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Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10
A Story of Rats.

A Leeds theatrical celebrity has re- pute for economy and shrewdness, which every Yorkshireman gleefully appreci. ates. His house being infested with rats, certain rat catcher was sent for, who, having done his business, sought his employer to make known the fact and for his recompense, for which hard bargain had, as usual, been driven. He had bag over his shoulders containing the result of his labor. The celebrity chanced to be in the drawing-room, where hearing his voice, the sturdy rat catcher sought him and his pay.
 "You've left no rats behind9" sternly asked the employer, slowly taking out his purse.
 "Noa, sir. answered the rat-eatche, surlily, for he did not consider the pay liberal or even fair, and was, conse quently, not too amicably inclined.
 "And what are you going to do witt all those rats in your bag"
 "Weel, aw nun mak' Twin, ths knows, eny hoo, soa aw sells 'em," re piled the man, moodily.
 "Sell them l" echoed the other, quick ly, the light of brilliant new idea ira diating his countenance.
 "Sell my rats What right have you to sell my property, sir ? I agreed te pay you to catch my rats I did not say you were to have my rats when they were caught. Now look here, my man. I'll pay you at once; but, first, how much are you going to allow me for my rats?"
 The rat-catcher's patience was ex hausted ; he strode from the door toward MT. -; and, in abrupt reply to that able managers anxious inquiry, he sud denly, with an angry oath, threw the bag upon the carpets velvet pile, and catch ing up the lower end of it, with one violent shake scattered the rats pell-mel one over the other at his employers feet, crying, in the midst of the squeak ing, scratching, and scrambling of the frightened animals which ensued: "Nah then, talk the blowed owd rats and twist them raand thee neck!"
Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10
A Matrimonial Horror.

A very mysterious case has just come to light in the town of Boonton, N. J., says the New York Her0ld, which, it is asserted, exhibits one of the most bru- tai and fendish cases of barbarity that has occurred for years. It appears that one Philip Cook, @ carpenter by trade, residing in the above place, has for 8 long time lived on unhappy terms with his wife. It is moreover alleged that of late he has been on terms of improper in timacy with another woman, and he sought to get clear of his wife by starv- ing her to death. To accomplish this purpose he is alleged to have locked her up in an upper room in the building, oc
 cupied as the family residence, and has there kept her confined for nearly three weeks Cook has three children, and led several of the neighbors to inquire as to her whereabouts. The children finally told that their mother was kept locked up in a room by their father. Cook was then asked as to the where abouts of his wife, when he stated that she was sick. This did not satisfy some of the citizens, so about twenty of them forced their way into Cooks house, and, to their great astonishment, found Mrs. Cook lying in an insensible condition on 8 bare floor. They removed her to an adjoining room and sent for physician, but as yet she has been in such condi- tion that but little hopes are entertained for her recovery. She has been unable to make a clear statement of the brutal treatment she has received. Cook has, therefore, been arrested and committed to the county jail, without bail, to await the recovery or death of his wife.
Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10
Gather Up the Fragments.

How many lives are, so to speak, mere relics of an ended feast, fragments which may be either left to waste, or be taken up and made the most of For we cannot die just when we wish 1t, and because we wish it. The fact may be very unromantic, but it is a fact, that 8 too large dinner or false step on the stairs kills much more easily than 8 great sorrow. Nature compels us to live on, even with broken hearts, as with lopped-of members. True, we are never quite the same again, never the complete human being but we may still be very respectable, healthy hu- man being, capable of living out our three score years and ten with tolerable comfort after all.
 These |" fragments of lives, how they strew our daily path on every side Not house do we enter, not 8 company do we mix with, but we more than guess we know-that these our friends, men and women, who go on about the world doing their work and taking their pleas ure therein, all carry about them a secret burden--of bitter disappointments, vanished hopes, thrilled ambitions, lost loves. Probably every one of them, when his or her smiling face vanishes from the circle, will change it into an other, serious, anxious, sad happy if it be only sad, with no mingling of either bitterness or badness. That con- plete felicity which the young believe in, and expect almost as 8 matter of cer- tainty to come, never does come. Soon or late we have to make up our minds to do without it, to take up the frag- ments of our blessings, thankful that we have what we have and are what we are above all, that we have our own burden to bear, and not our neighbours. But, whatever it is, we must bear it alone and this gathering up of frag- ments, which am so earnestly advising, is also thing which must be done alone. Mss MotLOcE.
Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10
Powder Mill ExDIOsiOns.

A writer to the ScSentifc American says: When powder mill explodes, the men at work are unable to explain it's cause; this leads me to think that such calamities may be caused by elec- tricity. At all events it is @ well known fact that persons dressed in woolen clothing for the body, and leather shoes for the feet can, when the air is q ", by moving and twisting their bodies that their clothing will rub against m, produce from their finger ends SD k of electricity sufficient to ignite a g
 jet. Can it be that the men who work in powder mills, dressed as above de- scribed, in preparing for their work, create so much electricity in their bodies that, when their hands come in proximi- ty with any metal, spark is given off, which, even if sufficient in tension to ex- plode the powder, may ignite some in- fammable gas generated from the chem icals? The powder is exploded, the mill goes up, and the people cry "sponta- neous combustion
 We, have repeatedly seen the state ment in American journals, says the London Chemical RevieaU, that an elec- trio spark sufficient to ignite a gas jet may be given off from the human hand. We can hear of no such cases on this side the water. But it is perfectly pos sible that it may be due to the greater dryness of the air in America. What in- fammable gas, however, is likely to be generated from the chemicals used in the manufacture of gunpowder9
Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10
A Palace of Silence.

Away up on the hill that overlooks Naples stands the Carthusian monastery of San Martino. The monks who once inhabited the glorious palace-for it is nothing less-were men of noble birth and vast fortune. The church is now one of the most magnificent in Italy. Agate, jasper, lapis-lazuli, amethyst, Egyptian granite and fossil-wood, to- gether with marbles of every tint, are so blended in mosaics that line the whole edifice, and the carvings are so rich and graceful, that the interiors of some of the chapels seem like Eden bowers trans fixed by a miracle'and frozen into stone. And in this spot lived brotherhood who came from the first circles of society, and buried themselves in this gorgeous tomb, for it was little else. The monks took VOW of perpetual silence, lived apart, ate apart, and met only for the unsocial hours of prayer, when each was wrapped in his own meditation, and no one uttered syllable. Each one of the little cells where they slept had small one of the corridors, and in this closet was placed the frugal meal, which was then taken into the cell and eaten in bell struck to remind the listeners that they were so much nearer their death. In the gardens the railingsare ornament ed with marble skulls, and the only sounds which used to disturb this splen- did solitude were the tread of sandaled feet, the rustic of long, white robes, or the clang of the bell that told off their solemn lives, in brief moments, and yet might have seemed long to them. These monks, like most others in Italy, have been driven from their retreat, and all their treasures confscated by Victor Emmanuel.
Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10
London BeggarS.

Tens of thousands of persons in Lon- don have no other means of livelihood than begging. Says 0 recent writer: Begging has become fine art in Eng land, and the tramps who go about the country making livelihood out of the sympathies of the public have we'll de- fined routes, and conduct operations with much system. In London and the large towns, they have an alphabet of chalk marks, which they put on doors and other places to indicate the character of the residents and the chances of ob- taining aid.
 These marks indicate, first, this road is better than the other; second, they will buy if you have what they want; third, good for food or something to eat; fourth, religious, but good on the whole; fifth, no good; sixth, spoilt by too many tramps calling; seventh, likely to have you taken up; eighth, dangerous, sure of being sent to prison. These marks serve as guides to the professional men, dicants. Residents in some of our American cities and larger towns have been startled sometimes by finding their doors or gate posts curiously marked with chalk. Gan it be that our Ameri- can tramps are adopting the English systerni
Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10

and his mother saw him coming, they all rushed out to meet him.
 "Oh where is the deerQ" they cried. '' We are so hungry! Did you leave it in the forest2 Show us where it is, and we will go get some of it. Come, brave Bocko, where is it2" Bocko stood silently, his tail going further and further between his legs.
 "What's the matter2'' cried his mother. "Can't you speaka Where is the deer? Did you see one2"
 " Yes," said Bocko, in low voice. "And didn't kill it 2'
 Mo-" said Bocko; " he wouldn't let me-"
 What chorus of disappointment and disgust greeted this announcement
 Bow-wowl BoaO-aOoaO! vow WOW l Bow-wow Bow-wow! wow-wow! Wow <! <! Bow bow wow-wow BOW Bow :! Bow-aUoaU- -wow-WOW !
 Bocko did not wait to hear any more. He was sneaking away, when his mother took him by his ear and led him aside, out of the noise.
 Bocko," said she, " it's bad enough to boast about things you have done, but it's ever so much worse to boast of what you are going to do. Do you think you will remember that 2"
 ''I do" said Bocko.-iSt Nicholas.
Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10
An Important Matter.

Golignani's Messenger has the fol-
 lowing: Dr. Burq has published one of the most curious dissertations we ever remember having seen, and which,
 we think, contains advice which may be useful to such of our readers who are affected with weakness in the chest. He begins with stating the question fairly l: Are declamating, singing, and, above all, wind instruments, dangerous exer- c;ses for persons of weak or delicate constitution, and more or less predis
 posed by birth to serious diseases of the respiratory organs9" Most physi- cians, he observes, will answer in the affirmative; he takes the contrary ground, supported by what we deem startling evidence. Dr. Burq, it may be remembered, was the first who pro- posed copper as 8 specific in cholera, on the ground that workmen constantly handling that metal had traversed the epidemic of 1849 with impunity. In order to establish this fact he had visit ed variety of large workshops, and among others those of manufacturers of wind instruments. On one of these oc. casions MT. Sax gave him the following information, which we here repeat all most word for word: "Besides chol- eraic immunity, our workmen enjoy an- other-they are free from consumption. Many philanthropists, on seeing our young military musicians wield the enormous instruments we make, have sorrowed over the few years those poor fellows would have to live. We'll. they are mistaken. All men who make 1t their profession to try the wind instru- ments made at the various factories be-
 fore sending them off for sale, all, with out exception to my knowledge, are free from pulmonary affections. I have known many such who on entering upon this profession werevery delicate, and who, though their duty obliged them to blow for hours together, enjoyed perfect health after certain time. I am myself an instance of this my mother died of consumption, eight children of hers fell victims to the same disease, and only three of us survive and we all three play on wind instruments. The day is not far distant, perhaps, when physi- clans will have recourse to our dreaded art in order to conquer pulmonary dis eases." Dr. Burq's pamphlet is too i'm portant for us to rest content with a single article on this interesting subject.
Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10
How a "COrner 5 is Managed.

We hear of corners in wheat, in stocks, and in almost everything that men can speculate in. Scgi6ner's Monthly tells us how corner is managed, as follows
 A B and 0 combine their means and credits to make corner in July. They therefore quietly begin in May to buy corn to be delivered in July. They gradually buy all the corn in the market, and, of necessity, must buy all that ar rives, paying for the latter whatever is demanded. When @ purchase is thus made, seller and buyer put up margin, either in cash, or certificate, or deposit. As soon as the corner becomes known, there is an effort made to break it. The settlement takes place at three P. M. on the last day of the month. Those who have sold corn to the corner and have no corn to deliver, pay the difference be- tween the price at which they sold, and the ruling price at the close of business on the last day. As the corner has thus purchased sometimes five times ss much corn as there is to be had, amounting to millions of bushels, and the price has advanced ten cents bushel, the profit is enormous. As the prices advance, additional margins are required. Those failing to put up the additional margins, lose what they have already put up. The anti-corner factions seek to so crowd sales on the corner as to exhaust it's capi- tai and credits, and render it unable to buy at the advance prices. Thus, the corner is compelled to send out in the country and buy for cash all the corn in sight, to prevent having it rushed into Chicago at the last moment. These are exciting times. Corn at such 8 moment may be purchased of the corner for shipment, from six to fifteen cents 8 bushel less than it is selling for on change for delivery during the month. Each time there is a corner, there is a crash, sometimes of the corner men, and at other times of the anti-corner men. The whole proceedings are of such qut s. tionable honesty, that the Legislature of Illinois has declared the operation of 8 corner to be felony. Corners are at- tempted in wheat, oats, barley, pork, and lard, and some of them have been quite successful in pecuniary way. It requires nerve, audacity, and money. or credit. Recently bank here went into a corner, issuing it's certificates of de- posit for margins; the corner failed, and so did the bank, and the certificates have never been paid.
Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10
Wonders of the Microscope.

The other day Detroit father pur- chased microscope for his son, a boy of ten, patted the lad on the shoulder, and said to him:
 "My son, take this microscope and go out and study the beauties of na- ture."
 The boy left all other amusements for that, and he took such great interest, and improved so rapidly, that at the tea table, to which several visitors sat down with the family, he felt that he must make some remarks. Turning to one of the ladies he inquired:
 'tDid you ever look at cheese through @ microscope 2"
 CT don't think ever did, she pleas
 "Well, you just ought to see the things crawl l''-
 "John! John!" exclaimed the father, shaking his head at the boy across the table.
 John subsided for a minute or two, and when his mother passed the cheese around, everybody said: Thank you, mo-" Pretty soon the young student, desiring to molify his father, asked:
 Father, did you ever look at toad through microscope2"
 'I will talk with you after supper, !" replied the parent, scowling at the boy.
 John was rather disappointed at his failure to arouse enthusiasm, and just as the strawberries were being passed around he remarked:
 "Well, you just ought to look at 8 strawberry once through the micro scope They look just like warts, they do, and you think you see bugs run ning"-
 "Jawn!" said his mother.
 "Boy !'' warned his father.
 "Well, they look wors'n flies heads T" protested the boy, who imagined that they doubted his velacity, "for flies "-
 "Boy!" said the father, making amo- tion for John to leave the table.
 John left, and as soon as it was con- venient for him to do so the father escorted the lad to the washroom in the basement, bounced him around, and said:
 "My son, gimme that microscope, and you take the ax and go out and study the beauties of that woodpile !'
 If that boy continues to feel the way he does at present he will become bank robber instead of naturalist. Detroit Free Press.
Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10
" An Empty Butter Firkin.o

Weddings should be scenes of "hal- lowed mirth," but now and then they exhibit to the clergyman very humor- ous phase. Rev. Dr. Traitor tells this incident: I have in mind at this time the case of we'll -to-do grocer, who was united to his Jioncee by dear old friend lines. To his great surprise he received no m fee at all. Some time after, being in the tn store of the happy groom one day,
 to make you present for the little job you did for us, and will do it now ;" and stepping into the back store, he brought 1s out ut, Sn empty butter ut rf,n say
Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10
Saved the Mule.

On one of the Anchor line boats on the Mississippi river the other day was 8 young man of. decent look, but good deal the worse for whisky. He persisted in singing at the top of his voice, and it was the poorest kind of singing.
 After brief pause he removed his hat and said
 "Now I'm going to sing something sad."
 "Hadn't you as soon wait until we ge to Vicksburg ?" inquired passenger.
 Wh-what f'rS" gasped the young man.
 "Because I've got 8 young mule on the lower deck, and if he gets au idea that he can sing as good as you do he'll never be worth a nickel to bray9"
 There was no rnore singing.
Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10
ALONE.


 From childhood's hour have not been As others were-I have not seen As others saw-I could not bring My passions from common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow-I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone And all loved-I loved alone. Then-in my childhood-in the dawn Of most stormy life-was drawn From ev'ry depth of good and Ill The mystery which binds me still. From the torrent, or the fountain From the red cliff from the mountain From the sun that round me roll'd In it's autumn tint of gold. From the lightning in the sky As it pass'd me flying by From the thunder, and the storm And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of heaven was blue Of demon in my view. ,,
Connecticut western news., 1875-09-10
An Early Poem.

[The following verses, never before pub lished, were written in the album of 8 Balti- more lady by Edgar A. Poe, at the age of nine teen, shortly after he left West Point in 1929. They are given in tae-sinsile in Seri6ner for September ....- ..
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-04-18
SUMMONS.

Judicial District, of the state of California
in and for the County Of Los Angeles.
Iovna Cubbagc. plaintiff. against James
Wilford Cubbago, defendant.
Action brought in the District Court Of the
Seventeenth Judicial District Of tho state Of
California, In and for the County OF Los An
Reles. and tho complaint filed in said county
of Los Angeles In the Office Of the Clerk Of said
District Court.
The People of tho State of California send
greeting to James wilford CubbaRc. defendant.
You are hereby required to appear in an ac-
tion brought against You by the above named
plaintiff in tho District Court Of tho Seven
teenth Judicial District Of the state Of Calf
forna, in and for tho county Of Los Angeles,
and to answer tho complaint hcd therein with
In ton days exclusive OF tho day Of scrviccl
after the service on you Of this summons. ii
served within this county; or, II served out of
this county, but in this District, within twenty
days; otherwise. within forty days; or judg.
mcnt by default will bc taken against You ac-
eortling 70 tho prayer Of said complaint.
Tho said action Is brought TO obtain decree
of this Court that the bonds of mAtrimony
existing between plaintiff and defendant bc dis
solved; that tho care, custody and control Of tho
minor child of plaintiff and defendant be award.
cd TO pluintiff; that tho plaintiff have general
relief and costs. Reference IL had to complaint
for particulars,
And you arc hereby notified that II YOU fail to
appear and answer the said complaint. m above
required, the said plaintiff will cause yonr do
fault to be- entered and will apply to tho Court
for tho relief demanded In complaint
Given under my hand and tho seal Of the Dis
trict Court OF tho Seventeenth Judicial District
-, Of tho state OF California, In and for
It's. tho county Of Los Angeles. this I'd day
49, Of February. IN tho year Of our Lord
ono thousand oight hundred and scycnty.iivc.
A. W. POTTS. Clork,
Py @. W. GOULD, Deputy Clerk,
ft1.Onwpm
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-04-18
Notice to Lien Holders.

TN THE DISTRICT COURT oP THE sEy-
i enth Judicial District, in and for Lincoln
County, Nevada.
John II. Rice. Assignee Of o. p. Sherwood and
". II. Sherwood, plaintiffs. against Magnet
Mining Company and Raymond & Ely Min.
ing Company, defendants.
Notice is hereby given that John Il. Rice.
Assignee Of o. P. Sherwood and ". II. Sherwood,
the above named plaintiff, has commenced an
action in the above entitled Court against the
Magnet Mining Company and the Ray
mond Z Ely Mining Company, the above named
defendants 10 enforce and foreclose 8 lien for
the sum Of two thousand eight hundred twenty.
two and i-l00 dollars, in gold coin, and inter.
est thereon at the rate Of ten per cent. per an.
nun. in like gold coin, from the lst day Of No.
vember A. d. 1874, against that certain mine or
mining property known SIS the Msgne, Mine or
mining properly. the same being situate on Pan.
scs Flat, Ely Mining District, Lincoln County,
Nevada, the same lying west o. ard adjoining
that certain mine known as the Raymond Ely
Mine, and more particularly described Es Mum.
bers Two (2l, Three 49,, -Four a., Five t5l. SiI
tsl, Seven 40 OF the Psnscs claim, each claim
consisting OF two hundred feet and being the
mining ground conveyed by Alpheus Bull to the
Raymond * Bly, Mining Company, by deed Of
date on or about November ID 1874. Said Lien
IS claimed under and by virtue Of an act OF the
Legislature Of the state Of Nevsds, spproved
March 4th, A. D. ISL, and al persons holding
or claiming liens against or upon said premises,
under the provisions Of said act. are hereby 10
sAlitN " bS ttio't esil ItIII, ~ lle
Courthouse, in the Town Of Phoebe. on
Monday, the 29th Day of March,
A. ID. 1875,
Al 10 o'cloek s. N. of said day, the same being s
day OF regular term Of said Court, and TO ex.
hioit then and there the proofs OF their said
liens, SIS provided in said Act. And sill liens
not then go exhibited and proved will be
deemed waiyed in favor Of those liens so ex.
hihted and spprovsd IS in said Act provided.
Phoebe, Nevsds, ith, 4. D. 1878
JOHN Il. RICE.
Assignee Of o. p. Sherwood snd W. II. Sher.
wood.
BisHor sABrS. Plaintiffs Attorneys.
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