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Year: 1873

farmers should be drawn away from their
fields to attend court during all the time it
must take 10 transact that business?


We see no better remedy for this gross
Inconvenience than division Of the coun-
ty. II this is done. and Wilmington is
provided with courts Of her own, the time
occupied by the courts in the transaction
Of the business coming from the remain
ing hundreds would be Of shor, duration.
The sessions Of our courts would he Of but
few days. Then, too, the gres, bug-bear
the want Of hotel accommodation which
so shocks the sensitive feelings Of people
so long accustomed to the splendid table Of
the Clayton House. would no longer be an
object Of dread. for it wonld be poor in
deed if man could not stand il for two
or three days


This is one among many reasons that
might be urged for the division Of the
county. We will not stop now to produce
other arguments in favor Of this project,
We do no, know in what light the matter
may be viewed by the members Of the
Legislature from Kent and Sussex coun.
ties, but We do earnestly hope rha, they
will consider well this and the kindred
propositions from this county, and that
they will no, lnash all these proposed
changes wiihou, allowing the voice Of the
people 70 be heard Give the people All
opportunity to pass upon these questions
aud decide them for themselves
Year: 1873

In the New York Despatch. of recent
date is an incident growing out of the re
beliion under the above heading, aud the
Journal referred to relates how, on an
evening or two previous, Il good looking
man aborer, about thirty years Of age
took the cars at Centre street depot
Newark. for New York. There was but
one vacant seat in the car that he entered.
and that was by the side of handsome
aud elegantly dressed lady. The man
sat down. and after his fair comoauion
had removed her veil, he was Surprised
to recognize in her his wife, whom he
had not seen for mure than twelve years
he lady threw her arms around his neck
and kissed him tenderly, aud mutual
explanations followed


1t seems that they bad been married
just before the breaking our OF the war.
at the home of the lady IN Missouri Her
father was owner of large tract of land
but had only little money. He joined
the rebel cause, aud the daughter also
warmly adhered to the opinions of her
father Her husband, however. was IA
decided Uuion man. She abused him
violently on account of his principles
aud told him if he sided with the "Bnu,iy
Yankees" he might leave the place, and
she never wished to zee his lace again
lie took ber at her ward. aud the same
night left her and joined Fremoni's army
as "a private He was several times taken
IA prisoner, and as often escaped to our
Iiues He passed on with Sherman tn
the sea. and at the conclusion of his tern.
of enlistment joined New York regi
ment, and by this means, at the end of
the war, found his way to Newark where
he has since worked quietly in factory


His wiIe's father was killed at Vicks
burg and she was lett possessor OF his
uncuitivated farms. She supported her
self by working in milliner establish
ment in St. Louis, till after the close of
the war Her land rose 10 value and
she sold il for good price, ana realized
about So 900 With this sum she started
millinery establishment OF her own IN
ST Louis, and succeeded spleDdidly She
is repuied worth Si0,0DO ar $4,000 =
She was on her way tn New York TO buy
goods when she met the man whom she
had supposed long ago dead Rcmorseiui
ior driving him away. she had refused all
offers of marriage The joyous meeting
caused the husband to forgive his wife :
error. and present of new suit of
clothes. a diamond ring and splendid
gold watch, when they arrived IN New
York, served maternity to increase his
respect and affection for his long lost wife
They are now stopping at a fashionable
hotel j yous over the accident that
reunited them.
Year: 1873

Speaking evil of others is one of the
most unamiab!e habits that cSu be ac
auired, aud one that leads to iuGniie
mischief it is not always easy to avoid
1t, for there are great many persons IN
the world who are not what they ought
to be, and who do many things they
ought not to do. 1t is hard for bluut,
generous mind to refrain from express
ing itself about people and mean acts /;
honesty that rouseS the Indignation Of
such mind, aud it likes the luxury of
denouncing them in bold. unspairlny
language. Bat the practice as practice
is Troublesome and dangerous oae


There are occasions when it is our du
~ to speak out in exposure oi wrong !;
but in general. it is best to abstain from
evil speaking. even of evil persons We
are not made judges of Others actions ::
10 one has the right to assume the char
acter OF arhiter and censor Even the
best of us have oar faults, and II every
one should presume to dcuouuce The vices
and misconduct of others. the world would
be gwen up to defamation


We may see and hear much that We
do not admire aud caunot like We may
become cOEnizant of many evil deeds
done by evil persons; but it is The part
of wisdom and discretion to pass then by
without notice. except when to speak OF
them cautiously may be necessary as a
warning to friend


We all have enough enemies in this
world, without provoking others by i'll
tempered Comments The enmty OF evil
men is a thing To be avoi,ied, Tor while IL
can do Us no good. it may do US much
harm. Besides We may make mistakes
in the haste of honest inji4 nation, ami
speak evil of good men for acts We do not
understand Such a mistake is worse
than the other tor while it is imprudent
to promlscuously y denounce evil, men, it
Is cruel wrong To deiame u good one
Year: 1873

One of the principal medical men of
Boston says that there are at present
some six hundred aud fifty developed
eases OF small pox in that city. aud one
thousand seven hundred and ninety three
eases have been reported during the past
three months, and that within the same
period there have been five HUNDRED and
twenty three deaths.
Year: 1873

CHICAGO, April Is "A young lady


Tho mysterrouslv disappeared from her
hone on West Washington street, some
ten days ago, beyond which her family


were 10 total ignorance OF her where


abouts, returned in charge OF respect
able old gentleman, in whose family she
had been staying. Her conduct is ac-
counted for in the fact that she is an
earnest believer in spirltualism
and as medium. She frequently
goes into the trance state
during which she continues unable 10
control her actions. While in this
state she left her home and went to the
house of the gentleman who is an old
Acquaintance OF the family, but OF whose
whereabouts she had not known for
several wears. In this trance state she
continued over a week, beiug unable
until the day she WAS returned. to give
any Information "a to where she resided.
Year: 1873

cordiug to this rule thus laid down he
must obey aud execute this law until
it 10 repealed or decided by the judi
ciary to be unconstitutional"


Should this plain rule not receive his
approval, We commend to his consid.
stion the rule prescribed BY the party
to which he is indebted for his election
tor President johnson, when he Was
unwilling to sdnit the constitutionslity
OF certain act OF Congress-"Ii he
can not conscieutiously obey aud exe-
cute the law let him resign"
Year: 1873

WANTED TO DIE WARM.-A gentleman
who lives in Danbury recently read an
article setting forth the evil of two per-
sons sleeping together. He became SO
impressed with the truth Of the argu-
ment that he proposed to his wife that
they sleep in seperate beds, and she ac-
quiesced. The experiment was put in
practice that night. About two O'Clock
in the morning the lady was awakened
by some one'stealing softly into her bed,
and on uttering scream was greatly re-
lieved to find that it was her husband.


1t had turned off cold in the night
and he had concluded that if he had to
die any way. he might as well 90 of
quietly with a nervous attack, as to be
frozen dead in grotesque attitude.
Year: 1873

NEWSPAPER EXCHANGES. Among the
grave errors OF the late Congress was
the repeal Of the free carriage of news
papers to rsgul4r subscribers within the
boundaries of the county, aad the repeal
If the free delivery of exchange papers.
The local press is the bulwark ofRepub.
llcan institutions, and especially the
champion of the Republican party. If
my interest in our entire land is de
serving of protection it is this. The
late enactment was bounty for the
city press, and in the interest Of gigantic
publishing monopolies. The carriage
of journal like the Independent from
New York to San Francisco thirteen
times for five cents is a large bounty to
that journal. The loc al press having
very little general circulation, it can
reap only to limited extent the advan-
tages of this cheap transportation to
long distances Therefore it should not
be taxed the same rate for the servics of
carrying it inside of twenty miles. No
additional expense for carriage has ever
been caused, and We hope that at an
early day this relief will be given.-
Washington Republic.
Year: 1873

TIE MYSTERY soLvED-"KATE eToDDARD" ARREST


ED--dooDRICH's . EFFECTS FOUND IN HER TRUNK.


The Brooklyn police have arrested the woman
Kate Stoddard," who is supposed to have been
the guilty party in the mysterious Goodrich
murder, in that city, several months ago. She
was recognized by Mary Handley, who was act
ing as the agent of the police, from the photo
graphs Of her which they had captured, although
the picture was taken when she was heshy and
she is now almost a skeleton.


Having discovered her residence, the police
then went to the house, searched her trunks
and discovered the property Of Charles Good
rich. There were the rings, the seals the pocket
book and the money, which is no doubt the same
az he had in his possession at the time he was
murdered. The pistol with three chambers
empty, and which 1t is understood she used
to commit the murder. was also found in her
trunk. There were two trunks, besides other
articles which have been taken possession Of
by the police.


The real name Of the woman is supposed to
be Lizzie King, and Il is surmised that her
family live in Massachusetts,, and are highly re-
spectacle.


STATEMENT OF Kate sTcDDARD.


Kate Ste Idard has made the following state
ment of the murder to the police She had been
living with "Charlie, as she called the deceased,
and was greatly attached to him. he wanted to
cast her OF, but she loved him so much that she



that he would allow her to remain, but he was
firm and iD fact, brutal in his treatment of her,
and the Thursday before the Friday on which
the body was found was fixed for her to leave
him, he threatening her with all sorts of things
il she dared to trouble him further. Sne had
remained in the house in Degraw street all
the previous evening, and in the morning,
when Goodrich got up, she again besought
him not to cast her off. He was very angry,
and refused her request, or to hear her at all.
He then went into tire basement at the front
of the house and proceeded to light the heater,
which was located there. She loved the man
go much that she could not leave him, and
when she saw him determined to discard
her she worked herself up to murder him.
She had one of his revolvers in her pocket,
(not the one which the detective found lying
at the house beside the corpse,) and while
Goodrich was STOPPING down on one hand and
knee, in the act of lighting the heater, she
drew the pistol, and extending her hand to-
ward him shouted " Charlie !" He looked up
aud she shot him three times. These were the
fatal wounds which the post mortem oxamina-
tioD disclosed After she committed the murder
on Thursday morning she waited all that day
aud night in the house watchingIt Friday MORN
ing she had occasion to go to New York, and early
on that morning she washed the blood from the
face of the murdered man, with towel, which
she afterwards wrung out, aud which was also
found damp by the police. She fixed the corpse
as it was discovered, and when she had done this
she went over to New York.
Year: 1873

[Question by tha Wilmington cnMMRRGTALl


We agree with the J1urhdl that there should
be no political considerations in this matter.
But will the journal please to say, directly and
plainly what verdict il believes those twslve
Democrats would have given, II Cooch Turner,
the black man, had been on trial, having muir
dered Isaac O. West in the precise manner that
West murdered Turner? Let us hear its an
swer."


ANSWER by the Sussex JournalI


Let the color OF the respective parties or the
circumstances OF killing be changed or otherwise
we could not answer for the verdict of that Jury.
No calculation can be made upon the verdict OF
such ju-ies. 1t is not at all probable that a me-
fuepce," if he had that was the prico, and the
buncombe would have been all the same. This
much we do say without fear or prejudice, West
ought to have swung, and had he been tried in
this county he would have been convicted had
his skin been black as ebony or white as alabas-
Year: 1873

place where she left them. Then she
came back, and said, just as plain as
your mother would say it. only another
way: "Cluck, cluck, cluck! You've
all been good chickens while I was
away; have you? Well, now We'll see
what good dinner we can pick up"
Out they rushed, pell-mell, as glad to
be let out of their prison, and as pleas
ed to see their mother again, as so many
boys and girls would have been. Well,
day after day this same thing happened.


1t came to be a regular morning per-
formance; and we hardly knew, what to
make of it, until one day we followed
old Mother Shanghai, and discovered
her secret. She had begun, to lay eggs
again, and was afraid some harm would
coTae to her young family if she left
them out in the field while she was in
the barn on her nest. So she took this
way of keeping them out of danger.
Of course, what she said to her brood
when she left them must have been:
My dears, my duties now call me
away from you for little while; and
you must stay right here, where no
harm can come to you, till L come back.
Good-bye" And then off she would
march as dignifed and earnest as you
please. She did this for a number of
weeks, until she thought her young
folks were old and wise enough to be
trusted out alone. Then she let them
take care of themselves. This is true
story.-7he Nursery.
Year: 1873

To live simply, to master and control
our expenditures, is a sore need in all
classes. The influences, which sur
round us, the ideas in which we have
been brought up, the habits which we
fall into as q second nature, all sway us
in the same direction. Every family
and every class seems to have caught
hold of the skirts of the one above it,
and to be desperately holding on.
Well, as Mr.. Goodwin Smith says, the
best thing they can do is to let go-the
only thing indeed which will give them
selves any comfort or make their lives
of real use in their generation. The
moment they will do so, and begin rcsO-
lutely to live without regard to what
their neighbor on the right spends on
carriages, or their neighbor on the left
in upholstery, they will find themselves
rich for all good purposes. From that
moment it can no longer be said of us
with truth, that we dare not trust our
wits to make our houses pleasant to our
friends, and so we buy ice-creams.
And this most needed of all reforms is
just the one which every soul of us can
carry through for himself or herself
We cannot sweep our whole street. No
doubt But every one of us can sweep
our own doorstep, and, if he will do it
quietly and regularly, anon his right
and left hand neighbors follows, and be-
fore long the whole street is swept.
And in this way, and by this means, can
almost all those social tangles which we
have been glancing at casually, this
evening, be set right. Simple living
To it even the great household ques-
ton, at once the most ridiculous and the
moss harrassing of social troubles, will
III the end yield, will begin at once to
look not wholly insoluble and hopeless.
Speaking of this sore question in the
Nation, the other day, one of the wit
tiest of American essayists took up the
cudgels for Bridget against her numer-
GUS accusers. "My good friends, he
argued, "what else have you any right
to look for? The things which Ameri-
can life and manners preach to her are
not patience, sober -mindedness, faith
fulness, diligence and honesty but
self-assertion, discomfort, hatred of su-
periority of all kinds, and eagerness for
physical enjoyment y and the words
come home, 1 fear, with singular force
to us islanders also i'll these days. Let
us hope that the picture of the good
coming time which he goes on to draw
may prove true for us also. Whenev-
er the sound of the new gospel which is
to win the nations back to the ancient
and noble ways is heard in the land, it
is fair to expect that it will not find her
ears wholly closed and that when the
altar of duty is again set up by her en-
ployers, she will lay on it attractive
beefsteaks, potatoes done to a turn,
make hbations of delicious soup, dis
play remarkable fertility In sweets, an
extreme fondness for washing, and learn
to grow old in one family. Thomas
HtlnhRR.
Year: 1873

that it does not once occur to me
whether am looking green or no.


And this is the true history of my
night journey to Paris You will be
glad, I dare say, to hear that ultimate
" recovered my sapphires and a good
many of my other ornaments. The
police being promptly set on, the rob
bers were, after much trouble and time,
at length secured; and it turned out
that the man in the cloak was an ex-
valet of my husbands, who was ac-
quainted with my bad habit of travel
ing in company with my trinkets-a
bad habit which [ have since seen fit to
abandon


What I have written is literally true,
though it did not happen to myself.
Year: 1873

Believe not them that seem to despise
riches, for they despise them that des
pair of them none worse when they
come to them. Be not penny-wise ;
riches have wings, and sometimes they
fiy away of themselves, sometimes they
must be set flying to bring in more.


Men leave their riches either to their
kindred, or to the public; and moder-
ate portions prosper best in both. A
great estate left to an heir is as lure
to all the birds of prey round about to
seize on him, if he be the better estab-


1ished in years and judgment likewise
glorious gifts and foundations are like
sacriGcers without salt, and but the
painted sepulchers of aims, which soon
Will putrefy and corrupt inwardly.
Therefore measure not thine advance
ments by quantity, but frame them by
measure and defer not charities till
death. For certainly, if a man weigh
it rightly, he that doth so is rather
liberal of another mans than his own.
Year: 1873

Inc f1TSG tTapeVlne-A Grec1an LIE


gend.


When Bacchus was a boy he Jour-
neyed through Hellas to go to Naxia
and, as the way was very long, he grew
tired, and sat down upon stone to rest.
As he sat there with his eyes upon the
ground, he saw little plant springing
up between his feet, and was so much
pleased with it that he determined to
take it with him and plant it in Naxia
He took it up and carried it away with
him but as the sun was very hot, he
feared it might wither before he reached
his destination. He found a birds
skeleton, into which he thrust the plant,
and went on. But in his hand the plant
sprouted so fast that it started out of
the bones above and below. This gave
him fresh fear of its withering, and he
cast about for remedy. He found q
lions bone, which was thicker than the
bird's s skeleton, and he stuck the skele-
ton with the plant in it into the bone of
the lion. Ere long, however, the plant
grew out of the lions bone likewise.
Then he found the bone of an ass, lar
ger still than that of the lion so he put
the loin's bone containing the birds
skeleton and the plant into the ass's
bone, and thus he made his way to
Naxia. When about to set the plant,
he found that the roots had entwined
Themselves around the birds skeleton
and the lions bone and the ass's bone
and as he could not take it out without
damaging the roots, he planted it as it
was, and it came speedily, and bore to
his great JOY, the most delicious grapes.
from which he made the first wine and
gave it to men to drink. But behold a
miracle! When men drank of it, they
first sang like birds; next, after drink
ing a little more, they became vigorous
and gallant like lions; but when they
drank more still, they began to behave
like asses.
Year: 1873

Have you upon your farm no water
power that, at little expense (and now
is the time to attend to it. might be
utilized for some work hitherto per-
formed by man or beast? There are
thousands of beautiful, meandering
sti cams all over this southside country,
at present babbling along over their
rocky beds, amid a wilderness of briers
and brushwood, that, by little drain
ing and ditching, might be diverted in
to other channels and made to move
machinery Of any kind used upon the
farm.
Year: 1873

How MUsLINs ARE MADE.-It is fire.
quently said that English and French
muslins now produced by machinery
rival in fineness Of texture and beauty
of finish those wove in the East. But it
is not true. A native woman with her
fingers and spindle alone and native
man with his toes and bamboo loom
alone will spin thread and finish a
piece Of muslin which cannot, by the
application of a most delicate machin-
cry, be produced outside ofIndia. There
is one quality of Decca muslin, for ex-
ample, which is termed ''woven air."
1t is made only for kings daughters.
SO short is the staple OF the raw mater
ial, and so brittle its fibres, that it must
be spun by woman under twenty-five,
and before the dew has left the grass in
the morning. AS substitute for natu-
raj moisture, the evaporation of water
from shallow pan is sometimes used,
but the quality of the work in that case
is inferior. And yet though the most
delicate and finest of fabrics, piece
four yards in length by one yard in


width, weighing less than one ounce
avoirdupois often, it is exceedingly dur
able, and will wash. Since the disap-
pearance of many of the native rulers of
| India, this "evening dew" as it is also
called, is not largely made; but as there
are those who will pay ten and twelve
dollars yard for it, the art is not likely
to be lost. The professional story tellers
of the East, swaying their bodies to the
cadences of their voices will tell you in
rhythmical Hindoo- stance, of the Aurang
zebe with his daughter because her
arms could be seen through the seven
jahmas she had on; aud of the weaver
who was banished from Decca because
his COW, unable from its hneness to see
the piece of A brovau which was spread
upon the herbage, ate up six yards.
Year: 1873

1t was stated few days since that Vice
President Wilson was suffering from en- 8 =
tack similar TO that which eventually took
off Chief Justice Chase. The Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
states that definite Information has reached
Vice President Wilson s friend in that city
in regard to his physical condition. He has
had a well defined, though rather slight, at
tack OF paralysis. The stroke deprived him
of tile control of the muscles of one side OF


is face, and has considerably disfigured
him. 1t has as q consequence somewhat
affected his speech. He has had the ser
vices and advice of several of the most dis
tinguished physicians who hsve made
the treatment of paralysis a specially, and
they hold out strong hopes of permanent
recovery, in case he will wholly abstain fIom
brain work for the present. 1t is regarded
as extremely doubtful whether the physl-
clans will consent to his presiding in the
Senate at The opening of the next session.