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Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-17
1. w. GODFREY, General Agent, s7 CHURCH STREET,
 (ciarR's Building, Rooms 1a and 14) New Haven

Local Weather Record.
 FOR FEBRUARY 16, 1886,
 AK. Al. ll p.sa r.sx rx Fl Barometer. .so1a sO..6 se17 so.sO sos7 HhsrnG%eter Hnmidjtn s5' $ sSS ss ss,S ss as s Wind, drec- tion and per hour. ....w11 W15 WIT NW14 WA Weather -...... Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Mean bar. 30 g; mean temp, 30 mean humid Max temp, 4s2; min. temp, a1.; rainfall - inches.
 Max. hourly velocity of wind 22 miles,
 FOR FEBRUARY 16 1885, Mean bar, %. 63; mean temp, 32 1. Max. temp, 4S.; min. temp A.7.
 J. H. SHERMAN, S. c. U. SA Note: A minus sign l-lpretixed to thermometer readings indicates temperature below zero. IA dash[-lin connection with rainfall indicates precipitation too small to measure. MINIATURE ALMANAC.
 FEBRUARY r. sgs sgs sHrs h1ass s s H00s 4 RIs"s Hr0s sz TArra
 BIRTHS.
  BOYD-In Haddan. February 15, a son to Charles A. and Emma E. Boyd.
 MARRIAGES. HARRISoN-JACKsoN-I Guflford February g, at the residence of the brides parents by the of North Branford. and Anna J. Jackson, of Guil, ford.
 DEATHs.
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FOR RENT.

MtII No. bl Whaley avenue, whole house Wllk- No, go Beefs street, whole house. No, 4 Winthrop avenue, whole house, No, nt Union street, whole house No 9a Button street. second floor, No, Bs Ward street, second Heof.
 GEORGE A. tsBEI4L, fah 1ai GhaHhl hLFehIr
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UilIants.
WANTED.

A srr,,,A WANTED.
 A machiniskN by young man to learn the "Ake himself vsliy useful Ineure M nSe of UT U fe1e 1ts J. T. HAYES,
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A sdtoAmiNM do second Morf 5y OF tn t6nestbe girl to the best of city reference if rereG caIl mt eh'
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NY rHaR

| OY to address envelopes and fold nir,tlara. ! good pentnan; wages si week Address
 - F. Q. BOX 1,GtO,
 tel0 N City.
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N agent in each county in the State for the "A sale of the Ammoniaphone. Only music dealers or druggists wantel ooul t.
 SIS CHAPEL STREET, feS Haven.
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A N EXPERIENCED woman cook in private NA family; must be q good general cook and well recommended. Apply between ard 12 ing at
 fetT stwed&sa* NO L .2hh CHI PEI. STREET
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wANTED-

PY AN American woman, situation as working lD housekeeper for a family of two or three Address MRS r.
 fetG 3t+ JtI,iy pni,,
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R1 Protestant woman, place inS private D family to do waiting and chanbe~ york or would take place in a small family to to senerej housswork; best of city reference. Call for three days at "
 fe16 3t* S9 ASHMJTN pTpulrr7
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A LfI those In need of good hrfp, both nnin and "A female, to cell at Allen's Employment iitI- reali, room II HS"lahFe Hudlhsi att sIHtiirn guaranteed. Competent girls with refer nepa wanting positions to d2 llotlseworE, aeeon1 work as cook wanted at Aliens Employment iluirntI room II Exchange building, conner church nin Chapel Atreets entI rance on Chapel street fptftf
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OT7TNT T0RTUREs IT LA !" AND OAllv BLOOD HUM0Rs Il

"UMILIATING Eruptons Itching and Burn Il ing Skin To- lures, Loathsome Sores and ev- cry species of of Itching :se sy, Pimply Inherited, Skin and Scalp, with Loss of Hair from infancy to old age are positively cured by Cutcura, the great Beautider, externally, and Cuticura Resolvent the new Blood Purifier, internally.
 Covered With Sores.
 have been afflicted since last March with Skin disease the doctors called Eczema My face was covered with scabs and sores, and the itching and burning were almost unbarable Seeing your Gu tcura Remedies so highly recommended concluded to give them trial using the Cuticura and Cuticu- Soap externally and Resolvent internally for four months. call myself cured, in gratitude for which make this public statement.
 MRS. CLARA A. FREDERICK BROAD BROOK, CONN.,
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WANIEEs.

A SITUATION by a respectable woman to do A dIs sssmakn5 and eioakmaking, HHitanhoie making q specially Inquire al
 felb Ht* Sd PuTNA NJ STREET
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A POSITION by young man aa sten9gfRpher { \ and typewriter df b6oh heeper Ip e6hHieHee March ist, iitii Bf April lst, lubd fsrsfHHpe IT qiilfe1, Address HfHADHHAfItHlt,
 fHl5 1tt r, c, liaK 1 100, New Hat efi, peiin,
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WANTstn.

A u1itL for general homework, small rninliy "A German preferred; refarencpR required Cali between and ?. m. nt
 feiB 9* fDi WIALLEY AVENIfn
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WANTED. To BUY lot of Secondhand Furniture and Car Pets Highest cash price paid. Orders by mail promptly attended to ia17 29 CHURCH ST REEF,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-09
s,.nle, and The p.rl continent.

Henry NJ. Stanley, the great explorer.
delivered hie first lecture In New York, on
Monday night the 29th inst. His subject
WAS, "My African Travels, Explorations
and Works. Rev. Henry Ward Beeeher
introduced the lecturer who was greeted
With enthusiastic applause. He said;
When Livingstoue's body WINS ON
its way 10 be inferred in Westminster
Abbey he WAS travelling along the
west coast OF Africa. He heard OF
Liyingstones death through cable mes.
sage. lie at once determined 20 complete
Livingstone's work and TO find out what
river it was that lured the latter to his
death. 10 was either the Congo or the
Nile. The lecturer described the agree.
mont OF the owners OF toe London Tole.
graph with Mr.. Bennett 10 send him
(Stanieyl TO finish the work. lie told
OF his arrival at Zanzibar, his Journey
20 Lake Victoria NyanSa and his explora.
tions. He met Eve pirate craft. and put
them 20 fight by setting OF an explosive
under one ci them. His sufierings and the
trials OF his men we're graphically depicted.
He introduced the Bible among the natives,
and his request Tor missionaries from Eng.
land was promptly granted. Speaking OF
the Congo, the speaker dwelt at length upon
the obstacles in his path and the frequent
skirmishes with natives The numer-
Gus tributaries 10 the Congo were described
at length. He humorously relates how,
alter all his work being completed and
ready toreturn to England hofound that the
left bank OF the Congo had been taken pos.
session OF by tho French. He told OF his
plans to prevent them from seizing the
right bank Of the river. Tho speaker ~.
ierred TO India and said its romance was
ended Whit, people inhabit it, 235 miles
OF railroad are used; IL, 900 miles OF river
airs used by eight steamers, and cable
sends news all over the world.
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES



The most sensational as well as the
heaviest teialcation which has takcn place
IN Chicago In many years has just been
brought 60 light. Miner I. Ames, the mill.
iopaire coal merchant, Is the victim and
Theodore $, Miae, his confidential book
keeper and cashier, thesecretary OF Chicago
4 Minonk Coal and Coke company, II the
perpctrator oil a robbery that Is estimated
NJ 100000, and may exceed that
amount. Nine had absolute control OF
the nl9neys pl the company and the pri.
vate lunds 81 Mr.. Ames. NiEe ia one OF
the best known men in local business cir.
clcs. He Was q member oil the Union Vet.
Gran club and the Apollo elud, being singer
81 much ability. IL Is the old story--wins
Mize Is stopping with his father. Besides
the extravagant manner In which he and
his wife lived, IL Is asserted that MiEe Mt
various times supported three other WON
en-, on whom he iavished money with n
generous hand. Later estimates OF the
deialcation make the matter worse
than at first stated, the amount be-
ing placed at S112,ooO. The
whole family ie ruined by the recklessness
OF q son, who has brought q gray.haired
father from aiiluence &c poverty and poor
health almost to the verge OF the grave.
The homestead of the aged parents, the
home OF tile sister aud brother.in-law, the
residence OF the embeskler, the jewels
OF his wife, and his very birthright and
heritage, all have gone TO. satisfy the
claim OF Mixes employer and save the son
from the pentsntinry. Transfers 70 Mr..
Ames we're recorded for all the property
enumerated and TheodoreS. Mine. Joint.
~ with his father, signed away all right
and title TO the share OF the fathers pro-
perty that would revert TO him by the pro.
visions OF the iathsr's win already made.
Tho brother OF Mize, who Is in Atchison,
Kan, also came 10 his assistance.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-09
No Sandpaper There.

Detective John Webb was passing the
Bates street end of the vegetable mar
ket three or four days ago when q
stranger accosted him with:
Say, l came in town the other day
to git my boots fixed. and was looking
around this place little and lost a
silver dollar out of a hole in my
pocket"
But you didn't come back to look
for it, did you3''
Yes. l did. / think lost it right
over there. when lodged a wagon.
Have ycu heard of any one picking ups
dollar9''
mo. Sir"
"'Seea any advertisement in the pa
pers?"
No. You'd better save your time I"
.'whyg''
why. man, you aren't green enough
to expect to get that dollar back, are
your"
OF course I am. Wasn't it mine?
Didn't lose it?'
"Welll Well. Some one ought to
sand-paper your headr'
They had, eh?" queried the man as
he searched around in the street 81
lost it just about here, while / was
jumping cut of the way Of the wagon.
If anybody tries 70 rub any sandpaper
on my head TIT"
He made dive into TIE dirt and
tshed up silver dollar, and as he
held it between his thumb and finger
and danced around he cried:
Here she is--this is the very one! ]
know it by the nick cut on the edge.
Ought TO have my head sandpspered.
had |? Well, yol Just bet know my
gait, and I'm dollar ahead! It's
lucky for me, though. that You didn't
find it You look Just like man
who'd have ehucSed it into his pocket
and let me 90 TO ruin. Sandpaper.
How would you like TO bite file,''
And the abashed detective coaIdn't
say word in his own defense. DE
trolt Free Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-09
How They Began Life.

Allerton, Morris and Cudahay, the
three Chicago stockyard capitalists
who have suffered most from the
strike, began life as laborers. Nsls
Morris is Bohemian. and when be
landed in Chicago ne worked IN e
slaghter-house for 81 week.
General Superintendent Kerrigsn,
of TIE whole five or six Thousand
miles of the Missouri Pacific SYSTEM
began his career as an ordinary axt7
man on the Iron Mountain road. BE
handled the axe well, and was next.
made roadman. He was absorbed II,
his work, and the company recognized
his industry and value, and TODAY b
receives $4,000 a year for mans
aging the system. Vice President:
Hoxie himself, whom the Knights
of Labor regard with so muck
bitterness, was in his early life g
laboring man, even performing snc1|
duties as taking care OF horses. Bus
he did that work thoroughly. ana
when he was twitted with havin9'
once been a hostler, he laughed and
replied: 'Yes, and / was the best
one in Dies Moines.n
The late President Ritter, OF The
New York Central road, began lie GO
a station agent on the lire OF the Eril
road, but he wasn't satisfied ssmplH
with being prompt and accurate ulf
his accounts He made a study q
the freight business, so far as he conl
at his station, and opened the eye
OF the manager with his valuable SUI
gestions ana his quick and successzn
solution of some of the troubleson
problems of freight transportafsQ
that he had to meet IN that 81
day, before the business was sys'ou
atized and so well understood asnoS
Some years ago two long ffei9
traing met at siding on one 81 q
Illinois prairies. The siding was g
long enough to allow the trails
pass. The assistant manager q
road happered to be on one =
trains, and he was at his wits e.
to know what to do. There step
up young brakeman who sand
could manage the trains so as to
able them to pass. The ensine
laughed at him, but the manascr
ed him to explain. With stick
traced in the ground his plan, ana
was so simple that every one &C g
comprehended it. In fifteen mind
the two trains had been moved
and the operation is now uuivers
adopted on sidings that are
short. 1t is called saving. Theyo1
fellow, while riding on the top Q!
car across the dreary prairies:
studied out and solved this prof.
and when the opportunity csmE
was ready for it. Heis now the3
al manager of the great North
system.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-09

In an interview with the Bismarck Trib
une, Gov. Pierce was asked.
lis there going 20 be change in th,
governarshipg'
II think so, he replied.
"When!H
Il think an appointment win be made
soon. IL win probably be a month OF
moro before the aetualehange taken place. ,
who will be appointed"
II do not know, hat il were TO guess
should say Judge Church of Huron"
Have you been asked to resigu7'
"No. The president has treated me with
the greatest consideration, as has the sec
rotary Of the interior, go out voluntarily,
but 70 because IL seems impossible for q
Republican governor 60 fairly represent the
public sentiment % Dakota without seem
ING ungrateful TO the party in power al
Washington, by whose suiferance he must
Eoid the place
lis ID not bad time Tor change-sc
near the ASSEM- bling OF the legislature
No. Ordinarily Il would be difficult; but
matters win he so arranged upon my re
tircment that the way viii be very simple.
expect TO send message to the lcgisia-
ture aud submit all the reports Of the ter.
ritorisl officers before going out. There
viii be pretty plain sailing after that"
As to his plan for the future, the governor
had very little 20 say. He viii, In all
probability, return 10 the field OF ioara-
alism.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-09
The Naughty wife.

From the 8ostos Record.
In one of the cities that lie
against Boston there lives q -
whose masculine head is nan
has won considerable wealth, q
humble beginnings not unlike tbs
Commodore Vanderbilt. with ths
ference that while be like Nande
began as a boatman, he Sss expa'
into the banking business insfea
into the railroad business. Ever
be became a banker his excelienE
has been smitten with the great
portance of her husbands nea
patton, and advertised It on
possible occasion. The h0f1
conductors on the line wlicn
into her city all know her, ana
when she enters the car anu
utters her command: 8.
Conductor, let me of at my
bands bankv'
One day lately a trampisn-io
old fellow with q red nose got q
car Just as the bankers wife dew
her usual orderto the conduc5oz
old man watched her per'ore
euriously, and then arose, piliies.
self together, and called out -
magnificent air that was inli
"Condncfor, let me OF at
woman's peanut stand
A roar went through the az:
s'ny husbands bank has ase1
Sd to more than ever since teal
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-09
Manager uauy.l,, Order on wAO., Bay.r,.

General Manager Marvel Of the Manito-
ba railway has issued the following circular
OF instructions to station agents:
You are advised that the elevator CON-
panies along oar lines guarantee to make
their receipts good at Minneapolis or
Duluth for the same quality and
quantity of grain their ticket calls
for, given at the various elevators along
the line. This enables any one delivering
wheat to sell his ticket and get the same
grade and same weight st Duluth or Min.
neapolis, less the freight and advertised
rates for handling and selling. Elevators
are required, also, to receive and ship grain
for any party desiring them to do so, at
their usual advertised rates Tor
handling Where elevator companies
or Individuals, having elevators or ware.
houses on this company's property,
refuse TO do this, or where they refuse 20
guarantee grades as above indicated,
agents viii promptly report the same to
this Office by wire. giving the name OF com.
pany or individual so refusing. II CON-
plants are made to any agent that
buyers are eSRcting too great a difference
between the price paid in the country and
the quotations at Minneapolis or Duluth,
this Office should be at once advised,
witw the prices paid for each grade at the
station on the day when complaint is
made,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-09
nllMa mi roaAcco SMOKE.
queer Things That Make People Lose
Their Voices.


Wont you please ask that man to
STOP smokingPn said well dressed
Young woman to her escort as they
rolled down Broadway in one OF Jacob
Sharp's handsome riding cars the
other night. There was nothing I'M
usual in the request. In fact 1t voiced
the wishes of all the passengers who
were to leeward of the 1.-TWO for five
weed that protruded from the lips OF an
adopted citizen" on tie front plat
form. The popularity was the voice
itself. 1t was the most hoarsely tragic
stage whisper that ever delighted the
patrons of ''the legitimate. +" The pas
sengers, including reporter who was
hanging on to strap with the grasp
with which drowning man is popular
ly believed to clutch the equally unsat-
isfactory straw, gazed at her in aston
| ishment. She was robust and rosy, and
when she had entered the car few
moments before her voice had rung out
as strong as that of a country girl cali
ing across the field for John" 70 come
and "bounce" tramp. Il.
| Her escort was as much puzzled as
the rest, and in the same blood-curd-
ling whisper that struggled through her
bright smiles like n thunder burst across
the sunset skies she explained that on
inhaling the slightest Whit of tobacco
smoke she lost her voice. 1t made no
difference whether the weed grew ir
Cuba or Connecticut, the effect was the
same No kind of smoke other than
that of tobacco affected her in the
least While she was still telling these
facts in labered aspirates, the adopted
citizen" having returned the butt of the
cigar to its native element, gut
er,-her voice came back again, clear
and bell-lke as before.
II was queer case of nervous de-
rangement. for the physical effect of
such slight inhalation of the smoke
could not have taken on anything like
such an acute form. Tho reporter S
memory ran back to parallel case on
that morning when the shipwrecked
passengers of the Oregon filed down
the gangway of the Fulda at her Ho-
boken pier, attired in the most miscel-
laneous collection of clothes, and an
swered his questions in voices that re-
sembled the whistling of the wind
through a ragged keyhole. 1t was the
same effect from the same general
cause, though in that case it was the
intense excitement of dozen hours
passed at the threshold of death
that upon the nervous system
and temporarily banished the voices of
three-fourths of the rescued passen-
gers.
1T was an awful experience. I'd
tell you about it, but you see I've lost
my voice" said a brawny, bearded En-
glishman in a series of husky whistling
sylables. tapping his throat mournfully
with his finger.
Eyes, we were very near to death,
said his companion. sallow American
clergyman, whose pulpit oratory was
| the pride of his flock, but who could
not have made himself heard hy hum
bred people at that moment if the sal
walton of the world hung upon his de-
livery of good tidings. -Ne,o York
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-09

existed between him and z. L. Moea OF
Worcester so many years.
Il am looked upon as a blackmailer"
he said, land those who believe
have been bleeding that old man hold me
in as much contempt as yellow dog; but
| viii stand il no longer. / am more
siuned against than SHINING. My name Is
not Wilson, nor am | the son OF Jonas
Wilson. Ny father is the man who is &C
eusing me OF blackmail and my name is
Levi Moen, the lawful son OF z. L. Moen oil
Worcester
Wilson then went on to tell the story OF
his birth and the wrong, done him by his
father.
Wilson has letters which he says were
written by Moen acknowledging the rela-
tionship, calling him Dear Son."
AWorcester (Mass.) Special says: The an
nouncement that doe" Wilson had lifted
| the veil from the great mystery caused a
, tremendous sensation here. The million.
aire manufacturer was at prayer meeting
| when the announcement reached this city,
and the reporters gathered at the door Of
the Union church to waylay him when
he came forth. One OF them showed
Mr.. Moen a copy OF a Provi.
pence paper containing the story, and pro-
ceeded to interview him on the subject;
but he would say nothing aside from the
statement that Docs" story was lie.
my counsel, A" ne said, has advised me
not to talk with any OF the newspaper
men on the subject: bat you can see that
he is nearing the end OF his rope. Just see
nov despel ate the man is, getting up such
a story as that"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-09

INF ooKosrs's VERDICT

MooRHEAp. Special Telegram, Dec 8 Cor
oner Darrow's investigation concerning the
death Of G. NJ Tennis, resulting from the
collision of trains at Muskoda, began yester-
d.. the jurors going 70 the scene of the dis
aster yesterday morning and returning last
evening. The testimony in the case began
last evening, when Conductor J. II o'Neill,
Of Train No. 1, was examined The inquiry
vas resumed at 1880 this morning. DR..
Darrow, coroner: Attorney W r. Douglas.
acting county attorney, and all the jurors
being present The witnesses were G G.
Smiley, engineer of Train No, L. Hugh Muir
phy. fireman OF Tram No. L; IL h Scofe,
engineer of Ne, 8, and E G. Cole,
train dispatch at Brainerd The verdict of
the Jury indicates somewhat the character
OF the testimony. Mr. Cole admits that he
overlooked a very important order from
wadena directing Train No. to go through
20 Fargo regardless Of Train No q, claiming
the time which had elapsed since il was
given and the time when No s lefs Fargo
three hours and q half--snd the pressure Of
his duties. all trains behind and ali calling
for orders. caused forgettulness, and was
not done Intentionally. The jury this after
noon rendered the following verdict;
We Ind that said @ NJ Tennis was killed ct
NJ sn NJ n = s 81. Nars eS p t
road. by and based upon the negligence and IN
sktiifulRess Of the servants OF said cemp&ny in
tae dsseasEge g TIER duties We believe that
extenuatinx circumstances existed Ia the mat
ter Of sending alspatrhes by the train dispatcher
81 said Rad gahe ere stationed =. Br1fnsr.i, aud
that We are not warranted IN Recommending that
he be held In sny manner crsmfnRlly respenSl-
BILE. We particularly commend the scxion OF e.
q Sunlcy. The engineer 81 Train No l. for his