Connecticut western news., 1879-10-15
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


 mould" 8 saying which took it's rise from one of the exploits of Mahmoud of Ghazni, the Afghan conqueror of India. On his march southward, Hindoo came to him to complain of having been driven from his own house the night before by an Afghan chief, whose face he had been unable to see. The in- truder, barring the door against him, devoured the supper prepared for his involuntary host, whose wife he con- pelled to wait upon him like servant, with unveiled face, the deadliest of all insults to Mohammedan. Mahmoud promised him redress, and bade him bring word the moment the unwelcome guest returned. Two nights later the Hindco reappeared with the expected tidings. The Sultan at once surrounded the house with his guards, whom he or dered to seize the intruder, and then, turning away his head, gave the signal of death. When it had been obeyed, he stepped forward to look at the corpse, and instantly exclaimed, ''Praise be to God, it is not he" The amazed Afghans inquired his meaning. CT thought, ' replied Mahmoud, "that the author oi so daring deed could be no other than my own son, and therefore l turned away my head, lest the sight of his face should make my heart fail me before justice was done.
 A little while before his assassina- tion Abraham Lincoln wrote to his friend John Beeson: ''I assure you that as soon as the business of this war is settled the Indians shall have my first attention, and will not rest until they shall have justice with which both you and they will be satisfed.'
 The States which have adopted bien- nial sessions of Legislature, in place of annual sessions, are Arkansas, Califor- nia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hi nois, Indiana, Kansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Me- braska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennes- see, Vermont, Virginia, and West Vir- ginia. Connecticut, by large majority, has just decided against amending it's Constitution to allow of biennial in- stead of annual sessions.
 Says the Rev. Dr. Chapin: "I love to hear the rumbling of the steam power press better than the rattle and roar of artillery. It is silently attacking and vanquishing the Malakoffs of vice and Redans of evil; and it's parallels and approaches cannot be resisted. I like the click of type in the composing stick better than the click of the musket in the hands of the soldier. It bears a leaden messenger of deadlier power, of sublimer force, and of surer aim, which will hit it's mark, though it is dis tant thousand years."
 A Paris journal relates that young man, aged 26, who had been married only three months, made an appointment to dine with his wife recently at 8 res, taurant in the Palais Royal. The young wife was punctual, but the husband came not. Alarmed, she went home and found the door of the apartment locked She received no answer on ringing. She had the door forced open, and discov' cred her husband dead in bed. Beside him was beautiful girl, also dead Both had taken poison. The young wife, thus suddenly made widow, was carried from the scene raving maniac While menagerie was at Defiance Ohio, the other day, one of the lions escaped from his cage and ran into z barn in the vicinity, where he grabbed COW by tho nose, and in two minutes had sucked her blood and the anima. was killed. The lion then laid down i1 another part of the barn. His master followed, and after talking to the king of beasts for some time, laid down by him and played with him, and after two hours work succeeded in getting the dangerous creature back into his cage, which was brought to the barn.
 Of the amnestied Communists brought back to France last month about 600 elected to be carried to Paris. There they were given a comfortable dinner and, after a speech from Louis Blanc, dispersed. A few had homes ready to receive them, but the bulk people of the working class-were de. pendent on the aid of the charitable. At first they were shy about mixing with their whilom acquaintance. and kept close together, but the ice was soon broken. Nevertheless, it was ob. served that, while quite ready to talk about New Caledonia they preserve g decided reticence in discussing the pres. ent situation. In some populous dis. tricts warm sympathy with their needs has shown itself, so marked, indeed, that those keeping houses of entertain. ment have found it to their interest tc proffer hospitality to the returned ex. lies.
 -Senor Altanirano, of Mexico, the best Aztec scholar living, claims the proof is conclusive that the Aztecs did not come to Mexico from Asia, as has long been universally believed, but that they were race originated in the un- submerged parts of America, as old as the Asiatics themselves, and that that country may have even been peopled from this. From the ruins recently found, the most northern of any yet dis covered, the indications of improved architecture, the work of different ages, can be traced in @ continual chain to Mexico, where they eliminate in massive and imposing structures, thus giving