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Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
Victims of the Opium Habit.

Opium enters take the drug in every variety of form. In the crude state the gum is eaten or smoked. In the liquid preparations the tincture Is the most popular; but paregorio is favorite form, especially with women, while the elixirs are also largely used. Morphia holds sway over large proportion of consum- CTS, either by the stomach or bypoder- mically. The amount of the sulphate of morphia that can be tolerated by a confirmed subject is enormous, some times reaching as high as sixty grains in twentyfour hours. Every phy- s;can has seen in opium ha6itues cases Illustrating, to a greater or less extent, the stimulant action upon the intellectual centers. There are cases of society women who, having spent most of the day ill bed, will flash most bril- liantly in the evening under the in fluence of the drug. And the fascina- tion of literary and aesthetic conversation I-so captivating to the Aabitues of salons is not unfrequently the inspiration of the potent stimulant. When the habit is given up, the mind usually is restored to its normal activity, but when in dulged in for years, opium may produce permanent excavation of the mental and moral faculties, and this deteriora- tion is no doubt due to organic degener- ation of the cerebral oenters.-Popula1 | Science Neaos.
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
WORK OF TENDS.
A Fire in the Great Calumet and
 Hecla Mines.

A Fire in the Great Calumet and
 HecIa Mines.
 despatch from Marquette, Mich, says :. The men employed on the seventh level of No. 3 shaft found it impossible to signal the surfice. No sooner was this discovery made than smoke began to pour into the level, and in a few moments the men were struggling to reach the open air. The Captain at once sent men to give the alarm in all the cham bers, and so well were his orders obeyed that of the 300 men at work at the time all but eight escaped unharmed. The fire burst from the sixth level, and when discovered was burning so fiercely to defy extinction. One or the of the cooler men worked their way up to the fire and tried to turn on the water but the pipes had been disconnected. The signal wire, had also been cut, and there was nothing left the men but to flee for their lives. Brave and coo-headed men acted as pilots for the panic-stricken, who filled the levels with their cries, and after an hOur's s terrible struggle in the smoke the half-suffo- cated miners succeeded in groping their way around the blazing tunnel and thence to the surface.
 The fire was no doubt kindled by men who plotted to kill the three hundred men atwork in the pit as we'll as to destroy the great property. The disconnected water pipes and the severed signal wires strengthen this view. Nothing but the greatest presence of mind prevented the killing of every miner in the shaft.
 There is nothing to check the rapid spread of the flames, which arc now running through all the chambers of the mine. There is no means of appro ximating the loss to the mine company. It will go far into the millions. The fire may burn for years. Smoke and hot air are now coming out of the mouths of other shafts, and it is possible thst the entire property may be destroyed.
 The wives and children of the men in the pit are still clustered about the fatal shaft, but they have abandoned all hope of ever seeing the missing men again.
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
An Effective Police System.

Perhaps the best example of Q thor oughly effective police system is that which watches over the citizens of Vien- na. This Is partly because, in Austria, the government has greater power of in reference with private persons and pro- perty than is the case in England.
 The police rules require that the iden- tity of every stranger who enters Vien- na shall be established, with age, na- tionality, personal description and des- tination. The stranger, on reaching the city, is offered ticket in blank, on which he is obliged to give very full description of himself.
 Residents of Vienna are placed under equally stringent rules. They must re- port to the police every time they leave the city, every time they change resi- dence, and every time person is added to or departs from the household.
 The porter is really made sort of police spy, for he may be called up and questioned any time as to the doings oi the inmates of the house. Keepers of hotels, also, may in like manner be called upon to give an account of their guests, and are at times subject to police visits and examinations.
 The police have full authority to make raids at any time, on any specified quar- ter of the city.
 ''The operating force" says recent writer-sometimes several hundred strong" assemblies at various points and at given moment spreads it's de- tachments over every quarter of the cap ital. They sweep through the streets, and like averaging angels, their object seems to be to drive forth from Paradise fallen humanity"
 In Vienna, the secret detectives are everywhere. They are ill omuibuses, at street corners, in churches and thea tres, Tn railway trains and steamboats and hotels. Nothing, it woald seem, could escape their keen eyes, and no one can penetrate their disguise.
 Thus it would probably be impossible for such series of crimes IS has shocked and terrified all London to be commit ted Ill the Austrian metropolis. Certain it IS that almost every crime which has been committed i'll Vienna for fifteen years has been promptly succeeded by the capture of the criminal. l.- YoutA'S Companion.
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
Paper Pencils.

London luuention states that paper pencils are the subject of patent which promises to lead to large industry, as it understands that the price at which they can be produced is marvellously low. Ordinary cedar-wood pencils, as every one knows, are made by glueing two pieces of wood together, after hav- ing placed into a slot made in ono of them prepared slip of graphite or other marking material.
 Although 1t seems so simple, there are a great many operations to be performed in doing this, such as cutting the large wood into strips of the right size, mak- ing the slot or groove in which the lead has to be placed, preparing the leads of the required size, firing these to make them firm, then placing them by hand in the slots of the wood strips, glueing these strips together, and after the glue is set, the two pieces of glued wood have to be rounded off and polished, etc.
 The idea of using paper instead oi wood for pencils is now new, but an ob- lection to pencils thus formed was the difficulty of sharpening, paper being so tough that even with the sharpest knife the jerking from the paper to the lead caused the latter to snap off. Then again the paper having to be folded round previously formed and hardened marking material was a tedious and ex- pensive labor. These objections to the use of paper are overcome by Mir. Greene's process.
 The paper is first made into tubes; g Q gross or more of these are placed in g frame forming the lower end of cylin. der, and the substance to be used as g naxking material being put in plastic state into the body of the cylinder, by pressure is forced into the hollow centres of the paper tubes. The marking ma terial, which now forms the centre of each tube. is hardened by gradual drying during six days at increasing tempera- lures.
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
OPERATIONS OF THE NIINTS,
What the Director has to Say in His
 Annual Report

Dr. James P. Kimball, the Director of the Mint, in his report for the fiscal year ended June 80, says that the total coinage was 1O9, ,O3O, ,547 pieces, of the value of $63, ,719,- 242, of which $2S, 1884, ITO was gold, $32, 71S,673 silver dollars $1 ,417 422 subsidiary silver coins, and $1 ,21S, ,976 were minor coins The minor coinage at the Mint at Philade- phia was the largest in the history of the Mint service, being Occasioned by the demand for 5-cent nckels and 1-cent bronze pieces.
 The earnings of hints and assay offices from all sources amounted to $9, ,7SS, ,592, and the expenditures and operative losses to $1,- 534, ,209.
 The total imports of gold coin and bullion during the year were $43 934,3l7, and the imports of $25,5 ,553, ,OS3. There was net loss of $s,23s, 1s8 by export of silver.
 The production of gold and silver in the United States for the calendar year 1887 is estimatd to have been $33, 100000 gold and $53,357 ,0O0 silver. The production of gold constant, while the production of silver has increased in the last four years about $25,- OOO,0O
 The value of gold bars furnished for indus trial use during the calendar year 1887 was 16,914,6O4.
 The stock of gold and silver coin in the United States on July 1, 1888. is estimated to have been: Gold coin, $595, ,349, S37; sill yer dollars, $299, ,70S, ,790; subsidiary silver coin, $76, ,4O6,376. At the same date there hints of the value of $11O, ,469, ,O13; silver bullion, $3, ,95O3SS; melted trade dollars, SC, ,545, 554, making a total metallic stock of $1 ,092 ,429, 963. Of this there was in the Treasury of the United States $594, ,533, ,172, in national banks $1O5, ,435 ,492 and in other banks and in general circulation $392, ,461,- 290
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
MRS. GEN. SHERMAN DEAD.
She Succumbs o Heart Disease After
 Short Illness.

Eleanor Boyle Ewing, the wife of Gen. w. T. Sherman, died at the family residence, West Seventy-first street, N. Y. Though Mrs. Sherman has been more or less of an in- valid for the past five years suffering greatly rom an affection of the heart, her death came as very sudden blow to her family. She was not regarded as seriously ill by her physician, Dr. A. $. Smith, of the regular army, until a low days before her decease, when Dr. Pepper ot Philadelphia was summoned in consulta- ton.
 The absent members of the family were at once telegraphed for, but did not arrive in time to see their mother before death ensued. Those present at the bedside, in addition to the General, were the two unmarried daught- CTS, Misses Lizzie and Rachael, ,and the young est son, Tecumseh. Thomas E. Sherman, who is Q Jesuit Priest, living at Woodstock, Md, arrived home about an hour after his mothers death, and tho two married daught- CTS. Mrs. T. w. Fitch, of Pittsburg, and Mrs. A. M. Thackara. of Philadelphia, arrived later. No funeral service will be held in New York, with the exception, possibly, of a few prayers nt the house before the departure of the fami- " for St. Louis, where the burial will take place. and where tho family lived for a num- bcrof years previous to coming to New York.
 Mrs. sherman was born at Lancaster, Ohio, Oct. 4, 1924, and was, consequently, GA years old at the time of her death. Her father, Thomas Ewing, was a prominent public man. lie served two years as United States Senator from Ohio, and also held Cabinet positions during the Administrations of both President Harrison and President Taylor 1t was while living in Washington, in 1850. that Mrs. Sherman married her husband, who at that time merely held the rank of Captain. After the marriage Capt. and Mrs. Sherman went to California, where they lived some years. When the war broke out Mrs. Sher- man returned to her fathers home in Lan- caster, Ohio, where she remained till it's close. Subsequently the family have lived, with the exception of the last two years, in St. Louis and Washington.
 Mrs. sherman was noted for being a very devout Catholic, and it was, it is said, at her earnest wish that her son Thomas became Q Jesuit priest. She took great interest in charitable work generally, and was especially identified with the cause of Indian missions When her health permitted she an at tendant in this city of St. Francis Xaver's Church, on Sixteenth street, and was also identified with the Church of the Blessed Sacrament
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
Badly Treated by Vegetarians.

Fifty miles north of Fl Paso, in the Rio Grande Valley, near Los Cruces, N. M,, is 0 colony called Sharon, communistic in charac- ter and held rigedly to 8 vegetarian diet. The colony was founded several years ago, and Dr. Tanner, the famous faster, has been more or less closely connected with it. Mrs. B. M. Campbell and her thirteen-year- ar-old daughter arrived in Fl Paso from there the other day and told pitiful story of how they were treated by ''Dr." J. B. Newbrought, the foun- der and present head of the colony. Mrs.
 Campbell was teaching in New Orleans when Newbrought persuaded her to go to his col ony to teach class of girls. Newbrought took from New Orleans at that time six founding infants, and these proved to be the girls she was expected to teach He com peled her to perform meniallabor, would not pay her wages and opened her mail When she finally left the colony she was penniless.
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
Unconscious Since October.

Patrick Silk, of Jersey City, N. J., beat nis wife with poker and kicked her until she was unconscious on Oct. 80 last. She was taken to the City Hospital, and he was locked up to await the result of her injuries She has not regained consciousness since she was admitted to the hospital, and the physician who is attending her says there is very little chance of her recovery. The only signs of life that she has shown since she was beaten, the doctor says, was on two or three occa- sions when she murmured like one distubed by troublesome dreams. Once she opened her eyes. Her daughter was by the bed. She did not recognize her, but closed her eyes again, and has not opened them since. She is fed on 8 little milk every day or two, and has had no other nourishment. She is very laxns and veil built.
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05

An excited Irishman lately rushed into a Boston drug store, having a .'brok ken-up" ap- pearance generally. Be jabbers!' he yelled, 'I'm all wrong entoirely. I want some sthuf to straighten me out. Some O thim 'Purga- tory Bullets will fix me, I'm thinkin'. What t dye tax for thim?n What do you meanE' somethin' loike that, they call thim," replied the man. "Shure, Pm in purgatory already; with headache, and liver complaint and bad shtomach, and the divil knows what all" The clerk passed out vial of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets, and Pat went off contented: These little Pellets cure all Arrangements of liver stomach and bowels. Sugar-coated, lit tie larger than mustard seeds, and pleasant to take. Druggists.
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
COREA'S TROUBLES.
Conflicting Accounts of Her Desire
 for Independence.

for Independence.
 By the arrival of the steamship Gaelic at San Francisco from the Orient the following news is obtained "Advices received in Yoko- hama from Corea show that everything ap- pears to be moving as Russia desires.
 correspondent writes to the effect that Lii Hung Chang and the high authorities at Pekin are greatly incensed. The general feel ing is that Denny must go. He is said to be issuing a second pamphlet.
 The Shanghai Courier says iG has trust worthy information to show that the pre- sence in Chinese waters of United States, Russian and French men -of-war is for the purpose of preventing the opposition of China to Corean independence. There are great events in store.
 Japan papers allege that the advisor of the King of Corea-Denny-is playing into the hands of Russia by advocating declaration of independence, after his previous refutation of Chinese suzereignity, in order that the Muscovite may put his finger further in the pie. To have Russia control Corea would be against Japanese welfare Japan papers think, though, that the presence of two United States men-of-war is only pre- caution against Chinese hostilities to Amer- cans resident in Corea on account of the Ez- clusion bill.
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
RESTRICTING ALIEN LABOR. Secretary F'afrchild Issues Instruc
 tions to Enforce the Law.

Secretary Fairchild has taken advantage the act of Congress just passed to pay lnformers' shares of fines imposed upon per sons importing contract labor to notify dis ors of customs that money received from fines and penalties under the alien contract labor laws must be paid into the Treasury. Claimants for informers' shares under the law will be required to state under oath what the in- formation was, where, when, and to whom it was given. The proof being established, the Secretary of the Treasury will pay to the applicant the share of the money he is enti- tied to.
 The Secretary has also notified all the GUS. toms officials and others, that hereafter where information has been received of immigrants imported into this country and allowed to land contrary to the provisions of the act of February 26, 1885, as amended by the act of February 23, 1887, they will as- certain the names and addresses of all such immigrants and the date of their arrival, and report the same to the Secretary of the Treasury, together with such facts and circumstances relating to their importations as may be obtained, the name of the importing vessel, or if entering from an adjoining country, the name of the per- son, company or corporation contracting for the services of such immigrants. The neces- sary proof being established of the violations of the law, the vessel, person or corporation importing the immigrant will be made to re- turn the contract laborer to his own homo forthwith
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
He Will Be Extradited.

Sheriff Hathaway, of Helena, Montana, ob- tained papers from the Department of Justice at Ottawa for the extradition of George Godin, half-breed, who escaped from jail at Helena July 15, while under sentence of death for the murder of an old settler named
 Embody. Godin was arrested recently by the mounted police near Edmonton, North western Territory, and will be handed over to the American authorities at once. The mounted policemen who effected the arrest will secure a reward of $500. Sheriff Hath away leaves shortly for Calgary to claim his man. The mounted police and private detec- tives have been in hot pursuit of the desper;l- do for months past. Godn, by the help of D squaw succeeded in cluding tho officers until recently, when the cold weather drove him
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
TWO RELIGIOUS CRANKS.
How They Arc Trying to Eject tho
 Devil

Huntington, Ind, despatch, says: David and Jacob Dill have been preaching holiness or sanctifcation by fasting. The brothers have exemplifed their faith several occasions by shutting themselves up in a room and remaining without food for several days. A few days ago they began fast, but this time departed from their usual rule, and walked from place to place, exhorting and praying as they went
 They walked to this place from Paulding, Ohio, sixty miles, and since their arrival here have taken daily walks of varying length. One night, after returning from a holiness meeting, which they held near the Jacobs farm, they became possessed with the idea that the devil was in their room, and they endeavorcd to drive him out. The furniture flew in every direction. rocking chair crashed through the window and landed on the middle of the street followed by other articles of household use. The people of the house at which they were stopping rushed to theroom and endeavored to quiet the efanatics and driven into the street by a fuslade of all sorts of objects. The neighbors were aroused by the crash of breaking glass and furniture. and finally, after a desperate struggle, the brothers were overpowered and bound. They were placed in jail, but no inducements will cause them to break their selfimposed fast They will probably be legally examined as to their sanity and placed in a lunatic asylum Both men are farmers, and have considerable property.
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
The Oklahoma Question

A delegation of Creek Indians arrived in St. Louis on the way to Washington to treat with the Government on the Oklahoma ques. ton. Dr. N. Hodge, of Quesa, Indian Terri ritory, did the talking for the party. He esaid: "We have full power to treat for the Creeks, but of course l do not feel at liberty to di- vulge our plans beforehand. Weshall probably arrive at settlement very soon of the vexed Oklahoma question. l may not speak for the other four nations, but as for the Creeks l may say that we are not willing to release our lawful claim upon the strip unless possession is acquired by purchase. That land became the property of the civil ized Indians by the treaty of 1886. An act has been passed since which prevented the Indians, it's lawful owners, from occupying the land I think if a fair sum were offered for the claims of all the tribes, it would be ancnntad at ,,
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
THE NORTH POLE.
Lord Lonsdale is Pushing Toward It
 Rapidly.

James Carnie, one of the Hudson Bay Com pany's chief factors in the Arctic circle, arrived in Winnepeg, Man. He reports that he met Lord Lonsdale two months before away up in the Arctic regions. He was travelling with two Esquimaux guides and one personal attendant. His English servant had left him three weeks before, and he was pushing northward as rapidly as possible. Hewalked all day and displayed such remarkable endurance that the natives regard him as prodigy. He spoke confi dently of being able, in his simple mode of travelling, of reaching the North Pole if his attendants would stick to him. He said at least he would pierce further north than any white man had ever gone.
 Nearly all the provisions he took with him were exhausted, and as he would soon pass the last Hudson Bay post in the country he would have to rely for existence upon such food as the natives eat. He was in good health.
 He is out in the interest of the Scottish Naturalist Society of Edinburg, to obtain specimens of birds and beasts and to learn more minutey the habits of animals and the feathered kind inhabiting the Northern regions Besides looking into the habits of animals, etc., he is inquring into the habits and customs of the Indians, and has already learned portions of their language.
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
A Serious Canadian Crisis

It has been definitely settled that the Cana dian parliament will meet on January 31 next It is not probable that the coming ses- sion will be a protracted one, as no radical measures are likely to be introduced. The government will have to face severe criticism from the leaders of the opposition in reference to the question of provincial rights, which the opposition allege are being ignored in the ex- riot in Manitoba, as we'll as the federal veto of @ measure regarding the judiciary passed by the provincial Legislature of Quebec, are both instances of theintrcate crisis through which the Dominion is now passing in regard to the establishment of the respective rights and privileges of the provincial and federal governments
Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05
e,OOo MINERS OUT OF WORK
Pennsylvania Mines to Shut Down
 for the Winter.

An Ashland Pa, despatch says: The Blast Colliery, operated by the Reading Company, suspended operations for anindefnite period Other collieries operated by the company will be stopped. and others will be operated on three-quarter time. This will throw many men and boys out of employment. At Shen- andoah, the Knickerboeker Colliery, employ ing over eight hundred men and boys, will close down for the winter. This colliery is operated by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. At Mount Carmel 2,OO0 men and boys will be thrown out of work by the indefinite suspension of the Union Coal Company and the Reading Coal and Iron Company's collieries.
 A Pittsburg despatch says: The agreement of the coal operators along the Monongahela River to shut up their mines for an indefinite period will go into effect in day or two. The indications are that it will be a long time before any coal is minsd at any of the Monon- gahela works after that time. There arc about million bushels of coal loaded, which will probably be the only shipments made for the balance of the year. The 6,OOO min CTS of the River will hold a convention at Monongahela City to take steps, if necessary, to make the shut down general, and to reap their share of the benefits to be derived from the shutdown. They will also make move towards securing the cooperation of the miners of the Kanawha.