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Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-03
Awful Orchestral Innovation.
From the Chicago News.


 Mir William J. Davis sends us bitter note complaining that we have said nothing ot the new orchestra which has been secured for the season at that thespian temple and bric- a-brac conservatory, Haverly's Theater. To tell the truth, we have rafrained from men tioning the orchestra because we were disap- pointed in it; it is such departure from the traditions, that we have felt unequal to the task of bringing ourselves to calm, dispas- sionate criticism of it. We are free to con fess that the work of the orchestra is entirely satisfactory; what startles and shocks us is the personal appearance of each member ot this organization-their selection seems to have been made without the least regard to or consultation of the established rules or theaters. The cornet-player, for instance how he differs from the conventional cornetist of theatrical orchestras! We find him tall, WelI-developed young man, with blue eyes and close-cropped blonde hair and the general appearance of a dry goods clerk. lie mas none of the trademarks of his professlon; there are no yaricose veins behind his cars, the buttons are not burst off his vest, his eyes do not hang out on his cheeks and his mus tache is not turned up at the ends and stltfened with that perfumed tallow which cheap bar hers term cosmetic The gentleman who wrestles with the bull-fddle is still more friehtful innovation. Who ever heard of a buIl-fiddle artist who was not bald? Yet here we have one who glories in shock of hair as profuse as ever Samson's was before Delilah ran lawn mower through it. To watch this young man go through his Greco Roman antics with his favorite instrument robs us of one of our most pleasing fanc1es, for we have always associated the classic bull fiddle with bald head and steel-bowed spec, tacles. Again, we observe that the clar1onet player does not wear an imperial moustache and goatee and an expression of subdued melancholy; thus is another revered tradition rudely set aside The gentleman who dallies with the trombone has a humorous cast of countenance which is sadly out of keeping with his ennobling profession of extracting dvspeptic cadences from the most soulful of all musical instruments. We are shocked, too, to learn that among the numerous yio- linists employed there is not one that lays claim to the distinguished title of professor. Were we so disposed we might go on specify ing the melancholy innovations which have crept into the Haverly orchestra, but we are Dot aO diGTOSHd.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-03
Pennsylvania Gas Wells.


 A gentleman who had just returned from Murraysville, where the riot occurred last November, during which Obadiah Haymaker was killed, in conversation with reporter said. GAS I was rustieating week in Vest moreland county in the neighborhood of the Remaley property, thought would take a view of the wells where the disturbance oc- curred. The old well is still burning, and the well which was being drilled at that time is now completed, and it is also burning. You are aware that the rival com nanies are now one and the same. It IS wonderful what developments have been made in that section of the country, and the tremendous pressure of the gas which is opened up. The Penn fuel company has three large wells in the Lion-run district. The two of this number which were put down by the Acme company are enormous wells. The three are connected together, and at the last there is a meter to guage the pressure ad- mitted to the main pipes which conduct it to the works where it is used. The pressure in these main pipes is 180 pounds to the square inch; greater pressure than any steam-boll-
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CT is allowed to carry, except those on steam, boats. The steamboat boilers are permitted to carry heavier pressure because they are built in an especial 4lanner to prevent purst- ing under pressure which would cause an ordinary mill boiler to fly into thousand pieces. The escaping gas makes continual roar, like torrent of water pouring over precipitous fall, or the rush of wind through the forest, while the air is agitated to sucn an extent that the leaves of tall tree, at the height of 75 feet from the pipe, are kept III continual motion. A gentleman who was with me and myself clambered up on to the roof of the shed which incloses the meter and poth of us at different times attempted to Strike the mouth of the escape-pipe with 16 pound sledge-hammer. We would swing it around in the circle described by @ ham mer when one wishes to strike violent blow and bring it down directly over the opening of the pipe When it would reach within say four or five inches of the mouth of the pipe, the hammer would fly back to per pendicular position almost as violently as 1t would if projected from piece.o Of ordnance. The gas is visible, but at such times as they blow the salt water out of the pipes, which IS generally twice day, thin, dark blue stream, somewhat resembling smoke, IS seen to ascend from the escape pipe. Going into the interior of the shed what was our sur prise to find ice encircling the escape pipe from the roof to the floor, although the day was hot one, somewhat in the form of a stalagmite; that is, heavier in body at the base and gradually tapering away to the apex, Several of the houses which lie along the line of the pipe have introduced the gas into their kitchen and parlors. My compan- ion of the gas well tour has 1t in his house. In the parlor grate he has placed some pieces of broken stone The gas coming up through these and burning heats them to an intense red, which give, them the appearance ot burn ing embers. When the gas is turned ott they are found to be perfectly white. There are no ashes to be taken out or dust to be brush ed away, and he is delighted with the econo- my and comfort he experiences from the use of the natural gas. From 8 sort of waste pipe he secures sufficient force to run a small engine connected with lathe. Sometimes he attaches dageolet to the waste-plpe, ana being good musician, entertains his visitors with some excellent music. The use of the gas makes the sound continuous; no pause being necessary as has to be made for respl- ration. The most recent development Tn this region is the Hazel well on the Alfred Sheridan farm, which was struck on the 2no of the present, month l believe. The West inghouse well is spoken eff as a big well, put it is nothing when compared to the monster wells of Murraysville. Since the Penn fuel company has struck gas at Homewood un- derstand that they intend to quit drilling Ill Westmoreland county, as it will be saving of nearly 10 miles in pipeage to drill at Homestead :"
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-03
A Clerical Impostpre.
From the London Society,"


 The following case was related to me by Bishop of the Church of England There was man who had officiated as 8 clergyman in large town for about fifteen years. At the lapse of that time it was accidentally dis covered that he was an impostor. A new bishop came, or the man went into new dio cese; anyhow, the request came that he would produce his letters of orders. Letters of orders are rather precious and remarkable documents; if once they are lost they cannot be replaced. The pseudo clergyman replied, expressing his great regret that, in the course of removal, the letters had been hopelessly mislaid, but hoped that the length of time during which he had served in the diocese would be considered @ sufficient voucher. The bishop wrote back to say that he regretted the loss of the letters of orders, and that it would be quite sufficient if he gave exact dates, which would enable him to refer-the diocesan registry. The imposture then became known. It was a matter of great anxiety to settle what had best be done under such cir cumstances. Of course a very large number of marriages had been performed during these 15 years not one of which was legal. The first suggestion was that an act should be passed making these marriages legal. There were objections to this course. It was con sidered that an immense deal of pain would be caused by the publication of the invalidity of these marriages, and that peculiar hard ship would be done in the case of children, where one or both of the parents had died in the meantime. On certain evening there was a solemn discussion between the bishop of the diocese and the home secretary, the re- suit of which was a communication to the villainous false clergyman that, if he left England immediately and forever, proceed ings would not be taken, but that otherwise he would be prosecuted.
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ferings under this hideous delusion of per scouting clique are horrible There were, and there still are, very different estimates of Rossetti's powers both as poet and painter, and not one word need be said here to indi- cate inclination to either estimate But it was undeniable, and was never denied by any competent authority, that he had very remarkable talent. His first published book of poems had reception which few books of the kind have had, and long before and long after he was perfectly well aware that patrons with check books were-to borrow an old loke-jostling each other at his doors. He does not seem ever to have suffered from that unfrequent and often very legitimate consciousness of weakness which gives the sharpest, if not the only really sharp sting to hostile criticism. He had adoring, if not very judicious, disciples, loyal and staunch friends. And yet he seems to have made himself per fectly miserable, and there is at least some ground for thinking that he hastened his death owing to this cliquomania-this notion that band of fendish brethren were leagued against him.
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DEPENDENT.

''Is man inferior to woman?" asks & cor respondent. That depends altogether on whether it is married man or bachelorF- Boston Post.
 A writer laments the fact that poets are de clining. The poets, on the other hand, newspapers are declining. g.-Breckenridge News.
 "You don't mean to send us across the river in that horrid old boat, with that little boy?" '"Tis all right, mum. Sure an the by can snwim loike a dook?"-Fliegende Blatter.
 At breakfast. The new waiter addresses his mistress: twill madam take hash?'' ''No, thanks" The waiter with the most insist. ."-EXchange.
 A Louisville man has turned out some sort of an electrical invention by which a man can lie in bed and fish. There is no demand for such an invention, for anybody knows that man who will fish can lie anywhere Merchant Traveller.
 Reading the evening newspaper at the tea ta ble often brings out the real tendencies of the family. ''Hello,' said MT. Job Shuttle, ''the Chinese have beaten the French" !" "What's the score?" eagerly cried the youth full base ball enthusiast of the Shuttle family. Hartford Post.
 When Dusenbury gets blue over the impor- tunities of his creditors he always writes to the correspondence editor of his favorite pa per to know the amount of the national debt in 1885, He says it is wonderfully soothing to read in cold type that it was $1, ,S96, ,4S1 ; no. It makes him realize that he has com pany in his misery.
 He had bundle of papers under his arm, and was standing near the Brooklyn bridge weeping ''What IS the matter little boy?' l said pleasant-faced gentleman. NIf l go home -widout selling me papers me feyther 1 and me mother will bate the life out of me. 5 ''That's bad.' 'fYes, sor; but the worst of | it is that I am an only orphint." "Yes," !" re- ] piled the philanthropist, allowing nickel to | drop back into his pocket; ''only it doesn't often happen that boy has such bad luck. , Texas Siftings.
 | A young man had his girl out carriage riding the other evening, and the horse took 1 fright and ran away. In turning a corner the vehicle was overturned and the young | lady was pinned to the earth, tho body of the carriage lying heavily across her waist. l She was rendered unconscious. When she was released from her perilous position she slowly opened her eyes as consciousness re- turned and faintly ,gasped, ''Dont-squeeze | -Drake's Travellers Magazine.
 feWhere have you been, you young ras-
 cal?'' angrily demanded Fitzgoober, as Pin | der came sneaking in at the back door, late
 in the afternoon. ''Been to school" slowly
 answered Finder, dropping his books and
 anxiously eying the strap his father dangled
 so tantalizingly. 'tBeen to school! Oh, you
 little liar; do you think I'm to be fooled that
 easy? I went over to the academy and you
 hadn't been there to-day; one of the boys
 said you had gone fishing. Now, what have you to say to that?" Gradually edging to-
 ward the door and keeping chair betweeI
 him and his father, Finder raised his soulful
 eyes and innocently asked: ''Well, pa, don't
 fishes have schoolsY''-Atlanta Constitution
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-03
AKINGLY JOKER.
An Eccentric Mon arch's FOndness
 for Practical Jokes on HIS he-

From Tinsleys Magazinel
 Multifarious the anecdotes-iaoIes' some of them, I really beheve-told of the king. He is misogynist, hater ot court ceremonials, yet withal man who stands upon his dignity; passionate lover of music and mountain scenery, and great st1ckler for the autonomy of Bavaria He will not have it Prussianized at any price. His favor ite seat is a hunting lodge up in the noun tains. IL is said that he sleeps in a lofty room, with the ceiling painted to represent a Armament, and practicable moon she'd ding mellow light from one quarter Of the artificial heavens. The perspective Is man aged so as to give the illusion of spacious ness, and through the distant trees cut out in the canvas, as he reclines, may be heard the plash of falling waters. Their lullaby hushes him to sleep. M@cenas had fond ness for the same soporihc. Sometimes ms majesty rises in the night, has black steed saddled, and dashes off at a whirlwind speed up and down the hill roads-which are well kept for that reason-like phantom horse la3an pursued by some relentless decree of the supernatural powers. The finest stud Tn
 Bavaria is to be found in his stables, but tho cattle cast soon and often; after very few years in the royal service. He plays
 practical Jokes on ms retlnue SomeJl1neS It
 is related of him that minister arrived i'll
 hot haste once to crave an audience on i'm
 portant business of state. The king was out
 hunting for chamois, but by some chance the
 minister succeeded in catching up the party Ludwig preceded him to a game-keepers hut, where he sometimes used to lunch, and went in telling him to attend him. The minister waiting one hour, two hours, and at last, losing patience, and fearing that his royal master had been attacked by some sud den illness, forced in the door. No king was there He had made his exit by win dow at the back and was away on the high hills in pursuit of the game. In the capital his majesty often commands an opera-gener- ally one by Wagner, for whom he has as strange predilection as a predecessor on the throne had for Lola Montez-and this opera is produced in the middle of the day. The theater is darkened, and nobody is admitted to the auditorium but himself. If he is pleased he sends prima donna, not brace I let nor a ring, but Q bouquet of flowers plucked by his own hands. He once had 3Iohengrin' enacted on the Starnberger sea- the borders of the lake having been illumi- ! mated giorno at his expense.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-03
A Reunion After ThIrty-One Years.

Mir David Gentle, farmer of Fairfax county, Va, is visiting his widowed mother, Mrs. Anna Gentle (formerly of Washington, at Annapolis, after a separation of thirty one years, during which he lost an arm in battle. The meeting between mother and son was quite affecting. Each had thought the other dead until short time age, when letter from the son brought the glad tidings to the mother that her only child was living and led to the happy reunion. The Balt1- more Suns Annapolis correspondent tells the story as follows:
 ''Thirty-one years ago Mrs. Gentle lost her husband. David was then an infant. They lived in Washington. When twelve years old the boy was put to work on a farm in Fairfax county the mother remaining in Washington to support herself as best she could. David remained on the farm six years. He then went to another farm in Loudoun county, in the same State, and renamed there two years. He liked farming, and his employers always spoke of him as an indus t1ious youth. At the beginning of the civil war, at the age of twenty years, young Gentle threw down his farming implements and en- tered Virginia regiment in the Confeder- ate army. He lost an arm at the battle of Petersburg after which he was discharged
 
 to farming in Fairfax county, and acquired Q fair livelihood, and has been living in that locality ever since MT. Gentle had believed his mother dead, but his wife, he said, had often remarked that he would find her some time. He never expected to do so, however, and probabIy never would have known of her existence but for the intervention of a lady. Two years ago this lady, who knew his mother, in travelling through Virginia, heard the name of Gentle in a railroad car. Approaching the party addressed she ques- tioned him about his parents, and becoming satisfied that she had discovered the lost son, told him where he would likely find his mother. She said Mrs. Gentle, who had a son David, lived in Washington a few years previous, and promised to make inquiries about her, and to let the son hear from her when she returned. The lady went to Europe and remained year, and, returning 10 Washington, learned that Mrs. Gentle had removed to Annapolis, and so informed the son when she next met him. David recog- nized her on the street on her second Vlslt' and going-up to her asked her 1f she asceT- tained the definite whereabouts of his parent On learning that she was living at Annapohs' without moments delay the son wrote 10 her Dropounding certain questions to estaD- fish the relationship which he knew only ms mother eould answer satisfactorily. In a few days the welcome answer came rom ms mother. containing endearing messages of love and requesting him to come to her, which he did at the first opportunity. Mrs Gentle is sixty-fve years old, and her son 'forty-four The mother has been invited to spend the balance of her days on pleas ant little farm in old Virginia, and share the hospitalities of the place with the daughter in,law and the only grand child, and she will probably accept.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-03
Charity,

The rich man gave his dole, not i-content To find his heart still moved by human woe; The poor man to his neighbor simply lent The Scanty savings he could scarce forego. The one passed on and asked to know no more; The others wife all night, with pity brave, That neighbours dying child was bending OCT, And never deeming it was much she gave. Oh! God forgive that dare to ask
 Solace of costlesS gifts and fruitless sighs, Scorn on the sigh that shuns the unwelcome
 task.
 The dole that lacks the salt of sacrifce No gilded palm the crushing weight can lift; No soothing sigh the maddening woe can cure Tis love that gives it's wealth to every gift;
 III would the poor man fare without the poor The Spectator. W. W. B.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-03
Clfquomania and Rossetti.

lrrOh In0 SaIurudy 1SOfAO"'1
 The most remarkable recent example of the disease, whose sufferings from it are public property, was, of course, the late MT. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It may be allowed, even by persons not at all used to gushing, that the published records of Mr. Rossstti's suf-
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Wednesday, September 3, 1884

Wednesday, September B, 1884. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
 FOR PRESIDENT, JAMES G. BLAINE, of Maine.
 FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JOHN A. LOGAN, ofIIIfnOIs.
 State Electoral Ticket.
 ELECToRs-ATLARGE, THEODORE D. WooLsEY, of New Haven. CHARLES A. WILLIAMS, of New London.
 DISTRICT ELECTORS, 1st District-I. LUTHER SPENCER, of Sufield. 2d District-JosEPH E. SULLIVAN, of Chester. 3d District-JAMEs s. ATWOOD, of Plainfeld. thDistrict-FREDERIcK MILES, of Salisbury.
 For State Officers.
 FOR GOVERNOR, HENRY B. HARRISON, of New Haven.
 FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, LORRIN A. COOKE, of Barkhamsted.
 FOR SECRETARY STATE, CHARLES A. RUSSELL, of Kil1ingly.
 TREASURER, V. B. CHAMBERLAIN, of New Britain.
 COMPTROLLER, LUZERNE I. MUNSON, of Waterbury,
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-03

MT. A. P. Hyde, of the law firm of Hyde, Gross 6 Hyde, Hartford, is expected home from Europe next week.
 The wife of Dudley Wright, tillerman of the Pearl street hook and ladder company, Hartford, died Monday after long sick ness.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-03

Judge Deming, chairman of the Repubi- can town committee, is going to leave the city for awhile, but as that able and sound Republican and active little politician, the clerk of the court of common pleas of New Haven county, is going to stay with us the country will be safe.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-03
OFF DAYS.

Thousands and thousands of men and women have their off days-they not sick enough to give up renquish their duties and go to bed, but as one describes it:
 ''I feel so drowsy and weary-my head aches. y
 II never did have a meaner feeling in my life.''
 My stomach does not feel right
 Don't know what is the matter with me- but do not feel well.h
 II have half feeling of nausea"
 ''ToO cold one minute and too warm the next"
 "To use a slang phrase, I'm all broke up" The above and hundreds of similar expressions are heard daily. With some there is known cause, others cannot account for the feeling It may originate from different reasons, but from whatever cause nature requires assistance, and you can immediately render the assistance and dispel all these unpleasant symptoms by using Burdock Blood Bitters. Take them immediately on the ap. pearance of the unpleasant feeling.
 You will feel better in alf-an-hour.
 Take it any time before after meals
 If before you will enjoy your meal better.
 If after it will aid digestion.
 It is a medicine you can take at any time with good results; be taken by the prattlng child the feeble and tottering old man woman. Com posed of roots and herbs. There is nothing in its composition that will injure the most delicate con- stituton-pleasant in taste and effect; will do you good.
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Edt1catinl1.
Miss NOttsS

EnRIish and French Family and Day
 School for Young Ladies. 33 Wall street, New Haven, Conn. The 18th year be- gins Tuesday, Sept 8. Circulars. sent upon ap- 5iicaf3on Se1 4w
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

''They can't beat Waller" cries the Hart ford Telegram. Wait and see.
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