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Connecticut western news., 1886-09-01
Ill.StNrrrd.

Oh, prayers and sympathetic tears, For each ani every ill-starred night For whom ring no victorious cheers; For those who, early in the fight, Saw daylight turning into night And yieldup to Fate their spears. The dented shield, the pierced cuirass, Sad story is it that they tell Of brave young knights whose hopes, alasl Bore nleagre fruit, who fighting fell Before the foes they could not quell; Who found no wine within the glass. For some there are but ill-equipped To face the world; some weak of will And some faint-hearted, feeble-lipped- Fit but the lowests posts to fill,
 Soon shivering with the towards chill, And of the armor courage stripped. o ye ga 'nst whom the fates are set, Fen though you've failed on every field To gain fair honor's banneret,
 Let high above be held each shield, Each one with purpose strong annealed, And each shall win a victory yet.
 WI! M redith Nicholson
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-01
Mi n Heavy Weight.

Bill Collector-"You told mo to call to-day, sir"
 Man of the House-"Oh! yes, yes, cer> tainly; quite forgot about it. Wonder what did with my pocket book! Dick, laid my pocket-book down on this table few minutes ago. Did you see it?" -....a
 Little D:ck-"Yes, pop; it blew out of the window."- Omaha World.
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-01
Why He WiShad r..

Gimbollard, the philosopher, one day exclaimed as he piously raised his eyes to Heaven:
 t'Oh!. that I had an income of $1, 900, 0o0w .-. .-. -.
 'In order to do what?" asked some one.
 "Why, to do nothing. ."-Taa Bis.
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-01
PATHS PIES.

Old Mrs. Markoe was rocking leisurely back and forth Tn a willow chair, on her porch, in the soft noon sunshine, with piece of knitting in her hand, when Pat ty Wallac; came up the three broad, shall low steps with hesitating movements. ''Oh, it's you, is it7" said old Mrs. Markoe.
 "Yes," Patty diffidently answered, Git is l."
 Mrs. Markoe was seventy; Patty was just twenty. Mrs. Markoe's haIr was winter than sea-foam; Patty's was of the palest ripping gold. Altogether they presented a strange contrast.
 tCome to borrow the paper?' said Mrs. Markoe, kindly.
 ''Not this time," answered Patty, red dening. 'sI thought, perhaps, you might want to buy little pearl brooch. It was my mothers, and I don't think I shall ever wear it. would be willing to sell it for dollar"
 Mrs. Markoe g anced indiffcrently at the old-fashioned trinket, with its tar nished pearls and general pect of an- tiquity.
 .sNo," said she; q don't care for i it."
 'Do you know any one who would buy it2" Patty wlstfuily questioned.
 .'La nop' said Mrs. Markoe. ''But what's your notion to sell it?'
 'I-I would like little money very much," said Patty, almost in whis- per.
 For she felt insinctively that she could hardly explain to old Mrs. Markoe her secret longing for new bonnet, to wear to the picnic at Give Hollow-a fresh spring straw, of modern shape, in place of the old, bleached-over abomination which her soul secretly loathed.
 '.Money, eh7" said Mrs. Markoe. "Aunt don't give you all you want, eh2 Pretty close-fsted, ain't shea'
 Patty colored once moro.
 ',She gives mo all that nee1," said she, ''but not always all that I want"
 Patty" brusquely spoke out the ola lady, ''you ought to get married. A bright, pretty girl like you, with lots of beaux! And then there'd be plenty of money always at your disposal, without trudging around from pillar to post to sell pearl brooches"
 Patty smiled, dimpled, and tossed hel head.
 .sThat's easier said than done," said she.
 ''But why2' persisted Mrs. Markoe.
 ''Oh," with sparkling, downcast eyes, ''they have never any of them asked me to marry them, Mrs. Markoe."
 'They will in time, my dear," said the old lady, encouragingly.
 Patty sighed softly.
 ''There used to be song in my time, , added Mrs. Markoe, ''that was quite fashionable. Why don't the men pro. poscT That was the name of it. Is that the way you feel, Patty, cha'
 Somewhat" owned Patty, with { grimace. "Well, if you don't care fo the brooch, Mrs. Markoe, I'll go with i to Mrs. Parker. She may perhaps bu. it.n
 'sMrs. Parker, blooming widow O forty, did not want the brooch, and sait 90, frankly.
 "Bat, Patty" said she, '1'm awfu glad to see youl. Pm going to have al Uncle Jeremial's folks here to tea, ant De | on Go5dlic's wife. and Haven HiIr
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MO-. TO-.

Aftcr a somewhat checkered career, the Great Eastern seems at last to have a fair chance of 8 green and useful old sge. Her career at Liverpool as float ing temple of amusement has proved so successful that she is to become peripa- tetic variety show, and will be taken about the British coast and finally to the Australian colonies
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-01
Family Discipline.

''Well, Johnny, I suppose you frc- quently get your little hide tanned at home 2''
 ''Oh, yes, get a licking every once in while."
 ''Who gives it to you p
 Sometimes pa and sometimes ma. It all depends on which of them hasn't any thing else to do at the time"
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-01

"Build me a hundressth bridge, the bes Higher and wider than all the rest With posts of teak and cedarn rails And blanks of sandal, with silver nails: Gild it and paint it vermilion red, And over it place the dragons head; And be it proclaimed to high and low That over this fortunate arch shall go Passenger none that does not throw Golden toll to the river below; And when the piece of gold is cast Thrice let the trum ,e;s sound a blast, And the mandarin write, with respectful
 look,
 The passengers name in a silken book, So that I, the king, may have in hand The list of the wealthest of my land"
 Straightway the bridge was builded so As had spoken the wisdom of King Tee
 Poh.
 And every day from dawn till dark They who watched the fortunat, arch could
 mark,
 Like a cloud of midges that glow and gleam, The gold toll cast to the hurryin stream; And all day the trumpst sound d loud, And the mandarin of the guard kowtowed, As he wrote the nam,, with respectful look, Of the passenger high in his silken book; And all the while grew the renown Of the fortunate arch in Pekin town, Till of the wea thiest tt was told: "He spends his day on the bridge of gold.n And when a month and day were spent, The King Tee Poh for his treasurer sent s.So to the bridgen said he land look At the list of names in the silken book; And of all that are written, small and great, Conf. cate to me the estate; As the sage Confucius we'll doth show, A wealthy fool is the States worst foen And the treasurer whispered, bending low: Great is the wisdom of King Tee Poh.n
 -George T. Lanigan.
Connecticut western news., 1886-09-01
The Golden Bridge.

Let him listen whoso would know
 Concerning the wisdom of King Tee Poh- Fair is Pekin, with round it rolled Wave on wave of its river of gold; They gird its walls with their ninsfold twine, And the bridges that cross them are ninety
 and nine;
 And as soon as the wind of morning blows, And the gray in the east takes heck of Upon each bridge gins the shuffie and beat Of hundreds of hoofs and thousands of feet; And all day long there is dust and din, And the coolie elbows the mandarin, And gibe is given, and oath and blow Twas thus in the time of King Tee Poh. It grseved the king that it should be so, Then out of his wisdom spoke King Tee
 D~I
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Ghe gntetligelrGeq>


General benjamin +, Butler PUSHES to
the relcue Of AltorRey.General Garland
and warmly deiends him against what
General Butler conceiyes to ne malicious
attempt to drive Mr., Garland out Of the
cabinet:
What is that gcaudal? 1t Is that Mr..
Garland was an original subscriber Tor
stock and a director in Southern tele'
phone enterprise as lar back as 49,, aud
That he had Tor taking part In that enter
nrise received large quantity Of stock at
4 merely nominal value. That stock was
10 he brought up to any real value by the
enterprise, ingenuity, intelligence ana
good business qualities OF It's promoters J
that it's value WIS founded upon series
OF patented inventions in electrical! science,
and their use and adoption; that the IN
. yentor and scientific mau OF the company
who started tho enterprise, Mr.. Rogers,
bad been for many years the electrician
at the Capitol, appointed as such because
OF his known iulpu,!liC qualifications, and
kent hi his place rs such because OF his
knowledge and Pxpertness IN the use OF
electrical apparatus
OF necessity such = mans associates
ana AQualnlAECts would bd among me
menbeIa Of the two Houses, and he would
naturally apply to them rather than to
other classes Of business men to taxa
part in snGh enterprises, and he would
naturally dehiYa IN retain the services Of
an able lawyer, who some yeas aiIeTward
hocama thruthri,l .llrai nj The bar OF the
United States. Ia there any harm In thlsp
Tee harm Crp,n;Jonth tbs circumstances,
which arc PgaiusE MI. Garland and the
other public men who accepted the stock.
The promoters expected a good deal from
them in the way Of enterprise, ingenuity
and intelligence" qualities that may bs
omployed in various ways. Mr.. Rogers'
many years Of service nj tho Capitol gave
him some idea Of the particular value in
such an undertaking OF the men whom he
selected to help him, lIe wanted "inhu-
cnce, and he was willing to pay for 1t in
stock which would have value II that in
iluenCo were exerted as he hoped 1t would
he. II there was not something obviously
shady in the transaction, why did Messrs.
Hewitt and Cox latly refuse to accept the
gifts offered to them2
General Butler is always ingenious, but
he cannot make black neetn altogether
white. MIR. Garlend's action rs Attorney
General gives glrong reaaon to believe
that he had not forgotten what was ex.
pected Of him, namely, that he was to
exert himself to giyevalue to P&n.EIectric
Telephone stock.
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Tia IntnrYlsm IIrnIlllntpr.

Mr.. Dement,, newly appointed Surveyor
General OF Utah, has got himself in al
uncomfortable fix. He bounded gaily
into Washington to look alter his con.
tlrmation, and being there was stuns with
desire to be interviewed by the press cor.
respondents,
After the manner OF other men who
hunger alter greatness, Mr.. Dement, threw
himself in the way OF sundry correspond.
ents, told them Narrowing story Of official
scandal, gave the name OF United States
Senator who, he said, got $4,000 as his
share Of the plumber, and went to bed
proudly conscious oil being on the brink
OF achieving fame as detective.
The trouble with Mr.. Dement, was that
in his eageruess to spread himself over q
wide expsnso of territory he told his story
to too many correspondents; for when lie
found 1t desirable TO lie out Of it, the cor
respondents surrounded him and cut of
his retreat. The charitable suggestion is
made that Dement, WAS drunk when lie
spun his romance.
The world is full oil DemenLs-men who
talk freely TO newspaper representatives
knowing that their remsrko are to DO
printed and, when they discover that
they have Numbered into trouble, deny
that they ever suid tho things attributed
TO them. Sometimes they say they were
mAliciOusly misquoted, sometimes that
they we're misunderstood, again that they
had no conversation at all with tho re.
porter II Is not always that they are
cornerod by a hall dozed newspapers who
got the same thing from them, each at
different time.
There might, Of course, b6 conspiracy
be newspaper men 10 ruin public man,
but there is no suspicion Of that in De.
ment'sca Gaze. Dement, told ono untruth to
begin with and with another has tried uu.
successfully to get himself out Of bad
sCrape.
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a 1EoArEE o. wAsnINaToN
Turns UP at Romusy, West virginla-Au
EYentful History.

Turns UP at ROmusy, West virginla-An
EVentful History.
Hampshire hvtW.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gould came to Romney
on the train Monday evening to look after
landsot whichshe clalmsto be heir through
her father, John Dlmmit, son Of John
Dimmit, who was the servant Of General
Washington. She gives very evenLful
history, the sum Of which Is about as fol-
lows: Her father with other Colored PEG.
pie, was set free and sent 10 Ohio where
no lived and perhaps died, but she ELIZA
BETH was Kidnapped in Cincinnati and
carried to Mississippi and sold as q slave,
from there she worked her way down 10
New Orleans where abe was boxed up and
carried to Africa and landed at mission
station where ahe remained six months,
thence she got to New York where she
found friends aud good wages and accounts
lated money enough 10 buy her husband.
She rays that she LEFT Mississippi the fall
that Polk was elected President.
As 10 the nature Of her claims and the
extent Of hor property, she says that Gen.
oral Washington beqIeathed certain lands
to her grandfather and his heirs forever,
that she has q copy Of the deed, and that
tho lands lie III the Lord Fairfax grant,
and that she has located 200 acres In
Berkeley county including the town Of
Berkeley Springs. She Claims that she
has got some information from the de.
sCendants Of Charles Washington, at
Charleston.
| OIhnr IsNjs IVA uaid IN hn In mr. naar
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uREAKFAs'r HUDG En-.

Some petritied ears Of corn have been
dug up at FoTsythe, Ga.
sawdust burnt to the windwsrd saved
many Florida orange groves from the
biting iroRt.
Alabama coal is working its way into
the gull and trans.Slississippi States,
Mexico and the South American repub-
lies,
At st. Helena, CAL, n few days ago,
several thousand gallons Of l0year old
California wine sold for three cents a
gallon.
A German reminds tho world that the
initials OF the "Graud Old Man spell
W EG, the German word Tor way"
path, road"
"a goddess hop in the name OF sweet
charity was the theme OF a sermon
preached in Baltimore on Sunday by the
Rev. Robert S, Rowe,
~ hear" says writer in the Boston
Herald, that a good Boston divine stTenu.
ously objects to having his sermons print
ed on the same page with advertisements
ofgood Old Bourbon.
Mr., HahlHhl, Ol Toxic, has invented and
patented method Of weaving carpets
with feathers, According 10 his method
feathers are reduced 10 asilky state by lhH
action OF chemicals, and then woven like
ordinary cotton stuff,
England thinks Ita parliamentary cleo
tions take up too much time, This recent
elections spread over three weeks. The
movement which has been started seeks
the enactment OF law by which the elsC.
tons shall be finished in two days at the
longest,
ThesuGCes3 Of the IncandesCsnt electric
lamp for private carriagea in Paris, az u
substitute ior candles and oil lamps, Is
pronounced complete. Not only the reg
ular Bide.lighl5 arc included in this plan,
but the interior Of the vehicle Is illuuiHat.
ed by lamp sufficiently powerful to read
by, and in some instances similar lamp
is-plaCed for novelty on the head Of the
horse. The lamps are connected by wires
with small acCulnulaloTa placed under the
drivers seat
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a oas'r VsFdl0t in REV Nc. Armstrong;


A Q1sSr YsrdiSt In Rev Mr. Armstrong;
The verdict OF the ecclesiastical court in
the case Of Rev. James q, Armstrong,
formerly Of this city, Is q peculiar find.
ing. Mr.. Armstrong did not deny visiting
houses OF bad rcputO in Cincinnati; be
said he went in search Of the hayward
daughter Off dear friend.
The Court finds that this was a laudablg
mission, yetit was not setting a good ex.
ample to his nek. For this he may be
suspended from the ministry for ten years.
Iaudabie means praisoworthy, com.
mendable II an act Ia worthy Of praise
the ono who perlormH II Is certainly not
TO he blamed for doing 1t. Neither Is II
easy to understand how the doing praise.
worthy deed can lie construed az settling q
bad example. To commend a decd and
condemn the door, Is a strange COntradic'
ton. "You have done we'll" says the
ecclesiastical court, "Out we are going to
punish you severely lesL your parlshloneta
initiate your good example"
II this Is not what the court means, this
is OIL least what tho court says, and body
Of educated men must he supposed to ice
Language with due regard to Tia meaning.
The language is all right, hut the logic Is
hnA
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WTTVTWN LUVTV
The Wheeling INTELMGENCER is entitled
to our thanks for one OF its large and
handsome counting room Calenders for
lSSG 1t is u handsome specimen Of
typography.
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CATHOLICISM AND rEMpHHANCa,

Another IA hor MNnnsw Movsmsut fac
Church Ding to Works.
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Llllan1e.
For the squash grub-torer dissolve two
ounces OF saltpetIs in one and half gal
Ions Of water; AVID use 1t freely around the
stems and roots, commencing soon after
the plants sre up, using it at intervals OF
four or five days; this saves the vines from
the borer. For the streaked bug use SCOT
blown with bellows on both sides Of the
leaves and around the stem, when moist
with dew or rain; also use tho same on
cabbage plants Tor the tuTnip fly, This is
a sure remedy for both. For ths cabbage
worm use finely ground black pepper and
finely ground salt mixed also some Plas:
ter to increase the bulk. This is busted
on with fine wire sitter when the dew is
on, aud it kills the worms at once, and
will kill the currant worm.
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wOLE-On Thursday, February 1, 1856. at 1880
y 81 LUU ~, daughter OF Fred, and EliZAbGth
Vol, ia the eth year OF her age.
Funeral will take place Sunday afternoon At 2:sO
o'clock, from st. James German Lutheran Church.
Inlcrment at PSnIu,ulR Cemetery Friends OF the
family are Invited tOattend,
ROY-On Thursday, February |, 1856, u! $40 A.
N, CHARLES ROY, aged 81 years, . months aud
days,
Funeral will take place Saturday afternoon at .
O'Clock. from the residence Of Nilsson, John G, Roy,
M. 10 Byron street. IntsEment private.
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PRtLuIgh Tins,
The action OF the Plenary Council Of
Baltimore on the temperance question is
having about such effect as like action
had on tho subject OF round dancing,
which was predicted bya Pittsburgh liquor
dealer when the news Of the approval Of
the action by the Pops was received, The
dancers did not stop a. once, but one alter
another, rs tho matter was pressed upon
them by the clergy, concluded that II was
not wisdom 10 indulge in What tho Church
viewed with disiAvor. They were hardy
missed from the circle OF round dancers,
but tho reform went on all the same. The
effect Of tho recommendation 10 avoid the
abuse Of liquor and lind some better
means Of livelihood than selling 1t is slow,
hut still observable.
The men moat active in the council in
behalf OF this temperance recommends
ton were Bishops Spulding and Ireland,
both Of whom are motel Tor their temper
anCe and philanthropic work in the West
mud Northwest, II Ia from the district Of
Bishop Ireland that tho Rev. Father Cot
Ter comes, aud who was in Pittsburgh the
other day. He was selected to present the
temperance question TO the Catholic con.
gIcgations and explain to them the 0tli-
tudV OF the church toward IL, All his eI.
penses while on his lCCturlng tour are
borne by Mr.. W. =. Rend, the coal opera
tor.
The present movement in tho Catholic
Church may be regarded as 4 revival in
the United States Of the great movement
under Father Matthew. The church had
erected then strong barrier agains. the
inroRds c the strong drink habit, but II
was broken down by the decentralization
resulting from the cholera epidemic.
Some In sorrow and bereavement we're
unable TO resist the cup in which they
could temporarily drown their RrIefs and
cares, while others who were given liquor
freely as Btimulsut while PROSTATE from
the disease, had the dormant passion
for drink awakened The church
fought the owl with its temperance 30.
Gieties as best it could, but when the
PlGnary Council met, decided that q clear
and positive deliverauCe against intem.
peranCe was needed. 1t took Its stand and
threw all it's moral influence in behalf Of
sobriety. II sought to recover lost ground,
and the Rev. Rather Cotter Is one Of it's
skirmisherB. People OF every creed inter.
ested In temperance will watch the pro-
gress Of this movement Of tho Catholic
Church to renew the great work done III
It's name by the honored Father Matthews.
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with which hocombsd his hair. ona day
during a dali dfbate, Speaker Ham
lin noticed the smooth careful way in
which Allen'a hair was done up, So
he sent a page to the gentleman asking
him to step mp to the Speaker. Allen COM
piled, aud with marked gravity Mr.. Ham
lin informed him that one Of the hairs on
the top OF his head crossed another. Allen
grew wrathy at once, and declared that he
did not come there to DO insulted. Alter
ward hs became State Senator, and by
smbbonly refusing to vote Tor Mr.. Ham
lin, finally compelled him to withdraw
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In order that sufferers may know that
Acket'g Dyspepsia Tablets will alwaysCure
them, Logan 4 Co., and Charles Menke.
mClleremphSliCally say that 1.-THE Tablets
do not relieve every case Of Dyspepsia,
Constipation, sout Stomach, Sick Head.
ache, Heartburn, &c, &C., theydo not
want any pay. The physICiana say they
are the finest combination that can be
found. Price 20 cents. TTHsIw
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OITY TAXEs 1885.
T IST OF LETTERS

~ va A-A1A AA4ASS
Remaining IN the rostonlce At Wheeling, Ohio
county, W. Va, Saturday, February q, 1856, 10 oh
tain any Of the following the applicant must ask
for advertised letters, giving date Ol list;
LADIES' LIST,
DAVIS Mrs. Maggie MRGlll, Mrs Mary
FAusAll, Miss L0uliG Murphy, MB,
HHTTE, Miss FGnnle ThOm ps0n, Mrs. Mella
lOhnIOn, Mrs, Martha L,
GENTLEMHN's LIST.
Adams, Lieut.. Mack Markham, Charlie
Branch, A. wa Miller, Alexandria
Deem, jennie Millett, Geo.
Doyle, joe Myers, J. q.
Foley, Mike FhllhTlGk q.
Gardner William Pnrler Dallas
HOliuHgr, ]. W. KibOu, JAmtE
Rlisn RpScu I. klnter, John
Lay, JohuR Ward, q. LeYeigne
I.NughlOln, Robert, Wler, John q,
itO ROBERT SIMPSON, +. II.
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plIeAtsd bIn nair.
E,rAnnal

hJcNuHgt
Ex-senator Hannibal lIamlln, Of Maine,
recently told how he was defeated by q
single hair when first an asplrant for lie
United States Senate In 1871. When he
was Speaker Of the House In the Maine
Legislature, William o, Allen was q mem.
Der, and was noted for tile grelt care
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inv Rnls E,rnr,lnns.

Tie baltimore 4 Ohio are selling low
rate excursion tickets 10 New Orleans,
jacksonville aud all Southern resorts. For
tickets, tourists guides aud full inlorma.
ton, call on or address I. o. Burke, Ticket
Agent, Baltimore Il Ohio depot, Wheel
Ing, W, Va
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"suALL our girls whistler" OF course,
ifthey,stIengthen their lunga by taking Dr.
Bull's Cough Syrup.