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Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19
VNn AHnburGh tn Canaan
ON WEDNESDAY,. MAY 24Tu.

ON WEDNESDAY, MAY Z4TH.
 This great menagerie and circus will pitch their tents for an exhibition, on the old show grounds, in the Watson fields a few rods north of the depot in Canaan, Wednesday of next week.
 Of this grand combination the Harris burg Journal says:
 The procession was massive, and spoke of wealth. It was solid, and seemed to say to the beholder, I am just what ap- pear The golden chariot, with the fine band of music, came first, then the heavy car with huge African lion perched free and unrestrained upon its top. There were ponies, donkies and camels in the process sion; but the great bulk of the pageant was solid menagerie.' More than mile of massive vans filled with wild animals, each van double the size of ordinary cages, drawn by four or six horses glittering with gold and decked with silken banners, was the grand exhibition given free to our peo pie by the great Menagerle company in it's entrec. The inside performances and the collection of animals merit all praise, at least that is our verdict The two-horned rhinoceros was there despite the prophe- cies of all croakers. So was the hippopa- tamus hog, the Tartary yak, the addax, the ibex and rlver horse. The collection of animals was the fullest we have ever seen, and what splendid specimens of their sev- eral species they were! Those immense lions that paced the cages in all the majes ty of their native wilde Surely they were the first real lions we ever saw. And so of all the specimens. They were not like show animals in general, but seemed to have been just transferred from their free wilderness to the menagerie vans. There was no humbugging about the show, and every one of the audience felt as he passed round the huge tent and viewed the ani mals that he had already received the full value of his admittaAce fee. and wher seated in the colosseum we felt that Wt were receiving it four-fold.
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19
West C8rnVvnIE.

James Cochrane IS farming nowadays, and Huston Cochrane is butchering for R. N. Cochrane......B. Cady says the report of his marriage to certain widow is mali cious falsehood, gotten up to injure his character. Sunday, May 7th, about twen- ty-ivc persons were taken into the North Cornwall chuYch... The West Cornwall Sunday school association have raised fifty dollars for the purpose of purchasing new books for the library y......A. N. Dlbble has been very sick for several weeks with ty- phoid pneumonia, and at one time it was thought he could not recover; but we are glad to learn that he IS now convalescent. Dr. Sanford has attended him during his sickness, and his skillful treatment has un- doubtedly done much towards the recovery.
 NUF CED
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19

A countryman had sold abutcher some hogs, and was to deliver them in the after noon at the residence of the purchaser, but did not know where the said residence was. The butcher then gave him the following directions: You choost goes behind de Menger and turns to de right till you comes to fence init hole in it, den you turns up to de right tor while till you sees house init big hog in de yard. Dots me.
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19
BOR N.

In this village, May 18th, dsuphter to the Rev. Wm. A, Johnson. , In this town, May 17th, a daughter to Mir. and Mrs. Alexander Suydam.
 At CbapinviIe, May I6th. a daughter to MT. and Mrs Langdon Mallory.
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19
Desirable Farm for Sale.

A RARE opportunity is offered to purchase & A farm of about 100 acres, situated about 30 rods east of the village of North Canaan Depot, and the junction of the Conn. Western and Hous- gently occupied by Mss Susan Bennett, now de- ceased.
 fine large dwelling house, with good out buildings, running water, shady yard, excellent is suita ble and can be sold for building lots) being located in the handsomest part of the town of North Canaan, makes it one of the most desir- able locations in the county. For further partic- ulars enquire of SAMUEL A. BENNETT,
 c. W, R, R. office, Asylum street,
 4Ctf Hartford, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19

THE Two WHISPERS. MT. Web ster visited England, after he had attained fame enough to precede him, an English gentleman took him one day to see Lord Brougham. The eminent Briton re ceived our Daniel with such coolness that he was glad to get away and back to his looms. The friend who had taken him at once re turned to Lord Brougham in haste and an ger.
 My lord, how could you behave with such unseemly rudeness and discourtesy to so great lawyer and statesman It was insulting to him, and has filled me with mortifcatlon.'
 Why, what on earth have done, and 10 whom have I been rudeT
 'To Daniel Webster, of the Senate of the United States
 Great Jupiter, what bunder thought it was that fellow Webster who made dic- tionary and nearly ruined the English lan- guage.'
 Then the great Chancellor quickly hunt ed up the American Senator, and having other tastes in common besides law and pol ltics, they made royal night of it.-Har- per's MGgGzine.
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19

CENTENNIAL MUsIo.-F. w. Helmick, music dealer. 268 West Sixth street, ,Cincn. nati, will send a copy of that beautiful song and chorus That Banner Hundred Years Old," and i've photographs Of cen tennial buildings for 50 cents.
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19
Nnae 9ews.

.ss We shallfeel greatly obliged to any of ou friends in the county, elsewhere, who will send usparticulars of any occurrence ofinterestwhich may come under their notice.
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19

A woman in Omaha, 100 years of age, has had her grave clothes on hand for if teen years. Unless said clothes consist solely of pair of gloves, we should think they would make her hand tired,
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19

A high toned New York woman won't button her own galters, because it's low business. But she might elevate it consid erably by putting her foot on the mantle piece when she buttons her shoe.
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19
M AR REED

At Sheffield. (Silver Street,) May 17tb. at the residence of the brides father, by Rev. Germond, MT. John c. Richmond of Canaan and Miss Lib bic Roraback.
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19

w We are informed by postmasters the fol- where they have been regularly receiving THE NEWS. and as they did not notify us of their change of post-oface. and are in arrears to the amounts placed parallel with their names we pub fish their only address known to us, and if any of our readers know of the whereabouts of any Of Is it exactly HONEST treatment. to receive news paper till several dollars due, and then leave the postmaster to inform us the paper Is not re- ce ived, and the subscriber gone, nobody knows wheres The following have done this: Does
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19
PASTURING
House and Lot for Sale
For Sale,
Show Cases.

INOR want of space, would like to exchange E flat counter Show Case feet long and feet wide with glass top and sides, in good order, for an upright square Show Case 2 or Ia 1t. square. Or will sell this cheap. and worth the money to anyone wishing such a show case. Address
 G. H. PECK. Ellsworth Ct May 1st 1876, 4W43
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19
ED.

At Chapinvie, May 18th, William Landon, aged Sl years.
 At Cornwall Centre, May 9th, Charles H. Whea ton, aged 9 years.
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19

A GENUINELY FAST TRA1N.-The New York Sun says: Messrs. Jarrett & Palmer will, on June 1st, begin an attempt to trav- el from Jersey City to San Francisco in 84 hours. The train, composed of the fastest engine on the Pennsylvania railroad, No.
 100, one express car, one parlor car, and one Pullman palace car, is to start at one o'clock in the morning and cross the Miss issippi before midnight of the same day. The first continuous run is to be from New York to Pittsburgh, 444 miles ia 10 hours. The next stopping place is Chicago, and the New York journals are to be delivered in Chicago for once on the day of publica- tion. After leaving Chicago, the train is to stop only at Omaha and Ogden, reaching San Francisco on Sunday, the start having been on Thursday, in time for dinner. There can be only twenty passengers, each to have ticket in the form of book, 4 by 2 1-2 inches, with covers of solid silver
 engraved and embossed. The fare is $500
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19

THE KELLEY MoToR,-So little has been said about the Keeley motor that many doubtless have supposed that it had become an exploded idea. The Philadelphia Press however, in what IS apparently the report of an interview, announces that the inven- tion has been perfected and will probably be exhibited during the month at the Gen. tennial exposition. The person interviewed would set no tune for the exhibition. but gave the 18th inst. as the latest date upon which the great discovery would first ap- pear in it's perfection before the public This person said in regard to the progress made: We have found that solid wrought iron blocks, when forged together, car be bored out to form the necessary cubes and cylinders, and we have now a machine made in this way which has stood hydro static pressure of thirty-five thousand lbs. to the square inch The motor stands now about eight feet high, and is three feet wide in its greatest breadth.
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19

To SAVE THE DRUNKARD.-Rev. B. E. Hale's essay on temperance, tread before the Christian Union of Boston, is much com mented on, and seems to have been an un- usually able paper. It discourses the rela- tions of law to temperance and the power of moral suasion, and'speaking of the duty toward those attempting to reform he re- marks as follows:
 'To arrest intemperance we must substi- tute some other quickener or stimulus for the accustomed physical stimulus of liquor. Else we leave the house swept and garnish- ed-but alas! empty-and the devil, who has gone, comes and peeps in and finds it empty, and returns with seven other devils, worse alas, than the first. The stimulus needed in our social order IS what will call social stimulus. Every temperance movement should ai D at supplying social stimulus where the stimulus of the bar room has been taken away. Do not make a man take the pledge and then leave him alone, breeding over it. Let him see, on the other hand, that the moment he made that determination he rose to higher and more spiritual social grade. Surround him with frierds, with music, with good books, with good talk. Let him see and know what it is to live largely, truly and in the elevating company of other men. In our New England society we have no organizs- tions so well fitted to take this duty in hand as the organizations of our churches. Here I am not speaking of the duty of their min isters. In truth, this is line of duty in which they do not largely excel. They are called to service so varied that they have hardly the time. It may be that their edu- cation has made them scholastic or ungen- ial in manner. The more the pity if it have. But for the conscientious members of their churches this is present duty. To young men or young women just wakened to the sense of Gods presence and of Sa- viour's love, here is the answer to the i'm mediate question, What am to do say I love God-how am to show it?' say the first answer is: You are to make this village, or this parish, more cordial, more social, more intimate, more Christian in its intimacies. As member of Christ's church you are to see that strangers have real welcome; that amusement, instruction and society are at the hands of everyone within our reach. The night that a poor repentant throws down the glass in sa loon, resolved never to enter there again, il is to be the night when he is made welcome at your vestry, at your union. at your cha
 rade party, at your concert, at your lecture
 at your theatricals. at your home.' This is
 the special business intrusted in our order
 to the church, and it is the business ir
 which the younger people in the church
 have more power than any other."
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19

W. Mahoney, East Canaan, 800
 lAnd a large number of others. whose names will be added as soon as we have time to look up their accounts
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19
COl1iMsvilRe.


 Daniel Dyer, one of the prominent farm CTS of Canton, died May 11th, aged 5a- His funeral was attended at his late resi- dence on Sunday, May 14th, ,and the house, though large, could not contain more than half the people present......T There has been sad mortality thus far in 1876. There have been already 45 deaths, and 32 of them were children under 12 years of age. One family buried four children, another three, and four other families buried two each, and 17 families buried cue each. The pre- yailing disease was scarlet fever Only two Yankee children died, and neither of these had the above Trinity Episcopal church, just completed, on Maple avenue, was opened for worship on Sunday after noon, May 14th, on which occasion Bishop Williams preached and administered the rite of confirmation to eight candidates...... Mrs. Fannie Woodford, widow of the late Elias Woodford, died in Collinsville May Eth, aged 83 years. She was the last of a family of ten children of Frederick and Ruth Humphrey. Mrs. w. was born in the oldest house now standing in Collins vile, at present occupied by J. B. Bodwell and E. Hough. Cornelius ". Chapin of Collinsville, postal clerk on the Conn. Vest ern road between Hartford and Millerton, has been recently transferred to the through route between New York and Boston. Ar thur P. Dow, late of the New York and Boston route, takes the place of MT. Chapin on the Conn. Western road. The reason of the transfer was, Mir. Dow did not feel strong enough to continue the arduous du- ties of SO long a oute......George Wicks and William Butler, two miserable tramps, have recently been arrested for larceny in Canton and each sent to jail for thirty days and fine of seven dollars and costs to work out......A few years ago man in this town married widow, and lacking harmo- ny got divorce and married another wo- man, and soon there were more troubles and they were divorced. He then sought out his first wife and married her again, and still he was unhappy, and now they are di- vorced again. The Collins company have a magnificent show case at the Centennial, 36 feet long and 10 feet high, covered with 800 varieties of their tools artistically ar ranged on crimson groundwork, and the whole forms a very attractive feature among the manufactures of Connecticut. They also exhibit in the agricultural de- pertinent great variety of their celebrated | east cast-steel nlougbs. D. B. H.
Connecticut western news., 1876-05-19

Important Discovery.-MR.E ED1roR.- There has recently been discovered on the farm of Sereno Swift in Ellsworth, rich deposit of white Lead. It lies in the hill called Crocker Hill, about 15O feet above the level of the Housatonic river The prospector who discovered it, at once sunk shaft 90 feet in depth, the last 40 feet being through what is almost pure lead, ,and has not reached the bottom of the vein yet. He thinks to facilitate the digging process by tho use of stream of water eight feet wide and eight feet deep, to be taken from Dog creek, a stream quarter of mile dis tant from the mlne. To accomplish this he has dug canal from the above men toned creek, in round about way, to the mine, the distance being nearly half mile
 Stock has been taken by John F, Swift & Go. and other enterprising men of this vii cinity to the amount of $5O,OOO. Mr.
 Swift has already been offered an almost fabulous sum for his farm, but refuses to sell. Some that have taken stock arc large owners in the magnetic ore bed opened three years ago on the farm occupied by James and Albert Hall. The two mines are not more than quarter of mile dis tant from each other. It is thought by some that there is large deposit of silver not far distant, X.. '. z.
, 1876-07-08

After nearly all the matter for inscr-
tion WAS on hands for last weeks paper
we received the following letter. Not
feeling sure it was designed for publica
tion MS Il whole, we put it one side until
We could find time to examine it fully.
We here inscrt all relating to matters Of
public interest.
WaATCoM, June. II. 1876.
EDITOR NORTHERN STAR.
UCGr SIR In your issue Of June 10th.
read an article in regard to the What
com County Mails, III which you seem to
have bcca misinfnrmed, and as this is
matter upon winch the people of What
com feel that thcir rights have been
grossly outraged. lpmpnsc to give you
short tut true history of the difficulty.
The first and only oil regularly estab.
lishcd at this place or Srhome was estab-
lShcd at the town of Wmtcom, the cOun.
ty sent Of Whatcom County. After n
time person living on the Schome side
of the Bay was made deputy postmaster
and put in full charge of the Office, He
tor his own convenience, saw fit to open
and di1tihntc the mails at Schomc.
The people Of Whatcom demonstrated
at this thing. In the mean time the
postmaster resigned, and the deputy was
made postmaster As means to pre-
vent the Office being returned to its law
tul location petition was circulated in
Schome, representing that the two names
represented the same place, and asked to
have the name of the office changed to
Sehomc. This was the situation when
the contract for supplying the office was
let; the present contractors r.fusing to
deliver the mail and the department ut
Washington seemed disposed to ignore
oar rights; we formally petitioned to the
Post Office department to establish q
post office ut the county seat of What.
com County, and they did so, but failed
to make any adequate arrangements to
supply the Office with the mail. We
have applied to all the postal agents in
turn, who have generally promised to
come and inquire into the matter, hut
they 80 far have failed to fnl tleir way
to Whatcom.
, 1876-07-08
=. d. REINHAnT.

Kate Field il actually going to marry
an American critic. She deems it best
we presume, to have q critic on the
hearth
, 1876-07-08

The maia question involved is wheth.
cr changing the name Of an office chang.
cs the location also. 1t would seem that
in this case the department has decided
that it does.
In your trip to Whatcom and back you
make the following remark: II forces
wasted in jealousy OF the Coal Companys
Clique, or the County office Clique 50
called, were spent in a hearty co opera
ton to dcyclope local interests, &c. If
you think there is a coal company and
county Office clique would say, there is
but the one, which is composed of the
heretofore leaders OF tho Republican and
Democratic parties, headed and CONTROL.
cd by the Coal Company. The proof Of
the above assertion is in the ticket put
up and voted for, 10y said ring.
, 1876-07-08

AT The l. st general election, the people,
becoming tired Of the dcspotic rule of
the coal company ring, put UP an indi-
pendent ticket and succeeded in clccting
II majority of the county officers, against
the combined forces of the Republican
and Democratic parties, At the next
election, we hope and expect 10 make u
clean sweep.
am much pleased with the general
appearance and tone Of your paper, aud
hope YOU will meet with the success YOU
deserve.
Yours truly,
Y ID REMNANT
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-08-11
tNUIIIIIIU IUItIVtI7
On Marriage.
EAST PORTLAND. Aug. 1. 1876.

EAST PORTLAND. Aug. l, 1876.
A few thoughts on Romans, vii. 2-3 :
For the woman which hath an husband
is bound by the law to her husband so long
as he iiveth but if the husband be. dead,
she is loosed from the law of her husband.
So. then. if while her husband liveth, she
be married to another aIan. she shall be
called an adulteress; but il her husband be
dead. size is free fron that law; so that
she is 10 adultcress. though she be married
to another man. From this apostolic ex-
position of the law of God upon the sub
jcct of niatrimoEy, we are fully SUSTAINED
in asserting that nothing short of the death
of the husband can SD exonerate the wife
from her marriage obligations as to leave
her at liberty to .narry another man. That
cases may and do sometimes occur in which
wife may lawfully separate from her hus-
band, or husband may put away his
GENTLY clear and to the point. tSee Matt.
v. 32; also xix. 81 But in no case do we
fiud authority for such persons to marry
again. Cases may occur in which sepa-
ration may take place against the Nvill of
one of the parties. aud not for the cause
mentioned ia Matt. xix g.; but in such
cases the parties are forbidden to marry
aglin:-.. But unto the married I COM
mand, yet not I. BUT the Lord. let not the
wife depart from her husband but if she
depart let her remain unmarried. or become
reconciled TO her husband'' y Il Cor. vii. 10,
1I; :. The wife is bound by the law as
long As her husband liveth . Il Cor. vii. 39J.
From the plain testimony of the Scrip
lures as referred to above, we give it as oitr
decided conviction that no married wife
can, under any circumstance whatever,
marry another man while her Husband il
living, without involving herself in the
crime of adultery nor can a man marry
again, while his wife lives, without involv-
ing the same sin. A bill of enforcement,
legally obtained, may in the eye of our
civil code siisanrul former marriage con-
tract. SO that as far as the civil law is COLI
cerned. the parties may contract to live in
adultery, aud their issue be legally their
heirs but the Bible gives them no such
liberty nor has the God of heaven given
any authority 20 any earthly Legislature to
divide asunder what God has Joined to-
gether. How can man, protesting 10 be
a minister OF Jesus Christ, join such
partiesin marriage contract that have been
divorced from their fornaeF colupanionss
Can he have the. fear Of God bsfore his
eyes? p. GEORGE.
Halleck Griffin returned from Southern
Oregon last week. He secured a fine stock
ranch about f;,rry miles from, Goose Lake.
to which he expects to return Ia about six
weeks. a.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-08-11

Halleck Griffin returned from Southern
Oregon last week. He secured a fine stock
ranch about f;,rry miles from Goose Lake,
to which he expects to return IN about six
weeks. I.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-08-11
A DouBre Danser Avcrtssl.

The inhabitant of a nialarious region Is
threatened by double danger. He is not =
only compelled to breathe miasnia' Dus " y
seoaiiosc It, since it infeets not only lnc as-s
mosphere but the water Inc acrlat poisoi.
threatens his system through the lungs and
pores, the liquid through the stomach.
.kas;,,,, akal..s; and that is to invig0rate the
ap,t; popar - ho.iy through the digestive and Sc
er.ss eretivs organs: orsiinAsx tonlcs usually
the the diseases orfginated ~ 1nAlaF ria Afe Of 4
= more malignant tyr< lsan those origin ..
stefl by the same cause HI tile temperate.
zone, It enjoys immense aud constantly In
cysasing sales, and there Il no portion ca
this continent where it Is not the nai9sfnR
snecific for lniasmetie feyers ann disorders
Of the stomach liver and bowels, proceed
ine frou malaria and other causes. 4kus.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-08-11

FnsE.-A fire last Friday hight burned
down little shanty on tho bank of the
willamette few rods west Of Althouse &
Cos. planning mills. The alarm was given
about midnight. The fire department. was
ON ifand promptly, No. 1's getting the first
water on to the fire. Owing to not having
prepared kindling, No. rs steamer was
longer than usual IN getting up steam. TIE
fire was put out, and both engines safely
housed before / o'clock.