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Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Happenings of Interest to All,
 At Home and Abroad.
FIGHTING OVER THE LOO CHUAN
 RIVER.
Chinese Troops Defeated by the French In n
 Six AOurs' Battle.

An official dispatch from Hanoi says that Col Dounier with two battalions of the for eign legion, two companies Of infantry, and a section of mountain artillery, had the valley of the Loo Chuan River which lasted six hours. The Chinese made 6 stubborn resistance, but were finally com. pletely routed. Four gunboats assisted the French forces. Four of the French, including a captain, were killed, and twenty were continuing to advance.
 A later dispatch received from Hanoi states that General Negrier's column had an engage ment at the village of Rep with 5000 Chinese regulars, who occupied intrenchments round 8 central redoubt. The Chinese oom- menced the attack at nine o'clock in the morning by trying to surround the French, and the fighting lasted until two o'clock in the afternoon, when the retreat of the Chinese toward the frontier of fed in the direction of Daoguan, pur- sued by the French. The Rep garrison defended their position bravely, com polling the French to surround the redoubt and carry it at the point of the bayonet. The Chinese loss in the village alone was too killed. The French troops fought with spirit and decision. They captured all of the enemy's war material, mules and horses. A French captain and 20 men were killed and officers and 50 men were wounded. General Neg r1er was slightly wounded. General Brlere de l'Isle has started for Rep, to assist General Negrier's forces. General de PIsle's official account confirms the dispatch from Hanoi. The encounter took place on Monday last The Chinese were attempting to execute an offensive movement on the Upper Loo -Chuan River. Their total loss was 1000 men. Capt. Deynet, of the French Foreign Legion, was killed and Lieutenant Bataille was wounded. General Negrier's column has gone up the Phulang River to cut off the retreat of the Chinese.
 Capt. Fournier, who negotiated the Tientsin treaty with China, repudiates the copies of that treaty distributed by the Chinese Govern ment, with important clauses erased. He offers to fight whoever questions his good faith.
 Advices from Hong Kong state that business is at complete standslill. Commerce is par alyzed.
 China has sent 1, ,oO0 re-enforcements from Kirin, in the province of Manchooria, to Pe- kin. Lii Hung Chang has advised the Govern ment to postpone the reduction of the pay of the Chinese soldiers.
 The bombardment of Tamsui by the French fleet is still in progress. On the 9th inst. the fleet had destroyed the Chinese forts. The houses of the Europeans residing in the city have been ridded with shells, but the inhabit- ants have not suffered any fatalities. The Chinese are strongly intrenched.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
WHITE PAPER GOING UP.
The Cholera Embar Eo Decreases the Already
 scRnt Supply of Raw Material.

"How has the cholera embargo on rags affected the paper market ?" the editor of the Paper Trade Journal was asked.
 "The market is very strong. Prices were low, but have advanced steadily in some grades since the embargo was laid. The lowest price touched in paper such as is used by newspapers was 5i cents a pound, at which rate a contract for 100, 900 reams was made by a Rose street publisher two weeks ago. Now the price is cent pound higher, al- though not an ounce of rags will be used in making the paper. The manu- lecturers of writing paper held a meet in Springfield. Mass, not long ago, and advanced prices l and cents pound, according to the grade, or about 10 per cent. The writing paper is directly af- footed by the embargo on rags. As result, the manufacturers of blank-books and envelopes have all notified their customers that list prices are subject to change without notice. Job printers have to make prices from day to day on the basis of the days quotations.
 "Will this continue ?"
 "Yes. Prices must advance, because there is real scarcity of raw maternal. The rise in the price of rag paper will divert the chemically prepared wood pulp to writing paper, and so even the cheapest grades must advance. A fur ther advance of from ten to twenty per cent. would not surprise me much"
 One of the officers of the American Paper Makers Association said: "There will be a further decided advance. Stocks of paper in the hands of dealers are low, because no one carries much when the market is sluggish. The amount of raw material on hand is not large enough to supply the demand up to Dec. 1. The imported rags ordinarily supplied one-third of the demand, but as rags are not collected in winter as freely as in summer, the foreign rags supplied from forty to fifty per cent. at that season. Even now some mills have reduced the number of hours of work to the week, so as to piece out the stock on hand. The use of substitutes cannot keep the price of paper from rising"
 "How will this condition of sffsirs at- feet the financial standing of the trade P
 "Paper makers and dealers have stood the yicissitudes of trade as we1 as any other class of business men. ThUse who have low-prioe contracts ahead have probably low-priced contracts for took, and the paper on hand is not in suifis tent quantity to make any great wealth for the dealers"
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
A GALICIAN TRAGEDY.
Tho Story of a Betrayed Christian Girl-A
 Shocking Murder.

The Austrian and Hungarian papers are fun of a shocking tragedy in Austrian Galicia. The accused were 8 Jew named Ritter, his wife and two daughters and Chris tisn named Strachlinh. It was charged that Ritter seduced 8 Christian girl, and, in order to avoid discovery, when the girl was about to become 8 mother, enticed her into a cellar and murdered her with an ax. The others were all accused of being accessory to the murder and of helping to conceal it. It was al legged that Ritter's daughter assisted in dissectng the girls body and also in disposing of her unborn child, which was destroyed in accordance with Jewish superstition Por- tions of the girls body were afterward found in the river. Strachlinh at first confessed participation in the crime, but afterward recanted, saying that he had been tortured into making the confession by the gendarmes. The daughters of Ritter were discharged for lack of evidence, but the others were tried at the Rzeszow Assizes and all three were convicted. Ritter was condemned to death and his wife and Strachlind were sentenced to penal servitude for life. The prisoners ap- pealed from the verdict and are now being re- tried. The cost of the defence, which will be large, is being paid by certain rich Jews in Vienna, who ray that the whole thing is but part of the anti-Semitic prosecutions.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
Good Hay.

Some experiments have been made, according to the London Times, as to the comparative value of good hay for stock. As the result, it is estimated that 100 pounds of hay are equal to 275 pounds of green Indian corn, 400 pounds of green clover, 442 pounds of rye straw, 360 pounds of wheat straw. 164 pounds of oat straw, 180 pounds of bar ley straw, 153 pounds of pea straw, 200 pounds of buckwheat straw, 400 pounds of dried corn stalks, 175 pounds of raw potatoes, 504 pounds of turnips, 300 pounds of carrots, 54 pounds of rye, 46 pounds of wheat, 59 pounds of oats, 45 pounds of mixed peas and beans, GA pounds of buckwheat, 57 pounds of h. dian corn, 68 pounds acorns, 105 pounds of wheat bran, 167 pounds of wheat, pea, and oat chaff, 179 pounds of mixed rye and barley, 59 pounds of linseed, or 339 pounds of mangel wurzel.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
The Prohibition Ticket.
FORMAL LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE BY THR
 vICE-PREsIUENTIAn CANDIDATE.

William Daniel, who was nominated for President on the Prohibition ticket, has sent A formal letter of ae- ceptance to the chairman of the Com mittee on Notification. The document commences with a dissertation on the basis of prohibition, in which are de- tailed the catalogue of evils which fol- low in the train of intoxicants. The growth of the prohibitory sentiment is reviewed, as are also the efforts which are and have been made by those inter. ested in the liquor traffic to obstruct the advance of total abstinence ideas. The national and State governments are held responsible for licensing and fostering over two hundred thousand wholesale and retail liquor dealers. Both of the leading political parties are charged with having ignored the issue of prohibition, hence the necessity of organizing a new party for the purpose of waging war on strong drink. In conclusion the letter states that protection to the homes and the worse than wasted resources of the people would be found to be of much more importance than all the protection that can be afforded by any tariff that ever has been devised.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
Whats in a Namc9

The village of Horseheads, a suburb of Elmira, is much disturbed over n movement which is on foot to have it's name changed Co North Elmira. The present name, although inelegant and aud unattractive, has always been an especial pride to the residents because of its antiquity and an event it commem- crates in the history or traditions of the Chemung Valley. According to the story, Gen. Sullivan, on his return from his invasion of tue Indian country in the Genesee Valley in l779, camped where the present village now stands. As he intended to transport his troops down the Ohemung River on rafts, and was unable to carry many of the horses with the army, he ordered all the others killed. When the first settlers came here, about loo years ago. they found great mounds of horses skulls piled in the vicinity. These, it was supposed, were some of the remains of Sullivan's horses, and that they had been heaped up in that way by the Indians. The settlement was given the name of Horse heads, and when, in 1887, the village was incorporated and given the name of Fairport, the old residents fought for eight years to have The old name re- stored, which WAS done in 1S45. The old native stock of Horseheads is strong. ly opposed to the change and will make a fight against it.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15

CoIN IN THE UNITED STATES. Director of the Mint estimates the amount of gold and silver coin in the United States on the 1st of October, 1884, to have been $815, ,000,OOO Of this amount $558, 100000 is gold, $182, 100000 standard silver dollars, and $75, ,OoO, 900 subsidiary silver. This is gain from the 1st of October, 1883, of $95, 900, ,OOO-$13, 900, ,OOO being gold coin and $22. 2.O0O,O 900 silver.
 CANNED. Owing to the increased de- mand for canned salmon the sardine- packing business of Maine has fallen off one-third this season.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
THE POPULAR VOTE.
The Elections for President Since IS4O,
 With the Votes Given.

A brief summary of the votes in contests since 1940 presents many interesting features, especially to the politicians
 IS4O. Harrison, Whig, nineteen States. i, 275. .Ol7 Van Bruen, Democrat, seven States. I, 128, ,702 Whfg majority over all, 189,956 ''O''
 Is44. Polk, Democrat, fifteen States l, ,S37, PAS Clay Whig, eleven States. es............1 ,299, ,O68 Birney, Liberty. y................... 623OO Opposition majority over Clay, 24, 125
 Is4s. Taylor, Whig, fifteen States s......1 ,96O, ,1O1 Cass, Democrat, fifteen States. i, ,22O, ,544 Van Bruen, Free Soil. oil............. 291 263 Opposition majority, 151, 7O6.
 1852. Pierce, Democrat, twenty-seven States, 1,6O1, ,474 Scott, Wing, four States. es.............l, l,386,57S daIe, rTee oon, -....-..... ........ l56, 149 Democratic majority over all, 5s,747.
 ES56. Fremont Republican, eleven States. ..1, 341 ,26i Fillmore. American, one State .... 874,5SI Opposition majority, 377, ,629
 1860. Lincoln, Republican, IF States. l, ,866. 352 Breckenridge, Democrat, Il States. 845 769 Douglas, Independent Dem, 2 States, 1875, I57 Bell, Union, three States. ............ 58O, ,58I Opposition majority, 9S5, 49.
 1864. Lincoln, Republican. 22 States. 4, PIG, ,067 Mcclellan, Democrat, three States. .. I, sos, 725 Republican majority, 407, ,342.
 1868. Grant, Republican, twenty-six States. 8, ,015, ,071 Seymour, Democrat, eight States. .. 2, 7O9, ,613 Republican majority, 305,4 ,458.
 1872. Grant, Republican, thirty-one States. 8, 597, ,O7O Greeley, Democrat, six States. ...... 1881, ,079 O'Conor, Democrat. t.................... 29, ,4Os Republican majority, 730,975.
 1878. Tilden, Democrat, seventeen States. 4, ,284, 885 Hayes, Republican twenty-one States. 4, ,033, ,950 Cooper, Greenback. k................. 81,740 Smith, Prohibition n............ 9,522 Tllden's majority over all, 259,673.
 1880. Garfield, Republican, nineteen States. 4, ,449, O59 Hancock, Democrat, nineteen States .4,442 035 Weaver, Greenback k............ 307, ,3O6 Opposition majority, 27O,2SS.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
MARKET NOTES.

NEW YORK MARKET
 The Wholesale New York market quotations show.
 BEASs-Primo, ss.OO@sa5O, fair to good. e2.45@S250 per busheL
 BUTTER - New York sold at 2aa25a for choice in pails, and 1gG20o common 10 good. Western Creamery sold at 23Isa2io, and tho common Western at l4Cal5c.
 CHEEsE-Factory fancy lO@lokc' do fair to good, SG9c.
 Eoas-Quotations ranged from lsJSo. for or dinary, to l9e for New York. New Jersey and Pennsylvania
 FIoun -superfne. s24O@s29O. Western, tS.65@s6.O0, extra New York. ts60QS5.6Q Shipping, 709f5oi clover, 79gsOoi Ealt 6oc; straw, 706D75o.
 Hofs-New York, 27@2so., Eastern, 22@24o, yearlings, l6022c; olds - O.
 PETRoLEuM-Reiined, 7SSc; crude, 6Jf@7Fo in bulk; in barrels st1c; naphtha 694o in shipping order. and IT. 1Sq12c. in cAseA PoRK-Clear back. slaOO@S2o.Uos dressed WnEkT -s Spring No. 8, 7sk@sslSc., Mil waukee, No q S59[c. amber, S-@e-i white, S9c. a92c Steamer Mixed. 5sI5Ca59o. in elevator, 6i16c delivered No. 2, 62llt t@62Jsc. in elevator, 70 66c., delivered White Southern. 6lo de- hyered
 WooL,-ohio Pennsylvania and Virginia AAAs -0s AAf oht01nNss oNN9otAs Nps ], -@-c; No. 9 3s04Oo.; common, 240D26o !; New York and Western K and I, S0@32a No. 1, -CD-a
 PHILADELPHIA MARKET. FLouR-State family, S3 509S3. S5; rye flour &3.62lR@S3.75i wheat, State, S-.-0g0e.g amber, s0.00i corn, yellow, 60oi mixed States 64IGc
 PETRoLEuM-Rehned. 7Skcs crude. 6Ila WooL-State and Western xx, 46@50o, T. 47@4Sc- medium, b0@5le,; ooarse 45o
 BOSTON MARKET FLouR - From s250@S2.75 for low and medium. to Sa.75945O for choice Minnesota Corn. 64@69o. for mixed and yellow. BUTTER Common, Sc. @l2o Vermont dairy, 22@2So. choice creamery, 27@29o CHKEsE-10J1 ai1l6o
 BEASs-S2 80@S2 75
 HAY-Choice Sls@St9.
 uArTLK MARKETa
 BUFFALO - Cattle, good quality. s5.s0a e615i hogs fair to good, S5.75@S6.00, best &615. A2 FOR SPECIAL RATES for Advertising in this paper apply to the publisher Of the paper. NAN,
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15

Both the Mason & Hamlin organs and pianos excel chiefly in that which is the chief excellence in any musical instrument, quality of tone. Othei things, though important, are much less so than this. An instrument with unmusieal tones cannot be good musical in- strument Yet all are not good judges of such matter An inferior quality of tone will often please the uncultivated ear best at first; though time and use will reveal the su. periority of really good tone. Hence in se- lecting an organ 1t is safer to choose one from maker whose reputation is thoroughly cs- tablished, and whose productions are acknow- knowledged to have superlative excellence, especially in this chief thing. Boston Jour iIfII
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
A Chinese Farm.house.

The Chinese farm-house is a curious. looking abode. Usually it is shelteroa by groves of feathery bamboo and thick. spreading banyuns. The walls are of clay and wood, aud the interior of the house conaists of one main room CT. tending from tho floor to the tiled roof. with closet.looking apartments in the corner for slvoping.rooms. There is a sliding window on the roof made ont of oyster shells arranged in rows, while the side windows are mere wooden shutters. The floor is the bare earth, where at nightfall there often gathers together q miscellaneous family of dirty children, fowls, ducks, pigeons and litter of pigs, all living together in happy har- mony,
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
Riot af Rnnea i'm PnrIa.

At the Longchamps races Sunday mob, dissatisfied with the riding of an English jockey named Sharpe. pulled him of his horse, and, while on the ground, kicked and beat him. The horse was also injured by blows from sticks, slones and umbrellas. Sharpe was carried into the weighing enclosure in 8 critical condition.
 A violent riot followed, the mob breaking into the enclosure. At this point the soldiers on duty were compelled to guard the place from the infuriated crowd, one of whom was seized by three jockeys and only escaped lynching by the intervention of police. The jockeys had already stripped the fellows clothes of, and were about to hang him.
 The we gh:ng room was besieged by the rioteIs for half an hour. Another English jockey was maltreated, and narrowly escaped in 6 cab.
 A LIGHT fee-the retainer from 8 gas company.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
VICTIMS OF A STORM.
Fourteen Men In a Crib Swept into Lake
 NnchiRan-OnIy Four Rescued.

Ten men employed in the construction of the new water tunnel for the village of Hyde Park, south of Chicago, H., were drowned in plain view of the village at six o'clock Wednes- day morning. Fourteen men were employed upon the work of sinking the tunnel and con- gan one mile from shore. Above the crib had been constructed 8 platform about forty feet square, supported by poles bound together by heavy chalns. Upon the platform had been built 8 small cabin, in which the men slept and had their meals, having lived there for the past three weeks. The platform was sup ported by heavy timbers resting on piles.
 About five o'clock the sea became so heavy that portions of the platform were washed away. The men awoke about half-past five and found the spray with every wave washing the side of their hut. They were not much alarmed and proceeded to get breakfast. The storm continued to increa,e in fury, and finally great wave struck the cabin and carried it fairly into the boiling sea, and with it every man upon the frail structure.
 Twelve of the men succeeded in climbing upon the huge stringers, and, lying face down with their arms around the beam, they awaited the arrival Of assistance. Every moment in- creased their danger, and the waves with ter rible force tore them one by one from their anchorage until only eight remained In the meantime the crew of the Chicago Life Saving Station had been advised of their situation and were dispatched to their rescue.
 They arrived at the scene about Il o'clock, and when they were within throwing distance 8 line was made fast by the almost drowning men to the timbers and made tight from the boat The eight survivors attempted the feat of working through the surf to the boat, but only four succeeded in making the journey. One of tn, SC four men was washed from the line, but he succeeded with the aid of plank in reaching shore
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15

They are looking for you everywhere. Drafts of air in unexpected places, going from hot rooms to cool ones, carelessness in changing clothing. In short anything which ends in "common cold in the head" Unless arrested, this kind of col becomes seated in the mucous membrane of the head. Thon it is Catarrh. In any and all it's stages this dis ease always yields to Ely's Cream Balm. Alp. piled to the noslrils with tho finger. Safe, agreeable, certain. Price fifty cents.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
The Price of Paper to be Advanced.

A secret conference of paper manufacturers was held in Philadelphia, on Oct. Sth After hearing reports of the short supply of rags all over the country, owing to the Government embargo on imported rags from the East it was determined to call m, citing to be held in Cleveland on Oct. 15. determined effort will be made to force the price up an average of 2 cents pound. The supply of rags in port and on the water will only keep the mills going to Dec. 1,
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
A New Wny to Pny OId Debls.

Shakespeare tells how this can be accom-. plished in one of his immortal plays; but debts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery IL is not "cure-nll" but invaluable for sorg throat, bronchitis, asthma, catarrh con. sumption, and all diseases of the pulmonary and other organs, caused by scrofula or bad blood Scrofulous ulcers, swellings and tumors ar, Hy dturRists
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
A sICLLIAN CYCLONE
Twenty.Seven People Killed and Four
 Hundred Injured at CntanIa.

Narrowing details of the cyclone which pre- vailed at Catania, in the Island of Sicily have been received at Rome. Twenty-seven persons were killed and 400 were injured. There is great distress among the poor. Hundreds of houss were demolished in Borgo Fondo and Isiol nj quarters. At Cibali and Aquina, sub urbs of the city, many summer mansions are in ruins. The damage will amount to 4,000,> nnn lira
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15

THE REAsoN--General Bsauregard, in his article on the Battle of Bull Run, in the November Century, gives the req sons why the Confederate victory at Bull Run was not followed up by an at- tack on Washington. He also discusses his personal relations with Mir. Davis, and criticises, with much ploinness of speech, the subsequent conduct of the war on the Confederate side.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
CUBAN FILIBUsTERs.
Successful Landing of the New York Expe-
 ditiOn at Las Villas.

Advices from Havana confirm the successful landing at Las Villas of the filibustering expe- dition which left New York a month since in sailing vessel commanded by Limbano Sanchez. The expedition num- bered thirty.five or forty, among whom were fifteen chiefs, who, on account of partici- patton in the last instruction, had been exiled from Cuba and had escaped from Spanish prisons. Twelve of the immigrants who ed at Boston some time since in the brig screamer and several negroes were also of the party
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
THREE-FoURrHs of the officers in the German army wear corsets.

Dr. Pierce's Compound Extract of Smart Weed combines French Brandy Jamaica Gin. ger, Smart Weed and Camphor Water, the best possible agents for the cure of diaIIhoaa, collie, or to break up colds, levers anl innam- matory attacks.
 TIE rents of French flats arc on the dimin- uendo scale in New York
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
No PRINCIPLE lH more noble, as there is nonI More holy. than that of a trna nhehieRoa
MLNsMAN'a rErroNIznp pEEr ToNIo, the oI

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 F. LoRnLARD & Co. have donated e5,O00 t the Bartholdi Statue Fund.
Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15
A Day of Fasting and Prayer.

The following is issued from the Prohibition headquarters in Chicago, Ill.,
 To the People of ute United States:
 In view of the misery and crime resulting from alcoholism, and of the guilt fastened upon the people by Governments-municipa State and nationality permitting and even licensing the traffic in poisonous drinks, the Executive Committee of the Prohibit of this country to observe Wednes- day. Oct 29 as day of fasting, humiliation, and confession, and in view of the fact that many all over the land are aroused and realize the enormity of the liquor crime, and are will oa upon ali i0SS peeTers Tne prayer to Almighty God that His aid may be given to measures which will result in the speedy putting away of this guilt and the sup precision of the traffic in alcoholic drinks.
 InuN R ErNnr Chairman