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Services in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26.-The obsequies
OF theflste President were celebrated on an
imposing scale to-day. A procession Was
formed At the corner of Third and Bryant
Istreets, and marched through the principal
thoroughfares to the Mechanics Pavilion.
All along the line of march the buildings
were draped in mourning. Crowds thronged
the sidewalks, filled the windows and covered
the hdusetops, gazing in respectful silence a.
the solemn cortege, the march of which was
accompanied by the tolling of bells and the
firing of minute guns from ships of war and
the harbor batteries. The procession num-
bered about $4,000, including the regular vol
unteer troops and delegations from every So
ciety and Observation-Disclosures social,
clerical and national--in the city. A promi-
nent feature was a large catafaique, bearing
a h andsC me Lasket drawn by eight horses,
the vehicle and animals heavily draped with
emblems of grief At the pavilion the eulogy
was delivered by Geo. Fl. Knight. Masonic
funeral rites were celebrated by Grand Mas
ter g. benson, and suitable usical selections
were rendered by powerful choir and Or
cisstra. Business throughout the city was
entirely suspended, and during the moving of
the ocesson the street cars stopped run
ming, aud even restaurants, saloons and cigar
stands we're closed. In most Of the churches
memorial services were held during the day
or evening.
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Funeral Day in Chicago.

CHICAGO, Sept. 26.-The unique spectacle
was presented here to- day of city alive With
people and yet without any business being
done. Every wholesale house in the city,
save one, has been closed all day. The retail
places, shops, booths, fruit stands etc. with
scarcely any exception, have zone out OF ousl'
..ess for the day. and yet the crowds rival
those of any previous occasion when Chicago
has done honor to great men and great deeds.
Services were held in many of the churches
and meetings will be held in the afternoon
at which Emery Storrs will be the chief
sneaker. The procession seems likely to be
a monster affair. It will comprise many
orders and societies, besides the military:
police and firemen. 1t is said the turnout O.
Odd Fellows will be the largest ever known
here. It's first movement, about o'clock
will be sgnaled by volley from the battery
and BY the tolllpg of bells
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MISCELLANEOUS.

COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 26.-Business is more
generally suspended than usual even on Sum-
day, and people gathered by hundreds in the
various churches where memorial services
were held.
DEs MONIES, Sept. 26.-The ditching of
construction train on the Des Moines Nortb-
western killed three worknen and injured
some thirty, three or four fatally.
LIVERPOOL, September 26.--Business is
suspended and the bells aIe ringing mutfied
peals.
BIRMINGHAM, September 26.-All the
markets are closed.
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Blaine to Resign,

New YORK, September 26.-The Monday
evening Commercials Washington special
says: The fact that Blaine will 60 direct
home to Maine from Cleveland furnishes
ground for suspicion that he will net re.
turn to Washington until the President an
nounces his intentions in regard to the Cabi-
net. l have no doubt from what l have
learned that there has been a pleasant under
standing between Arthur and Blaine, and but
for the unpleasant relations existing between
Grant and Conkling and the Secretary Of
State that Arthur would like to retain him.
That he will resign is pretty generally under
stood. If not before the extra session, he
certainly will before the meeting of Congress
in December.
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Democratic Organization of the
Senate.
Trial Of Guiteau,

WASHINGTON, September 26.-Distrct At
torney Corkhill this morning called on Gui-
teau in the Jail and officially notified him
that the Grand Jury will take up the case
against him next Monday, OH the first day of
its reassembling. Corkhill informed Guiteau
so that he might procure counsel and prepare
for his defense. Guiteau merely said that he
was ready and would secure counsel. The
Grand Jury will promptly indict Guiteau and
he will be arraigned for trial without delav.
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Which of Them Ruined the Priest?

One fine day a man, poorly clad and ap-
parently poorly fed, presented himself peiore
Jules Sandsau. Sir" said he, ''you Dehoid
before YOU great sinner, one who has oesn
severely punished. l am priest. one DAY
T cbanced to glance at q book. 1t was one OF
YOUR novels. 'Marienne' '-"Contlnue, my
good man" said Sandeau, kindly not with
ont some of the pardonable vanity OF the au-
thor, s.To make long story short, sir iell.
The bi,hop suspended me for neglecting the
5n,is. of nv sacred profession to im1nerse
,nv,olf in tn. fascina but enough: L 90
MT know a soul to whom to come Tor M =
n,.utarv aid hut Yourself" "Here IS a LOUIS,
NV GOOD fellow" said Sandeau, much moved,
..come and see me again and VIII soe "ha'
| can do for YOU" ,,,.
Naxt dav. As Sandeau was lonnslng along
Tho hon,eva,d. he met Merry, looking penslves,
"o, ~ saw GLOOMY. "What's wrong with
vou9n "My dear bow" replied Merry IN
hollow tone. edo you know that we autliors
do much harm in this world without pelhG
couscons Of the fact? Now, last night as l
was sitting down to dinner, there cau,e 80
this point they espisd Theopmle si 1aus'ei
bearing down upon them, he 'isaee "'spp." p't
in melancholy not wholly aeVolu vi s'i
satisfaction. II say, fellows" ne cr'eo sa,so 10
thsm from afar, "you know thereI are some
idiots who pretend that literature is wltlaa. ~.
anv Ja6nite influence upon men, either for
gsod or for evil. Now, one OF my BOOKS las
ruired the career of man l never saw III NY
life. and whose profession you couldn't guess
if YOU tried a hundred times" iI was
nrisst-ihe yillainl' cried Sandesu anu
Merry together. "Who told you, ee s;tmatiou
S.wned mon him, he added, "Oh, see.
Well he was clever rascal"
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The Law in Guiteau's Case.

The Albany Lao Journal agrees with the
World that nothing could be mere absurd
than the notion concocted by some wiseacre
in Washington that Guiteau might escape the
just penalty of his crime - . murdeier II the
President should die at Long Branch. "We
have no doubt" says the journal, "tlat ir
in the Presidents case, while at common law
Guiteau could not be convicted of murder in
New Jersey, lift the President should die there,
yet he may be convicted of murder in the
District of Columbia, let the President die
wherever he may. The common law is not
quite such stupid rule of action as some
lawyers and most newspapers would have us
believe. But New Jersey now has statute
under which Guiteau could be convicted in
that State, and that statute was pronounced
constitutional in Hunter VS.. State, II Vroom,
1922, Ifthe President should die in Mon
mouth county, New Jersey, the venue Of the
trial of Guiteau ought to be fixed there. The
assassin would ndo uhtedly come before a
more dspassionate jury in that locality than
is likely to be assembled in the District OF
Columbia, and it is hardly decent that so
great criminal should be tried in a commu-
nifty in which public sympathy has be-n
openly given to . non commissioned officer
of the army who tried to murder him. There
must be no heat and no fury in executing the
justice of the Republic Besides, no ques
tion whatever under the law and decision
cited by the Lao Journal could be raised in
New Jersey, while it is evident that some
question may exist a. to proper jur sdction
for the trial of Gutleau within the District of
Columbia. Ever since the time of Bracton
it has been maxim with lawyers ant judges
"to escape even the fantest question as to ju-
risdiCtiOn.-N. Y. World.
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ather Of the House of Lords.

father," and a not very reputable
ther, Of the House of Lords, is the
Mountcasshell, aged 80, most dilap-
ID person, representing exactly the
Irish peers who have produced such
and who generally live to All amaz-
His seat, kilworth, near Cork, has
TO pieces, and. his eldest son brow
und" chiefly for q living. Every
raise the wind that could possibly
Ted to has been actively put in mo-
be daughters have made miserable
which in one case led to a public
The second son had the luck to
lady with some means, and proba-
htains the noble nonagenarian. Lord
shell was elected ia representative
1926, so that he has sat in the House
for fftY-fiye years. His son who
HIM ID poor specimen. These are
Of people who have caused the Irish
10 be held so cheap. The sooner
ek dies out the better. About three
o" feelers" were put out in New
10 whether some rich woman couio
Ound 10 bolster up the family for
wedding Lord Mountcishell. The
or the coronet were only s25,OOO
pd 50 much q year. Possibly the
was not pressed with adequate eher-
events, The venerable peer stems
in the market, and probably the
such as it is, may still be secured
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boys, left the carriage during the exercises,
which occupied less than half an hour. DR..
J. H. Robinson, as president of the day,
opened the exercises by introducing Rev. J..
Fl. Jones, chaplain of the 42nd regiment, Of
Ohio volunteers, which Gen. Garfield COM
manded, was then introduced.
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Adelphia dispatch Of the 23d gives
wing views of another of the consult
cons: DIR. Agnew who has returned
punsy seat at Havenford, Pa, said the
70 case was one in which from the
vas very little hope, and the au-
slld be satisi actory as setting the
lad At rest upon the point. The
% Of the spine by = ball and the
of small slivers of bone, woundlng
oanding tissues, would sufficiently
'or the subsequent septic conditions,
injury to the vertebrB was the inev-
use which resulted in the breaking
Asentrlc artery and the ensuing fatal
we.
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Tilden in the Field

CHICAGO, Sept. 26.-The Times says: A
gentleman from Palmyra registered at an In
dianapolis hotel, and spent week in tapping
Hendricks friends as to his possible retire
ment from politics, and as to the practicable
lty of a reconciliation with Tlden. In
quiet Way the fact was developed that Sly
Sammy was in the field for 1884, and is Law
ing wires for the Governorship of New York.
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Stewards Grave Robbers,

ST. LOUIS, Sept. ga detective, who
has the credentials says he has discovered that
the same men that planned to desecrate
Llncoin's grave succeeded in carrying off
Stewards body in New York. He believes
that Hilton does not want to recover the BODY
as he assures the officers. This detective saws
he learned the names or the desecrators in
whose possession the remains are.
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Marks Of Respect in London,

LONDON, Sept. 26.-A majority of the
churches are tolIing their bells and manv Of
them had midday service. When the
guard was relieved at St. James, Palace the
band under the direction of Godfrey, played
the dead march and o.her music of a similar
character.
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ped as one of the features of the
Of the whirligig of time that both
Sherman and ex-President Hayes
Fsent at the swearing in Of Arthur,
they removed but two years before
j 0Collect orship of New York.
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Protection Against Body Snatchers.

SSoo"Aoe1 AS AhiSIoOuy 0uaCCQ0TS.
CLEVELAND, Sept. 26-At Mrs. Garfield's
suggestion. the casket containing the late
President had been closed in an iron cage
and then with cement around this with suffi-
cient strength to resist all attempts to remove
tie body and of dimensions large enough to
form foundation for the proposed monu-
ment. The Mayor of the city has detailed
police force to be on duty continually until
the final interment.
1t is estimated that 25O,OOO people were on
the streets day and that from 100000 to
loo,0OO of them were strangers
Some adjacent towns were almost depopu-
lated. A number of veteran and other rep
resentaLives Of the military societies in the
cl y called on Generals Sherman and Han.
cock and general hand shaking occurred.
The Congressional train returned to Wash
ington, leaving here at II o'clock.
democratic Organization of the
Senate.
WASHINGTON, September 26--Senator
johnson, of Virginia, says: Every Demo-
crat expects the Democrats to organize the
Senate, and that there would be no means to
prevent this, as the Democrats have enough
votes, even if the Republicans refuse to vote,
and that e latter cannot break a Quorum:
that the commit es would be organized on
basis OF equality, and there was no posi-
bility of any great excitement.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-15
SURPRIyING,

1t is true that the crow is thief and steals
the farmers corn but 1t is not without caws
Boston Transcript.
Strawberry shortcake at church festival
Is charming stuff to eat. It is such exciting
fun to see who gets the strawberry.-Boston
Post s,-f ..--,z.;t ~@~-,
We do not advise any fellow to be born in
June if he can help it. Fellows born in
June never make any money. Such at least
has been our experience.-NycunsA Adoertiser
Providential Mamma-"Did you enjoy
your rice, Elise ?" Elise-'No, mamma and
reason enough, for Connie James says the
Van Smiths are going to give dance, and
we're not asked Mamma-''WelI, my
dear, your poor aunt's death was providen
tlal-of course we can't go."-C0luna6GG
Spectator.
care you fond of Wagner's works ?" asked
Mr. Sharpe. 'Fond of them!" exclaimed
Miss Poslgush, "I think they are just splen-
did So easy and comfortable, you know
Why, rode in one from Boston to Chicago.
and wasn't one bit tired when I got there"
Mr.. Sharpe sighed sorrowful sigh, but he
managed to call up a sickly smile and say
that he didn't refer to car tunes.-Boston
Transcript
ss'You must love Miss Lawrence very
much, " said Jack to Miss Dashie as they left
that lady whom they had just met on the
street. You gave her most rapturous kiss
on the cheek, and Miss Dashie replied: ~
desplse her |" "Ihen why such kiss ?"
''Why, didn't you see? She was terribly
painted and made spot on her cheek with
that kiss that will let everybody who sees
her into the secret of her elegant complex
ion" Women are queer creatures Boston
Post
The most considerate tramp that has visit
ed Texas this season stopped at a house on
Austin avenue yesterday and asked for some
dinner. good square meal was given, in
Guiding large cup of coffee. After he had
finished his cup of coffee, he leaned back in
the chair and said to the kind hearted lady in
the house, II would like to make you bus
mess proposition" what is it ?'' IF you
will send out and get me ten-cent cigar to
smoke with it, I'll try and struggle with an
other cup of that coffee. .''-Ier0s iSiftings.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-15

put in an appearance. He says further 1.-THE
Postmaster General bore the messs ge, and
while both Mr.. Arthur and Senator Platt exl
pressed a willingness to accept the Presidents
special invitation, Mr.. Conkling-ike the
good but obstinate brother. for whom the
elder was praying that either his objections
or himself might be removed to Abraham's
bosom-rose up in the midst of the prayer
and shouted back I won't go. I won't CO.
The President was quite willing to change his
New York slate by recalling all the nomina-
tions and putting Woodford on the vacant
seat on the United States bench; making
Robertson United States District Attorney,
and appointing the late Vice President
Wheeler or some other Republican of ma
tional reputation for the collectorship. All
this was defeated and spurned by New York's
ill-tempered senior Senator, and the facts are
so well known that they cannot be success
fully gainsaid or denied"
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-15
Wednesday Morning, june Is. 1881.
THE ENGLISH CHANNEL TUNNEL. !

THE ENGLISH CHANNEL TUNNEL.
I. Little has been heard lately on this side the
water concerning the tunnel which sagacious
capitalists and daring engineers are intending
to drive under the English channel, but this
lack of information is not due to any lack of
confidence in the scheme or any check to its
progress. On the contrary everything is
going on s'swimmingly,' - SO to speak The
trial driftway has advanced three hundred
yards, and already large rise is recorded in
the shares of English and French railroads
connecting with the proposed tunnel and it is
said that so-called "Parts'' or thousandths of
the tunnel charter, franchises and concessions
have sold at $4,000 francs each. These
Parts. numbering one Thousand, are most
ly held by syndicate of the Rothschilds and
their friends, who seem to be sanguine of the
final success Of the great enterprise. Thus
far the Indications are certainly encouraging.
The engineer encounters nothing but gray
chalk, which the borer readily enters. The
cutting apparatus is driven by compressed
air, and slices off chalk to the depth of a
quarter of an inch with each revolution,
which occupies half minute. There is no
trouble from water, and the net result of a
days work of ten hours is about twenty-five
feet. This is at the rate of mile in 81
days The work in the full-sized tunnel will
necessarily proceed more slowly than in the
driftway. which is only seven feet in diane
ter. The completion of the tunnel between
England and France will require many years
of labor and an enormous outlay under the
most favorable circumstances. At present it
can be said that the project is feasible If the
chalk continues all the way beneath the
Channel. The plan is to descend gradually
from the French coast, following the natural
dip of the chalk deposit until depth of 200
feet below the average bed of the Channel Is
reached; then to run a level toward the Eng
lish coast making an easy ascent to an outlet
on that side.
The progress of this great work will be
watched with much interest all over the
world II it succeeds it will be an important
factor in the commercial and social relations
between England and France, and will be a
rare triumph of engineering skill. It will
also prevent great deal of sea sickness.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-15
COMMUNICATIONS.


To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
The renewed complaint in regard to news
paper criers on Sabbath mornings may be
supplemented by plea for some relief from
a similar annoyance in limited portion of
the city's chief thoroughfare. Allusion is
made to the company of young men and
boys who invariably assemble every pleasant
Sabbath evening on the corner of York and
Chapel streets under the shadow of the Cal
vary Baptist church. Their noise and rude
conduct is a great disturbance and discom-
fort to the residents of that neighborhood, as
well as to all persons who have occasion to
pass that way. Is there no remedy for this
evil? INQUIRER.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-15
Price Four Cents.

or such as choose to come, into a room which
will not seat 75 or 100 persons, and to express
their views on the subject, whether or not
it would be good thing for the city of New
Haven to own waterworks of its own"
What has this abstract question been intro
duced for when it has nothing whatever to do
with the real question now pending. which
is, shall the city of New Haven purchase the
property and franchises of the New Haven
Water Company on the terms somebody
years ago fixed for the benefit of owners
whoever they might be ? Every body knows
that every man who says one word In that
little room is criticised and becomes marked
man, no matter which side he may take.
Therefore few go there. Everyone who
speaks is criticised the next day. Besides it
is a subject which cannot be discussed by al
lowances of five or ten minutes. and the COM
mlttee having no facts to present (not having
ascertained any are, like the auditors, 'tall
in bag;' and when they and their auditors
get through their public hearings and talk
ings, they will be like Doctor Jewetts story
of the boy the calf run over, who when asked
replied, 81 hain't nothing to say. 1 hain't
seen no calf"
This "selfsh period" dates back a decade
or two, and includes to the issuing of $780,
600 town bonds for the Air Line railroad 1t
was got up the same way. meeting or two
was held; committee was appointed, and
they went off in carriages for day or two,
and one of them, one morning just before
the town meeting was to be held, wrote up
report, and on that report and some action
by the meeting the voting places were
opened and 10000 voters were invited to
vote Eyes" or mo- as to issuing $500, 600 of
town bonds And when the votes were first
counted they had to take out of the boxes a
part of the 'syes" votes, for in some wards
there were too many in the box for the ward
Now, it is not question of $500, 600. but
of 81, SOC, 900, with no information whatever
as to what the Water Company have to sell,
or what as water project it is worth. Under
these circumstances 1 am willing to take one
side of this question-''no'' as to purchase
and discuss it, if some one will take the
yes" side, and each be at liberty to write
three articles. This mode of procedure will
draw out all necessary facts and furnish
light which cannot be had in any other way
Water pipes are laid so far below the sur
face that to see them we must have
MORE LIGHT.
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Government Aid to steamship Lines.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
For several years I have had the opinion
that this country should have at least share
in the ocean carrying trade, and that at least
one line of fast mail steamers under the
American flag should run from New York to
Liverpool or some other convenient port in
Great Britain. Americans probably travel
more than any other people, and also export
an enormous quantity of merchandise. For
means of transport they are almost entirely
dependent on foreign nations who give their
steamship lines government aid, and who re-
turn much benefit to their respective coun
tries. 1t seems to be conclusively proved
that at present an American line of steamers,
even If bought in England at the same place
where the English buy theirs, could not
flourish without subsidy, for the American
line from New York to South America had to
be withdrawn on account of British compe-
tition. It surely could not have been the
difference in first cost of the ships, but must
have been lack of government protection.
Why is it not as reasonable to aid steam
ship line as it is to aid railroad company !?
J. r. A.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-15

The electric division of the Patent Office at
Washington has been busy place since the
excitement concerning the electric light and
the telephone began. There have already
been issued 25o patents relating to tele
phones and I75 relating to the electric light,
and there are now about $50 applications
pending for the electric light patents, and
large number for telephones.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-15

The French Canadians who live in Massa-
chusetts are naturally not pleased at being
called 1.-THE Chinese of the Eastern States, :"
as they were by Hon. Carroll D. Wright in
his recent report of the labor statistics of the
State, and an indignation meeting has been
held at Marlboro, Mass. where there are
about 2, 900 French Canadians, who are as
sessed for about $1Os, 900 worth of property.
1t is possible that Mr.. Wright's charges ha g
been too comprehensive, but it is a fact that
as class the French Canadians are the most
undesirable immigrants that come to the
eastern States.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-15

While we of the North have been har-
rassed and made in-tempered by continued
bad weather, our southern brethren have
been enjoying the most delightful days. The
season in the South is said to have been SO
far unusually pleasant, the only drawback
being the want of rain, little having fallen
since the early part of April. We would not
have begrudged them a few drops from our
superabundance