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Connecticut western news., 1873-10-31
The Story of Ann Harris.

Ann was born of honest parents, and trained up to industry, but she aban- doned herself to vice. She had two husbands in three years, and during that period she became versant in the ways of the London thieves. She went one day to mercer, we'll dressed, with pretended footman attending her. Having purchased more than two hun dred pounds' value of silk and velvet, which being larger sum than she had upon her, she requested the mercer to go home with her, and he would receive his money. Putting the goods into @ hackney coach, she rode off with him to Dr. Adams, who kept a mad-house, and informed the doctor that this was the gentleman of whom she spoke in the morning. In trice, three or four lusty | fellows seized the mercer, one by the arms, another by the legs, third by the centre, and dragged him in, while the poor mercer cried out for his two hundred pounds.
 poor gentleman is very bad, indeed. He's raving mad. Tie him quickly down in that chair, and presently shave his head"
 All the while his cry was either for his goods, or his money. The doctor said
 "Pray, madam, see how his lunacy makes him talk at random"
 Shaking her head, she replied
 "True, sir; but is there any hope of his recovery"
 "You must know, madam, that there are three kinds of frenzies. according 1 to the three internal senses-of imagina- tion, cogitatlon, the memory. This gentleman is affected with the worst of frenzies, but I hope he will be better in months time."
 Meanwhile Nan give the doctor five guineas, giving him strict charge to take care of her husband, and she would grudge no expenses.
 The distracted mercer exclaimed :
 "She's lying, She's none of my wife! My wife is at home in Ludgate street. Stop her stop her stop her She has cheated me of my silk and velvet. I am not mad am not mad but a parcel of rogues here will make me run out of my senses"
 Doctor Adams then said to his men !:
 "Poor gentleman. he's very bad, in- deed. We must bleed him, and give him great glyster at night. Contine him to room where there's no light at all, and bind him fast down hand and foot in the straw, and for one week give him nothing but water gruel, with little or no bread in it; but the week after, if his temper decreases, we nay venture to give him little ptisan br.th, boiled with some husked barley"
 The mercer, hearing these directions, cried out
 "I'Il have none of my blood taken from me I have had enough taken from me already without paying for it. I want no glyster-I tell you that I am in my right senses. I'll have none of your gruel and broth. What cheat me and starve me too! No, no, am not lunatic."
 Quoth the doctor:
 "You shall not be starved, sir. What diet prescribe you now is to restore you to your health again."
 "To health again I think you are going to take it from me, as the base woman has my goods"
 All his remonstrances were to no purpose. The doctors directions were followed. Nan, however, sending a letter to the mercer's wife, informing her where to find her husband, she went, along with some friends, and pro- cured his liberty.
Connecticut western news., 1873-10-31
A Singular Celebration.

Chicago is a singular city. It is re- markable for it's marriages and its di- vorces, for it's sensation stories, it's house raising and it's rats. It was lately engaged in ''celebrating," by holiday, music, fag-fying and general rejoicing, the anniversary of the conflagration from which it suffered so severely two years ago. A Western paper tells of a man who had settled down in Q neigh ing village for six or seven years, and was noted for his quiet, sober manners. But it was observed that on one particu- lar day of each year he put off his cus- tomary sedateness, put on his best clothes, took a holiday, gave himself uo to fun and frolic and generally end ed in retiring to bed in his boots. An inquiry into the reason of his curious conduct disclosed the fact that the day thus set apart for private celebration, was the anniversary of his wife's death. That man must have hailed from Chi CapO.
Connecticut western news., 1873-10-31
Brutal Murder of a Boy.

Reports of brutal murder have reached here from Polk township, one of the back towns of Monroe county, Pa. The locality being so isolated, minute particulars have not been received. It seems that boy, aged ten years, named James Muffley, was visiting at his grandmother's, Mrs. Hawk, in Polk township. The old lady, going out in- to field at some distance from the house to dig potatoes, left the lad in charge of the house. When she re- turned toward evening she found the house locked up, and looking through the window saw that the place had evil dently been ransacked. She procured assistance, the door was forced open, and brief search discovered the body of the little boy lying in the cellar in a pool of blood, with the throat cut from ear to ear. A further search through the house revealed to Mrs. Hawk that a sum of money, amounting to S40 or $50 was gone from bureau drawer, and also that @ quantity of clothing was missing. The contents of the bureau drawers were thrown about the floor, and the whole house had been ransacked. It is SUD- posed that the crime was committed by two tramps who had been about some days. Search has been made for them without success.
Connecticut western news., 1873-10-31
A Test Case.

A. T. Stewart, of New York, recently sued Chris topher Martin to recover $154 66 of the defendant for Q bill of dry goods sold to his wife on the 23d of last May. Mrs. Mary A.. Martin testi- fled that she was the wife of the defen- dant, and resided at No. 159 Jersey avenue, Jersey City; that on the 18th of last April her husband abandoned her, giving her at the time $10, and that he gave her no more money until the Court decreed her SIS week during tho pendency of the suit for divorce i; that she received this amount from the 26th of May up to the 26th of August, since which time she has received noth- ing from him that her husband owned a house in Jersey City worth $9, ,0OO, one in Harlem worth $8,000, Central Park lot, and thirteen lots in Brooklyn, be- sides stand in Washington Market. The articles which she purchased from the plaintiff, she said, were necessary for herself and her child.
 The defence was that the articles were not necessary, as the term "neces- sary" is understood iu law, for the use of the defendants wife, it being proved that they lived separately, and that in a case where goods were sold to the wife without the knowledge or consent of the husband, he is not liable to pay for them.
 The Court instructed the jury that a husband is liable for necessary articles furnished to his family if he does not supply them himself with the necessar- ies of life, and in this case it was purely a question of fact for the jury to deter mine whether the goods were necessary for the wife and child at that time; and if they found that they were, the plain tiff wa, entitled to recover such amount as the jury saw fit to give him, with in- terest from the time the goods were sold.
 The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed.
Connecticut western news., 1873-10-31
Female Training.

A lady, writing to Chicago paper on the subject of female training, says: "The education and training of Ameri- can women is altogether defective in it's way. Instead of being taught house. work, and thereby becoming conversant with theroutine ofdomestico occupations, they devote their leisure hours to the reading of novels. Instead of learn ing to fit and make their own dress es, and their fathers and brothers shirts, they are allowed ta go gadding about the streets, and that, too, at hours that they ought to be at home under their moth CTS eyes, alarming stockings or prepar- ing the next mornings meal. I say that young girls, from eight years and up wards, ought to be made to walk at least five miles day, in sunshine or rain, even if they could ride that distance for five cents. This is the way that pro- pose to apply the remedy. In no civil ized country in the world is the domes- tic education and training of woman considered disgraceful or uudignified excepting the United States of Ameri- Ca
Connecticut western news., 1873-10-31
Follow the Example.

A certain mechanic found, at the age of twenty-one, that he possessed a fancy for books, cigars and liquor-extrava- gant tastes all. We'll, he thought the matter over, and, knowing that he must be dependent on his skill for 8 home and education, he decided to lay out in books every year the sum which he esti- mated it would cost a moderate drinker for liquor. He also calculated what it would cost him for tobacco and cigars, for theatres and Sunday riding, and set apart that money in tho same way. The result was, that in a few years he owned library of several hundred volumes. In this library he has row of shelves labelled Liquor, Tobacco, Theatres, Livery Stables, which are now filled with the books bought with the money he would otherwise have appropriated for these purposes. Young men, this little story needs no comment = but think of it.
Connecticut western news., 1873-10-31
French POliteneSS.

There are many instances of French politeness current; the story, for exam pie, of the old Duo Doudeauville, of the last of the old school which faded away in Charles the Tenth's time with legiti- mate royalty. He was slowly coming down stairs one afternoon from visit, vixen he met a youngster of twenty, bounding up, three steps at a time, to the drawing-room which he had just quilted. Both stopped short. The Duke, by right of age, stood against the wall; the boy, four stairs below him, stood against the banisters. Both bowed low, both were bareheaded, neither would pass the other. This deadlock continued until the younger man step ped up, saying, "I obey, my lord Duke obedience is the first duty of youth" This story, however, is re- markedly like one of Lord Stair and Louis XIV. The King signed to the ambassador to get into the carriage be- fore his Majesty; Lord Stair bowed and obeyed without any fuss, whereupon Louis observed to his courtiers that a less polite man would have made Q ser- emony of declining.
Connecticut western news., 1873-10-31
Declined.

Among the noteworthy incidents of the General Conference of the Evangeli- cal Alliance is the reception of friend ly letter from the Old Catholic Congress at Constance, detailing the objects of Old Catholicism, and thanking the Americans for their sympathy" It is signed by Bishop Reinkens, Won Schulte, and other leaders. The letter is a reply to proposition from the Rev. Dr. Schaff, of the United States, on behalf of the Evangelical Alliance, inviting the Old Catholics to send three delegates to the Conference meeting in New York. The invitation was declined on account of the shortness of the time intervening, and the difficulty of finding delegates sufficiently acquainted with the English language for the perform ance of such service,
Connecticut western news., 1873-10-31
His Fruit,.

The Supreme Court of New Ysrk has just decided that man can pick all the fruit from tree growing on his own land, though it hang over on a neigh bor's land. The question is an old and oft-disputed one, and it may he added of incalculable practical value. But as 8 landowners right of property extends down to the centre of the earth, and up- ward to the zenith, may not the man whose possessions are overhung by @ few dozen of his neighbours apples lawfully bring an account against him for sky rent, which will enable him to appropriate the fruit to his own use?
Connecticut western news., 1873-10-31
Sport in the Sandwich Islands.

Hilo is one of the very few places on these islands where you can see truly royal sport-the surf board. It re- quires rough day and a heavy surf, but with a good day it is one of the finest sights in the world.
 The surf board is tough plank about two feet wide and from six to twenty feet long, usually made of the bread fruit trees. Armed with these, Q party of tall, muscular natives swim out to the first line of breakers. and, watching their chance to duck under this, make their way finally, by the help of their undertow, into tho smooth water far off beyond all the surf. Here they bob up and down on the swell like so many ducks, watching their opportunity. What they seek is very high swell, before which they place themselves, ly- ing or kneeling on the surf board. The great wave dashes onward, but as its bottom strikes the ground, the top, m retarded in it's speed and force, breaks into huge comber, and directly before this the surf-board swimmer is propelled with speed which we timed and found to exceed forty miles per hour. In fact, he goes like lightning, always just
 
 down hill, propelled by the vehement impulse of the rearing wave behind him, yet seeming to have a speed and motion of his own.
 It is very surprising sight to see three or four men thus dashed for near lv mile toward the shore at the speed of an express train, every moment about to be overwhelmed by roaring breaker whose white crest was reared high above and just behind them, but always escaping his ingulf- ment and propelled before it. They look, kneeling or lying on their long surf-boats. more like some curious and swift-swimming fsh-like dolphins racing, as it seemed to us-than like men. Once in while, by some mis- chance, the cause of which we could not understand, the swimmer was over- whelmed; the great comber overlook him; he was flung over and over like a piece of wreck, but instantly dived, and reappeared beyond the outside of the wave, ready to take advantage of the next. As uccessful shot launched them quite high and dry on the beach far be- ] yond where we stood to watch. Occa- sionally a man would stand erect upon his surf board, balancing himself in the boiling water without any apparent difficulty. .,
 The surf-board play is one of the ancient sports of Hawaii. We were told that few of the younger genera tions are capable of it, and that it is thought to require great nerve and coolness even among these admirable swimmers, and to be not without danger.
Connecticut western news., 1873-10-31
The Flowers Revel.

Called the flowers to one another,
 Sisters, see that flaming bough! Summers gone, our lovely mother; Step-dame Autumn ruleth now. She hangs out hor splendid banner Rings her voice upon the breeze; Winds with sonorous praises fan her 1; And she issues her decrees.
 |" Frost is her obedient servant
 Droop our heads before his nod; Tender blooms or blossoms fervent Die at touch of his cold rod
 We must yield to him with meekness We have had our happy day; All our strength to him is weakness N We cannot dispute his sway.
 !" All our beauty, tender, vivid,
 All our colol, sweet or strong, At his look grow dull and livid, ~- And we die-a lifeieesT throng, But before his ehills subdue us
 Let us banquet proud and high; .. Summers life yet pulses through Us B Letus praise her ere we die l"
Connecticut western news., 1873-10-31

VELOCITY OF THE W1ND.-Light air, l mile light breeze, 5 miles gentle breeze, 10 miles moderate breeze, 15 miles fresh breeze, 20 miles strong breeze, 25 miles; moderate gale, 30 miles fresh gale, 45 miles strong gale, 50 miles; heavy gale, 70 miles, :; storm, 30 miles hurricane, 100 miles and upward per hour.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-04-29

lairn Ae,,ufbaf yourual,
A Better Time Coming.

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We are going to have better times for
farmers in the near future. And now is
the time to prepare for them. Get the
land ready. Make it clean, and get it
into clover and grass. 1t will then be
gained in fertility, and when the good
times come--as come they certainly will
this land can be plowed with reason
able prospect of producing a good crop.
But If you continue to plough as many
acres, and undertake to work it with less
labor, the chances are that you will get
meagre crops and the land viii become
more and more weedy, and when the
good time comes for corn TO oring q
dollar a bushel where it now sells for
twenty cents, and pork and beef bring
ten cents per pound, live weight, where
they now bring three cents, you will have
little to SELL 1t will rain porridge, but
your dish will not be ready to catch it.
History, experience, observation and com.
mon sense, oil demonstrate that good
times never come to poor farmers. ii
you cannot do anything else toward i'm
proving your farm the coming season. lei
me urge you at any rate to make an ear
nest effort to kill the weeds. This alone
would add millions to the wealth of the
country, e,s.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-04-29
JURUBEBA.

which Is pronounced by the leading medical att.
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tome and Alternative known TO the medical world. !,
This is no new and untred discovery, but has been
long used by the leading physicians of other coun.
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Don't weaken and impair the digestive organs
by cathartics and physics; they give only tempo.
rary relief; indigestion, hatulency, and dyspepsia,
with piles and kindred diseases, are sure to follow
their use. Keep the blood pure and health is as
sured.
JOHN Q. KELLOGG, IS Plat St., New York,
sole Agent for the United States.
Price One Dollar per Bottle. Send for Circular.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-04-29

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Have you Dyspeptic Stomachp Unless
digestion is promptly aided the system is debitated
with poverty OF the Blood, Dropsical tendency,
general Weakness and Inertia.
have you weakness Of the IntestinesP You
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ton Of the Bowels.
Have you weakness OF the Uterine or
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in its most aggrav ated FORM
Are you detected, drowsy, duil sluggish or
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-04-29

w AMTeD IMMEDIATELY. 80 900 acicires SEES, to
w. which specimen copies of SMITHS MAGA.
ZINE VIII he sent free: Agents wanted. Write,
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-04-29
The Wheat Field Of America
Hea!thfaJ Climate, Free Homes, Good Markets.

THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAIL.
ROAD offers for sale its Lands in Central and
Western Minnesota, embracing The best
of Wheat Land2 Excellent Timber for the Mill
the Farm aud the Fire; s. Rich Prairie Pasturage
and Natural Meadow, watered by clear Lakes and
running streams-in Healihful Climate, achere Fe.
per and Ague is unkno,cn,
Grain can be shippcdhence by lake to market as
cheaply as fl ON Eastern Iowa or Central Illinois.
Cara now run through these Lands from Lake Su-
perior to Dakota Price of land close to track $500
to $500 per acre; further away e. so to 800. Sew
en- Years CrOdit; Warrantee Deeds; Northern
Pacific 7-3O Bonds, now selling At par, received
for land at $ll0. No other unoccupieu Lands pre-.
sent such advantages to settlers.
SOLDIERS under the New Law March, 1927
get 100 acres FREE, near the railroad, by one and
wo years. residence. -
TRANSPORTATION AT REDUCED
RATES furnished from all principal points East
TO purchasers of Railroad Lands and to Settlers on
Government IIomesteads. Purchasers, their wives
and children carried free over the Northern Pacif.
&C Road. Now is tho time for Settlers and Colonies
TO get Railroad Lands and Government Homesteads
close to the track.
Send for Pamphlet containing full information,
map aud copy of New Homestead Law. Address
LAND DEPARTMENT, NORTHERN PACIFIC
RAILROAD, ST. PAUL, MIMI,
Or S3 FIFTH AVENUE, Cor. 9th ST., New YORK.
Observation-Disclosures .
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New Goods
Great Bargains

Linen Table Covers. Towels. Napkins,
DoyIfes.
Gents White Shirts. Gents Overshris indershirts
Drawers, Overalis Jumpers
Berage and SILK Wells, Hair Braids, Hamburg
Patent Medicines and Fancy Goods of all kinda.
SoO yds Russia Crash at l2l2 cents yard.
Ladies White Ribbed Hose cts. a pair
QUAKER BIrTERs ONLY 20 CENTS
SCENTS Paper Collar. tor 3 cents u box.
Large Banch Mixed Yarn "' ''''S s s5e ets,
Adamson's Cough I'asam, Is
Ladies SIX Neck Hdis. Much UNDER PRICE.
Twelve doz Good Shirt Buttons for Cents.
~ Cakes Good Honey Soap for 25 Cents.
Atwoods Vegetable Jaqndco Hitiers, Is
Johnson's Anodyne Linment, only IS
Perry Davis Pain Killer only 20 cents bottle
Gents, aidfs. AZ Line" and AZ ne. Hemmed 20 cents.
aSena Rubber Ss%bs Fine Combs
Selling Ouf our Jewelry Al COST.
Lace Goiars6 cents. Pearl Shirt Buttons cents.
kennedys Medical Discovery only lls
DIR. schenck's Seaweed Tonic Sll5
Ayers pills, 20 cts. a box. Herrick's Pills 30 cents
schenck's Mandrake Pills, 20. Holloway's PMS, 90
ayers sf Ha gor cs Rings Ss Ambr gUi q, cts
Haips Hair Remover, Is cts. Knowles Restorer Is.
Bnrnets cScosna for The Hair 'A 5 cents bottle.
COTS Best Alpaca Braids, Is yd aticksl cents.
Best 400 yards Machine spool silk 10 cents spool
french Corsets Warranted whalcbone) only 80 cts.
spool Cotton, (warsnted 200 yds.) 30 cts a dozen.
Good Note Paper, . cents a qaire.
Nice Tinted Initial Note Paper, 20 cent box
Nice Perumery, 10 cents. Good Hair Oh, 10 cents.
Beet Lily White, 10 cents, Tooth Brushes, 10 cts.
Toys, Bibles, Albums, Playing Cards.
Elmwood Paper Collars linen corere) - Ctr box.
Thomas Allcocks Porous Piasters, only 20 cents.
Ladies' Nets cents
Miss Sawyer's Salve $50 cent size for 10 cents |
Sen.e, lndershirts and Drawers at low Prices.
Nrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup, -
Magnolia Balm (for the compile xionJ 50
Plantation Btters, only 70 cts
Ayers sarsapariila and Cherry Pectoral each rs cts
PERUVIAN syrup preparation OF IRON Is cts.
Russia sarsaparila and Iron Chenn
vinegar Bitters, 20 cents. Negatina NJ cant,s
= Nice Envelopes 80 ~ 800
i;adies'Fe skirts BEST Quality CHEAP. -
Heluipolde Buchu, 80. Smolana .s. ,snin,,, 49,. |
Ladies Eieeeed Lined Cotton Hose 25 cent. 'P'
Ladies Undersests only 70 cents. Hovt's German |
Cologne, very nice. Bush's and Batchelde,s WSin |
Dyes. ia '
READER :-Considerng the Fact (Which can. h.
denied NTH truth that our store has Reduced The
Prices more than ii per cent. on the goods ,re |
deat In. don't you think you ought TO patrogfse
store and ENCOURAGE Us TO KEEP IHE PRICES |
DOWN Ut N
COOKS CHEAP VARIETY STORE,
Next Door to Thomas Shoe Store,
Janlg..taes&ihufs&w Ifallowcll.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-04-29

$40 A DAY.

IsHsITy 2XStUCS OF
sour Own Family Doctor"
Be.t medical work extant. Everybody buys that
sees it. Unusual Inducements to Agents. Send
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Broadway. n. \. As-An easy and sure way to
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