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Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03

The "Dobrotcha," or "Dobrodja," of which 8 vast deal will probably be heard during the coming campaign, is the northeastern extremity of Bulgaria, which, by the capricious career of the Danube, is formed into kind of pen insula. The Dobrodja is vast strip of fertile land. but little inhabited save by Wallachian shepherds on the Danu- bian shore, and Tartars and a few Hungarians on the plains. It's climate is naturally very different from that to which the Russian soldiery is accus- toned, and a campaign in the Dobrodja IS considered certain to be more disas- trous on account of sickness than be- cause of bullets. One railroad crosses this irregular tract of land, and on this line there will probably be skirmishes. There are several Turkish towns of inn portance in the neighborhood of the Dobrodja; among them Kustendie and Medjidie-the latter town started by the Tartars of the Crimea after the Crime an war. and gradually grown to settlement of twenty thousand people,
Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03
Fight With a Heron,

A heron is dangerous bird, even for man to attack, as will be seen from this story of an encounter between a man, dog, and a heron, published in the London Field, The heron had been wounded, its left wing being broken by shot. .... s. .sss-
 l spied him in a large pool, some yards from the river bank; seemingly, as he rested on the water, he was un- hurt. As I shouted out, ''There he is Samo the retriever plunged into the eddying pool and swam to seize his prey. Now the fight began.
 Without swerving an inch, the heron with his crest erect, and with scream darted his formidable beak straight at the dogs eyes. Sam was puzzled. In moment, however, he was at him again, but the terrible beak of the heron, as the attack was again renewed, held him fairly at bay.
 Sam now changed his plan; he tried to circumvent his formidable enemy by swimming around to it's back, but the heron presented d bold front at all points, and once more Sam rushed in. The fight was getting fast and furious, but Sam, though considerable punished, stuck to his post, and, though repeat edly recalled, would not return without his bird. r....
 There was nothing left to do but to kill the heron, to prevent his blinding the dog, if he had not already done so. Accordingly, I raised my gun, when my companion shouted out, s'Don't shoot. Don't spoil the bird! I'll save the dog."
 In an instant he leaped from the bank into the pool, and swimming, made for the heron. The bird now left the dog aid turned on his new assailant: rush. ing at him with scream, in an instant the heron darted his formidable beak at Mir. Gwyne-Vaughan' eyes; but as he swan he managed to cover his face, and his hand only was wounded.
 Again and again the heron attacked him, but never succeeded in wounding hi face. At last, he grabbed the heron by the legs, drew it under the water, and struck out for the shore. Grasp ing the bird by the beak, he was soon on land, none the worse for his courag- eous exploit than a wounded hand and a wet skin.
 Sam, the retriever, was bleeding from at least five honorable wounds all within a quarter of an inch of either eye. It was a courageous fight all round
Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03
Famous Sayings.

In few departments of history has modern critical analysis made greater havoc than in that of the famous say ings and sslast words'' of inustrious men. Doubts have at length been cast even on the Et tu Brute, of Caesar, and the E par, Si nsuo0e of Calico. Talley- rand's impromptus are now discovered to have been Qike Sheridan's) we'll conned, and also to have been largely derived from a jest-book called "L'Im- provisateur Francais." Fourier tells us that the Rougemont who invented his mot for Cambronne, performed the like amiable service for several other illustrious men; and of Harel, editor of the "Nain Jaune,'' he remarks that this gentleman was in the habit of fathering his bright sayings of famous men. with view of retaining his offspring in case the public should receive them we'll for the sake of their supposed par entage; for example, with true jour- nalistic genius he invented an s'inter- view between Talleyrand and lad, for the purpose of ascribing to the former the famous phrase, still credited to the diplomat, Language was given to man to disguise his thoughts''-an epigram, however, originally made by Voltaire.
 Louis Blanc, in his "History of Ten Years," records that, in the famous Diebitsch campaign against Poland In 1881, Skrzynecki, the Polish general, after performing prodigies of valor at Ostrolenka, reluctantly gave orders at night to retreat from the field he had SO bravely held, "and, as he stepped into his carriage with Prondzynski, sadly repeated the famous, words of Kosciusko, 'Finis Polonie.'" This is very we'll, but Kosciusko, who is com monly thought to have pronounced these words as he fell, terribly wounded, on the fatal field of Maciejowice, Octo- Der 10, 1794, expressly wrote afterward that he had never uttered them, and never could have had the conceit, even had he the want of patriotism. to imag- inc that his expected death was to be the ''end of Poland" Evidently, how ever, with Skrzyneeki the embroidery had covered up the Undergraduates, in- deed, it's repetition of ttFinis Polonia" be as apocryphal as it's original utter ance.-The GaLaIy
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security which passengers feel wht
 have already journeyed safely for days
 when. the shrill summons for the brake ! Followed by a shock of overwhelming force so stunned even those that wer,
 not really injured, that they could no
 immediately recover their self-com
 mand. Harold and his companions. oc
 cupied two seats turned facing eac1
 other, and after the schock Harolt
 found Alice senseless in his arms. Fo
 one brief moment his own heart almos
 ceased beating, but the next his train
 ing as a physician came to his aid, ant
 he proceeded to perform his duties witt
 calmness and precision. After careful
 examination he discovered nothing
 more serious than a broken wrist, the
 pain of which, combined with fright
 had probably produced the faintness
 which at first seemed so alarming
 Under the restoratives applied this soon passed off, and when aid arrived oul Fparty were able to proceed to Philadel- phia. I will not sadden your hearts by | the details of the less fortunate ones, though Harold could tell you much that he did for their aid before leaving, but will follow our young couple to the close of this brief story. When Harold held the unconscious form of Alice in his arms new truth was revealed to him, but like a wise man he put away the temptation to speak to the young girl till he had restored her safely to her parents, and all feeling of obliga- tion to him had passed away. {.
 A few months later, as he was seated by her side in the pleasant room of the Van Courtlandt attractive home, an op- pOrtunity occurred which he had no longer strength to resist. Alice had been singing in her rich, sympathetic voice, and perhaps was trifie elnbar- q chain from her throat to which was suspended a handsome locket. As it fell to the floor Harold sprang forward and was about to return it, when a blush from Alice caused him to change his mind. EPlease let me examine the AOSNSo, ho odlSt, sGllc "OIhlIldHSIllp r" is quite curious"
 ! eff you will not opensit,'' returned Alice, more anxiously than the occasion seemed to warrant. For a moment Harold examined the costly trifle, and then handed it back in silence, but as he did so the change which came over his face struck Alice painfully. She had learned to love him too well to cause him pain SOL with a sudden change of mind she. said, s"Open it if you wish," adding lightly, Git is only a bachelors button, that''--but Harold had opened the loeket,, and discovered his own coat button, and in that dis covery read another. "Alice, my dar- ling, I love you, do not let it be bach elor's button any longer" The words seem as light as I write them, but Harold's tone and manner conveyed a depth of feeling which. Alice with her woman heart could but respond to, though silence and blushes were all that gave the answer. $
Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03
Queer Pictures of stNderrie England' in tI
 Fifteenth Century.


 It is strange picture full of deep shadows-this England of the, fifteenth century, as portrayed by the clumsy hands of chroniclers, and those more faithful limners, the writers of the Pas ton Letters, Amid the frequent appa- rition of armies may be dimly deserted the growing independence of parlia- ments, and the importance of units of labors, banded together and protected by charters often bought at high price from necessitous sovereigns. The la borer was perhaps in material comfort not very much worse off than he has been since, but then there was no peace CTS of beeves and sheep and fields of golden grain were only too glad to get their corn cut, and their beasts slaught- cred, salted, and safely bestowed be- hind four walls, whence marauders might not win them without costly struggle. The annals of the Paston family tell us that state of private war between a great lord and one or more of his liegemen or neighbors was regarded as no unusual phenomenon. If the small suffered from frequent op- pression, the great were no better of, for those who escaped the field of bat tie were only reserved for the heads man. Such intelligence as exists was devoted to the career of arms the church having sunk into ignorance and sloth in which the spectre of Lollardry by turns stalked abroad and slunk into byways, awaiting the day when the voice of Luther should repeat in thunder the timid murmurs of Wicliff and his followers, whose utterances could by no means be done away with and abolished. An age of ignorance was naturally superstitious. Adam of Usk tells us of the burning of the first heretic in Smithfield, and we also see that worthy ecclesiastic, lawyer, and politician-one of the foremost men of his time-marveling at the spontaneous ringing of the four bells at the corners of St. Edwards shrine at Westminster; at the strange flow of blood from the spring into which the head of Llewel- lyn-ap-Gryffud had been thrown; at the comet which foretold the death of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan; and the apparition in the air of the arms of that potentate, to wit, ''a ser pent azure, swallowing naked man, gules, on field argent" But as dark ness, like light, is rarely absolutely complete, it is possible to descry through the murk the brilliant soldiers of IAgincourt, Sir John Fastolf-from whom Shakespeare was once absurdly supposed to have drawn his immortal Falstaff-Humphrey, Duke of Glouces- ter, John Tiptoft, the "butcher" Earl of Worcester, and Antony Woodville. busily engaged in collecting manu- scripts; lawless but wholesome fash ion by seizing the royal library at Paris, and carrying it off to this country during his regency. - AU the Year Around. ~-'
Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03

e Bravery is good thing. On the field of battle it is great thing-but when 1t consists in hearing something that might readily be got rid of, it is not of much account. If you are sick don't grin and bear it, but take E. F. Kun kel's Bitter Wine of Iron, which never fails to cure weakness, attended with symptoms; indisposition to exertion, loss of memory, difficulty in breathing, general weakness, horror of disease, weak, nervous trembling, dreadful hor- TOT of death, night sweats, cold feet, weakness, dimness of vision, languor, universal lassitude of the muscular sys- tenn, enormous appetite with dyspeptic symptoms, hot hands, flushing of the body, dryness of tho skin, pallid coun- tenance and eruptions on the face, putri- flying the blood, pain in the back, heav, mess Jf the eyelids, frequent black spots flying before the eyes, with temporary suffusion and loss of sight, want of at tention, etc. These symptoms all arise from a weakness and to remedy that use K. F. KUNKEL's Bitter Wine of Iron. It never fails. Thousands are now en- toying health who have used it. Take only E. F. KuNKEL's.
 Beware of commercials and base imi- tations. As Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron is SO we'll known all oyer the coun- try, druggists themselves make an imi- tatiQp and try to palm It of on their customers, when they call for Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron.
 Kunkel's Bitter Wine of Iron is put up only in $l bottles, and has yellow wrapper nicely put on the outside with the heproprietor'sp photographic on the wrap per of each bottle. Always look for the photograph on the outside, and you will always be sure to get the genuine. $1 per bottle, or six for $5. Sold by drug gists and dealers everywhere.
 AlI Worms Removed Alive.-E. F. KUN KEL's Worm Syrup never fails to de- stroy Pin, Seat and Stomach worms. pr. KUNKEL, the only successful Physi- clan who removes Tape worm in two hours, alive with head, and no fee un- til removed. Common sense teaches if Tape worm be removed all other worms can be readily destroyed. Send for circu- lar to pr. Kunkel, No. 25o North 9th street, Philadelphia, Pa., or call on your druggist and ask for bottle of Kunkel's Worm Syrup. Price $1 co. It never fails.
Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03
POND's EXTRACT.
 :- PONDS EXTRACT.
The Peoples Remedy.
 The Universal Pain Extractor. Note: Ask for Psnd's Extract.
 Take no other.

"Hsar, for viii spcsk sr excellent PONDS sExTRACT-Thc great Vegetable nrsy and or sss SSS sSatSs SaoRO' oaS .os Ss sacs1S so $. without Ponds Extract. Accidents, Bruises, CvntusiOns, Cuts, sprRins, are relieved almost instantly by external R%rn., R0I scaidS, dER EHoorissssns, ressso sS ChS. % nnKs, old Sores, BOils, ESloDs, COrns, etc. Arrests inflammation, reduces sweliings- stops bleeding, removes discoor- LADIES md 1t their best friend. It assuRges subtect--notaoiy fuilness and pressure in sne nead, nausea, vertigo. &c; lt promptly Of fin fnfiammatfOna and ulcNrast0ns. HEMOkkHOIDS or PILES md in this the onty immediate relief and ultimate cure. NO case; however chronic or obstinate can vARICOSE VEINS. It ia tho only sure cure KIDNEY DISEASES. It has no equal for BLEEDING from any cause. For this 1t is Q specific. It has saved hundreds Of lives when all other remedies failed to arrest bleeding from nose, stomach, lunga, and elsewhere.
 TOOTHACHE, Earachc, Neuralgia ana RheumaItsna are all alike relieved, and oIten permanently cured.
 ~ PhYSlClANs Of all schools who are ac. Hazel recommend 1t in their practice. We have letters Of commendation from hundreds VI uJol mhuy OI WuOm OTucT lJ TOT use In their own practice. In addition to the foregoing, they order it's use for 6wellfnga Of all kinds. Qutnsy, Sore Throat, In. 0amed TOnktls, simple and chronic Sss!se,, csiiSi"in.. GS- FsesseS s%Sp Y Fest, ss kttngs Of Insects, MusouitOee' Chapped Hands, Face, and indeed all manner Of skin diseases.
 TOILET USE. Removes Soreness. kOughness and Rmart1nK, heals Cutn ErupttOns and Ptmples. It revipes in- vtgorates and rsfreshes while wonderfully im- proving the Complexion.
 TO FARMERS - Ponds Extract. No stock Breeder, no Livery Man can afIord to De without 1t. It is used by all the leading Livery Stables, Street Railroads and first Horsemen in New York City. It has no equal for Sprains, Harness or Saddle Chafings, Stiffness, Scratches, Sweliings, Cuts, LaceTa- tions, Bleedings, Pneumonia, Colic, Diar- rhoea, Chills, Colds, &c. It's range of action is wide, and the relief 1t aIords Is SO prompt that 1t is invaluable in every Farm-yaTd as well as in every Farm house. Let 1t be tried once, and you will never be without 1t. CAUTIONl Ponds Extract has been im- itated. The genuine article has the words Ponds Extract blown in each bottle It Is prepared hy the only persons 1ivfmg who ever knew how to prepare 1t properly. Refuse all other preparations of Witch Hazel. This is the only article used by Physicians and in the hospitals of this country and Europe. -s-f. r7' N HISTORY and Uses or Pond,s Exsract. in pamphlet form, sent free on Application to PONDS EXTRACT COMEANY@ co Maiden Lane, New York.
Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03
VANITY.


 The sun comes up and the sin goes down, Andthadav and night are the same as one G The. year grows green and the year grow, Y fr-r brown, -vsas l". ."uGp .t ..... z. ~ And what is it sll when all is done .r Grains of sombre or shining sand, 1 Sliding into or out of the hand. And men go down in ships to the seas, And,a hundred ships are the same as one And backward and forward blows the breeze, And what is all when all is done? A tide with never shore in sight
 Setting steadily on to the night The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And hundred streams are the same as one And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream, And what is all when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, 5 And after the dreaming the dreamer wakes.
Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03
Advertising Agencies.

l "TETTENaILLs NEWSPAPER DIRECTORY ANr 1 ADVERTISERS HANDBOOK" recently published by Messrs g. M Pettengill < CO, advertising l agents, 37 Park Row, New York City, is an ele- gant volume and bears upon it's face the i'm press of honest careful. and thorough work
 In these days of books issued in the interest of lllegitimate advertising schemes and special newspaper lists, or which have for their object the hlching of money both from advertiser and publisher. we are glad to welcome publication which, unswerved by selfinterest, attempts to deal justly with all parties. Correct informa- ton III regard to the character and circulation Of the numerous publications of this country is difficult to obtain, but with superior advantages and earnest labor Mir. Pettengill has produced . book that will be found of great assistance tu advertisers and all who need such information in the prosecution of their business It has now been nearly thirty years since Mir. Petten- gill began business as an advertising agent He was the pioneer of the business. The press of the country was & small interest compared with what it now is, and there was very little sys. tematlc advertising being done. It was MT Pettengills idea to bring about an understand. ing between the business men of the country and the publishers; to show the advertiser that legitimate newspaper advertising was the cheapest and best way of bringing his wares before the public; and the publisher that in all proper ways he should regard the interests Of the advertiser He thus aided both. and placed both under obligation. How successful MT. Pettengtll was is best shown by the im-
 uouSe UublHoSb eetADHbum6nC ne mas built up, and the high esteem in which he is held both by advertisers and publishers the country over Since he entered into the business great many rivals have come into the field Many have failed, involving both publishers and advertisers in their disaster. Others, with youth, energy and capital, have succeeded in establishing more or less prosperous business but in the esteem and confidence of both advertiser and publisher no one has ever rivaled the firm of which MT. Pettengill is the head. His name is synonym for fair dealing and rectitude, and his straightforward business course is the more marked in contrast with the methods of some who aspire to outstrip him in business.
 The shyster and schooner in advertising as in everything else, must have his day. but eventually the advertiser will find him out, and his lists and worthless schemes, which are three-fourths agents profits, will be neglected, and his occupation gone There may be less immediate gain in the old-fashioned, straight forward way of doing business. but in the long run, it will pay the largest profits. We trust that our young men beginning in the adver- Using business will observe the great success Of MT. Pettengill, and, initiating his methods, lay the foundation on which to builds business ct once profitable, permanent, and honorable. Chicago Inter Ocean, June 15Hh
Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03
Relationship of Brain and stomach

Is close one, indeed. They are connected by that wondrous elastic link. the sympathetic nerve, which communicates the abnormal sen- sations of the organ of digestion to that of thought. Now, if digestion is disordered, the brain, being the great focal point of the ner- vous system, all the nerves are in some degree affected The main cause of nervous trouble is impaired digestion, and that is usually pro- duced by weakness of the stomach. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters rectifies this, and overcomes nervous debility by infusing increased energy into the operation of the organs of nutrition. Through the agency of this beneficent tonic, not only aTs the nerves vitalized, but the en- tire organism acquires vigor and regularity,
Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03
A Moslem Cemetery

It seems strange-so fond of the shadow of Death, if 1 may so call the gloomy groves of Scutari, and yet so neglectful of their dead! They will swarm to the cemetery and spend the whole day in eating, drinking and smoking, reveling in the midst of the tombs. They will invite one another from grave to grave, and present coffee and pipes in the most festive manner. Indeed, you have only to knock at a headstone and you are sure of warm welcome. But they will not pluck the rank weeds that flourish in that fatten- ing soil; they will not set up the monu- ment that staggers and is a shame to them; they will not even turn out the jack that stands knee-deep in the loam and tickles his ear on the wooden feZ of the late head of the family. All through the dark valley there are small cafes, thronged with weary pilgrims, who thus cheer their solitary journey to the tomb. There are strolling minstrels also, who entertain the mourners with the poems of HafiZ, and dancers, with a dance of death that gives delight to the living.
 Beggars line the way, Turkish atro- cities not easily to be recognised as human. 1 saw three blind men sitting in row, shoulder to shoulder; their legs were crossed in the dust of the roadside; their hands were raised in supplication, and their heads lolled upon their shoulders as the three rocked their bodies to and fro and sang pitt full terzo. A dish in front of them received from time to time small tribute of copper, but the old men sang on oblivious of the idlers who fingered near them; oblivious of all things earth ly-if their witlered faces did not belle them. 1 could think only of those blinded quail who pipe night and day in their cages, and at whose call the free birds gather-but who knows what the quail in his cage is singing of?-San FrdnciscO Chronicle
Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03
Curious. .

The Madras, India, famine has brought curious misfortune in it's train. There are scarcely any leeches to be had,. the tanks from which they are generally obtained having all run dry. Patients cannot be bled, and the despair of the doctors is agonizing.
Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03

A SCOTCH LAIRD riding past deep bank stopped opposite hole in it, and said to his man-servant, "John, saw a brock gang in there." "Did ye?" said John; "will he haud my horse, sir ?'' Certainly" said the laird, and away rushed John for spade. After digging for half an hour he came back, nigh speeches., to the laird, who had re- garded him musingly. "I canna find him, sir,'' said he. 'sDeed," said the laird, very coolly, "I wad hae wondered lf ye had, for it's ten years since saw him gang in there!"
Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03
Mothers, Mothers, Mothers.

SOOTHING SYRUP for all diseases of teeth ing in children. It relieves the child from pain, cures wind collie, regulates the bowels, and by giving relief and health to the ohild gives rest to the mother.
Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03

THERE is nothing like definitness in prayer. A simple minded old lady who had been told that she would get all she asked for, after she was converted, determined to make trial. She took pencil and paper, wrote down what she wanted, and then went on her knees. 70 Lord, look down on me, hard working woman. Give me to-day my daily bread-viz., pound salt pork, half ditto salt beef, pounds of sugar and good strong pair of hand-sewed winter boots."