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Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14

quis of Salisbury, has invited the attention of
 the Government of the United States to rep
 resentation which has been made by con-
 mittee of Lloyds with regard to the frequent
 losses by fire of cotton laden ships which oc-
 cur at ports of the United States, especially at
 Charleston and New Orleans, such disasters
 occurring generally while the vessels are still
 in port and fully loaded. Lloyds' agents, who
 have been appealed to in the matter, attribute
 these fires, especially at Charleston and New Orleans, to incendiarism or gross
 carelessness, and the committee have
 asked that the attention of the author ities of the United States may be called
 to the frequency of these fires, which cause great loss of property on both sides of the ocean. The police force at New Orleans is and has been in very demoralized state,
 which fact probably explains some of the fires in that city. Whether the police at Charles ton are any better or not we do not know.
 novel and important lawsuit has just been decided by the Superior civil court sitting at Boston. Ward McAllister, Harvard law student, brought suit against the Old Colony railroad. The material point of the case was  to determine whether corporation, having agreed to carry g passenger over 8 through route at reduced rate, less than that asked for transport to some intermediate station, has right to prevent the passenger from stopping at that station until he has paid additional fare. The decision by Judge Bacon holds that the pany has no such right. Mo- Allister bought an ordinary limited ticket over the Old Colony line from Boston to New York for one dollar. Arriving at Newport, to which place the regular fare is 1. 60, he started to go ashore, when he was stopped by an officer of the company and not allowed to leave the boat until he had paid the sixty cents difference in the fare. He acceded to the demand, and then brought the above action. According to the decision 1t seems that railroad or steam boat company cannot lawfully prevent pas senger from leaving the cars or boat at any | station where regular stop is made for the | exchange of passengers The company may | demand the difference in fare between the | local and the through rate, and, if payment is | refused, recover the same in civil action, but have no other remedy.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14
Summer Dress Goods.

As the season advances the demand for Dress Goods increases and have pleasure in assuring friends that were never batter pared to meet the de- maud than we are now. The most economical buyer suited and the mort fastdious can be pleased Attention is especially directed to stock BUNT- INGS, which very full and varied, and in which prices will be found very much lower than those charged by others for similar Roods This vague general assertion, such is often made advertise prove 1t by examination ana comparison. Our all- wool 6-4 Lace Bun1ngs beautiful goods they are In all the shades fashionable this spring, and the fabric, while having. very light airy and iaceke" effect, is at the same time very substantial does not 'pull" and well. In the cheaper single width BuntingE we Hhow also complete line at extremely low prices. Our stock of DeBeiges, Cashmeres, Ccmels Hairs, Monies and Novelty Dress Goods com. prises everything desirable cn the market.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14

The election of Rev. Dr. Cyrus D. Foss, President of Wesleyan University, to the high office of bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Ohurch will give general satisfaction. Few men are better fitted than he for the place.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14

The passage by the New York Senate of a constitutional amendment to give suffrage to women much elates the friends of the move ment. They will, however, have soma time to wait for the realization of their hopes, even if all is smooth sailing, for the amendment has now to pass the Assembly, then go to Legislature in which there is new Senate (18s1), and then, if enacted again, go to the people in the November election of 1882.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14

Edwin Hoyt was hung yesterday at Bridge port for peculiarly atrocious crime-that of parricide, and ''nurder in the first degree" is re-estabIshed in Connecticut. The skill with which the awful affair was conducted is In marked contrast to the bungling that has sl- most come to be expected when criminal is hung.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Cincinnati Commercial has standing heading, Republicans Who Will Not V Vote for Grant Under Any Circumstances. New names are enrolled every day, and they already num- Der several hundred.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14
A Giant of the Revolution.
Peter Francisco, Who Dealt Destruc- tiOn with a Sword Five Feet Long.

Peter FranciscO, Who Dealt Destruc-
 tiOn with n Sword Five Feet Long.
 Letter in The Petersburg (va) AppealJ
 Tho allusion in recent letter of your Lou isa correspondent to the old revolutionary giant hero, Peter Francisco revives many tra. ditions and "reminiscences of the wonderful performances and daring deeds of that extra ordinary man. My father, resently deceased at the advanced age of 90 we'll remembered him, having frequently seen him in his native county of Buckingham, and related many ar- ecdotes of his stirring and perilous adventures aud hair breadth escapes as he heard the recit- al fall from the lips of the giant himself He described him as six feet one inch in height, hts weight two hundred and sixty pounds, his complexion dark and swarthy, features bold and manly and his hands andfeet uncommon ly large, his thumbs being as large as an ordi- nary mans wrist. Such was his personal strength that he could easily shoulder cannon weighing l, 100 pounds, and he had seen him take man in his right hand pass over the floor and dance his head against the ceiling with as much ease as if he had been doll baby. The mans weight was 195 pounds Partaking of the patriotic enthusiasm of the times he entered the American revolutionary army at the age of 16 He was present at the stormiAg Of Stony Point, and was lhe first sol dier, after Maj. Gibbon. who entered the fort ress, on which occasion he received bayonet wound in the thigh. He was at Brandywine, Monmouth and other battles at the North and was transferred to the South under General Green, where he was engaged in the actions of the Cowpens, Camden, Guilford Court House, etc. He was so brave and possessed such confidence in his prowess that he was positively fearless. He used sword with blade five feet long, which he could wield like 8 feather, and every swordsman who came within reach of him paid the forfeit of his life
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14

Washburne is still for Grant and denies any duplicity towards the man of his choice. He also says his candidacy is out of the question. These statements are monotonous, but there is Ro good reason to doubt their truth.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14
of Railroad Conductors.


 People frequently find fault at receiving curt replies from conductors, and, in fact, all other railway officers, but if they were to take the place of one for week they would no longer wonder. There is no greater display of imbecility in any insane asylum than on most railroad trains. What wonder, then that the conductor occasionally loses patience and answers rather curtly2 Only the other day an old lady on her way to Montreal, with dozen bandboxes and bundles, would franti- cally gather them up every time the train stopped at side station, and rush for the con- ductor and ask if that was Montreal or if she had to change cars, and every time WAS told No, mo- no you've got 200 miles to go yet ; keep your seat" A conductor who leaves the city in the morning aud retarns in the even ing, got of at a small station not far out, the other evening on his return trip He was ap- proach=d by grim n-visaged individual, who addressed him in 8 tone that showed he was very much provoked ''Say, did you know you left me this morning?" The conductor responded pleasantly: 'No, did not; and where were you? ?" 1T was in ths depot hore." ''WelI, my dear sir, you must recol- lect that the depot never goes out I never load my passengers on with a stretcher. If you want to ride with me you must climb on the train" The angry man was completely nonplussed, and remarking, "Well, that's so" he turned aud walked away apparently satis- fed
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnetrs boy is dark-eyed and sweet-faced. New York Mail. How much better that reads than if the Mail had said, "The boy had blackened eye and his face was bedaubed with molasses when We saw him. ."-Boston Transcript
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14
SKIN DISEASE.
MORE GOOD THAN DOCTORS.

Im Three Years Of Treatment. Gentlemen Please find 50 cents 10 pay for small box of CUTIcURA and direct to The dollar box you seat has done more gssd than all the doc tors in three years. The doctors have done good My feet and legs healing fast. It is indeed CUTICURA. Yours truly,
 EVAN kORGAH, P. M. Moscow, MINE., June 25, 1878.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14

The city authorities of Charleston and New Orleans are not much fattered by the action of the British minister to this country, who, in accordance with instructions from the Mar
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14
. SOLOS.

How dear to my heart is the school attended And how I remember so distant and dim, That red headed Bill and the pin that pended And carefully put on the bench under him And how recall the surprise of the master. When Bill gave yell and SD rang up with the pin So high that his builet-head busted the plaster Above, and the scholars all set up grin. That active boy Billy that high-lespfng Billy That 1oud-shouting Billy thas sat on 8 pin
 A arloar, nr1nn1
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14
SECOND HAND CARRIAGES FOR SALE CHEAP Ar .61 CHAPEL STREET.
 CORNER OF HAMILTON.

HONSISTING of light Broughan RcSkavay, in V fine order, price $500; light Curtain Rsckaway, nearly new, s2OO, cost sssO six seat Germantown h. with without harness for $250; fine half top Baroueh, light and in good order, for s97s; Top Beach wagon nearly new, for sl25 1turn seat top wagon in good order for SoO; l half top, two scat Brewster Phaeton, for s1O0; two seat Rockaway for $o0; turn seat Rockawsy for $40 half top victo- toria in fine order for $2sO; half top Csbrioa for $1o0 light Side Bar Brewster spring, two seat PhAe ton with door and extension top nearly new s2o
 Eide Bar Brewster, spring top buggy, $s0; Side Bar top, weight 2SO lbs, for $1so; l light Phaeton, slol; top Elnpho-spring top Buggy, for $10O; Canopy top Pony Phaeten, $9O; Elliptic spring top Buggy $50; l Business Wagon, sle; Glass Coach. $loO; Glass Coach, s50 Carrykn for six persons, $50.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14

which the manufacturers make the following statement
 .1st; They ara the cheapest goods in the market, when their service is taken into consideration. 21, They can be worn in damp weather CT in . shower, without fear of being ruined by curling shrinking :, Sd, They are all double width goods full twenty seven inches wide, and made from the very beat terias, by experienced workmen, and cannot be celled by any similar goods, either Foreign DomeS- tic.
 4thS 1.-The manufacture, dyeinR and finishing is done in such manner that thess goods be washed and done well linen suit, without the least injury to the fabric, and the merchant selling s authorized to warrant them as such.
 9th, In their manufacture there is weiRhting, stiening, artificial lustre used thus showing just what the goods are and will be until worn out 9th, No expense is spared, and the greatest care taken 10 make every color fast the perfection of silk and the purest dyes will make them. Be sure and exam'ne these goods, and if you pur- chase, we, the manufacturers, guarantee them as herein represented.
 VIM. BROADHEAD & SONS,
 JAMESTOWN, N. r." Ask for the " BRoADHEAD" Dress Goods in our store.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14
CUTlCURA SOAP

CHAs DENIM, Druggbt,
 First Place. cor. Court street.
 Brooklyn, March 4, 1879. cheerfuly speak of the healing qualities of your OUTIcURA SoAP, and is perfume ta superior to any of the standard soaps now in use.
 CHAS. DENNIN,
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14
NEW HAVEN, CONN, FRIDAY MORNING. MAY 14 1880
5onrnal and Gontieg.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY HARRINGTON & CO.,, No. 4OO State Street, Courier Rufiding.
 JOHN B. oARRINaToN. EDWARD T. oARRrNeToN. JOHN B. CAnRINaroN, JR.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14

Chief Justice Waite's opinion in the lottery suit which the United States Supreme Court has just decided will meet with hearty and general approval. The question at issue was one of considerable diff culty. After having granted a charter to lottery company upon certain conditions, which were duly complied with, the Mississippi Legislature subsequent Iy rsscinded it. Undsr ordinary circumstances a charter is 8 contract between the State and the corporation authorized. The counsel for the lottery people were therefore able to urge with much plsusibility that the Mississippi Legislature should not be permitted to with draw from an engagement into which it had yoluntarily entered, and from which the other parties had made no default. But Chief Jus tice Waite brushed away the sophistry. In very carefully considered and luminous judg- ment he ruled that in this instance the charter was no more than license, which the State was at liberty to revoke at pleasure.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14

The steamship companies which transport emigrants to this country are naturally con- siderably stirred up by the proceedings begun in New York against the masters of fifteen steamers which have brought to New York more passengers than the law of the United States allows. The law requires a certain amount of deck room for each passenger, and the space does not seem excessive, sixteen square feet when the height between decks is six and seven and 8 half feet, and fourteen superficial feet of deck room where the height between decks exceeds seven and half feet The agents of the companies say, however, that they give the emigrants all the room which the laws of the countries from which they sail require, and that the United States cannot compel them to do mere- The penalty for a violation of the act of Congress is fifty dol lars fine for each passenger in excess of the allowance and imprisonment not exceeding six months
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14
Furniture CretOnnes.

We hxve again made important additions to this stock, including some exceedingly yich and beautiful floral designs We are frequently told that ours s bS far the best display of this kind of goods in the city,
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14

The CUTIcuRA REMEDIES prepared by Weeks Potter Chemists and Druggists, s6o Washington St., Boston, and for sale by all druggists. Price of eUrIoURA small boxes, 60 centa large bs1es contain ing and half uaes the quantity of small, $1. RhsoLyENr, $1 per bottle. CUTIcURA SOAP, % cents mar cake. bv mail S0 ceDfs. 3 cakes. ce1ts
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14
Lawns, Etc.

The materials for light summer dresses for ladies and children continue to attract attention. stock of such goods is the most complete held. Whether in Lawns, Lattice Lawns JAcconets, Cam brics, Momie Oambrics, fRA imported and Madras G1nghams, or in the ordinary Ginghams and Prints, are confident in saying we can meet all require, mentR.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14

every instance ss by magic. -Alss, Palpttahs the heart, Inflammation of The Lungs, LvT, Kidneys irritation of the Stomach and Bowels, I gestioa. Dyspepsis, and Bilious Osls.
 mS 8 MWF2w.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14

.s lI. c. S.O Making Hay While ttse Sun Shtnes-The Encouraging State of Business exhinH About a New Haven Firm,
Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-14
ALWAYS ALERT.
BROADHEAD
 DRESS GOODS.

We have opened a line of Alpa- cas i'm cOlors and black about which the manufacturers make the following statement
National Republican., 1880-04-21
SPARKS FROM rnE POLITICAL ANVIL

Iowa booms for Blaine, but the United
States is for Grant Hawkeye.
Grant still leads the column at Chicago and
will continue TO lead it to the end Hawk
eye.
The New York TTiJmc says "Tildcn con-
tinues to withdraw by capturing solid dclega-
tions"
Grant must be growing. The Cesarian
alarmists are growing wilder.-[Cincinna natl
Enquirer.
The candidacy of Edmunds means simply
his availability as a living platform Of opposi-
ton, not to Grant but to what is meant by
Grantism,"-[N. Y. Mail.
Ohio will give Il larger vote to Grant than to
Blaine If Sherman is out of the way. We de-
sire this prediction to he pasted in the hats of
the Literary Bureau.-[Globe Democrat.
Tho Republican State Convention has Ger.
| tainly doue but little to prevent the nomina-
| tiou of either Grant or Blaine by its choice of
delegates and has done nothing to prevent it
in its platform.-[ Boston Herald.
The Baltimore american says that the inven.
tor ofthe paddock for the lips, now in general use
among the Democrats in Congress, must be
making plenty of moEey if he was shrewd
enough TO stipulate for royalty.
The Cincinnati Commercial, III a spirit orjoy-
| fuluess, remarks: The late rain was a god
| send to Indiana. Candidates for Governor
have kept the ground all over the State trod
down so hard the farmers couldn't plow it,"
According to the estimate published by the
| Blaine organs, outside his bureau. recently
made, General Grants total number OF dele.
gates is, so far 207, more than half the number
! required for majOrity. And there are yel
| twenty-five States to be heard FROM Kan
sas City Journal.
National Republican., 1880-04-21
A srnoNa GovERNMrNr.

One thing tho anh-Ihird Iermagants
seem to have discovered, and that is that
there is no collision between General
GRANT and his friends in the conduct of
the canvass, each padding their own canoe
in their own way, leaving consequences to
take care of themselves. There does not
seem, however, to be any marked mconsist-
eney between an expressed desire on the
part of some of his friends for strong gov
ernment and the conciliatory tone of Cen
eral GRANTS expressions while in the South
and since he came farther North. Because
General GRANT recognizes the fact that he
was received and treated kindly by the
Southern people during his short passage
through that section in q kindred spirit, is
that to be regarded as q confession that
our Government should not be made MS
strong MS experience, integrity, firmness
| aud courage can well make it? If so,we fail to
see it. Undoubtedly the olive branch, backed
by an iron will and stern determination to
conserve the Constitution, the laws and the
! equal rights of all the people, is thestrong-
est possible kind OF government that this
Republic can have. Its genuine strength
reposes less in its warlike spirit and prepa-
ration than in its sense of kindness, gener-
osity and strict justice. No Republican
wants any stronger government for the
South than for the North aud West. So
long as we are Nation, the government
should be equally strong in all its parts
| toward all sections of the terri tory over
which it exercises its powers. But what is
wanted, and what will be secured in the
election of General GRANT, is an admins
tration of the laws and the exercise of the
powers of the Government in such marked
strength as will secure to every American cit
izen all the rights guaranteed to him in the
Constitution, and which were not forfeited
by the failure of the so-called force bill to
become law. There has been a deal of
senseless twaddle wasted on the part of the
Anti-Third- Termers to make it appear that
l. General GRANT and his friends are not act
ing in concert, and hence are inconsistent;
but when the Chicago Convention speaks it
E will end all such nonsense. These revilers
of General GRANT will then begin to see
the necessity ola strong government TO
maintain its integrity everywhere through
out the country, as all know that it is much
easier to conserve n strong government
than n weak one. Past experience teaches
the Republican party that it is much easier
to hold political power than TO recover
it when lost But for that fact
and certain losses that have been endured
by the Republican party, there would be
less call for strong government ut this
period. 1t is by comparison and the lessor
e it teaches that the call has been raised
+ which appears to be unpalatable with thos
Il who are ostensibly indifferent rs to tn
c strength or weakness of our Government
It All who know General GRANT know thn
e the great strength which he would impair
to this Government would not repose a
much in his prowess rs a warrior rs in hi
i wisdom ofjudgment and stalwart integrity
n | as statesman.
National Republican., 1880-04-21
WHAT WILL BE DONE ABOUT IRE

Referring to the selection by ex-senator
CHRIsTIANCY of wife from among the fe-
male employees in the Departments, the
Meridian Miss Mercury--the very elite OF
the Southern Bourbon press-says: He
might as well have chosen wife out of q
" brothel as from the female clerks in the
Departments" Disagreeing, as we do
with the chivalrous Mercury, we ncverthe
less, deem it our duty to submit two propo
stions:
First-Is the Mercury not aware that thu
Departments are largely filled-tho femal,
portion we mean-by women from the
South
Second-What do the Southern femal,
clerks think of the Mercury and what vii
they do about it?
We shall await further developments
with no little curiosity.
National Republican., 1880-04-21

scTJner's Monthly illustrated mogazine) for
May is illustrated by a striking portrait of Ed.
gar A, Poe, engraved from photograph by
Cole. 1t has an interesting paper from the
pen of Theodore l.. DE Vinne on tho Growth
of Wood.Cut Printing" the first of a series OF
papers on "The Dominion Of Canada" II Is
an interesting paper. Taken together, this is
an excellent number Of this sterling magazine.
The Eclectic Mogdsine for May contains be-
sides its usual literary attractions fine steel
engraving Of DR.. Leonard Bacon.
We are indebted to the kind attention Of f.
NJ Whitaker & Son for a copy Of BiacIlrOOd'
Edinburgh Magazine for April, American edi
tion, with rich table of contents.
The hterndtionl Reuiop for May is well
freighted with interesting miscellany. 1t il
an excellent number.
National Republican., 1880-04-21
PERSONAL.

Hon E. ovERToS, of Pennsylvania, is stopping at
Wizards
Hon. II. G. FISHER, of Pennsylvania, is guest at
the Ebbitt House.
GOVERNOR Henry VI. MATTHEWS of West Vr-
gnia is at the Riggs House.
GEORGE L. PEYToN and W. A. Stewart, of White
sulphur Springs, are stoppoing at the Riggs House.
Mr.. WILLIAM Z. FRIEDLASDER, prominent clti-
ORAAo LUGo, of New York; A. Brown, Connecti.
cut; Henry Snyder and William NJ. Shewel jr.,
Philadelphia; Frank n. Price and family, New
York Miss Van Nechton, Auburn. n. V. Henry b.
Thompson and j. J. Green, New York, registered
at the st. James yesterday.
AQUlLLA JoNEs. of indianapolis Albert G. Eos.
ter, New York. W. =. McRNe aud John O. Barton,
North Carolina; Frank King Virginia; Thomas b.,
Wiley and wife and William Reilly New York;
Miss Cole, Miss d. Roberts and Miss II. Harmon,
Newburn, N. Co. registered at the Metropolitan
yesterday.
National Republican., 1880-04-21

of the Russian Empire. The country of the
Lena is destitute of heavy engines and
machinery, which cannot be transported on
sledges, and the Professor seems sanguine
that his project win succeed so far as to
supply many of the needs of the people of
that section, which cannot now reach there
by any existing means of transportation.
His ambition is commendable, and his
sanguine presentation Of his case is well
calculated to secure for him confidence in
his sincerity and his indomitable courage.