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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-06

A prize fight for purse of $1O and incidentally to settle an argument took place in the lots near Quarry street, be- tween and : o'clock last evening, be- tween James O'Donnell and Thomas Sullivan, employees of the Benedict & Burnham wire mill. A crowd of several hundred were on hand to see fair play shown and when the word was given the comhatants went at it hammer and tongs. Neither secured an advantage in the first round. In the second Sullivan's arm was broken by blow and the fight come to an abrupt end. The men then shook hands and the injured man went to physician to have the fracture re- duced.
 The New Britains and Waterburys are playing at the West End grounds this afternoon. Saturday the Hartfords will play their first game here.
 Jacob Schaeffer and Eugene Carter, will play a match game of billiards at Chicago tonight, for the championship of the United States and a purse of $1 ,000.
 The Hartfords were defeated by the Norwich team yesterday. Score s to 2.
 As result of the little unpIeasantness between Captain James A. Cudworth and John NJ. Henry at the base ball grounds Monday, Cudworth was tried in the New Haven city court yesterday, for a breach of the peace and was fined $1 and $7.06 costs.
 l Secretary Thomas of the Connecticut league says, regarding the protested game in Waterbury .on Saturday, that there was no reason why the official ball should not have been used. That he sent by express, on Friday noon, league balls | to every club in the league, and outside of Waterbury has received no complaint all others receiving the goods early Sat urday morning
 Mickey Hughes, who pitched for the Waterburys in 1886, has been arrested at Coney Island for engaging in duel. With several friends he visited a saloon and found there another party, among them being Martin Hogan the jockey, A quarrel started. Hughes and another whose name is unknown, drew knives and fierce duel followed. Hughes was arrested, but the other combatant es capped. At police headquarters Hughes face was found to be badly slashed anC battered, and he was covered witt blood. He was released on his own re cognizance. Detectives Boyle and Ma ginnis are looking for the other duellIst
 JACK SULLIVAN EXPLAINS.
 Editor of the DEMOCRAT:
 1 Please put me right with the Brook lyn Athletic club. I did not want the mill to be under the auspices of tn, club. My packer was a member anC lonly wanted an answer there or through the newspapers. am no member bu my packer is a good member.
 JACK SULLIVAN.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-06
Damage Done to Fruit and Vegetables.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, May 6.-The temper ature at many points in Central New York. fell to freezing point during the night. In Seneca County some classes of fruit are ruined. There was heavy frost in Madison County at several places and fruits and vegetables were ruined. There was light frost in the southern part of this county, and some damage was done to the fruit crop. It has been snow ing at intervals all day.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-06
Americans Mobbed in Italy.

FLORENCE, Italy, May Civilian Jacobs of Newton, Mass, and his daugh- ter were out riding yesterday afternoon, when they were attacked by a mob. Their carriage was stoned and Miss Jacobs seriously injured. No other cause for the assault than that they were Americans is known.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-06
w. H. Casey,

Dealer in choice Ales, Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Gentlemen may depend upon getting the best the market affords. Give me triRl.
 261 BANK STREET,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-06
sn,nr For Sick Benefits.

THoMPsoNvILLE, May Civilian Martin, member of the lccal branch of the Sons of St George to-day attached the paraphernalia of the lodge for refus- ing to pay him $50 sick benefits. Mar tn is worth $25,000.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-06
T. H. HAYES,

Wholesale and retail dealer in Foreign and Do- mestic Ales. Wines, Liquors.and Cigars.
 34 and 35 East Main Street.. gw- Goods delivered on telephone call to any part of the city. Telephone 49-3.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-06
To Swim For Sixteen Hours.

DOVER, Eng, May 6.-Dalton, the American swimmer, to-day began his task of swimming sixteen hours in the channel. Many bets are offered that he will fail, with but few takers.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-06

Dinner and Tea Sets.
 11s to 16o piece Dinner and Tea Sets at from
 Cottage Tea Sets.
 A and 56 piece Tea Sets at from $2. % up.
 Cottage Toilet Sets.
 3piece Toilet Sets, S1.is. 10 piece Toilet Sets at from SIPS
 piece Crystal Glass, Lemonade and Water Sets, COG, II piece Lemonade and Water Sets S1 25, piece Crystal Glass Wine sets 45c special bargains in Decorated China Cups and Saucers. ding, Salad and Mush and Milk Sets, Japanese Boh' milan Vases, Art Decorated China Cuspi- dores and Umbrella stands.
 Glass Ware.
 and standard quality. Thin Glass Plumbers 800 | per doz. Wine Glasses 29c ter dog, Decorated | Crystal Glass Decantets iSc up. White Porcelaine Ware. e Cups and Saucers. 24 pieces, 12 cups and 12 saucers 75c, White Porcelain Plates 4c, Porce- lain Meat Platters 6c. la Curtain Shades ,: +,H~ Holland Curtain Shades, complete spring role 1 21c, Heavy Dadoed Gilt Floss Opecked Shades | 29c. Very Fine 0pecked Dadoed Shades soc. Fringed Shades 7ac. a4## Complete line Oil Stoves at from 59c up l Tin Ware. eE Everything in Tinware, Porcelaine Ware Granite Ware and Cast Iron Ware fer household | use. X Wooden Ware. t | Curtain Poles, polished brass trimmings som- plete, 15c up. Curtain Poles, wood monntings. Horses and Racks Ironing, Meat, Pastry, Bread and Bosom Boards. Dressmakers' Cutting | Tables, Sugar and Butter Fails, Spice Boxes and Mincing Bowls.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-06
LOCAL LINES.

Call at W. N. LADD'S for fine groceries and provisions.
 Look at the line of $500 Clocks at LAKE, STRoBEL & Co.'S.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-06
WATERBURY.

Earned runs, Ansonia :. Two base hit, Lachance. Stolen bases, Lachance, Stovey, w. Jackson. Struck out, Leahey, McAleney. First base on balls, Leahey, Condoff, Bell. Passed ball, Williams. Wild pitch, Lachance, Wells. Hit by pitched ball, w. Jackson. Time of game, hours and 20 minutes. Um- pire, Nelson.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-06
H- -G-CHATFIELD THE OPTICIAN,
 is now located at
 Io7 BANK STREET.
SOCIETY AND CLUB MEETINGS.

RW- Secretaries are requested to send in the dates of meetings of societies, lodges and clubs and to notify us of any changes of regular meet ing nights. I
 Meetings This Evening. Second Advents. ..=, Carpenters and Joiners, No A. Waterbury Council, No 21, R. and s. M. Clark commandery, K. T.
 Mattatuck Drum corps.
 Excelsior Council, No 9, O. U. A. M. Waterbury Temperance Alliance.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-06
Strikers Gain Their Point

NEW YORK, May 6.-The framers O this city have won their fight for eigh hours, the bosses to-day, acceding tt their demands.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-06
SATURDAY

We shall oeras Special Present with One Pound of Tea Snowflake Baking Powder Melose Butter Dlsh This is pattemand fine present with pound of Tea Pure Golf
 fees fresh roasted and ground daily Use Snowflake Baking Powder For sale only by
 Ur1Ion1 TEA 60. 1os so MAIN ST.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-05-06

Brennan the Baker, 1O4 South Main.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16

water till they are soft and then rubs them
on this stone with another round stone like
the milestone you use in sharpening q
scythe until she gets them into paste She
pats this out like griddle cake and cooks
it before the open fire. 1t is by no means
bad eating, and with sauce of red pepper
it flows down the great Mexican throat by
the millions per diem. As to the frijoles
or black beans they are sweeter and better
than the baked beans of Boston, and the
better classes of Indians have many dishes,
which are both cheap and good.
There are, it is said, hundred different
dialects in use among them to-day, and
though the most of them speak Spanish
nearly all speak their own language as well.
They are people of more than ordinary cul-
ture, great lovers of music, easily governed
and very polite. They exhibit great love
toward each other and in their families, and
the question as to their future is one of the
questions of the Mexico of to-day They
have produced many good men. President
Juarez, one of the greatest men of Mexico's
past, was a pure Indian. President Diaz
has Indian blood in his veins, the Mexican
Congress contains a number of pure Indians
and the great Mexico of the future is bound
to be greatly influenced by its Aztec blood.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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enough made to start out for selling trip
many of the artists take their packs on their
backs and peddle out their wares over the
country. l met basket seller out in the
fields near Mexico City to-day. He had
about 80 baskets on his back, and these the
result of q months work he was bringing
into the city to sell. His leather panta-
looms. were profusely patched, but his white
sack-like shirt was as clean as falling snow,
and the cotton drawers that fell down
around his bare brown feet were clean, and
in this cleanliness see another likeness Of
the Aztecs to the Japanese. These people
take frequent baths and they are always
washing their clothes. The poorest peon
wears clean white stockings, and I fire.
quently see both sexes bathing together
here as they do modestly and with no
thought of shame in Japan. So far I see
nothing about these Indians to connect
them with our savages ofthe Western reser-
vations. They are different people and
they could never have had the same origin.
POOREST ON THE CONTINENT
As class these Mexican Indians are per-
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haps the poorest people on this continent.
Three hundred years ago they were the
richest and Montezuma gave Cortes plates
of gold and silver as big as wagon wheels
and these people made his soldiers spurs of
gold for their horses. Since then they have
been the slaves of their conquerors. They
have been oppressed and beaten and worked
for generations, and it is only within few
years that they have had the chance to be
anything else. As they are to-day hun
dreds of thousands of them are hopelessly
in debt and are as mucn debt slaves as are
the debtors of Siam.
Millions of them live from hand to mouth
and only the fewest have what the Ameri-
can negro OF the South would consider
competency. Peonage or debt slavery was
abolished in Mexico in 1873, but in practice
it still prevails. These Indians, many of
them, are honorable and all of them are
great lovers of home and the locality in
which they live The huts which they oc-
cupy on the farms of their master-creditors
have been the homes of their families for
generations, and though they are not bound
BY law to work out their debts, they do so
and incur others. so that they keep them
selves and their families in bondage for
years to come.
DON'T WANT TO GET AHEAD.
They have no hesitancy about going again
into debt when once free, and Americans
who are trying to farm here on our methods
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board and tile. The board roofs are tied on
and held down by means of stones placed
upon them, and the tiles are fastened with
mortar. In few of these Indian huts are
nails used, and rope and withes take their
place. The cheapest huts of all are those
Of the hot country or of the lowlands along
the coast. These are made of cane or
poles, which are driven into the
ground and tied to cross poles with strings.
The poles are of the same length, and to
their tops rafters are tied, and on these q
thatched roof is fastened in the same way.
CAN SEE INTO THE HUTs.
Sometimes the pole walls are plastered
with mud, but generally the poles stand
about an inch apart, and you can see all
that is going on In the hut through its walls.
saw whole villages of such huts in the
State Of Vera Cruz, and the Indians who
swarmed in and out of them were often half
naked. Here there was plenty of wood, and
the cooking was done in the open air. On
the plateau much of it was done with char
COAL and the fire was kept alive while the
food was in it by means of q fan, made of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16
TIE SCOTLAND YARD
How the Chief London Police Ofice Gained
Its Peculiar Name.

How tho Chief London Police Office Gained
Its Peculiar Name.
Spare Moments.l
The late chief Office of the police force is
said to have derived its name Of Scotland
Yard" from the fact of its being the site of
palace in which the Kings of Scotland
were received when they came to England.
The Saxon King Edgar granted this portion
of land to the south of Charing-cross to
Kenneth Ill, King of Scotland in $50, and
here the latter lived when he. came to do
homage to the English Crown. The palace
reared on this spot was for a long time
the town house, SO to speak, of the Kings
of Scotland, its last inhabitant being
Margaret Queen of Scots, who visited LON
don after the death of her husband at the
battle of Flodden Field. The palace after
this became neglected, and during the reign
of Elizabeth its existence as palace term
mated, and Government officials then be-
came its inhabitants
Here the bard of "Paradise Lost" lived
while occupying the position Of Secretary
to Oliver Cromwell, then Protector, and
here Beau Fielding, lingo Jones and Sir
John Denham, of Cooper's Hill notoriety,
lived and died At the beginning of the
present century the palace court was held
in Scotland Yard. When that came to an
end nobody paid much attention to the
place until Sir Robert Peel, in 1929, estab-
Gshed the present metropolitan police force,
the headquarters of which were fixed there.
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THE VETERANS ARE HARDY.

If Statistics Are Correct the Grand Army
Death Rate Is Very Low.
Boston Herald.1
Considering the age and infrmities of the
members of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, the deaths in their ranks are not SO
numerous as it might be expected they
would be. A roll of $3.50 deaths in year
out of a total membership of444. 3O7 is only
about one-haf the annual death-rate Of
Boston, where, with population of AS, 900,
there were 10, 1S1 deaths last year.
1t seems incredible that the Grand Army
death statistics can be anywhere near cor
rect though there is no apparent reason
why they shonld not be at least approx
mately SO.
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BY JULES VERNE

one side. A rifle was slung across hfs
shoulder and n revolver and a hunting
knife suspended from his belt. He rather
timidly asked to see Mrs Allaire, and the
man thinking him to be some member OF the
expedition sent with a message from Farina
Town, where the leaders of the search party
were engaged in completing their final
preparations, at once conducted him to
Mo1ly's rooms. As he stepped into her
presence it required second glance to rec
ognize the sailor lad, such complete meta
morphosis had his hunting costume effected
in his appearance. He seemed so much
taller, 30 much older. The boy of 10 had
suddenly become man.
Molly stood, half dazed, with her gaze
riveted on the handsome youth, and such
tumultuous rush of thought oppressed her
mind as to rob her for a moment of the
power of speech. Godfrey took her silence
to mean disapproval and stammered out:
"Dear lady, don't be angry with me-
could not bear to let you go-alone-"
The stern-visaged Zach was not standing
there watching her; he was not present to
frown at what he deemed deplorabls
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MODERN SURGERY.

People Can Live Minus Lung, or Almost
Any Other Organ.
Youths Companion.l
The extent to which the body can be
mutilated without a fatal result is beyond
what most people think. Of course, the re-
moval of the largest limb is familiar fact;
and, indeed, the successive removal of all
the limbs would result in nothing worse
than inconvenience. But in the same way
internal organs may be extirpated. This is
facilitated by their duality.
One eye may be taken out, and the sight
remain practically unimpaired One kidney
may be removed, and the other will make
up the loss by doing double work. The case
is essentially the same when disease has
destroyed the functional activity Of kid
ney; and, therefore, a person in that con-
dition need not be without hope.
In like manner, disease may have rem
dered one lung solid, like liver, and thus
functionally useless, and yet the person may
live in good health to old age. Could the
half-consumed lung of the consumptive
only heal up the walls of its great ulcer,
and the microbes cease to extend their
ravages, the patient might, with care, enjoy
a long, useful and happy life.
Large portions of the brain may be re-
moved with no injury to life or intellect.
Persons have lived for years, and have been
well with bullets in their brain. The liver
has been cut in two by tight lacing-the
pressure causing an atrophy of the part be-
low-without ending either the life or the
folly of the fashionable devotee.
A portion of the intestines has been cut
out and the severed ends sewed together,
and their normal action and function have
not been in the least interfered with. And
what seems more amazing, dogs have had
their entire stomachs extirpated without
digestion.
Recently man, 81 years old, had large
portion of his stomach cut out in conse-
quence of tumor. The piece was nearly a
foot square The discovered parts were
sewed together, and the patient ate dinner
Of hash u days after the operation, and was
dismissed cured at the end of three weeks.
Five months later he was presented before
the medical society-the Royal Society of
Physicians of Vienna-wholly WE'LL with no
trace of the return of the cancerous disease,
and with digestion perfectly performed.
Some experts are led to think that the
stomach plays but a secondary part as a
digestive organ, its chief service, according
to this view, being that Of temporary re-
ceptacle.
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to expand ID their fullest the muscles of the
shoulders and chest or to be pliable instead
OF tense. Most people carry their should
ers up and maintain such tenseness of the
shoulder and chest muscles as absolutely
prevents the muscles ever expanding to
their normal limit. AS by this means the
free natural motion of the lungs is pre-
vented, nature allows us, by using the alb
dominal muscles, to take into the system air
enough to enable us to exist-for can't de-
scribe as living the wretched condition Of
that man whose abdominal muscles are e1-
Panded when he breathes his lungs full Of
air.
IF the exercising of the unused mus
cles is necessary to keep the body healthy,
and strong and agile, every movement now
popularly supposed to constit tute exercise
should be abandoned, since there is no
movement in all our daily lives which
doesn't force four times as much work upon
the fe1ors as upon the extensor muscles.
STRETCHING THE BEST EXERCISE.
stretching is the kind of exercise that
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CHAPTER XIX.
GETTING READY FOR THE START.


There was q CLEAN of hopefulness in
Molly's dark eyes and strange joy in her
heart as she alighted from the carriage which
had taken her from the wharf to her hotel
in King William street, Adelaide. It was
the 26th day of August, only one month
since she had left San Francisco, but it al
most seemed as if year had rounded up
since leaving home, so many strange faces
had confronted her, so many strange voices
had sounded in her ears-one almost from
the other world, faint, hollow and indis-
tinct, while another full of warmth, tender
ness and buoyancy seemed always to have
been with her, so strangely familiar did it
sound, such fondness was there in its
accents. Godfrey had not been near Molly
when she left the steamer, but she was
quite certain that it was stern duty alone
that kept him away from that end of the
steamer. Zach walked by her side so like
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DRESS REFORM IN VIENNA.
The Male Creative There Talking of Max
ing Trailing Gowns Illegal.

The Male Creative There Talking of Max
ing Trailing Gowns Illegal.
New York Times.l
1t may interest the leaders and partici-
pants in the dress-reform crusade to kno W
that the men in Vienna are on the point of
taking sides for them, at least in limited
degree. The authorities over there have
become so concerned over the threatened
injury to public health by the trailing
gowns of the Viennese women that they
are considering the making of police reg
ulation to establish the proper length of a
skirt. This reads well on paper, but its
carrying out would offer almost as great diff
ficulty as the famous project to "bell the
gowns shall be so long and no longer, out
what policeman will be bold enough to
stop women and request them TO kindly
permit him to measure their skirts?
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CHAPTER Xxx.

INTO THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT.
With heart almost oppressed by the joy
that had come upon it so Unexpectedly, Mrs.
Allaire, with Godfrey by her side, took her
seat in special train that was to carry her
to Farina Town, where her arrival was now
impatiently awaited by Tom Marks and
Zach French. She was also accompanied by
an intelligent halfbreed woman, Harriet by
name, herself child of the wilderness,
strong, fearless and skillful rider, who was
to perform the duties of serving woman to
the captains wife. The train made few
stops, only such in fact as became necessary
to renew the supplies of wood and water. After
leaving Adelaide the first halt was made al
Cawler, which was reached after several
hours run through district broken by deep
gorges and narrow valleys, varied at times
BY interminable forests of the eucalyptus.
As the farms and settlements were left far
behind and the country began to take on
that wild and desolate aspect so character.
istic of many portions of the Australian
continent, Mrs. Allaire's eyes gradually
filed with that deep, earnest look which had
been peculiar to them for many years. Shs
was about TO put forth the strength of her
wonderful will power for the last time. II
SQ6 HOW, IL WOulu Uo necessary 20
bow to the DEGREES of heaven and give over
a search which, while it had until now com.
manded the admiration of the world, would,
if pushed any further, be in the judgmeus
of her fellow creatures either the wild
whim of an eccentric mind or the foolish
purpose of disordered intellect. From the
windows of her railway carriage the cap
tain's wife, with that calm certainty and
placid satisfaction of one journeying to
meet beloved relative returning from q
distant voyage, whiled away the long hours
by examining the strange land through .
which she was being transported at almost
lightning speed.
This was the Australia which had been so
justly called the "Land of Paradoxes," the
center of which was one vast basin below
the ocean level, whose streams, bursting up
through the sandy plains, were gradually
before reaching the sea-a land in
which the air, like the soil, is lacking in
humidity, in which the strangest of earthly
animals are found, and in which savage
tribe, pure nomads, furnish types of the
lowest degree of human intelligence.
Away to the north and to the west
stretched those interminable deserts Of
Alexandra Land and Western Australia,
the very center of which the expedition
was intended to pierce in search of the sole
survivor of the wreck of the Dreadnaught.
What would there be to guide these in
trepid searchers when once the extreme
outer line of hamlet and isolated ranch had
been passed and nothing remained but the