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Connecticut western news., 1876-04-21

FRUIT IN OHIO. Secretary Kleppart, of the State board of agriculture, says that advices from various parts of Ohio go to show that the recent bad weather has had its expected result, so far as fruit is concerned. Very few peaches will live, especially in the northern counties, so that there will not be more than one-eighth of the crop. The pear trees have not suffered so much, and half crop may be expected. Apples, so far as heard from, promise a fair yield
Connecticut western news., 1876-04-21
Southern Hotel, St. Louis, Mo.

The most complete hotel in all it's appoint ments in the West. The table supplied at all times with the best the market aff ords. *
Connecticut western news., 1876-04-21

Sturgeon says, rather sharply, that '' it is hideous gift to possess, to be able to say nothing at extreme length.
Connecticut western news., 1876-04-21

.Vegetine is acknowledged by all classes of people to be the best and most reliable blood purifier in the world.
Connecticut western news., 1876-04-21
The Apple Tree Borer.


 As soon as an apple tree attains the age of two or three years the trunk, and finally all the larger branches become literally enveloped in some kind of an adnascent fungus or foreign deposit. IL is beneath these fungi, and immediately in contact with the bark, that the beetle deposits her eggs, which soon hatch and immediately commence their work of devastation. This mischief is continued from one to three years, according to the species, unless they are destroyed by man or that despised though best of farmers friends-the sap sucker. Now, the beetle never deposits her eggs on 8 smooth stem or branch, but deep and securely beneath the deposits above named.
 Experience has convinced me, says 8 competent authority, that anything that will remove this deposit from the stem of the tree is equally as eficacious as soapsuds. Indeed, all 8 person has to do is to examine his trees carefully in early spring, and where he finds this de- posit She thickest, and especially when 1t has assumed dark or greenish ap- pearance, to remove it the easiest way he eau. A common table knife answers good purpose, coarse sand paper is ex- cellent, and very stiff brush does the work most efficiently; and without this precaution it is folly to expect apples, especially on old trees, that are worthy of the name. .....
Connecticut western news., 1876-04-21
Are You Awake

To the fact that eo dollars will buy small Pc table Printing Press Type, Ink, etc. all c0mplete which will qarter Printers pricesi Presses at $3 and upward Send two 3o stamps for Illustrated Catalogue to
 ExCEIeIOR PRESS OO,. Meriden, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1876-04-21

Henry Kelly, or NeW YOrk city, who was bitten i've months ago by 8 pet dog, died few days ago in the hospital of hydrophobia, after suffering terribly for four days. The dog has never shown any indications of madness ..
 locomotive on the Tyrone and Clearfeld road exploded near Bald Eagle, Pa., and the engineer, fagman and brakeman were killed, and the fireman fatally injured. The engineer was throw over one hundred feet and every bone in his body broken. The hagman was thro sn over one hundred and fifty feet up in the air and fell shspeless mass. The others were buried under the debris .... At Shelby Center, N. r., large Touring mill and 8 num- Der of buildings connected with it wore burned. No insurance.
 Goldsmith Maid trotted against Golden Gate in San Francisco-the latter to run & milo and $50 ya1ds. The Maid won in 2:19A, beating Golden Gate three seconds. O'Leary the Chicago pedestrian, walked five hundred miles in 139 hours and thirty-two minutes in San Francisco. The 9th mile was made in eight minutes and fifty-eight seconds. . A fire in Baltimore destroyed Wm. Fl. Brown X Bro B drug house and damaged tl @ neighbori6g buildings. LOSS, $225, 1000 ...... The Music Hall, at Athol, Mass, and dwelling adjoin- ing were destroyed by fire, and several houses partly burned. Loss, $75, coo. ..... .Garibrldi has accepted the gift of 1000 lire (S2O, ,Oo0) offered by the Italian government and king some time since. ... Several agrarian ott- breaks have taken place in the Bustar district of Madras, India. Thirty thousand peasants assembled, and troops were dispatched to restore order. ..... While Charles Carter fore man of the boiler shop of Shapley S Wells, at Bipghampton, N. Y., was testing sixty horse power boiler, which stood on the sidewalk pre- paratory for shipment, it exploded. Carter and two others were killed and several paes- ersby more or lees injured .. Cambridge beat Oxford by three lengths, in the great English university boat race. The time wss
Saturday visitor. (Newark, Del.) 1876-1876, 1876-02-12
Marriage among the Dabomeyans

Marriage is a most complicated cere-
mony among the Dahomeyans. Sim
plified, the rationale is rs follows: If q
young man takes fancy to young
woman he dispatches some of his friends
as ambassadors to the lady's father,
laden with presents of rum and cow
ries. A council Of the relatives Is con-
vened. If the suitor has offended any
Of them the offer Is rejected. If inqui-
ries are, on the contrary, satisfactory,
Afa, the god Of wisdom, il consulted |;
and 1T is generally noted that If the
present has been sufficient, 4 favorable
answer is given. If, on thet contrary,
the presents ace returned til negotift-
tions are at,an end. The ne,4t. stage lis
to pay for her, and the bridegroom and
all his relatives to boot, strain every
effort to get together the requisite. Be
sides doing the betrothal, the BRIDE
groom has to meet all the fetish charges
to which the bride may be subject.
These are not few; for If the fetish
priests discover that they have bleed
able subject, they are not backward in
the discovery that some important sac
rifice or ceremony essential 10 the hap.
piness of the young couple had been
neglected. The bride is then escorted
by her friends and relatives to the
future home. A great entertainment is
given in the courtyard of the house;
though during the entertainment the
bridegroom is not allowed to see any.
thing of his wife. The feasting con-
tinues to midnight, or even TO cock
crow, after which the company retire,
and,the fetish priest leads the bride to
her husband,1 accompanying the cere-
mony with many good advices to her
and to him. "We have brought your
wife, u they say; "take her, fog her if
she is bad, aud cherish her if she is
good. The health of the ,''happy
couplep is then drunk, and they finally
take their departure, After week the
bride returns to her fathers house, and
sends present of cookelS~food to her
husband, who returns the compliment
by q gift of rum, cowries, and cloth.
Next morning she returns to her hus-
bands house, goes to, market purchases
provisions, and prepares feast, to
which her husbands friends are alone
invited. rhe honeymoon is now over,
and the little wife subsidies down into
the prosaic life ofa Dahomeyan matron.
-["The RdcesIof l&qnkiRd," DR.. Robert
Brolon.' -ss} s.... 2.
Saturday visitor. (Newark, Del.) 1876-1876, 1876-02-12

Proceedings of the Boston Tachy-
graphic Society: "Judge HurHham
proposed to drop IA from 'head,' etc.,
and ugh from though ETC., in writ
ing to our friends, and thus finally let
the worst forms disappear, as have 'u'
from 'labour' and * from salinanack. ,
Millions of minutes and money are lost
through she want of simple adherence
to the phonetic rule. Let each letter
have only one sound, and eR,h sound
one letter. As 10 the long hand evil,
he said that. there are in the lEnited
States more thar half mflliO sSgsfes-
sional penmen. Nov rapid penman
can write thirty words to ahmhute. TO
do this he must draw his pc. through
one rod. In five and one-half hours
his pen travels one mile. Averaging
sixteen curves to one word, at thirty
words per minute. one makes iiI day
of only five hours, IA, 900 sssokes, and
in a year of 300 days, 43, ,200,0oD. Ifeach
writer traces mark 800 miles long In a
year, $500 writer's trace 1856, 900 600
miles. And as to the strokes, 43, 200, :
000x550, ,000=23, ,760, ,000, 900, ,00q. And all
this without reckoning the great mass
of people, say $4,000, 900 In the United
States, who in the aggregate write an
other equally large total.o
Saturday visitor. (Newark, Del.) 1876-1876, 1876-02-12
Aristocracy In the PrussIan Army.

How closely the Interests of the aris-
tocracy are allied with those of the army
in Prussia is evident from the following
statistics gathered from the Prussian
"Army List" ('Rdngund QUARTER Lister }
for 1875, published at Berlin ON the 30th
of November. The royal family of Prus-
sia counts fourteen of its members in
the army, the Armin family has forty
six, the Bismarck nineteen, the Alvens-
ieben twenty-four, the Butcher fifteen,
the Blumenthal fifteen, the Bulov' thir-
ty-two, the Kleish thirty-three, the Man
teuffel thirteen, the Putthammer twenty
four, the Schwerin fifteen, the jSecken-
dorff twelve, the Treskow twenty-three,
the Wedell thirty-two, the Winterfeld
twenty-eight, the Wulffen eleven, and
the Zastrow family ten. There are nine
Field Marshals in the Prussian army
namely, the King of Saxony, the Crown
Prince of Prussia, Prince Frederick
Charles, the Grand Duke Duke of Meek
lenburg, Prince August of ofWurtemberg,
Counts Wrangel, Moltke, Steinmetz,
Room Herwath Won Rittenfeld and Baron
Manteuffel. The senior and oldest Field
Marshal is Count Wfangel, who is
ninety-two years of age, and has been
in the army for eighty years, and was
raised to the rank of Field Marshal in
1856. There are also in addition in the
Prussian army fifty-three Generals, six
ty six Lieutenant Generals, and one
hundred and fifty-one Major Generals.
The youngest officer in the. army is ap-
parently Prince Frederick Leopold, son
of Prince Frederick Charles, and who,
although only ten years of age,is shown
in the "Army List" as Second Lieuten-
ant in the lst Regiment of the Guards.
Saturday visitor. (Newark, Del.) 1876-1876, 1876-02-12
Whales at Bay.

As soon as all had taken their seats.
says writer, describing the scene, in
the 50. James Mdgdzine, we rowed off
silently, with double-banked oars. Five
large boats were all we could man, as
many of the fishermen had gone to the
banks in the morning; though their
brown sails were i'm sight, time did not
allow of their recall. Our armament
was most ludicrous; beside guns, we
carried axes, lances, old swords, and
several kettles for making noise with.
Several were busy improvising formi-
dable weapon by fastening scythe blades
to short poles; one man, called while
moving, sat in the bow, holding his
scythe. A9
As we left the cove the women kept
calling after us, and wishing good luck,
and then hurried to the cliffs, where
they watched the progress of the chase.
Making long detour, the boats were
quietly formed in semi-circle to sea-
ward of the dark group, which appeared
unconscious of our approach; as soon
as all were placed, the leader fired gun,
and we bore down upon the whales with
all speed, shouting and splashing the
water. A movement is seen among the
whales, dark forms disappear and pres
emily emerge again; they move slowly
at first, then increasing their speed rush
in foaming crowd toward the shore.
We follow at our utmost speed, re-
gardless of the spray that dashes over
the boat. Suddenly the fish pause, feel
ing, perhaps, by instinct, that they are
gettPnginto shoal water, they turn, seem
TO deliberate and select the weakest spot
for acharge; our speed is slacxened,
and all prepare for struggle. After
moments pause, headed by the largest
of the herd, they rushed at my boat
which happened to be in the centre of
the line. On they came, raising wall
of foam, behind which are dimly seen
arched backs and agitated fins; we shout,
fire our guns, throw stones, and dash
the oars in the water They hesitate; a
few plunge under the boat; feel their
backs scrape against the keel as we are
thrown over and half, filled with water
from gigantic fish; terrified and
spouting blood, the whale rushes back
into the herd, and heads for the shore
In his blind agony.
We redouble our exertions, and the
fish, finally yielding, follow their wound
ed companion and fling themselves on
the shore, where they lie wallowing in
the shallow water. With a cry of tri-
umph borne back from the women who
stood on the cliff, dancing and waving
their arms in delight at the prospect of
an abundant winter supply of food, all
the boats rowed for the shore, each
striving to be first to commence the fight.
With. a final cheer the men drove the
boats in among the fish, leaped out, and
began to strike right and left. Quite
satisfied with my exertions, sat in the
boat and watched the strange combat,
already closing, as the poor, stupid fish,
ignorant Of their strength; fell easy
victims to their determined enemies. al
The sight was strange and striking;
the cloudless sun was shining on the
waves of the bay; but, except over
Saturday visitor. (Newark, Del.) 1876-1876, 1876-02-12
statissics-The Little world OF I.On-
don.

Here are some curious statistics about
London, from one of the papers issued
by the London City Mission:
1t covers within the fifteen miles
radius of Charing Cross nearly 200
square miles.
IL numbers within these boundaries
4 4,000,0 900 inhabitants.
1t comprises 100000 foreigners from
every quarter of the globe.
1t contains more Roman Catholics
than Rome itself, more Jews than the
whole of Palestine, more Irish than
Dublin, more Scotchmen than Edin-
burgh, more Welshmen than Cardiff,
and more country-bornD persons than
the counties of Devon, Warwickshire,
and Durham combined.
1t has a birth in it every five minutes,
a death In it every eight minutes, and
seven accidents every day in its 1000
miles of streets.
1t has on an average twenty-eight
miles of new streets opened and 5000
new houses built in it every year.
Ii 1t has 1000 ships and 1900 sailors in
its port every day.
1t has III 900 habitual criminals on
its police register, increasing ut an
average of 30, 900 per annum.
1t has as many beer-shops and GIN
palaces as would, if placed side by side,
stretch from Charing Cross to Ports
mouth, a distance of seventy-three
miles.
1t has as many paupers as would more
than occupy every house i'm Brighton.
1t has an influence with all parts of
the world, represented by the yearly
delivery in its postal districts of 1885,
000, 600 letters.
Saturday visitor. (Newark, Del.) 1876-1876, 1876-02-12
Finds in the Rag-Bag.

The finds, in the rag-bag and the
rubbish-heap are sometimes not a little
curious. A mistress allows Betty, the
maid to keep rag-bag; anG ;asiOn-
ally Betty yields to the teinpc. ion OF
putting into that bag articles which are
certainly not rags. But apart from any
suspicion of dishonesty, valuables find
themselves in very odd places, through
inadvertency or forgetfulness. We need
not say much about such small creatures
as insects, spiders, or lizards, that are
found by the paper-makers in bundles
of esparto; they are unwelcome intru-
sions rather than finds. A patent lock
was once found among the contents of
a family rag-bag; and as it was worth
five shillings, the buyer was well con-
tent. An old Latin prayer book, bought
as waste-paper, had a bundle of nails,
curiously linked together, packed in
side it. Half-sovereigns and other coins
are found in cast-off pockets, in the
heels of old stockings. and inside the
Innings of dresses. An old coat, pur-
chased by a London dealer, revealed the
fact-a joyful fact to the buyer-that
the buttons consisted of sovereigns COW
cred with cloth. Three pounds sterling
in German paper money, found their
way into bundle of German rags thal
reached a paper-maker. The London
Rag Brigade boys once found bank
check book, and on another occasion
six pairs of new silk stockings in waste
paper and rags which they had bought;
these unexpected articles were, to the
honor of the Brigade, at once returned.
A rare find once occurred in the
Houndsditch region. Adealer-of the
gentle sex, we are told--gave seven
pence and pint of beer for pair of
old breeches; while the bargain was
being ratified at a public house, the
buyer began to rip up the garment,
when out rolled eleven gold guineas
wrapped up in a thirty-pound bank
note. We rather think, that in strict.
ness of law, the guineas of this treasure
trove belonged to the crown; but most
likely the elated buyer and the morti-
fled seller made merry over the wind
fall. Many people, in the days when
banking was little understood, had
habit of concealing their spare money
about their person; thus, an old waist
coat, bought for trifle-. was found
lined with bank notes Hnt of all the
finds, what shall we Think nf halyi
a paper manufacturer asspTes us that
IN a bag of3ags brought ffsth LcgholAi,
and opened at Edinburgh paper miH
tiny baby was found, pressed AMIDST
fiat. Poor bantlingI Was II accidently
squeezed to death in a turn-up bed
stead, or was some darker tragedy asso-
ciated with its brief history. Chambers
journal
Saturday visitor. (Newark, Del.) 1876-1876, 1876-02-12
UNDER THE SNOW.

All me, my garden lies under the snow,
The shrouding drifting snow;
Each flower that reared has bowed it's head ;
Its sweet bloom withered, its fragrance fled;
80 loved them, living, and mourn them dead
Dead under this Winter snow,
Lying beneath 1t, still and low, r.
Deadl and ] loved them sol M
But the sun by and by will melt the snow,
The glittering shroud of snow, ,.
And the beautiful bud and the stately tree
Win shed their fragrance again for me,
And my heart shall be glad when my eyes shall
see t .s.ls nIhni IIcl.
My treasures from under the snow 20 :
That my yearning love hath cherished SO,
Rise fair in the Summer glow. wv
Gods garden lies under the shrouding show,
The beautiful sheltering snow iis
And the buds that He took from your hand
and mine,
Are but waiting the time when His voice divine
Shall bid BIS sun on the garden shine,
And warm TO life in it's glow .,..,i''',,
The precious germs lying under the snow,
That He took when He loved them sol
Saturday visitor. (Newark, Del.) 1876-1876, 1876-02-12
How Much to Eat.


In order 10 keep the system healthy,
food should be judiciously consumed.
The harder a man works the moro nr-
triment he requires. While arWorking
man would need daily five pounds Of
solid mixed food, two and a half would
be enough for persons who lounge and
sleep much. Life can be sustained two
or three weeks on two ounces a day. A
change of diet should follow a change
of seasons--in winter, fat and SWEETS I;
in summer, fruits, fish, and lighter
meats. Milk and eggs. blood food I;
steak, flesh food; potatoes and wheat,
which being heated material, are fuel
and coffee stimulant. 1t Is important
that the workman should eat mixed
food, which, partaken of at regular sea-
sons, stimulates the system, and keeps
it in working order,
Saturday visitor. (Newark, Del.) 1876-1876, 1876-02-12

large patch, many yardsin extent, dyed
red with blood. Each wave showed a
stream of crimson as it washed over the
glistening bodies, rejoicing that 1t could
insult the strange forms that had lately
swan lords of the deep. Behind a
narrow beach rose the steep cliff, down
which were running the women and
children, their shrill cries rising above
the shouts of tile men and roar of the
waves. Gradually the tumult ceased,
except where a whale in the last throes,
wrapped himself in cloud of bloody
spray, and deluged the men who stood
by watching for another blow.
Saturday visitor. (Newark, Del.) 1876-1876, 1876-02-12
The Passions that Induce disease.

The passions which act most severely
on the physical life are anger, fear,
hatred and grief. The other passions
are comparatively innocuous. What is
called the passion of love is not injuri-
GUS until it lapses into grief and anx-
iety; on the contrary, it sustains the
physical powers. Whatiis called ambi-
tion is of itself hartnless; f6f amsition,
1ulaan 70 'sxis3A puEt1y 4 Is Fistzs.it tss tift-
ing its ownef from5himself into she ex-
alted service of nsankind.-.sf. knjures
when it is debased by its meaner ally,
pride, or when, stimulating mauto too
strenuous efforts after some great OBJ
ject, it leads him to the performance of
excessive mental or physical labor, and
to the consequences that follow such
effort. The passion called avarise, ac-
cording to my experience, tends father
to the preservation of the body tllan to
its deterioration. The avariciousl man,
who seems to the luxurious worl,l to be
debarring himself of all the pleasures
of the world, and even to be exposing
himself to the fangs of poverty, II gem
orally placing himself in precise cpndi-
tions favorable to a long and healthy
existence. BY his economy he is saw
ing himself from all the Worry iiicdent
to penury; by his caution he is SCREEN
ing himself from all the risks Incident
to speculation on the attempt to alnass
wealth by hazardous means; by his
regularity of hours and perfect appro-
priation of the sunlight in preference
to artificial illumination, he rests and
works in periods that precisely accord
with the periodicity of nature; b, his
abstemiousness in living he taps just
enough to live, which IL pecisel ! the
right thing to do according 20 the rigid
natural law. Thus, in almost every
particular, he goes on his way freer
than other men from the external causes
Of all the induced diseases, and better
protected than most men from tie worst
consequences of those disease4 hieh
spring from causes thai ara. uts-o troll
liable.
Saturday visitor. (Newark, Del.) 1876-1876, 1876-02-12
NEWARK, DEL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 70, 1876.

torealize that after the storm had come
sunshine, after many sorrows, joy.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-07-12
WHOLE NUMBER 1860

Jno. K, Cuttender; civilians, Bsston, Gus
tey, AItur, Reed, Kellogg, Chss. Reynolds
snd Frank &. Mann. Ipoian Scouts
Bloody knife, Bobts led Blu l and Stab.
hecapitulation and cou missioneG fficers,
killed, "A; acting assis' ant surgeons, ! ; on
listed mep, 2S7; civilians, 5: Indian
scouts, 3 The following is a full list OF
the wounded: Privstes Davis Cory,
Company i, Seventh Calvary. right hIp;
Patrick Mcdonnell. Company d. left leg;
y rgesnt Kohn Esht, Company II, bsck;
Private Michael c. Madden, Company K,
rlght leg; VIM, George, Company II. left
SIDE, died July 8, at 4 A. NJ; First Sergeant
VIM. Heyn, Company A, LETT knee; Private
Joc- McVsy, Company c. hip; Patrick
Corcorsp, Company K, right shoulder;
Max Wicke, Company X, left foot; Alfred
Whittier, Company G, right elbow; Peter
Thompson, right hand; Jacob Diehl, Com
psny A, face; j. II. Meyer, Company M,
back; Roman Butler, Company NJ, right
shoulder; Daniel Neville, Company NJ,
LETT thighf James Mullen, Company III,
right thigh; Elijah Srroudey Company A,
right Leg Sergeant Polk Carney, Com
James E. Kennett, Company c.
body, died Jaly s. at o'clock; Francis w.
Reeves, Company A, left hand and body;
James Wilbur, Company NJ, left leg; JAS
per Marshall, Company L, Left foot; Ser
geant smes Il. Riley, Company e, back
and lett leg; Private John T.. Phillips,
Company a, face ard both hands; Samuel
Severn, Company H both thighs; Frank
Brun, Company ID, lace and LETT thigh;
Corporal Alex 3. Bishop, Company 81,
right arm; Privates James Foster, Com
pany A, right arm; W. E. Harris, Com
parry M, left breast; Charles Fl. Bishop,
Company 81, right arm; Fred H.
Olmstesd. Company A, left wrist;
Sergeant Charles Write. Compsp A, right
arm; Private Thos. p. Varnev. Company
NJ, right ear; Chss. Campbell, Company G,
right shoulder; John Casper, Company II,
right elbow; John Mcclure, Company @,
right arm; Henry 3 ack, Company 81,
right hand; Daniel McWilliams, Company
h, right leg. An Indian scout, name un-
known, leit off at Bertbold; Sera sant NJ.
Riley, Company 1, 18th Infantry, left at
Buford, constipation; Private David At
kinson, Company c, 7th Cavalry, lett of in
July at Butord constipation.