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Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
The Taurup, or Great Turtle.

Bad as are his habits,, (the pickerel) however, he is not the only nor the worst enemy of the poor, pestered trout. The great turtle, the tauratp or tor- per of the aborigines, the snapping- tur- tie of more refined dialects, is deadlier foe, for he takes the mature fish, not the mere fingerlings which satisfy the pickerel.
 The taurup is horrible creature, one of the antediluvians, cruelty in its eye, strength in it's muscles, imperviousness in it's shell, and neither mercy nor gen. tleness in it's heart or bowels. With equal independence it lives on land or in water, with equal courage it defends fifty, or even sixty pounds, to which weight they often attain, is no mean antagonist; when captured and drawn into the boat, or cornered, it turns, and rising on its black and wrinkled legs, not crawling prone like an ordinary turtle,' but with head extended, little yellow eyes glittering, and sharp beak ready for the contest, it advances de- liant of all created things. Then it is no pleasant object, nor agreeable com panion within the narrow limits of an ordinary boat, and the captor at such a moment wishes he had done something else, and been good way of instead of being just in that particular spot at that moment of time. I remember one captured, of quite sixty pounds weight-dragging him ashore by the tail, and then chopping his head half off with an axe-which cleared the kitchen quicker than the "Ole folks, young folks" when we undertook to put him into the wash boiler of boiling water, with view to turtle-soup; and another which moved it's legs twenty four hours after it was not only decapi- tated, but disemboweled. What an ap- pealing spectacle for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the other weak sentimentalists in gen. eral! These fellows are dangerous to deal with, and must be approached with care; their bite is terrible, their jaws never relaxing till the piece seized upon comes out, and they are possessed of quickness of motion which no one would expect from their heavy, awk- ward shape. They lay their eggs in the sand during the warm days of early June, depositing about thirty or forty, and scratching out hole about half the depth of their bodies for the purpose. The eggs are round, nearly an inch in diameter, and of a delicate orange color, the shell being exceedingly thin like transparent paper, and they are left to hatch of themselves under the heat of the summers sun. Snapping- turtles destroy and devour some of our finest trout, approaching them for that purpose from below. rising slowly from the bottom, and looking more like some black, rough-barked log than living creature, till they are near enough to dart out their long neck and big head. The trout sometimes escapes, but car ries with him thereafter the clear inn print of the two horny jaws on either side of his abdomen.-ApDletons' Jour- pul
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was nlcc thing for him to marry me, madame, because my dot was a thous- and francs, and he gave me my we'd ding suit and veil, and two rings, and we had rooms together for three years, which was long time considering, and then it got tiresOme to both of us. The money was gone and 1 came into ser vice, and he is valet to a baron, and indeed l am quite satisfied with him. He takes me out to Cafe chantant' sometimes, and I mend his clothes to pay him; but he is quite like the baron when he is wearing his masters clothes, which it is natural that he should be, being just the same size and style. Bat, as l said, the broom corn was failure last year, madame;" she continued quite decidedly, as if, having confided her matrimonial affairs to me after my questioning, that was another reason why I should remedy the dis aster to the broom corn crops. As it was casaner amusement for me, l addeuu nother twenty centimes to her purse, and she went away quite deject- ed at her foolishness in not asking for a larger sum at the outset.
 A few days later the same dress was disgraced with mud, and when I asked Fanchette to clean it, she replied, with downcast look of sorrow and pain i: "Pardon, madame, but have no broom and have not sufficient money to pur- chase one. The broom crop was an en- tire failure in both France and Spain, indeed it was.'
 gave her franc, and she took it as if it were quite her own, and with far less gratitude in her manner than she expressed when she received the first ten centimes. Even her pretty white cap frills and starched apron stirred with l0ftier sense of rectitude and self-respect, which was still more re- markable than the fine philosophical calm with which she had confided to me her peculiar eonnubial arrange ments. Her own domestic matters ap- peared to be of much less serious inn brush. A short time afterward passed her in the hall, where she was adding few last strokes of attention to my garment, and she was using the old broom
 That night was Fanchette's evening out. and ill the interest of these social problems, ] looked over the balcony to watch her as she passed under the bril- liant door-lamps, with her husband, and l was profoundly sorry for the baron, his master, if Francois wore his clothes. The valet looked as if he were a small, lean, over-roasted snipe. How ever, he had been fine enough and large enough to transform Fanchette from being French girl to the grand free. dom of being wife and housemaid.
 You should have seen this young person as she walked down the boule. yard on .:le arm of her legal lord, an6 yiu wolab gave imagined that she was fond and proud of the animated little manikin. Her cap had been laid aside Ca rarer thing in France than you woult suppose possible), and her finerie' quite shamed my own possessions, a least they did by gas-light.
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PariSian HOuSemaid.

Fanchette was asked to brush the dust from my walking suit, and as l was ignorant of the customary fee for such service in Paris, 1 made bold to inquire the value ot her effort. "Ten centimes'' (two cents), she replied reso- lutely, as if she suspected me to be a Frenchwoman in disguise who intend ed to beat her down. I paid her with alacrity, and praised her for the satis- factory appearance of the costume, and she left the apartment with her eyes fixed upon mine in speculative sort of way, as if she were not yet sure of my nationality. Presently knock was at the door. "Entrez,' said, for I had learned to recognize her hand. "What is it, Fanchette?" elf you please, madame, the outings in your skirt and the many flounces broke the broom very badly, and it is my only one." 'Never mind, Fanchette; here is twenty cen times." '"Thank you, madame" she said, quite delighted that she had got ten her money without argument, but the pleased look faded out of her face before she reached the door, and the curious expression of inquiry, com- bined with reflection, returned into her eyes again. She closed the door slow ly, but there was no sound of receding footsteps. After little time there was another rap from her fingers. She came in at my bidding, and looking me straight between my eyebrows, as if taking aim at target before firing, she said: ''The broom-corn failed last year by the drouth, and hat brushes are very expensive" "Did it, Fanchette! then here are twenty centimes more, and that makes half a franc for the cleaning and the broom, which I hope was not new one." "Indeed, madame, it was new less than year ago, and be- sides won it at fair, at least Francois did, and he gave it to me.''
 ''That was very kind of Francois. hope he is your lover, Fanchette?''
 "Indeed he is not, and never was, J she answered as indignantly and resent fully as a servant in France dares to that fountain of wealth, an American. ''Francois is my husband, madame, ' she continued with emphasis, as if had accused her of an indiscretion.
 "And don't you live together?' answered in questioning tone.
 | "No, madame, why should we? It
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feeling makes us wondrous kind. You've got wooden leg, and, perhaps, know it isn't just the thing to stump over the country all night with
 ''It was old ChOker spoke to, and what he said was:
 "'I don't understand about your poetry or scripture, or whatever it is, but I do know about wooden legs. Come in.'
 and bed in the garret. We both saw that we looked considerably alike, and laughed oyer it. That night I slept in the garret, and when l awoke in the morning found my host was dead, and the house full of neighbors.
 'I felt that as the death was sudden, 1t might be best for me to keep out of sight. l, was as sorry for it as stranger could be, but my being there might be considered suspicious. I kept hidden gp in the garTet in a great lumber closet, sand heard poor Choker's affairs talked over, and learnt his habits.
 ''Some of his clothes were up in the garret, and an old wig; and one of the patches he had worn over his eye was there too; and there was an old dress ing glass in the corner. I tried on the wig and the patch, and saw how like old Choker they made me look. only I was not so brown. Then I took some walnuts that lay on the floor and rubbed the juice into my skin. It increased the resemblance, so did whitening my eyebrows with bit of chalk. And I sat down and looked at myself, and the plan that I afterward carried out came into my head. would play old Choker, as 1 knew l could.
 | I'd studied his voice and movements we'll, and as I told you, had once been an actor, and so should step into de- cent home and comfortable means with out hurting any one. The night after he was buried I came out of the garret, and went to the graveyard, and not to enter into details, you'll find Choker's coffin in the vault beyond his grave. Then went back and tried the effect of my disguise on poor old Peggy Kinder. l AL SdGlaAcu \ udNCll lCu merry l life, though knew it would not be a long one.
 "But I've been very comfortable, and sha'n't die dogs death out of doors, as once expected. I've never been afraid that Choker really would haunt me, though Pm trifle superstitious, for think he couldn't find much fault with me, as he had no relations, never made will, and couldn't take either his bank-book or his house and farm into the other world with him.
 "And now you have had the story, and you've promised to keep the secret until the last. You can see now. per haps, that Choker and were good deal alike. I'm four inches taller than he was, for one thing, and my nose is higher. But there's good deal in the mske up." 4gar.-
 These were almost the last words Chokefis ghost ever spoke, for his end was very near, and it was not until
 Death had taught him more
 Than this melancholy world doth know,'
 that the doctor let Crabtown know the sequel of it's ghost story.
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Increase in the Use of Drugs.

The following statistics show re- markable increase in the supply of cer- tain faverite remedies since 1855: In that year the central pharmaceutical establishment of the Parisian Hospital furnished two hundred and eighty-two pounds of chloroform; in 1875 the quantity had risen to six hundred and sixteen pounds. The increase of chloral from 1869 to 1875 was from ten pounds to seven hundred and twenty pounds. Bromide of potassium, six pounds in 1855, was one thousand six hundred pounds iii 1875. The progress of alco- hol, considered as a therapeutical agent, is especially worthy of notice. Between 1865 and 1875 the consumption of alco- hol in the hospitals increased from one thousand two hundred and seventy to forty thousand quarts. Brandy does not appear on the list until 1862, when four quarts were supplied. In lS75 the quantity had risen to four thousand one hundred and eight quarts. ...-.-.
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27

New York city, wondering where she could find bread the next day. The old squire had been dead two years, and speculation that had ruined him, and his wife and daughter had come to the city to earn their bread. There the mothers health had broken down, and Phemie was forced to leave her position in school to nurse her. Private pupils had. fallen off, and the last dollar was spent. And now Phemie turned the paper she had borrowed in her hand, and among the long columns of adver- tisements saw one for necktie makers.
 "Perhaps could get work at that to do at home,'' she said. II will try. 1 am able to do anything with, my needle."
 An hour after, the poor young lady round herself climbing the stairs of a large building in the business portion of New York, in search of the establish ment to which the advertisement directed her. % v" .'''.
 eve. don't give work out," was the reply to her questions, ''and we want experienced hands,"
 She was turning away with the little hope in her breast chilled, when gen. tleman who had been standing at some distance, advanced and addressed her :
 "I must be mistaken,' he said. "Thls is not Miss Hilton, of-?"
 cit is,'' she said, looking in vain for a familiar feature in the bearded, face before her. "Bnt you have the advan- tage of me-"
 "Naturally, you are not likely to re- member Edward Burr, whom your father helped so kindly years ago. But for your encouragement, however, and his liberal aid, my life. would not have been what it is now. I can never, never forget either of you.''
 "You have prosperedU then? II am glad. And this is. your placer Per haps, then, you will not refuse to give me work to do at home, now that we are so poor" And then came the story. Once more Phemie saw the tears stand in Edwards eyes as she told it, and the promise that work should be given was accompanied by request to call. Edward was gentleman at heart, and Phemie never guessed that other necktie makers would have opened their eyes in amazement at the enormous price she received for unskilful per formance. .-... .. .. And over her work. the girl often sal smiling; and the mother grew well 1 again; and one wn-bearded face was often seen in their parlor, and il was always welcome; and ere many months went by, that happened which every intelligent young lady reader has expected from the first. Phemie married Edward Burr, and in their elegant home, the good old 'squire's widow spent her last days in happiness ant comfort. }... -.s... ,.... ....E ... A.
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Don't Talk Too Much.

Few people have reason to regret that they have talked too little. Forbear to sport an opinion on subject of which you are ignorant, especially in familiar. If it be not always in your taihlv is to be silent; and, though thou sands have remembered with pain their garrulity, few have reason to re- pent their silence.
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
LOVED AND LOST.
BY PERCY FITZGERALD.

Now the city sleepeth, .'.s
 The night IS calm and sweet, as The dying embers rustic 4he
 There's silence in the street. --1~ v ' il Oh! how my heart feels lonely .. As the chill shadows fall ..- But the spirits softly whisper,
 hear their voices call: Ia Loved and lost! they sigh, /, i! And grief shall never die,
 Through weary, weary Tine,
 Shall sound the dismal chime, "" Loved and Lost! .. Now sinks the failing lamp %.
 Ali through the tagging night, ., s hear the tender accents 7z';- see afigure bright.
 Restore the golden hours --i sa Sweet vision. finger! stay! s The Spirit softly whispers, ' .. And it dissolves away-.i...5. .-s... "A Loved and Lost, thy sigh ....
 And grief shsi. never sis', qsv... V. .5.s.., All through the weary time en ... Hark to the dismal chime, .--..1.-.-s Loved and Lost. T. So pass the heavy hours, q T chide the long delay.
 And the night so chill and dark,
 wait the lingering day.
 At last, the blissfnl summons, ii Whatnotes my heart enthrall; 2s I'm coming, I am ready!- !-- e-. .s' .s E .s.. .-,f hear their voices call E.- .s...-t 2. ---se.t Loved, not Lost they cry, ,.- For love shall never die. .-
 And so through endless time,
 Shan swell the joyful chime, y @s4 -&s Loved, not Lost! p feist I. The London Graphic
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27

Mrs Julia c. R. Dorr, of Vermont, has been invited by Governor Fairbanks to contribute poem for the Centennial celebration at Bennington, and has ac- cepted the invitation. Her poem for the Rutland centenary in 1871, "The Dead Century," elicited high praise from Professor Longfellow and others.
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27

The elegant silver service owned by Daniel Webster and used by him on State occasions, has been bought by the Somerset Club, of Boston, from Peter Harvey, to whom it was bequeathed by Mir. Webster.
Connecticut western news., 1877-07-27
A Ghost Story.

1.-The, only true ghost story know is
 the story of Choker's ghost. That is positive fact well attested. All the neighbors know what happened. All the neighbors saw all that was to be seen. All the neighbors saw how it began, and as it is the story of Choker's ghost, it could not have begun until
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FILL AND WINTER IN TIE PARK.
The Carriage Service Hour, or Starting
New commissioners.

tvt.L a. ,,.,r;,cx 90 tbo f,i .,,,i ...;.4 ..
WIN ''' 'i'"i"7 - ii "''' "hiVVi
season the Department OF Puphc Parks an
nounces its aurroyal Of cert iin rules and regu-
IT, .1.,... ,,,o ,,.'rl oa.,',,,,.
I"tloh7 relhuhs " wv yum '"i'l"E" 9erNlcc'
Beginning at O'Clock in the morning. car
riuces START from tho Scholars Cato. M Tiub
'"N 9'"', I'm ~ - 81, '''n
half hour until 2 o'clock u. VI. From that nour
until q ,vrrv ,ftnon minutes From, In, ,,nto TO
=, ....,., -. ~,
Tue harpie Atci II lNc minutes utNe' rive
minutes more being the time OF departure from
tho Terroco and Mount n. Vincent is rnochcd
~ -, a.,
III thlrty minutes from li' u'ur 'l surfing
From the Merchants Gate. Eighth avenue and
E,... ninth .,roe, tbn carriages et,r. nj o., :
ny ~" 80 ,or A. -. w 49,
tcrvnls oil hiii m hour. rom inht tlme until
~ every hltcen or twenty minutes.
, III consequence OF u'' tI,"' Patronage gwen
inesr CARRIAGES. some ~ tlo uIlNcfs ana inc
starter at the, ElGhln N1n1" cntrnn.e IRE us
pos'u 70 act IN ~ N'rS lnup-nurnt WY, re-
iuSing 10 20 on tiin' uhl'ss lurrc ar" I'VE or SIX
lusscnHlrs IN n clrrliiNe' RlNlhs l"~' inlornlu-
non ana IN nlhcr WiNs 'In'Wrf"a>lhg, inc WIS.,
itor- 10 "" PARK, u - Wci 70 .hvW thu mere
Is regular s'hcdue tiln' Oh surfing anu r.,
trlp oi I'VE anu u guNrt'r N'io~. NE snine To ne
lnaur IN one nour N!l': NAhf NI@Hors prefer
not to make me Iouni ZIP; wv u - arrangei
that they can 80 10 Mount ~. iiicent, or return
FROM ,thcrc. or any ICES distance, for Is cents.
II - ulsuM'uy uhu',iti .'u ul7o inv 'NlIH cur
rlagcs VIII hr PROVIDED 20 any party making up
purse oi 81 ana any -FOUR passengers can
compel the suirt r 10 svhu, out carriage II
twenty minutes nav. 'lhl'uu sin,r Us liolr-
'"~Sor went III visitors were 70 inform them
hling on their part ana less looling 10y tho
starters ana driNrrs. %, 49,
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LOTE. MURDER. AND SUICIDE.
The Tragic End nr the Life OF Woman who
Deserted Her Husband.


Some four weeks ago a man giving the
name y joseph W. GLADDEN. arrived at the
noerit House 80 and 30 North Wells street
kept ny Mrs. Mary q Brien. H. WAS a llnc-lOuk-
ing, muscular fellow; about - years 81 age. He
bad "a ittlr money. While he WIS ut this place
he had only one visitor. a woman. She met i'm
m the hallway, and they went up stairs 10 his
loom. whore they remained only 4 few minutes
The second visit this woman made az the house
was Yesterday. II Was tftwt on II and o'clock.
Or Aleygnir VI Kay. o,cupyng room 81. ut
thc end ~ the passage. heard a gurgling. chok-
ing sound. He listened a moment. and the
noises getting palmer. h. went from his room
into the passage when suddenly the strange
woman, WHO had been in room Is with Gladd, n.
came along the passage toward him. and. lay
inc both hands upon his breast ~ though t.
support herself, looked iut9 bis face He saw
whence it proceeded. lie said TO her. why
woman. what's tn" mntlory Have you hemor-
rhage Of the lungsf' She never spoke a word
but. as she began 10 totter. he laid her down
was still bending over the dead woman when
some one came noi-elrssly behind him. and
corpse. II was GLADDEN. who. with CORY razor
c.asped In his right hand. and fearful gash in
MS tnroai lad rnme ont OF room Is. H. fell
upon tue dead body of the woman Gins ped II
upon that in h -. and there died. So fierce
W. ;nnt grip 81 death that II tpok the united
etor's II two mon IN unrl.-p the womdn from
In grasp "i ihc murder r-sui, ld".
Jhs happened az about ! o'clock. Half an
hour later. the CnrNr r End police authorities
h1NlnE taken the affair in hand. The bodies wore
cr'"l 4 iu Dee removed To- tho MorEUe. A. tho
remains Of the woman wore helms PLACED in the
wagon the roynrps II her IA was moved,
That's hcr-that's my wife," Ills name j. Rob
ert ;. Bell, aud his parents dwell IN New York
lie had lived soma t!me In the Western country
ana some taTee ro years no. married the de-,
New sharon, Iowa. She had deserted him Tor
GLADDEN., whom She pas,ionltely loved.
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DIED.

BYrSEs In BROOKLYN on SUNDAY. Oct H. thc eldest
son Of stephen T. and Henrietta =. Byrnes Of ecarst
fever. AGED ycar-. months aud 10 days
Funeral from residence. i9i Marcy av at l.. ". to
dnv. Services NJ grave.
rAvRE-On sunday. Oct II. At 2 4. NJ. after long
Illness. Mari" 4 Prcxtau widow uf Mr Victor Frvrc.
Funerai today at T. NJ from her late residence iol
West4sth II The friends inc family respectfully
iuNif.i fu Atttui.
GORMAN.-Oct H. Edmund German.
Relatives ami friend. # tho family respectfully IN
viied tu attend the funeral MONDAY 18th inst, ~ ?
o'clock from hi. ll. residence, 3Il West fJ3n q. lnes
mont IN tHiVHtN Cemetery.
KERR Ion sunday oci. IL Mary 5. Kerr. aged year
ana months
funer,laisr. " today oc, 10 from tie residence Of
hcr fureu'-. - Suli.vnu IT.
NcON MOI H. NJ Euon Socnan. nsed 50 years.
native nf rndniv Waterford lrf land
Relatives AND fr.uus are respectfully invited 70 attend
her fam Al nom hsr late ,dencc 81 Gold al. ETooh-
Ign. On " nda,. iiul. At 4af past O'Clock.
DUMMY AT Itrrvtnwn. On Saturday. oct - Nnrv
AUGUSTA the enii Gau-utcr % CALVIN and Augusta
QWmhN. hgrd ar. = months and 10 daNa
Relative, and cnf- respect uiy invited u atto nj
te funeral from TIE r-dcucc ui her parent. nnpuy
s.. frrr'tpwn. on Nnndny. OCT 10. At 81 clock.
Baltimore Unpcr- Die rnuy
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IS Ashland, Doughty. Charleston.
S. City Of Merida Reynolds. Vera Cruz Oct ?. Havana
eth
"a Wimbledon. Watson. Liverpool
- Caiand Deadcs. Rotterdam sept 90 and vnssc nscu
Oct2
s. Bcncfactor. Jones. Wilmington, NC.
- The Queen, Bragg Liverpool Oct Q, and Qrcens
town 4th.
s. New York, Philadelphia
SsNNanuke Couch. Richmond. CITY Point and Norfolk
- Neptune. Berry. Boston
s. Mafcnta, Raicivich Belfast
Ship Derby. Hunekeu. Bremen.
SHIP Mctcalf. knudscn. Havre.
Barn Britannia. Annis. Liverpool
BARK Drudt pnbruyncki. Pcrcich, Cork.
Bark VIM L Gloves. Dickersnn Leuhorn
Bark souvenir AuireH-en. Plymouth
Brig susie J SrOut. Pickett. IardeuaA
Brig Lydia II Cole, Roess - JHgo.
Brig John Pierce, hiss Baltimore.
Schr Azcda and Laura. Jorvensen Port Antonio
Schr Fanny Flint, Kockland. "
Schr ten Banks. Lin.cnt;. ~ John, II.
schr Bc-s Black. Hall 81 John, u.
AisC tiie =
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UALSTED-BAKER On Thuysd'y Oct II, ~ ms
Pachc street Methods Episcopal Church Brook lvn by
the Rev Dr. A. : Hunt. pastor, MI john ". ualstrd.
" Miss Lille. daughter OF Charles II Baker all OF Brook
Nn
REYNOLDS-TREAnWELL- On Thursday, Oct IL, by
the RcN Henry ward neccher Agne- C.. daught r Of
John H. Treaiwcl. To john R.yuods both OF Br0ollyn