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Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
A Broadway Puzzle.

There are in Broadway, New York, between Bleecker and Houston streets, three fve-story marble-front buildings which have stood idle for fifteen years. This property should be good for $50,- 900 year at the very least. It has not produced dollar during the long period named. The taxes on it amount proba- ply to $1O,OOO year. The interest on the money invested in it must be at least as much more. If it were rented like other property it would have yielded at least $750, 1000 in the time named. Instead of that it has cost the owners in taxes and interest not less than $500, 900. Why is it not rented? Nobody knows. There it stands, year after year, 8 monument of vacancy and heavy loss. "To let " bills are on it all the ktime, but it does not let. l am told that it belongs to wealthy family in France, who sent money here mary years ago for investment. They have never seen it, and its control is entirely in the hands of an agent. He watches it closely, and is always polite to persons making in- quiry about it but for some inexplica- ble reason he never strikes bargain with any one. A gentleman told me recently that during visit to France a few years ago he tried to see the head of the family that owns it for the pur- pose of negotiating for it, but the French man, gruff old Count, would not give him an interview. The property is go- ing to decay, in the heart of the busiest part of New York.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
Flash Literature.

Emma Newman, the young daughter of a Philadelphia widow, was much too delicate and refined to bear the hard ships of poverty. She could not get a great deal of work, and that which she obtained she was unable to do satisfac- tori1y. Her mother was i'll, there was nobody to help her, and there was not a cent nor a morsel of food in the house. While greatly distressed by these mis- fortunes she came across story paper containing the picture of g girl jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge. She read the first chapters of the romance, and found remarkably close resemblance between the plight of the heroine and her own. She at once resolved to commit suicide, and made the attempt by plunging from the Girard avenue bridge into the Schuyl- kill River. She was rescued, however, by the Undine Boat Club, which chanced to be near by.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
Papers Wanted.

There being now pending in the War Department great numbers of volunteer pension claims which cannot be satis- factorily verified for want of informa- tion which missing records of discon- tinued volunteer commands would afford, and it becoming known in many instances that officers of the late volun- teer forces have still in their possession, or under their control, books and other records pertaining to their corps, divi, sions, brigades, regiments, and com. panies, Adiutant- General Drum has issued circular calling attention tc the fact that all such books and records should be placed in the AdiutantG Gen erals office, and earnestly requesting that they be forwarded without delay to the Adiutant- General at Washington
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
The Detective Camera.

What truth there may be in an item running its course in the French prints no one can say, but it is said that in the leading banking houses in Europe what is called detective camera is to be used. A man of suspicious appearance makes his way up to the cashiers coun- ter and presents letter of credit or a draft. The bank clerk is doubtful as to the look of the man. His signal ment, he thinks, is worth taking. The clerk, when the mans face is full to- ward him, touches little button. Presto, 8 concealed camera is brought into play, the sensitive plate is exposed, and in an instant the mans photograph is taken. Further than this, this won derful detective camera is to play an- other role. The head of the house leaves his business and confdes it to his clerk. Some of the clerks go to sleep, or smoke cigars, or skylark, or do other things not exactly in keeping with their calling, and off start series of plates, worked by clock-work, and every action of the clerks during a series of hours is recorded. There might be even pleasing though rather compromising use of this mechanical camera. With such an instrument, all the handsomest women at soiree might be photographed without their knowledge, and galleries of beauties be at any ones command. Let it be hoped, however, that this camera, if it is to be used, will only be employed for thieves and rascals. That it is perfect ly possible to take such instantaneous pictures, without 8 person knowing it, admits of no reasonable doubt.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
An Oriental Joe Miller.

A story is told of El Mehdi, another of the Abbasides, that, being out hunt ing one day, he came upon the hut of an Arab, who set some simple fare before him, but supplemented it with 8 bottle of wine. The Caliph drank a glass and said, 70 brother of the Arabs! do you know who I am?" "No, by Allah!" was the reply. "I am one of the personal attendants of the Con- mander of the Faithful" "I congratu- late you on your post" said the other. Tossing off another glass El Mehdi re- peated the question, and the Arab reminded him that he had just told him he was one of the Caliph's suite. "Nay," said El Mehdi. "But I am one of the principal officers" CT wish you joy!" said the Arab. After third glass, the Caliph again began: 70 brother of the Arabs! do you know who amp" ''You say that you are one of the Commander of the Fal thful's chief officers" answered the Arab. "No. so," said Ell Mehdi. ''I am the Com mander of the Faithful him self ]" The Arab, on hearing this, quietly took the bottle of wine from the table and put it away with the contentious remark: ''n you were to drink another glass, you would declare that you were the Prophet himself l" This anecdote, with slight variations, is also told of Harour Alraschid ; indeed it is often difficult te ascertain exactly who the heroes of cer. tain favorite stories are, as they are not unfrequently repeated in different biographies. Such witticisms probably were stock quotations from the unwrit ten Joe Miller of the day.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
BOGUS BUTTER AGAIN.
The Bill Passed by the Legislature
 of New York State.

The new bogus butter bill passed by the Legislature of New York declares void the sale of "any article or sub- stance in semblance of butter not the legitimate product of the dairy, and not made exclusively of milk or cream, but into which any oil or fat not produced from milk or cream enters as a com- ponent part, or into which melted butter or any oil thereof has been in- troduced to take the place of cream" " unless the package containing the stuff is distinctly and durably" marked "upon the top and also upon the side 9 with the words Imitation Butter" by branding or by painting with black paint, the tstters to be Roman and at least one-half inch in length" No action can be entertained by the courts to recover the price of sale made in violation of the statute. Whenever small quantities of the stuff are sold at retail it obliges the seller to deliver to the purchaser simultaneously label printed with the same words. Clear ances of it through the Custom House are directed to be made as Imitation Butter" Then comes this unique provision:
 IMPORTANT TO BOARDING HOUSE KEEPERS.
 "Every proprietor or manager of a hotel, boarding house or restaurant who shall serve, place, or cause to be served or placed in parcels on the table or counter for their boarders or customers any such articles or substance as herein stated, shall post in at least four con- spicuous places in the dining or lunch room of said hotel, boarding house or restaurant, printed label bearing the plainly printed words, Imitation Butter Served here,' only in Roman letters not less than one inch in length, which shall be printed in not more than two continuous straight lines."
 Finally sales or exposures for sale and attempts to export the stuff in violation of the statute and service of it to guests or boarders in hotels, boarding houses or restaurants without posting the four placards, are made misdemeanors, criminally punishable with fine and i'm prisonment on indictment, and also sub- iect to fines of $1OO to be recovered in civil actions brought by the District Attorneys, and to be appropriated one half to the informers and the other hah to the support of the poor in the county where the recovery is had.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
A Hearty Welcome.

When Miss Una c. Pearson arrives at years of discretion she will conclude
 that Durango, Cal, was good place to be born in. She is the first native of that fourishing camp, and her advent was the occasion of much joy among the hard-fsted frontiersmen, many of whom, no doubt, had not seen baby for twenty years. That was 'tender- foot' whom the veterans were glad to welcome, and few hours after her appearance in this vale of tears she had received innumerable presents of all kinds and values, including bag of gold dust, half dozen bottles of sooth- ing syrup, dog, town lot, years subscription to the local newspaper, four tons of coal and Post-office box.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
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 For Indigestion, and Dyspepsia, the many forms of Liver Com splaint, Impure and Impoverished Blood, and Functional Derange- ments attendant upon Debility, and for Building up the weak, Ash- Tonic is doubtless the most prompt and certain remedy yet devised In 1-2 Ib. bottles, 75 cents; Six bottles, $4.l Accredited Physicians and Clergymen, who may, desire to test the Tonic, will be supplied with not 7 exceeding six bottles, at one-half the retail price, money to accom- De panyathe order. Sold by Druggists, and by D. B. Dewey & Co.,, 46 Dey St., N. Y. -n<er r-E G-GO
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
CANAAN, CONN.,, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 1884,

l AOAS oAAAAOs oAO OAAc1O O"y JOu AoAA >AO ~" = in fit. I knowed then I must hurry an git you to the city, whar a doctor could cure you. That wasn't more n a year ago. You're only 8 child now, Cordy."
 'Yes, pappy.''
 ''It was slow work maxim money, so I engaged as spy to Peters he paid we'll, or government paid through him. It was for you, Cordy-for you
 "'Twasn't right, pappy. Discoe didn't think it was right"
 "Hcney, have you had any of them fits since you came here to live with Discoe p
 ''One, pappy. Sometimes I think that's why he left me-"
 "Then you ought to hate him. Give up the thoughts of him, child, an come with me to Nashville. It II be pleas ant. We'll have a pretty little house, not rough log-cabin. An I'll hire a woman to do all the work. You sha'n't soil your little hands, my girl and I'll buy you ribbons, and such gowns as city girls wear-blue and pink. An Iii get buggy an take you drivin' every day like lady. Won't you come, my girl?''
 "No, pappy; I have to stay here. My man will be back soon, an he'll want Cordy."
 And to every attack or entreaty Cordy returned the same unmoved answer. Once he threatened her. But at his tone of force and rough authority she fell in the dreadful convulsions that maddened him and shook her reason. After that he was always gentle with her.
 One day travelling preacher stopped at the cabin, and asked to stay all night. When Cordy learned who he was, an unwonted excitement took posses sion of her.
 She called her father apart.
 "Discoe said he'd marry me the first time preacher would come this way," she whispered, her light eyes shining. "P'r'aps he has sent this one"
 "No, no, my girl don't think it.
 "But I will. think it," she said shrilly, and springing toward the stranger. "Mister, did my man send you? and will he come after you soon ?"
 The stranger stared.
 "Don't mind her," said Lame Jerry, roughly. "Her man left her, and she ain't been right in her wits since.''
 Looking from one to the other, Cordy burst into low laugh.
 q see Discoe wants to surprise me. But never mind. I'll be ready"
 As the sun went down, she dressed herself in white dress, and braided her smooth thick hair. Then with a smile she sat watching by the window. An! it was sight for God to pity! The young unrested head, the eagerness of the sharpened face, and defined against the rough walls the most pathetic shape of one soon to become mother, with Shame and Despair for her furious handmaidens. '
 After this he hoped no more. A little later, in a driving storm, he plunged down the mountain to find Jane Oscar and bring her to his child. At the wilG midnight hour a babe was laid or Cordy's piteous young breast; botf breathed faintly until the rising of the sun, when their souls went out together And Lame Jerry was left to live witt his money-and his memories. .-Har peT's Weekly. --.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25

LYNCH LAVA Colorado judge re- gently cleared desperate who had committed 8 foul murder, but the crowd hanged the rascal from the Courthouse window and told the judge that the next time he let murderer go they would hang him. Thereupon his Honor promptly sentenced three others to be hanged.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25

HIS EYE SIGHT. Lord Denman, @ friend of the domestic quadruped crea. tion, drives horse about the streets of London that wears spectacles. The animal was found to be near-sighted, and its owner has successfully tried tLe experiment of remedying the defect in the same way as IS done with human beings.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25

BoaUs DUE1s.-In Alexandria, Pied mont, a newspaper man and an army officer lately fought 8 duel, in which shots were exchanged with impunity. The pistols had been loaded by the seconds with chocolate caramels, and this fact leaking out caused the public to explode with laughter. Duels and wind-mills belong to the past,
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
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Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
4 PRA YER.

My God, I only ask for health; No fame, no power, or boundless wealth !;
 Lest might be Tempted by any passing gift, Or less perhaps my soul might drift
 Away from Thee. ask that may ever stand Encompassed, shielded by Thy hand . While here below: That Thou wilt give me strength to bear My little griefs, and time to share
 Another's woe. My heart unto Thine own I knit; Give me such cheer as should beft
 A wanderer here; Keep me apart from noisy strife, And let me feel through all my life
 Thy presence near.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25

CHANGING PLACES. The medical fac- ulty of Vienna have been studying young man who wears his heart on his right side, his liver on his left, and in other respects has the usual arrange ment of the internal, human organism completely reversed. He is strong and healthY.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25
(aStOria=asn.. =as Dose,

@35 cents. A Mothers remedy for sleepless and irritable Children. The Recipe of Old D-. Pitcher, Free from Morphine, and not Narcotic. Formula published with each bottle. For Flatulency, assimilating the food, Sour Stomach, Feverishness, Worms, and Disor- dered Bowels, CastOria has the larg- est sale of any article dispensed by Druggists.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25

The Peruvian Syrup has cured thou sands who were suffering from Dyspep, sia, Debility, Liver Complaint, Bo1ls, Humors, Female Complaints, etc. Pamphlets free to any address. Seth ] W. Fowle & Sons, Boston.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25

SENT1MENTA1.-A sentimental woman at Mayville, Canada, has put strong iron fence around the tree whereon a sweetheart of youthful days once carved her name.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25

Have Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry always at hand. It cures Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Group, Influenza, Consumption, and all Throat and Lung Complaints. 50 cents and $a pbett2e.
Connecticut western news., 1881-05-25

THE life of man should be like his watch-constantly on the go and full of good works,
The Morehouse clarion., 1881-09-16

A New Joke of TWain's.

An old settler came into tho
Office this morning with g joke
on Mark Twain, which has never
been in print before. At one
time in his life. Mark essayed
journalism in Keokuk, aud he
bought an old hand press, aud
Went to work to enlighten the
natives. The late Judge Clag-
gett, of the Cons isatiaD, came
along, a tramp jour, looking for
work. He stopped at Marks
shop, and walking in, found
Mark under the press with
wrench, all covered with oil and
printers ink, struggling with the
impression. He asked Mark
where the proprietor was, and
Mark, looking at him from
around the legs of the press, an
swered that be was out. Then
Mark wanted to know why he
asked. Claggett said that he
was printer and wanted u job.
Mark looked him all over, and
asked him where he got his good
clothes. Claggett replied that
he was just out of his appren.
ticeship, and his old boss made
him a present of them. Merk
shock his head sadly, and re-
Piled: "You take proper good
care of them, young man, for as
long as you stay at the business
YOU will never have another so
good" Clsggett settled down
by Mark, and eventually bought
the Constitution, and ran it until
the day of.his death, but he al
ways remembered what NJ ark
told him, for it was true. That
pair of garments wae the best he
ever had Peoria journal.
The Morehouse clarion., 1881-09-16
LAKE TAHOE.

The Tahoe Tattler says that
there are a great many erroneous
ideas extant relative to this lake,
and announces that it will make
1t special part of its business
to correct them and give the
real. facts concerning it regard
ing cI'uato'sgv, geology. boat
ing, etc. 1t is situated 6,220 feet
abovs the sea, is ss2 mites long
from north to south l2ad miles
wide, the greatest contour being
paral|elogram. The greatest
measured depth that we have
good authority for is 1906 feet.
The temperature never goes be-
low 39 degrees Fahrenheit and
in summer never above 80, unless
it be near the shore in some
sheltered cove or where a stream
of sun-warmed water runs into
it. At a depth OF 500 feet the tenn
perature never changes, being
39a deg. This fact accounts for
another-that of drowned per-
sons never rising-the water be-
ing so cold that no gases are
generated, hence the body in
time simply goes to pieces from
the action of the water. It is az
buoyant as any other pure water
at the same latitude, there being
no appreciable difference in the
readings of the hymdrometer,
hence the statement that wood
does not float for any time, per-
sons can not swim and the like
fallacies:: The air being very
light at this elevation above the
level of the sea, exercise of any
kind, either on land or water,
cannot be so long continued as
in lower and HEAVIER atmospheres.
The Morehouse clarion., 1881-09-16
KILL Or CUBE.

A physician being summoned
to attend a miser's wife in her
last illness declined to continue
bis visits unless he had some
legal guarantee for payment, as
be knew by experience, the slip
perry character of the husband
where pecuniary obligations were
concerned. The miser thereupon
drew up a document, formally
promising, after haggling over
the amouat, that be would pay
to DR.. So-and-so the sum Of.
"if he curss my wife" "Stop,"
said the doctor. II cannot un-
dertake to do that. I will treat
her to the best of my ability, but
she is very i'll, and I fear she
will not recover" So the sem
tence was altered to, "For attend
ance upon my wife, kill or cure"
the paper signed and delivered
over to the physician. His skill
was unavailing, and the patient
died; bat when the bill came in,
the widower quie tly repudiated
the debt IN toto. In vain was it
represented to him that the doc-
tor held his legal acknowledge
ment; so the latter sued him for
the amount in perfect confidence
of gaining the day. The missr
did not dispute the clrcumstan-
ces in court, but requested to
see the document, which he then
read aloud with great delibera-
ton. "And did You cure my
wife, sir ?" he asked. glaucing
over his spectacles at the plain
tiff. "No; that was impossible"
"Did you kill her ?" Verdict for
the defendant. Doctor sold.--
Chamber 9 Journal.
The Morehouse clarion., 1881-09-16
DIR. W. f.. PUGH,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
BASTROP, LA.

Having permantly located in Bastrop,
offers his professional services to the peo-
rle Of this town and viciniqy. He will
be found at his office, South of the public
"a uare at all hours when not engaged in
the duties Of his profession. And will
be ready, night or day, to respond
promptly to the calls Of the people.
The Morehouse clarion., 1881-09-16
THE COTTON BOOM IN THE SOUTH.
Hartford (Conn.) Post.]

The old dream of Southern
factories manufacturing cotton
goods in the centre Of the cotton
growing country is in fair way
OF rea'ization. For the last ten
years the progress in this direc-
tion has been very striking and
now in most of the cotton-grow-
ing States the new industry ia
fairly started, and In some it
has attained considerable dimen-
sions. IL Georgia, for instance,
a single factory, started five
years ago, with a capital of
100000, has grown to a corpo-
ration with five factories, a capt
tai of 81, ,250,O00. and is paying
twenty per cent. Similar devel'
opment is reported at different
points in the State, and in
number of instances the growth
has been hundred per cent. or
more within two or three years.
So in other Southern States the
same thing has gone on until
co,ton-mills are found in consid-
erab1e numbers, almost all doing
a thriving business, and most OF
them leading to the establish.
ment of others in the vicinity.
The advantages of southern mills
are too plain to need much de-
scription. The cost Of trans
porting the cotton North for
manufacture is about thirteen
per cent. OF the price for it, and
most Of this is saved to Southern
mills. The cost OF living Is less
at the South, and there are all
the incidental advantages which
attend the working of q staple
article near the place of it's pro-
dnction. In this case, too, there
is the special stimulus which
comes from q success in q new
field, The novelty of the thing
has not worn of, and is attrac-
tive in itself.
The Morehouse clarion., 1881-09-16

Jemes G.. Fair is worth $42,-
600, 900. And the whole $z2,00O,-
900 of it, my dear boy, can't
make him as happy as you are
with the dew of youth in your
heart when you hold the hand
of the girl you love, AMI walk
with her 10 a path that is only
wide enough for one, with the
rustlipg branches whispering
above your head, so happy you
cannot speak with anything but
your eyes. If you envy him,
Telemancus, if you, with your
brown hands and your bright
young face, with the down just
shading your lip, with not gray
hair in your head or gnawing
care in your heart, with the
morning sun shining on your up
turned face, with the velvet turf
under your feet and the blue
heavens above your head, with
the blood coursing through your
veins like wine, with fifty or sixty
years of life before you, with
mirage after mirage OF bright
dreams and beautiful illusions
and pleasant yanities making the
landscape beautiful about you;
if you envy this man his $4,000
600, and his speotacles, and his
wrinkles, you are a fool, my boy;
and you are scattering ashes on
the roses that grow in the morn
ing. There is lightness in your
step, my son, and color in your
blood, and dreams in your heart.
and all the love and beauty and
freshness of the sunrise the $42,-
900, 900 cannot buy, and don't
YOU forget it.-[New York Sun.