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Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28
Lime ROciks

Lime Rock.
 FRIEND PEAsE:-You say in your last weeks NEWS that the weather is too hot for your correspondents to work, but how do you think the boys in the wheel shops have got along all through this hot wealth CT? Why, MT. Editor, can't you have a permanent correspondent in this busy little village? There is enough transpires in this village andits surroundings every week to nearly fill column in your paper. I've should be rejoiced to be put on the track of somebody we could make a permanent shot our double-barrel gun, but would set as many traps for him, as our esteemed friend Observer says few lines below, he had set for his chicken visitors, and if possible would catch him. Now then, MT. Observer" can't you be induced to o6ser0e once week for us for while and sec how you like it. Can't affold to pay you over hundred dollars an hour for your work. but will give you perhaps an occasional perquisite to make up the odd change. Dare you do lt?-ED. NEWS. ] The young man alluded to Tn the NEWS last week was drowned h Lime Rock mill pond,..... Mir. Daniel White of Whites Hol low killed pair of very large rattle snakes in his lot last week, one had twelve and the other eleven rattles......Y Your correspond ent and some of his neighbors have lost quite a number of chickens this summer, and last Saturday night I had six White Leghorns taken. I set all the old traps l had and double-shotted my gun. Result up to date. two skunks captured, and if skunks it is that take the chickens will !, try and exterminate the whole tribe.. .....Po- tato bugs are on the increase, and the farm CTS who have carried on a war of extermi- nation all through the season, it is hoped, will be blessed with an abundant crop of potatoes. while those that don't seem to care damitiYeness, or destroy the bugs al all-well, we hope they will have a good crop too. OBSERVER
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28
Border Life. Pr...n. and Past.

The terrible fate of Custer and his gallant three hundred adds another tragic chapter to the great book of border events, whose beginning dates from the earliest settle ments of OUT country, whose end will be only when the Indians as race shall have become extinct.
 The horrors of the Modoc campaign are yet fresh in our memories. The historic Lava Beds, Indian cunning baffling the skin of our soldiery for so long time, savage malignity and, treaehery culmina- ting in the death of the brave Canby and others whose mission was honorable treaty and peace-all these are still remembered with shudder. Their parallels in device and atrocity are only found in the deeds that compose the history of the "Dark and Bloody Ground" or among those which mark the bloody tracks of the treacherous Mngoes, descending from their Great Lake fastnesses upon the unsuspecting tribes and settlements of the Susquehanna and Ale gheny.,- g ..-.....- So with this heart-rending story of Gus ter and his men, which has been sprung upon the country 30 suddenly, and which is being read amid tears of sorrow and calls for vengeance, from one end of the land to | the other. Some may find its parallel in the history of Leonidas and his three hund- red some may seek for like sacrifices amid the annals of the Scottish Chiefs or Polish Patriots But it is only when we turn to the thrilling chapters of our old Border his tory that we read and re-read, in intensified form, the bloody story of the Rosebud and Big Horn rivers. Custer and bis three hundred, ambushed by a willy foe and melting away in death before odds render ed doubly and terribly formidable by be- wildering shrieks and stealthy mode of l fighting, recalls with vivid effect the tragedy of Braddock's Field, whose details are so graphically and fully narrated in that won derful book, "Our Western Border One Hundred Years Ago."
 Or if other parallels be sought, they abound in the same brilliant, stirring and faithful volume for Custer and Big Horn, CanbY and the Lava Beds, Modocs and Sioux, are but repetitions, now fainter, now fercer, of Dalzell and Bloody Run, Crawford and Battle Island, Harmer and Miami Towns.
 The new story, whether of victory or de- feat, massacre or escape, cunning or ad- venture, treachery or dash, hardship or re- treat, is but an epitome of the old filled with it's quaint and primitive portraitures, haloed about by thrilling traditions, and sanchfed to us by the facts that our fathers were part of it, and these our dwelling places were scenes in the midst of 1t.
 sour Western Border One Hundred Years Ago" A new historical volume of border life, Esq. 500 pages, price $500. Published by j. 0. McCurdy & O., Philadelphia, Pa, Cincinnati, o., Chicago, ul., and St Louis, Mo, and sold by agents, For terms and illustrated circular ad- dress the publishers.
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28
The New Undergraduates Bell.

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 Thsod original bell that rang; the first peal of independence fFom the old state house belfry in Philadelphia, is now a mute memento of those stirring days, and hangs cracked and silent on its ancient frame in one of the halls of the antique building Mr. Henry Seibert. of Philadelphia offered to present to the people of the United States, through the municipality of Phila- delphia, another bell to be hung in the same place as that formerly occupied by the original bell. His offer was accepted, and the result is a beautifulspecimen of the bell Lfounder's art. Part of the material was furnished by the United States govern ment. Four bronze cannon, one Union and one Confederate, from Gettysburg, and one British, from the surrender of Sar- atoga, October, TIT, and the other Ameri- can, used in the same battle, were given by the national authorities. The result is the commingling of revolutionary and civil war relics, symbolizing the union of friend ship between England and America, and that of interest and brotherhood between the opposing sections of our common country. -.. . The bell was cast by Meneely & Kimber- ly of Troy. It is seven feet.high, seven feet SIX inches in diameter at the mouth. and twenty-three feet six inches in circum
 ference. Encircling the crown are the words. s.Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace and good will toward men" ]" On the waist, one side, is Presented to the city of Philadelphia, July 4th, 1876, for the belfry of Independence Hall, by citizen. !" Underneath are the names: d''Meneely & Kimberly, founders, Troy, N. Y." On the waist. opposite side, is "Is76," aud be- meath the coat of arms of the United States, an eagle with thirteen stars, and the motto E plurs6us ununs. The coat of arms is set in shield of chased work, and is a beautiful specimen of art. Encircling the mouth is the inscription from the old liber- 2 y bell: ''Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof" Just above this inscription is circle of thirty-eight stars, representing the states
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28
Hot.

Oh, for lodge in garden of cucnmbersi
 Oh, for an iceberg or two at conrron Oh for for yale which at midday the dew cum
 bersl
 Oh for pleasure trip up te the polei Oh for . little one-story thermometer, With nothing but zeros all ranged in g rowi Oh for big double-barrelled hydrometer,
 To measure the moisture that rolls from my
 brow. .s -.... - Oh that the cold world were twenty times colder CThat's irony red hot as 1t seeneth to mel: Oh for turn of its dreaded cold shoulder! Oh what comfort an aGue would bel Oh for erotto to typifY Heaven. .t Scooped in . rock under cataract vasti Oh for winter of discontent event
 Oh for wet blankets jndiciously castI Oh foR ssda fount spouting up boldly.
 From every hot lamp post 'gainst the hot skyi Oh for proud maiden to look on me coldly, Freezing my soul with glance of her eyei
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28

The Norwich BULLETIN says that MT Talmage's sermons read in loud voice in potato-feld, will drive away the bugs.
 Florida aliigators are getting so dainty about what they eat that when a bald headed Northerner falls overheard the rep tiles sniff around hlm and wait long tune before taking hun h out of politics.
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28

A colored preacher ID translatinR to hls hearers the sentence: The harvest is over, the season is ended. and thy soul is not saved. put it: De corn has been cribbed, dere ain't any more work, and de debbil is still fooliu wid dis community
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28

An enthusiast who had been to near Anna Dickinson lecture wrote her, saying 1: With you I could be happy in 8 desert P And she wrote back; "No man will ever have Q chance to desert me"
 Agricultural journal: Question-"Will the editor please inform me how the Hol- flanders salt cucunbers ?' Answer-s'Che most oomnon way, as we observed when abroad, is to salt them with salt.n
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28

Isn't this a trife paradoxicalf Eleven young ladies have just been made Bachel- ors of Arts at Elmira. Now, let them turn about and go for the 'arts of bachelors as well.
 Excuse this bit Of sarcasm" said Sm ith to Jones. "but must say that you are an infamous liar and scoundrel,n "Pardou this but of irony. said Jones to Smith. as he knocked him down with the poker.
 A debtor severely questioned as to the reason of his not paying Q just debt, re- piled, "Solomon was very wise man. and Samson very strong man, but neither of them could pay his debts without money"
 You must have lived here long time.' seid travelling EuRlishman to an Oregon pioneer. Yes sir. have. Do you sec that meuntaiai We'll when came here that mountain was hole m the ground.'
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28
COllinsvilles

5
 COllinsvilles ~ z.. THREE FATAL ACCIDENTS IN CoLL1NsvuLE.
 July 4th Eugene Shook bad his foot crushed under the cars, which was ampu- tated below the knee; followed by lockjaw and death July 18th......On Friday July 2l Andrew Probst, German in the employ of the Collins company, while removing a die from drop hammer, it fell on a pile of picks, one of them flew up hitting him under the right eye and penetrating hls head nearly three inches, causing his death in twentY-four hours, during which he re- mained unconscious......On Monday noon, July 24, as the one o'clock train was com ing around the curve Walter Lambert was making across the stone arch, and fearful Of being run oyer jumped down into the hard road below, nearly thirty feet, falling on his side, crushing his skull and killing him instantly. He was about sixty years of age and has resided here thirty-two years, and the most of the time worked for the Collins Co.
 LIGHTNING.
 During the thunder shower on Sunday morning July 23, about four o'clock the lightning set fire to the large barn of Stephen Barnes, Esq, one mile west of "Collinsville, gconsuming it with all it's con- tents, including 40 tons of hay, 100 shocks of rye, besides many valuable agricultural implements. ,t Total loss about $5, ,00O, on which there was an insurance of $l,90O, equally divided between the Hartford County and Middlesex County Mutual. The barn with the els, wagon house and sheds covered 1892 feet of ground.
 -- BRUTAL ASSAULT.
 William s. Baker, the well known vet eran school teacher. whose mind has been somewhat impaired for few years past, now lives at his home two miles west of Collinsville. On Saturday July 22 he went gathering blackberries near the residence of his brother-in-law, Samuel Rogers, but not on his land. R. ordered him to leave, and on refusing to comply Rogers seized a pitchfork and thrust the tines into him in several places, some of them in his scalp. Dr. G. R. Shepherd of Collinsville dressed his wounds, and thinks they will not prove serious. SUICIDES IN BURLINGTON.
 George Roberts committed suicide in Burlington July l2, by hanging. This makes not less than sixteen suicides in that town ill about forty years, nearly all of them by hanging. Two men hung them selves in the same barn.
 | s. Rosie Tease, the tourteen-year-old little miss who attracted SC, much attention July 4th in her showy attire as she headed the grand procession as color bearer, has been presented with $l2.50 in new silver coin by some of her. .admiring friends. L. P. Pierre our photographic artist has been taking some beautiful photographs of the little maid as she appeared July 4th. and has one on exhibition in front of his studio. ...... Henry Southey, whose wife Jennie A. died in January last, has recently put up on bis lot in the Colltnsville cemetery beau tiful monument of Plymouth granite at a cost of $500. D. B. H. '
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28

You can not convince dog with 8 string of frecrackers attached to hls narrative that the American Republic is complete success. tE34tE 5sG34.7@. <.
 MT. Evarts spoke in hIs oration yesterday of ''Our debts to the men ot 1776." An 1! would that all our debts wore to the men of 1776 -.. ..Tt
 A lady in St. Joseph, Mo-, has become so accustomed to watering her flowers that she was out with her watering-pot in the rain recently, sheltered by an umbrella.
 In the window of shop in an obsc ure part of London is this announcement: Goods removed, messages taken, carpets beaten. and poetry composed on any sub ject."
 An Illinois editor has struck upon novel idea. When he finds an item going around without credit and he wants to re- publish It, he gives credit to Shakespeare and goes ahead.
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28
9utste 8eM's.

=. We shallfeel greatly obliged to any of ou friends in thecountA orelsevhere, who wilIsend
 usparticulars of any oecurfences of finterestw may come under their notice. @ -5
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28
soonneesacut western News.

Subscripti0R Acc0unts-The date on the colored slip of paper with the name of the sub scriPtiOn fs paid; thus. R. B. Smith 5JulT7,
 indicates that MT. Smith has paid for his paper to July 9th, 1877. It is hoped that subscribers will see to 1t that their account, as indicated by the date on their papers, is always correct, and when they pay for 2 of their subscription, will the proper credit and in the event of an error to inform us for correction at once. No claims for errors in these accounts will hereafter be consid- 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 prims facie evidence of its ac ceptance as correct. J. l.. PHASE.
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28
Total expenditures Cash actually paid in to me
Balance unexpended

In accordance with vote passed at the last meeting of the Centennial Executive Committee I paid over this unexpended balance of the Centennial fund to the Town Treasurer as trustee, to be placed at inter est by him iu Salisbury savings bank to await the further direction of the said com mittee. a ....
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28

The early risers nowadays are the ther- mometer and the house fly.
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28
BORN.

W- Births, Marriages and deaths inserted free. Obituary notices i've cents q line.
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28

w We are informed by postmasters the fol- where they have been regularly receiving TIE NEWS, and as they did not notify us of their change of post-ofdce 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 fhem they win do us 6 favor by informing us.- Is it exactly HONEST treatment. to receive news paper till several dollars dne, and then leave the postmaster to inform us the paper Is not re- wherel The following have done this: Does
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28
DIE D.
 

.y At sharon Station. Monday. .July 17th. of chol- riet Culver. aged months. s,.-
 In Canaan, Conn.,, July 2sd, Charlotte Law renee Adam, wife of William Adam, aged "A years.
 At West Cornwall. at the residence of his broth- CT, MT. Ebert shepard. Charles N. Shepard of New York city, agcd b6 years.
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28
For Sale.
HOUSE,

CORNER OF LOCUST AND NINTH SITS,
 PHILADELPHIA PA. Convenient to all places of amusement and car lines in the city. No changes to and from the Centennial grounds.
 Col Watson. proprietor of the HrNRy HousK, Cincinnati, for the pact twenty years, and present proprietor, has leased the house for term of years, and has newly furnished and fitted 1t house, and has accommodation for 800 Ruests Terms only $500 per day.
 No bar has ever been kept in the HENRY HousH nor will any be kept in the PEABODY, SmseW
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28

lAnd 8 large number of others. whose names will be added as soon as we have time to look up their accounts.1
Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28

June 90, By paid Lot Norton bal. of his
 his bill for postage and printing 3 July 8,By paid Perego & Co.for ire works 2o3 July ?, By paid Edward Barton for freight July is, By paid Daniel Pratt, bill for la- u, July 10, By paid Dan'l Pratt for lumber .o July is, By paid Theo. Russell board bill 10 July 10, By paid J. L. Peaee. printing bill, :, July i 10, Bv paid Milton H. Robbins, bill
 sundries. badges, etc. July TO- By paid Harlow P. Harris, services
 of Stone. watchman, etc. II July 10, By paid M H. Robbins for ser.
 vices of Lakeville band 40 July 10, By paid James Bird, board bill 2 July Il. By paid William B. Perry, police
 services of self and men 29 July Ii, By paid 25 revenue check stamps July 15, By paid 0. Adams fixing settees July 1b. By paid Wm. H.Green. Qr.Master
 Gen. ammunition and gun carriage 19 July 21. By paid A. F. Roberts bal. of bill
 for ribbon, etc. 5 July 21, By paid James Bird. use of team 5 July 21, By paid Shepard Packard, use of
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-08
MARAETS.
Domestic Markets.

.znn At lal. Sterling 81 ss,s. Gold closed weather.
III 14is Governments au an Sad romina stacSs
duh and unsettled LOUISIANA conso soNot;
ubtreaen1y baances-God, *5l,se6,''S; cur
The sub.treasuyer paid out 500 OF account
at interest and for bonds S3l 900.
Customs receipts to day, $4Si.vto
Cotton ciosed stea ~; midd ing uplands Il S.l6c;
Orleans I2Nc; Gales today 1876 bales net receipts
none; gross $685. consolidated net Ieceipts zI.S
Futures closed easy; sales 1000 bales as fol.
DT2 Ice; october ~ q &c; November llA0
III 25-32c; December II IS nc; January II 1892 q
se FsSrpssy IL Is9 Sc MAG5 sc ~ J31 s,
it1I.lSais q sc; July Il 27.saaisSc.
Flour sxaayi less active; expert demand light;
inn; more active common to fair extra 81 IS q
IS; good to choice do s 1908 so. Wheat duh
and heavy; 60 lower; 81 2ldl Is for amber state;
Texas. Corn heavy shade lower fairly acrive
export and home trade de nand; SIC Ter graded
southern on dock oats heavy and Dropping 300
4sc. Cote Rio quiet and pominally unchangt q.
az SIC for far to GOOD refining SIC for Prize
MOlssees fiji M; fair nqziry. Rice UNCHANGED Tai
low sac k'sin and t Selstsne a .rs very
prime steam !l.4S0ll.e2kc. whisky fun; 81 la'a.
Froights steady.
e41515 Is. Wheat moderately active and hirher;
red sse0$l o5. Corn scarce and frm; 45aa7e.
Oats firm; not quotably higher; 2S03sc. Rye
steady; SIC. Barley quiet; 1oa15c. Pork firm;
Sl90ls Is. Lard firm; stesm held at II : OIL &c;
current make losc; kettle steady at IN 1i3c
Bulk meats teads; fair demand; shoulders .Ssc
clear rib sides $50 cash she buyer August; clear
sides lot 0l0Ac. Bacon qu'et but firm; shoulders
sA08Nc; clear rib sides lOt 0loac; clear sides
liz 0llac. Wbisky-Good demand at FIJI prices
81 10. Butter-Cboice Western Reserve offered
at Is02oc; Central Ohio l71lac. Hogs-Fsir de
rnand firm he1vy IS 4006 60, common to rough
lots IS 1906.
81. LOUIS, August 7-Flour-Sound medium fall
extras 81 so9s ether Grades ys.y dull II. ~ Wheat
81 o,9l or. Com dull; No. 2 MIXED 4l0Ase.
Whisky STEADY and firm; 6 10. Pork dull and
unc;'cn2ol. Lard held at II &c. Bulk meats dull;
ahon deI3 IN clear rib and clear sides Ioa 0llc.
Hogs stcaiy and in good demand; Sc IS Cattle
very slow snd little doing; prices unchar ged.
CHICAGO, August 7.-FlOur quiet and unchanged
Wheat easy, 83hc. Corn active Q shade lower; No.
2. 45kc Oats easier, lots No. 30Ac. Rye steady;
Sc Barley light demand; holders firm; 55157c.
Pork lower; 1lS 10. Lard easier Sc nsraly un
charged. Blu meats steady and unchanged.
Whisky 81 l0t.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-08

The City of New Orleans vs.. Charles
Stoltz; same same.
CUPRRIOR DISTRICT COURT FOR THR PARISH
- of orleans Nos IS 625 end 94O75-By virtue
of two wrts of ier facias to me directed
by the honorable the Superior District Court
titled causes for city taxes of 1874 and 1875 will
proceed to sell at public auction at the Merchants
and AuctiOneers' Exchange, Royal street, between
Canal and ustomhOuse streets, in the Second Dis
trict of this city.On FRIDAY, Septe mber 8, 1876,
at twelve O'Clock NJ, the following described prop.
i. a CERTAIN LOT or GROUND. situated in
the Sixth District nf this city, in square humber
one hundred and fifty, bounded by Laurel Jersey
Contts utirOpe and Aust ,rlz stre cts, d. nenated
rs lot number thirieeu. measuring thirty fest on
Laurel street, by one hundred and twenty five
T. THRkK CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, situated
in the Sixth District Of this city, in square num-
l,er one hundred and eixtv-eght bounded by
L, 'u1el, Constance. General Taylor aud Austerlitz
mea. uring twenty nine feet on Laurel street by
one h ,rndred and twenty feet in depth; lots mum
l. ra1xr .nty two and twenty three. measuring fifty
e;obt r.. on Laurel street by one hundred and
thirtv.thro feet on one line and one hundred and
sTt IN G %oTs p os GR ssDsf situated
in th riot Of this city in square number
ore hn ~ D s seventy. bounded by Con mt.
NOM T gu dnu w. 'srance AID MarengO streets,
resonata 80 s III Lots numbers eighteen to
twenty four, measurn, ,a strsst Nv one hnndr:y
hve feet en- Constantine. Int nnnb ~ twant ra
ana twenty feet in depth; ,nstant norls atrset nv
sundIsd hTsy feet on e. ct depth
Seized In the above suits.
~ 1' 'A ~ 'A' EUGENE EUGENE Wa GGAMAH;
aus 20 eea Civil Sheriff Of the Par. AVtleans'
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-08-08
Waloon, Ruiz, from Lower Coast
Mary ia, Ruix, nom Upper Cost

Steamship W Lord, Cotton. rom Havana. to 3 4
Yorke
EXPORTS.
BORDEAUX-Bark At Genevieve--342 hhds to
bacco bales moss IL, 500 stsves
IMPORTS.
NEW YORK-Stesmship Algiers-Astd mdse
nanas 45 900 plantans % 600 0oooanuts bills lines
RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE.
LAUREL vALLRY-Steamer Henry Tete-2O hhds
sugar 81 bbls mOasses and sundries
ALABAMA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Temmie Baker
Is bales cotton - SKIS cotton seed and sundries
SPBtNGFIELD-Sch0oner Ce,este-2 bales cotton
LOWER COAsT-steamer Marths-sundries
RECEIPTS SUNDAY.
ST LOUIS Steamer Ye1qar-65f bbis eaoa
2t' IF bb.s hor- al SKIS Is oat. len a.
matt hid Tobacco Ial Dbl lmeal 1913 bales hay ~
SKIS bran . ties hams 50 beis pork and sundry p1,
Observation-Disclosures Kati, % bales e,.ton
bales colt N 622 sks cotton se % sks seed cotton
BAYOU S. 2A-Stee uer Ouachita BeIle-ll bales
Gotten and sundr
ST Ma Observation-Disclosures George Spangler-
GPPs So cSasTsssamsr Mary
LOWER COASr-s.samer Carrie Thcrn-sun.
dries
LOWER COIsT-stssms Or FrAzer-Snndres
LOWGR COAsT-Steaner Wawenc ,k- Sundries
LOWER COAST-3rsamer wa,c M S,ndries
RECEIPTS BY RAILROADS.
MORGAN's LOUISIANA AND TEXAS RAILROAD
Aug 81 bale cotton i54 sss gh rice 652 bags
wool SIS ss4 so in specie 500 head sheep 6s5 head
NEW ORLEANS AND MOBILE RAILROAD, An.
gust 7-eeO sks oilcake 43O bbls rosin 4o5 bbls lime
100 IBIS srits 100 bbls apples and sundries