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Connecticut western news., 1879-05-21
Ere. Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club.

"Doorin' de pas week" said the Pres ident, as sort of plum-colored silence fell upon the meeting, "I hez been in- formed dat culpd society in dis city am ruptured all to pieces kase de wife of a cull'd hotel steward refused to invite herself to party given by de wife of barber, on de ground dat it would be lowerin' her tone. I hez been 'pealed to decide how culld society orter be graded, an hez given de subject ser'us consideration. At de fust glance it would seem as if one family war as good as anoder. purvided dey wus respectable an honest, but de fack am dat de woman wid Brussels carpet on de parlor tloo' am allus gwine to heap on style ober de woman who can't afford better'n ingrain. At de fust glance it would also seem dat one hoss am as good as anoder, but de fack remains dat such am not de case not by jug full. When we speak of apples we doan realize dat some am ex- tra fine an oders am extra bad, but such am de case. We speak of our glor'o kentry in general terms, but de fack re- mains dat dis kentry hes more fever an ager an swamp land dan would bank rupt common people. Darfore, takin all sich fngs inter consideration, it am only nateral dat somebody hes got to be at de head of society, an somebody else at de foot. Darfore, agin, 'spect, il would be about right to grade cull'd society as follows:
 "1. Members of de Eime-Kiln Club.
 "2. Hotel stewards.
 "3. Bank porters.
 GA. Letter carriers.
 "5. Barbers.
 "6. Drivers of ice wagons.
 eff de wife of member of dis club refuses to 'sociate wid de wife of bar. Der, we can't help it; but still we would advise her not to git sich foolish noshuns in her head, but to jine hands in de good cause of maxim de world content an happy. De queshun am an embarrassin one, an I don't keer to hear it referred to agin. De Seckretary will now pur ceed to inculcate de reg'lar business o1 de meetin'. ."-Detroit FTee Press.
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-21
MARKET NOTES.
NEW YnRK MARKET


 The wholesale New York market quotations show:
 Beans. Prime, $1.37a- fair to good, $1. .25d135 per bushel. -~. pails, and 11a13c. common to good. Western sold al 19c., and the common Western at Case.
 Gbeese.-Factory fancy, 71Sc.; do. fair, ,6c Eqqs.-Quotations ranged from 10c for or dinary to 12c. for New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
 Fzo,tr.-Superfine, $35Oa3.s5: Western, $3. 9Oa4. %; extra New York, $3 90a5.75. Hay.-shipping 40a45c.; ..clover, 30a35c.; salt, sOa40c.; straw, 35a4Oc. .-a. Hops.-New York; 5a12c.; Eastern, 6d9c.; yearlings, 2o4.i olds, 1a2c: Petro5eln.- Refined, s15c.; crude, 411ac. in bulk; in barrels 7s[c. Naptha, Sc. in ship ping order, and 11115a1216c. in cases.
 Pork.-New mess, ,$10 .00a10.25; Family mess -; extra prime, $- dressed hogs 4s4 Wheat.-spring No. 2, s1.o7: Milwaukee No. 3, $-. Amber, $1.15. White, SLY. Rye.-state, ,6ld65c.
 Wool.-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia -c. No. 3, 32a-c., common, 29a30c. New York and Western xx 28d32c., and No. l, 2Sd31a31a33c.
 PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
 Flo,w.-state family, $500; rye flour, $3 %. Wheat, State, $1,16. Amber, $1.1S. Corn, yellow, 43c.; mixed State, 4315c. ,s<o
 Wool.-State and Western xx 33d35c., 33d 34c., medium, 35d37c., coarse, soc.
 CATTLE MARKETS
 BuFFALo.-Cattle good quality, $3.9Od4. 75. Hogs, fair to good, $500; best, $3. 70.
 EAST LIBERTY PEN.-Best cattle, .$5.56; medium to good, $5 Ooa5.25; common to fair, $4 45Oa4. 80. Hogs, Workers, $3. 40a3 60; Phila- delphias, $3.75o3.9o. Sheep, $4.50a525. WATERTowN, MAss.-Cattle,. choice, $7. 75; n. itvr second quality, 5.00a5.50; third quality, .00 n45O. Sheep and lambs-wool sheep, $3.000 3.75; extra. $425a6.5O; spring lambs, 5061Sc. veal calves, 311sa415c.
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-21
A Useful Fence.

A Louisiana paper says that MT. Jo- seph Jefferson has been fencing his orange-grove plantation in that State in novel and effective way. He begins by erecting, for each side of his fence, sods three feet in width, divided into
 five layers, at an angle of seventy-five degrees. The soil from beneath the sod exactly fills the space between the erected sods, leaving three-foot ditch on each side. On the top of this sod and soil fence, which is four and half feet at the base and three feet high, he plants cuttings of the McCartney rose, which all protected by panel of boards.
 This fence, while within the reach of any man who will shoulder his spade and work, possesses the advantages of an impenetrable barrier, of permanence, of not needing repairs, of drainage and of being a most beautiful ornament.
 MT. Jefferson will soon have inclossd section of his plantation containing 2,6O0 acres, and at one-half the cost of stake fence. It is thought that this most economical and useful fence will ultimately be generally adopted in the Southern States. -Scsentiac AnaesScon.
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-21
Bridemaids' Dresses and Veils.

Simple fabrics, says Harper's Bazor, are chosen for bridemaids' dresses to be worn at weddings. The fancy is to make these of soft, light, summery materials, such as India muslin, or else the soft twilled foulard silk known as Surrah silk, and the lace garniture is either Breton or Valenciennes. These dresses are made up more youthfully than the wedding dress, and carry out the pre- vailing style, with it's bouffant paniers and shirred basques and aprons. Im- ported Surrah dresses for bridesmaids at 8 recent wedding had the short tuned back fronts of the over-dress formed of diagonal rows of Breton insertion and Surrah silk, while the back was punched up voluminously, and held by large clusters of loops of satin ribbon. In this instance the wedding was conducted in English fashion, and the bridesmaids wore Gainsborough hats of WI :te silk, with Prince of Wales red satin shirring and piping. Instead of bonnets, how ever, short veils of tulle arranged on the back of the head in Spanish style are now generally worn by bridesmaids. To use some deep color for garniture is g fancy for bridesmaids; /; thus at Grace Church wedding lately the four bride maids wore clusters of deep red entrants and green leaves for garniture. When there are six or eight bridesmaids it is customary two have two with rose trim. mings, two with pale blue, two with green, and the others may have dark red or else Marshal Neil yellow. Worth uses what he calls opal tints in sashes and trimmings on bridesmaids dresses. For instance, he uses white grenadine with brocaded satin stripes in it for the basque and train, while the front and sides of plain square-meshed grenadine have panier scarf or sash of green bro. caded ribbon shot with pink and white
 like an opal, draped across the front and about the hips. To continue the opa. effect, pale green silk knife-pleatings te trim the sides and end of the train.
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-21
The !" Manly :" Art.

If any benighted person held a doubt as to the "manliness of the noble art of self-defense as illustrated in prize fight, that doubt must be set at rest by review of the fight between Dwyer and Elliott. The latter's conduct almost from the beginning was positively so brutal that nobody will sympathize with him in his defeat. In the third round he tried to bite off his antagonists nose. In the fifth round Elliott tried to gouge out Dwyer's eyes with his finger nails. Still no foul was allowed. In the seventh round Elliott repeated his attempt at gouging. In the ninGb round he again tried biting. Dwyer fell upon the pros- trate body of Elliott with his whole weight, and broke several of his ribs. If this was fair play, those must decide who understand these things better than we do.
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-21
The War With Cabbage Pests.

In the old soils especially cabbage has tendency to form club-roots, or, as this we'll disease is sometimes termed, fingers and toes. It is verita- ble plague, which not only occasions wide gaps in the fields but often destroys an entire crop. The generally accepted belief is that club-root is due to the at tacks of the cabbage grub or larvse. M. WoroniD, who has devoted several years to the study of this disease as it occurs in the vicinity of St. Petersburg, calls it st hernia " and says it is produced by microscopic parasite which developes with greater rapidity in moist than in dry soils. He recommends as remedy burning the affected roots and changing the crops for few years.
 Farmers in this country have expe- rienced relief from grubs at the roots of cabbages by loosening the earth close to the roots with hoe, and pouring about the root in near contact with the plant one-fourth of pint of soft soap and water two or three times during the season. The solution consists of one part soft soap to twelve parts water. Weaker studs poured on the top, it is claimed by some gardeners, will destroy the green worm.
 A method of preventing the inroads of the cabbage grub is to make each plant unpalatable to the grub. This may be done, according to the Kansas Times, in the following manner: In the spring procure some fresh-burned lime, let it become air -slacked and miz it with an equal quantity of soot. Ir planting the holes are made with trowe in the usual way each plant is dropped into it's place and an inch of soil pu over the roots, good watering give1 first, then moderate handful of tn, soot and lime mixture thrown into eacl hole, and the remaining soil filled in Equal parts of soot and fine garden soi mixed with water to the consistency o thin mortar, with the plants dipped into the mixture up to the base of the leave previous to planting, is also advised a 8 preventive to clubbing. Wood ashe mixed with water poured into the hole has been tried with success.
 For cabbage worms Professor Rifle, recommends hot water judiciously az piled from watering-pot. This mus be done with caution and therefore liable in careless hands to do more harr than good. Professor Riley also advise for the same purpose applying repeat edly a solution of whale-oil soap an water in the proportions of one poun of soap to six gallons of water. Piece
 of boards raised an inch above the SUI face of the ground afford an opportunit of examining and destroying once ( twice each week the transforming 1arv, under them.
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-21
A sad Story.

The attention of the Society for the
 Prevention of Cruelty to Children of New York was drawn to most pitiful case of destitution. A grocer who chanced into the basement of 435 East Fifteenth street brought word to an off, cer that he discovered six little children huddled in bare room with corpse. That official proceeded to investigate the matter, and found that he had been rightly informed. The body of man who had been worn by disease to ex. treme cancellation was lying in the place and crowded about were number of little ones whose pinched faces and rag ged raiment showed how much they had suffered from want. Soon a woman appeared who had been plodding about in search of loan, and from her the story of the living and dead was learned. Two years ago Frank Fell, brush maker, was doing fair business and comfortably provided for his wife and family but he, was prostrated by con- sumption, which confined him to his bed aud left him unable to be of any service whatever. In this strait the wife assumed the whole responsibility of the family's support, and worked steadfastly until her health failed and their little means dwindled away. Since that the Fells have been in sad plight, and few days ago, when the father ex- pired, they were unable to procure means to bury him. In spite of their condition Mrs. Fell shrank from pauper's burial for her husband, and the corpse was al- lowed to remain in the house with the vain hope that means of defraying the funeral expenses might be forthcoming. While she went among former friends striving to solicit help and sympathy the six children watched by the dead, the eldest of whom is nine years old and the youngest an infant of only two weeks. The officer reported the case to the c commissioners of Charities, who in spite of the remonstrances of Mrs. Fell, had the body taken to Potter's Field, while the society-took charge of the children.
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-21
Protect the System from Malaria.

It is possible to do this even in regions of country where miasma is most rife, and where the periodic levers which it causes assume their most formidable types The immense popularity of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is very largely attributable to the fact of its efficacy as remedy for chills and fever, bili- ous rtmittents, and as preventive of the various forms of malarial disease. In those
 portions of the West and South where com plaints of this nutare prevail, and in the Tropics, it is particularly esteemed for the productive influence which it exerts; and it has been very widely adopted as substitute for the dangerous and comparatively ineffec- tive alkaloid, sulphate of quinine. Physicians have not been among the last to concede its merits, and the emphatic professional indorse- mcnts which it has received have added to the reputation it has obtained at home and abroad
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-21
A Bunker Service.

The Sunday service of the Pennsyl- vania Dunkers is like Methodist ob- servance, except on communion Sundays; then the form observed is truly novel. After preaching, prayers, and song, two deacons gird themselves with towels, as the Saviour once did, and two others carry large tin basins of water. Four women on the other side of the house act similarly. In groups of half dozen the brothers and sisters advance to the front bench, divest their feet of shoes and stockings, and those members are washed and dried by the basin and towel bearers. The feet are clothed again, the six men and women retire, and another group comes forward and receives the same treatment, With the washing and drying of all the feet the ceremony ends. Then brethren and sisters assigned to the service descend to the basement and prepare (by the help of well-filled larder and roaring log fire) great basins of beef soup and platters of boiled beef and sliced bread, and bring these edibles up into the church, where the backs of some of the seats have already been un- bolted and laid upon the backs of other benches, so that number of long tables have been formed. Clothes are laid, the bowls and plates of soup and beef and bread are distributed, and love feast is begun. None but Dunkers are permitted to take part in this devotion for they are very strict, close communicates. The sacrament proper (the drinking of wine and breaking of bread) terminates the feast. At the close of the services the preacher kisses the nearest brother, the brother kisses the one nearest him, and so they "pass it round, " in profane parlance, until the last and furthest brother has received the salutation, when he completes the ceremony and the cir. cle by advancing and kissing the preach. CT. Then woman kisses another sis ter, and the operation is repeated on the other side of the house. In the evening a meal is spread in the basement for all who stay and for all who choose to come, and for those who wish to stay all night. Bunker or not, beds are prepared ano breakfast is served in the morning.
 The Dunkers baptize by immersion. dipping the convert three times forward instead of backward, as the Baptists do The Dunkers are very numerous, ano starting from Philadelphia, where they have large church, have journeyed westward into nearly every Western ani Southwestern State and Territory. The, are most numerous in central Pennsyl
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Connecticut western news., 1879-05-21
The Kind of a COachman to Get.

Isabella, my dear" said rich gen. tleman of Chicago to his eldest daughter and housekeeper, Isabella, my dear, I have engaged a new coachman."
 "Have you, pa? replied the mature but beautiful girl. sWhat is his name p
 "Herbert Montgomery" said her father.
 And all the evening the lady went scribbling Isabella Montgomery and "Mrs. Herbert Montgomery" and so on over her blotting-pad, and she went to sleep to dream that Cupid, with pair of bl1nkers over his eyes, smiled upon her-nay, burst into 8 horse-laugh- while marriage bells chimed in the dis tance and Herbert Montgomery under went transformation scene into lord with $400,000 year. And her willy father smiled, too, as he sought his couch, for Herbert Montgomery is fifty eight years old and has wife and seven | children.
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-21
The Bully of the Herd.

All herds of cattle have bully among them, says known cattle dealer. There is a boss COW, and she is hated and feared. Of ugly disposition, constantly hooking unoffending COWS, greedy in eating, she makes herself generally d1s- agreeable. Or it may be that the bully is steer. The characteristics of the brute are all the same. The rest of the herd are all afraid of her or him. S1ngly they can do nothing. Matters go from bad to worse, and COW life becomes al- most unendurable in the herd. Some thing has to bo done, and that soon. The bully in walking along gives some unoffending COW 8 sharp thrust in the ribs. Instead of running off as expected, the stricken COW wheels around, fury in her eyes, and believing a war cry, dashes head on for the bully. The boss is sur prised, but gets to work as an expert, and the rebellious COW is being rapidly whipped (these cattle fence with their horns); but the cry for liberty is under stood by the rest of the herd, and with unanimous movement they all turn on the tyrant, and if the herders do not in terfere they kill him. The bully, being whipped, turns to run, and to his horror finds that the whole herd is after him. As one animal gets near him he receives vicious dig from sharp horn. He increases his speed, but soon another animal comes up to him, and another stab is the result. The bully, with ex, tended tongue, and labored breathing, is leading the herd, and the herd, with extended tongues and upright tails, are following-steers, COWS, calves, all bel. lowing loudly, 'Kill him kill him P And kill him they will if the herders dc not stop the pursuit.
 After lesson of this kind, the bully is marvel of gentleness and considera, tion. A calf could whip him. Once ] left my herd for an hour. On my return, I was surprised to find the cattle punched around deep pool in the ravine. They were evidently greatly excited j; the con. stant believing, the flashing of theil tails, their craned necks as they looked over the banks of the pond, all indicated that something was wrong. Running my horse, and swinging heavy whip, was soon among the cattle. They gave way for me. I rode up to the pool There, standing in deep water, was the subdued bully, ring of excited steers and COWS standing around him, but un able to reach him. put a stop to the fun, and left the bully in the water tt cool off. I did not see him for week. Then he joined the herd as private.
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-21
A sa crttice Thirty Years Ago.

The accounts published of the fanati- cal murder of his daughter by the Mass
 achusetts Second Adventist recalls 8 somewhat similar case that occurred in New Haven some thirty years ago. It was soon after the frenzy that the pre- dictions of Elder Miller, the apostle of the visible immediate coming of Christ, caused. In the Northern part of the city, though then the outskirts, there were number of ignorant people who met together, every day, and almost all day long held their peculiar religious services, and among them were man and woman who were even more affect- ed by the excitement than the others were. This man at length announced that sacrifice was demanded that he was called upon by the Almighty to oficiate as priest, and that the woman must give up her life as the sacrifice. He further announced that at ths end of certain time those who best remem- Der the facts say three days-th wo- mans life would be restored, and that she would be glorified thereby, and be accepted as one of the saints of the kingdom. It is now stated that some of the people who listened to him believed that he was divinely commissioned te perform the sacrifcial act. At all events, the hour and day were set, and in lit. tie room in house in the outskirts tht woman and man, and, it is said, others assembled. The woman, after prayer
 and incantations, laid upon the floor, ant the man, seizing an axe, severed he
 head from her body and otherwise mu
 tilated the body. Then he sprinkle'
 her with her own blood, and began t
 pray. When the police arrived h
 begged earnestly to be allowed to COT
 tinue his devotions, and assured the of
 ficers that they would either fall dead o
 else meet with the most terrible yer
 geance if he was interfered with. Pol
 ular feeling was so intense that ther
 was some talk of lynching the man, bu his insanity was so evident that he ws merely confined. It put an end, hoy ever, to the religious excitement tn, had possessed number of people ft several months. Times.
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-21
A Severe Test.

When Capt. Boyton invented his life preserving dress he, in order to test it thoroughly, conceived the idea of going two hundred and forty miles out to sea, springing from the vessel, and making his way back to the American shore. But he could find no captain willing to let him essay the feat Then he went aboard the Queen, of the National Steam ship Line, without making known his object, his only baggage being his suit and his paddle.
 The story of Captain Boyton's argu- ments with the commander of this ves- sel, who absolutely refused to let him leave the ship in his rubber suit. con- tending that no man should commit sui eide under his eyes, might be extended to several columns. Not till he neared the English coast was the desired per mission granted, and the suit, whicl had been taken away from him as { Iunatic, restored. Then Boyton leapet into the sea. As he struck the water he lost signal light which he was t, have set off to show that he was al right. He called back, however, "Al right, captain; go ahead" The grea fans of the steamer turned, and sh' steamed away, leaving Boyton "to d' or die." He stood up in the water un til he could feel the wind upon his cheek then knew his course, and padded ava, for land and life. The storm did come and was memorable one. That night as the British records show, fifty -fv vessels were lost. Boyton's story of hi night-long experience in it, and his al most Providential landing on the Iris coast, would make eloquent chapters.
Connecticut western news., 1879-05-21
A Novel Proposition.

It has often been said that hanging is the worst use to which man can be put. A peculiar social economist in Boston has advanced o novel proposition for dealing with murderers, who can be made, he thinks, to serve humanity far better than by execution. He deplores ordinary capital punishment because it is waste and destruction of valuable forces and energies which should be con- served. Abiding to the fact that fin ger entirely severed from the hard, ac- cidentally or otherwise, may grow again if replaced in season, held in position, and skillfully treated, to the practice in surgery of skin grAfting, and to trans fusion of blood from tue strong to the weak, he argues that healthy eye could with the observation of proper condi- tions, be epgrafted on the muscles and nerves that had been cut from diseased or imperfect eye. Instead of sending a murderer to the gallows, he would turn him over to physicians and surgeons, if he were sound and vigorous, to be used for the corporeal benefit of suffering hu- manity. He would give the culprit's eyes, fingers, toes, skin, teeth, scalp, or whatever might be made available to those who needed them, removing them under the influence of an@sthetics. If the murderer should die, it would be no more than his doom, and he would be by %o stead of, as now, demoralizing example. How men of regular life would like to be furnished with criminals fragments and features is point he does not touch upon. He has not, probably, even read About's story of the Notary's Nose, " and of the continual mishaps which befell him through that refractory fea- ture obtained from the arm of an eccen- trio >water-carrier.