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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1881-11-06

que habian faltado en "a anterior.
La discussion del acta del Sr. Machi-
cote dio motive para que usaran de la
palabra slgunos diputados, entire ctros
los senores Corchado, Elzaburu y Uba-
rri.
Dado por suGeientemente discutido
el dictamen de 10 Comision, procediose
4 votaci6n resultando aprobads el acta
del Sr. Mschcote por IL votos con
ira IL.
Sin discusi0l y por nnanimidad, fne-
ron sproba los los dictam ones de Ia 90
mission en- 10 relative las sctas de los
senores E zabura Santiago.
FL acta del senior Raya di6 lugar un
caluroso debate en ei que b cisron uso
do Ia palabra los senores Cells Aguile
RS, Oorchaio, Ubarri y Elzsburu
Contra 10 que era lie espersrse, los
Srss Oorohado Elzaburu go expresa-
ron con una animosidad inadecuada
una Oorporacion como 10 es la Provin-
oial, muy aiens servir de pretexto pa
rs lamar Ia atenoion del p1blico que
asists las sesi ones que aquella celebra.
La repeticion do las frases "se ha
stropellsdo, Sc ha pisoteado Ia Ley" iu
Rayeron, como no podia menos dc su-
ceder, en- ell Amino de la mucheiumbre.
que SO sgolpAba IL valls que separa
del p1biico Il los senores Representatives.
de ID provincial y no faerop pocos los
indivlduoa que invadieron 81 espacio
que solo dehen oeGpar los senorss d.
pntados,
L s. Pfesidente rog6, en vano, al
pae0lo que suprimiera toda msnfesta-
clon Y gus sc mtirase al sitio que le Co
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1881-11-06

Arancal, teniendo en- cusnta la proce-
dencis banders conduotoras y encon-
traremos, los siguientes resultados:
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1881-11-06

Dlohos srtioulos psga-
ron por derechos ..,.... : l54, 1854
Oalculemos ahora 10 gus pagarisn
los mismos articulos, segun el nuevo
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1881-11-06

Tonemos, pues, dos dstos shora para
poder comparar y por elios veremos
probado 10 que dociamos de nuestro
Arancel, que es prohibitivo.
Dsreohos psgedos por
las auteriores tarifAs : 154, ,735 81
Liquidation hschs por
las vigentes 226 838 81
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1881-11-06
l'Oletin Mercantil de Puerto Rico.
S6badO. 5 de NOviembre de 1881.


Subscription
que, en- nombre del Partido Espa-
mol sin condolences de Ia Isla de Pto-
Rico, ha abiertoe CoNITE CENTRAL
del mismo para la erection de uh
monumento que perpetGe la me-
moria del ilustre patricio, del dis
tiRguido escritor pdblico, del m5s
elocueute, del mas decidido y ace
rrimo defensor de los intereses de
Espana en- America, DoN Joss
PEREZ MoRIs, barbaramente ase'
sinado en- la noche del 80 de Se-
tiembre ultimo.
Pesos. CS
SUMA ANTERIOR 35T1 IS
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1881-11-06
RESULTADO DEMOSTR ATIVO.

TJtsl derscho sraLoelario 5 727,20
Vesmos ahora 10 que SO pagaris por
el anterior Arauoel.
Is huacales d. loza "a plea cubicos
cada uno son 1850 PIES c1bicos qua
Is centsvos pie cubic de derechos son
S1237-50; menos IN & p@ que 80 boni-
dca por roturas y quoDrantos queda
IN vslor por aforo de
$l163 -25 que al 169S hacan $780,
60 arbitrlo 80. ll-16
70 balsnza. .... 1856
3l99-14
Agio de moneda 80. 10-48
Total derecho. ...... $20S-62
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Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-18
STRANGER THAN TRUTH.

If man really wants to know of how lit tie importance he is, let him go with his wife
 to the dressmaker's. Springfield Republican. Scene in one of our metropolitan churches last Sunday morning: Clergyman (who has slight hesitation of manner and voice) be- ginning the prayer 70, Lord, We've come to Thee in our too-too utter helpless ness, etc." The audience catch on.-B0st07l P0st.
 This is the Man who has had Notice in
 the Paper How Proud he is. He is Step.
 ping Higher than a Blind Horse If he had
 Wings he would Fly. Next week the Paper
 will say the Man is a Measly Old Fraud, and the Man will not Step so High.-Dencer 1aT- 6u'ae Primer.
 Lay off your overcoat, or you won't ee it when you go out" said the landlord of a western inn to guest who was sitting by the. fire. ''Ihat's what I'm afraid of, ," returned the man. ''The last time I was here laid off my overcoat. I didn't feel it when l went out, and haven't felt it since.''
 What is that which has three feet but no legs, is all body but no limbs, has no toes on the feet, no head, moves a great deal but never uses it's feet for that purpose, las one foot ct each end and one in the center of the body? It never walks out, but goes with one foot where the head might be, dragging the other foot behind. Answer-A yard stick.-Detroit Free Press.-
 Jones was an old bachelor whose temper was not the sweetest, and who did not like to be questioned The other evening just a. supper was ready, he went out and kept it waiting half hour. When he came back the landlady said sharply: Well, MT. Jones, why did you go out just previously to supper in that way ?" Because, madam" he an swered, II couldn't go out just previously after supper in that way" The landlady closed her mouth for repairs. Herald
 Gentleman meets a friend and takes him home to dinner. Arrived at the house he leaves him in the sitting room, to announce the fact to his wife. The friend, hearing directly a clamor of tongues in the adjoining room, decorates the key hole with his ear Shrill voice-Always the way-bringing peo pie home without minutes warningl Him. tool Why couldn't you leave him to batten on his usual free-lunch route Hoarse voice Ssh. Shrill voice. won't ssh! Hoarse voice. tell you you will. Oh, if he wasn't in the room outside, wouldn't I just give you
 friend, shouting through the key hole-I ain't any longer; give it to her. (Exit, slamming the door. )-PGris Wtt.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-18
HECkER'S
PERFECT BAKING POWDER.
A FAIR TEST.

To the Editor of the Journal & Cour1ers
 Sir:-The contract for supplying the United States government with seventy-fve thousand {75,OOO) lbs. of Baking Powder during the en- suing year has been awarded to Hecker's Perfect Baking Powder, it having been tested by Dr. Ed ward G. Love, analytical chemist for the government, and recom- mended by him for it's excellence and because it contained higher of gas (Which means it will make lighter bread aud bis- cuiD than either the " "Royal'' or the other cream tartar baking powders which he examined. The samples analysed by Dr. Love were furnished by the government conn missioners, and were without the manufacturers label or name, and designated with a number known only to the commissioners.
 It will thus be seen that when Hecker's Perfect Baking Powder is submitted to an impartial test it's superiority is acknowledged, and the popular verdict so emphat- icalIy expressed in it's favor is fully sustained,
 GEO. V. HECK FIR & CO.,.
 2O3 Cherry St., NY. 2==
Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-18
Spiders skill as Aeronauts.

lErom the ColumDus (Oh1o) State Journal.
 It is reported that shower of spider-webs fell at Green Bay, Wisconsin, one day last week. As matter of fact, such things are of frequent occurrence in northern countries during the month of October Spiders were the first balloonists, the first of the animal creation not furnished with wings to navigate the air The spider is migratory animal a "bird of passage" as it were. They make for themselves wings and fly away to warm climates upon the approach of winter, and return again in the spring. When the season for moving arrives they post themselves on the tops of fences, or in other elevated posi- tions, in an open space, and there prepare their balloons, or sails, or wings-call them what you please. The spider is scientific meteorologist He is versed in atmospheric currency He may not be able to read the figures on the barometer, but he knows per- fectly well when the atmosphere is dense and when it is rare. He never undertakes an arial journey during calm or in a rarefied atmosphere. He waits for gentle breeze from the north and for normal condition of the atmosphere, and then cuts his cables and floats of to the south at the rate of six to ten miles per hour. Sometimes spiders travel in pairs, and not infrequently half dozen are carried together in the ''basket" of the balloon constructed by their joint la- bors. Should Mir. Spider be caught in gale, or in an adverse current, or should his bal loon be about to pass over large body of water-the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, the Mediterranean or the German ocean, for example-he can cut himself loose, his basket becomes parachute and he falls to the ground without injury. Should an army of migratory spiders strike a region of calm and rarefied atmosphere, the web will no longer float, but will descend to the earth, thus producing ''shower of spider-webs." Such things are not uncommon-so common, in fact, as to very 1dom attract notice. Now, we have told you what we know about spiders. The city reader IS not bound to believe word of the story But let him or her who doubts go into the country any warm day in autumn Indian summer''- when there is gentle breeze from the north, and if hundreds. perhaps thousands, of fly ing spiders are not seen, then set us down as a Louisiana liar" Whoever proposes to invent flying machine should take his first lesson from the spider.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-18
Great Generals.


 The three greatest generals the world has ever produced-Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon were all men of letters. Alexander was the friend of Aristotle and an annotator on Homer. Caosar's Commentaries are still clas- sic books. Napoleon would have been man eminent in science had he not been an Elm peror. ''Do you think" he said s'that if I had not been general in chief and the instru ment of fate to mighty nation, that would have accepted place and dependence? No | would have thrown myself into the study of the exact science: my path would have been that of Calico and Newton and since have always succeeded in my great enterprises, should have highly distinguished myself also in my scientific labors. I should have left the memory of beautiful discoveries. ' Great generals have usually been men of great strength and endurance, even when small of stature. The Duke of Wellington, in the Peninsula, was often eighteen hours together on horseback. and frequently rode fifty miles between breakfast and dinner Napoleon was often nearly as long in his saddle, and once he galloped from Bayonne to Vittoria in two days He had the remarkable faculty of sleeping quickly at will and so recruiting bis bodily force. Some great generals have however, not been noted for physical power. Agesilaus was lame and little of stature Ran- nibal was an invalid, and had but one eye when he commanded at Thrasinene and Cann@. William the Third was a man of weakly frame, and the great Frederick, of Prussia, was not strong. Whether strong or weak in bodily frame. no general can be great if deficient in mental vigor Strength of mind and body often go together, but the former is alone essential to great general The importance of thorough military educa- ton was esteemed by no one more than by Napoleon, who seemed to owe all to personal genius. It was he who organized all the military schools of France, remembering his own early training at Brienne. After the peace of the Tilsit he showed his friendship to the Czar Alexander most of all by sending ten of his professors to establish military school like the Polytecnic in Russia. Mere fighting generals are always to be found they grow plentifully at Sandhurst or in the crick- ct ground of Eton; but generals who gain victories and make conquests with the loss of few men are only to be obtained by the careful training of minds naturally strong and thoughtful.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-18

feelings of a child allured to read by such books as .:Robinson Crusoe" and of another pushed painfully through lessons on coal mining and natural history is very strong one. There will be time for the coal mining when Defoe and his like have created the power of reading easily. It would be well for the children in the public schools of Eng land or any other country if these sugges- tions were acted upon.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-18

Chinamen have rather hard row to hoe in San Francisco, but in spite of all their difficulties they prosper. The Chinese laun- dryman is taxed $15 year and carries the clothes back and forth at that the white laundryman is taxed $2. 50 and has horse. The Chinaman who peddles vegetables in the street is taxed $1O. while the white man en- gagged in similar business pays but $2. There are but 2l ,OOO Chinese in San Francisco of 8 total population now estimated at 300, 900. Of these 6, 500 are domestic servants whose wages amount to from $20 to $4Oper month. The duties levied last year on Chinese resi- dents footed up over S1.70O, 900, and it is es timated they paid in addition $2, 100000 for rent. One Chinese firm has shipped to China this year 275, 900 barrels of flour and they buy immense quantities of pork for which they pay the highest market price, Last year only ten Chinese were sent to the hospital and not one to thei almshouse- Of the 8,G65 persons arrested for drunkenness not one was Chinaman.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-18

Er. Matthew Arnold declares that the memorizing and reciting of poetry in ele- mentary schools suggests high and noble principles of action, and inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative. He wishes to see this poetical exercise made 8 part of the regular work of schools. Several of the British school inspectors emphatically condemn the present style of reading books used in the elementary schools. They hold that they are only calculated to disgust chil- dren, consisting as they do of hotch-potch of general information and moral anecdotes and that the odious system of graduated read ing books appears to be designed with view to crush out anything like 9 budding taste for reading. These inspectors recommend that these books should be replaced by the entire works of standard authors or by other books of continuous narrative, and they add that the contrast between the
Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-18
The November nIeteaEs.

From the Providence Journal, Nov. l5.J U 2
 For the last three days the earth has been plunging through portion of space known as the November meteor.ring, because it in- terseets her orbit on the 18th of this month. Its vast width may be inferred from the fact that the earth is three days in making the
Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-18

Ohas. Peterson, Thos. B. Trowbridge. J. A. Bishop Dan1 Trowbridges A. 70. Wilcox, 0has S. Leete ,. M. Mason, Jas. ?. Deven, Cornelius Pierpont
 OHAa. PETERSON, President.
 CHARLES $. LEETE, Vice President, Fl. MASON, Secretary. GEO. E, EEgTLETON. Asst sec'y. jyl sodsts
Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.

s'The melancholy days have come" but there was nothing very melancholy about yes terday.
 The contest for the speakership of the na- tional House of Representatives is becoming lively. Six gentlemen have announced them selves as candidates, namely-Hiscock of New York, Reed of Maine. Keller of Ohio, Burroughs of Michigan, Kasson of Ohio and Dunnell of Minnesota. All the prominent candidates. except Mir. Hiscock, have estab- lished themselves in headquarters at Wash ington, and are preparing for carrying on a vigorous campaign. MT. Hiscock seems just now to be little ahead in the race, but Mir. Keller is not far behind him.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-18
SECURITY ASSURANCE CO.,,
FIRE AND MARINE.
OF NEW HAVEN.

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Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-18

tSournal aIto Courier.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY
 HARRINGTON & CO.,, No. 400 State Street, Courier Building JOHN B. oARRIHeToN. HOWARD T, BENNINGTON JOHN B, oARRrNaToN JR
Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-18


 Philadelphia is the place where some high toned and sensitive policemen left "the force" because if they did not they would have to serve with negro policemen. Thele is another display of negrophobia in Philadel- phia now. Miss Ida Gilbert, an olive-col- ored girl, who looks more like an Italian than negro, and who is decidedly refined and prepossessing, has been refused admis. sion to the Philadelphia musical academy be- cause of her African descent. Miss Gilbert belongs to a well to do family, and is already fine pianist, and desired to join a class at the academy for further study, but was told without hesitation that her color would de- bar her. Miss Gilbert was recently at Bos- ton, and says she would be heartily received at the Boston conservatory, of which Julius Eichberg is director, or at Petersilea's acad emy, or at half dozen other noted music schools, but on account of the expense she preferred to study at home. The Philadel phia director says he was about to admit her, supposing her to be Spaniard, and was de- lighted with her accomplishments, ''but she gave herself away by asking if her being col ored would make any difference" and he had to tell her that he would lose his patrons if he accepted her as a pupil.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-18

A curious English Parliamentary return has been issued showing the number of days on which the House of Commons sat in each session since 1881, that is, for exactly half 8 century, together with the number of hours occupied and the hours after midnight. The last session was the heaviest There were 154 sitting days. amounting to 1,500 hours and minutes, of which 238 hours and 35 minutes were after midnight the average daily length of sitting was hours minutes In 1887 the House sat 176 days, but only r. 729 hours during the period, and only s9 hours after midnight, while the average time of each sitting was only hours, 24 minutes In 1882, when the Reform bill of Lord John Russell was twice read third time and re- jected by the Lords, the House sat 40 days, or 1,1S7 hours, 223 of which were after mid night, and the average time of sitting was hours, g minutes.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-04-13
The Disgraceful Deadlock

The deadlock still holds the L.
5. Senate in idleness, while all the
immense interests of Nation suf-
fer, pending the decisiono of the mat
tiers as to which of the parties shall
have few petty offices. The En-
qutrer says: "Dry-rot has struck the
Senate sure and the Republican
papers are growing heartily sick of
the whole shameful business. The
scramble for office is simply disgust
ing, and if President Garfield would
Gust the whole, wrangling, SQUAD
bling, conglomerate posse of hang
ers-on, with all their abetters, it
would afford immense relief to the
country. Over 800 nominations
from the President remain unopen-
ed because Of this Senatorial locked
horn poW-wOw.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-04-13

SUIcIDE.-On March 26, young
lady, Miss Mary Jane Wiley, at
Flat Top, w. Va, committed suicide
by drowning herself in a pond.
There was no apparent cause for the
act. Her bonnet hanging on a
bush at the waters edge, led to drag
ging the pond, when her body was
found.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-04-13
Army of the Tennessee.

The Army of the Tennessee,
marched, grated, enjoyed receptions
and banqueted, during three days
last week, in Cincinnati. 1t was the
occasion Of its Fourteenth Annual
Reunion. The Cincinnati papers
devote many columns to the de-
tails of the splendid decorations
and displays, and the big doings of
the Brave Boys in Blue
Among the notable affairs on the
programme were the unwilling of
the Mcpherson Monument, on
Franklin Square, and amagniticent
Banquet, costing over $4,000.
Among the mighty men of war and
peace present, were Generals Hayes,
Sherman, Belknap, Warner, Will
Hanson, Dawes, and host of Colo
nels, Captains and such like. Ex-
President Hayes, Generals Sher-
man and Warner were prominent
in speech making.
Passing over the Sherry, Punch,
Beer and Rot-gut part of the Ban
quet, We give the Bill of Fare, of
the Feast of Reason and Flow of
Soul, at the Burnett House.
BURNETT House, Gin, Ohio, April :, 1881.
LIST OF ToAsTs.
These were printed on satin, and in either
corner were the badges of the different corps
of the Army of the Tennessee. Here is the
list:
FOURTEENTH BANQUET, SOCIETY OF THE
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE
First Toast-The United States. Response
by General r. b. Hayes.
Second ToaSt-The Citizen Soldier Re
Spouse by General Willard Warner.
Song-"Praise to the Soldiers" Glee Club.
Third Toast-The State of Ohio, the Moth
err of Statesman and Soldiers. Response by
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a. Hickenlooper.
MUSIC
Fourth Toast--The Army Of the Potomac
patient OF tolls, serene amid alarms, infieX-
ible in faith invincible in arms" Response
by General r. r. Dawes.
Fifth Toast-rhe Humanities Of the War
Response by General John w. Noble.
Song-"Here's a Health to the Fairest."
Glee Club.
Sixth. Toast-The Army Of the Tennessee.
Every fertilization which it assailed surren-
dered every gun fired Mt it is amoLg its
trophies; every force arrayed against it was
captured or destroyed. Response by General
John w. Fuller.
MUSIC.
Seventh TOast-Our Dead: The advance
guard of the army whose white tents are
pitched in the green fields beyond the river.
Response by General w. q. Gresham.
Song-"Tenting On the old Camp Grounds"
Glee Club.
for the Union. Response by Chaplain Samuel
FallOWs.
Ninth Toast-The Army of the Cumber-
land: Our comrades with whom we are
proud to share the memories of Shiloh, Mis-
sion Ridge, Atlanta and the march to the sea.
Response by General w II. Gibson.
Song-"Marching Thro' Georgia." Captain j.
q. Everest and Glee club.
We see our own beloved Capt. 7.
J. Cochran was on the Banquet
Committee. Well, Trick" used
to be splendid at banquet: we
never saw him "wrastle" on a Com
mittee.
The next annual Reunion will
be held in st Louis.
Eirb+1, Ga,ap indictments ware
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-04-13

Eight whisky licenses were
granted by theCommissioners Hen
Dirk and Fahey at Littleton, Black
at Burton, Bartrug at Cottontown,
at New Dale, McEldowney,
Eakin and Brast in New Martins
Vile Wet2el Democrat.
Do you think those eight firms,
sufficient to develop the hidden re-
sources of grand old Wetzel?
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-04-13

Henry Haul, a theatrical mana
ger, was robbed of $1,000, on the
night of the Sth in his room at the
Gibson House, Cincinnati. A lady
at the same time and house lost
valuable jewelry.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-04-13

Elihu Gregg, the old man under
sentence of death for arson, was ten
dered communication to five years
in the Penitentiary by Gov. Mat
thews, which he refused, saying he
must either be pardoned outright
or hang. Gov. Jackson has given
him an unconditional pardon.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-04-13

The Legislature of Wisconsin has
passed bill prohibiting the prac-
tice of treating" The bill provides
that any person who shall ask an
other to drink at his expense, or any
person consenting to drink at an
others expense, shall be liable to
arrest and punishment.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-04-13

Means, Democrat, was elected
Mayor Of Cincinnati, over Jacob,
Republican. In this all decent
people rejoice. 1t was victory for
decency over disorder.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-04-13

An influential citizen of BOtetort
county writes the HeraId.' ''There
is a general uprising Of the people
to put down this liquor traffic
Nearly five hundred names are now
on a list petitioning the County
Judge to refuse license to all persons
to sell ardent spirits in Fincastle
and three miles around. The
oldest inhabitant never saw any
thing like the enthusiasm of the
people against the liquor traffic.