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Connecticut western news., 1871-07-21
The Women of Paris.

Some of the incidents in the women fights in Paris were thrilling in the ex- treme. A medical student offered one who was greatly exhausted some bread and wine. She declined them, saving " For the short time left me I shall not need them.'' Immediately after the commanding officer of the Versailles troops was heard addressing the women: "You are brave; you have killed two of my men," The wo- men burst into fierce laughter, and ex- claimed: May the curse of the Al mighty rest upon my soul for not killing more. had two sons killed at Issy and two at Nerilly. My husband died at this barricade. Now do with me what you will" Then there was the word q fire, " and the woman fell dead
 Of the men it is said, lieutenant colonel of the Commune, who was a Pole by the name of Potokenski, said he had but one privilege to ask of his exc cutiorers when he found that all prison CTS were shot. He asked to die in his uniform. Melin, one of the members of the Commune, was tied to a post to be shot, and his last words were We have lost the game this time, but our children will begin it again some day and then succeed. A very common last cry was, especially of fine looking young women, "Shoot, shoot at once. !" Some who were about to be conveyed of, as it was pretended, for examination, took their stand and exclaimed. ssNo, we perish here. Save us the fatigue of that journey" lrf-.r ., ErF.''.I r..... /
Connecticut western news., 1871-07-21
A Business Proposition.

A and B enter into business ; A invests $1O,OO0, B $15,O0O. They remain in partnership about ten years without talk ing an inventory, and not knowing whether they gained or lost any money which admit is a careless way of doing business but always having enough cash on hand to pay their bills as they were presented, they were not anxious about anything else. At the end of that time, A finds he has drawn out at different times sums amounting in all to $13,000. B, in the same manner, has drawn out SIG, ,OOO And on taking an account of stock they find their present worth, after deducting all debts, to be $35, ,0OO What is each ones present worth ?'' s.- .'' "isi' I z
 Answer-As A put in two-ffths of the capital and B put in three-fifths, and the $25, 1000 of capital were converted into $13, ,OOO, $16, 900, 1925, 1000, in all $64, ,OCO, the division becomes easy. Two ifths of $64, 1000 are $25, ,6OO for As share, out of which he has had $13, ,OOO, leaving his share worth $12, 500. Three-fifths of $64, ,O0O are $38, 900 for B's share, out of which he has drawn $16, ,O0O, leaving his share worth $22, 400.
Connecticut western news., 1871-07-21
A Brief History of Long Branch.

Long Branch takes its name from q brook, branch of the Shrewsbury river. In the year 1793 the place was inhabited by Indians, and was styled Lands End About that time four men, named respectively Parker, Slocum, War dell and Hewlett came from Rhode Island aud established a settlement there. A considerable portion of the land which they obtained continued in the possession of the Slocums until thirty years ago, and some of the land war rants are still in existence. A few years later other hardy settlers from neighbor- ing provinces bought land in Long Branch at twenty shillings an acre, built dwellings and occupied themselves with farming and fishing. It now em- braces population of four thousand five hundred. s .-.... 4...........4 <.
 The Liberty Pole is the name given to the village, from a flag staff erected there during the war of 1872, while the coast portion, upon which the cottages and hotels are located, is known as the Shore, fronting the ocean. Land pur- chased at the edge of the village by MT. Samuel Laird, in 1863, for $2. 50 an acre, was sold for $4,000 in 1870, soon after the Burlington Pathway was opened. The first hotel erected at Long Branch was the Ocean House. There are now accommodations for twenty thousand people. Three years ago Blythe Beach, south of the present West End Hotel, comprised only farming lands. To-day it is laid out as park, with new roads from seventy to one hundred feet wide, and beautiful sites for cottages. Of these there are now two hundred.
Connecticut western news., 1871-07-21
Touching Devotion of q Child.

One of the most fearful cases ever told on paper is th1s, of little boy, a mere child, who travelled l,40O miles, taking care of the dead boly of his mother all the way. .....
 An expressman, upon reaching his of flee one cold morning in January, ob served on the sidewalk long, heavy box. which his practiced eye at tonee identified as containing corpse. Up4n the end of the box. shivering with-3old, sat half-clad boy about seven or ei yht years of age. Addressing him kindly, he said |:
 My lad, do n't sit there you will freeze. Come in and sit by the fire. D
 Bursting into tears, the little fellow replied:
 "No, can't come. My mother is in this box, and I promised her I would not leave her until we got home."
 Deeply affected with the touching de- votion of this brave little boy, he finally succeeded in convincing him of the en- tire safety of his precious charge, and taking him to restaurant, gave him a warm breakfast, and then learned the particulars of his story.
 His father died but year previously. in remote village in Minnesota, leaving his mother in poor health and nearly destitute. She died but few days be- fore the boys sad journey, charging the little hero with the sad duty of convey ing her remains to her friends in dis tant State, and furnished him with Gall she had) sum of money barely sufi- cent to carry them. both to their desti- nation. ..l.,. ..... ,.-.,... ....gs ..f,...,.
 Tbe little fellow had actually ridden night and day in freight car with his melancholy trust, never for moment losing sight of it. ' .5 ''''' .',a a'a'
Connecticut western news., 1871-07-21
A California Hog.

A correspondent speaking of the hogs in California, droves of which abound on the ranches, says One day I had been gathering flowers in a field mile or two from the house, when, on emerging from a valley, saw quite near me, coming along the road where was standing, 40 back I was in the direct road, and the aside. Still continuing my walk leisure ly, I watched them until they were well past me Suddenly three or four hogs took it into their heads to turn back and retrace their steps. One of the men started after them and succeeded in turning back all except one, that started in the road directly towards. me. The man, still on his horse, placed himself between me and the hog and tried in vain to make it turn and join the other hogs. watched with interest the ap- parently unequal contest. the man and horse being of the one party and the hog of the other. But the hog proved itself master of the situation. Although the horse understood the methods of warfare as we'll as the man, they were both un- able to overcome the hog, which fought as valiantly as any royal tiger ever did.
 I had as yet considered myself an alto gether un1nterested spectator of the
 fight. Suddenly, the man turned to me and said, " It may bite you" I needed no second admonition, but fled from this ignoble porker, as I would have done from furious grizzly bear, had met one in the forest. looked around for @
 place of refuge, not wishing to depend on unlimited flight. Fortunately, there was near at hand an aqueduct in which water was taken across 8 ravine. I found
 a beam across it, on which elevated myself, and there for one mortal hour, in broiling sun, sat perched, while the contest continued. The valor of the hog was rewarded with victory, as it ought to have been. He stayed where he was, the man keeping him at bay while I beat a retreat. It is this kind of hog that finds favor here. The smooth unctuous, aris- tocratic Chester White has too little self reliance, energy, and pluck, to find out the soap-root and other concealed escu- Tents necessary to sustain life and to fatten. -..aG @"a- "l.".
Connecticut western news., 1871-07-21

A CHINESE FUNERA1.-A Chinaman who was murdered in San Francisco re- gently was given grand funeral, some fifty carriages of Celestial sympathizers para ding in a long procession, headed by a discordant hand of Oh nese musi- clans. The murdered man had been laid out in new suit of clothes, with a quantity of feathers placed around his head. In his hands were placed dirk knife, and other weapons, with which he is expected to pitch into his murder CTS when they arrive in another world if he can find them. From the shoes the soles were removed, the uppers being left. This was done so that he might step softly and reverently into the pres ence of his Joss. AS usual, quantity of Chinese provisions were put into the coffin, and left at the grave. Chinese wine-rice spirit-was also left at the grave but alas those profane Mclean rufflans of the Golden City always follow these processions, and rutllessly gobble all they can find oeatable and drinkable as soon as the backs Or the living Celes- tlals are turned. -.... -...
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was pleased with his skill and integrity, and I only hope that no disaster may occur to throw him again ''OM of Work." rs, ?
Picture of a Chinese City.

To give correct idea of Chinese city says correspondent, is next to an i'm possibility. After passing through two gates, over two bridges, along several Ngzag passages, and then penetrating a labyrinth If streets, all idea of the points of the compass is lost, and so it continues until you get out again, which without a guide would be almost hopeless task. Six feet think would exceed the width of some of the streets, which are so throngeG that one feels as though thread ing a bazaar. The roofs of the houses project until they almost meet overhead. The natives live mostly in the upper story, the lower one being used for mer-
 chandise or as workshop. Chinamen are very dextrous in various trades, ex- ceiling in carvings, flagree work, and other handicraft, The shop signs are as numerous as with us, and generally hang perpendicularly, with the edge to the street, are painted on both sides, and read from top downwards as is usual with Chinese writing. The colors are as varied as ours, though gilt characters on black ground seem to be the favorite.
 The joss houses or temples are particu- larly interesting to strangers. The interiors are very showy in gliding and embroidery. In some of them may be seen idols from ten inches to as many feet in height, most of them of the human form-not divine, but rather of the opposite character The word joss is corruption of the Portuguese dios but I think some of their images person ify Satan-so I understood my Chinese guide to say. The Chinese have three forms of -Confucianism, Budd- hism. and Taonism-all of which orig mated several hundred years before the Christian era. There are ten or twelve Christia churches and chapels here now four of which are American and four English, the others Roman Catholic.
 Two of the Protestant churches are in the old city, Bishop Williams, of the American Episcopal mission, is stationed here, and the Rev. Robert Nelson, of Virginia who came out in 1851. Their labor and that of others has been bless ed, for there is now native officiating in one of the chapels in the Chinese city aud another at a village near by, while the number of native communicants is 15O. '..@ '-.--.
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BACK AaAIN.-And now comes back to us in the English journals the absurd story of the killing of an old man in California, who possessed the secret of setting the river on fire, and who had threatened, unless an immense sum of money was paid to him, to burn up all the oceans and rivers on the planet. It will be recollected that the old man was thrown off a car on the Pacific Railroad, so the story ran, in the interests of the human race, and dashed seventeen hun dred feet to the bottom of a precipice. The matter is treated half seriously by the London journalists, who have failed, however, to learn the best part of the story, which was the remark of miner who never used water himself, that it was pity to kill the old man, since to burn up all the water in the world would not be such a bad thing after all.
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 GOVERNING W1vEs.-Brigham Young has again been telling his disciples what he knows about wives, and if he is not as we'll posted on that subject as any other man in America he has been ter ribly maligned. This is sample of his talk :.'' I say to you who want to govern your wives, set them an example contin- ual'y that is good. Let them say, 'There is my husband, does he do any thing that he ought not do No, he does not. He prays, he is faithful, humble. meek, full of kindness and of good words and works I see nothing wrong in him. If man pursue this straightforward, manly, God-like course he will find woman in her place by his side following him. When we find an elder of Israel do this we find plenty of women who will go along with him."
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WOULD WHIP HIM.-In the Court of Claims in Lexington, Ky, Q few days ago, the presiding Judge was annoyed by an irritable old gentleman, who would insist in speaking disrespectfully of the action of the Court. The Judge fined the old gentleman eleven times in succession, for contempt, and threatened to commit him to jail, without doing any good and finally, in order to main tain the dignity of the Court, told him that if he was only 8 young man, the Court would whip him in so short a time that it would make his head swim.
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LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS. Lightning conductors, says the Scieniifc American, frequently have not so good connec- tion with the earth as they should have. A lightning conductor having its earth extremity partially insulated, soon be- comes charged if storm cloud passes over it, and then lateral discharge takes place hence the accidents which have frequently taken place in buildings supposed to be adequately protected. Sand and gravel, patchwork and stone, are bad conductors of electricity, and if the rod has such a base, and the sur rounding earth be likewise dry, it is prac- cally insulated. The difficulty of get ting what telegraph operators call good earth, is one that should weigh with those putting up lightning conductors. They should nut rest satisfied that all is secure unless they can reach a run ming stream of water, or else sink con siderable surface of copper plate until permanently damp earth is reached
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WHAT IT WILL Do-There is a. sharr rivalry just now in Alabama among differ ent guano dealers. Vt One of them, by way of showing the superiority of his guano over any. other, says that & far mer recently put a sample of 1t into his pocket, in which there happened to be a carpet tack, and started home on horse back Before reaching his house his steed broke down, and the faruner lwHs at loss to discover the cause until he found that the carpet tack had grown to be long bar of railway iron,
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THEY ARE NEEDED. There are ninety nine societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in full working order in various countries. England has been working in the cause for the past sixty years, and has founded twenty-seven societies. America has been working only five years, and twenty-three States have organized similar associations.
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The Deacea's Prayer.

In the regular evening meeting
 That the chur ;h holds, every week, One night listening angel sat as. e. To hear them pray and speak. ..-...... It puzzled the soul of the angel
 Why some to that gathering came, But sick and sinful hearts he saw,
 Wita grief and guilt sfame. y" They were silent, but said to the angel,
 Our lives have need of Him!" - Whie doubt, with dull, vague, throbbing pain, Stirred through their spirits dim. You could see twas the regular meeting,
 And the regular seats were filled, And all knew who would pray and talk,
 Though any one might that willed From his place in front, near the pulpit,
 In his leng-accustomed way, When the Book was read, and the hymn was The Deacon arose to pray. .s First came the ong preamble t.t.e : If Peter had opened so. sF -.... He had been, ere the Lord his prayer had Full fifty fathom below. a E-s -.. Then volume of information i.-=- .s. Poured forth, as if to the Lord, -..... Concerning His ways and attributes,
 And the things by Him abhorred. But not in the list of the latter
 Was mentioned the mocking breath or the hypocrite prayer that is not prayer, And the make-believe life in death. Then he prayed for the church and the pastor And that s'souls might be his hire"- Whatever his stipend otherwise
 And the Sunday-school; and the choir; And the swarming hordes of India
 And the pertaining. vile Chinese; ui0 And the millions who bow to the Pope of Rome And the pagan churches of Greece; And the outcast remnants of Judah or whose guilt he had much to tell He prayed. or he told the Lord he prayed, For everything out of Hell. 7,.-, Now, if all of that burden had really a...s..-t Been weighing upon his soul,
 Fwould have sunk him through to the China side, tfs5s& rtgf tt, -e-r----~- And raised hill over the hole.
 ss-ie = - . a"4 Twas the regular evening meeting,
 And the regular prayers were male, But the listening angel told the Lord qls9 That only the silent prayed.
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THE LARGE C1TIEs.-The only three cities on the globe positively known to contain over 100000 inhabitants are London, Paris, and New York includ- ing Brooklyn), the reported population of Yeddo, Pekin, and other heather cen ters having been proved to be wildly exaggerated Berlin, St. Petersburg, Naples, and Vienna do not differ very widely in population, though the Prus- sian capital is growing more rapidly than any of the other cities, and is prob ably the largest by 40,0O0 to 50,0O0,
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A MIXED POPULATION. In the Flo urth Ward of New York, in one block, are 69 old and rickety buildings occupied by AIS families, of which 2 are Welsh, Por- tuguese, 19 English, 10 American, 12 French, 39 colored, 1S6 Italians, 189 Pol ish, 218 German, and 84S Irish. In one
 b'ock of buildings owned or controlled by the same parties, are over 5000. Several tenements contain over 1000. These are huddled together in filthy, dark, un- ventilated rooms, for which they pay extortionate prices and suffer untold
 nliseries in body and mind.
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The Ship.

And seel she stirs
 She starts she moves-she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, .iss And, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, I She4eaps into the oceans armsI g.tg .,.l e%And To from the assembled crowd a,1 There rose sho1t, prolonged and loud, That to the ocean seemed to say iaF ..is H Take her, bridegroom, cd and gray, Take her to thy prote citing arms,
 With all her youth and all her charms 1" sE. How beautiful she is How fair ana She lies within those arms that press Her form with many a soft caress i1@ Of tenderness and watchtul carel .r-r Sail forth into the sea, 0 shipl
 Through wind and wave, right onward steer The moistened eye, the trembling lip, Are not the signs of doubt or fear. +' Sail forth into the sea of life.
 O gentle. loving, trusting wife, ..9 And safe from all diversity
 Upon the bosom of that sea '.t s.i.'- .'I Thy cemings and thy goings bel ..,.. ell For gentleness and love and trust Prevail OCT angry wave and gust ., 4,.s And in the wreck of noble lives
 Something immortal still survives
Connecticut western news., 1871-07-21

THE French elections show that the army ever ywhere voted for Republican candidates for the Assembly, and that their lists of candidates were nearly all headed with the name of Gambetta.
Connecticut western news., 1871-07-21

THE hay crop near Portsmouth, N. H., is fast being harvested, The esti- mated yield will be from one-third to one-half less than last, year.
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Special Notices, 50 per cent. in advance of the

Special Notices, 50 per cent in advance of the above rates. .E..l
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 Cards in Business Directory, occupying five lines or less, $500 per year; over five lines, $1 1.O0 per line. -- -. e. ...- -l ..r.q
 Regular advertisers to pay quarterly. Tran slent advertisements must be paid for in ad- vance. .r .-...s -..-". .,.5F 1-t. f-.E
 Notices of Marriages and Deaths free of charge. All additions to ordinary announce ments 10 cents per line. ...5 ;-' ..t.s.l&'
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BoYs AND SMOKE. A French physician has investigated the effect of smoking on thirty eight boys, between the ages of nine and fifteen, addicted to the habit. Iwenty-seven presented distinct symp- toms of nicotine poison. In twenty two there were serious disorders of the cir culation, Indigestion, dulness of intellect, and marked appetite for strong drinks j; in three there was heart affection in eight decided deterioration of blood in twelve there was frequent epis-taxis ten had disturbed sleep, and four had ulcera- tlon of the mucous membrane of the mouth. -..
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Romantic Result of a Stare,

A beautiful and wealthy young lady, at a social party, took offence at what she supposed to be the impertinent gaze of gentleman present, who was stranger to her, but friend of the lady of the house. The young lady demanded his expulsion as a condition of her remain ing. Explanations ensued. The gentle man was not looking at her, though beautiful enough to attract and fasten the attention of any one .'' He was look ing at fine and costly chain that en- circled the fair ones neck-just such a one as he had purchased for his sister in one of the links of which (having a secret opening) he had put his photo graph. But, some months since, and before he had an, opportunity to present it to his sister, it was stolen from him.
 Upon examining the lady's chain he touched spring Ito the little beauty unknown, and To, and behold there was his photograph l1.a4ti4 io 4msu ... ..s
 I leave you to judge of the confusion of the fair one. She immediately offered to return the piece of jewelry, which was politely declined, for the time, and it is said by knowing ones that she has con- cluded to accept of the young mans hand and heart, in order that, being the possessor of the one she may be permit ted to retain the other. It is but justice to remark that the young lady bought the chain of travelling peddler, who had stopped at her fathers house, for about one-half of it's original cost.-Ohio paper. .rsz-....-z ..-.-s