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Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-26
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Stock in The London and Westminster Investment Company of Ontario, organized to conduct business in the United States and Canada offered for sub scription at Par, in amounts to suit investors. Shares $50 each, payable in instalments of S5 per share, per month. in full at time of subscription The business to be carried in the United States ia the purchase, inuest0ent of agricultural pro. ducts whenever the market price reaches low level Being able to for what is bought no loss can cur. Although prohts may not be as large as on speculation, they more certain. large advance in wheat expected. Special telegraphic communica- ton with leading markets. Address st once for ful particulars, the Managing Director, EDWARD LE- RUBY, LONDON, CANADA.
 IVY TO TAKE QUE NEW Fan w cy work at their homes, in city or country and earn $6 to $12 per week. making goods for our Fall and Winter trade. Send l5c. for sanple and particulars HUDSON MEG CO ,265 Sixth Ave NY Nn ONEY TO LEND IN CITY OR COUN- I'VE TRY, in sums not less than $500, at per cent interest," upon personal and other securty for three years and upwards. Also large sums on mort gage, At per cent. Apply to n. WOOD. 322 East 120th Street, New York City.
 MAI BOUGHT IRON BUILDINGs, w ROOFS, SHUTTERS, DOORS, PARTITIONS, AWNINGS,
 FLOORS, CoRNICEs,
 CORRUGATED AND ORIMPED
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-26

R6glstfars' Meeting. NNHE Registrars of the respective voting districts u of the Town of New Haven will bs in session on Wednesday. the 24th day of October, 1883, and on Friday, the 26th day Of October, 1883, from Il a. m till p. for the purpose revising and correcting the list of electors The place of meeting in the eral wards is follows:
 First Ward-R II. Hooker's Real Estate ohice Mo- "A Church street.
 Second Ward-oatmans Joiner Shop, No. IS Park street.
 Third Ward-Ofice of William F. French corner Congress avenue and George street. Fourth Ward-Barber Shop, Mo- 276 West Water street.
 Fifth Ward Pagster's Cigar Store, No. s05< Chapel street.
 Sixth ward-wilham E. Coolidge's Store, corner Greene and Wallace streets.
 Seventh Ward-At s. Sinner & Sons Carriage Shop No. 203 Grand street.
 Eighth Ward William Geary's Store, corner State and Clark streets
 Ninth Ward-J. T. Benhams Feed Store, No. 25 Broadway.
 Tenth ward-Engine House, corner Park and Elm streets.
 Eleventh ward-No.s1 Ferry street, corner of Pier pont street.
 Twelfth ward-No. 37 Clay street.
 Thirteenth Ward-Ofice of the Diamond Match Co.,, Westville.
 Fourteenth ward-C ". Heningway's store, East Grand street. Fifteenth Ward-Jonathan N. Rowes store, Water side. -
 WILLIAM O'KERFE,( oD,., oc20 Ct E. F. MERRILL. Aomn neeAsGr1rs'
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-26
A Sensible Man Would Use

Kemp's BaIsam for the Throat and Lungs. It is curing more cases of Coughs, Colds, Asth- ms, Bronchitis, Group, and all Throat and Lung troubles, than any other medicine. The propri- etor has authorized R. Wells&Co., ,314 State St., to refund your moneyif, after taking f of bot tie, relief is not obtained. Price 50 cents and $E Samples free. my14eod1y
 Chapped Hands, Face, Pfmples, and rough skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by Cas- well, Hazard Co.,, New York ma W&F.
 Mensman's PePtOn1zed Beef Tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nutr
 tious properties. It contains blood making, force generating and Ifesustaining properties invaluable for Indigestion, DVsp sia, nervous prostra- tien and all forms of general debility also in all feebed conditions whether the result of exhaustion, prostration, overwork acute disease. par ticularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard Co, proprietore. New York. Sold by druggiats. ma W&F
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-26
CARRIAGES

offer for the next ninety days, terms net cash,
 Brewster Side Bar Leather Top Piano Buggies for the low price of @1Z6.
 Corning Side Bar, Leather Top, S136.
 White Chapel Side Bar. Leather Top, for $136.
 Village Carts for &8O.
 Phat0ns for $16O.
 This M work of my own make consequently very relianle. It is modern in style and improvement and sg1table for family or livery uee. have also TOP AND NO TOP BEACH WAGONS, and 6 large variety of styles nntehed and in process of hnishng which would be glad to exchange for cash at . very low price. you wish to purchase call and examine for yourself ta ~
 STEPHEN M. WHERE'S. No. 40 Elm Street. je1 if NEW HAVEN CONN
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-26

HouSaI0RlC ssallTOad. SUMMER ENHANCEMENT. IN EFFECT
 JUNE 25, 1883. Through Cars Between Bridgeport
 and Albany. Shortest, Quickest and Cheapest Route for AIbanys TrOys Sar-
 aEOg8 and the Vest
 PASSENGEK TRAINS Leave BRIDGEPORT for ALBANY, TROY, 6ARATO- GA and the WEST, 10:05 a 10. (connecttng with 9:S0 8. nn. train fFor7 EeW Havenl WITH THROUGH CAR FOR ALBANY, aFEiv. jag a$ 2:40 r. Connecting at Albany with SIC P Ohicags Express, arriving in Ohie- E9o st 800 She EBzs p.a. Arrives ss Saratoga at 4:28 ?. rl,
 Lssea BRIDGEPORT at S.S0 P. "a. (connsoting with 4:20 pam. Train from New HAvenl arriving in Albany at 1e:e5 ?. D., Saratoga 12:52 .. m. RstuHning Train leaves Pitts0ed at 800 n, Etase Line at 8:So E.. na., Albany at 6:46 a. m. (with THROUGH CAR via State Line) arriving in Bridgeport &t l2:15 p. m., New Haven at 1:16. n hRcugh TicSsta sold and Baggage CheckHd direct to and from New Haven, sPiffsheld and Ill Hous- asonic ssztong North Adsrna Albany, Troy and SaRa s0gs.
 F. D. AVERILL, General Ticket Agent.
 ". II. YEoMANs, Superintendent. sIaueraY OT5eea. 8FsHnannrf. CpuD.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-26

O. N Crittenton. Sole Wholesale Agent for Dr. O. W. Benson's Remedies, 115 Fulton St., New York.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-26

Frank Robinson, New Haven, blk. 2. Major. T l McGrath BrotherB, Waterbury. b. ID. Belle of
 MAtefD0fy- -....-.-..1 ,. L, Lyon, New Haven, br. m. Daisy TFunl-
 bull-- .0 5 A. Hopkins, Birmingham, !. 2; Toronto chief.4
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-26

Frank Robinson, New Haven, b. g. Frank R. I E. 0. Wixon. Huntington, blk. 6. Wonder. ..2 2 John Tyler, Bridgeport, b. h. Samuel C.......4 John Hurd stratford, b. g. Professor Me
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-28

tenner that I can take an ld-fashioned tin candlestick and hold up the best stage load that ever came over the mountains. The driver is generally as badly frightened as any of them. He is always looking out for agents, and he sees them behind every bush. have robbed stages all alone, and made drivers and passengers give up their arms, their watches and money, and then dance for me. They thought had any number of pards back in the rocks, and they didn't dare say peep Well, of course, that's the great advantage we have in our business. We scare them to begin with, and then they see everything double. One man is just as good as fifty in this line. He don't need to be a hero, either. He just wants 8 little nerve and an imperious air. If I had always worked alone I'd have been a rich man to-day, and I wouldn't be here either. made my great mistake when I commenced working in partnership. It will ruin any man in my profession. If I ever get out of this scrape I'm going to jump the country. The business isn't what it used to be years ago. It's too easy. It makes me sick sometimes when I think of the tenderfeet I've robbed. l ought to have gone into the train racket long before this"
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-28
FORTUNES OUT OF THE EARTH.
AlbRny Furnishing the Sand for Millions of
 MOIds.

A large proportion of the molding United States is dug out of the hills of Albany county. It is said that every thing in soluble metal, from Krupp gun to 8 heel plate for a lady's shoe, has been cast in Albany sand. Quantities of it have been exported as ballast. The annual shipment of sand obtained here abouts from this city is estimated at from 5000 to 100000 tons, the price paid for it, delivered on board the cars or boats, being about $1.25 per ton, making business involving an annual revenue of $10O,OO0 Two-thirds of the whole product goes out of Albany by water, the sloops which bring stone and lumber to this port usually returning with cargo of sand. There is a demand for the sand which can scarcely be SUD- piled, the beds in other sections of the country from which the consumers have drawn for years having become ex- hausted. The sand excavated in Albany has, too, reputation which no other possesses. It has what holders call @ ''life," quality which adapts itself to all climates and conditions. It is also cleaner and finer than most other sands. Castings turned out of it need compara- lively little dressing.
 It is found below the surface usually, at the depth of three or four feet. It lies in strata averaging from two to eight inches in thickness, one above the other. Property on which sand veins are known to exist sells at from $125 to $500 per acre. The soil after the sand is removed does not depreciate for agricultural uses. Dealers more fre- quently buy the privilege of excavating the sand at stipulated price, leaving the owner the property really undis- turbed at the end. The process of re. moving the sand is very simple. Section by section the sand is taken out from beneath the superficial soil, which is then allowed to drop until the whole field has been lowered to depth core spending to the thickness of the layers of soil. The sand diggers extract the material as dexterously as 8 clever boy will scoop the apples out of the crust of pie. Hundreds and hundreds of acres in this county have undergone this pro- cess without apparent injury to the value of the land for other purposes Albany Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-28
The Fighting in Egypt.

The London Standards Cairo corre- spondent says that the latest official &C., counts of the fighting at Toka state that the Egyptians lost II officers and 142 men, besides Turks and several Greeks. They also lost 1 gun and 300 rifles. About three hundred and forty of them regained their ship. The Egyp- tians during the fight formed hollow square, when small number of the enemy locked their shields together and rushed through the Egyptian line. All immediate panic among the Egyptians resulted. It is doubtful If black troops can be spared from Massowah, which is in the same critical position as Suakin. The British gunboat Ranger has been l ordered from Alden to Suakin.
 The London ISnaes, in 8 leading article, concludes that the continued presence of 8 substantial English gar rison in Egypt is essential to the inter Iests Of civilization.
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-28
He Was Too Late.

Among the passengers on the train over the Lansing road tue other day was an old man with 8 sore eye and squeaky voice and stiff neck. The train had scarcely left the capital city when he caught the conductors arm, and asked if the next station was Livonia.
 sNo, sir; Livonia is fifty miles down the road" was the reply.
 At Okemos the old gent asked the same question, and received about the same reply. At Williamstown he ap- pealed to the passengers and refusing to be convinced he pushed his head out of the window and lost his hat. As the brakeman announced .Fowlerville the old man suddenly stood up and asked:
 s'Did I understand you to say Lii vonia? ?"
 "No, sir; Livonia is still beyond" was the reply.
 He doubted it, and going out on the platform he got cinder in the well eye and was presently unable to see at all. A kind-hearted man lent him handker- chief; and when the train reached How | ell he was able to run down the conduc- tor and repeat his former inquiry.
 "No, sir-no, sir p sharply replied the official -''Livonia is still further on. Is your ticket for Livonia?'
 "No; I'm going beyand.''
 "Then what are you so anxious about ?'
 "Wall, the last time I come through Livonia there was a little red-headet man behind pile of slaves with clut in his hand, and jist around the corne of 8 pile of shingles was big bald headed man with 8 rock in his fist They was daring each other to come out but the train hustled along before thu climax come. was kinder thinking you know-that is, was kinder in hope! that by the time we got there this morn ing the little red-head would have go his lander up huff to sail in.
 "How long ago was this ?'
 "'Bout six weeks"
 "You'd better go off and soak you head i" snapped the official as he walke' away.
 "Yes, maybe had," sighed the ol' man as he sat down. 'sI'd do it in mint if knew 'twould help my eyes We're gittin' clus down to Livonia now and the way my eyes are couldn't tel red-head from bald.head nor make ou who was on top. wonder where tn soakin' place is on this car. .'-Detro Free Press.
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-28
He Had Been "Out Vest"

I had supposed that the far West was a new Garden of Eden, and that one had but to venture there to gain the wealth of Monte Cristo. I met at the Union station man whom l imagined was by this time 8 bonanza king, as he went Westward years ago. But if he is a nabob he is travelling incog., and his conversation is not calculated to stimu- late Western excursions. He wore a shabby ulster, long hair and pensive, searching expression of sympathy. He greeted me as an old acquaintance at once.
 "Well," queried, Chow do you like the West ?"
 ''I like it just well enough" said he, 'to remain in the East the remainder oi my days. I tell you, the East is good enough for any man who hasn't life and death dispute with the law on hand In the East man above the average ir smartness can get along; but go West and you find no drones. Every man you meet is on the dead run for wealth and you must stay up late, rise up early and bolt your meals to keep up with tho stragglers in the procession. Therei lots of money West, and big wages. have just come from Colorado, where got $1O a day for driving mule team But"
 "That is very good salary for tha kind of labor ?"
 ooh! it is, is it? We'll, you go ou there and see. Why, my friend, hay paid $1.50 for 8 cup of coffee, $2.75 fo a glass of beer, and $4 for horn handles jack knife with one blade. I have bee in the mountains with party when chew of tobacco was put up at raff1e at dollar chance, and if the winne of the tobacco finally got away with ii he had to dodge the contents of the re volvers of the party and keep out ( sight for week. Talk about the Wes to mel It is good place to die in; bu I propose to live from this time ou where the sun rises early, and there Tho corner on the luxuries of life r'
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-28
A Chinese Protest.
AN INDIGNANT PROTEST AGAINST THE
 ACTION OF FRANCE.

The Chinese governm ent has ad- dressed circular letter relative to An nam to all foreign powers. The text of that document, recently delivered to Mir. Frel;nghuysen, the Secretary of State, by the Minister of China at Wash ington, is as follows
 Annam has been dependent State to the Ia Tsing dynasty for more than two hundred years, the ruler of the former sending tribute to the latter and receiving from the latter his investiture. Some twenty years ago, when the north ern portion of Annam was disturbed by rebels, the Ia Tsing dynasty sent troops across the frontier to quell and disperse them. This occupied space of up- ward of ten years and cost the govern ment many millions of dollars in order to strenuously protect and defend the government of Annam. Now France invades that country without cause, and, availing herself of the opportunity of the death of its king, has enforced the Hue treaty, in which there is 8 provision that "China must not interfere with the government of Annam." This shows that France refuses to recognize Annam as vassal to China. The foreign powers from these facts can with equity distinguish which government is in the wrong and which is in the right.
 If France desires to maintain friendly relations with China, why should we not discuss the matter amicably? If she in- sists upon invading the northern part of Annam, where our troops are stationed, this indicates that she is determined tc break the friendly tie, and our troops there cannot remain with folded arms, but must meet them in the field.
 We, therefore, send this communica tion to all foreign powers, showing tha' in the event of the friendly tie being broken the cause of the rupture doe' not come from China.
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-28
ssWhen His Heart ThaWed Out"

One day two or three years ago gruff old man, hard-hearted and given to drink, and living alone in @ house on Gratiot street, found crippled boy nine or ten years of age crying in front of his door. It was his way to curse children and drive them away, bnt in this in- stance he spoke kindly to the lad, and even sympathized with him. For that once his hardened heart seemed to thaw out, and men who noticed his kind &C., tion wondered greatly.
 By and by the crippled boy, known as Jakie, seemed to grow into the old mans heart and spent hours with him at his house. He was, so far as any one could remember, the first and only hu. man being to say kind word for gruff old Ben.
 When the old man fell sick few weeks ago nobody missed him for sev- eral days. Indeed, no one cared much whether he was sick or well, but some one interested himself enough to dis cover that the sick man was being nursed.b by the cripple. The days and nights must have been terrible lone some to the lad, but he was faithful to the last. The other morning he quietly announced to the neighbors that old Ben was dead. Those who went in ound the rooms ill neat order, the dead man lying as if asleep, and the money
 to bury him was safe in an old wallet il
 the bureau. When they asked Jakie
 about it he explained:
 "He died as easy as a baby. 'Lone
 at first he used to curse and swear about
 his sickness, but after while he let me
 read the Bible to him, and sometimes
 saw tears in his eyes.
 "Folks thought him hard man."
 "But he wasn't. When his heart
 thawed out he was like 8 child. One
 day I brought him from the chest lot
 of old letters, the photograph of wo man and baby, and he cried over them
 I guess they were dead, and I guess h' had lots of trouble"
 "Did he die easy?"
 "Just like going to sleep" answered the lad. 'It was just at daylight. sat by the bed and had fallen asleel when he put out his hand and whispered 'Jakie, I'm dying With that jumpe'
 up to do something, but he said it wa too late. There was great change il him. All the hardness had gone out o his face, his eyes had kind look, 'an' the boys who used to be afraid of hin 3 wouldn't have known him for the sam l man. Twas reading to him from the ol' Bible when all at once his fingers let g of my hand and he was dead" "And then ?"
 The boy turned away and wept. From the day gruff old Ben had ad dressed him kind word the prayers ( child pleading for wicked man Ina 8 been heard in Heaven. He had praye e for him in life and after death, and 7 the prayer had not brought that peace s full look to the white, dead face, wha Il else could have done it M. QUAD.
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-28
Marrying and Backing Boots.

American girls who marry foreign ad- venturers are much in the same position as men who buy mining claims with their eyes shut. They must trust to luck for the yield and sometimes for the title, and they ought not to be surprised if they get dirt instead of gold dust and pieces of stone in place of nuggets.
 A mine worth owning is never sold for song. A husband worth marrying never makes market of his title.
 But when fool with money buys 8 mine in the dark he has no right to grumble if he finds himself swindled. When girl sells herself for the sake of wearing limsy handle to her name she ought not to cry if she finds herself welded to a worthless vagabond. For eigners who travel on their shape and title to pick up rich wife are never any, thing but worthless vagabonds.
 It appears from the record of theState Department that some of our American girls who have been traded off by their parents or who have sold themselves to titled vagabonds in Germany are having an unpleasant awakening from their dream of bliss. They find themselves but little better than drudges in their foreign homes. Housework, cooking and even washing. to say nothing of patching and mending, are expected of them. Some of them submit. Per haps they have no preference between acquiescence and beating. But there is limit to all things, and submission stops at blacking boots.
 When an American girl who has been thus disposed of in the foreign market is required to black the boots of her lord and master, her spirit rebels, and she throws the brush and the blacking-box in his face.
 But why object to that particular do- nestle employment A girl who black ems womanly self-respect by marrying a foreign rapscallion with 8 title to his name and not dollar in his pocket, ought not to mind backing boots. The occupation is not dishonorable one. There are bootblacks in our hotels and on our streets with more manly and hon. ofable instincts than these foreign scamps ever dreamed of possessing. A girl who sells herself or allows herself to be sold for title without love ol affection, sacrifices the best attributes oi womanhood. What has she right tc expect except a cold, calculating life. full of frivolity or of abuse?
 Better thousand times that she should black the boots of 8 true mar without wealth, but with love and honor than live life of casa with cold, dead heart in her bosom and worthless foreign vagabond at her side. Better rear the children of an honorable man even as bootblacks, than to go through life, unloved, in misery for a beggarly and dishonored title.
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-28

So engrossed was the william with his treacherous work that he never lifted his head to look around him, but even had he been less preoccupied he would scarcely have heard the noiseless footfall of one who had been tracking the tiger and the antelope through their native jungles ever since he was ten years old. The rogue was still quite unsuspicious of harm, when tall, shadowy figure rose behind him as suddenly as if it had started up through the earth, and a tremendous blow from heavy bamboo club falling upon his bowed head like a thunderbolt, felled him senseless to the earth.
 That very night the crestfallen robber was sent off to the nearest British sta tion, escorted by strong guard of na- tive policemen, to be tried and executed, as he deserved, while Ismail received from the hands of the Commissioner himself, together with warm commen- dation of his shrewdness, the thousand rupees which he had so well earned.- Our Continent.
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-28
Eating.

Edward Payson Weston, the pedes- trian, is in the habit, by his own ac- count, of giving wholesome advice to the British ristocracy about their diet. He occasionally dimes at the tables of the great, and makes comments on the viands somewhat in this style:
 A young lady who sat next to him, and to whom he was a perfect stranger, expressed desire for beef well done.
 "Excuse me, Miss, but you'll get no more nourishment out of that than out of chips and shavings."
 MT. Weston is not without hopes that he will eventually reform the dinners oi the peerage, and persuade "our old nobility" that half-cooked meat, and 8 walk of 500 miles in 100 days make the summit of human bliss.