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Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
England and the Yorktown Affair.

The London Standard says Nor did the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown end the war it was the beginning of the end. England was weary of the struggle, though many, like the gentle poet Cowper, might have sympathized with the conscientious scruples of the king in refusing to cede any of the do- minions he had sworn in his coronation oath to preserve intact. But others were of different opinion. Fox rejoiced at the news, knowing that it presaged the close of the unhappy war, and bis opin- ion was so far shared by Parliament that on the 18th of April, 1783-exactly eight years after it broke Washington was able to announce to his army that all was over. We cannot believe that any one nowadays holds any other opin- ion than that of Fox. Had Cornwallis been able to carry out his plans the struggle might have been protracted a little longer. But the colonists could never have been crushed, and in the coming Napoleonic wars would undoubt- edly have recovered what they had lost. When people arrive at a certain time of life they are apt to be little oblivious of birthdays. We are too old to cele- brate Runnymede, Agincourt. Torbay. the Bill of Rights, or even Waterloo, But the Americans are still young, and though their coming centennial is one in which they may, perhaps, feel some delicacy in asking us to join, we are not so thin skinned, or so ungenerous, as to be unable to appreciate the spirit in which they will celebrate it.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
A New Hampshire Highwayman.

The highwayman who robbed Frank Andrews and bis wife about four miles from the Glen House in the White mountains, N. H., and then tried to rob a stage, was a bold fellow and has not yet been caught, but Gov. Bell offers a reward for him. The afternoon stage from the Glen House to Glen station first saw the robber who had stopped Andrews from the top of Spruce hill, 8 little south of Glen Ellis Falls. Andrews says the robber first fired pistol and then sail with an oath "Give me the wallet; I'll have the whole of it!" Mrs. Andrews then took the wallet containing $500 from under the seat and gave it to him. The robber rem marked that he was a gentleman and wouldn't be mean, so he handed back some loose change and railroad ticket. He also took Andrews's watch aud jewelry and Mrs. Andrews's s breastpin, remarking that he wouldn' t rob woman if she didu't make fuss. He then let Andrews drive on, and when the stage was within sixty feet of him began firing at the horses and driver. The horses plunged and ran and a pas senger fired at the robber, who turned into the woods. Two men with slouched hats and masks were standing in the edge of the woods on either side of the stage.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
Water Your Trees.

The drowth which has existed for nearly two months has lessened the aggregate income of fruit farmers in New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania some millions of dollars. Fortunately, such seasons are not fre- quent; but, as single one of them wastes money enough to insure farmers against such losses for century, the sufferers should have learned by expert ence the advantages of irrigation. There are wise farmers, in California and other States not often blessed with rain, who place under every fruit-bear- ing tree section or two of gas pipe or well drilled bamboo, tn perforations along its entire length. One end of this tube is exposed to the surface, and the small end of tin funnel can be placed in it. By these means every tree can be supplied during dry seasons with water at cost that represents far less money than the average crop of fruit would do. As a consequence they get considerable fruit and make some money, while their less careful neigh bors have only profanity to show for a dry season. To drill a two-idch hole twenty feet long under fruit tree and insert wooden or iron tube by which water can be supplied does not cost much let Northern fruit farmers do it and be prepared in time against another drought. N J. Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
How to Tell a Good Potato.

Here is good place in which to i'm part what IS a secret to the vast majori- ty of people, and it is one we'll worth knowing. It is simply how to tell a good potato; that is, as we'll as it can be done without cooking it, for sometimes even experts are deceived. Take 8 sound potato, and paying no attention to it's outward appearance, divide it into two pieces with your knife and examine the exposed surfaces. If there is so much water or "juice" that seemingly a slight pressure would cause it to fall off in drops, you may be sure it will be "soggy" after 1t is boiled These are the requisite qualities for 9 good potato which must appear when one is cut in two: For color yellowish white; if it is deep yellow the potato will not cook well; there must be considerable amount of moisture, though not too much; rub the two pieces together and a white froth will appear around the edges and upon the two surfaces; this signifies the presence of starch, and the more starch, and consequently frotb, the better the potato, while the less there is the poorer it will cook. The strength of the starchy element can be tested by releasing the hold upon one piece of the potato, and if it still clings to the other, this in itself is very good sign. These are the experiments gen orally made by experts, and they are ordinarily willing to buy on the strength of their turning out we'll, though, as stated above, these tests are by nc means infallible. So a San Francisco paper tells us.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
An Appalling Fact.

Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell talks plainly to the ladies. She says "the waste of time, the waste of strength and health which women accept on &C., count of fashion is appalling. The shoes of women have pegs for heels, half way under the foot, on which they walk with a tottering, hobbling gait, like Chinese women. Frills, fringes, cords, straps, buttons, pull-backs and founces, supposed to be ornamental, but which have no other use, burden and deform even our young girls. If the rising generation is to be healthy, there must be return to the simpler as we'll as more becoming styles. We need artists who can devise simple and beauti- full dresses, which shall secure to the wearer the free and untrammelled use of the whole body"
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
Dangers of Electricity.

The death of Thomas McDonald, a waiter in a concert garden in New York City, who was killed while endeavor,ng to adjust defective electric light, teaches a lesson that will probably have to be taught many more times if electricity comes into general use for Illuminating purposes that is, it cannot safely be meddled with by inexperienced persons. Gas is comparatively harmless except to the rustics who insist upon closing bed room doors and windows and blowing out the light but electricity has an un- comfortable way of often using human body as highroad over which to travel, and this generally proves disastrous to the body. The electric light companies will have to take this fact into consider ation, and devise means whereby igno- rant, careless people may have their valuable lives preserved to them.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
Influence of Lime on Soils.

Professor B. W. Hilgard, in discuss ing the "Objects and Interpretation of Soil Analyses" gives among other things the following advantages result ing from an adequate supply of lime in soils:
 1. A more rapid transformation of vegetable matter into active humus which manifests itself by a dark, or deep black tint of the soil.
 2. The retention of such humus, against the oxidizing influences of hot climates; witness the high hum per centages of such soils, as against all others, in the Southern States.
 8. Whether through the medium of this humus, or in more direct manner, it renders adequate for profitable cul- ture percentages of phosphoric acid and potash so small that, in the case of de- ficiency or absence of lime, the soil is practically sterile.
 4. It tends to secure the proper main- tenance of the conditions of nitri6ca- tion, whereby the inert nitrogen of the soil is rendered available.
 5. It exerts most important physical action on the focculation, and therefore on the tillability of the soil, as hereto fore shown by schesing and by myself.
 Professor Hilgard adds that in the ma jority of soils (excepting those that are extremely sandy), the lime percent age is greater in the subsoil than in the surface soil. This is, doubtless, he ex- plains, the result of the easy solubility of calcic carbonate in the soil water, which carries it downward and thus depletes the surface soil. This fact is strikingly shown in the results oi Loughridge's Investigations O. the com. position of the several sediments. The efficacy of lime in preventing running to weed" in fresh soils, and in favorine the production of fruit, is conspicuously shown in & number of cases.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
The Lake Fisheries,

A census bulletin just issued gives the statistics of the fishing industry in our great northern lakes for the year 1879. The fisheries reported are those of Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron and St. Clair, Erie and Ontario. The kinds of fish returned are white fish, trout, herring. sturgeon, hard fish, soft fish rough fish, coarse fish and mixed fish. There were employed in the business 5000 fishermen, with vessels, apparatus and accessories valued at $1 345, ,OOO. The fish caught in 1879 weighed 68. 75O,- GOO pounds and were worth S1 ,65O, ,OOO. The leading kind was whitetish, of which 21,000, 1000 pounds, valued at SITS, ,000 were taken $22O, GOO worth of trout were caught and over $1OO, 900 of each, herring and sturgeon. Of the amount of fish obtained $1 100, GOO worth were sold fresh, $400,O GOO worth were salted, S126 900 frozen and s1O9,- GOO smoked. The industry was carried on to the greatest extent in Lake Michigan, where the yield amounted to S66S, GOO in value, and in Lake Erie, where the value exceeded $400,000.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
THE CASE OF JENNIE CRAMER.

The fate of Jennie Cramer, the beau tiful but unfortunate victim of passion, and, to all appearances, crime, is naturally the subject of discussion, if not of pity, in every home in the United States. Her sad, and, we regret to think, not uncommon story, is briefly told. The daughter of respect able parents in moderate circumstances, she grew from childhood to girlhood without those restraints which proper domestic rule, if not religious senti- ment should have placed upon her actions. Possessing the fatal gift of beauty and ightness of heart, which, under proper training and direction, might have made her the joy of a happy home, she was ready to listen to the seductive voices of giddy companions and to look upon pleasure as the one bright star in the humdrum pathway of home existence.
 Taught by these companions the easily learned lessons of idleness, and fattered by the attentions of young men of bet ter social position than her own, the girl grew up, like many hundreds of others, to believe that youth was the season for enjoyment that dress, danc- ing and Irritation were the highest ideal of human duty, and that such things as housework, needlework, reading, music, or religious exercises, were only fit for common drudges, or girls without spirit or style. While it is to be supposed that Jennie Cramer's parents did to some extent attempt to train their child to be comfort to them in their old age, it cannot be doubted that much more liberty was permitted to her than could be justified or warranted under proper state of parental discipline. She ap- pears to have come and gone when she pleased, to have looked upon Der home as a place to eat and sleep in; not as 8 haven of rest, or shrine to be cherished as the dearest spot on earth.
 The girl was bright, happy, cheerful and good hearted. She had the mak- ings in her of beautiful and lovable woman, but she was weak, frivolous, vain and fond of admiration, and she fell, as many fair but foolish girl has fallen, a prey to the villainy of heartless manhood. It is sad, sad story, that which is now being told and commented on in the press throughout the country, story which it is unnecessary to re- peat, but one which should cause every mother in America to strain her daughter to her heart, and swear to guard her as she would her precious life and honor. Poor Jennie Cramer the heart is cold, indeed, which cannot feel for the terrible ending of that bright young life. It is not now the time to speak of the villains who deliberately set to work by cunningly devised schemes to blight the hopes and happiness of poor Jennie Cramer. Their time will come. Nc punishment which the law can infict upon them can even bring back to life the spirit of their beautiful victim, but the story of her fall and death should teach 8 lesson to the mothers and fathers of America more eloquent than words.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
The Forest Fires.
SOME REMARKABLE STORIES TOLD BY SURVIVORS OF THE FLAMES IN MICH TGAN.

Correspondent at Sand Beach, Mich relates the following incident of the forest fires, which he says was told to him by man in Forest Bay, who has good reputation in his neck of woods: ""On Monday at about one o'clock, he says, neighbor of his and the family ran from the house, which was on fire, to a clearing few yards away, in the center of which was large pile of stones picked from the field. They crouched behind it on the lee side for protection from the flames. While they were thus shielding themselves, & large black bear came laundering through the brush on the other side of the field and laid down on the stones directly behind them. Bruin had hard ly become comfortably seated when 8 deer made its appearance and stretched itself upon the ground at the side of the bear. The happy family remained there until the fire was over. The bear and deer then disappeared, and nothing more was seen of them.
 "Another story runs like this: A farmer who owns handsome black stallion took it from the stable in which it was standing, and with his wife went to clearing. The heat was so intense that they would have been suffocated had they not been shielded by the horse. They put their faces next to him on the side opposite the fire, and the animal remained motionless while the great heat burned the hair from his side and back. The farmer and hls wife attribute their salvation to the noble steed.
 "This morning rather respectable looking farmer came to the hotel. hay ing, as he said, been bu1ned out. While in conversation with him he produced a section of spinal column from his vest pocket, and complacently informed me that it was all he could find of bis wife, who was des s'royed with their house. The grim relic was returned to his pock- ct with the observation that he would cherish it to his dying day. Another man displayed an envelope full of ashes, which, he said, was all he could collect of three neighbors who were burned near Port Hope"
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
Poisoned Honey.

Few people know that in bad seasons honey is apt to be poisonous. This arises from the fact that in such seasons the bees are often obliged to gather it from poisonous flowers. Great care should be taken to remove all poisonous plants from the neighborhood of hives. A specimen of honey from Trebizond, gathered from the rhododendron ponti- cum, which is common in that neigh borhood, was sent in 1884 by MT. Keith E. Abbott, to the Geological Society of London, and in 1859 it still retained its poisonous qualities. In 1790 great many people in Philadelphia died from eating honey gathered from the flowers of the kalnaia latitolia. In good sea- sons the bees avoid poisonous plants.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com

The Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany is considering scheme by whiah to reduce it's time, by tAe 3:30 express, 10 twenty five hours from Chicago to New York.
 The Mayor of New Orleans having failed to preserve order ill the city, the Goverr or of the State assured control of affairs and called out the military. The rioters had it all their own way un- til this was done.
 The steamer Columbia foundered otf Frankfort, Mich., Sunday night and fifteen lives were lost. The schooner Regina foundered off Cove Island, Ont. ;, Saturday night and the crew ot four men were drowned.
 A sad case took place in New York on Sunday. A German named Was bacher bought load of pears and was peddling them. Some young thieves stole the pears and assaulted the ped dler. He shot at them, one shot kill ing the peddler's daughter and another severely injuring an assistant peddler The thieves escaped. Secretary Windom, prior to seeing the President on Saturday, had resolved to make call for either twenty five or thirty millions of 3} per cent. bonds on or before the 17th inst, and the Presi- dent approved of 1t.
 FOREIGN.
 -Enelan and Russia are reported to be looking for naval stations near the Pacific end of the Panama Canal.
 According to advices received, a fearful typhoon has visited Shanghai, driving over two hundred vessels of all nationalities on shore, uprooting trees, and levelling with the ground whole lines of houses.
 -Advices from the West Coast of Africa state that the King of Dahomey, with his army of Amazons, had raided and destroyed the towns of Ignano and Opeko, northwest of Abekouta. They had populations of many thousands. All who were unable to escape were brought to Abomey. the capital of Dahomey, for sacrifice at great annual "custom."
 -Senor Altamirano, the Ministerial candidate, has been elected President of the Mexican Congress by an overwhelm. ing majority.
 The Methodist Conference in Lon uOu pdSScO u I0SO4uIpOu 1u ldNOE OI Ill., ternational arbitration as a substitute for war, and discussed the secular and religious press.
 In Egypt the crisis is virtually over for the present. The mutineers have agreed to submit to the Khedive pro- vided some of the changes they demand are made, and to this the Khedive has assented. It is reported that an Anglo French squadron will shortly proceed to Alexandria.
 In Ireland 600 extra police have been ordered to Limerick, which has been in disturbed condition for some time. The Royal Dublin Society will probably cooperate in the movement for the restoration of Irish industries.
 At the Methodist Conference in London Bishop Simpson denied that there had been falling off in the observ- apce of the Sabbath by the Methodists of the United States.
 A railway collision occurred We'd nesday at Patrickswell, County Linn erick, by which fifty persons were in- jured.
 A land slip occurred near the village of Elm, in the Canton Glarus, Switzer- land. Two hundred persons were killed and thirty houses destroyed.
 The Park Theatre in Camden Town, London, was burned down after the performance on Saturday night. No lives were lost.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

"MR. SA1oR," said an old lady to weather beaten tar who had called at her house for lunch, "you must see a good many curiosities at sea?" 70, yes," said Jack, and immediately com menced telling of the great leviathans of the deep. "But how do these great fish live ?' queried the old lady. co, m uch as the large fish on land-by de- vouring the smaller ones." "But they don't eat 'em raw, do they ?" 70, no every fifth fish carries kettle on his tail for cookingP'
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
Restored from n Decline.

NORTH GREECE. N. Y, April g. 1880.
 DR. R. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear Sir Il feel t my duty to write and thank you for what your 'Golden Medical Discovery" and ssFavorite Prescription" have done for my daughter It is now five weeks since she be- gan their use She is more tieshy, has more color in her face, no headache, and is in other ways greatly improved.
 Yours truly, MRS. MARcELLA MYERS.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21
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Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

"I BEG your pardon, sir, said Fogg, addressing at the dinner table 8 stranger whose knife was ever and anon sheathed Ill his mouth "but are you an artist ?" "An artist !" replied the stranger, staying his knife midway in its journey mouthward; "why do you ask that? No, I'm not an artist. y "Well, you should be-" continued Fogg, "you are so expert with the palate-knife.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

A DENTIST presented 8 bill for the tenth time to rich skinfint. "It strikes me-" said the latter. Y" that this is pretty round bill. '' Yes," replied the dentist, "lv'e sent it round often enough to make it appear so; and Ihave called now to have it squared"
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

UNLIKE other cathartics, Dr. Pierce's "Pel lets" do not render the bowels costive afte operation, but, on the contrary, establish permanently healthy action. Being entirely uegetable no particular care is required while using them. By druggists.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

DoN'r throw your life away by marry ing man for the purpose of reforming him. It is the worst use you can put yourself to. The proverb says, "The fox may grow gray, but he never grows good"
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

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Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

Standing room only is getting to be ire ouent announcement at the Madison Square Theatre where The Professor is holding forth. It is the best play in the city. When it is warm they consume eight tons of ice to keep the audience cool so they can laugh.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

THE Sunday Argus, Louisville (Ky.) observes: A Woodbury (N. J.) paper mentions the cure of the wife of MT. Jos. H. Mills, of that place, by St.. Jacobs Oil. She had rheumatism.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

THE editor of local paper was asked by a stranger If it was possible that lit tie town could keep up four newspapers. And the reply was: "No; it takes four newspapers to keep up the town"
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

THE Menasha (Wis.) Press says: A. Granger, Esq, of this city, uses St. Jacobs Oil on his horses with decided success and profit.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

THE wages of a laborer in Russia are eight cents for a days work of fifteen hours, and he "tinds" himself. It is not stated where he finds himself at the end of the month.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

MICHIGAN has man with three arms. And the girls say they like to go sleigh riding with him, as they always feel safer when a man drives with two hands.
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

WHEN you have the blues, and feel all out of sorts, then your liver is diseased, and you need "Sellers' Liver Pills
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

W. s. LINscoTT Niles, O., had scrofula fo thirty years, and 'Lindsey's Blood Searcher cured him. Isn't it wonderful?
Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

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Connecticut western news., 1881-09-21

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