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$ 5 per Year.
2c. per Copy.
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THE LARGEST DAILY NEWSPAPER EV THE CITY.
THE CARBIKT01 pljBIjISHIN0 co
OFFICE, 400 STATE STREET.
HAVEN, COKK. FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20, 1885.
m. 43.
VOL. MIL
UNTIL 27th OF FEB
That is, until we take
account of stock, we
shall not have much to
say in advertisements.
We have quantities of
new goods bought to
arrive early in March.
Some are coming innow,
. for instance the new
wash fabrics, Ginghams,
Seersuckers, Indigo
Cambrics, &c; but in
the meantime our chief
aim is to reduce stock,
and to that end there is
only one way that we
know of, namely, mak
ing things cheap enough.
You may not want a
winter dress at this late
part of the season if
you do, you can buy the
material now cheap
enough in all conscience
but how about Silks?
Black Silk is never out
of season, and the' time
for Summer Silks is
coming. And yet just
on these two articles at
the present moment you
ivill find unprecedented
prices in our store; un
precedented is just the
word prices never be
fore seen on the same
quality of goods.
Never mind why we
are selling these goods
now in such a way. We
have reasons that are
cogent enough to our
selves, and for you
why, if you get the
eoods at three-fourths
to two-thirds of value
it's all pure saving. Our
competitors are worried,
not to know why, but
how we can sell Silks
i
in that way. Well, we
are not under any obli
gation to explain, and if
you get Silk so cheap
you needn't puzzle over
the reason.
By the way, just 'one
word in anticipation of
first week in March.
We are "laying the
pipes" conspiring with
a large maker of Ladies'
White -Underwear for a
great dynamite explo
sion (figuratively) i n
that department. Just
wait till you see !
tf. E.7J.DjM f CO
ESTABLISHED
SEVENTEEN YEARS.
Thomas Forsyth's
LAUNDRY
AND
Dye Works.
EVERY REQUISITE
FOB
THE BEST WORK ATTAINABLE
OFFICES:
645 and 878 Chapel Street.
' THOMAS FORSYTH,
A New Broom Sweeps Clean
The same is true of a business. Our busi
ness is new, and we have no old record,
good or bad, to fall upon, so we must keep
out of the ruts, and we are bound to do it
The PRESENT is what people are interested
in. Not the past. So we shall continue our
MODERN METHODS, resulting in fine
work, without damage to fabric, which has
thus far given our patrons such satisfac
tion.
"Come one, oome all,
And give us a call."
Telephone and Free Delivery.
TROT STEAM LAUNDRY,
NO. 80 CENTER STRKKT.
BRANCH OFFICE:
369 State Street,
A.J. ORIUFOBB Sc Co.
Thos. Allikq. J. Gibb Smith. E. J. aixino.
THOS. ALLINU dc
fliuHvwmra to i. & T. Alliner & Co.. Lumber Mer
chants and manufacturers of Sash, Doors, Bliuds
and Mouldings, Planing. Wood Turning, Scroll Saw
ing, etc., 136 East Water St., foot of Olive, New Ha
ven. Conn. fe3tf
The l ale National Bank.
Washington, Jan. 27, 1885.
Whnmu. hv aatisActorv evidence presented to
the undersigned, it has been made to appear that
The Yale National Bank of New Haven.1' in the
rat v of New Haven, in the Countv of New Haven
and State of Connecticut, has complied with all the
provisions of the act of Congress to enable National
Banking Associations to extend their corporate ex
istence, and for other purposes, approved July 13,
1S82. Sow, therefore, I, Henry W. Cannon, Comp
troller of the Currency, do hereby certify that "The
Yale National Bank of New Haven," in the City of
Kaw Tlvf"i in the Countv of New Haven and State
of Connecticut, is authorized to have succession for
the oeriod Roecified in its amended articles of asso
ciation, namely, until close of business on January
81st, 1905.
in testimony wnereoi, vimwa my muiu auu ikmu
of office, this 97th day of January, 1885.
No. 796. Comptroller of the Currency.
Ja29 30t
I & J. M.
57, 59 &610RAMEST.,
FURNITURE DEALERS
AND
UNDERTAKERS,
Have the finest Painted Bedroom Suits in the cit
ew Parlor Suits, Walnut Bedroom Suits.
The best Spring Bed for the money. .
flnlint. Rattan. Cane and Rush Seat Chairs In
great variety, as low as can be bought.
UNDERTAKING
promptly attended to. night or day, with care.
Bodies preserved without ice in the best manner
i . , . T - . . - Y- 1 - . . T . .1 J
also ooie Ateui. iur niiBuuuiui vmuuiiug ww
Disinfecting Fluid.
a nAv Inf. of Folding Chaira and Stools to rent for
parties or funeral. jy8
Ansonia, Conn., Jan. 12, 1835.
MR. J. MATTHEWMAN,
170 St. John Street, New Haven, Conn
Sir I have had one of your Electric Gas Lighters
n use for about two years, and it is in good work-
order to-day. I take great pleasure in recommend-
ng it.
Yours truly,
JalStf WILLIAM WALLACE.
Great Clearing-Out Sale
OF
HILLIfiERY GOODS!
Before closing for repairs will sell the entire stock
GREAT REDUCTION.
Feathers, Velvets,
Flowers, Plushes,
lces, DUIH,
Ribbons, Hats, &c, e.
E. M. SMITH,
815 Chapel Street,
Successor to
J. . sHEUBT,
Mrs. T. E. Wheeler remains with the new firm,
fefttf
BOWMAN,
PHOTOGRAPHER,
1,063 and 1,064 Chapel Street.
FINEST PHOTOGRAPH WORK
Children's Pictures a Specialty.
Lightning Process.
Gallery on first floor. Every convenience for la
dies and children. Visitors welcome.
soBOtf
SPECIALTIES.
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SOLE AGENT FOR WHITNEY'S CARRIAGES.
Brass and Copper for repousse work. Puts' Po
made for polishing and cjeaning metals. Plating
new ana repiawiig um kwu a specialty, vj.
COWLES & CO., 47 Orange street. fe5
FOH.
RUBBER
GOODS
-OF-
EVERY DESCRIPTION,
AT THE
VERY LOWEST PRICES,
GO TO THE
GOODYEAR RUBBER STORE
73 Cliurcli Street,
F. O. TTJTTLE,
Proprietor.
DR.THEEL:
If. S flt-Mark PIa,iww
Coops lo.tttBl,X.wYork City,
lourea permanently, altar thm
fkllnre of all others, i &au hr 1.
w warn mb o7 v mmmorj. mei
Mkttr. BMnurtarrftaM. atrtetvre. Tttcnttl.
TboM who bmT lost mooe and all hop mt belnj eured can b
earn Ttawe taat Mbr to wra fr fi at Ian by ovniuKin
Uj. TasMi. lhOTi, fcy fwmiattom to Uhmmt waa hara
baBara4, wiU b fnrnboal, laqolrBd. Eorep
JBonpital ExMrieaer, Boon, 9 a. m. la and ItoBp.K.
fioiulay, 8 to 1. Wedpgday and Satorday aranhif a mil IP-
OM, HVTHH
Antique, Modern and Inlaid Fur
niture Repaired.
1 HkTENdT nouahina done. Seeoad-hand furni
P ture bought and sold. M ELM STREET
ear sroaaway, new aaver, vonn. w&a IJ
Blair
Miss Fannie V. owe.
CULTIVATION OF THE VOICJC -alian method)
aad PIANO INSTRUCTION.
. Charles T. Howe,
FLUTE AND PIANO INSTRUCTION,
103 CROWN STREET. NEAR TEMPLE STREET.
selStf
No. j& Church street. Thorough commercial train
ng for young men and ladies. Evening sessions
Apply for circular givipg fuU information. b!3
NEW ETtGJjAITO
CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.
MTTN1C. Tocal and Instrumental and Tuning.
A HT. Drawinf .Painting, ModeUnz and foilasHul.
w i OKI . unnitare ua tansiiacci
AH El. P.leirantaGOammodatlfitM far AOOladv Btucenta
aI,L rriSKSC beclna Sent. nth. Beautifully 111 d
Caieadar frpe. Ad4re53 E. TOPRJKB. Director.
FMAPf.lI-ES Si;.HP. K'WE'OK, HAS
ca-o to
COGSWELL'S
SCHOOL OF PHONOGRAPHY,
Ihe oldest and best in New England, and learn
sometmng tuat may oe
Worth a Fortune to You.
DAY AND EVENING SESSIONS.
..Type Writing in connection with . Shorthand
augnt witnuut 1.1 it cDurgn.
Total exnensa for text-hooks onlv SI.
Call and get a sample copy of the "PHONO-
For fuH information, circulars, &c, call on or ad
F. H. COGSWELL,
811 Chapel Street.
d2
YALE BUSINESS COLLEGE.
tjisu- 43.-v.s Wf'-r,tA
f A'- "s S . 1 1 1
R ":'iT3 AJm
fehr --ief
NIGHT SCHOOL.
Terms $10 for Tliree IHontlis.
Apply at
No. 37 Insurance Building.
se!5 . T. LOVBK1DOI!.
LAW OFFICE.
JOSEPH B. MORSE,
CHARLES X. JIOBSB.
ROOMS 2 AND S.
8,11 CHAPEL STREET.
fe3tf
CHAELES S. HAMILTON,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
VALE BANK BUILDING
CORNER CHAPEL AND 8TATE STS
Notary Public. New Haven, Conn.
ap6tf
E. P. ARVLNE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Rooms 9 and 11, 60 Cliurcli St.
gemelrij.
The largest and
best repairing' shop
in the city is at
Darant'i.
All descriptions of I
watches; clock and S
jeweiry, mciuoing
the most complica-
ted, done on the
Sm& . A ialty made
wS??3? Oof Becoloring Ro
?2Siil 3man Gold Work,
premises.
Bleachln&r and Oxl-
dizing silver
AT
J. II. G. DUBAST'S,
3S and 40 Church Street.
131
Wells & Gunde,
Watchmakers and Jewelers.
Sole Agents in New Haven for the
Rockford Quick Train Watches
266 CHAPEL STREET.
REPAIRING OF ALL KINDS PROMPTLY DONE
fvio
Igamts, its, 'gtc.
JOHNSTON'S
PREPARED KALSOMIHE
En white and all other desirable
tints.
The Best and Cheapest in the
Market.
A Large Assortment of
WHITEWASH BRUSHES,
Varying In price' from SOc up
wards.
MASURyS CELEBRATED
RAILROAD COLORS
AND
AVERiLL CHEMICAL PAINT
Nos. 270 and 273 State St.
Brass Placques,
Porcelain Placques, x
Paper Placques,
Mahogany Palettes,
Satin Palettes,
Palette Knives,
Mahl Sticks.
Winsor & Newton's Tube Colors.
THOMPSON & BELDEN;
8G6 f,nil SQ3
(COURIER BOTLDINq.) fe!6
x
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CO
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Decoratlro Paper Hanpig
PLATT & THOMPSON'S.
64 and nn Oriaw St. miq n Ovntrr t.
SHOES
We have made & fmecialtv of this
excellent KHOE for BOVH
i V KAtt tot years, we mue
i nothiBir elite, and produce per-
I faction ivf fir. ramtlart. itimmI
Htyle and the best wearing
boot that is made. Coet no more
toan is preuer&uy cnarvea lor or
dinary shoes, and will save 60
rax- CRnt. in wear. Mo corns, no
btmlonn. Any dealer content with a fair profit will
coottrrr That we say. Give them a trial, and you will
be a permanent friend of THE MOLAR TIP.
Beware ol" I initntionx called by names so nearly
Bke Hoiitr Tip to deceive. Trade-mark and John
Mcudkll rui. in full, ia on sole of each iair.
t-',-F fcpiniil Nnrsins Corset,... 8
SiiisialAbdomiaalCorset. 70
EecoTfiTTi ended by leading phyalciana,
r delivered froe anywhere in tlie U.S.
on i-oceiptof nric. Lady Agents Wanted.
lr.Li-jsitt'fcp:!it)C;rtCo.,12B'way,Kew,rork.
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Tie People's Dry Goods Store !
PROCTOR, MAGTJIRE & CO.
837 CHAPEL STREET,
Now Haven, Conn. :
BEST ORGANS
OR EASIEST
The MASON & HAMLIN CO. now offer
are certainly the best in the world) for six months, giving the person hiring full opportunity
to test it thoroughly in his own house, and return if he does not longer want it. If he con
tinues to hire it until the aggregate of rent paid amounts to the price of the organ, It be
comes Ills property without farther payment.
They will also furnish their NEW UPEIGHT PIANOS on similar conditions. ILLUS
TBATED CATALOGUES, with net prices,
free.
Warerooms: 46 East 14th St.,
(groceries.
farkeys, Chickens, Ducks,
Goslings.
Grouse, Venison, Wild
Ducks, Wilii Turkeys.
Cranberries, Liettuce,
Spinacli.
A fiill line of clioice
meats.
Durham and Northford
Creasaiery Sutter.
FRISBIE & HART'S,
350 and 352 State St.
jaS8
BEAD OUR BARGAINS.
AH First-Class Goods.
Just received fancy N. O. Molasses 60c gallon.
Just received fancy P. B. Molasses 48c gallon.
Best 8uear House Syrup 45c gallon.
Vary fine Florida Oranges 28c dozen.
Xarge sweet Oranges 23c dozen.
Sweet Messina Oranges 15c dozen.
Ve: y fine Lemons 10c dozen.
35 lbs No. 1 Buckwheat $1.
6-lb package Prepared Buckwheat 84c (.Only 4c
a pound all prepared, you see.
Our leadinic article is our choice Creamery But
ter 84c lb, 3!4 lbs SI.
New Prunes 6c lb. New French Prunes only 10c
lb. Finest Evaporated Apples 10c lb.
4 quarts new Medium Beans 25c.
t.; fat. MAnkeral 15c dozen. 10-lb Kit.
Mackerel 50c. Very best salt Codfish 5e lb. Fresh
Eggs 25c doren. Yellow Turnips 85c bushet. Early
Rose Potatoes 65c bushel. Sugar Cured Hams 13c
lb. Smeked Shoulder 9c lb. Fresh Poultry 'riday
and Saturday.
Meat market connected well stocked with the best
quality of fresh meats,
J. H. KEARNEY,
Elm City Cash Grocery,
74 and 76 Congress ave., Corner
SIU1 Street.
"Register and Union copy.
ja33
BROADWAY CASH STORE.
One carload of the best New Process Flour ar
rived, which was bought at the lowest market price
Our own brand, which we will sell to please our cus.
tomers for only
$6 a Barrel.
Warranted to be THE BEST New Process Flour
in this country or money returned.
ONLY $6.00 A BARREL AND
80c. a Bag.
Tell your friends and neighbors of this GREAT
B ARGAIN, for we can more than please you all.
PAUL JTE.VXK & BROS.,
j2? tOl AND 1QT BROAPwAY,
WE ABE STILL ALIVE!
And Offer Bargains lliat Can't be
Ueat.
MEATS. Groceries, Vegetables, Fruits, at tha
new storo of Otto Dietter. Constantly some
new inducements. Our aim is to give satisfaction,
both in quality of goods and prices, that no store in
tlie city shall undersell our price, except for cheap
er grade of goods. .
Meat market and grocery combined. Fresh
Poultry every day.
Choice Butter a specialty.
Standard Sugar at cost.
Flour as low as the lowest
Remember the place, new store of .
OTTO DIETTER,
Corner Wooster and Chestnut Streets.
'alepTione.H i
Nomination of Special Consta
bles. THE Joint Standing Committee of the Court of
Common Council on Nominations will meet
on Friday evening, February 20th, 1886, at 7:30
o'clock in rooms 10 and 11 City Hall, for the pur
pose of nominating special constables: Persons de
sirous of such an appointment are requested to be
Dresent and state their reason to the committee.
v , SEYMOUR C. LOOMIS,
fel8 3t Assistant City Cleric.
Mrs. E. Jones Young,
DENTIST,
330 C?iape!,cor.Statc,Street B'd'g
Over Brooks & Co's Eat and Fur Store.
- AU work warranted.
iSsab, Offlee hurs from 9 a. m. to
CataRRH
ELY'S
CREAM BALM
C 1 e a ns e s the
Head. Allays
Intlam m atlen.
Heals the Sores
Restores th
Senses ofTaste
and Smell. A
y&V-SEEKf quick and pos-
W"" - mve cure.
G0o at druggista', 60c by mall registered. Send for
circular Sample by mall, 10c ELY BROTHERS,
Druggists, Owego, New York. dSoodltwly
m Mm
AND PIANOS
PAYMENTS.
to rent any one of their famous Organs (which
(Union Square) New York.
Owing to the depression
in business we will make op
the balance of oar Suitings
at actual cost. Prince Al
bert and Dress Suits, finest
quality, at Popular Prices.
L. H. FREEDMAN .& SON,
92 CHURCH STREET.
THE PROPRIETORS OF
(OLD INDIAN CURE)
Present to sufferers from the wasting diseases due
to IMPURE BLOOD an "old, triad and true" reme
dy, Tried by the test of time and practical use, it is
acknowledged the
Gem of Blood Purifiers,
Made strictly by the Old Indian Recipe, without
the slightest change, just as it was nearly a century
ago. An excellent tonic and appetizer, eminently
adapted to troubles peculiar to women.
It is a vegetable preparation,-contaiaing no mer
cury or other mineral poison, and will not cure one
disease by producing another. Compounded under
tlie supervision of an eminent physic :an of 3d years
practice. It is an absolutely infallible cure for
every known farm of disease, arising from Blood
Taint, be it
Syphilis in any stage. Scrofula., Ulcers,
Rheumatism, Catarrh, Ulcerated Sore
Throat, White Swelling, Eczema, Tet
ter, Pimples or Eruptions of any kind.
Endorsed by practicing physicians. Sold by
drngista. trga bottle $1.50, three bottles $4,
six bottles $7.60. Wholesale by the O. I. C. Co.,
176 Fulton street. New York..,. dl5eodaw nr
SCROFULA.
A rirl In my employ lias been cured of conatitu
tional scrofula by the use of Swift's Specific.
; J. O. McUaniel Altoona, Ga.
i (This gentleman is father of the Governor of tta.)
! Vanderbilt'a millions could not buy from mo what
Swift's Specific has done for me. It cured me of
scrofula of 15 years'1 standing.
I Mrs. Elizabeth Baker, Acworth, Ga.
TETTER After suffering with Tetter for eleven
frears, and having all sorts of treatment, I was re
leved entirely by Swift's Specific
L. H. Lkk, Dawson, Ga.
SNATCHED FROM THE GRAVE. I was brought
to death's door by a combination of eczema and
erysipelas,f rom which I had suffered for three years.
"Was treated by several physicians with iodine potas
sium, which seemed to reed the disease. I have been
cured sound and welt by tne use of awitt s soeciflc
Mrs. Sa&ah E. Turner, Humboldt, Term.
Swift's Specific is entirely vegetable, and seems
! to cure cancers by forcing out the impurities from
the blood. Treatise en Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free. The Swift Specific Co , Drawer 3,
I Atlanta,Ga., or 159 W. 8 St., New York.
fel8eod&w nr
ELECTRICITY IS LIFE.
Why will people cling to the atraurb idea that they
must taks medicine? Electricity will reach where
medicine has failed, as 15 years' experience has
proved. If you are troubled with Catarrh, or Neural
gia, or Rheumatism, Throat or Lnng Troubles, Gen
ral Debility, Headache, Kidney Disease, try
ELECTRICITY.
Go and see Dr,himmiugs. His method differs
from all others. His success is wonderful.
Ladies treated successfully. Ladies can consult
with the Doctor's wife afternoons. Consultation
free.
DR. J. W. OUMMiNOS,
No 4 Church Street.
oolS ' WOOD'S BLOCK.
CALVIN COOPER BENNETT, M. D.,
311 North Ferry St. (Cedar Hill).
Eminently successful in the treatment of Diseases
of the Nervous System, using neither medicine nor
surgery. Send for pamphlet. fe7tf
Clairvoyant.
MRS. J. J. CLARK,
The great business test and healing medium, 233
Crown street, continues to astonish hundreds in this
city by her Clairvoyant powers. Mrs Clark locates
diseases without asking questions, and indicates the
appropriate remedy. She compounds vegetable
medicines from roots, barks and herbs, which have
a surprising curative effect Hours from 9 to 12 a.
m.. and 2 to 4 p. m. and evenings. oc!8
J
Ovncc or The White Mantjfactttriho Co. 1
Rockviij.e, Conn, January 26, 1888.
Messrs. Snow A Earle, Providence, R. I.:
Gentlemen About six months ago I purchased
from your agent here a bottle of your Biliousf no for
my wife, who had suffered beyond description,
once or twice a month, sometimes of tener, with ter
rible distress in her stomach, and frequently had to
call a physician, who afforded only temporary re
lief. Biliousine cured her, and she nas had no
trouble since the first dose was taken.
Yours truly, CYRUS WHITE.
BILIOUSINE is a sure cure for Headache, Dys
pepsia, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Liver Com
plaint, and all stomach troubles.
A "trial package" of Biliousine will be sent by
mail to any address upon receipt of a two cent post
age stamp. SNOW 3c EAKLK, Provi
dence, it. I- nol9eodawtf
Cider.
I AM prepared to furnish Williams & Richards'
exira saw cider to private families or others In
lft and 20 gallon kegs. ANDRKW McLEAN,
jaJ9 lm SI Water street.
ymmmn
fce lournal autX mirier.
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Friday, February 20, 1S85.
HOW IT WOBU IN IOWA,
Several years ago the leaders of the "tenr
perance" movement in Iowa began to active
ly work for a prohibitory law, which, with
the usual good judgment of the prohibition
ists, they believed would be very effective.
Finally their efforts were successful and they
got a prohibitory law passed, which took
effect on the 4th cf July last. A careful in
vestigation of the working of the .law has
been made, and the results of it are interest
ing and significant. The city clerks of the
chief cities of the State furnished some ac
curate and valuable information. They were
asked to state the number of licensed saloons
which were in existence before last July, and
the number of places where intoxicating
liquors are sold by the drink at the present
time: Des Moines is the capital and the
largest city in the State. Under the old
system it had 58 saloons; under the prohibi
tory law the number of drinking places is
reported as 225. Davenport formerly had
132 saloons; now 150 drinking places are
known. Burlington had 68 saloons under
the old regime, and has 127 under the new;
Keokuk, 29 before prohibition and 65 since;
Ottumwa, 22 formerly and 60 now. In one
case the number is reported unchanged, and
in three instances there has been a falling
off, but the aggregate for the ten cities heard
from is 868 drinking places now, as against
only 593 before prohibition.
But the effects of prohibition are seen not
only in an increase in the number of rum
shops. Under the old law a heavy license fee
was demanded of the saloon keeper, and he was
thus made to pay a good round sum for the
privilege of selling liquor. Dubuque charged
$100; Davenport, $200; Keokuk, $500, and
Des Moines $1,000. Under this system the
local treasury at the State capital received
the sum of $58,900 last year from the fifty
eight licensed saloons; Davenport, $26,400;
Keokuk, $14,500, and so on. Altogether the
ten cities received no less than $211,382 a
year from the saloons. The loss of this rev
enue has required a large increase in the tax
rate in many cases, the liquor seller thus
profiting at the expense of the average tax
payer. The injustice of this is so obvious
that in Keokuk and one or two other places,
where the failure of prohibition is confessed,
the authorities are now licensing saloon keep
ers. A pretense is made of allowing the sale
in such cases only of "liquids as beverages
not prohibited by the statutes of the State."
but it is understood by everybody that no
such restriction will be enforced.
So thf results of prohibition in Iowa thus
far are an inorease in the number of saloons
and a decrease in the revenue of the public
treasury from them. It would take a very
hardened prohibitionist to extract any com
fort from these facta.
BDITSBUL NOTES.
It has been decided by a jury in Williman
tio that a Connecticut man's ear is worth
$3,000. Now we want to know the exact
value of a Connecticut woman's tongue.
We do not want to make the pigs who are
obliged to live in this region discontented, but
the farmers of southern California have, it is
declared, found that it pays to raise grapes
and figs to feed to their pigs.
A tenant whose family was stricken with
diphtheria in Brooklyn has begun a suit for
damages against the owner of the house. The
plumbing was defective, and the landlord
failed to have it attended to after he was
asked to do so. It will be interesting to see how
this suit comes out.
The beauty and grandeur of red tape had a
striking illustration in London the other day.
A girl having poisoned herself, the doctors
sent to the Middlesex hospital to borrow a
stomach pump. The authorities sent back
word that the patient should have been taken
to the hospital, as they did not lend out
stomach pumps. The girl died.
Mr. Boverton Redwood, who is a recog
nized authority on petroleum, recently de
livered a lecture in London on the Russian
petroleum industry. After careful photome
tric tests he has delivered judgment somewhat
in favor of American petroleum. He finds
that the Russian oil does not give as high
an illuminating power as American oil, but
there is considerably less diminution of the
light as the oil in the reservoir of the lamp
falls. The inequality in illuminating power,
however, is only a matter of refining.
The French Reformed Church, which is
now commanding considerable attention on
account of some internal movements and
from the relation which it is assuming tow
ard the State, is divided into 101 consistories
and 552 parishes. Provision is made by the
State for the payment of 638 pastors. Be
sides the 552 parishes there are 699 annexes
at which worship is celebrated. The tem
ples or oratories are 929, and there are 256
other rooms which are used for divine ser
vices. In the annexes the services are held
in the open air. '
Mr. Labouchere does not believe in letting
the fortunes that men make live after them
in 'undivided entirety. "I would not al
low," he says, "anyone to inherit from an
other beyond a certain sum. Let us suppose
this sum were 100,000, and that a man
dies leaving a fortune of 1,000,000, and
three children. A twenty per cent, succes
sion duty would absorb 200,000. There
would then, after each child had inherited
100,000, remain 500,000. To share this
he would have to find five persons. Thus,
instead of one son having nearly a million
and two sons a trifle, as is the result of the
mode in which rich men now leave their
money, the State would come in for 200,000,
and eight persons would have a very com
fortable provicion."
Senator Plumb of Kansas gives some inter
eating facts concerning sugar making from
sorghum. There are in Kansas ' three sugar
factories, which made last year seventy thou
sand pounds of sugar, which cost in the un
developed state- of the industry about as
much as it would sell for. There is no
question as to the production of sugar from
sorghum,nor any as to the large belt of coun
try in which sorghum can readily be grown.
Nor is it the question as to what sugar has
cost as produced by the Agricultural depart
ment, or will cost produced in a small way
by inexperienced persons; it is what, scien
tifically speaking, sugar from sorghum will
cost when produced under proper conditions
by those who understand the business. Prof.
Collier is the highest authority, and he is
confident that it can be produced for two
cents a pound.
"The new South" has broken out in
Texas. At Dallas Judge Schuhl reoently ad
mitted colored men (for the first time, ap
parently, in that region) to the jury box, and
he has been severely censured for doing so.
But the Hon. James B. Simpson, described
as a pronounced and leading Democrat,
promptly steps forward to the judge's side
and rebukes the fanld-finders. "Our courts
do not realize," he says in a card publiphed
over his signature in the local newspaper,
"and our fashionable churches have conven
iently forgotten that slavery has been blown
away at the cannon's mouth, and that a new
duty that cannot be shirked or evaded has
come upon the South since the accession of
the Democracy to power. To southern Dem
ocrats and to Bouthern honor is largely com
mitted the fate of over 6,000,000 freednien."
This is plain language from truthful James.
Dr. John T. Nagle, deputy registrar of vi
tal statistics in New" York, has this to say
about consumption: Government hospitals
for the treatment of persons suffering from
consumption ought to be established at mili
tary posts in Texas, Colorado and southern
California, whera the conditions of altitude,
mild temperature and dryness of the air are
unexcelled. Such stations of observation
ought to be under the supervision of the Na
tional Board of Health, in order that the best
possible use could be made of information
which might be obtained. It is probable
that valuable discoveries regarding the na
ture and progress of consumption would be
made if physicians were constantly observ
ing cases of the disease under favorable con
ditions. Consumption is such a scourge to
humanity that any means of abatement can
not be considered too expensive. In this
city more than one-seventh of the deaths are
caused by consumption, and of grown per
sons more than one-fifth die from the disease.
The government is ready to take extraordi
nary means to prevent a threatened epidemic
of cholera, which could destroy- only a few
.housand lives at most in this latitude. It
ought to do something to check the' increase
of a disease which kills over 5,000 persons
each year in this city.
COMMUNICATIONS.
lilore Llaht on a Social Problem
To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
You say I have omitted telling you my
own share in our success, and also how we
managed to start right in the beginning of
our matrimonial career. This was the way
it was done. By saving a part of my hus
band's earnings we were able, in a few years,
to buy a building lot in the outskirts of the
town. Then we saved for a house, which
my husband erected with his own hands
when his services were not in demand by
others. And here let me say I think it is
the bound en duty of all parents to
give their children some trade or definite
practical means or getting a living. My hus
band received only his "freedom suit" when
he became of age, but he had something bet
ter, as he had acquired the ability to support
family by his honest, emcient industry. As
for myself, I will not boast of doing anything
more than any other healthy lady can do
who looks well to the ways of her own house
hold. I do my own work with the assistance
of my two little girls, who save me a great
many steps ana help in various ways. They
say we are all "as busy as bees," that there
are no drones in the hive.
In buying the clothing for the family I
wait till goods are "marked down," when
the season is nearly over. I "make over"
things, as the saying is. W.'s outside gar
ments washed, pressed and trimmed with
bright braid make nice dress skirts and
school suits for the children. Good, com
mon napkins I make from the sides of table
cloths after they have done service on the
board. Large stockings I cut down for the
little ones. In addition to my own house
hold duties, 1 often give a helping nana to
my next door neighbor. When
getting dress goods for myself I
select soft woolens, dark in color
and medium in weight, so that I can wear
them all the year around. We take two
weekly newspapers and one monthly maga
zine, and often exchange with our neighbors.
From time to time we purchase a good book
and have time to read it. So you see we
pay due regard to the better portion of our
natures, and try to be intelligently posted on
all the most important topics of the times.
We are often able to help others in many
ways, and to give regularly to church and
charitable objects.
Hard Timet, Dull Timet, Panic, Good
Times.
To the Editor of the Journal" and Courier:
These different kinds of times most of us
have experienced and they run about as fol
lows: Hard Times Times may be called hard
when everybody is very busy. For instance,
the workers of the soil toil and sweat prepar
atory for seeding their grounds, and if
blessed with a bountiful crop they work
hard to harvest it. The mechanics, too, work
hard days and nights to supply the markets,
and so matters go on until all get tired out
with hard work to produce something to live
on and make money, then, too, the mer
chants, the middle men. Their clerks and
porters have to step lively, waiting on cus
tomers, packing and delivering merchandise
from early dawn till late at night. The re
sult is everybody gets tired and longs for a
time of rest, and that time after awhile
comes and then they seem to be happy.
Dull Times Now after a rest all feel ready
again to go through another season of hard
times; but tney nna tne market ami ana
r rices low. Employers are not ready to
start up with full force, employes become
uneasy, many of tnem out ot money. 1 hey
complain of their employers for not setting
them at work. They are told that the
demand for goods . light and they
cannot afford to yki stock on a
falling market, but must hold up
until tne market is ciearea out ana gooas
wanted. This will satisfy some, but many
can't see it. They think their employer is
taking advantage of them. They get mad
and leave to find a job. Some may find one,
but perhaps at less wages than they have
been having, yet they accept it, on the say
ing that "half a loaf is better than no bread;"
but some won't do that. They fret and damn
everybody and. now comes on the trouble
some Panic Men are tramping looking: for work.
They find everywhere about the same state
of things with possibly some exceptions. As
the saying is, "It s an ill wind that blows
nobody any good." And this we think 'is a
fact, for many times some make the most
money when the country is panicky, but this
is the exception. But after a while the mar
ket begins to get short of goods, orders be
gin to oome in to the producers more liberally.
Then worn is given out that there is .work
again for all hands.
Good limes. l ma is good news. All go to
work again, all get happy, money begins to
circulate plentifully, and times are nearly
g'Xd again; and continue to be looked at in
that light, tiara times, ami times, ana
panics, are almost forgotten for the time
being, and until hard work, and plenty of
work bring around the same state of things
again. Now if the foregoing is a true picture
so far as it goes who is to blame for those
changes! The employes of to-day were em
ployes not long ago, and the careful, prudent
and saving employe of to-day will be em
ployer soon hereafter. Take courage, young
men. Do the best you can in whatever
station you find yourself and your chances
are as good as the best. Such is life.
Experience.
f "The Rev. F. De Bruycker, of Willimantic,
has returned from his southern trip.
LUMINOUS.
A house now being erected in Philadelphia
is to have the walls of one of the rooms
covered with luminous paint. It is probably
the room in which the paregoric bottle is to
be kept. Philadelphia Call.
A farming exchange says: "A fair average
profit for a hen seems to range from $1.50 to
$2 a year." Will the editor, in his next
number, tell us the fair average'profit for the
man who keeps the hen? Boston Transcript.
The Boston Herald is brutal enough to
say: "The Mississippi, it is noticed, has a
habit of rising and threatening the levees at
about the time when the river and harbor
bill is brought before Congress." New Or
leans Picayune.
A Dakota man says that in that territory
on a frosty day a conversation can be carried
on with perfect ease between individuals a
mile apart. Married men are not emigrating
to Dakota in large numbers this year. Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
It is the oold - weather probably that
prompts a correspondent to say that he hopes
that the man who stands in front of the fire
keeping the heat from everybody else may
have the same chance hereafter. Boston
Commercial Bulletin.
Judge "Officer, what is the charge
against the prisonerl" Officer "He is ac
cused by Mr. Smith of robbing him." Judge
"What is Mr. Smith's business?" Officer
"He is a lawyer, your honor." Judge "The
case is dismissed." Boston Post.
We read of a man dying as he was shov
eling snow off the sidewalk, but we never
heard of a woman dying under such circum
stances. - The moral is obvious, and every
woman who loves her husband and would
shield him from danger will promptly heed
it. Lowell Times.
There never was a better example of the
concise form of expression common to real
western Americans than the answer of the
man of the Sierras, who, when asked about
the character of a neighbor, replied, "Mister,
I don't know very much about him, but my
impression is that he'd make a first-class
stranger." Uloomingeon nye.
"What's the need of going to school?" one
street boy asked of another, in surprise.
"Why, I pick up lots of things in school.
F'r instance. I found out to-day what a. m.
means, what yer see in der papers all der
time." "What does it mean, anyhow? ' it
means after midnight, of course, and p. m.
means pos' morton, and that's French for
evening." Harper's Bazar.
Stuttering "Bill" Travera took Dorsheimer
out for a drive out of New York. Travers got
out at a "half-way" hotel and got a. drink.
"Who's that in your wagon, Bill?" asked a
crony standing by. "Oh," said Travers,
"t-t-t-that's ex-Lieutenant Governor D-D-D-Dorsheimer."
"Why," said his friend, "I
had no idea he was such a big man." "Y-y-you
ought t-t-to see him as he t-t-thinks lie
ia," responded Travers as he left the bar.
Philadelphia Record.
A melodrama wa3 being performed in a
provincial city, and the closing act was to
witness the death of the heroine from poison
administered by her lover. The end ap
proached, when the lover said, "I have for
gotten the vial." "Kill me with a pistol or
a dagger," whispered the actress. "Kill me
quickly for the audience is impatient," she
exclaimed. An inspiration seized him, and
as she turned he gave her a kick. She fal
tered and fell, "I die by the hand of the
poisoner." It was an effective climax. Troy
Times.
ENGIiISH BALLET GIRLS.
Tney Are Bnde and Coarte, It lit Not
Worse Than Other Girls.
Henrv Labouchere in London Truth.
Mr. Hollingshead, I see, has contributed
his views of the ballet to a contemporary.
According to him, a ballet-girl ought to I s
pretty, and it is all the better for the mana
ger if mashers come to look at her, while, if
they wait for her outside the stage-door, it is
no business of his. That a ballet-girl ought
to be fairly good looking is unquestionable,
for her mission is to exhibit the poetry of
motion and to posture in tableaux. Mothers
are not admitted behind the scenes, for there
is no room for them, and clearly the manager
cannot see all Ms ballet-girls home. It there
fore depends very much on the girl herself
what she does .out of the theatre. But the
same may be said of the girls in telegraph of
fices and in shops. I do not know how a ballet-girl
is exposed to more temptation when
dancing on a stage with the footlights be
tween her and the spectators than a shop
girl behind a counter. There are, no doubt,
girls who go into the bal'et as a means to an
end. But this is the exception. Ballet girls,
generally speaking, are relations of persons
connected with the theatrical profession. The
theatre is their world, and they are accustom
ed to its ways. At rehearsals they hang to
gether, and in their every-day garments tbey
look very much the reverse of honris. Their
chief pleasure consists in eating sweet-stuff
and cakes, on which food they like to lunch.
Their langnage to each other, and when in
the room where they all dress, is not refined,
but rather the reverse, and it probably would
surpiise a girl not to the manner born and
suddenly thrust among them ; this, however,
is the worst that can be said against them,
and when they leave the theatre they do not
loiter, because they have but one thought
to catch the 'buB.
Taking Care of Themtelvet.
Boston Letter in Kansas City Times.
Feminine Boston is attending this winter
"emergency lectures." These are, no doubt,
of great value. If a girl slip down and sprain
her ankle, instead of being obliged to wait
till some man picks her up and sends her
home in a cab, she quietly takes oft her shoe
and stocking, tucks her skirts on one side,
and performs the necessary surgical operation
on the spot. If she feel faint at a ball in
stead of looking around for a man to whom
she has been introduced, and into whose arms
she can withont immodesty fall, she quietly
sits down on the nearest chair, sends her es
cort for a few simple remedies,- and applies
them herself. Suppose during these beauti
ful snowy days she is run away with run
away with by a horse, I mean. While the
horse is tearing along looking for a conveni
ent lamp-post to use in breaking the sleigh,
this Boston girl, with the coolness of Galen
and the quiet dignity of Hippocrates, sslecta
rroni her baa some liniment, one or two
splints and a number of strips of linen, and
when at last she is thrown across the horse s
back against the side of a house, instead of
screaming or fainting, she applies the lini
ment ready in her hand, bandages up the
fractures and walks quietly home fcr send one
of the grooms for her horse. I believe later
in the season some of the lectures are to be
purely practical, and we shall be told how to
smile upon a mosquito so that he will refuse
to molest us, or how to frown upon a wasp
so that the wasp will drop dead with fright,
or how to convince oneself at a moment's no
tice that a mouse is more timid than a 160
pound girl, and quite unable to scale a dress
either on the inside or outside, unless helped
by a ladder. You see there is no nonsense
about these lectures; the girls are honestly
benefited by them, and they are becoming
more and more popular.
Vanderbllt'a Plncky Daughter.
From the Syracuse Journal.
William Seward Webb, a son of Gen. Jas.
Watscn Webb, the journalist, married Lelia
Osgood Yanderbilt, the last remaining un
married daughter of William H. Vanderbilt
the richest man in America. It was a leve
match, too, and the young pair are as hsppy
as turtle doves in each other's society. Webb
was a young sprig and Yanderbilt did rot
like him. Figuratively speaking, he kicked
him out of the house several times, but in
this instance love laughed at kicks, and
doubtless would have taken cuffs at the same
time with perfect composure. The fact is,
Mr. Yanderbilt forbade him the house, out
the young girl was in love with yonng Wtbb,
and when a young girl is in love there is one
of two things she will either get over it or
go through with it. Miss Lelia had set her
heart on tne voung aocior, miu il fun em
father had surrounded his domicile with
fence bristling with spikes, scattered broken
bottles at all the approaches and populated
the inclosure with hungry bulldogs, the Ro
meo of my story would have braved all the
dangers, with the additional one of the Yan
derbilt boot, to bask in the light of his lady
love's eyes. The old gentleman was unre
lenting, and I verily believe there would have
been an elopement but for the interference of
Mrs. Yanderbilt. She was the daughter of a
clergyman, yon know. She is good-hearted,
and sensible, and with a woman's fcresight
saw how things were going and told her hus
band that he must not try to prevent the
match. He respects his wife, who is all that
a helnmeet imulies to him. and bowed to her
will. They were married with a good deal of
pomp. Mr. Yanderbilt made the yocng man
a junior partner in a firm of brokers, to give
him a Wall street education, and then set him
4 op m business for himselt.
Too Load Even for the French.
From a Late Paris Letter.
For the first time in many a long year tha
name of Judic has been linked to a failure.
"Elle et Lui" (He and She), the new piece at
the Palais Royal, in which the brilliant prima
donna of the operetta boards first appeared
upon the stage ot that theatre has not proved
a success. This result was largely owing to
the indecency of the incidents and the lan
guage. Not that the piece was too immoral
for Parisian tastes (I doubt, indeed, if such a
play could be written), but the indelicacy
was too flagrant and too outspoken. The
French do not like immorality openly and
coarsely expressed. They demand the dain
ty veil of wit and mirthfulness to be thrown
over the unblushing features of their comic
muse, or they will flout the lady and refuse
to recognize her. One point in the play was
an undeniable success, and that was Mme.
Judio herself. When this charming artiste
goes to America our boards will be trodden
by one of the most gifted actresses of the Pa
risian stage, which is so rich in feminine tal
eut. Her toilets were superb, and one walk
ing costume deserves special mention. It was
in seal-brown velvet and satin, the dolman
shaped cloak with long ends being entirely
composed of golden-brown beads, trimmed
with beaded lace and lined throughout with
tea-rose satin. The bonnet was an exquisite
little structure in brown velvet and beads to
correspond.
H. H. Hamlin, of Norwich, died at the in
sane hospital in Norwich on Wednesday.
About IS years ago he was tha largest dry
goods merchant in eastern Connecticut. Re
verses drove him from business and he got
employment with a New York firm. About
a year ago he became insane. He has a wife
and three children in Norwich.
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We are now prepared to
show a full line of
NEW GOODS!
Suitable for the present and ap.
proacliing season.
Low prices and the best foods
for. t'"e leaat money will be oar
motto for the coming year, and
we shall continue as formerly to
show one of the largest and best
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From SlOO to up $150. A tine
assortment of choice garments to
be closed out at the above ex
tremely low prices to make room
for spring goods.
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AT
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STAMPED LINED GOODS.
BuSet and Bureau Covers, Tray and Carrlmg
Cloths, Tidies and Doylies. Also Linen Goods
wuich we stamp to order.
Felt Cloth in two qualities best assortment in the
city. Fluah, Sateen, Bolting Cloth, Batiste, Tussah
Bilk, Pongee and all popular materials for am
broiderv. Closing out Silk Appliques at nominal prices.
Hamburg s, good assortment, prices VERY LOW
To reduce our large stock of Colored Seine Twine
e will for the present put it at one-half price.
Something new in Crochet Hooks for seine twiae
C. F. BECKLEY.
634 Chapel Street.
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SCOLLOPS.
New Salt Mackerel, Spanish Mackerel. Hard and
Soft Shell Crabs, Halibut, Eels. Mackerel, Round
and Long Clams, Lobsters, Oysters, etc., etc.. the -best
in the market.
Seed's Market, 59 Church Street
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se H. W. SMITH. Manager.
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Salmon, Halibut, Ked
Snappers, Striped
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