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Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-30
The Last week for R.rpain..

Malley will place upon the market this week his entire stock from cellar. to attic at lower prices than the same class of goods have been offer ed in thirty years. This will be the wind up to our great retirement sale the most successful dry goods sale ever at- tempted in America. Respectfully,
 EDWD VALLEY
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-30
Fair Haven.

Mrs. Paulmier, lady residing at 59 Pop lar street, Fair Haven, had the misfortune to lose pocketbook containing about $sS or $9o. She thinks she lost it in grocery store on State street. She advertises it in another column, and will pay iberally for it's return. We trust she may be happily sur- prised in receiving it again, especially as it is a loss not easily repaired. She thinks some picked it up.
 Many of the oyster dealers of Fair Haven will take in the oystermen's excursion to Glen Island to-day by the Starin.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-30
ChIneae Phxstcians

Attend persons and families, for specific monthly sum- to be paid as long the person family re-
 mains well but when i'll, the doctors salary stops, and medicines must be furnished till health ig reler- ed when pay begins again But in this country it ig
 getting to be the habit to recover from Nervous De- bfIity, Languor Dyspepsia.A Sleeplessness, and all weakened conditions, by using the Blanchard Blood and Nerve Food. See advertisement. au3o Ct
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-30

Rev. Arthur s. Parsons, of Central Falls, R. L, preached an excellent sermon last Sum day at St James, church, Fair Haven East. He is visiting his brother. James E. Pasons, of the Yale bank.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-30
THE WEATHER RECORD.
ImdfcAtHOnas

Indications. WAR DEPARTMENT,
 OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFIUER,S
 WAsHrNeroN, D. O., August sol AM. For New England fair weather, light variable winds mostly southwest, stationary or higher tem- perature and lower pressure. For the Middle States fair weather, variable winds, mostly southerly, stationary temperature and pressure.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-30

M. Bradley & Co.,, 35 Grown street, have a large assortment of tall clocks, china, and irons, secretaries cabinets and other kinds of rare and ancient furniture.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-30

IN Adam < Co.'s winding up sale, ad- vertised in another column, opened very suc- cessfully yesterday. The public can take the word of this firm always, it does not need extravagant advertising
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-30
The Breakwater.
seven Hundred Feet FInished-work Be.
 ruw nm the New Contract.

gum on the New Contract.
 The first one hundred tons of stone under the new contract was dumped at the east end of the breakwater, mouth of the harbor, yes terday. Responsible parties have charge, backed by Sydney Dillon, of the Pacific rail- road, and other railroad men. The contrac- tor has chartered Mr. Beatty's fine steamer to do the towing and the work is to be ener- getically pushed forward. The new contrac- tors expect to complete their work by the 1st of May, 1882. About seven hundred feet of the breakwater was completed under the previous contract, and the prospect is very encourag- ing for this important harbor improvement.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-30
Fish and Oysters.
Antique Furniture.

D. Ackley & Son are now opening choice oysters. A fine selection of fish on hand.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-30
Edward Malley.
HOME AGAIN.

After temporary removal in consequence of fire, I have returned to my old store. s6 Center has been rehtted and refurnshed. have also added 8 stock of fine goods which shall be pleased to furnish my customers
 jy30 stf A. THILL.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-30

Better grades of Lamps reduced accordingly.
 special line celebrated makes of Baccaret, Geln foreign manufactures at less than cost of mporat
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-30

Blanche Douglass arrived at the county jail last evening at about 8 o'clock. She was brought by the deputy sheriff in his carriage
 The deputy privately expressed his relief to part with his charge, and Blanche walked into prison with 8 demure countenance. be- traying some signs of trepidation, but on the whole not severely agitated. She was as- signed to cell, No. g, in the female depart ment, at a considerable distance away from the young Malleys, and will not, it is said, be allowed any interview with them. They soon became aware that new prisoner, fe- male, had arrived, and learned who the cap tive was with considerable show of interest. Blanche went through the prison formula with tolerable composure, had her age, height place of nativity, etc., taken and was then shown to her room. It was quite 8 different reception from that she met with on her first arrival in this city few weeks ago.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-30

AuglEG 5I. ] we the undersigned, duly empaneled jurors called to inquirS to the cause of death of Theodore Schneider, whose body found in the water West Haven about POO yards west of the watch house on Point, after viewing the body of said deceased and hearing the evidence in the do, upon our oaths say according to best knowledge and belief that said Theodore schneider to his suicide.
 Prosper Warner, John F. Barnett, M. D., Samue [. Smith, Rollin W. Hine, Silas Thompson, Elam Hull.
 Town Agent Kelsey received the following dispatch from Mr. Kraemer, of Newark: C.. R. Kelsey:
 Don't know any particulars about Theo Schneider. MeJ CT in New Haven knows him well.
 OHIRLEs KRAEMER
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-30
PIainviIle Camp Ground.

A Most Favorable Prospect for the Week -PreparatiOns-The Good AccOmmOda- tfons Changes and Improvement Twenty Thousand Dollars-The open- ing Exercises To-Day.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-30
MORE LETTERS.

Sheriff Peck received letter written in German yesterday, which stated that thou sands of people believed that the jury was bought complot, J and that 'the State, as well as the jury, deserved lynching, the same as is extended in the West; that the general belief was that the MalIeys killed the girl, and signed z. Another letter was written in lead pencil, and read:
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-24
The FIrinr.Fish and It's Zoe,

One afternoon, during a voyage on q
sailing vessel bound TO a West Indian
port. while the ship was making some
four or five miles an hour, a coryphene
was observed gamboling under the bows,
going ahead n little, as If to show its
superior speed, and then returning to its
frolics While the sailors were fastening
the harpoon to a line the coryphene
sighted fying-fish. At once it stiffened
itself: its whole body quivcred rs il
with excitement; its tail was agltated
from one side 10 another, and II started
in pursuit, bounding over the surface of
the sea. with leaps of some fifteen or
twenty feet. Although a stern chase Is
held to be a very long one, this lasted
less than a minute; one of the leaps
brought the corvphene right under the
terrified flying fish, which seemed to fall
into its enemy's jaws. The latter re-
turned TO its "play-ground' under the
bows, and was harpoOned, brought on
board, and cut mp within two minutes
after its meal. The flying fish was taken
out whole. uniniured. The corypheue
is the beautifully colored fish noted for
the shifting and varieties of its tints
when expiring. 1t Is commonly but err
roneously called dolphin, rs III the
well-known verse: "The dying dolphin
changing hues.' Now in regard to the
fying-fsh, l have watched them on
many voyages, and can confirm the
observers who describe its motion rs
leap, not an act of flying. 1t springs
out of the water, gradually rising to the
middle of its course, then falling, de
scribing parabola just as an arrow
does in its flight. / have repeatedly seen
them change direction during the leap,
making a detection of about half an an
gle, never more. But ] cannot agree
with Mr. Whitman, who estimates the
length of their leap or jump to he eight
hundred or even twelve hundred feet.
opine that about two hundred feet is
pretty big jump for one of these fishes,
and instead of forty seconds, l calculate
the time occupied in long leap at fif-
teen seconds; which gives a velocity of
nine miles and a fraction per hour
Communication to the NoaO orleans
Times.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-24

They are mostly daughters of poor
army officers, or petty civil officers, or
even of shop-keepers, who feeling the
influence of modern times, are anxious to
rise above the level of their parents,
coarse, ignorant people in the main.
Either by their own talents or by the aid
of influential patrons. the girls gain
scholarships, and enter some high school
where their brains are crammed with a
heterogeneous mass of knowledge. At
10 they leave, and in turn become teach
ers. Finding their parents uncompan-
ionable, they abandon home for some
wretched lodgings, and exc out miser-
able existence by giving poorly paid les
sons. Food is scarce, the feminine pleas
ures of dress are impossible, the restrain
ing power of family affection is absent,
they grow hopeless and discontinued,
when some day they form socialistic
acquaintance. rapidly adopt their ideas,
and, having found an object for their
life, with feminine rashness devote them
selves to the cause, even to the very
death. Paris Figaro.
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Naming Her Baby.

On the train was woman with baby
about eight months old, and in the next
seat back was an old man who couldn't
sit still until he had said:
''That's baby you have got there,
isn't it?"
eyes, sir"
"About year old, isn't hep"
"Mercy, no! He's hardly eight
months old YETI
sIsn't, ELI? Well. Tn the father of
nine children, but it's been so long since
I've seen baby that I've forgotten how
they ought to look is he a gir]?'
mo, sir; he's a boy"
"Just me. agin. never can tell one
from 'tother Is he purity healthy?"
"Oh, yes"
''Squall much nights?"
"Never squalls at all.
Don't Ell? That's the kind of
young 'un like to see around My
Samuel did nothing but howl for the first
two wears, Sarah was allus sick, Moses
fell out of the cradle aud broke his arm,
and something or other allus allied every
one of the lot. Have you named this
baby yet p
''No, sir. P"
Haven't, ehl Say?"
eyes, sir. -
"'Sposen you call him arter me? NV
fust name is Jefferson, and they jeff me
for short. I've got two ten dollar gold
pieces here for him if you want to call
him Jefferson"
"Ill do itr' promptly replied the
woman.
That's business. Here's the cash and
the boy is named Jefferson, arter me-
Lemme kiss him about four times
The baby was duly kissed aud con
graduated. and at the next station he
left the train with his mother The old
man was tickled half To death over the
matter, until the conductor came along
and asked:
Did you pay her anything to name
that baby after you p
Yes twenty dollars. He's a clipper,
and don't You forget it.
'Aud SO Is his mother. She's down in
the Detroit House of Correction. and the
woman who had him takes care of him
for two dollars a week.
mo az
Fact
The old mans jaw fell, his eyes re
manned fixed on the ceiling for minute,
and then he fell back IN his seat with
the exclamation:
"Chaw me! Everybody has called me
n fool for the past twenty years, and now
l know they were right Conductor"
''Weu -
'Please mop the floor with me and
break my neck, and step on me thous-
and time, and then throw the mangled
wreck into some swamp, for I won't be
no more good In this worldl' Detroit
Free Press.
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Dragged Wines.

As France has kicked up a row about
American hog meat, which extended
even to ringing bells through the villages
warning the citizens, it is entirely fair to
warn the american people against the
drugged wines of France The Partisan,
a paper printed in English in Paris,
gives a branch of the history of this
manufacture of wines sold fraudulently
under the names of the choicest brands
of French wines: The wine crop of 1879
was about %, 600, 600 or 10000, 900 hec-
toliters below the average of the last ten
years. The annual consumption in
France is from 100000 600 to 45, 900, 600
hectoliters. Every body expected a rise
in the price of wine, and some conscien-
.ious dealers laid in a stock from abroad
The rise In price, however, never came,
md the markets remained well supplied.
] The reason was that the natural deficit
/ was compensated for by artificial means
4 Wine was manufactured out of dry
( grapes. All the raisius to be found IN
Eastern ports were bought up, and wine
manufactures sprang up all over the
{ country Around Paris alone there are
seven steam-power wine manufactures.
/ The cost Of n cask of raisin wine is about
/ 80 francs, and it was sold ut 100 francs,
/ thus giving profit of 100 per cent. Bat
the competition has now become such
( that the price of raisins has risen from
/ twelve francs to seyenty-tiye francs the
100 Kilograms. The consequence is that
/ that raisins have been abandoned, and
vine is now manufactured out of glu-
/ cose. Il sugary matter obtained from the
potato, ont of the residue of molasses,
/ out of rotten apples, dried prunes, dates,
! figs and all kinds of refuse fruit, and
even out of beet-roOt. These abomina-
I bic liquids are colored artificially and
mixed more or less with Spanish wines
or white wine. The adulteration and
manufacture of vino has attained such
vast proportions that the principal deal
ers who had taken measures to supply
! the market Loyalty with harvest wine
/ from foreign countries have taken steps
/ to put a stop TO this gigantic fraud The
/ imposture has reached such pitch that
not one third of the wine now drank III
/ Paris is real grape. The revelations of
/ the manufacture of French brandy are
no less convincing of the wholesale char
acter Of the frauds. French brandy of
/ this day Is described as an inferior spirit
/ distilled from sugar, potatoes, Indian
/ corn and whisky distilled from barley,
and this IS the stuff imposed upon the
people Of this country 1t would be q
! national blessing if there was an author
/ itatiye analysis made of the various so
called French wines and brandies fraud
| ulently pushed off upon the American
people by the wine manufacturers OF
France The drugged and poisonous
stuff IS, IN addition TO being a commercial
4 fraud, also most deleterous to health
an life, and its importation should be
/ discontinued. No pure wines or bran
/ dies are now exported from France.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-24
Ever Changing Fashion.

Fashions change gradually. Unless
they did they could not be followed. for
suddenness would demonstrate their alb
surdity. The revolutions that they make
are not obvious until they have been re-
garded through a series of years The
feminine mode of wearing the hair at
present is a fair illustration. A good
while ago, when the rage for phrenOlogy
had brought high forheads into vogue.
the hair was brushed back from the brow
so as to exhibit it to its fullest expanse.
The fashion was not pretty; ii gave women
n bold, masculine, staring expression:
but it continued with the interest in
phrenology. Then women began to
dress their hair reasonably, letting it
shade the brow, as it ought to, instead
Of pushing it off as far as possible They
have of late been wearing 1t lower and
lower, until many now hide their fore
heads with 1t altogether. 1t Is not un-
common to see well-dressed women
whose hair, natural or false, comes down
to their eyebrows, while others draw it
forward in such profusiOn as to give
them grotesque appearance. Most of
the New York women who make any
pretense to fashion look as if they had
no brows, these being invisible on ac-
count of the peculiar arrangement of
their hair. They are not content to de-
pend upon nature, either. They deco
rate themselves with front-pieces of
divers patterns, and by their aid look as
i'll as they well can. If they knew how
they looked in the eyes of good taste
they would, we are sure, alter the dress
ing of their hair. Hiding their forhead
in that manner bestows on them a very
insipid, not to say imbecile, expression
They might, with hair and eyebrows
mingling, be mistaken for bleached
South Sea Islanders, and candor COM
pels us to say that the intelligence of
some of their faces does not need toning
down.-NeW York Times.
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A Fandango at La Venta.

LII SO happened that we reached La
Veioa On festive occasion. A fandango
was III null blast but short distance
from our quarters, and large number
OF strange Indians from the surrounding
country We're in the village. Our advent
had caused temporary suspension of
the festivities, but the people soon be-
gan 10 drift that way again, and by the
time we had finished our supper the
music OF harp and 6ondolOn could be
heard, and the dance was once more in
progress. Alexandra told us that the
village would probably grow lively to-
ward midnight as the dance continued,
for the Indians were drinking a good
deal OF n1escdt, and many of them were
sun coming In from the country. He
Informed me that the Alcalde of the
town had already hidden himself, as 3
the custom on such occasions, and that
we must be On our guard, for the Indians
were Dad men when drunk, and inclined
to dislike strangers. We were all armed
to the teetl, however, and felt no APP
prehenslons After supper, Marion and
/ sailed out into the dark street, and,
following the sound of the music, soon
found ourselves in the midst of the
crowd of Wild, haH-naked jewellers. The
dancing WIS carried on under the shed
which was lit up by pine-knots, throwing
ont wierl glare over the dusky crowd.
A number Of men and women would step
into the Qen space and shuttle slowly
around, each one apparently on his own
responsibility, and with no regard to
figure. II the meantime those who
were not dancing would squat in cir
Gle around the open space, and sing
monotowusly in time with the music Of
the insruments The dancers would
finallyfetire and others take their places,
tho IEocesa being repeated with little or
no variations. But it was in the outer
rim Of the circle that the real fun seemed
to be going on. Little groups were
gathered here and there, drinking, sing
ing and carousing, and, as we left the
crowd and picked our way back to our
lodgings, we noticed one of our men,
Ponciano by name, ogling dusky
maiden. and treating her to a drink of
orchata.-D. S. Richardson IN Cali
fOTnid1
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Cultivation of SelrResnecf-

\ child that is uniformly treated with
courtesy, with consideration. with JUS
tice, viii unconsciously deem himself
worthy of such treatment, and will be-
come worthy of it, unless he is by nature
wholly base; and he will unconsciously
treat others as he is treated. 1t is II fear
full thing to give child the lie, to accuse
HIM of stealing, to accustom him to I'M
expected and unmeIited blows and cuffs
He may merit punishment, but the wise
parent never viii admit into the house
hold vocabulary the terrible words ''l;ir"
and "thief, and viii never permit in
himself or others the hasty blow, the
bitter taunt, the singing epithes. The
refined and educated parent can never
tolerate such language as we have indi-
Gated. Bitter words are more cruel than
blows and infict more lasting injuries.
Care in the choice of associates will do
much to foster self-respect in child.
Some mothers think their sons and
daughters can go where they choose and
play with whom they please, and come
out all well in the end There never was
n greater mistake. As we'll might one
think it no difference what air we
breathe. Children are quicker than we
TO catch the tone of associates, to pick
up slang words, bad grammar, vulgar
ideas-these often seem to be taken in
through the very pores, as typhoid poison
is, when least expected. Care IN the
choice of reading will do much to foster
due self-respect in child. The boy
who grows up with familiar knowledge
of Washington, of Franklin, of Lincoln,
and other great men who have been the
glory of the nations in which they have
been conspicuous, will be far moro likely
to find his mind filled with noble images,
with high ideals, with lofty ambitions,
than one who reads sensational newspa-
pers, dime novels, and the comic alma
nae. Any soil that yields abundantly
must contain in itself elements of fer
tility, and barren soil may have elements
arti6cially supplied to them.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-06-24
How 10 poralyze a ~Masher."

The Baltimore american gives ladies
hint fo1 the paralysis Of ''mashers.
Here it is:
sThe lady has only to ,ast her eyes
modestly down and fix her gaze lntently
on the feet of the Washers The glance
at the feet should be concentrated, yet
full Of pity and should linger slightly as
the lady passes by. Instantly the Who'll
platoon of Washers Is affected by a pro
found distrust. The sympathetic look
strikes terror to their souls They all
cast down their eyes, and look ut their
OWL feet. The horrible fear that their
shoes are not in the latest style takes
possession of their bOsOms. Each one
is smitten with the conviction that his
foot is abnormally spacious; he becomes
conscious of multitudinOus protrudlng
corns and bunions; his shoes, peradven-
ture, are muddy or dusty; or something
has gone wrong with the set OF his
trousers at the ankle. The stoutest lah-
de-dah collapses at the mere possibility
of such thing his nerve Is gone. The
eye-Class falls from his eve, his arms lose
their kimbo; he feels that his pantaloons
are cupped at the knees, and that his
coat is full of misfits and wrinkles; he
suspects the cleanliness of his stockings,
shudders at the thought that the sole
and upper leather have parted com
pany, revealing that painful fact. He
even flies to some secluded spot and
makes protracted investigation before
he can satisfy himself that all Is right.
And even then his nerves do not recover
their tone. He is liable TO be again
panic-stricken. A glance of pity mingled
with q slight smile cast at his feet Will
renew and aggravate all his paralytic
symptoms.
1.-The masher, the lad-de-dah and lum-
tum, like all other creatures, have their
weak spots. To prevent n hog from
roofing, slit his nose; to keep a jackasS
from braying, weight down his tail; to
keep a masher from MASKING, gaze sadly
at his feetl"
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OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
ONE OF HIS NAMES.

Never n boy had so many namesi
They called him Jimmy, and Jim, and James,
Jeerns and Jamie; and well he knew
Who II was that wanted him, TOO.
The boys ia the street ran after him,
Shouting out loudly. "Jini Hey, J-i-m-m!"
Until the echoes. little and big,
Seemed TO be dancing Jim Crow jig.
And little Mabel out in the hall
q Jim-mvg Jim-myP would sweetly call,
Until he answered, and let her know
Where she might mud him, she loved him so.
Grandpa, who was dignifed,
And held his head with an air Of pSide,
Didn't believe In abridgng names,
And made the most that he could Of "J-a-m-e-s!
But II papa ever wanted him,
Crisp and curt was the summons, " JimP"
That would make the boy In his errands run
Much faster than il he had said, My son."
Biddy O'Flynn could never, IL seems,
Call him anything else but "Jeems;"
And when the nurse old Mrs. MeNySe,
Called him jamie IL sounded nice.
But sweeter and dearer than all the rest,
Was the pet name he liked the best;
" Darlingin he heard 10 wherever he WAS at,
For none but his mother called him that,
~ Afebo