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Connecticut western news., 1883-11-07

Florida is experimenting on ostrich culture and will start with three pairs of three-year-old Nubian birds seven feet high, in Orange county.
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-07
FOR SALE.

A T A BARG AIN.-THE FARM of the late A Marvin Hoskins. deceased, containing about 200 acres, first-class farm in every re. spect. with Houses, Stock, Barns, Horse Barn and other out.buildings. Said farm suitably divided into Meadow, Flow, Pasture and Wood Land and is in good state of cultivation. A property, if desired. Possession given April lst, 18s4.
 For further particulars enquire of
 LESTER HOSKINS, on the premises, or DANIEL BREWSTER,
 Falls Village. Canaan. Oct. 17, 1883. If
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-07
NOTICE.

THE County Commissioners for Litchfield, 1 County w.ll meet at their room in the jail building in i-itchfield on the 7th, 8th and 18th days of November, 1883. Also on the 1st Tuesday of each month thereafter at o'clock p m for the purpose of acting on applications for licenses, receiving reports of Prosecuting Agents and transacting other County business. Applicants for licenses will be required to appear in person before the Board. Bonds must bear the same date ss the license.
 LYMAN DUNNING.l
 B. A. SHERMAN.
 Litchfeld, October IF, 1883. 11w
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-07
Potaska prevents diphtheria. Potaska cures sore throat.
 Po+oo1ro o,7roo S,11dop colds

Potaska cures hoarseness, bronchitis. Potaska cures tickling in throat. Potaska cures all throat affections. @ Potaska, the great specific for diphtheria. Potaska, pleasant to take. Children
 like it. Potaska, indispensable to singers, clergy men, and all public speakers.
 Potaska, being a genuine prescription, is indorsed by medical men.
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-07
M. B. MEAD, Canaan. Conn.
Miscellaneous Adp'ts.

NPFE Dr M. W. BAcoN,s SPECIFIC MRDI- I 1OG1ls CINE. A guaranteed cure for Ner- yOns Debility and Sem nal WeAk K ness Hysterla. Neuralgia. .COnvuIsiOns,a ,aud excesses. over brain work. etc. gN-A written guarantee of cure in every case or money refunded send l5c for postage on Free Trial box of 100 pills. Address Dix M. w. BACON, cor. Clark St. and Calhoun Place. Chicago, III.
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-07

HOUSATONIC LODGE. NO. 61. F AAand A. M. Regular communication. Sec ond and Fourth Saturday of each month
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-07
Auction Sale.

THE EXECUTORS Of the estate of P. M, 1 Jaqua deceased, by order of the court of probate will sell on
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-07
Business Cdrds.
G. B. GARDNER

WATCiiMAkEk and Jewelcr. Watches Sold
 w at the Lowest Prices. Special Attention paid to Repairing Camps Block, Canaan.
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-07
MARRIED.
Neao Advertisements.
Board and LOdQiDQ,

| AM NOW Prepared to furnish Meals or 4 Lodging at reasonable rates. wish to rent the basement of my house which is suita- ble for Market or Shop.
 MRS F. PEQUIGNEY. Canaan, Nov 7. 3w*
Connecticut western news., 1883-11-07

THE Religious Herald is one of the leading religious and family papers of this country, possibly it is ae best one. Had our space permitted we would ere this have made favorable mention of this valuable paper. The issue of Nov. l deserves especial mention, for that number is sent to every Congregational church and every Congregational minis ter in the United States for the purpose of giving early and authentic information of the doings of the national council at Concord.
 It devotes over 12 columns to a minute report of the doings of the coun- cil and remarks by eminent divines. Il is published weekly at No 424 Asylum street, Hartford, Conn. It contains 3l columns, mostly religious reading, yet the principal events of the day are noted, thus giving information on 6 variety of subjects. Terms are $2. 10 ir advance, delayed $2.5O, five names BIO five years $1O. David B. Mosely has always been it's editor and publisher The amount of good which he has done in 40 years cannot be over-estimated He breaches as it were each week tc thousands of people, for his readers eutnumber the audience that could bt assembled in the largest church in thi country.
 In announcing his plans for the yea 1884 he savs:-
 Forty-one years will have passed De cember 31, 1883, since the present edi tor and publisher started the paper During the time he has steadily tried tC improve 1t each year.
 Some of its earliest subscribers stil remain to read it's weekly budget O news, etc. A good many hundreds O. its readers have gone forward into the better land; and the last two years have witnessed these withdrawals of subscrib CTS in the towns of Connecticut in unu sual numbers
 Our constant purpose to enlist the talent of the best writers for its columns will be maintained.
 We shall aim to get early reports O. the great meeIlnSS OI Interest to reader: of the Herald.
 We are assured that the Religious Herald is steadily increasing in value safe, instructive and helpful to all nobl, aims and worthy objects, especially fol Christ's cause and Congregations churches.
 ON account of the recently laid plan to rob the banks in Falls Village b, Dick Hadley and his gang and as a mat ter of safety beyond all doubt, the off cers of the banks have rented safe il a city safe deposit vault and placed therein their available securities.
 It is not believed by the officers O the banks that the late plan would have been successful in forcing off the time locks, as the gang expected, withou which their efforts would have been O no avail The doors are Herring < Col
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 Sunday morning, Rev MT Sturges was assisted by Rev MT Watson, who, in his sermon, told something of h1s work in the far west. He has charge of parish, also of several schools away in the north western corner of Washington territory. His remarks to the Sabbath school were especially interesting.
 The interest in skating still continues. There is much improvement among the learners, s,-more skating and less tum- bling,-still there were some very fine tableaux at the rink last Saturday night. On Wednesday evening of this week the New Milford gentlemen who take an interest in this affair have promised to bring Q champion fancy skater, Prof Rishor, who will give an exhibition on rollers. It is hoped that there will be a good attendance.
 KONMAPOT.
 A fishing party started from this vi- cinity last Tuesday, for the far famed Otis pond, with double team to bring back the booty. They returned Friday night. Their story is sad: Firstly, the cold snap brought with it snow that quite covered the ground they caught but one little perch for their four days expedition and now comes the saddest clause they found angle dogs full IS inches long with feet to travel with of the size of mans finger No wonder they didn't get any fish with such fish worms,- they were too large for con- mon fish to even venture to bite at, much less to swallow. OF.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-04
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

MIR. GLADSTONE, within year, has admitted
that the 'want of local administration" is one
of the greatest evils which beset Ireland Why
does he not insist upon promptly supplying that
"want' and removing a great evil from
portion of the United Kingdom2-Louisville
COurier-Journal.
The whole question of protection or free trade
is question of civil policy, and not of morals;
of expediency, and not of principle. We think
it is clear that, the WHOLE considering the ad-
vantages derived from the independence of for
eign nations our manufactures secure for us, the
variety of employment they afford TO our peo-
pie, the safe home market they give our farmers,
protection has been and is the wise policy for
u.s. Louisville Commercial.
|. IF there are Democrats who are unable to see
the political wisdom of the Worlds course We
commend to them the anecdoJe of the unbeliev-
ing Irishman. 1t was the custom of this Irish
man TO scott at the Catholic religion, and espe.
cially to ridicule the service OF the mass One
day his companion, who was a devout Catholic,
persuaded Pat to go to mass with him. In the
midst of the ceremony Pat whispered: 'sMike,
this bates the divil" "Pat," responded Mike,
''thats the intintion!"-New York Tribune.
While the finances of the United States require
the sUundest and most prudent treatment, they
rest on a foundation such as the old world can
scarcely comprehend. 1t will not happen within
this generation, certainly, that our economic
writers will be arguing for the reduction of our
debt, as English writer's now are as to theirs,
that it must not be left for succeeding genera
the natural resources of the land. and to supply
from the public treasury some help TO the hope.
less poverty OF the working class.-New York
Times
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ABOUT PEOPLE.

MR.. AND MRS. DEvILBLIss, of Baltimore have
applied for a divorce.
LES JARDIEsvILLE, at Vile dAvray, France,
where Bazac lived and Gambetta died, is now
for sale.
THE Shah of Persia has sent Princess Bis
marck the decoration of the Star of the Sun,
and it is large enough to half ooverh her baldress
bodice.
GAMBETTAs whole fortune which has been
put at the most exaggerated figures by his enc
mics, proves to be less than 100000 and it all
came from newspaper shares
GEORGE p LATHRoP and Mrs. Rose Hawthorn
Lathrop go abroad again early this summer, and
"The Wayside" at Concord, Mr. Hawthorne's
old home, where they have been living, Is for
| sale.
BROWNING is the popular poet at home now,
and cannot address any more sarcasms to the
English public ye who like me not" There
were 100 copies OF "Jocoseria" sold in the first
three days after its publication.
ONE alleged reason why Alexander III has
again postponed his coronation, from May Of to
June 10, is that the former date is the anniver-
sary of the murder OF Demetrius, of the House
OF Rurik, by his uncle Boris Sudonoff and is OBJ
| served as COmmemoration Day in the churches
| of Moscow
REV. GEORGE F. MOORE, Of Putnam, O.. who
has just been chosen to fill the chair of Hebrew
and Arabic at Andover Seminary, ia sort of
| ready inguist, who has mastered several East
ern languages besides the modern European,
| and his wife's accomplishments are about equal
| to HE. The latter's maiden name was Mary 8.
| Hanford.
| A RAGE for autographs is the latest caprice of
fashionable Paris, and anybody who makes any
pretensOns to be included in good society, must
have something adorned with the signature OF
some great man of the day. Victor Hugos auto.
graph is greatly priced, and his name, written
by himself on o fan, sells for a price which
makes the hair of sensible people stand on end,
| THERE Is living IN Munich the daughter of
Palm, the bookseller of Nuremberg, who printed
pamphlet against Napoleon I, and was relent.
| lessly shot by him in consequence. She is
| eighty years old and lives principally upon q
small pension paid by the successors of Berlin
| house, at whose instance the pamphlet was
printed, hut whose name Palm refused to dis
close.
A YOUNG lady from New Haven recently APP
piled in New York for position as nursery gov
erness. She was informed that she must give
her whole time to the three darngs, sleeping
and eating with them, bathing them, cleaning
their room, walking out Of doors with them,
teaching them all the English branches Partisan
French correct German, perfect technique on
the piano, and elegant manners, and when not
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ocratic.

SECRETARY OF STATE MYERS has expressed
himself favorahly to Mr.. Mcdonald for the
presidency and in the same breath names
Mr.. Hendricks for Governor. We imagine
we see Hendricks making tie canvass for
Governor in order to help Mcdonald into
the presidential chair. We are greatly afraid
that Captain Myers's mind has not fully
cleared up since the time it was thrown into
confusion at Daleville, where he could not
tell what in the seething sulphur Kilgore
meant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-04

On Tuesday night the City Council of Dan
vile, ILL.,, fixed the yearly saloon licenses at
5000 The next day all the saloon-keepers
locked their doors and declared they could
not pay They then prepared to hear from
an outraged populace deprived of its liquor.
They heard from the people right away, but
in manner slightly at variance from what
they expected. large number of citizens
signed call for public meeting for the
purpose of urging the Council to raise the
license to $1,000, when the saloon men yield
ed, and agreed to pay the $780, The moral
to this is that the saloons of indianapolis
would yield much larger revenue were it
insisted on, and the city and the liquor
traffic would both be the better for it. The
city would receive more money, and the
saloons that kept open would be in number
luch as could be readily under police sur
VIGILANCE
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-04

In endeavoring to show the attitude of the
Democratic party on the tariff question from
the beginning of that party's history the
New York World says;
1.-THE first Democratic platform Was adopted
by the party, then called the Republican ,
as distinguished from the Federalist party,
in a Congressional caucus at Philadelphia in
1900, the year in which Jefferson was first
elected to the presidency. 1t demands;
"'6. Free commerce with all nations political
connection with none, and little no dplo-
matte establishment
Despite this, the first Democratic Presi-
dent, Thomas Jefferson, elected on that plat
form, said in his second message to Congress.
"To cultivate peace, and maintai COM
merce and navigation in all their lawful en-
terprises to foster our fisheries as nurseries
Of navigation and for the nurture of man.
and to protect the manufactures adapted to
our cr3umstances-these are the landmarks
by which we are to guide ourselves"
But the idea of protection did not orig.
mate from jefferson. The second act passed
by the first Congress had the following pre-
Amble:
Whereas II is necessary for the support
Of government for the discharge of the debts
of the United States, and for the encourage
ment and protection of manufactures, that
duties be laid on goods, wares and merchan-
lise imported. Be it enacted" etc.
In President Madisons special message of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-04
May %, 1909, may be found the following

May %, 1909, may be found the following
paragraph:
at will be worthy at the same time of their
CCongress] just and provident care to make
such alterations in the laws as will especially
protect and foster the several branches OF
manufacture"
The World, for some reason, ignores all
this, and skips from 1900 to 1886. Andrew
Jackson, second only in the more intelligent
Democratic hearts to Jefferson in his second
annual message as President, Dec 7, 1880,
said
1.-THE States have delegated their whole au-
thority over imports to the federal govern
ment without limitation or restriction, saw
ing the very inconsiderable restriction relat-
ing to their inspection laws. This authority
having thus entirely passed from the States,
the right to exercise it for the purpose OF
protection does not exist in them; and con-
sequently, if it be not possessed by
the general government it must
be extinct. Our political sys-
tenn would thus present the anomaly of a
people stripped of this right to foster their
own industry and to counterfeit the most
selfish and destructive policy which might
be adopted by foreign nations. In
this conclusion | am confirmed as we'll by
the opinions of Presidents Washington, JET
ferson, Madison and Monroe, who have each
repeatedly recommended the exercise of this
right under the constitution, as by the uni
form practice of Congress- the continued ac-
quiescence of the States, and the general I'M
Outstanding of the people,"
If the World wants to quote genuine Dem
ocratic protective-tariff doctrine, it can find
it in liberal quantities from the earliest days.
The batch given above is but sample.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-04
The Moon and Planets for May.

Written for the indianapolis journal.
The planet Jupiter graces the western sky
with more brilliancy than any other star in that
region. BY viewing this giant planet with spy
glass of moderate size we his four moons like
80 many small stars-sometimes two on each side
OF the planet and sometimes all four on the same
side. A magnifying power OF 80 or so will
show one or two dark stripes or "belts" across
the disk of Jupiter; and high power on a tele-
scope, four or five inches aperture, makes this
planet look larger than the full moon, while his
satellites appear like delicate little moons. The
great red spot, 80 prominent three or four years
ago, has nearly or quite disappeared. The right
ascension of this planet is now about hours,
and its declination % q degrees north 1t crosses
the meridian soon after O'Clock In the afternoon,
and sets seven and half hours later-1n the same
point of the horizon where the sun sets In the
longest days. The length Of time between tho
rising and southng Of heavenly body being the
same as from sOuthing to setting. Jupiter
now rises about seven and a half hours
before p NJ. or about half past in the morn
ing. The two stars little southeast OF Jupiter
are Eta and Mu in Gemini. The planet will
pass to the north OF Eta ON the 14th, aud
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-04
BROWNING EXPLAINED.

A bewildered reader of the Journal writes
from New York asking that some one will
kindly give translation of Robert Brown
ing's poem entitled "Adam, Lilith and Eve
which appeared in Saturdays ISSUE Other
subscribers nearer at hand make similar re-
quests. AS a rule, the time spent in explain
ing poetry is time lost. Nothing is left of
much of it after explanation, and in other
cases madness lies near every attempt to un-
derstand the hidden meaning. In this in
stance, however, where so many readers are
rendered sleepess, it is no more than
right that something should be done for their
relief.
No map or key accompanied the copy of
the poem in question, a fact which has rem
dered solution of the puzzle difficult, the
more so as the gentleman to whom such mat
ters are usually referred is now engaged in
editing a baseball and dramatic tournament
in neighboring city. All the editors with
one exception, being religious men, none of
them had any knowledge of Lilith,
though they had heard of Adam
and Eve, The exception being
approached cautiously. said anyone
with an atom of sense should know
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-04

In the days before our cotton manufactures
were developed our working women re-
ceived an average of fifty cents per week, and
this would buy one yard of coarse imported
''nankeen'' cotton CLOTH To-day the same
labor commands So per week. and the money
will buy thirty-six yards of good cotton sheet
ing. The introduction of improved machin-
cry and methods, under the encouragement
OF protective tariff, seems to have worked
some good to the poorer classes. And this is
not an isolated instance of the kind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-04

A FARMER in Iowa named Samuel PEBBLES
has thought out the tariff question In the ap-
pended propositions:
"a tariff for revenue only, if it means any
thing, implies the following effect:
"a general reduction of the existing du-
ties on imports.
ITO be followed by larger importation of
foreign-made fabrics.
ITO be followed by falling off in the de-
mand for those made at home.
ITO be followed by the closing of American
workshops
''To be followed by a relatively greater
number of men engaged in agriculture.
ITO be followed by an increase in the sup
ply OF farm products, with no corresponding
increase in the demand.
''To be followed by reduction of the
farmers profits.
81, for one, do not like it,
We commend this statement of the case to
the farmers of Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-04

Lilith was Adams first wife; that this was
not based, however, upon anything in Gen
esis. This much being settled, the telegraph
editor was asked his opinion as to the true
meaning of the first stanza, which reads as
follows:
zone day it Numbered and lightened,
Two women fairly frightened,
Sank to their knees, transformed, transfixed,
At the feet of the man who sat betw1xt,
And Mercy! cried each-'If tell the truth
or passage in my YOUTH"
In the opinion of this critic if Eve and
Lilith had taken the trouble to look at the
weather report they would have known there
would not be much of shower, and would
have been saved the modification of having
given themselves away uselessly.
The literary editor believed that Lilith,
who is mentioned as This" in the next
line, must be of Irish descent and that her
remark in reality was, "D'ye moind the
morning, me boyT' The railroad editor
thought if THAT" by which term Eve is
designated, was SO anxious to get away before
the priest came, she should have taken the
| first lightning express which rolled through.
! In the last stanza-
ut ceased to tighten and thunder,
| Up started both in wonder,
Looked round and saw that the sky was clear.
Ihen laughed, Confess you believed us dear?
| Il saw through the jokeI' the man replied.
They reseated themselves beside"
! Some disagreement was had about this but
the sense of the assembled editors was that
Mr.. Browning must have intended the
whole poem as a slur upon mankind gener-
ally as represented by Adam. He had been
deceived for years by two women, one OF
whom said she hated him, when she was re-
ally his loving slave by the other who I'M
locked hell's gate when she married him.
He had never found out the fraud practiced
upon him, and when they were driven to con-
fess and then pretended it was a joke, he
hastily assured them that he had seen
through it all the time. Rather than appear
stupid where a joke might be concealed
Adam lost his opportunity for instituting
divorce proceedings.
The Journal, as has been often stated, is
not responsible for the eccentric utterancea
of the poets which creep into its columns, and
does not offer the foregoing explanation as
decisive. If it is not satisfactory the trans
lation will be withdrawn, and if any one is
lioeled an apology will be rendered. We
trust, however, that our anxious readers can
now rest of nights and for the next week OF
two we promise not to print any hard poems.
We shall rely upon the tender and perennial
spring species.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-04

CONGRESSMAN JOHN E. LAMB ridicules the
idea of civil-service reform, and says he only
knows one Democrat in Indiana who favors
it. and that it would be political suicide for
any Hoosier statesman on the Democratic
eide to advocate it' Here is a nice state
ment, which we commend to the earnest at
tention of those who think reform in the
civil service can best be advanced by de-
feating the Republican party with the DEM
ocratic
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-04

If it be true that the ougar-Mandler case
was the influence which increased the
Democratic majority in Lafayette, it is to
the last degree discreditable to the people of
that city. The idea of grown-up, sensible
people voting away responsible offices upon
such premises as were involved in that trial
is almost beyond belief We do not believe
it, Notwithstanding the assertions of certain
Democratic newspapers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-04

National Republican.
Between Jane Gray Swisshelm and Senator
Voorhees,, Carter Harrison will probably be
hauled out alive from under the ruins of the
Iroquois dinner. 1t might be remarked in
this connection that no such havoc has been
done with similar weapon to that used by
Carter since Samson knocked out his ten
thousand Phillistnes.