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Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23
Adelaide Phillipps.

Mrs. Waterston has written warm and tender "record of the virtuous and lovely character of Adelaide Phillipps. She was without any kind of pretension, and she tells very little of the adven- lures or romances of her life. Amusing mishaps she made the best of, and rather enjoyed. For concert in a country town she had one day packed her dress in champagne basket, tied up with green ribbons. After tea she opened the basket in order to dress, and found to her dismay that it contained high boots, rough coat and the rest of the habifi- ments of some man who, oddly enough, : had packed his clothes in a champagne basket tied with green ribbons. There was nothing to be doae but to brush up her travelling dress and send an apology to the audience, who, however, ar- plauded her warmly, even in her black silk. In 1879 Miss Phillipps joined the Ideal Opera Company, under the direc- tion of Miss B. H. Ober, and remained in it until December, 1881, when she made her last appearance on the stage ln Cincinnati. Her friend writes of her that "she never swerved from the straight and narrow way in which she walked as a woman. She sacrificed worldly pros perity to principle, and although she was a conscientious artist, her heart was in her personal life, her home, and with those friends whom she loved. ' Her home had been since 1860 on farm in Marshfeld, which was bought for her brother. Energetic and buoyant as her temperament was she could not conquer the illness which increased so much that she went abroad again in August, 1882, to take the waters at Carlsbad, and there { she died Tn the October following. Her body was brought home, and after fu- neral services, which were held at King Chapel in Boston, on October 25, 1882, in was taken to Marshfeld to the quiet
 country burying ground there. The i'm
 pression made by this memoir is that o1
 a truly good, generous, tender hearted
 woman, who had great gifts and useo
 them well.-Boston Advertiser.
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23
THE BOY OF THE CHAIN-GANG.
A Touching Story of Criminal Life DOyvu
 south.

They were working right in front of the chain gang. There were nine villanous- looking men, each wearing shackles and having no shame as they looked into the faces of the strangers on the yer anda. A chain-gang is an everyday sight in the South, and few people waste their sympathy on the justly punished wretches, but all of sudden something happened in this gang never to be for gotten. A boy not yet fourteen years old came up with pail of water, and we saw that he belonged to the chain gang. Larceny had sent him to associ- ate with those williams for three long years. He looked pale and broken down, and his shame compelled him to avert his face as he came up. It was sad sight to see tot of boy brought out and degraded and disgraced, and he felt the situation so keenly that at the first kind word from the platform the tears yelled up and blinded his eyes.
 There was woman there from Indiana who walked straight down to the boy and put her hand on his head and shed tears with him. There must have been something in his look to remind her of some one-perhaps son at home or one under the sod. Her heart was full of sorrow and sympathy and her words broke the lad down. This lasted four or five minutes, to the great astonish- ment and annoyance of the armed guard in charge. The lightning express com ing down the road had just whistled, and the iron rails were quivering under the approaching thunder, when the guard called out: ''Come, you young thief, get back after more water p
 The woman started back at the words, instant he broke away, wheeled and clasped her hand and kissed it, and then what? Not hand could have lifted to prevent. The express was laundering up at forty miles an hour, not intending to make stop here, and the lad turned from the woman whose kind words had opened the well-springs of his heart, and at the same time mortified him at his situation, and with one spring he alighted in front of the locomotive. Next instant his crushed and mangled
 body was flung into the roadside ditch and he had served his sentence. We
 picked him up tenderly, and the wome1
 wept over him as they washed the pale face and folded the boy-hands over the crushed and broken breast, but the lac - was beyond the need of earthly friends , M. QUAD.
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23
Value of the SunfiOwer.

Agriculturists claim it is the best egg producing food known for poultry, keeping them in thriving condition and largely increasing the production of eggs. Every poultry raiser who tries it will find that this seed is the best food known for glossing the plumage of fowls, and is almost indispensable to those who want to fiji their birds for ex- hibition to the best advantage. The Russian sunfower is easily raised, re- quires very little care, can be grown in fence corners, or other places difficult to cultivate. Its production of seed is i'm mense, yielding often at the rate of one hundred bushels to the acre. It should be planted in hills, four feet apart, any time from the 10th of May to the 1st o1 July. Three quarts of seed will plan an acre.
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Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23
CANAAN CONN., WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1883.

of small, shrill voices in her ear. But she looked into Jerome's loving eyes, and was satisfied. He loved her, was not that enough?
 And the Three Old Maids are sharper, more untidy and shrill-voiced than ever, since they have realized the fatal mistake they made in refusing the overtures of their Cousin Jerome.
 And a manoeuvring, managing creature is the tenderest appellation they apply to Mrs. Jerome Clay. Things would have been so widely different if they had only known !-Saturaay Night.
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23
Grenadine Dresses.

The short basque, and 8 trimmed skirt that gives straight lines and full effects, Harpers Bazor says, is Worth's favorite design for summer dresses of rich materials, such as velvet grena- dimes, China crape, and the new silk gauges. The new idea in these silks is the arrangement of two full straight breadths open up to the middle for the only visible parts of the back of the skirt, but these are posed on founda- tion skirt, and are confined to the back breadths of this foundation skirt by be- ing sewed down to the seams. The upper parts of the straight breadths are laid in folds or vertugadin puffs, and passed around the tournure and hips to give boufant effect, and there may be lace founces, fringe, or embroidery laid between these puffs or folds. The low est ends that reach to the foot are straight and untrimmed, being merely hemmed or faced. The open face up the middle is finished on each edge with frill or iabot of lace, and beside this is TOW of embroidery or of jetted passe- menterie; four sets of narrow strings underneath the frills tie these separate edges together from the belt down tc within twelve inches of the foot, where they are left united, and founce o1 plaited satin is placed on the foundation skirt to show, if these breadths should open at the foot As has been said, the selvedges of these two breadths are sewed to the straight seams of the sin gle back breadth of the foundation skirt then next this on each side is single futing or organ-pipe plating fourth O a yard broad, stiffly lined, and curved into space half its breadth this ex tends the whole length of the skirt, ant is covered with seven frills of lace Next this is a side draping made of { breadth of figured goods, such as velve grenadine, brocaded satin, embroidered gauge, or China crape, which is drape' diagonally across the sides, with plait ing of plai n material under it. Tn
 front breadth is then covered with houn ces of lace and embroidery.
 RETURNING thanks is easy enough, bu
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23
The Effect of Mortar Firing.

The ordnance which Commodore Foote brought for the attack on Island No. 10, says M. Quad, in letter to the Detroit Free Press, was the heaviest ever used upon the Mississippi. His mortars were mounted singly upon great barges, and each shell when loaded, weighed about 300 pounds. A charge of twenty five pounds of powder would hurl these bombs over two miles, and the fall and explosion of each one was truly terrific. The concussion, when one of the mon- strous mortars were fired, was such that men became disabled after four or five rounds, and some were rendered deaf for days at time. Hundreds of old logs and roots which nsd rested on the bot tom of the river for years were brought to the surface by the concussion, and when all the mortars were engaged the roar and din covered the river with bub- bles, and drove thousands of men to fill their ears against the sound.
 When one of the mortar shells would burst in the river, it would throw mud and water clear into the tree-tops, and when it would fall upon solid land. il would excavate hole large enough te bury horse. Only 8 few confederates were killed and wounded by the 1OO,O0( missiles hurled at thep, and those alto gether by the fragments. One man. who at the moment had box of breat on his shoulder, was fairly hit by de scending bomb, and not so much as { button from his uniform was ever picked up as reminder of his fate. Again, bomb fell upon cannon around whicl eight or ten men were lying, and al though the gun was rendered useless not man was injured.
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23
LOVES LOST DAY.

When thou and are parted presently, This dead days ghost, with white accusing
 face,
 Shall walk among our harsh unpitying days, Saving "For tenderness love fashioned me, And, 10 ye did defame my deity, Reft me of sweetness, took away my grace, And set horror in my fair self's place That self no tears can make again to be-"
 when for one of us vain days go by, The while the other sleeps beneath the flowers, Heedless of sunshine or soft April showers. "Look ever in my eyes," this day shall cry, Wherein, as in deep streams reflected lie Love's murdered irrecoverable hours,
 PHILIP BoURKE MARsToN.
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23

WHAT HE MAY BE.-An anecdote told of prominent Philadelphian, who was connected with the construction of the first railroad in Russia. At the formal opening, the Czar was in attendance, and rode upon the first passenger train that passed over the road. The nobles who accompanied him were obliged by the etiquette of the court to remain standing while in his presence through out the whole trip. The American pro- iector was seated. The tired courtiers complained of this to the sovereign.
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23

CURIOUS LAWS. -Saxony has some very curious laws concerning servant girls. For instance, the mistress is required to allow the servant one pound of butter and one pound of coffee per month, or the equivalent in money. If the servant furnish her own bedding she receives one and one-haf cents per night for so doing. Seventy-five cents per month IS allowed the servant for her washing, and she receives five per cent. on all pur- chases she makes. She must give months notice before leaving her place, and must keep book for recommenda- tions, in which. upon leaving her place, her mistress is compelled to state the cause of the servants leaving, and also what is her character.
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23
About Sullivan.

An exchange says: "Boston's favorite son, John Longfellow Sullivan, has met the foe and vanquished him" This is an inaccurate statement. MT. Sulivan's s middle name is not Longfellow, but Lawrence. If MT. Sullivan lived in England he would be known as MT. J. Lawrence Sullivan, or simply as MT. Lawrence Sullivan. For instance, our present Minister to England, MT James Russell Lowell, is usually spoken of in the English papers as MT. Russell Low ell. But we have been informed that MT. Sullivan decidedly objects to being recognized by his middle name after the English fashion. He hopes to live and die Sullivan, but never wishes to be referred to as J. Lawrence, nor simply as Lawrence, but always as John It. NeaU York Sun.
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23

BEER Fifteen millions of barrels of beer were consumed in this country last year at the cost to the consumers of $48O, O,OOO, ,O0O.
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23
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Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23

RETURNING thanks is easy enough, but how about borrowed money?
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-23

THE true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-06-15
ITEMS FROM BRUNSWICK, ME.

ED. JoURNAL:-We are now having
very pleasant weather, but il has rained
most every other day for the past two
weeks. We have not had any snow storms
this way as yet.
Decoration day WINS very warm and sui
try. The leaves OF the forest aud fruit trees
developed more on Saturday, that one day.
than during the whole week previous. The
apple trees are in full blossom, the same
may be said of the wild strawberry and
the bluebcrries, which are laden with bios
soma.
A Portland gentleman has cleared a
neat little sum OF money right here in
Maine, within the last two weeks, at the
sale OF the wrecked steamer Brookiyn's
cargo, in connection with another gentle.
mans bid of 10000 bushels of grain at p
cts pee busliel. The grain was taken out
and dried, and the principal part of it has
been SOLD at 40 cts. per bushel. To date
his profits are $4,000.
Two young city ladies, while in the coun.
try, were standing by the side Of wide
ditch, which they did not know how to
cross. They appealed 10 boy who was
coming along the road for help, whereupon
lie pointed behind them with starteled
air md yelled, Snakes = The ladies cross
Ell the ditch at n single bound. So, girls
beg OF you not TO appeal for help, but
stand upon your independence and agility
imagine the presence Of snakes, and yor
will land sate on the other side.
when desceuds on the Atlantic
The gigantic stUrmwind Of the Equinox,
| Landward In his wrath he scourgcs
The telling surpes,
Laden with seiwecd from the rocks.
so when storms of wild emotion
| Strikes the ocean of the poets soul,
Ere long
From each cave and rocky fastness,
In Its vastncss,
Floats some fragment OF song.
NJ &C.
Brunswick, June IL, SS3.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-06-15
LATEST sERENADE SONG.

Joseph Nellis, Charles Cook and Fred
Charles came around on Saturday evening
and gave usa pleasant serennde, and the
following was the song " the song they sung"
Il was composed by Mr.. NelIis for the oc-
casion, and shows that his genius is not
limited in making verses:
The Democrats, they. raised pole,
One hundred and thirty feet:
You never have seen them hoist their flag
Since General Hancock WINS beat.
They took their flag and buried 1t
Beneath Dan Klingler's wheat
Shouting for Garfield and Arthur.
Hurrah Hurah Hurrah for this campaign;
Hnrrah Hurrah the Democracy's insane,
What jolly time we're having,
During this campaign-
Shouting for Garfield and Arthur.
The Democracy in Perrysburg.
Whose hearts are filed with pain,
Since Hancock was defeated
They are all going insane
How they blowed and shot their wads
During the last campaign,
Shouting for Garfield and Arthur ~
oh how they claimed they carried New Yorl
by twenty thousand strong,
When the latest message came, my boys,
They found that they were wrong:
Had TO compose this song
Shouting for Garfield and Arthur.
Their hickory was to large to raise,
And the job they did mt coi.: rlete,
30 Kllnger got Fitzgerald's axe
And chopped OF twenty feet;
Their labor WAS for nothing boys
For General Hancoek's beat
Shouting for Garfield and Arthur,
When they had their hickory raised
We looked up to The top,
And saw great big Rooster
To represent Hancock:
When Kiinglcr heard of their defeat,
He tumbled OF the dock
Shouting for Garfield aud Arthur.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-06-15

ED. JOURNAL thinking that few
items from this neck OF timber might lie
acceptable to some oil your mamy readers.
jot them down
Hector is ia Madison township, 13niles
west of Leipsio, on the Nickle Plate Road.
One year ago in March there was one sslid
belt of timber, with not stick cut rs a
mark of Improvement. A New York Co {.
now owns 900 acres of timber land, and
have large stave factory and saw mila In
operation. The factory is run by day ana
the sawmill by night, the fires not goisg out
from Monday morning ill Saturday might
-sometimes not then. The mill saws on,
an average, each day, 100 logs. They eni
ploy 125 anen and boys. They calca late 10
cut up the sixteen hundred acres in tes,
years. The Company owns and operates
one large dry goods and provision store
have post and express Office have bulk
and are running two large hotels have
bnlt eight nice tenement houses, which
they rent for Sc per month each. One on
TIE HOtclb uHb pun anu NJ
tached and 1t il well patronized after
working hours. II you should ever hap
pm to come here You want to "look lee d (
oud," for if you don't you will get swamped
in mud and water. The Company is build
ing trnmways back in the swnmps so as Il
run out their elm logs by horse power.
Mat Castle was killed near here by thu
cars Inst week. lie and companion hac
been at Leipsic, got a jug filled with B.as
Ruin, aud staraed for home on the railroat
i track on foot. The next morning the scc,
\ tion hands fsaud Mat with the back OF h i
head mashed in, with the jug OF whiske..
by his side, and his companion laying
few feet away IN drunken stupor. :
much for bad wl,iskey.
The chances for a corn crGp are vev.
poor up in this part of the country. Til
farmers have not given up all hoT'es ye,
but are still replanting. One man out o.
the prairie, three miles from here, ptsWte
900 bushels of potatoes this spring.
If il ever stops raining you NAV hea
from me again. LEWIS HENNINe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-06-15
A Mnr,ike pnrrot.

cold Abe" the war eagle of a Wisconsin reg
;ment, will be famous in history as the bird who
delighted iu battles. Strange as it may seem,
his career is PARALLEL by th at of a parrots.
A gentleman who lives on Preston street, In
louisville, Ky, owns parrot with a curious
history. The parrot is a large black bird, with
bright piercing eyes. Whenever he becomes
excited, he raises lims ELF to his full height and
ruthes his crest in manner that il quite start
ling. He is now sxty-three years old.
Just before the last war in this country, lie
was bought BY General Rousseau, who tsugh,
the bird many military expressions, such as
Shoulder Armsw Garry Arms - "Right
Shoulder Shift" " "Halt I" and Forward
March "
He went with General Rousseau to the frunt,
and soon became a e. eat favorite with the SOL
diers. On one occasion, when Gen. Rousseau
knew there was going to be hard fighting lie
fastened the bird in tent.
Polly was IN rage, aud at last, working his
way out at the canvas dnor Of the tent, flew to-
| ward his regiment which was now hotly en-
| gagged in battle.
| The regiment raised loud cheer when he
appeared and f.arlessiy perched upon the pom
| mel Of Gen. Rousseau's saddle. The general
tried to make him go back, but the bird refused
and ALWAYS alter that, when the regiment was
about to advance, the generals odd companion
conld be seen sitting defanty in trout Of hi,
| master.
"There comes Rousseau and his parrot,
soon become the bv-word Of the soldiers. Tn,
parrot remained with the regiment until tht
lend Of The war.
He became so used to the sound Of the aril
lery that he would mimic the roar of canon
and even now the sound of drum will caus
his feathers to ruffle and his eyes to FASH
Golden Dnys.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-06-15
MORE SHARP GRnML1Na.

The Washington Gazette, Republican,
has evide~tiy takea the measure Of Gu-.
teau's President. That arer's sulloined
rem marks sounds strangely When conirasted
with the eighth resolution OF the Ohio Re-
publica@ platform, which was evidently
pressed into tsst docament by the Office
holder, and miserre-eats the mass of the
Republicans OF the State who have more
lasting memory OF President Garfield. The
Gazette says:
"The bullet of Guiteau SKEW Garfield
and made Arthur President and destroyed
the Republican party.
In every country the assassin elected
ruler has always been the cause OF woes
Innumerable. The given list might be
Increased TO formidable dimensions, but
in every instance the result would be the
same.
Theme seems 10 be a fatality attending
the aaen 'calIed 10 rale by the aasassin's
blow. Perhaps they ought not TO lie held
accountable for the mlsfortunes which ever
attend them.
IL may be that nature thus Furnishes the
nation which breeds an assassin. This is
the most charitable construction that can
be put upon the conduct II the nran who
now ruaes the desli,ies Of fifty mllions Of
people.
Rules, did NE say9 1t wasa misnomer
we should have said triAes.' The dude
who occupies the White House no more
@rules' than does the boy who Eacks hi,
boots.
He has net tbeeapaciiy to rule. AS o
ward politicinn lie was a suooess-as q
statesman, he is II faahEre.
His powers ever limited to the narrow
theatre, where the boys are omnipotent-
the heelers and strikers, who manage th'
politica.f a great city in ways 4lrst states
men netta,er knew aer chre to understand
Taken from this congenial atmosphere
by the bullet OF an assassin, he is miser
able failure.
Let us have the charity to suppose h
only obeys an inscrutable law of nature
that no assassin elected ruler shall eve
rule wisely"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-06-15
NOTICE 70 CONTRACTORS : BUILDERS.

Sealed proposals will be received at the
Auditors Office, Bowling Green. Ohio, up 10
IL O'Clock moon, Thursday, July, 9th, A. ID
1883, for the erection of building for the in
sane on the In6lmary fam.
Contractors win be required to furnish all
material. Proposals for stone work. brick
work, plasiering and carpenter work must be
stated separately. All bids mus, be written in
ink. Ench bid mus contain the full name Of
every person interested in the same. Each
proposal must contain good and sufficient sure
ty. the same to be dlslnterasted in the same,
and subject to the approval Of the County Com
missioners.
Plans and specifications can be seen at the
Auditors Office. The County Commissioners
res rye the tight to reject any and all bids.
BY order Of the Commissioners.
L. W. Pos, County Auditor.
Bowling Green, o., June IL, 1888. lOd$8. Ii