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Connecticut western news., 1879-11-12
Righted at Last.

Two years after my fathers death my mother died. The long, wasting disease took an acute form, and after three months of painful illness she left me to join my father.
 My uncle came to me at once, and took me home. We had funeral from the large house, and then I folded my hands and prayed to die. There was nothing for me now, I said, in my wicked repining other hands could dis tribute my money among fine poor, and I could die and meet all I loved in heav- en. No words can describe the bittef- ness of those days. The old sorrow had been comforted and soothed by the ten der love that had lost now. My moth CT, my lifelong companion, was gone, and was alone in the world.
 Uncle Stanhope was very kind, Lizzie and May afeetionate, Harry sympathiz- ing :; but they all had their own interests and duties, while stood alone.
 Lizzie was going to be married, and had her trousseau to arrange, her lover's visits to receive; Harry was preparing for tour; May was very deeply inter- essed in the study of German uncle had his business to attend to, and the interests of three children at heart. I, only, was alone.
 Judge, then, of my deep gratitude when Mrs. Hall wrote to invite me to make my home with her. She was very feeble, and needed g daughters love ; would I take her in my dead mothers place, and let her love and comfort me |? Uncle grumbled little, but let me go.
 Remember" he said, "Agnes, this is only for long visit. Milford cannot spare you always, and this must be your home. Promise me to think of my house as your home. And, Aggie, when you are able to bear gayety, you will come to the New Years party? Lizzie will come home, then May, too, if she mar ries. Let it be family reunion for the future. You will come?''
 promised all his kind love demand ed, and then went to New York.
 My welcome there was g loving, cor dial one, but found new member in the quiet family.
 My niece, Martha Hall," said the old lady, after greeting me and tall figure rose up from corner and said:
 Good evening"" and then sat down again,
Connecticut western news., 1879-11-12

HANGING. was 8 discussion among party of miners at Leadville as to the physical effects of hanging. MT. Edwards declared that, on wager of S5, he would permit his companions to draw him up from the bottom of a shaft by a rope tied around his neck. His belief was that, by throwing his head far back, the pressure of the rope would be wholly on the back of his neck, and consequently he would not be choked atall. His calculation proved erroneous, for he was nearly dead when he reached the surface, and it was with great diff culty that his life was saved.
Connecticut western news., 1879-11-12
Sketch of Zachary Chandler.

At the time of his decease, the late Senator Chandler, of Michigan, wa nearly sixty six years of age, having been born in Bedford, N. H., in the val ley of the Merrimac, December 10 1913. He received 0 fair education, both common school and academic, and in early life sought the great West, making Detroit, Mich, then but an in. fant city, his homo. His pursuits in that city were of @ mercantile nature, and by industry, economy and upright ness, his business grew to be of large di- mansions. and thirty years ago he had amassed a competency, partly owing to success in trade, and partly to the rise in real estate.
 Soon after his retirement from active business pursuits, he turned his atten- tlon somewhat to political affairs, and the first office to which he was elected was that of Mayor of Detroit, in 1851, although in his election therefor he had to struggle against tho immense inhu- ence of General Lewis Cass, MT. Chan dler, being then an old line Whig. He soon took the lead in his party and waged so desperate fight in opposition to the Mioigan Cass Democracy that in 1856 he was elected to succeed General Cass as United States Senator.
 When MT. Chandler took his seat in the United States Senate in 1857, as a Republican, General Cass entered the Cabinet of MT. Buchanan as Secretary of State. Mr. Chandler took leading part among the Republicans on the Kansas question, urging with his utmost vehemence the refusal to admit the Territory of Kansas into the Union as a slave State.
 HIS POLITICAL VIEWS AND AMENITIES.
 MT. Chandler was Republican of pronounced views. Ho was one of the United States Senate "Committee on the Conduct of the War;" but declined the Craftsmanship of it in advance in favor Of Senator Wade of Ohio. Since the close of tho rebellion MT. Chandler has been steadily in poitical life, and has occupied high station in office, having been Secretary of the Interior, Chair man of tho National Republican Com- mittee at the late Presidential election, and always man trusted for his per- sonal honesty and oLe whose experience Tn party management made him invalu- able as political manager.
 Mir. Chandler was @ large man, seem- ing as if loosely built, with very large face, ungarnishod of late years by beard of any kind. He was of rather ungain]y presence, reticent to Q degree where reticence was valu able quality, and not very communicative in his most open moments. He was man of un- doubted personal courage. In his per sonal habits he was an inveterate tobacco chewer, and like most Western men of his years, was not averse to on occasion al dram, though he could not have been called of late years an incorporate man. He had many of the qualities which endeared him to his Western constituency, and none more than his personal attach mont to both his friends and his party, never losing an opportu- nity to befriend the one or to benefit the other.
Connecticut western news., 1879-11-12
SONG.
From the Swedish.1

Were as pure as thou art sweet, Then were my love for thee complete; Were as true as thou art fair, Then could I kiss thy fragant hair, Were I as true as thou art fair. Were as steadfast as thine eyes, Then might we taste love's. paradise; Were I as constant as thy worth, Then heaven would bend to touch the earth, Were I as constant as thy worth. Were as tender as thy prayers, Then would I win thee unawares; Were I as holy us thy tears, Then vert thou mine through all the years, Were I as holy as thy tears. But oh! the sin, the grief, the care! To wed thee, sweet, may not dare. I would not break thy trusting heart So, though die, our lives must part, I,would not break thy trusting heart
Connecticut western news., 1879-11-12

Eminent German statis ticians have recently published an esti- mate of the total amount of capital invested in the construction of rallroa ds since Supplements experimental loco motive first glided over a double rail {, revolutionizing the transport system of our earth. The result of their calcula- tions is the amazing sum of seventy five milliards of francs, or fifteen thousand millions of dollars. The event that inausurated the expenditure of such an amount as this nearly fifteen dollars Q head for every human being inhabiting the terrestrial globe--is worthier of eel ebration by jubilee ceremonies than the ! anniversary of great battle,
Connecticut western news., 1879-11-12

WAYNE TOWNSHIP, in Ohio, contains a tract known as Big Woods, the inhab- itants of which lead a somewhat unciv- ilized life. A party of masked men from tbis locality lately whipped two thieves severely and then posted the fol- lowing: Resolved, that court be a use- less expense; and hereafter the Council of Saints is going to punish all seoun- drels like they deserve"
Connecticut western news., 1879-11-12

An eagle's nest -the United States Treasury.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-16
Comfort fer Old Maids.

Old maids are useful. They can cook,
and take care of the children, nurse
sick people, and generally play the
piano. Old bachelors are useless. They
do not even know how to drive nails or
split wood.
Old maids are amiable. If fone wants
anything done that requires patience
and kindness of heart, single lady is
sure to be one to do it.
Old bachelors are ill-natured. They
snub children, despise babies, and hate
Young mothers, and are always so bus
lily employed in seeing that other peo.
pie take good care of them that they
bave not moment to give to any one
else.
Old maids are nice looking, and
young for their years. Old bachelors
generally have red noses, rheumatism
IN their knees, bald heads and mouths
that turn down at the corners.
Old maids can make home of one
little room, and they cook delicious
meals for one over the gas jet, in cum
ming little tin kettles, besides making
all their own wardrohes. Old bachelors
ilCOo alIl oil III y vi Io~;- }icy WdlGGIS, COOkS,
distant relatives, al..- hotel landlords to
keep them comfortable. When old
maids are i'll they tie up their heads in
pocket handkerchief take homeo-
phatic pellets out of two bottles, alter
nately, and get well again. When old
bachelors ale i'll they 60 to bed and
send for four doctors; have a consulta-
ton; mantlepiece full of black bot
ties; all the amiable married men VINO
belong to the club to sit up with him at
night, besides hired nurse; they tel
egraph to their relatives, and
do their best to impress the
world they are dying.
When an old maid travels she takes
a sandwich, piece of pound cake, d
bottle of lemonade in a hand-basket,
and lunches comfortably IN the car
riage. When an old bachelor travels
be orders a dinner in courses at th he
station, and raves because he has not
time to eat it before the ''fifteen min
utes for refreshments" are over.
Old maids drink weak tea and it
cures their headaches.
Old bachelors drink strong liquor and
it gives them headaches.
Old maids are modest. They think
their youth is over and their beauty
gone. If, after a while, some Autumn
nal love is given them they take it as
a sort OF a miracle, and hope people
will not laugh at them for marrying 50
late in life"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-16
Don't Box the Ears.

Could parents realize the suffering
they inf1ict, or know how much perma-
nent injury results from a habit of box
ing the ears of their children, as a
mode of punishment they would shud-
der. Many child's hearing has been
ruined for life by blows administer ed
by parent who really loved it, out
who thoughtlessly and in angry haste,
gave a "box on the ear" which, per-
haps, may destroy the hearing perma-
nently. DIR. Charles Burnett, in his
book, Hearing, and How to Keep It."
says on this point:
GA force productive of rupture of the
drumhead, quite common among bru-
tai people, Is box upon the ear.
The explosive force comes on
the drumhead either so suddenly that
the membrane is not prepared for it,
or it is so powerful, and the membrane
so delicate. < A word of caution
must therefore be given here respect
ing that most reprehensible custom OF
pulling children's ears in punishment.
1t is not only cruel. but very likely to
infame the dense fbrous tissues hold
ing the auricle in place. Such an in.
fiamation, if not speedily checked,
would lead to hardness of hearing, and
perhaps permanent deafness. Should
the bone entering into the framework
of the ear underlying these inhamed
structures. also become involved in
the aforesaid inflammation, results even
fatal to life may ensue."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-16
GRAND RAPIDS WIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER is 1879.

pieces. His right arm was broken in
three places, both bones: left arm bro.
| ken near shoulder, and shoulder dislo
Gated. The left foot was nearly torn off
the bones being crush to pieces and
protruding through the skin. There
were also many severe bruises on the
body Crossman is about fifty years of
age and has a wife and four children
He will in all probability die in short
ime.
A DETROIT dispatch of the 10th gives
the following particulars of the terrible
accident on the Michigan Central R. r a
short distance east of junction, about
l O'Clock the morning of the 10th. The
pacific express train bound west, which
left Detroit forty-five minutes late collid-
ed with switch engine on the main
track, at that place, telescoping the
baggage and express cars, and pitching
the remaining coaches, eleven in
number, on top of the others The
first coach was filled with emigrants,
most of whom are killed or seriously in.
jured; many occupants of the other
Coaches were also killed or injured 1t
is supposed there are about 20 or % pas.
sengers killed and 90 10 thirty wounded
hO hidJi iIy VI IlIO huLI1DGi dIC tHOuS III
to be emigrants and second-class pas
sengers. Physicians and surgeons were
at once summoned from Jack
son to the scene of the
disaster, and a special train carrying
physicians left Detroit at 5A.M NJ. A large
force of employees of the railroad COM
pany, together with large mum Der Of the
citizens of Jackson, are on the ground,
engaged in the work of extricating bod.
les from the wreck Railroad officials
and surgeons are busily at work among
the wound d, doing everything in their
power to alleviate their sLfferings. Up
TO noon, eighteen dead bodies had
besn taken from the wreck of the
express, ten of whom, taken from the
wrecked emigrant car, have not yet been
identified. The killed are Milton Gill
bert, of Detroit, engineer of the express
train; G. B. Smith, of jackson, fireman
The express train; John Rice, wife and
daughter, Philadelphia; Mrs. Garland
and her ten year old daughter, Philadel-
phia; Louis Mongoin, Of Buckingham,
Canada, and an infant daughter of Mrs
George A. Jones, of Catado, Penn. The
accident was caused by the switchman
having charge of making the freight
train at Jack son Junction occupying the
main track with a switch-engi and
caboOse. 1t is the understanding that the
Pacific express was considerably behind
time. The express train however, had
made up nearly all the lost time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-16
CRIME.

KANSAS CITY advices of the 18th state
that large bodies of men are securing the
country for the train robbers, but moth
ing has been heard of them yet.
A LITTLE Rock, Ark, special of the
nth says deputy sheriff Geo. Cole ar
rived at Dardanelle yesterday with Chas
E HelphreV, the murderer and robber
of Burgess James, in September last. He
was arrested near Forsyth, Mo. He
confessed to the murder, and duplicates
James P. Holland and VIM. Carey, of
Tell county, as accessories.
A SULPHUR Springs, Texas, telegram
of the 11th says last night while City
Marshall John Norris was taking a
drink with a friend, some one outside
the saloon shot Norris through the
heart killing him Instantly, escaping in
the darkness. The assassin is supposed
to be friend of the man shot by Norris
while resisting the marshal's arrest.
A BosToN dispatch of the 18th SAYS
that in Il e United States district court to-
day the six men who took Buffers ad-
vice, and voted last fall when they had no
right to do so, on his promise to defend
them in court and secure their acquttal,
were sentenced to pay fines and the costs
Of prosecution. Butler was absent on a
stumping tour in the western part of the
state, in violation of solemn agreement
which he had made with the district at
torney, and his associate moved for fur
ther postponement on that account.
A CHICAGO telegram of the 9th saws the
ge aeral manager of the Chicago & Alton
Railway has offered reward of $4,000
for the arrest of the gang of train rob
bers, who last light stopped the 2 o'clock
train and rifled the express company's
safe at Glendale, Missouri. A proportion
ate part of the above amount will be Civ
en- for the capture of a part of the rob-
bers. Although the loss falls entirely on
the express company, the rail DAD author
tiles are determined to prevent, If the
most stringent measures will do so, any
recurrence of this outrage, and to break
up tho band of outlaws who perpetrated
it.
A KANSAS CITY special of Oct. 9th
| says the or going Chicago & Alton
train this ev, hing was stopped at Glen
dale, small station fifteen miles east of
| this city, by gang of eighteen or TWEEN
ty men, and robbed of the contents of
the express car. The station was com.
| PEELED to signal the train 10 stop, and
| then the telegraph instruments were torn
out. Stones had been piled on the track
The robbers kept up brisk
| firing outside of the train
while Grimes, the express messenger
was knocked down and the safe broken
open. About $4,000 were secured, and
the robbers left, going in southerly
direction. The agent at Glendale can.
not be found, and it is not known
whether he was murdered or was party
to the crime. His mother was rendered
insane from fright. A special train with
squad of armed men has just gone to
the scene of trouble to begin search for
the robbers. The leader of the gang, 8
tall man with heavy sandy beard, has
been seen several times lately in the
vicinity of Glendale. The passengers OF
| the tram were not molested.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-16

MANY of the agricultural Journals are
sorely troubled to know whether a hen
sis or sets. If some editor of dignity
would set hen on the nest, and the
little editors would let her sit, It would
be well for the world. Now man, or
woman either, can set hen, although
they cannot sit her; neither can they
set on her, although the old hen might
sit on them by the hour if they would
allow It. A man cannot set on the
wash bench; but he could set the basin
on it, and neither the basin nor the
grammarians would object. He could
sit on dogs tail if the dog were will
ing; or he might set his foot On it. But
if he should set on the aforesaid tail, OF
sit his foot there, the grammarians as
veil as the dog would howl. And yet,
lrange as it may seem, the man might
set the tail aside and then sit down, and
neither be assailed by the dog or the
grammarians.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-16
CABLEGRAMS.

A DISPATCH from London of the 18th
inst. says the two hundred and sixty-sev.
en- farmers and their wives, who sailed
fron, Liverpool yesterday in the steamer
Teutcnia, for New Orleans, on their way
to Texas, are Tor the most part well pro
vided with money. They are from Dur.
ham, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Lincoln.
shire, and Gloucestershire.
A LONDON telegram of the l1th, saws
Gen. Roberts was before Cabul the 9Th
inst. Gen. s. Baker and Mcpherson
have been detailed in strength to attack
the enemy, who hive assembled from the
hills above Balachissar. If these forces
can be brought in o action, Gen. Roberts
thinks the enemy will be unable to make
another figlt. Massey, who was sent to
cut off the retreat of the Afghans on the
road between Bannian and Rohistan,
captured seventy-eigh guns in Shalpur
The guns were found in an bandoned
cnntonment, and among them are seven.
teen Armstrong;.
A LONDON dispatch of the 11th saws
A paragraph published Oh Yesterday
afternoon IN Vanity FAIR, which has
special sources of military matters, saws
that the air is full Of rumors as though
portentious things were in preparation.
The clerks at the India office and foreign
office are busily engaged in
drafting and copying. The know
ing ones wag their heads. They hint
that England is on the eye of war
with Russia. "The only consideration. y
says the journal, sarcastically, "that
makes such an apparently impossible
thing at all likely is, first, that we have
no present cause for such war, and
second, that we have no troops with
which to carry it on. What is certain is
that Herat is meDaced; what is doubtful
is whether the English government is
aware of Herat's importance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-16
YELLOW FEVER,

A MEMPHIS dispatch of October 9th
says there has been one death and two
new cases of fever reported within the
past twenty-four hours
ADvICEs of Oct. 10th from Memphis
report ten cases in all-seven colOred
and three whites. A telegram from Har-
rlson, Miss, says the sick are all dead
Donations to the Howards' aggregated
81 1,030. Their nometer has ranged be-
tween 70 aud 81.
A MEMPHIS special of the 18th says 16
cases in all were reported to-day--7 col
ored. Among those reported this even
ing are Agnes Steel, Margaret Crone,
Henry Jones, Henry Green, Joseph Brit,
on and E. T. Keel. Three deaths oc-
Cured.
A MEMPHIS dispatch of the 18th says
seven cases, two of whom are colored,
were reported to-day. The following are
the names of the whites: W. R. Smith,
J. Holmes, E. Marcia, Lilly Anderson,
Geo. Lacroix. Six interments since last
evening. w. FL. d. Wenall, E. l. Keel,
Henry Jones, John Fl. Vain, Laura Bal
ey, Cassodner Settles; last named colored.
r. b. Hutchinson and DIR. HI. L. Thorn
as were supplied with nurses to day by
the Howards, Rain has fallen steadily
since three O'Clock.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-16
CASUALTIES.

A HAVANA, Ill, special of the 18th
says John Daniels, well-to-do farmer,
residing near Manito, Mason county,
went into sixty foot well 10 clear it out,
and while at work the curbing gave way
and IN an instant he was closed up in a
fearful grave. At this time parties are
working hard to reach his body, but
with poor success, as the ground
keeps caving on them.
a WHEELING, W. Va. telegram of the
18th, says a collision occurred about 90
last night, between the Baltimore and
Ohio express trains, Nos. and 10, at
Bolton, about forty miles east of Wheel.
ing. The engineer and fireman of the
east bound train, and two tramps were
killed; the fireman of the west bound
/ train was seriously injured. The postal
clerk on the west bound train was baalv
hurt. Several passengers were consider
ably Jared, but not much injured. Both
engines and several cars were wrecked
A EVANSVILLE dispatch of the 18th
says Geo. Crossman, a farmer livin
about eight miles from this CITY, was
caught by the tumbling-rod of his owr
threshing machine, and almost torn te
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-16
GENERAL NOTES.

AN Albion, Mich, dispatch of the 9th
inst says: A large balloon passed over
this city at o'clock this morning, going
southwest rapidly. 1t was at a great
height, ami to all appearances car was
attached.
A BELoIT telegram under date of Oc-
tober 9th, says that Josiah Shepard, of
this city, has ordered of Beck S Co.,
London, microscope, TO be presented
to Beloit College, which will be inferior
to none in the country. 1t is described
as large binocular instrument, with
concentric rotary stage, magnifying from
eight 10 len thousand diameters, and &C
companied with three hundred accessory
instruments 1t will be placed in the
college in December, and will be a most
valuable acquisition to the scientific de
partment.
AT meeting of the directors of the
Western Union telegraph company in