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Year: 1878

SOME YEARS AGO the Erery Erenmg
and the Commercial hoped to get Senator
Bayard out of the Senate. They both
worked hard to give the negro voters sue
cess at the polls. And the chief o5struc-
ton to their success when they hurled
their black legions at the Democratic
party in our dear little State by the
thousand, was the course adopted by the
GAZETTE. Single-handed and alone, for a
time, it raised the cry for the white
voters to combine. The GAZETTE did
not wait to ask permission to take ground
on this question. To pause or to waver
was to give the triumph to the enemy,
and see little Delaware with all her re-
nown beneath the heels of the Radicals,
swollen with 5000 black recruits-our
public schools filled with negroes-our
courts with negro jurymen-and per-
haps jenkins Lord save the mark,) in
the Senate in Bayard's or Saulsbury's
place. Results to-day prove that we
were right then and Delaware holds
high rank IN the Senate; in the country
from end to end, and with the Democra-
tic party.


Again, when the "salary grab" came
like crushing weight upon our party,
the GAZETTE did not stand waiting for
advice-it denounced it aye, against
the urgent remonstrances of just such
fellows as have attacked the GAZETTE
in jenkins Commercial of yesterday, over
the signature Of ''A Democrat" Time
again proved we were right.


Again, when the scandalvus bill which
gave to Grant $4,000 year was passed,
the GAZETTE did not wait to see on
which side was the right. 1t denounced
the measure, and nearly every Demo-
cratic convention in the country in the
succeeding campaign passed resolutions
in Jdcor Of ats repeul.


The GAZETTE did not wait to denounce
the Army Ring bill,by which the country
is taxed for an increase of 5000 soldier:
when we are at peace.


Nor did the GAZETTE wait to learr
OF any one what course to take on the
Bondholder's Ring scheme.


The Democratic party in Convention
assembled passed resolution in favor o
gold and sitcer as basis for currency
Gold and silver had always been held VI
as Constitutional money-as legal ten
ders-and there was no other course TO
an honest exponent of the Democrati
party and guardian of the peoples inter
est to take but to favor a specie basis O
silcer and gold.


Silver demonetized is no longer tn
''coin" the Constitution regarded it an,
the GAZETTE could not for a momen
doubt that Democratic Congress woul
demolish the bill that destroyed the us
of silver to please the clique of syndicat
bondholders. For there are thousand
of bondholders who are favorable to th
demonstration OF silver. And Demo
cratic House has demolished it, and
Democratic Senate will do so, if th
present Senate dares to refuse to do so.
;, The GAZETTE is for "measures nc
men," When it has to pause and wa
'neAnd beg of any one what course it sha


'ursue on questions of such vital mt
yIassttnent, ! 1t will be time for it to throw u
rderhe sponge.


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Year: 1878

WHEN the banks refuse to take silver, 1t
will be time to remove the tax upon the
circulation of State bank notes, and permit
banks to be chartered by Legislatures with
paper issues based upon gold and silver,
as before the war.
Year: 1878

A TIMELY SUeeEsr1oN.-Do not
keep the alabaster boxes of your
love and tenderness sealed up until
your friends are dead. Fill their
lives with sweetness. Speak ap.
proving, cheering words while their
ears can hear them, and while their
hearts can be thrilled by them. The
things you mean to say when they
are gone, say before they go. The
flowers you mean to send for their
co&ns, send to brighten and sweet
en- their homes before they leave
them. -.


IF my friends have alabaster
boxes laid away, full Of perfumes of
sympathy and affection, which they
intend to break over my dead body,
I would rather they would bring
them out in my weary hours, and
open them, that I may be refreshed
and cheered by them while I need
them. I would rather have q bare
coffin without flower, and a. fune-
raj without eulogy, than q life
without the sweetness of love and
sympathy. Let us learn to anoint
our friends beforehand, for their
burial. Post-mortem indnesses do
not cheer the burdened spirit.
Flowers on the coffin cast no fra
GRANGE backward over the weary
days.-Nev York Evangelist.
Year: 1878

Last evening Prof. MacHarg organized
his class in Mnemonics in d. T. Haw-
kin's office No. 404 Market. The class
numbered twenty-five men, which the
Professor considered quite encouraging
to start with. The first lesson was given,
and those in attendance received several
new ideas in the science of training re-
tentive powers of the mind. The Profess
sor congratulated the class on the pro-
ficiency displayed. Tha second lesson
will be given on Tuesday evening next,
when the first lesson will also be repeat
ed, in order to put new scholars who may
then come in on an equality with the rest
of the class. Although only the incip-
lent principles of the Professors system
were given in the first lesson, they were
enough TO satisfy the class of Its real
excellence.
Year: 1878

We gleam the following notes from late
English papers:


Great activity continues to prevail in the
dock-yards and it is stated that at Wool
wich nothing like the energy in the various
departments there has been witnessed since
the Crimean War


In consequence of an urgent order re-
ceived at the Chatham dock yard from the
Admiralty, the whole of the work-people
over four thousand in number are working
extra hours to complete the vessels in hand.
some of them will work four hours extra
daily.


A special correspondent writing from
Iifiis says, that according to the official re-
port furnished by the Armenian Census
Commission, the number OF sick Russian
Year: 1878

audience, who expressed their delight in tho
humor and satire of the lecture in frequent
and enthusiastic applause.


About one hundred and thirty pick and
shovel men employed on the new Water-
works struck against reduction Of wages
from 81 q to 81 per day. No disturbance
has attended their action
Year: 1878

The Atlanta Constitution says: ''E. P.
Stewart was arrested here ON last Sun
day, accused OF bigamy. In company
with him when arrested was his last
wife, q handsome young woman from a
Tennessee family, who had married him


innocently. Stewart was tried before
Justice Henry Tanner for bigamy. The
court decided that there was not suffi-
cient evidence to hold Stewart. He was
then q free man. From the first to the
last OF Stewards trouble his wife clung
to him faithfully. When he was ac.
cused she proclaimed his innocence.


and in his cell sat ever by his side. A


few days ago brother Of former wife
OF Stewart came to the city and told his
present wife the true character of the
man. She heard the story, but made no
reply. No change occurred in her de-
pertinent. When the case came before
the court she was by his side. She
heard all the evidence, and in the sus-
pense between the hearing and the de-
cision she was faithful as ever. When
the decision was made yesterday morn
Ing 1t gave Stewart his freedom. Then


she calmly went to him and told him
that their paths lay apart. Firmly she
left him, and yesterday afternoon went
back to her old home In Tennessee to
her parents and brothers and sisters. "
Year: 1878

The jury in the case OF the white man
from Sampson county charged with
stealing spool Of cotton, tried in the
Pender Superior Court on Wednesday
last, failed to agree upon verdict and
a mistrial Is the consequence. We learn
been s r t1s nH shre m ms se ana mas
in Pender, and it was only five cent
spool. too. Thus far that spool Of cot
ton has cost Sampson and Pender coun-
ties two or three hundred dollars at
least, and the end is not yet.
Year: 1878

On the Market Square a few days
since young girl gave away her babe
to Mrs. Cody, OF Pilkington. After the
poor girl had parted with her child she
continued to follow Mrs. Cody through
the streets, the yearnings Of her
mothers heart going out toward the
little one, and the struggle between me-
cessity and mothers love was intense
and agonizing. At last she seemed to
be resigned, and apparently parted
finally with her child. Next day, how
ever. she made her way to the residence
of Mrs. Cody, and taking a favorable
opportunity, she seized the child and
fled.
Year: 1878

I clasped her tiny hand in mine: I
vowed to shield her from the wind. from
the worlds cold storms. She set her
beauteous eye on me, and with her little
lips said she, "An umbrella will do as
we'll -
Year: 1878

The advantages of alphabetic writing
are nowhere more conspicuously shown
than in a large printing Office. The Gem
poeitor stands within easy reach of every
character he may haveneed of, and boy
can learn the position of each letter in the
case in few hours. 1t is quite another
matter where each word has a distinct
character, as in China and japan. A
correspondent, describing the Office of
japanese paper, says that full font OF
Japanese type comprises fifty thousand
characters, of which three thousand aIe
in constant use, and for two thounsand
more there are frequent calls The type
is disposed about the composing room on
racks, like those in reading room, and
the compositors wander up and down the
aisles setting type and taking exercise at
once. With so many characters it is no
wonder that Japanese proofresders have
TO be men ofintelligence and high scholar
ship.


The impossibility of telegraphing
single-character words has kept this great
instrument of civilization in foreign
hands, and made it practically useless
for the natives of China and Japan. To
these the telephone is an especial blessing.
which they are not slow to appreciate.
II Scientific American.
Year: 1878

From the Montreal Herald


Under this caption some of the
New York papers are not discussing,
as 1t might be supposed, o theologi.
cal problem, based on the text
about the rich man, the camel and
the eye of the needle; but rather
the apprehension which wealthy
moribund must have of the legal
plunder of his estate. Aud it is
certainly matter which cannot
but disturb those reflections which
men are supposed to make as to the
proper settlement of their worldly
affairs, but their settlements are
pretty certain to be unsettled, If
the amount at stake only makes it
worth while. In New York the
more successful n man has been in
making provision for the family
which is to survive him, the more
certain it seems to be that q profes.
sion which he cannot quite do
without, and which 1t Is dangerous
to have anything to do with,
will find some way to plunder
the property. The suits about the
Vanderbilt will and the Stewart
will are oases In point. Whoever
wins or loses, it is so sure that the
lawyers will take a large share of
the money that it begins to be un.
derstood that suits will surely grow
up where there is any soil, just as
imperceptible germs spring into
MOSES, if there Is the slightest
seed-bed for them to- repose on. A
lawyer engaged in a branch of the
Stewart affair recently affirmed the
negative to the question at the
head of these lines. Why, sir,u
said he, "it has come to be so that
rich man hardly dare die. AS I
stand here, with all my present
hopes aud future prospects,
aud l have n vote here and
every dollar ] have in the
Wide world is here in New York
Il have in the will I have pre-
pared declared nay residence not to
be In this city and county, The
Inference is against the chance of
having any justice with city jliries,
for 1t is before juries that these
cases are most absurlly tried. We
fear, however, that the rural COL
leagues OF the indignant advocate
are not much inferior to their city
confreres in the capacity for hav-
ing what the same gentlemen
called hack at estates; and that,
even if they were, the city gentle.
men would find their way into the
country courts.
Year: 1878

The best and cheapest clothing
and furnishing goods can always be
found for cash mt the Quincy Hall
clothing store. Ducommun Block.
You can dress stylishly and with
economy toy buying your goods
there. Oc'3l-tf
Year: 1878

!. Willie, bright little daughter of
Captain T. W. Walton, died at her
fa.her's residence, near Roanoke, on the
14th Of January, in the seventh year of
her age. Little Willie had been sick
long time, yet she bore her afiiction
with all the patience and fortitude of
one much older. On the day of her
death she called her little brothers and
sisters around her and divided among
them her toys, telling them she was
going to die, and for them not to quarrel
over the toys. She requested her father
to remain with her during the day,
informing him that she would not live
to see another. She fingered until seven
o'clock in the evening, without the least
apparent change, in perfectly conscious
condition, talking to those around her.
She counted the strokes as the clock
tolled seven, and when it had finished
she turned to her father and said: "Pa,
I will never hear the clock strike again;
give me an apple" The apple was given
her, and, after eating it, she began talk
ing of dying, expressing great aversion
to being put under the ground after
death. She was assured that only her
body was buried; that the spirit left the
body and went to heaven. This seemed
to give her great relief, and again ad-
dressing her father, she said: els ma
watching for me?" and on being assured
she was, she said: "Turn me over then,
and let me die" She was tenderly
turned on her side, and in another
moment the spirit Of little Willie had
flown to join it's dear mamma over the
river. The clock tolled eight all the
same, but little Willie never heard it.
She was dead!-[ Howard County ADJ
vertiser.
Year: 1878

Very few of the. sudden deaths which


are said to arise from diseases of the


heart do really arise from that cause.
To ascertain the real origin of sudden
deaths, experiments have been tried in


Europe and reported to a scientific
congress held at Strasbourg. Sixty-six
cases of sudden death were made the
subject of thorough post-mortem exam
nation. In these only two were found
who had died from disease of the heart.
Nine out of sixty-six had died of apo
plexy, while there were forty-six cases of
congestion of the lungs-that is, the
lungs were 80 JUL of blood that they
could not work, there not being blood
enough for quantity of air to enter to
support life. The causes that produce
congestion of the lungs are cold feet,
tight clothing, costive bowels, sitting
still, chilled after being warmed with
labor or rapid walking, going too sudden
" from close, heated roems into the cold
air, especially after speaking, and sudden
depressing news operating on the blood.
The causes Of sudden death being known,
an avoidance of them may serve to
lengthen many valuable lives which
would otherwise be lost under the YER
dict "heart complaint" The disease is
to be inevitable and incurable;
hence, many do not take the pains they
would do to avoid sudden death, if they
knew it lay in their power.
Year: 1878

Sol Smiths brother Lemuel, young
acter, was killed in Augusta, Ga. His
murderer, Flournoy, was acquitted by
the jury on the plea that the killing
might be classed as the result Of duel.
After hearing the verdict: Sol Smith said
to the homicide:


Before God and man charge you with
numbering my brother The sleep of the
innocent will never more be yours.
You are murderer. and will ever more
carry the mark of homicide upon your
brow. From this time forth in this
world you will never sleep again."
Two years later Sol was accosted by an
abject-looking wretch, who stood before
him in an attitude of supplication. 1t
was VIM. Flournoy.


"Why do you follow me ?" said Sol.


Because I want you to shoot me-
right here"


"No, it is not ter me to punish you,"
was the reply.


cit is not punishment ask you to
infict-that I have received already, in
full measure; it is vengeance I ask you
to take, for your brothers murder upon
his murderer. I endeavored to persuade
myself I committed the deed in self.
defense, but know better now. I am q
murderer. You said I would never sleep
more, and 7 never have. I closed my eyes
at night az usual, have stepped my senses
in brandy until unconsciousness came
but that blessed sleep you drove away
has never returned to me for one moment.
Ny lie is a burden to me. Take it. Let
me die by your hand, and then / may
feel your brother may forgive me. Twill
die to.nigntv' he said, impressively, as
Sol turned away and left him.


The next morning Flournoy's body
was found at his country place.. It was
riddled with bullets and scalped. An
indian war had just broken out, and he
had been the first victim. -TSunny
South.
Year: 1878

How Crazed Woman was Brrtay Treated


Susan Whitehorn, the woman who has
been on the county for several months,
supposed to be crazy, was removed few
days ago, by her brother, to his home in
Illinois, her former residence. Her his
tory, as far as known, is indeed sad one.
Marrying a worthless man contrary to the
wishes of her family, she left her nome and
friends, came south and taught 8 school
in the lower part of this county for the
support of herself and her shift
less husband. 1t soon became ap-
parent that she was deranged, and
she was taken charge of by the
authorities. Money was made up to defray
their expenses north, but at Barefeld's 8
Point they were get ashore, the husband
took all the money and deserted the
unfortunate wife, alone, friendless and
demented, on the bank of the river.


It is with shame and modification that
we chronicle the fact that this poor
miserable creature was kept chained like
a wild beast upon the banks of the Mis-
sissippi for days and weeks till the gall
ing iron actually cut to the bone around
her ankle. Then, after she was brought
back to our jail, we are reliably informed
that it was a daily occurrence to beat
her numerically because she refused to
eat the coarse brute fare that was carried
to her, and for various similar efenses.


Again, she was placed in the hands of
an old woman in the vicinity of
Osceo]a, who beat her most cruelty
for such little misdemeanors
as bending a Knitting needle,
apilling milk on the table while eating,
etc. Only a few days since, Susan,
wearied of her tyrannical mistress, tried
to escape, going about from house to.
house asking for a home, where she could
earn living. She was soon captured
by two gallant officials, who carried her
back to the den of the tigress. Without
waiting even for the officers to leave,
this delectable she-devil proceeded to
administer fearful beating on the back
of her crazy victim. And what for?
Because she was lucid enough to attempt
to fee away from her prison, where
bodily punishments were daily inflicted
on her.. Let 1t not be forgotten that
thing calling himself one of Gods noble
men, constituted by the law of God and
man, the defender and protector of the
weak and helpless, stood quietly by and
this outrage on humanity
Osceola ARK. Times. ~
Year: 1878

The pointed helmet of the German
army has been decided upon for that of
Great Britain, and will be distributed to
thirty regiments of infantry and several
brigades of cavalry on the LIST of April
next. The new helmet is somewhat
lighter than that of the Germans.
Year: 1878

:. You can't tell who your friends are
until you have had stroke of bad luck.
When the financial sugar is gone the
flies go too. A lost pocketbook is pretty
sure to make startling revelations about
those who have professeel to love you for
Yourself alone.
Year: 1878

A DEAD man tells tales according to
the decision of Berlin court. \ law
yer declared in court that his absent
client was prepared to swear to a Ger
tain fact, and the case was adjourned to
future day, when the mans testimony
was to be taken Meantime the client
died, but the Judge insisted on regard
ING his evidence as taken, since the
dead man had been constructively
bound by his attorneys statement.
Year: 1878

z: A party of geologists While recently
en- route from Felkstone to Boulogne
saw what to many Of them was posi-
lively a sea serpent, but one of the
party whipped out glass and discov


cred that it was flock of water fowl.
Year: 1878

A San Francisco pawnbroker loaned
so on a violin worth 500, and put the
instrument carefully away in closet.
On the following day similar violin
was pledged, and at the end of the
week five had been put into the closet.
Then the pawnbroker found that after
each bargain the valuable violin had
been replaced by comparatively
worthless one, access to the closet hav-
ing been obtained through a hole in the
wall, and that he had taken in the same
article five times.
Year: 1878

Some excitement was caused in the ncighhnrhcod
Of Sinth and streets last evening by the irng OF
q pistol oil the roof confectionery store on Ninth
street. The proprietor claimed that he saw man
acting susplciolisly on his roof and fired two sUlS
at him. The supposed thief escaped.
Year: 1878

The success of Griffith G.. Williams, a
merchant of Utica, n Y, in treating
and saving a valued horse that had a
broken leg, is proved to be complete,
and it naturally attracts much attention,
and proyokes no little discussion among
men who have to do with horses. The
practice from all time has been to re-
gard broken-imbed horse as ruined,
and to kill it. In view of Mr.. Williams's
experience, it may not be uninteresting
to recall the circumstances and the
treatment.


The animal was black mare that
easily made her mile in three minutes, q
model of grace and beauty, and of such
excellent disposition that women and
children drove her with safety. Mr..
Williams valued her at $1,000, not so
much for her speed as for her rare COM
bination of good qualities. A twist in
a rut broke her right hind leg between
the fetleck and the gambrel joint. The
break could not have been made in a
worse place. The advice of veterinary
surgeons that she be killed was disre-
garded. The mare was slung up in a
| blanket, and precisely the same treat
ment was given as is employed in
broken limbs in men. The bones were
| placed carefully in position, the limb was
| bandaged, and then set in plaster. Ia
six weeks the animal could bear her
weight, and in seven weeks she was
taken from the sling AT the broken
part there was considerable enlarge
ment, and there was not wanting evi-
dences Of the limbs weakness. The
case was widely commented on at the
time, and the prediction of
those who saw The mare and of writers
who Joined in the discussion was un-
favorable to the getting of any practical
service from her. The New York sport
ing journals in particular expressed the
opinion that the cost and bother must
| come to more than the animals worth,
even though the operation were success.
| full


This was in March, 1876. The rep.
r.sentative of the Utica Morning Herald
who has visited the mare within a week


pronounces her absolutely cured anC
seemingly as sound in the injured limit
as she was on the day before it wa.


broken. The enlargement has entirely


passed away, aad the mare spins arounc
the Driving Park track or over thu


smooth Oneida County roads at her old


time three minute gait as readily as be


fore. While moving at her fastest sh'


shows no sign of having been injured
i She is the mother of promising Ham


bletonian colt two months old. Elk


perienced horsemen pronounce her alb
solutely as good as previous to the acci
dent. The total cost of the treatmen
was less than 800.


Mr.. Williams, who is something of


horse-fancier, is strongly of opinion tina


nine out of ten similarly broken leg
may be reset and the horse saved by tn
simple process he used. Whether thi
be so or not, it is plain that veterinar
surgeons can not longer ridicule his eS
[ pertinent; and it is altogether quite pos


sible that he has opened to them ne,
| door for study and practice.