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Litchfield enquirer., 1873-08-21
Shepaug Railroad Company.

SEcRETARy's OFFICE. Aug. 19, 1873. An instalment of ten dollars upon each share of the capital stock of the Shepaus RsiIroa,; Company, to apply towards the satisfaction of the guaranty, dated January, 1873, given by the holders of the Second Mortgage Bonds of the shepaug Valley Railroad Company, has been called foi payable to the Treasurer of the Com pany (H. R, Colt, Litchield) on or before the 22th day of September 1873. Interest will be allowed on payments made before that time.
 GEO. M. WOODRUFF, Secretary. BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTORS.
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'CAMPHORINE'

Inc Gfeat DlscOvery Tor the Immediate relief and cure of Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Spralns, Bruises, Pains, strainss Stiff Joints, Swellngs, Infamma- tions, Bunions, CataFrh, &c., &c. It will not grease or stain, and for the toilet is luxury in every family. Thousands will and now testify to it's great merits. Try it. Price per bottle, 25 cents. REUBEN HOYT, Prop'r, 2O3 Greenwich St.. Y. 20 4w
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F. D. McNei & Go. will receive Bread, Cakes &c. on Wednesdays and Saturdays instead Tues days and Fridays as before.
 Litchfeld, June 18th, 1873.
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Whztu FOa Drink ?-The best and ssfest thing IS Williams Extract Iamaica QlnEer. ~-.-..'
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M9rriageS.

In Kent, August 9th, by Rev. Arthur Crosby, MT. Hawley of California, for merly of Bridgeport, and Miss Adelia Stuart of Kent.
 In Thomaston, August 11th, by Rev. O. P. Corner, Edward Baker and Mary Ann Parker, both of Thomaston
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Deaths.

In Goshen, Aug. II, Samuel Green, aged 61.
 In New Hartford, Aug. II, Henry, son of John Hague, aged 3.
 At West Winsted, Aug. 6, James, son of Michael Lyons, aged 2 months.
 In Warren, Aug. 9, Edith M., infant daughter of Anson B. and Sarah Nichols.
 In Washington, Aug. 9th, Hattie A., aged years; on Aug. 10th, John H., aged 7 years; and on Aug. 17th, Alzora E., aged 3 years; all of diptheria, and children of Andrew, and Sarah Bqcking-
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~wlas of the Woods" gives an Appe- sssA. r
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Prospectus for 1S73.-6th Year THE AIsDTNE. An Illustrated Monthly Journal, universally admitted to be the Handsomest Periodical in the World.
 Representative and Champion of
 American Taste.

The Aldine, while issued with all the regularity has none of the temporary timely interest characteristic of ordinary periodicals It is elegant miscellany of pure, light and graceful literature and collection of pictures the rarest specimens of artistic sk in black and white. Although each succeeding number affords
 fresh pleasure to it's friends the real value beau ty of the Adne will be most appreciated after it has been Bound up at the close of the year. While other publications may claim superior cheapness compar- ed with rivals of similar class, The Aldine is a unique and original conception and unapproaeh edabsoutely without competition in price or charac- ter. The possessor of a complete volume cannot du- plicate the quantity of fine paper and engravings in any other shape number of volumes for ten times it's cost; and then there are the chromos. besides
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WANTFDnm5a1Ist Dn51s maIt noasy msn visai9s sn ssaG to
 w for pamphlet containing instructions, &c., which everybody should know J. c. TIL TON. Pittsburg, Pa. 1914
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NOTICE.

JAMES SUTTON & co, ,Publishers. -4ea 5S Maiden Lane, NewY
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\ Eran walking on the Shore Line tracl near Mystic. Oa the 18th, will walk with les. eo4foxt for while, because the engine sfxack him. and threw him down an em eankE@ut. breaking one of the bones o hls foot.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-06
Caldwell at Springfield.

Here's the spot Look around you. Above Oh
the height
Lay the Hessians encamped. BY that church on
the right
Stood the gaunt Jersey farmers. And here ran
a wall
You may dig anywhere and you'n turn up a
bah.
Nothing more. Grasses spring, waters run flow.
eTs blow
Pretty much as they did ninety-three years ago.
Nothing more did ! say. stay one moment
you've heard.
OF Caldwell, the parson, who once preached the
word
Down al opringdelds What, No? Come-thats
bad, why he had
All the Jerseys adame! And they gave him the
name
Of the rebel high priest He stuck in their
gorge,
For be loved the Lord God-and he hated King
George,
He had cause, You might say! When the Hes.
slams that day
Marched up With hnyplausen they stopped ON
their way
AT the Farms, where his wife, with a child in
her arms,
Sat alone in the house. How il happened none
knew
But God-and that one Of the hiring crew
Who fired the shot. Enough there she Law
and Caldwell, the chaplain, her husband, away!
Did he preach-did he pray2 Think Of him as
you stand
By tie old church today think Of him and that
band
OF militant pIoughboys. See the smoke and the
heat
vi that reckless adyance-of that struggling re
treat.
Keep the ghost Of that wife, fouIly slain in your
view
And what could you-what should you-what
wUuli you do?
Why just what he did. They were left in the
luTch
For the want OF more wadding. He ran TO the
church,
Broke the door, stripped the pews and dashed
out in the road
down his load
At their feet: Then, above all the shouting and
shots,
Rang his vUiee-.sPut Watts into 'em-BoyS give
EN- Watts!'
And they did That is al Grasses spring,
Pretty much as they did uinety-three years ago.
You may dig anywhere and youu turn up
ball
But not always u hero ike tLis-and that's all
Bret Harte.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-06

Nine days after a storm in the
Gulf of Mexico. a traveller, finding
his way from the salt-pans of West
ern Louisiana, took little fishing
craft. There was that fresh purity
in the air and the sea which follows
the bursting Of the elements. The
numerous bays and keys that in
dent the shore looked fresher and
brighter and there was that repen-
tant beauty in nature which aims to
soothe US into forgetfulness of its
recent angry passions The white
winged sea birds few about, and tall
waterfowl stood silently over their
shadows like a picture above and be-
low- The water sparkled with salt
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-06
IN AND OUT OF LOVE.

How did know she was a widow.
Don't you give give me credit for
any common sense or discrimination
at all?
How do you know that a rose is
red?
How do you know lobster salad
from sardines?
l knew she was a widow from the
very moment took the corner seat
in the car, opposite to her little black
bonnet with its futtering breath of
Grape veil and the Astrachan muf
that held two tiny, bjack-gloved
hands.
How | envied that muff.
Don't tell me of your Venuses,
your Madonnas and your Marys
Queen Of Scots-they couldn't have
held a candle to this delicious little
widow.
Incyer did believe in grand beau.
ties.
A woman has no business over
awing and impressing you against
your viii.
And she was one of your dimpled,
daisy faced creatures, with soft brown
eyes, Iong-lashed and limpid and
red mouth. which looked as if it was
just ready to be kissed.
And then there was a tangle Of
golden spirals of hair hanging over
her forehead and braids upon braids
pinned under her bonnet. until a hair
would have gone frantic at
the sight.
just as | was taking an inventory
Of these things, in that sort Of unob-
way that fatter myself be-
longs to a man of the world, she
dropped her mutf and of course it
rolled under the car seat
Wasn't l down on my knees at
once after it? rather think so.
Thank you, sir said the delicious
little widow.
Not at ALL l replied. Can l do
more for your
No, thank you-unless you could
tell me what time we get into Glen
dale
Glendale l cried. 'Why, l am
going to Glendale
OF course. we were friends at once
and the daisy-faced enchantress
made room for me beside her, lest
as she said, some horrid disagreed
ble creature should step in and bore
her to death, and l stepped right out
Of the musty, ill-ventilated world OF
the railway carriage into an atmos-
phere of Eden.
When a bachelor of forty falls in
love at first sight-oh, 'chat fall Is
there. my countrymen. No half
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SITS A YEAR

membrance of its by-gone beauty.
1t is as bare and desolate as the
bones Of those who filed it's halls
in the cataclysm Of that dreadful
which now waste to
whiteness on sterile shores or are
wrought into coral in the undersea.
Magazine.
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neatly.
Is she fair or dark?' questioned
the widow with the prettiest of in.
terest.
Neither, about your complexion.
'Ohh laughed my interlocutor
with charming pink suffusion over
her dimples.
Is she young?'
Yes. about your age
'Pretty?'
More than pretty-beautiful.'
The widow arched her perfectly
penciled eyebrows. What a devo-
ted husband you will makel and
when are you to be married?'
Are you acquainted with Mr.. Car
ter, Mrs. Alverin's brother?' asked
the widow, presently.
Yes, | answered, with little gri-
mace. "A selfconceited, disagreed
bic puppy
DO you think so?' asked the wi
dow, doubtfulIy.
'Of course, IS everybody else. So
will you, when you meet him.
Shall IL
A man who thinks because he's
got handsome face and a smooth
tongue, that nobody else has any
business in creation
Dear, dear!' twittered my CON-
panion; that's very bad, indeed
'Of course, he will pay a good deal
of attention to you. if you are to be
his sisters guest l pursued; but it
won't do to encourage him.
'No?'
by no means. He is profession
al firt.'
Is it possible?' lisped the widow.
And ! mentally shook hands with
myself for having thus deity put
a spoke in Bob's wheel.
First impressions are everything,
and | certainly had been beforehand
with the pretty widow. Neither had
| any compunctions of conscience,
for hadn't Bob been playing practi-
cal jokes Of all styles and complex
ions on me ever since we had entered
the bar side by side?
Stupid Tom had been his pet
name for me, always; but this
wasn't so very stupid a game, after
all.
While l was thus metaphorically
hugging myself, the conductor
bawled out, Glendale and | sprang
up to assist my lovely companion
out Of the car, cheerfully burdening
myself with bags, baskets, parasols
and bulky wraps.
As we stepped upon the platform,
| nearly tumbled into the arms Of
Bob Garter.
'Hullo, Toni was his inelegant
greeting. You don't grow any lighter
as you grow older
l was about to retort bitterly,
when a sudden change came over his
face, as he beheld the pretty widow
behind me.
'Gertier he exclaimed, clasping
both her hands in his.
Yes, Robert she answered, with
sparkling eyes and flushed checks.
That gentlemun has got my parcels;
he has been very kind to me-
'Oh, has he, though? well, We
won't trouble him any further.
am much obliged to you, Tom, and
well send you cards TO the we'd
ding
To what wedding?' gasped.
Didn't you tell him, Gartie"
Why to our wedding, The tenth of
next month, to be sure. -4u reooirl
Tom, be careful of yourself for my
sake
And that was the last | ever saw
Of my daisy faced widow! For if
you think | was mean-spirited
enough to 90 to that wedding, you
are mistaken in my character.
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c. BREUNLE,
= X B L + w ORK
NOCDERSPORT pa

!. he -. headstones, etc. finished 70 or7er.
C-ts- L7as@aaole terms. '''
- AEws ~ ,l.all or left at the ONCE Of J0rR
VII receive prompt attention
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-08-06
ID. B. NEEFF.
"a hRIAGE FACTORY,
NOLDERSPORT, PENN'A.

s--.-, 90, = of Wagon-making, RIacksmithinC
g grss-- ,..-EIiaEe Trimming and Repairing done
se,g. 49, .-'- leataess and durability. Charges
z425-Iy
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-12
An Aerial Hotel.

The latest thing in hotels is suggested
by an ingenious correspondent Of the
Galveston News, II is to be, called the
Aerial Sanitation. tits TO be a hinge
balloon, firmly secured by strong at
tachments at a proper hight. Calves
ton" he saws. " is within few miles OF
the most delightful climate IN the world,
and this climate is directly overhead y
To the enormous balloon there is to be
attached frame work Of sufficient
strong wire to accommodate one hun
dred guests This airy saloon will be
reached by smaller balloon acting
as an elevator. When the baron
eter Indicates disturbing weather,
the gas can be let OF aud the whole
establishment brought down to solid
earth. We can imagine a carayansary
Of this kind perfectly delightful. Owing
to the purity Of the air the chamber
maids would bloom in perpetual youth
and in such vicinity TO the immortal
gods every man waiter would develop in
to a Ganymede, and every tablet girl into
a Hebe. As for the gentlemanly clerk,
what limit would there be TO his celes.
tial gifts and graces2 And here would
the landlord grow solid, impressive and
ioyal as Jove himself! SO near the moon
and stars, what more charming place
could there be for firting2 And when
we call to mind how easily the bores
could be thrown over, We feel that we
need say no more.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-12
NEW YORK.

New YORK, August l2.-Steinhart is
in dying condition. Before shooting
himself he took an ounce OF poison.
He is sinking fast and suffers intensely.
The pistol is a small Blue Jacket seven
shooter. There is a deep family mys
terry connected with the tragedy which
has not yet come to light. The father Of
Steinhart is retired merchant, living
ON Lexington avenue, and is reported
10 he worth over one million dollars.
Shorlonk is forty,eight years old, and
Steinhars is twentyeight. The factory
has been closed and the police have pos
session. DR.. Fluer probed Shorlonk
wound, but did not consider 1t necessa'
rily fatal unless hemorrhage should set
in.
The steamship Idaho, from Liverpool,
arrived here last night.
Last evening while Thomas Keegan,
aged eleven, was fishing at the foot OF
Clymer street, Williamsburg, pile Of
lumber fell upon him and crushed his
head, causing instant death.
For some time past there has been
considerable dissatisfaction among the
employees in several large wholesale
boot and shoe shops in the city in con
sequence of the frequent reduction OF
wages, and the men declare their inteR
ton of engaging in a general strike
Wednesday next for higher wages.
The busy season in the boot and shoe
trade commences in about two weeks,
and this, in conjunction with the success
of the crispins in their strike last spring
encourages the present strikers with
hopes of success.
BRooKLYN, August ll.-Wm. Ander
son, who attempted to murder Miss An
ME Cunningham Sunday night and then
attempted suicide, was committed yes
terday to await the result of his injuries
Last evening Miss Cunningham was
suffering intensely. Anderson denies
that he was intoxicated.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-12
FOREIGN.

LONDON, August 1.-THE office Of
Master OF Rolls has been offered to Sir
John Duke Coleridge. and declined.
The steamship Alabama, from Glas
Cow for New York, was spoken Tuesday
last o considerable distance west of the
locality where portions of the wreck
were seen.
vienna, August ll-kany strangers
are leaving here, aud the number Of Yis
itors to the Exposition decreases daily.
STETTIB, August 1.-THE ship Oscar
the Second arrived here this morning
and reports having spoken the steam
ship Ernest Morilz Arnd on the 2sd OF
July in latitude 42', longitude 45' She
lost her propeller on the l4th Of July,
and was proceeding under sail All
we're well. She required no assistance.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-12

To smoke pipe in the streets is no
longer considered common aud uHelean,
bat on the contrary. quite the reverse.
The Prince OF Wales does it, yon know,
A gentle youth aud fair maiden Of
Texas have ouldone all other tender
pairs in their manner Of getting mar
RED. They sloped together. and duly
armed With license, rushed post haste
10 minister on Bed river, and desired
him to perform The fatal ceremony. This
the heartless man refused 10 DO, bis rea-
son beng that neither The lady nor gen
tleman vas Jet Of age. add the lsE
mightnt Ike H. Despair vas about to
overvhelm the couple. shen they we're
strack By an idea. There were 20 bosis
J 10 be had, but cottonwood logs we're
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-12
WASHINGTON.

WAsulNGroY. August l2.-An order
for | 600, 900 postal cards was received
from New York on Saturday. This IL
the fourth order received from that city
for a like amount since the beginning OF
the postal card system. Owing to the
many complaints arising from stamping
postal cards, thus disiguring the writing
orders have been issued to carriers to
stamp them on the sides on which the
address is written.
The investigation o! the irregularities
in the accounts OF the Bureau OF the
Freedmen and Refugees is being con
tinued, with view to the commence
ment of proceedings, il warranted by
the disclosures, AT the earliest possible
moment
The Rew fifty cent notes are now be
ing issued as fast as they can be received
from the North, and the faces are printed
at the treasury.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has ap'
pointed the Norfolk local board OF steam
boat inspectors to investigate the burn
ING of the Wawasette. The supervising
inspector of the third district will di'
rect the investigation. The Baltimore
local board and the officers and owners
of the vessel have been subpenaed to
appear at the investigation, which IS
to commence on Wednesday. The GER
t6cate of the Wawasette shows that she
was inspected last March, and was prep
erly equipped for fifty passengers
Under certain registration steamboats,
are granted speciel licenses to carry ex-
cursions. The Wawassett has been car
ing excursions, and at times had
on more passengers than her certificate
allowed, and yet had1sno license.
1t appears, however that she had
about four hundred life preservers on
board. She will be prosecuted for car
rying more than her legal number OF
passengers, the penalty OF which is ten
dollars a passenger. Whether the in
yestigation Of the burning of the vessel
will bring to light any additional viola
ton of the law the future will decide
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-12

AK educational journal has the fol-
lowing collection Of interesting iao's
with reference to schools in the Unlted
States: According to the census OF
1870 the total number Of schools IN the
limited States was al ,629 for males, ana
l277ls for females. The total number
of pupils was I POS, 9Ss-3,62l, 1896 being
male and 1851 1872 being female. The
total income OF all the schools was $780,
Ao4 1926 of which $S,6637S5 came from
epdowments, SCI, l76OS9 from taxation
and 500 es2 9O2 from all other sources
including tuition. The total income re-
ported is nearly three times that Tor lsOo'
and nearly six times that for 1850. 1t is
considered quite impossible that there
.honld have been any such increase;
and the apparent augmentation is, with
out doubt referable 10 failure on the
mart oCthe census officials TO secure com
nlete returns. OF the total number OF
schools reported, the public schools were
l27 O59; classical, professional and tech
meal 2,5I5, and otkers, l4,O24. The
total number Of teachers in the public
schools was 1873, 1888; and in the CLASH
cal, professional and technical, l2,I6T
The number of pupils in the latter class
was 245, 100, and in the public schools
& 0oo 0cQ
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-12
NOTICE.

Nr0TICE - PURSUANT TO THE PRO-
n visions Of an act % Congress, approved
Naroh B. 1873. Authorizing the construction ~
! hridra across the Missifsippi river. at ~.
Louis. Missouri. By The 81 Clair and Caron-
delet nridrs Company. the Aforesaid com tn5
hereby qires notice % an concerned that icy
viii. On or before the l0ih day Of J lLl nett
euhmit h. the Secretary Of War. for ~ eA..,l
nation AMI approval, n design Tor -
80, hriige efnrisiinr on two channel span,
ID IL hundred ftet each. and two ere ~. y
three hundred feet each, ~ IN ~ ~. .t
ne hundred feet above loN $500 -
They will alec Gle 3 map ri.ins ~ = ~ ~
lorafidn or the bridge. ne " ~ - -
t.-fs1 "a ~ liver ~ hifh and loH Hateff Ne
il-.. =. ~ ~. -nrrrnt at al stages, au4 ne
-s"-ii.r.. -forirr accuraielT Pc 10 ol ~
rir-rI1. ard iurristlnf tacr ettsl ..-t
49, - All BE- requires tlr u iul az -
f.llerv underFianlinr q ne subject hl ne
~fraefary al " ~ .-.-... -. a.. a.
Br order n Board - ulIe,leIs ne -
r1-ir - Carrrisiat Er1Te Llur1nIr
M. HFhDE k-Oh, rec.T.
a Lest. ~. Juns -, 80 lis-it
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-12

PARTIES desiring to visit Raleigh Min
eral Springs during the week by observ-
ing the advertisement of the Memphis
and Raleigh railroad viii see that they
can leave the Louisville depot at 9
am, ll:55 am. and $40 pm. Can re
turn from the springs same day at LOS
p. m. and 6:3O pm. Isl
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-12

CouxT DE CHAMBoRD has formally &C
cepted the French throne, rendered to
him by the Legitimists. This cool pro-
ceeding was transacted without consulta-
ton with the French people, who have
ever had something 10 say about the
divine right Of Kings. The French
throne, which was kicked over by the
French people after Sedan, is hardly
worth fighting over; but the Legitimists,
Orleanists and Bonapartists look upon
the relic of loyalty with reverence and
longing.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-12

A Vienna correspondent writes that
several colored walters, taken out by
an enterprising American restaurant
keeper, find themselves, quite to their
surprise, objects of interest among the
nntraveled yiennese, and particularly
50 to the female portion. They have re-
ceiyed numerous invitations to dine out,
and several Of them were recently in
wted to public ball, where they joined
in the dance, to the evident delight Of
TIE American girls.
IL is reported from Cobourg, Germany,
to the great disgust lintimates a local
iournaD Of all widows and maideus. thai
the Landtag has issued resolution
abolishing Ihs socalled tax on celibacy,
an institution OF great service u the
gentler sex Until nov There has existed
in Cobourg q custom u deduciing a Ger
tain percentage from the requests Of
every unmarried man. which his heirs
were obliged to pay.
The origin Of tea is thus told by tbl
Hindoo my biologists DArma, prime
OF that country, vent on a pilgrimage 4
China. vowing be would never rest o.
the way. But be once, wearied cut, Eel
ssleep. aud was, on waking, SO augr
With himself that be cut of bis eyelid
and flung them on the ground. The
sprung up as tea shrubs, and to this or
san is due the power Of tea to prOduc
Eakefulness.
A Maine lady has been licensed
solenui7s marriages before solemuizin
hsr oHn.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-12

MORGAN-kt nine o'clock this TUESDAY
morning, 18th inst. LEILA MoRGAs, daughter
of John and Soirons Morgan, aged hve
months.
Funeral will take place from the residence.
No. 81 Old Raleigh road. tomorrow (Wednes-
day) morning at nine o'clock. Friends and
acquaintance are respectfully invited to at
tend