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Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27
Queer Results of Advertising,

The accident to which Orange Judd
 owes the audiences of his success was this: Mir. and Mrs. Judd lived, in their early history, fin a modest house in re- tired street in Flushing, l.. I. Mir. Judd went to New York every day to work upon the American Agricult,wist- struggling paper sold at the rate $1 a year-apd in the evening he and his wife put up seeds in little paper bags, which were sold in the New York store. He kept an old horse for business purposes, that went by the name of "the hair trunk, and 1t was 8 standing joke in Flushing that the gentlemen would go to the city in the morning, passing MT. Judd's horse at certain point on the road, and, though he was evidently nov ing, it was at the same spot when they returned at night. The laugh was not all on one side forlong. One day MT. Judd sent clerk out to collect some money, to the extent of $100, out of which he was to pay for the insertion of two line "ad" in daily paper. Through 2 lucky stroke of stupidity the clerk left the 'ad" '" and the $1O0 at the newspaper office, and said that it was to be inserted to that extent. Imagine the frugal seed
 mans horror on finding that the money which was to have carried him through several weeks had all been spent in one advertisements. For the length of two columns the morning paper repeated the lines: 'The American Agrictslt,taSs
 out to-day" The consequence was thai the edition was exhausted early, and the subscriptions came pouring in. From that day MT. Judd and his paper became established successes, and now he owns a stylish team and about half of Flush
 ing, they say. . y
 A similar clerical blunAef Occurred al 1Scries,er's the other day. An advertise ment of four lines was sent out to ont hundred newspapers, with instructioni to spread it over 2" eight lines" i
 should have read, but the clerk wrote i eight inches, and the consequence wa
 startling. The article advertised wa
 the Baltimore Bonapartes, and the diff ferent printing offices have taxed thei ingenuity and type fonts to spread s' few words over so large 8 space. Tn result was not unlike that of MT. Judd
 blunder, for the orders have teeh pour ing in at such rate for the May numbe
 of ,Segstnef's that new edition has hac to be printed.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27
A Newspaper Novelty.

A Paris correspondent writes The Figaro has introduced an innovation j; the first column on the first page is a daily memento of the chief sights and events of the city that hardly ever find their way into any journal either by ad- vertisement or special paragraph. Thus, such a restaurant has special dish to- day such shop famous picture the central markets dis play such luxuries ; if spectacle be on the top5s you are in formed the best moment to attend to observe the fashionable crowd and the proper time to retire what meetings are to be held: what marriages cele- brated what sumptuous funerals to come off. It is 8 kind gof notebook compiled by "men about town" who have argus eyes and admission every where. The cost of preparing that column of really valuable mems is said to be equal to the fourth of the expense of the writing for the entire journal.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27
A Sad Blow,

A Vicksburger who brides himself on his choice language was over in Louisi- ana the other day on business, and stop ping at a farmhouse to get drink of water, the woman remarked that the crops stood in great need of rain.
 "Yes, rain is the great desideratum, <" he replied, as he handed the tin dipper back.
 "Mary Mary r yelled the woman, in loud tones.
 A white-headed girl of sixteen came out of the back room in response to the call, and the mother continued:
 "Take 8 squar view of him, Mary 1! He don't look as if he knew enough to blow cotton, and yet he just got off a word as long as from here to the mule pen and back, and he may be holdin' on to more 1" S e
 The Vicksburger walked right away from there.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27
A Galley Slave.

An old man died near Paris the other
 day who was known as the ''honest gal ley slave" When he was twenty years of age he fell in love with young girl,
 and as her father refused his consent to their marriage, they eloped. The lovers were pursued and arrested on the com plaint of the infexible father. The young man was tried for having ab- ducted his beloved, she being not yet of age, and was condemned to ten years ill the galleys. The daughter was con- signed to semi-conventual institution.
 Ten years passed, and on his discharge our hero found the cause of his disgrace still faithful to him. They were mar ried and came to America. After some time they returned to France and set tied down in their native land. He made such worthy use of the fortune he had honorably won in this country that he was always called the friend of the unfortunate. Three thousand per sons followed his remains to the grave.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27
A Turkish Cotton Worm.

A disagreeable reptile known in Turk ish as calcale has lately made its appear ance in the cotton plantations in the Thracian peninsula. The calcale is a species of worm, especially fond of the cotton and melon plant and the vine Its feeding hours are during the night, when it crawls up the stem of the plant and sucks out the juice. In the daytime it lies hid in the earth, and the peasants are consequently obliged to hunt for it at night. When the calcale appears in cotton and melon fields, it can only be exterminated by planting the fields with grain, which it will not touch, for at least two successive years. In vineyards the remedy employed is to dig up the earth to a considerable depth round" each plant. The villages on the European coast of the Hellespont produce large quantities of cotton for exportation, and the appearance of the calcale worm is a serious disaster.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27
A SchOOlbOy's Death.

A London paper of recent date says: It is impossible to read the evidence given at an inquest held in St. Wilfrid' s Catholic school, Preston, on the remains of 8 little child named Richard Lancas- ter, aged seven years, who died in con sequence of injuries received from leap ing through the window of an upper room in the school, without feeling of sadness. The little culprit had been confined in the room with two others by Miss Bamber, pupil teacher, for the fault of "talking in school" At half past four, when the pupils were dismiss ed, they were taken through the room where the prisoners were confined, and these latter, it was stated, had been told they might follow when the school was discharged. Owing, however, to some mistake or misunderstanding the de- ceased child did not follow, and was un- willingly locked in the school. He did not long remain there, for about five o'clock he leaped from one of the win dows into an adjacent court, and after wards walked to house, whence he was carried home in great pain by school: fellow and died. The jury returned a verdict of "died by fall through mis- adventure"
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27

report raids across the river st an end for the present .. The Fall River operatives have decided to continue their strike ...... The mail steamer Boyne, plying between Brazil and Southampton, has been lost of Brest, and the bark Zurich has gone ashore on the Nova Scotian coast. e. In the Rochester (N. Y.) races Lulu beat Goldsmith Maid in the four fastest consecutive heats Oh record, the short- est being 2.153 and the last 217 The balanees in the United States treasury: Cur rency, $3, 294,S7O; special deposits of legal tenders for the redemption of certificates of deposits, $66, 55O 900; coin $70 ZIG, ,SS7, includ- ing coin certificates, $19, TAO, TOO; outstanding legal tenders, 974T55, tds.
 A boat containing three men was drawn over the Passaic Falls, N. J. The three were drowned. They were seen struggling in the water, making frantic efforts to save them selves, but soon sank ...... The body of Miss Philpott drowned at the Cave of the Winds, Niagara, recently, has been recovered. Her form was beyond recognition ...... William Brang, 8 boy eight years old was caught in the act of setting fire to New Haven church. ...... The Spanish government will soon send royal commission to the Philadelphia ex- hibition. co. It is asserted by the friends of Charles Th6hpson, who ian for chief of the Cherokees against w. P. Ross in the late cleo tion, that he is elected by fully five hundred majority. .... The United States commissioner of pensions has declared that no agent in any case will be allowed to charge more than $25 fees in securing pension ...... The total expenditures of the United States for the month of June were $274, ,623, ,392. 84.
 The steamer Hugh Martin exploded her , boiler at Washington landing, on the Tennessee river, causing 8 complete wreck of the boat and killing five persons::::.. Artdy worms have appeared on Navy island, in St. John harbor, N. B...... Mrs. Emma Hess died iii Chicago from an overdose of gelsemum. The responsibility of her death lies between her husband, who prescribed the dose for head. ache and an apotheesry's boy, who compound ed it. Complete official returns of the late State election in Kentucky, give McCreery, Democrat, majority of 36, 139 over Harlan Republican. The vote for McCreery is about 1000 less than that for Leslie in 1871. The House will stand ninety Democrats and ter Republicans ...... The American squadron officers were entertained by the authorities oi Southampton, England. IA New York e& cursion boat carried three thousand passenger out into the ocean, when she was net allowed by law to carly i've hundred. .. By collision on the Flint railroad in Michigan two mel were killed. .. An attempt was made to cut levee near Napoleon, Ark. The levee patrol discovered the villains and fight en- sued, resulting in the death of one of the marauders, the woundihg of two others ano the capture of a fourth.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27
Taking it COOllY.

To an interviewer, Henry Ward Beecher said he did not know anything of the serving of the notice of new trial in his case, further than what he read in the papers, and added "I did not come all the way to the White noun tains to be bothered about the affair"
 "Mr. Beecher, have not your counsel sent you word that the notice has been served ?"
 ''No, and am glad they have not"
 "You don't seem to be at all interested in the matter"
 "Nor am I. I feel very much like the big Scotchman whose wife used to beat him. He was asked why he allowed her to beat him so hard. He answered z Oh, it amuses her and don't hurt me. !"
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27
Shifting Center Of Population.

In a recent statistical work published by Prof. Walker, there is curious com putation of the movement of what is called the "center of population !" of the United States up to 1870. The populations of countries are supposed to be grouped at their geographical centers, and then each individual being assumed to be of the same gravity of every other and the counting being assumed to be a plane surface without weight the "center of population IS determined by computing the point at which the country could be pivoted 50 that the weight of he people on our side should just balance the weight of the people on the other side. According to the table computed in this way
 The center of population has moved steadily westward since 1790, but has shifted very little to the north or south of the thirty-ninth degree of latitude. In 1790 the "center" was twenty three miles east of Baltimore. In ten years it moved forty one miles, and was eighteen miles west of Baltimore. In 1910 1t was defected somewhat to the south, and had moved thirty-six miles
 in 1920 it had moved fifty miles further to the west and south and in 1880 ii reached its most southern point, and was thirty-nipe miles west of it's forme, position. In the next ten years it moved little to the north and fifty-five miles to the west and in the following ter years turned slightly to the south, and again moved fifty-five miles. Between 1850 and 1860, the greatest western movement (eighty-one miles) was occa stoned by the settlement of the Pacific coast. In 1870 the center had agair shifted forty-two miles to the west anc slightly to the north, and had reached . point orty-eight miles east by-north O Cincinnati. The total movement iron 179O to 1870 was 399 miles almost du, west. The variation north and south taking the extreme north and soutl positions, did not exceed twenty miles The movement was to the west ant slightly southward from 1890 to 1880
 almost due west from 1880 to 1850: an( to the west and slightly northward iron 1850 to 1870."
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27
DIR. RAILWAYS SarsapariIlian
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THR GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER.

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Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27
What They Found.

Mir. Andrew Williams and his son, while saving poplar tree two and a half feet in diameter ill Paris, Tenn, into saw stocks, sawed into cavity eight inches through and four or five feet long, which had grown up so as to leave no mark on the outside of the tree. In this hollow was found some hickory nuts, partly eaten by squirrels, and a bone ot the lower part of the arm of man. From the number of rows of pores that the tree had outside of the cavity in which the bone was found, it is esti. mated that 1t had been there about one hundred years, and must have been ot some of the aboriginal tribes that inhab tied this part of Tennessee.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27
Important to Travellers,

Persons visiting New York or leaving by the cars from Grand Central Depot will save an novance and expense of carriage hire and bag gage expressage by stopping at Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. Over $50 elegantly furnished rooms and fitted up at cost of $900,000. European plan. Guests can live more luxuriously for the money at the Grand Union than at any other first-class house in New York. Stages and street cars pass the doors to all parts of the city. See that the hotel you enter is the Grand Union Hotel.- GO11l
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27
Crops and Floods.

The damage done to the crops by the late floods amounts in many cases to half their value. The New York Herald says: Is it not time that some we'll con- sidered plan were adopted by the national government to remedy the evil which in most cases is the result of defective drainage or badly constructed system of levees :? The increased value of the crops would soon pay for the outlay.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27

A GENEROUS LITTLE GIRL When the late Dr. AScudder, of India, was arousing the children of America to care for the heathen, he received @ note from little girl, saying: "My! dear Dr. Scudder, I send you ten cents. When you want any more money, write to me-"
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27
A MAN OF A THOUSAND.

CONSULTATIVE CURED. - When death hourly expected from Consumption, all remedies having failed accident led to discovery whereby Dr. H. JAMES cured his only child with preparation of Cnnabis Ldica He gives recipe free receipt of two stamps to pay expenses. There is not a single Night Sweats Irritation of the Nerves Difficult ExPeo Stomach Inaction of the Bowels and Wasting of the Muscles. Address CRADDOCK < O., 1O32 Ra' ( Street. Philadelphia Pa., giving of this paDiT.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27

and then return; that stout hands should hold the ropes attached to the hooks; that the logs should then be loosened and the body released. Attempts were made during the afternoon to carry out the plan, but the men were too weak and the waters too strong.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27

Thousands of promising youths, of general debility and weakness, who might be saved by fortifying their systems with iron. The Peruvian Syrup is an iron tonic prepared expressly to supply this vitalizing element, and is the only preparation Of iron that will assimi- late at once with the blood.-COnt.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27

When the farmers wife has large washing to do, she can save half her time and labor by using Dobbins' Electric Soap (made by Cragin & Co.,, Phila. ) One pound of 1t is equal to three of any other. Try it.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27

Great harm and discomfort is caused by the use of purgatives which gripe and rack the system. Parsons P,rgatiue Pills are free from all impure matter, and are mild and health-giving in their operation. Com.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27

A gentleman in Kingston, N. Y., has cured his hen of a mania for matching. Stones, clubs, basins of water were in vain but when firecrackers exploded under her she concluded to come off.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27

At this season of the year cramps and pains in the stomach and bowels, dysentery diarrhea etc., are quite common, and should be checked at once. Johnson's Arodyne Lini nent is the best article that can be used in al such cases, and should be kept in every family -GoT1
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27

Recently two inkstands and pen were dug up at Pompeii. The pen is of metal and made almost similar in shape to our quill pens so in the writing line the moderns are not 80 far ahead after all.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27

A sardine factory has been started at Eastport, Maine. The sardines will be manufactured from young herring.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27
DUFF & CO.,, 32 & 34 Vesey St., New York.

Pleasant, and Profitable Employment... they worth r" etc. Such exclamatons by those who see the large elegant New Chromos produced by They all perfect of art No can reeist the temptation to buy when seeing the Ohromos It requires talking to sell the pictures they speak for them selves Oanvassers % ana @ isaes @ & Sno men offered so r1ake money For full partiGuars send stamp CO.,, 73S Washington St. Boston Mass.
Connecticut western news., 1875-08-27

noon, when it numbered hundreds. All those who, came crept carefully out on the slimy edge of the bluff and stayed there enveloped in the spray, which only now and then parted so that they could see beyond it. They could see the two great logs connecting the ground upon which they stood with the brink from which hung the body of the unrecogniza5le drowned man.
 The logs lay with their butt ends ten feet apart upon the bluff, but just be- fore reaching the cataract they crossed each other, forming a crotch in which the body hung by it's head. The waters poured over it heavily and stripped the clothing from it in it's force. From one but the other limb was still covered. Through the spray and water the form was but dimly outlined, so faintly that no one could have said it was that of a mans body, had not the two legs danced white human foot plainly for moment, drawing it back again as heavier vol ume of water fell. The body was sup posed to be that of Grogan. His fellow lworkmen in the mill said that the body must be recovered, but as they looked upon the terrible strength of the river they felt themselves that they were speaking idly.
 One stalwart fellow, George Garvin by name, was the first to broach definite plan for the recovery of the body, and he was listened to attentively. His plan was a simple one. It was that the two logs which held the dead man in their grasp should be used as a bridge that other timbers should be placed upon them if necessary, and that the ends should be firmly secured. Then that some oneI meaning himself, should cross on the structure and drop grap- bling hooks to securely grasp the body