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Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08

"The officer approached him, listen ing for the confession which he thought would fall from his contracted lips. It was not confession that issued from his lips, but flow of blood.
 "The officer sprang back. On his uniform, on the breast just over his heart, was seen red stain, while at his feet shapeless thing, also red, fell on the pavement. The boy had bitten his tongue in two and had spit part of it forth into the face of his tormentor.
 "'Fire r cried the latter, furious with rage.
 "A discharge of musketry sounded like peal of thunder, and little Jean, fainting, fell at the moment when old Barrot and his son Louis were killed.
 "'And that, said my friend Dubreuil, is the reason why our postman is dumb.'" JOSEPH MoNTET.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08
The Western Editor.

When the Wisconsin Editorial Associ- ation was young, says Peck's Sun, it used to meet annually at small cities and villages, where hotel accommodations
 were limited, and it was customary to quarter the visiting editor on families that were so fixed that they could &C., commodate guest. Few editors in those days could have stood it to pay two or three days board at hotel,
 even at reduced rates, and the custom Of boarding around was pleasant to the editors, as it involved no expense. An
 editor, furnished with passes and pro- vided with family to board with, could put in a week from home and not carry more than twelve shillings with him, and he would often go back home with half his money left, and perhaps with more than he had when he left home, if he happened to strike a subscriber. In- stances have been known where an edi- tor, after boarding with family for a week, would induce his host to subscribe for his paper and pay a year in ad- vance before he left the hospitable roof.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08
The Iowa Liquor Law.

Judge Hayes, of Iowa, delivered the charge to the Grand Jury in the matter of indictments under the new Prohibi- tory Liquor law. He charged the jury that while selling liquor is indictable, buying it is equally violation of the law: that all persons teatifying Co hay. ing purchased liquor are subject to in dictment, and that referring, as it is supposed, to the Temperance Alliance in case of any persons being induced or encouraged by any organization or body to buy liquor for the purpose of crimi- hating the seller, such buyer would be indictable, and such body would be guilty of conspiracy and subject 10 in. dictment.
 It is thought that it will be next to impossible to inforoe the snti-liquor law under this ruling.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08
FARM AND GARDEN.
About Cutting Corn and Fodder.

Too often the farmer adopts as his motto and course of action, "Never do to-day what can be put of until to-mor- morrow" instead of precisely the con- trary. It is unnecessary to say that this method is open to several serious obiec- tions, and the farmer who practices it comes to frequent grief. But there are such men known to all of us and quite too many for their owR good. It be- comes the duty of every writer who can influence opinion in such respects to urge the adoption of the better rule, viz 1: "Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today" This is the farmers golden rule; and it applies in the strong est manner to the business of cutting the corn and corn fodder crops. We do not know what day may bring forth or how soon killing frost may cut the corn and reduce the value of the fodder one-half. This is not the only danger. The ripen- ing of vegetable growth changes soluble and nutritious matter to insoluble woody fibre or innutritious substance, which is not only useless, but hurtful to fodder, because it clogs up the stomach and intestines and produces disease. The too common disease of cattle known us murrain or black leg or black quarter is produced by hard, dry, woody fodder, which cannot be digested. overdried corn stalks are the very worst of such fodder, and it is in the corn stubbles, where cattle are compelled to pick their feed in the late fall and early winter that the largest number of cases of this disease occur.
 To make the most of the corn crop the fodder should be gathered in good condition, for it is worth more than ihe corn in the majority of cases. Thirty bushels of corn to the acre Is worth about Sl5, but three tons of well-sayed fodder from an acre is easily worth S30 Nevertheless, very few farmers think of this, and so sacrifice the fodder by neg lecting to cut it so soon as the corn is hardened. The larger part of the early corn crop is now ripe enough to be cut As soon as the grain is glazed over it is ripe for culking. The fodder is then green and ,siisculent and nutritious, con- taining mueh more starch and sugar than when 1t ripeus and. turns brown. And when it is cut it should be pre- served from the weather by being put up in substantial shocks, well bound at the top. Exposure to rafh~-it has been clearly proved by analysis-'yashes out of the corn stalks the largek bart of the nutriment they contain. and leaves them very inferior for feeding purposes.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08
A French Amazon Dead.

Captain Marie Jeanne Dubois died in
 London. Captain Dubois was veteran of the "Grande Armee." At an early
 age she disguised herself like Mile. De Maupin, and joined the Fifty-seventh of the line as q drummer boy. She re-
 ceived her baptism of fire at Marengo,
 won the chevron of 8 sub-officer at Austerliiz, distinguished herself at Jena, received her company at Eylau and marched as a major to the invasion of Russia. When Napoleon's horse stum- bled and threw his rider as he gszed across the Nieman into the unknown realm he set forth to conquer, it was Lieutenant Dubois who, standing near in command of an infantry guard, marked the sinister omen and said, "A Roman would have turned back" She fought her way to the capital of Old Russia, and, what was vastly greater exploit, she fought her way back to the place at the finish of the terrible cam. paigu, being among the handful who, under the bravest of the brave, covered the retreat, and were the last to bear the imperial eagles out of the unparalleled disaster. Madame the captain married fruiterer in Percy street, and as the French biographer feelingly put it, gracefully consigned her warlike laurels to the desk on which she kept The shop  accounts" She died in the uniform which she had preserved for over three. quarters of a century, and witL the Gross of the Legion of Honor on her breast, and in this historic attire she was buried
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08
Spaniards-nOt Chinamen.

Twenty odd Chinamen arrived at New York from Havana ea route for the Flowery Kingdom. When asked if they had had any trouble with the Custom House authorities on account of the law prohibiting the entrance of the Chinese into this country, their leading man said to the reporter "Melican law nogood. egetnaturalized by the Span- ish government and then come to New York, not as Chinamen but as Spanish subjects. We pay $25 in Havana for naturalization paper and passport, and that, under the treaty between the Uni ted States and Spain, allows us to enter the land without trouble. The French, Peruvians, Mexicans and Chileans all do the same thing. America is the only country that will not allow Chinese to become citizens"
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08

ITALIAN BRIGANDs. Ds.-Brigandage in and around Rome has of late assumed such proportions that all tramps who fail to give satisfactory account of themselves are now arrested and lodged in Rome pending inquiry. What renders brigand capture the more difficult in many localities is that the business of brigandism is followed by persons who are not always at it, but at times pursue rural occupations, and are apparently the most harmless of beings. Tine au- thorities continue to fail in their at- tempts to capture the brigand chief Tlbuzi. who operates in the neighbor- hood of Viterbo. For long time the farmers and landowners tried to resist his incursions, but now they submit to his terms and pay blaekmal to secure 8 quiet life.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08

BECAUSE. intelligent boy as school gave a novel reason for decorating soldiers graves, which at least had in it the latent element of truth. "Why," asked the teacher, "do they decorate the graves of soldiers and not yours and mineP" The child thought for mo- ment or two, and then said: "Please, ma'am, I think it's because they arc dead and we ain't" The proposition waa unannwerable.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08

OPEN.-The French railroad con- panies are about to adopt an electric gate opener. A catch connected with an electro-magnet keeps a gate closed. When train approaches it closes the circuit, releases the catch, and the gate flies open. The last car on the train as it passes through opens the circuit, and the gate is again closed. The same de- vice rings bell violently on the ap- proach of each train.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08

DANdERous.-In the province Of San Pedro, Brazil, the destruction of all GU. calyptus trees has been ordered. It ap- pears that the tree favors the generation of A terribly dangerous dragon fly, which attacks all living creatures, and whose sting h fatal within fsw minutes.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08
Local News a Speciality.
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.
BY FRANCIS M. FINCH, NOW JUDGE OF THE COURT
 OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

BY FRANCIS M FINCH NOW JUDGE OF THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fles ts of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver Asleep on the ranks of the dead: Under the sod and the dew,
 Waiting the judgment day; Under the one, the Blue,
 Under the other, the Gray. These in the robings of glory, Those in the gloom of defeat, All with the battle-blood gory, In the dusk of eternity meet: Under the sun and the dew,
 Waiting the judgment day; Under the laurel, the Blue.
 Under the willow, the Gray. From the silence of so rowful hours, The deso!ate maurnerS go, Lovingly laden with flowers; Alike for the friend and the foe: Under the sod and the dew,
 Waiting the judgment day; Under the roses, the Blue,
 Under the lilies, the Gray. So, with an equal splendor, Ire morning sun-rays fall, With touch impartially tender, On the blossoms blooming for all: Under the scd and the dew;
 Waiting the judgment day; Broidered with gold, the Blue,
 Mellowed with gold, the Gray. So, when the Summer calleth, On forest aud field of grain, With an equal murmur falleth Tho cooling drip of the rain: Under the sod and the dew,
 Waiting the judgment day; Wet with the rain, the Blue,
 Wei with the rain, the Gray. Sa6lv, bnt not with upbraiding, The generous d ed was done; In the storm of the years that are fading No bravtr tie was won:
 Under the sol and the dew,
 Waiting the judgment day; Under the bloss ms, the Blue,
 Under the garlands, ths Gray. No more shall the war-cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red; They bauIsh our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead Under the sod and the dew,
 Waiting the judgment day; Love and tears for the Blue,
 Tears and love for the Gray.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08

SOLDIERS. the 200, 900 surviving soldiers of the late war it is estimated that 230,0O0 reside west of the Missis- sippi, and of this class who are pension CTS there has been an increase since 1873 of PTS per cent due almost entirely to emigration.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-08

Ills BuTroNs.-Tho girl with the soft gray eyes and ripping brown hair, who walked all over your poor, fluttering heart at the charity ball, has just finished crazy quilt containing 1,064 pieces of neekties and hat-linings, put together with 21, ,39O stitches. And her poor old father fastens on his suspenders with long nail, a piece of twine, c sharp stick and one regularly ordained button
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-02-01
The CorcOran Old Ladies Home.

Mr.. Corcorau OF Washington will go down
TO posterity aa the banker, who, after read
ing Mr. Webstcr's seventh of March speech,
was so delighted with it that he sent him a
present OF $1,000 the next morning. After
the death of his wife and children, Mr.. Cor
coran founded his well-known art gallery, and
a home for his aged ladies', which, in mem
Dry of his wife, he called the Louise Home
Any woman who can prove that she is of
gentle blood, Of an established family, and IN
reduced circumstances, and has some small
income on which to dress, is qualified to be-
come the guest of Mr.. COrcoran for life in
the Louise Home. Rumor says-but it may
be SANDER, arising from Mr.. Clrc0ran's well
known Southern views-that no Northern
woman is sufficiently lady to enter. How
ever this may be, it was certainly Kind act
to provide so handsome a retreat for ladies
who have enjoyed wealth and beCoiap ruduC-
ed to poverty. A correspondent OF the Com
gregati0ndASt says:
An honorable and reverend freud of mine
was once called to preach to the inmates of
the Home. AS he passed through It's beaul-
full halls and saw the comforts and uxuries
Its ladies possessed, he thought he had never
beheld place or known Giro INSTANCES I'm.
der which old age could glide more peace
fully away. After the religious services
were over, he called on several of the ladies
in their separate parlots. Each lady was
brimful OF complaints of her surroundings
and her associates. He found them gar
rulous, gossiping set of old womc /, not hav-
ing a care OF relative in tue world, and great
ly given to finding fault. Poverty in old age
is hard to bear, but ''hetter is dinner of
herbs where love is, thar n stalled OK and
hatred Herewith"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-02-01
NAyI0NAR.IST MEETINGS.
Expressions of Members of Pa rliamen
Greater Concessiens Deman dcd.

DUBLIN, Jan. 27.-The National league
meeting announced to be held to-day at Kill
lavullen, Cork, was forbidden by proclama-
ten. Two magistrates with numerous
policemen prevented the people from as
sembliug. Some disorder ensued. One
magistrate twice ordered the arrest of the
ringleader but he could not be secured.
The police felled two women, breaking
several ribs of one of them.
A Nationalist meeting was held at New
port to-day. In spite of the storm fully 1000
persons were present.
AT Nationalist meeting at Parsonstown,
Harrington, NJ. p, insisted that the govern
ment must be compelled to grant larger con-
cesslOns to Ireland.
At Nationalist meeting at Edgeworths-
town, Justin Mccarthy said Irishmen were
determined to have their own parliament
Some disorder occurred at this meeting and
several persons were elected from the plat
form.
The Nationalist meeting at Kilogrange
to-day was peaceful. Sexton, NJ. p, in a
speech said he recognized the Queen as the
constitutional sovereign. The Nationalist
never reviled the Queen.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-02-01
ACHEsBrsE HIeHwAYMAN.
The Career Of the Festive Higgins.

Tho coroor Of tho dosbino ENGLISH rohher
~ ~.
higgins IS inuceu rcmarkaoie' we n's' near
OF him in The West, robbng farmer coming
home from market, and being transported to
,hc Arercon n,orto,ions There he osconos
=, D..
from CUSTODY breaks In'o mouse az Dos'on'
and so, provided with funds, gets on ship
board. and hack 70 his native land. Then.
rr;,t, .aa1 aoae,onoo ND aori,c w.
WI" ieno"eo ooniiuen0o ""N u'i"s' n'
takes to the road, and is SO successful IN his
pursuits that he Is enabled to set up house
| keepinr at Kuutsford-uuite the gentleman.
with sporting dogs and thoroughbred hunters
He marriesIthe daughter of respectable family
and is much looked upt by the neighborhood
and he pays his way with strict punctuality
But some night, when allthe world is abed he
saddles one of his thoronghbreds, muffles up
up its hoofs in worsted stockings, rides
silently out of the paved courtyard, and
through the sleeping town. then dashes off
to some rendezvous, trly or a hundred miles
away. Presently terrible affair happens at
Bristol an old lady is found one morning
murdered, and her house ransacked. She is
known to have had a considerable hoard of
coin in Spanish dollars and doubloons per.
haps the old lady herself had been the child
of bold buccanecr and the dollars
had been got by evil deeds upon
the Spanish main. Higgins is the first to
bring the news to Knutsford, long before the
flying posts and weekly mails have wind of
it aud it is noticed that soon after that
Spanish money has suddenly come into cir
culation about Kuutsford, where perhaps,
more cosmopolitan spirit reigned than at pres
ent, in the way Of currency.
People might have put this aud that to
gether, but it seems they didn't, for Higgins
still continued to move in the best society {;
and one night attended an assembly at Knuts.
ford, ruffling it among all the county
grandces. One Lady Warburton, of Arly,
was noticed for the splcndor Of her diamond
parurc and general display of gems and
jewels, and Higgins marked them for his
own. lie left earlier than the rest and rode
out to meet the Warburtcn chaise. which
presently came numbering up. Higgins,
trusting to the darkness of the night and his
slouched hat and cloak. dashed up to the
coach but the lady within, catching sight of
his face, greeted him with friendly wave
of the hand-"Oh, Mr.. Higgins, why did
you leave us SO early?" The highwayman
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-02-01

C0NtId0rlN70 syMpl'Ny has been o7okel IN
Scotland flr the native tr.hos Of the Trans
v6sl An important meeting has been called
in Edinburgh N support Of the claims of tue
Bachuaua frontier tribes to the protection Of
the British government.
Public opiulnu AZ London ismuch dsquet,
ell nni there is much anxiety as 70 the
OD,noeil vrngn0Y'o fund NJ clue has yet
been obtained to he cIn.pj'a'y. aud Iho
police arc retiColi.
The Official rpturns sh'w ht the prose-
cuiuus for drunk nne>s are steadily ilcreas.
log both in Scotland md NRl's where the
Increase is adgs'crg hvHIa the ratio o.
populate
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-02-01
ANOTHER OUTRAGE ON LONG rs
LAMB
y FARMER struck Down by Negro.


HICKsvILLE, L, l. Jan. 25.-Selal Sprague,
a farmer, had just entered his barn this
morning when tall mulatto attacked him
with fish plate used for coupling railroad
tracks. After striking him several muir
dcrous blows on the head he left him for
dead and made his way to the house. Upon
entering he saw Mrs. Sprague in the kitchen,
struck one blow at her and demanded her
money. She told him to get it out of
drawer and then ran screaming from the
house. Before she had gone far the man
overlook -and passed her, soon getting out of
sight The ncighbors hurried to the spot
and found Sprague almost lifeless, his body
lying in pool OF blood. The farmers scOur-
ed the country for thelmiscreant and captured
him.
A Hicksville despatch says The negro
who assaulted Sprague of East Meadow TO-
day was arrested this afternoon. He said his
name was Charles A. Smith, 80 years old.
A stlOn! guard escorted lin 10 Jail as il
was feared he might be lynched Threats
OF violence were freely made 10y the crowd.
lie was fully Identified by Mrs. Spraguc.
lie has Dcen known to be "A disrcputable
character.
Tae mau arrested has been identified as
Charles \. Ruqg OF Oyster Bay. lie is said
to have been seen at The county Jail at Long
island city yesterday endcavoring to see
John Tappan, confined there on charge Of
assau,ing the Townscnds Rugg was taken
from llcksvlIe to Long Island city, but the
fiicials had great difficulty in getting HIM on
board the train. Between three and four
hundred men with torches and ropes rs
sembled, crying out to hang the muir
derer. He was finally locked in freight
car. Al Wesburg and Mlneota similar scenes
were enacted, but the prisoner was finally
landed safely in the county jail.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-02-01

H,anarl Valley, uiairg town about six
milo '- r70'on, Pa was startled Fri
lay by the . in Of several acres #
lie Pens wanna q c0mnany's property,
whicn demolished a rumter Of dwellings,
made large assures across the main road, ana
9 pane among the residents
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-02-01
The Gay Head indians.

The Boston journal says of this remnant
of the aborgines of Massachusetts
Enough has notibeen said in tribute TO the
| matches heroism and unbounded generosity
| of the Gay Head Indians. More than they
have done none could do. Freely they threw
| their lives in the balance against the cruel
| death that was fast claiming the few who
| chung to the stranded vessel Nearly every
| able bodied man in the little settlement was
| included in the crews that faced death IN
task that seemed hopeless. Half dozen
nearly persisted in an attempt to put off IN
whale boat, which could not live in the angry
sea. Twenty-Five lives they saved amid such
perils, and those who reached the barren head
land alive were greeted with boundless though
humble hospitality. Nothing that the lin
tied resources Of the noble hearted rescuers
could supply was held back. Food, drink,
missing articles of clothing were freely
given, and then the men and women began
the sad search for the dead. This was in
progress when the first communication with
the outside world was established by the
Boston and New York newspaper men on
Sunday. The Journals representative, who
arrived on the Nellie, found these poor peo-
pie regretting only that they could not do
more for the shipwrecked survivors. The
reporters entered several of the dwellings and
primitive places of abode they are Every
thing was neat but there were no Injuries and
few comforts. The thin, upholstered walls
were a poor protection from the icy gale
Entire families lived together in one or two
rooms and "a loft reached by a ladder. The
people were scantily clad. Women came
down to the landing in the clustering snow
storm wearing their calico dresses, but they
seemed not to know it was cold. In col
Letting the dead upon the beach the
body OF one poor woman was found
entirely nude. Another had scarce
ly any covering. One of the in
dian women had at home two sheets which
were treasured as luXuries seldom to b. used.
She sped to her home and brought them,
weeping as she ptifully said it was all she
could give to cover the dead And the bodies
were quickly sewcd up in these winding
sheets. This and much more have these poo
pie done without asking even thanks in re-
turn. In fact, all that any one of them has
asked after what have been to them great
sacrifices, has been a salvage interest in the
few trunks that have washed ashore. This
trIfling recompense belongs to them by right
and law. But we misjudge the people of
Boston and of New England if the generosity
| of these poor Indians is not made up to them
a hundred, yes, thousald fold,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-02-01

4 cuvrn i'm 90 tn' "oa o1era'o-s and
,ovnns x mines ,m'rlonE the Hooking
NH,,v. sly .,tsvr.l". Shawn Q, Saud lv Creek,
nd Jackson District, in Ohio. voted 10 re-
duce the a'e Of mining from eighty TO sixty
cents, to take effect March /, aud to CON
uue duriog the 'prin: and summer A
big strike is threatenCd
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-02-01
warmth In 7

| IrIrei.s IS na' c5nuprtcd with much
warmth In Peru "a here are hopeless 70
| luc,l divisions. CnC7rts continues al tn
head Of h5uHu' mur!srous Indians in III.