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Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-15
SVNGED.
If were in the sun and you were out o it, what would the sun become9 Sin.

A 13-year-old boy recently walked 197 miles | in seven days. There WAS probably circus al
 the further end of the route.-PhiIadelphis Call. Charity begins at home," remarked an expeetant heir. as he assigned his rich but l rheumatic relative to the dampest room in the house.-N. Y. Journal.
 A man has just died in New York who firmly believed he was the devil Doubtless by this time he has found out that it was a case of mistaken identity--Lowen Citizen. An Alabama negro was heard to soli1o- quize philosophically: "sDe sun am so hot, de cotton am 50 grassy, de work am so hard dat dis darkey feel called upon to preach. ."- Chattanooga Times.
 The northern racket now is for ladies to embroider suspenders for gentlemen. The young clergyman will be covered with sus- penders at Christmas. They will keep up his trousers so that the slippers worked for him last year can be seen.-New Orleans Pic ayune.
 A cynical old bachelor, who firmly believes that all women have something to say on all subjects, recently asked 8 female friend, Well, madam, what do you hold on this question of female suffragea'' To him the lady responded calmly, f'Sir, I hold my tongue. ."-Baltimore Herald
 My dear" said General Logan to his wife OANNAAe1os
 twhat is correct, me and Jim is left or Jim and me is left, or T and Jim are leftF D 'EThey all correct replied the lady, as she kicked the cat out from under the table and emptied the salt-cellar in the generals eoffee.-Macon (Ga Telegraph.
 The particulars of the Freedom affair have at length come to hand. It seems that Free dom was skating round the ring in company with Kosciusko on the evening in question, when her foot slipped in attempting the grapevine roll, and she went over, carrying her partner down on top of her. Freedom shrieked when Kosciusko felll'' Of conrse; so would any other girl in her place. Kosci must have weighed 275 pounds without his skates at that time.-Buffalo Express.
 The 288 joke has reached Wheeling from PlttshpEgr 7dF dFNa peFsans get aud and1ge 1Qge asaEaf asaEaf; 289?' ''No," answered the other excitedly, what is itl" ''Oh, it's too gross, tco gross en- tirely, replied his companion in a mournful tone; ssTen it away" resumed the first, ? ed the other, s'144 is one gross and 2S3 is two gross, isn't it2' A meteor shot across the sky like flash of lightning-a thqd-a moan-~a chuckle-a dark form stealing away in the darkness and all was silent.-Wheeling Reg iSter
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-15

of property in L[Sj9el
 zaeA. bsTinre nre msrse
 ..oIn the fact that the insvSanee companies took risks within the Loy.-o1 "i 'a last year to the value of $, ,625, ,3eSsSo.
 Matthew Brady. who has j44t been fined e1oo for illicit disti1Iation@in Dublin, has solvad a great -z4storic dedbt by giving into iba banda sof the police tho following, recipe for t1s manufacture of Irish poteen, Ma t1ffals for ten gallons: Ten ounces of pfunes or French plurns, one and a quarter ounces of green tea, two ounces of orris root, one quarter ounce of angelica root, one-half ounce of sulphuric acid, one-quarter ounce of cream of tartar, tincture of vanilla, es- senee of almond.
 The world moves. The Philadelphia Times gives emphasis to this statement by contrast ing the cabling of the Spanish treaty by the | costly enterprise of the New York Times with the fact that about 70 years ago, when this country was at war with England, Q l treaty of peace was concluded and signed at Ghent, and full fortnight thereafter the nations that had been at peace for two week. without knowing it fought the most i'm portant battle of the wal at Nav Orleans The English commander lost his life on shs field by the mistake, and the AmerAean com mander was made president by the bipnder The veteran Oliver Johnson desires tha there shall be no legislative chaplalns ap pointed hereafter, for reasons reyerential | Christianity and the usage of prayer, and D proposes that instead of the perfunctor opening with prayer the Christian member of any legislature substitute daily devotior al meeting of an hour or half an hour, to | held in the legislative halls, thereby 't quicken the oonseiences of the tempted, abate partisan feeling and promote publ sentiment favorable to just legislation" thinks smen holding bribes would flee dismay'' from legislature go protected vii spiritual preparation and the answering pre- ence of God, and asks which of the Sta lerislatures will be first to try his plan.
 According to the novel computation of German histologist, who has been cale4lati the aeereaate cell forces.of the human hrai the cerebral mass is composed of at lea 8O0. 100000 of nerve cells, each an indepe
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-15
REGENT PUBLICATIONS.

Tennyson's poem, ''The Princess" edited with note by William J. Rolfe, and illustra- ted by competent artists, is an addition to Mir. Rolfes Students series which deserves much prsise. The text is that of the latest Englisk edition with the correction of a few obvious errors. The notes give all the vari- oug readings and contain much that is help tVl to correct understanding of the text They show excellent judgment and will meet the requirements of teachers and scholars Geographically it is a neat volume, uniform with the others in the series. Published by James R. Osgood & Co.,, Boston, and for sale in this city by Judd the bookseller
 People of education make blupders in the use of English unconseic-
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-15

saso slaisr
 .an;;' by the au-
 ~ The author
 Ind had thorough
 all it's bearings. This
 interesting types of charac-
 sustained throughout. Pub
 s.5berts Brothers, Boston, and TOT
 ,is city by H. H. Peck
 ..,.,d1ey Dumps, or John Ellard, the Ne"s- I 1ov ,, has already run through four eoi'ion0 and iss author, F. Ratohford Starr, M. A. s l to Ie congratulated upon it's success ]" oxAainly deservestan even wider fame than t<f a1rssdy has aoquired- The aim ot tne au- thor has been to help newsboys by telling them ot the nobility of such life as his lit tie hero led, and it is announced that the royalty derived from the sale of the DOCK IS | donated by the author to the Newsboys' Aid society of Philadelphia. The present eol- ton is revised and enlarged and contains a new preface by the author. Published by the American Sunday School Union, Phliar l delphia, and for sale in this city. by Judd the bookseller.
 l Mra A l.. Mister is well known as { translator and adapter of German novels and her work is always good. Her latest is 'A Penniless Girl" from the German of W Heimburg. The story is very interesting ane well told. Published by J. B. Lippincott Co. Philadelphia, and for sale in this city b. Judd the bookseller.
 "Heine's Book of Songs" Is an entirel. new edition, in which appears the best worl of two of the most accomplished translator of Heine's fascinating poetry, Sir Theodor Martin and Edgar A. Bowring. The book hound in cloth and gold and will make , elegant holiday souvenir. Punhsneo White, Stokes & Allen, New York, and 1o sale in this city by O. R. Coan
 Very few neoks that we have read recentl have the peH Ter of tsThe Shadow of Joh Wallace, ; b. L. Clarkson. The story VI inspired by Robert Brownings s'The Rin and the Bool :" It is full of a strange p '7s thos which is very rare in recent books. Q reads more like 8 history of some episode 2 the Middle Ages than modern novel Pu y lished by White, Stokes & Allen, New For s and for sale in this city by 0. R. Coan. | tEpisodss of My Second Life' is an . 'e count of the American and English expei 2 ences of L. Mariotti, which reads more lii 70 fiction than autobiography. The story of I E experiences in New York, Boston and Cal le bridge, and his adventures while connect II with the London Times, makes very pleasa In reading. His life was inmany respects s- markable one. The book is, published by te B. Lppincott & Co.,, Philadelphia, and sale in this city by Judd the bookseller. a.I John Howard Payne, who will be long no known as the author of Home, Sw n. Ho,ne.n was man of varied talents st attempted many vacations and did not m ,n- a very brilliant success of any of them.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-15
Monday, December I5, 1884

THAT MKSTERIOUS PLAGUE. 1 Very little reliable information about the l strange disease which has been making sad havoc among certain mountain counties of
 Virginia and Kentucky has been obtainable, 1 and therefore the report of MT. George A. Burroughs, of the Louisville Courier-Jour- l nal, who has been making trip through the
 infected district, is very interesting.
 MT. Burroughs finds that the plague has l been almost or quite confined to the banks of the mountain creeks emptying into the Cumberland, Big Sandy, Kentucky, Powel1's and Licking rivers; and that it has been
 most virulent at the headwaters. The
 mountains in which these creeks rise contain iron, copper and other minerals. The first
 cases occurred before the long drouth of last summer set in, but it was not until the creeks began to run low and the springs to dry up that the fatal Aux became epidemic MT. Burroughs satisfied himself that the water is chiefly, if not wholly, responsible for the calamity. He writes: Although it has to great extent been purified by the rains and frosts, I have not been able to de tect the braekish, bitter taste so often de- 6l, it looks bad, and that which some of the people have been using for drinking pur- poses for weeks would turn the strongest stomach and cause the healthiest man to fall i'll. The mineral or veg etable poison, whichever way 1t may be, in some instances so strongly inn pregnates the streams that it can be discoy- aT.ad hath Inv s;ob+ ond faufo O eI{1b+ d;a turbancs at the bottom bringing up a mass of sediment of 8 bright yellowish color and as bitter as nat gall fogpd -..il .iiRstspsss s out had dug holes two or three feet deep in the ground and then used the slimy, pest breeding water that oozed up, the stuff being so impure that it seems impossible that they should not know of it.
 Since the arrival of the rains and of the first sharp frosts the plague has been abating and the cases which still occur are of a less malignant type. When it was at it's height in many parts of the sparseIy settled region there were not enough well persons to care for the stock-in some cases not enough to bury the dead. "In Wise county, Virginia, D says MT. Burroughs, 1T was told that those AOeSNA work and could not begin to gather and esfHn the dead as fast as they fell.' The IEdrsing was necessarily of the most primifEe sort. The mountaineers live in rude eeoins, rarely of more than two rooms, and ktheir food is of the coarsest. Doctors art@ Y and far be- tween, are for the most ery imper- fectly educated, and in ny cases the people would T .dicines they prescribed. ms had died up to tT
 Burroughs is
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 medisa1 care, nursing ur
 l4fter of Crab Orch" fessional devotion
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 and who up
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Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-15

movements and gentle turning away, timid glances and startled glances gradually give place to more rapturous passions. The ex- eitement of the dance inspires them to fresh and more rapid evolutions until exhausted nature can stand no more and they drop fainting on their cushions
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-15
A GLIMPSE OF THE HULA DANCE.

An Almost Obsolete Custom Among
 the Sandwich Islanders.
 From the Kansas City Journal
 The Hula-hula, or native dance of the Sandwich Islanders, is one of the most sin gular and fascinating exhibitions of the poe try of motion to be seen among any of the barbaric or semi-civilized nations of the earth. In these latter days one very rarr'
 perfect performance of II
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-15

Fancy Thermometers, Pocket Compasses Ear Trumpets and Conversation Tubes 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 ETSUNDRIES-Ivory, Celluloid and Solid Back Hair, Cloth, Tooth and Nail Brushes single and in sets Cut Glass Bottles. Odor Stands and Cases. Imported and Domestic Soape Handler chief Extracts and Toilet Waters, Shaving Cups, Lather Brushes, Razors, Pocket Knives, Nail Scss- ors Puffers and Powders, Nail Sets and Manicure Goods of every description, from the best makers All our goods are selected with and bought for cash from the best sources at bottom prices: are marked (without waiting for them to become shop wornl at prices which should move every piece be- fore the season closes.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-15

For furnishing brick, granite, basin heads, Bel gian blocks sewer castings, cobhle curb gutter. ter Board of Public Works of the City of New Haven for the year 1885. ... Blank form of proposals and any information concerning plans specifications, bonds etc., will De furnished upon application.
 No Tronosl will be received after the time speci- fed and all proposals not as the blanks furnished, | or not properly filled out, will be rejected
 The right to reject any all bids is reserved ny ~ ALBERT B. HILL. | itv Enkzinear.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-15
seWe Are Reaching High
 Fever Point"

Cardigan Jackets for One Dollar.
 Boys Long Pants for Seventy-fve 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 handsemest Dress Suits you ever saw, re- duced from S25 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., 1884-12-15

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COPIES TWO GENTS.
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 12 GENTS WEEK, 42 CENTS A MONTH, $500 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS By MAIL.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-15
HeresWe Go Again, in Battle
 Harness.

1SO Boys Knee Pants, sizes to 12, cut down to Forty-fve Cents.
 150 Blue Flannel Shirt Waists, reduced from $1 and $1 25 to Fifty Cents.
 20 dozen Calico Shirt Waists, to 10 sizes, slaughtered from 25e, 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 ieeted to the same reductions.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-15
REDUCTION.

All our best brands of Flour $575 barrel, sOc bag These are the best Minneapolis patents
 Best York State Family Flour $5 barrel, roc bag Candy for Christmas. A choice lot of broken and mixed Candy 13c pound, pounds 25c. A liheral discount in larger lots.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-15
Determined to Give the Poor a
 Show.

HOLD UP YOUR HANDS, COMPETITORS. WE GAN DOWN YOU IN EVERY DE-
 APARTMENT.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-15

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-05-06
i'm the Presidential Cam.
paign.
WOMEN PRAYING FOR PASTORS EDITORS


NEW YORK, May 6-The National Womap's
Christian Temperance Union will soon send out a
call to prayer, DIN view OF the presidential CAM
pagn, addressed TO the 'Christian people OF Amer
lca," and fixing Tuesday. May g7th, as the time
Each hour has special subject assigned Including
prayer for pastors and editors "that they NAV lead
the people away from dead issues and toward that
OF national constitutional amendment prohibiting
the traffic In intoxicating liquors as a drink" for
party leaders, "that their platform may recognize
this issue, and their candidate be one whose habits
shall be an example 10 young men" Also, an en-
phatical prayer Tor Chr1str1an voters "that their
spiritual perceptions may be quickened their con-
sciences aroused, and their home constituencies
unean1Dg the women OF their householdsg repre-.
sented by them at the ballot box.n The day IS To
requested 10 preach on the Sabbath following upon
'>GOd In government
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The M. II. General C0nference.

PROCEEDINGS IN PHILADELPHIA TODAY.
PHILADELPHIa, PA, May 6-The general confes.
bled this morning, and after devotional exercises
the report OF the woman's foreign missionary 80
ciety was presented by Bishop Harris stating that
the past four years had been the most successful
period In the history OF the society. The report
referred to the committee on missions
THE ELECTION OF OFFICERS or TIE GENERAL cos.
FERENCE
Rev. DR.. Lanahan, OF the Baltimore conference.
moved that Thursday morning OF next week. at ID
O'Clock, be fixed for the election or of1cers OF the
general conference, and that a committee OF f1ve
be appointed TO report TO the order OF election
Referred TO the committee on the episcopacy.
Rev. Dr. II. C. Benson, OF the California confer
ence, moved That supernumerary and superannuA-
ted preachers shall be considered disOrderly when
they go into another church without the consent q
the pastor. IL was referred 70 the committee O
lt1nerancy.
ssHoLY CATHOLIC AND UNIVERSAL CHURCH,
On motion OF Rev. T. C. Castor, OF the central
Tennessee conference, the matter OF q change in
the discipline, so as TO read the Holy Catholic and
Universal church" !" was referred to the COMMITTEES
on reyisals.
THE TERM OF MINISTERIAL SERVICE
Rev. 7. B. Neely, OF the Philadelphia confeFenco,
moved the reference 10 the committee on it1nef.
ancy OF q resolution referring TO the need %
nexioility In the term OF ministerial service ana
asking that the committee be Instructed 70 take
the subject OF limitation or non limitation into
consideration The resolution was 80 referred
offered the following, which was referred 10 the
committee on missions: "That 0elf-supporf1n0
churches In foreign lands under the Jur1sdcfton cf
the bishops shall be eligible 70 direct legttnater-
being put under the jurisdiction CT the NinnaonaTy
society; that the bishops be authorized &c OrRanfe
the West Coast Conference OF South America -
soon as they shall deem It advisable.n
conference adjourned unt0 . O'Clock tomogyOW
morning.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

RECITALs AND INTERPRETATIONS
BALLADS .LEGENps' GE a5s eTS xND "rEsr1vA1s.-
coNeREeAf1oNaL sh CHURCH.
Corner 10th and q streets northwest
MA{ OF
SaS s1H sffsG2s Ff%
wEpSESpAY EVENING. MAY 21sr. New Poems and
Request Program
number of Course Tickets. Reservedl 81. No extra
charge for reserved seats at Ellis Music Store 93 Penn
WASHINGTON. d. c., April 80. 1884
WILL CARLETON. DEAR SIR: The undersigned ap.
fesvals and being desirous of hearing them recied
and interpreted by the author respectfully request you
to give series of readings from works in this
city at and place as may suit your convent
" W CoRcoRAN. JOHN A. LOGAN,
srpNIEY 4 LENA MATTHEW'S, 1fs TH6s 5 ~ aAMsER PALmER
81 BENJasifN RaEta HARRISON, WI II u FRYE FRYE.
JoHNs s; WILLIAMS, JAMEsG FAIR,
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s sAMGEk G6I J. RANDALL IRANk f 4 IdE HIsG0CK.
II. w SLOCUM NATHAN GOFF, JR.
z psf 5. HEWITT. E 1TTh'' DAsw1S 81 hStaGM I. JAMES.
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coRcoRAN hEs.IHG Ess 5GsficE MSffHsSs a isss
HoS, HoRAIIo KING Hon; q ?, C0NGER. Hon
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Others
DEAR SIRs In to your polite request Of April
sSth would say that snail be happy to comply with
FKp EVENfNG M Ma 1sih MoNbY EVENfNG e.
May 18th. and WEDNESDAY EVENING. May 2lst
"R thanks for the compliment All ySaTs sEnTfeESSy
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The unyt0cible Trial.
A WITNESS WHO SAYS HE WAS OFFERED TEN PorNpa

TO MURDER AN 0FFICIAI-ANoTHER ARREST
TUBBERCURRY, May 6-In the hearing to-day OF
the lny1ncible case, Thomas Moran testified that
he and two other members OF the Invincibles had
oeen promised ten pounds piece II they would
murder parish official; they were TO receive ia
addition, money enough TO carry them comfortably
out OF the country. Casey, who had been soldier
In the regular army, had drilled the members OF
the society and taught them the tactics OF mill
tary service. On the strength OF this testimony
Casey was arrested to-day.
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Reported Outrage by Mexican Offi.
Cials.
AN AMERICAN cArTArS IMPRISONED AND HIS vrss,
EMBARGORD

GALVESTON. TEX, May Capt DuIay, OF the
American schooner Re0ecca, OF Galveston, in a
communication 10 the Aelrs relates story OF out
rage ana Imprisonment at the hands OF the Next
can authorities at Port Tampico on the nth OF
February last The schooner was I'm distress and
leaking and put In AT Tampico, carrying her regu-
M lar clearance papers from Brashear La. for Tam
plco, put had packages OF merchandise for delivery
at Brazos, Tex, which port she was compelled 10
pass on account of rough weather and the danger
Gus bar The collector or Tampico forcibly took
the thirty packages consigned TO Brazos and or
dered an Immediate discharge OF the en-
ure cargo Capt DuJay was arrested on a
cnarge or attempting 10 smuggle, confined
Under guard, but was released the next day at the
Solcltation OF the American minister and CONSUL
The Judge before whom DuIay was tried insultingly
refused TO allow the American consul TO be present
10 consult with the prisoner during the trial After
a III ntlgation OF over forty days the Judge decided
that the goods must pay treble duty. Capt. Dujay
protesting that he had no money. ON the 18th OF
April the Mexican authorities boarded the schooner
hauled down the American flag, and embargoed the
vessel Capt. Dulay appealed 10 the American con.
SUI, VINO placed the crew I'm a hotel Capt Dujay.
after short stay, returned TO the United states,
leaNlng his crew with the consul and the vessel In
the nandS or the MeXicanS- He thinks that but for
the efforts OF Minister Morgan and Consul Cassard
he still would be In a Mexican prison
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Gen. Butler Defending the Auburn
Strikers.

LEWISTON, Me-, May 6.-Gen Butler appeared in
court at Auburn to-day 10 defend the strf king
lasters indicted for misdemeanor. The cases were
continued To the september term and are then TO
be mol pressed IL no further demonstrations occur.