
ly one-fourth Of the national bank stock
is owned by holders of ten shares and
under. Nor does the system afford un-
usual facilities for making money. The
vast majority of the banks which show a
handsome surplus earned that surplus dur
ing the ''fiash" times when bonds were
cheap and money dear. or late years the
earnings have been less and less; and es-
pecially is this the case with the profits OF
city banks, which are now SO small that
the question with these banks is not OF in.
creasing but Of decreasing their capital.
Abk tue Uduhs WHICH are lle IlCuest anu
whose managers are the shrewdest. and
they will tell you that as to money-making
facilities the old State bank system, with its
immunity from federal taxation, offered tar
more than the present banking system.
Under the present system, moreover, what
ever profits are made by the destruc-
tion OF notes while in circulation 90 to the
government. National banks are under
government inspection and cannot escape
taxation. The bank tax is the most easi-
ly collected of all taxes. To abolish the
present banking system is to lose a prolific
source of revenue. For though the pres
ent tax upon banks should be continued
the property of the State banks, which
would be established in place of national
banks. being out of the control OF the
general government, could not be made
to yield by any means as great a tax as
the banks now pay. As measure of
economy, therefore, this proposed abol-
ton of the national banks would be the
reverse of profitab
Year: 1878

and when il had cleared away the smoke
in the apartments the sight that met his
ewes was horrible in the extreme.


Mrs. Rafferty, lay prone on the floor,
her face distorted by the agonies OF
death, and her head cut, bruised and
battered in a shocking manner. But
this was not all. for il WAS next seen
that the woman had been burned almost
to a crisp. Her lower eXtremities were
charred so terribly that when she was
removed to the building in front pieces
OF the flesh actually dropped from the
bone. Strange 10 say, the woman WIS
not at that time dead, hut few minutes
after her removal she breathed her last.


The affair is involved in mystery. \
rough looking man was seen to leave
the house and run away, and it is sup
posed that the unfortunate woman was
the victim 0i a tramp, who first at
tempted to outrage her, but failing in
that, murdered her and then set fire to
the place.
Year: 1878

by any OF those who viewed the body
this morning. There were no papers
upon his person to identify him. 1t Is
believed that he was stranger in the
city, and, being in a respondent mood
from some cause, wandered out on the
suburban common and ended his troub-
les with the revolver The coroner's in
quest will doubtless throw some light on
the mysterious suicide.