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Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27
A Russian Ghost Story.

In certain village-so the story goes there was a girl who hated work but loved gossip. So she never spun herself, but used to invite the other girls to her house, where she feasted them and they spun for her. During one of these spin ming feasts 8 dispute arose as to which of the party was the boldest.
 "I'm not afraid of anything" said the lazy-bones.
 "Well, then," said the spinners, eff you're not afraid, go through the grave yard into the church, take down the Holy Picture from the door, and bring it here"
 'siVery well," said she "I'll bring it., only each of you must spin me distaff full" :.--.-. -
 We'll, she went to the church, took down the picture, and brought it home with her. But then the picture had to be taken back again, and the midnight had arrived. Who was to take it
 eco on spinning. you girls, said the lazy-bone, "I'1l take it back myself. I'm not afraid of anything p
 So she went back to the church and replaced the picture. As she passed through the graveyard on her return. she saw corpse in white shroud sit ting on a tomb. It was a moonlight night, and everything was visible. She went up to the corpse and pulled it's shroud off. Gts hour for stirring hadn't arrived, perhaps Then she went home carrying the shroud with her. la"
 After supper, when everybody had gone to bed. all of sudden the corpse tapped at the window, saying, seGive me my shroud give me my shroud p The other girls were frightened out of their wits. But the lazy-bones took the shroud. opened the window, and said: "There, take it p
 "No," replied the corpse, "take it to the place you took it fron.'
 Just then cock crowed, ,and the corpse | vanished.
 Next night, at the same hour, after all the spinners had gone to their own homes, the corpse came again, tapped at the window, and said |: &
 |" Give me my shroud !'
 Well, the girls father and mother opened the window and offered the corpse it's shroud, but it cried: 2
 ,"No! Let her carry it back to the place she took it from" rs x5E-
 Just then the cocks began to crow the corpse disappeared. We'll, next day they sent for the priest and told him the whole story, and implored hin to help them. The priest reflected awhile, then told the girl to come to mass next day. So in the morning she went to mass. The service begun. Numbers oi people came to it. But just as they were going to sing the "Cherubim Song," g terrible whirlwind arose., And it caught up the girl in the air, and then flung her down on the ground. And straight way the girl disappeared from sight nothing was ever found of her except her black hair. .E$ .3E9fT
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

MARRIED YoUNe.-In the Paris Court of Correctional Police recently, lady, by ny. 'eWhat is yonr name?' ssVirganie Loustatot." "What is your age ?" "Twen- ty-fve. (Exclamations of increduli from the audience.) The lady's evidence being taken, she regained her place, still coquet- tishly bridling, and the next witness was introduced. This was full grown young man. "Your name?' said the Judge. "Isador Loustatot." "Your age?" Gwen ty-seven years.'' "Are you a relative of the last witness ?' ''I am her son." "Ah, well," murmured the magistrate, "your mother must have married very young"
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27
Starting in Married Life.

l will tell you story of my own experi- ence in starting in the world. When l was very young and very poor, I married very poor young man; he worked out by the day or by the month, on the farms and in order that the stormy days should not consume the income Of the fair ones, something must be done. What should it be9 He had no trade for indoor labor, except making shingles, Then he had no shop, and it would cost so much to buy lumber and build one. Heretofore he had spent the stormy days like hundreds of young men in the country, lounging about public places in the village, or at some neighbours. He had formed the habit, and liked it right well. .+f
 "Now, said I, ''James, if we eyer get anything ahead, the winter must not con- sume what the summer yields"
 "True," said he, "but what can l do? ?"
 hesitated a moment, looked at the neatly secured floor of our little log cabin and snow white recess and window cur tains, which, by the way, were pieced out from worn out garments.
 "Get neighbor Wilson to bring you some timber, get it sawed, and make the shingles for half."
 Where," said he; here in the housea''
 "iYes, here in the house," said I.
 Year after year passed. In our kitchen barrels were hoped, chairs were bottom. ed, barley forks were made and sold, and l used to pack the shingles. And what of it if did help him saw the small tim Der? All this was done in bad weather, and the children were growing up enjoy ing the liberty of making all the litter desirable, whenever they were released from their hours of study. No one on earth loves neatness better than l {; but learned, in time, to sacrifice neatness, in a measure, to prosperity and happiness. Husband is nervous and irritable by na- ture, and it will not do in all cases to try to teach old dogs new tricks, SO l have picked up after him, boots hats and cloth ing, washed and combed him almost every Sunday morning, and, as to the boys, they have made all sorts of farming implements in the house when they could not play out of doors; and whatever innocent amuse' ment they wished to engage in aside from mental improvement, they have done. make many efforts to teach the boys order about the house, but never fairly succeed.
 Now for the result of my course We have farm of more than hundred acres well stocked; there are several rooms ir our house, but shingles are not made ir any of them. Sometimes when husband brings in a barrel to hoop for our own use, I tell him to be careful not to scratch the paint off the flour. Husband is { steady, hard working man, and when night comes, he is at home; the boys, ol rather young men, are honest, ambitious home loving boys. No smoking cigars, ol taking 8 glass, or lounging about witt them. Studious, noble, good and true they are.-RuraZ Nea0 Yorker.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27
AssAss1NAT1oN.-A strange occurrence

ASSASSINATION. strange occurrence (says Gazignani) has just taken place at Antwerp. As the chaplain of the prison, M. Van Arsen, was leaving the Church of St. Carlo Borromeo, man came up and asked him if he would buy poniard which he heldaeut. The priest, greatly surprised, replied that he could not find any use for the weapon, on which the other said, "Then will give it to you for nothing ; and in the calmest manner imaginable, and without any excitement, plunged the blade deep into the clergy mans breast. He next drew out the implement, and took to flight into the church. But on the wounded man ut tering loud cry, some passers-by pur- sued the fugitive and took him into custody. He turned out to be man of dissolute character, named Kums, aged AZ. and could not assign any motive for this extraordinary aggression. Hopes are entertained of M. Van Arsen's re- cOvery.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

In his book on Chronic Diseases Dr. Pierce says of his Golden Medical Dis covery "God, I believe, has instiHed into the roots and plants from which this wonderful medicine is extracted, the healing properties, by use of which Consumption, the scourge of the human family may, in it's early stages, be promptly arrested, and permanently and then disappoint the afflicted by as sertng that this can be accomplished when the lungs are half consumed, as many do who, being devoid of all con science, aim to humbug the afflicted, that they may sell their often worse than worthless compounds. But if my Golden Medical Diseovery is employed in the first or early stages of the disease, I know from ample observation and actual test in hundreds of cases, that it will arrest the disease and restore health and strength. 6l7.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

HAPPY END OF A CoURTsH1P. few days since Henry J. Holmes returned to this city with his bride, whom he married in Prairie City, Polk County, Iowa. Twenty-three years ago Holmes left the place mentioned to make his fortune in California, the two being at the time en- gagged. The luck usual with most of the forty miners was his, and after long and unsuccessful labor he settled down to le. gitimate business, in which he managed to slowly accumulate property. After 8 time he returned to Iowa for his bride, but her brothtr was afflicted with 8 long and tedious illness and the faithful sister would not leave him. The illness termi- mated in death, few months since, and then the lady wrote her betrothed-the two having corresponded regularly all this time-that she was free and he might come again. Holmes was now possessed of a comfortable competence, and he was still faithful. He promptly responded to the summons, married the lady, and is now settled in the enjoyment of domestic happiness. They are 8 practical couple, and probably feel no older now than they did twenty-three years ago.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

Cupid's Ambuscades.-The sly archer, Love- shoots his arrows from many coigns of vantage but it is doubtful if he delivers his hearttang shafts from any ambush with more effect than when he them from the braids and folds and ringets of a superb head of hair. Ladies who have not been favored by Nature with tbis crowning charm of wo- manhood, readily and certainly increase the vol of their hair and mpart to it silken lustre by using LYONS KATHAIRoN daily dressing while those whom Providence has blessed with a supera- bundance of this "Glory of the can preserve it, undiminished in quantity and undiminished in beauty to the latest period of life. There is germ mating principle in the KATHAIRoN which literally compels the hair to grow It extirpates souri, dan druf, and all calculations and excresences of the scalp which interfere with the rapid and healthy development Of the fibers.-[Coml
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

, THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE. An affidavit in full by one of the least guilty among the participants in the affair, shows conclusively that the terri ble Mountain Meadows massacre was an act of the Mormon authorities. It will be remembered that large company of emigrants, on their way to California, are known to have been all killed, with the exception of the young children. When their massacre was discovered, the Mormons set ,afoat the story that they had perished by the hands of the Indians but from time to time circum- stancial evidence has appeared indica- ting that they were murdered in cold blood by the Mormons in revenge for previous outrages upon the latter per petrated in Illinois and Missouri. A competent witness now states under oath that the Mormon militia attacked the emigrants, and after a fight of several days without result, sent in flag o1 truce, offering them protection if they
 would lay down their arms. The terms
 being complied with, the entire party
 was butchered by their captors.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

WHAT WAS WANTED.-A Western edi- tor who recently attended female high school exhibition, didn't like it because he saw no indication that the girls pos sessed any of the essentials necessary to the making up ofa good wife. He per
 ceived, he says, at a glance that the grad
 uating girls are soon to be married and demands that they be taught the chemis- try of the kitchen, the effect of vinegar'on copper, of boiling water on corned beer, as well as the philosophy of home life- how to get and how to keep servants, how great happiness may be got from g small house and little money. These are questions, he adds, worthy of much more consideration than sighings and longings, and she who has solved the rid dle, has the philosophers stone for hel amulet, has mastered the great problems of thrifty living, how to extract sunbeams from cucumbers. @ 11 1Iss5&@5 ,
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27
Loves Reasons.

Why do love my darling soa Good faith, nay heart, I hardly know, I have such store of reasons; 'Twould take me all 8 summer day Nay, saying half that could say Would fill the circling seasons. Because her eyes are softly brown, My dove, who quietly hath flown To me as to her haven? Because her hair is soft, and laid Madonna wise in simple braid, And jetty as the raven? Because her lips are sweet to touch, Not chill, nor fiery overmuch, But softly warm as roses, Dear lips that chasten while they move, Lips, that a man may dare to love, Till earthly loye-time closes? Because her hand is soft and white, Of touch so tender and so light, That where her slender finger Doth fall or move, the man to whom The guards of Eden whispered "Come!" Douedtu us speu ulSuI uuSoI Because her heart is woman-soft, So true, so tender, that oft Do marvel that treasure,
 So rich, so rare, to me should fall, Whose sole desert-so small, so small, Is-loying past all measure? Because she has such stores of moods, So archly smiles, so staidly broods, So lovingly caresses;
 So that my heart may neverstire Of monotone, or more desire
 Than she, my love, possesses?
 An me! what know or what care I? Or what hath love to do with "why"? How simple is the reasonl
 love her-for she is my love,
 And shall while stars shall shine above And season follow season.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

BoYs.-In a single issue of daily pa. per, we find accounts of the stabbing of two boys and the shooting of another, all three of the wounds having been in- ficted by other boys, one of whom is but eight years of age. And we read of occurrences of this sort every day-a fact from which 1t appears that the boys of to-day are too generally in the habit of carrying deadly weapons. and badly need looking after at the hands of their par ents.-Hetu.th 07.& Home.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

BREED OF CATTLE. R.-There are few dairies of thoroughbred or grade cattle. The native cattle of the dairy region are very fine, the nutritive grasses there have developed their milking qualities, and forty y-nine-fftieths, ataleast, of the milk, butter, and cheese is produced by common cattle. But there are consider able numbers of blood cattle being in- troduced from Canada, and quite num- Der of our own people are breeding fine small as yet, rarely over 20 breeding COWS and generally less. The favorite cattle for the dairy are the Ayrshire, though some in Vermont prefer the Short-horn, objecting to the small size and short teats of the Ayrshire. I think this preference is owing to the fact that some Canada breeders have been de-
 veloping the milking qualities of the Short-horn, and thus introduced diff ferent strain of Short-horn from those usually seen. The Holsteins of Mr.
 Chenery, near Boston, are looked on as an experiment. as yet, though where they have been tried they are much liked. They are unquestionably heavy mixers, but it is not decided that they are not costly feeders, and whether their milk is good for butter-making. Gerrit s. Miller of Peterboro, N. Y., has few fine Holsteins, which did not see. There is, also, around Goshen cross of Dutch banded (black hind and forequarters, white round the body) cattle, which are much liked. The Alderney (Jersey) are only kept in a few places where high priced butter is made for rich city peo. pie. Though they have their advocates, yet there can be no doubt that they have
 been ruled out for dairy farming. ]
 have seen but very few, Devons they
 are nowhere recommended. +'+
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27
WESTERN CITIES. Western cities grow

WESTERN CITIES. Western cities grow with wonderful rapidity. In 1888 St. Paul had but three inhabitants, one of whom "still lives ; in 1849 it had 400 inhabitants ia 1855, 4400; in 1857, 9973: in 1765, 13,2l0; in 1870, 2O,045 ]; and in 1872, about 30,o0O. The growth of Minneapolis is not far behind that of St. Paul. The infant colony of Colorado Springs, about seventy five miles from Denver, had no existence year ago. Now it numbers one hundred and fifty nine houses, has large hotel, which is constantly crowded two or three church- es four public parks, several embryo pubic institutions, and newspaper.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

Shakespeare was married at IS; Dante, Franklin and Bulwer at 24; Kepler, Mo zart and Walter Scott,at 26; Washington, Napoleon I. and Byron at 27; Rossini, the first time at 30 and the second time at 54; Schiller and Weber at 31; Arlstophanes at at 36; Wellington at 37; Talma at 39: Lu
 ther at 42; Addison at 46, Young at AT; Swift at 49; Buffon at 53, and Goethe
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

Years ago it was the custom for all vessels passing Mount Vernon on the Potomac to toll their bells in honor of the sacred memories of the place. Dur ing the war it was manifestly impossible, and since the inauguration of peace again the custom has not been revived.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

AsTHMA.-Upward of one thousand of the worst cases of Asthma have been relieved by using John Whitcom6s Remedy for Asthma. In no case of purely Asth- matic character has it failed to give prompt relief. Your druggist has it.-Com.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

A NUnsERY.-Some kindly ladies in
 Hartford, Conn.,, have opened an estab- lishment worthy of being copied by other cities. It is day nursery for the children of poor people who are obliged to be away from home at work. There is a charge of five cents per day for care and meals, and the place is made sort of school for the little ones-not one of the harsh, con- strained kind, such as the public furnishes
 but sort of home school for developing character and intelligence.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27
F1sH.-The caplin migration is now

F1sH.-The caplin migration is now in full force, according to letter from Newfoundland. The caplins are the bait used by fishermen. They come from the deep ocean solitudes in masses which have the effect of currents in the water. They fill every bar and creek around the thousand miles of coast. Along with them come vast numbers of codfsh, when the sea harvest begins in earnest. 4 this has been going on year after year for centuries, without making any sensible impression on the shoals of cod. The British Fishery Commission CTS remark in their report, that once a year an acre of good land, carefully titled, produces a ton of corn, or 200 or 1900 weight of meat or cheese but that, without any culture, the same area of the sea yields a greater weight of food to the fishermen each week of the year.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

CoTToN.-It is estimated that Texas alone contains land capable of yielding 15,000.000 bales of cotton annually :; that is, considerably more than is consumed at present by the whole civili- solved in the South is not that of pro- ducing cotton cheap with labor free, but of improving methods of agriculture and cheapening the cost of handling and of transportation. Nearly all reports from the cotton districts promise a larger supply than last year, and it is probable that prices will tend downward for sev- era] months to come. English con sumers seem so think that steady de- cline in cotton will take place, and that prices will fall so low that they will be enabled to resume working full time af- ter January 1, when the American crop of the year begins to reach Europe. Our crops to England in 1871 were only about 699, ,O00 cwt., less than in 1869. During 1870 and 1871 the imports of American cotton into Great Britain were 15, ,662, = 935 cwt., and from British India 6, ,898,- 906 cwt., showing an excess from the United Statis during the first two years of 8,770,O49 cwt. The most important point established by these returns is that the staple industry of the South has re- vived, and is likely to prosper more un- der freedom than under the former sys- tenn of slavery, At present it is gratify- ing to learn that the statistics of the trade recently published in this country and in England that the south is rapidly recovering her former position as the great cotton field of the world. From the report of the British Commissioners of Customs for 1871, just issued in Lon. don, it appears that the supply of Ameri- can cotton in 1871 was 9,273, 910 cwt. against (, 1895, ,045 cwt. in 1870 and g, 963, 300 cwt. in 1860. With these figures the American statistics tally very nearl. the total production in 1859-60 having been 4, 769, 770 bales, and in 1870-72, 4,
 115, ,1O7 bales.-Cotton Pla'ater.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27
Things are not always what they seem.

A OANGEROU w H1RLPOOL.-A COrreS- pondent of the Baltimore An1erican gives
 the following account of a whirlpool at the mouth of the St. Croix river, which runs
 between Maine and New Brunswick: "It has been stated by travellers and recorded in history that a whirlpool called the Charyodis exists on the Greek coast, or rather on the coast of Italy, and the Mael
 strcm of Norway but it is somewhat sim gular that dangerous whirlpool has always existed ard still continues to frighten and be cautiously avoided by boatmen and fisherman without single chronicler to state its whereabouts and it's dangers. This whirlpool performs it's an- tics at the entrance of the St. Croix River about midway between Deer Island and |, Deg Island, where the channel isvery nar- row, and rapid, six knot current prevails on the flood tide. Indian River flows at right angles with the St. Croix. striking it immediately at the entrance, rushing by the projecting polnt of Deer Island with great velocity. These causes, added to the counter current of the eddies, running nearly as swift as the flood tide, and huge boulders, supposed to lie at the bottom along the centre of the turbulent waters, form the whirlpool. The tides in this To- cality rise and fall from twenty-five to thirty feet, and at half tide the roar and rush of waters can be distinctly heard for ten miles along the shore. l have seen large logs and timber standing perpendicu- lar in spiral embrace, and many fisherman and other persons have been swallowed up in their treacherous folds. In 1880 three men in large two mast boat were seen by parties on both sides of the river to go into these whirlpools. The boat, after going round several times, went down and the unfortunate parties perished, and although not three hundred yards from the shore no power could save them. When the boat came to the surface, large hole, were observed in her bottom. On the ebbing of the tide they are not dan gerous
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

A California agricultural society offers premiums to unmarried girls who will prepare plain dinners, not to exceed four dollars in cost. A committee is appointed to examine the tables and test the viands-not an unpleasant task.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

The convention of the Massachusetts Liberals and Democrats at Worcester. nominated Charles Sumner for Governor and George M. Stearns, Democrat, for Lieutenant Governor
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

There is no disease flesh is heir to more troublesome to manage than rheumatism. It comes when you least expect it, and generally remains till it gets ready to go away. The most conspicuous remedy for this complaint is JoHNsoN's ANoDYNE LINIMENT.-Com.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

Two or three doses of SHERIDAN's CAVALRY CONDITION POWDERS will cure horse of any common cough or cold, and the very worst cases may be cured in a few weeks. We know this from experimentation.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27
THE purest and sweetest Cod-Liver Oil in tn,

HE pUICbI 6IIII BWSSIcbI OVU-1lAVO1 OIL TIT O11S world is HAZARD & CAswELL's, made on the sea shore from fresh, selected flyers, by CAswBLI, HAZARD & Co.,, New York. It is absolutely pur and saceet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians have decided it superior to any of the other oils in market.
Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27
In addition to.its numerous uses in tb

In addition to.its numerous uses in the arts of peace, paper is now found to be appliable to the arts of war. Cuilasses which will turn the stroke of sword, the thrust of a bayonet, or the impact of Ia rifle ball, are. now made of paper, and the inventors claims that this material will furnish 8 plating for war vessels, of greater power of resistance than plat ing of iron.