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Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-05

NEW LONDON, Oct. 4.-The town election in this city was unusually interesting. A large vote was polled but there was consid- erable scratching on both sides. The Re pubicans elect their aldermen, councilmen, selectmen, city and town clerks, sheriff, as- sessors and board of education by majorities ranging from 50 to 100. The Democrats elected few minor officers The result is substantially the same as last year, and is not believed, from non-partisan standpoint, to have any political significance. License was carried by 416 majority.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-05
LADIES' CORSET COVERS.

With Tucks and Hem of Nainsook Cambric, High Neck, 49c.
 Low Neck and Narrow Lace Trimming, 49c-
 Very Handsome Styles .0O. $1 25, $l7b, and S2o0
 Ladies' Dressing Sacques speciality.
 VERY IMPORTANT-We have since writing the above received large invoice of Kid Gloves our own importation. One lot of 200 dozen in White Operas Colors and Blacks Buttons, all sizes, 46c., worth 75c. One lot of 15O dozen, Button, Operas and Whites, at 65c. Special Bargains and worth 5O per cent. more than price asked
Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-05
LADIES' WHITE SKIRTS.

With Hem and Tucks 39c.
 With Cambric Rufde and Tucks. A9c-
 With Tuckee Rufhe A yard in depth and Tucks above, BOG.
 With Rufde of Hamburg and Tucks above impor- ted), $1.
 With Cambric Rufaes, Edged with Lace and Tucks above, $1.25. $1.49.
 With 12 Tucks and Rufie, Edged with Hamburg $1.6S.
 Other beautiful goods, which space will not ad- init of our mentioning in detail, at &, s225 $25o g. .95, S. .38, $4, $4.50, $5. 25 and $6.
 Also very full line of Train and Demi- Train Skirts at very low prices
Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-05
Summary

Number of towns heard from. 1OS Number of towns Republican. --.-.-.-.-.--.--. $! Number of towns Democratic. 34 Number of towns divided ed.............-......--- Majority for Amendment. t......-....-...-.---. .79O;
Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-05
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

IFor Additional Local News see Sd and 4tn pages.l
Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-05

spondence the town gave Republican ma- jority of 90.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-09
From the Capital.

Com LIANT is made because the presi-
dent has gone To the Pacific coast IN the
midst OF the campaign.
FINE residences are being erected IN
every part of the city. Secretary Sher-
man and Senator Cameron are erecting
palatial edifces.
GENERAL TYNER, the assistant post
master general, will not return before
October TO- lie is active in the Indian
canvass.
While the president is gone the execu-
tive mansion is receiving very general
repairs The principal improvement
wifi be the laying of tile floors in bright
colOrs.
EVERYBODY, including the great officers
of the government, who could find the
slightest excuse for his absence, has left the
city, and probably the city has not been
duller since 1860.
THE treasury department estimates that
about 100000 Of gold will arrive at New
York each week until the lst of Noyem-
Der. The treasury department has direct
ed that 800 200 900 in gold coin in the New
York sub-treasury be placed to the credit
of the superintendent OF the ASSAY office
in that city to pay for foreign bullion as it
arrives.
ACCORDING to the outlook the enumer-
atcrs of the census will have 10 bottle their
wrath. There is the greatest dissatisfac
ton, but Walker refuses to do anything for
the kickers in the way of pay. The pay
ment Of enumerators Is still going on at
the rate of 81 a day They are paid in
the order of the receipt of their returns
Upward of 10000 still remain unpaid
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upstairs, heard il and come down, bu
found that Boylson had gone out 10 the
pump in the back yard Hirsehman met
him on the steps. They elinched. sepa-
rated, and Hirschman shot Boylson, kill
ing him almost instantly Hisehman was
held for murder by the eoroner's jury.
ApRII last Thomas Klink eloped with
the wife of Geo. Beck. both of PhiiadeI-
phIa. The woman was accompanied by
her daughter, Lille, Is years of age. The
latter has just returned and states that
klink had frequent guarrels with her
mother when they reached their destina-
ton in California, and that in one of the
disturbances Mrs. Beck was murdered
The child declares Klink seereted the
body and threatened to kill her (Iilly) if
she spoke of the matter
STANLEY CARVER, a Young man well
known in Baltimore, was to have been
married on the 3rd inst, but although
many friends congregated at the residence
of the Young lady interested, bringing
presents 10 the value of several hundred
dollars, the bridegroom came not After
a long and embarrassing wait the girl re-
tired heartbroken, and the guests, after
partaking of the feast prepared left for
their homes. Carver has fed the town.
THOMAS MCDoNALD Of Commercial
Point, Franklin county, O., met a violent
death on the Bird inst, at the hands of a
mob lie had long been the terror Of the
neighborhood, but of late had devoted the
greater part of his time and energy TO a
saloen-keeper whom il appeared to be his
aim to exterminate The two men had
desperate fight on Monday night, MELON
aid losing an eve in the melee. Growing
tired of this sort of thing the neighbors
took the ruffian out of his house at the
dead of night and lynched him.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-09
A DOnkey's Deep Grief.

Newspapers have often told stories
about the affection that dogs, horses
and other animals had for each other
but we have never heard of n jackass
being accused of any such tender senti-
ments. 1t is now our duty to record
the faithful love one donkey had for a
companion who had shared his lot
for so long. Last week w. u. WATSON
went out to Tioga district on "A pros
pecting expedition, taking two Jacks
along to pack his blankets, tools, and
provisions. In coming down the
mountain, one of the long-eared freight
transporters fell over precipice and
broke his ne k. The other frightened
the birds and the comics in their bur
rows with the sound of his lamenta-
tions. Mr.. Wasson tried to coax the
grief-stricken mountain barge away,
but the donkey only lifted up his voice
and wept, and would not be c0mforted.
Then he essayed to drive with sticks
and stones the noisy beast from the
scene of his lament But drive he
would not The donkey remembered
how he and his beloved companion had
foraged together from handy clothes
line: had, in friend ship masticated
fence-posts and sections Of barbed
wire, and had contentelly nibbled such
tender morsels as Old gunnysacks and
castoff overalls, or had assuaged keen
hunger with old boots and oyster-cans,
and could not he induced to leave the
spot. Then the cruel master beat him
terribly; still his grief neryed him to
oIstinacv. The master felled two or
three large trees on his back, but to no
purpose. Finally the master, IN des-
pair, took the pack off, and left him
with the dead. The last seen of him
he was eating the cropping OF 4 quartz
ledge and weeping for his friend.
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why We Eat Raw Oysters.
London Medionl Record.

DIR. William Roberts, in his interest
ing lectures on the digestive ferments.
writes; Our practice in regard 10 the
oyster Is quite exceptional, aud fur
nishes a striking example Of the gen
erai correctness of the popular i1dg-
ment on dietetic questions. The oyster
is almost the only animal substance
which we eat habitually, and by prefer
ence, in the raw or uncooked state:
and it is interesting to know that there
is a sound physiological :easOn ut the
bottom of this preference. The flwn-
colored mass which constitutes the
dainty Of the oyster is its liver, and
this is little less than heart of gly-
cogen. Associated with the glycogen,
but withheld from actual contact with
it during life, is It's appropriate digest
i've fermcnt-the hepatic diastase The
mere crushing of this dainty between
the teeth brings these two bodies to-
gether, and the glycogen is ut once di-
gested without other help by its own
diastase. The oyster in the mcooked
state. or merely warmed, is, in fact.
self-digestive. But the advantage of
this provision is wholly lost by cooking;
for the heat employed destroys the as
sociated ferment, and cooked oyster
has to be digested, like any other food.
by the eaters own digestive powers.
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4 BUSINESS MANS >TRANGE
FREAK.
The Singular Conduct OF IA saltwater
Harness Maker---L Louis ROthman-
Who disappeared Two MOnths Ago.
Heard From.

On the 18th of May last Louis Roth
man, proprietor of a harness shop in
Saltwater, arrived in this city and re-
paired to the Germania house, where
he engaged board for an indefinite
period. "He was very quiet, read the
papers. drank glass of beer occasion
ally and paid his board promptly"
said Charles Ahrens, proprietor, TO n
reporter of the Pioneer Press last even
ing, and he laughed when he told the
rest of the story. ! asked him if he
was looking for work, and he said no,
he didn't want work. One morning, !
think it was about July l, an old man
with a smooth face came III and walked
up TO where Louis was sitting and look
ed ut him intently. Not word was
spoken by either. Louis simply got
up and walked out of the house, and
] have never seen him since. He
owed me for part of a week, but his
week was not ended when he left. |
went upstairs in few moments and
found his gold watch on the washstand.
| have it still"
The old man whose sudden arrival
started Louis Rothman on his travels
was his father, who had heard that his
son had suddenly left his place Of bust
ness ut Saltwater without rs much as
even locking the door, and had been
absent six weeks. Yesterday the old
gentleman whose home is in ShcbOy
gan, Wisconsin, walked into to police
headquarters and said he had found
out the whereabouts of his son. He
produced letter dated Casselton ID.
r., August s, addressed to S. II. Had
ley of Saltwater, and signed Louis
Rothman. Il requested Hadley to go
to the store and get certain notes,
which he would find ut the place midi
Gated, and send them to the writer at
once that the wheat was looking first
rate, and they were trying to beat him
out of it," That was the first intima-
ton any one had received of Roth
mans Whereabouts, and the first any
of his old friends knew of his engaging
in wheat specuIations. Hadley sent
him $500, and forwarded the letter to
Louis father But strange to say,
Rothman has never written for his
watch, nor has he given any directions
as to his business. His father says he
has about $1,000, and he says he thinks
his son is a little Eighty. He left the
police station yesterday afternoon to
enter into negotiations for the purchase
Of scalper's ticket to Casselton, where
he proposed to go this morning and
endeavor TO get his son to return to
SheboVgan.
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powered in law to consumate the mar
rlage contract, but that on relying on
our reciprocal love and affection, we
mutually assumed toward each other
the rights, duties, and obligations Of the
marriage state" This quaint contract
and declaration was not drawn or
recorded until more than five months
subsequent To the 10Th of June men
toned when the youthful twain be-
came man and wife A third instance
is concise and very much to the point:
1--WE for each Others protection, but
not to be made public, here certify TO
each other that we have been married
for one year, but not by any formal
ceremony" A few other intances are
on record in the books, but may be con-
sidered. They are almost all cases
where one or both parties have been
very young, or where some popularity
of the ease causes the parties to pre-
serve secrecy. The laws of this state
make a man and woman husband and
wife ifthey acknowledge each other as
such and live with each other, without
any declaration recorded.
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The Old Lady and the Car-Dri,er
Galveston Tex.) News.

The conduct of some Of the drivers
tainly very reprehensible An old lady
got ON the sueet-car, and as soon as
she set eyes on the driver She called
out, You are the very driver that re
fused to stop the ear, and made fun Of
me-
Yesterday afternoon ?" lie asked
Yes; yesterday afternoon
"On the corner Of Twenty
and Avenue L?'
YES.
On the northwest 'Jmer?'
just about the corn r.
AT O clock p
Yes, sir, at o'clock
Was it a blue car. wih hay
mule?"
Certainly; blue car and bay mule;
and a Teller with a red pimple ON his
nose, and mouth like a catfish. just like
yours, driving it.
And you crancd out your neck this
way, and opened your mouth until one
could read the makers name on your
false teeth, and bawled out, stop that
car, Stop-that- cart
Yes, you scoundrel" she replied,
drawing back to hit him with her UNI
hrella
Then it wasn't me, for am always
polite to ladies, even if they are 30
years old, sport porcelain teeth, ana
sass car-driyers. Ia Ia" and he Jump
cd over the dashboard TO swap ears
with the driver coming the other way
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-09
Criminal.

TREMAIxE, an East ST. Louis saloon
Keeper, shot and killed Horace b. Vail, a
drunken customer, who assaulted him.
= w HOFFMAN, ex-city auditor of Gin
cinnati, charged with crookedness in the
administration of his office, has been ae-
quilted
JoHN HocHsLRASsER, a teamster, and
two brothers named Snurr, drank beer at
a Fort Wayne Ind. brewery, became
drunk, and quarreled The Snnrrs finally
seized clubs and hit Hochstrasser on the
head, killing him.
TnE jury on the case Of ex-Postmaster
X. o. Adams, charged with the cmhezzle
ment of nearly $4,000, of Desdwood, have
brought in a verdict of guilty. Adams
VIII probably give bail and appeal the case
to IA e territorial supreme court
Two lads named respectively Wellin and
Ray. the former aged Is and the latter II
wears, living near Danville, ILL.,, began
throwing clodS at each other in corniield.
RAY got mad, and hit Wellin with a
club on the back of the head, killing him
almost Instantly
SATURDAY night man residing near
Manchester, O.. put some poison into
coffee of which his wife and child drank
and died He then attempted to kill him
self with a revolver, but did not succt IL
A mob collected took the scoundrel Il a
neighboring tree, which they converted
into a gallows, and hung him.
DrRING the progress of lawsuit be-
tween Marshal Stark and J. Happenberg
er, AT Syracuse, Ill, man named John
Casey struck the former a severe blow in
head. which Frustrated him. 4 great
connection followed, and the eulprit was
fined S25 and sent to jail for six months
w. A. BURNSIDE dry-goods merchant of
Marshalltown, Iowa, when on his way
home, was attacked by thugs. Knocked
down, and robbed He was terribly cut
and bruised about the forehead. and has
been lying very low. There was some sus-
pieious characters in the city the next
day, but no arrests have been made.
A MAN bv the name Of Garringer, who
made an affidavit to the effect that the
Jury that convicted Mr. Brown, st Indian
apolis, of the murder of her husband, had
been tempered with, to his knowledge,
was brought into court yesterday, and
com slitted to JAIL in default Of bail, on
charge Of perjury.
MRs. HAMBRUGER, r fashionable mil
liner of Montreal, concluded to remove 10
New York city, where trade is better. She
packed her stock, valued at $4,000. into
eighteen trunks, and informed the customs
officers on the New York frontier that
they contained nothing but emigrants' eff
feels An examination revealed the fall
sitv of the statement, and the whole collec-
ton Of Saratogas was conhscated.
AT HYDE Park, on the 3lst inst. Mich
ael Bovlson had quarrel with his wife.
His step-son, Charles Hlrschmans who was
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Accidents.

Fifty cases Of small pox are reported in
Troy, New York on the 4th inst.
BAKERS block at Harris Falls, y y,
including Parker's opera house and ten
other buildings were burned. Loss, $l50,-
600
ON man was killed and six others Sc
yerelv injured by an explosion in the
keeley Run coliery at Shenandoah Pa,
on the ,'rd inst.
FRAxK DErETER. aged ~, while bathing
in the Missouri river, was drowned on the
2nd inst 1t Is supposed he was attacked
with cramp His body has not been
found.
AVN p from Florida, state that a ter
rifle storm swept over the central portion
of Florida. on the 18th inst. The post
roads are flooded. bridges washed
away and mail communication seriously
interrupted
TuE cooper shop of J. II. Clutter. of
Terre Haute. Ind, was entirely destroyed
hv fire Loss. 5000; insured for $1,000.
Fifty men are thrown out of employment.
Il was IA, work IT an incendiary
Irsr before the democratic speaking
commenced Saturday evening. 1t Darling
ton. Ind. an anvil which was being fired
exploded. seriously woundng six boys.
Two will probably die
HAIF.DoZEX boot-blackS. en- route to
Columbus Ohio. were put of the passen-
ger train. On the Isl inst near Delaware.
One of them. Mike Allen, of Cleveland,
laid down upon the track and went 10
sleep lie was soon after run over by q
passing train and killed.
CABL TuIxsoN, a 17-year-old Swede,
was killed at the Oliver Chilled-plow
works. al South Bend, Ind Hewas grind
ing on AZ emery wheel, when il burst into
pieces One Of these pieces struck him in
the face, mashing ii in and killing him al
most instantly.
THE body of an unknown man was found
floating in she Milwaukee. Wis, river on
the 4th inst The stranger must have
been about 90 years of age. full beard and
mustache and hair of brown streaked with
graz, we'll dressed Nothing on the body
bv which il could be Identified There was
a cut Over the right eve.
DuRINs "A heavy storm II Grand Rapids,
Mich. oa the 18th inst, the reservoir on
the hill broke. liberating 100000 gallons
of water which damaged adjacent prop
etty To tls amount Of $4,000. Fifteen or
twenty dwelling houses we're wrecked and
many streets and gardens were either
scoofed eut or Distracted by gravel and
boulders.
A Gratis warehouse near San Francisco,
Cal, containing about 10000 sacks Of
heat ana barley, was burned on the 9TH
inst Loss probably S2o0,o0O- The ire -
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Cn.cAoo Sept. 1 Flour Quiet Wheat
Fair 1cu,nnd at lower rates; No ,, Chicago spring,
81. for seller cash; S74s for seller septem-
her 80 for seller October s9as9'. for seller
November No. 3 Chicago spring. 7aaSO, No.
Red piuter. 30 Cm Fair demand nj lower
rstes; Ne ., 391s a3ga, for seller cash; 3g2, fer
seller September, iOsa for seller October; iO5.
for seller November rejected 49,. Oats
Inactive and iuwer. No. > 2S'4 for seller cash,
2S for s,lcr September IS. for seller October;
y ipr seller November. Rye Funer; No. ?
n for seller cash; ~ for seller October. Barley
Weaker no. spring - for seller October,
Porg Fairly active and "a shade higher l1.2j
for seller cash; La for seller September;
i7.0Oq 1908 for seller October; 1870 for sel
Ter NJ, cmbcr Lard ln fair demand, $50
for seller cnsh, $50 for seller September; 7.9a
a7.9lA, for seller October 20 for seller No
vemb,r. The Drovers journal reports Hog
Stea'ly receipts 2 900; shipments, 800 com
mon t. good mixed i.sOA 5.2j; light. 5.l0a 5.25,
chG. e heavy 5.l0d 50. Cattle Firm; receipts
900 shipments 1000, export 5.o0q 5ad,
common to good shipping 5.sOa LsQ. sheep
Weaker receipts. 500 commoa te good, wa I41
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AN OLD STORY RErOLD.
How AN EngiIshman. Adelaide Neil
sons FIRST Husband. was Terrified
While Dining with some Festive
Americans

You may possibly remember some
thing OF the terrible scare that A adelaide
Nelson's first husband Lee, got at the
Gramercy Park hotel dinner to which
he was invited by William j. Florence,
f. a. Sothern, Dan Bryant and some
other practical jokers. Lee had heard
n good deal about the rough ways Of
people III America, and as his head was
full Of eytraVagant notions on that sub
ject. He had come to New York OK
pecting to find bears running loose in
Central park, and be able to shoot buff
faloes in Harlem. The jokers wanted
to take Il rise" out of him, and ar
ranged how they should do it. When
the party sat down to dinner every
man except Lee laid a revolver at one
side of his plate and bowie knife at
the other. 1t seemed to be done as
a matter of course, and it made Lee
rather uneasy ut the start But the
party soon fell into pleasant converse
ton, and after a while the English
mans nerves became steadier, though
his appetite did not appear to be good.
There was plenty of wine, of course,
and all partook of it freely, though each
man was careful not to take too
much.
When the dinner was nearly over the
conversation became more lively. BY
and by it grew warm In little while
more it was hot Then the fun began.
The jokers fell to quarreling frriously.
Every man was on his feet, with Il re-
volver in one hand and bowie knife in
the other Chairs were knocked over,
revolvers were fOurished, the dishes
ratified ON the table Indian war
whoops rang through the room, and
the entire party except Lee was evil
IDENTITY bent on the wholesale slaughter.
Poor Lee trembled in his shoes. There
was no telling but he might be scalped
the next moment One Of the actors
opened the door, and then danced back
to resume his part in the melee. Lee
saw his chance. He fled through the
open door like deer, and did not wait
in the hall for his hat. When he after
ward told of his narrow escape from
murder by a lot OF sayages, he really be-
lieved that the desperate row he had
run away from was real. He never
forgave the festive rioters for the trick
they had played on him. at was a
beastly thing to do, you know" he
said, and he could not see the hunor
of it at all.
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Democratic Fraud ia Maine Last
Near
New York Times.

The supreme court of the state of Maine
has Just decided what is known go the
Cumberland county case" the details OF
which are instructive They illustrate
very forcibiy the democratic methods pur-
sued in Maine and elsewhere A the
September elections in 1879 VIM. L.
Prince VS. the republican candidate for
commissioner of the county Of Cumber-
land, aud VIM. b Skillin was the demo-
cratic candidate for that Office. In max
ing up the returns Gov Garcelon ard his
democratic associates threw out the entire
vote of the city Of Portland the return
being rejected as illegal because two votes
were returned az scattering, when the re-
turn should have given the namcs ot all
the candidates voted for This rejection
of 6,3l3 votes cast in the city Of Portland
defeated the republican candidate on the
face OF the returns. But il 50. happened
that there were cast in the whole county
JOS votes for 'Skillings," who was not
a candidate Obviously, these 9otes were
meant for Skillin, but if the rale which
had already been applied to republican
candidates were applied in this case, the
ovtes east for SHILLING did not belong to
Skillin, and he was defeated. The drmo
cratic canyassers were equal to the coca
sion. Going over the returns, they erased
the terminal e" from the name OF the
democratic candidate in some instances,
and in others they drew a line through
the letters TO indicate that they did not
belong there Then they gave the ccuifi-
cate to Skillin, who entered upon the
duties Of his Office Prince brought legla
proceedings to Dust him. The supreme
court has Just decided in favor 81 Prince.