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Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16
Unseifishness of Farmers.

The Springfield Republican calls at- tention to a trait of farmers in which, it thinks, they differ, as regards each other, from the members of any other guild. "Each man is eager to show his neighbor any new discovery or acqui- sition which he has possessed himself of that is likely to help on the business of farming. If he thinks he has a good thing he wants others to know about 1t, whether it be the result of some success full experiment. in raising crop, an im- proved breed of cattle or a variety of vegetables or package of seed which has come from distance. Apparently he does not for a moment entertain the idea that it would be to his profit to keep such knowledge CT specimens to him. self. And if another farmer comes to see him, he is pleased to show all his possessions, and there are no corners of the place by which the visitor is hurried t~naps~ assrr~ ~Tr~~Trs@~stsrc< TS gcfc@ c~ there which the owner does not care | to have seen, as IS osses sssS S@Se wIssa { visitor makes She grand rounds Of fac- tory Contrast this habit of farmers w16h tae way tha$ne5ghboETng merchants and nzanaEaesGneEs do tfne1x bas1nGss
 Why, when tt WAS first proposed to cos nees tSe paper nSgAs m Hogyohe wSsa fheSr o&ses ia ta1s city Eg telephone. os1 5aead0n was as once Esase6 saese ike F@Yes makens mag&S possibly Learn sseh ofaeFI ssesess e eomsegns4es.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16
A Specimen of Turkish Justice.

Three years ago young Christian Maronite In Turkey killed Mussulman in hot-headed quarrel. After lying ever since in prison the mother of the victim came forward last February and insisted on his being sentenced to death. What followed the Constantinople cor respondent of the Philadelphia Press thus describes: ''As the crime was proven according to local judicial forms, she obtained from Midhat Pasha, the Governor of Syria, a firman for the ex- ecution, and day was fixed for the hanging. In vain the notables of all creeds and races, Mussulmans and Christians, appealed to the old woman to be merciful, for upon her word de- pended the life of the Maronite. They represented to her that if he did do the deed it might have been in self-defence; that at any rate his guilt was not per- fectly clear; that he had already grievously suffered in body and mind by his imprisonment, and that the people of Beyrout did not want 8 capital execu- tion in their midst. Neither the Turkish Ulemas, the Greek and Armenian bishops, or the Turkish officials could soften the obdurate heart of this cruel megsra. T have the frlnan for his execution, she said, 'and his fate is in my hands. I will not spare him. In the night of February 5, three hours
 after midnight, he was taken from his cell and led to the place of execution.
 An immense crowd of people gathered
 around the scaffold. There took place
 a scene of the most extraordinary kind.
 The woman was told by the executionel
 that the mans relatives were ready to pay her any sum in their power if she
 would, as custom authorized, allow him
 to go free on the payment of blood
 money. She shrieked and foamed fol
 vengeance. For an hour and more shs
 refused to be merciful, notwithstanding the entreaties of the mass of men women and children. In the meanwhiIG the young man stood on The gaIlowl
 with the halter about his neck, trembling for his life. Finally, worn oHt by tn , prayers of the people. and tempted D, } the high figure to which the relatives 0
 the Msrul1ts had run up the b7d fO : nM mo- s1nu cmzeMEed to accept 5, % : francs ss bEOOdmOnsy- The hangmA : lei go hls hold of hls expected v15eGIm
 and handed hIa over fO hls reEaETVea B who ezKrsed hmm of ama the aeczaEa E 601s of inc speeadh4uEz
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16
Who Asked You Toy

In connection with the debt due Horace Greeley. by young Vanderbilt that has just been paid with interest to MT. Greeley's daughters, a story is told that when then the Commodore heard Corneel" had been borrowing large sums of money he became very angry, and assuming that MT. Greeley had loaned the money mainly in the belief that he, the Commodore, would repay it, determined not to pay it, as warning to others not to lend money to this way ward son. After thinking over it, he set of in high dudgeon to see MT. Greeley, and "give him piece of his mind about it." Mir. Greeley was very busy when the Commodore came, putting and in- dignant, into his office. In his usual bluff, impetuous way the Commodore said: "Mr. Greeley, I understand you've been lending my son 'Corneel money?" Mir. Greeley, looking mp quickly, and then almost instantly resuming his work, replied, in his usual drswling way, "Yes, Commodore, I've
 
 let him have some money" "You have, eh ?" bluffed in the Commodore, "you have-wen, I want you to understand that I ain't responsible for it and shau'i pay you cent of it." Mir, Greeley Far sss ~r-s,s..ss s sssy ess s.s- nro~ws, svoppcu writing for moment, and, turning 2 ssl1 saes e9 shs Commodore, fsirIJ yelled out, "You won't, eh@' Wen, who m thunder asked you so pay fs I dSdnrt, dSd I?S Greeley dzoYpsd Iii glasses over hSs eyes sud bent sgsH sc kds work, Tke CosaaoEoEs, aonp9asse5 aSd belasg o@ez wSsh fury, steamed osp of sae oAEce, sud at was aasSees of rEassl slasS sae sw,0 Een were never a6tesrwae ca as god bspae as &ey haS F~sEoGsis bseR.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16
THE FAMINE IN EGYPT.
SOME OF THE HORRIBLE SCENES.

An occasional correspondent of the | London Daily NeaOs, who has just been up the Nile inquiring into the state of the villages personally. without drago- man, writes from Cairo:
 It is an unpleasant truth, but an un- deniable one, that the people have been, and still are, starving by hundreds on the Nile, from no other reason than that they have been unable, under their crushing taxation, to save money or stores against the failure of their crops; and the immediate result is naturally famine. So long have the fellaheen now been accustomed to work for the tax gatherer instead of themselves, that no man ever thinks of making more than sufficient for his wants from day to day.
 From Slut to the Oataracts there is scarcely village or town which cannot count it's dead by tifties, some by hun- dreds. At each of the larger towns along the banks the fellahs from the in- land villages have crowded in, sought for relief or for work, have found none, and have lain down and starved. The sight of these poor wretches is sickening. Their condition is only comparable to that of the natives in the last Indian famine. With shrunken skin and star ing bones, they resemble the mummies of their land more than fellow creatures. In the open market places they lie pros- trate in the sun, covered with flies, half or wholly naked, till death puts an end to their sufferings. As long as they have strength they fight like wild beasts over the slightest morsel of food, and when they are past this they die with less at- tention paid them than if they were street dogs. ,. .... - At Belyaneh, Bagour Hau and such towns the people have been and are starving in utter neglect. Sitting in the fields and the open streets, many of then have been supporting themselves fol days on sorrel and the foul refuse from the cane factories. All human feelings are lost, and in trying to distribute fey morsels of bread at Belyaneh the stronger tore it from the lips of those weake than themselves, and struggled till ex hausted for the merest scrap. ..
 . At Edfoo there lay an old woman b. the bank, with the water washing hal over her, too weak to move or speak Her eyes were sunk into her head, an her whole skin was like dried parchmen from the sun. She could no swallow except by artificial outside fric tion, whilst another woman forced tn food down her throat. This was no un common case, women and children, iron their smaller strength, affording tn
 most ghastly spectacles of the march o famine.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16
Indian Fighting.

It is recorded that after the defeat of Fontenoy an English Grenadier was heard to exclaim indignantly: "It's all their sneaking way of fighting behind breastworks; if they only give us fair chance out in the open, we'd soon settle 'em." This blunt remark contains the secret of many of England's greatest military disasters. Inferior to no man living in courage and endurance, the British soldier is grievously wan ting in that power of adapting himself to un- forseen circumstances, which is the first essential of the true soldier and the true General. Where the French Zouave or the American frontiersman becomes 8 skirmisher at a moments notice, suiting his tactics to those of his antagonist, and overmatching the latter with his own weapons, the Englishman still clings to the traditions of the purade-ground, and persists in acting by rule and method against an enemy who knows nothing of either. The defeat of Gen. Braddock- singularly exact parallel to the recent Zulu disasters-admirably exemplifed both systems. At the first volley from their ambushed foes, the Virginian sharpshooters took to the trees, and fought the enemy in his own way, while the British regulars, true to their creed that their own mode of fighting was the only admissible one, held together upon the open ground in regular formation, and were uselessly slaughtered. The same tendency proved fatal to the Turco soldiers of France at Worth and Wissen- bourg, who, when ordered to lie down under fire, hatly refused, saying proudly, "That is not our way" The same con- tempt for "uncivilized fighting and unaccustomed precautions has just sacri- feed many valuable lives, by camping in an enemy's country as if among the tents of Aldershot, emitting the com honest precautions of ordinary bush life, and exposing one hundred men to be overwhelmed at a moments notice by 4,OOO. The incapacity of the commander has been justly reprehended, but it's effect has undoubtedly been enhanced by the peculiar temper of the con- manded. Although the punctilios oi medieval warfare are long since ex. ploded, the Englishman's military creed still savors perceptibly of the age when every General, before falling upon his enemies, kindly sent herald to let then know that he was coming,
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16
A Great Boom,

The St. Paul Press has description of the boom which is being constructed at Fort Smelling. This is not political boom, but huge harbor for logs, where the logs and rafts coming from the up- per Mississippi and it's tributaries may be run in and safely housed for market. The boom starts with a large pier of twenty-one piles, each driven securely into the bed of the Mississippi, to a depth of fifteen feet, and continues down the river 3,450 feet, where it then takes turu into the river bank, gap being left in the centre of the turn of forty feet in width, from which may be turned out the logs. Along this boom are fifty three piers, each consisting of from six. teen to twenty-one large piles, driven down from fourteen to seventeen feet. The piers are at an equal distance from each other and are covered by wooder caps, which extend from the water at ar angle of forty-fve degrees. At the mouth of the boom it is 500 feet wide at the widest place, $50 feet at the narrowest, $50 feet; giving a superficial area oi about forty acres. This main boon upon 8 six-foot rise will hold 15, 900, ,OOO feet, while with ten-foet rise 30, 900, ,OO' feet of logs can be conveniently accom- modated, although there would be som
 crowding, and they might be piled two or three deep. Near the lower end O the boom are two immense iam-piers tc break the force of the logs as they com' rushing in, and to give opportunity fo
 work at the gap. On the outside of thu ffty-three piers, to prevent the logs fror struggling of at the sides, logs are al tached together and to the piers b.
 proof-chains so arranged that the log
 will rise and fall with the water.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16
THE CRY OF THE WRETCHED.

For hours along the crowded street, With aimless steps I've trod, Without home or hope in lie,
 With scarce hope in God. This cruel night is fitting close
 To such crushing day; The earth is, Oht so dreary cold! And Heaven so far away. The friendless rouse no anxiouss thoughts The busy throng sweeps on; I've strayed beyond the city's lights, The twilight's gray has gone; My useless arms have failed to win
 A crust, place to stay. Earth has no work, no room for me, And Heaven is far away. O. great, wide world o, frowning sky So cheerless and so vast, dare your keen and cutting sleet, Your piercing, bitter blast; Rage, howl, and lash this living spark From out the tortured clay. That feels existence dark, all dark,
 And Heaven so far away. How dull and black beside my feet
 The sluggish river rolls; It beckons as demon might
 To lure unhappy souls. Its slimy voice is whispering, Here, rest in peace for aye. o, God the river is so near
 And Heaven 30 far away.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16
Terrible MOnotOnOus.

The New York papers say the actors in plays that run for many nights are very tired, almost worn out, in fact. It must become terrible monotonous to re- peat night after night week after week, exactly the same words, no matter how interesting they may be to one who hears them for the first few times. "Our Boys was played in London for more than three years continuously, and by the end of that time it had killed three of the actors and sent two more to the lunatic asylum. These long runs may be fun for the author. manager and
 public, but they are hard on the actors
 indeed far harder than if they were
 obliged to learn new parts every week ol two.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16

me Qay appolnIoO TOT the COunGS e1o- cution. His first step was to repair to the central police office and inquire where the Countess Ida lived. He was informed that she was lodging in small house near the prison, with two servants, but that she was under orders to quit the kingdom on the morrow. The Eng ishman hastened to the house indicated with all the dust of travel on him. It was past midnight, and Ida received him at once. He found her writing by the fireside in that dismal parlor of her lodging house. She was dressed in deepest mourning, and her features blanched by her grief and long sojourn in prison, were as those of statue. But she held out her hand to Guerdon as if nothing much had happened since they had parted.
 "Give me no condolence," she said, interrupting the Englishman as he opened his mouth to speak. "I SUD- pose you come to me as frienda"
 "Can you doubtit he faltered." "Oh Ida; God knows what I have suffered on hearing this."
 "I want you to render me service, 9 she said, not needing his remarks. "You are the only friend have on earth now. You must go and witness my brothers execution then come back and tell me what is the last thing he did before dy- ing. I wanted to go myself but they would not let me. The execution takes placed at 2, in the prison, and you must contrive some means of getting in.'
 Guerdon hesitated, but beseeching look from Ida nerved him. s'Would you refuse me this ?" she asked sadly. My brother on the scaffold will make sign which is intended for me, and on which the whole of my life may depend. must have somebody there to see it.
 "I will go then," muttered Guerdon, hoarseiJ.
 He went, and was back with Ida the next day at 8. Heaven knows what he felt and what he looked like; his ap pearance struck the Russian girl speech less for a moment. But she did no weep; hers was the sorrow that sheds inward tears all life long. She ques tioned the Englshman with glance folding her hands over her breast as i she were waiting an order.
 "He kissed the crucifix," said Guer don in low voice. Ida sighed.
 "Then l am to abandon the work O conspiracy, and to lead new ife," sh, answered, lowing her head. "Than1 you, Captain Guerdon; and good-by I am going to StrelechtzH, where thu plague is, to act as hospital nurse."
 "Oh, let me give you 8 home, Ida, the Engishman answered, feeling al his love well up in sob of anguish.
 "No," she replied, with wan smil and shake of the head "you could no brave the worlds prejudice by sayin, that you were proud of my brother, as am. To me he is martyr who died fo his country. We look at these thing differently to what you do. Let me b alone to mourn my brother. Good-b again. and forgive me.
 Good-by," Guerdon moaned, as b raised 1da's hand to his lips. He fe that the strange girl was right, and ths there was gulf between him and hel But he would have given worlds bridge it.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16

CRUEIrY.-The astounding cruelty of Mary B. Morris to her. daughter, in Charlestown, Mass, appears to have been the result of mania. The girl is IA years old, and until a few days ago, when there was an official interference m her behalf, she had never been of the family premises and seldom out of the house. She was compelled to do all of the drudgery of the household, was de- priyed of education, and outrsgeousIy whipped on sEght provocation, even for going to a window to look out.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16

AN kNGzK WOMAN threw rsd pepper insO Ehe eyes of n Cdne1mmHm mam few days ago, and 1t Is allagsd EhH& Insfead of bHndlng Mm, aE fsAraas it hhE Ds- hsvsd hin of nsw-siEzstsansss.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16

DR- C. F. CAEvEE, of Angelica, Ale czsauv C0uuEv " nwus sz.-.II -~-5 stallion 90 peculiarly marked ffla1 wEa6n hs buekIes q suEeTngHs around hTm fheEs is mot ha1r hack of it EhaE is mot smOw Wm7Ee, md nOf a square meh in fOn& of 1t tha& A nO& a beamEdffuI mu@ gmy. One eye Is like fhsE of a whife bOEse, and fhs 0GhR hike EhnH of a black h0gHA.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16

Barn asys fhers sne zaOne fools now Bsn when hs Ens& shBzEsd in bnsz- nsHz. Is hs moi 1nzgs4y responsible f1g Fhe Sneusasee
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16

The trial of the KoraEanes had taken place s& D. and Eda hAd besn aoquiItt- ted, but sAs CuuEs wzs saassDcsd Ha dsfA. Garam hszsa this ss hs jour-
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16
Connecticut Western News.
 PUBLISHED AT CANAAN, LlTcHFIELD COUNTY, CT. EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, J. B. HARDENBERGH, Editor and Prop'r. Local News Speciality.
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Connecticut western news., 1879-04-16

A bdM n4noaaead by EenasOr Game non, of WissOnsan, m f5e UnEted States EensSe, recalls g euraOzs ana perhaps largely fogsoS$en story. The bdl 6zse&s tas PsynsuS bg fhs 6swsaazy ef sbs
The daily gazette., 1879-05-09
Officers Elected.

The annual election for officers of the
Union a E. Sunday school held last
eveni ng resulted as follows;
Morning school-Superintend o.
b. Benner; assistant, r. 81. Mcdaniel;
female superintendent; Miss Georgie
Bonham; secretary, Howard Mcdaniel;
collector, julius Shepherd; infant school
Mrs. o. B. Benner; Or
ganist; M iss Sallie Findley.
Afternoon School-Superintendent, r.
H. MoDanel; assistant, U. B. Banner;
Female Superintendent, Mrs. 8. A.
Pierson; S, cretary, Frank A. Mitchell;
Assistant, Howard McDanel; Collector,
James A. Oliver; School and Missionary
Treasurer, Isaiah II. Thomas; Musical
director, r. H. MeDanel; organist, Miss
Salle Findley; Librarian, w. n. McCor.
mick; First Assistant, james E. Saville;
Second Assistant, j. H. Trexler: Infant
School Superintendent, Mrs. Clara v.
Sharpe; First Assistant, Mrs. Sallie A.
Mccall; Second Assistant, Mrs. Mary
Speakmap.
The annual meeting of the Teachers
Ass ocation of the Bible School Of the
Delaware Avenue Baptist church held
last evening, the following officers were
elected:
Superintendent, E. F. Jones; Assistant
Peter B. Ayers; Secretary, John M. r.
Hyde; Treasurer, Charles W. Belts; or
ganist, Willie Brown; Super ntendent
Infant Department, M rs. Kate F. Morris
The daily gazette., 1879-05-09
LOCAL TIME TABLE.

" TEAMS LEAVE WILMINGTON.
For Phtladeiphia: 2T, TOO, SIC, go
sios. m; 5 O., E.4s, . 80, 0 Is, p n.
FOR New York 2.37, 5.5O,a m, IL 20. II 80,
64sp m m,onsundaysi y9a m J, -. p; m
t0r Balttm ore and Washington: 1851. 2.1U
sss sss. = % n; z; i2%, q ~, slS. pm. Sun
For Port Deposit: So p m no sunday
vsr New Castle: s2o, slS m; oo, 8 80 p
FOR 1eisws1s "a sSsafy T. 'fsin r. go m; os, sy
For Wilmington Northern r. r.: 8 26 q
m;3Oo, on p m; no sunday train.
For delaware Western R. X. 10, 10 o. m
s2,pm. No sundays trains.
TRAINS ARRIvE AT WILMINGTON.
iron Philadelpuin; II A, s "a, Q 10 ! 06 a m
l2O3,pm, 243, 10 81, 3 So, 451, 6O4. S25,
i4o, 70 "a. l1iS q ~ on % sundays IL 49,
&SM, 10 ~ p M IN Sundays; 12 a5. N
from baltimore ~ o., 8 20, 9 Al. a m; i2N,
1885 50, % p m; on Sundays 2 o. m
from ~ Washington. 20, a IN ,2a, 1875,
$50, 93Gp m; on Sundays: ? u rn; 9 At
FROM Port Deposit 900 m no Sunday
From New Castle: soo .n; 1910 m;
From Delaware Il. r.: $50 1910 q "
7lU p. m; no Sunday trains.
From Wilmington 4 Northern K. r.: sos.
II 30 m; Z IS p m; no sunday trains.
From Delaware Western X. r.: 8 90 m (;
215.7 p m; no SUNDAYS trains.
r8AINs FOE WILMINGTON LEAVE PHIL
ADELFHIA.
From broad street and Washington ave-
nue.: 7 80, 8 %, 10 10, II 40 No; 30. 30.
M. IL. q 1b. As. IL 80 % m: on Sup-
days: 80 q m; e0,9 -, II 30, p m.
from Thirty second and Market streets
70, q m, ~ IN, 70 lS, %, $50 II 80 p m
on SUNDAYS: 80. II go p m.
The daily gazette., 1879-05-09
Brutal Husband.

Nathaniel Biddle was arraigned before
the Mayor this morning on complaint OF
his wife with being drunk and disorder
ly.
She testified that he came home last
evening in a drunken condition, and
that he "handled" her very roughly and
attempted to throw her out In the street.;
he also tore her clothing. He had abus-
ed her frequently.
Mrs. Sallie Dixon, who resides next
doors testified that she did not see the
disturbance last evening, but she could
hear The scnffling very plainly and hear
the woman's cries for help. A sliorttime
ago she saw the prisoner have his wife
backed up in corner, and shaking her
very violently, and during the time the
wife was screaming murder. The wife
of the prisoner was obliged to take in
washing and go out house cleaning In
order to support the family.
The Mayor Informed the prisoner that
it was queer treatment towards wife;
that she was entitled to his protection
instead of violence.
The prisoner asked the Mayor to make
the penalty as light as possible, and he
would pay it and dissolve partnership
with his wife, as she would not do his
work.
His Honor said he did not see how the
wife was to do all the housework, and
take in washing. He thought that the
prisoner would suffer che dissolution of
partnership, but he thought it was the
best thing that could be done.
In the light of the case he would inn
pose penalty of So and costs.
The daily gazette., 1879-05-09
An Kditorial Trip.

This morning a special car drawn by
engine No. 90, went down the Delaware
Railroad, in advance Of the regular 9.l5
train. The car eoDtsined a number Of
New York and Philadelphia journalists,
Who, upon the invitation of the p. W. u
b. X X. Co., were making tour OF the
Peninsula. The car will go as tar as
Cri.fieli, and Will stop al various points,
TO enable the culslonists to inspect the
peach orchards and farming lands in
general OF the Peninsula. AT the depot
refreshments of various kinds were placed
on tie Car, for the comfort of the party.
This trip is given every year by the rail-
road company, for the purpose OF having
the farA lands and gem raj advantages OF
the Peninsula extensively written up in
the metropolitan journals.