Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-09

upon the rejected pipe. The court held the
 company liable on the ground that it must
 show that the sender of the telegram under. | stood the ironclad conditions placed upon the
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 make those conditions part of the contract 1 between him and the carrying company. Pere Hyacinth has fallen upon evil day a | since his return to France. He is, indeed a l voice crying in the wilderness, as religious l bodies of all denominations refuse him their pulpits. The other day he proposed to de
 liver discourse at Neuilly, in the heighbor- hood of Paris, but could find admission mo- I where. At last, in desperation, he besought | the English rector of little Anglican 1 church recently erected to grant him admis- | sion and at first the English minister was as obstinate as the rest. Finally Pere Hyacinth | won him by promising to pronounce pane gyric OF Luther, which he did, comparing him to himself. The congregation amounted to seven.
 The annual sessions of the Connecticut leg islature will be held in January, 1886, and January, 1887. After that the sessions will
 
 sessions are called, and the State officers will continue to hold their offices for two years. The constitutional amendment, which was adopted by the people last November, pro- vides that the State officers and members of the General Assembly shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November. 1886, and biennially thereafter The senators elected in November, 1885, shall hold their offices only until the We'd nesday after the first Monday of January, 1887. In November, 1886, all the senators, representatives and State officers will be elected for two years.
 Mrs. Maria I. Johnston, of Madison Par ish, Louisiana, in 8 letter to the Vicksburg Post, holds that the permanent disfranchise- ment of colore women would be denial of those fundamental principles on which the claim for woman suffrage must rest. She says that the freedwoman would make as good use of the suffrage to-day as did her husband, father, brother, when first initiat- ed. She thinks that the unsettled state of the social relations of the colored women and the responsibilities of their lives make their individual need of political recognition more pressing than that of the white woman; but she adds that experience has shown that 1 every class should undergo preparation be- l fore welding great power as the ballot. l The New Orleans Picayune Dem says: of | her suggestion should be adopted by any | southern legislature the emulation which | would be aroused among the colored women | would lead to more rapid advance in learn ing than has hitherto been deemed possible" l
 In his article on ''Shiloho which will ap- 1 describes the anxious night after the first day of the battle. He says: The rain fell in tor rents, and our troops were exposed to the | storm without shelter. I made my head quarters under a tree a few hundred yards rom the river bank. My ankle was 80 much wolen from the fall of my horse the Friday night preceding and the bruise was pain ul that I could not rest. The drenching rain would have precluded the possibility Of leep without this additional cause. Some ime after midnight, growing restive under he storm and the continuous pain, I moved | ,ack to the log house on the bank. This had ,een taken as a hospital and all night wounded men were being brought in, their wounds dressed, leg or arm amputated, as he case might require, and everything being ight was more uncomfortable than encounter ng the rebel fire and I returned to my tree n the rain.