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Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04

gent of soldiers had grudge against M. de Roepstorf, in consequence Of dubious accusation which had been brought against him by @ native watchman. The vindlct1ve hsViidar lay in ambush for the superInten- dent, and as the unfortunate getleman was riding past the barracks the havildar fired at him and shot him dead. The murderer at once blew out his own brains.
 The hapless Madame de Roepstorff, who had been riding few yards behind her hus- band, found herself widow, three hundred miles by sea from anyone to speak te, aL d with two hundred convicts virtually at large to deal with. To complicate the agonizing difficulty of her position, the native soldiery and the native police were on the worst of terms. But tho heroism of the '' Mem Sahib" made her mistress of the situation. She had her husbands body carried to his bun galow and afterward buried; she dispatched 8 native craft to Port Blair, the capital of the Andamans, with two constsbles to report the tragedy which had occurred she took com mRnd of the station, she ordered all reports to be made to herself and kept her ferocious flock in perfect order until, seven days after wards, the acting commandant at Fort Blair, with some officers and the chaplain, arrived at Camorta. Then, but not until then, the brave heroine broke down; and when the chaplain read the burial service over her husbands tomb she flung herself the grave and had to be removed by force. Here was the story of the schoolmasters s daughter again, but writ most tragically large
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04
A GeorgIa Newspaper Paradise

Correspondence of the Philade phia Record The paradise of the lazy is found in the average Georgia daily newspaper office, " said my Georgia friend. q remember last spring calling on the eiitor of daily paper in thriving little town, about five o'clock in the evening, just es he was going home. went with him to hiS home, where We had supper. After supper we trifed with black bottle and some cigars until seven o'clock, when arose and offered excuses for retiring upon the plea that did not desire to inter fore with his newspaper werk. You don't interfere he said; we're going to take 8 drive.' Sure enough, we were soon moving rapidly behind good trotter, under 8 de
 li2htfully starlit sky. Returning about ten o'clock, we looked ct the black bottle again, and then lit cigars and exchanged stories on the veranda. I was interested that l did not mark the flight of time Some time af- ter midnight started up suddenly and said 1 must be going to the hotel, and begged his pardon for keeping him so long from his work. Nonsense, he said, i'm not going to the office any more tonight. I'm going to bed, and SO are yon, and not at the hotel either. Come inside My dear sic, burst out, who does your work at the office? l saw no one but man and boy there.' You saw the foreman and assistant foreman he replied, pufing lazily long rings of smoke. That's my whole working force, The paper is all ready at five o'clock in the evening. They come around again about four o'clock in the morning and put the paper to press
 If there is anything in tho box they put 1t in type.' But who puts things in the box?' said I, tortured by curiosity. Oh he sai nonchalantly, the town policemen when there is anything When they make an rest they put 1t in the box-if they don't foreat' he added with delicious naiYete.'
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04
Bad Little O'Hara.

A Wick ed Small Product ofCherry Street
 who has Gone to the House of Refuge.
 From ths New York sun.l
 Giovanni Chiorazza of 20 Roosevelt street was knocked down in Cherry street on the night of Dec 23 and robbed of his watch and chain and $37. John Ward. 19 years old, of 23 Cherry street. and John O'Hara, |: years old of 21 Cherry street, were arrested O'Hars, a small slender boy, with an express sion of almost infantile innocence upon his pale face, plsadsd guilty vest, rday in the General Sessions. Then Ward was put on trial for the robbery of Chiorazza. O'Hars was called as a witness fer the defence He testified that he ''put up the job" to rob the Eyetalian," but he was not big enough or strong enough to carry it out. So he asked young man to knock ChiorRzza down so that he could rob him. Ward had nothing to do with the robbery
 ''How many times, my little friend, :" asked Assistant District Attorney Fellows, the prosecutor, "have you besn locked up on a charge of stealiins ?'
 Four times, I guess" the boy answered "but I got out every time"
 "Yes, I know" Mir. Fellows went on ; ''and you got out of this court room the other day, without asking leave, by climbing over the benches at the back of the room, while the officers were not watching you, didn't you!''
 D0lCu0f IIIO l Oi(l, WAS But got ketched again by that ere cop and he gazed resentfully at poRderons policeman outside the bar.
 Why didn't you throw away the watch as we'll as the chain?" continued Mr. Fellows D Why did you keep the stolen watch?"
 :" Cause I forgot ter throw it away, " O'Hara answered. |" Betcher life I'd thrown de whole business away if I'd a thought of it p
 The jury disagreed, and Ward was reman- dei to await retrial. Then O'Hara was arraigned to receive sentence under his plea.
 "O'Hara," said Judge Cowine," "I think that you are the hardest specimen of boy hood that I ever saw st this bar. Owing to your age, can only commit you to reform atory institution, the House of Refuge. I hope that the authorities will keep you there until you are of age, and 1 wish they would keep you there for fourteen years iDstead of seveD."
 As O'Hara was led out Of tha court room he turned and made face at the policeman who arrested him. In the hallway he said scornfully to the cout officers, |" The Judge can't give me noae of bis kids. They can't keep mo for no fourteen years at the House Of Refuue.p
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04
Woman's Pluck.


 A magazine writer of the last generation once told a story of boarding school full of big and unruly boys, the head master of which fell suddenly and seriously ill. Dis organization ruled in the estsbishnent; the terrified ushers were unable to maintain order; mutiny and barring out seemed inn minent, when the doctors daughter, little maiden of sixteen, resolutely seized the reins of authority, seated herself at her papa's desk, scrupled not to use the wand of chastisement, coerced to submission the biggest and unrulisst of the boys, infused fresh confidence into the assistants, and kept the school going, model of good discipline, until her papa got well.
 Truth is strange than fiction, and heroine of type far more exalted than that imagined by the magazine writer has been found in the wife-now unhappily the widow-of M de Roepstorf, gentleman of Danish extraction, belonging to the Uncoyenanted Civil Service, lately the superintendent in charge of the convict settlement of Oamorta, the capital of the Nlcobar Island in the Bay of Bengal There are two hundred native desperadoes Of the very worst type at Camorta, with only thirty soldiers of the Madras Native Infantry and like numbsr of police to guard them A haVildar or native officer of ths contin-
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04
OUR FEBRUARY
 SALE.

ITS EXTENT-Our entire stock if the people will.
 IFS TIME LIMIT-Till the 22d O1 February.
 ITS METHOD-TO mark down our regular first class stock of goods, putting the new prices beside the old in plain figures. To give gen. uIne bargains in good goods, and not to in rodnce j b lots of ruh- Dish for the sake of 8 cheap effect. Remnants to be taken out of reg
 ular stock and put on special counters. mark ed by the piece. ITS PURPOSE - To clear our Shelves and fOrtify our excheq- uer in anticipation of Spring Clouds now coming forward and soon to be paid f TT.
 ITS PRTNCIPLES-T take what we can get for the balance of our Winter Stock The profits of the season have been made. and the only question now is to get rid ofthe remainder f stock. There fore in putting on the new prices we do not think of what the aTti- cles cost, or what it is worth. but what price will be CERTAIN to sell it NOW, right off.
 SOME PLES-CIOaks that were the last time you looked at them $75, to-day you will find marked $59; some that were $46 you may now get for $25-that is SaN- h there are not many. A lot of very desirable mantles that you saw last week marked $14 you will now find ticketed $1O Seal Plush clOaking that was SIS a va d you can now have for SIS. Ch1ldren's WOOlen Stock ings, fine French Goods that were all the way from 5Oc to $1 a pair, you can now get for just HALF THE OLD PRICES. All our remnants of Silks and Dress Goods have been bundled up and laid on 8 counter near our east door, with prices marked on each piece that range from 8 fourth to three-fOurths of the former price, mostly about 8 half Blankets for a5s pair, the selling of which at $S.6O 8 pair made our competitors feel bad These are but a very few exam ples of what we are doing. You must come every day if you moan l to ge' the benefit of our present | operations, for we shall be every day making lower prices as we see occasion NOTLUE ESPECIALLY The ex- tremeIy low prices at which you can buy Bieached and Brown Cotton ShSetir gs and PilIOw-cas- ! ingS, CalIcoes, Gtngha ms Seer | suz kers and Shirtings. J.N.Adann &Co.l
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04
Causes of Italian Emigration

U. s. Consul HouGhwout, writing from | Naples to the State department, says that | the emigration of Italians is causing great 1 anxiety to the home government: 'tIn
 order to properly arrive at the causes of this l ever increasing emigration, the Italian gov
 ernment made certain inquiries of the pre- fects of the various Italian provinces. The questions were of the following nature: Is it
 destitution of the peasants which is the cause
 of the emigration, is it the work of the
 agents of emigration? Is it true that the peasants who leave Europe dispose of their possessions before they go and take their families with them? What are the effects of emigration upon the question of wages, upon the real value of lands and, in general. upon the question of agricultural economy?
 1.-The answers to these questions varied according to the provinces. For the most part emigration has been caused by destitu- tion In some places it is caused by desire on the part of the emigrRnt to better his condition. This is the case in Upper Italy. In the province of Turin the emigration is mostly of 8 temporary nature, and is caused by destitution, the unproductiveness of the
 soil. and the lack of work. In the province of Genoa it is caused by destitution and a de- sire for assured work
 "Many are called to America by their rela-
 tfons. In the province of Genoa the eoigra
 ton has caused an increase of wages, and in
 mountainous portions the want of farm hands
 has been seriously felt In the province of Bergamo the state of affairs is the same as in the provinces already mentioned The province of Brescia shows state of affairs somewhat different. There the emigration takes place toward the European countries,
 and the emigrants eventually return to their native land.
 ''In the province of Milan the emigration
 is caused by the discontent of the working
 classes; and, says the prefect of that province,
 by the increase of the population, to which must be added the dim1nution in the price of
 agricultural products It seems, however,
 that in this province where those who culti-
 vate the soil share in the products thereof,
 the emigration seems not to be considerable.
 Such is the case in Tuscany, in the provinces
 of Arezzo, Florence, Grosseto, Leghorn,
 Sienna, and in Rome; in fact, from Central
 Italy the emigration is slight In the follow ing provinces the emigration is caused by lack
 of work and the high prices of provisions,
 viz: Parma, Piacenza, Ravenna, Massa,
 Carrara, Pisa, Ancona, Mace-ata, Aquiila,
 Beneventura. Caserta, Naples, SaIerno, Mes sina, and Trapani."
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04

former prominent contractor in New York city said the other day that the price paid by the city for wooden pavements was five dollars per yard, of which fifty cents went to the aldermen, ,fftycents tothe common councilmen, and twenty five cents to the con troller. which still left the good fat sum of three dollars and seventy five cents per yard for the contractor.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04

The wicked types are still at it. The Washington correspondent of the Boston Post wrote that Sherman was 'ta strong man but very sly" By the aid of the intelligent compositor and the accurate and sleepless proof reader 'fsIy'' came out ''shy."
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04

Waterbury wants union depot for the New York and New England and the Nauga- tuck railroads.
 man in the employ of David Beecher. Shelton, has split his foot open badly with an axe while chopping a tree in the woods. He was carried to Dr. A. Besrdsiey1s ofnce in Birmingham, and the wound dressed.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04
OPERA and FIELD GLASSES SPECTACLES and NOSE
 GLASSES

Of every description mount ed im Gold, silver, steel, She'll, CellulOfd and.Rubberi skeading Glasses and Mag milf ying Lemses for BOtani- cad work, Microscopic ma- GertaH, slides and Cover Glasses, A5raWiDg ImstrG1- menus, " Squares, 'Erian- gses, Curves, Drawing pa. pers and EmRseFiaH of afl kinds for College, School, and Private use.
 1n our Optical department we manufacture On the premises ali QUIT specfaa work. and have every faciE. ify for mounting Ocuaf~ts' prescriptions, and doing repairing promptly anu we'll.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04

Two civil-rights bills have been introduced in the Rhode Island legislature, one intended to afford protection to colored people and the other to foreign born citizens.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Keely motor will surely be ready to 'tmote" by the last of this month, that is if nothing happens to prevent.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04
rtzXEYs.
CHICKENS,

A0 N E Sc Sn ANxAhN Be Fine 1rkeys, fn1l dressed, at 22o pound. Fine ckans, fult dressed, at l8c pound. God . Nen4 full dressed, at 16c pound. The Fi-orC cached elery at 15c bunch The finest Tape Cod Cranberries st 16c quart. Fine kiln-dried eets, at 4ac pix. FRUIT. FRUIT. FRUIT. Oranges. fine two drz for 25c. Finest Valencia Oranges, 20c dog. Lemone at your price. or loo dog The finest Florida Gran es at SEo dog. BUTTE4. BUFFER. BUTTER inc Tobie Butter, at 35c ID. Nice Table Butter, at 25 and BOG ID. Good Cooking Butter, 8 lbs for soc.
 MISCELLANEOUS, Fiuest new crop New Orlesns Mo asses, 62c gal, Good Porto Rico Holasses 56c gal. Nice Cooking Molasses, 40c ga. Fine Syrup at 4sc gal A fue ot of pure Maple Syrup, soc can. A nne lot If pure Maple Sugar, 16c h. Another reduction on the price of sugar and dour. Extra fine EOaporated Peacher, 1sc 10. EA .ra fine Eva porated Apples, 16c 1b. T he finest PruneR at your own price. Three pounds best baking Beans for 25c. We offer big bargains in damned Fruits and Vegeta-
 ble- Get our prices. New White Clover Hol ey in the comb at 17c ID. Fine cl an, large cooking Raisins at Sc lb. Fine Full Cream cheese at 10c ID. Good Ohe-Ee at Sc lb. Everything way down. Rock Bottom Prices.
 D. M. WELCEH & SON, NOs. 2S and 80 Congress Avenue.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04

Keenan, the county clerk of New York city, has admitted before committee of the legislature that his fees for searches last year netted him $66 900, and other perquisites S13, 700; his salary is 5000, and the total amount he received for his services last year was $s2, 700. This is pretty fair pay, and it is not surprising that Mir. Keenan objects to having it reduced.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04
SournaI arto Courier.
SINGLE COPIES TWO GENTS.

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 12 CENTS WEEK, 42 CENTS MONTH, $500 A YEAR THE SAME TERMS By MAIL.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04
SKIN CURE.

It mahes the skin white, soft and smooth; remover tan c freckes and is the BEST toilet pressing IN T HE WORLD. Elegantly put up TWO bolt es in package, consisting of both internal and exter nal treatment.
 All frst-cass druggists have it. Price Sl per package cy-it is the cnly geuniEe "Sktn Cure and should beware of the various remedies which have bsen struggling for existence, and now endeavor to ride icto popularity by aivertising themselves as 1.-The Great Skin Cureg' There is only one, and that is Dr. Bensons. Be sure and get it. "Ina happy to say your Skin Cure has cured n,g Eczema Of tte scalp of four years' standing" Jno A Andrews, Attorney at law, Ashton, H. 4-6 'sl ''For four years 7 su8ered dgomy f q sktn disease. Your !SEin Care cured ne. 0. B. Me- on aid, PlanteIsvll.e, Ala Nervous dyspeptic headache cured by Dr. c. W |.
 Fer sons Cs.ery and ChamoDile Pils.
 O. N. Crittenton, Sole wholesale Agent for Dr. 0.
 ". Benson's Remedies, lis Fulton St., New York. jaSO cod
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04

It is expected that the Morrison tariff bill will be offered in the House to-day. The general purpose of the measure is to reduce existing duties twenty per cent. Further provisions are that no tax on cotton goods
 shall exceed fifty per cent and no tax on metals and woollens shall exceed sixty per
 cent. It will also be provided that no rsduc- ton shall be made below the Merrill tariff of 1861. This bill provides for 8 reelection of l about thirty five millions in the revenue.
 Professor Felix Adler proposes to remedy | the evils of the New York tenement house system by 8 reduction of the proprietors' profits to about three per cent, the balancs
 of the net rentals being applied to the i'm 1 provement of the houses, insurance of the l tenants against hard times and ultimate pur chase of. the houses in their interess. Pro | lessor Adler does not tell how grasping land lords are to be turned into angels of benevo- fence.
 The death of Wendell Phillips removes B man who has done grand work. He has
 always been ready to do battle for the poor and the oppressed. As an anti-slavery agi-
 tator he made himself social exile, and no
 man except it may be, William Lloyd Garri-
 son, was more hated by the shareholders and
 those who sympathized with them. He used
 his extraordinary oratorical powers with trs-
 nendons effect in the anti-slayery fight. He
 was not always wise, but he was brave man
 and always on the right side of great moral questions. Such men as he are needed in 8
 timfd and sordid age.
 rh. l.,5 ,,-ant. ,zhich 4I,a houae declared
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04

The land grants which the house declared forfeited last week amount in all to twenty
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04
D. s. QIennev Q Son

No. 16O State Street. New Haven Iuportsrr ard Wholesale DealorE in every description
 Of ECMRl1stl. EEsnch and AmOrLc&Es Coach Window and Picture Glass. V3rn 1Bh, Oils, PainEs and Dye Stufrso iaIs GAW
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04

A Wick ed Small Product ofCherry Street
 who has Gone to the House of Refuge From ths New York Sun.l
Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-04

rHE LARGEST DAELY NEvysEAREH. Ea THE CITY.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-30
Canine Intelligence.

Passengers on an afternoon train from
Springfield, Mass, daily witness i'll
Westfeld an instance of canine intelli-
gence that is worthy to go on record.
Soon after the train passes a trap-rook
quarry, on the outside of the track used
by eastward bound trains a dog can be
seen racing along with the cars until a
paper is thrown off by the baggage
master. The dog instantly seizes it,
and, after giving bark of acknowledge
ment, trots down the embankment to
the house of his owner, not far away.
The sagacious animal Is apparently of
Newfoundland breed, and for three CT
four years has acted "a news carrier il
the way described. Every day except
Sunday, summer and winter, he goes to
his post on the track at about the time
the train is due, and there awaits the
throwing OF the paper. 1t is said that
he not only knows the honr when the
trains should come along, but also that
on one day in seven there is no need of
his services. Apparently the deg has
also learned to know the whistle of bis
train from that of any other, for if in the
road or yard when the whistle is sounded
half mile down the track he rushes for
his station,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-30

| public shall In any manner use this or
ganlzatlon for partisan purposes, and no
discussion of partisan questions shall be
| permitted at any of it's meetings, nor
| shall any nomination for political office
| be made. Art. XII, CHI. v. I further
| stated that any comrade so offending
would be brought to account. There is
no evidence that this rule has been vio-
| lated. We all understand the necessity
OF guarding against the introduction of
political questions which would most
surely divide us, but beyond providing in
such plain terms, and having it known
| that we propose carrying out the law, we
| cannot go. We cannot be responsible for
| every indiscTeet utterance in conventions
or on the stump. The Grand Army is a
| general term, often used when it can
| have no application to our association,
| and we cannot muzZle every speaker or
suppress the reporter. Let it be under
| stood, too, that we have not surrendered
| all rights as citizens because we are men,
bers of the Grand Army. We have a
| right to go to church, as others have, or
| stay at home. We have a right to attend
| political meetings, take part in them, and
as nominee, be the subject of the plau-
dts of one side-the abuse of the other
| ALI these things we may do as citizens,
but not in any way because of member
| ship in the Grand Army. There is one
| point on whit h word of caution may be
| proper. Each comrade may wear his
Grand Army badge when and where he
| pleases, but | submit that the wearing of
the badge at any political meeting is III
bad taste. Let each one, therefore, re-
| fraln from this. The association of men
of all shades of political belief in our en-
campments and posts, in all our reunions
as to-day, proves to all who have eyes
and ears, that this Grand Army is not in
any manner political organization.
During the reading and at the
conclusion of the reference to the
newspaper attacks upon the commanders,
Gen. Logan entered the room and was re-
ceived with enthusiastic cheers, being
introduced by Gen. Beath as the first
COMMANDMENTS chief of the G. A. r., and
was again loudly applauded as he took a
seat with the Illinois delegation. The re-
ports of the several staff officers were
next read and distributed to the dele
gates in attendance, preceded by the in
PRODUCTION of Gems. Sherman and Logan
from the platform in the midst of approx
ing plaudits.
THe NEW OFFICERS.
Commander-in-C Chief, John S. Kountz,
John P. Rea, Minneapolis, Senior Vice
Commander.
Ira B. Hicks, New Britain, Conn.,, Ju-
nior Vice Commander.
L. M. Shanafelt, Michigan, Chaplain.
w. B. Hall, Pennsylvania, Surgeon.
woMAN's RELIEF CORPS OFFICERS.
President-Mrs. Kate B. Sherwood,
Toledo, 0.
Senior Vice President-Mrs. Sarah E.
Fuller, Boston, Mass.
Junior Vice Pesident-Mrs. T. J. An
derson, Topeka, Kas.
Treasurer-Mrs L. A. Turner, Boston
Mass.
Chaplain-Mrs. Annie Whittenmeyer,
Philadelphia.
Inspector-Mrs Sarah G. Nichols, Au-
burn, n. Y.
Conductor Maggie J. Sias, Pitts
burg Pa.
Guard-Mrs. Lewis Malsh, Minneapo-
lis
Portland, Maine is the next place of
meeting.