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Delaware County Daily Times from Chester, Pennsylvania • Page 1

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CHESTER DAILY TIMES. CHESTER, MONDAY, MAY 10,1880. PRICE ONE CENT j. W. LeMAISTRE, 48 North EIGHTH Street, I A I A HEADQUARTERS FOR Hamburg Embroideries, Laces, White Goods, Eeal and Nottingham Lace Curtains, c.

CURTAINS BY THE YARD. Gents' Ladies' and Misses' Colored B-wder Handkerchiefs, Ladies'Lace Collars, Children's Lace Collai and Bibs, Ladies' and Misses' Embroidered Sets, Fancy Toilet Boxes and Cushions, Silk Ties and Bows, Black and White Lace.Ties. fiae assortment of Velvet -mnfeC Applique, Antique and Nottingham. Lace ii- dies, Gents' and Ladies Silk Handkerchiefs, Infants Lace Caps, Plain and Em broidered i a Spreads and Shams, Choic Line of Lmeii Towels, Col lars, Cans, Rnfflings, Cor sets -New 1 Line of Pocket Books and Bags, Cboic Line of Cologne and Fine Extracts. LATEKT Itev.

Nevin of Pittsburg. on nial before the Northern Presbytery ia New York, on charges of immorality and lying, was suspended ou Saturday. Ue appeal to tlie Synod. The Ways and Means Committee on Saturday perfected tbe Tucker Tariff Bill. The duty on wood pulp was reduced to ten per and salt was stricken from the free list.

Sugar was put in a sepaiate bill. liEioin excitement, nave been lodged in jail, pleased to report dat it am a unit i AM Assortment of Fans and Gloves. I rt TIT1m --DEALER IN-Tl NO. 68 NORTH SECOND STRKET, (Below Arch, West Side,) Oil CIotK Mattings, WindmTiSades and every variety of Car- petings constantly on hand. ap 26-daw-2mi We respectfully "beg to announce that we have just opened twenty- four cases of the very latest Paris Novelties in MilHnery Goods, comprising feome of the most novel shapes in Bonnets and Kound Hats for Ladies, Misses and Children, in all the new Fancy Braids, French Chip, English Dunstables, Tuscan, and an endless variety of Boys' and Misses' Sailor Hats and other new shapes.

The most recherche styles in Trimmed Paris Bonnets and Bound Hats, and also those of our own artists. The largest variety in Misses and Children's Millinery. Special grand display in Paris Flowers, Ostrich and Fancy Feath ers, Ornaments, c. An endless variety in Fancy Kihhons and Silks; all the new shades in Satins and Satin Surah Fancy Silks in Cashmere and Per sian Effects. Kibbons to match, and all other Choice Novelties in French Millinery Goods, loo nu merous to mention, at the Most Popular Prices.

al2-daw-2m Secretary Scliurz has been advised from Wichita, Kansas, under date of the 7th inst. of the truth of the report of the invasion of tbe Indian Territory by a number of wh'te settlers under Captain Payne. The TVar Department issued orders on Saturday to tbe officers commanding troops in the vcin- ity to drive out the trespassers. The delegates to the Methodist General Conference again occupied all the pulpits in Cincinnati yesterday. In the afternoon Bishop Simpson preached iu Music Hall to an aud'ience of 8000 people, ou the "Growth and Ultimate Triumph of Kim The Committee on Political Economy here announced that they were ready their monthly report, and oema tola tt ike the pole the'chairman wiped off ha mouth aud said: I subj-ck giviu' to dis committee to I i'- iw wO circus We has eiveu de sutjeck de wides ratine of investigashuu.

We went slow, an' stopped a good many times de scaix an' de wax" tijyjers. We interviewed di? iu- uocent child an' de hardened villyua. We uckled men on de street an' we talked to an' ain ifol- to pay funeral expenses. It's if de clown git off any jokes less dan twentp y'ars old. 4.

It's wrong if you BO home an tell your wife dat 4e lodge was workin' on de ninth degree an' you couldu't git away. gmeral principles, de committee feel to say dat de pusson who can't go to a circus an' Keep de good from mixin' up wid da bad aa' hurtin' his giueral system bad better be dun up in a soft rag an' laid away what' de mice can't nibble him." The leport was accepted as the sentiment of the club, arid after the Bear Trap had fallen down and hit Commercial Stebbins JL lilllCLJ and his eloquence evoked spontaneous ap- on (j back the meeting plause. The whole couzregatiou joined in I jr ree 4. JOB HART. ART HAMILTON, S.

HAMILTON. be singing, which was led by two cor- nets. A telegram from Arizona, says hat Victoria's baud, on Thursday, killed George H. Stevens and twenty families of Indians who were living on his rancbe. Kramer, with twenty eight men of tbe Sixth Cavalry, attacked Victoria's band, ninety strong, near Rock Creek Canyon, on Friday.

When the courier left, several soldiers bad been wounded. Reinforcements hare been sent from Camp Thomas and Camp Grant. Oo Thursday last a farmer named Townsend, living near Geneva, N. received a telegram from Troy, stating that the remains of his brother-in-law, Beckett, would be shipped thence, and notifying biin to meet it. Tbe corpse arrived in due time, and with it a letter warning tbe rela lives not to open the coffin, as Beckett bad died of a very contagious disease.

Mrs. Townsend, however, insisted on seeing tbe body, when it was found to have a deep eash on tbe forehead. It is believed that Beckett, who was intemperate, was murdered in a drunken brawl. A fire in Allegheny City, last evening, which started the stables of keifer, btei- fer tannery on Allegheny avenue. A Mom Remarkable Woman There lives in the township of Greenville, a most remarkable woman by the name of Julia Still.

She owns a small house and lot, in which she lives entirely alone. She has never been married, is of middle age, and has a good education. She uas no visible means of support, but it believed that she bus some money at interest, on the income from which she manages to subsist. For the seven years or more that she has lived there she has not had a particle of fire In her house. She has never bad a stove or even a fireplace.

During most severe weather in winter she is supposed to He in bed. What, little cooking she does is done at the neighbors'-- stirring up flour with water, and baking it in that condition. She is said to be a successful beggar, but confines herself to a few families in her immediate vicinity. During all the time she has lived in her present abode has escaped paying taxes by barring her doors and refusing to allow the collector or anybodv else to call upon her. The neighbors have threatened to have her taken to i the poorhouse and cared for, but she persists in saying that she not a pauper and perfectly able and willing to earn her own HILL.

West Third Street. NO, 504 MAEKET STREET, and Ice Cream Saloons. MEALS SEBVED TO OSDEE. DEVILED CRABS, CBICEEy CROQUETS, SALADS, lf. Confections, Fruits.

Nuts, e. Ice Creams, less aud Trczen Fruits, for Wed i 0 at reasonable on suou nofte. Grenuine Vienna Bread lie 1 tannery a destroyed that tannery, Witlack's tannery living. She objects to receive visitors, and and other buildings, slaughter if she is abo-it the house when anyone ap- noose? stlbles and dwellings, on Valley, preaches she bars the doors and Ireoum w- Hieb and Filbert sirens. The locality being between two hills, it almost iSSsible for the firemen to get at the flames until they had nearly done their worst.

The loss on property is estimated creted until they depart. She aiuoDg the neighbors previous to bee.uniDg her sol.ury life, nearly eight years ago. 3p 0 V.e call tbe attention of the ladies of Chester and vicinity to our line cf BLACK TRENCH CASHMERES, WALL PAPER! The cheape-t place in Chester to WALL PAPER AM) JLS WINDOW SHADES, i i stock before buying OUR BLACK SILKS, At $1.00 and $1.25, A A I A A I AI0, ASSORTMENT OF Figured Lawns, Chintzes and Spring Dress Goods MTJSTJNS AND SHEETINGS, Cheaper than they can be bought EVEN in Philadelphia. JUST RECEIVED, ONE CASE OF CHILDREN-8 FANCY HOSE AT FIVE CENTS A PAIR! Respectfully, CROSBY HILL, NO. 17 WEST THIRD STREET, -v i WILLIAMSON'S, NO.

810 EDGMONT AVENUE. I Huns by niniS-'iin-JXw There have been thus chosen 590 out of the 756 delegates composing the Chicago National Republican Convention. Of these there are, either by direct instructions or by peisonal preference, 305 reported as support- iu2 General Grant, 174 Senator Blame. 0 Secretary Sherman, 30 Senator Edmunds and 17 Mr. Wasbbume.

In this enumeration the entire 58 votes of Pennsylvania and 70 votes of New York are given to Geneial Grant. The majority necessary to Dominate a president is 379. There have also been chosen 2 of the 738 delegates composing the Cincinnati National Democratic Convention, of whom 140 are reported supporting Mr. T.lden, General Hancock, 44 Senator Tollman, 14 Senator Bayard, and tbe preferences of are unknowu. The majority necessary to nominate a President, i( the "two-thirds" nue is to.

is 492 I OTOCK FOR SALE i AT TK South Chester Drove Yard, EVERY DAY. Fat Cattle, Sheep and Hog London irspatcb says "Hon. William for Mid- QHALFANT'S EXPBESS. On and after Monday. March 12th.

dpnot anil wiil also be prepared to a -At rpa'-onab i iladstoue l.ai been re-elected Lothian without opposition." A. dispatch from Madrid to Router's c-rlm Company says King Alfonso has signed a decree authorumg the laying of a telegraph cable between Cuba and Jamaica. A Mdrd dispatch says the Porto P.ico budget proposes to abolish the sx cent. bouStj on t-oods in.ported direct from conntnes and to reduce import dul.es per cent. AUvlfe to Yonuc My son, enjoy yourself, time; pleasure is eminently per, but a good time isn't headache that lasts all the next day.

The simplest pleasures are the most lasting. After you have spent two years in Europe, you will come back and sit down by your own nreside aud think of a picnic you went to down at, the Cascade one afternoon iu June, 'that just cost you sixty-five cents. The 1 "good times" that you daren't take your wife to, my son, that you would lie about rather thm have your sister know about them, tbe "goodness" of them never comes back to refresh you and gladden your heart 1 as does tbe memory of that sixty-five cent picnic, when you chattered nonsense with i i love, and laughed just as the leaves rustled, because you couldn't help it. Tbe "good time" that wakes in the morumg and wonders where it was and who saw it and where all iu money is gone; the good time that tails itself off with a ache, there's precious little fun in it. Aacl ouly takes a little bitterness of the kind to and cloud the memories of tbe past.

It doesn't take many snch good times, my boj, to mingle tea is- i your bread and gall with jour urmk. The sting is thu saia'tiest part of the bee. but when you pick him up bv it, though the rest of the bee was as Urge as an omnibus borse, yet would tbe sting outweigh all tbe good, sweet, harm.ess houev-laden portion of the aud vou would think about it oftener and the Fees The fee which physicians may charge ia Prussia for their services is regulated bj law, and according to the mos: ordinance the charge tor the first vis.t t-. a is fixed at two marks cfnts standing for a mark), and one mark for each subsequent visit; where, however. A from Havana savs "Tbe Ga- several persons belonging to the same Aaispa i a hn'ition of iv and dwelling in the same house i Media an-i Chester.

and Chester at i of jour an 9 publishes tbe Uw for the abo'itioa of slavery in Cuba, which force leaving Media JdaWs together with regulations em- ov lock a TO o-i, brecing 10S art for the application of tbe ilaw. The regulations have been formulated of tbe Governor General. I ney HALF A NT. IREXCH AXD AMEKICA- Council of Ad- ly and dwelling in the same house Lave to be treated at tbe same time, then, Jor lae second and each succeeding person, only the balf of these fees respectivelv to be bsrged-tbe same ru 15 to to ng schools ar.d similar institutions, aiso to When there is a consuiuiio- of a Jr I A Wholesale and retail, at fair prices. eiven to builders ar.d otbers at A large assortment on hand constantly.

2Z2 Pena pnf arily. Warner's Safe Se-- man is of aie mnrt Uvink He found a harm- remedy for all 71 Jm solution five marks, and three each subsequent similar coniuJutftoo. tbe occasion of the siciao's rk and a half. PortfcM 1.

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