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Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-17
The shell Fish Commissioners.


 The Shell Fish Commissioners were in ses- sion yesterday morning. Attorney Levi Warner, of Norwalk, appeared and asked them not to pass upon the question of the boundaries of the natural beds off Five Mile river, Darien, until case before the Supreme court involving the same matter had been de- cided. Applications for the mapping out of these beds have already been made to the hearing on the matter at Darien to morrow, They do not expect that there will be any conflict between their conclusions and the de- cision of the Supreme court.
 Charles P. Hull applied some time ago for a tract of round of Southport, a part of which had been previously shelled by Samuel Durrier. The latter has piece of land near by and says he supposed that the outside district shelled was part of it. He is un- of his work, and the commission have post poned issuing to the latter deed in the hope that the parties would take their advice and come to some fair settlement Yester- day morning they voted to give Mir. Hull his deed August 1st, provided he and Curri- CT did not reach an agreement by that date.
 Deeds were issued as follows: William Crow and John s. L'Hommedieu, 83 acres in Westport; Thomas E. Losee, 38 acres in Da- rien; William A. Wilmott ir., and l. H. Wilmott, 29 acres in Darien; Alfred D. Cor son, 51 acres in Fairfield; Daniel M Smith 3O3 acres in Fairfield; William H. Reed, 51 acres in Fairfield; George W. Dayton, 43 acres in Fairfield
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28
Fashion Makes Fools OF Us All.

Darwin. in his Descent of Man," sums
up some of the most remarkable fashions in
regard to the person: an one part of AZ
RIGA the eyelids are colored black; in anoth
er the nails are dyed yellow or purple. In
many places the hair is dyed of varied tints
In deterrent countries the teeth are stained
black, red: blue etc., and in the Malay
Archipelago it is considered shameful to
have white teeth like dog. Not one great
country can be named, from the polar re-
gions in the north to New Zealand in the
south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo
themselves. In Kordofan and Dafur it is
considered great attraction to have bumps
on the body, and to achieve them incisions
are made and salt rubbed in. In the Arab
countries no beauty can be perfect till the
cheeks or temples have been gashed. In
South America mother would be consid-
cred guilty of culpable Indifference to her
children if she did not employ artiAce to
shape the calf Of the leg after the fashion Of
the conntry. In the Old and New Worlds
the shape of the skull was formerly modi-
fed, during infancy, in the most extraor-
dlnary manner, as is still the case in many
places, and such deformities are considered
ornamental" just as pinched waists and
dwarfed feet are with US.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28
FOREIGN NEJ,,s GOSSIP.

A Hong Kong correspondent says the
French are in difficulties through want of
troops. Many Chinese are deserting to the
black flags. Lari, their chief, is very pow
erful. France may have negotiated with
him. f. reigners have been seen fighting
on the size Of the black flags. Gen. Bouet
admits he was unable to hold his position
after the last fight. The French are still
buying steamers and horses.
Tt reported from Huancayo, Peru, that
5000 Monternos, who had collected near
Iszuchaca for the purpose of sacking that
city, were attacked by small body of men
belonging to the Pacific forces. After q
quarter of an hours fighting The Monternos
were defeated with loss OF 200 men.
1t is stated that the czarina lately detect.
ed one of the imperial chamberlains in the
act of placing 1ihilist documents in her
apartments, end he. fearing the conse-
quences, suicided. The authorities endeav-
ored to prevent the fact being made public.
A box of dynamite has been discovered
within the precincts of Yileliz Kiosk, the
residence of the Turkish sultan. A Circas-
81, n guard at the palace has been exiled.
The cure Of Cayna, Peru, it is alleged,
caused the assas assination of Leodora Me-
ralss, governor of Huamico, whose head
was paraded through the streets.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28
The Postal Notes.

The present order for postal notes was
delivered in G,244 books, containing 500
notes each. These were t,ken in charge;by
the superintendent tof the money order sys-
tenn and sent to postmasters Aug. Is.
The Homer Lee bank note company, which
received the contract for the notes, are now
busy get ing ready reserve of4 books,
number which has always to be kept on
hand. The notes are sent to the various
postmasters in packages of one or more
books: The new notes are not meant to
take the place of money orders. The uni
form Zee for the postal note is three cents.
1t may be drawn on any office specified, or
on the office where it is received, but alter
the expiration of three months the ct il
not paid, and certain form has to be
made out, and the notes are redeemed at
the postoffice department. Suns from
cent to 81 SO may be sent, but no f-actionaI
part Of cent. The note may also be re-
ceived and passed lor currency ,or three
months.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28

The sharp frost which recently visited
the most of the Northern states was par
ticularly severe in New England. The
Connecticut river valley is vely impor-
tant tobacco-growing region, and it was
here that the Tuesday frost was most
sharply felt. In some places the mer-
curry fell to thirty degrees. and the re-
suit was that in those places the tobacco
leaves were frozen stiff and utterly
ruined. Cutting was also about half over;
many crops were standing in the fields,
not ripe enough to cut. In four counties
of Massachusetts the loss is estimated at
$125, 600. Farmers losses range from
$500 to $2,500 each, and as tobacco is
their chief crop many of them are dis
heartened at the sudden destruction in
single night of the fruit toftheirseason's
labor.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28

~ increase their purchase. The gentlemen
composing the party are all capitalists of
large means ard Of wide business experience,
and it is their intention to prepare their
plant and commence working the vein i'll
the near ture, having bought the land
for the purpose of developing its resources
and not for speculation.
Fred Douglass, speaking of the colored
national conven ton to be held at Louis
vile, says he does not think that the co4-
vention will nominate anybody. It will
probably say that the colored race ought
to have more liberal share in the disIri-
button of Offices, and may go so far as to
demand colored cabinet officer. If the
convention does anything in the way OF nonl-
pstg inating or y endorsing anybody, it will be
name on the other side that would have
any weight with the colored people, and
that is Ben Butler. He stands y,.ry we'll
with the colored people of the south.
A Mrs. D. X. Smith has been in St Paul
for the past few days, trying to find her
child. and has visited the city hall and
other places. She stated that she is from
Toronto. Her husband, Prof. D. X.
Smith, was teacher in some school in or
near st. P P,ul. He afterwards moved to
Ann Arbor, to study law and married
there, reoresenting himself as widower.
He Afterwards died in Ann Arbor. He had
with hin his boy, whom the mother is now
in search of.
Junius Brutus Booth. the veteran actor
and manager. who has been i'll at Manches-
ter by the Sea, is in critical condition and
rapidly sinking. ALI hopes of his recovery
have been abandoned, and Mrs. Agnes
Booth is ut his bedside. Edwin Booth has
also been there.
Senator. Sharon says he is the largest real
estate owner in San Francisco, having $1l,-
000, 900 worth there.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28
PERSONAL DENTON:

Prominent members of the c. A. r. al
Pittsburg, Pa, have received letter from
Paul Vandervoort, ex-commander. in-chief
of the G. A. r. in which the recent &C.
ton of Postmaster General Gresh am, in re
moving him from service is reviewed a
length. Vandervourt admits that he was
absent from duty 265 days the last fiscal
year. but says this was by permission of
Postmaster Generals Howe and Gresham.
Under Howe his pay went ON, but since
Gresham came into power he has only been
paid for the tiune on duty. In any event,
he says, the charge has been Withdrawn
and it is now urged against him that be
went to idaho contrary to instructions from
Division Superinterdent " bite, hence h
suspension. This charge he denies, an
OF ins ructing men on the new routes, and
that White wanted him to stay longer than
he did. He complains that he was removed
without notice or investigation, and say
Gresham has been imposed on, ard that
he will be satisfied with nothing short Of
reinstatement.
Ex- Congressmen F. G. Deering and w.
l.. Eaton of Usage. Iowa, and Capt. j.
6. Standing, Chrnito, Iowa, representing
syndicate of Iowa capitalists. have COM
pleted the purchase of twenty-five acres of
valuable coal lands of General Land
Agent Weymiss of the Northern Pacific.
The lands are located on the east side of the
Missouri river, sixty miles orthwest Of
Bismarck, and contain a nine loot vein
outcropping on the bank OF the river, $50
feet below the surface. This is the first coal
development east of the Missouri, ard the
coal is in quality much superior to the
Ignite found west of the stream. The
field seems to be quite extensive and it is
understood that the syndicate will probab-
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28

Some two years ago Mr.. blaine was
put on the scent of more than million
dollars of property belonging to the de-
funct confederate government, but owing
to the non-committal propensity of fthose
that knew most about its whereabouts it
has never been unearthed. Now the
question is again revived, but it ap-
pears that nobody knows ofa certainty
that the government had any great
amount of wealth, but it is taken for
granted that it ought to have had, and
so the conclusion IS readily drawn tina
1t did have. The amount is estimated a
the tidy figures Of $4,000. 600, and it is
thought to be slowed away in various
English and continental Banking houses.
Perhaps an inquisition of some sort
might force some members of the old
confederate government to disclose what
they knew in the premises.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28
A Serious Fire Casualty in Wis
cOnSin.

The home of Frank Campo, an old re-
sident o! Appleton, Wisconsin,, caught FIRE
on the 18th inst, and burned to the ground.
There was no insurance on the house, and
the loss is about 81, 900. A crowd gathered
round the house when the alarm was given,
and thinking the inmates were out did
nothing but wait for the fire department.
While they were looking at the burning
house, 81 door flew open and the father
rushed out perfectly mad with fright. He
had to be seized and held. AS sooa as it
was learned that the family were in the
house, the excitement WAS intense. A
young man named Brown rushed into the
building, grabbed little boy about three
dow. The boy was terribly
burned and died before noon. Another
young boy that was thrown out OF Il win.
dow was badly cut around the legs and
bad slit across the abdomen. He cannot
live. While the doctors were sewing up
the cut across the abdomen, which exposed
self hero, never making noise, but
gazed around with frightened look.
Three other children escaped. Brown who
went into the house had his arms and face
badly burned, and will be laid up for some
time. While the children were being taken
out another band of men went to the bed
room window and broke in thc glass.
The heat was so intense that no one
could enter. The second window that
broken in happened to be near bed, and
one ofthe men grabbed woman by the
hair, and with the aid of another man, she
and her six weeks old child were pulled out.
The babe was unirjure!, but the woman
was badly burned from tie soles OF her feet
to her head. Her flesh is burned down her
back like raw beef. She cannot 1--we. How
her husband got out and how the building
caught file are matters of conjecture. John
Tracy, who pulled the woman out, says
that she was wrapped in heavy blankets and
that she was burned while they were trying
to get her out of the window. Tracy's
hands and face are sco1ceed quite badly.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28

1t is now believed that the surplus of
the post Office department for the year
ending June 3oth. will be three million
dollars, or almost double that of the last
fiscal year. Should this prove true and
the steady increase of mail business go
on. it is highly probable that the exper-
iment of two-cent letter postage will
vindicate itselfby freedom from depart
ment deficit during the very first year of
Its introduction. In that case, it will be
less difficult to persuade Congress to risk
one'cent postage than it was to reduce
the rate from three cents to two.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28
RECORD OF CASUALTIES.

On the morning of the 18th nst., Mr..
Foster. living near New Posen, Minn., went
away to neighber's to help in threshing,
and his wife and two sons went out to work
in hay field half mile from the house,
leaving little Maud Foster in the care of a
man named Mason. who makes his home
there. About 10 o'clock Mr.. Mason lett the
child in the house alone, and went away on
horseback to the place here the threshing
crew were at work. A few min utes after
he had left, Mrs. Foster heard screams in
the direction of the house, and looking that
way see saw the child rushing from the
house, its form completely cnveloped IN
flames. By the time the agunized mother
could reach the spot the poor girl was lit
orally roasted from head to foot, and life
nearly extinct. A doctor was seRt Tor, but
to no use; the child died in its half crazed
mothers arms soon after his arrival.
At Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 18th inst,
the works of the Enterprise Carriage COM
pany were burned. The company makes
cheap carriages and employed 200 men.
Loss, $4,000. The building was partially
insured. The carriage company was fully
insured.
While at.work on a new barn building
on August Belmont's farm at Babylon, 7
l., five men on the scatfo!d were precipitat-
ed to the ground by the breaking of the
support. John Metz was instantly killed.
August Nichols fatally and the other three
seriously inju.ed.
As an Omaha gravel train was coming
from work at an early hour on the 18th
inst, neared their yard at Ashland, Wis,
they struck and Instantly killed, and utter
ly cut to pieces, an unknown tramp. The
coroners Jury failed to discover his name
or residence.
The extensive sash factory and planlng
mill of ofCampbell & Breckenridge, occupy
Ing about quarter of block of ground
burned on the 18th inst, Loss 100000
insurance $51, 600.
Seven of the thirteen ice houses at North
Chelmford Mass, belonging;to the Boston
ice company, were burned on the 18th
inst Loss 435, 600; insurance $40, ,OOU.
The packing house of F. s. Andrews at
New Haven, Conn, has been burned.
Loss, S25. COO; insured Forty men are
thrown out of employment.
A fire at Casey, ILL.,, recently destroyed
eleven houses and several offices. Loss
$4,000.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28

Frank James, surviving brother OF
Jesse James, has been declared not
guilty of murder by jury at Gala in,
Mo-, after formal trial lasting several
days. The verdict was received by
demonstrations of Joy by his crowd of
friends in attendance. 1t follows that
James enjoys greater prestige to-day
than if he had never murdered and
plundered his fellow beings. 1t must
be that the yellow covered literature
exerts a morhidly sentimental public
spirit over its many readers in that
state.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28
both, as the animals body was found near
that of the dead maa.

both, as the animals body was found near
that of the dead maa.
On First avenue south, Mime apolis,
Minn., on the 11th inst., Washington av
cnue peanut vendor was walking with bis
wife. At the corner of Second street two
sports drove up in a carriage. One of them
sl,ght-d any gave the husband thorough
drubbing, while his comrade ram off with
the wife.
Thomas Gallagher, the murderer of Walter
excltement prevails st sapav Hit NJ v
near where the murder was committed, and
there is strong talk of iynching.
J.H. Haven Of Rutland, Vt, has again
been arrested, charged with elnbezzling $4O,.
600 while treasurer of the Rxtland railroad
company. Bail of 900 was furnished.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28

Fire is devastatingtarm lands in the
New England states, and serious damage
is being entailed to crops and buildings.
The losses will foot up more than a mill
lion dollars. Many small farmers have
lost their sole possessions except the
blackened land itself. From Long
Island, and some portions of New Jer-
sey come reports of ravages by forest
fires. The long continued dry spell in
he eastern states has left all material in
a yerv infiamable state.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28

The British government proposes to
establish $4,000 Irish families, or about
2D,0oo persons, above The great lakes
in British America, giving them imple.
ments fer tiiling the soil, with the privi-
lege OF paying for the land on long time.
This is proposed as means of reliev-
ing the over.populated districts of Ire
and to some extent, and as a nrepara-
ton for certain land reforms to be in
stltuted by the. government upon that
island. There are 10000, 600 Irish in the
world, 5000, 600 onlyof whom remain in
Ireland. Those in other countries are
prosperous, and their success NAV we'll
induce these at home to accept the
chance offered them in the canadian
settlement scheme. There is nothing
worse in this, than if the United
States government took $4,000 families
from the over-crowded slums of our
arge Atlantic sea-board cities and gave
EN- an excellent chance to strike ont
or themselves in the great grain fields
ofthe Northwest or the cattle country of
the southwest. The scheme is to accept
only those that will go of their own free
will from the over-crowded portions of
Ireland. The 200,000 Impoverished
Irish, who accept the governments of.
fer to set them up us respectable far.
mers in Manitoba, will be wiser than
hose who reject it. 1t must be thrift
less family of four or FIVE persons that
cannot take q new farm in that virgin
oil,with implements to till it, and paw
mortgage of $500, or even 81 600, in ten
years. Canada has long complained
that European emigrants have SO gener-
ally turned their faces toward the Unit
ed States, that she will no doubt be de-
lighted with this new Irish colonization
scheme, and greet the newcomers OF
next year with open hands.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28
GENERAL NEyTS NOTES.

The report of the commissioners of the
State of New York shows 363374 emlgrants
landing at the Port of New York from Aug.
largest number landed in any one month,
6,953, was in May. 1883 and the smallest,
S,343, in january OF the same year. The
duty imposed on the board of returning
paupers, and persons unable to take care Of
themselves to the port from whence they
came, has been carefully exercised, aid q
large number of undesirable persons has
been sent back.
In the case of Richards War ct al. vs..
State of California, Involving the title of
lands claimed to be within the limit of the
Los Angeles Mexican grant, the secretary
of the interior has decided that applicants
to purchase under the seventh section of the
act of 1866 have no valid claim under such
act, the land being in no sense within the
claimed limits of the grant.
the monitor Mianton omah, which left
the Washington navy yard on the morning
of the 10tN inst. anchored on the night OF
the 14th of Sandy Hook for the purpose of
repairing her machinery, which had be-
come disabled curing her trip. On the 18th
lnst., she reached Brooklyn.
Ie is expec ed that Mullan tunnel will be
Paul Boner sues the Western Union
Telegraph company at Philadelphia for fail.
ing to send him dispatch from Asbury
Park offering him $75 month as pianist.
He lost the place.
Men about the falls at Minneapolis, Minn.,
are beginning to look anxiously for rain be
tore severe freeze-up comes, lest there
should be dearth Of water for winter use
in running the mills,
Elizabeth, N. j., hopes to settle her &c.
600, 600 of debt at SO cents on the dollar,
which means tax of Is per cent on her
$4,000, 600 assessed valuation.
+ Bradford Lewis & Son of Walpole, Mass,
cotton waste and cardboard manufacturers
have failed. Liabilities, $4,000; assets
nominally the same.
New Tacoma. thriving young town in
Washington Territory, already has forty
lawyers, the total population being but
$500.
La Crosse has contributed 1854 for the
Rochester sufferers.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28

ficent map showing the proposed standard
time or the lines OF railroad ON the Ameri-
can continent, There are five standards
proposed, one for each of the five great dis
tricts. and indicated in colors.
1t is rumored at Des Moines, on good au-
thority, that the new Canadian, La Crosse &
Southwestern road is negotiating for the St.
Louis. Des Moines & Northern road, n ow
running from Des Moines to Boone.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28

Near Harrington, DEL, locomotive
and three cars passed over child as it
lay sleeping between the rails. The
child was but slightly hurt.
Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28
PITH OF THE NEWS.
EVENTS IN 1VdSHIyGTON.

EVENTS IN W4SHINGTON.
The Sunday Capital says: enc decision
was reached in the army and navy court
marital cases laid en- the presidents desk
during his absence in the West. 1t is
known that he h 8 some reluctance to meet
the issue presented in the case of Col. llges.
In Montana he met many friends of that
officer. indeed every one seems to be his
frieno in the region where he has served SO
long and so we'll, who made the strongest
appeals fer lenient view of the testimony
in the case when the president came to act
finally upon the proceedings of the court
1t is also believed that the review of the
easel by the judge advocate general of the
army, which accompanies the proceedings
as they are laid before the president, will
be of service to the friends of Col. Ilges in
their efforts to save him.
The following are recent postoffice
changes: Postmasters commissioned,
Wisconsin: Benjamin L. Crandall. Dakota.
Iowa: jacob 10y. 10y; George w. Nash, Nu-
gent, James A. Laft, Sergeant Bluff; J. s. Fin
ster Hartley; George f. Loper, Holly Springs;
D -kota; + Wagness, Grand Harbor; Abner
B. Allen, Winfred. Special Service Discon-
Bloomington, from Sept.
3O;kirkwood, from sept 80. r. R. Bennett
has been appointed postmaster at Odebolt,
Iowa, vice Ward Van neus,n. resiened.
The civil-service examination for places
in the city postofice at Washington have
not been as satisfactory in their results as
was expected by the friends of the new law.
Several candidates have successfully passed
the examinations and been placed upon
the eligible list, but being compe'l led to
commence at the lowest grade. which pays
a salary of only $500 year, nearly all those
who have been appointed resigned the Of
tice, prefering to run their chances of doing
better in private lite.
Proofimpression upon silk fibre paper
have been made at the bureau of engraving
and printing of the entire series OF paper
money, of the United States, from the de-
nomination of 81 up to $1,000, ard of all
denominations of the per cent. bonds. Tbc
collection has been bound in handsome and
attractive style in Russian leather, and it is
intended for presentation to the Russian
government, which made formal request
for the same.
A prominent officer of the government is
authority for the statement that the new
postal notes are made so simply that their
counterfeitiDg would be very easy. Numer-
ous complaints have been received, especi-
ally from banking institutions, relative to
the fimsy character of the new notes, and
q pretty fair imitation of one of them, for
small amount, has been sent to the secret
service bureau for investigation.
Commissioner of Pensions Dudley is de-
termined TO break up the rings, inside and
outside of the Office, engaged in swindling
pension claimsnts, and has adopted very
rp11 10 tn opI n1n S,>k
ice who have in the remotest way been con.
nected with outside parties III these prac-
tices.
The increase in the sales of public lands
during tie last fiscal year exceeded that of
the previous yeas by 3s4 per cent, and that
Of the fiscal year of 1881 by 81 per cent.