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- PUBLI8HID KVKBY SATURDAY MOBNIRO
Middletown. New Castle County, Delaware.
ncKENDREE DOWNHAH,
SUITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Entered at the Pott Office at teeond-elatt matter
MIDDLETOWN, DEL., SEPT. 5, J896
VERMONT HAS SPOKEN.
The appeals for the free and unlim
ited coinage of silver have fallen upon
unheeding ears in Vermont which held
an election for Governor and General
Assembly on Tuesday. Out of some
68,000 votes cast the Republican can
didates received river 53,000, making
their majority nearly 39,000. This is
the largest vote ever cast in the State
and the largest majority ever given. It
is very expressive. Vermont is largely
un agricultural State and the Chicago
platform makes special appeals to the
farmers. It is upon this vote that Mr.
Bryan has put his chief reliance for
support and it has disappointed him, at
least in Vermont. The Republica n
gain has been 37 per cent, over the
vote of 1892—while the Democrats
have made corresponding losses. The
Republicans gained over 14,000 while
the Democrats lost nearly 5,000. . The
vote means that many Democrats re
fused to vote at all while others voted
the Republican ticket. This looks more
and more like a repetition of the Gree
ley campaign when Delaware cast her
vote for Grant. It is said the mana
gers of the Bryan campaign see that he
is beaten already and they are turn
ning their attention to the election of
as many Congressmen with silver views
as possible. This is probably the hope
ful view of the situation by the sound
mroey people, yet there can be not th el
east encouragement to the Democratic
campaign managers in theVermont vote
which means if it means anything that
the farmers of New England do not
believe that free silver offers them
any relief. To the sound money Dem
ocrats is the result in Vermont largely
due. To them the greater credit should
be given since to cast their votes in ac
cordance with their financial views has
meant a separation from their party.
Certainly the Vermont election is a
pointer that politicians may study to
advantage.
MORE COMPLICATIONS.
Undoubtedly a majority of the voters
of the State of Delaware desire tbe
election of McKinley lïtid Hobart but
whether they will be permitted to put
t! 0 » desire into execution is a question.
(JDe electoral ticket is the way it must
be done, but there are two tickets now
in tbe field and a union is what is
needed. To-day the Union Republi
cans or Addicksites bold primaries in
this connty to nominate delegates to a
Constitutional Convention and to name
a Legislative ticket. This will still
further complicate matters. In their
county committee meeting a week ago
they endorsed tiTree of the Republican
nominees for Convention : Messrs.
Spruance, Bradford, aud Burris, and it
may be that after the primaries to-day
others may be endorsed. This whole
ticket should be elected, it being a very
strong one, and not only this part of
the ticket but the ticket throughout.
If there were no divisions in
the party it would not take a
dollar outside the legitimate ex
penses to carry the State into the Re
publican ranks- Some of the papers
refer to the concessions of the Ad
dicksites in not opposing the nomina
tions for sheriff, coroner, îeceiver of
taxes, and comptroller. They cannot
consistently oppose them because they
participated in the primaries at which
these nominations were made, hence
they are not making any compromise
in accepting them. But the nominations
to-day make more complications and
invite others still. The way out of all
all the perplexities is not apparent.
PALMER AND BUCKNER.
The National Democratic Party at
Indianapolis Thursday nominated as
their candidates for President and
Vice President Gen. John M. Palmer,
United States Senator from Illinois,
and Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner of
Kentucky,
large, nearly 900 delegates being pres
ent, and was enthusiastic in the work
it had set for itself—to redoem the
Democracy as they hold it from the
Populism which captured tbe Chicago
convention. The candidates are able
and representative men and they ex
pect to make an active fight in tbe
Middle V\ est where this great political
contest will be decided. Senator Pal
mer has a brilliant war record in (he
Union Aimy and Gen. Buckner was
equally valliaDt in the Confeder
ate ranks. Their candidacy means the
defeat of Bryan though they may not
early a single State. Their object is
to preserve the principles of their party
as they have held them fur years and
being houest they must have the re
spect of .their fellow citizens. They
prefer honorable defeat to a victory
which to them appears dishonorable.
They oppose a protective tariff as
strongly as they oppose the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, being con
sistent in their déclaration for a tariff
for revenue ouly. It did, not seem
possible three weeks ago that this
movement could develop the strength
which it Lasshowu. We predict that
it will aid materially iu the defeat of
Mr. Bryan, will settle for years the
quest ion of free silver, and from its
ranks will come the leaders of a united
_ Democratic Party after the smoke of
this political contest stall have blown
* away. _
The Convention was
ANTI HING TO WIN.
It has been a matter of great sur
prise that men will eu&irse methods in
politics which in anything else they
would condemn. Often pen who do
not endorse these things shut their
eyes to them and become ilie benefi
ciaries of political wrongs,
some men the end justifies the means.
The "Morning News" on Thursday
gave ont tbe information that it is the
purpose of tbe Kent Democrats to
defeat Addicks by any or all means.
In tbe first place they bave cut off vfte
ment all tbe Democratic floatet 8
wbrim they thought open to bribery.
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If done legally no one should object to
this. These men have been "carried"
heretofore and then paid to vote. It is
claimed that about 300 Republicans
list or have been taken off with or
have also been left off the [assessment
without cause. Various excuses have
been used to do this; the misspelling of
names, (.he non-acceptance of a voucher
and the consequent refusal to register
the voter. All of this but justifies iu
the eyes of opponents a lavish use of
boodle and no questions are asked as to
the sources from which it comes or the
prices paid. Certainly two wrongs do
not make a right, but men who are
defeated by such questionable political
matters excuse themselves in using
similar means in retaliation.
But from Sussex county comes the
report of a darker and deeper plot. The
tax collector of Cedar Creek hundred
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county is deprived of funds, and the
voters are cheated out of a vote. The
strike is said to be at Addicksism but
by just such means will good men ex
cuse themselves for supporting Mr.
Addicks. It is wrong and being wrong
should not be resorted to. The Tran
script has been and is opposed to Mr.
Addicks but it does not approve of
such methods to accomplish his dtfeat.
FROM THE LETTER OF ACCEPT
ANCE.
This is a campaign of education and
we have read Dowhere any clearer
statement of the situation of our af
fairs than is presented by Major Mc
Kinley in bis letter pf acceptance. Of
course many bave already read the
letter in full but for the benefit of
those who have not we give the fol
lowing clippings iu addition lo those
given on finance last week:
REPUBLICANS FAVOR SILVER.
The Republican Party has not been,
and is not now, opposed to the use of
silver money, as its record abundantly
shows. It has done all that couljl be
done for its increased use, with safety
and honor by the United States, act
ing apart from other governments.
There are those who think that it has
already gone beyond the limit of finan
cial prudence. Surely we can go no
further, and we must not permit false
lights to lure us across the danger line.
MORE THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY.
We have much more silver in use
than any other country in the world
except India or China—$500,000,000
more than Great Britain; $150,000,000
more than France; $400,000,000 m ore
than Germany; $325,000,000 less than
India, and $125,000,000 less than
China. The Republican Party has de
clared in favor of an international
agreement, aud if elected President, it
will be my duty to employ all proper
means to promote it. The free coin
age of eiiver in this country would de
fer, if not defeat, international
bimetallism and until an international
agreement can be had every interest
requires us to maintain our present
standard.
Independent free coinage of silver
at a ratio of sixteen ounces of silver to
one ounce of gold would insure tbe
speedy contraction of the Volume of
our currency. It would drive at least
five hundred millions of gold dollars,
which we now have, permanently from
tbe trade of the country and greatly
decrease our per caoita circulation.
It is not proposed by the Republican
Party tn take from the circulating
medium of the country any of the sil
ver we now have. On the contrary,
it is proposed to keep all cf the silver
money now in circulation on a parity
with gold by maintaining the pledge
of the government that all of it Bhall
be equal to gold.
This has been the unbroken policy
of the Republican Party since 1878. It
has inaugurated no new policy. It
will keep in circulation and as good as
gold all of the silver and paper money
which are now included in the cur
rency of the country. It will main
tain their parity. It will preserve
their equality in the future as it has
always done in the past. It will not
consent to put this country on a silver
basis, which would inevitably follow
independent free coinage at a ratio of
16 to 1. It will oppose tbe expulsion
of gold from our circulation.
FARMERS AND LABORERS SUFFER
MOST.
If there is any one thing which
should be free from speculation and
fluctuation it is the money of acouutry.
It ought never to be tbe subject of
mere partisan contention. When we
part with labor, our products, or our
property, we should receive in return
money which is as stable aDd unchang
ing in value as the iugenuity of honest
men cun make it. Debasement of the
currency means destruction of values.
No one suffers as much from cheap
money as the farmers aud laborers.
They are tire first to feel its bad effects
and the last to recover from them.
Tliis has been the uniform experience
of all countries; and here as elsewhere,
the poor, and not the rich, are always
the greatest sufferers from every at
tempt to debase our money. It would
fall with alarming severity upon in
vest ments already made; upon insur
ance comp .nies and their policy hold
ers; upon savings banks aud their de
positors; upon building and loan asso
ciations and their members; upon the
savings of thrift; upon pensioners and
their families and upon wage-earners
and the purchasing power of their
wives.
IN TnE HIGHEST DEGREE REPREIlfcN
SIBLB,
It is a cause fop painful îegret and
s< licit ude tfiat an effort is being made
by those high in the counsels of the
aliùd parties to divide the people bf
this coui try into classes aud create
distinctions among us, which, in fact,
do not exist, and are repugnaut to our
form of government. These appeals
tipussion and prejudice are beneath
the spirit and intelligence of a free
people, and should l>e met with stern
rebuke by those they are sought to in
fluence, and I believe they will be.
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class, "tbe c l ass es against the masses,"
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capital," the poor against the rich, or
interest against interest in the United
States, is in the highest degree repre
hensible. It is opposed to the national
instinct and interest, and should be
resisted by every citizen. We are not
a nation of classes, but of sturdy, free,
independent, and-tuuiiunble people, de
spising the demagogue, and never cap
itulating to dishonor.
This ever-recurring effort endangers
popular government and is a menace
to our liberties. It is not a new cam
pai n device or parly appeal,
old as government among men, but
was never more untimely and unfor
tunate than now. Washington warned
us against it, and Webster said in the
Secate, in w ords which I feel are sing
uraTly appropriate at this time:
admonish the people against the ob
ject of outcrieslike these. I admon
ish every .industrious laborer of this
country to be on bis guard - against
such delusion. I tell him the attempt
is to play off his passion against his in
terest, and to prevail on him, in the
name of liberty, to destroy all the
fruits of liberty.
PROTECTION OK SUPREME IMPORT
ANCE.
Another issue of supreme import
ance is that of protection. The peril
of free silver is a menace to be feared;
we are already experiencing the effect
of partial free trade. The one must
be averted ; the other corrected. The
Republican Party is wedded to the
doctrine of protection, and was never
more earnest in its support and advo
cacy than now. If argument were
needed to strengthen its devotion to
the American system," or increase
the hold of that system upon the party
and people, it is found in the lesson
and experience of the past three years.
Men realize in their own daily lives
what before was to many of them only
report, history, or tradition. They
have had a trial of both systems, and
know what each has done for them.
DEMANDED BY THE PUBLIC EXIGEN
CIES.
Washington, in his farewell address,
September 17,1796, a hundred years
ago, said: "As a very important
source of strength and security, cher
ish public credit. Oue method of pre
serving it is to use it as sparingly as
possible; avoiding the accumulation of
debt, not only by shunning occasions
of expense, but by vigorous exertions
in time of peace to discharge the debts
which unavoidable wars may have
occasioned, not ungenerously throw
ing upon posterity the burden which
we ourselves ought to bear.
To facilitate the enforcement of the
maxim which he announced, he de
clared: "It is essential that you should
practically bear in mind that towards
the paymeut of debts there must be
revenue; that to have revenue there
must be taxes; that no taxes can be
devised which are not more or less in
convenient or unpleasant; that the in
trinsic embarrassment inseparable
from the selection of the proper objects
(which is always a choice of difficulties)
ought to be a decisive motive for a
candid construction of the conduct of
the government in making it; and for
a spirit of acquiescence in the measures
for obtaining revenue which the pub
lic exigencies may at auy time dictate.
Animated by like sentiments, the
people of the country must now face
the conditions which beset them. "The
public exigencies" demand prompt pro
tective legislation which will avoid the
accumulation of further debt by pro
viding adequate revenues for the ex
penses of the government. This is
manifestly the requirement of duty.
If elected President of the United
States it will be my aim to vigorously
promote this object and give ample en
couragement to the occupations of the
American people, w hich, above all else,
is so imperatively demanded at this
juncture of our national affairs.
OUR CONDITION IN DECEMBER, 1892.
In December, 1892, President Har
rison sent his last message to Congress.
It was an able and exhaustive review
of the condition and resources of the
country. It stated our situation so ac
curately that I am sure it will not be
amiss to recite bis official and valuable
testimony. "There 1 ms never been a
time in our history," said he, "when
work was so abundant or when wages
were bo high,»wliether measured by the
currency in which they are paid or byf*
their power to supply the necessaries
and comforts of life. The general aver
age of prices has been such as to give
to agriculture a fair participation in
the general prosperity. The new in
dustrial plants es'ablished since Octo
ber 6,1890, and up to October 22,1892,
number 345 and the extensions of ex
isting plants 108. The new capital in
vested amounts to $40,446,060 and the
number of additional employes 37,285.
During the first six mouths of the pres
ent calendar year 135 new factories
were built, of which forty were'cotton
mills, forty-eight knitting milis,
twenty-six wooleD mills, fifteen silk
mills, four plush mips, aud two liDen
mills. Of the forty cottou mills twenty
one have been built in the Southern
States.' '
This fairly describes the condition
of the country iu December, 1892.
Wlmt has it been since, and what is it
now?
OUR CONDITION EIGHT MONTD8 LATER
The messages of President Cleveland
from the beginning of bis second ad
ministration to the present time abound
with descriptions of the deplorable in
dustrial and financial situation of the
country. While no resort to history or
official statement is required to advise
us of the present condition, and that
which has prevaifed during the past
three years, I venture to quote from
President Cleveland's first message,
August 8 , 1893, addressed to the Fifty
third Congress, which he had called to
gether in extraordinary session:
"Tie existence of an alarming and
extraordinary business situation," said
he, "involving the welfare and pros
perity of all our people, has constrained _.
me to call together in extra session the
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people's representatives in Congress, t
to the end that through the wise and j
patriotie exercise of the legislative du
ties with which they solely an charged ]
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the present evils may be mitigated ard
dangers threatening the future may be
averted. Our unfortunate financial
plight is not the result of untoward
events, nor of conditions related to our
natural resources, Nor is it traceable
to any of the afilctious wh.ch frequent
ly check national growth and prosperity;
With plenteous crops, wi ll abundant
promise of remunerative production
and manufacture, with unusual invi
tation to safe investment, and with
satisfactory assurances to business en
terprises, suddenly financial distrust
aad fear have sprung up on eveiy side.
Numerous monied institutions have
suspended because abundant assets
were not immediately available to.meet
the demands of frightened depositors.
Surviving corporations and individuals
are content to keep in hand the money
they are usually anxious to loan, and
those engaged in legitimate business
are surprised to find that the securities
they offer for loans, though heretofore
satisfactory, are no longer accepted.
Values supposed to be fixed are fast
becoming conjectural, and loss and
failure have invaded every branch of
business."
LOSING IN BOTH DIRECTIONS.
We have either been sending too
mnch money out of the country or get
ting too little in, or both. We have
lost steadily in both directions. Our
foreign trade bas been diminished and
our domestic trade has suffered incal
culable loss. Does not this suggest
the cause of our present depression and
indicate its remedy? Confidence in
home enterprises, has almost wholly
disappeared. Our shops are closed or
running on half time at reduced wages
and small profit, if not actual loss.
Our men at home are idle, and while
theyare idle men abroad aie ui.copied
in supplying us with goods.
Our unrivaled home market for the
farmer has also greatiy suffered be
cause those who constitute it—-the
great army of American wage-samera
—are without the work and wages they
formerly had. If they cannot earn
wages they cannot buy products. They
cannot earn if they have no employ
ment, and when they do not earn the
farmer's home market is lessened and
impaired, and the loss is felt by both
producer and consumer. The loss ol
earning power alone in this country in
the past three years is sufficient to have
produced our unfortunate business sit
uation. If our labor was well employ
ed, and employed at as remunerative
wages a 3 in 1892, in a few months
every farmer in the laud would feel
the glad change in the increased de
mand for his products and in the better
prices which he would receive.
NOT OPEN MINTS BUT OPEN MILLS.
It is not an increase in the volume
of money which is the need of the time,
hut an increase in the volume of busi
ness. Not an increase of coin, but an
increase of confidence. Not more coin
age, but a more active use of the
money coined. Not open mints for the
unlimited coinage of the silver of the
world but open mills for the free and
unrestricted labor of Ammerican work
men. Thé employment of our mints
for the coinage of the silver of the
world would not bring the necessaries
and comforts of life back to our people.
This will only come with the employ
ment of the masses, and such employ
ment is certain to follow the re-estab
lishment of a wise protective policy
which shall encourage manufacturing
at home.
Protection has lost none of its vir
tues and importance. The first duty
of the Republican party if restored to
power in the country will be the enact
ment of a tariff law which will raise
all the money necessary to conduct the
government, economically and honestly
administered, and so adjusted as to
give preference to home manufactures
and adequate protection to home labor
and the home market.
We are not committed to any special
schedules or rates of duty. They are
and should be always subject to change
to meet new conditions, but the prin
ciple upon which rates of duty are im
posed remains the same. Our duties
should always be high enongh to meas
ure the difference between the wages
paid labor at borne and in competing
countries, and to adequately protect
American investments' and American
enterprises.
_. T1>e partisan ^®P artment of elections of
^mmgton appointed by theGovernor,
bas named the inspectors to hold the elec
t on in November. Many of the appoint
ments are very unsatisfactory to Republi
eins, men of unpronounced views having
been named in many instances,
CURRENT EVENT8.
The weather bureau shows last month
to be the dryest August on record.
Frost, hail, heat and grasshoppers had
nearly ruined the Jersey cranberry crop,
but to complete tbe season's disasters fires
are now raging in some of tbe most pro
ductive bogs.
Vermont went Republican on Tuesday by
a record breaking majority of40,000 or over
Vermont is an agricultural state, but tbe
farmers are not taking kindly to the free
coinage heresy and the "Green Muuntain"
state is all right for McKinley and good
money.
The camp-meeting at Ocean Grove ended
on Tuesday with the usual solemn service.
Over 2500 persons partook of the Sacra
ment of the Lord's Supper and the "break
ing up" exercises were followed by a whole
sale flight of visitors, and the season of '96
ended.
John Bardsley, the defaulting city trea
surer of Philadelphia, who has served five
of a seven years' I sentence in tbe peneten
tiary, will |probably be pardoned by
Governor Hastings, as the Board of Par
dons will recommend clemency. Uthealth
is the ground for ibe Governor's action.
Li Hung Chang, China's great general
arrived in this country on Friday of last
week and will be the nation's guest during
his stay in this country. He was royally
received in New York, Philadelphia and
Washington and is« most interesting and
interested visitor. He admires the women
of tbe Western Continent but thiuks their
sipall waists are as wortby of condemna
tion as are tbe small feet of the Chinese
women. He also bop<3 a change in our
administration will bring a repeal of the
Chinese Exclusion Act, which he regards
as most unjust.
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very simple and durable. Quantity of grain or fertilizer required to the acre can
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Come and see the celebrated Fuller & Johnson CORN CUTTER, guaranteed to cut from io to 12 acres per
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Unclaimed Letters.
List of unclaimed letters remaining in
the Middletown past office which can be
had by saying they are advertised
Louis Spencer, Mrs. Rubbin Butler, Cath
erine C. Randolph, Geo. P. Smith 3.
WEB. Sharp« Co.
FOURTH and MARKET STS.
Wilmington, Del. *
Closed every evening at 6
o'clock until September.
After an immense
sale oi thin Summer
Fabrics we find about
1,000 yards left of odds
and ends, consisting of
Lawns, Batiste, Lapel
lettes and Ginghams.
They are all 1234 and
16-cent goods. We shall
offer them on Satur
day for 4 cents per
yard, commencing at
8 o'clock.
One thousand pure
linen fringed Doylies,
all white, red, blue and
gold borders for 5 cts,
each.
A FIREFLY.
Flashskin frequently
applied to any finished
surface will keep it in
a luminous condition.
No exceptions — wood,
metal or glass, Flash
skin in the polishing
field shines like the
firefly at dusk. Half
a yard square. Price,
two for a quarter.
Full size bed Spreads
Marseilles patterns, at
85c each from $1,25.
Fifteen hundred
yards pure linen Barn
sley Crash, 10c. qual
ity for 5c yer yard;
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A Great Exhibition !
Replete with Agreeable Variety. The 15th
Annual Exhibition of
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Sep. 8, p; io and II
Will be superior to its previous successful exhibitions in
its display of Choice Breeds of Live Stock
and excellent quality of farm products.
Tbe Art, Fancy, Floral and School Depart
ments will be especially pleasing
and attractive.
The Poultry Show will be immense;
in
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EXCELLENT RACING
Both Trotting and Running.
The Leading Attractions.
The Latest Novelties.
Don't Let Go
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of that mighty dollar of yours until you have
seen what we are doing in tbe way of cut
prices. Tbe season is almost over with us. We
are making active preparation for tbe fall cam
paign.
Price Cutting
One small lot Men'Suits. Priced $10.00—not all
8izes-now $5.00
All suits marked $7.60 and $8.00 now $5.00.
All sizes.
Big Boy's Suits, aged 14 to 19. Worth $5.00 to
$6 .00 now $3.25.
Ladies'Oxford Ties, $1,00 now 75 cts, $1.25
now $1.50, $1.50 now $1.20.
Men's Russet Shoes. There is not a pair of
Men's Russets Shoes in the house that
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have not been reduced. $2.00 kind $1.50.
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$3.00 kind $2.25,
and so on
Children's School Shoes. Pebble grain t White
" oak tan soles* The shoes are made and fin
ished in thé best manner:
Size 5 to 8,49c, worth 75o.
8% to II, 59c, worth 85c.
75, worth $1.00.
Our dressy and serviceable Calf Lace Shoe fo*
little boys, with spring heels, size 8 to 2, 79^
cents and $1.00. We warrant them.
A bargain Umbrella. 26 and 28 inch plain and
sterling silver handles, $1.25 worth $2.00.
Size 11 % to;3,
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Another Cut!
Still Lower Prices!
Our Closing Out Sale
Has greatly lowered our Shoe stock but
we still have a good number left, and to
make them go tbe faster we have made
ANOTHER REDUCTION In the Prices of
from
20 to 25 Per Cent on
tbe Pair,
Offering better chances tliau ever to get
Valuable Goods at the Lowest of Low
Prices.
in
Ladies' Shoes.
New and Popular Styles, that were form
erly tl.50 to #2.00, and more recently sold
at $1.20. are now all
Put at $1,00 the Pair.
SHOES that were $1.00, $125, $1.50, now
CHILDREN'S SHOES that were
75c.
75c, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, now 50 and
75 cents.
/ z/2/L^- v -Neclfc. Wcar.-ww/z,
This Season's I
A big Assortment?
each. To be closed on.t at 15c, or 2 for 25c.
STONE JARS. We have a choice
lot of Stone Jars and Earthen Crocks and
Jars suitable for pickles, vegetables &c.,
which we will sell at very Low Prices.
les. Excellent Goods,
tegular Value 25 cents
J. A. REYNOLDS,
Middletown, Del.
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