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Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
Among the CannibaIs.

The Feejee Islanders are not delighted with one of the results of their annexa- ton to the British empire. As soon as the act was accomplished, the Governor General proceeded to impose taxes on the natives and to establish custom houses with tariff of duties on importa- tions, which was feature of civilization which the unsophisticated natives did not anticipate, and which they fail to appreciate kindly. The Sydney Empire says that if the consun1mation of annexa- tion had not been hastened, terrible massacre would have occurred. The compact of cession was entered into be- tween Great Britain and King Thakam- bau, chief of one of the principal islands. This gave offense to the chiefs of the other islands, of which there are more than one hundred and fifty, and 8 plot was concocted between several of the windward chiefs for the subjugation of Thakambau and general massacre of the treaty parties. An agent was sent by these chiefs to Sydney to purchase a steamer and arms and ammunition, and he actually bought and shipped to his em- ployers several pieces of ordnance. But before the preparations for the uprising were completed the British had assumed authority over the islands, and the idea of resistance was abandoned. It is doubt ful, however, if the discontented savages will prove either tractable or profitable subjects. The annexation project was strongly opposed in the British Parli- ment for years, on the ground that if it should be peaceably effected it would entail more loss than profit, to say noth- ing of trouble. z.sgsrE
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
A New Election in Louisiana.

Mir. Butler, of Massachusetts, intro duced into the House bill to provide for legal and fair election in the State of Louisiana, and to guarantee to that State republican form of government. The bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee. It directs an election to be held on the fourth Tuesday in May next, for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Auditor of Public Accounts, Superin- tendent of Public Elections, and mem- bers of the Legislature; that the Presi- dent shall immediately appoint three suitable persons to superintend such election; that they shall immediately ap- point two competent and suitable citi- zens ot opposite political parties as State registrars, who shall cause new and complete registration to be made of all the legally qualified voters of the State; :; that the State registrars and superinten- dents shall in like manner appoint two supervisors for registration ill each parish, and that the superintendents shall in like manner appoint two com missioners of elections for each election precinct within ten days of the day of election. The State registrars are to open the returns in the presence of the superintendents, and to examine, can vas, and compile the same, and the superintendents are thereupon to make public proclamation of the result of the election in two newspapers of general circulation and of opposite politics. The Legislature thus elected is to meet and organize on the second Monday after this promulgation of the result of the election, and on the first Monday after such promulgation the Governor, Lieu tenant Governor, and other State officers shall enter on the discharge of their re- spective offices, and the government thus established is to be recognized by the United States government as the legal government of Louisiana. The United States Circuit Court of Louisi- ana is to have exclusive jurisdiction of all crimes and ofenses made punishable
 by this act. It authorizes the President to employ the army and navy to main
 tain the public peace, to sustain the off
 cers under the act, and to enforce the
 provisions of the act, and any act of an
 officer of the State of Louisiana, or of 6
 State Court interfering with the execu tion of the act is to be treated as abso l lutelY void.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
The Indian Agents.

Gen. Custer, of the U. s. army, in a letter addressed to the chief of the h. dian Bureau, says: The commissioner, sitting in his comfortable chair in Wash ington, might assert that there are no wrongs heaped upon the Indians at re- mote agencies by the representatives of the Indian Department; that they have not been deprived of large portions of the annuities intended for them and that they have not been in reality robbed by being forced to trade where ten times the market price of an article is taken from them. That the commissioner may or may not know of these wrongs does not affect the truth of the statement that they exist. Within the past ten days I have been appealed to by @ delegation of prominent chiefs, asking that the mill tary would exert its influence to protect them and their people against the unjust demands, as they believed, of their agent. This is but one of many incl dents of the same kind. To this appeal as to others of similar. nature, I replied that the military had nothing to do with their grievances, that they must repre- sent the facts to their agent, and ask to have the matter forwarded to the Great Father in Washington. To which they replied that the agent Gas might be in ferred from the glaring reports of the commissioner based on the statements of agents) only tells his own side of the story, while there is no one to speak for the Indian. I then assured the chief who acted as spokesman that the Great Father had the interest and welfare of the Indians at heart, and in selecting men for agents endeavored to select only good men. The reply of the chief is well worth considering by the commis- sioner. He said: 'The Great Father may choose only good men, as you say, and they may be good men when they leave Washington; but by the time they get to us they are thieves, and we would like o change" I have quoted the chiefs reply literally, and have referred to this matter more as an illustration than under the belief that by so doing I would invite the attention of the com missioner to the affairs of his depart nont
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
The Sewing Machine Raid.

The application to Congress for the extension of the Wilson sewing machine patent is made in behalf of four great companies Wheeler x Wilson, the Grover & Baker, the Singer, and the Howe Companies have already made enormous profits in the business. The patent in question, says the Graphic, is for 8 feeding attachment, and was granted to A. B. Wilson, some twenty-five years ago. It was extended eight years ago, and immediately after the extension Wilson sold it to the four companies above mentioned. The exor- bitant profits which the latter have made during the last four years can be guessed at from the sworn statement of sales for 1870 and 1872, and the sworn testimony given by Mr. I. M.. Singer as to the cost of the production of Q sewing machine. In 1870 the companies sold 343, ,599 ma chimes, at an average price of sixty-four dollars each. According to MT. Singer the cost of these machines was less than twelve dollars each. The profits of that year were therefore $14, ,774, 757. In 1872 three of these companies alone sold 445, 776 machines, and it is probable that the sales of the last two years reached even a higher figure.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
e rEgrsFe w~al a Fs eaS1 e es 2 ' A Notorious Western DesperadO.

The career of one of the most desper- ate ruffians who ever infested any coun- try has just been cut short at Nebraska City, where "The. Terrible McWaters " has been sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty-on years at hard labor. Though but about thirty years of age, he is known for his bloodthirsty wickedness from Nebraska to Oregon, and probably has not committed less than hundred murders within the last fifteen years. He is tall, handsome, and finely formed, and had not the devil been born in him, might have turned his love of adventure in direction that would have made him hero of the Kit Carson sort rather than chat of Hare and Murrin.. He was gradu- ated from a bad school-that of the Mis- souri bushwhackers, though his mother is said to have been cultivated Ken tuckian. When but twelve years old he delighted to do his little part among the ss border rufians,' and to curse and shoot at the abolitionists when his friends raided over into Kansas. At the breaking out of the rebellion the little rascal and some pals burned the Platte bridge and precipitated 8 Hannibal and St. Joe railroad train with all it's passen- gers into an awful chasm, the plea being that he thought there were Federal sol diers on board. He fought under the notorious Jim Giddins and General Price for six months, and then returned to Bee Creek, to find that his father and mother had been killed in the war; De- sire for revenge then probably excused to himself all future deeds of lawless- ness, and, together with some other ruff fans, he resolved to war on mankind. He killed Captain Cheeseman and be- tween thirty and forty of his men, and afterwards, with the notorious Quantrell band, sacked and burned Lawrence. When the war ended he opened saloon i in Platte City and soon murdered a man and escaped to St. Joe, shooting an off cer in his flight. In this fight his friend F1etch' Taylor was killed, and sMcWaters married Susie Davis, who had been en- gagged to Taylor.s He then went to Wyoming and shot Dr. Wolfe; about a year afterwards he and John Crook were caught and confined in an iron cage for another murder, but both escaped. After various adventures found him. self among the Black Foot Indians and killed one of them. Next he is heard of blood, he murdered man named Weed, shooting him in the back with @ needle gun. There were now many rewards fo1 his capture, and short time since Sher- if Farbar, of Nebraska City, who owed him 8 grudge, pinioned and clapped him into prison. The trial came on, and ended in his conviction and sentence. Through all these desperate adventures he had been accompanied by his wife, who almost adored him. His parting :. from her and his little boy-who it lis to be hoped will not follow in his fathers footsteps-was affecting, and drew tears even from the eyes of the sheriff.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
The New Motor.

The new motor is being put in train for practical operations in Philadelphia. Nothing is known about the nature of this motive power, except what the in ventor chooses to reveal. He declares that with two gallons of water he can generate force enough to draw train of cars from Philadelphia to San Francisco and back again. He uses no fuel, neither does he employ chemicals of any kind, or electricity, or magnetic currents. It is supposed that the force must be ob- tained by the rapid decomposition of water into it's constituent gases, but he denies, as above stated, using any of the customary methods for reaching that re- suit. In the machine he is now con- structing, he has developed, he asserts, 0 pressure of 1000 pounds to the square inch; and when 1t is remembered that the pressure to which boilers are sub jected is seldom more than 200 pounds to the square inch, the enormous leap Mir. Keeley claims to make with his new motor may be partially appreciated. It IS plain to the meanest comprehension that, should such an immensely powerful servant be added to the resources of man, steam engines and machinery would be- come more anticipated than the stage coaches and the mechanisms of the Mid dle Ages are to us now; coal would lose it's greatest importance, in aiding the conversion of mechanical motion into heat; mountains could betunneled orslev- eled like ant-hills, and in fact all the pro cesses of civilization would be changed. However, the scheme is altogether toe magnificent for belief at present. Many a man has been absolutely confident ot having invented perpetual motion, and many another, in old days, thought he should yet be able to transmute- base metals into gold. The invention of Mr. Keeley is very jealously guarded, and only a few persons among them Chiet Engineer Ruthford, of the United States Navy; men who have advanced him money, of whom, it is said, are John J.
 Cisco, Israel Corse, Hatch, of Fisk & Hatch, and several Worcester and Phila
 delphia men; and half dozen practica1 mechanics seen his trials of the yet unfinished machine. What they have seen has filled them with wonder, an6 given them confidence in the genuine
 ness of the man and his discovery.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
Expensive Funerals.

Not many days since a household in Baltimore was stricken with calamity which threw upon it the necessity of btirying four of it's members on the same day. It was heavy burden which this poor family were compelled to bear, and one for which they were entirely unpre- pared. The funeral expenses entirely exhausted their scanty resources, and left them to confront the winter without
 money and without employment This incident has directed attention to the cost of burying the dead, and to the enormous tax which the custom of hiring enough hacks to constitute funeral pro- cession imposes upon class of people who are entirely unable to bear it. Every day we see train of carriages, says Baltimore paper, varying in num- Der from five to twenty, start away from some small house, the yearly rental of which would not amount to the cost of this showy funeral. Why should poor families be compelled to toil, to make sacrifices and to deny themselves the commonest comforts of life for many months, in order to save enough money to pay for useless pageant, which cer- tainly adds nothing to the happiness of the living or the dead?
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
Eggs in Winter.

To have plenty of eggs. in winter, the fowls must have warm roasting and nest ing places, warm food, if possible, with some kind of animal food at least once @ day, and water to drink at will gravel and lime must be always at hand, and the poultry house must be kept scrupu- lously clean, and the fowls out of the way of vermin and free from lice.
 Lice may be destroyed by the applica- tion of lard or sweet oil in which car bolic acid has been mixed at the rate of one part of acid to one hundred of oil or lard. For poultry, the mixture should be rubbed beneath the wings and on top of the head, except in the case of sitting hens, which should never have grease of any kind applied to them, if the eggs are to be hatched
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
Plymouth Church.

At the annual renting of pews and aisle-seats in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, the auction was opened at o'clock, and, at that hour the church was densely crowded, there being no standing room in any part of it. The result of the sale was very gratifying to MT. Beecher and his congregation. The premiums on the pews amounted to $58, ,322, and those on the chairs to $810. The rentals of the pews and chairs sold aggregate $12, ,033; making the total sum paid for seats in the church $71, 165, which is an increase of nearly $13, ,O0O over the amount yield ed last year. In addition to the seats sold there are 800 free seats. At the hour of opening, MT. Beecher stepped forward upon the platform and made a brief address.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
That Feels More Comfortable,

There is good joke on 8 school pro- lessor in Paris, Ill. In the summer he went to Chicago to attend some sort of an educational meeting, and retiring for the night, he found that the room was rather close, and had his roommate to get up and open the window he found the window but could not raise it, so the professor told him to knock pane out he did so, and returned to bed. The professor concluded that the room was still too close to suit him, so he got up and kicked out another pane of glass, and said, "That feels more comfortable" and went to bed and enjoyed the venti- lated room. On getting up in the morn ing they discovered they had smashed the glass in the door of 8 bookcase,
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
Advice to the Farmers.

The commencement of new year is the most appropriate time to open day book, and begin to keep not only ac- counts, but a record of events. The farmer or the mechanic who neglects this, is not a business man. Thorough business habits are as needful to the suc- cess of farmer, as for that of any other
 manufacturer or dealer-for farmer Is both of these. He manufactures, buys,
 and sells. If he does net know the cost of his wares, whether they be wheat or pork, he can never be sure if he is doing business at loss or profit. No elabo- rate system of bookkeeping is needed. A plain daily record or diary of occur rences is first needed. From this, once week, can be posted into simple ac- count book, everything that relates to purchases, sales, payments, contracts, and work done upon each crop, in such 8 way that nothing will be trusted to memory. A daily journal will be valu- able record of facts and experiences, of great use in the future. Such @ record for the past year would be profitable reading now, and many hints for one's guidance would be always at hand. What man knows is but little compared W1GA WhCtU 11C uoo AOA SOGUSu. WuOu G1e years experiences are written down and indexed at the end of each year, the needed information is ready at mo- ment's notice. This is the appropriate season for laying out plans for the new year. To have 8 well-digested plan is the best preparation for successful years work. A methodical man, whether farmer or not. is a man of com, parative leisure, and yet he accomplishes much more work than the one who is without plan or system. He is rarely the victim of accident, and if one occurs, there is leisure to repair damages before mischief is done. This is time also tc clear off old scores, to pay debts, and settle accounts. Business men complain of the want of money, and look to the farmers for relief. The farmer who owes hundred dollars in Western village
 has it in his power to set in action an impulse that will be felt through a hun
 dred distinct points, until it reaches one of the great Eastern cities. By paying his debts, he enables another to be paid
 and so this goes on, and thousands o1 such collections gather and swell into 6 stream, which overfows at the money
 centers, and straightway we hear of ac
 tive trade, moneysin plenty going west again, to purchase grain or pork, ano thus the money finds it's way back agair to the pockets whence it started.-Agri. catltoArist. - ~aa. VI. --s ? ~.s
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
A Beautiful Woman.

The perceptive faculty of women is usually keener than the same phreno- logical organ in men. Woman knows that beauty father than genius is worshiped by the sterner sex. A man may talk with his lips of the latter to his lady-love, but the keenness of the woman knows that he is thinking of the former in his heart. All women have an innate desire to please their beaur. They are fond of admiration, hence one of their longings is to be beautiful The grand secret of female beauty is health the secret of health is the power to eat, digest and assimilate a proper quantity of wholesome food. Take Vinegar Bitters. It will cleanse the stomach, tone the vital organs, give a perfect digestion, purify the blood, clear up the complexion, and produce state of mental and physical electricity which gives symmetry of form, bright eyes, white skin, glossy hair, and genuine type of female loveliness which no cosmetic can compare with.-Cone.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
A Very Sad Story.

A Terre Haute paper tells this sad story: On Christmas eve 8 beautiful widow was married to young merchant. On Sunday morning the wife arose be- fore her husband was out of bed and, slipping light wrapper over her night clothes, went out. No more was thought of 1t by him until her prolonged ab- sence began to create alarm. He then arose, alarmed her parents, and began 8 search for her. They looked in vain un- til about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when she was found in the edge of 8 small stream about Six miles from the town. As soon as she saw her brother she began to scream and plunged into the water up to her waist. They rescued her and then discovered that she had become raving maniac. What caused her in sanity none can tell.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22

! The meetings of the Legislatures that have as yet to act on candidates are as follows:
 Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts,, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Day of balleting for Sena- tor, January 19. -." - ! New Jersey and West Virginia, Janu- ary 26.
 1 Bayard is sure of reelection in Dela- ware and Ha1nlin in Maine Chandler in Michigan, Ramsey in Minnesota, and Carpenter in Wisconsin are tolerably certain of being returned. Hpton $ successor. from Nebraska, it is thought, will be John M. Thayer. William Sharon, the wealthy miner, will be re- turned from Nevada. Indiana and the other States named are uncertain.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
Investment with Positive Return.

No financial securities yet offered in the mar popular as the first mortgage premium bonds of the Industrial Exhibition Company Of New York, and there exists many potent reasons for this marked preference. In the first place, the bonds are placed at the attainable price of $20 each, and the return of the principal IS assured beyond contingency; further the holder of each bond participates in every quarterly premium until it is redeemed--prin- cipal and interest By addressing Morgenthau, Bruno & Co.,, the financial agents, st No. 23 Park Row, N. r., circulars giving full explana- tion may be obtained. Com.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22

We were pleased to see, not long since in one of our exchanges, some pretty severe remarks addressed to several persons Jno s. C. Abbott, kept continuous coughing, which prevented many from hearing. People who cannot refrain from coughing, had better stay away from such places, or else take bot tie of Johnson's Anodyne Lirinaend with them. Gna1l
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22

There is no better way of saving money than in purchasing a good article This is especially the case in so conspicuous an article of dress as gentleman's collar. Those who have either worn the Elmwood or Warwick Collar have discovered this, and advise their friends to try these 6rsr-ciass goods. Conn.,
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22

CaDol,y Condition Po,cia,s to horses that have been out in the cold rain, stood ill cold wind or drank too much cold water, canaot be over estimated. No man should be without them who owns good horse.-Conl.
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22

Eggs are too full of themselves to hold anything else, and there are conceite d men in the same condition,
Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22

Business for 1S75.-New brass article, sells rapid y profitable Agents wanted, success guaranteed Ades 5. $. MANN & CO.,, 281 N. Howard St.. Baltimore, Md