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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20
BEYOND THE BIG WATER.

TIE latest Battenberg baby Is to be made
 Coioncl of German regiment. Nor only is the city of Pisa bankrupt, but ten other Italian towns have become bank rup
 4 JAPANESE paper complains that there are .Gn few qualified physicians and dentists i'll that country.
 | TIE "Heavenly Foot Society" has been
 started In China by tho women in rebellion against the venerated fashion that con-
 presses their feet.
 clock, which will roll off popular air every
 hour excepting during Sunday, when only sacred music will be played. A CossAcK giantess who weighs two hun | dred and eighty pounds and measures neaT- | ly six feet in height, though only eleven years old, is on exhibition in Paris. LONDON is to be fortified by girdle of | forts on it's south side. The defenses will in l many cases take the form of intrenched
 camps, in which large forces may be gath | cred
 A FLOATING workshop, to be known as
 the torpedo depot ship Vulcan, has been | launched at Portsmouth, Eng. It will ac- l company fleet of gunboats and carry an equipment of men and arms. | Ir is said that every body who is now ad-
 mitted to audience by the Pope must have previously signed a document by which
 the applicant pledges himself to neither l ask any thing of his holiness, nor to publish
 or repeat any thing which his holiness may
 say.
 THE woman who shall be declared the
 most beautiful in the department of beauty
 at tho Paris exposition will be given 5000. The public decides who the fortunate one 1 may be, as each visitor is entitled to reg
 ister his vote in favor of the woman of his 1 choice.
 1 ACCORDING to a writer in the Westmin ster
 Review, it is not the spinsters who consti-
 tute the surplus female population in En- gland, and by whom the labor market Is flooded, but the widows. His statistics
 show that the widows number 1, ,410, ,6S4, an the widowers 5S9, ,644. l IRRIGATION is conducted on large scale
 in Japan, and dates from long before the
 Christian era. The irrigation works are
 massive and costly, and from a distance
 look like double-track railways. These are l the large reservoirs and main ditches, be- l sides which mountain streams are utilized
 in the usual manner. l AN interesting illustration of the perpet-
 ual freshness and strength of the wind at
 the top of the Eiffel Tower Is presented by
 the gradual destruction of the flag which
 adorned it at the opening of tho Exposition. About six weeks after 1t was hoisted the
 upper band disappeared altogether, and a
 few days later the lower one, leaving only
 a single strip to represent the majesty oi
 the Republic.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20
POSTOFFIcE

New York City,35o 10 90 m; e.1o. 5.so. 1881 q,
 Boston-7CO, 50 a m; 2.3O, 40, 80 D m
 Southern-I5o 10 20 a m 21O 5.3O, 73O m
 Mestern-1.5o. 1920 m; 2.1a, 53O 7aOpm.
 Canada West-7.3o, 10. 20 d m; 21O 5SO 73Onm
 EasternFa9o Easter rast 55o 50 m; 1ase, sIo sopm
 Albany-?.50, 10.2o m; 210, 53O, 73Opm.
 Northern N. Y.-7.5O 1920 m: ;. TO- 530, 7sOpm
 Proyidence-7O0, 7.5O m; 12.3 2.1O, 7sO pm.
 Springteld-7 50 am; 1a.sO ;. 10, 5sO, 5sO pm.
 Morcester-1.00, 7.50 am; F. 30. BIO 5 80 : 30 nm
 rttsheld ,MaSs-7.5e m; 2. 10, 5.30, 7.3O D m
 I5s! nartford-70o 50 a m; 1a.sO a.1O, 7.aO m
 Brldgeport-7.5O, 1920 m; 2.lO 5.3O 73O pm
 New Havenn7 50 10. 20 am; 1a 30 21o 5.3o, 73o pm
 Ansonla-7.5O. 10.20 m; 12 30, :. TO- 53O 3O n m
 Blrmlngham-1: 90, 1O.ao am: 12.3o 2 1O 53O 3u Im
 Snlon -.5O m; 2.10, :.3o m. Naugatuck-750 a Tn; 21O 5.3O D h. Seymour-1:50 III; 2.10, 53O pm. Winsted-10.55 ID; (. 50 pm Stations on Naugatuck k R north Woter,rry 10. .45 m; 630pm. Meriden-7.5O, 1920 m; l2. .3O 21O 53O. Ta0pp DanbGry,75O m; 1.s5, 2.l0. 5.3O, 7.30pm New London-10O 7.s0 am; 12 20 : l1 D H .n ,,,. Watertown-10.45 m: 20 D m ~ Oakvllie-10,45 a III; (. 90 D nl Woodbury-1.30 1u.45 nl; 1.23lnI Southbury-T.3 Oa m; 135 D m Middlcbury-l2.30 q Tn. Woicott Cru. Th Sat- 12.3ha
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20

THERE is nothing surprising in the statement that comes from Virginia that Malone holds the machine. As Harrl- son has recognized Mahone as the dis penser of federal patronage i'll the Old Dominion it would be too much to ex- pect that Virginia republicans would attempt to buck against him. But when Malone runs for governor we may ex- pect to learn who are the people.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20

PERHAPS John l.. Sullivan may yet have another way of earning living than that which Governor Lowry has made so risky for him. That is, if he is an apt pupil of the apprenticeship which he is likely to get in Mississippi next year. It will not be quite so digni fled, but may be more profitable than his position as sporting editor of pink tinted weekly.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20

BOSTON will probably object now te John L. Sullivan running for mayor. Ii would be a trifie unpleasant for the modern Athens to have her mayors messages written in Mississippi pen itentiary
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20

THE silence concerning civil service reform observed in republican platforms this fall is eloquent. It is one thing te be reformers when a party is on the outs and quite another when it has the offices And of thls republicans are shining and conspicuous example.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20
M ERIDEN, WATERBURY & CONNECTICUT M RIVER RAILROAp '

MI RIVER RAILROAD
 lN EFFLcT JULY B. 1889
 FROM WATERBURY TO CRONwEI1 Lea'e Waterbury, New England station s.,,,m 1855, 4:4O. *6.5a p. m ''' "''" Leave Waterbury. Dublin street. 800 a. m.. 9.1o am; l:10. 5:Os. *7:0s D. m. Leave Melldcn, 9:oO a. m., l:51. 5:15 D. m FROM CROMWELL TO WATERBURY. Leave Cromwell 6:3O a m. 1913, 4:45 p.m- Leave Meroen, West Main street, 7:0. 9:aO a. m 12:3l, 5:15, 635 D. m. " ' ArriNe at Dublin street, ;:i0, 1911 a. m 1s5 COS Arrives Waterbury. N E. station, 7:s5. 1o.a6 m 1850. G20 S:05 D. m ' 1'>' ." ill., SFor Meridcn and way stations ouly. arrive at ':52 p. m. " Mcriden. " ~ "'''i' ''iee''
 CIAS. M. CRAWFORD, Supt.
 Meriden, Conn
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20

"CoUNT Virginia Republican 7" is headline in the New York Press. That's what the republicans have tried to do before without success. And they will score another failure this trip.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20

Delivered by carrier to any part of tho city or sent by mail at the following rates
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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20

Entered as second class matter at the Water bury Postofiice
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20

THERE is talk i'll Tennessee of public monument to Davy Crockett. The authors of this project should be sure they are right before they go ahead.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20

what able seaman John Hawkins thinks of Blaine's vigorous foreign policy.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20

IT begins to appear that Harrison's supply of relatives has given out.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20
WASHINGTON EXPRESS,

For Newburgh. Philadelphia. Baltimore and Washingtt n with Pullman Sleeping Cars 10 42 pm Boston, 3:10 m.
 Worcester 3:1O am.
 Putnam, 310 a m
 Willimantic, 8ll0 am. Hartford, 3:10 m; return, 9:30 a. m. New Britain BIO m; return 9:4S D. m. Danbury, 10:42 p m; return, 200 a m Fishkill on Hudson. 10:42 m; return, 1920 m. A. c. KENDALL. Gen'l Pass Agent, Boston. H. PLATT, Surt., Hartford.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20

UPHoLSTERING WOOD FINISHING, Piano Polishing and " " general urniture Repairing. Oak Pic; Pic; Finishes and Wood Stains in all colors. All goods called for and delivered.
 GEO. O. BOOTH,
 IS Abbott Avenue,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20

.OrFrcE -153 South Main Street
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-20
A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL,

.. & M. T. MALoNEY, PRoPRIEToRs.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-09-04

tariff that it protects the American
laborer2 The appalling falschoods
on this point with which the Re
publican press and leaders atfronted
heaven and earth in the campaign
of last year have all turned to
sscourges, thongs and whipcords in
the hands Of honest people with
which to lash naked officials through
the world. The farmers were prom
Used remunerativc prices for what
they had to sell and the day laborer
living wages for his work More
than one-third of the farms in the
great States of Indiana, Ohio, Hi
nois and Michigan are under mort
gage for debt, and the farmers OF
these four States will average an in
debtedness in each of them of more
than 800, 900, 900 to foreign loan as
sociations. 1t is a statistical fact
that the farmer, year in and year
out, can mover exceed a profit oi
more than 3 per cent, and much of
tener makes far lesss. Under a
Republican tariff and system of fl
nance designed to rob him he is
forced to borrow at from 4 TO z per
cent. How he can get rich in this
way can only be explained by those
who contend that the more you tax
men, women and children, the
wealthier and more prosperous they
become. As to the wage worker in
the manufactures of the country,
and for whom the blessings of a
high protective tariff were more es-
pecialIy invoked, it is only necessary
for you to lift up your eyes and be-
hold how tho false and lying proph-
cts of Baal have been overthrown
and confounded
"The whole land is filled with la
borers out OF employment and facing
starvation with their wives and
children. Last summer and fall
they were promised a paradise for
the laborer in the event of the sue
cess of the Republican party, now
there is not State in the Union in
which the appeal for work and the
cry for bread are not constantly
heard from those who were misled
into the support of fraud and mo-
nopoly under the gulse of protection,
The future will show whether this
hard experience brings wisdom, Oh
whether the laborcr is doomed to
bondage more helpless and hopeless
than the one that prevailed on the
cotton plantations of the South.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-09-04
An Incident OF fAnte-yVar Times
on llle Ohio River.

Chicago Tribune.
Tho packet boat Ohio Belle on
one of her carly summer trips from
Pittsburg to Cincinnati couple of
years before the war had hardly
thrown her gang plank out to the
Wheeling levee whom a gentleman
who seemed to have been awaiting
her arrival hurried on board, ac-
companied by heavily voilcd lady
and a little girl-apparently some
5 or years old-whom he carried.
He was recognized by some of the
persons on the cabin deck guards as
"CoIonel'' Archibald Lee, we'll
known river gambler, and was pre-
sumably accompanied by his family.
After supper the woman retired
to her room, while he got into a
game of poker in the forward cabin
and played pretty late for high
stakes, winning a considerable sum.
About 2 o'clock the game broke up
and he retired.
At daybreak the next morning, in
a thick white fog, the Ohio Belle
grounded hard and fast on a bar
somewhere between the mouth of
the Kanawha and Big Sandy. 1t
was an annoying fact, certainly, but
apparently more SO to Colonel Lee
than to anybody else. He was too
nervous to avail himself of the lucky
chance for fleeing his fellow pas
sengers
The Bellies fuel supply had been
pretty well exhausted in her efforts
to work off the bar, and her captain
deemed it advisable to repIcnish at
a woodward near the mouth of the
sciota River, which was reached
late in the evening. wood up"
made an animated and picturesque
spectacle, which all the cabin pas
sengers, of course, went out on the
guards to admire. BY the ruddy
light of two great fires of bitumin
ous coal, burning in the iron baskets
at the bow of the boat. they saw an
endless chain of singing coIorcd
men carrying the wood on their
shoulder from the bank to the boat
There was no confusion, but every
whore anxious haste, for the Belle
was already seventeen hours behind
her schedule time.
In all that excitement nobody no.
ticed that among the last darkeys to
run up the gang plank with loads of
wood was staIwart white man who
did not belong among them, and
who quickly disappeared some-
where on the boiIer-deck as soon as
he got aboard. Had not his face
been well shaded by his sIouch hat
somebody would have been certain
to recognize him as Ransom Dar-
ley, well known along the Ohio
River as the 'sGiant Flatboatman.''
barley next appeared ON the
guards in front of the cabin, where,
after peering inside for a few min
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-06

virgins might be slowed. It is question
for experts to decide.
But we do not approve Of encouraging
celibaey in the sex which shines so brightly
and usefuIly in the matrimonial relation,
whether by three-thousand-dollar homes or
more substantial prizes. Those who have
money to spare for such purposes had better
bestow it upon worthy wives and mothers,
or leave it to form fund for the encourage
ment and reward of wifely virtues, or to en-
dow an asylum for widows. Not that the
spinster is altogether undeserving of assist
ance if she be needy, succor if sick, a home
if homeless; there is no sight in the world
more pitiable than a homeless. friendless old
maid, and none more provocative of charity.
But the old maid is too often burden and a
disturbing element TO be held up as good
example to the rising generation. Pelicans
in the wilderness are we'll enough, but at the
freside they are Involvement and too pictur-
esque.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-06
An IDEAL CONGRESS.

Suppose Congress were really able to do
something positively good for the people it
represents, that by some Providential dis
pensation it were endowed with supernatural
powers, for with merely natural powers
experience has taught US Congress can do
precious little, what an expectant, excited
nation would be fastening its ewes on Wash
ingtonl
Look at the single, simple, no complex,
item of the weather The Republican
majority would vote dry, frosty winter for
us, with a seasonable snow storm about
Christmas, and enough of the soft and
beautiful to make pleasant sleighing till
1890 would be month or two old. This
done, Of course number of smaller bills
would have to be passed to provide
for the national needs in cold weather.
To cut legislation short, an omnibus
bill would be the thing; a bill
enacting that after such and such
date every one should be we'll clothed,
lodged and fed. What President would be
cranky enough to veto such popular
measure, or what party headstrong enough
to oppose it? Then the Congressional
Record would be read in church as a part of
the services. 1t would be CHEEKY reading,
too. And Congress being supernaturally
wise, would clear off the work post haste
and adjourn as soon as possible. Every
body would revere and love Congressman
then, and even the candidates. for the post
offices would have a kind word to say about
them.
But this is idle talk. Congress is the
same old human machine it always was
We must bear with it and be long suffering
and charitable toward it, for we are human,
too, prone to err, and to talk too much, and
to waste time, and squabble and fight about
trifes just like our selected and representa-
tive wisdom in Washington.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-06
THE ELIMINATION OF DEMOCRATS.

It is 8 remarkable but not altogether
serious state of affairs that is disclosed by
the assertion of w. L. Scott that Mr.. Dana
of the New York Sun has not a drop Of
Democratic blood in his body. This asser-
tion concerning the newspaper man Ehn
regards the declaration 81 am a Democrat
as the most thorough epitome of political
wisdom. is calculated 10 create doubt
whether there are any Democrats.
The doubt is strengthened by the fact that
Mr.. Dana has led in the discovery that
several prominent men supposed to be Demo
Gratis are not so. Some time ago the atten-
tention of the nation was arrested by the
declaration of the SOn, that Judge Reagan,
of Texas, was not Democrat The opinion
of both the Sun and Governor Hill has
been for some time decided to the effect that
President Cleveland is not Democrat. Mr..
SCOTS epistolary revelations recently made
establish the fact that while he may be
nominally Democrat, he is reallya corpor-
alton man. With Mr.. Dana's addition to
the list there is ground for fear that if the
process of elimination keeps on, there will
soon be no Democrats left.
The last election justified the belief that
the Democratic party was little too small.
But the energetic way in which its members
are reading each other out of the party indi-
Gates their conviction that it is altogether
too large to suit them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-06
D1sEKTAKGL1Ke THE HOOK.

The impetuosity which is very generally
accepted by the public as one of Governor
Foraker's characteristics has led him into a
most uncomfortable position in the ballot
box forgery matter, as the detailed kilograms
in Yesterdays DISPATCH sufficiently
showed. But what his friends most regret
Is that his candor did not lead him ont of it
as early as would have been desired. Wood
is an arrant scamp who deserves punish
ment for his fraud, and he seems to have
been ingenious enough to have thoroughly
imposed on Foraker. Still, the kilograms
which the Governor himself furnishes, show
that he was far more eager to believe Wood,
and to think i'll of, and plot damage to, his
Democratic opponent, Campbell, than is at
all pleasant to contemplate in the attitude
and feeling of one public man to another.
Foraker took the bait so greedily that it is
case in which there will be little sympathy
for the pain which he now suffers in disen-
tangling himself from the decidedly awk-
ward and sharp pointed hook.
Governor Foraker by his boldness and
dash has often won friends and admirers.
The present, however, is an instance in
which these qualities, stimulated by an un-
generous impulse to believe the worst of an
antagonist, have served him in bad stead.
He has so much vitality that hitherto he has
quickly recovered from mistakes. This
latest embarrassment, however, he evidently
takes to heart 1t will seriously affect any
political plans or high ambitions that he may
still entertain as to the future.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-06
TERMS OF THE DIsPATCH.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

Pittsburg had its fire yesterday, and the
main feeling is one of cOngratulation that it
occurred when It did and that it resulted no
worse, particularly when one reflects how
terrible, under other circumstances, 1t might
have been. A hotel fire in the daytime inevi-
tably suggests how much greater is the
honor of a hotel burning at night, So
linked is the old Monongahela House with
the history Of notable events in Pittsburg
that particular and personal regret will be
felt BY the community for any serious dam
age to it; but since its liability to disaster
has been SO efectuslly demonstrated, there
is a distinct feeling of relief that the aeei-
dent occurred when there was chance for
the guests to escape and for the fremen to
do their work by daylight
This local event will unite with the fires
at Lynn, Boston and Minneapolis in i'm
pressing upon the owners of property, and
upon insurers, the need for constant Wig
ilance. Investigation yet remains to show
positively the origin and causes Of the
Monongaheia House conhagration. 1t is
safe to say beforehand, however, that they
were such as could have been prevented by
proper care on the part of somebody who
did not exercise that care. There is hardly
a fire which occurs of which this unpleasant
fact NAV not be stated with an almost abso-
lutte certainty that inquiry would bear it
mt
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-06
A GOOD SHOWING.

Water proves a more reliable liquid for
city revenue than whisky. The same fact
has often been observed in the respective
effect of the two fluids upon private revenue
and expenditure; but the result in munich
pal finances is notable and novel. In other
words, while the receipts of the city from
liquor licenses tall $2S, 900 below estimates,
the Water Bureau more than makes up the
loss by an excess of receipts over estimates
of S75, 600, and shows itself to be nearly self
sustaining.
This is a good showing for the energetic
and business-like management of the Water
Bureau; and justifies the faith of those who,
during long years of encouragement, mis-
management, and even worse, held to the
belief that when run in accordance with
business principles, the water works could
be made to vindicate their existence. The
present state of affairs demonstrates that
truth; the old chronic breakdown of pump
ing engines thing of the past; clean and
adequate supply of water is furnished with
out interruption, and the public generally
are able to recognize that all the honest and
legitimate expenditure on the water works
was an excellent investment of the public
funds.
The satisfactory nature of the showing is
increased by the fact that when the city is
able to refund its per cent water works
bonds-which will probably not be before
the maturity of the bonds-the revenue
from the water works will fully balance its
expenditure.