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Smyrna times., 1884-09-10

WOLsELEY's MISSION TO EGYPT.-
Gen. Lord Wolseley will have $4,000
troops besides the Egyptian contingent
and powerful hotilla, when he starts
up the Nile for the rescue of General
Gordon. This is certainly an amply
sufficient force to secure the passage to
Khartoum, if that is all that is intend
ed, and commander of less distin-
guished reputation than England's
only General " might very well have
been detailed to head the expedition
for the relief of the erratic adventurer.
But the probability is that something
more than this is intended, and it is
indicated not less by the magnitude OF
the military force sent to Egypt, than
by the departure withit of Lord North
brooke as a special High Commission
er. Certainly it can have nothing to
do with the rescue of General Gordon
or the simple withdrawal of troops. 1t
means that England is in Egypt to
stay.
Smyrna times., 1884-09-10

A Hot REGIoN.-One of the hottest
regions of the earth is along the Per-
sian Gulf, where little or no rain falls.
At Babrin the arid shore has no fresh
water, yet comparatively numerous
population tries to live there, thanks
to the copiOus springs which burst
forth from the bottom of the sea.
The fresh water is got by diving.
The diver, sitting in his boat, winds a
great goatsllin around his left arm, the
hand grasping it's mouth. Then he
takes in his hand a heavy stone, to
which is attached a long cord, and
thus equipped, he plunges in, and very
quickly reaches the bottom. Instantly
opening the mouth of the bag over the
strong jet of fresh water, he springs up
the ascending current, at the same
time closing the bag, and the diver
after taking breath, plunges in again
The source of these copiOus submarine
springs is thought to be in the greer
hills of Osman. some 500 or 600 miles
distant.
Smyrna times., 1884-09-10

A Philadelphia clothier has inaugur-
ated n new branch of business; that of
furnishing mourning outfits on hire.
He had for years been hiring out swal-
low-tail coats and white dresses for
weddings and he saw no reason why
he should not extend the same enter
prise to black goods and occasions of
bereavement. His theory is that grief
is transitory and there is no reason
why It should not be made as inexpen-
] sive as possible.
Smyrna times., 1884-09-10
FOR SALE.

ono Secondhand Steam Engine and Boiler for
,p,mcdiete delivery. This Engine and Boiler mas
been rnnning in our shops and been replaced Dy
larger power but will do good service lOE @lVhs
"hAe s0'' GEO W. q s. TAYLOR,
oo,o1te Smyrna, Del
Smyrna times., 1884-09-10
MUSIC.
Mrs. J. H. Groves

Desires 10 notify the citizens Of smyrna ana
Vicinity that she can take few more Puplis IN
Music (PianO and Organs) at her Iesiae1ce nl Oil
i.sI Deilns,V nia,,os aug 22-tf
Smyrna times., 1884-09-10

China might as we'll make terms
with France at once, if the English
official whose opinions were reported
by the cable last week, is correct. Ac-
cording to this person, who has been
connected for many years with the
consular service in China, and has just
returned to Europe, says that the rank
and file of the Chinese army are not
soldiers in any sense of the term.
They are simply coolies dressed in uni
form. They are not capable of under
standing the first rudiments of drill or
of military evOlutiOns. Their only
4 ideas of discipline are comprised in a
slavish subiection to their officers, who
are, in many cases, almost as ignorant
and degraded as the men. The army
exists almost entirely on paper, and
the French evidently have picnic be-
fore them.
Smyrna times., 1884-09-10
AGOOd Chance

To get the best Clothing at
very Moderate Prices is offer
ed by us.
Well tell you why we
have desirable Clothing. We
are constantly making to
order for our best citizens
and study up the styles and
kind of garments to be worn.
We are very particular about
the fitting Of our garments,
have them well trimmed and
made, so that we claim our
Suits are much more desira-
bic than the ordinary Ready
Made are. We carry a very
large assortment Of sizes and
kinds. We can fit from the
least Boy to the largest Man.
ABOUT PRICES.-We tell
you how we do to make them
low ; we buy from lot hands
as far as we can. BV that
we get ii great reduction in
prices and can know the
better what we are buying,
and then we pay cash fol
them, thereby making a
great saving. You know q
cash buyer can have the in
side track all the time.
Our manner of doing
business is to try to please
and give satisfaction. W.
show our goods cheerfully
price being marked on eacl
garment or suit, so that yOl
can see at a glance what W.
are offering. We are anxious
to sell, but never want
, customer to purchase unles
they are perfectly satisfied
: to do so. Anything bOugh
from us not satisfactory il
fit or quality can be returned
Smyrna times., 1884-09-10
The g Times" Definitions.

Bread-The lever that moves the
world.
Chadren-A fearful pleasure.
CandOr-A mirror that astonishes
ourselves.
DoHar-Almighty, because almighty
hard to get.
FdshiOn-A wOman's eye.
HOnesty-Fear of the law of respect.
HOpe-A ship with a leak somewhere.
Kissiag-A twin brother to safety
LOve-Reason's vacation sometimes.
Leisure-The outer door of the poor
house.
Misery-Trouble's airing.
Money-A prosecutor at the day OF
Judgment.
Prudeace-The rash mans repent
ance.
ReasOn-The parent of insanity.
ReIigion-Many roads to the same
market.
iSience-The brains conversation.
Seeping-A criticism on equality.
Siacerity-The reaction of our OWL
treachery.
TaIking-The exposure of the hidder
hand.
Woman-An enemy of age.
Work-Necessity's propeller.
Smyrna times., 1884-09-10

The woods Of the United States are
estimated to cover over. $4,000 900
acres, or sixteen per cent. of the total
area.
Smyrna times., 1884-09-10

1t is significant fact that Lieut..
Greedy should find, in the far North
where he sojourned so long, that the
water is warmer when the current sets
from the North than when it runs in
the opposite direction. His Observa-
tions would seem to go far towards
confirming the belief of many Arctic
voyagers, that whoever shall succeed
in making his way across the great
subpolar barrier of ice may find be-
yond and lying around the pole itself
more temperate zone which, instead
of being a desOlate and eternally frozen
up region, may at least during the
long daylight of Summer be sOftened
by the green of vegetation and TEEN
with animal life. 1t has come to be
generally admitted by scientific men
that the region of greatest cold is in all
probability not at the Pole, but some
hundreds of miles South thereof. In.
deed some scientists have professed tC
locate the central points of extreme
cold in Northern Siberia and in the
lands to the westward of Baffln's bay
There are found the masses of eterna
ice which are never affected by Sum
mer sun.
Smyrna times., 1884-09-10

soronlla, aud az forms Of scroiulons diseases
are rapidly puFgea ont BY the use of Ayers sarsa'
parilla
Smyrna times., 1884-09-10
For the Smyrna Times
The Great West.
PITTsBURG's NATURAL ADVANTAGES.

Dear IEme8-If the West can be said
to be wonderful place, then we may
commence at Pittsburg. Nature seems
to have endowed that locality with a
scope of resources that gives wealth
and independence to all the outside
world, and they do not seem to dimin-
ish, as many have surmised, but time
adds to the list of discoveries of de-
posits of substances of great CONNER
cial value.
Long has she been known to have
been environed by hills of rich deposits
of iron ore, coal, limestone, saline
springs, sulphur and silax, from which
has grown rich corporations, running
seventy-live iron furnaces and rolling
mills and seventy-fve glass furnaces,
divided and sub-divided in productive
industry, from nails up to the great
ponderOus cylinders and shafts of a
steamboat engine, and in glassware
from the smallest goblet and mantel
vase, through the varied colors and
tints, up to the largest dimensions of
plate glass, for show windows, worth
hundreds of dollars.
The new discovery, above alluded to
is burning gas, following the ingenious
auger, which, by modern appliances,
/ has been sent down, down, through
! the numerous strata of classified rock,
thousands Of feet, until it has penetra-
ted through the brown rock which
forms the dome over the immense cav
erns of petroleum gas found confined
under a pressure Of 200 pounds to the
.I ! 1,,ol i- 81 hct u nnr
to those living in the oil regions, but
being found in such ineXhaustiblC
quantities under such u manufacturing
city as Pittsburg, and capable Of
through the newly invented furnace
supplying the fuel at a nominal cos
to all these furnaces, as well as lighting
and heating all dwellings at n cost fO
the latter of ten dollars a year. MI
Westinghouse, of air-brake fame, ha
recently invented machinery for puri
flying the gas and controlling it to an.
desired pressure.
1t can be readily seen that this mex
pensive, self-supplying fuel gives tn
"SmOky City monopoly in the pro
ductiOn and manufacture Of iron, ,Whic
will not soon be Wrung from her.
THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.
The upper Mississippi Valley an
Lake region, taken in its brOadeS
sense, compasses Il vast section, who's
watershed finds its outlet in the 5
Lawrence or the Gulf of Mexico.
For some years past and for years
come, it must be the centre of attra
ton for the progress it has made. L
semi Capitols are Chicago and st. Pau
These two cities are centres of infuel
ces potent for the development of II
resources Of the territory they have
hand, through their systems of lay
granted railroads, which have bee
managed to their own financial succe
as we'll as settling up the lands throug
which they run for a distance of ten
! twenty miles on either side. COunti
II have been organized, towns ha'
u sprung up like magic, every westwa
bound train has been filled with INN
grants and their implements of hU
bandry, ballOOn-framed houses we
erected, around which soon cluster
all the elements of home and a fin
side for wife and loved ones with
~ ~ and domestic animals for the comic
or the burden of the husbandman wit
>, out.
Smyrna times., 1884-09-10
A Chance for Mixing Tickets,

The abolition of the Little Elec-
ton will cause trouble in the election
in November, on account of so many
names for so many different offices be-
ing on the same ticket. Formerly,
where there were National, State and
County officers to be elected, one kind
of a ticket answered for the whole of
New Castle county that is a ticket
that suited in Brandywine Hundred,
answered as well in any election dis
trict in Wilmington, or in Blackbird
Hundred. But in the next election the
case will be very different, as the
names for Hundred and Ward officers
will have to be put on the ticket in ad-
dition to the National electors and the
State and county officers.
In Brandywine Hundred two kinds
of tickets will have to be used as there
are two election districts in the Hum
dred. In Christiana Hundred three
kinds Of tickets will have to be used as
there are three election districts in the
Hundred. For this city there will
have to be twenty-six different kinds
of tickets, as there are that number of
districts. AS there are forty two cleo
ton districts in the county, it will take
/ lust that number of different kinds of
tickets to be voted. Unless great care
! is taken there will be considerable of a
miX-up in the distribution of tickets,
and number of voters will lose their
votes for Hundred and election district
officers. Fortunately, the same names
for county officers will be on all the
tickets of each party in the county, SO
! L. .,,,-ko1-o INo 40
in voting for county officers. The
change will necessitate a very careful
distribution of tickets, and unless the
voters themselves scan their tickets
intelligently, they stand q very good
chance of losing their votes for Hun
dred and district officers. We still
think the Legislature made a mistake
by not providing a separate ballot boz
for Hundred and election district Off
GERS Wilmington Republican.
A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOL
THE Unconstitutional politics have
hitherto been such an affair of mel
that the ladies could not possibly fee
any interest in it, but now that Mrs
BelVa A. Lockwood, the well-knOwI
lawyer OF w dSLllllSGOu, udS D66ll uolul
mated for President by the Woman
National Equal Rights Party" tn
masculine monopoly of that engaging
occupation is broken up. In her lette
of acceptance Belva, who is pensio
, attorney, naturally demands the ere
! enactment of the arrears act" an,
! liberal pensions on easy terms to every
body. She is opposed to the mOnopol
p held by men of all the good offices, an
"if elected would appoint some con
petent woman to any vacancy tha
n might occur on the Supreme Bench.
> She believes in protection" )" yet favol
$ an aggressive foreign policy. Her Ii
o dian policy is explicit and sound.
!; must be confessed, however, that sh
, lodges the Irish-American questiO
! when she affirms that "Our neutr
j, policy does not allow any public e,
!. preston in regard to it. Mrs. Loci
a. wood announces that her portrait is
n be issued as a campaign document, al
anticipates CO wholesome effect from
. on the male VOterSN
Smyrna times., 1884-09-10
EXPANSIVE ENERGY.

T. Y
The expansive energy of this region
is a marvel in the eyes of the civilized
world to-day. say the world because
immigrants are coming in from almost
every cline and every land. The
wealth ofthe virgin soil and the mines
are great attraction, but that is not
ALL the benign conditions Of a repub-
| lie and free government are great,
/ but these are not the cause. The re-
| public and the land have been there q
! hundred years, but they have just got
| wings and legs. Four thousand loco
motives, blowing and pulsating with
nerves Of steel, give life and energy ;
but to make them pay, the immigrant
must be there-the wants and neces-
stiles of man are what the engine is
made to supply.
have told your readers something
of the large bureaus of immigration at
tached to these railroads referred to-
Since the war a complete change has
been made in the manner of procuring
immigrants from foreign lands. 1t is
true that the passage and ratification
of the law of expatriation for citizens
of foreign birth has had great infiu-
ence, because they feel free forever
from all surveillance or military duty
to their former potentate, and after be-
coming naturalized they are freemen
SOLICITING ENuGRANTs.
But the plan of operation now is t
send agents to Europe, to open Office
of emigration and employ sub agent
to 90 out and fully inform the people
, with maps and charts, showing location
of land, range, quarter-sectiOn, river
railroad, town, county and State. Th
immigrant comes now with his map il
his hand, and his exact location agrees
upon, with the price he intends to pay
or has paid before he set sail for Amer
lea. They land at New York, but leav
the ship with an American escort t
E board the cars for the Northwest, o.
tickets now reduced to 500 from BrC
men to St. Paul.
They seem to know that the Pres
Dental year is an off year, so they al
coming next year in greater number
g than ever. Reports have been receive
and published that they have a qua
ter Of a million in sight to come I'll
first four months of 1885, to st. Pau
Can any one wonder at the phenOmC
nal growth of Chicago, and the twi
cities of st. Paul and Minneapolis
/, Their published figures of expenditure
both public and private run up in
a. astonishing sums, reaching million
Those railroads are what they rely 0
and the crops are what they bank o
and a constantly increasing populatiO
, with improved machinery and an j
i, exhaustible soil, can assuredly be /
- lied upon for ever increasing humi
wants.
This region will support a very den
population. A Chicago editor clail
s. that they have now as many inha
tants within radius of 800 miles
Philadelphia has, and the ratio of the
- growth is double, and will increa
" while the country is expanding arOu
lD) and tributory to them. There is
danger of rival cities, because the ra
roads discriminate largely in favor
- cities from which they emanate.
~, great Rocky Mountain centre col
scarcely be looked for when Paci
ports would possess advantages
ES them. RAMBLER
81. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 2S.
Smyrna times., 1884-09-10

A roaring farce-stage thunder.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
A ssessors' Notice.

All persons liable to pay taxes in tEe town of North Canaan, are hereby rotiied to bring in their lists of all taxable property belonging to them on the first day of October, 1881, duly sworn to according to law, on or before the 31st day of October. 1884
 The law provides that ''wnere lists are not sworn to the Assessors make out lists and add 10 per cent thereto the first year 20 per cent the second; aud 30 per cent the third year Of such neglect or refusal"
 North Canaan, Oct ', 1884.
 JOHN O. RICHMOND, ,.sossor.
 EDMUND D. LAWRENCE
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
The Ohio Election.

Dispatches received at Il o'clock last night arc as follows: 154 wards in Columbus give republican gain of 1926 over the vote of 1880.
 The republicans claim the state by 5000 majority. The democrats con- cede the state by 10000 majority. Frank Hurd, democratic congressman from Toledo, was elected by reduced majority.
 WEST VIRGINIA.
 The democrats claim West Virginia by 5000 majority. a gain of 2,500.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
To Admit Electors.

The Selectmen and Town Clerk of the Town of North Canaan will hold sessions to examine tho qualifications of Electors. and admit to the Electors Oath those who shall be found qualified, at the Town Clerks office in said town. as follows Wednesday, October 22d inst, from o'clock, a. m. until o'clock, p. m. Monday, October 27th inst, from o'clock a. m. until o'clock p m. Monday, November Sd next from o'clock a. 10. until o'clock p. m.
 No one can be admitted at the last session. (Nov 8 unless his right shall have matured after October 27, and no one can be admitted at either session unless his name shall have been placed by the Registrars ofVoters on the List, ITO be made."
 Dated, North Canaan, October :, 1884.
 JOSEPH W. PEET.
 JOHN B REED,
 J. B. HARDENBERGH, CLERK. 2w
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15

CTATE oF CONNECTICUT. AtaCourt of - Probate holden at North Canaan, within and for the District of Canaan, on the 18th day of October, 4. D. 1881.
 Present Jacob B. Hardenbergh, Esq Judge. This Court dotn direct Nathaniel c. Scoville, administrator, on the estate nf Nathaniel c. Ward, late Of North Canaan, in said District, deceased, represented to be insolvent, to give notice to all persons interested in the estate of said deceased to appear If they see causelbefore tke Court of Probate to be holden at the Probate Office in said District on the 20th day of October, 1884, at o'clocx, in the afternoon. to be heard relative to the appointment or Commissioners on said estate, by advertising the same in news paper published in said District.
 Certified from record,
 JACOB B. HARDENBERGH, Judge.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
Thousands SnY So.

Mir T. W. Atkins, Girard, Kan, writes 'I never hesitate to recommend your Electric bitters to my customers they give entire satisfaction and are rapid sellers"
 Electric bitters are the purest and best medicine known and will positive ly cure kidney and liver complaints purify the blood and regulate the bowels. No family can afford to be without them. They will save hun dreds of dollars in doctors bills every year. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by W. H. Camp.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
ReeisrraYs' aaotice.

The undersigned Registrars ofVoters, for inc town of North Canaan. hereby give notice that they will be in session on Thursday, Oct. Is, 1884, at the Town Hall in saii town, from g o'clock in the forenoon till , in the afternoon for the purpose of making list as nearly as practicable of those who are electors in said district, and who will be entitled to vote at an electors meeting to be holden on Tuesday, November 4, and for the purpose of receiving the applications of those who have never been made electors in said town, and who claim that they are entitled to be made electors
 They will also be in session at the same place, on Thursday, October 23, from o'clock a. m. until o'clock p. m. for the revision and correction of said list.
 SAM'L A. BENNETT, ] Registrars of
 SAMUEL 4. EDDY, Voters.
 Dated North Canaan, Oct. $, 1884.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
Free to All. Standing Offer.

All who buy Rice & Co.'S eclectic lini- ment for rheumatism, neuralgia, head ache and all pain and are not cured wheu 50 cents. Motto-No cure, no pay. For sale by W. I. Camp, licensed pharma- cist, Canaan, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
LOCAL NEWS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
 Conntv Commissioners, Notice B. Grotta, Wanted Nathaniel c. Scoville, Probate Notice F. E. Egleston, Subscription Agency Francois Chagnot, Notice E. Hollister, Berkshire Store.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
Sportsmen, take Notice

X IL PERSONS killing, shooting, pursuing A and taking in any way, in open or close season, Game, Birds, and Fish on the lands and waters owned by any of the undersigned in Salisbury, Connecticut, will be treated as trespassers and prosecuted as such, and will also be prosecuted for all violations of the laws relating to fish, game and birds. J. t& N. c. Scoville, R H Ball. A. J. Spur, F. W, Holmes, Jno NJ Teeter, J. J Landon, r L. Barton, J. P. McNeil, Jeremiah Bush- rell.
 Salisbury, Ct., Sept i, 1884.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
Neao Advertisements.
NOTICE.

Whereas, my three minor sons, Ameda Chagnot, Abel Chagnot and Alfred Chagnot, have become incorrigible. and have left my house and home, hereby forbid all persons harboring or trusting each or any of them, on my account, as shall pay no bills of their contracting. after thls date.
 Cornwall, Oct 13. 1884.
 FRANCOIS CHAGNOT.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
ssssss ssssss sssssFss sss''sFf -'FfE Ea' PIANOS & ORGANS ]

Direct from our factory at Man ufacturers' prices, either for cash or Easy Installments.
 We do not charge our custom CTS interest from date of pur- chase, as is the custom of dealers and agents who desire large rate of interest on commissions already made. Eighteen months allowed purchasers to pay for Instruments without interest.
 We only advertise and sell what we can furnish and never claim to sell all kinds or infringe on our neighbors' business as a blind to work off the second hand Instruments of other mak- CTS, taken in exchange for ours,
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
NOTICE.

The County Commissioners for Litchheld building i'll Litchfeld, on the 5th, 9th and l1th or November. 1881 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 transaetIng other County business.
 Applicants for Licenses will be required to appear in person before the Board Bonds must bear the same date as the License.
 F. E. HURLBURT, ]
 B. A. SHERMAN, ! County
 LYMAN CUNNING ] Commissioners. Litehhed, October 16 1884 orib-dr31
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15

HOUSATONIC LODGE. No. 6l. Hand A. NJ Regular communication, Sec ond and Fourth Saturday Of each month.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
investments For Sale !

WTESTERN FARM LOANS bearing CT and w 8p ct interest; also desirable line of Railroad Bonds, United States Bonds, Bank Stocks. Inquire at
 CANAAN SAVINGS HANK. North Canaan April g. tI
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15

c. B. Johnson of Newtown represent ed the New England Homestead at the Danbury fair.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15

No cure, no pay! Dr Lawrence's cough balsam, when once used, takes the place of all others. See our advertising col nmn
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
MAILS arrive and close at the Canaan Post WI Office. Canaan, May 14, 1884.
 CANAAN POST OFFICE.

Arrive from Sonthfeld, Mill River and Clay ton at 9:I0 M on arrival of train. Close at iP M or on arrival of train.
 \. T. RORABACK. P. M.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
Prohibition RaiIots! !!

All who want ballots for StJokn and Daniel should send their address at once to the Sec retary of the State Committee, 4. R. Heath, Danbury, Conn, or to the agent for Litehfeld county. DAVID CAELIN.
 Litchfeld. Conn.