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Connecticut western news., 1877-02-09
The Sicilian Rrigand.

The evil of brigandage in Sicily is now continually increasing, and calls for seri- ous attention. The daily journals of Palermo, reluctant as they are to confess the true state of things, say now that the cup is full. Society is so corrupted by the evil that Rose asserts that Leone, the noted chief, knew all the watchwords of the troops, and all that was said and done in the family of his captive.
 At times it has been the dominant power in the kingdom of Naples, and Colletta relates of Murat that meeting one day on the open plain some soldiers with man in chains, he asked who he was. "Your majesty" quickly respond ed the prisoner, |" I am brigand but, worthy of pardon, because yesterday, when your majesty ascended wonder mountain and I stood hidden behind a rock, I could have killed you. thought of doing so, but your dignifed appear ance prevented me. But if yesterday I had killed the king, to-day I should not have been prisoner and near death. " The king pardoned him, and the outlaw, kssing>the knees of his horse, went away free and happy, and lived honestly in that neighborhood from that day. The generals of Murat, to eradicate brigand- age in the kingdom of Naples, employed the most severe measures. Good citizens were enioined to imprison or kill the brigands, and all men able to fight were armed. All correspondence with them was punished with death. Husband and wife, mother and son, brother and broth CT were divided by this scourge In the year 1860 the government, which was molested in Calabria by the brigands under the protection of the Pope, again adopted serious measures. I have often listened to the description by the colonel in charge of that expedition of his ter rible work there. He caught the outlaws by fifties and sixties, and ranging them before his soldiers guns shot them down like wild animals, regardless of the pray CTS of wives and children. But as this was 8 means of public safety and not mere cruelty, he afterward gathered the children into asylums where they were well cared for.
Connecticut western news., 1877-02-09

children, and is, altogether, represented as one of the best specimens of brutal lzed fanatic and bloody barbarian that can be found even among the most stupid, brutalized and bigoted of the Mormon saints.
 In addition to the general excitement of hostility among the Mormons against the Gentiles, the United States govern ment included, in 1857 there were other causes which operated to bring about the Mountain Meadows massacre. As we have said, one band of the murdered train was formed of Missourians, and the Mormons had been attacked and plum dered, and burned out and driven from Missouri by mob. The main body of the murdered immigrants in Utah were from Arkansas, and in Arkansas fa- vorite chief among the Mormons, the Apostle Farley P. Pratt, was killed on the highway by the man whose wife he had carried off to the Mormon Zion. Vengeance, therefore, against the immi- grants from Missouri and Arkansas en- tered into the motives for this remorse- less butchery. Besides, there was the temptation of plunder, and some of the articles of pllnder from that ill-fated train are doubtless held to-day by the Mormons from Beaver up to Salt Lake City
Connecticut western news., 1877-02-09
The Real Sea Serpent.

The London Spectator says: In the straits of Malacca, the sea monster so repeatedly seen, and so repeatedly de- ciared to be mythical, appears at last to have been carefully observed by com potent witnesses. The creature was seen by the passengers and crew of the ship Nestor, on her voyage to Shanghai, and on her arrival at Shanghai the mas ter of the ship (Mr. John Keller Web ster) and the surgeon MT. James An derson) made'a statutory declaration of what they had seen before a magistrate, as 8 mode, we suppose, of formally at testing that they spoke in good faith. The creature (which resembled huge salamander, only that instead of being about six or eight inches long, these di- mansions must be multiplied by at least seventy-five or one hundred, the body being from forty-five to fifty feet in length, the head twelve feet, and the tail, 1t is said, no less than 150 feet) was first seen at half-past ten on the eleventh of September, fifteen miles northwest of the North Sand lighthouse, in the straits of Malacca. The weather was fine, the sea smooth and the air perfectly clear. The Chinese on deck were terri bly, alarmed and set up howl. The whole watch and three saloon passengers saw the creature clearly, and observed it's movements It travelled for long time about as fast as the steamer, ap- bearing to paddle itself by the help of Ian undulatory motion of its tail in a vertical plane. The body and tail were marked as those of the salamander are marked-with alternate bands. black and pale yellow in color. "The head was immediately connected with the body, without any indication of a neck" Both witnesses state positively that the only resemblance was to some creature of the frog or newt kind, while one of them (the surgeon) says that the longer he ob- served it the more he was struck with it's resemblance to a gigantic salamander. Its back was oval in form. No eyes or fins were seen, and it did not blow or spout in the manner of & whale. The greater part of its head was never seen, being beneath the surface. Probably the creature is of race which survives from that very different world in which creatures of gigantic size seem to have been so much commoner than now. There appears to be no manner of reason for doubting the very express evidence so succinetly and soberly given.
Connecticut western news., 1877-02-09
The Monkeys Cage.

I've been standing before this cage of monkeys for an hour, and I admit the 1act that monkeys are very like men. Like individual men, too persons one knows. That white faced monkey there. with chin whiskers and a conceited ex- pression of countenance, how like Sena- tor -, as he sits reading his newspa- per of a morning. To be sure, it is only a large piece of brown paper which the monkey holds before his nose, but the air is exactly the same.
 There, upon an upper bar, sits a very solemn monkey with brown hair, a sharp nose and red eyes. He keeps a store in our neighborhood, and always makes mistakes in his own favor as to change. Just below him is perched the family doctor, owl-ike and comfortable. l fancy l can hear him saying: "Yes, yes certainly, my dear madam, certain ly; 1t is either the measles or the spot ted fever, or-ahem ! we shall be able to tell in a day or two; meanwhile, the prescription as before"
 Who is that on the lowest bar? A funny, little, thin monkey with black side whiskers and white rings around his eyes like the rims of eyeglasses |? That IS Count Dandelion, who taught French in Mrs. Middleton's seminary. One ex- poets him to speak in the old style: "It is necessaire zat you study, young ladees. It is not posseeble zat i split open your head and put into it ze vairb l should take pleasair to do it, but I can not"
 And that very restless, sentimental looking young monkey who just now went down into the bottom of the cage to bring up a nut, and sits eyeing it sus- piciously sly-who is that? Oh, it's very ungrateful of me, but he does look so like beau I had once, especially now that he pauses to stroke his mustache As my beau used to look, I mean; the portly monkey of forty years, with no nonsense about him, probably looks more as he does now.
 There is not monkey of them all who does not remind me of some one I know. And let who will stand before the cage awhile, she will come away with the same impression; and not one of the tribe will ever for moment remind her of woman.-Read511g Eagle.
Connecticut western news., 1877-02-09
The Secret.

Said Damon unto Phyllis " Let me whisper ir your ear would fain impart secret that no other sou
 may hear" Said Phyllis unto Damon: "And why whisper
 We're alone You had better tell your secret in an ordinary
 tone." But, Phyllis, little birds, they say, are some
 times telltale-tits One cannot be too cautious in divulging
 precious bits" But, Damon, this is nonsense, for there's not
 bird about; Besides, can't keep secrets, and am sure to
 let it out" "Yet, Phyllis, tis a secret that but concerns us
 two; scarce dare say it to myself, much less speak
 loud to you" Well, Damon, you may whisper: since you de-
 cline to speak; But promise, first, to keep your lips some dis
 tance from my cheek" Then Damon gave his promise, and he whisper
 ed soft and low; The secret seemed to please her, but it's purport
 none can know. "Dear Damon" was the maids reply-and all
 that could be heard 1T won't be very angry if you do not keep your
 word!"
Connecticut western news., 1877-02-09

An old German farmer in Iowa had his barn, which was destroyed by fire, in- sured for $500. The company said he could accept $200 or they would build him new barn. When the life insur- ance agent came around the German facetiously informed him that he would not have the life of his wife insured, as the company, in the event of her death, might want him to take some withered old Dutch woman.
Connecticut western news., 1877-02-09

ANOTHER AMENDMENT Petitions to the United States Congress from fourteen States asking for sixteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, prohibiting any State from disfranchis- ing United States citizens on account of sex, have been received by the president of the Congressional committee of the National Woman's Suffrage Association within the present week. Nearly 4, GOO signatures of prominent citizens in the several States are appended to these pe- titions. They were presented to the House and Senate.
Connecticut western news., 1877-02-09

The London Telegraph, which claims to be the daily paper having the largest circulation in the world, publishes @ cer- tificate that during the five months end- ing December it printed the vast num- Der of 26, Al, ,875 copies, being a daily average of over 200, 1000.
Connecticut western news., 1877-02-09
The American CycIopadia.

WlIhin the Iss5 ten years the progress of dis covery ill every department of knowlt dse has made new work of reference an imperative want. The movement of political affairs has kept pac, with the discoveries of science and their fru tful application to the indu ssrial and ment ot social lfe Great wars and copse- quent revolutions have occurred, involving nat,onal changes of peculiar moment The civil war of our own country, which was at its height when the last volume of the old work appeared, has happily been ended, and 6 new course of commercial and indus rial activity has been commenced. Large accessions to
Connecticut western news., 1877-02-09
GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE

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Connecticut western news., 1877-02-09

SHAMEFUL IMPOSITION Overheard at the Bethnal Green exhibition) Work man" They be clever chaps wot drors these 'ere." Companion (superciliously -"Y Yes, they'd be booty clever if they drord 'em out O their own eds but, Tor, I knows for fac as there ain't figger here but wot's been copied from hactual person."
Connecticut western news., 1877-02-09

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 an independent supply of pure water.
 Every farmer has the power to do all his grind ing, thrashing, and cut ting feed.
 For particulars send for illustrated catalogue of the U. s. Wind Engine to
 J. H. IVES, DANBURY, CONN.,, manufacturer of
 the Rubber Bucket Pump,
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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-01-11
THE GFASSHOPPERS

The grasshOpper region next spring
will he developed by the first two weeks
of dry, warm weather in the resPecIly"
localities, and will comprise two-thif''
of Minnesota, one-half of Iowa. all 0,
Dakota, one-half of Nebraska, one,'hiro
of Kansas, and all of Colorado and wy
oming. Our Investigator calculated 'h"S
throughout the vast area designatsIt
every foot of dry ground is imprSgna'sS4
by at least 1000 grasshoPPer eggs ,,J
piece of earth one inch in thickness ~, a ~
presenting surface six inches S9 quar-,
yielded 5000 healthy looking eggs; l VA n.,.
was in Emmett county, Iowa, on the '"'
M0iues river,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-01-11

the United States on adjournment OF said
convention, and that it should thereupOn
immediately he submitted by the president
TO a convention o. delegates chosen in each
state by tn people thereof under recon-
mendation OF its legislature for its assent
aud ratification 6. That it is recommended
to Che legislatures of the several states OF
the union to apply to congress without de-
Law to call the convention rs aforesaid, as
provided in article Y in the constitution.
Adjourned.
WAsHTNGToN, December 1.-The open
ing of the session of the house was witnessed
bv an immense Concourse of spectators. There
were very few members absent. The speak
ers chair was draped in mourning in re-
spect to the late speaker Kerr. There being,
therefore, no presiding officer the house was
called to order at noon by clerk Adams,
who thereupon called the roll of members
II call showed two hundred and forty
Il ne members present, tho whole number on
Il roll being two hundred and eighty-clght
On motion the house proceeded to the cleo
Ii n of sneaker. Samuel J. Randall was
nominated by Mr. Cox, and James A. Gar
field by Mr.. McCrarv. Mcssrs. Clymer, Ban
ming, Banks Mass. and Wilson Nowa) were
appointed tclers. The vote resulted AS 70
lows: Whole number of votes cast. two hun
dred and forty-lx; necessary to a choice,
one hundred and rwenty-fOur; Samuel }.
Randall received one hundred and sixty.one;
James A. Garfield eighty-two; Chas. &.
Williams, Wis one, given by his colleague,
Magoon; VIM. r. Morrison, one, given by
Potter (MicnD; Geo. F. Hear, one,
given by SeeIye jMass.); the an
nouucement Of the result was greeted
with applause in the gallery. Messrs.
Cox and McCrary conducted speaker Ran
dali to his chair, when he read his speech
from the manuscript as follows: Gentle
men OF the house Of representatives:
Called t. this position because of the death
of the late speaker Mr.. Kerr, of Indiana, /
only express a universal sentiment in saying
he was good and great man, whose public
and private life was characterized by purity,
patriotism and answering integrity. No
body can more completely appreciate than
do, the high honor of presiding over the
deliberations Of the representatives of the
American people, and for this mark of your
a rj hnorgfolt Observation-Disclosures IN tn" dis.
"hor~o Of The ;mnortant dntirs confJed tn
me- n / shall rudravor to be absolutely fair
and impartial while enforcing the rules and
constitutional prerogatves of the
body. | shall at the same time protect each
and every larmNer III the r tt13 ana Prlyl-
reyes 10 "t en- "T "3 "o ey,,eu Ill I nf tbo
lrS 'air Il viii be- NV dUtr and NV pleasure
to give true expression in the appointment of
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-11-28
London Ne,rspnpers.

London newspapers who keep CORE
spondents in the field deal with them very
hberally. The offices furnish everJ-
thing. Each has at least two horses,
which the Office pays for, and one or
more servants. Forbes, correspondent
of the Ne'OS, receives a clear salary of
So, 900 year and all his expenses paid.
This $5, 600 is in the shape of retainer.
He is paid that amount by the NetCs to
retain his services, to prevent his writ
ing for any other journal. When he is
actually at work, then he is paid an
additional amount, but he would receive
the So, 600 were he not to do stroke of
work within the twelve months. Edi-
torial writer's are not an Office fixture
here as in America, explains an English
letter in the Chicago Times. The men
who furnish editorials for an English
paper may or may not be professional
writers-that is, writer's for newspapers
They may be magazinists, or novel
writer's, or almost anything else. They
occupy somewhat the position of tho
mercenary soldier whose fealty is due TO
the power which pays him, during the
period for which he is employed. Sur
pose the london Times wishes to retain
the services of Professor Musty Dryas-
dust for leader writer. The editor
sends for him, or to him, announces the
wish, and if the professor consents he is
paid a retainer, which varies according
to the man employed. The retainer en-
cages him for the Times, and he cannot
write for any other daily paper. 1t does
not, however, guarantee him constant
employment. He may have been re-
tanned to write on will cases, and he
writes only when there is a demand for
an article on wills. A journal may have
FIVE or fifty men thus retained. Each
day the editor decides what he wishes
written, assigns the subjects to the prop
er men, and pays them "by the piece. -
A retaining fee varies according to the
quality of the man. Editorials on the
Times are paid for at rates varying from
two to five guineas each. The sub-edi-
tors who have. charge of foreign news,
correspondence, local topics, commercial
affairs, aud the like, receive regular sal.
aries. An English reporter, who is al
most invariably shorthand writer, gets
from $15 to $25 per week.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-11-28
Nv luogicaI Mind.

l confess, with feeling akin to regret,
That, as there are spots on the sun,
30 the best OF us all are with failings beset,
And that am afflicted with one.
presume possess It, although 1 can swear,
That its presence never could find,
Bat the friends who pretend that they know
mo declare
That have an illogical mind.
When ask for proof, am told that side
With whatever appears to be right
That give to my sympathies latitude wide,
And don't always say "No !" when might,
When say | can't see the use of war,
or torpedoes and things Of the kind,
Or what they should execute criminals for,
| am met with Illogical mind"
In short, when won't let an arguing friend
Persuade me that yellow is grey,
Or when decline my adhesion to lend
To all that the loud takers say.
They turn on my poor little self with frown,
And my death warrants instantly signed
''This fellow" they cry with contempt, "is
clown
And he has an illogical mind"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-11-28
A Fatal Gas,

In volcanic regions springs and wells
Of carbonic acid gas are not unfrequent,
forming part of the geological forma-
ton, like the springs and wells of petro-
leum in certain districts or this country
The Dogs Grotto, near Naples, enjoys
a worldwide reputation for evil. 1t dis
plays the fact that carbonic acid gas is
so much heavier than air that it lies on
the ground like pool of water. The
gas flows out over the threshold OF the
door, and runs like a brook down the
path leading up to the grotto. In calm
weather lighted candle plunged into
the stream near its point OF exit is i'm
mediately extinguished.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-11-28
Bonnm.n in south Cnrolinn.

The most remarkable instance of
geological discovery, revofutionizing n
district and enriching State has oo-
CURED in the development of what is
known as the Ashley river Is. O. de-
posits of what seems TO be the remains
of cartilaginous fish, especially of the
shark family, though they also contain
numerous bones and teeth of cHaceans,
or whale-like animals, many of which
were larger, or as large, as the whales
found in the seas at the present time.
From the number of their bones and
teeth exhumed or washed out by the
waves of the ocean, they must have ex-
listed in large +" shoals" and, together
with the enormous sharks of that age,
animals rivaling the whale in size, must
have constituted a vast marine Amy of
ravenous "flesh eaters and capacious
scavengers" of the Cocoon Ocean.
Ships and steamers are daily seeking
cargoes from the Ashley, Stono, Wando,
Askepoo, and other rivers. and the State
of South Carolina is now reaping great
harvest. Over SO, 900, 900 have already
been invested by northern capitalists in
mining and manufacturing the rocks
into rich fertilizers, and many persons
who, in 1857, were unbelievers have
now their thousands invested in it. This
is simple and true history of the dis
covery and development of the phosphate
rocks of South Carolina. The exports
for the past year amount to nearly two
hundred thousand tons.-Phitadelohid
| inquirer.