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Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-20

The House met at 1O:sd Speaker Marcy in the chair. Prayer WAS offered by Chaplain Sage.
 COMMITTEE REPORTS.
 Committee reports were submitted follows and ta- Female sufrage-Mr. Hollister, chairman, favorable bill conferTing right women to vote on matters Oommittee on Joint Rules-Mr. Lewis, chairman, substitute bill de signing of public acts. Judiciary-Mr. stanton, chairman, favorable on granting letters of administration on the estate of de grand jurors favorsbie on referring bill de public onenses admitting of places where liquor is so to be other balls to the Joint Standing Committse on Tenn go % ana Catherine Condon favorable on referring bills de mil nority representation to Oommtee on olles ana DOT oughs ordered favorable on granting letters of ad ministraton estate of Gilbert 0. Bascom Of Nor wch, motion of Mir Carpenter the rules were sus- pended and resolution passed; favorable bill reat State Prison-Mr Parker, chairman, favorable on releasing George Beebe from State prison; unfavor- able on petitions of Henry Payne, Charles Walton Will liam Fl. Gum, George B: Larphere, John Warren and Tnsurance-Mr BatteIl, chairman, unfavorable on bill de regulation of Insurance Commissioners fees resolution ordering official history of Battle Esg Day Fisheries-Mr. Beiden, chairman, substitute bill regulating steam dredging for oysters.
 SENATE BUSINESS.
 Various matters from the Senate were disposed of in concurrence.
 POWER TO KILL DISEASED ANIMALS
 MT. Hosg, of Sherman, moved to reconsider the conferrng power on the State Board of Agriculture kill diseased animals. He informed that the bill present out of the control of the House, being in the Senate.
 THE CALENDAR.
 Business on the calendar was taken up and the bill relating to the impeachment of witnesses, reported favorably from the Judiciary, was rejected.
 The bill providing that every man possessed of homestead to the amount of $500 shall hold the exempt from attachment WAS opposed by MT. stanton as not being wise enactment and was rejected. House bn Mo- 2l6, relating to taxation, reported unfavoraby from the Judiciary Committee, explained and opposed by Mir. Nichols and rejected.
 The hu concerning tolls of horse railroad compa-
Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-20
Exemplary Damages.

suit was begun some time ago by Moses Levison, of New Rochelle, against the New York; New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co., for exemplary damages for being escted from of the of the company af- ter having paid his fare. The up for trial before Judge Wallace, in the United States Circuit Court at New York Monday, and WAS concluded Wednesday afternoon. The jury rendered verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $750.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-20

WANTEIs VNIvE GOOD MOULDERS immediately. Steady f work and good pay. Men accustomed to machine work preferred. Apply in person to
 OLINTONVILLE AGL. WORKS,
 Chntonville, Conn. Ford6 6tafio AirT Tjna R R 0nnd
Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-20
BIRTHS,
MARRIAGES.

this city, Feb. 10th a son to MT. Flu
 gene R. Hubbard.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-20
HOUSE

The House met at 10:S6 Speaker Marcy in the chair. Prayer was offered by Chaplain Sage.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-20
City Court Notes.

There but little business fer the City Court yes terday morning. Edward Kinsella was before the court charge Of drunkenness and breach of peace in that he assaulted his wife by kicking her. He plead guilty to the first charge, but denied the second The evidence against him considered conclusive by Judge Pardee, he fined him s1 and costs for the drunk and sent him to jail for thirty days for the sal1It
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-12-02

in Sacramento, or New Helvetia, also came up to fabulous prices that winter. By the month of October the rush from Oregon caused the Oregon papers to stop publication. In December the Kanakas and Sonorians came in swarms A Hon. olulu letter, Nov. II, said:
 Such another excitement as the news from California created here the world never saw. think not less than 300 persons will leave before Jan. l, and if the news continues good the whole for eign population, except missionaries will go"
 The news did continue good, and they came, some missionaries included. Soon there came up from the mines complaints of outrage and lawlessness, mostly against Kanakas and other foreigners. How well they were founded, to what they led, and how they were suddenly and summarily silenced, is story that GOV CTS very interesting part of the history of California, and the progress of civil zation in America.
 SAMUEL SEABoUGH.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-12-02
Talked Her Jaw Out of Joint.
Louisville Courier-Journal


 While engaged in controversy Sun day afternoon with some neighbors in the ally between Market and Nam and Preston and, Jackson, Malinda Holmes, a negro woman, endeavored to give em- phasis to her words by throwing her face into all sorts of shapes, Ia Ker- sands, in doing which she jerked her jaw out of place. After it had assumed the dislocated position her most frantic efforts failed to budge it, which scared he so that she though of the sweet by and-by" was close at hand. Her antag- onists in the toneue-iaskinG encounter became frightened, too, and ran for Dr. Corrigan and told him that Malinda had the lock-jaw. When the doctor reached the place where free speech had been interrupted, he found her pacing to and fro in the room, her arms folded majestl- cally over her head and her mouth wide open, from which protruded her tongue. Tapping up and down in spasmodic effort to say something, but, as she was unable to divide the noise she was mak- ing into words, she gave vent to her locked-up feelings in meaningless grunts. The doctor seized hold of her refractory jaw and jerked it into it's pace again, when her tongue resumed it's wonted wag, and she returned to the conflict, assuring her adversaries that the Lord could stop her tongue, but they could not.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-12-02
Eighteen.

At eighteen the true narrative of life is yet to be commenced. Before that time we sit listening to tale--a marvel ous fction--delightful sometimes and sad sometimes; always unreal. Before that time our world is heroIc-its inhab- itants half divine or semi-demon; its scenes are dream. scenes; darker woods and stranger hills, brighter skies, more dangerous waters, sweeter flowers, more tempting fruits, wider plains, drearier deserts, sunnier fields than are found in nature, overspreads our enchanted globe. What moon we gaze on before that timel How the trembling of our hearts at her aspect bears witness to it's unut- terable beauty! As to our sun, it is a burning heaven--the world of gods. At that time at eighteen-drawing near the confines of Elusive, void dreams, Elf-land lies before us, the shores of reality rise in front. These shores are yet distinct; they look so blue, soft gen tie, we long to reach them. In sunshine we see a greenness beneath the azure as of spring meadows; we catch glimpses of silver lines, and imagine the rol of living waters. Could we but reach this land we think to hunger and thirst ID more; whereas, many wilderness, and often the flood of death. or some stream of sorrow, as cold and almost as black as death, is to be crossed ere true bliss can be tasted. Every joy that life gives must be earned ere 1t is secured; and how hardly earned those only know who have wrestied for the great prizes. The hearts blood must grace with red beads the brow of the combatant before the wreath of victory rustles over it. At eighteen we are not aware of this. Hope, when she smiles upon us, and promises happiness tomorrow, is inn plicitly believed. Love, when he come, wandering like lost angel at our door. is at once admitted, welcomed, embraced; his culver is not seen; if the arrows pen citrate, their wound is like thrill of new life; there are no fears of poison, none of the barb which no leechs hand can extract; that perilous passion-no agony ever in some of it's phases, with many one agony throughout-is believed to be an unqualified good. In short, at eighteen the school of experience is to be entered, and her humble, crushing, grinding, but purifying and invigorating lessons, are yet to be learned. Alasl ex- perience? No other mentor has so wasted and frozen face as yours; none wears robe so black, none bears a rod so heavy; none with hand so inexora- ble draws the novIce so sternly to his task, and forces him with an authority so resistless to it's requirement. It is by your instructions alone that man or woman can ever find safe track through life's wilds; without it, low they stumble, how they stray; on what forbidden ground do they stray; on what forbidden ground do they intrude; down what dread declivities are they hurled!
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-12-02
The Bartlett Family.
London World.

Readers may be interested to know some accurate details regarding the fam ily of MT. Ashmead Bartlett, the gentle man who is still believed will marry Lady Burdett-C Coutts On the fathers side Mr. Bartlett lcomes purely of English de- scent, one of the oldest and best families of New England. The Bartletts of Mas sachusetts are equally as well known in the United States as any of the older families are in England. MT. Ashmead Bartlett's ancestor, Captain Bartlett-the name is variously spelled Barttelot, Bartlet and Bartlett in the documents now existing in the Franklin library was one of the band of Puritan refugees that, landing on Plymouth Rock in 1643, founded the colony. For two centuries and half his descendants have filled prominent positions as lawyers, politi- clans and soldiers. Not the least among these was that of governor of the State of New Hampshire. whose name stands among the signers of the Declaration of Independence, an honor ot which those American families who can claim 1t are justly proud. Two, if not three, Gen. Bartletts distinguished themselves great ly in the civil ar which ended in 1865. Mir. Bartlett's father was, from remark ably early age, well known as cultured scholar, linguist and able mathemati- clan. His life was mainly devoted to literary pursuits, and his early death cut short the promise of what all who knew him believed must have been an emi- nent career. On his mothers side MT. Bartlett belongs to a family not less well known in the ancient State of Pennsyl- wanna, and resident there for period only generation less than the Bartletts in New England. They, too, were of purely English origin, and migrated wIth William Penn. In the old rough maps of Penn's colony, traced by himself, a large square of territory, covered now by the leafy avenues and old-fashioned houses of Philadelphia, is marked as the settlement ground ot the Ashmeads. Mir. John Asbmead, the grandfather of Mir. Bartlett, was eminent for his legal knowledge and for his ever ready be- nevolence.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-12-02
NO. 45.

ers." the eyebrows can be arched or strengthened; the coler can be controlled toa high degree. Thus it is apparent that woman can ifclever, have to some extent the kind of face she wants. The nose is about the only intractable feature. It sticks right out in unalterable inde- pendence, defying all efforts to shorten or straighten 1t. Let me interpolate the fact that not one woman in ten ever laughs or smiles naturally. Knowing full well our defects of teeth or expres- sion, we try to hide or reform them. I know a girl who will never go to the minstrels or any other funny show, because she isn't pretty when she laughs. If inadvertently caught by something comic. she buries the laugh in handkerchief; but whenever pos sible she does all her laughing inter nallv. This wrenches her terribly, and sooner or later some of her vitals will get broken all to pieces: but she prefers death to display of her seraggy teeth,
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-12-02
TIGHT SKIRTS.
Their Inconvenience for WaIking--Full
 Trousers Suggested.


 Trousers Suggested.
 Another Bloomer costume would seem to be imminent if the following communi- cation, made by Lady Habberton to the London Queen, were likely to find gen. eral favor. The verdict of acknowledged authorities on the cut of our dresses is, that rather tight skirt, falling in slight ly at the knees, is the most graceful, and displays the female form to the greatest advantage. I don't dispute 1t; on the contrary, 1 fully agree but should add the words, when standing still. But in walking women. do not tall Tn slightly at their knees, but step from their hips like the rest of the human race; therefore maintain that our pres ent costumes are unnatural, and unfit for us to wear during those periods of the day when we wish to be up and about. Graceful as worn by 99 people out of 100 they are not, for they so fasten the legs that they oblige every one to take short stumbling steps, and there is usually a piece of skirt which is alternately kicked out and caught by the heel behind, which would strike every one as most absurd if we were not so thoroughly used to seeing it. There seems to me only. one way out of it, and that is to have the present tight skift divided, so as to be something like the trousers worn by women in the East. They would be quite loose and would certainly not display the figure quite in the in- decent manner the present skirts do, which would be no small gain to society and they would be perfectly comfortable and, think graceful. The feet would look much prettier, as any one has only to look at the effect on little boys feet of long sailor trousers compared with knickerbockers, to see there is nothing sets of foot better than loose trouser. I do not, however, wish to use the word .'trouser" with regard to the costume am advocating, as it always brings the garments worn by men in this country to peoples minds, and anything less like that in what 1 mean there could not be. I mean literally what say, skirt divided from half way above the knees, and made full down to the ankles, where it might finish with bands or tiny founce, according to the taste of the wearer. I think the bodices of our dresses would have to be made rather differently. something after the cut of an outdoor jacket: coming down nearly to the knees. Of course, too, this part of the dress would vary very much to suit diff ferent people. Slim young girls could wear it moderately tight, and rather shorter than older women, who might have it either quite loose or what is called half-fitting, but surely the talent that can plan and execute the marvellous garments we see daily and hourly could manage upper garments to suit all figures.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-12-02
A PoIygot Beggar. Philadelptlia Press.

Citizens who have had business on Chestnut, Eight, Arch and Spring Garden streets cannot fail to have noticed Ger man of medium build and middle age, dressed as general rule, in light.colored clothes and wearing dilapidated white Derby hat, whose vocation is aims seek ing. He is persistent fellow and will not take rebuff He is in the habit of sliding up to gentleman before they are hardly aware of his presence and accost- ing them with "Sprechen sic Deutsch, mein herr?" Perhaps you do and per haps you don't. If not he will try you with, "Parlez vous Frarc cais monsieur?" Maybe you don't speak French, and then he will fire several other languages at you which you don't understand. At last he says: "Mein vriend speak lettle English" and strikes you for a small amount to help hlm and his family along. He is, according to his story, a poor workingman out of employment, and sometimes stranger in a strange city. One gentleman asserted yesterday that he had actually been haunted by this man, as he had been met by him on seven different occasions in seven diff ferent places on seven successive days, and unmercifully assailed with seven different languages. The name of this beggar is Charles Wagner. He was ar rested about a year ago, but was re- leased on promising that he would dis continue his medicant career. On Satur- day he accosted gentleman on Chestnut street and was handed over to the police. When taken before Magistrate Smith he said he was teacher of languages and promised to leave the city If released. He was committed to the House of Cor rectiOn
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-12-02
The Parthenon. Hlackwoofls


 Between the Propyaa and the Parthe- non the rugged surface of the rock is marked with wheel-tracks, associated by | tradition with the chariot processions which went yearly to the Acropolis on the great Pan-Athenalc festival. All around lie huge fragments of marble. But these, and the details of the Parthe. non front, were only taken in at later time. An irresistible fascination, not unmingled with awe, led me now to mount the steps and at once enter the temple. Some people have felt disap- pointment at first sight of the Parthenon, but can only say that it surpassed all my expectations in beauty and grandeur. Apart from the historic associations that come crowding into the mind as one stands in spot SO rich in memories, the scene itself cannot but fix contemplation. Now the imagination strives to restore the building, even in its ruin exquisitely harmonious, to it's original perfection of form, adding the brilliant coloring which is now generally believed to have adorn- ed it; or to recall to it's place round the walls of the celia, that wonderful frieze which, born beneath the deep-blue of an Athenian sky, has at length found shel- ter in the gloom of a Bloomsbury base ment. Now vain longings and regrets are stirred by tie thought that this building, after surviving some 2.000 years, fell victim, hardly two centuries ago, to the explosion which has rent asunder the eastern and western ends, not only wrecked the inner shrine, but throwing down many of the outer col umns on either side. Again, the eye is delighted by the rich tone which are of centuries has imparted to the western front, and which contrasts strikingly alike with the original marble where its surface has been laid bare, and with the sky above, or follows lovingly the beau. tlful lines of the still standing columns, allowing due picturesque value even to the ghastly gap in the center, and drink ing in the strong sunlight which beats down upon the whole and throws deep shadows in contrast to it's own radiance. And such scene, if you are fortunate, you can enjoy in perfect stiffness, so aloof at times seem she precincts of the Acrop- olis from the stir of modern everyday lirn
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-12-02
Wood is s2o a Cord and Water Five Cents a Gallon.
vlrginia GIty lNey.l Enterprlse


 Candelaria IS without doubt the rough est and most uncomfortable mining camp in Nevada. The houses (what there are of them) are poorly built, and the cold wlnd that has been blowing for the past few days goes through them as easily as it would through a sieve. A great many people still live in tents. Wood costs $20 cord, and is scarce and poor at that. 1t takes capitalist to keep fire going here. Water retails at cents gallon and is hauled in wagons from olumbus-eight miles. This water is not very good, being impregnated with alkali, but the average Candelarian doesn't care much for that, the majority Of them preferring beer, which, by the way, is sold at the rate of bit drink in many of the saloons. The whisky is of good quality, so you can see that we are not altogether without the blessings of civilization.
 At present the camp is enlivened by the presence of a lot of Belleville peo- pie, who are attending the preliminary examination of Chid Brummett, who killed Billy Bell in Belleville The kill ing occurred in front of the BellviIle Hotel on Thursday evening. Bell went to the faro game, where Chid was deal. ing, the night before, and put S5 on the layout. Chid said: 'I don't want to play for you" Bell said: q have been after you for three years, and will get you yet. l would like to have six bits dozen for whipping such fellows as you. You think you are fighter be- cause you licked drunk in Austin" The next day they passed each other and didn't speak. At o'clock in the evening Cbid was walking up to the hotel from Jacksons. Bell came up from the other corner of the street. Chid got to the porch four or five feet ahead of Billy. Chid had taken two or three steps on the sidewalk, and Billy had one boot on the sidewalk in the ac'
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-12-02
A Birds Fear of the Dead.
Gentlemanls MagazIne

It is not mere sentimentalism that pleads in favor of the most merciful form of death being adopted in the case of slaughtering of animals intended for human consumption. There is no ques- ton that much suffering would be spared cattle if they were not to see each other slaughtered. Not easy is it to conceive the kind of torture they feel and cannot express. How observant are animals is proved by case which came under my own observation.
 Among the inmates of my house IS a iackdaw, as illgrained and vituperative bird as ever accepted, under protest, hu- man companionship and human atten- tion. It prefers so distinctly sleepinr in a cage where no enemy can assail him while he IS off his guard that he is al- lowed to have his own way in the mat ter. One day while he was in the cage, some dead pheasants, which had just ar rived in hamper, were placed beside him. His dread of these was remark, able to witness. A bird whose whole time is passed in defiance of things stronger than himself, in aggravating | mastiif that would not make two bites of him, or in pinching sur-eptitously the hamboyant tail of his arch enemy, the cat, when it came within reach of hi: cage, went at this sight into an ecstacy of terror, which could not be appeased until the uncanny objects were re moved What instinct cansed thil strange demonstration in the presancs of death shown in one of its own race albeit of So different species, is not ts be guessed. Much food for reflection and speculation is, however, afforded.
The Russellville Democrat., 1880-12-02
Fashion in ,yomens Mouths.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

Wide mouths have come into fashion
 for women. This is change from tue
 prevailing style of the past year or two. The proper mouth of the present season
 is worn in a constant but mild smile, the corners being drawn back horizontally,
 with the lips left closed The express
 ion is one of amiable, quiet satisfaction
 with all tha world--as though the mihd
 is free from sorrow and the feet free from corns. Care should betaken not to
 broaden this into an active grin, except
 on mirthfull occasions; nor should the lips be compressed. All should be in
 re, ose The lips may be reddened, d the natural color be too light. A practice . pa,nting the exposed membrance of xne upper lip broad and bright just as the center has crept in, but 1t is bad, for if gives an artificial and sensuous look. The fashionable belle has cut the puck ering-string of her mouth, and no longer murmurs, "Prunes, prunes, prunes.' | She can kiss two men simultaneously and give good satisfaction, where before | only one could find room at time. The
 reader who supposes the above is fan ciful, and not plain, straightforward
 fashion news, is very much mistaken | Women can change the style of theil
 faces, if not at will, at least consider ably. The hair over the forehead cal
 be arranged to produce any desired out line for the upper part of the face; tn' mouth can de made to widely vary lt expression; the eyes can be kept pert.
 wide open or lanpuidly half closed; tn
 cheeks can Dc rounded by usiug plump