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Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17
A Fisherman's Life.

The fisherman hes harmless, preoc- oupied look. He Is kind of vagrant that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the shadows, all his approaches are gentle and indirect. He times himself to the meandering, solilo- ouizing stream. At the foot of the waterfall he sits, sequestered and hidden in it's volume of sound.
 Then what acquaintance he makes with the stream He addresses himself to it as lover to his mistress ho woos it and stays with it till he knows it's most hidden secrets it runs through his thoughts not less than through it's banks; he feels the fret and thrust of every bar and boulder ; where it deepens his purpose deepens; where 1t is shal- low he is indifferent he knows how to interpret it's every glance and dimple.
 I am sure run no risk of overprais, ing the charm and attractiveness Of well-fed trout stream every drop in it is as bright and pure ss if the nymphs had brought it all the way from its source in crystal goblets. When the heated and soiled and jaded refugee from the city first sees one he feels as if he would like to turn it into his bosom and let it flow through him flow hours. It suggests such healing freshness and newness, could ne ever have an impure or unwholesome wish afterwar1? |? The next best thing he can do is to tramp along it's bank and surrender himself to it's irh1ence.-John Burroughs.
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17
The Jury System.

A communication signed by six law yers of Mobile desired to know if the Detroit Free Press Lime Kiln Club had ever discussed the jury system, and if so, what decision had been arrived at. Brother Gardner explained that the question had never been called up, so far as he could remember, and he sat down to give members chance to ex- press their sentiments.
 The Rev. Penstock was of the opinion that 8 man who stole dog could never be convicted by jury, and he believed that the day had como when either juries or dogs must go ont of existence.
 Trustee Pullback rather fovored the jury system. But for 8 jury of six good men he would once have gone to jail on the charge of "crooking" six hens, be- cause "a few heads, legs and feathers were found in his back yard.
 The Hon. Reason Castaway had sev- eral times been out on jury, and it was his opinion that if they were better pro- vided with water-melons, grapes, pears, small-beer and ginger bread they would arrive ct more just and reasonable verdicts.
 Waydown Bebee rather favored the jury system. He was once in court on the charge of lugging off wheelbarrow belonging to another man, and the judge looked so kind and fatherly that MT. Bebee did not call for jury. The re- suit was that he WAS not only convicted of taking the wheelbarrow, but of load ing it with potatoes before he started.
 Several other individuals expressed opinions favorable or unfavorable, and the President wound up the discussion by saying:
 "It seems to be de gineral sentiment of dis club dat the jury system am all right, whar it finds verdict in favor of de defendant.
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17
MARKET NOTES. NEW YnRK MARKET.

The wholesale New York market quotations Beans. Prime, s1 soa1 s21s fair to good $1.32Ad 45 per bushel. pails, and 8d17c. common to good. Western sold at.1815a20c., and the common Western at sa9c.
 Cheese.-Factory fancy, 7c.; do. fair, Eggs.-Quotations ranged from l4c. for or dinary to 1Fc. for New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
 F7our.-Superfine, s375a4.1O; Western $4.2Oa7 60; extra New York, $4.20aL25. Hdy.-shipping 70os0c.; clover, S5oa0c., salt, S5a4oc. straw, 5Oa6oc.
 Hops.--New York, 2SGS6c.; Eastern, 23aS61 1.i yearlings, 7a18; olds, 4dl0c.
 Petroleum. Refined. 6ssc.; crude, 21Sc. in bulk; in barrels 45sa5Xc. Naptha, Dc. in ship ping order, and 819d1O1sc. in cases.
 Pork.-New mess, $S. .Soo9So; Family mess --; extra prime, g. dressed .a hogs 42@a5ss. kee No. 9, $1.01. Amber, $1.12. White. Rye.-state, 67a671Sc.
 Wool.-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia xxx 40a42c., xxx 3Sd40c., SSdt0c. No. l, 4Oa 42c. No. 2, t35a37c., common, S3a3sc. New York and Western xx 33dS6c., X and No. l, 32d35c.
 PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
 Flour.-State family, $4.75; rye flour, $S.S715 Wheat, State, Sl.1015. Amber $l.1l. Corn. yellow. 4sai91Sc.; mixed State, 49c. Petroleum. Refined, 63sc.; crude, 5ssc.
 Wool.-State and Western xxx 37d4Jc.. X S7d 40c., medium, 391i2c.. coarse S31 5aS6c.
 BOSTON MARKET.
 Flour-From $3.h0a$4.50 for low and me- diums, to $5'00a$6.00 for choice Minnesota. Corn, 50a51Lc for mixed and yellow; 52c for extra yellow.
 Butter-Common 15c. Vermont dalry 1Sc choice creamery 1Sa25c.
 CheeSe-6a6Ac.
 Bedns-$$i. 35a$1.S7H.
 Hdy-Choice, $l6.00a17.00.
 CATTLE MARKETS.
 BURRALo.-Csttle rood quality. s450a4.70 Hoss, fair to good $360 best $3.90,
 HAST LIBERTY, PENi,. cattle $6,25, medium to good $f. 60a4.S0; common to fair 3.25d3.75 Hogs, Yorllers, S8.70G3 S5; Phila, delphias, S3.70dS.S5. Sheep, $3.09a3.25 WATERTowS, MAss,--Cattle, choice. 7.25 extra $6.5oa7.C0, first quality, $5.95o5.5n second qual. $4.5o 4.T5, Ehlrd quality 4.0)74 25 Sheep s~d lambs = wool sheep, s2 la S.0l, -'~' &4.0'nK,2S, snring lsnbs 4 co ' 4.25, veal Ives $S,00s4,7',
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17

Republican, which secures the election of Davis, if the vote fails to give him a majority.
 The supposition is expressed in London, through the columns of the Times. that the disaffection by which Major Cavagnari and his party lost their lives was not part of general uprising against British authority, but mere local enaea1te.
 The total receipts of the Patent Office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, were $7O3, 146.79 The total ex- penditures were $543, 651. AT, showing a net profit of $159, 495. 32. This amount is the largest in the history of the office, with the exception of the year 1869, when the excess of the receipts over the expenditures amounted to $200,000.
 Certain lands in Michigan and Iowa reserved by grant of Congress of 1856 for the construction of railroads, but not occupied according to the conditions oi the grant, have been restored to home stead and preemption settlement and entry.
 -Eighty-four young persons who have been sentenced to hard labor and deportation to Siberia for political offenses have left Moscow under an armed escort.
 A Vienna dispatch reports that five leaders of the Bosnian insurrection are now in ovi-Bazar. It is feared they will organize an opposition to the Austrians.
 Major Cavagna1i and the entir British embassy at Cabul, India, in- cluding eighty soldiers, were cut to pieces after brave resistance by the riotous Afghan troops. The reoccupa- tion of Candahar by the English has begun and rapid march on Cabul has been ordered.
 Samuel A. Huntingdon, of East Providence, R. l., member of the Grand Jury, dropped dead from his chair in the Grand Jury room while that body was in session.
 An attempt was made Saturday night to wreck the Washington express train by placing tie on the track at Trayn0r's Station, north of Wilmington. The tie was caught by tho locomotive and carried over mile.
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17

ed to remedy them. It had been found that, in order to keep all the exiles in prison, it would be necessary to erect a large additional number of prisons, costing not less than fifty millions of roubles. The Government could not spare such sum of money, and so the Czar recently pro mulgated an order al- lowing the exiles to pursue different occupations, upon the recommendation and under the surveillance of the local authorities. The political exiles, how ever, are denied this right of honestly making living.
 Wild beasts made awful havoc among the cattle of some of the Russian provinces. In the province of Novgorod, for example, the horses and COWS of the peasants daily fall victims. The authorities of that province have during the past ten years tried every possible way of roofing out the wolves and bears, but without any noticeable success. In the year 1878 the loss then ran as high as 1,500 head of cattle. At it's last session the Zemstvo decided to offer q reward of five roubles to every person who shall kill a wolf, old or young, and ten roubles for each bear killed during the summer, the money to be paid from the provincial fund. Strychnine pills are recommendedfo for the destruction of the wild beasts.
 Bad luck made George Waterfeld down-hearted, and he frequently threatened to take his own life. So disconsolate was he that, when some- body asked the loungers on the veranda of the tavern at Edge Hill, Pa., to go into the bar-room and drink, and all the rest responded with alacrity, he stayed outside alone. When the others came out again, they found Waterfeld lying dead on the floor, with wound in his breast. They thought he had carried out his suicidal purpose by stabbing himself, but they could not find knife. An examining physician found bullet in the supposed gash, and it was a mystery how the shot had been fired, until it was ascertained that man had been trying rife in that direction from point quarters of @ mile away.
 The Independent Order of Mutual Aid, @ Western secret organization, is said to have been ruined by officers who helped themselves to all the money in the treasury. At Q meeting of the Supreme Council in Cincinnati, it was officially stated that there was heavy debt, instead of the $25, 1000 that should be on hand. One theft of $10,OO0 was hinted at, and it was charged that large sums had been misappropriated for i pretended services. A banquet had cost $700, while the widows and children oi yellow fever victims were unable to get the promised assistance.
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17
The Influence of Climate.

The influence of climate upon constitu- ton subjected to 0 trying change in atmos- pheric conditions, in water, and in food, is often marked and disastrous. Disorders of the bowels and of the liver, frequently termi- mating fatally, are prone to attack the tourist by land or voyager by sea in unaccustomed latitudes-more particularly those near the equator. The best medicinal protection against irregularities of the bowels, stomach and liver, not only from the above but whatever cause arising, is Hostetters Stomach Bitters, Q mediciue in wide and increasing demand in sultry portions of this hemisphere and also iu the tropics. Travellers, emigrants, .dwellers and temporary sojourners in .malarious dis tricts use it very extensively as a safeguard.
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17

AN ORIGINAL CAsE.-One of the most original and extreme cases of swindling ever recorded was brought to light in 8 San Francisco court the other day, where it was shown that the plaintiff had had the date on his mothers tomb- stone changed, in order to make it ap- pear that she had died year earlier than was the fact, -ss under the law then in force the motter's half of piece of property wepS to the children. The hate gwen s.s to the time of her death was six days prior to the time change in the law was made,
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17

DIPHTHER1A is frigntful scourge of the rising generation. The children of kings and lords are carried away by it, US we'll as those of the poorest people. In several countries of Europe prizes are offered for tho discovery of the best remedy for the disease. Among the prizes is one offered by the Empress of Germany for the best treatise on the subject published within 8 year.
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17
JAMES DoBBrNs's way home, at Kansas

JAMES DoBB1Ns's way home, at Kansas River Bottom, took him past Michael Burres's house. Burnes emerged with cooked revolver in his hand, and said, "Jim, want that $80 you owe me-" Dobbins replied, "I can't pay you, but I'll lick you if you'll throw down that shooter" Burnes would not disarm himself, so Dobbins hurriedly procured & revolver from neighbor, and the duel was begun without delay. Seven bullets were quickly lodged in the two men, and then, although mortally wounded, they fought with fists and clubs until too weak to stir. Both died soon afterward,
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17

A MAN with $500 diamond on his shirt bosom leaned over a hen coop in a Cincinnati market, and a hungry hen picked off the jewel and swallowed it. The thief was soon lost among the hun dreds, and there was no way of identify ing her. So the man bargained to have them killed, one after another, until the right crop was found. Tc recover the diamond cost him $2S.
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17
TH1rvps so exosnerated Prof Debam.

THIEVES so exasperated Prof. Deham, at Castle Shannon, Pa, by stealing fruit from his garden at night, that be re- solved to shoot the next offender, While watching in grape arbor, gun in hand, he heard a rustling nmong some bushes and fired in that direction. Then he went to ascertain whether he had hit anybody, and while he was searching in the bushes his hired man shot him dead, mistaking him for the thief.
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17
WHAT Eranh Leslis,s Nl..trated Ne,cspaper

WHAT Frank Lests's IHustrdtea NetespGper
 good piano at fair price is of the wants of the times. An instrument that is durable, that is which make tirst-class piano, can be had from the Mendelssohn Piano Co, 2I East Fifteenth Street, New York from 2140 to $400 For over thirty seven years their factory has been producing pianos and adopting every new invention which has proved itself to be valuable. They can be compared by an expert with the instruments of the highest Lame I and fancy price and the result is surprisingly sats factory. The Piano is warranted for five years, and no purchaser has ever made n complaint. From personal knowledge and critical examination we can recommend any one to send for n catalogue to the above mentioned manufacturers"
 The Mendessohn Piano Company's Organs are eminently the peoples organs and are worthy of the cordially recommend them to the confidence and patronage of the public and if our readers cannot it's vicinity, we advise them to communicate with the Company, at it's headquarters, in New York, f1da da1f
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17

SILVER WARE.-As illustrating the change in the course of trade, member of a large iewelry firm in Boston says that their imports from foreign coun- tries are not ten percent of what they were eight years ago. They have ceaseed importing silver wsre altogether, and on the other hand are exporting large quantities to meet foreign orders. He further states the improvement in their line of trade has been most marked the past few months, and is better now than 1t has been for years.
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17

IT HAS COME OUT through a lawsuit between the managers that Pinafore |" at first failed to draw we'll in London, the receipts averaging for weeks only about $200 night, while the expenses were 1850. But the contract stipulated that it should be performed at least 100 times conseoutively, and before that period had expired the profit was $2, ,50o a week.
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17

A FAINT CONCEPTION of what it costs to s'soap" great city may be gained from a late statement in Parliament, that the people of London would save $1, ,25o, 900 annually in soap alone by having soft water to wash their clothes in
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17
To Farmers, Shippers and Country NIer-

THE NEW YORK MARKETS INDEX AND JOUR- NAL Is sent by mail every Friday night for One Dollar per year. It contains Index of Marketmen in the several markets and of responsible commission dealers; prevailing wholesale and retail prices each week for farm and dairy produce, and of cattle, dressed meats, etc., etc. Also news and information affecting the produce market, and much other instructive and interesting reading. Send for sample copy, which will be sent free, or send one dollar and receive tho paper every week for one year. N Y. MARKETS INDEX AND JOURNAL, No. 21S Fulton st., New York City. Post-office Box 2033.
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17
No Hospital Needed.

No palatial hospital needed for Hop Bitters patients, nor large-salaried tal- ented buffers to tell what Hop Bitters will do or cure, as they tell their own story by their certain and absolute cures at home. .-NeWs.
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17
Thrna nhincfinns

To the finest pulmonics are got rid of in PHILLIPS PALATABLE COD LIVER OIL in combination with PHOSPHO-NUrRG- TINE. It is neither unpleasant in taste, nor turns rancid, nor is unwelcome to the stomach. All druggists. Depot, 2 Platt street, N. '.
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17

THE Grand Central Hotel, New York, re- ceives well merited terms of praise from thou sauds of it's patrons who enjoy it's well-timed and judicious concession to the popular de- mand for reduced rates. An elegant room, with meals at tirst-cass hotel on Broadway at $250 per day, is the lowest rate yet attained.
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17

: New York police stations are called E club houses now,
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17

Winchester's Hyp0phosphites Will cure Consumption, Coughs, Bron. chitis, and General Debility. Tribune.
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17

to NeW 1olk ny me steamer F. Caland and report that their vessel was sunk otf the Great Bank in collision with a fish.
 It is found that the British forces are unprepared for general advance on Cabul, and that a forward movement cannot begin until next month. ,
 Gen. Grant seys that if the Isthmus Canal Go. is properly organized he will accept the Presidency of it.
 -The steamer Brest, of Glasgow. conveying l30 passengers, consisting of Italians, Swiss, German and French from Havre to Liverpool en route for New York, went ashore of the Lizard. All on board were saved excepting five Italians, German and a Frenchman. who are missing.
 At New Haven, Conn, the State in the Hayden case asked additional delay. and Judge Harrison interposed the technical reason that the case could moi be finished under twenty days, which would bring 1t into the October term. when Judgment could not be legally rendered. The defense opposed the delay, but the court named the first Tuesday in October for the trial.
 Captain Blake, of the schooner Jacob Birdsall. of New York, reports he has just found the wreck of his vessel in Chesapeake Bay, near Cherrystone. She was dismasted and lost in the hurricane of August IS, and it is SUD- posed the crew were all lost.
 The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention nominated Alexander Mitch ell for Governor after his repeated re- fusals to accept. MT. Mitchell cabled from London peremptorily declining the nomination. This was communicated to the convention but had no effect. MT. Johnson, nephew and confdant of MT. Mitchell, says that under DO cir cumstances will Mir. Mitchell accept. He sails from London on the Scythia September 13. The platform adopted by the convention is in favor of hard money.
 In Maine the House and Senate are
Connecticut western news., 1879-09-17


 the smallest fragment of it ever reached the tramp's ears. It was the innocent who were tormented and provoked by it. Not to the effect of the stringent laws passed in haste by many of our States, for others of the States were too sound in sense, or else too inert, to pass such laws and these are free from tramps as the rest. Meanwhile those laws remain on the statute book, the instrument pre- pared for the hand of malice or stupidity against honest people. The truth is that the revival in business, and espe- cially of the iron trade, though not so exuberant as the newspapers would have us think, has been sufficient to reabsorb this class into the ranks of the laborious, from which they were very unwillingly driven by the pressure of hard times. As all experience showed, even in the worst times of this plague, they were ready to work if any one would pay them living wages, and having at last got it, they are no longer tramps.
 The Siberian exiles, when released from prison and the mines, have had to choose between starvation or stealing the means of subsistence; being depriv- ed of all civil rights, they were not al- lowed to adopt any honest calling. Such has been the situation of Siberian exiles for centuries. Under the circumstances it was natural that during the warm sea- sons the Siberian forests should be filled with criminal vagrants, who resorted to begging, stealing, robbing, and murder, in order to keep soul and body together. Both the economical and moral interests of Siberia spffsred from these evils, and the Government has often been petition.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-06-04
Rag Carpets.

In nine cases out Of ten one who
lacks energy TO make a rag carpet,
will not have the means to buy a
store carpet, even at so cents per
yard, when it must be cash in
hand; and then if purchased it is
a poor thing, and will not, with the
best Of care, endure the wear Of
everyday use or one season. But
even that would pay by giving the
house a more habitual appearance /;
for q house with bare floors, though
it be ever so well furnished other
wise. looks naked and barn-like.
But a rag carpet pays better in an
ordinary farm house, because it
wears better and is better adapted
to the circumstances of the family,
and corresponds with the usual
plain furniture.
It pays by subduing the noise
caused by the tramp Of boots. the
moving Of chairs, the rafting OF
dishes, and in sofiening the tones
Of voices. Indeed a rag carpet has
a softening and refining influence
upon every member of the family.
Even those rough boys forbear to
scufle In the honse, because it will
iuiure The carpet that mother work
81 so hard 10 make, and they hate
70 see the pleasant room grow shah
by. Boys, as well as girls like &c
have their home look CHEEKY and
stylish" and thus the rag carpet
wears much longer than the matrou
imagined it would.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-06-04
Keeping Poultry in Orchards.

This Is 4 matter that should be
practiced when possible. We he
lieve that If farmers and fruit rails
ers knew the benefits arising from
such management, they would AZ
once adopt it. Last fall We visited
an orchard in which fowls were
kept. the owner Of which told rs
that before the fowls were confined
10 II. the trees made little or DO
growth, and only a corresponding
amount Of fruit was obtained. But
what q change was evident now.
The grass was kept down, the
weeds killed, and the trees pre-
sentei an appearance Of thrift,
which the most enthusiastic horti-
culturist could not but admire and
envy. The growth Of the trees
was most vigorous, and their foH-
age remarkably luxuriant. The
fruit was abundant, Of large size
and free from worm and other i'm
projections. This excellence was
accounted for by the proprietor,
who remarked that the hens ate all
the worms and curculio in their
reach. even the canker worm. He
found less trouble with their roost-
ing in the trees than he expected,
and that a picket fence six feet
high kept them within bounds
His orchard was divided into three
sections. and the fowls were chang
ed from one to another, as the condi-
ton Of the fowls or the orchard
section seemed to require.-Poultry
World.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-06-04

The Duke Of Wellington was one
day sitting at his library when the
door opened, and, without an
nouncement in stalked a figure OF
singularly III omen. "Who are
you 2 asked the Duke, in his short
dry manner, looking up without
the least change Of countenance
upon the intruder. Il am Apoll-
yon." What do you want p al
am sent to kin You" Kill me
very odd" 81 am Apollyon, and j
must put you TO death" "'Bliged TO
do it to day 7" 81 am not told the
day or the hour, but ! must do my
mission "Very announcement
very busy-great many letters to
write-call again and write me
word-Ill be ready for you" And
the Duke went on with his CORES
poDdence. The maniac, confound-
ed by the GOODNESS Of the stern old
man, backed out Of the room, and
in half an hour was safe 10 Bedlam.