Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-10
Population.

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Windsor Lk's 1000 2,loo 1880 $40 10 0 $500
Winsted..... = = 45o $50 1900
Bridgeport. 1890 1880 29,1oo $500 1000 5000
Hartf. 100 1880 Al, 1000 1900 $500
Meriden 49,. 400 10, 5uO 300 1880 $500 $500
Middletown $500 IL, 100 ZOO 1900 $500 $500
New Britain $500 9400 400 2, 200 3,400 $500
New Haven 200 $4,000 $500 $500 1000 3,l00
New London. 10 100 $500 10000 20 $500 $500
Norwak. $500 49, 100 $4,000 1900 $500 2,1UO
Norwich IA, 900 Ii 600 21.100 200 1000 1900
Waterbury .100 900 13, 100 10000 800 1000 $500
Trotting at Hamilton Park.
Yesterday there was trotting contest at
Hamilton Park to settle dispute between
the owners of horses in Westville. The cal
legged" three fastest horses in the village are
Will Warmers b. G. John, William Siebert's
br. G. Dick and John Williams s. 6. Bill, and
each owner was ready to put money up on
his trotter. The last named horse is owned
by Platt, who preferred to have Williams do
the driving on the track. The talk assumed
such a character finally that the owners
agreed to have race for a purse amounting
to 5000, beside bets afterward made, three
heats to be trotted, if two did not decide
which was the best animal, the winner to
take all the money. The greatest interest in
the trots was conferred in Sieberts and Will
iams' horses, and upon them the principal
betting done.
The trot was announced to come off at two
o'clock, but it was nearer three before the
| horses came on the track for the first heat.
At that time between 400 and 500 persons
had gathered in the Park and there were
about forty single carriages.
When the horses came up to start George
| Faulkner, of Birmingham, drove John,
George Carpenter held the reins over Dick
| and J. B. Judd was in the sulky behind Bill.
Tn tho fir # heat Holm took the lead he fore
| the first half mile was trotted winning the
heat easily by about five lengths.
Second heat-John broke badly on the first
| turn. Bill wen by a long distance, coming
| under the wire at an easy gait in 1854,
| which is good time for a horse that has had
no training but has worked daily in bust
ness wagon.
Third heat-John made bad break soon
after the start, giving the lead to Bill, who
| won without showing his best speed; time
| 1854.
| AS the race was for best two in three, Bill
| was awarded the purse.
| Mr.. J. B. Judd drove Mr.. J. T. Blakeslee's
| horse half mile in 1920, which he repeated
| in 1:21. He afterward drove pair on the
track that were hitched in a very nice carri-
! age and harness.
Mr.. J. n. Lewis, MFR. Jacob Broschart and
Mr.. Thomas L. Young, of New Haven, acted
| as judges.
| Mr.. J. 81. Lewis is training eighteen horses
at Hamilton Park. George Thomas drove a
pair at lively gait around the track, and
| several other horses were speeded, and a
| foot race was improvised to the amusement
| of the spectators.
| Speaking Without d Tongue.
| From the Manchester Guardian.]
| The British Medical Journal reports case
| interesting to more than professional circles,
| which was recently under the of Mr..
Walter Whitehead at the Manchester Royal
Infrmary. The subject was cabinet-maker
| of forty, who in consequence of cancerous
| disease had his tongue excised by the method
| devised by Mr.. Whitehead and usually known
| by his name. The patient appears to have
been within measurable distance" of death
| from sutfocation starvation and exhaustion
| consequent upon severe and continuous pain
| Iracheotomy was then performed, SO as to
lessen the disturbance caused by respiration
| and to avert the danger from suffooation.
Means were also found of feeding the patient;
| indeed, the man has gained nearly stone in
weight. Further, we are told that ''notwith-
standing the loss of his tongue the obstruc-
ton in the pharynx and the opening in the
trachea, the patient can articulate with re-
markable distinctness, and can make all his
wishes known without the use of signs OF
writing" This last circumstance will recall
| to some of our readers the controversy as to
the reality of the occurrence usually known as
| the miracle of the African Confessors u
| Ecclesiastical historians inform that when
by order of Huneric some of the orthodox
| inhabitants of Tipasa who refused to adopt
Arianism lad their tongues publicly cut out
| by the roots, to the establishment of all they
| continued to enjoy the power of speech. AS
Cardinal Newman has pointed out, the evil
dence was unusually satisfactory. "Out OF
| the seven writers adduced, six contempt
| raries three, if not four, are eye witnesses
of the miracle; reports from an eye-wit-
| ness, and one testifes to permanent record
| at the burial place of the subjects of it. All
seven were living or had been staying at one
or other of the two places mentioned as their
abode One is pope, second Catholic
bishop, third bishop of schismatical
party, fourth an emperor, fifth a soldier,
politician, and suspected infdel sixth
| statesman and courtier, a seventh a rhetorl
clan and philosopher" There can be little
| surprise that this consensus of evidence
should have given pause even to Gibbon.
| With one exception, no physical explanation
| of the matter was adduced until the Honor
able Edward Twistleton published his work
| to prove 1.-The tongue not essential to speech. v
| Accepting fully the substantial accuracy OF
the narratives that now remain of the event
| at Iipasa, he gave a number of examples OF
| persons who have retained the power of ar.
| ticulation Notwithstanding the loss of their
| tongue. One was the case of Pierre Durand,
| a French boy living at Saumur in 1880.
Another was that of a patient of Tulpius, 3
| physician whom many will remember as the
professor in Rembrandt's famous picture OF
the Lesson in Anatomy third was q
| Portuguese girl who was seen at Lisbon early
in the eighteenth century by DR.. Joseph Will
cocks and M. Antoine de Jussien. It was
| this case that led the Rev. Conyers Middle
| ton to anticipate the explanation of the Afri
can miracle afterwards developed at greater
| length and with weightier evidence by Mr..
Twistleton In 1742 the Royal society caus-
ed a careful examination to be made of the
case of Margaret Cutting, of Wickham Mar
ket, who had completely lost her tongue by
| cancer, and yet continued to pronounce slet-
ters and syllables very articulately." Sir
| John Malcolm mentions that the voice of
Zal Khan, whose tongue had been cut out
close to the root by order of Aga Mahomed
| Khan, though indistinct and thick, was intel
ligible to persons accustomed to converse
| with him. The Emir Faris, although his
| tongue has been mutiated, continued to speak,
and his ability in that respect is testified by
| Mr.. Richard Wood, who was then in the pub
| lie service in the Lebanon. Sir John Nc
Neill met several persons in Persia, who had
| undergone this barbarous punishment, but
| retained the power of speech, and DIR. Wolff
had one such person for his teacher in Man
| daye. Several Persian attested by
| DR.. J. r. Dickson. Another English case is
that of Mr.. Robert Rawlings, whose tongue
| was removed for cancer in 1861, and who
could pronounce most letters, but unable
| to sound either the initial final l or d.
Somewhat similar was the experience of a
| Manchester patient who in 1866 was under
the care of Professor Syme. Six patients OF
Sir James Paget could talk quickly and In
| telligibly after the healing of their wounds. u
| To the long list adduced by Mr.. Twis> Teton
! We may now add the case of the Manchester
cabinetmaker, who owes his escape from q
painful and horrible death to the beneficent
skill and knowledge of modern medical
science.