Connecticut western news., 1876-02-04
Fashion Notes.


 is that in which the train is crossed horizontally with gatherings at regular intervals, and the gatherings barred over with bands of faille. All trains are still long and narrow, with the skirts more and more clinging to the figure.
 The latest polonaise buttons under the arms with large buttons made of gold and steel threads. These same buttons also ornament the sleeves from the el- bows to the wrists.
 For small evening and dinner parties and operas Paris fashions recommend cream colored bareges trimmed with ecru worsted lace and cream colored ribbons. White Indian cashmeres are also sug- gested for the same occasions.
 Dresses of soft brocades have trains of faille.
 New robes de chambre, while still cut in one piece and buttoned straight down in front, as of old, show a novelty in the arrangement of the trimming, which stimulates at the back 8 short casaque. The trimmings are also comparatively new, being the ecru worsted lace, which is embroidered with wool either the same color of the dress or one that harmonizes with it.
 Neck chains, with pendants attached, remain fashionable. Bracelets are not as fashionable as formerly. Hair jewelry is out of style, and in it's place stones indicating the several months, as garnet for January, topaz for November, tur- quoise for December, diamond for April, emerald for May, etc., are exchanged in articles for presents among friends, the stone chosen being, of course, the one that suggests the month desired to be remembered.
 Among favorite rings for ladies are opals and solitaire diamonds set in black onyx, and amethysts set with small bril- liants.
 Silver and pearl ornaments in new de- signs are in great demand.
 A Woman Asking to be Hanged.
 A writ of habeas corpus was granted by Judge Bingham of the common pleas court at Columbus, Ohio, commanding that the body of Sarah M. Victor, an inmate of the penitentiary, be produced before the court. It was returnable at once.
 There are some curious facts connect ed with the case. Over seven years ago Sarah M. Victor was convicted at Cleve- land of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged. Before the day of execution arrived, however, the prisoner became insane, and upon being satisfied of this fact the governor or dered her sentence commuted to solitary confinement tor life in the penitentiary A simple certificate was therefore made out from the court in which she was tried consigning her to fol life.
 Now, after this long lapse of time, comes @ petition claiming that the warden of the penitentiary has not the proper papers or authority upon which to hold this prisoner. It is claimed that in committing this sentence to imprison' ment for life, the governor should have prepared, under his hand and the sea, of the State, papers to that effect, and before being carried into execution the same should have been submitted to the prisoner to allow her to accept imprison ment for life in preference to hanging.
 She now desires to be hanged, an6 hence these proceedings have been in stituted to declare null and void the certificate under which she was entered at the penitentiary. The condemned woman is afflicted with paralysis, anc had to be carried from the penitentiary to the court room.
 Good Advice.
 Encourage your county newspapers. Assist by kind words, prompt settlement of bills and encouragement to enterprise the editors of all the papers which are helping to herald improvements, great or small. There never was newspaper, says an exchange, no matter how small or what it's price, that was not worth more than the price asked for it. As light is to time, to growth and ripenine of fruit, so is the press to thought and to progress. Some men are too poor to take paper. No man is rich enough to do without one, and more if he can obtain them. Food for the stomach, food for the brain, are alike necessary to perfect growth. The editor who is encouraged will be better editor next year than this, unless he be @ snarling, selfish, growing, miserly, egotistical old bundle of cross grained antagonisms, begotten in spite and at natural enmity with all the honest world. But such ab- normal monstrosities are few. The or dinary editor is @ man of brain, thought, power, intelligence. A student of life. A thinker. A sympathizer with his fel- low men if they will permit him to grow to them.