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Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31
Destruction of Dogs.

The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, whose headquarters are in Ph1ladel- phia, erected some two yeals ago a Shelter and House for Vagrant Dogs and Other Animals. The city authori- ties provided the ground-about two acres-and the society erected thereon buildings suitable for the work, lnclud- ing small house for the keeper and his assistant. The city also pays the society $2, ,OOO per annum for doing the work. The ground is inclosed by a high wooden fence, and the destruction of worthless animals is done privately. During the year 1873 the officers of the society captured, by means of nets, 3,O9O dogs, of which number "A were redeemed by their owners; 2,378 were killed, and 58 sold PA dogs were sent by private individuals to be merclfully killed, and small number were brought to the shelter to board. The means at first used to destroy the animals was carbonic acid gas and wooden tank, similar to the one now used at the Pound in New York. This was soon discarded, however, as being found totally unfit by reason of the leakage, and the use of the carbonic acid gas has been also given up as not being swift enough in it's destruction of life: A smothering-room built of bricks and lined with good cement, Il feet long, 4 feet 5 inches wide, and 2 feet Il inches high has replaced the wooden box, and carbonous oxide gas is used instead of carbonic acid gas. It is generated by a charcoal stove, and 8 bellows is used to force it in volume into the alr-tlght compartment. This oxide is an active narcotic poison, one per cent. in the air proving fatal. The number of dogs de- stroyed never exceeds forty large or eighty small ones. Seven minutes IS occupied in filling the room with the gas, and two minutes and a quarter only to destroy life. The dogs are cap tured by men employed by the society, who go round the city with carts and scoop. nets. All worthless animals are destroyed in twenty-four hours after being received. The yard for dogs is divided-one being occupied by males and the other by females. Each animal has separate kennel provided for 1t. This is the plan which MT. Bergh pro- posed
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31
CHILD-STEALING.
The Philadelphia Case i'm Particular.

The Fh1ladeAph1a Caso 1n Fart1ouAar'
 The crime of child-stealing is very old one. Its persistency in the history of the English race may be inferred from the fact that a special word-kidnapping, .. G., kidnabbing" was invented to designate it. The English gypsies are credited with mak- ing business of stealing children, and the plot of many of the old melodramas and Minerva Press romances turns upon the discovery of some noble heir among the tents of Rommapy. Victor Hugo has embalmed in "L'Homme qui Rit " descriptions of the Channel kidnappers who stole children for the purpose of making hideous transformations of their features, and then selling them to showmen. In times more recent, there have been not few celebrated cases of child-stealing, chiefly dictated by feel ings of personal revenge. In New York the police records of the last few years contain references to disappear ances of children which can only be ex- plained on the theory that kidnapping is still carried on for the vilest pur- poses, and pursued at occasional inter- vals by the classes that prey upon so- ciety.
 The Philadelphia case, says the New York ZEnaes, is the first which has come to notice in long while where a child has been deliberately stolen for the purpose of exacting ransom for it's return. As there is @ we'll established | imitativeness in crime, it is hardly likely that this case will long remain alone in the annals of felonious enter. prise. It is, therefore, with no small degree of anxiety that parents all over the country await for the issue of the stealing of little Charley Ross. So far the advantage is emphatically on the side of the thieves. They have adver tised in the Ledger their readiness to negotiate" and they have stated thei1 terms--$2O, ,O0O down-through the Post office, and yet not the faintest clew has been found to their whereabouts.
 1 Now, it is bad enough that the Phlla delphia detectives should have failed to discover any trace of the persons who advertised in the Ledger and the1 sent anonymous letters through tho post. But it will be tenfold worse if { transaction worthy of the brigands O. the Appenines be allowed to perfec itself, in the midst of the second city in the Union, without anybody being punished. The fathers anxiety to ge back his child overbears, of course, al other considerations in his mind. Bu as the money must somehow chang hands, the detective force of Philadel phia will stand disgraced before thu entire country if they do not contriv' to be within call when the transfe takes place. It is simply inconceivabl that g bargain of th1s kind can b carried out in city like Philadelphi without the possibility of laying hand on the receivers of the child's ransom It is quite possible that the illiterat spelling of the advertisement and sub sequent letters is mere blind to diver attention from the real character of tn thieves. There is certain finish abou the transaction that precludes the sup position that the kidnappers are vulga rufians of the ordinary type.
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31
DR. RADWAY'S
 Regulating Pills,

Perfectly tasteess, elegantly coated with sweet gum purge, regulate, purify, cleanse, and strengthen, RADWAY's PILLS, for the cure of all disorders of the Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases, Headache, Constipation, Costive- ness, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Biliousness Bilious Fever, Inflammation of the Bowels, Piles, and all Derangemepts of the Internal viscera. Warranted to effect positive cure. Purely Vegetable, contain ing no mercury, minerals, or deleterious drugs.
 tV- Observe the following symptoms resulting from Disorders of the Digestive Organs:
 Constipation, Inward Piles, Fullness of tho Blood in the Head, Acidty of the stomach Nausea Heart burn, Disgust of Food Fullness of Weight in the Stomach, Sour Eructatons, Sinking Fluttering At the Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the Head. Hurried and Difficult Breathing, Fiuttering at the Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sensations when in Lying Posture Dimness of Vision, Dots or Webs be- fore the Sight, Fever and Dull Pain in the Head, Deficiency of Precipitation, Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes, Pain in the Side Chest Limbs and sudden Flushes of Heat, Burnin in tho Flesh few doses of RADWAY'S PILLS will free the $stem from all the above named disorders.
 Price, 2s Cents per Box. Sold by Druggists.
 Read "FALsn AND TRUE"
 Send one letter-stamp 70 RADwAY CO.,, No. Sa Warren Street, New York. Information worth housands will be sent you.
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31
Left Her Pipe st Home.

Some time since gentleman who lives in this county, says Florida ex- change, was travelling on 8 railway train that had buj the passenger coach attached. The gentleman is addicted to the bad hat4t of smoking. He had but one cigar at the time, and longed for smoko, but hesitated. thinking that smoke might be unpleasant to a fascinating lady passenger-the only one aboard. Finally he could endure the pnvation no longer, and, taking out the cigar and reaching towards the seat wbere she sat. asked if she objected to smoking. 70 nc" said she, reaching lor and taking the cigar, "I left my pipe at hum."
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31

A GHosT.-After severe attack of the nightmare, an American gentleman of literary renown thus gives his ideas of ghosts CA ghost is about 5 foot 7 in. in height, and weighs from to 6 ounces. They ain't afraid ov nothing, and will hang around 8 graveyard az karless az skoolboy will around a norchard in green-apple time. They are like great many other things in this world@often heard ov, but seldom seen. will give 15 hundred dollars to see a ghost, and 250 more to own one ; but want one kaugt whole and not hurt"
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31

Dr. J. Walkers California Yin egar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made cnietiy from the naeo tive herbs found on the lower ranges os the Sierra Nevada m, anta-ns of CalhoT~ nia, the medicinal pro- e,e--5ies of whfcG are extracted the1efrom without the use of Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked, "What Is the cause of the unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT TERs?" Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient re. covers his health. They are the greak blood purifier and a life- giving principies 8 perfect Renovator and lnV1goraGoE of the system. Never before in the history of the world has 6 medicine peer compounded possessing the remarhanle qualities of VINEGAR BITTERs ln heanng SsS sick of every disease man Is heir to. Insf Ars a gentle Purgative as well as 8 Tonlcf relieving Congestion or Inflammation W the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious Diseases. -..
 The properties of DR. WALTERS VINEGAR BITTERs are Aperient, DlaPnoreuo' Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, DauLetc' Sedative, Counter -Irritant, Sudorlhc, Anefa' tive. and Anti Bilious
 R. H. MCDONALD & CO.,, \ Druggists and Gen. Agts., San Francisco Cafaornia and cor of Washington and Charlton Sts., N. '.
 Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31

Imitators should never be encouraged. Their goods are always inferior in quality and intended to deceive. Buy the genuine Elmwood Collar. It has all the edges folded so that they will not turn out.-Cone
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31

BRu1sEs.-Apply to bruises cloths wrung out of hot water. This will prevent discoloration of the skin or Q "black eye" if done immediately.
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31

Economy, comfort, looks, all com bine to make SILVER TIPPED shoes indis- pensable for children. Try them. Never wear through ct the toe.-Cona.
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31

The Ladies' SOroris Club, of New York, re- gently changed their discussions from Womans suffrage to H air preparations and Pimple Banish. CTS. They declared that whore nature had not endowed them with beauty, it was their right yea, their duty to seek it where they could So they voted that M MAGNOLIA BALM overcame Sallow- ness, Rough Skin and Ringmarks, and gave to the complexion most distingue (Sorosian) and mar b1e-like appearance Dangerous to men, no doubt) and that LYONS KATHAlRoN made the hair grow thick, soft and awful pretty, and moreover pre- vented it from turning gray. If the prop1ietors o these articles did not send the sisters an invoice they are not smart.
 Not Quite So Fast, MT. Jones "A horse doctor in Philadelphia was caught changing the celebrated MEXICAN MUSTANG L1N1MENT into other bottles, and using it as his own recipe. Honesty is always the best policy. These medicine men like to How up such follows. It cured the lame horse all the same; but it damaged the Doctor's reputation, and benefited the proprietor in pro portion We have heard of so many Rheumatic persons and lame horses being cured by the Mus TANG LINIMENT that we advise every housekeeper liveryman and planter to invest in 50 ct. $l.c( bottle, against accident. Beware Of counterfeits It is wrapped in 8 steel engraving, signed " G. w Westbrook, Chemist.n
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31
THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE OF
 AN OLD EURSE.

THIRTY HEARS' EXPERIENCE OF
 AN OLD NURSE.
 MRS. w1NsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP Is THE PRESCRIPTION OF one of the best Female Physi- clans and Nurses in the United States, and has been thirty years with failing safety and success by millions of mothers and children, the feeble infant of week old to the adult It corrects scidity Of the stomach, relieves wind collie, regulates the bowels, and gives rest, health and comfort to mother and child. We believe 1t to be the Best and surest Remedy in the world in all cases of DYsENTERY and DIARRRQA IN CHILL DREN, whether it arises from TeethinR from any other Full directions for using will company each bottle. None Genuine unless the fac-simile of CURTIS PERKINS is on the outside wrapper.
 aoyD nv A1r MrDYnYuu nrArrpu
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31

No Sesoing Mackine received HSgher Prize.
 A FEW GOOD REASONS.
 IA NesC InVention THOROUGHLY TEsTKD and secured by Letters Patent.
 2.-Makes @ pertect LOCK STITCH, alike on both sides, on oU kinds of goods.
 3.-Runs LIGHT, SMOOTH, NoIsELEss and RAPID best combination of qualities.
 4.-DURABnE-RunsJor for Years without Repairs.
 5.-WM do all varieties of Work and Fancy Stitching in a superior manner.
 6.-Is Most Easily Managed by the operator. Length of stitch may be altered while I'll nning 2, and machine can be threaded without passing thread through holes.
 7.-Design Simple, Ingenious, Elegant, forming the stitch .githout the use of Cog Wheel Gears, Rotary Rams or Lever Arms. Has the Automatic Drop Feed, which tns,ses uniform length of stitch at any speed. Has our new Thread Controller, which allows easy movement of needle-bar and prevents injury to thread. AE
 S.-CoNsTRUoTIoN most cGrefM and FINISHED. It is manufactured by the most skI!fM and erperi. enced ,nechdnics, at tho celebrated Remington Armory, lli0n, N. Y. New York Office, No. 6. Madison Square, (fkurtz's Bullsl- ing.) BRANCH OFFICES, 1s5 State St., Chicago, III.; S7O Superior St., Cleveland, 1, o., 1S1 Fourth St., Cincinnati, o. 4O6 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y.; , 32 w ashfngto on St., Boston, Mass. SI0 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa., 10 Sixth St., PItts- Purgh, Pa.
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31
R.. R. > R.
 RADwAY'S & A READY RELIEF. The Cheapest and Best Medicine fo1
 Family Use in the Worldl
One SO Cent RoftIa

One 5O Cent Bottle
 WILL CURE MORE COMPLAINTS ANH SNKs VENT THE SYSTEM AGAINST SUDDEN AN HACKS OF EPIDEMICS AND CONTAdIoUS ptHs EASES THAN ONE HUNDRED poLLARH Ex4 PENDED FOR OTHER MEDICINES OR MHpI CAL ATTENDANCE.
 THE MOMENT RADwAY's READY RnLIEF IS APPLIED EXTERNALLY-OR TAKEN INTER- NALLY ACCORDING TO DIRECTI0NS-PAIN, FROM WHATEVER CAUSE, CEA ES TO EXIST.
 IMPoRTANT.-Miners, Farmers, and others re. siding in sparsey-settled districts, where it is di, cult to secure the services of hysoian, RADWAYrS READY RELIEF is invaluable. It can be used with positive assurance of doing good in all where pain discomfort is experienced; or if seized with Influenza, Diptheria, Sore Throat, Bad Coughs, Hoarseness, Bilious Colio, Inflammation of the Bowels, Stomach, Lungs, Liver, Kidneys; or with Group, Quinsey, Fever and Ague or with Neural. gia, Headache, Tic Doloreux, Toothsohe, EaraohcI or with Lumbago, Pain in the Baok or Rheumatism; or with Diarrhna, Cholera Morbus, or Dysenteryi or with Burns, Scads, or Bruises or with Strans, Cramps, or Spasms. The application of RADwAY8 READY RELIEF will cure you of the worst of these complaints in few hours.
 Twenty drops in half . tumbler of water will in . few moments cure CRAMPS, SPASMS, SOUR STOMACH, HEATBURN, SICK HEADACHE, DLARRHGA, DYSENTERY, ,CoLIO, WIND IN THR BOWELS, and all INTERNAL PAINS.
 Travellers should always carry a bottle of RAD. WAYS READY RELIEF with them. A few drops of water It is better than French Brandy Bitters as 8 stimuant.
 Sold by Druggists. Price, 50 CentA
Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31
Feeding Corn. ara is always mora or lass

There is always more or less waste in feeding dry corn either in the ear or shelled. We have fed corn in the cob with the least waste, when it has been put into barrel the day before it was to be fed, and scalded with boiling water, leaving it to soak until fed.
 This plan has been about as cheap as grinding the corn and feeding raw
, 1874-05-23
THE WEST INDIAN IN LONDON.

The news of the abolition Of the sugar duties
will have been known aud digested in the
West Indies long before these words meet the
eyes Of readers in those regions. OF course
very little business has been done between the
announcement in the Budget and the date OF
the abolition on raw sugar taking effect. But
there seems a general expectation Of a better
market as the result Of the measure. 1t IS a
bold stroke to endeavour to make this country
the sugar centre of the world. Mr. Gladstone's
idea, that it viii encourage the growth OF beet
in the United Kingdom, is not worth much. If
it were possible for sugar TO be made in this
country it would have been made long before
this. Mr.. Duncau's still remains the sole eX-
pertinent, although it is now said that a dis
covery has been made by which the quality Of
sugar from the beet viii be improved, and It's
offensive odour got rid of. Tue makers Of
slowed sug,r thought the interval between
the dates for the duties to cease on raw and
refined respectfully three weeks-was not
sufficient for their purpose. They asked the
Government to make it six weeks, by deferring
the abolition OF duty on rgfaed till June 10.
For the makers of other qualities Of refined,
except slowed or loaf, this extension Of time
was not necessary, and here was considera-
Bile opposition to the proposal q the loaf sugar
makers. The result was that the Chancel-
lor found himself unable to alter the dates, or
to make an especial exception in favour of
one particular department of the trade. At the
same time the proposed delay would have
enabled the loaf sugar makers to buy a
greater quantity of their raw material duty
tree, and to have in Consequence a larger
stock to meet the loaves that will come
t~umbling across the Channel
The principal subject of amusemeat in ia
maica seems to be the railway. If it does
nothing else it makes the colonists laugh.
Some time ago the colonial newspapers re-
gularly came home with a column of enter
tanning railway facetie. The vagaries of the
, 1874-05-23

His administration in this colony grace
fully closed by his accommodation to the
Legislature to pass a vote in add of the
fund for relieving the distress in India. The
best service rendered by the colony to India
has been the reception during the last few
remained d in r' India, would Id'RR have had to go to the
relief works of the Government to obtain food
for their support. Perhaps this service will be
recognised one day, when the truth becomes
clearly known.
ITO be c0ntinued)
, 1874-05-23

gers would Get to their journeys end was a
rare clement of iuter,s'. The possibility OF
being burnt to death, which is included
among the privileges Of passengers, was cont
cal beyond belief. The newspapers brought
by the last mail are positively rollicklngl IN
their railway fun. When the Standard con-
feSses itself "deiected," things mast be lively
indeed. The best Joke connect d with the
subject is the sublime attitude Of the proprie-
tors of the railway. They have adopted as
their motto, IN dealing Will Tie public, ''ThcY
say, what saw they? Let them say" This
diver.ing piece of fnn was fst uttered by
the mauaacr Of the Railway in the Legisla-
tive Council IN = NV to some complaints
about the working of the line, AID it has SO
ticklcd tie fancy CT Jama:cq hunouri,ts that
they are aluays exploding into laughter when
they think about it. Til Sl4u7ara seems
to enjoy il en- ciaty. hayi,r ,tereotypsd the
phrase, and used It In almost lyery mail cdi-
ton for the las, wear or two. The last fea-
ture of raj way management is burning the
trains with a reckless S .egarl os rolling stock
H.w are the hubble 10 be rarried if the carriages
are burnt : is a conundrum which Kingston is
nob.v tryino 10 s,lye On March 27 the lug-
gage waac,ns BELONGING to a train we're OBJ
served 70 be on fre-tbat IS 10 say, they were
observed in that condition vs. The passengers
only, fr The engine driver was looking on
ahead. and the ouerd was FISH asleep in his
van. In the presence Of danger, the passel-
gers became ezcied. some bought o. jump
l19 no', ana o@e "'1Hl" wac. IS o7!c"'tIy
described Oy jHe Sf@t7a/@ as not haYl9S t 53
proper 'o'1ina,o Oh her nerves. 3e'H@1y ~"
Jump o4'' and It says m0ch Tor t4e n'sn Ia'o
q spec" = aI1J4 on 'ng runway 'na' no'"''s
more serious ,o"o"e' ms raSn @e' '""l "
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wagons were o-'ac"1u ~ ~, ~ :, '%oin.
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, 1874-05-23

Rainfall at Estate Morning STAR
18th May J line, 18th, Inc.
, 1874-05-23

Table OF the Fall OF RaIm from
the A1th TO the Is tn Of
WAY 1874.
, 1874-05-23

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thenticated by the name Of the author, not
necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee
of good faith and, further, that we cannot
by any means undertake to preserve nor re-
turn rejected manuscripts.
, 1874-05-23
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, 1874-05-16

shonld prevail It would follow that this provision
or tue Constitution Of Wisconsin had been 1c-
pealed BY mortgage executed BY railroad COM
pany; and that tie mortgage had not only de-
praved the company Of its property and franchise
covered by the mortgage but had stripped the
Legislature. Of power conferred upon it and its
successors forever by the Constitution Of the
otate.
Eut suppose that the Legislature had not only
authoftzod the company to mortgage its proper
" anu franchises, as It did. but had gone furth-
H e. as II d1o not, and had expressly provided
, 1874-05-16
INITIATION IN IOWA.

CuEnoKEE, Ia, Nay II, 1874
70 the Editor Of TIE Chicago Tribune:
Sm: Tho plausibla manner Of putting the
question. Shall we hnve more money? readily en-
trapped tho uuthinking portion Of the people.
who at once concluded an3 measure thai
should givo them moro money Was entitled to
their support. In the carly part of the dis
cussion, L am satisfied the in1a:ionists were
majority but the solid men OF the country have
been deserving the untenablo position assumed
By Morton, Logan ct al, for the more substan~
tial views SO ably advocated By The TRIBUNE.
The statement advanced oy the esAoines Reg
lister, that the anti-veto men are six to one IN
Iowa is absurd and terribly w1ds OF the truth.
I am satisfied that The State OF Iowa has ma
jority opposed to imitation. Men Of all political
parties ate warm in commendaion Of the pres1-
dent in vetoing the Currency bill. The inha-
tionsts are thinning out. The Congressional
elections this fall viii turn largely on the moro
the anti-int1Aliouists have little to fear for the
rea,1it L. P.
, 1874-05-16

opened and was found to contain chsnye Of
linen, . few psre1s and letters, and i yellow
covered doG-ea!ed book with the title, ' Twenty
Easy Lessons on the Flute" Auloug those WAS
the "Adeste F,deiis," and, conjecrnrc- readily
assumed that this was tho basis al the i;i:.e;s.;
Professors musical education. The story i,
no" he gave lessons on any instrument, tho
principle being the yamo ia H." is told to
this day In Galepa; and it is also s<lsa
thai the tickle widow afterwards married . Ger
taia Captain. who subsequently, made a Gen
eIal OF himself. and lost q leg at Cn:c.mausa.-
This sequel il hard to bceve, for. to all sprear-
aaces, sue lovoa the Professor to distrpctiou. Is
it possible that the female heart IL subj,c: to
such violent changes? Il caunot ba believed.
IT n