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Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16
HEwEEKLY JOURNAL IS PUBLISHED
Tuesday, December I6, 1884
A NEEDED WARNING.

It is good thing for the public that there | are men who have the time and the ine1ina- ton to look more or less after it's interests Professor Edward s. Wood of Massachusetts 1 is one of these men. Professor Wood has been making experiments, and he has dem onstrated that arsenic in dangerous quanti- ties is now to be found, not only in green pa l pers, but also in papers of every hue, and that the same poisonous matter is extensively used in coloring textile fabrics, candles, toys, confectionery and many other familiar ob- jects. It has long been believed that green wall papers contain arsenic, but now, Pro- lessor Wood asserts, arsenic is more frequent ly found in papers that are commonly con- sidered harmless. The poison is used so ex- tensively that there is absolutely nothing in the appearance or color of paper by which any trustworthy opinion as to the presence or absence of arsenic in it can be formed A high price affords no security, for, while some of the most costly papers are heavily charged with the poison, some very cheap papers contain none of it. Moreover, there are papers of brilliant green color in the manufacture of which no arsenic is used
 Professor Wood publishes the results of his examination of thirty-four specimens of wall paper. These specimens are of all colors and patterns, ranging in price from twenty cents to three dollars roll. The quantity of ar senie carried by the ordinary wall papers in this exhibit varies from little more than half grain to nearly seven grains in square yard. The quantity in one specimen at $1 .50 roll is 6111 grains to the yard; in another at $2 8 roll it is 5115 grains, and in another at the same price it is 51S grains.
 But it is not alone the wall papers which may poison. The arsenica1 pigments have been found upon building blocks, rubber balloons, painted balls and rubber dolls, and in children's books both paper and cloth are ometimes poisonous. piece of Foulard cambric bought in Boston had been worn by lady only short time when she became seriously ill. There were 31s grains of arsenic in one square yard of the cloth. Arsenic is used in put ting gloss upon paper collars. From one such collar more than 10 grains were obtain ed The same poison is found in the inner bands of mems hats, in cretonnes used for covering furniture, in chintz, and in bed hangings.
 In European countries there are very strin- gent regulations against such work, but Pro lessor Wood points out that thus far it has been impossible to obtain legislation of a similar kind in the United States. Even in Massachusetts, where men of considerable in fiuence have labored to secure legislation forbidding the manufacture and sale of ar senical wall papers, they have labored in vain. This certainly ought not to be so. Even the Russians will not allow the use of the poisonous pigments in the way they are used here.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16

In 1873 MT. A. M Colgrove, of Middle town, left SC, 900 worth of Air Line first mortgage bonds with the First National bank, which the bank considered as security for loan to the railroad, and subsequently, sold them. MT. Colgrove claims that the bonds were his private property, and brings suit to recover their value. The Superior court appointed Judge Charles H. Briscoe to hear the case as referee. The proceedings commenced in Hartford on Saturday. Charles B. Perkins and Silas A. Robinson appear as counsel for Mir. Colgrove, and Lamuel L.. Warner for the bank.
 Mr. Dillon, caterer in the railway stations at Hartford and Saybrook, will soon open a restaurant in the Middletown Union depot, occupying the room now occupied by the bag gage master.
 James 0. Venable, cook on the schooner Sarah L. Thompson, of MiddletoWn, was badly scalded on Friday. Dr. Morgan at tended him.
 Captain Walter Pease, the centenarlan ot Enfield, died at his home in Sc1t1co school district on Tuesday from gangrene of the foot Orrin Thompson, the founder of ThompsonviIle, died from precisely the same cause only a few years ago. This leaves Thomas Bostoek, a Waterloo soldier under Wellington, aged 94 years, the oldest person living in the town.
 William K Shaw, son-in-law of A. Stur- tevant, yesterday assumed the management of the Wauregan Horse at Norwich,
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16
PURE HAVANA.

It looks as if we would not Havana trouble in getting good ci yars before long. If the
 treaty is not carried out this joke don't go.- Boston Post.
 There is no reason why one man should
 want the earth. Why shouldn't all have
 their share? It is certainly Eig enough to go
 round.-Boston Transcript.
 'fI see that Governor Cleveland denies that
 he and MT. Hendricks have had falling out.n s'Oh, yes. It was only Hendricks, you know, that fell out."-Chicago News. Inquirer asks: sfWhy is it that so many
 dogs have feas?" To be perfectly honest we | think it is because there are so many 1eas.
 This, however, is merely conjecture. Post.
 A market reporter says that his sweetheart
 encouraged him and he thought of marrying her at once, but that a further advance was followed by decline.-Louisville Courier Journal.
 When young couple west of the Rocky Mountains run away and get married the sporting journalist al1udes to it in big head line letters as s'the Pacific slope. .''-Buring- ton Free Press
 In London the percentage of death among married men is larger than among single men. This is as it should be- A married man in London is more willing to die than single man.-Norristown Herald.
 ''Pa, how funny this looks in this paper. The printer has got the words all mixed up, so there is no sense to it." "No, no, my child. That is new poem by Tennyson." !" Narration Independent. ''Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust up- on them, " remarked small man in the street car as fat woman sat square down on him. Cincinnati Mepehant Traveller
 Many negroes believe that the man who
 carries with him at night the backbone of a
 cat is invisible to every one. There is now and then a policeman who carries cats vet ebra.-Louisyille Courier-Journal. At German party in New York in honor of Cleyeland's election 8 sausage forty-five feet long was among the articles of diet that were consumed. Such party is called a leberworst. It would seem to us that it was the very worst.-Lowel Courier. Nothing bores 8 man more than being com pelled to go in store and stand there like a stump while his wife is looking at all the goods in the store. He'd much rather stay out on the sidewalk, even if it's half square to the nearest saloon.-Kentucky State Jour- nal.
 He put on rollers at seven And before the clock sounded eleven His feet they were firing As if he were trying To kick out the blue dome of heaven! - Her ald.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16
ENGLISH wIFE-HUNTRRS.
Pursuing Shadowy Advertisements o1
 Shadowy Actresses.

Pursuing Shadowy Advertisements of
 Shadowy Actresses.
 From the Baltimore Sun.
 The Italian and French "aristocrats" are noted for their persisteucy in the practice of fwife-hunting" or wife-seeking, and particu- 1arly among American or English women of financial fortune. But I doubt if any of these national sportsmen go so far a6eld as the Englishman. He hunts everywhere. find the following advertisement in select Parisian society journal for the upper ten and devoted to what it terms "high life. ' This advertisement is addressed ito English or American ladies'" and I translate verba- tim: "A gentleman of frst-rate country family, and who has large property, unfor- tunate1y ineumbered, fine residence and domain, is anxious to make the acquaintance of a lady of birth and position, and who has large fortune in her own right.
 Advertiser is thirty-fve years of age, holds a very high public and private posi- tion, and has served in distinguished cav airy regiment. He is accomplished and fond of country life and it's pursuits. Any lady answering the above description and who writes to London, inclosing carte de visite, and give real name and address, will be treated with the strictest confidence and honor as this advertisement is perfectly bona fde."
 omit the address given in the above Doubling the bona fdes indicated, called on the managing editor of the Thigh life" journal, a capital good fellow, whom have known many years, and l asked him Ii he knew anything of the author of this adver- tisement He said yes,- and that he was as represented, and man of strictly good char acter, but in England many such men were limited in their social circles of acqua1ntan- ces in consequence of the aforesaid 'incum- bered'' estate, and had to seek, by advertise ment in public papers, the acquaintance of lady of birth and position with large for tune, with the intention of marriage and ul- innate redemption of the property present ing the charms of rural pursuits. Further more this editor informed me that this ''gen- tlernan of first-rate country family" had Ire fused seven French ladies, all of whom were widows, and two American spinsters," be- cause their t1arge fortune" in their own right was too small.
 I note this to illustrate what advertising will and does do. I may mention, to con firm what said in the Sun some few years ago, that 'fthe fine old English gentleman" of England is becoming rarer bird every year, and that baronial halls and broad acres are no longer a power socially or morally, materially or monetarily. Last week one EngIishman, be he Tory or radical, was wont to covet, sold for f19, 300, although the pre- vious owner paid ESQ, 900 for it. Another case comes before me this week. An Ameri- can, well known in New Orleans and in the
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16
Fort Donelson Ready for Battle.

[General Lew Wallace in the Centuryl
 The 9th of February, 1862, dawned darkly
 after thunder storm. Pacing the parapets
 of the work on the hill above the inlet
 formed by the junction of Hickman's creek
 and the Cumberland river, a sentinel, in the
 serviceable butternut jeans uniform of the
 Confederate army of the West, might that
 day have surveyed Fort Donelson almost
 ready for battle. In fact, very little was af- terward done to it. There were the two wa ter batteries sunk in the northern face of the bluff, about thirty feet above the river; in the lower battery nine thirty y-two-p -pounder guns and one ten-inch Columbiad, and in the l upper another Columbiad, bored and rihed as a thirty-two-pounder, and two thirty-two- pounder carronades. These guns lay be- tween the embrasures, in snug revetment of sand in coffee sacks hanked right and left with stout traverses. The satisfaction of the sentry could have been nowise diminished at ! seeing the baekwater lying deep ill the creek; a more perfect ditch against assault could not have been constructed. The fort itself was of good profile and admirably adapted | to the ridge it crowned. Around it, on the 1 Iandward side, ran the rifle pits, contlnu- ous but irregular line of logs, covered with | yellow clay. From Hickman's creek they 1 extended far around to the little run just l outside the town on the south. If the sen 1 try thought the pits looked shallow he was l solaced to see that they followed the coping 1 of the ascents seventy or eighty feet in | height, up which foe must charge, and 1 that where they were weakest they were l strengthened by trees felled outwardly in | front of them, so that the interlaeing limbs
 and branches seemed impossible by men un- der fire At points inside the outworks, on ] the inner slopes of the hills. defended thus 1 from view of an enemy, as we'll as from his | shot, lay the huts and loghouses of the gar I rison Here and there groups of later com CTS, shivering in their wet blankets, were wis ible in bivouac so cheerless that not even
 morning fires could relieve it. little mu-
 sic would have helped their sinking spirits, but there was none. Even the picturesque effect of gay uniforms was wanting. In fine, the Confederate sentinel on the ramparts that morning, taking in the whole scene, knew the jolly, rollicking picnic days of the war were over. W
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16

SO~-A3
 hour, and consumed 4,420 pounds, being 8
 saving of 2, ,305 pounds.
 An International Inventors exhibition will
 be held in London in 1885, beginning in May and lasting six months Division I. will be devoted to apparatus, appliances, processes and products, invented or brought into use since 1862, and illustrations thereof Divis- ion II will consist of samples of musical in- struments of date not earlier than the com mencement of the present century, and of historical collections of musical instruments and appliances, and paintings, engravings and drawings representing musical subjects, with no restriction as to date. Medals in gold, silver and bronze and diplomas will be awarded on the recommendation of iuries
 There will be no charge to exhibitors for space. It is hoped and expected that Ameri- can inventions will take a prominent place in the exhibition. Connecticut, the home of so many inventors, ought to be especially in terested in it.
 A firm of oil refiners sued the Lake Shore road to recover what they claimed was an ex- cess of freight paid The reason it was an excessive charge was that the same road carried oil (the same goods) for the Standard Oil company for about ten cents a barrel less than it charged this firm. The judge ruled that if the Lake Shore discriminated l in favor of the Standard Oil company be- cause, and only because, it shipped larger quantities, then the act was unjustifable and the other firm could collect back what it had paid in excess of the Standards rate. The jury found for the plaintiff and secured a judgment of $5 900 in this case. Speaking of the relations of railroads and shippers, the judge in his charge to the jury said:
 Whether railroads are considered as public or private corporations, whether they are public highways or otherwise, it is manifest
 to me that the establishment of these great railroads by legislative authority, with all their great privileges, powers and franchises, and their construction, are largely due to the fact that their right to take private property for that purpose, without the consent of the owner, makes them, in some measure at least, public works, established for the bene- fit of the public. If they were not designed for public use, it is difficult to understand why such great privileges were conferred on them. They are common carriers, made so by law, and the public have right to their use and benefit as such on terms of equality without unfair discrimination, and this re- quirement or exaction on the part of the public does not, in my judgment, impair or in any manner infringe upon the equitable or legal rights of such carriers of freight and merchandise.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16

Midland counties of England, has just paid 911, 800 for an old historical mansion and park-like acres, the price whereof four years ago was e60, ,000. When young and ac- complished man of thirty-fve seeks paying matrimonial alliance, and has an ineumbered estate, the chances are there are very few rich women able to redeem him and it at any price. The squire and his acres are not marketable articles nowadays.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16
UNDERTAKING
,. e. CHAPMAN, ESQ, AGENT HAYWARD HAND GRENADE Co.,
NEw HAVEN, Dec. g.

To-day our mil took fire in shaving blower From an over-heated box We nsed your Hand 1Irenades Hayward and immediately they etfnprished the fire by the first Grenade; thereby, ,ve fea sure they saved quite large fire and a ,n,uI,er of thousand dollars We are compelled, by mr exuerferce of to-day,to admit that the Hayward Hand Grenades sre indispensable in the saving of
 o,,d tl,t ,ye end no other mill can afford 2 fs s-;tl,ort them. The nKa was extingushed so .,,c,sly sssat onehalf Of our hands did not know sOet 1xe he'd hes. on fire. The fire department re ,-sousea quickly, but He did not need them We .l,a , ycsI for urging upon ss your Hand Grenade
 ail fot TEE PORTER STAIR %.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16
ELI. WASHBURN. We have now in our show cases and are daiI, opening new goods for the
 HOLIDAY SEASON. Consisting in part of Opera and Field Glasses,

|, Fancy Thermometers, Pocket Compasses, Ear Trumpets and Conversation Tubes of the latest pat terms
 Gold Spectacles and Eye Glasses mounted to or der at an hours notice,
 Choice Leather and Plush Goods. Jewel Boxes, Work Boxes, Glove and Handkerchief Cases, Dress ing Cases and Mirrors in great variety, Ink Wells Portfolios, Side Books, Letter Books, Purses, Match Safes, Calendars, Pocket Flasks, Whisk Broom Cases, Game BoXes Cigar and Cigarette Cases, Pic nic Cases and Drinking Cups.
 TOILET SUNDRIES-Ivory, Celluloid and Solid and in sets; Cut Glass Bottles. odor Stands and Cases. Imported and Domestic Soaps, Handker- chief Extracts and Toilet Waters, Shaving Cups Lather Brushes Isazors, Pocket Knives, Nail Scfss DTS, Puffers and Powders, Nail Sets and Manicure Goods of every description, from the best makers All our goods selected with and bought for cash from the best sources at bottom prices; marked (without waiting for them to become shop worm aL prices which should move every piece be- fore the season closes,
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16
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Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16
''We Are Reaching Higl
 Fever Point
cardigan Jackets for one po11ar.

Cardigan Jackets for One Dollar.
 Boys Leng Pants for Seventy-five Cents.
 250 Boys All-wool Remember, all-wool,) ) Overcoats, sizes to 12 years, marked down from $5 to THREE DOLLARS.
 For Twenty Dollar Bill we can sell you the handsomest Dress Suits you ever saw, re- duced from $25 and $28.
 Recognize the power of low prices IN RED. Give yourself little time to look. Give yourself credit for sound judgment. Attend this special offering, and you will say you never saw clothing sold so low.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16

divorces in the courts of Chicago and Phila-
 delphia This is bad sign of the times.
 The people of Washington territory are re-
 formers. Woman has the right to vote in the territory, and church property is hereaf- ter to be taxed there.
 Cremation is making way in Scandinavia, where it has at last found official recognition. The authorities having given their sanction, crematorium is to be built at Stockholm, and large plot of ground around the crema- torium is to be laid out as public park at the expense of the town.
 The London Observer will get itself blown up if it isn't careful. It calmly says con- corning the recent attempt to blow up Lon don bridge: 'FThe utter absence of correla- ton between cause and effect mainly con- l firms the theory that these crimes are of Hibernian origin"
 A coroner's jury in Pittsburg has distin- guished itself by inventing new office. A sign board in that city fell down the other
 day and killed man who happened to be passing. The jury in the case recommended that an Inspector of Signs. be created. A new office is sweet boon to city politicians. Only women will be employed by the clerk of the Georgia legislature to perform clerical work hereafter resolution to that effect 1 having been adopted by an overwhelming vote. In the debate on the resolution it was contended that all avenues of employment should be open to women, who had no voice 1ox1, ] paid it's taxes.
 The great show at New Orleans will be opened to-day with much ceremony. It will 1 not have what the Philadelphia exhibition had, the presence of the President of the United States, but he will start the machin- cry by touching a button in Washington in | the presence of the cabinet and the judges of the Supreme court, and this actual partici- patton in the ceremonies, though at g dis tance of some hundreds of miles, will inn press the i1naginations of the concourse at New Orleans as much, perhaps, as his visible presence would.
 | Among the most valuable experiments
 made recently with view to ascertaining the difference in the consumption of coal be- tween running g train very rapidly and at 8
 very low speed, those upon the Pennsylvania
 road, near Philadelphia, present the most pertinent and definite data for arriving at g
 conclusion. According to the published ac- l count, the same conditions, same number of cars and similar engines were employed, and l the trains in each case went the same dis tance-119 miles out and back, with some
 stops. The fast train ran on schedule ex-
 press time, and consumed 6,7s5 pounds of
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16
HereEWe Go Again, in Battle Harness.

13O Boys Knee Pants, sizes to 12, cut down to Forty-fve Cents.
 150 Blue Flannel Shirt Waists, reduced from S1 and $1 .25 to Fifty Cents.
 20 dozen Calico Shirt Waists, to 10 sizes, slaughtered from 25c, 30 and 35c, to ELEVEN CENTS.
 43 Mems Vermont Grey Reefng Jackets. Former price $4 in black, new price $3 in red. Boys and Children's Overcoats, Skat- ing Jackets and Reefers, marked down from fifteen to thirty per cent.
 Boys and Children's Winter Suits sub jected to the same reductions.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16

Cremation is making way in Scandinavia, where it has at last found official recognition. The authorities having given their sanction, crematorium is to be built at Stockholm, and large plot of ground around the crema- torium is to be laid out as public park at tha- a,zn,ornca of the 4,nrrr,
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Only fourteen hundred couples are seeking divorces in the courts of Chicago and Phila- delphia This is bad sign of the times.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16

90 Children's Suits, sizes to Il years, cut down from $2, $2.25 and $2.50, to NINETY NINE GENTS.
 No clothing house on this earth ever did such an act of kindness to benefit the poor, as to sell child's Winter Suit for Ninety nine Cents, that cost twice the money to get it up.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16

Rates of Advertising.
 SITUATIONS WANTED, one insertion 6oc; each | subsequent insertion a5e. WANTS. RENTS, and other small ya-tissEnents occupying not more than six lines, one insertion 75c; each subsequent insertion e5e. One square Gone inch) insertion, $1 %: each
 subsequent insertion 40 cents; week, $32o; one
 month. 5000 Yearly advertisements at the following ra.es: l One square, one year, $40; two squares, year. S7o; three squares one year, $1O0. Obituary notices, in prose verse, 15 cents per lire Notices of Births, Marriages and Deaths, 50
 censseach. Local Notices 90c per line. Advertisements second page one price and a half. Yearly advertisers are limited to their own ime-
 diate business and their contracts de not include Wants, To Let For Sale, etc.
 Special furnished on for contracts covering considerable length of time, or large space THE WEEKLY JOURNAL IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. Single Copies cents S2Oo year Strictly in advance, 1.5e year
 All letters and inquiries in regard to subscriptions or matters of business should be addressed THE JOURNAL AND COURIER. New Haven, Conn. We cannot accept anonymous or return reflected communications. In all cases the name of the
 writer will be required not for publication but as guarantee of good faith I
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2 MORNING. DECEMBER Ie. Iss4

coal; the slow train ran at twelve miles an hour, and consumed 4,420 pounds, being 8 saving of 1905 pounds.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16

The people of Washington territory are re- formers Woman has the right to vote in the territory, and church property is hereaf- ter to be taxed there
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-16
Hero We Go Again. DO NOT FAINT AWAY!

42 Mems and Youths' Business Suits, from SC. 50, $7 and $S, to FIVE DOLLARS Coat So 30 Pants $i 50. Vest $1..sss
 Mems $20 Suits cut down to $15. Mems cut down to $10. Mems $12 Suits cut down to ST.
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HOLD UP YOUR HANDS, COMPETITORS WE GAN DOWN YOU IN EVERY DE- APARTMENT