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Year: 1874

The formation of corps of Irish volun-
teers is being agitated and extensive de
monstratiOns made in its favor in Ireland.
There is a strong efiOlt to gain the consent
of the government to the plan.
Year: 1874

Wright, the State registrar of voters,
gave notice to-day that he would tomorrow
receive the opinion of the Attorney Gen
eral as to the legality Of naturalizations
before the Second District courts. The
Conservatives assert that this question has
been sprung at this late day by the Repub-
licans with the view of throwing out about
1000 white voters, by striking their names
from the registration lists, it being too late
for them 70 register.
Year: 1874

A Delaware man committed suicide a
day or two ago because some one left a
baby on the doorstep. He was TOO fral
for this cold world il he couldn't look
bis wife square in the eye and delibe-
rately declare that it was put.up job
to make trouble. t 'a.H @ avtHa
Year: 1874

The beautiful constellation of the
Plciadc is one of the most familiar in
the sky, but it is probably not generally
known how important position is
held by one of its stars in the economy
of the universe.


We read in the Book of Job of the
"swcct influences Of the PlciadcS," or
moro literally of the "scven stars" "
but it has been Il puzzle to biblical
scholars what is meant by this express
sion. OF this cluster of stars, which
Tcnnyson compares toa "swarm of
tircfiics tangled in Il silver braid,' only
six are now visible to the naked eye,
but as many as two hundred have been
seen through Il powerful telescope.


In Greek mythology the group con-
sisted originally OF seven sisters, one Of
whom married Il mortal, and therefore
her star lost its brillancc and was no
longer visible. AS the missing ono
was lost from view long before tho
telescope was discovered, it is impoSsi-
BILE now to tell whether its light was
Year: 1874

When you buy new lamp chimney
put in a vessel of cold water, set it on
the stove and boil. You can never
break that chimney, unless you throw a
fiat iron at it, and won't break it even
then-if you miss it.
Year: 1874

THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION AND ITS DUTIES
To the Editor OF The Commercial


However pure and unbiased may have beer
the motive of the Chairman of the State Central
Committee in calling the State Convention at sc
early dateit will be useless to attempt to concea
the fact that there is a suspicion Of "Ring manip-
ulation" in the minds of the masses of our par.
ty, and it remains for further developments to
show that this suspicion is ungrounded and to
reunite the party, by selecting candidates of such
character and of such abilities as shall COM
mand the respect, If not the support,
of every voter in the State. Our partial
triumph in the last election was not the result
of the personal strength of those elected, but
through the personal unpopularity of the candl-
dates of the opposition though the morals OF
our party will be better IN the coming contest
we shall have to fight the enemy under different
circumstances, for even the Bourbons have
learned lesson and with all their party cohe-
siveness, will not again attempt to force unpop-
ular candidates on their party. Had not we, q
party of Independent thinkers, whose aversion if
Rings better profit by their example?


There is growing disposition in the ranks OF
the working people of Delaware. socially and
politically, that will no longer follow, blindy
leaders put forward by Committees or Conven-
tons, that scorn to consult their wishes but
Will say to us, if you expect our support give us





ter men that a christian community can support
without debauching their conscience, and making
public bid for immortality men whose sympa-
thies are with the spirit of the times


There is another feature that must be recog
nized in the coming campaign spirit of en-
terprise that fosters and maintains internal i'm
proyement promotes public education, unitei
working men for mutual benefit, puts men tC
thnking where they never thought before
plants flowers around the cottage and decoratei
its walls with pictures and he who has no
come up from or gone down amongst the Peopl,
has failed to catch the inspiration and will prove
mere machine in the great work to be done by
the Republican Party.


The question of Republican supremacy il
Delaware is yet to be decided, and not by Dem
ocratcs msmanagement, as it was in the las
campaign, but by solid, sturdy blows admins
tered persistently by body whose every elemen
of strength is brought into harmonious
action. The man who looks for permanent sue
cess in any other direction than by fair, square
and honest working, will be disappointed.
party coming into power by other means than
this will find its members 80 corrupted, its prin
ciples SO vitiated, that it cannot stand the test


Let US ask of you, gentlemen who are to con
stitute the future State Convention. that vol
keep these facts in view, and labor 10 unite eu
cry element OF strength within our Party for th
next campaign. REPUBLICAN.
SMYRNA. july 18th,
Year: 1874

RuS 0FF.-Y Yesterday afternoon as Joseph
Deyer who keeps grocery store at the Rising
Sun was passing out Delaware Avenue home
ward his horse took fright and ran off throwing
Mr.. Denver to the ground, badly bruising and
cutting him about the face. The shafts becom-
ing detached from the wagon, the horse pro
ceeded on ont the Avenue at a rapid pace, and
when stopped he was considerably cut and in
inred about the legs.
Year: 1874

The Mobile and Ohio railway is one Of
the longest in the United States, and
stretches from Mobile TO Columbus, Ky.
The Mobile and Montgomery road is link
in another chain of railway that connects
Mobile with the West. The New Orleans
and Mobile railway, one of the best ap-
pointed roads in the South, connects the
two great cities of the gulf. The Grand
Trund railway now building, and of which
sixty miles are competed, will tap the iron
and coal regions of the state at Brming-
ham. and pass through vast forests of vala-
able pine timber The Northwestern road
will pass through the finest cotton-growlng
region of the South, and will reach to He
lena, Ark, where it will connect with the
Kansas City and Memphis road, and will
make Mobile the great port of export and
import for a large part OF the northwest.
The United States government is busily en-
gagged IN improving harbor of Mobile,
and thus rendering it fully capable of
playing the important part which awaits il
at an early day.


The great water route which nature has
formed between the Mississippi and the
Gulf needs only little effort and expense
to become practicable at all seasons of the
year. 1t iR proposed to connect the Big
bee river with the Tennessee by a canal,
ten miles long, Sem the rombigbee to
Bear Creek an enterprise which would
cost only $6Oe.00O, and an appropriation
for which haa already been asked of Con-
gress, 1t Is also proposed to deepen the
Goose river and connect by a canal with
the Tennessee, and the deepening of the
former river between Mobile and Rome is
already in progress under the direction of
an Incorporated company The project of
a ship canal across The Peninsula of Flori-
da is also urged, and will doubtless receive
the attention Of the general government
Year: 1874

Is there, as yet, any way in which a
criminal can he convicted in the United
States courts in Utah? We have an indis-
tnct impression of hearing that Congress
ought to legislate, at once, in the matter
AS nothing has been done, or attempted to
be done, we presume we were mistaken
Every one knows that Congress is always
prompt to act.
Year: 1874

Having to preach in the pulpit of the
town IN which he found his wife, on the
Sabbath after his marriage, one maladroit
minister-who had grown iron gray as a
bachelor--in his simplicity so far forgot all
suggestions possible to the occasion, as TO
announce as his text, Job xxx, 2, and read,
amid the painful filters of the people 80
that were as In months past as In the
days when God preserved me"
Year: 1874

our over sensitive Vermont politicians and
newspapers, is a practical farmer withal.
In Mississippi there is something of a
wrangle, but it is hardly possible that it
can result in the election Of any one but a
republican.
Year: 1874

in oftener than any other; buckwheat can
be sown three times in season and can be
plowed in as many times.


But the red clover plant powed in will
renovate tillage land rapidly lie sows
clover seed in the spring on plowed land
with no grain. The same year there is
crop to NOV in September, The next
year NOW and hay the first crop, and when
the second crop is grain plow it IN, and it
makes good preparation for another crop.
The clover plant roots deeply and stores
up fertility from the subsoil the leaves
and stalks store up fertility from the air.


Mr.. Goodale said he thought Of sowing
winter rye, and in the spring plow it in,
then SOW spring rye and plow that in; then
sow corn and when il has made a growth
OF four or six feet pillow that in, which
can be easily done by having chain drag
from the evener to the beam of the plow.


At the evening session good attendance
of citizens were present


Col. Il s StOwell, of Cornwall, read
very carefully prepared history of sheep in
general and those especially of the Ameri-
can merinnes, as developed by the Ham
monds from the Atwood merinocs and the
Rich or Paulars breed. Also the wool in
tercst of this country and its rise and fall.
The paper was valuable one and proper
tribute to the prominence that has been
given in Vermont to sheep husbandry. The
report of the Board would hardly be COM
plcto without such a paper in it, and its
compilation and arrangement could not
well have been in better hands.


AS the evening was somewhat advanced
there was no discussion, but the paper of
Prof. p. Collier, secretary Of the board,
was called for and he proceeded to read it,
entitled Waste Products of the Farm. -
This paper took up the remainder of the
evening until after nine o'clock, and at its
conclusion vote was taken to invite the
ladies to attend the meetings, as they are
public.


Boarl adjourned to $50 m. Wednes-
day. g.E.J.
Year: 1874




In recent dispatches from the Indian


Nation, the particulars OF the shooting
of this young man by vigilant COM
mittee, was given. He was there living
under an assumed name, but frOm re-
liable source, and in conversation with
q prominent citizen of MOberly, Mo-, a
Times reporter learned the particulars
of his death, and some of the facts OF his
early life.


At the time of the breaking out of the
war he was living in Monroe county,
Mo-, and was engaged in farming. Be
ing of good family, he was looked upon
as promising young man, generous to
fault and as brave as a lion. The
state of affairs then existing III his cOun-
ty afforded to him the opportunity he
had lOnged for of choosing the reckless,
daredevil life which his impulslve ma
ture had always craved, and he took to
the bush. He was mixed up III mum,
ber Of daring acts during the war, ana
at one time, being bantered by Il com
rade, the two charged through the streets
of Paris, Monroe county, Mo-, there be-
ing then nearly regiment of Federal
troops stationed there.


After the war he settled in the same
county, and was married to Miss MOille
Mathews, of Randolph county. When
the now prosperous little city OF Moberly
opened up such encouraging OppOrtunl-
ties for business, Alexander moved there
and commenced the business OF saloon
keeping. For time he was happy, or
apparently so, having a loving wife, a
sweet little babe and lucrative bust
ness. But at last chaos came IN the form
of, wealthy and prominent citizen, and
now an official of the city OF Moberly,
who seduced the wife and made an out
cast of the husband. After a separation
from his wife he seemed to grow more
and more reckless, and after being the
principal in several cutting and shooting
scrapes, in one of which he cut a man
named Jeffries near to death, he became
Wanderer. He was frequently heard
from in different parts of the State, first
in Kansas City and then in some other
place remote from the one he would be
forced to fee, until in the last extremity
he migrated to the land of long horns,
where he has just been summarlly dealt
with by vigilant committee, being
caught in the act of horse stealing. He
was shot down without a moments
warning, and had not a chance given
him to compromise or ask the forgive
ness of that Being whom he had detled
and wrOnged, and while he fills felon's
grave in that far off State where people
take the law into their own hands and
deal out justice extravagantly and in
consistently, his wife now plies the pro-
fession of prostitute in this city. A
full record Of the deeds and life of this
once promising young man would occu-
py more space than we can devote to it
but, to point the moral to adorn the tale,
it shows that slow and inevitable suicide
of man sunk deep into the fathomless
depths of ofSiissipation and crime seeking
that bourne as the only source OF relief,
and once loved wife, driven even from
the society of relatives and friends into
a pitiless world to earn her bread by
selling her soul. He has at last found
his fate at the hands of class of men
who neither pity nor forgive.
Year: 1874

A greenhorn sat a long time very at
tentively musing upon q cane-bottom
chair At length he said, 81 wonder
what fellow took the trouble to find all
them ar holes and put straws around
'emqn
Year: 1874

ROMANCE AND REALITY.-A lady read
the following paragraph in paper, Z" A
young wife once cured her husband of a
disposition to absent himself from home
at nights by providing q good dinner,
and saying to him afterward, George,
if you find sweeter spot than our home
describe it to me, and will rival it if |
die in the attempt. A kiss and q few
tears completed the victory" This lady
tried the game on her husband. He
wasn't melted bit; he merely said,
When you can get the boys to come here
and smoke cigars and talk politics, and
you set up keg of lager, you can count
me in. | like the company of the boys.
Ido.' Our lady saw that sentiment had
no affect on him. SO she didn't throw
herself on his neck and hug and wet his
paper collar with tears ; but she took q
saucer and fired it at his head, and fol-
lowed it up with a cup, and ended by
singing dish of strawberries on his
shirt bosom. Since that time he has
been an exemplary husband. Yet he
does seem very anxious for her to visit
her dear mother as often as four or five
times week.


How A WHIP SNAKE FIGHTs.-Reader,
did you ever sec a whip snake We did
not, but we heard of one. A short time
since, while James Christian was return
ing to his mines, he encountered a whip
snake five feet long. In trying to kill
it the snake turned upon him and made
a desperate fight. 1t struck at him re-
peatedly with its tail, cracking it like q
whip. After killing it Mr.. Christian
made an examination of the sarpent,n
It's length was fully five feet, two of
which were plated like a oarter's whip.
The plat seemed to cOnsistof four strands,
and tapered down to what might be
termed a cracker. This species of SER
pent is exceedingly rare (but we should
think lively, and many natllralists doubt
Christian is a gentleman of undoubted
veracity, it is certain that, in addition
to its many other rare attractions, Nor
gan county has, or had, the whip snake.


Versailles (Mo.) Gazette.
Year: 1874

When you undertake to do anything.
be in earnest about it; do it with your
might. Fortune and fame are often lost
by not being in earnest. This is real
world-a world Of real work real con-
Aicts; real successes ; real failures; real
triumphs, real defeats. And let no one
be SO ovcr-conident in his own abilities
as to look with Indifference upon the DIFF
culties before him-the dangers aud trials
that he must pass in order to reach the
goal upon which his eye is fixed. Full
and glorious success never yet did crown
the languid and impartial exercise of the
powers Of mind or body. 1t requires
effort to push ones craft against the cur
rent of rivalry, jealousy. and vice-and if
one would have his progress marked by
complete triunph. his efforts must be well
directed, constant and unrelaxing. But
he who feels that he has foated into the
calms Of life-that he has only to lie in.
active and wait for tho wind of fortune to
drift him into the haven of wealth or fame.
has lost every premise of success, and is
in far more danger Of ultimate disaster
than the tsmpest-tossed mariner, though
his mast bo gone and his vessel shattered
and torn BY the raging sea. Be in earn
est. Meet the difficulties which daily a.
rise, with determination to conquer and
rise above them. Let not your adversary
find you sleeping or dreaming of an easy
conquest. Too much confidence in ones
powers is fatal to success, and often brings
defeat most disastrous. Be faithful; be
true; be kind; 30 firm be earnest.
Year: 1874

PAY AS You Go The Southern pa
pers are deseanting on the ruin sure te
fellow getting in debt to carry on farming
operations. One farmer who stopped Civ.
ing and asking credit, few years age
records it as his experience that be cau
now buy more than he ever bought before
and sell more. The case Is mentioned oil
the French, who never 90 in debt. and
who. having been saving money since the
days Of the 6rst Napoleon, have become
the richest nation in the world which
seems to be proven by the fact that the G er.
man indemnity Of a thousand millions o.
dollars. which they were obliged to pay,
has been all discharged in two years
while we have been struggling for sigh,
years With twice as much. Perhaps ths
wealth Of the French farmers arise al
much from the small farm system. asi
the high cultivation they give the soil
There is vast difference between farming
in loose way and having all work don,
in the best manner.
Year: 1874

"IIl master it, )" said the ak, and his
blows fell heavily on the iron; but
every blow made his edge more blunt
till he ceased to strike.


sLeaYe it to me" said the saw, and
with his relentless teeth he worked
backward and forward on its surface
till they were all torn down or broken
then he fell aside.


cha ha I" said the hammer. "I knew
you wouldn't succeed; I'll show you
the way )" but at his first fierce stroke
OF few his head, and the iron remain
ed as before.


''Shall / try ?" asked q soft, small
fame. But they all despised the flame !;
but he curved gently round the iron,
and embraced It, and never left until
it melted under his irresistible in
fiuence.


There are hearts hard enough to re-
sist the force of wrath, the malice of
persecution. and the fury of pride, SO
as TO make. their acts recoil on their
adVersaries; but there is a power
stronger than any of these, and hard
indeed is that heart that can resist
love.
Year: 1874

/ E-o-A t4-C -tANI AAoN - 0o7~ts~.


When the train from the West roll
| ed up to Perry street depot yesterday
one of the wheel saunders discovered
a bulky object among the bars and
timbers of the forward truck of the
postal car. At first he could not tell
what it was, but he poked it with a
stick, when it bent sideways, aud in a
moment human form came creeping
from behind the wheels. He was so
completely covered with dust that it
was Impossible to tel whether he was
black or white, but after he had wip-
| ed his face he proved to be colored
man. He got into the place where he
wSs found at Brooklyn. one hundred
and thirty miles west of this city, and
all that distance he sat ON an iron
strap not two inches wide, with his
back against che upright at the center
of the truck, his body leaning forward
SO that his head almost touched his
legs, which were bent nearly double,
and his hands rested on q bar in front
of him. There he rode, subject to a
continuous jolt, enveloped in endless
whirls of dust, with the pelting of lit
+ tie pebbles which constantly fly up
ward when train is in motion. When
asked~how he stood such ride as that
he replied: 81 deeIar, Mis'r, it is tough
but I'd held thar clar TO Chicago eff
ye hadn't fotched me OUT Then it
was. ascertained that on Thursday
night he rode in that way from Coun-
Gil Bluffs to Brooklyn, but was discov-
cred at the latter place and made to
give up his free ride. But he watched
his chances on Friday night and re-
sumed his journey.
Year: 1874

"HIs MARK.-In ancient times, the
mark of the cross was not invariably
proof of ignorance for among the
Saxons the mark of the cross, as an at
testation of the good faith of the per-
son signing, was required to be at
tached to the signature of those who
could write. as we'll as to stand in the
place of the signature of these who
could not write. In those times, if a
man could write, or even read, his
knowledge was considered proof pre-
sumptive that he was in holy orders.
The clericus, or clerk, was synony-
nous with peuman and the laity, or
people who were not clerks, did not
feel any urgent necessity for the use
of letters. The ancient use of the cross
was therefore universal. alike by those
who could and those who could not
write it was, indeed, the symbol of
an oath, from its sacred associations,
as well as the mark generally adopted.
Hence the origin of the expression,
ssGod save the mark as form of
ejaculation approaching the character
of an oath.
Year: 1874

From the Detroit Free Press.


DR.. Henry Southell, an old man of
sixty, lives with his son-in-Iaw on
| Hastings street, and Ii is said that the
aged pioneer has temper like a bear
| poked up with hot pitchfork. lie
grunts and snarls around at every
body, and there is no peace in the
house until his eyes and mouth are
closed in sleep. lie took new tack
few days ago, and threatened to
commit suicide if his whims were net
humored. The family didn't really
think he would do such thing, but
they weren't sure, and SO they were
rather soft OH him for a few days.
Saturday night he got some odd no.
ton into his head, and the family fat
ly refused TO crafty it. He said he
would take poison, but they were firm.
Along in the night be was heard grOan-
ing and rolling around, having an at
tack of bilious collie, and the family
reused up under the idea that he had
taken a deadly dose. He wouldn't
say he hadn't as he wanted to have re-
venge on them. The boy ran for a
doctor, the woman hunted for mustard,
aud the son-in-law dashed about after
CSEs AAO lnC W ultCS
into teacup, and ordered the old man
to open his potato-trap. Old man
wouldn't, but he was taken by the
throat and made to. The eggs were
followed by mustard. He shut his
gums together, but the son-in-law sat
down on him and jabbed the end of u
tooth brush into his mouth until he
opened it. When the old man heard
them call for tepid water he said it
wasn't case of poisoning, but they
rammed the toothbrush at his gums
again, and he had to drink half a pint
of warm water. The son-in-la said
he wasn't going to have his family dis
graced by 3 suicide i'll the house, and
he shouted for more eggs. The old
man tried 10 beg off, but they held his
head, jerked down his chin. and the
eggs went down his throat. While
waiting for the doctor the son-in-law
got the old man out of bed and pranc-
ed him up and down the hall with
nothing on him but long night-shirt.
lie made the pioneer get up and travel
like buffalo, leaping him over chairs
and up and down and around. The
old man shouted again that he hadn't
tried to commit suicide, but the SON.
in-law said it was too thin, and con-
tinued to prance him until the doctor
came. The doctor said it was NOR
phine, and he whipped out stomach
pump and rolled up his sleeves. The
old man begged that they wouldn't
pump him out, but they were firm.
He was thrown down and held fast,
and they jingled the rubber tube down
his throat and the doctor manned the
brakes and pumped away. He said it
was grave case, but it was barely
possible that the patient might be saw
ed. lie pumped away until the reser-
voir was empty, and then they ran the
old man around again, fed him more
eggs, telt his pulse, gave him some
more warm water, aud the doctor
said it was the nicest little job he had
had for six months. The old pioneer
is abed yet, but is recovering, and the
son-in-law expects the most gratifying
results from the experience,