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The Press., 1889-08-01

The controversy which has been general among the Masonic fraternity throughout the country respecting the Oerneau Scot tish rite has culminated at Washington in the issue of an edict by Harrison Ding man, most worshipful grand master of Masons of the District of Columbia, under date of July 25, pronouncing the Oerneau organization clandestine, and warning all members of that rite that they are liable to discipline from the grand lodge unless they at once withdraw from said Cerneau body. The main reason for the edict, aside from other questions arising in the Scottish rite controversy, is stated to be that the Oerneau organization has estab- lished relations of amity and Masonic cor respondence with the Grand Orient of France, the governing body of Masons in that country, which is under the ban of at least every English speaking grand lodge in the world because the Grand Orient has stricken the name of God from it's r1kra1 Hs
The Press., 1889-08-01

EAcH of the i've Pomona Oranges of the state is to conduct picnic meeting at some central point during the week beginning Aug. 6th. That of tho cass central will be held at Snipaic IAke. on Thursday, Aug. 9th. Hon. J. H. Brigham of Ohio, master of the national grange, will be the chief speaker at each of the five pic-nics, and other speakers who will attend all or part of them are Master J. H. Hale, Lecturer G. A. Bowen, Overseer J. M.
 Hubbard, Secretary l.. J. Wells, Treasurer T. 8. Gold, Dz. Jenkins of the state experiment station, Prof. Rooms of Storrs school, and many others. Special exercises for the Snip mic gathering are addresses by E. O. Dimock of Holland on ''The Farmer in Legislation, :" J. B. Noble of East Windor on '"The Pro- gressive Farmer" Hon. Wm. B. Sprague of Andover on ssThe Cleo Power and the Times, o. s. Wood of Ellington on 'sThe Grange and the Intellectual Fsculties," Mrs. 0. O.. Wolcott of Mapping on Battling to the Front, ]" Mrs. \. T. Parker of South Coven- try on ''The Broad Views of Grange Admis- sion." Each Pomona grange furnishes free tables, coffee, tea and lemonade, and the rest will be on the basket picnic plan. The meetings will be opened at Il .. m. All in vited, whether grangers or not; the attend ance of the boys and girls particularly wanted.
The Press., 1889-08-01

There are some hundreds, more or less, of smart young men in town, says the Min neapolis Journal, who are impressed with the idea that there is nothing that the hard worked and obliging young ladies at the telephone exchange like 80 well as flirt- ing with idiots at the other end of the wire. The crushing rebukes at times adminis- tered to the cOnceited simpletons is as the flame of the candle to the moth, and they live only to tempt fate again. Some time ago there was one of these nice boys who worked in fruit store across the street from the telephone exchange. He con- ceived kind of long distance infatuation for the young lady who answered the phone in the store, and poured stream of silly nothings into her unwilling ear at every opportunity. Finally she resolved to teach him lesson. One day the young man was talking to the operator, and ex- pressed violent desire to see her. With much assumed eoyness she at length told him she would grant hls request. She said if he would gaze at g certain window of the exchange at the hour of high noon she would appear. He would recognize her from the fact that she wore red dress. The appointed time came, and the smitten youth planted himself in front of the store and gazed with all his eyes and soul ct the window of the telephone exchange. Hor- TOTS Instead of one there were five girls in red dresses smiling down upon him. It was too much, and he fled. It was report cd on good authority that the girl who put up the job was not one of the five.
The Press., 1889-08-01

The New Orleans Picayune quotes ehe signal service officer stationed at Pike's Peak as saying: Sometimes I stand at the window with my telescope. The wind without is keen and cutting as knife. can see the houses in Colorado Springs, twenty miles away, the visitors sitting in their shirt sleeves, slipping iced drinks to keep cool, and ladies walking about in white summer robes. I lower the glass the summer scene is gone. Green trees, animal life, men and women fade away like creatures in a dream, and am the only living thing in the world of eternal ice, and snow. and silence"
The Press., 1889-08-01

For some time a large sewer draining a prominent section of Market street, Wheel ing, W. Va, has been apparently blocked up, and after heavy rain the water backed out of it and flooded the cellars for two squares around, all the drainage of the higher ground pouring into them. The sewer was dug open and the novel source of the trouble found. After removing a large accumulation of sand and debris, 8 pile of silver dollars was found, but exam nation showed them to be counterfeit.
 EpDae q them had not been finished, but we're evidently just from the molds. The imitation was excellent, even 10 the silver ring, and quantity of broken glass with it indicates that it was used in the compo- sition to give the proper ring. A gamb- ling dive used to be on the square above the place, and 1t is conjectured by the po- lice that, on the occasion of some raid, the men engaged in making ''queer" coin were surprisd and, to avoid detection, dumped everything down the sewer. The govern ment has long been aware that Wheeling was the headquarters of big gang of ex- pert counterfeiters. sF.- 7
The Press., 1889-08-01

Swiss engineers pride themselves on the boldness of their enterprise, and have re- solved to eclipse the Eiffei tower sensa. tion. Under the auspices of syndicate of Zurich capitalists they are now plan- ming an aerial railway, by which they pro pose to connect two of the peaks of Mt. Pilatus with wire ropes and send tourists from summit to summit in cars sliding along the wires.
The Press., 1889-08-01

''The black bear is not great terror to the people of Northern Maine," says the Portland (Me.) Press, "who regard him as gOod-natured though troublesome loafer. Last year man named West, at Portage Lake, in Arostook County, caught cub and kept him until this spring, when it es- caped to the woods with piece of chain about its neck. A few days ago, one of MT. Vests daughters, while after the cows, discovered the bear, now grown to size to be respected. Summoning her sister and the dog. the three advanced on the bear, which was finally driven into hole. But the end of the chain was left in sight, and securing this to the middle of 6 long pole, the girls pulled the beast home"
The Press., 1889-08-01

JoHH l.. SULLIVAN was arrested in New York last night on reputation from Gov. Lowry of Mississippi. Bail was refused, and a hearing of the case will be held today.
The Press., 1889-08-01

IT is said that English capitalists now con- trol the great breweries in this country. This being the case, may the Irish vote be counted upon for prohibition?
The Press., 1889-08-01

Minister Reid has informed the state department that he has taken in Paris the statements of Miss Van Nostrand and Mrs. Dorr. These are the ladies who had trouble at Mentone with dressmaker, and at Nice were seized and thrown into prison until the dress-maker's claim was paid. The case, as reported, was particularly exasperatine one, and the state department began an investigation through our repre- sentatives in France. The attitude of the French government in the case is said to have been friendly and concilatory and ample reparation for all damages inflicted is confidently expected.
The Press., 1889-08-01

Stephen A. Douglas and MT. Lovejoy were once gossiping together, when Abra- ham Lincoln came in. The two men inn mediately turned their conversation upon the proper length of mans legs ssNow," said Loyejoy. "Abe's legs are altogether too long, and yours, Douglas, I think, are g little short. Let's ask Abe what he thinks of it.'' The conversation had been carried on with view to Linooln's over- hearing it, and they closed it by saying 1: stAbe. what do you think about it ?" MT. Lincoln had far away look, as he sat with one leg twisted around the other, but he responded to the question, 'sThink of what?" "Well, we're talking about the proper length of mans legs. We think yours are too long and Douglas too short, and we'd lik to know what you think is the proper length" "Well, said Mir. Lin- coin, ''that's matter I've never given any thought to, so, of course, may be mis- taken but my first impression is that 2 mans legs ought to be long enough to reach from his body to the ground. ."-San FrGnciscO Ar0onGut
The Press., 1889-08-01

A California paper remarks that "since the shaking up that Lassen county receiv- ed from the late earthquakes the churches are making many converts"
The Press., 1889-08-01

The rife team of the Massachusetts militia are about to return home. They expect to reach Boston on August 10 or II. The team will bring with them five team flags and an international pen nant as trophies of the contests in which they have defeated every rife team they have met abroad. Boston ought to give the home coming riAemen royal welcome, and no doubt she will.
The Press., 1889-08-01

How. W. E. 6nroNDs will be the orator at the decoration of Gen. Lyon's grave Aug. 10th, the anniversary of the generals death. There will be @ large gathering of veterans aud other citizens and ladies.
The Press., 1889-08-01

It will probably be rather surprising news to good many readers that 245 Inc dian boys are now working on farms, and
 107 Indian girls cooking, washing dishes,
 making beds, etc., in farm houses this side of the great lakes, most of them in Penn sylvania. When cold weather comes, these young people will go back to their studies at the Carlisle school with little money in their pockets earned by the toil of their own hands, and with a practical knowl. edge which they could not have got out of books and the probable value of which to them in after life is not to be measured in dollars and cents. Years ago, when he was serving with his regiment on the (then) frontier, Captain Pratt made up hls mind that one very good way to educate young Indians would be to scatter them in this way among white country people and give them an apprenticeship in farm and farmhouse work i; and, when he was ap- pointed superintendent of the Carlisle school, he proceeded to act on his idea. Since 1880 he has sent out in this way ], ,288 boys and 6O2 girls. They are eager to go, and the farmers and farmers wives in southeastern Pennsylvania nowadays are very glad to get them. A correspond ent of the American, who has had them in
 his house for three years past, says they are healthy, strong, faithful, dooile, honest workers, the worst thing to be said against them being that they sometimes follow or ders little too faithfully and mechanical ly. ''Men of the lingual family that greet cd William Penn" he writes, ssare plow- ing, planting, and garnering in the fields which their people then surrendered. The Indisn has returned to the Atlantic. He was pushed westward as hunter and 8 nomad; he comes back as farmer, and as an American citizen. C0krasat.
The Press., 1889-08-01

THn law requires booth for every 15O voters at the next town election, with shelves for preparing ballots, and selectmen will need to study the law with view of aequaint- ing themselves with the duty of providing what Is needed
The Press., 1889-08-01

TIE bureau of information concerning the Johnstown disaster has attempted to ascertain the number of persons lost by the late flood. The population was estimated at 5000, though really above that figure, and of these 22, ,sss are accounted, leaving over 6,100 as the number supposed to be lost. Mir. H. A. French, who conducted the work, thinks the total will not vary more than few hundred from these figures. The morgue reports con- tain list of only 2,5Oo bodies found, while 406 are known to have been lost whose bodies have not been recovered. If 5000 were lost and only 5000 can be accounted for, there are then 5000 of whom no account can be given. It Is admitted by all that the number of bodies burned or buried in the debris is large, but there are few who believe so large 8 number have not been recovered. Mr.. William Reed, who since the flood has had charge of the Miilville morgue, the only one now in operation, believes there are 2,O0O bodies of which no account has been given and that many of these will never be recov- cred.
The Press., 1889-08-01

PoTATo rot is feared e sa result of prolonged wet weather; in fact they are rotting already. Standing grain is being beaten down, and much will have to be gathered with scythes or sickles, and may be damaged by rust or by sprouting. All in all the farmers are suffer. ing nearly as badly from continued rain as ordinarily from Q severe drouth.
The Press., 1889-08-01

Tn papers ere again printing the surpris- ing fact that 1 is inscribed on clock or watch face by the character hM instead of the character iv, and warming over the old chest nuts about It's being originally 90 made in obedience to the whim of some king, prince, or other potentate If this bs the fact, and iv Is better, why hasn't some manufacturer before this had the sand to make the change back to the old way2
The Press., 1889-08-01

Stafford Central oAice in Stafford National Bank Building, Stafford Springs, Miss L. A. DUDLEY, manager.
 SURsCRIRERS-STAFToRDs SPRINGS. Buck K, A., store. The Press sfice. Converse, Jnlius, residence. Rawitser BrOs., res. Cooley, w. H., residence. " pfice. Dennis. K. C., office. Smith < Cooley, office. w. N. DemOnd & Co.,, Ofifce. Smith, Dr. F. l.. HarwOOd, c. F.. residence. ' 1st Nat. Bank of 8. s. Mineral Springs Co. TOwne G Eaton, stable. Newton, Dr. c. B.. Warren WOOlen Co. N. l.. N. R. R. Western Union Tel. Watts, Dr. F. R. e-.s .4sssa
 sTAFFoRDvuLE. A. s. Eaton, store, (pay station.1 Rawitser 6 Bros mill.
 HYDEvILLR. Ph0ntx Woolen Co.
 ORCUTTVIILE. Ells Converse q Co.
 STAFFORD HOLLOW. Fl. c. Holt, store, (pay stati0n.)
 aLYNNyTLLR. Smith q Cooley.
The Press., 1889-08-01
StaKsrd Telephsne DlreefarY.

Passenger trains leave Stafford Springs, going south-733 0.14 g. m., 3.39, 7.49 p. m.
 Going north-s.47, s.Sl .. m., l.4s, 59s P. m.
The Press., 1889-08-01

The secret history of President Linooln's administration, written by Hay and Nico- lay, is very interesting this month, for it contains his fear that McO Olellan would de- feat him in the campaign of '64, and his proposition to talk the matter over with the general. But it was ali knocked on the head by Seward, who said, in elegant reproduction of Little Macs procrastinat: ing words ''And the general would have answered you, Yes, yes ; and the next day when you saw him again and pressed these views upon him he would have said, Yes, yes, and 50 on forever, and would have done nothing at all"
 Arrangements for President Harrison,s trip to Bar Harbor next week: He will leave Washington at 9.30 a. m., August 6, via limited express for New York on the Pennsylvania road, and will take the Fall River boat that evening for Boston. The day andsnight of the 7th he will remain in Boston, leaving on the morning of the 8th for Bar Harbor in special train over the Boston and Maine and Maine Central roads. He will make no speeches on route. He will be accompanied by Private Score tary Halford, and it is believed by Mrs. Harrison, also.
The Press., 1889-08-01

Editor Mclaughlin resembles President Harrison. Rockville Josanal.
 All! after on office, ehf We'll, fattery may win 1t for you.
The Press., 1889-08-01

MANY localities are already suffering severe ly from the continuous rains. Much damage has been done by swollen streams and from flooded cellars, also from washed out railways, highways and bridges. According to the rule of averages it is time for bit of sunshine for change.
The Press., 1889-08-01
sMOLAueHIIs . sos. pusI1snras.

THz clouds are not giving the watering carts any sort of Q show.
The Press., 1889-08-01

Y HAVE 100 M feet logs (whole length) in any kind of native lumber. E. w. BROOKS.
The Press., 1889-08-01

EOR SALE-At fair inventory, or as ap- I prised, the Livery Stock, consisting of Horses, Single Carriages, Double Carriages, Canopy Top Carriage, Light and Heavy Concord, Business Wagon, Sleighs, set Double Harness, Single Harness, Robes, Blankets, Busters, etc. Owing to business will be sold. Every thing is in the best of order. Apply to J. 6. SMILEDGK,
 Stafford Springs, Conn.
The Press., 1889-08-01

IT has looked for some time as if the dog market was getting overstocked, but it don't seem to be yet. Things are nearly ripe for another hydrophobia scare Ike unto that which So perceptibly thinned out worthless CUTS few years ego.
The Press., 1889-08-01

HOUND trespassing upon the premises of I A. D. Cady, situated in the northwestern part of Stafford and known Crow Hill one Bay Mare mark ed follows face nearly white, ankles on hind legs stripe in face. Attest, DANIEL F. MULLIN,
 Stafford Springs, July 99, 1880. Constable.
The Press., 1889-08-01

In Rrsas several years ago began to call nptiful neighboEiDg lake Crystal Lake, |"
 hn6aufeed that ths nazns of tho poss
 ehAnged froq ..equass
 ~ 661ndonsd he attempt to run - of nAmse, ons for the lake and an- for the post oflee on it's borders, as 0ks seemed no prospect of an effort being made to change the nams of the latter. But thanks to Lawyer N 4. Aborn of Chicago, who gave energetic effort to the work during his summer vacation visit to his native vil- lage, the name has now been changed, official ly, from Square Pond to Crystal Lake post office, which will gratify those who have de- sired the alteration.
The Press., 1889-08-01

Hartford Times The present season will be recorded as one of rain, floods, cy- clones, and disasters. But as the average yearly rain fall in series of ten or fifteen years together is about equal, will 1t not follow that we shall have a severe drought sometime within the next few years2
The Press., 1889-08-01

OHAUkczx B.. RRLaY, LL.D., recently s. lected by the Oneida Historical Society o3 Utica to pronounce 8 sulogy before that society, on the late Hon. Edward D. Morgan, war governor of New York, is 8 native of South Coventry, Conn.,, and a practicing lawyer in New York city.
The Press., 1889-08-01

NEW MACHINES, NEW CABINET WORK
 NEW ATTACHMENTS.
 Their New Machines fer Family Use include every principle which has ever succeeded and in beauty hght-running silence, and all modern Improvements and selling points they defy competition.
 Their New Cabinet Work, in all the latest forms and in the best woods challenges comparison with any Art Furniture in style, reliability and beauty of finish. @ q. g
 Their New Attachments need no comment, being simply the latest and best sE& G 5 And fer all Special Machines and facilities for fac tory work they refer to their catalogue of over 50 illustrated pages. The management of this company s pledged policy of continuous progress and improvement and they want the help of all the best men in the trade
 Now is the time to come with the company which CAR give the best facilities the best opportunities, and ensure permanent and certain reward for suc- cessful work.
The Press., 1889-08-01

EOR SALE-New Spindle Buggy. See it E and get price before buying. M. G. MOORE
The Press., 1889-08-01
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Mansfield, July 23d, Henry Stoughton, "A.
 Holland, July 23d, Hannah, 69, wife od
The Washington critic., 1889-03-23
Baltimore & ohio Railroad.

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The Washington critic., 1889-03-23
A ROW m DoupIass Al,oy.

John Rollins Is a colored man living in
Douglass alley, a narrow lane leading out
of Fourth street. Last night, just before
IL o'clock, Sidney Smith storined his place
with cobblestone and tried to batter the
door In. Rollins escaped by the back way,
his return Smith was still there, and as he
entered the door, threw heavy beer glass
at him. II didn't hurt him much, for 1t
luckily struck him on the head. He picked
up the glass and threw 1t back at his assail-
ant. II knocked him over, and Rollins
wife yelled, "Holy murderp This morn
ing Judge Miller fined Smith $40 and Rol-
lins 50, suspending sentence In the latter in