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Year: 1879

Special Correspondence Of the Republican.


DOVER, DEL, May 2lst, '79.


There was quite stir here yesterday
among the fruit growers caused by the
report that the peach crop OF this conn
ty which was so promising would be al
most total failure. Many Of the Or
chards we're examined and reports re-
ceived from all parts of the county, all
of which went to confirm the report
TO all outward appearances the peaches
are perfect but when closely examined
they are found to be rotting. The
late fros,s are supposed to be the cause.


The stock of Mr.. J. II Paynter for
Attorney General is going up in this
county every day and from the present
outlook he will make hard fight. Mr..
Paynter will make good and efficient
officer.


Our police court last night was the
scene of great excitement, there being
before His Honor grave caseof assault
with intent to kill. The prisoner was
held to bail at $500.


Richard Harrington left on the early
train this morning for New York. MIR.
Harrington went on business concerning
the Delaware State Fair.


From the present statues ere the
waning days OF Autumn herald the ap-
proach of winter, the unmarried men-
bers of tie Kent county bar will be few.


Boating upon the placid bosom of our
beautiful lake, lettering along the
wooded bauks of our winding creek,
gathering inspiration from the low
toned voice of poetic maidens will in
time make plastic .he chilled affections
of digntied lawyers.
Year: 1879

Yesterday afternoon Michael Glenn,
an employee in the p. w. & B. Rail l.
road company machine shops at the
depot, met with painful accident losing
the first joint of the forefnger OF the
right hand it being caught in hosting
apparatus. DR.. Draper performed a
surgical operation at his office and the
unfortunate man was taken to his
home in BrowntOwn. He is a married
man with large family of small chill
drpn.
Year: 1879

Napoleon ! said 81 had rather
have the press with me than million
bayonets ~, and Hume, "The liberty
Of the press and the liberty of the peo-
pie must stand or fall together. +"
Wendell Phillips once said what
gunpowder did for war, the printing
press has done for the mind and the
statesman is no longer clad in the steel
of special education, but every reading
man is his judge"
Year: 1879

St. Mary s Church congregation will
give musical entertainment in the
basement of the church on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday Evenings of
next week. There will also be a straw
berry festival given in connection with
this
Year: 1879

The handkerchief and glove filtration
have done good service in their way. but
they are only for the use of lovers and
young people. For some time there has
been Il great want of something of the
kind to fit tramps A fertile Drained geni-
us has got up IA boot filtration. intended
especially for those who are pestered by
tramps. 1t runs something like the fol-
lowing:


One step forwar1-Tramp beware.


Two steps forward = Cut your story
short.


Right foot lifted few inches from the
ground-J nave nothing for you.


Right foot extended back kWard-Get out
side the gate.


Right foot brou ht swiftly forward and
planted firmly under coat tail of tramp
Leave the premises instantly. and advise
all your friends to steer clear of this
house.


1t may be well to state that the Irritation
cannot he carried on with success unless
the tramp is a much smaller man than you
are
Year: 1879

THOUGHT 1T MADE NO DIFFERENCE
"That tenon does not fit the mortise by a
quarter of an inch" said IN employer to
a young carpenter who had just begun to
work for him.


81 thought that for a garden gate YOU
would not be- particular, and it would make
no difference" answered the youfg man.


But it did make difference. 1t made
just the difference between the young car.
penter having steady sdmmer job at good
wages, and having his time unoccupied
upon his hands.


The employer found no further fault :;
but when the gate was finished he paid
the maker without another word and dis
missed him. The next lay there was an.
oeher man in his place He happened to
be man who thought it did make differ
ence how everything was done; he always
did his best, and he kept his situation until
the end of the season.


So it happeusI frequently some little
thing which was not expected to attract
attention, is noticed by some one to whom
the excellence of the work has commended
itself, and the man who has made pains
taking the rule Of all his labor is surprised
by sudden and unlooked.for accession TO
good fortune. nde has been brought into
note by some unconsidered triie, which
was done merely because it was his habit to
Do everything as we'll as possible.
l''On the other hand, many man who is
lamenting his i'll fortune, and don't know
what to attribute 1t to, owes it to some such
carelcssness 10 the way of doing his work
as that which doomed the young carpenter
to summer of idleness.
Year: 1879

SETTING HENs.-This month all the
hens should be set that become broody as
rule, there are no chicks so hardy as March
chicks; then the pullets that are hatched
this month are the ones to save for winter
layers.


SET HENS at night in a room by them
selves. Before setting, examine to SEQ if
they have any lice on them or not if they
have, give them good sprinkling Of insect
powder or -four Of sulphur; be sure that it
goes through 10 the skin, and give an extra
dose under the wings and at the root of the
tail. Then put the hen on her nest with
a piece Of old carpet or bag over her, which
in the morning, remove. See that she has
fresh water, dust bath, fresh food and
lime whore she can get at it Whenever she
feels 80 inclined. Plaater and Farmer.
Year: 1879

PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS
Nothing but ultimate ruin stares that far
mer in the face who does not pay personal
attention to the minute details Of his farm.
There are thousand small leaks about the
management of an ordinary farm, that, if
not closely attended to, will surely bring the
most hard-working farmer to ruin and
bankruptcy. A large portion of the farm
ers can attribute their present condition to
no othericause than lack of close atten-
tion to the small details of the farm. Close
supervision Of tho machinery, tools, stock
and their feed, place for everything and
everything in its place. No hired help is
as much interested in attending to these
duties as the farmer himself-such q course
would in few months or years at most,
enable many farmers who are now on o
down hill grade to again begin to ascend,
and if perssrved in will surely make head.
way against what would otherwise look
doubtful.-Mane Farmer.
Year: 1879

Everybody is willing to say his prayers
when he is in q tight fix and sees no other
way out. The Lord is the, last resort of some
people, and their religion is after the fashion
Of the sailor, who prayed andisaid, 20 Lord i,
l haven't asked anything Of you for fifte IN
years, and if you'll get me ashore I won t
ask anything for fifteen years more" The
little shoeblaok also had system of theol-
ogy after which great many take pattern.
He told an enquiring missionary that he
always said his prayers at night because he
was asleep and didn't know what might
happen but never in the morning because
any bright boy can take care Of himself in
the daytime.
Year: 1879

IF cat doth meet cat upon a garden
wall, and If q cat doth greet q cat, O, need
they both to squall2 Every Tommy has his
Tabby waiting on the wall, and yet he
Welcomes her approach with yawl. And
il a kitten wish to court upon garden wall,
why don't he sit and sweetly smile, and
not stand up and bawl; lift bis precious
back up high and show his teeth and moan,
as If 'twerc collie more than love that made
that fellow groan?
Year: 1879

l venerate old age; and I lovc not the
man who can look without emotion upon
the sunset of life, when the dusk of even.
ing begins to gather over the watery eye,
and the shadows Of twilight grow broader
and deeper upon the understanding. Long.
fello,o.
Year: 1879




PBBPARINas Corn LAND.--Where bot
tom lands exist, they belong as a matter of
course to the corn crop. But ia compara.
lively few instances has their full capacity
been realized. This is never done until
the water level-taat is, the point at which
water may generally be found by sinking
hole in the grounds some three feet be-
low the surface. This can onlv be accom>
plishod by deepening the main branch or
water channel until it is as many feet below
the level Of the lower portions of the
land. Oft-tlmes such deepening of the
main channel will effectually drain piece
OF bottom, without any additional ditchipp.
In other cases where bold springs arise re.
mote from ths.msia ditch = Ascislsy if
close pipe clay fGtervents, sfde OF drain
bitches must be cut. To avoid loss of land
these should always be blind or covered
Ii not hitherto attended to, such ditching
should be done at once, that surplus water
may have ample time to run out before
planting time. Another important point is
to protect bottom lands from being flooded
with water from the hill sides IF not thus
protected they receive double portion of
the rain fall and with less facilities usually
for surface drainage, necessarily require a
longer time to dry off, With proper drain.
ing and protection against surface water from
adjacent hills, bottom lands would dry oft
and become ready for the plough, almost as
soon as upland. Such result would great.
ly facilitate farm work and by permitting
an earlier planting of corn materially in.
crease the crop.


UDlands should be bcdded with scooters.
the water furrow afterwards opened with
wide, rather short shovel, aud corn and
manure put in water furrow. A very high
bed and deep sinking of the waite riurrow
into the subsoil. are not desirable, hence
bedding with scooter is suggested The
water furrow in which the corn is planted
ought to be Sufficiently wide TO admit of the
seed being covcrd by two burrows of small
plough, making a narrow ridge and keeping
water from settling over the grain. In all
early paintings cover the seed very ligtly
and throw dirt to the young plants very
slowly in tho early stages of cultivation
Experience has shown that light nippings
by frost no not iniure Compliant there
fore just as soon as the danger of freezes is
over. When the portion Of plant above
ground is retarded in growtltsby cold-it
seems to develope better root system
hence our best crops of wheat in cold win
ters--hence the superiority of carly
sown to late sown oats. 1t is said that oats
require t,co months at least of cool or cold
weather to make good crop. They mature
the stalk and grain in very hot weather, but
they form the roots mainly in cool weather.


AS two chances of striking good seasons
are better than one, we always advise that
a portion of the corn crop be planted with
some early variety. The "early golden
dent" from Pennsylvania, has proved very
good variety for this purpose, in this region
Of country.-Southcrn Cultivator.
Year: 1879

The Hon. Lewis Lindsay at this point in
formed the Convention that in accordance
with instruction he had waited upon Msior
Poe and asked him for Q detail OF police to
keep OF der about the hall. He had the
pleasure of reporting that Major Poe said
that the police would - be forthcoming,
and we will he accommodated both night
and day."
Year: 1879

An accident which caused the death of
man under water occurred at the Bat
terry this morning Several persons were
engaged in the attempt to rise sunken
anchor. and John Jenkins, a diver, was
let down into the water from q small
boat. He was encased in diving suit,
and was supplied with air for breathing
BY On apparatus in the boat worked by
two men. BY some means the tube
which furnished the air burst. He
sienalled to the men in the boat to pull
him up. bus they mistook the signal.
he pulled the line again and they raised
him up. He was struggling to free him.
self from the heavy iron helmet about
his head, aud his motions indicated that
he was dying from sufRoation. When
the helmet was removed he Was dead.
The blood had gushed from his nose and
mouth. and his last moments must have
been filled with terrible suffering. N.
Y. Mail.
Year: 1879

[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD


OTTAWA, Ont Dec. 0, 1879.
The following is an extract from letter received
from friend of the victim at Fort Walsh. relative
to the death Of mounted policeman Graburn. re-
Gently shot Cypress Hills:-


On Monday, 17th November. he was last seen alive.
Il appears that he took his horse and gun to and
get picket rope and which he had left about
four miles from the fort. party started
out to search for him on Tuesday. While
searching marks Of blood were found on
the snow. and his body was found in o
sort OF gully, where he had been thrown after he
was shot. His horse found wedged In between
two trees. shot dead. with the bride and saddle
Graburn's hat found stuck in the tree him
with bullet hole in il and smeared with blood. SO
the Indians must have shot him from behind. His
ammunition was lying scattered around on the
ground, along with his belt and pouch Nothing
was taken but his carbinc and knife. The body was
buried to-day"
Year: 1879

In attacking the tenement house system, New York philanthropists are striking at last at the chief evil of our city life It is absurd to attempt the christianization or even the civ ilization of the half million savages who bur row in tenement houses, so long as they remain exposed to the pestilential atmosphere of such mode of life. Thence comes the gangrene which eats the morality out of our cities and winch will continue to do so, as long as these schools of vice are permitted to exist. The speakers, lay and clerical, who have been deal ing with this subject for the past week, state facts which make one wonder that New York should have ever escaped the Tweed tyranny. With half her population crowded into these noisome holes. we can hardly see whence came the majority of decent voters who overthrow a regime so solidly founded on the vices of the tenement house system. The respectable citizen of New York will do we'll to abolish the tenement house before the tenement house gets strong enough to abolish him.
Year: 1879

A special session of Congress has become necessary from the attaching of amendments to the appropriation bills, abolishing test oaths and election supervisors and forbidding the presence of soldiers near the polls. by the Democratic House. There could not be much reasonable objection to the two first amend ments but we think the Republicans were right in insisting upon some federal supervis- ion of elections. The presence of supervisors is a valuable check upon the frauds too often practieed by those having control of the state machinery
Year: 1879

The young Prince Napoleon goes to South Afr5c2 te take part in the Zulus war as vol E1seez- If does not seem to be much of war tr the schooling of successor of Napoleon I.

 The kl allowing railroads to do telegraph ssGs0esS which has just passed Congress is a Eua tO the present telegraph monopoly that DOaSPJ6e< gre nOt now ID special favor.
Year: 1879

The devil sat by the rivers side
The streaia OF Time, where you'll always find
Casting his line in the rushing tide,
And landing the fish on the bank behind


him.
He sat at ease in n coy nook,


And was filling his basket very fast;
While you might have seen that his deadly


hook


Was differently baited for every cast.
He caught EN- as fast as a man could count;
Little or big, it was all the same.
One bait was cheque for round amount;
An Assemblyman nabbed it, and out he


came.
He took gem that as Saturn shone;
Ii sank IN the water without sound,
And caught woman who long WAS known
As the best aud purest for miles around
Sometimes he would laugh, and sometimes sing,
For better luck no ore could wish:
And he seemed u know, To Il dead sure thing,
The bait best suited to every tSa.
Quoth Satan: THE fishing is rare and fine, !"
And he took 4 drink, somewhat enthused;
And vet parson SWAIN rGunt the line
That cen the most tempting of bats refused.
He tried with his gold and flashing gems,
Hun. fame and fortune upon the line,
Dressing gowns with embroidered hens,
But still the Dominic made no sign.
A woman's garter went on the hook;
Il have him at last, quo.h the devil, bright


enIng;
Then Satans sides with laughter shook,
And he landed the preacher As quick as light


uIEg.
Year: 1879

THE Paraguayan government has I'M
posed a tax Of So year upon all single
men between the age OF % and 80.
Women are not taxed on the assumption,
no donbt, that many of them would get
married if they could, and are, therefore,
not TO blame for rot becoming wives.
The object is to make up for the loss of
population caused by the long and terri
bic struggle between little Paraguay on
one side and Brazil and the Argentine
Confsderatioe on the other A few years
hence the effect of tbs tax viii be worth
observing
Year: 1879

The most perfect home | ever
saw was in little house, into the
sweet incense of whose fires went
no costly things. A thousand dol.
lars served for a years living of
father, mother, and three children.
But the mother was the creator of
home. Her relation with her
children was the most beautiful
| have ever seen. Even dull and
commonplace man was lifted up and
enabled to do good work for souls
by the atmosphere which this wo-
man created. Everyinmate of her
house involnntatily looked into her
face tor the keynote Of the day ;
and it always rang clear. From
the rosebud or clOver-leaf which,
in spite of her hard house work, she
always found time to put by our
plates. at breakfast, down to the
story she had on hand to be read
in the evening, there was no inter.
mission of her influence. She has
always been and always will be
my ideal of "a mother, wife home
maker. If to her quick brain, low
ing heart, and exquisite face had
been added the appliance of wealth
and the enlargements of wider cul,
ture, hers would have been abso-
lntely the ideal home. AS it was
in is the best l have ever seen.
Year: 1879

This is about the time county
candidates begin to stir themselves
and when they rind themselves in
the most amiable mood. They are
now more accessible to popular in
f1uence than they will be after the
election, and they will be ready to
make any promises to win the good
will and support of the dear people.
Now is the time to bind them to the
future. Now is the time for the
farmer to exact some substantial
consideration for his vote. Now is
the time to secure the passage of
the law for the protection of sheep
husbandry.


If we are not misled by the signs
of the times, legislation will make
no mistake in striking at the root
of monstrOus evil and imposing
such a tax Oh dogs as will make
them a source of revenue, or else
displace them to make way for the
increase of sheep. 1t is admitted
on all sides that nothing stands in
the way of the profitable care OF
sheep but the dog. 1t is equally
admitted that one is profitless, "A
curse. a nuisance in their excessive
number, only maintained in their
multitude by an irrational senti
mentality, while the other is one of
the greatest agencies Of human
civilization, handspring of com
merce and Notwithstanding
the world, feeding the multitude,
and enriching the soil. AS between
the two can ordinary intelligence
hesitate for q decision 7 Yet the
decision is made up to the present
on the side of fatuitous and ruin
ous prejudice.


The people are waking up. Let
them reverse the past, and begin it
by reversing the relation between
the dog and the sheep; and let them
do this by exacting from their rep
resentatives in the legislature
pledge to enact the most stringent
of dog laws-the most liberal of
acts for the protection of sheep
PdtrOn.Of Husbdndry.
Year: 1879

-----
o, many mournful day hath flown,
Since first amid our family band
Death came and stole our lovliest one


And bore her to the spirit land;
Yet shrined with many sweet sad thought


That loved ones memory fingers now
For o! she left void, that naught


But mournful thoughts can fill.
Her gentle soul We strove to think


Would linger yet mid earthly flowers,
Even when twas trembling on the brink


Of lovelier words than ours.
And yet it seemed like sin to grieve'


For one so patient and resigned;
For, if she mourned, twas but to leave


Such breaking hearts behind.
She died-yet death could scarcely chill


Her smiling beauties, though she lay
With cold, extended limbs, for still


Her face looked fairer than the day
Those eyes once eloquent with bliss,


Were closed as shutting flowers.
o! few could bear sight like this,


Yet such sight was ours.
How slowly wore that long, long dayf


Like spirits in some haunted place
We'd sit and sigh, then steal away


To look once more on that pale face;
And when the funeral rite was said,


They bore her from our happy home
Aud left her with the silent dead;


A pale faced tenant of the tomb
They reared no marble mid the flowers


Above her grave to mark the spot,
Yet many heart as fond as ours,


Will hold her unforgot,
And though at times we strive to smile


Serenely for each others sake
We weep in secret all the while,


AS if our hearts would break.
Yet why should death be linked with feari
single breath, low drawn sigh
Can break the ties, that bind us here,


And watt the spirit to the sky.
Such was her end, Il calm release,


No clingings to this mortal clod;
She closed her eyes, and stood in peace


Before n smiling God.
Year: 1879

An inveterate wag, seeing. u
heavy door nearly off its hinges,
in which condition of neglect it
had been fOI some time, observed
that when it had fallen and killed
some one 1t would probably be
hung,
Year: 1879

"Oh," said the afflicted wife,
weeping over his body, che said
he would take off his flannels any
way, and, poor man, he little
thought how soon he would go to
that place where fiannels are new
er needed"
Year: 1879

place, he was cmphatcaIly "a man of affairs"
one who took great interest In and made his
influence felt upon the events of his fmme-
diate section, and one whose dignity of charac
ter, integrity of purpose, and temperate
habits commanded the respect of all who
knew him. He was what is ordinarily known
as strict moralist in his personal conduct,
but he was tolerant and liberal in his inter
course with otheB-tolerant Of their opinions
and liberal in conceding to them the widest
latitude in the exercise Of individual rights
As youth, sixty-seven yelrs ago, he gave evil
dcnce Of his patriotic devotion to his country
by serving under the Old Flag in the war Of
1872, during which he won credit for distin-
guished services at the battle of Fort Erie.
Since then, as an anti-slavery man, as a mem
Der of the Free Soil wing of the old Wing party,
and subsequently as Republican, he preserved
the consisteny of his political faith to the last.
Ho was attended at his doath-bed by Mrs.
CLAPP and her sister, his only surviving chill
dron. and passed away calmly, fully prepared
for the inevitable, and sustained by the assur-
ance of perfect religious faith.