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Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17
Kind Treatment Remembered.

During the the war Major E. A. Burke of New Orleans was in command of de tachment that captured part of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment. He treated the prisoners as kindly as the cir cumstances would permit, and parted from many of them with expressions of courtesy and regret. Years passed, and he heard not a word from any of them, at the time of the great flood in southern Louisiana Major Burke, as Chairman of the Relief Committee, received one day a despatch from Boston authorizing him to draw at sight for $1O, OOO This was one of the earliest responses to the cry that had gone up for help, and it touched and encouraged the Major. Two hours later came another despatch from Boston authorizing the committee to draw for another $10, ,O00, and in few hours a third despatch donating another S1O, 900. With these despatches, or in some way tc connect the statement with them came the flash from Boston "The Sixth Massa- chusetts remembers the kindness of Major Burke "-I1lter- Oce1n
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17
Bicycling on Frozen Canal.

"I took spin up a canal in Pennsyl. vania once," said wheelman. "The surface was smooth, but had been scored little by sharp skates and the particles of ice were blowing up and down the canal. I ran up in the face of the wind, and got along famously for half mile. Then my wheel began to slip and made no headway. Noticing that the rubber tire was encrusted with the fine particles of ice, started to turn about and run down before the wind. The moment l swerved from a straight line the machine tow-path with bruised thigh and a broken crank. "--.Neo Fork Irs6Nns.
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17
A Pastoral Call.

Minister-Well, my little one, and so you went to church yesterday, did yoai
 Little One-Yeth, thir.
 Minister-And do you remember, my dear, what it was you heard when you went to church yesterdayG
 Little One-Yeth, thir. You thaid one of my little prayers, but you didn't thay the other one.
 Minister-Ah, indeedi And how was that2
 Little One-Why, you thaid: 'sOur Father who art" but you didn't thay "Now lay me-"
 Minister-Oh, we'll, my dear, but peo- pie don't go to church to sleep, you know.
 Little One-Yeth, they do, too. My mother went to sleep in church laht Thunday.- SomerciUe Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17
SodOm and Gomorrah.

Two cities there stood in the midst of tho
 plain, And great was their glory and wide wasthsir
 reign; ... But sin was the path that their populace trod. And down on their heads fell the vengeance
 of God. An, little they thought, as they towersd in
 their pride, Of the wrath and the ruin so soon to betide; An, little they dreamed, as the red morning
 cast Its beams OCT their temples, that day was
 their last The heavens were darkened, and forth from
 them came A tempest of birthstone, a whirlwind of
 flame, And the towers of their might and the halls
 of their mirth Were utterly swept from the face ot the
 earthl The prince with his wine and tho slavs with
 his crust, All, all who dwelt in them-those mansions From revels aroused and from slumbers
 awoke, To crumble to ashes, to melt into smokel Oh, dreadful the doom of the cities of sin! The noon saw no trace that their splendor had
 been! For none but the good shall inherit the earth, The wicked shall weep OCT the day of their
 birth!
 -Frdnklin D. Denton in tue Current.
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17
Badness and Its Causes.

Badness, manifestly, does not indicate sluggishness of brain, nor, on the other hand, does the loss of hair necessarily follow intense mental activity, or nerv- o,ls durability and sensitiveness. Other wise Carlyle could not have retained so full quantity of hair down to advanced old age. On the whole, hair of the lighter shades does not seem to drop of so readily and extensively, or to lose its color so soon, as darker hair. In both cases the cause may, perhaps, be that light hair is commonly thicker than dark hair. In light-haired people the hair may become thinner, or partially gray, without the defect being equally con- spicuous. A faxeu- haired belle has, 1t has been said, from 40, GOO to f5o, 900 hairs, while the dark haired brunette has only 100, 900 to 110,0 900. But the hair of ladies is usually more abundant than that of the other sex, and grows to greater length, extending in some cases to five or six feet. With this greater copiousness of hair is probably to be as- sociated the fact that women become bald less frequently than men. Like grayness, badness may occur at a v>ry early age, and without necessarily giving evidence of diminished strength or i'm paired vitality. But about 50. or little earlier, badness and grayness become common. Why, in individual cases, there should be exemption more or less complete it may be difficult or impossible to discover. The hair has been spoken of as a sort of excretion, or as having a life independent of the general vitality of the body. But, at best, this can only be partly true. Cases have, indeed, been alleged of the hair continuing to grow for long time after death. But these alleged instances of the growth of hair after death have been regarded as, at best, but questionable. There is, in all probability, connection between the life of the hair and the general life of the body too close, at any rate, to allow of such independent growth. Each hair inrits minute cavity or pit in the skin is like bulb-a hyacinth, say-in a glass, such as one commonly sees in windows in the winter and spring. There is, how ever, this difference, that the bulb of the hair derives its nourishment directly from the skin, and without needing sucl roots as those which the hyacinth bulb sends down into the water When bal l. ness comes on through advancing age, the pits or cavities just mentioned become shriveled and decay, and then the power of producing or nourishing hair is lost, so as to defy Chair restorers' and electrical stimulating pomades. That balddess should be most common at the top of the head has been accounted for on the the ground of the skin being especially tight in that position. And it is not diff flcult to understand that, under such CIT cumstances, the tension might have a specially unfavorable influence on the nourishment of the hair. Such causes for the falling off of hair as tobacco smoking, the excessive use of alcoholic liquors, and the wearing of tight cover ings for the head must be looked upon as more or less hypothetical. - Lon7on Standard.
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17
Life in Liberia.

A correspondent at Brewersville, Libe- ria, writing to the Gate City No.) Press, says: This place (Brewersville) is fifteen miles from Monrovla. It is fifteen years old. It is the largest settlement in Libe- ria outside of Monrovia. All the people who have emigrated out here ill the last ten or fifteen years have settled in this place. The people in the settlement are poor, and one isn't able to help the other in a business sense of view There are no horses, no mules, and no oxen in the whole settlement. They have to do all the farm work with the hoe, the rake, and the ax. I have been out here now six months. People are in suffering condition for something to eat afd for clothes to wear. There isn't any doctor in this settlement; the settlement is too poor to support one. The inhabitants number 556 Calico is 25 cents per yard. A common laborer, when he can get work to do, receives 25 cents per day. Picked pork is 25 cents per pound, shoulder meat 25 cents per pound. All the flour and meat used here is imported from England and America. Corn meal is 10 cents per quart. Common four is $15 per barrel. This is the greatest place for sores I ever saw. There is here an insect; its name is tiger; it is very dangerous. have seen grown people, and children, too, with their toes eaten off. Shoes are more needed here than in America. It is necessary to wear shoes all the time so as to protect your feet from these insects. The people are un- able to keep shoes on their children all the time, and good many of them have to wear sore feet all the year round. My boys feet have been SO sore he could hardly walk.
 The only way the settlers have to make any money here is by raising and selling coffee. It will take newcomer like my self from five to six years to get a coffee farm in trim for selling coffee. The pub- lie schools are in poor condition. There. is class of people here who do not want the. true condition of things written back home. They say if the people want to know how times are over here, let them come and see for themselves.
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17
CANAAN, CONN.,, WEDNESDAY, MARCH IT, l886.
 ReaWakened Memory.

Two years ago young man living in @ Vermont village, having finished his academical education, was ready to en- ter college. But just before the day ap- pointed for his examination he was taken ill. After several weeks of suffering he slowly recovered his health, but discov- cred that his mind had lost the knowl- edge acquired by six years of hard study. Latin, Greek, and mathematics, all were gone, and his mind was a blank in re- poets to his preparatory studies. His doctor prescribed that he should rest his mind and familiarize himself with few simple details of light work. He obeyed the advice, and found in his old habit of doing things carefully the schoolmaster that brought back his old knowledge. Before his illness the young man, in or der to earn little money, had taken care of the village church, sweeping it out, cleaning the lamps and doing all the work and by the physicians advice tried to keep his mind from puzzling itself about its loss of memory. Several weeks went by without bringing any change in his mental condition.
 One Sunday evening stranger entered the church, and, as the sermon was 8 dull one, gazed carelessly around until his attention was attracted by the lamps on the wall. He noticed that all the wicks were so carefully trimmed that there was not an irregular flame to be seen. He wondered as to who could be the careful sexton, and, happening to be in the place the following Sunday, he again noticed the same uniform trimming of the wicks.
 Passing the church the next day and seeing the door open, he walked quietly in and saw the sexton sweeping out the central aisle. Looking closely at the young man, the stranger said: ''Do you do all the work about the churcha"
 "Yes, sir"
 ''Do you trim the lamps2"
 "Ycs, sir''
 "Why do you trim them in such pe- culiar way?"
 q don't know what you mean.'
 "Why, the flames are alike" "Oh, but they ought to be. You would not have them uneven, would you?"
 "No," answered the stranger, with a smile, "but it speaks we'll for your care fulness. Why, I should think one of the flames would fit all the others exact ly if it were superimposed on them"
 'sSuperimposed2 Isn't that word used in geometry2" z--
 Certainly. If polygons, having equal sides and angles"
 Before the stranger could finish his sentence the student threw down his broom, rushed frantically out of the church, ran across the street and into the house, where he astonished his mother by exclaiming, in tones of triumph:
 Mother, Iknow that the square of the hypothenuse of ight angle triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the ] other two sides''
 In moment his school knowledge had come back to him, flashed into his mind by the mention of the superimposed fig, Philadelphia CaW.
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17
HUMOROUS.

It's the little things that tell-especial- ly the little brothers and sisters.
 The population of the Southern States doubles every watermelon season.
 Why is the figure nine like peacockf Because it is nothing without its tail.
 It would seem as if ''rifie matches" were the right kind for burglars use.
 "This requires head work, " as the bar Der said when preparing for shampoo.
 Woman is not much of philosopher, but she is proverbially clothes observer.
 A new make of stove is called "The Infant" It is not supposed to be self feeder.
 'T will appear in print tomorrow" said the young lady as she put the lAss stitch in her calico frock. gt
 'My motto is, Live and let live" salA the soldier, as he turned his back to the enemy and fled from the battlefield.
 Dr. Hammond says: "In another thou sand years we will be bald" Well iD another thousand years we won't care if we are.
 "Won't you stay to dinner, Dickf" "Thanks-don't know but will. Do you know, Harry, Pm so hungry tonight could eat anything"
 Girls desiring to have small mouths should very frequently repeat rapidly, "Fanny Finch fried five founder fish for Frances Fowler's father"
 Young wife-John, Mother says she wants to be cremated. Young husband Tell her if she'll get on her things I'll take her down this morning.
 The young man who imprinted rs spectful kiss on the fair forehead of his best girl told his friend next day that he had been having bangup time.
 A man was arrested the other day fol stealing mirror, and pleaded that he ought to be fined, not imprisoned, as he had simply taken glass too much.
 No, Ethel; when you hear of young girl having made a good "match" it doesn't signify that she has got somthing that will get up every morning and light the fire.
 Merchant Somewhat angrily to book keeper)-I want you to mlnd your own husiness sir. Now remember that. Bookkeeper (quietly) was under the i'm pression that you paid me to mind yours, u;r
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17
An Effectual Dissuader.

MT. Pepperhash-Sayl thought you was going to discourage that engagement between your daughter and young Week. mind
 MT. Succotash-That is what am do- ing. a.
 MT. Pepperhash-But he showed me an invitation to dine with you and your daughter this evening. I don't think that very discouraging.
 MT. Succotash- Oh, yes; my daughter keeps house now and wanted him to taste her cooking.-Philadelphia Cau.
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17
Good Food and Buttons,

Good food is almost as important a factor of human happiness as orthodox religion Second we reckon buttons, and here we must be emphatic. The Frenchman who committed suicide be- cause he was tired "of this everlas sting buttoning and unbuttoning" might have lived to commit a worse crime if ill his daily and wearisome task he had found a button wanting.
 The man who has well-cooked food and ell-fastened buttons has great deal to be thankful for.-Neu York Heruld
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17
Had Been a Boy Himself.

Tom Anjery, student at the Univer- sity of Texas, applied to Professor Shore for permission to be absent.
 'T would like to be excused from my. jography lesson this afternoon, as1 want to take my sister out riding" said Tom.
 The old professor, who is no fool. looked at the young man over the top of his spectacles and said slowly: .ss..
 "Want to take your sister out riding; in buggy, eh3 Is she related to youf''
 Iapos SittinSs
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17
I'd have the officer take him over to the

I'd have the officer take him over to the secretary of war"
 'I guess l will, said the officer, and he rang bell and I heard the door open. rhsn he turned to me, careless as you please, ahd said;
 "Go with the officet.'
 It was their last shot, 1 never moved muscle until the officer approached and placed his hand on me. was taken back to the guard house, kept prisoner for another week. and then the disgusted marshsl turned me loose in the streets.
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17

In the latest list the beetles of the X nerican continent alone number N,49O pecies
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17
s C. BECKLEY, Editor and Proprietor,
Local News a Speciality.
The Difference.

The Difference. Tiseasy to be brave
 When the world is on our side. When nothing is to fear,
 Fearless to bida Tis easy to hope,
 When all goes we'll; When the sky is clear,
 Fine weather to foreten But to hope when alrs despaired, And be brave when we are scared,- That's another thing, my dear! And will do to tell -4nthOny Mofehead in the Centurr
Connecticut western news., 1886-03-17

A delicate parcel. "A lovely young lady wrapt up in herself.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-10
Ion Saty ard nanser snrse

A-aZAlEl Nk8N T-EE--- <AL-AgLu ZOE
Sioux yity ard DnhGer karseyaln. y
A Ponsa diseotctf to the onasLa rs.
publican, Of tie 9th, han the folloHlne
2 sayAd the Sioux Oily and Denysr
surveying rarity, tacv at work inflths,
region:
inst AT dark last night !. co.pr of
surveyors, who are rntsLing q line t,om
Noftp fistte,I tifaived Us this place via
Martinsbs fg aod the Mouth Wreck
valley. = ,elsdrveY 9 osses the roAibed
o. the Chicago, 81 Paul, M;1aeapolls
2 Omaha, Just SOY sheast of t4lss to yp.
'ht which point the s~n.yeyors quit ~yrk
,isst night. The lbnaieesrs are 5Y(ty
ieucent aboat theis busiLess, and it'll IS
yapocsihle 70 learn Whist oemparYy they
jIIe q yfer or chat "a The plan OF
1neir iutufe movep,snts, Though i.1gs
ppderstoea that they are In !he EMPLOY
OF sstner the cUnior Pacific apy Chicae1,
MliWankee A st. Paw yail wv, or boths
AmysIsriou NSVHaar in which theI
are cong theiryNaAx, taken d connsas5
lion with Pointers, is AmSSpt coj,.9
vinoing evidence that the ssssey mesitsH
Iailroec lpridee across the M~ssso,!.i
Eng Z oig oom for PSnca. The L2ur.
Ease ofa large tracs of lane at q
price ress2 the iayer thyee
months ago by oYg Masse, and the n,ars5
recers purchase of 24o acres id fhs
SEINE locality Er Boston paTsies, de-ofas
mat there is more at the bGttonV OF
Inis railroad survey than is ,apps, s,ts
pen the s~nrface. Upon -ksAand bsr.
9 ased by WrlaIasse is what is Known y
Lime Kiln nlsine," whure is SAID to bs
the most practicable location fox q
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-10

Herman Schultz, OF Osego, Ransom
county, was thrown from his wagon
near Lisbon the other day and instantly
killed. When his body WIS discovered
it was found that his neck was broken.
The funeral of Rev. Mr. Hoadlty
which was held at Huron Monday
afternoon was attended by twenty
Methodist ciergymen from abroad. Rev.
| Moore otficiated and the Grand Army
members attended in q body.
I. u. TillotsoD, an attorney vino YVES
recently arrested in the Turtle noun
tains for an unnatural crime, shot and
dangerously wounded Jack Mullins, at
Devils Lake. who had preferred the
charge against him. He was taken by
the mob and barely escaped lynching.
The officers secured him finally and he
is now in safe keeping.
North Dakota experienced q blow last
Thursday that was the worst ever known
in that section. AT Valley City the wind
tore the tin roof from the Kindred hotel
hurting it to the aground stables and out
houses were overturned; loads of hay on
wagons in the streets caps;zed; lumber
in the yards scattered; signs blown
down; the cupola of the court house
loosened and the air was filed with dust
and flying debris. The Times says: The
gale was the strongest ever experienced
here, and if there had been sno on the
ground we would have had the greatest
blizzard on record.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-10
rEs fEWs EeETDHyyD

F 49, ~ TOY
MsGltsa @asarits Tor governsE ef
MINNESOTA 2,7s. With epe fayetahls
caunsy 10 bear rom,
II b reported tia Gtq Bsclbars is
suffeslnq from nerve he e%xsstSgont, -nd
hiss bad apopiertic ttE.
Q Rast ia, it is elcirled, has stven ASSN
ance that sae has NJ lntension OF even
partially occupying Bulgaria.
1Tks passenger ard Freight traffic on
aas Illinois central is reported to be
vey large on its new MigsbH ppi
branches
Con-. liaulbars thrcatens to occupy
the telegraph office at ,Bonrgoi pn ess
COMMUNICATIONS WITH the Russian onn-
snf there is restored.
The total collections OF thermal
revenn. from the time tbs present sys-
tenn was organized, July 1, 1862, up to
June 80, sse. were SS,Lss,23o4 AS.
The Milwaukee, and ST. Paul hae
astYl the New Yors stock exchangs to
list 81 ,ooO, 900 .irst mortgage bonds of
the Dakota sad Great Southern.
The lord mayors day at London was
pasa-d without serious difficulty. The
socialists c~2ngregatel IN gyeat numbers
but e~antensed thenf ell. s.. with passing
resolutions. At the Banquet N sne even
ing Lord salisbnr and others made
speeshec.
General Master Workman Powdsrly,
when questioned yesterday by an
q 'sociated press repor Ter relative to the
bsef and pork butchers ,trike a. Chi
cago, simply said that A. A. Carlton,
member a the genera e iecutive board,
had beer sent to that city to join Mi.
Barry. Powderly said he had no further
information to impart regarding the
Chicago trouble; that his knowledge of
affairs there was obtained merely
through brief tey cgrams, and not being
on Mikground he would refrain from
gjsiFx his views on tbs strike.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-10
0l"E79M W0
DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS.

|AEG"*FE rLaa8L
The Yslies Springs FIRE department
Hill i've Q masquerade ball Thanks.
night.
Pro Fell Ter, of Sioux City, is or
sanizi ig a camp of the modern wood
Spen 9 Sioui. Falls.
a cam lshresher ard considerable
grain Yere destroyed by fire in Brook
ingaS unity last week.
Vsa y Springs anti-alang socieiy
holds; sonthlT meetings. This is a sort
of a LIZ arary ssociety under a novel name.
Sios : Fall, was illuminated for the
hrs15i ae by both gas aud electricity
SatugS ~ evening and the effect was
most delightful.
ItiF balievisd that the native small
fraitsj north Dakota are susceptible
OF cub walton and M effort viii be
made . prove that this is true of an
earlSS ay.
ALI but about twenty-five Of the
eighty TX organized counties produced
more ! less flax this year, and the
results compar y tavorabiy with any
other / Top.
Duri lg a wake at Sioux Falls Mon
gay ht, the ilouse took fire from the
handles rsea about the corpse and
burned to4the glound. The family were
poor 81 q their loss lie q heavy ore.
: The. loyembe,z term OF the ais,ris,
tourt, which q onid have opened at
Brookl rs the Mn, vas posspoped on
account ofQhe npn-arrival of the judge.
There 70 sh7enty cases on the dccket. !
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-10

EG&hr AE0N E H
The f,liowEsg nadoe was issued to aey
by tire knights OF 5labor:
Butchers, mechanics and laborers atd
warned to keep away IRON the ftoeR
yards, as taCmen afs on q striks-s
Gby order IT commN gtee.
] fhe master workmen of BaNohara'
assembly Sylvester ia6nt. haa rtAigned
ais o.hee because e ais ipabi MY 60
satisfy the men, ana beeeuse sie is
thoroughly dissatisfied with The Notions
OF Barry, Butter and Marshall. Several
mem ers of the assembly agree with the
n.ssser woskmen, 2yld the assembly
seesas to be in a fer way TO be- dissolved.
knights of labor sly this eyanihg that
Master Workman Sylvester Gunt, OF
the butchers local assembly, did not re-
Sign, bit was exp5l.sd. with q. b. Harper
and T.F. Drlsn, charged with treason
to the order and violation of their obi
cations, ~
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-10
THE VOTE FOR DELEGATE.

All ". -
Egg ares Showing the Congressional
u to nv d,nMntiea In Dakota at the
u to EIccti0n-the Congressional
" tie of 1854.
/ 10 following table gives the vote for
edo candidate for delegate to congress
nd t le several counties of Dakota at the
ell c ion OF November 2nd, 1886. and at
TIL congressional election OF 1884. In
Isl 0.S. Clifford was the republican
ca q idats end J.R. Wilson the demo-
cra I Q candidate. In 1886 o. s. Clifford
we he republican candidate and NJ. H.
Dsr the democratic candidate. The
voA of 1886 will be comp leted as fast as
the etnrns come in:
SOUTH DAKOTA. -