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Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21
THE LOTTERY BUs1NEss.-It is est

THE LOTTERY BUsNEss.-It is esti- mated by person fully conversant with its details that there are in New York city between five hundred and fifty and six hundred places where lottery num- bers are sold. The amount of money daily received at these places averages $20, 1000 per day, or $120, ,000 per week, and for the year $6, ,24O, ,000. The pro- fits of the business, if legitimately con- ducted, would be great; as it is, they are claimed 10 be enormous. It is al. legged that the business is now simply fraudulent. The numbers given out to the various policy shops, and against which those who invest their money play or bet, are supposed to be those first drawn in the lotteries sanctioned by the States of Louisiana and Missouri, the results of such drawings being tele. graphed each day from the places where the drawings are held to the principals of the lottery business in this city. II is alleged that in many instances these numbers have been falsified in order tc cheat those who have wagered on the result, and in various other ways have the credulous gamblers been duped.
Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21
In Q Cranberry Patch.

Some years ago MT. Sackett was 8 successful merchant in Chicago and being known as man of generous and specu- lative turn of mind he was requested by two friends of his to invest with them an equal share in the purchase of western land with view to it's rapid increase in price. More as an accommodation to them than regard for the profit, he consented, and furnishing his part they went West to make the purchase, while he remained at his business in Chicago. Now these enterprising friends of his found that they could buy up large tract of land near Berlin, Wis, very low by including in 1t a portion of worthless swamp. They closed the trade and in making the divi- sion among themselves they took each a third of the fine land and left the mud and water for MT. Sackett, who had never seen the land and accepted the division on faith in his friends and for some time he continued to pay the taxes until he failed in business and thinking to real ize on the sale of it, he went West for that purpose, when to his disnay, he found that far from being able to sell it, he could not even give it away. Signing just little at the duplicity of his friends, WHO naO so Q1V1QeQ the ValuaOle ana lofC him the worthless, he wandered over the swamp, he almost disdained to call his own and splashed through it's mud and water in desperate hopelessness. Poverty and want, stared him in the face, when, To, something else stared him in the face too he found something upon his land. What was it ? It was not California gold nor North Africa diamonds, neither was it oil, iron or coal. It was wild Gran berries. "Presto changer' Now mark the result that land is worth $500 per acre, and he is worth half million dol lars. He was shrewd man, with an eye to business and he saw at once fortune in those Cranberries and went to work to realize it by cultivation and systematic labor, and now he has regularly trained brigade of children and hands to pick and prepare the Cranberries for market, for which he realizes as high as $S24 pe1 barrel, while the men who intended to play joke on him now mourn over theil own invaluable land and sigh for the for. tune their joking lost them.
 This is true, and if it is not as romantic as fiction, it has better moral.
Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21
Bennett and Webb.

The late MT. Bennett twice suffered street-attacks from MT. James Watson Webb. The first attack was made on Wall street in the month of January, 1886. On this occasion MT. Bennett was knocked down and struck with stick. He told the story in the Herald, saying : "General Webb, by going up behind me. cut slash in my head, about one and half inches in length, and through the integuments of the skull. The fellow, no doubt, wanted to let out the never-failing supply of good humor and wit, which has created such a reputation for the Herald, and appropriate the con. tents to supply the emptiness of his own thick skull. He has not injured the skull. My ideas in a few days will flow as freshly as ever, and he will find it so to his cost" The result of this report was that the Herald containing the ac
 count of the fracas sold 5000 copies. On the 9th of May, 1886, MT. Bennett was again assaulted by General Webb in Wall street, very near the, scene of the former attack. As was the case with the first assault newspaper controversy led to this second exhibition of anger on the part of General Webb. The particulars VI uA1Ao uAAuA WCAO uAoO 0uIJ S4fcA HI UuO Herald by MT. Bennett. In his autobio- graphical account of it, after describing the mode of General Webb's attack he said My damages is scratch, about three quarters of an inch in length, on the third finger of the left hand, which I received from the iron railing was forced against, and three buttons torn from my vest, which any tailor will re- instate for sixpence. His loss is rent from tep to bottom of very beautiful black coat, which cost the ruffian $40, and blow in the face, which may have knocked down his throat some of his in- fernal teeth tor anything I know. Bal ance in my favor, $39 94." Thus was it that even out of his misfortunes did MT. Bennett extract nour1shment for his struggling paper. It was by such direct gossip with the public, upon all imagin- able subjects, light sketches of city life, and half earnest and half cynical refer ences to events in which he himself | figured, that in the earlier years of the Herald was laid the foundation of its ultimate success as 8 newspaper.
Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21
THE ONE DOLLAR BILL.

How it did rain that November night 1! None of yonr undecided showers, with hesitating intervals, as it were between 1; none of your mild persistent patterings on the roof, but regular tempest, wild de- luge, rush of arrowy drops and thunder of opening floods .a
 Squire Partlet heard the angry rattle against the easements, and drew his snug easy chair little closer to the fire-a great open mass of glimmering anthracite and gazed with sort of sleepy. refec- tive satisfaction at the crimson mereen curtains and the gray cat fast asleep on the hearth, and the canary bird rolled into drowsy ball of yellow down on it's perch.
 "This is snug." quoth the Squire. "I'm glad had that leaky spot in the barn roof fixed last week. I don't object to stormy night once in while when fellows under cover, and there's nothing particular to be done, Mary!" "Yes," Mrs. Partlet answered. She was fitting about, between kitchen and sitting room, with great blue checked apron tied round her waist. "I'm nearly ready to come in now,. Josiah. Now, I wonder ,'' sotto 0oee, eff that was really knock at the door, or just little extra rush of the wind and rain"
 She went to the door, nevertheless, and minute or two afterwards she went to her husbands chair. ....
 "Joe, dear. it's Luke Ruddiloves'' she said, half apprehensively. The Squire never looked up from his paper.
 "Tell him he's made mistake. The tavern is on the second corner beyond"
 But he wants to know if you will lend him dollar ]" said Mrs. Partlet.
 "And couldn't you have told him, No without the preliminary ceremony of com ing in here to ask mel It is likely that ] shall lend dollar or even cent to Lux. Ruddilove7 Why, I bad great dea better throw it among yonder red coals No-of course, No ?,
 Mrs. Partlet hesitated.
 He looks 50 pinched and cold ana wretched, Josiah. He says there's noboJ, in the world to let him have cent"
 "All the better for him, if he did bu know it," sharply enunciated the Squire If he had come to just that patch half dozen years ago, perhaps he wouldn't hay been the miserable vagabond he is now. T "We used to go to school together. said Mrs. Partlet, gently. "He was th smartest boy in the class.'' .. .-
 "That's probable enough" said tn Squire. }" But 1t don't alter the fact tha he's a poor, drunken wretch now. Send hir about his business, Mary; and if his tim is of any consequence, just let him kno, that he had better not waste it conaip here after dcllsrs." s.''.'@ 's'' "
Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21
The Birds in Winter.

What do the birds do in winter? Many you know go South. As a general thing winters cold does noC seem to affect those that stay with us. The truth is, birds arc remarkably we'll guarded against cold by their thick covering of down and feathers, and the quick circulation of their blood. The chickadee is never so lively as in the cold weather. When the thermometer is three or four degrees below zero, it shows by its behavior that it is pretty cold. On such morning have seen small flock of them on the sunny side of thick hem lock, rather quiet, with ruff1ed feathers, like balls of gray fur, waiting, with an oc- casional chirp, for the suns rays to warm them up little sober, perhaps, but ready. if cold continued, to get used to it. What do they eat2 Our merciful Father does not leave the earth bare. There is food enough and to spare. The seeds of the grasses and taller summer flowers, and the elders, birches and naples furnish sup plies that the cold and snow does not de- stroy also the buds of various trees and shrubs, for the buds do not firstcome in the spring, as some people think; there are buds all winter there are insects, too.
 A sunny nook any time during the win ter will show you variety of two-wlnged flies, and several kinds of spiders, often in numbers, and as brisk as ever. Then in the crevices of the tree bark and dead wood there must be something nice to be had, judging from the activity of the chickadees, gold -crests, and their associates. In the winter no mischief can be done; there is no fruit to steal. Nothing can be destroyed now except the farmers enemies; yet the birds keep at work all the time. Winter, too, is favorable to sociability among birds as among people. The chickadee the gold-crested wren, the white-breasted nut hatch, and the downy wood-pecker form little winter clique. You do not often see one of the members without one or more of the others. No sound in nature is more cheery than the calls of little troop of this kind, echoing through the woods on a still, sunny day in winter the lively chatter of the chickadee, the slender contented pipe of the golden crests and the emphatic, business-like hank oi the nut hatch, as they drift leisurely along from tree to tree.
Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21

HORRIBLE. pig g-drover, early in the morning, having Tn vain knocked for admittance at the doors of public house near the gates of the Polish town Jaros- law, at last bethought himself of looking through one of the windows, when he was struck by most appalling sight. There lay several horribly mutilated corpses in pool of blood. The landlord, his wife, three children (the eldest of whom is six years of age), and maid servant, were found in the same room, with bleeding wounds and broken skulls. The whole house was in a state of dis order. The perpetrators have not been traced as yet,
Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21
THR WOMEN OF UTAH.--The pei

THH WOMEN OF UTAH.--The petition
 against polygamy, signed by women of Utah, has createda great sensation there,
 and the papers are full oft. The ladies who drew up and circulated the petition
 say in a card they have published !: Think what regard fer womanly purity and delicacy must prevail in family where a mother and all her daughters hold the rotation of wives to the same man. Think how much Mormonism
 has done to elevate womanhood, when it has sanctioned the marriage of men to their own nieces and even their own half-sisters. Think how womanly deli cacy is fostered in households, (and there are many such in this Territory) where the home consists of cabin with but a single room which is occupied by man and his three or four wives with their grown daughters. Is it any wonder that true women everywhere, virtuous ma trons and pure-minded girls, should en. ter their indignant protest against 8 sys. tenn which has produced such results
Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21

BE ECoNoM1oAL.-Look most to your spending. No matter what comes in, if more goes out, you will always be poor. The art is not in making money, but in keeping it little expenses, like mice in barn, when they are many, make great waste Hair by hair, heads got bald ]; straw by straw, the thatch goes off the cottage; and drop by drop, the rain comes in the chamber. A barrel is sosn empty, if the tap leaks but drop min ute. When you begin to save begin with your mouth, many thieves pass down the red lane The ale jug is a great waste, in all other things keep within compass. Never stretch your legs farther than the blankets will reach, or you will soon be cold. In clothes. choose suitable and lasting stuff, and not tawdry fineries. To be warm is the main thing; never mind the looks. A fool may make money, but it needs wise man to spend it. Remember it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one going. Ii you give all to back and board, there is nothing left for the savings bank. Fare hard and work hard while you are young, and you will have chance to rest when you are old. ."-
Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21
TRUE HosP1TAITY.-I pray you. o

TRUE HosPITALTY.-I pray you. oh excellent wife, cumber not yourself and me to get ouriously rich dinner for this man and woman that have alighted at our gate or bed-chamber made ready at too great a cost; these things, if they are curious in them, they can. get for a few shillings in any village; but rather let this stranger see, if he will, in your looks, accents, and behavior, your heart and earnsstness, your thought and will, what he cannot buy at any price in the city, what he may well travel twenty miles, and dine sparely, and sleep hardly, to behold. Let not the emphasis of hospitality, be in bed and board , but truth, and love, and honor, and courtesy, flow in all thy deeds. -- ,Emerson, #.-' "A. ''' -.s '. aa ,s''.'l-
Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21

A WORD TO LANDLORDS. - The New York Stnndard in referring to the summer flight of so many Americans to Europe, takes the occasion to say few words to the landlords, who, it declares, are actually driving away renumerative customers by their greed. While there are places, within two or three hundred miles of our large cities, possessing abundant attrac- tions, thousands go abroad as matter of economy. They assert that so high are the hotel charges at our own watering places and mountain resorts that they can. not afford to seek health and summers pleasure at home. It is cheaper to pay for week or ten days on the ocean and pass two or three months in England, France
 Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, thar to climb the White Mountains, sketch the lunar bow at Niagara or taste the sur
 at Long Branch or Newport. Europe offer, more for the money, so thither our citi
 gems go, taking very considerable amounts of currency which they would mucl rather spend at home, provided it coule be made to go as far. ..... ......
Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21

SENsBLs IDEA.-The board of agricul- ture of the state of Maine have decided that one-fourth of the money received from the state by the county agricultu- ral societies shall be devoted to the or gapization of farmers clubs, F'''e s
Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21

IRON WORKERS. s.-There are one hun dred and forty thousand men working in iron in the United States, and eaght hum drt q thousand persons who get their hvT ing out of it. N
Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21

A Terre Haute, Ind, professional sheep-ahearer says that he has not seen such fine feeces ip the last fifteen years as this years clip shows, ..,43 s. 7 ..-
Connecticut western news., 1872-06-21

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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-05

Those CIEMIsTs.--The analysis of the chem
lists in the Wharton trial, at Annapolis, is
causing many plain, comnlon-sense people, to
conclude that "the glorious uncertainty of
the law" has its parallel in the art of Amerl-
can chemistry. The chemical experts are
arlayed against each other in this case in hos
tile squadrons, aud nothing seems to be GER
tain about the conflicting tests but their I'M
certainty. The tests by which one arrives at
conclusive evidence ofpoison, are declared by
another TO beradically defective. 1t has passed
into a proverb that doctors ditler, and weshall
have probably another illustration OF the
truth before the conclusion Of this memora-
BILE trial, and that chemists differ quite as
much us doctors has been already seen. One
Of the parties to this scientific encounter
made the valuable remark that when a human
life is at stake, as in trial for poisoning, the
opinion Of more than one chemist should be
taken before giving case to jury to de-
eide upon the guilt or innocence of the ac-
ctlseds il =
We are clear in our own belief that such
should be the case, if any chemist at all is
consulted upon the subject, for the reason
that if there is more than one they will be
likely to contradict each other, and that thus
the case will be left in the condition that 1t
would be without them, whereby the public
might derive much edliying information upon
the subject Of chemistry without any one
being the worse for. it. In every department
Of learning there is more or less empiflcism,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-05
The New Attorney General and Tho Pc.
Itticnl presecnsiStas :ss

Tho New AtfOrney-tsen and Tho 1sO'
IiticaI Prosecutions.
Washington rapess publish a letter from
the new United States Attorney General
Williams TO Senator Pool, of North Carolina.
The Attorney General writes;
" :. Ny Dear Sr,--I have received your letter
Of the 9th Instant covering one from Colo
mel Carrow, United States marshal of North
Carolina; from which itappears that certain
interested persons pretend and are trying to
produce the impression that the late change
III the office Of Attorney General indicates on
the part of the Administration u,l abatement
OF vigor in prosecuting offenders under the
recent legislation Of Congress to enforce the
rights Of citizens. e<as
| am not acquainted with the motives
which induced Mr.. Alderman to resign, but /
know that the President was perfectly salts
fed with the energy and zeal displayed by
him in prosecuting members of the kiikluX
khan. Judging from the evidence elected
upon recent trials Of such persons, this khan
is mn organization that no Christian or civil
lied government can tolerate, aud if those
who commit or countenance its atrocious
crimes expect any favors from me they are
doomed to signal and bitter disappointment.
Il do not abandon the hope chat all good
citizens in the southern states, for the sake of
their own safety and happiness rs well as from
other considerations, will assist the public
authorities in breaking up all combinations of
men formed to disregard law and destroy the
peace of society. But if unreasoning and
defiant crime makes It necessary. the Prcsi-
dent is determined to use all the power which
the Constitution and laws have placed In his
hands to protect the lives and property of
pcaceabc citizens, and maintain the supre-
macy OF the laws"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-05
Enc "0raH-c Free State:

which has a recognized consul-gencral ut
Washington in the person Of j. Ii. Riley,
Esq. comprises portion Of the diamond re-
zion of South Africa. The whole diamond
region is about 200,0G square miles in en-
tent The line of the district now annexed
to the British Cape Colonies includes several
of the at present worked diamond fields, and
also the lands of the Pniel Mission, over all
of which the Free State claims and has eXer-
ciscd jurisdiction.
The Government Of the Free State protests
against the annexation, and President Brand
is determined to submit the matter and the
claims of his Government to arbitration, and
having full confidence in the justice Of his
cause, will patiently await the issue of events,
having little fear for the result. Dir. Riley
says that the people of the Orange Free State
have for seventeen years successfully re-
PEELED the encroachments and inroads Of the
katlir tribes, aud they can also, If needs be,
repel British aggression and maintain them.
selves us n republic. They feel confident
that the voice Of South Africa, ii it could be
ascertained, would be in their favor in this
matter of opposing the transfer Of single
loot Of their land.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-05

4 BREEZE IN TIE UNlTED STATES CoURT on
MoSpAy.-Quite an Unusual incident oc-
Cured In the United States cotrrtroon on
the LIST instant. Pending the trial Of Dr.
Avery, and after Colonel McAlaster had been
addressing the jury for about ten minutes,
Mr.. Corbin called the courts attention to the
fact that DR.. Avery, the prisoner. on trial,
YVES hot present III court. Judge Bond
thereupon questioned Colonel McAlaster as to
the whereabouts Of bis client. Upon his re-
questing the court to excuse him from
answering the courts question, the judicial
brow of Judge Bond grew dark, and i heavy
cloud enveloped the bench, the situation
being relieved somewhat By the calm dcmca-
nor of Judge Bryan. Upon Colonel McaIas-
ter's declining to answer; Judge Bond
ordered rule to be served upon linn to show
cause, this day, why his name should not be
stricken from the roll of attorneys for refusing
to answer question as to the whereabouts
of his client, Sc., &c. The matter will come
up to-day. DR.. Avery, it is understood, has
forfeited his bond and retired to parts un-
known. The jury brought in verdict of
guilty in his case, although tho evidence, in
the opinion Of many, was conclusive as to
DR., Ave!y's Innocence. = Columbia Pheair.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-05

% II SII y n
and II Is obvious. from the Wharton trial that
chemistry Is not an exception. J. "a
We say this with, all due RESPECT to The
learned men on both sides, according to each
Of them The liberty to apply the remark, 10
any OF his professional Brethren WHO ffe
may think deserves IT., In all cases 81, This
kind .theHciTcuInstantiai evidence rand ssnr-
roundinss are more conn reheIsible by the
general public than the profession oplAions,
often contradictory Of chemical. and even
medical experts.
The general question of the guilt or limo.
ceilce of Mrs, Wharton ~ one; which it
would be highly improper fol. The. press NOW
to discuss, but it may not be wrong nor pre-
mature TO observe that Willie the chemists
have been Analysing each other the :pnbHe
have been analvzing the chemists, with the
result of leaving the case chemicallyy PER-
haps, where Il stood before any Of them teSti-
fed. SO far as this may be considered to dis.
pose Of the alleged proofs. Of poison ip the
body, 1t must also dispose of good deal Of
the reliance hitherto placed in the infallibility
of some Of the processes which chemists em-
ploy to throw light upon the hidden things
Of darkness in the way of alleged poison,
either to prove or disproye guilt.
On one hand, poison may be administered,
and no proof Of it be found: OH the other,
traces Of poison, it is alleged, may be found
where no poison has been administered, rs it
may exist naturally. or be generated in the
hulnai, system. There has been too much
asserted and denied on both sides of this dis
putc to- give the general public much assn
rance in the reliability of the eXpounders of
the art to settle the questions raised in this
case. We are almost inclined to think that
the most the scientific chemists have done is
to prove that chemistry is no science at all;
the purposes of murder trial.-Bathnaore
Sun.