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Connecticut western news., 1879-01-15
MARKET NOTES.

NEW YORK MARKET.
 The wholesale New York market quotations show:
 Beans.-Prime, 1.5o; fair to good s1.3b Bsstter.-N. Y. sold at 25c. tor choice in pails, and 14a16c. common to good. Western sold at SC, and the common Western at Sa10,.
 Oheese.-Factory fancy, 91ac.; do. fair Sc. Eqqs.-Quotations ranged from 24c. for or dnary to 2Sc. for New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
 Fyo,tr. .-Superfine, $3.2Ca3.50; Western, ss. 5og4. .oo extra New York 83.6oas.s5.
 Hay.-Shipping 35d40c.; clover 25d35c.; salt 25dS5 straw 30d40c.
 Kops-New York 12a15. Eastern Salsc yearlings 4G6c., olds 2a3c.
 Petroleum.-Refined 11Szd131 4c., crude SAc. in bulk; in barrels sc. Naptha SHc. in shipping order, and 11s4dl3: h cases.
 Pork.-New mess $s.60oS 60. Family mess 8.75, extra prime $11.50 dressed hogs 419d4ss.
 Wheat.-spring Nc. ?, 96c; Milwaukee, 1ns, Rye.-State 56ao9c.
 Wool-Ohio Pennsylvania and Virginia xxx 37a39c., XIX SfdS5., SSa84c. No. l, S5o 3ic. No. 2, S0d32c., commSp, 28dSoc. New York and Western XIX S1dS2c., and No. l, 31d92a33aS5c.
 PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
 Four.-State family $4.50; rye flour [e2 go yellow 45c.; mixed State 45c. Petroettn,-Refned SAC; crude FAC. | Wool-State and Western xx 35d37c., 3E0 l &C.,. medium 35a37c., coarse S0aSSc. CATTLE MARKETS. | BCFFALo.-Cattle good quality, $4.5O Hogs fair to good $40 best $3. 10. | EAST LIBERTY, PEEl. Best cattle $6.OO, medium to good $4.OOa4.35; common to fair $3.75a4.OO Hogs, Workers, $2. 76d2. s5 Phila' delphias, $2. 90d300. Sheep, $8.25a4.05.
 WATERTowN, MAss.-Cattle, choice $7.25 extra $6. T5a7.O .OO, first quality, $6.00d6. 50 second qual. $5.25as.75, third quality AS | a5.0o Sheep and lamhs-wool sheep, $S. S.00o $50, extra $3.75a5.00, spring lambs take, veal calves s}Sa6lSc
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An Astonishing Offer.

Tine Independent, of New York, probably the ablest, largest and best re. ligious newspaper in the world, offers to give away, absolutely, Worcester's Unabridged Quarto Pictorial Dictionary, which retails everywhere for $10, and is, of course, & household necessity. It will send this, the best Dictionary pub lished, to any person who will send the names of three new subscribers and nine dollars or who will, on renewing his own subscription in advance, send two names additional and $9. %; or who will renew his own subscription for three years, in advance, and send $9.00; or for @ new subscriber for three years aud $900. The Independent is now publishing the Rev. Joseph Cooks famous Boston Monday Lectures, which arc creating so much discussion every where, and offers as a premium his leo lures published in book form. It it also publishing series of articles or Socialism and Communism, one o the most important questions of the day, by Ex- President Theo. D. Woolsey DID. ,LL.D. Subscription price, 8. 0( per annum, in advance. Specime, copies sent free. For further particular address The Independent, New Yorl city, P. O. box 27S7.
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A Romance in Real Life.

An observant spectator will notice that the frst-hoor windows of large house at the corner of Norfolk street. London, present @ peculiar appearance. The shutters are up, and they are covered thickly with dust, whilst through tke chinks can be seen blinds, also moulder- ing away with age. These shutters and blinds have been in exactly the same position, untouched, for more than forty years. During that time no human foot has entered that room. And the reason is this: Forty years ago-more thar forty-Lord Dysart was engaged to be married, the day was fixed, the wedding morning arrived, the breakfast was laid out in tho spacious and handsome room, the bridegroom was ready to proceed to church, when it was discovered that the bride was missing. A note in her hand. writing was found addressed to the bride. groom, briefly informing him that she had eloped that morning with his best man, gay and gallant captain ol dragons. The tilted bridegroom did not say much, but he went alone to the room in which the wedding breakfast was laid out, with his own hands put uE the shutters and drew the blinds, locked the door and took the key. He gave orders that the door should be nailed ur and barred with padlocked bars, and that no one should enter the room again. When the house was let it was stipulated that the room in question should remain untouched, and the sum of e20O pe1 annum WAS paid to the tenant to com, pensate him for the deprivation of the use of the room. The room has never been entered since the day he closed il and there are the wedding meats, J mouldering silently away, and the orna, ments crumbling into dust in the funeral gloom.
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FOOLISH YouNs THINas.-The Penn- sylvania couple who wers married few days ago at the ages of eighty-six and cighty-seven are considerably outdone by two representatives of the Jewish race in Russian Poland. The bride was widow precisely one hundred years old; the groom was youth of eighty-eight Indeed, the bride has daughter, with whom she has lately lived, whose age is as great within four years as her step- fathers, while great-great- great grand. daughter is girl of thirteen. Notwith. standing her advanced age this bride is said to be strong in her faculties. She goes out of the house alone, hears and sees perfectly well," and retains al her mcntal powers.
Connecticut western news., 1879-01-15
Immigration.

The official returns to the Bureau of statistics show only slight advance in the number of immigrant passengers who arrived at the port of New York during the month ended December 31, 1878, over that of the corresponding month in 1877. In the latter case it was 3,067; in the former, 3,O17. But during the whole year of 1878 the num- Der was 91,505, against only 66,2s2. The retiux of the tide of immigration, which for so many year, was so great as to alarm certain short-sighted patriots of the Native American stripe, but which has so greatly enriched and strength ened the nation, has thus fairly begun. All signs promise that it will continue, and that the year 1879 will be memora- ble in the annals of immigration from Europe to the United States. Previous immigrants never had stronger reasons to flee from the distresses of poverty or the heavy yoke of tyranny in the Old World. This is plain from the almost unprecedented condition of Great Britain, on account of futures and strikes and general depression of busi- ness, and from the reactionary tenden- cies of so many continental govern ments, particularly those of Germany and Russia. The immigrants who shall arrive here this year will be heartily welcomed. And the inducements that may be held out to them were never more tempting. For the United States have but just entered upon fresh ca reer of prosperity and progress. What ever phrases Lord Beaconsfeld may have used in his speech, on lately re ceiving the California testimonial whether illimitable enterprise" O. illimitable resources both may b. truthfully applied to the people whom his great rival, Gladstone, calls "kil beyond the seas" and to the country il which European immigrants are invite' to seek for homes, liberty, and happi neSs
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How to Cook a Husband.

The first thing to be done is to catch him. Having done so, the mode of cooking him so as to make good dish is as follows: Many good husbands are spoiled in cooking. Some women keep them constantly in hot water, while others freeze them with coniugal cold ness; some smother them with hatred and contention, and still others keep them in pickle all their lives. These women always serve them up with tongue sauce. Now it is not supposed that husbands will be tender and good If treated in this way, but they are, on the contrary, very delicious when managed as follows: Get large jar, called the jar of carefulness (which all good housewives have on hand) place your husband in it, and set him near the fire of conjugal love; let the fire be pretty hot, especially let it be clear above all, let the heat be constant, cover him over with affection and subjection; garnish him with the spice of pleasantly, and if you add kisses and other con- factions, let them be accompanied with sufficient portion of secrecy, mixed with prudence and moderation.
Connecticut western news., 1879-01-15
The Old Carriers Address.

A New York city correspondent says:- The carriers address in this city has of late years generally been laid aside, but one reason is found in the fact that the "carrier" himself has become thing of the past. We have news dealers and route men, but the "carrier boy" of former days has disappeared. The custom was gradually discontinued as journalism increased, but can we'll re- member the time when even the Herald issued 8 carriers address, the author being no less than Mcdonald Clarke, then we'll known as the "mad poet. 7" The Journal cf Commerce also formerly issued such sheet and so did the press generally. It always seemed pleasant way of meeting the carrier, and hence the change is hardly an improvement. The earliest specimen of such an address which can find was written in 172O by Aquilla Rose, of Philadelphia. He was a printer as we'll as & clever writer. whose early death made room fo1 Franklin. The very first job indeed, that Franklin put into type was an elegy on Aquilla Rose, who was highly valued member of the community. The sheet to which reference is made bore the following curious caption: "Piect wrote by him for the boys who carried out the weekly newspapers to theil masters customers" Here is brie extract:
 "Full fifty times I've trod with eager haste
 To bring you weekly aews of all things past | Some grateful thing is due for such e task,
 Though modesty itself forbids to ask
 A silver thought expressed in ill-shaped ore Is all wish, nor would ask for more."
Connecticut western news., 1879-01-15
No New Facts.

A Washington correspondent says:- I have heard good story told of Pro- fressor Newcombe, the astronomer, which is worth repeating. He is very sol emn man and is always absorbed, so much so that be has general reputa- ton for absent-mindedness, and the same anecdotes are told of him that I have heard related about every eminent stu dent know, but this story is genuine. One evening he was attending we'd ding with his wife, and with the rest oi the guests passed up to offer his con- gratulations after marriage. He shook hands with the bridal couple in solemn way but uttered not word.
 "Why didn't you say something to them ?" said his wife, responsibility.
 ':I don't know" said the absorbed Professor. 1T didn't think I had any new facts to impart,"
Connecticut western news., 1879-01-15
FARM AND GARDEN.

About Borley. gentleman in Mas sachusetts wants 0 practical farmer to tell him all about barley-the average yield per acre, best variety, time of sow ing, and what manures to use. Twenty five bushels per acre is perhaps Q fair average; it varies from ten bushels to sixty bushels per acre. The four or six rowed barley is the most profitable. Sow as early in the spring as the land can be got into good mellow condition-the earlier the better. Drill in two to two and half bushels per acre. usually SOW two and 8 half bushels, but many SOW only two bushels or one and three fourths bushel. Much depends on the land. It will pay wonderfully well to use artificial manure on barley at present prices. The manures are cheap and barley is high. One hundred pounds of barley brings far more than 100 pounds of the best wheat. With good land and artificial manures, we can grow fifty bushels of barley as easily as we can thirty bushels of wheat.
 Crushed GrGin .tor Horses. Oats are justly advocated as the grain above all others adapted to horses and it is true, that for young horses, and those used on the road, there is probably nothing equal to oats, but they ought to be crushed or bruised and not ground. In fact, think all grains are better fed in this way, and it seems strange that there are no good American oat crushers. They seem to me simple affairs-as l have seen them in English stables. A
 wheel of perhaps eighteen inches diame-
 ter, made strong, and having perfectly
 flat periphery, of steel, I presume, like
 steel tire, having face about three
 inches wide, is turned so as to bea1
 evenly against smaller one of say eight
 inches or less in diameter, having {
 similar face. These two wheels art geared to turn together, and the oats ar, slowly fed in by hopper. Good oats
 when crushed, are nearly round and a
 big as silver three-cent piece, and thu
 husks are quito inconspicuous poo
 ones show more husk than grain, ant retain more nearly the form of the un crushed wheat. Barley may be crushed equally well with oats, although harder and corn, when too green to grind, nigh we'll be thus treated. If grain be swat 2 lowed whole it is not easily digested, bu if crushed, or broken even, 1t is likely t be. "Coarse meal" that is, the corn
 meal usually sold for feeding in man Eastern towns, simply because it can |. cheaply produced, is better than whol corn, because it is broken and some pol tion of it tolerably fiue, but all the flint
 part is in large solid pieces, which d not adhere to cut hay, do not soa quickly, md are slow of digestion
 When new corn is crushed, although
 is not comminuted into meal, it's il :. tegrity is destroyed and is easily d . gested, because it readily absorbs wate or the juices of the stomach.
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Oh, George.

They were on the ice yesterday after noon, he in the glory of his new found love, and she with a bran new pair of skates on her pretty feet. They were very sweet on each other and slzated hand in hand, now forward, now back ward, gliding smoothly and gracefully, totally unconscious of the smiles of the spectators, and the chaffing of the bad small boys. ,Ho was skating backward, and had hold of her hand-a strong hold, with just the least more pressure than would have been desirable under other circumstances. He was pulling her along and talking the meanwhile,
 Darling Celeste, shall we glide to- gether through life as smoothly as we do now?
 ooh, George, dear, I hope so Smil- ingly.
 |" And shall we ever te 10 each other as dear as we now are ?"
 "Oh, George, always P
 "And Celeste, shall our clasp tf the hand be as warm in the future as 1t is now?'
 Oh, George, it will r lovingly.
 "Dear Celeste, you are so kind to keep me first in your affec-" 1 Oh, George P
 There was a crash before that last exclamation. George was skating back ward and they were looking into each others eyes. His skate caught in a crack | in the ice and there was a fall-Celeste on top. A series of!mild shrieks, vision of dimity, and then two skaters left the ice. George has lump on the back oi his head as big as the prize pumpkin, and Celeste's nose looks like ripe fig and all skewed around hkea mules's jaw. Oh, George i--Bradford Brecse
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A Maine Snow Storm.
Burdette of the Burlington Hawkeyc, tbus descrihes n snow storm in Maine:

Burdette of the Burlington HaWkeyc,
 thus describes a snow storm in Maine:
 My personal experience during this. storm was extremely pleasant. left
 Rocklard, Maine, with just the smell
 and taste of snow ill the air. At Bath the white flakes began to tintter down in
 lazy, lounging, uncertain kind of way as though they had no particular pur- pose in coming down, but were bored to
 death where they had been, and just
 came down because there was no place
 else to go. Before we reached Portland
 we were bowling along through splen-
 did snow storm, and I think ono never
 sees a snow storm Ill its perfection until
 he has seen the curtain rise upon the
 Maine spectacle. Over frozen lake and
 wind-swept hill, crowning the rocks and
 clinging to the dark branches of the
 patient, faded pines, it was a picture of
 enchantment to watch the white flakes
 gradually shutting out the gray rocks,
 the brown meadows, and the tufted
 marshes, wrapping all the earth in the
 still, colorless shroud of winter, and
 even draping the arms of the pines in
 the same mantles of purity. To one un-
 accustomed to the scenery there is an
 indescribable pathos in these great pine
 forests, standing so motionless and
 patient under the clinging snow that
 contrasts so brightly with the dark
 foliage it cumbers. The leafless trees
 about them seem to be ready for this !; they are a part of tho winter landscape; , there is no feeling, no sensibility ;n their l bare, ungraceful branches; they have gone out of iifo with tho breath of the summer, and tue kiss of the south wind , or the blast of the north is alike to them. But theRe patient, changeless pines r the same arms they reached out to the B summer birds, and bathed in the glow 3 ing splendor of the sun of June, they ' reach out to the eddying snow flakes
 and the fierce breath of December. storms. They stand in the midst of tht
 desolate landscape, as though summer
 had forsaken them while they were . dreaming that summer birds and sun ,s shine were as changeless as themselves /. and, still clad in the green robes o 9 spring, they seem to be waiting, mutely IF patiently, trustfully, for the summe days to come again, bearing in patheti ,- submission and touching patience tn o reign of the winter they never locke o for, as man faints when he sees tn
 baggageman throw out five trunks bear :, ing the initials of his mamma-in-law.
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NEAR THE TRUTH.- man will tell more truth by making Q down. right blunder than in any other way. A certain school ordered banners made for it's different classes, for each of which the scholars chose fitting motto. One class of Eoys, who were just at that age when neither heaven nor earth can hold them in, benignly con- cluded to call themselves "Little Reap ers." The sign painter was an iDiterate man, who had evidently never had the benefit of school training in his youth, and when he painted the words the spirit of truthfdlness must have taken sudden and complete possession of him, and the banner issued from his hands inscribed "Little Rippers." The SUI perintendent looked at it itsorrowfully and then at the boys above whose heads il was to be waved aud sail, "Well, it's about as near the t:uth as we can gel after all."
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THE NEW YORK TRIBuNE's advertisement appears in another column, and we invite the special attention of our readers to its extra. ordinary premium of Websler's Unabridged Illustrated Quarto Dictionary. This is un' doubtedly the most valuable and liberal news paper premium ever offered. TIE TRIBUNE is now generally recognized as the leadiHg Re publican journal of the United States, and its weekly edition as news and family paper is without an equal. Send for specimen copy, which will be sent free.
Connecticut western news., 1879-01-15

her mind. The election of Victory Lodge was held on January 80, and she went home quite late in company with Mrs. Bishop. The poetry beginning "Since l have known her love was mine" she had seen before, as she sent 1t from Troy to Mrs. Bishop and had written the date on it. It had been sent because she went to Mrs. Bishops house on the even- ing of July Is, 1877, to play cards, and when they had finished Mrs. Bishop put her hands on witness's shoulders and ssid "I love you now as long as l live." Witness denied altering "her" to 'his " in this poem. Beyond the bright cloud," another poem, witness said she gave to MT. Bishop after his wife's death. She had not underscored the last lines; the poem Changeless she also sent to Mr. Bishop shortly after his wife's death, as Mrs. Bishop had been 6 very dear friend of hers and she thought the poem would afford MT. Bishop consolation. The poems entitled "Cons olation in Absence" "Can For get ?" and "Nameless Love" she had never seen before.
 The poem B'' Some time" she gave to Mrs. Bishop, but did not know when, as she frequently exchanged poetry with Mrs. Bishop. "The Watermill D she sent to Mrs. Bishop from Troy. The attention of the witness being here called to the expression attributed to her, "People had better mind their business-I will mine," she replied that it was called forth by a conversation about her neighbors' curiosity, but il had no connection with Bishop.
 On cross- examination Mrs. Cobb said
 that in all her married life she never
 spoke an unkind word to her husband
 had always tried to be faithful, never
 improperly conducted herself with any
 one, never sent significant poetry to all,
 man, and never went out late with an, } man besides her husband. Whei Bishops mother went away Tn Januar. or February, 1878, Bishop wanted t.
 take his meals at her house. She con ) suited her husband and told Bishol she could not take him. Bishop thel ) replied unkindly, "That's the last fayo , I'll ever ask of Charlie Cobb" Thi and one other sighting remark wer ) the only unkind things Bishop ever sai about her husband to her knowledge.
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IN PRESS. "The sorceror," by suLLrvAN'
 OLIVER DITSON & CO.,, Boston. q. a. DIrsoN q O., sAs Broadway, N. x'
WhitC0mb'S Remedy
 -FoR-
 ASTHMA, Rose Gold and Hay Fever!

The late Jonas Whitcomb of Boston, visited Europe few years since for the benefit of his health, which was impaired by frequent attacks of Spas modic Asthind. While under the treat ment of an eminent German physician his asthma disappeared; he procured the recipe which had done so much for him. This remedy has been used in thousands of the worst cases with aston ishing and uniform success. Itcontatns no injurious properties whatever.
Connecticut western news., 1879-01-15

For Upwards of Thirty Years Mrs Winscao's Soothing Syrup has been used for children with never-failing success It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieveswind collie, regu- lates the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrh1a, whether arising from teething or other causes. An old and we1-tried remedy. 25c. a bottle.
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Highly Nutritious, Limpid,

Misciblc with water. agreeable, aud easily di- gestible, PHILLIPS PALATABLE" Cop LIVER Om in combination with PHosPHo-NUTR1TINE, Is a peerless remedy for Consumptive, Nervous, and Emaciating Diseases. All druggists. De- pot, Platt street, New York,
Connecticut western news., 1879-01-15

IF you are satisfied to have a poor organ, or run the risk of having poor one, take any organ that is offered you. But, if you desire to be sure of having tho very best, insist on having a Mason X Hamlin, aud do not be per suaded to take any other.
Connecticut western news., 1879-01-15
TESTIMONIALS.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10, 1877. Messrs. J. BURNETT & Co.,: The relief the Jonas Whitcombs Asthma Remedy afforded me was perfect l have not had bad night since taking it, and I have in no case found any relief until your Remedy came to hand. most cheerfully recommend it to any, one troubled with Hay Fever or Asthma, for it is the only remedy ever used by me with any good effects.
 Yours truly,
 VIM. T. MASON, Of Messrs. MASON & GORDON, LdtcYers,
 517h Chestnut Street.
Connecticut western news., 1879-01-15

And now if the milkmen will turn over new leaf and resolve not to touch water, what happy year this will be ]
Connecticut western news., 1879-01-15

Messrs. JOSEPH BURNETT & Co.,,
 Boston, Mass: Gentlemen,-In the fall of 1877 I used Jonas Whitcomb's Asthma Remedy and received immediate relief, and would most cheerfully recommend it to any person troubled with Hay Fever or Asthma. MRS. K. SHERMAN. 1sO Ellis Ave, CHICAGO, ILL. a For sale by aH respectable Drug0tstS.
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Statistics show that the great num- Der of sixty vessels were lost on the lakes during the past season. Most oi them were old vessels.
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Dakota territory is rapidly settling up and growing in wealth. There has been an increase of sixty per cent. in the assessed valuation of property during the last year.
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The birthplace of Burns-z.,The Kerosene can.