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Connecticut western news., 1888-10-31
DISSOLUTION.

T HE co-partnership heretofore existing ! under the firm name of A. l.. Brown & Son, at Falls Village, Conn.,, is this day dis solved by mutual consent. All claims due to and against said firm will be settled by A. L.. Brown, who will continue the business at the old stand.
 A. L. BROWN.
 WILLARD, l.. BROWN. Falls Village, Ct., Oct. 10th, 1888.
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4 T a Court of Probate holden at North A Canaan, within and for the District of Canaan, on the 22d day of October, 1888.
 Present, Jacob B. Hardenbergh, Judge.
 On motion of Preston B. Burnett, adminis trator on the intestate estate of James J. Averell, late of Canaan, within said District deceased, it is ordered by this court that notice shall be given that the Administration Account in said estate will be exhibited for settlement at the Probate Office in said Dist rict on the 18th day of November, 1888, at one o'clock afternoon, by posting copy of this order onthe public sign-post in said town of Canaan, and by advertising the same twice in & newspaper having a circulation in said district. Certified from Record,
 .>@- JACOB B. HARDENBERGH, Judge.
 A T Court of Probate holden at North A Canaan, within and for the District of Canaan, on the 22d day of October, 1888.
 Present, Jacob B. Hardenbergh, Judge.
 On mention of Preston B. Burnett, admin istrator on the intestate estate of Kate l.. Averell, late of Canaan, within said district deceased, it is ordered by this court that notice shall be given that the Administration Account in said estate will be exhibited for settlement at the Probate office in said district, on the 5th day of November, 1888, at one o'clock, afternoon, by posting a copy of this order on the public sign-post in said town of Canaan, and by advertising the same twice in newspaper having circulation in said District. Certified from Record,
 JACOB B. HARDENBERGH Judge
Connecticut western news., 1888-10-31
Drawer 2.

Three books mailed free on application.
 THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,. Drawer 3. Atlanta, Ga.
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The New Haven Union says that the population of that city when the next 000
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20
n TWICE-TOLD TALE.
Document That Lacks Elevation and
Is Destitute of Statesmanship.

Document That Lacks Elevation and
Is Destitute of Statesmanship.
President Cleveland's letter of ac-
ceptance is verbose, sophistical and
superAuous. II is superrogatory, be-
cause it is chiefly rehash Of his an
nual message to Congress on the tariff
question. All that it contains relating
TO the general issues in politics, the
state of the country. and questions of
administration, is condensed in a single
paragraph the exposition Of his tariff
views occupies over two columns OF
the finest type. In this respect it is a
mere reproduction of his message to
Congress. The points of the letter are
simply as follows:
l. A paragraph relating TO general
matters of administration and National
policy.
=. The expenses of the Government
must be paid by revenue from GUS
toms and by internal taxes on spirits,
malt liquors. tobacco and oleomargar-
inc.
3. The moldy aphorism that ''un-
necessary taxation is unjust taxation. -
!. The surplus is the product of un-
necessary taxation. II is a menace
to the prosperity Of our people" and a
temptation to extravaganza.
;. Democratic plans for reducing
the tariff do not involve the issue OF
free trade. The protective system is
nt&in DANGER
6. A petulant and vituperative at
tack on the Republicans for opposing
the Mills bill in Congress and on the
Republican platform, Interpreting il
TO mean free tobacco and free
whisky"
The spirit Of the letter is like the
vast majority Of Mr.. Cleveland public
documents, that Of scOld and hector.
1t contains fewer "rs" than usual, but
its egotism otherwise is extreme and
offensive. II falsely eharacterizes and
describes the position OF the Repub-
ncans. and then proceeds to demolish
the airy creation and fictitious struct-
ure that he had made, as "a pugilist
In training for a fight practices on a
rubber bag distended by Pr instead Of
on a solid substance. The whole let
ter is disappointing, lacks elevation,
Is destitute Of craftsmanship. and, ex-
cept as 70 it's iInmoderate length, reads
for the most part like an ordinary
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The Poison of Spiders.

An interesting essay on the poison
of spiders was recently delivered by
Prof. Brieger. of Halle, before a society
of naturalists. Experiments made with
two kinds of Russian spiders reputed
to be venomous showed them to be in
nocuous, but third species, belonging
to the same region and properly termed
the ..black wolf, was found fully to
bear out its reputation. Its poison is
more powerful perhaps than any
known. not excepting prussic acid and
strychnine. II makes great ravages
among Russian livestock, attack
ing the animals as they Craze. 1t in
flicts a sting on the mouth or tongue
which causes death in a short time.
The venom pervades the entire system
Of the spider, constituting about
twenty-five per cent. Of its weight. The
poison belongs TO the class of so-called
ferments, being composed of albumin
Gus matter. II is rendered inactive
when subjected to the action of alco-
hol Il produces no effect when taken
in the stomach, but when introduced
into the blood vessels, il acts so pow
erfully that two or three milligrammes
will suffice TO kill a man. Prof. Brieger
has examined the spiders of Germany,
and has found one only TO be venom
GUS In this species the venom is
possessed only by the young insect,
whirh IS virulesit in an extraordinary
degree. ~ y. Post.
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cross-grained message from the same
author vetoing a pension bill giving a
soldiers widow four dollars month.
The only approach TO novelty in the
letter is its declaration that the protect
i've system is in no danger from the
free-trade Democrats. The exigencies
of the campaign have called from him
this declaration, but the people will
not accept it. Their intelligence can
not be deceived by clustering denials
and petulant invective. President
Cleveland, Mr.. Thurman and the Dem
ocratic leaders are all hostile to the
principle of protection. Such proter-
ton Democrats as Congressman Ran
dali have been Ostracised and denounced
by them and by the entire Democratic
tariff-reform" press. The leading
feature of the Mills bill is that which
removes the tariff from wood, salt and
lumber, three of the staple products of
the country. All the reduction for
which it provides are in the line of free
trade. 1t is free-trade bill, supported
by free-trade Administration and
free-trade party. No denial from such
a source, or any source, can destroy
this monumental fact. Chicago Jour
s,oI
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ADDING TO VALUES.
An Agricultural Problem Which Has Pu
zled Many Good Farmers.

An Agricultural Problem Which Has Puz,
zled Many Good Farmers.
BY improving the fertility it is
possible not only to increase the prof.
its, but also to add to the value of the
farm. 1t is no small matter to keep
farm gradually increasing in fertility,
In fact, it requires the very best o.
management to grow crops year after
year, and at the same time keep maxi
ing the soil richer and more fertile,
and farm with good, rich soil is
much more valuable than one equally
as good in other respects, but Of a
poorer quality as regards fertility. II
costs something to take poor or run
down soil and attempt to build it up.
1t costs something to secure poor
yields of crops year after year, when,
with the same work in preparing the
soil, planting the seed and cultivating
the crops, a much better yield can be
secured in more fertile soil, and this
all tends to increase the value of the
farm.
Every business should pay a fair per
cent. of profit on the capital invested,
and it is very questionable whether
farm with a wOrn-out soil can always
be made to do this. In fact, taking the
average yield of farm crops and al
market prices, giving the farmer a low
price for his work and that of his
teams, very small per cent. of profit
can be considered as being realized.
The difference in the cost per bushel
between a heavy yield and light one
is nearly always decided in favor o.
the larger yield, and this should imply
an increase in the profits, and the
larger profit that can be secured from
the farm the more valuable it becomes.
So that it is very important to keep up
the fertility if already rich. or SO use
all reasonable pains to improve it i
from any cause it has been allowed tc
deteriorate. 1t is easier, of course, &c
keep up a soil that is already rich,
much easier than TO allow it to rur
down and then attempt to build it up.
But by improving this fertility we
are able TO increase the yield, the
profit and the value of the farm. If,
instead of securing an average yield oil
twenty-five hushels of corn, it Is posi-.
bic to average fifty, the farm should be
and is worth twice as much, and will
pay a fair per cent. of interest upon
twice the valuation easier than the
lighter, thinner soil will pay the inter-
est on a lower price.-N j. Shepherd. in
Detroit Free Press.
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RECENT REPORT.

THE use Of pennies in the South is rapid
~ increasing.
Z THRIFTY Scotch chemist proposes to dis
pose Of oorpses by putting their various
materials TO profitable use.
PULLMAN has invented palace street cars
with reversible seats and a center aisle as
passenger coaches, and proposes TO up
holster them like the vestibule cars and
make smoking -rooms.
RECENT reports from California say that
tramps were never so numerous in that re-
gion as at present Depredations are null
tiplying daily, and the iails arc being tried
TO their utmost capacity.
AT Poughkeepsie, n. Y. recently the
first Chinese lawyer in this country was ad-
mitted to practice He has been in america
eighteen years and studied his profession in
the Columbia Law School and at Yale.
NORTHERN capitalists have bought several
hundred acres OF land on the sand hills
near Augusta, Ga, and viii lay it out as a
winter resort for invalids and pleasure
seekers
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-20
HARRISON ON LABOR.
His Attitude on This Question as 4
pressed in His Own Words.

His Attitude This Question as Ex-
pressed in His own Words.
Democratic speakers and writer's of
the Cheap John variety are having a
good deal to say about General Harri-
sons attitude on the labor question,
What his views are and have been are
better expressed in his own words than
those of another, and these words must
convince all fair-minded persons of his
honesty and earnestness. In a speech
delivered in this city September 10,
1886, General Harrison said:
L" believe that a large majority of
our people-not themselves wage
workers-sympathize with, and will
give their aid to, every reform calcn-
lated to make the burdens of labor
lighter and its rcSards more ade-
quate. These, added to the vast army
Of wage-wcrkers, can and will bring
on in o, derby procession those we'll
digested reforms which experience and
stud, have suggested, and viii yet sug-
ges.. A contented and thrifty working
class is the surest evidence OF Ma
tioaal health and the best pledge
of public security. The men who
fou chit the war for the Union were its
wo king people. 1t was true OF the
arm Y as of the Kingdom of Heaven not
mai rich. / believe that the wages
of the laborer should be given such
preference as win secure him against
loss. As long ago as 1873, in public
speech. said upon this subject: If
anv railroad or other business enter
prise can not earn enough to pay the
labor that operates il and the interest
on its bonds, no right-minded man can
hesitate to say which ought to be paid
first. The men who have invested
money in the enterprise or loaned
money on its securities ought to have
a right to stop the business when net
earnings fail, but they can not fairly
appropriate the earnings OF the en-
gineer. or brakeman, or laborer. j
believe the law should require tbs
prompt payment Of wages in money.
/ believe that the number of working
hours can, in most of our industries,
be reduced without serious loss &c
production, and with great gain to the
health. comfort and contentment OF
our working classes. advocated and
voted for the law of Congress prohib-
ting the importation of laborers under
contracts made abroad, and believe
that such legislation is just and wise.
Indianapolis Journal
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BUSINESS BREVITIES.

THE Ala ka salmon pack Will exceed $780,
300 cases this year.
GIRLS are employed as single packers in
The mills at Bay City, Mich.
THE citrus belt of Southern California
shipped this year 2,250 carloads of oranges.
WISCONSIN parties have commenced the
raising of buffaloes for the sake of their
hides.
A SHORTAGE in the salmon crop is reported
from the Pacific coast, as was to be ex-
tected.
THE imports of cocoanuts for the first SIX
months of the year 1883 amounted to $751;
l98 nuts.
A MASSACHUSETTS quarrying company has
received contract for supplying 5000
headstones for he National cemeteries.
THE manufacture of burial shoes, which
Is now branch of the footgear industry
Of Chicago, promises to become lively
business.
CALIFORNIA; production Of dried fruit in
creased from 100000 pounds in 1888 to 26,-
bO5, 900 pounds in 1887.
MEMPHIS "a the greatest inland cotton
market in the world, receiving from 1OO,OOO
10 100000 bales yearly.
THERE are 100000 retail tobacco-dealers in
the United States and 500, 900 workers inter-
rstcd in the manufacture of smoking and
chewing tobacco.
THE demand for ribbon is now so great
that one State alone, New Jersey, turns out
6,615, 900 var a year. This Is llO,U2o,OOO
feet, or not quite 22,731 miles.
IT is estimated that there are 10000 for
lists in the United States, with 1000 acres
entirely covered with glass, in the shape of
greenhouses, devoted to flowers.
THE people of the United States are using
annually not far from 100000 barrels Of
salt, and there has been a steady increase
Of pounds per capita for the last decade
YoRK, Pa, is said TO have the greatest
rag-carpet works in the United States. Six
hundred women and girls make carpet rags,
and there are 100 weavers and spoilers.
MORE than 1000, 100000 cigarettes wera
sold in the United States during the year
1887. The entire business is in the hands OF
less than half a dozen firms, who expect this
year to increase their product.
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PITH AND POINT.
The type writer is the only woman

The type writer is the only woman
who takes kindly to dictation.
When men dare not tell the truth
Of themselves, how can they be ex-
pected to always tell the truth about
others?
Beware Of the man who tells you
''there is a fortune in it." tie may
want to get your fortune in il Also
Teras SjtingS
Dreams go by contraries. But this
is something a fellow never can seem
to remember when he is asleep.-Bur-
lillgtOH Free Press.
What purports to be the milk OF
human kindness frequently turns out
10 be merely a chalk-and-water imita-
tion. Merchant Trareler.
This is a sort OF topsy turvey
world. No one seems , be satisfied.
One man is struggling TO get justice
and another is flying from it.
If one would see the world he must
go out into the highways and byways,
though most of the buy ways now are
high ways.-M o. PseayuHe.
Before she was married she was
meditative, and he thought her the
most pensive girl he ever met. She is
not so meditative as she was and he
calls her expensive now.-America.
Philosophers say that shutting the
eyes makes the sense of hearing more
acute. A wag suggests that this ac-
counts for the many closed eyes that
are seen in our churches every Sun
day.
There is a difference between those
two temporal blessings, health and
money. Money is the most envied.
but the least enjoyed; health is the
most enjoyed, out the least envied.-
N. y. Express.
1t is an easy thing to labor when
labor is crowned with immediate sue
cess. 1t is the long waiting which
tries the faith. And the most of US
have to wait as well as labor United
Presbyterian.
When a man is pointed out to you
as an advanced thinker take a long
look at him. The difference between
an advanced thinker and an advanced
egotist is so slight that either one of
them can come under the head of
Idiot. Detroit Free Press.
There is only one greater folly
that that of the fool who says in his
heart, There is no God;" and that is
the folly of those who say with the head
that they do not know whether there is
a God or Bismarck.
Between levity and cheerfulness
there is a wide distinction; and the
mind which is most open to levity is
frequently stranger to cheerfulness.
IL has been remarked that transports
Of Incorporate mirth are often no more
than flashes from the dark cloud; and
that in proportion to the violence Of
the effulgence is the succeeding gloom.
Hugh Blair.
1t is becoming the fashion to treat
the hotel-register as nuisance or a
joke. Accepting it as a medium fOr
humOr a well-known critic registers
his name in the unobtrusive manner OF
a Mrs. Well-knOwn Critic and her hus-
band. Another notable traveller, with
a large family, is accustomed to dis
pose of his party as Mr.. Notable Tray
eler, baggage and luggage.
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CUTE AND CLEVER.

MAN famous for his discreet habit OF
speech once said that he often regretted
his utterances, but very rarely his silence.
"A MARRIED man. saws one who knows,
"can always pack a trunk more easily than
bachelor can. He gets his wife 10 do il
for him.
THE hop is said 10 be becoming obsolete al
fashionable watering places, but any sum-
mer hotel proprietor can inform you that
the skip is not.
WHAT are all those girls shouting CASH
for all the timei What do they mean by
H!' asked a country visitor in a city ba-
tar. ''Oh, it's a mere buy-word," was the
reply.
If it were not for the auburn butter Of the
mountain resort, you could not swallow the
bread that set instead Of rising. And IL it
were not for the bread, you could not swal-
low the butter.
THE old adage: Better the day. better the
Iced" which is often quoted 10 justify work
On Sunday, does not always hold good, es-
pecially when the deed is Of real estate ex-
scuted on the Sabbath.
If young Tnen in this country put half as
much energy into their daily work as they
10 into Paying ball, the young men Of this
country would be rich enough to marry be-
fore hey were two years older.
A CALIFORNIA Judge recently granted a
divorce TO husband on the ground that he
was insane when married. There are thou
sands Of hus hands who Think that they ought
to be divorced CT +ha same plea
MY dear, if you don't qu. annoying me,
III shah really have TO move = Mexico, -
said a Washington ma. TO his VIE the
other day. What good would thai do, I'd
like to know" There is a law there com
pelling males, and males only, towear panta-
l5ous."
IT is easy TO make loan-go IN debt The
forms are all prepared, the road IS smooth.
But there are no forms waiting TO pay it.
The road is rough, the weather is lowering
and stormy. Circumstances conspire TO
block the way and defeat all enterprises
tending in that direction.
LET no person fiatter himself that because
a man is loud Of voice and blunt in speech
ever ready with cruel judgment of others
and free with advice on all matters, that he
viii pleasantly accept such treatment from
others, for he is quite as likely 10 resent in
reference with his affairs as the man Of
gentler speech and greater charity
1T is easy TO form the habit Of meddle-
someness and to persuade ones self into the
belief that ones mission is 10 be a private
investigator and public ADVISOR" that enc is
apt to forget that in the regulation Of ones
own conduct life presents enough perplex-
ing problems without trespassing upon the
rights of others IN a mistaken zeal TO con-
vert them TO better way
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Artistic intelligence.

A New York artist is engaged in
painting portrait of Gus Snobberly,
one OF the most intelligent dudes re
siding on Fifth avenue. Snobberly
sits in a revolving char in the artists
studio while the artist captures his col.
lection of features and pastes them, &
to speak. on the canvas. To the ar
lists surprise, Snobberly turned hi:
back.
What are you turning your back
to me fOr?" asked the painter.
why. my deah fellah, l though
YOU wanted me to turn mo back. w
know. heard you say that you were
going TO paint the background
have TO turn my back for you to de
that, don't I?"-TcraS Siffings.
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EARLY AUTUMN JACKETS.
Fancy Garments Made of Fine Cloth, Vel
vet aud Armure Silks.

Fancy Garments Made of Fine Cloth, Vel
vet and Armure Silks.
The tight-fitting jacket, mOlding the
bust like a cuirass. is most in favor.
1t does not absolutely exclude the
Jacket with loose fronts, so much the
fashion last year, but as it is more
cOquettish and yOuthful-lOoking it soon
will.
There are two distinct styles of this
jacket-one is open. the other close.
The jacket is perfect fitting and has a
short basque. The open jacket has
fronts very much pinched in, molding
the bust, but not joining each other,
neither hooked nor buttoned, but made
on purpose to remain apart; they are
always lined with silk of another color.
There is a small, straight collar, not
like a mans collar, but merely a
straight band.
A very pretty jacket of marine blue
cloth, lined with plaid silk, was TRIM
med all around with a narrow gold
passmenterie.
a very stylish jacket of gray prin-
cess cloth was trimmed with crescents
of rich passementerie.
A walking jacket of navy blue and
white striped hair cord was edged
with navy blue braid. 1t had a waist
coat of white fancy cloth.
Another was of black armure silk.
This was trimmed with pretty
fancy braid in colOrs. 1t was put in
close to the edge and formed very
stylish and cOquettish trimming.
A very fancy jacket was made Of fine
cloth and velvet. The body was close
fitting, and had wide revers of velvet
and straight. high standing collar,
short vest of the cloth, sleeves
plain at the top, having the effect
of an inner sleeve from the elbows
10 the cuff. The outer portion was
faced with velvet. and had large
buttons. with bands of velvet set across
from the outer edge back in the sleeve.
The back was plain, with a very slight
under-fullness in seams. A very long
pointed hood was set in at the collar
and shoulder seams and fastened TO the
]
finished with very large pocket lids,
| longer on the front edge than the
garment itself The upper edge was
turned over. and finished with buttons
and velet bands 10 match the sleeves.
The front was closed with large but
tons of the same sort. The collar and
cuffs were of velvet
Yachting jackets, to be worn when
extra protection is needed. are Of white
diagonal wool, decorated with a braid
ing and done with wide, white braid
or cording of navy blue.
Besides the above jackets there are
small bodices. fitted in the back with
bagshaped sleeves and lined with
shot-silk. These are made of fancy
wooden material. PHILADELPHIA Record