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Year: 1873

The New York Groyh!c discourses thus
sensibly and we: oa The Folly of Per
sonal Vengeance


When men undertake 20 right their indi-
vidual or family wrongs, they make a sad
mess of it. Forgetting that the law is a
guardian Of the individual. and deals
straightforwardly with facts, they give way
to emotion and act upon it. Then they en-
ploy counsel to prove that this emotion was
insane in its nature. having found too late
that in attempting to right the wrong they
have created trouble that no power can quelI.
When General Cole killed the man whom
he accused OF an attempt to estrange his
wifes affections, he only succeeded in pub
fishing his domestic shame to the world and
attaching terrible stigma to his children.
Mary Burroughs shot the man who had de-
clined to marry her. only that she might
inals Of our day. The same result has hap
pened in the Walworth murder. A boy of
nineteen took upon himself the task of
avenginG bis mothers real or fancied
wrongs, and slew his father with the
most deliberate Coolness. Bu. what
wrong has he Sc: right He has only
added sorrows crown of sorrow to her
life. Hitherto the dead mans side Of the
story has not been heard It is natural to
SuppOSo Judt his lIituUS WILL CCulo 10 tue
attack by-and-by and expose to minute pub
lie scrutiny every &C: Of her life, throwing
the light OF day upon the unhappy wears
that led to Tuesdays traged.C. All this the
mother will owe to her son, and the boy will
have time to ponder his folly and his crime
in his cell. Perhaps he may arrive at the
conclusion many another has reached
already-thaG it were better he should
die on the scatfold now, than 1--we to share
his mothers sorrow and bear the stigma of
parricide. The truth is that we have no
right to lead an individual life. whether of
pleasure, toll or revenge. A man can not
for an hour keep the influence OF his action
under his own control. His personal ven
geance sacrifices the comfort and safety of
all his relatives; his selfish pleasures, when
basely pursued. bring shame on wider
circle than he has ever dreamed. If one
could always remember that mo man lived
to himself we should have fewer Epicu-
rean libertInes of mature years, and a far
less number OF Quixotes Of revolver and
knife.
Year: 1873

The grand jury seem to be devoting their
attention strictly to legitimate business and
find more true bills than they make
reports.


No application for injunction was made
yesterday against the proceedings on Royal
street.


The First District Cour: was the scene
yesterday of an excellent days work on the
part of the District Attorney, who obtained
seven convictions for .eion:es, and is in
fair way to get another.


Messrs. Schonhausen and Duffy, pluming
themselves on their acauittai of the other
day. have assumed the offensive. They
caused the arrest Of Mr.. DAILY, their prose-
cutor, for perjury:


The District Attorney advised Recorder
Staes to admit DAILY to bail on his
own recognizance as he believed the
charge had no foundation IN fact.
Year: 1873

There is. consequently. no obstacle now
IN the way of full, complete and search
ing investigation into tie Indebtedness of
the State, and It IS Confidently expected
that the committee viii discharge the
onerous duties they have undertaken with
promn.itude and thorough efficiency.
Year: 1873

Over-Exertion, either of body or mind, produces debility and disease. The usual remedy is to take some stimulant, the effect of which is the same as giving a tired horse the whip instead of oats. The true way is to fortify the system with 8 permanent tonic like the Peruvian Syrup, Ca protoxide of Iron, which gives strength and vigor to the whole system.
Year: 1873

[From our Special Correspondent


Hope to see the COMMERCIAL represented
edtorlally here this week.


The weather continues ine. Tonight there
is a damp sea-breeze which takes the starch
right out"


Pretty much all the available rooms on the
Island are occupied. At National Hall, there
WAS room for few more this evening


They give you pretty fair dinner on the
Ironsides, and charge you 81 for it. The table
furniture and attendance are satisfactory.


Some of the ladies' become quite faint COM
ing down the bay in the steamer, but nearly eve
rybody likes the trip. You catch the sea air thir-
ty miles away.


The ''swell houses are crowded the old
.sOcean" is packed clear up to the attic, but
there is disposition to make everybody COM
Portable. The table here is a big thing,


The LrOnsides brought down about 200 on
her Tuesday trip. Half OF them got ON at New
Castle 1t Was six o'clock when she made her
landing, the bay being rough and the winc
ahead.


There are great many Wilmington and
Chester county. people down here-the latte
having u good time after harvest. The number
Of quarters and "halves' needed to get along
nicely at the sea shore is caution to the Brad
ford farmers,
Year: 1873

The Hales EARLY Peaches are nearly all mar
keted, and in few days the shipment of the
groths will commence. At no time since the
season first opened have there been more tina N
ak car loads shipped on any one day, though
yesterday there were CRATES scattered through
fifteen cars. On Monday next, it is probable
that the first peach train will be put upon the
Delaware II II something which is never done
until the shipments reach ten car loads daily
Other trains will be added as the crop ripens.
Year: 1873

Summer boarders can flud no more pleasant
place than Wilmington. The valley OF the Bran
dywine is delightfully."- cool and charming place
to while away the hot MONDAY hours, and the
sleeping rooms at the Clayton House are as COM
Portable as at any seaside or Mountain hotel. Its
table is fully equal to the best to be found any
Year: 1873

sH-Persons leaving the city for the summer, and
Wishing TO have the DAILY COMMERCIAL sent to
them, will please send us their address. Where the
paper desired tor ess than one month, the postage
had best be prepaid at this ofice. BV prepayment
OF postage by stamps, regularity Of delivery will be
insured.
Year: 1873

The End of the Pennsylvania Av.


enue FOp II Beau Brummeit


whose Name never was KnOWn-


The Bar-rOOms' Loss.


For more than quarter Of a century,
dating from about 1916, one of the most
noticeable objects Of interest in Wash
ington was-,n various phases OF pros
perity and adversity-a singular genius
known as Beau Hickman" During
the whole of the period extending from
the beginning of our troubles with Mex
leo to his death he was as well known,
not only to residents but to visitors, as
the Capitol itself; and it was his boast
that he had been on terms of intimacy
with every respectable member OF Con-
gress from Webster and Clay down to
the time when responsibility in Congress
was the exception and not the rule.


Robert Singleton Hickman, as he was
known, was born III Maryland about
1873. After wild and dissipated career
in all parts of the country, but princi-
pally in the South, Hickman drifted to
Washington, and there he developed
most extraordinary passion for dress,
his chief ambition being to shine as the
fop of the day. He became an adept In
personal adornment, and being easy and
graceful in manners, and possessing
some means which he disbursed with
lberality, he soon occupied the position
of the American Beau Brummell, ana
assumed that worthy title with all due
dignity. He hobnobbed with all the
great men of his day who were given to
sensual pleasures-and there we're lew
up to twenty years ago who were not
-and numbered among his regular and
occasional companions in the debauch
and at the gaming table some OF the
brightest ornaments of the Senate and
the House.


But the time came when he could no
longer shine but in borrowed plumage,
and Beau became the walking advertise
ment of the fashionable tailors and the
stool pigeon of the gamblers. Little by
little he went down in the scale, and
when old age began to creep upon HIM
he was frequently dependent for the
necessities of life upon the maid SER
want of the hotels and upon the charity
of strangers, whom he levied upon with
cool impudence that was always IRE
sistible.


Beau Hickman is dead. A week ago
the poor wreck, the victim of a wasted
life, was stricken with paralysis. On
Saturday he was removed to the hospital,
and yesterday morning he breathed his
last. 49,.


His real name was unknown, his fam
ily, supposed to have been one OF the
wealthiest in Maryland or Virginia, hav-
ing sent to him stipulated sum every
wear on condition that he should keep
their secret. He never told anybody
even the name of the place where he
was born, and nobody ever knew where
he lived in Washington until one night
in Louisiana avenue fire turned HIM
into the street with his wardrobe in his
arms. Frequently at the Washington
bars, while tipping glasses with the poll
ticians, he said it was a poor city that
couldn't support him like a gentleman,
and it was his intention to make Wash
inglon support him, and he did, even to
the extent of lesying twenty-five cents
on each of the young bucks of the town,
and larger sums from the larger animals.
For the last few years of his life, having
been afflicted with inhsmmatory rheu-
matism, he made no use whatever OF IN
toxicating liquors.
Year: 1873

that Mr.. Richardson, to be consistent,
will have to reject the last bid. Some of
our contemporaries have expressed hope
that this will be accepted, claiming it as a
sort of rghtful concession to the city
for. its sufferings in consequence Of the
war, and the taxes it has paid.
Without stopping here 10 strike
balance in the account current between
New Orleans and Uncle Sam, OF express
ing any opinion as 20 whether the city
was more to blame foY the losses Of the
United States than the latter for the ex.
penses Of the city, we are compelled 10
remind Gu. neighbors that it is no. in the
power Of the Secretary Of the Treasury TO
make donation, however worthy the ob-
ject may be. Perhaps Congress nigh. be
prevailed upon 20 authorize the Secretary
to approve sale Of q property for fifty
thousand dollars for which ffty-one thou
sand dollars bas already been offered and
rejected. But we do not think il would
be quite right to advise the Secretary of
the Treasury to take such a responsibility.
We vote for the acquisition Of the Marine
Hospital by the city OF State either, on
as favorable terms as possible, but we do
not forget that Mr.. Lenes has the call at
present, and tina. Congress is the only
power that can rightfully discriminate in
favor Of corporation.
Year: 1873

1t the last performance of the Shakes
peare Club, several Of the performers spoke
80 loud and distinctly that We heard with
difficulty, from our position in the second
fier, all that was said by young man in
the parquette, who had his hair parted in
the middle; and who was talking at the
same time.
Year: 1873

Switzerland showed itself to be q sensible
little republic by not making any bones'
over the Shah. He came and went, and
not Swiss stopped hoeing his potatoes or
turned his head, and the bejeweled blacka-
tnoor want he
Year: 1873

Susan B. Anthony says she never mar
ried because she could not sacrifice her free
dom of thought and action. Her defamers
say the real reason is because she could
not find man willing to give up his own
frao6On
Year: 1873

with Mr.. Davis during she war. They
would come and 60 through the blockade


as they wished. Every one else in the
North we're yankees" They were true


Democrats and therefore friends Of the


South. Do these :rickstess love the South


mote than others do: Look at the battle


record Of the Northern State rights Dem.


ocrats. as they claim il. We're Nc


Clellan 0. General Butler less intent


upon the conquest Of these people


than Grant or Sherman: Did the


Democratic State rights bumme,


spare a watch o, piano. more than any


Other camp follower: It would have


greatly angered the Northern Democracy


a few years agor intimate tat the North,


that they were less cruel and rapacious


than any others. Now to gain the vote Of
the South they prate free trade and State


rights. well knowing that either is wholly
void of meaning. We never think of the
pledges given by the Northern States
rights Democracy to maintain the doctrine
Of secession and their selfish abandon
ment Of the Southern people that they
thus contributed to mislead, that we do
not feel indignant at the fraud which
caused SO much blood and misery We
never observe the audacious attempt to
deceive the Southern people by shame
less repetition of the same fraud, that we
do not feel surprise that they should be
people whom they have so |
deeply deceived. There is fable which |
we would commend to the World and to
those it would again mislead. Two
travellers suddenly encountered bear.
Year: 1873

A New Yorker is very much annoyed be
cause his two boys have read so many Indian
stories that they have gone wild with anxiety
to play Indian, to go out on the prairies
hunting for the real noble red men. The
man was taking nap after dinner in his easy
chair, when he was awakene by an alarming
noise and strange sensation in his head.
He jumped up suddenly and found that one
of his boys, dressed in a red table-cloth, and
his face decorated with blue paint, was trying
to scalp his father with carving knife, while
the other boy, attired in blanket shawl and
rooster feather, hourished hatchet and
emitted war-whoops from behind thicket
composed of two chairs and a card table.
Inc man decided to put stop to this kind OF


So next day while the bows were playing
win BOWS and arrows in the garden he dress
ed himself In an Indian costume, and jump
ed over the fence With a wild, unearthly veil,
for the purpose OF frightening those children
The oldest boy. however, stood his ground,
and drawing an arrow to the head, in which
was inserted a tenpenny nail, he buried it in
the chieftain's leg before he took to flight.
That night the father walked up stairs on a
crutch and fogged the family al around be-
fore he sent them to bed. He is thinking now
of some other way to effect cure of the san
culinary disposition of his offspring.
Year: 1873

In theory, theorists may differ very widely
In their ideas touching the winter pruning OF
fruit trees and shrubs; but practical men
usually begin this work as soon as convenient
after the holidays. There is no use of borrow
ing trouble about the frost injuring the ex-
posed wood where branch has been cut of,
because, if you have any fears on this score
just cover the wounds with little gum shell
lac, dissolved in alcohol, or with common
paint; grating wax will also answer the pur-
pose as WELL


But never prune plant just for the sake of
pruning, or because somebody has said that
trees require pruning annually. The size
and form OF trees may be controlled at will
by pruning, and fruitfulness may be fastened
or retarded by the same process. Vigorous
growing trees should be preserved with care
and judgment, tn operator remembering that
the more wood that is cut away the more
rapid will be the growth the following season;
and if tree is already making too much
wood, no more should be allowed than is
actually necessary to bring that which re-
mains into proper shape.


This principle as our guide,l we prune
stunted trees severely; or even sickly br nch-
es, on an otherwise healthy tree, may often
be restored to health by the use Of the prun-
ing knife alone. II the trees are large and
branches so numerous as not to permit the
light to reach the centre of the tree, cut out
portion, and gave all parts an equal chance
fer development and health. In all large,
old trees there must naturally occur many
exhausted branches; and in cutting these
away we give the others an opportunity to
grow; and if few fruit spurs are destroyed,
those remaining will be trengthened, and
the fruit produced larger and of better quail
ity. Most fuit cultivators viii own to a
weakness in leaving too much bearing wood
upon their trees, and poor, small fruit is the
result. --.s. .e f.ni


No better tine can be selected for pruning
understandingly than in winter, for at this
season one can readily determine the char
acter of each bud, spur or branch, and short
en-, remove entire, or allow any portion to re-
main intact, as the condition may indicate.
Apple, pear and plum trees may be pruned
far more freely than the cherry; for this last
named tree is rather impatient under the
knife, although it may often be pruned TO
advantage. We all take far too much delight
in showing our fruit trees loaded down with q
greater burden than they can in safety carry
through to maturity; hence the necessity OF
severe pruning to restore vigor to exhausted
specimens. 81. .r.--...-..
Year: 1873

A good story is told of the students OF an
institute which is located in the New Eng
land states. A year or two since, just before
Lent, the Principal of the school lectured the
boys upon the propriety of abstaining from
some accustomed article of diet during Lent,
and desired each one to write the name Of
The article upon slip of paper, and hand
thon, =, him the next morning at the open
ing of the school. The papers were handed
in. and upon every one was written the sig
n;ficant word "Hash."
Year: 1873

Silver fox is the fashionable fur for trim
mings this season.


The Dolman is the most fashionable street
garment that we have had for many years.


Sleeveless jackets having been banished oy
the cold weather from the street, are worn In
gay colors for the house.


It is pleasing token Of the invigorating
effect of cold weather on the human intellect
Year: 1873

happAhAnnOckC COuutYs


A correspondent writing from Flint Hill,
RappahannOck county, under date OF
August 27. says: !,


The Republicans OF this county arc well
organized and fully alive TO the issues in
volyed in the present momentous struggle.
On our last county court day,
the unterrilied Democracy held meeting
for the purpose of devising some
means by which they could secure
the nomination of an old fogy can
dldate for the legislature, and thereby
blast the hopes of very prominent
young aspirant in their ranks for legisIa-
tive honOrs. This created considerable
pow. WOW among them, and they finally
adjourned by calling on their old leader,
Major Zeph Turner, for speech, who re-
sponded by giving very glowing account
Of the convention of gentlemen lately
assembled in Richmond. He wound up
his long-winded narration on the old
string Of mixed schools and negro
supremacy in Virginia if the Repub-
lican party should come into power
this fall. That old string has been
played on so long that it is about played ont.
After the Major subsidized, the Republicans
held very harmonious and enthusiastic
meeting, unanimously endorsing the action
of the Lynchburg convention, and resolved
to call mass meeting on the second Monday
in September. They then called on r. II.
Bruce, esq.,, who responded in bold
and eloquent speech in defence of the
Republican party, and closed his remarks
by replying in full to Major Turner. The
Major and most of the immaculate gem
tlemen of his party left the courtroom
before Mr.. Bruce took the stand, but q
good audience OF the bone and sinew OF
the land remained, listening attentively,
and frequently applauding our speaker.
There live in this county good many Of
General Kemper's old command in the
Confederate army, and the greater number
of them swear they will not support him
for governor. Hughes and Ramsdell are
steadily gaining ground every day, and a
great number went to WarrentOn from this
county on the 25th instant, to hear them
speak. 1t is earnestly hoped that we will
be favored with their presence before the
campaign is over. We need good speakers
very much in this section of Virginia,
bearing along the eastern base of the Blue


Ridge, and then, with the help of THE
| STATE JOURNAL, we will be enabled tc
remove the scales of darkness from the
eyes Of the hardy sons of toll and ensurt
| us a brilliant victory this fall.
Year: 1873




"A PEOPLE will not follow portable
government; the moss will not cling to
a rolling st0ne.n This truism is from the
Richmond Enquirer man-one Of the few
truths that this exhumer of ancient history
has allowed himself to give to the public.
Now and then the southern gentle
men engaged in the newspaper busi-
ness show their weakness in such man
ner as to make themselves laughing
stock among their own people, and bring
up "reminiscences that are not pleasant to
dwell upon. The people Of tho whole
southern country know that "a portable
government is not the right sort Of thing
to follow, and for that reason the great
majority Of them left jeff in the lurch
when he attempted to make travelling
| caravan of the Confederacy.


jeff ought to have known, as well as the
writer Of the above paragraph, that "a
rolling stone gathers no mess" Ii he did
not his West Point education was sadly ne
elected. He probably had that other ole
proyerb in view when he left Richmond
"a sitting hen never gets iat'-and fol
that reason concluded that il was best L
eyacuate, not for his own good, but per
haps for the welfare Of the people he ha
so egregiously deceived. Washingto
Chronicle, September |.
Year: 1873

TIME DEFINED. During the examina-
ton of coloied witness in case in the
police court this morning. in giving in his
evidence he said, in defining the question
of the time of an occurrence, that it hap
pened Immediately in about two hours"
Year: 1873

AN OCEAN BRIDE.-A lady passenger
by Ilibernia steamship, recently arrived at
Norfolk, was united to her fiance on the
arrival of the ship, the male party
being on the watch for his lady-love.' u
They came to Richmond to reside. May
they live long and be happy, for they
deser We to be so.
Year: 1873

Ireland. The wreck is supposed to be that
of the State Line steamship Alabama,
which left Glasgow for New York on Sat
urday. No survivors from any wreck IN
that vicinity have vet. been heard OF, and
nothing more definite in regard to the dis
aster can be learned.
Year: 1873

warm. tylooded quadruped would exist un-
der water for period of twenty minutes.
No mammalian quadrdped except the
hippopotamus could remain under water
for twenty minutes without being sui
focated but the young hippopotamus
could do so. Accordingly, II was the
most amphibious of animals. For the first
ten days no one went into the house; the
food of the hippopotamus was thrown
thrown through the ventilator; so
frightfully ill.tempered was she when
the had her young, that she would
rush against the iron bars and
destroy the young one. II was simply
affection for her young one that caused
the death of the hippopotami on the Con
tinent and in the Geological Gardens. The
beast would pick up her young one with
the determination to carry 1t off Into the
river; but as she could not run into river,
she kept it in her mouth till she mashed
it up. 1t was her extraordinary affection
that made her rush about like mad one
to keep strangers away. He knew that, if
people were kept away, she would have
nothing to contend against, and thus, in a
small, compact place, they succeeded in
rearing that young one this way: Awoke
early one morning, he saw two men look
ing into the water so intently that he ask
ed them what was the matter They re-
piled that all was over, and that the young
one was drowned in the bottom of the
pond. He looked through the bars, and
saw the water as still as possible. The
men said they had been there for ten min.
utes, during which the hippopotamus had
not moved; the mother had killed it. He
took out his watch, and looked for ten
minutes, wishing that the young one had
never been born. He told the men to shut
the door, and let them have the young one
out The moment they shut the door the
mother went into the water and took the
young one up, while they rushed out as if
they were shot. When they came back
they found that it was the fact that she
could remain so long under water. Since
then they had seen it at the bottom asleep
for twenty minutes, the mother being with
l.