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AND THE DELAWARE STATE
JOURNAL.
WILMINGTON, DEL., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1877.
VOLUME XI.
NUM BER 562.
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I
A-DOWN THE FIELD TOGETHER.
n his solemn notes
The blackbird i>'|
Throu/h <•
The air is fn
urtht brev
As hand lu I
la the hazy autumn weather,
A lass ami tu
Stroll down the Held together.
run; hollow ;
d try myriad wings
iu«; swallow ;
ti light hour,
i
wn baiveater
took
that
ness,
quite
of
the
S
AH dey lie baa bound the yellow ah
With a patient hand ana willing,
■ new home Is stored
For thewenlto ofbla
In the srsnnry he la ailing ;
nil tin- gain or reward be aaka.
Ia to know that through the heatner
j and UmIo
Shall roam the held together.
A
of
A
h*ppy hearts and young,
re «aa leaves are fallingt
They hear but the cheery volee of love
T > bia sweetheart gently nailing:
Aud cloae aa he bound the yellow a heaven
Iu thi> gleaming autumn weather,
Sly Oupl.l binds their tender hearts
With lovu'a goldeu bands together.
What la It
Th-t the
how
The Hold of stubble will soon grow brown,
The frosts will chill the meadows,
Asd highlaud, lowland, sai
W IL rade In the de.'p'JV»* »hoJewai ,
But. bng'it as the sun on a thousand hills,
Will seem the autumn weather.
When, h md In hand, to the dear old kirk,
Ti.ey weud their way together.
tid on shall the years roll,
Aud dim shall grow love'a story.
Till head ol brown and head of gold
mil lose youth's crown of glory ;
lie «-down the Oeld or golden ski
In the sombre autumn weather,
and wrinkled dame
little
I
And
have
Kh
prisa
many
tang
I
en
oould
duty
why
Ws
of
trail
file,
my
W
saves,
A tottering
Shall slowljr walk together.
when
wheu
Ah I who will remember the hstveat hour
«youthful maul and her lover,
When tile ■ grav sheaves are bound at laat,
Ahd life's hi lef r
Of
?
When the H 'Ida ehall be o'errun with weeds
And « oue «hell roam the heather.
While, aide by a de. In the old ktrk-yard.
The twain »hall rest to'ether r
-By Lsuiu S. IJfhsn.
FATALISM.
1 know not wharè tnou dost sold
If Hi Iso skies above thee bend ;
us twain divide—
wide—so wide—
comprehend.
What leagues on least
The world, dear heart,
'1 hese w orda I majr
Rut this full well I know : nor spaso
Nor length »f year«, nor any ohaaee,
(Jan rob me of toy dear embrase ;
behold thee, fa*« to face,
read thine every glanoe.
At yet, I know thee but In dreamt—
A vague, mysterious pretense tweet ;
Unreal, and yet so real, n
y »oui doth aatoh delicious gleams
Uf life and love, full—all complete.
Jlaybe I muet wait thee long :
late thou'lt
I g« my way—I sing my song—
And, though I mingle with the throng,
dim, sweet face Is all I
I •
And learn
pines
of
ing
him
hope
push
had
hate
that
of
;\i
to ms;
Rut «ooo
So here I watt, but not In vain
Shall be my patient loyalty ;
.>mo »enrolling beat or blighting rain,
falling pulse or reeling brain—
That whloh la written, it shall ba.
Uo
Co
—kost Staniitk.
THE FALSE ORACLE.
Rhe picked a Utile daisy flower,
,'ith fringe of sno * and heart of gold ;
i.ut and warm within.
a have her fortune told.
All |>t
And stuod
low she mutins «aid,
ucUcd the border leaf by leaf;
all—
"He lo
And
"A little—too much—
With trueet heart-beyond belief.''
"A Tittle-too much—not at all"—
read
like
ment
:i;ig tho cliniiges o'er sud o'er ;
Th.- tiny leaflets fluttered down,
A ml mewed the meadow's grassy floor.
"A little—too much—
With ti
Ah. fnolieh task,
Love's value oi
at all
heart''— Ü magie brlsf ;
o measure
s daisy leaf!
and
I«
left
rulleil
r
1" 1 heard her say,
o«v. you silly flowsr,
ill his dying day."
—Mary dings is Vers.
into
for
Not
of
nis
of
me
a
he
and
to
my
u
Uo 11
I
AN AVIUM S SONG.
11 """'
«vertag flight
gently lall*
WM'* d«*U
Ul whip I
The grain I
(In e ery
The light ti
An ' silvered ou the rllL
>artrldge drums; ine ptover's call
tea the rpurtuiau'a enr,
ist above the water-fall
N
1
ill
. *he uuts
hill,
•oftened on
bin
Th
>
•lj
bte wisr.
Tlie reddened leave« witn withered wing«
Swtxv l-ghtiy tu the «od.
Au-I Au:umu walk« the lauu and sing«,
With ruatilngaantlal« «ho<1.
—Scr »***»•'« Monthly.
RIPE COKE.
hruugn the husk,
l'be golden ear i>erp
Th ■ Ivied taasel« dryly ruatie.
Ro, nn. boy«, ho! From morn tllldualr.
We'll at it tlirn with about and buatl«!
So, hn, hoy«, ho ! Now for th* tu««U!
The lively work, we'll weather it!
The ripened corn, we II gather It!—
Ho, buy«, ho! We'll gathi
it I
—Osteksr Scribner.
C. L. Olktklano.
my
MR. KEARNEY.
IIRET HAUTE'S LATEST.
From the N«w York San.
"Stranger 1"
The voico
penetrating. I looked vainly up and down
tho narrow darkening trail. No
fringe of alder ahead; no
gullied slop«- behind.
*• 0! stranger!"
This timo a little impatiently. The
vocative, "O" always meant
not loud, but olear and
the
the
Criifon.i
l looked up, and perceived for the first
the ledge, thirty feet above
another trail parallel with my own,
und looking down upon me through the
buckeye bushes a small man on a black
home.
Five things to bo noted by the ciroum
spect mountaineer. Finit, the locality—
lonely aud inaccessible and away from the
regular faring of teamsters and miners.
Secondly, the stranger's superior knowl
road from the fact that the
unknown to the ordinary
well armed
edge of tli
other trail
traveler. Thirdly, that he
aud equipped. Fourthly, that he was
better mounted. Fifthly, that any
distrust or timidity arising from the
contemplation of these facts had better be
kept to oneself.
All this passed rapidly through my mind
as 1 returned his salutation.
"Got any tobacco?" he aBked.
I hud, nud signified the foot, holding up
the pouch inquiringly.
"All right, TU
and i'll jiuo ye on the slide."
"The rtiido?" Here was a new geo
graphical discovery as old as the second
trail. I hail ridden over the trail a dozen
times, and seen uo communication between
the ledge and trail. Nevertheless, I went
a huudred yards or so, when there was
sharp crackling in the underbrush, a
sho «or of stones on the trail, and my
friend plunged through the bushes to my
side down a grade that I should scarcely
have dared to lead my horse. There was
accomplished rider—
down. Ride
doubt he was
noth er fact to be noted.
As he ranged beside
ken as to his size; he was quite
I found I
iu dium hight, and, but for a
pair of cold gray eyes, was rather
in feature.
got a good hors* there," I
.1er t
"You'vt
gjtstud.
filling his pipe from my pooch,
but looked up a little surprised, and said,
"Of course." He then puffed away with
tho nervous eagerness of a man long
deprived of the sedative. Finally,
puffs, be asked me
the
whence I came.
of
I replied from "Lagrange."
He looked at me a few moments
curiously, but on my adding that I had
only halted there for a few hours, he said.
"I thought I knew every man between
iAgrange and Spring, but somehow
I sorter disremeinher your face and name."
particularly <
ber either, I
D.'s
with
caring that he should
replied, half laugh
Not
remem
ingly, that as I lived
Indian Spring, it was quite natural. lie
took the rebuff—if such it was—so quietly,
that as an aet of mere perfunctory polite
ness, I asked him where he came from."
" Lagrange."
" And are going
"Well! that depends pretty much en
things pan out, and whether I can
» the riffle." He let his hands rest
quite unconsciously on the leathern holster
of his dragoon revolver, yet with a strong
suggestion to me of his ability "to make
the riffle" if he wanted to, and added :
taking a
thing - offensive in his
S peech save ite familiarity and the re
action, perhaps, that whether I objected
not he was quite able to do as he said.
posta r was pro
e other side of
say
a
to
my
to
how
so
'
you
let's
"But just now I was reok'ni
little pastor with you."
There was
I only replied that if
longed beyond Heavytree Hill I should
have to borrow his basst. To my
it
"That's so,"
disposal
it and half of it
has carried double
prisa hs replied quietly,
addins that urn horse was
many a time before this," he eontinued,
"andkin do it again; when your mus
tang gives out I'll give a lift, and
spare."
I oould not help smiling at the idea of
appearing before the boys at Red Gulch
en croupe with the stranger; but neither
oould I help being oddly affected by the
suggestion that his horse had done double
duty before. "On what occasion, and
why ?" was a question I kept to myseif.
Ws ware ascending the long, rocky flank
of the Divide; the narrowness of the
trail obliged us to proceed slowly and in
file, so that there was little ohanoe for
venation, had he been disposed to satisfy
my curiosity.
Wo toiled on in silence, the buckeye
giving way to chimisal, the westering sun,
reflected again from the blank walls beside
eyes with its glare. The
olive gulfs
which a hawk here and thero
rising to our level, cast a
that
ain't
that
when he
wheu be was.
to
the
not
for
ho
that
of
and
be
blinding
pines in the canon below
of heat,
drifted lazil
weird and gigantio shadow of slowly
ing wings on the mountain side. The
superiority of the stranger's horse led
him often far in advance, and made
hope that he might forget me entirely,
push on, grown weary of waiting. But
regularly he would halt by a boulder,
reappear from some chimisal, whero he
had patiently halted. I was beginning to
hate him mildly, when at one of those
reappearances he drew up to my side, aud
asked me how I lifted Dickens.
Hod he asked my opinion of Huxley
Darwin, I oould not have keen
astonished. Thinking it
that he referred to
of Lagrange, I said, hesitatingly :
possible
local culckrity
for
"You mean-?"
" Charles Dickens. Of oourse
read him? Which of bis books
like best?"
I replied with considerable embarrass
ment that I liked them all—as I certainly
r;
VU
tho
He grasped my band for a moment with
fervor quite unlike his usual phlegm,
and said : " That's me, old m&u. Dickens
him
and
that
slouch. You
pretty muoh all the time."
With this rough preface, ho lauuched
into a criticism of the novelist, which
for intelligent sympathy and hearty
appreciation I had rarely heard equaled.
Not only did he dwell upon the exuberance
of his humor, but upon the power of his
pathos and the all-pervading element of
nis poetry. I looked at the man in aston
ishment. I had considered myself a rather
diligent student of the great master of
fiction, but the stranger's felicity of quo
tation and illustration staggered me. It is
true that his thought was not always
clothed in the best language, and often
appeared in the slouching, slangy undress
of the plaoe and period, yet it never
rustic nor homespun,and sometimes struck
me with its precision aud fitness. Con
siderably softened toward him. I tried him
with other literature. But vainly. Beyond
a few of the lyrical and emotional poets
he knew nothing. Under the influence
and enthusiasm of his
himself had softened considerably; offered
to change horses with me, readjusted my
saddle with professional skill, transferred
my pack to his own horse, insisted upon
sharing the contents of his whisky
flask, and, noticing that I was unarmed,
pressed upon me a silver-mounted derrin
ger, which he assured me he oould
"warrant." These various offloes of good
will and the diversion of his talk beguiled
from noticing the fact that the trail
was beginning to become obscure and
réoognuable. We were evidently pursu
ing a route unknown before to mo. I
pointed out the fuel to my companion a
little impatiently. He instantly resumed
his old manner and dialect.
"Well, I roekon
another, and what hev ye got to say about
it?"
in't
sho
as
ing
his
tic
not
a
in
I pointed out, with some diguity, that I
preferred the old trail.
"Mebbee you did. But you're jiss now
takin' a pasear with me. This yer trail
will bring you right into Indian Spring,
and onnotued, and no questions asked,
Don't you mind now, I'll see you
through." i
It was necessary here to mako some !
stand against my strauge companion. I i
said firmly, yet as politely as I could, that |
I had proposed stopping over night with n 1
friend. i
tho locality \
speech, he
my
good
trail's
be
up
was
a
my
my
was
"Whar!"
I hesitated. The friend
Eastern man, well known i
for his fastidiousness and his habits
recluse
eccentric 1
o j
. A misanthrope of ample family I
and ample means, he had chosen a
secluded but pioturosque valley in tho j
Sierras, where he oould rail against thu j
world without opposition. "Lone Volley,"
__ "Boston Ranch," as it was more famil
iarly called, was the one spot that tho aver- !
age miner both respected and feared._ Mr. j
By lvester,its proprietor, had never affiliated
with "the boys," nor had he ever lost ,
their respect by any aetivo opposition to
their ideas. If seolusion had been his
object he oert&inly was gratified. Never
theless, in the darkening shadows of the -
night, and on a lonely and unknown trail, |
I hesitated a little at repeating his name i
to a stranger of whom I knew so little. 1
But my mysterious companion took the
matter out of my hands.
"Look yar," he said suddenly, "thar
ain't but one place twixt yer aud Indian
Spring whar ye can stop, and that's ,
Sylvester's."
I assented a little sullenly. !
"Well," said the Btranger quietly, and
with a alight suggestion of conferring a
me. "Ef you're pointed for
Sylvester's—why—I don't mind stopping
tnar with ye. It's a little off the road—
time—but taking it by and
a
I
favor
I'll lose
large I don't much mind.'
I stated as rapidly and strongly as I ,
oould, that my acquaintance with Mr. |
Sylvester did not justify the introduction ]
ol a stranger to his hoepitality—that he •
unlike most of the people here—in '
i that he was a queer man, Ac. 1
said,
with
long
me
To my surprise iny companion answered
quietly : "O, that's all right. I've heard
of him. Ef you don't feel liko cheeking
through, or if you'd rather put G. O.
my back, why it's all the same to
play it'll alone. Only you just
in. Say 'Sylvester' all the time.
's quiet
1
D.'s
. I'll
count
That's
What could I opposo to this
assurance ? I felt myself g
with anger aud nervous with embarrass
What would the oorrect Sylvester
? What would the girls—I was
then, and had
red
Every
ment
say to
a young
to their domestio oircle by my reserve—
known by a less complimentary adjectiv*
among the "boys"—what would they say
my new acquaintance? Yet I certainly
uld not objeot to his assuming all risk
his own personal reoognizauces, nor
could I resist a certain feeling of shame at
my embarrassment.
au entree
to
so
tion.
class,
with
beginning to descend. In tho
already twinkled the
lights iu the solitary rancho of Lone
Valley. I turned to my companion.
' 'But you have forgotten that I don't ev
know your name. What
you ?"
"Thet's so,'' he said, musingly. "Now,
let's see. 'Kearney' would be a good
We
distance below
horn
its
I to call
he
name. It's short and easy like. Thar's a
itreet in 'Frisoo the aa
it is."
"Bu
title. Kearney
of
the
each
the
who
had
her.
and
«ko.,
" I began, impatiently.
"Now you leave that all to
interrupted, with a superb self-confidence
that I could not but admire. "The name
ain't
responsible. Ef I was to lay for a man
that I reckoned
after I fetched him I found out
inquest that his name was Smith—that
wouldn't make
," he
account. It's the
that'
named Jones, and
the
matter, as long as I got
the
Tho illustration, forcible
not strike
it
, did
offering a prepossessing
introduction, but we were already at the
rancho. Tho barking of dogs brought
Sylvester to tho door of the pretty little
cottage which his taste had adorned.
I briefly introduced Mr. Kearney.
"Kearney will do—Kearney's good enough
for me," commented the soi distant
Kearney half aloud, to my own horror and
Sylvester's evident mystification, and then
ho blandly excused himself for a moment
that ho might
of his
of earshot I drew the puzzled B)lvester
aside.
"I have picked up—I menu I have been
picked up on the road by a gentle maniac,
whoso name is not Kearney. Ho is well
armed and quotes Dickens. With care,
ncquiesence in his views on all subjects,
and general submission to his commands,
be may be placated. Doubtless the spec
tacle of your helpless family, the contem
plation of your daughter's beauty aud
innocence may touch his fine sense of
humor and puthos. Meanwhile, heaven
help you and forgive me."
personally supervise
beast. When he was
the
out
p stairs to tho Uttlo den that my
hospitable host had kept always reserved
in my wanderings. I lingered
ablutions, hearing tho
y drawl of Sylvester
I
for
timo
languid gentle
below mingled with the equally cool, easy
slang of luy mysterious acquaintance.
When 1 came down to the sitting-room I
surprised, however, to find the self
stylod Kearney quietly seated on tho sofa,
gentlo May Sylvester, the "Lily of
Lono Valley," bitting with maidenly
side of him,
tho other that arrant flirt, her
practising the pitloss
excitement
l
ton,
lead
42
E.
in
tho
by
VU
tho
and unaffected interest
qousin Kate,
archery of her eyes, with
that seemed almost real.
"Who is your deliciously cool friend ?"
sho mauaged to whisper to me at supper
as I sat utterly dazed and bewildered
between tho enrapt May Bylvester, who
seemed to haug upon his words, and this
giddy girl of the period, who was empty
ing the battery of her charms in aetivo
rivalry upon him. "Of course
his namo isn't Kearney. But how romnn
tic ! And isu't he perfectly lovely ? And
who iu he ?"
I replied with severe irony that I was
not aware what foreign potentate was then
traveling inoognito iu* tho Sierras of Cali
fornia, but that when his Royal Highness
pleased to inform me, I should be
glad to introduce him properly. "Until
then," I added, "I fear the acquaintance
must be Morganatic."
"You're only jealous of him," she said
pertly. "Look at May—she is completely
fascinated. And her father, too."
And actually the languid, world-sick,
cynical Sylvester was regarding him with
a boyish interest and enthusiasm almost
incompatible with his nuture. Yet I sub
mit honestly to the clear-headed reason of
nothing
in the man than I have already
delivered to the reader.
In the middle of
adventure, of which he, to the already
prejudiced mind of his fair auditors, was
evidently tho hero, he stopped suddenly.
"It's only some pack tram passing the
bridge on the lower trail," explained Syl
vester. "Go on."
"It may be my horse is a trifle oneasy
in the stable," said the alleged Kearney ;
"he ain't used to boards and covering."
H^yen only knows what wild and deli
' revelation lay in tho statement of
this fact, but tho girls looked at eaoh
other with cheeks pink with excitement as
Kearney arose, and with quiet absence of
ceremony, quitted the table,
"Ain't he iust lovely 1" said Kate, gasp
ing for breath, "nnd so witty."
"Witty !" said the jj« ntle May, with just
i thc slightest trace of defiance iu her sweet
! voico. "Witty, my d ur, why don't you
i seo that his heart is just breaking with
| pathos? Witty,indeed; why,when he was
1 speaking of that poor Mexican woman that
i was hung, I saw tho tears gather iu his
eye. Witty, indeed !"
"Tears," laughed the cynical Sylvester,
\ "tears, idle tears. Why, you silly
of the world—a
, quiet, observant, unassum
my own sex, that I could
exciting story of
1
it
is a
j children,the
I philosopher,
ing."
j 4t Uuassuming !" Was Sylvester intoxi
j cated, or had tho mysterious stranger
mixed the "insane verb" with the family
poltago ? Ho returned beforo I could
! answer this selLaskod inquiry, and re
j mmed coolly his broken uan utivo. Find
iugmyself forgotten i
, i 0l) g hesitated to introduce to tuy friends,
j retired to lest early, only to hear,
through the thin partitions, two hours later,
enthusiastic praises of tho new guest from
- the voluble lips of tho girls,os they chatted
| together in the next room before retiring.
i At midnight I was startled by tho sound
1 Q j horseB* hoofs aud the jingling of sp
below. A conversation between my host
and some mysterious personage
darkness was carried on in such n low tone
that I could not learn its import. As the
, cAvulcado rode away . I raised the window.
"What's the matter?"
! "Nothing," said Sylvester coolly, "only
another of those playful homicidal freaks
a peculiar to the couutry. A man was shot
by Cherokee Jack over at Lagrange this
morning, aud that was the Sheriff of Cala
veras and bis posse hunting hlm. I told
him I'd seen nobody but you and your
friend. By the way, I hope the cursed
tho
tho
I , noise hasn't disturbed him. The poor
| fellow looked as if he wanted rest."
] I thought so, too. Nevertheless, I
he • went softly to his room. It was empty.
' My impression was that he had distanoed
1 the Sheriff of Calaveras about two hour*. |
THU RACES AT THE PARK
1 GOOD TRACK , EIRE RACING AND
LARGE ATTENDANCE.
Ac.,
Sans
Hallet t Wins the S SO Race; Kelli«
B. the S.SO Race« the rifth Heat or
the 2.S4 Race Postponed Until This
Meriting.
Every Ev nlog and Commercial, October IL
The
second day
better attended than
number of private teams with lady
occupants being observed, and
general interest displayed by the lookers
in a capital comii
several fine mot*.
yesterday afternoon — the
of the contest—were much
Tuesday, a larger
The tracks
There
the
tion.
especially in the fourth heat of the 2.50
class, when after an eager aud well*
contested race Christiana Davis
ahead of Yollie E.
The pool sellers seemed to be doing
something at their trade, but the nr.fln
with the racing wheel took the lead of
everything
the first
in
G.
J.
and
and
the ground
day having
while the plaintive strain of Wild Hunter's
horn called only a few into his cabin and
its wonderful collection.
to side shows,
$150,
he
»EST BAOS, PUSSE, $100.
was called precisely at 8
o'clock, and was for horseB of the 8.3«
class.
threo horns started in
Hallett, Charles S.
Mount Moriah Boy, Charles Miller, Phila
delphia; Yellow Cloud, Joseph Graoey,
Lewisville, Ohester county, Pennsylvania.
Lady Thornton was withdrawn on account
of a bad mouth.
After five false starts, the word was
given on the mxth, wheu Moriah Boy took
the lead, and was immediately passed by
Hallett with Yellow Cloud close behind.
Hallett won the heat by a half length in
three minutes.
In the second heat Hallett and Yellow
Cloud lead the way, and by fits and turns,
each passed the other, but Hallett
the home stretch in 3.05.
The third heat was more exciting,
owiug to the driver of Yellow
Cloud in the other heats being dis
missed for holding back, and iu the ap
pointment of George Martin as driver,
who put the horse to its best, and would
have, undoubtedly, wou the heat if she
had not broke when
Hallett, the winning horse, made tho first
quarter stake iu 44 seconds, followed
almost neok to neck by Yellow Cloud, who
broke as above, when Moriah Boy passed
her. Hallett won the beat i
and the
The following shows the positions, time,
«ko., in the 3.30 race: Class, 4; purse,
$100; first horse, $50; second, $30;
third, $20. Seven horses entered and
three started.
Hallett.
Mount Moriah Boy....
Yellow Cloud.
Time, 3; 3.05: 3.0
SECOND
This
Seven entries were made, and
Bitions as follows:
x, Philadelphia;
Ac.,
8.
five
W.
At
and
the homestretch.
.1 1 1
.8 3 2
.2 2 8
, puasE, $150.
was for horses of the 2.50
tro entored and six
the following positions :
Christiana Davis, Joseph G. Davis, Phila
delphia; Mollie E., J. B. Cresswell, 1)<
iu/;lown, Pa.j Dexter, Dalltvf Loro, Mm it
This
class. Seven horses
started i
tho
the
Pleasant, Del ; Maggie H. Slifer, Philn
delphia; Alexis' Isaao D. Wilson, bridge
ton, N. J.; Little Ned, Edward Pyle,
Philadelphia.
Ou the fourth start Maggie took the
lead but was passed immediately by j in
Christiana Davis, who neck to neck with
Mollie E. passed the first quarter stake at
42 seconds. On the homo stretch Mollic
E. took the lead aud won the heat iu
2.5'J followed by Dexter aud Christiana
Davis.
Ou tho secondj heat Little Ned led,
MoUie
Beforo
Christiana Davis got ahead aud reached it
in 42 seconds, and the half mile in 1
and held the
homestretch,when Mollie E. came up and
tho two passed under the wire, neck to
neck, in 2.49. The heat
by the judge* 8* dead. The dn
Davis, to all appearances, held back his
horse, much to the dissatisfaction of the
bystauders, who called for another
Tlie driver was dismissed and Albert
Stetson put in his place.
On the third heat Davis took the lead,
followed by Alexis and Mollie E. After
passing the three-quarter stretch
Mollie E. got the lead and retained it,
ing i
The fourth heat was a magnificent race,
tho horaes keeping dose together. Chris
tiana Davis took the lead, but breaking,
was passed by Mollie E. who reached the
first quarter at 41$ seconds and the half
mile at 1.23. On nearing the three
quarter stake Davis regained
aud came up neok to neck, and
home stretch kept two lengths ahead of
Mollie, winning the heat in 2.47.
On tho fifth beat Davis led, followed by
Mollie E., passing the quarter stake in 44
seconds. Mollie, however, gained a half
length
quarter stake she was followed closely by
Dexter and Davis, neck to neck. Mollie
, Dexter
coming in sooond. Little Ned was with
drawn
The following shows the positions,
time, &o., in the 2.50
Class, 2.50;
$75; second,
horses were entered And six started.
E. passing him immediately after,
either reached the quarter stak i
position until
the
pronounced
of
abovt,
a time of 2.48.
lost time
the
the half mile. At the tbrea
the heat in 2.53 and the
this heat.
, $150; first horse,
50; third, $27. Sev
Christiana Davis,
Mollie E.
Maggie,.
Alexis.
Little Ned,.
3 0 2 1 3
10 12 1
2 0 4 3 2
4 5 5 4 4
3£8 6 6
6 4
6 w
Time, 2.50; 2.49; 2.48; 2.47; 2.53.
, 1'ur.Hic $125.
trotted of this
Four beats
it becoming too dark to continue, the fifth
heat
On the first two heats Sans Souci lead and
tlie third and fourth Rose Medium.
San Souoi's timo was 2.50 and 2.40. Rose
Medium, 2.48 and 2.47.
To-day the most interesting
tuko place, though
iting than that in the 2.50
between Christiana Davti and Mollie E.
also maintained by tho
attention to
but
postponed until this morning.
will
contest could be
Belter order
policemen, who paid
their duty than to the horse racing.
:.s yesterday
Kva y K
The
attended by a
greater number of people thau during
either of the previous days. Not only was
Wilmingtou well represented, but many
people camo from Philadelphia and
rounding towus. Tho attendance could
not have been less thau two thousand per
, who, as a whole, were very orderly,
but whoso enthusiasm and interest in the
led them to fill the trook arouud the
judges' stand, thus preventing the horses
from taking their positions.
▲I>J0UBNZ1>
At precisely 2 o'clock the fifth heat of
2.34 ruoe adjourned from Wednesday
trotted. On that day Sans Souci got tho
first two heats, and Rose Medium the
third aud fourth, leaving both horses in a
tie to be broken by the fifth heat of yes
terday.
I
Sans Souci took lead, passing the first
quarter in 39, and coming in at the half
| mile a length ahead of Rom Medium at
1.18. After this Kose gained steadily,
Sans Souci apparently being worn out.
Kose gained the heat in 2.41, and
if
she
Ç
of
is
a
on
a
ing
the
Tho following shows tho positions, time,
Ac., in 2.34 adjourned race of Wednesday.
Class, C; purse, $25« ; first horse, $125;
second, $85 ; third, $40. Seven horses
were entered, nud six started
Sorrel Tom...
Mary Taylor.
Jennio Moore
Sans Souci .
Little Kell.
Hose Medium
follows :
4 4 4 2 5
d
d
112 3 4
2 3 3 4 2
3 2 111
Time, 2.3«: 2.3«; 2.37; 2.35; 2.41.
!, $150.
flit HT
This
called immediately after
the conclusion of the postponed heat and
for horses of the three minute class.
Eight horses
entered and four started
in the following order: 8. J. Patchen,
G. E. Allen, Sharpstown, N. J.; Hallet,
Charles 8. Cox. Philadelphia ; Little Ned,
Edward Pyle. Philadelphia ; Bell Wild Air,
J. K. Hogg, Elk ton, Md.
After seven false starts Bell Wild Air
went ahead, followed a length behind by
Patchen. Nearing tho three-quarter stake
Wild Air broke and Patchen went ahead
and c
In the second, third, and fourth heats
Wild Air took the way and kept it,
winuing the race and heats in 2.65, 2.66
and 2.56$.
The foUowing shows the position, time,
iu the three minute
Class, 7 ; purse, $150; first horse, $75 ;
second, $5« ; third, $2
entered and four started.
foul
the
E
a
the
in
'
in finit in 2.55.
Ac.,
Eight horses
8. J. Patchen, .
Hallett.
Little Ned,.
Belle Wild Air,.
Time, 2.65$; 2.5;'
18 2 2
4 4 4 4
3 2 3 3
2 111
2.56; 2.56$.
, PCBSE, $150.
SECOND
This
class. Seven horses
five started, as follows :
Cresswell, Downingtown, Pa. : Dexter,
Dallas Lore. Mount Pleasant; Maggie, A.
Slifer, Philadelphia ; General, Edward
Pyle, Philadelphia ; Lady Patchen, H.
W. Austin, Woodstown, N. J.
This
Lady Patchen.
On the first heat Molli» load, but Lady
Patchen passed her, passing tlie quarter
At 42, two lengths ahead, and coming in
first, followed by Mollic. Tho other
heats were but little varied, Lady Patchen
taking both hoats, and Dexter coming in
second.
The following shows tho positions,
time, Ac., in the 2.45 race: Class, 8;
purse $150; first bon
$50; third, $25. Be
and five started.
Mollie.
Maggie.
General.
Lady Patchen .
Time, 2.53$; 2.50$
BIUD BACK, PÜB8E, $300.
jo was undoubtedly the
for horses of the 2.45
entered and
Mollie, J. B.
-on iu three heats by
of
for
G.
, $75; second,
horses entered
T.
2 8 8
3 2 2
4 4 5
5 4
1 1 1
■;
ont of
! the most interest. Radio
This
tho day and
Bell had tho greatest number of admirers,
the conduct of Stetson in oue of the pro
ses being fresh, no doubt, iu the
memory or tunny of the lookt-rx-on.
After repeated starts Sadie Dell took tho
lead passing the quarter ut 38, two lengths
ahead of Delaware. In this position
Radio passed tho half mile at 1.17. Sudio
kept tlie same position nnd a
j in 2.34$.
Much onthusin
the timo
throwing up their hats and calling aloud
their approvul. On tho home stretch
Stetson declared that his horse
back by a cap being thrown at him by
first
displayed when
aunoimced; un u yelling and
kept
it
d.
in the c
In thu second bout Delaware got the
leud closely pressed by Sadie, who broke
when half way to the quarter aud came in
beliiud all the others, barely escaping
bring distanced. Dcluw
quarter i
On ueaiing the homestretch Jersey Boy
struck ahead
between he und Delaware who
heat by a half-length in 2.37$. This heat
gave general satisfaction, many being
prised at the gait of Jersey Boy.
In the third heat Sadio Bell took the
load with Delawaro almost neck to neck,
passing in the snme position tho quarter at
37. She held this lead by a half length
until after passing tho half mile in 1.15.
After passing ^ tho threo-quartor Sadie
caught up to Delaware,
On the homo
passed the
41 und tho half mile at 1.20.
a u
eager contest
the
broke, but
who broko also,
stretch the contest between the two
very hot and both came in neck to neck,
the heat being pronounced dead. The
time was 2.34$. The popular feeling
among tho bystanders was in favor of
Sadie Bell, it being declared that Stetson
Delaware after breaking
three-quarter. The doubt
ground.
When the fourth heal
in the field pressed to front to witness
as it was thought, tho deciding heat.
Delaware took tho lead, but long before
tho quarter
left behind. She caught up, however,
âud when nearing tho quartor passed
Jersey Boy and Mosc
a strong contest between her and
Delaware who passed the quarter in 27.
On tho half milo, Sadio went ahead of
Delaware closely pressed. On the turn
nearing tho home stretch, Delaware crept
slowly ahead with Jersoy Boy almost nock
to neck followed by Sadie. Delaware,
after much delay was given the heat at
2.38$. Jersey Boy the second.
much disappointment umong
of tho judges
d declared that tho
tho
not without
called, every
$
reached, Sadie broke and
aud from thence
it
There
the people at this deeisi
but they held to it,
continuation of tho race was postponed
at 2 o'clock,
caused in a
uutil this afternoo:
Radio Boll's breaking w
measure by the people filling tho track
arouud the judges' stand.
At the close of the first heat when Sadie
, McConnell, her driver,was treated to
a perfect ovation of cheers,
arouud the little beauty aud stroking her
approvingly. The track was rather had
but not iu such a condition as on Tuesday.
The judges yesterday wore Mr. B. J.
Williams, C. L. Jenkins,and J. M. Harlan.
en closing
Tho attendance
adjourned race than
The track was in capital order and much
was anticipated of Sudiu Bril.
Precisely at 2 30 o'clock yesterday nf
teraoon the fifth heat of thu adjourned
called. On Thursday four
i trotted, when the darkneHS
compelled the race to bo postponed. On
Thursday tho positions were as follows :
Moscow,.4 3 3 4
Delaware.2 1 0 1
Sadie Bell,.I ^ ^
Jersey Boy.3 2 2
Time, 2.34$: 2.87$; 2.31$; 2.88.
The fifth heat being called, Sadie Bell s
greeted by
surrounded
ns better at the
Tuesday tho 9th.
i
2.27
beats had b(
appearance on the track
prolonged choers and she
immediately by u large throng. McConnell
did not drive, as on Thursday, ho having
put her in cbaige of Mr. Com.ikey, who is
a driver.
a
at
noted
Sadie took the lead
and passed the quarter iu 87; Jersey Boy
coming up after passing this. Nearing
the half-stretch, Jersey Boy was a half
length behind and it looked very muoh m
the fourth start
if Sadie was loot But on the half, which
she passed leading the others at 1.16, she
Ç ickid up again and
he race, at the conclusion of this heat,
appeared almost certain for Sadie,
Delaware being nowhere. At the calling
of the sixth heat, and after four starts
Sadie again took the lead but w
passed by Jersey Boy, who, undoubtedly,
is a capital trotter, but in style, nothing to
compare with Sadie Bell. Jersey Boy
passed the quarter in 36, coming in at the
half-iuilo in 1.18, followed closely by Dela
this Sadie pushed ahead of the
others and on the three-quarter it seemed
a certainty that the
Jersey Boy crept perceptibly along
on the turn on the home stretch passed by
a half length and won the heat iu 2.36.
The seventh heat being called, Dela
ware got the lead by a half length, pass
ing the quarter in 98, fallowed by Jersey
Boy, Sadie falling back somewhat
first torn. Delaware paseed the half in
1.18, eloeely prs—il by Sadie, who had
passed Jersey Boy. On the three-quarter
stretch, however, Jersey got the lead and
won the heat in 2.38. Although Delaware
came in second he wae eet back third for
"
came in first in 2.81.
his
the
. After
was her's, but
aud
at
Ihe
jub
a
ago,
the
foul driving when nearing the home
stretch. When this announcement was
made the crestfallen countenances of the
people who thronged the eourse in front of
the stand immediatey lightened and
deafening oheen of approval filled the air.
Ilia eighth beat was on# of great sus
pense. Very anxiously did the people
watch the foul starts. On the fifth start
Delaware took the lead and was passed
immediately after by Jersey Boy
E asscd the quarter in 39, leading. On the
alf stretch, which was passed in 1.16,
Sadie pressed slowly forward, Delaware
having broke. At the three-quarter, which
Jersey Boy passed in 2.10, Sadie was not
a half length behind. On the turn nearing
the home stretch, Delaware gained
Sadie and passed her and came iu second,
Jersey Boy winning the race and the heat
in 2 30
The following is tbs summary of all the
heats as trotted both Thursday and Friday
' the 2.27 rocs :
-
salt,
Class, 9; puns, $300; first horn, $150;
second, $100; third, $50. Five horses
entered and fonr started.
48t4ddd4
21013342
.1 4081223
.3 2 2 2 9 1 1 1
Time, 2.34$; 2.37$; 2.84; 2.88; 2.31;
2.8«; 2.38; 2.89.
Moscow,....
Delaware,..
Sadie Bell,.
Jersey Boy
to
to
be
by
SPECIAL BACK, »UB8B $75.
The Association, to relieve the 2.27,
of $75, for horses
ree horses were entered
offered a special pi
of 2.40 class. Th
for the contest and three started, in the
foUowing positions: Addie E. C., Peter
Mauee, Jersey City; Lady Thornton, N.
Clayton, Middletown, Del. ; Golddust,
G. H. Martin, West Chester, Pa.
On first heat Addie took the lead and
T.
in first, in 2.42.
lu tho second heat she
followed
closely by Golddust, but kept her distance
and won the heat in 2.42.
Lady Thornton had been doing so badly
that Clayton, her owner, withdrew her
tho second heat.
Addie also
th# third heat in 2.42,
Golddust breaking very badly.
Clasu, 3.40; purse, $75; beet ont of
three.
Addie E. C.,.
Ltuly Thornton
Golddust,..
Time, 2.4
1 1 1
8 3
9 2 2
2.42; 2.42.
COOPER.
The flsa FrsselM« Forger and Ills
the
History — What
• .Smyrna Time«" Has to rtay of
Him.
O&lsware
L
Under the caption of "Bill Cooper," the
Smyrna Times publishes the following
account of William R.jCooper.whosoopera
tious as a forger, Ac., in San Francisco
huve lately been the subject of news tele
grams, and who is a native of Smyrna :
Bill always would do it. He commenced
it here in his native town about twenty-five
years ago, when
keeps right
suffered by him, by the time he was teu
years old, and finally he was arrested for
robbing the safe of Joseph H. Primrose,
(now of Wilmington) but it oouldn't ho
roved
«•ought home to him, however, and quite
frequently, but generally a consideration
for his devoted, high-spirited, highly
respected mother, (now dead,) would
his bacon. During the war, when he
claimiug to be
Southern of Southerners he turned up
here in a navy uniform and
ensign, and a
officer he was. He rang right in at
Washington, as he was well able to do, and
married the daughter of the gentleman
above-named. But he was arrested at
Broad and Prime depot, in Philadelphia,
iu '67, whilst on his wedding tour to
Europe, with his young bride at his side,
for robbing the United States Treasury of
of fraudulent
drafts or something of the kind. He got five
years in Moyamensing prison and Hod. Mr.
Dufrees got a divorce for his daughter.
She had been hardly married twelve
hours when the shock came upon her.
While in prison he became a model man,
times before, and charmed
the keepers aud inmates by hi« conduct and
brillianoy. Rev. John Ruth, the Chap
luiu, also a 8 my mi an. got him appointed
Secretary to the Superintendent, and
months taken off his imprisonment. Ho
released in 1872, and after that
thiuk he became a Baptist minister in
North Carolina. But about
citizens, B. A. I laze 11, whilst In
Mobile, Alabama, learned that he had just
gotten out of jail there, where he had
been confined for forgery, or something of
the kind. He charmed the jailers there
as he did in Philadelphia; so they informed
Mr. H. He was a great Sunday school
when he first went to Mobile, and
attracted attention by his good attain
ments and fine address. He married
but his Mobile wife, like his Washington
one, was soon brought to grief by his
swindling propensities. We think he
bought his way out down there by securing
homo almost worthless Stats securities at a
trifling cost and offering them to the
Slate as payment of his fine. The State
could not ref«
managed to thus pay out.
Alabama episode he eeems to have
attention uutil
a
of
a
quite a Uttlo boy, aud
Money drawers here
him.
Other tricks
of the most
paint.
hand
*Ye thiuk he was
more, by the
$ 10,000
he had
l
£
a year ago
of
it«
bond*;
be
After Uiis
find
We have
known Cooper to be one of tho bestfcliowr.
that ever lived—uutil bin character «lipped,
mb it was sure to do. He was also eon
siderod "smart," handsome, companion
able and attractive in his manner, and ho
could conviuce the most astute person of
his houeriy of purpose,—the very thing
ho lacked. He was in erery good word
something that
attracted public attention; so,for the same
reason, ho would take part in things of a
questionable character. He always liked
notoriety aud money, and was never
scrupulous as to how hs got either One
tliing seems to be especially noticeable;
ho has never traveled under an assumed
name, so far as ws know. He was always ;
proud of his family reoord, as well ho
might, and for this reason appeared always I
anxious to hold to the name that hs was j
i *0 willing (o tarnish. |
nttractcd little
But when he does claim attention
still in the same old rut.
hi
and work if R
HERE AND THEME.
a backward debtor who mid,
" The dues you say."
A
A Long Island ditch digger has named
his heroine Mud Mauler.
The wife of the Arctic explorer, Captain
Tyson, is a Washington milliner.
They are talking in Chicago of licensing
the newsboys and the boot-blacks.
A Kentuckian has lain in jail three
weeks under refusal to pay his dog tax.
A New Hampshire youth has been fined
$1« aud the costs for cruelly beating
ducks.
It is estimate 1 that the apple crop of
ChaiAauqua lake this year will be worth
$150,000.
A Maine l
of
as
a
*1
saw recently beat Zaeh
Chandler's best. It took eight fingers
without jinking.
The pqbplu of Minnesota are to vote
upon six amendments to their Constitution
at the November election.
Pat—"Mickey, lend
Mickey, solemnly—"Paddy,"
sow], I'm a savings bank."
Howard Hays, "I never flag." Probably
the reason he lost his provision
train .—San Francisco Mail.
Rays a contemporary, "Be strong for
yourself." This remark was originally
made to boarding house butter.
Keriy the rr otor man, is putting up a
jub with Jules Verne to capture Mars tor
a headlight for his
Tho papers report that a bailiff in
Washington county, Ga.,
script and write, but cannot read print.
due iu Illinois a week
ago, and the local paper, accounting for
the delay, said that McClellan was in
demand.
a hop'ny."
'pon
hat
locomotive.
road manu
A cyclono
Belfast boasts of twenty-seven lawyers.
- Lewiston Gazette. Not exactly. It has
twenty-seven, but don't boast of them.—
Belfast Journal.
patent process cargoes of fresh
being carried from South
By
meat
America to Frauce without the use of ice,
salt, or saltpetre.
Mr. B. L. Ford, a prominent citizen of
Cheyenne, writes that the practical work
ings of woman suffrage iu Wyoming Ter
ritory arc "all good."
A
nix
A
iz a grate deal ov premature wit
•emuu' ; it iz like the handwriting
i ; you knnt tell what it
meant for after it gits cold.— Josh
Billing].
If the Indians of this country want to
secure their rights, all they have to do is
to announce to the present Administration
that they
VhikuUiphia Chronicle.
The St. Louis G loi*. Democrat has
to the conclusion that the only way
to bring out a full vote iu that city would
be to advertiao "A fried oyster given
away after every ballot."
Two colored men, who
by their masters in the old St. Louis Hotel
rotuuda in New Orleans, bavo since sold
themselves for 1« ss money as State S
tor;. Abraham Lincoln lived i
TLur i
floating r
all citizcna of Ohio.—
sold
The Rev. George Bull baptized forty
pernona by in
min .lies in Savannah, ami he in 80 y
old, too. He is a " star" baptizer—in
fact, a Great Dipper. — Philadelphia
Bulletin.
A prize
fair for tho
tho grounds. Edward
pearance with sixty-five, aud the pris
handed right out to him with silent
admiration.
In twer»y-**rven
offered at the Giand Raj ids
bring i
a the most girls to
Cox made his np
Mattie Strickland, the John's (Mich.)
girl who
i married a few yearn ago hi
Miller, of Minnesota, according to a
free-love contract of their
tip, is raid to have arisen c
onto her father.
L
drawing
•d gone home
A Canadian priest latriy sued a young
whom he had married, for hi • wed
ding fee, \. Uicli he stated at $15. The
jury found for the defendant, on the
ground that the youth had received
appreciable value.
It is announced that the Texas cattle
fever, which recently was reported to be
prevailing at Cleve. and, Ohio, has broken
out among tho cattle owned by the farmers
and duirviucn of Stamford, Delaware
county, New York.
A guilclesii boy was deluded the other
day into picking up the handle of a gal
vanic battery. Hu yelled lastly until they
"shut her off," and in describing hi'
satious he Hsid he could taste green
persimmon all over himself.— Burlington
Hawkeye.
In many parts of the West stump
pullers have been alnu st superseded by
dynamite cartridges, wtioh are inserted
under the stump in hoi 's mado by a long
earth auger, and on being fired, lift out
and demolish the stump, without making
a large hofo.
The daugllers of Secretary Schurz hayo
the German love of music, and music is
of tho most notable and
charming features of their home
life. Mi. Schurz lias become the owner
of the çreat SK inway piano which was
exhibition at the GentenuiuL
On the authority of nn English weekly
beg to inform our readers of a matri
monial mind that by writing to Mme.
Bosquet, Rue du Bac, Farn», they
have their choice of an orphan of 18, with
•other of 21 with £16 ,000 aud
a widow of 86 with £24,000.
£ 12 , 000 ,
The third wife of the Khedive of Egypt
has taken in hand the education of
Egyptian girls. Several flourishing
schools have already been started by her,
and it seems likely that the time-honored
Oriental prejudice against the education
of women will at length be overcome.
her hair,
Ai.d do v let Susan
Aud let the gentle A
Let Dr Mary Walker groai
Ami leati.'e l'liebe (Jouxina
let O
An l iU; t*. Divermore cavort ;
Ln al! the female «ex be mad.
Ter Colorado beat 'em ba l !
St. Louis Jo
Dr. Farr, in a recent lecture beforo the
British Association, said that in England
and Wales the population doubled in
about fifty years; in Swedeu in sixty
«ia iu sixty-four; in Spain i
rip
years; in Tr
hundred,and
: ly three huudred and sixty
ninety-tbree; in Italy in
in France i
Electric candles
P ar * 8 - They emit no heat
eTer > while in brilliancy they hold tho
SAnit) lamps m sun to
moonlight, and they cost only one-fifteenth
** much us gas. It is hailed aa one the
greatest discoveries of tlie century. Bring
Ub û 0804111
Tho exact sciences may demonstrate the
prociso distance of the mohi remote star,
aud mako the phases of surrounding
worlds as familiar as household |
words, but no auiouut of figuring will .
a ever be able to indicate where the ston<* |
that a woman throws is going to strike.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
"There is reason in all things," but it
tries a man's mental strength aud faith
most desporately to comprehend the hired
; girl's reason for blacking the stove with
ho bis shoe-brash, when he finds himself a'
I church with a pair of boots that loo.i
j like a twin bulletin of "Silver-gray-rising
| «un stove polish. "—Burlington Hawkeye. '
the sensation in
smoke what
THE CONFERENCE A VA It F MY.
A nketeli or lte Existence—How tlie
Project w
tlon of the Academy tn 1*75—A
lfew Bonding; Erected.
Alnrtrd-The l»mlr
Xvoning and Commercial.
Doves, Del., Oct. 6.—It was in Sep
tember 1873, that the Wilmington Confer
Academy began its first session in
Culbreath's building, on State street. At
the Peninsular Convention held in
Smyrna, in 1870, Rev. C. W. Buoy, A. M.,
read au essay suggesting the foundation
of an educational institution under the
supervision of the Wilmington Confer
ence, to be situated somewhere on the
peninsula. At the session of the Confer
held in Dover in March of 1871, a
commission was appointed to cousid* r the
question, nud if it was thought feasible,to
select a location, which commis*'
reported at the next conference held in
Laurel, m March, 1872, in favor of the
erection of such an institution and Dover
as the place where it whs to be situated.
The Academy was incorporated by the
Delaware Legislature, February 27th,
1873. The means for erecting buildings
for the Academy, procuring ne
furniture, apparatus, Ac., and for raain
laining the institution, was, according to
the act of incorporation, to be raised by a
joint stock subscription to consist of
twenty thousand shares, at the rate of $5
a share, making an aggregate capital of
*1 00,000. In the following August the
grutr.d
work be
complete
the entire front being eighty-nine feet
and the total depth of the centre, ninety
four feet ; the width of centre, forty-two
feet and of
wan built of brick and
high, exclusive of the cellar, which oocu
of tho building,
fifty-four rooms and of these
dormitories, devoted to
of students. The building
heated by. Lot air, lighted
with gas and supplied
taken for the building, the
and when the building was
the form of a
ings, thirty-nine feet. It
four stories
Çied the entire
thirty-five
the
with hot
water, bath-tubs, Ac.
aud
A cupola surmounted the building, thirty
nix feet high above the roof, making a
total bight of one hundred feet from tho
ground. The building was completed und *
ready for occupancy iu tho full of 1874,
and the doors of the new building we
then opened for the reception of students.
A goodly number of thoso who had
atteudod the first year in Culbreath's
building first, aud Hoffeeker's aft«.rwards,
together with quite a largo number of
students, made their appearance. _ Tho
Wilmington Conference Academy, situated
just north of Dover, und surrounded by
six acres of ground hauasomely laid off iu
walks aud plots, aud planted with trees,
with the railroad and
agricultural regions in the country iu full
view, now entered upon the second year
of its existence and the first of its
building,but not without
of tho finest
poney of its
gloomy forebodings. The institution
was in debt, the trustees hadn't the money
to meet the demands of those who
pushing their claim, and the building was
about to come under the sheriff's hammer.
But when the Conference assembled at
Smyrna on March 10th, 1875, enough
money won twnwl U
such of the debts due
being pressed for payment.
Academy entered upon its third year
in September, 1875. The stud-nts in
creased, and as the winter wore away tho
friends of the instil» »ion began to
light ahead, but when 'Le "Ides of March'
had come,a calamity as «lisant
unexpected, befeU tin* Academy. Almut
the 10th day of March, 1876,
discovered i
pay ofl
1 In
10 o'clock
a fire
story rooms. All effoi
of the upper
to extinguish tho
of no uvtiil, nnd ns flame
and fell, aud walls
before tho excited aud
crowd, a feelin:; of despair settled
deep upon the heurts of the friends of the
institution, and many
lions that tho Academy would never be
rebuilt. Dut this unexpected disaster
aroused a feeling of sy
its shoulder to the
renewed effort and vigor i
Academy, and again bricklayers,
and carpcntciu
walls were again
the fine und
occupying tho
red in
baffled
tho exclatnu
patby; Dover put
heel, their wits a
behalf of tho
npou th
td, ami
znanding building
proportions, upon thu
spot, with its cupola proudly
looking the poach trees, vineyards and
farm lake's of Dover huudred. Tho
building is almost outirriy liko tho b
tho 3d of
tho
bo
, and has just opened
September ultimo, with forty-nine students,
and the number conti.
During the past year the school was held
in town and ut the commencement held in
June last there
The faculty, as
most excellent
Rev. James M. Williams, A. M., Principal,
Greek, elocution and moral
Robert H. Skinner, A. M., Vice Priucip.il,
natural science and Latin: W. Lambert
Gooding, A. M., Euglisli, mental science
aud literatare ; Hev. James C. Nicholson,
A. B., mathematics: Mrs. Robert H.
Skinner, modern language, pointing and
drawing: Rev. J. H. Caldwell, A. M.,
belles lettres lectures; U. H. Skinmr, A.
M., vocal music ; Miss Jennie C. Wilson,
A. B., instrumental music. At present
the Academy is in debt to the sum of
$ 20 , 000 . From $3, «00 to $4,
needed badly at present. Three trustees
a bond for $2.000, ami $1,400
for heating has to be raised somehow. If
the preachers who have
the money would
due at present would be paid. It is hoped
that those miniaters and laymen who liuva
promised, yet have failed to pay, will take
hold of this matter and
doe. There
yet paid what they subscribed to pay at
the Smyrna Conference in 1875. Ifou.
Gove Haulsbury is 1'rt rident of the Board
of Trustees; C. II. B. Day. Esq.,Secretary;
John W. Cullen, Esq., Treasurer; und C.
M. Wharton. Esq., Agent,
gentlemen dos« rve gr. at credit for their
efforts in behalf of tho Academy. The
expenses of a student entering this school,
including room, boArd. washing, lights,
fuel and tuition, indeed everything except
books, is $250 a year. Cheap
will be s
nations send their
they will not only benefit their children,
hut also benefit a very needy and much
deserving educational institution.
twelve graduates,
at present constituted, is a
, and is as follows:
promised
it the debt-.
ise tho
iber who have uol
ount
«1 this
gb, it
, and let parents of all liuuoini
aud daughters and
p H i LA1)EL rmA, Oct. 14.—A decree
f . nUjm j yegU , r d*y i n the United States
Circuit Court for the sale of a branch of
t |j 0 Wilmington A* Reading railroad in de
f nu p n f interest ou tlm mortgage bonds
llD i rgs hv Friday next the arrears ho paid!
| The i« to bo advertised for three
. montlis and the conditions are ttepav
| , uent of cash lown aud there
mnindor within thirty c'ays after the sale,
xbo piece of road advertised to be s *ld is
seven miles long and extends from Dirds
boro' to the connection with the Berka
county road In the city of Reading. I he
main portion of the road from Birsbora'
to Wilmington was so!d some time ago to
the bond holden, who have organized into
a company known as the WUmijjgtcu &
' Northern Railroad Company.
WILMINGTON A READING.
Awalher Order for the Rnleofai*«
lion of ihe IIoimI.