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Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09
CIRCULATION UNRlVALLED
I'M ELIZABETH.
THE ECLIPSE.

The predictions of astronomers were
verified to the letter by the celestial
event of Saturday last. In this city
and its vicinity many misgivings were
expressed as to its visibility, for the sky
Was overcast up to the very moment OF
apparent contact, but the cloudy cur
tain. slowly rising, at last revealed to
crowds of anxious spectators the daz-
cling luminary just as its limb began to
be obscured by the intervening moon.
The dark concave formed on the solar
disk by this lunar overlapping gradual
ly expanded until it reached the line of
greatest obscurity, when the sun, view
ed through colored glass, seemed to
assume phase of the moon, and APP
peared as delicate crescent. In this
position more than fve-sixths of the di
rect rays were shut off, yet the day was
so little darkened as to raise the sug-
gestion that much of the remaining
light was due to the phenomenon Of
diffusion From this stage of the
eclipse the somber hues which shaded
the landscape passed slowly away with
the retreating penumbra, and finally
were lost in the golden tints of the he
turning sun. No remarkable change in
the atmosphere was indicated by the
barometer or thermometer, and the
wind varied but slightly in force during
the imposing scene. The changes
noted in a partial eclipse even though
considerable, can have no special sig
nifcance when compared with what
was revealed to those who saw ourplan-
ct and its satellite in the same night
line with the sun. We are told by tAle-
graph that at the principal points of
observation the sky was cloudless, and
that all the philosophical instruments
were brought into successful operation.
The exact value of the new information
thus acquired cannot be estimated
until the full reports of the several
commissions have been published. Yet
we have assurances sufficient to author
ize the announcement that the total solar
eclipse of 1869 has been more closely
and successfully observed than any
previous phenomenon of the same class.
1t may be gratifying to the national
pride of some to know that this country
already contains greater number OF
large refractors than can be found in
any one kingdom of the Old World.
Yet none of these, owing to their posi-
ton, could be brought into requisition
for observing the total eclipse. Our
astronomers have been obliged to trav-
el hundreds, and, in some instances,
thousands of miles, to reach the points
of observation on the line of totality to
which they were severally assigned. AT
Boston the sky was obscured by clouds,
AtPhiladelphia similar disappointment
was experienced. At Cincinnati gas
was lighted. and the atmosphere had
yellowish appearance.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09

A few days ago gentleman lost a
thousand dollar diamond pin on War
rem bridge, Boston The boy of poor
woman found the pin, and the mother
made known the fact to a jeweler,
through whom the pin was restored to
its owner. The owner promptly paid
the reward of fifty dollars which he
had offered, with the addition of five
dollars more for the benefit of the wo-
man.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09

The war in Cuba now terribly thun-
dering swells the gale. 1t has not yet
reached very violent stuge, but has
cleary drawn out from the condition in
which one side was afraid and the other
dared not, and seems to be more like
campain. Quesada has m tde good
his Judgement about Puerto Principe,
and holds to it, so that the volunteers
inside are quarrelling with the people
they claim to defend, Jordan, too,
has had several small engagements with
the reinforced Spaniards in his depart
ment, and has won one victory and lost
a foraging party of eighty men, sllppos
ed to have been shot.
The Cubans are said to be in good
health and spirits, and acting vigorous
ly against disease and depression i'll the
Spanish lines. A great and decisive
victory is promised in the eastern de-
partment this month. The patriots have
been gaining so much by avoiding gen,
eral engagements and involving the
government in futile expenses that
more than exhaust its revenue that !,
change of policy is Of doubtful wisdom
If they are sure of winning pitched
battle there is sufficient excuse for
fighting it. A loss would hurt them
much more than it would their enemy
----------. 90 "------7--------
IT, GaEfo..a;a toIIr Of ,nEincr A La SE.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09
VTNIoN COUNTY, S. She State OF New Jer.

TTNION COUNTY, S. S.--The State OF New Jer-
u sey to the Sheriff of the county of Union
misunderstanding
Summon John Sutter, builder and Joseph Dom
ely, owner, to appear before the Circuit Court in
and for the county of Union, at Elizabeth in said
county on the fourteenth day of August instant
that the said John Suffer may answer unto William
b. Barton and William o. Barton, partners in trade
under the name style and firm of W. B. and W. o.
Barton, of a plea of tresspass on the case upon
promises to their damage five hundred dollars, as
is said, for which said William b. Barton and Will
liam o. Barton, partners aforesaid, claim a
building lien on a cerSain building aud lands of
said Joseph Donelly. The said building is two
story frame dwelling house, with basement of
brick, about twenty-t feet by twenty-six on lot
or cultilage fronting Division street, in the city
OF Elizabeth, and county of Union, and State of
New Jersey said lot being thrtytwo feet front and
rear by one hundred feet deep, and have you then
there this writ 1
Witness David A. Depue. Esquire. q Judge of our
said Circuit Court at Elizabeth aforesaid, the Sc
cond day Of August, i'll the year one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine.
HENRY r. CANNON, Clerk.
JAMES r. ENGLISH, Attorney. 40
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09

nSyH Mr.. r. Z. Kicker, Superinten-
dent of the Central Railroad, has,
through Mr.. j. NJ. Morris, donated a
Car load of coal to the Police Guard
and more acceptable present could
not possibly have been made, for we
know that the police, like other poor
people, have an occasion to use coal
-espe c.ally during the winter season.
Major D. D. Buchanan has also sent q
magnificent six-inch revolver, of the
Kitteridge manufacture, with 100 ball
cartridges.
Mr. Walter Furman, Lieutenant of
Police, has donated half-a dozen solid
silver teaspoons, of most beautiful de-
sign, and which will doubtless be fully
appreciated w the good wife of the
lucky policeman.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09

CRY COUNCIL Through all tue heat
Cd term this interchangeable body have
been at work for the interests of our
beautiful city. Let any one run his
eye over their proceedings if he would
like to see the extent of their labors
Every good citizen shonld unit to
hold up their hands, until their fight
with old fogyism is finished
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09

There was a slight fall of snow at
Mount Washington on Friday, and ice
formed during the night.
The Hon. Philip Eastman, leading
member of the Maine bar, died of
heart disease on Friday night.
Several buildings were destroyed by
fire at Fremont, Nebraska, recently.
Loss $3.50, 900; partially insured.
John Connors, age 81, had his right
arm torn off on Saturday by machinery
in Adams Sugar Refinery at Boston.
Major N. A. Sturdivant, prominent
lawyer of Richmond, Va, who was
elected Mayor of the city in 1866, but
was rejected by the military authori-
ties, died yesterday.
A man named Julius Black was shot
and killed by Eugene Soulsier in a
drinking saloon and dancehouse in West
indianapolis on Saturday night. Soul
sier was arrested
On Friday a colored man named
Henry Brown, employed in loading a
bark with tobacco at Baltimore, was in
stantly crushed to death by, the falling
of a hogshead into the hold.
Peter Cohen, age Is, the son of
Elisha Cohen of Washington, Sussex
County, hung himself on Thursday
night in the barn of Mr.. Wandling
Hampton.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09

TO run first-class daily paper, says
the Journal of Commerce, "costs not
far from one thousand dollars a day,
even with moderate circulation. This
rate Of expenditure, adds the editor,
4" takes frightful daily bites out of the
capital. "
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09
gatest photographic News,
The Boston Tragedy-FuneraI of Mrs.
Hobbs.


Boston, August 7.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Kate A.
Hobbs, whose violent death had caused
such mournful sensation, took place
yesterday afternoon from the residence
of Dr. Hobbs. The house was filled
with neighbors and friends, anxious
to testify their respect for the unfortu-
nate lady. The funeral service was
very impressive. 1t was conducted by
the Rev. James Freeman Clarke. The
body was neatly attired in a dove color
ed silk dress, and placed in an elegant
rosewood casket, which was adorned
with wreaths of flowers and ivy. The
remains were inferred at the Forest
Hill Cemetery.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09

Gen. Rosecrans has declined the
Democratic nomination for Governor of
Ohio. There is great restitution
among the freedmen at Washington,
and an appeal is made for contribu-
tions.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09

Too Much FASHION Too much is
not asserted when we say that it is
highly probable that the exigencies OF
fashion destroy more women than the
pressure of toll or sorrow The blind
obedience to the bchest of fashi IN
which nowaCays so largely obtains,
works II great transgressiou Of the laws
of woman'S nature. II greater injury to
her physical and mental, not to say
moral constitution, than the hardshi., IS
of comparative poverty Experance
has proved that the female slave will
i've to grow old at her task, while she
secs two or three generations of her
mistresses fade and pass away. III g
poor washerwoman, who has but few
rays of hope to cheer her in her daily
labors, will live to see her fashionable
sisters all die around her and the
kitchen maid is strong and healthy
when her mistress has to be nursed
Like sickly infant. For nearly all the
good and valuable purposes of human
life, it is a sad truth, that fashion pam
pered women are almost utterly worth
less. Their force of chlrlcter is small,
while they possess still less moral pow
er of will. and quite as little physical
energy. Having apparently no great
pnrpos.' in life to attain. necessarily
they fail to accomplish any worthy
ends
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09

"Who that has lived in Elizabeth for
the past few months has not fully
learned to shun contact with the publi-
cation which proclaims itself the Eliza
beth DAILY MONITOR ?'-Union County
Herald.
Well, we hope the good people of
Elizabeth will continue to " shun" us in
thesame way in the future as in the past.
We have no reason to complain of our
treatment in this city, and cannot for
the life of us, understand why the
Herald should take it so much to heart.
In the meantime we invite our friends
and the public to call at any hour of
the day, and witness one of the fastest
power presses working off our daily
edition, which increases every day,
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09

The largest wire-rope cable in the
country, being 5,S7S feet in length
was turned ont at Roebling's Mill Tren-
ton. The Gazette says it is to be rails
ell on an inclined plane at solomon S
Gap, on the Lehigh & Susquehanna
Railroad, to draw heavy coal train
over the mountains. In making wire
rope, it used to require what is usually
called rope walk, at least half mile
in length But by an invent IN Of Mr.
Roebling, the walk is dispensed wit! T..
aud the rope is twisted in the middle
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09
L0ST---e5 REWARD.

On Saturday evening, roll of Bills, amounting
to 49, in one $40, two SOS one SO. The above re-
ward will DO paid by roor min il the money is re-
turned to this office by the finder. st
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09
E0uMl.

GONE months ago, on Elizabeth avenue, between
y the Rope Walk and First street, Pocket Book
containing small sum of money. Call at Monitor
Office. az NV
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09
FOR SALE.

THE HOUSE AND LOT, No. 81 William street,
u near Catharne street. House Is by % feet,
with kitchen attached. Lot 90 by 100 feet Fine
garden. Price S2s00. Possession immediately
Apply ON the premises, a19 If
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09
HOUSE FOR SALE.

TINE NEW HOUSE, No. TIA East Grand street,
| containing eight rooms, good cellar, well and
cistern with water in the house. All modern i'm
provements and conveniences. Apply on the prem
ises. During the present month will be sold for
$4,000 jy20 If
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09
NOTICE.

TAILS, Offices and all public buildings cleaned
1 and kept in order by S. +. RANDOLPH, Sex
ton of the Broad street Baptist Church. Orders
may be left at Hltons Stove Store corner of Broad
and Washington streets. JIG tt
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09
TO LET.

DART of double house, six rooms pleasantly
situated and very convenient. Apply on the
premises, Walnut street, between Magnolia and
Mary streets az lw*
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09

The ELIZABETH DAILY MONITOR is
published at 155 BROAD STREET, near
ly opposite the National State Bank, by
j. MADISON DRAKE,
Editor and Proprietor.
The DAILY MONITOR will be served to subscribers at
TWELVE CENTS A WEEK.
Mr.. GEORGE Z. VAN BIARCUM has route in the
upper part of the city Orders may be left at this
office. Mr.. WILLIAM G.. JONES will supply those at
the Port.
Copies may be obtained at 1856 Broad street.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-09

The California talk of making Alaska
regular summer watering plnce.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-30

A WARM REcEPTIoN.-Last Saturday
a prominent attorney of this county and
an assignee of an involuntary bankrupt
in town not great distance from Mont.
pelier, went to the house of the impecu.
NOUS individuals father to demand GER
tain property supposed to be in the hands
of said father for safe keeping. 1t was
just at the dinner hour, but the attorney,
declining the courteous invite to dine
proceeded to read the list of articles and
animals claimed as the property of the
bankrupt. The father listened to the
roll, till becoming disguised with its
length he told the attorney he had heard
enough-he didn't think it quite polite
to read aloud about sheep and cattle of
the male gender before the ladies and
starting for the stsve poured a pitcher of
water from the tea-kettle and threw it
into the face and bosom of the reader
Luckily the clothes and whiskers of the
lawyer in some measure protected him,
or he would have been much more Sc
riously scalded. The attorney left, but
the end is not yet reached. = Montpelier
Freeman.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-30

A speok of second hand rebellion has
turned up in few counties of Georgia
where the people are resisting the reve-
nue. laws, and are very defiant and out
spoken in their opposition to federal au-
thority, whereupon the administration
has informed them that they may yield
to the civil authority, or take the mill
itary, and company of u. S. infantry
has been ordered to the scene of this lit
tie rebellion.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-30

HoRRTD MURDER. DIsAP-
PEARANcE OF THE BoDY.--While a
number of the villagers of North Gran
vile, N. Y, were engaged sn berrying
few days since, a certain lady of the
party, who had little from the rest,
suddenly came upon the prostrote body
of a young man, from whose horribly
gashed throat the blood was still flowing.
as it was also from his mangled features.
The lady gave one scream, and dropped
her pail of berries, set out on a run to
the nearest house. The story of the
murder flew like wildfre through the
village. Five or six of the prominent
men of the place, the sheriff and his
deputy, and a number of citizens imme-
diately started, under guidance of the la
dy, for thespot where the murdered mans
body lay. Strange to say, no body could
be found, and, still stranger, neither could
the nice pail of berries which the fright
ened lady had dropped when she started
to run. 1t is now the impression in that
quarter, that the blood in the c.se was
nothing thicker than raspberry juice.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-30

Two BOYS CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Daniel Green and Thomas Toomey,
each about Is years of age, are under
arrest at Lawrence for the murder of
Michael Carney, lad of eleven years.
1t appears that the murder arose from a
demand made on the Carney boy for to-
bacco, of which he had none to give
them They then began to pound and
kick him, and tumble him about. They
threw or knocked him down, and while
one held him the other turned his legs
about, as clothes are wrung, almost put
ting them out of JOINT, and it is said that
one of his hip joints was dislocated.-
His back, belly, sides and hips were
black and blue, mixed with livid col
or, which indicated terrible violence
They robbed him of two cents, all he
had in his pocket, and left him on the
ground. He got home at night, some
how, and went to bed, but never rose
from it again.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-30

AN. ENGLIsHMAN'sR EpoRT.-Th fol-
lowing isan- extraot from private let
ter addressed by an English gentleman
travelling in the United States to men,
Fberof the British govern ment:
never felt so ashamed of our sympa-
thy with the Southerners as when l was
in the South. The slave-owners tell you
with the most brazen faces that they are
better now than they were before One
large slave-owner said to me, "The Yam
KEGS whipped us cut of slavery, but they
could not-whip US into it again" An
other told me he grew larger crops with
twenty-five free negroes than he had done
with seventy.fve slaves. They have
found out already that the rebellion was
economically an enormous blunder; a
handsome cause for us to encourage them
in-thereby estranging the North for a
generation or two! They have not learned
in America yet thatwe have ceased to
intervene in foreign quarrels. Every
body takes for granted that we shall
-sosn be deep in a continental war an
idea which has a good deal to do with
their refusal to settle the Alabama mat
ter. Mr.. Sumner said to me that in any
European complication Tngland might
be counted off .so'long rs her American
trouble was unsettled. Somebody of the
French Embassy had gone home last
week, and he was going to point that out
to the Emperor. Il said, Eyes, Eng
land might'be counted off, not by her
American trouble, but by the determin-
alton Of her people to keep their hand
out Of these wretched strifes. We had
put off our fighting clothes, and would
not put them on till we were attacked or
insulted ourselves" He received my
statement as in some measure new, and
said that if that were SO, it was the
strongest evidence he had heard Of our
growing civilization. Our countrymen
generally have the same expectation
itis amazing how little the two coun-
tries know of each other.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-30
A YER'S CATHARTIC PILLS.
For all the purposes of a Laratip

For all the purposes Of a Laratiue
Medicine.
Perhaps no one medicine is SO universally required
by body as cathartc, nor was ever any before
universally adopted into use. in every country and
among all classes as this mild but efficient purgatye
Pill The obvious reason is, that it is more reliable
and far more etectual remedy than any other Those
who have tried it, know that it cured them and those
who have not know that it cures their neighbors and
friends and all know that what it does once it does
always-that it never fails through any fault neg
| lect of its composition. We have thousands upon
thousands of certificates Of their remarkable
of the following complaints, but such cures are
known in every neighborhood, and we need not pub
climates containing neither calomel or any deleter
ious drug, they may be taken with safety by any
ooay Ihelr sugar coating preserves then ever fresh
ly vegetable no harm can arise from their in any
They operate by their powerful influence on the
internal yiseera to purify the blood and stimulate it
into healthy aetion-remove the distractions of the
stomach, bowels, liver, and other organs of the body
restoring their irregular action health and by cor
recting, wherever they exist such arrangements as
are the first origin of disease.
Minute directions given in the wrapper on the
box for the following complaints which these Pills
For Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Listlessness. Ian
guor and Loss Of appetite. they should be taken
moderately to stimulate the stomach and restore its
healthy tone to action.
For Liver Complaint and its various symptoms
Bilious Headache. Sick Headache. Jaundice or
b Sickness Bilious Colie and Bilious Fevers,
correct the diseased action or remove the obstruet-
ions which cause it.
For Dysentery or Darrhea- but one mild dose is
generally required. - -
;, For Rheumatism. Gout. Gravel Palpitaton of the
Heart Pain in the Side, Back and Lons, they should
9e CONTINUOUSLY taken. as required, to change the
diseased action of the system. With such change
those complaints disappear.
For Dropsy and Dropsical Swellings they should
DE aken IN large and frequent doses to produce the
effect of n drastic purge.
For Suppression large dose should be taken as II
produces the desir ed effect by sympathy.
, As Dinner Pill, take one or two Pills to promote
digestion and relieve the stomach
An occasional dose stimulates the stomach and
bowels into healthy action, restores the appetite
and lnvigorates the system. Hence it is often adj,
outrageous where no serious arrangement exists
One who feels toerably we'll often finds that dose
Of these Pills make him feel decidedly better, from
heir cleansing and renovating effect on the digestive
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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-30

= 1t is remarkable fact, and one
which shows how dependent a large por-
ton of the South has hitherto been up
on the mechanical resources of the North,
that there is not paper mill in Louisi-
ana, Texassor Mississippi. Newspapers,
however, are quite numerous, and in New
Orleans alone over six thousand pounds
of paper ale used daily for printing pur-
poses. Now, however. a project for a
paper mill has just been started in that
city.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-30
: A young Tennessee girl. having q

A young Tennessee girl, having ar
ranged to elope with her lover. last Tues
day night, descended by rope tied to
her bed-post from front window and es-
capped, while the father with double
barrelIed shotgun, was awaiting the ar
rival of her lover behind the house.
Elopements must be more than ordinari-
ly exciting affairs in Tennessee.