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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-31
CASUALTIES.

Inc barge van Scnaack sank Oh
| Yohkers, N. Y. and the captain and his wife
and two children were drowned.
The picking establishment of F. & J
Heinz, Pittsburg, Pa, has been destroyed by
fire. Loss $4,000, wholly covered by insur
ance,
Harry Dyer, yard-master of the st.
Paul & Pacific railroad, at st Paul, MIMI.
broke one of his legs above the knee by a fall
| the other day.
The tug Hi Smith with lighter in tow
| says Buffalo, N. Y. telegram, went ashore on
Tecumseh reef. The tug will be total loss
One man missing.
| The schooner A]gerine, from Ogders.
burg to Cleveland, Ohi>, loaded with iron ore
ran ashore during storm on the 23d inst. at
| Springfield, Pa, twenty miles west of Erie.
The crew reached shore safely.
,, Of the persons on board the river
steamer Express, which foundered in a gale
OF the 23d inst. fifteen are known to be saved
Sixteen are missing and some of these may
have been picked up by a passing vessel.
The steam ship City of Houston, on its
way from New York to Galveston, foundered
off Frying Panama in fearful gale, The
Marquet, of New York, and safely landed at
Fernandina, Florldo.
Decatur and Edwards counties, in Sap
pa valley, Kansas, recently raided by the
Cheyenne Indians, have been devastated by
prairie fires, and nearly everything not de-
stroyed by the Indians consumed Severa.
persons are said to have persisted in the
flames.
A dispatch from Omaha says: De-
structive prairie fires have been raging near
Kearney along the line of the Omaha s. Re-
publican Valley railroad, in Polk county, and
other sections of Nebraska: The northeast
portion of the State issufferfng most severely.
The losses will be immense to property.
Seven persons have been burned to death and
a considerable number of others seriously
burned.
The dwelling Of Michael Reuter-, of
Cincinnati, Ohio, has just been destroyed by
fire. Reuter-, upon awakening, ran up stairs
to rescue his little daughter. In doing so he
was obliged to pass directly through the flames
and reached the ground in safety. The child
was badly burned around her face and arms
Reuter- received what will probably prove
tai injuries, both arms being burned almost
o the bone, the flesh scorched off his back,
and his whiskers singed off. =
An immense and very destructive
storm of wind and rain has just passed over
the eastern states doing incalculable damage
to property. A number of lives were lost, and
great many persons injured, In Philidel-
phia forty churches of oil denomination were
more or less injured, and great many other
buildings damaged and property destroyed.
Great havoc and destruction occurred in New
York, Brooklyn, Comden, N. J. Pallestown,
Pa, Harrisburg, Pa, and other places, and
at Washington, Albany and numerous other
points. The violence Of the gale was almost
unprecedented 49,. - +
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-31

"A son of Mrs. Pond, of GAINESVILLE, had his
collar bone broken by falling from swing
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-31

The latest novelty is 'barometel
handkerchief" The design printed on
1t represents man with an umbrella. In
fine weather the umbrella is blue, in
changeablc weather gray, and in rainy
weather white. The secret lies in print
ing this design in chloride of cobalt; but
the first washing removes this sensitive
chemical and destroys the doromete,
properties.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-31

NJ. D. Conway writes to the Cincinnati
Commercial that the largest list Of suffer-
ers from the Thames disaster was that of
the widowers who applied for help be-
cause they had lost their wives. He
particularly refers this item to the Wom-
ans Rights Society, which will doubtless
take measures Immediately towards as
certalDlng the financial valuation these
gentlemen placed upon their domestic
partners. -
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-31

A Paris paper tells story of a barber's>
apprentice in Hungary who cut his throat
because girl lwould not marry him. He
was taken to the hospital at Ratisbon and
cured. 1tsubsequently proved that the
operatio his larynx had undergone had
given him fine tenor voice, which he
improved by practice, and he has lately
been engaged at the Opera House in
Vienna.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-31

Mr. Muller, who by the free answers to
prayers support the orphan. houses in
Bristol, England, has issued his annual
report, from which it appears that
thou: h the expenses during the year had
amounted to e42 900, there remained a
small balance in hand. Since the found
ing of the institution, about 100000
had been received. The number of Or
phans maintained in the institution dur
ing the yeal had been 2,193, and the NOR.
tally amongst them had been less than
one per cent.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-31

A parent, who claimed the right to
educate his own children, sent the follow
ing communication to school board in
England recently: Gentlemen: am at
loss to know why the chool Bord officer
is so desireous to have my children edu-
Gated. 1t is my only wish to make them
cholars. There is plenty Of street A1abes
to look after with annoying me so much.
Yours, and so forth. The Gentleman
Chool Bord."
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-31

A London special says the Duke of
Edinburgh has left Coburg to join Her
Majesty's ship Black Prince, which has
been detailed to escort the Marquis of
Lorne and her Royal Highness the Prin-
cess Louise, Marchioness OF Lorne, to
Canada. 1t has been determined that the
new Governor General and his distin-
guished lady shall enter Canada as no
no Viceroy ever entered it before, and
the most extensive preparations for the
voyage have been made.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22

The columns of cur execution edition were SO crowded with the details of the execution that we could give our readers only a synopis of the last statement made by Ten Eyck. We print it in full this morning, thinking it's importance of some moment as showing what william the mur- derer was, apart from the horrible crime which took from him his life. His petty crimes, however pale when brought in con- junction with his last and greatest deed, but they in large measure, foreshadow what the end might be of an evil disposed character. It will be observed that there is gradation in the extent and malignity of his crimes from petty theiving of chickens, through to arson, assault with intent to kill, ending with forgery. Then came the final crowning act of his life, that of wiliful des- truction of life, and it seems fatality ID It all. His whole career, from the first cup that drove him to the execution of his crimes, to the last scene on the scaffold, is men, and to those already advanced in evil ways. If it be questioned by those who look into the domestic economy of the affair, whether the execution of Ten Eyck was in any way'a compensation for the mur- der. the only reply is, that it was all that could be done. The law is satisfied, and though the balance of justice quivers, when one miserable life is given to compensate for two worthy lives, yet the retributlve justice of the Eternal, will make all things equal and according to the law of nature.
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10 raise montv. Waterbury churches ad- vertised on Sunday that two city baseball clubs would play game for the cause, aud young women preside over coffee booths in the streets of Wallingford to add to the fund.
 1.-The Advents will hold sGrove or Bas ket Meeting" near Cornwall Bridge, con- nencing Aug. 3Oth and continuing days. The invitation is comprehensive, embracing all persons without regard to color, name or denomination" It will be in no sense sectarian and leach person will be free to talk as he or she believes" It is ''free gospel feast" and will undoubtedly attract many who live in the vicinity of the grounds.
 Two hours and half after the down train on the Housatonic Railroad arrived in this town our execution edition was ready for distribution. Scores of friends were waiting patiently and anxiously for the first copies. and horses were at the door to car " the coveted news to the near towns. In less than two hours after the first copy was struck off the entire edition was exhausted and many of our orders had to be cut down because we had not copies enough to sup ply all. The boy who sold on the streets was besieged by an excited crowd and soon his large armful vanished like smoke. The next morning those to whom we had sent 50 and more copies sent in for duplicate of the order and we were forced to strike off half sheets to meet the demand. Five hundred more copies could have been sold had we possessed the means of sup plying them. As it was it was com plete success, and we have good cause to congratulate ourselves on our enterprise. All this In the face of great opposition, the two Pittsfeld papers being out and sold on the down train and the active energles of friend Rogers of the Courier was giving to the market his extra. That number was the first one of our daily and what is to follow this week is not to be a whit behind It ID interest and news. It is not too late to send in your subscrip- tions and though we cannot furnish the first lumber the remaining ones will per tam Gistinctively to the Camp Meeting news and will be needed by all.
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Thursday Nlorn'g.Aug 22, lS7s.
August is rightly the month for caml

August is rightly the month for camp meetings, and more are in session now, or have just closed than either July or Sep tember had or will have com5lned. All reports of those now in progress are cheering in the statement of good work done, souls saved and large religious in. terest manifested. Methodists arc begin ming to realize that the primitive idea of a camp meeting is the best one for these days, and that innovations partaking of dis tinct secular nature in order to attract the people,-the idea having strangely taken possession of the managers that crowds are necessary ff an outpouring of the Spirit, and that they must pander to the tastes ot the worldly wise in the forms of sideshoWs' conducted by some religious mountebank of the highly sensational order, or by lec- lures, lawn parties and other attractions oi like uature,- must be done away with en- tirely, and the ''geod old days" must be in vogue if souls would be saved. Hence the meetings thus year, conducted sensibly and religlously, are producing beneicient re suits.
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Notes and Comments,
The drop was six feet. Ten Eyck was 45 years old.

The drop was six feet.
 Ten Eyck was 45 years old. There was not lady at the execution. The rope cost $lO and was 30 feet long. Sheriff Root provided fine collation. for many of the invited guests. s. w. Bowerman was the only one of Ten Eyck's attorneys who witnessed the execution.
 A fight occurred in the large crowd be- fore the entrance to the jail about the time that Ten Eyck was led in. . The body went east, leaving Pittsfield at ll.44, just three-quarters of an hour after the execution.
 Nineteen minutes and twelve seconds elapsed from the time the drop fell until Dr. Smith of Pittsdeld announced that Ten Eyck was dead.
 Ten Eyck's body arrived at Chester en route to Blandford, the same day of 1he ex- ecution. His thrifty relatives, with an ey e to business, made $l5 by the exhibition ot the body, and probably cleared more from the dead man, than ever they got from him in all his wretched life betore. The opinion obtains fully with all those who witnessed the execution that it was the most neatly planned and carried out of any ever seen. It was in no sense bungling, and the usually maudlin and incoherent speech indulRed in by the condemned was mo- ticeably and to all gratefully wanting. THE ONLY SYMPTOM.
 Friday morning an Eagle reporter took to Ten Eyck's cell the following, asked him to read it, and if it was true, to append his signature Friday morning, August 18th, 1878.
 It is now o'clock 8. m. In three hours l shall leave this cell for my death on the scaffold. This is the last shall ever write On this earth and my final words are, am not guilty of the murder of MT. or Mrs. David Slillman. .n.. He read it carefully, two or three times, handed it back and said, Il can't sign it. :" The following named gentlemen from Southern Berkshire and vicinity attended the execution. Great inGton.-M. Fl. Rogers, Ned Humphrey. Deputy Langdon and others. Shetiield-Nat Johnson. Chss. Stillman. son of David Stillman and wite. the murdered couple. James Roraback. R. Little, Deputy John c. Smith, Geo. Kellogg. H. M. Husgins, M. Lsnders. Geo. Gorham. Dr. Smith and Asa Little. Canaan-A. T. Roraback, West Winsted-A. Beach. LakeviIIe-Dr. H. M, Knight and brother. Br1dgeport-Col. Sam, B. Summer. Sher- if Lewis and Conductor Stillson. Mill R,ver-Dwight sissou. Deputy Adams.
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State 9ews.
Rev. G. F. Pentecost is holding meetings again in Hartford.

Rev. G. F. Pentecost is holding meetings again in Hartford. Contributions still continue to come in for the Wallingford sufferers.
 The Yale Lock company of Stamford paid off their employees in gold coin, Thurs day.
 All but two of the New Hartford claims against the Conn. Western Railroad on account of the Tariffville disaster have been settled.
 The Rev. MT. Hallock of Winsted has returned home from three months' vaca- ton, during which he has visited California and the Sandwich Islands.
 John McGee, a laboring man in Long Ridge, hung himself on Wednesday. He leaves wife and three children. He had lately been Respondent.
 Isaac Briggs, of Danielsonville, attempt ed to repair the well of Job Cutler, Thurs day, but was overcome by the bad air, and when drawn out, life was extinct. Mrs. Dwight Pease, of Hazardville, aged 60, became insane recently and starved herself to death in 10 days. She imagined that some one was trying to poison her, and that it was wicked to re- ceive nourishment.
 The contribution of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company to the Wallingford releif fund is $3.767.13, the total receipts for carrying to and from Wallingford, at half fare, 7,7S2 people on Wednesday, August 14th.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22
gerkshire Gunmty.

One William George, quasi resident oi Ct. Harrington Is in trouble over the fraud ulent sale of some forged bonds.
 The estate of the late wm. Taylor of will be conducted by new firm. Bassett & Barnes, the latter having been a clerk for MT. Taylor for several years.
 Miss Maggie Darrow of North Adams shielded Sunday evening last because of love troubles. Some arrangement had come between her lover and herself, caus- ing breaking of the engagement. Miss D. was highly respected and of good fam fly.
 During thunder storm at East Lee, Berkshire county, Mass, Sunday morning, lightning struck s. s. Rogers's writing pa per mill, at 1:3O, and it was burned to the ground. The mill was full of stock, which was insured for SIC, O,OoO, and the building for $25.O0O. Loss not known.
 George Chadwick, the Otis farmer who attempted suicide few weeks since, is still living in intense suffering. The phy- sieians say he must sooner or later starye to death, as it will be impossible to furnish sufficient nourishment by the tube temper arily placed in his throat. Chadwick says that should he recover he will kill him. self.
 As the evening up train on the Housaton. ic road the other evening was passing Stockbridge, some one on the platform of the baggage car pulled the rope to the water tank Those on the platform were drenched. and every window which was raised on that side. afforded an excellent opportunity for the water to rush in upon the unsuspectlng passenger and several la dies were unceremon!ously baptized. The gypsy carnival at Lake Buel in Great Burlington Thursday night, was great success, 8 large number of people from Great Burlington, Lee and Pittsfield being present, and the costumes were grotesque, that of Miss Pixley as the goddess of Liber- ty, being perhaps the most striking. The grounds were illuminated by several hun dred torches on rafts, the steamer made ire  quent trips around the lake, and dancing was carried on under the pines till 2 in the morning.
 Frank Winters, of Mt. Washington, under an IS months sentence for arson and burglary, attempted to escape from jail on Tuesday. In some way he had secured a table knife, hacked the edges, making a kind of saw of it, and when he went down into the "solitary corridor to take his weekly bath, he used the time to saw one of the window bars. Of course he hadn't time to get it completely off. but he hoped to have opportunities to complete the job while taking future baths. His work was discovered, and instead of gaining his fiber ty by it he may add to his term of impris onment.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22

Matters connected with the Hudson River Bridge are approa ching stand still. There have been delays for lack of materi- al at the caisson recently launched. The stock of timber is about out and we learn that by the 9th inst, there will be an en tire suspension of labor. A brisk response to the call for payment of subscriptions would aid the enterprise measurably.
 The men employed on the caisson at dock are waiting for an invoice of drift bolts to finish their work. Eight days will suffice to complete the job. Nothing moro will be done until spring next. The ca,ss- on for pier two will be lowed to pier three and fastened on the south side of that pier. The company have men at work at the Upper dock, putting things in shape for winter.
 El gineer Coolridge, of the Bridge Com pany will leave for Chicago. Mir. Dayton boss carpenter, will also depart for Chicago to take charge of the company's shop at that place Chief Engineer John Bech will report at the same point, and Supt. Thorne will go to Glasco, Missouri, for superinten- dence of work at that point.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22

Bremen at Ct. Harrington. The fire-
 mems reunion at Ct. Burlington, Wednes day, was fairly attended and as far as the exercises distinctly partook of the nature of the occasion, the affair passed off pleas antly. Pittsfeld sent two companies, the S. w. Morton with 20 men and the HousA- tonic with 35 men. The Hope, Burlington, Southfeld and Stockbridge bands were present and joined the procession. The march was through the principal streets. ending at Robinson's grove, where fine collation. was served. The afternoon was passed in dancing, athletic sports and eocial festivities. About 3 p. m. the in, vltable row occurred 10 mar an otherwise pleasant gathering. Some misunderstanding be tween several persons spread with alarming rapidity until general free fight was in- dulged in, breaking up the dance and break ing down the platform. Coats were torn. hats smashed, dresses rent, faces scratched and eyes blacked. Two women particular ly distinguished themselves in the melee, and covered themselves all over with glory. One woman assumed Joan of Arc atti- tude and bid d, fiance to them all, and add ed to her words blows that made her victo- rious over crowd of timid scratchers. The fight was with difficulty quelled and quiet was restored.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22

John Morrison, of Hazaldville, aged 62, has killed himself by taking Paris green in whisky, because he could not control his appetite for strong drink. He leaves wife and one son, the latter being in Cal lfornia. John was Good Templar for some seven years up to last July, when he took whisky as remedy for sun stroke, and bis re-awakened appetite over powered him. He said he would rather die before he used up the $2,Ooo worth of property he could now leave bis wife,
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*~* We shall feel greatly obliged to any of our friends in the county, or elsewhere, who will send us particulars of any occurrence of interest which may come under their notice.
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22

Subscription mAccOunt.-The date on the colored slip of paper with the name of the sup scriber, shows the time to WMacn sMe 1,n, gMg
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 inform us for correction at once. No claims TOT errors in these accounts will hereafter be consld- cred, unless presented within tn!rSy dAy yS after the payment is claimed to have been made, the regular receipt of tho paper with the date to which the subscription is paid plainly printed thereon, is prima face evidence Of 1ts ac CenfancR
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Uonnecticut Western rGevva.

Extra Copies of the NEWS can be- obtained at
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were assigned as counsel, but at the opening of the case, the latter was unable ta go on with it, and Hon. s. W. Bowerman was substituted, the government being represented by Attor- ney general Train and District attorney Leon ard of Springfield. The trial lasted three days, and was attended by crowds every day. During it all the prisoner was apparently cool and collected, and his defense was conducted with as much ability as though the client had been worth 8 million dollars. The jury was one of the best ever seen in Berkshire county, who gave the case the most patient and careful deliberation. Judges Colt and Ames presided. The number of witnesses was large, and each was brought in and testified separately. The evidence was one continuous chain of circum- stances, pointing to the prisoner, and the sto- ries he had framed in his defense fell to piec- es, crushed like an egg shell. He had no de- fense it was 8 string of falsehoods from be- ginning to end, and on Saturday, the 18th of May, the jury, on the first ballot found him guilty of the crime, and an hour later, so re- ported. Sentence was at once moved for, and he was accordingly remanded to jail, there to be kept until Aug. 16, when the penalty of the law was to be meted out to him. And while the judge, with tears in his eyes, consigned him to death, the audience breathless, and some likewise weeping, John Ten Eyck in the dock, received his sentence with a smile, and his coolness never forsook him for moment. THE MURDERER.
 John Ten Eyck, if his own autobiography is reliable, was born in Lenox in 1882, and is & little more than 46 years of age. His fathers name was John, who was a runaway slave, and his mother was Orilla Fletcher. His father ran away from Lenox in few years, and the two boys, John and William H., became 8 town charge, and were placed in the care of 8 colored family, with whom they lived for some years. Johns early education was fair, and he had intelligence above the average. At the age of twelve, he began life for himself as g farm laborer, and was looked upon as an honest boy. In Pittsaeld, at the age of IA, he
Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22

At two o'clock the afternoon services were commenced by singing "God is my strong Salvation" the opening prayer be- ing made by Rev. Robert Hunt of Sheffield. A portion of Scripture was then read by Rev. w. L. Patterson of Lenox. who preached the sermon of the afternoon. Af- ter collection had been taken up and an- other hymn sung, the preacher announced as his text, "He that goeth forth and weep eth. bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing bis sheaves with him."
 In this Psalm, said the speaker, we have not only an expression of the joy of Israel st their deliverance from captivity, but also