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Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15
A Corner in Grain.

The Chicago grain market has recently been in highly demoralized condition, owing to the operations of clique of grain speculators who succeeded Tn work ing up corner in wheat. These grain deliver grain in immense quantities, often without owning or expecting to own bushel of the commodity. For instance, the battle which ragged between the long and short interests in Chicago brought loss upon thousands of innocent parties, and in many instances, doubtless, utter ruin. Vessels were lying at the wharves unable to load because shippers could not afford to buy grain at the arti- ticial prices produced by the excitement. The owners of Touring mills were obliged to suspend operations because millers could not buy wheat at the prices then ruling, and sell fouf at the price it would be likely to command when the furry caused by the corner should subside. Country shippers who had legitimately sold their grain to arrive in August, found themselves unable to reach the market in time, owing to the pressure existing for cars to bring in grain for sale before the high price should disap- pear, and were obi 1ged to lose twenty or twenty-five cents bushel on their own property, as they could only fill their contracts by purchasing wheat at an ex- orbitant price from the combination. The grain business was also deranged in many other ways by this corner values were unsettled, and the interests both of producers and consumers seriously pre- judiced. The people of Illinois have a realizing sense of the mischievous effects of fictitious operations in grain, and the Legislature has passed laws prohibiting sales without actual delivery, but they
 have been of no effect.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15
Rearing Cattle in Kansas.

We drove out to Kansas farm, says correspondent to look at herd of 46O Texas beeves nearly ready to go East. They came across the Indian Territory last October, and were so thin and travel worn that they sold slow, not much over $20 all around. The owner has kept them partly on the open prairie, and part of the time in a corral. They eat ahout $2 worth of hay each, and he pays two herds-one $40 and the other $50 month. His outlay for labor and hay will be $1,730. His gain, if he realizes $2O head profit, will be $9,2OO. De- duct expenses, and he has $7,47O net profit. This stock handler made $25, ,OOO last year, so his neighbors tell me. This herd was obtained at very low figure, because they came late and looked bad :; the Texas man who drove then probably lost on them.
 The same correspondent adds: A calf is lassooed and branded in Texas. Probably he does not come within half- a-mile of man from then till he is ready to start on his long journey to the North. He costs no more than a goose or 8 spring chicken. If the Texas ranchero gets $1O for him when he is IS | IAOAbAAo OAIA AO CttA sbuOIu UO S01l lOT UI1bb. for one man can easily tend 100, and his annual sale would give him $1, 1000 in gold. The Kansian can buy at $15, and in year make him worth $50. The corn grower of Eastern Kansas, Iowa and Illinois buys at $3O or $35, and by skillful handling can in nine months make him worth four $6O to $7O These are the average figures on which to base an estimate of the profit of the Western stock business. But it must not be inferred that Kansas depends on the broad-horns. On the contrary through Northern Kansas the stock is widely marked with the short-horn features. The best way f,r poor man to begin in the stock business is thus marked out by man who has 15 years experience handling stock between the valley of the Red and prairies of the Kaw Let him buy 20 Texas cows they will cost him $2O eacn-$4OO, and put into the range with them good three-quarter blooded short-horn. He can homestead or preempt some land where he can cut ton to the acre oI good blue-joint prairie grass. In Is months he will have 20 young animals worth SIS each-$36O, and 20 coming on. With no hired help he can in { few years sell 100 animals year at $2C each-$2, ,OO0. He is supposed, O. course, to be industrious; he raises corn and blows his corn. land for winter grair and improves his claim.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15
American Institute Fair.

In the Amer1can Institute Fair, in session in New York, the articles for exhibition are divided into seven depart
 ments, and each department into seven groups. The first of these is the De- partment of Fine Arts and Education, and its several groups will include paint in9s on canvas, glass and other surfaces, engravings, chromos, Autographs, pho- tographs, sculpture, musical instruments, specimens of printing and book-bindipg, philosophical instruments, &c. Second is the Department of the Dwelling, to which is assigned the balcony space on the left of the main building. sS Here will be found all articles necessary for house. keeping-ranges, refrigarators, stoves, carpets, upholstery, cutlery, &c., all clas- sified and grouped Third, is the De- partment of Dress and Handicraft, wherein will be displayed all manner of wearing apparel, for ladies, gentlemen and children, sewlng-machines, jewelry, thousand and one articles with which ladies perform their work. Fourth, is the Department of Chemistry and Min eralogy, where are to be found soaps, candles, oils, India rubber goods, drugs, medicines, &c. Fifth, is the Depart ment of Engines and Machinery, where there are engines of all kinds, pumping machinery, machinery for working metals, machinery for working in wood
 machinery for preparing flores and tis
 sues, machinery for grinding and crush
 ing grain, and mechanics tools of al kinds. Sixth, is the Department of In
 tercommunication, where locomotives steamships, carriages, wagons, sleighs telegraphic apparatus, are exhibited, to- gether with the machinery for produc ing certain portions of these articles
 Seventh, and last, is the Department oI Agriculture and Horticulture. Here vii
 be found plants, flowers, fruits, vegeta
 bles, butter, cheese, blows, and genera assortment of agricultural implements.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15

P1EAsANT.-A cooperative milliner and dressmaking house in London is founded on shares It contains every comfort for forty young ladies. They work never longer than eight hours daily. A piano, large library, instruc- tion in different branches of science, gymnastic exercises, and visitors fill their leisure time. Two French forewomen and two lady superintendents manage the business and the house. Their fifteen hundred customers, belonging to the highest ranks, are at the same time shareholders. The second year, 1867, when the writer visited London, it gave 8 dividend of six per cent to the share holders and after distributing $1O,219 to the working women as their part on shares, fund of $500 was left. The general behavior is excellent.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15

CARE OF Go1D F1sH.-I have, says a correspondent, some gold fish, about 8 a dozen, in glass jar, such as confec- tioners use for candies. I give them fresh water every day, but every morn ing find one or more dead. Can you tell me the cause and the remedy, and what food, if any, is good for them 1? They die of starvation, of course, because you do not feed them. Many people suppose that fish in globes will find food enough in the animacule in the water, if the latter be changed every day. But it Is a mistaken idea. Fish in globes must be fed at least twice week. The bird and fancy fish dealers will tell you where to get the paste that is given for food. Where the water is being contin- ually changed, as in fish fountains, of course the fish can find provender for themselves.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15


 Over-doctored.
 Without any dsrsspect the members of the medical profession, profession honored by all thinking men, it only just say that they too thick the The is that the community dootored much When nature needs only the gentle stimulant and alternative, which has bso,me famous throughout the country reliable medioins, under the of Hostetters Stomach Bitters she is not unfrequenty dosed with dozen prescriptions. all experimental. from the Pharmacopoeia. This is evil, and proves that the practice of medicine far from being at all times healing art At this period of the year. when the fall of leaf indicates that decay has upon the etable kingdom many harassing diseases prevalent Chief among these may be mentioned intermittent fever and bilious remittent The exhaatons rising from decomposng vegetation, and the heavy dews and fogs, very apt to generate these complaints The wsest policy protect the system by of Hos fall Much suffering may thereby be avoided But if the disease has already begun its periodical may readily be checked and broken by this active. yet harmless, vegetable tonic.
 But be your guard against the charlatans who are attempting to palm of, under various names unwhoe compounds which they pretend to compare favor ably with the great national elixir which has long since swept formidable opposition from the field Bear in mind that every bottle of genuine Hostetters Stom aoh Bitters is authenticated by spenddly engraved label and ac siile of the sign manual of the firm. Put up bottles only, and cannot be obtained in bulk
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15

EASY GoINa.-An eastern man who has been travelling in Oregon, complaiLs that he found the people well-to-do in 8 an easy-going, slip-shod style, e much as as in the days when everybody had gold And he illustrates their thriftlessness by little story, saying that one time, think ing he should relish some milk, he called at several farm-houses in vain for it, the invariable answer being" We'll, you see 1n the summer time the COWS get down in the bottom lands, and they don't come up" When he ventured to suggest that an enterprising popula- tion would go after the COWS, and drive them up, he, only elicited smile or a shrug.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15
Modern Life.

I sit in . quaint old garden,
 With weather-stained, warm old wall, And over the blaze of the flowers
 The brown shadows cooling fall. And the long lawns stretch before me. And bathe my eyes in their green And the elms in the park stop swaying, For fear they should wake the scene. And the tall white church on the hilltop Shines like lighthouse tower; And the sun seems to nod Tn heaven,
 As he drips out his golden shower. And the grev-eyed wife is smiling,
 Half asleep, with her hand in mine, To see how her baby is striving
 To make the short daisies twine. And sit in peace in the garden,
 And my soul has sense of home;' And my brain is straiuing to bursting,
 Thinking whence cash may come.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15
AN ARTISTS SUICIDE. suicide of

AN ARTISTS SUICIDE. suicide of Amelia Garcia, in New Orleans, has ex- cited unusual sympathy. Deceived by 8 lover, for whom she had given up society and the profession she loved, she pro- cured some laudanum and so ended her days. The residents in the neighborhood of her residence say that about the time the poison must have commenced its fatal work she went and seated herself at the piano. and for more than on hour played and sang. Her rich, thrilling voice, running to it's full compass, revelled m the sweetest music they ever heard. Strains of passionate sorrow, mingled with the sorrowful cadence of funeral dirge, as the dying cantatrice sung her life away.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15
FINANCIAL.
Investment Securities.

JAY COOKE Co.,, are now selling. and recommend as
 profitable and safe investment for all classes the First Mortgage 7-sO Gold Bonds of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company bearing Seven and Three-Tenths and secured by first and only mortgage the entire Road and equipments and more than e8, 900 Acres of Land every mile of track 500 Acres of Land to each $1 cod Bond The highest current price will be paid for U. S. FveTwenties, and allother marketable Securities received in exchange Pamphlets maps and full information we'll the bonds themselves will be furnished on application by JAY COOKE Co.,, Phila- dephia New York and Washington and by most Banks and Bankers throughout the country.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15

DIFFERENCE IN Eaas.-The German town Telegraph remarks that "there is vast difference in the flavor of eggs. Hens fed on clean, sound grain and kept on clean grass run, give much finer favored egss than those that have iac- cess to stables and manure heaps and eat all kinds of filthy food. Hens feed ing on fish or onions flavor their eggs accordingly-the same as COWS eating on:ons or cabbages, or drinking offensive water, impart bad taste to the milk and butter. The richer the food the higher the color of the egg. Wheat and corn give the best color, while feeding on buckwheat makes the eggs colorless, rem dering them unfit for some confectionery purposes" -. sz
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15
SINGULAR Acc1DENr.-At least six men

SINGULAR Acc1DENr.-At least six men lost their lives by singular accident on the Burlington (Iowa) and Missouri Rail road. A COW on the track in front of two freight cars which were being pushed along by an engine, threw one of them off at point where four workmen were digging ditch by the side of the track. This car was thrown across the track the second car was thrown upward by the first, and fell over the locomotive, and then falling to one side crushed the four workmen beneath its ruins. Ot seven or eight men on the car, two have already died, including the conductor, and the others were more orless injured. As the car fell over on the engine il knocked the engineer senseless and in. | iured the fireman somewhat.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15

THE purest and sweetest Cod-iver Oil in the world is HAZARD & CAswEL1's s, made on the sea-shore, from fresh, se- lected ivers, by CAswELL, HAZARD & Co.,, New York. It is absolutely pure and s,oeet Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physi- cians have decided it superior to any of the other oils in market.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15
Honn1n1n-Two men and woman i'm

HORRIBLE. men and woman in Easton, Adams County, Wis, are &C., cused of whipping little boy eight years old with heavy iron wire, of branding him on the neck with hot iron, and of compelling him to hold live coals in his hands until the flesh and muscles were scorched and shriveled. They are in jail. The poor boy is son of the woman by husband now dead, and it is alleged that she has been the most active in inflicting upon her child the horrid crueltiea he has endured.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15

THE CoMMUN1sTs.-M. Brissy, one of the communist leaders, has been con- demned to death by the Versailles court martial. Upon Ferre and Lullier the same sentence has been passed. Several prominent communists, Assi and Urbain among the number, have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. 9th. CTS have been fined and acquitted.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15
UNITED STATES CURRENCY fol lowing is the official statement of United
Total. .sss5, AGO, 74s.

TEE IDEA OF UNIVERSAL MEDICINE is at last realized in DR. WALKERS CALL FoRN1A VINEGAR B1TTERs. This concen- trated essence of the finest medicinal herbs and roots in the Western hemi- sphere, eradicates all diseases which have not undermined the sources of vitality, and in Chronic Indigestion, Nervous Headache, Congestion of the Liver, Rheumatism, Gout, General Debility, and innumerable ulcerous and scabious disorders, it is 8 specific absolute and infallible.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15

THE bark Courier has been lost in 8 typhoon in the China sea. Her crew, composed entirely of Chinamen, went down with the vessel. tl3
 THE New York Democratic State Com mittee met at Albany, and decided to hold their State Convention on the 4th of October. This is one week after the Republican Convention.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15

A STATE convention of the "Anti- Dramshop" party of New York was held at-Syracuse and the following ticket was nominated for State officers to he voted for in the ensuing election For Secretary of State, 0. c. Leigh, of New York Comptroller, Gardiner Rowland, of RensselaeR-; State Treasurer, Simeon Brownell. of Washington Attorney General, Edward Crumney, of Duchess; Canal Commissioner, John B. Edwards, of Oswego; State Engineer and Sur veyor, O. W. Mills, of Fulton ; Inspector of State Prisons, w., Marks, of Ontario. A prohibitory platform was adopted.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15

ToBAcco.-A tobacco raiser says that twelve leaves on plant are enoug gh. As soon as the flower buds appear always top them, first pulling all the lower leaves off that lay on the ground and keeping all suckers of. In this way he will raise very strong tobacco.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15

THE best Water-pipe, also the cheapest when strength and durability are con- sidered, is. the Tin lined Lead Pipe, manufactured by the CoLwELus, SHAW & WILLARD Mfg Co.,, No 2l3 Centre street, New York. ...... ...a
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15
A Frightful Disaster.

A terrible explosion occurred in coal mine near the town of Wigan, in Lanca- shire. Some fifty persons who were in seam of the mine at the time of the catastrophe were cut off from communi- cation with the outer world, and were all sufocated by foul air. A party sent down to ascertain the condition of the men who had been buried alive suffered, and many of them perished. The neigh borhood of the disaster was thronged with the relatives and acquaintances of the supposed victims, and the scenes were of the most heart-rending descrip- tion. Over 70 persons were killed by the explosion.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15

MISSIONARIES and others soiournirg in foreign lands should not fall to take with them a good supply of JoHNsoN's ANoDYNE L1NuMENT. It is the most re- liable medicine for all purposes there is in the world,
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15

CONTAGIOUS diseases, such as horse ail, glander, &c., may be prevented by the use of SHER1pAN's CAVALRY CONDITION POWDERS. Persons travelling with horses should take note of this.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15

THE latest election returns from Wyc- ming Territory give the Republicans a majority of in the Senate, and the Democrats a majority of in the House.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15

R@RAnROAD BONDS. Whether you wish to buy or sell, write to CHARLES W. HAss1ER, No. 7 Wall st., New York.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15
THEA-NE ECTAR
FARMERs, FAINT

We are manufacturing very superior paint st half the price of ordinary paints It brown but bv the ad
 dtion of dry paints be made lighter nr darker is able for houses barns fences freight depots boil CTS smoke stacks metal roofs, Ac: We also manTfso- soriptions of roofs For price lists samples &c., ad- ~ ~ No 6z Courtlaudt St., New York.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15
.UPTU R E

Relieved and cured by Dr. Shermans Patent Appliance and Compound Oface 6s1 Broadway, N Y. Send l0c; for book with photographic kenesses of before and after with Henry Ward Beeohers letters and portrait Beware of travelling imposors who pretend to have been assistants of pr. SHERMAN.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15

WANTED pssias ss,!es s'fn n the ana 1sse ket. Send stamp for circular. EAGLE Co.,, S2 Wash S'. Boston.
 Ep ENT, GOODNOW & CO, Boston, Mass: ED Publish THE PATENT STAR" sell Patents, and give profitable agences to canvassefs. n CENTS.-"STAR SPANGLED BANNER is E%W a large illustrated page 40 column paper over
 flowing tn Rich, Rare and Rscy reading, Stories. Witt Humor, Fun. 600 Swndlers named and fully exposed this year. It "shows up rascality and will save your
 bues 75 cents year, but will send it on trial to YOU months for dime. Elegant nso Chromo Jree to every yearly subscriber. Send to v,
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15
vEGETKN E
Oycr.60ctDrod.

Has restored thousands to health who been long and painful sufferers.
Connecticut western news., 1871-09-15
The Public Debt.

The following is statement of the present condition of the public debt of the country :.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-09-08

So universal is the practice of fishing
at st. Johns, Newfoundland, that the
very dogs, in many instances, acquire
the art. The following anecdote is re-
lated by the late Professor Jukes, the
distinguished geologist, who visited
this island more than twenty years
ago: 81 observed one day a dog at
work catching fish on his own account.
He sat on a projecting rock, beneath
a fish stage, where the fish are laid out
to dry, watching the water, which had
a depth of six or eight feet, and the
bottom of which was white with fish
bones. One piece Of Goldfish being
thrown into the water, three or four
heavy, clumsy looking fish, called in
Newfoundland 'sculpins' (dragonets)
with great heads and mouths, and
many spines about them, and generally
about foot long, would swim IN to
catch it. There he would set at
tentively, and the moment one turned
his broadside to him he dashed down
like fish hawk, and seldom come up
without a fish in his mouth. As he
caught them, he regularly took them
to a place few yards off, where he
laid them down; and they told US that
in the summer he would sometimes
make pile of sixty or seventy day,
just in that place. He never attempted
to eat them, but seemed to be fishing
purely for his own amusement.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-09-08
Stlil Onward and Upward.

The extraordinary increase that has
takeH place in the sale Of Hosetter'S StOm-
ach Bittcrs during the past year is another
proof that an intelligent people, although
they may try all things, hold fast only TO
that which is good. No amount of pufiery
can lift inferior articles 10 the position of
standard specifics. To use the words OF
Tom Payne, they may go up like q rocket,
but aGe sure to come down ANONYMOUSLY
like its extinguishCd stick. hundreds of
such nOStroms have gone up and come
down since the introduction OF HoStetter'S
Stomach BitterS, nearly the fifth OF Il CEN
fury ago. lc, ii still remains the supreme
tonic OF the age. II has not, and never has
h ad, q rival in efficacy or popularity, and
now stands at the head OF a proprietary
remedies manufactured on this side OF the
Atlantic. In every civilized community on
this continent, or in South America 1t is
the accepted remedy Tor dyspepsia, bilious
complaints, constipation, general debility,
nervous weakness and many other un-
pleasant or dangerous maladieS. 4 med-
cine so widely extended is of course pirated
and initiated by dealers without conscience
or integrity.
Therefore, let every man and woman who
designs to purchase the genuine HoStetters
Stomach BitterS, see TO ii Tn L they have
what they pay for, and not the results OF an
infamous impoSture. Look carefully at
label stamp and name blown in the glass,
and do not forget that the true LRteIS is sold
in bottles only,