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Year: 1879

THE success Of the cndcavor to place the
new loan among the people in the form Of
Understanding certificates will do much in
the direction Of pocketiziug patriotism, as
il were, all over the country. When this is
done Congress will he very careful how it
goes fooling around the financial question
IF RANDALL fails of the nomination for
pker now he may also fail Of the Demo


nomination lor President in 1880


\Way also fail of that in any event


Succeeds in his present effort his
- certainly appear on some of the
states next year. Pennsylvania is a great
State.
Year: 1879

= is comfortable to know that such
nocrais as believe in separating mu-
pd politics from State and county
Iicscin be readily dispensed with by


Democratic party, and yet it remain
Psssful without them. They are
Pn just such men as when on the
et, or when their interest is involved,


around crying for assistance from
source, and often become as weak
The scrlptural character that we are
will be 'spewed out OF the mouth. "
not too late to learn wisdom. The
Paolcans firmly believed they would
defeated. Perhaps they felt that the
Oh the "past twenty years" in
eA their party had ample opportunity
make retrenchments and did not do
vas sufficient evidence to prove they
ho hope for reduction of The taxes


their own men, aud hence they de-
The defeat they got. We arc
Pngly Influenced, however, to believe
'he victory was as usual won by
democrats because they can marshal
Strong battalions. 8 kar7
Year: 1879

A CLEAN SWEEP FOR THE DEMOCRATS


THE CITY TICKET sU CCEssFUL AND


COUNCIL OVERWHELMING DEMO


CRATIC.


The charter election in Wilmington
came off yesterday, and, as shown by an
extra edition OF the GAZETTE, issued
last night, resulted in an overwhelming
Democratic. victory. The Democrats
elected their candidates for President of
Council and City Treasurer, and also
elected ten of the fifteen Councilmen
that were to be chosen. The Republi-
cans elected only three members-one
in the Sixth, one in the Seventh and one
in the Ninth-and In regard to the other
there was tie in the Fifth ward be-
tween Alvan Allen, Democrat, and Allen
Gawthrop, Republican. This will be
settled by an election by Council, which
body will, of course, elect Mr.. Allen.
This will make the next Council stand
fifteen Democrats and six Republicans
a result so decisive as to show that the
people were completely in accord with
the last Council, in its efforts to reduce
expenses and lower the rate of taxation.
The election, in the main passed off
quietly, with no disorderly proceedings
of any consequence. In the lower wards
this was particularly noticeable, the only
arrest made there being that of Elijah
Green, who was taken from the First
ward polls by officer Payne, on charge
of illegal voting. He was released on
two hundred dollars bail for his appear
ance at police court this evening. .-
There was a slight disturbance in>the
western precinct OF the Fifth, when the
Republican Assistant Inspector, George
r. Roberts, while disputing over the ad-
mission of avote, put his hand to bis
hiplpocket, as though to draw pistol.
This created considerable excitement for
a while, but 1t quickly subsidized when it
was learned that Roberts had no pistol
about him. Some persons, however, say
that Roberts did have pistol and that
he drew it from his pocket.


Some disorder was experienced at the
Eighth and Ninth ward polls, but it did
not assume serious proportions, and was
easily quelled by the police.


Below will be found full and complete
returns from the whole city, corrected
from the inspectors returns as handed
to the Clerk of Council, showing the ma
jorities on each portion Of the ticket in
each precinct
Year: 1879

Many of our readers have doubtless
heard of the famous travelling stones of
Australia. Similar curiosities have re-
Gently been founl in Nevada, which are
described as almost perfectly round,
the majority of them as large as a wal
nut, and of an irony nature. When
distributed about the floor, table or 9th
er level surface, within two or thee feet
of each other, they Immediately begin
travelling toward a common center, and
there lie huddled up in bunch like a
lot CT eggs in a nest. A single stone,
removed to distance of three and
half feet, upon being released, at once
started off with wonderful and some
what comical celerity, to join its fel-
lows; taken away four or five feet, it
remained motionless. They are found
in region that is comparatively level,
and is nothing but bare rock. Scatter
ed over this barren region are little
basins, from few feet to rod or two
in diameter, and it is in the bottom of
those that the rolling stones are found.
They are from the size Of pea to five
or six inches in diameter. The cause
ofthese stones rolling together is doubt
less to be found in the material of which
they are composed, which appears to
be lode-stone or magnetic iron ore.
Year: 1879

ing nerve. The poison attacked ad-
jacent parts, which rapidly decomposed
under its influence. The gangrene ma
lignantly ate through one after another
of the connections between the head
and the body. Hemorrhage followed
the severance of each. Most offensive
pus was emitted in constantly in
creasing volume. Of course, life could
not long be maintained against such q
destructive operation of the poison. In
two weeks the doomed man died, having
passed through excruciating torture
There is a serious lesson in this sad
death to all classes. No matter what
his business, man not thoroughly ed
Lcated in medicine should not apply
active and deadly poisons to any part
of the human system. The people who
suffer themselves to be the subjects of
such opel ations, at the hands of par
ties who do not pretend to be versed in
medicine, are partly to blame. Physi-
clans, as profession, are not more at
fault for not warning the public against
such risks, and for not, at least, advis-
ing the suppression of those practices
which induce the risks.
Year: 1879

i il wants Northern rule. 1t has seen
and tried the Solid South, and has had
enough of it. To resist it, there rises in
its resistless might Solid North. Di |


We not tell you, men of the South, that
every buckshOt aimed 1T Il Southern Re
publican would cost you a Northern
vote? Did we not tell you that every
vote against the honor and the credit of
the Union would cost the Democratic
party vote in States where it had none
to spare? There is Solid North Ohio
will be followed by New York in No


vember, and by Indiana next year. 1t
| is an open secret, among those who
watch political events, that the State of
VOORHEES, has changed its population and
its opinions even more thai the State of
political grave. which will be speedily
filled. And the voice of the Empire
State will be heard, within the next
month, sending Mr.. TiIden to resting
place as narrow and as sure as the grave
prepared for Mr.. Thurman. The cleo
tOral vote for every Northern State,
great or small, will be cast for the can-
didate of the next Republican Presiden-
tial convention, and the Solid South may
stay solid if it can.


The Greenback heresy suffers worst
in the Ohio battle. Democracy is SOrely
wounded; GreenbackiSm is killed The
Democratic party will not dare to court
that heresy hereafter. 1t has learned
by the fate of Ewing, that great courage,
rare sincerity, splendid services as a
Union soldier, and real ability, will not
save man who leans to the.side of the
Confederate repudiationists. There is
an end of cheap logic-chopping about
monetary theories. The Union incurred
a debt to pay loyal soldiers. 1t is going
to pay that debt in gold, dollar for dol
lar. The Greenback men of New York
may as well get out of the way at once,
returning to the party from which they
came. There is no place and no future
for them in nation which still loves
the old flag and bows with reverence in
memory of the men who died for it,
IN. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1879

Beyond very little drill, our officers
at the outset knew nothing of their du-
ties. l have seen colonel, a man of
much militia experience, ,deploy column
under fire in such a fashion as to bring
his rear rank in front, and the right of
every company where the left should
be, with the necessary result of throwing
his regiment into utter confusion. Ihave
known a captain sent out on viGette
when he did not know what a vidette
was, and formed his men as SkirmiSherS.
COmmandants of grand guards were ig-
nOrant of the necessity of vigilance, and
thought it a shame not to let their tired
"bOys" sleep on post. No one can es-
innate the number of brave men who
periShed uselessly in Small operations
because their immediate officers did not
know how to manage them. In large
operations it was still worse. OF men
fit for Independent commands, or even
fit to handle division under clear in
structions, the state troops had none to
offer, as they always will have none. If
we had not been opposed to troops about
as i'll directed as ourselves, and if we
had not had the science of West Point
and the regular service to organize and
discipline and guide us, our early eXpe-
riences would have been far more disas-
irons than they were.


The chief strength of the volunteer
forces lay in the very superior character
of the rank and file. They were brave,
intelligent, self-respectipg citizens. de-
termined to master their new duties,
and determined to win. Mere drill they
learned rapidly, and to admirable per-
fectiOn. They soon discovered, too, the
necessity of discipline, and actually aid
ed their officers in establishing it. OF
their patience under the cruelty of
forced marches, and of their courage on
the field of battle, l cannot write even
now without throb of emotion. The
fragment of my old company, in its last
bloody fight with gallant enemy, made
charge after charge under corporal
"You don't go into such hole because
you like it" explained trooper, desert
bling dash through a cannon-swept val
ley; you go in because you are ashamed
to go back OH the boys" Its burning
shame that the captain should be sent
up without his company exclaimed a
private soldier, when his officer was or
dered forward to rally forlorn hope
which had already lost three command.
ants 1--WE may as well do it to-day as
tomorrow" said the men to one another
as they advanced under Sheridan to re.
cover the field of Cedar Greek. Such
was the spirit of the masses of that
memorable army, and, also, as l suppose
of the very similar army which con-
fronted it. Self-respect, a noble feel.
ing of comradeship, earnest purpOse,and
common sense supplied in great meas
ure the lack of complete discipline and
and of trained regimental officers.-No
vember Atlantic.
Year: 1879




IT is well known that the farmers of
this country have learned that the profit
of the hog business lies in maturing
their hogs for market at the earliest pos
sible age Many are now learning the
same lesson in regard to sheep, and are
growing and feeding their lambs to ma
ture early, instead of running through a
period of three or four years to ripen for
the trade, as they used to do. The stock
business is gradually getting down to a
''finer" basis. Our people very sensibly
want quick returns, good pay and plenty
of it.-lDrovers' Price Current


| THE prospect that Florida will shortly
be traversed by canal suitable for COM
mercial purposes appears to be daily
growing brighter. A Franco-American
company, with General Lloyd Aspin
wall, of New York, at its head, has been
formed for the construction of ship
canal across the State. Surveys have
been made, and, more important than
all, the necessary capital has been Sc
cured to build it. All that remains is to
secure the desired franchise from the
State. and to obtain this it will be neces-
sary for Governor Drew to convene the
! legislature in extra session. This, it is
understood, he has consented to do if
he is satisfied from the report of the
French engineer who has recently been
over the ground that the project is all
right. In fact, the only obstacle that ap-
pears to exist at present to the under
taking of the enterprise arises out of the
opposition of rival scheme, which IA
vors the construction of an ordinary
barge canal, connecting with the Gulf
coast waterways to New Orleans, and
naturally is hostile to any company
seeking an exclusive franchise. 1t is not
likely, however, that this rivalry will
jeopardize the success of either enter
prise; and it is probably only aquestion a
of a little time when the distance to New
Orleans by water will be shortened by
at least 500 miles.
Year: 1879

The "Gazette" had 'em bad on Sat
urday afternoon, very bad. 1t WASN'T
salts or blue pills this time, no indeed
1t was something far more horrible te
digest. In fact it was nothing less
than typographical error in the Re-
PUBLICAN Of Friday. Now we will ad'
NIT that such errors are rare in our
columns, and do not wonder that "Old
Reliable" should have been somewhat
shocked at its occurrence. But really
we had no idea that it would hit them
so hard. 1t took quite lengthy, un-
grammatical, geographically
cred would .be-humorous local from
the pen Of the sedats chairman
Of the Councilmanic finance COM
mittee and half dozen lines Of un-
usually heavy editorial to do justice to
the occasion. But We accept the re-
buke, it was deserved, but in the midst
of our remorse there comes gleam Of
consolation in the knowledge that there
is at the head OF the Finance Committee
man who will not tolerate "hgger
manipulation"
Year: 1879

Yesterday lot Of children gathered
at the place where the new pulp mill is
to be built, and climbed up the guy
ropes of the large pile driver and pull
ed the machine over and broke it, so
that it will have to be entirely rebuilt.
This piece of fun might have proved a
terrible affair, as a half-dozen of chill.
dren, large and small, could very easily
have been killed, and parents who
think their children worth raising
should take notice. The owner is look
ing after two young men Of about IS
years Of age, dark completed, one
wore a red rosette in his coat, and as
they were the leaders in the sport they
will do we'll to "skip the city" until
the works are finished.
Year: 1879

hand, and with that gun he killed
Rosser. did not know johnnie was
dead, but saw Cornelia fainting, and
leaving everything else ran once
again my hands through the CRATES Of
tho door, and taking hold of my baby
girl with one hand, l stroksd her bleed
ing face. Irubbed it and chafed it to
restore animation. Already she was
falling against the wall. l cried out,
Darling" said l, "If you are only my
brave daughter a little while longer,
maybe we can save father. There is
no time to faint, my child" Suddenly
she sprang to one side. l heard cry
Of despair 20 up from my husband.
Even then | wondered that he had
faltersd. | did not know the signif-
cance Of the cry. l heard Clay and
Cornelia Join in 1t.


Suddenly the crowd surged around
us. 'Out Of here, let us OUT" was ex-
claimed, and they all seemed to drop
down the stairway as If by one action,
save the two demons who had through
all stood on either side of me urging
the throng to more violent crime. They
went partly down and returned, and
each taking a foot Of Rosser, the mur.
derer, they, the murderers, ran down
the steps, springing down two or three
steps at once. and dragging him over
the bottom of my dress. have since
been told that lis brains were scatter
ed all down the steps. The door was
now left open and nothing prevented
my entrance to my husband. All this
from the time heard my husband
cry out in SORROW, Joined by Clay and
Cornelia-had not occupied, ! am sure
two minutes.


My husband stood with the empty
gun in his hand, and the language IL
neither written nor spoken that will
convey an idea Of his sorrowful face
"Oh, my wife, they have murdered my
boy !" he said. Here met Clay. He
gave one piercing cry and said: "Oh.
mamma, BUD Johnnie is dead )" and
here Cornelia ooh, mamma Bud
Johnnie, poor little Bud johnnie Is
killed" She said. "Here, have car.
ried him here SO they could not trample
him under foot" | asked where he
was, and followed the children, and
may God always remember what saw
There was my Johnnie-my darling
whom we had all been most tender
with, because in his early childhood he
was more delicate than the rest-John
ME, who had been so gentle and for
bearing that his sister had often said
"Bud Johnnie is so good, l am afraid hi
will be imposed upon''-Johnnie, who
had fought till one hand was gone and
then turning his head and one remain
ing hand. His arm was stretched out
the strip Of skin holding the hand and
his burning sleeve, which he had new
er had time to put out, was still burn
ing at the hole; a great hole was
through his breast.
Year: 1879

A very fine variety of sweet potatoes
OF Hance Jaquett's raising, can be found
at the second stall of the Jersey Mar
ket, in front Of DR.. Simms' Drug store.
Those wishing to put up sweet potatoes
for the winter would do we'll to secure
lot of them. Buy only of J. G. Par
sons.
Year: 1879

Fred. Douglas, Jr., remarked The
other day that the negro exodus
was "an attempt to stop up one hole
by boring another" lie, like his
father, warns negroes that the story
of homes and employment In the
North is all a delusion. "If," he
said, "there is SO much milk and
honey in the North and West in the
way of employment, how can you
account for so many Northern coll
ored people seeking homes in the
District Of Columbia and the South?
/ am a printer by trade, and never
worked in any Office outside the one
owned by my father up North in
my life; the Republican offices were
always full when knocked at their
doors seeking employment"
Year: 1879

BOTH the North and South make
a mistake when they advance men
to legislative or executive positions
simply because they were good
fighters in the battles Of the rebel
lion. The issues of to-day are those
of peace, not those Of war, and the
war era is-hehind US. War itself Is
only an instrument Of peace, and the
war men are merely those who cease
to be useful when the labOrs of peace
are resumed. For our public men,
therefore, we need prospective not
retrospective men. We are not at
the end but at the beginning Of an
important era and that era may be
defined as one Of material prosperity
and governmental reforms. - Pr0Ui-
dence Press (Lld.), NoUem5er 25.
Year: 1879

Washington, Sept. 29.-There is in
the treasury but about 6,179, 900 in
gold in denominations of less than $40.
Tho amount Is not sufficient to meet
any active demand upon the treasury
for small coin. To supply this def
cheney it is understood to be the inten-
tion of the treasury department to recoin
most Of the foreign gold received at
the New York assay Office into five and
ten dollar pieces. In the recoining of
foreign gold nothing less than five dol
lar pieces will be turned out. 1t is de-
sired to get as large a number of stan
dard silver dollars as practicable into
circulation.
Year: 1879

New York, Sept. 28.-Hazeal and
Guyon both declare they will never
enter in another six days walking match
again. All the others are anxious to
have another trial for the Ashley
belt.
Year: 1879

There is a growing feeling in every
healthy community against journals
which make their special object to min
lister to a perverted taste by seeking out
and serving up in seductive form dis
gusting and icentious revelations. There
is good reason to believe that the clean
newspaper is more highly priced to-day
than it was four or five years ago. It is
also safe to predict that as people in all
ranks of life, who protect their own, at
least from contamination, becoming
more conscious of the pernicious inhu-
ence of certain class of journals, called
enterprising because they are ambitious
to serve up dirty scandals, they will be
careful so see that the journals they per-
init to be readsin the family circle are of
the class that never forget the proprie-
ties of life. Already men and women
of refinement and healthy morals have
had their attention called to the per-
nicious influence of bad Literature, and
have made commendable efforts to
cOunteract the same by causing sound
literature to be published and sold at
popular prices. These efforts are work
ing a silent but sure revolution. The
best authors are more generally read to-
day than at any previous date. The
sickly sentimental story paper and the
wild ranger and pirate story book are
slowly but surely yielding the field to
worthier claimants. To the praise of
the decent newspaper, it may be said
that where it has a place in the family
and has been read for years by young
as well as old it has developed such a
healthy tone and such discriminating
taste that the life-nature of the slums
has no admirers. Fortunately, the num-
Der of such families is increasing in the
land, and, as they increase, the journal
that devoted itself to sickening revela-
tons of immortality will be compelled
to find its supporters solely among those
classes who practice vice and crime or
are ambitious to learn to follow such
ways.
Year: 1879

About thirty-two years ago, Schon-


bein, German chemist, had occasion


to immerse cotton in a mixture of con-
centrated and sui lphuric acids. To his
surprise he noticed that the cotton did
not dissolve. Taking it and washing off
the acid he placed it in a drying oven to
dry. On returning the next morning
no cotton was to be seen. As the stu
dents in his laboratory affirmed that
they had not meddled, he wondered
much as to what had become of it. He
tried the experiment sgain, and this
time had the good fortune to witness the
disappearance of the cotton.


He had discovered gun cotton.


This is very curious substance, all
though it does not differ in appearance
from ordinary cotton. 1t is, however,
triie heavier. Strange to say, the man
ner in which fire is applied to this
causes it to burn very differently. Touch
it with live coal or lighted cigar, and
it burns away very slowly, much like the
mixtures used to produce the colored
fires of Fourth of July nights; apply a
fame to it, and it explodes like gum
powder, but if you fire it by means of a
Illuminating cap it explodes with terrific
violence, and a rapidity six or seven
times greater.


But there is another substance which
explOdes even more terribly still. 1t is
nitro-glycerine. This is produced some
what similarly to gun cotton, with the
exception that glycerine is used instead
of cotton, these substances being very
much alike in chemical composition.
Nitro-glycerine is dense, oily liquid
which has a very safe and harmless ap-
pearance, but in reality is something
terrible. A small quantity placed upon
a huge boulder and fired, will blow it
into a thousand pieces, whereas with
gun powder the result would have been
merely fash, and great puff of wind
and smoke.


You wonder perhaps, how it is that
nitro-glycerine merely placed upon a
stone and exploded, can possibly break
it, as you think the air will give way so
much sooner than the stone. Now the
rapidity with which the gas formed by
the combustion of nitro-glycerine ex-
pands is hundred times that of a can
non ball, and the atmosphere offers
more resistance to a body moving at
that rate than the stones beneath it.
Nitro-glycerine in some of its forms is
the agent almost universally employed
in blasting. Without it many of the
great railway tunnels and other feats of
engineering would have been impossible.


The compounds of nitro-glycerine are
many. Mixed with tripoli or rotten
stone it becomes dynamite, or "die-in-a-
minute" as some wag has facetiously
termed it; this adulterated with nitrate
of soda or potash isknown as giant pow
der. When nitro glycerine is mixed
with gun powder, in a very finely di-
vided state, it is called rend-rock powder;
with sawdust, dualin. These are, how
ever, all adulterations, and weaken the
power of the explosive.