Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-03
AN OLD PAPER.

The New Haven Chronicle of Sixty
 Years Ago-An Angry Husband-
 Queer Home For a Mouse.
 Among the old papers published in this city was weekly known as the New Haven Chronicle, copy of which under the date of Saturday, December IS, 1928, has come to
 hand. The copy is the forty second number of volume II. and was published by Charles
 Adams at No. 4 Central row, Chapel street.
 "The price of this paper to city and single mail subscribers is $2 in advance" At this early date slavery was prominent issue and the papers leader deals with slavery. It says: s'In our former remarks we assumed that slavery endangers our free institutions. This assumption it is believed will not be ques- toned" The Journal of Commerce is cited
 at length as stating views which the Chroni- cle could support. The papers poetry col- umn was an ambitious one. Two of the titles here are "The Signet Ring of Heaven" and Glove of Gold. A short story, "The Mourn ful Bridal, taken from the "Bower of Taste, " is the first article in the column headed "Miscellany." Here are couple of news items "The Presidents message was received in Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon at half-past three o'clock, having been
 brought in 8 small drag of Messrs. Stockton
 & Stoke, mail proprietors, in two hours and forty-five minutes" "A New York writer complains of Chief Justice Jones as being too industrious, having made him serve evenings as juror" The church-goers of the city that day read with interest an arti- cle on the origin and progress of modern for eign missions. The news from abroad Is given in the shape of correspondence, while the latest news from Europe is given under date from New York. ''The packet ship D.; iva1 day, bringing London dates to the first of November inclusive" Under the headline ''Russia and Turkey" we learn that Varna has fallsn. An advertisement in an Ohio paper is quoted by the Chronicle as curiosity. It says: My case hardened wife Charlotte has again fled from my just authority and protection without advising with me or consulting me on this doubtful and impolitic step, nor is this the first of fenee of this kind that she has committed
 for nine years past she has annually served
 me the same trick and always about this time
 of the year, which cannot account for. l
 have had Job-like patience and have forborne
 thus far to tell the world of the shame she
 has cast upon me. Now let all whom it may
 concern know that from this day forth 1 shall
 pay no debt of her contracting.-WalGer
 Coneh N B.-This is the tenth time she
 has now run awsy-nine times have taken
 her in again and if she takes me in again I'll
 be d-d.-W. O."
 The Canadian letters from Montreal and
 Quebec under dates of November 26 and 24 respectively tell about great and destructive snow storm that had swept over the country.
 From Wilmington, Del, came the strange story of a child who had been ill and treated
 for worms. The remedies caused the expul-
 sion from the child of a full grown mouse,
 which it is supposed the child had put into
 it's mouth when young,a as 'the children often discovered nests of mice," and that the ani- nal had entered the child's stomach, where 1t had lived until killed by the medicines. The mouse was considered a curiosity and was placed on exhibition in the doctors off,