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Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
DESERVING STANLEY POOL
Game Leaving that Region to Escape
 the Hunters.

All who have read the story of the building of the White Station at Leopoldville will re- member that for the first two or three years game was very plentiful there, that antelopes were especially numerous on the hilly p!ateaus to the south, and that an immense number of hippopotami thronged Stanley Pool and its islands. There are now living at this station 250 blacks and twenty white men, and accord ago, they are now loudly demanding the inn portation of cattle, because the hippopotami, antelopes, and other game, which have fur nished their entire supply of fresh meat, have almost wholly disappeared. MT. Liebrechts, in charge of the hunters who are supposed to supply the station with fresh meat predicts that soon not single hippopotamus will be found in the broad expan of Stanley Pool
 He sends out parties of ten men, who are, always gone two or three days, and about every other trip they return cmpty-handed. The hunters Lave finally ceased to look for hippopot- ami in the Pool. and now and then they go far up the river to the mouth of the kassai where the huge pachyderms are still found in great herds containing hundreds of animals, so thickly crowded together that they often i'm pede navigation in the channels between the islands and the sand banks.
 This is tn, first instance in equatorial Africa where game has been so persistenty hunted that it has fled from it's usual haunts to escape the pursuit of the white man. Animals of all sorts have learned by bitter experience that Stanley Pool, where there are now number of white enterprises, is no longer safe resort for them, and they now give that region wide berth
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
MIKADO TROUBLES. Alarmed at Free Speech and Trying
 to Suppress It.

There is trouble irt the realms of the M1kado. His subjects want free speech, and be thinks they have freer speech already than is good f,r them. There is to be Constitutional As sembly, or Parliament, ill 1S9', and the stu dents of Mill and Spencer and other advanced social philosophers want befo ehand 8 general and free discussion, in the press and in public meetings, of the questions that will come before the convention. This student or agitatins class has be- some much dissatisfied with the Govern has been frequently expressed The Govern ment finally forb de public meetings which would be calculated to ferment disorder As a result of the imperial ordinance. a large num- Der of young men who had been staying in Iokio, studying social and political questions were ordered to leave the city. About 24O of them stopped in Yokoh anna, whither they were followed by a company of gendarmes, instruct ed to keep watch of their movements. Accord ing to the latest news from Japan. both sol diers and students were still in Yokohama, eying each other diligently.
 The provisions of the imperial ordinance for preserving order arc very like those of the last Parliamentary effort 10 keep Ireland quiet. IL forbids all secret societies and secret assem. plies; authorizes the police to put stop tc open-air meetings whenever they may think il necessary: puts penalties upon those attending any meeting that has been forbidden: makes i: a crime to publish books or pictures designed
 to disturb public tranquility, and provides that any person living in radius of 71a miles of the imperial palace, or of an imperial plac: is thought to be scheming something detri
 mental to public tranquility, can be ordered to leave, and punished severely if he does moi l obey.
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
NEW YORK'S WHARF RATS.
And the Floating Police Station
 Which Watches Their Holes.

It may seem strange that there are gangs of human beings who live on the rivers and are housed like water rats under the docks and piers of this great town. Not even London, with its hosts of Thames pirates and its skulking boat robbers, ever had more lawless multi tude than the thieves that for many years made the harbor of New York a terror to honest mariners and a danger to commerce.
 Most of the old gang who swept the rivers and piers in their snaky black boats ten to twenty years ago have been shot to death, drowned or have died in prison, and although the waterside of the city is much safer than it was in those days, there are still more preda- tory rascals that keep the watchman wakeful along the piers where goods are temporarily stored.
 The working ground of the river thieves is wherever booty is to be found and carried away with the smallest risk, At the East rlver docks, fronting the Brooklyn navy yard, where the river sweeps around ragged jutting turn and the tide dashes about uncomfortablv, the pirates occasionally hold high carnival. The big south side tenements running down nearly to the waters edge are hid ing places for the criminals and storage ground for their plunder.
 So too on the west side down in the neighborhood of Charlton and the ad- joining streets abutting on the docks of the North river, where the vicious ele- ments live and thrive, and the water thieves find chances for robbery and odd corners in which to hide what they have stolen.
 Before the present system of police surveillance and repression was adopted no mans life was thoroughly secure on any of the richly laden vessels that lay within easy reach of the docks when the darkness of night covered them, and l many tale of piracy is yet told among the grizzly bearded 'longshoreman that crowd the drinking places along the West street piers.
 The scandal of the lawlessness, the | robberies and occasional murders that occurred on the water front eliminated one night when richly freighted sloop, captain, crew and vessel, were taken bodily from an East river pier, lowed out safely far into the bay and stripped of everything of value that the sloop and its crew possessed The hull of the boat was left, but that was about all, and the crew were landed and warned to get away from New York as fast as they could ship again. And they did, for when after long investigation two of the chie1 pirates were captured, not man of the ] sloop's party could be found to testify against them. y. Graphic.
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
Conscience Stricken.

The Secretary of the Treasury has received a letter dated Fitchburg, Mass, enclosing a 25 cent silver piece which the sender desired to have placed in the Treasury to the credit of conscience. In note, transmitting the coin, he says:
 To whom it may concern:
 Once upon time, some thirty years ago, in spirit of evil mindedness-or perhaps be- cause l could, though even at the time, knew better-I took it upon me to obliterate the cancelling marks of fve-cent postage stamp and use it-again. And, though no mortal may ever have been aware of it, have known it all the while. Under the Mosaic d spensation a restitution of one-ffth was deemed requisite to satisfy the claims of justice the case of tres pass. So here: One-ifth of five is one. and one to five makes six. At 6p cent. sum is doubled in about sixteen ycars and this then amounted to twelve cents; and doubled again amounts to twenty-four cents. Now, to give the Government the benefit of the fraction, I enclose twenty-five cents. LOYAL CITIZEN.
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

The cough and neuralgia from which the Grown Prince has been suffering have disap- peared.
 Notes from Vienna: It is reported that when Count kalnoky informed the Russian Ambassador that he intended to publish the Austro- German treaty, the Ambassador replied that the Russian Government could not off cially object to such a course. The treaty be- tween Italy and Germany stipulates that if France attacks either country the other shall send an army of 3Oo,OOO men to the French frontier It is said in diplomatic circles that Germanys treaty with Italy is analogous to the Austro- German treaty, the name of France being substituted for that of Russia.
 Mgr. Adam of California presented to the Pope photograph of Gabriel, an Indian Cath ial blessing.
 The King of Portugal will make tour of northern Europe for his health.
 A despatch from Huelva, Spain, says that & mob of Rio Tinto miners, now on strike, be- ing ordered to disperse, refused to do so, and was fired upon by troops. Ten civilians were killed. The miners had joined the peasants in the vicinity in protesting against open-air cal cinations. The Civil Governor of Huelva, ac- companied by two companies of troops and some civil guards, arrived at the scene on Sat urday and found the streets occupied by amob numbering 14,OOo. The Governor spoke from 8 balcony and tried to restore order, but the crowd drowned his voice with shouts and fired pistols and threw dynamite cartridges at the soldiers. The troops were then ordered to fire. The crowd was finally dispersed. Two sol diers were wounded.
 The American ship Thomas M. Reid, la den with :, GOO tons of camel coal, was burned at her dock in Liverpool.
 A deputation of Irish landlords waited upon Lord Salisbury and urged thai they might be compensated for the losses they had suffered through recent legislation. They denounced the results of the Land Commissions work. Lord Salisbury congratulated them that they had at last awakened to the importance of a unanimous and energetic policy of self-defense. If the landlords had shown similar energy some years ago they would have been spared much of their present misery. He expressed deep sympathy with the landlords, many of whom had suffered extremely, and promised to consider their proposals.
 Something like climax to the absurdity of coercion in Ireland has been reached at Dromore in the arrest of 15 young men for building bonfires on the hills in rejoicing over the release of MT. O'Brien and sending them to prison.
 Sir William Vernon Harcourt will open the attack on the Government when Parliament meets by offering an amendment to the address in relation to the Queens speech condemning the enforcement of the Coercion act.
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
Johnny in Print.

Gees. misses, but ducks quacks, and wen Frankly, that's the baby, IS painfe in his lap he hollers, but the lion roars like dissant thunder, and makes the welkon ringl Uncle Ned, wich has been in Injy, and evry were, he says one night lion come out of the woods and went to his correl for to eat his cattle. Uncle Ned he got up and looked in the correl thru crack, the lion shode his teeth, and Uncle Ned sed: ''The idiot thinks am dentist, but I haven't no time for to tend to him. He send for the lion tanner to quell him with his I.''- Washington Star.
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
Wanted to See.

A d1aiogue in which fair but unfash- ionable young woman took part was in- cidental to the hanging of Dan Driscoll, which took place at the Tombs in New York The witness whose testimony went furthest to convict him was Carrie Wilson, typical Bowery girl, who saw the murder. She went to the prison the day before the execution and asked Ward den Walsh if she would be permitted to ser the hanging.
 "What's de matter wid me seeing Danny hung?" was her wording of the request.
 "Cant be done," said the Warden, positively.
 "Den want you to cut off half foot of de rope-see?- flor keepsake"
 Even that was denied to her.
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
COPPER MONOPOLY.
The Pooling of Interests Among One
 Class of Land holders.

The copper excitement continues in Paris. The largest factors in copper production among American mines are incontestably the Calumet and Hecla and the Anaconda. They alone throw upon the market one-haf of the metal produced by America. It is currently reported that the Anaconda and the Calumet and Hecla have at last arrived at favorable understanding with the French syndicate, and that several other producers of lesser import ance have done likewise. The Arizona has not come to any conclusion as yet.
 On the other hand, the most important of the Spanish mining companies, the Rio T1nto, has arranged with the syndicate, and the latter Is actively negotiating to draw into it's combina- tion the other producers of the Iberian Penin- sula. The Mason & Barry and the Tharsis companies, who up to this week had refused to take any share in the arrangement, have at last come in, and their agreement has been signed with the syndicate. The Tharsis had in the outset made violent opposition to the proposals of the so-called syndicate, and to its obstinacy is attributed the manipulation and bear pres sure made by NJ. Secretan during the past fortnight in the copper market. The same explanation is made of the bull impulse given to the shares of this company, which were bought up by certain persons desirous of obtaining favorable influence in its direc- ton, with view to conclude arrangements with the syndicate. The manipulation was successful, since 1t confirmed the story that this company has at last joined the syndicate.
 All this tends to prove that the syndicate is resolute in not compromising the future of the speculation thus skilfully conceived and car ried out, and that it aims at nothing less than grouping all the largest copper producers of the world into an association which will limit production and maintain high prices as long as possible, and at least during some years. The opinion is expressed in Paris that both large aud small producers will in the end: en- hance their own interests by joining the syndi- cate, which, in any case, is recognized to-day as the master of the copper market
 NJ. Secretan operates alone in the name of the Societe des Metaux, an industrial enterprise of which he is Director. The enterprise in itself is very rich, but not sufficiently so as to be
 able to realize on all thevast operations made during the last four months. It disposes, nevertheless, of colossal resources-250, 900, GOO francs, as before cabed-but the capitalists backing it cannot make known their personal ity on account of a French law which forbids and punishes the monopoly of any product by 8 syndicate.
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
An Anthem.

 A sailcr who had been to @ cathedral and had heard some very fine music, was descanting particularly upon an anthem which gave him much pleasure: His shipmate listened for a time and then said: 1T say, Bill, whats hantheml' "What!" replied Bill, edo you mean to say you don't know what a hanthem isl' "Not me-" "Well then, I'll tell yer. Ii I was to tell yer, Ere, Bill, give me that 'andspike, that wouldn't be han them. But was to say, Bill, Bill, Bill, give, give, give me that. Bill give me, give me that hand, give me that hand spike, spike, spike. Bill, give, give me that, that, hand, handspike, hand. hand spike, spike, spike, spike. Ah.men, An hem. Billgivemethathandspike spike. Ah-men, why, that would be hanthem.
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
China and Corea.

The Steamer Belgic brings to San Francisco Hong Kong advices to Jan. 3, and Yokohama to Jan. IT. The Chinese native paper ann un- ces that the Chinese Government has resolved to pay back to the United States a large sum of money as unclaimed balance of the Wyoming indemnity. and hints that the United States might initiate the example by refundinS to China the balance of unclaimed indemnity paid to the United States 8 years ago.
 The city of Naiyen, north of Nins-Po, which was submerged about a thousand years ago, has recently been partly exposed to view. and c number of vases, plates and other utensils of the South Dynasty have been recovered by the natives. "A number of disasterous fires occurred in Hong-Kong Christmas week, and the loss is very great.
 Corean advices state that runlors are now current that the next move for independence and absolute freedom from Chinese rule will be the expulsion of several Europeans who are now in charge of the Maritime Customs De- partment. Among the reasons given for their expulsion is that they were appointed by the Chinese Government al q have ceased to fly the Corcan flag at their treaty rorts. The Queen of Corea has recovered from her recent illness under the care of American physicians, and celebrated the event by giving banquet at the royal palace.
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
ADMIRAL HENAGE,
Great Britain to Send More Yes
 sells to the Pacific.

the British fleet in the Pacific, Las, in his report to the British Government, drawn at- tention to the inefficiency and weakness of the squadron on the Pacific coast. As result it Is reported at Ottawa that the imperial Govern ment have decided to add several vessels to to the Admirals command. His orders for the coming season include sharp lookout to see that the rights of British sealers are not interfered with in Behring Sea ir the future. been in command of the station when several Canadian schooners were seized by the United States cutter Corwin last year he would have given the Yankee cruiser sample of what British justice was. The admiral is said to be hotheaded old sailor and it would surprise no one here to learn that he ai got Great Britain into some sort of a squabble before the summer was over.
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
CATTLE MARKETS.

NEW YoRK-Good Steers, to 1OAc.: Fairdo., s to s1sc.; Oxen, 6s4 to 1ossc.; Dry Cows, live weight, 3 to 3s4c.; Bulls, do., 3 to 41lc.; to B.; Hogs, live weight, 71s to 711sc per 1b.
 WATERFOWL, Mass.-Market Beef, choice, S7.oO to $7.50; extra, s6.5o to SC. 75; 1st quail ity, $500 to S6.25; 2d quality, $500 to S5.5o; Sd quality. s4;oo to s4.5o. Swine. Western 7l4 cents per ID. Sheep and Lambs.-In lots, $500, S4.O0 to S4.5O each; extra, S4.75 to S5 30; Spring Lambs, 51a to 7114c, per fb; Veal Calves, 21a to 6s4c fb'.
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

Major D. NJ. Read of Bridgeport, Conn.,, gave sleigh rides :, 00O poor boys and girls, taking them out in eleven four-horse sleighs, each of which made four trips of five miles. -Commander-in-Ch Chief J. ?. Req of the G. A. R. was given reception and banquet in Providence
 The schooner Annie Fairfax, which arrived Ut Boston from St. Vincent, reports that on Jan. Is, latitude 20 deg. 20 min. north, longi- tude 65 deg. west, she passed the wreck of the schooner NJ. V. Cook of Tuckerton, \. J., with hatches washed away, bulwarks, maintopmast, forebo m and gaff gone, headgear all adrift, sails hanging over the side, and the sea break ing over her
 Ernest Brock, 12 years old, died in Chica- go of hydrophobia. He had been bitten by a dog on Jan. 10.
 By the explosion of a boiler in sawmill, near Belmont, O., five men were killed and number injured.
 The second trial of Robert F. Morrow, the San Francisco millionaire, who was indicted by the Grand Jury several months ago on 8 charge of attempting to bribe jury, has ended in . verdict of acquittal.
 -Old Buckskin, the horse ridden by Lieut.. L. B. Baker of Lansing, Mich., in the pursuit of J. Wilkes Booth, Is dead.
 Parties in Peoria, Kan, are interesting themselves in raising funds to aid the bliz- zard-stricken sufferers of Dakota to emigrate to Kansas.
 -Drummers for a Chicago grocery sold liquor to parties in Ogle county, Il., which on being drark proved fatal to one of the party named Abraham Meyers. The other patients are out danger.
 The Supreme Court of Rhode Island grant ed divorce to Florine L. Wilson from Levi (Doc.) Wilson, on the grounds of extreme cruelty.
 A project is on foot to supply Chicago with natural gas, in unlimited quantities, by Philadelphia and Chicago capitalists.
 The first shipment of camel coal to bo used in the manufacture of gas was mado to New York from Knoxville, Tenn.
 --Thirty-six horses belonging to Company I, 1st Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, were suffocated in fire.
 The large stove manufacturing firm oi Sathbon, Sard & Go. at Albany, N. Y., opel, their shops to 500 holders for years work.
 Tho cattle on the Snake River, Washing. ton Territory, go out on the ice in great mum bers to get water to drink, and as 8 result the ice breaks and hundreds of them are en. gulfe1.
 For several days the Dominion fishery cruiser Dream was frozen in St. Andrews .jay and Maine fishermen took advantage of her misfortune to fish inside the three mile limit and got an abundance of fish.
 William McFarand, who had been forty. five years on the stage and had supported Ma cready, the elder Booth, Edwin Forrest, and all the old timers, died poor and harmlessly insane at the county jail at Minneapolis, Minn.
 P. F. Herman and S. Edwin Megargee, as signees of the defunct Columbian Bank, Phila delphia, went into court and filed their first account of the affairs of the insolyent institu sion. The assignees have so far gathered 1T $1l5,000 of the banks assets.
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
Six Children Burned.

Lester Sinsleterry and his wife, colo1ed, of Clarendon county, s. C., wishing to go to a prayer meeting ani not be bothered with the children, locked them in the house. six in all, ranging in age from Is months to l3 years In their absence the house Was set on fire by the children, probably by ovcrturliing lamp The door was locked and the window shutters strongly bo.ted. When the parents returned at about midnight, pile of ashes and the bones of the children marked the spot where their house had been.
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
She Broke the Engagement

because she saw that he had ceased to love her. H beauty had faded, her former high spirits had given place to a dull lassitude What had caused this change? Functional Arrangement; she was suffering from those ailments peculiar to her SCI. And SO their two young lives drift ed apart. How needless, how cruel! Had she taken Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription she might have been restored to health and happi- ness. If any lady reader of these lines is simi- larly afflicted let her lose no time in procuring the "Favorite Prescription" It will give her a new lease of her life. Sold by druggists, under positive guarantee from tho manufacturers, of perfect satisfaction in every case, or money refunded. See guara tee on bottle wrapper.
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
Nice Co,ton.secd Lard

The Mississippi House adopted a memorial to Congress, protesting against the passage of Senate bill No. 650, having for it's object the prevention of the use of cotton-seed oil as a substitute for hog lard, and proposing to tax the oil and the privilege of manufac. uring and dealing therein. Inc memorialists assert that snch law wolld tend greatly to imp,ir the nse and value of large product of the cotton States, with no compensation or benefit to the American people, but really to their injury, in Daint ,iniaS the high price of hog lard. and express the opinion that cotton-seed lard is a lrfectiy wholesome article, and should not be
 oziminated against in favor of any other ar - of American manufacture or commerce..
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08
2 O0O RaIeS nf Cntf0p ISuIn

A fire at the Union Wharf, Charleston, in a compartment of the Union Cotton Press, de- stroyed 200 bales of cotton. he flames then communicated to the next compartment, where 800 bales additional were destroyel or dam aged. The eleven other compartments, with capacity of more than F, 900 bales, were saved by the e1ertions of the fire department The loss, including that buildings is about $l00, 900, fully insured, mostly in Northern and Eastern companies.
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08

Would use Kenp's Ealsam for tho Throat and Lungs. It is curing more cases of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Group and all Throat and Lung Troubles, than any other medicine. The proprietor has authorized any druggist to give you Sample Bottle Fres to conyin; you of the merit of this great remedy Large bottles 50 cents and Sl
Connecticut western news., 1888-02-08

A RECENT despatch from Detroit says "Gen. John Pulford, who is said to be the only man who ever survived be- ing hit with solid cannon shot, is dying" Douglas County is proud to claim as one of her best citizens one who was struck by solid cannon ball, and he ain't dead, either, by long shot. True, he uses crutches, but he's the live Hest John M. James, alias, "Old Peg" that you have ever seen.