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Year: 1879

The ladies who embrace the commit.
tee appointed to arrange exhibits in
the ladies' department deserve great
credit for the manner in which they
have done their part.-"Daily Fair"


Brother Way can't you get us placed
on that committee or any other commit
tee that the ladies are appointed to en-
brace ,.a.e,,
Year: 1879

Yesterday morning couple Of boys
had little difficulty before school
hours at No. I school, when one of
them cut the other in the arm with a
pen.knifs, inflicting a wound from
which the blood flowed quite freely.
The cut was not serious one however,
and the only prosecution in the case
will be little cowhiding.
Year: 1879

Girls, do you hear thisl Many good
men are crying, "Can't afford to marry"
Whyl Expense of supporting a wife. Z"
Why supportaa wife, Might not wives
be made self-supporting, or partly so2
Isn't there something wrong in this
system which makes matrimony de-
pendent on a mans ability to pay all
the wife's expensesl Is it not filling
the land with old maids Has it not
done so for the last half century, Who
marry mostl What racel The people
who care nothing for keeping up style.
Tho foreign-born, whose women turn to
and tend the shop. The cultivated
American is not the marrying man. He
likes the goods on exhibition, but they're
too costly for ibis everyday wear.
Hence, oft they remain on the counter
until shop-worn. This is crying evil.
Our best men are not marrying. Be-
cause so many Of our girls are saying,
"You must take me for better, for
worse, to feed me, to clothe me, to warm
me to keep me clad in the fashion, to
give me house proportionate to my
style, to keep me in pin money, and l
will condescend to live with you, and
take your money, aud do nothing to
earn more, and to lament, if anything
goes wrong, that l didn't marry better,
and you must regard it as great favor
on my part" The man wants you
pretty badly, but it's too heavy a con-
trace. Things must be rearranged so
that you can carry more of your end Of
the log.
Year: 1879

If you are going to pant your house,
barn, wagon or machinery, the wonder
full Imperishable Mixed Paint is surely
the best, for it is warranted by their
agents in your own town not to chalk,
crack, peel or blister to cover better and
work easier than any other paint The Imper-
over all other paints, at the California State
Fair, 1878, and the Gold Medal at the Oregon
state Fair, 1878. Get u circular from their
Agent, which explains this wonderful discov-
cry. fry the paint and you certainly would
have no other,
Year: 1879

Our OF nearly 1000 pupils in the
public schools twelve girls and nine
boys have struggled to the front and
graduated from the high school with
scholastic honors. This is larger pro-
portion than ever graduated at any
former commencement, but the mum
Der is still not large enough for the
number in attendance at the public
schools. Taking these twenty one
graduates, the highest number that has
ever graduated at one time, and the
number of years that children usually
attend the public schools, being from
the age of six to eighteen, we have
twelve years of school life. Allowing
twenty-one pupils to graduate each Of
those twelve years, the total number
would only be 252 out of the 1000.
There are G749 who fall out of the
ranks from various causes in those
twelve years and only 2j2 reach the
goal OF their ambition. We say again
this number is too small. With oul
school advantages there should be a.
least fifty graduates every year and &
nundred would not be too large a pro
position.
Year: 1879

The crisis has fully comeswith the


Democrats in Congress. They are COM
pellet to insloriously back down from


the position they assumed at the open
ing Of the extra session, or they must


adjourn with their work unfinished,


only to be called together again by the


President, just at the time when the
members aud their families want to be
at the sea side resort and mountain


watering places. When the extra ses-


sion convened they were compact ag-
gressive and defiant, expecting an easy
victory over President who by his


desire to conciliate the south Had only


met with their contempt. They looked


upon the actions of the President as


lacking stability, wanting in character


and purpose, and judging from his


easy good natured Weddings in the


past they contemplated an easy victory


over him in the future. How eyre


& iously they have been mistaken the


record of the last three months show.


The power they thought they had


crushed to the earth and broken to


pieces upon the political wheel, arose


like giant refreshed with new wine
and conf ronted them at every step
they took, to subvert the government
and obliterate the guarantees of liber-
ty. Veto after veto has met the legis-
lation of the Confederate brigadiers,
and as result their party in
the north lies stranded and wrecked
from Maine to California. The Demo-
Gratis now find when it is too late that
they have mistaken the character
of the man with whom they had to deal.
Instead of the weak truculent politician
who at their beck withdrew the troops
from South Carolina and Louisiana,
turning those States over to Democratic
violence and outlawry, they find man
standing erect in his moral grandeur
with spinal column as stiff as the
Rocky Mountains, and without anger
or resentment bidding defiance to the
Of the power that would
if it could render the results of the late
war for the preservation of the Union
nullity. Finding their mistake the
Democracy in Congress have called a
halt when it is too late. Divided into
factions they know not what to do.
The Senate Democrats in caucus resolve
TO abandon what they have been con-
tending for, but those in the House are
still for maintaining stalwart front.
[rresolute, divided, defeated, they look
around to find some little loop-hole out
of which they can escape from their
present predicament, but none presents
itself. They would like to retire with
some little credit for honesty and con.
sistency but they cannot, all has been
sacrificed. The Democracy have been
divided and the Republicans united.
That iron -willed man who rules from
the White House did it all. The man
who was thought to have no back bone
at all, 1t is found has vertibra like an
iron column. Let the Democrats in
their mistake back down honestly, and
go home
Year: 1879

As a general thing people are fond o


flowers, and it is an indication of th'


growth of the finer sensibilities of hu


man nature to see an increase of flow


ers. Bat few years ago the sale o


pot flowers Was thing scarcely known
in Wilmington, but now at every street


crossing Of the curb stone market, is
found the flower stall. 1t has now be.
come almost as common to carry home
a pot or two of flowers or a bouquet foI
decoration purposes, as to carry home
the more substantial necessaries of life.
There seems to be nothing that chas es
away the gloom Of a household like a
vase of beautiful flowers. This love OF
flowers we are happy to say, is not con-
fined to the wealthy classes, but the
working man and his family now gen
orally have little odd change to spare
for floral decorations. Indeed there is
no knowing scarcely what load of
dull care and dependency the smiling
roses in their beauty chase away. If
any words of ours would do it we
would advise everybody to commence
the cultivation of flowers. The most
rudimentary love of them, if it is only
genuine, and pot of hyacinths or a
sprig of pansy is enough to commence
with. As we carefully water them, and
wait upon them day by day, sort of
strange sympathy with them grows up
within us, and withered or wounded
leaf before its time causes US pain.


Their innocent green natures become
a part of our own, and before we are
aware we have acquired almost uncon-
cious to ourselves something of their
cheerfulness and patient tenacity. The
work Of attending flowers is one of the
few almost unalloyed pleasures the
humble workingman can give himself.
OF course flowers are handsome to look
at and there is great pleasure expert
enced when the beautiful bouquet is
placed within our hands, but this is
nothing compared with the pleasure OF
raising flowers; to watch the gradual
unfolding Of their beauty, the develop.
ment of stamen and petal, and then to-
catch the first aroma of the delightful
odors which scent the atmosphere. The
pleasure lies in the fact that all this
was produced by the labors Of their
own hands. There is now in flower
raising just enough of a mixture of
manual with mental occupation to make
il relaxation from the busy pressing
cares Of life, and no matter if some of
the labor should require some physical
exertion, the pleasure arising there
from more than compelsates for little
bone labor, Were We to recommend
anything in botany conducive to health
and real contentment of mind it would
be the study OF and cultivation of flow
ers. Surely no person can be unkind
nor bad citizen who loves the beauti-
iul in nature,
Year: 1879

States supreme Court compelled to uphold this
procedure.


lnercial transactions OF this kind, preserves all
equities with notice and Furnishes fraud and III our
opinion. ought to become law


The following is the bill referred to:-


bill to facilitate the negotiation of bills Of ladI
and other commercial instruments ana To punh
fraud therein.


BE it enacted, &c. That whenever any party. in the
course of any commercial transaction between the
United States and any foreign nation. or between any
of the United States. shall deliver to any special or
carrier. by land water or both, or TO any
warehouseman or other custodian, any personal
property whatever and shall take therefor any bill
of ladipg shipping receipt warehouse receipt asree
it shall be stated that such property is deliver
able to the order OF any party whatever nam ed
therein the absolute title in full to and the right OF
possession of such instrument and to amy and
all OF such personal property mentioned therein.
shall be transferable by tho Endorsement OF the part
mentioned therein land subsequent indorsersl and
the delivery of such instrument; and upon such III
dorsenent and delivery such title and right OF pos
shall immediately vest i'll the transterec sub
ject only to any liens and conditions which may he
mentioned in said instrument: provided that any
such instrument shall that it is not negotiable
then this section shall apply TO itnor to the prop
erty mentioned therein; and provided further that
if the actual notice of other equities shall be received
by the transferee before settlement payment he
shall be bound by such notice.


SIC. 2---That this act shall be construed literally
for the purpose OF securing negotiabity to all the
instruments mentioned, and the transfer OF owner
ship of the goods. wares and merchandise or other
personal property mentioned in such Instruments


SEC 3--Tnat II any person shall knowingly make
issue. indorse transfer any instrument iptended
by this act. when the property mentioned therein is
not situated therein mentioned, such person, in
addition to any and all other penalties now pre-
scribed by law, shall be guilty Of misdemeanor and
punished according to law. No party dealing in
good faith with any such instrument shall be liable
indorser thereon after the same shall have been
transferred and accepted by the subsequent trans
feree


THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES DIFFICULTY.


General Eppa Hunton, of Virginia. whose indict-
ment on the ground Of, sending challenge to Mr..
Columbus Alexander in July last is now being con-
sidered by the Grand Jury, said tonight that he
would not be surprised il an indictment should be
found. He does not. however, anticipate any
trouble therefrom. 1t is rumored tonight that
Captain Sheppard, the principal witness in the case,
has left the civ
Year: 1879

The Crown Prince Rudolph got himself into mess
the other day in Prague lie wrote to young lady
who is singer in the theatre OF that town. request


ing her to call upon him to give few lessons In sing


ing. The lady has two brothers. who are officers
quarcred OF Prague. To them she handed the letter.
They at once called ON the Crown Prince and asked
for 'satisfaction." II hts position did not enable
him TO grant them this satisfaction they would they
said accept 10 from the aidede-camp OF his Imperial
Highncss. Finally it agreed that the Crown
Prince should tender apology, and tho a1alr ended
Year: 1879

When Time spares beauty he COM
pletes it.


Women do not read; they listen with
the eye.


Friendship between women is only a
suspension of hostilities.


A woman need not always recall her
age, but she should never forget it.


A woman listens to a play with her
mind, and judges it with her senses.


1t takes as much wit not to displease
a woman as it takes to please her.


Heaven gave women tongues to ask
questions with, and eyes to give an
swers with.


We are always anxious to know why
we are loved; they only care to know
how much we love them.


In church, women think that they re-
ceive because they observe, and that they
are meditating when they are only hold
ing their tongues.


1t is often more meritOrious act for
woman to allow something good to
be said of another woman than it would
be for her to say it herself.


The highest mark of esteem woman



ship, and the most signal proof of her
indifference is to offer him hers.


Women attain perfection in but two
departments of Observation-Disclosures and
memoirs. They only write well when
they imagine they are talking.


Those women are to be pitied who
pass their lives between the world and
the theater; poor souls who have only
fiction as a relief from falsehood.


She is to be pitied who thinks to find
friend other than her husband if she
be wife, than her children if she be a
mother, than God if she be neither.


The jealousies of friendship are in this
more exhausting than those of love-
there are only phantoms to fight, and
the price of peace is merely ehimera.


Women who would hesitate about
crying before husband or lover have
no scruples about shedding tears before
an audience. 1t is with their emotions
as with their shoulders-they are only
displayed in public.


Some conjugal fidelities can be ex
planned on the hypothesis that woman
is satisfied to be nothing in her hus
bands heart so that she is every thing
in his life.


A woman who takes a woman to hel
friend introduces her into her life a:
they do the bearer of a flag of truce in
to the enemy's camp-unarmed ani
blindfolded.


Man goes to the dogmas; woman il
satisfied with the sacraments. Her in
stinct apprehends what his reason i
slow to admit; that God allows himsel
/ to be approached more readily than t,
/ be understood-La Fie Pdristenne.
Year: 1879

a8tN THURSDAY Sept 2o-o +. NJ


There were all sorts of prices made upon to-day's
Stock Exchange-good bad and Indifferent. Early
in the morning they bad twhen prices went Off.
later ii the day they were good when prices
steadied) and latest of all they went up when the
bulls obtained sure hold OF the market and sent
things flying In plain English. the bulls Gf such
an anatomical impossiblity can be permitted still
hold their grip" upon the market, and from all ap-
pearances mean to do so. After midday values were
inclined to sag of aud lower prices in most Of the
leading stocks made. This was particularly
evident in the grangers and Pacific Mail. However
satisfactory the declaration Of q dividend might
prove to the st. Paul common stockholders
it failed to act as strengthening plaster
to the stock itself. The dividend having been
discounted las usually happens) the price of shares
went down instead of going up with any sense Of
speculative decency it should have done. Conse-
quently quotations for most of the day were reck-
oned by lower figures, and it not until the after
noon that they were made better. The Northwest !.
erns a companion granger followed suit. weaken
ing in the early part OF the day in neighborly way
with the st. Pauls and strengthening afterward. So
did Pacific Mail and did Erie and most of the stocks
upon the list. not because the grangers CHANGED to
lead the way. but because there dead set Of the
current upward which no opposition resjst-no
opposition except exceptional pinch in money





cur at any moment and may bring with it most
disastrous tumble in the pith balls of the market
and by sympathy decline in the very best security
of the list. In spite Of the steam which has been
worked into the market TO q superheated degree
there are but few operators that anticipated
plosion. Under any circumstances they are satisfied
that disturbance Of this nature would like 3
thunder shower only tend to clear the atmosphere,
and that there would be bright skies to come.
Nevertheless, were operator upon the bull
side. we should deem it prudent to carry an UNI
brella The doubtful feeling which perceptible
carly in the day gave way to confidence in the after
noon, and prices which were somewhat shaky in
the morning. stihened up into notable frmness in
the afternoon. glance at the list Of opening,
highest, lowest and closing prices printed below,
will afford view of the market in detail. 1t is
enough to say that the feature at the end unde
niably strong one and that like Photographic
portrait. it seems likely to be brought out in still
stronger relief under the light of easier money
market.


fo1lowfno fahla avtrayne N11c
Year: 1879

1t is rumored that the town of Kittery
is to be thrown out because as alleged two
notices of election, instead of three were
posted. The throwing out would change
the result in York county by throwing out
three Republicans and electing three
Democratic Senators A similar case is
reported in the city of Auburn, where it
is alleged the notice of election was posted
six days onig instead of seven. If this is
thrown out it will change the vote in An
droscoggin county. Similar changes on
alleged technical grounds will change the
figures in the State Senate and give the
Democrats and Greenbackers l9 Senators
and the Republicans IL The actual vote
as cast gives the Republicans 10 Senators
and all others Il
Year: 1879

No use of having the chills. no use of
headache, ,or any of the ills that come from
disordered or inactive liver One bot
tie of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn case-will
relieve the system and make you feel like
q new person. Try it and be satisfied.
Year: 1879

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and BIacking
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade OF
these goods is always standard aud their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
firm is one of the oldest in the country and
has the largest trade in it's line. diff
Year: 1879

The bill of mosquito is COM
plex institution. 1t is admirably
calculated to torment. The bill
has blunt fork at the head and is
apparently grooved. Working
through the groove and projecting
from the center of the angle of the
fork, is a lance of perfect form,
sbarpened with fine bevel. Be-
side it the most perfect lance looks
like hand-saw. On either side of
this lance two saws are arranged
with the points sharp and the teeth
well defined and keen. The backs
of these saws play against the
lance. When the mosquito alights
with Its peculiar hum, 1t thrusts
with its keen lance and then en-
larges the aperture with its two
saws, which play beside the lance
until the forked bill with the capil-
larry arrangement for pumping
blood can be inserted. The saving
process is what CRATES upon the
nerves Of the victim and causes
him to strike wildly at the saver.
The irritation of mosquito bite is
undoubtedly owing to these saws.
Year: 1879

A famous English General says
that in British regiment of 1000
men there are, in his experience,
usually fifty men, who, as a forlorn
hope, will do anything; that 900
men who would either cape or run,
will follow the fifty, and that the
other fifty are ours who would
cringe in a ditch if they could.
Year: 1879

A special dispatch from Louisville,
KY, says: Henry Watterson writes
thus Of the election in the Courier
Journal" "We may be sure that the
self-seeking and the laundering which
have brought about this needless dis
aster, and which, in too many cases,
may be supposed without injustice to
take secret delight in it, will not re-
solve themselves to any definite policy.
They will express themselves variously.


There will be booms and booms, as
they are called. We shall have a Bay
ard boom, We shall have Davis boom,
we shall have Field boom, we shall
have Hancock boom. There may even
be in small way Hendricks boom,
dividing its little time with Kelly
boom-in the West, Hendricks and
Kelly, in the East, Kelly and Hen
bricks. In short, each cock will crow
from his own particular dunghill, fill
ing the air with q clamor from whose
dissonance and din but single aocor-
dant note shall be heard, and that in
dispraise of the only man who
is guiltless of an act or word to DIS
tract his party, and known chiefly
through his sacrifices and beneflces.


To this complexion has 1t come at
last, and we are asked % abandon a
leader who gave US national victory,
and to follow the leaders who have
wantonly thrown that victory away
There are many good and true men in
the Democr attic party who are worthy
to wear the purple-notably, Senator
Bayard, Gen. Hancock and Mr.. Justice
Field; but there is not one OF then
who ever will or ever can reach th'
White House over the dead body of MIR
Tilian.n
Year: 1879

The blood of the people is up for the
Presidential campaign. The stupid
Bourbon Democracy have precipitated
b. excitement and given the old wal
tunes and ensigns fresh lease. Any
body who gets aboard the line-of- battle
ship that went into commission in 1851
will come out ahead for the people
know that ship the moment they see 1t,
whoever may be its officers, big or little
and whatever their capacity and OIL
re rers-"Boston Transcript"
Year: 1879

y Delegates voted against the bill and Senator'S and
Delegates for ii. Under the arportionuien in
the next General Assembly there will be 7 senators
and only IL Delegates. From best calculations it
appears there will be little change in the
.orial representation. There is fair chance that
there may be gain of Senator to the debt pay
ers. but il is safest to regard it unchanged Not
Il the House ~ Delegates. Last year there
q majority af against the settlement. This year
there is Likely to he equal division.
leaving the delegation TO stand to s.
This calculation is based on the assumption
that the republican vote Will be distributed
about as heretofore. II its leaders should
their known power to have it east for the debt
payers. the result will be favorable the Nc
Culloch bill than the estimate given above. The
peaers will make desperate effort to appropriate
this vote. Senator Fakerson who exercises more
influence General Malone than any other man
in the State in recent speech in reply to Dr. Curry.
that the readjusters would add the republi
can party to theirs and nash the advocates of the
McCulloch settlement.


If the calculation above made is correct and there
seems little doubt that it is substantially so.
1t will be that the movement for renewed agta
ton of the debt question has lost ground in this
part of the State. where readjustment has been
by far the strongcst-o wit. west OF the Blue Ridge
and south of James River. embracing eighteen coun-
ties, and having one-sixth of Senate and House OF
Delegates, each.