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Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07
TEARING DOWN A MOUNTAIN.
Tks Proudest Achievement ofthe Pan- ama-A Contractors Huge Task.
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Tke Proudest Achievement ofthe Pan- ama-A Contractors Huge Task. Panama Cor Chicago Times.l
 Buhio Soldado is the proudest achievement of the Panama Canal company, and is, in deed, great work. The hill is of solid rock alternating at places in huge cobble powders We are saluted with following volley of 2OC
 gun-cotton explosions to show how rapidly
 such work can be manipulated. On the smoke
 clearing off really grand engineering feat
 meets the eye. Ledge upon ledge of sloping
 rock terrace tower up to the highest point,
 about 280 feet. On several of the lodges
 stand rows of wagons, which were it not a
 holiday would be busily at work. We are
 at the bottom, and it is necessary to ascend,
 which we contrive by means of winding paths, M De Lesseps on a sure footed mule, for the heat is intense.
 The contractor for the raising of this large mass is Swiss of the name of Sonderegger, whose face is sanguine and cheerful picture, as if the impediments were nothing. Con- trary to the policy of many of his colleagues, he is open and straightforward. The con- tract has been for the removal of little
 short of 2,0O0,000 cubic meters, he says, as if en1oying the idea; 1900, ,000 of this has been done and only 8OO,OOO remains. The rocky section is 500 meters long, about eighty feet broad at the bottom, sloping up to about 120 fact at the top, and the con- 1 tractor further takes the swarthy ground as l far as kilometer thirty three. MT. Sondereg- ger answered me plainly that he had nc doubt of completing his task by the end of next year.
 His mode of excavating is very ingenious. l He first pierced tunnel right through the | mountain leading to the flat ground on eith- l CT side. Above this tunnel large holes about three meters broad are made, four in l all, at various points above the tunnel, tk e 1 top being made funnel shaped The rocks are then blasted and rolled into these aper- l lures, whose standing sides embrace large
 circuit. Below train of wagons is in wait | ing to receive the huge powders as they dash through. In this way four traffic cars are
 filled at once, and in very short time the I whole train moves away with it's load. Such l is the practical and swift means which the enterprising contractor takes to diminish his
 huge task. No wonder the company are proud l of him; and were there many of his practical | nature who could show such good solid work,
 the canal would gain many friends.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07
misceIla11ep1ts.
Consumption
 Conquered WHEN THE DOCTORS COULD
 DO NO MORE.

CHAs. A. CABRERA, 3s Hawley Street,
 Boston, Mass, writes:
 s'One year ago I was apparently so far gone with Consumption that my life seemed only question of days rather than months. With my faith in the ability of physicians to help me all gone, I tried almost every known remedy, with no apparent benefit. Finally, as a last resort, I induced to try Dr. R. c. Flowers Lung Cordial The very first dose gave me relief, and with the first bottle took new lease of life, and can honestly say to-day that one spoont. d of this remedy is worth more to the sufferer from Lung troubles than a gallon of any other known remedy. A bottle of it is now one of my choicest possessions, and at the first symptom of a cough or cold fly to it for the relief it never fails to give.''
 DR. FLOWERS LUNG COR. DIAL is without question the most wonderful Lung remedy ever discovered. It eradicates the germ of CONSUMPTION as no remedy has ever been known to do. It stands without a rival for COUGHS, COLDS, BRON- CHITIS, ASTHMA and CON- SUMPTION.
 Price $1 per bottle. A copy of Dr. Flowers Rules for the Treatment of Consumption ac- companies each bottle.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07
The Present Egyptian Khedlve.

Paris LeLL6r III Sau cFauClSCO
 The Khedive shook hands and seated me on one side of the angle made by the corner, while he occupied a chair directly in front of me- Thus placed the light from the window fell upon him, and had an oppor- tunity of studying the man who, since he came to power, has from the force of cireum- stances been almost as fully in the blaze of notoriety as any European monarch. have already said that he was neatly dressed. His linen was of remarkable whiteness, suggest ing that the rupture of the dual control had not prevented the retention of French laundress. It may be royal peculiarity to have clean liner, but in this case the whiteness was exceptional. The Khedive has narrowly es- capped being handsome. His hair is dark, his nose straight and not large, his other features regular, while his black eyes are . luminous and full of expression. He wore
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07
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with crimson and fringed with old-powder- ed mara5out; a violet velvet pelisse lined with ermine with bands of the same far run jacket in red cloth, trimmed with old but tons, and lined with ecrn silk: paletot in nut-brown velvet, lined with gold-woYen satin, and fastened with cats eyes set in brilliants. The hats, in white serge border ed with fur; in gray felt, with heron's head; in black felt, with cocks plumes.
 Finally the muffs, some in fur, with 6 place for bouquet on one side, quilted with aris root; others made almost entirely of ar- tifcial blossoms, principally white hyaeinths or white lilac, knotted with cascades of ribbon bows
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07

: petuating Democratic supremacy"
 If Hermanus Bleecker, who died in Albany in 1849, knows what is going on in this world he will be pleased by the fidelity with which one of his intentions has been carried out. He left all his property to his wife, there being no children. Mrs. Bleecker knew that her husbands purpose was to leave his estate to found library, and when she remarried in 1852 she deeded all her first husbands property in trust to John V. L. Pruyn. She was 8 native of Holland, where her first husband found her and where her second lived. MT. Pruyn died in 1877, making over the trust to Judge Amasa J. Parker. The couple in Holland have now both died and Judge Parker will proceed to carry out MT. Bleecker's wish, nearly forty years after it was trusted to his friends yer bally as his desire. The property originally valued at S80,000 is now worth $100,000, part of it having deprecfated, other parts in- creased. Bleecker's own library has in the meantime been on deposit with the State library
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07

MT. Charles Russell, M P. for Hackney and foffnerly M. P. for Dundalk, is the first Roman Catholic who has occupied the office of attorney general of England since the ref ermation. Heis an Irishman, born in Newry in 1883, and was educated at Trinity college. The first Roman Catholic judge since the reformation was the late Judge Shea, also an Irishman, from Kilkenny. Sir James Mathew of the Chancery judiciary is now a Roman Catholic and of Tipperary family. The Marquis of Ripon, now first Lord of the Ad- niralty. was the first Roman Catholic since the reformation admitted to the cabinet.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07
The Trousseau of an Arehd uchess.
 From the London Telegraph

The Troussead of an Arehd uchess.
 From the London Telegraph
 Everything needed by the Archduchess Raner, fancee of the Archduke Salvador, was ordered in Paris. The sapphire gown in blue draped over silver-gray embroider- ed with sapphire -hued beads; Croatian belt in silver and bead embroidery, and the bonnet to match a network of blue sur mounted by silver butterfly. The ruby dress, red velvet mixed with pleatings of satin of paler shade, and the ruby bonnet, ornamented with two heads of sable-glowing onyx eyes. The dark-green Sicilienne gown, with panels and glimpses here and there of ehamois-tinted silk; bonnet with Sicilienne drawn tightly over it, having for sole ornament the head of tawny owl The twin dinner gowns-one forget-menot blue, the other tea-rose color; both in rich fallle, trainless, ruched underneath the hem with silver face, and worn with low brown vel vet bodice, bordered with otter and hung with old silver cords and ferrets. The two plush dresses-one pale rose-petal pink, al most without trimming; another black, looped up over a black satin skirt striped with flame color, the bodice confined by a broad black sash lined with this vivid scarlet
 The three court dresses; one green, one
 black for court mourning, and the presen- tation robe-all white, of course. For the first, petticoat of white satin embroidered with the green leaves of water plants, bodice and tunic of Nile-green crape, moss-colored velvet train turned over and lined with
 white satin worked in the same way as the petticoat; for the second, bodice and round skirt of jet-woven tissue, and black satin train worked with butterflies and bees in |, black beads; for the third, train of white ferry velvet brocaded with a handsome de- sign of lilies, mounted on a white skirt of
 rich pearl embroidered brocade, the bodice
 of the same wreathed with a garland of lilies-with diamond hearts,
 The ball dress, of pink tulle with fringe of silver oats round the bottom of the round skirt and the top of the low bodice; the
 other in sulphur yellow tulle, ornamented in the same way with garlands variegated pa1sies. The travelling gowns, one in seal brown velvet and embroidered cashmere, to
 be worn with 8 paysanne mantle or woollen
 to match, lined with plush striped brown
 and blue: another, in iron-gray velvet edge with Vandycked decoration of gray
 satin; the gray cloth jacket trimmed with | collar and cuffs of chinchila.
 | The robes de chambres, three in number a pretty white plush gown open in front ovel | a chemisette and petticoat of closely pleate6 blue Surah; tunic of pink china crape at
 tached on the shoulders by string of pinl pearls, draped over a hounced skirt of Mech
 lin lace, and a loose robe of pale blue velve
 worn with blouse vest of saffron-yelloy
 crape trimmed with knots of dark blu, | ribbon.
 l The wraps, white silk ''Dalmatic," line,
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07

Civil Service reform is not as popular among the southern Democrats as it might be. The editor of the Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, who is prominent politician and a member of the National Democratic com mittee, has been asking good Democrats in his district whether they fancy the Presi- dents policy. One prominent patriot and Democrat" writes that ''ten thousand of the best men to-day in the State agree with you. Civil Service reform was Radical measure enough to make any Democrat denounce it." and the editorial comment of the Chron- cle is this: "Stupid and stifnecked and in excusably blind are the leaders and so-called statesmen that do not use the patronage as
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07

Droughts in New South Wales have cost
 the colony 24, ,OOO,OO sheep within the last five years This decrease represents loss of $40, ,OO0, 900, principally due to the lack of proper works for the storage of water which would have saved animal life in the dry sea-
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07

Not particle of fruit Of any kind was found by Paris chemist in 'currant jelly'' which he analysed lately, and which had been put up expressly to send to this coun- try
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07
5flediCal
DIR. H. N. BROWN, No. 93 Olive Street,

BY REQUEST Reports few cases from his large number of patients CURED by his new system of treat ment This is for the benefit of all suffer- ing with chronic diseases. Dr. Brown does not publish names, but they can be obtained at his office at any time for reference:
 Case No. 1-DRoPsY, with kidney and uterine diseases of several years standing, CURED in three months.
 Case Mo- Blindness, treated five months by physicians and oculists with no relief, CURED in two months
 Case No. 3.-Headache, constantly for over year-many trials with no relief CURED in one month.
 Case No 4-Sciatic Rheumatism, produc- ing partial paralysis and much pain, CURED in two months.
 Case No. 5-Catarrh, long standing and long treated without results, CURED in three months.
 :. Case No. 6.-Prostration of the Nervous Forces, CURED in two months.
 A large number of cases of long standing diseases peculiar to women cured in few weeks or months without the barbaric use of the speculum and caustics. "Pessarics" and s'rings" removed and patients cured.
 All forms and types of chronic diseases treated with the same results by the new system which cures when all others fail.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07

How She Cared For Mrs. Bingham During the Fatal Illness of That Lady.
 Washington Letter in the Courier-J ournal]
 Mrs. Brewster was one of the prominent ladies who gave tone to the last administra-
 tion. She had mobile face, surmounted by profusion of gray hair. She carried herself with dignity, dressed with great ele- gance, aud was brilliant talker. Her un- selfish attentions to the wife of General Bing- ham, who fingered so many months with cancer of the tongue and throat, and finally died, will always be remembered by those who knew how frequently Mrs. Brewster sacrificed her own pleasures to watch all night beside the couch of her suffering friend. On one occasion she was dressed for an official dinner, and with several other en- gagements for the evening, when a messen- ger came from Mrs. Bingham that her hus-
 band was detained in Philadelphia, and could not reach home until next morning, and that it would be great comfort to her to have Mrs. Brewster pass the night with her. Without moments hesitation Mrs. Brewster changed her dress and, sending her regrets to the President, she was quickly with her friend, and did not leave her until her husband arrived.
 In her youth Mrs. Brewster passed bravely through some trying vicissitudes, .but came out from them and passed sixteen years of
 
 unchanged. She was the daughter of Robert J. Walker, President Folks secretary of the treasury. She was gay belle IF years old when Buchanan was President, and after a brief enjoyment of girlish pleasures she mar ried MT. Delonde brother of Mrs. Slidell, whose husband at that time was senator from Louisiana. The marriage most
 unhappy, and the young wife, with her two children, came back to Washington at the close of the war. MT. and Mrs. Walker were | living here in the obscurity which overshad- | owed the southern element during the war, | and many succeeding years. During John | sons administration Mrs. Delonde received | an appointment as clerk in the interna
 revenue, but was dismissed by MT. Boutwel | as soon as he became secretary of the treas
 ury under Grant. MT. Boutwell, dismissed
 her because she was Robert J. Walker l daughter. and the same day he did this h. dismissed Miss Alice Fancy, because she wa | the daughter of Chief Justice Fancy and he l father had rendered the "Dred Scott de- | cision."
 It was at this juncture in her life that the
 brilliant Philadelphia lawyer, Benjamin | Harris Brewster offered his hand and for
 tune to the needy widow and she accepted | His wife loved and admired him and they
 were happy together. He adopted her chil | dren and gave them his name and protec | tion. The daughter was married three years
 ago and lives in Philadelphia, and the sor
 was made a paymaster in the army just be | fore Arthur's administration ended. One | son was borne after she married Mr. Brew | ster Mrs. Brewster's only sister, Miss Lot | tie Walker, died about month ago. Both | of the parents are dead arid all sleep together 1 in Oak Hill cemetery.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07
The Flower Medicine Co.,, | ,762 Washington Street,
 Boston, Mass
OFF DAYS.

Thousands and thousands of men and women have their off days-they not sick enough to Five up. relinquish their duties and go to bed but s de scrbes it:
 ''I feel so drowsy and weery-my head aches"
 I never did have meaner feeling in my ife' My stomach docs not feel right ''
 Don't know what is the matter with me- but do not feel well.''
 II have a half feeling of nausea.''
 ''Too cold one minute and too warm the next ITO use slang phrase, I'm all broke up.'s"
 The above and hundreds of similar concessions are heard daily; with some there is a known cause others cannot account for the feeling 1t may originate from different reasons; but from whatev- CT cause, nature requires assistance and you can immediately render the assistance and dispel all these unpleasant symptoms by using Burdock Blood Bitters. Take them immediately on the appearance of the unpleasant feeling.
 You will feel better in half an hour
 Take it any time before after meals
 If before, you will enjoy your meal better
 If after, it will aid digestion
 It is medicine you can take at any time with good results. It can be taken by the prattling 2 child or the feeble and tottering old man or wo man. Composed of roots and herbs there is noth. ing in it's composition that will inure the most del icate constitution Pleasant in taste and effect ii will do you good
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07
EBITOisIAL NOTES,

It is beginning to be seen that it is desira- ble that this should remain free country.
 The rumor that the Standard Oil company is planning to secure control of the Russian oil fields is interesting and plausible. This company would like the earth.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07

The Rev. Dr. Bartol, of Boston, in a dis course upon the labor problem on Sunday last made this point: ''The secrecy of college societies, clubs, festive CT literary, Masons CT Odd Fellows, may be harmless. But secrecy of plot to upset civilization is conspiracy barbarian, Nihilism; the secrecy of burglars and thieves to issue in what the Master so we'll calls deeds of darkness It is not ten able, cannot, will not stand.'
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07
Three PecuIiarities

Hoods Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier and regulating medicine, is characterized by three peculiarities, namely:
 He%u The combination of the various HSk remedial agents used.
 0L. The proportion in which the roots, &O . herbs, barks, etc., are mixed.
 0I. The process by which the active Su U medicinal properties are secured.
 The result is medicine of unusual strength and curative power, which effects cures here tofore unequalled. These peculiarities belong exclusively to Hoods Sarsaparilla, and are
 Unknown to Others
 Hoods Sarsaparilla is prepared with the greatest skill and care, by pharmacists of education and long experience. Hence it is a medicine worthy of entire confidence. II you suffer from scrofula, salt rheum, or any dis ease of the blood, dyspepsia, biliousness, SICK headache, or kidney and liver complaints, catarrh or rheumatism, do not fail to try
 Hoods SarSapariIIa "I recommend Hoods Sarsaparilla to all my friends as the best blood purifier on earth" VIM. GAFF, druggist, Hamilton, o. Floods Sarsaparilla has cured me of scrof- uous humor, and done me worlds of good otherwise.'' c. A. ARNOLD, Arnold Me.
 A book containing many additional state- ments of cures will be sent to all who desire.
 Hoods SarSapariIIa Sold by all druggists. s1; six for $6 Made only by c. I. HOOD & CO.,, Lowell Mass.
 100 Doses One Dollar.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07
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The bill providing for the issuing of $75,, COG, 900 of silver certificates in one and two dollar notes to take the place of the small bills withdrawn to force the cart-wheel light weight silver dollar into circulation finds much approval. The people would be glad to see the last of the big silver dollars.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-07
The Needed Reformation of Charity.

EYs
 ID. o. Kellogg in the April Atlantic.
 The theory upon which society has hereto fore treated human suffering or degradation has been very simple. There were two classes of misery; the one produced, as the old underwriters would express it, ''by the hand of God," and the other by depravity bearing fruit This distinction lies patent upon the surfaco of the EIizabe than poor laws and reappears in the workhouse test of Earl Grey. he whole scheme of legislation has aimed at some means to separate those who ought to be punished from those whose undeserved calamities constitute title to sympathy. The claim of the last has been held by British courts to be a right to partici- pate in the parish poor relief virtually en- forceable by law. But such classification is impracticable in the present conditions of society if it has not always been Chal- mers demonstrated not only by his experi- ment at St. Johns church in Glasgow, but by his appeal to the history of the Scottish peasantry, that natural affection was sufi- cient motive and the generosity of the poor one to another sufficient resource for the sick, the aged, the orphan, the widow the halt, the blind, the wayfarer and the i'm. becile of all Caledonia. He insisted that the springs of this lowly benefcence were con- gealed by the interference of strangers and he arraigned compulsory relief because it re- faxed natural ties and dissolved the ameni- ties of kinship and affection. The progress of State relief has been marked by the aban- donment of wives and children, by the in- crease of illegitimacy, by the turning of tot tering age to the elmshouse, and by the con- sequent degradation of those in whom mo- tives of family affection ceased. Professor Fawcett has shown that the legal provision for foundlings in England is so superior, in amount and in the associations created for the child, to what a farm hand can supply as to be an enticement for fathers to abandon thelf oHspriH5 ~a enticement which is the stronger as the father is more -Aaective dis interested and ambitious for his ch1Iarv.,. It has been abundantly shown that the poor rate operates to depress wages by handicap ping the selfsupporting in their labor con test with State-aided wQrkmen, and that the workhouse is incompatible with family rela- tions and with the innocence of childhood. Thus society can corrupt it's humble mem bers.