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Connecticut western news., 1873-06-27
Lord tells you to do." When she tried

Lord tells you to do." When she tried to sleep it's irresistible influence held her wearily awake with her eyes wide open to see it ever frowning upon her. And when at last she did sleep, the long night was one succession of dreams through which the awful vision was always about to inhict eternal punish ment upon her for her neglect to work it's will She woke from such a dream one morning with the words Yes, I will do it." upon her lips, and straight way peace like that she had imagined of heaven came upon her and the phan- tom presence was like that of a friend recovered after an estrangement.
 Mechanically she performed her own household work, and then proceeded to Garland's with another dose of poison. When he came to her after his dinner for dose of "pain-killer to cure 8 pain in his stomach she felt that she had known all the morning that the spirit would thus send him to her. Her dose of strychnine was mixed in the peppery stuff he had called for, and his death soon followed.
 Henceforth she saw no more of the phantom. She felt relieved when she thought it had no more such work for her but she knows that it did appear to her and did talk to her just as she has related it to the physicians and others who have visited her in jail. She feels no remorse, no regret she did not kill them of her own motion, but because the spirit forced her to do it. She does not think she sinned, but rather that she executed the divine will. She never killed or attempted to kill any one other than those four.
 Such is the story of Mrs. Lambs insane delusion, as alleged to have been told by herself, though not in her own language.
Connecticut western news., 1873-06-27
Vanilla PniSnn.

It is we'll known that for some time various cases of poisoning from the use of vanilla ice have been noticed and published in Paris, Munich, Vienna, and other places. The most careful in- vestigations have failed to discover the cause. In few cases traces of lead, iron, and tin from the vessel used have been found in the ice, but as no poison ing has ever resulted from fruit ices prepared in the same vessels, it cannot be due to that. M. Schroffis of opinion that the vanilla beans are poisoned by the natives of South America and MeM- GO, who rub them with cajou oil to make them smooth and soft. This oil is not seldom contaminated with sharp sub stance which acts like cantharides. He thinks it less probable that the injurious effects are due to small crystals found in the outer skin of the vanilla beam benzoic acid. .zr a
Connecticut western news., 1873-06-27
SALISBURY, CONN.,, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1873.

burned and bruised. That is the reason husband, we will bless that man always! God bless and preserve him P "Aye," murmured the husband <; "God bless and preserve him!"
 The sun was sinking behind the mountains, and in the retired valley a party of five men were assembled the principals of the duel, the seconds, and surgeon. Other men were at hand friends of the parties thus engaged who stood at respectful distance, si- lent and thoughtful. The pistols were loaded twelve paces were measured off and the principals placed in posi- tion.
 Lucius Fernleigh cast his weapon upon the ground, and folded his arms upon his breast. When, in astonish- ment, both the seconds asked why he did SO, he answered.:
 .''I will not be so dishonest as to face death with lie in my last act. I will not invite my antagonists fire by the show of an intent which do not mean to perform. Since I cannot fire upon that man, will have no use for the pistol"
 "Not fre!' cried Bishop, who had listened in amaze. "Do you refuse to ight?"
 "No, Edgar, I refuse nothing. I am here, mark for your pistol. challenged you, and I answer with my body for your satisfation-and my life if you will. Are you still in the dark?"
 Completely so. What is it ?''
 "An hour ago." answered Fernleigh, "my wife and child were given to my embrace, safe and well; and my wife told me who had saved her; and from the depths of my heart I prayed-GoD BLESS AND PRESERVE HIM And so I will pray while live. May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, and my right hand wither ere by speech or deed I ever knowingly offer harm to thee p
 Edgar Bishop cast aside his pistol, and hastened forward; and the hands which had erst been ready for the bloody fray were now clasped in the embrace of friendship warm and en- during.
 And the friends of both parties, when they had heard the story, would not have had it otherwise. Deep down in their hearts, beneath the passions of the hour, power had been evoked be- fore which empty honor went to the wall
Connecticut western news., 1873-06-27

Beans have been a very profitable crop with farmers who make a business of growing them, and who take pains to have all the conditions favorable. They may be sown any time this month-the earlier the better, provided the land is in good order. We plant in rows feet 5 inches apart, and drop three to five beans in a hill one foot apart in the rows. Cover from one to two inches deep, according to the size of the beans the larger the deeper.
Connecticut western news., 1873-06-27

A Fool FOR A CL1ENT.-Nr. Rees an English barrister, illustrates the old saw that the lawyer who manages his own case has fool for client" Be- 8 score of long-drawn foolscap sheets. In searching his papers two pages num- bered :" foul" were found, seeming to be parts of his ultimate testament, and now the Probate Court is puzzled to de- eide which is which and who are who among the legatees named in the ques- tionable pages. Justly enough, it has ruled that the estate pay the costs of the contest,
Connecticut western news., 1873-06-27
About Boots.

A man who draws the prize of squeak ing boots from shoe store always gets them on Saturday, and by the next day the full power of the squeak is devei- oped. He arrives at church ct the opening of long prayer, and is admit ted by the sexton with admonitory ges- lures of silence. The first step inside the door is followed by sound like that of ripping clapboard from the side of barn, while all the ladies on the right side of the aisle tip their top knots to one side and squint from their left eyes, those on the other side re- versing the order. Balancing painfully on his worst corn, he makes 8 more gradual effort and is rewarded by hear ing the same harmonic reverberance like linked sweetness-long drawn out. Then he tries to navigate on the balls of his feet, and waddles along on his heels. He clutches convulsively at the sides of the pews to tighten his weight, knocks down a woman's parasol, and gets all the deacons to raising their bald heads and the skin across their fore heads, and scowling as they do the rest of the week. Sohe determines to mince the matter no more, and trots along fast, jerking out spasmodic "shrieks of sole that's damned" with a regu1ari- ty that he never could attain at any thing else, and reaches his pew with all his under garments turned to porous
 plasters, and his face of color to match the saint done in red glass in the principal window.-zTtusville Herald. -
Connecticut western news., 1873-06-27
Illustrated Journalism.

The leading newspapers of the coun- try are discussing the probable future of journalism, its character and its management, and if we are to believe most of them, we are entering upon that period which MT. Fred Hudson classi- fled as independent" The plans that made newspapers successful twen- ty, or even ten years ago, would not make journal half successful now. It would be as unwise to start paper upon the plan of the first Tribune or Herald (James Parton to the contrary, ), as it was for Nicholas Nickleby's dramat- ic master to insist no his writing play in order to bring in the pump. The demands of modern journalism are in favor of correctness of representation. It has come to be known that the dash ing genius who lives by his wits is like ly to color his reports with his preju- dices, and to do an injustice when he wishes to support his own opinion 1; so that in time men become great or little just as somenewspapers choose to make them. The public know this, and is disposed to dispute the power of girsy journalism.
Connecticut western news., 1873-06-27
Home AGVantages.

Our habits of social life differ widely from those observed in England; and in nothing is this fact made more apparent than by the rules governing courtship in the mother country. In England, es- pecially in London, man often knows next to nothing of the girl he is en- gagged to. He has met her at parties, has taken her down to dinner, and danced with her; has called on foggy afternoons, and had tea gracefully handed to him; but he has learned very little about her true character, her tenn per, her principles, her capacity for af- lection; for defects in these respects must be very marked indeed to show beneath the decorous self-restraint of company manners. The girl, on her part, is still worse off, since she has even fewer opportunities of judging what young man is worth; for he, after all, sees her in her ewn house and among her family. He can notice how she gets on with them, and can often, if he is sharp, interpret her by them for good or for evil. But he, is probably quite isolated in town; she sees anu knows nothing of his relations; he is merely presentable young person of sufficiently pleasant manners and ade- quate income whom she meets in re- spectable company. She does not guess what the sisters whom he neglected, or the school-fellows whom he cheated, or the clerks whom he bullies, could tell about him, and has to learn for herself, when it is too late, that he is mean, hard and selfish. It is fortunate for their own peace that Englishwomen, as a rule, are devoted mothers, as they are thus enabled to console themselves for the uncongeniality of the husband by the love of his children. In the States, on the other hand, it is generally a mans or girls own fault if one does not succeed in making out pretty we'll what the other is good fJr. Meeting oftener, and in less formal way, able to carry on even somewhat exclusive and expressing acquaintance without being necessarily supposed to have Gin 'tentions," an American youth has the amplest means of finding out what are the tastes, and notions, and habits of the girl whom he thinks of making his wife, and can use those means without exciting any suspicion. Nor can he himself keep mask on in her presence; even if he tries it, she is probably inti- mate with ether young men of the same set, and can make out from them what is thought of him by persons of his own sex-in all cases the best guide and clew to the truth. The result is that people do, as rule, know much more of one another before they marry than they do in England.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-04
The Cotton Tax.

Our cotton-growers yet feel the hard
ship and iuiquity of the unconstitutional
tax levied upon cotton just after the
close Of the war, and continued for seve-
raj years. It was imposed and exacted
st time OF peculiar desolation, when
with many it was a severe struggle to
procure even the means OF living, and
when in every direction were to be seen
"Sherman's sentinels. standing like the
ghosts Of homes once vocal, happy and
plenteous. Several Of the Judges of the
Supreme Court do not hesitate to de-
clare against the constisutionaliLy of the
law, and all right-thinking men, wher-
ever found, cannot but condemn it as a
policy. A test vote was taken upon the
subject few days since, resolution
having been offered by MIR. Mckee. of
Mississippi, to instruct the Committee
on Ways and Means to bring in bill at
once to refund it. It was defeated by q
vote of rs for to los against it, Wo do
not regard this as wholly discouraging.
The Southern members of oil parties,
from non-cotton-produeing as we'll MS cot
ton. producing sections, all favor it. It
has developed some Northern strength
|also. >Messrs. Aoker and Speer. Of Penn
sylvania, Duell, Perry and Tuthill, of
New York, MoNesley and Stevens. OF
Illinois, Voorhees,; of Indiana, Dunneil,
of Minnesota. and Kendall, OF Nevada,
favor the proposition to refund. The
friends of the measure should not relax
their efforts. Mr.. Beok's bill is yet be-
fore the Committee, and is favorably
considered by at least three members. It
is only right that it should be refunded,
and perseverance, will probably in time
be able to effect that result. Tho amount
involved is about $88. 100000
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-04

The Alexandria IVA. Sentinel OF Tues
day, tells sad story OF released Ku
kiux prisoner. Itsays: "About o'clock
Monday evening, readymnn Wm. Wood
field was called on by citizen and in
formed that man was lying in the sno "
near the Stone Bridge. across Hoods
Run. apparently unable to -:se. He at
once went to his assistance, and discoy.
cred that he was suffering from O hem or
rhage, and was stranger in our city,
seeking to mako his way through, whom
he had fallen from disease and exhaus-
ton. He was conveyed to tho station
house. where he still lies in precarious
condition, and not able to speak above O
whisper. and is subject to frequent par
oxysms and hemorrhages. Ho gives his
name az Joseph Sims, and states that he
ls originally from Appomattox County,
Va, but has been late O resident OF
Greenvillo District, South Carolina,
where he has Tor had) q wife and child;
that he belonged to tho Seventh South
Carolina Regiment in tho late war, and
was severely wounded at the explosion of
tho mine noar Petersburg, Virginia, to
which he attributes his sickness now;
that about three months ago ho was SON
fenced by Judge Bond to the Albany
penitentiary asa Ku Klux, and that O
low weeks ago he was turned ont of that
institution on account of his health, and
told to make his way homo; that he has,
by working and begging, gotten this far
on the way, having been given passage
on the Washington ferry boat yesterday,
and was trying to get along, his face still
Southward, when hefeIl from exhaustion
yesterday evening. He is about thirty
nine years of ago."
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-04

A land Of exquisite scenery, OF the most
lavish productions, Of unsurpassed mime,
raj wealth, of a climate nigh perfect.
(consumption, it is did. being unknown
thore.) and Of thrilllpgly romantic asao.
oiations, will not much longer remain
unknown and be unvisited. Ere long,
it will vie in it's attractions with the
South OF Europe, and rival the famed
winter resorts Of. the Mediterranean.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-04

LOCKWOOD Likely TO RECOVER.
Clarence Lockwood, the printer, who
was shot on Monday. and has since been
lying in precarious condition in Belle.
vue Hospital, has begun to show signs Of
marked improvement. Last evening tho
intense pain which he has suffered since
he was shot had almost ceased, and he
was able to be moved to another bed,
Though the ballet atill remains in the
kidney, strong hopes are entertained of
bis recovery. --Ne,o York Star.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-04

Kansas man recently drank two
bottles of whiskey in fifteen minutes for
o wager OF twenty-five dollars, and tho
loser is looking for medium who will
undertake to convey the amount Of the
bet to the place Of departed spirits.
Information of the death of Mrs. Hat
tic Merrick, wife OLA. O. Merriok, Esq,
OF Spartanburg. at Merrioksville, Do
minion OF Canada, on the 29th Of Janu-
ary, has been received here.
A Methodist preaoher announces that
lie will, at an early day. deliver ser
mon on the ''last trump" he meditates
this, probably, with view to "rope in"
the gamblers.
Mark Crafty, n drunken wretch in
Wilmington, set fire to his wife's cloth
ing, nearly burning her TO death and de.
stroyipg the house thoy lived in.
Mr.. Andrew II. Dibbie mas been ap.
pointed postmaster at Dennettsville,
Marion County.
There are four distillers in Kentucky
making soar. mash whiskey. Is this
where tho bourbon sours" como from?
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-04

Neil Clark, a carver and photographer
OF Philadelphia. poisoned himself, his
wife and child, Oh Thursday last, be-
cause, as he explained in note, ga
proud'hearted Highlander could not sub.
NIT to be slave to his follow worm and
to toll for miserable existence" The
wife and child recovered, but Mr.. CLARK
was q clear case Of suicide.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-04

FRAUDULENT SCHOOL CLAIMS. We
find the following significant paragraph
in the editorial columns of the Columbia
Union, OF Saturday, the lst instant:
''The air is thick with ugly rumors of
fraudulent school claims, issued to nu:
merons persons filling high positions in
political life. Many of these claims are
said to have been already paid, and many
more ere still out waiting their turn.
Tho penitentiary awaits somebody if
these rumors be true, and there seems to
be but little doubt of their correctness"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-04
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Mrs. r. Observation-Disclosures Wanted.
D. G. Poixotto & Sons-Diamonds etc.
+. Graham & Co.-Mules and Horses.
franklin J. Moses. Jr.-Proclamation.
DR.. TUFTS Vegetable Liver Pills.
Meeting Palmetto Fire Company.
Jas. q. Stocker-.Oom mission Merchant
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-04


CoUNTRRFErT MoNEY.-The following.
from the Yorkyille Eng uirer, is worthy
The attention OF those in the habit of
handling bills OF the denomination al
lnded to: "We were shown at the Citi
zens' Bank in this plaoo, few days ago.
counterfeit fifty dollar legal tender
note, which had been recently paid to
citizen OF this County by one of the
banks at Charlotte, N. 9. a large nun.
Der OF these notes are said to be oirou-
lating in this State and North Carolina.
and we deem it necessary to mention the
fact, in order to put The unwary on their
guard against them. The note is tolera.
bly, we'll executed, but it's spuriousness
can be readily detected on examination.
The ink used in printing both the face
and the back is much lighter in depth of
color than on the genuine. The paper
is harsh and stiff, whittier than the genu-
inc, and does not contain tho veins or
streaks which, on the genuine paper, are
woven in during the process of manu-
facture. The streaks can be readily seen
by holding the bill to the light. In tho
genuine note of the samo denomination
and series, there is q small mark or 'fou.
rlsh' between the words series Of and
1862 near the so in the left-hand cor.
ner. In the counterfeit, this flourish
or mark is absent. There are other
means OF detecting the worthlessncss of
the bill, but the above tests are suffi.
cient."
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-04
Abolltion OF tho Fr.n1Ing Privilege.

The franking privilege has been one
of the long standing abuses of the
country, which all just men wished to
see abolished. The mails have been
largely used as instruments to further the
personal ends Of members of Congress.
They have teemed with documents which
were of no earthly use save for election
eering purposes, and have been shame
fully used to convey parcels Of the most
heterogeneous character. Private cor.
respondence has been carried on under
the convenient cover of tho frank Of
members of Congress and officers of the
Government. For score of years
public opinion has called for abatement
OF this nuisance, but it has always cum
ningly managed to avoid the blows
which we're aimed at it. At last its time
came. and few days ago Tie House of
Representatives agreed to the Senate
amendments to the bill abolishipg it,
and it now only awaits the signature Of
the President to become q law. This
will, no doubt, be promptly given, and
this hoary wrong and useless incum-
brance on tho Government will be swept
away and consigned to the rubbish of
the past One of the consequence switch
ought soon to follow is cheaper postage.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-04


counterfeiters. But there is no selection
about it. The swindlers send their cir
culars to every address they suppose will
give them any show of success. with The
hopo of finding out of every hundred or
thousand some one person sufficiently
composed of knave and fool to bite at
the bato they throw out through their
circulars. And now and then they do
find customer of the kind described,
who is knave enough to want to get hold
OF counterfeits at cheap rate, and fool
enough to think these adroit swindlers
will send them. Such people generally
get for their pains and their good money
q package by "express," which oontoins
n fine lot of-saw-dust OF course, the
man who sends his money on suoh busi-
ness deserves nothing bettor. The fraud
has been carried on for long time. But
the new Mayor of New York (Have.
meyer hos determined to break it up.
NAIL The Northern
mail opens 6.30 A. III. and 800 P. NJ;
closes P. NJ. and 100 A. Nj. Charles
ton day mail opens 6.15 p. NJ; closes
A. NJ; night opens 100 A. NJ; closes
6.15 P. NJ. Grecnville opens 6.45 P. M;
closes 6 A. Nj. Western opens $50 A.
NJ. and 1890 p. NJ; CLOSES and p. Al.
Wilmington opens $50 +. NJ: closes
1870 m. On Sunday tho Office 10
open from 3 to Pm.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-11

The Empire people mnst be mad I.
henc-forth, to understand one very plain
and explicit regulation lately determined
upon 10y Superintendent Yerin .ton.
Ii. nelly: That the V. l. T. r. r. Conn
pany having gone to the exp'nse OF
bdiidng han isome and commoilous
q pot for the accommodation Of the resi-
dent aud transient public, there will not
he, i'll the future, any more huekleberrv
trains run tor the benefit of any TO ty III
that he, ,hborhood; but that Empire pas-
sen gers must get on and off the accom-
MEDIATION trains at the E npire depot and
not at the NJ xir,,n or Morgan platform
nor at any irregular Or intermediate
crump OF s.sebrush or accidental wood
pile along tue grade. The new depot is
the place for delivering and receiving
passengers is the place for putting oft
aud taking on p.sst myers luggage: and
l. designed to ouvi;ite II hitherto nonad-
ic and -vaSabundish fashion which
has prevailed among Dutch Nick \
n-ishbors of bundiiny onto the train
anywhere they could catch it, ust like
the Indians d." See Yerington's notice
nl,t.. here somewhere i'll the local
columns.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-11
Railroad Notice.

Persons living at Empire and there
about on the line of the V. 4 T. Il. f.,
are hereby notified that the accommodate
ton trains will stop for Empire passsen-
gers only at the EXPIRE DEPor; and
will aot stop to receive or deliver passen-
GERS at either the Mexican or Morgan
Mills Platforms In other words, p So
engers from and for Empire must get on
and OFF the ears at the Empire Depot
when the regular trains stop there.
Il. NJ. YtRINGToN,
Gen. Supt.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-11

An INTERESTING case comes up before
the H-eister of the Carson Land Office
a., ,,,; e .,,;o,
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are as follows Inc nia ana ifftpressi-
bic connict between rarht Do~ie on
the on hana' ana 1he ''rsihia ana uoio
hill Water company on the otner over
the rlSht u, the "ccasionai drops ol wafer
"hicn 'riGAie oo"h 'hip"sh eeItain
crease IN Tue ino"li.hin si's L. 'ile iioi'n-
"Ira Oh ,lfsiaia ol's. ie".'s " we con-,
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