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Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19

Thieves have had extraordinary luck in getting elected to fill the office of State Trea- surer of Tennessee or else the office has pre- scented peculiar temptations to dishonesty Out of five treasurers since 1865, period of seventeen years, four of them have been un- faithful. R. l.. Stanford was the first tres- surer after the war; and during his term of office the State was plundered of the rem nants of her public school fund, which had been preserved through the war. He was succeeded by J. R. Henry. and he by J. E. Rust, and with neither of these officials was the State ever able to secure @ settlement and suffered heavy loss from her treasury, J. E. Rust was succeeded by Morrow, and in 1877 Morrow was succeeded by M. T. Polk, and the treasury was again robbed and plum dered of nearly $5oo,ooo by one in whom the people placed implicit confidence. The people of Tennessee could apparently afford to hire somebody to watch their treasurers-
 One of the most popular and plausible plans for the permanent improvement of the condition of Ireland is to make waste land worth something by reafforesting it. The counties in which distress prevails, in great er or less degree, have 1910, 365 acres that are entered in the Government records under the head of waste, bog, and mountain. Don egal has 5O5,719 acres; Glare, 132, ,224 acres; Galway, 425, 600 acres; Mayo, 576, AIS acres; Sligo, 123, ,027 acres, and Tipperary, 146,37 acres It is estimated that the maximum cost of planting an acre of trees in Ireland is less than $50, and that the yield in forty years will be from $250 to $500. All the estates have plantations, but the acreage is very small in proportion to the amount of waste. MT. Wybrants Olphert. who owns an estate of IS, 133 acres in Donegal, has offered 5000 acres for experiments in reafforesting. The Government is expected to provide the money to carry on the work on an extensive oanfa
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19
Wed To A Tattooed Man.

Marriage of the Bearded Woman-A-
 bfnos, Living Skeletons, Fat nd Beard .
 ed Women and DoubIe-Headed Girls
 Attend a Wedding Dinner, With a Eel
 low Curiosity, in Frankford.
 From the Philadelphia Times.I
 R. R. Mofitt, tattoosd man, and Miss Leo Hernandez, the Spanish bearded lady, |" were married in Frankford yesterday and a large number of noted freaks witnessed the ceremony. The bride has glossy black beard, three inches long, and the groom is as handsome piece of mosaic work as there is in America Miss Leo is 26 years old and her husband has passed 40. His first wife was the ''Russian giantess," 8 800 pound Venus, who died of dyspepsia in Pittsburg in 1880. Before the season ended Mofitt married Circassian beauty of Milesian ex traction. She died last summer, and before the Barnum show concluded it's season the tattooed widower was head over heels in love with the fascinating Spanish bearded Iady." Although bearded, she possessed all the coyness of her sex and MT. Moffitt was compelled to use all the eloquence which once made him famous as 8 side-show ttblower'' to persuade her to accept him. tsOld'' John Geary, the most skillful sword svallower in the country, is the stepfather of Miss Leo and gave her away. Miss Leo wanted to have her beard shaved of in hon. or of the occasion, but MT. Mofitt, who is of a practical turn of mind. opposed it on the ground that she might not be able to raise another crop, in which event her value as 8 ssfreak" would be totally destroyed. MT and Mrs. Mofitt went to New York last evening.
 DINNER OF THE FREAKS.
 After the ceremony MT. Geary, "a freak of fifty years standing, invited twenty or ms most intimate acquaintances home to dlne with him. Mr. Gearys present wife IS pro fessionalIy known as Mile. Cathlene. the skeleton woman" When in showing condi tion she weighs seventy pounds, and, as her husband graphically expressed 1t, there isn't enough meat on her to feed Scotch terriern Now, however, Mile Cathlene is what MT. Geary is pleased to call as fiat as butter and weighs ninety pounds In re, snonse to question about the matrimonial efliances of well known 'tfreaks' MT. Geary said: "Well. the most of 'em marry oppo- sites. only know one case in which fat man married fat woman. There's Hannah and John Battersby. She's the fattest wo- man that ever showed through this country weighs something like 600 pounds and keeps gaining flesh right straight along John, her husband, used to do the living skeleton business, but he got so lean that he couidn
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19

The New England Society for the Suppress sion of Vice is making vigorous attack up on the gambling establishments of Boston. Young men, land clerks in particular" are asked to make known to the authorities the place and owner of any gambling hell
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19

Tue Chu1cdnaGn very properly thinks it is a queer world because while it (the world) pays little or no attention to the prophecies of Scripture, it listens with curiosity, if not confidence, to the boastful guesses of Wig gins, one of the least of it's scientific" pro- phets.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19

The bill introduced by Senator Elton of Waterbury to remedy the inequality existing in the population of two of the four Con gressional districts of this State merits care
 full consideration. The bill proposes the transfer of Middlssex county from this (the Second) district to the Third, which now con
 sists of New London and Windham counties. According to the last census the First district now has population of 149, ,494, the second 1s2. 112, the third 117, ,oo8, and ths fourth 164, ,08e. The transfer of MiddIesex county to the Third district would leave New Haven county alone to constitute the Second dis trict with population of 156, ,623 If this change were made the Third district would
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19
Silks.

SILKS.
 Our stock of Black Silks is at present unusuany worthy the attention of buyers We nsVS JTss u,iE- hieb va nave Seen using for the last two years and the quality of this lot is fully up to tne P c;1L. made in this country we come to the conclusion that Is the best the make that nos 0Iy t ert at f1rat zoht but the most enduring saF S"ction to the wesrer. The entire production is ta sa Hy fw Geg supply have to be given to the manufacturer apoue FIX FIX s ut dsins ase in wehs of to yard also very fortunate in our present st0oH St pIS SIks of which VIC have very Large line, nearly eye ry number being exceptionally well represented n Dy ber Of other less known makes, bought on ther meT whenever could see unusual vaIue @ m any one can outdo us at that but we ho"t stock in New Haven Of that fact any person can to day be convinced by simply looking Neaaher @ oo & Ms s1 ss than sell them at. The merest tyro knows that there ia not that margin in the trade But we 1o say pIe namely that we give the best value in Black Siiks is susceptible proof positive any day in the year, and to-day not less than year,
 In ooiored silks there irregularity of value week we shall give line of the leading colors in silk at 87Hc yard which we believe it will be very hard to match at $1 in any other store.
 New Cloakings.
 We have just opened large purchase of Spring Cloths ana OloaklnRs, AWee0s anu O"oo'AAoAe0' ~o prices are right.
 Housekeeping Goods.
 An uncommonly good choice and good value can now be had from in Bleached and Cream Taole Dannsks with Napkins to match. Foreign and Amer ican Turkey-red Damasks in large variety New pot ted Swiss Muslins, Curtain Muslins and Lace Cur: tains. Cretonnes in great variety. Best quality or Table Oilcloths.
 DOmestics.
 The recent low prices in Cottons are unchanged. Cotton Cloth has not been cheaper since before the war (except 8 short time in 1873 and prices are more likely now to advance than to recede. It is good time for thrifty people to lay in large supply We have . large line of new Prints and Shirtings
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19

The great waste of water is one of the most important evils to be contended with in sup plying cities with that necessity. The water supply of New York is insufficient and not long ago when ?, 7o8 house drains were ex- amined between midnight and B. m, water was found to be running into sewers in 309 drains at the rate of from half 8 gallon to five gallons per minute. Assuming the aver age waste to be 24 gallons per minute, that would account for an hourly waste of 46, 900 gallons, or waste for six hours during the night in these 3o9 cases of PFC, 600 gallons It is supposed that at least fourth of the water brought into New York city is wasted The people of this city, who are very generously supplied with water, waste great deal more than they ought to.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19

More testimony in favor of ''high license. D In Le Claire, Iowa, during the last twelve months the system has worked admirably. During the two preceding years there was nominal prohibition, but the name was dis graced, and the traffic under little CT no con- trol. The best citizens say that prohibition not only did not prohibit, but that it was an utter failure; so much so that at the last two electious the municipal officers were elected without opposition-an pledged to high license.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19
4OufS very IEuIys

E.
 No 2SO Westminster St, Providence, B. L .In the lexicon of youth. etc.. there is no such word as FaifD That s'lexiconr is found in the aboratory of HuNrs REMEDY. It knows such word as EziL fe24 cod
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19

The Boston common council has decided, by 8 vote of thirty-fve to twenty nine, that those members of the city government who eat and drink at the city's expense shall not eat and drink more than three dollars worth at one sitting. This is reasonable restriction upon bad practice.
 If the members of the Board of Public Works who are preventing the election of the man who ought to be elected city engi- neer could hear some of the remarks made about their course they would not be happy. Their action is discreditabls exhibition of partisanship opposed to the best interests of the city.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19

mantically named Red Cloud prepare to be savage is actually accused ot "bumming roundWashinston.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19

have 8 population of 152, 597. We cannot see any good reason why it should not be made.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

What is so rare as day in March-like yesterday, for instance?
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19
1tal Gstxts.

EOR SALEs SAS& One family house, Cedar Hill, Fair Haven six sss rooms, just built, for $1 1850. Small payments EaN will buy it.. house with eight rooms, 1gO Clinton avenue. No. 29 Auburn street. two-famtly house and barn will sell 1t cheap$5O0 cash and bal nnce can remain mortgage. would Ike some houses to rent and take charge of
 have for sale a top-grocery wagon in good order' Price $60. A. M. H0LMESs
 69Ohurch Street, Room 9. Reaidence laO Clinton a7anna. oc1o
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19
Saved his Child.
IT N. .Eutaw St., Baltil

IT N. -Eutaw St., Baltimore, Md.
 Feb. IF, 1880.
 Gents Upon the rccommenda- ton of a friend I tried BROWNS IRON BITTERS as tonic and re- storative for my daughter, whom 1 was thoroughly convinced was wasting away with Consumption. Having lost three daughters by the terrible disease, under the care of eminent physicians, was 10th to believe that anything could arrest the progress of the disease, but, to my great surprise, before my daugh- ter had taken one bottle of BROWNS IRON BITrERs, she began to mend and now is quite restored to former health. A fifth daughter began to show signs of Consumption, and when the physician was consulted he quickly said 'Tonics were re- quired :" and when informed that the elder sister was taking BROWNS IRON BITTERS, responded "that is a good tonic, take 1t.
 ADoRAM PHELPS. BROWNS IRON BITTERs effectual- ly cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Weakness, and renders the greatest relief and benefit to persons suffering from such wasting diseases as Con- sumption, Kidney Complaints, etc.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19
New and SGCOld- Hand FURNITURE! ! CARPETS

Black Walnut and Painted Chamber Suites, ParlOr Sets in reps and raw silk, Book. cNses. Desks, Mirrors, Buff fets, Efageres, Lace and
 HI avy Curt aims, Easy Chairs, Lounges, Extension Tables, Hair and other Mat fresses, Feather Pillows, Carr cts, etc., all at special bargains Rt New York Auc- ton Rooms. A5as and 452 Rtata street.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19

PATENTs PROCURED OR NO PAY, Also Trade Marks etc. Send Model and Sketch. VIII examine and report it if patentabs May yeart' practice. Pamphlet free. N W FITZGERALD & co, Patent Attorneys, Washington, D c.
 ms eod&w Inn for Soldiers Widows Parents, ChiL TEWSIUN0 dren. Any disease, wound, injury death entities. Increases bounties; back pay dis charges Procnrea. Desertion removed; fees; Siv. Co.,, Pension Attorneys. Warrington, D. 0.
 .rT m5 eod&Y I'm
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19

The recent low prices in cottons are unchanged: war (except for short time in 1873 and prices are more likely now to advance than to recede: , is a We have . large line of new Prints and shirtings.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-19

Marriage of the Bearded Woman-Al- bfnOs, Living Skeletons, Fat \ nd BeR rd . ed Women and DoubIe-Headed Girls Attend a Wedding Dinner, With a Eel low Curiosity, in Frankford.
, 1883-06-16
T~leSraphle MelaHse.

The boss land -grabber Of the a.e Is 81.
Louis lawyer who is instituting proceedings
- secure a tract OF land in Arizona Of 800
square leagues, or 200 square miles Of land
along the Gila river and running back almost
into Nevada.
The Chinese are getting hot IN the collar
with France, which country is proceeding
to invade its territory, The Cinnamon are
pretty well heeled and are liable to make
things lively for the Frenchmen
Bismarck outdid all the otter towns in
Dakota for the capital of the Territory The
citizens are TO pay $780, 900 cash and will
give anything else the capital committee
may require.
At the Republican convention for the
nomination Of Governor tor Ohio, Judge
Foraker was the nominee. Senator Sherman
could have received it, but he would say
frankly and firmly that he could not be a
candidate he could not surrender his duties
in the Senate in Justice to the psople Of Ohio
and the country. Aside from that he could
not accept the nomination without feelings
OF personal 6ishonor.
Some Of tie people OF Spokane county
must be badly scared from the manner in
which they send to Olympia for arms. They
must evidently be getting up q shooting
match fox the Fourth os July and want am
mlnitiOn.
TIE President has appointed Benjamin
Butterworth OF 0nio, VIM. A. Patten OF
New York. and Charles L. Perkins of New
York. a commission to examine seventy-five
miles of the Northern Pacific railroad in
Montana, fifty miles OF the same read ex-
tending westward on the Yellowstone divi-
sion, and twenty-five miles extending esst-
ward in Missouls.
General Crooks expedition is becoming
very interesting as day after day goes by
and nothing has yet beea heard OF him. the
only thing certain Is that he Is having q very
rough time, for the country is very rugged
and water difficult to obtain
At SOnoma, California, the thermometer
registered l09' in the shade on Wednesday
las.
, 1883-06-16
Heath District.

We hsye received from Heath District,
Washington county, Idaho, some verT 6Ge
samples Of the different ores Of thst highly
mineralized locality. Thr rock is from the
Belmont Mine. owned by James Ru,n, and
is full of chloride. That from the "Green-
horn is also rich, bat more OF a blue sui.
phrret character. Some iron ore sent is ev-
identity cap to richer deposits beneath.
The district was discovered in 1873 by
James Ruth and Tom Heath, who located
the belmont" .'Greenhorn" and other
lodges which have been worked sSer since.
The ledges are IN posphyry and syenits and
aud sometimes slate OF lime but the
formation is the best for rich deposits OF ore
We are acquainted with. The miners there
have proved the richness oi their lodges and
now it only remains for capital to take hoid
and work them judiciously to prove the dis
trict one of the richest III the country. John
Atwell l''ScottY" , will please accept our
thanks for the specimens sent Us.
, 1883-06-16
CRu.hi nj Last

Leonard yogler says the S?rague HcTG!6
o. the 1t INST, vas arrested las. evening
On the charge of furnishing liquor TO Indians,
also for hen ling ii without iIceuse. NOgler
lead ru.Isy - both charges, and Was fined
SlOO or the first. and $50 on the second
chsre-. L. DIAN; OF payment ne was re-
mtnded to jail.
Tor Ike fast zen day, there has been more
or less drunkenness among the Indians about
town. snd u ,:iscoye. how they obtained
whisky h.> tafficd the most alert, until IN
this instance. Nr. E-,eison caught Nogler in
the act. Vcgier bought several bottles Of
whiskey during the day AZ Et:elson's place,
the Quantity aroasIng a suspicion that all
MSS not right. NhereupOn E;teison marked
the last hottie and followed the man 10 his
cabin. Soon an Indisn was seen go.ng from
the cabin. and On eng searched the identi-
cal bottle vas found, which lead to VogIer's
arrest sui convection. The United States
s.a,Etss makes this crime punishable with a
term ii the penitentisry.
A. The last terri, Of court Juige Wingard
s.ute,cei 8 half-b to the penitentisry
IA. two years for his first offense, with the
r-mark that he was lenient toward him on
account Of his being haif-breed.
, 1883-06-16
Valuable Horse Recovered.

Nearly one year anG hall ago, Mr.. Chas.
Lee, OF Lee & Adams, in this city. lost
valuable Milton Medium s. year old colt. The
animal was supposed to be somewhere In the
Touchet hills, although every effort was
made 10 recover the same. Mr.. Lee had
abou. gwen the animal up fOr sone, and tie
occurrence all but passed from his mind,
when yesterday morning Mr.. Wm. Huckle-
bone called a. the stable with the colt. snd
turned him over to his rightiui owner. The
horse is valued st SGDa by Mr. Lrs, snd of
course his recovery vas considered quite a
windfa! Mr. HuchlcbVne received $50 for
his trouble. and sass he found the colt wan
dering In the hills. II IS thought that ne
was kept by some person who anticipated re-
ceiviog large reward Tor his return
, 1883-06-16
Ae@aitted.


Last nigh. Officer Ames arrested soldier
named Presner for having ia MS possession
SIC silver watch, etoteu irota citizen in
this city Presner claimed that he bought
the watch FROM brother soldier named
Winslow, and this morning Judge Whitman
had the latter up fOr examination. Wins
low stated that he wss in toe saloon kept
by Chas. Rose, and got iato poker game
duriog which his opponent put up the siore-
said watch and lost it. Wns!ow upon ar
irving at his quarters soli the tlme-keeper
to Presner, and seemed highly elated at his
good luck
His Honor asked WinsIow what Kind o, 6
looking man his opponent in TIE game vac.
WinsIow sad he Wore kind OF gray suit.
had 3 heavy mustache, ard, with = signifi
cant look at Prosecuting Attorney Thomp-
son, stated that De Wore broad brimned
black hat. George imm mcdistely clatched his
sonbrero aud lid il underneath the table.
After hearing sl the testimony his Honor
discharged the prisoner, FIRST admonishing
him to be careful hereafter, and patrOnize
tie reading room insteat .; saloons.
IL was eoncl1sively shown that the soldier
had come by the watch honestly. snd was
in no wise cognizant Of the theft.
, 1883-06-16

The arrival of Ii Hung Chang 9,
Shsnghai, with a visw to taking command
i the Chinese troops on the Tonquin
border, indieatea the growing seriousness
of TIE Iudo-Chlnese problem. With the
hoaiaarimea, of Majunga by Admiral
Pierre. the sdvance Of Col Desbordes on
the left bank Of the Niger, the Perform
ances If De Brazza aud the Saegitsire on
the Congo, and the recent engagements
in AMMAN France in four placer at once
shows a disposition TO win back that
prestige aud thst shsre OF the world's at
tent,on for her military prowess which
the events Of dozen years ago 80 largely
for cited Africs and Asia seem to fur
nish hez . ssld for military adventure
shich E-rora zouid Rat; "a; it locks
ncg ss /; ,;se ststaeai:.slip would be
required 30 50 conduct the movements in
iisrsr- i.Dds as Dot 10 BRING the republic
into troubls With the ws;chful nstions
aroa d her The Annsg, has,iii.ies, for
examp'e, Il they led .c WAT With China.
mu,t excite Ensi.sh fesrs for the block.
adrng o. 10 Cr:a,sc ror5s and tho conse-
qu,ut check of irste The actioa of
Fc.nce liz Madagascar is likely 10 arouse
the distrast not IN os England, but Of
Germany; while the Conduct cf De Braz
u on the Congo seems to satxgon &c
FrIacs with Belgium snd ali the other
pJwers that are hacking Stanley snd the
ip:. stiDaai African Society.
, 1883-06-16
The zesHit oi Mixed Marriages.

As che means Of protecting itself from
losing any Of lis members the Catholic
church has always discouraged mixed
marriages. Ga this subiee. the San
Francisco Monitor says The warning
Voice of Tive church, her prela,es and her
priesthood, as well as the admonirion Of
many Catholic parents, seems to be lust
upon the ear Of young meu and women in
our day. Catholic girls marry non Cath
olic men under the hallucin,ion thai rhev
can convert them by their example and
condescension. This is done sometimes.
hut for every non-Caiholic converted by
his wife, a, least forty nine Others are not
So successful. In the same way Catholic
young men get sp!Iced by Protestant
preacher or justice Of the peace to some
non-Cs,holic girl, and if he ha. any faith
left he fiitters himself that after while
she will come round and go 10 church
with him. But how many times does 1t
not occur that the woman tempts the
raan-even as Eve did Adam-and they
both march off to the meeting touse Of
the Methodist or the free library of The
Episcopalians. Such lambs led to the
slaughter rarely, if ever, become out
and-out Protes,ants, but they are lost to
the church all the same, and II Is only
through a miraculous manifestation OF
The merry of God, through The prayers Of
a p!ous CaIhol c parent or relative, that
snch souls are saced from eternal punish
mem.
Father Louis D. GsilIy Of Newark, o q,
m. done what many priest might 90 with
pr d, by Preaching slrmon Il, m the
mar. iage register 1t the parish where hr
TAI laboIed for ten years. IL recent
sermon III S pliest t"ld hi. congr, CATION
hat in ten years he had performed l23
marriages OF these 6fiy SIX wrIe mixed
marriages proportion Cf nearly one
half. Now, said he, as true affection
between ,flan and wife must not bs limited
10 this mortal lite, but extend beyond the
grave, ID doubt the Catholic p,rties iu-
dalged the hope that the nol-CatholIc
parties woaif hs cnVerted ana their
union become indissol1bie in this life and
in the next, and | give all credit ior that
good intention, but how has il succeeded
how many conversions have been made
out of hffy-s!, attempsi Just exactly
three On the other side, how many, TO
my knowledge, have become perTerrs or
apostates 10 the CHURCH, t. my own
knowled .e have to lament over the loss
Of eight among those tify-six, without
speaking of those who, moving to other
towns, may have fallen into the same mis-
fortune; ii is time, beloved brethren, that
a stop should be pui 10 the frequency OF
these marriages for which the Right Rev
erend Bishop cannot give diSpensatlon
unless a good cause be alleged.