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Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-09
Enterpr1sing,

Mrs. Phebe A. Parmelee, of Hattertown, assisted by Mrs. s. Northrop, wove between 300 and 400 yards of rag carpet between the 10th of May and the 18th of June, besides having the care of dairy and making nearly 100 pounds of butter for market. If there are any other two ladies of their age, about 70 and 60 respectively, who can beat this we would like to have them come forward Na9pf07pn Rae
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-09

If the mother is feeble it is impossible that her children should be strong. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is perfect specific in all chronic diseases of the sexual system of women. Send to Mrs. Lydia B. Pinkham, 233 Western avenue, Lynn, Mass. for pamphlets. iy9 eod3t wit
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-09
THE WEATHER RECORD.
Indications.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
 OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER
 WASHINGTON, D. O., July 9-1 A. For New England, fair weather, warm southerly winds, stationary or lower barometer For the Middle States, partly cloudy weather and rains followed by clearing weather, higher tenn perature. northeast winds becoming variable station lower barometer.
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Excursion Season.


 This evening at 11:3O the steamer Elm City will leave Belle Dock for Coney Island, ar irving at this beautiful summer resort about 6 a. m., and remaining until Sunday at p. m., when she will return to Peck Slip, New York city, and remain until 11:3O p. m., when she will return to this city, arriving early Monday morning. It will be 8 most delightful trip, and one which the better class of our citizens will at once recognize as a favorable occasion to obtain the beneficial results of the Sound and ocean breezes. A Elliott House on early application to-day. The fare for the round trip is only $1,75-
 HIGH ROCK GROVE.
 On Monday next the Sunday school and congregation of the Davenport church will enjoy picnic at High Rock Grove. These grounds are admirably adapted for the pur- pose of picnics and pleasure parties, and with the great Improvements and additions made since last year they are more desirable than ever. Several churches are already booked for annual summer excursions to this favorite resort.
 TO CoNGAMoND LAKES.
 The grand excurS1On CO COng6mOnQ Iak0S by Union Lodge, Knights of Pythias, on Tues day next, will not be forgotten by friends of the order. It will be most enjoyable trip, as everything is provided at this famous re- sort for the comfort and convenience of guests Steamboats and rowboats, music and dancing are all on the programme. Fare for the round trip is 75 cents for adults and 40 cents for children under twelve years.
 THE srARIN LINE.
 Hereafter, or until further notice, there will be no Sunday night boat by the Starin Line from this city to New York. The steamer John H. Starin will leave her wharf in this city at 11:15 p. m. on Saturdays to accoIamodate parties who desire to visit Man ,nattan Beach and Coney Island on Sundays The fare for the round trip, including pas sage to and from Coney Island on the Starin Line boats, will be $1.75. Parties can return on the Erastus Corning, which will leave New York as usual on Sunday nights A free coach from corner of Church and Chapel streets every half hour, last coach at Il o'clock
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-09

c. P. Merriman, at 154 Elm street, is sell ing an oil stove (the Florence) that meets with the universal appreciation of the public. The public are invited to call and examine it's workings and judge for themselves. MT. Merriman sells 15o0 test oil, five gallons for G1
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-09

w. B. Fenn $ Co. offer in their slipper sale this week one hundred and fifty pairs of la dies French kid Empress ties at one dollar and tHentY-seYen cents.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-09

The French goat button boots sold by us at one dollar and ninety-fve cents are soft, ''anti-squeak," reliable shoes. We have just received 800 pairs of these goods, all widths, from A to E. WALLACE B. FENN & Go.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-09

Sixty pairs of the slippers offered by W. B. Fenn < Go. at $1.27 are the 'Celeste," cost ing the manufacturers almost three times those figures.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-09

Although High Rock Grove is visited by it's thousands, Savin Rock Hill holds it's own. iy9 At SKEELEs.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-09

Still few left W. B. Fenn & Go. offe
 this morning 200 pairs more of ladies' Frencl
 kid button boots at S2.95. They will no stay with the firm long.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-09
The Strongest Trunks Made.

Hundreds of those famed Excelsior Trunks the strongest made, have been sold by Bur gess $ Burgess, who are sole agents for these jus 1y celebrated and important adjuncts tt the travellers outfit and prosperity. They have new supply in the trunk departmen of their establishment, the largest in New Haven.
 Straw hats for men, youth and boys-yol cannot fail to be suited at Burgess & Burgess both in price and quality, while there is al ways variety enough to suit all ages an6 tastes.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-09

Crearing-out sale of ladies' slippers Fine slippers reduced from $2.5O to $1.27. Good
 work, faithfully made. ivy St w. B. FENN S Go.
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SHE FORGAHE HIM.

One day beautiful woman was driv-
ing in the Strand in a very low and ele-
CANT coupe. The street was blocked for
moment, and the noble lady put her
head out to urge her coachman to drive
on. Just at the instant stalwart coal
HEAVIER was going by on the sidewalk,
and, finding himself face to face with
her, found no other method of express
ing his admiration than to seize her face
between his two hands and kiss her.
The coal heaver was arrested and taken
before magistrate, where, as may be
supposed, the lady demanded his con-
dign punishment. ssWell what do I
care for all the punishments in the
world7" cried the culprit, ardently.
ssI've kissed the handsomest woman in
the three kingdoms !" Whereupon the
anger Of the fair lady was appeased as if
by spell, and turning to the magistrate
she said, coaxingly Oh, please let
this poor man go; he is insane, you
see -
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STARTING IN THE WORLD.

Many an unwise parent labors hard
and lives sparingly all his life for the
purpose of leaving enough to give his
children start in this world, as it is
called. Setting young man afoat with
money left by his relatives is like tying
bladders under the arms of one who cam
not swim ten chances to one he will
lose his bladders and go to the bottom.
Teach him how to swim and he will
never need bladders. Give your child a
sound education and you have done en-
ough for him. See to it that his morals
are pure, his mind cultivated, and his
whole nature made subservient to laws
which govern man, and you have given
him what will be Of more value than the
wealth of the Indies.
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SCHMLDTS MfTAKE.

Igeeps leetle shtore down Proad-
way, but don't got much shtock in ter
shtore. Der comes once customer in.
vot toldt me of shentlemans who got
some goots to sell scheap; SO I write to
ter shentlemans und ask him for ter re-
fusal of dot goots. He gate me ter re-
fusal dot is, he say couldn't hat dem,
but he would come one day to my shtore,
und if we was in goot shtanding we
might do together some peesness. Won
morning, ven I was my gounder pehindt,
there comes in shentlemans, and he
say, Mister Schmidt, I peleeve. Isay
eva" After a leetle, he look my shtore
round and he say, "Mr. Schmidt, you
don't got much shtock in ter shtore.'
Now I want to make some goot imbres-
sions, SO tell him, "You don't suppose
it vas possible I got more as dree dou-
sand dollars in ter shtore, amt it ?" He
say, "You don't toldt me-" Now I
didn't mean that it vas possible, because
didn't want to be like Sheorge Washing
tons, ven he cut ter big elm on Boston
Common NIT his leedle Ratchet down,
and den vent and toldt some lies about
it. Ter shentlemans he takes leedle
book from his pocket oud, und he say,
"Vell, Mister Schmidt, you ought to
know better as anybody how much you
got in ter shtore, SO I put you down dree
dousand dollars" Isay, "Vaty you mean
by put me down dree dousand dollars %
Den he dell me he vos one of dose dax-
men or assessors, und he shake me Ply
der handt and call me honest butcher
ever vos, because I didn't try to scheat
ter Governments. I dell you vot, feel
more sheaper as SO per cent. ven dot
man leaf my shtore.
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a SALTWATER BATH 1T HONE.

A SALTWATER BATH 1T HOME.
In order to supply the continent from
seashore to center, from the metropolis
to the frontier, with sea water, it is not
necessary to barrel and bottle it, nor to
build a pipe line. The more excellent
way is to reduce their bulk by evapora-
ton, and, when old ocean is dry and
clean, pack it away in boxes weighing
from one pound to fifty pounds. Then
send it by express or freight to it's des-
tination. All the saline properties Of
the sea are intact, and by adding the
proper quantity of water to marine salt,
bath is obtained which contains, be-
sides salt Chloride of sodium), the
sulphate and chloride of magnesia, the
sulphats of lime and soda and traces
of the chloride Of potassium and TO-
dine.
But while we summon modern skill
and enterprise to our service, we must
remember the beneficial effect of sea
bathing is not a modern or an individual
discovery. The salutary effect of q
plunge into the surf is universally recog-
nized, and it's practice instructive where
and when the atmospheric conditions
admit of it. Many persons find it's in
fuence over the physical and nervous
system 80 healthful that they consider it
essential to spend few weeks or few
days at the sea shore, even at great e1-
pense or great inconvenience, for they
thus hope to lay up store of health and
strength which will last for months.
The record of the seaside resorts of our
coasts for the past few years shows the
great and growing popularity of sea
bathing. Modern chemistry analyzing
the properties Of sea water declared it q
tonic and remedial, corrective of dis
ease and conservator of health. -Food
and Health.
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AMERICAN rs. .ENa1xsH

If you ask at London grocer's for
crackers he will inform you with mild
contempt that they don't keep the
Fourth of July in England; and it is
only after an elaborate explanation that
you can buy them under the name Of
biscuits, while biscuits in the American
definition are unknown. Canned
fruit or canned anything is not un.
derstood; your request must be fol-
I" timed" fruit or fish; and at the bakers
g graham" bread is unknown; all that
is not pure white is sbrown," and pie.
with top crusts are Sc tarts.
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him to draw two bootjacks, scuttle Of
coal, two or three charges out Of gun,
two or three swears out Of man. and
two articles Of bedroom furniture out Of
the third-story window. This can also
be said Of the average string band. In
fact they are somewhat related, as the
discoverer Of the fddles, listening to the
music of the cat, cut him open to see
where the noise comes from, and thus
laid the foundation for fiddle strings.
Cats and 6ddles thus become violin
line. would say something about the
cat o'-nine-tails, but it is painful sub
ject; another reason is I don't know
anything about them.
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OUR JUVENILES.
"a. GA sa,c.

IN Old Sasc.
A dear little maid came skipping out
In the glad new day with merry shout;
With dancing feet and flying hair
She sang with Joy in the morning air.
"Don't sing before breakfast, you'll cry before
night"
Whata croak, to darken the child's delight
And the stupid old nurse, again and again,
Repeated tho ancient, dull refrain.
The child paused, trying to understand;
But her eyes saw tho great world rsinbow-spannsd;
Her light little feet hardly touched the earth,
And her soul brimmod over with innocent mirth.
"Neyer mind-don't hsten-O sweet little maid!
Make sure Of your morning song" said;
"And II pain must meet you, why, al the moro
Be glad Of the rapture that came before.
so, tears and sorrow are plenty enough;
Storms may be bitter and paths be rough,
But our tears should fall like the dear Earth'a
showers
That help to ripen the fruits and flowers.
"so gladden. tho day with your blissful song;
Sing on while You may, dear, sweet and strongl
Make sure Of your moment Of pure delight,
No matter what trials may come bsfors night"
Celia Thaxter, in Wide Aaoake.
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THE PRIZE ESSAY ON CATS.

The cat proper and improper derives
its name from the manner in which you
address him at night, thus !" Scat!
The cat is a cuss that news and purrs,
because purr-haps it a-mew-ses him. he
is covered with fur, is filed with deceit
fulness, and abounds in cheek. I said
that purr-puss. He can place himself
outside of canary in full bloom, and
then come and sit by your side and look
up you in the face with a smile that is
childlike and bland, chuck full Of
penitence and canary. Canary other AMI.
nal do this? His fur is soft and glossy,
but what is this fur I cannot say. It isn't
SO soft, however, but what it will break
bricks. The cat is a smaller bird than
the mule. As general thing the cat
can draw more than any other animal
except q mustard plaster. I have known
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WALTER SCOTT AND HIS DOGS.

So intimately were SCOTS dogs bound
up with his life, says writer in Temple
Bar, that, when his last financial diff
culties crowded upon him and it was for
a time in his mind whether it would not
be best to sell Abbotsford, the thought
of parting from these dumb creatures"
moved him more than any other painful
reflections; and he could only hope
"there may yet be those who, loving
me, will love my dog because it has been
mine" Before he started as an invalid
for Naples, one of his written instruc-
tons referred to the management of his
dogs and again and again, during his
foreign sojourn, he gave strict, tender
and minute injunctions to Laidlaw, his
steward, to be Every careful Of the poor
people and the dogs" He was always
thinking of them. It was during this
last hopeless journey that he spoke to
the large Danish hound which, stranger
though he was, fawned upon him at the
Castle of Bracciano OF his " fitness as an
accompaniment to such castles" but
that he himself had charger dogs at
home, though, may be, not SO good
natured to strangers. /" It was in Naples,
too, where Sir William Cells huge dog
used to be fondled by Scott, and talked
to, and informed of the dogs he had at
home;;" while he would confde to Sir
William how he had two very
fine favorite dogs, Nimrod and Bran !"
$50 large thai I am always afraid they
look too large and too feudal for my di-
minished income" And it was his dogs
who, as the last days drew near, came
round his chair and began to fondle him
and lick his hands, while their dying
master smiled or sobbed over them.
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whole Alps, they are recognized upon
the Caucasus and Cordilleras,

whole Alps, they are recognized upon
the Caucasus and Cordilleras.
The wealth contained in mountains In
the shape Of silver and gold ore and
precious stones has ever been, like the
magic thread Of the labyrinth, leading
miners and biologists into the depths of
their caverns. Formerly it was supposed
to be an easy matter to reach these
riches. All that a man needed was what
was called ''luck and the favor Of the
gods. Boldly Selling some opportunity,
such as the rolling away Of stone from
a crevice, he had but to mutter some
magic words, creep into dark passage,
and find himself beneath q vaulted roof
of crystals and diamonds; he needed
but to stoop and gather the rubies be-
meath his feet. Not by chance and
magic do the miners of our day reach
the rich veins of minerals. Study
and hard work are behind all the en-
gineering skill which penetrates our
mountains.
When the summer is here, and you go
forth with merry hearts and stout slaves
to climb some "Saddleback >" or s. Mount
Tom," just stop and think Of all the
wonderful things which happen to make
a mountain; and, as you glance up its
wooded sides, and see the clouds resting
upon its summit, or behold the purple
hues Of evening gathering about its ma
jestic form, remember the hand that
made it is divine. "-Harper's Young
Pe017Ze
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a SPIDER BAROMETER.

A spiders web affords an excellent
barometer. An old sportsman Of Cold
water, Mich, claims that one preserved
in his house has proved almost inyaria-
bly, correct. When the rain and wind
are expected the spider shortens the
thread which suspends the web. When
reefs are let out, fne weather may be
certain but if the spider remains inert,
rain viii probably follow within . short
time.
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zEnARxABLF wArcn-Doas.

The night watchmen at the Eastern
Penitentiary Of Pennsylvania have very
able assistants in brute companions,
whose instinct and superior training is
little less than remarkable. These arc
trained watch-dogs, nine altogether, EN-.
bracing one full mastif, two full blood
hounds and the rest half-breed blood
hounds. They are kept in three distinct
kennels, in as many separate Enclosures,
into which the prison-yard is divided.
The fences divide them and they never
meet. Certain indications have showed
that if they did there would be several
very tough dog-fghts. When the night
watchmen are on duty the dogs are un-
leashed and accompany them on their
patrol, but the canine guards are more
effective in their way, as they penetrate
the angles and ouJ-of-the-way places,
while the human watchmen follow the
beaten paths. If the dogs hear any un-
usual noise, or find anything irregular,
they notify the guard by sharp bark.
Their capacity to discover attempted es-
capes has never been fully tested, mas
much as the convicts stand in too whole
some dread of them to dream Of such q
thing during the dog watch.
An instance illustrating the wonder
full instinct of these brute sentinels de-
veloped not long ago. The guard one
night was startled by a warning bark
from one of the dogs, which he found
thirty or forty yards from a point where
small ventilating pipe led from the in
terror of the prison. A cautious inves-
LEGATION showed that one of the con-
victs on that gallery, but occupying q
cell on the opposite side of the corridor,
being sick, was endeavoring to attract
the attention of the inside watch. The
dog had discovered the unusual noise in
the sound conveyed through the drain
pipe which the keepers on the inside of
the building had failed to notice. The
suffering convict was afforded assistance
which he otherwise would not have OBJ
tanned.
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NORTH CAROLINA, like Virginia, lies
in terraced slopes, from the highest rang
es of the Appalachian chain to the salt
marches of the seacoast, and is also like
the neighboring State, usually divided
into belts of the same names Tidewater.
the middle country, Piedmont, and the
Blue Ridge. lngeology and productions,
the belts correspond with those in Vir-
ginia, but the climate of North Carolina
ranges about 10 degrees higher at any
given altitude. There has always been
a popular belief in the North that this
State was poor in natural resource. But
this is not so. Mineralogists of late
years make pilgrimages to her mount
aims as to treasurehouse Of riches, and
shrewd Northern capitalists, since 1874,
have been investing largely in her
timber and mineral lands. In the Blue
Ridge belt there are stores Of gold, silver,
iron, copper and marble which, Prot.
King reports, "seem imitless :" while
Prof. Overman declares that the gold
mines in this district, under proper man
agement, would yield more than those of
California. The Catawba grape is anative
of this section, and 100 other varieties
Of nat. grapes have been found, many
of them superior to the Catawba. There
are in the highlands no potato bugs, mos
quitoes or chinch bugs; but the plague
of the country is heas.
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TIE r1EAEAE1r OF WoMEN.

~ q 0AA ~ VIC way Oh MAGQUS IN nS
celebrated work on population to search
IN the accounts Of travellers for those
causes which operate, in different coun-
tries Of the world, to check the progress
and to limit the numbers Of mankind.
Foremost among these is vice, and fore
most among the vices is that most un-
natural one, Of the cruel treatment Of
women. " In every part Of the world, !"
says Nautilus, zone Of the most general
characteristics of the savage is to de-
spise and degrade the female sex.
Among most of the tribes in America
their condition is SO peculiarly grievous
that servitude is q name too mild to de-
scribe their wretched state. A wife is
no better than . beast Of burden. While
the man passes his days in idleness and
amusement, the woman is condemned to
incessant toll. Tasks are imposed upon
her without mercy, and services are re-
ceived without complacence or graft
tude. There aresome districts in Amer
lea where this state of degradation has
been SO severely felt that mothers have
destroyed their female infants. to de-
liver them at once from life in which
they were doomed to such a miserable
slavery" It is impossible to find for
this most vicious tendency any place
among the unities Of nature. There is
nothing like it among the beasts. With
them the equality Of the sexes, as re-
CARDS all the enjoyments as we'll as all
the work of life, is the universal rule.
And among those of them in which
social instincts have been specially i'm.
planted, and whose systems of polity
are like the most civilized politics of
men, the females OF the race are treated
with strange mixture Of love, of loyal
ty, and of devotion. If, indeed, we con-
slider the necessary and inevitable re-
suits of the habit prevalent among saw
age men to maltreat and degrade their
women-its effects upon the constitu-
ton, and character, and endurance of
children-we cannot fail to see how
grossly unnatural it is, how it must tend
to the greater and greater degradation
Of the race, and how recovery from this
downward path must become more and
more difficult or impossible. But, vi
cious, destructive, unnatural as this
habit is, it is not the only one or the
worst of similar character which prevail
among savage men. A horrid catalogue
comes to our remembrance when we
think of them polyandry, infanticide,
cannibalism, deliberate cruelty, syste-
matte slaughter connected with warlike
passions or with religious customs.
Nor are these vices, or the evils result
ing from them, peculiar to the savage
state. Some Of them, indeed, more or
less changed and modified in form, at
tain rank luxuriance in civilized COM
munities, corrupt the very bones and
marrow Of society, and have broughc
powerful nations to decay and DEATH
Duke Of argyll, in Contemporary Re-