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Connecticut western news., 1879-10-29
Arsenic.

"White rsenic," said Dr. Dan a on the witness stand in the Hayden murder trial at Now Have n, Cor the arsenic of commerce, is combination of the metal called arsenic, and oxygen, in the pro- portions of to 3, by weight; some- times white arsenic appears in the form of crystals, and sometimes in Jumps of a glassy nature; in the course of my study of minerals I have had occasion to examine minerals to see if there was arsenic in them; ill making tests of this kind, arsenic, if present, is found in crystals"
 "The arsenic made in Eagl and fol commercial use is obtained from mln' eral called mispiekel, whose proper name is arseno-pyrite. This mineral consists of iron, sulphur and arsenic II combination. It is found in Cornwall mingled with copper and tin ores. To get these metals out of the mass, 1t Is roasted. and the arsenic and sulphur are driven off in vapor before the remainder is smelted and the pure metal obtained. First the mass is ground te a powder and subjected to high tenn perature in furnace. The arsenic anc sulphur which are driven off unite witt the oxygen of the air and form white arsenic and sulphurous oxide. At TavI stock was allowed to open the furnace doors, and I could see the arsenic il vapor going toward small brick cham bers provided for it. In these chamber it condenses into crystalline solid, bu it is not yet free from impurities; it i' then of grayish color.
 s'This gray substance is called crude arsenic. and it is not merchantable. I is-put into other furnaces, similar tt those first used, and again vaporized This time it leaves the impurities be hind when it passes off, and is con densed in the chambers into pure white crystalline substance. There ar, several rows of chambers, and all tn rows converge at the base of chimne, 200 feet high. All the vapor not con densed is thrown off at the top of thi l chimney, so high as not to injure per sons who live in the vicinity,
 "These chambers remain sealed fo aweek, and then the arsenic is taken t
 a mill, fed into hopper, and groun
 between stones. The mill is somethin like @ hour-mill. The ground arseni
 is packed in kegs, branded and sent t
 market" ...t....-. ....... ..-.--...
Connecticut western news., 1879-10-29
Opposition to Early Railroads.
SOME OF THE TRIALS OF TRAIN OPERA
 TIVES.

SOME OF THE TRIALS OF TRAIN OPERA
 TIvEs.
 When the Central Railroad was in it's infancy the company experienced great trouble with certain landowners, whose property had been taken by appraisal, at or near Tribes Hill. It was with great difficulty that trains could pass, although vigilant watch was kept up. Men were stationed with hand car just east of the curve leading into Tribe's Hill from the east, and when they heard the evening train coming west they would put on the hand-car just as near ahead of the train as they dared, and run ahead of the train into the station; but between the hand-car and the train the track would be literally strewn with stones, rails, and all manner of obstruc- tions, which were thrown down from the heights above, so that the train would have to stop to clear the track (each tr ain carried men for the purpose), and then proceeded at snail's pace to the sta. tion. Then again the tracks would be piled with huge heaps of straw, and the engineer would stop and find nothing but straw. It was usually thought the straw business was only scare, but about the first time he attempted to run through without stopping he found a huge boulder in the centre. Thus matters went on from bad to worse an attempt was made to burn one of the company's bridges near this village. This was so highly criminal, and it was made so hot for some persons, that hostilities ceased. Upon one occasion George Cox, who, with his brothers, Tom and Maxwell, were we'll known up and down the val. ley as locomotive engineers, was watch ing the track near Tribes Hill with a shotgun, with instructions to shoot the first man he saw placing any obstruc. tions on the track. It was quite dark, and ata short distance from him he saw two men carry something large and heavy, and place it on the track. His first impulse was to shoot, and he hauled up, but he hated to take human life, and thought he would steal upon them an6 see who they were. He did 50, and found that they were two travellers who had come from the canal with theil chest to take the train, and being tireG had set it down to rest. -Anasterdan7 | (N. Y) Democrat.
Connecticut western news., 1879-10-29
A Farmers Bargains in Wives.

A farmer who lives near Hartford, Conn.,, boasts that he has had three good wives. His neighbors tell story of his penuriousness concerning each of them. It is averred that he ordered off his farm sister of No. because she ate too many eggs. No. 2 had been his servant girl and refused to work longer at low wages. On the way to the depot he said, Will you stay if I will marry you?" "Yes," she answered, and he is said to have chuckled over his cheap bargain, as she was hard worker. No. 3 was widow and dressmaker who owed considerable money. By the State law husband is responsible for his wife's debts contracted before marriage, so to avoid paying these the widower, as soon as he was engaged, kept the news quiet till Le had bought up all the claims against his intended at twenty cents on dollar.
Connecticut western news., 1879-10-29
"LITTLE CITIZEN"

Out of the focal and foremost fire, Out of the hospital walls as dire; Smitten of grape-shot and gangrene, (Eighteenth battle and he siXteenD Spectre such as you seldom see, Little Giffen, of Tennessee! "Take him and welcome ! the SUI geons said; Little the doctor can help the deadl So we took him; and brought him where The balm was sweet in the summer air; And We laid him down on wholesome bed Utter Lazarus, heel to head
 And we watched the war with abated breath Skeleton Boy against skeleton Death. Months of torture, how many such? Weary weeks of the stick and crutch; And still glint of the stcel-blue eye Told of spirit that wouldn't die, '' And didn't. Nay, more! in deaths despite Tho crippled skeleton learned to write.' Dear mother, at first, of course; and then Dear captain, inquiring about the men. Captains answer: of eighty-and-ive, Giffen and I are left alive. Word of gloom from the war, one day; Comrades pressed at the front, they say Little Giffen was up and away; tear-his first-as he bade goodbye, Dimned the glint of his steel-blue eye. I'll write, if spared! There was news of the
 fight;
 But none of Giffen. He did not write sometimes fancy that, were king Of the princely Knights of the Golden Ring, With the song of tho minstrel n'mine ear, And the tender legend that trembles here, I'd give the best on his beuded knee, The whitest soul of my chivalry, For Little Giffen, Of Tennessee"
Connecticut western news., 1879-10-29
A Sons Terrible Crime.

A terrible murder took place al Strongville, 16 miles from Cleveland, Ohio. The victims are German farm CT named Jacob Muller, 50 years of age, his wife, and an idiotic son. The mother fingered but short time and died. The idiotic son may recover, but it is doubtful. The perpetrator of the terrible crime was Louis Muller, son oi Jacob Muller, and 23 years of age. He has been employed on the Lake Shore Railroad as fireman. He expresses nc contrition. The only noticeable emotion is accustomed by the faltering of tn, voice as he relates the details of tn, crime. The prisoner and his father hay, not been oa good terms for several years ewing to \ trouble sbout property,
Connecticut western news., 1879-10-29
BUT ONE GEM.

As one entranced will sometimes gaze afar
 Into the deep blue night, On the sweet radiance of some special star
 That shines supremely bright, My thoughts concentrate-allt the rest, unreck d
 Their glowing courses run; Tho by a myriad gems the heavens arc decked,
 To me there is but one. So look up into a glorious face,
 Into a dark mild eye Radiant with queenly noblencss and grace,
 Clear as cloudless sky Not bright as brooks that OCT the shadows run
 But oh! so pure and deep, With fathomless serenity of soul,
 Like ocean in Q sleep. There may be faces fifty times mora fair,
 Oh dear loved friend of mine! But if there be neither know nor care
 I am blind to all but thine.
Connecticut western news., 1879-10-29
Burned at Sea.
A SPANISH STEAMER BURNED AT SEA -
 PART OF HER CREW LOST.


 Captain Voss, of the English steamer Louise H, which arrived at New Or leans from Algiers, Africa, reports that on the evening of Got. 18th, while pass ing through tho Bahama Channel, he heard hail coming mp apparently from the sea. He stopped the engines, low cred boat and picked up five men cling ing to frail raft survivors of the crew and passengers of the Spanish steamer Pajaro del Oceano, which had beon bulned at sea. The Louise H. bruised in the vicinity until far in the forenoon of the 18th and succeeded in picking up in all seventeen men. It seems the Pa iaro del Oceano left Havana on October 16th for Nuevitas with general cargo, including provisions and ammunition for the Spanish army. ca Sat urday morning, October 18th, when the vessel was in Bahama Straits, between Pare don and Lobas lights, an alarm of fire was sounded. Tie captain, passengers and crew rushed from their beds to find that the vessel had taken fire amidships and was then in sheet of flame. Gen. eral confusion ensued, some of the pas sengers and crew running aft and jump ing overheard in their night clothes with whatever small objects they could lay their hands on to serve as life-buoys, while others tried to lower boats. The vessel burned to the waters edge and sank in less than four hours. There were forty-two men in the crew and some seventeen or twenty passengers, including about six officers and soldiers of the Spanish army. The captain, two mates and one soldier were among those picked up by the Louise H. The cap- tain and five or six of the crew were bad ly burned and otherwise inj jured. These people when picked up had been float ing for eighteen hours on pieces of blanks, and were almost naked. Five of the crew took to small b oat and are supposed to have been picked up. One boat was lowered and some twenty per sons, passengers and crew, took to 1t, but are supposed to have been lost. Those saved were in fearful state from their long exposure to sun and water. Their flesh is torn sn chafed from con- tact with the rough boards to which they clung and against which the swell of the sea pounded them. There was one woman, the stewardess. One of the sur vivors had her at his side for some hours until he could no longer hold her up and she sank exhausted. Doubtless many were eaten by sharks. The second mate and companion, who were floating with a plank to support them, saw a shark approaching and managed by climbing on the plank to avoid it.
 The Pajaro del Oceano was owned by R. Herrera, of Havana. She was for. merly an American vessel known as the Niagara, and ran between New York and Havana. The captain and men speak in the highest terms of the officers and crew of the Louise H. for the manner in which they were treated. The Eng. lishmen furnished clothing for the naked and attended to those whc were hurt.
 Ten of the crew and two passengers of the Pajaro del Oceano have landed 1T a small boat at Caibarien. The steamer took fire in her cargo among boxes O. petroleum and in five minutes wa: abIaze. Her boats were dashed tt pieces by the screw.
Connecticut western news., 1879-10-29
An Unparalleled Coincidence.

The Summerville (Ga.) Gazette tells this singular story Miss Wilson, an elderly lady who lives near Lafayette, while out at her COW pen the other day, by some mishap fell over a rail and broke the cap of her thigh bone. Soon thereafter she sent for her sister, Mrs. Greer, of Chattooga county. This lat ter Ia dy went out next morning to per- form the same work and had the: .:misfor- tune to fall over the same rail, breaking bone just exactly as her sister had done. They both now lie in beds in the same room, without the hope of ever again being able to walk.
Connecticut western news., 1879-10-29

-Lady-"But tell me, Miss Jenkins,
 why you are not satisfied" Governess Well, the fact is, madam, I should be perfectly contented to stay if Master Tommy were not so plain; but I am afraid of his being taken for my little boy some day when we are out walking. apd that voud be 70 very unpleasant, ?
Connecticut western news., 1879-10-29

--"I am a broken man," eaid poet, "So I should think" was tho Answer,
 t'sov ! have seen your pieces, '
Connecticut western news., 1879-10-29

"A man that has the love of God in his heart, is like the sun that shines aud warns though < does not speak,
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1879-09-14

with assurances that the great body of voters
is with them in this fight. II seems to us
the height of useless impudenoe to claim, as
he is reported to have done, that "ncithcr
Tidcn nor Robinson have anything to do
I" with t." and he is fatty wrong in saying
that Mr.. Kelly has tried to dictate in state
or national conventions, which is Just
what he has rcfraincd from doing, and
that "ths arrogance must I've defeated
"at some time, and hcrc is no better time than Hc
"prcseni." There could not he a worse time
than the present for trying to kill of leaders
who control votes. If we did not know how
astuteness ovcrrcachcs itself, wee would add
that Mr.. Tildcn must see that he takes 10th
ing by losing tho state in trying to dominate
it. Ills Presidential aspirations are crushed
oven more totally than il he loosened his
grip slightly on the party organization. lie
can afford to yield something now-latcr, lac
will have nothing left; and we should think
Mr.. Robinson would himself draw out of The
dubious honor of running n hopeless race
with political Oblivion yawning FOR him al
the end of It,.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1879-09-14
Ex-Empress Eugcnie's wealth.

The eX- Empress of France is said 10 lac
ui the richest widows in England. In addition Ia
her Hungarian estate she has castle IN spain aIid n
ulCp place In switzerland. hut hard cash Is what
comes most useful dothroned s0yerclgns who hope
10 return, AND of this the Empress has long had album
dance, ~ isssmated in Paiis that she Is worth at
least Al, OOg go sterling Only recently she sold u
large DlOsk ,Of houso property In the iiue d Alba, IN
Paris and NJ Rouhe's house, awell-kuOwn political
centr at the of tho Rue a Elysec, hers IN
her right, and was sold last year for 10, 900
he death of tho Prince adds To hor property, since ho
lett 10 her considerable amount Of landed property
la Iay, Well as the Toulouse property, bequeathed
him by the grsy general who had been equeriy 10
the Prince when lOddled about the corridors of the
Tulerles, nearly three feet high and Weighted with
the miniature uniform of colonel In the Gent Garde
This vast property was no encnmbiance To the Ein-
press while yet she had 10 live and scheme for
II drained pretty freely by the BOnapartsi organs
tie press Ia France. The Ordre and the Pays We're
aysiY supported by the Empress, and she also drew
handsome checks IN favor OF the reduction Of the 6au-
lois. The need ior keeping these fires warm Is now
dead. Tho Empress Is not likely 10 keep newspaper,
alive 10 work Tor her good cOusi1 Jerome. SHE VIII
not, however, lind her riches an embarrassment ~
long the priests have ready access to her A
newspaper supplies large outlets for sucriluous cash
but thlnk on lhe whole tho Church can hold Its
In ryalry Of this character. and good churchwomaI
Ike tho Empress VIII not nd occasion tOdisress her
sef OF dlsp0sing of the interest and eyentu
ally the capital, OF a million sterling.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1879-09-14
DI ED.

HLANEY.--Mary Il. u. Elancy, widow of the
late Major George H. Iancy, United States Engineer
Corps, ut Carlisle Pa, in her seventyhfth year,
September {, 1879. Her only son, W. H.. Hlaney,
entered the Union Army oiicrr IN the late war,
and died In service. She left three daughters, the
wives of Gcn. W. l.. Elliott, u. s. A.: A. H. Sharpe
Esq, Carlisle, Pa, and Col. W. u. Lane, u. $. A.
ANDERSON. September 49, Hattie, daughter Of
W. -. and Mollc Anderson, In the seventh year of
her age. Funeral to-day nj q, clock l.. NJ, from the
residence of Mrs. Mary Atchson, 73l New Jersey
avenue northwest.
twenty-sryen years. Funeral from his parents resi-
GRIM ES.-On the l2tli of September, Mrs. Ruth
Crimes In tho forty ninth year OF her age. Funeinl
from her late residence. 1911 Fourth street. between
VI and n streets northwest. to-day at T. NJ. Friends
AMI relatives are respectfully invited.
lioLMES.-Scptcmbcr n, Henry n. Holmes, aged
thirty three years. Funeral from his late residence,
lib5 Fourteenth street, to-day at O'Clock.
O'GORAIAN.--On September IL, 1870, NJ 5:aO T..
NJ. Patrick O'Gorman, aged thirty nine years teli-
tves AMI friends Of the family respectfully invited
TO attend his funeral from his late residence 2Oa
Third street southeast, to-day at 2ao l.. NJ.
WERS EH.-On the 18Th of September. Charles IT.
Werner, IN the fortleh year ol his age. Funeral
from his late residence, ZOO Second street northwest
on Monday at O'Clock T.. NJ.
MECHLIN.-Suddenly, on Saturday morning, Sep
cmber H. 1870, Florence, eldest daughter of the late
A. II. Meohlin. Funeral from tho residence of hci
sister, Mrs u. A. Mack, $50 Twentieth street north
west, Monday September 10, at 3 r. NJ.
New York papers please copy
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1879-09-14

The proposed investigation into the ailairs
of the Soldiers Home by Congress at its
next session will attract considerable atten-
tion, and, it is stated, threatens scandal
with regard TO the management OF that con
cern. The decision of the Attorney General
in regard to pensions, so favorable to the
inmates of National Homes in the states
where there are votes to be gained, and
SO inimical to the veteran regulars in
the Home here, was apparently rendered
in the interest of his party and with the iull
concurrence of Mr.. Hayes, who, like one OF
his predecessors, believes in an Attorney
General who decides legal questions a. the
Executive wills. How inconsistent the deci-
sion is, is apparent from the fact that the
pensioners quartered at the Home here
are certainly as much entitled TO
their money as the inmates of any
of the National Homes, each one having
during his term Of service contributed his
mite towards the support of the institution;
and, as only the faithful and those Of long
service can enter it, il seems doubly harsh
that the small pittance due these otherwise
homeless ones for wounds and mains should
not he theirs 10 use in the purchase OF such
little extra comforts as they need in their
old age.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1879-09-14

TIE Republican convention at Saratoga
nominated Conkling's man Cornell, and the
Democratic convention at Syracuse nominated
Tildens man Robinson. But while the
high-toned, fastidious reformers OF the Curtis
and Evarts stripe knuckled under to the
dictates of the Hero of Canonchet, the Tam
many Democrats left the servile crowd among
whom they stood like tower, and nominated
John Kelly rs an effective protest against
personal domination in the party. After this
let us hear no more from Radicals the silly
saying that Democrats would support satan
himself if he were proposed to their sui
frages by the regular convention OF then
party and stood on the old platform
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1879-09-14
ON SnnmA. hlRE SYSTEM.

The only drawback to the pleasant con-
vention of fire engineers IN this city was the
feigncd call for our department, which was
made in the dead OF night and responded to
at reckless speed, waking quiet sccpers
out of their first slumbers and disturbing all
the sick and weary along the route. We
never see the engines and hose-carriages pass
on one of their frequent hootless errands,
bells Changing, The horses plunging and
snorting, the apparatus swaying and smok-
ing, and the men clinging on at the risk of
their lives, hut we are led To- deplore this
whole wasteful, dangerous, aud harharous
system. We suppose that as long as it is con-
sidcred necessary in our slashmg American
way, toquells smoky chihs,"y hy stacking il
with as much noisc parade, and risking OF
life as would bc proper 10 a battery of flying
artillery going into hot action, these false
alarms are necessary to keep up the disc-
plinc aud arrtness of the whole department,
and TO have them ready for that real cmer-
gcncy which SO seldom arrives. How much
better it would hc to dispense with all this
| fustian show of smaitncss and bravado, this
frightrul wear and tear of costly machinery
| and hursctrsh this peril to the wild riders
and every one on the streets they pass
| through this disturbance to quiet citizens
and adopt the civilized Paris system, with
its nice adjustment of means to ends, its
wonderful economy for the amount of good
accomplished ? II is not too much to say
that three or four trained iiremcn, with
a hand engine and appliances, arriving al
most ON the instant, would answer all the re-
quircments of half the alarms now turned
| III, exclusive of those which are totally false
and needless. They could at least decid,
whether the " steamers were needed, and
how many. Frequent llre-drills and eNercis,
in sealing, pioneering, with scientific ins'ruc
tion and experiment in fire and its eXtin
guishcrs, would keep the brigade from grow
ing rusty or slothful much better than the
present crude and costly eSpcdient of racing
them through crowded streets, circus show
| for small BOYS.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1879-09-14

WE would call attention TO the extract
which we have made from Sir George Camp
hell's recent book on America under our lit
erary head, because it bears ont, in ITS tenn
perate way, all our assertions about the
rightful place of silver in the American COIN
age, the surreptitious grab-game of the act
of 1873, and the terrible hardship and
wrong coolly and designedly inflicted on the
large debtor class in this country by the
rapid appreciation of the standard of values
from one of the lowest points to the highest
standard ever known, and artiiicially created.
Considering its British, hard-money source,
the indictment is surprisingly sweeping and
incisive.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1879-09-14

MR. FRANcIsco DE GARAy, the engineer
representative of Mexico at the cNtraoldi-
nary inier-oceanic canal congress lately held
in Paris, and which disturbed the United
States with spectres of Il slaughtered Monroe
doctrine, has come out with some more frank
revelations of the true inwardness of that
affair. lie describes NJ. de Lesscps as an eN-
ceedingly magnetic old gentleman, with a
pretty wife and pretty daughters, and when
he sits with his sweet children on his knee
and talks in his fluent, fascinating way. he
is quite too irresistible for Mr.. Nathan APP
pleton and n clique of enthusiastic adher-
ents who surround him. Mr.. de Garay was
put on a "sectionn at the congress
and did the best he could with
the extraordinary maze of figures, 51oa' "'ttes
and airy Iguesses submitted TO theil s.ist
a report on. When he pointed out vast and
insuperable difficulties, de Lesseps was called
in and said it was all right, "look at the
"Suez canal ~ When he pointed out tha
their gigantic Panama ship-tunncl would be
pitch dark they said "Put in elrctri,
'lights ~ Finally, with an inimitablc ont
burst de Lcsseps cried, daring the iina
ballot, as one of the Dutch representative
voted aye See, gentlemen, how the maj
"who comes from the country of canal
votes!' And with this sort of business tn
momentous question was forced to decision