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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-07

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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-07

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Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20
Again the Diamond Swindle.

Messrs. Harpending, Rubery, and Maurice Dore at San Francisco, have testified before the Executive Committee of the mining company Investigating the diamond swindle. Harpending said he went to London in 1871 thence to Paris. He started for home in April, 1872, in company with Rubery, Hill, Lent, and Fargo. They held a consultation with MT. Barlow in New York, about the dia- mond fields, and it was decided that a party should go from Denver to the fields. Slack and Arnold went, taking Janin as an expert. Arnold got lost, but was finally found. At Diamond Mesa, near the Dome Mountains, in three minutes Harpending picked mp a large number of diamonds. They staked the ground and returned to San Fran cisco, leaving Rubery in the field. Janip had 1000 shares, which he sold to Lent and Rarpending for S40,000. The total value of shares sold in San Francisco was S320,00 One man, whose name is withheld, makes a clean breast of the swindle and names all the parties con- cerMed.
 Lent will shortly present to the Dia- mond Executive Committee full ac- count of the transactions of himself, Harpending, Calston, and others from first to last, with Arnold, Slack, and Janin. It is understood that the name of the man who made the confession of the swindle is Cooper. The gems were purchased in Europe and displayed at s m Francisco. Arnold, Slack, and Cooper made $50, ,000, with which they bought more gems in Europe and salted the ground with them, and then took Janin to the place and picked up dia- monds for him. The latter's first report was made, and on the strength of that Lent, Harpending and others invested in the stock. Detectives are on the look out for the swindlers. The famous Stan ton ruby, which has been represented to be worth $250, ,00O, was tested by lapi- daries and proved to be a soft garnet worth about $l0O.
Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20
The Liberal Republican Party.

Ethan Allen, chairman of the Liberal Republican National Committee. has written letter in response to an inquiry as to the future of that party. In his letter he says:-
 We were defeated because no great issues divided tie political parties, and mere personal arguments were not suffi- cient to bring out the popular vote or to cause a change Of administration. We made platform at Cincinnati looking to certain reforms. At Baltimore the de- mocracy took the liberal platform and the nominee. At Philadelphia the repub- licans adopted substantially the same platform and narro wed the fight to one of men, not principles.
 He claims that Mr. Greeley was not unpopular, but says the democracy took no interest in the election, for the reason that MT. G. had always been an enemy to then. "It is now." he adds, " too soon to determine as to the future," and con- cludes his letter in the following language:
 If General Grant faithfully ca: :ries out the pledges of his party, which are sub- stantially the same as those made by the liberals at Cincinnati, he may be the real, though not to us the accepted, agent of reform. If General Grant carries out the measures of our party, consistency, if nothing else, may compel our approval. We cannot honestly assail him if he does for the nation that which we claim to be right. It remains to be seen what General Grant will do in thls direction. He has begun we'll in the Civel Service line in Philadelphia. Will he continue on this road of reforn2 If so, we must applaud him. If he do not, we must resist like honest men who claim to battle for the public good. When Congress has settled down to business presume the leaders of our party-Messrs, Sumner, Trumblll, Schurz, Tipton and the many others in the two houses-will "point the way' before us. It would be premature and imprudent to indicate any course till these able and honest men have had time and opportunity to speak. The liberal repub. licans can do no better than to be passive for the present and to watch events. Ii we have forced the enemy,in self-defence, to adopt our own code ot political morals, then we have already won the victory, even though other hands than those which we would have chosen execute the reform. But if the party in power prove by their recreancy that the VOWS made in the storm are to be broken in the sum- shine, then it will be in order to send every liberal republican again to his proper place to prove by future efforts that the liberal victory has in truth been only postponed.
Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20

CAPT1vEs RErURNED.-Superinte Hoag in his receipt ot letters from Agent Tatum, at Fort Sill, announcing that the noted Kiowa chief, Horseback,1 had brought in two more white children. They were obtained from the Quahada Comanches. One of them is boy, aged twelve years, who says that his name is Adolph Cohn, a German boy, captured by the New Mexican Apatches, near San Antonia, Texas. The other boys age is not given by the agent, but is probably thirteen or fourteen. He cannot remem- Der his parents names, further than that they were called John and Sarah. He says that his mother was killed when he was taken, but that his father was away from home. Other persons were killed when he was captured. All he remembers of the place is that it was near military post and mountains. He cannot speak English, and thinks he has been with the Indians ten years, though Agent Tatum doubts if he has been captive SO long as that. When the boys are properly cloth ed they will be sent to school. Horse back was extremely desirous of exchang- ing these whitescaptives for some relatives of his recently captured by General Mac kenzie. He named over nineteen women and children, any one or more of whom he would like to exchange for. Among the women the untutored Indian mention ed his mother-in-law. Agent Tatum told him he would use his influence with the Government, and perhaps some system of exchange might be adopted
 SAVING TWENTY DOLLARS A DAY.-I have saved $20 to-day. How ? I'll tell you. It took myself and one man and a team e1ght hours to clean every meadow on my farm of Instructions to the mower. My good neighbor Pomeroy paid $2O one day the past season for not doing just such job. Put my own labor and my team's at $4 per day, and my man Noah's at $1.5O, including board, and it cost me an investment of $5.50 to save $2o. But the neglect to do what I have done cost Pomeroy more than $2O. It damaged his mower that amount. It delayed the cutting of his clover when it should have been cut, deprecia- ting it's value; it disarranged1his work and demoralized his workmen, and the pebble "a powder, by the way) ln the pool (meadow) sent it's ripple of inAu- ence through the Falls work. Then there IS not better time to de this work than just now. The rains have made the ground moist enough to enable one to loosen the stones easily.
Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20
St. Michael's SteepIo.
W. M. CARLETON.

A romantic story of the bells of St. Michael's church in Charleston, s. O., which we copied day or two ago from Mrs. Carson's book, reminds us of an incident in relation to that church which probably has never been printed, or if it has, is old enough and interesting enough to be told again. We heard 1t related long since by an old lady who witnessed it when she was young girl, perhaps eighty years ago.
 This lady, who was from Massachu- sets, was on visit at Charleston in the latter part of last century. It was at 8 time when there occurred fire which burned up considerable portion of the city, and which for many years marked an era in it's history as |" the time of the great fire P though, doubtless, that ancient date has been wiped out by events more recent and disastrous St. MichaePs, however, was then, as it has always continued to be, the pride of the citizens of Charleston, who truly claimed that it served, from its height, as a beacon to sailors approaching the coast, and was the last thing sighted, far out at sea, by those who were outward bound. And not only was it their pride, but it almost seemed to them that Providence had the beautiful old church in it's special keeping, when, the morning after the fire, they turned their eyes up ward to see it's lofty spire almost pierc- ing the clouds, while beneath and all around it lay in blackened ruins the fairest and largest part of their beloved 1 city, and the ashes of so many of the stricken people,.
 It had, however, barely escaped | destruction, and that by an act ofhero- ism which IS now, perhaps forgotten in Charleston, but is recalled by native of Massachusetts as pleasant reminiscence of his childhood and of the venerable woman who told of the brave act of which she was an witness.
 | While the fire was raging and the whole city seemed doomed to destruc. tion, the Mayor and Aldermen sat in solemn and anxious council to devise ways and means to stay the confagration and to provide for those who had lost all their worldly possessions, and who stood half naked and shivering by the smold- ering ruiLs of thelr homes. The news came to them that St, Michael's was in danger, for the fire was approaching the | squaIo WueTo lG SIOOO, ana aSrOfm O1 great burning brands was showered down upon its roof and buried against its steeple. Men upon the roof put out the fiery missiles as they fell, and could reach and dislodge those that fastened themselves upon the lower portion of the spire but the danger was that some burning shingle, borne far up in the af, by the gale, would make lodg, ment out of reach, insuring, not only the destruction of the church, but spreading the flaming passengers far and wide from5 this great height over parts of the city .assyet untouched by the rain of fire. h. ... e..~.v. '..s '....
 The fear was well-sounded. It was not leng Before a flying brand caught and fastened itself upon the topmost height of the spire. The spectators watched il anxtously in the vain hope that it would
Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20
Curious Facts about Water.

The extent to which water mis2lcS with bodies apparently the most solid is very wonderful. The gGttering opal which beauty wears as an ornamental is only flint and water. Of every twelve hundred tons of earth which landlord has in his estate four hundred are water. The snow capped summits of our highest mountains rave many million tons of water ln a soidifed form. In every plaster of Paris statue which an Italian carries through OUT streets for sale there is one pound ol water to isur pounds of chalk. The air we breathe contains five grains of water to each cubic foot of its bulk. The pcta- toes and turnips which are boiled. for our dinner have, in their raw state, the one seventy five per cent. and the other ninety per cent. of water. If man weighing 40 pounds were squeezed in hydraulic press, seventy pounds of water would run out, the balance being solid matter. A man is, chemically speaking, forty-five pounds of carbon and other elements, with nitrogen, dlffused through five and a half pailfuls of water. In plants we find water thus mingling no less wonderfully. A suuhower cvaporates one and quarter pnts of water day, and a cabbage about the same quantity. A wheat plant ex- hales, in ono hundred ard seventy five days, about one hundred thousand grains of water,
Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20
A Chapter on Cooking.

Pierre Blot who is known as good authority on the subject says:
 If roasted, the birds are placed as near the fire as possible at first, and then put back by degrees to prevent burning. They must be pasted often with the juice in the pan.
 Cranberry sauce and currant jelly are usual ly relshed with venison, geese, turkeys, etc. Water-cress will be found quite an improve Ment when served with quails and partridges, and forms pretty ornament to the dish when tastefully placed around the birds after they nave been dished and the gravy poured over them.
 Many excellent dishes are spoiled by not being served at the proper time. Every body knows t6e difference between steak served directly from the gridiron, and one that has been kept in the oven some time.
 As gravy is indispensable to roast meat, we will tell our readers how to make it.. The best meat is generally fat, especially a joint, turkey, or a chicken, etc.; therefore when the meat is roasted there is scarcely any liquid but fat left in the pan. As fat must not be served, the joint or bird is dished and put in the oven, the door of which is left open; all the fat is turned of the pan, broth is put in instead, and the pan is placed over the fire. Take a wooden spoon, stir gently all over the bottom of the pan, give one boil, turn the contents over the joint through 8 strainer, and serve. You then have gravy that de- serves that name, and not greasy, muddy substance, as uninviting to the eye as to the palate.
 The digestive apparatus of man is not made to digest raw flour. When flour is used in the composition of sauce it must first be properly cooked.
 Broth is easily and cheaply made. A care full cook will find almost enough to make as much broth as is necessary for the soup, sauces, and gravies in the trimmings of roast, ing pieces, the bones of roasted joints of beet and veal that are generally left on the dish, and tie bones of turkeys and chickens. When there is not enough of the above, a pound or two of beef, according to the size of the family, may be bought to make the broth The pieces for soup are either from the shin, leg, or chuck-piece, and must be
Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20

LONG BR1DGE.-The river Fay, in Scot land, is to be spanned by bridge that is to be the longest in the world. The Victoria bridge at Montreal, which has heretofore been the longest, is 9,194 feet; that now being constructed over tue Fay will be 10,32l, a difference in its favor of 1,127 feet. It lacks but eighty yards in being two miles in length. The work is to be finished in three years from May, 1871. Tue greatest height of the structure will be eighty eight feet above high-watcr mark. There are to be eiehty-nnc spans, fourteen of which wilt be 200 feet wide. The piers are to be of cast iron, cylindrical in form, filled in with brick. The piers will require 2,600 tons of cast iron, while the supcrstructure, which will be of mal- Ieable iron, will use up 3,60o tons. The contract for the whole bridge was taken by MT. De Berghne, at E2l7 ,ooO, about $1,0S5,000 gold.
Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20
FOR SALE,

TVHAT VALUABLE FARM in a good state of 1 cultivation and well stocked, Belonging to John R. Hurburt, situated ? miles east of the Congregational church at South Canaan and 1-2 miles from the Housatonic railroad depot at Falls Village, Conn.,. consisting of 230 acres; So 12 of which is wood and sprout land, the greater pro- portion of the sprouts about D years old, the mainder well divided into blow, pasture and mead ow land, with plenty of orchardng and fruit and beautiful maple grove which will yield each year an abundance of sap for making sugar; well watered by splendid trout brook running the entire length of the farm. and beautiful living springs, with buildings well located, consisting of 3 dwelling house, cheese and wood house; 3 barns, COW uses, shop, milk house, and % pf the vat which s large snoagh % to contain 10 milk cans, also good cistern with chain pump, and never failing spring of water running near the ioof- Said farm is noted for being one of the most productive in the township, having for many years yielded large returns to its owner. will sell with or without the stock to suit purchaser Possession can be given any time. Terms easy Come and see. Apply to
 J. R. HURLBURT,
 36tf Falls Village, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20
GOin' Home To-Day.

My business on the jury's done-the quibblin'
 all is through I've watched the lawyers, right and left, and
 give my verdict true; I stuck so long unto my chair, thought I
 would grow in :; And if do not know myself, they'll get me
 there agin. But now the courts adjourned for good, and
 have got my pay; I'm loose, at last, and thank the Lord, I'm
 goin' home to-day. I've somehow felt uneasy, like, since first day
 come down; It is an awkward game to play the gentleman
 in town And this 'ere Sunday suit of mine, on Sunday
 rightly sets, But when wear the stuff a week, it somehow
 gals and frets. I'd rather wear my homespun rig of pepper-salt
 and gray I'll have it on in half a jiff, when get home
 to-day. I have no doubt my wife looked out, as well as As we'll as any woman could-to see that things
 was done; For though Melinda, when I'm there, won't set
 her foot out doors, ,. She very careful, when I'm gone, to tend to
 all the chores. But nothing prospers half so well, when go
 off to stay, And will put things into shape when get
 home to-day. The mornin' that came away, we had little
 bout; I cooly took my hat and left, before the show
 was out. For what said was naught whereat she ought
 to take offence; And sho was always quick at words, and ready
 to commence, But then, she's first one to give up, when she
 has had her say; And she will meet me with kiss. when go
 home to-day. My little boy-I1I give 'em leave to match him
 if they can; It's fun to see him strut about, and try to be
 man! The gamest, cheeriest little chap, you'd ever
 want to seel And then they laugh, because think the child
 resembles me. The little rogue he goes for me like robbers for their prey; He'll turn my pockets inside out, when I get
 home to-day. My little girl can't contrive how it should
 happen thus That God could pick that sweet bouquet, and
 fling it down ts us, My wife, she says that handsome face will some
 day make stir; And then laugh, because she thinks the child
 resembles her. She'll meet me half way down the hill, and kiss
 me, anyway; And light my heart up with her smiles when I
 go home to-day. If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow
 knows 1t when He's been away from home week, and then
 gets back again. If there's heaven above the earth, there often
 I'll be bound, Some hemesick fellow meets his folks, and
 hugs 'em, all around. But let my creed be right or wrong or be it as
 it may, My heaven is just ahead of me-I'm goin' home
 to-day.
 M. CARLETON.
Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20

KEEPING APPLES IN PLAsTER.-A cor. respondent of the Rural NeD Yorker thus describes his method of keeping apples io plaster. He says: "I have been experi- menting the past few years with apples, and find those packed in plaster keep much longer than any other way I have tried. I use flour barrels, as they are made tighter. I first covered the bottom of the barrel with plaster, then layer of apples, then cover with plaster, and so on till the bar rel IS full; then put the head in and drive the hoops tight. The plaster, being of a cold nature, keeps the fruit at an even temperature, and, being fine and dry, packs so close as to keep the apples air. tight. I had Northern Spy and Swaar almost as fresh in May as when they were picked, and found no decayed ones, and think they would have kept till early apples were ripe, had we not used them. Shall put up several barrels for next spring and summer use, as am satisfied that our best varieties, such as Steel's Red Winter, Wagner and Seek-no further, will keep several months longer than putting them tip with out plaster, and will retain theil flavor much better besides"
Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20

THE RIGHTS OF DIVORCED W1vEs.-In the case of Caroline Motion against Henry Motion, in New York, case in which plaintiff obtained divorce, some twelve years ago and an allowance of $650 ali mony, motion was made before the Su- preme Court, Chambers, to punish the husband for not continuing to pay tho ali- mony. His excuse was that she was re- married, and therefore no longer entitled to alimony. On her behalf it was argued that as in the Forrest case it had been de-. sided that a 'wife's niseondact subsequent to a divorce did not impair her right to alimopy. honest rcmarriage could not de- prive her of the right. The Court reserved its decision,
Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20

IMMENSE HAMMER AND ANvIL.--The largest portion of tue stuPendous steam hammer to be erected in the royal gun factories at W Woolwich, for the more expe- ditious manufacture of heavy guns, was recently cast in the Dial Square Of the Royal Arsenal. The weight of tie metal used in the casting was los tons, which was first collected from number of fur naces in thEce immense receptacles. and from them poured into the mould, which had been carefully prepared below the level of the floor. While the casting is cooling, the last of the large plates used in the foundations will be made, the weight of this plate being 9S tons. There will be then only the anvil face to cast-a mere trife of 60 tons-and then tLe bed of the hammer will be complete, its total weight down to the piles upon which it rests being about 650 tons. The weight of the falling mass, which answers as the hammer. head, will be 34 tons, the most pondereus hammer of the kingdom.
Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20

The Secretary of the U. s. Treasury calls in the three per cent, certificates from Nov. 2, 1868, to Nov. 22, 1868, ot the denominations of $5,000 each, num- berf.d from 5.17s to 5,403, inclusive. 1; and of the denominations of Slo, ,000, and numbered from 4,e01 to ,s22, exclusive Che amount of the certificates described IS $s5o, 1000, upon which the interest ceases Jan, 31. 1878.
Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20

HoME-MADE YEAsT.-Boil two hand fuls of hops, which should be tied in small bag, in six quarts of water; then slice thin six large potatoes and boil them with the hops when they are soft, skim them out and mash them per fectly fine add to them one and a half pints of wheat flour, stirred to smooth batter with cold water; turn over the whole the boiling hop liquor, first taking out the bag and squeezing it dry then hang it aside to use another time, for 1t will make two patches of yeast. Stir into this mixture two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one of ginger and one of salt. When milk-warm, add teacupful of yeast, set in warm place to rise, and it will be ready to put into jug by the next morning. ~ --2t"
Connecticut western news., 1872-12-20

A MoRAn.-The moral of the north western corner, as of all Wall street cor ners, says New York journal, is, s'Never sell what. you do not possess" If a man buys house for a hundred. thousand dollars and sells it for fifty thousand, he knows his loss but when man sells at 8 certain prlce and agrees to deliver railroad stock that he docs not own, he knows not how much he may be com. pelled to sacrifice in order to make good his engagement