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Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-16
COMMUNICATIONS.
The Water Question.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The question is being asked by our public spirited citizens Is it desirable for the city to purchase the works of the New Haven Water Company? When we get the report of the special committee appointed by the Common Council to investigate this matter we can answer more intelligently. In the interim let us discuss the question in all fair ness It is fact that about four-fi of
 the cities of this country own their own wa l terwerks The prominent holders of the stock feel doubtless that they are entitled to liberal return for the venture they made for so great public good, and certainly they are In the event of a sale to the city the stockholders are to receive ten per cent. on their investment less their dividends They might have done worse. The leading objection to the movement is founded on the fact that it will be football of the polit-
 1 ical parties and be managed ultimately III the ! interest of designing men for the furtherance of their own selfish ends. This certainly is an objection well founded Now I wish to
 ask, in the event of the city's concluding to
 1 make the purchase, why is it not practicable
 to have the waterworks managed by board
 of public-spirited men, as, for instance, the Board of Education, or any other board which serves the public disinterestedIy, with
 out compensation, the same as one of the
 present directors of the water company. This gentleman, one of our most wealthy citizens, serves the board with great fidelity, although one of the smallest stockholders, simply be- cause he is public-spirited man and because he knows that the best interests of the city demand management in this direction. 1t does seem desirable that water, one of Gods
 best gifts to man, should be like the air, as free as practicable-at least should not be, for sanitary and other reasons, an article of mer- chandise. h. r. C.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-16

sournal arro Gourier.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY
 HARRINGTON & CO.,, No. 400 State Street, Courier Building.
 JOHN B. oAERINaToN. EDWARD T. HARRINGTON. JOHN B. HARRINGTON, JR.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-16

Mr. Thomas M. Nichol makes a good and obvious point when he says: ''One thing more. Why are there not some rumors in the air of pledges to Mir. Blaine to secure his services in the campaign, or to MT. Sherman, or to General Logan or to somebody but MT. Conkling or some of his lick spittles p Be cause nobody eUer thought cf anybody else Gsk- ing or aoanttng any promises or ozedges.''
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-16

The regular doctors of California attempt ed to head of the quacks by getting 8 law passed which required the latter to pay q i- cense fee of one hundred dollars month for the privilege of practicing within the State, but by an oversight In drawing the law it in- cluded all practitioners of medicine. The quacks, therefore, are not displeased with all the workings of the new law.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-16

George c. Gorham, editor of the National Repu6zican, has been accused of writing the remarkable letters from Washington which have lately appeared in the New York Herald. The National Republican says: "George c. Gorham did not write, suggest, or have any knowledge, prior to it's publication, of any of the matter which has appeared in the Herald concerning the President.'' Senator Conkling has also said that he has had noth- ing to do with it.
 A Roman Catholic national union at Chi cago has, in the most serious manner, adopt | ed resolution condemning the public school system of the United States and calling upon
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-16
Buried i'm Style.

AUIsSf1K1c 1HH1AAo11 0oREH11u1'I Mrs. Igo, a resident of Shenandoah, about eighty years of age, died at that place few
 days ago and was buried at St. Clair on Sun day. During her last days the woman was very poor, but her funeral was on 8 scale of
 grandeur not often attempted in the coal re-
 zion, and this is the place above all others for
 big and expensive funerals. The handsomest
 casket that could be obtained held the old wo1nan's remains, and hundreds followed
 them to the grave. The coffin was covered
 with floral decorations as beautiful as they
 were costly. People who were aware of the
 woman's worldly circumstances wondered at all this magnifcence. They discovered short ly that the deceased was insured for $100,- 900, and wondered no more. The casket had
 been donated by policy holders. The beauti-
 full floral decorations had been furnished by policy holders.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-16

The greatest wonder in the State of Iowa, and perhaps in any other State, is what is called the Walled Lake, in Wright county, twelve miles north of the Dubuque and Paci- fic railway, and 15O miles west of Dubuque City.
 The lake is two or three feet higher than the earth's surface. In some places the wall is ten feet high. fifteen feet wide at the bot tom, and five feet wide on the top. Another fact is the size of the stone used in the con struction, the whole of them varying in weight from three tons down to 100 pounds.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-16

The pay roll of the Massachusetts Legisla- ture this year amounted to $12o, ,50O and the mileage to $1, ,999. The members wanted to increase their own salaries from $500 to $65O, but didn't dare to, and it was also thought not best to vote to raise the pay next year. The managers, doorkeepers and assistant doorkeepers received $15o extra all round, and the pages $1O0 each.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-16

Roman Catholics to contend for the separate
 education of their children. The Hartford
 Post asks, Can we stand it :? and adds
 s'There is no law against such separate ed
 ucati on, but there is public sentiment that
 will never give way to any demand for the
 education of Roman Catholics, as such, at the
 public expense, and the sooner this is un-
 derstood perhaps the better"
 An interesting statement is made by the Postmaster General concerning postal cards
 Under the contract ending June 30, 1881. the number will be about nine hundred and nine ty million. Under the new contract, which
 will expire June 30, 1885, the estimated num- Der will be two billions. Some idea of the quantity of the cards to be thus furnished
 may be formed by the statement that it
 would require three men over sixty years to
 count them singly, working ten hours every
 day in the year, and counting at the rate of
 fifty minute or, if the two billion cards
 could be placed end to end, they would ex-
 tend distance of over one hundred and six
 ty-four thousand miles, or more than six
 times the circumference of the earth.
 The American hog isvindicated. In view
 of the recent action taken by the French and
 other European governments in regard to
 American pork, as well as to be able to cor
 rect by positive and personal evidence the ex-
 aggerated reports which published in
 Europe concerning hog cholera and trichinse among American swine, Secretary Blaine sehs the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, of the Department of State to Chicago and Clncln- nati, to investigate the entire question of hog raising and pork packing in the West in all it's phases from the farm to the ship" In accordance with the Secretary's instructions, this gentleman visited representative hog raisers, buyers, shippers, packing houses, stock yards, rendering establishments, health offices and forwarding agents; and has now submitted his report, which will be immediately published by the department for circulation in Europe. that the swine of America are of the best and purest breeds, and are fed and fattened for market on corn: that the reports published in Europe concerning the deaths of American hogs from hog cholera are gross e1aggera- tions that the percentage of deaths among ! American swine from disease is no greater 1 than the percentage of deaths among Euro ! pean swine from similar diseases; that Amer 1 ican lard is the purest lard in any market; 1 that the percentage of American hogs infect ! ed with trichine (though this question is | thus far largely one of supposition) is in all l probability, by reason of the superiority of | the breed and feed, much less than that l among the hogs in any other country and | that the selection, inspection and killing of l American hogs, and the subsequent handling | md curing of the meat, are not surpassed, if | at all equalled, for care precision and under standing, by the packers or meat curers of l any other country
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-16
EIbI'TUlsiAL NOTES.

Postmaster General James has already made saving of $196, ,oOo year in the Star route contracts. A good beg inning.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-16

Berlin financial journals advise all holders of Russian securities to sell out. This is good advice if the Nihilists are numerous l and powerful as they are generally supposed to be
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-16
Sweet ReDOse.

Beware of the Cigars that in Key West are made
 For Nepels Sweet Repose knocks them in the shade WANT to convey this important informant to the Smoking Pubic that while other cigar dealers in this city urge their brands before the public, want to inform them that lam not to be outdone by in point of price and quality will sell the Sweet Re- pose Cigar heretofore-8 for 25c. No retail dealer can sel you cigar the above description for less than each and don't yon forget it. Price l00 s.
 A. NEPEL. Manufacturer.
 mya 4l8 State st.a near Court.
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Price Four Cents.

There is an abundance of stones in Wright county, but surrounding the lake, to the ex tent of five or ten miles, there are none. No one can form an idea of the means em- ployed to bring them to the spot or who con structed it.
 Around the entire lake is belt of wood land half mile in length composed of oak. With this exception the country is a rolling prairie. The trees must have been planted there at the time of the building of the wall.
 In the spring of the year 1856 there was a great storm, and the ice on the lake broke the wall in several places, and the farmers in the vicinity were obliged to repair the dama- ges to prevent inundation. The lake occu- pies ground surface of 2, 500 acres; depth of water as great as 25 feet
 The water is clear and cold soil sandy and loamy. It is singular that no one has been able to ascertain where the water comes from nor where 1t goes, yet it is always clear and fresh.
 RobbinS Editer.
 Soon after the completion of the plank road between Detroit and Lansing, a period or tWenty-seVen or twenty-eight years ago, the editor of a newspaper located about half way between started for Detroit, one even Ing, on the wagon of teamster. After travehng about an hour the vehicle WAS stopped by highway robber. The teamster shened out about twelve dollars, but when the editor showed up, the pot" only reached fifty cents.
 You've hidden your money in vour boots. shouted the robber, and he made the editor pull them off No more cash being found, the robber insisted that coat and vest should come off for 8 close search; but at the end of the search he angrily demanded
 What sort of man are you to set out on a ct 2" ''- pun
 II am getting my ride for nothing. and was going to pay my expenses in Detroit by advertising the hotel at which I stop
 ''How much advertising will you give me to let you off?''
 "A straight column per week for four weeks.''
 well, I'll take it, and the teamster is the witness to our bargain. I'll send in the CODY ln time for the next issue"
 The robber presently moved off into the woods, and the vehicle once more rolled over the plank road the editor rubbed his hands together and chuckled:
 ''Egad. but isn't this lift for mo! I found chance to pass off bogus half dol lar, got a splendid item of news for my local, and worked up column ad. to help tide me over the dull season. 1 tell you the Herald will be on paying basis in less than year!"
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-06-29

A New THEORY ABOUT FOOD
4 German physician has started a
new theory with regard to food.
He maintains tnat both the yege-
tarians and the meat eaters are on Z
the wrong track. Vegetables are
not more wholesome than meat
nor meat than vegetables, and
nothing is gained by consuming a
compound Of both. Whatever nu-
tritive qualities they may possess,
he says, are destroyed in a great
measure, and often by the process
of cooking. Ali food should be
eaten raw. If this practice were
adopted there would be little or
no illness among human beings.
They would live their apportioned
time and simply fade away, like
animals in a wild state, from old
age. Let those affected with gout,
rheumatism, and Indigestion, try
for time the effect Of simple,
uucooked diet, such as oysters and
fruit for instance, and they will
find all medicine unnecessary and
such a rapid Improvement of their
health that :hey will forswear all
cooked articles Of food ut once and
forever. Intempera1ce would al
so, it is urged, no longer be the
curse of civilized communities.
The yearDing for drink is caused
by the unnatural abstraction from
what are termed solids of the
aqueous element they contain.
unlocked beef, for example, CON-
tanning from 70 to 80 per cent,
and some vegetables even q lar.
ger proportion Of water. There
would be less thirst, and conse-
quently less desire to drink If our
food were consumed in its natural
state without 6rst being subjected
to the action os fire.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-06-29
FUNCTIONS OF THE NEWS:
PAPER.

l. The newspaper is. first of al,
a business enterprise. Publishers
make newspapers to sell. just as Z
hatters make hats or shoemakecs
make shoes. The newspaper is
merchandise made to suit the mar
ket. Those buy it who wish it,
and the buyers take their choice
Of the wares offered. Without
this commercial value the pDblica-
ton could not be sustained, and it
would be as nwise as unjust not
to take this fact into account.
Newspaper makers, like other
manufacturers, mast consult pop
ular tastes and market demand.
2. But the newspaper is also
public agent. It offers to the
public, for pay, certain services,
such as the advertisement of CON-
modities, the announcement Of
public meetings, courts, elections
and sales. On this work, as an
| advertising medium and public
herald, it depends for much ofits
support.
These are the private and per-
sonal aspects Of the newspaper,
| and SO far as these are concerned
it is the private property and
business affair of its publisher.
But to count the newspaper as
merely business enterprise, and
to reckon with it only as such,
would insult the public intelli-
gence as much as it would trife
with the public interests and
rights. 1t assumes public func-
tions and responsibilities which
none but a public teacher can hold.
We cannot absolve men from the
duties attached to'positions which
they voluntarily occupy. But the
press is the professed, if not
paid, advocate of whatever set Of
H
opinions it publicly accepts. It
offers it's columns as sources of
public information. 1t speaks in
print, and, therefore, with sup
posed deliberation, candor and
honesty, such as men use under
the most solemn circumstances.
1t is in this public character that
it enters into the ranks of the
worlds teachers, and becomes
paoic educator.-Prefessor j. III.
Gregory.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-06-29
ADVERTISING RATES.

Advertisements inserted at the rate G
81 90 per square lone inchl for first insertion:
AMI Is cents for each subsequent insertion.
Double column advertisements Ten per cent.
on above.
Notices OF meetings, obituaries and tributes
ofrcspcct, same rates per square as ordinary
advertisements. =
Special Notices in Local column IS cent
per !i.c.
Advertisements not marked with the num-
Der Of Insertions will be kept in I'll! forbid
and charged accordingly.
Special cnniracis msde With large adver.
tis8Gs, with liberal deductions on above rates
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-06-29
gsIsetsh gtorp.
IN AWFUL SCBNE.

| have the same old, ola story
to tell. My conduct has been
such again-at any rate, that's
what father says ; and I've had to
60 up stairs with him, and l
needn't explain what that means.
1t seems very hard, for Id tried
to do my best, and I'd heard
Sue say, That boy hasn't mis-
behaved for two days ; good gra-
cious wonder what can be the
matter with him. There's fatal
litty about it, I'm sure. Poor
father! l must give him an aw-
fnl lot of trouble, and | know he's
had to get two new bamboo canes
this winter just because I've done
so wrong, though l never meant
to do it.
1t happened on account of coast
ing. We've got a magnificent hill.
The road runs straight down the
middle Of it, and all you have to
do is to keep on the road. Theresa
fence on one side, and, If you run
in it, something has got to break.
John Kruger, who is a stupid sort
of a fellow, ran into it last week
head first, and smashed three pick
cts, and everybody said it was a
mercy he hit it with bis head, or
be might have broken some OF bis
bones, and hurt himself. There
isn't any fence on the other side,
but if You run off the road on that
side you'll 60 down the side of a hill
that's sleeper than the roof Of the
Episcopal Church, and about a
mile long, with a brook full OF
stones down at the bottom.
The other night Mr.. Travers
said-But l forgot 10 ssy that Mr.
| Martin is back again, and coming
to our house worse than ever. He
| was there, and Mr.. Travers and
Sue, all sitting in the parior where
1~~~: ~'~q. .,ving to
) =, vas behaving, and trs"' * ~ ~
make things pleasant, when =,
Travers said, It's a bright moon
light night let's all 60 out and
coast Sue said, % that would be
lovely, Jimmy get your sied.' I
didn't encourage them, and l told
father so, but be wouldn't admit
that Mr.Travers or Sue or Mr.. Mar
tin or soybody could do any thing
wrong. What | said was, i don'1
wan, to 60 coasting. Its cold
and l don't feel very we'll, and |
think we ought all to go to bed
early so We can wake up real
sweet and good-tempered.' But Sue
inst said, 'Don'tyo preach, Jim
my, if you're lazy: just say 50 and
and Mr.. Travers will take Us out.
Then Mr.. Martin he must put in
and say, perhaps the boys afraid
don't tease him he ought to be in
bed any how Now I wasn't 60
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JOB PREN'TEAsG
DONE WITH NEATNEss AND DISPATCH
TERMS CASH.

injurious, TO protect purchasers
against the evil effects of indis-
criminate dosing, and to put an
end to what | believe to be a
great evil. Such law would put
i stop entirely to the manufacture
OF class of remedies which are
sold by the manufacturers and
sent by express. What these
remedies are, you will find out by
reading in the papers the records
Of the hospitals and criminal
courts
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-06-29
WISDOM FOR BOYS.

Do you wish to make your mark
in the world L? Do you wish to
be men? Then observe the fol-
lowing rules:
Hold integrity sacred.
Observe good manners.
~ S'jjSo trials patiently.
D"uu- -,mpt in all things.
NJ. W.Ea pr ,Sw acquaintaDoeS'
maHe ~ to discouragements.
Dare to d.
wrong. SsnI,v over YOUR pas.
Watch caretI
S'ons' title bravely, man
Fight life's bsF
fully. : then decide DOS
Consider wels'
itively. sner rather than
Sacrifice mo- .-...
principle. leisnre time fol
Use all your ..e-s.
improvement; .|Ilv to the details
Attend carefa
or vonr hnsinass- t..
sLofty, elevated
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but thought it would be best for
! old people to stay at home, and
that's why l didn't encourage
you So l got out my double
ripper, and we all went out on
the bill and started down.
| sat in front to steer, and Sue
sat right behind me, and Mr..
Travers sat behind her to hold her
on, and Mr.. Martin sat behind
him. Wo went splendidly, only
the dry snow flew so that I
couldn't soc anything, and that's
why we got off the road and on
to the side hill before [ know it.
The hill was just one glare Of
ice, and the minute we struck the
ice the sled started away like
hurricane. I had just time to
hear Mr.. Martin say, Boy, mind
what you're about or I'll get off,
when she struck something-l
don't know what-and everybody
was pitched into the air, and
began sliding on tho ice without
anything to help them except me.
caught on bare piece of rock,
and stopped myself: l could see
Sue sitting up straight, and slid.
ing like a streak Of lightning, and
crying, Jimmy father Charles
Mr.. Martin O my help me- Mr..
Travers was on his stomach, about
a rod behind her, and gaining q
little on her, and Mr.. Martin was
on his back, coming down head
first, and beating them both.
All Of a sudden he began to 60 to
pieces. Part Of him would slide
off one way, and then another
part would try its luck by itself.
| can tell you it was an awful and
suIreptitions sight. They all
reached the bottom after while,
and when l saw they were not
killed, tried it myself, and land
cd all right. Sue was sitting still,
and mourning, and saying: My
goodness gracious, I shall never
DO able to walk again. My comb
is broken, and that boy isn't fit to
live.'
Mr.. Travers wasn't hurt very
much and he fixed himself all
right with some pins l gave him
and his handkerchief; but his
overcoat looked as if he'd stolen
! it from a scarecrow. When he had
comforted Sue q little-and l must
say some people are perfectly
sickening the way they 90 on-he
and collected Mr.. Martin-all
except his teetL-and helped put
him together, only 1 got his leg
on wrong side first, and then we
helped him home.
This was why father said that
nv conduct was such, and that bis
friend Martin didn't seem to be
able to come into his house with
out being insultcd and injured BY
me. 1 never insulted him. 1t
isn't my fault if be can't slide
down hill without coming apart
However, I've had my last suffer
ing on account Of him. The next
time he comes apart where | an
| [ shall not wait to be punished
for it, but shall start straight fol
the North pole; and, if | discover
it, the British Government will
paw me morn a million dollars
| I'm able to sit down this morning
but my spirits are. crushed, and
shall never enjoy life any more
[Jennie Broom, in Harper's Youn!
, People.
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All who engage are surprised at the ease
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You do not have to invest capital in it. we
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Maine. Oct Il, 42-1y.
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sLofty, elevated,
. High words-1,.etc.
topmost, summit,