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Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-11-01

Oct 31.-A final word on politics: Tomorrow
evening at o'clock the republicans will meet in
caucus to nominate candidates for representative
and justices of the peace. We have heard q great
the people in general as to the work Of the eau
cuses, but this cannot be said now. The farmers
are thoroughly aroused and propose to see that
farmers take an active part in making the laws
And while the grangers are not allowed to admit
politics into their meetings, there is feeling OF
common interest which leads to an instructive
unity sure to be felt on such occasions as this
Al that the farming towns have to dc
are placed on the republican tickets who are well
known as strong adherents to the interest of the
people they represent, and republican legisla
lature is assured. That the town Of North Haven
a staunch republican, but also one who is able
and willing to take care of the best interests OF
his constituents, goes without saying.
Our correction of yesterday, in order to be alb
instead of these a printers error and wholly un
We have taken up more space with matters ap
tended to and perhaps more than the subject
called for, but we see before us two great social
evils, and with prophetic eye see that in time the
republican party will take hold and subdue
them, even as twenty five years ago the same
party handled the slavery question. There is a
similarity between the two positions which time
will make more aud more obvious.
The democrats held a caucus last night and en-
dorsed the prohibition candidate for representa-
tive. We have already been taken to task for
limiting at such an alliance as bare possibility.
We hope both parties are now supremacy happy.
In the meantime how about that much-talked-o of
issue, the cause of temperance?
1t was Mrs. and not Mr.. Marks whose illness
was reported.
All Halloween tonight, it being the regular
meeting of the Tourists club, and the younger
portion of the members do not propose to forget
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-11-01
Boarding.
The Annual Meeting
Fine Catering

NOR weddings md receptions. We have the
II best of references from work that we have
done. c. A. BRADLEY, 79S Chapel street. Ca
terer, three doors below Orange. Orders left at
have a fine hall to rent by thu day or evening for
banquets, receptions, private suppers, lectures,
weddings, etc, at very low price. nj cod
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-11-01
Saturday, November I, 1890.
6i1ants.

One Cent a Word each insertion:
nve cents q word for u full week.
c(seven times., -fs-t
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-11-01

District Of New Haven. IS. Probate Court,
Oct. 80, 1890. (
ENSTATE OF WILLIAM SMITH late of New
IL Haven, in said district, deceased
The Court of Probate for the district OF New
Haven hath limited and allowed six months
from the date hereof for the creditors of said
estate to exhibit their claims for settlement
Those who neglect to present their accounts.
properly attested, within said time will be de-
barred recovery. All persons indebted to said
estate are requested to make immediate pay
ment to FRANCES PAYNE SMITH,
o3l 2d1w Executrfx.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-01-29
An immense Estate.

In Dakota and Manitoba the employ
ment on single wheat estates of a hun
dred reapers and an aggregate of three
hundred laborers for season has been
regarded as something unprecedented in
agricultural history but on one sugar
estate in Cuba-El Bslboa-from fifteen
hundred TO tive Thousand hands. nvari-
ably negroes, are employed, who work
under severe discipline, IN watches or
relays, during the grinding season, by
day and night, the same as in the large
iron mills and furnaces of the United
States and Europe. At the same time
there are few village communities where
like number Of people experience the
same care and surveillance The male
workers occupy quarters walled and bar
ricaded from the women, and the women
from the men. There are in every vii
lage an infirmarv, a lying in-hospitaI, a
physician an spOthecary, chapel and
priest At night and morning mass is
said in the chapel and the crowds are
always large There IS Of Sunday less
restraint, though ceaseless espionage Is
never remitted- On these days and on
parts of holidays there is rude mirth,
ruder music, and much dancing. This
picture is given somewhat in detail, be-
cause it illustrates how ali-pervading and
tremendous are the forces that are modi
flying society everywhere in civilized.
partially civilized and even barbarous
countries, conformity with the new con-
ditions Of production and consum ption.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-01-29

caused by the resolution Of the murder
Gus tsaIn to start after and murder me
fearing that she had communicated
something to me which might upset thsii
well-lsid plans
Having securely bound the still uncon-
scious Cooper, and removed the corpse
of Jackson into the house, we awaited
the coming Of Enorning-Miss Pickering
meanwhile informing me Of her impris-
lnenf, by jackson, for over year, and
his resolve TO force her 20 make her will,
and then make away with her. Her pa
rents having died. and left her sole heir
ess to large property, her appointed
guardian, Jackson, half-brofher Of her
mothers, was playing for diminutive
stake.
The next morning farmers wagon
conveyed Cooper TO the city and the
affair having been Reported to the prop
er authorities, be was immured in the
county jail, whence he soon after left for
the state penitentiary.
Miss Pickering was entirely exonerzted
from ali blame in the killing of Jackson,
and her estate properly administered a
few months Iater-she having been Of
age for over year. And not long after,
Miss Blanche Pickering became Mrs.
Avery.
The will and revolver are still in our
possession the sole mementoes of that
exciting night, when / almost lost my
life, and gained bride
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-01-29
A Remarkable Clock.

The most remarkable clock in America,
if We consider the place in which It was
built. is one which was made by a miner
in the Hollenbaek eolliery, at Wilkes
barre, Pa This clock was made out Of
bits Of wood and iron. and with the
roughest tools that can be imagined. 1t
was made nearly half q mile under the
ground, and it occupied the maker near
ly nine years before he could say it was
done The clock is nine feet high and
there are sixty-three figures which move
by machinery. There are only twenty
two moving figures in the Strasburg
clock. On the front Of the Wilkesbarre
cloek-the one We are speaking of-there
are three shelves or balconies. Along
the lower balcony mounted general
leads file of Continental soldiers. The
liberty bell rings. and the sentinel salutes
the procession. A door in the upper
balcony opens and shows Molly Pitcher,
who fires her historic cannon, the smoke
Of which is blown away from the interior
Of the clock BY fan. Then the por-
traits Of the first twenty presidents OF the
United States pass along in kind Of
panorama, the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence being held aloft by Thomas Jeffer-
son. On another Of the balconies the
twelve apostles go by, Satan comes oat,
and the cock crows for the beneh; Of
Peter. When Christ appears. a fgure Ot
Justice raises a pair OF scales, while a
figure OF Death tolls the minutes upon a
heli
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-01-29
Rough on the Squire.

An amusing scene was recently enacted
I m country court room in Maine. The
trial Justice, big, Pompous official, with
voice like a tombstone, took it upon
himself TO examine a witness-a little
withered old man, whose face was as
red and wrinkled as a smoked herring.
What is your name?T asked the JUS
tice.
@Why, Squire" said the astonished
witness, 'you know my name as well as
j know yOurn."
4Neyer you mind what know or what
I don't know" was the caution given
with nagisterial severity. Il ask the
+, question in my official capacity, and you
are bound to answer under oath"
With eontemptuous snort the witness
gave his name, and the questioning pro-
ceeded.
"Where DO you liver
-Wal, shum y calculated the old
rnan. "Why," be continued, appealing
10 the laughing listeners. "I've lived IN
This town all my life, and SOS be" point
ing to the Justice, ~an' b. gosh, TO hear
him 90 on you'd think"
silence, Numbered the irrate magis-
trste. Answer my question, or III 6ne
you for contempt of court.
Alarmed by the threat, the witness
named his place Of residence and the
examination went on.
what IS your occupation 81
"Huh ?"
What do you do for living?"
@0b, git out, Squire. Jest as if you
don't know that tend gardens in the
sumner season an saw wood winters"
AS private citizen do know It, but
as the Court know nothing about you"
exclaimed the perspiring ustice.
~Wal, SQUIRE remarked the puzzled
witness, "if you know somethin' outside
the court room an don't know nothin' in
it, you'd better get out an let somebody
try this case that's got hoss sense"
The advice may have been well meant,
but it cost the witness $40.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-01-29
All Because Of a Cipher.

HThere goes 8 man whose life was ~
ined By forgetting the simple character
0, said prominent railroad man yes
tsrdav, pointing TO & ragged, besotted
mapshsmbling along the street, unmiEd-
ful Of the rain.
He was train dispatcher on the
Ohio and Mississippi once, having work
ed up 70 that position from messenger
boy in the telegraph Office. One Sunday
he had only two trains on bis division,
an express train westward bound and a
fast stock train running east. The day
was warm and sultry. and Bill, for that
was his name, had hard work to keep
awake. He knew that as soon as be
made the meeting point fort the two
trains be could doze and ne impatiently
awaited the time. When the trains were
close enough together for him to figure
meeting point he sent an order TO the
passenger train to meet and pass the
stock train at little station called VIII
Low Valley, fixing the time at 1880
TO the stock train he sent an order
that it would have until l.25 10 make
Willow Valley for the passenger. See
the mistake2 He forgot the 60, and
hence gave the stock train thirty-five
minutes more time than he should. Bill
saw his mistake ten minutes after he had
made it. bat there being No telegraph
station between the points where the
trains were given the orders or at the
meeting point, ne eonld do nothing to
reciify it. He sent for the superintend-
enl and ordered out the wrecking crew,
then sat at the key as pale as death, the
cold persViration running down his face
in streams, awaiting news Of the collis-
ion-
1t came. The passenger train reach
ed Willow Valley on time, waited the
required thirty minutes under the time
card rules for the freight train, and then
pulled out Three minutes later the
trains met on a curve, both running at
high rate Of speed. Fourteen lives were
lost in the collision, besides $4,000
worth of property destroyed. Bill re-
signed at once and the next day disap-
peared- For long time it was thought
be had committed suicide, but met him
on the street here one day just as you
see him-a total wreck, San Francisco
EramiaeT.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-01-29
How She Did 1t.


Chicago school teacher" Does any
little boy or girl know the poem about
Old Mother Hu5bard'2s
Little girl-lfrom Boston. -" | do"
Teacher" Very WE'LL. you may reeite
il for the others"
Little girl Aged Mother Hubbard
performed that particular style Of loco
motion known as walking in the direc-
ton Of the receptacle in which provis-
ions were wont to be kept, for the pur-
pose of providing for her faithful canine
a portion of the frame of a body. But.
upon arriving at the aforesaid receptacle,
what was her dismay upon discovering
that il was in state af absolute nudity o.
Laurence AmericGB
A French!physieian recommends as a
sure cure for dyspepsia that patients bold
their breath as long as possible several
times per day. This may help, but a
sure cure would be to hold your breath
all day long.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-01-29
Following Up His Prayer.

Elder John Stephens held pastoraie
in the Free Baptist Church at Gardiner,
forty odd years ago. Nature had dealt
generously with Elder John. His big
/ heart was cast in an iron frame or NAM
moth proportions, and when he lifted up
bis voice in prayer or praise listeners
were sometimes at a loss 70 tell which
was the stronger, his zeal or his lungs.
Remarkable alike for sincere Piety and
genuine humOr, the good man 50 tenn
pered his teachings as to make them
equally acceptable 10 saint OF sinner.
Riding one day along the road 10 West
Gardiner, he overlook an OK team that
was stuck in the mud. The discouraged
cattle had refused to pull, and the driver,
wh0 had sworn till the air was blue and
smelled Of birthstone, was preparing TO
reel of another string Of osths when the
parsons stopped his horse and said:
Try prayer, my friend Try prayer"
Try it yourself retorted the vexed
teamster.
~TH doit," said Elder John, and with
out further ceremony ne dropped on bis
knees in the wagon.
For awhile he prayed around the sub-
ject as If afraid to touch il. Gradually
however, his faith strengthened, and in
a voice which babe fair 70 arouse the
neighborhOod, he besougbt the owner Of
the cattle on a thousand hills 70 move
the hearts and legs Of those stubborn
oxen The pray was unconsciously long,
and no sooner had it ended than the i'm
patient driver prepared to start his team.
~Stop, said Elder John, descending
from his wagon. ~As / have done the
praying, l feel that l ought to do the
driving. You hold my horse and give
me the gOad-stick."
The man consented 10 the arrangement,
and With grin waited TO see the Parson
worsted.
At that moment another OK team was
seen approaching from another direction.
HalloO, neighbor p the practical par
son shouted 10 the newcomer. Lend
me your cattle for a moment"
Hold on ~ cried the miree cart.
That's not fair. Ifyou can handle this
team better by praying than can BY
swearing 1 want to see you DO it but no
doubling up, mind you no doubling
up
Elder Johns robust figure was drawn
10 its fullest height. and his voice was
like the roar Of the oeesn, ss he answer
ed a Ny friend, the Master serve is
abundantly able TO move this load with
a single yoke Of oxen-or without any
oxen at all, but when in direct answer to
PRAYER be sends me an extra pair Of cat
lie, I'm going to hook 'em on
No further objection was raised, and
the aid Of reiBforcements the loadel cart
was easily drawn out Of the mud.-Le,s-
iSOlr7l Journal
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-01-29
Saved by Kindness.


We will call him Jim. for do not re-
member bis name. He had lost all re-
spectability, and was a common gutter
drunkard. His family had disowned
him, and would not recognize him when
they met. Occasionally ne would get a
job at the stables where Dr. Davis kept
his horse. One morning the doctor laid
his hand on Jim's shoulder and said:
@Jim, wish you vonld give up the
drink"
There was something ike a quiver Of
the mans lips as he answered:
IF l thought you cared, l would but
there is great gulf between you and
me-"
Have I made any gulf, jim? Think
a moment before you answer"
"No, you haven't"
"If you had been a millionaire. could
/ have treated you more like a gentle
man ~
aNo, you couldn't"
Il do care, jim
Say it again, won't you ,"
Il do care, jim" with tender empha-
SIS on the Jim"
"Dr. Davis. viii never touch another
drop Of liquor as long as live. Here's
my hand on IT,
This was fifteen years ago and "Jim"
is to-day the respectable and respected
Mr. saved by a kind word. Win
you make an effort this week TO win
some one ky kindness , Christian Adro-
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-01-29
me Woman's Exchange.

The View York Exchange for Woman's
Work has been in existence eleven years
and its growth and progress have been
steady and continued II Is the pioneer
Of such enterprises. and not only has it
become successful itself. but can now
count up sixfy-four exchanges in differ
ent parts 81 this country and Canada
which have been modelled after it ard
have started ont with the same bylaws
The object Of the exchange has been
from the first toad impoverished gentle
women, who through misfortune have
been obliged TO become bread winners.
There are now ZOO names Of eonsignors
enrolled on its books, and il has paid out
to these eonsignors, whose numbers
steadily increase, almost a million dollars
besides the salaries paid to its employees
at its rooms, No. 329 Fifth avenue. There
are now fifteen geutlewomen employed
al the rooms, and these receive better
salaries and tertrestmsntt than women
in similar positions in the city snops.
The hours Of work are the same, but the
conditions are infinitely better, and each
one is given a months leave Of absence
on salary during the simmer
The consignors, as the woman who or
fer work for sale are called, have most
kindly ~middle-man,r foi this is precise
~ the position the exchange occupies
Its affairs are managed by a board of
forty women, divided into various sub
committees. Although the exchange
conducts its business on a business, not a
charitable, basis. it If not wholly self
supporting. The reason is that il has
steadily refused 10 charge more than 10
per cent. commission for the sale Of
goods, a rate st which & merchant would
expect to face insolvency in SIX months
Although desirable, selfsupport is not
held to be the most important work Of
the exchange. That Is the opening Of a
market for the work Of needy women,
without grinding down the worker, as IS
done by the siop clothing shops TO give
each consignor a chance to sell her work
at living price for her labOr--HarpeT's
Bd-ar.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-01-29
The swamp Fox OF GeorgIa.

Turning over a page Of his private
memorandum book, -Biil" Jones, the de-
teciive said
Here isthe case that gave me my title
Of swamp Fox of Georgia"
what is it?
'In '6s q safewas blown open in Macon
and about $1,000 was taken cut. The
case was put into my hands, and fol-
lowed the man into the swamps near
where Lumber City now Is l found
him there working at the mill, and got
work, too. In short time he and were
quite friends, and were sleeping together.
He bad habit Of leaving the bed be-
fore daybreak every morning, and be-
gan to follow him 1t was slow work
and re eluired several weeks. One morn
ing I'd go certain distance, and then
back, and the next morning little fur
ther. Finally / went to the end Of his
rope. ] followed him into the heart Of
the swamp and saw him take a package
from stump. He handled it awhile
and then put it back. guessed what it
was, and ] guessed well. That night
went TO the stump and pulled out the
package, and found over $4,000 in it.
That night we went to bed together, but
about midnight ] got up. and securing an
officer for whom l sent, went to that
stump The next morning be came at
the usual hour, and as he stooped toreach
for the package We sprang upon him and
he was ours"
what became Of him21
He got twenty years and got So 500
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-01-29
Mesmerism and FIrecrackers.

Perhaps the most intelligent and least
susceptible patient that james Frazier,
the mesmeris,, has had at Onset Bay,
Massachusetts,, Is Daniel NJ Ford, land
scape painter, who has lived here in
tranquil seclusion for several seasons,
and Is now finishing a cottage he has
built unaided with his own hands. Mr..
Ford is a man Of varied observation and
keen discernment, although the vein Of
mysticism is no more lacking in bis ns-
ture than in that Of anybody else who
lives in Onset.
He leaned back on his easel when I
called, and very kindly told me his opin-
ion Of Frazier His remarks were cool
and thoughtful, but he said that be had
no doubt Of Frzzier's spurious character
as healer. He himself had gone to the
cottage voluntarily and stayed there free
" in the hope that some good might be
done for his rheumatism.
Frazier did not succeed in overpOWer-
ing his mind or in giving him disquieting
visions. There were strange goings-on
in the house ali the while, but they new
er troubled him. His rheumatism i'm
proved somewhat while at the cottage,
but only temporarily. It had probably
done him a little good to live in air 50
well charged with magnetism. But Mr..
Ford did not know Of a single cure with
which to credit Frazier, although he had
heard of the Lang case, wherein, accord
ing to the story, the paralyzed child vas
made well by one treatment
Frazier had visited Mr.. Ford's cottage
since the artist left bis care. and had
evoked the evil spirits about the house
by waving his hand and exploding Ere
crackers beneath the floor
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-01-29
1t Worked Both Ways.

Colonel Mosby relates the following
amusing incident, which occurred in
cavalry fight in the Shenandoah Valley
in 1854.
~In the middle Of a sharp cavalry en-
gagement with sheridan's men in
charge near Berryville. there cane riding
into our lines like a xhirIwind a Yankee
soldier on a black horse.
"a score Of men tried II stop horse
and rider, but the old blacks blood was
up, and he went on clear through our
lines before be was under control The
rider was sent to Libby Prison, and We
mustered the black charger into the Con-
federate service.
"A few days later We charged s0ne Of
CHster's men, and that old horse was
ridden into the engagement BY one Of
our soldiers The old black eveaed up
things. too. for he carried his rider into
the Federal lines and never came hack"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-01-29

Pre-eminsntly the language Of the
future win be English. Il Is a stalwait
language becsuse Il IS the mother tongue
Of two stalwart and one Iong-lived na-
tion- Its rudimentary idions we're ia
use At the founding Of London, 40 years
subsequent 10 the eIsci6xicn Of CiTisf.
It's vitsiify.isgin direct r1tio with the vi
tsIiiy o its parent nation. The restless
enterprise Of Erg'ish exploration ha.
carried the lsugusge. wi,h iis flag.
around the world Nelly BY, speaking
her native tongue. ,.can be understood in
every port and every station embraced
in her flying circ1mDavixation Of the
globe. The English language has broken
down the barriers Of old-time customs ia
diplomacy. To American Influences is
dae the discarding Of French At the
Samoan conferences At Berlin, and the
adoption, for the first time, Of English
in international discussion.
During the period OF Rome's full fiEit-
age Of supremacy, before political decay
attacked the empire. Latin was the uni
yersal language Of limited world Tbs
early English dram4iists wrote in a Ian
gusge known bot to 6.0o0.0o0. and Thom-
as Jefferson's inaugural address could
have been read but by 100000 people.
AT the latter period French was the Ian
guage Of from 35000,O00 10 100000
people. Fifty years ago the German
language Was in as great favor numeric-
ally a. English. Not 20 to-day. To Ger
man is accorded asPesking clientele Of
C0,G0O.00 to French, 100000; to Eng
lish, lOO,000,00O- should ever again the
stars have occasion to sing together. il
can well be assumed it will be in the
language Of those earthly singers. Milton
and Byron, Bryant and Whittier.