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Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06
A Frightful Accident.

At Boyertown, small borough located on the Colebrookdale branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, seven miles northwest of Pottstown, Pa., an accident occurred at the iron mine of Henry and Jacob Gobel, of Pottstown, which resulted in the death of three men and fatally injuring the fourth. Shortly before noon while Keely Hogg, John Quick, Casper Klabe and Isaac Gehris were being lowered in bucket to the bottom of a shaft $50 feet deep the rope around the drum became dis placed. When the engineer reversed the engine one of the teeth in the cog wheel broke, and in @ second tore from the other wheel all the cogs. This accident occurred when the bucket had proceeded one-haH the distance down the shaft, and, having no support at the surface, the bucket, with it's human freight, was dashed to the bottom. The excitement when the news of the disaster became known was intense, and hun dreds gathered around the mouth of the mine. Ropes were procured and men lowered to the bottom.
 The four miners were found alive, but all badly injured. Each was surrounded by network of ropes and with a long, stout cord drawn to the surface. Hogg, aged thirty, survived but few minutes after the accident, having sustained a fracture of the public bone ana the leg, besides receiving severe internal injuries. Quick had his shoulder bone and two bones of the left leg broken and was injured about the heart. He fingered in great agony until six o'clock, when he died. He was aged fifty years, and leaves wife and four children. Casper Klabe, German, aged about forty years, had lis pelvis fractured, and died about seven o'clock of internal hemorrhages. He leaves wife and six children. Isaac Gehris had one leg broken and was otherwise seriously injured.
Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06
NO. 19.
FASHION NOTES.

Short jackets are worn as outside garments.
 Pearls bid fair to be more fashion able than diamonds. ,. -BrocatelIe and satin stripes are among silk novelties.
 The new color in undyed cloth is a natural stone color, or yellow gray.
 -Balayeuses are dc rigueur for dres- sy toilets, whether short or trained.
 Mixed laces are among the novelties held in reserve at lace counters. These laces have black reseau or grounds with white and vari-colored figures in shaded effects.
 Fancy runs riot in caps, which are made of handkerchiefs, pieces of India shawls and all sorts of materials trim med with ribbons of every color and de- scription.
 Heavy camel's hair cloth, with much hair or fleece cropping out on the sur face, is much used for composite cos tunes with American suits. Such cos tunes are short.
 The wearing of elbow sleeves with outdoor costumes de ceremonie is very fashionable of late, but with them are always worn long twelve-button gloves to match.
 The latest fancy in stockings is for white polka dots in silk embroidery on black silk feet and legs, while the toes, heels and the upper halt of the leg of the stocking are white.
 --Ermine will be used this winter in trimming bodices and the reyers that adorn the turned back-sides of polo naises and robe over dresses, showing the elaborately trimmed underskirt.
 The Parisians wear their short cos tunes much shorter than New York women do, and have in addition fash. ion for looping them up directly in the back, showing about two inches of the white or colored petticoat. The English country coat for ladies wear is an ulster, with large cape at. tached, which may be drawn up into 6 hood with ribbon, tylng under the chin, thus affording 0 complete protec. tion to the head and neck.
 Finely twilled camel's hair, with oc. casional loose, shining hairs lying along its surface, remains the most costly and sought for woolen fabric. It is now plo. duced in the new bronze, sapphire, and garnet shades, and in black and beige tones.
Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06
A Lesson in Humanity.

The Japanese are very kind to animals. Professor Morse tells us that boy is never seen to throw stone at dog or bird, and crows come into the city of Tokio and lodge on the houses. They pay for their kind treatment, for they act as scavengers, picking up what rice or fish may fall to the ground. In a crowded thoroughfare he has seen dog asleep in the middle of the road. No one disturbed him, but carefully turned out from him. He once threw @ stone at dog to see how he would act. The animal rose to his feet to let the stone pass, and looked surprised, and took only the same notice of a second assault-- quite different from the way Christian dog would be likely to act. By the sides of the roads, at the foot of hills, stone monuments are placed, and have been there for hundreds of years, bearing verses that teach consideration for dumb beasts. The unregenerate Anglo-Saxon may here learn a lesson of practical hu- manity.
Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06
The Indian Outrages.

The Indians reached this vicinity about eight o'clock in the morning, says a Kansas paper. James G. Smith, his son-a young man of twenty y-one-and John Hudson were in their meadow, a mile from the trail, loading hay, when the Indians rode toward them to the number of fifteen or twenty. The sav- ages made friendly signs as they came up, and the elder Smith, who had been accustomed to Indians, went on with his work. One of the Indians took horse by the bridle and struck it on the head with bow. The old man clung to his team, fighting the Indians, who com menced shooting at him with arrows.
 Meantime Hudson started to drive off his team, but the horses were frightened and ran away. While running to catch them he was shot dead. After firing seven arrows into Smiths body the h. d4ans fired at him with rifles, fracturlng the left arm and inhicting flesh wound in the left thigh. Young Smith started to run and was followed by mounted Indian, who rode alongside of him and fired seven shots at him from a Win chester rifle. He came so close that pitchfork. The Indian threw himself behind his horses neck, firing a last shot at Smith, who gained the brush and hid. They hunted for, him for some time, but he escaped unharmed.
 The elder Smith crawled into the bushes, where he was found twenty eight hours after. He lived ten hours after being found, dying from exhaus- tion consequent upon loss of blood, none of his wounds being necessarily fatal. Three, quarters of Q mile up the gulch at the mouth of which Smith and Hudson were killed, is the cabin of MT. Colvin. As the Indians approached, Colvin sta tioned himself at one end of the cabin armed with revolver, while his wife, with 8 double-barrelled shotgun, stood guard at the other, and the little girls kept watch at the chinks at the side in which there are no windows, to give warning of the approach of the savages.
 After dancing and yelling about the cabin to draw the fire of the inmates, one of the Indians came within range of Col vin's revolver, and got broken arm for his indiscretion. He returned the shot, but the Indians left almost immediately, the brave defenders escaping unharmed and saving their property.
 From there they struck over to the trail. Half mile from the creek crossing they met MT. William Lang, who, with his youngest son, Freeman, and two young ladies, sisters, were going over to Prai- r1e Dog Greek. One buck rode up to MT. Lang and extended his hand with 8 "How ]" While the old gentleman was in the act of shaking hands with the sav- age another came up and shot him through the neck. Freeman Lang was shot through the body. The ladies were taken out of the wagon and held while the wagon was plundered. The horses were cut from the wagon and the harness destroyed, and then com menced their brutality to the women.
Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06
Natural History LessOns-The Dog.
This is a dog.

This is dog.
 Do you see the dog
 He looks as natural as life.
 The dog is called by some, mans most faithful servant. One or two instances have been known where dog frightened away thief or bit all agent. They have also been known to bark at the moon and thus prevent it falling and dashing the earth to pieces. If it wasn't for dogs we shouldn't know what to do with our old oyster cans. You can now ask any questions you desire.
 "How large IS a dog p
 "Well, that depends. If he's running away from you he looks about the size of gallon jug, but if he's coming at you he looks as large as a yearling calf.
 "Do dogs guard the house?'
 Yes; particularly the kitchen door. Nothing hurts dogs feelings so much as to have his master think he's waiting for bones, instead of being there on guard"
 Gan dog take hint?"
 Yes as soon as one sees 8 farmer coming across the fields with gun he knows that killing sheep is over for that morning, and away he goes.
 "Are dogs very strong?"
 "Youd think they could pull a saw log by the amount of bowling they will do between dusk and daybreak, but the minute boy wants ride on h1s sled the family dog is troubled with heart disease and general weakness.
 "Can dogs find the1r way home from long distances ?" It's according to the dog. Hits one you want to get rid of he can find his way back from California. If it's good one he's apt to get lost if he goes round the corner"
 "Can dogs see in the dark"
 "Some appear to, but instances are not rare where dogs, commanded to rush out and devour the fellow hooking wood; have rushed under the bed by mistake and stayed there. That all about dogs"
Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06
A Drunken Captain.

"Lower the life-boats, save all the passengers, and then pitch me over- board" is what Captain Howard of the steamship Georgia, is reported to have said after the vessel went upon the rocks. If all else that is said of him be true says an exchange, it would have served him right to have cast him into the waves. He was in command of a great vessel and many lives were in his keep ing. The passengers say he was con- tinually drunk from time of starting, and that he was in revel in his cabin when the shock came. He staggered on deck and gave orders until led away The perils of the sea are many under most favorable conditions, but it must be admitted that they are greatly in- creased if the voyage is made with 8 drunken Captain.
Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06
Scurrility in Politics.

The New York Herald says A stranger to our shores could not read the columns of many of our contemporaries without becoming convinced that only very wicked men receive nominations for office. A resident, however, knows bet ter, and when he sees one Candidate de- nounced as thief, another as burglar, a third as homicide and fourth as pirate he only says to himself, "this is the time for the squirt guns of islander. ," Why must a candidates private life be searched and paraded before the public eye? Not to help the great cause of truth or justice, for where maliginity can find nothing to magnify or distort it does not hesitate to invent whole cata- logues of imaginary crimes to be laid at his door. It would seem to be as necess- ary for a candidate to have criminal re- cord created by his opponents as to have an honorable record for his friends to blazon forth. The whole gamut of islander has been so played over that It is "played out," to use aphrase politicians will understand. It deceives nobody. Its object is dishonest one, for the en- tire aim is to keep the eyes of the people off the real issues of canvass. It seeks to place the issue not, for instance, on whether the city or State shall have good and strong government, but on whether Hezekiah Franklin, the republi- can candidate for Assembly, was a bounty jumper, or Peter McBranigan, the democratic aspirant for Alderman, 8 clothesline robber. It is time to stop this. We have surfeit of it. The men in the background, who pull the wires and organize these campaign islanders, do it so that their hands may be con- cealed. Our citizens have had so much of it that they may be relied on to reject it in the lump, and vote for men and measures as they know them, and not as the malignant fancy of the opposition paints them.
Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06
Exports and Imports.

The monthly statement of the Bureau of Statistics, at Washington, shows that the excess of exports over imports of merchandise for the month ending Sept 30, was $2O, ,525, ,267, and for the nine months ending Sept. 30, $2O9, 13O, ,487. The excess of imports over exports of gold and silver (coin and bullion) for the month ending Sept. 30 was 1928, 703. The excess of exports over imports of gold and silver (coin and bullion) during the nine months ending Sept. 30, 1877, amounted to $24, 7o6, 7sO; but the excess of imports over exports of gold and sil- yer (coin and bullion) during the nine months ending Sept. 30, 1878 amounted to $321, ,96O.
Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06
Extravaganza at Funerals.

A Cincinnati paper says A move ment started by a few gentlemen in Ohio to put an end to ostentation at fu- nerals should receive the encourage ment of all sensible people. Nothing could be in worse taste than display in the presence of death.
 A few months ago funeral in Cincin- natl came under our observation. The husband and head of the house had died. It was very moderate cottage in which husband, wife and children had lived for some years, toiling hard, for they were industrious people, for the sheerest necessities of life. But being dead, it seemed to the wife that her late husband must have as grand funeral as her more opulent neighbors. So there was, in addition to the minister and undertaken, @ band and twenty hacks, and concourse of people drawn together to witness the funeral of man who had not in all his life attracted as much attention as in going out of it. The hats of the pall-bearers had the regulation crape, and their hands were covered with the usual black gloves. There were flowers, too-nct appropri- ate as testimonials of affection-and whatever was needed to give to the fu- neral the proper exaltation as social event. But as the heavily-plated casket. borne by the stout pall-bearers, came across the threshold of the door into the street, one was 1nvoluntarily attracted by the rusty sign of "Washing and Ironing" which was nailed to the side of the house, and had not been taken in.
Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06
Almost Beyond Belief.

A crime perhaps without precedent is reported from Thompson, Penn, a small hamlet on the Jefferson branch of the Erie Railway, about 70 miles from Port Jervis. The trustees of a school just outside the limits of the village gath cred at the school house for their regu- lar meeting last Friday evening. There was some difficulty in getting the door open, but, after gaining admission, the dead body of Miss Alice Kennett, the young school teacher, was found upon the floor. In her lifeless hand was tightly grasped piece of chalk, and on the blackboard was written story almost too horrible for belief.
 The hapless girl had dismissed her scholars that afternoon, and was putting the room in order for the evening meet ing of the trustees when two tramps suddenly entered and seized her. Her screams could not be heard, and she was helpless in their hands. She must have threatened the scoundrels with certain identification, for, with almost incredi- ble savagery, they cut out her tongue, and left her dying on the floor. She crawled to the blackboard, and with desperate strength, wrote briefly the circumstances of the terrible crime, and minute description of the two men. The room bore evidence that she had made a desperate struggle.
 The sparse community was at once aroused, and search begun in every direction. The men may escape, but if they are caught their punishment win be instant and terrible.
Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06
Baby Burglars.

Two little fellows, who could easily have been carried in the arms of the officer who led them, went trotting down the aisle of the courtroom, in Pater- son, N. J., to answer to @ charge of burglary.
 Burglary what do you mean :? These babies ?" And the judge had to lean clear over the railing to see the tiny prisoners. They stood looking up at him with their great eyes, the only clean feature about their faces, while their hair was matted and snarled, and baby colored. Rags covered their little legs, somehow or other hitched up around the waists, and through the gaps of their cotton shirts the white skin that proved their race was seen. Their hands were black as the earth, and no wonder, for they were so little that it didn't take much soil to cover them, and their faces were smeared and grimy.
 It was clear case against the babies, and they admitted that they had gone to the chicken coop at two o'clock in the morning, with some other fellows, and robbed the roost. They could not have denied it had they been old enough to have tried a defence, because they were caught in the act.
 "But I can't imprison such children as these," said the judge. "Where's their father? Where do they live ?"
 He was told that they lived almost anywhere, and that their father and mother were too poor, and perhaps too careless, to watch over them so they had spent the time since they had climbed out of the cradle, two or three years ago, upon the streets of Paterson.
 Whats your name ?" the judge asked the older.
 "I'm Willie Aslam, and me brothers Eddy"
 "How old are you?"
 "Me brothers five and I'm six, guess"
 Then an officer and gentleman who was in court told the judge that the urchins had been begging their food for months, and sleeping wherever night found them.
 "They ought to be taken care of, but the jail is no place for them"
 "Oh, they have been to jail before, your Honor"
 "Those babies been to jail !"
 Yes twice.
 Here the father came in, weary-eyed, over-worked laboring man. He said that he was away from home so much that he couldn't look after his children, and he passed lightly over the reason why the mother did not care for them. He agreed with the judge that the boys would have better care in the State Reform School, and so they were ordered by the Court to be taken there.
Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06
WHAT WRlSKY DID FOB ME,

Kind friends, I'm glad to meet you here,
 stand before you all, A soldier who has served his time
 With old King Alcohol. I've stood by him through thick and thin,
 Until they call me sot, And when for him I sold my coat
 This was the coat I got. fought for him, I bled for him,
 As through the street I'd rave, And when through him lost my hat,
 This is the hat he gave. My boots were of the neatest fit,
 As fine as boots could be; For him gave away my boots,
 And then he booted me. My eyes were of the deepest blue,
 Nor lustrc did they lack; But now you see they both are red,
 And one Is also black! My nose was never beautiful,
 But still was not amiss; Old Alcohol, he touched it up,
 And what dye think of this7 He promised I should courage have
 For all the ills of life; The bravest thing he made me do
 Was beat my little wife. He promised he would give me wit,
 And should ne'er be sad, Instead of which he took away
 The little sense had. The health and wealth he promised me
 He never, never gave; But when he'd taken all had,
 I found myself slave. So now I'll fight for him no more,
 For woe is all his pay; He's cheated me and lied to me
 I'll sign the pledge to-day!
Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06
{" THE TEAR"

On beds of snow the moonbeam slept And chilly was the midnight gloom, When, by the damp grave, Mary wept ;-- Sweet maid it was her lover's tomb. A warm tear gush'd, the wintry air Congeal'd it as it how'd away; All night it lay an ice-drop there, At morn it glitter'd in the ray. An angel wandering from his sphere, Who saw this brightj this frozen gom, To dew-ey'd pity brought the tear And placed it in her diadem.
 -HAILACK.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg Court House [S.C.]) 1877-1881, 1878-05-25
A. Mo del Conductor.

Il left Mary and went South on
RAILROAD so full of initials hat it
sounded like NJ asonic Lodge, and I
wondered how they kept the train OH
the track. But there was conduc-
tor on the train who deserves Il
monument. He didn't stand around
and let his passengers hunt seats for
themselves. When he came into the
car and saw one man with no seat
and another man with four he gently
but firmly bounced the expansi We
man and made him withdraw within
the metes and bounds described by his
ticket. He wasn't ugly or cross about
it, but he had n way of explaining to
a man with one ticket and three
valises, an egg case, q box of butter,
"a bird Gaze, two hat boxes aud q
i ;l;et ofapples, that the exl ress car
l.; lGst two cars forward, tnat WAS por-'
iecily irresistible. \ small, Limid
passenger un accustomed to travelling
is very averse to ordering big,
burly, broad-shouldefed traveller,
with belligerent, repellant express
icn on his sleepy face, to "wake up
and give him seat" aud tho con
ductor who takes this Job off his
timid hands is q Godsend to the
travelling community. The man who
ran North on the X. c., St. j. and G.
b. last Monday afternoon would be
an honor to road with even twice so
many initials. Muwkcye.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg Court House [S.C.]) 1877-1881, 1878-05-25
A Correspondent Answered.
same cause.

"Mabel Glare" writes us the follow.
ing hattering inquiry: care you the
author OF that tender little ballad,
Darling, Kiss lily Eyelids Down !"
We? We write such stuff as that ?
"kiss our eyelids down 7" Mabel,
thou art beside thyself; much reading
hath made thee mad. Darling, kiss
our eyelids down." Now isn't that a
nice thing to accuse us of saying ?
Are we that devoid Of intelligence ?
Mabel, don't you trouble our eyelids
when you have fancy to perform
any operations of that delicate an d
tender nature. We have large,
comfortable, roomy, flexible cash
just below our nose that has bought
county rights for all business of that
nature that comes within the limits
of our face, and any eyelid found
intering or infringing will be prose
cuted to the extreme limit of the la W.
No, we didn't write it.-Bwlington
Uawhcyc.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg Court House [S.C.]) 1877-1881, 1878-05-25
N UNTIsEEs 10.
Finding His Ideal.

The last case ofmanifest destiny is
reported from the city Of Evansville.
Ind. A physician soon after leading
his bride 10 the alter, wrote n letter
to college friend in Northern Geor-
gia, informing him of what had hap
pened, and advising him, after the
manner ofa bridegroom, to go aud do
likewise. The rising young lawyer
replied from Newman, Ga, that he
would be very happy to marry ifh he
could only meet his ideal; and then
followed a pen picture of the woman
for whom his soul languishel, all the
mental and physical charms which
found place in his appreciation be-
ing duly menti3ncd III tic dcscrip-
ton. While passing along Nam
street one day months aftcrwlr |, the
physician happened to see young
lady of exquisite beauty aud rare
intelligence, and like n h,sh he re-
cognlzed her rs the embodiment Of
the lawyers dream. He made in
9uiries! Mt once or! learned til:,t SHE
lived in Kentucky, and was visiting
some friends in Ev, nsviie; and sub.
sequently he procured, without her
knowledge, one of her photographs
and sent it to the promising Young
lawyer. This gentleman was pleased
with the counterfeit prcsentmcnt, anI
acknowledged by the next mail, that
it was indeed the face of his IDEAL
Subsequently, he paid a visit to her
fathers house in Owensboro, aud pre-.
sented letters Of introduction fro m
Messrs. Stephens and Hill; anu after
a short courtship destiny had her
way, the marriage cere mony being
performed in the Baptist church of
the town.