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National Republican., 1881-08-31
New Summer Arrangement.

w. W. CORCOR-A N,
CAPTAIN l.. L.. BLAKE,
Wni make daily trips tSundnys eScepted( to al
points on the Potomac River, ~ far down rs uiymonl
fnTo, round Trip 25 cents, to all points except MOuut
Vernon boat leaves wharf. foot of seventh street.
at ten q, m. aud returns about E;O b. m. ON
SATURDAYS
the CorcOrnn will make Two trips boat leaving wharf
At ten a, ni and six y. m respectively thus allowing
passengers TO stop over nt any point until the reiurn
second trip, reaching Washington about HaD D. tua
making u desirable for PlCnCs and Fishing PARTIES
Families wishing to euiOy a ride On the Potomac
during the warm summer months Viii lind Il 10 thc,F
advantage To take The safe and CommuilOus steamer
CUrcoTan, where every accommodation and facility
will be afforded for comfort and pleasure.
SUNDAY TRIPS
viii he made to Marshhl Hall and Indian Head every
SUNDAY AFTERNOON boat leaving wharf al
three p M, returning about oght y, m, Farc round
trip, 81 CCnta, iel.I
National Republican., 1881-08-31
Proposals.

IDKOPOSAIN FON FUEL.
il DEPARTMENT or THE INTERIOR,
WAsIIISuToN, August 20, 1851.
- aled proposals Will be received until ~ o'clock M
SATURDAY, September 10, 1881, for furnishing Coal
and Wood to this Department for the present fiscal
year.
Instructions to bidders will he furnished appllca
''S ansiSs5' 5. ]. KfRKwooD, Secretary.
National Republican., 1881-08-31
Educational.

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, LAW DEPART.
~ ment. Catalogues are now ready and may be
obtained from the secretary w. !. NEWTON,
nusLtf 5Ol seventh street,
National Republican., 1881-08-31
Steamboat ~Sines.
Potomac Steamboat Co. S Advertisements.

FOR llICWMOND, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., AND
ALL POINTS SOUTH.
The new and splendid steamer EXCELSIOR, con
meeting with r., f. and r. H. H. at QnanticO, twice
daily Except sunday, at HlD II. m. ana 6jO y. M
Fare to Richmond, W
National Republican., 1881-08-31

CT. vINCENT'S SCHOOL, CORNER TENTH
and a streets. will reopen September s. Parents
requested to send their children promptly. 2l2w
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
A Mysterious Beast.

A letter from Florida, N. Y., says :- This part of Orange County is greatly excited about mysterious beast which is said to make nocturnal raids around the neighborhood. There is only one
 person-a negro-who will swear that he has seen the strange animal, but there are scores of persons who claim to have seen evidences of his depredations on adjacent farms, and to have heard his unearthly screams when startled by the approach of men. The negro says that he suddenly met. with it at the mouth of a cave on the farm of MT.
 Green, and that it stood erect to the height of seven or eight feet and screeched so loudly that it frightened him so bodily that he tainted. When he regained his senses the animal had gone. Parties have explored the mouth of the cave on Greens farm, and while they claim to have discovered evidences of the whereabouts of some strange animal they have failed to come up with it.
 Lately it is said that dog, with his back broken, was found near the mouth of the cave, and part of 8 sheep's skin and entraiIs were also close to the en- trance. A party IS being organized to search for and kill the strange animal.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
It Cured Him.

When I was a boy of about nine, writes correspondent, servant of my fathers put pipe into my mouth, as- suring me that to smoke would make a man of me. Ipuffed away most vigor- ously, and persevered till I became sick and fell on the floor. have never smoked since. In much the same way I was cured of hero worship. When l was college youth I ventured one day to call on a man of some eminence, to whom I had been introduced. He re- ceived me with smiles and compliments, and, as I left his presence, was ready to proclaim him the most gentlemanly man had ever met with but, after l went out, I fingered at the door mo- ment to determine whether should call on another great man who lived near, and overheard the polite gentleman I had left call his servant to administer to him the most terrible scolding I had ever listened to in my life for letting in that stupid, impudent stripling. This cured me of hero worship and of inter- viewing great men. Since that date l have at times gone to distinguished mans house with letters of introduction and turned at the door for fear of what might come.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
Statistics of COlOr-Blindness.

The report of the committee appointed by the Ophthalmological Society of Lon- don, to collect statistics of cases of color blindness, presents many features of special interest. The secretary of the committee, Dr. Bradley, with the assis- tances of sixteen colleagues, has ex- amined IS, ,O88 persons of all classes, of whom 1,657 were females. It is at once curious and suggestive to find that while the average percentage of color defects among men is 4.76, and 3.5 for very pronounced defects, it falls in woman to the low figure of CA. This, if true, remarks the London Lancet, would seem to suggest new sphere of labor for women. If women are compara- lively free from color blindness, they are so far specially indicated for many of the less laborious occupations in which good color perception is desira. ble or absolutely indispensable. It 1s satisfactory to find that these last sta tistics confirm, in the main, those col lected by the late Dr. George Wilson. of Edinburgh, nearly thirty years ago This is especially noticeable as regards the comparative frequency of color de fects among the members of the Society of Friends, particularly among the poorer section of them. Though the members of the Ophthalmological So ciety seem either not, to have knowr the fact or to have forgotten it, Dr Wilson found considerable number O. cases of color-blindness among the members of the Society of Friends, an6 he was of opinion that this was not al accidental circumstance. He further believed that the largest proportion O cases of color blindness would, on ex tended examination, be found among the less accomplished male Friends il the laroer cities..
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25

in the forward magazine. 143 lives were lost by the disaster.
 The Kurdish Chief Obridullah has collected force of 2o,000 men and is preparing for another incursion into Persia. Es glE-. ...
 The Second Chamber of the States General has adopted, by vote of sixty to eleven, bill to repress the abuse of alcoholic liquors., It provides for icens- ing bar-rooms in proportion to the pop ulation and so as to prevent their accu- mutation in any one localitys Persons drunk in public places will be punish able by Imprisonment. L2.s 111 7.
 The English Court of Appeal has decided that cattle shippers have no claim against ship owner for cattle jettisoned from 8 deck load. r
 lt-Dingelstedt, the German poet and iramatist, is dead.
 The French troops will not occupy the city of Tunis for fear of exciting the Moslems. ~ t43a- ~ ,.' -- ; --
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
Thieves at Weddings.

At all high-toned weddings in large cities detectives are present in citizens clothes to watch over presents. Stories are told by these detectives of ladies, whose families are of the highest respec- liability, whom they have pointed out to the givers of entertainments as having stolen valuable presents. In several cases related to, the reporter, the valua- bles were recovered under threats of ar rest, and scandals resulted. In others, the host was unwilling to make accusa- tions, preferring to avoid the scandal that would follow an exposure. In one case a lady tainted when she was accused. She would not confess, and she was not searched, but it was afterward said a dia- mond ring was returned by her father, an action which the detective who told the story criticised as iuexcusably simple on the fathers part if.she had in view merely the reputation of his daughter. It is said that several series of thefts have been committed by young men so fascinated with society life that they lived beyond their means, and at last were driven by what appeared to them a necessity, to steal.
 Two or three years ago young man of this class purloined several watches and other valuable articles from 8 num- Der of houses in New York city where entertainments were given. A warrant was issued for him, but he escaped ar rest. He had formerly moved in good society of right, but he had introduced himself at the first of this series of en- tertainments by sheer impudence. He committed so many thefts that at last he was watched, but even then he escaped with his last booty without being de. tected, and it was said that the evidence against him was largely inferential. His flight, however, confirmed it. This case was publicly exposed at the time.
 Only 8 few weeks ago polite gentle. man, who appeared in the guise of g guestEat fashionable entertainment, sue. ceeded in making off with valuable assortment of overcoats.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
Married for Love.

The man who has married for love is 8 happy fellow. He is generally cheer full, and always thinking about the dear ones at home. He prefers to live out of town for the sake of the children. He is rarely late at business, rises early, gardens little, eats 8 hearty breakfast, and goes to the necessary labor with a light heart and a clean conscience.
 He often brings home pleasant sur prises for his wife and children. You may recognize him in trains loaded with parcels, which he good-naturedly carries with perfect unconcern of what others think-a new bonnet, music, books, a new cloak for his wife while in another parcel the wheels of cart, jack-in-the box, a doll, CT skipping rope, protrude through the paper and suggest the nur- sery. He is brave and kind, though he makes no noise in the worl9
 The iumanizing influence of that dar- ling red-cheeked little fellow who calls him father brings glow and rapture of the purest pleasure earth holds; for the man who has never felt tiny hand clasp his will always lack something he. will be less human, less blessed than others.
 This is the noble, the honest, the only form of life that imparts real content ment and joy, that will make death bed glorious, and love see peace through it's tears. It is so purely unselfsh, sc tenderly true; it satisfies the highest instincts, it stimulates men to the best deeds they are capable of. - Yonkers Statesman.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
A YOUNG GIRLS SUICIDE.
She is Suspected of Being Thief and
 Takes her own Life.

A case is reported in the New York papers of young girl who is said to have killed herself b cause she was sus pected of theft by her father. The cir cumstances are exceedingly painful in any event, whether the young girl con- mitted suicide or was accidentally shot, as the father earnestly asserts. In either view, the responsibility of the girls death should be placed where it be- longs. ....
 All accounts agree that MT. Orrin D. Person, the father, left home early on Tuesday morning without breakfast, af- ter having manifested great annoyance at missing some money which he said he had had on the previous evening. Thereupon Lis wife wrote a letter to the Police Captain of the prec1nct in which they lived, asking him to send detec- tive to the house as soon as possible,
 " on account of some mysterious and to us heavy losses. I am unwilling" she added, to leave the house myself"
 On the arrival of detective, in com pany with the child by whom this letter was sent, Fife Person, the second daughter of MT. and Mrs. Person, a bright, handsome girl fourteen years old, was found dead in one of the apart ments occupied by the family, with a pistol shot wound in her left breast, ev- idently inflicted by means of g large re- volver which lay at her side.
 The published reports differ consider ably as to the circumstances of her death. According to some accounts, she was driven to suicide by the mental anguish occasioned by her fathers evil dent suspicion that she had taken the missing money, still further intensified by the possibility of arrest by the detec- tive whom she knew had been sent for. Thus, the Tunes says, Mrs. Person and her daughter Alice went to the parlor and looked into the street, when pistol shot, followed by fall, was heard in the kitchen. Mrs. Person found Ef- fe lying before the bureau, in a drawer of which the pistol, which lay on the floor beside her, had been kept. Mrs. Person lifted her head and found that blood was running from wound in her left breast. She bent over the girl and said, Why, Fife, what did you do this for? You didn't think that I suspected you?' The child said with difficulty, No, mamma, but papa suspects us,' and died" .'.. ..-g .s.s ..I
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
He Stopped His Paper.

There are some oddities in newspaper life which are illustrative of character. Years ago, says an exchange, friend and gentleman, and also g liberal adver- tiser, came in and indignantly stopped his paper. It was no personal matter. He wanted us to be more vehemently Republican. He paid up his account, which was not large, for he was square customer, and marched off, his name disappearing from our books, except as an advertiser. The other day, after years of friendly feeling, he was asked what he did when he stopped his paper, and the answer came, "Went down to the newsman's the same afternoon and ordered it from him." It is impossible for earnest men to avoid these sudden ebullitions of hot opinion.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25

A TOAD IN HER SToMAoH.-Four years ago Mrs. George Potter, of Utica, N. r., who then lived 1n Iowa, was conscious of the passage of some small living ob- ject down her throat while taking drink of water. Soon afterward she began tc have fits and apoplectic symptoms. Her appetite was unsuitable, but her suffer. ings increased and were excruciating Many doctors treated her, but she got no relief. She pretended to feel the animal moving in her stomach, anG finally physician, adopting Mrs. Pot. ters theory, commenced to give medi- cines calculated to destroy animal life if it existed there. About three weeks ago the movements ceased. The dis, turbing cause proved to be toad, whicl had grown to full size after it was swal, lowed. Mrs. Potter experienced i'm mediate relief.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
Not tO he Trusted.

The old rule that married woman shall not run her husband or herself into debt, except for the necessaries of life, has been sharply re-enforced by 8 decision in one of the Courts of Penn sylvania. Mrs. Fiegel, wife of the pro- prietor of the Woodbine Cottage, Phila- delphia, bought of haberdasher in that city silks and jewelry to the value of few hundred dollars-representing to the dealer that she had separate in- come of $1,OOO year. But the bill was not paid, though it appeared the husband was abundantly able to pay Suit was accordingly brought against the husband and wife, but the judge would not entertain the suit on the ground that a husband was not liable for goods furnished to his wife without his express authority, unless they were necessaries, and that 8 married woman could not bind her own separate estate, except for necessaries, without her hus- bands consent. The merchant very naturally appealed
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
Destruction at Sea.

When the Southern Ocean was first opened to British enterprise by the dis coveries of Capt. Cook, it teemed with animal life. Fur seals and hair seals abounded on the coasts of Australia and New Zealand and on the outlying islands. They were at once set upon and killed, the slaughter being conducted without regard to sex or season. The result was the total exti1pation of sev- eral species. cone might as soon ex- pect to meet sea-ion on London Bridge as on one of the islands in Bass's Strait" was the reply of New Zealand naturalist to an inquiry about the seal life that early voyagers had observed. The same result has happened at the Falkland Islands, at Cape Horn, and on the Pacific seaboard of South America. A vessel called the Betsy took l, 1000, 900 skins from the Island of Masafuera at the beginning of the century, an exploit which left no survivors for future ad- venturers and the Island of Juan Fer nandez, where, in Anson's time, there were seals in abundance, has now only few stragglers to show. The same thing happened at the South Shetlands. In 1S21-2 British sealers took away 32O,OOO skins for the two years, killing males and females indiscriminately, and leaving the young to die. The fate of the sperm whale might furnish useful lesson in the same direction. It was once abundant in the Southern Ocean, but is now all but extinct, from the very same causus that we have pointed out above in the case of the seals. The American whalers observed it's maternal affection, and found it easier to kill a mother. and her cub together than a mother alone. A few years of this policy, added to the use of steamers armed with projectiles of cunning con- trivance, and the fishery had to be given up as no longer pro6table.-Zhe Sat'"- doy ReVieaU.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
The Isthmus Canal.
THE DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY OF BUILD
 -'s ING IT.

John M. Wilson, American Consul 8 Panama, says: Before the Frenchme1 came there was an idea that their adven would make times first-rate, and tha every one who had anything to do witt the work would walk off with hatful o money. Instead of that they are man aging things very carefully: They have had but little money there, and spend very sparingly. They propose to divide the line of forty-fve miles into six sec tions, and proceed with each as a sepa- rate work. The task is more difficult one than the public seem to think. In the first place they must purchase the Panama Railroad. This will cost them about $2O, 100000. It was some time ago reported that they had done this, but it turned out that the negotiations had fallen through" s...3l, 'Is: s..
 "As to the real work of building the canal?" @
 "This means forty-fve miles of exca- vation, part of the way through noun tains $50 feet above what will be the level of the canal, and the cuts through solid stone. This, even, is not the most difficult part of the work. They pro- pose to change tle course of a river, which work alone will require a wall of solid masonry oyer. mile and half long and seventy feet high. These are mere incidents of the undertaking and form no part of the actual labor of dig ging the canal. The $90, ,O0O, it is not believed, will anything like con- plete the vast work. There will prob ably be canal built there at some time, but whether the present effort is to suc- ceed or not remains to be seen." ,
 "What kind of country is it down there ?'' DO |a.
 "The line of the canal is through 8 rough country, inhabited mainly by Chinese. The country is full of malaria, and no human beings can stand it ex- cept Jamaica negroes and Chinamen. The latter stand the climate but die of homesickness. When building the Panama Railroad, the superintendent of the work said his greatest difficulty was to keep the Chinese laporers from com hitting suicide from shomesickness. They would go off in gangs of half a dozen at time and hang themselves. The labor question is the hardest one to solve in estimating the cost of the work. A man cannot do half as much there as up here. During the wet sea- son he cannot work, and. when the dry season comes on he must labor under 8 sun that sends the thermometer up to from 125 to 140." .fss.E33
 ".What kind of people are the na- tives ?"
 "They are mixture of French, In- dians and negroes t.-fsa
 "The governrnent?"
 Panama is one of the nine States that make up the Republic of Colombia. Each State is sovereign in the fullest sense of the term. A revolution in one State in no way disturbs the general government. Panama elects Ia Presi- dent every two years, and the event is one of as much importance there as is our Presidential election here. The State also sends its Representatives and Senators to the general government at Bogota, which, in 8 mild way, is an i'm itation of our form of government.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
PurveyOrs to Royalty.

In England, in fact under most gov ernfaents, leading houses cater to secure the patronage of the crowned heads, and having secured it, advertise themselves as ''purveyor to the Queen," etc. There is man in New York who can boast of being purveyor to whole continent in the article of hats. Knox, Broadway, cor Fulton, and Fifth Avenue Hotel, is not only tue Halter of New York, but sends his goods into nearly every city in this country. Everywhere the Knox brand is considered the standard of excellence and style. He uses nothing but the best materials.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
Wilmington, (Del.) Daily Republican.

MRs. ADAM GRuBB, 231 Walnut street.
 has been great sufferer for number of years from extreme pain in the feet, something like rheumatism. She was also very much troubled with eorns and bunions. It was with great difficulty that she could walk, and sometimes when she would visit her husbands shoe store or any of her children, she could not get home again without assistance, and often when she was walking along the streets she would be seized with such acute pain that she was compelled to stop in at the neighbors on the way until she got better. Some two weeks ago she heard of the wonderful cures St. Jacobs Oil was efecting and she at once commenced to use it and experi- enced great relief immediately. The pains have left her feet and ankles and the inflammation has left the corns and bunions. She is now tripping up to her husbands shoe store and out to see her children without experiencing any pain.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
MARKET NOTES.
NEW YORK MARKET.


 The wholesale New York market qu otations show:
 BEANs.-Prime, $2 55@$2.6O; fair to good, $2. 40@$2.50 per bushel.
 BUTTER.-New York sold at 23c.@ for choice in pails, and 18c. @2Oc. common to good; Western sold at 1Sc. @20c, and the common Western at 12c. 014c.
 CHEEsE.-Factory fancy, 1OE@11c.; do. fair to good 9Ac. @1O1c.
 EGas. Quotations ranged from He. for or dinary to 1315c.for New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
 FIogE-s ssuperane, s4:oo@$455; sosa Western TT
 HAY.-Shipping ,S5c. @9Oc.; clover, 85c.; salt, 65c.; straw, 55c. @$1 15.
 HoPs.- York, 12c. @23c; Eastern. 14c. @22c.; yearlings, 12c. @18c.; olds, 4c.@1Oc.
 PETRoLEUM. Refined, 915c.; crude, 6Hc. In shipping order, and Il 1ksc @12Nc.in cases. PORE. New mess, $16. .75@1S.0O; dressed
 WHEAT. Spring No. 8, $1.15@$-; Mil waukee, No.2, ,$1 PAX amber, $l 2C@$1.S3 white, $1. 18@$1 .23. WooL.-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia xxx, 46c. 048c.; xx, 44c. @46c.; X, 44c. @46c. | No. 1. 47c. 049c.; No. 2, 42c. @44c.; common | 3sc. 041c.; New York and Weste rn xx and X | 4c 043c No. 1. ACC. .0O4Sc. | PHILADELPHIA MARKET. FLoUR.-State family, $5.0O@$5.20; ry' flour, ,$5 25@5.5O; wheat, state, ,$1. O6@1 .08; am Der, SLY. Corn, yellow, 63}5c.; mixed State | CSC. .0-c.
 PETROLEUM. Refined, ,E7Nc.; crude, 6Jc
 WooL.-State and Western xx, 46c. @50c. X, 47c. (04Sc.; medium. .50c. O 51c.; coarse, 45t | BOSTON MARKET. FLoUR.-From $4.00@$4.25 for low ant medium, to $4. .75@$6.OO for choice Mime sota. Corn, 6Oc@62c for mixed and yellow
 BUTTER. R.-Common. 10c. @13c.; Vernon dairy, 1Sc. @20c.; choice creamery, 22c. @23c l CHEESE. 7c @15c. BEANs.-$1. .75@$2, ,65
 HAY.-Choice, $22@$23. | CATTLE MARKETS.
 BUFFALO. Cattle, good quality, $5. soc $6. 30; hogs, fair to good, $6.0O@6. 15; best | $6.40. s-s
 EAST LIBERTY, PENN. Best cattle, $5.6 medium tc good, $4. 50@$5. .00; common tt fair, $3. 7bC0$ $4.30; Hogs, Yorkers, $5.5O@ $5.75 Phllade1phias, SC. .so@$e.s5. Sheep | $4. 35@$6.50. g.7
 WATEKrowN, MASS. s.-Cattle, choice, $s. @9.0O s extra, $7. 7.O0@$7.75 first quality SC. .O0@$6 .75 second quality, $5.00@$5.75 third quality, $4.O0@$4.75. Sheep and lambs wool sheep, ga. .5O@$5. %; extra, $6 ,00@ $7. .75; spring lambs, $7 .00@14 GO. Veal calves i Sc. @4xc.r ,, @sf lsrea