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Connecticut western news., 1884-12-17
Queen YIc's New York Hotel.

A New York letter says The Victoria Hotel is the resort of most of the titled British people, and it is adorned with the Queens portrait at full length in the office. Mrs. Paran Stevens, who owns this house, is the mother-in-law of one of the Paget family, the chief of which is the Marquis of Anglesea. Mrs. Stevens was the second wife of the most enterprising hotel-keeper in this coun- try-a man who had a cook-shop in Boston which became popular for its Yankee dishes, and gave him enough credit to recommend him to the pro- prietor of the Revere House when that building was erected. He finally be- came the best known hotel man in Boston, and then he got possession of a hotel in the South, at Mobile, next of the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, which was, when put up, considered the most remarkable hotel on the globe. The Fifth Avenue Hotel was built a lit- tie later, and Stevens secured that too, which turned out to be the best piece of hotel property to make money any where. He left a large fortune, and before he died he put up the Victoria Flats, which he called the Stevens House. They were rather ahead of the time. md not in the best situation to make money as flats. When Stevens died his widow put up the Victoria sign, and the hotel now does good business. Mrs. Stevens is woman of s trong will, and is popular with the young foreign sprigs who come here with letters of in- troduction to her. Their favor has rather given her an eminence in city circles
Connecticut western news., 1884-12-17
Local News a Speciality.
CYPRESS AND ALLSTLETOE.

Within the broad old-fashioned room The yule log burns with ruddy glow; The walls are decked with evergreens, And, true to the custom of long ago, From the chandler, in the antique room, Is pendent spray of the mistletoe. In and out mid the light and shade, Made by the yule logs fickering glow, Happy youth and blushing maid Kiss, as they pass heath the mistletoe. Sweet is the vintsge of love they quaff, And quaint the humor, and glad the
 laugh
 Of the group, who by the freside Have gathered to spend the Christmas tide
 All ages blend in the picture there In life's first notes in the baby's crow To faces worn by ife's ebb and flow. Meath the mistletoe, year ago, saw another maiden stand, And Twas he, who bending low Kissed her cheek and pressed her hand But now know, beneath the snow, She lies at rest within the grave. The winds that blow are moaning low, As ever the fronds of the cypress wave, And tho the bells of Noel are chiming, With cadence sweet and rhythmic rhym- ing,
 They seem as dirges now to me, My heart, my lost one, is with thee. [.
 F. P. LYNCH
Connecticut western news., 1884-12-17
A Singular Crime.

A crime of that kind which Gaboriau delights to work up into sensational fiction has lately been committed in the Seine Inferieure department. M. Bailleui Mayor of the Commune of Houppeville, a very active farmer and business man of 70, having to return from neighbor- ing market town through lonely forest road, told two of his men to meet him, When they had gone couple of miles in the dusk they deserted his carriage, without the lamps lit as usual, advanc- ing slowly toward them. M. Bailleui was seated in it, his head hanging over one wheel, and bullet hole behind his ear. Only few francs were found upon him.
Connecticut western news., 1884-12-17
A STORY FROM MONTE CARLO.
Gambling Going on While n Losing Player
 is Taking His Life.

A correspondent who happened to be there in the winter of 1873-4 sends us the following experience of Monte Carlo and its tragedies: 'I had strolled," he says, ''into the Casino in the afternoon, and was standing behind table watch ing the players. My attention was ar- rested by the luck of an old lady whom I saw win the same stake of 1, ,000f II times running. At the same time was indistinctly aware of young man who rose from the table few paces off on my right, and went to a sofa near a win dow close by. A minute later there came sharp report from the direction of the window, and on turning to see the cause I found that the young man had rolled from his sofa, and pistol was lying on the ground beside him. The croupiers sat at the tables unmoved, but the players started and shuffied, and in a few moments most of them had risen hurriedly to their feet. Several women went out of the room crying. The great CT part of the men gathered gaping in a semicircle round the wounded man, who lay on the floor bleeding fast from the stomach; but no one offered to help him until an English officer stepped for ward and raised his head, when I took his feet, and between us we lifted him on to the sofa, and staunched his wound as well as we could with handkerchiefs. After several minutes two or three off, cials of the establishment appeared carrying an armchair, on which they placed the victim, and carried him out, with looks of grave disapproval and af- front.
 "Afterward found that, whatever sympathy might be extended to those whose losses induced them to make away with themselves respectfully at a distance, in their lodgings at Nice, or en in the neighboring solitudes of the mountains, suicide or the attempt at suicide within the precincts of the estab. lishment itself was held at Monte Carlo an inexcusable breach of etiquette. By degrees people returned to the tables, and in about twenty minutes from the moment of the shot play was resumed. The word was in the meantime passed round that the pistol used had been a toy, unloaded, and the pretended act of suicide mere chantage or trick to ex- tort money. I had reason to know better, and when went out among the palm and cactus and geranium walks above the sea, those alleys of paradise had for me somehow changed their as- pect, and was glad next day to travel further. Some time afterward ascer- tained the sequel through that excellent man, M. Adam, the Senator and friend of Gambetta, to whose exertions about this time the origin of the agitation against the gaming-tables was in great part due. It turned out that the victim in the present instance, Pole, had, after three months painful illness, re- covered sufficiently to leave the Princi- paIity, having been first tried, as similar offenders when they recovered always were tried, for his misdemeanor.
Connecticut western news., 1884-12-17
GENERAL SHERMAN'S DILEMMA.
The Manner In which n Pretty Actress Sent
 Him Up with the Drop Curtain.


 One incident, says 8 San Francisco letter, which occurred here about five years ago, came near breaking the Gen. eral of a habit which has fastened it's terrible grip upon him. The occasion was Alice Harrison's farewell benefit, and, as luck would have it, Tecumseh and his staff were visiting the Pacific Coast Depart ment. So they hired box and went to the show. No sooner did Miss Harrison appear than the old war horse snuffed the battle from afar and began to grow restless. The members of the staff winked at each other and suggested the propriety of going behind the scenes to compliment the beneficiary. This propo- sition suited the General exactly, so back they went. When they were fairly on the stage the old hero of Atlanta marched up to Miss Harrison with the remark that he hadn't kissed anything since breakfast, threw his arm over her shoulder and bent to bestow paternal salute on her cheek. He had just reached the goal of his desire and was feeling like just-admitted angel sliding down buttered rainbow when that impish young lady saw that the prompter was about to ring up the "drop." Quickly placing her hands over the Generals ears so he couldn't hear the bell, she backed Eim against the curtain. As everybody knows, this is wound around huge wooden roller on the inside of the canvass. Well, the Generals coat tails were caught, and before the promp- ter could reverse the motion the astound- ed man was suspended seven or eight feet from the stage like sheet from 8 clothes-!ine. The sight was so ludic- rous that the member of the Generals staff who told me the story said the au- dience went into mysteries, for they knew that those convulsively clutching legs and venerable gaiters belonged to no one else than the commander-in-chief of all our armies.
 HIoH and low church troubles are breaking out again in England.
Connecticut western news., 1884-12-17

A WHOLE FAMILY SHoT.-John P. Harden, residing near Littleton, W. Va, accidently shot himself, wife, and four children, while trying to extract a load from @ shotgun. He was pounding the muzzle of the gun on the hearth stone to jar out the load of slugs and shot when the gun went of. Eighteen slugs took effect on the various mem- bers of the family. One slug broke Mrs. Harden's leg, and the baby had seven marks in the region of the abdomen. These two are the only ones seriously hurt.
Connecticut western news., 1884-12-17

PRENTICE told a friend thai his famous poem"The Closing Year" was written un- the following circumstances'- dashed it off one New Years night idst aa the dawn began to peep into the windowu of my dirty editorial room. My paper had just gone to press when a crowd of newsboys came into the office and asked me to write them something for car. rier's address. It was tho morning of New Years, and they had gotton noth- ing as yet, and were desperate. told them would do the best I could for them, and scratched ofr thai poem.
Connecticut western news., 1884-12-17

TIE THREE R's.-The Washington Cdpitol interviewed a prominent politi- elan who said: asked Mir. Blaine how it happened that he failed to rebuke Dr. Burchard on the spot, and whether it was possible that he did not hear what Burchard said. Mir. Blaine's reply was {: II heard him perfectly, and the words went through me like a knife; but l thought that perhaps only few heard it, and the best way might be to take no notice of 1t, but let it pass,"
Connecticut western news., 1884-12-17

ENGLISH POLITICS. An Arizona editor thus enlightens his readers on English politics: "Old Gladstone is taking our advice, and is giving the aristocrats fits. But he made bad break when he con- cluded to spare the House of Lords. We warn him that such a shilly-shally course won't do. Kick the Lords out of the Upper House, and fill it up with horny-handed sons of toll. Gladstone means well, but he doesn't know much about true liberty, and he hasn't much sand. :"
Connecticut western news., 1884-12-17
Manufacturing Interests.

From careful compilation of the re- ports received, the hon Trade ReVieao computes that within the past four weeks 25 iron establishments have started up, giving employment to 12, ,175 men. In four establishments the force has been increased by 1,25O men; in 1f establishments the working time has been reduced to an average of eight hours; in 39 establishments the wages have been reduced to an average of 123 per cent, affecting about 10000 men, and 27 establishments have closed down entirely, throwing out of work 12,275 men. These figures relate only to the iron and steel industries.
Connecticut western news., 1884-12-17

TEE WoMAN.-The Portland Ore goaidn says: "The vote of Washington Territory was about 42,0OO, of which number the women contributed perhaps one-third. It was found a mistake to say that women would not vote. Very few omitted to do so.'
Connecticut western news., 1884-12-17

HIGH and low church troubles are breaking out again in England.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-20
Cannot Trust Themselves.

1t is always good sign for the
country when the Democratic party
refuses to trust itself. Since the
legal-tender decision by the Supreme
Court, which afiirms the absolute
control over the issue of money by
Congress, no fewer than three
amendments to the constitution have
been proposed by Democratic Con
gressmen, providing that gold and
silver alone shall be legal tender in
payment of debts. This looks like
neat piece of Democratic buucombe
be whenever we remember how that
party has been on all sides of the
money question during the last
twenty years. No financial yagary
has ever been proposed by fiat
money cranks that the Democratic
party did not fall in with, and it has
good reason to distrust itself 1t
first opposed the issue of Treasury
notes as being unconstitutional; then
it clamored for imitation; next for
partial reputation for the public
debt; then it wanted more green
backs, and allied itself with the
Greenback party in every State
from Maine to the Gulf, and, to
crown its infamy, it at one time OPP
posed the law providing for the re-
sumption of specie payments, and
demanded its repeal.
Now it is proposed by Senator
Bayard and other Bourbon leaders
to nullify the recent legal-tender
decisions of the Supreme Court, and
prohibit Congress from issuing debt
paying paper money by the express
terms of the constitution. If it
were certain that the Democratic
party would always be in power in
Congress, the amendment would be
a good one, to hold in check the
BANDS and Buckners of the party,
who are liable to run wild on the
currency question; but the suprem.
acy of that crowd is not likely to
continue. The greenback was in
vented in a time of great public
peril, and a similar national crisis
may arise in the future. Let Con
gress retain the power of the Con
stitution and the Supreme Court
have accorded to it, and let the
people see to it that the party which
needs a constitutional handcuff to
prevent it from doing mischief is
kept on the back seat. - Chicago
Journal
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-20

Charlie putting two shoyels of coal in
the furnace, and then get up ON the
box. when / was OFF, and an earthquake
could not have reused me. Old LOG
always took water at UhrichSYille. and
rs We passed there and neared the
switch ut Trenton without blowing
down. Harry Watson, the conductor.
suspected something was wrong. and
sent the bows to the brakes. And it
was none TOO soon. The switch was
open, and l06 and the baggage jumped.
Charlie and me were jerked back upon
the tender and rolled oil on the ground.
Now comes the strange part of the stO-
ry. Watson. busy arranging for the
relief and tending to badly mashed
finger, never thought OF Charlie and
me, as we laid there at the side of the
track for three hours sound asleep.
When We were at last discovered Wat
son thought us both dead and had us
carried on shutters To the relief. where
they began chatting our hands and hunt
ing for injuries. The rubbing aroused
us, and We looked around to see where
we were. Neither had scratch or q
bruise. You see in rolling down the
hill we had struck = lot of new grass
and weeds that had been cut and piled
up near the track, and we were so
completely worn out that the TALL did
not wake us. So we laid there and
slept until Watson found us.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-20
The World is Round and Small.

you are from Bridgeport, said he;
and his glass OF WINE was slowly raised
to his lips. while he drew his chair
closer to mine. "'WeA, ! want TO
know if YOU ever knew Miss -,
who left your city in the year 49,,
and who married q man in Omaha the
same year? | met her under very
strange circumstances, in Il princely
western city, just eight years ago this
month. A party of US had been max
ing n night of it in the fashionable res
taurant of the city, and it must have
been after . o'clock in the morning,
when from my position at the table, sit
ting almost as | now sit, ] saw through
the hall mirror side door carefully
opened, and in the room an instant
later q tall, queenly form, clad in vel
vet and sealskin, with a blazing light
in the eyes that riyaled the diamonds
she wore. saw her distinctly rs her
glance swept the room from end to
end, and held my glass to my lips as |
now am doing, while she raised gilt
tering pistol slowly from the folds OF
her cloak. You may believe that ev-
cry instant was an age, until saw the
direction that pisto. was pointed, and
give YOU my word that | could not have
lowered that champagne nor made a
sign to warn the party at the table be-
hind us, although there was sure death
in the steady grasp of her white fingers
on that murderous weapon. Shoot
why of course she did, and the contu-
sion that reigued for few minutes en-
abled the cause of it all TO slip from the
room as quietly as she had come in.
We found an ugly shoulder wound the
extent of the damage, but never were
enlightened rs to the inner cause OF the
revenreful act, and / believe the injur-
ed party and myself alone Of that as
semblv knew the woman thereafter.
Eight years ago this happened, and
now. for the first time, | am looking
straight into the eyes of that woman
while my glass is to my lips, and she
knows me, | feel sure! Turn your head
slowly and see hertz Just the same
stately beauty, with robes and dia-
monds lit for 4 princess, but attended
by a husband well known in Washing
ton Hobbies. eyes, that is Miss -,
and see you know her. The world is
round and very small, isn't itP"-Hart-
ford Times.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-20
Mere Waste of III m c.

a tinware peddler called at my
house on Fourth avenue the other day
to exchange some of his goods for pa
per rags. The woman brought out
sack weighing ten or fifteen pounds and
the peddler held it up on his spring
scales and announced:
''Dere vas shust six pounds, so help
me gracious.
Her husband came out at this mo-
ment and replied that he would not
accept auysuch weight. lie knew there
were at least ten pounds in that sack,
and he didn't propose to be swindled,
my frendt, do you pellet | sheat
you?n asked the peddler.
you would if you got chance.
It was agreed that the man should
take the sack across to the grocery and
weigh it for himself, but he was no
sooner out Of sight than the peddler
drove off and did not stop for five
blocks. In the afternoon the mlp met
him down town and asked
"Ah, you rascal, why didn't you wait
for me?"
''Vhas deere more ash six pounds"
Yes. sir-tcn OF EN-.
"Nhell. dots Why didn't wait. If
YOU pellet my scales Was too light und
pellet der grocery scales vhas too
heavy. we shtand und jaw und call
names und lose time So ] move on
und make half dollar on some lesd
pipe. '-D Detroit Free Press.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-20
Thousands say sO.

Mr.. II. w. Atkins. Girard, Kan,
writes: Il never hesitate to recon-
mend your Electric Bitters to my
customers they give entire satisfac
ton and are rapid sellers Electric
Bilters are the purest and best med
irine known and will positively cure
Kidney aud Liver complaints Puri-
fy the blood and regulate the bowels.
No gamily can afford to be without
them They will save hundreds OF
dollars IN doctors bills every year
Sold at soc bottle OF G. r. Motfett
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-20
ybenc'cr a noble deed is wrought,

Whene'er is spoken a noble thought.
The heart springs up in glad surprise,
Our souls TO higher lcve's rise.
Carlyle tells us: "Hcroism is the di-
vine relation which in all times unites
a great man to other men. The late
overwhelming disaster to the City of
Columbus, amid the terrors of intense
frost and a raging sea, fighting for
their prey, where so many, fleeing the
rigors of northern winter to more
genial cline, met their sudden and
fearful fate-shows amid its horrors
and gloom one CLEAN of light in the
heroism of Lieut.. Rhodes in his per-
sistent efforts to save the last two liv-
ing souls clinging TO life amid the froz-
en- ropes of the doomed vessel. Yet
this is only one among many deeds OF
noble self-forgetfulnes in an age called
exceptionally selfish and practical
Who, that read it, can forget the
description of the expression in the
iace of the man entrapped in the
Brooklyn tunnel. death sweeping tow
ard him in the wild waters, as he cried
to those without Ito save themselves?
No frantic, forgetful effort to escape
himself with the flood, realizing in
that instant all that awaited him, that
hero thought not of his own, but the
safety OF others. At the time ono of
the papers said, 'In the old world he
would have been buried with great
honor, with the medal for yalor' on
his breast In the new world he lives
in many hearts Let us hope and be-
lieve that those who saw that noble
look of resignation and self-abnega-
ton, thought the glass that divided
them from him and terrible death,
were raised by it, and their gratitude
TO q height from which they never fell.
Nor have we forgotten the brave cap
tain of the Sewanhaka, as he labored
on the burning deck. amid smoke and
flame unconscious of self, and physical
pain, until all were safe! His humble
answer to those who sought him were
he lay blinded and bandaged) in a
hospital. to express their sense of his
heroism was: Il did simply my plain
duty. Who remembers his name
evenp These are some of the many no.
bic acts brought to our eyes, in tho
daily chronicle of the worlds doings.
There are many less conspicuous, q
poor miner gives or perils his life to
save that OF another to whom life is as
hard and work-a-day, and Go us) APP
parendy bald. This divine spark is
confined to no class. We read, admire
and perhaps Jorge them, though they
are worthy to be written in letters OF
gold. They are written in the book OF
life, and our hyes are elevated and
enriched, we have some reflected cred
il, that those OF our kind have in SUI
prei4e moments Of their lives, 'that
little CLEAN of time, between two eter-
mites, borne themselves IN an exalted
way. The door Of such deeds, may
have seemed pain and commonplace,
OF no heroic mold TO our eyes. But
there has sprung up in him Mt the mt
ting time, and pace, spontaneously,
instautaueously' noble forgetfulness
OF peril to SELF, in the high desire to
rescue from it another, even stranger,
which flames into heroism. Spring
feid RepH6.i an
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-20
aalentine Baker.

Valentine Baker is the maa charged
with somewhat mild assault-but new
ertheleSs "a assault-on a respectable
youngwoman, in one of the apart
ments of IN English railway train.
The young woman defended herself
successfully, and called the guard at
the first opportunity, though ii was
evident at the moment that the VIC
lence had ceased, not to be resumed.
Baker made not the slightest defence
in the subsequent trial. He was evil
IDENTITY utterly overwhelmed with
shame. The usual way in these cases
at least the American way-is to try
to destroy the character of the com
plainant. This Baker would not per-
nit; nor would he permit anything to
be said in his own behalf The proba-
bility is that he was intoxicated at the
time of the assault, and had formed 81
wrong opinion of the woman'S charae-
ter. However that may be, he accep-
ted his conviction and punishment as
patiently as possible, and his dismissal
from the clubs to which he belonged in
the same way. He crept out of Lou
don, and there is every reason to be-
lieye that his life since then has been
devoted to tie redemption of his char
acter. No Drawer man lives. There is
probably not in the world a more con-
scientious commanding officer. There
is no position of danger TO which his
duty calls him that he is 10th to ac-
cept. He has the confidence of his
government, and in leading the forlorn
hope of the Soudan he almost ineyita-
bly, goes to his death. -AcW York
G,o,bfo
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-20
no matter which way your taste runs, We can
please you
Fine Custom Work a Speciality
"A Coed Supply Of Fine and Heavy z
Our own Make, Kept on Hand,

aud viii be sold remarkably low Tor the quail
ity. Call at the old stand just above Dr.
VyAu's drug store, High ST., Mineral Point,
Wisconsin. l5ly