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Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01
The Horrors of the Chinese Famine.

The following is an extract from let ter received by merchant in Boston from gentleman holding an official po- sition at Pekin, China, which is fearful narrative of the terrible sufferings by the famine in that region:
 "I am very glad that you have taken a collection in your church for the famine in North China. You can by no possi- bility conceIve tithe of the distress. Fancy starving wretches standing by to watch for the death, by starvation, of a member of their own family, and then fighting over the few shreds of flesh left upon the bones of the corpse. Fancy cities in which shops are opened in which human flesh is publicly sold as in or dinary times beef and mutton is disposed of Fancy a district containing 10000 souls in which the death-rate from star vation alone is 400 per diem.
 "It is estimated by the Governor of Shansi, the province adjoining this upon the west, that half the population of the entire province is already dead of famine. In this province and in the three bound ing it upon the east, south and west, there are at low estimate 10000, 900 of people utterly destitute of 8 morsel of food except what is given them by the Government and by charities.
 "Those who get any relief at all get only teacupful of sort of gruel made of millet, once each day, which, o1 course, won't keep life in grown person very long. Some ot my own missionary friends have been in the field distributing relief, and they give only one and one half cents per day to each grown persor only that, for funds would not allow more generous assistance. If $1,O0O, GOO could be sent here now it would save 1000, 900 lives"
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01
A Love Story.
pounds.

How sweet it is, in imagination at least, to die for love He was only eighteen, and many and many morn ing, before the severe tasks of the day, heRhad stood before the looking glass, feeling his upper lip with tender and anxious care, in the hope that single stray hair might be found, the harbinger of the manly mustache. She was six teen, the girl of the auburn hair, color which she found it very hard to match. Their two souls beat as one, but the cruel parents, grim and gray, forbade the banns, and all because forsooth the young couple had only $6 week to begin housekeeping with. Gould they not live on locusts and wild honey must filthy lucre stand in the rosy path oi love, and hard-hearted fathers talk about facts, about rent, and porridge, and brown bread, and such pitiless subjects when all the lovers asked for was moon. shine? We'll, if they couldn't live to gether they could at least die together A bottle of laudanum was procured they kissed, embraced, then swallowed the dose Result of this romantic story Only one funeral, alas He got we'll unwillingly; but still he got well ant now the mustache has grown and so hal his salary, and possibly his brains hav' swollen little, and, in sweet forgetful ness of the past, he sits under the ful moon, with his arm around another girl waist. Such Is life
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01
The Influence of Malaria Counteracted.

That the harmful influence upon the human system of malaria may be effectually counter acted has been demonstrated for years past by the protection afforded the inhabitants of vast misunderstanding districts in North and South America. Guatemala Mexico and the West Indies, by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Used as a preventive, they have invariably been found to be most reliable safeguard against chills and fever, bilious remittents, and still more malignant types of malarious disease, and when employed as remedy have always proved their adequacy to the task of eradi- eating such maladies from. the system. For disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels, which in hot climates and masmatic localities are particularly rife the Bitters are prompt and thorough remedy. They also strengthen the system, tranquilize the nerves, promote digestion and sound sleep, and impart unwont- ed relish for food.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01
An Arabian Story.

Arabs are natures gentlemen, as diff ferent from the Turks as an Englishman is from the Neapolitan lazzaroni. I re- member 8 story that I heard when iu Syr1a of an Arab. He had a garden, and ill his garden he was accustomed to place his frugal luncheon. One day he saw the son of his neighbor stealing this luncheon. The Arab at once ran away. A friend met him, and to him he ex- plained what had occurred. "I suppose that you are going to the cadi ?" asked the friend. "No," replied the Arab, " am running away lest tbe boy should see me, for it would be terrible thing for him when grown up to be aware that he is thief"
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01
"Are sunstrokes frequent ?"
Ice in the Nevada Mines.

Tie Virginia City Enterprise says :- The miners who are retim bering the Consolidated Virginia shaft can work only few minutes at time, and, to do this are obliged to use immense quan- titie of ice. They not only swallow ice wat'r by the gallon, but also pour it ovel each other by bucketsful. Without Ice nothing could be done in the heated low,r levels of our mines. When work wasfirst commenced on the Comstock, ice vas the last thing any one would haN thought of as necessary for min' ing, and not few looked upon the fur niskng of ice water to miners as bit of extravaganza. Many stockholders thought it was luxury that might be withheld without much inconvenience to ny one but as the heat increased, it son became apparent that ice was a brine necessity. Without ice the drink inewater would soon attain tempera- tur equal to that of the air-from 110 to 80 degrees-and men cannot be ex- peted to swallow water that is almost bding hot.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01
THE CARE OF CHILDREN.
Plain and Simple Rules to be Observed
 Mothers During the Hot Season.

Plain and Simple Rules tO be Observed by
 Mothers During the Hot Season.
 The Board of Health of New York has published the following rules for the care of children during the hot season |:
 NURSING OF INFANTS.
 Over-feeding does more harm than anything else; nurse an infant month or two old every two or three hours.
 Nurse an infant of six months and over five times in twenty-four hours. and no more.
 If an infant is thirsty, give it pure water or barley water no sugar. con the hottest days 8 few drops of whiskey may be added to either water or food; the whiskey not to exceed a tea spoonful in twenty -four hours.
 FEEDING OF INFANTS.
 Boil teaspoonful of powdered barley (ground in coffee grinder) and gill of water, with little salt, for fifteen min utes, strain, then mix it with half as much boiled milk, add lump of white sugar, size of walnut, and give it luke warm, from @ nursing bottle. Keep bottle and mouthpiece in a bowl of water when not in use, to which 8 little soda may be added.
 For infants five or six months old, give half barley water and half boiled milk, with salt and lump of sugar.
 For older infants, give more milk than barley water.
 For infants very costive, give oatmeal instead of barley. Cook and strain as before.
 When your breast milk is only hall enough, change off between breast milk and this prepared food.
 In hot weather, if blue itmus paper applied to the food, turns red, the foo6 is too acid, and you must make fresl mess, or add small pinch of baking soda.
 Infants of six months may have bee tea or beef soup once day, by itself, O mixed with other food; and when tel or twelve months old, crust of bread and a piece of rare beef to suck.
 No child under two years ought to ca at your table.
 Give no candies, in fact, nothing tha is not contained in these rules, withou a doctors orders.
 SUMMER COMPLAINT.
 It comes from overlooking, and ho and foul air. Keep doors and window open.
 Wash your well children with col water twice day, and oftener in the ho season.
 Never neglect loosenesi of the bowel in an infant; consult the family or dis pensary physician at once, and he vii give you rules about what it should talk and how it should be nursed. Kee your rooms as cool as possible, hay them we'll ventilated, and do not allo, any bad smell to come from sinks, pr vies, garbage boxes, or gutters abou the house where you live. See that you own apartments are right, and complai to the Board of Health if the neighbol hood is offensive. Where an infant cross and irritable in the hot weather trip on the water will do it great des of good (ferryboat or steamboat), an may prevent cholera infantum.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01
CHE
MARKET NOTES.

NEW YORK MARKET.
 The wholesale New York market quotations snow:
 Beans. s.-Prime, $1.5711ul. 60; fair to good B,tter-N. Y. sold at 1sc. for choice in pails, and 14a16c. common to good. Western sold at 20c. and the common Western at 5dSc.
 Cbeese.-Factory fancy, s1lc. do. fair 7c., farm dairy, prime 10dl11sc., and do fair 9d10c.
 Eggs.-Quotations ranged from l2c. for or dinary to 16c. for New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
 F1our.--superfine New York and Western $S.0Od3. 90 extra New York $4.00n4.20.
 Hay.-Shipping 45a50c. clover 2Oc.; salt 25c 35c.; straw 40d50c.
 Hops.-New York 1Oal2.; Eastern 7a1Oe. yearlings 2a3c., olds 1o2c.
 Pet,ole"m.-Refined 1o4c crude 61see in barrels.
 Pork.-New mess $11a11 50 Family mess 1925, extra prime $8.T5, dressed hogs 55So61s
 Wteat:.-spring No. 3, s1.o294: Milwaukee No:2, $1.O5. Amber $1.l5. White $1.25.
 Rye.-State 64a66c
 WooL-Ohio Pennsylvania and Virginis xxx 42a45c., xx 37n4O., S7o4Oc: No l, S5c 40c. No 3, 35d40c., common, S0a32c. New York and Western xx S5dSSc., and No. l S5d3Sa32d35c.
 PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
 Four.-State family $5.5O; rye flour $500 Wheat, State $1.15. Amber $1.00. Corr yellow 5Oc; mixed State 49c.
 Petrole,an-Refned 102c.; crude S1(dS19c
 Wool-State and Western XIX 35d3Sc., 35t 36c., medium 36dS7c., coarse 3Sd34c. CATTLE MARKETS. BUFFALo.-Cattle good quality, $4.9I Hogs, fair to good $4.70a$4 90 best $4.90.
 EAST LIBERTY, PENN.-Best cattle $4.70 medium to good $3.25d4. 50; common to fai $3.50 Hogs, Workers, $4.40a4.50; Phila delphias, $4.7oa4.S0. Sheep, $3.25a4.00. WATERTowN, MAss.-Cattle, choice, $7.7i extra $7.00a7.50, first quality, $6. 121ad6.6 621s second qual. $5.1219a5.6219, third quality AZ 500, extra $4.5Oa5.5O sheared 316n5Ic spring lambs 4a51dc.veal calves 411n5hc
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01
Average Yield of Eggs.

The Poultry Yard says Though in exceptional instances individual hens will lay 15O to 200 eggs per annum, yet when several hundred head are kept, the average is not generally over ten or eleven dozen. When we kept 600 fowls our selves, embracing eight or ten different breeds, and counted the eggs daily, year after year, we averaged never over 13O eggs per hen per year, and in some in stances as low as 115. But we believe that by prolonged selection of the best layers, generation after generation, and skilful management, hundreds of fowls can be made to yield an average of 6 gross per annum.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01
Heat in India.

"This is hotter than India," said gentleman to St. Louis newspaper re- porter.
 "How do you make that out ?''
 "I mean that one suffers more from the heat as it now rages here than do the white people in India. I was in India nine years, sergeant in one of the British regiments stationed there, and I know that I have suffered more from the heat during the past three days in St Louis than ever did in all the years was in India. The reason is that the tempera- ture, high as it is, is equable-it ranges all the year around say 11O to 120, and the system gradually becomes accus- toned to 1t. While here the changes are so sudden that in the extreme heat people are prostrated at once." "How do the white people in India keep cool?" "The hot winds that blow there seem to come straight from furnace, and to protect themselves from these winds, masses of seaweed, called taties, are erected in front of all the doors, stretch ing in @ slanting direction from the top of the door to the ground, and these taties are kept wet by natives throwing water upon them all day long. Drafts of air are produced in the rooms by what they call punkahs, like the moveable fans, kept in motion by steam, that you see in the restaurant. Only the punkahs are about six feet long and three feet wide, and native keeps pulling them, standing at one end, by means of a rope. Attached to the bottom of the punkahs are curtains, which sweep down within six inches of your face when you lie in bed. You find your bed, though, cov- cred with bugs; you can sweep them off them by placing it in the sun, you find it covered the next morning the same as ever"
 "Are sunstrokes frequent ?"
 "Not as long as the men are on duty. From six A. M. until four F. NJ. it is dan gerous to be out in the sun. During one march which my regiment made in 1858 about fifty men day were struck in that regimen, alone. A man would begin to laugh, then to cry and in fifteen minutes he would be corpse. I have seen their skulls split open as if some one had struck them on the head with an axe. and you could sec their brains boiling, while the skull itself became black Very few men ever survive sunstroke, and if they do it always leaves its work upon the mind"
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01
A Point in Honesty.

Levater says, "He who pralses what he means to purchase and tells the faults of what he means to sell may set up partnership with honestly" Yes, he may indeed, but the best thing after all is to call his creditors together and settle at the best rates. He is too good to live in this cold, cold world. He would say to his customer, "That sugar has three ounces of fine sand to the pound that milk has been evolved from a combination of oxygen and hydrogen, commonly known as water, and bit of chalk from the cliffs of Dover, and every thing in ny store has been touched by the delicate fingers of the man who can make one pound into two, and both pounds shall taste and smell alike" He would perhaps be innocent, but he would certainly be poor. We should al respect him for his uprightness, but sigt to think that the poorhouse was the only home to be reckoned on with any assur ance.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01

PRESERVING OLD TREEs.-Those who may be anxious to preserve old and decaying trees may be glad to try the following method, which is recommend ed by the Gardeners Chronicle, in preference to plugging them with con- crete However much care may be bestowed upon it, it is impossible to make cement adhere to living tree, and before long the water, percolating along the bark, will find it's way slowly but effectually into the hole and pursue it's work. The only effective way of curing such disease is to make a plug of oak or other hard wood, smear it with tar, and hammer it tight in tho hole until it's outer surface is on the same level. as the hole. If there is any recu- perative power left in the tree the bark will soon grow over the plug and the wound be perfectly healed, which will
 never happen with the concrete process.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01
ENGLISH's FLORIDA TEA

For Upwards of Thirty Years Mrs. Winsloao's Soothing Syrup has beenused for children with never-failing success.It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieveswind collie, regu- lates the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhea, whether arising from teething or other causes. An old and we1l-tried remedy. 25c. bottle.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01

;. The weather is frequently too warm
 for work, but it is never too hot for a boat-race or rife-match.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01
Fat People. .

 Co1pulent people can be reduced from two to five pounds per week without starvation, by using Allan's Anti-Fat, purely vegetable and perfectly harmless remedy It acts on the food in the stomach, neutra1izing all saccharine and oleaginous matter.
 3S3 Washington s., BOSTON, Mass,
 May 21st, 1878. BOTANIC MEDICINE Co.,, Buffalo, N. Y.: Gentleme,a-Without special change of diet, two bottles of Allans Anti-Fat reduced me four and one-half pounds.
 Yours respectfully, M. A. BUSH. Hundreds of letters similar to the above have been received by the Botanic Medicine Co. Anti-Fat sold by druggists
 ENGLISHS FLORIDA TEA
 cures
 diseases of the Liver,
 Billiousness, Dyspepsia, Constipation and Headache,
 Price 25 cts. For sale by all druggists and ENGLISH MANUFACTURING Co.,, Al Broad St.
 New York
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01

A--B IS not easily earned in these times, Y but it can be madein three months by any one of ei'h her sex ,li in env part of the country, who is willing to work steadily at the employment that we fnr- nish. $66 per week in your own towE, You need not be away from home over night f fTou can give your whole time to the work, or only your spare moments. We have agents who are once can make money fast At the present time money cannot be made easily and rapidlyT at any other business. It costs nothing to try the business, Terms and $5 Cutft free. Address at once. II. HALLErT & Co.,, Portland, Maine.
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Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01
HOMES IN THE WEST

Excursions to Lincoln, Nebraska,
 Leave New York nnd New England the ber. Excursion Nh. 1 I llenyes N. Y. Tuesday, August 20. Fare about hdlf regular rates. Fast trains and tirst-cass accommodations guaran- teed. For descriptive Land Circulars, Information about Tickets, etc, send address Postal Card to PLINY MOORE, 3l7 Broadway, New York.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01
BIG BARGAINS FOR AGENTS !!

DANG UP-Single harness only $S, worth $20;
 ID all steel 7-shot Revov $25O, wot tn $l0; gold and silver plated Watches $S,-wo tn $10; Double Time Watches $780, worth Se5; first quality sve, plated plated Gift Cups eoc worth s2 30; AmeriGan Walthau
 and El&iu Watches $11, worth 8ab; child's Pianos I worth S5; combined Barometer and Thermometer $l
 worth $3 enbladed Knives $l worth $2; ladies' and misses' fine gold plated Imitation Onyx Medallion Sets 6c worth 3 and in fact all sorts and kinds of goods literally sla!lghtered; Mammoth Catalogue free J
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-01

Stands confessedly at the head of American rai
 ways. The track is double the entire length or the line, of steel rails laid on heavy oak ues, which are imbeGded in a tou0dation Of rock bal: last eighteen inches in depth. All bridges are oi
 iron or stone, and built upon the most approved plan. Its passenger cars, while emtnentiy saie and substantial, are at the game time models or comfort and elegance. ... -'A.r yU H~4Et. .
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-30
READ ONE.
Fair Notice!

will sell out my stock of groceries, etc.,
ATCOST, TO those buying one dollars
worth, or more.
Also, show cases, counter, shelving and
all other store fixtures.
One horse, delivery wagon and harness.
One good new barn.
One fine Chickering piano at less than
half its value.
One selffeeding coal stove.
On the sixth day Of January and for three
days thereafter I will sell all my household
and kitchen furniture, including walnut
marble-top chamber sets, parlor get, secre-
tary. cottage furniture, stoves, carpets, ~
frigerator, etc.
Expecting to leave the city temporarily,
the cash will be required for each article II
the time of sale.
E. NJ. Kr11s,
Dec. %, rs. Sd st., Opp. Jencks hotel
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-30
70 saxorAs AaapEM


Truths fkon . Ilaln 1pokoA 0ran'
ser oivsa la . Ce0prshsaslve Way
Tor the CenslAsratien ~ hts
DrssAssn.
Marindahl, Dscesber 1a7s.-k is .
stormy day in autumn, the grass h dry u
powder and stands swaying in the furious
storm that sweeps through it The farmer
busy At his work, hears . loud cry from one
Of inhabitants on the farm, and AXIS what
IL the matter. "The prairie fire i coming"
il The answer. Nearer aud nearer comes
the dreadful foe, rolling like the mighty
oceans waves in . heavy storm, and whist
ling in the air like thousands, Of angry ser
penis, consuming everything on his way.
Now the fire is there, and-oh horror! it
has crossed the ~fre.breakins. The farmer
stands powerless; and in . short time where
is his property! what has become Of his
year-long earnings? Some hatfulls of ashes
and no more. Terrible! But let VI o
imagine that he ave- his property. He is
in bad 6x anyhow. The prairies are
burned in q distance of miles around him.
and the winter comes with its dreadful
snow storms and nothing remains to stop
them. All this is bad enough, but We have
not done yet. If you walk across the burn
ed p~rairies after . heavy storm, you will see
how all the earth that covers the roots Of
hergrass has been blown away, and the
erase roots are Afterwards destroyed by the
Farmers you know yourselves that l
have only written the simple truth. aud on
" stated the absolute facts. Let US there
fore do all in our power to prevent this
from striking upon US in the coming
time. Let 10 also use all our influence in
the legislature to take this matter in
to consideration. S. SUNDEE.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-30

y. q. Day. 4 sprinEasla Wa + tow
yGltaeday. H
. s. shsrslsf s..usasa sas.rd,tv f'o.
I'm eastern trip.
MHL + Grey l.a this morning on .
Witt 70 friends II Iowa.
Abr,han Adler returned Saturday night
from : visit to the principal cities Of the
sast.
R.v. N. v. Written and wifs. Of Yankton
as,uey. were registered 1t the Merchants
yesterday.
Mai. Wolfe has had his Yankton Anrlough
extended to ::Thursdav, which will enable
him to take il New Years day with ua.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-30
MOURNING INDIANS.

A Pair Of Bucks, ruled With Grief At b
Death ofa sister, Attempt tr kit1a
IN White Man.
A gentleman in from the neighborhood Of
Rosebud agency relates the particulars Of
the adair which. occurred there on the 18th
inst. A squaw had died and the s'bad heart"
prevailed extensively among her relatives.
Her two brothers took the remains upon .
hill just outside the Indian village and enter
ed upon . season Of vigorous mourning, after
the most approved Indian fashion. While
thus engaged in Kidding themselves Of . So
perAuous amount efgrief, white man passed
their way, with q wagon load Of slabs, with
out knowing that he was i~ntruding upon the
solmnity Of a funeral. As soon - his pres
ence became known to the sorrowing survi-
vors of the dusky remains, they let fly .
couple of bullets at him. one Of which struck
a rib and glanced of and the other missed
it, mark. The slab hauler was temporarily
disabled. by the force Of the bullet. and but
for the timely arrival Of some Of his friends
would have been promptly carved up BY
the two grief stricken red skins whose sister
had died. He was removed to the council
house, where the chiefs aud soldiers assem-
bled to pass judgment on...their fellows
who had fred upon the white man. They
decreed,.a penalty Of %banishment. The In
dams were given thirteen ponies and in
obedience to the edia fromlhe council house
left their tribe and became wanderers upon
the face of the earth. They will probably
join some renegade band and do effective
work in the next Indian raid upon the set
Elements. But this was crude Indian justice
| While the offenders had transgressed no Law
OF the red mans code, they had displeased
the owe which feeds and clothes, and il
was deemed polite to visit punishment up
ON them that others might not suffer the con
sequences of their act. Shooting the whit,
man Who entrudes upon the grief of thos,
who mourn the death Of a relative, is an es
tablished custom among the wilder bands
and they are usu lily given = wide berth up
on those unhappy locations.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-30
HARD PAN

Great reduction in prices on all kinds Of
groceries at Jenkinson & Pixies. Just re-
ceived, . large assortment of Dozier, Weyl
& Cos imperial cakes and jumbles, one
shilling per pound. The following reduc-
tions on oysters by the dish: Raw, Is eta :
stews, Is cts ; fry's IS cts.
JENK1NsoN & PIKE,
Sign of the Red Light, Sd Street.