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Year: 1876

It is matter in the departments Of city
government that receives as little, if not less,
attention or thought from the people than
any other-the water facilities. We speak
in the broad sense that includes the mary
vital necessities that it has to supply. Con


sumption, as a beverage, motive power,
household work and projection against fire.
It is the latter of these that tbs HERALD
proposes to speak of most particularly
The development of better facilities in this
respect has progressed rapidly within Tie
past year, and gives assurances that when
all the reservoir accommodations are com
pleted that there is no city in this country
that will be as well fortified against fire rs
Wilmington. The last report Of the Chief
Engineer and Registrar of the Water De-
partmcnt shows that during the past year
there were sixty new fire plugs placed in
position and one hundred stops. These
were Of course placed in the newly built up
portions Of the city; where they were
much needed, owing to the incompleteness
of such facilities in those sections. During
this year there will be SO many put in posi-
tion as will meet the demand, and when the
Cool Spring Reservoir is in thorough work
ing order with it's net work of pipes extend
ing like so many veins that draw their life
from the fountain sources, throughout the
city, and diffusc the material that has prov
en- TO the most careful study on the subject,
to be the best safeguard against the incur
sions of fire. The new reservoir will have
one advantage, which in itself supplies a
necessity and calms an alarm, that has not
infrequently existed in the history Of our
present water supply. That alluded to is
the terrible danger that the city and its


interests were subjected to by the scarcity
of water. Upon several occasions manu-


featuring establishments have been delayed
from this cause, and the citizens have
had to be deprived of the luxury
of water at time when most needed, and
the danger of the city in such en- cmergen-
cy can be well imagined without further
comment just here. The steady extension
of pipe mains, furnishing an inexhaustible
supply of water, the increase of the fire
plugs and with thefnest volunteer fire depart
inent in the world, Wilmington is unqcus


tionably in position to feel a deep sense OF
security az linst the danger of lire.
Year: 1876

EDITOR HERALD: Pardon my intrusion,
but oblige me by permitting the following
space in your enterprising journal:


Having been called upon recently by
some gentlemen for letters 20 Governor
Cochran in their interest, for the Office Of
Recorder of Deeds at the expiration of Mr..
Ogle's term, and learning from them that
certain professional gentleman, Of much
self Importance, was casting covetous eyes
on the vacancy to occur, and was already
making demonstrations to win favor, it oc-
Cured to me to suggest to him the follow
ing fable from old Esop: "The Ass, ,observ-
ing how great favoritc the little Dog was
with his master; how much caressed and
fondled and fed with good bits at every
meal, and for no other reason, as he could
perceive, but skipping and frisking about,
wagging his tail, lcaping up into his mas.
ter's lap and licking his hand, was resolved
to initiate the same and see whether such
a behavior would not procure him the same
fayors. Accordingly, the master was no
sooner come home from walking about his
fields and gardens, and was seated in his
chair, when the Ass, who observed him,
came gambolling and braying towards him
| in q very awkward manner. The master
could not help laughing aloud at the odd
sirbt: but his jest was soon turned into
earnest when he felt the rough salute OF the
ASS fore feet who, raising himself upon
his hinder legs, paved against his masters
breast with most loving air, and would
fain have jumped into his lap. The good
man terrified at this outrageous behavior
and unable to endure the weight of so heavy
a beast cried out, upon which one OF his
servants running in with good stick, and
laying heartily upon the bones of the poor
| Ass, soon convinced him that every one who
desires it is not qualified to be favoritc."


"MoRAL."


New Castle, Del, Feb 2S.
Year: 1876

On Sunday morning, John Turley, a resi-
dent of West Chester, aud wel-known in
that city. committed the horrible crime Of
wife murder. From what we can learn up TO
the time Of going TO press, Turley for some
cause unknown became inccnsc1 against his
wife, and taking a gan deliberately shot her
through the head, making an awful and
mortal wound. suppos:ng that his wife
had been instantly Killed he turned the gun
upon himself and put two shots in his neck.
It was some time before the two were found
bleeding and dying. The wife, although
not quite dead, when found was insensiblc
and it was evident that she could not recov-
er. She WAS taken 10 st. Joseph's Hospital,
in Philadelphia, yesterday. The assassin,
whose wounds are probably not Of fatal
character, was taken to the Jail in West
Chester where he now is. One of the balls
has been extracted from his neck. The
family which is thus broken up consisted OF
the husband, wife ami four small children,
and as the parents were poor they are un-
provided for.


We have no definite information at the
present writing as to what caused the mur-
der.
Year: 1876

On Thursday evening this popular and
successful company of speciality artists will
visit us and give performance at the Opera
House. The troupe is one of the finest of
its kind now travelling and their perform
ances always give satisfaction.


They have appeared in this city before,
and have many admirers here, who will
doubtless turn out to witness their really
superior performance. The programme is
complete with specalties of the most in
teresting character, and those who attend
will not be disappointed, if they expect a
good performance.
Year: 1876

Sound Advice to the Young Heroes


from Gen. sherman.


Forty-eight cadets graduated at
West Point on the 14th inst; only two
failed. Gen. Sherman spoke to the
class, concluding as follows:


1 give you hearty welcome 10 the
army. Do not be afraid. You all
and every one of you are as good as
Grant was when he stood here few
years ago. You all have it in your
power to follow in his footsteps and
perhaps win as high a distinction as
he has won. This is not to be done,
however,by gambling and drinking
or sleeping in the back room of a
suffers store. When you fight, fight
well; win and forget your fight as
much as you can, and now go home
and see your friends; mingle with
ladies, they are more attraction than
bar-rooms and billiard rooms.
Year: 1876

sketcb of Congressional debate In
which Hon. 0. r. Singleton participated,
ia oiven in another column. Our mem
her need not have hesitated in an
swering the inquiry of the cunning
DOWN. Easter (who was playing for po-
litical advantage), if the South demands
the refunding of the cotton tax? Mr.
Singleton might have answered promptly
on the spot that she does not. The tax
was an unjust discrimination against the
neonle from whom it was collected,
but it is one of those wrongs inflicted
upon the losing side in the war
which cannot be repaired without
inficting greater injury upon itself
than would be repaid by the benefit
it could hope to derive. Besides
the claims have long since passed from the
original producers of the cotton into the
hands of spectators, whose only hope OF
passing a refunding bill is based upon
the purchasable material with which they
would have to deal in Congress. The
measure, if it ever came to the South,
would come tainted with corruption.
There may be occasions when the end
will Justify the means, but this is not one
of them.


The preservation of the liberties OF
the people, and the rescue of the Gov,
ernment from the grasp of the corrup
tionists, proscriptionists and public rev.
enue thieves, should be the paramount
aim of the men to whom the Leadership
of the Democratic party has been con
fided, and if it be necessary to lighter
the good old craft in order that she may
surmount the breakers and ride safely
into port, we implore them to unload he
not only of the pretended scheme to re
fund the cotton tax, but (for the presen
at least) of the Mississippi River Leve
and the Southern Pacific Railroad
schemes. The country can better aforc
to wait century for the accomplishment
of those measures than to endure anothe
term of Radical misrule.
Year: 1876

by way of showing what the people
say on the subject of impeachment, we
nave extracted the following from let
ter OF a prominent citizen of Yazoo
county:


nave not seen man yet who op-
poses impeachment All the people I
have talked to look on it as a matter of
course. fazoo county may be set down
as unanimous on the subject


81. C. Pr
Year: 1876

The Senate has re-adopted the former
joint rules Of the two Houses, with the
exception of the twenty-second, govern
ing the counting of the votes for Presi-
dent. This abrogates the rule which
allowed either House to reject the electo-
raj vote of State in the joint session,
but 1t leaves open the question how the
votes shall be counted, and what shall be
done when there are two certificates from
the same State.-St. Louis Republican.


Considering the consequences that may
result from a difference between the two
Houses In counting the vote, no more
important business will devolve upon
Congress than the adoption of plan for
that purpose.
Year: 1876




The Importance Of the healthincss Of the nervous
system cannot be overestimate its power life
human happiness seems 10 be recognEed its capabilities
Its qualities and its powers the importance OF its afu
preservation its moderate the danger OF overaxng it,
whether through thought. study. intense application
In mental investigation and research whether by the
absorbing attention the conduct of compi
Gated and business interests by the exces
sive indulgence of the appettes propensies
system All these subjects Tor consideration
also the knowledge OF what is moderation what
seeking advice rum who. for long series of
years has devoted his whole time aud attention the study
portant department TO accurs%ly determine the diseased
conditions their and origin whether arising
from his experience and practice has to discover
the deraneemert and promptly apply the remedy
thus avoiding the painfully slow feeling aiter the truth
TO the inexperienced and annoying to the
tient Who naturally wants To know without deiay
what Is the matter the extent ~ tho 6erangement the
probabilities of rston and the time required.


striking example the value of experience and practi
cal well the usefulness of the
pcation Of suitable remedies found in the important
tious only home bu abroad that large
tion Of tosc who suffer from mental disturbance and abso
treatment within year the first have ami
tested themselves


the OF the BRAN become
baustcd intense mental arpication depr'ng ot the
thought, only It's strength
by henr properly fed and nourshcd by the OF certain
systematic methods 1t Is precisely in every other de-
partincnt whether oil appetite, propensity passion each
reaung different remedy for it, alton and different
Tor bringing them from their overwosed
hausted conditions The Importance branch of
scarcely he aches
The pcrpetuaton Of family names the securing Of hereditary
titles and She retention OF estates in tho amily


From long and large in this direction have
been able command by the thankful apprcc
I certainly communicate much to cultivated minds in
with practical experience what
the overexcrcse o' every Of the nervous system
and the means OF recovering their whether Of BRAIN
appetite, propensity or passion
Year: 1876

Postmaster James yesterday received the following
letter IRON Postmaster Goueral Tyncr, In answer to
the petition OF the letter carriers Of this city for
restoration Of their pay to the former standard
Year: 1876

n a D D z E TO I d u . II
Do -ou want to purify the systomf
Do ycu want to get rid of Biliousnessf
Do you want something to strengthen you
Do you want good appetite
Do you want to get rid Of nervousness
10 you want good digestion?
Do you want to sleep we'll
Do YOU want brisk and vigorous feeiingf


If you do. take
Year: 1876

The Legislature of 1876 did one very remarkable thing and came very near doing another. It ratified the bill of sale of their honorable body executed by the Democi atic State Central Committee to Mr. Barnum; and it came near the passage of woman suffrage bill. The business before them, so far as we have been able to judge, has not been of even the usual importance. There was the annual scrim- mage over the railroad commissioners, re- port which after much debate has been accepted. We believe that Mir. Goodwin is native of Litchfeld, and we suspect that, with such team as Woodruff, Sey- mour and Graves-all against him, he IS not in the habit of blessing his birthplace overmuch.

 The House has been under the nominal lead of MT. Johnson, of Hartford, but the Courant says, with truth, that M. Graves, of this place, "has divided the honors of leadership if there have been any such during what may properly be termed a very uneventful session" That paper also speaks of Mir. Baldwin, of New Mill ford. as "one of the most clear-headed men on the floor" MT. John Cotton Smith, of Sharon, has not taken very prominent part in the ordinary business of the House, but has several times made neat and effective speeches-aboye all he is entitled to the glory of being chairman of the woman suffrage committee in the first Connecticut House that has ever passed woman suffrage bill.

 The Senate has been sleepier than usual, this year. It is too large body to talk to. and too small to speak to-just the size for bore to puncture to distrac- tion. The thing we most regret in their performances is that the slumbers of the senator from the Fifteenth should have been so far broken as to bring his name on the wrong side of the record upon wo- man suffrage.
Year: 1876



 The New York Tribune comes out frank ly for Hayes ::

 We have cordially recognized Gov. Tilden's great services to the state and hls eminent fitness for the highest office in the land, and we rejoice that the dem ocratic party has teen driven to nominate so admirable candidate. But yoked with Mir. Hendricks and obstructed by bad platform, independents cannot take the risk of voting for him. The election of President involves the triumph of party in congress and throughout the country. and if the infationists who coWed the con vention and forced upon it a policy which majority of the delegates knew to. be false should gain possession of the House of Representives, not even the frmne>s and ability of a President Tilden could save the Union from enormous disaster. The Republican profession are weak, but they are sound as far as they go, while the character of the Republican candi- dates gives them significance which they have not when standing alone. In supporting this ticket at least we know precisely what we do.

 The Springfield Republican is doubtful between Tilden and Hayes: E

 The democrats have nominated their Bristow More and better than thai, they have nominated him, in the teeth of des- perate opposition from the constituent parts of the thing to be reformed, bec0use he is their Bristow, and from control ling sense of the attractiveness of that sort of candidate. this year, as party ill., vestment The reforming New York dem- ocrat has had many obvious advantages over the reforming Kentucky Republi- can inside his own party, as he has sever al obvious and grave disadvantages as a candidate before the people. He has sought the nomination, he is one of the most experienced politicians living. 1t will be asserted and believed by many that his success is owing quite as much to pol itics as the other thing. But, when all IS said. the fact remains that this St Louis result is reform victory within the par ty, quite as significant as the reform vic tory at Cincinnati It doesn't necessarily follow that they have organi- zed victory. Both the candidate and the party are pretty heavily handicapped in this race. Mir Hayes is a very clean man. He got his nomination in very clean way. He has the better constituency be- shind him, at the opening of the canvass. The great body of Independent and reform ing Repu blicans have accepted his candi- dature-if not with enthusiasm, at least with comfort and gratitude. If the cleo tion were to be held tomorrow, they would pretty. certainly vote for him. and elect him. There is no telling, of course, what the canvass may bring forth as ii develops. It may confirm and increase this tendency toward Hayes; it may check and reverse it. Perhaps the most likely result is division of the indepen. dent and reforming vote between the two. We cannot at present see cause for appre- hending any very disastrous consequences from the success of either.
Year: 1876

The celebration of the anniversary of Independence has been very general and enthusiastic. New York was a blaze of glory, and the Philadelphia celebration was worthy of the occasion, and of the revolutionary capital of the country.

 Our country towns also exerted them selves for the due observance of our na- tion's birthday. We publish too early in the week for any full reports, but hope to make something of Fourth of July num- Der of our next issue.
Year: 1876

o. A. House. the lightning divorce law. yer. was shot dead by his wife at his resi- dence near Trenton. N. J.. Friday night. He had just knocked her down and was abusing her boy when she got a pistol from her room and shot him through the head. House was recently concerned in two fraudulent divorces in Connecticut; one in New Haven and one in this county. The woman who killed him was divorced by him from her husband. and he got rid of . former wife in the same way. There have been worse murders than this killing of House.
Year: 1876

MOTHERS can secure health for their children and rest for themselves by the use of Castoria, perfect substitute for Cas- tor Oil. It is absolutely harmless, and is as pleasant to take as honey. For Wind Collie, Sour Stomach, Worms or constipation, for young or old, there is it is speedy. 1t is cheap.
Year: 1876

It would be impossible to compress in- to the limits of a newspaper article even a faint outline of the almost numberless va- rieties of goods which make up the stock of HALL & READ of Bridgeport; but we may indicate few of the prime causes of the growth of their business. Positive merit is the underlying principle of their success. They import their own Silks and Gloves, they buy their domestics of the manufacturers, they manufacture the best ingain carpets made. they sell every article at the lowest market rates. they do an hoorable business. It is household phrase in Bridgeport that ''There is no place like HALL & READS
Year: 1876

To give ordinary water all the refresh ing and inyigorating qualities of sea wa ter salt it till it has buoyant feeling, which shows how easy it is to get up a buoyant feeling. Salt will do 1t some- times, but the most eifectual way of pro- ducing 1t in the family is to plant a Light Running Domestic square in front of the hearth stone.
Year: 1876

Among other features of the general ''jail delivery" which takes place every year when the legislature meets was that of the release of a man convicted of arson :. It does not strike us that the '.fire bug" is fit subject for Legislative clemepcy.
Year: 1876

We saw an acre of Early Rose potatoes at Chas. Warmers at Oakville, last week, and while the potatoes were fine there were from 75 to 15O bugs on almost every hill. There were but few on one side of the field where he had put paris green mixed with flour, few hours before. although any quantity of them were lying dead on the ground. On Saturday We were in that field again and scarcely one was to be seen. MT. Warner applied the plaster and flour to the potatoes in the morning, while the dew was on the tops. This paris green cost 50 cents a pound, and he thinks Q pound and half to the acre enough American.
Year: 1876

Grant Produces q Sensation.
By Associated Press


WASHINGTON, August 14.-Mr. Randall
submitted report of the Conference Com
mittee on the Indian Appropriation Bill,
and it was agreed to. He then proceeded
to make a few general remarks on the
several appropriation bills. The Speaker
laid before the House message from the
President in regard to the River and Harbor
Bill, stating that if it has been compulsory
on him to expend the money therein appri-
sted, he would have vetoed it, but as it was
not he would take care no public money
should be expended on useless works, or
upon any that are not clearly national. The
message created quite a sensation. The
message, after heated discussion, was
referred to the Committee on Commerce !;
and the House took recess until o'clock.
Year: 1876

BY Associated Press.


NEW YORK, August 14.-The first travel
Ter wire for the construction of the East
river bridge, was carried across the river and
stretched between the two towers this morn
ing. This is made of twisted chrome steel
wires and is three quarters of an inch in d.
ameter,
Year: 1876

The recent pardons of Avery and Nc
Donald, by the President. for whiskey
frauds affecting the revenue of the
United States, are the last drops to the
full cup of President Grants infamy.
For the past two years. in fact. ever
since he found himself reseated upon
the Presidential chair, the Man with the
Cigar has done as he pleased. regardless
Of popular opinion or public decency.
Encouraged by the Pope's dogma of in
falibility, he has assumed powers to-
tally outside the pale of his Office. till
the name of republic has become merely
q tradition in America. Ia all things
we see but one tendency-the desire to
create military dictatorship ont of the
hct blood engendered by an election in
which popular liberty was driven from
the polls at the point of the bayonet.


The acquittsl of Babcock was farce
and Grant knew it, for the honest Re-
publican land the only honest one in a
high station Bristow, had pushed the
investigation to the very shreshhold OF
the Executive mansion. He knew that
Babcock was thief and yet
Grant upheld him because he be-
longed to the army. Now he
pardons Avery and Mcdonald for
swindling the Government and casts a
stigma upon the honest judge and jury
who sent those rogues to jail. Why
was not this done before If these
men were guilty, let them serve out
their terms; if innocent. they should
have been released before. Why was
not this done prior to tie election !?


Because it would have cost the Re
publican party the electoral votes Of
Illinois, California and Ohio, making
difference of ten thousand popular votes
in each of those States. Grant knew it
and SO did Taft, his man of dirty work
in the polluted Department of JUS
tice." jeff. Davis, rebel and traitor
that he was, could never have stopped
to.infamy like this. Which, in the fu'
ture historians eye, will be the most
worthy of censure-th the honest rebel or
loyal thief and screener of thieves?
This is for reasoning Republican to
consider.
Year: 1876

An article appeared in this paper dur
ing our absence, concerning the North
ern Pacific Railroad which, while it did
not impute improper designs to that
company, yet was somewhat in conflict
with our policy. We make war on no
corporation without a cause and are in
favor of anything that brings business
to the Sound, whether at Tacoma,
Olympia, Seattle or anywhere else. No
rivalry at this day can injure the pros
perity founded on the liherality of our
business men.