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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-08-29

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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-08-29

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PROPERTY OUT OF rEsas CITY RVJR
SALE OR TO RENT.

GREAT SACRIFiCE-A VALUABLE FARM AND
"A Country seat Of 70 acres 8dlouins Sse 6aest
towns In fepnsyva 1vc minutes walk raiirOS6
station, hour from Philadelphia; 10 trains dsy 80
hours from New York; tcsstin situations smoosA. tlck
handsome prick dwelling, hail. roonis elegantly fur
nished; 500 Piano. &C.; paxza shade troeS howors tive
grain grain carriage. Wagon hog ana poultry hOuses; dslt
home noted tor health; price, including cropa farNi-
nre horse and carnage cows hogs D0chickens 10.
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trail Railroad, to Bethlehem, Pa, there takeorh repn
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A -LrgHr CARRIAGES AND HABNEss.
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-08-29

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ESsass ass OF Aor,nagel Adursss or Apply 70 o. kDoA1
Smith. Attorney, " Wall street.
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27
Putting Out a Fire With Snow Balls.

The Truckee RepW5lioGn says the school-house in that place was dis covered to be on fire in the ceiling over head, in the grammar department. The alarm was given, and, as both school. rooms were filled with scholars. the confusion was dire. The railroad engine Sansom undertook to give the usual alarm, but the throttle valve was badly out of order, and it essayed dozen times to get up screech before it succeeded. The efforts of the engine were so painfully distressing that peo' pie were more thoroughly scared than they would have been at the regular fire-alarm whistle. There was no water at the school-house to put out fire, the hydrant being frozsn. But lad der was soon procured, water was brought from distance, and balls of snow were used to smother the flames. The efficacy of snow balls, propelled by fifty-men power, was practically de- monstrated on this occasion, and the ire was speedily extinguished. But little damage was done to the building. Both schools were so completely demoraliEed by the event that it was thought proper to dismiss them for the day. In fact, the scholars did not stand upon cere- mony, but dismissed themselves, and scattered abroad like sheep without . shepherd.
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27
A Real Life-NO Romance.

Charl otte Cushman, in bidding adieq to the stage, said: If the few words l am about to say savor of egotism or vainglory you will, am sure, pardon me. inasmuch as ] am here only to speak of myself. You would seem to compliment me upon an honorable life. As I look back upon that life 1t seems to me that it would have been absolute ly impossible for me to have led any other. In this I have been mercl- fully helped more than are many of my more beautiful sisters in art. was, by a press of circumstances, thrown at an early age into profession for which I had received no special education or schooling: but I had already, though SO youne. been brought face to face with necessity. I found life sadly real and intensely earnest; and, in my ig' norance of other ways of study, l re. solved to take therefrom my text ana watchword. To be thoroughly in earnest, in all my thoughts and in all my actions-whether in my profession or out of it-became~my one single idea, and I honestly believe herein lies the secret of my success in life. do not believe that great success in any art can be achieved without it.
 I say this to beginners in my pro- fession, and I am sure all the associates in my art who have honored me with their presence on the occasion,. will indorse what say in this-art IS an absolute mistress she will not be coauetted with or slighted; /; she re- auires the most entire self-devotion and she repays with grand triumphs.
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27
Witchcr8ft i'm West Virginia,

The Wheeling, w. Va., htelJigencey contains the following remarkable story of superstition and ignorance: "On alley sixteen, in East Wheeling, Q pe- culiar disease recently appeared among the smaller children. Seven babies, in as many different families, suffered from the same mysterious complaint. One of the babies died, and it was thought the others would not survive long. No medical advice was called, as the children were believed to be be- witched. An old lady, however, who is known to possess much influence with superstitious persons, attempted to drive out the evil spirits. She vis- ited the different families, and advised them to keep every door locked and stop up the keyholes. Nothing was to be loaned from house for fear some bold and adventurous spirit would &C., company the article and make mischief in neighbours family. The stocking on each child's left foot was turned i'm side out to spoil the enchantment, and many other ridiculous things were done. We have not learned what effect these prescriptions have had upon the little sufferers, but it seems horrible to think that innocent children are com pelled to suffer because of the ignorance and superstition of their parents"
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27
Items of Interest.

A bizzy-body iz like rich cheese full of little things.
 "Mark the upright man." the maa who falls down generally marks hirn- self.
 George Washington-Firs in war, first in peace, and last in getting 6 monument.
 The Boston Journals record of the losses in New England for October toots up 592, 800.
 There are three ladies in the class of '75 at Syracuse University, six n the the class of '76, five in that of ", and i've in that of '79.
 A burglar sometimes breaks into mans chest with false keys but wo- man attempts to break into his heart by means of false locks.
 The girl of the period will be dis pusted to hear that the empress ot Ges- many makes her own bed and dusts her own room every morning. .1..
 Short dresses are coming into fashion again, and young ladies are exper1enc- ing the old, old difficulty of getting a No, 6 foot into No. 4 shoe.
 A contemporary asks "What be- comes of a mans word when he wont keep it and no one else will take 1t T. Why, he breaks it, of course. ..I..
 How shall I write the best sort of an advertisement to attract people to my store ?" Write one similar to those which most attract you to other peoples stores.
 Hardware dealers in Kentucky report that they "sold more firearms, within the last month, to the colored popula- tion than at any other time in three years"
 Mark Twain says that since he has become a director in an accidental in surance company, the Hartford, "acei- dents have assumed kindlier aspect. look upon cripple now with alice tionate interest, as an advertisement To me there is @ charm about railroad collision that is unspeakable."
 As an illustration of the kind ot req soning often heard from the lips of men when the interests of women are under discussion, Mrs. Fawcett mentions She case of an Englishman who opposed the education of women because hehad tried it on his own daughter, and It was all wasted, for, after all, she Was married at nineteen ]" ar ..-aus. a.
 Trinkets and coins are frequently found in the rags received from the old world at the paper mills. One per son has 0 collection of seventy coins, from gold pieces down to brass bits, which have been picked out from among the rags in this way. Some of the coins are of considerable value, and the coi- lection spoken of is said to be worth $100. +.-..
 A local contemporary having taken the Indianapolis Journal to task for abusing certain candidate when ne replies by saying that cit has noe abused the individual named it had simply told the truth about him, If he has been lying at the point of death he did very wrong. That is no place to be lying"
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27
MISS DUBARLE'S RELATIVES.

Miss Dubarle was five-and- forty years of age on the nineteenth of March, 18-, we'll, no matter what year. And she was stout and skort, with ankles like pump handles and no visi- ble waist {; and hands that were red and fat, instead of white and slender :; and features that belonged to no Gre clan type or Roman mold, but seem to be setting up suS gesseris, each on it's own special account, with no reference whatever to the others. For the world is not altogether stocked with Venuses and Hebes, whatever the romance writers would like to make us believe, and there is no reason why plain fe- male cannot be heroine in Iite of her looks.
 But we have not mentioned the most important fact of all. Miss Dubarle had forty thousand dollars of her own.
 And that was, without doubt, the reason that her relatives sent her press ing invitations to "come and visit them," and dispatched cases of wine and hampers of gamo and boxes of new books down to Dubarle Farm and the little girls worked hideous pincushions and tidies to decorate her rooms and young men wrote acrostics for her birthday, and everybody listened po- itely to her speeches, however Irolix they might be. For rich old maid is worth cultivating, and it wasn't at all likely, now, that Miss Dubarle would ever marry.
 It was bleak October afternoon, the red and brown leaves whirling round and round in the blast, and the great wood fire upon the hearth send ing, every now and then, spiteful little gushes of smoke into the room where Miss Dubarle and her second cousin and companion, Janet Heath, sat to- gether, working crochet roses for a counterpane.
 "Janet, said Miss Dubarle, politely, "you're fool"
 Janet looked up with flush of color on her pretty check. She was not at all accustomed to these little compli- mentary remarks on the part of Miss Dubarle.
 "Be sensible girl," added the elder female. "Give him up, and I'll buy yeu blue silk dress and black lace shawl"
 "But I love him, Miss Dubarle."
 ooh, psha.a-aw !' grimaoed the spinster. Glove, indeed I never was in lovep'
 "And," added Janet, growing more rosy than ever, as she stopped to pick up her ivory needle, Che says he would be miserable without me. Don't please be angry, Miss Dubarle, but indeed, ill. deed, I must marry him.
 Miss Dubarle jumped up so sud denly that the dozing blackbird in its cage uttered shrill note of consterna tion.
 "Very weD," she said-"veyy we'll Janet Heath. Pack your trunk as soo1 as you please. I can dispense witl your services at once. And pack mine first, if you please, Janet Heath"
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27
Encounter with a Shark.

Fatal as the white shark is to the un- armed, those who carry weapons of de- fense very frequently cope with and master him :; even women, undaunted by their teeth, have been known to stab and destroy them in their bath. One day, little boy about eight years old happened to be washed from a catama- ran which was managed by his father, who was thus early initiating him into the hardships of the mode of life which he intended him to pursue, and before he could be rescued from the turbulent waters shark drew him under, and he was seen no more. The father lost not moment, but calmly rose, and placing between his teeth large knife which he carried sheathed in his summer band, plunged beneath the flashing waves. He disappeared for some time, but after 8 while was occasionally seen to rise, and dive under the pillows, as if actually engaged with his formidable foe.. After Q while the white foam was visibly tinged with blood, which was viewed with sensation of horror by those who could only surmise what was going on under the water. The man was again seen to rise and disappear, so that the work of death was evidently not yet complete. After some further time had elapsed, to the astonishment of all who had assembled on the beach fer 0 considerable crowd had now col lected-the body of 8 huge shark was seen for few moments above the white spray, which it completely crimsoned, and then disappeared. An instant later the man rose above the surf and made for the shore. He seemed nearly ex- hausted, but had not a single mark on his body, which bore no evidence what ever of the perilous conflict in which he had been so recently engaged. He had scarcely landed when an immense shark was cast upon the beach by the pillows. It was quite dead, and was immediately dragged by the assembled natives beyond the reach of the surf. As soon as the shark was drawn to a place of security it was opened, when the head and limbs of the boy were taken from his stomach. The body was completely dismembered and the head severed from it, but none of the parts were mutilated.
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27
Haunted by his Victim.

On Oct. 29th last Joseph Robbins, bridge watchman at Kaskaskia river, on the Vandalia railroad, was murdered. Nathan Burgess, a neighbor, was ar rested, and the evidence against him was so strong that he made the follow ing confession in open court
 I knew the Vandalia pay car had passed that afternoon, and had paid Robbins his months wages. I got that shot gun and went to the bridge. As I approached the watch house I saw through the window Robbins sitting inside. His shoulders and head only could be seen. I raised the gun and fired. I then hesitated few minutes to listen if the report of the gun had aroused any one. I then went up to the watch house door, and found Rob- bins on his knees praying. I plainly heard him say: "Oh, God, have mercy on the one who did this spare him for Jesus sake." I was mortified, and turned and ran, didn't know where Idid not enter the house, nor touch the door. His words haunt me still.
 The amount for which Robbins was murdered was $31. 50.
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27
Passing Away.

NaS lt CIle CnlIno or a tiny Dou That came 80 sweet to my dreaming ear Like the sllvery tones of 6 fairy's shell That ne winds, on the beach, 50 mellow and
 clear, When the winds and the waves lie together
 asleep,
 And the Moon and the Fairy are watching
 the deep,
 She dispensed her silvery light,
 And he his notes as silvery quite,
 While the boatman listens and ships his
 oar,
 To catch the music that comes from the shore
 Hark the notes on my ear that play
 Are set to words-as they float they say
 "Passing away passing away!" But no; it was not a fairy shell, Blown on the beach, so mellow and cleat Nor was it the tongue of silver bell Striking the hour that filled my ear,
 AS lay in my dream, yet was it chime That told of the flow of the stream of
 time!
 And plump little girl for pendulum
 swung
 GAS you've sometimes seen, in a little rin z That hangs in his cage, a canary bird
 swing);
 And she held to her bosom budding
 bouquet.
 And as she enjoyed it she seemed to say
 "Passing away! passing away!" Oh how bright were the wheels that told Of the lapse of time, as they moved around
 slow; And the hands, as they swept OCT the dial of
 gold,
 Seemed to point to the girl below,
 And To she had changed in few short
 hours;
 Her bouquet had become 8 garland of
 flowers,
 That she held in her outstretched hands,
 and flung
 This way and that, as she, dancing, swung In the fullness of grace and womanly pride, That told me she was soon to be bride Yet then, when expecting her happiest day, In the same sweet voice heard her say
 Passing away! passing away!" While gazed at the fair ones cheek. a shade Of thought or care stole softly over Like that by cloud in summers day made Looking down on & field of blossoming clover. The rose yet lay on her cheek, but it's flush Had something lost of it's brilliant blush ; And the light in her eye and the light on the wheels, That marched so calmly round above her, Was little dimmed as when evening steals Upon noon's hot face yet one couldn't but love her, For she looked like mother whose first babe lay Rocked on her breast, as she swung all day, And she seemed in the same silver tones to say: "Passing away! passing away!" While yet looked, what change there came Her eye was quenched, and her cheek was wan; Stopping and staffed was her withered frame, Yet just as busily swung she on. The garland beneath her had fallen to dust The wheels above her were eaten with rust; The hands that over the dial swept Grew crooked and tarnished, but on they kept; And still there came that silvery tone From the shriveled lips of the toothless crone (Let me never forget till my dying day The tone or the burden of her lay): Passing away! passing away!"
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27

comes in, and tell him, if you like, the little conversation we have had"
 And she was nearly down stairs be. fore the laundress, fitting on pair of silver bowed spectacles, had read the two words inscribed upon the card
 Miss Dubarle r
 her drive back to the hotel. Perhaps al rites to her dear departed delusion tained in one sentence.
 "I don't like being made fool of !' she mentally enunciated, "and I be- heve I've come very near it l'
 Janet Heath sat by the fire in the next evenings twilight, musing, per- chance, half in sadness, half in shy pleasure, when the door clicked on it's latch, and in walked Miss Dubarle.
 Janet started to her feet with slight
 "Don't be alarmed" said Miss Du- barle, stroking the soft brown hair with 8 kindly, reassuring touch. "Pve come back to you, Janet Heath, for I believe, in spite of everything, you are the truest friend I've got, and that you love me after all.
 "Indeed, indeed, Miss Dubarle, I do P sobbed Janet, with her old foolish trick of tears.
 "And so," said Miss Dubarle, "you can marry that Harry Dart of yours, and he can come here to live, and we'll all be happy family together. Untie my bonnet strings, Jane-they've got somehow into knot-and make me a cup of tea. Those railroads are enough to shake one into jelly P
 So Miss Dubarle settled back into the old groove again, and when the let ters from New York came she sent them back unopened. And when MT. Her bert Smythe and the Secor Brooks family arrived in 2oropria persome she obstinately refused to see them.
 "I won't be bothered" said Miss Dubarle. "Janet's my heiress, and there's an end of the matter"
 And the relatives discovered that they might as we'll attempt to move the Rock of Gibralter as to alter Miss Dubarle's resolve
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27
A Fresh Water Shark.

The Detroit Free Press tells this story "A Canadian fisherman, named Touliers, we'll known along the wharves as being part owner of fishery near Fighting Island, relates an adventure which he and his comrades had with 8 strange fish. In drawing in their net the men observed an unusual commo- tion among the captured fish, some of which leaped out of the water and ap- peared greatly excited. The men thought they had caught a large sturgeon, and this belief was soon strengthened by their catching sight of a fish of extra size, which swan here and there with great swiftness. When the net had been drawn in so that the movements of the big fish were con- tracted, he lashed the water to foam, rushed here and there in great excite ment, and it was soon evident that it was something besides sturgeon. The net was finally drawn so near the bank that the fish could be plainly seen, and Touliers declares that if that fish wasn't a shark no shark can be found in the sea. He sailed the ocean for many years, and is familiar with the sight of man. eaters. The fish became furious in its actions as it found itself being drawn in, and Touliers, taking skiff, sought to kill it with spear. He suc- oeeded in inflicting wound, but not in disabling the fish, which nearly over turned the skiff while rushing around. It finally became entangled in the net, and freed itself by inficting damage to the amount of $50, besides letting out the catch of fish. After getting clear of the net it dashed about in very cratic manner, once almost driving ashore, as if blinded or much confused. If the fish was not shark it was at least stranger to the fishermen of this neighborhood, who believe they have seen every species of the finny tribe living in fresh water."