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Year: 1879

In one of the towns of England there is a
beautiful little chapel, and very touching
story is told in connection with it. II was
built by an infidel. He had praying wife,
but he would not listen to her. would not
allow her pastor even to take dinner with
them, would not look at the Bible, would
not allow religion even to be talked of. She
made up her mind, seeing she could not in
fluence him by her voice, that every day she
would pray to God at twelve o'clock for his
salvation. She said nothing to him, but
every day at that hour she told the Lord
about her husband. At the end of twelve
months there was no change in him. But
she did not give up. Six months more went
past Her faith began to waver, and she
said, " viii have to give him up at last
Perhaps when am dead he will answer my
prayers" When she had got to that point,
it seemed just as If God had got her where
he wanted her. The man came home to din
ner one day. His wife was in the dining
room waiting for him, but he didn't come
in. She waited some time, and finally
looked for him all through the house. At
last she thought of going into the little room
where she had prayed so often. There he
was praying at the same bed with agony,
where she had prayed for so many months,
asking forgiveness for his sins. And this is
a lesson to you wives who have infdel hus
bands. The Lord saw that woman's faith
and answered her prayers-Moody.
Year: 1879

Man man this is the great creator of
wealth. The difference between the soil of
Campania and Spitsbergen is Insignificant
compared with the difference presented by
two countries, the one inhabited by men full
of moral and physical vigor, the other by
beings plunged in an intellectual decrepi-
tude. Hence it is that we are not impover
ished, but on the contrary enriched by this
seventh day, which we have for SO many
years devoted to rest. This day is not lost.
While the machinery is stopped, while the
car rests on the road, while the treasury is
silent, while the smoke ceases to rise from
the chimney factory, the nation enriches
itself none the less than during the working
days of the week. Man, the machine of all
machines, the one by the side of which all
the inventions of the Wattses and the Ark
wrights are as nothing, is recuperating and
gaining strength so well, that on Monday
he returns to his work with his mind clearer,
with more courage for his work, and with
renewed vigor. | will never believe that
that which renders a people stronger, wiser
and better, can ever turn to its impoverish-
ment.-T. B. Macauldy.
Year: 1879

A father dying leaves to his child pack
age sealed, and inscribed, 4" Not to be opened
till you come of age" The child often looks
wonderingly on the sealed package; but he
respects his fathers will, suffers the seal to
keep the secret and wonders what surprise
is in store for him in the future. The Heav-
emily Father gives to each one of his chill.
dren such package, labelled "The Eternal
Glory Not to be opened till you come of
age" Many a curious eye has gazed on the
sealed package; many a curious imagina-
tion has ventured guess at its secret con
tents, but they still remain unknown. A
surprise is in store for us when school is
over, and we graduate and enter into the
true life of our eternal home.
Year: 1879

This community was surprised on Monday
at the announcement by telegraph of the
sudden death of VIM. c. Eliason, in West
Philadelphia, as he had but few DAYS before
returned to his home from this place in an
parently the best of health We have no
knowledge at this writing Of the facts in the
case, except that he went to bed well, and was
found dead in his bed the next morning. just
six weeks previous he lost his wife, who was
brought down and inferred in the Spruance
family burial lot at Brinzion Baptist Church
between this place and Kenton. Mr.. EliasOn
too was brought to Delaware to-day and
inferred at the Union NJ +. Church near
Blackbird, where rest the ashes of his father
and mother He came to this town in about
the year 1912 and succeeded his brother
Thomas w. in the mercantile business the
latter removing to Maryland where he pursued
the same business most SUCCESSFULLY The
name of VIM. &. EliasOn soon became widely
known as a man of indomtable business
energy, and when he retired from active busi-
ness some sixteen years ago and went to Penn
sylvania to reside, he had accumulated a
property of over 100000. In business matters
Mr.. Il. was strict to cent, but it can be said
to his credit that he was man of considerable
benevolence, especially in assisting worthy
young men in acquiring an education. He
leaves no children as the fruit of his married
life. He was in the 9th year of his age. His
funeral was attended to-day by a number of
warm personal friends of this place
Year: 1879

Peaches are on the wind up, the present
ceptions being the last of the season. The
shipments from Clayton on Monday were six
cars, yesterday five and they will run down
daily until by next Monday there will hardly
be enough to I'll one car The prices the past
week week nave not been satisfactory so to rs
been expected. The yield of the Peninsula
Will approximate 4,0O0OO0-nearly double the
estimates. The net yield to the farmers OF
this section will not average it is thought, ex-
ceeding 40 cents per basket Some Who had
choice fruit will clear so cents or more
Year: 1879

On Friday morning last an unknown man
was found dead on the railroad track near Bren-
ford in a terrible mangled condition from a
passing train. On Friday the remains were
brought to this town where deputy Coroner
Taylor held an inquest and the body was
buried near the Railroad track He bought
pair of new shoes and oyer-alls in this town
the day before, and it is supposed he was steal
ing a ride down the road and fell off or
between the cars.


On Saturday a colored man named Lewis
Davis, living in Dover was found dead at his
mouse. He had been at work several hours
that morning pumping water to sprinkle the
streets, and went to his house for Short time.
and staying longer than was expected was
sent for when he was found lying on the floor
dead No one was in the house. A verdict of
death from causes unknown was rendered.
Year: 1879

INCREASE OF WAGEs.-The times are getting better
beyond a question of doubt especially in the iron
rade, which seems to control all other trades The
demand for workmen in the iron trade is greater
man the supply and wages higher than for over
vas f HG I'm icOoI4ugn iron company VIII raise the
wages OF tnelr Workmen on and after Monday.-WH-
aatnglOn Gazette.


PLUNDERING THEM-Under the above head in
speaking of the excursion to Wilmington the Pl1,ill-
sdr eaOs discourses severely on the Railroad mana
gers VINO ,gopDie up the hard earnings of the poor
lghOraht chlldlsh negroes by their Sunday eXcur-
sions. 1t says: These cute managers know that
harvesting, peach picking and ether work had put
and this scheme was Invented to taEe SwaR PGGe ppm
them and put it into the treasury of the railroad
company. Inc poor are thus always the prey of the
rlch, cute and powerful. The remedy for this one
wrong Is for the people to see through the scheme


$500 in cash taken from the very poorest class Of
@ the people ana remorsely put into the treasury of
rSbt TG fa[Oad h & company 1t is lawful many will say all
and unwary."


DOVER SPORTS TAKEN IN-Tbe Dover corresnondont
of the FeninsGr Nccs gives the following account of
now some fast young men of that town were caught
III Trap OF thelr own setting: "While speaking of
races it reminds me of good and to some of them
rather serious joke which last week was played upon
some OF the sporting gentry Of this town 1t seems
s Slat some OF the young men of our town who are
iond OF the excitement of horse racing and also OF
@pettg @ on such occasions being desirOus of making
lltte money IN rather an unfair way got UP horse
race near Suddlersville, Maryland last week One of
tle horses called Palmer Boy was to trot against
morse known to be slower but the projectors of the
race made an arrangement with the rider of Palmer
BOY that he should be beaten by the slow horse
Inc secret was cOnfded to few and they went 10
the race and bet largely on the slow horse But as
doubtful things always uncertain Just as the race
was about to take place third horse came on the
ground also 10 trot This third horse too slow for
rainier BOY but too fast for the horse on which
the boys had staked their money 1t therefore
became necessary, as the proceeded that Palmer
Boy should be let out and beat the third horse 10 pre
vent MN from winning the race and thus the yonng
genuemen who had bet so largely the slow horse
lOSC ana came home very much disappointed and
crestfallen 1t is said that one of them lost as much
as hundred dollars The matter was kept secret for
| few days but finally got out"
Year: 1879

A LoosING JoKE-A prominent physician of Pitts
burgh said lokingly to lady patient who was com
bity to cure her try Hop Bittersg p The lady took
II IN earnest and used the Bitters from which she
9Dtalned permanent health. She now laughs at the
doctor for his joke but he is SO well pleased with
1t, as it cost him good patient.
Year: 1879

Gen. Joe Hooker is reported as ex-
pressing the belief that the better class
of men in the Republican party do not
want Grant for President for a third
term. Gen. Hooker says that Thomas
was the greatest soldier the war pro-
duced on the Northern side, and Joe
Johnston on the Southern.
Year: 1879

SLIPPER TuRow1Na.-The ancient custom of
throwing an old slipper after the bride as che
leaves her homs is still in many places believed
10 bring luck to the happy couple But it may
be questioned whether the old shoe WAS thrown
for luck only. 1t is stated in the Holy writ that
the receiving of shoe was an evidence and
symbol Of rejecting or resignng IT," The latter
is evinced in deuteronomy 18th chapter, where
brother in marriage is by looming his shoe from
of his foot. Aud in Ruth We are told that ''is
was The custom 10 Israel concerning changing
that q man plucked of his shoe and delivered it
TO his neighbor." Hence the throwing of ahoe
after bride was q sy mbol ofrenuncislion ofdo-
minioD and authority over her BY father or guar.
dian, and The recsip. of the shoe by the bride.
groom, even il accidental, YVES an omen that the
authority was Transferred to him.
Year: 1879

hela River rose at the rate of six inches hour As
a matter of course the roustabouts and pilots struck
for heavy increase of wages. and the matter was
settled promptly by the boat owners compromising
with them.


boy named Harkins drowned in the Hood
Braddocks
Year: 1879

Your enemy is at your feet, and it is
in your power to crush him Don't do
il! Better is an ounce of forgiveness
than thousand tons of vengeance Ii
hardness and bitterness still linger in
your heart-if actual and deep wrongs
have been inflicted upon you-go and
look in the rearest open giave--yOu
will not have to 60 tar-and see what
is the end for your enemy and for you.
Go and think for n moment besides the
nearest gravsstone how little worthy it
is for an immortal soul to be cherishing
the passion Of wolf or tiger, and
theu forgive your enemy even as you
need to be forgiven.
Year: 1879

With good opinion Of the law


These people, whose movements are as
subtle as those of Satan, and whose history is
as hard to unravel as that of the mysterious
mound builders, left Elkton rs quietly as
they came, in the early part Of the week.
Some one of them procured an old fan, on
Monday last, which they left for time in
the Howard House yard, and which was
found, on Wednesday saorning, on the street
in front of The Wing office with large pla-
card upon it, stating that it WAS a present
for the local editor. We thank them for
this expression of their regard, and only
regret that they had not the courage and
manliness to have presented it in person.
Their object in giving us the fam as we
have been informed, was that we might
keep ourselves cool. They had much bet
ter have kept the fan themselves, for, if we
mistake not, they will ultimately find them
selves in climate where they will need it.


We partly showed these fellows upin The


Wing last week, and regret that we did not
do it week sooner, for they seem to have



whose objects We're to evtde the laws of the
State, to injure legitimate dealers and m:lnu-
flcturerS, and swindle the purchasers OF
their wind mills, by selling them for twice as
much as they were really worth. They did
not hesitate to violate the Sanctity of the
Sabbath, and when punished for doing SO,
they blacksuar,lcd the agent of the railroad
company, the express agent and the post
master. Altogether they We're the . chceki-
est and most unnitigated hHmbugs that
ever infested the county, aud all good citi-
zcns will rejoice at their departure.


The Thiy always has been, and will con-
tinue to h., devoted to the interest of home
manufactures, and of course we expect Il
provoke the eunity of strolling dealers wht
infest the community, and without paying
the State any revenue, use their glib tongues
to impose their questionable inventions upon
credulous buyers.
Year: 1879

y grand, popular excursion to Annapolis
is talked of for the middle or last of Au-
gust. 1t is proposed to charter one of the
swiftest, most commodious and elegantly
appointed excursion steamboats, of Balti-
more, and to start from Frenchtown wharf,
touching at Tolchester for the purpose of
leaving those who prefer to spend the
day at that resort rather than enjoy the
invigorating sail across the bay. No def
mite arrangements have been made. When
made, due notice will be given.
Year: 1879

diSpoSeS of young man, according to tho
Courier Journal: "You have asked me
pointedly if can marry you, and | have
answered you pointedly that l can. l can
marry a man who makes love to different
whose main occupation seems to be to join
i'll gauntlet in front of the churches and
theaterS and comment audibly ON the peo-
pie who are compelled to pass through it..
can marry man whose only means of
support is IN aged father. | can marry 4
man who boasts that any girl can he won
with the help of Il good tailor and an expert
tongue. | can marry such a man, but |
w-n.u-t"'
Year: 1879

Hardly any State in the union has
advanced and is advancing so rapidly
as Oregon, which has many advan-
tages over other western States in the
quality of the soil, the number of it's
navigable rivers, and the character of
its population. This is typifed by the
extraordinary growth of Portland, the
principal city, where it is said that
during the past year not less than
1000 new dwellings have been put
up, and fully 10000 persons have been
added to the population. The immi-
grafton thither has been extraordinary
in that time. The eastern quarter of
the State is rapidly settling, and to
this fact the Indian war of last sum
mer is partially ascribed. A number
of railways, mainly narrow gauge
roads to transport grain to tide water,
have been built there lately, and a
railway is now projected between AS
toria and Winnemucca, on the line of
the Central Pacific. Everything au-
gurs well for Oregon. The upper
region of the Columbia river seems
destined to be one of the great gran
aries of the west. The crops now
raised show a remarkable average per
acre of superior quality, and have
never been known to fail; but they
are probably insignificant in point of
productiveness, compared with what
they soon will be. There is vast
area of land Of unsurpassed fertility
between the Blue mountains in the
south and the Spokane river in the
north, and not one in fifty acres of it
has as yet been cultivated. A large
portion of the people who have settled
in Oregon are from New England, di-
rectly or indirectly, and have carried
to their new homes all the intelligence,
energy, thrift, perseverance and indus
try for which they have been noted.
The Oregonians are very unlike the
Californians in their freedom from a
recklessly speculative spirit. They
expect to make money only by legiti-
mate enterprise and honest labor, in
stead of by lucky chance-by turn Of
fortune, as their southern neighbors SC
commonly do. The growth and pros
perity of Oregon are solid; it's present
is most encouraging, and its future
full of promise.
Year: 1879

A few weeks since party under the
direction of the county road officials
were working the road leading down
the bluff from Albina to st. Johns.
While digging into the bank man by
the name of Ford found piece of COM
mon porcelain or pottery about one
fourth of II large dinner plate in size.
The question is, how came it therel 1t
was under Il bed of conglomerate gravel
five feet below the surface of the
ground and where there could be no
possibility !, of a land slide and in
ground SO hard that only the pick
can start it. When and where was it
madel That it is the manufactured
article there is no doubt, for it has the
enamel and other evidences, although
possessing an ancient appearance. Its
age is estimated all the way from three
hundred to three thousand years. Ev-
licences that our country bore a civili-
zation as old as any part of the earth
are being constantly discovered, and it
may be this piece of pottery which Mr..
Ford is carefully preserving as treas
ured relic may furnish a valuable link
i'll the chain that connects us with the
dim and shadowy part of our ancient
history. Portland Bee.
Year: 1879

The bursting of cannon on board
the steamship State ofCalJornia while
she was on the excursion to Santa
Cruz from San Francisco created a
greater fuss than was at first published.
The gun exploded, lifting itself of
the forward deck, smashed through
it and fell into, the hold. The second
officer Of the steamer had forefin-
ger blown off, as well as receiving
other general injuries on the other
hand.
Year: 1879

THE sufferings of unemployed wo-


men and children in manufacturing


towns in New and Old England are


greatly aggravated By tearfully cold


weather. 1t is great pity that these


mills are not on the banks of the Col


ado, where summer eniures through


nine months each year, where the nec-


essaries of life are of spontaneous


growth, and cold weather lasts hardly


long enough to make US appreciate de-


lights of the land we lnhabit. Very
certainly no more mills will be built in
New England by any manufacturer
who has ever seen Texas. Here food,
fuel, when the northwestern narrow
gauge is built; hides, cotton and
wool are cheaper than elsewhere
in the world, and here it costs a
laborer the least possible to live;
and yet New Englanders persist In
endeavoring to grow rich on bleak,
barren, frozen, stony hillsides when
the exuberant plains and valleys of
Texas and climate as faultless as
that which God breathed upon Para
disc invite them to the South. Cotton
and woolen goods must be manufac-
tured, and just as surely as men and
women continue to wear clothes, SO |
surely will the material for them
be prepared IN this city. When
it will be done depends upon
ourselves. We need the cheapest beet,
the cheapest and hls fuel; we Iced
cheaper routes to the sea; we need a
wider area of country tributary to the
capital. For these resources we must
depend upon ourselves. Nature has
done almost everything and our tasks
are light and easy, only requiring a
degree of cooperative force and action
for which we have not been properly
educated.
Year: 1879

roes of 177G when those of 1886 rise


up before us demanding q monopoly


of admiration and gratitude. Oar


patriotism, because of these facts, and


because of our homestead laws, is pc


culIarly local, and even so should


it be. And yet the ambition of party


leaders impels them to seek Federal


rather than State honors. Men use the


Governors office simply as trading
capital with which to buy seat in the


United States Senate. 1t is all wrong.


The Union should be ever main
tanned and iniestructible, and


will last till transformed into the
empire. Then we will begin to
discover how indispensable to local
and personal liberty is the cultivation
of this sentiment which the Herald ig-
nores when 1t writes poetry about the
battle of New Orleans. 1t should
rather chant requiem at the
gateway of the Alamo, a dirge
at Goliad and sing pGlns of
victory on the field of San Jacinto.
None object to historical recitations of
facts, but that to which the Herald
deyotes its space, for the noise that
was made about it, was the least i'm
portant, having the least consequences,
of any like event in American history.
1t made Andrew Jackson famous and
made him President. He gave pater-
nifty to the idea. ''to the victors belong
the spoils." His practice of It became
an approved habit of his party. He
thus made the country's offices rewards
for partisan zeal and thus were cor
rupted the very foundations of society
and government. We do not see,
therefore, that the victory at New Or
leans, save to the extent that we would
honor the names of a few men made
famous by it, should be recognized as
a holiday anywhere and least of all in
Texas
Year: 1879

A SENTIMENT, universal as it were,
comes from the West, as expressed
through representative men now as
sembling in this city, in favor of the
retention of General Steele in the po-
sition he Wills. The West claims
and asks nothing but protection,
and it is asserted that it has re-
ceived this under the administra-
ton of General Steele. He Is q
soldier of lifetime experience, under
standing fully the needs of the frontier,
and being a Western man his sympa-
thies lead him to extend the people of
that section all the aid in his pow
er. 1t is not asserted that Gov
ernor Roberts intends making q
change in the administration of the
Adjutant Generals department, tut in
view of the Inauguration of new
State administration these representa-
tives of the West wish to be heard. II
is matter in which they alone are in
terested, and they certainly consult
their interests when they urge the re-
tention of General Steele.
Year: 1879

The absolute slavery Of the padrone
system is shown by the statement Of
the young girl recently brought to New
York from Italy by one Siceo. On be-
ing questioned the other day she said
that Sicco bought her OF her father,
paying 200 francs, OF which 100 was
IN gold, and that her father told her
she no longer belonged to him, but TO
S Geo, and that she must 20 with the
latter wherever he went and do what
ever he said forever. The Society for
the Prevention OF Cruelty TO Children
has informed the padrone that he can
lot obtain possession Of her until he
can prove to the satisfaetion Of the au-
thorities that he has no immoral OBJ
ject In view In claiming her.
Year: 1879

JUST as soon as the United States
sad to the world, "bring in my pa
per; we are ready DOW to redeem ii
in gold" the holders said, "since it
is good as gold we prefer it to gold, T"
and there the matter rests. We heard
Greenbackers say last summer that
when resumption day came, there would
be standing army of 10000 srmsd
men in front OF the Treasury building
for weeks, demanding gold and silver
for paper. Greenbackers prophesied in
vain. There are ten gold dollars paid
into the Federal treasury for each one
withdrawn.
Year: 1879

Is emInently Family Medicine, and by being
kept ready for immediate resort will save MANY
an hour OF suffering and many dollar In time
and doctors bills.


After over Forty Years trial IL Is still receiv-
Ing the most unqualified testimonials to its vir-
tues from persons OF the highest character and
responsibility. Eminent physicians commend
IL as the most
Year: 1879

There is a lively excitement among the
reside nts of Rossvl!l- over the good for
tune of Christopher Meister, German
market gardener residing on the Lake
Farm on Lake Island, near the Sound
shore, r ssville. On Christmas day Mr.
Mester aud his son, while engaged in
digging pit in which to bury turnips,
in sandy spot near the shore, struck u
large stone about three feet below the
surface. Upon removing the stone, an
old-fashioned iron pot of the capacity o
peck was discovered, filled with wha
appeared to be large copper coins. They
at once removed the pot and its contents
to the house. Cleaning few pieces O.
the coin, which were black with age
they proved to be Spanish silver dollars
a number OF them bearing date as earl,
as 1743.-[ New York Star.