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Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

'Jonah's Gourd" was Rev. l.. Il. Bar
reit's text yesterday evening from q. ",
81: "And the Lord God prepared a
gouri, aud made it to come up over
Jonah, that it might be shadow over
his heal, TO deliver him from his grief.
So Jonah was exceeding glad OF the
gourd, atc. A lesson in the true char
actcr OF God WAS deduced. The duty OF
cultiyatng the spirit Of gratitude to God
with remembrance of His blessings and
metcliuinesS TO mankind.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

Mr.. l.. B. Kiefer, OF Lancaster, Pa,
wrote us: Having a spraned leg Of al
most thirty days standing, and after try
ing half dozen advertised preparations
IN the market without satisfactory re-
suits, tried Salvation Oil, and in les
than three days my leg was all right
again. There's nothing like It.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

D Powell, Nos. 3O8 aud 53) Madison
street, has lake pike, lake shad, white
fsh, founders, trout, green pike, Goldfish,
laIduck, etc. Oysters by the Gulft or
busLel. Delivered free OF charge TO all
pats oil the city.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

Rev. V. S. Collins text yesterday fore
noon was "Glory to God in the Highest,
on Earth Peace, Good Will Toward Men. "
He set forth what the peace OF God is;
how obtained aud how possessed and
the results.
Quarterly conference will take place
this Monday evening.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30
Avail Yourself of tho Rare Opportunity. |

Prof. Well, scientific optician, 30J
Market street, Wilmington, will offer
from December 10th to Janusry 1st gold
spectaclcs ard oye glasses for 81. 90 pair,
positively during that time only. Prof.
We'll will examine your eyes free and ad-
Just the glasses by scientific method.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

If your baby Is suffering with those
troGt les that nearly always attend teetis-
lng, don't delay, hut uso at once DR.,
Bulls Baby Syrup. Price 2j cents.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

VIII be given by Oak Hill Sunday
school on Tuesday evening, December II
1889, at the school house on the Lancas-
ter pike, at 7.3O p. M. Admission, rs
cents.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

The celebrated 3 b. b. B. cigar, manu-
factured by II. F. Bourbon ds Bro, No.
2l9 West Second street. Sold at all the
leading hotels and cigar stores. Try one.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

Tomorrow promises to be partly
cloudy 10 fair, followed by rain, with
igh westerly winds. On wednesday
l,iir and COLDER NeAthor
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

Is greatly m mondilied oy uSiu Nc asll s
syrup OF tar, wild cherry olu wool
nRphtha. 35c. bottle. Dan!orth,
druggist, 2nd and Market.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

onico Wilmington Commercial College
Aud school of shorthand and type writ
ing open daily. Day and evening ses-
sions, January ,.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

Clear Havana cigar for 5 cents at Haw
kius', 7.h and Market stresls.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

Ask for Pau & southnlck's "a srlen'
did lit and rellAblc), at No. 4U3 Madison
street. j. w. Barnett, mApager.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

Only let us alone says tho South.
They have been let alone, and how
grandly the majesty Of law looms VI
in Jester, Georgia, and Barnwell, south
Carolina.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

HERE is the 30th day nf December,
with dandclions and daisys booming
in the fields. What has tho oldest in
habllant got to say about it2
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

w. a. Sukill, auciioneer, will sell q
choice liae of huushold furniture at
sl01S Madison stiect. to morrow morning
at .. 80 v clock.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

A handsome complexion Is one OF the
greatest charms 4 womau can possess.
PozzoIi's Complexion Powder gives it.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

lie sure and call for DR.. Balls Cough
Syrup II you arc ttoLbled with TAD
cough or coil.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

TnE west yard may very properly
be leImei the chsrnel house oi the T.,
W. Il D. Railroad.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

The Sunday school OF Cookman Chapel
will ho!d its holiday entertainment Ills
evening
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

Gold Filled Watches at uanf's, II
Eas. Fourth sti eet.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

Reopens on Tuesday, December 3lst.
Skating from to 8 and to 10 2. NJ.
each day.
Gentlemen admission 5c,nts, including
a ride on the mammoth Merry. .go-round.
Skates 10 cents. Ladies free.
la A police officer in attendance.
12-28.3tt
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30
Tho Grip Spreading.

from all parts OF the country we learn
by Dispatches that the Grip, or more
properly speaking, the Influenza, Is
spreading TO an alarming extent. On
saturday II was reported that there were
nc no less than 20, 900 cases in Philadelphia.
This morning we learn that n child died
there from pneumonia, thought to have
grown out OF Influenza. Asiet there is
no abatement oil the epidemic, aud the
pfactlce oil many hundreds of
physicians has doubled within the last
week The attendance OF all the churches
was very slim and 10 solne prayers were
offered for the afflicted.
In Boston, George w. Sawip, an iu-
structor OF mathmatics In Harvard Col
lege, died yesterday morning OF the
grip, A physician In Baltimore says
that fully one-ei2hth of the people have
bten attacked. There are many cases in
the Mohawk Valley. aud about Fort
Plain, n. Y. In Cincinnati 800 cases
have been reported. Several hundre
cases are reported at Reading, Pa, and
90 cases at Allentown. In Chester the
people have ceased jesting about the
Rnp, and have become really alarmed; it
is spreading there rapidly.
The disease has taken firm hold on
tho people OF Burlington, N. j. In
numerous instances entire families are
prostrated, ministers yesterday were
unable 10 preach, and physicians are
kept busy attending TO the afflicted. At
Asbury Park there are 80 or 40 persons
prostrated with the disease. Physicians
in Trenton report 100 cases.
The epidemic is spreading in Europe
and many fatal cases are reported ia
Paris, Munich, Berlin and most oil tho
larger towns OF Spain.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

Rad breath ia most always caused by a
sick stomach. This can eaeily be cured
Laxador Il the remedy for such cases
Price 70 cents.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

Thousands of people are building up
iine business by pulling down their
health. For such as pursue the course
oveiwork and induce thereby liver dis
ease and dyspepsia, Laxador is actually
blessing. Price only rs cents package.
Daily Republican., 1889-12-30

DuBLIC SALE
VIII be sold ut public sale, at 9lOL
Madison street, on
TUESDAY. December slst 1880.
ut 80 clock, u, m,
a full and complete line OF household
goods, among which are | parlol suite,
3 chamber suites, D carpets. | secretary.
| nicc marble top sidebourd,
beds, Lciding, tables, chairs, Queens
ware and cutlery, | cook stove nearly
new, and other articles.
The above named goods are all of fine
quality and in good order, and above the
average OF those usually found at u pub
lie sale, and well worthy the attention
oI any wishing to purchase.
W. a. IIUkILL,
d-2i.9I-2S 70 Auc.iOneer.
Madison Street Skating Rink
The Newtown bee., 1889-12-20

Owing to the large number of patients unable to gain admittance to Dr Mer- rows Bridgeport office and for the bene- fit of the needy poor, he will continue his free consultation few days longer. Mrs Mary M. Stevens, No i6 Bassick avenue, has been afflicted with catarrh for several years. She was taken sick in the latter part of April. 1888. She was treated by several good physicians Of Bridgeport, but grew worse. Was or dered Ill May to go into the country for her health. On the l2th of May, she went to Nashua, N. H. There she failed fast and was told by one of the best physicians ill Nashua that she could not live three months. Returned home Ju. ly 3 and July Is called Dr Morrow, who found her suffering from cough, con. stantiy hawking and splitting, with hel lower extremities almost paraIyzed. SC that she was unable to walk In sever weeks, she was able to do her own house work and walk about and on September 2S called at Dr Merrow's office. Sh, is now doing the housework for five per sons and sounding the praises of Dl Morrow; she further says that but fol him she would have died. Mrs Coles, No b Gilbert street, had had cancer of tn, left breast for 12 years. September 26 she consulted Dr Morrow at the Bridge port Medical Institute, who in six days removed it without the loss of a drop oi blood. The doctor has the cancer spec imen at his office. Willie Ketchum oi Wheeler avenue,aged If, has been affiict ed with epileptic fits since he was { small toy. Placed under treatment by Dr Merrow, July 2S, he has had but ont fit since and that during the first weel of treatment.
The Newtown bee., 1889-12-20
Official Document of Trinity's Conse-
 cration,

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Ament
 Whereas, Sundry Christian people have erected in the town of Newtown, in the State and diocese of Connecticut, an edifice for the public worship of Almighty God, the Blessed Trinity, according to the rite and order of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States, and
 Whereas, The rector, wartiens and yestry men of Trinity church, in said town of New town, have certified me as ordinary of the said diocese, that the edifice aforesaid is free from all lein and incumbrance, and properly secured for the use of those who profess the doctrine discipline and worship of the church aforesaid and have also requested me to take the said cdifice under my spiritual juris- diction and that of my successors in office, and to consecrate it according to the rite and order of said Protestant Episcopal church; now,
 Therefore, Be it known by the tenor of these presents, that l, John Williams, D. D., | by divine permission Bishop of the diocese of Connecticut, have, on this Tuesday, the eighth day of June, in fhe year of Lord f lSS2 duly consecrated the church edifice ac- cortiing to the rite and order aforesaid, and by the name of Trinity church; and do here by pronounce and declare this edifice so consecrated to be separate from all unhaI- lowed, ordinary and common uses and dedi- cated to Almighty God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, tor the celebration of the | sacrsiments, services, rites and offices of His holy church, according to the order of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States, and for the sole use of a congregation in communion with said church, in union | with the convention of the diocese Of Connec. ticut and under the spiritual jurisdiction oI l the same-
 In testimony Of all of which have caused my Episcopal seal to be hereunto affixed, al Newtown. on the day and in the year above written, and in tine year of my consecratton | the 3Ist. JOIN WILLIAMS
The Newtown bee., 1889-12-20

The line of rubber boots, shoes, arctics, felt boots and everything in the rubber and leath- CT line. is full and complete, at bottom prices, at E F. HawIeyss
The Newtown bee., 1889-12-20

Chilblains, cuts or wounds can be cured in short time by the use of Salvation Oil All druggists sell it at 25c- bottle.
The Newtown bee., 1889-12-20

Have you tried the None Such mince meat, only lsc. a package, strietiy,pure, for sale by E. F. Hawley-
The Newtown bee., 1889-12-20

Christmas is upon again with its festivi- ities and gifts and, in this merry time, it will be well to inspect the stock of Meigs Co.,, corner of Main and Bank streets They make n special display for the holiday season and have also inaugarated their semi-annual clearance sale, the grand climax of their bus mess. No stoppage of business here, but continued prosperity, which Manager Bell welcomes with all the warmth of a generous soul. Let the warmth of their substantial clothing encircle your noble form and you will advance in your own estimation and add to the merriment of this glad time.
The Newtown bee., 1889-12-20

Not many cities of the size of Bridgeport can boast of such a handsome business has been built mp in q few years at the pleasant store. 3S3 Main street. Lyon & Grumman have reason to be proud of the confidence re posed in them by so large circle of friends and patrons. An immense stock Of every conceivable kind of hardware is kept con stantly on hand which is only partially emu merated in their new advertisement on the first page. Just now they call special atten- tion fo skates, sleds and snow shovels, with a word regarding cutlery and silyerware for holiday presents There Is large demand for the celebrated Star safety razor, for which they are sole agents They have, hkewise,an almost endless assortment of tablc and pock- ct cutlery of the best makes
The Newtown bee., 1889-12-20
md Nev Disco,very.

You have heard your friends and neighbors talking about it. You may yourself be one of the many who know from personal expe renee just how good q thing it is. If you hay Q ever tried if, you are one of it's staunch friends, because the wonderful thing about it ia, that when once given a trial, Dr Kings New Discovery ever after holds place in the house. If you have never used itand should be afflicted with n cough, cold or any throat lung or chest trouble. secure n bottle at once and give 1t a fair trial It is guaranteed ev- cry time. or money refunded. Trial bottles free at E. r. Hawieyss drugstore
The Newtown bee., 1889-12-20

Posters announcing the first grand an nual ball of Putnam council, No. 54, Knight of Columbus, have been distrib- uted. The grand march, to music by the Standard orchestra of Danbury, will begin at o'clock, sharp. Supper will be served at the Grand Central hotel and the committee will spare no pains to make this the ball of the season. Tick cts, admitting gentleman and ladies, sl; supper extra Remember, New Years Eve
The Newtown bee., 1889-12-20
Intsrsstsa psopIe.

AdvextfeIng patent medicine in the pc Ba1aaan Tor coughs and colds does is simply xondeE3uI. lie axltl1orizee all druggists fo E1K4 4aoee Nl18 cAlI for e sample bottle 4l14 AFEe bQ12l1l HHo Goe- and el. We advise &x145s N ]AaH eoxa yuu from consumption.
The Newtown bee., 1889-12-20
NUMBER 51.

A new freight route from New Haven and the Naugatuek valley to New York is afforded by the Housatouic manage ment. Through cars are now sent from New Haven to New York by way of the Derby to Derby Junction, the extension to Botsford. the main line to Hawley- vile. the branch to Bethel, the Danbury and Norwalk to Wilson Point and steam boat to Pier 8, East River. New York. The charges and the time from New Ha- ven to New York are the same as by the Starm line of steamers, whose freight receipts will thus be endangered. The Housatonic is abound to get there"
The Newtown bee., 1889-12-20

The old Congregational church at South Norwalk. which has been purchas- ed by the Housatonic road. will be con verted into a freight depot.
The Newtown bee., 1889-12-20

santa Clans found so attractive .l window at Storey < Roy's Boston Store, Bridgeport, that he unloa1ed an unusually fine line of Xmas presents, whose merit will appear on inspection. Call within-
The Newtown bee., 1889-12-20

D. G. Beers began work at his Mile Hill canopy top factory, last week, for the Spring trade, with his usual force. His son Harry speaks ! good word for the Farm Journal in Newtown and has success as it's club agent here.
The Newtown bee., 1889-12-20


 You would hardly expect to find large as sortment of holiday goods in a store devoted to paints, paper hangings and kindred arti- cles and so William Healy X Co, whose i'm mense store is at Fairfield avenue and Water street, just opposite the depot, al Bridgeport, devote themselves entirely to their ordinary business. with the most fatter- ing resnlts. They keep everything in the line of paints, paper hangings, woodfinish- ing and decorating, etc. They are sole agents for Sherwin Williams ready mixed paints, ae- knowledged by architects ane builders to be the best. Healy X Co. do sign writing also as we'll as house and ornamental painting But it is of their stock of wall papers that they are specially proud. It is as extensive and well chosen an assortment as can be found in the State, guaranteed to be as represented and the prices are as low as the lowest. Just give them a call, after looking over their ad. elsewhere.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22
THE ANT AS A FIGHTER.
The Little Insect Remarkable for Its
Rrn

The Little Insect Remarkable for It's
PuRnacity.
Prof. Morse in Globe Democrat.)
Ants are terrible fighters. They have very
powerful jaws, considering the size of their
bodies, and Therefore their method of fight
ing is by biting. They will bite one another
and hold on with a wonderful grip of the
jaws, even after all their legs have been
bitten off by other ants. Sometimes six or
eight ants will be clinging with death grip
to one another, making peculiar spectacle,
some with leg gone and some with half the
body gone. One singular fact is that the
grip of an ants jaw is retained even after
the body has been bitten off and nothing but
the head remains. This knowledge is DOS
sessed bYa certain tribe of Indians in Brazil,
South America, who put the ants to q very
peculiar use.
When an Indian gets a cash cut in his
hand, instead of having the flesh sewed to-
gether as the physicians do in this country,
he procures five or six large black ants, and,
holding their heads near the cash, they
bring their jaws together in biting the flesh,
and thus pull the two sides of the cash to-
gether. Then the Indian pinches off the
bodies of the ants and leaves their heads
clinging to the flesh, which is held together
until the cash is perfectly healed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22

is piled up wealth enough to make all the
poor in London rich, and leaving to our left
the Royal Exchange, where England's
shrewdest business men listen daily to the
heart-beats of the financial world, go up
Cornhin and along Leadenhan street until
we come out on Whitechapel road.
It is a wide street.-the widest we have
seen in the metropolis-but none too spa
cious to accommodate the seething, surging
tide of humanity which presses along in
ceaseless procession. 1t is between and 8
o'clock. The thousands of men and women,
girls and boys and children who have been
penned up in factory, shop and close room,
hard at work, all day long, are now out for
recreation and sport. The shops-dingy
and small the most of them, but apparently
crammed to the roof with goodsEare filed
with customers, while the buster market on
the street, "kae constant fair" of which
Besant speaks, is a sight not soon for
gotten; for here are peddlers, hawkers,
cheap Johns, quack doctors, street
preachers, temperance orators, the Sal
walton Army, organ grinders, flower girls,
street singers, slight of hand performer
all'talking at the top of their voices, here
one urging the crowds to embrace an oppor-
tunity to buy which may never come again,
there another beseeching them to accept
free salvation ere it is everlastingly too late,
singing, playing praying, pleading, jostling
and crowding along, all very much In ear
nest, all good humored.
And where do all the children come from?
Surely such troops OF them are found no
where else OF earth. They are here in
droves, bareheaded, barefooted, dirty and
ragged, darting through the crowd, lodging
miraculously the horses feet and the wheels
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22

| to the uproarious delight of the children,
after which Mr.. Mortimer, a sallow gentle
man with flowing locks of black, trod a
graceful measure with Miss FItzherbert. A
! last appeal against further delay was made
by the husky individual, and then the bell
rang for the curtain to rise. We gave q
sixpence to the lady at the ticket office, who
produced the fourpence change from mvs-
terious pocket, apparently located some
where in the innermost recesses of her being,
and went in.
The theater was about 10x12, and the
seating facilities consisted of two planks
placed on boxes. The very select audience
was made up of two disreputable-looking
old men, two young women, three young
men, an old man who smoked long clay
pipe during the performance, nine small
boys and ourselves-the entire house
amounting to thIrteenpence-hapenny. The
husky gentleman found seats for us by
knocking two unfortunate small boys off q
plank. and the curtain went up.
A DRAMATIC TREAT.
What drama that wasi We almost break
our hearts laughing at the old comedians
jests, while Mr.. Mortimer was tragically
ridiculous. He trod the eight by ten stage
with majestic stride, and murdered the
gipsy maiden's noble lover and the Queens
Fitzherbert, as the gipsy maiden, was bv
turns ''sweetly solemn, wildly sad"
ERE comes me father," she cried. "Hol
will e give ME q fathers blessin' or a
fathers curse2"
Her parent, stout gentleman In blue
silk jacket, corduroy trousers and a bat
tered Derby hat, soon dispelled her doubts.
for he cursed her in good, set terms and
drove her from the Romany camp. A weak
kneed young man, who continually forgot
his lines and was alternately prompted and
sworn at in audible tones from the wings
killed someone, for no discernihle reason.
but declared before '"igh 'eaven, hi honly
hintended to wing 'iml" At last the cur
tain went down on the only scene, an inter
mission often minutes was announced, and
the husky gentleman again besought those
outside no longer to delay.
BY this time it is IL o'clock. The crowd
on the streets show no signs of diminution,
and the fun seems even more hilarious We
leave the Royal Theater" and look around
for guide to take us into that section made
notorious by the murders. Strange to say,
those whom we approach manifest disin-
clination to give any information. At last
we find young gentleman moistening his
clay at the Lamb and Flag" who tenders
us his services. He introduces himself as
81. Sharp, ESQ" and informs us that he
nightly supports Isabel Bateman in the
drama of Jane Shore" at the Pavilion
Theater, assuming the arduous part of popu-
lace.
Under this incipient tragedian's guidance
we leave Whitechapel Road and traversing
Bakers Row. Old Montague and Great
Garden streets come outon Hamburg street.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22
ALL UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED.
Replies of Experts and Epicures 70
PerDlexing Questions.

AMu1Au8 A@cYueS "a AApcEtb anu GpACuEcb -
PerDlexinE Questions.
Youths Companion.]
An epicure, who was also an ardent
sportsman, was asked suddenly to name the
best fish. He was greatly embarrassed, be
says. He thought of the delicious smelt,
of the salmon, of the shad, of the Spanish
mackerel, and the more he thought the
more impossible became the decision. Then
all at once the word came to him, and
he answered, Gentlemen, think the best
fish is fresh fish,"
This reply was almost as happy as one
given by famous negro cook in Richmond.
A company OF diners-out got into q warm
discussion as to which bird should be pro-
nounced the finest for the table. Some
favored the woodcock; others set the canvas
back duck at the head; Philadelphia man
stood up for the reed bird; Western man
talked about the grouse and the pheasant,
and one or two would have it that none of
these were equal to the grass plover.
Finally it was agreed to leave the question
to the cook he hesitated, looked from one
man to another, and scratched his head.
Then he delivered himself thus:
"Gemmen, pears to me dat de best bird
am the American eagle, nicely spread out
on silvah dollah."
His verdict was approved and he got the
dollar