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Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
Recipes.

Corn Bread.-One and one-half cups corn meal, one and one half tablespoons sugar, butter size small egg, one cup milk, one-half cup of flour, one egg, one-half teaspoon of soda if sour milk is used, one teaspoon baking powder if sweet milk is preferred.
 Pumpkin Pte.-Mix thoroughly one quart strained pumpkin, two quarts milk, one pint cream, one teaspoon salt, four teaspoons ginger, two tea spoons cinnamon, two teaspoons nut meg and mace, ten well-beaten eggs and sugar to taste. Bake with rich undercrust.
 Brotoned Potatoes-Peel the potatoes and arrange them around a joint about to be cooked in the oven, baste them at the same time you baste the meat. When they are nicely Drowned serve. They may be put in the oven with a little meat gravy and cooked after the joint, if desired.
 Ste,oed LGmb.-Take the neck or breast, cut into small pieces, and put in a stew pan with some thinly sliced salt pork and enough water to cover 1t; cover closely and stew until tender. skim off all the scum, and add a quart of green peas, adding more water if necessary; when the peas are tender, season with pepper and butter rolled with flour.
 Ribbon Cdke.-Two and one-half cups of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup sweet milk, one teaspoon cream tartar, one-half teaspoon soda, four cups flour, four eggs. Reserve one. third of this mixture and bake the rest in two loaN the same size. Add to the third T. kerved one cup rsisins, one-quarter pcA Ad citron, one cup entrants, two tablespoons molasses, one teaspoonful each of all kinds of spice. Bake in tin same size as other loaves. Put the three loaves together with a little icing or currant jelly, placing the fruit loaf in the middle. Frost the top and sides
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
The Peasant and Ills Donkey.

A Donkey who had served his Mas ter long and Faithfully was surprised one Morning when the Man came out and called him Thief.
 Really, but I do not Deserve such Abuse" said the Donkey.
 "I have Missed three of my choicest Fowls" continued the Peasant, land you alone could have taken them"
 "But please Remember that I do not eat Flesh. What could I do with your Chickens?" - .......
 "Ahl then it was the Fox"
 Every likely" a.-
 %And, as you did not drive him away, and as he is now beyond my reach, You must expect to Suffer for it." ...:7. .# #...:
 And he turned to with an old Snow Shovel and beat the Donkey until the roof overhead was red hot.
 MoRAL:-"When misfortune comes to Man through his own Neglect" said the Donkey, as he rubbed his Bruises on pine knot, "he planes everybody but himself" ."-Detroft Free Press.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
ANOTHER WAR STORY.
A Narrow Escape sf the Late Pre.Ident
 Lincoln.

That moro than one attempt was made to assassinate President Lincoln is a fact known to John W. Nichols, ex-president of the Omaha Fire Department. Mir. Nichols was one of the body guard of President Lincoln from the summer of 1862 until 1865, The following narra- tive, related to a Correspondent by Mir. Nichols is strictly true, and the incl dent is not generally known:
 'One night about the middle of August, 1864, I was doing sentinel duty at the large gate through which entrance was had to the grounds of the home. The grounds are situated about q quarter of mile of the Bladenburg road. and are reached by devious driveways. About II o'clock 1 heard a rife shot in the di- rection of the city, and shortly after ward heard approaching hoof-beats. In two or three minutes a horse came dashing up and I recognized the belated President. The horse was very spirited, and belonged to Mir. Lamon, marshal of the District of Columbia. This horse was MT. Lincoln's favorite, and when he was in the White House stables he al- ways chose him. As horse and rider ap- preached the gate I noticed that the President was bareheaded. After assist ing him in checking his steed, the President said to me. He came pretty near getting away with me, didn't he7 He got the bit in his teeth before could draw the rein.' Ithen asked him where his hat was, and he replied that some body had fired a gun off down at the foot of the hill, and that his horse had become scared and jerxed his hat off. l led the animal to the executive cottage, and the President dismounted and en- tered. Thinking the affair rather strange, corporal and myself started in the direction of the place from where the sound of the rife report had pro. ceeded, to Investigate the occurrence When we reached the spot where ths driveway intersects with the main road, we found the Presidents hat-a plain silk hat-and upon examining it we dis covered bullet hole through the crown The shot had been fired upward, and fl was evident that the person who had fired the shot had secreted himself close to the roadside. We listened and searched the locality thoroughly, but to no avail. The next day gave Mir. Lin coin his hat and called his attention to the bullet hole. He rather unconcern edly remarked that it was put there by some foolish gunner and was not in tended for him. He said, however, that he wanted the matter kept quiet, and admonished us to say nothing about it We all felt confident that it was an at tempt to kill him, and well-nigh sue cessful one, too. The affair was kept quiet in accordance with his request After that the President never rod, alone
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
LIFE IN A LIGHTHOUSE.
The Experience of Lighthouse Keeper
 the Coast of Labrador.


 'Just imagine that toward the close of the fall, at the first snow, my family was attacked by typhoid fever The first stroke of the disease was to put seven of us in bed, and very soon all the others followed. was the only one able to work. My nearest neighbor (at Egg Island) was twenty miles off, and as bad news travels without much wind, this lighthouse was avoided even by In- dians as an infested place. One man, however, was touched by my misfor. tunes, and volunteered to help me. Things went better then for while; but as we were then at the last days of navigation, fogs and snow combined against me, and obliged us to fire the cannon every half-hour, or every quar- ter-hour. The vibration was terrible in the tower, seventy-fve feet high, and our patients could not endure it. 1t was necessary to go up the five stories of the tower, transformed into an in- tirmary [hospitall, before every shot, to notify the poor fellows, and stuff cotton into the ears of the most nervous. Days and nights thus passed, without bring ing else than pain, anxiety, and sleep lessness. Laurent and were ready to lose our senses, doing the service fo the light and the hospital like machines, when the Lord took pity on us, and in His mercy sent us some rest and joy, in a general convalescence. The light at Egg Island shows revolving white light, visible fifteen miles, and giving a flash every minute and half "All sailors know how important it is that a flash light should revolve with mathe- nautical accuracy; otherwise one light might be taken for another, and wreck might be the fatal consequence of such an error. One night, toward the close of the autumn of 1872, pivot broke in the clock-work regulating these revolu- tions. The season was too far advanced to get help from the Ministry of Marine at Quebec; the only thing to be done was to replace the machine by human energy, and the keeper and his family devoted themselves to the task. During five weeks of that autumn and five other weeks of the next spring, man, wife, girls, and boys turned the machine by hand. Cold and fatigue stiffened the hands, sleep weighed on their eyelids, but nevertheless they must turn, without haste and without rest, all through those long watches, in which the order was to become an automAton and keep turning the macbins. Not one, from the child to ths mAStor, either com plained or shirSsd h's duty, and the light at Egg Island continued each min ute and a half to flash its protecting light over the tenlpestuous Gulf
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
Political Conventions.

The New York Republican State Conven- tion has been called to meet at Saratoga on September 22, two days before the Democratic Convention, and in the same hal.
 The Iowa Republican Convention nominatsd Senator Larrabee for Governor. The plat- form looks with regret upon the failure of the present Administration to promote the reform of the civil serv ce so auspiciously begun under Republican Administration; 1t opposes any change in inc laws of currency and finance that will increase the burdens of the debtor class; it declares for fair and thorough trial of the ProhiJitory law, that it may have time to demonstrate it's efficiency or prove it's ineffi- ciency, and condemns the Democratic party in declaring for S250 license, compulsory on every community. regardless of local opinion.
 The Grand Lodge of Good Templars met at Schenectady, N Y. After a lorl@ discussion the report of the committee oil political ac ion declaring that the Good Templar organ zation IS non partisan. and that tho Grand Lodge does not favor third party, wa5 adopted by a three-fourths vote. A large majority of dele gates favored voting for the best temperance candidates, whether Republican or Democrat and for the submission of constitutional amendment prohibiting the sale of alcoholic ruors as a beverage.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
BYE-AND.BYE.
A Touching Little story of the AngeP Visit.

A Touching Little story of the AngeP
 Visit.
 He was but child, when one night, after he had been i'll for many days, an angel appeared at his bedside and looked so kindly into his face that he held up his thin hands and whispered:
 'fI am ready let me go with you" ssSome time-not now,n whispered the angel, and she soothed him to gentle slumber.
 Again, when manhood had come, he fell asleep one day and in his dreams the angel returned. It had been years since he saw her, but her face wore the same radiant smile, and age had passed her by.
 .It is time-I will go with you," he said as he started up, but the angel waved him back and said:
 s'Wait-it is not time.n
 Years passed away. The gray hairs were thicker than the black-the face was furrowed with many lines-man's prime had passed and mans decline had come. The bright dream came once more, and with it the angel.
 "Surely you will take me now," he said, as he felt her soft presence. "I have accomplished my work on earth and long for rest"
 'tWait-I will come once more," she answered.
 Other years were numbered with the dead. A feeble old man had wept bit ter tears over loss of wife, and sons and daughters. One by one they had been gathered to earth while he waited. One by one the friends of his youth and oi his manhood had passed into the dark valley beyond sight and sound of mortal man.
 One night, when the summer sun sank to rest in sky of purest gOld-wher the great world seemed almost noiseles: when the robin sang softly and flew tc his nest to quiet the fears of his mate, the ears of the poor old man heard the sounds of sweet music afar off. It came nearer and nearer, and the darkness lighted up with such glorious light that his old eyes saw a procession marching past him. As he looked and wondered and doubted, his angel turned aside and stood before him.
 s'Who are they ?n he asked.
 "Friends who have gone before Watch closely.
 By and by he saw the faces of th' friends of his youth. Then glad shou reached his ears, and hands were waved from afar off. People broke away iron the procession and gathered around hin and rejoiced. There was his wife there were his sons and daughters. H. held out his trembling hands to tn angel and pleaded
 "You promised mer'
 ''And the by-and-by has come!" tn angel answered.
 When the men and women of cart came to look upon him in his coffin the whispered to each other:
 ''He must have died as a child fall asleep. See the glad smile on his face.
 M. QUAD.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
FOR Tnm,HOUsE AND FARM.
Gu ltIvatAOn of Corn.

The Ruro,E Ne,o Yorker, in reply to a correspond ent in regard to the cul- tivation of corn, says: "It seems to us that any one who will study the physiology of the corn plant and fol- low its feedin g roots as they fill every inch of soil, must be satisfied that no more detrimental thing can be done than to go in with blows and in a wholesale way break up this system of root growth.
 Any one who will use the deep working blows, up to the time the corn is from eight to twelve inches tall, and after that time only use those cultivators that work not more than two inches deep, will, in one season, particularly if 8 season of much drought, be convinced by the rank growing of his corn, unchecked by the hottest weather, and it's yield at harvest time, that our advice in regard to the use of the blows was strictly cor rect and safe to follow in the West or anywhere else.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Happenings of Interest to All. At Home and Abroad
THE GREAT FLOODS IN CHINA.
More than Ten Thousand Lives Lost in nm Near CnntOn-Entlre Villages EnEulfed.

More than Ten Thousand Lives Lost in and
 Near CnntOn-Entire Villages EnEnlfed.
 Details of the destruction in Canton and vicinity by the great rain storm there have been received. The flood was the most serious which has visited Canton in thirty years. More than ten thousand persons lost their lives, and far greater number arc left in 8 starving condition. Entire villages were en- gulfed and the rice and silk crops were almost ruined. Many of the streets of Canton were flooded for over week. At Sz Nj city the wa,er broke through the city wall It is re- ported that several thousand people were drowned in that place. The embankments of the rivers were broken in many places and the
 water swept across the surrounding country, carrying everything before it.
 A foreigner, who was al eye witness Of tho scenes of the devastation, reports that one night the boat he occupied anchored near 2 bamboo grove. By morning the water had risen to the tops of the bamboos. At other points It rose as high as forty feet during the night. The inhabitants fled from the villages and camped on the hinsides. At Kun In, a market place situated near an em- bankmcnt of one of the streams connected with the river which brings water from the north and west rivers, the majority Of the ln- habitants were drowned byt the water breaking through the embankment. Some escaped to 8 piece of rising ground in the neighb rhood, | but the water continued to rise and gradually
 overtopped the elevation, drowning those who
 stood on 1t.
 Seventeen Chinese graduates in Canton l hearing of the distress and suffering prevalent in their native villages, took passage on boat
 with a view to proceeding home to render
 what assistance they could. On the way the l boat WAS capsized, and all who were in 1t were | drowned. In some places parents tLed thelr l children on the high branches of trees. while I they instituted measures for their general safety. The trees were washed up by the
 roots. and the heartrending cries of the chil- dren were silenced in the surging waters. The body of bride dressed in her bridal robes
 was found floating in the river at Canton. A large tub was also seen. It was picked up and found to contain boy and girl. With them was paper stating their names, the day and hour of their birth. The parents had insti- tued this means to save the lives of their oh- nnrin0
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

AN EprToR's REWARD yester- days issue we published "An Engineers Story in verse. It was supposed by us to be the crude effort of an amateur poet, and to gratify him the wrinkles were smoothed out of it SO that tho meter would not be out of joint; but it seems that our efforts were unappreei. Rted. Tho author sends us long letter, in which he says the poem was horribly butchered. This is what a newspaper gets for allowing amateur poetry to ap. pear outside of the waste basket.- Mdoon (Gd.) Telegraph.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
Honsehold Hints.

Crewel work washed in bran and water will look like new.
 When putting away the silver tea or coffee-pot, which is not used every day, lay little stick across the top under the cover. This will allow the fresh air to get in aud prevent the mustiness of the contents, familiar to hotel and boarding house sufferers
 Fruit stains upon cloth or upon the hands may be removed by rubbing with the juice of ripe tomatoes. If applied immediately, powdered starch will also take fruit stains out of table linen. Left on the spot for a few hours, it absorbs every trace of the stain.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
AdrertIslnr Cheat, III

10 has become 90 common Co begin au article in au elegant, interesting style.
 Then run it into some advertisement. that we avoid all such,
 And simply call attention Co the merits ot Hop Ritters in as plain, honest terms aA pos. able,
 To induce people
 "To give them one irfdi, which 70 proves their value taat they will mover use anything else.H
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

A cold fn the head causes much discomfort and annoyance aud if of frequent recurrence often produces serious resuta The membrane of the nasal passages becomes infanied and stopped up, an acrid and poisonous virus Is formed, sores form in the head, deafness, headache and roaring in the ears ensue and the sufferer finally discoyers that he has Catarrh. This loathsome disease ia by many considered incurable but never fails to yiell to the power of Ely's Cream Balm This il an article of undoubted merit, not a liquid nor a snuff, but pleasant, oleanly and cfti- cacious remedy which child can use It ia applied into the nostrils where it ia abeorbed It opens the passages, al avs inflammation, heals all sores, cleanses and soOthea the mem branal Innings and restores the senses of taste and smell It gives instant relief; and . thorough treatment will certainly cure, Prics 5Oc. at druggists or by mail.
 Ely Bros, Druggists, Owego, N. Y.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

THERE is a good deal of talk about negro superstitions, but the fact is that the negroes are no more superstitious than the whites, after all allowances are made, says prominent paper of Atlanta, Ca There are numbers of fairly we'll edu- cated people in this country to-day who shudder when they hear dog bowling or the quavering cry of a screetch owl. Superstition In some form or other is a part of the natural and inevitable equip m ent of the human mind.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
Potash and Trees.

It has long been known to orchard ists that an application of unleached wood ashes was excellent in the case of unhealthy or unfruitful trees. and especially 80 in the case of trees as preventive of yellows, and for apple and pear trees affected with blight and rotting of the fruit. Unfortunately wood ashes are not always to be had, but the chief constituent-potash-is comparatively cheap in some of its forms, kainit, for example. which con- tains from 28 to 32 per cent of chlo- ride of potassia, besides notable quantities of magnesia, lime and com mon salt. Chloride of potassium also is German product-a clay contain ing 25 per cent in its weight of this chloride. East it is considered the cheapest though not the best source of agricultural potash.
 Sandy land is notably sought for as a fruit soil especially for peaches These are often deficient in potash, the chief source of which in soils is from the breaking down of feldspatic and micacious rocks and the decom- position of vegetable matter.
 As showing the value of potash in peach-growing. the fifth annual re- port of the New Jersey Experiment Station gives detailed statements of the profits from the application of wood ashes, stable manure, and clean cultivation on various New Jersey soils in peach-culture. One instance is mentioned where SIS, 900 was netted in twelve years from fifteen acres in peaches. This cultivator used wood ashes and stable manure, planted no crops in his orchards, and cultivated thoroughly, chiefly with spring tooth harrow, going over the ground last sea- son from fifteen to seventeen times. He has almost no yellows, and all trees are immediately removed on the first appearance of the disease From one young orchard he gathered seventy baskets of fruit at two years old. This orchard was manured with wood ashes only. If he had enough wood ashes he would like to apply from fifty to seventy-five bushels an acre, but smaller quantity does a great deal of good.
 Another cultivator on a clay loam set with $500 bearing trees uses muri- ate of potash and best bone manure, equal parts, and at the rate of $50 pounds an acre. In four years he has realized $900 an acre. He plants on 1t the same as if prepared for corn, and raises no crop among his trees Chicago Tribune.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
A Danghter's Misery.

"Rlcven years our daughter suffered on a bed of misery,
 From a complication of kidney, liver, rheumatic trouble and Nervous debility,
 [" Under the care of the best physicians,
 Who gave her discasc various names,
 But no relief,
 And now. she is restored Co ne in good health by as simple a remedy as Hop Bitiere, that wo had shunned for years bcforo using it TuE PARENra
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
So Near and Yet so Far.

Dainty Dude-"Mellnda, how did you like my serenade last night ?"
 Melinda-"I didn't like your posi- tion." .-.
 My position ? My attitude, you mean" ...-...
 No, your position. You weren't far enough away for me not to hear you, and you weren't close enough for me to scald u."-con
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

PooR Cow.-A COW was browsing near the edge of the lake near Auburn dale, Fla, when she was gobbled by large alligator, and was about to be made into Florida beef. She lost both horns, and now goes bareheaded in a neighboring pea-patoh.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

BUMNERs.- Being inSor'ned that a man who he had discharged for drunk enness was tle sole support of wife and six children, Lowell mill superin- tendent replied; "It happens that the man who takes 4e place has wife and seven children. It should be borne in mind that every expulsion of a hummer makes a job for decent worker
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
manur,nr old oroh.ra..

One of the popular fallacies that still fingers in rural districts, is that mature orchards do not need fertili- gers. Farmers may be painstaking in the planting, and in cultivating the orchard for few years, until it comes Into bearing. but. as a rule, after that
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
The Late Coy. Fenton, of New York.

Ex-Governor Reuben E. Fenton, of New York, died suddenly in directors office at the First National Bank Of Jamestown, N. Y., of which he was president. He was in his 67th year. Until his fifteenth year the life of ex-Goyernor Fenton was that of farmers son. He then studied law. and in 1843 en- tered into politics. He was elected to Congress the Republican party. and served that party in Congress until the year 1864, when he was nominated for Governor of New York. He was renominated and elected in 1866. In 16D9 he was elected United States
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02
Lonsfsllow,s TsirthdAy BooL

Is beautiful present. to give any lady. But there is . little book published In pamphlet form with no pretentions to literary merit that would be as appropriate, and might be the means of saving life, It ia called Dr. R W. Perce's treatise on diseases of women, for whose peculiar troubles tho "Favorite Prescription is especially designed It Is pro. fusely Illustrated with wood cuts and colofed plates, and will be sent to any address for ten cents in stamps, by the Worlds Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
Connecticut western news., 1885-09-02

SIDE BY SIDE IN FHE ORto sfoRk stand VINEGAR BlTTERs and the health blasting preparations fired up with bad rum. Take your choice between the pitaI elisir and the deadly p0isoHs. The one cures every disease of the stomach, bowels, liver and nerves, the others ag- gravate all human ailments. VINEGAR BITTERs strengthens, the others weaken.