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Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19
A War Incident.

Before the Fitz John Porter court martial Colonel Walter s. Davis gave the following incident of the Bull Run fight. He was getting his brigade in position for movement and visited per sonally the colonel of each regiment j; when he came to the First Michigan he didn't see the Colonel because he was little short man and was partly hid by section of men he passed on and gave orders to two regiments in the rear, and when returning to the head of his column he passed the First Michigan again and shouted, First Michigan, wheel into
 line !" Colonel Roberts, of the latter command, came at once to the front and exclaimed to Colonel Davis, "Sir-The First Michigan receives it's orders through ;" Colonel Davis was glad to find Colonel Roberts, and apologized for the freedom he had taken in giving the order, but the latter didn't seem to get over it during the next day; the terrible fighting, Colonel Davis and Colonel Roberts sat down for mo- ment upon a log, when Colonel Davis again tried to make friends with Colonel Roberto, telling him he was sorry he had offended him, and while they were talk ing messenger came along who was going to the rear with mail matter, and asked if either of the officers desired to send anything. Colonel Roberts tore
 II T. said, Yes, I'll write to my wife, for I believe it will be my last letter to her ;" in twenty minutes after Colonel Davis found the poor fellow dead upon the field and had him carried off in 8 blanket " "this," said the witness, "was one of the scenes of the battle field of Bull Run which remain impressed on my mind, for shall always feel that Colonel Roberts died feeling offended at me-"
Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19
Old Apple John.

On mouldy pallet of straw, in |" cellar in New York city, Henry FIeu- llng, better known as "Apple John, " was found dead. He had kept fruit stand on the sidewalk for the past ten years. At the side of the dead body was basket we'll filled with half dollar silver pieces. All around were dirt and decay. Apple John was no ordinary fruit dealer. Besides the basket of coin found by his bedside, he had ten thou savings banks, and, without doubt, Ap- ole John made mint of money before death took him, which his penurious mode of life did but little to diminish. But more surely than extravagant habits did Apple Johns hobby waste his store, Born in Hamburg, nearly seventy years since, of family of mechanics, Apple John early showed signs of taste he had inherited. In the course of time he be- came crazy on the subject of perpetual motion, and the proceeds of his apple stand have been wasted in the purchase of tools with winch to carry out his theory. He was always hopeful of suc- cess, and recently he declared that he lacked only screw quarter of an inch in length to render hls machine per feet. He leaves a son, who is sailor on q vessel in the China trade, and daughter who is married, and lives in well-to-do circumstances on the east side.
Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19
The Terrible Plague.

Nothing can be more terrible than the scenes in Memphis. Dr. Pease, who has returned with several associates from that valley of death, has battled four times with yellow fever; once in Bombay, again ill Key West and twice in New Or leans, but finds the present plague worse than any thing he has experienced or inn agined. The city is vast charnel- house, and the stel oh of the fever fills the air. The streets are empty, except when Q death cart passes. The stores are closed i; neither medicines nor provisions are to be had the poor sufferers, many of them starving, crawl into their tenements or lie down under the fences of the parks to die unattended. Such ghastly scenes as this make the blood run cold. The cry that comes to us from the Southwest grows more piteous each day. The North must do more-far more than it has.
 Why the fever this year is so fatal with children has not been satisfactorily ex- planned. The disease is certainly most fatal among the children of the poor, who rarely send for Q physician until it is too late. There can be no doubt that the treatment of yellow fever is perfectly understood by our physicians, who are most enlightened body of men, with the experiencessof score of epidemics, be- sides possessing perfect familiarity with the history of the disease for the past hundred years. To the doctors we cer- tainly owe our comparatively low mor- tality. Up to the present time Yellow Jack, whether native or foreigner Ca question still unsettled), is a character too often seen among us, consequently there is scarcely family in the city that cannot furnish some member perfectly acquainted with all his ways. These, whether as friends or under pay, form Q very large body of nurses, perhaps un- surpassed, for attending on this dis ease.
Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19
A Bold Case of Kidnapping.

In one of the lowest dives of New York city the police found Henry Sneider. His skull was fractured and his head and face horribly cut. The floor was cov- cred with blood from the men who had engaged in 0 quarrel in the dive. AS the injuries were pronounced fatal, the man was taken to the Chambers street Hos pital to be cared for. About 2 o'clock i'll the afternoon a barouche was driven to the hospital. The driver was ordered to remain, and the two occupants alight- ed. They were portly, fine-looking men, and exceedingly well-dressed, wearing black clothes and high hats. They to- gether went up and rang the bell, were ushered into the main office. and the sur geon in charge waited on them and de- sired to know their business. One of the visitors said he was Sneider's brother and his companion was his cousin. They said they had made arrangements at Bellevue Hospital to have Sneider well cared for there, and to be specially nursed. They said they lived pear that hospital, could conveniently call upon the sick man, and were very anxious to have him there, where they were ac- quainted. The doctor told the visitors that Sneider was unconscious and hardly 1n condition to be removed. But the men said that they had their barouche well fitted up to make the transfer safe ly and comfortably. Consent was fin ally given, and Snelder was carried down stairs very carefully, insensible all the time, and deposited in the barouche in charge of the two strangers. They then got into the vehicle, gave the driver his orders, shut the door, and drove away.
 Between 9 and 10 o'clock that night, Mrs. Sneider, the injured mans wife, being anxious about her husband, called at the Chambers Street Hospital to see him. The surgeon told her of his re- moval to Bellevue Hospital by his brother and cousin. She was surprised at this intelligence, and wondered why her brother-in-law said nothing to her about the matter She went to Bellevue Hos- pital, and asked for her husband. The physicians told her they knew nothing about such a man; that he was not there, The poor woman became almost crazy at this information. She hastened to her home, sent for her husbands brother, and told what she had learned.
 The brother ordered a carriage, and, thinking that Mrs. Sneider had incor. rectly gathered the information, and that his brother had been removed by some friends, visited every hospital in the city. They could find no trace of Sneider. It then flashed upon them that the whole thing was scheme on the part of Sneider's assailants to kidnap him and get him out of the way, aud such was the fact. The assailants of the man, knowing his injuries were fatal, and that they would be held responsible, had taken this method of disposing of the case. Police authorities state than no case so outrageously bold has ever taken place in the city.
Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19
OLD LOVES.

" Louise, have you forgotten yet
 The corner of the howery land, The ancient garden where we met,
 My hand that trembled in your hand2 Our lips found words scarce sweet enough, As low beneath the willow trees We sat;-Have you forgotten, love5
 Do you remember, love Louise2 Marie, have you forgotten yet
 The loving barter that we madea The rings we changed, the sun that set,
 The woods fulfilled with sun and shadei The fountains that were musical
 By many an ancient trysting-tree-- Marie, have you forgotten all2
 Do you remember, love Marie2 Christine, do you remember yet
 Your room with scents and roses gayi My garret-near the sky twas set
 The April hours, the nights of Mayi The clear calm nights, the stars above,
 That whispered they were fairest seen Through no cloud-veil2 Remember, level Do you remember, love Christinel "Louise is dead, and, well-a-day
 Marie a sadder path has ta'en; And pale Christine has passed away
 In Southern suns to bloom again. Alas for one and all of us
 Marie, Louise, Christine forget; Our bower of love is ruinous,
 And alone remember yet"
Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19
A GrOundless Alarm.

When an epidemic rages, there is all ways much groundless alarm among cer- tain classes of persons. Precautlon and care should not be confounded with alarm. Not long ago an account was published showing the result in single instance of alarm and ignorance. A young Frenchwoman from New Orleans, accompanied by her nephew, was travel ing North. The nephew fell from the train and was killed Afterward the woman was quite ill, and, it being thought that she had yellow fever, she
 was taken from the cars at Louisville and sent to the hospital. The physician declared it serious case ofyellow fever. She was treated with the most stringent remedies. Her clothing and baggage were fumigated, an there was great ex- citement over the matter. She was kept isolated in the hospital several days, and seemed to grow no better and no worse, except that her excitement increased and her rayings in French continued. The French consul was finally sent for, and after few moments conversation dis covered that she was not sick, but per fectly well, except that she could not un- derstand English, and was i'll state of great nervous excitement over the acci- dental death of her nephew and the re- markable treatment she had received at the hands of what she supposed was gang of bandits. Other physicians were called in, and oorroborated the consuls and she was released and sent on her way with her nephew's body.
Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19
Life in the Country.

Life Ill the country, says Edward Egg gleston, may be in general on the side of good order, thrift and virtue, but it is slow aud heavy. It drags. It does not readily take the stimulus of new ideas. It does not believe much in inn provement. It is content with old methods, and not much disposed to con- sider whether there can be any better ones. The general life 1n the country is unquestionably sluggish. It is withal life too much of dull, hard drudgery. The yoke also comes on the shoulders at an early age with excessive severity {; and the boys, like too many of the colts, are broken down before they reach the years of mature strength and endurance. The late war showed that the town and city boys could endure a strain under which those from the country frequently failed. To this drudgery of country life there is little relief, whether to the man in the field or the woman in the house. Day in and day out, year in and year out, 1t is very much the same hard, heavy strain. There is little change, except from work to idleness or sleep, or perhaps the dull gossip of the neighbor- ing kitchen, or the duller and worse gossip of the store or tavern. The talk is, in large part, the dripping of scandal or storytelling of low cast. There is little of earnest or high-toned thinking, little graphing with things which are not material. There is little alertness of mind, little of the spirit of inquiry; as how could there be much when body and mind are so dragged and spent with the heavy, incessant tug of such an unvary- ing round of life?
Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19
Indian Runners.

A correspondent in the Sioux country writes This system of Indian runners seem to be little understood. If impor- tant news is to be carried, an Indian gorges himself with meat, takes short nap, mounts one of the tleetest of their ponies and rushes along like the wind until his horse requires feed, when he mods few times while his horse satisfies his hunger from the luxurious meadows, when the ride is renewed. The runner needs nothing for his pony, and takes nothing for himself but his arrows and blankets, and will in the manner indi- cated ride two or three nights and days, passing over from sixty to one hundred miles in each twenty-four hours. When the nearest camp is reached his story is taken up to other Indians, and in like manner carried in every direction. The speed with which news travels depends upon it's importance but in this way the Indians often beat the telegraph, and their first reports, if they come di- rect, are usually to be relied upon. The runner who brings great news is feasted from one tepee to another. and it is not until his story begins to grow old that he let's loose his imagination and adds to the original in order to keep up the in terest in him as the bearer ot great news. There are always volunteers, and ire quently two or three will start for the same point, but the one that gets in last is bound to tell the biggest story, if he has to deny the statements of his rivals or cut his story out of the whole cloth in order to do so. Hence the conflict ing reports.
Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19
Breaking a Water Spout at Sea.

Water spouts at sea are dangerous playthings If allowed to approach too near ship. In their fantastic tricks they will sometimes follow a ship, and if they overtake her the danger IS great that she will be swamped, as the whirl- wind carries Q vast amount of water. Sometimes the spouts take notion to approach each other, and then woe to the ship that is caught between them. The United States ship St. Louis, in trip in the Mediterranean in 1854, came near being destroyed in this manner. After very severe hail shower, says one who was on board of her at the time, two water. spouts, which were sailing along rapidly fully half mile apart, suddenly changed their course md ap- preached each other. Our ship was hove-to between them, and we were of course powerless. The huge tunnel shape columns of water lowered seem ingly to the clouds, and as they swept along sent forth a frightful roar. It was @ sublime sight to behold, but suddenly lu OuWhCo upOu dl1 U1stU OuSIo WuS udh- ger in this sublimity. If the terrific columns struck the vessel our fate was sealed. While we watched we trem- bled, and not without full cause. An old officer took in the danger at glance, and the boson's whistle called the men to the guns. When the water spouts were within hundred yards of the ship curling volume of smoke issued from both port and starboard port holes, and two reports seemed but one. The solid shot had penetrated the columns of water and they broke and fell, one of them so near that sheets of water struck the ship. It was a narrow escape, and the occasion was one that will never be forgotten by any one on the St. Louis during her memorable cruise up the Mediterranean.
Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19
Maine's Election Law.

The Election law in Maine is peculiar. It provides that if no candidate receives q majority over all the others at the polls the lower House of the State Legislature shall select two of the candidates who have been voted for and send their names to the State Senate, with whom the final choice rests. If the House contained a majority of Democrats and Greenbackers, by uniting, the two parties could give to the Senate the names of their candidates, ignoring the Republican candidate alto- gether, although the latter might have received large plurality of votes. The Senate. even though largely Republican, under these circumstances, would be obliged to vote for the two candidates seut to them, and no others. Thus the candidate receiving the smallest number of votes in the general election might be the successful candidate for Governor, and elected by body 8 very large ma- jority of which was opposed to him politi- cally.
Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19

RUSSIANS AS MARKsMEN. The Turks lost about 15O, 900 men killed and wound ed during the recent war, and according to the Lnvalide Russe something over 10000, ,000 cartridges were fired by the Russians, which would make the pro- portion of hits in every 66 shots fired. At Spicheren the Russians scored l Frenchman for every 279 shots, at Worth l for 147 arttsat Colombey-Nouilly 1 for IA, so that if the Russian figures are correct the Russian soldier is better or more economical of ammunition than his German cousin. However, the Rus sians employed artillery fire more large ly than usual, and London paper hints that they may have used the bayonet after their enemies had surrendered.
Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19
Local News a Speciality.
GRANDPA 7'HER'S CLOCK.

My grandfathers clock was too large for the
 shelf,-
 So it stood ninety years on the floor; It was taller by half than the old man himself, Though it weighed not pennyweight more. It was bought on the morn of the day he
 was born, And was always his treasure and pride; But 1t stoppd short-never to go again. When the old man died.
 CHORUS.
 Ninety years, without slumbering Cick,
 tick, tick, tick,)
 His lifc-seconds numbering, (tick, tick,
 tick, tck.)
 It stopp'd short-never to go again
 When the old man died. In watching its pcndulum swing to and fro, Many hours had he spent while a boy; And in childhood and manhood the clock
 seemed to know And to share both his grief and his joy. For it struck twenty-four when he entered at
 the door, With blooming and beautiful bride; But it stopp'd short-never to go again When the old man died.
 CHoRus.-Ninety years, etc. My grandfather said of those he could hire, Not servant so faithful he found; For it wasted no time, and had but one desire At the close of each week to be wound. And 1t kept in its place-not q frown upon
 its face, And it's hands never hung by it's side; But 1t stopp'd short-never to go again When the old man died.
 CHoRus.- Ninety years etc. It rang an alarm in the dead of the night An alarm that for years had been dumb; And we knew that his spirit was pluming for
 flight That his hour of departure had come. Still the clock kept the time, with soft and untitled chime As we silently stood by his side; But 1t stoppd short-never to go again When the old man died.
 CHoRUs--Ninety years, etc.
Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19

PLAQUES. Ten thousand day died in Rome in A. D. ITO, and Gibbon says half the human race died in the third contury plague. Twas fearful in the sixth century, when whole cities were cofflned The black death of 1345 cov- cred the world Venice lost 100000 London, 50,000! Spain nearly all her population In the plague of the six teenth century Genoa lost s0,000 out of 94, ,0O0, and Naples 24O,0o out of 290,- 900.
Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19

A young man of seventeen whose father was recently Postmaster of Chl- cago has become insane from too close application to his studies. This at least is the verdict of the jury that committed him to the asylum. This should warn us to, says Dr. Foote's Health Monthly, beware of allowing smart children to be- come too precocious. Better let the brain be more years in developing and retain its balance than to have it over- worked by excessive influx of knowledge.
Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19

T presume you no longer wish to remain in cog said the man out of the machinery to the man in the machinery.
Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19

The best of boats get into trouble and have to be bailed out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-24

The HANLAN-RoSs MATCH-B0th OarSnlen
IN Fine COTdition.-A telegram from st.
John, n. B., July I'D, says: The final deposit
OF $500 side in the Hanlan- Ross boat race
was made on Saturday with Mayor Earle, VINO
was temporary and is now the final stake
holder. There is nothing now to do except to
select judges and put down buoys, which will
likely be done tomorrow. Both of the oars
men We're out for spin just before dusk last
evening and rOwed fully an hour. Hanlan at
one time made squirt showing extraordinary
speed. Ross has improved greatly i'm style
since his appearance in Toronto Bay but
there is not that ease and grace such as i
manifested by. the TOrOntonian. He is in
fine condition y is the general remark regard
ing Hanlan. The same may be said of Ross
Hanlan has brought himself down to l54I
pounds, while Ross, who weighed 200 pound
last winter, weighs now les. Hanlan viii
probably row in the Elliott shell i'm which he
defeated Eph Norris and which was brought
him the other day from Toronto. Ross con
siders his new shell little too small for him
but will row in it. The kennebeccasls was i'm
excellent condition to-day, and the oars men
had an opportunity to row as much as they
wished. Large crowds visited the river.
Strangers are beginning to arrive and before
Thursday there will be a large throng here.
Betting is still dull, few persons being disposed
to give the odds asked by Ross's hackers.
Hanlan and Ross both remain in good form
and have nothing to do but arrange a few
preliminaries and wait for far weather and
smooth course.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-24

BALTIMORE, July e4.-virginia SKIES, de-
ferred 4; do. consolidated. 654; do. second
series, 2s't; pastdne coupons, 7sA. North Carolina
sixes Old, 1b; do. new. 8; do. special tax, bid TO-
day. Sugar firm, 8 a9$.
BALTIMORE, July 24.-Cotton Quiet-mid-
ding. nSallh. Flour steady, firm and uG-
changed. heat, southern active and strong;
western steady and f1rm-southern red. prime l. O3
al. .07: do. amber, 1.OSa1 10: No. 2 western winter
red. spot, July and August, 1.O24: September,
Los; Corn; southern scarce anu frm; western
steady-southern white, 5S; western mixed,
spot, 4S: July, 4s1s; August, 48; septem::
firm -SootheIn, SoaS5; western white, 80:
do. mixed. 3oa3l; Pennsylvania, 80 81. Rye
Nominal. Hay uLchaI ged. Provisions firm and
unchanged. Butter-ChOce western firm, l2al3
Petroleum frm-refned, 1O4: crude, B Is
Coffee firm aud quiet-Rio csrgoes. 10 ii6,S.
Whisky dull, 107. Receipts flour J. 700; wheat
1S4. 600: corn. 81; coo: oats, 2 200: rye, zoo.
ShipmentS-wheat, $500; corn. l3, 90. Freights
20 Liverpool per steamer quiet-coUon, nd; iour,
NEW YORK, ydiy 24-stocks strong. Moasy,
II and 2; Gold, lOo,t. Exchange, long, 1929;
short. 4S6 <. Governments strong.
NEW YORK, July 24.-Flour quiet and uu-
changed. Wheat, spring duh and i and : cent
lower; winter \ and ll9 cent better and moderately
active. Corn quiet and Il and cent better.
LONDON, July "a, 1880 p. nc CnsOls,
So 7-16 for money and 953 for the account.
Erie, 167s. Illinois Central, S7x.