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YERsA1LIIEs, August Is.
THE WEsrFrE1D EXPLOSION:

NEW YORK. August Is.
The coroners inquest In the Westleld boiler
explosion case was resumed this morning.
Charles a. Haswell, engineer, said that he
was Of the opinion that the iron OF; the West
fields boiler was not of the proper description,
and he made the following remarkable state.
ment: ssWlth the present staff Of Ignorant en-
eIneers he did not see how a hydrostatic test
could be done away with; but with body OF
educated engineers there would be no necessl-
ty for such test. He did not consider there
we're more than five intelligent engineers In
the whole harbor OF New York; William w:
his testimony, that the interests OF ship own
ers are more In favor of incomplete lnspec.
tions. Thorough and complete inspection
would be productive of much Inconvenience
ard loss OF time to company.
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THE WEATHER THIS DAK.

WASHINGTON, August Is.
The barometer will probably rise north Of
Missouri, with partially clear and pleasant
weather on wednesday. Light local storms are
probable for Lakes Erie and Ontario, but no
material change is indicated for the Atlantic
coast An area OF high barometer Is probably
advancing upon the Sonth Atlantic States,
and light rains. If any, are probable for the
Gulf coast on Wednesday afternoon.
Yesterdny's Weather Reports OF the
Signal Service, U. S. A.-4.A7 r. M.
Local Time.
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of 1t. These people are despoiled of their
natural characteristics, and shamefully de-
moralized by renegade intruders.
The remainder of the letter is mainlyde-
voted to mention Of the grievances under
which the black major concelyes that his race
still labors, and to the consideration of the
most available remedies.
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THINGS IN VEST VIRGINIA.
GREESBa1ER,. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS

GREESBR1ER,. WHITE SULPHUR SpRINGs.
August l5.>,
The drought In this section is beginning to
be oppressive, and the crops are suffering for
want OF rain.
The Springs still continue crowded. Among
the arrivals tonight was General G. T. Beau
regard. .,=.--.----.,.-
The election to decide whether convention
will be held for forming new constitution
will be held in this State next Thursday, the
25th inst. 1t Is generally considered that the
vote will BIZ largely in favor OF the convention
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a;;:NEW Rid1iIiRo1D6scsHl & {; HlEAE

New. YORK, August Is
1t Is stated on good authority that contracts
have beenimade with one'of thsgreat railroad
contractors OF the West for the entire con-
struction Of the Mobile and: Northwestern
Railroad, to be completed In two years The
consummation only depends on the full
amount expected by The company being voted
will soon be held, and, from reports received,
1t Is believed the vote will be quite unanimous
In favor of liberal :subscripHo Hons. II this is
realized, work will be at once commenced. By
large gangs, at; both ends or the slinesa The
project meets with great favor. with railroad
capitalists, who deem It one, of the most i'm
portant lines LII the country. 17s5. = ~
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THE Tx ON DIHIDENDS.
WASHINGTON, August

WASHINGTON, August Is.
The Secretary of the Treasury to-day de-
cided that, under the late decision of Pleasan-
ton in relation to interest on coupons Of cor
porations, the question of collecting the tax
on dividends and on divided profits OF corpo-
rations was not touched upon; therefore the
tax.on dividends and undivided profits for the
last five months Of 1870 will be at once as
sessed and collected,
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M4TTERS IN CANADA.

OTTAWA, August Is.
It Is positively asserted that the Marquis OF
Lorne and the Princess Louise Will reside In
Canada for heightened period. 80.
considerable reduction In the militia
force is expected in consequence Of the Wash
ington treaty.
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DUBLIN; August l.

DUBLIN; August Is.
The trial Of the murderers of the chief of po-
lice is postponed. The corporation of Dublin
has passed resolution expressive of horror
and sorrow at the Phoenix Park afalr.
- LONDON, August Is.
The ten.f0rtIes and United States bonds of
1881 have risen considerably at Frankfort in
consequence of the success fthe new treasury
arrangement. The amount allotted to Frank
fort is limited pending negotiations. When
completed, these will enable Mr.. Richardson,
assistant secretary of the treasury, to place
the whole amount In Germany.
A case of AsiatIc cholera has appeared In
London, and creates an extraordinary sensa-
'tion among the people. z,z-.
a dispatch from Berlin says the cholera is
increasing In Konigsberg, but no cholera has
appeared In Dantzlg. -.
Heavy thunder storms have been expert.
enced in the west of England, aud caused
much damage to the crops.
The Emperor Napoleon has declined to re-
ceive the address OF welcome which had been
prepared to tender him, except at the express
wish of the British nation.
The strike OF Newcastle continues, and
many OF the striking workmen are emigrating
to America.
COPENHAGEN, August is.
Most stringent precautionary measures have
been forced by the Danish Government for
the prevention of the introduction of cholera
into the country. 80 =
VERSAILLES, August Is.
The defence Of M. Gustave Courvet, which
was submitted to the court martial toAdayi is
to the effect that he joined the Commune for
the purpose of endeavoring to afecta pacif-
cation between its members and the Yer
sairles authorities, and that to his personal ex-
ertion was due the saving of many articles OF
art from destruction during the siege of Paris.
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THE COAL MINE DISASTER.

PrrrsToN, August Is.
Five bodies have been recovered; thirteen
remain in the mine. The majority Oh volun-
tsers who went down ir search OF the missing
men have been badly damaged By foul air.
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s1NeU1AR SUICIDE OF 4 CONVICT

San FRANCISCO, August Is.
A convict who had served six Of his eight
Years sentence Ia the penitentIary committed
Suicide by jumping Into await OF boiling water.
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THE SAVANNAH DRY DOCK.

SAVANNAH, August 10.
Uslna 4 Jones's dry dock was completed to-
day. and the steam tng Christiana and schoon-
ers Wave and John R. Wilder were taken In
this afternoon. The dock Is o success.
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WHO POISONED BUFENBURG ?

Interview with the Principal Prosecu-
tor in the Bufenpurg Case-nIrs: Col
burn Denounced N a Murderess4-.
What MIR. Colburn says of tho Prose-
cution-serious Charges Against Ma
ley Thompson. 5t;
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TIE OLD WORLDS NEWS.

The Dublin Riot-Rise I'm o. S. bonds
The Whole. Amount to be Disposed Of
in Germany-A Case OF Cholera In Lon
don-Heavy Thunder Storm in Eng
land. l-.c'.
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One Hundred and Sixty Millions a fea1
Spent by our Shoddy Nobhtty-Ho"
the Money Goes.

A New York letter gives the following full
and interesting sketch-no whit overdraWn-
of the wild and reckless extravaganza that
rules the hour in ''the upper circles" OF
Gotham:
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THE FARSljIE1RE,,sS RI j RS GUIDE

TO Scientific and Praottcat ASrtcultuf 80! J
BY HKNRY STHPHHNH, 2. r. 8, Edinburghfan
the late =. p. NORTON Professor or scientffo AZ.
f,cnltureiu Yale College, New HaFenJ fi,SS;
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ropean plan, in each of which some one hum
-dred persons board. These families pay for
suite of rooms. consisting of parlor and bed.
soom. from SIS TO $50 q day. Let the reader
for two or three rooms! This price is paid, no
matter whether the guest stays week or TWO
wears. In the Grand Hotel there are few
Suites whict are higher-ss00 week. But
the average is not 80 high. You can get two
good.sized rooms In most OF the European
regardto your meals, you pay for what you
eat. You nay forpeas, so cents; for cup of
coffee. so cents. An examination of the res
taurant bills In one Of these hotels gave the
following result Average for breakfast Zone
person. So; for dinner, $40 or sll; for supper,
about SIS or Sc. A whole family can i've some
what cheaper, for Of some OF the dlshes, as lor
instance Of beef, an order tor one VIII oling
enough for two. But on the whole the resuit
Is pretty much the same A family OF three
persons will, living economically, spend easl-
1y between $50 and $40 day on their meals,
which would amount In the year to more
than $4,000. $4,000 for meals and sl0, C00
for two rooms makes $4,000. MOST OF the
families boarding In these hotels keep carri-
ages; they give little dinner parties-evening
entertainments they are excused from by 30
ciety in consideration of these good dinnersi
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ionable dress-makers, and the best masters.
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brown stone front house for $4,000 a year,
but then they would be afflicted with dozen
servants. You ask one Of the boarders of the
hotel, 'Why don't you keep house ," and you
twill find that in most cases woman is at
the bottom of this extravaganza. Either
she is in delicate health" or she cannot
get along With the "help.' ana SO tney
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-29

How PANCAKES WERE MADE ONCE UPON TIME.-When our grandmothers of about fifty years ago made griddle- cakes, or, as they were then called, pan cakes, the following receipt was then in use. We do not present it for imitation, but to show what changes few years have wrought in that article of food.
 " Pancakes should be made of half a pint of milk, three great spoonfuls of sugar, one or two eggs, teaspoonful of dissolved pearl-ash, spiced with cinna- mon or cloves, little salt, rose-water, or lemon brandy, just as you happen to have it. Flour should be stirred in un- til the spoon moves round with difficulty. If they are thin, they are apt to soak fat. Have the fat in your skillet boiling hot, and drop them in with 8 spoon. Let them cook until thoroughly brown.
 The more fat they are cooked in, the less they soak. If you have no eggs, or wish to save them, use the above ingre- dients, and supply the place of eggs by two or three spoonfuls of lively empty ings, in which case they must be made five or six hours before they are cooked. A spoonful or more of New England rum makes pancakes light. Flip makes very nice pancakes. In this case, noth- ing is done Jut to sweeten your mug o1 beer with molasses, put in one glass oi New England rum, heat it till it foams by putting in hot poker, and stir it ur with flour as thick as other pancakes. ,
 Whatever we may think of the above 8: a recipe, the result seems to have giver great satisfaction to the good folks who made and ate pancakes fifty years ago.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-29
A Kansas Girl.

The Topeka (Kansas) Record narrates the following, which goes to show that the Kansas girl alluded to has pluck and perseverance, if not discretion
 "As a gentleman was coming into town the other day on the Wakarusa road, he noticed young girl on pony. Pretty soon the pony began to display bad temper, and very shortly afterwards threw the girl, who turned somersault in the air and struck on her head in the road with terrific force. The gentleman got out of his buggy and went to her assistance. He found she had got bad fall, and had @ cut across her forehead. He advised her to abandon pony riding for the present, but she wiped the blood from her face, and insisted upon mount ing her fract1cus steed again. Anxious for her safety, her friend watched fer future developments, and in a few min utes she was hurled over the pony's head, and this time she struck the ground with such force that he thought she must have broken every bone in her body. The pony took the opportunity to gallop off, She was again helped to her feet, half stunned and covered with dust, and urged to abandon riding such a fractious brute; but clutching her riding whip, she started off in pursuit of the pony, evidently determined to ride him, or get her neck broken in the at tempt. She was apparently about SIX teen years of ago."
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-29
The Culture of Fish.

The American Nataralist reviews the recent progress in fish culture in this country. The report of the Massachusetts commissioners gives much encourage ment to those who advocate restocking our rivers with salmon, trout, shad, ale wives, bass, etc. The great run of shad in the Connecticut, in the spring of 1870, has been by popular voice attributed 10 the artificial matching of the fish in that river, in 1867. Many thousand young fry of the salmon, St. Croix salmon, Sebago salmon, togue, and common trout have been placed in the rivers and ponds of Massachusetts and adjoining states during the past year, and it is con fidently expected that we shall again have salmon and trout abundant in our waters. MT. Atkins, the able commis- sioner of Maine, in his report, enters very fully into the subject of fshways, ed in time for the fish to ascend during the season of 1870 were highly success full. He shows conclusively ly that properly constructed fshways can be made, at comparatively slight expense, which will not only furnish free passage to the fish, but also not materially injure the water power of the parties owning the dams "Their construction on every salmon, shad, and alewife river and stream in the country is now only a matter of time :; for, as it is proved that their construction is now simply matter of dollars and cents, and also that the interest received by the community is very large on the small capital required to be invested, the most penurious of dam owners will be forced by public sentiment to keep the fshways, which the laws oblige them to build, in good re- pair" In New York, Mir. Seth Green, E'pre-eminently the practical fish breeder of the United States. has restocked the Hudson above the Troy dam, with two and half million of young fry of the shad. During the year, also, large state matching house has been built at Caledonia, and placed under the charge of Messrs. Green and Collins, who have very successfully carried out a number of experiments, and matched large number of fish of various kinds.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-29

IRON AND HARDwARE.-The trade in iron and hardware, says New York pa per, both domestic and foreign, presents some remarkable features. Notwith- standing an importation of iron of more than fifty per cent. greater than that of last year, we shall find our markets far from glutted. An active trade, with prices fully maintained or advancing, is to be found in these products through out the land. It is noteworthy that several causes, both here and in England, have combined to keep up the price of iron, and the demand has been and is in excess of the producing capacity of the two counties. In Europe, Russia and Germany have made demands on the English iron-producers unprecedented in history. Russia, ever since the Cri- mean war, has kept in view one great object-to cover her vast territory with a network of railroads. For the last fourteen years she has obtained year ly loans in Western Europe, and has steadily built iron roads with them. But since the French-German war she has doubled her usual rate of progress in this work, and her orders for iron rails in England have been more than twice as great in the last year as ever before. The demand for all kinds of iron is very strong. American pig-iron is both scarce and high in price. Rails, both of iron and of steel, are higher and scarcer than they were six months ago, and very healthy trade is doing, which no doubt proves satisfactory to mer- chants,
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-29
In a Country Lane,

The little ones are thirsty as they saunter home
 from School,
 And they hurry up the bank to where, so sil-
 very and so coCl, A tiny streamlet trickles down, beneath
 spreading beech, ll.. Just low enough for chubby hands and pouting
 lips to reach.
 The setting sun is glowing on the autumn And gliding with richer gold the waves of
 npening sheaves, And, through the taugle of the hedge, warm
 rays their glory shed, Round laughing faces peeplng out from hoods
 Of blue and red. The lane is deep and shady, and the treasures Judging from shouts of glad surprise, are very And oh the thrill of wild delight in happy
 eyes expressed When-grand discovery-a boy pulls forth & And then the tempting bramble-wreaths invite
 the babes again, Their pretty mouths with blackberries so sweet
 and ripe to stain And many brown nut slips it's sheath to
 share, poor little thing, A bursting pocket with knife six marbles and
 some string. . . And then the wayside fow'rets, and the grace
 ful noddlng grass, Seem blooming only for small hands to gather
 as they pass r And there are velvet Ichens too, and moss-cups
 to be found, r.- E--I1 : There IS no eno to all the wealth with which
 these banks abound. And so the happy moments of the autumn af-
 ternoon
 Steal by, and evenings veil of mist is falling all
 too soon Then as the glow-worm lights her lamp, the
 little tired feet Turn slowly to their cottage homes, across the
 springing peat. .. Oh! little ones, wonder in the years that yet
 shall be, I'll VI When lingering memory calls to mind that
 lane, and Till, and tree, ---- :. - If you, rememb'ring the bright days when you
 were girls and boys, Would welcome childhood back again, with all
 it's simple joys.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-29

The Cotton CrOD.

The Department of Agriculture has issued circular setting forth that the cotton crop reports, purporting to have come from the Department of Agricul- ture during the past month, have not been genuine. The items in circulation, often contradictory in tenor, and assum- ing to be official, have had no origin in the statistical data of that office. The returns of September include reports from about 4OC cotton growers counties, representing a very large proportion of the cotton area. Those for August point an average condition of the crop almost identical with that of the pre- ceding reports the averages for Alabama and Mississippi being the same, those of Louisiana and Tennessee being lighter, and those of other Cotton States lower The State averages of the September re- port are somewhat lower than those of August, though the principal dep1 1ecia- tion occurs in the States which yield 8 small proportion of the crop, while the reduction is slight in the important dis trict represented by the States of Geor- gia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisi- ana The percentage of full condition in the first week of September, as averaged from all the obtainable data, is thus stated: North Carolina, 82 ; South Carolina, 80; Georgia, 78; Florida, 75 Alabama, 80; Mississippi, S0;- Louisiana, v; Texas, S1 Arkan- sis, 95 Tennessee, 96 There are re- ports of injuries by the boll-worm and caterpillar, mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana, but no evidence that general or very serious loss from insects is prob able. Rust is common in the Atlantic States, and to some extent on the Gulf coast Drouth has been injurious in the Carolinas and Texas, though the reports of rainfalls through the South indicate button of which has been somewhat more unequal than usual. At one point in Georgia the fall in August was nearly IA inches, and in parts of Florida it amounted to 33 inches. The variable atmospheric conditions have increased the prevalence of rust, and caused the destruction of both leaves and fruit. These drawbacks, though greater than those reported in September of last year, are not sufficiently serious to excite ap
 prehensions of a greatly depreciated yield. They are reported each year in some portions of the cotton area. In the records last year there was consider able complaints of damages to the cotton crop from rust, worms, and unfavorable August weather. These facts do not point to an enlargement of the expecta- ton hitherto indulged in. If they are trustworthy, the most favorable season could scarcely bring crop exceeding 3,3500O0 bales. If the growing season should be short or unfavorable, 3,O00,- 900 bales, would be good result and with a mbination of unfavorable cir cumstances, the product might be still further reduced.