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Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-02
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL,

The Public Debt-A Large Reduction for
 August-French Visitors to the York
 town Centennial.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The debt statement issued day shows the decrease of the pub- lie debt during the month of August to be $14, 1S1, ,221.32.
 Cash in the Treasury .$24O, ,478 TOO 96 Gold certificates s................... 5,4aO,92 % Silver ertifcates 5, ,578 BIO % Certificates of deposit outstanding 9,625 GOO % Outstanding certificates. tes............. 643, 300 % Legal tenders outstanding 34s, ,681 OG6 co Fractional currency outstanding. 7O98, ,559 o2
 The payments made from the Treasury by warrants during the month of August, 1881, were as follows:
 On account of civil and miscellaneous 023 O53 02 .......................-.. 3194,673 S2 Navy l 433, 425 7S Interior Indians ns..,.............. 774159 s8 Interior pensions ons...................6 6,6s01O2 60
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E(lR. S ALE.
NOR, SALE

m A Pair of fine Carriage Horses, 16 hands 4AeSaN sound, kind and pleasant drivers; weigh TTf&A1 LAO pounds each. For price and further sl-NE particulars apply to JOHN TROw,
 au22 m W I3t Barre Washington Co.,, Vt.
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RRal Gstate.
EOR RENm

FOh t6ENI, A&A FROM sept 1st, the first floor and basement iia of the House 59 Minor street Inquire at HlM sel If 336 ELM STREET
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Emsse884A Ez1ss:A94ss@S
 The steamer JOHN H. STARIN, CAPTAIN MoALLISTER, will make the first trip of the season from New Haven to this beautiful island Saturday, June 25. After this date she will make TWO TRIPS each week, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Will leave Starins pierfoot of Brewery street-hEe min utes walk from the depot-at $50 a. m. sharp. Re- turning, leave Glen Island at $50 D. rn, arriving in New Haven in time to connect with the o'clock trains.
 Glen Island is one of the most attractive day sum- $34 900 have been made by Mr. tarn since the close of last season Everything done with eye to com fort and pleasure Of e1cursionists Two grand con- certs gwen oa1! by Joyces Celebrated 71st Regiment Band Old fashioned Rhode Island Clam Bake served on arrival of the boat Everything that be had at any seaside be had here at reasonable rates. Elegant steamers between island and New York nearly every hour. Excursion tickets will be sold from New Haven to New York via Glen Island, Fare, New Haven to the Island. 50
 .. New York via the 1sand..::. " 1.oO
 Island and pier IS, North River. 15o Liberal discount to large parties.
 Good music every trip by the Celebrated American Band Orchestra, George Streit. Leader. No Intoxicating Drinks can be obtained on
 the boat, which is sufficient guarantee that nothing
 can occur to the pleasure of any who choose to avail themselves of these excursions The Island well p.,Iiced. Ladies and children un- attended need not fear molestation. MANHATTAN BEACH. Steamers JOHN H. sTARIN, Capt. McAlIister, and ERASTUS CORNING, Capt. Spoor, in connection with
 the regular New York Iin@ will issue tickefs from New Haven to Manhattan Beach and retTrn for fha
 low price of S1.75. Passengers can leave New York every hour of Starins ManhattaR Beach boatr from Pier foot of Whitehall street. ' For further information apply to McALISTER X WARREN, n Church street, or ~ No Free List.
 W. B. MILLER, Agent, starin Pier.
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NJ WASHINGTON, Sept. 1-12 midnight. ! There has been no reported change in the condi tion of the President since Secretary Blaines cab
Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-02

GAUDEFROY'S
 EMPLOYMENT OFFICE. DRIVATE families, boarding houses, hotels and N restaurants can be upplied with help of differ ent nationalies Great attention is paid by the pro pieor of the establishment in the choice of girls and women before sending them to fl situation. Coun- try calls of any istance promrtly attended to. 33h Orange street, near Grown street.
 au17 GAUDEFROY.
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BIRTHS
MARRIAGES.

GoERZ-In this city, Aug. 30, son to John and Ha Goerz.
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CORSET HANDS WANTED.

L.. au12 Inn
 CORSET HANDS WANTED. STRAIGHT STITCHERS and JOINERS, . chimes running by power. Good straight Stitchers $6 to $750 per week. Joiners or Closers from $7.50 to $9. A few learners will be taken. Steady work guaranteed throughout the year. Also Stitchers to work at home. Work delivered and called for. Work given all kinds of machines Learners will be taught gratuitously. Persons desirous of stitching, having machines. we will furnish the celebrated WHITE SHUTTLE MACHINE, and take work for pay in small install ments.
 Also Boners and Learners. Afew experienced Fin ishers.
 Apply to or address
 MAYER, STROUSE & CO.,, jy23 If 4ICourt Street.
 WANTED, TVNO buy, lot of seoond-nanu urniture andCar- | pets. Highest cash price paid Orders by mai promptly attended to, at - 2O 2a CHTTROH ST.
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WANTED,

ENIFTY experienced Boot Makers. Inquire at su- perintendents Office, corner of Wallace and Greene streets.
 L. CANDEE X co. nn1O1 Inn
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FOR RENT, 3s;4 nice furnished cottage and barn at Savin ii5 Rock to rent for the season. Second floor, No. $lI For sale-A sea shore house and barn, large grounds at savin Rock. House has 21 rooms in first class order and will be sold cheap Small safe soda fountain candy jars counters marble top tablesshow cases, awning, ice cream tables. A. ". HOLMES, 1e1S Room 8, 69 Church Street. .
 TO RENT, fessS FINE RESIDENCE in Brick Block, west side FfiiH Of College street. corner of Grove IS roouns &.sg with all modern improvements: dining room on parlor floor large yard and garden.
 FRANK M. WARD, 139 College street, je13 If or ALFRED WALKER, S9 Orange street.
 Furnished Rooms. %A ONE OR TWO gentlemen can be accomuoda- iid ted with furnished rooms, at &E.l my20 If 533 CHAPEL STREET.
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 ATANTEO-A few irst-class agents w Extension Clasp Albums, Family Bibles, con- taining old a new, and Revised New Testaments, Dictionaries and other subscription books on all ments. References required. beral salary to right parties. Call from 10 to 12 a. m.
 GAY BROTHERS,
 256 Chapel street, city Branches in New York, Hartford and Worcester, Mass. au22 COrders and C1Osers Wanted. STRAIGHT Stitchers have now an opportunity to o learn cording in one days time, and guarantee hat they will earn $S week clear of thread Stea dy work. Good CiosArs wanted on our best paying work can earn $i0 weekly clear of thread steady work. Few good Folders wanted; highest prices giv- girls earning $6 weeAly; steady work Learn will be taken straight stitching Our stitchers are making $7 per week steady work. Learners and experienced hands taken in all branches. We run ming the fastest shuttle machine in the world, called h. " Household" SD ed l,2O0 stitches per minute, and time lost in repairing machines being entire y guaranteed not to get out ot order Stitch ing delivered and called for; highest prices given; teady work throughout the year. Those who have no machines we will furnish the celebrated House. hold and payment made in work Apply to
 American Corset Works,
 24 and 26 Franklin Street, at
 NH. Corset and M 6 chine Co.,, au2O 12t 194 Chapel Street.
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School Books Wanted. . ARPt RS School Biographies, Jepsons Music \ Readers, Patterson's Spoilers, Allen X Green ough's Latin Grammars Leightons Latin Lessons, and Swintons Language Lessons, if i'm good or ter, can be sold at BABCOCKS, au27 lot 97 Orange Street.
 WANTED.
 A cook for South Haven and Birmingham, also housework girls for Clinton, Guilford, Waterbury, Fair Haven. All nice places Arply at Library Rooms, No. 75 Orange street.
 au2S [. B. BARTHOLOMEW.
 Parties Desiring Board &HA WILL find excellent accommodations in a :is private house recently opened to receive linn %4.l tied number. Rooms singly suite, with modern conveniences. Location most desirable. For address
 au24 12t* "H w. this office.
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Max. Temp, .S7; Min. Tem., .69 Total Rainfall or Melted Snow dnches and 100ths), .00 Max. velocity of wind, miles per hour.
 SEPTEMBER 1, 1880. Max. Temp, Il Min. Temp, 57; Rainfall, .Oo; Weather cloudy.
 HI. SHERMAN, Observer.
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For Sale at a Bargain.
 SS A F1RST-CLASS and commodious house RiI1 with modern improvements situated on one NsA Of the finest avenues in this city. Large lot, fronting on two streets There is nice barn the premises. The property is worthy the attention of investors and can be at any time For particu- Lars call at THIS OFFICE je21 If
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-12-01
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

A COLLISION of trains in Savannah
caused the death of six laborers.
NINE business houses at Whitesboro,
Tenn, were swept away by fire yesterday.
A LOSS of $15. 900 arose from the burn
ing of the old Mineral Springs hotel, at
Colfax, Iowa.
TEN horses were burned to death IL
Cunningham's livery stable, at Lancaster,
Ohio.
A CASE of smallpox having beer dis
covered at Council Bluffs, the mayor
caused the house to be tagged and roped
in.
THE safe in the furniture store of John
Samuels, No. All State street. Chicago,
was blown open by burglars, v no carried
off about 300 in cash and SO, 500 in valu-
able papers.
ANDREW NJ. BENHAM, one of the pro-
prietors of the City mills, Of Jackson,
Mich, was fatally injured by being caught
in belt.
AT Bangor, Me-, Milliken's tannery was
nearly demolished by boiler explosion,
in which three workmen were seriously
injured.
THE president of Mexico is so i'll as to
vomit blood. The minister of finance
has resigned, and General Trevino intends
to give up the war portfolio.
EIGHT persons composing the families
of Frank Cuppernul and Charles Wilson,
hotel proprietors at Eel Bay, were
drowned by the upsetting of small boat
while on their way to Gananoque, Ont.
A NOTED unfortunate of Springfield, Ill.,,
Popcorn Sedgewick, is dead. his body hav-
ing been found in pasture, where it had
lain for three days. He was once an in
mate of the insane asylum at Jackson
Vile. He will be buried by the Masonic
order.
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How Postage Stamps are Made.

The number of ordinary postage
stamps issued in 1861 was 954, 128, $50,
and valued at 1924, 040643. The method
of printing postage stamps is as follows:
The printing is done from steel plates,
on which two hundred stamps are en-
graved, and the paper used is of pc
culiar texture, somewhat resembling
that employed for bank notes.
Two men cover the plates with the
colored inks and pass them to man
and girl who print them with large
rolling hand presses. Three of these
little squads are employed all the time,
although ten presses can be put in
operation, if necessary. The colors
used in the inks are ultramarine blue,
Prussian blue, (green), yermillion, and
carmine.
After the sheets of paper on which
the hundred stamps are engraved have
been dried, they are sent into another
room and gummed. The gum used is
made of the powder of dried potatoes
and otherivegetables mixed with water.
Gum arabic is not desirable. because it
cracks the paper badly. The sheets
are gummed separately, they are placed
back upward upon a flat wooden sup
port, the edges being protected by a
metallic frame, and the gum is applied
with wide brush. After having been
again dried, this time on little racks,
which are famed by steam power for
sheets of pasteboard, and pressed be-
tween hydraulic presses, capable of
applying weight of two thousand
tons.
The sheets are next cut in halves;
each sheet, of course, when cut con-
tains hundred stamps. This is done
by girl with large pair of shears,
cutting by hand being preferred to that
of machinery, which method would
destroy too many stamps. They are
then passed TO the perforating machine.
The perforations between the stamps
are effected by passing the sheets be-
tween two cylinders provided with a
series of raised bands which are ad
justed to a distance apart equal to that
required between the rows of perfora-
tions. Each ring on the upper eylin-
der has series of cylindrical projec-
tions which fit corresponding depres-
sions in the bands of the lower cvlin-
der; by these the perforations are
punched out, and by simple contriv-
ance the sheet is detached from the
cylinders, in which it has been con-
Quoted by an endless band. The rows
running longitudinally of the paper are
| first made and then by similar ma
chine the transverse ones. This per-
forating machine was invented and
patented by Mr.. Arthur in 1852, and
was purchased by the government for
| $4,000 The sheets are next dressed
once more, and then packed and la
beled and slowed away in another
room, preparatory to being put up in
mail hags for despatching to fulfil
orders. If single stamp is torn OF in
, any way mutilated, the whole sheet is
burned. Five hundred thousand are
burned every week from this cause.
The sheets are counted no less than
eleven times during the process of man.
ufacturing, and so great is the care
taken in counting that not single
sheet has been lost during the past
twenty years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-12-01
FOREIGN.

FRENCH troops report brilliant victo-
ry over the Turkish insurgents, the chief
being captured.
AN infantry division of the garrison of
Vienna has been ordered to be in readi-
ness to suppress brigandage in Krivoschie.
A FIRE at Ayr, Scotland, swept away six
teen houses, rendering thirty families
homeless.
AN interview between Sir Charles Dixie
and Gambetta failed to result in fixing a
date for the resumption of treaty negotia-
tIons.
OWING to frequent raids in County Glare,
Ireland, military ratrol has been organ
ICED. A farmer named Sullivan, return
ing from the fair at Skibbereen, was beat
en- to death and his corpse concealed, for
which FIVE men were arrested,
EIGHTY-ErGHF second ballots for mem
beers of the German Reichstag have re-
suited in the election of nine conservatives,
sixteen nalionul liberals, fourteen seees-
sion sts, two liberals, twenty-three pro-
greesi.ts tive members of the party of the
peop.1. .A.i.eo. socialists. four particu-
iarists, and two members of the centre
party.
NEARLY eighty thousand persons visited
the electrical exhibition III Paris on Sun
dav. President Grevy has telephone
communication between the Elysee and
the Opera Comique and Theatre Fran
caise. and will this winter give series of
novel receptions.
A SIcILrAN named Maccaluso made an
attempt to shoot Depvetis in the Italian
chamber of deputies. failing in which he
hurled at his head loaded revolver. 1t
seems that in the morning the accused
presented himself at a police station and
asked to be watched during the day.
GAMBETTA's organ prints telegram
from London, asserting that son OF Bis
marck has arrived there to tender to Eng
land possession of Egypt to the exclusion
of France, with certain guarantees.
DUBLIN dispatches say a man named
Darwin has been murdered; both arms
and one leg we're broken. Darwin was
assaulted by two men while on his way
home. He escaped, and lodged informa-
tion at the local police station. After his
wounds had been dressed he started for
home. Before starting, however, he ex-
pressed the fear that he would again be
attacked. His body was found in ditch
near Carrick-z gutter. Two men were
arrested.
Tag recent storm in Great Britain in
ficted the greatest damage on the sea
wall of the -andFoeth, and killed
two farmers in Glasgow. At Queenstown
the gale was the hercest known for thirty
years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-12-01
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, Nov Is. - Four--Steady and un-
changed. Wheat-Unsettled and genel ally lower;
No 2 Chicago spring, 1.259 l.25A for seller cash;
1 % u for seller November. t.25K for seller Deem
Der; 1869 for seller January sales, 1243s @l25'5
for seller January; No. Chicago spring,
Liza rejected, S5G90. Corn-Dull, weak and
loweI; IS \ for seller cash November and Decem-
Der; 50 for seller January: 64964k for seller
May; sales, $50 959 for seller January; 6Sh q
6424 for seller May; rejected, 81. Oats Active,
firm and higher "A for seller cash and for seller
November, 451z for seller December; 43'4 for
seller January; 46 for seller May; sales, 456 GAO
for seller May. Rye-Easier; 81. Barley-Steady
and unchanged. Pork-unsettled and generally
higher; I6.00a16s5 for seller cash, November
and December; 16.10al712h for seller January;
1870 for seller February Lard Active and a
higher, 1895 for seller cash and November
1897 q II 90 for seller December; l12o9 ll.22h
for seller January; 1924 a ll.S5 Cor seller Feb
ru,.ry The "Drovers' Journal" reports: Hogs
Receipts, ~ 600; shipments, $780, fairly active
and stroug at Thursdays rate; common to good
mixed, 5.T0a 500; heavy packing and shipping
6I5a6.35, Philadelphia lard hogs 64096.50
light, 5T5G6.o0; culls and grassers, 4.O0G 5.25
Cattle Receipts, 1906 shipments LOO; fat eat
tie stronger and higher; exports, 6.00g6.s7;H
good to choice, 5.4oQ5.9O; common to fine, 400
a 500. mixed butchers, 10915c lower, very plen-
ty; poor to fair, 200G $50; good to choice, 9oG
Sc; stockers' and feeders, slow. 2.4094.00i Tex
ans, in good demand, 5.O0a425. Sheep-Re-
eeipts, 1000; shipments, 500; unchanged; thin
stock plentiful; weaker; common to medium,
275aS.5o, good to choice, s,75g44o, selected
Wethers. 4.75a5
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FATAL MISSTEP.
q Miner Slips from an Icy Trail and
Falls 500 Feet

LEADVILLE. NOV. 20.
Lately there occurred on Slate
mountain, near Ashcroft, one of
those bloody and CHASTITY accidents that
crimson the annals of the mining belt
and make men realize how terrible are
the perils that environ the pathways of
the fortune-hunter in these great noun
tains. Mr.. B. Sutphen, gentleman
interested in mines at Ashcroft, came
in last last night from that camp and
gave the reporter the details Of the af-
fair. A young man name j. nj. Zern,
who has been prospecting and contract
ing around Ashcroft for some time
past, had, in connection with another
man, contract to run tunnel on
claim very near the summit of Slate
mountain. The claim is known as the
Shamokin ledge. They had nearly
completed the contract, and Zern was
making his preparations to get out Of
the country for the winter. The trail
leading from the cabin occupied by the
two contractors to the claim winds its
sinuous and perilous way along the
steep slope of Slate mountain, frequent
" zigzagging to avoid the lodges and
ease the grade. But there is one piece
far up toward the summit where the
slope is almost perpendicular for quite
distance, and under the best condition
travel at that spot is perilous. The
trail, about Is inches wide, is cut out
of the mountain side, and it would
make tenderfoot's hair stand on end
to look down. The chances are that
he would "coon it, along that partieu-
lar spot. There has been crust Of
snow several inches thick on and near
the summit of Slate mountain for a
week or more past, and the cold nights
have frozen this snow whene it has been
pressed down along the trail until it is
as slippery as glass. The passage along
the trail at the steep part mentioned
above is fearful one these days, and
misstep along the treachous pathway
on frozen snow will send a man down
to bloody and inevitable death. Last
Wednesday morning Fern and his part
ner were proceeding along the trail to
the Samokin lode, and at the danger
Gus and precipitous spot referred to
Zern missed his footing. The misstep
carried his body off the trail, and in an
instant the doomed miner was whirling
GOWN the cuONy SlOPD, hlNfy St@SplbS
at the air and attempting in vain to Sc
cure some foothoId on the frozen
ground. His horror.st1icken partner,
utterly unable to render him any as
sistance, stood gazing at the terrible
sight with emotions past description.
Down, down the poor fellow went, and
when his bruised and bloody frame
reached the bottom it was l 800 feet
from where it started, and bore but lit
tie semblance to It's original self. Germs
partner fastened down the trail for
help, and when that had been secured
the party were compelled to follow a
long and toilsome course to reach the
body. It was ghastly-looking corpse
they found, crushed and beaten out Of
human shape, ard strong men shud-
dered As they looked upon ii. It was
carried to Ashcroft and there buried.
Zern was very popular in the camp
bright, earnest young Tainer, and his
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-12-01
GENERAL NOTES.

A SECRET meeting of the western brew
ers was held at Milwaukee, Nov %, at
which steps were taken to stop the cutting
of prices.
THE Illinois board of health has de-
cided to order the vaccination of every
child attending the public schools of the
state.
THE fatal illness of Bishop William May
Wightman, the most prominent divine in
the Methodist church south, is announced
from Charleston.
The success of Mahone's movement in
Virginia has embroidered some ambitious
young democrats in North Carolina to at
tempt break in the ranks of that state.
AT st. Paul, Clara Louise Kellogg in
vited her company to dinner, and an
nounced that she would be married to MIR.
Whitney in March or April.
A PISTOL, supposed to be that with
which LEROY killed Gold in an English
railway coach, has been found beside the
track of the Brighton line.
The governor Of Massachus sits failed.to
signalize Thanksgiving by the pardon of
a convict from the state prison. Some of
the Fall River embezzlers had been cher
ishing hope of release.
THE Hebrew citizens of Baltimore
planted on the grounds of their hospital a
Garfield memorial tree, the first tribute of
the kind ever paid by Jewish leaders to a
representative of another race and re-
ligion.
A MOVEMENT is well under way in New
York to establish in Cyrus w. Fields new
building a stock exchange, trust COM
pany, and telegraph office having direct
connections with all the chief cities. The
capital of the new institution is to be
s., 000 900, and its chief supporters will
be Gould and Field
THE police on both sides of the Niagara
river are watching the movements Of
Ryan and Sullivan, prize-fghters, and
their seconds and friends, who evidently
expect to have mill in that region as
soon as possible. A Cincinnati dispat h
announces that Sullivan is in that city
with his trainer, and an Albany telegram
saws RYAN is there