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Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27
The Confession of a Murderer.

Our readers, says the Terra Haute Ind.) Express, are familiar with the details of the horrible and cold -blooded shooting of Joseph Robbins, 8 bridge watchman at Kaskaskia river, on the Vandalia road, on the night of October 29. Immediately on the discovery of the murder the States Attorney, MT. Ashcroft, and the civil officers set to work vigorously to discover the author of the crime. Through the means of the buckshot taken out of the victims head the clew was given. These shot were found to be of the same size as those found in the house of one Nathan Burgess, where the shot gun of Rob- bins was also found. Burgess was ar- rested and held five days, waiting the development of further evidence, the States Attorney working day and night to gather every particle of evidence. When the arrested man (Burgess) was and the shot gun and the buckshot were whelmed, turned deathly pale, and when asked if guilty or not guilty he endeavored to speak, but his tongue refused to do it's work. The feeling at this stage of the proceedings is de-
 
 terrible. There was not sound in the room the stiffness of death pervaded every nook of the court room. In few minutes Burgess arose and said quite audibly, "I will tell all if you will save mel" Then, with quivering lip, blanched face, and trembling in every limb, he narrated to that almost breath less crowd the sickening details as fol- lows
 "I knew that the Vandalia pay car had passed that afternoon and had paid Robbins his months wages. I Iwanted money. I got that shot gun and went to the bridge. As I approached the watch-house saw, through the window, Robbins sitting inside his shoulder and head only could be seen. raised the gun and fired then hesitated few moments to listen if the report of the gun had aroused any one. I then went up to the watch-house door and found Robbins on his knees praying. I plainly heard him say "Oh, God, have mercy on the one who did this spare him for Jesus's sake ]" was mortified, and turned and ran, I don't know where. I did not enter the house nor touch the door. His words haunt me still."
 He sat down, and at once the people shouted "Haug him hang him r and all was confusion. The officers at once surrounded the prisoner to pro- tect him. Attorney Ashcroft jumped on table and besought the crowd to commit no violence, and to let the law take it's course. This earnest appeal had it's effect, and for moment there was silence, when one of the crowd, standing up, addressed the assemblage:
 " If the law will hang him, let us let the law take it's course. But let it here be known that this wretch must be hung by the sheriff or by our own hands. He must have no mercy"
 The officers got the prisoner out by side door and hurried him off to jail. The crowd then quietly dispersed. The amount of money that Robbins had drawn was $31.35.
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Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27

Dr. DamI Weaver, of Boston, fell down mining shaft near Denver, 76 feet. He terribly bruised, limbs broken, and supposed to be dead. Mexican Mustang LinimeDt was freely used, con- sciousness restored, his life saved, and he came homo in eight weeks. This is the most wonderful article for Bruises, sprains, Rheumatism Swell ings, spavin, Ringbone, Sores, or any hesh, bone or muscle aiIment upon man or beast, ever dis covered. It is humanity to animals. It has saved much suffering and many useless doctors' bills. It can be had for 50 cts and $o0 per bottle in any drug store. But beware of commercials. The genuine is wrapped in Q fine steel-plate label, signed "G. w. Westbrook, Chemist"
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27

This happy hoy comes to young people with good rews-telling them that any one who sen Id s Sl.25 to MT. Allied Martten. Philadelphia, will not only get 8 copy every week for whole year of NE WS. with the postage pald, hut will also G. Ceive beautiful Oil Chromo Picture, taking their EroIie in the weods;'' |" "The Boat Rase," Shipwreck' Or.if thsy will send 25 cents more-that is, $l.5O alogether-they will get with the paper the picture nished and mount ed on a card board ready for framing; or S1.75 will procure ttc0 Chromos mounted and the paper for ono year, postage paid or $2.25 will procure the Jour Chromos mounted and the paper for one year. postage paid. Mounted Chromus will please best.
 S,nd three-cent stomp for q Specimen Number.
 ALFRED mARTIEN, Publisher, 4l South seventh Street, Shtyade lpE h.
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27
FEEL MYSELF A NEW MAN.

MT. H. R. STEVENS:
 Dear Sir-Through the advice and earnest persua- sion of Rev. E. s. Best, of this place, have been suffered for years. I have used only two bottles, aud already feel myself new man.
 Rcspectfuliy DR. J. w. CARTER.
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27
MASON & HAMLl

OhDxNLx \ OhUANOs
 Winners tf THREE HIGHEeT MEDALS AND DIPLOMA ISaP % OF HONOR at YIENNA, 1873, PARIS, MUsICIANs GENERALLY to be UNRlv ALED and INCOMPARABLE. Sold at fix ed uniform prices to all. which are printed and invariabe.
 PURCHASERS OF ORGANS ARE R E- MINDED that the temptation to Dealers and Peddlers is very strong to deal in ana recommend as best the organs of those makers who will pay them the largest commissions OF dis counts for selling.
 printing as they GO their lowest prices, can afford to dealers only the smallest conn miss siOMs. This plan secures to every purchaser the lowest pIiee, because the dealer cannot ask more than the Catalogue prlce; but 1t causes many deslers tN do their best to sell other organs, simply because they get enormous disccunts on them. Som organs are currently sold to d cal are at seventy five per cent. discount, at quar- ter the prices printed TOT them. As rule, the the greater tho discount on it.
 The MASON G HAMLIN ORGAN CO. are now Cffer ng new sty les with i'm ortant improve ments; aud are selling not only for cash exclu- 5ively, but also on now plans of easy payments, running through ono year or longer. They also rent Orga with privilege of purchase. Rent paid three years purchases the Organ.
 ssild for the Illustrated Catalogues and Circu- lars, which give very full information, aud are sent free. Address, Tk4E MASON tE HAMLIN ORGAN co, at either New York, Boston, Chicago.
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27

VEtSETINE Is Sold by all Druggists.
 GspE PEtI DAY Commission $50 weeA SI1 lSp Salary, and expCnses. We ober 1t and will !Sn y it. Apply now. d. wunRHR & Co., Marton O
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27

Dr. L. Q. c. WISHART'S Office, No. 232 N. Second St. Philadelnhia. Pa.
Connecticut western news., 1874-11-27

mered on the cobble stones, and his body was beaten to a jelly.
 A most disastrous inundation has occurred at the village of. Mayari, Cuba, which was overlooked for forty hours. Nearly all the houses within it's limits were destroyed, en- tailing much suffering and destitution. :. Returns from remote counties, heretofore partly estimated, make it certain that McDill, Republican, is elected in the Eighth District of Wisconsin. This leaves the Congressional delegation of tho State standing, Republicans six and Democrats two. The Hon. Har- rison G. Rice, a late Democratic candidate for Congress in Indiana, is preparing to contest the election of the Hon. Morton 0. Hunter, and has secured the services of the Hon. D. W. Voorhees, and Judge Carleton, of Terre Haute, to prosecute the case. The latest advices from Khiva say there is complete anarchy there Turcomans refuse to obey the Khan, who summoned his council, which declared that Khivan autonomy was a fiction, aud that the aid Of Russia for the maintenance of order was indispensable. From Oct. l to Nov. 15, two hundred cases of diphtheria were reported in Brooklyn, eghty-four of which were fatal In the Episcopal Convention in Burlington, N. J., on the fifteenth ballot the Rev. John Scarborough, D. D., Rector of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, Pa., was elected Bishop by vote of 31 to 53 of the clergy and 36 to 50 parishes. .....A German named Kra- mer, living in Cheshire, Conn.,, beat his wife with club, while both were intoxicated, so that she died .. United States Postmaster General Jewell emphatically d1sclaims intend ing to recommend any increase in the present rates of postage. On the contrary, he thinks the letter postage should be reduced whenever it shall be found possible to materially diminish the expenditures for carrying the mails with out depriving the public of existing facilities. ......A team of horses ran away near West
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-20
A RAILROAD SCENE.

'.Burleigh'' writes from Washing.
ton to the Boston Journal: An
amusing incident occurred the other
| day on one Of the trains from Boston
to this city. The cars were very
crowded. An elegantly-dressed
woman occupied an entire seat. Her
bundles, bandbox and bag. were
piled artlstically. She was oblivious
to the fact that passengers were
rushing back and forth to obtain
sittings. More than one gentleman
drew himself up in front of the impe-
rious dame, silently pleading TOR the
vacant spot. She famed herself
leisurely, lolled in the seat, and
evidently thought things were very
comforta bic, as they were. sis this
seat occupied, madam ?" asked
we'll dressed gentleman, very polite
". eyes, it isl was the snaprish
reply" The man walked on. In
halfssan hour the door opened. and in
walked tall, rough fellow, coarse as
a Polar bear. His huge beard was
uncombed and stained with tobacco
juice. His clothes were i'll pat on,
and smelt of the stable. He was
ungloved and brawny, and weighed
full two hundred. He ran h s eye
along the car, and caught the seat
on which our lady was sitting. He
made for it, With great del:beia,
ton he seized the bundle, bandbox
and bag, put them plump into the
the lap of the lady, and sat down in
the vacant spot like one who intend
ed to stay. If looks could have
annihilated a man, there would have
been a corpse in that car about that
time. The man seemed very much
at home. He whiotled; he spit ;
he stroked his beard ; he threw
around his huge arms, and
chuckled inwardly at the evident
rage of the women. She
left the cars at New Haven, and mad
hardly gone before the gentleman
who was refused the seat reappeared.
TO some gentleman. who seemed to
take q great interest in the proceed
ings, he said: ibid you see. how
that woman treated me p eyes"
''Did you see how size was come up
with 2" "Well, that man was a
horse doctor that sat down beside
her. He belongs to Bulls Head.
| gave him 81 10 ride with that wom-
an as far as she went" The car
roared.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-20

He illustrates the curious way in
which low-lived words become re-
spectacle. Thus donkey, conun4
drum, fun, now unquestioned Eng
llsh, made their first appearance as
slang, though how they came into
existence no etymologist has proved
for certain. From the wretches who
made a traie of stealing children,
polite society adopted their cant
word kldnap-that is, to nab kids /;
the verb knab or nab, il good pro-
vincial English, borrowed by the
canting crew; but kid or child may
possibly be a term of their own de-
vising. Not long since, to take
another pair Of examples, it was
''slangy" to speak Of a tie as it now
is to speak of a choker. It used to
be common habit Of etymologists,
when word was troublesome, TO
alter 1t a little, so as to put sense
into ito do, In facr, with scientific
pretensions. just what we have no
tlced the costermongers doing for col
loquial purposes. One Of those cleve
er scholars (the great mistake Of
philologlsts lies in being too clever)
was puzzled that Welsh rabbit
should mean piece Of toasted cheese;
SO decided that it must be corruption
of Welsh rarebit. The public be-
iieved him, and took to spelling it
according, SO that now the best
editions Of Webster's dictionary
gives it as properly Welsh rarebit. .
Now, the whole Of this is stuff and
nonsense the very name rarebit is
a fiction, and Welsh rabbit is gen
uine Welsh term, belonging to a
large group which describes in a
humorous way the special product,
or popularity of a particular dish.
For examples An Essex stile is a
ditch, an Essex lion calf ; a Field
lane duck is baked sleeps head ;
Glasgow magistrate is Gourock
hams Norfolk capons are red her
rings /; Irish apricots or Munster
plums, are potatoes !; Grovesend
sweetmeats are shrimps; Jerusalem
pony is donkey, and Bridgeport
banana Tin Chicago is sausage.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-20
SCARCITY OF BIRDS.

There has been considerable CONS
ment on this subject, and not, | infer,
without cause. Strict observance on
my part has induced me to believe
that the number of birds this year
falls far behind that of several pre-
ceding years. Corroborating state
menta from several porsoD0 have
doubly induced me to adhere more
strictly to the above. Everybody in
Central New York, and probably
elsewhere will remember the snow
storm of the 18th of April. All over
the country the snow acted as a
death-blow to large numbers Of our
inmigrating and resident birds.
One lady related to me an instance
of the sad havoc occasioned by this
snow upon mixed flock of about
thirty birds. Just before the snow
these birds hocked to single sumac
tree the soft seeds and fowery
substance of which a great many
birds ore fond) and staid there. The
cold weather coming on killed about
three-fourths Of them, and when the
snow vanished the ground was
strewn with blue birds, chipping and
tree sparrows, cedar birds, purple
fnches, etc.
do not believe the snow mateTi'
ally affected our birds, as DR.. Cones
says :-"All the public and private
museums in the world might be
overstocked, and yet not seemingly
reduce the number of BIRDS" ]
thoroughly believe this. 1t is from
the season, [ think. Reports from
all over the country have reached
me which confirm my statement
Collectors everywhere complain Of a
dullness in obtaining skins and eggs.
Sometimes, when out myself, | am
accosted by some farmer with,
"Well. specs to get anything
Won't find much bout here, save a
few crows or a chipping bird. Our
birds are scarce this year. A great
deal ct shooting has been going on
Throughout The country I: but
should not infer even from that thai
! it lessons our game to any great ex-
tent. l hear that the rufaed grouse
and prairie hen will be shot In
abundance. A pretty strict accord
ance with the game laws has been
kept this year, so that I do not
scruple in indorsing my friends
statements.
join with others in anticipating
more game Of all kinds next season,
if the year is appropriate.
s. T.. WILLARD.
Utica, N. Z. July 81.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-20
The PIow.

God speed the plowsharel Tell me not
Disgrace attends the toll
OF those who plow the dark green sod,
Or till the fruitful soil.
Why should the honest plcwman shrink
From mingling in the van
Oflearning and Of wisdom, since
TITS mind that makes the man?
God speed the plowshare, and the hands
That till the fruitful earth,
For there is in this world, so wide,
No gem like honest worth.
And though the banda are dark with toll,
And flushed the manly brow,
1t matters not, for God will bless
The labors of the pillow.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-20
THE USE OF SLANG.

1t is said that the use Of slang ia
growing more and more q fashion
and habit with the English, Mr..
T. B. Taylor defends it entertaining
y in Macnillin's, calling it zone 81
the feeders Of what may becalled
standard language, and genuine
and influential branch Of speech
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-20

a short route has been found
betweenChina and Australia,a survey
having been made Of the hitherto
unknown Northeastern shores Of New
Guinea By the British steamship
Basilisk.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-20
THE MANURlAL VALUE OF
LEAVES.

Most writer's when treating of
leaves allude to them as valuable
chiefly as excellent absorbents of
liquid manure. 1t is indeed true
that they are of much value for such
purpose, but they are more valuable
still for the large percentage of fertil-
izing matter which they afford. Ashes
are worth from twenty to fifty cents
per bushel. according to the region
Of country where they are made. In
some plants the ash of the leaf
amounts to over twenty per cent,
while that of the wood rarely exceeds
two or three. The leaf is the labor
atory of the plant, and in it are per-
formed most of the operations essen
tial to its growth. It takes the crude
materials gathered by the roots. re-
fines them, rejecting all that is not
essential to the plant, and out of
the remainder it constructs the high
ly complex bodies that are found in
other parts Of the plant. These re-
iected parts consist mainly of earthly
matter that was In solution in the
water taken up by the roots, and it
is deposited in the cells of the leaf.
This is shown by the fact that the
leaf contains far more ash than any
other part. ofthe plant. When the cells
become completely clogged up with
this matter, the leaf can no longer
perform it's functions, and SO ripens
and fall of. Provision has already
been made for this separation. If
the footstalks of most leaves be exam-
ined, it will be found that a kind of
joint exists near the body Of the
plant, even when the leaf is quite
young; as it grows older this Joint
becomes more marked, and, finally,
when it is ripe, gentle breeze will
shake it off, and no wound is left
nothing but the scar. The wound
has healed. even before it was made.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-20

DESTROYING PLANTA1Ns. AIMING
aish paper says one drop Of oil Of
vltrol in the heart Of q plantain will
destroy it in an hour. Thistles may
be removed by the same application.
Care is required that the acid does
not touch the skin or clothes it is
not safe in the hands Of children,
ibut'a man or woman with ten miu-
'utes practice, can kill plantains faa-
'tershan any lad can eat gooseberries.
1t will also exterminate the Canada
thistle.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-09
APPOINTMENTS By THE GRAND MAsTE

APPOINTMENTS By THE GRAND MASTER
The following gentlemen have beer
appointed District Deputy Grand Mast
ere, for the several districts, by Crane
Master Logan, to serve for the present
Masonic year:
First Notwithstanding the coun'
ties of Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Mar
shall and Wetz,l; V. Rosenberg,
Wheeling.
Second District-Counties OF Mouon'
gala, Marion, Taylor and Preston
L. Maiionee, Grafton.
Third District-Counties iof Hamp-
shire, Hardy, Mineral, Grant and PEN
dleton H. NJ. Gamble, Moore6eld.
Fourth District-Counties OF Morgan,
Berkeley and Jefferson; A. NJ, Evans
Middleway, Jefferson county.
Eth District-Couuties Of Tyler
Wood, Peasants, Writ, Ritchie and
Doddridgs; C. r. Wickes. Toll Gate
Richie county.
ISsrh Di,lrict-Countles OF Harrison
Lewis, Upsher, Barbour and Randolph
Jacob Edil. Clarksburg.
Seventh District-Counties of Mason
jackson, Roaus, Putnam ard Kama
wba; j. II. Riley, Ripley, Jackson
county.
Ninth District-Couaties OF Fsyette,
Pocahontas and Greenbrier, J. W. Har'
ris, Lewisburg.
Eleventh Disirict-Couuties OF Cabell
Wayne, Boone and Logan; H. j. Sans
uels, CabelI C. II.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-09
Mr,.,osAnr CoiIrcr1os.-Ye sterday

MISSIONARY CotLEoT1oS.-Yesterday
was missionary Sunday" at the Fourth
Street N. N. Church, and there was in
consequences good deal Of excitement
aud flutter among the pupils in the
Sunday School, through whom the
parents make the greater part OF their
contributions. A good deal OF rivalry
had been stirred up between several OF
the classes and each was on its mettle
and determed to do its best. Last even'
iug the Sunday School assembled in the
audience room and, together with the
congregation. filed it 10 overfoWing
After a brief and eloquent sermon by
Mr.. Carpenter, the roll OF the classes
was called and each cent up in an en-
yelope the amount OF its contribution
together with come appropriate motto,
q passage Of scripture or verse OF
poetry, which we're severalIy read
aloud by Doctor Logan, Superintendent.
The following list shows tie plumber o.
the class the name ofthe teacher and
A. s..,nt ,on, ,;buted
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-09

SupRrNE CoURr-Thwsday.-Tht
argument begun yesterday in the Gaze
OF J. W. Barker vs..the Rathbone Oil
Tract Company, from Writ county wa.
concluded and the case submitted.
10 the case OF William Rittanhouse
and others against Athias Hartman and
others, from Writ county, John A
Hutchinson, Esq, began the opening
argument for appellants. occupying The
time Of the CoGrt until the hour of ad.
journment. The argument in thi.
cause will be resumed this morning.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-09
TRUsTEE,s SALE.

FINDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A DEED
u OF trust maze by James Burrows and
Eliza his wife, and Martin Burrows and
Amanda hts vie, tn the undersigned az
Trustee, dated the 2gtb OF May, leo. and OF
rec I'd in the Clerks office OF the County
n 10. 81, page 275, will nfier for sale AT pu b.
lie auction, at he front door OF the Court
House OF ONO county, W. Va, on
Monday the asd day OF Feb. 1874.
at 10 O'Clock q. M, the following property,
III II Is 10 say. Two certsin tracts or parcels
OF land, situated In Ohio county, W. Va on
wheeling creek, formerly known as Feay :
mill property. The first thereof j. bounded
as follows: beginning At double chestnut
oak on the top NJ ridge corner t John
Feary, ST., and thence with the line =. i2'
w a6 poles TO sugar tee, thence ob' r.
l2S poles TO locust, thence n. So r. IS poles
10 beach, thence N. w. no poles, crcss-
ing Wheeling creek at 81 poles 10 the begin
ming. The second parcel thereof adjoinH
the tract above described and Is bounded
as follows. Beginning at q stone in the FIRST
line OF he tract above described distance
or3i $40 poles from The sugar tree stump OF
the original corner tree, and from said
stone ). 81 K. Is poles to a rock nj the
mouth Of the tail race, thence : ~ W
q 4-l0 roles. thence N. az Wipes to a
Stone in the org nal rine sforesaid, and
with said line to The beginning. containing
in all, the said two tracts, l04l4 acres.
TERMS OF SALE-One third cash, or az
much more as the purchaser may elect IN
pay, and the balance Of the purchase mon
ey 10 two equal installments, pa abs re.
spectively, with interest, in one and two
years from the day o. sale, the deferred
payments to b secured By deed Of trust n p
ON the property OF By satisfactory personal
security.
no. l2l0 Chapllne street.
]. c. HERvEY, Auettoneer. jan2l-i