Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-02

lars in gold coin will weigh 3,6S6.S pounds,
and million dollars in silver coin will
weigh So, ,929.9 pounds. A ton of pure
gold is worth $s02, ,79s 81, and ton of
pure silver is worth $37, ,704.s4.
The Order of the Royal Ark was the
first of the endowment orders to foat In
Massachusetts, and the first to sink. The
receiver has just filed his report. The
order once boasted of $4,000 members,
$500 of whom received in cash $100 each
for $40 to $72 paid in; 1000 lspsed and
got nothing, and now the 3,013 matured
or in good standing are to be given 81 per
cent. of the amount they paid in. They
will get all the way from twenty two
cents to s.s5 each.
Drunkenness ia SO uncommon in Phils-
delphia that the policemen of that city do
not become very good judges of what is
known as "a drunk" One of them ar
rested a man who looked red and bloated
and who was roaming late at night on the
street. After he had been looked up at the
station house several hours, 1t was dis
covered that he was suffering from malig
nant scarlet fever and wasn't drunk at ali.
So all the prisoners had to be removed and
the place fumigated.
1t has been said that baseball was losing
Its popularity, but the afternoon contest
on Decoration Day between the New Yorks
and Cinoinnatis at New York drew a crowd
of %, 142 people, and at Philadelphia 49,
600 saw the local team win from the Cleve-
lands. The total attendance during the
day at New York (two games being played
in each city,. is reported to have been 29,-
142; at Philadelphia, 1S, 500; at Boston, 49,
902; at Plttsburg, $1,000; at Washington,
12,07S, and at Brooklyn, 10, 700-an aggre-
gate throng of 101, ,917 people.
The Congregationalist says: The use of
the gown by Congregational ministers ap-
pears to be steadily increasing in recent
years. In Boston Mr.. Gordon at the Old
South and DR.. Herrick at the Mount Yer
non, in Cambridge DR.. Mckenzie at the
First, in Brookline DR.. Thomas at the
Harvard Church and in Newtown DIR.
Calkins regularly stand before their
people in the black gown. The minister
going to supply the Central Church will
find that article in the retiring room. DIR.
Stimson has assumed it on entering his
new pastorate at Broadway Tabernacle,
New York. In a number of the other
larger churches 1t is a part of the pulpit
equipment.
1t is little surprising to learn that
slavery was onoG an institution in Wis
consin, not in the sense in which 1t pre-
vailed in the southern States, but it seems
to be fact that few negroes here and
there were held in bondage. According
to local historian, there Ia one man liv-
ing, ex-United States Senator George W.
Jones, who was the owner of fifteen |
slaves at Mineral Point about the year
1910. Here Mr.. Jones, who was a native
of Missouri, opened a trading post.
Another living witness to the existence of
slavery in Wisconsin is ex-Judge Joseph
Trotter Mills of Lancaster. Among
the early cases with which he had
was one brought to compel |
q white man to set free q negro held in
Grant county as q slave. The decd Of |
executed on that occasion Is
probably the only document of the kind on
record In the State. The Rev. Alfred
now dead, once interested him
self to secure the freedom of a mulatto |
named Day, who WAS held in a condition |
Of servitude at Prairie du Chen. Mr..
Brunson employed the liberated bondsman
in missionary work, but he proved totally |
unit for an occupation requiring intelli- |
gence, to the great delight, it is said, of the |
reverend gentleman's enemies. The Rev. |
DR.. jeremiah Porter of Beloit says he re-
members the case of a mulatto girl who |
was held at that place as elsve. She |
afterwards lived there as free woman,
and for family reasons he now withholds |
her name. Platteville has the distinction |
of being the only place in Wisconsin |
where slaves were not only held as such, |
but afterwards returned to bondage in |