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Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-31
The Brides at Albany.

From the New York World
 It used to be that Niagara with the Horse shoe Falls was the great resort for newly married couples. But that was before the election. Now Albany has taken the place of Niagara and the executive chamber brings the luck that the Horseshoe Falls once did. It is hard to turn a dark corner in the capital suddenly without coming upon one of these loving couples. And they all come here to shake hands with the fortunate Governor and have him wish them luck. Tell them that Mir Cleveland is busy, that he cannot be seen for several hours, or days week, and they sit down to wait for him patiently and contentedly as if their only pleasure in life was to wait. And they always succeed in seeing him at last.
 You start out to see the Governor and it seems a simple matter You climb the hill to the capitol, climb one flight of solid stone stairs that make you feel important by echo ing loudly every footstep, and find yourself in front of a door whose ground-glas7 sign bears the hopeful words, Entrance to Exc cutive Chambers" Another legend just be- low says, F'Pull, l" and you begin to congratu- hte yourself on the easy way to the Cover nor You ''pull" and find yourself in long room lined on either side with men awkardly holding their hats and brides secretly holding their brand new husbands hands. Every body looks awkward and expectant. You join the little group at the other end of the room about red-headed boy who is jealously guarding door and explaining that the Governor cannot be seen for an hour. He is busy. "But," persists the lank, sunburned fellow from the country, ''I aint never even seen him yet and I've druv eighteen miles to shake hands," The little bride tilts her chin in the air and says with an air of great inn portance: FtWe are on our wedding trip and we've got to see him" Still the red-headed youth persists that everybody will have to wait and the little knot adds itself to the two rows along the wall. Finally, there is @ hustle st the inner door, the brides let go their husbands hands, the little one makes 8 quick dab at her bangs, the old farmer straightens up and Gov. Cleveland, tall, dig nified, the personifcation of manliness, comes forward and grGsps the hand of the nearest person. So through the room he goes, say ing pleasant word to this and laughing with that, until each has been spoken to and he has gotten back to the side of the red headed boy. The door opens, with a little good-by nod he disappears, the brides cuddle up against the arms of their lords and the satisned procession echoes it's way down the long corridor.
 And this process is repeated two or three times day.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-31
EVA rAcKAY.
The Ir1sh-Amerfcan Girl Who Is The
 Br1de-Elecs or A Prince.

The eIrfsh-Amerfean Girl Who Is The
 BrIde-Elect or A Prince.
 The news is confirmed that Miss Eva Mackay, the only child of John ". Mackay, is to be married to Ferdinand Colonna, Prince of Galatro. Every reader is more or less acquainted with the interesting career of the father of the bride-elect. He is gener- ally spoken of as 'eThe Bonanza King,p and his countrymen as rule regard with satisfac- tion, unmixed with envy, his possession of the enormous wealth which alone makes it possible for himto be prospectively the father in-law of prince. Mackay has been fortu- nate, it is frye; but it is also true that he has been industrious and enterprising, and his career is striking evidence of what can be done in this country by the humblest citizen in the way of advancing himself in fortune. Though Mackay began mining operations with pick and shovel, he is now worth many millions of dollars, and figures among the great capitalists of the world. He spends great deal of his time in this country, but his residence is in Paris, where his wife and daughter live in luxurious splendor. Besides his mining interests on this continent, MT. Mackay is a proprietor in the gorgeous Hoff- man House, New York, and owns leading rights in the trans<A tlantie cables.
 The marriage of his daughter with the Prince of Galatro will ally the representative of long line of aristocrats with girl of .lowly birth, but who is amiable and accom- plished and, as the reader sees for himself possessed of pleasing personal qualities. It will take place in short time, doubtless with a magn1fcence which characterizes fes- tivities in which the Mackays have part.
 Ferdinand CoIonna, Prince of Galatro, be- longs to the Neapolitan branch of the illus trious Colonna family, the Colonna- -Stighano He is popular no6leman, twenty seven years of age, handsome and elegant His family and that of the orsinis were among the most powerful families of Rome during the Middle Ages. Even then it was an am cient lineage. The Colonnas are said to own nearly 150 castles and. villas in 3taIy.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-31
rhe scribhIing Rriron.

tConstantinople Letter to New York Times
 The past of Constantinople still fingers in it's famous church of St. Sophia, which even the all destroying Turk has not besn able to rob of it's ancient beauty. Surrounded on every side with filth and rubbish, hemmed in by Turkish novels, defaced, mutilated, pro famed, it still looks as the calm, highbred feat ures of some doomed French noble may have looked amid the foul faces of the yelling rab- ble who were dragging him 70 the guillotine. The sou1less brutes who now hold it may whitewash it's splendid cornices and tear the precious stones out of it's beautiful mosaics and efface it's noble hescoes and hang hideous painted screens. inscribed with grabbed eastern characters upon its stately walls But when you look down from the great gallery of the dome upon the red porphyry columns that once adorned the Temple of the Sun at Baalbec and the eight f'green pillars'' of the Emperor Justinian, and the massive arches and walls of polished marble upon which the t'dim religious lightn that Milton loved falls through thevast circles of windows overhead and the magnificent eXpanse below, in which the crowds of worshipers look no larger than creeping ants, all these disfgurements are forgotten, and you feel that fEthe temple of the divine wisdom has indeed glory which is not of this world.
 Unhappily, it's defaeement is not wholly the work of Muzsulman hands. These are not Turkish names which are cut, Scratched, or penciled on the marble walls, just as one finds them on the pyramids of Ghizeh and 8 monument over the English dead at Sebasto- pol Into what corner of the earth, indeed has this brutal vulgarity not penetrateda Travellers still meet at times in the loneliest wilds of the Himalaya wasted, broken hearted Brahmin, whose robe isGJways drawn tightly around his emanciated shoulders to hide the fatal inscription "John Tompkins. 7TEsz5e7EeVss29 ; the dark brown skin. This il1-fated wretch was standing motion1ess on the bank of the Ganges, silently repeating his evening pray CT, when British tourist, mistaking him for the stump of tree, came up and carved his name upon him, and as it would have been a mortal sin for him to stir until prayer was over it was rough upon that Brahmin.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-31
DOU BTFUL.


 If a gas man were>to write poetry, would bis meter be correctA tALouisXiile Courier Journal.
 Dr.. Tanner is reported as living in board ing house in Chicago. Still at the starving business, it seems.-Texas Siftings.
 First lady of color 'Dinah, why doan you nebber wear white clo'es?" Second lady of color-''White clo'es? D'you think wan to look like 8 fly in cream jug"-Acta Colum- biana
 Sunday night-she: ''Cho1ly, which do He-'fWell, I don't know, Emmer; either will do me'' She-''I like wood the best. :" He-"And why do you like wood the best?' She-''B Because Cholly, it pops!''- Louisville Courier-Journal.
 'swhere've you been, Franka" ''Down to St. Louis.'' 'FWhat doing?" Running a photograph gallery" ''Did it worka'' F'Workl I should say it did. First day hung out sign, Babies taken without prior on my doorstep. "-Omaha Bee.
 Family complications: "How like your lit tie girl is to you, Mrs. Brown!'' ''How odd that you should think so. She's my hus- bands child by his first wife!'' '.A-A-at all events don't think I'm wrong in saying your little boy is the image of MT. Brown!'' ''He's my son by my first husband, Mr. I
 'fWhen were the pyramids of Egypt dis covered?" asked the teacher. F'In the middle ages" replied the scholar at the'foot of the class. "What do you mean by the middle ages?" further questioned the pedagogue. sEWhy, the pyramidal ages, of course" The boy is at the head now That is to say, he is earning board and washing in barber shop. -Yonkers Statesman.
 Miss Daisy Greene (to Jones, who has just been introduced} }-''What funny looking peo- pie one meets out, MT. Jones; only look at that frightful girl in the doorway" Jones' 'EI can't help thinking she is not so bad look her." Miss G.-''The awkward stick is my brother p Jones-''The frightfu1 girl is my sister p Tableau Columbian Spectator
 A figuring person says: 'tBy rough cal culation the corn on chess board, putting one grain on the first square, and doubling each succeeding one of the sixty-four, would fill l, ,S41 1875 barns, each holding 1000, GOO bushels of 100000 grains each" This no doubt is very interesting experiment, but it is not likely that many of our readers will try it, owing to their inability to procure a chess-board large enough.-Norristown Her ald
 ''Now, Maria, /" remarked Simpkins, as he pulled off his boots last evening, "times is gittin' durned hard, an we've got to econo- mize I guess you'd better try am git along without that new black dress you was talkin' about and fix over your last winters hat. l guess you can worry along that way albright. We've got to fix it somehow or other to cut down expenses or I don't see how Pm to buy cigars, an as for whisky, why I don't get more'n four or five drinks day as it is. Re member, Maria, economy is wealth. "-Ol City Blizzard.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-31
Wednesday, December aI, 1884.
THE sroUGHToN LOTTERY.

THE SEOUGHTON LOTTERY
 Stoughton, Massachusetts, is deeply stirred by an affair which is of general interest Three lclergymen of that town called the dis trict attorneys attention by letter to a pro posed lottery in connection with the Grand Army fair which was to be held in the town The ministers who made this open protest in behalf of law and morals are the Rev. c. H. Ever of the Methodist church, Rev. c. R. Penney, Universalist, and Rev. 0. O. Rotch, Congregationalist. These gentlemen have stirred up very unpleasant and diseredit- able disturbance Some of the angry defend of the lottery went far to send threatening letters to two of these ministers and their parish committees, warning them that unless the proceedings against the Grand Army were stopped their meeting houses would be burned down just so often as they might see fit to rebuild them. One letter also threatened to burn the house in which the Methodist minister lives. The members of the Grand Army very promptly and wisely denounced these letters, and have taken measures, it is said, to discover their authors, that they may be punished for their crime.
 But in the meantime the preparations for the fair and the lottery went on. Tickets were sold in considerable numbers, not only in Stoughton aud it's neighborhood, but also other States especially in the South and West. The amount to be distributed in prizes was announced as five thousand dollars, and the first prize was one thousand dollars in cash. The drawings were made secretly on Saturday evening, not, as it Is now said, by the officers of the post, but by persons not connected with it, who urged the managers of the fair to go on, s,roraisine to talks all t1 lzza bear all the cost. No prosecutions have yet been made, but District Attorney Bumpus, who took firm stand against these unlawful practices last year, and by his warnings pre- vented similar lotteries then, is an energetic and faithful officer, who cannot be turned from his duty by popular clamor.
 It will be interesting to see the outcome of this affair. There is no doubt that the min isters did right to protest against demoral- izing practice which is too common, even in church fairs. The passion for gambling is powerful and general enough without being encouraged by people who would not like to be directly charged with encouraging it.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-31
MORNING. DECEMBER 31, 1884
but experience has shown this to be g delu-

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 The streets of London are about to lose an other historic pile-Staple Inn, Holborn, by far the most picturesque of all the inns in London Several of the houses are four hun dred years old and were scorched by the great fire of London, which reached it's northwest ern limit just at this spot The venerable trees in the courtyard and the ancient build ings with their shade made resting place in summer such as nowhere else could be found in the metropolis. The WorshipfuI Ancients have sold the inn to railroad company for $4e0, 600, which will give them the handsome consideration of $60, 900 each The ehinking of the guineas heals the hurt that historic or antiquarian interest feels and the instinct of the nation of shopkeepers is once more vim dicated. People are hocking to the doomed spot, where they may be seen breeding pen sively in front of the window at which Sir Matthew Hale often sat-
 The Bonapartists are lamenting the death of General Fleury, who was the personal friend and companion of the pleasures of Napoleon IH Thegeneral died of guut at the age of sixty-nine after brilliant career soldier and high court official in the masquerade of the second empire. FIeury had many of the- qualities of Morny; above all, . talent of being decorative and showy His whole life was manifastation of chic from the French point of View. When he attained his majority the first thing he did was to spend his patrinony at Paris as fast young man about town; then he entered the army, fought bravely in Algeria, was wound ed, decorated and promoted from grade to grade. When Napoleon III was amusing himself in London he met Fleury, who be- came the companion of his pleasures, and subsequently played an important role in the coup d'etat. During the empire he achieved all the honors he could desire, and the revo- lution of 1870-71 found him division gene ral, senator and ambassador at St. Petersburg, where he astonished the Russians by the splendor of his >equipages. The general remained up to the last the ele- gant gentleman he had been in his days of glory. He was one of the best known men in Paris, charming talker, most distin- guished looking man, and a sort of venera- b1e AIeibiades. General F1eury leaves mass of memoirs, which, in spite of the re- serves which he has made, form the private history of the presidency of Prince Louis Ma poleon, and then of the empire, written by the man who was most continuously and in timately connected with it.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-31
COMMUNICATIONS.
The Boulevard.

To the Editor of the Evening Post :-
 I see good deal of opposition to the bou- levard in the council. I think now IS the time to set it agoing. There are so many of us poor labering men out of work, it would give us job, and they could get it much cheaper than when times are brisk, and it will save the town paying the poor out of work. am sorry that Mayor Lewis is going out. He is good friend of the working men, and he tried to hurry it along. Your paper has good deal of influence, and you can help it along. I wish the work could be immediately begun, for it would do much good. A LABoRING MAN.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-31
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Albany Express is entitled to the championship in typographical blundering this year. It remarks. -"We were made to say that our political organization had man aged to monopolize all the inspectors in many instances and thus to perpetrate frauds and prevent the discovery of the perpetrators" {" and it hastens to explain that 'tou1" should be ''one."
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-31

The superiority of American dredging ma chimes, which has been shown in the work on the Panama canal, has led to orders for them by foreign governments. The fast of these is from Spain. A drag boat, with screw pro- pel1er of hundred horse power, five iron barges and two towboats have been called for to be used at the port of San Juan, Porto Rico Three months are allowed for sending in proposals and eight months thereafter for building the apparatus.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-31

The claim is made for Ludwigsburg, Ger many, of having produced for the cathedral at Riga, Russia, the largest organ ever con structed. There are in it 1000 pipes and 124 stops, with pedals, Stc., approximately numerous. The organ is sixty-fve feet high, the largest pipe being thirty-two feet long and the smallest half an inch. The instru- ment is described as having very complete ''swellp arrangement, allowing the increase and diminution of sound to be effected with peculiar perfection
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-31
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Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-31

The discovery has been made that Colonel Bob Ingersoll's reference to MT. Blaine as ''the plu7Ned knight" was not original. The expression was used by John A. Andrew in the Chicago convention of 1860 in nominat- ing Lincoln, when the orator said of the rival candidate, William H. Seward, ''that in the thickest and hottest of every battle there would be the white plume of the gallant lead CT of New York;
Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-31
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Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-31

The mystery of many hitherto inexplica- ble accidents to railroad bridges seems to be in fair way of solution. State Geologist Collett, of Indiana, has for years had theory that the best of iron, when subjected to con tinuous strain, would undergo structural changes that would after time render it's use dangerous, and it is announced that systematic investigation which he has con. ducted confirms this theory beyond question. On one railroad bridge he found that the bottom parts of the vertical strain pieces were crystallized for from two to four feet, and if they had not been replaced with sound metal catastrophe would have been ineyita- ble. It used to be comforting belief that an iron bridge was Fall righto indefinitely,
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The most prominent of the candidates for the assistant clerkship of the House is Mr. William J. McConvilIe, of Hartford. MT. McConville has been clerk of the Common Council of Hartford for the last four years, and this year received the notable compli- ment of reelection by unanimous vote. He is well fitted for the place he is seeking, being good reader, acquainted with parlia- mentary usages, accurate and courteous. He is young man who has won the respect of the people among whom be lives by his in- tegrity, industry and well directed efforts to make the most of himself and his opportu- mites. He was candidate for the position of assistant clerk last year, and would proba- ply have been elected had there not been two candidates from Hartford