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Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-11-14

The AMEs MoSUMEST.-To COM
memorate the services Of Oliver aud
Oakes Ames in connection with the
building Of the first railway across
the United States. connecting the
Atlantic with the Pacific, the Union
Pacific Company are erecting a gran
lite pyramid on the highest point near
its track. The monument is now
nearly finished. 1t is GO feet square
at the base and GO feet high, laid up
in undressed red granite, in style
calculated TO last for centuries. On
the West side is a medallion bust of
Cakes Ames, 8 feet high, with the
date of his birth and death. On the
North is the inscription. "ln memo
ry of Cakes Ames and Oliver Ames.
Ga the East side the bust of Oliver
Ames has yet to be placed. The top
is rounded OIL, aud does not make an
acute angle. The cost is said to be
nearly 100000.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-11-14
The Passing Of the Treasurer.
'Good.bve. mana

The plump, white arms Of Erica
Brown we're thrown about her fathers
neck, and the pretty face with its
RANT mouth and cunning dimples was
pressed closely 10 the bronzed cheek
of the farmer as he stood IN the kitch.
en- doorway moment before going
out to his daily toll.
81 am going out to pillow the south
meadow this morning. my darling"
he said TO the girl, land when noon
comes you must have my accounts as
treasurer Of the church all arranged,
because the building committee will
be here after dinner, and ! am TO
turn over the money in my hands, so
that the erection of the new church
in the little dell just beyond where
we buried that mouse colored heifer
two years ago last spring can be com.
menced at once"-and kissing his
daughter again, Farmer Brown took a
bite of hard tobacco and went away
into the glad sunlight.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-11-14

The petals of the June roses had
fallen like pink carpet along the
edge Of the woods, contrasting pretti-
ly with the vivid green of the grass
and leaves. Above the hum of insects
and twittering of the birds rose the
sturdy voice Of Farmer Brown, swear.
ing at the OF mule. "Get up, darn
i'll" he said. But the mule only
waved its ears in a sensuous, lauguid
fashion, and looked wistfully into the
next meadow where the starry. eyed
kline were grazing, and the old sorrel
mare that bad splint on her near
front leg was quafling the incense of
the newborn day. Picking up a
short stick, the farmer advanced and
struck the faithful mule cruel blow
just abaft his midship ribs. Stretch
ing out his hind legs in II dreamy,
listless way, the mule felt them touch
something. and in moment Farmer
Brown was sailing in the far blue
overhead.
The little church in the messy dell
is not completed yet, and the build
ing committee is anxiously waiting
for the treasurer to come down.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-11-14

A GROWING YoUTH.-Jean Condo
ist has been brought to Paris as
medical curiosity from the Haute Gao
ne. According to a medical contrib
utor to Partisan contemporary, this
youth. aged 10, took start on the IL
of May, 1881, being then six feet three
inches high, and found one morning
that he had grown an inch. Every
week since then he has registered him.
self, and ON the 18th of September this
human beaustalk had gained FIVE in
ches; he grew five inches more before
Goth Of January, 1882, and seven
more before March 10, and he now
stands feet 10 inches. All this has
been accompanied by great pains in
back. and he stoops considerably; but
since June. it is his legs only that have
grown, and his feet are already TWEEN
ty four inches -[London Pail
Mall Gazette.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-11-14

"For whom are you tOlling the
bell ?" asked a gentleman of sexton
in country village. "For Mrs. -"
was the reply. "Whatl" said the
gentleman. "she is not deadl" mot
dead Then have told liel
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-11-14

Mrs. Brown = Dear me. Mrs.
Jones, are those tall young ladies re
ally yours had no idea you had
daughters grown up" Mrs. Jones
(who is still possessed of considerable
personal attraction) --"Oh, yes! |
was married ut fifteen, you know !
And is that young gentleman really
your son 7" Mrs. Brown, who is also
possessed of ditto, ditto, ditto-"Yes,
Al was married at twelvel"
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-11-14

Horse shoes made Of three thick
nesses. of green rawhide compressed
in steel mould are used to some ex-
tent in England. They weigh about
a quarter as much as an iron shoe,
and are said 10 wear longer.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-11-14

A frog fell into pail of milk in a
Connecticut town one night recently,
and in the morning was found sitting
upon roll of fresh butter. A local
paper says that the sole explanation
is, that, in trying to extricate himself,
he had by dilligent and continuous
strokes of his long legs, churned the
milk into butter. A Georgia paper,
copying this, says, that a COW in its
locality gives milk SO rich that the
process Of milking her turns the fluid
into butter us fast rs it falls into the
pail.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-11-14

There will be no change in the cut
of swallow-tail coats this season, ex-
cept that they must be very tight
across the back. The conveniences OF
modern pawnshops are such that only
by having a swallow-tail fit "like de
paper on de vail, can the average
man make sure that he is not suspect.
cd Of having rented ii for the coca.
sion.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-11-14

Ihave recently opened in Richmond large and
complete Flaming Mill, and am prepared TO furnish
every kind Of
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23
SAFE.

Fogg says he was never baptised, but he went to church where there was sprinklfng of sinners in the congregation, and he was one of them.
 "Haven't you got cheek l'' was the re- sponse of four -year-old boy when his teacher, at his first day in school, asked him if he could read.
 The difference between the pavner and the pawnee is this The former watches his prey until he gets it, and the latter prays for his watch. but he doesn't get it.-BOstOH Transcript.
 At this season, the question which interests boy is not so much whether his life will be crowned with glory and honor, as whether his new summer vest is to be made out of his fathers old trowsers.
 ''I guess dad wishes he'd die and go to heaven" said miser's son to his maternal parent. Why so ?" she asked, upon recoV- ering from the astonishment. "Oh, cause heavens such a cheap place to live in"
 James Gordon Bennett has given Mrs De- Long $50, 900 in United States government bonds. There are now hosts of women in this country who are wild to have him send their husbands to the North Pole.-B0stOH Post.
 Married men, according to statistics, live longer than single ones. Fogg, the villain, wonders why in the inscrutable wisdom of Providence the married mans sufferings should be so unnecessarily heightened. .-Bos- ton Transcript.
 ''Violet, dearest, do you play that tune often ?'' asked Hugh Montressor of his affi- anced. "Yes, pet, and when we are married I'll play it all the time" Then Hugh went ont and shuddered himself to death.-Steu- 6enUilLe Republican.
 Translated from the Omnibus: Buyer "Of the wreaths with inscriptions will I one take" Selleress-''Wish you the one with Rest Softly, or Upon Again seeing ?" Buyer, somewhat embarrsssed-"Oh,r rather the first-it is for my deceased mother-in- law"
 Sullivan was going down street the last cold day, and suddenly observed row of thermometers hung out in front of a store, with card marked Your choice for 9 cents" Upon looking them over and dfscov- ering no two of them registered the tempera- ture alike, Sullivan selected the highest one and took it home. He concluded it would save a great deal of coal.-LOaoeN Citizen
 An eccentric man of Columbus, Ohio, visi- ted New York, went to church and seated himself in the nearest vacant pew. Soon the owner came in, eyed the stranger critically and then writing. My pew," upon the fly leaf of prayer book, handed the book to the intruder. The Ohio man read the mes sage, smiled beautiful smile and wrote un- derneath: 'D-d nice pew; what did you pay for it ?" He kept his seat and after service dined with the pew-owner. A lady took her son, of some five years, to church. After the minister had been preach ing about half an hour the little fellow grew sleepy and began to nod. The mother | aroused him into attention several times by | pushing but as it seemed hopeless case, | she concluded to let him sleep undisturbed | After awhile the little fellow had his nap out, and saw the minister holding forth. He looked up in his mothers face and innocently asked, ''Mother, is this Sunday night or next | Sunday night ?"
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23
Marketing.
Vegetables and GrocerIes-How to Buy and Use Them.
 TEroDo O,r

and Use Ihems
 From Our Continentl
 Vegetables are each year becoming more and more important part of the bill of fare, and even at remote distances from great mar kets canning has made it possible for every housekeeper to supply her table with varie- ty. Where vegetables must be bought whether in large towns or cities, the winter supply should if possible, be laid in early in the season. Unless, however, the cellar is cool and dry there will be no saving in this as in a damp warm one all will either sprout or quickly begin to decay, and thus render it better economy to buy in small quantities as needed. Carrots, turnips, pars- nips, beets and cabbages keep better If GOV cred with sand Potatoes should be ID as dark place as possible, as light makes them not only liable to sprout unseasonably, but also gives bitter taste. Onions and squash es should be kept in a very dry room
 Very early vegetables from the South are regarded as great luxuries, and the price cer- taiulv places them under that head. But while Bermuda potatoes are good, our own old ones are more mealy, and with care last perfectly we'll till July, when the new ones are in season Southern green peas com mand high prices, but lack the flavor and sweetness of northern ones, which if out of serson may much more advantageously be re- placed by the French canned peas or petits pois one can of which is enough for six per sons, and costs but forty cents. In the same way canned tomatoes will serve every pur- pose of the fresh ones, save as salad and while there are many who will buy forced vegetables, people of moderate incomes who cannot afford such expenditure need never feel that they lose very seriously. By send
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23

Western Missouri has 8 town called Liber- al, which is being built up on the idea of op- position to all religious belief. It was start ed year ago by an atheistic lawyer named Walser, and now has sixty buildings. includ- ing public hall, hotel and stores, and about 300 inhabitants of all kinds of cranky disbe- lief. No land is sold to Christians, and they are excluded from the place as far as possible.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23

An examination into the amount of tax paid by the brewers and saloon keepers of Cincinnati has been made. Their opposition to the Pond law, which imposes a tax of $500 year upon each tippling- place, and which they would escape upon the ground that they already pay their just share toward the maintenance of the government, is met by the showing that ali the brewers combined pay personal property tax of but $7,O54, and that the saloon keepers pay only an av- craze of $3.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A very interesting balance sheet for the last financial year at Monte Carlo has just been published by the Administration. It appears that in the year ending the 3lst of March the tables had won 12, 900, 900 francs. Against this s, 800, GOO is set down for expen- ses of all sorts, thus leaving sum of 2, 3,2O0,- 900 francs, or e128, ,OO0, to be divided among the shareholders-nota very heavy profit.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23

In the current number of the Century there is an article on wood engraving, and one of the illustrations is a picture of Sadie Martinot, the we'll known actress. Some of the critics do not think the Century ought to contain such pictuxe. Thus, the Boston Post says It twill lead some people to think that the Century has gone into the business of advertising actresses who are the rage of the gilded youth of the town. We would suggest that the editor of the maga- zine inquire of Mr. Mackay whose portrait he has engraved"
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23


 Dakota is said to be rapidly filling up with immigrants, largely German. The advan- tages of location there are summed up in fertility of soil which makes a satisfactory pc euniary return almost 8 certainty. The total cost of going there, buying 160 acre sec tion of Government land, breaking it up, cultivating it, and reaping the first crop is estimated at about $65O. The value of the first crop is fixed at S90O, and after that the expense will be much smaller and grow smaller every year, while the return will con stantly increase. The disadvantages are de- Goient wood supply, the bitter winds that blow over the exposed prairie land, the se- were winters and the complete isolation dur ing that season. Nevertheless, emigrants continue going there.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23
RR 6 W EISKH

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 The Doctor has visited New Haven regularly every month for six years and is highly recommended by the people and the the great Healer and Physician. If you sick need valuable advice do not fail to consult him. Dr. Fiske has had 3l years experience in the practice of medicine and has made thousands of the most astonishing of all chron- ic long standing diseases of whatever name or na ture has the gift to describe every pain and secret disease at sight.
 His prices reasonable that rich and poor alike can be restored to health.
 The Doctor also gives valuable advice on business matters and all the affairs of life, both social and financial including journeys lawsuits, Rains losses absent friends and great success in selecting lucky numbers.
 sittinge for business affairs examination of the sick, S1 Communications by letter upon business health must contain $2, age, sex, lock of hair and stamp. Address Lock Box ,253 Norwich Ot hair further particulars send stamp get circu- lar TAKE NOTICE-Dr. Fiske will be at the Anso- For Hotel in Ansonia, three days, commencing the af- ternoon of the 23d -lso st Smiths Hotel, Water bury four days. commencing April 27th.
 Dr. s W. FISKE'S VALUABLE LINIMENT For sale by all Druggists. mas d&W
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23

The English Parliamentary returns of con- victions for drunkenness on Sunday present some curious figures. Bedfordshire, with a population of 1OO OOO had for ten years end ing in 1881 only one resident convicted of the offense. while Cheshire, with population only four times as large, had 118 Bedford is the first county in the kingdom in the matter of Sunday sobriety. Pembroke has the next place and Cambridge the third. Cheshire, though making so bad showing beside Bedford, is not the worst county by several. Durham, with about twice the pop ulation of Cheshire, had 57O of it's own resi- dents and 145 immigrants convicted against the 118 for Cheshire. Staffordshire had 57S convictions in population of 772,OOO, and Glamorgan 21O in one of 352, GOO.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23

Ssrdis, Mississippi, for his home in future,
 and has sent out another letter telling why
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23
SIX POINTS. ALL WORTH REMEMBERING. CUT THEM OUT.

People take nauseating doses for every pain and ache, which puts their stomachs out Of order, and then physician is called to attend them. This is all needless for if the Hop Plaster is used it Is absorbed into the system in just the way to without bringing on othor troubles.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23

Hop PlasterS sold by all druggists in the United States and Canada, 25 each or for $1, and guaranteed to be the best in the markets. Avoid cheap. worthless goods.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23

medicine to be popular must be both agreeable and efhcacious. The Hop Paster is a union of vegetable agents combined with safety reliability and effectiveness The indiscriminate use of medicines taken internally fig far productive of injury than benefit,
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23
CSournal anu Courier.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY
 HARRINGTON & CO.,, No. 400 State Street, Courier Building
 JOHN B. cARRIFGroE. HOWARD T. HARRINGTON. JOHN B. HARRINGTON, JB.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-23

Eliza, Negro Woman, Seized With R e. I Hgion, Goes or in a Fit of GIory-sThs Angels am Lookia' at Me-
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-11-15

unions. Each federation had its own
leaders, headquarters, and title, some even
rejoicing in a kind of crest or trade mark
which was stamped on its manifestoes.
The leaders at Saone-et-Loire were gener.
ally men of some mark in the socialist
world. aud often speakers at ultra-radical
meetings. Several of the persons arrested
last week and subsequently released
were members of these federations, each
of which appointed a delegate to the
Geneva committee. The working Of the
revolutionary organic ltion was thus
directed to Geneva, whence the delegates
returned, furnished with instructions
which they proplgated among the local
groups Of their districts. Tho PdrLS
supplements its infDrmltiOl with the
following ominous remarks: Thus from
the banks of Lake of Geneva the criminal
leaders of this organization can cause
dynamite explosions to take place stimuli
taneously in all parts of this country.
Neither the principal authors of this ex.
ecrable crime, with which they hope to
terrorize every one nor their Ignorant
accomplices can be arrested. These facts
are proved 1t is for the government TO
act"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-11-15

The Gil EvERDALE MYSrERY.-Or, the
Machine and Its Wheels, A story of
American Life. BY VIM. A. Wilkins,
Editor of the Whitehall On. Y. )TimeS.
Cloth, 500. New. York; Fords, How
ard & hubert.
If the average Amel lean citizen does not
find food for both laughter and serious
reflection in this "Sory of American life"
it will be strange indeed The tale and its
morals are one and the same throughout
"A showing up of the working of our
present '.machine politics." not only
among the politicians and their offices, but
also in the daily life of all who are con-
nected with them, directly and indirectly.
And this is done in a manner most apt
and graphic,
Mr.. wilkins has for years been prom
inent politician in his own part of New
York state and rs an editor and active
committee man has much knowledge of
the intricacie of practical politics. "
His book is entirely bipartisan, however,
and it would puzzle n politician to tell
which party he aimed to portraY-or
which he spares in his caustic though
good humored thrusts. Political workers
Of ovety grade will enjoy his capital
characteristics, his many witty sayings
and skillful hits at "folly as it flies !"
while not only they, but the general read
err will find new cause for sober thought
in this evidence of what Decentralization
and downright immortality is the almost
inevitable outcome of the care 'ssness o
the better citizens, who leave air high
political privileges and dr. es TO the
INSCRIPTIONS manipulatons ID those who
make 1t "trade"-not alonu in the sense
of an occupation for livelihood (Which
might be honorable enough) but in the
lower sense Of unprincipled barter and
sale.
The scenes Of the book are largely in
the lovely Lake George region, and while
'Cleverdale" can hardly be recognized rs
any specific one of the many wide awake
country towns Of central New York, it /,
familiar type, and the originals of tht
characters could be duplicated by hundreds
all over the land. In spite of the unhappy
tradcgy it includes, this is wholesome
attractive, and readable story, which ough
to be, and doubtless will be read by mul
tnudes, who will chuckle over its fun, ant
think twice about its meanings. 1t Il
peculiarly timely at this season Of nomi
nations, campaigns and electi ons, but will
be worth reading Mt any time.
For sale by ii. f. SLAYToN,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-11-15
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Paris Letter.
PARIS, FRANCE, Oct. 80, 1882.

Threatening letters and placards are
now matters of every day occurrence, but
it was a noticeof an unusually bloodthrsty
character which found its way into the
Marscilles dockyard last evening. "Our
brethren are being imprisoned Jour news
papers confiscated, our liberties violated"
began this proclamation, which concluded
thus: president of the republic, ministers,
projects, capitalists, we shall harass you
with steel, with fire, with poison, with
every means of destruction" These
placards, which were in manuscript were
torn down by the police. They were sign
cd Executive Committee" Threatening
letters have also been received by the
mayors of Montceau lesMines and Palm
ges, the latter of whom has been informed
that three houses in the district are to be
destroyed with dynamite in the course OF
few days. In consequence, force Of
one hundred soldiers has been dispatched
to PIlinges, the streets of which arc
pltrolcd night and day. NJ. Dupuy, the
keeper of cafe at Saint Etenne, on the
first floor OF which II republican club is
| installed, has received n letter, stating that
the committee of the Loire anarchists has
decided on blowing up his house unless he
at once shuts his doors on the opportunists.
| nv I l. dat 81,
mcnts will share II similar fate. 1t is
signcd Tho Delegate for the Explosions"
and i, headed Group of Working Men,
District No. 81 with red cross.
1t is clearly established, according to a
detailed statement published in this even
ing's PtriS that the socialist movement at
Montceau-lcs Mines was not u local and
Spontaneous act of tho workmcn, but the
premature commencement ofan extensive
revolutionary rising in all industrial cen
tres of France. A large number OF
papers sliced by the authorities have
enabled them to trace the movement to
its source, and to lay bare the whole Or
canizttion in all its branches. 1t appears
that every N muflcturing town and village
had its revolutionary group, composed
of trusted men whose duty it was to
propagate the instructions of central
committee, which, for prudent reasons,
chose Geneva as its headquarters These
local groups, of which II very largo mum
Der have already been discovered, bore
revolutionary titles, such as Tho Group
of the Sword" The Indign mt "rhe
Group of Revolutionary Suly," etc. 81
ciaist ptper5, printed in large cities,
were gratuitously addressed to and dis
tributed by the members, mostly young
men between eighteen anil twenty-five
years Of are, who took ctre to hide the
real nature of their aims by openly
proclaiming their groups to be mere trades