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Year: 1873

TUESDAY, 1JpC. SO--f NJ


There is little to he said of the stock market more
than that the day was Of the dulest of the
season. and that the whole aspect of affairs at the
Exchange was suggestive of the oft-quoted lines of
the poet respecting :" the melancholy days" which
were the saddest of the year." The fluctuations
were hardly sufficient to provide excuse for either
the buying or selling Of shares, so that holders were
disposed to wait for the January rise" while those
who had parted with their holdings were " waiting
for something to turn up that should give
them lower market TO buy on. In
vestors are busy coming over the good things
they intend to purchase when their January divi-
dends shall come in, and many venerable mouth
waters at the thought of the number OF per
cent securities of undoubted character that to be
had at 10 to ~ per cent below par. The universal
ity of their expec tations will, of course lead to
much disappointment for sales at present rates, are
made only i'll small amounts, as necessity compels,
and very little buying must raise the quotation to
or near par on all really safe securities that pay
per cent interest The business of the Stock Ex-
change opened at about the closing prices of Monday
during the day. closed at almost the identical figures
Of the previous night throughout the entire list
The effect of the extremely small aggregate of sales
should the dullness continue, must be to diminish
the demand for call loans and leave the banks in
position of strength such as they have not felt in
many months. Investment shares were dull, as
were also miscellaneous and coal stocks In Express,
small lots of Wells Fargo sold at 72a72l and Ameri-
can at g. The opening, highest lowest, and closing
prlcry of stocks were az follows:
Year: 1873

The business in railroad bonds is in entire harmony
with the share market to the paucty Of ftransac-
ions and like it, is full of promises of what may
lie dove in the way of investments when the semi
anvua dividends are paid. Prices were well main
tanned however at the following quotations.
Year: 1873

tie of it With all small grains the
same, while hundreds and thousands of
black kbirds stood ready to help themselves
to as much as they wished. They pull
ed up the corn and ate the peas; grass
hoppers ate the cucumbers and tomatoes
the Colorado potato bug disposed of that
vegetable the squirrels took the nuts
and the owls the chickens. 1t seemed
as though something stood ready with
open mouth to take everything that
could be raised. Nor did the troubles
end here: every kind of vermin that
could be conceived of, seemed to find
this their especial habitation. The
mosquitoes were at times so thick as to
make it almost unendurable, and the
heas followed close in their footsteps.
At certain times in the year the bushes
were covered with wood-t ticks, which
produced an unpleasant feeling by bur-
rowing in ones flesh. Most of the
houses were inhabited by that bug which
50 loves to dispute the property Of the
bed. Some of the people we're more in
clined to scratch their bodies than to
-.scratch for a living" and thus while
they might be frequent callers, were not
as desirable as some. There were other
objections. A man belonging to the
right clique, was educated, tho he mur-
dered English every time he opened his
mouth, and though he was unable to
work out a problem in simple interest.
The clique governed the church as well
as the school and if a pastor appeared
of sufficient piety and principle to walk
aside from their established rules, @ he
was Immediately voted heretical and his
salary cut off 1ii.5 i9 ~


-f -E Ne Hs nIcKrNs
Year: 1873

formed TRIBUNE reporter that the manner In which
Mr. Mills had conducted the business OF the Company had
gwen considerable dissatisfaction and that an inyesti
cation had been ordered the evening or
the day on which he drowned.
Year: 1873

More Public Robbery IN Prospect
From tho New York POsh)


According to the testimony in the ex-
animation Of the affairs Of the Credit do.
Miller Company, the Pacific railroad
mirb, have been built for about $50 .OOO,.
0O6 but the amount actually expended
wHs about twice that sum, the difference
bsinr the enormous profit which the
s,ocEholders in the Credit Mobilier Com
nSDy put into their pockets. This mon
s,rous breach OF public trust was only
nossible because the work was in one
srnse public work, founded first on o
pilt OIL public lands, and second q payment
Ia money or its equivalent Of certain
ann per mile OF road built The mana.
gers Of the Union road organized them
selyes into company under another
name, contracted with themselves to build
the road at double what the road ought
10 cost, bought the silence and Connivance
of men whose sworn duty and whose duty
as men Of honor and US gentlemen It was
To protect the public interest, and put
thirty millions oil dollars into their poCk-
ets, all absolutely stolen from the govern
ment under false pretenccs. That is the
simple and unqucsIioncd truth about the
Credit MobiIier business when stripped OF
all verbiage and vGrnish.


One of Two things necessarily follows
The exposure oi this enormous villainy
would either shock the country into de-
naudiDg OF its representatives in Con-
gress ordinary honesty, or It would so cx'
cite the Cupidity oil commonplace men
who compose that body that the most
vigorous attempts would at once be made
10 create similar opportunities OF making
gigantic fortunes by public plunder. The
latter is what has actually happened.


Tho Committee on Commerce are
about 10 report 10 the House Of Repre-
sentatives at Washington certain bills for
what they are pleased TO call the improve
ment Of inland navigation. We have
nothing TO say now Of inland navigation
of which great deal may be sAid-but
We denounce this whole scheme as one
commended to favor especially by the
success Of the Credit Mobilier business.
These internal canals will be nothing but
gigantic Jobs, and as 1t is made manifest
now how easy u thing 1t Is to steal thirty
millions OF dollars in building public
highway, there are palms itching for the
handling OF such chances. The cost OF
such projects, even If they were managed
with The most scrupulous honesty, would
be enormous, and would be money thrown
away; but 1t Is not permissible to hope
that they would be honestly msnagedi
and tho indecent haste with which 1t Is
proposed, in Congress about to dissolve
to induce legislation upon the subject, in
dicates that the exposure Of how easy 1t
hto grow rich by public plumber finds in
tho present Congress no other response
than the intense excitement OF an un-
sCrupulous greed at the chance to fatten
upon public spOils.
Year: 1873

WARNER in his Backlog Studies" says
there are still attempts made 10 bring uE
family round Register" but you NIGH
just as well try to bring it up by hand, as
without the ralIyiug point OF hearth
stone
Year: 1873

Our dispatches this morning give
little more than a chapter of murders,
fights, and squabbles, interesting may
be to some folks, but not SO important
in our eyes, as news from the senate
rial contest at Sacramento, details of
which we find it almost impossible to
get.


Now, our readers may be anxious to
learn that some woman in Oregon has
roasted her baby, or that a pair of
roughs in some mining camp have
shot or stabbed each other, but gen.
orally speaking, they are willing to
wait for the particulars Of such events
to arrive by mail, and prefer that the
telegraph should give us news of
greater moment.
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON, Dec. Il.


1t has been known for some days
that the Spanish Government has fur
nished evidence with regard to the
Virginius and her claim to the right
to bear the flag of the United States,
and that the President had submitted
the evidence to the Attorney-General
for his opinion. 1t seems now to be
understood, in official circles, that the
Attorney General has given his opin-
ion that the vessel had forfeited the
right to bear the flag of the United
States, and at the time of her capture
was carrying it without right and i'm
properly. In view aof this opinion
our Government will, in accordance
with the terms of the protocol, in
stitute an inquiry and adopt pro-
ceedings against the Virginius,
and against any persons who may
appear to have been guilty of illegali-
ties in connection Herewith. AS Spain
has reason to expect satisfaction from
the United States, in that the Virgini-
us was, at the time of her capture, car
rying the United States flag without
right, the salute on the 25th December
will be dispensed with as now not ne
cessarily requirable; but the United
States Government will expect dis
claimer of intent to offer indignity to
its flag in the act which was commit
ted.


From proof submitted by Spain it
appears the clearance papers of the
Virginius were obtained by perjury.
A majority of the Senate are not in
favor of the total repeal of the Bank
ruptcy Act, but of amending it in such
particulars as will guard debtor from
exactions of a small minority of his
creditors, leaving the question Of in
voluntary bankruptcy to be deter
mined by those largely interested.
Year: 1873

THE high military official whose
presence is continual source of pride
to the citizens of Wilmington, has
graciously announced that he will not
buy the editor of the HERALD. He has
the reputation we believe of never
taking anything that he can't reach.
Year: 1873

An ACT to legalize the acts Of Leonard F Wheelock


as justice of the peace in the county of Douglas.
The people of the state Of Wisconsin, represented in


and assembly, do enact as follows:


Section l. All the acts of Leonard f. Wheelock, Of
the town of Superior in Douglas county justice of
the peace hereby legalzed and declared to be
valid and binding in all respects if the said Whee-
lock had filed his official bond in the Office of the clerk
of the circuit court Of said county within the time
limited therefor by law, and said bond been approved
BY the supervisors of the town of Superior


Sec. 3 This act shall take effect ard be in force
from and after its passage and publication.


Approved March u. 1872.
Year: 1873

in full pursuit, bringing up the rear.


On and on, like the rush of the tornado
or sweep Of the storml Street after
street AID corner after corner are left far
behind; but, at last, your Office door is
in sight. But the painful tact that the
dog is not a rod behind with mouth
open, teeth shining like pearls and his
tongue iolling out, gaining ground at ev-
cry jump, almost freezes the boiling
blood thas is madly coursing through
your veins But despair adds vigor to
your sinking frame. You reach the
door, but feel yourself drawn backward
with violence, and experience a sensation
about three feet below the back Of the
neck, some what like passing through a
threshing machine. BY violent effort
you tear yourself loose, dash in, close
the door and lay down-upon your face
to think the matter over. Doubtless
you are forgiven for your swearing-in-
sanity would justify you--and you con-
sider that if tribulstion can produce in
sanity you're crazy. But at any rate
you might answer your wife politely
when she wants to know, "what makes
you sit SO uneasy, my dearf And your
conversation before your children, you
ought to consider that. But man is man,
and you can not make him an angel.
Year: 1873

NEWS ASSOCIATIONS Several weeks
ago, just after the AHa had been ostra-
cised by the Western Union Telegraph
Company, a new Association for the pur-
pose of obtaining telegraphic news was
arranged, consisting of the San Francisco
Chronicle and Atta and Sacramento
Record. Since that time we have been a
careful observer of the telegraphic COL
umns Of these papers and have frequently
compared them with those of the old
Associated Press papers. AS result Of
this comparison we must say that the
new association is superior to the old, not
only in the way Of interesting news but
also on the score Of reliability.
Year: 1873

THE California Representatives have
secured conference on the reports in
favor of insisting on all the items of APP
preparation on the Pacific Coast without
excepting those struck out and reduced
by the Senate. All the increased items
and inserted matters advantageous to
their constituents have been agreed to:
The Representatives feel that they have
accomplished the work with remarkable
supcpsS
Year: 1873

THE friends of the Goat Island bill
have rofrained from pressing it in the
Senate in view Of the fact that Congress
has in the River and Harbor improve
ment Appropriation bill included San
Antonio among the places to be surveyed
preliminary to the harbor improvement
by the General Government. This may
be final solution of the question which
hos been the subject of such excitement
in San Francisco,
Year: 1873

Mr.. Beck, of Kentucky, made an elab-
crate speech a day or two since against
refunding the cotton tax. In the course
Of his argument he was obliged to admit
that the national constitution was clearly
against tax upon exports and that at
least 66 per cent. of the cotton tax was
suffered unjustly and unlawfully upon
exported cotton. lie believed the pro-
ducers ought to be refunded this tax
but no bill presented for this purpose
suited him, and hence he opposed bills
for doing that a part Of which, at least,
he admitted to be justify and lawfully
due to those who had paid this tax. If
the opponents Of refunding make as
Wholesale admissions of its rightfulness
there will scarcely be a question Of the
ultimate success Of the measure in some
form.
Year: 1873

AS result of the Credit Mobiier in
vestigation it is not doubted that the
original ruling OF Secretary Boutwell, will
be adopted by Congress in regard to the
payment of interest on the bonds of the
Pacific railroads. House appropriation
committee has just agreed to the Senate
amendment substantially as it came from
the Senate. What will be the effect of
this proposed action upon the road re-
mains to be seen but even if the u. S.
interest in the roads should be tempora-
rily prejudiced, it cannot end in anything
worse than bankruptcy on the part of
the companies and the taking of the road
off their hands by the General Govern
ment. Many thinking persons believe
that the Government ought to run this
and some other roads in the interest of
the people, and that it would be done
with greater economy than by any pri-
vate corporation. Q. NJ.
Year: 1873

The Park Commissioners at their meeting yester-
day received communication from the Mayor re-
mInding them OF q provision OF the charter which
requires them to report once every three months
Mr. Folks, the architect for the construction OF the
American Museum OF National History, reported
that building could be erected at cost within
the appropriation made by the Legislature, and the
Beard authorized the PRESIDENT to sign the neces-
sary contracts. The Committee on the Elias Howe
statue reported that the site for the statue could
only be selected alter 1t had been inspected. re-
port recommending the removal OF three Park
policemen was referred to the Police Board, after
which the Commissioners adjourned.
Year: 1873

Second Day Of the Trial of Doyle and Mcwilhams
for Alleged Completely in the Burglary-Ths
Prisoner Denning on the Witness Stand
Counsel for the Defence Q Witness


Against His Own Client-Another


Mass of Circumstantial Evidence.
Year: 1873

call as soon as possible. Also request him TO bring
small bottle OF morphine. have succeeded in
getting the Spanard all right, and with his assist
ance think We can put the watchman asleep.
Don't fail to come. Come to-day"


The Attorney General offered the following letter
In evidence:-


FRASK-I seen George coursen Last Night Let me


n 'hs gHefy o's IN the oa
YOU knew yoa wSunt Please answer by note and let
}. D. Will be there to Get 1t at Court.


Met McWiams at Cooper Hall few times; he
and and Doyle conversed there about the rob.
berry; McWiliams told me In the ferryhouse that
he'd find out who built the vault in the bank |;
Mr.. Sanford once asked him to lsok at the work
OF the vault. but he refused; Cummings used to be
located in front OF the bank and was


TO TAKE THE SIGNAL FROM M'wILLIAMs
II anything were wrong; at the last trial l swore
SO yet; I usually slept and ate in Coles street;
never read paper since went to Trenton; !
never was promised that my sentence would be


f. c. Young sworn-I am in the First National
Bank and was there last year; alter the arrest of
the bank robbers met Mcwilllams and told him
was sorry that he was not here he said he did not
get Mr.. Sandford's telegram until two O'Clock In
tile morning; the following September Detective
and myself to come np to the station house; /
went, and the Chief said he wanted pass to get
INTO the JAIL as he had been informed that Den
got him pass: he told me alter that DENIM did
not want 10 be taken TO New York, as II would
consume four or FIVE months, and then he would
have to come back again Tor trial. "A letter was
shown to wttness.) l have had that letter in my
possession; 1t came to my possession through on
sealed it ND and told onicer Romaine to mail It.


The Attorney General here arose and said that
he would show by tins letter that when witness
Chief OF Police McWilliams said he ID never forget
the opposition made by Mr.. Fox, and that II ever
job was put up against that bank he, Mcwilams,


WOULD NOT GIVE IT AWAY"


Mr.. Williamson objected to the Introduction OF
thus letter. watch gave rise TO discussion between
Year: 1873

BY the middle of winter dusty carpets
become a great annoyance to the house
keepers, and the use of the broom raises
clouds of dust which settles in every crack
and Granny. To remedy this, take pint
Of bran, stir in enough water to merely
dampen it, and then scatter it about the
floor before sweeping. Besides laying the
dust, the bran brightens the colors won
derfully, and it is surprising to see how
fresh an old and faded carpet will look
under this treatment Salt is sometimes
recommended for the same purpose, but if
any happens to fall and be left about the
edges Of the carpet il will absorb moisture
from the atmosphere, and make wet, sticky
places, even worse than dust. Snow Is
good to prevent dusty sweeping, but the
broom must be cold, or it will melt and
soil more than it cleanses. Tea grounds
pressed as dry as possible, are also used,
but are not always at hand in sufficient
quantities to be in constant use. Some
dip the broom in water, and with sharp
rap throw off most Of the moisture, but
this leaves the brush full of dust, and it
mustbe washed afterward. Carpets should
always have clean, dry straw evenly strewn
under them; hay will not answer, as in
damp weather it soon becomes musty.
Paper is recommended, and thick, felted
article is manufactured for that purpose,
but though it saves the carpet from wear
ing upon the sometimes uneven floor, it
does not answer the purpose of straw,
through which the dust Sits, and is not
being ground into the fabric by constant
use.
Year: 1873

A western paper gives the following re-
cipe for keeping potatoes, and asserts that
il will preserve them for years Dust over
the floor of the bin with lime; put in about
SIX OF seven inches deep Of potatoes, and
dust with lime as before. Put in six Oh
seven inches Of potatoes, and lime again,
and repeat the operation till all are slowed
away. One bushel Of lime viii do for forty
bushels Of potatoes, though more win not
hurt them, the lime rather improving the
flavor than otherwise The lime may be
used for fertilizing after this use Of IT,
Year: 1873

Cry SlMpLIoITY.--A good joke on
young city fellow who bought farm last
winter has just leaked out. He had fine
orchard of about two hundred apple trees,
and few weeks ago he tapped every one
of them for cider. As it didn't run very
well, he inquired of a neighbor what the
matter was, and gave him a new hat not
to tell any one else.


That fellow was brother of the city
girl, who thought the milk flowed from
the cows by taking hold of the COWS tail
ang using it like the handle of pump.
Year: 1873

A merchant who was on the verge Of
bankruptcy, took walk one day with his
cashier, who had grown rich and built sew
eral fine houses in fashionable avenue.
In the pride of his heart he showed his
employer his palatial dwellings and asked
triumphantly ''What do you think Of
that ?" II think, said the merchant after
a pause, that you had better take my
business and let me act as cashier Y
Year: 1873

Mothers often spend more time aud
money fitting dress to their forms than
they do to fitting the minds Of their chill
dren to take hold Of life, and to distinguish
the good from the in;urious-the flowers
from the weeds. As if the dress worn to-
day and thrown off tomorrow is Of more
importance than the soul which is to live
forever.
Year: 1873

A woman appeared at the shop where
her husband is employed, short time ago,
and apologetically said :-"Jim is not we'll
You must excuse him from not coming to
work to-day. He and l had little
difficulty at the breakfast table this morn
ing, and he won't. be able to work this
week.
Year: 1873

The bashful editor of Missouri paper
proposed to his beloved through the
columns Of his paper in this form :-'There
is certain girl in this town who can carry
our smoke-house keys for life, if she N only
say the word
Year: 1873

"A man whose eyesight was not good
was recommended to try glasses. He says
he went and tried four at the nearest
drinking saloon, and the result was that
he was so much improved as to see double.
Year: 1873

2 Any man can be cheerful when in the
midst of prosperity, brave when there is
no danger, and trustfal when there Is no
causes for suspicion True manhood is
not fully tested until confronted by adver-
sity, brought face to face with peril, and
assailed BY doubts as to the existence Of
human virtue and good faith.
Year: 1873

Here is the latest description of a kiss -
Twas night. a couple stood in the pale,
cold moonbeams. Their lips touched, and
there was sound like the drawing of a
horses hoof out of the mud.
Year: 1873

In the House, at Dover, yesterday, the bill re-
moving the County Seat from New Castle to
wilmington was postponed until Thursday. It
is understood that on that day the New Castle
people will make a grand rally and appear at
Dover in strong force, to oppose the removal.
Year: 1873

Our Sussex county readers of the DELAWARE
TRIBUNE, as well as the daily readers of the Com
MERcIAL in Wilmington and elsewhere, will
thank our correspondent at Seaford for the
batch of news which he sends, and which is pub
" newspaper IN tee town, has suspended, and
the people Of the State must now have recourse
to the Wilmington papers to supply the field
which it formerly filed. The COMMERCIAL will
endeayor to print all the news from that section
which is obtainable.
Year: 1873

:, The Duke of Edinburgh known also as
Prince Alfred, is the Queen second son. He
is young man of 90, and it is not known that
ne possesses any extraordinary merit beyond


that OF being the son of his mother. When he
came of age, eight years ago, Parliament gave
hun 9l5,OO0 a year, and as that was in the
days when the upper and middle classes had
entire possession of the government of thi,
country, there was no opposition TO the grant.


1t is understood that the Duke has found this


sum Insufficient to support the expenses of a
bachelor establishment He is now abont TO
marry the Grand Duchess Alexandrovna the
only daughter Of the Emperor of Russia, and
upon that marriage the Queen comes to
Parliament with an additional annuity


Precisely now much she really wanted we have
no means of knowing, but the sum for which
her Ministers thought it prudent to ask the
House OF Commons was a sum which makes
thl. young man income just CPS, 200 a year,
1t IS understood that his bride brings as much
more SO that the pair will set up housekeeping
gold. '-''O'''O