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Year: 1873

The structures Of the EAGLE on the manage
ment Of the Clayton House, we learn from dlGer-
ent persons, have had very good effect. Instead
of tough beef steaks, poor butter and weak coffee
and poor table generally they now have the best
of meats and game, good sweet butter, splendid
coffee and q very good table throughout. This is
right The Clayton Hotel is large well fur
nished building, a credit to Wilmington, and the
idea now being abandoned Of running ii on the
starvation principle il is entitled TO success. We
ale glad that the demands Of Its guests, made
through the EAGLE, for a good table have been
acceeded to. Nothing will break down a hotel
quicker than poor table, and new hotel like
the CLAYTON House which starts out with mean
and poorly cooked food, no matter what its other
appointments are, cannot succeed. The nebulous
consfstence which was served ont at the Clayton
House before the EAGLE spoke out, will not do
in a progressive city If the table Of the Clayton
House should hereafter degenerate, We will OF
course hear it, and c-itciss accordingly. One
thing we desire TO say, IN all kindness TO the pro-
prietor that he should dead-head no one, and II
an editor should want free meal, kick him out.
No independent man will sponge of of another,
particularly the proprietor Of a new hotel.-Rrad-
IRg Eagle.


The Eagle is rather hard on the Clayton House.
II certainly must have fallen into some error or
its structures could not have taken this turn
"Hear say evidence" however, is never relied on
in the courts.
Year: 1873

The City Assessment, fixing the tax upon real
and personal property, head and school tax, has
been completed, and may be examined at any time
in the Office of the Clerk of the Council.


The Council will sit this evening, tomorrow
evening and Saturday evening as a Court of Ap-
peal Those who think their assessm ents too high
are invited to show cause why they should be re-
duced
Year: 1873

The following table shows in detail
the deaths from yellow fever and other
causes, as taken from the undertakers
books since the Board of Health an
nounced the presence of the disease on
the l3th of September. This does not
include previous deaths from yellow
fever, estimated to be about thirty by
the Board.
Year: 1873

In recent article on a fair in his
locality, the editor OF Western paper
says a brother editor took valuable pre-.
MUM, but an unkind policeman made
him put it right back where he took it
from
Year: 1873

The name of DIR. j. Jos. Williams sE-
pears in our mortuary list for to-day
This truly great physician, and good
Christian gentleman died of yellow fever
this forenoon at Rozel Station, three
miles east of the city. His loss to the
community and to his family is ire
parable. Often as our hearts
have been strained with grief,
within the last few weeks, this blow
seems..if possible, the Saddest Of all. We
knew him to love him, as who did notY
He was q model man and bright or
nament to his profession. His death
will be felt as a personal
loss to hundreds Of our people
We have no hcart to write more. Words
are but empty symbols of the sotrOw
that ellis so msuy hearts, and the tribute
Of respect that We would offer at his
grow
Year: 1873

Dry Ror. Charles Dickens said that
the first external revelation Of the dry rot
10 men is tendency to lurk and lounge;
to be at street corners without intclligitlo
reason; to be going anywhere when met,
to be about many places rather than any,
to do nothing tangible, but to have an in
tention of performing number of tangi.
bic duties to morrow or the day after.
Year: 1873

A well known Clergyman was recently
asked bis opinion of a young lady much
afflicted with the "Grccian bend" lie
replied that she reminded him of wo.
man mentioned 10 the Scripture, who had
a spirit Of iOfrmity and could in no wise
lift up herself"
Year: 1873

10 most qaarrels there is fault on both
sides. Aquarrel may be compared to a
spark, which cannot be produced without
flint as we'll as steel; either Of them might
hammer on wool forever, but no Are will
follow.
Year: 1873

Tn Indiana they are trying to remedy the
nuisance of the plea OF insanity in criminal
cases. A bill before the Legislature of that
State provides that whenever an indicted per-
son is found not guilty by reason of his tenn,
porary insanity the Court shall send him to a
iunatic asylum for term OF years proportion
ate 10 his crime. We have Mt much faith,
however, in subterfugcs of this kind: The
whole idea of sending patient to the lunatic
asylum for term of years is absurd; and no
one save real lunatic should be sent to such
an asylum at all If the plea of temporary IN
sanity is subtcrfuge let judges and Jurors
show that they understand il to be such by dis
regarding il sltogether.-N T. Tribune.
Year: 1873

A meeting of the elders at certain kirk in
Scotland had assembled for the purpose of
determining on the position of stove which
was to be erected for the purpose of warming
the building on Sabbath days. After con-
siderable discussion, an old man, who had
hitherto said but little, was asked his opinion.
He said "the stove should be placed in the
pulpit, for it is by far the coldest place in the
kirk "
Year: 1873

A ST. Louis gentleman took a room at
Chicago boarding house recently, and was
aroused early on the following morning by the
chamberrnaid, who remarked that, as it was was
near time to set the breakfast table, she would
have to trouble him for the top sheet. ,t +.
Year: 1873

LITIGATION ABOUT DOGs-Dogs are the
cause of more litigation than probably any
other domestic animals, excepting horses. A
very large class of the community are under
the impression that dogs are an unmitigated
nuisance, and that the canine race should be


either drowned in puppyhood, or declared mad
and ruthlessly shot when they reach maturer
years. Another numerous class, OH the con-
trary, are infatuated with the animals, and


will maintain a family of dogs, even at the


risk of not maintaining themselves. When


Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war.


The dog belonging to the latter invades the


rights of the former and litigation en-


sues, and the litigation generally be-


the wOrthlessness of the dog. Two weeks


ago the Supreme Court at Nsi Prius in this


city, spent the greater part of two days in trying


dog case, and the animal himself, small,


weak looking creature, was produced in Court


for the ediicatiOn of bench, bar and jury, and


succeeded in mulcting his owner in three thou


sand dollars damages That in one sense was


a verdict establishing the value of dog.


Anterior to the recent great storm the dog


catchers piled their vocation very successfully


in our streets, and the numerous captures they
made might be regarded on the other hand as


indicative of the want Of value of dog The


pros and cons of this great controversy as to
the usefulness of the canine race have long
been urged, but until now no judge has yet ven
tured to give decision on the point in dis
pGte. The judge who at length has boldly
faced it, however, is Chief Justice Cartier of
2 the Supreme Court of the District of Colum-
] bia. He has just decided, in case brought
before him ON appeal, that dogs are "nui-
: sances," and possibly may thus have settled
e the protracted cOntroverSy.-Ihtld. Ledger.
Year: 1873

A young lady suggestively remarks, i'If it
was not good for Adam TO live single when
there was not woman on the earth, what
shall be said of old bachelors with the world
full of pretty girls. -
Year: 1873

The UsURY CONFERENCE CoMMITTEE.--Tho
joint committee of the two Houses of the
General Assembly who have under eonsdera.
tion the disagreement of the two Houses on
the usury bill met again yesterday morning
and considered the proposition heretofore
agreed upon by the committee, which fixes
the legal rate Of interest at six per cent, but
allows eight per cent to be charged by spe.
cial contract. The members of the Senate
committee who were absent at the previous
meeting were all present except Dir. Cochran
and they disagreed to the former action OF
the committee.
Year: 1873

FELL IN.-In the rear of Captain McCub.
bins store, near the Old Market, Is q stable
kept by colored man, in which persons
from the country frequently put their
horses to be taken care of during the day
while they are attending to business up
town. On Thursday gentleman drove
bis horse and buggy into the stable and lett
him for the old man to unhitch and feed. In
q short time crash was heard, and upon
repairing to the spot, 1t was found that the
floor of the stable had fallen through, carry
ing the whole concern, roof, sides, horse
and vehicle with it, a distance of ten feet.
After the removal Of the timbers it was
found that the horse was uninjured and the
buggy but slightly broken.
Year: 1873

A silly rumor has been in circulation during
the present week that the Citizens National
Bank OF Mddlciown held number Of Northern
Pacific bonds We nro assured by the directors
that there is no truth whatever 10 the story
That bank has not and never did have dollar $
worth Of that stock. People who are afraid Of
hiddleiown bank are OF that class Who could lie
scared by their own shadow. There are no
sonndcr banks in the country than those OF
udrssn and Middlciown. They never once du-
ring the panic ceased 10 pay all checks presented
against them, and have never been In the least
trouble.
Year: 1873

LECTURE ON RoME.-The residents of
Church Hill who fail to hear DR.. Jeter's
lecture on Rome tonight at Leigh.street
church will miss treat. The object to
which the proceeds will be devoted is a
worthy one.
Year: 1873

The LADIES will bc amply repaid by a visit TO
TIE LEE GALLERY TO Inspect the lovely pictures


taken By our friend DAVIES by his new process, ny


which the surface Of the picture looks Ike pohshed
silver and to the most superficial observer II VIII


readily appear that their beauty Is increaseu' ano
that the picture is protected from decay.
Year: 1873

Inquisitive people som,imes meet w'th
little adventures which make them weak.
A fellow who was paying attention TO a
girl 10 Andover, Massachusetts, stole up
to the kitchen where she was at work the
other morning, thinking to see what kind
Of q housekeeper she was. He got inter
ested as he stood behind q door all upob.
served, watching the fair one at her toll,
and IN tie ardency Of his observation he
obtruded his nose into q crack Of tho
door. She innocently shut that dsor n
little, and there was mashed bugle. He
now wears it in a sling.
Year: 1873

A California widow lately vent fos .
youth who had wooed and won her, but
was disposed to coquet, with pistol and
q marriage liccncc. She took q clergy
man with her who was ready to preach .
funernal sermon or perform marriage
ceremony at the same price. The young
man chose the latter.
Year: 1873

While in Rochester I met Mr.. Heb
bard, an old resident of Genessee coun-
ty, who saw Sam Patch make his famous
Jump off Genessee Falls, thirty or forty
years ago. He says that jump day was
a great day in Rochester. The people
gathered for miles around to see this
intermittent American jumper, as he
performed his last feat


Sam Patch had previously jumped
over Niagara. Then, saying "some
things can be done as well as others, !"
he slashed around like Sergeant Bates
through the Western part of the State
to back up his proverb. Before his last
Jump he bought big black bear of a
curcus man, and led him over the turn
pike to Rochester.


The morning of the day came. Sam
had arrived in town with the black bear,
and the crowd rushed into Rochester
from miles around. Twelve o'clock was
the hour to jump-tO jump a hundred
feet downtown the terrible fall into
the boiling cauldron below. 4 staging
had been built out over the water, and
Sam appeared on the staging dressed in
a sailors fancy jacket. His friends now
took up a collection on shore, while
Sam swung his hat and said, after jump
ing himself, he would return and throw
the bear over. Then, amid death-like
stiffness, he ran few steps and gave
one leap into the air and fell, catting
the mist, like a lead-sinker, two hun
dred feet into the seething whirlpool
As he left the staging his body assumed
an obIique position, his head foremost,
but above his feet. AS he struck the
water there was dreadful silence, while
the populace awaited with choking
breath his temperance. One minute,
two minutes, three minutes, and no
signs of the daring jumper. Then the
people set up loud wail-a long muir
mur of sorrow.


This was the end of Sam Patch.


They say he had been drinking during
the morning, and failed to keep his feet
together and his body perpendicular, as
on previous occasions. So whom he
struck the water the breath left his
body, and he was knocked se1iseless. A
month or so afterward they found his
body away down below Rochester, drift
ed upon the rocks.
Year: 1873

'I think it must be Jolly thing to be


a young widow p I heard this remark


the other day, in group of laughing


girls. I think I remember saying such


a thing myself in my girlish times. Do


you know, girls, what is to be widow


It is to be ten times more open to COM


ment and criticism than any demOiselle


could possibly be- 1t is to have men


gaze as you pass, first at your black


dress and then at your widows cap


until your sensitive nerves quiYer under


the inhiction. Il is to have one i'll


natured person say, ''I wonder how


long she viii wait before she marries
again ?'' and another answer, 'Untl
she gets q good chance, I suppose" 1t
is now and then to meet the glance of
sympathy, generally from the poorest
and humbIest woman you meet, and
feel your eyes fill at the token, so rare
tnat it Is, alas, unlocked for. 1t is to
have your dear fashionable friends
console you after the following fashion
''Oh, well it is a dreadful loss. We
knew you'd feel it. dear" And in the
next breath, ''You viii be sure to marry
again, and your widows cap is very
becoming to you"


But it is more than this to be widow.
1t is to miss the strong arm you have
leaned upon, the true faith that you
knew could never fail you, though all
the world might forsake you. 1t is to
miss the dear voice that uttered your
name with a tenderness that none other
could give it. It is to hear no more the
well-knovn footsteps that you flew once
so gladly to meet. To see no more the
face that TO your adOrning eyes seemed
as the face of the angels of God to feel
no more the twining arms that folded
you so lovingly; the dear eyes that
looking into your own, said plainly,
whatever it might seem to others, yours
was the fairCst face earth held for him.
It is TO fight with mighty sorrow as a
man fights with the waves that over
whelm him, and to hold it at arms
length for awhile, only to have-in the
hours of loneliness and weakness-the
torrent roll over you, while-pOOr
5or m-driven dove-you see no haven.
Year: 1873

We have been lovers now, my dear,


It matters nothing to say how long,
But still at the coming round o. tn year


make for my pleasure little song;
And thus of my love / sing, my dear
So much the more by year, by year.
And still as see the day depart,


And hear the bat at my window fit,
sing the little song to my heart,


With just change at the close Of it;
And thus of my love I sing away
So much the more by day, by day.
When in the morRing see the skies


Breaking into gracious glow,
1 say, You are not my sweetheart's eyes.


Your brightness cannot mislead me SO;
And sing Of my love in the rising light
Sc much the more by a night, by night.
Both at the years sweet dawn and close,


When the moon is filling or fading away,
Every day as it comes and goes,


And every hour of every day,
My little song I repeat and repeat
So much the more by an hour, my sweet (!
Year: 1873

The President has approved the act abol-
ishing the Franking privilege.


The President has vetoed the bill for the
relief of East Tennessee University, saying
the same objections attached to it ar expressed
IN the message returning the Senate bin for
the relief j. Milton Best. He would heartily
favor donation of the amounts appropriated
by the bill for the relief of the University, but
precedent once established that the Govern
ment If liable for the ravages of war, the end
of the demands on the Treasury cannot be
forecast.


The amendments to the appropriation bill
sported by the Senate committee replace in
the bill the section reported by the House
committee, but struck ont the House, making
the term Of naval cadets at Annapolis six
Year: 1873

The site selected by the old Athenians
for their city was a fitting one for the
capital of a people keenly sensitive to
beauty, and destined to become the
leaders of the world In matters of taste,
especially in the important department
of the fine arts. Nowhere are there
more charming contrasts of mountain
sea and plain ; nowhere a more perfect
harmony of picturesque effect. The
sea Is not a dreary waste of waters with
out bounds, but smiling gulf, mirror
ing its mountain walls and winding
about embosomed isles, yet ever broad
ening as it recedes, and suggesting the
mighty food beyond from which 1t
springs. The plain is not illimitable
expanse over which the weary eye
ranges in quest of some resting-place,


but is SO small as to be embraced IN its
whole contour IN a single view, while
its separate features-the broad, dense
belt of olives which marks the bed of
its principal stream, and ancient Ce-
phissus, the vineyards, the grain fields,
and the sunny hillside pastures-are
made to produce their full impression.
The mountains are not near enough to
be obtrusive, much less oppressive !;
neither are they so distinct as TO seem
insignificant. Seen through the clear
air, their naked SUBMITS are so sharply
defined and 50 individual in appearance
as to seem almost like sculptured
forms chiseled out Of the hard rock.
Year: 1873

THE propriety of knowing whom one
marries is verified in the case of an aged
couple in Iowa, who as widow and Wild
over married, and who, it was afterward
proved, were brother and sister, sepa-
ated in childhood.
Year: 1873

NOTHING is more amiable than true
modesty, and nothing more contempti
BILE than that which is false; the one
guards virtue, the other betrays it. True
modesty is ashamed to do anything that
is repugnant to right reason; false mo-
desty is ashamed to do any thing that is
opposite to the humor OF those with
whom the party eOnverses. True mo-
desty avoids everything that's criminal; !;
false modesty everything that is IN
Fashionable. The latter is only a gen
eral, und terInined instinct the for
mer is that instinct limited and circum-
scribed by the rules of prudence.
Year: 1873




AT Solomon City, Kansas since the late
heavy snow, the wolves have dug into the
graves in the cemetery, and feasted on the
bodies of the dead.


The controversy between Duluth, the
State Of Wisconsin and the Northern Pacific
Railroad has been satisfactorily settled


San Francisco-The news from the camp
of Captain Jack is that he is anxious to have a
big talk looking to peace negotiations. A
squaw reports that in the recent fight many
Modocs were killed and wounded in the lava
beds. After the fight, the Indians quarrelled
because Captain Jack did not fight One In
dian shot Jack through the arm. The Captain
invited Doris and FairchiId to come to him
for a talk The Indians have hundreds of
beef cattle in camp, and along the lake shore
where there is abundance of grass to feed
them. Couldn't starve the Modocs out in
months. Doris and Fairchild will go to the
place designated by Captain Jack for a con-
ference.
Year: 1873

:, A boy who was told he must always
try to cheer the aged, tried ''three times
three and tiger" on his grandmother,
the other morning, and the old lady. was
SO startled that she spilled box full
of snuff on him.. He looks upon the
beauties of nature with his left eve now
Year: 1873

WILL THE GENTLEMAN WHO EXCHANGED
w Goats with me by mistake at Tammany Hall Tues
day evening, Dec please return It, with Opera Glass
~ West Twenty street where re Will find his
coatf
Year: 1873

'htten foI the STATE JOURNAL.


IfsO IL be that be fair


tits for your sake that l care,
But for you that fair would be
A singer beauteous, young and free
Tho all the world may give me due,
The sweetest praise e'er comes from you,
For you are all the world to me
And for you sing joyously
Aud in my songs II you but hear
The melody sweet, perfect, clear
And catch the words all pure and true
/ am repaid-I sing to you!
Year: 1873

AN ENTIRE FAMILY SoALPED BY LIGHT
NING.-The Dallas (TeIasI Herald tells the
follow ing lively story:


AWhOls family was suddenly made baldhe lded
the other night in this city by their hair catching
ERE from q candle. The father had brought
home curious.toy which Was taken TO the table
for a closer examination Ofils character, and all
leaning over 10 inspect il, the hair Of the
mother ignited and with electric suddenness
communicated with the hair to the Others.
In less time then il takes TO writ IL, family
Of six we're made bald-headed by fire, and with
the damages that FIRE did on the outside of
their heads, ii was much better than having
FIRE on the inside Of their head.
Year: 1873

the city, but they were long discover
ing her. They sent him continued mes
sages of their progress; he left his
affairs to follow every clue. And
dismal hours he spent in her dressing
room poring over glove or a ribbon,
enjoying the sweetness of freedom and
widowhood. The "Pickwick Club
was no stay to his care. He hated the
sight of their Bacchanalian faces.


1t seemed that years instead OF
months had passed, when the chief man
of buttons and clubs waited on him one
day, with tho joyful assurance that in q
certain nsrthern village, in certain
house, he would find his wife. Was it
Joyful assurance after ull? Az tlio end
of his long, sickening journey, he stood
1t the gate of her house, about dusk,
more depressed than he had ever felt
before. She had commanded him not
to search for her he was minded to
turn and go back, satisfying himself
with the knowledge that all was well
with her. Such floods of change had
rolled between them. He knew not
how to approach her.


But, like a call to him, little cooling
cry came from the house; it stirred him
like q sea. Then Isabel came to the
window, looking out and up. Her
beautiful face was softened and sweet
ened, for she had been in the hard land
of maternity, under discipline which
brings out the angel-side of woman; in
her arms she held his little child.


Her eyes falling on her husband, this
most consistent woman reached toward
him, bursting into n low, glad cry of,
/" oh, knew you'd come !"


After supper, when the room was
cosy, and the good maids steps had
ceased, and the blessed child had been
admired till both parents were in state
of imbecility, Isabel lung to a button
of her husbands coat and falteringly
confessed her sins; her days of dark.
ness her ignorance of patient love, till
tho baby came to teach her. Then
Burnham took up the parody, and
shrived himself and made promises in a
way which would hive afforded the
"Pickwick Club" infinite amusement.
And, in his turn, the remarkable infant
raised his voice. So that they were
very cosy.


And it was not fatal after all, like
some other club affairs.
Year: 1873

The Baldwin expedition report the
discovery of tho only practicable route for the
contemplated railroad to connect the Union
and Central Pacific with the thrty-ifth paral-
lei road. 1t passes through the great coal and
iron region Of Iron county to st. George.
thence down tho Rio Virgini and Colorado
rivers.
Year: 1873

will prevent money panics. We demand the en-
actment Of law that shall limit the accumula-
tions Of any individual, that is a law Of
graduated taxation, which shall prevent any
man or set of men being able to lock up tho
circulating medium,