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Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18

as the United States Government owned the Mississippi river, it was responsible for the damage the freshets inflicted. The Military Academy Appropriation bill was passed with the committees amendments increasing it $2, 700, and another by MT. Maxey which added $3,- GOO for an electrical apparatus. MT. Wood, in the House, offered resolution for the investigation of John I. Daven- ports conduct at the time of the New York election. It was voted to adjourn from December 20 to January 8. The Geneva Award bill was taken up and Messrs. Willis, Bioknell and Potter SUD- ported the majority report and MT. Lap ham the minority.
 HOUSE.
 A large number of bills were intro duced relating to our silver coins. MT. Felton wished to compel national banks to receive the standard dollar as equiya- lent in value to gold coin. MT. Atkins wanted all the minor coins made legal tender. MT. Burchard's proposition was to compel national banks to receive legal-tender coins on deposit at par, and to compel tAe United States Treasurer to exchange Government notes for Gov ernment coins. MT. Hewitt's bill pro- vides for the free coinage of gold coin, and standard silver dollar of the same unit of value, the coins to be inter- changeable at the Treasury and Sub Treasuries. The House refused to sus- pend the rules and pass bill prohibit ing the further coinage of the trade dol lar-154 to 91. It also, 15O to 89, re- fused to pass under suspension of rules MT. Forts resolution declaring that the legal-tender quality of the silver dollar of 4l23 grains shall be maintained. The House in Committee of the Whole amended the Diplomatic Appropriation bill by increasing the salaries of the ministers to France, Great Britain, Germany and Russia to the amount allowed by the present law-the House afterwards struck out this amendment and provided for charge d'affaires at Greece and a secretary of legation at Brazil, and requested the President to revise the tariff of consular fees. The House passed the bill, to which not a single amendment was offered in the Committee of the Whole. The Senate's request for Anderson's testimony about Matthews was complied with.
 The Pension Appropriation bill was reported. The bill to regulate com merce between the States, which was originally designed to destroy the mo- nopoly of the Standard Oil Company, was taken up and supported by MT. Req | gan. Messrs. Potter and Hewitt vigor. ously opposed it, but it was passed by 139 to 101, and the bill for the distribu. tion of the Geneva award was taken up.
 The House voted to repeal a clause, which had been inserted in the Sundry Civil bill by the Senate, paying an In. dian agents fraudulent claim. A sub stitute for the Pension Appropriation bill was passed.
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18
MARKET NOTES.
NEW YORK MARKET.

NEW 1ohh mAhhEIs The wholesale New York market suotat,on. show:
 Beans.-Prime, 1.7oa1.75; fair to good s1. .5u al .65 per bushel.
 Buder.-N. Y. sold at 2cc. for choice in pails, and 14d16c. common to good. Western sold at 27c. and the common Western ct 7a9c.
 Cheese.-Factory fancy, &c.,; do. fair Sc.
 Eggs.-QuOtations ranged from 22c. for or dinary to 25c. for New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
 F7our.-superfipe, $3.4Oa3.7O; Western. %375a4 10; extra New York 8. 75a4. %. 25as5 straw s6a40c. ''' '"''
 Hops.-New York 12a15. Eastern 7alsc yearlings 4a6c., olds 2asc.
 in bulk; in barrels Sc. Naptha s1e. in shipping order, and 12d14c in cases.
 Pork.-New mess $s.60ass0. Family mess 8.75, extra prime $11 50, dressed hogs s1id4.
 Wheat.-spring No. 9, e1.O0. Milwaukee, No; 2, - s.-- Amber Der s1.o7A. White s1.11.
 Wool-Ohio Pennsylvania and Virginia xxx 39d4lc., K S5o36.,..x 34dS5c. No. 1, S6a 37c. No. 2, S2a35c., common, t28GS1c. New York and Western K 31oS3c., and No. 1,
 PHILADELPHIA MARKET. v5gos osrstste ssts family s45s rye S1r e:oo yellow 44c.; mixed State Acc.
 Petroleuna-Reined 91Sc.; crude 7kc.
 WooEState and Western xx 35GS7c., 36d &C.,, medium 35a37c., coarse 30aSSc.
 CATTLE MARKETS.
 BCFFALo.-Cattle good quality, SAYS Hogs, fair to good 2.80 hest e3.25.
 EAST LIBERTY, PEN. Best cattle 94.7b, medium to good $4.0OG4.50; common to fair 3.30a3.60 Hogs, Workers, $2.s0d2.70 Phila- delphias, $2.8Od2.9 90. Sheep, $2.75a4.2S. extra $6OOd6 75, first quality, e5 SOo5. Y5 second qual $5.OOa5.25, third quality S.75 a4.75. Sheep and lambs-wool sheep, 92.00o 2.64 extra $2. 75a4.50, spring lambs A0z1<c., veal calves 41fG6Tc.
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18

A Seymour, Indiana man, picked up stick of eordwood the other night, ana chased cat across the back yard. He didn't batch the cat, but he caught the clothes line with his teeth and now when he smiles the corners of his mouth pass each other at the back of his neck.
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18

. THE FIRM OF NEIL McCALLUM & Co.,, Shoe and Leather Findings, No. 19 Spruce St., New York, are personally known to us as . responsible house, having been in business in this same location for the past 25 years, and of Grover & Baker, Nos. 22 and 2s, Sewing Machines.
 These machines, as advertised by them in another column to-day, are each guaranteed ss new, genuine and perfect Grover & Baker machines, the same as heretofore sold for $65 and $S5 Remittances may be made through the editor of this paper
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18

IT is impossible te sell the best article of any kind as low as the poorest can be afforded. But the prices of Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs are not much more than those of very inferior organs, while the difference in quality, and especially in durability, is very great.
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18

For Upwards of Thirty Years Mrs. Wsnslo,o's Soothing Syrup has been used for children with never-failing success. Is corrects acidity of the stomach relieves wind collie, regu- lates the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes An old and well-tried remedy. 25c. bottle.
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18
WhftC0mb's Remedy
 ASTHMA, Rose Gold and Hay Fever.

The late Jonas Whitcomb of Boston, visited Europe a few years since for the benefit of his health, which was impaired by frequent attacks of Spas modic Asthma. 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.
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18
Notice for December.

Do not buy piano of anybody until you send for Special Loto Prices and Discounts for cash to Dealers, Clergymen and Music Teachers-mailed free upon application to
 HAYNES BROS,
 145 Fifth Ave-,
 New York
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18
It ia Yerx nimcult for the stnmanl

To digest the ordinary saponifled cod liver oil But Phillips "Palatable" Cod Liver Oil, in combination with Phospho-N o-Nutritine, Is easily digested by consumptive and other invalids with feeble stomachs. All druggists. Depot 2 Platt street. New York.
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18

highest priced, best and cheapest; this is what is claimed for the Mason SS Hamlin Cabinet Organs.
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18

Messrs. JOSEPH BURNETT & Co.,,
 Boston, Mass. :: Gentlemen,-In the fall of 1877 I used Jonas Whitcomb's Asthma Remedy and received immediate relief, and would most cheerfully recommend it to any person troubled with Hay Fever or Asthma. MRS. R, SHERMAN. 1S0 Ellis Ave, CHICAGO, ILL.
 For sale bv aH respectable DruQ1ists.
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18
TESTING ONIALS,

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10, 1877. Messrs. J. BURNETT 6S Co.,: The relief the Jonas Whitcomb's Asthma 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, tdtvysrs,
 B17h Chestnut Street.
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18

DIkNl7Beautiful Concert Graud0RGAW IHM V Pianos cost q $lSOS9; S;onna only ySsf af.T7N only $I55. New Style Upright Pianos $1 dS:S9: Organs ( stops cost S39O only .$1 15. Elegant S375 Mirror top Organs only $1O5. Trcmen- New Steam Factory soon to be erected % NewspapeSE pS Organs SENT FREE. Beattys Celebrated Pianos and Organs, beautiful Instrmentsl Chslleng comparison! Rivals are jealous Please hddro
 DANIEL F. BEATTY, Washington. N. U.
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18

MT. Windom offered bill proposino radical change in the Patent laws. and spoke briefly on the subject. The Senate nonconcurred in the House ap- continent of 2 Yellow Fever Com mission. MT. Edmunds called up the Electoral bill and spoke upon it.
 A bill was passed by 39 to 21 author lzlng the appointment as an assistant surgeon ln the army of 8 man who. while a minor, had served in the Confederate Army. Five of the majority were Re. publicans. A resolution was adonted calling on the House to transmit tbe test lmony of James B. Anderson in regard to Senator Matthews. Bills were offered to recoin the trade dollars into subsidiary coin and to issue dunlicate bonds in the place of those stolen frono the Manhattan Savings Bank. Messrs Morgan and Edmunds made speeches ;,, support of the latter's bill to reon1ate the count of votes for President and MT. Jones (Fla. spoke against it.
 Mir. Beck offered bill to repeal that provision of the Revised Statutes which forbids the appointment to the army of persons who served in the Confederate army. The Military Academy and For tification bills were reported with amend ments. MT. Blaine's resolutions in re- gard to the elections were taken up and the Maine Senator delivered the speech which | as been for some time announced. Messrs. Thurman and Lamar replied and Mir. Edmunds also spoke briefly.
 The Senate passed the Fertilization o1ll, which had boen increased bv S225.- 900 in the committee, and also the House bill to supply that portion of the Sundrv Civil bill of the last session which was omitted in the enrolement. MT. Burn side presented the report of the joint committee on the reorganization of the army. The blll reported reduces slight ly the number of field officers, severely cuts down the general staff, materially reduces the line and fixes the strength of the army at not more than 25, GOO men. MT. Eustis made a speech in SUD- port of his bill to appropriate $5, ,O0O, GOO for the repair of the Mississippi River ievees. He made the novel point that.
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18

GOT sewing women sent him their say.
 ings to get sewing g-machine-some, a
 piano or parlor organ for their daugh- ters-others teas, and so through all the cooperative line of articles dealt in, and I am credibly informed that there are now over 300 sewing machines, 60 chests of tea, and an unknown quantity of organs and pianos that Shupe has re- ceived the money for. He is now bank rupt, and the Advocote stopped and de- funct. During the time he has run the paper at 25 cents year, he must have received for subscriptions over $1OO.- 900, and as much more for cooperative articles, which he received the money for ill advance. The Advocote has sus- pended operations immensely in debt for paper, and everything it could get on credit.
 -" On one occasion, says newspaper correspondent, heard the late pioneer congressman Henry Wells give instruc- tions to a new messenger. The mes- senger, if I rightly remember, was en- gagged for the Cleveland route. It was in old times, when there were dangers and adventures and delays; when stages used to get showed in for days, and ex- press messengers had to get OK teams and men and shovel their way through. Young man, said MT. Wells, measur- ing the new messenger with his eve. z my instructions will be very short; you are bound for Cleveland, and you are expected to get there. That is all.' Mir. Wells had 8 perceptible stammer when he was little excited and peremptory, and made word of three syllables out of 'get'-pronounced with such decided emphasis as to impress the new messen- ger with the one central fact that every thing would be forgiven except failure. ;"
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18

For sale by aH respectable Druggists.
Connecticut western news., 1878-12-18

from his mouth. Anna picked it up and examined it curiously. Then she sent all the male slaves out in search of her father. The blood-stained remains of MT. Money were found half an hour later, and taken to his house, where his daughter burst into heart-rending cries.
 Suddenly she sprang to her feet, and lifting up her hand to heaven, she ex- claimed, in a vibrating voice: "I swear to heaven that, with these hands of mine I will tear the flesh from the body of the miscreant who murdered my poor father p
 After uttering these terrible words she never shed another tear, but set about with wonderful calmness to dis cover her fathers assassin,
 The Sheriff of the county and num- Der of other citizens left no stone un- turned to ferret out the perpetrator of this horrible crime; but all their efforts were utterly fruitless.
 In the meantime Bernard Fields had called upon Anna Bella Money,
 He had assumed the name of John Strong, and he told her that he would try hard to help her in her efforts to discover the assassin of her father.
 eff you find him" she said to him on one of these occasions, 'sI shall do all I can to prove my gratitude to you.'
 He told her that he was her admirer, and wanted to marry her. He spoke to her of his estates in Cuba and Texas. He promised to buy her diamonds of which 8 princess would be proud.
 Anna was completely dazzled. She married him a few days later. In Chat tanooga no one had recognized him.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-10-10
NO. 81
Women and Closets.

So deeply rooted is the feminine passion
for closets that it lis doubtful If any woman
can live when totally deprived OF them.
There was an arrogant and brutal husband
once who built house without single clos
ct merely in order, as he said, to convince
his wife that closets are unnecessary That
unfortunate woman was well and strong
when she moved into the house, but in three
days afterwards she began to droop. She
would walk aimlessly from room to room
with spare dress hanging on her arm, and
would make futile efforts to hang it up On
flies or casual spots on the wall. She grew
rapidly worse, and at the end of a week, the
physician was called in, who soon discover
ed what was the matter, and informed the
husband that his wife's system imperatively
required closets. The coll'blooded mon
ster explained that it was too late to furnish
it with closets. The physician felt the force
of the argument, and thereupon recommen-
ded 'swardrobes" not with the hopes Of cur
ing the patient, buk as palliatives. The bru-
tai husband would not buy a single ward
robe and unfeelingly said that his wife could
put her things on chairs. Being conscien-
tinns man, the doctor at once threw up the
case, and in a fortni,,'ir the woman died.
There is not the slightest doubt as to her
disease, and the doctor always maintained
that had her system been toned up with two
or three large closets she would have recov-
ara5
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-10-10
The Value Of D1slnterested Virtue.

Life is short and you have much work to
do. Work for others as well as yourself.
You will not pretend you are never selfish.
You are more or less so every day OF your
life. In the very face of conviction you play
the part of contracted littleness. How often
do you forget the interests of others, in Gag
er desires for yourself? And how readily
you silence the whispers of reason by call
ing for preceCelts, respectable example. Yet
YOU know the value of disinterested virtue,
and how that avarce, or any other selfish
passion, can never secure your felicity; but
the appearances OF the moment persuade
YOU otherwise, and hence the cause of error
and crime. Study, not only ITO be convinced
of truth, but to establish it firmly in your
mind, beyond the reach OF doubt. Then,
not till then, your character will be uniform,
and your principles strong enough to carry
you through the trials and temptations OF
life. No one can be happy long unless he
be governed by virtue and to be regulated
by this sublime principle, he must early
learn to make any sacrifice, even life, and
all that tends to IL AXE it sweet in tie eyes OF
mankind
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-10-10
sTAUNTON. VIRGINIA OCTOBER 10. 1878
MILLIONS LAST POEM.

lam old and blind!
Men point at me as smitten by Gods frown,
Afflicted and deserted by my mind;
Yet am not cast down.
am weak; yet dying.
murmur not that no longer see
Poor, old, and helpless. the more belong.
Father supreme, to Thee.
oh, merciful One!
When men are farthest then thou art most near;
When men pass coldly by-my weakness shun--
Thy chariot hear.
Thy glorious face
Is leaning toward me- and its holy light
shines in upon my lonely dwelling place.
And there is no more night
On pended knee
recognize Thy purpose clearly shown;
My vision Thou hast dimmed that may see
Thyself-Thyself alone.
have naught to fear.
This darkness is the shadow OF Thy wing;
Beneath 1t am almost sacred; here
Can come no evil thing.
Trem bling where feet OF mortal never yet had
Wrapped in the radiance OF Thy sinless hand,
Which eye hath never seen.
Visions COME and go;
Shapes OF Respondent beauty round me throng
From angels lips seem to hear the flow
OF soft and holy song.
Its nothing now
When Heaven is opening on my sightless eyes
When airs from Paradise refresh my brow
That earth in darkness lies.
In pure cline
My being fills with rapture; wav es OF thought
Roll on upon my spirit strains sublime
Break over me unsought.
Give me now my Tyre!
I feel the STRINGS of gift divine.
Within my bosom CLOVIS unearth1y fire,
Lit by no skill OF mine.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-10-10
Hints for Sleeping.

Grown persons generally require seven
hours in summer and eight in winter; few,
indeed, except nyalds will fall to sleep we'll
who go to bed at q regular early hour, on
light supper in large room, and clean, COM
Portable bed, if there is no sleeping in the
da7 time, and not more than seven hours in
any twenty -four in bed. One weeks faith
full trial will prove this. Children and all
persons at school or engaged in hard study,
should take all the sleep they can get, and
should never be walked up in the morning
after having gone to bed at a regular hour.
Every humane parent will make it reiig
ious duty to arrange that every child shall
go to bed in affectionate, loving and glad
SPIRIT II walleful during the night get up,
draw On the stockings, throw back the bed
cover to air it, walk with the mouth closed;
all the while rubbing the skin briskly with
both hands, until cooled off aud a little
tired. Except from August irsG to Octc-
Der first, in fever ard ague localities, a
chamber window should be open two or
tbr ee inches at least.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-10-10
Forcible Illustration.

Hon. Geo. G.. Vest, lis canvassing Missouri
for the Democratic nomination for the U. 5.
Senate from that State before the next Leg
isiature. lie is confronted by the Greenback
or absolute money party In a speech re-
eentiy delivered in St. Louis, he discussed
the virtues of this absolute money in GELS
way, Mr.. Britton Hill, to whom he refers, is !
the hub of the Greenback, absolute money
party:
| recoilect, and no doubt many OF you
have had the same experience, my Old grand
father told me, when l clamored over MS
knee as child, that he fought seven years
under George Washington in the kevolu-
tionary Amy. and when he went back to his
home in Virginia he could not buy break
fast with his seven gears wages as Contl-
mental soldier; and il any OF you had the
misfortune to take the losing side in the iate
unpleasantness you know something about
Confederate money. The last purchase
made was the meanest horse, think, ever
saw. for $16.9 $50 laughter, and it was the
cheapest horse ever bought, and II had
paid SIG 1000, 900 for him lie would have been
cheap. The money bad lost its' purchasing
power. 1t had become SO much i'll excess OF
the demands of business that it was go mon
ey at all. Now, how much money does MT.
Hill propose to issue? He proposes to pay
the national debt and to loan enough TO
counties. cities and States at two per cent.
to pay off their debts, and then loan every
individual citizen. in the United states
| enough absolute money at two per ceiN. TO
paw his debts. And what does it all come
to !? sl2, 600, 900, 600. Why, the largest per
capita distribution ever known among civil
lied nations was s43 per capita, yet when ne
brings us out OF our State and other ind ebt-
edness, we find there are 100000 of l'eo-
pie in the Us; and if we divide $l2, 000,0CU,
600 it gives $4,000 per capita to every man.
woman and child. [Laughtcr.] Why, my
friends. Continental money would be worm
S1GO to 81, and Confederate money a. Q
large premium. Four thousand dollars per
capita9 Who suffers by the depreciation OF
the currency? Not the rich man, because ne
lives upon his income, and still drives Ills
carriage, lives in his house, and has his fine
soups and wines. He can stand deprecated
currency, but who suffers? 1t is the work
ingmcn Of the country; it Is the poor men
the country, because while their labor doe
not so up in price every article OF consump'
| ton, meat and vegetables al advance. an'
. the result comes at last, as it did in the Con
federacy, where meat was $40 pound. I'm
workin gmen OF the country, with the palll'
, faces of their wives and starving little ones
, are the people that Mr. Hill is rob0ing. The.
are the people whom he is running to-day ..
] his platform, and if that platform is earrle'
, out in the State of Missouri and in the Uni
+ ted States, then your bread-i lots and lam
, inc stricken workingmen will be seen, an
$ the bayonets of the law-and-order portion c
the working people will be called into re
/ quisitioh in order to suppress them.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-10-10
What the Country Needs.

. A South Carolina paper correctly says the
country needs fewer men who seek office
and more men whom the Office seeks.
Fewer dogs and more sheep.
Fewer trucking damagogues who are any
thing or nothing, as interest dictates, and
more brave men who dare to do their own
thinking, and sav What they think.
Fewer great men MAJ, to order, and OF
small material, and thrust in front of men
who have a capacity for greatness.
Fewer impetuous young men, eager to
rush into print and raise the devil gener-
ally.
Fewer wire pulers in popular conventions
and more people.
Fewer leaders to knuckle to popular pref
udices when wrong.
Fewer bar rooms and more schools.
Fewer fences and more pastures.
Fewer scrub cattle and more good ones.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-10-10

FIAT MoNEY.-The Turks of Constantl-
nople are enjoying the luxury OF superb
bundance of fiat money, which week ago
was worth one third of its par value, and
has since been declining at the rate OF one
per cent. per day. AS the Government no
longer receives it in payment Of tithes or
taxes it is all flowing into the city, and will
soon be held at its actual value-the price OF
old paper. A commission has Been appoint
ed to devise some measures to obviate the
trouble that may be expected to flow from
too much paper money.