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Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12
Spirited Away.

In England, great interest has been awakened by 8 startling event, which appears more like an incident from a 'penny dreadful" than an occurrence of this present prosaic age. A marriage was arranged to take place at Wood food. The bridegroom, the Rev. R. B. Kennard, was 8 venerable and respected clergyman of between fifty and sixty and widower, with six or seven chil- dren. The bride, Miss Bade, had arrived at ''a certain age" when life is usually looked at from the prosaic standpoint of common sense and comfort. All the family were apparently agreeable to the match, and the bridegroom arrived at Woodford the evening before the event. ful ceremony was to take place. He ordered dinner, and whilst waiting for it, a gentleman arrived who told him that MT. Fraser, his brother-in-law, wished to see him on important busi- ness. Not suspecting any harm. the reverend gentleman followed his visitor to carriage and pair, in which he was driven, in spite of struggles and appeals for help, to small lodging-house in London.
 There he was kept prisoner under pretence of being lunatic. After spend ing night in mental torture, he man. aged, by judiciously bribing his keep CTS, to escape. He arrived at the church which the bridal party had just left after waiting in vain for the truant bride groom. All was satisfactorily explained and the wedding was celebrated at eight o'clock the next morning.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12
About a Desk.

That the secretary of the Galveston Cotton Exchange is something of wag is proved by the following placard which he fastened to the new desk procured for his office: "This is desk. It is 8 new one, not a secondhand one. It was made by Wolfgang for the Exchange. He can make plenty more if ordered. It is of walnut. It is vanished, not stained. The varnish is of the right sort. It was made to put books on and to write on. The employees of the Ex- change will write at it; also any me m bers and visitors who wish to do so. Don't think the Exchange will employ any more clerks to write at it. Don't tbink it too dark in color. Don't think a lighter color would have looked better. Don't think it too heavy. Don't know how long it will last. It was ordered for the Exchange. It cost $50. The treasurer of the Exchange will pay for it. Don't think that counters or tables would have been better. Have nc special wish to know how they arrange such things elsewhere. Hope to an swer all questions about the matter by and bY,"
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12
Fixing the Joke.

When Artemus Ward (Charles Brown) first lectured in London his jokes fell flat, and, seeing how it was, he con- cluded his discourse to the effect that the audience on going out would be handed tickets to Constantinople and re- turn. "In that city," went on Artemus, 1T propose to repeat my lecture this day two weeks. To each ticket is at- tached a coupon that will admit the bearer to the hall. desire your atten- dance that may shed light upon such of my remarks as have evidently given you pain, which thank you for having borne in silence" "What does the man mean?" asked John Bull. "Go to Constantinople to hear him drawl through this mess of stuff again We don't do it." When they reached the door, and no one was there with the tickets, it slowly dawned upon them that Ward was laughing at them.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12
The New Papa in Romance.

According to the ancient custom of novelists and comedy writers, all fathers of lovely young girls were brutes, and never did the decent thing except on the sly.
 If the much abused heroines of Field ing and Smollet could read of the &C., tion of St. Louis parent in 8 recent story, how they would rejoice for their sisters of the present day.
 Do you love him P asked her father.
 Geraldine laughed in spite of herself. "I have a strong impression that he would scarcely ask me to marry him unless he thought pretty we'll of me-"
 "Of course-of course; but do you love him ?"
 With my whole heart and soul."
 "Well, if that's the case," said Col onel Spencer, throwing away his cigar, Gall I've got to say is you are both confounded simpletons if you don't get malried-there."
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12
The Sad Things.

One of the saddest things in life is the power one human being has to make another miserable ! How hard it is, and how difficult to prevent! Un- worthy parents, ungrateful children, discordant husbands and wives To 8 thinking mind the misery brought about by incompatibility of tempers or of nature is heartrending. Persons who disunited would be admirable-and yet who bound by ties of relationship irri- tate and oorrode each other by sheer difference of temperament present ter rible spectacle, and one that is far too common. A good deal of the suffering of the world must be borne; it seems pitiful to add to it by the wrangling and jawing which go to make up large part of some peoples existence. Very often it is worse for others than for them selves, but in any case it is deplorable.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12
Spotted Tails Joke.

One day Captain Lee was talking with Spotted Tail and others about honest people, and the keeping of one's word.
 "There's no such thing as an honest man," said the captain, jokingly. "There used to be, however. In former times honest men always used to have 8 bunch of hair growing in the palm of their right hand. don't see but few punches in my hand"
 Spotted Tail stepped up to him, and shaking hands with him, said
 "How how! used to have great big bunch of hair in the palm of my hand but it has all been worn off by shaking hands with the whites"
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12
A Valuable Tree.

An Italian naturalist has been study ing the eucalyptus tree, and finds it as valuable for destroying miasma es the the most sanguine Californians have ever claimed it to be. It has extraor- dinary powers of absorption, the trunk of full-grown tree taking up ten times its own weight of water from the soil in which it stands. This alone is often enough to purify fever district, the superfuous miasma. breeding moisture in the earth being absorbed by the trees. Experiments with eucalyptus planting in miasmatic regions have given surprising results. The vicinity of the Convent Delle tre Fontane, near Rome, was one of the most pestilential spots in Italy, but monks sent there Tn 1868 to plant groves of these trees made it a healthful region within five years. On a farm near the Algerian borders, where previously no human being could live for any length of time, 1,3O6 eucalyp- tus plants set in 1867, have counteracted every tendency to fever. Similar ex- periments have been successful also in Alsace and Lorraine. The home of the tree is in Australia and Tasmania. It composes in great measure the forests of Australia. In California all varieties of the tree are to be found. It is planted there chiefly on account of its rapid growth, to obtain shade and wood land on some of the otherwise treeless plains. So quickly does the eucalyptus grow that plant three feet high, set in the ground near Mentone in 1869, had attained in 1874 a height of over fifty feet and diameter of forty inches three feet from the ground.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12
The Doctors Way.

"Subscribe Oh yes, suppose I'll have to, seeing such @ pack of you come at me all at once ce-outrageous advantage to take of an old man,
 So said the old doctor, as half-dozen members of the boys temperance so- ciety of our village peeped into his small office.
 'If men would only take their whisky in 8 sensible manner, there'd be no need Of bothering folks about temperance papers" he went on with half-growl, as he signed his name and then hunted over some change.
 His words were quite damper on us.
 The doctor had always been a man who went about minding his own busi- ness, which business was too arduous to admit of his entering actively into other matters, but we had taken it for granted he was in full sympathy with the tenn perance movement, which had recently taken on new vigor among us. We felt quite uncomfortable, and one of us said:
 "Why, doctor, you don't mean to say that you believe in whisky and such hings, do you?"
 "Bel1eve in whiskyi Of course I do whats become of that half-dollar Jim Fothergill paid me this morning for pulling his boys tooth ?'-he was now fumbling at his vest, having gone through his pantaloons. pockets. "I must have lost it No-I remember now, I gave it to the poor little rascal to stop his crying when it hurt him so.
 "That is," he at length resumed, as he built up a little pile of quarters, "when you take whisky the right way. Now listen to my advice, boys. Regular habits are valuable in everything, and in nothing more than in drinking whisky. If you follow may way of doing it, you'll find it as innocent as water.
 "Some people, you know "-the doctor settled himself back in his chair -''begin quite early in the morning. That's not good plan. My regular habit is to begin late-the later the better, in fact put off till the afternoon. Then, you know, it's never best to take it soon after dinner, so again postpone it late--very late in the day--indeed, till evening. And when it gets to be that late it seems hardly worth while to begin, so let it go till the next morn ing. l take it exactly the same way every day."
 The doctor joined heartily in oul laugh, and then went on, pointing to 6 bottle which stood on one of his shelves
 ''Look there That's whisky it's been standing there for six months ol more, and it's never done me bit oi harm yet. Sometimes fancy it winks at me, as if to say, If you'll let me alone, I'll let you alone; and answer All right, old fellow, it's bargain Now, boys, try nay way of drinking, and I promise you you'll live to good ole age and thrive on it"
 We shook hands with the jolly olt soul, and promised to remember his pre- } scription. - Youths Companion.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12
Shepherd Dogs.

It is said that @ single shepherd and his dog will accomplish more in gather ing herd of sheep from Highland farm than twenty shepherds could do without dogs; and it is fact that with out this docile animal the pastoral life shepherds dog the whole of the moun- tainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence. It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and drive to market than the profits of the whole stock would be capable of maintaining. We'll may the shepherd feel an interest in his dog he it is indeed that earns the family's bread, of which he himself is content with the smallest morsel always grate- full and always ready to exert his utmost abilities in his masters interest.
 Neither hunger, fatigue, nor the worst treatment will drive him from his side. He will follow him through fire and water, as the saying is. and through every hardship without mur- muring or repining until he literally falls dead at his feet. If one of them is obliged to change masters, it is some times long before he will acknowledge the new one, or condescend to work fo1 him with the same willingness he did fo, his former lord; but if he once acknowl. edge him, he continues attached to him until death and though naturally proud and high-spirited in so far as re. lates to his master, these qualities are kept so much in subordination that he has not will of his own.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12
A Hard Town.

A correspondent of the Chicago Inter- Ocean having reached the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad thus de- soribes the new town of Glendive and its peculiarities
 Of course Glendive is a hard town, There are no school-houses or churches or sewing societies or Sunday y-schools as yet, and the saloons and gambling dens, dance houses, and brothels are plenty. But all this human scum will float away as the track is pushed on, and the sub- stantial, respectable citizens will remain to make life what it is at Fargo or Jamestown or Bismarck, peaceful and agreeable. Last December the first shanty was built here, of logs, and not until June was dressed piece of timber brought into Glendive. Give it time.
 The cemetery of Q new town has a fascination that is almost irresistible. Several years ago a land agent, in ad. vertising the attractions of the region in which he had some "town sites" to sell, called attention to the surpassine healthfulness of the locality by the unique and somewhat startling an- nouncement in large letters:
 "We had to hang a man to start a graveyard here."
 The burial places of new towns are often authentic indexes to the character of their population. Glendive is now about four months old, and in the ceme- tery over yonder there are nine mounds all new. At the head of each there is a pine board, but only two or three bear inscriptions. The nine graves represent the neurology of the place. Five contain men who "died with their boots on"- murdered in brawls two are filled with suicides-both women, Magdalens ot the lowest class, who follow |" the enc of the track" There are dozens Of such in this community {; women who have followed "the end of the track from Bismarck here, and will go along witt it, with the rough men who shovel the grades, lay the ties, and spike the rails Two of them found "the end of tho track" at Glendive, and lie in unmarked soon forgotten graves, with hereafter not more wretched than their past.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12
A Truthful Description of the Editor.

The editor, children, is a member of that race of animals called mankind. He is invariably kind man.
 He is perfectly harmless. You may go into h1s den without fear. But he his his peculiarities. The sight of Q poet makes him wild. He is then very dangerous, and is apt to do bodily harm to all within reach. Ho is also much wrought up when a man comes in with little trife he has just dashed off.
 There is one thing that must be said in the editors dispraise. His mind is So biased by long thinking in certain direction that he dislikes very much to look upon both sides of question. Therefore, if you value your safety, never approach him with manuscript written on both sides of your paper. The editor usually writes with pen, but his most cutting articles are the product of his shears.
 And let me say right here, children, that a good deal of sheer nonsense has been printed about the editor. He uses his shears only when composing an en- tirely original article.
 The editor would make good public speaker, but for his pro pensity for clip ping words.
 The editors hardest task is to dispose of his time. His would be a monoto' nous life indeed, were it not for the kind ness of few hundred people who cal upon him every day, to enliven his dull life with stories of their grievances, ot their bran-new enterprises and witt antediluvian anecdotes. When you grow up to be men and women, chil dren, remember this, and spend all the time you can in the sanctum of the editor. He loves company so much you know, and sometimes he has to si silent and alone for whole half minute Is it not too bad?
 The business of the editor is to en tel tain itinerant lecturers, book canvasse IT exchange-fends and other philanthro pists. He gives his whole day to these He writes his editorials at night after he has gone to bed.
 The editor is never so happy as wher he is writing complimentary notices For ten cents worth of present he vii gladly give ten dollars worth of adver tising-all on account of the pleasure il gives him to write, you know, children
 He loves to write neat little speeches and bright witty poems for people with out brains who wish to speak in public It is so easy for him to do this that ht is sometimes quite miserable when al hour or two passes without an oppor tunity to do something of the kind.
 The editor dimes at all of the hotels free, he travels free, theatres open wid' their doors to him, his tailor clothes him gratis, his butcher and grocel furnishes him with food without money and without price" In short, his every want is provided for. He spends hi princely salary in building churches ant schoolhouses in foreign lands. By all means, children, be editors Of course it would be better if yo1 could be bod carriers or dray horses But as that is impossible, by all mean be editors. Transcript.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12
A FAIRY AFLOAT.

Tho following description of tho fairy vessel represented on this page is from tho Cincinnati Commercial The hull is of the finest selected white oak, braced, bolted and riveted in the most skillful and work manlike manner and is GA feet in length, 14 feet breadth of beam, 2l feet depth of hold, and draws twenty inches of water. She carries atubular boil CT, and two beauti- ful little engines, made expressly for her. by the Ohio Machine Co.,, Middleport, O. The dining-room is situated between the boiler and engine rooms, and is artistically grained, with trescoed ceiling. It is fur nishcd in the Queen Anne style, and the silver, china and table linen are oi the finest character. The pilot-house, cabin, main
 salon and Captains office arc on the saloon deck and arc luxurious ill their furnishing
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12
A Day That is Dead.

The day that is dead has for men Q more actual, 8 more tangible, more vivid identity than the day that exists, nay, than the day as yet unborn. One of the most characteristic delusions of humanity is its incapacity for enjoy ment of the present. Life is a journey in which people are either looking for ward or looking back. Nobody has the wisdom to sit down for half an hour in the shade, listening to the birds over head, examining the flowers under foot. It is always, "How pleasant it was yes terday What fun we shall have to- morrow p Never, "How happy we are to-day"
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12

KNOX, the Halter, Broadway, corner Fulton street. and Fifth Avenue Hotel, IS determined to outdo all competition. He has agents throughout the civilized world, in all the principal cities, and has gained the confidence of the public to such an extent that he has thousands of customers who order by mail, we'll knowing that anything that comes from Knox is the latest in style, the best in quality and lowest in price. In New York gentleman is hardly considered au fait unless his hat bears the Knox trade mark
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12
MARKET NOTES.
NEW YORK MARKET.

The wholesale New York market quotations show:
 BEANs.-Prime, $s.2O9$3.25; fair good to $2 S0@$2. 90 per bushel.
 BuTTER.-New York sold at 28c. @30c. for choice in pals, and 24c. @26c: common to good; Western sold at 26c. @27c., and the common Western at 17c. @lSc.
 CHEEsE. Factory fancy, 1215c c.@13; do. fair to good, 111c.@ .@121c.
 EGas.-Quotations ranged from 20c.for or dinary to 24c. for New York, New Jersey ana FLoUR.~superfne, s54o@se.25; Western, $6. .20D$6 75; extra New York, $620@$6.50 HAY.-shipping, 55o. @65c; clover, $50. @ o5c.; salt, 65c; straw, 35c. @70c.
 Hops.-New York, zoe; 92Sc.; Eastern S9c. PrTRoLEuM.-Refned, 94c.; crude, 6c. @7c. in bulk in barrels, 716c.; naphtha, 1Oc. n shipping order, and 1116c. @l2Nc in cases PoRk.-New mess. s1s.75@saO.oo; dressed nogs, Sc. @s%c.
 waukee No 9, $1.44; amber, $1.22@$1.2 .2S 1; white, $1.S4@$1. 50.
 RYE.-State, $1.05@$1.10.
 WooL.-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, xxx, 43c. .@45c.; K, 4lc. g43c.; X, 41c.@42c S3c. @36c.; New York and Western xx and X Ssc. @4Oc.; No. 1. 36c. @44c.
 PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
 FLouR.-sta.e family, $7.20@$735; rye flour, SC. .OO@$6.25; wheat, State, $1.2S@1.25; amber, $l. .26; corn, yellow, 74c.; mixed State, 7216c. @74c.
 PErRoLEuM-Rehned. 7sIc.; crude, 6kc. WooL.-State and Western xx, 46c. @50c. !; x, 47c ds4Sc; medium. 50c. @51c.; coarse, 45c.
 BOSTON MARKET.
 F1ouR.-From $5.50@$6 co for low and medium, to $650@$7.75 for choice Mime sota. Corn, 77c@75c. for mixed and yellow. BUTTER. - Common. 19c. @20c.; Vermont da'ry, 26c DS1c.; choice creamery, S2c. @S4c. ,)HERsR.-9c D13c.
 8EANs.-$2 15D$3. 80.
 HAY.-Ohoice, $20. 03$21..
 CATTLE MARKETS.
 BuFFALo.-Oattle, good quality, $5.eb0 b6. 75; hogs, fair to good, &6.45@$6.75; best, 3715.
 EAST LIBERTY, PHNN.-Best cattle, $6.25@ SC. 35; medium to good ,S5 75@$6. %; common to ,air, $425D$4.75 Hogs, Workers, $6.400 $6.6O Philadelphiss, $7.1o@$7S0. Sheep, $3.20@$5.00.
 WATERTowN, MAss.-Cattle, choice $50 9$9OO; extra, $7. 7.00@$s. .00; first quality, $6. OO@$6.5O |; second quality, $6.OO@$s.5O i third quality, $4.O0@94.50. Sheep and lambs. wool sheep, $250@$5.00; extra, $6.60@ t6.00; spring lambs. A16c.@61s. Veal calves
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and decorations The saloon proper IS frescoed and gilded in Eastlake style, and the flooringis covered with Turkish carpet The furniture, in raw silk and walnut, ot the Queen Anne pattern, like that or the dininu-hall. and rich curtains of damaslc complete the impression ofa veritable float ing palace. The four state-rooms, contain ing two berths each, are also carpeted with Brussels and handsomely furnished. The boat belongs to and was built under the directions of Messrs A. Vogeler & Co., Baltimore, Md, for their own exclusive use upon the Ohio, Mississippi and other Vest ern rivers, and is run by Q picked crew oi officers and men in their employ. The object of this little steamer is to carry
 neither freight nor passengers. She was
 built for the firm above named, to be used
 exclusively by them for distributing their printed matter in the river towns for ST. JACOBS OIL, the Great German Remedy
 for rheumatism and other painful ailments.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12
WOMEN waste too much of their time ryinp to please mon.

CONSUMPTION In It's early stages Is readily cured by the u @ of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Med. ioal Discovery" though if the lungs are wasted edy possesses such soothing and healing infiu. enoe over all scrofuous, tuberculous and pull monary affections as the Discovery" John Willis, of Elyria, Ohio. writes "The Golden Medical Discovery does positively cure con. sumption, as, after trying every other medicine iu vain, this succeeded" Mr. z. T. Phelps, ol Cuthbert, Ga., writes "The @ ,lden Medical Discovery his cured my wife of bronchitis and incipicnt consumption" Sold by druggis
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12

THE CAUsE.-A Philadelphia police Sergeant said, year ago, that he be- lieved his wife would murder him eventually, and now he has died of poison. If he had not made that re- mark, nobody would have suspected the cause of his death, as the doctor said it was cholera morbus; but those who recollected it informed the Coroner, an autopsy was made, and case against the wife seems likely to be made out.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12

SKILL IN THE WORKSHOP. To do good work, the mechanic must have good health. If long hours of confinement in close rooms have enfeebled hls hand or dimmed his sight, let him at once, and before some organic trouble appears, take plenty of Hop Bitters. Ills system will be rojuvenated, his nerves strengthened, his sight become clear, and the whole constitution be built up to a higher working condition.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12

Po1soNNa.-A sad case of poisoning
 was that of a young married lady, of Albany, in the Adirondacks. Before going out driving she pricked with 8 pin a cold sore on her lip and rubbed on camphor. The lip commenced to swell, and in forty-eight hours she was dead of erysipelas. Her husband, who arrived before she died, returned to Albany with her body. This is one of the saddest cases known, and is an im-
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12

A SAN FRANCISCO paper says: A Ayoung lady at Mills Seminary who recently sent us 8 poem entitled ''Murmurings from the Outer Utterness," is informed that any pecuniary assistance she can send to the widow of the man to whom we gave it to read will be gratefully re- ceived by that lady.
Connecticut western news., 1881-10-12

CARpETs-Grcat reduction. Tho low prices of carpets are drawing crowds of purchasers to this mammoth establish ment, where the motto is small profits and large sales.
 SHEPPARD KNAPP, 1S9 and 191 Sixth avenue. COT. 18th Street. New York.