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The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03
Concert in Hamden.

 A very pleasing concert was given at the Hamden M. F. church last Friday evning by the following well known artists: Mrs. B. B. Broadbent, soprano; Miss Louise Dandller, contralto; G. Chadwick Stock, tenor, and Erickson Bushnell, bass; Miss Mary Dudley Burl, reader. Harry B. Jepson was the ac- companist. The church was we'll filled with an enthusiastic audience. The following program was finely rem dered:
 Organ Prelude.... ..,.,,.. ..........
 Harry B. Jepson. Quartet-Elijah ........ ..... Mrs. Broadbent, Miss Daniker, Mr.
 Stock and MT. Bushnell. Solo-Fear Not Ye Old Israel. Buck
 Miss Daniker. Solo-Rock of Ages. Barri
 MT. Stock. Reading Selected.
 Mss Burk. Quartet-The Sea Hath Its Pearls. ........ .............. ........ Parker Mrs. Broadbent. Miss Daniker, MT.
 Stock and MT, Bushnell. Solo-The Old Stone Wall. ..... Sneaker
 Ericsson F. Bushnell. Solo-The Angel at the Window....
 Mrs. B. B. Broadbent. Duet-Il Trovatore. ........ .......... Mrs Broadbent and MT. Stock. Organ Postlude..... Harry B. Jepson. Considerable credit is due MT. B. B. Broadbent, who managed the concert. A better one was never given in Ham, den,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

New Haven has been honored by it's performance on any stage of the latest musical comedy, Paradise Alley" will be given. Tonight the Grand opera house, it is confidently predicted, will have one of the costliest and most mer itorious productions in it's history It will be first night" an event in which fashionable New Workers revel. Albeit the play will be presented at the popu- lar price standard, the n1anag cement de- sires it to be particularly understood that it is not in any sense a popular price attraction. The weekly expenses forbid any such assumption. With such names as Barney Pagan, Samuel J. Ry- an, Frank M. Wills, Lily Post, John Queen, lola Pomeroy and Henrietta Bryon, and with a company numbering twenty-two or more persons, the total expense may very readily be imagined
 The piece abounds in pretty pictures, the most graceful dancing, the ultra popular songs, handsome costumes and some of the most elaborate effects ever seen on a stage. When it is stated that the enterprise is under the manage ment of John w. Hamilton, recently manager of the Fifth Avenue theater, New York, and Herbert J. Meyer, man. ager of the American Theater Roof Garden, its standing may be easily guessed at. It will be presented with special scenery and properties and with many costly adjuncts seldom seen in these days.
 Paradise Alley" will remain for three nights and there will be matinees on Tuesday and Wednesday.
 Leavitt's great spectacular production Spider and Fly" will be the attraction at the Grand opera house the last half of this week. It is no easy matter to describe all the attractive features which have been crowded into the three acts of Spider and Fly"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03
BOARDMAN WINS.

The Eight Hundred Yards Run Is Won by n
 Yale Man-Wefers of Georgetown Carries
 on the Honors In the Fifty Yards Handi-
 cap.
 The athletic carnival held in Madison Square Garden on Saturday evening un- der the auspices of the New Jersey Attn letic club was attended by many of the local athletes as we'll as by a large num- Der of the students of Yale university. There were about two thousand persons present ito witness the exhibitions, of which there were fifteen, the two most interesting being the national champi- onships.
 The summaries:
 $50 yards run, novice-Won by r. Boardman, Yale A. A. Time, minutes IA seconds. 1 Fifty yards run, handicap--Won by B. J. Wefers, Georgetown university, l yard, C. Kriessling, r. M. c. A., N. r., feet, second; c. E. Blackburn, Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, 5 yards, third. Time, 5 3-5. ! zAu llouliNetp w Sii DJ G. G. Winship, Mount Vernon r. M. c. A., 15 yards. Time, 2S 4-5. Quarter mile, novice. schoolboys- Won by J. F. Holland, Y. M. c. A., New York. Time, 1:S0. 1 One mile walk, handicap-Won by Sam Liebgold, Pastime A. c. Time, l 6:49 3-5.
 1 22O yards run--Won by W. Cohen, New Manhattan A. C., yards. Time, 25 1-5 seconds.
 | Two mile steeplechase championship
 Won by George w. Orton, University of Pennsylvania. Time, 10;5S 3-5. l High jump, handicap-Won by s. A. w. Baltazzi. N. Y. A. C., 1-2 inches Distance, feet 3-4 inches. | One mile run, handicap-Won by w. T. Ryan, Xavier A. A. Time, minutes % seconds.
 40 yards run. handicap-Won by G. w. Goldthwaite, Princeton University A. A., yards. Time, 54 4-5 seconds. Broad jump, handicap-Won by W. T. Hamilton, 9 inches, 10 feet 3-4 inch es.
 One mile bicycle race handicap-Wo i by A. Saver, Greenpoint Wheelmen, 75 l yards. Time, 2.46 4-5. Ten mile championship-Won by Samuel T. Freeth, Sylvan Harriers Brooklyn. Time, 5S minutes 32 2-5 sec onds.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03
Use it in Time.

Catarrh starts in the nasal passages effecting eyes, ears and throat. and is in fact the great enemy of the mucous membrane. Neglected colds in the head almost invariably precede catarrh causing an excessive flow of mucous and if the mucous discharge becomes interrupted the disagreable results Of catarrh will follow, such as bad breath severe pain across forehead and about the eyes. roaring and buzzing sound in the ears and oftentimes very offen- sive discharge. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for these troubles j29 St cod 1tw
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03
Yale-Haryard Debate.

The Yale union, the college debating society, has elected the following off, cers: President, F. M. Alvord of Bolton, Conn; vice presidential. V. Clark of New York; secretary, lH w. Chapman of Bridgeport, Conn: treasurer, G. l.. Parker of Louisville, Ky.
 Executive committee-W M. Beard of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, E. L. Barnard of New York, Hiram Bingham of Honolu- lu, Hawaiian Islands.
 This board of officers will have charge of the Harvard debate to be held in May and every effort will be made by Yale to win the only Har- yard contest of the year.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03
' N '

Reader-Do you like an extra fine quality of Formosa Oolong Tea Are you willing to buy the highest grade that can be bought of the Importer in this country g-always provided that you pay no more than it is worth.
 There is always a Tea, Coffee, & Manufactured Implement, etc.. etc., that stands above all others there is always the BEST A large number i'll every community want and are willing to pay for the best, We have that Tea and invite your attention to it, We work at the trade, we try to know the quali- ities and the values of Teal.
 In large cities this very same brand of Tea sells for $1.50 per ID; we offer it at a considerably less price sam pie given if required.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03
A Novel Entertainment.

Tomorrow evening, in place of the regular meeting of St. PauPs guild, a novel entertainment will be in order, consisting of a shadow play, also a mu- sical program. Another feature will be an art gallery exhibition. Cake and chocolate will be sold, the proceeds of the whole affair going toward the Eas- ter offering of the guild.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03
COFFEE!

50 mats of Choice Java and 15 qrs of Choice Mocha received to-day, bought direct from the importer we have it roasted twice or three times a week and grind it to order. It is honest. It will bring you back for more We have always been favored with large Coffee trade and it is because we have sold JAVA for JAVA, MOCHA for MOCHA, This lot is a fine one and those who try it will be convinced,
 We offer a choice pure Coffee for 2So per ID. WE SELL NO MIXTURES.
 JOHNSON & BROTHER,
 All and 413 State Street.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03

Pianos, new and slightly used, at prices to suit the times and careful buy CT, can be found at our warerooms. We have the famous Weber and others, all desirable. Cash will secure such bar gains as you now and then hear of and wonder at. Easy terms given, or to rent at reasonble rates.
 M. SONNENBERG PIANO CO,
 ja24 If sol Chapel street.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03
DEATHS.

SHELLEY-In this city. Feb. l, Erwin Shei- ly, aged 4 years, months.
 Funeral services will be held at the residence of Mir, Heury Hanson, No. 73 Sp ing street, on Monday afternoon at 2;30 o'clock. Friends are invited to attend.
 GOWER-In this city, Feb. 1, ls95, susan Charlotte Gower, second daughter Of tho late George D. and Ellen Mansfield Gower, in the 4:l year of herage. Funera, services will be held at St. Thomas church on Tuesday afternoon nt halr-past two o'clock. Friends are invited to at tend. 2t CHIpMAN--ln this city, Feb. l, Joseph Chip man, aged 70 years.
 Funeral services will be held at his late resi- dence North Front street, on Monday, teb. 3, at ? o'clock. Relatives and friends invlt- ed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03
Connectieut Probate Assembly,.

The annual meeting will be held at the capitol in Hartford next wednes- day at 1O:So a. m. The members are in- vited to present questions of practical use for discussion.
 WILLIAM L. LOOMS,
 RxeSidant.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03
District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court,
 January 2R lSDH

District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court,
 January 26, 1896. ] UPSTATE of MARY P. SCRANTON, late of II New Haven, in said district. deceased. The Court of Probate for tae district of New Haven hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for thecredit- ors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts, property attested. within said time will be debarred a recovery. All per sons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 ALONZO G. SCRANTON,
 f3 2d1wT l AdministI ator.
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If You Want

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The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03

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FOR SALE.

THXPRESS Wagons, small and large; ina INI ones at low prices, and Skates, Gloves, Mfttens, Sleds, etc. The Bradley, Damn 7 Darlington Co. d30 tf
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-03
.IitST A AiIsRIuEn
FOR SALE,
EnR cArE

CLEDS for 40 cts, 50cts, etc. full line at p all prices; come and see our. goods and
 learn prices on Skates, Gloves. Mittens, Ex< press Wagons, etc., all low. The Bradley.
 Damn tE Burlington Co. d30 If T
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NQTIClE'

TNHE annual meeting of the stockhoI Iders Of l the NEW HAVEN WAITER COMPANY will be held at the office of the company on MONDAY, February Sd, 1896, at eleven and the transaction of any other business proper to come before said meeting.
 ELLSWORTH l. FOOTE.
 jag St Secretary.
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MtsIellaMeuuB.
 FOR SALE,
NOR, GATE

CKATES for 25 cents. just think Of it; also 0 q full line of Barney < Berrys, at all sorts or prices call and. see them, also our
 d3O tf The Bradley. Damn V Carringfon Qo.
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REWARD BRED.

N SEALSKIN nun lost at Professor Nor "A gan's lecture, Room A l, Osborne hall Thursday evening. The finder will be re- warded by returning 1t to
 f3&5 MRS. CADY, 56 Hillhouse Avenue.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

was deemed good man for Sheriff. and a little
over year ago was elected. Since then he
has been making it very hot for big gang OF
cattle-thieves in San Luis.
There are fogs along the coast, and these,
with the rains, cause the grass TO grow lux
uriantly. 1t is a desirable place for cattlemen.
In the mountains also there are large bands OF
cattle. 1t Is there that the thieves took up
their position dozen or more years ago. and
since then they have stolen thousands on thou
sands of dollars worth of cattle. Mr.. Ballou
concluded to clean them out. He has arrested
eight or ten OF them, and conviction has re-
suited in almost every case. Other thieves in
the mountains, alarmed at the fate of confed-
crates, have fed. 1t is probable the thieves
Will trouble the farmers but little hereafter.
Luis Obispo County," said Sheriff Ballou, 'tof
whom about 1000 are in the town of San Luis
Obispo. think business is Frightening there
The banks are lending money cheaper than
formerly, and things are opening out again.
There are four banks and several large whole
sailing houses The latter do quite business
with interior towns.
1.-The coast line of the Southern Pacific will,
I think, be finished 10 San Luis Obispo by
spring. There are about fifty miles OF it yet
to build. Meantime a line of stages has been
put on"
The Sheriff has been at Folsom. He will
leave for home probably to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
LAYING THE DUST.

Ii is unfortunate that controversy has
arisen over the street-sprinkling problem
between the downtown merchants on one
hand and the Board of Supervisors and
merchants in outlying sections on the
other. These facts are evident: During
the summer months sprinklihg is greatly
needed as the dust is not only disagree
able to everybody but works serious dam
age to merchants stocks of all kinds. OF
| the $75, 900 representing the half-year ap-
preparation for cleaning and sprinkling
streets there remains $17 900, which the
Merchants Association claims should be
expended for sprinkling. AS the mer-
chants are tired of bearing unevenly a
burden for which provision was made in
the general levy (for many merchants who
receive the benefit refuse to share the ex-
pense), the association is demanding that
the Board OF Supervisors take action.
There is no principle better established
than that of local improvements made by
general taxation. The idea is so primary
and its practice so essential that to discuss
1t would offend the intelligence of we'll
informed persons. Its basis is the promo
ton of the common welfare. The busi-
ness centers of all cities that are properly
governed receive special attention for
various reasons, among them being these:
business men are the receivers and dis
bursers of a community; their places of
business and consequently the fronting
streets are public thoroughfares, enjoyed
| in common by all the people and neces-
| sary to their comfort and convenience.
From every reasonable improvement made
in these districts all the people derive
| benefit.
The extent to which the people of city
are united for the common good may be
measured by their understanding of these
simple facts. Unhappily for San Fran
cisco, it often seems to be composed of
distinct communities having separate and
antagonistic aims. That accounts in a
large measure for the political evils that
atf1ict US. The resident who has not
learned the necessity for making some
sacrifice for the public good needs to mas
ter his first lesson in civic'responsibility
1t is true that the necessity for sprinkling
the main streets of the City would be
greatly reduced or entirely abolished il
proper payements were laid, but until that
is done San Francisco cannot afford to ex-
| hibit a less business-like sense than those
cities which sprinkle the streets of busi.
ness centers
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
THE DEAD HUMORIsT.

Edgar Wilson Nye, his body racked
these many years with pains, died yester-
day. The wonder is less that he had
borne his ills so long than that almost to
the very last he performed labors that
would have appalled, an ordinary man in
health. When the whole story of his
life is told it will likely be found that the
clear head ana CHEEKY voice of woman
not only led him forth into the world from
his obscurity as an idle, good-natured
village humorist, but sustained him in the
habit OF industry that transformed him
into an untiring laborer with his pen, and
one of the most famous men of the
century. Without such wife as the one
who blessed his life Bill Nye might never
boundaries of Wyoming.
His humCr was distinctlvely Western,
and, unlike that OF Mark Twain, another
product OF the West, never lost its original
character. 1t was as different from that
of which the Bigelow Papers is typical
as is the hard shrewd. narrow life of the
New Englander from the broad, full swing
of the frontiersmans existence. The
question of literature cannot be consid-
cred in connection with Nye's work. 1t
professedly and Intentionally lay upon the
lower levels of English composition. Not
having had its birth in a conception of
literature it cannot live as such; and as
fine art is essential to permanency Nye's
name as a writer must die with him.
This reflection, however, in no sense
dims memories of the radiance which
he disseminated while he lived. HIS
humor, through broad and extravagant,
was hearty, ebulllent and wholesome.
Indeed, it was much more than simple
buffoonery-a strain of sharp satire ran
through it all. A final analysis of his work
will likely show that he was more a wit
and satirist than humoris.. The GENTLE
ness and sweetness of his nature in nowise
obscured the wisdom that lay in the high
dome OF his hairless skull, but they served
to temper and veil his shrewd insight into
the follies and foibles of men. In laugh
ing at the weakness of others he made
them laugh with him and experience de-
light to discover that they were 80 ridic-
ulous and amusing.
He must have had rare gifts to remain
interesting to the last. If he was not so
popular of late as formerly, it was less be-
cause his store was becoming exhausted
than that the narrowness of his field made
his work too familiar. Like all other
humorists he sighed for an opportunity to
write seriously, just as great comedians long
for the pomp and struttings of tragedy.
But that opportunity never came, and
doubtless he died with lofty hopes and am BIZ
tions unrealized. There IS not anothe liv-
ing with an approach to the odd quality
upon which his fame was founded No
country of Europe has conditions which
could give the world so strange product,
and in this country those which made him
Inssihla re raidIu no Ssinoz rrau
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
cover the expense of maintaining the

cover the expense OF maintaining the
pound.
The subject is very comprehensive. As
a rule the debris contains valuable ele-
ments of fertility, for it is largely alluvial.
When first exposed it is infertiIe, but after
a few years, when the sunshine and air
have had time to produce their chemical
changes, the ground becomes fertile.
Hence it is conceivable that ground need
not in all cases be bought for basin pur-
poses, but that it may be leased for term
of years, covered with debris to an agreed
depth and then returned to the owner
better land than it was before. Thus the
inpounding basin could be moved steadily
down the valley and finally be made to
reclaim the vast tule swamps heading at
San Pablo Bay.
Wherever the ground is raised by this
process the danger of overfiows from CO n
tignous streams would disappear. In other
words, If the great amount of money that
has been expended in constructing river
Ievees had been used in erecting dams for
impounding debris-carrying water, hy-
draulic mining need never have been sus-
pended, the rivers would not have over
flowed, and the incredible loss that has
been sustained by pursuing the present
method would never have been incurred.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
wAsHINGToN's INFLUENCE.

Nearly the whole of what the life and
influence of Washington mean to this
country is summed up in his farewell
address. That noble and memorable docu-
ment contains an epitome of all the lessons
which his patriotic virtue and political
sagacity deemed it important to impress
upon his feIlow-citizens. Those lessons
were many, but all of them tended to
three things: the inculcation OF National
patriotism to the exclusion OF sectional
divisions, the faithful observance of the
public welfare in opposition to excessive
party spirit, and the maintenance of an
absolute independence by this country free
and untrammeled by any alliance or en-
tangling treaties with the nations Of
Europe.
These things, which in his farewell ad
dress Washington taught by precept, he
had during the whole Of his public life
illustrated by example. He was in the
broadest sense National patriot. No
local favoritism or sectional prejudice
marred the perfect splendor of that devo:
ton which he gave to the whole of the
great Republic whose independence he
had gained and whose government he
founded. Equally free was he from any
trace Of an excessive zeal for party. Be-
tween Federalists and Anti Federalists he
stood impartial and made use of the
leaders of both to serve the interests of the
country. Nor was he less partial in deal
ing with European nations. and showed
toward England, who had assailed us, q
justice as fair as that extended to France,
who had been our ally.
Nationalism, Patriotism, Independence.
These three words when extended to their
fullest meaning express the substance of
all which the founder of the Republic
stood for. Perhaps all Of them might be
concentered in the single word American
ism, and he himself might be fairly called
the first and greatest of Americans. When
we honor him these are the things to
which we consecrate ourselves. We derive
through the influence of his example and
the inspiration of his words a fuller sense
of the duties involved in citizenship. and
a higher idea of what the American ought
to be in his relations to his country, to his
party and to the world.
1t is most fitting that we should show
the highest veneration for this man, who,
in his historical character, is the greatest,
purest and noblest the world has known.
There may have been defects IN his private
life, and doubtless were, but these concern
us not 1t sufices that in his public career
there is not stain or even q suspicion to
mar the vestal purity Of shis patriotism.
He stands alone among the great ones of
history, warrior and statesman COM
bined, and both made perfect as earth's
noblest man. We honor ourselves more
over in honoring him, for surely none but
great people could have produced so
great man, and none but worthy people
could maintain the Republic which he
founded in virtue.