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The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-12
SONS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

Connecticut Compatriots Invited to
 Empire Society's Banquet.
 Members of the Connecticut. Society Sons of the American Revolution have received invitations to the sixth an- nual banquet of the Empire. State s. A. R. at Delmonico's, Saturday evening, March 19, in commemoration of the fall of the North ministry. Walter s. Lo- gan, chairman of the committee, has issued a circular in part as follows:
 George the Third was the North min- istry; it was his creature, his cloak for the direction of public affairs, and by its downfall tyranny and oppression were ended, and there was brought about not only the treaty of peace with the colonies and government of the people by the people and for the people, but the leadership of the world to the Anglo-Saxon race. It meant to us and all English speaking people no more George the Thirds, no more North min istries. As the committee hopes to make this a memorable occasion it has decided to invite our compatriots from Connecticut and New Jersey to join with us and begs to assure you that your presence will not only add to our pleasure but to the success of the banquet.
 The price of each ticket is $10. Sev- eral compatriots from this city will attend.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-12
DEATH OF THOMAS WELLS.
Bridgeport's Most Eccentric Character
 Passes Away Suddenly.

Bridgeport's Most Eccentric Character
 Passes Away Suddenly.
 Thomas Wells, the aged man who has subsisted partly by peddling produce and eggs, and partly on charity, drop ped dead Tuesday night in the kitchen of the residence of Henry Sanford, vice president of the Adams Express Co.,. Medical Examiner Downs was called and after an examination, ordered the body removed. It was taken to Culli- nan's morgue, where it awaits the orr der of the relatives of the deceased. The old mans effects and letters were turned over to the coroner.
 Wells was Bridgeport's most eccen- tric character. He was short, thin, and wore shaggy whiskers and long gray hair. As he walked the streets, slight ly bent over. long staff in his right hand and basket in the hollow of his left arm, he looked the relic of by-gone days. His quaint appearance excited the ridicule of the small boy.
 Wells was as eccentric in mind as in appearance. It is said that when a young man he was we'll to do in busi- ness circles in Hartford, and that busi- ness reverses made him queer" He scorned to receive public charity, but took it privately and in the sense that it was his due. He made it a point to visit only the rich. He was a descend ant of Thomas Wells of Hartford, Connecticut's fourth governor, and a cousin of Gideon Wells, secretary of the navy under President Lincoln. So he was proud of his ancestry.
 One of the houses at which he made a habit of calling was that of Henry Sanford, in Washington avenue. He was generally treated we'll and during the cold nights often made himself comfortable sitting near the big range. He called there about yesterday, and was there but a short time when he staggered and fell. The cook and a servant picked him up and placed him in a chair, where he breathed his last He was S2 years old.-Farmer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-12
MIXED IN ITS FIGURES.

The Norwich Bulletins article head ed: What! A Tax Upon the Towns!' is rather misleading because that able and usually careful paper has for once shouted aloud without quite getting hold of the facts. The burden of it's first complaint is that the recom- mendations of the committee on state expenses will, if adopted, be equivalent to placing "a tax upon the towns worse than that recommended by most of the papers of the state" This last clause refers to declaration earlier in the article that the leading papers of the state a year ago advoca ted a reimposition of the state tax on towns. Therefore what the Bulletin means is that the recommendations to cut off state grants to evening schools and town libraries, to reduce the allow ance for school children and to discon- tinue one normal school, would cost the towns more than the state tax used to cost them. But all the changes
 
 about seventy-two thousand dollars, while the state tax used to bring in about four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
 A touch of extravaganza is found also in the Bulletins allusion to the possible suppression of the Normal school at Willimantic The language used is this:
 This is not all; the state should con- slider the abandonment of the hand some Normal school at Willimantic. and instead of having a school there that is credit to the state, give it away to the town, or else have a mag nificent ruin. This is direct tax upon the towns which they will be warrant ed in resisting.
 We cannot believe that the case is quite as bad as this. Even if the Nor nal school at Willimantic, or that at New Haven, should be closed, there is no particular reason to suppose that the state would either give the proper ty away or allow it to become a mag nificent, or even commonplace, ruin. As far as we have observed, people in the eastern part of the state have usu- ally looked tranquilly at the prospect of closing the New Haven school while those in and about New Haven have not felt that their world will crlmble if the Willimantic school is cut short in it's career. The figures of attendance show that we have about pupils enough for two of the three normal schools now maintained. There seems nothing very shocking in proposing to close one of them, and so save a con- siderable expense. As to the reduction of the per capita allowance for school
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-12
WITH SIX MASTS.
A Huge Vessel Now Building at Bath,
 Me-

A Huge Vessel Now Building at Bath,
 Me.
 A vessel now building at Bath, Me-, in her huge proportions and gigantic general characteristics, will be in a class by herself. This craft is man. moth five-masted schooner, whose coal carrying capacity will be 4,400 tons. She will be a surprise in many ways. Such mighty schooner as this has hitherto been unknown. She will be 314 feet in length over all, and 50 feet in beam. Her masts will be in the vicinity of 175 feet in height and she will spread nearly 10000 yards of canvas. Her keel son will be 80 feet high. Her draft will be easy, probably not more than 23 feet.
 The Palmers of Bath are working on her now, and she will be launched in May or June. She is designed for the coal coasting trade. Her cost will be a little less than sS5,000, which is very cheap for vessel of her size. Such a vessel as this will pay big dividends if she will hold together. Such a craft, however, is in the nature of an experi- ment. But the possibility of tremend- ous profits is alluring, and there was little difficulty in disposing of sixty fourths in her at s1,3OO each. She stands chance to clear $35,0o0 the first year, and possibly more.
 A few years ago a four-master carry ing 2,000 tons was considered big ves- sel. Then the builders went a little deeper, and pushed out vessels like the o
 2500-ton Marguerite.
 These paid well, so they kept on, and produced vessels like the five-masted Governor Ames, capacity 2,s50 tons; Henry W. Cramp,' four masts, 29OO tons Frank A. Palmer, four masts, 3400. All these vessels pay well. An other surprise in shipbulding will shortly be sprung at the yard of Percy x Small, Bath, Me. This will be a -masted schooner with capacity of 4,000 tons, 300 feet over all She will cost s9o, 1000, and will probably be com manded by Captain Alex. Ross of Som erset, Mass, now captain of the 2,S00 tonners S. P. Blackburn. A six-masted schooner will be such a novelty that she will attract the immediate atten- tion of shipping circles all over the world This is the first announcement of the probability of the building of the vessel
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-12

plodes instantly. and with it the entire mass of the wet cotton, producing tremendous results. The question of precisely how detonation takes place that is, how so small an initial explo- sion can suffice to decompose an un- limited quantity of high explosives be- hind it-has caused much argument and many speculations. Bertelot gives as an explanation that the shock of the primary explosion com municates to the layer of molecules in the immediate proximity an enormous ly active force, whereby the molecular ediflce is shaken to pieces and the ini- tial force is augmented to a degree cor- responding to the heat evolved by de- composition. A new shock is thereby produced in the next layer, and the &C., tion is repeated and so propagated un- til the whole molecular system is com pletely destroyed"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-12
MARRIED HER TWICE.
Romance of Late MT. Blackstone and
 His Wife


 Romance of Late MT. Blackstone and
 His Wife.
 The death on Monday night of J. De Trafford Blackstone of Norwich, re- ported in The Day yesterday, recalls his somewhat romantic reunion with his wife year ago last February, and the second marriage of the couple after period of separation lasting twenty years.
 In the early seventies MT. Black stone met and married in New York city Miss Elizabeth A. Whitaker of Springfield, Mass, who was then at tracting some attention on the stage. They lived for a short time in Norwich and then a disagreement followed, cul- minating in 1877 in decree of absolute divorce, which Mrs. Blackstone obtain ed, on the ground of incompatibility of temper. Two years afterward she married Samuel Sondheim, merchant of New York, and they went to Yonk- CTS to live. This second match did not prove congenial, and Mrs. Sondheim left her husband eventually and went abroad to devote herself to art In 1882 MT. Sondheim procured divorce from her.
 MT. Blackstone married in London Miss Annie Rich, who died some time later Lorenzo Blackstone. J. De Traf- ford's son by his first wife, is credited with having conceived the idea, upon the death of the second Mrs. Black stone, of reuniting his parents. What ever the agency of reconciliation was, they were remarried on February "A, 1897, in Philadelphia.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-12
SIXTEEN NEW YACHTS.
Orders From the Larchmont Club Be-
 ing Filled at Clinton.

ing Filled at Clinton.
 There is likely to be a large addition to the number of yachts which visit the port of New London during the coming yachting season. The most noticeable increase will belong probably to the Larchmont Yacht club. which annual ly visits New London. The firm of Wyckoff Brothers of Clinton, Conn.,, has received an order from that club for sixteen 25-footers. All the craft are to be built on the same model and are designed for racing purposes only. The boats are to be suitable to harbor and light sailing on the sound. They must be completed and ready for delivery by the opening of the season.
 Active work is also going on among local boats. Several steam yachts ly- ing in this port are being overhauled, the work having commenced on them this week.
The state herald., 1898-08-19
s.ryarRsaasasaas,a,s Convention.

Alta meeting OF Iha State Central com.
mi.,ce OF toe silver republican party uf
Colorado, held in the city of Denver ou
tuc n, day oi June, 4. b, ls1S. SAID COM
mil'eo appointed O uub,commiltee of
seven Of it5 members tom.et With like
commitleos from tho democratic and
populist parties In au oudogyoT TO ruiya
at n cooperation with emd parties Ia The
coming tll campaign, Similar commit
tees were shortly alteFWIl appointed 10y
the stare commitlc.8ot the democratic
aud populist parlies. Ga Saturday, the
10, day OF June, tho tlIoo aul commit.
tees met In tho city Of Dpn,erurI nrrcaI
as the first step toward cooperation t1
call the state conventions 0t their 10.
spccilyc parties 70 mog at Co.oaia
Springs on Sept. 0,
Sa.i ooumiltcps also uu8ninCl-Iy o..
dopicd the following raa.uuan1
"ReaalycI, by lla joint c5mmrr,cs of
the democratic peap.rB aud silver o..
pnbhcaa parties, iu conference Hrrsm-
Died,
That wo nGlgm tbo dcHrahIl.ly OF O.
thorough union between tbr silver par.
ties ot tho state OF Colorado, in accord
anoc with aud upon tho IIncH proposed
by Tho chairmJu Of our respective uu.
tional organizations, in thug allraarss
issued in February Iaai, and lhuD We con,
gra'ulaio The silver forca OF tho nation
TINT tho good wori, outlined md aurgsst.
cd In those nddrosoa hln already borne
irul IN mnuy p,a,oa Of The Union.
We pledge our individual futh ono "a
the other, aud our respective party com
miiioca each TO each, that $50 wiil, indt
yiduaIly and collectively, use 90 hau1rt.
bio means 10 bring nb5u, tlo ranlt do.
sired by the hegd1 of our nay,rl organ
igalions
We nrc, Hoycully and collectively. o0
the opinion that tho question of frc,
coinage ot rilgor ia Tho paramount afG.
In tho politics " thla nation. ttn, there
can be no comprumI8o b5tncan tho nIy1
catcr Of ihia benollaant oluugo BOO oul
monetary system and thoss who Hupror
or favor tho gold standard, BuJ tho.
thcro should be- no division among tho.
who labor 20 bring 20 our poaplo o.,
great blga,inRp which wIl' follow tharun
crasful iaauo of the dugglo in whicl
our iorcoa urc nll opgngcl
Tho question Of which party nnd whal
individual should bold my particular at
ller IN trivial aud iuaiFn.lIrlDt wmlc tb,
light ot our oilISynr 90 freely rui1y ibr
frmta Of their own labor aud toll be- dc.
mod, mud so wliluot lot diTatoncoa na
ton.n essentials divide u .hen wo nft
uoiiol upon tho afaontirI1 ol our roun.
try's welfare.
We baho'o Tint lhom alauldloa fH.
non. union Hnd cooperation OF iha rar
up uur.n np oUl in HHru Of
The state herald., 1898-08-19

joint state, congressional and legislative
tickets, to the eud thut the views oater-
tanned by the vast majority Of tho peo.
pie Of this state should be truly repre-
sentrd III both houses OF congress, and in
this state government, and that these
vIewa should be authorativoly expressed
in engle platform to be promulgated
by our respective party conventions
Resolved, further, That as an impor-
tont step III the direction ~ making eff.
fectiyo the foregoing declarations, the
conventions Of said parties should be
held ut the same time and place, aud
that the views Of the majority Of tho u.s.
sembled committees as to tho proper
time and place for holding said oonyen
tions should be decisive md accepted
/ by all three committee. Be il further
Resolved, That we pledge our best eT-
forts as individuals, committees and par
" officials to effect a fusion Of our res
poetwe parties on legislative and other
candidates, in order that wo may present
a solid front in the support Ct state con
sress'onol, legislative and county tickets
in the coming election"
Now, therefore, pursuantito the recon.
mendations Of SAID juat committee, and
by virtue OF tho power vested in ms us
chairman Of the state central committee,
hereby oHll the state convention of the
silver repabloan pnrly Of the Gtnto Of
Colorado TO meet in the opera house in
the city Ct Colorado Springs, Colo, on
the s, day OF Sept. A. D. 1898, NJ II o.
clock Il, IN. for the purpose of placing in
nomination, to Jc voted for at the next
gcnGul election, 90 be held on the s, day
of November, A. ID. l,9s, candidates Tor
the following state Offices to.w.t;
Ono governor
Ole lieutenant governor.
One secretary OF state.
Oue state treasurer.
One auditor Of state.
One nttorBey general
One superintendent of public iustruc-
rion.
Two regents OF the state university,
One regent of the state university to
lil vacancy
And 10 transact Huch other business as
may properly come before tho conyen-
tioa
Tho aovoral counties in the state shall
be entitled 20 representation in sMd con-
The state herald., 1898-08-19
NEW COAL YARD.

Hard and soft coal ior sale by Jnmes
Young ~ Co. II yuu need anything In
lhn inc give Young 4 Co.. u call. Or
dcrs can be left nj Z. NJ. Mowrys hard.
ware store or see Young ON tho transfer
wagon lfyou haze my transferring Ia
nny part Of the city ealI ON James Young
" Co II you want 10 feed your team,
where there ia plenty Of hay and grim
put MP Mt tho East Livery Barn. II you
want a good driving team leave your or
der at the East Livery Barn.
JAMES YouSa 4 Sos,
The state herald., 1898-08-19

OF all the oflicers who have volunteer
cd In the service Of the flag, not one has
been treated to personal abuse save Colo.
mel W. j. Bryan. He nas been made the
target for the meanesi, lowest aud most
contemplate assaults assaults that
would be considered degrading il com
ing from the lips Of Barhnry coaster
Aud thosa assaults have issued from q
section Of the press which Is ever claim
ing to possess within itself all the res.
pectabiIi,y, dignity aud honor Of Ameri-
can journalism, and which Is always
shrieking with the tongue OF an old
shrew at every body who dares to differ
from it. William J. Brynn has not OF.
Tended in the slightest during this cen.
test. Tor he has not given ut,erance TO a
single word OF partisan character. His
crime in their eyes is that he--a believer
in the free coinage Of silver, us Mckinley
was ITS advocate before he was Hanna
lied a. St. Loms-dares to wear the
shoulder straps OF his country without
recan'lng and making genutlections to
the gold ring, n far wone enemy 20 this
country than the Spaniards could ever
be. Were Bryan to come out tomorrow
for the gold standard, these same harpies
Of the plntocratic press would crawl on
their bellies aud almost deify him. Suc.
ramento Beo.
The state herald., 1898-08-19
Trans LEAVE as FoLLows;

No. i5i Aeon daily except saturday and Mon
t!ny for Lincoln. Omaha, Chicago and all points
east and west lO:i1 pm
No. lJj Tuesday only for Lincoln, Omaha,
chicago aud all points east and west ll;i5p m
NJ. l53 Aeon daily except Sunday, Cheyenne
Wyo and intermediate stations 2i5 IN
Al east bound accommodation trains connect
With n first class passenger train at Curtis for
oil points cast and west
Sleeping dining and reclining chair cars slseats
irco) or trough trims, Tickets.sold and bag
sago cl.sokoi to any point in the United States
or Canada.
For information, time tables, maps and tickets
call IN III write To W. IL. Johnston, Agent. Hoi
Joke Colo, or j. Francis Gen'l Pass'r Ag't o
nalia. Ncb.
The state herald., 1898-08-19

The rrans'Missiesippi Exposition uov
being held ai Omaha is certainly q
marked success aad the states that have
taken an active part IN furnishing tho
cShibi,s have gfca, teanon TO DO proud
Of II. While tho exhibits arc not mnac
on M extensive epnle ma those uf tho
Worlds Fair got, 80 lar an the quality Of
the exhibits Is concerned, they are equal
ly ~ good and, m some instances, nrb
even pronounced better than those ol
the Worlds Fair. Even tho buildings
nnd grounds ore well worth lYip from
this pnit of tho country 10 sec. Tho
finest bu ldiug on the grounds
IL the government building and It con-
tnins exhibits that are considered equal
y ns fine 40 those Of the Worlds Fair
In the examination of the exhibtn ol
this building alone several days could D,
very prohtnbIy spent The hue arts
building, tho liberal uria, the mining tho
agricultural, tho electrical, the horticult
nrhl, the transportation aud implement
buildinga are oil large structures and az,
lillcd to their utmost capacity with mos,
interesting mud instructive exhibits. No
ono who takes m interest 70 tho exhibita
IN these buildings can carefully EXAMINE
them without being well repaid for bin
or her time and expense In visiting tho
exposition. Visiting su exposition such
~ this Ia fine schooling for tho aat Ia
and those who can afford To avail thtm.
s,lvss OF u should not iaii 10 do 20.
The state herald., 1898-08-19

in exchange says that move
ment having been recently !nauguratei
To- incorporate the democratic financial
plank in tue platform of the state repub
lican party of Utah, Senator NJ. A. liam
M, chairman OF the national republican
coTmittee, has addressed a letter to
United States Marshal Glen Miller, OF
Salt Lake, Utah, IN which he says:
IL have been informed that it is sug-
gested that the republican party OF Utah
at the next state convention, indorse in
it's platform the finance OF silver. As
chairman OF tue national committee,
charged with tho duties OF the position, |
protest agaiust tie republicans OF any
state taking such action. 1t would be
Clearly IN opposition TO the principles Of
the party as demanded in the platform
at the national convention at St. LOUIS,
aud trus, You will use your influence
and efforts TO the end that that declara-
tion may be sustained"
The Mckinley republicans OF tho sil
yer states, should consult Boss Hanna
before attempting TO catch votes by u
declaration IN favor of bimetallism.
The state herald., 1898-08-19

publication Aug i2l-3s
ElllGH llr Publication.
Land UTIrgut strr.lug UuloJ
AuT d lrH
hNucr ls hereby given that the following
nnm,d arttiur nas nicd notice uI bu luIcn-
uou tomake anal puoi iu support Of bis
oliini uni ihHt rai1 proofs bo madc bcfurr
tho rlrIleu tho ruuuiy e11rtAt liulyokuCulo
ou topt u lsauE
oIuurI HIRAM I1rkiTr
ild q ~ fur tho uclt so, mtp5ur igw Gp m
ne num,s thc following witnesses t. pioyc
hls continuous fr-idfnyo upon und culiiya-
uun ui aald land viz
Gporge Foe 1T iluiyulso colo
George s libli
fmlu w0rlry
Audfpu O. Juublc ltulyuAo colo
nGHrutsu iiugistrr
The state herald., 1898-08-19
INTIUrOII5 NUTICE.

Esiair uf Harrison u NHHpn, d1ruisrl.
tla unilniulrl, having hr1n appointed "a
usui0r of lla iast win nld 1uliAarui u Hnri.
BON II Masan lAtn ~ ih1 County ui Phillips aud
Hlafo of Colorado, doratH,l, huIrhI ritr- notice
thal ha &. lli appear LH'au ti1 cuunty Court "
Phillips CuuHiJ, Bt tho uaur lluu.r ln uolyotp
ai iha Julf term, 100 tip lr-t MunI8 iu soutem
haFnost ht which time 90 i.runa hatinsrlslms
HFain.l r,'l i..fHin nri notified auI requested 10
-it.a3 fa. .i.a a4.tl- ~ hs5iss Hn sin1 ad.
.laIai AlrafHg1H iniahtri io ahid F-inta nm
rlur-inl tlmlLr Immediate p5mtut 90 tho
unlurifnai
uatal tfhaf uf AurA Anl.J
MASON, rsnrutpr
The state herald., 1898-08-19
General Fitzhugh Lee is IL candidate
for United States Senator from Virginia

In the hort,c u tural building at the
Omaha Exposition there is large space
left vacant and card informs the visit
ors that this space will be occupied by
an exhibit from Colorado. Some one
evidently thought TO play n joke on Col
orado and secured wilted pond lilly
leaf and fastened it to the card. We un.
derstand that the cause of the delay in
placing the Colorado exhibit in the
building was TO secure new fruit.
The state herald., 1898-08-19

The war is over and the Spaniards
have evidently been convinced that the
Yankee hog" can do some pretty effect
i've fighting. II they had been up to
date on general information, they
would have been aware OF this fact some
time ago and could have proti,ed by their
knowledge by complying with the de-
mands OF the United States instead Of
rushing into war the result of which
could not be otherwise than disastrous
to tkem.
The state herald., 1898-08-19
fLruINd, ,RcFl-i0r.
Isir7i UlbH5lu0l July 2 l.ls.

l-irt publication July - i-p,.
Notice. Tor Publication,
Land umrc M sterling Cul0l
July 30 1875
Notlce Is hereby given that the following
named settler has fllcd noLoc OF his tntcuiion
90 make anal proof in suppurt OF his cluim.
aud thnt said proof VIII be- m.ado before the
tlorE county court utliolyoLv Col, on Aug q,
1874, VIA
WILLIAM MCKINNEY
Ma y 90 for the sW'i W'islceItp5urIIw
iIenHmcs tha following witnesses 20 prove
his continuous residence upou and cultiyu.
uon OF mid laud, viz;
smith Narioy OF uoiyolr Colo
Prod Egrlund
Martin y srininyu
Dora summer uolyatp
CtrtNiSg HUgl.tor.
The state herald., 1898-08-19

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