Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-13

&SS@6A@ of Terror Mile. de Sombreul was made to drink glass of human blood as the price of her life, and asserts that this honored legend is untrue. All the foundation there could be for it, the paper says, is that she probably was asked to drink a glass of wine to the health of the republic, and the hand of the man who gave it to her might have been dripping with blood.
 Boston is famous for its notions. A Bos- ton firm is at present engaged in the con- struction of a couple of collins, which, when
 finished, are to cost $5, ,00o apiece. They are made of mahogany, seven inches thick, carved in bold relief with the most elaborate designs, all variously emblematic of death. On the top of each coffin is carved a coat-of- arms, and every available inch of the interior is beautifed by the cutting tools. Inside the casketa are swung two silken hammocks. A $125, 900 mausolenm ia local cemetery will serve as receptacle for the costly boxes. The persons for whom they are in- tended are not yet dead.
 Dr. Edgar E. Dean, of Brockton, Massa- chusstts, 8 prominent Democrat, is among the latest repudiators of free trade. Last summer Dr. Dean travelled in England in company with Senator W. L. Douglas, the shoe manufacturer, and he has visited other parts of Europe and Canada, and he says he saw enough of the effects of free trade to convince him that lowering the tariff means lowering wages, while "higher wages mean better food, better clothes and living in a house instead of 8 hovel." In a CO., operative shoe factory at Leicester, England, MT. Douglas inquired the wages earned by the women in the stitching room, and was | told that they were to 12 shillings week, or an average of $40. Mir. Douglas ex- claimed: s.Why, I have no stitcher who earns less than $t0a week and some earn as high as $20."
 The Petersburg fVirginis) Indsx-Appeal is Democratic paper, but it is not oblivious to the real situation of affairs. For instance, it says: There is no ground to suppose that
 MT. Cleveland is stronger in New York now
 than he was in 1884. For various reasons, among which may be enumerated his tariff message and the mugwumpian assaults on Governor Hill, there is ground for apprehen- sion that he is not ss strong as he was four years ago. Last January the writer of this had an excellent opportunity of judging per sonally the effect of Mir. Cleveland's message on the farmers of New York-Dsmocratic and Republican-and the result was very far from encouraging. On the other hand there is reason to believe that Mir. Harrison is | stronger in New York to-day than MT. Blaine ! was in 1884. And yet we all remember how l near Mir. Blaine came to carrying the electoral ! vote of that State.
 MT. Labouchere makes public for the first time, he says, letter of the Duke of Well lington about the battle of Waterloo, in ref erence to certain stories about the "world's ! earthquake" q can refer vou," says the iron warrior, "only to my dispatches pub | lished in tThe London Gazette General l Alya's report ts the nearest to the truth ot the other official reports published; but even l that report contains some statements not ex- actly correct. The others that have seen cannot be relied upon. To some of theE may be attributed the source of the false hoods since circulated through the medium of unofficial publications with which th' press has abounded. Of this a remarkable instance is to be found in the report of { meeting between Marshal Butcher and me al
 La Belle Alliance; and some have gone st far as to have seen the chair on which sal
 down at that farmhouse. It happens that
 the meeting took place after 10 o'clock 1T
 the village of Gsmappe-and anybody who
 attempts to describe with truth the opera tions of the different armies will see that il could not be otherwise. The other point ii not so material, but in truth, I was not of my horse until returned to Waterloo, be tween Il and 12 at night"