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Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17
The St. LOniS Bridge.

The esuperstructure of the new St. Louis bridge across the Mississippi may be briefly described. There are three spans of, respectively. 497. 515, and 497 feet in the clear. Each is formed of four ribbed arches of cast steel. The upper roadway, planked and bounded by railings, is for carriages and foot passengers. There is @ roadway of 34 feet and two sidewalks, each of 8 feet, making total width of 50 feet. The railroad passages are beneath the car riage-way, each is f33 feet wide in the clear and Is feet high, arched openings of the same size being made in the piers. The tracks are carried over the levees on either shore on five stone arches, each 20 feet wide; over these is cap-stone arcade of twenty arches supporting the carriageway. From the stone arches on the west shore brick arches carry the tracks into the tunnel at Third street, leading to the Union Depot. On the eastern shore the tracks curve away to the north and south, de- scending to the Illinois grade over an approach of trestle-work some 5000 feet in length, with a fall of one foot in 100. The carriage-way descends straight between them, with @ fall of five in 100; on the west side it is car ried on level to Third street. Gates with automatic attachments registering the number of passers check the gray uniformed toll-takers, and police patrol the bridge to discourage suicide. Un- der the bridge, the lowest part of the arch being fifty feet above high-water mark, the diminished steamers puff and creep and the impatient river flashes past with speed that makes the head swim.
 The cost-well, Colonel Eads told your correspondent that they dealt in nothing less than six figure items, and it would be impossible for long time to arrive at the precise amount. For bridge proper he estimated about SC. .00O, ,O0O-$700, 900 for the land, $5OO,- 900 for caissons and foundations, $1 300. 900 for masonry, $500, 900 for the approach on the Illinois shore, $1, 7O0,- 900 for the superstructure, and $1, ,300,- 900 for incidentals and ''miscellaneous." :" For the tunnel he added $1 500, ,000 or over, and the interest account, dis. counts, cost of consolidation, financing, &c, would make altogether 8 sum of $11, ,000,000.
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17
Taking Care of Horses.

Some English grooms at Saratoga are teaching Yankees the careof horses. I asked one of these groons, who has spent twenty years in the stables of royalty, what he had to say about our American way of taking care of horse.
 Why, sir, !" said he, "you don t take good care of your horses; you think you do, but you don't"
 Why" asked. .-sff
 " Because, when a horse comes in all wet with precipitation, you let him stand in the stable and dry with all the dirt on. In England we take the horse as he comes from a drive and sprinkle blood-warm water all over him, from his head to. his feet. Then we serape him down and blanket him, rub ping his legs and face dry. Thus in an shour he is clean and dry and ready to take good feed, while with your way he will stand and swelter for hours, and finally dry, sticky and dirty. Our horses never founder and never take cold. We never use curry comb you scratch your horses too hard. The < only care necessary is to have the water not too cold; then bathe them in 2 stantly, while you are rubbing their ! legs" =
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17
A Few Words to Feeble and Delicate
 Women,

By. R. V. Pierce, M. D., of the Worlds Dis pensary, Buffalo, N. Y.
 Knowing that you are subject to a great amount of suffering, that delcacy on your part has strong tendency to prolong, and the longer it is neglected the more you have to endure and the more difficult of cure your case becomes, I, a physician, who is daily con suited by scores of your sex, desire to say to you, that 1 am constantly meeting with those who have been treated for their ailments for months without being benefited Tn the least, until they have become perfectly discouraged and have almost made up their minds never to take another dose of medicine. nor be tortured by any further treatment. They had rather dle and have their sutferings ended than to live and suffer as they have They say they are worn out by suffering and are only made worse by treatment Of anything more dis couraging, we certainly cannot conceive, and were there no more successful mode of treating such difficulties than that, the principles of which teach the re lucing and depicting of the vital forces of the system, when the indications dictate a treatment directly the reverse of the one adopted for them, their cases would be deplorable indeed. But lady sufferers, there is & better and far more successful plan of treat ment for you one more ill harmony with the laws and requirements of your system. A harsh irritating caustic treatment and strong medicines will never cure you. If you would use rational means such as common-sense should dict ate to every intelligent lady, take
 
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Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17
The CariiStS.

Since the abdication of King Amadeus the Spanish political leaders have been endeavoring to establish Republic, but in the northern part of the country many are in favor of kingdom with Don Carlos at it's head.
 Who then is Don Carlos? and what are his claims to the Spanish crown ?
 According to law passed in the reign of Philip ", who founded the Bourbon line hundred and fifty years ago, no female can succeed to the throne of Spain, unless there be an entire failure of male heirs, either in the direct or collateral line.
 In 1920, Ferdinand VII, after the loss of his third wife, married Maria Christina of Naples, beautiful but ambitious and intriguing princess. Through her influence the law of Philip " was repealed, and her child was made heir to the throne, whether boy or girl. It proved to be a girl, after wards Isabella I l.. who reigned in Spain from 1883 to 1868. Don Carlos, the younger brother of Ferdinand, objected to the repeal of the old law, refused to acknowledge the claims of his niece. and maintained his own right to the succession. He was exiled, and after repeated unsuccessful attempts to ob- tain possession of the kingdom, resigned his claims in behalf of his son, and died at Trieste in 1855. The second Don Carlos also invaded Spain, but soon fell into the hands of the government, and was released only on condition of his renouncing all claims to the throne. The present Don Carlos is the son ot Juan, younger brother of the second, and third son of the first pretender. He was born at Venice, March 29, 1649. His mother was anAustrian princess, and he was educated at the military academy in Vienna. He married in 1867 Mar guerite de Bourbon, niece of the Count de Chambord, one of the claimants to the throne of France, and has three children. A revolt was begun in his favor in the Basque provinces of Spain in 1870, but it was soon suppressed. Don Carlos, with all the ardor of youth, hastened to the scene of conflict, but ill passing through France was arrested and sent to Switzerland.
 Again, in 1872, he issued manifesto summoning as by & trumpet call his faithful followers to the field of battle. In many of the provinces there was g general rally around his standard. He soon had an army about him of fifteen thousand men. On the 9th of May however, the Carlists were surprised and defeated by Gen. Moriones. Stil they were not subdued. In the spring of the present year the slumbering re- volt awoke to life again. The Carlists have had some successes. They are fol the most part very badly supplied with food, clothing, arms and ammunition Their principal advantage consists ir their perfect knowledge of the noun tain paths. By their guerilla warfare they are able to cause much mischief and trouble to the government.
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17
German Student Life.
A correspondent speaks as follows of Lifa in A GArman Stndants' Glnh

A correspondent speaks as follows of life in German Students Club:
 During the evening, two persons have had quarrel. in the progress of which ono has called the other 6ee.juaeger. | This is an insult which cannot be for given, and the insulting party is inn mediately challenged. A judge is ap- pointed, who fills two large tumblers with beer, and gives one to each contest ant. The glasses are drained at the given signal to the bottom and he who has breath enough to cry Beeju's- ger is proclaimed victor, amid the shouts of the company. He has now the right to dictate to his rival anything g he chooses, and the vanquished party must obey at peril of expulsion from the club. These societies are extreme ly popular, and nearly all the students participate in them.
 The fighting men-about one-third of the students-are divided into five corps, distinguished by tke color of their caps. Duels are restrained to these corps and the occasions for wounded honor to vindicate itself are so numerous, that it is necessary to de- vote two afternoons week to this bar barous custom. The Government of the University is silent about these little affairs of honor, and so is consid- cred as sanctiening them. The duels are fought in beer-house just across the Neckar. The swords are short, and very sharp at the extreme point. The surgeon of each corps is present to stop any unnecessary flow of blood. The combatants, stripped to their waists, their arms banlaged at the elbows, that they may infiict no deadly wounds, strike right and left, up and down, with remarkable precision and swiftness. The aim of the duellist being to mark the face of his antagonist, tie head is the principal point of attack and, at the end of one of these fights, the floor of the room looks like that of a suc- cessful barber's shop. Vengeance is not appeasea by the first blood that is drawn, but they often contend until one or the other is exhausted. It is noth- ing uncommon to see 8 noble, manly fellow, with his face so disfgured with ugly and ghastly wounds, as to render him most repulsive sight.
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17
DIR. RADWAY'S Regulating Pills,

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 Constipation, Inward Piles Fullness of ihe Rlood in the Head Acidity of the Stomach, Nansea Heart burn, Disgust of Food, Fullness of weirht in tha stomach, Sour Eructstions, sining or Flutoring at the Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the Head Hurried and Difficult Breathing, Fluttering at tbS Heart Choking or Suffocating Sensations when in S Lying Posture, Dimness of Vision, Dots or Webs be- fore the Sight, Fever and Dua Pain in the Head Deficiency of Precipitation, Yettowness of the Skin and Eyes, Pain in the Side, sst Limbs and suddan Flushes of Heat, Burning in Glis Flesh
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 Price, 25 Cents per Box Sold by Druggists,
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Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17
A l4OOd Dog.

At the burning of the house of AL derman Block, of Fredericton, N. B., occurred the following incident which is worthy of record, as showing the fidelity of Newfoundland dog, the property of Mir. Block. The noble brute, with almost human instinct, made his way into the house by tearing out the panels of one of the doors and aroused the family by his barking, and then ran to the stable door, which he endeavored to open, so that the horse, his almost inseparable companion, might escape. There he remained struggling, though every effort was made to entice him away, and when the fire went out he was found lying dead at his post,
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17
A Remarkable Case.

There seems no doubt, says a New York paper, that 8 case reported to-day is one not of hydrophobia but of hydro phobic madness, induced in the brain of the patient by fear of the real dis ease. There is no proof at all that the wretched man now suffering was ever bitten by rabid dog at all. The ani- nal which bit him ten weeks ago at- tackled him in defense of it's master, and in manner which indicated the ties. The casual and frantic snappings of rabid dogs are as different as possi- ble from this attack made with an in- telligent purpose by healthy dog upon the assailant of it's owner or its patron. Unhappily the dog was killed before it could he shown whether it was mad or not. Ever since that time it appears that Entwistle has beer subjected by the pleasant satire of his companions to daily descriptions of the horrors of hydrophohia and prognostications of his dreadful fate. Add to this the fact that he was man of incorporate habits, and it will be seen that he was in the readiest possible condition of the nerves to fancy that he had hydro phobia and to suffer all the horrors of it. It is much more likely that he is the victim of his own imagination than that he is the victim of bite of 8 rabid dog.
 On Sunday, ten weeks after the biting, the unfortunate man went to an in- formal meeting of printers at friends, and dined there. After the meal he complained of 8 severe headache, and had very little to say to his companions. He went away soon afterward, saying that he felt i'll. His landlady noticed his strange behavior, and kept 8 sharp watch on him. He walked to the hy- drant in the yard to take drink. He touched the water to his lips, and then turned away and parked like dog, and after that exhibited many of the symp- toms of hydrophobia.
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17
A Revolutionary Diary.

Paul Lunt, Q soldier of the Revolu- tion, was native of Newburyport, in Massachusetts, and an officer in com pany of minute-men commanded by his kingman, Captain Ezra Lunt. Paul kept diary throughout the eventful summer of 1775, and thus it was that he made note of the fortnight in the course of which he fought at Bunker Hill:
 "Sunday, 11th-Went upon guard at Mrs. Inman's with forty men.
 {" Monday, 12th--Returned from guard at o'clock.
 Tuesday, 13th-Captain Abner Greenleaf and Captain Rodgers came to the camps. MT. Martin dined with us upon baked veal and green peas.
 Wednesday, 14th-Some ships and transports arrived at Boston with two | hundred horse and three thousand troops.
 Thursday, 15th-Mr. Huse came to Cambridge.
 Friday, 16th-Our men went to Charlestown and intrenched on a hill beyond Bunker's Hill. They fired from the ships and Copp's Hill all the time.
 Saturday, 17th-The regulars land ed a number of troops, and we engaged them. They drove us off the hill and burnt Charlestown. Dr. Warren was lost in the battle the siege lasted about three hours. They killed about 50 of our men, wounded about 80; we killed of the kings troops 896-92 officers, l04 sergeants.
 Sunday, 19th-We intrenchea on Prospect Hill !; alarmed that the regu- lars were advancing towards our in- trsnchment, but found it to be false ; returned to quarters.
 Monday, 19th-We killed some of their guard.
 "Tuesday, 2oth-Went upon picket guard.
 " Wednesday, 21st-Passed muster. Thursday, 22d-The soldiers re- ceived their first months pay.
 "Friday, 23d-Moved from Wiggles- worth's House to Prospect Hill.
 Saturday, .24th-Nothing remark able.
 Sunday, 25th-Heard the Rev. MT. Cleveland preach from Joshua xii. 22, part 23d verse;"
 Thus IS the contemporary account of the great battle recorded with military brevity. Lieutenant Lunt neither claims victory nor acknowledges a defeat. He simply tells the story as if it were not a matter of much more con- sequence than the dinner of baked veal and green peas with which he and his comrades entertained MT. Martin. The text from which he heard the Rev. MT. Cleveland preach on June 25, 1775, Joshua xii. 22, reads "The Lord God of Gods, he knoweth, and Israel, he shall know if it be 8 rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord. ''
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17
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Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17

In 8 recent letter to Messrs. Rem ington & Co.,, Capt. E. W. Whittemore. 18th Infantry, U. s. A., thus speaks of the Rem ingtsn Sewing Machine
 Eff your sewing machines are as much of an improvement over sthers your double shot-gnns in it's breech mechanism is superior to the English guns. shall want ne."-Com.
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17

A Louisville gentleman who had his nose bitten of in 8 row, wrapped 1t up in paper, and sent it to his family. The rest of his body he threw away, there being bat little left,
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17

The Secret of CaptivatiOn.-Features of Grecian mould, a well-turned neck and beautifully rounded arms, doubt very nice things to have, and ladies who possess these charms have reason to be thankful to Mother Nature yet, after all, the most captivating of all womanly charms is pure, fresh and brilliant complexion. This supeIlative fascination any lady may secWre by using HAeAN's MAGNOLIA BALM.
 The Grand Revolution IN MEDICAL TREAT MENT, which was commenced in 1860, is still in progress Nothing step it, for it is founded on the principle, now universally acknowledged, that phys ysical vigor is the most formidable antagonist ot all human ailme ments and experience has snown that PLANTATION BrrTERs Is peerless invigorant, as well the best possible safeguard against epidemic diseases.
 Re-animating the Halr.-When the hair ceases to draw from the scalp the natural lubri- cant which is it's sustenance, its vitality is 1t were, suspended, and ii not promptly attended to, badness will be the certain result. The one sure method of avoiding such an unpleasant catastro- phe Is to use LYONS KArHA1RoN, which, when we'll rubbed into the scalp, will speedily re-ani- mate the hair and prevent it from falling out Ne Old Mexican Mustang Lintment, has produced more cures of rheumatism, neuralgia, sprains, scalds, burns, salt rheum, sore nipples, swelling, lameness, chapped hands, poisonous bites, stings, bruises, &c, &c., men, women and children and sprains, strains gals stiff joints, inflammation, &c., in beasts, than all other lini- ments put together. It will do what is promised or ye money refunded.
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Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17

Improvement is the order of the day. The greatest change is made in the Elmwood Collar. This is made little wider than it was, so as to be in the present style. Ask for the Improved Elmweod.-COnl.
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17
ROT1SEHOTDlW will You Suffer '

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Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17

Fearful--the amount of money thrown away in not buying shoes protected by SILVER TIPS. Parents be wise and insist that your shoe dealer should keep them.-Com.
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17

It is said that when member of the Boston Common Council talks too long the board hand him a card, inscribed 1: Hire hell 1"
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17

For intercepting 8 telegram, and reading it, schoolmaster in Manches- ter, England, has been sentenced to three months imprisonment.
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-17

P"nctual as TimepIece. - Unless the powtls do their duty with the regularity If clock work perfct health is impossible. Therefore, when disordered, control them immediately with
 Tarranps Efsrvescent seltzer Aperient, the most genial balsamio and effective lax ative ana slteratlve known to the medical profession, Sold by druggists,