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Litchfield enquirer., 1881-05-19
ABIGAIL HOwsoE,
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ORDER OF NOTICE. Iitchfield County. ss., Litch-

WILLIAM HOwsoN
 State of Connecticut, Litchfeld County ss, Litch- Aeld, May 3rd, 1881. Upon the petition and complaint of Abigail Howson praying fer divorce from the above named respon- dent Wlllial Howson upon the charge that the re- spondent Is habtually incorporate, and is and has been guilty of intorable cruelty towards the dent as by her petition and compaiIt made return. able to the Superior Court next be held at Ltch. field within and for said Lichheld County, on the 1st Tuesday of June 1884, It appearing to- and being found by the subscribing authority, that the said respondent was last residing Thomaston Conn., but is now residing in parts unknown to the petitioner and is absent from this State.
 Therefore. Ordered-That notice of the pendeucy or said petition be given the said respondent by the petitioner causing said petition and complaint and this order of notie to be published in the Lichfeld Enquirer newspaper published in Litchheld, in Litchheld County, three weeks successively com mencing on or before the sixth day of May A. D. lSsi And also, that copy of said petition and paint be sent to the said respondent by ms postage paid; at Thomaston. Conn his last known place of residence on or before the 14th day of May, A. D. lSela and due return make hereon
 By order of
 VIM. L. RANSOM, Clerk 6-3w Of the Superior Court tor Ltchfield County.
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-05-19
For Rent.

E'oR fAe coming season, tEe house of Mrs. D. E. Btstwtck corner of South and East Streets we n known as one of the most desirable summe residen- ces in the vilage
 LITcHFIELD March I4th, I8Sl
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE Treasury Investigating Commit
tee have submitted a preliminary report of
evidence against the Custodian's Depart
ment. They found IN organized rim which
has been in existence for several years, and
has been misapprepriating money and de-
frauding the Government. The officials and
employees who were connected with the
ring will be dismissed at once and more
complete and thorough Investigation will be
ordered. The Committee recommend the
immediate discharge of 2 itney, and Upton,
the Assistant Secretary of the Chief Clerk.
LoRILLARD's Iroquois has carried off
another English prize-the Prince of Wales
stakes Ascot.
A PARTY of armed men took possess
sion of the jail at Dover, Pope County, Ark,
on the 18th, and hung Cal Emery, the wife
murderer, whose death sentence Governor
Churchill few weeks since commuted to
twenty one years. Imprisonment in the Peni-
Tertiary Emery resisted and was shot in
the head. 1t was supposed he was dead
when hung.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, has been consti-
tuted aport of delivery.
Miss M. M. GILLETTE, of Wisconsin,
a resident of Washington and a law student,
was appointed by the President Noary Pub
lie for the District of Columbia, the first in
stance where woman has received such an
appointment from President.
THE jury in the Victoria disaster in
vestigation, at London, Ont, have found a
verdict censuring the owner, captain, and
engineer of the Inflated vessel. The Gov
ernment Inspector is also held to blame.
Mr.. Give HERsEE, a well-known
member of the Soldene Opera Company,
committed suicide by jumping from bridge
into the river near Central City, Colo His
matrimonial relations were unhappy.
A HURRICANE destroyed several
houses and ravaged a large section of coun-
try west of Galveston, Texas.
NEAR Weston, Platte County, Mo,
negro named Charles Didel assaulted a
young lady named Nancy Stilwel, and aftera
violent struggle, in order to shield himself
from the discovery of his crime, cut his VIC
TINS throat. He was discovered by two la
dies passing by, who gave the alarm. The
villain fled, but was pursued and captured
by party Of citizens, forced to confess, and
was then hanged to a bridge, the brother Of
his victim adjusting the fatal moose. ~
JANIS MowBRAY, nine years old, was
arrested at Philadelphia, Pa, the other day,
for deliberately throwing handful of un-
slaked lime into little girls eyes. When
the girI's screams attracted crowd he re-
treated to a neighboring lot, where, it is
said, he coolly informed companion that be
had . fixed that Irish girl"
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18
The Profit of the Revision.

The question has been asked again
and again: Where do the profits of sales
Of the revised New Testament goP There
is no Bible Society or Missionary Asso-
citation to profit thereby, but after pay
ing expenses, which by the English Com
mittee are given as 100000 for work
thus far done on both Testaments, all
other profits 90 to the University Press
publishers, who at the outset in lieu Of
the copyright guaranteed all expenses to
the revisers there. The American Com
mittee, however, do not receive and will
not get one cent. Their expenses, not
for labor, but for travel, correspondence,
stationery, ETC., have been paid by pri-
vate subscriptions up to this time. The
profits must be very great if the Oxford
publishers have already sold, as report
ed, 1900, 900 copies. But this number
includes the 500, 900 sent to this country.
The different styles are sold cheaper in
the United States than they are in Eng
lard, Canada and the colonies, because
of the lack of international copyright
here. For example, the very popular
twenty-cent edition sold here in New
York sells in London and Quebec for
twenty-five or thirty cents, and the high
er-priced copies are proportionally in
creased. N. Y Herald.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18
PITH AND POINT.

Assessors have way of finding out
how poor man isl. o, PicayuBe.
Wall Street is easily moved; bull
rush will do it.-BoSton Commercial
BuUetia
The best thing for boil, about
these days, is nice bunch Of asparagus.
--NeaO Hacen Register.
Time to plant dogmuzzles. Yonkers
Gazette. Better plant the dogs, and you
will have doggone sure thing of it
Tawcob Strauss.
The Western Indians have green
corn dance. If it is anything like the
green apple dance that white men in
dulge in, there can't be much fun in it.
-B0Stoa Post.
For simply trying to get ahead in
the world poor little Philadelphia boy
was sent prison. He stole head of
cabbage Philadelphia Chronicle.
An epicure is a man who knows
what is good to eat, and who talks about
his food incessantly All an epicure
needs is bristles, and then he could be
classed at glance.-Nes0 HaUe9 Regis
ter.
1.-THE Bible says, sLove your neigh
Dor as yourself, 4" the parson remarked;
ssbut of course we must not take this
literally. If you manage to love your
neighbor one-hundredth part as much
as you do yourselves, many of you, it
will be all that can reasonably be ex-
pected of you. ''-Boston transcript.
1t is remarkable how many things
will explode bottles of catsup, dough-
nuts, soda water fountains, boilers, roast
potatoes, and now man. At least, we
read in novel that "Eugenie's father,
upon hearing this, exploded with indig
nation" This should teach fathers
never to fool with NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
torn Herald.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18
When to Use Gestures.

A writer in the Golden Rule rebukes
the tendency to a gushing and overtime
style in literature as well as in oratory,
and emphasizes useful hint as follows
A young lady in France, placed under
the tuition of 1--WE think) Madame
Clarion, was constantly offending her
teacher by excessive action with her
arms. She was in the habit of fliDging
them about in supererogatory way
which tore passion to tatters, sin Ercles
vein"
After many admonitions, the lady re-
solved to tie her pupils hands to her
sides with piece of string.
Now said the girl, 81 can't move
them at ALL"
I" Go on with you part, +" kindly replied
the other, smiling.
And go on she did, with elocution all
the better for action the less. At last,
on reaching the climax of her part, her
excitement nerved her little wrists, she
burst the strings and, ,as your charwoman
would phrase it, she 50 gestulated'' with
great vehemence. When it was over,
she apologized. with tears in her eyes,
saying she really +" could not help it. -
To her surprise, her instructress praised
her action this time.
That, mon enfant, is what we want.
Reserve your vehement displays of feel
ing till you can not help making them,
and they will be both appropriate and
successful
Surely the lesson is large one Quiet
energy, with readiness to strike the iron
when (but not before) it is hot, is the
secret of success in most undertakings.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18
Mrs. Langtry.

The London correspondent Of the
Manchester Times says: Mrs. Langtry
was thoroughly mobbed by a we'll
dressed crowd at the Royal Academy the
other day. The famous beauty, with
her party, entered the exhibition through
the last instead of through the first room,
and as there were comparatively few
people in this part of the galleries her
presence was at first not noticed. Soon,
however, the word went round to the
principal rooms, which were at the time
inconveniently crowded, and a. general
move was made to meet Mrs. Langtry,
with the result that the doorways got
completely choked up, and people were
pushing each other backward and for-i
ward as if they had been a mere COM
monplace crowd, instead of one COM
posed exclusively Of superior persons.
Mrs. Langtry is, however, well used TO
being stared at, and bore the infliction
with great equanimity, though / fear she
saw very little Of the pictures
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Toledo has skewer factory which
made and sold $4,000, 900 skewers last
year. .J .af t.
Tobacco smoke contains about eight
millilitres of carbonic oxide per 100
grains burnt. Ha
Gases of tetanus and trismus are
said to have been successfully treated by
DR.. Sporer, who merely applied to the
nape of the neck and along the spine Of
the patient large pieces of fanpel dipped
in hot water of temperature just bear
able to the hand.
An immense galvanic battery, con-
ststing of II 400 cells of chloride of sill
yer and zinc elements, has been con-
structed for use in the lectures at the
Royal Institution, London. The charg'
ing of the battery occupied three per-
sons fortnight.
DR.. William James, the Harvard
Professor and brother Of Henry James,
Jr., has been giving practical talks to
the students on physiology and hygiene.
As to the veXed question whether alco-
hol is food or not, the Professor thinks
that it takes the place of food by tenn
porarily reducing the normal demand
for it, but that "this effect is not de-
sirable " or consistent with perfect
health.
A special committee of the English
Institution of Mechanical Engineers have
set forth the following explanation or the
hardening of steel Referring to the
generally held opinion that ordinary
steel contains certain proportion ofoc-
cluded gases consisting of hydrogen, nj
trogen, and carbonic oxide, they suggest
that the application of heat expels these
gases through minute assures, and that
sudden cooling shuts the door, so to
speak, to the re-entrance of these gases,
and perhaps forces out what Of them
may remain in the metal, thus render
ing it harder and denser than before.
When the metal is reheated the gases
are reabSorbed, and the various changes
it undergoes in consequence are indicat-
ed by variations in color.
The Agricultural Department has
received samples of jute fibre prepared
by American machinery from green
stems grown in Virginia. 1t satisfacto-
rily solves the problem that has engaged
the attention of the Department for over
ten years. The fibre is largely used in.
the manufacture of gunnybags, paper,
ropes, carpets, bagging, and oilcloths.
1t will be impossible to glut the market
with it, as its use is so diversified and
essential. The plant can be successfully
grown in any section south of New York.
For several years it has been raised in
the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia. To
clean and prepare the fibre by hand for
markets. Shiny and proftless business,
and the American laboref in this work
could not compete with the women, chill
dren, and other cheap labor of the East
Indies. A machine to do the work was
essential to make the cultiva ton of jute
a success on American soil. The Com
missioner is satisfied that such machine
has been invented.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18
The Lawyers Boy.

Anybody who thinks that the boy en-
ployed around a lawyers office has
nothing to do but empty the paper bas-
ket, run to the post-office, sweep the
room and read the jokes of Blackstone,
is grandly mistaken. A boy-that is, a
prize of boy, and one that will event.
ually become great lawyer himself
has heap on his mind, and no time for
sling-shots or tops. Yesterday while a
Detroit lawyer was in court, with his
boy in charge of the office, newspaper
MAJ 10 was hunting through the Moi
fat Back stumbled upoa the. young ats
torney and was received with:
"Come right in. The papers in your
case are ready to be signed
"What case?''
"Applcation for divorce"
But I'm not the man.
Saint youP Well, you look like him
Let's seep Are you the defendant in the
Jones VS.. Brown case of trespass? If
so, | am to tell you that-the case is put
over until next Saturday, at the same
hour in the afternoon
s. No, am not Brown"
"Well, that's all right. Let's see
againp | was TO tell Ryan that his case
against Peters for slander would not
come on this term, and to suggest that
he amend his declaration. You have
not given the dates whereon the de-
fendant called you reptile and a
sneak -
"But | am not Ryan"
g Is that so? That's too bad, but per-
haps you can't help it. Was it your
wife who eloped with a man named
Blake?n
"No.n
"Then you are not Mr.. Glenn. Twas
to tell him that he forgot to state the
particular time at which he first noticed
coidness in her demeanor Let's see
OH there's that bigamy case. Twas to
say to the defendant that the prosecu-
| ton appear to have hunted up and got
hold of the testimony of third female
who claims to have married you in To
ledo in 1864, and that your case looks
shaky. We will, however, do our best
to pull you through, as we do all our
clients.'
You are off again; l am not the
NJ
"Dear me, that's another. Well, all
right. [ was to say 10 any new client
that Mr.. - would be back in an hour.
Come in and sit down and look over the
City Directory. We will take your case
at the lowest cash price and do our level
| lest to win it, Consult no other firm
/ 5ntil you iiaye'given MS trial. .-Detyost
Free Press. :.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA SATURDAY, JUNE Is. 1881

morse. Strange TO relate, Mr. CrlsWell anu
Mr.. Clark and wife, who were in he wagon,
were only slightly injured. The verdict OF
the Coroner's jury was that they came to
their death by the criminal carelessness Of
the conductor and engineer.
GEORGE ARMOUR, head of the we'll
known Chicago grain firm Of Armour, Dale
e Co., has just died in England, where he
had gone for rest and recreation.
The house of William Stout, a pros
porous farmer near Agency Ford, Buchanan
County, Mo-, burned on the 18th, and Mr..
Stout's mother, an aged and infrn woman,
whe had been left aloneason the premises,
perished in the flames.
OFFICIAL dispatches to Oran, Alge-
ria, state that General Detrie defeated
body of insurgents, killing fifty. The French
had two wounded.
THE Iron Mountain brakemen struck
at Little Rock on the 18th.
OFFICER THOMAS MAHONEY was shot
dead at Chicago on the morning of the 18th
by burglar whom he undertook to arrest.
AN earthquake has devastated thirty
four villages in Armenia. One hundred per-
sons are reported killed and sixty injured.
ALLISON, the scout, says Sitting Bulls
camp is about l75 miles north Of the border
line, and comprises less than one hundred
persons. Those reds who surrendered last
winter have petitioned for new agency on
Grand River.
r. III. NEAL, who robbed the San An
tonia (Texas) Building Association of S14, :
600, and subsequently forfeited his boud, has
been arrested at Gainesville, Ga, where he
was travelling for safe manufacturer.
ANOTHER shock of earthquake at Scio
overthrow a minaret and injured two men.
A tremor in the valley Of the upper Rhone
extended as far as Geneva.
BLUE EARTH CITY, Mimi, expert
enced its most violent storm on the 18th.
Five inches of water fell in one hour. Trees
were uprooted and buildings demolished,
but no great damage to the crops by hail is
reported. Mr. and Mrs. Chaffee, of Lura,
were killed. The barn of l.. j. Praber, in
the same town, was unroofed, burying his
daughter in the ruins. She was taken out
in an unconscious condition, and her inju-
ries may prove fatal.
MICHAEL j. Houston, age Sc, and
his son Michael, age 80, were suffocated by
! foul air in a well at Frederick City, Nd.
AT Maysville, Ky, George Evans, a
colored bootblack, aged II, went to see his
sweetheart, Ada Brown, a girl about his
own age. During the evening they quar-
relied, and in fit of jealous rage he drew
pistol alfyi shot h1T III tie fsco. fa4iie.:r- II
serious wound. He then ran to the river,
shot himself through the lung, and plunged
in. He was rescued, but was not expected
to live.
NEAR Paducah, Ky, anegro boy died
from eating muberries poisoned by locusts
depositing their eggs upon them. From the
same cause several others were made very
sick.
A SHOOTING affray occurred at Heel
string Church, Ellis Coun y, Texas, on lie
18th. Several shots were exchanged, and
one of the assaulting parties was mortally
wounded.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18
Business Before Pleasure.

There is a sagacious Newfoundland
dog in Norwich. He will take the
basket, in which is note, and go to the
market, get meat, vegetables, or what
ever the note calls for, and carry it safe
" home. But he has daily task as
signed him which he performs, rain or
shine, and that is to carry his mistress
her dinner. She keeps millinery es-
tablishment, and does not 90 home to
her noon-day meal Regularly as the
day comes around the dog may be seen
trotting along Main Street at about II 80
with the basket in his mouth, looking
neither to the right nor left, but going
straight to the store, where he sets
tress comes for it. And he is so we'll
known, too, among the Norwich dogs
that he is never molested. But on Mon
day stranger dog undertook to have a
little racket with him while he was load
ed down with his commissary stores.
He hung to the basket, but stopped long
enough to get a good look at the cow
ardly cur that had interfered with him,
and then started off on run for the
store, where he dropped the basket and
Immediately began to search for his
lssailant. He found him on Franklin
Avenue, and proceeded to chastise him
n true canine style. In about half a
minute he sat down and watched that
;ur put in his best jumps for the hill
ops of Voluntown. giving a ki-hi at
every leap Hartford Comm CoArd'at.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18

NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that the
Governor OF Utah has given a certificate of
election 10 Ca ampbel!, as Representative ELECT
from that Territory, Clerk ADAMS has placed
The name OF Cannon upon the roll of the new
House, his action being based upon the fact
that Cannon received an undisputed majori-
ty Of the votes cast, rs certified to by the
United States Court at Salt Lake.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18

Iris said the Missouri Pacific Railroad
will build an extension from Atchison 10
Omaha. The route will be through Atchl-
son and Brown Counties, Kanss, to FAILS
Citv Neb.. and thence to Omaha.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18

SAMUEL DnAEEE, Democrat, has
been ell cted to C ngress from the Second
District Of South Carolina, to ill the vacancy
caused by the death OF Representative o.
Cemor. The Republicans abstained from
voting, holding that Mackey, O'Connor's op-
ponent, was really elected last fall, and that,
therefore, no vacancy existed.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18

NJ. j. WALDRON, Superintendent of
the Railway Mail Service of the Southwest
ern District, with headquarters at Memphis,
has been indicted in the Federal Court at
that city for conspiracy to defraud the Gov
emment in securing mail contracts. The
indictment was found on the testimony of a
bidder of river route in Louisiana, to
whom it is alleged Waldron offered to secure
a contract if paid thousand dollars.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18

A DARING attempt to blow up the
Town-hall at Liverpool, England, was made
on the night of the 9th. The police detected
lighted fuse against the building. The off,
GERS threw the pipe into the middle of the
street. where it exploded, causing no dam
age further than the SCATTERING of few
windOw-panes. The two men were subse-
quently arrested and found to be well
armed and supplied with money. They have
been identified as Irishmen named Mickey
EFT and Roberts.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18

Col. JOHN A. WALSH, star-route
contractor, has begun suit in Washington
against Samuel p. Brown, on Il $4,000 note,
which it is alleged was given as part pay for
securing the "expedition y OF mailroute.
1t is understood that the Government officials
expect to obtain evidence through this suit
of the connection between the contractors
and the POST office officials, and the develop
nents are therefore awaited with no little
interest
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18

ANOTHER American horse, keene's
Foxhsll, has carried off a foreign prlze-lhe
Grand Prix at Paris, equivalent TO the Eng
ish Derby. 'fsrre was great rejoicing
among the American residents.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18
Major George w. Murphy, a well


known real-estate dealer of Pittsburgh,
Pa, walked into DR.. Benham's office
and said: ssDoctor, I've taken NOR
phine, and I want you to witness my
will" The Doctor did not believe it,
thinking that Murphy was joking; but
it was fact, and Murphy died after the
will had been attended TO
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.

PrrSEY, Custodian of the Treasury.
,,s refused to testify before the Inyestigat-
inc Committee, and he maintains they can
not compel him o testify under oath.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18

A TERRIBLE riot occurred at Cork,
Ireland. on the 9th, while the races were in
,roore.s. The mounted police charged the
mob. There were a number OF casualties
on both sides. Twenty rio ers were ar
restcd.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18

PROF. RILEY, of the United States
chronological Commission, says the locusts
now appearing in the We and South are
two distinct broods; one is the thirteen-y year
and the other the seventeen year locusts, and
this is the first lime they have appeared in
the same year since 1860. Prof. Riley says
THESE iolusts can not do any damage except
10 young fruit trees, in the limbs of which
tney deposit their eggs. He says the notion
!hs1 these locusts sting human beings is
laliacy; tnat species Of digger wasp feeds
On 'hese young locusts, and people have
oeen stung by these wasps, from which the
'e'iel sprung that the locusts sting. He
says the loeusts will suddenly disappear be-
fore long.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18

1t is estimated that there az now
$1,000 Americans in Rome, Italy.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-06-18

M exciting event occurred in the
NV lor& Assembly Chamber on the 9th,
a'' previous to the vote for United States
pa',i ella'vr oelng called, Mr.. Bradley, Stawart
pu'l1cah member from Cattaraugus
ro'''''y arose in his seat, and having received
oysnllon from the Speaker, said: 81
iecelYed last night s. 800 to pay me for vot-
das.' s0.uaS Tor Chauncey M. Depew. / have
~; p0II'eu Tue money with the Speaker of
of;' ,,i' nouSe, and | now ask for a committee
-, ISanon." Speaker Sharp corrobo-
'ne sta ement and said that he had the
of lo' ~ ms pocket. Messrs. Armstrong,
,,,e,i.y g,giua, and Sisson, of Washington subse-
81! stated that they also had been
nit nit money to Vote for Depew. A COM
,an ~. was appointed, and Immediately af-
orn 'gurhment the investigation was be-
bin, bradley testified the money was paid
gsa5: M Y Senator Sessions, with the under
Plat ne was to change his vote from
.,r tbo pepew. He accepted the money
sfons ~ purpose ST exposing the bribe. Ses-
lev ~ wore poJ.t blank he never paid Brad
lion ~ niOney md that there was no sugges-
between them.