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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-09-03

SPONTANEOUS CoMBUsTIoN.-It is not at all
improbable that the fire at Judge Hawley' 8
residence night before last had its origin in
the spontaneous combustion Of some oiled
rags left in the back part Of the house. A
Chinese servant had been in the habit of
cleaning lamps and piling the oiled rags On a
shelf in one of the rear rooms of the house
1t was in this room that the fire was first dis
covered and just behind the shelf where the
rags had been left the siding was burned CON-
pletely away. The greater portion of the
house was burned inside, and although per-
son passing the place would hardly notice
anything wrong, the loss arising from the
burning of twelve rooms ont Of sixteen and
the damage arising from moving furniture is
estimated at about $1,000 The house and
furniture was insured for IS 600 in the Fire
man Fund Insurance Company.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-09-03

Carson Sep. I'd 1880.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-28

ADIEs AND STORE-KEEPERS-
 l 4 get Choice Goods cheap by writing on a Postal for Price List which enables you to order by ma il the best way, and the many kinds of Merchandise keep for sale at surprisingly low pri- We send samples of Hamburgs, Laces, Ribbons, Frnges, &c, if requested We sell Wholesale Re- tail for Cash down. A new combination system en- ables to quote very close prices We have $1, S2 and S5 packages of notions which cannot be bought for twice the money elsewhere, all wanted in every family. Money returned if not satisfactory. HOUGH- TON < DUTTON, 55 Fremont St., Boston, Mass.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-28

John H. Reagan was the Postmaster Gen. Der of Congress, and the author of the bill removing the prohibition contained in the Revised Statutes which forbids any officer of the Government to pay any account or claim to any person not known to have been op- posed to the rebellion and in favor of it's suppression It is estimated that the passage of this bill would allow the payment of $1, ,oOo, 900 which cannot be paid under exist ing laws. One of Mir. Reagans let ters to Jeff Davis has been found in the rebel archives now in possession of the Gov ernnent and it contains interesting matter. This letter is upon the subject of the terms of surrender and contains the following : ''In the final adjustment we should endeaVor to secure provisions for the auditing of the debt of the Confederacy and for its payment, in common with the war debt of the United States. We may ask this on the ground that we did not seek the war, but only sought a peaceful separation to secure our people and States from the effects of unconstitutional encroachment of the other States, and be- cause, in the principle of equity, allowing that both parties had acted in good faith and gone to war on @ misunderstanding which admitted of no other solution, and now agree to reconciliation and burial of the past, it would be unjust to compel our people to assist in the payment of the war debt of the United States and for them to refuse to allow such of the revenues as we might contribute to be applied to the payment of our credit tors" Have we any proof that Reagan and the other ex-Confederates are of any differ ent opinion to-day?
Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-28
City Folk as Farmers.

From the St. Paul (NIinn) Pioneer Press.J
 Old fashioned farmer folk rub their eyes in surprise at the great humber of intelligent well-to-do city bred people, who, in these late years, are establishing their families on the broad acres The fact is perhaps due not so much to any decided rural tastes on the. part of city merchants and business men as to con- alterations touching the health and physical vigor of their growing families. Children run too much to nerves and brains in the city. The best blood in the city is constant ly enriched by accessions from the country and heads of families who have derived TO- bust constitutions from early years spent on the farm view with dismay the narrow chests and fabby muscles of their offspring who at the close of each term proudly show the proos of high standing in the city schools. Two or three consecutive generations of city life, unless undersxceptionally favorable con ditionf of wealth and intelligent eyesight in rearing the young. inevitably result in physi- cal degeneration. Pulmonary diseases es- pecially seem to flower out of mental activity and highly artificial social conditions; and thanks to the general diffusion of physiologi- cal and hygienic information, hundreds of bright and capable families are now leaving the cities and seeking the natural antidote for this tendency in closer alliance with the soil and the simple pleasures of pastoral life
 To cultivated city people with healthy in- stincts farm life is now rendered much more enduraDIe than 1Ornerly, duu WILL prOpoI degree of courage and independence it may be made positively delightful. The intro duction of agricultural machinery has made farm labors easier both indoors and out. And as homesteads are freed from debt larger number of tasteful country residences now mark the abodes of men who dare to express their sense of beauty in rural architecture. Where the neighboring schools do not afford adequate educational facilities, sons and daughters are sent of, one or two at time, to boarding school or academy. The railroad brings visiting relatives every season, and the daily mail brings the roar of the great world near enough for comfort, while the latest books and magazines serve to tighten toll and sweeten leisure.
 Mir. Orrin Freeman, of Higganum, died Thursday morning at two o'clock. He had been in poor health for several years, but about week ago, it is thought he received shock from which he did not recover Mir Freeman was formerly one of the most promi- nent men in the county, and was widely and favorably known to every one in that section, and for many years he had the entire control of the Middlesex turnpike, and was it's last owner.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-28
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Builders this season are all contracting, notwithstanding the business boom.-Cincin- nati Times-Star.
 We do not know as green apples belong to any secret fraternity, yet they seem to have the grip.-Marathon Independent.
 Sound steamer has not been wrecked for more than two days, and the cause of the &C., cident is unknown.-Norristown Herald
 s'Young Mother wants to know if green healthy, but the people who eat them are not. Lowell Sun.
 The Democrats regret that Gray had not written one line of his Elegy. ''One village Hampton give us rest. "-New York Con- mercial Advertiser.
 of Jones attempts to pull my ears," said a loud d-mouthed fellow on 8 street corner, Che will just have his hands full :" The crowd looked at the mans ears and smiled.
 A Danbury young man bought an accord con and took lessons. A month later his wife presented him with an heir. Not being able to hold it's own the accordeon is offered for sale.-Danbury News.
 good mother was recently telling to her little three -year-old the story of Samuel how the Lord called him, &c., and asked the little one what she would do if the Lord should call her. ''Say ain't here don't want to go,' was the prompt response We are pleased to learn that sealskin dol mans. forty to f1fty-two inches long, trimmed with hair in beaver, about seven inches deep, will be the fashionable thing in furs this winter, and will retail at $500. We were afraid they were going to be dear.-Norris- town Herald.
 colored widow in Lexington, Ky, who is now drawing pension of IS a month from the Government, recently rejected an offer of marriage. remarking, by way of ex- planation: If does, the Gubment will take my penshun way, an nary nigger in Kaintuck is wuff eight dollars month to me-"
 An amusing instance of the 1ngenuonsness of childhood is related by lady residing in New Britain, whose locks have become tinged slightly with gray. A little daughter about four years old, the other day, while sitting in her lap, ran her fingers through her mothers hair. and suddenly exclaimed ''Oh, mamma, you've got lot of basting threads in your hair ''-New Britain Herald.
 Doctor" said a lisping fashionable belle, who had graduated at half dozen boarding schools, to a friend of ours, who had just been introduced to her at an evening party, Doctor, which do you prefer, tholidity of intellect or brilliantly? Thum admire tho lidity; but ath for me, as Shakethpeare thayth in hith Bride of Abydoth, prefer tholidity and brilliantly combined " The doctor sank into the nearest chair exhausted.
 The following incident, related by the Buff felo Express, is vouched for as genuine by that paper: ''Dr L. called upon a lady &C., quaintance the other day and was met at the door by the lady little girl. He asked her to tell her mamma that Dr. l.. had called. The child went up stairs and presently re- turned Did you tell your mamma, asked the doctor Yes And what did she say ? She said, o, pshaw !'''
Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-28
The Roughs ofLOndon.
A London letter says:

A London letter says:
 An example of the abject and wholesome dread of bodily pain which the London ruffian experiences may be found in the history of parrotery This cowardly method of assault first set Londoners in terror in 1860; the term of imprisonment dealt out to those convicted of the crime was extended to penal servitude for life in 1861, but still without avail. and it was not until 1863, when the garroter was logged, that the practice ceased. They Iive.n says the writerof an article on Thieves and thieying," published in the C0r'Hlt5U Maqnztne, .sThey live in the benumbing atmosphere of constant dread, and whilst an acquaintance with the thieves quarters re vealed to me the amazing subtlety and clevr ness of the pilfering fraternity, it also taught me the guilty fear, the wretchedness, the moral guilt and the frightful hardships that fall to the lot of the professional thief" /" From the low-browed, ragged little prig who began his criminal career by purloining turnip from green-grocer's stall up to the Rreyhaired criminal with heart worn into hardness, there is nota more forlorn, abject, harassed wretch in the world than the poor, threodbare, timid London thief. The swell mobsman" who wears fashionable clothes has 8 good time of it-untn he is Jagged d'-but he exists in very small numbers Ihere IS an upper and lower class among the London thieves but the aristocracy and 60a'yeOssae are slimIy represented. Few in number, however, as these thin Qenteel and innocent-looklng mem bers of the f'swell-mob'' are they are almost as dangerous in their paucity as the spiritless, wretched, hang-dog, mean and shabby herd.
 The dangerous classes of London are gre garsous, and chiefly live in the east and south sides of London, although they are not con fined to any particular quarter of the city For the benefit of those readers of the Chron icIe. who may wish when they visit the mod ern Babylon to explore it's purieus, a cores pondent of the times, who made such an e1- ploration, may be quoted: The quarter around Kent street in the borough, " he says, lis almost wholly tenanted by complete fra ternity of thieves, and the houses they occupy are very good property, for they will pay al- most any amount of rent and pay it regularly for the sake of keeping together. The aspect
Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-28
Price Four Cents.

of this quarter is low, foul and dingy. Obseenity of language and conduct is of course common to all parts of it, but 1t is not, as rule, ariotous neighborhood''. Blanchard Jerold, who has been before referred to, speaks of the "hideous tenants that are stacked around the B1uegate Fields ragged schools in Shadwell ''the densely packed haunts of poverty and crime" Once with Dore he braved the horrors and humors Of Tiger Bay, his experience being thus graph ically recited: ''We plunge" writes he, ''into a maze of courts and narrow streets of low houses, nearly all the doors of which are open, showing the kitchen fires far in the interior, and strange figures, moving about. Whistling shouts, oaths, growls and the brazen laughter of tipsy women are the sounds heard; there are black pools of water under foot, and riband of violent gray sky overhead. From low house to low house we go, picking up some fresh scraps of the his tory of poverty and crime at every turn. At dark corners lurking men kept close to the' wall and the police smile as we wonder what would become of lonely wanderer who should find himself in these regions unpro- tected. He would be stripped to the shirt, says the superintendent The New Cut and Clare Market are also recommended as places where the curious observer can see the poor est and lowest of Londons population more densely packed, and the by-streets of South wark are infested by young thieves and their infamous companions. There is no core spending character to the NewYork rowdy in London, although roughs are found wher- ever there is a crowd.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-28
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

The Popular Science Monthly has the fol lowing table of contents for September: The Science of Comparative Jurisprudence by William M Twins State Education, a Help or Hindrance? By the Hon. Auberon Her. bert; How Animals Digest, by Herman L. Fairchild Qllustrated) The Solar System and It's Neighbors, by C.. B. Warning, Ph. D.. Le- gal Prosecutions of Animals, by William Jones, F. s. A.; Psychogenesis in the Human Infant, by Professor W. Preyer; Climbing Plants, by Francis Darwin, F. l.. $. Cillustra- ted); Esthethic Feeling in Birds, by Profes- sor Grant Allen; Electricity and Agriculture, by Dr. Pagett Higgs Geological Education, by Professor w. s. Barnard; The English Precursors of Newton; Night Schools in New Cork and Paris, by Alice H. Rhine Sketch of Joseph Leidy, M. D. (with portrait) Cor respondencs; Editors Table; Literary No tices Popular Miscellany; Notes
 The September number of the North Amer ican Review contains seven articles. The first is the initial paper by M. Charnay on ssThe Ruins of Central America" This ar- ticle is illustrated from photographs, which aid materially in the study of the text Fol lowing this article is on '''Fhe Perpetuity of Chinese Institutions, " from the pen of S. Wells Williams. The writer has been resi- dent in China for many years, and is thor oughly conversant with the language, institu- tions and social conditions which he discuss es. General John w. Clampitt, the surviv- ing member of Mrs. Surratt's counsel, writes upon ''The Trial of Mrs. Surratt.' The au- thor sincerely believes that Mrs, Surratt was innocent of the crime for which she suffered death and expresses himself feelingly. ''The Personality of God' is treated by the meta physical writer, W. T. Harris. R. B. Forbes gives some valuable suggestions in reference to 'tSteamboat Disasters. " The Rev. Edward Everett Hale follows with paper upon ''In- sincerity in the Pulpit, that will hardly fail to draw some protests from his brother clergy men. The number closes with a review of several recent works on the Brain and Nerves, by Dr. George NJ. Beard.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-28

MT. Edward Atkinson lately called attention to the mistake made by most cotton planters in not utilizing the seed after it's separation crop of 6,OO0,O ,O0O bales of cotton which will be produced this year, there will be, after reserving enough for next years planting,
 5000, GOO tons of seed, from which can be expressed 90, ,OOo, ,ooo gallons of oil,- leaving 1,30O, 1000 tons of oil cake, and l, 500. 900 tons of hulls, fiom which last there is every req son to suppose from recent experiments,
 75O,000 tons of paper may be made. Each ton of the oil cake, Mir. Atkinson estimates,
 will carry five sheep for six months, while the rest of the year they would have ample food from the annual grasses that are the pest of the cotton planter, COW peas, and the corn
Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The much taIksd-of correspondence of Generals Sherman and Hancock in the win ter of 1S76-77, when the contest for the Presidency was in progress, is published, and there is nothing in it to the discredit of either Sherman or Hancock It simply shows that they wanted to be sure as to their duty, and were prepared to do it.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-28

fodder or other refuse. and thus from 14, ,O00, GOO to 2o,OoO, 900 sheep could be main tained that would add to rather than detract from the fertility of the soil. In comment ing upon these figures the Louisville Courier Journal remarks that Mir. Atkinson only states half of what may be accomplished during the next generation, and in sadness complains that, "while the men who raise wheat and the men who mill it are alive to all that affects their interests, while they are watching every change in machinery and in every way building up that industry in all it's branches, the portion of the community engaged in the cultivation and manufacture of cotton in the Southern States is idle and unconcerned.'
Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-28

The towns about Hartford are cutting their tobacco and report the crop excellent in qual- ity and auantity.
 A benevolent New London vessel owner captured one of four thieves he caught steal ing cordage, but finding his captive was poor and hungry, he took him home to breakfast and let him go.
 Vessels used to come to New London har- bor to destroy the barnacles on their hulls, the fresh water proving sure death to them. Of late years, however, the waters have so in- creased their saline properties that barnacles are attaching themselves to floats in the har- bor. and are nourished and sustained where they could not live before.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-28
Snlrnal all0 Courier.
Saturday Morning, August 2s, 1880.
STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET.

FOR GOVERNOR, HOBART B. BIGELOw, Of New Haven FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, WILLIAM H. BULKELEY, Of Hartford
 FOR SECRETARY OF STATR CHARLES E. SEARLs, of Thoanpson. FOR TREASURER. DAVID P. NICHOLS, of Danbury.
 FOR CONTROLLER, w. T. BACHELLER, Of Winchester,
 FOR ELECToRs-AT-LARGR, HENRY B. NORTON. of Norwich. ABIJAH CATLIN, of HnrSvimton.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-28
Such Friendsg


 Perhaps no man ever had such friends as I have," pathetically remarked the venerable Mir. English to his sympathetic friends from New Haven, who met him at the Windsor House, New York, on Tuesday. And as he spoke his memory wandered back over the period since he made his first essay in politics some fourteen years ago, and brought to mind the hosts of friends who shouted for him whenever he opened a 'barreP and coldly 'went back on him" whenever there was & prize to be awarded He thought of the numerous contributions he had made and recalled the friends who had handled his checks and by their aid had secured Demo- cratic Legislatures in order that Messrs Bar mum and Eaton might be United States Sen, ators Perhaps no man ever had such friends" Sad memory brought the light of the days in 1873, when his New Haven friends nominated him for Congress and on election day elected the Hon. s. w. Kellogg by GOO majority. He thought of the friends who encouraged him to be @ candidate for the presidential nomination in 1868, of the liberal manner in which he paid their bills, and of the ignominious way in which he was deserted at the end. He recalled the bright hopes of the early spring time of 1880, when his praises great statesman were so ib- erally sounded and he was assured of "a solid Connecticut delegation at Cincinnati, with the probable support of New York and New Jersey. And then he remembered that when the hour of trial came, when his friends were to be tested that he secured just one vote while the other less genial and generous English secured nomination. Is he to be condemned because when this flood of bitter recollections overwhelmed him and he thought of the numerous times when he had been deserted by his alleged friends he e1- claimed, ''D-n a man who goes back on his friends" and then added, Perhaps no man ever had such friends as I have" There are General Hancock knows when a trifing outburst of profanity seems pardon ahI
Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-28

General Martin, of Mississippi, has been making some Democratic speeches in Yer mont, but after few expressions like the following he was withdrawn by the Demo- cratic managers: 'eWe are charged with stealing the negro vote. We'll, are we to blame for it /? Those who gave the negro Q vote forgot the Lords prayer, if they ever knew it, especially the clause which says
 Lead us not into tempation.' They gave the right to vote to the negro. By so doing they gave to the South forty-six additional electoral votes and forty six additional membersof Con gress. Now we determined to get those electo- ral votes and those members of Congress, and we got them. Are we to blame for it The Republicans tempted and we fell. Now that we have them we propose to keep them" !"
 The night medical service of which an ac- count has been given in these columns, is now in operation in New York city. Physi- clans willing to make visits at night for s each have furnished their names to the Health Department to the number of more than 300. If those requiring aid are unable to pay, the police captain of the precinct certifes to that fact, and the physician gets his money from the public funds. The appropriation for this purpose is 5000, but if the plan works satisfactorily the amount will be increased. The service is obviously open to abuses. Physicians are called upon very slight pre- texts, and when it is learned that these visits will be paid for by the city, under the cir cumstances mentioned, the appropriations may need to be very large to pay the bills. The price per visit will remunerate the phy sician, and he becomes reasonably sure of his money. The benefit of the system will depend entirely zpon it's management.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-11-04

bill. although the letter Of the bond
only called for a little over six dollars.
The money will be applied to the
fund for carpeting the church, and We
understand that It is the design OF the
noble southern ladies to repeat their
effort at an early day, and again and
again, until, in the language OF one OF
them, cotton pickings shall become
as fashionable amusements as quilting
parties we're with our southern
mothers"
AN praise to these fair harveSters
say we, and praise to all who ennoble
any industry peculiar to the sky and
solid God save us: On Saturday they
builded wiser than they knew, for
they demonstrated that there we're fair
hands in all our drawing rooms and
suiet places hat were ready in hour
Of need as in days Grape Swallowed but
fondly remembered, 10 strike where
good blows and strong hearts count,
when robust men grow faint hearted
and respond.
On Saturday when these noble
danes and sunny-haired girls were
laughingly plying their nimble fingers
in the southern harvest, there were
those in lands where the winters
breath is chilling, denouncing them as
a race of pampered sloths, and next
Tuesday tens of thousands Of theil
hearers will endorse the cruel ISLANDERS
at the polls-but no matter, so long al
southern men are true to southern wo
men, and southern women obey the
noble instincts of their souls, all vii
be we'll,