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Year: 1876

THE EFFKcT OF BRtcK.-Last
evening a party of disorderly young
men assaulted a disreputable house at
Fourteenth and French streets, and
kicked in two of the front door panels
One Of them threw brick at the Sc
cond story window, but the missile
fell down and struck him on the head
making severe cash. He was taken
to drug store and had his wound
dressed,
Year: 1876

SURPRISING MUTINY.-A story told
Of Commodore Ammen, of the Navy, the


inventor OF the steam ram, illustrates
how important is unhesitating action IN
ease OF Il mutiny. AT the close Of the
war, Ammen was captain of Pacific
mail steamer. He had shipped rs part of
his crew a lot OF soldiers, men who had
been sailors before the war but had served
in the army. They were a reckless, bad
lot. Almost before the steamer had lett
New York, it was evident there was going
to be trouble. The sailors Haunted at the
grub furnished them, and said they must
have as good as tho cabin passengers.
One day the affair eliminated by this
gang forming and coming aft. When
they entered the saloon they were headed
by two desperados who had melted the
mutiny. Al their appearance, several
army officers on board offered their SER
vices to Ammen. He thanked them mild
ly, but said he would not need their help
He walked forward languidly toward the
muineers, and without giving them an
opportunity to say word, took out his
watch and said "Now, men, | want
you to go right back to the torkesel. l
will give you one minute to go" Ammen
has the appearance Of a benevolent old
deacon, who would weep with pain at the
necessity of killing fly. His voice was
was rs soft as if his mouth was lined with
plush velvet, and as sweet as maiden's
whisper when Adolphus first encircles her
timid waist. When he said simply to his
men, "Now, want you to 60 right back
to the forkesel," the leaders grinned. The
mutiny was to succeed too easily. So
during the minute they scoffed at the old
man. Atprecisely sixty seconds after the
expiration of Ammen's remarks, he raised
pistol and shot one of the ring leaders
dead. viii you 60 back to the for
kesel ?" said Ammen to the second ring
leader, pleasantly. The man hesitatcd ;
flash a report-and he, too, fell dead.
The deadly persistent blandness Of Am
mems composure drove terror through the
ranks of the muntineers. They went for
ward, and there was never any more
trouble. The prompt action alone saved
a very rich ship and large number OF
passengers from plunder, outrage and
murder.
Year: 1876

WEDDINGs IN BoRNEo.-On the wed
ding day, the bride and bridegroom are
brought forward from opposite ends Of the
village to the spot where the ceremony is
to be performed. They are made to sit
on two bars OF iron, that blessings as
lasting and health as vigorous may attend
the pair. A cigar and betal leaf, pre-
pared with the areca nut, are next put
into the hands ofthe brideand bridegroom.
One of the priests then waves two fowls
over the heads of the couple, and in a
long address to the Supreme Being calls
down blessings upon the pair and implores
that peace and happiness may attend the
union. After the heads Of the aflianced
have been knocked against each other
three or four times, the bridegroom puts
the prepared siri leaf and cigar into the
mouth Of the bride, while she does the
same to him whom she thus acknowledges
as her husband.
Year: 1876

The disturbance in Floyd avenue
house last Thursday, did not rise from a
dispute about tho returns from Florida,
as many supposed, but grew out OF the
fact that the mother Of the family found
her oldest son tampering with the sacred
ness Of the preserved quinces.-Rome
.oenLtneL.
Year: 1876

China recently lost high official who died 80 poor that he had to be buried at the public expense. But then China has competitive examinations for official po- sitions, and knows nothing of the "best civil service system on the planet,
Year: 1876

Boston ladies have purchased the Old South Church building, at more than it's value; and, if they cannot raise the money for the land on which it stands. it will be removed and set up elsewhere.
Year: 1876

He came home one night with torn coat which she kindly undertook to mend, but when she turned it upside down so that letter and Domestic Fashion. of new overskirt which she had given him to mail to her mother some tAo weeks. before, tumbled out of one of the pockets it was so lively there for the next ten minutes that his first move in the morning was in the direction of wig store, to the proprietor of which he gravely ex- planned that close application to the study of the Foreign Policy of the Khedive of EQypt had done 1t.
Year: 1876

MT. Wheeler accepts the nomination for the Vice presidency teudered by the Gin cinati Convention in an excellent letter published in the papers of last week. This letter supplies the very omission we no- ticed in Gov. Hayes letter of acceptance, by quotation from one of the speeches made by MT. Wheeler, while in congress, on the Louisiana difficulty. We italicise the portions which seem particularly wor-

 We of the north delude ourselves in ex- pecting that the masses of the South, so far behind in many of the attributes of enlightened civilization and improvement, are, in the brief period of ten or fifteen years, to be transformed into our model northen communities. That can only come through long course of patient waiting, to which no one can now set cer- tain bounds There will be good deal of unavoidable friction, which will call for forbearance, and which will have to be re ieved by the temperate, fostering care of the government. One of the most potent, if not indispensable agencies in this direc- tion, will be the devising of some system to aid qn the edpcation of the masses. The fact that there are whole counties in Lou isana in which there, is not a solitary school house is full of suggestion. We compelled these people to remain in the Union, and now duty and interest demand that we leave no just means untried to make them good, loyal citizens. How to stimulate the elevation of this portion of our country are problems constantly ad. dressing themselves to our best and wisest statesmanship. The foundation tor these efforts must be laid io satistying the south- erra people that they are to hove equal erGct justice accorded to them. Give them, to the fullest extent, every blessing which the government conters upon the most favored--give no just cause for com plaint and then hold them, by every nec- essary means. to an exact,. rigid obser- vance of all their duties and obligations un- der the constitution and it's amendments, to secure to all within their borders man. hood and citizenship, with every right thereto belonging.

 It is precisely this position we have al- ways maintained that the South must be ensured just government before we exact obedience to that government. The whole influence of the national government should be thrown against the rascals who plundered and tyrannized over the south under the forms of Republication. There have been state governments at the south which had no right to the obedience of the citizen.
Year: 1876

The trial of ex-Secretary Belknap will be concluded, this week. His guilt seems certain. and hls only chance of escape through the doubt in the minds of mil nority of the Senate whether, after his resignation. they have jurisdiction of his case. On the original vote on the priso- ner's plea to the jurisdiction, more than one-third of the Senate held the plea val i'd. Should this minority consider this question settled by the decision of the majority, Belknap will be convicted; should they. on the other hand, feel ob- liged still to give the prisoner the benefit of this doubt of their right to try him, he will >be acquitted. The vital point, therefore, would seem to be whether mere majority of the Senate can decide the question of jurisdiction or whether the original dissentients in rendering their final decison should take the matter of jurisdiction iuto consideration as we'll as the more direct issue of guilt or inno- c0nc6. x
Year: 1876

It would be impossible to compress in- to the limits of a newspaper article even a faint outline of the almost numberless va rieties of goods which make up the stock of HALL < READ of Bridgeport; but we may indicate few of the prime causes of the growth of their business. Positive merit is the underlying principle of their success. They import their own Silks and Gloves, they buy their domestics of the manufacturers, they manufacture the best ingain carpets made, they sell every article at the lowest market rates. they do an hoorable business. It is household phrase in Bridgeport that 'There is no place like HALL G READS
Year: 1876

To avoid the danger of infection, the linen of persons spfering from Skin dis eases of a contagious nature should be washed with Glenn's Sulphur Soap, which is not only remedy but n disinfectant.

 Hills Instantaneou Hair Dye contains no metallic poison
Year: 1876

The miserable Hamburgh business was bad days work for the Democracy. MT. Lamar, of Miss, was the only one of his party in the House who had the good sense and good feeling to denounce the affair in fitting terms. We hope Gov. Chamberlain will make requisition on the Gov. of Georgia for the murderers. and then we shall know what sort of ''peace and good government" the recon structed Southerner really wants.

 The French Senate is turning out more reactionary than had been anticipa- ted. They have rejected the University bill in obedience to the priesthood, and now they are threatening the Municipal bill which offers self government to the smaller cities of France.
Year: 1876

CHILDREN NEVER LIVE LoNG.-When
they are not carried away in little collins
and laid forever in the silent grave. they


become transformed so rapidly that we
lose them in another way. The athletic
young soldier or collegian, the graceful
heroine of the ballroom, may make
proud the parental heart, but can they
quite console il for the eternal loss OF tho
little beings who plagued and enlivened
the early years of marriage? A father
may feel Legitimate and reasonable
melancholy as he contemplates the most
promising of little daughters. full of
vivacity and health. How long will the
dear child remain to him? She will be
altered in six months in six years she
will be succeeded by totally different
Creatures creature new in flesh and
blood and bone, thinking other thoughts
and speaking another language. TheEe
is sadness even in that change which is
increase and progression, for the glory OF
MONDAY has destroyed the sweet delicacy
of the dewy Aurora, and the wealth OF
summer has obliterated the freshness OF
the spring - Philip Il HameH5H.
Year: 1876

whether right or wrong. Shea mascu-
line, healthy and well-proportioned fe-
male-does not believe in saying yes
when she means no.


Lo, for a time, they had it up and
down-with words-their eyes flashed
fire, and it looked as IL there would be
battle, when the woman proposed that
they had better settle their quarrel by
running a race at Pella, and whoever
should be the first at their residence
all the property would belong to, ana
the loser was to walk quietly out and
"vamose the RANCH" never to trouble
the winner again. The man, confident
In himslef as pedestrian, agreed to
this, and proposed that they should start
at that time.


He threw off his coat, and she tight
ened her corsets and otherwise prepar-
ed herself for the trial of speed and en-
durance, and then they started. Adam
took the shortest way by cutting across
farms; Eve kept the main thoroughfare.
We did not witness the race, conse-
quently we can not say how they
stepped, but the result was in favor OF
the woman, who had a plain, Welt-Deat-
en- track; while the man-thinklng to be
the gamer by the short track--was the
loser on account OF the soaky condition
of the sloughs, which were hardly pass.
able. The woman Is now a sweet sam
pie OF the Qrass.widow.
Year: 1876

1--WE denounce the Republican party
on this great issue, as party of false
pretenses. 1t is false pretensc to
assume The character of Il national
party and ut the same u exist only by
sectional division. IL is false pre-
tense to assume the name of Union
party and at the same time to be an
obstacle to a national unity. 1t is a
false pretense to assume the name of a
Liberal party and at the same time to
appeal to the religious prejudices of
the people. 1t is false prctense to
claim the title of a progressive party
and at the same time to turn the people
back from peace and the future, TO
war and the past"
Year: 1876

The nomination of SAMUEL j. TILpEN,
by the Democratic National Conven-
tion, yesterday, is a guarantee that the
Democratic Party will enter upon the
wor8 of Reform and Retrenchment with
the determination never to cease until
the Governmental expenditures are re-
duced from their present extravagant
and needless outlay to somewhere near
what they were before the present cor.
rupt and dishonest system of Grantism
was established


We need not say to the readers of the
GAZETTE and the people of the Della
ware, that we should have preferred our
own distinguished Senator, Hon. T, F.
BAyARp. They knew this; but when
we assure them that this could not be
and that their favorite is enthusiastic
for the nominee, VIC know they will feel
confident the very best man for all in
terests has been selected. The Della.
ware Delegation did their duty nobly +;
and in casting their votes finally solid
for 1ilden met the wishes of every Demo-
crat in the State.


That T1LpEN will sweep the country
we have not the least doubt. His ma
Jority will be overwhelming, not because
1t is SAMUEL ]. TILDEN, but because the
people want to get from under the load
OF taxation that now weighs them to the
earth and consumes their earnings of the
day, even before their labors are done
with the return of each setting sun.


UNCLE SAM TILDEN" has done well
IL reducing the taxes of his own State
eight millions of dollars in two years
and the people have invited him to re.
duce the taxes all over the land in like
proportion, if he can.


OF all the men named for the Presi.
dency, there is scarcely doubt but that
he is the most learned, the most able, the
most practical, the most experienced in
Craftsmanship, and the most successful
IN his personal and individual efforts.
Profound in every department of know.
ledge, and thoroughly schooled in self
possession; he is the one man above all
others for the Chief Masistracy at this
time, and the reception of the vote Of
three-fourths of the Democratic National
Convention ought to make him accepta.
ole to every one of our party and If
will. His election is sure.


The PLATFORM is one which we think
Is strong enough and broad enough for
every Democrat to stand upon and do
battle against fraud and corruption and
for Reform and Retrenchment.
Year: 1876

It's now quite evident that Blaine
has outstripped every one of his com
petitors for the Republican nomina-
tion, and that he is most likely to be
the candidate. BAYARD could beat
him easily. The people cannot be
made to believe that Blaine is free of
the corruption by which he was sur
rounded so long.
Year: 1876

The money market at the close of the week was
quiet and exceedingly easy, and street loans were
generally made at and per cent Discounts are
quiet because very little commercial paper is offer
ing. We annex basis of rates:
Year: 1876

y clergyman of country village
church desired to give notice that
there would be no service in the
afternoon, as he was going to oficiate
for another clergyman. The clerk,
as soon as the sermon was finished,
rose up with all due solemnity and
cried out, 81 am requested to give
notice that there will be no service
this afternoon, as Mr.. L. is going
fishing wi b another clergyman
Year: 1876

A Chinaman in California, whose
life was insured for large amount,
was seriously hurt by falling from a
wagon. There was some doubt of
his ever getting better, and at length
one Of his friends wrote to the insu-
rance company, "Charley half dead ;
like half money.
Year: 1876

A young woman in Chicago put her
false teeth in a glass of water at
night and in the morning found them
imbelded in a chunk Of solid ice.
She was late at breakfast, the process
of thawing out the teeth with bon
fire of matches having been slow.
Year: 1876

COULDN'T FORGIVE HER YET.-A
lady, writing of the colored people Of
Washington, says: know one poor
old woman, who has not finger joint
or toe joint that was not broken or
dlslocated in her childhood by the
heavy blows of thick stick or other
weapon in the hands of a most in
human mistress, a mistress who was
the sister of murderer, and who,
upon her death bed, away from her
home, wrote to her old slaves about
her to receive their forgiveness for
her brutal treatment during long
life. Her attendant to sooGhe her feel
ings, wrote to a daughter still living
on the plantation letter that should
be read to the slaves. The daughter
took the letter to the negroes quar-
ters, and read it with fearful eyes,
Sobs and groans arose all around her,
and protestatians of forgiveness from
all lips but this cid woman's, who told
me the story. She said Indeed, miss,
I looked at my poor hands and feet
and thought on my face all jammed
out of shape by being hit and knock
ed out against the wall, and left sense
less on the floor many's the time and
| thought it was just as we'll to leave
the forgiving to the Lord, leastwise
till comes to die myself, then I
comes to die myself, then I s'pose
likely Ill forgive her, but l couldn't
then and can't now" :"
Year: 1876

A funny story is told by an ex-
change newspaper Of two Vermont
farmers who are not grangers. They
induced their wives to Join and re-
port before they would commit them
eelves. Now, when they will they
cannot. Two black balls greet every
application. Meanwhile the wives
go regularly and triumphantly to
every meeting of the Grange, and the
men stay at home to mind the babies.


Coop THOUGHTS. Childhood is the
sleep Of reason.


A good conscience is continual
Christmas.


Most men are afraid of bad name,
but few fear their consciences.


What VIC call conscience is in many
instances only a wholesome fear ol
the constable.
Year: 1876

Man is like a snow ball. Leave
him lying in idleness against the
sunny face Of prosperity, and the good
that is in him melts like fresh butter
in the dog days; but kick him around,
end he gathers strength at every rev.
o,utiu0.
Year: 1876

There is some prospect of rowing match
between the Delaware Rowing Club and the
lenge has been sent by the first named to
half mile scrub races, the first to come off
next Saturday. We are authorized to state
that the challenge was coupled with such
conditions that no attention was given by
the Bachelor Club. The latter club say they
are ready to row any time for the champion
ship of Delaware, or for any other prize tt at
may be put up for contest by the Christiana
Navy which alone has the power to decide
upon the championship.
Year: 1876

Yesterday morning Special officer Thos.
Kane killed small terrier dog which
acted as though 1t was mad, at Fifth and
Tatnall streets. The dog laid in the street
and frothed at the mouth and no one would
go near him until the officer came along
and knocked 1t in the head and put an end
to Its suffering.
Year: 1876

Yesterday morning passenger on one of
the extra trains from Baltimore was taken
with an epileptic fit just as the train arrived
at this depot. Fearing serious results, the
conductor had the unfortunate gentleman
taken off; but he recovered In time to 60 on
his way In the same train
Year: 1876

Charles Dickens gave utterance to
many beautiful thoughts, which he
clothed in most exquisite language,
but we think the following extract from
"Bleak House, is the one most touch
ingly beautiful and illustrative of the
love and devotion of a woman for the
man of her choice: "There are many
little occurrences which suggest to me,
with great consolation, how natural it
is to gentle hearts to be considerate and
delicate toward any inferiOrity. One OF
these particularly touched me. 1 hap
pened to stroll into the church when a
marriage was just concluded, and the
young couple had to sign the register.
The bridegroom, to whom the pen was
handed first, made a rude cross for his
mark; the bride, who came next, did
the same. Now, 1 had known the
bride, when 1 was last there, not only
as the prettiest girl in the place, but as
having quite distinguished herself in
school; and 1 could not help looking
at her with some surprise. She came
aside and whispered to me, while tears
of honest love and admiration stood in
her bright eyes: He's dear good fel.
low, but he can't write yet; he's going
to learn of me-and | would not shame
him for the world 2 Why, what had
to fear, 1 thought, when there was thi:
nobility in the soul of a laboring mans
daughter"
Year: 1876

There is German woman named AL
AVIATOR living on Columbia street. One
morning last week, just before dawn,
her house was broken into by burglars,
who gained an entrance through a
kitchen window. They started to enter
the room in which she was sleeping
when she arose, revolver in hand, and
started at them. Both made a hasty
exit through the window, but the
woman followed after and fired two
shots at them as they were making
tracks across the yard. Her shots went
wide of the mark, unfortunately, but
the next morning, on examining the
premises, she discovered vest lying on
the fence, which, upon examination,
was found to contain 81 65 in currency.
The garment was evidently the prop
erty of one of the burglars, and the
woman generously offers to restore it to
him if he will call and identify it.-EU-
dnSUiLLe Courier.
Year: 1876

Lavinia GoOdell has been appointed
first Vice President of the Wisconsin
State Sunday School Association. She
is still practicing law in the lower
courts of the State, though the decision
of the Supreme Court does not permit
her to follow her cases up into that court.
The Legislature will be asked to enact a
law next winter, enabling woman to
practice in the Supreme Court.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Anthony Trollope delivered
an address on the cart Of Reading
before the Quebec institute in Lon
don recently. Referring to the
of novels, he said it was
much better that they should read
no novel than that they should de-
vote themselves exclusively to
them; but if they were readers he
was sure they would find it adyan-
tageous so to mix light reading with
serious reading that the one should
not engross or the other weary
them. He recommended them to
acquire the artof reading-anever
falling source of enjoyment, but
only to be obtained by practice, and
not, he impressed on his audience,
when middle life had come on


them. AS to what they should
read, he would say, good books.
Above all things, he would advise
them not to deceive themselves in
their choice. If they could make
poetry a delight with them, it.had
a charm which could not be found
in any other literature, but if poe
try were distasteful there was a
world of prose. They must read
for amusement, but they need
not on that account eschew acquir-
ing information. Instructive books,
indeed, were the books to get hold
Of. Magazine reading unfortunately
left too little behind it, and as to
novels there were, of course, novels
and novels, but he did not think
that Scott, Thackeray, or Dickens
ever wrote anything impure. !.