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Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
Catcher HOlbert's Debut.

The story how Holbert, the catcher of the Metropolitans, first entered the pro- fessional ranks is thus told by Mir. Charles E. Chase, who was one of the directors of the famous Louisville nine of 1877:
 "I went East with the club on their first trip in 1877, and one day, while we were in Philadelphia, we ran out into one of the mining towns in Pennsyl- vania to play game with club there. We had nobody with us to umpire the game, and told the manager of the other club to select one. He said he knew a man who was somewhat of a ball player, and he would get him to net. He nc- cordingly called a man out of the crowd and told us he would do.
 "The man was one of the most re- markable specimens I ever saw. His clothes were ragged and dirty, his face covered with coal dust and his shaggy, brown hair stuck out through the holes in his hat in several places. Everything went all right until the fourth inning, when Snyder, our catcher, slipped and sprained his ankle. We had no one to take his place and turned to Jack Chapman, who managed the nine, and said to him: Jack, you had better go in and catch the rest of the game He replied that he could not catch, and I told him it didn't make any difference, just so he stopped the balls, as the game was of no consequence.
 "While we were discussing the matter the umpire sailed up to us and said: Let me catch the rest of the game I looked at him again, and commenced to laugh, but Chapman remarked, let him try, then; it doesn't make any diff ference,' and told him to go ahead. He borrowed Snyder's shoes, and Devlin commenced to pitch him few balls for practice. He let them go easy for a while, and then sent them like a shot, but the miner clung on manfully. The game was commenced again, and was never more surprised in my life. He finished the remaining five innings without an error or passed ball, and not single man stole second on him. When the game was finished I asked him his name, and he said it was Hol- bert. wanted to know how much he made, and he replied S1.50 day.
 'I found on further questioning that he would like to play for living, and I engaged him on the srot. gave him money enough to pay his expenses to Philadelphia, and he joined us there the next day. He said he wanted to get a suit of clothes, and I gave him S25. He went out, and when he returned he had on the queerest looking suit I ever saw. The color was very gaudy, and the oat had stripes on it about as wide as my hand, while the pants were cut like a song and dance mans, and he had a tall plug hat. He was 'guyed' unmerci. fully, but he took it good humoredly and caught for us against the Athletics tke next day, and had not a single error and but one passed ball. That was hi: fiIst championship game"
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
Educating Girls.

Some of us, at any rate, on both sides
 of the Atlantic, have begun to realize that serious study is less likely to in- jure women than pinched waists, late hours, hot rooms and unwholesome food, and we think 1t is better for our girls to be graduated at schools for science rather than at schools for scan- dal. We think 1t will better prepare them for the grave responsibilities of matrimony and motherhood than rapid life in which personal adornment is their chief aim, and how to kill time and secure @ rich husband their principal anxiety. The mental companionship which Is improving Is communion be- tween active minds, and the women of a mans household must be either a stimulus to his highest aspirations or a drag upon them. For the interests, therefore, of men, and of human i'm provement in its widest sense, there should be a purpose in the education of women quite apart from questions of what they are to learn, and prepara- tion for so wide a sphere of domestic or social duty admits of no such low stand ard as that of custom or fashion. I do not ask that women should have greater influence than they now possess. only ask that they be trained to make the best possible use of it. This will make marriage more noble and more complete, enrich and strengthen the mothers influence, and give to life @ dignity and dstrength.-Emily FditIulLl.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
\ New Shoe.

A new horseshoe has lately been ex- perimented with at Lyons, France. It is made entirely of sheep's horn, and is found particularly adapted to horses en- ployed in towns and known not to have steady foot on the pavement. The results of the experiments have proved very satisfactory, as horses thus shod have been driyen-at rapid pace on the pavement without slipping. Besides this advantage, the new shoe is very durable, and, though a little more ex- pensive than the old one, seems destined sooner or later to replace the iron shoe, particularly for horses employed in large cities where, besides the pavement, the streets are intersected by tramway rails, which from their slipperiness constitute a source of permanent danger.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
Not a Word.

A boy ten years old can stand out in the street of a quiet village on calm summer afternoon and make the air quiver, and startle the dozing population out of years peace by shrieking to a boy three-quarters of & mile away, "Oh, SkInnee Comin' nout tafter sup per?" And the other lad will yell back, with awful distinctness and carc, "Yes ! Git yer nigger-shooter'n' come to the auction store p And they will converse iu the same thrilling pitch and madden ing force if they are only ten feet apart. But twenty or thirty years afterwsrd either of those boys will get up to ad- dress public meeting in hall not fifty feet deep, and ten feet away from the speaker not a living soul can hear word he ssys.-@ Burlington Hasekeye.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
Music and Insanity.

The theory of the close connection between music and insanity was never more closely established than in the case of Mir. Bertram Bolter, of this city, who was an inmate of private asylum here for ten years. At the ex- Plratlon of that term he suddenly re- covered his reason, and was able to give perfectly lucid account of how he had lost 1t. In 1873 Mir. B. lived next door to boy who was learning the piano. The lad was an ardent young musician, and one night played Come Birdie, Come, 139 times in sue cession, in order to learn it properly. Mir. Bolter was found on the floor of his bedroom next day devouring a Eureka hair mattress, and a raving ma niac. On recovering his reason he told the above facts to his keeper, who, for getting that hearing the tune again might agitate his patient, said thought lessly: "Why, that's rather a pretty tune, always thought. Goes some thing like this, don't it." and he whis- tied the first four bars plaintively. Flows that ?" he said "Is that like it?" But the query was in vain. His jaw had fallen, and Mir. Bolter was dead.-Sa's Francisco Nelps-LetteT,
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
Funny Old Love Letters.

A lady of the North Side, says a re- porter, was looking over bundle of old love letters recently and chanced upon this one from her husband in his halcy- on days and she read it to him:
 Sweet idol of my lonely heart, if thou wilt place thy hand in mine and say, Dear love, I'll be thy bride,' we'll fly to sunny Italy, and heath soft cerulean skies we'll bask and sing and dream of naught but love. Rich and costly paint ngs by old masters shall adorn the walls of the castle I'll give thee. Thy bath shall be of milk. A box at the opera shall be at thy command, and royalty shall be thy daily visitor. Sweet strains of music shall still thee at eventide and warbling birds shall wake thee from thy morning slumber. Dost thou accept? Say Yes, and fly, oh, fly with me-"
 "And hew," said the wife; "but if I had been as fly as I am now wouldn't have flown. "-Bl0onaington Eye.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
The Western Cowboy.

A correspondent says: "I asked the King of the Cowboys why it was that cowboys and others who lived on the plains wore their hair long. It seemed to me rather effeminate than otherwise, and, if it were done for picturesqueness, I wondered that such men as they stopped to consider anything of that sort; but he told me that it was for three reasons: One, that it was very hard to get the hair cut on the plains; two, that it kept their ears from freezing ill the winter and kept them from taking cold, as it fell around their necks; three, that they would be considered towards by the Indians if they cut their scalp. locks, and if an Indian once thinks a man & coward that man can never have any influence with him."
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
The Newspaper Of To-Day.

What has been achieved within the ken of the man of fifty years, says Hon. Carroll E. Smifh, of the Syracuse Journal, embraces the best and most seryiceable of the methods and means of journalism. The art of printing in some form may be a thousand years old; but the art of newspaper.making is peculiar to this time and generation. We are privileged to anticipate in this wonder. ful consummation, to bear a modest part therein, and to enjoy the inestimable advantages of it. What the future of journalism may be, shall not be so harsh as to attempt to predict.
 There is in these times a cleaner and more wholesome manner of journalism, than ever before existed. This great educating and elevating power has gathered decenoy and honesty with it's growth. The rancor and hatred, the vituperation that disfgured the news papers of the recent past, have been discarded, and a higher, healthier tone and style have taken their places. All this is evidence of the progress made by our profession, and not less of the progress made by our constituencies. There is doubtless room for improve ment, and unfortunately there are ex. captions to general rule of cleanliness and decency. Whoever, possessing the true journalistic instinct, reads the record of the past century of journalism, will rejoice in the majestic strides taken in that period, and in the light of the contrast of the journalism of to-day with that of 100 years ago, will set his own standard of possible attainment higher than ever before.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
MARKET NOTES.
NEW YORK MARKET.

NEW YORK MARKET
 The Wholesale New York market quotations show:
 BEANs-Prime. s5OO@sa15; fair to good BUTTER - New York sold at 2202So for choice in pails, and lSgl!c. common 10 good Western Creamery sold at 20@2lo, and tho common Western at l59ltn
 CHEEsE-Factory fancy, l0@l0ac; do. fair to good, gG9s4c.
 Eoos-Quotations ranged from I7o. for or dinary, to lSc for New York. New Jersey and PennsyiyAniA
 FLOUR -suporane, s26O@ss1O. Western, $S. 70@S6.20; extra New York. s3.55tqs6.0U. HAY Shipping. 6597Oci clover, aog5On salt, 6oc; straw, 5Ota5 55c.
 Hors-New York, 2Ia25o; Eastern, 2192So; yearhngs, l6(d22c; oldH, - a -.
 pETRoLEUM-Refned, 71sc; crude, 6Jked7No in bulk; in barrels, sac; nAphthA, 6sac in shipping 9rder' and Il 1s52e; m eAse 7s r.oa WHEAT - Spring No. 8, $77ls@s5c; Mil waukee, Nc. 2, g3c. amber, Sl.S2@S24 40; white, 93ls @$L1
 CoRN-Ungraded Western Mixed. 45@5goi Steamer Mixed, -@60leo. in elevator. 6l 70 delivered; No. 2, --a57ls sc in elevator, 5Sl 70 5sslc., delivered White Southern, fOc de- lyered.
 RYE~state, 74@75o
 WooL-ohio Pennsylvania and Virginia xxx, 45@IGc.; K, 42tQ44c.; \, 429ISc.; No l, 45@47c; No. 2, 3sCa40c.; common, sSC935o New York and Western xx and \, 39C9l5lSc {; No. l, 44G45c. PHILADELPHIA MARKET
 FLoUR-State family, q. 359S4. 50; rye flour, S3.62l sgS3.75. wheat State, S-.-GSL13 amber, Sl.43i corn, yellow, 59c. mixed States 62e
 pErRoLEuM-Refned, 7sSc.; crude GlIo MooL-State and Western K, 46@50oi z 47@4Sc.; medium. 5095lc.; coarse, 45c
 BOSTON MARKET,
 FLOUR - From S3.0O@$325 for low and medium, to S4.25@5.25 for choice Minnesota Corn. 6i066c for mixed and yellow.
 BUTTER - Common, Oc.9l3cs Vermont dairy, ls@2lc.; choice creamery, zl@2So CHKEsE-sCal0c BEANs-Sl300S3S5
 HAY-Choice, SIG. .50@s17 cArTLk MARKEra
 BUFFALO - Cattle good quality. s560a t6.15; hogs fair to good, S5259S5.35; besL S. 10.
 EAST LIBERTY. PESN.-Best cattle, s6. 25G f6.75; medium to good, 5.25tG S6.O0i common 10 fair, S5.00@S6.00; Hogs, Workers S5. I5g s6.o0 Philadelphias, s6.4o@s65o sheep S5.25Cd S550
 WATEKrowN, MAss.-Cattle. choice = @Sl0.25; extra, SS.o0@$9.00; first quality, S7.50aSS.00; second quality Sa5Ogs7.OOi third quality, s4.500a6.O0 Sheep and lambs wool sheep &9.00@S6.00; extra, $6.O0t9 s1ooJ spring lAmbA SIf@So.l Veal oalysa kc@eke m
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
ExporIs md Imnorts.

The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics in his eleventh mouthly statement reports that the excess of the value of exports yer imports or of imports over exports of merchandise was as follows
 Month ended May 31, 1884 (exccss of i'm ports S7,3 S,669; five months ended May 3l, isSl (excess of exports), go, 544, 165; eleven months ended May 31, 1884 (excess of exports), $7I ,561, ,0I6; twelve months ended May 3l, 1884 (excuss of cxports), S6l.120, 430.
 The total values of the imports of merchan- disc for the twelve months ended May 3l, 1884, were $6SO.3 0, O,442, and for the preceding twelve months S72l, ,079, Al, decrease of S40,75 ,699.
 he value nf the exports, of merchandise during the twelve months ended May 31, 1884, were $741.440, SIT, and during the twelve months ended May 3I, 1888, S820, ,5G6, ,557, de crease of S7ol25 6SO
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
The Army Appropriation BiII.

The Army Appropriation bill, as agreed upon in conference, with the exception of the clause regulating the compensation of subsidizedra rail- roads for army transportation, appropristes $24, 454, ,45O. The provisions for the ap- pointment of pnst quartermaster ser geants, limiting their number to eighty, are restored to the bill, having been stricken put by the Senate. The appropriation for the pay of the army is fixed at SIP, 150, 900, being an increase of over S250, 900 over the original appropriation. It is provided that hereafter any paymaster of tho rank of major who has served twenty years in the army as commissioned officer may be placed upon the retired list until the pay de- pertinent shall be reduced to thirty-fve mem- bers. The appropriation for the medical de partment is incr, ased to S225 900, and pro vision inserted that medical officers of the army shall attend the families of the officers and soldiers free of charge The appropriation of $15,000 for field steel guns is stricken from the hill
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Happenings of Interest to All,
 At Home and Abroad
DISASTER AT SEA.
A Schooner Driven Ashore nt BRrneGat-
 Four Lives Lost.

The schooner L. X \. Bab,ock, Captain Henry Babcock, came ashore north of Barne- gat Inlet, N. J., about five o'clock p. m l., Fri day. Four men and one woman, tue mates wife, were lost The mate tloated ashore un- conscious, and one man. Swede, swam ashore and both are now doing well.
 The wreck was one of the most thrilling that has happened on this coast for years. IL 6 schooner L. & A. Babcock hailed from Somer's Point, and sailed from Philadelphia day or two ago with cargo of coal for Boston. When of Bay Head, she sprang leak, and Captain Babcock ran her before the wind all day to allow the crew to work at the pumps.
 At f, UT o'clock in the afternoon, Ihnding that the water was rapidly gaining on them, he headed her for the beach near Life Saving Station No. Is. Unfortunately there was no one at that station whrn she was beached, and the crew that hastened from Station 13 thrte miles distant, arrived too late to prevent loss of life.
 When the schooner struck, Mrs. Scarbor- ough was held by h"r husband, who was watching an opportunity to save her. A fall ing spar, however, fell upon them, killing the unfortunate woman and knocking both into the surf, the bereaved husband being thrown unconscious on the sands few moments later.
 The vessel almost immediately broke up, the captain and three seamen losing their lives in the wreck. The Swede, who swam ashore, an- ticipating the catastrophe, avoided it's danger by facing one almost equal to it successfully.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
Permanently Cured
Hoods SarsapaFiIIa
100 Doses Ono Dollar He Fell in the Streets.
KESNRDY's FAvoRITR REMEDY Cures a Terrible Case or Gravel.

Nothing is more urgently needed than a reliable medicine Tor Gravel hH the disuasc seems tho ins crcase. and are glad to say that such e hNs hAa NtD kENNEnN'S FANOMlE REMEDY of kuns dout, N. \. We put in evidence the following tut- ter, selected from many similar communications
 piIrsFmLn, Mass, March, issL Dr. ndrid KsnHciHs
 DEAR sIus Non have & right to know, and de sire the public Co kno my experience with Gravel and my remarkable recovery through the usr of your eFANORlTE REMEDY" ! am csfnguief living in this place, and there are plenty of witness Co the truth of what gay. My hrst eomna'as lively slight attack of Gravel was in the year lsis lt pass d away, and had llte more trouble unr last July, issa One day when at work in my shop was sudden'y seized with keen and terrible pain in my Jeff side ! consulted two hysieianH at once one said. "f can do hpfhfHu for ynn Your ease Is ineurablei 2" I wac fright ned Rnd went tn the second, who said little, but gave me prescription, It did no good.
 Then began series of experiences the agony and horror Of which words cHnuot depict Think | ir was mctimcs taken 10 the street, and would fall, Wrthine with agony, up a tho sidewalk. lt was death in life. Ina K Heaven, | then hoard uf "KENNEnN'S FANoRIrE REMEnl,n through Mr. r. F. Cooley. had not nscd half A bottle when pAssed three stonee in succession, one uf waich was nearly onchAf an inch long I perseyered with the medicine, the symptoms gradually aeatud, and have had no more trouhle since ! Am well. thantt to you and "FAYoMTB REMEDY
 1oars most gratefully, -
 What sFAyoRITE REMEDY did In this case it has done in many othars fi you desise to do Q
 Ada .ess-Dr. David kenneiy, Rondout, N. H
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
The Eight Honr Bill.

A long debate sprung up in the House on the Eight Hour law, arising out of the favora- ble report of the Committee on Labor of bill providing for the adjustment of accounts of iaborers workmen and mechanics. After the discussion. on motion of MT. Hewitt (Dem.) ), of Ala, the first section was amended so as to read as follows: That whoever, as a laborer, workman or mechanic, is hereafter employed by or on behalf of the government of the Unit ed States shall be paid for each eight hours he has been employed as for full days work.
 On motion of MT. McMillen, of Tennessee, the second section was amended to correspond with the first section, so as to apply merely to the future. It was stated by members that the bill as reported would take S30, 0,00O, 900 from the Treasury.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
Twenty-Five Fer Cent. Stronger than any
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BURLINGTON, VT, May Sd, 1882.
 1 hereby certify that have examined the Butter Color prepared by Nels. Richardson X G.. and that the same Is free fr m alkai or any other substance injurious Co htathi that l have e mpSrd it with somo Of thc bes uf the ether Butter Colors in tho marbot aud ilud it Co te more than twenty-five per cent stronger m calur than the best ot the othrrs
 am sstFflea that it is not liable to become rancid, or in any way Co niu e tho bntifF lave examined it after two months tree eN. posture Co the air in a place liable Co lngr changes of temperature. and found no ifaet uf Thneidity, while other kinds similarly eNrosid d became rancid. A. II. sAnlN,
 lIOf Ch misiry, University of Vermont
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
-------------------- FIGHTINCs IN TONQUIN.
The French LOse Ton KiIled and Thirty~ three Wounded In Resisting the Chinese Attack,

Hanoi advices say that the fighting near Laua-son, between the Chinese garrison and the FrI nch forces who lad gone to occupy that town, continued for two days. Ten French men were killed and thirty-three wounded. Gen. Negrier has joined the French column near Bak-le, and is awaiting further orders. The Chinese Generals, Vuon Gly and Ns-vy, have 10000 regulars between Bak-le and Langson.
 It is reported that Admiral Courbet has been instructed to demand & public apology of China as well as an indemnity for the violation of the treaty by the Chinese at Lang-son, and that in case China refuses to grant this, the French fleet will lombard the Chinese cities.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
IIowto shortcnIifc.

Aherncthy, thc great English surgeon asked iAdy who told him shc only had a eoughi What would you have The plague f' Bcware Of "only courhsf Tho worst cases can. however. be cured by nr. Vim Halls BAlsam for the Lungs. To whooping Cough and cr0upi immediately allays inflammation. aud b sure 10 prevent a iatA termination of the disease Sold by all druggists and dealrIs in medicine.
 FoR SPECIAL ltAtEs Tor adYerttsinS tn this paper, tpplA tU the Iu bliHhcr of thp pairt. IRS.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
The Importation Ot Paupcr Lubor.

Senator Blair reported to the U. s. Senate favoraby, and without amendment the bill recently passed by the House to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States. The rtport says that although there are certain features of the bill which might we'll be chang d or m odi- fed, it is reported without amendment in order that it may not fail of passage during the present season.
 Among the amendments which the com mittee say they would have especially recommended is one providing for the substitution of the words manual labor or manual service" for the expression "labor and service" This amendment, the report says, would accomplish the purposes of the bill and also remove objections, which 8 sharp and unfriendly criticism may urge against the proposed legislation, but as the opinion that the words will be construed to mean substantially this, they made no changes.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09
NARROW ESCAPE
OF A MASSACHUSETTS ENGINEER TIMELY WARNING OF MIR. JOHN SPENCER, BAGGAGE MASTER
 OF THE B. X A. R.R.
Marvellous Cure of Stone In the Bladder Large Stone' Removed by "ken-
 nedy's Fav r:te Remedy"
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Marvellous Cure of Stone In the Bladder-
 Large Stone Removed by "hen-
 nedy's FHv rste Remedy"
 From tAe RttgSeId (Aass.) Edoae.
 Stone in the Bladderis e very dangerous aii- ment; but many most remarkable cures have of late been wrought by "Kennedy's Fayorite Reme- ay"--the invention On Dr. Kennedy of Rom dout, N. ', Another striking case IS now added to the list. Mir. Peter Lawler, of Dalton, Mass, states in a letter to Dr. Kennedy that he had been troubled with bladder complaint for If years, and had consulted at different times seven phySi- eians; but nothing beyond temporary alignment of shs pain had been worked. Towards the end of last January MT. Lawler called on Dr.. Ken nedy. Sounding him, the doctor ~struck stone" He decided that MT. Lawler should first try the "Favorite Remedy" so as, if possible, to avoid operation. And here Is the remarkable result: @Dear Doctor Kennedy-Ths day after came home passed two gravel stones, and am doing nicely now. If you would like to see the stones will send them to you" This letter bears date sDalton, Mass, Feb. 9th" and is signed "Peter Lawler" The stones, which are SO large as to war rant for Kennedy's Favorits Remedy the claim that it is the most successful specific for Stone yet discovered, are now in Dr. Kennedyis possession. Incidentally MT. Iawler also states that the FAv- orite Remedy" at the same time cured him of stubborn case of Rheumatism; and it is a fact that In all affections arising out of disorder of the liver urinary organs it is . searching remedy and works marvellous benefits. Itis in itself almost medicine chest Order it of your druggist. Price N.oo a bottle.
Connecticut western news., 1884-07-09

So IT GoEs. Es.-Commodore Vanderbilt when 8 poor man wished he had S5, ,000 to buy some steamboat shares. His wife immediately handed him the amount. She had saved it from her household ex- penses. Yet, says an exchange, some wives nowadays get five OF six dollars q week to run the house and clothe the children and never save & cent.