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Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-18
The Connecticut Legislature.
HARTFORD, Feb. IT.
SENATE.

SENATE.
 A large amount of business from the lower body acted upon in concurrence.
 The House having passed the bill regulating at- torneys' fees and the Senate having indefinitely postponed the same, the House asked for commit tee of conference. The Senate granted the request and Mir. Brewster was appointed on the part of the Senate.
 It was moved that all adverse reports on petitions for release from State prison put upon their without going upon the calendar ordered. The Senate concurred with the House in giving several petitioners leave to withdraw.
 A House resolution referring to the employment of machinery in the jas and State prison referred to the Committee State Prison instead of the Com mittee Manufacture.
 coNMITTEE REPORTS.
 Claims-Mr. Pagan chairman, adverse on the peti- petition of George Clark for bounty. Adverse petition of John Glover for pecuniary aid Favorable petition of Daniel w. Bradley of Chester for two months back pay as a soldier, $26.
 FinRnce-Mr. Blackstone chairman, reporting substitute resolution de the appointment of com mittee to revise the tax laws tabled for the calendar Education-Mr. Siman chairman, reporting a sub sttute for bill de employment of children in facto res tabled for the calendar.
 THE CALENDAR.
 House joint resolution No. 37, Incorporating the Clinton Agricultural Society," laid upon the table for the consideration of amendment. House bill No. 43, incorporating the Mystic Val ley English and Classical Institution which had been tabled was called up. The second section Of the bill was stricken out and the bll amended, vas House joint resolution Mo- 5s granting letters ford, passed.
 House bill Mo- 165 amending the charter the bor- Board Burgesses power any clerk bAiIif for malfeasance of office passed.
 House joint resolution Mo- A. de restoration of cap ital Of Connecticut River Banking Company, sshtly amended was amanded.
 Adjourned at l:O5 o'clock till 1O:So Wednesday fore noon.
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hOOSEs COMMITTEE REPORTS.

Committee reports were submitted follows:
 Humane InstitutioDs-AIr. Wilson chairman, favora- be accepting report of Industrial School for Girls ordered file and usual number of copies ordered printed Favorable receiving report o Connecticut General Hospital ordered on file.
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Standard Time

Erom the Winchester Observatory of vale college. MESSRS. BENJAMIN X FORD have, i'm connection with their Watch Repairing Department a Tele- graphic Instrument which records the beats of the Observatory mean tme Standard Clock, under the direction of Prof. Leonard Waldo, astronomer nm charge of the Neurological Bureaus This standard of time is slow of Green wich, England, An. 56nl. Is. .5, and at Boston linn. 46s. a. It is fast at Wash- tnRtOn I2m. 1Oss .5, and is standard for the meridian of New York City Hall.
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MARRIAGES.
DEATHS.

MITCHELL-In this city, Feb. 17th, Anna G. Mitch el eldest daughter of the late Edward A. Mitchell. Funeral services at the house Thursday at p. m. Burial at a later hour 2t" HOwE-At Orange, New Jersey, Feb 18th, Henry A. Howe, late President of the Niagara Fire Ins. Co.,, of New York.
 The friends of Mrs. Ezra O. Read invited to attend services at the chapel in the Grove street cemetery, on Thursday, Feb. 18th, at p. m. 2t" ROBERTS-In New BritaiD Feb. 18th, Minnie Wood ford, youngest daughter of Frederick and Helen Roberts, aged IS months.
 STOUGHTON-In South Windsor Feb. 18th, Edward Stoughton, aged 83 years.
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WANTED.

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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05

A PANIC prevailed in st. Petersburg
on the eth ult., In consequence of the an
nouncement by the Berlin police authorities
that three Of the principal streets In the Rus
Sian Capital were TO be blown up on the I'd
Of March.
THE famine in Persia has assumed
frlghtful proportions. The people are said
to be parting with everything portable TO
procure food and shelter, and many, despair
ing Of outside aid, have sought surcease of
suffering by committing suicide.
VERA SAssULITCH, the female Nihilist
who in 1878 attempted the assassination Of
the Prefect of 81. Petersburg, and who was
acquitted by jury, to the amazement of the
authorities, has been re-arrested.
The President on the 9th ult. sent
TO the Senate the nomination Of p. b. s.
Pinchback to be Naval Officer at New Or
leans.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 9th
ult. says the Senate Committee on Indian
Affairs was unanimous IN favor Of the con-
firmation Of ex-Congressman Trowbridge as
Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
DURING the first seven months Of the
present fiscal year l9O,OOOOOO postal cards
were disposed of.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the suspension OF the order of No
vember 8, 1879, prohibiting the importation
of neat cattle from the Dominion Of Canada.
OVER two hundred emigrants passed
through Omaha, Neb., on the 9th ult,, en-
route TO the East, from California, Among
! them were forty Cinnamon bound for New
York City,
A JUDGE of election in Cumberland
County, H., was recently sentenced, In the
| United States District Court at Springfield, to
i've months imprisonment and to pay a fine
of $500, for violating the United States Elec-
tion law. His offense was the substitution Of
ballots. ..,a
THE Postmaster-General has suspend
ed his order prohibiting the payment OF mon
ey orders to the lottery agents, who have APP
pealed to the Supreme Court Of the United
States, until the case is decided by that tri-
bunal.
In the United States Senate on the
| 9th ult., on motion Of Mr.. Voorhees,, the bill
admitting free OF duty clothing and other
charitable contributions from abroad for the
relief OF oolored emigrants iu Kansas was
taken up and passed Mt. Edmunds motion
TO reconsider the vote by which the Five-per-
cent, bill was indefinitely postponed was
taken up, and, after debate, the motion TO
reconsider was itself postponed until the sec
ond Monday In December next. The House,
In Committee OF the Whole, finished the de-
tailed consideration OF the proposed new
rules, and they were reported, as amended
IN committee, to the House, when Mr.. Black
burn gave notice that he would ask tnal action
upon them on the 3D. Both houses adjourn
ed 10 the 1st
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05
Didn't Believe in 'Em.

You've got telephone here, haven't
youP" asked a citizen, as he yesterday
entered an Office on Griswold street in
seeming great hurry.
"Yes," was the reply.
"Well, 1 never believed in 'em to
any great extent, but 1 want to order
some coal from yard up the river"
The owner of the Office proceeded to
"call, " and when he got the coal deal
ers he said:
''Mr. Blank is here, and he wants
to know if you have any soft coalP'
Yes-five hundred tons was the
answer.
"Well, he wants you to send him up
a ton"
"We'll see him blowed first! He has
owed us bill for over two yearsr'
"Yump' muttered the man, as he
stepped back.
"Did they say they'd send it?" asked
the other.
"N-o, not exactly"
"What did they say?n
"I-l didn't catch it very well. Let
me repeat" Picking up the trumpet
again he stood with it to his ear and
asked:
"Not by blamed sightr' came the
response.
"Well," asked the man, as a pain
full pause ensued.
"Well," replied the operator, "this
line isn't working very well this morn
ing, and you'd better go to the office
four doors below. The dealers seem to
hear me well enough, but 1 don't get
hold of their answer plainly. The other
instrument is probably working all
right"
"But / shan't bother any one else.',
growled the man. GAS said before
I never did believe in 'em to any grea,
extent, and now I've lost what little
faith had. Much obliged-good day"
If his ear had been at the trumpet
his faith would have been as big as a
mountain. Detroit Free Press.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05

win diffuse light and love over the whole
household, and do you a better service
than you may be aware Of A frown, a
rebuke, even the slightest check will
show its effect on the child's counte-
nance, and you may be sure It goes
deeper than you can sec, and lasts
longer than you may think.
No opportunity TO cultivate n child's
self-respect should be neglected. That
is the foundation to true manhood, and
he who builds on any other builds on a
quicksand. Better than the education
of the schools or fortunate business
connections, high birth or influential
friends. These are all well as adiuncts.
but altogether they are less to be de-
sired than the self-respect which begets
confidence, energy and self-reliance.
III you want to try an experiment,
take a dog and subject it for six months
to the same treatment some children re-
ceive, and observe the effect. Our word
for it, you will give 1t such disposition
that it will be known all over the neigh
bOrhood as an animal to be avoided.
Somewhat like effects are produced on
all other animals. There are, of course,
differences. Some will be more easily
affected than others, as their natural
dispositions differ, but harsh word is
never without injury; and if this is the
case with animals, whose appreciation
of praise or blame must be compare
lively small, what must be the result
when finely-organized child is the
subjectP
Many brutal instincts may, in meas
ure. be overcome bv kindness and on
the contrary, humanity becomes dull by
undeserved reproof, even when it is not
formulated in words. The world would
be better if there were more kindly
words, and many a child grows up to be
a hard-hearted, unloving man who, if
reared in an atmosphere of kindness,
would have nourished the seeds of af-
feCtion planted in his youthful days,
and in his maturity been a blessing to
all around him.-RurdL Ne1O Yorker.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05
Never Snub a Child.

That was what our minister said in
his sermon few weeks ago, and if
those four words made as much impress
sion on the rest of the congregation as
they did on us, that sermon win prove
of more real practical value than most
that are preached, and the children of
generations yet unborn will have good
reason TO rise up and call the preacher
blessed. We have no idea of giving a
report of that sermon, or even a synOp-
sis of il. What we have quoted is 10
itself a sufficient topic for consideration,
and enough TO furnish food for thought
through one sitting.
+" MeUcr saUb childn Mind that,
you fathers and mothers who will read
this ! Think for moment what effect
a hasty, thoughtless word may make on
the ohild's disposition. The little one
may come to you when you are worn
out by toll, tired from mental labor, en-
gagged in reading or in conversation, or
busted with some perplexing task, and
trouble you with an innocent question.
II you are vexed, don't show IL; don't
fret; don't look cross; don't speak hasti-
ly; answer the question as well as you
can--sOme questions that children ask
are not easily answered-and send the
child away kindly. Its pleasant face
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05
What the Facts Show.

Some tell us that Christianity is be-
coming thing of the past. Infdels
declare this with exultation, and some
religious writers talk about an " alarm
ing increase of skepticism.n But GER
tain prominent facts look decidedly in
the opposite direction.
Never were there so many Bibles
printed as at present. The figures on
the subject are like those in astronomy
too vast to be remembered. And
English-speaking scholarship is now
engaged on the herculean task of re-
vision of the translation-a waste of
labor unless the Bible is to retain its
position for centuries TO come. And
never was there so much Bible study as
at present. The manufacture and sale
of commentaries is one of the largest
departments of the book trade. They
come from the press in a steady stream
Commentaries for all classes, from the
ponderous and costly Lange series in
two dozen large volumes, to the
ANIMALS in exposition of the Sunday
school lessons; while scores of news
papers (and this is new thing) devote
column or two each week to the same
work. These business men, who are
putting such large amounts of money
into the publication of Bibles and COM
mentaries, seem to think that the book
is very far from becoming obsolete.
And the pulpit still has power. Not
only do large audiences assemble to
hear preaching, but the bookpublshers
issue volumes of sermons in numbers
unprecedented. The sermons of an in
creased number Of preachers are issued
weekly in phamphlet form, while the
daily press is obliged to report sermons
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05
Lilies Of the Field.

Several plants of the order Ranuncu-
tace9 largely contribute to the brilliant
spring vegetation of Palestine, and of
these the most remarkable is a species
of anemone. This is nearer related to
the basque flower of our chalk downs,
with its bright purple flowers and fine
ly-cut leaves, than to the common
anemone which in early spring every
where clothes our woods with its more
entire leaves and white flowers. This
eastern anemone has large bright
colored flower, purple, blue, white or
more generally brilliant scarlet, often
with crown of different hue in the
center, from which it has derived its
specific name. So striking an object in
the landscape of Palestine is this plant
that Canon TTistram suggests that it
may be the LILLY of the field'' to which
the Savior referred in the Sermon on
the Mount. "It is found" he says,
everywhere, on all soils and in all sit
uatiOns. 1t covers the Mount of Olives,
it carpets all the plains, nowhere does
it attain a more luxurious growth than
by the shores of tho Lake of Galilee. In
the olive-yards of Ephraim, on the bare
hills of Nazareth alike. there is no part
of the country where it does not shine.
Certainly if, in the wondrous richness
of bloom which characterized the Land
Of Israel in spring, any one plant can
claim pre-eminence, it is the anemone,
the most natural flowers for our Lord
to pluck and seize upon as an il
lustration, whether walking in the
fields or sitting on the hillside" 1t is
moot VNVOhahIa tbaN tho ,,bvoeo t1;Isoa IS
the field'' (Matt. vi. 28) should be taken
as a general term, for in the next SEN
tence it is covered by the more general
expression, 'the grass of the field"
(ver. 30); and it is certain that among
the floral treasures of Palestine, none
could more forcibly recall the royal
scarlet of Solomon's robe than the rich
ly covered velvet-like flower of this
most abundant anemone. And the
lesson of trust in God would be speedi-
ly brought home to the SaviOur's s audi
tors when they realized how the fields
that had been left dry, parched and
lifeless by the autumn sun were covered
by Fathers hand with a wild flower
whose dazzling color oroyal dyer could
equal. The use of dry weeds and grass
for heating ovens is as common in the
East at the present day as it was in the
time of our Lord, so that the figure has
lost none of its power to the Oriental,
and would vividly suggest child-like
confidence in Father who so cared for
what would thus so speedily wither and
be completely destroyed.
If the Gree word "krinon" should
be understood as meaning a lily in the
more restricted sense, there is great
difficulty in determining with any GER
tainty what particular plant was intend
ed. Differing authors have on different
grounds supposed it to be the tulip, the
fritillary, the white lily, the narcissus,
the amaryllis and perhaps with more
likelihood as far as these plants are con-
cerned, the scarlet martagon lily.-W
CaTTuthsrs, +. r. S.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05
A SONG FOR THE HEARTH AND
HOME.

Dark Is the night, and fitful and drearily
Rushes the wind like the waves of the sea;
Little care as here / sit cheerily,
Wife at my side and my baby on knee.
King, king, crown me the king,
Home is the kingdom, and love is the kingl
Flashes the freight upon the dear faces,
Dearer and dearer as onward we 20,
Forces the shadow behind us, and places
Brightness around us with warmth in the
glow.
King, king, crown me the king,
Home is the kingdom, and love is the kingl
Flashes the lovelight, increasing the glory,
Beaming from bright eyes with warmth of
the soul,
Telling of trust and content the sweet story,
Lifting the shadows that over us roll.
King, king, crown me the king,
Home is the kingdom, and love is the kingl
Richer than miser with perishing treasure,
Served with service no conquest could
bring;
Happy with fortune that words cannot meas
ure,
Light-hearted 1 on the hearth-stone can
sing.
King, king crown me the king,
Home is the kingdom, and love is the kingl
Rev. Vim. r. Dlryed.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05
ArnnM NYAenINaroN.

UNDER date of February 10 General
Sherman writes 10 the Secretary OF War
commencing the opinion by the President in
the Bonton-Sherman controversy, that the
civil courts afforded Mr. Boynton every facll-
fly for righting his grievances, and reiterates
In effect the offensive remarks complained OF
by the latter. In a communication 10 the
Secretary Of War, dated February 90, Mr.,
Boynton says "his attempted proceeding,
Recognlzed by both Judge Advocate General
and General sherman himself as legal, was
for the military ofTense OF conduct uube-
coming an officer and a gentleman,
an oiIense not known to the civil
courts By the Presidents decision
no military officer win hereafter
iniure his army standing, at least during the
term OF this Administration, by deuouncing
any citizen through the public press In Ian.
guage Of the foulest abuse, even though he
repeat this language 10 the President In official
f0rm.n Mr.. Boynton then enters his protest
against the Presidents decision, and cx-
presses the opinion that "the high sense OF
honor which always actuates the great body
a the army olilcors renders It certain that
the Presidents Indulgence will be rarely, II
ever, needed by any officer below Its Gen
eral.n
IT was estimated by Treasury officials
on tie 18th that the entire reeoipts Of the
Government from customs, internal revenue
aud other sources for the year ending june
80 would be about $500, 200, 900, and that the
total expenditures for the same time, includ
ing the sinking fund and interest ON the pub,
JIG debt, would amount 10 about S215, 900 900
leaving profit 10 the Government Of about
e25,OOO,OOO.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05
Religious.
TIE SITTING or PETER.

A FoLK-soNe.
"Behuld Satan hath desired to have YOU.
hat he may sift you as wheat,"-St. Luxe,
rrt:8l.
In 81. Luke's Gospel we are told
How Peter I'm the days OF old
Was sifted;
And now, though ages intervene,
Sin Is the same, while time and scene
Are shifted.
Satan desires us, great and small,
As wheat, TO sift us, and we all
Are tempted;
Not one, however rich or great,
ls by his station or estate
Exempted.
No house so safely guarded is
But he, by some device of his,
Can enter;
No heart hath armor so complete
But ne can pierce with arrows fleet
Its center.
For ali at last the cock will crow
Who hear the warning voice, but go
UnheedinR
I'LL thrice and more they have denied
The Man Of Sorrows, crucifed
And bleeding.
One look of that pale suffering face
Win make us feel the deep disgrace
OF weakness;
We shall be sifted till the strength
or selt-conceit be changed at length
To meekness.
Wounds of the soul, though healed, will ache;
The reddening scars remain, and make
Confession;
Lost innocence returns no more;
We are not what we were before
TransRressiOn.
But noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger,
And conscious still of the divine
Within them lie on earth suplne
No longer.
March.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05

Mr.. c. was pastor of a Baptist
church in a certain town in one of the
Western States. He had been on very
bad terms with his flock for some time.
They abused him whenever they could
find occasion, and he reoiprocated with
equal readiness. Before his contract
with the parish expired, he received the
appointment of chaplain at the State
prison. Elated at this lucky opportu-
nifty of getting rid of him, the congre-
gatiOn came in full numbers TO hear his
farewell sermon, perhaps less TO COM
pliment than TO annoy him with their
presence. Great was their astonish-
ment, and still greater their anger, when
the reverend gentleman chose for his
text the following words, II 60 70 pre-
pare place for you that tOhere I
am, there ye may be also. ."-Harpey's
Magazine for March.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05

"A Vermont man invented an cleo
trio dOor-bell, aad the first man who
tried TO ring it found he couldn't let go
of the knob and was getting his legs
tied into a sailor-knot, when the in
ventor came out to ask why he didn't
ring the house down. Able counsel will
contest the damage suit
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05

Jones says his wife is the most
thrifty woman he ever knew "Why,
sir,n he says, "she has made ten bed
spreads during the last two years; made
them herself, sir, out Of the samples she
collected in her shopping tours during
that time"
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05

HAYwARD's stables at Newport, r.
J., were burned a few days ago, and John
Shay a stableman, was burned 10 death while
trying 10 get The horses out Of the burning
building
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05
Sunday School Lessons.

FIRST QUARTER, 1880.
Mch. THE Savior's Golden Rule. Matt Z: 1-l4
Mch. l4-The False and the True. Matt. 7;15-29
MCh.2l-Review of the Lessons.
Mch.2S-Lesson selected by the School.
SECOND QUARTER
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05

the Ute, and, leaving the savage there
prisoner, proceeded on his way TO WashIhgton.
The Texas Republican State Conven-
tion TO appoint delegates to the National Con-
vention has been called to meet at Galveston
on the 9th Of March
THE Louisiana Senate adopted on Che
Goth a resolution suspendlng several Senators
because they signed a memorial TO the United
States Senate fayorlng Senator Kellogg. The
sergeant-at-Arms was also directed TO keep
them In custody until further orders
A NEW $40 counterfeit United States
Treasury note has made its appearance in
Chicago. The note u Of the series Of
1876 letter G, and the most striking feat
ure about II is tie color, which is consid-
erably darker than that Of the genuine. The
paper crumples with snap when handled,
and the dark hber lines, instead Of being
worked into the paper, as I'm a genuine bin
are simply printed on the face in imitation Of
the correct thing. There are a number OF
minor discrepancies which are readily detect
ed on closer examination. The word
"serles," for instance, In the lower center Of
the bill, is made up Of letters fully third
larger than those in the genuine, while the
words at the top, Engraved and Printed at
Bureau Engraving and Printing" tip over
until they almost assume heitalic character;
whereas in the genuine they are very clearly
Roman. The number, too, is even, when on
the note with this letter It should be odd.