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The Democratic advocate., 1884-08-30

EIFTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL
ID The Patapsco NJ. E. Sabbath School will
hold their Fifth Annual Festival in the grove
of Mr.. Elijah Taylor, on Friday and Saturday
evenings, September and 6, 1884, commene-
ing at o'clock. Proceeds for the benefit of
the new church, now in course of erection.
A Band of Music will be in attendance. By
order of the Committee.
aug % If GEO. j. K0ONS, Sec'y.
The Democratic advocate., 1884-08-30

EESTIVAL.-Th Tie Sunday School at
Salem Church will have their Annual
Festival in the grove at the church on Satur-
day, 18th day of September, 1884. a band
of music will be present. Speeches by prom
nent speakers. aug2S:tf
The Democratic advocate., 1884-08-30

VIII resume work, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1si
Terms s., $3.50 per quarter, of ten weeks,
in adDance, 81 per year for fuel aug 23-3t*
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-07

MT. John Bright, having been employed by the Sunday Rest association to denounce the delivery of letters in the provinces on Sun days, startled his petitioners by heartily blessing it and recommending it's extension to London. He spoke concerning the matter sensibly and humanely as follows: There are scores of thousands of young men and women in this country who are away from their homes and parents, engaged in cities and towns in the various occupations by which they live. To these Sunday is to a large extent day of rest. It is a day on which their thoughts naturally turn to the homes they have left. It is the day on which the letter from the loving but absent father or mother is most frequently received, and it is the day on which the absent son or daughter has the greatest leisure to write to the home circle. If your plan were adopted, how many thousands of letters of wise and loving counsel from parents to absent chil- dren would be received in circumstances less favorable for good than if received and read and re-read during the quiet and leisure of the Sunday? In cases of sickness or of death the closing of the post would often be a grievous inconvenience and a cause of great and prolonged distress I have known two instances of it in my own family, and what has happened in my case must have taken place in many others.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-07
Friday, November 2, 1884.
COAST DEFENsEs.


 The important matter of coast defenses is up for discussion again. The annual report of General John Newton, chief of engineers, calls attention to it in a forcible way He points out the facts and gives directness to them by remarking that the levy which hostile fleet might make on New York alone would be ample to pay for the Notifications which he urges the government to erect along the seaboard. We have no navy to speak of, and even one of the little foreign powers, like Spain, has armored ships whose entrance into the harbor of New York could not be successfully disputed, and the great and rich city would be at their mercy An ransom might be exacted under penalty of laying the city in ruins. There is no danger of such an attack, it may be said, and why provide against a contingency which is theoretically possible, indeed, but beyond the range of things to be considered by prac- tieal men? That it is improbable is freely but it is yet one of those eontin- gencies which prudent men and nations do not neglect. As the Worcester Spy we'll says: One of the great European powers, guided by responsible statesmen, having its vast burdens, it's eager and envious rivals, would be most unlikely to undertake an adventure, so easy and safe at the outset, but full of unknown dangers in it's development. But smaller power, controlled by statesmen somewhat reckless, because unrestrained by the sense of responsibility which only the traditions of the past and confidence in the future can give, might find such an enterprise irresisti- ply tempting. No doubt in the end the United States would make such an attack the beginning the aggressor would have the delight of commanding the attention of the world; the commander would win personal distinction such as he could not otherwise hope for, and his coun- try would have it's national vanity and am bition gratifed as it could be in no other way, while the United States would be hu- initiated and exasperated as never before. A proud and strong nation confident of it's powers, yet defenseless and impotent before puny antagonist, would be an intolerable spectacle to the citizens of that nation, and they never would forgive the statesmen who had allowed them to be placed in this humil- iating attitude.
 Congress reassembles this month, and with ample funds at it's disposal. No wiser, safer and more permanently useful form of appro- prations can be made than those recommend ed by General Newton. They call for about sixty millions of dollars to be spread over series of years, and this sum, General New ton states, will prove sufficient to place the leading cities of our coasts in such condi- tion that they could repel an enemy's fleet without it's having been able to Lombard than
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-07
A Country 1aouse In Kentucky.


 A Country House in Kentucky.
 English novels have made the novel read ing world familiar with the characteristics of English country gentlemen, their hospitality, their broad acres, and above all, the comfort of their homes, writes correspondent from Mt Sterling, Ky. Around their hearthstone gather their friends from far and near, and all the refinements of civilization called in to make them happy. It is the same at this place. There is none of that pretentlous shoddiness which so disgusts one among the wealthy parvenues of the large commercial centers. Comfort, not style, elegance, not attempted show, are the rule. The house is large and roomy, and seems to be meant to accommodate 8 large number of guests, as no doubt it does Every room is a model of comfort Great feather beds inviting you to slumber remind one of the good old Knicker- booker homes about which Irving loved to write. The freplaces are broad, hearty and hospitab1e just the kind to make your heart warm and fill you with feeling of satisfac- tion toward yourself and all the world. The furniture is in accord with what you would expect in home where comfort ruled, and not show Sofas made to sit on and to lie on and not to look at are scattered about, and are covered with rich and warm looking rugs while bright and substantial looking carpets are spread over the floors. The three graces of modern civilization-order elegance and comfort-show themselves everywhere, and the greatest of these, as my genial host and his sister will tell you, is com fort
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-07

The Rev. Dr. Vincent will deliver a 1ecs
 ture next Tuesday evening in the Methodist
 church, Middletown. Subject, HThat Boys
 Sister"
 Among those who voted in Middletown on
 Tuesday were William Southmayd, aged 95,
 who has lived under every President and
 who voted for President Madison in 1S16;
 Chester Shepard who has voted in fifteen consecutive presidential elections; John D. Johnson, whose age is 91 John L. Smith, aged 90, and H. D. Hall, who has voted in fifteen presidential elections.
 The Rev. Mr Adams, of Wethersfeld, was suddenly called to New York by the death of a member of the family Monday, and was thus prevented from casting his first vote.
 At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Southington Water company, held l November Sd, the following board of direc- I tors were elected: R. A. Neal, T. H. McKen- ! ley, H. D. Smith and William Y. Otis. The | officers elected are J. B. Savage, president; R. A. Neal, vice president; T. H. Mckenzie, | secretary and treasurer The works have | cost $86, 900.
 l Deputy Sheriff w. A. Cone, of East Had dam, assisted by H. s. Ward, of Deep River, seized 418 bottles of lager beer in Clinton election day which was owned by David B. ! Marshall When the officers entered MT. Marshall's cellar they found 0 number of \ men there drinking and buying liquor by the glass, and the owner placed two extra glasses I for Messrs. Ward and Gone, supposing they
 called simply to get drink He was some
 what surprised to learn that nothing less than his whole stock would satisfy the appe, 1 lite of the two strangers. Marshall said that ba honoht a barrel of lager the previous day, nlaced it in his cellar during the night and had been up most of the night filling the bot tIes The defendant was ordered to appear before Justice Pike next week Friday II \ Clinton.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-07

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CHY, 12 GENTS A WEEK, 42 CENTS MONTH, $5.Oe A YEAR. TEE SAME TERMS By MAIL.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.
.lMother, is the battle overa''

From a report drawn up by MT. Giffen for the London board of trade it appears that the consumption of sugar in England has reached the enormous total of 1,083, 900 tons per annum, or 68 pounds per head of pop ulation The consumption has mounted from 15 pounds per head in 184O to 25 pounds in 1850, B pounds in 1860, AT pounds in 1870 and 63 pounds in 1880.
 The controller of the city of London, and the city solicitor recently performed euri- ous ceremony that has been handed down from the Middle Ages. Having appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice proclamation was made in the following terms: Tenants and occupiers of 8 piece of waste grounds called the Moors, in the county of Sa1op, cometforth and do your notice." Upon that Sir Thomas Nelson, the city solicitor, cut one faggot with hatchet and another with 8 billhook. The next proclamation ran, "Ten- ants and occupiers of a certain tenement called the Forge, in the parish St. Clement Danes, in the county of Middlesex, come forth and do your service" The city so1ici- tor, in response, counted six horse shoes and sixty-one nails, the Queens remembrancer saying 'tgood number" With that the quaint ceremony came to an end.
 The mrdir of Dongola, England's only friend in the Soudan, is 8 slight, delicate man, with pale, pensive face, lighted up by two large black, luminous eye, which seem to be always looking in space, and from be- tween which projects preternsturally large nose, hooked like a vulfure's beak The ef- feet of his extreme piety on the Mussulman population is very marked, and has enabled him to maintain himself in power almost within armstroke of the Mahdi. He is only visible for short time each day before pub lie prayers, which all officers, civil and mili- tary, are bound to attend. On these occasions he squats on a carpet, and, holding his beads in one hand, places large Koran, resembling family Bible, before him, while eompan- ion squats in front, at the opposite side of the room, holding similar volume, from which he reads. This parsonage is splen- did-looking Nubian, over six feet tall, and a cousin of the Mahdi, fact which excites much comment
 The Supreme court of Massachusetts, has just passed upon an interesting question re- lating to wills made by women. It is e set tied rule of the common law that the mar riage of woman revokes will made by her when single. In Massachusetts, as in many other States, this rule has been adopted by statute, but since the enactment of the statute testamentary capacity has been con. ferred upon married women by the Legis1a ture. In the case in that State it was con tended that the legal effect of enabling I married woman to make will must be tc
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-07
NEW HAVEN, CONN. FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 1884.

confirm will executed by her before mar Iiage. The Supreme court, however, did
 not accept this theory. It held that mar 1 riage revokes the will notwithstanding the testamentary capacity of married woman
 This view of the law has also been taken by the highest court of this State, whose statutes on this subject are similar to those of Massachusetts
 Mexico will make fine showing at the worlds fair in New Orleans The federal appropriation is $100, 900 and the State ap- propriations swell the total to $200, 0,000. Guanajarto, Pachuca and Zacatecas will send fine collections of minerals; the States of Central Mexico will send farm products, fruits, medicinal plants, woods, marbles, pottery, cotton fabrics, etc.; while the Fed eral District will be liberal contributor to the department of the fine arts. All the Mexican publishing houses will be represent ed by specimens of the1r best work-among them history of Mexico written by her ablest authors and illustrated by her most distinguished artists. A specially interesting feature of the exhibit will be the collection of Aztec relics, including cas ts of the sacri- fcial stone and the great calendar stone. At least two fine Mexican military bands, those of the Eighth cavalry and of the sap pers and miners, will be in attendance, and an effort is on foot to secure the presence of a body of the mounted patrols or rurales-said to be the finest cavalrymen in the world
 According to a French paper there is
 
 reason why the sheep is so intellectually backward and stunted as we know him to be is, that the strain which the growth of his coat imposes on his organism absorbs it's entire stock of energy and leaves none to support the mental functions. And so it is with the bear. The sagacity of the animal world is, the Professor insists, the appanage of the hairless creatures, and he instances the ele- Phant and the serpent in support of his theory. Extending his observation to inanimate nature, he points out that the grander and loftier mountain summits are totally bare of vegetation, while it is only the tops of hills and mountains of the second class that are covered with verdure and are susceptible of cultivation. And applying his theory to the human race, the Professor undertakes to demonstrate that badness is mark of intel lectual superiority. It is result of the in- tellectual fermentation in the brain, which gradually bulges out on the upper surface of the skull. Badness is not simply loss of hair, as is vulgarly supposed; it is caused by the excess of cerebral energy, which forces the skull through and causes it to grow above the hair.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-07
Progress of Cremation in Germany
 From the London Timesl

Progress of Cremation in Germany. | From the London Times.l
 The practice of cremation appears to be gradually gaining ground in Germany, their
 being a steady increase in the number of bodies brought for this purpose to Gotha, which contains the sole establishment in the empire It is under the control of the city authorities and the cremation up the end of 1882 were 84;, F in 1879, 16 in 1880, B in 1881, and IS up to September 1882. All parts of Europe contribute to the business of the institution, while several bodies have been brought thither from America, in which country the cost of fashiona ble interment is great that it is but a slightly increased ex- pense to have the remains cremated at Gotha. The principal items of expense are: The removal of the corpse from the railway
 station to the crematory, 30s., and the cre-
 nation itself e7 los. There are several for
 malities to be observed before permission is
 given by the officials A permit has to be
 obtained from the municipal authorities
 where the death took place, and also from
 Gotha, that the body may be removed from
 one place to another, for without this latter
 the railway company would refuse to ind
 conveyance. A corpse is not allowed to be
 moved unless incased in metal, and zinc IS therefore prescribed, ,as reaol1y HleIIInS uAuei
 the action of heat. This must be closed in
 wooden coffin of certain dimensions, so
 that it may fit the receptacle in the chamber.
 In case funeral service should be requested,
 a further change of 1e los. is made. The
 Gotha establishment, which was erected in
 1878, is very complete, and cost for the
 machinery and buildings nearly e5,0o0. The
 apparatus is made after the Indian model,
 and consists of large coal furnace for the
 production of the gas, which is conducted by pipe to the heating chamber in which the
 body is placed, this chamber being twenty one feet in length by thirteen feet in height
 and divided into two parts. The gas is first of all let into the nearest section, where it burns until white heat is produced At the time of the operation the body is lowered into the second compartment and the gas admitted from the other one, when the zinc case rapidly melts, the garments being con
 stunned, and the whole process occupying about two hours. As it takes day and
 night to properly heat the furnace, sufficient
 notice has to be sent to the authorities
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-07
Louis Napoleon at Ham.
[The Memoirs of an ex-NInister. the Earl of
 meSbury.l


 mesbury.l
 found him little changed, although he had been imprisoned five years, and very much pleased to see an old friend fresh from the outer world, and that world London. As I had only half day allowed me for the in terview, he confessed that, although his con fidence and courage remained unabated, he was weary of the prison, from which he saw no change of escaping as he knew that the French government gave him opportunities. of doing so they might shoot him in the act He stated that deputation had arrived from Ecuador offering him the presidency of that republic if Louis Philippe would release him, and in that case he would give the king his parole never to return to Europe. He had, therefore, sent for me a supporter and friend of Sir R. Peel, at that time our prime minister, to urge Sir Robert to intercede with Louis Philippe to comply with his wishes, promising every possible guarantee for his good faith. The prince was full of plan for new canal in Nicaragua that promised every kind of advantage to British commerce. As precedent for English interference was to quote Earl Gray's in favor of Prince Pohg- nac's release in 1880. I assured the prince that would do my best, but added that Lord Aberdeen wac our foreign secretary, and that there was nothing of romance i'll his character At this time Prince Louis was deeply engaged in writing the history of ar tillery, and he took an hour in making me explain the meaning of several technical words in English which he wished translated. He gave me full account of his failure at Doulogne, which he declared was entirely due to the sudden illness of the officer of the day whom he had secured, and who was to have given up the barracks at once. The soldiers had mostly been gained, and the prestige of his name in the French army was universal. To prove this he assured me that the cavalry escort of lancers who accompa- nied him to Ham made him gestures of sym pathy on the road. He then said: "You see the sentry under my windows I do not know whether he is one of mine or not; if he is. he will cross his arms; if not, he will do nothing when I make sign" He went to the window and stroked his mustache, but thers was no response until three were re- lieved, when the soldier answered by cross ing his arms over his musket The prince then said: tYou that my partisans are unknown to me- and so am to them. My power is in an immortal name and in that only: but I have waited long enough and cannot endure imprisonment any longer"
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-07

PREPARED with the utmost skill from IMPOR- > TED GINGER, CHOICE AROMATICS and the purest and best of MEDICINAL FRENCH BRANDY, from the world-renowned vintners, Messrs oTARD, DUPUY & CO, C0GNAC, rem dering 1t vastly superior to all other Gingers," all of which are made with common alcohol, largely impregnated with poisonous fusn oil and strength ened with cayenne pepper. Beware of limitations. sANFORD'S is the finest ginger in the world, and, notwithstanding the high cost of its ingredients, is the cheapest family medicine. Sold by druggists and groeers everywhere.
 Potter Drug and Chemical Co.,, Boston.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-07
THE ENTIRE WHEAT" ]"

FT1HE most nutritious and healthful Flour in the
 world Used and endorsed by the leading I7hvsicians of this country It is the COMING FLOUR. A boon to dyspeptics and all who work at sedentary occupations For sale by
 N.W. mERWIN dC CO.,, Sole Agents, and dealers in Flour, Grain. Meal ITS and IsO State and I, and 5 George Streets. sel5 3m
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-07
me Political Campaign of 1884.

The Political Campaign of 1884. Enough of torches, tFumpets, drums, Brass bands, and big bugs, with their huns What difference all-now tell us, chums, Twixt tweedledees and tweedledumsl But friends beware the witching charm Of office, for the itching palm.
 And when again
 The blarney men Shall call for redlight- -booms and bombs, Note what has been,
 For there and then There's something wicked this way comes.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-07

Chaucer says: .tFor gold in phisike is 6 cordial" For all that suffer from hoarre- ness, cold in the chest, lung trouble or brpn- chitis, Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup is golden .tphisik." !" Though worth it's weight in g, 2ld, a quarter will buy a bottle
Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-07
BURDOCK
 BLOOD BITTERS,
The Talk of the People Who Use It,

The Talk of the People Who Use Its
 "A good medicine" Never had anything act so pleasantly sn the bowels s
 'one dose cured an after-dinner headache
 "one bottle did my dyspepsia more good than al- the medicine ever used.'
 Never saw anything quickly cure bilious at tack
 "A wonderful blood purifier
 "A perfect cure for all scrofuIous taint.'' From Mir. William w. Jones. of Cardoino, Clay county, Ind.-For the last two years I have been seriously unwell. It would be difficult describe existence miserable in the extreme. Pains in the breast-a heavy, dull sensation in my head-faint- badly deranged-restless 3eep-compleXion sallow -,streneth all gone. Rendered desperate, went to the northern part of Michigan, hoping thata change of climate would do good. l got benefit. resorted to the artesian baths there for five weeks One day, glancing through the papers, noticed an advertisement of Burdock Blood Bitters. In June commenced taking this medicine, though, must admit with little or expectation of relief. The result was, however, marvellous and gratifying be- lost days work They take right hold and the effects are always pleasing.
 n3 d6w Inn
 Great Sale Of Flour. DILLSBURYiS, Washburns, Christians and brands in the world and offer them for sale by the single barrel cheap the millers sell by the car sppv e6@ e6eap n Fahg FouF s y per barrel and upwards. Flour by the bag 6, 80 and soc
 Choice New York State Butter, m tuoS or 5O, 5U and 10 pounds at 22c or 415 pounds for S1
 Good Sweet Butter 200 pound.
 New Crop Teas 50 40, 90 and 20c pound, with china cup and saucer free.
 Pure Old Gov Java Coffee, 25c pound
 Best Baking Powder 30c.
 Best Syrup and Molasses, 50c a gallon, and Home EfaTFTGSH COAL always25 cents e ton cheaper
 than any other dealer.
 GEO. w. H. HUGHES, Independent Coal Dealer, 34 CHURCH STREET. moi