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WILMINGTON, DEL., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1875.
1-NO. 13.
,RY OP THE* NEWS
Jieen restored in Bprnia.
apbic special, which has been
y the police of Philadelphia
Cuming*, states that Charlie
en found in Arkansas, in charge
man and woman.
Massachusetts, was visited on
it by a fire which destroyed a
;ion of the place.
mans, will hold, at Hoboken,
ne of the largest festivals ever
i the United States,
mblican State Convention of
will be held at Saratoga on
i Fi-pm the number who have
[red it is judged, that it will be
attended. The ticket that will
be adopted appears in our tele
.
rts.
biller was working upon the
liooner in New York, on Sat
bst his balance, but was saved
Kidous fall by being caught in
■ descent.
| Untted States cable between
land London was completed
ises of the Government of the
[ohimbia for the past year has
[244.98, against $1,074,614.76
r reports reach us as to the
F the crops in the North and
i is evident from what can be
It they will be unusually large,
| bring us news of the serious
[the negroes at Edward, Miss,
mticipated, and a general riot
bmpanies have been organized
I phic Dispatches are furnished to
Herald, by the American Tress
pver the Atlantic and Taciflc
fo'» wires.
IS Weather To-Day.
I States and the lower take regions
I barometer; norih west to south
all temperature, clear and partial
f; and occasional light rains in
I region of the northern paat of
pud the Middle States.
teslored In Borneo.
[pt. 6.—Order has been re
bugliout Borneo.
Hal Accident.
pr, Fla., Sept. 5.—Yesterday^
if Captain Douglass, named
►wned off the James Toy; in
Hndliiic nr ( harlle Robs,
Sept. 5.—A Philadelphia
be police have received infor
a Mr. Cummings regarding
Its of the lost child, Charlie
Dry goes that the missing boy
jin charge of a strange man
|io«c names or residence arc
fork State Convention.
, Sept, 5.—,A Saratoga spe
leputdicau State Convention
let there on Wednesday will
tgeiy attended, Judging from
|o have already arrived.
K will most likely be the
■opted : Mr. Seward, Sec
■ Gen'l Merritt, Controller ;
■ State Engineer; W. T.
■sinner, and S. S. Uallen,
■lector, ,
■toad Accident.
H>., Sept. U.—Theiaail train
■ago and Rock Island Rall
knimerce station, ten miles
■esterday, was ditched. The
loon liver had washed the
Br the track, and the high
ft damage. Tlie engine and
■over the baggage ear, drop
■ turned bottom up. John
ftman, who was standing on
fts pitched to the ground
■ to death under the
B. Miller, a baggage man
Bed by trunks falling oh him.
Bhed on its side, but no pas
IInjured, except by slight
Bro other coaches kept the
paB sent out at once, and the
■ the baggage were broug A
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i MassnchnseMa.
ifllAHs., Sept, 5.—A large
Iputh Dorfield, Mass., last
royed the greater portion of
Ire broke out at 12.30 A.
kith great rapidity. Owing
>ly of wstef It has Impos
be flames as there was no
btownl '
I telegraphed to this city
n a special train with, an
[upon receipt of the dis
blng the distance, Hfe miles
i arrlved tofe lafe tfi be of
[gildings including the two
» were entirely destrOyfed
buildings were badly burn?'
1 with great difficulty. Tlie
at $50,000. The Insurance
g about half that amount.
WASHINGTON.
NEWS FRO*d THE CAI'ITaL.
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Expenaei or the District Government
Washington, Sept. 5.—The following
exhibit shows the amounts paid by the gov
ernment during the fiscal year ending June
30,1875, on account of the District govern
ment.
Expenses of valuation of Government de
posits, $2,500,000. m
Expenses of Fire Department, $59,291.66.
Paymeilt of indebtedness of the Board of
Public Works, $13,000,000.
. Expenses of the Board of Health,
$32,220.00.
% Expenses of the Board of Health, salaries,
$9,168.50. •
Interest on 3.65-bonds $15,554.64..
Refunding expenses on account of salaries
and 3.65-bonds $46,202.70.
General expenses of the District of Colum
bia, $232,265.86, .
Pay of the Metropolitan Police, $208,096.62
Total, $2,044,299.98.
The amount so paid for the year, 1873,
was $2,864,889.92, and for 1874 $1,079,614.76,
The Negroes Uprising in Mlsslslppl.
Vicksburg, Sept. 5.—A courier from
Edward, who lias just arrived here reports
the negroes arming and threatening the
Edward depot, on the Vicksburg & Meridan
Railroad, 18 miles from here. A hastily
organized company has gone to the assis
tance of the whites.
The excitement here is at fever heat. In
the fight at Clinton yesterday, three white
men, Martin Shelely, Frank Thompson, of
Raymond, an l C. N. Chilton, of Clinton,
were killed and six whites were wounded.
There were (bur negroes killed and many
wounded. The negcoes robbed and muti
lated the bodies of the whites killed. The
steamer Vicksburg reports that (rouble is
feared on Deer Creek. The negroes were
assembling .with drums and fifes armed and
drilling in the neighborhood, where the
whites with a few parties went up on a boat
this afterno on to endeavor^o qu ell them.
A Grand German Festival.
New York, Sep. 5.—The coming week
will be made memorable to thousands of the
sons of German Fatherland in our midst, by
the Inauguration of Festivals similar to
those common in Northern Germany, in the
fall of the year. The festival which it i6
proposed to hpld jp Union Hill, Schiitzen
Park, will probably be the grandest in the
country. It wi# commence to-morrow
morning and bo continued until Friday
evening. Many thousand persons are ex
pected to .visit the grounds from Bal
Philadclpliia, . ard numerous
cities of the West . A number of persons
have already arrived at Hoboken for tlie
purpose of witnessing the first grand Platt
deutsclics Volks, the first ever held in the
United States. Immense. tents have been
erected, and a model fariq house construct
ed. All kinds of games will be in order.
The musical arrangements will be In charge
of Mr. TJicodore Webor. At night fire
works will be displayed. The formal open
;ngofthe festival will take place with a
proce ssion of about five thousand men from
New York. •
timore.
The Western Crops.
St. Paul. Sept. 5.—It is yet too early to
give a really reliable estimate of the damage
of wheat throughout Minnesota. Drying
Weather is very favorable aud it lias genera
lly prevailed to-day and a part of yesterday.
_The wet season is probably pver and the
•farmers hereabouts are opening the stacks
and shocks, liut report widly different re
sults from almost entire rottenlng" of the
berry, to mere delaration of the straw.
Frothfleld thirty miles South reports the
wheat not more than one-half stacked, and
that partly damaged.
Menkato seventy miles south-west says no
No. 1 wheat and a little No. 2 will be mar
keted. Most of it will go No. 3, or bo re
jected.
Norris one hundred and sixty miles South
west by north,s says the reports from all
around are that wheat Is growing In the
shocks In good condition here, and the Wa
pasha river countries are producing one
tenth of the total crop of the State.
Two-thirds to three-fourths of the crop
was exposed in shocks to a week of rain,and
instances of wet stacks are reported. Other
small grain in stacka were injured some
what. ,
Corn and root crops have and rather been
grined than lost by their heavy wetting.
Chicago, Sept. 5.—It Is reported that the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy.- Railroad
Company have borrowed seven hundred and
fifty cars, and the Northwestern flVe hund-
red cars from eastern companies, to' enable
them to meet the great demand for freight
accommodations. Other lines will also be
taxed to their full capacity to bring the pro-
duce of the West to Chicago on Its way
'East.
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The Republican primary elections In Lan
caster county, Pa., took place on Saturday,
amid much excitement. It Is stated that
feWKglo the abundance of candidates Breb'
nan, the choice -of the "rtag"-*w'«hqr!fr,
was successful, but that the anti-ringers
secured their nien for prothonotafy and
treasurer.
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. A HEDGEVILLE SUICIDE.
A WHITE WOMAN MARRIED ■TO A COLORED
MAN TAKES LAUDANUM.
Ycsterday afternoon, between one and four
o'clock, Mary Swigett, a white woman, the
wife of Wm. Swigett, (colored) a hod car
rier, who lives in Hedgevill, committed sul
cide by taking laudanum.
It aprears the wife for some time past has
been complaining of her husband for failing
on his part to contribute any of bis earnings
He makes $12 per week for her support and
atone time appeared at police headquarters,
and complained of the matter, but obtained
no redress, and the Mayor ol course had no
authority in the case.
She has several times threatened to take
her own life, and yesterday morning went to
a neighboring druggist and obtained a large
dose of opium in the shape of laudanum, and
drank the contents cf the bottle. She lived
about two hours and expired at four o'clock.
She was formerl
maiden name being
represented as being quiet and orderly! They
had one child about twelve years of age.
The woman left a note behind explaining
that she could not live without money, ana
had intended to poison herself for sometime
past.
The Coroner will hold an inquest this
mornin# at half past ten.
y of New Castle, her
White. The couple arc
LIVELY TIME ON WATEB STREET.
The Water street loafer feels sad and
care-worn as Saturday fades away, and the
stillness of Sunday t akes the place of the
bustle and excitement of the preceding day.
He still has some consolation left , for he
can go up the alley and procure his accus
tomed drams, an unregenerate son of Erin,
felt this morning that he was getting over
powered with ennui, and meeting an Afri
can citizen on Water street between Orange
and Shipley, commenced to remonstrate
witli tlie dusky haired gent, on the impro
priety of his action in occupying space on
the pavement in that locality. The darky
gave him some back talk, and then they
commenced to argue with their fists. A
crowd soon collected, and the white portion
of the crowd cheered on tlie Caucasian,
while the colored portion did the 6ame for
their brother African.
Tlic'wliitc man got tlie other against tlie
fence and pummeled him with such vigor
that victory seemed to rest on his shoulders;
but the darkey, making a desperate effort,
hauled the other out in the street, and gaye
him a hit which sent him- reeling to the
ground, and caused his head to make close
connection with the P. W. & B. railroad
track. The darkey then, thinking of the
proverb "He who lives to run away &c.,"
put up Orange street, pursued by the hoot
ing crowd. The white man got up and ex
pressed a desire to. immediately whip any
black nigger in existence. He appeared to
be provided with an extensive repertoire of
very original oaths, from which he called
many choice extracts. The last seen of
him he was endeavoring to get some one to
give him five cents to invest in benzine of
the noted Water street brand.
ON Tjft ROAD.
FAST HORSES AND HANDSOME TURN-OUT
—THE TEAMS OF WILMINGTON—WHO
HOLD THE RIBBONS.
Invited to take a drive on Saturday after
noon, a Herald reporter might have been
seen, bowling along the causeway, behind a
pair of handsome mahogany bays. The
road was lively with gay equipages, and as
we met team after team, we saw that we
were riding along the favorite boulevard
for the handsome turnout of this city.
The peculiar situation of our "City on the
Hillside" makes good driving roads Aarcc ;
the highways leading from it,, being always
more or less hilly. The road to New Castle
is more free from these objections than any
other avenue, and so it is justly the favorite,
with the driving people. We glide swiftly,
Imt easily along, and note with admiration
the fine dwellings which thickly dot tie
surroundings, and the river, within easy
sight, affording' a picturesque and ever
changing panorama.
Past tjie brick school-house we glide, and,
reaching the level stretch beyond, we hear
a rush of wheels and the tramp of nimble
feet behind us. It Is a friendly race, and
we turn aside to see the trotters go by. A
beautiful brown mare and a dark chestnut
are the racers, attached to light, no top
wagons, and the driver, a carriage manufac
turer and one of our fancy butchers, handle
the ribbons as if they liked it. We watch
them until the road turns, and then other
attractions mdet odr gase- A double team
and an open baroueh tout a ins the
family of another carriage man. Next
comes along a stylish English drag, with a
prominent lawyer and hia frieuds, followed
by two retired merchants with substantial
and tasteful turnouts. But what do we
meet nbw ? A high-stepping gray to a
richly appointed phaeton, and with a smile
and a nod Wilmington's "faiiestof the fair"
glided by. "J don't, want you to forget
It," thatls glory'enoUgh for one day.
The wheels rattle oyer the cobble stones
of Orange street-** we enter the little town,
(beg pardon, felly, we mean,) of "New Cas
tle, and turningWWt DaUwarestreet, we are
on the road'to#ar«'*co»W; A little dis
tance down the river we catch a view of the
tallgtacks of the Tasker works, which have
recently awakened the town from ita quiet
slumber. 1 After a short stop at the Hare's
corner hqatelrle, famous for hospitality, we
are> homeward bound. Many other hand
some teams are seen,'which we will .reserve
for future
of the red
description, and we- record .one
fetter days of our llfe. ,
1 '—d — " be.*
' *mO SINGULAR ACCIDENT.
A ★omsn living over Eleventh' street
Bridge seveysd na artery to the bend of her
us; on Friday last; and is now to a critical
condition. She was washing a Window
when her: hand wen* through the glass
which made the incision.
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- BALL AND BAT.
QUICKSTEP VS. KEYSTONE — QUICKSTEP
DEFEATED BY A 8COBE OF 8 TO 7.
On Saturday afternoon the Quickstep
met the Keystone of Philadelphia for the
second time this season, and were badly de
feated, after having the game iu their own
hands, at the end of the seventh inning the
score standing six to one in favor of the
home club. The
many respects, but owing to inexcusable
and fatal errors on the part of the home
club they deservedly sustained a defeat.
The fielding of the home club was excellent.
We may mention Kelley, who took several
difficult flies, but the finest play of the game
was a fly taken by stock, who received un
bounded applause. Geary on the fijst, has
not been playing up to his usual standard
for the last two or three games, and a sub
stitution of Stock at that, position in the
next game would be advisable.
Game was called at 3.30 with the Quick
step at the bat. We "give the following
summary of the innings :
Clinch opened for the "Quit-keys" and hit
to short stop and made first by error; Fisher
knocked to short stop and was put out at
first and Clinch at second; Hindle dropped
a weak fly to short centre and was caught
out by second baseman;
McBride faced Laiferty and hit to short
centre mnking first, but was caught at
second: Galbraith knocked to Stidham and
made first by error of Geary; Morris hit a
fly to Splaine which he held; Siverns hit a
liner and made first; Timmons hit a line fly
to 6hort right, which Stock took
Lafferty, the first in this inning, struck
out; Kelly hit tip a foul which was taken by
third baseman on a run; Splaine hit up a
weak fly to short stop, retiring the nine.
No run.
Shaw- hit a fly to short centre which was
very prettily taken by Kelly on a run; An
derson struck to Stidham whq .dropped the
ball and throwing low to first, gave him
his base; Mulligan struck to Stidham and
throwing to second put out Anderson, Mulli
gan making base; Riterson struck out re
tiring the side. No runs.
In the third inning Stiddham went out at
first, Geary went out by fly to left, and Stock
fouled out to first. -
McBride, Morris'and-Sevcrns -out for the
Keystones.
The fourth and fifth innings resulted in a
blank for each nine.
In the sixth Stock opened with a fly to
short, and was retired by second baseman ;
Clinch struck to short and made first;
Fisher struck to second and was retired at
first; Hindle struck a swift liner to right,
made first, and brought in Church (ap
plause) ; Lafferty struck to first and was
retired at first, leaving Hindle on base.
The visitors were retired in one, two three
order.
In the seventh neither nine succeeded in
scoring.
Stock opened the fatal eighth, and made
first on error, Clinch struck a daisy cutter to
left and made first, sending Stock to third,
Fisher struck up to short center, and sent in
Stock, and Clinch to third also making
ond, Clinch coming in on a pass ball, Hindle
struck a terrific liner to center, making first
and sending Fisher home. Lafferty sent a
magnificent liner to right center, sending in
Hindle and making third; Lafferty coming
in on a passed ball; Kelly struck up a weak
tip to third and retired. Splain hit a heavy
fly to left and made second; Stidham hit a
lly to short center and was retired by second
baseman; Geary fly to short stop and retired
the side, Splain on-base; five runs.
McBride opened with a liner past third,
an 1 made first, Galbraith struck a liner to
left field and made first; Morris struck liner
to left and sent in McBride; Severns strut k
to Chinch and was retired at lire*; Galbrai h
coming in.
Timmons struck a liner to Fisher and
made first by a bad throw; Shaw struck a
fly to long short which was muffed by Stid
ham; Morris and Timmons coming in on
wild throws; Anderson had three strikes
and was given his first by bad error of
Geary; Mulligan .struck a fly to short cen
tre which was taken by Kelley, making a
double play on-Second.
Stock sent a beauty to centre for second;
Clinch a fly to left and was retired; Fisher a
fly to short stop and retired, Stbck coming in
on an overthrow to third; Hindle retired on
a foul to catcher.
Riterson struck to left first and Geary not
running made first; McBride hit a liner
below third, made first and sending in Riter
son; Galbraith hit to centre and made second,
sending in McBride; Morris hit to short t hird
fielded by Fisher to first and retired; Severns
struck liner to centre, made first, Galbraith
coming in; Anderson struck out. Three
runs.
The score by innings was as follows:
Innings, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Quickstep, 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 1—7
Keystone, 00000 0 05 S—8
The Atheletic, with the help of Knight
and Coons, defeated the Boston at Phila
delphia on Saturday 8 to 3.
.The following is a correct list of games
won and lost by the Quickstep base ball club
of this city up to Saturday last.
GAMES WON.
Quickstep vs. Rokcbv,
" " Shlbc,'
Berry,
Archer,
Media,
Brandywine,
Creager,
Maple Leaf,
Active,
Dauntless,
Milford,
" Dover,
" 'Smyrna,
Brandywine,
Doerr,
Games lost.
" Keystone,
" College Nine,
' Active,
Pacific,
"' Chicago, (Professional,) 4 11
" -SMbe, 4 9
Active,
Keystone,
-DRAW GAME.
no
to
game was a good one in
on a run.
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26 9
*17 16
25 3
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9 8
it 4
10 4
20 4
24 4
16 7
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5 3
27 5
29 0
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9 6
16 21
16 39
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8 18
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1 7
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6 14
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7 8
Creager,.
- Runs made by Quickstep,
Runs nude by opposition clubs,
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.834
196
Runs In favor of Quickstep,
The games with the Rokeby $ti Maple
Leaf were exhibition games; that with the
188
Branywfne but four innings were played,
consequently It is no game, and that with
Creager, of Camden, at Gloucester, a draw
game the score standing ti to 6.
The games wit h the College Nine; two with
the Active, and one with the Brandywine,
and those between the Milford, Dover, Crea
ger and Smyrna nines were played out of the
city; all the rest being played in Wilmington.
JOTTINGS ABOUT TOWN.
Dr. J. Jay Villcrs, the American Humor
ist, will deliver his very popular lecture,
entitled "Funny People We Meet," at the
Opera House, on Friday Evening, October
the 1st.
A sociable will be held in the 8. 8. room
of Calvary Church on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings of this week.
There will a meeting of the .members of
the city encamprqrnts of I. 0. O. F., this
evening at Odd Fellows' Hall,
Saturday was pension day.
There is , 0)1 $16,551.23 owing this coun
ty for the year 1874. '
A bush meeting has been arranged for
Sunday Sep. 22th, to be held under the aus
pices of Bethel A. M. E. Church.
The new curtain at the Opera House to
be used for the first time to-night, was fin
ished on Saturday. The work wa6 done by
Mr. Hawthorne, of Philadelphia, who has
wrought upon the curtain some of the deli
cacy and taste 6of his celebrated namesake.
The representation is the famous old city of
Vera Cruz, Mexico, and in accuracy of de
tail it is unsurpassed by any drop curtain
scenery in the country.
The Brandywine and Wilmington B. B.
Clubs will play this afternoon at 3 o'clock,
on the Quickstep grounds.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Sun
day Mercury , who made a piscatorial excur
sion down tlie Peninsula the other day says
"Everything went.along as usual until we
reached Delaware. No sooner had we cros
sed the line than everybody began to talk,
peaches and peaches, nothing but peaches.
If any one were sink the disease was called
peach fever, or peach cold, or peach some
thing"—and so on a la Geo. Alfred Town
saml veracity.
The Kenney Investigating Committee
concluded its labors on Friday last, having
been in session since Tuesday. On the 7th
inst they will meet at the Madison street.M.
E. Church, Chester, to agree upon a report,
The Grace Church Morning Sunday
School resumed yesterday at 9 a. m.,' with
a fine attendance of teachers and scholars.
J. C. Shaefner, the unfortunate cadet, Is
still at Elkton ; but he is expected to be
sufficiently recovered in a few days to reach
West Point. ,
The September term of the Orphans'
Court and Court of Chancery for New
Castle county' commences on Monday
next.
* The 63rd annual meeting of the Bible So
ciety of this State will be held at Grace
ChiTreh next Thursday evening. Rev. Geo.
K. Kramer, of Asbury, Rev. Dr. Otts of
West Presbyterian, and Dr. Geo. Shildon,
Superintendent of the American Bible So
c etv for New Jersey and Delaware, will
make addresses. The number of bibles dis
tributed in this State for the year is 1143 ;
the receipts from Delaware $1515.94.
All members of encampments should at
tend the meeting of the uniformed battalion
of Patriarchs, I.O.O.F. this evening and see
the unform as adopted by the Grand Lodge of
teh U. S. at its last session. The combination
of black, purple, violet and yellow metal,
give it a very rich appearance, and it has
been adopted by a number of encampments
in Philadelphia and elsewhere.
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IN THE TOILS.
STATISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY—HIS HONOR
FIRM AND DIGNIFIED IN TIIE HALL OF
JUSTICE.
Arrived a few minutes too soon the Her
ald man took his accustomed chair, drop
ped his cigar two degrees below a perpen
dicular, and being in a statistical and philo
sophical mood fell a speculating as follows
with : Sometimes His Honor lias eight cases
to dispose of, sometimes six and often as
low as four. Striking an average, as the
Arithmetic clergy says, we get six eases for
every day of the year. In the -August Po
lice court of Wilmington. Six, one day
multiplied 365 days gives, moreover, 211.0
cases in a year. Say two are implicated iu
every.case, and his Honor knoweth that
sometimes there are more, we have 4380
men and women before the Mayor for var
ious misdemeanors; from one Sep. Gth to
another sixth day of September. 4')80!
Figures for you reformers, clergyman ! 40,
00(1 is our population ! But the Herald
man was interrupted from his morning rev
erie with
"Thomas Duffy, as there is a want of ev
idence to convict you of assault upon Thos.
Wert, you are discharged with magisterial
compliments."
Bernard Lapure was next brought to the
attention of His Honor. It appeared that
Bernard had imbibed from the crooked side
of the crooked rieck of a crooked bottle of
stupendously crooked whiskey; and that
as- a consequence, Ills walk and manners
were so crooked as to cause his arrest . As
a suitable subject for future meditation, he
was informed that it would lie best for him
to pay costs and give bond in the sum of
$200 to keep the peace.
" Mary Gallagher," were the summary
words of justice," " give to the ci y a couple
of hundred for bond to behave, and go, go
at once."
On Mary's heels came James and John
Dougherty, who had hien practicing a du
ett in a somewhat disorderly manner. They
were soon disposed of, the city being richer
by $2 than it was this time last week.
John llassinger paid billigerent attentions
to Thomas Hughes. Thomas, innocent
as he was, shed, never a tear
when hia arch enemy was fined
the costs and ordered to furnish a $200.bond.
. "And this Is the last," quoth his Honor,
"and lamentable it is; wherefore Kate Sickles
didst threaten to blacken, the azure-eyes of
the' angelic Miss. Sifilth, who lovingly con
fronts thee. Pay the costs, my disorderly
and Miser and sadder laws, get thee home
and pray . Never do tbe llkc agalq for though
thou resemblcsts ye Mistress Quickley of old
thou hast drunk from a. most unfortunate
parcel gilt goblet and have found the dregs."
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THE HILLS ABOUND.
THE AUTUMN DRIVES—OVER THE HILLS
AND FAR AWAY.
Bayard Taylor, the poet-traveller once told
a party of young student vagabonds who
thrust themselves upon his acquaintance in
the fair old town of Kcnnett, that amongthre
hills of New Castle county some of the soft
est, brightest landscapes his extensive wan
dering has ever broug t to pis eyes and
heart. The fine roll of Chester bills reaches
down to Iron Hill on the West, and the am
bitious little, new born city of the urbane
New Castilians to the East. Mr. Taylor
wondered "that tourists nevej- toss their
satchels from the trains that hourly pas g
on the P. W. B. road to tramp for a week
among them, drinking buttermilk like nec
tar from the prosperous Kine."
"That kine o' thing wouldn't work,''
said an irreverent and inartis
tic listener, a fellow gets tired and dirty 1 r
a half day, for my part give me a two
in hand with fair weather, and I'll find-the
hills pleasant enough." And to most peo
ple the latter remark ripples very soothing
ly. If one can pitch on a September day
with just enough sunlightto alternate with
huge cloud-shadows in point of time and
just enough breeze to blow away all laziness •
of spirit, lie find its truth. In a fortunate
moment the Herald man mounted his ear,
uttered a menace to his waiting steeds,
bowled off to the North-west, and on the
furthermost hilltop of the environs waved a
half-day's adieu to the "populous (and why
not l)smoky city" lying in the ancient grasp
of the Christiana and Brandywine. Cosily
lay the town, yonder were the' vaunted
athletes surrounded by a couple of thousand
enthusiastic friends getting beaten like the
mischief by a club of the Keystone State;
and surely, thought the Herald man, hath
the "Weeping Willow" notits complement
of forty-dollar politicians this golded after
noon ? And continuing in this strain, with
the shadow-liar red meadows and smooth
roads around it was ditticult to keep from
wondering why the lazy townsmen do
not appreciate their surroundings more,why
they pack horse and wagon in an express
box and run off into Jersey, when such
drives as these are convenient,
accounted for by a current spirit among
Delawareans to depreciate everything with
in their bounds. Apropos, the anecdote of
Sydney Snjjth and the equator : Jeffrey, of
lie Edinburgh Review, was so bothered by a
man whose liobby was the Nortli Pole, and
who kept teasing him so much about it that
thejurist broke out one flay with, ".Damn the
North Pole." Whereupon the hobbyist told
Sydney Smith of the uneourteous treatment
freim Smith's colleague. The statesman and
divine, ribbing liis hands, said: "Why,
my Lord, don't mind Jeffrey, he's given to
such things, would you believe it, tliat man
has actually been known to .speak disre
spectfully of-the Equator," Atd Wilming-*
tonians actually speak about New Castle
county out of the corners of their mouth.
"Gimme a lift," said a tall man in a
clean shirt, and who, consequently, could
notbe.a tramp. "Teli me first," said I,
in the census-taker manner, " where were
you bora, when, where live, how, wherefore
dusting over the hills, how many children,
is your grandfather living, &c." Answer
ing all satisfactorily, lie leaped into the
chariot and told me that it was hot , and
that there would be a very good crop of
corn round about. '
With this communicative individual along,
it was'an easy matter to accumulate artistic
data of the surrounding country!
"In an aesthetic sense," quoth I, "what
think you of the hundreds that stretch out
above here !"
"Very good crops. Yes, indeed; ah, very
good corn in Brandywine Hunder and Mill
Creek, and all through."
So I went into ecstac-ies over the undula
ting hills, quaint old bridges, etc., and he
into dissertations u;>on potato bugs until,
with a "thank, yer," the old fellow made
It can be
his exit.
THE WILMINGTON A WESTERN IN
TENSION. •
Tlie meet ing at Cope's an tlie 30th was
attended by 25 interested persons. R. H.
Hodgson presided and J. Way acted as Sec
retary Remarks were made by Mr. Stubbs
and Alexander of Oxford, J. G. Jackson,
and others. The report of the Canvassing
Committee showed that there was $1,200 or
$1,400 of the $20,000 that was to be raised •
along the line of extension still to be raised.
The committee that had undertaken to raise
$5,000 in Philadelphia was not present, but
there was a second hand report that they
were successful. It was understood that
when the umount of $25,000 was fully raised
the company would raise $5,000 in Wilming- ■
ton and commence building the road to the
valley of Big Elk, endeavoring td*increasc
the amount to $35,000 while building. The
prosjieet now is that tlie road will be built
from Big Elk to Oxford by way of the Little
Elk, thus securing the freight from most of
the Little.Elk mills. Meetings were appoint
ed for the purpose of a scertaining the success
of cuch member af the Canvassing Commit
tee and getting the. people warmed up to
their interest, the l^st of which will be at
Joseph Furey's, Franklin township, and the
second in the Lewisville Hall, on Monday
evening ai 7o'clock, September 6th and 13tb.
— Jeffersonian.
' Barking Up the Wrong Tree.
They had been to the match and had bet
all their ten cent notes on the Quicksteps.
They were disgusted, not seven cents in th«
crowd for street car ride. There were eight
and a half of them, an l had reached Tenth
aud Madison, when a venerable Quaker cou
ple, the old lady with an umbrella and the
patriarch hod a hatchet. It was a fine op
portunity for ftin and the eight and a half
jostled the old lady's umbrella. It was
soon over, for the last seen of the gallant
eight was at Ninth and Jefferson, and the
old couple flourished hatchet and hoisted
umbrella in full possession of the field, with
(he half in custody, who was allowed to join
h's discomfited companion upon a promise
not to bet on the Quicksteps again, until the
8th inning has been played.