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Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09

In reply to an assertion that 60 per cent. of the conv1cts confined in the prisons of Phila-
 delphia are high school graduates some sta convention of the National Educational Asso- citation by J. P. Wickersham, formerly su- perintendent of schools of Pennsylvania. Of 4S7 convicts received into the Eastern Peni-
 tentiary in 1879, 39 had attended public
 schools, 12 had been educated in private
 schools, had studied in high schools, and 5 had attended colleges; 82 had never attended schools of any kind None of the high school students had been graduated. In 1880 the number was 463, and of these only 13 had attended high schools, 8 of these for only one year. Of 2, BOT persons convicted and sentenced to the jails and workhouses of the State in 1879, only 13 had attained any high degree of education, and it was doubt full whether any of these had been graduated from high school or college. In 1879 and 1880, 571 con-
 victs were admitted to the Western Peniten- tiary, and of these only were regarded by the prison authorities as having received su- perior education. More than one-sixth of the convicts admitted to two Pennsylvania penitentiaries in 1879 and 1880 were wholly illiterate. MT. Wickersham's conclusions,
 reached after an examination of the relations of education to crime in other States, are
 that one-sixth of all the crime in the country is committed by persons wholly illiterate, and one-third by persons practically iIliterate, and that the proportion of criminals among the i11iterate is about ten times greater than among those who have been instructed in the clements of common school education or hauond
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09
Price Four Cents.

finite delight" to him, walking in Barnes Elms We find him comparing Bible con-
 cordances, @ captious judge of sermons. deep in Descartes and Aristotle We find him. in single year. studying timber and the meas. urement of timber; tar and oil, hemp, and the process of preparing cordage; mathe
 matics and accounting; the hull and the rig ging of ships from a model; and Hooking and improving himself of the (navaD stores with"-hark to the fellow !-'s great de- light" His familiar spirit of delight was not the same with Shelley's; but how true it was to him through life! He is only copying something, and behold, he "takes great pleas ure to rule the lines. and have the capital words wrote with red ink ;" he has only had his coal cellar emptied and cleaned, and be- hold, 'it do please him exceedingly" A hogs haslet is Ca piece of meat he loves !" He cannot ride home in my Lord Sandwich's coach but he must exclaim, with breathless gusto, This noble, rich coach" When he is bound for a supper party he anticipates a
 giut Of pleasure. When he has new watch, to see my childishness, " says he, 'I could not forbear carrying it in my hand and seeing what o'clock it was an hundred times" To go to Vauxhall, he says, and t'hear the night ingales and other birds, hear fiddles, and there harp and here Jews trump. and here laughing, and there fine people walking, IS mighty divertising" And the nightin- gales, take it, were. particularly dear to him and it was again with great pleasure" that he paused to hear them as he walked to Woolwich, while the fog was rising and the Aprl stun broke thfUunH "
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09
General Robert Patterson.

From the Philadelphia North American
 It is with unfeigned regret that we an. nounce the death of General Robert Patter- son, which occurred last evening at his resi- dence in this city. By his decease Philadel- phia loses one of it's most notable and dis tinguished citizens. General Patterson's $ reputation was more than local-it was na- tional. He was known throughout the coun- try and wherever he was known he was hon ored. General Patterson was a many-sided man, and had won distinction in many differ military man of no small talent, whose ser vices to the republic in the three great wars in which he took part have long since receiv- ed tss recognition they deserve. He was a most enterprising and successful man of bus- mess, who for nearly three quarters of cen tury has been active and influential in pro- noting the manufacturing supremacy of Philadelphia For years and years he has been prominent figure in social life, and no gathering has been regarded as complete un- less General Patterson graced t with his presence In his public and private life alike he won respect, affection and admira- tion and though he had far outlived the Psalmist's limit, and had attained an age at which most of the few who live so long are burden to themselves and to all.around them. yet until within few weeks he was power in social and commercial life, and his de- cease leaves blank which cannot be filled. It bears the most eloquent witness to the force of his character and the usefulness of his life that he will be missed beyond the circle of h1s personal acquaintance. There are few men who die in their ninetieth year of whom so much can be said
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09
Tuesday Morning, August g, 1881.
TWO KINDS OF TEMPERANCE WORK

TWO KINDS OF FTEMPERANCE WORK Southern temperance men seem to be wiser
 in some of their work than northern Pro
 hibitionists are. The campaign in North Carolina, which resulted in the defeat of the Prohibition party, was not mixed up with 8 I contest for State offices The Prohibition ists of Mississippi are now carrying on a non-partisan campaign. Their address to l the people declares that We have nothing to 1 do with party politics." It further says: l "We shall place no candidates in the field. 1 We shall not grasp for the spells of office. I We deprecate and denounce the attempts of our enemies to drag our righteous cause into the contentious of parties, thereby prejudic- ! ing and injuring the movement" A State Committee of fifteen was chosen, charged l with the duty of preparing and submitting to the Legislature st it's next session memo rial on the evils of the liquor traffic and dsA mand that an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the sale of intoxicants in the State be passed and submitted to the people The convention declined to adopt resolutions requiring candidates for office to declare whether they favored prohibition. and pledg-
 
 for the Legislature known to be opposed to
 it. Pending the action of the Legislature
 and people on the proposed constitutional
 amendment an effort is to be made to secure
 more stringent license law by local option.
 The New York Tunes calls attention to the
 difference between this kind of temperance work and that done by the Ohio Prohibition
 ists. In Ohio there are temperance candi-. dates in the field for all State offices to be of the Temperance party have declared that one of their chief aims is s'to chastise the Re publican party" What they expect to gain for their cause by the chastisement of the Re publican party and the elevation to power of the Democratic party is impossible to see. It seems like case of cutting the nose of to spite the face. But even if their motives are good, they are not wise. For, as the Tunes well says Nothing is clearer than that at a fatal disadvantage when they attempt to promote the principles they profess by the use, in a struggle for office, of the machinery and methods of party contests. They lose at once the support and sympathy of great mass of voters really favorable to the repres- sion of the liquor traffic, but whose political convictions and fealty to party forbid them to waste their votes on candidates who have not the remotest chance of election. To join ] 8 Prohibition party like that in Ohio implies | the abrogation of the broader duties of citi- l zenship for the accomplishment of single purpose, not always either broad or import ant. It is an open question whether ! the cure of the dram-shop evil is best sought l through legislation, but there can be no doubt ! that contests for executive offices are wholly | outside any legitimate reform movement of | this character"
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09

tured and executed. D Henry IT. wrote one: ''got drinking Intoxicating liquors until he was commonly called drunk" Another, ,whoss memory served him better, described the same king as receiving s'wacks with berch' as part of his penance for the murder of Beckett. A boy did Milton the honor of as cr1bing to him Ca sensible poem called Can terbury Tales"
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09
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 HEALTH IS WEALTH

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Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09

Notice at the door of ready y-made clothing establishment in one of the poorer quarters of Paris: Do not go somewhere else to get robbed; walk in here e"-SaUaaaasGh Recorder.
 ssThe skolers tell me you speI tissick with ph. Sich teachin' As this don't Goe and mus be imejutly stopped" wrote an Arkansas school director to one of the teachers in his district.
 man called upon an unfortunate trades man to pay demand. "I can never pay it, said he; '1 am not worth a farthing but will give you a note-L am not so poor yet but that can sign note"
 q see," said Fogg to manufacturer, s'that your baking powder is sold to all re- spectacle grocers. Now, who are the re- spectacle grocers?" "The grocers who sell my baking powder, of course," replied the manufacturer.-Bosto7a Transcript.
 The night had suddenly overclouded, and became quite stormy. Being of g sentimen- tai turn she accordingly took her seat at the piano and began to sing, Unto some lives the rain must fall" But he was entirely practical and, clutching her arm, said ten derly: s'Sing something else, darling you know didn't bring any umbrella."
 It was a cold day last December, not too bitterly cold, but just about as cold as some of the warm days of this month of June past. The car was too cool for the comfort of any creature but polar bear, and the lean man with thin ulster who got on at Salamanca called out to the brakeman, ''Say, young fel- low, can't you put a little more fire in tht:. stove ?" "No, sir" replied the gentle brake man, sI can put in some more wood, but all the fire there is on board the car is in the stove now" Then deep silence fell on the multitude like scuttle of hard coal and hired girl dropping down 8 flight of back tairs.-Burdette dt HODls.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09

Some of the answers to examination papers in this country are queer, but it would be hard, we imagine, to equal the amusing ig- norance displayed by some scholars of the London board schools who were lately exam ined as candidates for scholarships offered by the city companies. One of the candidates made this odd statement '"The climate of England determines to be rather unhealthy on account of it's having so many smells and stinks such as tanners and many others.'' P Another gave this geographical information:
 "The old world naturally was Europe, and now the new world is Europe, Asia, etc.' Another answered the question, .sWhere is Buenos Ayres ?'' ''Buenos is in Germany :; Ayres in France.n In history these young people distinguished themselves even more.
 ssMagna Charta. "wrote one of them, twas so that the people should not worship the place where Moses died" Another histori- cal student wrote '.Magna Charta was ordered by the king to be be- headed. He fled to Italy, but was cap
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09

The Hon. Galusha A. Grow suggests through a Tribune reporter change in the Constitution, in order to relieve the Presi- dent of the enormous and growing load of executive duties devolved upon him. Mir. Grow would limit the appointing power of the President to his Cabinet, the foreign ministers and the judges of the United States courts, placing the task of making selections for the subordinate offices of the government in the hands of heads of departments. Still further to relieve the President. the ex-Speak- CT would make the Vice President member of the Cabinet, and put upon him the duty of deciding a large class of comparatively minor questions coming up for executive de- cision- This would give the President time to attend to our foreign relations, and study important national questions upon which he has to make recommendations to Congress, with much more care than he can possibly give to them under the existing system. At present the Chief Magistrate is an overwork- ed clerk during perhaps one-fourth of his time and weary listener to applications for office during nearly all the rest of his work ing hours
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09

When Nathan Orlando Greenfield solemnly protested his innocence of wife murder while the moose was around his neck at Syracuse, last Friday, there was one firm believer, ex- Judge Huntington, who has since said : seThis belief, which has to me become knowl- edge as firm as my own existence, has never been elouded by doubt aince investigated for myself the circumstances of the case
 This it is, and this alone, that nerved me to the performance of an amount of work which, when I look upon it, fairly amazes me this, that induced me to pay out nearly $1O, ,OO0 from my not over abundant means to carry on this defense. To most of us who have hearts the hanging of guilty man seems a dreadful necessity but who can describe the unspeakable horror that sur rounds the strangling to death of human being for crime of which he is innocent ?"
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09


 Holman's Ague, Liver and Stomach Pad For Malaria, Ague and Stomach troubles. $2.0O. Holman,s Special Pad. For chronic cases. $3. 4HOAman,s Spleen Belt. For stubborn cases of enlarged Spleen and unyielding Liver and Stomach troubles. $500. Holman's Infants Pad. For ailments of In- fants and Children. $I.5O. HOIma ms Abdominal Pad. For Uterine Ova- rian and Bladder troub1es $500. Holman's Renal Kidney Pad. For Kid ney Complaints. $2.OO. HOlma ms Pectoral Pad. For affections of the Chest and Lungs. $500. Holman's Absorptfve Medicinal Body Plaster. The best Plaster in the world. 25c. HoIman's AbsOrptive Medicinal Foot Plasters. For Cold Feet, Headaches and Slug gish Circulation (per pair), 25c. Absorption Salt for NIedIcated Baths. For Colds, Rheumatism, and all cases who're Medica- ted Bath is needed; also excellent foot-bath tper x lb. package), 25c.
 For sale by all Druggists or sent by mail postpaid on receipt of price. The Absorption Salt is not " maiable' and must be sent by Express at purchas CTS expense.
 See that each Pad bears the Private Revenue Stamp of the HOLMAN PAD COMPANY, with above Trade-Mark printed in green.
 DR. HoLMAN's advice is free. Full treatise sent
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

New Jersey has an agitation for the abo[ ition of lay judges. Under an arrangement long in operation in that State, and adopted also in Vermont, plain business men are elected as side judges and associated with the law judges in certain decisions. The arrange ment has added to the uncertainties of the law and worked badly generally.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09

seThe Label and Trade Mark of well-knovn and responsible manufacturer is the best protection the public can heve" s.DR MOTT -Hs7f
 Government Chemist" j
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09

German railroad conductors have added to their equipment paper mill and printing office, the invention of Berlin engineer, to be hung around the neck, which is designed to completely manufacture passenger tickets before the eyes of the 'passenjaire. :" The apparatus is said to besomewhat complicated in construction, but it's manipulation is as simple as it's working is correct, for, should the operator not proceed in the way re- quired by the mechanism, it will not print all the figures and words wanted, but the word ''Falsch" (wrong) in the place where the fault was committed. At the same time this portable printer checks the number of tick cts issued, so that at any given moment the money in the hands of the conductor can be compared with the value of the tickets printed and taken.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09
MIGRANTS.
HEATED TERM POETRY.

HEATED TERM POETRY. Oh for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers Oh for an iceberg or two to control Oh for vale that at midday the dew sumbers s! Oh for pleasure trip up to the pole Oh for little one-story thermometer, With nothing but zeros all ranged in 6 row Oh for big double -barreled hydrometer. To measure this moisture that falls from my brow Oh that this cold world were twenty times colder [That's irony red hot it seemeth me J Oh for turn of its dreaded cold shoulder ! Oh what comfort an ague would be Oh for grotto to typify Heaven, Scooped in rock under cataract vast Oh for winter of discontent even Oh for wet blanket judiciously cast Oh for soda fount speuting up boldly From every hot lamp post against the hot sky Oh for proud maiden to look on me coldly, Freezing my soul with the glance of her eye! Oh for draught of cup of 'scold pizen !' Oh for 8 resting place in the cold grave Oh for bath in the Styx, whore the thick shadow
 lies on
 And deepens the chill of its dark, running wave.
 -DetrOit Free Press.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09

Purity and Strength Guarantsed.
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Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09

Mothers and Nurses should see to it that the nfant constitution is built up and strengthened by proper food before the trying Summer Months come which are the most dangerous to infant life.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-09

Perfect Baking Powder, purchased by him in the open market, says: q find Heckers' Perfect Baking Powder to consist essentially of Cream of Tartar and Bi-carbonate of soda, or other words to be plIre Cream Tartar Baking Powder free from alum terrs alba ammonia. or any injurious substance." 1t is
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-10-01
WANTED.

GOOD MORTGAGES AT 9 PER CENT. "a
FARMS In Baltimore esanty. Stats leosiisa
distance from Pike and RaiiFsai. ds<sripsisa snd
sire % Farm and BUILDINGS, amesnt u -.
sessment and insurance. Alss, wk.t Gas ths
latest cash sale % land In the ixhhsshseA ols.
references a. 10 vAlas % farm-
Address, JOHN 7. GRAHAM,
Real Es,ais Broker. IS s.rstsra "a. B.isi.sss.
Feb. Mt
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-10-01
ATTENTION FARMERSl
Save Money by Inss,ringyourProp.
erty in the
Agricultural Fire Insurance Comply
OF WATERFOWL, NY
ASSETS january LIST, fssf,$L.cI,ss,..o.

ASSETS january LIST, fSSf,$f,:Gf,sJt"0.
NiE attention Of farmers Is directed 20 the great
l. advantages In the way Of Fire Insurance. Of
icred by the above Company.
Its assets amount 90 over =, OOO, 900, so that
failure 10 absolutely impossible.
II insures nothing but Dwellings and Farm
Property. rejecting all risky property, such ~
manufacturing or mercantile establishments.
II not only pays for all losses by fire. but for
saH'ays' do"e " Lishiainy. whether Ere ensues o-
not.
II also pays for Lire Stock killed by lightning
anywhere on the farm. The latter feature will
commend this Company To the farming community.
The terms on which property il insured are as
favorable as those Of any other Company in this
country.
A large number Of prominent and wcll.known
persons have already attested their confidence in
this Company BY insuring their property therein,
and whose names will be furnished on application
to Us.
For further particulars. rates. &C., cal! ON OF
address, II. l.. BOWEN, Agent,
Towsontown, Baltimore county, Md.
Feb.5,'s
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-10-01
OLDFIELD's ExCELSIOR PUMP.

NvHE undersigned has now on hand about 1900
i feet ofchoice white Oak Pump Stock which has
beeni n spring water . sufficient length Of time 10
free u from sap. Any Pump constructed Of this
stock IL guaranteed not % give unpleasant taste
tothewater. Hisarrangementsfo for preparing Pump
Stock In the above manner are most ample and
complete. aud he win always be prepared 10 put
up the EXCELSIOR PUMP st short notice.
Always on hand all kinds Of PUMP Fixtures Of
the very best quality. including Leathered Buckets
for Old Pumps. which can be furnished on demand
Common Wooden Pumps made on the premises
where they are to be placed. when desired.
All Pumps constructed by the subscriber are
warranted for one year. After the frst year they
will be kept In order by him for ten yer., for the
moderate sum Of $i.oo per year.
Do-G tie Eseetaor Papp shouid NOT yire .sf-
i.fsefioa "a will be remored ard ne MONEY rs(sadef
Refers by permission 20 r. n. Baarman. Esq,
Tcwsontown. Orders by mail, or In person. al.
tended % promptly.
WILLIAM 0LDFIELD. Pumr Maker,
July3y.s Fountain Green. Hartford Co., Nd
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-10-01
DOUBLE HEATERS,
RANGES, &c, Sc, 81.
A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF
Plain and Japanned Tinwsre,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
- and 81 %. Gay Street,

Cor. Harrison Street, BALTIMORE. Mn.
Decd. soy.
IMPORTANT NOTICE to every citizen
i and every citizens wife Of this State and those
ladies who expect TO be wives or have anything
TO do with housekeeping, announce 10 all such
and tn wbOmsoever IL may concern. that have
added 20 my STOVE, TINwARE AND HOUSE
FURNISHING HOUSES, at 90 and 9S n. GAY
Street, the large and eomnodious warerooms at
No. 100 y. Gay Street. which three buildings COM
bincd will afford inc the hest facilities for my
line Of goods in this State. Ny Lrincipal sales.
rooms will now be at No. 100 y. Gay Street. (be.
tween the Bridge anil Front Street, where cor.
daily invite all my friends and customers and al
others 10 call upon me and inspect the mos, con-
pl,ic assortment placed before the citizens of
"My Maryland"
extend my thanks for the liberal patronage
bestowed upon me, and again assure you. in the
past. shall to NIL purchasers atm TO render
a full equivalent Ny goods arc all guaranteed
and as u we'll known are just as Represented. My
Time. Cook has now reached the enormous sale II
over thirty-hvc thousand.
I shall offer special inducements during the
next three months ON my new stock. you want
real bargains now IL the time and 90 ~ and 100
~ Gay Street {. the place. BE sure to get into the
right place. DO not be deceived. The numbers are
90, 0S, 100.
WIN. ]. n. GLUCK,
Manufacturer, Originator. Inventor, Dealer and
Sole Agent for
FIRsT.CLASs HOUSEKEEPING ARTICLES
made from metal.
scpt.25 soy.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-10-01

Assa:.!'f
Leave Baltimore and Holiday streets as follows 4:
BALTIMORE TO wAvERLY.
Al $50. Z and A. NJ. Every fifteen minutes
from 7.3o TO 1889 A. NJ: every thirty minutes
from 1880 A. NJ. TO go =. H.; every fifteen min
utes from 3.3o r. u. 10 $50 z. Nj at $780, 1880 and
ii.so p. II.
wAvERLY TO BALTIMORE.
At 6.?o and $50 A. N. Every fifteen minutes
from $50 to $50 A. NJ; every thirty minutes from
$50 A. NJ. TO l.So =. NJ; every fifteen minute,
from 1.5o P. NJ to $50 p. NJ; at SEQ, s.5e, $50
and 1850 P. ".
BALTIMORE TO GOvANsTOwN.
Every half hour from q. 80 NJ. TO 10 +. NJ, ard
al $50, 1850 and 1850 =. NJ.
G0vANSTOwN TO BALTIMORE.
Every half hour from A. NJ. to $50 /. NJ, and
at go and 1880 p. NJ
BALTIMORE TO Tows0NTowN.
AZ haif.past each hour from $50 A. 10. TO $50
p. NJ, and nc 1889 and ll.30 p. N.
T0wsONT0wN TO BALTIMORE.
Each hour from A. n. TO 10 p. NJ.
To Western Maryland depot. fare s cents.
To Greenmount Cemetery, fare cents.
To Charles Street Avenue. by Cars on North
Avenue, connecting with Hampden, Park Avenue
and City Cars, fare cents.
April 9,'sly.