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Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21
Doctors of the Period.

A short time ago, when travelling, the celebrated Dr. Barthez was taken sick, and according to the manner of all phy- sicians, he called in fellow practitioner to attend him.
 When the strange doctor put in an ap- pearance, Barthez discovered, to his stupefaction, that his colleague was none other than an old servant of his.
 ''How is this 7? you doctor Since when? and what can you do?"
 ''Sir, I picked up little medicine in your service, and I have great success here."
 'Is that possible?"
 ."Yes, and more than you could have yourself"
 And seeing the astonishment of his old master, he continued:
 "How many inhabitants do you think this town numbers?"
 "I don't know; 10000, perhaps"
 "Yes, about that many. And how many do you think are really intelligent and capable Approaching your merits?'' q do not know"
 "Let us say thousand, and that is ample. Well the thousand are yours, and the rest belong to me-"
 Barthez became thoughtful for mo. ment and then answered: 'sIt is true, and you are right. And this is the way of the world, notwithstanding it's con, .stant improvements; in spite of the re. 1 criminations of all honest and modest doctors, the multitude will always be, long, be they great or small, humble ol exalted, politicians and doctors, igno rant or wise, in health or sickness, to charlatans, who are invariably gifted with that impeturbable assurance, which under the name of 'brass,' fascinates and conquers the public, who accep their theories and cover before theil ] superiority"
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21
SHATTERED WITH DYNAMITE.
Attempt to Blow Up Part of the Govern.
 ment OGlces In London.

Every part of Westminster, the Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, the great structures of the public offices, the clubs and dwelling houses were violently shaken Thursday night by tremendous explosion. At g o'clock precisely great detonation was heard, followed by the crash of glass, falling from thousands of windows. A deliberate attempt had been made to blow up part of the Govern ment Offices, the part occupied by Sir Charles Dilke and the local Government Board, in the immense building bounded by Parliament street, DownAhg street, Charles street and St. James Park.
 The apartments in question front on Charles street and are almost level with the pavement. The walls are of great thickness, and of solid masonry, and the windows protected by massive stone bulustrade. Opposite, fifty yards away, is the King street police station. Fifty feet away sentry guards the Parliament street front. Charles street is dark and unfrequented at night, which partly ex- plains the extraordinary fact that no lives were lost. The dynamite was placed on the window sill inside the balustrade, where the fuse when burning would be concealed from the view of any one pass- ing.
 The force of the explosion was ter rife. The great stone balustrade was ob- liberated, the massive masonry rent to fragments, and the pavement shattered and ground to powder. A wooden struc- ture opposite was blown into splinters, and a mass of stone was driven through the wall of the house beyond it.
 Inside the offices there remained nothing but splintered wood, broken plaster, walls burst asunder-an in. describable scene of destruction. The street was completely covered with the fragments of broken plate glass, blowr | bodily out and shattered to atoms. The doors of the King street police station were burst in by the blast of air and the detachment present was pros trated. Broken timbers and masses ot stone were sent flying into King street People crossing at Parliament stree were knocked down. A hanson anc horse were flung across the sidewalk against the front of the Whitehall Club in which the great plate glass windows were driven in shower into the rooms.
 Everywhere the greatest consternatior prevailed. People poured out of thei1 houses, the broken glass cracking under their feet. In the House of Commons the alarm was general. Many member left immediately, the lobby was emptied and the people rushed out of Westmins ter Hall.
 Some two hundred police and de- tachment of the fire brigade took posses sion of Charles street and drew cordol around the building, which no one bu members of Parliament and public off cials were allowed to pass. As the alarn spread, thousands focked from all part toward Westminster and the most intens excitement prevailed, the report rapidl, gaining currency that the House of Com mons had been blown up.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21
A Story of the Flood.

A Cincinnati paper tells this story One of the strangest freaks of the flood is reported from Whitewater River, a few miles above Lawrenceburg, where Farmer Hunt lost 40 acres of land and his neighbor, Fred Newhouse, had a barren and rocky mill site converted into 10 acres of as rich land as the fertile valley affords. The land along the Whitewater is as rich as any in the west. An acre of ground there is an independ- ence for a gardener, and 10 acres are little less than bonanza. During the flood the Whitewater bottoms were overfowed for miles along the stream, and the extraordinary height of the water created currents that had never been known before. Since the subsid- ence of the flood it has been found that 40 acres of Farmer Hunts richest soil has been carried away, leaving that por- tion of his farm practically worthless until restored by @ system of tillaee and fertilizing. Fred Newhouse, who re- gently removed to the Whitewater bot toms from Aurora, owned mill site just below Hunts farm. Newhouse's prop erty consisted of 10 acres of rocky and barren land, unfit for farming purposes. A portion of this was mill pond. The mill pond is now filled to the level of the breast of the dam with the richest soil in the valley, and Mir. Newhouse's re- maining acres of unproductive rocks are covered to the depth of several feet with the same rich deposit. Instead of being a loser by the flood, he is ahead the value of 10 acres of Whitewater Valley land, which, when there is any of it in the market, commands from $20O to $500 an acre. MT. Newhouse is fine practi- cal miller, and the whole neighborhood just now is put to great inconvenience by the temporary shutting down of his mill. ''If it were not for the annoyance and delay of changing my mill from water-power to steam power-for I am left without dam, " said MT. Newhouse, "I would laugh at my loss."
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21
THE STEAM ENGINE.
The Real Inventor of it and the Injustice
 Done to His Memory.

A statue of Robert Fulton has been erected in the National Hall of Statuary, in the capitol at Washington, to repre- sent Pennsylvania. Robert Fulton is generally credited with being the inven- tor of the steamboat; and by many peo- pie he is also supposed to have been a native of New York. Both of these no- tions are erroneous. He was not the in- ventor of the steamboat; and he aoas a native of Pennsylvania.
 The inventor of the steamboat was John Fitch. This remarkable man, @ native of that part of old Windsor that is on the east side ol the Connecticut River and is not included in the newer township of South Windsor, conceived the idea of a steamboat while living in Philadelphia, in 1784, twenty-three years before Full ton started h5s boat. Fitch went ahead with his idea-petitioned Congress in 1785 for aid to build his vessel, and sub- mitted his model to the American Philo- sophical Society of Philadelphia. He received some assistance from individu- als, went ahead, built boat, the Per severence, and had it in actual operation on the Delaware on the 1st of May, 1787. His engine was the first double-acting condensing engine transmitting power by cranks ever constructed. The boat made several trips, up and down the river; but, owing to the difficulty of keeping the piston tight against the comparatively rough interior surface of the cylinder, the rate was slow, only three miles an hour. Fitch then improved it, so that, in 1788, it made eight miles per hour. It was then put into regular use on the Delaware.
 Fulton saw it-and in 8 later year saw Fitch's model in Paris, where the in- ventor had taken it in the vain hope of getting French artisans to build a steamer. Fulton, who, unlike Fitch, had the important aid of wealthy friends, failed in an invention of submarine torpedo boat. Then he undertook, some seventeen years after Fitch's triumphant demonstration on the Delaware, to make a steamboat to ply on the Seine, at Paris; but it proved total failure. He then went to England and Scotland, and studied up the mechanism of steam canal towboat, which, built on wrong principle, was trying to do work on the Clyde. Having the means, he bought a powerful engine, of Watts invention, in England, in 1906, and sent it to the United States, where, in 1907, he got it at work in the first Hudson River steamer, the Clermont. This boat made five miles an hour up stream-not equal to Fitch's boat on the Delaware, twenty years before.
 But Fitch was poor, and. destined always to bitter trials and disappoint- ments. Fulton had powerful friends, and obtained unjustly the credit of being the inventor of the steamboat. Fitch died in disappointment and obscurity in Kentucky, by an overdose of opium; Fulton goes into the Hall of Statuary in the Capitol. But history will yet right this matter and do justice to John Fitch.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21
A Laughable Mistake.

The Boston Advertiser says that a Imaginable incident occurred during the recent visit of the American Society oi Civil Engineers to Lowell, where they were the guests of MT. J. B. Francis, whose residence is in close proximity to that of Governor Butler. MT. Francis had provided carriages for the convey ance of his guests (about seventy in num- ber from the railway station to his dwelling, and as they moved slowly in the direction of Governor Buffers place many rumors were set afoat regarding the nature of the delegation they con- tained.
 When within a short distance of the Governors house lady, who also re- sides in the neighborhood, relieved the curiosity of the inquiring crowd by ven turing the observation that the visitors must be the convicts from Concord Prison on their way to pay their respects to Governor Butler for his kindness and leniency toward them.
 This "news" spread like wildfre and stampede was instantly made in the direction of the Governors house to see them alight and enter in. The disap- pointment of the would-be sightseers when they discovered that instead of the Concord convicts the carriages contained only lot of civil engineers paying a visit to the ex-President of their society can easily be imagined.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21
HOW WATCHES ARE MADE,

It will be apparent to any one, who will ex- anime SOLID GOLD WATCH, that aside rom the necessary thickness for engraving and polishing, large proportion of the preciou- metal used, is needed not only to stiffen and hold the engraved portions in place, and sup ply the necessary solidity and strength. The surplus gold is actually needless so far as UTIL- 1TY and beauty are concerned. In JAMES BOSS PATENT GOLD WATCH CASES, this WASTE of precious metal is overcome, and the SAME soLIDITY AND STRENGTH produced at from ne-third to one half of the usual cost of solid cases. The process is of the most simple nature, as follows: plate of nickle compost tion metal, especially adapted to the purpose, has two plates of SOLID GOLD soldered one on each side. The three are then passed between polished steel rollers, and the result is 8 strip of heavy plated composition, from which the cases, backs, centres bezels, &c., are cut and shaped by suitable dies andformers. The gold in these cases is sufficient to admit of al kinds of chasing, engraving and enameling the engraved eases have been carried until worn perfectly smooth by time and use without removing the gold.
 THIS IS THE ONLY CASE MADE WITH TWO PLATES SOLID GOLD AND WARRANT ED BY SPECIAL CERTIFICATE.
 For sale by all Jewellers. Ask for Illustrated Catalogue, and to see warrant.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21

MADAM" he began as he lifted his hat at the front door, "I am soliciting for home charities. We have hundreds of poor, ragged and vicious children like those at your gate, and our object is" "Sir those are my own children p she interrupted, and the way that front door slammed his toes jared every hair on his scalp-lock.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21
THE virtue of coward is suspicion
MARKET NOTES.
NEW YORK MARKET.

 The Wholesale New York market quotations show:
 BEANs-Prime, s3. .7O@s3.75; fair to good, $200@$2.25 per bushel.
 BUTTER - New York sold at 37(03Sc. for choice in pails, and 23@25c. common to good. Western Creamery sold at 32Q34c., and the common Western at 19@20c
 CHEEsE-Factory fancy, 19s4@14c; do. fair to good, 10@11c. Eaas-Quotations ranged from 2Oc. for or dinary, to 2119c. for New York, New Jersey and PennsyIvanla.
 FLOUR -Superfine, $3. 3.7O@$4OO; Western, $4.60@$79 90; extra New York, $4.30@$700. HAY Shipping, 60@65c.; clover, 50@60c, salt, 65c; straw, 50@55c.
 Hops-New York, ,-(@S5c.; Eastern, s5@95c; PETROLEUM Refined, 7ssc; crude, 61S@72sc in bulk; in barrels, S5sc; naphtha, 6%c. in shipping order, and IL 5@12c. in cases. PoRK-New mess, $19.0O@$195O;' dressed hogs, 91a@9Ic.
 waukee, No. ?, $l.36; amber, $1.32@$2.4O; !; white, $1.O9@$1.26.
 CoRN-Ungraded Western Mixed, 6115071c.; Steamer Mixed, 6S19@6S34c. in elevator, --c. delivered; No. 3, 70s@71c. in elevator, 72@ 7419c. delivered; White Southern, 7314c de- livered
 RYE-state, 73@7S15c.
 WooL-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, xxx 45946c.; xxx, 426D44c.; X, 42(D43c.; No. 1, 45(D47c.; No. 2 3S@D40c.; common, 33@35c.; New York and Western xxx and X, 39@4512c.; No. 1, 44D45c.
 PHILADELPHIA MARKET. FLoUR-State family, -@$4.75; rye flour, $3.75@$4.6 6212 {; wheat, State, $-@$1. IS amber $1.43; corn, yellow, 5419c.; mixed State 62c.
 PETRoLEUM-Refined, 75Sc.; crude, 61(c. WooL-State and Western xxx, 46@50c.; X, 47@48c.; medium 50@51c.; coarse 45c.
 BOSTON MARKET.
 FLOUR - From $3. 3.5O@$4.00 for low and medium, to $5.00@6.00 for choice Minnesota. Corn, 7O@7Sc. for mixed and yellow. BUTTER - Common, 20c. (025c. Vermont dairy, 28@33c.; choice creamery, 35@37c. CHEEsE-13@1315c.
 BEANs-$3. 35@$3. 50.
 HAY-Choice, $17@$18.
 CATTLE MARKETS.
 BUFFALO - Cattle, good quality, $5.s0c0 $6.15; hogs, fair to good, $750@$77O |; best. $7.85. EAST LIBERTY, PENN.-Best cattle, $5.75O $6.25; medium to good, $45O@$5.5O; common to fair, $3.00@$4.25; Hogs, Workers, $7. 200 $7.45 Phiadelphias, $7.SO@$sOO. Sheep, WATERrowN, MAss.-Cattle, choice, $- @$l0.OO; extra, $9.5O@$975; first quality, $8.50@$s;25; second quality, $6.5o@s8.O0; third quality, $5.OO@$6.oO. Sheep and lambs wool sheep, $2.50@$5.5O; extra, $5.75@ $6.5O; spring lambs, 6@sc. Veal calves, 3c@71sc. 12
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21
NARROW ESCAPE OF A MASSACHUSETTS, ENGINEER TIMELY WARNING OF MIR. JOHN SPENCER, BAGGAGE MASTER
 OF THE B. & A. R.R.
Marvellous Cure of Stone in the Bladder Large Stoned Removed by "Ken.
 nedy's FavuH Hite Remedy.'
 EA,o,,, tbe p;ttstfeLd f1Tnss En0Le


 Large Stoned Removed by "Ken.
 nedy's Favu rite Remedy.'
 From the Pittsffeld (Nass) EGgle.
 Stone in the Bladderis very dangerous ail: ment; but many most remarkable cures have of late been wrought by 'Kennedy's Favorite Reme- dy"-the invention or Dr. Kennedy of Ron dout, N. Y. Another striking case is now added to the list. MT. Peter Lawler, of Dalton Mass, Etates in a letter to Dr. Kennedy that he had been troubled with bladder complaint for l4 years and had consulted at different times seven physi- sians; but nothing beyond temporary alignment of the pain had been worked. Towards the end of last January MT. Lawler called on Dr. Ken, nedy. Sounding him, the doctor t struck stone" He decided that Mir. Lawler should first try, the "Favorite Remedy" so as, if possible, to avoid an operation. And here is the remarkable result: s'Dear Doctor Kennedy-The day after came home I passed two gravel stones, and am doing nicely now. If you would like to see the stones will send them to you." This letter bears date "Dalton, Mass, Feb. 6th,' and is signed "Peter Lawler." The stones, which are so large as to war : rant for " "Kennedy's Favorite Remedy 7" the claim that it is the most successful specific for Stone yet discovered, are now in Dr. Kennedy's possession Incidentally Mir. Lawler also states that the Fav orite Remedy" at the time cured him of stubborn of Rheumatism; and it is a fact that in all affections arising out of disorder of the liver urinary organs it is searching remedy and works marvellous benefits. It in itself almost medicine chest Order it of your druggist. Price sl.0o a bottle,
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21

CORRESPONDENTS of daily paper are discussing the question, "Can man marry on $10 week. He cannot ii the girl is aware of the amount of his in-
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21
Skinny meK

Skinny Men.
 seWeus' Health Remover" restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Sexual Debility. $l. HE that grasps at too much, holds nothing
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21

AN elder of the kirk having found 8 little boy and his sister playing marbles on Sunday, put his reproof in this form mot judicious one for child: "Boy, do you know where children go to who play marbles on the Sabbath day ?" ssAy," said the boy, ''they gang down to tie field by the water below the brig. " "No!' roared out the elder, ''they go to hell and are burned.'' The little fellow, really shocked, called to his sister: "Come ava, Jeanie; here's a man swear ing awfully. DEAN RAMSEY.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21

WHEN Senator Vest was solicited by the suffrage-begging women to help their cause, says 8 Washington letter,
 he listened patiently while they contend ed, in the usual style, that the woman was the equal of the man and ought to hold office-any office, Senator, Gov ernor, Postmaster, Justice of the Peace or Constable-anything, indeed. "Great heavens, said Vest, :'do you mean that ? Now, just think of it. Think of man going home and kissing a justice of the peace, or telling friend that he was in
 love with constable It is dreadful P
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21

COMPARE the dose and quantity of Hoods Sarsaparilla, and you have conclusive proof ot it's superior strength and cheapness. Try it.
 PEOPLE who have more curiosity than man. ,,ars ara not oood comDanions
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21
The COnqueror.

fRv1NGToN, N. Y, Maya, 1881. H. R. WARNER & Co.-Sirs: I have used your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, and take pleasur in recommending it as the conqueror of,al dist ases of the kidney, liver and urinary organs. IRA STocKMAN. n---....- As41
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21

LYoN's Patent Heel Stiffener the only inven- tion that makes old boots as straight as new.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21

FoR SPECIAL RATES for advertising in this paper, aprly to the publisher of the paper. U12
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21
FAMOUS CASE IN BOSTON.

Of the many remedies before the public for Nervous Debility and weakness of Nerve Generatve System there equal to Aliens Brain Food. which promptly and permanently restores all lost vigor; it never fails $1 pkg six for 5 At druggists and at Aliens Pharmacy. 3l5 First avenue New York City.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21

PURE oop-LrvER OIL, from selected flyers, on the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard & Co.,, N. Y. Absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have declara if snnarinr tn all other oils.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21

CHAppED HANDS, face, pimples and rough skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by Caswel, Hazard & Co.,, New York.
 LOVE can gather hope from marvelously little thing
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21

That Husband of Mine Is three times the man he was before he began using Wells Hair Remover. $1. Druggists. WHEN is crow absolutely inexcusable ? When it's raven without caws.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21
For Thick Heads,

WHY are farmers like fowls ? Because neither will get full crops without industry.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21

Heavy etomachs, bilious onditions-Wells' May Apple Pills-anti-bilious cathartic. 10 and25c.
 BROWN is after divorce from his wife; he wants to be united because she's untidy.
Connecticut western news., 1883-03-21

EaoT1sM springs sometimes from self-admira- ton. .#
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05
Baby INJURED HAHn.

This morning between four and five
o'clock. as Chicago, Rock Island 8 Pa.
cific brakeman named James B. Kennedy,
aged % years. was coupling West bound
freight to its caboose in the company's
yard in this city, at the instant of the
bumpers coming together the glove on his
right hand froze fast TO the link, and be-
fore he could withdraw it his hand was
dreadfully mangled. the right thumb hang
ing merely by q shred of the skin and flesh.
He went at once to DR.. Plummers house
AID. luckily. found the doctor st home.
The examination revealed, beside the lost
thumb, which was amputated al the meto-
carpal joint, badly crushed lower joints, Cat
the point of juncture with the handl of the
first and second fingers, (which it may
hereafter be necessary to amputate) and
the ball of the little finger slit open.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05
A BAD EGG.

Wesley Walters, of Moline, known to
fame chiefly because of his relationship to
Ida May Walters. of Mississippi notoriety)
who has just been indicted for keeping a
gaming house, it has been learned to-day
disposed of bus gaming outfit on Tuesday
night and left the country. presumably for
the country's good. Before Ida May left
for Alabama she told her acquaintance
here that her father was keeping gamb-
ling house in Moline, but he represented
himself as working regularly in the Deere
establishment, and was believed. The
young lady told the truth, it seems, and as
soon as he learned that he was likely to be
proceeded against for violating the law,
he, too. decamped for more hospitable
CLINE. The Walters crowd is evidently a
bad one
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-05

] mediately and to reRain open to stock.
holders only to the 18th of the present
month, after which time outsiders will he
allowed to take what stock they desire.
This is done in order to give present stock.
holders the first chance.
There is probability that we will have
Christine Nilsson the great singer heps
some time in March Mr. Carlson of tbs
Sa0edtsh american a paper published 10
Chicago, and who is an intimate friend Of
that company, promised Manager Gran
while in this city.recently to do all in his
power to induce her to come and be
thought he would be successful. As il
costs the nice little sum of 900 to gel
her to come, our opera house will have to
be well filed
Moline Temple, No. 81 U. o. A. T., at
their regular meeting last evening elected
officers for the ensuing six months as fol-
lows: Templar H. p Pierce; Vice Ten
plar, Miss Ella Wells; Recorder, Miss Com
Griffin; Treasurer, w. w. Gibbs; Marshal
Chas Edgar; Guard. Miss Lille Brown,
and Waterman, Alfred Hall The election
of a few other officers was deferred until
another meeting. Installation next Thurs
day evening, Jan. IL. Odd Fellows hall.
No 1873 in Metropolitan block, has been
secured for another three months, and
they will probably remain there the entire
year.