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Year: 1874

Now that Congress has adjourned members
of that body have an opportunity to find out
what they have done and the effect of 1t. A
member of the Committee on Appropriations,
who has a constituent who is interested in
some claims for forage furnished during the
war, was moro surprised than delighted yes
Year: 1874

terday upon calling at the War Department
to find that the Appropriation bill he helped
perfect had not only stopped work on this
class of claims, but had caused the appropri-
alton from which they were to Do paid to be
covered into the Treasury. Possibly he
builded better than he knew.
Year: 1874

The gentlemen whose patriotic zeal led them
to make a midnight seizure of the property of
The NeW-O Orleans Bulletin some time since
were indicted Yesterday by Grand Jury for
highway robbery. 1t seems hard that the
statesmen who govern the State of Louisiana
80 wisely and so well cannot suppress an
obnoxious publication without being perse-
cuted In this way by Grand Juries.
Year: 1874

The first victim of the new law of Congress
by which leading statesmen propose to pro-
tect themselves from newspaper criticism is
Mr. Buell. of The Detroit Free Press, who, it
will be remembered, charged Senator Chandler
in a letter to The Free Press with being intOx-
icated in the Senate Chamber. A Grand Jury
of the District has found true bill against
Mr.. Buell., and though that gentleman is not
now within the jurisdiction of the Court, it is
understood that he will appear and answer to
{ the charge
Year: 1874

The quantity of coal accumulating at Port
johnson and Ehzabethport affords promise that
there will be an ample supply for the FALL
whatever contingencies may arise in the mining
regions. 1t is to be hoped that this abundance
will lead to lower prices, for local industries
need coal cheaper than it is Were there no
combination it is believed coal would now be
about 50 so instead of S. 10 per ton at the
neighbOring shipping points
Year: 1874

CARL SCHURz on "THE WOMAN QUEs-
TIoN."-In lecture in Chicago a few days
ago Carl Schurz said all branches of knowl.
edge should be open to women, and they
should be encouraged to be self-reiant in
their battle of life, not alone in teaching,
but in medicine, law, or whatever other
profession they might choose TO follow. In
one thing however, he could not agree with
the more advanced female thinkers of the
age and, at the risk of being considered
old fogy, he would say that he believed it
was not good for woman TO be alone. Her
natural destiny was to get married and be-
come mother. Any other destiny was
simply unnatural. 1t might be asked,
Would he have woman simply educated
for the purpose of being a household
drudge? Not at all. lie would have wo-
man. as he had said, well educated, to fit
her all the more for her duties as wife
and mother. One of the greatest curses
of modern society was the pernicious hab-
it of having married couples board at ho
tel or boarding house. 1t was the custom
which weakened marital and home ties,
because it removed mutual care, and left
the mother not a queen, but simply a
dweller in her own household. Every wife
ought TO be the queen OF her own house.
When the marriage institution declined
population, and consequently the nation,
declined. This was a law of nature. Girls
should be taught to be useful, for the more
useful a woman was the more ornamental
was she too. When Roman statesmen
;.l - ,1;
tron they said "She is at home spinning
| The lecturer next dwelt on the evils OF
American cooking, hot soda biscuits and
half-don pies. There were ten dyspeptics
in America for every one in England
France or Germany. This could be ascer-
tanned from any medical practitioner. Why
was this? Because our girls were, in the
higher circles of society at least, taught tC
look upon housekeeping as kind of deg
radiation. They were taught to do nothing
that was practical, unless TO go shopping
which was the most impractical thing they
could do. A common boast was, 81 hav,
no occasion to work" The pride of a true
woman ought to be to work, even wher
not compelled to do so. Some newspape
correspondent has recently expressed his
surprise at finding, on visiting Germany
the Princess Bismarck carrying bunch o
keys at her waist and attending TO the du
ties of her household. The German peo


pie respected that eminent lady more thar


if she wore the same weight of diamonds


Diamonds would only prove that her hus


band had money. The bunch of key


proved that his wife had both heart ant


head.
Year: 1874

honor that man whose ambition 1t is,
not TO win laurels in the state or the army,
not to be iurist or naturalist, not to be
a poet or a commander, but to be master
of living we'll, and to administer the offices
of master or servant, Of husband, father
and friend. But it requires as much
breadth of power for this as for those other
functions-as much, or more-and the rea-
son for the failure is the same. think the
vice of our housekeeping is that it does
not hold man sacred.-EmersOH,
Year: 1874

na- The tide ofimmigratiOn Is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
IL to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. ego
Year: 1874

THE New Court HoUsE.-A petition is in
circulation in this town, and has been exten-
sively signe l-almost unanimously the
Levy Court of this county to reconsider its re-
solution to erect new Court House in Dover,
and further praying them to make sale OF the
"burat hotel property" recently purchased
there as a sight for said Court House. The
reasons set forth in the petition are the heavy
expense to the county aud the Inconvenience OF
having the Court House SO far from the
county Offices 1t is aledged that for the sum
paid to the county by the State for its interest
in the State House, $4,000, good Court
House could have been tackled on to the
County Building" and such was the design
of the Legislature. The Levy Court ar'
further prayed to sell the site they have
bought, even at a sacrifice, and provide for
Court House by an extension of the Count,
Building. Similar petitions are, or will be
circulated throughout the county, We under
stand.
Year: 1874

REPEAL OF THE SALARY GRAB.-The U. 5.
House of Representatives last week passed the
salary repeal bill, which went through the
Senate the day previous. The vote in the
House stood go for repeal to &c against. By
the repeal of this bill the pay OF all officers Of
the Government except the President and the
Judges Of the Supreme Court is reduced to the
same figures it was before the last session. 1t
puts back the pay of Congressman to $4,000 a
year, instead of $500 The bill is salts
factory only in part, however 1t is objection
able iE that it yet prepetuates the mileage
abuse, and revives the newspaper and stationery
allowance for members of Congress- and does
not make the repeal date back to the fourth Of
last March, Hence the members secure pay
up to this time at the rate Of seven thousand
FIVE hundred dollars year by at once drawing
it before the President signs the bill, and IL
view of that they are not to have mileage fO
the present session. Members are said to b
rushing for their travelling expenses before tht
bill becomes law. 1t is suggested that il
view of the restoration of the mileage featur
hereafter it would be well to have that Gu
down to actual travelling expenses, otherwis
the apparent patriotism and economy of tn
members becomes all fudge.
Year: 1874

we think would relieve Smyrna quite as ettec,
tively as by diverting the Delaware Railroad
from its course, and for which we make no
charge. to wit: that the Delaware Railroad
Company should get control of the charter OF
Bay Shore Railroad and build that cOntem-
plated improvement on route extending from
Milford through Smyrna, connecting with the
trunk road at or near Clayton. This would
put upon the Delaware road most of the freight
of the neeks; with FredGr1ca' Magnolia, ~, ,
Lebanon, Little Greek Landing, Cowgirl S
Corner and Leipsic as established depots. The
Bay Shore route is an improvement that will
not be delayed many years, and it the Della
ware company do not take it in hand some
other one will.


AS to the motives that would cause the
curve to be made, the DelaWdredn may or may
not be correct; we think, however, the idea Is
given out to forestall any effort the Whartsnby
claimants may make to secure payment for the
railroad lands at Clayton. The whole sum anC
substance of the matter rests there. The
Company do not intend, as President Hinckl!


says, to pay for their property second time


and we think it entirely possible for them t.


reach their object without curving the road.
With reference to the Bay Shore Railroad


we would gladly see it and all other intarna
improvements established, but we cannot loo


upon it as one of the probabilities of the nea


future Our State is narrow, and not yer


thickly populated. The Delaware Railroad


therefore, running through the whole lengt


Of our territory, through the centre of i
pretty we'll covers the ground. TO bull
another road within our borders, parallel I
the Delaware road, would be merely "robbin
,, Peter to pay Paul." and the robbery of Il
one would hardly be sufficient payment
the other. There are railroads that Con
Vanderbilt describes as being built fro
nowhere to nowhere" and this might pro
one of those.
Year: 1874

ANOTHER DIFFICULTY OVER A CHILD =
About five years ago, cOlored woman who
near Mt. Pleasant, and who a: the time was
unmarried, gave her son, about one year old,
to family in this city, without children, to
raise. The mother of the child has since mar
ried, and now demands that her son be restored
to her. The claim is, of course, resisted, un.
less compensation be paid for the maintenance
of the child during the past FIVE years. and
there is likely to grow out of the case an appea
to the law. Already the mother OF the chile
has laid her case before one OF our Wilmington
Justices of the Peace, but no action has ye
been taken. The family into which the chill
was installed claim $500 for its maintenance
Commercial
Year: 1874

SAD CASE OF DRowNING-A lad of ii
years was drowned in Green's mill pond, near
Camden, on Saturday last. He was the son
of MIR. A. G. Wetzell, recently of New York
His father gave him pair of new skates on
Friday and on Saturday morning, with all the
exuberance of boyish delight, he went alone
to the pond to see if the ice would bear. In
about two hours afterwards his brother went
to join him and found his hat floating in an
aperature in the ice Drowning was at once
apprehended and search by the father and two
colored men lead to the recovery of the body
in short time The little fellow had been in
high anticipation of a days sport with a mum
Der of Camden associates, in accordance with a
previous arrangement. 1t IS supposed he fell
into an air hole.
Year: 1874

New YORK, July 22.-Theodore Til
ton says Of the publication Of his state
ment: 81 would not have had it pub
lished for one hundred thousand dollars.
Augustus Maverick, a friend Of mine,
helped me to copy the original, and made
a second copy Of It while l was before
the committee. He printed it out of
friendship to me. When l heard OF it l
went to my room in the AstOr house and
threw myself on my bed in despair" !"
Maverick is editor Of the Brooklyn pa
per in which the statement first ap-
peared, and received yesterday the fol-
lowing note.
Year: 1874

ny DEAR MAYERICK-FrOm no other per-
son save either yourself, or my cOpyist, OF
from the committees shorthand wiiter, or
from some member OF the committee, could
m, sworn statement bave gone into print.
these facts spread before the world. Tell
me- how could you have taken such a fear
ful dreadful, horrible responsibility with
out consulting me in advance2 There now
remains no possibility Of peace or silence
nothing but everlasting woe. Explain your
self You must DO II both 20 me ang TO the
: public. Yours IN grief,
Year: 1874

The ants esnec;aiiy are continually upon the prowl
and their bite is like spark of fire dropping upon
the skin. Altogether what with constant and severe
fighting by day. uncomfortable nights food unsnited
to the climate and no liquors excepting tea made
with bad water, do not think we shall have alto
gether pleasant time of it beyond the Prah.


Nov 15.-There has been general feeling OF nnea-
siness here owing to Sir Garnet Wolseley's having
had slight attack of fever Happily however, ho is
improving, and will it is hoped be able to resume
work in few days. Any serious illness upon the
part of the General would be grievous blow to the
expedition. He is at present upon the Simoom hos
ptal ship We have been having some heavy rains
here during the last few days. These are called the
little rains" They do not extend far into the
country, and, as q general rule appear to make the
atmosphere closer instead of clearer. This morning.
however, is an exception to this rule, for we
had heavy rain just before daylight ,!and there
is now a cool, pleasant breeze. In short time we
shall have cold, dry wind which comes over the
desert where it leaves its moisture behind it, but
picks up 80 large quantity Of fine dust that the air
here quito thick with it. The natives detest this
wind for it dries up and cracks their skin, and even
causes bleeding at the nose and is not infreQuenty
accompanied by fever. Europeans who have been
out here for some time also find it disagreeably
cold and bracing but to new comers from England





thev NAV consider themselves prOof against both
malarious fever and dysentery-the two scourges OF
the Coast


Nothing of interest has occurred during the last
three days. except that the King andiChief OF Cape
Coast have agreed with the authorities here that all
able bodied men are liable to service either as fight
ing men or laborers. They have accordingly drawn
up sort of decree to this effect which. although
not prehaps strictly legal document. Is justiii-
cation TO the military authorities in carrying out
steps which are doubt strong, but which are ab-
soutely necessary. The police were accordingly at
work all yesterday selling every abe-boded man
and taking him to the Castle, where, in the after
noon they were loaded and sent up country under an
escort. The town all day in uprOar the police
pushed their search into the down doors
and carried on exciting chases the roofs OF the
houses. Every man they came across was seized,
and mad to mako several trips to the Castle to
get my servants and hammock hands, who were
continually being captured. At last l obtained
official papers from the police officer, and although
this did not exempt them from being seized for few
of the police can read they released as soon as
they reached the Castle. The search continues to-
day. Sir Garnet Wolscley remains sick on board
Ship Commander Hewitt has arrived and assumed
the naval command. The Ashantees are still re-
tlr,Dg,
Year: 1874

Our SOCIAL LrFE.--Some people never make
acquaintances, but shut themselves up from
their kind as does an oyster in his shell while
others-and by far the happier-are never at
a loss for cheerful companionship. 1t Is not
hard to make acquaintances if we set about it
in the right way; but it is useless to hang back
and wait every door to be opened; we must
push them ourselves. Said o lady to us the
other day y never make / scauaintqHnees ntH"e IN IN
travelling wish could: Sald 1noiher; 10Th r. ,ha m
women who sweep the ferry boats, and to any
decent person who happens to sit by me in the
cars. | find every human heart IS human,
and that can learn something L didn't know
before from every new acquaintance, or com
municate information that may be valuable to
her." We are, most Of US, too apt to stand on
our dignity and wait for advance from others
to indulge captious disposition, and criticisC
where we would commend. The cultivation o
a genial, charitable, benevolent spirit will not no
iniure any Of US, and will certainly benefit The
community in which we live, and add constant!
10 the number Of our friends.
Year: 1874

A performance of educated feas is at the
nresent time attracting much attention at
Rerlin. At n recent exhibition, one Of the
most accomplished of the insects, obeying a
sudden impulse of its nature, sprang from the
table and took refuge on the person of an illus
trious lady. The exhibitor was in despair, as
the truant was his best performer, and said he
would be ruined unless it could be recovered.
The lady good naturedly retired to an adjoining
room, and, after few minutes absence, re;
turned with the flea between her thumb and
forefnger. The exhibitor took it eagerly, gave
one look at it. and then, with visible embar
rassment, said, Your HiGhness will pardon
me. but this is not the right flea.
Year: 1874

THE FARMERS POWER IN THE WEST 1t
is little curious that the very Farmers move
ment which aided the Democrats to overthrow
the Republican power in Wisconsin and Iowa,
should be called on to aid the Republicans to
overthrow the Democratic power in Missouri.
The fact seems to show not only that the far
mers are to be the governing regulator and
disciplinaran of parties in the West, but, what
is more significant, that either of the existing
parties is ready to 60 to pieces if, by doing SO,
it can secure the defeat Of the other
Year: 1874

A Surgeon, after a sanguinary battle, was
going his rounds, examining his patients He
came at length to a sergeant who had been
struck by bullet in the left breast, directly
over the region of the heart. The doctor, sur
prise at the narrow escape of the man, ex-
claimed, ''Why, my man, where in the name
of goodness could your heart have been?" 81
guess it must have been in my mouth just
then, doctor, replied the poor fellow, with
faint smile.
Year: 1874

Boston is we'll known for economy. We
have evidence in the following As proof of
careiulnlss on the part Of steamboat pToprie-
tor, it is stated that an antiquated steamboat
in New England always carries supply OF
wooden plugs with which to close up the holes
that frequently appear in her worn out boilers.
Year: 1874

A pious invalid went to church last Sabbath
for the first time for several months, did you
not enjoy the Sermon said the husband,
thankful to see her in his pew again. Enjoy
it, guess did, immensely, till | looked at
the lady in the front seat, and all at once | was
unhappy, for would you believe it, my back
hair WASH t up high enough.
Year: 1874

La Mothe was not great writer, but he un-
derstood human nature. Finding that his book
had slow sale, he procured Il prohibition
against the reading Of it, and every copy was
disposed Of
Year: 1874

Mr.. Childs, on taking the chair as President
OF the Convention, spoke as follows:


Fellow Citizens,-l never had until this mo-
ment an intimation of the action of your com
mittee in inviting me to preside over your de-
liberations. / have not words to express my
surprise, or my sense Of honor and gratitude
for this mark Of your esteem and confidence in
choosing me to preside over this, the largest in
numbers Of any Republican Convention ever
convened in the state OF Michigan. will not
take up much Of your precious time by making
extended remarks; but allow me to say that
believe with you that the glorious and impor-
tant mission of the Republican party is not vet
ended. / believe the same Providence which
called it into being has yet farther use for II /;
and may say, perhaps that there are greater
responsibilities TO meet than any II has preyi-
ously borne. [ nder the administration of that
party, questions vital to the very existence of
our Government have been settled forever.
The dark cloud of disunon, which lowered over
the horizon. has been banished from our polit-
ical skies, never again to return. The exist
ence Of the Union is settled and indissoluble.
Every great question which came ND has been
successfully settled by this party. In that glo-
rious past record, to which we point with pride.
Is read the demand for future continuance in
power OF the Republican party. And there are
questions now agitsting the public mind. of
vital Importance to us, upon which perhaps
parties are not settled and to no party can our
country 80 safely commit these unsettled ques-
tons as to the Republican party. In the no
Year: 1874

...i PHILADELPHIA, Dec "a, 1873.
i SELDOM, If ever, pick up newspaper without
Il seeing, among the first items that arrest my at
tention, the record of terrible boiler explosion
Very many causes assigned for this loss of life
and property. great deal is said 10 what should
be done and what should not be done. But scarce
y hear 1t said that these explosions are due
an accumulation of Scale in the Boiler and yet eight
out of ten instanc thai occur in our midst are un
donbtedly due to this cause. M Aa..f-1 Nl
Now, permit to say that manufacture Com
position that will readily and thoroughly this
incrustation; and while am constantly sending it
over the United States exact pay for its use
less it gives perfect satisfaction and fufls all he
claims make for it.
My preparation will remove Scale from any Boiler.
no matter how deen may be the ircrusat on, ami at
the same time it will prevent injury to the Boiler
from anything which may be held in solution by the
water contained N it, This article will absolutely
prevent the formation of Scale if timely introduced.
The powder which manufacture has been care
fully tested by some of the ablest chemists in the
countr, and its fitness to keep iron clean aud to
preserve 1t has been demonstrated by them in the
most satisfactory manner N.


# you will send for my circular with my terms and
full particulars. or give me call, think will be
able to convince the most sceptical that this compo-
stion will justify all cl i'm for it,


Very respectfully yours,


GEO. w. LORD.


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Year: 1874

'Beecher thinks piety is the best cure for
scolding wife. We don't know how that is,
but married friend around the corner says
he long ago satisfied himself that scolding
wife is the best cure for pety."
Year: 1874

John W. Hall, Esq whose nomination
for Governor was warmly advocated by
large number of the delegates in the con
vention, had he been nominated would
have made strong poll in this county
where he has always lived and is best
known.


Mr. Charles B. Lore, whose name was
prominently before the convention for
Representative in Congress, would also
have received the cordial support of the
Democrats of Kent.


The friends of these gentlemen will
doubtless feel disappointed that they were
not successful in securing their nominations,
but disappointment in politics, as in
everything else, is unavoidable, and is but
the experience of men in all parties. Let
all, however, forget disappointment and
eheerfully acquiesce in the behests of the
party, now that the convention has acted
-Deldicdrean