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Year: 1874

We believe that the method Of extort-
ing money from timid persons, black
mailing, is much more common than is
usually supposed. Almost every one, in
his own private experience, knows of in
stances Of this mode of swindlng. We
have In our memory the case of a
learned and eminent member of the
bar-a man by no means indifferent to
money-who was discovered, after his
death, to have paid money in blackmail
over a period Of fifteen years, although
he was entirely innocent of any offense.
There are many men to whom the very
threat Of scandalous accusation is
worse than the loss of any reasonable
amount of money they may be obliged
to pay.-Nep York Times.
Year: 1874

Of the owner was good, and subsequent
tax sale void. Secondly, that the p0bli-
cation Of therale adopted by the COM
missioners, refusing to receive the tax
from any one but the owner, vitiafed An
Year: 1874

Ii is admitted by every citi Ell that the taxes in


Delaware are lighter than in any other State On
the Atlantic scaboard. 1t is also admitted that


the government, of the State has encouraged mo-


rality and education, while crime is punished and
the civil law maintained in the most commenda.


Bile manner, and property protected and made Sc


cure. The cost of all Of which is made as light
as possible, while every mans liberty is guarded,
and not allowed to be abridged beyond that Of
his neghbor. Equal laws and equal taxation ale
guaranteed


This we sec is not the case in the states where
the Radical politicians haye been aided to power
by the procurement of negro votes to help them
rob the people they have been doing in the
Southern States.


In proof OF this we refer to the reports in the
newspapers from men of all parties, who pro
claim the government in many OF the Radical
States the "worst in the world" while all oi
those where the negro vote controls that party
are so odous that the original trainers of the
State governments, IL they could only see what
had been done with their excellent work, would
be Ailed with horror


Now the negroes in Delaware cast more votes
;or the Radical party than cast by white Re

pubIicnns for It. The negroes ara the majority OF
he Republican party, and that party 5 in favor
OF negroes being placed in our public schools,
and is, in fact in accord with the Civil Rights
bills now before Cohgress by Mr. Sumner and
Ben Butler. The aim OF this party in Delaware |
Is to secure the control OF the state by electing
lie Governor and the Legislature. If they Sc
care this maintain that the state viii be vir-
iualy under negro rule, and llay be Just as Ger
tainly robbed as South Carolina and Louisiana
have been. Those participating in the work shat
4ug heavy spoils theTeirom, while the owners Of
The land will have TO pay the interest all bonds
;sued and sold, and foot the bills, whatever they
MAJ be- Tie people must looE this matter in
he face in time: If once the nero gets hold he
nay be hard 10 shake OF hare c we'll as in the
South. it Is impocsltie to tell what that party
nay net do
Year: 1874

ANOTHER LEGACY TO THE CITY.-The late
Commodore Giles, it has just been made known,
has left to the city legacy Of 5000 for wood fol
the poor, as will be seen by the following extract
from his will % do also bequeath to the City
Council Of Wilmington, Delaware, (my native
place. the sum of $500 in the City Loan, which
shall be placed by them at interest until the said
sum shall amount to $500, say for ten years, al
compound interest The sun, then to be funded
and the interest thereon yearly applied to the
purchase Of fuel for the Use Of the poor and
needy residents Of said city, then to be disbursed
by the said Council, for the time being, as they
may direct"
Year: 1874

No citizen should refuse TO pay his water rents
before the 2sth OF February as after that date 5
per cent. will be added to all bills, making an
addition OF ten per cent. to their lace. Pay at
once
Year: 1874

ATTEMPT TO AssAssINATE A CONDUCTOR ON THE
N. C. r. R.-About quarter past six o'clock
on Saturday evening last dastardly attempt
was made to assassinate Robert McCleary, a
passenger conductor on the Northern Central
Railway. at Texas. On the previous evening
McCleary, whilst in charge of the same train,
elected drunken Irishman at the Relay House,
tor riotous and disorderly conduct, and on Sat
urday evening, whilst his train was stopping
at Texas, and whilst he was standing on the
platform of one of the cars, talking to brake
man, the man he had put off the car the even
ing before approached and drawing revolver
and taking deliberate aim at McCleary, fired.
Fortunately the ball went wide of its mark and
lodged in the end of the car, imbedding itself
to the depth Of several inches. The would be
assassin is named John Skelly or Skally, and
not been arrested.
Year: 1874

Fish BREEDING.-A lew days since Mr.. Alex
ander Kent, proprietor of Green Spring trout
ponds, received by express from California


about 10000 salmon eggs. This spawn has
been placed in one of the breeding ponds, and
it is hoped that Mr.. Kent will prove as success
full in his attempts to raise California salmon


as he has been in raising trout and bass. The
salmon spawn was received through the United
States Fish Commissioner. The result of the
experiment is watched with great interest by
every one in the State that is anxious to see our
waters stocked with better fish than at present.
Year: 1874

RoBBERY.-The Glen Rock Item of last week
saws: awe have been informed that on Mon.
day last the dwelling of Mr.. Geo. Gerbrlck
near Hoffman's paper mill, Baltimore county,
was entered and considerable sum of money
with other valuables, distracted therefrom.-
The william who perpetrsted the deed was a
white man in the disguise of a negro. He
drove the family from the house and then took
the money and other valuables and left. The
party has not been detected, but very strong
suspicious are centering on person not far
from the community where the villianous trans
action took place"
Year: 1874

AssAULTING A CONDUCTOR OF ONE OF THE Tow
soNTowN CARs.-Mr. George A. Galloway, one
OF the conductors on the Baltimore and Towson-
town railway, was brutally assaulted on Friday
night of last week, whilst in the discharge Of
his duties, by two men named Chapman and
Armiger, both living in or near Waverly.-
Galloway was running the car which leaves this
place at p. NJ, and which reaches Waverly
about TO- When near that place on the night
named two men hailed the car. but the driver,
Thomas Ewing, seeing that they were drunk


did not stop for them at once, which so incensed
one of the BEAUTIES that he rushed upon the
platform and dealt the driver blow in the
face. Galloway came to the drivers assistance
and hurled the assailant from the platform, and
the car proceeded to the city, without further
molestation. Chapman and friends determined
to have revenge for what had been done and
accordingly waited for the return of the same
car, which left Baltimore at | o. lock- When
it had reached the old Frsby mansion Chap
man and Armiger jumped upon the rear plat


form and the former rushed into the car, the
conductor meantime being busily engaged
counting his tickets and not noticing what was
going on, he was approached by Chapman who
dealt him heavy blow in the face, and the
two men then clenched and the tussle ended in
the assailant being hurled from the car a second
time, his friends also making themselves scarce.
Galloway received a cut on the head, over one
of his ears, but escaped further injury. Several
windows of the car were broken in the melee


The Company had warrants issued for the arrest
of the roughs, but strange to say, although they
have made no effort TO get out of the road, no
arrests have been made, which is rather a
strange proceeding, we think. Several other
par les besides those named above, but whose
names are not yet known, are implicated in
this transaction, and we sincerely hope they
may all be arrested and severely punished.
Year: 1874

BOARD OF PUBLIC INTERESTS The ordi.


nance which was passed by the Board Of
Aldermen on Mopdly night to provide a
Board Of Public Interests for the city of
Richmond was substitute from the COM
mittee on Ordinances for the ordinance to
establish Board Of Public Works. The
ordinance as it has passed provides that on
the Erst day of August after the organization
of each new Council the president Of the
Board of Aldermen shall appoint two mem.


bers and the president Of the Common Coun-
Gil three members from their respective


bodies, who, together with five citizens (of


whom two shall be appointed by the Board
of Aldermen and three by the Common
CounciD, and the President of the Common
Council (who shall be chairman er 0fcio),
shall constitute the Board of Public Inter-
ests. The duty of this Board will be to take
into consideration all works OF internal i'm
provement in existence, or which may be
projected from time to time; to look after
the commercial, industrial, and manufac-
turing interests Of the city; to watch over
and take care of its connections, means of
transportation and communication with
the rest OF the country and to make
such reports and recommendations as will in
their opinion best subserve the different in
terests of this city.
The ordinance now goes to the Common
Council which meets on Monday next, and
if passed by that body will be enrolled
and transmitted to the Mayor for his ap-
proval.
Year: 1874

General Imboden read letter from Gene
raj George l.. Howard, of Floyd county,
who said that if Richmond don't take some
interest in this matter that at the next meet
ing of the court application would be made to
rescind the order for taking the sense of the
voters on subscription to the road.


General Inboden thanked Mr.. Stearns for
his address. He agreed with him that the
road could be built from Richmond to the
Blue Ridge mountains for $4,000 per mile
possibly $4,000 mile. General Imboden
also said that not one of the narrow-gaug &c
roads in this country or Europe has been a
financial failure; and that the road under
consideration could easily be built tue rest
of the way if the first one hundred and
twenty miles can be built to the noun.
tains. West of that point the rich country
will almost furnish the means to complete
the road.


General Anderson at this point, and with
the consent Of the committee, Withdrew his
substitute offered at the last meeting OF the
committee.
Year: 1874

NO NoNsENSE.-Solomon, who was wise 10 q
proverb says there is time tor all things, and he
no doubt would, could he have lived at the present
day, in appropriaIing time to its legitimate OBJ
jects, have declared that now is the time to buy
tickets for the next and last Grand Gift Concert of
the Public Library Of Kentucky. He would have
done that very thing and been sure 10 secure sup
PLY for himself in time for he would know, as all
may know, that unless applied for Immediately they
viii all be goue. For tickets or information apply
to A. z. L'ECUYEK, 900 Bank street, Richmond,
Year: 1874

1t affords many Of our citizens much
pleasure to see that the Board of Aldermen
decided by a handsome vote on last Monday
to buy Chimborazo Hill for y public park.
Action had been long delayed. and scarcely
o man could be met without regard 70 lo..
Year: 1874

The condition OF the waters of some
of the rivers in this country, says the
Pail Mall Gazette, is now so horrible
that those who fall into them run the
risk, not 80 much of being drowned as
of being poisoned. This was the case
with an unfortunate man on whose
body an inquest was held by the
Coroner at Stafford. 1t seems the de-
ceased fell into the Irwell while looking
at the regatta and according to the
medical evidence the cause Of his death
was the foulness of the water. He had
been in the river about ten minutes
when he was helped out, but died in
forty-eight hours He was, it is stated,
teetotaller, and, probably being ac-
customed to drink pure water, the filthy
liquor he imbibed in the Irwell told
upon him with double severity. His
medical attendant, after detailing the
ailments from which the deceased
died, and which were caused
he said,> by immersion in the water,
mentioned that many of his (witness)
patients were suffering from illness
caused by inhaltng the noxious gases Of
the river while they watched the regatta
crews practlcng. Inc jury returned
verdict of accidental death; but death
under such circumstances can hardly be
called an accident 1t is positive GER
tainty that any person who even rolls
on the banks OF the Irwel incurs the
danger of death by disease, while those
who fall into what are termed its wa
ters y might as well plunge into bath
of nrussic acid This Is n distressing
state Of affairs to any bat those who
contemplate suicide, ana VINO, OF course,
delight in the double deadliness of this
filthy river. There will also be consid-
cradle amusement in Incorporate cir
cles at this additional prool-if, indeed,
any were needed-of the dangers TO
which water drinkers are exposed; nor
can there be any doubt that many per-
sons are driven to drink adulterated
Gin.
Year: 1874

From the Pottsville Miners Journal.l


A Phenixville maid, quite old, becom-
ing anxious as to matrimonial chances,
recently concocted a plan to deceive a
young fellow as to her age. This is the
way she tried it: The old family bible
contained faithful record of all births,
marriages and deaths. This volume the
maiden took to her chamber and select.
ing the birth page, she managed by dint
of scratching and writing to change the
date of her birth to period eleven years
later than that what 1T had legtimately
been recorded. Then the Bible was
placed on the sitting-room table in a
conspicuous manner. That evening
along came the lover He soon began
to finger with the pages, and finally
reached the birth record, where and when
he discovered to his surprise, that his
Angelina was just one year younger than
he. he thought it strange as she ap-
peared older He kept his mouth shut
and continued to tumble over the pages
Next be began reading the death list
and made the astonishing discovery that
the radiant maiden, according to the
bible, had actually been born ten years
after the decease of her father The
young man quietly arose and bid Ange-
lima goed-by, and now swears that
eternal vigilance is indeed the price of
liberty"
Year: 1874

A Geneva dispatch states that Father
Hyacinthe has written letter ia which
he says he gave in his resignation be-
cause he could not discuss questions
with men who confounded Radicalism
with Liberalism. He will remain in
Geneva, continue to preach there, and
await the election of Bishop aud
Synod--the only authorities he recog
nizes. He adds that he does not wish to
create a new church, but to introduce
reforms in the ancient church.
Year: 1874

n. B.-The residence and punctuaIity OF
this house for about half a century is another
guarantee Of the promptness by which all its
OBLIGATIONS will be met on the usual three
days notice. 1871
Year: 1874

A BILL has been introduced in the
National House OF Representatives
providing for levying a tax OF one-
twentieth OF one per cent. on all sales
Of bonds, stocks. gold and promissory
notes. The bill is said TO have grown
out OF careful 1or sideration Of the PROS
pective balance sheet Of the Govern
meut for the next fiscal year, and a
general conviction that the resources
Of the Treasury must be in some way
increased. The measure is much more
fsvorably received than any PROPOSE
ton for additional taxes that has been
brought forward this session, and ap-
pears to be an acceptable substitute for
the proposed reimpositiou OF the duty
on tea and coffee. Honestly collected
il is believed by persons conversant
with the transactions OF the New York
Stock Exchange, that it would yield
nearly 100000 8 day in that city
alone
Year: 1874

A new law in reference to truant chill
dren is about to go into effect in New
York city. 1t is designed to clear the
streets of the young vagrants who,
growing up without care, furnish many
recruits to the criminal classes. The
law gives the board of education au-
thority over all children between the
ages of 8 and IA who are found wander
ing about the streets and public places
during school hours, having no lawful
occupation or business, amt growing up
in ignorance. These children the
board may order to be taught in the
schools like ordinary pupils, or they
may be instructed in useful trades, or
they may be put in confinement and ed
ucated there. The agency of the police
force is availed for of the enforcement
of this new law.
Year: 1874

While certain forms of table etiquette
may seem altogether conventional, ever
fantastic, the forms usually observed
are founded on good sense and adapted
to general convenience. Table etiquette
is not, as is often alleged, merely q
matter of fashion, although some things
that were in vogue generation or two
ago are nolonger deemed polite. The rea-
son is that manners AMI table furniture
have undergone so many changes have
really so much improved, as to require
a mutual readiustment. For example,
everybody was accustomed twenty or
thirty years since to use the knife to
carry food to the mouth, because the
fork of the day was not idapted to the
purpose. Since the Introduction of the
| four-tined silver fork it has 80 entirely
the latter, in that way, is not only
superfuous, but is regarded as a vul-
garism.


uance of the custom of turning tea or
coffee from the cup into the saucer.
Although small plates we're frequently
not at all in general use and even





was likely to be spilled upon the cloth.


The habit, likewise, of putting ones
knife into the butter arose from the fact
that the butter-knife proper had not
been thought of. Such customs as
these, once necessitated by circum-
stances, are now obviously inappro-
pirate.


Certain habits, however are regulated
hUr on nd aR
and the failure to adopt them argues a
lack of fine perception or social insight.
One of these is eating or drinking audi
bly,. No sensitive person can hear any
one taking his soup, coffee, or other
liquid without positive annoyance. Yet
those who would be very unwilling to
stantly guilty of such breach of polite
sensitive as those with whom they come |
in contact. They would not be disturb |
ed by the offense; they never imagine, |
therefore, that any one else can be. It |
is for them that rules of etiquette are |
particularly designed. We're their in
stinct correct, they would not need the !
rule, which, from the absence of in
stinct. appears to them irrational, pure
~


To rest ones elbow on the table is
more than transgression of courtesy
it is an absolute inconvenience to ones
neighbors. All awkwardnesses of posi-
ton, such as sitting too far back from
or leaning over the table, are reckoned
rudeness, because they put others i'll at
ease through fear of such accidents as
are liable to happen from any uncouth-
ness.


Biting bread or cake, instead of cut
ing or breaking it into mouthfuls, is
since it offends our sense of
orm or fitness.


These and kindred matters are trifes;
put social life is so largely composed of
rifles that to disregard them wholly is
serious affront. We can hardly realize
O what extent our satisfaction or dis
is made up of things in
themselves insignificant until their OBJ
ervance or non-observance is brought
lirectly to us.-Scribner's Monthly.
Year: 1874

Mrs. Oliphant, in her recent novel,


" For Love and Life, shows her bound
less sympathy with all the griefs that
parents suffer from the self-will and
the wrong doing of children and she
touches one sorrow that is often borne


but seldom confessed, when she writes:


Many a volume has been written
about the love of parents, the love of
mothers, its enthusiasms of hope and
fancy, its alterations of the unworthy,
its agony for the lost 4; but do not re-
member that ary one has ventured to
touch upon still more terrible view of
the subiect-the disappointment, for
example, with which such a woman as l
have attempted to set before the reader
"a woman full of high aspirations,
noble, generous, and perhaps an IN
warrantable personal pride, all intensi


fed by the homely circumstances of
life around her-sometimes looks upon
the absolutely commonplace people
whom she has brought into the world.
She, too, has had her dreams about
them while they were children, and all
things seemed possible-while they
were youths, with still some grace and
freshness of the morning yelling their
unheroic outlines. But a woman of
seventy can cherish no fond delHsion
about her middle-aged sons and daugh-
ters. who are, to all intents and pur-
poses, as old as she is. What dismal
sense of failure must come into such
woman's heart while she looks at them
Perhaps this is one reason why grand
father and mothers throw themselves so
eagerly into the new generation, by
means of which human nature can al
ways go on deceiving itself. Heavens +!
what difference between the ordinary
man or woman of fifty and that ideal
creature which he, OR she, appeared to
the mothers eyes at fifteen The old
people gaze and gaze to see our old
features in us and who can express the
blank of that disappointment, the cruel
modification of those old hopes, which
never find expression in any words ?"
Year: 1874

atmosphere make them quite salient
enough against the ancient, sombre
back grounds of these picturesque old
towns the artist need not dress them
up in colors which their natural sense
of the fitness of things would Rpudiate."
Year: 1874

Darwin sinks no difficulty; and, sat


urated as the subject is with his own


thought, he must have known, better


than his critics, the weakness as we'll as


the strength of his theory. This, of
course, would be of little avail were
his object a temporary dialectic vic
tory, instead of the establishment of a
truth which he means to be everlasting.
But he takes no pains to disguise the
weakness he has discerne1; nay, he
takes every pains to bring it into the
strongest light. His vast resources en-
able him to cope with objections started
by himself aud others, so as to leave the
final impression upon the readers mind
that if they be not completely answered
they certainly are not fatal. Their neg
ative force being thus destroyed, you
are free 70 be influenced by the vast
positive mass of evidence he is able to
bring before you. This largeness of
knowledge and readiness of resource
render Mr.. Darwin the most terrible of
antagonists. Accomplished naturalists
have leveled heavy and sust aint d criti-
cism against him-not always with
view of fairly weighing his theory, but
with the express intention of exposing
it's weak points only. This does not ir-
ritate him. He treats every objection
with a soberness and thoroughness
which even Bishop Butler might be
proud to initiate, surrounding each fact
with it's proper relations, and usually
giving it significance which, as long
as it was kept isolated, failed to appear.
This is done without a trace Of ill
temper.


He moves over a subject with the
passionless strength of a glacier; and
the grinding of the rocks is not always
without a counterpart in the logical
pulverization of the ebjec or. But,
though, in handling this mighty theme,
all passion has been stilled, there is an
emotion of the intellect incident to the
discernment of new truth, which often
colors and warns the pages of Mr..
Darwin. His SUCCESS has been great;
and this implies not only the solidity of
his work, but the preparedness of the
public mind for such revelation
Popular Science Monthly.
Year: 1874

A backwoodsman, describing a
steamboat, said cit has a sawmill
on one side, a grist mill on the
other and blacksmith shop in the mid
die, and down stairs there's a tarnation
big pot boiling all the while.''
Year: 1874

"A man who goes to Kansas to settle
on a homestead must expect to eat roots,
sleep on the floor, fight gnats and get
away from the Indians for the whole
five years before he can begin to enjoy
lie.