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Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-29
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 He will tell you if success diversity awaits you, also of journeys lawsuits gains osses absent friends and great success in selecting lucky numbers. All should consult him. He is always reliable.
 Sittings forbusiness affairs examination of the sick, $1. Communications by letter upon business or health must contain $2, ago, sex, lock of hair and stamp. Address Lock Box 1253 Norwich, Ct For further particulars send stamp and get circu- lar.
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Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-29
COMMUNICATIONS.
WaterwOrkS Issues.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Regarding the supposed issue of city water bonds, alluded to in letter published this morning, is it very likely that per cent. bond, subject to a local taxation of one and a half or more per cent, will bring very large premium Even at par how desirable would they be as an investment when the net returns are considered And as to calling any city bonds as ''safe @ security" as United States governments, that is all nonsense.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-29

261 and 263 Washington St, and TAT 222 Westminster St., Providence, R. I. Cor. Essex and Wash. Sts., Salem, Mass. 336 Main St., Worcester, Mass. 27 Merrimack St., Haverhill, Mass. Exchange Block, Milford, Mass. 78 and so Central St., Lowell, Mass. 66 Market St., Lynn, Mass. se7 W&S4m s. HI. SHELDON, Mana
Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-29

France publishes some interesting particu- lars with regard to the forests of Europe and
 the rapid consumption of the timber which
 they contained Sweden and Norway. which
 still do large export trade in pine, are now
 compelled to buy their oak in Poland and
 in Russia the forests along the shores of the
 Baltic, in Finland and in the southern prov
 inces, are so rapidly thinning that the forest
 acreage of the empire is now only one in ten.
 There are about 34 .O0O, 900 acres of forest in
 Germany (ofwhich 20, ,OOO, 900 are in Prussia,
 bringing in an income of $50, ,ooo, GOO per an-
 mum. The State forests are taken great care
 $500, being spent every year in replant-
 ing The imports of timber exceed the ex-
 ports by over two million tons. Austria and Hungary have upward of 43, ,0OO, GOO acres of
 forest; but in Austria proper the State does
 not possess more than per cent of the
 wooded area, and Austria is now obliged to
 buy most of her timber in Bosnia and Monte
 negro. Servia and Roumania have some
 very fine forests but Italy, though her for est area extends over nearly 14, 900, GOO acres, does not do much in the way of a timber trade, as the roads leading to the forests are 50 bad that it is almost impossible to move the timber when cut Much the same is the case with Spain, which has s, 500, 900 acres of forest; while Portugal, which has only a million acres, finds a good market for her timber.
 Punched silver coins have almost entirely 1icoroTaoro1 niro 1of; i,,N Work A month ago the proportion of lightweight coins taken in by New York shopkeeper reached about twenty in hundred-nearly all the smaller ones had been tempered with but now hardly one in hundred is going from hand to hand. The distrust with which such coins were regarded and the readiness of the retailers to adopt the first fuse to take them in payment were testified to by the almost simultaneous appearance in the shops of the city of placards giving notice that the United States government had fixed a value upon punched or mutilated coins, which, according to an accompanying table, was about 20 per cent. less than their face value. The attention of the Treasury de- parIneht naRInS oeeu calleu lo tue olstr1ou- ton of these cards, they were declared by it to be unauthorized and probably printed in the interest Of spectators, who would go about and buy the objectionable coin at 8 slight advance on card rates. But the of- iicials of the Treasury added that this coin was not legal tender, and would not be re- ceived by the government The statement furnished good cause for the shopkeepers to refuse to accept it in payment, and, backed by the action of some of the railroads and larger restaurants, they substituted for the spurious cards others merely announcing that punched or mutilated coins would not be received. The result of this move has been to drive almost all the punched coins out of circulation in New York.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-29

The journal of the Agricultural Society
Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-29
AY MORNING. OCTOBER g. 1881.
sSournal aIlo Courier.

EDITED AND PUBLISRED BY
 HARRINGTON & CO.,, No. zoo State Street, Courier Building
 JOHN B. HARRINGTON. HOWARD T. oARRINaToN. JOHN B. oARRINaToN,
Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-29
Some Facts for Voters on the Water
 Question.

Some Facts for Voters on the Water
 Question.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 In reading the pamphlet issued by the s'ioint special committee on water,' We find on page 15 what purports to be the annual report of, we presume, the water board or city authorities of Columbus, Ohio, giving water ra tes paid in a number of cities, desir- ing to show, no doubt, that the rates there are reasonably low The city owns the water works, and the rate, just to bring the water into the house, is nine dollars year. Here in New Haven, where the works are owned by private company, we pay six dollars for the same thing. The report gives the rate in number of cities. Of all the places named in said report that pay as high as ten dollars or more per year, only one IS run by a private company, and the rate there IS ten dollars No other private company in the list has so high rate. The following is the list of all the cities, names in the report, where the rate is ten dollars or more
 Louisville, Ky, works owned by privatescom-
 pSay e. works owned by the city % Toledo, O., works owned by the city rate. S19 70 Cincinnsti o. works owned by the city, rate s14 % Brooklyn N Y works owned by the city, rate s16 co CbicaSo H. works owned by the city, rate. .$l9 co Buffalo Y, works owned by the city, rate $2O % Pittsburg, Pa, Works owned OJ 1ne citS, ra $@'
 With this prospect before us, do we want to vote for our city to own the waterworks? i? The joint special committee appointed by our Board of Aldermen and Common Council asked those city officials to whom they wrote for information on certain questions Among them was this question: Is the ownership and management of the waterworks on the whole economical and satisfactory to your citizens?" The answers are generally in the affirmative, though the Toledo man (see above list) is bold enough to say ''No,'
Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

RAOUe 1slauu, IS SOOtl euouSH to Oo u Auo. While at Yorktown he rendered the Centen- nial Commission and their guests concert by the American band on the steamer Excel sior. The band happened to be little late, which occasioned considerable uneasiness to the Governor, and he walked back and forth several times in front of the gang plank. The officer stationed there, not Knowing who uneasiness, asked h1m if he was the leader of the band ''No" replied his Excellency, q am only the Governor of the State"
 The bad condition of the Cochituate water of Boston is not 8 recent afiiction, as for more than 8 year past considerable number of the rate payers have been forced to buy their water for drinking. The Adoerttser pertinently suggests that property holders who are assessed so much year for water rates shall demand a rebate for the period in which, by reason of failure either of quanti- ty or quality, they could not use the supply. This is perfectly fair, but we do not imagine that the city authorities would pay much at- tention to such demand. There are few things more unreasonable and exasperating than the system of water charges under t'city management" The Hartford CoauUfat, published in city which towns and con- trols'' it's water supply, says with truth: 'There is only pretense of fair play about the whole present system of charges"
 Secession is not as popular in the South as it was. There is little secession movement just now in Louisiana. The boroughs of Jeff ferson City and Carrollton, for many years parts of New Orleans, want to withdraw and set up for themselves as independent munich palities, and the New Orleans Times dis courses of secession in general in this sen sible fashion: s'Of course the people who propose to secede from the city, State or nation to which they may be attached expect to make something by the operation. They usually propose to repudiate all the o5hga- tions they may owe to the government from which they may be seeking to escape, and to gobble up and keep all the benefits from the aforesaid hated government. Thus getting rid of all old debts and starting afresh with some newly acquired assets, the seeding party pictures to itself grand and glorious future This is the dream of the average se- ceder, but 1t is usually not realized far otherwise indeed, as we of these southern States know to our cost. This thing of slipping out of partnership which has not proved profitable, and leaving to some body else the debts opay, the obligations to fulfill, and the general bag of burdens to hold, is generally objected to by the other fel- low, and 1t so happens, whether we like it or not, that the other fellow has the support and favor of public opinion and sympathy, while the absconding member of the firm is at the least an object of suspicion"
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Huntsville gazette., 1881-11-19
+" A Little Fast"

A murder trial which is now in prog
ress gives US a view of the habits and
temptations of the lower middle classes
OF this country. A pretty young girl,
the child Of respectable parents, was
found murdered. The young man with
whom she has been most Intimate is
put on trial charged with the crime. 1t
is proved that she had been in the habit
of driving alone with him, of going with
him to the theaters and public gardens
at all hours, and of remaining out all
night at places of amusement. Yet
witnesses testified in the trial that she
was considered by her own class to be
virtuous girl, simply fond of fun, and
g little fast" Her mother, even,
seems to have entered but feeble pro-
test against her absence from home all
night. Hae
Hardly week passes in which the
daily papers do not give accounts of
young girls who are missing from their
homes. They usually are found by
their friends or parents, sometimes res.
cued morally unharmed in distant cities
to which they have wandered with a
vague longing for adventure. But as a
rule, the rescue comes too late. The
adventure has ended in death, like this
for which the young man is on trial to-
day, or in ruin far worse than death.
In our country towns, too, cases of
immortality frequently occur that never
find their way into the papers. There
is an outbreak of despair in some quiet
farmhouse, fury of scandal in the
neighborhood, young man is disgraced
and sent away, to begin, perhaps, his
life over again elsewhere. But a girl,
more innocent than he, remains be-
hind. She is the victim. Contrition
and despair avail nothing for her. Her
life is ruined.
We would not allude to this subject
did we not know that the Companion
enters thousands of homes of the very
class in which these tragedies most fire.
quently occur. That they do occur is
in part due to the circulation of foul,
exciting novels and low story-papers
among these boys and girls. The prin-
cipal cause, however, lies deeper than
this. 1t springs from the neglect of
parents to interest themselves in the
amusement of their children. Such par-
ents clothe, feed and provide their chill
dren with work, but they give little
thought or attention to their reading Or
their G-.. they are most open to
temptation, the young people are turned
loose together. Drives, walks, dances
and kissing-plays kept up half the night,
are the recreations of these unframed
young people who are totally ungarded
by their parents. If it is no discredit in
the eyes of parents or neighbors for a
girl to be loud, fond of beaus and "a
little fast,'' who is to blame if ruin fol-
lows Youths Companion.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-11-19
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

FOUR more jurors were secured In the
The prisoner manifested less nervousness
and excitability than on the day before, al
though in his whispered conversations with
his brother he was quite demonstrative and
earnest in his manner. There was some
difficulty in maintaining order among the
crowd of spectators present to listen to the
proceedings. There were no manifestations
of ill-wilI, except now and then slight dis
position to applaud an expression occasion
ally made by those examined for jury duty
that they were Of the decided opinion that
the assassin ought to be hanged.
TIE star-route conspiracy case, re-
Gently thrown out by Judge Cox when filed
as Informative, because the offense charged
was an infamous one, is to be presented in
the Police Court and the parties to the al
legged conspiracy rearrested. 1t is presumed
that they will waive an examination and
give bail. The papers will then 60 to the
Grand Jury.
BY the will of Chas. H. Northam, of
Hartford, Conn, Trinity College receives
S12O. 900; Hartford Hospital, $50, 600; Christ
600 is given to erect chapel at Cedar Hill
Cemetery. The remainder OF the estate,
about 5000, 900, is distributed among the
heirs.
GEO. PARK, of Charleston, w. Va,
shot and killed his half-brother. No arrest.
GAMBErTA announced the definite
formation of the Cabinet to President Grevy,
at Paris, on the 14th.
DIPHTHERIA, scarlet fever and small
pox are devastating the central and southern
portion Of Russia.
HERBERT OSBORN, of San Rafael,
CAL, murdered Mrs. Prince by breaking
her Jaw with an iron and then poisoned him.
self with laudanum.
LORD LoRNE arrived in Liverpool,
Eng, on the 14th, aud was met by the Prin-
cess Louise, and with her proceede to the
seat Of the Duke Of Westminster, near Ches-
ter. They were cheered by thousands OF
neople who had assembled at Birkenhead
Landing stage. There was also popular
and municipal reception in their honor at
Chester.
EIGHT persons in New Orleans were
poisoned by eating creamcakes purchased
at the bakery Of A. v. Flotte. Some OF the
cake was procured by Capt. Gill, who sent
it to Chief Boylan's Office, from whence 1t
was taken to the Charity Hospital for ana
lysis. The supposition is that the poison
was contained in the baking powder used IN
making the cakes. As Mr.. Flotte is we'll
| known as an honest, industrious man, VINO
had no animosity against any one OF the par
ties, the police are Of the opinion that the
poisoning was an accident,
Huntsville gazette., 1881-11-19
A Tribute to General Greene.

If anyone can beat a certain West
Hill boy on composition let him
stand up and be counted. The teacher
gave them all historical subjects, and
his chanced to be " Nathaniel Greene, =
with which he startled the teacher and
the whole school by responding in the
following unusual manner, and with as
much independence as though he were
an old settler, instead of the stranger in
the back row: "Nathaniel Greene was
one Of the biggest guns in the revolu-
ton. There wa'ant nothin' in his
name, and men by many another name
was found much greener. He never
made any sudden and startling success
like some others, but he wa'ant no
slouch of soldier. He maneuvered
with the enemy and held his own with
the best of 'em. But blood will tell, and
it amt so remarkable after all when you
think that he come of smart family.
There's sVerdant,' he was celebrated
enough in his way, and Darius was
sfly one,' but Nathaniel takes the bak-
cry" And the predestined political
stump-speaker of the coming age took
his seat amid the unrestrained applause
of the juveniles. es.-Bmlington Havkeye.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-11-19
The Wrong Girl.

His name was Augustus Smythe; he
was clerk in dry-goods store, and
didn't earn enough to starve decently
on, but with that sublime assurance
which distinguishes the la-de-dah young
man of the day, he was paying atten-
ton to the prettiest girl in Detroit. He
managed, by not paying his washer
woman or tailor, to take her to operas
and theaters, but as times were getting
hard, he concluded to marry her and
save the expense of boarding. By some
process of mental arithmetic known to
the genus, he decided that what was not
enough for one was enough for two, and
forthwith he concluded to pop. He
knew that his persistent visits had kept
all other young men away, SO he had no
fears of II al. When the time came
and he found himself in the company OF
his Laura in her papa's comfortable
parlor, he leisurely seated himself by
her on the sofa, took her little dimpled
hand, used only to tinkle the piano with,
and said, in a bronze voice:
"Dear Miss Laura, have concluded
to marry"
Laura started, as he intended she
should. Then he resumed, grandilO-
uuently: 81 want dear little girl
about your size, with great big heart,
Just like yours, to share my lot
"Is it on Jefferson Avenuep ?" muir
INJURED Laura.
"No, dearest, it is on Croghan Street
but what are localities to hearts that
lovep want girl who is good tenn
pered. smart, economical, and who
loves Me! Darling, do you know OF
such one?"
Laura family: "Yes, oh yes, I am
sure do"
"One who would rather live with me
in poverty than dwell with some other
man in riches? Who would esteem it a
pleasure to serve me, cook my meals,
keep the house tidv, and listen for my
footsteps? Who would rise early and
sit up late for my sake?''
"Oh, how beautiful" murmured
Laura; "just like dear, self sacrificing
mani"
"Do you know such a one, my an
gel?''
"Yes, do" responded Laura, fer
vently; +" but you must not call me your
angel, for she might not like it; she's in
the kitchen now washing the dishes.
and she told mother she'd just as leave
get married this winter as live out, if she
only felt able to support husband
She's just the girl you want, and shell
love you within an inch of your life.'
But Augustus Smythe had fed into
the outer darkness; the too muchness
of the occasion overcame him like q
summer cloud.-DetroH Post and Iri6
Huntsville gazette., 1881-11-19
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 49, 1881.

oh the lotn. Killing 1Our nremen, Mich
aei and Joseph Leban, Frank Blanchard and
Charles Carpenter. Low water caused the
explosion.
A CYCLONE struck the premises Of
Matt f. Ash, near Madison Station, Miss,
completely demolishing and carrying away
all the buildings and severely injuring Mrs.
Ash, two Of her children and four other per.
sons. ,
A MAN named J. Howard Welles has
been arrested in New York for writing
threatening letters to Jay Gould. 1t was q
blackmailing scheme that failed of success.
THREE persons were killed and six
injured by the explosion of a gas-house at
Hamburg, Germany.
w. H. WOODWARD, of Scandia, Kans.,
was shot by James Humphrey, editor Of
the Belleville Telescope, and has since died
from his wound. The quarrel between the
two originated in politics. Humphrey made
some reflections on Woodward's family, and
the latter meeting him said he was going to
slap his face, which he attempted to do. A
Deputy Sheriff happened to be near and
grasped Woodward about the body and
arms. While he was holding him, as al
legged, Humphrey passed behind Woodward
and placing revolver against his back fired.
Humphrey is in Jail.
The Illinois State Board of Health
has addressed o communication to Superin-
tendents of railroads throughout Illinois,
calling their attention to the alarming prev
alence of smallpox, and requesting them
to take certain precautions regarding the
train hands, and particularly those ofliciat-
ing on emigrant trains, on which it is be-
lieved the disease is more apt to be brought
and communicated to the public through
railroad men, who are likely to suffer con-
tagion in the ordinary pursuit of their voca-
tiOn. Ga
THE officers of the Irish National
Land League of America have issued a call
for Convention to be held at Chicago, be-
ginning on Nov. 80. The Convention will
be in the widest sense a National one, rep
resentation being invited from societies Of
whatever name who are friendly to the Irish
cause.
DIR. JOHN M. LEONARD, for forty
years practicing physician of Burlington
Township, Calhoun County, Mich, has
pleaded guilty to having made and circu-
lated bogus silver coins and stands commit
ted to await trial. In bis possession was
found trunk full Of dies and apparatus for
making counterfeit coins of every descrip-
tion from a nickel to 81. Leonard is "A
The public schools at Niagara, Ont,
are temporarily closed, owing to the preva-
lence Of diphtheria. There is large num-
Der sick. The deaths SO far are confined to
children.
GREAT suffering exists at Woodstock,
New Brunswick, on account Of the recent
conflagration. Great difficulty is expert
enced in finding shelter for the homeless.
The Mayor has provided accommodation for
a large number in the Town Hall.
FORTY persons were killed and forty
one wounded by the explosion of gas in a sui
phur mine at Gessalungo, near Catanicetta,
1taly