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Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05
BENEVOLENT MIR. WIXHAM.

At meeting of the Ladies' Benevolent Society, held the other day, it was resolved that committee of four ladies be appointed to canvass for donations, and in the course of their peregrinations this committee yesterday dropped into MT. Wixham's office. He received them as 8 gentleman should, and after the usual formalities one of them began:
 MT. Wixham, we are asking aid for benevolent purposes.
 "Ah! yes. Benevolence is bump which should be cultivated. Are you looking for poor folks p "We are."
 Every proper-very proper. You all have children of your own?
 "Oh, yes."
 ''All of them are we'll fed well clothed and well cared for, are they ?"
 "Yes, sir"
 "I presume their stockings are properly darned, buttons in their places, and they say their prayers when they go to bed? Am correct ?" The women looked at each other in 8 l sly way, and then at him, and one of them said:
 "We shall be happy for any contribu- tion."
 "Yes'm, yes'm. You don't want this contribution for your own families, eh ?''
 "No, sir p answered four voices in chorus.
 "Well, I am somewhat inclined to benevolence. Hardly day passes that I don't do something for charity. Here's an old account of $26 against MT. -. I know he's hard up and having close time to get along, and yesterday cancelled the debt'
 One of the canvassers turned red white and blue and looked out of the window. That was her husband, but Wixham didn't know it. 1 "And yesterday, I found poor, for lorn-looking little boy out here crying with hunger and cold. He said hi name was Tommy -, and he lived a No. 36 - street. He hadn't beer washed or combed for weak, and fel sad for him. was going to take hin home and feed him, but he slipped away.
 Another woman suddenly looked ou of the window, and her pulse ran up t, 120 minute, but Wixham was 8 innocent as lamb of any knowledg that it was her boy. '"Then you won't aid us ?" querie, the spokesman. "Oh, yes, certainly I will. I wat simply figuring to see how much coul, spare. I signed note with MT. - last fall, and had to pay it yesterday That makes me feel rather poor"
 The third woman didn't turn red, bu green, but Wixhana couldn't hay possibly known that it was her husband "Let's see. Let's see. I want t give you all can spare. MT. - O - street, owes me four months hous rent, and I'll give you an order on hir for $20."
 The four women rose up. The rushed in solid body for the doo1 They went out in heap. Some wer red and some were pale, and all mac They tried to speak, but they couldn't and as they hastened to get away fro1 each other, Wixham held up the hal . written order and gasped: s s "How very, very singular PerhaI they thought they couldn't collect tn , money. ."-Detroit Free Press.
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05

'Ihad sooner be cursed than kissed'-I didn't
 know well what meant, But turn'd my face from him, an he turned
 his face an he went. And then he sent me letter, "I've gotten my
 work to do You wouldn't kiss me, my lass an never
 loved any but you am sorry for all the quarrel, an sorry for what
 she. wrote, ha' six weeks work in Jersey an go tonight
 by the boat An the wind began to rise, an thought of
 him out at sea, An felt had been to blame; he was always
 so kind to me, "Wait@ little, my lass, I am sure it'll all come
 right An the boat went down that nighttime boat
 went down that night. ALFRED TENNYsoN. l
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05
A Wife's Devotion.

A somewhat pathetic fact comes out in the course of lawsuit between Mrs. Zelda Seguin, the singer, and the man. ager- of the Emma Abbott opera con- pany. Edward Seguin, her husband, was in bad health, and his once brilliant abilities as a singer and actor were wan ing fast. Mrs. Seguin was informed that his salary was to be reduced $50 week. Knowing that he was sensitive on the subject of his deterioration as per- former, she induced the manager to make the reduction in her own pay and leave his unaltered. This was done. The controversy arose when, after his death, she claimed full salary again.
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05
4 WISH.

If could find the Little Year, The Happy Year, the glad New Year If could find him setting forth To seek the ancient track I'd bring him here, the Little Year, Like peddler with his pack. And all of golden brightness, And nothing dull or black, And all that heart could fancy, And all that life could lack, Should be your share of the peddler 'sware, When he undid his pack. ". The best from out his treasure A smile of yours would coax, And then we'd speed him on his way At midnight's failing strokes, And bid him hurry round the world, And serve the other folks!
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05

me along. Inen, aIIer SIOPp1uS Io catch breath, he said, "Ireckon, Yank, I'd been kinder to yer to gin yer the bullet. Fer the doctors will be cuttin' and hackin' yer. Not a mite O chloro- form in our whole country, either, they say. And eff yer do pull through, they'll chuck yer inter some of them blasted prison holes.'
 "Shoot me, then, and have done with it l" I gasped, for the fire was close on us.
 But he lugged me on; and he was scarcely as heavy 8 man as myself. Every few rods he had to stop. The flames seemed spreading all around us, and every moment or two shell would tear through the woods and explode, scattering fire, and whizzing fragments of iron everywhere.
 He got me to stone wall which skirted the woods on one side, and lifted me over it. There was 8 field with short green grass on the other side. Here he put me down, partly in the shade of a great ash.
 "Thar, Yank," he said, "yer out of the fire, anyhow. Can't stay by yer, though. I must git my shootin' iron back thar in the bush, eff 'tain't burnt up, but I'll tell yer what, Tank, I'll look round here to-night-ef I aint dead myself fore that time, and we hold on here."
 "God bless you, Johnny!" I ex- claimed; "but just one sip of water, if you've got it.
 Thunderation " he muttered. I haint got half pint in my can, and don't expect to get another yfll-u2o to- day!"
 But he jerked off his canteen, took one swallow, and then put it into my weak hands. "Thar, drink, you poor sufferin' cuss! Yer may keep it, too. Hang on to it eff ye can till I come round. Fer tinwar's scacer than twen- ty-dollar bills in our corps, durned sight p
 I felt him prop my head up with something-it was his old, worn, yellow. gray coat. The next moment he was gone over the wall, back into the burning woods, after his gun.
 I never saw him again. The Con. federates did not "hold on " there, as all know who have read the story ot that terrific struggle.
 Our corps retook the ground. Later in the day was found and taken to the rear.
 Whether my Johnny, by whose Christ like pity I was rescued, survived the succeeding battles of the campaign, o1 not, I do not know. Often since that day I have thought that I might have asked his name and regiment, but wa. in no condition to think of that. To me he was simply Johnny but none the less brother.
 He saved my life, saved me from a horrible death, and that too, in the brutal hurry and fury of battle, when honestly can not say that should have done as much for { Confederate lying there in my place Only a soldier can really understand it
 I might not, as I have said, have res cued Johnny if he had been in my place but after that act, I should have done i at the risk of my life. That rough bo, in butternut taught me lesson of thu true brotherhood of man, that has in fuenced all my life since.
 The old battered canteen he left me am still hanging on to, , as herequested If he is living to-day, and " tin ware" scarce with him, he can have it an' with it, too, whatever else I can giv that he may need more than I, for per haps this little sketch may be the mean by which may hear from him.
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05
JEwE1ERs' Go1p. -It is calculated that

JEWELLERS GonD. It is calculated that there is more gold in John street and Maiden lane, New York, made into jew elry than has been taken out of the Black Hills during the last three years. These streets are the centre of manu- featuring and assaying, and the amounts or gold jewelry stored in safes and drawers (not, as up town, spread out in show cases) is almost equal to that in the Treasury. The consumption is so great that many of the wholesale houses sell at retail at this season, and at low prices,
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05
The Monkey and Whisky.

Dr. Guthrie tells the following nec- dote of monkey "Jack," he was called, seeing his master and some of his friends drinking, with the imita- tive faculty for which all monkeys are remark able, got hold of glass half full of whisky and drank it off. Of course it flew to his head, and very soon Jack was drunk. Next day, when they wished for repetition of the performance he was nowhere to be seen. Al last he was found, curled up in corner of his box. At his masters call he reluctantly came out, but one hand applied to his kead signifed very plainly that he was il-that Jack had got headache. So they left him for few days to recover.
 Then, supposing him to be well again, they called him again to join them in another iovial party, expecting to have "rare fur" with him but he eyed the glasses with evident dread and when his master tried to induce him to drink he was upon the house-top in 8 moment. They called him to come down, but he refused. His master shook whip ct him, but it had no effect A gun was then pointed at him. He got behind stack of chimneys. At length, in fear of his being dragged from his refuge, he actually descended the chimney, risking scorching rather than be made to drink.
 Jack lived twelve years after but his repugnance for whisky remains as strong as ever, while his master became it's victim.
 THE AnAMo.-There is Mexican iv- ing at San Antonio who was an eye witness of the battle of the Alamo. His name is Jesus Zepeda. He was boy of twelve at the time. There were six Mexican officers quartered at his mothers house. On the night before the final assault they told her not to be alarmed if she heard unusual firing, as they intended to take the Alamo at day break. Moved by boyish curiosity, Ze- peda got up early and witnessed the 1 final struggle. He also saw the dead bodies of the Texans burned, and de- scribes the sight as "muy feo," or Every ugly" He says that blood, with which the walls and buildings were covered was visible for long time. Zepeda es inmates the loss of the Mexicans at up ward of a thousand.
 CLOSELY WATCHED. A thousand per oI--r s,,
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05

WELL REPRESENTED. =. Nine of the newly elected Board of Aldermen in New York city are saloon keepers.
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05

CLOSELY WATCHED. A thousand per- sons, mostly women, are employed in engraving and printing Government money and bank notes at Washington. They are so strictly watched during work hours that they look upon them selves then as prisoners.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-16
HERALD THURSDAY 1881 EIGHT PAGES
BRIEF KILOGRAMS.

Several thousand workmen are on a
strike in Stockholm and riots are feared.
The London Times says the Derby
winner never before won the Prince OF
Wales stakes, as well.
Three persons were killed and ten in
jured by the explosion of the boiler OF
the steamer Otty Of Rome.
II is reported that the nihilist Rsrt-
mann was arrested at Geneva, and will
be taken to st. Petersburg.
Chamber ofdeputies, at Rome, rejected
universal suffrage 3l4 to 80. Only Signor
Fobri favored that form ofsuhrsge.
a number of fires in Sweden recently
are believed 10 be Of incendiary origin.
The condition Of the country is unsatis-
factory.
The British bark Lizzie Perry, Capt
McHenry, from Antwerp April 18th
for San Diego or San Francisco, put into
MontevIdeo Tuesday, having been par
TALLY dismasted in a gale.
Mays and Overhaul, the two road
agents under life sentence, passed through
Chicago, on Tuesday, for Auburn, N.
T., 1t being necessary to give them safer
quarters than was afforded by Idaho
prisoGs. .-,t,f .I..., IS.
The Linweod Lodge, OF New Orleans,
IN which ieutenantT T. w. Greedy, COM
mAnding the arctic expedition, was made
mason, have purchased a stand Of
colors TO be forwarded to him st st.
Johns.
The report Of the treasury investigating
committee, submitted on Tuesday, recon-
mend the immediate discharge of Pitney,
custodian of the treasury, Norton,
assistant secretary, and Of the chief clerk
for having violated the law. 'Il s
John Griscom has lost three-fourths OF
q pound to-day Tuesday,, and twenty
five pounds since the beginning of his
fast, eighteen dsvs ago, weighing now
172N pounds. He is cheerful, but the
fast begins to tell on him 10 various
ways. 9f rsr.eLl-
Secretary Window refuses to reveal
the result of the investigation of Pitney.
He will act on the report very soon, but
Its contents are private. Il is stated,
however, the report sustsins the charges
of irregularities, and even worse, and
that they have been going on for several
years. 'i''1s. >f
Congressman Tucker, of Virginia, yes
terday, urged the President not to aid
the readjusters in the pending election, as
their success would injure every interest
of the state. The President said the ca
binet would decide the matter. The
President is strongly incline1 to help
Malone.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-16
New Commissioner of the Gen.
eraI Land Office.

New York, 14.-Her0Id's Washing
tom, 1t Is understood that the President,
tonight, decided to appoint n. G. Nc
Farland, OF Topeka, Kansas, commits
sioner of the general land Office Vfce j.
A. Willismson, resigned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-16
ON SUNDAYS

ON SUNDAYS
& EE2[n will leave salt Lake City at pam. for
Es&5& Rock, Garfield Landing and Lake Point,
7sz6zraing, ar rive at salt Lake City at 10 pm.
Fare for Round Trip to Black Rock,
Garfield LG1pd590 or Lake Point, and
e1s1&r71 sans. dag, good on all trains, SOC.
Children under ten, halt fare.
azz-s from Lake Point to Halfway House, Sl.OO
Tooele 80
&c Terminus l rs
2esszar local fares will be collected between all
ststions on trains running eastward.
Nc Freight Received after 1 pm.
". w, RITTER, Managerg
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WHO IS uNsS9usIaTEp WIFE TIE GEeosAsHy OF THIS CT
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Sleeping Cars for sleeping PURPOSES, and Page
Dining Cars for eating purposes only. one otRiTt
great feature of our Palace Cars is a S1OhlNg
SALOON where you can enjoy your Havana
at all hours of theday. = ..,i
and Missouri rivers at al points crossed pH ~
line and transfers are avoided at Council b.aH 1
Kansas City, Ieavenworth and AtcnlSOn' 0SA
The principal r. R. councillors y.
this great Through Line are as tOlloHsSs:
At CHICAGO. with al diverging lines lor 'n'
At. At ENGLEWooD. with the LIS. q MS. andP4
Fl. w. 81 c. r. RdS. &C.
L. r. r.
At PEORIA, with P P. s. j.; p. d. e; l. BE-
W.; III. Mid; and T. p. d wv. RdS; r,o.E
At Rock ISLAND, with milwaukee and ho SA
Island Short Line ana 70 Boe6 IS9 - r 11so9
C. NJ. & st. p. r. Z. pP
AtWRST LIBERTY. with the -. q. X q N.f"4T
AtGRINEELL, with Central Iowa 4. II
AIDES MONIES, with d. NJ. 81 L, ID X. N 2
AtCOUNCIL BLUFFS, with Union PACING h -Is1
at OMAHA, with =. 81 Mo. Il. K h tin ~, L4sI651
At COLUMBUS JUNCTION with B, c. R-&N.hTST"
AT OTTUAWA. Win = CentI2 AZ I9 o pd T. i~'
At KEoKUE, with TOl., PEG. q War y Pas
Louis 6 Pac., and St. l., Keo. q n, W. L. 1->-''
At CAMERON, with II. st. J. R. *. c,,+s Ee.
AtATCHISoN, with Atch., Topeka q 9si''' -
Atch e Neb. and Cen Br. U. 2. r. RIOS 10,
At LEAvETwORTH, with Union Pac' -n'- No.
At KANSAS CITY, with all lines for the "eS'
f fi,T 0UsIb" tn 70 PEORIA. DIES MONIES
Gibson. and LEAE IN ~ O JILL SsoId bT
Great Rock island Route are sO1N
nd Canada.
H. GT. JOHN
esasial Ii;ks' and fAaa cesgiiIScc ASs5JL
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Utah & NORTHERN RAILWAY

On apd after October s, 1880.
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FANCY ALPHA.

~ bets for Sign Painters, soc. Painters
Manual, 50 cts Standard Sign Writer, s.
sIsndard Scroll Book, 81. Scroll and Ornaments
gLoudolphe), 81 Japanese characterization, 81
aSiea. Carriage, Car, Fresco and Decorative
Esfnting so cts Cheap Book of Alphabets, 80
7ats. OfbookseiIers and painters supply storef
1y mail.
JESSE HANEY & CO., 119 Nassau ST., NY
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ATlH SOUTHERN RAILROAD

s KTEM SION.
ON AND AFTER JUNE %.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-16

4 Freight Train going NORTH leaves ogden
Sally, st 6.I5 am; Brigham, sos an; Sum
szts, 10. a m; Logan, IL 50 p m, franklin,
= 4. Eagle Rock Q IS m; Beaver Canyon,
& IS m: ~Pviug Hill. IL 50 p N; Dillon 4 %
= -. Goina South Train leaves Dillon 74C
y n; Spring Hill, l. ID m; Beaver Canyon
S.G.l5 an; Oneidf ) 55 N: Franklin S.O5
TE-a.; Logan 1886 o.m.; Summit ] 55 mi
8sjShsm $50 L.msi arriving &c Ogden st35.S5
GEO. W. THATCHER, Sap
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FyANEY,S TRADE mANUALS

"a Practical books for practical men-fresh
GZll, reliable and cheap.-Psinter 80 cts Car
zsateT, 80. Matchmaker and JeweIer, so
KGruiture and Cabinet F1nisher, so. Dyer and
Scaurer, 80. Artist, 90. Baker, So Candy
azsker. 90. Sospmaker, 25. Glider, So Horse
a Ger, %. Authorship so. Wood-engrsver, %.
a booksellers or by mail
JESSE HANEY & 90. 119 Nassau ST., N Y.
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CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC R'Y

IS Gf6 Great COHnSCEIn2 LINK .
It's main line runs from Chicago to Council
Bluffs passing through Joliet, Ottawa, La Sale,
GeneSeo. Moline, Rock Island. Davenport. West
Liberty, Iowa City, Marengo, Brooklyn, Grinnell,
Des MoineS 1.-THE capital of IOw3), Stuart, Attain
tic, and AVoca: with branches from Bureau
tlne Washington, Fairfield EldOn, Belknap,
CentreVille, Princeton, Trenton Gallatin. Came
ron, Le2venwOrth, AtchiSon, and Kansas City;
Washington to SigOurney OSkalOOSa. and Knox
Vile; Keokuk TO Farmington, Bonaparte, Ben
tonsport Independent, Eldon. Ottunlwa, Eddy
Vile, OSkaloOSa, Pella, Monroe, and DeS MoineS;
Mt. Zion to KeoSauqua; Newton to Monroe: DeS
Moines TO 1ndianola and Winterset; Atlantic to
and Carson. This is positively the only Rail-
road which owns. and operates a through line
from Chicago into the State of Kansas.
Through Express Passenger Trains, with Pull
man Palace Cars attached. are run each way daily
between CHICAGO and PEORIA, KANSAS CITY
COUNCIL BLUFFS, LEAVRNWORTH and ATCHI-
SON Through cars are alsorun between Milwau-
kee and Kansas City. via the :" Milwaukee and
Rock Island Short Line"
The "Great Rock Island is magnifcently
equipped. Its road bed is simply perfect and its
track is laid with steel rails.
Whatwill please you most will be the pleasure
OF enjoying your meals. while passing over the
beautiful prairies of Illinois and Iowa in one of
our magnificent Dining Cars that accompany all
through Express Trains. You get an entire
meal. as good as is served in any rSt-claSS hotel
for SeVenty-6ve cents.
Approaching the fact that majority of the
people prefer separate apartments for different
or this line warranting IT'D. we are pleased to an
nounce that this Company runs Pullman Palace
PULLMAN PALACE CARS are @1uT
COUNCIL BLUFFS. KA NSAS CITY. 81
Tickets via this Line. known as the
Gil Ticket Agents in the United States
For information not Obtainabie at J
R,, r. CABLE II.
Vice Prel6cEs and Genoral Manager.
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A9snz2sSsssgzzs1-
FA AfEY $50 gr7FSg s;-=ss7zS
fb. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Yft:ss - q
UFkH WESTERN RAILWAY
Theodore S. Bsssett, Trustee.

On and after
SATURDAY, MAY q, 1881,
Until further notice,
Trains will run daily, Sundays
excepted as follows:
L4gxe Salt Lake City at SLOAN.
Brighton at $50 az
Chambers ct 900 /"
Back Rock at 925 &c
Ar: Garfield Landing at $50 /"
EessFe Do. Do. at $50
* Lake Point st 1000 's
& Railway House 1925
Tooele City at HOO
Arrive at Terminus st 40 I"
EeGSs the Terminus at 1.10p:m.
&c Tooele City st 135
a. Halfway House at 205 80
AEEz&Eake Point at go ''
Leave do. do 240
q Garfield Land'g at ? so e
g Black Rock at 2.55 "
@ Chambers at 3I5 4"
90 BrightoA at 1855
&xSfNe sc Sa1t Lake City 40 I"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-01-21
Chief of the Eunuehs.

A correspondent of the AllgGnetfe
Zcitnng, writing from Pera, describes at
length a remarkable ceremony, which
seems to be Curiously out of place in
Europe - the installation of the new
chief of the eunuchs over the harem of
the sultan. 1t was genuine piece of
old Turkish conservatism. The name
of the new "Kislar Agassi," or head
cunuCh, is Stasis Behram Aga. The
Turkish journals give long descriptions
OF the function, and publish odes and
Chronograms in honor of the hero and of
the great event The poets expect to
gain something in return for their amaz-
ing adultation. The new dignitary
holdsa very lofty and influential position
in the system of the Porte; only three
persons stand higher than the head
eunuch-namely, the sultan himself, the
grand vizier and the sheik-ul-islam; but
he, from his position, frequently exer-
cises more direct influence upon the
sultan, and so upon Turkish politics,
than either of the other two eminent
officials. The new "Kislar Agassi" "
was received at the imperial palace Of
Doimabagdsche with the most gorgeous
pomp. All the sentinels of the imperial
harem, armed with hellebards, formed
a spalier, and ellis Exccllency, Behram
Aga, chief of the Eunuchs, " rode past On
q magnificent charger, the orders of the
Osmanie and .Medschidje glittering on
his breast, followed by Ahmed Bey and
a number OF the adjutants OF the sultan.
When he arrived at the gate of the
palace, lambs were slaughtered before
him rs q token of welcome. He was re-
ceived with the greatest awe by the
religious and domestic servants OF the
imperial household, including the most
reverend the imaum of the palace and
several distinru,1 1hed mollahs- perhaps
chaplains in ordinary to his Ottoman
majesty. The sulLAn sent across to his
new official two symbols of office, a
written document and a magnificent
silver pastoral staff worked in relief,
which is never handled by any but the
Agas of the imperial harem. The new
head eunuch solemnly kissed the parch-
ment and the staff. The imperial hiatt
was read, some prayers for the blessing
of Islam upon the new pastor of the
sultan's women were said by the clergy,
qnd then the new Aga of the Sublime
House of Blessedness," as the sultan's
hiatt" calls him was allowed to enter
the harem and inspect his future domin-
IOYl