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Year: 1875

in these departments, who have made it
their study for years to suit and tit the
rising generation and who will take
great pleasure in displaying the various
new designs and novel ideas gotten up es-
pecially for the season, and found in no
other establishment.
Year: 1875

Ay- To ladies and others interested in the
Boys and Children S departments we would
respectfully say that these departments OF
our vast concern have been filled to over
flowing. with an entirely fresh supply of


SUITS AND GARMENTS
fol the little fOlk-sufficient to stock all the
clothing stores within the limits of the city
and we unhesita6hgly assert that such i,
beautiful collection of choice winter wear
for children was never arranged on the
counters of any establishment in Delaware.
We havea
Year: 1875

Don't think that yards aud yards of rib
bons, ruiiles and lace, will add one particle
TO your value. Don't make a walking mil
liners shop or jewellers store of yourselves,
covering all that is of true merit within you
with that which will only attract the shall
low-brained. Don't think sensible people
are 10 be deceived with vain show they
look for beauty of heart and mind. Don't
flatter yourselves it is smart 10 affect ignor-
anee OF manual labor, or to be ignorant of it.
Don't give the subject Of matrimony a
thought while you are in your teens, except
TO qualify yourself for the responsible posi-
tion ii places you in you need all Of that
time of your life to fit yourself for it, You
need TO study books, the laws of life and
health to be well experienced in the culn-
AIRY art as perhaps the happiness and health
Of hundreds are depending ON your knowl-
edge OF this Don't give your time and
talents to the world, or to seeking the things
of time aud sense that perish with their
using. God has created you for nobler
parpose, and made you accountable for
what lie has given you. Don't sell your
birth-right for mess Of pottage.
Year: 1875

She sat very still The young lady did
not talk 10 her and she did not talk TO the
young lady The horse held up his head.
lie seemed TO Deb to be flying. She thought
that he must be like the awful, beautiful white
horse In Revelation. She felt as if he could
take her TO heaven just as well as not, If the
young lady's brown gloves should only pull
the rein that way.


They rode and rode. In and out Of the
merry streets, through and through the sing
ing bells about aud about the great church
spires all over and over, and over the laugh.
ing town. They rode to the river, and the
young lady stopped the white horse, so that
Deb could look across, and up aud down.


There is so much Of it," said Deb, softly,
thinking of the crack Of it that she had
seen between two houses for fifteen years.
For the crack seemed to her very much like
fifteen years IN a high-chair: and a long.
broad-shouldered, silvered river seemed to
her very much like this world about which
she had wondered.


They rode to the mills, and Deb trembled
10 look up at their frowning walls. and 10
meet their hundred eyes but some Of the
girls who wore the little pink bows, and
who know her, came nodding to look down
out Of them aud she left of trembling to
laugh then, in q minute, she trembled
again. for all at once, without any warning
great Androscoggiu pealed the time Just
over her head, and swallowed her up in
sound. She turned pale with delighted ter
ror, and then she flushed with terrified de-
light


Did it pray, or cry, or laugh Deb did
not know. Il seemed TO her that if the
white horse would carry her into the great
heart of that bell, she need never sit in a
high-ohair at a window again, but ride and
ride with the young lady II seemed to her
like forever and forever.


They turned away from Androscoggin
without speaking, and rode and rode. Day
light dimmed and dusk dropped. aud see
all the towns blazed with lights They rode
aud rode 10 see the lights. Deb could not
speak there were so many lights.


And still she could not speak when they
rode into Brick Alley, and Jim McMahoney
and her mother and the children who did
not wonder, came out TO meet her and take
her back to her high-chair.


She was too happy to speak, She need
never wonder any more. She could re-
member


But the young lady did not want her to
speak. She touched her white horse, and
was gone IN a minute and when Andros-
cosgn rang them both to sleep that night
for the young lady forgot to ask for her
Cluny, and was to tired to go to the party
Il am sure | cannot tell which was the
happier she or Deb
Year: 1875

The address of President Lincoln, at the
dedication Of the cemetery at Gettysburg, is
considered one of the finest speeches ever
made 4 discussion in regard to its exact
language has led to the publication, in the
Nation, Of the address as IL was revised, af-
ter it's delivery, by Mr.. Lincoln. We're
print ii and commend it ion its simple elo-
quence, and as one Of the best lessons Of
patriotism:


"Fourscore and seven years ago. our fathers
brought forth on this continent o new nation. con-
ceiycd IN liberty. and dedicated TO the proposition
that all men are created equal


Now We are engaged iu o great civil war,
testing whether that nation or any nation 50 com
ceivcd and so dedicated, can long endure We
are met on great battlefield Of that war. We
have come to dedicate portion of that field as a
final restins-place for those who here gave their
lives that that nation might live. It is altogether
fitting and proper that We should do this.


But, in larger sense, We cannot dedicate
we cannot consccratc-wc cannot halow- this
ground The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have consecruted it far above our
poor power to add or detmct The world will lit
tie note, nor long remember, what we say here,
but it can never forget what they did here. 1t Is
fol the living, rather, to be dedicated here tu
the unfinished work which they who fought here
have thus lar 50 noby advanced. It is rather ior
MS to be here dedicated to the great task remain
ing before us-that from these honored dead We
take increased devotion To that cause for which
they gave the last full meaurc Of devotion
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall
not have died in yain-tlat the nation, under
God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that
government Of the people by the people, for the
people shall not perish from the earth
Year: 1875

A TELEGRAM dated Washington, March llth, says General Crook is assigned to Omaha; Colonel kautz to command Arizona r Judging from paragraphs going round among the papers, we presume this change is made at the request of General Crook. The Gen eral has done for Arizona what all command CTS that preceded him failed to do--whip- ped the Apaches into state of peace For this the people here will always bear him good will. He has in the meantime received large and conspicuous promotion by the President, and he must leave feeling with the people that it was good for him te have been here.

 Col August Y. Kautx is the colonel of the Eighth Infantry anl is now at Depart ment headquarters with his family. He was a brigadier-general of volunteers and a major general by breTet He is a native of Germany. was educated for the Army at West Point, and has a fine official reeori- Arizona Citizen.
Year: 1875

Don't crowd the world is largo enough For you as well as me; The doors of all are open wide

 The realm of thought is free In all earth's places you are right

 To chase She best yon can Provided that you do not try

 To crowd some other man. Don't crowd the good from out your heart By fostering all that's bad; But give 10 every virtue room

 The best that may be hadi To each days record such one

 That you may well be proud; Give each his right-give each bis room, And never try to crowd. -ICharles Dickens.
Year: 1875

A Dtscourcging outlook for the Winter
cause Of tie !e0pension.


From tonight, about 450 working.
men in the employ of the Reading
Railroad Company in this city will be
suspended and thrown out of employ
ment for two or three months, Over
three hundred men will be suspended
at the new car shops, and the balance
will be taken from the other shops.


The General Superintendent when
asked the cause of the suspension re-
piled that the present business of the
company did not warrant continua
tion of the new work tn It had been so
assiduously carried on in the com
pany's shops in Reading since their
last resumption,


1t was further stated that when the
company resumed last spring u large
force of workingmen was called into
requisition from all points. The com
pany determined TO make ample prepa
ration for the Centennial, and they
ordered considerable new work to be
pushed ahead in the hope that the
business of the company would con
tinue good and warrant them to prose
cute the work without relaxation. Ii
this they were not favored, and the
| consequence is, the number of en-
ployees must be cut down until the


business of the road igain warrants


resumption. Many of the city, and i


is thought that the suspension will no


fall so heavily upon residents of Read


ing as was at first supposed.


Last month it required to pay off tn,


employees osthe company in this cit,


alone, about Sl25.0UO and such al


enormous expense was obliged to b.


curtailed owing to the falling off il


the passenger and freight traffic o


the road d.-Readtng Eagle.
Year: 1875

October opens doubtfully so far as
weather is concerned.


The financial exhibit of the city is
not very encouraging,


The Sunday School Worker for this
week is interesting and attractive.


A nice pair of fine boots can be OBJ
tanned at a low price from Fennessey
eel Market street.
True economy wall be observed In
purchasing boots and shoes from Don.
ahoe, 307 Market street.
Year: 1875

by light draft ships. The gist of Captain
Eads plan will now be readily apprehended
when it is regarded as shifting the point of
deposit of these barriers from the shoal
water at the entrance of one pass, out into
the deep water where filling up by natural
causes is impossible. By this means the
river current is to be made to cut out and
scour it's own channel across the present
bar. To do this, it is obvious that the
banks Of the pass must be extended, so as
to lead the stream far enough out; another
section of conduit, as it were, must be add
ed, and this is formed of the submarine
dykes or jetties.


The materials of which these structures
are to be composed are willow twigs bound
in bundles, termed by engineer fascines,"
eight or ten feet in length and about as
many inches in diameter. A large number
of fascines at time will be lashed together
to form RATS, the first of which will be
from seventy five to two thousand feet in
width, the largest RATS being sunk in the
deepest water. The RATS will next be tow
ed to the proper point, there loaded with
stones, and submerged, and thus the work
will continue, one raft being sunk above
another until the surface is reached. Each
line of RATS will be narrower than the one
below it until the upper course will not be
more than ten feet wide. The two walls
which will thus be constructed will be pro-
longations of the banks, and between them
will form a channel with sloping sides. In
course of time, the interstices of twigs and
stones will fill with sand and mud, so that
eventually two solid submarine levees will
be produced. Very little pile work, it is
said, will be required except perhaps at
the head of South Pass, which is the out
let at which the jetties are to be built, in
order to provide for the proper regulation
of the volume of water in the new channel
at various stages of the river.


Captain Eads has already begun his sur
veys, in which work, together with the
making Of the necessary contracts for ma
terials, labor, etc., the Summer will be con-
sumed. The first raft, it's expected, will
be sunk by the beginning of October next.
Year: 1875

THE GREAT CHESTNUT TREE.-On one
side of Mount Etna there is famous
chestnut tree, which is said to be one hun
dred and ninety-six feet in circumference
just above the surface of the ground. Its
enormous trunk is separated into five
divisions, which give it the appearance of
several trees growing together. In cir
cular space formed by these huge branches
a hut has been erected for the accommoda-
tion of those who collect the chestnuts.
These chestnuts are much larger than ours,
and form quite an important article of
food. Chestnut pudding is said to be very
nice.
Year: 1875




Doas.-There are many kinds of dogs,
but the majority of them are more orna.
mental than useful. Theoretically, dogs
are splendid; let us see how they are prac-
tically. The Newfoundland dog is useful
in saving children from drowning. But
then you have got to have pound, or live
by a lake, and have lot of children rum
ming about loose, liable to fall in, or else
the dog is Improbable. Then there is the
shepherds dog. He is very useful for
driving sheep, but you have got to buy
flock of sheep and farm to keep them on
in order to keep dog of this kind busy.
The poodle dog is not very profitable or
useful but to pacify old maids and keep
them busy to tend to something. The rat
terrier is considered very useful for killing
rats, but rats are not worth much after
they are killed, and so if you have that
kind of dog, and no rats, you had better
sell him for the most you can get.
Year: 1875

The members Of our New Histrionic Club
have decided to celebrate tho first ami.
versary of the club by making an excursion
to Ocean Springs. The club and friends
will leave the city On Saturday evening,
August 7. and upon arrival at the Springs
will give short performance, and conclude
the evening with grand ball. On the fol-
lowing day, Sunday, the eighth, = skiff
regatta will take place, when the sailors Of
the lake will contest for = two hundred
dollar prize. At the request of friends who
desire to join tho excursion, the club has
decided to issue limited number of tickets
at s. each, which sum includes railroad
and hotel fare.
Year: 1875

The Attorney General, by virtue Of his
office, is in duty bound 10 prosecute all Of
tenders againet the State, no matter what
may be the position, social or official, of
such offenders. In pursuance of this duty,
and further melted thereto by the urgency
Of the Governor to purify every department
Of his administration from tho faint and
trace Of dishonesty or corruption, as well
as to protect the interests Of the State, the
Attorney General has taken the necessary
legal steps to bring to justice all persons
accused Of malfeasance or corruption in
Office. This has naturally excited the il!-will
of such persons. and they have accordingly
set themselves to work to ferret out, if pos.
sibfe. some weak spot in the armor Of the
Attorney General, some damaging fact in
connection with his official career. Their
researches have been rewarded by learning
that in availing himself of the lega! provision
emitting him 70 the assistance Of clerk,
he has appointed his wife to that position.
What Of it. Has he not as good right TO
appoint one person as another when there
is no legal obstacle: has he not as much
right to appoint female clerk as the post
master has to appoint his female assistants.
or the city government to have female
librarian, or as the Governor would have, if
he chose to exercise it. to appoint female
assistant private secretary! There is no
accusation that the work of the Attorney
General Office has been neglected, but only
that it has been performed by a woman
That such petty gossip should pass from
mouth to mouth among idlers, Or spiteful
persons melted to revenge by the exposure
of their own rascalities, is natural enough;
but that a respectable paper like the
Picayune, which has always aimed to main
tain high character, and standing quite
above the littleness implied in such cavil-
ling, should lend itself to work of this kind,
is strange indeed. Especially is it a matter
of surprise thatso cautious journal should
use language like the following: HE, too
(meaning the Attorney General), has been
wrongfully drawing money from the State"
This is grave charge, utterly unwarranted
by the facts of the case as far as known.
If it has no other foundation than the
Simple Ou6 Ol NlT.
wife as his clerk, she being perfectly com.
petent and performing properly the duties
of the place, the accusation of wrongfully
drawing money from the treasury is no
less than direct libel. We are inclined &C.
cordingly to think that the articles in the
Picayune, giving prominence to so paltry a
matter, and making accusations so unwar
ranted, must have been published by mis-
take.


As for the Times, there is no need to
notice it's article on this absurd subject, as
its animus will be readily understood by its
readers, and as it simply shows in detail
how much the lady earned.


If the enemies of Colonel Field, with all
their diligence in scandalizing sharpened to
extra activity by the exposure Of their own
can find nothing worse against
him than that he employs competent wife
as clerk, to the disinterested and impair
tial it will appear that go paltry an accusa
ton is in reality tribute.
Year: 1875

excitement Of the escape, and considering
the desperate character of the prisoner;


but then came the beating Of the juror, the
excitement of the citizens, and the danger
OF general riot showing the town to be in
condition making the people OF the streets
more regal than judges or officers of the law.
Year: 1875

eyellds in order. What an evening
it was for more than Geordie! How
freely Laura forgot herself beneath
the lustre Of those ensnaring eyes
how her wayward pulses quickened
with each caprice of flute or VIOLIN
how her foolish little heart beat meas
urel She thought afterward that a
swallows summer fight across the
blue heavens could describe no more
delightful arabesque than those dane
ing feet upon the green turf:


Well, by.and-by the stars slipped,
one by one, into their places, and the
early moon just showed the tip of her
silver horn above Holiday Hill, and
then Laura must leave it all to pilot
Geordie happily across the waters Of
oblivion into the Land Of Nod.
Through the pauses of her fai-y-tale
she could catch the rhythm of the
dance; sometimes little jet of mel
ody flew up, like bird, 70 seek her
sometimes ripple of laughter found
her out; sometimes the wind came
following with a breath from the
willows, as..it we're somesweet thought
sent after her, and all the while Echo
went wandering into the distance with
stolen snatches of the festivity. II
nothing availed to cut thestory short
to bring the beautiful Princess into
hasty possession Of the two magic
crystals which held her crown and
kingdom. Geordie only grew gar
rulous and used all his powers o.
fascination, in order to detain Laurs
by his side, till, exhausted by his
arts, Nature took the matter in hanc
and reduced him to subjection.


By that time the dancing was
oyer, the lawn deserted, themusic;an'
had departed above all there broodee
the sweet solemnity of night, broker
only by some football on the piazzs
below. Laura went to the window
and looked out. One sta, shining
large and luminous overhead, seemed
to point at Captain Laurence, pacing
up and down there like some caget
creature, as if some impa]pable limits
shut him out from the Promised Land
II wonder what he is think about,
pondered Laura she had almos
| said "who." If she had only known
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
Year: 1875

Last week Thursday, a horse
owned by Messrs. Randall & Smith
of this city, got loose from his stable,
and when next heard from he was
crossing the LeSueur river railroad
bridge, nearly 80 feet above the bed
of the stream. There is but single
plank in the center, bridging the ties
and the horse would occasionally stop
and look back as if hesitating, but
seeming to realize his danger from at
tempting to turn around he marched
steadily on, crossing safely the bridge
and double trestle work beyond, a dis
tance of nearly a quarter of a mile
He was captured and brought home
-0fdnkdt0 Union.
Year: 1875

-Ellen Ease, young woman en-
ployed as domestic servant in a
family at Oakland, CAL, was attacked
by trivial ma]ady, and d.. Pentack
was called in. This DR.. Pentack
had long been known as an odd mau,
full of freaks in professional and
social conduct, yet he had a reputa-
ton for skill in the practice of med
icine, and enjoyed a large practice
Really he was maniac, and insanely
in love with the girl whom he was
summoned to treat. He had made
some advances which she had repuls-
ed. The sight Of her i'll put the idea
into his crazy head that if he could
only get two quarts Of her blood he
could construct from it an exact
counterpart of her. This counter
feited creation, he supposed, would
be endowed with life, and be in all
respects like the original. He an
nounced that it would be necessary
to bleed the girl, and he actually let
out from her arm the two quarts that
he wanted, taking it away in a pail.
The operation was injurious to the pa
tient, and nearly killed her. Anoth-
er physician was sent TO-, and, upon
hearing what DR.. Pentack had done
he communicated to the police his
belief of that practitioners insanity.
A visit to Pentack's residence was
made at once. He was found boiling
the blood in a kettle, and mixin g
various chemicals with it. He beg
ged to be let alone in his experiment


declaring that his process was certain
to evolve living woman Within d
| few minutes if he was not disturbed
The officers arrested him, and he il
now in an insane asylum, where he
| talks about nothing but his process o:
| making facsimiles of human beings
from their blood.
Year: 1875

Hon, c. E. Tobey hands us letter from a gentleman in Gaze county, Nebraska, making inquir- ies about our state, and saying that himself and number of others have their eye on our state, and perhaps on our immediate locality, with a view of coming here and making their homes among us. The gentleman asks a number of questions as to eli mate, soil, timber, crops, seasons &c., and states that if favorable replies are given he will perhaps decide at once on our state.

 We are glad to sec attention turning this way, and are satis- fled that if parties looking for new homes will come and look at our country they will find it all that they. could desire, or at least as near so as any country in the vast domain of the United States. And we are glad to have the names and letters of such parties handed to us; we will take pleasure in sending them copies of our paper and all other information we can get.

 Our county immigration society will soon be in working trim and we then will secure some valuable statistics and other information which will be of great interest to parties who anticipate moving to our county. We urge upon the various committees to be at work actively and energetically. There is no time to be lost, for an i'm mense mass of immigration will be in motion in a few months and if we would secure any we must make an effort.
Year: 1875

The Colorado potato bug has appeared in vast quantities in the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and is making a destructive march through those states. The prospect in those states is decidedly gloomy and the destruction of a large per centage of the crop is almost in evitable. The destruction of the bugs and their eggs is engaging the interest of the farmers and the trial of all kinds ofexpedients will no doubt develop the best method of dealing with these ob- noXious insects.