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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-09-01

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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-09-01
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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-09-01
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Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-01
LADY DIXIE ON DRESS REFORM.
What She Thinks Should He the
 Ideal CosfuHe.

Perhaps, just now, when so much Is be- ing said about dress reform, it may be i'm teresting to recall Lady Florence Dixie's idea of an ideal walking costume for wo- men, A few years ago she began a vigor- ous crusade against the long skirt. "The bugbear skirt" she calls 1t, "hampering to the limbs, the spouse of mud and dirt"
 She does not want women to adopt the garb of men, because 1t is 80 ugly. She says: 'I unhesitatingly declare that the day is fast approaching when the hideous and senseless long skirt will die a natural death. am not an advocate of trousers for women, for think trousers are hide ous at any time" But what she does sd- vocate very strongly and earnestly isthe general adoption for street wear of cos tune similar to that which she herself puts on when in Scotland. It consists of
 a flannel skirt, knickerbockers, short
 kilt skirt and loose jacket, style of dress
 not at all strange or novel except In it's adaptation to general wear And 1t is the lack of startling originality in the idea that is one of it's chief recommendation. For it is the oddness and unusualnees of most of the proposed reform garments
 that cause their condemnation without | trial and almost at sight. Very few wo- men, however much they may rebel in se-
 eret against the tyranny of their present style of dress, care to make guys or spec tacles of themselves by donning outland. ish costumes that have only e promised,
 or rather dubious, possibility of superior I comfort to recommend them.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-01
THE NEW YORK CoNUNDRUM.

The convention which met at Syracuse yesterday certainly represented something. In New York city alone 75, ,000 protesters companied by his home and business ad dress. In Erie county, comprising Buffalo and it's vicinity, about 23,0 900 of the 29,000 Democratic voters signed the protest. And so forth and 80 on. In view of this condi- ton of things it is interesting to read in the New York Sun, which is almost say agely Democratic in these days, that: The Democracy of New York is not divided in to factions. In fifty years it has not been so united, 80 harmonious, so compact, 80 enthusiastic as it is now. There have been times when there were factions in it; but there are no factions in it now, and its voting ability is greater than ever. Its favor and support is not divided among one candidate, and his name is David Bennett Hill.
 This is decidedly confident and stalwart. But here comes the Democratic New York LtculuS I ost anu quiolly oAo SoAhNchtAy remarks: As matter of fact there has not been for two years or m ore the slightest doubt in any rational observers mind about the real choice of the Democratic party for this years contest. Even the politicians who are talking about the Gin. sane idea" have no doubt. They know per fectly we'll that the masses of the party de sired MT. Cleveland, but they made the mistake of believing that they could prevent the popular will from accom- plishing its desire. So they called them selves "the party" and for months they have been going about declaring that Mr Cleveland could not be nominated, that ht could not command the united support O his party in his own State, and that fol various reasons, all convincing to the su
 perior minds of "the party" his nomina
 tion was out of the question.
 Now, the question is, which is the do
 and which is the tail, and which will d
 the wagging, For an answer to this inter
 esting conundrum see the election return
 next November.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-01
OLD NEW ENGLAND FUNERALS.
No Religious Services - Liberal Dis
 pensing Of Funeral Grog or Punch.

No Malicious Services Liberal Dis
 pensing Of Funeral Grog or Punch.
 [Alics Morse Earle in the Independent.l
 The earliest New Englsnders had no re- ligious services at 6 funeral. Not wishing to ''confirm the popish error that prayer is to be used for the dead or over the dead, ," they said nothing but followed the coffin and filled the grave in silence. Lech- ford has given us picture of funeral in the 17th century, which is full of simple dignity if not of sympathy
 At burials nothing is read, nor any funeral ser mon made but all the neighborhood or a goodly
 Q. 1SeT me eOs desd sep s be | and then stand by him while he is buried. The ministers are most commonly present.
 Sometimes laudstory verses-ansgrams, | acrostics, were fastened to the bier. Sew | all says of the funeral of the Rev. Thomas | Shepard, "There were some verses, but none pinned on the Herse." These verses were often printed after and sometimes for | the funeral, and presented to all the friends, | and contained often solemn turns of ex- | pressions, gloomy puns and most ingenious | ly fulsome praises. Funeral sermons were also printed with trappings of somberness, black -bordered with death's-heads and crossbones on the covers. These sermons were not, however, preached at the time of the funeral save in exceptional cases.
 In Londonderry, N. H., and neighboring towns that had been settled by the Scotch Irish planters, the announcement of death was a signal for cessation of daily work throughout the neighborhood. Kindly as. sistance was at once given at the house of mourning. Women focked to do the household work and to prepare the funeral
 feast. Men brought gifts of food, or house
 vice and help that was needed. A gather
 ing was held the night before the funeral
 which in feasting and drinking partool
 somewhat of the nature of an Irish wake Much New England rum was consumed d
 this gathering and also before the proces
 sion to the grave, and the whole party re , turned to the house for an "aryal" ana
Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-01
A SIGNIFICANT FAST DAY.


 Yesterday was set apart by the colored people of this country as day of fasting, humiliation and prayer on account of the way members of their race are still treated in the South. The observance of such a day and the need of it are very significant things in the life of this nation.
 The condition of things in the South is in some respect discouraging. It is fast growing in material prosperity, but re- gard for law and order does not seem to be on the increase there. During the last eight years 72S negroes have been lynched in the South. Of this number 269 were lynched for rape, or because they were charged with that offense, or in some cases were only suspected. In the same period 252 were lynched for murder, forty-four for robbery, thirty seven for incendiarism, thirty-two for unknown reasons, twenty-seven on account of race prejudice, thirteen for quarrels with white men, ten for making threats, seven for rioting, five for miscegenation, and four for burglary. The fact that nearly 400 white men have been lynched during the same time shows that legal procedure has a poor chance in the South and the brutal ity which makes way with negroes upon any pretense of suspicion reacts upon the whites.
 The colored people of the country have been deeply stirred by the illegal and in many cases fendish treatment of the col ored people in the South. Some, like Fred erick Douglass, have been so moved as to be betrayed into injudicious and revenge ful utterances. While the situation is a terrible one we do not believe that violence in word or action will improve 1t. Patience, time, and judicious appeals to the sense of right which is in the people, are the best means for bettering matters. Let the terrible facts be consistently made public until the people of the whole country see and understand them. What is going on in the South now is part of the penalty this country has paid and must pay for slavery. The indignant and outraged colored people should not forget that the public con- science was at last aroused against slavery and that it was abolished. The public is waking up to the lawlessness in the South, and we believe that a powerful and effec- tive protest against it will soon be made. In the meantime nothing is to be gained by such talk as that of MT. Douglass. Fast ing and prayer are much better prepara- ton and foundation for the solemn work of protest and reform.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-01
The Secret in Frying Things.


 We are told by Savarin, the great French cordon bleu, that fin frying, when once the surprise has been effected, lower the fire little, so that the cooking of the in terior particles may not be too quick, and in order that the gradual heat may better bring out the taste" The true secret of frying is to have the lard deep enough to cover entirely the article you wish to have cooked, and to have it boiling hot, so as immediately to form 8 crust over the en- tire surface. This sudden crust is what Sayarin calls the Surprise"
 Another celebrated authority tells us that an infsllible way of testing whether the lard is hot enough is to test the heat with bit of bread an inch square, If it browns in one minute the heat is right Drippings will do as well as lard, but the great necessity is to have the lard boiling and deep. Boiling grease does not enter the object that is fried, but immediately forms a crust on the outside which pre- vents any grease entering it.
 A little attention in regard to this would prevent the sodden, greasy dishes so often served to the detriment of health and ap- petite. Croquettes, for instance, should be SO dry that you can lift them with the hand. They should be laid in frying basket and plunged into boiling lard, and the light brown crust will at once be formed
Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-01

drank again. The funeral rum bill was of ten an embarrassing and hampering ex- pense to beresved family for years.
 This liberal serving of intoxicating liquor at funeral was not peculiar to these New Hampshire towns, nor to the Scotch Irish, but prevailed in every settlement in the colonies until the temperance awakening days of this century. Throughout New England bills for funeral "baked meats'' were large in items of rum, cider, whiskey, lemons, sugar, spices. Even town psupers had couple of gallons of rum or barrel of cider given by the town to serve as speeding ibations at their unmourned fu- nerals. The liquor at the funeral of 6 min ister was usually paid for by the church or town-often interchangeable terms for the same body. The parish frequently gave, also, as in the case of the death of Rev. Job Strong, of Portsmouth, in 1751, ''the V widow of our deceased pastor full suit Of mourning" At this funeral the ''pawl bearers and their wives, the Governor, Sax ton, and Doctor, and wives" had gloves.
 A careful, and above all an experienced, committee was appointed to superintend the mixing of the funeral grog or punch and to attend to the liberal and frequent dispensing thereof. This picture has been given by MT. Sargent of country funerals in the days of his youth:-
 When was boy, and was at an academy in the country, everybody went to everybody Is fu- neral in the village The population was small funerals rare;the precsptor' 6 absence would have excited remark, and the boys were dismissed for the funeral A table with liquors was always provided. Every one, as he entered, took of his hat with his left hand, smoothed down his hair with his right, walked up to the coffin, gayed up- on the corpse, made crooked face passed on to the table, took glass of his favorite liquor went forth upon the plat before the house and talked politics, or of the new road, or compared crops, or swapped heifers or horses until it was time to lift A clergyman told me that when settled at Concord, N. H., he officiated at the funeral of e little boy. The body was borne in 6 chAise, and six little nominal pail bearers, the oldest not IS walked by the side of the vehicle. Before they left the house a sort of master of ceremonies took them to the table and mixed a tumbler ot gin, water and sugrr for each.
 It was hard struggle against established customs and ideas of hospitality, and even of health, when the use of liquor at funer- als was abolished. Old people sadly de- plored the present and regretted the past One worthy old gentleman said with much bitterness: Temperance has done for fu- nerals."
Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-01
NEW HAVEN, CONN. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE l, 1899
4r1y 8nuds.

4rY @nuds. Ewen Mcintyre
 & Co.
 Wednesday, June ], 1892.
 High tide, 4:1s p. m. Low tide, e:al B.. m. WEDNESDAY We sell Mems odd sizes Lisle Thread and Silk Stripe Half Hose, marked from 75c
 to 4sc pair. WEDNESDAY we sell Mems All Silk scarfs. in light and dark effects, regular price 58 to 75c, at 38c. WEDNESDAY we sell Mems Pepperell Jean Drawers, 75c quality. at 800. WEDNESDAY we sell the best Mems Unlaundered Shirts ever offered under $1.00, at 69c. WEDNESDAY we sell Ladies' Fast Black Hose, worth and sold at 25c,
 Price 15c pair. WEDNESDAY we sell Misses Parasols
 at 25c. WEDNESDAY we sell AS inch Black Drapery Net at $1.2O. This is a lot bought under price and worth $50.
 WEDNESDAY we sell inch Cream and Beige (Silk) Point de Irlande
 at 59c yard. WEDNESDAY we sell 25c Saxony Flannel at 15c yard. r WEDNESDAY we sell Shirting Flannel in Plaids and Checks, worth 371c,
 at 25c yard. WEDNESDAY we sell another lot of handsome designs in Wool finished Cash mere Suitings, value 12sc, at Sc Q yard WEDNESDAY we sell one case choice Challies at 64o yard. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-01

uses of the telephone is in diving. A sheet of copper is used in place of one of the glasses in the helmet, and to this @ telephone is fixed, so that the diver, when at the bottom of the sea, has only to slightly turn his head in order to report what he sees or to receive instructions from above.
 It is said that the custom of placing crape on the door of @ house where there has been a recent death had its origin in the ancient English heraldic customs and dates as far back, at least, as the year HOO A. D. At that period Indictments or srmorial ensigns were placed in front of houses when the nobility and gentry died. These Indictments were of diamond shape and contained the family arms quartered and colored with sable.
 They do not die if they can help it. There are still nineteen widows of Rev olutionary soldiers on the pension rolls of the United States. The oldest one is Mrs. Nancy Rains, aged 100, of Carter Fur mace, Tenn. Anna Maria Young of East on, Penn, is 99 years old. Tho others range from 92 to A years in age. Only two live in New England, Mrs. Esther H. Damon and Mrs. Patty Richardson. Both of these are Vermnntsra. But Mrs. Lovey Aldrich, aged 92, lives in Seattle, Wash ington.
 A correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean declares that the cattle business as carried on in Wyoming. South Dakota and other grazing States is nothing less than "organized brutality" Cattle are brought to these grazing grounds in vast numbers, he declares, with no provision whatever made to afford them proper shelter or an adequate supply of food. During the past winter it is estimated that 50 per cent of the calves and 25 per cent. of the COWS perished from cold and hunger. As a matter of fact capitalists who put their money into this business in most instances take into consideration the average loss that Is to be expected from these causes and will continue to practice the same methods while there continues to be profit in the business, despite this large percent age of loss, or while the humanity of the country remains quiet over this abuse of dumb animals.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Circus day may be little annoying to some of the older folks, but to the young it is more pleasant than Sunday.
 The Democrats can't talk any more about the billion dollar congress. but they can, if they wish, talk about the billion dollars worth and more of American products ex- ported in the year ending April 8.
 Make way for Woman. A wife in Kan sas became a mother and mayor on the same day, and a wife in Kentucky took back to her family week-old baby with her diploma from the medical college where she graduaed with honor. What man can do thata> ..
 There is nothing new under the sun. An Enolish manufacturer, while examining the texture and quality of some bandagel found on a mummy, was astonished te find that the arrangement of the. threads was exactly like that which he had patent ed few months before, which he had sup | posed to be an independent invention o his own.
 | One of the latest and most interesting
Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-01
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
 Saturday,

We wish to reduce our large stock. of Kitchen Furnishings, Crockery and Din ner Ware, and on the above four days will give special discount of 10 per cent. off. Everything in Basement, taking into con- sideration our low prices with this extra inducement, will net every purchaser a saving of from 25 to 33 per cent. com pared with what the majority of others ask.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-31
JAMES MCMILLEN SHAFTBR.
Death of the Well-Known
Attorney.
He Dies at His Home on Chestnut Street az
the Age Of sev.nty-s!x-A Well
Spent Life

i The legal fraternity OF this city received
with surprise and sadness the news of the
death of eK-Judge James McMillen Shafter
yesterday morning.
lie passed away at his home 9Sl Chestnut
street on Monday night.
lie had been confined to his home for only
week and no fears were entertained that
his illness would result fatally.
Judge Shafter was born In Athens, Vt,
in 1916. of Scotch-English parents. Some OF
his male ancestors were quite famous dur.
ing the war Of the revolution and performed
many deeds Of daring
His early education was acquired at the
Wesleyan University at Middleton, Conn.
He commenced law practice soon after
graduating from the university and in a
short time was elected to the lower branch
of the Vermont Legislature and served a
term. He was also Secretary Of State for
seven years.
The tide of life was rolling westward and
he fell IN with 1t, but stopped at Wisconsin.
where he remained for six years
The Judges brother, o. l.. Sbaf.er, had
been IN California few years, and finding
II good place to locate invited him to come
West. The Invitation was accepted and
Mir. Shafter landed in San Francisco on the
morning OF December 10, 1855. and the same
day found partner in bushes and was at
WOTk on case.
A few months after his arrival he went
into his brothers Office as assistant and re-
manned for about eighteen months, when
the firm was reorganiZed and he was taken
In as partner.
Mr.. Shatter represented San Francisco in
the Senate during the session of iS62-63 lie
was made president pro tenn. and presided
over the high court of impeachment which
removed Judge James III. Hardy from the
bench OF the Sixteenth Judicial District.
he was also leading member of the con-
5iltntlonal convention of this State in 1873
HIS active law practice. which was kept
up untll he was appointed Superior Judge.
has been varied and brilliant, and he has
handled many cases where over half a
million dollars was at Issue. His last ca Sc
Oh Importance was The matter of the
probate of the will OF James Black of Marin
County, whose estate was valued at about
100000.
Mr.. Sbafter always took great interest
in agriculture, and few years ago asso-
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-31

ciated himself with the firm of Parker &
Waterman, and arranged matters so that he
could devote the greater portion of his time
10 his ranch in Marin County.
He was president of the State Agricul-
tural Society, and an owner and breeder of
blooded horses cattle and other stock. He
was worker all his life, and was simple in
taste and plain in his dress.
Governor Waterman appointed Mr.. Shat
ter Superior Judge in 1890 to fill an pnex-
pired term, and he served faithfully.
Mr.. Shafter married Miss Julia Hubbard
at Montpelier. VT, on October 2S, 1sa5
They lived happily together for twenty FIVE
years until her death in 1871. There are
three children OF this pair living-Payne 4
James c. and Julia r. Shaiter
The greater mart of the deceased's estate
is in land, the value of which cannot be ac-
curately stated.
The funeral of the dead jurist will take
place tomorrow afternoon at o'clock from
his late residence, corner of HYDE and
Chestnut streets. The interment will he i'm
the family tomb in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
where the remains OF his wife and a sol,
ars laid away
There will be a meeting of thu Bar Assn.
citation to-day TO make ARRANGEMENTS for
representation at the funeral.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-31

NJ d. Howell to the witness on the
grounds of iucompetency as an expert"
Judge Morrow catching up the musical
rhythm would promptly interpolate:
COLLECTION overruled," to which Attorney
Campbell regularly intonedo in falling
cadence. exception taken"
Under the circumstances the evidence
proceeded slowly. Specimens OF the spuri-
Gus coinage were examined by the jury with
the deepest interest until one incautious
juror having laid a spurious quarter along
side good one got the twoOmixed, and.
with growing agitation, betrayed his ina
bilty to separate them.
After Detective Harris had come to: his
rescue the jury grew cautious and fought
shy OF eXaminative comparisons.
Il. Y. Read, agent for Wells. Fargo & Co.
at Stockton, testified 10 the receipt of pack
ages for NJ. ID. Howell and the opening and
marking of coins in the same by Detective
Harris in his presence.
w. Bauer, driver for the company. swore
10 the delivery Of q box and the receipt Of a
spurious 25-cent piece from Howell In pay
ment for freight.
Benjamin Moon, a Stockton barkeeper.
swore to the receipt of a spurious. ffty-cent
ana twenty-fiye-cent piece at different in
tervals from the defendant
John Hermann, his employer, gave evil
dence on a spurious flty-cent piece from
Howell.
CHARLES Davis. reStaDFateuT. u. l..
Brown, butcher, and II. IOnjer, a saloon
keeper, all of Stockton. swofe TO receipts of
spurious coins at different intervals from the
defendant
T. A. Benjamin, Deputy Sheriff of San
Joaquin County, identified some dozen ex-
hibits of spurious coinage collected in the
neighborbood of StO ktOn after public at
tention had been: called othrough5the press
to the Howell case.
Sheriff Cunningham of San. Joaquin
County gave particulars OF the arrest of
Howell at his house in Stockton al II p NJ.
Oh the 22d Of June.
Prisoner was in bed. BE made him dress
and took him to jail After sending for
prisoners attorney. w. Baldwin, OF Stock
ton, the PARTY proceeded to Howel's Office.
The safe was opened. and in a pigeon hole
were found two rolls of coin in brown
paper, containing So and 81 in marked
quarters" similar TO those he0had seen
opened and marked IN the express office
previous TO delivery.
w. II. Clark. saloon keeper of125h Sixth
street. San Francisco. testified Ito seeing
Howedl ana Murray az various times In
con fidential intercourse.
Secret Service Agent Harris corroborated
Sheriff CunniDgham's and Agent Reads
testimony regarding the fixing: Of How
elPs parcels.
He stated that he had been hunting for
Fred Marsh since the 18th of June and was
still hunting.
The jury having formally objected to a
night session and the Government having
rested the case for the prosecution further
hearing was adjourned to IL o'clock this
morning,