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Year: 1879

MONDAY, Sept. 10 Il. M


II would be hardly nice thing 10 say tna' tne
bulls of last week had banked their fires over Sun
day in order to open the market with full head OF
steam upon Monday morning it not that the
course OF to-day's quotations very conclusively
shows that a further rise in prices WAS expected IL
not arranged for. As matter of fact. whether MADE
by brute force or as result of the swing upward
which controls the market nearly everything to-
day in the way of stock properties brought nlgher
prices than they did on Saturday This assertion is
to be made. however. with an occasional reserva-
ton. There no advance III either the
81 pan, common stock or in Western Union
Teleeranb Both were somewhat off color,
and inclined to be weak, the first because the i'm
preston prevails that. although at the forthcoming
meeting of directors handsome surplus or earn
Ings will be shown, it will be voted to defer divi-
dend on the common stock until next spring. and
the second the lawsuits at present existing
against the Western Union company and the oppo-
sition threatened by the new American Union con-
Germ bid fair not only to exhaust the existing cash
surplus but to materially damage the stock a
first class security upon the Stock Exchange. While,
from a bull standpoint, everything was festive
in general sense, there one or
two stocks that made the situation espe-
cally so. There a rise to 9O7S in Lake
Shore. for instance-a rather remarkable advance
for a stock notoriously hard to lift. 1t was ru-
mored that certain English capitalists who have
been lately flirting with this stock had decided to
purchase some $4,000 shares from prominent hold
ers pay for them and take them out Of the market.
Rumor further says that they have done so, and
upon this report, which we have reason to believe
possesses many grains OF truth, the rise to-day was
based. Another stock resusctated into speculative
life was the Chicago St. Louis and New Orleans Rail-
road, which from quotable figures at all was in
demand at 164 to-day. AS Southern outlet to
the Illinois Central road, by whom most Of
it's stock is held, it could not otherwise
than be benefited by the advance which has
lately attached to the latter property Union Pacific
advanced to s2s4. presumably upon its earnings
which for the first twelve days of September show
last year of S74,Ss2. Almost to the
end of the day prices in all stocks active and
higher at this point they looked somewhat frothy,
conveying the idea that If the bubbles blown off
there would not remain muchof the real fluid of a
genuine advance the bulls have lately been count
ing


The extreme fluctuations of the day In the prices
of leading stocks shown in the following table OF
Year: 1879

Mr.. James NJ. Swank, Secretary of the
Iron and Steel Association of the United
States, assures the Philadelphia Record
that there will be more iron and steel
manufactured in this country this year
than in any previous year. What is bet
ter, this large production is in answer to
the demand, and manufacture are not,
as in many past years, piling up stocks
in order to keep the furnaces in blast.
Prices have not advanced to any consid.
cradle extent, yet they are from ten to
fifteen per cent. higher than last fall,
when figures were lower than ever before
in this country. The Secretary expects
that the activity which prevails to-day
in all branches of the iron and steel trade
will continue for at least a year to come.
Nearly all the favorably situated rolling
mills are in operation, and numbers Of
these mills, as well as furnaces and steel
works, have orders ahead for several
months to come.
Year: 1879

An alarm of fire was sounded about five
minutes after u o'clock, this noon time,
from Box No. 03, calling the engines to a
small blaze in the roof of Bush's sausage
factory, on Vine, opposite Fourteenth
street. The fire originated around the
smokestack and was put out in five min
utes, before any amount of damage was
done.
Year: 1879

Yesterday while James Wright col.
ored waiter at the Clayton House, with
a curiosity peculiar to gents of his pro-
fession, was meditatively intent in con
sidering the metaphysical analogy of
cause and effect rs evnced in the me.
chanical operation OF the new elevator,
he was unfortunate as to get his head
caught between the elevator proper and
the partition. The position was an EN-.
barrassing one to James The machine
had him fast, SO fast in fact that he
could feel the bones crushing beneath
the pressure. The effect was such a
practical one that the relative philO
sophical consider alton which cause had
in the matter was wholly lost sight oil
in the more pressing question how to
get his head out without scraping oil
the scalp. Fortunately James had hold
of the rope which operated the machine,
and as the machine squeezed his cran-
ium he unconsciously olntched tighter
to the rope which unconscious action
had the effect of stopping the progress
of the elevator. When taken ont James
was in a serious plight, and owing to
the lop sided appearance sf his head it
was thought that the injuries would
prove fatal. DR.. Blocksom was called
in and examined the wounds and found
the injuries to consist of several scalp
ahrasions and few cuts under the
jaw. James knowltdge in relation to
the mod0s operandi of machinery in gen
eral, and the Clayton House Elevator
in particular, has been materially
strengthened.
Year: 1879

The seats for the matinee to morrow
afternoon are only fifty and twenty-five
cents. All lovers of the attractive, and
those having an appreciation for good
music should attend. The rendition
Of Pinaf,re by this young company Is
something extraordinary. The little
folks would be perfectly delighted with
the performance while older ones could
not but be as effectively entertained
The matinee will commence at three
o'clock. All the performers numbering
about eighty will be members OF th'
troupe, and the parapharnalia will be
the Same as that used at the theatre
in Philadelphia.
Year: 1879

This morning while James Richard
son, a lad employed in the REPUBLICAN
office to run the Gordon machiUery, was
engaged in feeding the card press, he
was so unfortunate as to have his hand
caught between the bed and plate
Before the press could be stopped an
impression was taken, which broke one
finger and laid open the flesh of the
fore and little fingers. The wounds
were s.wed up and the broken member
reset by DR.. Cahall, after which the
injured boy was taken to his home No
2Oj Poplar Street.
Year: 1879

The Ladies' Temperance Aid had a
very fair audience at their meeting last
night over Crosby x Hill's store to hear
Enoch Stubbs of the Central NJ. Il.
church, Philadelphia, lecture on ''the
hope of our cause" The Rev. gentle
man always eloquent and earnest was
remarkably so last night, and handled
the subject with such marked ability
that the audience felt sorry when he
closed The lecture was brilliant with
illustrations and his witty thrusts kept
the audience in a very pleasant frame
of mind all evening. The music by the
choir of Riddles chapel during the
evening was admitted by all.
Year: 1879

The first day of May will be one long
remembered by the pupils of Brandy
wine Seminary, who with their teach
ers and few friend!, spent the day on
the Brandywine.


Abundant provisions Of everything
that could tempt the appetite had been
provided, and the day was given up to
feasting and athletic sports. All re-
turned in the evening thoroughly tired ,
but delighted with the pleasure Of the
lav
Year: 1879

That was very gallant answer to
the question OF the lovely girl. 9" II
yen were not yourself whom would you
like to be ~ she asked. lie looked
straight into her eyes and quietly re,
piled. yours truly
Year: 1879

DAIRY MO. 2s EAST 10Th ST.. HAVE FOR SALE


Dan assortment Of light and heavy second hand
for also n selection of Wagons The re-
pairing and doing Of fine carrisees specially NO
charge for carriages left with for repairs dur
he
Year: 1879

Don't go to the theatre, concert or ball,
But stay in your room tonight;
Deny yourself to the friends that call
And good long letter write
Write to the sad old folks Mt home
Who sit when the day is done,
With folded hands and downcast eyes
And think of the absent one.
Don't sclfishly scribble excuse my haste,
I've scarcely the time to write,''
Lest their brooding thoughts go wandering back
To many by-gone night
When they lost their needed sleep and rest,
And every breath was prayer
That God would leave their delicate babe
To their tender love and care.
Don't let them feel that you've no more need
OF their love or counsel wlse
For the heart grows strongly sensitive
When age has dimmed the eyes.
1t might be well to let them believe
You never forget them, quite;
That you deem 1t a pleasure, when far away,
Long letters home to write.
Don't think thst the young and giddv friends,
Who make your pastime gay,
Have half the anxious thought for you
That the old folks have to-day.
The duty of writing do not put off.
Let sleep or pleasure wait,
Lest the letter for which they looked and longed
Be day or an hour too late.
For the sad old folks at hsme,
With locks fast turning white,
Are longing to hear from the absent one
Write them letter tonight.


National Baptist.
Year: 1879

In recent address, President Spofford,


OF the Iowa State Agricultural Society, gave


these counsels: Having chosen vocation,


whether on the farm, or Office, or workshop,


stick to'it. No matter what mans posi-
| tion is, he will row and then become dis


satisfied. The farmer will envy the


preacher, the physician will envy the black
smith, the merchant will envy the teacher,


and the carpenter will envy the lawyer.


A word to you all, my friends Be content;


not that you should sit down solidly and


never aspire to higher position or a nobler
plane of life. There is discomfort that is


divine, and you should heed it's warnings:


but you should strive to excel in that posi-


tion which you haYe chosen. Let the far


ner become better farmer, by reading,


by observation, by association with farmers


that know more than he does. Let the
physician become better doctor by having
big library on his shelves, and bigger
one in his brain. Let tho carpenter be a
better mechanic, aud sho ing his Jack
plane, at the same time consider the grand
principles on which his art is founded and


from the carpenter let him become the
designer, the architect, and let him build
his own monument in structure that will
endure long after all less nobler things have
perished. One other thought: l am GER
tain that none can succeed who are not
willing to work. Every man must work.
Some people have stolen living, and found
a penitentiary or dishonored name.
The hour, the darkest hour, the most ter
rible hour that ever came into the life of a
young man or woman, is that particular |
hour when he or she thought to have dol
lar without fairly and squarely earning it
by work of hand and brain, and earning it |
honestly. The devices of men to get
money by wonderful schemes, are as numer-
GUS as the blades of grass avoid every one
of them! Work, solid, intelligent work,
will always win. 1t will bring gold to
your treasury it will add to your flocks,
and fields, and merchandise and trade.
Nhat9 Work will do more than bring
gold 1t will bring happiness, peace, joy,
blessedness !! 1t will give you good diges
ton, sound sleep, magnificent appetite,
honor, power, glory and children's children
to rise up and call you blessed. But idle.
ness will clothe you with rags, and these
rags will be full Of every sort of filth ana
vermin that will exclude you from that
heaven which You can enjoy now and here
by steady. intelligent, persistent work.
Year: 1879

1 The London correspondent of the New


York Hsratd reviews work lately issued


from an English publishing house. Its


author is said to be the worst type of q


eonceited. prejudiced, stuck-up'' Eng
lish cad; and the only redeeming feature OF


tho work Is the manner in which it is


bound. The correspondent says: For a


general and sweeping view of the manners


and customs OF our country people / CON-


mend the following -


The expressions in constant use by


Americans sounds strange to foreign ears.


Everything is elegant" You ask, sis


not this q beautiful day?" Elegant,


that's to, is the reply, and if you state
any fact they are unaware of they always
answer, Is that SO ?'' They always ad-
dress one another as madame and sir. They
never carry travelling bag but carry q


g Hsatchel." They never think, but always


g guess . or calculate They say
" bo'kay" for boquet. A very common
way of ending sentences in this country is
the word "some 5heres'' or anyhow"
Their inciyility is most astonishing, for if
you hand them anything, or open the door
for ladies entering or leaving room, 1t
never strikes them to say "Thank you"
! can forgive them many things, but two
] never can get over one Is the constant
use of spittoons, which are as much piece
of furniture IN room as a table or chair;
and the other is the use of the werd rare"
At all meals you are asked the question
Will you have your beef we'll done or
rare9" It is quite enough to spoil the
best appetite, and to me sounds very dis
gusting. There are no such things as seal
skin Jackets " in this country-they are
seal skin "sacques." Anything more aw-
full than the meals at the various stations I
never saw-indeed, they are perfectly un-
eatable and very expensive, always four
shillings; and as for your companions,
probably on either side of you will be
workman without coat or waistcoat, help
ing himself to the common salt cellar and
mustard pot with his own knife and fork,
and not unfrequently with his fingers
Slices of cheese they always break off with
their fingers, and as rule never take
themselves the piece upon which is the
mark of their own dirty hands. How this
kind of people can afford themselves the
three meals a day at four shillings each
my comprehension. Had come
straight from Japan my manners learnt
there would have made me ready


TO shine in courts,
such is the perfection of courtesy in the
meetings, greetings aud all .interchanges of
civilities in that much favored Land but |
via America you must not be
shocked if / commit some terrible atrocity |
some of these days. By the time get |
back / shall have quite forgotten how to
behave.


At Niagara Mr.. Wylie made the original |
ind startling discovery that "going un-
ierneath the falls you get very wet"
Year: 1879

4
went to Waterloo station to see the


last of young Louis Napoleon, who is off to


the Cape to have a look at the Zulns. He


was accompanied, as you know, by Eugenie


as faras Southampton. 1t really gave ma


pang to behold this once peerless beauty,


to whom was presented in the days of


her utmost splendor, both of fortune and of
fame. have often seen her since. and
haye noted to you the various changes
time has wrought on that once unsurpassa.


BILE loveliness. But on this occasion. really
her appearance was SO pathetic that it
made the tears spring to my eyes. She


was attired in style which we ladies' nm
derstand as half mourning, and carried in
her beautifully nodded hand large bo.
quet of early spring violets, the chosen en-
blem OF the Napoleonic dynasty, and the
odorous harbinger for all of us of lovely
days to come anon. Her hair is still the.
beautiful blonde so inseparably connected
with her name, and this is something that
puzzles me, unless accept the explanation
which has been given by some observers
that she wears wig. Certainly there is
not thread of gray visible. Otherwise
she is aged indeed. She looks positively
haggard, pale as ghost, her dropping, fa-
tigued eyes encircled with the blue rings OF
care and anxiety. Her faded appearance
formed a great contrast with that of her
son, rosebud of a young fellow, in the
first bud of joyous youth, up to anything
you like, you know; and evidently just
bubbling over with pleasureable excite
meme at the thought of going out to the
seat of war with numbers of the greatest
"swelis " in the British army, One has
only to see these two relics of the imperial
shipwreck to fully understand what fear
full sacrifice it must be for Eugene to give
up her son, even for the short period of
four months, which is supposed to be the
length of his stay in Africa. She is the
French mother to the very letter, quite
different being from an English Or Ameri-
can maternal parent. She has no sang
troid with him her eyes are necessarily
upon him idolatry is legible in every
glance. Tear, sobs and fainting ats have
succeeded each other almost uninterrupt-
edly, while cries of 80, mon fls, mon fits,
ehers ~ have wrung the hearts of her list
ening attendants.
Year: 1879

Life las burden for every mans shoulder


Some may escape from its trosble and care:
Miss it in youth and twill come when we're older.


And fit us as close as the garments We wear.
Sorrow comes into our lives unlimited,


Robbing our hearts of their treasures of song;
Lovers grow cold and friendships are sighted,


Yet some somehow or other we worry along.
Everyday toll is an everyday blessing,


Though poverty's cottage and crust we may share :
Weak is the back on which burdens are pressing,


But stout is the heart that is strengthened by PRAYER
Somehow or other the pathway grows brighter


Just when we mourn there were none to befrlend;
Hope in the heart makes the burden seem lighter,
And somehow or other we get to the end.
Year: 1879

santa Fe paper gives 10 years. sab
scription for mule and two for a dog


Free Press. 1.-TWO mules P)-Neeada STATE
journal.


A New York lithograph firm is getting
out design for the heading of divorce
certificate. 1t represents Cupid beating out
his brains with law book.-Bufalo Er-
press.


The New Orleans Picayune says that old
age needs an easy chair and pair of slip
pers. Yes, and youth needs pair of
knees and only one slipper.-Nep York
Herald.


The man who will willingly pay ten
dollar bet without grumbli ng will 20 liter
ally wild when he discovers that twenty
cent piece has been palmed off on him for
quarter.


The men who read the Declaration of In
dependence at Fourth of July celebrations
are generally bachelors. Married men are
apo to look upon independence as fraui.
Saturday Night.


!" 1t don't feel good when man goes into
the pantry and attempts to dive his hand
down to the bottom of the jar where the
fried cakes are kept, to plunge it into foot
Of raspberry jam. It isn't good for the lam
either" That's jam lie.


A new opera, called "The Phantom of
the Sleeping Car" is to be produced soon.
1t is by Wagner, and will be in charge of
an experienced conductor. It will be given
nightly, and probably have long run. Its
birth will be hailed with rail pleasure.
Tickets may be had at all railroad stations.
Whitehall Times.


A gentleman addresses another gentle
man whom he doesn't know, at a party
This affair is awfully stupid let's 90 out
and take drink" "I would like to do
it," was the reply, but can't leave very
WELL" "Why not ?" "Why, you see,
am the one who is giving the party.o-
Saturday Night.


A short time ago, little boy went with
his father to see colt. He patted the colt
on the head and made quite fuss oyer it,
until finally the stable man told him to be
careful that the colt did not turn rourd and
kick him. When the little chap went home
his mother asked him what he thought
about the colt. "I like him pretty WE'LL"
was the reply. 9; He's real tame in front,
but he's awful wild behind.n
Year: 1879

SECRETARY SHERMAN's declination to
be a candidate for Governor of Ohio, is
of more political significance than cas-
ually appears on the surface. 1t shows
that the Republicans of Ohio are not
afraid to enter the contest with any of
the good men mentioned as a candidate
and that they do not need Secretary Sher-
man to pull them through by sheer
force and popularity. If Mr.. Sherman
really thought that it was necessary
for him to be candidate to save the
State he would not for moment hest.
tate to have allowed the use of his
name. 1t is not only in Ohio that the
Republicans have recovered from the
apparent decentralization into which
they had fallen, but all over the north
they are assuming hold and aggrts
siye front. If elections we're to be held
in all the northern States this coming
fall. there is not one ofthem but would
give large Republican majority
Though it is advisable for the Republic
licans at all times to put the best men
at the head Of their tickets, there is nc
occasion for Secretary Sherman to leave


the head of the Treasury department
where he has done 50 much good, to


save the State OF Ohio. She is safe 70,
the Republicans now anyhow.
Year: 1879

There has been much said about
mixing what are called innocent amuse


ments with religion, but many thought
full church members who have been
watching the results have been CON-
PEELED to declare that the experiment
so far as making people who indulge in
amusements more pious, has not been
a success. The monthly evening gath
ering in the churches in time becomes
only an evening party, and if held in
the home parlor they soon become
monotonous and tiresome unless some
thing is mixed up in the entertainment
that worldly people delight in. Usually
to give more variety to the entertain
ment, every desire that an ordinary
imagination can plan is brought for
ward, and readings, tableaux, dramatic
performances, comic songs and illustra'
ted lectures with a stereopticon are
made to follow each other in quick sue
cessien through the season. "Zion's
Herald, " one of the best and most con-
sistent religious periodicals of the day,
says that with all this expense of time
and money, the young people are by no
means weaned from love for other
and more exciting entertainments. In
deed, the appetite for the latter seems
to be developed and fed by those mimic
performances-and poor limitations at
that, Of better things. They soon come
to prefer the cultivated music of the
opera, the excitement of more fashiona-
BILE companies, the dramatic perfor-
mances of the theatre and the finer
readings of professional elocutionsts.
An unconquerable desire is awakened
for public entertainments, and all in


terest in the quieter services of the so.
cial meetings and in Christian work is


lost in the fervid pleasures that attend


the crowded halls of music or the drama
Year: 1879

We invite the business men OF Will
mington, and indeed of the whole State,
to pay the REPUBLICAN press room a
visit and see for themselves the large
editions of our daily run off on our
Campbell railroad press. Come and


see and then make comparisons. The


following is the daily edition OF the RB'
PUBLICAN since Saturday last, inclu-
Year: 1879

WE WOULD call the special attention
OF our readers to the "Perpetual Saw
ings and Loan Association" plan, pub
lished in another column which is said
to possess many advantages over the
old loan associations. The names of the
gentlemen signed to the article are a
sufficient guarantee of the honesty Of
the orignators and that the new plan
will be a success.
Year: 1879

fact that when we advertise our goods in as
strong words as We have done, that the pub
lie will expect very superior goods at very
low prices. So please put our assertions to
test by coming and seeing tor yourselves.
Year: 1879

tunnels as the Altoona and Bergen,
which are dashed through by from
one hundred and eighty heavy
trains day up, a series of concus-
sions which Is calculated to de-
tach blocks Of stone and other
debris much more suddenly than
any percolation of water In the San
Fernando tunnel will or can. Only
feur trains day pass through the
latter, two each way, and they take
exactly nine minutes in making
the mile and quarter. The shock,
therefore, as compared with that
which is daily sustained by East
ernland European tunnels, amounts
to scarcely bagatelle. 1t is only
Justice to the company to state
that 1t has been unremitting in its
vigilance to protect the lives of the
public, and it is also simple justice
to our people that travellers should
not be deferred from CO ming to
Los Angeles by exaggerated ideas
Of the dangers Of the trip.