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Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
THEBoARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,

A Generous O6er by the Hubinger
 Brothers-An Interesting Dfscuss1 n .
 Commissioners States, Leigh, Crawford, Todd and Reilly were present at the meeting of the board of public works last evening. Mayor Peck presided. The first matter to come up was for crosswalk disgonally across Grand avenue corner of Artisan street. It was ordered to be laid.
 Felix Chillingworth appeared before the board for the Hubinger Brothers. He said that the MessIs. Hubingers would donate third of Hamilton Park and other land thereabouts to be included in tine proposed new park in that neighborhood, provided the city would order the layout of new street running through the proposed park from Whslley avenue to Chapel street.
 Commissioner States moved that the lay out of the proposed street be indicated on a map of the park, and said map be referred to the Court of Common Council. The motion was carried.
 The petition of the Western Union compa- nv for permission to renew its line of poles on Grand avenue, from State street to Rall- road avenue, was granted:
 The board adopted the layout of the new street from Dixwell avenue to Ashmun street, between Bristol street and York Square, as recommended Dy the Coor1 oA Common Council.
 T. P. O'Rourke appeared and made satis- factory explanation of the complaint made against him. His license was renewed.
 Commissioner Reilley told the board that :he man detailed by the superintendent of streets to inspect plumbers excavations in the streets was not satisfied with his present pay and desired an increase.
 Immediately Commissioner Todd objected as he said ir would be establishing new office. Finally Commissioner Crawford moved that the matter be tabled until the next full meeting of the board. The motion was lost, the vote standing yees 2, nays g. Upon this result Commissioner Crawford left, Upon Commissioner States making s motion that the pay should be increased moi to exceed $250, Commissioner Todd got uI and said he would settle the matter by going out and then there would not be quorum Upon Investigating 1t was found that [ quorum consisted of three members and thu mayor thus had the laugh on Commissions | Todd. The motion was then carried, Com missioners Reilly, Leigh and States voting southrngton May 15.-A number of people about tow who had left their watches with F.. l Churchill, the missing jeweler, are bscomipI | anxious about them, and an attachment vii l pIOohbiy oC PioSoo oAA oAS EHAo All SSA - | find out what it's contents are. l Miss Tourtelette of Webster, Mass, is l guest of Mrs. W. A. Finch.
 The Southington and Plantsville clerk l will play ball to-day (Thursday) at the ne1 grounds.
 Mrs. John McGratn of West street is dan gerously ill
 MT. Augustus Hamlin, of Mt. Vernol street, an aged farmer, died on Tuesday. H
 had resided in that vicinity nearly all hi life.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
WHAT ANTIQUITY TEACHES. How the Ancients Measured Time Changes 1n Eighteen Hundred

Years.
 Max Muller in the Fortnightly Reviewl Let us remember then the lessons which We have learned from antiquity. We have learned reading and writing from Egypt; we have learned arithmetic from India. So much for the famous three Rs
 But that is not all. If we are Egyptians whenever we read and write, and Indians whenever we do our accounts, we have only to look at our watches to see that we are Babylonians also. We must go to the Brit ish Museum to see what cuneiform inscrip- tion is like. but it is a fact, nevertheless, that every one of us carries something like a cuneiform inscription in his waistcoat poek- ct. For why is our hour divided into sixty minutes, each minute into sixty seconds, and so forths Simply and solely because in Bab- ylonia there existed, by the side of the deci-
 nal system or notation, another system, the sexazesimal, which counted by sixties. Why that number should have been chosen is clear enough, and it speaks we'll for the practical sense of those ancient Babylonian merchants. There is no number which has so many divigors as sixty.
 The Babylonian's divided the suns daily journey into twenty-four parasangs or seven hundred and twenty stadia. Each parasang or hour was subdlvlded into sixty seconds. A parasang is about German mile, and Babylonian astronomers compared the prog ress made by the sun during one hour at the time of the equinox to the progress made by a good walker during the same time, both accomplishing the parasang. The whole course of the sun during the twenty-four eauinoetial hours was fixed at twenty-four parasangs or seven hundred and twenty sta- dia, or three hundred and sixty degrees. This system was handed on to the Greeks, and Hipparchus, the great Greek philoso- pher, who lived about 150 B. O., introduced the Bobylonian hour into Europe. Ptolemy, who wrote abont 150 A. D., and whose name still lives in that of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, gave still wider currency to the Babylonian way of reckoning time. It was carried along on ths quiet stream of tradi- tional knowledge through the middle ages,
 and, strange to say, it sailed down safely over the Niagara of the French revolution. For the French, when revolutionizing weights, measures, coins and dates, and sub ;ecting all to the decimal system of reckon ing, were induced by some unexplained mos tive to respect our clocks and watches, and allowed our dials to remain ssxagesimal; that is, Babyloniap, each hour consisting of sixty minutes. Here you see again the wonderful coherenee of the world, and how what we call knowledge is the result of an unbroken tradition of 8 teaching descending from fath- CT to son.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
oLD SAILORS OF THE SOUND.

Some of the Hardy VOyaSers and their
 Explorations and Discoveries Talked
 About by the Historical Society
 Captain Blocks Voyages.
 A large gathering, fully one-half of which was ladies, attended the last meeting of the New Haven Historical Society for the prss- ent season at the society's rooms last even ing. The event of the evening was the reading of paper by MT. George R. Howell of Albany, N. Y, upon Evidence of the French Discoveries in New York previous to the colonization by the Dutch"
 MT. Howell gave an interesting account of the discoveries and explorations of the early voyagers, and told many pleasant details of their voyages. He also showed several old maps over 300 yeafs old, of the eastern coast lines of the continent. Upon one of them can be seen the harbor of New Haven and other near geographical fixtures. He related many details of the voyages of the old navi- gator, Captain Block, after whom Block Island is named. This hardy sailor explored much of the sound, landed on Long Island, which he evidently thought was the main land, noted numberless peeuliarities of the country, explored New Haven harbor and Quinnipiac river, and took especial observa- tions of East Rock and the neighboring hills, which he called "Rodenberg," because of the red color seen from & distance.
 At the close of MT. Howells remarks, facts about early navigaeors and explorers of the sound. MT. Thomas R. Trowbridge Jr. also enlightened the gentlemen somewhat.
 A vote of thanks was rendered MT. Howell for his interesting paper, and the society adjourned till next season.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
A BRIDE OF TEN DAYS.

Killed by a Yerkes Cable Car in Chi-
 cago-An Angry Mob Try to Lynch
 the Grip Man.
 CHICAGO, May 15.-Mrs. Mary Lambrecht, bride of but ten days, was run over to- night and killed by some one of the Yerkes cable cars. Accidents have been so frequent on the company's lines and the service so un- satisfactory that mob of fully ,500 people quickly gathered and made demonstrations toward lynching ths grip man. Speedy &C., tion by the police saved him.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16

The industrial exhibition opened at Ham burg yesterday.
 The Eiffel tower at Paris was opened yes- terday and was thronged with visitors. Leroy D. Anderson, of Glenmere, Mass.,
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
STELLA MYSTERY.

A Montreal Irishman Thinks He Saw Doctor Crenin on the C1reassian- Black Will Testify that He Saw the Doctor on Sunday-A Mysterious Pair of Gloves.
 MONTREAL, May 15.-Many leading Irish men here believe that Cronin sailed from this city on the last outgoing Allan line steam ship for Glasgow. A person resembling him secured passage by the Circassian for Liver pool, but few hours before the vessel sailed he went on board and removed his effects, saying he was going to remain here.
 An ex-president of the Hibernian brother hood, who formerly resided in Chicago, says he knows Cronin. He was working on the Glasgow steamship when he boarded her. He says he recognized him, and that he sailed. He is supposed to have arrived here ten days ago.
 CHICAGO, May 15.-A pair of mems kid or dogskin gloves, almost new, but torn or stained, were found hidden under some brush close by the spot where the mysterious blood smeared trunk that was a first connected with the disappearance of Dr. Cronin was discovered. They were soaking wet, show ing that they had been out during the recent rains. Mortimer Scanlan, Mrs. Conklin and one or two others, upon being shown the goves without any explanation expressed the belief that they belonged to Dr. Cronin.
 Tonight the people at the livery stable where the prisoner, Black or Woodruff, was employed have information which seems to show that the gloves belonged to Black and not to Cronin. Black this evening said that when placed upon the stand he will testify that he saw Cronin Sunday, the day follow ing the doctors alleged abduction. Black declines to give details.
 Rear Admiral Donaldson Dead.
 BALTIMORE, May 15.-Rear Admiral Ed ward Donaldson, U. s. N., aged seventy- eight, died at his home in Baltimore at o'clock this afternoon. His physicians said that old age and liver complaint are the causes.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
Crszy mantn west Haven,

Deputy Sheriff Wheeler last night took in- to custody a crazy man who was rambling about West Haven. The fellow gave his name as Murray. He is about twenty-five years old,
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION "The Hamden Manufacturing
 Company

 WE, the undersigned, hereby associate our w selves as 6 joint stock corporation under the statute laws of the State of Connecticut by articles of agreement as follows:
 Article I. The name by which the corporation shall be known is "The Hamden Manufacturing Company"
 Article II. The purpose for which 1t is constituted is to manufacture buy and sell Bits Augerf Boring Implements Hardware Tools, and other articles made of iron, steel other metals materials and generally to do all things incidental to said busi- ness.
 Article III. The corporation Is to be located in the town of Hamden, county of New Haven, and Stale of Connecticut
 Article ". The amount of its capital stock Is. fifty thousand dollars, divided into two thousand shares of the par value of twenty-five dollars each Article V: Each subscriber to these articles agrees to take the number of shares of said capital stock annexed to his name each share to be of the par value of twenty-five dollars. and to pay there for at the time of subscription
 Dated at New Haven, Connecticut, this elev enth day of May, A. D. 1Ss9
 Subscribers names Residences. Number of Shares. Jared Bepham. Handler, ,CS Eight hundred and fifty Horace P. Shares, New Haven, Ct, Four hundred James Surplees, Brooklyn. N Y, Four hundred Charles ]. Benham, amden, Ct, Two hundred Jared A. Benham, Hamden. Ct One hundred Charles J. Benham, Brooklyn, N. Y., Fifty mic lit
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16

MfsM All my houses in New Haven located on il nice resident streets; all new, with all conve- ". .niAnces. AsI built them and own them, can sell at a much lower price than you can duplicate the same property. Sold number; some of the best left. Look at photographs of some of them in window Of E R. Smiths shoe store, 7S9 Chapel st.:
 GEORGE L. AUSTIN, Owner,
 malb 24 Admiral street.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
AlucIl2MGaaLEa Al

w. SANFORD, the Auctioneer, NTILL be from this date, May z, located at G97 w Chapel street Qate Northrop's Art Store) to take orders for auctions in city and country m7 12t
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
Gardening, Turing, Grading.

NOW IS THE TIME TO BEGIN. MANY years of experience enables me to per- VXI form all kinds of gardening in the best manner, and hereby announce that am fully prepared to attend to all kinds of such work Or ders may be left the store of C. E Hart S Co : corner of Church and Elm streets.
 a16 Inn HENRY HAMILTON, Gardener
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
H0"ICD

DY order of the Court of Common Council ap-
 e proved May sth. 1889, paragraph 3, section 13, page 9S, of the City Ordinances, designating Crown street, south side, between Church and Temple streets, as place whereat public carriages may at all times stand waiting for employment, is re- pealed HENRY F. PECK Mayor
 Attest: EDWARD DowNEs, City Clerk m14 St
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
End of the Chicago BicycIe Race

CHICAGO, May 15.-At the end of the third day in the six days cycling tourna- ment the score stood: Prince 30O 10, Knapp, Reading and Morgan 365, ,Schock 355.2 miles.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
SALE
E0R RENT.

hn1A Five rooms corner of Park and South sts.;
 ia five rooms Mo- 653 State street; five rooms " Lewis street, Fair Haven, and several other tenements in different parts of the city.
 apl6 If JACOB HELLER, 98 Olive street..
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
R. G. RUSSELL,
 Architect, s52 Chapel Street, Upstairs.
WMPRR T NT

INSURANCE agents. bank clerks, express agents 1 society secretaries, male female, wanted ali over the country to act as our agents; will not in tarfere with other duties. No capital required, Liberal inducements. Write for particulars to
 INTERNATIONAL BANKING CO,
 m15 2t 31 and B BroadwaY. New York CiIY.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
ELKGRAPHIC JOTrINss.

Oakes $50, Brown $50, Armaindo 313s
 Stanley 220.1, Baldwin 33S.3, Lewis 323 1 Wood 200.3, McShane 1926.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
TO LIEF
Nexv Fxouses for Sale.

xsAnh Store No. z32 and 7s4 Chapel street; 25 fee
 fa front, double windows, very desirable. Alsc .offlces, furnished hall.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16

%ZIII
 II&. Also several low priced houses and lots on fnstallments, @ A few of the finest building sites in the city. or avenue and the adjoining streets. Beautiful healthful and within easy walking distance of the iected and certain to be built at an early day reaching to their immediate vicinity Apply to
 J. SHELDON, 17 Exchange Building, OF 900 house cor Mansfield and Division streeta
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
OMS WITH POWER,

For Sale im West Haven. an<A A good two family house Wash
 W seven room house on George st., 2,300 Ho1ise corner Center and Union streets, rarqe lot. choice fruit trees, 3,000 eacs cS0 ''''''- -'''-O9 -. 1000
 Walter A. Main. WEST HAVEN :.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
FOR SALE.

"A Houses in different parts of the city.
 ;;I A. D. BALDWIN, a17u 37 Gill street.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16

eighteen years old, while out sailing las evening was overturned and drowned. Many arrests have been made in St. Pc tersburg, Moscow and Cronstadt in connec ton, it is supposed, with the discovery of a new plot against the Czar. Alexander Arthur, a paper maker in Mun- roe mills at Lawrence. Mass, was caught be- tween two rollers last evening and crushed to death. He was twenty-one years old and unmarried.
 The case of Perrin, the man who recently
 fired a shot at President Carnot in Paris, has been sent back to the police tribunal. The trial will take place immediately. IL is probable that light sentence will be im- posed.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
FOR SALE.

FOR RENT, MA Desirable tenements, having modern i'm Al:s provements Ii. R. ENSCOE, RssssA IRssAA a24 If 21 Exchange Building.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
Struck by a Bridge.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, May 15.-Joseph Wells, freight brakeman, was this after noon knocked from the top of car by the Park Avenue bridge in this city and instant- ly killed. Deceased resided in New York where he leaves widow and family.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
2MtsCeIlanenms.

FOR RENT, nESK room in my office. M. R. ENSCOE, 1C a2a If 21 Exchange Building.
 FOR SALE, G@l two seated extension top, in good .9A3 order. Apply to CHARLES AUDLEY, m14 tt 13 Audubon Street, New Haven
 FOR SALE, A STATIONARY engine, boiler three forges 0 and complete blacksmith's outfit. Inquire at m15 3t+ 17 AND 19 ST. JOHN STREET.
 FOR SALE. ~ HIT wall paper. including hanging 25 cents " roll. BRADLEY, 704 Grand Avenue m14 12t
 FOR SALE SRE handsome second hand Victoria in -3E6 excellent condition. Will be sold at @ reasonable price, Address VICTORIA, az tf or inquire at This Office.
 Refrig geratOr For Sale. A FIRST-CLASS Box Refrigerator, filled with A charcoal and alum; size, "A deep, 24 wide, 36 long, inside Will be sold low if sold immediately. a2J 19 DOW STREET.
 FINE CATERING IlOR Weddings. c. A. BRADLEY 659 Chapel I street, New Haven. Everything for table fur nished good help: fine siIverware; decorations music street canopies etc. all of the latest style at reasonable prices. a17 I'm
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-16
AUCTION SALE Is Valuable Building Lots

IN WEST HAVEN, On Savin Avenue, opp 0site West
 Haven Green.
 Sale will take place on the premises WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1ss9 For particulars posters and callfor diagrams at Beecher's Exchange, 769 Chapel st.
 EDw'D c. BEECHER, ma 1t Auctioneer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
The BOX-Elder.

This tree some years since had a great
boom, not only for its hardness, but
also for its value for making sirup, the
sap being rich in saccharine matter. A
correspondent in Southern Dakota asks
about its value for general planting
how the seeds may be obtained; what
the general characteristics of the tree are
like, and where it is hardy.
In reply we would say we know OF no
one tree more valuable for planting. 1t
IS handsome and not generally troubled
with insects. 1t grows fast, makes a
broad, dense shade, is perfectly hardy
we'll north. The range of the tree 49,
perhaps, greater than that of almost any
other tree-that is to say, from the Cult
line to the boundary of Canada East,
and up to axe Winnipeg in the North
west.
The real native region of the tree is
the middle attitudes Of the Mississippi
River. Its general height is from thirty
TO fifty feet. The tree is dipcious, that
is. the staminate and pistillate blossoms
are borne on separate trees.
The trees are readily raised from seeds,
which ripen in the early summer and
should be gathered and planted imme.
diately. They may also be obtained OF
nurserymen by ordering in the latter
part Of the spring. The seeds should
be planted not deeper than one inch, in
rows wide enough so that they may be
cultivated by horse implement, and
may be transplanted after two seasons
growth where they are to stand
Prairie Farmer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
The CaDitaI OF Hayti.

Port-au- Prince, Hayti, in whose har.
Dor was detained the confscated Boston
steamer Haytian Republic, and where
the American war ships Galena and
Yantic went, is the seat of the Haytisn
Government, and a town of 40, 900 in
habitants, advantageously situated at
the foot of o chain of hillocks. The
principal stores and workhouses are 10.
Gated on the "Bord de mer," or street
facing the harbor. Brick and stone enter
into the construction of these buildings.
Port-au-Prince is the only town in
Hayti through which one can travel in
q carriage, but as nothing of any par
ticular interest presents itself to the
visitor in the town he drives up hill and
out of the city, pausing to admire the
stately palace of the President, then
driving on to Turgeau and Petiouville,
two picturesque localities, where are
situated the magnificent country seats OF
the President, his ministers, the Ameri.
can consul and those OF the wealthy
German and Haytian merchants. Port.
au.Prince is the Haytian's Paris, and
well may they consider it as such, for in
that city is found the educated Haytian,
whose language, manners and courtesy
differ not from those of the Partisan. II
is a grave error to suppose that des-
potism, cruelty and uncouth manners
characterize the Haytian. The people
of the interior are ignorant, it is true,
and possess bad passions, which are
easily aroused. but the educated Hayti-
ans seem endowed with more talent,
show better breeding, use better Ian
guage than a great majority of their
class in some towns of the more civil
lized parts of the world. The active
bar of Port-au-P Prince is composed of very
superior men, and the judges, who are
appointed by the Government. are al
ways men of erudition and high char
acter. French precedents govern in
Haytian courts. - Washington star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
India-Rubber Horse Shoes.

"The proposed substitution of India
rubber for metal in the manufacture OIL
horse shoes is based upon various sup!
posed advantages" says well-known'
New York authority to q Mail end Es-
press reporter, "one of these being that
the former enables horse to go easier
over all kinds of roads and rough or
smooth ground without slipping. The
contrivance brought forward for this
purpose is such as to obviate in one in
stance the necessity of using an iron
shoe, which can be moved momentarily
when the horse is shod with an iron
shoe. According to.this design the shoe
consists of an India-rubber bottom piece
nodded to fit over aud around the frog
of the hoof, with q ledge or protecting
rim rising up the front and around the
level where the nails are clamped, the
pro;ection having an edge under which
o steel band or other appliance can be;
drawn and nipped tight to retain the
rubber shoe. The band is connected by
studs, which pass through the heel part
of the hoof. this being cut away from the
inner side for the purpose, and the stud
or studs may work eccentrically to OBJ
tain grip or fixing. If the rubber shoe
is used with an iron shoe the frog por-
ton or pad has front plate and two
side wings partially imbedded in to hold
the rubber shoe in place. If the rubber
shoe be divided or made thin in the
center, a swivel or other bar can be con-
tracted from the rear to reduce the width
of the pad, so that it enters easily and
also expands so as to fix the rubber shoes
in position.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-23
HELP AND HOPE.

We look on the face Of our dead through our
tears,
And all but their virtues are blinded from
sight;
Their faults are eclipsed by the shadow Of
And love round their brow weaves its halo
Of light
Now we have naught but thoughts kind and
forgiving,
All, why should this boom be withheld from
the living?
Wepress passionate, heart-breaking kisses to
lips
That are cold and responseless, and feel not
their thrill,
That perchance once have sighed for their
warmth and the word
That some aching void in the sad heart
might fill.
Oh, why do we wait and delay in the giving
To bestow on the dead what was craved by
the living?
Welay on the coffin the choicest Of flowers.
As we fold the pale hands DER the cold,
pulSeleSS uealIJ
Why not throw the flowers in their pathway
in life,
Cheer the earth-weary heart, soothe each
wound and each smart?
All, what is love worth, if it be not forgiv.
ing!
What avails help, if not for the living'
Be kind to the living! Ger faults that you
see,
Cast Char;ty's mantle, though friend or
though foe.
Trust the dead with thy God; put thy hope
in His love.
And haste while you may life's sweet gifts
to beStow.
Love is not love which delays in forgiving;
Have hope for the dead, but give help to the
living.
Hrs A. GtdGinJs Park, in Once A Week.