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Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08
SESK FED.

A policeman is curious creature. H. knows & rogue when he sees him, but very often he doesn't seize rogue when he know: him.-Judge.
 A new thick guipure for trimming woolen costumes is called ''hhartoum." It ought tc | be. most awfully cheap, it has fallen so often Burlington Hawl,eye.
 In one species of spider the female is 30( times larger than the male. It is unnecessa- " to remark that the husband never gets in to bed with his boots on.-Boston Globe An Ohio paper contains the heading in display type ''The State at Large" It is not stated how it escaped, but it certainly was very careless in somebody.-New York Graphic.
 We are in danger of having too much cul- ture in this country. An esthetic buff color ed pug recently went mad in Boston because his mistress dressed him in a light green hlanket.-Graphic.
 A mendicant approached man on the cars the other day and said, ''Dear sir, have lost my leg" to which the man replied as he hur- ried away: My dear friend, 1 have not seen anything of it. .'-Newport News.
 The very air we breathe becomes a nuis- ance when it is worked over and damned through brass instrument by young man who is fitting himself to become d member of a brass band--New Orleans Picayune.
 Pieces of wedding cake sent through the mails seldom reach their destination. What becomes of them is not stated, but it is ru- mored that several dishonest postmen have recently died in great agony.-Philadelph Call!
 Some years ago a lady in Boston died Her husband, being strong Spiritualist desired to hold communication with his departed, and inquired if she happy. "Oh, yes, was the reply, 'I am happy here; yet, after all, it isn't Boston,"
 Do you know why you and George re- mind me of two shades of one coIor:' asked young lady of a companion who had been engaged for good many years ''No," was the reply ''III tell you then. It's because you don't match. .'-Exchange.
 Professor Brown asks: ''If twenty-six let ters, through the operation of the law of per mutation, can give the 80, 900 words in Web ster's Unabridged how many expressions can the ffty-ive animated muscles of the human face give:" The Professor can determine this problem by carefully watching the face of Democratic office seeker when he is told by the new President that it is his intention to retain a Republican in the position the Democrat is seeking Herald
 LAW, Miss Kate remarked Mr. de Dudier to pretty young woman at the ball. Twill you awbserve the howrid dancing.' Don't be too severe, MT. de Dudier; they are doing the best they can.' E'Pawssibly they ah you know, Miss Kate, that it wequiahs bwains to be weally fine dawnsah." ''Indeed!' she said, looking hard at him for she had friends on the floor. ''Yes, Miss Kate, it is weally twue.'' ''Why, Mir. de Dudier, I'm surprised; everybody says you the very best dancer in our set, don't you know" It might not have been very polite, but it threw his spinal column 90 degrees out of the perpendicular. Merchant Traveller.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08
Thursday, January s, 1885.
RELIEF FOR DIsTsLLERs,

The whisky distillers who have got over loaded with their product have been trying hard during the last two years to get Con- gress to do something for their relief, but thus far have not succeeded. However, Sec retary McCulloch has issued circular which will not, it is thought, displease them. This circular is based on the recent opinion of the Attorney General in which it is held that at the expiration of the three years bonded period the owners of distilled spirits can re-
 tain them in warehouses upon filing decla-
 ration of purpose to export the same and up-
 on giving a transportation bond to do SO. The secretary has arbitrarily fixed Seven
 months the limit of what may be called
 the export period. This action will give
 the owners of bonded whisky material relief.
 There are government officers, says the
 Washington correspondent of the Boston
 Advertiser, who say that if, at the end of
 the seven months granted by Secretary Me
 Culloch, the owners of distilled spirits, in
 duced by 8 favorable home market, conclude
 not to export, but to bring their goods out
 of warehouses for consumption, they can do so simply upon the payment of the 9O- cent tax. "They will suffer no penalty, and the government will in effect have loaned them for seven months, without interest the aggregate amount of the tax. This view of the sub ject is also entertained by some of the representatives of the whisky men. If it be correct, then the Treasury department. aided by the Attorney General, has by mere regulation extended the bonded period seven months and can extend it seven more months at will. Whatever may be the ultimate re- sult the immediate effect of the circular is to retain ill warehouse about 5,000,000 gal Ions of whistles, the three years bonded period of which expired to-day Tuesday,, and it will similarly affect about 15,000,000 during. the remaining months of the current fiscal year."
 The question as to whether the government can, at the end of the seven months, compel the owners of whisky held nominally for ex- port to export the same is, the correspondent declares, already engaging the attention of government officers. There is section of the Revised Statutes which provides that if any distiller, rectifer, wholesale liquor dealer or manuIdcUuref or clgarS SnalI knoWlngly or wilfulIy omit, neglect or refuse to do, cause to be done, any of the things required by law in the carrying or conducting of his business, or shall do anything by this title prohibited, if there be no specific penal ty or punishment imposed by any other tion of th1s title for the neglecting, emitting or refusing to do, or for doing or causing to be done, the thing required or prohibited, he shall be punished by fine and forfeiture of his goods.
 It will be interesting to see how this plan works. The whisky men can be trusted to take full advantage of it if it will do them any good
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08
French NOyeIfSts.

The French novelist, for all his so-called
 realism, takes neither his characters nor his scenes from everyday life, his contention
 being that, were he to do so, he would pro- duce work so insufferably dull that no che would buy It. Writing, not as we do virgin ibus puerisque, but for readers who like the dots to be placed upon the is, he sets before them succession of pictures from the life,
 drawn often with great power and insight
 into human nature, nearly always with scru- pulous exactitude of detail, and asserts what cannot be denied-that they are true
 pictures. It is pity that they are usually
 unpleasant pictures, and that they are liable
 to be misinterpreted by readers who adopt
 the too common course of arguing from the particular to the general. There is no occa- sion to dispute the accuracy of the scenes
 portrayed i'll such books as .'Le Nabab'' or
 'Les Rois en Exil,' or to doubt that the au- thor could, if he chose, pcint to the living or
 dead originals of his chief characters and de-
 clare that he has maligned none of them; but
 when we find him, year after year, dwelling
 and insisting upon what is most ignoble in his fellow-creatures, we surely entitled to accuse him of 8 suppresio veri and a suoges- tio fa1si. With the single exception of ssTar- tarin de Tarascon," :" which is a burlesoue. I do not remember one of M Daudet's books. from Nfromont Jeune ct Risler Aine'' down 10 oapho," his last and infinitely his worst production, which does not leave behind It profound impression of sadness Lest la faute de Ia vie, qui dicte,' he said once, ln answer to this reproach, as though
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08

Me1ster, who called herself Elimar Mira Mitta and claimed to be the Holy Ghost.
 She died few months ago, but her credit lous believers still continue to pay her divine hoDors.
 A wedding coat made by Andrew Johnson Will be shown in the Tennessee exhibit at the New Orleans exposition. The coat was made in Johnson's little tailor shop in Green vile, Tennessee, in 1888 or 1839 for MT. H. T. Price of that town. The garment is made of the best navy blue cloth, cut in the old fashioned "claw hammer style The collar and lapels are very broad, and there are five large buttonholes on each side. When the coat was made there were twelve large brass buttons, five on each side and two behind, besides the small ones on the cuffs of the sleeves. All the buttons are now missing except two on the right breas5 Withs the exception of the loss of the buttons the coat is in good state of preservation. None of the seams ever ripped, and there is not a hole worn in the cloth.
 The Blair education bill will soon engage the attention of Congress. This. bill proposes J supply to the several State treasuries cer- tain sum annually to be expended in secur- ing the benefits of commonlsehoel education to all children of school age. The first year the sum of $15, 100000 is to be thus appro- priated, the second year S14, ,00O, ,0G0 and the third year $13, ,000, 900, and for every remain ing year of the period of ten years sum less by S1 ,000,000 than that of the preceding year, until with the tenth year federal aid under this act will wholly cease. The bill proposes to divide these annual appropria- tions from the federal treasury among the States and territories in proportion to the number of their illiterate inhabitants of ten years of age and over This provision will place large amount of money at the dis posal of the southern States for the educa- tion of the negroes, the percentage of il literacy in the old slave States being very much greater than it is in the other States of the Union.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08

The legislature organized yesterday and ad- journed until to-day, when Hon. Henry B. Harrison will be elected governor.
 Congressman Ellis, of Louisiana, has had his eyes opened by the criticism which has been made upon his conduct in the matter of the Piegan Indians. He introduced on Tues day bill appropriating S50,000 for their re- lief, which the House at once passed
 The longest way round is sometimes the shortest way home. An American steam ship company in Liverpool recently offered to take 1000 tons of freight from Liverpool via New York to London at four shillings a ton less than the rate at which local com pany would take it direct.
 Boston cannot be accused of displaying race prejudice in politics. Her mayor, Hugh OBrien, is native of Ireland; the president of her common council, Edward J. Jenkins, was born at London, England; one of her congressman, General Collins, is a native of Ireland, and another, Leopold Morse, was born in Bavaria.
 The German people, who were only 25, 000,000 in 1916, are now 45,0O0,00O, and their present rate of increasefn greater than that of any European race. The population, which in France only increases by twenty-six year for every 10000 and in Great Britain by only 101, increases in Germany by 115, and this in spite of vast emigration which, since 1916, has carried away $500, ,O0O, most ly young adults.
 Experiments have recen ly been made by the French government with a new kind of siege gun of prodigious power. It is de scribed as made of steel and nearly thirty feet long, and the tube is strengthened with ten coils of plated steel wire one millimeter, or 039 Inch in diameter. The weight of this gun is fifty tons, and it projects a shell weighing 297 pounds, capable of penetrating armor plates nearly six inches thick at a range of seven and half miles,
 The American Grocer prints table of the wholesale prices of food staples from 1870 to 1884 inclusive. It is amazing to see from it how everything has settled until the point reached in 1884 is phenomenally low. Here are some Illustrations
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08
HOPE !

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 JOHN HILL. Druggist, Thompson, Ga. NOSE EATEN OFF-A young man near this town had an eating cancer on his face, which lad destroyed his and was eating toward his eyes. As last resort put him on Swifts Specific and 1t has cured him sound and well
 NJ. F. CRUNlLEY, M. D., Ogethorpe, Ga. have remarkable results from the use Of Swifts Specific n It has cured several cases under my eyes.
 REV. J. H. CAMPBELL, Columbus, Ga. Swift's Specific is entirely vegetable, and seems to cure cancers by forcing out the impurities from the blood Treatise Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co, Drawer 3, Atlanta Ga, or 159 w. B St., New York
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Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08

America has produced some strange relig- ious sects, but none stranger perhaps than one recently founded in Philadelphia calling itself the U Elimar Mira Mitta Congregation of the Lord" The principal tenet of this sect is the worship of 8 woman named Anna
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08
Rates of Advertising.

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 Yearly advertisements at the following ra,es: One square, one year. S40; two squares, year, s7o; three squares one year, S100. Obituary notices, in prose verse, IS cents per lire. Notices of Births, Marriages and Deaths, 50 cents each. Local Notices a0c per line. Advertisements second page one price and half
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own imme- diate business. and their contracts do not include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc Special rates furnished napplicatonfer contracts covering considerable length of time, or large space
 THE WEEKLY JOURNAL
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Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08

SONG GREETING. L. O. Emerson Anew and extra fine song book for the higher schools meaning by that colleges, technological and other special schools academies, institutes, Seminares high and normal schools 160 large octave pages S2 harmonized songs of the highest order. both ir words and music, classical in beauty and inter estine to everyone. Also exercises and solfeggios foi voice culture 60c. Per doz, SC.
 Any book mailed for the retail price.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08
E.Z. WASHBURN. We have now in show cases and are daily opening new goods for the
HOLIDAY SEASON, Consisting in part of
 Opera and Field Glasses

Fancy Thermometers, Pocket Compasses, Ear Trnpets and Conversation Tubes of the late st pat terms.
 Gold Spectacles and Eye Glasses mounted to der at hours nCtice.
 Choice Leather and Plush Goods. Jewel Boxes, Work BbXeS, Glove ana Handkerchief Cases, Dress ing Cases and Mirrors in great variety. Ink Wells, Portfolios, Side Books Letter Books. Purses, Match Safes Calendars, Pocket FlGsks, Whisrl Broom Cases Game Boxes, Cigar and Cigarette Cases, Pic nic Cases and Drinking Cups.
 TOILET SUNDRIES-Ivory, Ceuoid and Solid Back Hair, Cloth, Tooth and Nail Brushes, single and in sets; Cut Glass Bottles. Odor Stands and Cases Imported and Domestic Soaps, Handker- chief Extracts and Toilet Waters. Shaving Cups, Latber Brushes Razors Pocket Knives. Nail Sciss- CTS, PufTers and Pow ders Nail Sets and Manicure Goods of every description from the best makers. All goods selected with care and bought for cash from the best sources at bottom prices; marked (without waiting for them to become shop worn) at prlces which should move every piece be- fore the season closes,
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08
Hue 5nt1rna1 and On11rier.
The Oldest Daily Paper Published
 in Connecticut. THE CARRINGTON PUBLISHING CO
SINGLE COPIES TWO CENTS.

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 12 CENTS WEEK, 42 CENTS MONTH, $50 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS By MAIL.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08

THE MODEL SINGER. W. O. Perkins and D. B. Towner book for singing classes 192 pages 12f Graded Exercises, 57 iees and Part Soogs, g Hymn Tunes, IS Anthems, and Chants. Abundant and ul material for the Singing School Teacher. 60c. Per doz., $6
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08
For ChOirs, Conventions, Singing Classes aud tEse Higher Schools.
No Better Books Have Appeared for
 Years Than the Following:

grand full size church music book Of 32o pages. 100 pages clements with a capital collection of Sacred and Secular Music. D pages of the best hymn tunes no pages of anthems, and 30 pages of miscellaneous concert music. S1. Per dozen, $9.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08
Accounts.
NO. G.

ACecDtEEIas
 BOOKS opened, written up examined for } manufacturers, merchants and joint stock companies Confused accounts adjusted Balance sheets and statements Of profit and loss prepared Accounts of trustees, executors and administrators written up, and all business calling for the services Of an experienced accountant promptly and confi- GentiaIly attended to- Best of rcfelsn.eS furnished Terms moderate Address AUDITOR. Box 11S4, New HayenI ia6 12t
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08
OLIVER DITsoN 6 CO.,, Boston.
THE PRoPRIETORS OF
Gem of Blood Purifiers,

acknowledged the
 Gem of Blood Purifiers.
 Made strictly by the Old Indian Recipe, without the slightest change, just it nearly century ago. An excellent tonic and appetizer, eminently adapted to troubles peculiar to women
 It is a vegetable preparation, containing fner- cury other mineral poison and will not cure one disease by producing another. Compounded under the supervision of eminent phy ysican of 30 years practice 1t is absolutely infable cure for every known form of disease, arising from Blood Faint, git
 Syphilis in any stage, ScrOfuIa, Ulcers, Rheumatism, Catarrh, Liberated Sore Throat. White Swelling, Eczema, Tet- ter, Eimples Eruptfons of any kind
 lI,tiu!-ed ey prdcticing physicians. Sold by drI sc -t.. Large bottle .505 three bottles $4, six ro'teS !.dO. WhoieSa.I ,;y tie O. I. c. Co, IFS Fulton street, New York. d15eodaw
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08

A sister of the Rev. J. k. Auen of Middle town, died on Monday in Jersey City.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The legislature organized yesterday and ad- journed until to-day, when Hon. Henry B. Harrison will be elected governor
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08

We cannot accept anonymous return rejected communications In all the name of the writer will be required, not for publication but as guarantee of good faith
Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-08

Me1ster, who called herself J 1Glimar Mira Militia and claimed to be the Holy Ghost She died few months ago, but her credu- lous believers still continue to pay her divine hopors
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-08-21
A Barrel Hammock.

The season for hammocks is here,
and I will tell you how to make a COM
Portable, inexpensive one. Bring your
old -four barrel from the cellar or store
room, knock it to pieces, clean and
paint the slaves. Procure a rope four
times in length of the place where it is
to be suspended, and in size a little lar
ger than a clothes line. Now halve the
rope, double each piece in the middle,
and commencing two yards or so from
the end, weave it over and under each
stave about three inches from the end
of each one, which will bring the rope
crossed between each; do both sides
the same and your hammock is COM
plete. One end of the rope should be
fastened up higher than the other. At
first this may not seem firm, but when
there is any weight on it, the rope be-
comes "taut" and secure.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-08-21
FARM And HOUSEHOLD.
Farming Notes.

Mr.. z. ?. Root, one of Western New
York's most successful farmers, has
found full blood Durhams no better for
rattening than grades from good COM
mon native cows"
4 sheep is the most accomplishing
If all animals. It suffers and dies with
the greatest patience, and, therefore,
needs close watching. When a sheep
stops eating it is in a bad way. 1t IS
lar more easy to keep it in good
health than to restore it when sick;
but, as with other animals, it is usually
the case that its digestive organs are
out OF order, and a simple dose OF oil
will do more good than doctoring with
many drugs.-Laniger.
The son of a naturalized citizen who
came to this country with his father be-
fore he was of age becomes a citizen
with al the privileges of a naturalized
citizen when he reaches the age of q
years and without any legal process or
form. His fathers citizenship confers
the privilege upon the son under these
circumstances.
Dress fans are of transparent gauze,
painted, but in these also the black and
cream or delicate tinted ones are alone
worth the purchase money. The reds
are ugly, and the blues must be of
peculiar shades and match the toilet or
they are g horror.
They are the grays and wood %colors,
which are lovely when they can be
found, and the decoration is dainty and
in small fair towering disigns; but one
such is rarely seen, while bold colors
and large striking objects which are
supposed to ornament them stara one
out of c~ountenance at every turn,-Jen-
nv June.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-08-21
THE SPIRIT Or POETRY.
She steers the stars through Heavens azure

She steers the stars through Heavens azure
deep;
She lifts the leaden eyelids of the morn;
On distant hills she winds the hunters horn,
And wakes the lonely shepherd from his sleep
She scales the dizzy ledge where torrents leap,
And hangs the bloom upon the bristing
thorn;
She sits for hours in solitude f~orlOrn,
With dOwncast eyes, where haPle5s lovers
weep.
When Spring comes up the vale in Winters
trace
She plucks the blossom from the buds en-
brace;
She binds the golden girdle round the bee,
And lends the lly's luster 70 the pea;
She curves the swallows wing, and guides its
flight,
And tips the dewy meads with twinkling light.
II.
She rides, she revels on the rushing storm,
She suns her PiniOns on the rainbOw's rim,-
She lavoS in mountain pools her snowy limb,
AS sweetly chaste as Dian, and as warm;
In summer fields she bares her ,blushtng arm,
And sings among the reapers. BY the Din
Light Of autumLaI moons, her tresses swim
On gales Lethean, with assuasiYe charm.
Into the chamber Of the alchemist
She peers,-or, through some half-Closed
lattice, sees
Her lover by the wantOn night-wing kissed
Anon; she walks the dim HesperIdes,
Or, miDgling with the spirits of the mist,
Dances at will along the darkling seas.
y. ". Matthews, iR The Current.