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Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07
The Bankruptcy Law.

The following amendment to the present bankruptcy law of the United States, introduced by Senator Wright, of Iowa, is probably all that will be ac- complished this winter, and even this may not pass: On all proceedings in bankruptcy commenced subsequently to the first day of January, 1873, no dis charge shall be granted to debtor whose assets shall not be equal to 50 per cent. of the claims proved against his estate upon which he shall be liable as the principal debtor, unless the as- sent in writing of a majority in number and value of his creditors to whom he shall have become liable as 8 principal debtor, and who shall have proved their claims, be filed in the case at or before the time of hearing the application for discharge, provided that the provisions of this act shall not apply to those debts from which the bankrupt seeks dis charge which were contracted prior to the 1st of January, 1873.
Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07
A Pathetic Scene.

Sir Richard Steele says: The first sense of sorrow l ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with real un- derstanding why nobody was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where the body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledoor in my hand, and fell to beating the coffin and calling papa for, I know not why, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.
 My mother caught me in her arms, and, transported beyond all patience of the silent grief she was before in, she almost smothered me in her embrace, and told me in flood of tears, "papa could not hear me, and would play with mo no more, for they were going to put him under the ground, whence he could never come to see us again" She was very beautiful woman, of Q noble spirit, and there was dignity in her grief amid all the wildness of her trans port, which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, which, before I was sensible of what 1t was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind in infancy is, methinks, like the body in embryo; and receives inn pressions so forcible that they are as hard te be removed by reason, ns any mark, with which achild is born, is to be taken away by any future application. Hence it is, that good nature ill me is no merit !; but, having been so ire quently overwhelmed with her tears be- fore I knew the cause of her affliction, or could draw defenses from my own judgment, I imbibed commiseration, remorse, and an unmanly gentleness of mind, which has since ensnared me in- to ten thousand calamities; and from whence I can reap no advantage, except itbe that, in such a humor as am now in, can the better indulge myself in the softness of humanity, and enjoy that sweet anxiety which arises from the memory of past afflictions.
Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07
Russian Costumes.

All the guests at the Christmas festi- val are dressed in their holiday clothes, but the caprices of fashion are banished from their garments as much as from their social pleasures. The costume of the old-fashioned Russians is not more distinguished for it's richness than for its antiquity. In the provincial dis tricts the son dresses as his father and as his fathers father did before him !; and even female taste and vanity ven- ture not to introduce an innovation in the costume which ages have consecra- ted. A large beaver cap, Q pelisse of sable or fox skin, richly-embroidered kaftan buttoned up the front with sil- yer buttons and girdle of rich Persian silk, or of red kind of woollen stuff called kummatsch, is the uniform of each wealthy male guest. The married women wear the kokoschnik, kind of head-dress made of scarlet silk, em- broidered with colored silks or pearls and trimmed with lace, from which is suspended a white fatu, or short veil. Their dress, called saraphan, resembles in shape 8 clergyman's gown, and is made of rich gold or silver brocade, buttoned up the front with a single TOW of buttons the sleeves, which are very long and wide, are of white muslin, and a stiff muslin ruff encircles the throat. A woollen cloak trimmed with sables, richly-embroidered mittens, and delicate slippers with high heels, complete the costume. Their trinkets consist of gold chains, necklaces, and bracelets of pearls and precious stones, and car rings of the same. These last mention ed objects form the most important items in the dover of rich maidens, and the greater their antiquity, the of tener they have descended from mother to daughter in the same family, the higher they are valued. The "fair maidens" wear the seraphan and the ruff like the married women, but the rich tresses of their own hair, wound round with @ rose-colored ribbon, con- stitute the only head-dress allowed to them.-Belgraoia.
Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07
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Freaks of Electricity. Ss

Many are the marvellous freaks and jests played by electricity, sometimes ending in tragedy. Among the most remarkable is that of striking person dead, and leaving him in the exact posi- tion occupied at the moment the shock was given, just as if he were still alive, and yet so thoroughly consumed as to be nothing but mass of cinders. Thus we are told that at Vic-sur-Aisne, France, in 1888, three soldiers sought refuge from Q violent thunderstorm under a hnden-tree. Some peasants, seeing them stand motionless longaft the storm had passed, and receiving no response to pleasant salutation, touch ed them on the shoulder The bodies instantly crumbled to fine ashes !! Yet the moment before there was no evi- dence that the lightning had touched them. Their clothing was not torn, and their faces wore Q natural appear ance. The following remarkable cir cumstance was witnessed by Pastor Butler On the 27th of July, 1891, ten harvesters took refuge under a hedge on the approach of thunderstorm. The lightning struck md killed four of them, who remained as if suddenly petritied. One of them was just put ting a bit of tobacco in his mouth, another was fondling little dog on his knee with one hand and feeding him with the other. M. Cardan relates that eight harvesters, taking their monday repast under maple-tree during thunderstorm, were killed by one stroke of lightning. When approached by their companions, after the storm had cleared away, they seemed to be still at their repast. One was raising glass to drink, another was in the act of taking bit of bread, third was reach ing out his hand to plate. There they sat as if petrifed, in the exact position in which death surprised them.
 The following harmless freak of elec- tricity is recorded by Flammarion. On the 10th of September, 1945, during a violent thunderstorm, house in the village of Salagnac, France, was struck by lightning. A large ball of fire des- cended the chimney, and rolled across the floor of a room in which sat child and three women. No one was hurt. It then rolled out through the center of the kitchen, passing close to the feet of a young peasant, and disappeared through a crevice in the wall. Its erra- tic course ended in the pig the harmless occupant of which it despite fully slew, without setting on fire the straw on which the creature lay.
Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07
THE PRELIMINARY QUESTION. T

HE T IKELIMINAKY NUESTlUN. - IHe professor of natural philosophy in Q certain college gave the class problem to think over during the night and an- swer the next day! The question was this:. eff hole were bored through the centre of the earth from side to side, and ball were dropped into it, what motions would the ball pass through, and how would it come to state of rest ?" The next morning fellow was called up on this philosophicalproblem. "What answer do you give this ques- tion ?" asked the professor. "Well, really" said he, "I have not thought of the main question, but of Q prelimi- nary one. How are you going to get that hole through ?"
Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07
The Erie Railroad Dividend.

The Erie Railroad Directors have ordered dividend to be paid of B per cent. on the preferred stock, and + on the common. The Auditor made the following report of the years business ending December 31, 1872.
 Gross earnings. gs..............$1 SIS, ,694, ,O96 Working expenses. ............... Is. .629. 956 Interest on funded and floating debt 1,S14, ,043 of bonds ..............e......... 1928, ,712
 ings. gs..................t.......... 1e,667, I'll Net result for tho year.. 2,026,3S5 Less dividend paid on preferred
 stock in July y.................... 29S, ,792 Surplus of earnings on hand off,. 1,277, ,593
 The amount included in working ex- penses, which was paid for new work and iron, was $4, ,000,O00 No allowance was made in any form for the securities and property refunded by Jay Gould.
 The Directors, in consideration of the above statement, passed a resolution declaring dividend of 8 per cent. on preferred stock, and of 1s per cent. on common stock also, that the stock books be closed for transfer from the 1st to the 10th of March.
Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07

It is remarkable how vigilant these expressmen are in hunting up persons to whom packages are addressed, Here is case in point in Hartford, Conn. where gentleman has ascertained from a list of unclaimed" goods advertised tor sale at auction, that the company has package intended for him, which was received last May. And the com any's office is next door to his own place of business, But what can he dc about it 2
Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07
HORACE GREE1EY's PRoPERTY.-The

HURAUE UREELEI T hOFEIsI1. I1o appraisers of Horace Greeley's estate are at their labors. It is safe to esti- mate that his personal property will foot up about $12O,OO0. There are about $100, 900 of bad debts and worthless se- curities. The appraisers say that Cor nelius Vanderbilt, Jr., owes the estate $50,000 borrowed money. Commodore Vanderbilt sent his check for $5, 900 to each of MT. Greeley's daughters, Ida and Gabrielle, adding that if they need cd money at any time they might call on him.
Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07
The Burned Library.

But little spark.
 In the silent dark, To the back of bookcase cropt; It had work to do
 In the moments few While the absent readers slept. Through hollow way,
 Like star at play, It stole, just as midnight died, With it's cloudy smoke,
 Like a traitors cloak, Half torn by his haste aside. Flashing swift and gay,
 Through the cobwebs gray, It leaped to tho joist and beam; Faster and faster,
 Through lath and plaster, It flashed with it's evil gleam. Through the wall at last; Breathing hot and fast, By the rush of it's entrance famed, It upheld it's light,
 Over pages white, And smutched them with crimson hand. Beaten thoughts and true, Ancient words and new, Craven gold by thinker wrought; Cadenced silver songs,
 Argued rights and wrongs, Opal caskets to shrine thought. Little rocked the fire
 What composed the pyre, Whether Shakespeare or Bunyan burned, AS he opened wide
 Volumes gloriied, And their dainty edges turned. So the work went on,
 Till the ghostly dawn, Looking in at the night-work done, Saw the Terror stayed,
 And tho dead books laid On the field where the spark had won; Saw the scholars grief
 Over smoking leaf, Over ashes, for which might be Resurrection none, Through their slrouding dun In the dawn quivered fitfully.
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well, and I have reason to believe she did so, never any less and never any more, while grew to regard her with a passionate admiration.
 For long time after her death, life, alone with my widower, was very tame affair indeed,
Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07

In New York the thermometer mark ed one degree below zero at five o'clock in the morning, and the average tenn peraturo was nine and one-e!ghth de- rreeS,
Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07
Cold Weather.

January, 1873, departed with Q ''cold snap;" every body felt it to be, like every other ''cold snap" the most se- were of the season. Thermometers in all sections ran down to very low fig ure, as the following records of Janu- arv 3O will show:
Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07

A post mortem examination revealed thirty two large nails in the stomach of an Iowa horsethat died of the epizootic.
Connecticut western news., 1873-03-07
MY STEPDAUGHTER.

"I suppose you have broken the mat ter to Eleanor?' said to "my widower" " only three weeks before we were to be married.
 "I could not do it after all. We may as we'll surprise her, and it will be all over at once," said MT. Eustace, strok- ing that handsome beard, which had been one of his great attractions to me.
 "I verify believe you are afraid of your own daughter. Your long delay is @ great injustice to her, and it makes me unhappy, yes, miserable"
 "I am sorry, but I rather like your scolding, Lizzie. I have always been used to silent, self-contained women, who would not move an eyelash if the heavens fell"
 "Is Eleanor one of that sort"
 "Yes, the oldest girl in the world. I wish she had little more nonsense about her." &
 "I have enough for two."
 1T give thanks for it. You are
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The MOrmOns.

The tribulation among the Mormon leaders in view of the probability of decisive Congressional actisn against their institution is becoming daily more manifest. Already Q removal from Utah is discussed. One of their organs says the strong arm of power is to be invoked to make them move on /; but where shall they go ?-where is it desired they shall next pitch their tents?
 The priesthood is understood to be seriously contemplating the possible necessity of another pioneer expedition, but it is not generally believed the saints, as body, can ever be induced to abandon their rpresent homes. There is no doubt Brigham Young and his ad- visers are endeavoring to secure new country for kingdom, and it is inti- mated that negotiations have been re- newed for the exclusive possession of one of the Sandwich Islands. @ @@
 AN OLD MEDAn.-There is gentle man in Washington, native of Penn sylvania, who many years ago represented that State in Congress, and who pos sesses the only original medal of George Washington now in this country. There were only four struck, as the die split upon the fifth. The other three are said to be in possession of the crown of Gre it Britain, the Czar of Russia, and the King of Belgium. This has the date of 1797 on its face, is a correct likeness of Washington, and showing the date of his resignation and his re- linquishment of the Presidency. On the reverse is a coat of arms, including tomahawk and qulver full of arrows. It was left to this gentleman by MT Philpot, an Englishman, whom he pro vided for and nursed in his last hours. It is the work of one Halliday, of Eng land.
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dresses. It would be a delightful thought to take to sea with me that my love and belonged wholly to each oth- CT, and nobody else knew it. I would not have so much as a pair of white gloves to distract our attention from the beauty and glory of the main fact. !"
 We all made up a face at Haviland's absurdity, and l went to try on my new dresses.
 I said no more to Mr. Eustace of his daughter, thinking all the more and the wedding-day came like all days, if you wait long enough. We were mar ried at noon and MT. Eustace drove me in his carriage the ten miles that lay between my old home and the new. As we approached the latter, he grew ab- sent and restless. T knew by fellow feeling that he was thinking of his daughter, but would do nothing to re- lieve him he deserved half an hour of misery.
 Eleanor came te meetus as her father opened the door, girl who might have sat for Tennyson's Isabel:
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-10

the fairest pages in French history, and
the policy which he indicated for her in the
celebrated utterance-" L'Empire, c'est
pair"-will be recognized as having
achieved for France far greater glory than
ever flashed from the Napoleonic sword.
Napoleon loved France with an intensity
that exceeded his own self-love, which IS
saying all that can be said Of the nten-
sity of that passion; and we believe the
time will come, and that within much
briefer period than most of us may now
deem probable, when his remains will be
taken back to the city, if not the very
spot of his birth, with as much affection,
if not as much imperial pomp and cere
monY, as marked the return of the "sacrec
ashes of st. Helena
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-10

AN Annapolis letter says that young
Conyers, the colored cadet. who at one
time Jared rather roughly at the hands Of his
companions in the academy, meets now
with very kind treatment, so far as civility
is concerned. The young men had meet
ing in one of the large rooms of the acade-
my, and determined to desist from any
treatment which could be construed into
disrespect or incivilty, and Conyers since
then has enjoyed an entire cessation from
the "hazing" he used to suffer so fire.
quently.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-10

GOVERNOR DIX's message has very
ominous ring for Stokes, in its paragraphs
concerning the increase of crime in New
York city. 1t has distinct application to the
latest instance Of conviction for the crime
of murder. The Governor points out the
causative relation between non-enforcing
the laws and the increase Of gross crimes,
and says that. " it will be in vain to hope
for the suppression of crime unless the
retribution is prompt and certain"
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-10

DIR. S. G. HOWE has written long
letter in which he warmly endorses the
enterprise of the merchants who have
entered into negotiations with General
Baez for the purchase Of SANTANA bay and
peninsula. He halls the measure as quasi
annexation, and says it is not the Presi-
dents project; " on the contrary, it may
rather thwart the one proposed by him
and therefore it is to be hoped that it will
escape the vehement invectives and abuse
heaped upon that. 1t is not political
measure, and can excite no well founded
political opposition" The terms offered
by the company Of merchants are the
same as those embodied in the first treaty
with Baez.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-10
TIE srRAKOsCIE CONCEPTS.

Assembly Hall was crowded last night
to hear the first of these splendid concerts. |
That everyone who paid his two dollars for |
a reserved seat went away satisfied that he
had received his moneys worth, there can
be, we think, no doubt. If there are any
moments which we should like to live over
again, in order to partake deeper and deep
er of the same enjoyment, it is those in
which we have been moved to enthusiasm
by the wondrous gift of genius. We take
an unceasing delight in Patti because
this gift is hers. She is one o.
those rare, sopg-inspired spirits, in whom
there is perpetual fountain of delight,
ever springing up fresh and full, and pour
ing the richness of its treasures on all things
around her; giving us relish of higher en-
ioyment than we ever deemed possible of
attainment in ourselves, though we find it
constantly attainable in her.
Her music is like the outbreakings of joy
in birds, after the descent of storms, and
when nature has come suddenly forth from
deep shade into open sunshine. There
is a charm in it that is not art, but
nat ure. 1t stirs and elevates, melts and
soothes, awes and inspires precisely as if
an inspiration of nature moved us within
the most sacred and inner precincts of her
temple. 1t is a revelation Of what we
would be ourselves. if we could only reach
the expandings and aspirings Of the higher
nature within us. 1t is impossible not to
experience this feeling of delight in her
splendid vocalization, for it combines the
genuine perfection of art with the real
enchantment of nature-the natural excel
lence, however, always predominating over
the purely artistic execution.
Mile Patti is so full of music that, in
her merriment, she can't help laughing 4
right out, just as bird runs up scale 0
Joy in an ecstatic trill. Laughing, it is
music; signing, it is music; weeping, it is
music; for, in whatever mood, her hear
flows out in joyousness or sorrow, just al
her audience is to be moved by the partlcu
lar spell upon its spirit. So wonderful
is her vocalization that, in many 0
: its pas Stages, it puzzles us to know
whether it is her voice or the instrument
which accompanies it, except that it has to-
much soul to be Instrumental, and touches
emotions beyond the reach Of any thini
but a. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. instrument
But we can venture no criticism upon he
musc-we can only describe its effect upo
ourself. This we have attempted brief,
, to do, and only regret that our space vii
! not admit of greater number of impress
sions received by us.
= Of the other members of the company
r we need only say that they make up wit
, Patti the most brilliant concert programm
that can be given anywhere OF by an
troupe of artists in America. We hay
heard Mario sing better, butt better cor
cert we have never heard anywhere.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-10
SHIPPING.

THOR NEW YORK.--OLD DO ETA
Il MINION STEAMSHIP COM sSx E6fEsss
PANY. .
The side-wheel steamships OLDDOMINION,
WYANOKE, ISAAC BELL, SARATOGA, NJ.
AGARA, ALBEMARLE, and HATTERAS,
Richmond, every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and
SATURDAY, at O'Clock p. M. Leave Rich
mond every TUESDAY, FRIDAY, and SUN
DAY, at high tide
elegant Saloons state-rooms, and bathrooms.
The fare, accommodations, and attention are
unsurpassed.
Close connections made with steamers for all
Southern, Eastern Western and European
ports.
ES-For further information apply to
JOHN W. WYATT, Agent,
in l-tf No. Governor street.
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PROSPECTUS.
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STATE JOURNAL FOR 1873
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Make up Club at once, or send in your
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The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-01-10

QUITE an exploit was that of the New
York policeman who lately nabbed three
roughs for assaultng and robbing woman.
He overlook them as they fed, a few rods
apart, and successfully felled them to the
pavement with his club, and then did SEN
try duty along the line Of fallen bodies,
administering occasional taps, just enough
to keep them down till help arrived.