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Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22

SWINE D1sRAsE.-The Chatham Courier says: ''The farmers of Canaan complain of singular disease that attacks their swine. The animal attacked loses the use of it's hind legs and drags itself about by it's fore feet. A farmer who recently lost two fine hogs had them dlssected, and \ white worm about two inches long and the size of knitting needle was found in each kidney. This IS said to be the cause of the disease. A teaspoon full ot arsenic is said to be sure cure-less quantity kills the hog"
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New Milford.-New Milford op,v re.

New Hdilford.-New Milford only re- ports 60 births for 1874. Twenty years ago. says an old physician, the town aver aged between 90 and 100.
 The Tramp Brotherhood. "A new ''brotherhocd" and It's mystic signs has been revealed to the Scranton Free Press That paper says that few days since, while tramp" was trudging along he met man going in the opposite direction. They compared notes It was a meeting of Box and Cox-jour printer and jour- tailor. Both were fiat broke," and were forsging on the farm houses. The tailor asked the printer if he had never heard of the Knights of the Road"-a fraternity among enforced peripatetics. The printer had not, whereupon the tailor proposed to initiate him and, going into the woods hard by, the printer was duly Obligated" It seems that each member carries a hard piece of red chalk. and when he gets food at house he makes a cross on the gate, to signify that it is the house of the good man." If he fails to get food an is made on the gate. By these signs other mem bers are directed and the cipher Is under stood to mean that members may, if their necessities require it. use force or fraud to make the stingy man ''come down." His corn field or chicken roost is not sacred to the fraternity, nor is his "grubpile, if they can come at it.
 Catholic Temperance Society The Rev. Father Sheffrey continues in his efforts in behalf of temperance. The or ganization in Lakeville. known as the St.
 Mary's of the Lake Temperance Society, is in the most flourishing condition. IL now has list of sixty active and useful members working with the Rev. Father in Infringing others into the society. besides g large number of children, who are being
 brought up in the way they should go.' ?
 Nor is Father Sheffrey content with bis
 success in Lakeville. He has organized s
 society in Falls Village, and has a working
 nucleus of about dozen members. North
 Canaan AS also receiving his attention, anc
 although no established organization is vel
 effected, he finds much encouragement
 there, and expects to meet with success
 The good people of this region rejoice l. their good fortune in having located among : them shepherd who is not only willing but determined to work without ceasing il } the interest of all that is good tor his flock , In no other 30 effrctual way can the CUTS of incompetence be removed from anon g : the great portion of our population know as Catholics as in the kind offices of th : Rev. Father Shtffrey; and with this class o } our people freed from the bondage of rum - 1t behooves the remaining portion of us | [ follow well the good example they set be
 fore us, and be also free. All hail th
 laudable efforts of Father Sheffrey.
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TALK UP YOuR TowN.-''Talk up your town" Yes, talk 1t up and work 1t up. If 1t has good schools, good churches.
 newspapers, clean streets ornamerted with beautiful shade trees, talk it up. Don't erumble if anything and everything is not ID to your ideas. especially if you do no,h- hg to help make the place. Don't scll strangers tits the worst place you know of to bring up child, unless you know that Is worse than other places of the same population. Give encouragement to every useful and creditable enterprise in your midst, for as sure as effect follows cau.,, 30 sure will enterprise or merit repay eveiy citizen. We cannot live unto ourselv, B., and we cannot discourage any movement in bahalf of place without inflicling upon eurself personal injury. If you see a aeedtd improvement, demand 1t, talk 1t up vigorously until the whole community is impregnated with the ides-until storm of public sentiment completes the work but If you can't have everything that is needed, remember that in that respect 1t Is just Fl ke thousands of other places in the land. Keep talking, encouraging, but not Rrumbling. Don't stop because some poor mummy, out Of whom has withered all public spirit and love of advancement, moans out his sepul- cLral whine, ''It won't pay" Show 10 your live fellows that it will pay, and leave to the mummy his embalmed aud swaddled dust and stupidity. and by and by you will see the result of your courage and talk in universal improvement, increased facilities for business, cultivated society, and brosd, liberal, generous spirit that peryades and vivifes, and makes pleasant and beautiful every place which 1t enters.
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THE TRANSIT OF VENUS.
The Earth Gradually Nearing the


 NEW YORK, Jan. l7.-The World pub fishes cable dispatch from London saying that the first tentative computations made in Greenwich of the data obtained from the observations of the recent transit Of Venus have yielded results somewhat diff feren: from what were expected. Four calculations made independently give the suns parsllax as being respectively So6 sec opds, 946 seconds, 925 seconds and 92o sec onds, the mean being s24 seconds. The comput, tions were made by Professor w. G. Adams, lecturer of physics in Kings College; Professor O. Henrici. Ph. D. of the University College; Mir. Frederick Cuth- rie. Royal School of Mines and Arts; and Messrs. Dunkrie and Ellis, assistants of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. No calcu- ls,ions have yet been completed at the new observatory. The computations as given were made only upon the basis of the mo- menis of external and internal contacts as reported from the different points of obser- vation, and may be considerably modified when the photographic and micrometiC measurements are taken into account.
 Based on this dispatch, the World re- marks on the authority of an American as tronomer: ITO say that the suns psralaa has been sscertained to be 924 seconds is tc say that the sun Is distant from us sbou 22, 32S semi-diameters of the earth, or S8, AS. 726 miles. This Is 6,926. PA miles lesl than the distance made out by Encke iron the observations of the last transit, ant 5000, 900 or 1, ,OOo, GOO lese than the result obtained by more recent measurements. this ratio were constant, we should requir LAO years to overcome the entire distanc and fall into the sun. But as 1t is certai that our centripetal motion would be vastl accelerated continually ss we got close within the sphere of the suns attraction unless his forces should be proportional decreased or his volume reduced, it is als probable that we should consume yer much less time than is above given in nal ing the tremendous journey"
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THh STANDARD. W0RCEST{R'S DICTIONARY.
Recognized as Authority by the Departments of the Ma
 tiOnal Government. "

In one of the many circulars with which the publishers of Webrter's Dictionaries ar. flooding the country, s:e s,s,smenr % l. made ,hs' e6rtsr c!u uaively recognized at nshingt0n-tlat at all ex. scuiiye printing. debater and official records Of Congress. publications of the Smithsonian lnHti- tuition, etc.. etc. are made to conform in otthOg- raphy 10 Webster. etc. We invite the attention fthe public to the following, showing that this claim of exclusive recognition is uti erly unwsr- rantable;
 DEPARTMEKr OF sTATE, Washington. May 4, 1874 SIR: Such Is M0I the fact nm FeEaAl &1 thls DepnI tment. On the contrary. V . have fTequen. occnston 10 refer tc have .he honor to be, sir, yonr obedient ger want, HAMILTON FISH.
 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, ...
 Washington Feb. 24. 1874. GENTLEMEN: In the Department of Justice both dictionaries. as ell as kickardron's, are de Each official of the Department of couree. has his own authority ioI tpellmg but in all printing %nr, SSnS U, der my Gi,rSmSn; nTS 'hs aSnoT s St M 'N'-'" '''' CLEMENT HUGH HILL
 ,r. TREAsuRY DEPART INT,
 Office cf the srcretaIS z, Feb, @. 1874 GENTLRNEN: Both WOIceeter's and W ebs teru Dictionaries are used for florence in the Treasury Department, but Wolcesle.,s IF re- lied upon a. the >thnO ard tOr Spt tlnmK in the printing done under the direction of ihiN be- ,artm~ni. Very resp, c,fully, ''
 WILLIAM A. RICHARDSON, Secretary.
 SMITnsnNIAN lNrTITUrIoN,
 Washington, Feb. 70. 1874. SIR: At the commencement 0f the operations of thie Inriituuon. referred the question to the Dictionary the Smithsonian should adop; aa the standard fer spelling and dthnitionr, To eommi- eion of literary gent men. al d "n their reco mendation adoDtrd that of WOrcesters which has been continued as the Standard IO the present time. - H Yours very truly. JO~EPH HENRY
 Ssc'y Shit an Institution. r- LIBRARY OF CoNaRRss, t--
 F eE Wa hington. Feb H. 1S7< GENrLrsEN: The report hay ng been made that W Webstor'e English DIctinnar. is RdOpted as the sta dard by nation al officers, to Inc eN Ncluson of Worcesiers. take occasion to say that 20 far as the Library of ongre-e is concerned, Webster has never been followed in orthography in print ing itsh catalogues, rrp,rts or any other docu- ments On the contrary, wherever pr,ofs from I"etiongressiunal Printing Office emhndy the t"- novattons upon Enplish 0rihogiaphy as entab- lished by the usage of all great writerr. which Webster inirOd oed, ev are invariably returned wIth correcIions restoring the established spell ing. Very reap, cIfully.
 A. K SPoFFORD, Lib. of Congress. , D. BREWER & TILESToN, % rs, Rublisherss ksO@tOm.
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Sheffield.
LIME RooK, Jan. 20, 1875.

Sheffield.
 What news can you expect to hear from 8 place where the thermometer tells story of IS degrees below zero? For the nssl week we have done little except to tend the fires and hug the coal stoves. and copse- quently the local items are scarce. On the evening of the 18th the ladies of the M. E Church held festival in the Town Hall. The gathering was not large, but we are told the receipts of the evening amounted to $lO5. One of the chief at fractions of the evening was the ''Old Folks Kitchen" where pork and beans, with donghnuts and pumpkin pie were served up on dishes of @ hundred years ago. The host of this kitchen was a pie ture of antiquity. and in spite of gray halr and ''specs" we found Father Hopkins 'just as young as he used to be-" The grandmother spun fax in the corner, while the daughter made welcome the visitors. A variety of ancient relics were exhibited. A fishing pool made sport for the boys ip one corner of the hall, and added no small mite to the receipts of the evening. This pool was the work of w. Barber, who proved his skill in fishing, and by blowing his own horn...... 'Tis hard times! This is the echo from all sides now, and economy is being practiced where never before it was thought of and we see many illustrs. tions of false economy. Some people here begin their economy by stopping their pa- pers, preferring to starve the mind if only the stomach can be filled. was astonished to find by inquiring at our office how few of the leading journals of the day are taken here-far less this year than in years pre- vious Only two subscribers 10 that most excellent paper the Independent; only three copies of the LhrIstian Union come to this office. Now should feel quite lost without the Union, for think it a paper of great and good influence Mir Beecher's lectures alone are worth a ortune, and yet we have some saints among us who pass them by unread because they are waiting to see U he is guilty! Msy Heaven bless his great heart We have no doubt of his innocence. Let those who are without sin cast the first stone ;" but, as Josiah AL lens wife says, There sint many whu can afford to go into the stun business" And Sheffield has some glass houses too!
 LEWIS.
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Subscription AccOumt.-The date on the colored slip of paper with the name of the snb- scriber shows the time tO which the sub
 scriptiOm Is paid thus. R. B. smith 5Jul74, indicates that MT. Smith has paid for his paper to July 9th, 1874 It ia hoped that subscribers will see to 1t that their account aa indicated by the date on their papers, is always correct, and when they pay for renewal of their subscription, will observe whether their date ia changed to indicate the proper credit and in the event of an error to inform ua for correction at once. No claims for in these accounts will hereafter be consid- cred, unless presented within thirty days after the payment is claimed to have been made as the regular receipt of the paper with the date to which the subscription Is paid plainly printed thereon is prina fscie evidence of its ac
 ceptance as correct. J. l.. PEAsH.
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BOR N.

Al LitchHeld. Jan. 11th, . son to Mr. and Mls Edson Perkins. At VaL Deusenville, Jan. sth. a son to Ferry Brouker.
 At Housatonic, Jan. 9th, a son to James Nee. han. , At Huntsville. Dec. 2sd, . daughter to Russell Wilcox
 At Winsted, Jan. 9th. . daughter to Charles and Ida Gamwen Weight, 10 pounds. .'''r
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A Memphis. Mo. medium reports littl, Charley Ross ''all hunk in Paradise" He's happier there, where Katie King can show him all the nice things Mir. Owen gave her.
 In Japan the law requires that when N person cuts down . tree, he shall plant one in its place. In this way the supply of wood is kept up. George Washington owes his country a tree. .-~. .f .al . A Thomas street school boy had just gts his face fixed to sing Let us love one another," when a snow ball hit him in tho mouth and SO confused him that he yelled ''Bill Sykes. iustdo that again and I'll chaw your ear off."-Rome Sentinel.
 According to Paris letter hundreds of American mothers are there, seeking titled Frenchmen for their daughters. The old ladies doubtless think that if they must add s fool or two to their families they may as we'll have the blooded kind. s"'s
 A colored gentleman went to consult one of the most ''high-toned" lawyers in Bos- ton, and after stating his case said: ''Now knows you's lawyer; but wish you would please, sar, jiss tell me de tru6 'bou, dat matter" ., .....-
 Pretty bad under foot today" said on, citizen to another, as they met iu inc stree, the other day. "Yes, but it's fine over head" responded the other. "Tru' enough" said the first, but then very few are going that way"
 There is a gruE old party who lives op- posite to a church where the members ot the choir meet tw:ce week to practice, and who says if the singing affects Heaven as it affects him therein be no use of going there for happlness."
 ''Now, then." said a physician, cheeri'y, to a patient, ''You have got along far enough to indulge in little animal food, and No you don't, Doctor" interrupted the patient, five suffered enough on your gruel and slops, and Id starve sooner thun be, in on hay and loats." ... ...t...y.-'
 When Alexarder H. Stephens passes Q Washington undertaker's establishment tn, proprietor always comes to the door, take, a long. lingeI Sng look at the shadowy form of the great paragraphist. and then returns to wonder at the mysterious ways of Prov idence,-Brooklyn Argus. ...,. -.: ..
 We are told that the late Mayor Have meyer used to take exercise by saving wood in his cellar every morning. AnG Mir. Havcmeyer. it will he remembered died very suddenly. There are very few sudden deaths among married men in Nor ris,own from this cause That sort of ex ercise is taken by their wives.-Nor,is- to@n Herald. ?.
 It is hard winter, but the price of os trich tips continues panicy-or rather there is always panic in the house that cherishrs a desire for them without realizing from it When the question com. up, "Bread ol feathers2" It is good deal as 1t was witt the boy when asked which of his demands was the mos, impera,ive-'Nevrr mind tue shoes, dad" he replied, Il must have the breastpin !"--Norsoich Aurora.
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If you'd have bread Both white and sweet, Light biscuit too, for tea. Use Goodsell'e Milk To make them N Nith; Just try it once and see.

''There is powerful sight of giggling back there in the corner" said an Arkansas preacher, ''and it's got to be stopped, or the Lord will delegate me to open the door sud throw some one out" It was stopped.
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A gentleman was looking into the win dow of toy store the other day, whrn two boys halt, d, and one remarked: Say, Jim, don't you wish we had [ ,n C. nts to buy present for our poor lame sistcr?" Jim replied that he did. and the gentleman pulled out shinplas,tr ana said he was glad to be able to assist them in such a praiseworthy enterprise. He met the same boys half an hour atterw ards, and each had his pockets sluffcd with popcorn balls.
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DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION At Hartford, Tuesday, Feb. l8, 1875.

The democratic and liberal votrrs of ( on- necticut are r quested to send delegates to, a State Convention, to be held ut ALLYN HALL, in the city of Hartford, on ..
 TUESDAY. FEBRUARY l6, 1875, at 10 o'clock A M. Each town entitled to two representatives in the lower house oi the next General Assen bly,, will bs allowed four delegates, and each t.wn entitled to one representative is authorized to send two delegates. And now, when the sword is in the legislative halls of sovereign state of this Union, dictating representative organizations, deciding the qualifications and vacating tue seats of members chosen by the people, we invite tbe friends of local seif-government to ac, with the democrats and liberals throughout this state, who in cordial harmony will spare no rforts to place the government in the hands of those who will respect the limitations of the con- stitution and defend the rights of the peo pie. GEORGE c. SUMNER Chairman.
 l-Fred 8. Brown, 12-Chas. A. Weed.
 s-Thos. W. Loomis, 1a- John L. Hunter,
 -Minot E. Oaborn, l4-Geo. A. Pennimsn,.
 6-Thomas Elmes, 16-Henry H. Drake,
 6-John c. Byxbee, 16--Issac B. Bristol,
 7- Ralpk H. Wheeler, 17-Sidney P. Ensign,
 S-Nathan D. Bates, 1S- D. Ward Northrop.
 9--James A. Bill, 19-Gco. W. Arnold, IO-Morris W. Seymour, 20-Richard 8. Hicks, ll-Zerah Fa!rmsn, 2l-Philo c. Hanks.
 Hartford, Jan. 1A. 1875. 1w2S
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EF Mr. and Mrs. 6srtoris have sailed tor this country in the steamer Republic. They expect to spend the winter in Washington, rsurning 10 Europe in the spring
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OlE E 0.

At East sharon, Jan. i4th, Kitty Beemen, aged months.
 At Derby, Dec. 9sth. Elias Beeman. aged 5l years. ,.
 At hefield. Jan 3d, Johnnie, con of George and LoRisa Johnson. aged year and 2 months.
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4ntt,e Ne,rs.

a%a We sha, -ei realty obliged to any of our friends In the q anty, C. elsewhere, who will send us particulars any Uccurrences of interest which may come undr. heir notice.
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EJ It is now thought the bill to give government" the control os the telegraphs will pass in Congress and become law.
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Frightfnl ExpIOsiOn.

4 fearful explosion took place on the 96th of December. at the Little York Gold Washing and Water Company's mine fin Nevada. It appears that two little girls. daughters ot Mir. Cooper, foreman of the mine, aged respectively seven and nine years, were carrying dinner to their father, who was at work at the mine. On their way back they entered the blacksmith shop belonging to the mine. A boy about fifteen years of age, by the name of Shep. herd, was there engaged in drying giant powder cartridges on the forge. While do- ing SO, and while the girls were present. one of the cartridges caught fire. The young man told the girls to run out of the shop, but his warning was not needed soon enough, for a double explosion occurred, doing fearful damage. One of the cart ridges first exp oded, and almost imme- diately alter four kegs of black powder which were slowed away on shelf in one corner of the shop. The first explosion seems to have Injured the children most The smoke stack to the forge was made of sheet iron. This the giant powder rent in a thousand pieces. One of the splinters passed through young Shepherds scalp, one through his cheek, one he received in the arm above the elbow, one in the calf of the light leg. and several others in different l,arts of the body He is in fact completely Iiddled with splinters, yet strong hopes are entertained of his recovery. The eldest girl Is frightfully torn by the pieces of shat tered pipe and from other effects of the ex- plosion. The flesh Is torn from her shout ders down her back, and from her right hip, SO that the spire and bones of the hip gre exposed. Her right thigh on the inside of the leg is badly lacerated, and the bone is broken. The flesh is also torn from the back O. one of her hands. The younger girl is cut on the abdomen by . sheet of iron. Her head is also badly cut. One piece of iron was driven through her arm
 It is considered impossible for the older girl to recover, and it will be almost mi Tacle if the younger one is saved. The ex- plosion is supposed to have been caused by giant powder cap being left in part of 6 cartridge that had not been used after hay ing been prepared for loading. The effect of the explosion was g little singular. The force oi the powder seemed to operate cnly downward and horizontally. An an vil which stood on 8 block within few feet of the forge was not stirred from ita position, although it sat without being fast. ened to the block. The bellows were uu- injured also, both having been about on a 6vel with the forge. The explosion seems to have been entirely accidental, and Is Lot a'tributed to negligence or carelessness
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Getting Ice.-The ice in the Jake at Lakeville is thirteen inches thick, and every owner of an ice house in that region is har- vesting his annual crop.
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NOTICE.

TAKEN by virtne of an execution to me di- 1 recteds and will he rOld at public vendue. to the highest bidder. at the public sign post in the town of sharon. twenty -one dave after date which will be on the 9th day of February. A. D. 1885. 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to sa,isfy said excca ton and my fees thereon. the following dercribed propertv., to wit One three seated, platform spring Wagon. with pole
 Dated at Sharon, this 18th day of January. 1875.
 VIM. B. PERRY, 3w2S Deputy sheriff.
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Aelp Aarertiseltremts
NOTICE. .

WHERE win be social ente, tainment given by l the ladies Of Lime Rock. on RIDAY EVEN. ING. January 29,h, at Mir Rowley Hotel. A nlce supper. gotten up by the good housewives of the place. win be served. Ffw iancv and upefal articles will be for sale. and pleasant, enjoyable time guaranteed.
 Lime Rock, Jan. 20th. Sw2S