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Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14
DRIVEN OUT BY THE FIRE.

Thousands of Snakes Forced to Move by
Mountain Fires in Pennsylvania.
One of the interesting features of re-
cent forest fires caused by long-contin-
ued drought in the mountains of east
ern Pennsylvania has been the reveal
ing and dislodging of undreamed-of
numbers of snakes which infest the
mountain businesses. Thousands of
rattlers, copperheads, vipers, black
snakes and other sorts, ranging from
one foot to seven feet long, have been
driven from their haunts and forced to
flee for life before the advancing flames.
One day recently surveying party,
while at work on Second mountain,
near Lorberry, were compelled to drop
their instruments and run precipita tely
down the mountain side because of an
oncoming host of snakes. The woods on
the mountains opposite were blazing
furiously and, correspondent of the
New York Times says, the reptiles in a
fright came swarming over on Second
mountain for refuge. On they moved in
countless numbers, like a vast army, all
kinds intermingled, and swept down
upon the surveyors without warning.
The men stood their ground in aston
ishment for time, but soon seeing the
host steadily multiply as it drew near,
they incontinently abandoned camp and
ran away in terror, closely followed in
their flight by the snaky multitude.
AT the foot of the mountain is a road,
and there the corps halted to await de-
velopments. Standing there they saw
thousands of snakes glide down
| through the grass and across the road.
| disappearing in the tangled brush on
the lower side. AS the corps were about
| leaving they witnessed quick and de-
ciSive combat between a giant black
snake and a RATHER en- route to the
brush.
The RATHER was five and one-half feet
long and the blacksnake fully seven
feet. The RATHER was cutting across
the road diagonally just as the black.
| snake went across straight from the
same side. In moment they collidcd
| and then clinchcd. The blacksnallc
| with sudden twist of his body caught
the RATHER tightly in his coils. Then
he gave another twist and the game
was up for the RATHER. The blacksnakC
| quickly uncoiled himself and dartcd
| into the bushes. On examination Oh
| the dead RATHER it was found that his
body was crushed into pulp. In fif
teen minutes more the procession OF
squirming, wriggling, gliding reptiles
had passed and the surveyors We're ablC
| to return to the mountain and secure
| their instruments.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14
TOMB OF A ROMANTIC PAST.

Venice No Longer a Living City, hut
Merely Vast Museum.
Venetian life In the largo old sense
has since come to an end, and the es-
sential present character of the most
melancholy of cities resides simply in
its being the most beautiful of tombs,
says Scribner's. Nowhere else has the
past been laid to rest with such tender
ness, such a sadness of resignation and
remembrance. Nowhere else is the
present so alien, so discontinuous, so
like a crowd in cemetery without
garlands for the graves. It has no
flowers in its hands, but as a compensa-
ton, perhaps-and the thing is doubt
less more to the point-it has money
and little red books. The everlasting
shuttle, in the piazza, of these irrespon-
sible visitors is contemporary Venetian
life. Everything else is only a rever-
beration Of that. The vast mausoleum
has turnstile at the door, and func-
tionary in a shabby uniform lets you
in, as per tariff, to see how dead it is
From this consultation, this cold curl
osity, proceed all the industry, the
prosperity, the vitality of the place
The shopkeepers and gondoliers, the
beggars and the models, depend upon
it for living; they are the custodians
and the ushers of the great museum
they are even themselves to a certain
extent the objects on exhibition 1t is
in the wide vestibule of the square that
the polyglot pilgrims gather most
densely; Piazza San Marco is like the
lobby of the opera in the intervals Of
the performance. The present fortune
of Venice, the lamentable difference, is
most easily measured there, and that is
why, in the effort to resist our pessim-
ism, we must turn away both from the
purchasers and from the vendors of
ricordi.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14
ANECDOTE OF JAY GOULD.
He Was . Newspaper Correspondent q,
Well Surveyor.

He Was . Newspaper Correspondent as
Well as Surveyor.
The papers of late have been we'll
filed with all sorts of talk, some true
and some false, about Jay Gould and
family. Old John Gould, of Roxbury,
jays father, is spoken Of as very poor,
which, according to the Detroit Free
Press, Is not true. He was sturdy,
well-read. intelligent farmer, in good
circumstances. At the time of the
anti-rent war in the county he stood up
boldly for the laws until better ones
could be made. When ordered by the
Big Thunder not to have the dinner
horn blown to call the men to meals he
went right on as usual One day the
horn was blown and in less than an
hour a body of disguised men appeared
to call him to account, Big Thunder in
command. He told him his family
would do as they pleased. and he was
threatened Jay stood by and said:
''I know who you are Big Thunder;
you are Dan Squires, and you dare not
kill my father" Here Is the keynote
to the whole career Of Jay Gould-an
Independent audacity that never failed
him. When mapping the county and
making up his history of Delaware
county he was a correspondent for the
Franklin Visitor, and its prospectus was
published in the history in full His
letters to the Visitor were always spicy
and interesting and were kept up until
he built the tannery in Wayne county.
He then advised me to ask his sister
Betty to write for the paper, and
found her one of the best correspond
ents ever had. She became Mrs, DR.
Palen, of a well-known medical firm of
Philadelphia, and has her home in Cam
den, N. j., opposite that city.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14

THE death of Senator Kenna of West
Virginia, although not unexpected, has
cas-: gloom over his colleagues, with
on account of his marked ability and his
genial personality. His death makes
the fourth in the membership of the
senate-Plumb of Kansas, in December,
1891; Barbour of Virginia, in May,
1892, and Gibson of Louisiana, in De-
cember, 1S9'-since the fifty second
congress began its first session. The
funeral services, which were conducted
by Cardinal Gibbons, assisted by Bishop
Keane, were held in the senate
chamber.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14
Sunday Schools at the Worlds Fair.

The Sunday-schools of the United
States are to have special building at
Chicago, costing $4,000. 1t is to be of
brick, and located just outside the ex-
position grounds 1t will contain full
and instructive exhibit of the past
history and the best modern methods of
Sunday-school work, in this country
and Canada; with books, maps, lesson
helps, and every appliance that has
been approved by those best acquainted
with the subject. The auditorium will
seat about two thousand persons. AL
together it will be new and remark
able development of the effort toward
religious education for the young.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14

THE condition of the French people
can hardly be imagined here. The ex-
element would be intense here were it
known that almost every man in public
life from the president down had re-
ceived brides to hush a gigantic
swindle by which all the poorer people,
the workmen and the small shop keep
ers had been robbed of the savings of
years. Owing to the peculiarly ex-
citable nature of the Frenchman the
excitement runs many times as high in
Paris as it would do here under similar
circumstances. The wonder is that the
city does not see another revolution,
that its streets do not run blood.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14

THE house committee on banking and
currency has favorably reported a bill
repeating the present law for the
monthly purchase of silver bullion, and
it is understood that the committee on
rules will report special order setting
a time for its consideration, but there is
doubt, even among those who favor
the bill, as to whether it can be brought
to vote. 1t certainly cannot, unless a
majority of the house will vote for a
resolution amounting in effect to a clo-
ture rule, and even then if it gets
through the house, Senator Teller has
on the floor of the senate given notice
that the free coinage senators will not
allow it to go through the senate. On
the whole, present indications do not
favor the adoption of any silver legisla-
ton at this session.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14
TWO YOUNG GIRLS.
The Sad Story of their Trials
and Misfortunes.
What Their Parents Have to Say About
the Matter.
Only Good News at Present t. Tel
About Them.

When the lovely young daughter of
the noted scholar, Professor NJ Elwood,
of 43 Cornelia St.. Brooklyn, N. Y.,.fell
ill with st. Vitus Dance, it was a great
and serious shock to her distinguished
father and the young girls many
acquaintance and friends. Many pro-
minent physicians treated her case in
vain until her parents were almost in
despair of cure.
She was quickly and suddenly cured,
however, and Is perfectly well at present.
The professor, on being interviewed, ex-
pressed his great joy at his daughters
restoration to health and spoke strongly
in regard to the wonderful remedy
which had wrought so sudden cure.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14
WHY WOMEN ARE NOT BALD.
Natural Selection Protects Them from
the Prevailing Tendency.

Natural Selection Protects Them from
the Prevailing Tendency.
If the unsatisfactory statistics that
have been able to collect can be relied
on, the proportion of badness in boys
and girls under twenty is about eighty
to seven, says Miss E. F. Andrews in
the Popular Science Monthly. AS the
majority of girls at the age under consid-
Grafton wear their hair loose, or in SIM
pie ''Marguerite'' braids, so that there
is little likelihood of deception, while
unwholesome headgear or other indi-
vidual practices can hardly, as yet, have
had time to produce any material effecG
upon either sex, we may regard the diff
ference indicated by the figures as prac-
tically due to the working of heredity
alone
Now, there Is no apparent reason why
girls should not inherit a tendency to
badness as well as boys, unless that
tendency is checked by some other fac
tor. Such factor Is sexual selection;
for presume it is hardly necessary to
argue here that bald-headed woman
would not stand much chance Of 'sur-
vival" in the struggle for matrimonial
honors. AS men have always practi-
cally done the selecting" and will
probably continue to do so more and
more as the conditions of modern life
render the competition for husbands
more severe, the woman's voice in the
matter, when she has any, being limit
ed to a simple negative, it is not likely
that the state of badness to which the
human race is said to be tending will
ever affect the feminine half of it.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14

A TRAVELLER who lately returned from
a trip through eastern Oregon reports
that on the desert near Silver lake the
site Of an ancient city has been discov-
cred One side of the square has been
traced for four or I'VE hundred yards
The top Is just above the surface and is
about four feet wide, made of cement,
similar to those of Arizona and Mexico
The city evidently antedates the Aztecs
and Toltecs. No geologist has yet visited
the ruins. The cowboys have done a
little prospecting on their own hook.
Among other things found is an imprint
of the cement work, showing that the
hod-carriers of those days went bare
footed. A cast of large-sized trowel
was also found. 1t is quite likely the
city was built upon the shore of Silver
lake, which is now distant about thirty
nilaA
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14
N. Il. G h. Railroad Time TsNe
Dee, II. 1892.
NAUGATUCK DIVISION.
Trains leave Waterbury for


NEW YORK-6:0s. 7:3o sec 1880 a - 1:2s
3:25, 5'53 pm. Sunday 415 p. m. Return
5:at, 500. IN o. a. i. 100, 4:o2, Cog p. n
Sunday Col a. M
NEW HAVEN via Naugatuck Jurction-7:an.
500 a. NJ. 1:2S. 3;15. h:5a u. n Via Derby
:Tunction-6nF. Sc 1870 a. m; 1:2S. 3:25
53 p. m Return-via NaugatucS Junction,
IS p. m. Sunday 500 a. m. Via De by
Junction, 100, 9.45 a, M, 1900, 20, $50, 7.4O
RItDGEPoRT-s: 78o s:as, 1910, r n, =. 1898,
3:25; 5:53p: m. Sunday 4:15 .. m. Return
--7:05. $40 q. NJ; 1900 2:2S, $50, 7:47 p.
ANsoNIA--6o5, $50, SEQ, 1o:5o. a m les, s:2s.
$50, 700, !mixed) p, m: Sunday 4:15 p. n,
e:1o SEQ y m. Sunday S.4a a. m.
WATERTOWN--6:44 S:37, 11:17 a M. ass GIG
7:04 p. m. Saturday 915 r. m. Return
6:25 7:55, 1920 q. M, $50, 440. $50
p. m. Saturday TBS n. m.
THOMASTON--S:32. 11:12 a. M. 3" 2 f.sG 900,
p m Sunday 925 a m. Return--7:Os, 7:55,
1928, a. M, 2:55, 5:26 .. n. sunday So
ToRRINGToN-,-s:se. 1872 2. M, 8:s2 $3.50 o.oo
1000 . NJ: a:ao s:0s n. N SUNDAY a:so p. m
WINSTED- s:32. f1:f2 a. m. 3:t2 ".r9 9:cr
~. Sunday 9:2F a. m. Petnr"--":3' $50
$40 a. m. 3:nS 4.42 SUNDAY 3 n I y
LUCIUS TURTLE. General Manager
c II HENPSTEAD. General Pass Ag"rt
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14
From Vienna.

A street of Vienna will be one of the
attractions of midway plaisance. 1t is
to be reproduction of ancient Vienna
at the time of Maria Therese, built in
the gothic and renaissance style, with
shops where the typical Viennese work.
ers in metal, leather, amber, meer-
schaum, etc, will be reproduced and
sold to visitors. The street will also
have a Vienna cafe and concert garden,
with a military band of sixty men.
Vicnnese singers will appear daily.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14

1t is not the custom for ladies to go to
market in Madrid and even the first
cook in the great houses disdains to ex-
pose herself to tho jokes of the market
women. 1t falls to the place of the Sec
ond cook to do the marketing and she
prefers to pass her life in the position,
for it has many perquisites. 1t is I'M
derstood that she expects her commits
sion on all she buys and as prices vary
this is easy without detection. "She is
too dear is sometimes said when a
servant is discharged, but no imputa-
ton is made against her character.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14

HAVE treasury officials been redeem
ing counterfeit money? Such is the
natural presumption after reading a
special report submitted by Treasurer
Nebeker to Secretary Foster this week
This report shows that the amount paid
out by the treasury in redemption of
$500 notes, series of 1874, exceeds $54 ,OOO
the total amount issued of that series,
whereas it is usually the case that the
amount paid out for the redemption of
any series of notes is always less than
the total amount issued of that series.
for the very natural reason that many
notes are burned up or lost where they
are never found. And what adds to the
PROBABILITY of counterfeit notes having
been redeemed by treasury officials with
good lawful money is the fact that
there was a dangerous counterfeit $500
note known to have been put IN circula-
ton about 1874. Treasurer Nebeker en-
deavors to explain by saying that
through an error notes of another series
may have been counted as in that of
1874, and expresses the opinion that
this fact will be clearly shown when
the series of 1875 shall have all been
presented for redemption. 1t is very
natural that Mr. Nebeker should try to
make this explanation, as Mr. Cleve-
lands secretary of the treasury may
feel that it will be his duty to compel
Mr. Nebeker or his bondsmen to make
good that S54. 900.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14

Respect.
LOWELL, Mass, Jan. 1.-THE follow
ing changes have been made in the ar
rapgements for the Butler funeral. A
service for the relatives and immediate
friends of Gen. Butler will be held at the
house at 9:30 a. IN. tomorrow. The re-
mainA will lie i'll State in Huntington
Hall from Il a. IN. till 4 p IN. to-nor-
row.
At 80 Aune's Church Monday the
militia will assume charge, the q. A r.
bodyguard giving way TO the six militia
scrgeantS.
Following are the eight honorary pail
bearers Hon. Jonn A. Lowell, Hon. E.
]. Sherman, Hon. Edward Avery, E. I.
Burleigh, E O., Hon. Charles H. Allen,
Col. George T. ]. Carney. Hon. George
f. Richardson, Hon. ]. NJ. Marshall
Gov. Smith of New Hampshire has
telegraphed that he, with the Senate and
other State officers will be present
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14
CLEARING SALE.

In order to close
out all our heavy
winter clothing for
men, boys and chill
dren, together with a
large stock Of Suits,
Overcoats and VI
sters which were con-
signed to us from a
large New York man
ufacturing firm, we
made the prices on
them very low. If
you have been too
late in purchasing
your winter clothing
you now have a very
good opportunity to
secure great bargains.
A trial will convince
you how cheap you
can now buy your
clothing at the
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14

There is no installing the fact that
this is the true children's medicine and
that it occupies in the household the
position of the best and surest family
remedy. 1t is perfectly harmless to
give to nervous, restless, sleepless and
sick infants and children of any age,
being made from pure and health giving
vegetable medicines.
If your child is-sick, send instantly to
your druggist for a bottle of this won
derful curer of disease, and when you
see you darling gain steadily in health
and strength day by day, you, like thou
sands of other parents. will bless the day
you learned of its marvellous curative
properties.
1t is not patent medicine, because it
is the discovery of the famous DR. Greene
of 35 West 14th Street New York who
has an enormous practice among nerv-
GUS and chronic diseases, and who can be
consulted free'of charge, personally or
by letter. Whatever you do, do not
fail to use his great remedy if:your child
is sick.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14

Don't suffer with o. Ipepsia DR. Hales
Household Tea will cure you justas GER
tain as you use it. For sale by r. c.
Partras lH n 7e6 Bank street.
DR. Hale's Household Cough Cure cures
every kind of cough from a simple cold
to incipient consumption Sold by b. O
Partree, 46 & So Bank Street.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14
Resolutions on the Death of Butler.

Boston, Jan. 14.-Members of the But
Ter club met last evening at the Parker
house and adopted resolutions upon the
death of Gen. Butler. Col. Noah A.
Plympton presided.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14
Immigrants ut Boston.

BosToN, Jan. 1.-THE steamer Boston,
from Yarmouth, brought 53 immigrants
here yesterday and the steamer Harlow,
from Halifax, 10.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14
Murderer Foy Now in Chains.

BALLsToN, N. Y, Jan. 14.-Martin Foy,
the murderer, who has so often set tire to
the jail is now in chains.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14
new YORK I VIEW gTGiAga.

Passenger Train Service, week days, Dee %, lSa
Tratns leave 7VaternEr.
BGSTON-2.55. 1880, am; 20 So" -
PROVIDEEGE-T.3 &c = 50;
WV YORK vic Rrawstere 42O
WORCESTER $50 a. NIL r m
NEW LOEN0T3- 80 a M. 3;h
1ETNAM 25S,7:@1 Il 3:;
ETLLIMANTIC 255.7'3t So
SPRINGFIBLD- rs, 81: !. T.
NEW HAVEN vi "l4jnvi
HARTFORn 255 90 900, ~
*3;45 355, S:15 p m
NEW BRITAIN 2.5F, 80 800 "q' co.
*3.45, 3.55, S:15 p m.
PLAINVI11 F ,. 3. r:3G, go, 19:45. d
1874 3.55, S:15 p. m.
BRISTOL > SIS 7:30. 900, t0:45 a, IL, o.
3 So, S:15 p. m.
rERRYVILLE-7:So 900 1915 ii. n 700
wATERVILLE-7:3o 9.OO, 1914 3r,
|:15 p. m
MERIDEN-s20a a, M, 05, 4:30 p. m.
UNION CITY--f9:05 d !, $50 p m
TOwANTIC-fs:o5 a. m. f2:1O, $3.50 p. m.
SOUTHFORD-S:O5 a. m; 2:10 $50 p. M
PoMPERAUC VALLEY Sab al 2l,.t.5Op
SANDY HOOK-S:O5a. M; 210, $3.50 p. m.
HAWLEYVILLE-S:05 a. NJ; s:10 ,h:5O o. N.
DANBURY-4:eo, sos a. M; 2:1o, $3.50 p. M
BREWSTERS-4:20, sos a. M; 2:1O DIN.
FISHKILL-ON-HUDSON- a. M; 2:1O L. m,
ER- Binghamton, Elmira jamestown, Cleve-
land, Akron and Chicago sos M; 2:lO n
POUGHKEEPSIE-vla Hopewell junction, s.Os
am,
Sundays only.
1. D. BARTON, Gen Sup't, Boston.
A. C Kendall g. P. A., Boston
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14

BosroN, Jan. 14.-As mark of respect
to the late Gen. Butler. the Legislature
has adjourned until Tuesday next.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14
Boston Clothing Store
No 118 East Man Street,
ST PatriCk's Block.
NOTICE.

The board of relief will be in session
January 2, 1898, from 10 to ~ a. m, to
5 and to s p. m Mondays, Wednesdays
and Saturdays, until January % inclusive.
Old soldiers, sailors and pensioners that
have been exempted heretofore need not
appear before the board for the purpose
of exemption.
JOHN THOMPSON,
JNo E. MAHER,
HENRY NJ. FRENCH,
Board of Relief
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14

NEW YORK & NEW ENGl AND RAILROAD
N MERIDEN BRANCH
GOING EAST,
Leave Waterbury-New England station $50,
SEQ a m LOS, 4:30 p. M; Dublin street SEQ,
1888 a. M, 1:35, 500 p. m.
GOING WEST.
LEAVE MERIDEN for Waterbury-7O2. Gao
am; 1910. $50 p. m. Arrive Dublin street
7.40. 10 81 a M, 1875, 7.56 p. M; at Water
III bury New England station, 755, 100 a. M,
900, S36 p. m. Eza yrs ="
A. G. KENDALL, q. P. A. NNN''
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-14
FRED QEARTZ.

Oven Furnace and Chimney builder Chin
neys cleaned and repaired Plasterin6 ROOT
painting etc. Boiler setting speciality.
218 EAST MAIN ST.
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GENERAL BUFFERS FUNERAL.

Changes in tho Arranwem ents-Iarks of
Respect.