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Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-18
 RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

new book by our townsman, Henry Howe, author of histories of Virginia Ohio, the Great West, and other works, has just been published by Bradley, Garretson Co.,. Philadelphia. It is large ocsavo of s4S pages with numerous maps and engravings. The title is cover the World. Travels, Ad- ventures and Achievements. It contains stories of travel and travellers, life and death on ths ocean, noted military campaigns. his toric and biographic miscellanies, etc. It has been largely made by compiling, abridg- ing and re writing form great variety of sources, and congresses into single volume the brightest and best things of many vol umes Personal narratives occupy large shArs of the pages and these from most fss cinating kind of literature. Mir. Howe oc. cupiss nearly one hundred pages by two arti- cles ,. written from his personal ex- perienee--one entitled Memories of Walks, Talks and Thoughts in Canada. ? Another article of personal experience is en- titled "Reminiscences of Life in New Eng land Sixty Years Ago, ,'' and it will be found especially Interesting to New Haven people, as the scenes are largely laid here. This part c: the book Is illustrated by fine steel DOT traiks of Noah Webster, Benjamin Silliman, Eli Whitney, and handsome view of the Nev.Hayen Green as 1t was about fifty years ago. It is unnecessary for us to say here anything more of the book farther than to thus announcs it, as Mr. Howe designs per son ally or through agents to canvass the city for subscribers. thus giving our citizsns the opportunity of seeing it for themselves. While the book was going through tho press, he has been occupying his leisure in studying our Green and elms, and the benefits of this labor of love the readers of the CouRIER are now receiving.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-18
INsEouRITIEs.

P
 sGWhy speak of these stocks as asecurf- ties2' asks aBroed street operator; .why not call them insecurities2' ','-New York Conrnercial Advertiser. .azai3 aaia .fss2a
 Darsinian thsoFy-There is . boy In Nor ristown who tsprang from monkey. !" The monkey belonged to an organ grinder, and attempted to bite the boy.
 s.Do you eyer gambler" she asked, as they sat together, her hand held in his. He re- piled, s'No, but if wanted to now would be my tirne" ssHow SO Because hold Q bsautiful hand ," The engagement is an nounced. -Someryille Journal z@3ff e.s4
 4 basso profundo singer has lost his place in Boston choir because his voice breaks. The deacons argued and quoted numerous precedents to prove that when & man is of bis base he ought to be pat ouk-ESee Ma tionaI League Book, page f3, paragraph 21
 It ia said that at a recent Bosten wedding the six ushers were chosen from rejected suitors of the bride. It was grateful act to give the unsuccessful suitors an opportunity to witness the life punishmeut inflicted upon their successful nvaI-Ncfristown Herald. !, A eonvalescent smallpox patient looks in the mirror and exclaims, q used to be thought a pretty nice looking fellow,s but what am good for now2' lsI don't know, 2
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-18

Judge Foraker, the defeated Republican candidate for governor of Ohio, had, it is said, g superstitious dread of the ninth day of October. He told a friend just before the election that he believed he would be elected but for the fact that the election came of on the ninth of October. On this day, when a child, he fell from 8 walnut tree and broke his shoulder blade; on the same date, while a young man, he lost S10o on three-card monte; on the ninth of October, while in the army, he fell off horse and had to go to the hospital for month, and on the ninth of October 1876, he lost an important lawsuit, which had changed the course of his life ever since. The judge will have less respect for the ninth of October than ever before.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

And noH the newspapers all over the coun- try gre again delivering intelligent disquisi tions concerning the Blue Laws Of Oonnecti- out
 We are pained to see that we have painsd our esteemed contemporary the Register by our remarks upen taxation. But we have not accused the assessors of anything indis- eliminate. 5gf4$ a
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replies his sympathetic friend, unless you can be utilized aa thimble. '-Boston Trans

replies his sympathetic friend, unless you can be utilized aa Q thimble r-Boston Trans cript.
 seYes.n the tall thin passenger admitted, ia crying baby is indeed 8 sore trial. But then you must remember that the baby cannot swear, and when 6 human being is being dan dledi up and down on the loose end of two inch safety-pin, it's got to do something, and if 1t can't swear 1t must holler." And the jury was only out two minutes and came in with verdict for defendant nt-Burlington
 Hawkeye.
 The Hampton family have lost by death Ave or six children, but the births are pretty much in the ratio of the deaths, so that the family is far from being childless. few weeks lagos there was another death in the family and the undertakers assistant called
 at the house. A small boy met him at the
 door. 'Is your pa in?" What do you him when the funeral takes place." ''You
 needn't see him then at all if that is all you
 want. I can tell you that. Papa always bur
 ies us at o'clock in the afternoon. ."-Texas Siftings.
 Plantation Philosophy reason dat we thinks dat our mudders could beat everybody cookin' is because we kain't carry de boys sppertite inter ole age. When nay wife says
 'fDoan' yer think ye'd better do so an so?'' I commences ter argy wid her, but when she says 'sGo am do SO and so," hus'les den an dRr. knowed one man what was so good dat he wouldn't pull steer outen de ditch on Sunday. He was afterwards sent ter de pen itentiary fur stealth hoss on Tuesday. It is
 mighty good thing ter be 'dustrious, but too much stirrin' round ain't good fur yer. De pateridge is more ap' ter be seed by de hawk when he's fyin' bout den when he's restin' under de bush -Arkansaw Traveller. PLAY WORDS. -.I ITO be read aloud rspidlyl Assert ten barren love day made Dan wood her hart buy nigh tan dey, Butt, wen knee begged she'd marry hymn The creweIl bell may dancer neigh. Lo alter fee tin vein knee eide Ant holder ofhce offal pane lasSes mown touched knot terse sole Ills grown was sever awl Lynn vane. "Owe, beam my bride my deer, rye prey, And here mice size beef rye dye; Oak caste mean knot tin scorn may weigh Few thee apple love me nighi' She herd Dan new we truly spoke. Key was Of noble berth, and bread Tool lofty mean and hie renown, The air too grate testates, twas head.
 "Ewe wood due better, sir" she bald, 'TTook court sum mother girl, lie wean- Ever knet mice sfilc, lisle never share The thrown domestic azure queani" ''Tis dun, fare butt scilly won Aisle waist know father size on thej" Oft tooth the nay bring porte tea fue And through himself it tooth the seal
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-18

in a soft spot John Quincy Adams, of socorro county, New Mexico, is one of these men. While prospecting recently he found his haversack on fire, his prospector's glass having focused the suns rays upon it. As the haversack contained six pounds of pow der, he dropped it and got out of the way. It fell into crevice, and aIarge mass of rock was blown up. Adams turned mournfulIy to gather up what might be left of his effects and found vein of silver that the explosion had exposed to view.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-18

Oongressmaz Ellis of Louisiana says his party has to take such pains to get 2 presi- dential candidate who can carry the party that 1t cannot think of considering whether he can carry the country, and so gets Jeff with the greatest regularity.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-18

The Worcester Spy thus impressively in diets the hated Butler: Massachusetts has waited. Month after month, with increasing sorrow, shame and humiliation, she has seen the man whom she honored with her choicest gift attack her character, defame her philan- thropy, insult her other servants, use his place for private gain, not for public service, brand her as State inhabited by savages and offered by the corrupt and criminal, and finally she sees him who professes to be her servantS negIscting the duties of the of fee to which he solemnly pledged every hour of his time and traversing her hills and plains with falsehood on his lips and selfish ness in his heart, seeking to get from her by fraud and misrepresentation another indorse- the highest office of the nation
 The French do not mean to forget that the Germans defeated them. It is said that visi tors to Paris, when examining the public monuments may notice an occasional round hole, which the cicerone points at with evi- dent satisfaction. 70 monsieur, there were s dozen such holes, made by the Prussian shells, and we have-stopped eleven of them up, but this twelfth one we never will .6l up, and 1t will remain there until our time will come. This desire to perpetuate the most bitter of all feelings finds an expression on a bronze memorial tablet secured on one of the large greenhouses of the Natural History Museum at Paris. The inscription reads as follows: ''The Jardin des Plantss Medicales, founded at Paris in 1886, by order of the King, which became the Natural History Museum in 1794, was bombarded under the reign of William l. King of Prussia, Count Bismarck, Chancellor, by the Prussian army. in the night of Janu- ary 8, 1871. Until then is had been re- spected by all parties and all national and foreign powers"
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-18

A curious report comes from Washington that the friends of Blaine and Conkling are making combination for next year. Their plan Is to have Blaine made the Republican candidate for President and Conkifng sent sidering the kind of business politics is there is nothing impossible in such an arrange ment, but the people do not show any anxiety to call either of these gentlemen from theil useful and happy retirement.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-18

Opium is forbidden in the Sandwich Islands, but the Chinamen of San Francisco manage to supply their countrymen in the islands with it. The drug brings from $8O to $9O pound, and the smuggling of few hundred pounds makes Chinaman Eich. In numbsrless ways they contrive to introduce 1t. A large safe was consigned to prosper ous merchant. An officer demanded that it be opened. The Chinamau declared that he had forgotten the combination. That night the safe, weighing tour tons, was taken out of the bonded warehouse, csrted away sever al miles, emptied, and left in sugar cane field, where the officers found it the next day, with evidence that it had been erammed with opium. A man had @ contract for wash ing the linen of the Pacific Mail steamers. Hundreds of bundles, each containing a can of opium, was pitched from the steamers deck to the wharf and carted to his laundry. He happened to be sick on one occasion, and his assistant, who was ignorant of the contra. band trade, handled the linen in such a way that an opium can fell out. A great number of sewing machines were sent to Honolulu, and by accident 1t was discovered that the legs were hollow and packed with opium. Opium has been delivered in the islands in fruit cans, the can being divided into three compartments, the tive outside ones filled with fruit and the larger ones with opium. Large quantities have also been shipped to the island in stove wood, each piece of the wood being bored. Masses of coal have done service in the same way
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Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-18

| Robert O. IngsrsoH was asked in Chicago
 what he thought of President Axshur'z
 growth in popular favor. He replied 'I had not observed that he was growing in popular favor. Mr. Arthur is regardsdaas .
 clever man, but he has been Vice President,
 and that's vice the people viii never for give. If he was the best man in the world. doabt if hs could get the nomina4ion.s If
 the jolly infdei has not obssEsed that Presi- dent Arthur is growing in popular favor
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-18

Lucy Stone, Ednah D. Cheney. Mary O. Ames, Susan c. Vogl and other woman sui fraetsts make an appeal to the. voters of Massachusetts to sec to it that the Senators and Representatives they send to, the legisla- ture this fall shall be in favor of municipal suffrage for women. They desirs that some one shall at every nominating oaucus state the case for that measure, in chops that the instinct of fair play will in many cases iafu- snea the voters to make this point in select ing candidates
Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-18

Some men are solacky shat if they should jump out Of a seventh story window with suicidal intent they would be immediately
 saized by strong wind and landed in safety
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-10
Politics and Politicians.

There are too many men who shirk their
duties as citizens. They expect other peo-
pie to relieve them from the performance
OF their duties as members Of the body
polite, though they are active and untlring
in the discharge Of their duties so far as
their private callings are concerned. A
lady on a begging tour was presented with
ten dollars by gentleman of whom she
had asked subscription, who also told
her that he would greatly prefer to
pay much larger sum rather than
do the actual active work OF charity in
which she was then engaged. So we have
known clergyman to extract bank-note
from man by telling him that he must
either contribute the money needed for the
poor whom he (the preacher) was about 10
visit, or else do his duty as a felIow-man of
the INDECENT sufferers 10y visiting them and
III person minstering to their necessities.
There are men OF wealth and intelligence
III every community who take no part in
The performance OF their political duties /:
Who turn the whole matter Of nominating
candidates and inducing good men to run
iof Office over to whoever will volunteer 10
perform those duties Of every good citizen.
ihey contribute neither sncney nor time
10 cause which they nevertheless profess
10 consider the best OF causes. They at.
tend no political meetings, encourage no
public speakers, and pay none Of the OK.
penses OF public demonstrations and vet
though thus shouldering of upon other
persons burdens which they ought
themselves TO carry. they even refuse.
or at least neglect, 10 give OF their
means 10 those who are willing to
work for nothing and lind themselves.
and who need and ask money for none but
the legitimate expenses OF an active and
campaign. At the North, the
rich mcn pay all the expenses of the two
parties. They thus pay for work which
hey are unable or unwilling 10 do them
elves. They don't expect distinguished
awyer or other speaker 10 pay his own ex- !
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-10
The Fourth District.

FARMvMLE, VA, August s, 1898.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
VIII you please call attention to the fact
that the committee for the Fourth district
has appointed no chairman, called no meet
ing, and made no move against the enemy
Hon. |. c. Fowler is going through our
section and making speeches calculated to
do great harm unless replied to promptly.
The people land | mean the ichite people,
are waiting for the committee and Mr..
Barbour. We are losing valuable time.
We cannot afford to allow this. Time IS OF
the essence OF this contract. Please call
attention to it. My dong it would have
no weight, for am an humble member OF
the ranks. and do not expect to be Obeyed.
The announcements OF the Wing this day
appropriates nearly every court-day be-
tween this and election. We must assert
our right. ] went to meet Fowler at Char
otte, and his friends claimed it as heir
ddy The report in the IthiJis all wrong.
Use this as you think best.
Yours truly. K. i. BERKELEY.
Mr.. Berkeley did not write the above let
ter for publication, but we are sure that
his voice will be as potent as would any
body else's.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-10
Personal.

Nine. Adelaide Ristori, the tragedienne,
has announced her intention OF making a
| farewell tour OF America.
Hubert II. Bancroft. the historian OF the
| Pacific coast, works in the midst Of H.
brary Of $4,000 volumes, housed in a brick
building.
Sir Harry Parkes, the Governor Of New
South Wales, and Archibald Forbes, the
noted correspondent. arrived ut San Fran
cisco from Australia on Tuesday.
George Frederick Ernest Albert. second
son Of the Prince OF Wales. and now VISIT
| ing Queen Victoria, is eighteen wears old,
five feet two inches tall, and has fair COM
plexion and light hair.
A Washington Post article on improve
ments in that city mentions Mr. Charles II.
Read, formerly OF Richmond. rs the archl-
feet who is experimenting the construc-
ton OF several elegant residences.
Mrs. Mary Ann Dacomb Scharlieb and
Miss Edith Shore are the first two women
to secure medical and surgical degrees from
an English university. Mrs. Scharlieb is
to go to Madras. and Miss Shore has been
given the medical charge Of the women
working IN the General post-oflice.
The Count de Morcs, OF Dakota. whose
life was recently attempted by desperadoes,
Is thorough practical man OF business.
He has created a small village on his land.
and acts rs judge, ruler, and protector OF
the little community. furnishing it literally
with many OF the necessary adiuncts OF
civilization.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-10
This is from the New York Herald Sar;

This is from the New York Herald Sara
toga gossip:
"Chauncey NJ. Dcpew remarked: James
G. Blaine will be the next President
"'Whv do you think SOP
"'Well. Mr. Blaine has been chasing the
presidency for some time, now the prosi-
dcncy is chasing him."
This is what the late b. ii. BERRY, ST.,
EST, SAID about a brother lawyer-namely.
that he bad been following the law a long
time. but now the law was following him.
Nevertheless, there is modicum OF truth
| in Mr.. DEPEw's remark. Mr.. BLAINE is
now, as he has been for twelve Years, the
popular iavorite in the Republican party.
| He was the strongest man in the Republi-
can National Conventions of 1876 and 1880.
His friends made GARFIELD President OF
the United States, and GARFIELD acknowl.
edged his debt to them by making BLAINE
his premier. At this time BLAINE is the
only man in the Republican party who can
rally all its forces. He is the only Half
Breed who can, il nominated. command
the votes OF the Stalwarts. He is, there.
fore, sought, not by the presidency, as
Mr.. DEPEw says, but may be sought by the
Republican nomination for the presidency.
though Mr.. DEPEw probably considers
these two as one and the same thing.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-10
LOUISA.
LOUISA.
TERRIBLE pRoroHr-ooop PRICES FOR to-
BACC0.

TERRIBLE DROC0Hf-Ooop fh'Io
BkCC0.
fCorrespondence OF the Richmond Dispa.cn.i
AUGUST 8, 1888.
The portions Of Fluvanna,, Goochianu,
Hanover. Caroline, Spotsylvania, ana
Louisa through which have Just Passeu
are suffering from most wIneI,ns
drought. saw large fields OF corn tha'
no amount Of rain could possibly redeem
1t is estimated that the crop OF tobacco,
which requires less rain than corn, Is ma
terialy shortened. Still the nights are
cool and the skies are lead. Indeed, the
drought Is fast reaching the proportions OF
a terrible calamity.
At Andrews, Spotsylyania, L saw
wagon heavily loaded with manganese
which had been taken from mine Just
discovered near that place. The load was
about to be shipped to Philadelphia to be
subjected to an analysis to determine the
percentage OF that valuable material.
Mr.. William james Walton. OF this cour-
ty, sold early in the season his crop OF
tobacco for the following figures 1:
One hogshead at Sl3.2J, one ut Sl4.25, one
at S15.75, one at Sl6.25, one at $3.50, three
at $50, and one at $3.50. In view OF the
fact that this tobacco was not OF the yellow
wrapper variety, but 4 ripe, heavy article
Of a mahogany color, and priced so as 10
make each hogshead heavy one, the sale
is almost unprecedented in Virginia, ana Is
worthy OF record as refuting the growing
fallacy that farming don't pay. ZIP.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-10

A small tin box containing explosive una
terial was thrown In the Vornesc,nsky tue
pect, 81. Petersburg, Tuesday, from ear
rage which was being driven along th'
thoroughfares. The box exploded imne'
diately.
An Illinois family named Hicks recently
went crazy, and were about to nail one Oh
the young children to q wooden Cross
when the neighbors prevented the cruct
fixion. The entire family are In conhne'
ment.
The sum OF $4,000, which remained In
the hands OF the Philadelphia Citizens
Committee for the Aid OF the Sufferers by
fine Floods in the West in the spring, has
been maid TO the local Society for Organiz-
inc Charity. in accordance with the Vote
of the contributors.
Two young men, sons OF senators
George w. Allan and Donald Mclnnes,
Of Ontario. Canada, left Barre in boat
Saturday for camping-ground four miles
distant. on the Kemperfeldt bay. They
have not since been heard from, and are
supposed to have been drowned.
The superstitious Sakhalavas OF NADIA
gascar doom every child born on Friday
to death. They are carried to the nearest
wood, laid in a shallow hole, and left TO die
from exposure. Twins, too, are Killed,
and every infant whose birth has caused
the death of its mother is destroyed, be-
cause. according TO the law OF the Sakha-
layas. it is murderer. And when child
is born at midnight it is customary TO place
il next day upon path by which oxen 90
to water. II the beasts do not touch it on
their way the infants life is saved; but il
a hoof or Il hair brushes ii, no matter how
lightly, the child is slain.