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Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02
A Cold. Flooded Murder.

Colonel Thomas Buford, of Henry county, and a brother of General Buford, shot and killed Judge John M. Elliott, of the Court of Appeals, at quarter past one o'clock in the afternoon, in front of the ladies' entrance of the Capitol Hotel, in Frankfort, Ky. The weapon used was a double barrelled shotgun loaded, with twelve buckshot in each barrel. Judge Elliott, in com- pany with Judge Thomas Hines, was coming up Ann street when they were met at the steps of the side entrance of the hotel by Buford, who appeared equipped for hunting. Buford spoke first to Judge Elliott, saying, Judge, I believe I will go snipe hunting. Won't you go alongP" To this Judge Elliott replied, "No." "Well, then" said Buford. "won't you take a drive?"
 At this point Judge Hines turned away, and had gone about six feet when the gun was fired and Judge Elliott fell upon the sidewalk without uttering a word. Buford looked down upon him and said "I'm sorry" He then lifted his head and put his, (Buford's) hat under it. Judge Hines turned back and tried to raise the body, but found that life was extinct. Buford said in ex- plantation of his crime that law suit before the Court of Appeals had been decided against him, and that he had determined to kill Judges Elliott and Pryor, on account of Judge Pryor's children he had not shot him. AS soon as he was arrested he gave the Sheriff a note requesting that his property be given to his niece. The sad affair created much sensation in Frankfort.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02

NEW YORK MARKET
 The wholesale New York market quotations | show:
 Beans.-Prime 1.4oa1.42; fair to good 25 al. .35 per bushel.
 Butter.-N. Y. sold at 25c. for choice in pails, and 13a16c. common to good. Western sold at 29c., and the common Western at 7a10c.
 Cheese.-Factory fancy 91c.; do. fair Sc EsgS.-Quotations ranged from 1Sc. for or dinary to 19c. for New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. $3. 7Oa390 extra New York $3.85a$s.9O.
 Ray.-Shipping 35a4Cc.; clover 25a35c. salt, 25d35c., straw 30d45c.
 Hops-New York 5@1sc. Eastern 6@9c yearlings 2@4c., olds 1@2c.
 Petroleuns - Refined &c.,, crude 8s<c shipping order and 11A@121Sc in cases. A Pork.-New mess $10. 55a10 60. Family mess 1925 extra prime $11.5o, dressed hogs 5a5x No. g. $1.Os. Amber $1.11. White $1.14.
 Rye.-State 61a61Hc.
 Wool.-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia xxx S7@99c., xxx 34@35c., 33@34c. No. 1, 35d36c. No: ?, 3Oa32c, common, 2Sd3Oc: New York and Western xx 31a32c.. and No. 1, S1a32G33d35c.
 PHILADELPHIA MARRET ,;l Flo.~,mstate family $4.75' rye flour 275 @low, 43c.; mixed State 43c.
 Petroleum Refined 914c.; crude, 8Ac.
 Wool.-State and Western xxx 3Sd35c.; S3a 34c.; medium 35d37: coarse 30c.
 CATTLE MARKETS.
 BUFFALo.-Cattle, good quality, $5.50. Hogs fair to good 4.25 best 4.50.
 EAST LIBERTY, PENN.-Best cattle 500; medium to good 4.O0d4.35. common to fair 5.25a4.OO. Hogs, Workers, 8 70as s5 Phila- delphias 4,S5a4.55. Sheep, S.5Oa5.25.
 WATERTowN, MAss.-Cattle, choice 7.26 extra 6.25a700. first quality 500a6. %; second quality 4.50a4 75; third quality 4.O0d a25. Sheep and iambs--woof sheep 2.50a3.0 .00; extra 32oad:75; spring lambs bSa6c. veal calves b3Sc.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02
SnOW-Raised Bread.

Somebody thinks he has discovered that snow, when incorporated with dough, performs the same office as baking powder or yeast. "I have this morning for breakfast says writer in the English Mechanic, "partaken of Q snow-raised bread cake, made last even ing as follows: The cake when baked weighed about three-quarters of pound. A large tablespoonful of fine, dry, clean snow was intimately stirred with spoon into the dry flour, and to this was added 8 tablespoonful of caraways and little butter and salt. Then sufficient cold water was added to make the dough of the proper usual conscience (simpIy stirred with a spoon, not kneaded with the warm hands), and it was immedi- ately put into the oven and baked three quarters of an hour. It turned out both light and palatable. The reason," adds the writer, "appears to pc this the light mass of interlaced snow crystals hold together large quantity of con- denced atmospheric air, which when the snow is warmed by thawing very rapidly in the dough, expands enormously and acts the part of the carbonic acid gas in either baking powder or yeast. take the precise action to be, then, not due in any way to the snow itself, but simply to the expansion of the fixed air lodged between the interstices of the snow crystals by application of heat. This theory, if carefully followed out, may perhaps give clew to simple and per fectly innocuous method ofraising bread and pastly." And stop the discussion as to whether alum in baking powders is deleterious to health or otherwise.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02

the Treasury for the current fiscal year, says: The excess of exports over inn ports of merchandise appears to have been as follows: Month ended February 27, 1879, $29, ,4S9, ,563; same time in 1878, $33, ,326, ,466. For the twelve months ended February 29, 1879, S7SS' So9, ,3o4; same time year before, $lo5, 64O, ,691. A comparison of the exports and imports of gold and silver com and bullion exhibits the following: Month ended February 2S, 1879, excess ot exports. $500, 145; month ended February 2S, 1878, excess of exports, S2, ,3S7, ,217; twelve months ended Feb ruary 2S, 1879, excess of imports, $602,- 137; twelve months ended February 2S, 1878, excess of exports, $21 ,S14,31
 It is very probable that each select committee of the Senate and House will agree upon some bill to prevent the introduction of yellow fever into. the United States by establishing rigid quarantine regulations after the plan of the modified House bill, or some scheme of compromise of the radical differences between the Senate and House in the last Congress. The Southern members feel such an interest in this question that 1t is doubtful if any caucus rules even prohibiting general legislation would prevent such measure from at least being considered.
 The House will do little if any busi- ness, until the committees are appointed. No bills can be introduced on any day except Monday without unanimous con- sent. It is the custom sometimes to introduce bills to be referred to the proper committees when appointed, but this also requires unanimous consent. And it is very evident now that there will be objection to any measure that may be brought forward.
 A letter received by the War Depart ment from Colonel Walsh, who is in command of the Canadian mounted po- lice on the Dakota frontier, reports that Sitting Bull and his warriors are show ing very ugly and insubordinate dis position. They have made no move ment as yet towards the boundary line, but as soon as sprlng opens serious trouble is apprehended. Colonel Walsh estimates the strength of Sitting Bulls band at 1000, all told, of whom 2,OOO are warriors we'll armed and equipped.
 The Forty-sixth Congress will have to decide ten or twelve contested cleo tion cases the seats of Yocum of Penn sylvania, Loring of Massachusetts, Orth of Indiana, Forsyth of Illinois, Aoklen of Louisiana, Henkle of Maryland, and Martin of North Carolina being claimed by others, while contestants are also likely to spring up in the Second Flor ida, Ninth Virginia and Third Wisconsin Districts.
 The Message sent to Congress by the President was very short, and asked simply that the necessary appropriations to run the Government be made. Ac- companying the Presidents Message are estimates from the Secretary of the Treasury of the money needed for the Army and the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Government. These estimates are the same as those submitted at the opening of the last ses- sion, with the exception of the items provided for at that session.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02
Food Ill Digested

Imperfectly nourishes the system, since it is
 only partially assimiated by the blood. Pale, haggard mortals, with dyspcptic stomachs, impoverished circulation and weak nerves, experience marked and rapid improvement in their physical condition by ava ling them selves of that sure resource of the sick and dcbilitated, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. This genial tonic and alternative lends an impetus to the processes of digestion which insures an adequate development of the materials of blood, fiber. and muscular tissue. Moreover, it soothes and strengthens ovcrwrought or weak nerves, counteracts a tendency to hypo- ehondria or despondency, to which dyspeptic and bilious persons are peculiarly liable, and is an agreeable and wholesome appetizer and promoter of repose. The infirmtics of age, and of delicate female constitutions, are greatly relieved by it; and it is reliable pre- Yentive of, and remedy for, malariai feYsrs.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02

THE FIRsr.-The first Chinaman who settled in San Francisco is said to have arrived there in 1947, and the news which he sent home as to gold discovery speedily brought number of his friends. By 1852, 5000 to 4,OOO had arrived. A company was then formed by Chinamen to aid emigration, and was followed by the establishment of several other com- panies. The Chinese population is about 30,0O0, of whom 2, 900 are women, 1000 are servants, and 5000 cigar makers. The rest are divided up among various occupations.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02

By TE1EeRAPH.-John A. Smith, of Wichita, Kan, was unable to leave his business to go to Xenia, Ohio, and marry Miss Vashti Longfellow and the girls father, a cautious clergyman, would not permit her to join her lover before the knot was tied. The difficulty was overcome by employing the telegraph. The bride and her friends gathered at one end of the wire. Smith stood 8 thousand miles distant at the other end, and the proper questions and answers were flashed between them. Then Mrs. Smith started to join her husband,
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02

WAR and Gold-A hotel was based on gold prices. In order to accommodate both classes of travellers, the Grand Central Hotel, on Broadway, New York, is now kept on both plans, the American at $2.50 to $3, and the European at $1 and upwards per day. An elegant restaurant, at moderate prices, is con ducted by the hotel.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02

CERTAINLY one is not wise if he purchases any organ before obtaining the latest catalogue and circulars of the Mason d Hamlin Organ Co. See advertisement, and send postal card asking for them, and they will come free.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02
"A gentleman addressss another gem

"A gentIeman addresses another gem tleman, whom he doesn't know, at a party "This affair is awfully stupid ; let's go out and take @ drink" CT would like to do it," was the reply, " but l can't leave very we'll" "Why not?" "Why, you see, am the one who is giving the party"
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02

PRoMPT.-If Edwin Furbish of Pon- tiac, Mich, had not paid adebt prompt ly, the masked robbers who bound and gagged him and his family would have got the $l,000 that he had just parted with,
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02

THE attention of all who contemplate build ing is called to Bicknell & Comstoek's adver- tisement in another column.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02

A school girl in Concord, N. H., has not been absent or tardy for seven years.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02
MARKET NOTES.

FOR SPECIAL RATES for advertising in this paper apply to the publisher Of the paper UI4
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02

In the winter the cats purr 1; in the summer the larkspur.
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02

and was badly burned.
 --Guzman Blanco has taken charge of the Venezuelan Government and formed 8 new Cabinet.
 President Canal of Hayti has issued decree of amnesty to all persons im- plicated in the late riots.
 The residence of Charles Bowman near Sciota, Pa., took fire and burned, An invalid daughter of MT. Bowman, aged thlrty-fve years, perished in the flames.
 Professor Adolphe Andersen, the celebrated chess player, is dead.
 Colonel Basilewitch, of the Imperial Russian Guard, has been sentenced at Berlin to three months imprisonment on the charge of picking 1ady's pocket.
 Arrangements have been made for a six days walking-match for women at Gilmore's Garden, New York.
 Charles M. Cooper, a negro, is suing the New Haven Steamship Com pany, New England corporation, under the Civil Rights act of 1875, alleging that after having paid for a first-class passage he was elected from the dining room of the steamer Continental.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 The President sent to the Senate the names of President Andrew D. White, of Cornell University, as Minis ter to Berlin, and Cornelius A Logan, of Illinois, as minister to Central America, The Senate had brief executive session TOT reference to committees, but made no confrmations.
 -General Nimmo, the Chief of the bursa9 of Statistics, in his eighth monthly statement to the Secretary of
Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-07

its of this novel affair we will say, that pro-
vided one wishes such an addition to ones
toilet, the materials lie close at hand, and
may be found in a piece of cotton batting
and clear water. The cotton should be
quilted and fashioned into the shape of an
ordinary mask, then saturated in cold water
and applied to the face at night. 1t may be
troublesome and is probably u~nbecoming,
but persons who have experimental saythat
the sensation is not disagreeable. At any
rate, those so disposed can try for themselves,
encouraged by the knowledge that such a
mask perSistently worn, will, in time, soften
and beautify the coarsest skin.
Various items connected with domestic
chemistry and applicable to the toilet must
be left for future consideration.
VIII Clara Francis tell some lady readers of the
Prairie Farmer what viii remove moth spots from the
face, also how to restore faded black lace, also how to
Mrs. E. FIR.
Ansrer The discolorations called moth
spots, produced by some arrangement Of the
system, are SO deeply seated that external
applications do not readily affect them.
Besides attention to the general health, a
physician of reliable authority recommends
a glass of water with half a teaspoonful Of
salt in it, to be drank before breakfast every
morning, and one grain of corrosive subll-
mate to an ounce of alcohol applied as a
lotion to the spots themselves. 1t is need
less to say that the latter should be used
cautiously, a safe plan being to omit its ap-
p~lication during alternate weeks.
Black lace may be restored by washing It
in a mixture of ox-gall and tepid rain-water.
If very rusty, LeamOn's black dye may be
used with advantage. Rinse in a second
water to which is added a little ox-gall, and
a small quantity of dissolved glue or guma-
rabic-only enough of the latter to make
the lace like new. Press the water out do
not squeeze it, then clap and flick, and pull
the lace until it is almost dry, after which it
may be wound on a covered board or pressed
between the leaves of a heavy book. You
may prefer to cover a thin board or a long
slender bottle with soft dark cambria, and
haste the lace carefully on it, in which case
wash In the same manner, (being careful
never to use hot water, it shrinks the thread),
then pat the lace, and pick out the edges to
make them perfect, and the mesh clear, and
when almost dry, set away to finish, first
removing the basting threads, but leaving
the lace on the frame.
Plumes that have been wet should be laid
for a short time on a damp towel, then held
in gentle heat, moving them slightly until
they are almost dry again, after which they
must be drawn, two or three strands at a
time, over the blade of a knife or pair of
scissors. Be careful to curl them in the
right direction, and not so tightly as to look
unnatural. If too dry, they will become
brittle and break in curling.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-07

a correspondent writes from Hominy to
the Asheville Citizen: "On Saturday night
a violent attack was made upon Columbus
Foster, while asleep in his house, and he
was nearly killed. The party entered the
house, found him asleep in bed, seized him
by the throat and proceeded to deal him
some severe blows on the head with some
kind OF a deadly weapon. Foster managed
to get out OF bed, but was Immediately felled
to the floor, insensible, and left for dead.
AS no robbery seems to have taken place, it
is believed the intention was to murder. 1t
Is believed in the neighborhood that the at
tack was instigated by his wife, who left him
sometime ago and was living with her rela-
tlves, the result of an old domestic feud.
Foster is recovering"
Miss Mary Greene, of Providence, r. l.,
was 100 years of age last week. Of this
there is said to be no doubt. She is de
scrlbed as being wonderfully preserved
and does not look to be more than eighty
years old.
Sadowa. the beautiful horse ridden by the
Emperor William at the battle of Koenig-
gratz, has just died. Old age made her
feeble and she had to be killed to spare hel
further suffering. The animal has been
stuffed.
Mile. Sarah Bernhardt wears in 'Ruy
Bias a dress that cost $140O. Felix, the
great Paris dressmaker, says that it is de-
hghtful to make gowns for this lady, as she
never asks the price of anything that she
orders.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-07
THE MASSACHUSETTS CHILD-MURDER.

LIE MASSACHUSETTS
Freeman, the Pocasset Adventist, who
murdered his little daughter in obedience, as
he says, to divine command, has been visited
in Barnstable. He is still in the same frame
of mind as he has been since the tragedy.
He refuses to take any legal advice for his
approaching trial. Should the State furnish
him counsel he says he will not have any
points of the tragedy smoothed down in
order to make a good defence. Should
counsel be furnished and attempt such a poll
cy contrary to Freeman's idea of the exact
facts, Freeman says he will interrupt him on
the spot and have the statement made right.
Mrs. Freeman continues in a lamentable con
dltlon. A few days after her arrest she
seemed to see the enormity of the deed and
to feel the force of her b~ereavment, but lat
terly she has fallen under the old delusion.
She now thinks her husband did perfectly
right, and defends his entire course. Both
OF them are perfectly contented in their con-
tnement and talk nationally upon every sub
lect except the one theme which has given
such a dark hue to their lives.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-07

BLUE BLOODED BEGGARY-SUICIDE OLA
Scion OF Royalty IN A CHICAGO HovEL.
1t is not often that a foreign born noble
comes here and dies in rags. Such, howey-
er, has been the fate of a German of the
bluest blood, a nephew of a cabinet minister
of the German empire. August Won Man
t%euffel, the son of Prince Herman Won Man
t%euffel, of Germany, committed peccadilloes
that even the great wealth of his family and
their high aristocracy could not shield him
from, SO he came to Chicago. He landed
last winter with some $1,000 In his rocket.
but to-day lies a corpse at 574 South Halsted
street, and depending on charity to give his
body adecent burial. The count was twenty
three years of age, and led a very fast life in
this city, devotlng himself to American
women and whisky. He spent his time
chiefly at the saloon corner of Union and
Randolph streets, and is reported 10 have
disbursed his money lavishly upon a voun9
lady who makes cigars at the manufactorv of
Stsowbery 4 Co., $50 Randolph streat
Greatly to the credit of this girl. She snn.
ported the prince after his wealth gave ont
1t appears his friends in the old country aro
tired of him, and stopped remittances Ue
took to opium" Chinese opium" Amer
can women and whisky proved too much e.
him, and the title is now vacated. Tho
coroner will hold an inquest on the BODY To-
morrow. Iheae seems to be considerable
doubt as to whether he did not eynedita b;s
w departure from things mundane h,t
this viii only be ascertained by the coroner =
jury, II at all.-Chtcago speciul to INItro,,Lee
Seatiae. "ee
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-07
The Fatal Arrow.

My father had a fair-hai, ed harvester;
CLEANED behind him in the barleyland;
And there he put a red 1850 in my hand;
Learned of some bird and while his sckle
swept
Athwart the shiring stalks, my wild Leart kept
Beating the .une up with him all the way.
One time we restadb a limpi stream
Ger which tle l0OSe-tol gued WILLOWS Whisper
ed low;
All, blessed hour. 50 long and long ago,
It C meth lack upon NE he a dream.
And there he tOl me, blushiDg sof'-ah me!
OF one that he could luvc-SO young, so lalr,
Like mine III, color of her eyes and hair;
. foolish heart! l thought that l was she!
Full flowed lis manlv b ard; his eyes 30 b own
Made sweet con eSSiOn w tn their teId r LOOK :;
A tnOuS md times | kissed Ii in the BROOK
Across the flow rS-with baShtul eyelldS DOWN.
And even yet / cannot hear the stir
Gil WI lows by d water but / stop,
And Gown the warm waves al Tin ir length | drop
BY empty arms, to find my harvester.
In all mis- speech there was no wor to mend;
Wuato'er he laid, r RI. hit or " ronS was best,
Unit at last an arrow pierced my breast,
Tipt with q fatal pOlnt-he called Eefr endt
Still mex my heart the fadi e rose / wore,
Bu- all was sad full wen L knee u "Ot,
That l had been III love nd he had not,
And in the barley-held l gle Incd no more
Alice Carey.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-07

JEw-sY.-Bob Ingersoll is an "lnferdell,
and an hard case generally, but sometimes
speaks Unit his mouth" in a spicy Strain.
In a letter upon the recent excitement in
New York over the opposition of the hotel
keepers to admitting Jews to Coney Island,
he writes in the following Jew-sy style
"Some of the leading men of the world
are Jews. These wonderful people, although
dispersed, despised, and tor many ages per
secuted in all countries where where people
loved their enemies and returned good for
evil, have contributed to every science and
enriched every art. He who has heard the
music of Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer, who
has studied the grand philosophy of Spinoza,
and has seen upon the stage Rachel, mis-
tress of passion, will hardly unite in the
condemnation of the race to which these
prodigies belonged.
"Neither should it be forgotten that the
Jew furnished their prosecutors with a re-
ligion, and that they are the only people,
according to the dogmas OF our day, with
whom the Almighty ever deigned to have
any intercourse whatever.
"When we remember that God selected a
Jewess for his mother, passing Ply the women
of India, Egypt, Athens and Rome, as we'll
as well as the gfandmothers of Mr.. Corbin,
it is hardly in good taste for the worshippers
of that same God to hold the Jews in scorn.
eve should also remember that the Jews
were the only people inspired. All the
sacred writers-all the ''prophets were
of this race, and while Christians almost
worship Abraham, Notwithstanding the affair
of Hagar, and his willingness to murder his
own son and while they hold in almost in
finite respect David, the murderer, and
Solomon, the Mormon, it certainly is not
perfectly consistent to denounces men and
women of the same race who have committed
no crime
1.-The Christians have always been guilty
of this inconsistency with regard to the Jews
they have worshipped the dead and per-
secuted the living"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-08-07

Governor Bishop, of Ohio, when r;d;oc
up to the State House, at Columbus IaSsf
week, heard a woman cry out that her pock.
G. oook mao been stolen, and, jumping ont
pursued and overha9led the thief and rave
nm INTO custody, dlstancing all the Others
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