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Year: 1879

Chesterfield The election IN Chesterfield
yesterday occasioned some interest among
the friends of the different candidates.
There was warm and lively contest for the
Office OF sheriff and commissioner OF the
revenue for the Second district, owing to
the fact that there were two candidates for
the former Office and live for the latter. On
account OF the remoteness Of the voting
precincts it will be impossible TO obtain the
full returns until this afternoon.
Year: 1879

A NEW YORK LADY MURDERED IN BED


BY BURGLARS.


New YORK, June 11.-Mrs. Jane L..
D. f. Hull, aged so, wife of DR.. A.
Grandson Hull, was found dead in her
bed at 140 West Forty-second street this
morning. Her hands and feet were tied,
she was blindfolded, gag was in her
mouth and her trunk at the side Of her
bed was opened and rified ofits contents.
An examination of the premises showed
that an entrance had been effected
through the front door, as that was found
open and all other parts of the house Sc
cure. The doctor occupied rooms on the
top floor and his wife alone occupied the
back parlor on the first floor. Mrs. Hull
retired at the usual hour last evening
and no disturbance was heard during the
night.


At 7 this morning one of the servants
discovered her lying dead on her back in
the bed in a semi-nude condition, on3
foot bound to either rail Of the bed, her
hands bound across her breast and tied
d the elbows. A piece of sheeting was
strapped around Mrs. Hulls neck and
across her mouth and it was evident that
death had resulted from strangulation,
for the sheet was tightly drawn.


,Onthe body were found several con-
tuslons and slight wounds. The mur-
derers cut two rings from her finger, one
containing a large diamond and the
other costly emerald. tits consider
ed evident by the detectives who have
been engaged in the work of searching
for cleWs to the, crime that there mus
have been three or four men engaged il
the work of tying down Mrs. Hull, un
less she had been first rendered insensi
BILE and bound after being unconscious
or dead,
Year: 1879

When the $3.50 train north, arrived at
the p. w. u b. depot this morning, a
well dressed and intelligent looking man
about 80 years of age with very white
locks, ran out of the car on the depot
platform and acted in very wild man
ner. He was evidently out of his mind.
The conductor, and several who assisted
him had much difficulty in getting him
back into the car. 1t was said by some
that the man was insane and that parties
had paid his fare at Baltimore for New
Y ork and left him to get along as best
he could. Detective Legg telegraphed To
Philadelphia to have him taken care OF
from there to New York, as he did not
think him capable Of travelling alone.
Year: 1879

Yesterday the corner of Mr.. John
Turner's coal Office on Water street near
King, was knocked off by a coal car, as
it passed into the yard. The cause OF
the mishap was that the car was larger
than the entrance could accommodate.
Year: 1879

Samuel Patterson, the cigar thief was
taken to New Castle Jail ON the .05 train
by officer Brickle.


William lien, the fifth party in the
DENNY murder was taken over in the
morning.
Year: 1879

The very extensive advertising and, in
consequence, the curiosity excl ted by the
advent of the Marvellous Midgets next
Monday at Institute Hall, give promise
OF successful visit to our city. They
are certainly the most wonderful littl
people ever created and all lovers of the
wonderful ought TO see them.
Year: 1879

In looking through the store at 306
Market street, one is convinced at sight
that the proprietors are thoroughly posted
in the details of their business, as the
shelves and counters are laden with goods
at prices never heard of in our recollec-
ton.


Mr.. Spencer, who has lately settled
here, brings with him an experience OF
eight years at the head OF a thriving busi-
ness in Connecticut, and with his pleas
ing manners and the rs years experience
of Mr.. Russell, eleven OF which were in a
large wholesale house, ought to be suffi-
cent guarantee to the public that 3O6
Market street is the place to buy dry
goods. We feel assured they get a very
liberal share of the trade Of this city and
surrounding country.
Year: 1879

Mr.. Bowerman and wife left for the
country yesterday. One could tell that
their trunks were not over half full, as
they were pitched into the baggage car
with crash. They began packing week
ago. When the subject was broached
he said he preferred to pack his own
trunks, and he didn't propose to take a
whole month to do it, either. All he in
tended to take along was an extra suit,
and he could throw that in most anyway.
Night before last he began work It
struck him that he'd better put in an
extra pair of boots as foundation and
he flung 'em in the corners with his
clean shirts. The shirts didn't seem to
ride very well, and he braced them with
two pairs of trousers. Then he stuffed
his Sunday coat pockets with collars and
cuffs and found a place for it, used his
white vests for chinking," and the bal
ance of his clothing just fitted in nicely.


1.-The man who takes over ten minutes
to pack trunk is doltln said Mr..
Bowerman, as he slammed down the lid
and turned the key.


Mrs. Bowerman has been at it Just
seven days and seven nights, and when
the husband went up stairs at ten O'Clock
she sat down before the open trunk with
tears in her eyes.


"You see how it is" she explained, as
he looked down upon her in awful con
tempt. I've got only one part Of my
dresses in here. saying nothing of a
thousand other things, and even now the
lid won't shut down. I've got such a
headache / must lop down for few
minutes


She went away to lop, and Mr.. Bower
man sat down and mused:


Space is space. The use of space is
in knowing how to utilize it.'


Removing everything, he began re-
packing. He found that silk dress
could be rolled to the size Of quart jug.
A freshly starched lawn was made to
take the place of pair Of slippers Her
brown bunting fitted into the richie she
had reserved for three handkerchiefs
and her best bonnet was turned bottom
up in its box and packed. full of under
clothing. He sat there viewing suffi-
cient empty space to pack in a whole bed
when she returned and said he was the
only real good husband in this world,
and she kissed him on the nose as he
turned the key.


Its simply the difference between
the sexes" was his patronizing reply as
he went down stairs to turn on the bur
glar alarm.


When that wife opened that trunk last
night - But screams and shrieks
would avail nothing. g.-Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1879

The word of an honest man is surer
than the gold of a villain.


We can never die too early for others
when we live only for ourselves.


1t is the best proof of the virtues of a
family circle to see happy fireside-


How few faults are there seen by us
which we have not ourselves committed.


IF every year we rooted out one vice
we should soon become perfect men.


Ingratitude calls forth reproaches, as
gratitude brings fresh kindnesses.


Let man overcome anger by love,
evil by good, the greedy by iberality, the
liar by truth.


He who would amass virtues, leaving
out the guardian virtue humanity, is like
a man who leaves a precious dust exposed
to the wind


Might and right do differ frightfully
from hour to hour; but give them cen
turies to try it in and they are bound to
be identical


Men Of great and stirring powers, who
are destined to mold the age in which
they are born, must first mold themselves
upon it.


Energy will do everything that can be
done in this world; and no talents, no
circumstances, no opportunities will
make a two-legged animal man without
it.


There are some benefits which may be
SO conferred as to become the very re-
tinement Of revenge; and there are some
evils which we had rather bear in sullen
silence than be relieved from at the ex-
pense of our pride.
Year: 1879

A correspondent of Land and Water,
in reply to question whether monkeys
swim, says: / was always under the
impression that they did not like wetting
their fur or hair, but at Sangur, Central
India, when was stationed there / had
a little monkey that was exceedingly
fond of swimming and diving. One day
on taking him to the pond at the bottom
.of my compound, he jumped off my
shoulder and dived (like man) into the
water, which was three or four feet
deep; he had his chain on at the time
and when he dived in the chain caught
in some grass or root at the bottom and
kept the monkey down; he was just able
to come to the top of the water. Feeling
his chain had caught, he dived down,
undid the chain, and continued his
swim with the chain in his hand. He
swan Just like man as far as | could
see from the motion of his arms.
Several of my brother officers came to
see him swimming, of which he was
very fond, swimming very quietly, and
cunningly trying to catch the frogs that
| lay floating on the top Of the water.
Year: 1879

A Zululand letter says that the Prince
Imperial died fighting, and must have
sold his life dearly. In the right hand
of the corpse was found tuft Of hair, of
native fiber, while the path marked by
the Zulus in quitting the fatal spot was
stained for a hundred yards with gouts
of blood, supposed to have dropped from
wounded men being borne away by their
comrades.
Year: 1879

The Science Of Health says " Iffarm-
ers would avoid suddenly cooling the
body after great exertions, if they would
be careful not to go with wet clothing
and wet feet, and il they would not over
eat when in that exhausted condition,
and bathe daily, using much friction,
they would have little or no rheuma-
tism.''
Year: 1879

And she has been after him ever since.


She is person Of noble extraction, be
ing made of mans rib
don't know why Adam wanted to fool
away his ribs in that way, but l suppose
he was not accountable for all he did.
1t costs more to keep a woman than
three dogs and shotgun.
Blu: she pays you back with interest
by giving you house fall Of children tc
keep you awake all night and smear mo
|assess candy over your Sunday coat.


Besides, wife is very convenient
article to have about the house.


She is handy to swear at when you cut
yourself with razor, and don't feel like
blaming yourself.


Woman is the superior being in Massa
chusetts.


There are about sixty thousand more Of
her sex than males in the State.


This accounts for the terrified, hunted
down expression Of the single men who
emigrate from the East.


Woman was not created perfect.


She has her faults-such as false hair,
and false complexion, and so on.


But she is great deal better than her
neighbors, and she knows it.


Eve was woman.


She must have been model wife, for it
cost Adam nothing to heep her in cloth :
ing,


Still I don't think they were a bit
happy.


She couldn't go to sewing circles and
air her information about everybody she
knew, nor excite the envy of other ladies
by wearing her new winter bonnet to
church.


Neither could she hang over the back
fence and gossip with her near neighbor.


All these blessed privileges were denied
her.


Poor Eve she's dead now.


And the fashion she inaugurated is dead
now.


If it hadn't been for the confounded
"suaik' perhaps the ladies Of the present
day would dress as economically as Eve
did.


But The only place where her primitive
style is emulated is in certain portion of
Africa, where the women consider them.
selves in full dress when :hey have but
postage stamp stuck in the center Of the
forehead.


Woman is endowed with tremendous
fund Of knowledge and tongue to suit.
s.. She has the capacity for learning every.
thing she was divinely intended to know,
and few extra items besides.


Young ladies take great deal Of stock
in classics and learn fast.


When you see young lady from Vas
sar, with an absorbed look in her eye, and
her lips moving, you understand at once
that she is menorizng a passage from
Virgil.


But perhaps closer inspection will re-.
veal the fact that she is only chewing
gum.


A woman may not be able to sharpen a
lead pencil or hold an umbrella, but she
can pack more articles in a trunk than a
man can in four horse wagon.


The happiest period Of woman's life is
when she is making her wedding gar
ments.


The saddest is when her husband comes
home late at night, and yells to her from
the front door steps to throw out hand
ful Of key holes Of different sizes.


There is some curiosity in feminine ma
ture.


For instance, once knew young lady
who could easily pass another one on the
street without looking arocnd to see what
she had on.


Poor thing she was blind.
Year: 1879




A few years ago removed into d
new and larger house with q young
family. Some nights after my removal
l was awakened in the middle of the
night by a distinct knocking twice or
thrice repeated at my bedroom door.
called out, Who's there?' There was
no reply; but after an interval of few
minutes the knocking was repeated as
distinctly as before. Again the same
question, "Who's thelep and again
no reply; but again came the knocking,
if possible more distinct and louder than
before, and just as if person outside in
the lobby had struck sharply and re-
peatedly with his knuckles on the door.
Isprang rapidly from bed ON its being
repeated and rushed to the bedroom
door and opened it, determined to catch
the knocker. But there was no one out
side, and no one could have escaped
down the staircase, which was what is
called a we'll staircase, brilliantly
ligh ed with food of moonlight, which
streamed through the skylight window.
am not, and never was, spirit-stricken
or superstitious, but will confess my
sensation now became trying; my heart
began to throb, and l returned to bed
with ears painfully awake. Again came
| the knocking, clear and distinct, and
methodically as before. Although feel
ing very uneasy, crept silently out OF
bed and stretched myself on the floor,
with my head on the boards and few
feet from the bedroom door, to find out
the knocking proceeded. Again it came
| q, hoforo ord o1,,lJ !,
to the lowest part or panel of the door.
suddenly opened the door, but with the
same, result as before; and ,agai1
IL lay in my former posi-
tion. Again came the knocking
three or four distinct taps, and now


fixing my eyes steadily on the spo


from which the tapping proceeded,


saw the knuckle-bone of leg of lamb


about the size of a very small walnut


jerked repeatedly against the railin


that lay alongside the door. The skirt


ing was thinner than the soundin


board of a piano, and it was the sudde
tapping of the little bone against tn
sounding board that produced the n
; peated knocking. But how was thi
: tapping produced By mouse that ha


found its way along a hollow spae
, behind the wainscot. 1t had bored
, hole in the very lowest part of the wall
r scot, very nearly on level with th
: floor, had found its little bone, left afte
the children's dinner, and had dragge
it to the entrance of its hole. but coul
not get it through. 1t had dragge
! through the tough bit of sinew, whie
, is attached to the end of the bone
5 popularly known in mutton as the ge
!. tleman's bone-and was trying, by jer
ing it backward, to get the bone itse


through; and each jerk gave bio
. against the thin sounding board, al
a each blow gave out the sound or my
a terious knock,
Year: 1879

Laziness, says the Ladies Journal, Is
a bad disease, and, like may other
kinds, is often self-imposed. In the case
of many individuals, it is an inherited


malady, and consequently hard to oust


from the system. But it is oftener the
case that the disgusting temper is


brought on persons by their own delih-
crate selfishness by vas ly discredit-


able disposition to shirk the inevitable


burdens incident to living decent II e.


Laziness of this kind is one of the car
dinal sins, and should submit the OBJ


noxious offender to the dicipline Of the


treadmill. More particularly is laziness
offensive to the young and healthy, To
learn to work, and work cheerfully, is
the central lesson of life. Begin to


learn it early-eschew laziness as the
most disgusting of all faults, and one
that will surely end in hopeless misery
fer, depend upon it, none can be so ia-
sensible through lsziness as to be, in the


end, incapable of suffering. Nature is,
| in the event of a non-payment OF hei


demands, stern and meiciless creditor
Year: 1879

The jackson vase, presented to the
General by the ladies of South Caro-
lima in acknowledgment for his services
at the battle of New Orleans, is now
seeking an owner. The hero left it to
the Governor of South Carolina who
should prove to be the best and bravest
soldier in the next foreign war. The
Governor in turn presented it to the
survivors of the Palmetto Regiment,
leaving it to them to "vote it to the
most deserving" 1t was found impos-
sible to make this choice. and the sur
vivors finally decided that it should be
held in trust by the successive officers of
the association, to be delivered to the
last survivor. There are now forty
three survivors, and there is much COM
petition in regard to the ownership.
Year: 1879

A REMARKABLE example of the &C.
cent, city of the Chinese turn of mind is
noticeable in their schools, where, in
stead of silence being inculcated, as
might naturally be considered as es-
sential, every child is expected to bawl
out the losson that he is committing to
memory at the top of his voice; and the
babel which is the result may be more
easily imagined than described. When
n boy goes up to repeat his lesson, more
over, he does not stand facing his tutor,
but turns his back upon him, and hence
repeating a lesson goes by the familiar
name Of backing"it. This method of
recitation has an excellent effect in
keeping the boy on the qui vsce to avoid
mistakes, for no sooner does he commit
one than he is called to recollection by a
tapon his closely shaven pate, from the
metal bowl of the long tobacco-pipe
which ever, "pedagogue carries about
him.
Year: 1879

A RELIGIOUS newspaper will go the
round of the family circle and still look
bright and clean, but when the family
story paper makes the circuit it looks as
if it had served in the capacity of a
hustle and been given to the baby to cut
its teeth on Danielsciiie Sentinel
Year: 1879

THERE is trouble in Blairville, Iowa,
about q ball that was to have been given
by the proprietor of the leading hotel.
He desired to have what he called a
"high-toned" assemblage, but could
not make up his mind how to draw the
lines. At FIRST he thought of inviting
only wealthy families, but it turned out
that some Of the wealthiest of the resi-
dents were very disreputable. He
next adopted the plan of inviting
only the old families of the place, but
that would have counted in an ex-con-
vict. The idea of restricting the attend
ance to the families of professional men
was rejected because it would limit the
company to about forty persons. Finally,
the hotel man offered the tickets for sale
to whoever had the money to buy, and
20 few were sold, in consequence of the
bad feeling already excited, that the
project was given up.
Year: 1879

EXPERIMENTS made in Germany show
that out OF two thousand five hundred
and sixty school boys, sixty-seven were
unable to distinguish between colors,
but that out of two thousand three
hundred and eighteen girls only one
was "color blind" A curious explanation
was offered for the fact that the proper
ton Of color blindness was greater
among Jewish than among Christian
children. The sense of sight, it was
said, was less developed among the an
clients than it is today, and since the
Jews have preserved a greater purity of
race and blood than any other people,
an inferiority of vision might reasonably
be expected. 1t Is not, however, true
that such inferiority, on an average,
exists.
Year: 1879




The much talked of toughened glass
seems not to have come into general use
with that rapidity which was predicted.
The fact is that it is apt to explode, and
that is not only tough on the toughened
glass, but rather tough on the toughened
bystanders. This little defect is some.
what inconvenient. If a jovial party is
seated around the festive board with
glasses in picturesque profusion thereon
they desire to go on a bust themselves,
and are naturally offended if the glass.
ware does so instead. The unhandiness
of having a toughened glass mirror ex-
piode just as lathered man is getting
up the correct contortion to shave with
is evident to the most obtuse under
standing. Taking it all in all, the sue
cess of toughened glass has exploded.
Year: 1879

THE latest novelty in London is a
Tonga Islander, one Mr.. Mpopom-ha-
ha. BE is nearly fifty years of age, of
mild and prepossessing appearance, re-
msrkably intelligent, and a practical
Christian. The Captain who abducted
him had him instructed, and so remark
ably docile and gifted was he that he is


now lecturing. His lectures are ac-
counts of savage life in his native land,
and are said to be highly interesting.
One great personal attraction about
him is that he adm Is that in 1860,
when he was cannibal of cannibals, he


and his family ate New York mission
ary. He offered part of his earnings as
lecturer as compensation for this un-
DANNY banquet; but no relative has as
yet come forward to claim the dividend
Year: 1879

ACmcAeo girl did not wish to marry
her lover, but said yes to his proposal
for the fun Of being engaged. The
young man was very much in earnest,
and when she at length informed him
that she had only been joking he threat
ened TO kill her If she did not keep her
promise. Thus bulldozed, she submitted
10 matrimony. That was year ago.
Lately she appealed to the courts, and
the Superior Court has decided that the
marriage, having been accomplished by
a threat of violence, is void.