Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-04-26
LAUNCHED AND AFLOAT.

Arkansas is a poor place to get along in. A young man on his wedding day was taken out and hung for stealing 8 fve-dol- lar horse.
 A Maine clergyman's donation party net ted $6 The stuff that the guests devoured cost the poor preacher $28. Now he prays earnestly to be delivered from his friends.
 A constable down in Maine the other day. being curious to know what barrel of cement looked like inside, found it to contain nothing but sand packed around a 25 gallon keg of whisky.
 There are many lawyers who are as ca pablo as Minister Phelps for the position of Chief Justice of the U. s. Supreme Court, and who are not viewed with posit- i've dislike by any voting element.
 Matthew Arnold drew pension from the British civil list. The pension lapsed at his death, but it is understood that Queen Victoria will be asked to continue the pension to MT Arnolds widow.
 Governor Foraker proves his fidelity to Sherman by appointing the one man who spoke against the Senator in the Dayton convention member of the Cincinnati board of public works for five years.
 A hotel located at Erie, Pa., is being ad- vertised as follows: "There is no gilt edge business about this house, and if you want to eat pie with a knife you can do it without fear of being ostracised from so- ciety."
 With the exception of the Inter- Ocean all the daily papers of Chicago support tariff-reform. The leading and ablest re- publican paper is denounced as free trade organ, but the people sustain it all the same. This fact is a very significant one. Mrs Lillian M. Pavy of London, Eng land, is commercial traveller now visit ing the Western states in the interest of an English house. She travels alone and finds that in this country woman does not need an escort to protect her from annoyance.
 William Meckel who attempted suicide at Bridgeport Tuesday evening by cutting his throat, has continued to grow worse and is now temporarily insane. Yester- day he got of bed, locked the door and for time refused admission even to his chil- dren. He was taken to the hospital. | A correspondent of the New Haven Register says that John M. Douglass, the rich Middletown pump manufacturer, has patched up deal with Morgan G. Bulke- ley, whereby he is to be assured the nomi- nation of lieutenant governor, if the del
 
 place the ex-mayor in the gubernatorial race.
 When the Minnesota high license law was passed a year ago last winter the sa- loon men announced their determination to procure it's repeal at the next session of the Legislature. The law has now been in operation in every part of Minnesota for some months, ''and the saloon keepers think so well of it" says the Chicago Fri bune, ''that not one in ten of them has any fault to find. Most of them are well satisfied, because it has to some extent i'm proved their business and it's character" | It was left for Pig-Iron Kelley to dis cover remarkable resemblance between the treason of Benedict Arnold and that of James Russell Lowell. Instead of making | treason odious, as they promised to do, the republicans are making it respectable. When prominent republican leader rises l in Congress and ayers that he sees no diff erence between the crime committed by Benedict Arnold in betraying his country | and that of James Russell Lowell in say | ing good word for President Cleveland it seems ridiculous to call Jeff Davis g traitor-New Haven Union.