text: K»»** DELAWARE LEDGER 71 ■ ss <- f V ■ KO, 38 NEWARK, NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE, SEPTEMBER 4, 1886. VOL. IX. BARGAINS IN FURNITURE A new lino of furniture, CA RPETB. BKDDING D STOVES now ready. To our Newark trade wo would say that never before hnvo our prices bfccn so low, or our stock as complete as what we now offer. from $15.00, up. 30.00, " Chamber Suits Parlor " Brussels Carpets Carpet Lounges Extension Tables, Parlor StoveB Correspondence by mail will recciv« our prompt : fiive usa trial and bo convinced of our bargains.. 55, G.00 And 6.00 GOO 9.00 " attention. M. MEGARY & SON 516 Tatnall St,, WILMINGTON, DEL. ef T we Wilson's Undertaking Rooms, 616 King St. 'WILMINGTON, - DELAWARE. Tho most complete in appointments in tho State. EMBALMING A SPECIALTY— Telegraph or Telephone Orders left with Edward Wilson undertaker, Newark, call promptly attended to. Telephone No. 168. Open all night. J. A. WILSON, Funeral Director. No. foh. Funia liquors. -Wo Offer tho Finest Lino in the City for Family Use of Freneh Brandies Holland Gin, Sherry Wine, Port Wine, Scotch and Irish Whiskies, Fine (lordmla Champagne, Imported Ales, Stout*, Ac. Imported Havana, Key t\ cot and Domcs Yus always on hand. 8 ©-All orders by mail promptly attended to. tic C JAMES KELLY, Southwest Comer Tenth & Shiploy streets. Wilmington, Del. 31H PICTURE FRAMES Harry Yerger, 405 Shipley St, Wilmington, Del, Has the largest PICTURE FRAME ESTABLISHMENT in Delaware• far the largest business ; ami the only practical FRAME GILDFB in tho hum.. i us prices are the lowest and his goods tho liest, jjgff-Ko-gilding Oui Frakks a specialty. GIVE A NEWARK BOY A CHANCE. Having been connected with some of the finest Furniture Houses in the city for 8 or 10 years, I have now anchored with this Old Reliable Store where I will always be pleased to see my Newark friends, and dispose of furniture to them at lower rates than they can buy elsewhere, and see they get the worth of their money. We carry over style and kind of furniture, BEDDING, etc., to be had in the city. All grades of FANCY COVERINGS and HANGINGS on hand. Our own make goods and hangings sent by mail; also old and new. Also a beautiful line of Parlor Work always on hand. Specialty in Samples of Covers, prices to suit all. Hoping to continue to have a share of your patronage, I am, very respectfully, W. O. XA.V.S, WITH IVINS & BRO., 55 N. 2ND STREET, PHILADELPHIA. We offer your FURNITURE, including all kinds of FURNITURE, including HARDWARE, STOVES, and other household items. JOHN A. CANNON, DEALER IN PIANOS of every description. On Stock or made to order. JEFFERSON HOUSE, Restaurant and Dining Rooms, Washington, Del. Feathers renovated. JEFFERSON HOUSE, Restaurant and Dining Rooms, Washington, Del. ARK FT STREET, - Wilmington, Del. All hours. Private Entrance for Ladies. THEO. STEELE, PROP. Meals at season. SASH TACTORY JAS. C. DILLON, STEW Manufacturer and Dealer in Shutters, Mouldings, etc., etc. Fourth Street, near Broome, Door, Sash, Brackets, DELAWARE WILMINGTON. EDWIN K. ÜBER, LATE OF CLARK & ÜBER, SIGN PAINTING HOUSE and training, Blazing and Freecoing, SHOP S. E. COR 5 TH AND MARKET ST. RESIDENCE, 5 E. 5 TH ST., Wilmington. Del. Nothing but First-Class Work. Estimates furnished. WESLEY B. HART UNDERTAKER and EMBALMER Delaware Avenue, Newark, Del. Furniture Repaired and Varnished. Junta. X». TAGÖ-AH.T. General Commission Merchant xo El. WILMINGTON, DEL. Peaches, Hives, Melons, Potatoes, etc. INTO. Coniment solicitor for and all kinds of 'CO R E. rlIKNS. I have been in the business 25 years about reference. # For the Cheapest American WATCHES in Wilmington, I.o * 1 WILMINGTON & SONS, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKERS AND JEWELERS, 810 French street, Wilmington, Del. cash paid for GOLD and SILVER of every description.—broken Jewelry, worn-out. Silverware. Stocking Repairing a Specialty. Browning, King & Co, Wilmington, Delaware 910 and 912 Chestnut St., Phila. PHILADELPHIA, Have made Liberal Reductions on their Men's All-Wool Business Suits, Boy's All-Wool Cossimere Suits Children's All-Wool Cassimere Suits, And lots of cheaper goods if you want them. $10 and $12. 7 and 8. 4 and 5. Extra fine made SERGES & CORROWSK SUITS only as low in rings for Hot A portion of the stock, for dress wear, outlier wear. Samples of Goods, Fashion Plates and Rules for Self-measurement, sent free on application. No end of Thin In GENTS' FURNISHINGS of we excel. R. T. GOODRICH, Manager. JOHN J. PLUNKETT, -WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Flour, Feed, Grain, Hay, Seeds, and FERTILIZERS, Wilmington, Delaware No. 106 West Front Street, MRS. K. HAYES Can be found at her old established stand, 31H King Street, WITH A FULL STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS AT PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. DO NOT FORGET IT IS MRS. K. HAYES. She has the largest assortment in the State. MONUMENTS, TOMBS, MANTELS, TILING, etc. Largest Stock, latest Designs, LOWEST PRICES IN Delaware Steam, Marble and Granite Works, FIFTH and KILFILL STS., "WILLIAM G. T. N. B. This establishment works in the city, in any way with any other article, no competition. Yours Truly, DAVIDSON & BROTHER. ARTISTIC HAIR WORK. Ladies can be supplied with Switches, Wigs, Bangs, natural wavy front nieces, and everything pertaining to the hair trade. Special attention paid to making Hair Jewelry and Flowers. Dolls' heads dressed with natural hair, and Mr. A. S. Kelly, 702 King St., Wilmington, Del. Ladies, please call. I am selling at bottom prices. FOR DRY GOODS, Dress Trimmings. FINE Shoes and Slippers, CALL ON N. M. MOTHERALL, NEWARK, DEL. MAIN STREET, LUMBER AND BUILDERS' SUPPLIES. All persons contemplating building are cordially invited to get our quotations on Lumber, Doors, Sash, Frames, Mouldings, Lime, Sand, Hair, Cement, Bricks, Hardware, Etc., before purchasing their supplies. It will cost nothing and may save you something. We have two full orders promptly. Inquiries by mail cheerfully answered. Lumber Yards, and CRANSTON & NEWBEND OLD, 103 KING STREET, WILMINGTON, DEL., AND NEWPORT, DEL. To the for Infants and Children. "Castoria is well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to our prescription, worms, gives sleep, promotes digestion, and promotes sleep. I know it to be a good remedy." IL A. Ascna, M. D., Without injurious medication. Tax CXMTUun Ckttakt, 138 Fulton Street, N. Y. Ul So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. This is my text: I was her in he in he in he in her. Mr. tion, this was ness X A "Personal. A DETECTIVE STORY. The nature of my profession brings me in contact with every description of person. I have formed through its agency many pleasant acquaintanceships, to which my memory often reverts with pleasure. Some years ago I became acquainted with a Mr. Norval, a wealthy merchant, who resided in West 14th street. He was a widower, and the persons living with him were in number—a niece and an son. Mary Norval, his niece, was a beautiful girl, about twenty years of age when I first became acquainted with her. She was tall and graceful form. Her hair was a dark brown, and her eyes a heavenly blue shrouded with long eyelashes which gave a dreamy expression to her lovely oval face. Her complexion white as the driven snow, and form was gracefully rounded. Her neck and shoulders might have served for a model for them were so exquisitely chiseled. When she moved it was with that undulating grace so charming in the other sex. Such was Mary Norval when I first knew her. Had I not been married and possessed of the best wife in the world, she would have been just the woman I would have chosen for a wife, for her natural disposition, the cultivation of her mind, and the amiability of her character fully equalled her physical beauty. She had so won upon her uncle's heart that he loved her better than he did his own son. This, however, might be accounted for, from the fact that Charles Norval was a most dissipated young man. He had long ago exhausted his father's affection for him by a dissolute life, and was only permitted. By sufferance to be an inmate of his house. One day, Mr. George Norval invited me to dine with him. I accepted the invitation, and we passed a very agreeable hour together at the social meal. After dinner being something of an invalid, my host excused himself for half an hour while he went to lie down. I amused myself in the meantime examining some illustrated works placed on the drawing room table. The apartment in which I was seated was only separated from an adjoining one by folding doors. I should have stated that Miss Norval had also excused herself, under the plea of having some letters to write. Left alone to my reflection, I fell into a reverie, which I suppose ended in a doze, for I was suddenly awakened to consciousness by the sound of voices in the adjoining apartment. The evening was somewhat advanced, consequently the noises in the street had almost entirely ceased. Owing to this fact, I heard distinctly every word that was said. It was Mr. Norval's son Charles's voice that had awakened me. "Mary, listen to me," he exclaimed with a peculiar thick utterance, which showed that he had been drinking; "you know I love you. Yes, dear girl, I adore the very ground you walk on. Your beauty is so transcendent that you appear more like a fairy creature of the brain than a human being." "Have done with your senseless compliments, Charles," returned Mary, "Why do you persecute me so? I have already made known my decision to you. It is irrevocable, to be for my sake." "Mr. Norval, unless you leave the "No, you shall not. It is true you have supplanted me in my father's love. It is true he has left you the bulk of his fortune, while he has only bestowed a miserable pittance on me. Not content with having effected all this, you despise my love—but by the great heavens above us you shall be mine!" "Dear girl, do not say that! Oh, indeed, but know how deeply your image is engraven on my heart! My every thought is for you, angel—smile on me!" "Charles, you are intoxicated, how dare you address yourself to me in this manner?" "Dearest cousin, I adore you, and by Heaven, you shall be mine!" "I pity your condition, and I beg sir you will leave my presence." "Never my charming cousin, until you say that you love me. I would sell my soul for one kiss from those ruby lips! I could sit all day and gaze wonderingly into those glorious orbs. Dearest—darling lovely Mary, be mine!" It was evident, the young man was working himself into a passionate frenzy. "I could hear the rustling of dress by which I know that Mary had risen from her chair, doubtless to ring the bell. "Mary, you shall not escape me thus," continued the young man. "I repeat it, you shall be mine." Dearest girl come to my heart—let me fold you to my breast." A half suppressed scream now reached my ears, and I heard the infatuated young man rush toward her. I thought it was high time to interfere. I ran to the folding doors, threw them wide open, and just saw the inebriate seise the shrinking girl in his grasp. When he saw me he loosened his hold, a demoniacal expression lighted up his features, and he hurried from the room, shaking his fist in my face as he made his exit. I caught the fainting girl in my arms and conveyed her to the sofa. A few simple restoratives restored her to consciousness, but it was some time before I could make her believe that the danger was past. I thought it my duty to acquaint Mr. Norval with the whole transaction, that proper means might be adopted to prevent a recurrence of this persecution. Charles Norval was forbidden the house. About a month after this occurrence, business took me to a Southern city where I was detained a week. The very night I returned to New York, I received a visit from Mr. M—, the envious witness, so I have not seen him since. In my own room, I knew he was not in his room, but in his room, I had been in his room for a few minutes. "Brampton," said he, when he entered the room, "I have been here a dozen times today. Thank God, you have come at last!" "Why, what?" is the matter, Mr. I am in great trouble, and I want you to help me out. You knew Mr. Norval, I believe?" "Certainly, I know him well—he is a particular friend of mind; but why do you use the past tense?" "Are you not aware that he is dead?" "Dead! Is it possible?" "Yes, he died yesterday." "Is there any suspicion connected with his death?" "None at all; he has been ailing for some time. He died of disease of the heart. A post-mortem examination has settled that question satisfactorily. You are aware, perhaps, that I was his lawyer, and you also know the terms on which he lived with his son. About three months ago, Mr. Norval sent for me to make his will. As I have before said, he had been in failing health for some time past, and did not know how he might be called away from this earthly scene. I will be requested by its provisions, Mary was made an heiress, a small pension payable at certain intervals being only left to her son. This will properly signed and attested." "Excuse me for interrupting you," said I, "but was Mr. Charles Norval cognizant of the provisions of his father's will?" "Not that I am aware of; but you come to mention it, I distinctly remember at the time of witnessing it, a sudden rustling was heard at one end of the apartment, and a door was heard to close, but notice was taken of the circumstances." I drew up. This is now no instance at the time." "Exactly; that must have been the young man who was listening, for I have reasons to know he was of the contents of his father's knowledge." And then I related the conversation I had overheard between Mary and Charles Norval. "This may be very important," said M—, as soon as I had concluded; "but let me conclude what I have to say. The will I had drawn up was confided to my care. I placed it in an envelope and looked in my private desk. The moment I heard of his death I opened my desk and took out the envelope in which I had placed the will. Judge of my surprise and horror when I found it to contain only a blank sheet of paper!" "A blank sheet of paper! The will had been abstracted, then?" "Exactly. When I made the discovery I was thunderstruck, could neither speak nor act. I sank down into a seat utterly prostrated both mind and body. After a little time I somewhat recovered my faculties, and then began to turn the over in my own mind the best course for me to pursue under the true circumstances. Fortunately, I was my alone." "Do you suspect no one?" "I don't know whom to suspect. But from the conversation you have related to me, it is very probable impossible that he could have obtained access to my private office and desk." "How many clerks have you?" I asked. "I have three clerks, and they all enjoy my most implicit confidence." In the first place, none of them knew the will was there. They have been with me many years, and I cannot entertain the slightest suspicion against them. Long intercourse with the world has taught me, however, to be cautious, and I determined to keep my own counsel so I have not mentioned the fact to them at all. I closed and locked my desk again, and went about my business as usual. "You did quite right. Did the desk show any evidence of having been looked into?" "Out?" "Concluded next week. Ice Cream Poisoning. The delicious and palatable American dish known as ice cream is frequently charged with being the cause of not only poisoning entire families, but often large assemblages, such as church sociables, picnics, parties, and other summer gatherings where this tempting delicacy is the queen of the menu card. It is held in like esteem by rich and poor, and is the summer dish of the city couple who lazily lounge about the seashore, as well as the rustic loving pair that haunt the ice cream parlor in a rural town on a Sunday night. Its exceeding popularity makes it a potent danger when tinged with impurities. That this favored delicacy has been the cause of many reeling in the agonies of being poisoned, cannot be denied, but the trouble is not in the flavor used, as is generally supposed, though too much care cannot be exercised in keeping the flavor pure. The symptoms of the poisoning closely resemble arsenic poisoning, and it is often supposed that the cream has been adulterated. Dr. Vaughn, of Franklin University, in an article in the Medical Era, claims to have discovered the substance that is productive of such terrible results. He gives it the name tyrotoxicon, and as tomahawks are produced by putrefactive changes in the dead body, so tyrotoxicon is a product of the decomposition of milk and cheese. This is brought about in milk when in an impure atmosphere, or placed in unclean vessels. The cause has often been attributed to the use of zinc cans and freezers, but there are few, if any, establishments which use zinc, tin being almost the universal metal of which cans are made. Many caterers and restaurant men are careless in taking care of the cans used for milk and cream, and it not unfrequently that when cars are returned from a festival or wedding with a portion of the ice cream not used to dispose of it by turning it into a fresh can of cream, it probably having stood over night and been exposed to an impure atmosphere. The poison is thus generated. A small portion of tyrotoxicon introduced into pure milk will set up fermentative changes which will cause it to impregnate the entire mass. This also brings to light another important matter, which will be useful to physicians in the treatment of diseases. The tyrotoxicon is undoubtedly a cause of cholera-infantum, and, while no new remedy has been discovered, it is a great help to know the cause. Ice cream is one of the most delightful summer dishes used on the American table and is certainly as less harmful as any when properly made. Any other dish would be as productive of bad results if the same carelessness was manifested in its making, and public establishments guilty of carelessness are criminally responsible. The public is dependent upon the caterers and restaurant men for this palatable article, and a firm should not be patronized that is not known to be responsible. "Where is the best place to get fat?" asked a thin housekeeper of a neighbor. "All over," was the unexpected reply. The honey aunt is now sought as a delicacy by California epicures. In a match against another juvenile, a Meadville Boy ate six bananas in two minutes. TIRED, LANGUID, DULL, Sick hot me we the clear man low, ing to of 'em be had like or ing I in I lit my best the was Sarsaparilla now. It will give you untold wealth in health, strength Exactly expresses the condition of thousands of people at this time. The depressive effects of warm weather, and the weak condition of the body, can only be corrected by the use of a reliable tonic and blood purifier like Hood's Sarsaparilla. Why suffer longer when a remedy so close at hand? Take Hood's Sarsaparilla, have energy. Blessed with patience. About four miles out of Birmingham, Ala., we came across a stretch of road about four miles long which was a foot deep with red clay mud. We had to ride our horses along the edge of it, and then it was a job to pull through. On the far side, about fifty feet from the solid road-bed, we came upon a colored man with his mule and cart, the latter loaded with wood and stuck fast in the mud. The man was seated at the roadside, while the old mule was chewing away at a heap of brush and grass which had been cast before him. "Stuck?" asked one of the party, as we drew rein. "Reckon so," was the reply. "How long have you been here?" "Since yesterday." "Why don't you unload and get out?" a bad one. "Too much trouble, boss, started for town, and 'twont pay to go back home again." "But what will you do?" "Wait for the mud to dry up, sir. Such baking mighty fast under this hot sun, and two days more will let me frew. Just at evening of the second day we saw him come into town with the load, the mule being plastered clear to the tips of his ears, man recognized us, and, bowing very low, he said. "You've got to have a lecture patience down in this here country, boss, as usual when the mule am over twenty years old." The Editor's Knowledge. "Ah," said the Summer tourist, leaning over the fence and addressing the former, "may I make hold to inquire what's that great quantity of green vegetation over there is?" "Certainly, mister, that's corn." "All, thanks. And those large animals over the fence, they are, cows, my friend, every one of them cows. Say, you don't scorn to be very well posted on these things." "Perhaps not. The fact is, my business has kept me so closely confined that this is the first chance I've had to go out in the country." "Running a bank, or something like that?" "No, sir; I am an editor on an agricultural paper. I have held that position for thirty years." "Don't do it. Don't cat with your knife. Don't sit cross-legged before company. Don't swing your foot or trot it, or sit with your toes turned in. Don't rock incessantly in a rocking chair before company. It makes people nervous. Don't drum with your fingers or wriggle your hands. Don't pick your tooth before people. It's nasty. Don't be polite to strangers and snappish and boorish at home, among the people who love you most. Don't make a noise with your mouth like an animal, when you eat. Mother—"Why, Harry, you have not got through playing house down on the beech, have you?" Harry—"Yes'm." "What's the matter? Didn't you have a good time?" Harry—"No'm; that Carrie Judson is a mean old thing. She wouldn't fight a bit like you and papa, and when I hit her on the head she cried. She's no fun. Colored people are more successfully photographed, as a rule, than white people are, says an experienced photographer, the medium mulatto making the finest photograph in the world. Light complexions are hardest to take. It is impossible to photograph a diamond, as it looks like a pebble on a fish scale. In taking pictures, the instantaneous process is the best. Cats are the best sitters. In 1615, Gov. Dale procured the important privilege for the people of Virginia of holding landed estates by a stable tenure, then did not possess the land they cultivated by a tenure of tenants at will of the every adventurer into the colony and to heirs, were granted fifty of land, and the same quantity for every person imported by others. The biggest gum-boil has been discovered in factory. Yes, my child, Weddingsdav was put immediately after Choosesday on purpose. The farm coin society, but enjoyed it as ten of warm blood crown. Now to on record a mucilage. 