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Connecticut western news., 1878-12-25
THE POMMERANIA SHIPWRECK.
MISS MARY CLIMBERS ACCOUNT OF THE SCENE ON THE STEAMER AND OF HER OWN RESCUE.


 A letter has just been received which gives Miss Mary Clymers account of the shipwreck of the Pommerania and of the rescue of herself and of her sister Rose. It is as follows: The Pommerania left Cherbourg on Monday afternoon,. Mo- vember 25. Mother, Richard and sat up later than usual that night, thinking with pleasure of soon being safe landed at Hamburg. We were sitting in the cabin by the dining table. Birdie and Rose had just left us to go to their berths for the night. Richard and the two young Bodiscos went up on deck, when suddenly there was a grinding sound and shock, as if the vessel had struck hard bottom. This was quarter before mid- night. Then suddenly there came loud cry of "A All men on deck. All ladies stay below" Then came the cry of |" Every one on deck" got Rose and Birdie the latter almost nndressed-and we went mp on deck, going to the port side, mother following. Birdie was very cold and had on only wrapper. Rose gave her waterproof cloak and | gave Rose a coat. When we reached the deck there was the greatest of confusion and ex- citement. The captain was at his post giving orders, and stuck to his duty to the very last. I went again down into the cabin to get little box containing some valuables, and when came back with it I found Richard bravely at work freeing ifeboat, and mother, Birdie and Rose trembling and very much agi- tated. I do not think mother had very much hope of being saved, for she put her arms around each of our necks and blessed us and then got up on the rail of the vessel. Fearing she would fall into the water below I pulled her on the deck. Next Richard put rope into my hands and told me in 8 voice of com mand, "There, sister, hold on this. !" Scarcely knowing what it meant I seized the rope. Richard swung ne off. then saw the frightful distance below me in the iwater, and the next instant was in GIl0 UObLOu O1 IuC I1lo-DOub. HhSl1 l looked up I saw a dark something flying in the air, which l thought.was mother :; it fell into the water by the side of the boat; pulled it up by the hair it was Rose. Rose was slightly stunned for the moment, but soon recovered. There was room for eight or ten more persons in the boat, but it was suddenly cut from it's fastenings. Then the sailors pulled off for fear of being swamped by the vessel, and in few moments we heard a voice in our boat cry, "Good God, they're gone. Pray for their souls." The men pulled very slow and did not reach the Glengarry for the best part of an
 hour, although she was very near, hav-
 Ing come in answer to the Pommerania' s signal. We were landed at Dover, Eng land.
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rhs National Publishing Co.,, Phlladelph,n,

Have just removed their PRINTING OFFICE, BINDERY Sso.. to their Neto Fioe-Story Build iaq, Nos 724, 726 and 72S Cherry Street.
 They now have the largest and most com plete Subscription BOOK and BIBLE Manufac- turing Establishment in the United States.
 They also have the Newest and Most Im- proved Machinery for Printing and Binding. and with increased facilities are enabled to furnish their Books and Bibles to Agents at lower prices than other publishers can afford to sell similar works. They will be pleased to have our readers spend a day with them at any time, and will take pleasure in showing them the whole process of manufacturing Books aud Bibles.
 Their Pictorial History of the World has only been published few months, and it has already had a sale of nearly 50,000 copies. It is pronounced, by the leading papers and lit- erary men of the world. the most reliable, complete and Cheapest History ever published. It contains 627 fine historical engravings and portraits, and 1260 large double-column pages, and is the most valuable and fastest-selling book that has been published for maRy years.
 To Agents who are now canvassing we would say, during the winter is the best season of the year to get subscribers, for people then have leisure to read books and would advise you to write to them at once for an agency. All their Books are very popular, sold exclu- sivelY by subscription, and as they offer extraordinary inducements to canvassers all those out of employment can do well by sending to them for an agency.
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-25
Storing Ice.

As the harvest is soon to be expected, and as every one would gladly be SUD- piled with this luxury or rather necessi- ty in summer, we give few simple di- rections for building cheap and ade- quate building for family supply. Take 1000 feet of rough pine boards, twelve feet long, and eight chestnut posts nine feet long, also five pieces 2x4 spruce twelve feet long. Set the posts in the ground so as to inclose square space 12 feet by 12. Gut off the tops level and square seven feet from the ground nail on four of the 2x4 pieces for plates, mailing on the boards inside the posts, leaving the space open where the ice is to be put in. Use the remain ing 2x4 piece for ridge pole, and nail on boards for roofing with battens. A ventilating hole six inches in diameter should be made in each gable. Before packing the ice, provide about five cords of sawdust or tan-bark, or if these are not conveniently obtained, | then cut-straw or bog-hay will answer if cut about an inch long. If the loca- tion is not we'll drained, drain it. Pack 8 foot of dry litter or straw we'll beaten down on the ground before storing the ice, then place the blocks of ice fifteen inches from the walls of the building, or chips of ice, and around them to the wall with the cut-straw or sawdust, GOV ering up the packing material with the ice until it is full. Then cover over the top of the whole with eighteen inches oi chaff and tread it down we'll. If this if watched every week and the packing carefully crammed down around the ice and renewed, if necessary, it will keer well all summer; but, if neglected, vii melt away very rapidly, for when the ice settles in melting it will have cracks in the packing which will admit warn air, and if not filled immediately vii
 cause waste of ice.
 If this building can be placed ill the shade of Q tree near the back door it vii
 be better, as the heat of the sun will no strike the boards, or the whole may bt covered from view by some quick grow ing climbing vine for similar reason. The ice-house described will hoIt about five hundred cubic feet of ice, O ; full two cubic feet a day for the warn ) season, after making liberal allowanc
 for waste. If there is at hand an ic
 compaSes that makes a business of cut
 ting ice, it will be found very convent
 ent to buy enough to fill the house o them while they are cutting ;eey ar
 generally willing to sell it at tE pont for about dollar per cord, witch i
 much less than the cost of cutting it b, hand. .-An1eric01a CtltiUdtor.
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the bill to reorganize the army. The bill to provide $450, ,OOO for the postal-car de ficiency was passed as 1t came from the House. Messrs. Teller, Cameron of Wisconsin, Kirkwood, Hoar, McMillan, Bayard, Wallace, Bailey and Garland were appointed to constitute the con- mittee under the Blaine resolution.
 HOUSE.
 The bill for the issue of duplicate registered bonds for the benefit of the Manhattan Savings Bank was passed. The Senate amendments to the Military Academy Appropriation bills were gen erally non-concurred in. After some routine business the discussion of the Geneva award was continued, MT. Frye supporting the minority and MT. Steng- CT the majority report. During the de- bate MT. Frye and, Mir. Willis had @ brief verbal encounter. The Presiden- tial Election bill was referred to the committee on the subject.
 | In the House proposition to suspend the rules and pass a. bill to make it a penal offense for Government officers to interfere with elections or to solicit or receive campaign contributions was re- jected by 132 to 103, not two-thirds in | the af1rmatlVe.
 In the House the Geneva award bill was discussed, MT. Chittenden opposing the majority report, although it was ir his interest as an insurance stockholder He favored returning the remainder o1 the award to Great Britain. The bill tC provide for the postal-car deficiency brought on discussion in regard tt Democratic economy, which was partici pated in by Messrs. Clymer, Foster ant Hewitt, and ended in some sparing by Messrs. Conger and Durham. Al Amendment to strike out clause for bidding any increase of the postal-ca service this year was rejected and th' bill passed.
 In the House the Senate amendment to the Diplomatic and Fertilization bill were non-concurred in. The yellow fever investigation appropriation of $50, 900 was made.
 There was little scene in the Hous over an attempt by MT. Cabell to pre- sent resolution referring to the con duct of Judge Rivers which stirred III the Virginia Legislature. The Indial Appropriation bill was passed after had been amended by providing by vote of 97 to 94 that no more Indian from Arizona and New Mexico shall b moved into the Indian Territory withou the consent of Congress. A report fror the Civil Service Committee was req declaring certain charges of corruptio against Messrs. Brentano, Henkle an l Hendee absolutely groundless.
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The Gilt Edge on Butter,

The temptation to use ooloring matter of some kind in butter-making during the winter months, when butter is liable | to be off-colored, is great, and much of this article which gains purchasers at liberal prices, with its golden complexion varying from the pale straw hue, pre- ferred by some, to the deep prime yellow, favored by others, owes it's success to dose of annatto, tumeric, saffron, mari gold or other similar substance. Less and less white butter finds its way into the markets not because less is made than formerly, but because it has been colored. Its makers argue that as it is in all respects save color equally good with summer buffer or grass-made but ter there is no objection to adding the coloring, which improves its appear ance and thereby enhances its market value without otherwise affecting the article.
 That butter coloring, when judiciously prepared and employed, does not change the flavor of the butter, has been proven over and over again, no one testing sam- ples of colored and uncolored butter from the same churning being able to detect any difference excepting that of
 hue. But that colored butter is equal in
 excellence to butter which has received
 It's desirable color from Q proper man.
 agement of milk, from good COWS we'll
 fed, IS quite another matter. It stands
 to reason that cream which in winter
 nearest approaches that from ass-fed
 COWS produces in every respect better
 class of butter than white butter can
 possibly be, however high colored arti-
 fcially. Managers of butter factories
 understand this as do the dairy maids of
 only few COWS, who churn and work
 with old-time appliances. Hence while many butter makers use coloring matter they are generally reluctant to confess
 it; all prefer, when circumstances will admit of it, to obtain gilt-edged butter by possessing, first, only such COWS as incline to yield rich milk, by feeding
 these animals we'll, and last, but b1 no means least, by getting the cream ut as quickly as possible after the milk il drawn. When, as will sometimes occur pale butter comes, all exertions to tn, contrary notwithstanding, little color ing is employed, but as the exception 3 not the rule. In the artificial colorin. F of butter nothing has perhaps given a
 much satisfaction as annattoine or tn , dry extract of annatto, which having s been prepared in liquid form is adde, to the crsam at the beginning of tn . churning.
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afidavits are true, enough money has been stolen from him by his book keepers to go @ long ways toward pay ing the national debt. Detectives have also found him splendid bird to pluck, and they have not neglected him. There must be much money in soap, taking the soap kings word for it.
 The reports from the registers in bankruptcy, which accompany that of the Attorney General, are made up for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, and therefore differ from the current reports prepared by the commercial agencies. They are useful for comparison, to test the accuracy of the latter, and as mat ter of general intelligence
 Total liabilities of voluntary
 cases ...................... s166, 1O9, ,2o9,73
 cases. s....................... 59.27s, ,689. .OO zs Gross liabilities. ...... $219, ,3S7, ,s97. .73 Total assets voluntary cases... $S37, 196, ,097.49 Total assets compulsory cases. 16,604, ,537. 50
 Gross assets s........... $53, 800, ,624. 99 Dividends in voluntary cases. $83 ,039, $40. 76 Dividends in compulsory cases ?, 451 ,257. .55
 This exhibit presents painful picture of the prostration of commercial, in- dustrial, and mechanical interests in every part of the Union. The assets re- ported cover less than 0 fourth of the liabilities, and the dividends less than a tenth of the assets. No comment is needed to make these figures impressive. Unfortunately, they speak too plainly for themselves.
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HORACE WATERS S5 SONS, the Great Piano and Organ dealers, whose advertisement is in another column, are among the oldest and most reliable firms in the United States. Their extraordinary offer for the HOLIDAYS should be read with interest by all who may want a really tirst-class instrument at lower price than has ever before been offered. Send for their catalogue and take advantage of thoir holiday offer.
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MARKET NOTES.

NEW YORK MARK EI.
 The wholesale New York market quotations thow:
 Beans. Prime, 1,62a1.66 fair to good s1.5o Buher.NN. Y. sold at 25c. for choice in 5ails, and 14dl6c. common to good. Western sold at 2S~, and the common Western al 7a9c.
 CReese.-Factory fancy, &c.,. '; do. fair Sc. E17s-Quotations ranged from 23c. for or liniry to 26c. for New York, New Jersey md Pennsylvania
 F2o'u'.--superfne, $3.3oas6O; Western, B 65a4 co extra New York $3.65a3.90;
 l}ny.-Shipping 35a40c.; clover 25u55c.; salt 25a35 straw 30G40c
 Rops.-New York 12a15. Eastern 7al2c earrings 4G6e., olds 2o3c.
 Petro1eoHn.-Refncd crude be, in bulk in barrels Sc. Naptha s14c. in PorE.-New mess ss.6oos7'. Family mess B. 75, extra prime $11.5O, dressed hogs 35Sa41s. KhecL-sp1ing No. 9 9sc. Milwaukee, No. 3, - Amber $1.08. White s1.10. Rye-State 57d6)c
 Wool.-Ohio Pennsylvania and Virginia xxx 39a4tc., xx S5o36., x 34d35c. No. l, 36a 37c. No. 2. 32oS5c., co'rr n, 2Sn91c. New York and Western xx S1asSc., and No. 1, 31d33a34d36c.
 PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
 Nour.-statc family $4.75; rye flour $500. Wheat, State 1.05c. Amber $1.02 Corn yellow 44c.; mixed State 46o. Petroleun-Itefned 915c.; crude rae.
 WooE-State and Western xxx 35137c. 35d &C.,, medium 35n37c., coarse 30d33c.
 CATTLE MARKETS.
 BUFFALo.-Cattle good quality, $4.70 Hogs fair to good $2. 85 hest $3.25.
 EAST LIBERTY, PEN. Jest cattle $500, medium to good $+.00d4. 50; common to flir $3 75a40O Hogs, Workers, $270a2.80 Phila- delphias, $2, ,8512.95. Sheep, $2.50a4. 25.
 WATERrowN, MAss.-Cattle, choice $7.25
 e H n1y second qual. $f.25 5.75, third quality 4.25 a5. .0O Sheep and lambs--wool sheep, $3 00a $50, extra s3 75a5.00, spring lambs 4a41<c., veal calves 416a6I6c
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Nniice fe,w Nrcrmhcr.

For Upwards of Thirty Years Mrs Winslca0'S Soothing SVr'up has been used for children with never-failing success.t corrects acidity of the stomach, relieveswind collie, regu- iates the bowels cures dysentery and diarrh9a, whether arising from teething or other causes. An old and weG-tried remedy. 25c. bottle.
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MASON tS HAMLIN Cabinet Organs are fur nished, for cash, from c;54 each upwards every one being of the same highest excellence.
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POTATOES. October and November 1,250,OO0 bushels of potatoes were shipped from Prince Edward Island, and it is estimated that Nova Scotia sent away as many more.
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Messrs. JOSEPH BURNETT tG Co.,,
 Boston, Mass: Gentlemen,-In the fall of 1877 used Jonas Whitcomb's Asthma Remedy and received immediate relief, and would most cheerfully recommend it 10 any person troubled with Hay Fever or Asthma. MRS. R. SHERMAN. 50 Ellis Ave, CHICAGO, ILL. e
 iTni. SnLe h1l nH aesnectnhLe Drnnniska
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OLIVER DITSON X CO.,, Boston.
WhitC0mb's Remedy
 ASTHMA, Rose Cold and Hay Fever.

The late Jonas Whitcomb of Boston, visited Europe few years since for the benefit of his health, which was impaired by frequent attacks of Spas nodic Asthmd. While under the treat ment of an eminent German physician his asthma disappeared; he procured the recipe which had done so much for him. This remedy has been used in thousands of the worst cases with aston ishing and uniform success. Itcontains no injurious properties whatever.
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TESTING

TESTIMONIALS.
 ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10, 1877. Messrs. J. BURNETT IS Co.,: The Remedy afforded me was perfect; I have not had bad night since taking it, and I have in no case found any relief until your Remedy came to hand. I most cheerfully recommend it to any one troubled with Hay Fever or Asthma, for it is the only remedy ever used by me with any good effects.
 Yours truly,
 VIM. T. MASON, Of Messrs. MASON & GORDON, Ldwyers,
 517h Chestnut Street.
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WILLING TO ACooMMoDATE.-B Egan, an Irish lawyer, onco fought duel with Curran, another member of the Irish bar When on the ground Egan com, lailed "o of the disadvantage he presented over Curran, he being as big as a haystack, and Curran like blade of grass" "Oh! MT. Egan," replied Curran, |" have no wish to take any unfair advantage. Let my siz9 be chalked upon your body, and I'm satis- fled thar any shots of mine which hit outside the chalk shall not count"
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The Chinese InSurfectiOn.

Tine insurrection of Brigadier- G eneral Li-Yung- Choi, in China, is confined to the Province ot Kwang-si, which is mountainous and sparsely populated. Li-Yung- Choi is disappointed office seeker, who enraged at missing some appointment, has sold his property anu armed a body of men 50,00O strang, his object, presumably, being to oveaturn the Government. It is reasonable to suppose that he is playing for ! igher game than the ordinary leaders of banditti. The inhabitants of thjs province are of 8 daring and turbulens character, and ready to join in any lawless enterprise, however desperate its prospects. The great Taiping Rebellion, which was so we'll maintained and did so much mischief, originated in Kwang-si, which is full of outlaws; and if the rebellion is not put down quickly there will be no lack of volunteers to join it. The price Of rice will be high in China during the coming year, and want, more than any other cause, breeds disat1ection in the Celestial Empire.
 Many Miles Away.
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There is a certain point on ridge high up on Kearsarge Mountain where can be heard the rumble of trains on the Southern Pacific Railroad as they cross the range to the west of Mohave, 40 miles distant. There is regular daily train passing at 1920 o'clock, and upon reaching the place at this hour the noises of the train are heard as statel. IL is curious thing in nature, but scarcely more wonderful than some of the mountain echoes we read of, nor no more incomprehensible than late achievements of science in telephones, photographs and megaphones, possibly involving the same principle of con- ducting sound through the air or solids.
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sE Send cts. tstalnpsl and receive, post free, G0 cts worth of music in the Musical RecOfdy which is nublished weekly. S2 per year.
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WAS twice defeated by 30 to 30 and by 28 to 29, in each case strict party vote. Secretary Sherman sent to the Senate
 his reply to the request of NJ" Beck for information concerning the payment of silver dollars for interest on the publ1c debt, which was in effect that they had
 not specifically been so applied. The
 Senate amendments to the Military [ Academy bill were insisted on and a
 committee of conference ordered. The amendments of the Appropriations Con- mittee to the House Diplomatic Ap- propriation bill, restoring all the
 salaries to the amounts at present paid,
 were adopted. The Blaine resolution was discussed by Messrs. Merrimon,
 Wallace, Whyte, Morgan and others,
 and finally adopted by 56 to 6.
 There was debate in the Senate between Messrs. Beck, Conkling and others about the law requiring the iron clad oath of jurors in United States courts, but no action was taken. The bill giving twenty cannon for monument to General Custer was passed. The bill to amend the patent laws was l taken up, and MT. Wledom offered | an amendment providing that no | damages Can be recovered when the person Infringing pate had no knowledge of it's existence. An amend ment by MT. Hoar cutting off such priv ilege after the receipt of notice wns re- iected by 21 to 31. The sum of $50, 600 was appropriated for the yollow-fever investigation. The bill providing that the posse conaitatahs clause shall not ap- ply to the troops operating against the Indians and the Pension Appropriation bill were passed. The Senate insisted on it's amendments to the Diplomatic and Fortifc rtion appropriation bills.
 The bill to amend thu patent laws was discussed. MT. Windom withdrew his amendment anu presented 1t in modified form as an additional section, but the bill 1 was finally laid aside until January '. MT. Burnside explained the provisions of
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Care to our cOlnQ adds a nall no doubt,
 But every fit of laughter draws one out"
 Mrs. Joseph Walker of Newport, R. l., found that old adages go contrawise ct times. Her husband purchased a quantity of pork and taking it home proceeded to salt it down. His wife soon after discovered that ho had been trying to make brine with white sugar. She was seized with @ fit of laughter which continued for several minutes, when she suddenly expired. Mrs. Walk CT was only twenty years old and had been but recently married.
 A Frenchmap, M. Masseras. has just given US history of Maximilian s reign in Mexico. It seems from this that the Austrian was a tickle, obstinate Emperor without policy or plans and to- tally unfit for the work in which he was engaged, the reconstruction of Mexico. He would in no wise listen to his wife, but conducted all aff iirs as he saw fit aud in his own vascilating manner. At times he wou d be full of hope and overbearing in his whims, boasting that even his beloved empress dare not at such times interfere with him, and again he would be in the depths ot despair weeping in the arns of his favorites.
 An exchange says that Mrs. B. T. Babbitt, the wife of the soap man, has $28O, GOO worth of diamonds. While she has the diamonds her husband has a mania, and that is "defalcations. " Ever since he commenced to make money in his business, he has devoted half his time and as much of his gains to the pursuit of defaulting bookkeepers. We believe that no less than 8 half dozen of them have been followed up by him, aad two he succeeded in land ing in State prison. If Babbitt' s
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MASON & HAMLIN CABINET ORGANS.

Deyeonsry,otsG 6est PX HIGHEST T M MM1INOKS AT ALL viz. at PARIS, 1887 VIENNA, 1873 SANTIAGO, 1875 PHILADELPHIA, 1876 PARIS, 1878 and GRAND SwED. awarded Highest honors a any such. Sold for cash or installmelts. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES & Crculare with new styles and prices sent free = MASON HAM LIN ORGAN Go BOSTON, NEW YORK, or CHICAGO.