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Year: 1872

for Tomorrow.


Before Judge lngraham.
Assistant District Attorney Fellows, addressing
the Court, said that tho Stokes case had been set
down Tor yesterday. but about the middle OF last
week an understanding had been had between
counsel on both sides that the case could not be
tried on Monday and should be set down for
Wednesday. Their witnesses had, therefore. not
been brought.


Judge Ingraham said they we're not likely to get
Jury at once and might as well go on.
Mr.. Townsend joined In the request, and The
Court thereupOn set the case down for Wednesday,


THE CASE OF JAMES G. KING.
Application was made in behalf OF James G. King
for commission to Hamburg TO take testimony ana
q stay in the meantime.


Judge Ingraham thought the affidavits not speclnc
enough to warrant stay, but gave them day to
correct the defect
Year: 1872

What would eight or ten Ysprssentativss from
Wilmington find to do In our lsg,slsturer The
legislature meets in January. and esnsrally q
month is passed in doing littb os no business. The
representatives mostly 60 to Dover ON Monday
aud leave there on Thursday, but take their pay
for the whole seven days Of the week. Repre-
sentation according to population would doubtless
double or treble the expenses; but We doubt
whether it would add anything to our liberty OF
reduce the taxes one way or another. The farm.
ers OF New Castle County are jest - much op-
posed to levying heavy taxes ON land as are
the farmers of Kent and Sussex. and hence no
change could be expected in that matter. because
tha votes Of the agricultural interest would necss-
sarily be combined to protect their lands. which
they say are now taxed as heavily ~ they will
bear.


We hope that reflection upon this subject will
produce fruitful results in causing our people 70
settle upon some principle that may seem FEAST
bic and that will be productive Of satisfactory
reforms.
Year: 1872

IHE DAILY GAZETTE was given wide circula-
tion yesterday. As usual with the beginning Of
new enterprises there was some delay in getting
to press and our frat edition did not appear A.
early as we desired. yet the paper went Of so
rapidly that we found it impossibls to supply the
demand and many persons who desired to pur-
SeAsee during the afternoon found US without
supply. This will be remedied in future
Year: 1872

The publication of the names of persons in
Liverpool who become intoxicated in public
has reduced the number of drunkards one
third during the past six months


The highest Office within the gift of the
Government 10 the supprintendency of the
weather signal station on Pixies Peak, which
Is fourteen thousand feet above the sea level.
Year: 1872

THOSE Amherst professors are fearfully
malicious fellows; they have to keep awake
through their own sermons and wOn'tle any
body else sleep in peace. The other day one
of them cried out, in the middle of gentle
soporific discourse, Wake up that Young
mani" and half the students and faculty WOKE
up the other half, not knowing, of course
which was the young man meant, and some OF
them did not get any more sleep that morn
ing.
Year: 1872

THERE Is woman in Newport so jealous
of her husband she wont allow him to carry n
pocket handkerchief for fear he will carry on
handkerchief Irritation with some OF the
girls. He don't mimi the handkerchief much,
but 1t Is hard on his coat sleeve
Year: 1872

Artificial teeth are of little use and easily de-
tected. Take care of the real ones All You
need Is fragrant SosodOnt, use it daily and
your teeth will be the last of natures gifts to
fail you.
Year: 1872

The Rondout Freeman states that in
the mountains Of Shandaken there are
hundreds of young ladies from the city
boarding during the hot weather. One
small farmhouse in Broad street Hollow
contains no less than forty school
ma MS The country is completely
oyerrun by women, who, by the aid OF
exercise and mountain air, have become
as fresh, ruddy and handsome as any
lot of girls one can see. In the noun
tain gorges, between Shandaken aud
Lexington, there is hardly house but
has dozen or two. Most of them are
young women who work with their
brains, and take this summer vacation
because it is good for their health and
because it is cheaper than living in the
city. 1t is almost as much as mans
life is worth TO travel through that sec
ton nowadays, especially a young
man. A young gentleman was driving
along the road leading to Lexington the
other day, and says he never before had
sncs a greeting. 1t was a perfect ova-
tion. Young ladies' crowd the piazzas
and wave their handkerchiefs. while
hardly a piece of romantic woods could
be be- passed without half dozen hand
some girls would spring INTO view to
catch a glimpse and welcome the new
conner. 1t much resembled a journey
Of the King OF France in old times,
when the cry Of vive lie roi! resounded
from the wayside. The cry is not vive
lie roil in this case, however, but :" o,
there's mani o, there a mani o-o-ol


and then is a clapping of hands and
waving of handkerchieis, and shouts of
joy-in fact perfect and most delight
tal welcome. rra wrr
Year: 1872

A new intoxication composed of
naptha and ether has peen invented
which, owing to its sgreeable effect, is
becoming quite popular. 1t does not
come under the head of ardent spirits,
although it partakes somewhat Of the
nature of terchlight procession in its
passage from mouth to stomach.
Year: 1872

"Vncn Greek meets Greek then comes the tug Of


Var.


The history of this quarrel is not fully known.
Its real cause, no doubt, IS hidden beneath
ambitious preences and anxious desires for politi
cal preferment. While the battle RACES those who
do not search deeper, or understand the mysteries
Of ciiquesm, are only permitted to the cause
in the contention ordinance requiring
that Councilmen shall not become contractors for
city work. /: the reader will look deeper hc may
discover the NEGRO in the wood pile" and that
the quarrel is really as to which clique shall get
his vote. However, we outsider and oc-
cupy about the position Of the woman who sur
veyed the fight between the bear and her hus-
band. In the meantime copy the following
from the Commercial OF yesterday:


awe are now however, treated BY the present
Council As were by the Tamminyltes OF ISL.
The Clerk of that body has been instructed by
the Printing Committee to have no more orli-
nances published III the Commercial They will
he inserted IN two other newspapers and not IN
this The two other papers are the Rep"ohco"
and Ere,y Ecen,nq. Both have strcnuonsly de-
tended the proprlety of City Counciimen becom-
ing City Contractors. and herein find their re-
ward"


As to the action OF the Printing Committee, we
have nothing to say. The city advertising a
matter OF small moment 10 US lts wluldrawa',
however. is yet another step III the attacks made
lay the CITY Ring on the COMMERCIAL, u contest
which they seem determined to continue, so long
as we maintain Independence of expression"


The applying of the word "Tammanyites' to the
Democratic council of 1871, is a willfal slanler,
The Commercial is fully aware of the fact that the
SUCCESSORS of that Council have utterly failed to
prove anything damaging to the reputation OF a
single Democratic member of Council in Isl l. al
though they were anxious to do In tact the
chairmen Of several committees have compliment
Ell the manner i'll which much of the work OF that
year was done, this was especially the case OF the
Water Committee.
Year: 1872

TO THOSE WHO WANT
A GOOD NEWSPAPER
4 Paper for the Merchant the Farmer, the
Mechanic, the Stock Trader, the Poll
tician, the man Of Leisure, the
Family Circle, the Workshop,


and the Office.
Year: 1872

Removing the CurbsfOne Mark G---Why IL


should be Done.


To ae Editor of Gte Commercial


Permit few works in reply to "a Heavy Tax
Payer" in your paper Of yesterday. He says
that no possible advantage can accrue to the
merchants on Market street, by tho change aud
that it is a pecuniary interest to every retail
dealer on this street to retain the markets. etc..
In both these points he is mistaken. The ad-
vantage we will reap is six full days TO do busi-
ness instead of three or four. We are now
blocked up so completely, half the time, that our
best class of custom is shut out and no one VEN
lures along the street, except with market bas-
ket. Seldom do people go shopping for dry
goods, hardware, shoes, jewelry books, medi-
cine, or anything save groceries, with a basket
big enough to carry home fortune. People
come for their marketing, and attend to little
else, while all those who do not market" wait
until the street is clear 1t is ''pecuniary ad-
vantage for all the goods bought from the
merchants, by people while at market, will not
compare with the trade they shut out or turn to
other places. Let our merchante note how little
lady custom, or paying custom they receive ON
market mornings from eight to eleven o'clock.
| Market street is the main business centre, and
all the street markets in creation will not change
IT. He says strangers visiting our city are sur
prised at the amount of business life and actlvi-
| ty that pervades our main street" Ridiculous
Strangers do wonder. but only that we still hold
the old fogy customs that have died away all over
the land This is not business life. Is it business
for a market wagon to back up in front of a
large business house. blocking up the street, in
terfering with travel, ,cluttering up the pavement
and iamming the doorway. to sell meat and
cabbages, four days in the week Selling per-
haps $50 worth of produce while he interferes
with the trade of a house that sells 81 900 All
houses that profess to do trade are constantly
receiving and expressing goods and this they
cannot do, during market hours. Thus goods are
delayed and customers unaccommodated.


Yes, MIR. " Taxpayer" smaller cities have
market houses. but the cities are not com
PEELED to build them. We do not force
the country people into the street they
are privileged to built all the market houses
they want, but it is no more the city's duty Ia
build them, than it is to build me a store or my
neighbor his coal sheds.


Heavy Taxpayer says the toilsome earnings
of the farmer are more than dOitbly expended
before he leaves town. How odd Gentlemen
of the Council if this be true, you should abolish
the market at once-for il our country frendt
spend double trhdt they hare, every time they
come to town. you are responsible for their OK
travagance, and will be lobliged to take care OF
their starving widows and orphans. Any man
who only spends double 'ohdt he has is not fit tC
sell cabbages on Market st. Oh City Father
permit him to pass gently to King st. whore h'
has room to be more generous MARKET ST.
Year: 1872

The New York Ndtionsthus sums up the
recent Supreme Court decision on this
subject:


The case of Watson VS.. Jenner, which
has just been decided in the Supreme
Court, for the first time authoritatively
settles the relations of the civil to the &C.
clesiastical tribunals of this country, and
is not without its bearing on the Cheney
case, in Chicago, two years ago. n Pres
byterian church in Louisville (Kentucky)
split during the war on the question of
slavery and emancipation, the majority
adhering to the Government and the pro-
clamation, holding the church, and receiv-
ing the approval of the ecclesiastical Gen
eral Assembly. On suit brought by the
malcOntents, the State court set aside the
decision of the General Assembly and put
the revolving officers and members in pos
session Some of the loyal members re-
siding in Indiana then carried the case in
to the Federal courts, and have now got
judgment in their favor. The Supreme
Court decides that where property is given
or left i'll trust for the promotion of any
particular doctrine or form of worship and
there is a dispnte over it between members
of the church or congregation, the Court
will take upon itself to decide which of
the two rival parties processes the faith for
the support of which the money was left !;
or, in other words, will assume the func-
tions discharged by the Judicial Commit
tee of the Privy Council in England in
like cases. But when there is no special
trust created by deed or will, and a like
dispute arises, the Court will treat the de-
cision of the highest ecclesiastical tribunal
of the denomination to which the cOngre-
CATION belongs as final and binding, and
will enforce it. In this case, the decision
of tho General assembly iS adODtpd bV the
Court. This would, we apprehend, dis
pose of Mr.. Cheney'S attempt to get the
civil courts to protect him against his bish-
Year: 1872

A New York Post correspondent says:


The health of Chief Justice Chase has
improved greatly since he was in the city
of New York, year ago last January He
eats well, digests well, sleeps well, exercis-
es much and works hard. On Thursday
evening he worked until half past 10
o'clock, writing out one decision and look
ing upauthorities for another. He says that
it is seldom that he works beyond the hour
of 10 at night in his library. His old smile,
his hearty laugh and his buOyant cheer
fulness have come back to him. His gen.
eraI health is better now than it has been
at any time i'll the last three years. On
pleasant mornings he walks into the Capt.
tOl. This is his season of heavy work, as
the Supreme Court is in session.


l can not think of this great and good
man, this true Christian statesman and
jurist, who next morning, i'll the quiet of
his own house, reads from 1.-THE Book Di-
vine,H and on bended knee implores the
blessings of God upon his country and the
world, without the hope that God will give
him length of days and abundant health.
Year: 1872

Either the Odd Fellows of Chattanooga must
be the best natured fellows in the State or else
their goodness was imposed on on Friday night
judging by the following paragraph from the
Times of yesterday


1.-THE Odd Fellows Hall was occupied last
night to a late hour by the Knights of Pythlas
which caused postponement of the AnnlVer-
sary meeting intended to have been held by the
odd Fellows for this year. The members OF
the fraternity deeply regret the occurrence, ana
hope there will be no hindrance to their cele-
brating the next anniversary"


The brothers of that city should have united
with US at Mcrristown in the grand demonstra-
ton at that place on Friday.
Year: 1872

CHINA NEW Wednesday eve
ming the Chinese residents of Weaver
Vile began celebrating their New Year
with their usual shouts and display, and
with an usual amount of fire. works. Hav-
ing had water plenty for several weeks,
they are more flush than for several years
past at this time, and greater and more
extended jollifcation will result in con-
sequrnce. Every year, upon this occa-
sion, silver and small gold disappears at
once as by magic from among the whites,
being gathered up in every conceivable
way by the Chinese for use among them
selves. Chinese New Year over, the
small coin finds its way back into the or
dinary channels of trade again, but for a
short time change for a twenty-dollar
piece is almost impossible to obtain among
the whites. This, Cinnamon say, is the
year 1909 of the Chinese Empire.
Year: 1872

The Democrats Of last week attempt
ed to make some capital out OF the
newspaper business in the State Sen
ate, and to glorify the cheap virtue OF
its editor for voting no in the matter.
We had no room last week for an
swer, but will say a word or two
now. The appropriation for news
papers isn't "grab," at all, and can
not he one, except to Senators
like the gentleman from Marion,
chance to be publishers. The money
appropriated does not ito the mem
bers of the Legislature at all. They
get none of it. The appropriation
only makes them extra labor with
out any extra pay. The papers which


are ordered under this appropriation
are mailed to the people of the State,
direct from the offices where pub
lished; and the object is, to thus fur
nish the people of the State with


reports of Legislative Proceedings.
The money thus used is for the di-
rect benefit of the people, and not for
the Legislators; and only some such


paper as the Democrat could have the
face to try to playupon the ignorance
of it's readers by calling it a "grab."
Before we give our neighbor credit
for all the virtue he assumes, let US
see whether he himself, as a publish
ar. does not make it as much OF a
..grab'' for himself as he can, by or
dering his own paper. This will be
q nice little ties. for his consistency.
Year: 1872

AS to the wisdom Of the appropria-
ton itself, there may be some doubt.
We think there could easily be found
better way to keep the people post
ed on Legislative doings; and it ap-
pears that the House proposes to find
some better way or else give up the
whole thing.
Year: 1872

course. But i'm order to prevent
Counties from being saddled with
unnecessary expense it might per-
haps be we'll enough to provide that
no Township shall vote more than
twice on the same question in one
year.


The Hawkeye argues that, as Iowa
already has 3, l44 miles of Railroad
standing now the sixth Railroad
State in the Union), and as taxation
is already so heavy in the State,
therefore this Law should be repealed
forthwith. a brief answer to this
is, that no matter how many Rail-
roads some portions of the State may
have, there are other portions which
have none but which need Railroads
mere and more all the time. And
the more Railroads there are in the
State, the harder it is to get new
one in some particular place where
needed; and therefore the more rea-
son there is that Townships should
be allowed to tax themselves for this
purpose, since they cannot raise SUN
cient means in any other way. And
further: The present. Law 1ST0) is
not binding en- the whole people,
compelling all to vote Tax. Those
Townships which do not want to
vote Tax can let it alone. The Law
does not hurt them any. If we in
1 Knoxville Township have voted all
I the Tax we want, why should we


try to take away from the people oi
Red Rock Township the privilege o.
furthering their own interests in like
), manner if they see fit? If they de


ceive themselves, they themselves


and not we, must suffer the conse


quences.


! But we have not space, even If WE


had the ability, to argue the whole


matter here. The principle
Of allowing Townships to vote aid tt


Railroads has been twice pronounced


by the Legislature, has been twice


sustained by the Supreme Court, ano


has been endorsed by the people. II
may not indeed be considered as s
permanent policy. Iowa is now in
condition of development. When
this line Of action is no longer neces


sary or advisable, let it be dropped
But let it now have q fair and equa


trial by all who want to avail them
selves of it. Our voice would d.
given most emphatically against th'


repeal of the Law. 1t might bt


well, probably, to pass a Declaratory
f Act, clearly repeating the Law oi
1868 tnow held valid by the Supreme
Court, and setting forth that the in
tent of the present Law is that the
aggregate amount of aid voted III
any Township for all Railroads, in
all time-or say in any decade-sha!l
not exceed five per cent. las the said
intent is reasonably clear from the
wording of the Law, though perhaps
not absolutely and sufficiently so;
and some further slightamendments
might perhaps be profitably made,
as careful observation and experience
may show them to be advisable.
But let us hold fast to the main fea-
lures of the present Law for at least
a sufficient time yet to enable the
people of the whole State to use it as
much as they want. 1t will be time
enough to repeal it when the people
of the whole State, or majority OF
of them, shall have SO demanded.
- -.
Year: 1872

The latest lepDrts OF the Metis disaster
snow that tatharine Carey, Augusta Perry
AMI Joseph Wegonski. of Germany, were
lost III addition 10 those before reported
This makes 81 or 80 persons lost, and Owe, 20
are still missing. The body Of an infant q
month old has been washed ashore Oh Block
Island, and two more bodies have been dis
,noveIed at Watch Hill


A man who employed spy to get evidence
against the virtue OF his wife got nicely come
ap with in London not long ago The women
met the petition of her husband with the plea
that she had been led into evil solely through
the plots of an agent employed by him to watch
her movements, and the court decided that the
husband was responsible for the acts of his
agent.
Year: 1872

RUSSIAN OFFICIAL CORRUPTION A cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune says that
the following fraud was practiced upon the
Gar Alexander, while yet Crown Prince.
There was certain fortress placed on the
military map of the Caucasus. The Crown
Prince, on visiting this latter country -X-
pressed to Prince Woronzoff. the commanding
general, his desire to visit said fortress. The
general himself, who had never seen the fol-
tress addressed himself to the chief engineer.
who informed him that the fortress existed
only on the map. How to dissuadr the Crown
Prince from his notion To visit the mythical
GOrt was not an easy task. Ihe general To-
sorted first to the strategy of frightening back
The Crown Prince by the story of the fort
being in the centre of a very dangerous band
of marauding Circassans; but, when this did
have the desired effect, hr at last improy ylied
sham attack by a division of his Russian
soldiers turned into Circassians, and stationed
on the imaginary route to the fort,


The sham fight lasted for an hour OF so. at
the end of which the Prince was congratulated
by the commanding general for his great
bravery in the terrible fight There were q
great many sham deaths on both the Russian
aud Circassian side, and many were the deco.
Iations which the Emperor Nicholas, father
OF the Imperial Prince, distributed, at the lat


trr's recommendation, among officers and
soldiers who took part in this expedition


Only some years afterwards was the deception
exposed through an officer who had fallen out
with General WoronAoff The millions that
had been drawn from the Imperial treasury
Tor the erection of a fortress IN the conquered
country went into The pockets 0f the topo-
graphical chief engineer and his assistants
j Gave the above from Russian and nol
Fon,h source, and from a gentlclnal who wa,
hilnstif al officer in the army. of course il
has meyer been published, for the yigilan. eye
.pf the c"LS1I would never have permitted it
Year: 1872




and this man, in respectable black suit,
standing collar and a beaver hat,
would gaze thereon by the hour and
grind out his dusty admiration. Among
the steerage passengers was bugler
who every night gave free entertain
ments He played with taste and feel
ing and, when once we had all allowed
our souls to drift away in "The Last
Rose Of Summer" the grinder, in the
midst Of the beautiful strain, brought US
plump to earth by turning out the re-
marx that "a bewgle made about as nice
music as any instrument goin', eff it was
well played" Had he been thrown
overheard he would have drifted ashore,
and bored the natives to death with a
long and lifeless story Of his escape
from drowning. larHHl.zt an
Year: 1872

inches amidship to twenty and half
inches at the stem and seventeen and a
half inches at the stern. She is fourteen
feet in length, with beam Of twenty
eight inches, and is fitted with large
water-tight compartment at each end.
so that she will right up in the event of
capsizing. The Dolly Warden has
two masts and plenty of sail power, be-
sides paddles. The young man who is
her master and crew, and has no mate,
is provided with waterproof tent mate
rials, SO that he can live in his boat in
wet weather and snap his fingers at the
storms. He has concentrated provisions
to subsist upon in case fishing and fowl
ing should fail, and there is no earthly
reason why Mr.. Chambers and his Dolly
Warden should not have good quiet
time.