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Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-30
CHINA'S BAMBOO BEDS.

All classes of the Chinese, except the man darins and merchants, sleep even more roughly. It would be a very small estimate for the populous province of Kwangtrng, in which Canton is situated, that two million of its inhabitants sleep, pass their lives even, in boats-father, mother and six CT seven children, sometimes three generations, crowd ed together like pigs in a sty. Perhaps if teen or twenty thousand of tie Hong Kong Chinese pass their lives in the same manner. The bed in Chinese houses is platform hay ing mat like those of the Japanese. The pillow is often of bamboo. The mandarins provide themselves with six quilts or cover lets, filled with cotton or down, with mat treses similarly made, which they multiply till they have received the desired degree of comfort. With the common people of Chi na, as with those of all other nations from the Pacific to the north of Africa, the bed presents the same features. Sometimes it is the ground, sometimes a platform of bamboo or stone, softened with a mating, cloth or carpet, and almost always presenting similar peculiarities of hardness, dust and dirt.
 The East Indian and the Arab, while pre- senting the greatest pretensions to neatness. are the least cleanly. The general resem- blance of the bed found throughout Asia like the smilarities of dress, tools, agricul- tural implements, mills, boats and ships, diff fused with equal wideness, offers an almost virgin field of research to the writers on race and antiquities.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-30

"How my back does ache!" All diseases of 4he kidneys, retention of urine and female weaknesses are cured by Hunts Remedy. A standard specific and absolute cure is found in the great liver and kidney medi- cine, Hunts Remedy. Beware of limitations.
 oc26 3teod&W1t
Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-30
J. Mel Bassett SIS Chapel Street. sI

EDWARD c. BEECHER, Auctioneer, TRUSTEES SALE Central Improved and Unim-
 proved Real Estate. By order of the Probate Court for the district of New Haven and by order of owners the under ing October 31 1885 the following property, if not previously disposed of at private sale:
 AT 10 O'CLOCK.
 The PaIatfaI Residence,
 No. 65 Trumbull Street. The house is new combining all the latest and best improvements, in fine locality; surroundings erected by the late Dexter Alden this is par excel lent
 AT O'CLOCK, The dwelling house and lot No 5s Webster street, @ 90 feet deep.
 AT12o O'CLOCK, Three building lots on the south side of Rosette street. 60 feet west from Wilson street, having frontage of 30 feet by 15o feet deep each.
 EDWARD 0. BEECHER, oc27 St Trustee.
 FOR RENT. <HAs.=A HOUSE 4s Winthrop avenue Reftted and HRii pF''i-'eN '''' HOBART L. HoTCHKIss oc26eod6t 159 Church street. REAL ESTATE WANTED. hA BUILDING LOT or small farm wanted AMiit in exchange for a house in New Haven.
 R. E. BALDWEN'S REAL ESTATE AGENCY. SIS cHAPEI. STREET
 MONEY TO LOAN. Sums to Suit.
 Expenses Low.
 CHARLES H. WEBB,
 $50 CHAPEL STREET. Office open 7 to p. m., Monday, Wednesday and
 FOR SALE. %+A NEAR West Haven Center, two family &s;;; house, II rooms and barn. about one acre Of @H!is- land, well stocked with good fruit, grapes In Westvilie. two acres of land with fruit trees house and barn, Blake street; can be bought for
 RENTS. On Howe Portsea, Vernon, Sylvan avenue Or chard street and Elm street. Money to loan at and per cent No. 7o CHURCH STREET. RooMs ' s1S o'noe open evenings l.. F. GoMsTOCK.
 FOR RENT, A FIRsT-cLAss store in Church street, Posses ,'" 0" or before s 5S5EsS Ssss:
 FOR RENT. ate o ssose soo 'Ts tenant Possession at onee assf ply to s7 Sapef sreet aS oor h
 
 fhsA NEW COTTAGE HOUSE on Kimberly No. 125 Ward street, in ,od order; will rent low till May 1st. oaoon
 Room Benedict's Building
 FOR SALE, $+.A AT bargain, house and lot on Orchard %;; street. near Whalley avenue. Lot 4oxl2o. Also lot on Hamilton street, near Chapel street, VIII Oe S'II MERWfN's REAL.EsTATE OFFICE. o12 759 Chapel Street. For Sale-WeSt Haven. %@A House and lot $1 .OOO. Ea:i;I House and lot near horse railroad depot House and lot on Washington avenue, B., 800. Valus ble building lots on and near the line or horse ears at low prices. Apply to
 WALTER A. MAIN, oc8 West Haven.
 FOR RENT, 1s4==AA THE frame dwelling corner Lafayette and sl!l Prince St. It is in good condition and will be rented reasonably to good party.
 FOR SALE, VERY LOW, dwelling with store on Oak, also a frame building on Factory street Money to loan at per cent
 THOMAS O'BRIEN & CO.,,
 800 Chapel Street.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-30

District of New Haven ss Probate Court,
 October 29th, 1885. { TNSTATE of ELIZABETH B. FOOTE, late of H. New Haven in said District, deceased The Court of Probate for the District of New Ha- ven hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of said estate to ex hibit their claims for settlement Those who neg feet to present their accounts, properly attested within said time, will be debarred recovery. All persons indebted to said estate requested to inaka immediate payment to
 ADELBERT M. FOOTE, oc30 211w* Administrator.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-30
THE FRENCH BED.

The French bedsteads and beds, with the exception of some that have been modified along the principal highways of travel at the yearly demand of indignant tourists, are hereditary piece of furniture which respect for ancestral bequest and an utter ignorance of the elements of comfort inherent in the French character have bat slightly modified since the time of the Gauls. The first arti- cle of indictment of the French bed begins with the mattress. It is of wood, @ mean and stuffy substance for such q use, from which no amount of cleaning and prepara- tion seems ever to remove the oil or give the requisite degree of buoyanoy. The French mattress spreads out like pancake, project ing in slippery fashion over the bedstead OF both sides. To accomplish some object that the traveller can never divine, several of these mattresses are sometimes piled on one another. As they are never of the same size, sort of pyramid or terrace is formed, on whose summit the sleeply guest, tortured equally by the desire to sleep and the fear of falling passes night of brief intervals of slum Der, blended with reckless profanity.
 The vilest of all the appurtenances of the French bed is the round bolster. The pill low, though ordinarily hard, may be passed by with a few muttered curses; the bolster will admit of no such compromising of a fel ony It is utterly and ir1edeemably bad, senseIesS and inexc1Sable
Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-30
RUSSIA AND ITALY.

The Russian sleeps on his stove in the dress he has worn during the day, or possibly has not removed for years, unconscious of it's hardness by reason of the liquor with which he has stupefied himself.
 The Neapolitan sleeps on the pavement, not as much as formerly, for the useful occu- r,ltions have to ,rtain extent absorbed the lazzaroni since Italy entered on it's career of unity and freedom. Still in this great city of five hundred thousand inhabitants the number of poor people who, even if they have a roof to cover them, have no easier bed than this pavement-to whose hardness stone has elsewhere never attained-is incon- ceivable. As consequence the finest speci- mems of humanity are not to be found among the common people in Naples. As class they are small in stature, not well formed, and deformity is common among them; while the Italians who have been more deli cately and comfortably reared, those who have had some education, the middle and higher classes, are without question the handsomest people in the world.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-30
MARINE LIST. Donr HTurvxT HAVEN
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For Rent in West H aven,
 %@ HOUSE of 10 rooms, city and well water: MH:::I near church, school and horse cars, at SIS @@ssasl- l-per month Possession immediately. Suita- bic for two small families at slight advance on above price. Also one family house, with grounds, at SS per month. Inquire Of H. H, RICHARDS, at West Haven Lumber Yard. Oc30 3tf
Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-30

FOR SALE, %+.A AT bargain, 6 house and lot on Orchard EE:s.I street. near Whalley avenue. Lot 4u1lsu. EH!ll4 House contains 10 rooms. Also lot Hamilton street, near Chapel street, MERWfN'S REAL.ESTATE OFFICE, Straaf
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-08

COUNCIL met Thursday night. The
Finance Committee offered the fol-
lowing estimates for the year Water
Department $500; coal, &C., $3.50 !;
Pipes, &C., $3.50; officers salary and
policemen, $1,000 Sergeant's salary,
$500; Fire Dept, $500; Streets and
Bridges, $500; Counsel, 500; coal and
stationery, $50 keeping and cleaning
City hall and market house, S150 ex-
ira police, $50; Mayors fund for
cleaning streets, $3.50; commissioners
of election and rooms, $40 Sinking
fund, $4,000; light dept, S1400 print
ing, $500; incidental expenses, $500.
Total, SIT, 10000; estimated resources,
Sl9,605.75; leaving balance offs ,855.75
Mr.. w. A. Pitzer employed to make
out tax books for 1885.
Mr.. Grozinger reported lamp placed
corner Spring and John. Six lamps
ordered have been received.
Chairman Water Board reported
main pipe put on Spring and Boyd
Streets, and conduit from Meadow
Spring finished.
The special Committee on Faulkner
Library bequest continued, and EN- !.
powered to employ competent person
to make catalogue of books, and re-
port.
DIR. McSherry reported sewer on
John and College nearly finished, also
work on Raleigh Street going on S65
expended and $3.50 more required to
finish.
Petition for two lamps on High St.,
and North Queen at Trammelps store.
referred to Light Com.
Petition for extension of water
mains on South Mechanic Street, re-
ferred to Water Board.
Petition for lamp in front of M. E.
Church, referred to Light Com.
Petition ofcitizens regarding accept
anee of Faulkner Library beauest re-
ceived, and placed in hands of Library
Com.
Petition of residents on east side of
Tuscarora, to open road from rear of
G. M. Skaters store, Liberty ST., to
foot bridge over said creek to rear of
shops, referred to st. Com. rec
Water Board empowered to put in
pipe at once ON North Third st.
$50 appropriated for grading of Sec
oAu ~ @oVV ioI EdSt JOHu Sl0U Tor
Addition St.; S175 for Raleigh between
Burke and Spring; 5000 for grading
South HighSt., Ito be placed in hands
of st. Com.
G. o. Lambert allowed rebate of Sc
for time as member of Fire Dept.
Order drawn for SIS, reward offered
for detection of parties carrying off
gasoline lamp.
Chairman Water Board empowered
to purchase valve, &C., for Water
Works.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-08
GERARDsT0WN.

On Sunday morning, just as the gol-
den rays of the rising sun fell athwart
the western hills, a pale horse, the
name of whose rider is Death, visited
The home of our friends Morgan Nor
gan and Mary Morgan and bore from
thence their only, well beloved daugh-
ter Josephine. She was young lady
well know in this community and
those who knew her best loved her
most. Intelligent, cheerful and kind
she won the esteem of all with whom
she met. Only a mothers heart, a
fathers pitying breast, brothers deep
dwelling love or a fond uncle's tender
and lasting affection, can speak of the
love that was borne for her at home, or
can tell how sadly she will be missed
at the family gathering and many a
social circle will be deprived the
pleasure of her genial presence and
cheering voice. The beautiful words
of the sweet hymn which was sung by
friends at the grave while the clods
of the valley were being placed upon
the coffin,
g Oft we have mingled together,
sometimes in prayers and songs. Now
when we meet, this one we'll greet,
never gain in our throng," expressed
the sentiments of many touched and
rendered hearts. A vast concourse OF
friends listened to an earnest, impress
sive and touching discourse, delivered
in Christ Church,, Bunker Hill, OF
which she was a consistent member,
by Rev. Mr.. Gibson, on Tuesday morn
ing, and then
" Softly the form was laid sleeping
Under the cypress shade;
Sad though we be, fondly will we
Cherish the name of the dead"
Communion services will be held
in the Presbyterian Church of this
place on Sunday 9th inst. Preparatory
services ON Friday night previous.
Rev. F. M. Woods of your city and
Rev. Taylor Martin of North Caro-
lima are expected to be present.
Rev. ID. A. Foard will hold a village
campmeeting near Darkesville, COM
mencing Aug. 22d.
Mr.. and Mrs. Keit of South Caro-
lima, are visiting the father of Mrs. X
w. p. Cole, Esq.
Rev. E. F. Hetrick occupied the
pulpit of the M. E. Church, in this
place, on Sunday night last. Rev. F.
A Strother is improving somewhat,
though very weak. X.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-08
OAKTON.

Children's day as observed by the
M. E. Sunday School on last Sunday,
was quite a success.
Mrs. Allen and Miss Annie Tabb, OF
Louisville, KY, are visiting their
brother, J. w. Tabb, and other rela-
tives.
Messrs. c. w. and P. T. Keesecker
have returned from Mt. Union College,
expecting to teach Johnsontown and
Mingoe Schools.
Mr.. S. A. Keesecker has rented Mr..
Hedges shops at Johnsontown with
Mr.. Keesecker's experience as master
mechanic in the Oakton manufacture
ing Co., he will be able to do first class
work.
From the U. S. Commissioners Re-
port of Education, we see that w.
VAS average duration of School is
SO days, while that of Wisconsin is
175: of o. l55; Pa, SO; Md. 1919 /;
Mass. 17S, Con. 179 Ill. $50; r. L.
1874; n. Y. 176; N. J. 1872; there be-
ing but few States in the South hav-
ing a shorter School term than w.
Va. The average monthly salary
paid to teachers in w. Va, is S29.22,
with only four other States in the
Union paying so small a salary. Md.
pays an average salary of $40; O. S34 /;
N. j. S45; Mass. S6S.61 Ill. S42; Ney.
S89.l6. Wonld it not be to the inter
est of the Schools in this State to
lengthen the school term and raise
the teachers salary? Men will go to a
lawyer and state the facts of their
case but they do not presume to tell
him how he is to manage it; they
credit him with special professional
knowledge. They will call the physic-
ian when they are sick but they do
not insist on prescribing the remedy ;
they will go to the dentist, and show
him the tooth that aches, but they do
not presume to tell him how it is to
be drawn.
These very same men will lay aside
all this common sense when they
come to deal with their teachers, they
will ignore their own ignorance as
we'll as the teachers experience, and
in the wisdom of their own conceit
legislate teachers and pupils all into
bondage.
1t will be bright day for the child
rem when the professional training of
the teacher and the skilled Judgment
of the Supt. will be respected in their
spheres equally with that of the law
yer and the physician in theirs.
BONA FIDE.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-08

Frustrated industries and idle
labor with all their attendant evils
are stronger arguments against the
Democratic party than any that
could be formulated into words.
They are the legitimate fruits of the
distrust which pervades all depart
ments Of enterprise of the Democrat
ic party and its free trade tenden.
cies, and we fear the deplorable con-
ditlons which now exist will only be
aggravated for some time to come.
The country is paying dearly for the
experiment of d Democratic admin
istration. If only those who voted
to bring about this depressed state
OF affairs were affected, there would
be something like retributive Justice
in it, but like the rain, it must fall
upon the just and the unjust, and
drag all down to a common condi-
ton. The vitality of the country
may bear up under it for a time,
until the people can voice their re-
sentiments, but the amount of loss
and suffering that will be occasioned
in the meantime is fearful to con-
template Valley Firginian.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-08

After having brought about the
ruin of John Roach and his great
building industry, the Demo-
cratic free-trade journals are express
sing their sorrow for his misfortunes.
Political persecution, and nothing
else, was the cause of it. Secretary
Whitney knew the power of John
Roach as champion of protection
and supporter of the Republican
party, and it was to break him down
and neutralize his influence in the
fall election in New York that the
cruel warfare was made upon him.
But the blood of the martyr will be
the seed of the church. The aroused
Indignation of the laboring classes,
because of the disasters OF Roach,
will be more potential than all the
efforts and energies of the great
ship builder would have been. 1t
will cost the Democratic party from
10000 to 10000 votes in the Novem.
Der election in New York VaHeg
Vi,gindn.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-08
PARKERsBuRG. w. VA. An

PARKERsBURG, w. Va, Aug. g.
Mrs. Lucy Collins, of Caldwell, o.,
was Mrs. Gearing only FIVE years
ago. AT the beginning of the war
she was Mrs. John Addison. John
was her first husband, and he chang.
ed her name from Abbott in 1860.
When the war came on, in 1861.
John enlisted and went off into the
Army of the Potomac. He wrote
home often but at last ceased 70
write, and all his wife could learn
from the regiment was that John
turned up missing one night at roll.
call and had been given up for dead.
His widow came here, and met and
married John Gearing. Finally he
died and left her with three children.
the oldest being fourteen years old.
The widow Geafing then moved to
Caldwell, o., where she married
John Collins. A month ago she re.
ceived letter from John Addison.
her first husband. He says he was
captured and held a long time, and
when liberated wrote repeatedly to
his wife, but got no answer, and con.
Guided she was dead. He then en-.
listed in the regular army, where he
has been ever since. He accident.
ally learned that the wife was living
and had married Gearing, but he
Kept silent until he heard Of Gear
lng's death, and then wrote to her.
The letter, after nuch delay, reach
ed her. She then wrote to him, stat.
ing the situation, which was one of
perplexlty to all concerned. They
will be married again.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-08
RIEL'S SENTENCE.

Canada is about to commit "the
mean crime of the age" Riel is
tried for treason, and is convicted
and sentenced to be banged; and
though a weeping jury commend
him to mercy, the judge tells him
that he must expect no clemency,
but must prepare for the end, on
September 18th.
, Riel's crime. taken at its worst,
was like that of the Secessionists in
1860. 1t was rebellion against the
Dominion government, accompanied
with battle and bloodshed. Re was
on a small scale-yery small-the
Jefferson Davis of Manitoba. His
revolt, instead Of involving armies
of millions of soldiers on the two
sides, was an affair of few hundred
men. Instead of being measured
by years, it was measured By weeks.
And yet this republic knew how 10
complete by clemency the victory
won by arms. When it was propos-
ed to hang jefferson Davis for trea-
son, Horace Greeley, in the Tribune,
said that it would be the "mean
crime OF the age.n Greeley went on
the bond of Davis, and the Southern
leader has ever since been free.
When Andrew johnson proposed to
try Gen. Lee for treason, Grant
threatened to resign ifLee's parole
was violated. The results of this
noble clemency are felt now. The
South is as deeply touched by the
death of Grant as the North is, and
Confederate and Union generals
unite to bear his pail.
In view of these grand events,
how unutterably petty and cowardly
the trial and sentence CT Riel seem
Wisdom wonld see that Riel pardon.
ed would accomplish more in secur-
ing the paciiication of the revolving
sections than Riel hanged. There
was some Justice in the cause for
which Riel fought. The lands that
his people held under the Hudson
Bay Company's grants were taken
from them by the Dominion govern
ment by force when that company
sold out its lands to Canada. Riel's
men were resisting a land grab OF
rich spectators, who were favored
by the Dominion government. 1t is
these land grabbers that call for his
blood, to confirm their titles. III
Rlel should be hanged, there will be
a retribution sooner or later. There
are very few Southern men now who
do not regard the hanging Of John
Brown as mistake.-Americdn.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-08-08
A WRONG THAT RISES UP.

The Dolphin matter may become
Il standing source of trouble to the
Navy Department. Injustice never
will rest tranquil. Wrong will con-
tlnue to cry out for redress. The
alteration now going on between
the Naval Advisory Board and the
Dolphin Board of Examiners shows
very plainly that there may exist at
least valid difference of opinion
between competent judges as to the
merits or dement's of that ship.
There are two opinions everywhere.
The navy is divided-some standing
by the Secretary, and others favor
ing the acceptance of the ship as a
substantial fulfilment of the require
ments of the contract.
There are two aspects of this case
that may give trouble those Of the
law and those fthe facts. The re-
lection of the ship is based on the
facts as found by a board which
knew the Secretary desire to reject
the ship. The finding of this board
was foregone conclusion. It's Off
GERS understood how to find favor
with the department. But the facts
that they find are contradicted by
competent persons, and the ques-
ton cannot fairly be regarded as
closed.
The view of the law which declares
that the contract was controlled
by the law, and that, besides, the
contract was void, is one that car.
ries difficulties with it. Ifthere was
no valid written contract, then the
relations eff the parties must require
adjudication. Thus there are trou-
bles thickening both in regard to
the facts and the law. Injustice is
always troublesome.
The great desire of the Navy De-
partment had always been to score
a point against the former admins,
tratlon of that department. In
its haste to condemn a very fine
ship, which competent authorities
pronounce to be fully equal to the de-
mands made made upon her, the de.
partment did not carefully consider
the complications certain to arise
under any injustice in the decision
AS matters now stand, the navy is
dissatisfied and divided; the people
are dissatisfied; the. government is
in the tolls of complications woven
by itself, and the largest shipyard in
the country is made insolvent. And
the end is not yet.-American.