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Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-24
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ssM.'' Starts on a soatherR Trip-Guilty
 Trunks-The storm in New York City. -.@-e- NEW YoRK, Jan. 91. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 My annual southern trip has been begun, and though not far the way yet occur rences of note in the book of events have already taken place, which it may be hoped will not prove ominous of the future in store. Peck & Bishop, with their usual promptness, executed the order for baggage on board" but why not on the New York, New Haven and Hartford train was soon explained. My two trunks, which have been over the road times enough to become fully acquainted with the rules of the road, were detained on the truck at the depot for twenty-five cents extra each. Said trunks had just returned from a six months absence, starting from the same place for Lake Superior, Minnesota and Wis consin. They had travelled through over twenty States, Canada, etc, but in no in- stance had been guilty of weighing more than was here alleged.
 Such being the rule 50 cents were paid un- der protest. Thousands upon thousands of miles those trunks, packed the same, had travelled but committed no offence. To San Antonio, Texas, through the southern States, the Indian Territory and Kansas has passed my baggage, but to New Haven belongs the honor of reform. Perhaps we may find the reformation extensive.
 This morning we awake to see the ice storm in New York. It is dubious about starting from here. Rain, hail, wind, with all the pharaphernalia of regular storm. In front of our window six broken telegraph wires are swinging enough to hurt one seriously if hit by them. The police do all that is possi- ble winding the broken wires to the fences to prevent accidents. Hundreds of wires are in sight frosted with a heavier coat ing of ice than has ever been seen by your correspondent A splendid sight, reminding one of the Arabian Nights tales. Shall I venture out? I'll try it My um- brella is of no use and a Madison avenue car is adopted The wind blows furiously; the payements are icy the steps slippery at last reach the front door of my friends house, and inform him that it is impossible to dine with him to-day, impossible for my better half to even attempt it.
 It is to be hoped that these little disap- pointments may not be the criterion of the rest of my tourney, and that the fall caused by New Haven ice on leaving may not be a fore runner of, the future, but that you may hear from Florida, the Mardi Gras at New Orleans. Texas Havana, or other interesting places Three or four months will give an opportunity for such seeing I am no one's advertiser, but pay all bills. have tried ho- tels the country over, and will speak well or where am treated we'll Four dollars day for parIor and bedroom on the first floor. Good cooking a plentiful bill of fare on the European plan (pay for what you call for), will make a transient couple comfortable even in a s'northeaster" at the Grand Union Hotel, where 100 new rooms to the former 300 (prices ranging from $1 upward) are now being added, which, when finished, will make it Grand Union indeed. M.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-24
But he was gone

Then I took the pillow-sham and wiped some of the pulverized crackers of the soles of my feet and went to bed in large gob of gloom.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-24
Boiling Water and Melting Lead in Pa


 Take a piece of paper and fold it up, as schoolboys do, into square box without a lid. Hang this up to walking stick by four threads, and support the stick upon books or other convenient props. Then a lamp or taper must be placed under this dainty cauld- ron. In few minutes the water will boil. The only fear is lest the threads should catch fire and let the water spill into the lamp and over the table. The flame must therefore not be too large. The paper does not burn, be- cause 1t is wet and even if it resisted the wet it still would not burn through, because the heat imparted to it on one side by the flame would be very rapidly conducted away by the water on the other.
 Another experiment of a similar nature, but perhaps even more striking, is as follows: Twist up the edges of common playing card or other bit of card board so as to fash ion it into light tray. On this tray place layer of small shot or bits of lead, and heat It over the flame of lamp. The lead will melt, but the card will not burn. It may be charred little round the edges, but inn mediately below the lead it will not be burn ed, for here again the lead conducts of the heat on one side as fast as it is supplied on the other
 George Carson, one of the alleged robbers of the Middletown bank, will have his pre- iminary hearing on the 18th. He is in Had dam jail under SC, 900 bonds.
 A double-ripper in Willimantic ran into an ox-sled, and the casualties were as sfollows D. c. Barrows, left arm broken near the wrist E. Drudey, front teeth and portion of upper jaw knocked out; Frank Hyde, three teeth missing, and Fred Turner, flesh wound on the knee.
 Milford will have sPinafore" in the Town Hall on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, Feb. 2 and 3. It will be presented under the auspices and for the benefit of the Milford Choral Union. Prof A. G. Sherlock, the popular manager, will direct and Signor Rose- welt, the violinist, will assist the Sherlock sis ters in their famous foUr-hand oyertures. The role of Josephine will be taken by Miss L. Pritchard, of Vermont.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-24

What women can do in the way of office seeking has just been>illustrated in the squab- ble over the office of State librarian in the Indiana Legislature. There were thirty fe- male candidates for the place, and one report says that 'sthe State never before witnessed such an exasperating, disgusting scramble for a petty office"
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-24

There are very different accounts of the Rugby colony in Tennessee A correspond ent of the Cincinnati Commercial, who has re- gently visited 1t, thinks that the chances are good for it's success It is in a very embry- onic condition at present, and those who should see it now, in the expectation that it would present much, if anything, more than the first landing of colony in wilderness, would be disappointed. Work has been de- layed by the exceptionally severe winter, and the colonists have little more than shelter. There have been even soms difficulties in the way of procuring supplies, but the spirit of the eolonists is good, and they manifest no signs of Encouragement or disappointment. The possibilities of success easier than in many cases where colonial establishments have been successfully founded. The soil of the tract is good without inviting laziness by oyer-fertility, and the climate inviting with out being eneryating. Coa1, lumber and wa ter-power are abundant, and all that the col. onists have to do is utilize them. The plan on which the colony is founded is that of the best advance in social economy without being extravagant or chlmer1cai, and It will doubt less receive intelligent aid and care from it's friends If the eolonists work hard they will probably come out all right.
 A correspondent of the New York 4iaaes who has lived in Nevada for twenty years announces that it's Statehood is a ridiculous farce. Here. he says, is State with popu- lation of some 60. GOO Cess than that of New Haven) with more elaborate government than the State of New York The heads of departments consist of Governor, Lieutenant. Governor, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney General, Surveyor General, Secretary of State and Superintendent of Public Instruc ton There are three Supreme Judges, Clerk of the Supreme Court, State ,, librarian, who is er-obsao Curator of
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-24

There is no such thing as hydrophobia, and dogs are harmless animals, yet bright little boy of Summit, New Jersey, who was bitten by the family dog six weeks ago, has just died a terrible death.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Kentucky cannot hope to rival Ohio in producing great men and great officers, but she has furnished this year the governors of five States and one Territory besides her own governor.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-24
E. E. SANFORD, d24 19S and 2O4 him St. TonIine Livery Stables

WE are prepared at short notice to furnish
 5Es the best Carriages, either close open, fors H% Balls, Weddings and Chrfstentngs
 41-k- It is our intention to have good Carriages at the depot and on boat landinge when needed 7 Grateful for the liberal patronage in the past we hope by strict attention to the wants of patrons ts r<Tt continuance of the favors of the public. BARKER RANSOM. Proprietors. T.s -L4NeDoN, Foreman. n7
Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-24
AMERIcAN BOOK EXCHANGE.

Carriages and Wagons for Sale.
 R BEACH WAGON, also 4seat Rockaway1 =setz1SS2 three secondhand Phatons, Top Csrragat ahitng top, patent wheels; also secondhand Wagons RspAiring of all kinds promptly attended to and st the Lowest Prices Carriages and Wagons Stored and Sold on: :Oommission.
 : jase D ToBIN. IO4 HOWE STREET.
 DIR. S. w. FISKE, Clatrvoyant Physician and Magnetic
 Healer, BusImesss and Test Medium, OMce-Fo. @7O Chapel Street, New Haven, "HERE he can be consulted regularly every w month from the morning of the 10th until the 26th at p. m.
 to call. The Doctor has the gift to describe every pain and secret disease at sight and with his vegeta able medicine and healing power combined is enabled to cure all kinds Of diseases in short time. The Doctor has had thirty years experience healer and physician, thousands testify to the many astonishing cures he has performed. He makes speedy and rapid in nearly every under takes All curable cases must yield to his mode of treatment The of the Doctor astonishes tn other treatments fa and the patient restored to perfect health. The Doctor was born with natural healing and curative power. His magnetic passes give power and strength to the diseased organs and with the immense numbers that flock to his rooms, scarcely one goes away who does not receive benefit. His prices for treatment and medicine to health.
 The Doctor also gives valuable advice on business matters and all the affairs of Hfe both social and financial including journeys lawsuits gains losses absent friends and great in selecting lncky numbers. Sittings for business affairs exanlina- lion of the sick, $1. Communications by letter business or health must contain S2 age Sex lock ef hair and stamp. Address Lock Box 253 Norwich, Ct
 For particulars send stamp and get circular.
 N. B.-The Doctor will also be at the City Hotel, South Norwalk, Jan 27th and 25th, until D. m also at the Byxbee. House, West Meriden, Conn, Jan. 18th, 30th and 31st.
 pr. S. W. FIsKEs VALUABLE LINI1GENT, for sale by all Druggists ja3daw
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-09-22
THE WOMAN MARKET AT TUNIs,

Good Words: A most impressivej jour-
ney is to the palace of the bey, the Bar
do. Year by year the negro villages OF
Soudan are ransacked for girls of volup-
tuous beauty-who are stolen or bought
for few beads or bottle of rum-for
the Mussulman market, where unmoved
by pity, swollen with savage passion, the
drover knows eager buyers await his ar
rival. Beautiful women are the money
monopoly, the luxury of the fat, fair com
plexioned, majestic, lounging, lazy Moor.
Over exceptional beauty caids, pashas,
ministers and merchants wage fierce
money strife before it is determined in
whose embraces it shall be used mp.
Thousands Of both male and female chill
dren from eight to ten years, are annual
ly imported into Moorish markets. On
their way many of them die from brok
en- heart. They are fattened prior to
sale, and are treated to music to cure
home sickness, it is said, and to give the
look of contentment, for the Moors love
only the flesh. When worn with care, or
sorrow, or old age (Which comes at thir-
ty,) woman is worthless. Maybe that
ghastly wretch, with toothless skull now
more like tiend'5 than woman's face,
once smiled in a merchants face or wore
the pretty necklace of pasea. With
used up pipes and slippers, she has been
cleared out to make room for new ones.
The Moor is hideous hot-bed of sen-
saulity. He believes In the bottom of
his heart that in his relation toward wom-
an be was created to be first beast. then
a brute. Uuder the curse of such char
acter his land is a waste, his manhood
ruin. What the European owes to the
now attained creed about woman, glim-
pse at the empire of the Moor may help
us to conceive.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-09-22
A SEA.COW FROM SOUTH
AMERICA.

The brig Swansea, from South America
to this port, brought as part of its car
go a veritable sea,cow, consigned to VIM.
Brown, who has it on e1ebition at the
Fulton Market dock. The fish mea ,ures
five feet from the end of the nose to the
tip Of the tail and weighs 100 pounds.
Its most remarkable feature is its nose,
which is in shape like that Of q yearling
cali. 1t subsists entirely on herbs, and
was contentedly munching the leaves OF
a cabbage last evening. Having filled
its NAV, the curious fish ruminates like
a COW. Its back and tail are of q dark
blue color, somewhat resembling the blue
fish. Bright pink spots adorn the breast
and belly. The tail is formed like the
fans of steamships propeller. 1t is in
a single piece, and operates vertically.
The eyes are small and set close to the
nose. It generally keeps its body entire
ly under the water with the exception of
its nose, and occasionly bellows like
COW. This is the first of the species
which has ever survived the voyage to
this country. A similar one was taken
10 London and sold for $3.50 TO the aq
uarium. The sea-cow lives in fresh wat
er, in the sense that it is not salt, but
croton water is allowed to stand three
days in the sun before it is placed in the
fsh's tank. In this condition it approx
imates more closely the native element
of the fish.-NeaU York Times.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-09-22

For moment the colonel could not
answer. Then, choking back a sob, he
said, slowly and distinctly:
"Charley, Alice is waiting for YOU
You are not leaving her, but going to
her"
q bewildered, troubled look came into
the wishful blue eyes.
"Don't you understand me, Charley
She is dead, We buried her there in
c.
L couldn't tell you before, dear old boy.
But now you will be with her before you
have time to grieve after her. She died
with your name on her lips, murmuring
Of meeting you in the morning"
He understood now, and smile of re-
lief fitted across his pale lips. "Dear
girl" he murmured, 81 am SO glad she
viii not have this grief to bear
Then he slept again, and the hours
passed on until the eastern sky bright
ened with the solemn dawn light.
'.Terryi' That word was but the faint
est whisper, but the watcher instantly
bent his head to listen.
''In the morning" came the faint gasp
ing accents, and again the white lids drop
ped over the blue eyes, Five-ten min
utes passed. Then Col. Terry lifted the
dsad hands and crossed them over the
pulseless breast, reverently covered the
still white face, and turned away.
His two friends had met once more
Gin the morning" Of fadeless day
Milt0aukee Republican.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-09-22
THE WHITE HOUSE MAIL.

A Washington dispatch says: About
one hundred letters day are received at
the White House, addressed either to
Mrs. or Mr.. Garfield. During the ear
lier stages of the presidents illness the
letters were mostly to him. Now they
are generally addressed to Mrs. Garfield,
and express the writers sympathy with
her. Most of them bear evidence Of be-
ing written by persons Of inferior attain
ments, but at the same time they testify
to the genuine sentiment of the Deople
in their distress. OF course these let
ters are opened by Private Secretary
Brown or his assistants. OF late the let
ters have been of ga advisory kind. Very
frequently they recommended the dis
missal of the present corps of physicians
and the adoption of q treatment favored
by the writer. Many Of ten urge a
trial Of homeopathy; others advise the
trial Of magnetic Influences as produced
by the laying on of hands. Some per-
sons send charms; others profess to have
dreams about the president, and tell ex-
actly how be can be cured. Holy water
is sent By Roman Catholics, with the
advice that if a little of it be poured on
the wound it viii be immediately cured,
and the efficacy OF his cure is vouched
for from personal experience. The spir
itualists have found ont great deal
about the case though some of theirmys-
terious methods, and many of the letters
come from them. Ofeourse, Guacks and
pretenders are not lacking in this daily
torrent Of advice, but most of the letters
are evidently inspired by honest purpose.
Long and expensive cable messages are
sometimes received, and these are couch
ed IN the same tone OF aamonition and
advice that cLaracterizes similar doom
ments coming from the people in this
country. ali sorts of medicines, herbs
and salves, that are pronounced infalli-
bie, form part of the useless stuff sent
in to the White House. At any time the
president of the United States is the re-
cipient Of many absurd letters, but at
present their number is enormous. a
letter received asks the president to lave
the writer's pension increased, as his
lungs had now given away, in addition
to his former ills, and an immediate reply
is requested This much of the curious
document was deciphered, but who the
writer is or where he writes from cannot
be made out, except that he lives in Hi
nois. Temperance advocates appear in
force, insisting that whisky and other
stimulants be stopped and beef extract
substituted.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-09-22

PLUCK OF PRETTY JEwEss. There is
a very pretty story told how alovely jew
ess in Russian town saved her property
and her life during the recent attack up
on the Jews. a great, hulking rufian
entered her shop and bought loaf of
bread. After swallowing a couple of
mouthfuls he threw himself on the
ground outside the shop door and began
to howl piUeously that he was poisoned
the jews had poisoned him. OF course.
an infuriated crowd instantly assembled,
and It would have Jared i'll with our jew
ess if she had not dashed out of the shop,
and, snatching the bread out Of the inn
posters hand, began to eat in the sight
of them all. The crowd stopped, thund-
er struck. 4 broad grin dawned on ev-
cry countenance. One OF them called
out to her, "Alosha, lend your knout,
will you2" Then the impostor started to
his feet and scudded off, pursued by a
miscbievous but no longer sanguiaary
crowd.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-09-22

ST. LOUIS REPUBLICAN: There will
probably be more wheat bought and sold
in the United States during 1881 than
will be produced in quarter of century.
which means that gambling in futures
has assumed proportions which dwarf
all the gambling of all conceivable kinds
in former loose and reckless eras. All
classes, callings and professions, and pro-
fessors of all religions, of both sexes and
ages, have joined the procession and are
seen in the ranks of the votaries of for
tune. The green cloth and the pool
rooms are too tame ahd slow for the eag
er votaries of chance,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-09-22
THE FIRST OCEAN STEAMER UN-
DER THE STARS AND
STRIPES.

1t was stated few days ago by prom
inent speaker, and generally believed and
copied through the press, that Cunard
steamer, under the British flag, was the
irst to cross the Atlantic. But no patriot
should fail, in this way, to give his coun-
try the glory that is her due. The steam
ship Savannah. under command OF Capt.
Moses Rogers, sailed from New York for
Savannah March %, 1919, and thence to
England, Denmark, up the Baltic to the
port Of st. Petersburg, and back again
to America. The Savannah was built for
a wealthy merchant of Savannah, Ga,
Mr.. William Scarborough, in 1918, and
launched on the 22d day of August.
Francis Pickett was the builder, and
Stephen Vail. a founder, put mp the en-,
five tons of coal upon this voyage and
twenty-five cords of wood, but could
neither get passenger nor pound of
freight, though she was well advertised,
and though President Monroe and large
suite had been carried upon delightful
excursion gratis, and spoke highly of her.
She made the trip from Savannah to
Liverpool in twenty-five days, and there
she WAS boarded by the barbor fire de-
partment, who thought one of her masts
was on fire. When they discovered their
mistake they were not, after all, ready to
let the steamer alone, but for long time
held her under suspicion and the grave
charge Of being an internal machine, pre-
pared to accomplish the escape of Napo-
leon from st. Helena. When at last she
reached America again. she was taken to
Washington and dismantied, or disgorg-
ed, for lack of popularity. The engines
were taken out, and she was run as a
packet from New York to Savannah until
she was wrecked on the south shore of
Long Island. An interesting account of
this voyage is given in The Granite
Monthly of June, 1881.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-09-22
STEALTHY INDIAN ROBBERS.

The delicious GOODNESS of the night has
succeeded the fierce heat Of day in May.
The moonlight makes mimic day, but
how soft is its light, however bright,
compared with the sunlight of few hours
before! A party Of travellers having
cooked and eaten their frugal evening
meal, have now spread their carpets and
quits On the ground IN the mango grove
anG laid themselves down to sleep. All
til" air with their horrid cries. 4 jackal
gives yeip on one side Of the grove.
another answers with O howl from the
other side. These are not jackals, but
confederate thieves, one OF whom enters
the grove at the end furthest from where
the sleeping trarolers lie. On his stom-
ach he steals quietly along from one tree
to another. Some leaves rustic; travel
e. calls out, whereupon the stealthy one
coils up in heap and lies dead still, and
viii lie SO for half an hour or more if
necessary. 4 ''jaokal" howls quite near
the grove, as if it had just crossed it and
rustled the leaves. The thief drags him
self along the ground again. At length
lie has reached the head of the sleeping
row of travellers. He passes his hand
quietly under the pillows. This fat man
is the rich man of the party; that bundle
which he uses as pillow probably con-
tains something valuable. The dusky
thief removes it gently without waking
the snoring sleeper. He next makes this
other man turn over on his pillow by
gentle touches On the face, and, having
got what he wanted, creeps gently away.
One Of the extemporized jackals gives q
bark here, the other a short howl there,
and the two thieves meet and decamp
together. When out for the night, the
thieves strip themselves Of all their cloth
ing except short, tight loin- cloth, and
smear themselves with oil, SO Us to be
able to slip out OF the clasp of any one
seiGing them. They seldom carry arms,
in the ordinary sense, but strap a couple
of light spear-heads to each forearm,
with the points projecting beyond the
elbows, with backward stroke of which
they can give severe if not deadly
wound to any one trying to seize them.
Generally, however, they carry small,
sharp knife. The houses of many or
even the wellto-do natives have mud
walls only, through which the thieves
dig hole to effect an entry. This re-
quires long, quiet and patient work. A
great number of the Indian stories about
robbers turn on this mode of proceeding;
ho- one woman alone in tho house with
her children, waited quietly until the
thief put his head in through the hole,
and killed him with the blow of al axe;
how another waited with rope in her
hand, and the thief this time putting his
heels in first, she tied his ankles quickly
together and took him prisoner, but
when the neighbors appeared they found
only headless trunk.