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Connecticut western news., 1876-01-14
Where the Powders Come From.

! All have seen the immense powders called saost rock" in some sections, scattered over the northern part of the United States, which have little or no resemblance to any mass of rock any where in the vicinity, and have perhaps asked the question: Where did they come from? also the heaps of sand, gravel, and cobble-stones of various sizes, which form many of our ridges, knolls, and hills, and which arc totally unlike any fixed rock near them. All these phenomena, says Scientific Anaersi- and that is the great sheet of ice which nature stored up ages ago without the necessity of protecting it in an ice-house.
 According to Agassiz, the sheet of ice extended in this country as far South as South Carolina or Alabama, and was thick enough to cover all the mountains of the Eastern part of North America, with the exception of Mount Washington.
 This peak projected, @ lone sentinel on that vast waste of ice, two or three hun dred feet. In the latitude of northern Massachusetts, he conceives the ice to have been two or three miles thick. The powders were all torn off by the ad- vancing ice sheet, from the projecting rocks over which 1t moved, and carried or pushed as. s'bottom drift" scratching and blowing the surface over which it passed, and being scratched and polish ed themselves in return, till they were finally brought to rest by the melting of the ice. They were. not carried as far south as the ice sheet extended, seldom beyond the parallel of forty degrees north. ,,. The native copper of Lake Superior was drifted four or five hun dred miles south and the pudding stones of South Roxbury, Mass, were carried as far south as the island of Penikesa.r = Z l | -L..-.-.-
Connecticut western news., 1876-01-14
What Pooty Itsey Ting Says.

I am here. And if this is what they call the world, I don't think much of it. It's very fiannelly world, and smells of paregoric awfnlly. It's la dreadful light world, too, and makes me blink, I tell you. And don't know what to do with my hands; I think I'll dig my fists ill my eyes. No, I won't, I'll scrabble at the corner of my blanket and chew it up, and then I'll holler; whatever happens I'll holler. And the more paregoric they give me the louder I'll yell. That old nurse puts the spoon in the corner of my mouth in very uneasy way, and keeps tasting my milk herself all She while She split snuff in it last night, and when l hollered, trotted me. That came of being a two days old baby. There's pin sticking in me now, and if I say & word about it I'll be trotted or fed and would rather have catnip tea. I'll tell you who I am. l found out to-day. Iheard folks say: '' Hush, don't wake up Emeline's baby;" and l suppose that pretty white faced woman over on the pillow is Emeline. No, l was mistaken; for chap was in here just now, and wanted to see Bob's baby; and he looked at me and said: |" l was funny little toad; and looked just like Bob." He smelt of cigars. l wonder who else I belong to. Yes, there's another-that's "Gamma. It was ,s Gamma's baby, so it was.'' declare I do not know who belong to but I'll holler, and may be I'll find out. There comes Snuffy with catnip tea. I'm going to sleep. I wonder why my hands won't go where want them to.
Connecticut western news., 1876-01-14
Increase of Human Health.

Says the New York Ledger Some of our correspondents want to know whether men live as long nowadays as they did 8 thousand years ago, and if they are as large and strong now as they were then. It is difficult to get at the exact truth with regard to this subject; but, of late years. it has become a matter of belief among the best informed, that the health, strength and longevity of the civilized portion of the human race are greater now than at any former period. ...n
 As to the comparative size of the moderns and the ancients, it is pretty generally conceded that we have the ad- vantage. The suits of ancient armor which are preserved in all parts of Flu rope are confossedly too small for men of average size in these days. And it is probable that prize boat crew of any American or English college could row around the best crew that pulled oars @ thousand years ago.
Connecticut western news., 1876-01-14
A Singular Murder and disuicide

MT. and Mrs. Ritter were middle aged couple who had long been resi- dents of Flatbush,I N. Y. They were people in comfortable circumstances, and among the most respectable in the locality. A difference in religious be- lief was constant bone of contention between the husband and wife, and led, indirectly, to double crime. -'
 The night previous to the murder and suicide there was Methodist prayer meeting at the house of a neighbof, and Mrs. Ritter, whor had for some time manifested great anxiety for her hus- bands soul, wanted him to attend the meeting with her. He declined, and she went away alone, highly displeased with him. Ritter spent the evening at the house of another neighbor, a mem Der of the Reformed Church. The Methodist meeting was out, and Mrs. Ritter got home and abed before her husband returned home. When he. re- paired to his bedroom he found that his wife had locked the door on the inside and positively refused to lethim in. He found every other bedchamber in the house and every room with fire in locked, and he was finally compelled to go into the attic. The night was bitter cold, and he got but little sleep. ''A"
 The next morning he came down and foun6the kitchen unlocked, but his wife not yet out of her room. She presently appeared, and at once sssailed him for his persistent refusal to repent of his sins. Warm words followed, and at last Ritter picked up hammer that lay near and exclaimed: " ,, "' ,.
 "We might better be dead than live in this way !" --t'# "4" B. -...
 He then dealt his wife several blows on the head, and she fell to the floor. Her screams were heard by Eli -Eph- grave, neighbor, and he at once rushed, into Ritter's apartments. He found the husband, standing over the prostrate form of his wife with the ham mer raised as if to strike again. Eph- grave seized hold of him and threw him aside, and carried Mrs. Ritter into his own part of the house. Ritter repeated the above remark as Ephgrave went out with the wounded woman.
 He was left alone in his room but @ moment, but whsn Ephgrave returned he found Ritter on his knees before his bed with his head fallen over upon it and blood streaming from his throat to the floor. Ritter was taken up and laid upon his bed, when it was seen that he had cut his throat from ear, to ear with @ razor. He died before a physician could be called, and his victim died shortly after
Connecticut western news., 1876-01-14
The Legend of Navaranak.

The inlanders and the coast people in the beginning were friends. A servant maid called Navaranak used to be sent out by the inlanders to the coast people in order to fetch back, 1sdtak (edihle whale skin), and in exchange brought them reindeer tallow; but after time she grew weary of this work, and re- solved to free herself by making them enemies For this purpose she told the inlanders that the coast people were go- ing to attack them, and to the coasters she asserted that the inlanders were mak- ing ready to invade them. At length she provoked tho ,inlanders to such 8 degree that they resolved upon attacking the coast people,, They chose time whe they were we'll aware that the men had all gone out hunting, and, accom- panied by Navaranak, fell upon the helpless women and children. In their fright some of the mothers killed their own children, but one woman who was pregnant fell down beneath the ledge, and when Navaranak was sent back by the inlandersto find her out she promised her all she possessed not to -betray her. Some also escaped by hiding among the rocks, but all the rest were killed. When the men returned those who were left alive ran down and told them what had happened, and on coming up from the beach to their houses and beholding all their dead, the men were almost desper- ate. When the time came for fiensing and cutting up the whale, Navaranak did not arrive as usual; she seemed to have disappeared altogether. When summer had again come round the inen prepared great many. arrows, and set out for the interior to take revenge on the inlanders. On their way they called out, as was their wont "Navaranak, come on, we have got matak for thee l' but no one appeared. Again they went on good distance, and then repeatedly called out: 't Navaranak,". etc. And this time she answered the summons, and went up to them. On noticing their arrows, she was about to- take flight, Measuring her, however, they told her she had no need to do that. ' When, she had ventured quite close to them, they asked her where her countrymen were to be found. and she said i" Further away in the interior of the country ;'' but now they made her fast to rope, and dragged her along with them until she perished. At length they arrived at very large lake, where the tents of the ,inlanders were pitched all around, and they saw people going out and in. But they waited till all had entered the tents, and then they made their attack. Ar4ows came flying from both sides; but those of the inlanders soon grew fewer in number, and the coast people remained all unwounded. When they had done with the men, they went in side, killing women and children; and having thus satisfied their revenge, re- turned to their homes.
Connecticut western news., 1876-01-14
The WifeSS Appeal.

Since love, dear lord, lies dead within your Ind. eyes, .g o4t --. --'t And pity speaks not in 8 single tone, E And no fond thought makes kind your cruel
 touch, Take sharp sword and slay me. must die. An! once my heart was like the rounded moon Reflected in still waters ; new it breaks,
 Tossed by the whirling eddies of despair Sweet were the days of youth, and sweeter
 yet ....... t.. The golden summers when your love was 'S'-Ei strong, Before Ohana blossomed into flower.
 But when that brightness came saw yeu1 Y s,y~ soul '5E7G --5.,r1 ts --..f Nf t--.-' Bend like slender branch beneath the bird That flushed with spring and weary of far
 Tight, r, .-..-r f. 4 > Sinks, soft as snowflake, on the rosy world. Dreams the fair dove among the quiet trees, Or speeds in sunny splendor OCT the fields What life more free and full of pleasant things7 am foolish bird whose messy nest
 Is burned to ashes, and with wounded wing I fit through flaming woods in pain and fear. Is there shelter in the whitening world7 Where shall go What friend can comfort ,i, mi me ,t5.f-Itecg5 -tt!s S.1 W0Li
 Oh, husband, love or kill me where lie! g 1
Connecticut western news., 1876-01-14
Meritless MartyrdOm.

g For the existing state of things, in very many cases, farmers wives are themselves to blame. They put too much heart into their work, and not enough brains. They set their affections upon preserving an immaculate order, upon doing everything which they con- sider indispensable to good housekeep- ing, with conscientiOusness worthy of higher object, They act the martyr, utterly ignoring the fact that martyrdom is only sublime when the object of de- votion is worthy of the suffering endur- ed. If the farmers wife would use her intelligence more, and consider that her chief function in the family is to make a home, not to be mere housekeeper to be a mother, not drudge to supply her children's physical necessities to be a helpmeet for her husband, not in one or two particulars merely, but in all, then would come the beginning of better things, If she would consider that upon her depends in so great de- gree the cultivation in those about her of refined, sssthetic tastes, and the lift ing up of the life into something higher than the mere execution of life's chores, surely she would not exhaust all her strength upon that which perisheth with the using, .3 VI -- .1' ''-,
 2. know farmers wives whose husbands are worth from $100, 900 to $20O, GOO who are frequently without help, simply be- cause good help is scarce, and poor help not to be endured by them so they work from four in the morning until late at night, and expect their neighbors to commend them when they declare they have not, read Q book or paper for months. There are others who keep some help, but do not take the time gained thereby for recreation or. i'm provement, but hold on to the old ways of doing things which furnish extra work enough. to consume all the time gained; as, for instance, with sewing machine idle in the corner, they sit pa tientlyr sewing by hand little calico patches together, which are too small to put through the machine, and which it is perfectly absurd for any woman to ex- haust her nerves oyer. Yet women, overworked women, will commit this folly, although very slight exercise oi \ their reasoning powers would suffice tc show them that when comforters can be tackled so quickly, and when cotton and woolen blankets and white spreads can be , bought so cheaply, it is deliberate | murder of time and. vital strength to Ispend so many precious hours over in, Insignificant, ugly patchwork quilts. Az ricultural fairs should be ashamed of en- couraging such work by offering premi. ums for it. t,s ai-.-.e
Connecticut western news., 1876-01-14

On hearing this, the eldest began t,

On hearing this, the eldest began to cry out: '' ''Karen, my beloved; come hither for moment-come, my dearest Karen" But all his appeals were lost upon Karen Even when he went into their bedroom, and began to urge her, with 8 kind of gentle violence, he could not make her stir. }, The second husband fared no better with his Maren. -...l .s,.-
 It was now. the, third husbands turn. He merely went to the door, knocked, and said "Come here, Metty."
 Out she came in 8 moment, and in quired whether he wanted anything.
 He answered :r st stMerely the sprig which I gave into your keeping when we were in the wood on our wedding day"
 She gave it to him at once, as she al- ways carried it in her pocket. Then the husband showed it to the others, saying :,t' Behold I bent this branch while it was still green-you ought to have done the same l"
Connecticut western news., 1876-01-14
New YO k Cattle Market.

The annual review of the stock traffic of New York for the year 1875 shows that there has been small decrease in the number of beeves received, very marked falling off in the receipts of hogs, and moderate increase in the receipts of veals and sheep and lambs. The average price of beef cattle for the year IS thirty two cents per hundred pounds higher than for the year 1874 ; sheep ranged forty cents per hundred pounds lower, and hogs about one dollar and twenty cents per hundred pounds higher. The total cash value of the beeves, sheep, calves and hogs received alive in this market during the year, is $60, 0,000,000, and the annual cost for marketing this stock, including the charges for yarding and feeding t ere, is close to $2,000,000.
Connecticut western news., 1876-01-14
His Notes,

Several years ago, a noted highway man was arrested in the south of Ireland, and curiosity drew numbers to the jail to see the man loaded with irons who had long been terror to the country. Among others was @ banker, whose notes at that time were not held in the high est estimation, who told the prisoner that he was very glad to see him there at last. The highwayman, looking up, replied "Ah, sir, I did not expect that from you-indeed, I did not for you know well that when all the country re- fused your notes, I took them"
New-York tribune., 1876-07-10
Tile SERTIAN POHTION.

The news of the last three days, although
contradictory in many details, enables us
finally to understand the general character of
the military movements on both sides. TIE
situation shows great promptness of action on
the part OF the Turks, who have already sur
rounded the whole territory OF Servia, from
the Danube southwark, westward, and north
ward around to the Save. On the other hand,
the Seryians evidently anticipated these move
meEts, for they are operating with four de-
tached armies, OH the four chief points along
the line. They have the inside track, with
far greater advantages OF communication and
support than their enemies; but it Will re-
Gure all their strength and gencra!ship to
hold their ground, until the Prince of Monte
negro, moving northward in the rear of the
Turkish right, will be able TO relieve the half
of their threatened line.
The four Servian armies are thus disposed:
On the extreme right, not far from the Aus
trian frontier, Ger. 0limpics has crossed the
Drina, met an army of $1,000 Turks at Bel
ina in Bosnia, and been compelled 10 fall
back, vet without rccrossing tho river. On
the right center, at the southwestern corner
of Seryia, the army Of Gen. Tchernayeft has
advanced into Bosnia, and defeated the Turks
at Rashka, while the division under Gen. Zach
appears to have suffered repulse. The OBJ
iective point of this movement is the import
ant town Of Novi-ba2ar, which the Turks still
hold. The headquarters of Prince Milan, with
another amy, are at AlcXinatz, just
within the Seryian frontier, abOnt forty miles
from the City of Nissa, in Bulgaria, on the
old road from Belgrade to Constantinople
Finally, on the left, there is an army
at Saitschar on the little river Timok, which
falls into the Danube above the Turkish for
tress of Widdin. This army has gallantly
repelled four desperate assaults OF Turkish
army which has the fortress as its base OF
operations. Along the Seryian right, however
i now the critical situation. The MontcncgTin
army has reached Gatchko, half way to Mostar,
the capital Of the Herzegovina. This indicates
that its object il to clear the insurgent terri
tory Of the Turks (nearly all of whom, prob
ably, have been withdrawn to the Servian
line) and possess it, before falling upon the
rear of the Turks along the Drina.
Such, apart from all exaggerated reports of
victory Or defeat from either side, is the pres
ent military stu ton. Both Seryia and Tur-
key perceive its necessities, and are hurrying
rcGnforcements % the front. They appear TO
be animated ly IN equal desperation, and the
main strug1 l.. Which is soon to come, viii be
bloody and pitiless. The repulses on the
Scrvian right are not necessarily discouraging.
If tie Monteneglin army moves rapidly and
successfully, it will be impossible for Turkey
to strengthen her forces on the line of the
New-York tribune., 1876-07-10
Jn0cx 10 ADVERTISEMENTS.

A.usENRNTs- Sd onqe-5th and 6b columns
BASKING AND FISANCiAL-1h Page-2d column. 49,,
BANKING HOUSES AND BASBTRs-1M Pc9e-4th ana oth
columns.
BoAPp ASp RooNs-3d PnqS-3d and 4th columns
BUSINESS CHANCEs-7h PGGe-tth cOirinn
business NOIiCEs--iM Pdge-lst column.
DENusTRY--i rdOe-6th cOunui
Dividend NoTICEs-7H Pd0c-5th and 6th cOluinLs
DRY GoODs-:d PGGe-Id column.
EXCUksIONs-,d P0g(-StE column
FIsAECIAil-7th PdgS-ith column.
FURNITURE Gh PdGs-ith column.
HORSES CAKKiAGEs, Nc.-GM Pagc-lth couHn
HOUSES AND FARMS HANTED-6h Pag6-ath cOiutbn.
ICg CREAM-Itt IuQt-Gth column.
INSTRUCTION. Gm PaOe-2d ana 3d columns.
IHCTUREs AND MEETINGs-3d FdGe-6th column.
MARBLE AND >LATI MASTEIs-6fa Pdoe-4th coiutpn'
MAKEiAGiS AND LbEsfH--ih PIGe-Cth ColuniD a.,
AIsCELLANEOgs-Tih Pdge-Oth cOiun1; 81" FGge-o'"
and 6th COLUMNS -, ,
MUSICAL iSSTRUNESTS-6h Pd0T--1u culuihp'
NFy PTgLICA AriOSs-6ih PilGe-2d column
RYAL ESTATE tUR sAIE-CITI-6h Pdge-4th column
ERoOXLYN--GN Pace-ith cOlum; CoUNIhY-OH I1Gt
-4th column; 20 EXCHkNGE--6h Idge-4th column.
RAIrs nY AUCTION 6m PdOe-ath column.
elyJHGs BNSKS-Th FGGe-5th column.
SITUATIONS WASTSU-MALES-3d JdGt-0tn coIihi ;
FEMALEs--Si E11S-5th and 6th columns.
SPECIAL NOTICES 5-5h PG1e-6th column
eIRAHBOsT ASD kAIROAlS-Zd fdge-oth co!uiih-
3d Iage-lst, I'd and 81 columns.
SIRANyb-. OCEAN IN PQGC--Cth column.
SUMMER EETRRArs-.jd Fd9s-ith ana 9th columns
JvACUkRS-CM PdGe-3j column.
THR TUpf-3d PCOs-6th column. 49,
To IIT-D.OOEIYS PROPERTY-GH PGCc-ith coiunn !;
CoUkrRY-6M PacC-;;d and 18th columns.
New-York tribune., 1876-07-10
NEAT AND UxlBlTS.

Except On the shores of tho Red Sea and
the Desert of Sahara, there is no portion Oh
the TrOpcs where so intense and e1haustlng
n degree of heat is experienced as during orr
Summers of this country. For the past IT.
days, the thermometer has not failed to reach
300 daily. and has twice reached 100
ard over, in some parts of the city. Inc
night temperature has gradually nsen until 1t
hns touched the almost unendurabe extreme
of So at midnight in tie open air. Not Only
tho laboring classes, forced by necessity 20
toll al day under the direct rays OF the sun,
but even those who are able to ENJOY such
shade and Tep0sc as are procuraDle, snher
from this excess of heat. On Saturday one
Member e congress died, and several others
with thrce Or fotr Senators, were dangerously
affected The sca-coast secnis to have lost Its
usual refrcshment, and the mountains omy
nclose more torrid iierceness IN their giens
From the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains the
whole couiftry rants and swelters and faiDtS
under the storm OF heat.
1t is singular to note, however how incapable
is or race OF temporarily varying It's habits to
suit tho temperature. Tho car and carriage
horses are botter of, in this respect, than men
bonnets, and toss their knots OF ribbon with
an air of easy comfort, while the master groanS
under his black coat and crayat, and the
mistress is sulfocated within her cl0sc-fttinS
silks. at one time OF Saturday, AT the Academy
OF Design, ont of ffty or sixty visitors present,
there was but one lady dressed might, cool lawn,
and one gentleman in linen. Most OF the
former wore heavy silks, and the latter the
darkest colors to catch and retain The heat.
The blood-yessels of the neck and wrists, by
which the temperature of the whole body is
most readily regulated, are still closely band
aged. end the elegant devotee of society is eX-
pect.d not 70 pcrspirc At such dinner parties
and evening receptions as are required to be
gwen at this season, black broadclotb is 10
less de riguc,r than III Winter. The city holds
f1s. to its proprietics in spite Of sunstrCle and
ntclcrahlc suffering.
Perhaps some ages hence, when common
sense shall be 4 recognized factor in social
life. eur descendants may meet the more than
tropical Summer with open throats and loose
sleeves, may walk the streets in wide trOu
sers, and dine i'll linen jackets. II this should
ever come 10 pass, we may also expect that
the laborer will wear n cabbace-lCaf III his
hat and postpone his whisky until frost comes;
that every street and alley viii be kept SO
clean that the City Government will sigh for
their vanished smells; that babies will no
longer be taken on long railroad journeys;
and that Congress, after having carefully and
honestly provided for the expenses Of the
Government, will adjourn before the Fourth
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