Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-26

recent floods. Feb. 25.
STATE NEWS.
The farm of the late Samuel W. Sage of
Canton village has been purchased by James
A. Smith of Collinsville.
A house in South Coventry owned by
Levi A. Hall, just west of Rathbun's store,
was destroyed by FIRE Monday morning.
The house, known as the Mason house, was
one of the Oldest buildings in the village, but
had been always kept in repair and was
divided into two tenements. By great labor
the adjacent buildings were saved.
Edward Carswell, of Canada, will address
the Reform club in Middletown Sunday
afternoon, and speak in the Universalist
church the same evening
Lucius M. Rollins and Laura E. Curtis at
tendants at the State hospital, Middletown,
were married on Monday at the Baptist par
sonage.
The Middletown city meeting held Tues
day afternoon, decided not to purchase
steam fire engine at present.
Thomas Cline, who for the past year has
worked at the Britannia shop, Southington,
was recently taken i'll from exposure by
sleeping out nights and was taken to the
New Haven hospital, where he died on Sat-
| urday.
The Young German Americans of Hart
| ford celebrated the eighth anniversary of
| their organization by banquet at Heublein's
last night.
Plans are being made for the interior inn
provement in the Methodist church edifce,
| Kensington.
| In the Roman Catholic church, Kensing-
| ton, the debt has been paid and the congre-
CATION is to have the entire services of
| priest. Father Shelley, of Birmingham, is
to take charge.
| Andrew Augur, native of Milford was
| killed by railroad accident near Washing
| ton, D. c., last week.
| Farcy is prevalent in New London. Orrin
| Whiting, of Chesterfield has lost five ho1ses,
| two of which he valued at $500.
| The Huntington street Baptist church peo-
| pie have rendered call to Rev. G. F. Gen
| nung, of Amherst, gentleman who ranks
| high as pulpit orator.
J. J. Clifford, the agent of the Wheeler &
| Wilson Sewing Machine company, who has
been missing from Birmingham for several
days, has turned up after spree, during
| which he abandoned his team and two ma
chimes.
The Rev. William J. Thomson, of Canaan
died at his home in East Canaan Tuesday at
noon. Mr.. Thomson occupied the Congrega-
tional pulpit there for two years preceding
July last when he was obliged to give up
active work ON account of failing health. He
leaves widow and three children.
Miss Nellie Heating, of Norwich, has sued
a plumber for 81 200. The plumber said it
was safe to start a fire in range connected
with frozen water pipes. A fire was started
and the water back burst, doing considerable
damage. 1t will be of interest to learn
whether plumber is liable to suffer for not
knowing or doing his business.
The Craving For Stlnlulants.
From the National Review
The desire or craving for stimulants i'll the
most general sense OF the word-for drugs
acting upon the nerves whether as excitant
or sedative agents-is an almost, if not abso-
lutely, universal human appetite; general,
so early developed, that We might almost call
it an instinct. Alcohol, of course, is the
most popular, under ordinary circumstances
the most seductive, and by far the most
widely diffused of all stimulant substances.
From the Euphrates to the Straits of Dover,
the vine has been from the earliest ages sec
ond only to corn in popular estimation; wine,
next to bread, the most priced and most uni
versal article of human food The connec-
ton between Ceres and Bacchus is found in
almost every language as in the social life of
every nation, from the warlike Assyrian mon
archy, the stable hierocratic despotism of
Egypt, to the modern French Republic and
German Empire. Corn itself has furnished
stimulants second in popularity to wine
alone; the spirit which delighted the fiercer,
sterner races of Northern Europe-Swede,
Norwegian and Dane, ST. Olaf and Harold
Hardrada, their descendants of to-day;
and the ale of our own Saxon and Scandina-
Wan ancestry, which neither spirit, cider nor
| Spanish wine has superseded among our
| selves. The vine, again, seems to have been
| native to America; but the civilized OF semi
| civilized races of the southern and central
part of the Western continent had other more
| popular and more peculiar stlmulants, also
for the most part alcoholic. The palm, again,
| has furnished to African and Asiatic tribes a
spirit not less potent or less noxious, not less
popular and probably not less primitive than
| whiskey or beer. But where alcohol has
been unknown, among races to whose habits
| and temperament it was alien, OF in climates
| where powerful excitapt produced eff
| fects too palpably alarming to be tolerated by
rulers or law-giyers royal or priestly, other
| and milder stimulants or sedatives are found
in equally universal use. Till the white man
| introduced among them his own destructive
| beverages, till the ''fire-water' spread demon
alizatien and disease, tobacco was the favor
tie indulgence of the red Indian of North
America, and very probably of that mighty
| race which preceded them and seems to have
| disappeared before they came upon the scene
the mound-builders, whose gigantic works
| bear testimony to the existence of an agricul-
| tEre scarcely less advanced OF less prolific, a
| despotism probably not less absolute than
that of Egypt Coffee has for ages been al
lQOSC equally GEAR TO the AfSD tea HAS Dee1
to China all that wine is and was to Europe,
probably from still earlier period, and has
taken hold on the northern, coffee and to-
| bacco upon the southern, branches of the
Tartar race. Opium, or drugs resembling
opium in character, have been found as well
suited to the temper, delightful to the
taste, of the quieter and more passive Orien-
tai races as wine to the Aryan and Semitic
nations. The Malavs, the Vikings of the
East Indies, found in ''bhang" drug the
most exciting and maddening in its effects
of any known to civilized or uncivilized man;
o substitute for opium or hasheesh, bearing
much the same relation to those sedatives
brandy or whiskey to the light wines of South
ern Europe
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Your "Witch Hazel has afforded many of
our suffering patients most decided relief,
for which I am truly grateful.
JAMES KNIGHT, NJ. D.,
Surgeon-in-Chief.
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and all pains of ruptured, paralyzed and
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