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Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02
Trade Prospects and the Crops.

After commenting upon the gloomy past, and disappointing present, the New York Times remarks that the pros- poets for the last half of the year are decidedly encouraging. The harvest of cereals will unquestionably be good, after all deductions have been made on the score of the short yield of certain localities. The South may not grow more than an average cotton crop, but it has taken one very essential step toward renewed prosperity by devoting a great deal more land than usual to food crops. There seems no reason to doubt that, taking the country as Q whole, the wealth extracted from the soil this year will be greater than it has ever been. Even if it's nominal value be less, the purchasing power will be greater, and that is the ultimate test of the riches of the country. During the last two years there has been wiped out a good deal of fictitious capital, with the inevitable result of giving credit a serious shock and causing 8 great deal of distress. Our future growth depends more upon the solid increase of the country's wealth, and less upon the mortgaging of the future than it has re- centlY done.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02
For the Best Work.

At the last meeting of the New York State Press Association the following resolutions were adopted
 Whereas, One of the objects ot this associa- tion being the improvement of it's members in matters pertaining to the art of printing be 1t
 ResolUed, 1st That first and second prize of S5 and $3 be offered by the association at its annual meetings for the best specimens of job work offered in competition by it's members in the following classes: Colored work of three or more colors, rule work, plain work of one color and letter press work, and first, second and third prize of $5, $s and $2 for newspaper work, the specimens to consist of three mum. bers of the issues of the regular publications ol inc numbers of the month of May preceding the annual meeting.
 ee2d. That each member of this assoclatlon De invited not only to contribute specimens in competition for these prizes, but at all tunes to furnish copies of their publications and jot work for public inspection at the annual meet ing.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02
A Deed Nine Hundred Years Old.

The London Globe says: Among the documents copied by the photozinco- gfaphic system of General James, the director-generalo of the ordnance survey, is 8 charter or deed of grant made by Edgar, King of England, to one of his Thames, in the year 974. '31 A tfac sinaile of it, with translation appended, is published, and it has an interest which lawyers as, well as iarcheologists will readily 5appreciate. The property granted consists of three. hides of land at Nymed, in Deyonshire, now forming the site of three villages called Nymet, near Credition. The body of the charter is in Latin, but the description of the boundaries of the property is in Anglo Saxon, and the indorsement of the parchment contains g medley of the two languages. The deed is not long, but it contains some decidedly strong language, expressed generally in the learned tongue. The indoTsenient, fdr ihstance. after stating the identity of the land with, Ehat> which the,w reverend priest Brightric gavefor the reIief of his soul to monastery in Crydiaton, expresses sort of prayer that any one who shall take it away or diminish it may be stricken with perpetual curse, and perish everlastingly with the devil, un- less he make atonement. The interior of Ehe deed contains no recitals in our sense of the word but after a sort of pious ejaculatio analogous to thatsWith which old wills begin it mentions the adViisability of making deeds of giftsin writing. ''lest the succession of posterity be swallowed in the whirlpool of rapine and the clouds of ignoranee. The rest of the doeumentf,i is net very essentially diferent from modern deed, ,-and per haps in the idea of some readers will bear comparison, with it. A very yehe- ment blessing is invoked upon those who ssemoved byabenevolent and sincere disposition, shall trouble themselves in amplifying the said grant, T and then, after the date, foHoYsSth tile whole array of "witnesses. " First, I, Edgar, King, have confirmed the said grant = Ethel- fifth, queen, has consented. Then, Dunstan, archbishop, has corroborated it. Oswald, archbishop of York, and twelve other bishops, none of whose sees are mentioned twelve abbots, also de scribed by their Christian names alone ; four dukes and ten ministers all severaHy l" strengthen it.2' The parchment is al- most an exact square, measuring about twelve or thirteen inches along each of | its sides, .' l=l N~t
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02
Real Estate Trading in Mexico.

E For example, says Perley, in one of his Mexican letters to the Boston Jour- isul, Mexican learns that another Mexican has house to sell, and calls on him. On entering the room of the seller, the buyer ,rushes at him-they cl1nch as if about to wrestle, and then they pat each other on the right should CT. Buyer: "How is your worship ?' Seller: sstWelL and your ~excellency 9'' Buyer: '" "Wel1, and at your service. 7" Seller: "I am rejoiced. Let me be at your disposal. q Buyer: assI hope you passed good night ?'' Seller: "Ex- cellent, and I trust you slept well. " Buyer: ssKnd the sonora, your wife ?" Seller: "Her health is excelIent-I trust that your wife is usually blest ?" Buyer: sShe is, I thank you. Your daughters are also enjoying health, l hope 9''' Seller: 'sThey are, and Ia senorita, is she well ?'' Buyer: ssShe is in perfect health, and hope all your other relatives are.'' Seller: By grace they are, as I. trust your relatives and friends are.' Buyer: "What fine weather we enjoy 2" Seller: "Fine in deed,- and T am glad that you enjoy it. '" Buyer: sssB By the way, have you not 8 house in the Celle de ..los Plasteros 2" Seller: '' I am thus fortunate" Buyer;
 "I have heard that you wish to sell it. n Seller: "Do you want it If so, l pray you to accept it. It shall be yours. y. Buyer a;ts Nay, nay, honor me too much, Seller. ss But it is yours. ''- Buyer: '' I cannot think of it, but if you would name priee?'' Seller: "And you will not accept it?'' Buyer: ".Let me give you a, small return I beg of you" Seller: ''And you insist upon buying it g. Buyer: "It would make me happy to do so. Will you name 8 p1iee2' Seller: ss.A price! I cannot now.'' Buyer: And when will you begin to do,so?" Seller: t' Md,a0- ,e0 |! tomorrow Buyer: "I will then return, Seller: {" My house will then be at your, disposal. :" Buyer: "Thanks, I am ever at your disposal and your ser want" Seller: 4 .Dtos. I hope you will sleep we'll tonight Buyer: "And I wish you 9 pleasant night. " Seller: C Let me escort. you to the outer door." :" Buyer: "You do me too much honor. !" The seller again hugs the buyer, and then escorts him to the first landing, where he stops and exclaims: "And must you go ?" Buyer, ,.s"sI leave with regret. The buyer is then escorted to the outer dnory where the seller again grapples him and says: "Thanks for this visit. Can't you stay longer ?'' Buyer: "It is impossible, although I should like to-" Seller s', '' fl sDios. :" Buyer: 'A Dios."
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02
Notable Ignorance.

The Boston Globe has a good cen tennial story from it's Washington core spondent. According to this veracious chronicler, party around the breakfast table were talking of George Washing ton. Among them sat an English gen. tleman, a recent importations but man of extensive travel, whose intelligence upon all ordinary topics was unquestion- able. Suddenly, like a bombshel, there fell among us query from our Britisher: tEAh-h l. Ah-hl MT. H.; this MT. Washington . (shade of my grandfather; ,ts' is he dead ?" There was seconds silence, but the evident and unsuspect- ing innocence of the EnglisIman was too much for American good, manners, and somebody exploded 'e Christopher Columbus" Imagine some American oi good social position sitting under the shadow of an English flag and asking il Queen Bess were dead
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02
A Reautiful Picture.

By far the best painting in the Lon
 don exhibition is by MT. D. Long, and is entitled "The Babylonian Marriage Market. ;" The subject is the custom of the Babylonians mentioned by Herodo- tus, by which they found husbands for all their young women by means of an auction. The greatest beauty was put up first and knocked down to the highest bidder then the next in the order of comeliness, and so on to the damsel who was equidistant between beauty. and plainness, who was given away gratis. Then. the. least plain was put up, and knocked down to the gallant who would marry her for the least consideration and so on till even the plainest was got rid of to some cynical worthy who de cidedly preferred lucre to looks. In the center of this picture, perched on 8 high pedestal, beauty is being sold. The back is turned to the spectator, but the glory of the face is seen reflected in the thrilled and fascinated expression stamped on every face of the up-looking crowd. In front of the pedestal, in the foreground of the picture, we look upon an array of twelve brides waiting to be sold. The eye passes from the left to the right, through every type of female beauty, until the shades of plainness are reached, and these become more sand more marked until at last a coarse kind of ugliness meets the eye in girl who leans back with laughter. The last hides her face with her hands. Thus the first and most perfect beauty. Gin hel who is being rsold with her back alone visibleJ and the last utter 'ughness Gin her who covers her face) are left to the imagination. Between these are studies of female beauty which have rarely, ii ever, been equaled--certainly not in this country. The heads and faces of the crowd, the eager attitude of the auc- tioneer, and around them all the rich and deep ornamentation, the archaeology
 cally perfect architecture, all combine to make this really great picture. is
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02
A Military Scene.

One of the. incidents chosen by the
 artist of picture just hung in. the French academy is surprise near Metz.
 A company of French soldiers have sud- denly .appeareds in the courtyard of q house where. some of the enemy have been earousing in faneied security; g Prussian soldier lies dead in the door way but those in the upper rooms have had time to draw their revolvers, and one of the advancing Frenchmen is in the act of falling backward killed by a shot from above. There is. no sensa- tionalisha m the reatmentaof The sub ject, but all that is attempted is well done. The figures are well drawn, the rapid movement of the attacking party is admirably expressed; and in the whole management of the scene there is g. sim plicity that eonyinces the spectator of it's reality. a''' @
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02
A. Bon Mot.

In the earlier days of Napoleoa's fame he was present at an evening party. A political discussion arose, and Madam de Stael, with equal wit and wisdom, ex- pressed her opinion Of the different par ties which, had successively governed -Francea Every one applauded except Bonaparte, who held his tongue. Madam de Stael, noticing this, addressed him |: "Well, General, don't you agree with me ?" q didn't listen madam, I do not like women to meddle in politics. !" .'You are right, General; but ina country where their heads are cut off, it is natu- rael rpael that they should like to know the reason why"
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02

A PUN.-One of the best double puns we have ever heard was perpetrated by clergyman. He had just united in marriage 8 couple whose Christian names were respectively Benjamin and Ann. ';How did they appear during the ceremony?" inquired friend.
 s' They appeared both Annie-mated and Bennie-fitted, was the reply.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02
A MAN OF A THOUSAND.

A 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 Canna5s Indica He gives recipe free receipt of two stamps to pay expenses. There is not single Night Sweats, Irritation of the Nerves Difficult Expec toration, Sharp Pains in the Lungs. Nausea at the Muscles Address CRADDOCK & O., 1O32 Race Street. Philadelphia, Pa, giving name of this paper.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02

Good food and plenty of it produces the same effect upon person who has been starved that the Peruvian Syrup Gan iron tonic) does upon the weak and debilitated. It makes them strong and vigorous, changing weakness and suffering into strength and health. Com.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02

Any one desiring recipe how to make soft soap for cent pound, will receive it gratis, by addressing I. l.. Cragin X Co.,, Philadelphia, the manufacturers of Dobbins' Electric Soap.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02

Without doubt hundreds of people who will read this item are suffering with kid- ney disease in some form, which might be cured with & bottle or two of Johasof's A'ao- dyne Liaainoe,at, used internally. Why not try
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02

The total cost of the St. Louis bridge is but little less than $7,O0O,O0O. Its gross receipts in the last year were $286,- GOO, and it's expenses $98, ,000,. leaving $188, 900 to pay the interest on the $7, ,O0O, ,000. ~ -''s' -''s "
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02

Parsons PargatiUe Pills, which are now being extensively sold in this State, are purely vegetable, and are mild and gentle in their operation. Ono is a dose. Good quali- ties, certainly.-Oonl.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02

"BUY ME. AND PILL DO YOU GOOD.''- In the busy walks of life you will find men and women who suffering from dyspepsia liver complaint head ache vertgo debility of the system constpa- tion. acidity, dependency and many other maadies caused from impure state of the blood This state of things need not exist Dr. LANGIlEY'S ROOT AND HERR B1TYERS will expel these diseases, and insure it were lease of life. Sold by all druggists. GEO. O. GOODWIN O., BOSTON, Wholesale Agents.
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02

Prof. H. R. Palmer's Musical Institute at Dunlirk, N. Y., begins July 19, and holds four weeks.-Con1. r
Connecticut western news., 1875-07-02


 A correspondent of the Massachusetts P2oa4glsn10n says: Ionce had valuable animal in such a bad state from worms that I kept him out of sight from shame. A friend, however, suggested that feed him ten bushels of buckwheat, and watch the result. This d1d in lieu of any other provender, and before long he began to improve, and by the time the ten bushels were consumed he would hardly be recognized as the same horse, so fat and sleek had he become-and had no worms afterwards. .-s-
 Horses, Feet in Summer. g
 To prevent horses feet from scalding or cracking in summer, and enabling the shoes to be carried 8 longer time without injury, the French practice is to eoatthe hoofs ence week, with an ointment composed of equal proportions of soft fat, yellow wax, linseed oil, venice tur- pentine and Norway tar; the wax is melted separately before mixing.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-12

sires to preserve, and paste them in a
scrap book Such book, at the end Of
year or two, will be very interesting
and valuable.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-12
E-,n,e of Rufus Williams.

STATE OF VERMONT. The Probate Court Ei3
DISTRICT OF WINDSOR, SIS. in and for the dlstfe
Windsor; 10 all persons interested in the esla4
RUFUS WILLIAMS. late Of Chester, in saia X
triet. deceased. intestate: GREEfRe
WHEREAS, Addison S. Adams, administratg I
w the estate of the said deceased hath mads
plieation in writing to said Court, for license
authority to sell the whole of the real estate OF "
the said deceased, died seized including the Wlae
Homestead interest and reversiOn of dover. sliai
in said Chester, and in Andover in said district
scribed follows, viz; The Red House arm;
called. in Chester aforesaid. containing two h4hLs
acres, more or less bounded north by land Of jog
Barrett, and Williams River, west by land q Y
Wilson and public highway, south by lau9 y
Adelbert Putnam and J. II. Skinner, and ca.
lands of Mr. Wilson and T. b. Davis; A ceI-
other farm in said Chester. containing aeonis
hundred and forty acres, bounded north by laba
Albert Williams and Putnam Peabody, east " =
farm known as this John Rounds farm, south by y
Of Sardine Haggett, ana on the west by AN -
Milo Marshall and by land belonging TO sara 60
Also the other piece situate in Andover aiofel. =
bounded north by land of Putnam Peabody, e. ~
the land last above described south by land q ~
Marshall. and west by lands Of Jefferson Sfou5-a
and Marvin Davis, containing about one huHIS9 Z
acres-representing therein that such sale v ~
beneficial to the interest of all concerned, ana ~
produced with said application, the consent y -
ing to such sale of the widow and al the helis
of all persons interes ted who reside in the SUI
1t is therefore ordered that hearing be haa ~
application on the 9th day Of March. A. Y. y. i.sr
the probate office in Chester in said district
that all persons interested be notified 70 4 a.
the time and place aforesaid and show eaqsc s-sys
they may have why Tia e license and AUTHORITY psbst
for IS aforesaid. should not be granted. toI rub
purpose it is further ordered that this order ~ ~
ished three weeks successfully preylon " - Fss
fixed for hearing as aforesaid in the BelloNs ths
TINES, a newspaper printed at Rockingham -
Dated at Chester. in said district, the 10th das :
III q WILLIAM ROUNDS Jadss
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-12

A lady was asked by her servant
about the nature of the next world, and
whether it would be just like this. The
lady being blessed with happy family
of eleven children, has a skeleton in the
house in the shape af stosking-basket,
that never gets empty, and at whose side
she has spent many midnight hour in
darning. With this spectre before her
eyes she replied to the girl playfully :
I" | don't think we shall be required to
darn stockings after midnight" Sure,
that's true for you, mum, for all the pic
lures of angels have ever seen were
barefooted."
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-12
Length of Geological Periods.

The celebrated geological writer, Mr..
Lubbock, in his book entitled "Pre His
toric times" says that all the facts of ge-
ology tend to indicate an antiquity OF
which we are beginning to form but a
dim idea. Take, for instance, one single
formation-our we'll known chalk. This
consists entirely of shells, and fragments
of shells deposited at the bottom of an
ancient sea far away from any continent.
Such process as this must be very slow
probably we should not be very much
above the mark if we were to assume a
rate of deposition of ten inches in cen
fury. Now the chalk is upwards of l.
900 feet thick, and would have required,
therefore, more than 100000 years for
its formation. The fossiliferous beds OF
Great Britain, as whole are more than
1000 feet in thickness, and many which
with us measures only a few inches, ON
the continent expand into strata of inn
mense depth while others of great inn
portance elsewhere are wholly wanting
with us, for it is evident that during all
the different periods in which Great
Britain has been dry land, strata have
been forming, as is, for example, the case
now elsewhere, and not with us.
Moreover, we must remember that
many of the strata now existing have
been formed at the expense of older ones
thus all the flint gravels in the south
east of England have been produced by
the destruction of chalk. This again is
very slow process. 1t estimated that
cliff five hundred feet high will be
worn away at the rate of an inch in a
century. This may seem slow rate,
but we must bear in mind that along
any line of coast there are comparatively
few points which are suffering at one
time, and that even on those, when fall
of a cliff has taken place, the fragments
serve as protection to the coast until
they have been gradually removed by
the waves. The Whealden Valley is
twenty-five milesin breadth, and on these
data it is calculated that the denuda-
ton of the Wheald must have required
more than 100000 of years.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-12

- There is South Boston man who
says he has found out new and digni-
fed way of dealing with dunning credit
ors. He follows the example of the
Legislature, and whenever bill is pre-
scented, has it read once and referred to
his wife as special committee. That
committee gives a hearing to various
parties concerned and finally reports an
amended bill. The bill as amended is
well debated in full house and finally
laid on the table. The creditor is then
informed that it goes over as an unfnish-
ed business to the next year. 1t sounds
well, but would it work
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-12
Cheshire Railroad.
WHIT Err ARRAN CEMENT

Commencing Wednesday, Dec. q. 1874.
EXPRESS TRAIN leaves Bellows Fails ats5O A.
at 90O4.55. and 7.S3 A. NJ, and 326 p NJ. Winehene
don To- 54s. SIS A. NJ, and 42l p NJ for Fitch
burg, Boston,. Worcester. Lowell, Nashua an a
lntermediate stations. Arrive at Fitehburg al
u o. NJ. $50 and $40 AN. and sos p NJ Boston
2-Zs p. NJ SIS. Hos An. aud 40 p. M
Returning leaves Boston, at $50 A M MAIL
lilo A, ~, ACC. and $50 Ass PM Fitcbbare' A.
$50 A. NJ, and g A. NJ. IS. $40 P. NJ Winchen'
don. sse, Z. 5S A. NJ, and s.25. as p NJ Keene =,
70 ,5Qand $40 A. NJ. and ESQ. SIS p M for BelloS
Falls. Windsor. Rutland. &c.
Keene. n. H., Dec. II, 1874
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-12
Curious Customs.

In Wendish Prussia there are villages
where certain old customs are still OBJ
served on the death of the head of the
family If the man should happen to
have been bee keeper, one of the fam
lily goes to the hive and striking the
comb exclaims, "Bees, arise, your mas
ter is dead" A similar custom prevail
ed, and possibly still prevails in Eng
land, and furnishes the idea for an in
teresting poem by Tennyson entitled
Telling the Bees" The English custom
was based on the supposition that unless
the bees were told of any death occurring
in the family they would quit the prem
ises, and the manner in which the infor-
nation was conveyed was by placing a
black cloth over the hive. In Prussian
villages already alluded to it is the Gus
tom on the morning of the funeral of a
farmer for the men to proceed to the cat
tie sheds, and after causing the cattle to
get upon their feet, place cheese before
them and solomnly announce to them
that the body is about to be taken away.
Boston Journal.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-12

A SCRAP BooK.-Every farmer should
keep a book in which to paste agricul-
tural scraps. Every one in reading a
paper, will see things which he will wish
to remember. He will, perhaps, see sug-
gestions, the value of which he will de-
sire to test, or hints which he will want
to be governed by in future operations.
And yet, after reading the paper he will
throw it down and will probably never
see it again. In such case all the val
liable articles will be lost. To prevent
such loss, every reader should clip
from the papers such articles as he de-
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-12
H. A. GRAVES EMINENT.

FfiHIS EMINENT. which is well known. and has
Il been received by many with much fayor in This
section, IS now manufactured by Mrs MARIA A
EARL daughter Of the originator, with whom he
lett the recipe for manufacture. 1t is good TOR
Rheumatism. Chilblains Scalds, Burns. Brnises
Chapped Hands. Sore Lips. &C.. and will be found
sale at f. n DEWRy5S
Bellows Falls. May2o. 1872. L" d D.