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Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

-Arother call for SIC, 00O, 900 three per cent. bonds has been issued.
 The report that President Cleveland is en- gagged to be married is generally dsbeiieved in Washing ton society.
 The Senate passed 426 private pension bills comprising all such bills on the calendar with the exception of half 8 dozen.
 The United States Consul-General at Rome has telegraphed the Secretary of State that there were sixteen deaths from cholera st Brindisi from april Sth to April 18th.
 The Treasury Department has been in formed that the Canadian Government has : fixed an additional duty of 715 per cent. on sugars imported into Canada through the Un,ted States.
 The Senate has confirmed the nomina- tions of E. c. Ross, to Ie Governor of New Mexico; Zack Montgomery, to be assistant Att torney General of the Interior Departments; W. s. Rosecrans, to be Register of the Treas ury, and B. E. Withers, to be Consul at Hong Kong.
 Mir. Belmont's bill appropriating S147,- 748 as indemnity for the losses suffered by Chinese from mob violence at Rock Springs. in Wyoming Territory, in 1882, was unani- mously adopted by the House Foreign Affairs Committee and will be reported to the House for action
 The Morrow bin, imposing additional re- stricti1 ms on Chinese immigration to this county, was adopted by 8 majority of the comnittee, Messrs. Belmont, Hit, Rice and Phelps voting against it on the ground that it violated the treaty, and that the subject was FAetter left to the S,ate Department to be sett!ed by negotiation under instructions from Congress if that was thought advisable.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
A Terrible Tragedy.

About seven miles south of Ike, poit, N. J.. lived family named Smith. It consisted oi J. Monroe Smith, the father, who is about fifty-fve years of age; Farny, his wife, whc is about forty-three years old, and five chil en, whose ages range from nineteen to four. Twelve years ago Mrs. Smiths mind be came affected after childbirth. She was sen to an asylum, and after being there about year returned home, apparently cured.
 About five o'clock Friday morning Mrs Smi h and her husband took breakfast, and after the meal Mrs. Smith went to the hen house, where she swallowed quantity of rat poison, which it appears she had kept con- eealed i'll the house for three years past. She then picked up an ordinary axe, and conceal ing it under her dress returned to the house. Entering the bed chamber of her four-year- old daughter Edna, who was asleep, she raised the axe, let it descend twice With ter rife fol co on the head of the child and split it open She then went to the bed room of Ru fus, her twelvc-year-old son, and struck him three or four blows on the head with the blunt edge of the axe, laying the side of his head open.
 Next she turned her attention to her eleven year-old daughter Bessie, whom she found on her knees praying. The chld seemed to know that her turn had come, as she had witness ed the other tragedies. She lifted up her hands imploringly. as if to beg for mercy. But this had no effect on the frenzied mother. Sh drought the axe down on the kneeling chid's
 
 eldest daughter lay on the floor stunned by a blow from the axe.
 Smith returned to the house from the yard, where he had been working. and as soon az his wife saw him she dropped her axe and made no further attempt to carry on her mur- derous work
 ''Fanny," said the husband, "what made y,u kilt trese childlen?''
 Without exhibiting any so row for her ter rib.e deeds she answered him calmly:
 'Why, Monroe, I was told by God to do so, and l obeyed His command" Then she added:-"I know I did wrong, but it was the only thing to be done to save them from hell. .'' By this Mrs. Smith meant that she was afraid that the old homestead, which has been in the family for generations, was to be taken away and that the children Ewould be throw upon the street and go to the bad. Inc cause of most of the trouble upon Mrs. Smiths mind appears to have arisen from the homestead being heavily encountered. She was also very much troubled with the care of an invalid uncle.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

For long time we steadily refused to pub- fish testimonials, believing that, in the opinion of the public generally, the great majority were manufactured to order by unprincipled parties as means of disposing of their worth. less preparations.
 That this view of the case is to certain ex- tent true, there can be no doubt.
 At last, several years ago, we came to the conclusion that every intelligent person can readily discriminate between spurious and bona fide testimonials, and determined to use as advertisements few of the many hun dreds of unsolicited certificates in our posses sion.
 In doing this we published them as nearly as possible in the exact language used by our cor respondents, only changing the phraseology, in smaller % space eo than they would e Otherwise ,y occupy, but without in the least exaggerating or destroying the meaning of the writers. was & correct one-that a letter recommend ing an article having true merit finds favor The orig1 g1naI of every testimonial published by us is on file in our office, an inspection of which will prove to the most skeptical that our given as they appear therein, is true O But as it would be very inconvenient, if not impossible, for all of our friends to call on us for that purpose, we invite those who doubt If there be such), to correspond with any of the parties whose names are signed to our test- mOn1alS, ana aSk them IT we nave made any misstatements, so far as their Knowledge ex- tends, in this article. In other words, if we have not published their letters as nearly yer batim as possible.
 'f E. 4. HAzELTrNE, Proprietor Piso's Cure for Consumption
 and Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. We append 8 recent letter, which came to us entirely unsolicited, with permission to pub fish it:
 DAYTON, Ohio, Jan. 12, 1SS8. You may add my testimony as to the merits of Piso's Cure for Consumption. took a severe cold last February, which settled on my lungs. They became ulcerated and were so painful that had no rest for two days and nights. got bottle of Pisos Cure for Con- sumption, and was relieved by the time had taken half of it. Since that time have kept ventive, both for lung troubles and croup, for which can recommend it the best medi- cine ever used; and that is saying a great deal, for have used at least twenty. others, besides about as many physicians prescriptions. Piso's Cure for Consumption has never failed to give relefin my family.
 A. J. .GRUBB,
 37 Springfield St.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUB-
 LIC.
The Election of Officers by the Statc En
 campment.
THE FIRST BALLOT.

The vote for Department Commander in the New York State Encampment of the G. A. R., was as foilows:--Total number Of votes cast, 694; necessary to 8 choice, 34S Nicholas w.. Day received 1888; J. w. Jacobus, 1888; George Treadwel, 123, and Joseph l.. Sayles, 195. A new bal ot was ordered by the commander.
 On the third ballot the contest settled down to Sayles and Jacobus. The result was an nounced at half-past eleven P. m: as follows: Joseph l.. Sayles, 305; J. W. Jacobus, 192.
 For senior vice commander, Charles E. Orr, of Buffalo, received the majority of votes and was declared elected.
 For medical director William s. BalZar, of Kolter Post, No. 52, New York city, was de- clared elected.
 For chaplain Rev. A. 8. Finke was unani- mously elected.
 For council of administ;ati T. L. Poole, J. K Hood, P. Samuel Johnson, Dennis Sulli van and Henry Ketchum were elected.
 Joseph L. Sayles, the new department com mander, is a practising lawyer at Rome Onel. da county. He is the present Judge Advocate of the de partment, and the criticism which he made in his annual report on the loose manner ill which the set of incorporati Il of tLe G. A. R. Department of this State was drawn gained him many votes among the western and cen tral counties of the State. During the war he served two years in the Seventeenth regiment. New YorK Volunteers, ill the honorable rank of high private, wh ch very fact only more e1deared him to the comrade delegates.
 Comrade Charles A. Orr, elected senior vice. commander of the Apartment of New York, is crk of Erie county and lives In Buffalo. He is apparently still young man and during the war was rejected three times as a volun- teer owing to his extreme youth. He sue cceded at last in serving one year and was dis charged just three days after he had reached his seventeenth year.
 Rev A. S. Fiske the newly elected depart ment chaplain, was born in Ohio educated at Amherst College and at Andover and Yale Theological seminaries. He entered the min is,ry in St. Paul, Minn. He enter, d the mili- tary service in 1862, as chaplain of the Fourth Minnesota infantry, and served to the close of the war. He has since been in the ministry at Ro chville, Conn.,, at Rcchestar, N. Y., and at San Francisco Cal. and is now pastor of the Presbyterian Chul oh at Ithaca. He served his two terms as chaplain of the Department of California.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
From Madrid . dispatch gives an

From Madrid dispatch gives an account of the attempted assassination of the Bishop of that city by one of his priests.
 The news from Greece is warlike. Large numbers of soldiers and quantities of war material are being forwarded to Thessaly and other points.
 The judgment given in the steamer Oregon inquiry was that no blame attaches to the cap tain, but the court awards slight blame to the chief officer. His certificate is not taken from him.
 An attempt was made in Madrid to blow mp church. Fortunately the explosion cured before the days services began. and but two persons were injured, though serious damsge was done to the edifice.
 The third of the wolf-bitten Russian mujiks has died at Paris while under treat ment for hydrophobis. Yet NJ. Pasteur does not lose faith in his system of inoculation The mujiks probably did not reach him in time.
 Five thieves entered magazine in Cuba recently for the purpose of stealing powder During their operations light was let fall, causing an explosion, which killed seven per sons, wounded thirty-eight others and de- stroy ed twelve houses.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
MARKET NOTES.
NEW YORK MARKET.

NEW YORK MARKET The Wholesale New York market quotation show:
 BEANs-Prime. $1.45@s1. 55; fair to good $l.30@S1. 40 per busheL
 BUTTER - New York sold at 2S@3Oc. for choice in pails, and 27@29c. common to good, Western Creamery sold at 26Q2So., and the common Western at 22024o.
 CHEESE Factory fancy, 11@12o; do. fair and to good, 8@1Oc. ..... Eeas-Quotations ranged from 12o. for ol dinary, to 14o for New York. New Jersey Pennsylvania ....--..... $3.2O@s4.20; extra New York. $3. 750S425. HAY-No.1. soc. @94c.; No. 9, 84@87o. straw, 9Oc@95c for No. 1. and 75@8O for No. 2 Hors-New York, 9@1oo: Eastern, 7@9o; PoasSP Prime. s1o5o @ s14oo; dressed WHEAT Nspring No. 2 ss@s4c., Mill waukee No. 2, 94;
 ConN-Ungraded Western Mixed. 44@4eo; Steamer Mixed. 45@47c. in elevator. 46@48c. RyE-State 63@66c.
 PHILADELPHIA MARKET F1oun-state family. ss.7o@ss. so;. rye nour es.lo@ss25; wheat State, 9a@s6o. amber, 50. % ;oorn. yellow, 47c.; mixed States 4S@50c.
 Woo1-State and Western N, 33@35o; \, 32@ 33c. medium, 28@3Oc.; coarse. 24@25c.
 BOSTON MARKED FLOUR From $3. 25@$4.O0 for low and medium. to $4 25@$5.O0 for choice Minnesosa, Corn. 47049c for mixed and yellow. BUTTER Common. BOG. @32c. Vermont dairy, 90@31c. choice creamery 34o. CHEEsE-10O12c.
 BEANs-$l.48@SL50
 HAy-Choice, 322@ 426.
 cATrLR MARKKra
 BUFFALO - Cattle, good quality. f4 60@ $500; hogs, fair to good, $4 430@$4. 55; best 4.65
 EAST LIBERTY PENN.-Best cattle, e4.25@ $4.7a; medium to good, f3. s5@$4. %; common tn fair, $3. 5O@&3.60; Hogs, Workers, e4.250 e4 4S; PhiladelphiaA e4 40@eA5 60. Sheep e&4502A IT
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
The Presidents Labor Message.

President Cleveland sent a message to Con gress recommending the modification of the D. .esant National Labor Bureau into per manent Board of three Commissioners to ar bitlate in disputes between laborers and em- ployers. ,,
 He does not propose that its services shall be given except on voluntary application of the disputiug parties, or that it's judgments , shall have any force except as 8 guide to public opinion.
 He would have it also investigate the causes of all disputes as they occur, whether submitted for arbitration or not, as feature of the compilation of labor statistics.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
ManRled by DO1S,

CLEVELAND, Ono, April "A, 1ss6.-Three bulldogs, said to be rabid, attacked group denville. Ashtabula county. The little ones, on their way home from school, were having frolic on the town common. The dogs had been running about the streets acting strange ly, and the antics of the children appeared to madden them With ferocious growls the brutes spr'n upon their victims, and before help arrived Mary Detnck. Min nie Jones, Sadie Strong and Jane Applegate were terri ply mangled. Four others escaped uninjured. The village is wild with excitement and physi- clans have been summoned from other towns, ss' the children are considered ina critical condition.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
MandaIay Set on Fire by a Band of Fifty
 Fanatics.

A dispatch from Mandalay says: On the Burmese New Year, fifty fanatics, the follow CTS of native prince, set fire to this city in several places at four o'clock in the morning Hundreds of houses have been burned. The Treasury, the Post-Ofice and smaller buildings within the Palace inclosure have been de- stroved The main buildings of the Palace are uninjured. One-third of the walled c ty has been destroyed. Troops pursued and captured several incendaries. MT. Devine. the English military apotbecary, was killed. number of encounters took place outside the city with three hundred of the Prince's followers, several of whom were killed, and many were wounded on both sides.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

POWDERS. popular M D. who boards at new York hotel handed little package of powders to his table waiter the other day, telling her that if she was not feeling very we'll if she would take one of these occasionally she would feel better. She accepted the medicine; but when she tried to take the first one, she found that each of the ten papers contained nicely wrapped ten-cent piece.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

THE LUMBER inspectors of Georgia are very careful to condemn logs when rotten knots indicate decayed interior This has resulted in remarkable devel opment of skill in the lumbermen, who plug the bad knotholes so that an in- spector must be very shrewd to detect the fraud.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

THE GRAND SECRET of female beauty is health-the secret of health is the power to eat, digest and assimilate a proper quantity of wholesome food. Take VINEGAR B1TTERs. It will cleanse the stomach, tone the vital organs, give a perfect digestion, purify the blood, clear up the complexion, and produce state of genuine female loveliness, with which no cosmetic can comrare.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

Three members of my family, says MT. James A. Sample, Cash Room, office of the Treasurer, U. s., who were suffering from aggravating coughs, have been much benefited by taking Red Star Cough Cure. None of the i'll effects so noticeable in other cough remedies, have followed the use of this.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
70. if waa Pitifu1.S

Of course it was! He tried one remedy after another, and finally gave up and died, when his life might have been saved by taking Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery"-t great Consumption Cure"-which, if prompt ly employed, will soon subdue all threatening symptoms, such cough, labored breathing, night-sweats, splitting of blood, etc., and re- storing waning strength and hope, effectually stop the poor consunptive's rapid progress graveward. Is it not worth trying? All drug gsts.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

Which afflicts nearly every one at this season is entirely overcome by Hoods Sarsaparilla, which has the peculiar merit of building up and strengthening the system while 1t eredi- cates disease.
 II have been in poor health several year~, suffering from indigestion, restlessness in the night, and in the morning l would get up with a very tired feeling. After taking only part of the first bottle of Hoods Sarsaparilla | could rest well all night and feel refreshed when woke up must say that Hoods Sar- saparilla is all 1t is recommended to be."- MRS. H. D. W1NANs, 2l0 East Mason Street, Jackson, Mich.
 Now Is the Time
 To take Hoods Sarsaparila, the popular spring medicine and blood purifier. Whyr
 Because the body is now more susceptible to the beneficial effects of this peculiar medicine than at any other season.
 Becau SC the impurities in the blood should be expelled and that tired feeling overcome before the additional facilitating effects of warm weather are felt
 Because tho thousands of people who havo tried it pro ounce Hoods Sarsapariila the very best medicine to take In the spring.
 Because delays are dangerous. A dollar spent for this peculiar medicine now may prevent ill- ness which will be expensive and hard to bear
 Because, as now is the time when you may derive the greatest good, it is certainly econo- iny to take Hoods SarSaparilla now.
 Do Not be Imposed Upon The great and increasing popularity of Hoods Sarsaparilla has led some unprincipled men to use it as bait to draw ,ustomcrs to their stores. and then by unfair representations ondeavor to sell other kinds. It is unnecessary for us to i caution those who have tried Hoods Sarsapa- 1 rilla and know its peculiar merit. But to those | who have never taken it we say, Don't be im- | posed upon. Insist upon having Hoods Sarsa- parilla and no other The men who an fadm .n@s hs SO doing admit that Hoods is the standard, ana | possesses peculiar merit which they try in vain | to reach.
 immense Amount of Good
 "I have been troubled with dyspepsia. had but little appetite and what did eat distressed | me, or did me little good. In an hour alter ent | ing would experience a faintness or tired, all | gone feeling, as though had not eaten any | thing Hood $ Sarsaparila did me an immense mv food reliebed and satisfied the craving | had previously experienced. It relieved me oi | that faint, tired, all-gone feeling. have iSi' SD much better since took Hood E Sars2parllla that am happy to add my rccommendation. | GEORGE A. PAGE, Watertown, Mass.
 NorE-People cannot afford to be careless in re gard to medicine When you need med cine tn
 f e% %hish oa yo% en S iry sho considered for moment. You should get the hes regardless of the price. The pest is eerea'n'y n
 Hoods Sarsaparilla Sold by druggists. .$I; six for s. Preparee only by 0. 1. HOOD X CO, Apothecaries Lowell, Mass.
 TOO Doses One Dollar
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

A BRAKEMAN who was caught between two freight cars the other day was de- scribing his sufferings to his wife. "Why," she exclaimed, "that's just the way it feels when you are breaking in a new pair of corsets.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

A fool at forty is fool indeedl'
 So said Young. Straws show which way the wind blows and there are score of sympto oms any one of which shows the existence Of ca. tarrh. Neglected it will rob the bood of its purity and the system of its strength. Get Sr. Sages Catarrh Remedy. It cures even long standing cases, as thousands testify and should be used for colds in the head, which often re- suit ill confirmed catarrh.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
FOREIGN ITEM9

S2iRht skirmishes reported between $4he Turks and Greeks. with the result in favor &1f fhe latter. report is cnrrent in Paris that France <U4 decline 10 join the other Powers in meas
 1e to eOexce Greece.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

FoR DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, depression ot spirits. general debility in thcir various forms, also as a prc~cntive against fever and aguc and other intermittent fcvcrs, the 'Ferro-P Phosphor- ated Elixir of Calisaya, made by Caswell, HaS. ard & O., New York and sold by all Druggists, is the baSt tonic and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness it has no equal
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
A Druruiet's Story.

MT. Isaac c. Chapman druggist. Newburg, N. a.s writes q have for the past ten years cold severn. gross of DR wM HALLS BAIsAM FOR THE bpNos Il can say of 1t what cannot say of any other medi- cine have never heard customer speak or it uut to praise its virtues in the highest manner nave recommended 1t in a great many cases or whoSpns my own family for many years In Tact a~ASs nAVs a bottle in the medicine closet"
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

In every land and cline, the merits of St. Jacobs Oil as the only conqueror of pain, are being acknowledged by the press and people.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

No doubtful ingredients to do harm. Fresh Hops, Burgundy Pitch and Cuffs Ill Hop PtdSCr. ,, ', ,--.- :
 Hop Porous PldSters are sold by all druggists and country merchants. The best in the world
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

DE LEssEPs says the Panama Canal will most fitly commemorate to the fourth centennial of Americas discov- cry by conveying steamships in 1899 from ocean to ocean.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

ONE of every five we meet has some form of Heart Disease and is in constant danger oi sudden death. Dr. Kilmer's Oc Weed Heart Remedy regulates, oorrects and cures.
 Price $1 QO.-6 bottles S5 co.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC R. R. STRIKE.

The centre of interest just now seems to be the action of the employees of the Missouri Car and Foundry Company in striking because that concern refused to stop furnishing sup plies to the Missouri Pacific Railroad. There are four hundred and fifty employees of the car shops cut, and the company is making no Superintendent James Conley said the shoI s would remain closed for indefinite time unless the men reconsidered their action: In the present agitated condition of labor thr oughout that section of the country, the officers of the company believe that any & v tempt 10 hire non union men and run thei, business in opposition to the strikers would b, u wise. They are firm in their determinatio' to refuse the demand of the men, and gay ths t f they work they will continue to fill theil contracts with the Gould roads.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28
That Tired Feeling

IF Q cough disturbs your sleep, take P1soS cnra for Consumption, and rest well.
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

Hates tho food regulates the stomach and bow els, giving healthy and natural sleep.
 Vinegar Bftters is the great disease pre- venter and stands at the head of all family rem adies No house should ever be withoutlt 1t.
 Vinegar Bftters cures Malarial, Bilious and other levers, diseases of the Heart, Liver and Kidneys and @ hundred other painful disorders.
 Send for either of our valuable reference hooks for ladies, for farmers for merchants, on: Medical Treatise on Diseases, or our Catechlsif on ntemperance and Tobacco, which last shout be in the hands of every child and youth in tt' country.
 Any tive of tbe above books mailed free ot receipt of four cents fol. registration lees RH, NcDonald Drug Co.,, as2 Washinoton St.. N. l
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

If you need a perfect tonic or a blood puri- fer, take Dr. Jones' Red Clover Tonic. It speedily cures all troubles of the stomach, kid neys and liver, Can be taken by the most del iCate. Price 50 cents
Connecticut western news., 1886-04-28

Every time give to distant charities to the neglect of those at home 1 am guilty of giving only for vain glory.