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Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-15

Rates of Advertising. SITUATIONS WANTED. one insertion soc; each subsequent insertion 25c. WANTS, RENTS, and other small advertisements occupying not more than six lnes insertion 75c; each subsequent insertion e5c. One square lone inch) one insertion, S120; each subsequent insertion 40 cents; week $3.20; one month. 5000. Yearly advertisements at the following rates: One square, one year. $40: two squares, year. $70; three squares, one year, $1O0.
 Obituary notices in prose verse, Is cents per line Notices of Births, Marriages and Deaths, 50 cents each. Local Notices % cents per line.
 Advertisements on second page one price and a half.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own imme diate business. and their contracts do not include WantS To Let For Sale, etc.
 Special rates furnished application for contracts covering considerable length of time, or large space.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-15
AMERICAN BLACK SILK

Which will be placed on cur counters at figures be- low all former prices The great reduction in price does not in way detract our former state rant every yard, and should they not prove as rep resented the purchaser will be amply repaid 9 l9 silk silk business in all it's details has been constant study with us for number of years thus having i, dealings with American Silks the brand now produce is in many ways the finest in the market for durability and finish, and equal to the best French Silk imported.
 5 pcs American Black Silk at soc per yard, worth
 pcs American Black at $1 per yard, worth $1 25 at the factory.
 5 pcs American Black Silk at $l.25 per yard, worth $1 50 at the factory.
 worth & at the factory.
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FEBRUARY Is, 1886.

cure him fair profit upon each volume sold. Thus the cheap editions now sold at twenty five cents would not cost more than twenty five cents with the stamp. To sell book without a stamp would be an infringement of copyright, for which an action could be brought.
 pr. Wyman of Sitka, Alaska, has sent to his brother in Detroit pack of playing cards such as are made and used by the Tinklet In dians in Alaska. The cards are bits of bam- boo tri1e over four inches in length, the surface of each cylinder is very smooth and even and on the surface are carved variety of odd designs-faces, figures, animals, birds and other hieroglyphics. In their general character the designs have features strongly resembling both Japanese ano Egyptian de- signs. The method of playing with these carved sticks is known only to the Indians, but it is Known that private seals, made in the same way and of the same material, are also used by the Indians. The impression of the characters on the cylinders is made by rolling the cylinders over melted wax or by filling the carved lines of the designs with ink and then rolling it over paper or parch- ment.
 The "valued policy law" which the New Hampshire legislature passed last summer: and which has been fsrcely attacked, has had at least one good result. The insurance companies claimed that the result of the law would be great increase of incendiarisn, since, they maintained, it puts premium upon over-insurance, with view to fraudu- lent profit by incendiarism. They threat ened to leave the State if the measure be- came law, and promptly executed the threat when the legislature enacted it. Sev- eral months have passed, and it is now found that the number of fires in New Hampshire has decreased sixty per cent. as compared with the corresponding period of previous years. The withdrawal of the outside companies left the State without any effective local system of insurance, and business men were thrown into a condition of great alarm and uncertainty by the gener- al impossibility of renewing their old poll cies in outside companies, or getting new ones in home policies.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-15
The 1nnrna1 and On11rier.

The Oldest tDailyPaper Publfshe ed
 fin Connecticut.
 THE HARRINGTON PUBLISHING co. SINGLE COPIES TWO CENTS. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CrTY, 12 CENTS A WEEK, 42 CENTS MONTH, $5. % A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS By MAIL.
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Dress Goods Department.

press GOO0S UopAfCneHGs ishing bargains ever shown in this city. Space will permit US to mention only few of them in this advertisement viz: 44.inch all wool Sateen Berbers, choice colorings only 50e per yard. This quality has never been retailed less than $1 per yard.
 54-inch all wool Tricots at 8sc per yard, just re- duced from S5c. 54.inch all wool Homespuns only 75e per yard; former price S1-25. 44-inch ali wool Camel's Hair, all shades, only soc per yard; always sold at 75c. 40-inch all wool Black Cashmeres at 37 1.2c, soc
 40 inch all W ol Black Cashmeres at SOc, were 75c.
 We invite inspection of these lots, which are guaranteed the best values we have ever offered in Dress Goods Below are few surprises in the way of schemes the figures speak volumes: Combination No. \.
 One pair Curtains, Nottingham Lace (21a yards long) pole with brass trimmings 1 pair chains for holding curtains the entire lot offer at the unprecedented price of 89c.
 Combination No. 2.
 One pair Curtains Nottingham Lace 6 yards long) pole, brass trimmings, pair chains, all for $1.29.
 Combination No. s.
 One pair Nottingham Lace Curtains 6 yards long) pole, brass trimmings. pair chains, all for $1.S9.
 Combination NO.A.
 One pair Gu tans, extra quality (315 yards long), pole and brass trimmings pair chains, at tho iu- credible price of 2.39.
 The above special and canuot last long at the prices.
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Thousands delighted at the enormous values produced on each counter. The combination or tions bestowed upon during the week proves how well the public appreciate honest representa- tions The second week of this grand sale ev, en greater than the first. We promise additional surprises that will astonish the most critical ob- server of the dry goods market. Our ambition is to please the people all times with the best treas- ment and lowest prices in the State
 The array of choice bargains displayed on our counters challenge the admiration Of the entire
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Yesterday being the first Sunday that the
 inhabitants of this region have seen for a long time was much enjoyed.
 The bill introduced by Senator lngalls
 calling for the amendment of the statute so
 that the $1 and g notes may be reissued will find much favor. He says in support of it that these notes were retired for the purpose of forcing silver into circulation; that no at tempt has been made to force gold into circu- lation by the withdrawal of the $50 notes; that the people own the money in the treas ury and want currency based upon gold and silver in circulation, and do not desire to carry coin in their pockets.
 It is encouraging to read that the honest workingmen of London have done their best during the recent tumults to keep themselves distinct from the thieving rascals who tried to make the just grievances of the unem- ployed mechanics a pretext for wholesale pillage. 'fWe'Il holler and make as big 8 stir as we can," said sturdy artisan to by stander, "'cause we have a right to be heard and it ain't just and fair, no how, for us to die of hunger. But for killin' folks and smashin' property, don't hold with that, for it never did no good yet and never will" The great quantity of peanuts grown in Africa, South America and the southern States of this country afford not only pleas ant article of food, but very large source of oil production. The seed contains from for ty-fve to fifty per cent. of g nearly colerless, bland, fixed oil, not unlike olive oil aud used
 for similar purposes; it is a non-drying oil.
 which changes but little by exposure te the
 air and remains fluid even at several degrees
 colder than thirty-two degrees Fah. A very
 great quantity of soap is manufactured from
 this kind of oil; indeed, some of the finest
 toilet soaps imported from France are of
 this material.
 Secretary Whitney has some ''views'' con-
 corning what the navy of the United States
 ought to be. He wants more steel cruis sers.
 He also favors the building of torpedo
 boats as essential parts of modern naval war
 fare. He recognizes the fact that private
 contractors can do their work at better rates
 for the same class of work than the navy
 yards can, because. with the eight hour law
 in force at the navy yards, the contractors
 have an advantage of 20 per cent. He
 would have one or two yards equipped for
 building the best of ships, and would encour-
 age American shipbuilders by making it for
 their interest to hire the best constructors
 in the world, in which case they could build
 ships to rival those of any foreign nation. An ingenious method of securing the rights
 of English authors in America is described by writer in the Pall Mall Gazette. It is the idea of an American man of letters, who sees in all the proposed copyright laws an increase in the price of English books that
 would be prohibitory to the majority of the American public. His scheme contemplates
 a system of international copyright stamp
 similar to those used by the revenue service.
 The author could sell to any publisher who ! proposed to reprint his books the requisite
Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-15
The Parrot as an Article of Furni-
 

From the Atlanta (Ga) Consttutionl
 For eight years an African parrot has been one of the fixtures of my library. I have slowly evolved from myconsciousness the fact
 that regard him as piece of furniture.
 His gray coat and red tail so correspond with the gray walls and red frieze of the library as to suggest that he was made to
 match the room. His stability and wooden headed health confirm the suggestion. He
 has seen generations of canaries flourish and fade, the breasts of immemorial bullfnches
 pale, the ehirrups flicker and die in their threats, mocking birds beat their restless
 lives out against gilded bars, and whole roost- fuls of idiotic love birds doze themselves
 away Amid it all he has been as changeless
 as the knob on the door. Death has appar- eutly inyentoried him with the majoica
 vases and the picture frames. He has even
 outlived stuffed owl that went off in a cur ious post -mortem moult. So inseparably is he connected with the furniture in my mind
 that should bs no more surprised to see my
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We cannot accept anonymous return rejected communications In all the name of the writer will be required, not for publication. but guarantee of good faith
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-10-21
GENERAL NOTES.

REAR ADMIRAL EDwARD T. NICHOLAS
died Tuesday afternoon at Pomfret.
Conn.
The demand for small coins is so great
that the Philadelphia mint cannot keep
pace with the orders.
GEORGE W. ADAMS, a Washington Jour
nalist, well known throughout the coun-
try, expired Saturday.
HE striking brakemen of the New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio road carried
their point and resumed their labors.
CAPTAIN d. C. HARRIS, of Galena, claims
20 have struck a lead of pure galena
which bids fair to be one of the greatest
mineral discoveries ever made in that re-
gion.
THE order to remove cattle from the
Sioux Reservation in Dakota has been
revoked, and the stockmen are elated.
UNITED States Senator Austin F. Pike
dropped dead Friday morning while
walking on his farm, near Franklin Falls,
n. II.
PARIS GREEN, which had been spread on
the cotton fields to kill worms on the
Foster place, Bossier Parish, La, poison
ed number of field hands, causing their
death.
JUDGE WALLACE, of the United States
circuit court at New York, denied the
petition of thirty five banks for an in
junction against the collections of state
taxes on the value of their shares.
The east-bound pool formed by the
managers of the Northwestern Freight
association leaves wheat and its products
open to competition, and the west-bound
pool excludes all heavy freight.
PROFESSOR PROCTOR gives it as his opin-
ion that the end of the world is still very
remote. This is consoling to this section
of 1T, for a country that still talks of
electing Jim Blaine as president is a
very long way from being prepared to
die.
Mrs. GENERAL GRANT Monday received
check for $4,000 from the publishers
of the generals memoirs. She had pre-
viously been paid 100000, and it is
thought that she will ultimately realize
100000.
The superintendent of the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio road, yesterday
held a conference with a commit
tee of dissatisfied brakemen. At the
the close every switchman and brakeman
quit work. Agents received orders to re-
fuse all freight, and every freight train
was abandoned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-10-21
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
WASHINGTON.

Mr.. JOHN NJ. CoRsE has been ap-
pointed Postmaster at Boston.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SHERIDAN has re-
turned to Washington from Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND Friday appointed
General John M. Corse, formerly Of
Chicago, Postmaster at Boston, Mass.
The paper currency outstanding com
prises S3O3,082,247 in national bank
notes and $346,69 ,O16 in greenbacks.
THE government receipts so far this
month amount to $14, 900, and the
expenditures during the same period to
$8,3O7, 900, showing an excess of $9,24O,-
600.
The recent treasury order reducing the
rate of drawback on dried refined sugar
does not affect the existing rate of 4 cents
per gallon, less L per cent for syrups
resulting from the refining of imported
raw sugar.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has appointed
Colonel o. B. Wilcox a brigadier general,
and he will be ordered to take command
at Fort Levenworth. Colonel James c..
Duane has been made chief of engineers,
with the rank Of brigadief general.
The name of Brigadier General j. H.
Potter, commanding the department of
the Missouri, has been placed on the re-
tired list, he having reached the age Of
81 years.
WASHINGTON special says: 1t is stated
here on good authority that after filing
his annual treasury report Secretary
Manning will retire from the cabinet per-
manently.
The third auditor of the treasury, in a
letter to the governor of Indiana, charg-
es that nearly $4,000 has been erro-
neously paid to citizens of that state on
duplicate Or altered war claims, and
should be refunded.
SECRETARY MANNING is expected to re-
turn to Washington by Wednesday next.
His residence and his offices in the
Treasury Department are rapidly being
put in condition for his occupation.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS has affirmed the
validity of a French grant covering
millions of dollars worth of property at
New Orleans, including the Metairie
Ridge cemetery and other tracts on the
Shell road to Lake Pontchartrain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-10-21
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

JOHN ARENsDoRF, of Sioux City, charg
ed with the murder of Rev. George G.
Haddock, secured continuance until
Monday by giving bond in $4,000.
T. j. CLUNERIUs, who murdered Miss
Morrison near the reservoir in Richmond,
Va, has been sentenced to be hanged De-
cember 10.
DATIMER E. JONES, a lumber dealer in
New York, issued nearly 100000 in ficti-
tious paper and fled the city.
A BULLET was on Sunday morning fired
through window in the Polish church
at Pittsburgh, with the evident intention
of killing Father Miskewitz.
''BoBBY" Adams, an expert burglar, the
principal in the $4,000 stamp robbery at
Minneapolis, has been jailed at Chicago,
in default of $4,000 bail.
WHAT is believed to be a counterfeit
so silver certificate was Yesterday pre-
scented and refused at the Chicago post
Office.
Nor only has ex-alderman Sayles left
New York for Montreal, but his brother
has transferred the real estate pledged on
his bond of $4,000.
DANIEL HADLEY, who murdered Doug
lass Taylor at Eau Claire, Mich, last
Thursday by driving scratchawl into
his temple, was captured near Grand
Rapids yesterday.
AT stStratford, Connecticut, Joseph
Fruse fatally wounded his wife with a
dagger, and then ended his life by throw
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-10-21
FOREIGN.

The Spanish Cabinet has decided to re-
sign.
The Skuptchina (the servian national
assembly will assemble on Oct. II.
The French-African cable has been
completed to the Congo.
The London Daily News says Austrai-
liza intends to oppose further Russian ad-
vances in Bulgaria.
The British troop ship Tyne, which
stranded Thursday near Sheerness, has
been foated without damage.
The Queen of Spain has signed decree
freeing slaves in Cuba from the remand
er of their terms of servitude.
LORD LINsMoRE has offered his tenants
at Fohenago, Ireland, a reduction OF. %
per cent. from the judicial rents.
The editor of a Poser newspaper has
been sentenced to imprisonment for
two years for ibeling Prince Bismark.
The British troop ship Tyre has strand
ed near the navy yard at Sheerness, Lon
don. All efforts to float her have failed
She lies in dangerous position.
GENERAL KAULBARs wrote to the officers
of the Bulgarian army at Sistova to meet
him and receive message from the car.
A reply was sent that he should address
the Bulgarian government.
The Spanish cabinet, after celebrating
for FIVE hours, decided to recommend to
the queen the communication of the death
sentence of the insurget leaders.
GEN. JOSEPH ALEXIS UHR1CH the defend
er of Strassburgh during the Franco
Prussian war, is dead. He was born Feb.
Is. 1902.
The Dublin Freeman's Journal, COM
menting on the alleged scheme for the
government of Ireland, says: ''It is plan
to split the National League.
AT the session of the chamber of depu-
ties M. Granet, the minister of posts and
telegraphs, will introduce bill providing
for the laying of cable between France
and Madagascar.
ALL the schools of Hanover, Germany
"a city of about 10000 inhabitants
have been closed because of an epidemic
of scarlet fever and diptheria.
In the elections held at Sofia for mem
bers of the great sobranje to elect sue
cessor to Prince Alexander, all the gov
eminent candidates were successful. A
Russian sympathizer received but one
thirtieth of all the votes cast in his dis
trict.
On account of the spread of cholera
the Austrian and Hungarian governments
have issued special orders that a close
watch be kept on ports and the frontiers.
Quarantine regulations have been aban-
doned as useless. All persons arriving
at ports or by railway or canal will be
medically inspected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-10-21
Gen. WashingtOn's Horses
ST. Nicholas

Washington never lost his liking for
a good horse, and he knew what good
hores was. He had a servant who had
been Gen. Braddock's servant, and had
been with Washington ever since the
battle of the Monongahela. Bishop, as
he was named, was terrible discipliner,
and devoted to his masters interests. At
sunrise every day, he would go to the
stables, where the boys had been at work
since dawn grooming the Generals
horses. Woe to them if they had been
careless! Bishop marched in with mus
lin handkerchief in his hand and passed
it over the coats of the horses: if a single
stain appeared on the muslin, the boy
who groomed the horse had to take
thrashing. 1t was no light matter to
groom horse in those days, for, just as
the heads of gentlemen were plastered
and bewigged, so the horses were made
to undergo what would seem to US now
a rather absurd practice. The night be-
fore horse was to be ridden he was COW
cred from head to foot with paste
made of whiting and other ingredients;
then he was well wrapped in cloth and
laid to sleep on clean straw. By the
next morning the paste had hardened,
and it was then vigorously rubbed In and
the horse curried and brushed. The re-
suit was a glossy and satiny coat. The
hoofs were BACKED and polished, the
mouth washed, the teeth picked and
cleaned, and the horse was then readyto
be brought out.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-10-21

cannot get back before tomorrow, when
the details of this awful disaster will be
known. The latest reports place the
number of lives lost at Sabine at over
sixty.
be justified in OBTAINING Canadian vessels
that are found killing seals on the open
sea miles away from the Alaskan islands
or coasts, is question which is likely to
lead to discussion between our own and
the British government.
The killing of fur seals and the valuable
sea otter in the waters of the Pacific is an
industry which is quite actively pursued
from Victoria, British Columbia, several
steamers and a fleet of schooners being
engaged in the business. The temptation
to pursue their game into the more north
ern seas is naturally alluring, and unless
we can establish a clear right TO exclude
them from the Behring sea they may give
US trouble, particularly while the right
to catch fish off the coast of British North
America is in dispute.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-10-21
ing himself in front of an express train,
1oA oh Ial

ing himself in front of an express train,
which beheaded him.
PRISONER named McVicker, who was
being taken by the tewD marshal to Ere
mont, Ohio, leaped through window of
coach on an express train, and died
soon after he was picked up.
JAMES BRIGGS, who some months ago
was arrested for stealing $4,000 of Lake
Erie and Western Railroad bonds. plead
ed guilty Friday at Bloomington, Ill.
Briggs is also Bigamist
The father of Wallace, recently lynch
ed at Steelville, Mo-, for the murder of
the Logan family, refused to care for the
body, which was buried Friday on a hill
by the roadside, where the remains of a
colored murdereress, who had been ex-
ecuted according to law, were inferred
years ago.