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Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
COMMUNICATIONS.
A Free Library.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: Hearing that the interest in the project for free library in New Haven is waning, we have been moved to use the pen in it's behalf. If any person of wealth has been deterred from aiding this good cause lest it might not be appreciated or result in any special bene- fit, advise him by all means to visit the Ath- eneum of Pittsfeld. Massachusetts. After providing himself with temporary residents card he will have free access to it's various departments and will find much to interest him in all. The chief interest, of course, centers in the library, where carefully selected variety of books is open to ali classes, from the most venerable to the child of tender years. The building is the gift of the late Thomas Allen, erected at cost of $50, ,0O0 The library it. self was founded in 1850, and assisted by many donors it presented nucleus of more than 4,ooo volumes in 1872, annually S2,OO0 for the support of the institution since 1874, and the number of volumes now in the library amounts to 12,- 900, while the number of persons holding cards which entitle them to all the depart- ments of the institution is $500.
 On the same floor near the entrance is the valuable reference library, where almost any
 
 some desired information. Further on you come to the room where the principal maga- zines and reviews, both English and Ameri- can, are ready for use.
 Next to this is the room where you will find the daily papers of the town and other places with the illustrated weeklies furnished at all reading rooms. Ascending flight of stairs you reach the art gallery and museum of natural history, always attractive. But probably the most sanguine friends of a free library in New Haven do not look beyond the library and reading rooms of the first floor of the Atheneum as the extent of their desires in regard to it.
 Could some of your readers see the little children enter quietly and take the numbers with paper and pencil from the catalogues of the books of their choice they would be- gin to believe in the educating influence of such reading.
 In your own city there are many who would greatly value the privilege so freely bestowed here. Women of education and refinement who reside for time in the midst of literary atmosphere who can gain no access to books, young men and boys who are not able to pay the annual subscription entitling them to draw books from the limited library of the Young Mems Christian association would gratefully appreciate such a gift fro m their more favored fellow citizens There are small towns in Connecticut and in neigh boring States where free libraries and those where a small fee brings them in the reach of nearly all are an educating influence not to be mistaken by the thoughtful observer. Can it be possible that New Haven, a city of such rare privileges, will much longer deny this one to her sons and daughters of every age and classs s. $. T.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
Dr,y 6unds.

About the only things in our Cotton Dress Goods Stock not likely to sell were a lot of fine Scotch Ginghams at 400 a yard and some French Sateens at 35c. They were too fine quail ties and too high priced. They are just as fine now, but the price has been made 18c. They are bargain.
 We looked through the En- broidery Stock last week and found some short lengths some soiled pieces-some pieces which have been with us too long. We. laid out table full of bargains Tn the lot are some at SOC which were marked $I and SIPS, some at 25c which were 75c, some not marked down as much, but all very cheap and positive bargains.
 Remember please that we have made reductions in the prices of all our Dress Goods, all our Black Goods, all our Silks and Velvets. Remember please that all our fine Summer Gloves are down below cost. Remember please that Fans and Parasols are marked at prices to close out stock at once. Re member that the best bargains in markdown goods are always to be had of
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20

MT. Van Wyck complained that this per formance took away customers from him. Judge Westbrook of the Supreme court sus- tains him, holding that 'tnothing is more completely the property of a man than his name. No person can use it without the owners consent. The use of the plaintiff s name to make conspicuous the rival business and name of the defendant is clear viola tion of the property rights of the plaintiff. The court of appeals, higher tribunal, sim ultaneously announces an opposite judgment in another case involving the same question. firm of dentists dissolved partnership and one of them opened new office in the same town. The court says: ssHe may lawfully describe himself as formerly or late of that firm. He would thus state simply fact be- longing to his own life, as much so as if he were to give the time or place of his birth, the name of his father or instructor of the college from which he graduated. All this might be done in good faith" Pay your money and take your choice. Dr. James Barr quotes the assertion of some authorities that "death from hanging appears to take place very raprdly, and with
 
 out causing any suffering" But he is of different opinion. Those who speak of the painless nature of death by strangulation ar rive at that conclusion, he thinks, from the fact that many cases of suicide are not com pletely suspended and that if they wished they could easily relieve the construction by assuming the erect posture, and in other in stances of recovery from attempted suicide by hanging there is no recollection of suffer ing. It should be remembered, he argues, that there is a great difference between the mental attitude of the suicide and one who is about to suffer the extreme penalty of the law. The loss of recollection of suffering does not prove that there was none. It might al most as well be said that, because often after
 wv from meningitis there was no re- .,.ss,ss.,,s. os suffering, therefore there - although the
 wees pain by hanging can under no eireunsE~.--
 be very acute, yet when we see culprit heaving his chest and almost raising the whole body in his struggles for breath we must conclude that there is considerable amount of torture.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
Thursday, August 20, 1883.
THE INsTALLmENT PLAN.


 of Brooklyn woman whose s."s hastened by the death, it is claimed, wss treatment she received at the hands ..
 who visited her home to take away furniture bought on the insta1lrnent plan, in the pay ment of which she had fallen into arrears, is attracting some attention. She paid 8 cer- tain sum in cash, agreed to pay the balance in weekly installments, and gave chattel mortgage to secure those payments. On the morning of the day in the afternoon of which she was assaulted she had paid one dollar of her debt and had declared that she could not spare more money at that time. Yet, in the face of this evidence of an honest inten- tion to meet her obligations, the firm to whom she was in debt took steps to take resent the outstanding balance, but every ar ticle that she had purchased. Accompany ing the men who represented the firm was 6 deputy sheriff, and they went to the woman's house to take away the furniture. She re- sisted them as stoutly as she was able to, and died soon afterwards.
 This shocking incident calls attention to the worst feature of ''the installment plan" In many, perhaps all, of the large cities there are rascals who make money by selling goods to poor people Ion installment'' and then getting the goods back to sell over again. We do not mean to say that the Brooklyn firm above referred to is of this kind, for we know nothing concerning it. It may have meant to deal fairly by the woman. But such occurrences as that which hastened her death should not be possible. Persons who sell upon the installment plan should not be allowed to take the law into their own hands. The Brooklyn Union is in the right when it says: A law should be passed that would make it illegal for any seizure of goods, bought upon the installment plan and not fully paid for, to be made except after such proceedings before justice as are resorted to in all other cases of creditor against deb tor. The sum due could thus be judicially settled and judgment be entered only for the amount found to be outstanding. No chat tel mortgage, signed with or without intelli- gent knowledge of it's terms, should give a firm the right to send it's men to carry away the goods of persons who fall in arrears in the payment of installments.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
MISE R ".

Misery-A girl with a new dress and no place to go.-Marathon Independent. It is said that Princess Beatrice cottoned to Battenberg at first sight-a case of cot tonbattenberg, it were.-Boston Tran script.
 It is easy for some girls to learn the fash ionable female walk-they're so lazy they can't walk any other way.-Kentucky State Journal.
 s'Woman dentists are gaining ground in Germany" says Boston paper. Achers of it, no doubt.-Lowen Courier. A firm of furniture movers sends us a pam phlet entitled, "When is the best time to movea'' We should say when the rent is due.-Bir ningham Owl.
 'The jury will notice,' said a Texas judge 'that this is no ordinary case of horse steal ing The animal belonged to a friend of mine. Philadelphia Call. q wonder how that man can dance on the tight rope with such facility!' "Oh, easy enough. Like everything else, it has to be taut." Note-His death was SO sudden as to be painless.-Chicago Rambler. First citizen-You always stay at home in the evenings nowa Second citizen-Yes, my wife's father gave her $500 for birthday present, and am teaching her how to play draw-poker. Philadelphia Progress. "Dolphin is very economical, is he nots" stYes, he is the meanest man I know. He always asks for pear instead of an apple at the fruit stand because it sounds as if he was
 getting the most for his money ."-Boston Budget.
 An individual applies to the cab company
 for situation. 'tDo you know how to drives" 'sYes, sir' "You know that you
 must be polite with all your passengerss"
 "Ahl" f8And honest. For example, what
 would you do if you should find in your cab pocketbook containing ,000s" Nothing at all. should live on my income. French Paper.
 fishing on Sunday and still be Christian !" Yes, he might; but the chances are against it. If he were to get his hook fast in a root and lose half his line he wouldn't require a pint measure to carry all the fish and relig- ion he would take home with him. A pious man should not go fishing on Sunday.-Nor- ristown Herald.
 The Cause of It-"Dear, dear" said 8 kind-hearted matron on meeting friend whom she had not seen for long time; f'and you're not married, Jane, with your good looks, too" ttNo, Pm not married yet" replied Jane with laugh And how | comes it that you are single9' ''Well, :" ! said Jane, with twinkle of her eye, sI ex- pect was born so."-Boston Courier. ''Look here! I wish you would explain how this got into one of your cigars" said a
 man, rushing into Fifth avenue tobacco | store and holding up little strip of calico.
 The manufacturer eyed it with disgust and exclaimed: It's those new girls again They l don't seem to know the difference between 8 Mother Hubbard and Connecticut wrap
 l per"-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
The Conceit of New York.

lblaKeIy Hall m San FranclScO ArgOnauti
 To men who were born here and have
 lived here long New York is miles and away
 so superior to any other city in America that
 he never thinks of uttering them mention
 ing them in the same breath. This may be
 the sublimity of conceit-perhaps it is-but
 the fact remains that New Workers consid-
 CT there is but one city in America. They
 may travel all over the world, but when
 they return to America they live in New
 York. In the same way we observe that if man makes great fortune in Chicago, Mil
 waukee, Cleveland, Cincinnati or Pittshurg he comes here, for many of the magnificent places on Fifth avenue have been purchased by men of other cities who made haste to come here soon as they had made vast for tunes. don't know whether they like New York or not, but they seem to stay. It is | true that man does not amount to much here unlese he is good deal of man, but | still the advantages of life in the most popu- lar city in the Union are too numerous to be overlooked. A man worth $10, 900, 900 is of | importance, if only on account of his wealth, | in Cincinnati. But $10. 900, 900, unless it is backed by social graces and other advan- l tages, will do little or nothing for man in 1 New York. I know that this statement will ] not be accepted, because it is the general iin l pression that wealth opens the doors to SO | ciety in New York; still such is not the fact | There are hundreds of millionaires along tn, 1 avenues who live magniicently and spent | enormous incomes, yet whom nobody know, or cares to know. Not long ago list of tn,
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
Hardened Liver.

Five years ago broke down with kidney and liver complaint and rheumatism.
 Since then I have been unable to be about at all My liver became hard like wood; my limbs were puffed up and filled with water
 All the best physicians agreed that nothing could cure me. I resolved to try Hop Bit ters; have used seven bottles; the hardness has all gone from my liver, the swelling from my limbs, and it has worked 8 miracle in my case; otherwise I would have been now in my grave J. w. MoREY.
 Buffalo, Oct. 1, 1881.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20

For the benefit of suffering humanity deem it only my duty give this unsolicited testimony in favor of Swfft's Specific. My wife has been affict- ed with Eczema from infancy. We tried every known remedy but to no avail. She was also af- fiicted with periodical nervous headache, some times followed by intermittent fever that her life became 2 burden to her. Finally determined to try Swift,s Specific She commenced seven weeks ago. After taking the first large bottle the disease seemed increase the burning itching and Inflammation became unDearable She, however, pers eYered in the use of the medicine, After talk ing the second bottle the inflammation began to srbside After the third bottle the inflammation disappeared and sore spots dried up and turned white and scaly and finally she brushed them off in an impalpable white powder resembling pure salt. She is now taking the sixth bottle; every appear ance of the is gone and her flesh is soft and ed and she enjoys the only good health she has known in 40 years No wonder she deems every bottle of S. S. S. is worth thousand times it's weight in gold. w
 Any further information concerning her case will be cheerfuly given by herself at her residence, 1a5 MulIett street. or by me
 JOHN F. BRADLEY, A Grisweld Street.
 Detroit, Mich, May 16, 1885.
 For sale by all druggists
 Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free,
 THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,. Drawer 3. Atlanta, fJa or 157 W 23d St., N. Y. a14eodawnr
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
Poverty and suffering.

''I was dragged down with debt, poverty and suffering for years, caused by sick fam fly and large bills for doctoring.
 I was completely discouraged until one year ago, by the advice of my pastor, com menced using Hop Bitters, and in one month we were all well, and none of us have seen a sick day since, and I want to say to all poor men, you can keep your families well g year with Hop Bitters for less than one doc tors visit will cost. know it."
 WoRKINGMAN.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
TO THE PEOPLE l

LUBBOCK BLOOD BTTTERS is System Ree11 lator, and when there is any derangement of it will take right hold it will build up and strengthen the weak places, remove the cause of disease and purifies the blood
 1t Cures the Sick Headache,
 Restores Lost Appetite, Aids
 Digestion, and Positively
 Cures DyspePsia.
 These statements are not made without proofs ts subStantiate them. Below we print a few of the many hundreds of names of those who have beeI cured by its use:
 DYSPEPSIA.
 W. H. Delker. Riga, Mich
 Benjamin Briggs, NichOlasvilie, N Y
 H. F. Dyes, Port Royal, Pa
 Q. J. Whitehead, Norwich, Conn.,
 Van Buren, Mayfeld, N. Y.
 J. T. Harold, Binghamton, N. Y.
 Mrs B. KimbaI, Eureka, Me
 Thomas Allan, Roscoe Pa
 William W. Jones, Cardonia. Ind. Mrs. B. A. Jenkins, Pittsburg, Pa. CONSTIPATION. Mrs D. Donahue, Pigeon Cove. Mass William Vest Houtzdsle. Pa. William James. Buffalo, N. Y. Lizzie Mohan, Geneva, N. Y. Mrs A. Pruytmsn, Buena Vista, Pa. | Miss M Sullivan, CharleStown. Mass Annie Forbes, East Boston, Mass William Davis, Youghio heny Pa l J. H. Hubbard, Buffalo, N. Y | William c. Snyder, Rochester, N Y | au15eodaw6t
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
The Raison d,Etre of Dessert.

JrroM Mcuicdl ana 0urg1cal hepOrter. After the meal come the bread, cheese and dessert. The bread will, no doubt, supply additional dextrin and the cheese additional albuminoids; but if we direct our attention only to the stomach and to the chemical changes which are going on in it, it is not quite easy to see why the bread, cheese and dessert should be taken at the end of dinner If we turn our attention, however, to the circulation and the nervous system, and re- member the effect which I have already men tioned as produced upon them by the masti- cation and deglutition of savory feed, we can at once see good reason for the common manner of terminating dinner. In order to supply abundant gastric juice for the diges- tion of the food introduced into it, the stom- ach requires an abundant supply of blood, and the nervous system must be kept active in order to respond to the calls made upon it. The savory cheese, swallowed in small morsels, and the sweet fruits, which strongly stimulate the nerves of taste, or nuts, which require considerable mastication, cause an abundant flow of blood to the nerve centers; while the frequent movements of swallowing stimulate the heart and increase the rapidity of the general circulation.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
834 Chapel Street.
Advertising Cheats !

It has become so common to begin an arti- cle in an elegant, interesting style,
 Then run it into some advertisement, that we avoid all such,
 And simply call attention to the merits of Hop Bitters in as plain, honest terms as pos sible,
 To induce people
 To give them one trial, which so proves their value that they will never use anything else.
 The remedy is so favorably noticed in all the pa pers.
 Religious and secular is
 Having large sale, and is supplanting all other medicines
 There is no use denying the virtues of the Hop plant. and the proprietors of Hop Btters have shown great Shrewdcess and ability In compromising medicine whose virtues are so palpable to every one's observation
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
NO. 197

number of men who were worth more than
 $5,OOO,OOO was published in one of the
 papers here. There were hundreds of names, occupying considerably more than column and half, and, it is nc exaggeration to say
 that fully five-sixths of them were entirely strange to the ears of New Workers.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
ECZEMA

=. None genuine without a bunch of green Hops On the white label Shun all the vile poisonous stuff with ''Hop' or sHops'' in their name. a17eod&w1m
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
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Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20

At Concord the Philosophers Have very nearly got Down to the very essence of The Wilderness of the What. They've tried to make it plain to us That what they don't know Is hardly worth tossed cent To find out. Yet 'tis so That none of them who worship and Dub Emerson a saint, Can clarify the clouds about The Notness of the Aint.
 Life.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
m1iseel1aneu11s.
S. H. KIRBY
the JeWeler.

Is selling Silver Plated' ware of the most reliable Makes at JObbers' Prices, giving you all the discounts tha can be
 got at factory pr store.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20

A New York jeweler put on his cards the words t'late with James P. Van Wyck." :"
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20

The New Orleans Picayune thinks that em- 1 igrants will not be attracted to State until | better citizens appointed to stand at
 railroad depots with their mouths open as the train goes by.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-20
RIP VAN TWINKLE.
A Case Without a Parallel.

In that horrible railroad disaster at Ashtabula, Ohio, which everyone remembers, Mrs. F. M, Coul- ter was hurled through the bridge, % feet in the river of ice. Her friend and Messrs. Moody and Sankey associate the sweet singer P. P Bliss, killed, and she so badly injured and her nervous system shocked that chronic hysteria followed. She was sent to a private asylum, where, after long treatment she pronounced incurable Four years ago friend sent her bottle of Dr. Flowers Nerve Pills. The effect was like magic :; F bottles were taken, and Mrs. Coulter was thor oughly cured.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1885-10-24
WE have received a book in refer

WE have received book in reference
to Cur staple commodity which we would
like to see in the hands, not only of every
cotton merchant, buyer and dealer in
the United States, but in the hands Of
every cotton producer who can appreci.
ate figures and facts. The book is gotten
up in handsome style and embraces every
thing in reference to cotton outside OF
the field, but is not for sale. The work
is prepared by Latham, Alexander & Co.,
Bankers & Commission Merchants of New
York, helargest dealers in this financial
and commercial agent of Southern, Ag,
riculture known in the world. This an
nual statement of the cotton trade, from
the time it reaches its local market where
it is raised, until it reaches the great
centers of manufacture in different parts
of the civilized world, is intrinsically
valuable to all men who feel any inter-
est In IN the expansion and development
OF the South, and we not only call the at,
tention Of farmers, merchants and dealers
to its valuable details, but the attention
of all intelligent men, who feel any in
terest in the fiscal and commercial pro-
gress of the globe, of which cotton for ms
so important part. The book contains
tables of the receipts, exports, deliveries
and fluctuations of cotton in this coun.
try and Europe from 1880 to 1885, all
concisely and conveniently arranged, 1t
has also a very valuable article on the
cotton trade, written expressly for it, by
Thomas Ellison,of Liverpool, and contains
reports of the last crop, with other inter-
estlng reading matter.