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Year: 1879

No legacy as rich as honesty.


The greatest prayer is patience.


One has only to die to be praised.


1t is easier to blame than to do better
Would you be strong conquer yourself.
There is no good in preaching to the
hungry.


A man used to vlcissitude is not easily
detected.


One smile for the living is worth
dozen tears for the dead.


The best thing in the world is to be
able to live above the world.


Charity gives itself rich, but covetOus-
ness boards itself poor.


Everybody knows good counsel except
him that hath need of it.


Life is comedy to him who thinks,
and a tragedy to him who feels.


He who can take advise is sometimes
superior to him who can give it.


Divine vengeance comes with feet of
lead, but strikes with hand of iron.


All things are admired. either because
they are new or because they are not
great.


A man, when he rises in the morning,
little knows what he may do before night.


Human life is everywhere state in
which much is to be endured and little
to be enjoyed.


little less money and little more
good character would improve hosts Of
people vastly.


Our best intentions, even when they
have been most prudently formed. fail
often in their issue.


Far happier are they who always know
what they will do.
Year: 1879

If Vermont expects to attract summer
sojourners from the cities. her people
must look to sanitary matters more than
hitherto, for every case like that at New
ark calls fresh notice to the fact that
little attention is paid to drainage by
most farmers and many villagers. There
ought not to be sink slop hole near the
door, and above all things no sink spout
or pipe should extend into the house
without being trapped against gas. A
great many people don't know what a
drain trap is. 1t consists of a piece of
pipe, like the letter S in horizontal
position, thus, % connected at each end
with the drain pipe. The depressed
portion will always remain filled with
water, and that is generally an efectual
bar against the gas. But if the drain
connects with regular sewer, or if
water closets are used, every trap should
have a ventilating pipe, as large as it
self. running up through the roof. And
even after all this care has been taken,
sinks and closets should be kept clean.


The Boston Transcript, moved by the
Newark case, remarks thus -


Care about such vital matters is not
one of the things in which the country
is superior to the town. Cases must be
familiar in every ones experience where
the summer removal for the health of
family has only brought death into it
with the typhoid fever or diphtheria or
other form of blood poisoning from sew :
age and its exhalations. The pump and
the sink are too generally on fatal terms
of familiarity in old farm houses and
even in summer resort cottages.
Year: 1879

The most curious fallacy of this kind
is that so common by which people are
convinced that the schools were 50 much
better, when they were boys than they
are now for their grandchildren. The
man of sixty-fve or seventy years old
compares his knowledge with that of his
grandchildren and lays their deficiency
in the comparison to the inferiority of
the schools of the present day. He
leaves out of the account the vast amount
Of education he has acquired since he
left school. He forgets that he has
learned hundred times the geography
he acquired in the school room by since
engaging in trade and daily reading the
foreign news and looking up the places
where ships have sailed or wars have
occurred, on the map. The late war
between Russia and Turkey has probably
been greater educator of the geography
of the Turkish empire than all schools
which were ever established. The elder
ly man forgets that his business has
taught him arithmetic, and the keeping
accounts thousand fold what he learned
from the old fogy from whom he received
few weeks schooling and he wonders
that the boy in the lower class in the
grammar school of to-day, cannot make
the calculations on partial payments on
an old note which has been running for
ten years. The very best specimens of
old time penmanship are preserved and
compared with the worst of to-day, and
complaint is made that children are not
taught the elements, reading, writing
and spelling as they were formerly. We
have often published communications
from an old gentleman on this subject.
the spelling of which was corrected by
young women compositors whose whole
schooling was what is given by our
grammar schools. He believes that he
was better taught in the rudiments, but
they know better.


The old-time school master hereabouts,
was generally some broken down ship
master, or some superannuated person
who was given the position that he might
do something in return for his support
and not come wholly upon the town, and
so he was given the school instead of the
poor house. The school dame was even
less qualified than the superanuated ship
master. An old gentleman who was
always of an inquiring mind tells us an
anecdote of the school dame whose school
he attended. He had learned his letters
but the punctuation marks puzzled him.
He went to the mistress and inquired
what the little mark was. She did not
know that it was period, but she told
the boy, .lf you look at all the scratches
and fly marks in the book, you will never
learn to read" The old-time New Eng
land school l-master and school-ma am
were comparatively ignorant. and their
teaching was not SO good in quality mol
so abundant in quantity as that of the
present teachers. The principal thing
in the art, in those days was the maxim
from the old proverb, that sparing the
rod was spelling the child, and so the
rod was vigorously applied. 1t was the
only thing in which the old school was
superior to the modern.-Neaoburypor
Herald.
Year: 1879

The FLOOD IN THE RAPPAHANNocK RIVER
seems TO have been more disastrous than thar
In the Potomac. The river rose six or eight
feet on Thursday evening, and a quantity OF ice
lodged against one OF the wooden supports OF
SCOTS bridge at Fredericksburg which Welded
10 the pressure, letting one span down upon the
ice below; The ice remained gorged, and on
Friday the umbers were made secure The
damage will probably amount to $500 Travel
over the bridge VIII be suspended for week
or two
Year: 1879

THE COURT MARTIAL for the trial of CAPTAIN
French, one Of the heroes OF the Little Big Horn
light, commenced Friday at Fort Lincoln, Neb,
but had to adjourn until to-day ON account of
the defendant being too drunk TO attend The
charge is drUnkennpSS
Year: 1879

him only. Very well, l will see to 1t that
your vow Is kept" A month later the
Due de N-srrived, but full Of despair,
tor he had heard of his misfortune In the
meantime. On the day after his arrival an
ebony box was delivered him. which had
been brought by q servant. 10 his horror
he found the bloody hand OF woman In
IL. on the index OF which was the ring,
which he had once given Mathilde, At tho
side of the hand lay note with the words:
Thus the Countess of L-fulfils her
vow" The operator (whom the duke dis
covered later on, because he rightly sus-
pected that only the most clever surgeon
would be employed for the terrible opera
tom cousoled the young man. "She did
not suffer much" the surgeon told him.
"A veritable exaitstion sustained her cour-
age. When had terminated the opera
ton. she whispered to me. Tell him to
whom this hand belongs, that my heart
accompanies it, The count left Paris
with his Inflated wife, aud retired 10 q
country seat; the duke obtained CON-
mission in Algeria. in order TO find far
from the scenes OF his love and despair,
that oblivion and traquility which all-heal-
ing Time can only bestow.
Year: 1879

One denizen Of this region cannot be
spoken of without degree of respect
combined with aversion. 1t is the rat
tlesnake. He flies the haunts of men,
and is gradually disappearing from that
vicinage; but, like inferior races of man,
which, before they altogether vanish be-
fore an advancing civilization. cling des-
pcrately to a few strongholds, so this
reptile yet retains certain positions
around the lake, which are infested in a
way that demands caution on the part of
the tourist, It is not uncommon to see
these snakes swimming in the lake, pass
ing from cove to cove or isle to isle.
Leaning over boat one calm day, 1 saw
one swimming under the stern. lie
raised his head when he saw me. and the
expression Of his face was neither ami
able nor assuring as he darted his heaa
spitefully forward. l hit him with n
stick, when he dived and disappeared.
Tongue Mountain and Shelving Rock
are most infested at present. An old
man and woman who occupy solitary
cabin on the former have long made a
business of catching rattlesnakes and
supplying the market. The demand is
much larger than one would suppose on
the part of showmen and naturalists,
and also from the people Of the neighbor-
hood, who have the notion that rattle
snake oil is an infallible remedy for the
rheumatism. Doubtless this supersti-
tion-for it is nothing else-arose in the
same way as the belief in former days in
Il nevis eye, a baby's finger, silver
from the finger-nail of a mummy, or the
baboon's blood-objects remote or diff
cult to obtain. The quotation for good
healthy rattlesnakes at Lake George
averages one dollar apiece, caught and
delivered. Those who doRot mind the
trifling annoyance of being bitten by one
are allowed the free range of the rattle
snake preserves. and may catch them for
nothing.-Harper's Magazine.
Year: 1879

"It is not true that the ability Of the
press is declining. The papers of the
country are better written now than
they ever were before. They are better
edited. Their average courtesy is
greater; their average morality is purer;
their average tendency higher. They
better hit the wants Of great, micellane-
GUS communities, and so they have more
readers in proportion to population.
Their power may be more ditfused; but
it is Enthusiastically greater. There has
oeen no more remarkable phenomenon
IN the history of the profession than the
rapid growth of the country press and
it's increase in ability. in resources, in
self-resp pect and in influence. There are
half dozen towns in the interior of
New York which now have better news.
papers. with larger income and more in
fiuence, than those of the metropolis
itself third, or perhaps even q quar-
ter, of a century ago.


"No! The power of the newspaper
is not declining. Never before was it so
great. Never before did it offer such n
career. But it is power accompanied by
the usual conditions greatest when
most self-respecting and least selt.seeK,
ing. There is more good young blood
tending to this than to any OF
the other professions. There is
more movement in it than in
bar, or pulpit, or whatever other
so-called learned profession you will
more growth, a larger opportunity, a
greater future. We are getting the best.
These young men will leave us far be-
hind. They will achieve a usefulness
and command power to which we
cannot aspire. Very crude and narrow
will seem our worthiest work to the able
editors Of a quarter OF century hence; !;
very splendid will be the structure they
erect. We shall not rear the columns or
carve the capitals for that stately
temple. Let us at least aspire, with
honest purpose and on a wise plan, to
lay Alright its foundations. ~ Wh'tela'o
Reid.
Year: 1879

When Cooley read the accounts of
Paul Boyton's exploit in swimming the
English Channel, it struck him that he
could improve little on Boyton's life
preserver. He said he had invented an
apparatus with which man could walk
on the surface of the water, and with
little practice glide over it with the
velocity with which a good skater skins
over tie ice. So he invited party of
us down to the river one day to see him
operate the machine. At the appointed
time he appeared with something that
looked like small gunboat under each
arm. Then he strapped one on each
foot, and we saw that the article was
about four feet long, and shaped like
shallow scow.


As he prepared to lower himself over
the edge of the wharf, he asked us to
designate the point on the other side of
the river at which we wished him to
land. He said it was immaterial to him
whether he went one mile or six, up
stream or down stream, because he
could just hop along over that river like
swallow. His general idea was to
produce a revolution in navigation, and
to make men independent Of steamers
and other vessels when they desired to
travel upon the water with rapidity.


Then he dropped into the stream with
his scows, and steadied himself by hold
ing on to the side of the wharf until he
was ready TO start. At last he said the
experiment would begin, and he struck
out with his left foot. The front end of
that particular scow scuttled under the
water, and as he tried to save himself
with his right foot, the end of that scow
also dipped down, and Cooley tumbled.


The next minute he was hanging head
downward in the river with nothing
visible to the spectators but the bottoms
of two four-foot gunboats. The patent
apparatus simply kept all the rest of him
under water. Then couple OF men
padded out to him in skiff and hauled
him in. Then we unbuckled his scows,
took off his clothes, ana rolled him over
n vinegar barrel to work the water out
of him. In about an hour he came to,
and, uttering groan, he said:


"Where am 1?''


We explained to him, and he asked:


What drowned me?"


We told him that lie was injured by
an attempt to revolutionize navigation,
and he demanded:


How'd 7 try to do it?"


We reminded him that he had started
for a skim up the river with a frigate
tied to each foot, and then he asked:


"Where the deuce are them ma
chines?"


We showed them to him, and, calling
Ben Martin to him, he said, family:


ben, 1 wish you'd cuss them things
for me. Cuss 'em vigorous, and then
split 'cn up into kin'lin' wood for the
poor. I'm too weak to do justice to the
subject"


Then we took him home, and he was
in bed for a fortnight. He says now that
all he wants to live for is to see Boyton
some day 90 chuck to the bottom.
Then he'll be perfectly happy.-Mar
df]]er
Year: 1879

The other day one of the ferry-boat
captains found aboard of his craft a
cadaverous looking chap who had
beaten his way to and fro so often that
patience was no longer virtue. When
it was found that lie had no ticket the
captain roared out:


"What did I tell you the last time I
passed you over?"


You said you'd throw me into the
river next time I tried to beat my way
across" was the calm reply.


land now -" yelled the captain,
as he started to pull off his coat.


"And now you won't. You are a
good-hearted man and don't want you
to get into trouble on my account. l
will 20 overheard on my own hook"


He stepped to the gangway and made
dive before any one could prevent.
The boat was stopped, life-preservers
thrown out, and, after hard work, the
man was hauled aboard. The captain
seized him, braced him against the cabin,
and, shaking his fist under the beats
nose, exclaimed:


"Look-a-here, you miserable, sinful
man, I've been put to ten dollars trouble
trying to collect your five-cent fare!
After this it is understood that you are
always to ride free, and if you offer to
pay fare I'll lick you!'-Detrott Fyr'
Press.
Year: 1879

The census bill, prepared by Con-
gresham Cox Of New York, has been
accepted in the main by the joint
committee of congress. There is one
point on which there is some differ
ence, and that is who shall have the
appointment Of the one hundred and
fifty supervisors Of the census, in the
several States and Territories, who
are to act under the direction Of the
superintendent of the census appoint
ed by the President. The Cox bill
gives these appointments to the COVER
nors of the States, subject to the ap-
proval Of the secretary of the interior.
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, wants
the supervisors named by the interior
department. All the committee agree
in dispensing with the marshals, and
as the census will be taken during a
Presidential year it seems to be the
part of wisdom to have the appoint
ments free from Federal and central
control. Mr.. Cox contends that as the
Federal patronage is already enormous
and dangerous, it would neither be
wise nor just to increase it in this
matter; that as the governors of
States are nearly equally divided be-
tween the two parties, and as the
special agents and experts to take the
census are to be named by the super
tendent, who is a Federal appointee,
his (Cox's) plan is the most equitable,
and at least not unfavorable to the
party in power at Washington, and is
as near non-partisan as any that can
be devised. If the committee divide
on this point it will have to be settled
by congress. And the two houses will
hardly be able to reach an agreement,
for the Democrats will not consent to
put the entire census machinery, in a
Presidential year, under the control
of one set of partisans. The Republi-
canswill be likely to insist that all the
officers shall be appointed by their ad-
ministration. In the event of failure
to agree the census will have to be
taken under the defective law of 1850,
which directs the United States mar
shals and deputies to do the work of
enumeration.
Year: 1879

The entire Prospect House at
Niagara Falls was engaged for the
governor general and Princess Louise
and suit ON the occasions of their pres
ent visit. which ended Friday last.


The FIRST day the ladies and gentle
men walked five miles through the
snow. The princess wore a black
dress, black velvet jacket trimmed
with fur, mits of fur and carried a
black walking stick with a silver head,
Year: 1879

The Messrs. Crosby & Hill, enterpris
ing dry goods dealers of this city, have
been SO much encouraged in business
since they came to Wilmington, that
they have opened large branch dry
goods store in our neighboring city Of
Chester, and at their opening which
took place on last Friday evening the
store was thronged with the Chester
people who are always wide awake and
ready to encourage new enterprises.
The Chester branch is under the
supervision of Mr.. d. M. Ross who has
been with the firm since they first open
ed out in Wilmington. The patronage
at the opening was SO encouraging as
to give them reason to hope that their
new enterprise will be well supported.
The fact that the Messrs. Crosby & Hill
purchased the ground and erected their
own store upon it shows that the en-
terprise is to be permanent fixture,
and from what we know of them We
can tell our Chester neighbors that
they are highly formed by having such
an enterprising firm in their midst.
Year: 1879

This evening at o'clock special Po-
lice Officer John B. Taylor will deliver
up his badge of Office to His Honor, the
Mayor, the term for which he was ap-
pointed having expired.


Officer Taylor has been on duty on
the south side of the Brandywine since
the first day of June last, and the thou,
sands of Wilmingtonians, as we'll as
strangers, who have enjoyed the roman
tic scenery afforded by ramble on the
banks and hills on the south side, will
unite in hearing testimony to the eff
cheney of Officer Taylor in keeping order
at all times. The retiring officer is a
man whom the citizens Of Wilmington
can ill afford to spare, a man at all
times to he found at his post of duty,
of the strictest sobriety, never having
drank drop of ardent spirits in his
life, industrious and honest to fault.
John B. Taylor is q man whom it would
be we'll for His Honor to make place
for on his force when opportunity arises
as he cannot but reflect credit upon that
body.
Year: 1879

After the regular hearing last evening
at Police court, Sergeant Legg, who had
been absent on some business the chief
Informed his Honor that another case
yet remained and as the Sergeant was
present they might as we'll hear it.


Two little fellows were then brought
from the cells and ushered into the
the dock. Both were bright looking
little fellows and the reporter wondered
what act of boyish indiscretion brought
them into the clutches of the law.


In answer to Chief Maxwell's query
they gave their names as George Bould-
en- and Edward Barney.


Sergeant Legg was sworn and testi-
fed that on Sunday evening between
eight and nine o'clock, he had found
the boys at Second and French streets
dead drunk, SO drunk that he had to
procure wheelbarrow to bring them to
the Hall. They had since confessed
that they had drank 45 cents worth Of
liquor. But all efforts to ascertain
where they got their liquor had thus
far failed.


At the close of the Sergeant's testi-
mony His Honor ordered the boys to
stand up. As they did SO the forehead
of the smallest was just about on a level
with the top of the railing. His Honor
then expressed to them the pain and
surprise he felt to see to such little fel-
lows brought before him on such a
charge, and gave them sad talking to
in general, closing with the remark !:
Honestly boys, do not know what to
do with you," and then turning to the
Chief he added "take them back" and
the boys were led back to their cells.


Fifty cents and costs, is of course the
fine imposed in such cases, but it is
more than probable that His Hon-
or had an object in view when he
ordered the boys to be locked up, and
il is more than probable that that OBJ
jtct was to ascertain if possible the
name of the vretcl. who was contemp-
tible enough to sell the boys rum; and
every father and mother of Whining
ton will earnestly hope that His Honor
will succeed in ascertaining and having
ascertained that he will visit to the
fullest extent the severity Of the law
upon the head of the soulless wretch
who was thus willing for the sum of
forty-fve cents not only to sell his own
manhood, but to convert these babes
into sots.


The respectable liquor dealers of
Wilmington owe it to themselves to
drive these hands from business they
are not fit to handle, and no effort
should be spared to bring them to JUS
tiaa
Year: 1879

VIM. F. Findley, an employee at the
Edgemoor Iron Works, met with a very
painful and serious accident, yesterday
afternoon about two o'clock at the COM
pany's works. "A couple of men were
carrying large piece of sheet iron and
Mr.. Findley went to their assistance
No sooner had he taken hold of the
piece than both of the others let go and
the iron turning fell upon Mr.. Findley's
foot cutting it almost in two. The
wounded man was removed to hi
home at Heald and B streets, South
Side, and medical attendance called in.
Mr.. Findley is poor man with large
family depending on him for support,
and this accident will fall very heavily
upon them.
Year: 1879

Mr.. A. S. Jones, 6lS Market street,
has the credit OF handsomely papering
the business Office of the REPUBLICAN.
The ceiling is papered with as rich
tile and the sides with beautiful
dado pattern and base surrounding
the office. We feel so comfortable in
our improved quarters that we cordi-
ally invite our friends to come and see
MS
Year: 1879

There are private sales of antique
furniture every day at Sl2 Market st..
The goods are perfect and of the very
best construction. Those desiring fur
niture of this description or o!d relics
can procure them cheap at the above
mentioned number.
Year: 1879

Several young men lately connected
with the Moral Suasion Reform Associa-
tion have formed themselves into an
organization to bs known as the "La-
fayette Yacht Club" They hold a
meeting this evening to elect officers
and full attendance of the members
is required.
Year: 1879

Nine new cases of yellow fever and one
death were reported in Memphis yester-
day. Several cases of the fever having
developed in the country around Mem
phis, which were traceable to infection
from that city, the quarantine regula-
tions have been made more stringent.
Hereafter no peson will be permitted to
enter or leave the city at any hour Of
the day without special permit from
the Superintendent of Quarantine.
Year: 1879

The philadslphis North American is
responsible for the following There
is strong reason to believe that the
owners OF the steamer Republic mean
to contract for the construction OF
another boat, to run on the line be-
tween this city aud Cape May. A
swifter craft Is needed, and one some
what larger.