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Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
Good Qualities of American Horses.

The Americans have steadily encour- aged trotting, while we have turned our attention to galloping. Of course the different circumstances of the two countries account to a certain extent for these different tastes. The Ameri cans are not in the habit of crossing nor have they any race courses worthy of the name. All their sport must nee essarily come of on their roads, CT race courses hard as roads. Consequently their sport takes the form of trotting, and good trotter is useful for any pur- pose. We, on the contrary, in our rac- ing overlook our p,ofessed end, or at least lose sight of it in the immediate excitement of the match. We aspire to train our horses to gallop short dis tance in the shortest possible time, en- couraging the most useless of all paces for the most impracticable of all pur- poses. We neither hope nor, desire to write down racing and galloping. We only desire they should not be practised and encouraged to abuse. There is no pace so exhilarating as arapid trot and it is strange, indeed, that trotting should not be more cultivated with nation of riders and drivers. The qualities of the American trotter are precisely those that make good troop horse. Stamina and endurance are indispensable, for they must .trot extraordinary distances. Blood they must have, or they could never show themselves " game" as they do. If trotting came into vogue with us, breeders would have to look to sub- stance without neglecting blood. Those American horses display, besides, extraordinary vitality. Their celebri ties frequently prolong life of severe match running to twenty years, and vigorous nature decays in its natural course, while ours, as an American re- marks, are run off the turf in thirty months. Of course the secret of this vitality is to be sought in the constitu- tion and education. not in the climate The practical American knows you can not exact with impunity of an infant the work of man in his prime. Nor can anything be stronger than the lan- guage in which American sporting men condemn our English practice. We may import barbs from Spain and Mo rocco, or do anything else to solidify the substance and reinyigorate the strain. But what will it all profit, or how can we look for permanent improvement, while we persist in practice condemn ed by experience and common sense ?- London PaN Nan Gazette.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
A Kiss at the Door.

We were standing in the doorway Ny little wife and T. The golden sun upon her hair
 Fell down so silently; A small, white hand upon my arm, What could ask for more, Than the kindly glance of loving eyes, AS she kissed me at the door2 T,know she loves with all her heart The one who stands beside, And the years have been so joyous Since first called her bride; ' We've had so much of happiness Since we met in years before, But the happiest tiiue of all was When she kissed me at the door. At times it seems that all the world, With all it's wealth of gold, Is very small and poor indeed,
 Compared with what hold! And when the clouds hang grim and dark, only think the more Of one" who waits the coming step To kiss me at the door. ..- If she lives till age shall scatter The frost upon her head, I know she'll love me just the same As, the morning we were wed; + But if the angels call her, And she goes to heaven before, shall know her when meet her, For she'll kiss me at the door.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

A SINGULAR CAsE.-In Philadelphia a singular trial took place That of one William Oskins for the murder of his wife. Osklns was acquitted on the ground of insanity, this insanity being proved to have resulted only and wholly from excessive use of alcoholic stimu- lants, and to be in nowise permanent, hereditary or constitutional. His coun- sel now comes into Court with an appli- cation for writ of habeas corpus, on the ground that the petitioner was ar rested for the murder of his wife that he was tried and acquitted on the ground of insanity that since said acquittal he has recovered his reason, and is now of sound mind, and is detained in custody without just cause.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
History of tlie Snow Blockade.

The first blockade on the Union Pa ci6c Railroad during the present season occurred Oct. 12 near Rawlins Since that time with brief intervals there has been Q succession of snow and wind storms of great violence. The greatest depth of falliug snow on the line of the rond across the mountains is fifty-four inches. But the detention of trains has been caused by drifting and not by fall ing snow. In November the second serious blockade occurred, the fences having been found insufficient to arrest made to open the road and keep it open by the use of snow-plows, of which the Company had thirteen that had proved to be efficient during the past two Win ters with three heavy wagons coupled behind each blow, and as the result of this attempt twenty locomotives were disabled within one week by being thrown from the track and materially injured. Seven snow-trains were fitted out with accommodations on each for sleeping and feeding seventy five labor CTS, and with two weeks supplies of pro- visions this force was set at work, in ad- dition to the ordinary number of em- | ployes and in. this way trains have been sent over the road. Ranchmen resident there for the last twenty-five years say that the present Winter has been the most severe in twenty-five years It is thought that the road can, during the next season, be prepared to pass trains promptly during any future Winter of even greater severity than the Yresnnt
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

MmKY.-The people of Wolcottvi1le, Conn, having suffered from the extortion of milk-dealers, who charged ten cents a quart, were relieved by tender hearted farmer who supplied them at elght cents. Then the old peddlers underbid the new conner, and sold for six cents, which induced the ungrateful people to Ego back" on their benefactor, where upon he gave them up in his wrath, and they are again the victims of the mon- opoGsts, and ale thus forced to pay ten cents quart with no hope of relief.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

BEET-SUeAR.- R.-Amherst Agricultural College has instituted another domestic industry for the country, in the matter of making beet-sugar. Sundry experi- ments therein having proved successful, it is propos ed to form company which shall be exempted from taxatlon for ten years to develop the future possibility of making sugar cheaper than it now is,
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

ANA1Yz1Na MIuK.-Dr. Hussom has analysed the milk of 22 COWS, four of which were so badly attacked by conta- gious typhus as to necessitate their imme- diate killing. Four were apparently sound, and fourteen were in doubtful condition. He concludes that neither the milk nor the meat can give the dis ease to men or to any animal but rumi- nants, but they are totally unfit for food, and their sale should be strictly prohibit A6
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

A DUE1.--A duel was fought between Speaker Carter and Captain and Chief of Police A. s. Badger, at Bay St. Louis, Miss. The weapons were rifles, and one shot was exchanged between the combat. ants at sixty paces. Both missed, and immediately after the first fire the sec onds interposed, and the principals de. clared themselves satisfied. The cause of the challenge is believed to have been the testimony elicited before the Congress sional Committee. Carter was the chal. lenged party.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
THREE CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH

IHREE OdIUDREN DURNED ID OEATH.- In the town of Jefferson, Minn., the residence of Julius Haus together with his barn and live stock were burned. The wind was blowing gale at the time, and before the inmates could be awakened the entire upper portion of the house was a mass of flames. Three children were burned to death. ..--
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

TENDERS are invited by the Spanish government for telegraph cable between Spain and the Canaries, to be extended to some Spanish possession in America,
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

THE DHFERENcE.-The hundreds of young men who eke out miserable ex- istence in this City under the fond delu- sion that they will some day become bankers, merchants, and brokers of large means, could have seen the folly of their dreams if they had been present at 8 social gathering of self.made' men, which was the great event of the year at Columbus, Ohio, the other evening. One hundred and seventy-ive men sat down to dinner together, and out of this num- Der there was not one who had not gained substantial wealth in a few years by personal effort. They had all the same story to tell All of them had gone to Columbus without either money or friends. and they now represent an az. gregate capital of BIO, 100000. From five thousand to ten thousand young men could leave New York any day with out being missed. ?. Paper.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

PERMISSION has been granted by the Illinois and Michigan Canal Commission CTS to run boats from Lockport to Chi cago on the cable plan.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

JAMES MCLAUGHLIN, was sentenced in New York to twenty years in State Prison for garroting a German.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01

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Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
MANS LOT.

How changing is the lot of man
 From bad to worse is natures plan; Some pleasures in our youth we share, But ere our prime is marked by care; In age worn out, we pant for breath, And fear eternity in death.
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-01
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All papers STOP at the time to which they are paid Postage Free throughout Litchfeld County.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-17
Gbe aain spp aamaste Saturday Mummg, february H. 1879.

portation company such big sum Of money,
was simply the cancellation of contracts for the
building of cars, the laying of tracks, &c. 1t is
said that the amount of money actually pocket
ed by Crane out of this operation lis over one
hundred thousand dollars, sixty thousand of
which was paid over by one gentleman, Mr..
Lord, former member of the. board of direc-
tors or course if the road should ever 20 into
operation he would undertake to get the rest.
1t is no wonder, therefore, that the merchants
Of this city are moving to get rid of this incu-
bus upon their commerce. Crane is to have an
opportunity on Tuesday evening to "explain "
In the green room this morning there was the
most refined and cultivated gathering that we
have had at the state house this winter, on the
occasion of the presentation of the woman
suffrage arguments to the committee on that
subject Rev. James Freeman Clarke opened
the hearing with a statement of the wonderful
achievements of women, and their intellectual
gifts and capabilities. Mr.. Blackwell followed
with the figures and facts and then Lucy Stone
was gracious, sentimental, plausible and con-
vincing as usual. 1t is pity she is not on the
floor of the house to present the subject. OF the
two hundred and forty men there, not a dozen
of them can do it so well as she can. VIM. Lloyd
Garrison closed the hearing in his weghty and
sensible manner The advocates of woman
suffrage certainly made very good impression.
The interest to outsiders seems TO centre more
and more in the committee rooms as the session
goes on, instead OF in the afternoon deliberations
of the two branches. On every pleasant after
noon, however, the galleries are well filled, and
the messengers are kept busy by the puzzled
strangers who get lost on the stairways in trying
to get into the presence of the great and general
cGurt
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-17
woRcE sTER.
sArURDAY. FEnRUARY "a. 1879.

The Comte de Chambord has issued another
manifesto. 1t is no more possible for him 10 be-
come king of France than for George Francis
Train or Victoria C. Woodruff to become presi-
dent of the United States. He is the legitimate
Bourbon heir to the throne of France, so FAR as
birth goes, aud there are few French fossils
who would like to make him king; but many
years have passed since they could influence
parties in France This Comic de ChamDofd
knows, if he knows anything, that he may as
hopefully undertake a voyage TO the moon as
attempt TO become king of France. Neverthe-
less, be continues to urge his claim, issue mani
festoes, and talk Of the duty of France to recos-
nize the hereditary principle" and return to the
"whte flag and its lilies. He is very weak,
narrow, and stupid,-a fit representative
of foolish BouIbonism. 1t is not yet
manifest that the French people are ready to
organize permanent government in favor of
any party or claimant. The only parties able TO
contend for the mastery with any feeling of
hope, are the 0rleanists, the republicans, and
the Bonapartists. France might become re-
public, if the party called republican had a
clearer conception of what is meant by Tree in
situations, and were not so much at the mercy
of the internationals or communists. There is
no clear indication at present. that either of the
other parties can win. The present condition OF
France is best represented by the existing pro-
vsional government. The political and social
state of the country is unsettled, doubtful, and
uncertain. No settled government that could
be attempted would be likely to make it other
wise, and, certainly, the Connie de Chamhord
could not make it better.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-17

/ the events and customs of the academic year.
Graduates of Yale will be interested to see how
the present generation of colegians contrive to
amuse themselves. This almanac is published.
as the title page says, "under the auspices of
the Yale Tract Association, and printed and sold
for the association by parties called Chatfeld &
Co."
PATTY, by Katharine S. Macquoid. New York;
Harper & Brothers. This is a cieverly told story,
with much pleasant descriptions of nature,
human and other, well contrasted characters
and nothing startling or sensational by way of
incident. Ii is oneOf the Harpers' paper covered
series and Grout & Putnam have it for sale.
THE GALAXY for March is the first of next
months magazines The frontispiece of this
number is portrait of that old democratic
lawyer and partizan, jeremiah S. Black, who
contributes an article entitled "a Great Lawsuit
and Field Fight" giving his view, which, of
course, differs materially from other peoples, OF
the Erie railroad war. General Custer contin-
ues to write of life on the plains, giving this
| time some of his own adventures. "The Colored
Member" by J. W. De Forest is an unpleas-
ant, we hope not strictly faithful, picture OF the
| humors and enormities of recent South Carolina
I
politics. "Corea: What shall we Do with
Herr" by William Speer, is in the main sens-
Bile discussion of the Corean problem, but is ac
compauied by what we think must be highly
colored picture of the resources Of Corea. There
are other articles very well worth reading.
THE BRITISH QUARTERLY, for January, has
an able review of Lanfrey's Napoleon which
correets some popular, but erroneous notions
about the character of its subject, by whom NJ,
Lanfrey, though Frenehman, and intimately
associated with the emperor, was not dazzled.
There is also very interesting article on Gan
English Interior of the Seventeenth Century"
| and other papers, valuable and interesting.
The New YORK HERALD ALMANAC, for
1872, is the first attempt of the Herald office to
rival some of its mporaries in this field. 1t
| seems TO be verv well done, containing much the
same sort of political and other information in
perhaps greater variety and amount. Its accu-
racy must be determined by more careful tests
| than we have given it.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-17

South Carolina republicans suggest the name
of eX-GOy. James l.. Orr for vice president on
the republican ticket
Illinois peach buds are said to have been much
more afflicted 10y the recent coli weather than
were those of the apples, cherries or pears.
1t has been proved by actual investigation
that the legislature of Wisconsin has been trieC
by the lobby with brides for jobs and that moi
a member has been corrupted, which speaks
well for Wisconsin.
The demand for valentines this year in New
York is said TO have been much in excess OF
that last year, the increase being attributed to
lea2-year influences.
1t Is said that the new apportiOnment agreed
upon by the Illinois legislature will make ten
republican, seven democratic and two doubtful!
districts, and, according to the Chicago Tribune
IS arranged in the interest Of members of the
legislature VINO banker for seats in congress.
1t is said that the Great Eastern is TO be pur-
chased by the Transatlantic steamship company
of Hamburg, aud that she will be used to trans
port emigrants from time to time as she can
gather together a cargo.
The Illinois river is so thckly stocked with
ice and fish that the former is crowding the lat
ter up on the banks, and by walking along the
shore wherever there is an opening in the ice
the natives find all the fish they want.
The Metropolitan gas company in New York
have presented their bills for the month in
which the explosion occurred at their works
whereby for Jour DAYS the people in certain
parts OF tue city were left 10 choose between
raging kerosene, taow candles aud the pale
moon as sources Of evening illumination The
bills are as large as for the month previous in
some cases. and all requests Tor reductions are
refused. No one has the courage to put in a
claim for damages.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-17

Here is chance for some interesting expert
ments. Let two families divide the table on the
highest and lowest percentage; one existing for
three months on cabba@cs, picked cucumbers
lat this season. fresh milk, apples and boiled
turnips, and the other on bread and butter,
beans, sugar and boiled rice-and we shall have
results which will be valuable to this community,
where there is so much reasonable complaint
about the cost of living. The item of pork
should be avoided; just look at t-tiye hours
and quarter to get tweuty-fOur per cent, when
the luxurious bean will afford thirty-seven per
cent III two hours and half Besides DIR. Hall
says that most pork requires too lengthy
drain (pork and drains always go togetheI) up
on the forces of the stomach TO he a healthy ar
tice of diet Its a surprising fact that the tur-
nip makes such an insignificant showing. 1t is
almost an entire waste of life to give any time
whatever to it. To surrender ones self for two
hours and thirty minutes IL a boiled turnip and
realize but four per cent, is worse than taking
ten shares of Boston, Hartford and Erie at four
and three ighths, in the hopes that something
will turn up. Rice seems to be the correct
thing-.hirtv-eight per cent in an hour is worth
thinking about 1t is sure to develop the sys-
tenn Take Fred Rice as an example. While
many vegetables and fruits are expensive eat
ing. DR.. Hall says some should certainly enter
into the family consumption, even If purchased
| for sanitary reasons. Those who are bold
| enough to go into this matter of diet will be
| entitled to eat fruit and vegetables; for, as
| Ward said the brave always deserve the SAM
| tary fare.-Hdrtford Courdnt.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-17

DR.. Hall has reduced the science of living
down to so fine thing that by following his
directions one may exist for almost nothing
pecuniarily speaking, and at the same time
gather more bodily sustenance than by eating
expensive food and owing butchers bills The
cheapest articles of food at present prices are
bread, butter, moasses, beans and -four In the
economy of nature three pounds of -four, at six
cents pound, will afford as much nourishment
as nine pounds of beef at twenty-five cents a
pound; seven cents worth of white beans will
make a man grow fat when he would staIve to
death on three pounds and a halfof beef, costing
81! cents. The following table shows the
percentage of nutriment in various common
articles Of food and the time required for diges-
finn,
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-17

cases of human longevity occur here, notwith-
standing the prevalency at times of low fevers;
but the eastern shore is healthier than the oppo-
site and higher coast. Crime is rare; society was
tranquil during the war; northern immigration
is welcomed, and observes no prciu ice.
1t is TO be remarked that from peninsulated
regions of the Chesapeake, closely resembling
the eastern shore, many of our strongest public
men have come; as, for example, Washington,
the Lee family, Pinckney and Writ, fancy aud
R verdy johnson; in short, the whole line of
Virginia statesmen. William and Mary, and
st. Johns COLLEGES are pitched in the lowlands
of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend,
in Scribney's for March
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-17

NEW YobK. feb. l6-UOtion Nc higher; sales 4ioi
bales middilig uplands 23hc Fi0ur-state and wssi.
ttn ~ % o. prleri 7es H. 100 bbls; state So 10 "a I50
ONO $3.50 70 65; western s6 ON S7s5; southern 81 "a
9Dg " heat scarcely so nrmi "a es Is 900 bush; No i
sDring l6O "a ~ " NU2do, S56 ~ Los; winter rcd
western S6o W lB8. Corn less n; sales II 900 bush
new mixd western u ~ 7Jc, anOHt. Oais GulI ana
heavy; sales u 100 bush; Unio and western 81 a. KY
ssef STEADY FORK duh, new sl4,O5 q ld51; Old
$3.50 a. l2,y Larr quiet ard steady, at az al aEn
Butter quiet and steady Whisky unsetiie ana o,yr
weatern lree 9Or e ylhc kce urn q sac Suea,
duil; auseovado % 9Aci refining o. t1 9Ne Cam
quieti ldlo i9A a. 2iAc Molasscs firm; New orlesns
a. 20 q OOc sprlta turpontne strong NJ s3 s5ci rosn
sea ly ats a. 0Ac. saw iauo"
C1HoIssAT1, Feb l6.--Pork nominal nj sla Iard Am
aho nlm az 20 9hc. Bulk meats duh and nrmi shout
osrs ~ oear l9 sdes SIC cear slides 6ac SOj 90 lbs
clear III sides sud NJ g, seller March Hacon Arm
ses IN 70 Ino' Shoulders dun at CSC, Live hogs aim
sLw ORLEANS. Feb l6-Colton arm; miqdines AZ ak
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-17

Some New York newspapers having accused
the governments of Mecklenburg Scbwerin and
few Others Of the smaller German states of
pardoning couyicts out of their prisons on con.
ditiou Of ENGRAVING to the United States. the
Mecklenburg News, the official paper Of the
grand duehy, responds that the charge is true
that the grand duke claims the right to dispose
OF conyicts in that manner, since there are no
treaties to prevent it, and proposes to continne
the practice whenever a convict deemed WORTHY
oil ciemency is willing TO accept pardon coup.
led with the condition Of taking up his abode in
the United States. Several applications of this
nature, 1t adds, are now under consideration
and American newspapers are foolish 70 raise a
hue and cry about that which every European
government has done for many years past. Per.
haps this is true. Such things have been done. as
we know,and our government has protested with
effect 10 some cases. n the practice is still com
mon, as this German paper says, it is well that
Dir. Fish should give his attention to it, and he
cannot dol better than begin withsthis rather
iusolent grand duke Of Mecklenburg Schwerin
VINO ovows the wrong and, after the style oil
Mr.. Tweed, asks us what we are going 10 do
aboutit.