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Year: 1879

At country party the other night
humorist was called upon to get up
new style of amusement. Seeing an
electric battery he started it. and taking
one Of the handles himself he gave the
other handle to the prettiest girl in the
room proposing that they should kiss
eadh other. As their lips met two nil
lion needles seemed to break in all their
effulgence upon the startled beauty, ana
now she knows what kissing is.
Year: 1879

THE devotion of Gen. Ewing to the
cheapest and meanest money possible,
should commend him to the hearts of
the financiers who are in favor of pay
ing the National debt in cornstalks.
Year: 1879

TIE REBEL Democracy of Washington
have a holy horror of ex- Union soldiers
and are clearing them out of the sub
ordinate Offices as fast as they possibly
can and are filling their places with ex-
rebels. On Monday, Captain s. S.
Blackford, chief of the Capital police
force, was removed for no other purpose
than that he was Republican and
during the war he sent his bullets in
the wrong direction. The Captain was
twice dangerously wounded during the
war, the last time losing an arm at the
battle Of Hatcher's Run.
Year: 1879

TIE GAaxrrE, for the want Of some
thing else to write about, took occasion


to say yesterday that the Republican


party of Delaware has gone clean dead


for want Of Statesmen to keep it alive.


1t says it csmmmitted hari-kari in rs.


1t then says "the little game played by


the (Republican) party in sending five


thousand uneducated negroes to the


polls did not work to the satisfaction Of


the Delaware people, and drove them


into the Democratic ranks and resulted


in the political death of the party in
all parts of the State except in this
city" We suppose the "Gazette"
means that it drove the people of Della
ware into the Democratic ranks, or
does it mean that the negroes were
driven in? Our neighbor must ex-
plain. If either were driven into the
Democratic ranks, how is it that the
ranks don't poll more votes After all
this driving in process, the Democracy
polled less number Of votes at the last
election than for many years before.
Had the five thousand negroes in the
State after being driven in voted with
them they should have polled $1,000
votes, or il all the people Of Delaware
had been driven in they should have
polled $4,000 votes. Instead of this
however, in the last election there were
only 1886 votes in all polled for Gov
ernor, which is only about half the
vote Of the State, and of this vote only
l0,055 was Democratic, showing that
with all the driving in process the
Democracy is really in a minority in
he State. Words are one thing but
cures are another, and the latter
show that if the Republicans were not
and could all vote, they
would have majority of 1900 in the
State.
Year: 1879

On Saturday next We will publish
a supplement to the REPUBLICAN, and
perhaps if advertising is right brisk a
double sheet. We are impelled to this
by our largely increased run of Satur-
day advertisers, which, IL we did net
issue a supplement or double sheet,
would occupy the most Of our reading
space, and this We do not want to give
up. As We intend anyhow to publish
supplement, little more trouble
would enable US to bring out a double
shee', provided there were sufficient
advertisements at moderate charge to
meet the increased expense. 1t will be
for the business men of Wilmington to
say whether We shall publish double
sheet. If they are inclined favorably
to the enterprise and are willing to
avail themselves of the opportunity Of
fe ed, we would request them to hand
in their special cards by Thursday
eve ing, or early Friday morning. The
lates, which are net extortionate, will
be made known by applying at the Of
fee of the REPUBLICAN,.
Year: 1879

TAB LARGE turn out at the funeral of
Col. Rowe, yesterday, was indicative of
the deep feeling that his tragic and
untimely death wrought amongst the
people, and which showed itself not
only in general sympathy for the
family but in a genuine respect for the
memory of the deceased. 1t was dem
onstration that broke down the weak
barriers of religious prejudice; over
leaprd the narrow feelings of national
caste, and blotted out for the time the
little differences of political feeling that
SO often divide us. We can scarcely
imagine that there lived man in Will
mington, who would, as the long funeral
train slowly wended its way to the
cemetery on the green sloping banks of
the Brandywine yesterday, breathe
a word derogatory to Col. Rowe
AS his remains We're consigned to their
mother earth, how appropriate that his
errors, (and who has not them y should
b. traced in the sand. Despite the al-
verse circumstances which surrounded


him, Col. Rowe was one of the few
men who pressed forward and succeeded
III LIES battle, and the property he has
accumulated around him by his indu.


try, fully attest-d that fact. In this
respect his life can be safely taken as
an example by those who desire to
succeed in business. Now that the
battle of lif- with him is over, and his
remains sleep upon the banks of his
own loved Brandywine, the memory Of
his kind genial smile will never be for
gotten by those who knew him.
Year: 1879

TIE officers and directors of the
Camden and Atlantic Railroad will
make an excursion to Atlantic City to
morrow, in celebration of the twenty
fifth anniversary Of the completion of
the road. A number of invited guests
will accompany the excursionists. At.
lantic City, during this quarter of a
century, has grown from struggling
hamlet into one of the most popular
health resorts in the world.
Year: 1879

At funeral in Ireland the clergyman had
nok been informed OF the sex of the deceased.
He accordingly leaned over to the sexton and
said; a. Shall 1 say " brother or sister here de-
parted p" It's neither, sir" whispered the
man; I" shure, he was only an acquaintance"


The whole science of social economy is found
Year: 1879

Ir is now in order that the Northern
Democratic press should decry Bob TooNBs
MS hot-head and as an uninhuential


blatherskite who represents no one-hardly
himself-the same as they did before the
war when his rebel yells were no more
fierce than they are at this instant, and
when it was claimed that he had no follow
ing. But the truth is that TooMBs simply
keeps abreast of public opinion in his sec
tion rarely if ever getting in advance of it,
and US he is now pronounced candidate
for the Democratic Gubernatorial nomina-
tion in Georgia, he is naturally careful TO
do nothing and say nothing that would
iniure him in the estimation of his fellow
Bourbons. In fact, his dispatch of last
Wednesday, quoted elsewhere, was evil
IDENTIFY directed to the purpose of adding TO
his popularity with them. And, we are inn
PEELED TO remark incidentally, that it was
propitious dispatch-to the GRANT Boom.
Year: 1879

overwhelming. 1t is q Democratic Water
loo under the circumstances, and nothing
less. II bears away from that party to the
Republican side the entire patronage of the
State. 1t has put the Republican party
under fine discipline, with freshly and
abundantly filled ammunition boxes for
the next campaign, which will soon
open. II has carried disaster and dis
may into the Democratic camp, and left II
in high state of Generalization. 1t has
done more than ths-it has opened the
door to certain victory for the Republican
cause in 1880, when that State will throw
thirty-five electoral votes into the Republic
can side of the scale for President, and de-
eide that question in favor of National
unity, peace and prosperity beyond per-
adventure. Such are the fruits to be garnered
from the contest through which the State
of New York has just passed, and they af-
ford cause for profound rejoicing within the
party of the Union, and on the part of every
friend of National unity and peace. Let
the Republicans from Maine to Oregon all
join in an anthem of joy over the fact that
the great State of New York has planted
herself sternly on the side of the Union,
good government, equal rights of citizenship
and the enforcement of the laws, and
and is largely composed of the ex-Confed-
crates, and which seeks TO overturn the re-
suits of the war.
Year: 1879

HONEST BOB TooNBs Death to the
Union is his motto aud ho is ready to
try it over again." meaning that he is
anxious to renew the rebellion. Herein he is
plain spoken and honest, where his fellow
Bourbons are deceptively diplomatic and
dishonest.
Year: 1879

and an acceptable nominee like GRANT, or
almost any leading Republican, the Repub-
lican party will be successful next year,
and without the aid of Southern votes.
Hereupon the suggestion is involuntary,
that the South has lost its tail-piece, has
given up its oaudal appendage, and that
Indiana has been given over to the cause of
good government and LOYALTY.
Year: 1879

HENRY WATTERsoN has recently had
vision, in which he looked "adown the
"great archway of American history" and
discovered a single pair, and he has been
hesitating ever since whether he would
draw to them or bet them as bluff He has
seen great many sights in his time, but
they usually vanish like the baseless fabric
OF a dream.
Year: 1879

No reception committee, orator or inter-
viewer has as yet been able to extract a
word or even shadow Of word, from
General GRANT indicative on his part of
any desire to enter public life again. In
all this his good sense has not iailed him.
1t will be time enough Tor him to indicate
his own wishes and purposes in this regard
when the people have expressed theirs.
Year: 1879

THE call for meeting to recruit the
forces of the" THOMAS Mounted Battalion, {"
this evening, gives the veterans of this city
an admirable opportunity not only to evil
dence their devotion to the occasion, but to
add largely to the display. Every veteran
should be in his saddle on the day of the
parade, unless disqualified by wounds for
that service.
Year: 1879

The Albany EcenHg Journal suggests
that one of the important duties of the new
State Administration will be to perfect and
enact a new election law which shall more
thoroughly protect all true citizens in their
rights as electors, and afford more effective
safeguards against fraudulent practices in
elections. The United States election laws
will furnish fine model for such a statute.
Year: 1879

WE are again forced reluctantly to admit
that the majority Of the writer's for the
Democratic press are either liars by choice
or accident. They one and all insist that
the blacks of the South have lately joined
the Democratic party, and thereby account
for the succession of Democratic victories
of late years in that section, In the lacc of
this, however, they insist that these Demo.
cratic "niggers are being colouized into
Indiana for the purpose of making that
State Republican.
Year: 1879

Yes, the world is gorgeously beautiful at this
season, for our Creator did not stint the beau
ties of nature when He formed the lovely OBJ
Jects upon which we feast our eyes, and never
grow weary as we gaze enraptured at the sight
To be shut out from beholding 40 much beauty,
confined to limit of four walls, requires the
patience and Christian fortitude of Job to en-
able one to submit without murmur. How
true the saying: We know not wha a day may
bring forth" We lay our plans for the future
one day; our hope of happiness consists in
their fulfllment; the next finds our hopes
crushed TO earth, our plans frustrated by some
unforeseen event. and we are tempted to exclaim
in bitterness, as did the preacher, "All is
vanity" Little did / dream, while waiting
for tho cold, tedious winter to give
place to the balmy breath of spring, that
the blighting hand of disease would fasten
upon me and obige me to relnquish the many
pleasures had hoped to enjoy when I should
once more get out in the garden, and SOW the
seeds gathered with 30 much care last fall by
one W ho is now many hundred miles from
home But the seeds were not sOwn. and
where had hoped to see flowers bloom weeds
are growing in abundance Only few peren-
malls greet myview as l look out OF doors.


WEEPING WILLOW.


OTTAWA I'll.
Year: 1879

1t is no use for an Eastern man to try
to tell big story when there is West
ern man about. Causeur has tried it
and got beaten, beaten clean out of
sight He thought he could spin
yarn that would test any ones creduli-
ty, but he always found that Western
man could 60 him one better. When
l was young man," said Col. B., "we
lived in Illinois. The farm had been
well wooded, and the stumps were pref
ty thick. But we put the corn in among
them, and managed to raise "a fair crop.
The next season did my share of the
plowing. We had sulky pillow, and /
sat on the seat and managed the horses,
tour as handsome bays as ever man
drew rein over. One day l found
stump right in my way. l hated to
back out, so just said word to the
team, and, if you'll believe it, they just
walked that pillow right through that
stump as though it had been cheese"
Not soul expressed surprise. But
Maj. s., who had been quiet listener,
remarked quietly: Its curious, but
had a similar experience to that my
self once. My mother always made our
clothes in those days, as well as the
cloth they were made of. The old lady
was awful proud of her homespun-said
it was the strongest cloth in the State.
One day / had just plowed through
white-oak stump in the way you speak
of, Colonel. But it was a little too
quick for me. 1t came together before !
was out of the way, and nipped the seat
of my trousers. 1 felt mean, can tell
you, but put the string on the ponies,
and, If you'll believe it, they just snaked
that stump out, roots and all. Some
thing had to giue, you know.'-Boston
Transcript.
Year: 1879

grown or raised upon the place was kept for
the city market; and as for cream or new bread,
/ only saw them in my dreams. The farm was
supplied with every appliance of science and
art to help the man cultivate his crops and
raise the stock, but nome comfort was unheard
OF, and how any man could acquire sufficient
strength, or keep up any vigor, upon the mis-
erable stale bread, tough boiled beef, weak tea,
and few currants, whicn constituted the
meals, one and all, during the time was there,
is among the mysteries "It was too much
trouble to cook anything for the men folks, "
and l was glad when my little cottage in the
city appeared in view, after the misery endured
In my country visit PEGGoTTY.


MILWAUKEE Wis.
Year: 1879

Riding in the street cars in Chicago, / sat op-
posite two very young ladies. They were prob
ably about Is years old-fresh, bright, pretty
girls-dressed very neatly, and | really adj
mired them very much. One had two books
on her lap which she had just taken from,
probably, the Public Library, the other miss
had been of an errand for her mother


This is the conversation heard


No. 1.-"Oh! l go down town every second
day. We read books 80 fast; have just i'm
ished Woman in White."


No 2-"Perfectly splendid. We just read all
the time, have read twelve books since school
closed


No p" Mother does not allow me to go
down town often; have nothing special to go
for"


No. l. "My mother says she wants us to have
good time, and enjoy our vacation"


That is right Mothers should want their
children to enjoy their vacations, but do moth
ers know that there are other ways for their
daughters 10 have pleasure, besides reading ?
Variety is the spice of life: and although one
does not always want to be confined to solid
reading, too much novel reading IL poison to
the young, growing mind-especially such ex-
citing books as WillSie Collins can write. Any
food eaten ravenously is hurtful and books of
thrilling, excitable nature, read with such
haste and eager interest, cannot but be injuri-
GUS Mothers cannot be too careful with their
daughters at any time, especially when they are
emerging from childhood into womanhood.
Then is the time their characters are fixed ; be-
fore that they are only forming. Vacations
need not be irksome or unenjoyable, even IL
the days and nights are not all spent in riding
on the street cars, promenadiDg the avenues,
and reading novels


Let the daughters take a few pleasant les
sons in housekeeping, if but an hour each
morning; devote little time TO sewing, COM
mence TO make their little surprises for the
coming Christmas, help with the mending, then
read moderately; when the sultry heat of the
day is over, join your companions in lawn
sports and visits to the beautiful parks that
surround this wonderful city. After long
months of study and confinement in the school
room, you certainly do not rest your mind or
give health 10 your system, by this wholesale
reading. These lovely, blooming girls al in a
very few years to take our places; it
does not take long after you pass
the sweet IL to find yourselves entirely
out of your teens" and you know some girls
marry young-I did-and then comes the cares
and responsibilities of home of your own, and
you will have other lessons to learn; and per-
haps the novels you now read will be realities
then, and ii may not be all that your fancy
painted so that it will be well to store your
young minds with valuable information that
will be of use to You in after years. You see |
was school girl once, and know all about 1t
and l was not out of my teens by two years
when had home of my own TO superintend.


You would laugh at some Of my experiences
Il did-anG / think, if l remember right |
cried over some as well. SUNSET.


HYDE PARK III.
Year: 1879

The Saturday Revteao says that the
frugality and quickness of intellect of
the Welsh often secure them advance
ment and prosperity, especially in retail
trade; and yet it is odd that no Welsh
man ever attained, in any walk of life,
the highest order of eminence.
Year: 1879

PoErRy AND PRosE. Lucy has posed
the little rustic model, and Mary, Maud
and Madeline sit, pencil in hand, ready
to catch and transfer to paper the child 5
expression of wonderment and delight as
it listens, for the first time in It's life, to
the murmur Of the shell. Lucy Now,
darling, put the pretty shell to your ear
and bark to what it says" Rustic model


Lor' is that ALL Why, a beer jug can
do that. ri Punch.
Year: 1879

meuced 1t Once. .


At the last meeting OF the City Council
held last Wednesday night Fourth street
wac ordered 10 be opened to the south city
limits, and "a soon as the state Of the
weather will permit Sork will be COM
rnenced. The grading necessary to be done
will be from Elm street TO the limits OF the
town, the corporation line being about two
hundred ysrds north OF the bridge crossing
Five Mile creek on the rosd 10 Mount
Muncie and the State Penitentiary. Tie
state will mscadamize the thoroughfars
from the city limits, north 10 Walnut street
and down the latter street to the freight de-
pot, and will also mscadamize the road
from the city limits south 20 the prison, a
distance Of four or five miles, which, when
completed, will make a magnificent high
way, extending from the government reser
walton TO the State Peniteniiary, distance
OF over Fix miles, whose equal cannot be
found in the West. This, together with
the military highway between the city and
Fo I Leavenworth, will form two splendid
drives, the two together extending dis
tance of nearly ten miles The compile
ton of the State highway will be OF great
benefit to the State, as the msjoritv Of the
shipping done By The prison Is from the
Walnut street freight depot. The only e1-
pense TO the rity will Dc the grading OF the
street from Elm street to the south corpo-
ration limit.
Year: 1879

A horse, the properly Of Dr.. Hathaway,
formerly county physician, was killed OF
Shawnee street, between Sixth and Seventh
streets, yesterday morning, the manner in
which he came to his death being somewhat
strange. The animal had been tied TO q
fence, and becoming frightened at some
thing jerked away, the fence board coming
away with the rope. and dangling about his
bells as he ran frightened him all the more.
He tore around at a lively rate for short
time and then taking a short cut across
the lots from Delaware street he came into
Shawnee street, between Sixth and Sew
euih, where the board whirling be-
tween his legs, tripped him up and he fell
heavily, striking his head upon stone car
mage block upon the sidewalk, breaking
his skull and killing him Instantly.
Year: 1879

TIE Catholic Library Association has
moved the building formerly on kiowa
street. between Fifth and Sixth streets. and
ouce occupied as the school for colored
Catholic children, TO the lot Just north Of
Hibernia Hall, On Fifth street, which will
be used az library and reading room, while
the hall will be the scene OF debate and
dissertations.
Year: 1879

cia intercourse with New Orleans can now be safely
maintained; that in view OF the sanitary condition
of the city the National Board of Health be requested
TO terminate its system of inspection ana certin-
Gates for steamers and railways as being no
longer necessary expedient: that The Board OF
Health announce that New Orleans is infected
city within the spirit of the rules and that thence
FORWARD commercial or business relations can be
resumed or continued without any danger whatever.


The National Board of Health is respectfully In
vited to cooperate in the above announcement


INFECTED VESSELS BOUND FOR NEW YORK.


Ohcial teiegraphic information received by the
National Board of Health that the brig Fanny
H. Jennings and the barks Madras and Anne Eliza
beth, FOR New York, had the yellow fever on board
Year: 1879

The following record will show the changes In the
temperature for the past twenty-four hours. in
comparison with the corresponding date of last
year. indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts
pharmacy HERALD Building. No. 218 Broadway