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for risits his is it THE HARTFORD Hartford Courant. WITH SUPPLEMENT. Thursday Morning, June 12, 1884, REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. FOR PRESIDENT, JAMES G. BLAINE, of Maine.

FOR AICE PRESIDENT, JOHN A. LOGAN, of Illinois. Colonel Morrison as chairman of the committee of resolutions at Chicago next month would commend himself to republicans as a boon. But what wry faces Messrs. Randall, Eaton and Dana will make, if that little pre-arrangement is carried out, and if the gallant colonel lives up to his privileges, The Hoffman fire insurance company of New York city, with a capita! of $200,000, has gone out, of business.

The directors have paid off all liabilities, paid back the $200,000 to the stockholders, and requested the courts to dissolve the corporation. The sharebolders are to be congratulated on getting out whole. The inconvenient, morganatic wife of that German grand-ducal person having at last been bought off with a title, a lump sum in cash, and an annuity, he is now free, according to the revised Decalogue of the crowned heads, to marry in own station in life, and we may look for early news of his woing and wedding. The Lutheran church stands ready to bless the august auptiois. The fact that the ex-wife has covenanted- -for the considerations above mensioned--to keep out of Germany and England will not escape notice and comment in the latter country.

Brooklyn gave the veterans of the Army of the Potomac a rousing welcome yesterday-us, for that matter, all the cities honored by their have done, and all the rest will do when their turn comes--and the guests repaid it by enjoying themselves as thoroughly as Brooklyn wanted them to. The central figures of the occasion, to whom all eyes turned and all hearts warmed, were Sheridan, Hancock, Franklin, Sickles and Slocum, What memories cluster around these names What obJect lesson in patriotism so impressive for the generous youth of the country as the sight of its gray headed generals! Mr. McDonald of Indiana, otherwise known as Saddlebags," has turned up in Washington again, and the understanding at the capital is that he really has hopes of resuscitating his boom. It 18 affirmed in democratic quarters that General Slocum of New York hiss consented to invest in the enterprise. The political partnership thus formed will do busi ness under the firm name of McDonald Slocum.

The senior partner brings to it the good will of the free-traders, while the junior contributes a war record. This, in view of the circumstances- especially of a rather large-sized circumstance known as John A. Logan--is considered a valuable asset. Colonel Watterson, we notice with interest, has returned to his first love. To do so he has, of course, ba 1 to jilt the Hon.

J. G. Carlisle, which seems rather a heartless thing for him to do, all things considered: but that is the injured John Griflla's affairs and not ours. The colonel's reasoning is that no democratic mugwump is in himself, that nono is surer to carry worthier Indiana, and that Indiana is going to be barder to carry than New York. Besides he has "8 emperstition" against going east again for a candidate.

The party has tried five easterners la sue cession and has had pretty bard luck with them. Each time the republicans have put up a westerner, and--drat elected bim. "In default of Mr. Tilden," says the gallant colonel, think the democrats should try the west a lick or two." Nothing may come of it now, but the talk in demand of more light on corporate managemint was never so earnest and general as at present, and it is inspired by gigantic losses. which cannot soon be forgotten.

These losses would not have occurred had people had their eyes open, for the "booms" of worthless properties could not have been it their true condition had been known. The time is coming when the managemeat of corporations will not be considered honest unless furnishes frequent full sworn statemeats of business, Just for a side light on the situation, look at the recent rolling stock inquiry at Bridgeport, where the foal decision was that the company really had some cars, but that to tell where the cars were and what was paid for their use would be very injurious. Why so! Is it possible that rail road managers charge moro for a short baul of freight than for a long haul, and yet pay more for the use of a car for a long haul than a short one It is reported that some railroads actually pay more money for the use of hired cars than they get for the freight in them. It may not be pleasant to repost such facts, but stockholders ought to know them. MR.

TILDEN'S LETTER. Mr. Tilden has at last written his letter and, what more, has made it public for the better information--or direr bedevilment, as the case may prove--of the democratic mind. It is such a letter AS might have been expected, alike in style and in matter. Another man in his place would have said either "I will take the nomination if you persist in forcing it upon me," or "I am so old and feeble that to take it would be to commit suinid-, and I will not take it under any cirand that would have been the end of it, Bat this is not Mr.

Tilden's wAy. He does indeed refer with a suggestion of pathos to his increasing years nnd declining strength, and suys "definitively" that be cannot assume the burdens of canvass and administration, and speaks of his public career as ended. But he aiso, in same breath, by quoting fine sentithe ments from old letters of his, and referring to his reformatory achievements ia the city and state of New York, and dwelling upon his in the public service, and expatiating upon the prodigious difficuity of "renovating" the federal government, and expounding his views of the responsibilities and opportunities of the presidential office, electively advertises himself as the one man whom -if only his physteal bealth were a trifle more robust--a wise party and country would tie to. If thisisa bond fide adieu to public life, it must be admitted that Mr. Tilden, like the unfortunate gentleman in Matthew Prior's poem, "seems loth to depart." As a matter of fact, we are inclined to be.

lieve that be is quite as old and feeble as he describes himself, that his acceptance would indeed be suicide, that he does not now intend to necept, that it has never been a part of the plan of the Tilden boomers that he should accept, and that they are only waiting the proper moment to produce the already selected political heir. All the same, bowever, a sound prudence would counsel the democratic national convention, if it doesn't want Mr. Tilden for its candidate, not to offer bim the nomination. THE POLLUTION OF STREAMS. While we are considering the problem of the bad sanitary condition caused by the discharge of city drainage into Little river, we must remember that this river is polluted before it comes into the city, and if we are to make it pure, we must secure the aid of the people who live along its course on both branches.

The waste of factories and the sewage of towns is discharged into it long before it reaches us. In looking at the publ.o health of the state, we find that the country is to more bealthy than the city. Diseases of a typhoid nature, diphtheria, fever and ague, and other inflictions, that science traces to local causes, have been increasing in the country districts. To old times people living on farms, in regions that ought to have been healthy, used to have runs of fevers and "speils of sickness" that were called providential, and we believe that a "spall of sickness' was sometimes supposed to be good for tha constitution. We now know that these "spells" were generally caused by drainage from sinks and cess pools and barnyards into wells, or by foul water soaking into the soil immediately about the dwelling.

A farm house with sink, well, stable and outhouse continguous was and still is a common thing, end the frequent fevers and other diseases of the country are plainly accounted for. It is true also that for want of subsoiling and proper drainage places that are lived on for generation after generation Lecome foul, the soil is saturated with the effluvia of mortality--the Jand itselt becomes sick. A good many fine places, shaded with stately trees and adorned with flower gardens, are in this saturated condition. In the increase of population and the adoption of modern improvements disease has increased in the country quite as much as in the city. In this state the damming of streams and overflowing of land for mill purposes has no doubt been a fruitful source of disease.

The dwellers about artificially overflowed regions have no remedy as to health, under the law. Mealth in fact has been little considered in industrial legislation, But there is no doubt that one prime cause or ill health in the country is the wanton pollution of streams. This is not alone caused by factories, which discharge chemicals and refuse that kill the fish and make the streams abhorrent to all the senses. la houses and neighborhoods where moders improvements have been adopted, it has been thought that sufficient sanitary provision has bean made if the filth of the house is discharged by pipes and drains into running streams. No account has been made of the fact that this Alth thus distributed poisons the air far and wide.

No sanitary regulation indoors or on the immediate premises can teract this deadly influence. Probably the effect on the general health is worse than when the filth was permitted to sink into the ground where it originated. The absolute essentials to health, to life that has any energy or spring in 15, are pure air and pure water. We cannot have either if we suffer the streams to be polluted. Ir a party go out and camp for a long time in the most wholesome place in the western woods and do not adopt sanitary regulations, the camp will become a post place.

In most of our settled communities we are living in absolute disregard of the simplest laws of cleanliness, We are doing it just as certainly if we discharge our refuse into ruaning streams as if we let it settle about the houses. In all our streams, except the large rivers, the volume of water is not sufficient in summer to enable them to purify themselves. The tendency is to pollute our whole water supply, and modern improvements have not yet sufficiently guarded against this danger. In country districts, in valleys fertile and alive with industries, something must be done to get rid of the filth without letting it soak into the ground and without discharging it into the nall water courses, or these districts will be depopulated. The recent unhealthiness of country districts caused by pollution of streams is becoming a serious matter.

CLEVELAND AND FLOWER. There have been indications for some time that Governor Cleveland of New York would not have the support in that state of a substantial portion of his own party in his ambition for the democratic presidential nomination. Mr. Flower is his principal antagonist, and has a strong backing as the supposed legatee of the sage of Gramercy park. The situstion is thus described by the New York correspondent of the Boston contest will be narrowed down to Flower and Cleveland.

The tactics of these for New favors two aspirants York have been to from Cleveland, a standpoirt ever since of political polley. sharp contrast. entered public life at BafGovernor faio, and even before he had achieved any political Importance, was allied with the anti-Tilden wing of the party. Perbaps this was not so much an antagonism to Mr. Tilden on any personal grounds as to the democrats in the western tier of counties who had control of his interests.

With these men Mr. Cleveland never affiliated. In the days of Governor Tilden's great power in the state, at the head of the Albany regency, Mr. Cleveland aloof from giving anything more than a formal allegiance to his policy. There was never a warm and cordial recognition of party supremacy and organizing as a leader.

When Mr. Cleveland was elected in turn to the governorship by an overwhelming and accidental majority, he carried his old prejudices against Mr. Tuden with him to Aloany. This was soon understood and acted upon by the patronaze it hautera the who hang around the state house, and gave cue for their dealings with Cleveland. Hence it is that the present geney, headed by Cleveland and Dan el Manning, Albany reDave carried on their canvass withont any reference Gramercy to the intentions or power of the sage of park.

In furthering the cause of Cleveland throughout the state, his canvass has been independently waged by his lectenants. The county conventions which have lustructed tor him, have done so in terms tha. set him forth as the candidate for the Presidency from this state, withTilden. regard to the existence or attitude of Mr. In the district conventions, where the Flower men have had control, resolutions have been adopted favoring Tilden as first choice and Flower as second.

The Flower men carried the fight into Buffalo, the home of the governor, on Tuesday evening, and carried nine out of the twelve wards. The governor was defeated in his own ward, though he has been able to control it in all previous contests. This re-ult will have a considerable influence in determining the character of other delegates to be chosen to the state convention, which meets on Wednesday of next week. Here in Connecticut for some weeks past the papers, with the exception of the democratic New Haven Register, have set up a loud cry for Tilden: but within a day or two there has been slight departure toward Cleveland, which is evidently a mis-deal, considering that the whole Tilden movement, as stated in 'THE COURANT the other day, was originally designed to cultivate a sentiment upon which the Tilden dynasty could control matters at Chicago; for there has never been the least expectation among the party schemers that Tilden would himself consent to be a candidate. If, now, Governor Cleveland is to be shut out of the race because Tilden will have it so, it will greatly embarrass some of our esteemed democratic contemporaries when they shall be called upon to shout for another man.

But they ought not to complain; they have made Tilden king and must bow in submission to his will even if the reform movement is backward in coming forward. SOME RECENT DECISIONS. nesticut Law Reports, are out, sompleting the volume. Toe following are some of the decis tons of more public interest: The statute provides that shares of stock of insurance and various ether corporations owned by a resident of this state, shall be set in his tax list at their market value; but that if any portion of the capital is invested in real estate on which the company pays a tax, the value shall be deducted. In Batterson v.

Town of Hartford is is held that this deduction is to be made for real estate situated in other states and not merely for real estate situated in this state. In the same case it is also held that there is to be no deduction for United States non-taxable bouds owned by the corporation. In Peck v. New York, New Haven and Hurtford Railroad the plaintiff and his wife were driving along a street in Meriden which is crossod by the track of the railroad, and just as tirey reached the crossing the train, which Was at the station a few rods above, was about starting to go south. The bell rang for the closing of the gates, which were long swing gates, and the gateman began to shut them.

Mr. Peck, who was close to the track, thinking he could drive through, hurried up his horse, but his wheel became entangled in the gate, and his wife in her alarm jumped out and broke her ankle. The engineer did not in fact start his engine until they were out of the way, and if she had staid in she would not have been hurt. Ele sued the railroad company for damages, she being a joint plaintiff: but the court held the company not liable. The court Flay down the rule that it is the duty of gatetenders to close the gates immediately upon the signal being given, allowing teams already within the gates to get out; but that it is the duty of any person driving in the street and not yet upon the track to stop his horse at once before he gets upon the track, and that the gate-tenders have a right to presume that every one will do this, The case of Beardsley v.

The City of Hartford is one of much interest, and lays down a rule of law that has not been generally recognized, but which the court considers as required in such a case. It is a Jong-established rule that a town is bound to keep its roads, and a city its streets and sidewalks, in a safe condition for public travel, and that they are liable for injuries sustained by reason of defects. Among these defects a hole by the side of the road into which travelers or foot passengers are liable to fall, even if it be a little outside of the surveyed limits of the road, is considered a defect rendering the town or city liable, if the public are not protected from it by a railing or safeguard of some kind. The court hold in this case that the numerous basement openings and descents along a city street, which it is necessary to keep open for business purposes, are not to be put on the same basis with were unnecessary holes by the roadside, like the cellar of a burned building, but that the necessities of business are to prevail over the consideration of public safety, and such basements are to be allowed to be kept open, and where used as offices and places of business are to be made Accessible and inviting to the public, which could not possibly be done it they were to be barred up and eutered only through a gate. In Barnes v.

Barnes a father bad bound out his son at four montbs of age (his wife having died; to a man, whe was to feed, clothe and educate him, and bave his services till he was twenty-one years of age. The father died when the boy was about four years oid. The court hold that such an agreement of the father does not bind the son after che father's death; that as the father had a right to the hoy's services only while he was himself alive to exercise his authority over him, he could not give to another any greater power or right than he had himself. The only person who could bave authority over a child after the death of both father and mother would be guardian regularly appointed. In Wilson v.

Willimantic Linen Company a question of much interest is largely discussed by counsel and is elaborately considered by the court. It is a long settled principle that where an employee is injured by the negligence of a fellow-servant in his work, the employer is not liable. In this case 8 person was ployed to put up certain new counter-shafts in a room of the defendants' factory. To make them safe for nse collars were needed and the superintendent directed the overseer of repairs to put them on. He peglected to do so, and the plaintiff, a workman in the room, not knowing of the defect, was putting the belting on the shaft when it fell and injured him.

It was held that the overseer of repairs, whose negligence caused the injury was not in any proper sense a fellow-servant of the plaintiff, but rather represented the corporation, whose duty it was to have made the machinery safe for use, so that his negligence was the negligence of the corporation, and it was accordingly liable. The rule is laid down that it is the duty of the his servant a employer to provide reasonably safe place for his work and reasonably safe appliances; and that where, instead of attending personally to it, he employes another, who does it carelessly, so that the servant receives an. injury by reason of the neligence, the employer is equally liable. In Wright v. The City of Hartford, it is held that, under the twenty-fourth amendment of the state constitution, which forbids the increase of compensation of any public officer, employe or agent, during his continuance in office.

a person employed as tillerman of a ladder-carriage in the fire department of Hartford, at a fixed yearly salary payable monthly, was within the provision, and that his compensation could not be increased during his continuance in the service under his original employment. In Peck's Appeal from Probate it is held that a new will operates as a revocation of former one, but that the revocation does not become complete until the new will becomes operative by the death of the testator; so that if the new will is intentionally destroyed or otherwise revoked, the former will is revived, and the court inclines TO the view that even if the new will contains a clause expressly revoking the former will, the revocation does not take effect immediately, but becomes operative only by the new will taking full effect upon the death of the testator. In Pond v. Cummins, it is held, that while it is a general rule that a participation in the profits of a business makes a person a partner and therefore liable for the debts of the concern, yet where a person is to receive as an agent or clerk a sum equal to a certain share of the profits, merely as compensation for his serVices, it does not make him a partner. In Bennelt v.

Agricultural Insurance Company, there was a statement in the policy that the house insured was occupied, and the court held that the policy was rendered void by the house being vacated during the term of the insurance. In this case the tenant moved out with all his household goods in the latter part of a certain day and the house took fire and was burned up at two o'clock the next morning. The case did not turn at all upon the probability that the house was burned up by reason of its being empty, but wholly on the stipulation of the policy but the case illustrates the justice of the rule, inasmuch as the fire probes bly either would not have occurred, or could have been easily put out, if there had been any one in the house. It was supposed to have been caused by ashes taken out of the stove when it was removed and deposited in the woodshed. It is provided by statute that if a person is injured by reason of a defect in a highway or bridge, no action shall be maintained against the town or city "unless written notice of such injury and of the time and place of its occurence shall be given within sixty days." In Tuttle v.

Town of Winchester it is held that this notice need not be one of atsolute exactness in describing either the injury or the place where it occurred, but that all that is necessary is a reasonable notice to the selectmen, so that they may be able understandingly to look up the place and inquire into the facts. In Howe v. Town of Ridgefield 13 is held that where a highway prayed for would, if laid out, make it necessary that an existing highway with which it would connect should be put into and kept in better condition in consequer.ce of the new travel that would be brought upon it, which would otherwise not have been necessary, the committee are to consider this expense, as much as the actual cost of the new highway, in determining whether to lay out the new highway. ALIEN LAND-HOLDING. A table, given below, for the accuracy of which we cannot vouch, gives the names of foreign persons and associations that own land in the United States to the extent of a good many millions of acres.

The republican platform calls attention to this growing alien proprietorship and demands legislation to stop its increase. We have treated our public lands, at times, as if they were an incumbrance to the government. We have been very generous of them, opening them to cheap purchase for all the world, and surrendering them by tens of thou sands of square miles to railway companies, and out of their procee.Is speculators and inonopolists have got rich. It was the glory of the republican party that as soon as it got power in 1860, it passed the free homestead act, giving a limited amount of land to any actual settler. It was a wise as well as a generous measure, for it has been one of the main inducements to emigration, and under it the vast west has filled up with an industrious population of citizens.

But with this vast emigration and occupation of the lands, they have en hanced in value without increasing in actual price, and have consequently become a tempting field for foreign investment. The amount of land in this country already held by non-resident foreigners is very large, and it may be true that it is likely to increase unless the ownership of land is regulated. The tendency of the age is to monopoly, and in land holding in this country this is accelerated by the invention of machinery and by the facilities of transportation. When one rich owner or a syudicate of owners can put fifty thousand acres of land into wheat, and cultivate and market it by machinery, the holder of a small tract which he cultivates himself can stand a poor chance of getting a living with such competition. The raising of cattle or of cotton is likely to fall into the same monopoly.

The evils of these vast systems are apparent enough when the owners are citizens and interested in the people of the country. But when they are aliens and non-residents other evils hitherto unknown in this country may be developed. The policy of our country, which has SO far been successful, is to give homes to as many people as possible. We see the evils in Scotland and Ireland of vast tracts under one ownership, and turned sheep-walks cr cattle ranges or into gamepreserves at his pleasure. It does not seem to matter much now if the Duke of Sutherland owns a million acres of wild land in remote Texas, but it will matter a good deal when that land is in demand for actual settlers, and can only be occupied by the tenants of a non resident.

We have courted investments of foreign capital in various ways, but not in any way that shall give subjects of a foreign power a dangerous weight in the state itself. The spirit of this country is against great land monopolies, and against anything like perpetual tenanting--witness the anti-rent troubles in New York. We have no fear that foreign land-owning will permanently work any great injury to this country or change our system of landholding, but doubtless many difficulties may be averted by proper regulation now. The fellowing is the list. The figures are English syndicate.

No. 3. in Texas 3,000,000 'The Holland Land Company, New Mexico. 4,500,000 Sir Edward Reid and a syndicate, in 2,000.000 English Marquis of syndicate, in 1,800,000 1,750,000 Phillips, Marshall 1,300.000 German 1,10 .000 Anglo-American syndicate, London. 750.000 Byian H.

Evans of 700.000 of Sutherland. 42 ,000 British Land Company, in Kansas. 820,0 0 William Whalley, M. Peterboro, Englaud. 810,000 Missouri Land Company, Edinburgh, Robert Tenant of Loadon.

300,000 230.000 Dundee Land Company, Scotland. Lord 247,000 120,000 Benjamin Newgas, 100.000 Lord Houghton, in 60,0 0 Lord Dunraven, in Colorado, 60.000 Engli-h Land Company, in Florida 50,000 English Land Company, in 50,000 Albert Peel, M. Leicestershire, England. Sir J. L.

Kay, Yorkshire, England 10,000 5.000 Alexander Grant of London, in Kansas 35,000 English Ellerhauser syndicate, Wisconsin. 110,000 M. of Halifax, in West Vir. Scotch ginia. 600,000 A syndicate, in 500.000 A.

Boysen, Danish Consul, in Milwaukee 60.000 Missouri Land Company of 161,000 20.647.000 The state of Connecticut has 2,999,360 acres. CURRENT COMMENT. Recently there seemed some reason to believe that the list of blunders which the democracy could commit was exhausted, and that the republicans by the nomination Blaine had made a situation in virtue of which not even the blundering of the democrats But could the this time production prevent a democratic victory. of the name of Ben Butler in democratic papers as a possible democratic candidate proves the contrary on both York Herald. points.

-New It remains to be seen whether the democrats when they meet in convention next month will accede to the wishes of the people, as the republicans have done. Will they put aside the tricksters and choose a man who is of the peo ple Blaine and for the people? The nomination of and Logan yesterday makes it absolutely necessary that they shali do this or go down in utter defeat. -Cincinnati Inquirer (dem.) We are here to-night, my fellow-citizens, in this hasty and informal meeting to express our opinion that our delegates at Chicago made a good ticket. We are here to ratify the nominations which have been made for President and Vice-President by the assembled delegates from all the states of the Union at Chicago. We are here to say, "Whatever our first choice have been, that as Indiana republicans, always may true, we are Maine, and all to-night for James G.

nois. Blaine, of and John A. Logan, of Illi-Senator Harrison, of Indiana. IN THE NATURE OF PROPHECY. (Chicago Tribune.) As Mr.

Charles Francis Adams and his of ideal politicians have never array and have never done anything been republicans there is no reason why their little Parker house for republicans, meeting should disturb anyone. At the same time, after they have had a few weeks for thinking the matter over, and after the democrats have intimated to them that they do not tall propose into to be line bossed the by them, they will mostly Charles Francis Adams himself may be found for republican ticket, and in the ranks with a plumed helmet. The old Bay state will give an ample republican majority for Blaine and Logan, and the Parker house gentlemen, long before the campaign is over, will be swept in with the tide. It is ourrently reported, says a Boston Ad. vertiser letter, that the New York morning pa pers, which lowered their prices a few months since, will advance them again after the Presidential election--the Herald and World back to three cents, and the Times to three.

The Tribune will not change. The reduction is said to have been found wholly unremunerative. STATE TOPIOS. Among the principal creditors of 0. M.

Bogart bankers of New York, are the following Connecticut banks, all of which are abundantly secured: Farmers and Mechanics, Hartford, First National, South Norwalk, South Norwalk Savings. Danbury National, Danbury Savings, $10,000. Among the individual creditors is Dudley P. Ely of South Norwalk, for $70,000, and he is secured. The New Haven News, in giving an account of the organization of a Butler club in that city, says: "It is notable that throughout the city among the working people, General ButJel is more often mentioned and more favorably than any other man in the race for the democratic nomination." The delegates from Connecticut to the democratic national convention will meet in Bridgeport to-day.

A hearing is to be had by the railroad commissioners at New Haven next Tuesday on the petition of the Hartford and Harlem road tor an extension of time to December 30, 1886, for the commencement of its road and the expending of ten per and notice has been served upon the Olmstead parallel road as an adverse party. PERSONAL MENTION. DAILY Judge Hilton is said by the New York papers to hold $3,000,000 of West Shore bonds. A child of Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island died in Washington last week, a year and a half old. A Milwaukee paper announces the engagement of "Mr.

Blaine, son cf the republican candidate for President, to Miss Medill, daughter of the editor and proprietor of the Chicago Tribune." Mrs. P. L. Stuart, following the example of Miss Wolfe and Mr. Astor, recently deposited $50,000 with the United States Trust company to be used by the Children's Aid society in building a lodging house on the east side (New York) for homeless boys.

Mr. Whistler at the recent private view of his exhibition sold six drawings at prices varying from twenty to eighty guineas. Some of them, the artist observed, had taken him nearly twenty minutes to complete. Mr. Edmund Gosse will give six letures before the Lowell institute in Boston next winter, discussing English poetry from Shakespeare to Pope.

During his stay there, Mr. Gosse will be the guest of Mr. Howells. Eduardo Marzo of New York, has receired a letter from Baron Fava, the Italian minister at Washington. congratulating him on being made a knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy, "In consideration of particular merits." The officially -signed document, sent from Rome, accompanied the letter.

The musician thus honored is organist at St. Agnes's Roman Catholic church, and a composer of note. His "Mass Solennelle" is one of his well known works. Mr. Henry Irving is reported as recently saying: "My plans are to make another tour in America and Canada, beginning in September next, and then to stick to my own country.

I shall spread myself, as they say, on this second visit, showing my friends in the States, I hope, a in few the new things, a few higher developments way of stage art than any one has yet produced there; and that will content me." NEWS GLEANINGS. New York city has 123 regularly incorporated charged the cost and the boys threaten to leave. An old resident of Bloomington, fell dead Sunday. He was known for many years as "Alcohol." He recently said to a reporter that he had not drawn a sober breath for thirty-five years. He leaves a family of six children.

The transportation of watermelons from Florida and Georgia to the northwest is a growing business, and extends from the fore part of June to the middle of September. It is expected that 3,000 carloads will be hauled this year. Sunday night, at midnight, the Clinton fire alarm was rung on account of the loss of a three -year old child of Thomas Flanigan. After several hours' searching the little fellow was found in the woods near Burditt Hill, where he had been sleeping all night. This ie how they are building the isthmian canal.

A Boston Herald of the officers of the Pacifio Mail Steamship company at Colon told mne that whenever he or his associates have any difficulty with the negroes in their employ and threaten to discharge them. the latter invariably respond: me no care! Me go work for the canal company. Get $2 a day. Work five minutes, den sit down an' rest two R. Worthington of New York will immediately issue a book with the portentous title, "The Abolition of the Presidency." The author is Henry C.

Lockwood, a New York lawyer, who proposes saving the republic by abolishing the Presidency, and with it the "ring" caucusing, and the "machine" methods. The growth of the monarchical element, and the evolution of the "one man idea," are sketched in strong colors. "Several queer incidents," says a correspondent at the capital, "have occurred lately at the top of the Washington monument. The other day a gaunt and hungry cat made her appearance on the scaffolding where the workmen stand, having climbed the winding flights of stairs from the bottom. She looked wildly about her for a few moments and then gave a leap into space.

Four hundred and thirty-four feet is a good deal of a jump, but she landed on the ground alive, making the greatest leap on record." The recent Shakespeare show for the benefit of the hospital for women in London was not a big success, although some of the greatest ladies of England consented to act as barmaids, to sell programmes, smoking caps, and pug dogs, and to undergo the free conversational treatment to which professional ladies of the same class are compelled to submit behind the bars of drinking saloons. The society papers continue to rail against this new system as an outrage upon decency. Music, writes a looker-on in London, is asserting its place more and more daily in religious worship. The Oratorians are attracting immense congregations to their splendid new church by the magnificent rendering of some of the hymns. The orthodox music of the French Catholic Gounod has become a standing part of the programme at Westminster Abbey, and recently, at a church in the Seven Disis, the most squalid part of London, the most significant changes of the last few were years brought simultaneously into full relief by a ritualistic service, a choir of twenty actresses and the presence in the congregation of twenty Protestant nuns.

An annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is to be held in Philadelphia, September 3d to 10th. During the session a visit is expected from the members of the British Society for the Advancement of Science, which is to meet this year in Montreal. An earnest invitation to join the session is issued by section which is devoted to mechauical science, and addressed to all who are interested in the sciences most directly applicable in the arts, in civil and military engineering, mining, mechanics, electricity and architecture. All who may wish to blanks present on papers will be supplied with proper application to the secretary, Professor J. Burkitt Webb of Cornell university, Ithaca, N.

Y. The "kid's fund" was established by the pioneers of Eagle City, Montana, for the endowment of the first native Cour d'Alener. The fund had just reached the comfortable sum of $5,000 when it was appropriated by an enterprising son of the soil whose mother had walked in clubs. The New York Herald says that these sudden changes of weather, with their accompanying chill, bring on malaria. The American Exchange has opened an office in Union square, New York city, similar to that in London-a headquarters for all travelers.

Middlebury college, Vermont, has a row The programme for the junior exhibition disappeared. The sophomore class has been thirty-Ave miles, through snow from three to ten feet deep, in order to give him birth within the confines of Eagle. The woman was living with her husband- a freight hand on the Northern Pacifle in a cabin near the main line when she heard of the premium offered for babies up at Eagle and determined to secure it. When the husband and father reached the camp he wes presented with the $5,000 in dust and nuggets, with which he went prospecting, and it is said struck it rich. A correspondent informs the Pall Mall Gazette that be has in his possession a portrait in oil of Shakespeare, which will be exhibited at the forthcoming Shakespearian show at the Albert ball.

This portrait bears a striking resemblance to the bust at Stratford, and represents the poet in his thirty-fifth or fortieth year. There is abundance of hair about the known in that respect features the bust or any head, unlike portrait. The are regular and pleasing, the a face remarkably animation. charming smile giving to great At a glance critics have insisted that the picture represents a more acceptable presentment of the than the Jansen picture with great its dramatist scholarly brow, the Droeshout engraving with high-topped forehead, or the Chandos with its Italian grace. The painter's name is not known.

A photograph of the picture has for some years been placed among the portraits of Shakespeare in the print room of the British museum. A New York Car Incident, (Brooklyn Eagle.) A few days ago two men got into an elevated uptown train at Park place about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The car was comfortably filled, most of the passengers being pro sperous looking Wall street bankers--they continue to look prosperous despite their financial disasters -and downtown dusiness men. In one corner of the car sat a tall and distinguished looking man with a white beard which curled at the end. He talked in a sonorous and well modulated voice to two companions, who listened to him respectfully.

It was Mr. Roscoe Conkling. At Park place two colored men entered the car. One of them. who was tall and thin, was dressed in clerical garb.

His attire was very neat and he was a man of considerable dignity. As he passed in, Mr. Conkling arose and stretched out his hand. The clergyman seized it and the three men talked for some minutes together The companion of the clergyman was a little Brahmin who has been writing articles for the New York papers about the wheat crops in his native country, India. The three men stood in the car, Conkling towering far above his two until and talked interestedly together, the train arrived at Grand street, where the two dark skinned men alighted.

It was rather a curious democratic illustration, of of the cosmopolithe people in 8 New York An ex-Senator of the United States, a negro clergyman and an East Indian chatting sociably together, ADDITIONAL CITY NEWS. Clay Briefs. Nelson S. Sawyer, a machinist, was arrested for theft yesterday afternoon at the instance of the Colt company. The lawn festival given by the St.

Thomas club last evening was a grand success in every way. The decorations and illuminations were very fine. Although the weather was threatening there was a large number present. The music by Colt's band was greatly enjoyed. In addition to a band this evening there will be singing by the Trinity college glee club, which in the open air will prove a rich treat, and will well repay one to hear them alone.

Buckingham Day. The resident members of the Sixteenth regiment met last evening to make arrangements for Buckingham day. Colonel John B. Clapp was chosen chairman and Major B. F.

Blakeslee secretary. It was announced that Mr. J. L. Howard had given without charge the use of the second floor rooms in the building 438 Asylum street.

A dinner will be served after the parade, and the rooms will be open as headquarters for the regiment. Ladies who accompany members of the regiment from out of town will And place to leave wraps and hand bags. The dinner tickets will be good for veterans and their families. Colonel Clapp. John D.

Lapaugh and Captaiu William H. Lockwood were appointed committee on the banquet. The following were appointed a committee on badges: Captain W. H. Lockwood, Captain Joseph H.

Barnum and Ira E. Forbes. It is expected that from 200 to 250 members of the regiment will be present. All present and past members of Company Asylum Hill cadets, who desire to parade on Buckingham day, are requested so meet at the armory of the First regiment, at Company K's room, on Friday evening, at 7:30 o'clock. SUPERIOR COURT.

The Cases Tried on Wednesday, In the superior court yesterday the case against William Skinner and Henry Keney, charged with stealing rules, was disposed of by a plea of guilty on the part of Keney, who was fined one doliar and costs and sentenced to jail for thirty days. John Cahill and Thomas Moran were found guilty by the jury of robbing a Swede from New Britain, who fell into their company at Hartford. Judge Stoddard said the testimony of the men themselves showed that they were a pair of social pests, and he sentenced each of them to seven years in the state prison. Samuel Johnson, who has been out of state prison but a short time, pleaded guilty to from the person, aud was given four years in state prison. Announcements.

Messrs. P. J. Bosee were the caterers at the Burpee-Wilcox wedding, last evening. The young people of Trinity parish will hold a sale of useful and fancy articles at the rectory, 120 Sigorney street, on Thursday afternoon and evenlug, June 19th.

Refreshments will be served on the rectory lawn. Loomis Whittelsey have some fine strawberries called the Blaine's Beauties. This day at 11 a. m. will tell how much seven acres of land will bring situated on Prospect avenue.

'The sale is to close the estate of the late Gurdon Trumbull, Esq. Per order of the heirs, Williara Toohy auctioneer. LITERARY NOTICES. The latest of the series of American Men of Letters (using the word men in its generic gense, which is appropriate in the world of letters) is Margaret Fuller Ossoli, by Thomas Wentworth Higginsen. The author had many advantages over his predecessors in studying the life and character of Margaret Fuller.

He had vivid impressions of her obtained in his boyhood; he knew her friends and associates; he wan entirely famillar with all the social and reform movements of her day; he understood the transcendental movement, and yet was so far outside of it as to judge it impartially; and he has had access to an abundance of biographical material which has now been used for the first time. He is besides abundantly trained in such work, is a scholar and an investigator, and is as a critic singularly cool-headed and free from prejudice. He is possessed also of a style of singular purity and correctness, with a fascinating quality that makes whatever he writes interesting. With these fac littes and qualities we have expected that this life would be the most just and the most interesting estimate of Margaret Fuller that has been attempted. We are not disappointed.

It is a story most charmingly told, and as an estimate of her work and character it is the final and satisfactory word. We do not say that it does away with the value of the personal memoirs of hef by those who knew her, but it certainly supplements these, and renders our knowledge of her life reasonably complete. But besides being in its way a satistactory estimate, it is a necessary addition to the Margaret Fuller library, because it is almost wholly drawn from new materials. It is one of the most delightful and readable pieces of biography in the series, and we think, with the exception of the Coopar, the best. It has an Interesting portrait.

(Houghton, MiMin Boston; Brown Gross, Hartford. $1.25. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. An Englishman has introduced upon Thames a real Venetian gondola, with a Venetian gondolier. The Madrid council of health is agitating favor of cremation.

It would have it made obligatory in all cases of epidemic disease. Portuguese papers, in order to cast discredit upon Mr. Stanley's nev empire on the Congo, declare that a form of slave trade is encouraged there. This shocks the humane Portuguese beyond expression. Every respectable Paris pet dog has now travelling box, with drawers for his paletots, harness, collars, and boots, and for his guttapercha tub, his sponges, and for his rice powder in case his complexion is fair.

Prince Victor of Wales, who is now at Cambridge, is giving special attention to the study of history. He will not go to Oxford for part of the course, as was expected, but complete his university career on the Cam. A Prussian was arrested a few weeks in the elephant house of the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris, on a charge of attempting poison one of the animals. Several flasks mineral poison were found in his pockets. A portion of the Napoleon quay at Antwerp, which extends to the mouth of the great basin, gave wAy for a distance of over 120 a fortnight ago.

The walls of some large warehouses were moved somewhat out of the pendicular line by this accident, but the buildings did not fall. The Grand Duke of Hesse is kept travelling rapidly from place to place to cure his love wounde, or hide his shame. The latest version is that what the German papers call the childlike ingenuousness of the Grand Duke taken advantage of, and the lady, who is garded as a very old soldier, is now in Berlin consulting a lawyer. The costermongers of the East End of London, with their donkeys and carts, are always one of the leading features of the Derby course, and the novelty they introduced into their fashions this year was the substitution of gaudy paper parasols for peashooters, dolls and dirtywater squirts, which used to be their favorite weapons of amusement. The Kamchatkans are in danger of becoming extinct.

Kamchatka proper is a district larger than the whole of France. It had once 8 population of about 50,000, but in 1880 the total had fallen to 6,200. Shooting and fishing are the chief occupations, and fish the chief, if not the only, food. The average annual income rarely exceeds $5, and the death rate is very high. Statistics of the losses of British ships and lives at sea en British ships during the years named are given officially as follows: In 1876- vessels, (excluding collisions and strandings,) 233; lives, (seamen only,) in 1877-vessels, 236; lives, 964; in 1878-vessels, 219; lives, 796; in 1879-vessels, 196; lives, 900; in 1880- vessels, 328; lives, in 1881-vessels, 394; lives, 2,023: in 1882-vessels, 255: llVes, 1,258: 1883 -vessels, 315; lives, 1,804.

The statistics for last year are incomplete. Given Away Free! THE MAID AT THE WELL. To every adult person (lady or gentleman) who calls at the Morse Yellow Dock Syrup Advertising Store. No. 169 Main street, on Saturday, June 14th, we will present free, one of our elegant Statuettes- Maid at the Well." Chiidren, boys or girls need not persons.

apply as we shall present them only to adult M. Y. D. SYRUP CO. H.

C. PARKE, Agent. Crutches at Low Prices. All sizes. Also rubbers for crutches, at GOODWIN'S DRUG STORE, Exchange corner.

Thursday-Headacne-Bryonia, 10 Messinger's Pharmacy, 22 State st. Local Notices. Apples, in galion cans, at A. H. TILLINGHAST'S, 93 Main street.

Fine creamery butter at Russell's Butter House, opposite Cheney Block, 383 Main st. REV. SAMUEL ROSE. D. Christian Guardian and Evangelist, Toronto, C.

had severe and painful trouble, erysipelatous affection of limbs. tried the best medical skill without success. Giles' Liniment removed the itching, burning sensation: effected a care. Trial bottles, 25 cents. Depot, T.

Sisson Co. To make a salad that is certain to please all tastes you need only use Durkee's Salad Dressing. Nothing equal to it was ever offered, and none 80 popular. It la a superb table sauce. For Dyspepsia, Indigestion, depression of spirits and general debility, in their various forms; also as a preventive against fever and ague, and other intermittent fevers, the "FERRO-PHOSPHORATED ELIXIR OF CALISAY made by Caswell, Hazard New York, and sold by all druggists, is the best tonic; and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness, it has no equal.

Special Notices. PINE PLATED WARM! Of Quality, the BEST; of Design, the LATEST, Manufactured by Reed Barton, Taunton, Mass. An elegant assortment just opened by T. STEELE SON, (Established 1838), 407 MAIN STREET, HARTFORD, CT. MORNING, New Advertisentents, Towels! Towels! BROWN, THOMSON 00.

Announce that they have just received from their European buyer a large shipment of TOWELS! Bought from the manufacturers at the close of the season, at our own price. Tais shipment contains over 750 dozen TOWELS, worth from 20 cents to cents each. He bought this entire lot at one price, we intend giving our friends and patrons a selection from the 750 dozen at the nominal price of 19c. Each. 19c.

Each. Remember the early customer gets the BEST TOWELS. Sale to commence Wednesday morning, at 8 o'clock. This will be the grandest opportunity for Hotels, Boarding Houses and Families about to spend the summer at sea-side or mountains, supplying themselves with TOWELS About Half Price, BROWN, THOMSON 00'S IMPORTANT PURCHASE -OFDIAMONDS HAVE just consummated the purchase of the Lentire stock of a New York Diamond Importer, who was financially embarrassed and was compelled to realize money on his stock at any sacri- fice. Being always on the lookout for such opportunities I have taken advantage of this one am able to sell Diamonds at the Lowest Prices Ever Known! And now if ever is the time for intending mond Buyers to make their purchases, as I them BARGAINS such as have never before offered in any city in the United States.

Immense Stock and Big Bargains at the mond Headquarters. DAVID MAYER No. 319 MAIN STREET, (corner Asylum.) ERNST SCHALL, IMPORTER OF FINE DIAMONDS AND WATCHES. Now opening new and desirable REAL BRONZE WARE, STERLING SILVER, -FOR- BRIDAL GIFTS. COR.

MAIN AND ASYLUM STS. SIMONDS BURDETT, SOLICITORS OF PATENTS, Hartford Trust Company's Block, Rooms 21 and WN. E. SIMONDS. CITA8.

L. BURDWIE, Household Ammonia In the Toilet, Nursery. Laundry or House-cleaning, insures health, beauty and cleanliness. FOR SALE BY ALLYN, BLANCHARD LATIMER, mh29 And all grocers. 3mdeod W.

K. MORGAN, FURNISHING UNDERTAKER, 111 Main Motel Capitol Building (Cor. Capitol Ave.) Burial Lots for gale. Night attendant at the Store. lyd jan26 Connected with telephone.

COOKE WHITMORE, Undertakers, 12 Pratt Street, Offer their New Patterns of Mahogany and Oak Caskets with Bronze and Silver Trimmings. Also, Cloth. Walnut and Rosewood Caskets at low prices. MARRIAGES. PARSONS-FRISBIE-In this city, June 10, Rev.

G. M. Stone. Mr. John K.

Parsons and Miss Nellie May Frisbie. DEATHS. WILLIAMS this city, June 10, suddenly, Joseph D. Williams, aged 64. Funeral services a his late residence, No.

Chapel street, to-morrow (Friday) afternoon at o'clock. Burial private. DAY -In this city, June 10, Calvin Day, 81. Funeral services at the Center church to morrow (Friday) afternoon at 3 o'ciock. Relatives and friends are invited to attend.

JACOBSON-At the Hartford hospital, June Annie Caroline Jacobson of Sweden, aged 27. Painless Operations, in Dentistry. Headquarters for Laughing Gas. ARTIFICIAL TEETH, the very latest improvements in their manufacture. TEETH CROWNS set upon the roots of broken teeth.

FILLING TEETH in the most scientific Call manner and known to the age. All work Warranted. enquire at DENTAL ROOMS, 346 MAIN STREET. FOR SALE. RUSSELL ERWIN STOCK.

CITY NATIONAL BANK STOCK. COLLINS CO. STOCK. NATIONAL FIRE INS. CO.

STOCK. AMERICAN BANK STOCK. B. F. Blakeslee, Stock 333 MAIN STREET.

HEADQUARTERS FOR DIAMOND DYES! A. MARWICK, Jr. PARK DRUG STORE. Call and see what they will do even to Chickens. Nearest drug store to Union Depot.

Go to BURCH, 97 Asylum for Rubber Stamp-, Rubber Stamps, Rubber Stamps, Rubber Rubber Stamps, Rubber Stamps, Rubber Stamps, Stamps, Kubber Stamps, Rubber Stamps, Rubber Stamps, and also Rubber Stamps. WANTED a small situation family to or do second general work. house- Apply at 76 Alvany JOIN ave. jel8 Apply at 177 Asylum street. GEORGE E.

DENISON. je12 2dned WANTED For to a make boy 13 himself years of useful; age, a a place home preferred. Address care Courant good office. jel2 WA a family young to do girl, a light situation housework in a and assist in sewing; can come well recommended. Address M.

care Courant office. jel2 WANTED wash A and situation iron in by a a private competent family girl to the city, or would go a short distance in the in coantry; good references. Apply at 12 Ellery st. (secflight). jel NO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR HARTFORD COUNTY -I hereby apply for a license to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors, ale, lager beer.

Rhine wine and cider at No. 141 Zion town of Hartford. Dated at Hartford this 10th day of June A. D. 1884.

KATE FITZPATRICK. I hereby certify that the endorsers of the foregoing application are electors and tax payers, as defined by law, of the town of Hartford. D. J. MURPHY, Assistant Town Clerk.

Dated at Hartford this 10th day of June A. D. 1884. JUST FROM THE SPRING. SILURIAN SPRING WATER.

A gallon NOTHER bottles. lot of this Just the celebrated thing for water, family in half use. Any one suffering with Diabetes, Bright's Disease, Dyspepsia. Inflammation of the Kidneys, and all urinary afflictions, will be instantly relieved and permanently cured by the use of this great remedy. N.

orders promptly filled at CITY HOTEL DRUG STORE, SOLE AGENTS, 913 MAIN STREET, JUNE 12. 1884. Jew Advertisentents. New EXTRAORDINARY OFFERING Mi. 00.

Call special attention selected stock of Fine Dry Goods Among our BARGAINS for the next few days wiil be found 20 Doz. White Honey-comb Quilts at 68 Cents. 50 Doz. White Crochet Quilts at Regular Price $1,25. Towels! Towels Towels! 200 dozen Damask and Huck Towels at and 19 cents.

Nothing like them at the Frice ever offered. Cottons Cottons! At Panic Prices. 50 pleces wide width Bleached Sheeting at 18 cents, regular price 25 cents. Hotel-keepers, Familles and others preparing for the sea-side can save money by trading where they shall have the benefit of small expenses, bottom prices and long yarksticks, at C. M.

TALCOTT CO. Invoice to hand to-day of one ton C. M. T. LIVE GEESE FEATHERS.

Times and Post copy. Fische "Cottage Piano THERE 1s no Piano in the universe so well adabted to the sea side and mountain resorts as what is known as the FISCHER "COTTAGE PIANO." STYLE E. It is very small. It has a full rich tone. Its capacity to stand in tune is remarkable.

We refer to Rev. Francis Goodwin, Mr. S. L. Clemens and Mr.

W. L. Matson, who have them in use. WM. WANDER SON, 241 Asylum Street, GUM! hundred or sale very low.

J. G. RATHBUN Apothecaries, Cor. Asylum and Ford Nearest Drug Store to the Capitol. IMPORTED CIGARS! ROSA, HENRY CLAY.

PAUL MORPRY. ULA CAROLINA, LA PUCHA: also full line Dia- Domestics. offer SYKES NEWTON. -FORCurrant Worms, Use White Hillebore. Get it at SHANNON'S DRUG STORE, 143 TRUMBULL STREET.

SUMMER HATS. Have you seen the "BLIZZARD." 'This Hat wil keep you cool, and no ice needed. R. P. KENYON CO.

HAVE THEM. HAMMOCKS! and colors. STRAW HATS. Have never been offered in Hartford as low today. Hat for About 50 cents is the price for a good Straw man or boy, while many good goods are on sale at 25 cents.

Of course Dunlap's Mackinaws are an exception, but these goods are lower than ever. Trunks and Bags. Prices on these goods are way down. Only 75c. $1.00 and $1.25.

All sizes, qualities Our neigbbors are taking back seats on these goods. bought them to sell cheap. R. P. KENYON 387 MAIN STREET, The "Hills Block Hat Store," The Original One- Price Hatters, and the Only Wholesale Jobbing Hat House in Connecticut.

Summer Hats Pearl Cassimeres, Pearl Derbys and Straws. E. B. the DIX, most THE elegant and HATTER, varied now assortment showing of the above goods to be seen in Hartford. LIGHT DERBYS, in six different $1.50 to $3.50.

shades, from MACKINAWS, in great variety, from $1.00 upwards. The largest line of Boys' and Children's shown in the city. Straws "Zephyr Weight Hat." est Straw Something Hat new in the strata hat line. The lighteyer made. and see them.

E. B. DIX, THE HATTER, 347 MAIN STREET, HARTFORD, CONN Mackinaw Hats, Manilla Hats, Light Derbys In all the fancy colors. Low Prices Rule AT Stillman THE HARTFORD ONE-PRICE HATTERS, 63 Asylum Street. By a smart young girl a situation to assist housework than or second work; home more desired high wages.

Apply a good Rose's book store, 57 Trumbull at 88 Walnut street, or street. 2d je12 L' IVE Perfect agents for likenesses. best Write 10-cent at once Campaign for Exclusive Medal. Phila. Territory.

G. N. Buzby 517 Market street, 3deod je12 NOTICE stockholders adjourned the HARTFORD annual meeting STEAM of the for the election of directors for the ensuing to and the before transaction of any other business year come said meeting will be held at the proper office of the company on FRIDAY. June 20th, at 3 o'clock p. m.

JNO. B. WINDSOR, Pres't. Hartford, June 10. 1884.

8d jel2 Machinists' Tools For Sale Low! ONE MACHINE, nearly new, complete. Brown Sharpe MILLING One small Universal GEAR CUTTER. je12 Address tfdned or apply to A. F. CUSHMAN, Hartford, Conn.

Turkish Rugs and Goods je19 Horses for Sale. ONE pair of black MARES, 8 and team years old; stand 15 8: weigh fine family objects, or gentleman's drivers: not afraid of other good style and fast roadsters; and also good driving and family horses. 3d je12 98 Dwight Springfield, Mass, C. DEFRATE. And Ottar of Rosen, CALL street, AT and ECKHARDT'S STORE.

on Main TURKISH RUGS. For sale at Low collection Prices! of fine For see a choice a few days only. S. B. DONCHIAN.

EXTRAORDINARY OFFERING -OFCARPETS -ANDMATTINGS -BYI. POST 00. 50 Pieces Extra Superfine Carpets 65c. 100 Pieces JOINTLESS STRAW MATTINGS Assorted Styles and Colors, at 35c. Straw Mattings From 15c.

Up. 200 Pieces Tapestry Brussels, at Prices that Defy Competition. Great Clearing Out Sale -ATH. POST A PIANOS YEARS, before there are not many musical perthe public for nearly FIFTY sons in the country who are not familiar at least with their reputation-a reputation not of hothouse growth, forced up by artificial means, decaying again as rapidly as it appears -but the steady, sturdy growth of nearly half a century, built up on the only true basis, THAT OF TRUE MERIT; and it is a fact, which all just Piano manufacturers will admit, that no firm in the country has done more to advance the American Piano manufacturo to its present high state than the firm of WM. KNABE CO.

The most eminent Artists and Musicians, as well as the Musical Public in general and the Press unite in saying: That the KNABE PIANOS are the most perfect and most reliable in this country. GALLUP METZGER, GENERAL AGENTS, 169 Asylum Street. sold We in can this refer city, to as over giving fifty the of greatest these, satisfae- recently tion. BASE BALLS! quet New York aid Boston papers deBALLS, Ball Bats, Ball Guides and Crolivered in all parts of the city. Subscriptions recleved for all American and English publications.

J. R. BARLOW, 232 ASYLUM STREET. WM. TOOnY.

Auctioneer and Successful Managers of Real Estate Sales. Sales in twenty of years over GRAND AUCTION SALE -OFTHIRTEEN FINE HORSES FIRST and only sale sound of and the gentle season. in -13 all superb harness; suitable for all work- the family, the farmer, the man of busiuess, lady or gentleman. At KINGSLEY'S STABLES, corner Main and Wells streets, Hartford, Saturday, June 14th, at 11 a. Rain or shine.

Also, a lot Single and Double Harness-100 sets in all. GET THE BUCKINGHAM BADGE. A PHOTOGRAPH ON SILK, (Warranted not to fade), On Exhibition and For Sale J. M. ECKHARDT CO.

235 and 237 MAIN STREET. ALSO Fine Photographs of Gov. Buckingham. Business Suits Share a which desirable are patterns left of Scotch popular Suitings in prices. great Also, variety, Fine English and French making to order WILLIAM HI.

KELSEY 00. 233 MAIN COR. PEARL. Tourist Blouses for gentlemen Ready-made. JOSEPH LANGDON 00.

-ARE OFFERINGGreat Bargains To close their Summer of Stock in many lines of goods, some of which were bought at fifty cents on the dollar, and thus have been marked at greatly reduced prices. We mention one Bargain in SUMMER SILKS, 900 Yards FANCY SUMMER SILKS -AT- 37 1-2c. Per Yard. Good quality and worth mer Silks, Thin fifty cents. For Sumton Dress Wool Suitings and Linen Coods, and Cotno better value New England than at can be found in JOSEPH LANGDON 00.

Summer Clothing Linen Goods, and we shall received sell a at full line of Summer WE have just Pants and vests, White and very Prices. Vests, Linen, Cotton and Alpaca Checked Duck sucker Coats: and vests, Black and Dusters, Seergoods Coats, Drab Mohair Sack Coats, and all Brown Alpaca for summer wear. grades of HENRY ENSIGN SON, NO. 68 STATE STREET, (Courant Bullding.) Ben Avertisements. -FROM THEFAR PACIFIC COAST.

MESSRS. IVERS POND: Gentlemen -I had the pleasure of one of your Planos at the opera house playing on night, and I cannot refrain from testifying here toapprobation of it, and sending you this unsolicited: 11. months' testimonial. I will merely say that in our trip to the Pacife coast and return, have not had an instrument that well 1 as to great bri Haney, easy action so suited me tone: and everybody in the and smooth dorses my opinion. company fully InBelieve me, gentlemen, truly yours, Musical Director Rice's Surprise Party.

En FRED J. CUSTIS, April 14, 1888. route. Home indorsements are coming In better. Call and hear them.

dally that there are none BARKER CO. Are State Agents for these celebrated PIANOS, 153 and 155 Asylum Street. Headquarters -FOR- BUCKINGHAM BADGES -AND- MEDALS! Photograph Badges Plain Printed Badges Badges with Medal 25c. G. A.

Furnished Regiments or Coropagles at Special Rates, A few Battle Flag Medals -FOR SALE BYS. W. BARROWS CO. 307 MAIN STRERT, Opposite Cheney Block. -AT- Dickerman: Plumb BEG TO CALL ATTENTION TO A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF Ladies' and Misses' WHITESUITS Just opened, and ranging in price from $6.00 to $50.00 These goods represent only the BEST MANU.

FACTURERS, and are superior in style, workmanship and material, and are offered at very at tractive prices. DICKERMAN PLUMB, 408 MAIN STREET. Down They Co Vi have made the following reduction in the price of our CARRIAGES, being determined to turn them into CASH, regardless of what they cost to build. These goods are all of our own manufacture, and are guaranteed as tine the as finest. Former Present Price.

Price. $1,900 00 81,000 00 LANDAULETTS. 1,000 00 900 00 SIX-SEAT 900 00 800 00 950 09 800 00 750 00 600 00 SPLIT-SEAT 350 00 300 00 BEACH 300 00 475 00 ROAD WAGONS, (all widths weights). 325 00 and 215 00 All other goods not mentioned here, whether our own make or medium grades in which we deal, will be sold at a corresponding reduction in price. We are bound to close them out, and no reasonable offer will be refused.

-BY- Mansuy Carriage Mfg Go. 17 to 21 Elm Street, and 358 St. Asylum THE JUNE MILLINERY TRADE! -ATR. BALLERSTEIN 360 AND 302 MAIN STRRET. Great Bargains This Week -INTrimmed Hats and Bonnets! at Very choice goods for ladies in fine Milan, Glace Braids Chip, Pearls, and Tuscan Braid.

Elegant Trimmed Hats with long Plumes and Ostrich Tips will be sold at $9, 82 25, $2 50, 83 and $3.50 each. A very pretty Bonnet for traveling at $1.50 all trimmed. All our goods are made of the best material only. We In have a great bargain White Ostrich Plumes from $1 and upwards. Ostrich Tips at 25 cents per bunch in all colors.

R. BALLERSTEIN CO. 360 MAIN STERET. NOTICE! Don't Ride in the Sun: -WE HAVESUN CANOPY TOPS, CARRIAGE TOPS. L.

L. ENSWORTH 104 FRONT STREET, Iron and Steel Warehouse. ICE CREAM! Made from Pure Cream Finest Fruit Flavors! Festivals, Excursion Parties, Families. Eversbody supplied at short notice. $1,10 a Gallon; 40c.

a Quart. Oak Butter Store AND BAKERY, Nos. 466 and 21 Main Hartford. Baby Carriages Still They Come. G.

W. FULLER SON A RE doing Why? Baby Because Carriage they business the in largest Hartstock and sell that cannot carry be beat. We have received a another lot of those $12 Whitney at prices Carriages this week. Also, a fresh lot of those $14, $16, $18 and $20 Carriages. Some special bargains in our higher priced goods.

G. W. Fuller Son. 186 and 188 ASYLUM ST. Allyn Hall Building..