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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-04-10
DEMOCRATS ~ carers.
- session OF the House ON Monday TO Allow
the Introduction OF BIlls.

WASHINGTON. April 9--Immediately after
the House adjourned this afternoon. n caucus
Of Democratic Representatives was held.
Daring the dny the subject OF proceeding with
general Legislative business had boon IN NORMALLY
talked M among the members. Many Of tho
new mon in particular were cNtr-- -yHnNious
TO introduce bins n. ling tho interests of their
constituents, Immediately. In the caucus Mr..
Kenna offered the following resolution. which
WAS adopted 10y viva voco vote:
H-tef Thattis the Judgment of this caucus that the
House shall not adjourn over Monday next huf shall
have session on that DAY 90 allow the Wtrour
o bil- in the usual manner ana the placing az mlol-
taut legislation IA the line u Progress without uuneccs-
rary delay.
Mr. stephens Of Georgia offered resolution.
With the request that 1t be rend and tabled for
the action OF future caucus II sets forth that
the aim OF the Democracy Is the restoration OF
constitutional liberty harmony. and pros perity
that they accept all the legitimate results of
the war; that they are utterly opposed 10
any revival Of slavery: that they are
war amendments: against revolutionary meth
DDS for law and order. for a free ballot box
and u fair count: for a sufficiently large army.
but ncainsi havonets AZ the polls for the public
credit bat against unnecessary taxation and an
unjust tarl ior gold and silver ON the same
footing. and Tor an increase OF the currency on
q sound basis.
There is an impression that Mr. Stephens :
main object in Ming a bill OF particulars AT tAis
tim" Is 10 attract the attention oi the country a.
the somewhat curious opinions held by himself
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-04-10
the FIGHrING ~ zULULAND


LoNpoN, April Additional adviccs from
Cauo Town about tho disaster to tho British
convoy ON the lntombo River. on March -. re-
port that besides the troops 1t is thought that
forty wagon drivers and followers were killed.
Twenty-Five Xulu corpses were found on tho
nrI oi battle. Il is believed that many more
wero drowned The /ulus had ample time 10
get news Of the convoy as II was delayed At tho
ford three days by heavy rains. The ford was
only toUr miles from LunehurS. 1t Is thought
that there was great 'arelessnoss in selecting
the position of the camp and in ncglrcting to
send larger force from Luneburg 10 meet the
convoy.
Col. Pearson signals from Ekowc that he can
hod out ten days longer till the An OF April.
mat MS PROVISIONS only are short. 0ud that he
has plenty of ammunition Tho despatch CIV
ing these pHru ,uars says nothing pi sickness
IN MS comuiHnd. which Is only mentioned by
tho NGY NorS correspondents Scouts who
arrived at the camp of tho relieving column Just
nciore the departurc ot tine last adVicos report
that The Xulus are roncpntrnted In large masses
eleven miles north Of the ruEola River. They
are liiden in dense jungle. so tnclr numbers
cannot be asccraincd.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-04-10
ROBBERT IN IRTING PLACE.
A Iady's Pockrthook Snniched from h,
Hand Ia Broad Daylight.


Mrs Eliza A. H. Sayrc, an elderly lady,
the wife OF Or. sayrc of 2sj Fifth avenue. was
walking alone in Irving place At o'clock yes
torday afternoon. She carried n small bouquet
Of flowers in ono hand. while the other held a
bright red Russia leather porketbook. As sha
stepped from the crossing NJ Fifteenth street 10
the sidewalk. she Wu- s'i2ol from behind. her
arms were held, and her pockcthopk was
wranrhcd from her grn-p. Before she could
fairly realize what had taken place. a young
man was running away nt full speed with her
pockrthook in his hand. Snc was so
frightened that she could make no outcry. but
she followed the thief n fn / as she could. A
negro who had Witnessed ne robbery from tho
other side ot the street lo.nrd In the chase, and
was pressing close upon tho thief. At Nine
tocnth street officer Stewart stood slowly
swinging his club back and forth. IIe saw
the young man flying toward him. but
took him 10 be an enthusiastic pedestrian who
had chosen quict street 10 try II PAGES. and
quietly admired the rate NJ which he was getting
over the ground. The young man saw the
danger before him. turned abruptly into Eigh-
tcouth street. and dartcl into Fourth avenue.
When the negro came In sight tho officer
too, in tho situation md started after the thicf
finally cornorlug him IN q closet opening from
u hallway Just above Srhult2's mineral water
fountain in broadway. Tho pockotbook con-
tniucd iI6u. and WIS recovered. The thief gave
the name OF Joseph Birch
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-04-10

JorrINGs ~ ,IND NEAR 1Hr cIrr

Cloudy rainy weather. southeast tlsou;hwost
v.rt, to.uDuuy or h.u'r tcwleratu' ialins b1tomc.
Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20
Why Prisoners are Changed.

The main reason for sending batch of thirty prisoners from Sing Sing to Auburn, is that Sing Sing is crowded, and Auburn has large number of empty cells but there are other reasons that govern the keepers at Sing Sing in making their selection of those who are to be transferred. Demeza, one of the lot, was sent away because the keepers were disgusted with him. They all be- ieved in his conversion, and when he was sent back to the prison second time they had revulsion of feeling. Sometimes man is selected for transfer because the keepers are morally certain he has committed an offence, but have not actual proof of it. Such 8 man is necessarily under suspicion, and, as they say, has no fair show with them. In the new prison he will have fair chance, because mans character with keepers is made in 0 prison, and does not accom- pany him to it. Sometimes man be- comes an object of hate to his fellow convicts, who may think he has been telling tales to the keepers, and some- times transfers are made to break up groups that it is feared are plotting es- cape. Such groups are known to be formed occasionally, and are usually productive of mischief of some sort. If 8 leader is sent away the group is apt to fall to pieces. Transfer is, also, often held over the heads of prisoners as a threat in case of bad behavior.
Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20
A Savings Bank Trustee.

Thos. Mast in published letter says that at ore time he was a member of a savings bank board of trustees. He says:-"I I made the rest of the board feel pretty uncomfortable while I was among them, but that was about all that was able to accomplish.
 'At the time of the Chicago fire, for instance, the board discussed sending on $1O,OOO to the sufferers as 8 donation from the bank, during 8 meeting in which they made most benevolent speeches, and described scenes of dis tress which would have melted the most stony heart. I got up and suggested an amendment to the resolution, think ing that it was most deserving charity, bTtt~not 3i5 ii5<i--ss-4e-slsa other peoples money for it, proposed that Ahe trustees should put their hands into their own pockets and make up the amount from their own personal funds, and that l would contribute any sum that any of the others did, which was very rash thing for me to do, as could not afford much then.
 "But what change came over the spirit of the assembly, There was si- lence, and the visions of suffering, which had appeared so pathetically a few mo- ments before, gradually faded and faded away, and soon became so invisible that have never heard them so much as faintly alluded to by any of the trustees since.
 "Then the constant gr inding of indi vidual axes disgusted me. In theory, the trustee of savings bank is sup. posed to accept the position as an honor, and, with the idea of helping his poor fellow creatures, to take care of theil money. He is understood to have sufi' cient leisure and money to indulge ir benevolence, and the honor of the posi- tion is considered compensation. But in practice, how frequently the post is abused and made the means of personal profit, you seem to be constantly find. ing out."
Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20
He Sold her Brightness.

There has always been 8 nameless charm in bright eye. Poets have sung it and lovers have served it since it first opened to the light, when the world was young. The latest romance in which it figures comes from over the sea. A gay Persian, soiourning for season in Brussels, saw one day maiden whose sparkling orb transfxed him to the very soul. Never before had he beheld such an eye. It dazzled him, it dazed him, and fairly undid him. Its glowing splendor would have melted heart of cast-iron. It penetrated to his inmost being, and kindled within him the fires OL uTIoo .sos.A~, '.--A-- ------- ' to burning ardor and pulsing passion. Like the steam engine that eye had made him, he wooed the maiden with resist less power. In one short day he saw, courted and married her. Then he took her home to Paris. But the resplendent eye soon lost it's influence. The newly made Benedict squandered all of hlt wife's property, and at last, reduced tc ! extremities, he took that eye and pawneo it for lucre. His wife is now suing the pawnbroker who advanced the money or the eye. Itwas not glass, but diamond eye.-CourSer-Jo,wraal.
Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20
Rotten Wood as a Pest Breeder.

Commenting on the filthy condition of the rotten wood pavements of Memphis, and their alleged influence in causing the outbreak of yellow fever there, the Baltimore Sun says that they have been continually denounced as foci of pesti- lence ever since 1873. The joints be- tween the blocks and the ruts are so enlarged that they are soon filled in with filth, which in warm, damp weather offers a wide surface for putrefactive action and for the generation of noxious effluvia. The blocks themselves become water soaked and rotten below the sur face, so that when any one is taken out it is found to be no more than a black, pulpy mass of decay, upon which the sun is acting all the time, eliminating malarious gases from it.
 The cause of the yellow fever which devastated Norfolk in 1856 was very largely attributed to the decay of wood shavings, which had been used to fill in wharf. The Memphis pavements must supply much larger proportion of poi sonous malaria to the air than was given out by these decaying shavings at Nor folk. It is peculiar property of half decayed wood in masses to retain mois- ture, to continue long in state of slow fermentation, and to give off malarious effluvia. In country neighborhoods many case of typhoid fever has been caused by neglected wood pile near the house, where, upon gradually &C., cumulated mass of chips and sawdust that is fair enough on the outside, but routed down to mould at the bottom, all the kitchen slops have been poured. It is a we'll known fact in sanitary works that hospital gangrene often results from washing the wood in floors of wards with water, and on shipboard new or moist timber is injurious to the health of the sailors. The damp tim bers of the United States steamer Ply mouth retained and were able to revive and propagate the yellow fever germs recently, in spite of the most careful fumigation, disinfection, and refrigera- tion during whole winter. The decayed wood of the berth deck of this steamer could not be disinfected, so resolutely did it retain within itself the fever germs.
 Memphis is paved with mile after mile of this sort of decayed wood, and every block, exposed to 8 sweltering sun, may nurse g fatal fever germ. These pavements were laid down from ten to twelve years ago, and are reported by MT. Niles Merriwether, civil engin- eer, as being "almest entirely gone from decay and hard usage, so that their rotten and honeycombed condition makes thena 60 many cesspools and reoeptacles for the retention or all manner or street filth and noxious gases, and they should therefore be removed as rapidly as pos sible.
Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20
A Remarkable Escape.

The Concord correspondent of the Boston Journal says: One day recently,
 as Frank Carr, of West Hopkinton, was engaged in saving lumber in his mill at that place, he had occasion to lift trap in the floor, just over the Hume which the wafer flowed into, and through 8 spout six feet long on to an iron wheel, revolving horizontally, and which fur nished power to move the machinery.
 The water was about six feet deep in the Hume, and the wheel was encased in @ close, circular wooden box, within which it revolved with great velocity. MT. Carr's attention being called away, he neglected to close the trap. His two little girls, the one six and the other three yer rs old, were playing in another part of the mill, but soon tripped along to the near ne1ghborhood of the open trap, which they did not see, and the youngest accidentally fell into the Hume and was carried through the spout into the revolving wheel. At the instant the little girl disappeared her sister ex
 claimed, "Papa, sissy is killed ]" MT
 Carr looked and took in the situation a
 the first glance. He sprang and closed the gate which shut the upper watel from the Hume, then rushed below and
 as soon as he could, removed the cover ing to the wheel-box. It took but fev moments to do that, but in the mean time the wheel had revolved one or tw' hundred times, and all the water ha' passed out of the Hume. Strange as may seem, he found the missing gi1 closely packed in the wheel-box, an' uninjured, without scratch or bruise It could not have been less than te
 minutes that the little girl was in tn Hume, spout and wheel, and her escap from death seemed almost miraculous
Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20
The Detroit Duster.

A day or two ago motherly-looking woman of forty five entered Woodward avenue clothing store having mans linen duster on her arm, and when ap- preached by sale sman she said: !. "Some one in here sold this duster to my son yesterday"
 "Yes, ma'am, I sold it myself" re- piled the clerk, as he looked at the gar ment.
 "Did you tell my son that this duster could be worn either to 8 picnic, funeral, bridal party or quarterly meetinga"
 ''I did, madam, and so it can."
 "Did you tell him it made good ay-blanket when not otherwise needed ?''
 "I did,"
 "That it could be used as boat sail, a stretcher, straw-bed, and bed spread?"
 "Yes, ma'am, I did,"
 "And that many people used them as table-covers ?"
 "I did,"
 "And that they would last for years and then make excellent stuff for a rag carpet?"
 "I did,"
 "And you only charged dollar ?"
 "Only dollar, ma'am."
 "Well, when John came home last night and brought the duster, and told me all you said, I made up my mind that he must have been drunk, and was leetle afraid he stole the garment. I am glad it's all right"
 "It certainly is all right, ma'am, and since he was here yesterday we have dis covered that the duster is 8 great con- ductor of sound, preventive of sum- stroke, and that no man with one on his back ever dropped dead of heart disease. Y"
 Gland save us P she gasped, as she waited for the bundle; " but who knows that they won't fix 'em so fore long that they'll raise mortgage off the farm9"- Detroit Free Press.
Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20
A Novel Institution for Spinsters.

There exists in Denmark singular institution, established mainly for the daughters of the nobility. When man of wealth is blessed by the birth of a daughter he causes her to be enrolled at this institution. paying very small sum, with fixed annual payment of a moder- ale amount. When the girl reaches the age of twenty-ene years she not only finds herself in possession of very com fortable little income, but she has right to occupy and enjoy fine apartment, we'll furnished, in an elegant house, with parks and gardens, and her companions will be ladies, young or old, who are members of the association. It is not obligatory on member to live longer at the chateau O, more frequently than suits her convenience. If the father dies and the young girl is unprotected she has an asylum at once, even if the subsequent annual subscriptions are not iquidated, and when she attains her majority her annual income begins. If she should die or marry, her interest in the association passes to the general fund. If she should be married when she is tive nty, all that is paid in by her afther accrues to the association, and it is this source of income that enables the institution to demand only small an nual subscription, which renders it easy for father to meet the demand, with the assurance that if his daughter can- not be married without marriage DOT tion she will at least be in the enjoyment of comfortable home for life. This in. stitution has been prosperous at Copen. hagen for sixty years.
Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20
THE SONG OF EGLA,

Day in melting purple dying, Blossoms all around me signing, Fragrance from the lily straying, Zephyr.with my ringlets playing,
 Ye but waken my distle ess;
 am sick of loneliness. Thou to whom love to harken, Come ere night around me darken; Though thy softness but deceive me, Say thou'rt true, and I'll believe thee,
 Veil. if ill, thy souls intent
 Let me think it innocent. Save thy toiling, spare thy treasure All l ask is friendships pleasure. Let the shining ore lie darkling, Bring no gem in lustre sparkling;
 Gifts and gold are nought to me;
 would only look on thee. Tell to thee the high-wrought feeling, Ecstasy but in revealing; Paint to thee the deep sensation, Rapture in participation,
 Yet but torture, if comprest
 In lone, unfriended breast Absent still7 An, come and bless me! Let these eyes az ain caress thee. Once, in caution, could fly thee. Now nothing could deny thee.
 In a look if death there be,
 Come and W ill gaze on thee!
Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20

coincidence, spelled out a paragraph concerning "the peerless Mrs. Alleyn," as far as the old woman was aware, to her unknown. "I likes to read them personals" remarked Aunt Rachel, con- placently. "I likes ter know what de white folks is a-doin'. I nebber has oociated wid cullud people nohow."
 Presently Aaron reads to her out of his volume. She listens, with keen, bright eyes. When he pauses she con- ments: "So consunin';" after second pause she remarkas "so distractin';" and finally, as he closes the book, she says, with a sigh, "Dat are certainly mighty chastenin'. But however she may express her - iation, I doubt not that the Psa meaning pene trates her soul. -: t,s Bazor.
Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20
AT SEA.

Worn voyagers, who watch for land Across the endless wastes of sea, Who gaze before and on each hand, Why look ye not to what ye flee ? The stars, by which the sailors steer, Not always rise before the brow; Though forward naught but .louds appear, Behind they may be breaking now. What though we may not turn again To shores of childhood that we leave, Are those old signs we followed vain?' ' Can guides so oft found true deceive? Oh sail we to the south or north. Oh! sail we to the east or west. The port from which we first put forth Is our hearts home, is our life's best!
 F. w. BoURDILLoN
Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20
A Subject for Amusement.

A little fellow in Norwich, Corn. !, rushed into the street recently to look at a monkey that accompanied an or gan-grinder who was playing in front of an adjoining block. Never having pe- rused the " "Origin of Man," he gazed in wonder and admiration few moments, and then rushing into the house he met his grandmother, to whom he addressed this inquiry: "Grandmother, who made monkeys? "God, my boy," replied the old lady in her usual candid way "WeL," said the grandson, "Ill be God laughed when he got the first mon key done!'
Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20

A VARIAT1oN.-It was variation from the general run of speeches at temper ance meetings when 8 man got up in Pittsburg, the other day, and remarked, "Ladies and gentlemen, to bring my nose to this state of blooming perfection l t has cost me at least $10,00O,"
Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20

STILL THERE.-A New York merchant sent number of bills, for collection, to an attorney in Michigan. One of them was against man named Mawcombe, who was dead; and the attorney sent back the bill with the indorsement, Mawcombe's dead," on the back of it. Several months later he received an- other lot of bills from the same estab- lishment, and among them was one against Mawcombe, which the attorney sent back with the indoraement, |" Nav eombe's still dead"
Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20
The Only Child.

If there are come things to the advan-
 tage of the only child, there are others equally to her disadvantage. If she can monopolize all the love of her relatives,
 all their solicitude, and finally fall heir to all their hoard, yet she loses the com panionship of sisters and brothers, the pleasure of sharing with them the inter-
 change of condolences, the long talks over the first ball or the first proposal,
 consultations about Christmas presents,
 little quarrels, and great reconciliations.
 If she has no elder sister to tyrannize over her, she has no younger one to send on her errands, to admire and wor-
 ship her. Who, in fact, is there like 8 sister unless it be brother-to supple ment ones good sense with her own, to give wholesome advice about the arrange ment of ones hair, the looping of one's over-skirt, the color of ones ribbons, and of whose sincerity one may be ab- solutely certain when she praises beauty or behavior, however she may err in judgment. Mothers and aunts do not sympathize so intimately in the pleasant follies and dreams of the younger gen. eration, perhaps but sister is always at hand to discuss ones lovers and pros poets, to interest herself and further one's undertakings, to bear witness to triumphs, and to console in defeats, all of which may appear frivolous to older minds, burdened with realistic views of life, and who have, perhaps, discovered that the colors of youth are not fast. Divided pleasures are twice enjoyed, as griefs shared are half assuaged. The only child, to be sure, even in families of merely average means, possesses the roses and lilies of life such as grow within the reach of her parents she wears finer clothes than the children who have brothers and sisters beside | tl.o..- ~iA0 ~-5-5a- oxrt~-t--~;i;ne.-r=ls;o Il, must be denied to them, and indulgen- ces they never dream of but she would often exchange them all for sister with whom she could talk over "things '' after the lights are out, from whom she could accept even rebuke with confidence in the intention-a second self in whom she could be interested, whose affairs would take her out of herself, whose graces would be an example. But tho world is not all land flowing with mill and honey, even to the only child. Wher parents fail i'll, the burden and respon
 sibility of the sick-room come upon her
 as she took her pleasure undivided, st
 she must bear her sorrows and discom
 forts alone and when poverty arrives
 the only child must fight the wolf iron the door single-handed, without aid O
 cooperation from any as deeply inter ested as herself in the conhict.-Bazar
 STILL THRRE.-A New York merchan l sent number of bills, for collection, t an attorney in Michigan. One of ther was against man named Mawcombe who was dead; and the attorney sen
Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20
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Connecticut western news., 1879-08-20

People call you deer when they would fswn upon you,